The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 53: what you’re looking at

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44 THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY, A few berths are being made up. I watch the people opposite to me like a hawk, and yet they do not know it. There are more ways of doing this same thing than enters into the philosophy of most persons. The girl is his wife, but she seems to be still under the charge of her father. Perhaps the marriage has been a secret one, or a pretense made that way. At any rate, he is not to be known as a husband—yet. While looking on the sly, I see her slip something into his hand, and this he hastily puts into his pocket, laughing at some remark she makes ina low tone. Although I have had just the merest glimpse of the article, 1am of the opinion it is a small vial of some sort. There flashes across my mind the suspicion that this may be an important part in the plot against Hammond. What does that vial contain? When is he to take it? Under the circumstances, I am of the opinion that _Acton should know the facts, and, as if to answer my wish, he passes up the aisle just then, giving me a peculiar wink, which I know means that I am to follow. lat He has something to communicate, and this isa time when prompt action must take place. So I go after him again. It is lucky that the smokers have smoked them- - selves out, for we find a good use to which we can put the little compartment. Acton grips my shoulder at once. “Craig, did you see her give him something?” he asks, anxiously, : comicbooks:.com — Lad + ee + Se ‘ — g "75 A, te eS