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"What about Lynn?" "What'll happen to him?" "Oh, she's taking care of that." "He will be comfortable?" "Oh, certainly. You'll be back m San Francisco one of these days and you can look him up. Lynn will be all right!" PAGE did not feel quite so certain. It was with a rather heavy and rather fearful heart that she went down to the rocks with Lynn that morning before luncheon for a last scramble along the shore. "You aren't really going this afternoon, Page?" he asked, disturbed, when she had given him the news. "Oh, yes; to get some things, and say good-byes." But the instant she said the words their sense struck her as unfamiliar, and she stopped in some confusion, and added an uneasy, "Why not?" • "Why, because you promised! he exclaimed, in amazement. "You said you wouldn't give it to her until Saturday!" , , "Oh, but I'm not! I'm to telephone Friday evening and tell Rand where it is-" , "No, you're not!" Lynn laughed m bitter unbelief and dissatisfaction. "But I really am, Lynn. Rand just suggested it. What's the difference between that and doing what we first planned?" "All the difference in the world! he said patiently. "You mean — ?" "I mean just what I told you. They'll have me in an institution. They were talking about taking me there when they found out that I had the diamond. You know that! They'll tell y0U__when you join them in Sacramento on Saturday— they'll tell you that— well, they can tell you anything, and you won't know! I may be dead, or I may be shut up, forever, and you'll not know." "Ah, Lynn, Rand wouldn't lie to me!" "He mightn't, but she would. She'd lie to anyone. You said — you said you'd stand by me until Saturday — until they leave me enough money to live on, and go away. Page, you won't leave me, will you?" Lynn begged, in growing excitement. "When you do I get so frightened, and the dreams get all mixed up with the real. You have the diamond now; I gave it to you to make you like me. Don't go away until I can go with you!" His words gave her an idea, and her face brightened. "Why don't you go with me now, Lynn? You could stay at Mrs. Chayne's, my old boarding house, until everything was settled, and then come back here when we are on our way east." "I'd like that! Could I go with you, Page?" Lynn's lean brown young hands grasped hers eagerly, his voice rose on a sort of cry. "Why not? I'll talk to Rand." She ran up the terrace steps. This was the solution, after all. She and Lynn would be safe in the city when the mischief-making diamond went back to its rightful owner. Rand was alone in the dining room when she entered" it. "Rand, I've been saying good-bye to Lynn, and he reminds me that it was part of the arrangement — his giving me the diamond, I mean — that I should stay around until everything was settled about him!" "What was his object in that?" JANUARY, 1941 "He seems to feel that something might happen to him if he stayed here. So he's going into town with me." "Oh, but that's nonsense!" Rand said, in concern. "You can't saddle yourself with any such responsibility as that. He doesn't know what he's doing half the time; he might embarrass you terribly." "He won't. I'm not in the least afraid. It's only something like amnesia— something that doesn't change him, just changes his memory!" the girl argued. "But you can't take him with you, my dear. She — the Duchess — wouldn't stand for it! The worst of it all is," Rand said thoughtfully, "I may not be able to make it until tomorrow. I'm expecting a telephone call some time this afternoon. If it comes before four we can get started, but if it doesn't I really oughtn't to go away." "Tomorrow's as good for me as today!" "I'll find out about it," he said. "I'll go up and see what the Duchess thinks." When he returned he merely said briefly, "She says she would rather have you go tomorrow," and nothing more was said. Lynn accepted this verdict without comment, slipping away at once after luncheon. Page was in her room packing her bags at about three o'clock, when Flora tapped at the door. "Rand's call came through," Flora said, "so he's starting about four; he said to tell you." "He's taking Lynn?" the girl asked. "I believe he talked to Lynn about it," Flora said. "But Lynn said he'd rather go in tomorrow." "That gives me only an hour," Page murmured, with a glance at the clock. But her thoughts were not as docile as her words. She could not go away and desert Lynn, that was plain. The instant Flora was gone Page ran down through the infinite convolutions of halls and stairs and passages, and out upon the terrace. IT was not yet four o'clock, but the ' bright day had gone under a cloud, and a restless wind, heavy with rain, was blowing fitfully from the south. The sea was rough and troubled, and dotted with racing whitecaps. A storm was on the way. Page called "Lynn!" Page ran along in the shelter of the high evergreen hedge that shut the kitchen windows away from the sea, and knocked on the door of his oneroom cottage. There was no answer. Page pushed the door open and looked inside. The plain room was empty. Below the cliff was the pier, jutting out into the tumbling steel-cold water. Lynn's boat was there, tied to the wharf. He had not gone out in his boat; he certainly would not have started for a walk at this hour. A cold premonition of disaster clutched at her heart. Lynn had warned her that he might disappear — that something dreadful might happen to him. Was Lynn's panic-stricken prophecy true? Have Flora and Mrs. Prendergast conspired to kill him, as — perhaps—they have already killed Trudy Mockbee and Fanny Roy? The web of danger spun by Mystery House and its people holds Page more and more tightly in next month's instalment of this thrilling story. Don't miss reading it in the February issue. 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