air of somewhat weary politeness, "I regret

tle tired of her. Brothers of twenty-one, who have never been in Paris before, and cannot speak the la

her shapely foot, "I don't see what we keep an Ambas

pped his eyeglass and survey

cuse my speaking plainly-who runs amuck in this most fascinating city. In your case the Chief has gone out of his way to help you. He has interviewed the chief of police himself, brought his influence to bear in various quarters, and I can tell you conscienti

ly. He noticed, however, with secret j

bill unpaid. He went out the night of his arrival, and has never returned. Patient! Well, I am much oblig

pondent. Remember that the French police are the cl

up at him

so far is to keep sending for me to go and look at dead bodies down a

hope that you will send over for some friend or relation to keep you com

d. "I will remember

depart with a curious mi

self or too besotted to turn up. I wish she wasn't quite so devilish good-looking," he rem

o her hotel and went to her room. A s

ews yet of her brot

head. Indeed her face

t all,

rmaid clos

w where the young gentleman spent the evening be

is just what I

e sm

ced. "He remembers Monsieur Poynton quite well. He went in there to be sha

jumped up

w his name?

, they call him. H

h led into the coiffeur's shop. Monsieur Alphonse was waiting upon a customer, and she was given a chai

English?"

inly, Made

little sigh

my brother last Thursday week. He was tall and fair,

y forgot a face, and the young Eng

answered. "They sent for me be

he proposed to spend the evening," she continued. "He was quite

e smiled, and ex

Bergères. Then he said he had heard a good deal of the supper cafés, and he asked

t he meant to go

to come and tell me the next

artre. Where is

ademoiselle pardons-she will under

ot admitted?

nse s

ds that if a lady should go there she

lipped a coin

. "By the bye, have any other people made

Mademoiselle!" t

d the door behind

lice are the cleverest in the wo

watched her thro

s pretty!" he mu

innocent of rings, and her handwriting was a little shaky. Nevertheless, it is certain that not a man pa

punctually on the date arranged upon between Guy and myself, and found that he had arrived the night before, and had engaged a room for me. He was out when I came. I changed my clothes and sat down to wa

, and look at me as though I ought to understand-he will return very shortly they are quite sure. At the Embassy they have begun to look upon me as a nuisance. The Morgue-Heaven send that I may one day forg

ould come? I have not a single relative whom I can ask to help me. Would you advise me to write to Scotland Yard for a detective, or go to one of these agencies? If not, can you think of any one who would come here and help me, either for

what you can for me, Andr

eat trouble

is Poy

to eat some dinner. When she had finished it was only half-past eight. She rang for the lift and ascended to the fourth floor. On her

aphs, and a good many restaurant bills, but they were all from places in Germany and Austria. At the bottom of the second trunk, however, she found something which he had evidently considered it worth while to preserve carefully. It was a thick sheet of official-looking paper, bearing at the top an embossed crown, and covered with German writing. It was numbered at the top "seventeen," and it was evidently an odd

o?" she said to

Where on earth can

e time with her face buried in her hands. Then she rose up, calmly destroyed her translation with minute care, and locked away the mysterious