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 linton part of her will remain and the Ziegler part will vanish—with the odium of anything that may happen, don’t you see. I didn’t see it at once, but consented to lay a trap, and blessed if the girl wasn’t right. Soon as the Eglinton was posted up by Sybil that I was going up next day to call on Ziegler at the hotel, and that I was going to raise Cain if I wasn’t admitted, she shammed sick and sneaked out of the house, with old Azimoolah at her heels, to keep the appointment.”

He went on to tell how his call on “Ziegler,” followed by “Mrs. Talmage Eglinton’s” clandestine return to the house as witnessed by Alec Forsyth, had brushed all doubts aside and cleared the way for the final coup in the crypt, again suggested by Sybil, for obtaining the bogus bonds and so drawing the sting of the enemy.

“The girl has got grit,” was the Senator’s admiring comment. “The right sort of grit, because she trusted to her man having it too. And, thunder, but it was plucky of him to face that crew in ignorance of the saving clause in his favor.”

“Yes, the boy behaved well,” the General admitted. “But I think the Duke beat him for