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"Yes, sir The National has one and its terms are very reasonable"

Mark went to his rooathered every scrap of paper The useless went into the old stove which had stood all su the winter's need; the others he carefully placed in his pocket Then he went out At the bank he rented a box and left the papers he didn't want Saunders to see He felt satisfied that nothing Saunders found would relieve hi of the papers would ht to be watched That would help Miss Atheson by keeping the detective on the wrong scent

At noon Mark went to his room to wash before lunch Saunders had not been very clever There was a tell-tale sedown into the ashes to search a the burned papers Mark knew that Saunders had lost no ti his room, and he was happy to be still under suspicion

But Mark was not so happy in conte deeper into a ga about What was the reason for the suspicion against the girl? Could she be a thief--or worse? Mark had heard of pretty criuarantee of virtue within But he had resolved to go through with the adventure, and he would not change his ued, too, that it was not entirely the beauty of Ruth Atheson that interested hi else" Anyhow, innocent or guilty, he made up his ain and found him overly friendly, even anxious to talk The detective opened the conversation

"Going to see the Padre again?"

"I have an engagement with him this afternoon I rather like the Padre!"

"Sure you do," said the detective "Everybody does The Padre's a wonder, and the last ht expect to find in a little parish like this"

Mark wanted to learn lican Church they would make such a man a bishop, or at least a dean"

"Well, they didn't do that with the Padre" The detective shook his head as if to express his regret that soht hand man of the old Bishop of the diocese; but the new Bishop had to have new counselors That's one way of the world that the church fellows have gotten into Some say that it broke the Padre's heart, but he doesn't look it Must have hurt hih Human nature is human nature--and after all he did for the Church, too"