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36 CLARA’S SEARCH BEGINS. ‘‘T shall be sure to do so,’’ he answered, ‘‘and I commend your decision. It saves me a lot of trouble, for, of course, I must obey me city editor; he’s a tyrant, Miss Hilman, and if you did not Erte me the pictures, I should have to get them elsewhere.’ Clara smiled as she left the room to get the photographs, and when she had given them to Shaughnessy he took his departure, promising to call again. ‘‘How could you give him the pictures, Clara?’’ asked Louise reproachfully. ‘‘Mine will do no harm,’’ answered Clara, auieaen ‘‘didn’t you hear him say he was bound to get it anyway? Moreover, it may help in discovering Ivan, if only they will print a good likeness of him.”’ Clara was right in one respect at least. Nearly every evening paper published pictares of herself and Ivan, and nobody at the Pembroke house could have told where the originals were obtained. | ‘Now I must keep my word and begin the search,’’ said Clara after the reporter had gone. “You’re not going to leave the house, I hope?’’ exclaimed her uncle. ‘‘Certainly, uncle,’’ she replied; ‘‘I feel quite well, and I will not overtax myself. I can stand anything better than staying idle here.’”’ ‘*l am strongly disposed to forbid you,’’ said Mr. Pem- broke, anxiously; ‘‘you are sure to have a most disagreea- ble and painful experience. ”’ ‘**Please don’t go!’’ cried Louise, who had read the paper that Mr. Pembroke had concealed. ‘I am sorry to displease you both,’’ returned Clara, *‘ but if I am forbidden to go I shall have to disobey.’’ ‘*‘Then Louise must go with you,’’ said her uncle. **T should like to have her. Will vou, Lou, dear?”’ Louise was only too anxious to accompany her cousin, and accordingly they left the house together just in time to escape a squad of reporters representing the other even- ing papers. Clara had arranged her progrziileantac nels