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MR. BARNES OF NEW YORK
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A DETECTIVE IS PUT ON THE TRAIL
got off at each platform and watched Barnes's compartment. At Dijon the man sent a telegram addressed to "Count Musso Danella, Paris/' and in Nice on the following day, when Enid Anstruther had joined her friend, Lady Chartris, Barnes found the man lurking behind him in the hotel gardens.
Barnes promptly swung upon the fellow and flattened him into a rosebush, after the manner of the brutal Americans ; then as promptly forgot him.
It was after spending an enchanted evening with Enid in the rose-gardens — a rare, scented evening in which the enterprising Mr. Barnes advanced his cause with his usual daring when aroused — that he chanced again to hear the singsong voice of his shadower :
"He followed an English girl here — I heard them speak of the navy. These marks on my face prove he is of the brutal nation. "
Barnes sauntered into the adjoining path and came out upon the man with the damaged optic in close confab with Count Musso Danella.
"There!"
The man gripped the Count's arm.
"Per Bacco! stupid, you have made a mess of it." And, stepping forward, the Count greeted Barnes warmly and asked him to honor him
with an immediate visit in his rooms at the hotel.
"You are no doubt surprised," the ( mini explained, locking his door, "to see me here; also to know that Marina is in Nice."
Barnes's affable face twisted almost into a sneer.
"I can surmise only that you are aiding and abel 1 ing her in her pursuit of the man who killed her brother."
"Precisely. She ran away to Egypt, after the English attack, and searched the hospitals. I was compelled to follow her. and then I made a compact that if I found the man she sought, she should marry me."
"And she sold herself — for your assistance?"
' ' If you put it that way — yes. She does not love me now ; but when I run her brother's murderer to earth — ah, then "
"I have a mind to report this to the authorities," said Barnes, unfeelingly. "You are encouraging hate and destruction in this young girl's heart."
' ' I advise you to call on her yourself," said the Count, coldly. "You will perhaps believe her, at least."
Barnes lost no time in knocking on the girl's door. The affair was growing into a mesh under his very eyes, and he resolved to sift it to its very bottom for Enid's protection; for her brother's; perhaps his own.
Marina greeted him warmly, and he noticed that her serious, haunting look
MR. BARNES TEMPTS HIS HUNGRY CO-TRAVELER