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"Where do you stay in New York?" The stranger gave the name of a hotel. "Your name!" "Selton." "I will call at your hotel to-morrow." "I can depend upon you?" "Yes." "Your name?" "King." "I will look for you. Come and see me, and you will make your fortune." "I will come; and now you hasten away." The stranger entered the boat, and the detective glided away in the darkness.
He goes straight to the bride. He has been sent, indeed, by Lady Warbeck. "Will you give me the pleasure of this dance, Lady Selton?" asks he. "It? What is it?" nervously. "A waltz." He is smiling at her. She has a charming figure. Of course she can dance. Tom Hescott would not have asked the loveliest woman in the land to waltz with him, if he knew her to be a bad dancer.
Upon reaching the hotel Vance was shown to a handsome suite of rooms, and a few moments later, was joined by the gentleman whom he had met under such strange circumstances at the coast. The meeting was cordial, and Mr. Selton said: "I have been waiting for you." "Well, sir, and here I promised to call and I have kept my word." "Now, sir, one word.
Lady Selton is pretty in a way but " "Then you prefer the woman who is not devoted to her husband?" "I don't see how that argument comes in," says he quickly. "Some husbands are are " "Quite true. They are indeed," interrupts Mrs. Chichester, who seems to be enjoying herself. "But what an aspersion on poor Sir Maurice." "I wasn't thinking of him," says Marryatt hurriedly. "Of whom then?"
Selton, you must satisfy me that you have an honest right to inquire about that girl before I answer your question." "I have a right." "State the facts, sir." "First tell me your own interest in the girl." Vance told the real facts of his meeting with Renie, and when he had concluded, Mr. Selton said: "So you are Vance the great Government detective!" "I am."
"I have you on my side then, Lady Selton?" says Mrs. Chichester. Lady Selton nods her reply. She is panting, and fanning herself audibly. Without the slightest ear for music, she has been plunging round the room with her husband, who is still so far infatuated as to half believe she can dance. She is an extremely pretty woman, so one can condone his idiocy. At this moment Hescott appears.
Selton tells me that his wife has unexpectedly been called to Chicago by her mother's illness, and they will be unable to entertain Mr. Bond. He suggested that we might like to do so." Winifred and Hubert looked up with animation. "Indeed! And you told him?" asked Mrs. Gray, with a housewifely instinct of defense against invasion. "I told him," said Mr.
Vance had gone but a short distance, when he saw several men moving along over the sand, and they were moving toward the cove. As it proved, Mr. Selton was a good oarsman, and was out of sight when the men reached the beach. The detective crept down and listened to what the men said.
Pearce had given her the box, and had represented that it was filled with costly jewels; but his statement was a lie, and the old lady's imagination had aided her in swelling the value of the contents of the box. Mr. Selton proved to be a very wealthy man, living in a Western city, and Renie was taken to her grand home.
Selton had concluded, Vance said: "I am satisfied, sir, that you have told me a true tale." "Yes, sir, my tale is true, and now, please tell me of my Child." "Your child is safe." "You have found her?" "I have." "Where is she? lead me to my child at once." "No sir, that will not do, I must prepare her for the meeting; but first let me tell you of her."
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