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"Yes"

"There's some talk around town that he was held up by Bleyer I came up here to see hiuess"

"But--you surely don't think that Mr Bleyer or Mr Verinder wouldhurt hiranite face did not soften "They'll have to show me--and by God! if they did----"

Her mind fleith consternation to the attack upon Kilmeny that had been made by Bleyer But Verinder had told her nobody had been hurt Could they have taken the highgrader prisoner? Were they holding hiets up about this ti for him He said he would be down at once"

"Will you tellyou find out, please? I'll be on the veranda upstairs"

Colter joined her a quarter of an hour later "I saw both Bleyer and Verinder They've got so up their sleeve, but I don't think they knohere Jack is or what has beco to put one over on theo out to the Jack Pot o there"

"If you find out anything----"

"Yes, I'll let you know"

Moya went directly from Colter to Bleyer The superintendent entered a curt denial to her iht, I don't knohat you do or do not know I see so But I'll just say this When I last saw Jack Kilmeny he was as sound as I am this minute I haven't the least idea where he is You don't need to worry about hiht side up Don't ask et me and Verinder in bad with the "

She was aht perhaps----"

"----that Mr Verinder and I had ood opinion of us, but really we didn't," he retorted in his dryest hed "I did think perhaps you knehere he was"

"Well, I don't--and I don't want to," he snapped "The less I see of him the better I'll be satisfied"

The superintendent of the Verinder properties had found a note addressed to hie, genial to the point of impudence, had hoped he had enjoyed his little experience as a hold-up To Bleyer, always a serious-minded man, this levity had added insult to injury Just now the veryto his te jeered at by the man who had set a trap for him