He was deceiving her; else why no mention of his mission to Washingtonhis abduction of Jones?

" Charlie was relieved that no mention was made of the abduction of Louise.

His next act was to purchase a morning paper, and seating himself carelessly in a chair he controlled the impulse to search for a "scare head" on the abduction of Miss Merrick.

Because my disreputable cousin planned the abduction, without consulting me, and" "Oh, come, Di; that's a little too" "Because the girl has been carried to the Von Taer housemy housein East Orange; because my own servant is at this moment her jailor, and" "How should they know all this?" interrupted Mershone, impatiently.

While still perplexed as to her abduction, with no comprehension why she should have been seized in such a summary manner and spirited to this lonely, out-of-the-way place, she realized she was in no immediate danger.

Madame Cerise did not hesitate to denounce the abduction as a heartless crime, and in her communication with Diana swore she would protect the innocent girl from harm at the hands of Mershone or anyone else.

My cousin has compromised me by taking the girl to my house, and no knowledge of the abduction must get abroad if we can help it.

THE MYSTERY DEEPENS Uncle John was both astounded and indignant that so bold and unlawful an act as the abduction of his own niece could have been perpetrated in the heart of New York and directly under the eyes of the police.

Immediately after her interview with Beth her mood changed, and she would have given worlds to be free from complicity in the abduction.

He framed a wild tale of abduction by villains, of an injury, a sickness, a fever that forced a doctor to cut her hair short.

It was Shere Ali who had planned the abduction of Mrs. Oliver.

To the Senate of the United States: In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 26th ultimo, calling for information respecting a forcible abduction of any citizen of the United States from the Territory of New Mexico and his conveyance within the limits of the Mexican Republic, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents which accompanied it.

" "And which contained," went on the officer, "the notice by which we were apprised that the island of Back Cup served as a refuge for Ker Karraje and his bandKer Karraje, this false Count d'Artigas, the author of the double abduction from Healthful House.

" In my opinion the rascals must have gone on to reason still further in this wise: "Is there any connection between the disclosure of our secretif it was, and however it may have been madeand the double abduction from Healthful House?

Is it known that the abduction was effected in the interest of Ker Karraje?

It is not imagined, either in the new world or the old, that the abduction from Healthful House was effected for your especial benefit, or that you have succeeded in coming to terms with Thomas Roch for his invention.

Dunborough's passion for the girlto the stay at the Castle Inn, the abduction at Manton Corner, the strange night journey in the chaise, and the stranger release.

The girl's position in this solitary house, apart from her friends, was half the battle; in a sneaking way, though he shrank from facing the fact, he knew that she was at their mercy; as much at their mercy as if they had planned the abduction from the first.

True, the risk, apart from that of Mr. Dunborough's vengeance, might be small; no one of the three had had act or part in the abduction of the girl.

Had the abduction been, after all, concerted not by him but by Mr. Thomasson and his confederates?

To that room she had betaken herself in the first flush and triumph of Sir George's suit; and there, surrounded by the same objects on which she now gazed, she had sat, rapt in rosy visions, through the livelong day preceding her abduction.

But on Wednesday I happened in a strange wayat Bristol, my lord, whither but for that abduction I might never have gone in my lifeon a discovery, which by my client's direction I am here to communicate.' 'Do you mean, sir,' the Earl said with sudden acumen, a note of keen surprise in his voice, 'that you are hereto abandon your claim?' 'My client's claim,' the attorney answered with a sorrowful look.

This summary abduction is more than Sisupala can bear.

He is Sisupala, Krishna's rival for the hand of Rukmini, and since Rukmini's abduction, his deadly enemy.

INDEX Abbot of Lilleshall case, Abduction, statute against, A.D. 1452, (see Kidnapping).