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ARMY AND NAVY interrupted Clif cheerily. ‘‘And there’s your pearls over yonder.”’ He inclined his head toward an indis- tinct object lying upon the path. Mr. Windom snatched it up with a cry of Joy. It was a bag containing his priceless col- lection. The servants returned with a rope and several lanterns. Several of the men as- sisted the cadets to bind the prisoner, then he was turned over with his face to the light. Cries of amazement came from all save Chit, “Great Gosh!’ gasped Joy, “‘it’s the Englishman! It’s J. Cheshire-Cheshire Cate? ) ‘“The would-be assassin of Dom Carlos, the king!’? added Mr. Windom, almost dropping the bag of pearls in his astonish- ment. ‘‘Seize him, men. Call the police. Run, some of you. Quick! quick!”’ The alarm was not necessary. Already a number of the neighbors and a couple of mounted policemen, attracted by the tumult, were clamoring at the gate. They were admitted, but before they reached the group Clif took Mr. Windom aside and said hurriedly: ‘‘Do not reveal the identity of the pris- oner, sir. If itis learned that he is the assailant of the king, they will tear him limb from limb. Better let the law take its course.’’ The old merchant agreed, and on the artival of the police he stated that the prisoner had made an attempt to rob him. J. Cheshire-Cheshire Cate had main- tained a sullen silence from the moment he was overpowered. Joy tried to induce him to speak, but without effect. After a great deal of talk and excited gesticulations, the police led their pris- onet away. The secret of his identity was further kept by his costume, which con- sisted of a tattered cap and a laborer’s suit. He had evidently abandoned the English check suit during his flight. Clif and Joy remained at the villa long enough to see Juanita and learn that it was through her the presence of the fugitive was discovered. The house had just retired for the “night. Wishing to secure some article left in the library Juanita had entered that room. She was just in time to see a 1069 strange man tiptoeing from her father’s apartinents. She screamed, and the intruder made a dash for the nearest window, and leaped boldly through the sash. Mr. Windom was found bound and gagged in bed. It was plain the desperate man had worked quickly. Clif explained the arousing of his sus- picions by the broken tree-branch, then he and Joy took their departure. It was long after midnight before they reached the ship, and they had already been marked in the log as ‘‘absent with- out leave.”’ Clif’s story speedily caused the erasing of the entry, however. The news of the assassin’s capture soon spread throughout the Monongahela, and Faraday came in for more honors. The following day he and Joy were summoned ashore to appear against J. Cheshire-Cheshire Cate. They found the city ina state of intense excitement as the prisoner’s identity had leaked out. A strong military guard sur- rounded the jail to prevent the enraged populace from seizing the assassin. Cate, as he was still called, continued his policy of silence, and the detaiis of his escape from the river were never known. During the balance of the practice cruiser’s stay in Lisbon, Clif was made a social lion. ‘The position was not to his taste, and he hailed with delight the order to ‘‘up anchor’’ for departure from Lisbon. The parting from fair Juanita was his only regret, but he gained some consola- tion from her promise to write by every mail. As the gallant old Monongahela left the city en route to the Island of Madiera, her next calling place, all the river craft saluted her with a prodigious din of whistles, and she was accompanied to the mouth of the Tagus by the royal yacht as a special mark of favor to the ‘Vankee cadet who saved a king.”’ [THE END. ] Wnsign Clarke Fitch’s next Naval Acadeiny novelette will be entitled ‘‘Ciif Faraday’s Deliverance. An Adventure in Maderia.’? No. 24 Army and Navy. comicbooks (©