PAGE TWELVE. Pre CHAPTER XXL Sir Donald Faversham Volunteers. N his wearch for the Hindn, who had bought the idol con taining the plans of the moth- er lode of the "Master Key" mine, John Dorr bad recourse again to the pawnbroker, That individaal's cotiosity was arous- | ed by now, and be asked a great many guestions, which John answered eva sively. When it came to getting a descrip tion of the Hindu the broker could give but few detalls, He laid emphasis on the fact that he sold rugs and that he looked like any one of a dozen Easy Indians frequent. ing a Pacific port He knew #* no ad-" dress, With this Dorr bad to be content, and be returned to Ruth to discus® with her what they sbouid do next. "If Wilkerson gets it there is an easy way to get him," be sald in the course of their conversation. | "How?" demanded Ruth. "Have him arrested as a fugitive from justice and held for the county sheriff THE MA quirfes- elsewhere developed nothing | helpful. | and after dinner listened to the story of their adventures with great interest. When he bad asked a few questions he and John lovked at each other. Finally Everett spoke. "It might take years to locate that Jode without the exact plans," he said thoughtfully, "I don't doubt that your father, Miss Ruth, spent many a long hour and day prospecting for it. So we must have the plans if it's in the bounds of possibility to recover them. I think you will have to find your Hinda." "There 1s the question of the mine," John sald soberly. | Everett arrived on the evening train | i | and the warrant that Tom Kane swore | out," he replied. Roth and shook her bead. considered this thoughtfully | "It would mean our going back to | the mine and all Rinds of trouble," she said wisely. "Besides, we wouldn't be any nearer the papers father wanted me to have." "That is very true," John agreed. "We'll keep that In reserve in case we discover that he has the idol . Qur only plan, then, 1s to trace this Hisdo. will be a bard job." by not put detectives on the trail?" "I don't think any detective could do better than myself," was the reply. "But yon-can't do it all," she argued. "You can't be looking for this peddler and keeping an eye on Wilkerson and seeing to me at the same time." *The seeing to you is the pleasantest part of the job," he sald laughingly. "I refuse to delegate that to any one. Of course you're quite right, though, about it's being too big an affair for me to handle alone, 1 think I'l ask Everett to join us. Maybe he can sug- gest something. I'll wire bim, and then we'll take a trip down to the wa- ter front and interview our lannchman ngain. He seemed to me a pretty level beaded chap, and be'll maybe be able to put us on the track of the Hindu if he took a steamer for the north, as 1 strongly suspect he did." Ruth could not understand why the peddier should do this, and Dorr ex- plained that the Hindu evidently had set great store on the idol, as be had not only paid cash, but had given a rug as well in exchange. "He would know that the thing was worthless as an article of merchan- dise," he went on. "In the next place, be wasted po time In getting posses sion of It once he saw it. 1 have no doubt that it 1s sacred in Lis eyes--a god. It was stolen at some time from oh 5 FH "But Mrs. Grundy insists on the maid." beén allowed to go pretty much to ruin. Tom Kane wounid do his best, of course, but actually we are looking for the bird in the bush when we have one in the band." "1 see your point," the promoter said promptly. "My offer of days ago still boids good. [I'll finance this matter to the end, and I'll look after the mine too. So you tan De care free so far as that goes, Joha." "You know 1 wouldn't take it for myself," John begun awkwardly and iwas silenged by a smile. The next morning they had barely finished breakfast when tbe launch captain was announced. The three of them found him burst- ing with news. "lI think 1 located your Hindu," he told them. "He came down at day- light this morning looking for a steam- er sailing for the north. The Halcyon leaves at noon, and the steward gave him a job in the galley." "But it might be another Hindu," Ruth suggested. The captain turned toward her and shook his bead. "1 don't think it's possible," be said. "He answered the description clear down to the mgs Besides that, he seemed kind of nerv- ous, and when one of the sailors jollied him the man nearly bad a fit I'm sure he's your man." "There's only one thing for you to do," Everett said promptiy--"take pas- sage on that steamer yourselves to San Francisco. By that tithe you can be pretty sure whether he's your man or not." This was agreed upon, and Ruth started on her preparations immediate ly, Everett insisting that she take her mald with ber. -- "But I don't need her!" Ruth protest- to Jeave by train that evening, thus "It has already | gress in her passions, and now she could not give up ber sweet revenge nor forego the thouglit of possessing the wealth which had once been Tom Gallons and which he bad tried to conceal. She agreed to go, and they decided being in San Francisco in time to meet the steamer and watch for Dorr's nest movement. Two days later Everett again met John and Ruth in the botel in Sap Francisco. : John's news was that the Hindu they sought had undoubtedly been on the Halcyon and that John had bought a steerage passage for Bombay. "Yoo ought to get the plans before you get to India," Everett said ear- nestly. "You'll ind yourself in a strange land, where it will be like looking | for a needle in a haystack to get bold of your man." Dorr acknowledged this and outlined his tentative plan of getting hold of the ido! during the passage. "After all, we don't want the idol 1 shall try to persuade the man of this and get him to let me have the papers concealed In it." At this moment Sir Donald Faver- sham was announced. ' The entrance of the Englishman who had made himself so attentive to Ruth at the southern hotel awakened little enthusiasm In either Dorr or Everett, but for Ruth's sake they played the | civil part. : ', She, on the other hand, received Sir Donald with every evidence of lively pleasure. "We are this minute talking of go ing over to India, where you lived so long," she told him after the first greetings. "And you are just the man to tell us all about it." "Going to India!" ejaculated the bar opet. "My word!™ "Yes," she proceeded. er a Hindu and his idol." At this point John laughingly came to the rescue and briefly explained the object of their quest. Sir Donald listened quietly, occasion- ally glancing at Ruth, whose beauty wis enhanced by pretty excitement. At the conclusion of the tale he nursed the end of his stick awhile in very apparent perplexity. "You know, my dear fellow," he said, addressing John, "that India is a large country filled with millions of different races. Even granting that this man 18 a Hindu and that your surmise about the ido! is correct, I don't see how you are going to accom- plish anything." "That is just where you can help | us!" sald Ruth impulsively. For the instant Sir Donald actually blushed with embarrassment. Then be gathered himself together "We are aft- must expect and the difficulties they must encounter. "If you could only go along!" Ruth said plaintively when he had got them thoroughly discouraged. "You could talk 'their horrid language and make them bebave." "By Jove," sald the baronet, smiling, "that's not a balf bad idea! 1 have army there," Ruth explained to Ever- ett. : "Brought up there," Faversham add. ed. "Know India pretty well. I real ly believe I'll go with you If you'll ac cept of my company. What a lark!" Neither John uor Everett received any of them realized the 'seriousness of the conversation everything had been arranged. Outside Faversham spoke to Dorr as man to man." "I don't want to thrust myself on you in any way," he said briefly. "I | Faversham explained. nothing to do, and I might as wel! see | the chaps'in India again as stay bere." , "You know, Sir Donald was in the | this proposal with undue warmth, but | | Ruth found it delightful, and before ; 90ired promptly. w ___ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, APRIL STER KE knowledge that a thing 1s impossible," Faversham warned him, "and the east tas driven him mad. However, I am 'hh interested myself, not only for | the sake of Viss Ruth, but from a sporting standpoint, and 1 promise you tll do wy Lest to belp you." They considered the suggested plan of taking the idol away from the Hin- tu during the voyage, but Faversham vetoed this after a somewhat exten sive investigation. "You see," be told Rath, "I -know the fellow's language, and be comes from a tribe far in the north of 'India. Most of those chaps are looked upon as rather sacred, and this man in spe- cial, 1 see, is much respected by the other natives in the steerage. To Ges ecrate his image would simply mean an uproar that we could never explain to the satisfaction of the captain and his officers, in gact. we should all get into the most sérious trouble." "Then your advice is to wait?' she murmured. "Most decidedly," said the baronet. "And the waiting isn't so bad, is it?" The steamer was slipping easily along across a moonlit sea that night, and Ruth and Sir Donald were far in the bow watching the waves foam softly away from the cutwater. The girl had awakened during the past few weeks to the dim happiness of being always the center of men's thoughts. . She was not in love, but she wi ready to be. The experienced man be- side her surmised this. His own heart was beating a new tune. He had lived much, and women had not been aloof from his life. But this fair, proud, inexperienced, yet seif contained girl wakened in him a deeper feeling than he cared to con- fess, To be sure, he had John Dorr to con- tend with. Faversham did not under estimate him as a possible rival when he allowed himself to go so far as con- templating marriage with Ruth, He liked the young American, and none knew better than he the effect that constant association with Dorr must have upon a young and very tm- pressionable girl. John's own senti- ments were unmistakable-be was deeply In love. From Hongkong they transshipped to a P. and O. steamer for Bombay, and under Sir Donald's expert guild- ance they shortly tound themselves in India and installed in a very good ho tel. "We must wait here till I discover through natives just where that fellow is bound for." "Why not simply trace him?" de- manded Dorr, impatient to be about his errand. ~ "That would be out of the question," "in the first place, you don't understand any native and went into details of what they | tongue, and in the second place the British government doesn't look with favor on strange and unattached Eu- ropeans stumbling about among the natives. "If you jeave it to me I think I { not only can ascertain the exact place where this fellow comes from, but the temple where the idol belongs." Several days passed, during which Sir Donald was busy among old ac- quaintances, leaving John and Ruth to their own devices. They , occupied their time in sight. seeing. At last Faversham cami into dinner one evening with a smile on his "I've found your man and learned something of the history of the image," he said. "And wé can get it back?" Ruth in- Sir Donald shook his head gently. "Not so fast, young lady!" "But that is what we came for," she went on. "The fact of the matter is this," sald the baronet--"that image was stolen 20, 1015. See The Motion Pictures of This Story IDEAL THEATRE, on Wednesdays and Thursdays of the way we can go by rafl, but part of the road we must travel either on foot or by litter--if we go." "Of course we a oing!" said Ruth. "1 most earnestly Deg of you to stop here," said the baronet. "You don't know your India as I do, and even if we accomplished our purpose we should run double risk in getting back." They argued the matter for some time, but Ruth refused to consider re treat at this stage, and John, impress- ed though he was by the other's evi- dent sincerity, could not belp feeling that as an outsider he did not under- stand the, necessity of the recovery of the plans, When he and Sir Donald talked it over alone the baronet was esen more insistent. He characterized the whole exped!- tion as rash and plainly stated that should the British government get wind of such a search immediate steps would be taken to see timt the Ameri cans went no further. Dorr was unconvinced and finally in- timated that Faversham had not meant what he said when he bad volunteered to help them. --8ir Donald shrugged his shoulders and admitted himself helpless in the face of such arguments. "At least I can go along and do what I can to save the young woman from actnal peril," he remarked. "I by no means promise to give you active as- sistance." "I'll be satisfied if you'll just tip me off once in awhile," John responded. They made the journey to Bhala safely, Ruth and John viewing the novel sights that met their eyes on every hand, Sir Donald acting as gen- eral guide and instructor. On their arrival at the teeming city they were soon installed in an inn out- side the center and some distance up the river. Faversham wasted no time in look- ing up certain people he knew among the natives and was in a position to inform them that be had not only dis- covered the temple, but that he had learned that the idol had been recov- ered and would be restored to its prop- er shrine with due ceremony and great festivity. "That will be just our chance," sald John. "In the crowds we ought to be safe." Faversham tried to convince him that this was pet so, but Dorr insisted so strongly yea $2 Fuc'ishman yleld- ed to his better Twlgirert. "I'll try to get you within sight of the idol anyway," he consented. "But 1 must insist that you obey my instruc- tions implicitly, Otherwise we shall all get into trouble and you will effec tually kill any chance you may bav of attaining your purpose." 4 The result of this was that Ruth late that night was wakened by Sir Donald's rapping on her door. When she had fluug on some clothes and opened she saw from his manner and his disheveled dress that all bad not gone well "It's true," Faversham told her. "Dorr couldu't resist what he thought was a chance to get hold of the idol He was captured, but I managed to get away by my knowledge of the language and the help of some natives who are friendly to me." For the moment Ruth was speech- less; then she inquired for the particu- lars, and Sir Donald gave them briefly | At the conclusion be remarked, "They won't harm him, but If it gets ouf that he really jotended to steal that image we shall have trouble." "But he is a prisoner!" she cried. - "True," said Faversham wearily. "1 didn't dare stay. If they had got me, too, you wouldn't have known anything about what had bappeved for days possibly." "But you will save him?" she pleaded. In her appealing beauty Ruth stirred Sir Donald to the depths. He knew pow (nuy¥iauved ber. For love of her he would do what be At Th he had also nscertained that they had left for the interior under the escort of Sir Donald Faversham. Without dela; they followed and in due time lunded in Bhala, not long after Sir Donald bad rescued Dorr from the mob who bad seized him when he had tried to recapture the idol. Wilkerson grinned when he told Mrs. Darnell of this Gasco. "But will you fare any better?' she demanded. 3 "Sure," he said confidently. "I'll let Dorr and this British baronet burma "Then the 'Master Key' will be ours® their fingers getting: the thing; <wen I'll get it away from them. It's a joug way back to America, and if we stick tight to Dorr we'll sooner or later be able to handle the plans ourselves. 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MAC} As.the steamer. sailed. the next. day | | Drake explained bis coming by say- ing that be had heard nothing from either Wilkerson or Mrs, Darpeil, and OT ec use at the "Master "It's just as well" Wilkerson sald sulkily. "I have & dozen things to at- tend to, and you can help. The first i= not to let that man Dorr get out of our sight or turn a hand bodless we know it" In a few sentences filled with bitter. ness be told the story of the finding of the chest and the futile search for the plans and the abstraction of the idol containing them. "When Wikersen found that Dorr | and Ruth booked passage on the Hal eyon for fap Francisco and bad In- quired about the nest sailings for the Orlent he took Drake aside and they "| Getermined That This could oaly mean | one thing-- : 3 = Dorr was on the track of the idol. "We'll follow them!™ be said savage h {iy "We're spent too much 16 quit R ' : P 3 Sar RT now." And this man will take it to Bhala?" Jean Darnell received Drake coolly demanded Ruth. and Nstened to Whkerson's explana- --*fie has already started, | onder tion of his Dew scheme without a stand from some of the 1 Her stormy. eyes hoded no good to y some one, and Wilkerson feared she vould . But knew might mean his own death, but he was helpless in the grip of this spveet passion. Yet he would not go withont at least; a word of hope and promise. "I'll get him," he told her. »It will be a bard job, but I'll save him for your sake, Ruth, and when I come back with bim"-- --{ She leaned forward, gloriously ¢on- tent that John was to be brought back to her. A CHILD? | once: - Sem Furniture her little to him joyously. hispered. ~ 4Seeiiig to you is the pleasantest of the job" ifjai SEE i fee + "» 1 sled, cir ks ¥ La ? ; ; | i bi 5 il 3 i i + 75§ is ] : Ag t Bids Ex. Couches, all steel, upholstered in Dinim, $10.50, $12.50, $18.00, | fF i : 25 Fe : ! 2 1 ; g 31 8 £ i : what are we to do?" démand- 26 it. 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