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THE WRONG NUMBER.

BY

LOUIS TRACY.

"Charlie, you puzzle me. Perhaps it

"No, please. The station square--Buck- is the telephone and my fingers are tired.ingham Palace Road-anywhere outside Very well, the bookstall at Victoria, at if you don't object. There are hundreds two":

of people about, and "Make it 2.30." He spoke without re-

You need not be so concerned. (Author of "The Final War," "Rainbow fecting. For a blissful instant, he fancied not so very dreadful to have to tell me why

faland," etc.)

the appointment was a real one, and he my cousin should fail to turn up. Let us must eat.

leave the station at once, if you wish it.

Mr. Charles Jordison Brooke leaned back in his chair, yawned long and lond ly, there being no other person present, and rolled a cigarette.

Botten he growled, eyeing with active animosity a typewritten brief, whose big thick pages sprawled across the table in front of him. "The fellow hasn't a ghost of a chance. Here's a credible witness who saw him coming out of Lady Porthcawl's room,, and, the theft was discovered, five minutes. later. And look at his record! Three times hard Labourouce penal servitude! Verdict, 'guilty'; sentence, 'seven penal and three supervision for the defence, Charles Jordison Brooke. Nice thing to go to Newcastle for in the dog days! The only thing that puzzles me is how any sane person could be induced to put up twenty guineas for my valuable services. Some poor tool of a woinan, I suppose."

Sr.

That final thought softened his nood. He blew a jet of smoke from between tightly compressed lips, rose and strolled to the window, where he stood a minute For more, looking out over the Temple Gardens and along the gracious vista of the Victoria Embankment, where the towers and spires of the Houses of Parlia- ment shone in a blue baze beyond the splendidly strong lines of Waterloo Bridge.

"All right."

Brighton line?"

It is

Her cool demeanour was a tonic.. How he thanked her for it. They walked to gether through the outer hall, and he tore

Yes, yes. Who would ever confuse it off the offending glove. He was aware with the South-Eastern?"

that the girl stole a shy peep or two at "But I say, Meg."

him, but a drop of perspiration blinded his eye on her side, and he dived for a pocket-handkerchief. Then yielding frank- ly to necessity, he mopped his face.

At the exit she halted.

What is it now?"

"How will you be dressed?"

In my blue, with a sweet pes hat. Why ever do you ask?"

"Because I might get confused and ad- dress the wrong girl-that is, I mean some other girl,

"Charlie, how can you be so ridicul- oua?"

"You must talk some time," she sai gently. "Why not here ?"

He pointed across the enclosure, with ita omnibuses and cabs.

"If you are going to the Tate Gallery, that is your way. May I accompany you a few yards?" he asked.

Brooke sighed. He was sure she was pretty and slim, and a blue costume with "I prefer to remain here," she said, stif a sweet pea hat must be quietly attrac-fening perceptibly. tive; but the joke had gone far enough. Now he must laugh, and apologise. There was no harm done. The lady had plenty of time to secure the right number. To help her, if necessary, he stretched out a hand for the telephone directory.

The fact is, fcg. I have a confession to make he began.

And I shall be late for luncheon," he cried, and, to his real dismay, he beard the replacing of the receiver on its rests at the other end of the line.

He called up the exchange in a very. "Get me that number which was con- nected here a moment ago. Don't fail, for goodness' sake !" he appealed.

"Some woman who loves him," he mused. "Probably, my fee and the soliei, tors' costs may take her last penny, for After some delay, he was switched on Mowlem and Wrench would make sure to a West-End call office, and a Cockney that the money was available before they boy assured him that the lydy was a moved a clerk's eyelid. A stupid canestrynge lydy-deponent knew not too the Little in it for me, and extinction for him, lydy was, or where she kem from. poor devil!"

Was she a young lady"" Yus, net more'n twenty." "Tall?"

He returned to the table, sat down again, and read the concluding lines of the brief.

"It will be difficult, almost impossible, to shake individual testimony. We re- commend a determined effort to convince the jury that the whole body of evidence is insufficient."

"Do you snapped Brooke. "I can see oldMowlem adjusting his gold eye-glasses carefully before he wrate those words of

Charles Jordison Brooke was known to a limited section of the public as rising young barrister, to a few solicitors as a smart youngster, and to Mr. Jecks, the eminent K.C., as a reliable junior. He was clever, ambitious, and keen in his

"Middlin'."

Slightly-built, and good-looking?" "En-ther! But, look 'ere, mister, we ain't allowed to talk about custimers."

you

You must answer, or I shall report

Did Silence. There is no wall more im- penetrable then the dead negation of a salky telephone. There followed a huge wisdom with his best quill pen. Seven plied by two. Mowlem and Wrenca, the delay, a courteous official explanation plus three is ten for the prisoner; multi-demand by Brooke for the clerk in charge of the local exchange, and, after more product is twenty for me.?

was forthcoming that a young lady, un- known, had asked for and obtained a number which was registered in the book at the call as his, Brooke's-889, Temple, He turned despairingly to the array of Brookes in the directory, and called them profession, and the solitary brief that de-up, one by one, He was regarded tele manded his presence at the North-Eastern phonically with suspicion, antisement, Assizes at Newcastle four days later pro. annoyance, even contempt, but mone vided just one of these negative cases he would admit the least intent to escart a disliked.

young lady named Meg to the Tate Gallery that day. By the time he had made an end it was nearly two o'clock.

By no means pleased with himself-for the idle conceit of a midsummer's day promised to distress a charming girl and at least one other person named Charles Brooke the barrister resolved to deal with an awkward incident in the only possible way. If anyone suffered, it must be himself, no matter what the outcome; he must meet the young laly at Victoria, throw himself on her mercy, and take every step to mitigate the effect of the blunder he had failed to rectify at the

Nevertheless, youthful members of the Inns of Court cannot afford to pick and choose, when a notable firm of solicitors seeks their advocacy, and the gleam of sentiment aroused by the notion of a mother, or wife, or some woman even more to be pitied, pawning her belongings to defend a rascal, yielded to the agree able reflection that Mowlem and Wrench had applied to Mr. Brooke, and not to one other of the legal luminaries twinkling in every set of chambers within the square of the Temple,"

He wrote a brief note to his clerk, glanced at a clock on the mantlepiece, and was pondering no more important ques- tion than the choice of a restaurant for lunch, when the telephone bell rang.

Jecks, for a pony!" he muttered. Wants me to devil all the afternoon-will explain points while we sandwich and

Is Mr. Brooke in?**

he said.

came the query clear and sweet, in tones as far removed from Mr. Jecks's Olympian accents as the murmur of a rivulet from the rumbling thunder..

proper moment.

At half-past two, therefore, hungry but well dressed, he was an interested student of the novels and periodicals displayed To his consternation, he saw two ladies on the chief bookstall in Victoria Station.

Very well. I think I can talk lacidly now. Please don't condema me until you have heard the whole story."

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than once she laughed, a reassuring sign. He began, and the girl listened. More

was convincing when he depicted his He grew more confident, and his eloquence frantic efforts to retrieve the original mistake.

"Of course, it is evident you were given the wrong number," he concluded.

"But I spoke plainly. I told the boy to put me on to eight, ought, nine, Temple," said the girl.

"Oh, you gave the figures in that way?" "Yes. I should have said naught,' but I have the incurable trick, of saying

ought. Does that matter?

"Did the boy repeat the amber.?" "Yes."

"And he said, 'Ite, Ite, nine".". She smiled.

"He certainly spoke with a Cockney accent."

That solves the riddle, though it doen not absolve me. Tu future you must always style the cypher 0,”-

"Oh!

"Yes."

"I meant another sort of 'Oh ...... Well, thank you, Mr. Brooke, for the trouble you have taken."?

There is a telephone in the station. Let "But the thing cannot end in that way.

Charles Brooke, us ring up 809, and get hold of the right

It is absolutely useless. He has forget. his office after lunch. When I asked if he ten our engagement, and he is seldom in could get off to-day it was a polite way of suggesting that billiards or cards at his clab might be deferred for once. And that is why you-er-surprised me, Mr. Brooke, not only by your voice but by your pro fessed devotion to work."

Then I have spoiled your afternoon most effectually 7"

Hardly that. The pictures remain." Now, Miss-Miss Mcg-don't be angry if I suggest something. You know who I am. Let me take you to the Taft Gallery. atonement of tea at Rumpelmayer'?

May I offer the additional

showed her commonsense by considering To his intense gratification, the girl the notion. She nodded towards a dis tant clock...

Isn't it rather late for the Gallery 1" she enquired.

"Candidly, I fear it is. But we might stroll across the park, and be among the first arrivals at the ten-shop."

She blushed prettily, hit the spirit of adventare danced in her eyes auch eyes-deep blue stars they were now in the strong light.

in Kumpelmayer's wondered who the girl Thus it came about that several people.

beer at the Law Courts. Now, why wasn't wearing blue dresses and sweet pea hats could be to whom Mr. Charles Jordison I out! He lifted the receiver. "Hello!" yet neither seemed capable of arousing Brooke was so attentive, and that an the enthusiasm of a callow youth in a teleangry-looking young man and a per- phone call-office.

One, the younger tarbed elderly lady. who arrived at though not so young, was obviously wait- Victoria in a taxi-cab not many minutes ing for someone, and Brooke was noting, after "Meg" and her escort had entered with no little dismay, that she looked a Buckingham Palace Road, failed to find rather strong-minded person, when his doubts were resolved by the sudden ap

a young person in a blue cost and skirt, and wearing a sweet pea hat, though pearance of a young lady whose come- liness was all, and more than all, his im- they searched the station like detectives. blue costume was crowned by a superb ridors of the Tate Gallery. agination had painted "Meg, and whose and literally ran through the long cor

"Yes," he said.

“May I speak to him?” "I am Mr. Brooke,' "How silly of you, Charlie! Why didn't you say so at once? Surely you knew my voice!

"Charlie" was taken aback. Two ladies in London, his mother and his aunt were entitled to address him in that style, and the speaker was neither of them. Five minutes earlier while immersed in the brief, he would have sought a direct ex planation; now he temporised.

"I think I would know it among ten thousand," he said.

"Is that really you, Charlie?" This a little doubtfully

"Of course it is. I shall be asking who

you are next."

"I'm Meg, of course, Bat-I don't often. use a telephone-no matter can you get off this afternoon?”

"Delighted Where are we going 1" Mr. Brooke winked solemnly at the clock-be- cause of the success of his ruse in extract- ing the lady'a name, part, at any rate.

"You don't mean to say you have forgot ton

My dear Meg, consider how busy I have been all the morning!"

"You aurprise me! What microbe of industry has wrought such a change?"

The pleasant raillery of the question suggested many possibilities. Brooke caught at the likeliest one.

A fellow must make a show come time tell your aunt," laughed the un

he said.

known.

"Please don't, he gasped.

But why not? She will be pleased." I'd prefer you to discuss this after noon's arrangements," he said.

"Well, I suppose it is too far for you to call here?"

"Such a waste of a lovely day. Let us

i bask in the sunshine!"

He was acutely aware of the unseen speaker's momentary bewilderment; then se explained the pause.

"I cannot understand your complete for getfulness," she said. Anyhow, we can leave that till we meet.

Where do you suggest? I don't know-London very well.

What about Charing Cross under the dock?" he gurgled.

Is that near the Tate Gallery!" No, oh, no!" Shall we say the bookstall in Victoria Station, Brighton Tinet"

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mass of sweet peas.

firm strides, with the ease and sureness She was walking rapidly, taking quick,

of one of those maids of Capri who climb and descend rocky paths while balancing water-urns on their heads; she gave one swift glance around the interior of the station, at the bookstall in particular, and then consulted the clock.

The man who prided himself on having he did it. no nerves now felt horribly nervous, but He went straight up to the girl, raised his hat, and said----

My Ieak if you are expecting to meet a Mr. Charles Brooke?"

She looked at him, in surprise, and he knew then be had never before seen violet

"Yes," she

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paty? How did you recognise me?"

"Certainly. Did he send you as his de- You told me about your dress, and the sweet pea hat, you know."

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What is that? I told you?

In his relief at finding that the unknown tion without calling for a policeman, Meg would probably accept his explana- Brooke had broken out into a violent perspiration, and he was more confused now than ever. He clenched his hands in a fierce physical effort to regain self-con- trol, and one of his gloves split across the knuckles with a loud noise...

Eren in the hubbub of the station, both of them heard the rip, and Brooke invol- untarily raised his hand to find out what had happened. The girl tittered, and the sound of her laugh added the last straw to the barrister's discomfiture.

Would you mind walking out into the fresh air with me?'' he said, speaking with the coldness of despair. "I have a good deal to say, and you ought to listen, if only in justice to the other Mr. Brooks, That is I-menn-really, I have made such an ass of myself that if I remain here, trying idiotically to collect my senses, I shall scream, or nesault a rail-

way porter"

The girl looked at him wonderingly, though her lips still curved in a smile

that seat over there?" she said, pointing If you feel ill, why not sit down on

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** And you a voice,⠀⠀ Goodbye.** Brooke watched the cab speeding uphill. to Piccadilly. He had lounged miserably as far as the Circus when, he awoke to the fact that he had sustained a vigorous frame since breakfast on a cup of tea, a slice of thin bread and butter, and an clair. So he sought a restaurant, and mourned while he ate.

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Then Jecks, K. C., took a hand in the game, and commandeered him for long hours each day, and he only escaped in time to catch a night train: from King's Cross to the North,

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On the criminal side of the Assize Court on that stuffy July day the pro fessionals were bored, from the judge down to the assistant jailer. Even the criminals were languid. They showed some flicker of excitement as they heard verdict and sentence, but promptly grew dazed again, and disappeared from public view for a period ised by statute, but occasionally varied by aggravating cir- cumstances or the judge's leniency.

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