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you ht of you--Confound the man!

YOURS, IN DURANCE VILE

This fifth letter froony Column arrived at the

Carlton Hotel, as the reader ust

the third And it represented to the girl from Texas the climax of the

excitement she had experienced in the matter of thefriend--whom she did not

know--had been arrested as a suspect in the case, inevitable as it had

seemed for days, came none the less as an unhappy shock She wondered

whether there was anything she could do to help She even considered

going to Scotland Yard and, on the ground that her father was a

Congress the immediate release of her

strawberry ressmen from

Texas meant little in the life of the London police Besides, she night

have difficulty in explaining to that saressman how she happened

to know all about a crime that was as yet unmentioned in the newspapers

So she reread the latter portion of the fifth letter, which pictured her

hero loriously to Scotland Yard and with a worried little

sigh, went below to join her father