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Rhodes-
Haverty’s
THE PARMENTER MILLIONS
... A Stirring Novel of Love, Conspiracy and Adventure. . .
(Copyright, ISO?, by Arthur W. Uarchmont)
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By ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT.
Author of “By Right of 8word," “When I Was Caar,” Etc., Eto.
Synopsis of Provloua Installment,
ju "Mollio O’Brien,", a mold, Oliva Is ora-
ninred by Mrs. Merridew nt Sllverbeach.
Sihe girl soon makes herself a general fa-
vorlte with ‘be °‘ber servants. Lawyer
J'sscment prepares to cause the arrest of
|ik> Hartmans and others of MerrldeWs
gang. __
Olivo dropped another curtsel, nnd
the ordeal was over. lira. Cooper
took her Into her room and carefully
shut the door. "Vou heard what. I said
about your work and your character.
1 know It wasn't strictly true, and you
know It, too. But you needn't tell any
one else, and I shan't. The mistress Is
a rare tartar, so be on your guard
when you meet her. But she won’t see
much of you. I can see you will do,
and I've taken a fancy to. you. I wish
all the rest shaped as well ns you.”
With that Olive was dismissed to her
work, and set herself to do it so thor
oughly and with such unrufded cheer
fulness and willingness to help the
rest that every ono quickly grew to
'"mie^had stipulated before coming
that she should have a room to herself,
and as she was always, up llrst In the
house and was willing to get things
ready for tho rest of the servants be
fore they came ..down, she. was allowed
to go to bed proportionately early.
It was then that her real task be
gan In earnest. She had brought with
her a long black croak wlth.a: hood so
fashioned that she could at need entire
ly conceal even her face; and hidden
In this she could move freely about the
house when she was. supposed (to bo in
bed.
1 She had another advantage.; Her po
sition as between-mald enabled her,
even In the daytime, to be In any part
pf the manor without rousing suspi
cion. She used this freedom to make
herself thoroughly familiar with every
change that hud been made In the ar
rangement of the furniture, and for the
drat night or two her roamings were
more to get accustomed to the work
of spying and to enable herself to move
about silently and secretly and without
knocking against chairs and tables and
any other furniture.
While about her work In the daytime,
moreover, she contrived to arrange
niany little hiding places—little refuges
to which she could dy at need, or where
she could conceal herself In order to
overhear conversations between mother
and son when the latter arrived.
In all this her knowledge of the se
cret passages of the honse were of the
greatest advantage to her, and she
found means and opportunity to render
them all easy of access In case of
emergency. . V,
Three days after'her arrival she had
a great stroke of luck. In Mrs. Merrl-
deiv'S bed room she picked up a bunch
of keys. As these would prove of the
utmost advantage In the secret searches
she Intended to make, she had no hesl.
tatlon in keeping them, and placed
them afterwards In secure hiding.
A considerable stir followed tho loss.
But as Mrs. Merridew had been out
walking that day. she could not be pos
itive that sho had dropped them In
doors. The house was ransacked from
roof to garret, and no one was more
zealous In the search than Olive her
self. Even the servants' boxes were
ordered to be searched, with the result
that two of them refused and left on the
spot. Mrs. Merridew Immediately read
tbs sefusal as proof of guilt, and thus
suspicion never fell on Olive .
.As the keys were not found, the lock
smith had to be sent for to fit new
onea; and Olive took advantage of this
to observe exactly which locks she could
now open.
Soon her opportunity came. A tele
gram arrived from Merridew that he
was coming down to the Manor; and
Olive was Immediately set to get his
room ready. Mrs. Merridew occupied
the rooms which had been Olive's, and
the son those which her father had al
ways used. Between the two suites
was an ante-room In which was one of
the old secret panels with 'a recess be
hind It. This might have been specially
constructed for Olive's very purpose, as
It was possible for any one conctlded
within It to overhear all that passed In
Mrs. Merrldew’s sitting room.
•Merridew arrived after the time when
Olive was believed to have gone to bed.
and he went straight to hla mother’s
room. Olive was watching for him,
and as he passed the spot where she
was concealed she caught a glimpse of
hlR face and observed that he was
greatly agitated.
The moment he had gone Into the
room she slipped Into the recess to lis
ten.
Then she learned that the arrests had
taken place In London; that the utmost
consternation had been caused, and that
Merridew had come down to Silver-
beech lest his Identity as Mawford
should be discovered.
M'hut was of still greater Importance,
he had brought the stolen papers with
him; and he now urged his mother to
hide them In some place of secrecy and
security, Baron Eelskov, to whom they
were to have been delivered, had left
England for a time, and until hla re
turn they could not be handed over to
any one.
The Interview between the two was
very heated. Mrs. Merridew, It came
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out, had Insisted upon her sen giving
up oil connection with ills old’ associ
ates. "Wo hava all- this, Gilbert,'' she
declared angrily. "Why, then, g.-t Inti,
such a mess as this other thing threat
ens to bo?"
■Tvo told you.beforo that they caq't
bo shaken oft in such a way, mother.
You know what they are. They'd tear
us both to pieces If they got wind of
this affair hero. Besides, this matter of
the secret treaty was virtually settled
op before we were certain of all this
l'urmentor business, but 1 am going to
cut the painter after thle."
"I will have nothing to do with It,
Gilbert," eald Mrs. Merridew, firmly.
“And I won’t have anything hidden
here. Understand that!"
“Well, you must; and that's the long
ond short of It,” he retorted, doggedly:
and a long and angry quarrel followed,
In which he gained his way In tho end.
And aa soon us that was settled, he
flung out of the room In a rage.
Where would sho put them? Olive
strained her ears In the effort to fol
low her movements about the room,
She heard the rattle of keys and un
locking of drawers and the rustle of
Mrs. Merrldew's silk dress, as sho
moved from place to place aa if in In
derision.
Presently the door was opened. Olivo
slipped from her hiding place and saw
Mrs. Merridew go slowly down tha
broad staircase. She paused for a mo
ment by tho library; and at that mo
ment Olivo saw that sho held a small
packet In her hand. Sho did not enter
the library, however, but crossed tho
hall and unlocked a heavy door Into the
corridor whjch led. to a> disused wing
of the house.
Trusting to the concealment of her
cloak and the noiseless trend of her felt
shoes, Olive stole after her. It-was tho
first real test of her ab.lllty as a spy;
and the Importance of ascertaining the
hiding place of thfe papers was ao crit
ical that she could not hesitate. She
was-striving now for Jack os well as
fur herself. Ills eiifety ns much ilh Ini'
own depended upon her skill and nerve.
Without a thought that • eager eyes
were watching her every movement,
Mrs. Merridew went right along the
corridor and. entered the room at the
end. Sho stood a few seconds at the
threshold holding the lamp she was
carrying high above her head. She
was looking for a hiding place for the
ere.
.hen sho crossed the room to one of
the high windows, pulled open one of
the shutters, reached up, and hid the
paper In the fold of the upper part. Sho
pushed back the shutter, held the lamp
up 'to assure' herself that the shutter
fitted completely back Into Its recess
and turned to leave the room.
Olive darted back to one of the rooms
the door of which she had noticed open,
and waited there until Mra. Merridew
had retraced her steps, locking the
door of communication behind her.
Eager as she was to obtain posses
sion of the paper, Ollvp dared not mako
the attempt yet. She knew that on
some nights the butler went through
the empty wing Just before going to
bed. Bho must bo sure that he would
not come that night.
From this corridor one of the secret
stairways led to the floor above to a
room that was also disused, and from
there up to the floor where the serv-
nnts’ quarters were situated, nnd as
soon as Mr*- : Merrldew had gone Olive
opened this panel and waited until the
man would have made his rounds.
It was a prudent precaution. Bho
had been watting about half an hour
when the door at the end was unlocked
noisily. She hid herself and closed the
panel, and heard the voices of two men
—the butler’s and one she did not know
—as they looked Into the different
rooms and slammed and locked all the
doors behind them.
Then all was quiet. Bhe still waited,
however, until tho household should
have retired, and then stole out. nnd.
almost feeling her way In the darkness,
Crept to the hiding place, took out the
paper and rushed away with it up the
secret stair to her own room.
Her' heart was beating fast with the
excitement of the adventure, and ahe
sat down on her bed to rest a moment.
Bhe had provided herself with a small
electric lamp, and, getting It from her
box, ahe turned the light on the paper
and examined It with Intense curiosity,
carefully shielding the light under the
bedclothes ao that It could not be seen.
The pocket was Inclosed In a strong
envelope, and there was an Indorse
ment on this In cipher which, of course,
she could not understand. It waa sa-
curley fastened with green tapo and
scaled. But sealing had been carelessly
done, and the wax adhered to the tape
and not to the envelope.
In a flash an Idea occurred to her.
To take nut the contents and replace
them with a dummy of the same size
ord shapo,' and then replace the packet
whero'she-had found It. This might
possibly prevent her act from being
discovered, and would certainly post'
pone It.
Carefully ahe studied the packet, flx.
g every knot In her memory. For a
long Inne the seal baffled heY, until she
saw she must take the riak of cutting
the tape and retying It. She waa In the
act of doing this when ahe caught her
breath.
Borne one knocked at her door.
Silently and quickly she threw off
her clothes, got Into bed and thrust tho
precious packet under her pillow.
Then she waited for the knock to be
repeated, wondering anxiously anil
nervously what the meaning of such an
Interruption could be.
• The knock was repeated; this time
a little more loudly.
CHAPTER XLII.
Jack.
Olive did not reply to the second
knock. No ono had any right to come
and dlaturb her, and she would hot
take any notice unless compelled. But
a third knock and then a fourth came,
each more Insistent than the preceding,
and she thought it best to wake up.
She made a good nolfe on the bed as
If rousing herielf, nnd -then called; "la
anny wan there disturbing a creatures
beauty shleep?"
Motile! Mollle!” waa called In a low
voice.
"Who la It wants MoUle at this un
earthly hour?" and she yaWned loudly.
"It's me, Annie.” This wns one of
the maids. "I’ve got that tooth bad
again and you aaid you would give me
some of the stuff you haye."
"Ah, bad ceaa to your tooth'to get
achin' at this ungeritlemanly tolme.
May the dlvll fly away wld it. But I’ll
get It for ye."
She got out of bed, (truck several
matches In lighting her candle, found
what waa wanted, and gave it to the
girl. "Poor colleen. That'll alnd It to
the dlvll, Its masther. Take It wld ye
and give It,me In the mornln’;” and
with another huge yawn ahe sent tha
girl away. .
Then ahe returned to her task. She
worked at the packet for some two
hours, until she was satisfied that the
deception was not likely to bo perceived
before the envelope was opened and
the blank contents found.
Continued in Tomorrow’s Georgian.