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rop murder, is holding Mr, Larkins daughter prisoner in a gravel pit close - by, threatening her with the worst sort of frightfulness. She has maneged to get word to me, and we are just going to rescue her. Will you come along? The statement and the evidence I can supply will justify an arrest." "Of course we will come along," snapped Roake. He was not too well pleased, since the chase seemed to be leading him farther and farther from his marked-down quarry, but he drew consolation from "his Jordship's" promise that his should be the credit. And there was still the chance that this wild story of an accessory and a captured maiden was all bunkum. If it proved so the night was still young. Lathrop Grange could be combed out after the ground had been cleared of fancy trimmings. BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. Samuel Honeybun, his son, James, and Wilmot, a chauffeur, known as Monkey Face, are suspected of the Te Roads Lathop. by xd r Francis 10) n Klyne, who poses as Tord Bul ter and obtains evidence from Wilmot. Wilmot revenges himself by impris- oning-- Adela Larkin, sweetheart of Klyne. He forces Adela to write a decoy let- ter to Kiyne. Klyne esca the trap and calls upon Adela's father, Rev. Septimus Larkin. Rev. Larkin de- ciphers a code in the letter, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. Once again the Rector bent his dis- honored head over the flimsy sheet. Presently he looked up with the ghost of a sickly smile. "I have got it," he said. "No cre- dit to me, since my daughter and I have communicated by the same me- thod. She has, underlined the most| Piloted by Mr. Larkin, the party important words, which in the text came to the door in the kitchen-gar- are not in juxtapesitionn They are, den wall, the moonlight showing up 'don't' and 'come,' meaning, no doubt, the shelter in the gravel-pit beyond that you are to disregard the opemly the waste space. expressed request to seek her on| As they peered at the decrepit Hangman's Heath. But there is a|structure from the open doorway a further message, indica by faulty scream rose from behind the rotting characters, also at considerable inter-' woodwork--ths scream of a lost soul vals, in the writing. It reads 'Gravel in mortal agony. Pit Rectory.' " "Not much girl about that!" ex- "Gravel Pit Rectory," repeated the claimed Roake, plunging forward. other." "Rather cryptic, isn't it?" | That is a man being done in. Come "Not to me," replied Mr. Larkin./on! Rush to it!" "1 expect she is alluding to a disused! "Adela must have scored again, gravel pit behind the kitchen-garden muttered the Rector's late visitor as wall. There is an old shed in it, where he joined in the rush. she might very "well be kept a pri- When Mr. James Honeybun, march- soner." ing across the waste ground to the "Show me the way at once," said gravel-pit, heard a woman sobbing in the visitor. "My call on you, sir, has the shelter, he started to run. He been a dispensation of Providence. | was not wholly bad. There was in- Your interpretation of that message, | deed a vein of sentiment in his char- if I can work it, shall atone for your acter which had impelled him to the previous conduct in this difficult lawless deed he had such reason to case." | deplore. Anyhow, 2 woman who had The Rector led the way to the front ' cause to sob like that should not ap- door, opened it and was confronted peal to him in vain. by Inspector Roake and three of his| The interior of the shed was dark, the fumes of oil telling him that a lamp "had been recently overturned, " men. "The landlord told me where to find What's up, my lord?" the In- but he had an electric torch on him you. spector inquired of his volunteer, with which he quickly eprayed the assistant. gcene. Literally fighting tooth and "Plenty," was the curt reply. "The' nail, Adela was struggling in the accessory of whom I epoke to you clutch of the man Honeybun had over the "phone, and from whom I, come to kill. With no thought of his obtained a statement about the Lath-| vengeance, but only of rescue, the z new arrival flung himself on the would-be ravisher and dragged hini from his prey. The torch fell from his hand, but the light not having been switched off, it continued to illuminate the scene from where it had rolled, Adela to her feet, only to collapse in a half-faint against the wall of the shelter, and it was well that she was gone too far to visualize what was happening. The lust of blood ruled both combatants. One was balked of his desires, the other had found the traitor he was looking for, The fight, or rather, carnage, on the und was bestial in its violence, ut the issue was not long in doubt. Wilmot was the stronger and soon gained the mastery. His curying fingers, more like predatory talons, began*to choke the life out of Mr. James Honeybun. ] The latter never had a look in. The bear's hug of his adversary prevented him from drawing the pistol he had Adela leaned faintingly against the wall. ! was the reply. "But he is a murderer tant of yours whom you installed in Lathrop Grange on the poor lad's un- lucky night. You will find, I think, hat the marks on Mr. James Honey- bun's throat tally with the photo- grarhs you had taken of those on your assistant's. But you can cut out all that lordship stuff, Roake. I am just Adrian Klyne, pure and simple. | Roake's jaw sagged. For a few, killing Sir Franeis Lathrop." cuffs were d on his wrists Wil- statement I hold, Inspector Roake," mot asserted himself. in his own right, too. He is the man horribly. who killed that promising young assis- third degree? If I. could only get my hands on woman, y at the age of 104 at her home near A age of 103 she let her white Jocks re- main long, but then ehe yielded to the mode. For the first time since the hand- "Never cruel, mister?" he laughed "What about me and your yer!" (To be continued.) be the oldest bobbed-hair me. Rectitude Touget died Sal rras, France. Until she reached the moments he. was bereft of speech, The disclosure of the identity of the man | he had regarded as a rival was a blow that knocked him all of a heap. "You may be pure, but I'm dashed if you're simple," he spluttered at last. "You saild--you said--" "I know," Klyne helped him out pleasantly. "I said that I didn't want to rob Scotland Yard of any credit. Nor do I. You are welcome to all my discoveries, including the signed con- feswion." Klyne stopped and looked critically down at the chalk-white face of the usually florid James Honeybun. The great criminologist drew the Inspec- tcr aside and continued: "There lies the actual murderer of fir Francis Lathrop.' "I do not think that you would ever have brought him to the gal- lows. There are extenuating circum- stances which would have weighed with the Secretary, if not with ghe judge. And see! He would not éven have gone up for trial. Mr. James Honeybun is on the point of death. 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