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 something on the middle page. Terry had to touch the girl on the arm to rouse her. Then she started and, crumpling the paper in her hand followed Miss Ricardo to the door of their compartment with a bewildered air.

"What is the matter?" Terry asked, when the porter was paid and dismissed.

"The paper," said Nora dazedly. "They've found Liane, and arrested he—this morning."

"Oh!" cried Terry, with a quickening of her tired pulses. "Arrested her? Does that mean—will it save your Ian?"

"I don't know," answered Nora. "Perhaps I'm stupid. But I can't see that it will help him much. Please read, and tell me what you think."

Forgetting the letter which she had been so eager to begin, Terry took the paper from Nora's hand. It was open at the middle, most important page, and in the most conspicuous position appeared two columns under a sensationally large double heading:

"Another Startling Development in the Hereward Murder Mystery. Pawning of the Lost 'Vanity Box.' Arrest of Vanished French Maid. Her Extraordinary Confession."

The blood began to knock at Terry Ricardo's temples. She plunged into the news as Nora had, oblivious of everything else, as the girl had been. Nora watched her anxiously, as she read on.