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i 71 ,Broad Street*
Y° u
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ITi f I a YliiAt>AnfAA £, I nnn P n
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1 They have the most com-
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Smith T. G. & L.i Co., Woolfolk
Building.
The Holladay
Cfc-se
A,Mystery cf Two Continents
Hr
BURTON E. STEVENSON
Copyright, 1903, by Henry Hob «od Cctnptay
(Concluded from Page 9*)
In tfie lift; l entered'the office, but saw
no one. I went on through an open,
door and saw an old man sitting at a
desk. I Inquired If Mr Holladay was
there. The old man glanced at me and
bowed toward another door. I saw it
was a private office and entered It.
Tho door swung ahut behind me. There
waa another oid man Bitting at a desk,
sharpening a pencil.”
‘Is It you, Francos?' he naked.
‘No,’ I said, stepping before him.
'It Is tier sister, M, Holhulnyl'
“Ho stared up nt mo with such n look
of dismay end anger on Ills fnoo that
I was fairly frlglitenod; then, in the
same Instant, before I could draw
breath, before I could say another
Hutchason
ye Specialis t
■gate?
"egs to state that he has
.rhed to the city- and is
id to serve his patients
Hutchasou’s offices in
Davis-Exchange Bank
ildin£ are now nearing
pletion and he will be
ly in his new office in a
days, thoroughly equippec
r the delicate work of expert
pticiau and opthalmist.
i ■ ",
LEADING OPTICIAN,
Albany, . . . Georvls.
B. F. MANNING
NTING, COLLECTING AND
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
FOB 841,K,
ihlnirton Htrrn wl»h six
la able. Terms saiUfitu-
Aore lot on Washlm
i homo, barn nud
rf, titles perfect.
V nice 800 aoro farm, 125 gores oleared land,
^re beautiful oan grove, 4 tenement bonnes,
I wed" water. For qulon sale, cheap for
, bona fide titled. *
ree 4-rooin h’ usee on Jaokson street
9 on osny ternm.
r 8-room houses on Broad street.
> plantation, John He.vnold* plare. Kaat
lertjr. adjoining places of John Johnson
U. Ramsey. Cheap on easy tenon; long
. a on State atrbet with 4 2-room bon sea,
a writn 8 room i, cheap ; rents for $21 per
hundred acres, with all improvements,
s; desirable place for truck, dairy and
farm.
ible acre on Residwuce street.
Table lots on State street,
utifnl house, Hi cash, and others on
payments.
nice lota lu Arcadia. Ntc«* farm
i city. 411 acres with 9 wells, pood
7tenant bona**: In high sinto pf
$12.69 per utw.
lundred other improved and unlra
e triad to ahow yon and figure with you
; I hare. I do a general collectic; brut
i hmIJoU your patronage,
i boar* house •
>ork
itry Sausage
today. Phone
ore-iNo.
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He fell bock and dourn.
word, hla face grew purple, monslenr,
and.bo fell forward on hla desk, on his
bnud, on tho knife which was clasped
In It. I tried to check the blood, but
could not, It poured forth In such a
stream. I knew not what to do. I was
distracted, and In a frenzy I left tho
place and harried to our lodgings. That
Is the truth, monsieur; believe me.”
“I do believe yon,” I said.
“It wos then,” went on her mother,
"that that man yonder bad another In
spiration. Before It had been only—
what you call—lituckmatl—a few thou
sands, perhaps a pension. Now It wus
something more. Ho was playing for
a greater stake. I do not know alt that
he planned. Ho found Celeste suspect
ed of having killed her father. He
must got her released at nny coBt, ao
ho wrote n note"— |
“Yes!" I cried. “Yes, of course; I see.
Miss Hollndny under arrest was be-'
yowl Ids reach."
"Yes," she nodded, “so he wrote a
note. Oh, you should have seen, him In
thoso days! He was like some furious
wild boast. But after she was act face
Celeste did not come to us as she bad
promise. Wo snw Hint sho suspected
ns, that sho wish to have nothing more
to do with us. So Victor commanded
Hint T wrlto another letter, Imploring
her. offering to explnln.” She stopped
n moment to control herself. "Ah,
when I think of It! She enpio, rnon-
“Maltre FlngretV" we tuqulrcd of the
first passerby, and ho polutod us to a
little house half hidden lu vines.
A knock brought the notary himself
to the door, a little dried up mnu, with
keon face and eyes lueredlbly bright.
My compaulou Evplnlnod our errand In
laborious French, supplemented by
much gesticulation — It Is wouderful
how the hands can help one to talk—
nud after a time tlie little Fixmctnuau
caught Ills meaning and Inmtfra nwny
to got Ids tint and eont, scenting a fat
fee. Our first Btep wns to ho nil easy
one, thanks to the severity and tlior-
orglmoBs of Fro® administration,
but 1 admit that 1 saw not what we
should do further, once we n'i.l ve/.Uc.i
the date of Miss ITolliulay’s birth.
The uotary unlocked the dear, showed
us Into Ills oliiCQ and sot our chairs for
us; tlien he got down Ids register of
births for 187(1. It wns not a large
book, for the births at Ktretnt are not
overwhelming In number.
"The name. 1 think you said, was
Holladay?" he asked.
"Hiram W. Holladay,” nodded Mr.
Uoyee.
"And the dale June 107"
"Yes; June 10."
The little man rail his Huger rapidly
down the page, then went hack again
and read the entries one by one more
slowly, with a pucker of perp'.ox’.ty
about Ills Ups. lie turned the leaf, be
gan farther back and read thrmig'i the
hat again, while we sat watching ’him.
At last he shut the hoik.
"Messieurs," he said quietly, "no
such birib la recorded here. I have e:t-
auiiued tho record for tho mouths of
May, June and July."
"But It. must be there!” protested
Mr. Uoyee.
"Nevertheless it Is uot here."
“Could the child have been bom here
aud uo record made of It?"
"Impossible, monsieur."
“For a large fee, perhaps,” suggested
my companion.
“In Paris that may sometimes be pos-
But In a small place like this I
bare beard of It"
"You lmvo been here for that length
of time, tbcu7"
“Ob, yea, monsieur," smiled tbe little
man. “For a mneb longer time than
that”
Mr. Boyce leaned forward toward
him. He was getting back all bis old
power as a-cross examiner.
“M. Fingrot,” he began Impressively,
“I am quRe certain that Hiram W.
Holladay and bis wife were here dur
ing tbe months of May, Jnne gad July,
1876, and that while they were here a
daughter was born to them. Think
sgaln. Have you no recollection of
them or of the event?”
The little notary sat for some mo
ments with knitted brows. At last be
shook his bead.
- “That would be tbe height of tbe sen-
son, you sec, monslenr,” be said apolo
getically. “There are a great many
people here at that time, and I cannot
know ull of them. Nevertheless It
seemed to mb for a moment that there
was about the name a certain famil
iarity—as of an old tune, you know,
forgotten for years. Yet It must have
been my fancy merely, for I linvc no
recollection of the event you mention.”
There wns one oUier chance, and I
gave Mr. Boyce the clew.
“M. Flngrct,” he nsked, “are you
acquainted with u man of the name
of Pierre Hnthune?”
And again the notnry shook bis bead.
“Or Jasper Mnrtlgny?”
“I never before heard either name.’
We ant silent n moment, lu despair.
Wns our trip to Etrotnt to be of no
nvnll? Where was my premonition
now? If wo had lost the trail thus
Uarly In the chase, what hope wns
there -that we should over run down
tho quarry? And how explain the
fact that no record had been made of
Frances Hollcday’s birth? Why should
her parents have wished to conceal It?
An hour had passed, the shops were
opening and u bustle of life reached na
through the open door,
“Tho first train for three days Is
about to arrive,” said tbe little notary.
Again wo fell silent Mr. Royce got
out hla purse and pnld the fee. We
had come to Bn Impasse—a closed way,
We cotild go no farther. I could seo
thnt the notary waa a-hungered for his
roll and coffee. With a sigh, I arose
to go. The notary stepped to the
.door and looked up the street.
“Ah,” he sold, “the train has arrived,
bnt It Beems there were not many pns-
sengers. Here Is one, though, who
has finished a long journey."
He nodded to some one who ap
proached slowly, It seemed. He was
before the door. He passed on. It
was Martigny!
“That Is the man I" I cried to Mr.
Boyce. "That Is MarHgny! Ask who
be really Is."
He understood on the Instant and
caught the notary’s arm.
“M. Flngret, who Is that man?”
The notary glanced at him, surprised
by his vehemence.
"Thar," he said, “is Victor Fajolle.
He 1b just home from America.”
"And he lives here?"
"Oh, surely—on tbe cliffs just above
the town, the first house. You cannot
miss It, burled In n grove of trees. He
married the daughter of Mate. Allx
some years ago. He was from Paris. 1
“And bis wife Is living?"
"Oh, surely she Is living. She herself
returned from Americii but three
weeks ngo, together with ber mother
and sister. Tbe sister, they say, Is—
welt"— And he finished with a signifi
cant gesturo toward bis head.
I saw my companton’s face turn
white. I steadied myself with an ef
fort.
“And they are at home now?”
“1 believe so,” said the notary, eying
him with more and more astonish
ment. “Thoy have been keeping close
at home since their return. They will
permit no one to see the—Invalid.”
"Come, we must, go!” I cried. "Ho
must not get there before us!"
sleur. We took from her her gown nnrt
put It on Ceclle. She never left the
place again until the carriage stopped
to take lior to the boat. As for us. we
wero Ills Blnves.”
There wus uo need that she should
tell me more.
“And the gold?" I asketl.
She drew a key from her pocket and
gave It to tue.
“It Is in a box upstairs,' she said.
1 took the key ami fallowed licr to
the floor above. The box, of heavy oak,
bound with Iron, xviUi steamship nud
express labels fresh upon It, stood In
one corner. I unlocked It and throw
back the Ud. Package upou package
lay in It, just as they had come from
the subtreasury. I locked the box
agalu mid put the key lu my pbeket.
"Of course," I said as I turned to go,
“I can only repeat your story to my
conit'aulou. He and Miss Holladay
will decide what steps to take."
They bowed without replying, and I
went out nlong the path between the
trees, leaving them aione with their
dead.
Joy Is a great restorer, and a week
of happiness In this enchanted Parts
had wrought xvouders in our junior
aud his betrothed. It was good to look
at them, to smile at them sometimes,
as when they stood uuseeiug before
some splendid cauvas at Hie Louvre.
The past was put aside, forgotten.
They lived ouly for the future. .
And a near future too. There Was no
reason why It should be deferred, and
so they were wedded, with only we
three for witnesses, at ' the pretty
chapel of St. Luke's, near the Boule
vard Montparnasse.
There was a little breakfast after
ward irt Mrs. Kemball’s apartment,
aud then our hostess bade them adieu,
aud her daughter and I drove with
them across Paris to tbe Gare de Lyon,
where they were to take train for a
fortnight on the Riviera. We waved
them off and turned back together.
“It Is a desecration to use a carriage
on such a day,” said my companion.
So we dismissed onr* and sauntered
"So that Is tbe end of the story," she
said musingly.
"Of their story, yes," I Interjected.
“But there are still certain things I
do not quite understand,” she contin
ued', not beedtng me.
"Yes?"
"For Instance, why did they trouble
to keep her prisoner?"
“Family affection V"
"Nonsense!, There could be none.
Besides, tbe man dominated them, and
I believe blm to have been capable of
any crime,"
Perhaps be meant the hundred thou
sand to be only the first payment. With
ber at band, he might hope to get more
Indefinitely. Without her”— *
"Well, without her?"
“Oh, the plot-grows and grows the
more one thinks of Itl .1 bellovb It grew
under bis bands In just tbe same way.
1 don’t doubt that It would huve comq
at last to Miss nplladay’s death by
some subtle means, to tbe substitution
of ber sister for her. After a year or
two abroad who could have detected".
It? And then —oh, then she would
have married Fajolle again, qnd they"
would hnve settled down to the enjoy
ment of ber fortune. And be would
have been a great man —oh, a very
great man!" \
My companion nodded.
“Touche!" she cried.
I bowed my thanks. I was learning
French rapidly.
"But Frances did not see them again?”
“Oh, no. Bhe preferred not.”
“And the money?"
"Was left In the box. I sent back
the key. She wished It so. After all,
It was her mother"—
“Yes, of course. Perhaps she was
not really so bad,”
“She wasn't,” I said decidedly. "But
tho man”—
“Wns a genius. I’m almost sorry he's
dead."
"I’m more than sorry. It has taken
an Interest out of life.”
We had come out upon the bridge of
Austerlltz and paused involuntarily.
“And now the mystery Is cleared
away,” she said, “and the prince and
tbe princess are wedded, just as they
were. in tbe fairy tales of our child
hood. It's a good ending.”
"For all stories,” I added.
Sbe turned and looked at me.
“There are other stories,” I explained.
"Theirs Is not tbe only one.”
“No?”
The spirit of Paris—ot perhaps the
June sunshine—was In my veins, ran-'
ntng riot, clamorous, not to be re-
“Ceytalnly not. Tbere might be an
other, for Instance, with you and me
as tbe principals."
I daredjnot look at ber. I could only
starb ahead of me down at tbe water.
She made no sign; the moments
passed.
“Might be,” I said desperately. “But
there’s a wide abysB between the pos
sible and the actual.”
Still no sign. I had offended her—I
might have knownl
But I mustered courage to steal «
sidelong glance nt her.
Sho wns smiling (lop’ll nt the water,
and her eyes Vere very bright.
“Not always',!', she whispered. "Not
always."
the end. v.
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before the advance of all
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