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BEGIN HERK TODAY Colonel Holies, soldier and adventurer. returns to England, his native land, when war with Holland is declared. His Grace of Buckingham hires Hoiies to abduct the beautiful actress. Sylvia Farquharsou. It is dark when the Colonel carries her to the house Buckingham has rented. tlpon their arrival Hoiies is horrified to see that Sylvia is an old sweetheart. The servants of the Duke render the Colonel unconscious. When Buckingham attempted to embrace Sylvia, her dress falls from her throat, revealing a pimple blotch, token of the plague. The Duke and his servants flee. Holies nurses Sylvia and saves her life. When Holies catches the plague Sylvia nurses him back to life. Holies deems himself unworthy of Sylvia and leaves her. He goes to call on his old landlord. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY SHE vintner pursed his lips and sadly shook his head, regarding his safest the while from under bent brows. "Why, sir." he said, "there’s no French shipping and no ships bound for France at Wapping, and mighty HE LUGGED OUT A HANDKERCHIEF THAT FLUNG A REEK OF GINGER ON THE AIR. few ships of any kind. The port of London is as empty as Proctor's yonder. There's not a foreign ship’ll put into it, nor an English one go out Fat That Shows Soon Disappears Prominent fat that comes and stays where U Is not needed in a burden, a hindrance to activity, a curb upon pleasure. Ton can take off the fat where it shows by taking after each meal and at bedtime, one Marmola Prescription Tablet These little tablets are as effective and harmless as the famous prescription from which they take their name. Huy and try a box today. All druggists the world over sell them, at one dollar for a box or you can order them direct from the Marmola Cos.. 4612 Woodward Ave., Detroit Mich. You caD thus say goodbye to dieting, exercise and fat.—Advertisement.

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of it, for she wouldn’t be given har-' bor anywhere for fear of the infection.” The Colonel's face lengthened in dismay. This, he thought, was the last blow of his malignant Foftune. "I shall have to go to Portsmouth, then,” he announced gloomily. "God knows how I shall get there.” "Ye never will. For Portsmouth won’t have ye, nor any other town in England neither, coming as ye do from London. I tell you. sir, the country’s all crazed with fear of the plague.” , "But I’ve a‘ certificate of health.” "Ye'd need to have it backed by a minister of state or ever Portsmouth would let you inside her gates.” Holies looked at him blankly for a moment, then expressed his bitterness in a laugh. “In that case I don’t know what remains.” “Why, ye say ye’re a safe man. Y'e’ll not have seen His Grace of Albemarle's proclamation asking for safe men?” "Asking for safe men? To what end?” “Nay. tk proclamation don't say. Ye’ll find ®at out in Whitehall, maybe. Things being like this with you, now, ye might \think it is worth while to ask. It might be something for ye, for the present at least.” Holies rose. “Whatever it may be, ■when a man is faced with starvation he had best realize that pride won't fill an empty belly.” "No more it will,” Banks agreed, eyeing the Colonel’s uncouth gartnenta. "But if ye’re thinking of paying a visit to Whlttehall ye'd be wise to put on your other suit that’s above-stairs. Ye'll never get past the lackeysin that livery.” So you see issuing presently from the sign of The Harp a Colonel Holies very different from the Colonel Holies who had entered it an hour earlier. In a dark blue suit of camlet enlivened by a little gold lace, black Spanish boots, and a black beaver set off by a heavy plume of royal blue, without a sword, it is true, but swinging a long cane, he presented a figure rarely seen just then in London streets. The usher at the Cockpit who went to announce liim returned almost at once to conduct him into that pleasant chamber overlooking the park where His Grace of Albermarle acted today as deputy for the pleasure?!oving libertine prince who had forsaken his stricken capital. The Duke heaved himself up as the Coloonel entered. "So you've come at last, Randall:” was his astounding greeting. "On my life, you’ve taken your own time in answering my letter.” "Your letter?” said Holies. And he stared blankly at the Duke, as he clasped the proffered hand, t “My letter, yes. You hud it? The letter that I sent you nigh upon a month ago to the Paul's Head?” “Nay,” said Holies. "I had no letter.” “But . . . Albermarle looked almost as if he did not believe him. “The landlady there kept it for you. She said, I think, that you were absent at the time, but would be back In a day or two, and that you should have the letter at once on your return.” . "A nfonth ago, did you say? But it is two months and more since I left the Paul’s Head!” "What do you tell me? Ah, wait. My messenger shall speak for himself on this.” And he strode away to the bell-rope. But Holies checked him. "Nay, nay,” he cried with a wtv smile. "There's not the need. I think I understand. Your messenger would, no doubt, announce whence he came, and Mrs. Quinn, fearing that the news might be to my advantage, acted so as to prevent his making further search for me.” "What’s this?” The Duke’s heavy face empurpled. “I)o you charge her with suppressing a communication from an office of state? By Heaven, if she’s still alive I’ll have her gaoled for it.’’ “Let be,” said Holies, seizing him by the arm. "Devil take the woman! Tell me of the letter. Ye’ll never mean that you had found employment for me, after all?” “You seem Incredulous, Randal? Did you doubt my zeal for you?” “Oh, not your zeal. But tho possibility of your helping one who was in my case.” "Aye. aye. But as to that, why, Buckingham improved it when he stood for your loyalty before the justices. I heard of that. And when the chance came, the chance of this Bombay command that already I had earlier intended for you . . .” "The Bombay command?" Hojles began to wonder did he dream. “But I thought that it had been required by Buckingham for a friend of his own.” "Sir Henry Stanhope, yes. So it had, and Stanhope sailed for Indies with the commission. But it seems that when he did so he already car rid the seeds of the plague within him. For he died of it on the voyage. I wrote to you at once asking you to seek me here, and I waited a fortnight to Ijear from you. As you made no sign, I concluded that either you were stricken with the plague, or no longer desired the office, and I proceeded to appoint another gentleman of promise.” Holies folded the pinions of his soaring hopes and let himself fall back into his despondency. He uttered a groan. “But that's not the end,” AAbemarle checked him. “No sooner -bad I appointee this than he, too, fell sick of the plague, and died ago. If ye’re not afraid that the plague is bound up with this commission, It’s at your disposal, and it shall be made out to you at once.” Holies was gasping for breath. “You . . you mean that .. . that I am to have the command, after all!” •.'.iii incredible. He dared not believe it. "That Is what I have said. Ttie commission is . . ." Albemarle off suddenly, and fell back before nun. “What alls you, man? You’re white as a ghost. Y'e’re not ill?” And he lugged out a handkerchief that flung a rjpk of myrrh and ginger on the air.

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And I came in anwser to your proclamation asking for safe men." Albemarle continued to stare at hint ir. deepening amazement. "So that Is what brought you?” he said at last, when full understanding came ta him. ‘‘But for that I certainly should never have come.” “Maybe, maybe,” said his grace briskly. “But what matters now is that you are here, and that comand yours if you still wish it. it Is an important’office, as I told you.

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a pen and wrote briskly for a few seconds. He dusted the writing with pounce, and proffered the document. "Here, then, is your commission. How soon can you sail?” “In a month.” said Holies promptly. “A n-.onth!” Albemarle was taken aback. He frowned. “Why, man, you should be ready in a week." “Myself, I could be ready in a d&y.l But I mean to take this new-found tide of fortune at the floor, and . But Albemarle interrupted him impatiently. f • (

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"Don’t you realize, man, the time that has been already lost? For four months now this office has stood vacant,” “Which means that there's a very competent lieutenant in charge. Let him continue yet awhile. You see. it may be that I shall have a companion, who cannot possibly be ready in less t£an a month.” With ad odd, reckless trust in the oontlnvanoe of Fortune's favor now, he . boldly added: "You have said , that 2 am the very tnaa for the of-

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fice. The government can wait a month, or you can appoint someone lees likely to serve It as efficiently.” Albemarle smiled at him grimly across the table. “Ye’re full of surprises today. Master Randal. And this one baffles me." Holies poured out his tale and Albemarle gave him a sympathetic hearing. When he had done, the Duke sighed and turned aside before replying, to examine the pages of a notebook at his elbow. (Continued .in dnr Next Inpg