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Laverick nodded

"I a forward and speaking in a soft but very distinct undertone, "a ht in the heart of the city--within one hundred yards of the Stock Exchange The papers called it a mysterious murder No one knoho the man was, or who committed the crime, or why You and I, Laverick, both know a little more than the rest of the world"

"Well?"

"The ht in his eyes, "was accomplished only a stone's throw froarette and threw the match away

"Horrible affair it was," he relanced toward the door,--a , Laverick," he said "A theft was coeneral public knows nothing A pocketbook was stolen fro twenty thousand pounds and a sealed document As to who murdered the man, I want you to understand that that is not my affair As to what has becohtest curiosity I want the document"

"What claiht retort, but I will not," Bellamy replied "Ti who the man was and what that docu, and he was a trusted agent of the Austrian Secret Service The document of which he was robbed contains a verbatim report of the conference which recently took place at Vienna between the Emperor of Germany, the Emperor of Austria, and the Czar of Russia It contains the details of a plot against this country and the undertakings entered into by those several Powers I want that document, Laverick Have I established my claim?"

"You have," Laverick answered "Why on earth Didn't you come to me before? Don't you believe that I should have listened to you as readily as to Mademoiselle Idiale?"

"I wish that I had come," Bellamy admitted, "and yet, here is the truth, Laverick, because the truth is best Twenty-two years lie between us and the ti of one another ToVon Behrling that night I know that you took the pocket-book from his dead body If you did not murder him yourself, the deed was done by an acco naked words,with naked truths To me you were a murderer and a thief A word from me and you would have realized the value of that docuive you almost any sum for it to-day"