-.4uu5 pun. '.3-'I' found him in his cosy, well-fut; ished chamber, busy writing letters, I while the round-taced man seated in a big ax-m-chair by the fire smoking a pipe he introduced as his chum with whom he shared chambers, Doc- tor Hamilton Flynn. I Flynn's nnnhninliuo .... an- ---- `1 i`'`" of From there I rang up - t ilwaa now sadly awards I sat down | vertiaement for the Time - addressed to "Silence" my 10st wife, an appeal ` same time contained a\ `of exposure Place. 1:11.`, - he telephone. and heard the ;detai'1s concerning the business Pelham on latest which neglecting. After-I and wrote an ad- : 1 s, an appeal for news of which at the `h veiled _ threat of the aair in Sussex I "Cannot you telegraph and ask?" llwggested the girl. We seem. Hat-I S ry, to be losing so much time," shei added frantically. 'You havtn t been riito the police." [I I "I know, Gwen," I said in sorrow,. 'hut I can't do more. To telegraph 3 `further might close the channel of :,our inquiry. No, we must still re- 1 `main patient.` ,! Then after snatching some food `which had been left in the dining- f , room for me, I swallowed a glass of _ burgundy and entered the small! TOOK] which I nmul an an" -..._A:-..1, n l- uul 5 uuuy EHO EHIPTBC which I used as my Mden. ---~ -us ;been inert {i In brief I explained that 1 had dis- `me this ` covered who existence of a. person in `been 3" _ fstrassbung who could probably give "But w _ me a clue to the whereabouts of Kirk possibly {and Mabel. Hence my intxntion of d.:- .the house ;}ps.rtin'2 by the first service next'manded. I morning. evexjythin; E .-vvvuayuuu r x No, I could never believe that._ I 1 .refused to give credence to any such ' suggestion. I '_l I ascended the long hill to B.oad- ` impostor. But re ` the night mail _ stairs Station, and hail an hour lat- _ er left (or Victoria. was to go direct there to discover My intention to Strassburg and and unmask the I reached London for` the Continent had already left Charing Cross. so I toolra taxi to my lonely home, where Gwen was awaiting me, still anxious and expectant. I told her of the fruitlessncssaol my errand, whereupon she sank back in- to her chair, staring straight into :the are I I. P D F 8 P 31 CL '8. Vsi ibt vv u-uvuucn I -! And yet. Ethelwynn trusted Kirk` I just as blindly and Iopllshly as her`- '!a.the'r had done. .3 But was not the truth astrange I one 7 She had concealed from me. as I she was concealing from the worid.7 -that the Professor had died at the .lha.nd of an unknown assassin. i >; ' Or was it that she herself was an ' accomplice ? - muenvour to recover my lost about been misled by e ,u:wuuu.1 accomplice . \1.. 7 -_,,u _.uv- . I read the message over a dozen times. What risks could Kirk be run- ning by coming to Broadstairs ? Was not that telegram essentially a. word of warning given by one accomplice, to another ? A l._.,. \- 'K.0tlll'l;