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"To the Assistant Political Officer, Ranga Duar. "Sir, "Three days ago a party of Chinamen attacked and severely injured the Deputy Conservator of Forests, Mr. Benson, in this bungalow, and abducted his daughter. They were ten or twelve in number and well armed, and over-awed the servants and forest employees. They have been tracked towards the Bhutan Frontier and, I fear, have crossed it by this.
"I'll promise to remain here until " "I come for you in the morning?" he broke in. "If I'm not abducted in the interval, I'll wait," and stepped into the car. "Good-night, Mr. Harleston!" she smiled and the car shot upward. "Hum!" muttered Harleston as he turned for his coat and hat. "I may be a fool, but I'll risk it and I think I'm not." It was but a step to Headquarters and he walked.
Chatz was heard to growl, and the look on his face as he said those few words told what he meant to do if ever the opportunity came his way to strike a blow for the abducted chum. Filled with renewed determination after this little conference, they once more took up their task.
He hates Father like poison." A flash of inspiration came to her. She rose, slim and tall and purposeful. "Cass Fendrick is the man you want, and he is the man I want. He robbed the express company, and he has killed my father or abducted him. I know now. Arrest him to-night." "I have to have evidence," Bolt said quietly. "I can give you a motive. Listen.
Then Cardinal Monti again arose, speaking in a deep, impressive voice: "Luigi Vampa, prisoner at the bar," said he, "you stand here accused of many grave crimes, but the charge which the Court will first consider is blacker than all the rest; that charge, Luigi Vampa, prisoner at the bar, is that you abducted and afterwards seduced a peasant girl named Annunziata Solara and, in collusion with her father, Pasquale Solara, conspired to throw the onus and suspicion of your crime upon an innocent man, the Viscount Giovanni Massetti.
If his schooner bears a Norwegian name, he at any rate is not of Scandinavian origin. He has nothing of the races of Northern Europe about him. But whoever and whatever he may be, this man abducted Thomas Roch and me with him with no good intention, I'll be bound. But what I should like to know is, has he acted as the agent of a foreign power, or on his own account?
It was a crude and primitive punishment, but it would take drastic treatment to get under the hide of this sneering bully who had come within an ace of ruining the life of June Tolliver. The law could not touch him. He had not abducted her. She had gone of her own volition. Unfulfilled intentions are not criminal without an overt act. Was he to escape scot free?
She asked me why and the end of it was that I told her all that story which to this moment she had never heard, for Ragnall had thought well to keep it from her. She listened intently, then said, "So I owe you more than I knew. Yet, I'm not sure, for you see I was abducted after all.
The person alleged to have been abducted was promptly restored, and the circumstances of the case are now about to undergo investigation before a judicial tribunal.
How had they managed to win Miss Holladay over to their side; to persuade her to accompany them; to flee from her friends above all, from our junior partner? How had they caused her change of attitude toward him? Or had they really abducted her? Was there really danger of foul play danger that she would fall a victim, as well as her father? Who was Martigny? And, above all, what was the plot?
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