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"She's alive!" exclaimed Droom "Get these wet clothes off of her--quick!"

The rouped in the hallhile the wo victi towards the door, bent on escape, when the awed, chattering voice of the young felloho had assisted in carrying her to the house arrested hireat sense of relief crept over hi etting his own reet into so: "It happened right out there by the sea wall--where the big break is Harry and I were co south along the wall Just then, this gentleman ran over from this side of the street and, a minute or two later,hiht, but he wasn't aup There was the wo I ever saw! He---"

And then it was that everybody began to shower praise upon the man who only had tried to do his duty by the one who hired hiallant, deeds

"Did you watch which way the robber ran?" deerly

"Lost him in the dark He ran like fury Youman "I e could have seen his face Did you see it?"

"Not distinctly," answered Droo fellow, that's all" Of one thing he was assured: the evidence of these two men would prove that he had acted as a valiant protector and not as a thug--a fear which had not left hisassailant, but there was only one person who could identify him That person was Frances Cable, the victim If it was not James Banseitated young wo tones

The physician arrived at that moment, and a few minutes later came an officer who had been hailed fro to the voluble young eye-witnesses, Droo himself vainly in the effort to solve an inside mystery He had been ready, a fewthe woer within him that her assailant was not Jaed If such was the case, there would be no need to fear Mrs Cable's story if she revived sufficiently to tell it On the other hand, if it was Bansemer, he had rescued her to an ill purpose He was conscious finally that so to him