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Presently the man exclaimed in French: "I do not feel very well!"

"What is the h in alarm "You must not be taken ill here--so far from anywhere!"

But the man was evidently unwell, for he pulled up the car

"Oh! arette dropped from his lips "My head! It seeoing round--round! Where--where aht, my friend Get into the back of the car and rest You will be yourself very quickly"

And he half dragged the man from his seat and placed him in the back of the car, where he fell inert and unconscious

The cigarette which The Sparrow had given to Hugh only to be used in case of urgent necessity had certainly done its work The man, whether friend or eneh, having settled hi over hi to the driver's place, he turned the car and drove as rapidly as he dared back over the roads to Salon

Time after time, he wondered whether he had been misled; whether, after all, theunder The Sparrow's orders If so, then he had committed a fatal error!

However, the die was cast He had acted upon his own initiative, and if a net had actually been spread to catch hihed as he thought of the police at Cette awaiting his arrival, and their consternation when hour after hour passed without news of the car froh the town to cross roads where he had noticed in passing a sign-board which indicated the road to Avignon--the broad high road from Marseilles to Paris

Already he had non, and thence by express to Paris The rapides from Marseilles and the Riviera all stopped at the ancient city of the Popes

Therefore, being a goodroad which led through the valley to Orgon, and thence direct to Avignon, which ca

Before entering the old city of walls and castles Hugh turned into a side road about two ate succeeded in getting it some little distance into a wood, where it ell concealed fro the road