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BEGIN HERE TODAY Vendetta besrtns bet-veen MTCHAEI, SAYERS, noted criminal, and SIR NORMAN GREYES, once of Scotland Yard, when Sayers beautiful housemaid. JANET, saves him from Sir Norman by ehootlner dead an officer sent to arrest him. Janet becomes Sayers’ wife and accomplice. While Sir NormJn is living at hia country house the police appeal to him to help run to earth a criminal whom they believe to bt. t the head of a danfrerous g ang. On his way to Eondon, Greyes’ car is stopped and he Is shot through the shoulder. Janet receives money and jewels from a mysterious source. Greyes asks Janet, to dlue with him. Janet accepts. Sha later visits Michael, who is faking illness in a cursing home. NOW GO ON WITH STORY Janet Continues * SHE closed the door, and I advanced toward the bedside, only to step back with a little exclamation. I though that there must be some mistake. The man who sat up lf{ bed, watching me, seemed at first sight a stranger. His hair, which had been dark, was now of a sandy gray, and he wore a shbrt stubbly mustache of the same color. His cheeks had fallen In; his forehead seemed more prominent: there was an unfamiliar scar on the left side of his face. “Michael!” I exclaimed incredulously. “Capital!” he replied. "You see no resemblance to Mr. James Stanfield?” "Not the slightest,” I assured him. ‘ The whole thing is wonderful. But what Is the matter with you?” “Nothing.'' was the impatient rejoinder. "I had to starve myself to get thin, I took the place and the name of a business acquaintance upon the boat. It was quite a smart piece of work. I am supposed to be suffering from a nervous breakdown. Bosh! I haven’t a nerve in my body.”

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“CAPITAL,” HE REPLIED. “YOU SEE NO RESEMBLANCE TO MR. JAMES STANFIELD, I TAKE IT.” “You left me alone for a long time,” I reminded him. “I was fighting for my life,” he answered grimly. "You don't know the Inner workings of the game, so I can’t explain. I was hemmed In. As soon as I broke away, they were never on to me again. I brought off the coup of my life in New York, but —things went wrong, Janet. You know what that means.” "You killed someone?” I whispered. “I had no intention of doing anything of the sort.” he answered. “It was Hartley, the banker, himself.- He forced me into a fight at close quarters. We exchanged shots. I whs wounded. So was he. He was In miserable health, though, and ’he never recovered. The shock killed him as much as anything. I got away all right, but it means all or nothing for the future.” “If you have enough,” I suggested, "why not try the other end of the world?” ‘T have thought of everywhere," he answered, “of Indo-Chlna, the South Sea Islands, New Guinea, the far South American state. They are all hopeless. The eyes follow. There

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is safety only under the. shadow of the arm.” “What about our meeting?” I asked. “I am known.” “It is a problem to be solved,” he said slowly. “There is risk in it: yet the thought of parting with you. Janet, like a clutching hand laid upon my heart.” It was the first word of the sort he had ever spoken to me. and again for some reason I shivered. “What is your need of me now?” I demanded. “To get rid of Norman Greyes,” he replied. There was a silence during which I felt that he was studying my face, and although I do not believe that a muscle twitched or that my eyes lost their steady light, still, I was thankful for the darkened room. “I have figured It all out," he went on. “I am safe nere, safe except from that, one man. Even as I' am now, he would recognize me. The moment I move, and there are big things to be done here, 1 shall feel him on my trail. It is his life or mine. “Why do you think that I can do this?” I asked. “Because, although he does not know it. Norman Greyes feels your attraction. He is too strong a man to succumb, but he can never resist dallying with it, because it provides him with something new in life. You suggest to him a sensation which he .obtains nowhere else. I know men like a book, Janet, and I have seen these things.” “Do you know women, too?” I ventured. “Sufficiently,” he answered. "How do you propose that I should do this?" I asked. "Norman Greyes," he said, "is one of those men whom it Is hard to kill. A fool walks to his death. Norman Greyes wears the aura of defiance. They have tried during the last few weeks. One of the finest marksmen in England missed him with a rifle at a hundred yards. He Is a reckless motorist; yet he drove a car with safety when the steering wheel collapsed. Nevertheless, If lie had stayed Nn Devonshire, we should have had him. They tell me that ho is in London. “He is within a few yards of this spot,” I announced, “and I am dining with him tonight.” For a moment his eyes flashed at me like steel caught in the sunlight. "I met him at the corner of the street this morning.” T explained. “I ask no question,” was the coll reply. “1 shall know if you are over faithless. * * *A little present for you. Janet.” He brought his hand from under tile pillow and handed me an ey quisetly chased gold box, a curio of strange shape and with small enamel figures inlaid. T exclaimed with delight. He touched the spring. It was filled with white powder, on the top of which reposed a tiny pow-der-puff. . “Be careful not to let any of the powder get near your mouth.” he enjoined. “A pinch upon the food or in the glass Is sufficient. Take It.” I dropped it into the silk bag I was j carrying. I was trying to fell myself that T bad killed a man before. “That half-ounce cost me one hundred pounds,’ ’he said. “Men scour the world for it. You can handle the powder freely. There is no danger until it gets Into the system.” "And then?” “It makes a helpless invalid of the strongest for at least two years.”

Norman Greyes Continues: 1 have come to the conclusion that in future I shall do well to avoid Janet Stanfield. As the cold, mechanical assistant of a master of crime, she interested me. I have even devoted a chapter of my forthcoming book to an anlysis of br character. I am beginning to realize now. however, that even the hardest and cruelest woman cannot scape from the tendencies of her sex. In all the duels T have previously had with her, she had carried herself with cold and decorous assurance. There has never heen a moment when I have seen the light of any real fueling !n her eyes. Last night, however, different woman dined with me. ;the was more beautiful than T had ever imagined her. by reason of the slight flush that oame and went in her cheeks. Her eyes seemed to have increased in size and to flash with a softer brilliance. We sat at a corner table against the wall ut Soto’s, where the room was, as usual, filled with beautiful women. There was no one who attracted so much attention as my companion. There was no one who deserved it. “You think I am looking well?’’ she asked In reply to some observation of mine. “"Wonderfully,” T replied. "Also, If I may be allowed to comment upon it, changed. You look as though you had found some new interest in life.” She laughed a little bitterly. “Where should T seek It?" she asked. . “Perhaps the change is internal T suggested. "Perhaps your outlook upon life is changing. Perhaps you have made up your mind to put a.way the false gods.” “T have traveled too far along one road," she answered hardly. Tt was at this stage in our conversation that I made up my mind that it were better for me to see this woman no more. Our eyes met. and she suddenly was not hard at al|. . 1 seemed to look into her soul, and there w°re things there which I could not understand. T was thankful that the dancing began just then. It helped us. over a curious gulf of silence. Janet danced with little knowledge of the steps, but with a wonderful sense of rhythm. I was ashamed of the pleasure it gave me to realize, ns we moved away to the music, that this woman of steel had a very soft and human body. Janet was certainly in a strange and nervous state that evening. We danced for some time without resting. Then she suddenly turned back to the table. I had paused for a moment to speak to some acquaintances. When rejoined her, she was pale, and the hand which was holding her little gold powder-box was shaking. “Has anything happened?” I asked her. a little concerned. “Are you Aot feeling well? Perhaps the dan<p-^ —”

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cloth being changed, she became herself again. She had the air of one who had met a crisis and conquered It, "I am sorvy for my clumsiness,” she said penitently, "liet us danoe again while they rearrange the table.” This time her feet moved less airily to the music. She seemed heavier in my arms. “Who gave you that beautiful gold powder-box?” . ' inquired, more for

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1,1 BOVS NOW SCOKNIBERS NEW YORK. May 16.—The Boy Scouts of America have passed the

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600,000 mark in membership of scouts and scout officials, and have roiled up 70,G00 net Increase in membership over what It was on Dec. 31, 1921, It. was announced recently. There are 462. 979 soouts and 137,045 scoutmasters and assistant scoutmasters in the country. The Boy Scouts of America have been conducting a “round-up” for the purpose of securing 100.000 net increase in its membership, and are confident. according to James E. West,

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chief scout executive, that before the camping season tge full 100,000 wiJi have been secured. President Harding will award a streamer to each local and to each troop which secures a 25 per cent increase. Tn a letter to the president of each local in the 259 cities which have already secured a 25 per cent increase in membership, the President expressed his appreciation of the value of program for character building and citizenship training.