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: 168 tate “Colonel Drummond. he knew all? Lady Evelyn Desmond!” She eee the name slowly. “A beautiful and high-sounding name! ‘And I am Minnette, the actress! Is she his Evelyn, I wonder ?”’ She lifted from the table cue her a locket set with gems, opened it, and gazed by the starlight on the pic- tured face—a lovely and haughty.patrician face, far more perfect than her own. On the reverse, in golden, ¢litter- ing letters, was the name “Evelyn.” As suddenly as she had taken it up she closed it again, and flung it from her. ‘Who can wonder that he is blind to every other face after that? And yet, in laces and jewels, I would be fair, too. Ah, Robert Drummond, I have a long and bitter score to settle with you, if we ever meet!” CHAPTER IIz. COLONEL . DRUMMOND. _ The street lamps were just lit in the silvery, luminous dusk of a second evening. A tender young sickle moon gleamed in the violet arch, with one or two tremulous stars shining beside it, and the soft spring wind cooled the sultriness of what hac been the heat of a midsummer day. And gazing with listless, dreamy eyes at all the tranquil beauty above, at all the stir and bustle of the street be- low, Vivian Trevannance sat at his hotel chamber window and smoked his cigar—Vivian ‘revannance, who had never gone “up the Nile and down the Niger” with his Viennese friend; who had changed his mind at the last moment, as he had an old trick of doing, and came to America instead. “Lion-hunting and jackal-shooting may be very lively amusement. Cumming and those other fellows say SO, he said, in his nonchalant way; “but I think it’s even ae her out on the plains. I'll take a trip to Colorado, in- stead of Central Africa, and see as good game as. Pei knocked over.’ A month later he was on the plains with a hunting- _ farty, right in the heart of the Indian depredations, and _ if ever he came near being excited and moved out of his com icboo ‘S co