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Lollie looked a little sober, but said no word of fear for his watch's safety. "Now, we'll cook it," said the magician, and he poured the "omelet" into a bright, clean frying-pan. "Where's the fire?" he asked, holding the pan high aloft, and looking all about. "There isn't any," said Mr. Fayre; "you didn't tell me to provide a fire."
"I want to shake hands with you, Lollie. I shook hands with you once before, intending to send you to a very quick decease. You're carrying your money with you, aren't you, Crewe?" "Yes," said the other. "Good!" responded the colonel. "Now get away." He took no other farewell but turned abruptly and left them. Crewe was following him, but the girl caught his arm.
But he's always called Lollie. He is a nice boy, but I like Joe Collins better." "Yes, he's funny and makes you laugh all the time. But those twin boys are the nicest of all. What funny names they all have. Tod and Tad!" "How do you like the girls?" "The Rawlins girls are nice and Celia Ferris. But I like you best, Dolly, and except for parties I don't care so much about a crowd.
"Are you furnishing a children's orphanage or something?" asked the other in surprise. "I am furnishing a nursing home, to be exact," said the colonel slowly. "I bought it this morning, and I'm going to furnish it to-morrow. Send Lollie Marsh to me. Tell her I want her to get three women of the right sort to take charge of a mental case which is coming to my nursing home.
"You're out of it," said the colonel savagely. "I'm running this show myself. If you want to join Lollie later, why you can. For the present, she's going just where I want her to go and in the way I have planned." He held out his hand to the girl and she took it. "Good-bye and good luck, Lollie!" he said. "But can't I go back to my rooms?" she asked. He shook his head.
He pulled open the drawer of his desk, took out a card and wrote rapidly. "I'll put Snakit on her trail," he said. "Snakit!" said the other contemptuously. "He's all right for this kind of work," said the colonel, alluding to the little detective whom he had bought over from Maisie White's service. "Snakit can trail her. He does nothing for his keep, and Lollie doesn't know him, does she?"
"Mr. King has always spoken of your friend as one of the least dangerous of the gang. When are you leaving?" "To-night." "To-night? But how?" "That's a secret." "But it is a secret I won't reveal," smiled Maisie. "By aeroplane," said Lollie after a moment's hesitation, and told the story of Pinto's preparation.
"To tell you the truth, Lollie," he said, "for the last two days he has been watching a well-known Washington attorney named Lawrence Blakeley. He's across the street now." It took a moment for me to grasp what he meant. "Why, it's ridiculous," I asserted. "What would they trail me for? Go over and tell Johnson to get out of there, or I'll pot at him with my revolver."
"A watch!" "A gold watch!" cried a dozen voices. "Oh, yes, to be sure!" and the magician, smiling, passed the pan to Lollie, and there on its clean, shining surface, lay the gold watch, absolutely unharmed. Such a clapping of applause! for many of the young audience had been forced to believe that the watch was utterly ruined.
"You see Selby, there's nothing in it that you can take exception to. I don't even know that Lollie will refuse to go in the ordinary way, but I must make preparations." "It is a reasonable suggestion," said Selby, after considering the matter for a few minutes. "I'll do it, colonel."
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