--=The Moonstone : Sphinx "ty a cant arial emeett aienonme (we nia g By firs. C. N. Williamson, Author of " A Giri of the People," Etc. "Champagne, in a jeweled Venetian glass, was sending up from its depths to the golden gleaming surface a stream of bubbles. Winifred raised her glass to her lips and drank. As she did so her -tortured eyes met Macaire's, and the glint of satisfaction that darted from his, though he would have hidden it, startled her. She set down the glass quickly. What hd that look meant? Was he pleased ti ut she had drunk his wine only because of his triumph in com- pelling her obedience, or was there a more subtle reason? Her heart knocked against her side; and her hands grew cold a veled questioningly from ; to another. Was ther strange company who wot or help her if she went knees to implore it? She: that there was one. And} heim did not come. Fearful lest she haf n mistake, she watched her Had she experienced any ¢ tions, she asked herself, a she had drunk those few ¢ At first she hoped thi fancy alone conjured up difference, but slowly she acknowledge that she felt ness, a weakness of the | she had not been consciot eyelids drooped, and she li an effort. ere was & in the palms of her hand: of her feet. The beating which had been like the w a bird against the bars of to a heavy, measured thr er intervals. The shrill 1 women at he table sor unreal, and war awayya_f tween her and the face minutes ago she Lad turn pealing gaze. CHAPTER 3 The Eye of the Mc How the dinner went ¢ not know, for she was dream. Macaire had tall forced answers at first, ] her alone, well pleased, pe progress of events. Som who appeared to know e had addressed a remark then, but when she scare turned their attention el pane been drugged, I've ifred kept saying to} eatin of the atarti rouse her failing enexy nbaowed effort. But, ruggied with the creat pond would not answer t As the champggne w laughter grew louder, the Strange jest were mad Winifred had never been even behind the scenes a mor did she hear them n drummed upon her ears veying a meaning. All th to join in a wild babble the voice of 2 river fed i ing brooks. Winifred was going t dulled were all her facul longer cared. Her head, with its-e¢ waving hair--so different cial structure of her nei on the slender throat, li on its stem by the wind. "Ha, ha!" laughed Ma Miss Ingenue is missin sleep! She would have she's in bed every night "You've plied her with pagne, oh, generous hos the women, "Perhaps," confessed everybody laughed. "Th have uny more to-night. meet her 1 warrant she' a month she'll hold her. you.' "To the next meeting ifted, and much champa "Poor little dear, she ¢ comfortable!" giggled os diamonds and Mi small @ "She won't be able us bigger children for ¢ "Vl give instructions taken away » she nap out in peace, id viciously bright. He ne man, who moved forwar take his master's order; stant, without being a Newcome came into the houses "Von Zellheim!" exclaimed oye of the m * Winifred's closing eyes opencu wide for the fraction of a second. They were no longer bright, but dull and curiously glassy. "Help!" she whispered, rather than spoke, straining to make her voice heard as one tries to scream and break the cold spell of a nightmare. Then her head fell forward again, and she would have slipped from her chair to the floor had pci facaire caught her. the moy ement, not the scarcely audible 1 whisper, which drew Hope New- come's eyes to the drooping figure white; and, seeing the lovely, pallid face of Winifred Gray, he sprang towards her, his eyes zing incredulous horror at her resence here his is a pleasant surprise, my dea Von Zellheim," said Macaire, his ex 4 sion somewhat belying his words. "Your on for one moment while I sse to iss Gray's comfort, and a place ; coolly be made tor you. Our young friend's head is not as strong as it might be, and she has been overcome by a little more ¢ pmpagne,, than she's been accus- tomed to taking." For an re Hope Newcome had lost self-control; but in the short inter- val occupied by 'the millionaire's excuses he had regained it. He knew Winifred Gray; and he knew Macaire--at last! Never in his life of vicissitlides, perhaps, | had he received such a shock as the sight of Winifred Gray at Macaire's house, dinizug in this company, had given; but, though he was absolutely ignorant of: the circumstances which had "led up I ask et when she wakes from. her fajnt- a Newcome. "Whose pro erty is this?" Hs supported Winifred's slender, white- clad body with his leit arm, and pressed it close against his heart. With his right hand he held up a moonstone, cut in the shape of a Sphinx's head. As he raised it aloft the light touched the stone, and struck out a strange blue gleam, like an eye that peered through a cloud, search- ing, searching for something that sooner or later it would fin "That is mine!" said Macaire, and rang towards it. But Newcome lifted the peone beyond his reach. You are sure it 1s yours?" he asked a ore had it for years, till it was stol- en from me. Unless you want to b called 'thief' as well as dog and liar, you will hand it back." "You have had it for years?" Neweome echoed. "I thought sv. lt was you-who stole it from Harel d Norman." Lionel Macaire i = ly quailed. cous face seemed Lt rally to wither, his s body to shrink; "ry ina moment he was bimself again, all traces of emotion wzone,'save for a quivering of the NUsLiies, it slight twiten ing of the marred ey: "I dou't know the | name, " he said. Hope Mer come turned a sudden blaze mat nan hin You o PART OF THIS PAGE IS MISSI aed PART OF THIS PAGE IS MISSING emasmnactenrabs "You gave me rice us to speculations. I teok it. and <encaednd beyond my best hopes. That's the one thing for which l have to thank you." "There speaks your dog'sa ingratitude. But many a ser 3 yote eh in master's service; and you're my servant --or you're bound by your own word to be--till the end of the six mpbnths, and everybody shall know it; everrbody shall hear the great joke now and hugh with me. You bound yourself, in your gold- greed, to do anything I exacted of you when the six months should be up. What I meant to make of you was a groom i my stables, a place you're well fitted for, and you can't refuse it without breaking your pindge, the same as ob- taining eight thousand pounds on false etenses. How will Miss Gray jaucy be- fog ¢ the .wife Be my groom? We mpet his | MIM oc MAt oN TENS such excelfent ad- POl¥-2G00r -9¥ waren Une serytetres ! entered through a passage leading-td the huge kitchens. The door moved noise lessly, and Macaire's artificial foot limpe d over the thick with which the f was covere it had ever done before. Half-way down the } passage was a door which opened near the stables. A mo- ment, and Macaire was in the room where the 'motor-car was kept, for the key was on his chain,' and Bn 4 the en- gineer, absent now, had a duplicate, Macaire sprang to the car and lit the electric lamps, his heart pounding in his ear, for the great crisis had come, and he was working for life or . True, Hope Newcome might have lied; he might suspect, not have the proofs he hinted at. But it would not do to », risk his having lied.. If Macaire could Pe gal re sworn off drink, Salta reach Gravesend, where the "Diavola" lay "Why, what 2 Weee ZOF 8 Carr (he hoped that few knew she was thers), fi ley se bet pr | m "Myself. before the police of London had w but ng as I Thal te, opt i won't stop: the police of Gravesend by talaga, = = can't tg I will there was a chance for him still. He nih pa i oe snd ; fei ai ey ere ao " ri ery med lo unylalag alg. ri were 60 i ES ther) he g-gn. rs » di x Let me first ask you a ete said hoard the @ sands of Scania which he kept rs Mee St a SS ie eee a _ were ite. ey thou- diamond | adte: ir evan of i ie onchiey worth: eres such necessity as had asieen to-night. He { would be com paratively poor, yet he would want for Nothing and he would at | least have defied the RADEAS { two minutes the ca in 'the dark would-ha polive would be in if the dead man's son , d told the truth--but they were not here yet: i) He ran limping from the opening doors back to the car and climbed on board. | Then with a rush and throbbing of its | machinery, the Daimler tore into the | street. et them come now if they would. | What dd he care? Who could catch | him now? What was there fast enough to follow even so far away as to guess at his destination? Out in the street he put on the fast- est speed, recking nothing of the law, | for none could stop h him. { With its two electric lamps like,great white dragen-eyes blazing in the night, the Daimler tore through the strects at the rate of thirty miles an-hour. People | Hung themselves wildly out of the way, | Hee -ahenting that | NG Yet the papers: said next day that,2t fad been true; and the world that had ; known Macaire was shocked. No one | rieved for the man who was gone. But ! a girl, hiding her face against her lover's | arm, shuddered, sobbing that in spite of | all she would have saved him from 80 | dog an ending if she had had ms owe "The mills of the gods, my darling," | answered the man who loved her, and | would never let her go far from him again, "are slow in their grinding, but they grind exceeding small." ( nd. ) te Cautious. it ee HUSH! 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