After a week's retirement, the Indy appears at_a reception given by her father in Carlton House Terrace. Dis-ches of grave import arrive, and the remier, after perusing them, hands them to his daughter to lock up. Instead of doing this, however, che is persuaded to hand them over to Benton, who in turn gives them to Count Ostadine, the Russian spy. The latter is caught by two friends of the Premier in the act of copying the telegram. They tell Lord Derwent, who sends for Ostadine, and, after fi i one chance to confess, shoots I naturally pleased the gods immensely, but it will occur to some to be an awkward manner of conducting the business of the State. The world is told that Ostadine committed suicide, but Benton has his suspicions, An election being on the tapis, he airs his views, and the Premier denounces him in the House (a most real. looking House, with every possible accessary), and dies in the midst of his speech. After this, things begin to right these! Harold persuades Kathleen to tell him the reason of hee action in the Abbey, and is able not only to deny the charge, but to prove Benton's villainy—so, as the gallery quaintly remarked when they saw the lovers embrace, "that's all right."
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