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Superb in Flavour IMl^FillA 3r: TKA T35 Everx cup is a new delist. Ask for it. feJobioW BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. That brilliant member of the Se- cret Service w)iom KiiglunJ preferred to knuw as Andre Duchemin, had incurred the hatrtd of the Bolsheviki. To protect his life, his supciiors ordered him to disappear. H« decided to go to southern France. With Stevenson's "TraveLs With a l'>onkfy" as guide-book, he visited by m(xniliBht that weird city of mono- liths, fjiniou.s M()iitpeIlier-lc-Vi«'iix. After a terrific battle with a Par- isinii apache, nucheniin rescues from hiehwayinin Mnie. I)e .Sevenie, hor graiiddauirhter Ixjuisc Dc Montahiis, and Kv«» Di' Monlalai.'", widow of .Mme. de Scvenic's g:randpon, who was killed in the World War. GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER IV. Enter Romance. When she had graciously permit- ted Duchemin to ns-sipt her to a place in the carriaKe, Madame Sevcnie turned immediately to comfort her praiiddauRhter. It was easy to divine »n attachment there, between d'Au- brac and Louis-e de Montalais; Duche- min fancied (and, a.s it turned out rightly) the two were betrothed. But Madame do Montalais was clniminK his attention. Momentiirily a hand slender and firm and. cool rested in his own. Then its owner was settling into place be- eide Madame de Sevenie, and Duche- min clambciing up to his on the Iio.k. The road proved rough and de- clivitous. Duchemin was Krateful for the moonlight - until he remembered that without the moon there would have been no expedition that night to view the mock ruins of Montpellier by its unearthly light, and conse- quently no adventure to entangle him. Upon thi.s reflection he swore soft- ly but mo«t fervently into his becom- ing heard. He was well fed up with adventures, thank you, and could have done very we'l without this latest. What then of tho comfortable pseudonymity of Andre Duchemin? Posed in an inescapable glare of pub- ^ licity, how long might he hope to escape recognition by some acquaint- ance, friend or enemy? Heaven knew he had enough of both ports scattered widely over the face of Europe! It seemed hard, indeed ... At La Roque it was as Duchemin bad foreseen. Whereas the motor car was waiting Rafe and sound •nough, its chalTeur had vanished Into thin air. Whereupon Duchemin asked whether the rhnuffeur had been a stout man, and being informed that ft was so, considered the cafe com- plete. Mesdames de .Sevenie et de Montalais, he sugpested, might give up all hope of ever again seeing that particular chauffeur. The landlord of the aul>erge, a surly sot, who had supplied the barouche with the man to net as driver and g-uido in one. took with 111 grace the charge that his employe had been in leag'je with th? bandits. But this was true on the word of Ma- ^ Loaifi JosejtJfi Vance OlOV InUnutional Ma^zins Coetptoj) ; dumo de Montalais; it was their guide, she said, whom Duchemin had driven over the cliff. And (as Du- chemin had anticipated) her name alone proved enough to silence the landlord's virtuous protestations. I .Seated Lcsido Madame de Mont-! nlais, Duchemin watched her operate the car with skilful hands on the road to Nant. I Tho sweep of night air in his face was swwt and .smooth, and stroked , his eyelids with touches as bland as caresses of a pretty woman's fingers.'; It was Kood to be alive to-night,! alive and weary and not ill-content j with self, in a motor car swinging^ swiftly aiiU silently along a river' road in the hills of southern France, with a woman lovely and mysterious at the wheel. Duchemin was conHcious of some- thing lie a shock of emotion, a sud- , den surging of .sonic hunger that had, long lain dormant in his being, un-| suspected, how long he could not: surnii.se, gaining strength in latency, waiting to l)e awakened and set freOj by one cui-olcss, sidelong look and smile of a .strange woman. "Kve," he whispered, unheard. "Eve dc Montalais . . ." For Real L:0-»-t-i-n-g Refreihment Get Nips â€" deli- cious Peppermint flavored gum in sugar-coated formâ€" A b*n*lici*l (Mat.â€" «lt»li««a inoutll •â- Ml4««thâ€" iii<b dli««U<in. laUE No. 13â€" '27. CHAPTER V. Phinuit & Co. In the upshot, however, legal ne- cessity had nothing to do with the length of time devoted by Monsieur Duchemin to kicking idle heei.. in the town of Niint; where the civil author- j ities proved c(.nsiderate in a degree! that gratifKil and surprised the con-' firmed Parisian. '' • The drivci-guide of I. a Koquei turned out to have b<en a thorough-! paced scamp, well and ill-known to the tjendarmerie; the wound sustain- 1 ed by Monsieur d'Aubrac bore testi- mony to the giavity of the affair, amply excusing Ducheniin's inter- ference and its fatal se(juel. l.ate in the afternoon of his second (lay in Nant, Duchemin let his vision dwell upon the distant chateau almost as constantly as his thoughts. He was to dine there that very evening. He hud yet to hold oho minute of private conversation with F.ve de Montalais, and yet . . . Now he had seen Madame de Mont- alais another time, and had found that Fhe fitted to the sweetest detail of perfection his ideal of Woman. On the previous afternoon, meet- ing the ladies of the chateau by ar- rangement in the bureau of the mayor, Duchemin had sal opposite and watched ami listened to Eve do' Montalais for upward of two hours. I Po.sed with consunnnate elegance in her half-mourning, she had nai- rated quietly her version of last; night's misadventure, an occasional' tremor of humor lightening the mov-j ing modulations of her voice. A| deep and vibrant voice, contralto in; quality, hinting at hidden treasures of sticngth. A fair woman, slim but round, with brown eyes level and calm, a translucent sUiti <pf matchless' texture, hair the hue of bri.nze laced' with intimations of gold ... j Her age. she said, wes (weuty-nine; ! birthplace, the City of New York ; [ her parents, Kdniund .\nstruther, once l,f Hath, England, but at the time Vif her birth a naturali'/.ed citizen of the United States, and Kve Marie Anstruther, nee I>egendre, of Paris.' Both were dead. In June, ISU-l, she had married, in Paris, Victor Maurice' dc Montalais, who had been killed in' action at La Fere-Chanipenoise on ' the ninth of September following. ' Her home? The Chateau de Mont-! alais. I On the hand Duchemin saw a blue] diamond of such superb water that: this amateur of precious stones I caught his breath for a sheer wonder i tit Us beauty and excellence and ^orth. Such jewels, he knew, wore few and far to se<'k outside the col- lections of princes. The mellow resonance of a two- toned automobile horn, disturbing Duchemin'^ meditations, recalled him tu Nant in time to see a touring cai' of majestic proportions which waf. sweeping u fine curve round two sides of the public square. ] Instantly, as the wheels ceased to turn, a yaung man in the smartest livery imaginable, green garnished ^ with gold, leaped smartly from the Kill wart* wllfi Minard's LIntmenL J driver's seat, with military precision opened th« door of the'tonneau and, holding it, iininobilizcd himself into the semblance of a waxwork image with the dtspasflionate eye, the firm mouth, and the closely razored, square jowls of the model chauffeur. Rustics and townsfolk were already gathering, when from the tonneau de»<ended first a long and painfully emaciuted gentleman, whose face was a cadaverous mask of settled melan- choly and his chosen toilette for mo- toring (as might be seen through the open flapping front of his ulster) a tightly tailored light gray cutaway coat and trousers, with a double- breasted white waistcoat, a black satin Ascot scarf transfixed by a single splendid pearl, and spotles.<i white spats. His band as gaunt as a skeleton's, assisted to alight a young woman whose brilliant blonde beauty, viewed for the first time in (ivening shadows, was like a shaft of sunlight in a darkened room. A well-made crea- ture, becomingly and modishly gown- ed for motoring, spirited yet digni- fied in carriage, she was like a vision of the Rue de la Paix. Following her, a tliird passenger presented the well-nourished, indeed lotund, person of a Frenchman of thh-ty devoted to "le Sport"; as wit- ness his aggressively English tweeds and the .singlo glass serev;cd into his right eye-socket. Kike shapes from .«omc superbly costumed pageant of high lif«^ in the twentieth century this trio drifted, rather than merely walked like mor- tals, across the terraces and into the Cafe de I'Univers. But there was more and better to come. There remained in the car a mere average man, undistinguished but by a lack of especial distinction, sober of habit, economical of gesture, dress- ed in a simple lounge suit such as anybody might wear, beneath a rough and ready-made motor coat. "We dine here, Jules," he an- nounced in English. Settling into place behind the wheel, Jules saluted with fine finish and <leference. "Very good, Mr. Phinuit, sir," he '.said meekly, in the same tongue. To this he added, coolly, and in precisely the tone of respect that became his livery: "What's the awful idea, you big stiff?" Mr. Phinuit betrayed not the slight- est sense of anything untoward in this mode of address. "Why," he saiii pleasantly â€" "you misbegotten garage hound â€" why do you ask?" In lh«> same manner Jules replied: "Can't you .see it's going to rain?" "What's the awful idea, you big stiff?" NURSES Th« Toronto Hotpltal (or Incurikhlri. tn •imutlon with B*llevut and Allied ttoinltili. Kcw Vor* City, ofltri n Ihru ycJrC Count ef Tnlnlni) to young women, havinf tht rtqulnd rducatlon. and deilroui of berombfl tturtrt. Ttiti t4oil)ltal hal cdopt.i] tho olflDt* lirur lyatem. Tlio piiplU rocelv) unlformi of Itic Scttcct. a ;nonthly â- llov.a<^co and tr.tvelln| •J peniti to and tram No-.j Yorlc fat lurttiar Intornidtiun writi tito Suporintondont. "So it is," Mr. Phinuit commented amiably; indeed, not without a cer- tain hint of satisfaction. 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