The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 28: what you’re looking at

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THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. 19 the old Professor, and I mean to keep an eye on — him.,. Here is a strange game being played, and I must puzzle out the truth. What do these two confidence people mean to do with the rich young man? remember him now as Robert Hammond, of New York, as bright a figure in politics and society as the metropolis can boast, and I am doubly aston- ished to see him in the tolls. I The two gentlemen in the smoking compartment are Englishmen, who have come out for sport, and seem to be on their way to the North-west with that purpose in view, Business necessitated their being in New York . and Chicago, which accounts for their taking this route in preference to the Canadian Pacific. IT hear them telling this to the Pullman car con- ductor who sits with them. Again I pass to my seat to pick up more informa- [ remember Colonel Acton declaring that it rests entirely with me whether the matter is finished at Chicago, or the journey indefinitely prolonged; and I am sure that unless I diligently set to work it will be another tion concerning the strange game. elobe-trotting tour. I cannot hear what those across from me are Say- ing, but the young man seems to be begging a favor. The girl glances around through her vail; my head is turned aside, but I can see by means of the mirror. She raises her vail a minute and gives her victim a ravishing smile that leaves him colorless with emotion. I can hardly blame the poor devil for making a fool of himself—that face is the most - wonderful I have ever laid eyes on, m {E{o) v.00 mn cS €o