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14 P The reformed cracksman, Michael Lanyard, knowns to the police as the lone Wolf, is attempting to recover the stolen jewels of EPVO de Montalais, | the woman he loves. Lanyard, who met Eve in southern France, where he rescued her from robbery at the hands of the brutal Parisian Apache, Dupont, suspects a motorirg party eonsisting of the American, Whitaker Monk; his secretary, Phinuit ; the latâ€" ter‘s brother, Jules, and the Count and Countess de Lorgnes. De Lorgneo' is murdered by Dupont. Lanyard, gearching Paris, fincs the countess. He learns her real name is Liane De-' korme and believes she has the Jewels. GO ON wWITH THE STORY. I Lanyard left Athenais at her apartâ€" ment and immediately followed her directions to the house of Liane. | It stood fourâ€"square and massive on a corner between the avenues de Friedland et des Champsâ€"Elysees, a solid stone pile of a townâ€"house in the most modern mode. ' Heavy gates of wrought bronze guarded the front doors. The single side or serviceâ€"door was similarly proâ€" tected if more simply. And stout grilles of bronze barred every window on the level of the street. ‘ Toâ€"mofrow night would be too late. Toâ€"night, if there were any warrant for his suspicions, the jewels of Eve de Montalais lay in the dwelling of Liane Delorme: or if they were not there, the secret of their hiding was. But toâ€"morrow Liane would be on the wing; or Lanyard had been sorely mistaken in seeing in her as badly frightened a woman as he had ever known, when she had learned of the assassination of de Lorgnes. 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Just below a landing ]he paused, crouching low, his head lifted just enough to permit him to llee a section of glowing roseâ€"pink wallâ€"it would be wroseâ€"vink! Before the corner house it stopped. A lackey alighted with an umbrella but Liane Delorme would not wait for him. The car had not stopped when she threw the door open; on the Instant when its wheels ceased to turn she jumped down and ran into the house. _ Now if only it were true that the man at the serviceâ€"door had failed to close it securelyâ€"! It proved so. The gate gave readily to Lmanyard‘s pull. The knob of the small door turned silently. He stepâ€" ped across the threshold, and shut himself into an unlighted hall. was he up to" Why this furtive apâ€" pearance, why the retreat so abruptly executed? By way of answer came the soft drone of a highâ€"powered motor. _ To one side a broad flight of stairs ascended: Lanyard went up with the activity of a cat, making no more noise. the man advancing with it and again‘ halting to peer up and down thej street. Then quickly, as if alarmed, he withdrew. f | Listening intently, Lanyard heard: no click of latch, such as should have been audible in that dead hour of hush. Evidently the fellow had negâ€"| lected to make fast the gate. What‘ The second floor proved to be deâ€" voted mainly to a drawing room, a lounge, and a library, all furnished in a weird, inchoate sort of magnifiâ€" cence, with money rather than with taste, if one might judge fairly by the fitful and guarded beam of the torch. Lights were burning on the floor above, and a rumor of feminine volces drifted down, interrupted by an occasional sibilant rustle of silk, or a brief patter of highâ€"heeled feet; noises which bore out the conjecture that madame‘s maid was undressing and putting her to bed. A change in the tenor of the talk between mistress and maid was conâ€" veyed by a sudden lift of half an octave in the latter‘s voice, sounding a sharp note of protest, to be answerâ€" ed by Liane in accent of overbearing He could see nothing more; and I‘ane had already reduced the maid to responses feebly submissive. "And why should you not go with me to that America if I wish it?" Lanyard heard her say. "Is it likely 1 would leave you behind to spread scandal concerning me with that gabâ€" bling tongue in your head?" one "It is well, madame. I say no more I will go." "Madame takes all her jewels, then?" the maid inquired, moving about the room. "But naturally. I shall pack them toâ€"night, before I sleep." ("Damnation!"â€"â€"from Lanyard, beâ€" neath his breath. "More delay!"). "And we leave toâ€"morrow, madams, at what time?" "It matters not, so we are in Cherâ€" bourg by midnight." lMIm"o Liniment for dandruff. Lanyard slipped like a shadow to the floor below, and took shelter beâ€" hind a jog in the wall. The maid came down, carrying an electric candle. Its rays illumined from below one of those faces of crude comeliness. She hesitated, lookâ€" ing up toward the room of her misâ€" tress, as if lost in thought. But some secret thought amused the woman, a shadow depened in the visible corner of her fullâ€"lipped mouth. One fancied something sarâ€" donic in that covert smile. She went on down. Lanyard came out of hiding with a fresh enterprise abrew. * Liane would be at least another half an hour busy with her jewelry, and the thought presented itself that the library, immediately beneath her room, should be worthy an investigaâ€" tion. The library was furnished with bulky old Italian pieces of carved oak, but suitable enough with one excepâ€" Fetch my jewelâ€"caseâ€"the large @» International Magazine Company ; by Louis Joseph Vance tion, a ponderous buffet, completely out of place in a room of that charâ€" middle door. "There‘s such a thing as too much luck," Lanyard communed. "First the service gate and door, and now this, ready to my handâ€"!" "Love letters!" Lanyard mused with a grimace of weariness. "And each believed, no doubt, she cared too much to compromise nim. Good Lord! what vanity is man‘s!" t He selected a pigeovhole at hazard, and emptied it of sevoral bundles of leiters, all neatly bound with tape or faded ribbon and clearly docketed. His eye was caught by a great name endorsed on the face of one of the packages; and reading what clse was written there his orows rose high _ He ;w;ix';xg sharply . round and searched every shadow in the room with the glare of the portable lamp. _ But the racked pigeonholes held nothing to interest him whose one aim was the recovery of theâ€" Montalais jewels. The safe was, in fact, dediâ€" cated simply to the storage of docuâ€" ments. Placing the lamp on the floor and adjusting its hood so that it focused squarely upon the middle section of the buffet, he turned the key and disâ€" covered, behind the door, a small sa‘e. The combination dial was smug] with {liâ€"grounded confidence in its' own inviolate integrity. Still (Lanâ€" yard told it) it could hardly be exâ€"| pected to know, it had yet to be dealt with by the shade of the Lone Wolf.! Amused by the conceit, Lanyard | laid hold of the knob with steady,| delicate fingertips that had not yet, in | spite of years of honorable idleness,| forgotten their cunning. The dial, whirled, paused, reversed, turned all‘ but imperceptibly. In three minutes| he sat back on his heels, grasped the Tâ€"handle, turned it, had the satisfacâ€" tion of hearing the bolts slide back Into their sockets, and opened the door wide. ‘ while his lips sÂ¥aped a sounless vhistle. Liane hx kept such docuâ€" ments as gave her power over others. Lenyard wondered if it woere possible he held in his hand ar instrument to bend the woman to his will. . . . Sudderly he put out a hand and switched off the light, a gesture quite involuntary, simple reaction to the muffled thump of a chair overturned on the floor above. Sounds of scuffling followed, as if Liane were dancing to no music with a heavyâ€"footed partner. Then a groan, . . . 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