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THE HONGKONG DAILŸ PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27cm, 1910.

granddaughter, and this, and this only, had beoa carried away by the murderer. That bis orimo also remained undiscovered, added to the general sense of Insoonrity and doubt of police ellisey,

A year had passed, and Jude cute moro found Harry Leigh in London. Still overwhelmed with sorrow for the loss of his young wife, be had reluctantly consented to be present at his sister's wedding for the wedding, and did and to give her away. Ha arrived two days

On, Harry; how lovely!" Yes, darling," replied Harry, patiantly. He was very sick of gasing into shop windows, but it was impossible to spoil the plousure lovely little bride. Frances Leigh was a charming girl of eighteen, with dating complexion, forget-me-not oyes, and golden hair, and her arrival, as i

Iwas her willing slave. So ho stood star-

sister vacantly into the shop window which had

Inst uttracted—her;

Look at that bracelet," went on Frances. "It's exquisito; so original, se quaint. I should adore it,

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And 1 adore you, my darling," whispered

Shall I get it for you ** Har forry! But you're given me ench heups.o things; and I know that bracelet will cost a lot."

Harry laughed, and drew her into the shop. It was a little bit of a place, very dainty and artistic. Behind the counter were two women, one a brisk little brunetto of five or six and two- ty: the other a slender mille-aged person with a sprootb, colourless, expressionless face, pale blue eyes and brown bair brished back under a wilowk eity), She moved forward to attend to

her customers,

his bost to hide his own grief that ho might

tcloud her happinosa, of his not

Have you decided what I am to give you for a wedding present he asked soon after his sat at luncheon. Indurmond the for the hair," answered his I saw one the other day that lovely All right, Evelyn; you shall kavoit "It was in a shop not far from Bond Street: people called Laporte; French I should say. They've good taste, and their things are charm.

Shall

we go and buy the star this aftar. Harry repressed a shudder as he found him- self standing in front of the shop window in which Frances had seen the bracelet she had coveted: his last love-gift to her. The diamond star was still there, and Erolyn pointing it out followed by to him, want eagerly into the shop, her brother. He shuddered again, as he entered, The shop was exactly the samo us it had been a yearnge; the pretty bibelots tastefully arranged the little brunette all smiles; the widow, her face colourless and 'onless us a plaster wask,

express coming forward to serve them. Evelyn's business was soon transacto. The star wa examined, found to be exactly to the lady's taste, Evelyn bought, and ordered to be seat home. was not so impatient as the little bride who could not wait to have her pretty gift sent after her, and insisted on carrying it home her- self. But Evelyn's patience was not tried very the long. Her brother's gift was sent home evening, and she gleefully exhibited it to her mother and to her funct

A diamond bracelet, sir,” she said, with a faist, French accout. This one? It is very pretty, and only fifteen guineas"

Sho hul taken from the window an expand ing gold bracelet ret with diamond sparks,

No, no not that out" cried Frances, in- patiently.

There: do you see? That one She pointed a dainty white finger at the object of her admiration, and the shopwoman laid it before her.

have athers more deserving of malame's rogard," she said, quietly. This is of ancient design; not at all the mole,"

"That's just why I like it." broke in Frances. It's so quaint and out of the common. And the stones ureauperh."

aid, and I've had sack heaps of presents. It's the prottiest thing I've had yet," she They're to be on view to-morrow, mimwy, aren't they

"Yos, dear."

As madame observes. It is the stones that make this bracelet so expensive. For half the money

1 designs."

Pray don't," said Frances, brusqusly. "It would he useless. I have decided on this brace Int: the one I choose,"

"Isn't this a quaint present?" Evelyn wont

can show randame the very latest come taking up a parcel which had just |

The price is one hundred and eighty guineas, madame," turned the woman briefly, eridont ly annoyed by her customer's manner. Fraces turned her forget-me-not oyes to her husband's fee. She had no ides of the value of money. last the price seemed to har AXCOBBIVU.

You like

like it. darling whispered Harry "Well, then, have it. A lot of money? Oh. that's all right. We'll have the bracelet, ho indet, alonil, taking out his porket book Please send it to Mrs. Leigh at the Hotel Beich-

No. I'll take il." burst in Francos, I'll take my dear inacelet myself: I can't wait for it ing

start.

post. Conia Riobard sends it to

me from Kazan. It's a mascot in the shape of a dagger with a charm on the sheath. The charm'e in an unknown tongue, but Richard says it means safety irem peril when attacked by foss"

She drew the dagger from the sheath. It we very small, but of keen temper, and murder- bus sharpness.

"Don't play with it!" and her mother. You might cut yourself badly. It's quite dangerous.

Evelyn langhod, bub Leid it aside, and soon after Gerald went away. Harry had gone to the smoke-room, and Mrs. Leigh was fidgeting about preparatory lo going to bed.

was

This afternoon she went out to

"Anne gets more careless every day." sho to complaining, when Evelyn roused herself the pillar-post, leaving the area door open. She was like a child--with a new toy, and her Cook says she noticed a boy hanging about all husband's eyes dwelt adoringly on her as she afternoon. One gets nervons with such valu. eagerly caught the parcel from the woman's haudable wedding-gifts in the house."

I shall wear it at Lady Wendover's ball," she confided joyously to her husband as they left the shop together.

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But she was not fated to exhibit her now possession at the ball a few days later. feverish cold easing her to her bad for tree days, and the noruing of the ball, though aho was murk better, the doctor woald not sanction her getting up. Her husband laughed at the idea of having her to attend the ball, She had but she urged Tra

her naid wAS within everything the waterly to do so. call she would be the better of a little solitade "I hate leaving you." he protested, when last-be-had-consulod to go. But if you insist on it, I'll look in for an hour or two. Try and sleep. Sweetners, and I'll be back before you know I'm gone."

It's too hot to sleep," sighed the girl.

Yes,

one docs," answered Evelyn. Wall, mother, dear, good-night. I'm off to bed, and shall take my mayoo with me to defend me against burglars,"

**

Laughingly she picked up the larger, and carried it off with her. She was tired, hat not

the sleepy, and lay reading for some time after was in bed. At last she began to yawn, and oks ina her book, laid it on the table beside her. The dagger lay there, too, and Evelyn picked it and looked again at the charm engraved on the sheath. Thou she cautiously drow out the i do bright it is," she marmured, “aud how sharp: a prely leg, but what a quaint wedding-present.

She contemplated it admiringly for a few moments, then laid it back on the table without troubling to sheath it again, switched off the

and fell asleep

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They do not Weaken. They do not Sicken. They do not Gripe.

Don't hurry back; it'll be quite a treat to be light ke auddenly, her boart beating wildly. the uenal bour, was horrified to find the bad a jewel-cage he took from his pocket, and gazed

without me, won't it?"

1 pinched her ear playfully, kissed her, and was turning away when she caught his sleeve. "Wait a moment, Harry. Give me my bracelot out of its cas Thanks Isn't it lovely F

She shipped the glittering ornament on her arm left bare by the short sleeve of her night dress, and lifted her arm for his admiration. He stood for a moment at the door, fascinated by the lovely picture she made. She was sit ting up in her, her pearly shoulders gleaming through the filmy casebric and Bue lace of her sight-dres, her golden hair curling loosely round her flower-like face, her blue eyes radiant with lore as they met his. So he left her; so he saw her for the last time.

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Is he dead" cried Evelyn, "I had a dagger and I struck him with it. It was in defence of my life, but I hope--I hope I Lasen't killed him."

Yes; by the merest chance though" replied the doctor. "It's all right, Miss Leigh: you actly shuddered, and hid her face. Prosently,

self-defouce, you know." Evelyn she looked up. was more like an evil

"It was

Was it really a boy?" she whispered. "It

spirit." woman," said the doctor curtly.

two

and permitted other red that the police.

her nuid going into Evelyn's room with tea at in. The boy had put down the candle, opened a What had wakesed her, she did not know, but pool of blood, Evelyn lying apparently dead half Isvingly at it Then he took out the craamont she felt instinctively there was danger near out of it, having evidently been trying to ring it contained, held it aloft and laughed softly. her. The faint light of the summer sky showed the ball, and the body of a lad on the floor. It was the diamond bracelet, sold a day or two her a slender boy's Agure moving noiselessly The doctor, summoned immediately, had pro- previously, and the boy's face us he turned it to about the room, evidently in search of some nounced Evelyn to be practically uninjured, and the light, was the face of her mother.

Waon Suzanne Laporte heard next day of special object. For a moment Evelyn lay had had her carried at once from the room. motionless, uncertain how to set. The tuving

Evelyn had hardly piven hor account of the murder at the Hotel Reich, she know how bull softly near the side of the bed on which the

her torrible struggle with the robber, when her other bad regulaed possession of the dia- was, she stretchut out her hand te pres the doctor who had loft the room manwhile, most bracelet. In answer to the Coroner, s was afraid to give information to the police, us knob. But cautious

she did not think ber mother was actually in- he had attracted the attention of the re'urned to it, looking very grave.

Oh, turned instantly. intruder, and he

that

822, and thus not responsible for her actions. face boy's Heavens. It

deliver her mother into the hangman's hands. Evelyn saw rather was it the face of son

and it was unnatural to uspect a daughter to Sho had done her atmost to watch over her evil spirit ur of some dead thing that had died

mother since Mrs. Leigh's murder; but she had ран in mortal sin and still retained the wiosul pas- It was past three when he returned, and stala sions of its former state; a face from which all

not been always successful. She feared Mad- Ou tip human expression hal vanished; a face with the

te bularies in the last year. If inquiries Ame Laporte had been guilty of at least one or noiwlessly into the darkened room. Los he approached the bed, and listened for his look of a dead in its glittering and glassy eyes.

were muts, she believed that in every case where Evelyn was a girl of spirit and courage, but wife's soft breathing. The silence was intenso,

iu ber

jewellery alone had been stolen, it would be and in a sudden panis he switched on the light. as she met those eyes the blood froze

found that the valuables had been bought from Somethius lay on the bed before him, but not veins, and cowering like a rabbit hypnotised by

Madame Laporte, In reply dovere ques- his

wife?

not the happy, pretty, loving girl hea ep ut about to devour it, she remained

tion from the Coroner, Sazanan bursting inte left: only her doud bexly lay there, her sweet motionless, so paralyzed with horror that sheThe police must find out who she is. They are face blackened and esurulsed, her blus ages could not even sure he next instant, the in the lease now. He turned to Mrs. Leigh, tears, protested that she was not aware that staring and blank.

thing

had sprung upon her, and croushing on "I will sont round a draught which Miss Leigh

Ler silence, and that she sincerely repeatail by Le The oral clutching fingers hadloft deep her breast, its vile face within a fow inches of will take at once, sad then was that she is kept she had brought herself within reach of the law prints on the milk-white throat: the bracelet her own, encircled her throat with long clutch quiet. She's had a fearful shock, remember, and her silence, which had endangered other lives

is suffering from it," his last love gift, had been tore so roughly from ing fingers, that felt like flexible seel rubs,

Farther evidenen the fair ad arm that the soft flesh was deep- Evelyn know her fata. The murder of her

The next day the dead body was identified by

It was that of her mother, investigating Madame Lapocte's promises, ly gushed. Nothing else was missing, although young sister-in-law scarce a year ago fabed young woman the remn was full of valuables. The police held into her mind, and she felt her dcom was Jeanne Laporte. At the inquest Suzanne found as safe in her bedroom, not only the

Next

ahe, too, wor morning would be found Laporte was the principal witness. Her mother, diamond bracelet which had caused poor little Dhat the burglar, seeing the bracelet on Mrs. Leigh's

gled to secure it without strangled in bed and her murderer would never Jeaune Importo, a widow, of French nationality, Frances Leigh's murder, and a large quality had attemy arm,

1 snit of dark tweed that the unfortunate lady be traced. And Gerald Her lurer Was had been established as u jeweller sail fancy goods of other jewelery, hut the for assistance had been his heat to be broken as Harry's had been? dealer in London for fifteen years. She had

and

Error wedding had to be postponed for She had always been rather peculiar fond of some considerable time. The shock of her a. sick bed, and that the minu, oing what he had done, had led under the crouching thing, throwing her fron

urm in

in frantic instantly, taking the bracelet with him,

There was no clue to the murderer. A boy the boil. and hopeleen attempt to toneh jewels, ant to wear, merely to gloat ever sidnight aroutare laid heri

Slowly the life was ebbing from miser over his gold, showing herself relnetant to it was not until nearly six weeks had passed particular articles, even at a good that the quiet coremony which was sabatiluted of fre darted across her eyes; in the price. This gained upon her, until Suzanne for the gay function proriously arranged,

ther mother, on certain could take place. Certainly bay's agony

she clenched her hand on noct him with the wine.

of suffocation.

on began to suspect that

points, was not perfectly sane. A year ago, "At last my own," said Gerald, as bride and Jandy were

toy prettyle porta man with the strength of a

of a gor-the charmed dagger, the giant in his fogors could have been the murder she had so carelessly tossed back on the

passionately fond, and did not intend to my heart stands still. And it in to your courage on their being able to trace the bracelet, and ly, she struck with it upwards at the offer for sale. By some mistake it was put in and presence of mind aloue, your scape from a The polios based their hopes of discovery before falling asleep. Blindly, aimlessly feob. becaught a second-hand braonlet of which she ersetheart, when I think I so nearly lost you. this was a forlorn hope, as owing to the peculiar crouching creature above her. There was a the show case, and a Indy, seeing it in the win horrible death is due."

undeterred by the But Evelyn shook her head, and nestled design and workmanship, the ornament woald hoarse, shoking cry, the deadly grip upon dow, insisted on buying it, nad probably be broken up and the diamonds disposed her throat relaxed, the awful thing upon her high price put it. Madame Laporte seemed lover to him.

"I don't think so, darling, she answered pou- breast rolled heavily to the ground; and Evelyn much annoyed, and hardly spoke for the rest-o without their setting.

I think it was the Charm of the Weeks and months went ou, and the murder just mans eù to reach the bell before cou- the day. Next morning she disappeared, leaving ively,

a note to the affect that she had gone fro

from home Dagger," young bride scoured fated to take its pince sciosos left her. among the long

long list of undiscovered crimes. That She opened her eyes it last, and looked for a for

the fooling that there summer there was a from hotels. London was very full of Amerio and her mother's anxious face was bonding over was someone walking about the house As sho

alone, except

for a very young servant, she ans and visitors from the Continent, and a her. In the background were her brother, gang of skilful and experienced "crooks" had Gerald, and some ae whom Evelyn guessed to followed in their train. From almost every be

be a doctor. She was evidently right, for when the door of her room and listened. She heard a might well.ki wa hotel came the report of thefts of he saw that her senses had returned, he uttered light step on the stairs, and thinking it

ha her mother rotar

unerpectedly, she looked and valuables at one time or another some jewellery

forward, held glass

Evelyn's lips. salate of the inefficiency of the

drank the contents enrestatingly,

and presently coming

upstairs was cursing a candle, and Buz- of the police. In the

early

autumn another murder, almost her head scened to clear. Her throat was anne was startled to see lad coming towards kept her identical with ti at of Francas Leigh, startled aching and stiff, she felt utterly broken and her. She withdrew hurriedly, but still the public. An old lady, living alone with her exhausted, but she remembered all that has bap doox ujar to watch the intrudor's proceedings, servante, in a house on the outskirts of London, peaed, and whispered an eager enquiry. He came steadily and silently onwards, and van- was found strangled in her bed. She had Mrs. Leigh was trembling in every limb, and gene to London on the previous day to puranable to auswer, but Gerald, no less agitated, Lo haso some jewellery for a wedding present for a commanded himself suficiently to explain that

Lord by the panic-stricken burglar, and she struggled madly, writhing her slender body been successful and had an excellent basin seda brown)

had been soon hugging about the hotel on the

Į day of the murder, but there was nothing to com.there was a noise as of thunder in her ears; part with

unusually able of thet fatal grip, only an something on the bed beside her. It was the dagis epicion become certainty. Mademo La bridegroom drove away together. "Oh, my

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The summer, and bitter were the com.renasuri r words to the others, and Shen She had no light, but kne person who was

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