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Winter: Term Opens January 4th DECIDE NOW TO Durham High The. sclmnl is thoroughlv equipped in teaching ability, in chemical and elec- trical supplies and fittings. etc.. fur full Junior Leaving and Matriculation work. Yonge :md (‘ hzulos st! eets Tot-t ntu. This S( 11001 stands without a snperim in Canada. V. rite for C: 1talo<rue. ". J. ELLIOTT. P1in.. 734 Young St. klllbk, i "I am informed by him that he spied i upon you while you cut through the ’ bars of Miss Love’s Window.” Thompson did not stir. but Lucille saw the sun go a sickly white “The man lied. sir." "Men do not lie at such moments.” h‘nl‘ {net 9 rnnlnnnf mhnmnenn man a! Ivincial Model School Teacher 181 Glass Certificate. Intending StudPHLS should sixter at. the beginning of the wrm it possihie. Board can he obtained at reasonable rates. 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And as Loubeque looked back at the beauti- ful figure of the girl he was surprised to see that suddenly she seemed to have changed. that the slip of a child who had come on board the Empress from the hydroaeroplane had suddenly become a woman of such capacity for love and hate as even he himself did not have. “You think you are working for hate, and all the time you are working for the same reason that I am-you are working because of love. Can you not see what a perversion of love is this thing you constantly seek to (10? Can you not”â€" Came back to him the girl he had loved and whom he still loved as fond- ly as in the old days of Flirtation walk at the Point, from which he had been expelled. Swiftly she came to his side, placing her hand upon his shohl- der. her voice low and tender again like the sighing of an April breeze through the greening baby leaves. Lucille could feel the man’s shoul- ders trembling. could mark the tre- mendous effort he made at self con- trol. She was almost ready to plead with him for a return of the papers, to give up his entire life work and count it failure, confident that he was well along the road to doing so, when a rap sounded on‘ the door. For some reason which she could not define a shudder ran through her at the sound. She seemed to recognize a sinister presence close by. She glanced at Loubeque. and her heart sank as she saw the wave of emotion she had bred within him had passed. that he was again the icy, indefatigable inter- national spy. “Come in.” he called briskly. Slowly, cautiously. yet with not the slightest uncertainty. the door pushed open. Before the visitor appeared on the threshold Lucille knew who it would be. For a moment she was taken aback by Thompson’s perfect aplomb. She knew he had been the one who robbed her of her necklace. that he had spray- ed her with ether and taken it from about her throat while she slept. And yet not so much as by the quiver of an eyelash did he show any sign of sur- prise or fear. “I was delayed, sir,” the butler be gan apologetically. when Loubeque lifted his hand iumeratively. “You were delayed." coldly repeated the spy, separating every syllable and meting it out as though it were a death judgment “It is perhaps better that you were delayed. Thompson. I have just received a letter from a man with whom you are acquainted. In this letter, Thompson, he informs me he intends turning traitor to my interests. that he intends assisting Miss Love to make her escape." "Men do not lie at such moments.” For just a moment Thompson was si- lent. The hush upon the room was 80 profound as to make the ticking 01 Loubeqne’s watch strike upon the ears like mullet strokes. Slowly the butler’: index finzer moved to the scar upon his cheek. “It’s a He!" Lucille burst forth pas» sionately. “That man tried to rob me here in this very house. That was why I insisted upon a maid to serve me when 1 took the drug you put in the drink.’ “The man you speak of evidently did the work in the hope of releasing Miss Love. I gained this seat While trying to prevent the flight. sir." tl “\Vhy did you not mention it at that time?" The spy's tones were dubious. “Value? You had no money when you left Manila." “Because 1 did not wish you to know I had anything of such value about “No, but I obtained posezession of a wonderful ruby necklace in the cavern of the jungle just before 1 was res- cued by the filibuster. Three nights ago when I boarded the train for here that man drugged me while I slept and stole the necklace from about my throat. Then he dropped out of the window of his compartment. That is why he was detained." Loubeque fastened his cold eyes upon the butler. The man had nerves as steady as a rock Lucille studied the "judge and culprit earnestly. She could see that Thompson was beating down the snv’s belief in her story. Swift as lie rm: 61M MYSTERY ”Quito so. sir.” murmured the butler- COMM 1/9145 .1"! moving pica!" win: Wad 5y ma vnmmat ran. ”on «ma:- W Comnany. much I: not. ablbitinj QB Drudaafivn In hum fbtctch. [Win];- want: an?! be w‘jorocubr pmccatcd. ‘ “MASTER PEN ” THE a flash. without a sm-ond‘s thought. she darted toward the thief. She had no- ticed his fingers involuntarily seek the right hand breast pocket of his coat when she made her charge. In one swift movement she had ripped open the coat With the other hand she plunged toward the place she knew the necklace to De. At first Thompson was taken ofl his guard. Then he sprang back with a hoarse cry of rage and alarm. forgetful of everything. The girl clung to her hold like a tigress. He grasped her wrist roughly and thrust her. reeling. across the room. his eyes glaring as. with clinched fists. he stared at her, while. dazed though she was by the violence of him. she held triumphantly in her hand the gorgeously dazzling ruby necklace. Hugo Loubeque did not utter a soung; did not change expressions for one Instant. Slowly. with all the lei- surely grace of some giant animal, he rose and stepped toward his minion. The cold expression in his eyes had turned to one or grim ferocity. such an exfiression as made Lucille shudder, as she saw his fingers reach out and grip Thompson about the throat. press- ing, prvssing- Not hurriedly. but with cold. definite. murderous purpose. the spy slowly forced the struggling figure into limp- ness. then cast him from him without apparently making the slightest elfort. rubbing his palms slowly together as though the touch had defile-d them. Lucille was chilled with horror as she watched the spy reseat himself. his face calm and emotionless. Ap- parently he. had quite forgotten the huddled. silent figure upon the floor, whose blackened race was slowly re- gaining its color. Thompson was groaning when Loubeque impatiently pressed a button and waited for an an- swer. CHAPTER XX. When the Owl Hoots. T came even before he expected. A loud clanging of bells through the house punctuated the silence. a clanging that pierced through the treble sound of the doorbell. Hugo Louheque sprang to his feet swiftly. The mask of his face dropped and showing that face keen. eager. a bit perturbed. The clanging sound was augmented by the rushing of feet. She had nev- er dreamed there could he so many in the house. More like a warren it was than anything else. Whispers sound- ed from the halls. But she gave them all no heed. She was swaying gently to and fro. her body fighting against the faintness that was causing her knees to refuse support. her eyes wide with delighted recognition and love and disbelief. and then she open- ed her lips, trying to cry out aloud the name of the man she loved. the man she had worked so hard for. the man who stood in the street below. staring up at the very window at which she stood. But all that came from her lips was the faintest sound. tremulous. pitiful; the whisper of his name. â€"â€"â€"â€".â€".~â€"~.â€". “W -._<-__... .V Before she could regain control of herself. even realize that she really was seeing her sweetheart here in flesh and blood. the hand of Loubeque was about her waist. drawing her gently. but firmly. away from the win- dow. But even as the casement shut out her view or him she caught the lightning flash of recognition as her appeal drew Gibson’s own eyes to that window. and she knew he had seen Loubeque restrained her firmly. The clanglug of the bells throughout the house ceased instantly just as .a loud hammering on the door below rose. Cameaflylnsrushotmenwlthlntho His Fingers Grippod Thompson’s Throat. room. am it completely. Lonbequo swiftly glanced about at the envious faces. then nodded. “The tunnel!” he cried sharply. Suddenly [acme became aware that the room was shooting downward like a .giant elevator. She glam-ed about her. sick with apprehension, upon the faces so close to her own in the naro row confines. A breath of rank cool air fanned her cheek from out the darkness. Loubeque’s hand was upon her wrist. his voice softly advising her to follow him. Far in the distance a little speck of light reached out toward them. For what seemed an endless distance she was led by the spy, with always that rush of feet behind. The light was growing broader. brighter. Lou- beque released his hold upon her. She could see him reach and press harshly against something. a door evidently, for the light slowly lengthened and broadened. Daylight and a foreign street! ' A bitter sob broke from her lips as she looked at Luubeque and realized how infinitely far away she was from the man she loved. Days upon the desertâ€"blistering daya with merciless sunlight pouring from the molten kettle overhead. burning savagely at the impervious sand and cacti that alone had resisted the fire so many ages. Nights of cold. unwiuking stars- stars pitiless in their steady undeviatv ing scrutiny as the gluwer of sun: nights where the desert breeze search- ed out the marrow ut' the bones; nights surrounded by the minions of Lou- beque, by Louheque himself; nights at sleeplessness for herself, but nights filled with the sounds of the slumbers of her captors. Save Hugo Luubeque. Loubeque never slept. Lucille saw he had steel- ed himself against her vow, that never again would she be able to penetrate his pitilessness in the pursuit of his previous revenge. Close at hand was the hour for him to strike, ready at hand were the means. What was his object in. seek- ing Mexico and the Constitutionalist leader she had no means of knowing? That there was a great object. one which she must defeat at any and all costs. she knew. It was the eighth day he ran into a foraging party sent out by Villa in ad- vance of his main army. Much as she knew of the mysterious spy. Lucille was still surprised to mark the respect and deference paid him by the dark skinned rebels. Consequently several days later. days of tireless travel. she was not surprised on reaching the main body of the army to find herself being treated with the greatest respect. while Loubeque was in constant con- sultation with the rebel leader. Day after day she felt the growing helplessness of her positiun. Lunbeque seemed omnipotent in the opinion of these men upon whom he appeared to have stumbled. Still she would not permit hope to die. The justice of her muse. the growing humanity of the international spy. her very youth and the power or her love forbade this. Through the very eagerness and desc peration of this feeling she slowly be- came aware of the attitude toward his master of Thompson. She was aware of the subtle atmosphere of hatred which the slick scoundrel’s maskot servitude concealed so Well. In lieu of anything to do on her own account she took to watching the man. following his every move. his every change of exnression. Enmity toward the master he had served so well and who had mistreated him mingled with hatred for the girl he had so bitterly. wronged and who had brought his punishment about. Consequently Lucille was surprised to come across a briefly scribbled note on a bit of rice paper such as she had often noticed the. butler using in rolling cigarettes. It was pressed tightly against one of the partially cut slices of bread when Thompson served nls master and Lucille with their dinner. She detached the fragment of bread. dropping it to the floor and securing the fragment of paper as she picked it up. concealing it in the palm at her hand. For what seemed countless hours she bravely attempted to eat the food be- fore her. tried to endure the heart breaking period during which Lou- beque smoked silently at his cigar. It was with a sigh of relief so ohkus the spy W88 Obliged to smile that she made half hearted protest at his retirement. No sooner had his figure ceased to darken the doorway than she started eagerly to examine the message. “At the third hoot of the owl leave." Merely that. but the delphic words seemed pregnant with wondrous mean- Hours trod upon one another’s heels so fast they moved under the tension of her waiting. Vague forebodingfi which she could not analyze oppress ed her despite the fires of hope that had been kindled within her drooping spirit There had been something deadly about Thompson‘s manner. un- der the scrutiny of the man she Knew he hated so venomously, which made her shudder and form a halt rescin- tion to acquaint Loubeque with his servant’s treachery. She had half risen to her feet. still fighting against the ludicrous impulse when the shrill hoot of an owl reached from out the mighty distances of the farreaching desert waves. And now the very seconds lagged. Every nerve. every muscle. flexed, for she knew not what. Lucille waited. her ear against the wall. her eyes pools of mirrored terror. After what seemed an interminable age came again the sound. Unable this time to endure the long intermis- sion she was charged to undergo. she g~++++++é~3+~zo+++++++++e~~w+++ ++++++++++~t~++++w~++++++M»!- softly opened the door. peering o'm: Ewe! the sleeping city that the rem-t entertain had flung up at a mere « um mand. Immediately before her own abode she made out the less preten flous shack 01 the international spy A dim light from the partially opened door cut a segment from the darkness. Far more significant of slumber than complete darkness was that light. _ Something tugged at her feet, fairly drawing her away from the scene. Then a strange wave of pity for the A tiny droning sound reached her ears. 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