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A moment later, I heard a broken, weary voice saying: “Show him in.”' George Pardoe rose to meet me. I could see that ordinarily he was a typical successful business man, stout, settled, phlegmatic. He had a large, clean-shaven face, with a firm mouth, keen grey eyes and black hair, just now going thin at the temples. Altogether he was a man whom you would expect to see comfortable only in an office, and one who, as you pass his like by the score every time you venture into the business districts of a large city, you would never glance at a second time. Just now, however, he was interest- ing because of his position in my story, and I noticed that his eyes were red with weeping. that he was dressed in fitting black instead of the lighter shades that he probably more usually affected, and that his full, well-fed face was gray with the emotions 'through which he had been passing. “Good evening. Mr. Burton,” he. nevertheless. said with business-like She came smilineg forward, her pretty, pink, round, Swedish face broken up with dimples. “Yas,” she nodded. "Well," said I, as the astonished man fell back a pace, “will you kindly tell your master that Mr Burton, of the Philadelphia Globe-Express, has given up his vacation, and come all the way from Lancaster County, Penâ€" sylvania, just to see him?” VShe codrtesied and was off in a flash. .“Think again,” said I persuasively -â€"-and slipped him a bill. His fist closed on the greenback, and he spoke more respectfully than before, but his voice was firm. “It’s no use, sor,” he replied. “Mr. Pardoe’s been bothered to death by ye newspaper fellows all the day,” But just then I caught sight of a pretty little girl in a cap and apron hovering in the hallwayâ€"the maid, of course. I raised my hat with a flourish. “Miss Anderson?” I asked, all the while making mental notes of the pair for my descriptive story. an old enough man at‘ this sort of thing to have my foot in] the way. ~ “Wen, ye can’t!” he snapped, and started to shut the door. The butler-coachman admitted me â€"a short, stocky Irishman, out of livery, with a square jaw and a sul- len face. j‘lwévrént to see Mr. Georgé Par- doe,” I said. After Every Meal [11’s the longest-lasting connection you can by .â€"and It’s a help to - gesflon and a cleanser I. ‘- [or the mouth ‘14- ‘ and teeth. "1:? “'ngley‘o means fix?- »- bmmwfiflu \ pleasure. By Process of Exclusian Unsurpassed , GREEN TEA H470 is superior to the finest Japans, Young Hysons or Gunpowder. Try it today. FREE SAMPLE of GREEN TEA UPDI REQUEST. "SAUDI." TORONTO ISSUE No. LBSâ€"'24. 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I said, retiring. “I am sorry that I had to disturb you, but that, you know, is a part of my business which I can’: avoid. Don’t bother to ring; I can find my way out.” With that I slipped into the hall, closing the parlor door behind me. One glance showed me that I was alone. The next almost convinced me that the coast was clear upstairs. In three bounds I had mounted to the first landing and, before a minute had passed, I had located the room which, from the published descrip- tions, I was sure must be the house- keeper’s. “Mr. Pardoe, did ynur brother have any enemies?” I did not knock; I the door and entered She recognized me at once. And at once her first thought was self- preservation. “Youâ€"you won’t tell!" she cried. For a reply I gripped her firmly by the wrists and dragged her to the light. house?” “Not to my knowledge.” “Were the doors and windows all locked that morning?" “I made sure of that myself.” “Did you hear any noise during the night?" “No: a sound." “Are you a heavy sleeper?” “Veryâ€"and the walls and 3001's are thick.” She leaped cry. It Was then my turn to be sur- prised. . “Jane Haughton!” I whispered. I had known her ten years before, and ten years had only softened with- out disguising her face. I In two words her tragedy had been this: She had been a poor girl sent to a rich boarding school. Her school- mates had been able to enjoy many things which she had been forced to do without. Then, in a moment of weakness, she had stolen a paltry sum from one of them, had been detected and dismissed. Her family had dis- owned her, and Iâ€"then a boy at a nearby sc olâ€"had heard only that she had, een truly repentant, had gone to the school chaplain and had been found by him a place in the em- ployment of some well-toâ€"do family? in New Jersey, where she was living! under an assumed name, but leading: an honest life. 6 1 “Yes. I remember the shock of touching it.” _ “Has the coachman a key to this He bowed his head in acquiescence, and I proceeded: “At what time were you awakened on the morning of the sixth?” brevity. “What can I do for you And now here she £111 and about to be murder of Emerson “Jane,” said I, fixing my eyes stead- ized me to he er feet with a little he was, still beauti- be arrested for the on Pardbe! me at once. 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