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His collar and cuffs were he same hue and material as his wonderful. shirt, and the latter dis played elaborate solitalres, in which many precious stoues appeared to have been set, irrespective of taste ur utility His boots were of light, lemon | colored patent leather, with white kid uppers--hoots of extreme length and narrowness, with toes which, although pointed, were at their extreme end perfectly square The hellotrope trousers were turned up, 2 "Anglaise, so high that, although the Loots were buttoned like au woman's halfway up the emaciated calf of the man, they displayed sock: of a vivid and. im possible tartan This was Henri Van Ost as he ap peared in London-- Henrl Van Ost, the general manager of the British fruhwe Rubber Company, which was Just at the moment forming the priu cipal topic of foreign political con troversy The man might have been any age from twenty-five to fifty. He held him sell erect enough---his corsets saw to that--and he moved with &' jaunty air From him exuded « very potent per. fume---it was the odor of a prixtn of lavender, Eau de Cologne, and Jockey Club, called in the perfumery price lists "Parfait Amour." His hands were gloved in lemon kid, and he wore a large pink rose in his buttonhole; also, he carried an umbrella that resembled a lady's parasol. Theodora visibly shuddered at the apparition. It was far worse than she had expected. It was literraly appalling. She gave him her hand instinctively. With the alr of a cour- tier on the stage he raised it to his Appreciated Most is a picture gift. See Weese's great display of the choicest art gems; just arrived. We have also a | fine line of natty frames and mould- | ings. D. A. WEESE 168 Princess Street. Photo Frames; Pictures and Pianos. Open Thursday and Saturday Night For Photo Taking. 1 -------- \ |" Become a Physician - Medicine, Surgery, 6Gacteriology. 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"But tell me--where are we golng?™ "Leave everything to me, chere madame," he answered, with exag-' gerated courtesy and with an air of ridiculously overdone mystery that made her feel inclined to laugh aloud. "1 am fully alive, believe me, my dear madame, to the dangerous position of affairs. Madame's safety and good name could not possibly be in better fi or more loyal keeping." He nodded with a sly look of cunning. She thought at the moment that his was the face of a rat. : He sald something in an undertone to the uniformed chauffeur, who had obviously received full instructions LA DIES' WINTER COATS Get your winter coat made i} to measure with choice of styles for less money than ready-made. Also suits, skirts, and dresses for very low prices. New York Skirt and Suit Co. 208 Wellington Street. ll mer" I! swered Van Ost reassuringly. beforehand, and drove in the direc tion of Trafalgar Square; then, swing: ing round to the right, the nimble little motor cab darted up Charing Cross Road, dodging and overtaking traffic at a somewhat reckless pace. "Where on earth are you taking exclaim Theodors, whose nerves were beginning to be affected ! by the man's irresponsible driving. "Not very far, chere madame,' an. "1 aw aware that 1 am being closely watch- Ht ed and possibly followed by someon! ll! --sples of your good husband, des: | madame, no doubt, or possibly polic« detectives. 1 am not quite sure in my mind, but I do not choose to take any | risks. Aha! They will find' a very! | hard nut to crack in your devoted Henrl Van Ost, n'est ce pas?" d Theod I should hope nor," exclaimed i neo- dora, with a litiie shadder of disgust. Magelaine Street Tettenhan: Road, was pot a particularly tive neighborhood. There odor of onions and st: ieavy, heated, moist was ad superabundance of children and unkempt general note of squalor and the foreign names over the sounded a note of myst The motor cab lurged to the gar bage-sirewn kerb and pulled up with a jerk outside a newspaper shgp, a nondescript place that uppeared to divide its interest between journals and tobacco. Ovel the dingy -vindow, in. faded letiering, was inscribed: LIBRAIRIE "Quick," sald Vau Ost, cpeting the door of the cab, jumping 10 the pave. ment, and offering s hand. "Don't let us waste a me No one has seen us so far; am quite convinced." Theodora oheyad Lis linn out a word "You kuow e Col loafers; prevailed, shops COSNMOPOLITAINE . that | ation withe do," sald Vis Ost to the chauffeur "Be back im wventy minutes' ime, aad, in the meantime, drive al re while" "Very good, sir," pped the man, and drove of without anciher 'ook or word "This way, what to ¢ madame." em | plained Van Ost, usi.ering his beauth | ful companion ulong a narrow, evil smelling passage or hall alongside the newspaper shop to a glass-panelled door on which was painted in foreigs lettering: L'ACTUALITE Directeur: Jean Ular Redaction et \dministration Annonces Van Qst opened the door wiih a key, It gave immediately on to a steep and narrow staircase, [1l-lighied und badly ventilated. It was altogether a most unprepossescing spot "Here we are, dear lady." exclaims ed Van Ost triuciphaotly "Upstairs | I have 'a room In readiness for us, and there we can talk without dan. ger of being disturbed." "But this is »>imply impossible" Theodora protested. "1 really cannot stay here. [U's too horrible What- ever is it" Wherever are you taking | me? You must surely see Low un- pleasant it is for me." "Not at al., madame; it is nothing ~nothing, | assure you. A respect. able newspaper office of a friend of mine, in whose work | am financially interested. And it is quite safe and ~and, if | may say so. mademe, per- fectly respectable. This is not even, a Sociulist paper. It is a journal de- voted to quite a conventional cause, To have seen you at my hotel, or to have come to your great and magni- cent mansion--PsLaw! It would have been, nothing short of madness. Here --well, we might as well be on a desert 'island for all that anyone knows." "But how can you be sure of that?" asked Theodora a little fractiousiy. "But, madame, have | not eyes and, ears and a brain? | Lave observed. I am used to this sort, of thing. I have nq lived through the last year without knowing something--ala'! I assure you I am most circumspect, most suspicious, and most cautious. Oh, you may implicitly trust we, dear Lady Monk." She shrugged her shoulders. and followed him laboriously up the steep staircase. She was annoyed. The man slways annoyed her. His conceit was stupendous. Besides, slie was get. ting very bored; and she had so many more pleasant things to do to-day. The room into which Le ushered her was a comparatively well-furnish- ed apartment, and was obviously an office in pretty censtant use. There were a good many books--directories, account books, and 'some newspaper les. "Pray be seated," said Van Ost, with a granduoguent gesiure of as gloved hand, "and permit we to re. store to you what must, | am sare, be of immense value to you, and what must also take a great weight (rom your mind. Vella, madame!" With another of his theatrical ges- tures he took from the breast pocket of his coat a neat bundle of papers, kept together by a broad elastic band. "These, madame," he said, "are the | only documents which can possibly incriminate you ---the only things which ca ngive you away, or, for the master of that, give myself away. Though for my humble self"--he bow- ed obsequiously and at the same time a little deprecatngiy---""for myself, chere madame, I hope I have already shown you how little it is that | study myself fn this matter. Myself? Pshaw! It is nothing." He snapped his gloved fingers above Lis head and i i "Mr. Valentine Drake and hie ety of philanthropic meddlers "Detectives ™ Pp a. "More. than probably. jmesdame since the mysterious event of the night before last--the most daring | burglary at Dunbury." He chuckled | silently; and she looked at him with i blank ment, not unmixed with | alarm. What on earth did he know! of that? How on earth could he know | anything at all? t "But, m'sieur, you know nothing of | | that," she exclaimed. "No one does.) {It is being kept quiet---quite quiet. It { has not been made public. Why, even | the police know but very little) Sir Glare has not informed fi i: i Sef d2ek I 5k THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1916. a -- session of the proois of her folly, which others might call by a very much stronger name; and there was also dismay---dismay because of the knowledge that the little bundle of papers she held in her hand was iu- | complete, since the original secret circular about which so much had been said and on which go much de- pended to them all was not in that Httle bundle, but had beeu stolen from lier boudoir at Dunbury. "But tell me, Van Ost, how did you get these?" she asked, looking at the papers a little vacantly. "It was ¢ifficult," he answered, with a shrug of his thin sloping shoulders "From whom did you get them *" "Drake." n "But how?" "By the simple expedient of buying them from one of his most trusted servants," he answered, with a cun- ning smile. "Oho, dear lady, these humanitarians have their price, just as other people. Why, Drake is mak- ing a pot of money out of this cam- paign on behalf of the wretched nig- gers he glorifies, this tirade against the Lobanzo and the BLR.C. Look at his paper and his weekly publii- cations---they have enormous circula- tions. And then again this ridiculous novel, this vapid exhibition of sloshy, sentimental gush--"The White Man.' Pshaw! He's making a fortune out of that alone. The fellow who wrote it to order sgt ten pounds down and a chimerical Foyalty of about one and a half per cent. I have found out all that. I tell you, mdesame, I know everything there is to be known, and I am going to fight them th and nail if 1 can only tide over the next few days without being caught. Then there's the tremendous income from donations and subscriptions of the TLobanio Natives Protection Associa tion and the Darkest Africa Emanci: pation league, and that sheer fraud of an fustitution of his called the Universal Brotherhood of Mankind Society. it's a scandal, madame--a wicked fraud on a credulous public." "I know, I know," she murmured, tapping the little bundle of papers im- patiently; "but all this doesn't help us in the least." But Van Ost was wound up. He was declaiming as to a public meeting. "Drake," he cried iu impassioned tones, "this scoundrel Drake cares no more for the native of the Lobanso than he does for the Martian, cer- tianly far less than efther you or I, and certainly Sir Glare Monk. Bah! I am sick with such a man; he is not a man at all, madame--he is a turgid humbug, playing the fool with a silly public which is just sitting around him asking him to make a fool of it. Mon Dieu! 1 will expose him; 1 will justify all of us. Only give me time, madame, only give me a few days--that is all 1 ask. Why, this Drake creature, he has never been out of this country in bis life; he has never once set foot in Africa." "You talk exactly like Glare," said Theodora in a bored tone of voice. "Really, Van Ost, | am not in the least interested in all this. I don't care whether Drake has been to the Lobanzo or whether he has not. All' know fis that he looks very much like waking a mess of things, as far as | am concerned, and consequently he is dangerous." "He is nothing," said Van Ost airily. "He is not to be considered." "But, for all that, he is doing an unconscionable amount of harm," she insisted. "Quite so; but that is because the public has been fooled with lies," re- torted Van Ost excitedly. "Are they les?' asked Theodora wearily. © "The Lobanzo was such a long way away." "Why, certainly, madame. Can you doubt it? The African native of the Lobanso--ugh! who shall speak of him without being ili? He is not a man; he is a creature; he is animal, worse than animal. He is gross; he is unspeakable! How Is it to be con- sidered possible for a moment to treat him, to regard him, in our miuds even, as Moosieur Drake would have us treat him, eh? Our Christian brother? Mon Dieu! He knows no honor, no wl your Siimoderately brivilant mind, 2k es. "1 don't know anything about wretched creatures" she said. She spoke snappily; and, as she looked at hi, she did not seek to conceal her distaste. In her own mind, she was not at all certain that a healthy, ful blooded Bangals boy might not be pre- ferable to this grotesque imitation of a man, this decadent creature, who was all brain, of a brilliant, hard, | machine-like type, and whom uobody would ever have credited with a single | one of the natural healthy instincts | and impulses of # man. She decided | that no cannibal could be more révoit | ing than Henri Van Ost, with Lis ia | sufferable dandyism, his cosmetics | and his superiative conceit. She would probably have found him merely comic had she not been to a- certain | extent in his power. | "1 think, madame, that you belittle | your own great intelligence" Le said with a smile. | "Well, anyhow, I don't want to talk | about the brutes," she retorted. "I'm sick to death of the whole thing.' '"But Sir Glare, your good husband, the great over-lord of the Lobanzo, as they call him," persisted Van Ost, carrying out his line of thought quite regardless of her impatience, "does he not think as I do about the matter? In his heart and mind, into which, madame, you no doubt penetrate deeper than other human being, does he not held exactly the same opinions? Does he not realize that there is only one thing to make these niggers work «the whip?" "Oh, Glare talks much as you do," she said indifferently. "He doesn't think much of these niggers--nobody does who's ever been out there. But, then, he's different. He wouldn't countenance any of the awful things that you do." "That we do," he corrécted, with & smile and an exaggerated bow. "Oh; we If you like. I'm not thin- skinned. I'm talking about my hus band. He has a great public position, aud he has a conscience. And he's not so greedy as you are--" "As we are!" he reminded her ugaln, with another bow, whose very exaggeration of respect was a delicate mockery. Theodora gave a harsh laugh, and a shadow swept across her face. For = second a light that was sheer lust-- the lust of gain and greed--cawe into her eyes. "You remind we," she said, "that | have to stick to this abominable business, though | am so sick of it. If it weren't that | want money, that 1 must have money, I should get out of it now, at once." "That is impossible," put in Van Ost. He took a little paper from a small bundle and rolled himself a cigarette with Lobanzo tobacco, that he carried in an oval silver box. He had, extraordinary hands for a man; they were perfectly shaped, and almost transparent, and the veins showed blue. Their every movement was jnstinet with indescribable"grace. "Allow me to make that very clear, madame. It is absolutely' impossible. It would be fatal, indeed. At this point we must not have any disturb- ance of the balance: of power;:. we must have no operations. going on that might call atténtion to the inner working of the company. Just now we are in a most prosperous con- dition; aud all this foolish agitation is doing us no harm. Your holdings are #0 distributed under different names that no one has the slightest suspicion. I think you will admit that that enviable state of affairs is due to my arrangement and my advice." "Oh, yes, yes--I have never denied it," she exclaimed. "And ! have shown my gratitude. You are a miracle, my dear Van Ost; your finan- cial genius is extraordinary. There has never been the slightest hitch; everything has run on wheels. But 1 am #ick of it, all the same. I know that po one has the faintest sus- picion that 1 have anything to do with the BILR.C--QGlare least of all. 1 know | owe that to you. I know that since 1 started speculating in rubber shares just to amuse myself, and 1 came across you in Ostend, you have been a very good friend to me." "It was my privilege, madame. 1 recaymized in you a woman of un- usu! business ability. It was an honor to assist you." has been a convenience to you, decency--he must be whipped, not spoken to. He Is lazy--ah, how lazy no one so well as myself can tell. | Argument with him has no avall Punishment must be meted out to Lim | wSuishmein, cuore, madame, that he | will Imprisonment? It is Just what he most likes; it is a re | ward, not a peoaity. European chas- | tisement? Eh?! Ha, ha, it is to him As a luxurious massage. We must take | him as we find him, hein! This tm, who swallow all he chooses to tell them, and sit in their comfortable houses and talk about the Baugala, the Boxo: ko, the Aruwimi as human beings pshaw! They should just take a little summer holiday in the BLR.C., and they would soon have a different tale to tell" Lady Monk shook her head im- @atiently. I pil i fi ils ) | i i g i £ i: 8 it iy i of Van Ost," she put in, with sudden asperity, "to see the greater portion of the shares in your company pass hands of someone whom you y upon to act as you chose. us beat about the bush. Yeu of use to me, but I have 3H fii: | 1 have never want- it as I want it now." The Belgian shrugged his shoulders "You must be a very rich woman, ol tUontinued next Saturday.) --= A Real Milking Shorthorn. 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