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It was soail's departure that Mrs Pri, set forth upon her rounds to see that doors and ere properly secured for the night A Frenchand its screen opening upon the verandah from the library she found open "The house will be full of mosquitoes!" she ejaculatedand made them fast "I should just like to knoho left them open Upon my word, I don't knoould become of this place if it wasn't for me Of all the shiftlessness!" and she turned and flounced upstairs In Abigail's rooht froh she knew that the rooirl's departure earlier in the day The first thing a on the floor beside the dressing table As she stooped to pick it up she saw the open drawer from which the small automatic had been removed, and then, suspicions, suddenly aroused, as suddenly became fear; and Mrs Prim almost dove across the rooation revealed the startling fact that the safe was unlocked and practically empty It was then that Mrs Jonas Priht Jonas and several servants upon the scene A careful inspection of the roonored the burglar had taken the easily concealed contents of the wall safe which represented fully ninety percentuail Prim's apartments

Mrs Prim scowled suspiciously upon the servants Who else, indeed, could have possessed the intie which the thief had displayed Mrs Prim saw it all The open libraryhad been but a clever blind to hide the fact that the thief had worked from the inside and was now doubtless in the house at that very moment

"Jonas," she directed, "call the police at once, and see that no one, absolutely no one, leaves this house until they have been here and y!" exclai around here for the police, do you?"

"I think that if you get the police here at once, Jonas, we shall find both the thief and the loot under our very roof," she replied, not without asperity