DIANA REVOLTS Charlie Mershone had no difficulty in securing his release when Parker came on duty at six o'clock.

He called up a cab and went at once to his rooms at the Bruxtelle; and Fogerty followed him.
While he discarded his dress-coat, took a bath and donned his walking suit Mershone was in a brown study.

Hours ago Louise had been safely landed at the East Orange house and placed in the care of old Madame Cerise, who would guard her like an ogre.

There was no immediate need of his hastening after her, and his arrest and the discovery of half his plot had seriously disturbed him.

This young man was no novice in intrigue, nor even in crime.