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V AUTHOR OF THE rVS MSASW Vw"1 mm AA.a aw .... , tYNOPS YNOPSia. t far open on Long laland. near ior ny, wner Mm Emily nch. ratatlva of Ethan Ftranch. utaotu.-er cf the celebrated "Mer " ul mobile, loaea her way. The fea (topped and her coualn. Dick ach. .1 too muddled with drink to It aright. They meat another car ai la run by a professional racer rj Ieetrance. Tha latter flue up frem'h car and dlrecte Mlia Kfrench to proceed homeward. Ethan ath hue dialnherltad hi on, who , dlauppaarad. H Inform Emily tfy that he would Ilk to have her rv Dirk, who la a good-natured but HwnKim reiiow. it appear tnat I ixT of Ethan Ffrench wanting- an VB rac with tha "Mercury" at auto a. . ha encrired ueatrnnae. and at ffretK-h factory Emily encounter the I man. They refer pleasantly to meeting whan Dick come along i (nlze the young racer. Dick like , way Leatrange ignore their flrat aln . when ha appeared to a dlaad tage. Lretranire tell Kniily that he i try to educate her Indifferent couatn to automobile expert. Dick under- Ch' buslneas acheollng under thi ire of Leatrane-e. IHck la aheer arlt. I n making a test race meets with VeM-ant. Lestranira meets Emily In moonlit garden of tha r trench noma. CHAPTER VI. (Continued). estrange hesitated, himself trou- Her soft loveliness In the dell hi light that left her eyes unread p depths of shadow, her timidity anxiety for his safety, were from ilr very unconsciousness most dan kus. And while he grasped at self- t'rol. she came still nearer to the 1 of the steps and held out her 11 fair hand, mistaking his silence I leave-taking, Good night; and I thank you for Suing. I am not used to so much nitderatlon. Her accents were unsure when she Mid have made them most certain. ti her movement the handkerchief I front her girdle to his feet Me- fiFTcally Lestrange recovered the bit toen. and felt It He wet In his sjcrs. Wot I'Kmily!" he cried abruptly, and Jf.ng the brief step between them. Jler white, terrified face turned to fan In the moonlight, but he saw her yes. And seeing, he kissed her. ,'The moment left no time for freech. Some one was coming down drawing-room toward the long indows. Dick's Impatient whistle landed shrilly from the park. Pant os, quivering. Emily drew from the pbr-ice and fled within. he bad no doubt of Lestrange, no pstlon of his serious meaning he il that force of sincerity which pde his silence more convincing an the protestations of others. But ore In her room she laid ber cheek iainst the hand his had touched. ; "1 wish I had died In the convent," she cried to her heart, "I wish I had tied before I made him unhappy too." f CHAPTER VII. Morning for-att a pale and languid ani'if mitisevhe breakfast table from Mr. Ffrench. Yet, by a contradiction M the heart, ber pride in loving and sing loved so overbore the knowl Mge that only sorrow could result to herself and Lestrange. that her eyes shone wide and lustrous and ber lips turved softly. t ftr. Ffrench was almost In high spir its. "The boy was merely developing," s Hated, over his grape-fruit "I stve been unjust to Richard. For two annths Bailey bas been talking of his Merest In the business and atten , dinca at the factory, but I was In : credulous. Although I fancied I ob served a change have you observed change In him. Emily?" "Yes," Emily confirmed, "a very great change. He baa grown up, at last" 1 "Ah? I cannot express to you bow "ft gratifies me to have a Ffrench rep resenting me in public: have you seen tYar 90 r oaaai-Mfttui. en i .i , i i ,. "TM morDins juuraam t auw judi vuu.u u v. ' u .- . . v . t V - I ... ilnwil Jti M " He picked up the newspaper De cide him and passed across the folded r ... Mra "AH in readiness for Beach Con A test," the head lines ran. "Last big driver to arrive, Lestrange is In Mer- -CUTy Camp wiuj XV. rutruvu, rcyrawauv tatlve of Company." : And there was a blurred picture of a speeding car with driver and mech .iniclan masked to goblinesaue non- jf identity, with the legend underneath: " 'Darling' Lestrange. in bis Mercury ' en the Georgia course." "Next year I shall make him part owner. It was always my poor broth- itaalra tn tiflva rhA flltlirA nilTIA etlll Ffrench and Ffrench. He was I not thinking of Richard then; be had hope of " '. Emily lifted her gaze from the pic-1 'ture, recalled to attention by the break. -.."Of?" she echoed vaguely. "Of one who is unworthy thought. Rli-bard has redeemed our family from extinction; that is at rest." lit I'ausrd for an Instant. "My denr child, whf n yon are married and established, I shall bu content." Ilrr brtatlilng qiilcker.f d, hor ro:ir lice rope to the call of tlie moment. If l)Ii-k Is here, If he Is Instead of t Fiihs-titiite." she said, carefully quiet W In manner, "would It matter. Elnce I nni only a girl, whom I married, facie lit haii?" " The recollection of that evening Phviwfinlly had given ber promise of nld, etlrrf it- water Mr. Ffrench's self-elif-ortiltlon. He Voked across the ta ble nt her rolorleHS, eager face with perhaps his first thought of what that , -nmlse might have eot hrr. "No," he replied kindly. "It Is part of my satisfaction that you are set f.ee to cllow your own choice, with out thought of utility or fortune. Of Mrvf. 1 need not say provided tne v.(n ;j-ft Your own class and asso w'on. 1V ir :io mno low " - id kno iijft CAME AND THE CAffPLCj . Am 1 words. Emily folded ber bands over the paper in her lap and the pleas ant breakfast room darkened before ber. Mr. Ffrench continued speaking of Dick, unheard. When the long meal was ended and ber uncle withdrew to meet Bailey In the library, Emily escaped outdoors. There was a quaint summer bouse part way down the park, an ancient white pavilion standing beside the brook that gurgled by on its way to the Hudson, where the young girl often passed ber hours. She went there now, carrying her little work basket and the newspaper containing the picture of Lestrange. "I will save it." was her thought. "Perhaps I may find better ones this does not show his face but I will have this now. It may be a long time before I see him." But she sat with the embroidery scissors la her hand, nevertheless, without cutting the reprint Lestrange would return to the factory, she never doubted, and all would continue as be fore, except that she must not see him. He would understand that It was not possible for anything else to hap pen, at least for many years. Perhaps, after Dick was married The green and gold beauty of the morning hurt her with the memory of that other sunny morning, when he had so easily taken from ber the task she hated and strove to bear. And he had succeeded, how he had succeeded! Who else In the world could have so transformed Dick? Leaning on the table, her round chin in her palm as she gazed down at the paper In her lap, her fancy slipped back to that night on the Long Island road, when she had first seen his serene genius for setting all things right. How like him that elimination of Dick, Instead of a romantic and Impracticable at tempt to escort her himself. A bush crackled stiffly at some one's passage; a shadow fell across her. 'Caught!" laughed Lestrange's glad. exultant voice. "Since you look at the portrait, how shall the original fear to present himself? See. I can match." He held out a card burned at "Dick Will Tell the corners and streaked with dull red, "The first time I ssw your writ ing, and found my own name there." Amazed, Emily sat up, and met In his glowing face all Incarnate Joy of life and youth. 'Oh!" she gasped plteously. "You are surprised that I am Lore? My dear, my dear, after last night did you think I could be anywhere else?" "The race " "I know that track too well to neel much practice, and I had the machine out at dawn. My partner Is busy prac ticing this morning, and I'll be back In a couple of hours. I was afraid," the Bray eyes were bo gentle in their bril liancy, "I was afraid you night worry, Kmily." Serenely ho assumed iiossespion of hr, and the nFsiiiuiitlon was very sweet. He had not touched her, yet Kn.ily had the rensntion of brutally thrus-ting him away when phi" spoke: "How could I do anything else," Khu asked with desolation, "since we mtiKt never meet each ether any more? Only, you will not go far away you will stay where I can sometimes see you as we pass? I I think 1 could not bear It to have you go away." "Emily t" The scissors clinked sharply to the (lour as she held out her white bands In deprecation of his cry; the tor.rs rushed to ber eyes. "You Vnow, you knot I am not free; I am Emily Ffrench. I cannot fall ttiylincTe R4 'grieve blm as bis 40" did. Oh, I will never marry any one else, aud we will bear of each -""" -. i-end jn the papers and ai'jje of you. It will bo Mrnetntng to be so sIomj, darwn CW sad ap here." "Emily 1" "Yon are not angry T Yon will not be angry T You know I ean do notl lng else; please say yea know." He came nearer and took both eold little hands In bis elasp, bending to her the shining gravity of his regard. "Do you think me such a ealflah ani mal, my dear, that I would have kissed you when I could not claim your he asked. "Did you think I could forget you were Emily Ffranch, even by moonlight?" Her fair bead feU back, bar dark eyes questioned his. "You mean " "I mean that even your uncle can not deny my inherited quality of gen tleman. I am no millionaire incognito. I have driven racing cars and managsd this factory to earn my living, having no other dependence than upon my self, but my blood Is as old as yours, little girl, if that means anything." "Not to me," she cried, looking up into his eyes. "Not to me, but to him. I cared for you He drew her toward blm, unresist ing, their gaxe still on each other. As from the first, there was no ahyness between them, but the strange, ex quisite understanding now made per fect "I was right to come to you," bo declared, after a time. "Right to fear that you were troubled, conscientious lady. But I must go back, or there will be a fine disturbance at the Beach. And I have shattered my oth er plans to Insignificant fragments, or you have. If I did not forget by moon light that you were Emily Ftrench, I certainly forgot everything else." She looked up at blm, her softly- tinted face bright as bis own, ber yel low balr rumpled Into flossy tendrils under the black ribbon binding It "Everything else?" she echoed. "Is there anything eUe but this?" "Nothing that counts, to me. You for my own, and this good world to live In I stand bareheaded before it all. But yet, I told you once that I bad a purpose to accomplish; a pur pose now very near completion. In a few months I meant to leave Ffrench wood." Emily rave a faint cry. "Yes. for my work would have been done. Then I fell In love and upset everything. When I tell Mr. Ffrench that I want you, I will have to leave at once." "Why? You said" "How brave are you, Emily?" he asked. "I said your uncle could not question my name or birth, but I did not say be would want to give you to me. Nor will he; unlesa I am mis taken. Are you going to be brave enough to come to me, knowing he Me of You." has no right to complain, since you and I together have given blm Dick?" "He does not know you; bow can you tell he does not like you?" she urged. "Do you think be likes 'Darling' Le strange of the race course?" The sudden keen demand discon certed her. "I hear a little down there," he added. "I have not been fortunate with your kinsman. No, It Is for you to say whether Ethan Ffrench's unjust caprice Is a bar between us. To me it Is none." (TO HE CONTINUED.! The Very Best Make. In the course of an after-dinner rpeech In praise of woman, Samuel Untcrniyer, the New York lawyer, said In Pittsburg: "A commercial traveler remarked the other day to a storekeeper: " 'Make yourself a Christmas pres ent of a cash register. It will keep strict end accurate account of all you receive and all you disburse. It will show what you save and what you squander, what In you spend foolish ly and what you spend wisely, where you should spread out and where you should retrench, what you waste and how you waste It' " 'But,' said the storekeeper, 'I've already got a cash register which doei all that and more.' "'Whose make Is Itr asked the salesman, frowning. "'God's make.' the storekeeper re plied; and with smile at once rev erent and gr&tetul be nodded toward bit handsome wlfa seated In the cash- lefe. jwge." IflRiigkosgpDSis Mnft ILjjksk9 mam i tiifi PALACE or VLRaAlUia ARKED Is the contrast be tween the turmoil that pre cedes the election of a pres ident In the United States and thocalra that accompanies :he choice of a president In France. The difference may be studied now, for on January 17, 1913, a new head of the French Republic will be chosen. The election of a president of the French Republic causes no commotion that can be compared with the excite ment of a presidential election in the United States. The event arouses in terest, of course, but the normal life of the nation Is In no way modified. Up to the present time a stranger vis iting France would not suspect from the newspapers or from public talk that the election was to be held with in a few weeks. If he stayed here long enough and visited certain cen ters be would hear whispers of plots rumors for Instance of a great Bona partlst demonstration to be made on election day. But beyond such things he would observe few Blgns that a presidential campaign was In prog ress. The excitement of the choice of a president Is mostly centered on the day of the election itself. Thus on the morning of January 17 next crowd ed trains will carry to Versailles, a town that teems with souvenirs of kingly pomp, the officials of the sen ate and chamber, members of the cab inet, cumbers of deputies and sena tors, a regiment of newspaper men and crowds of spectators which will be large or small according to the weather. Some forty Baudot trans mitters, thirty Hughes Instruments and about fifty telephones have been Installed In the old home of royalty for the occasion. Stately rooms once the salons of kings and queens re sound with a thousand imperative cllcklngs and tappings, and the whole palace, usually deserted and melan choly, la full of confusion. No doubt Versailles was chosen as the place for electing the republic's presidents to emphasize the lesson that the new order baa taken the place of the old and that the ceremony should be held In a solemn and fitting setting, far from popular uproar. At any rate a law passed In 1879 decrees that the national assembly shall meet In Ver sailles In a ball of the palace specially reserved as the congress hall. "Vote In Common." The national assembly Is, according to the French constitution, "a meet ing of the chamber of deputies and the senate to deliberate and vote tn common." This national assembly can only meet for two objects, to elect a president and to revise the constitu tion. When the presidency of the re public becomes vacant by death or resignation or any other cause the two bouses meet immediately and form an assembly to elect a new president. When there Is no vacancy but the seven years of the Incumbent are about to expire, as In the present case with President Fallleres, the national assembly must meet at least one month before the expiration of his term, and if the assembly Is not duly convoked the two houses must meet. In their own right, on the fifteenth day before the president's mandate expires. If the chamber of deputies should happen to be dissolved at the moment of the death or resignation of the president the senate must meet, In Its own right, and the cabinet, which ex ercises the executive power In the In terim, must convoke the electoral col leges to proceed to the election ot a new chamber of deputies. As there are 300 senators and al most 600 deputies, the national as sembly numbers 897 members. The NEVER WHOLLY GROWN UP True Man or Wortun Always Retains Something of Divine Childhood In ths Heart A recent magazine article. In ills- cupslng the bringing tip of children, said: "Finally each of us Is In some sense a child, and he who best un derstands tho child within him will most truly appreciate the boy nnd thn girl In tho home. It Is a truism thnt the household Is Incomplete without children, yet how often we regard rhll dren as If w were no longer children ourselves! He U not genuinely hu man who deems hlnmclf wholly grown up. It Is pride, a falso estimate put upon knowledge, dignity, position, or something of the sort, not actual ma turity or character Mi-.t puts a barrier In the way. When liam most a man then am I also a boy.f The most agreeaMe. the nicest old people, are not thoso who are childish. but those who arech;:-,"ke. There are any number of nrsn who are child ish when they are AS, and seem Tory el WKLRi PUEKDLNT' D E.LE.CTE.O president of the senate (now Antonln Dubost, a possible caudldutu) pre sides. When M. Kalllerva was elect ed on January 17, 1906, he received 439 votes, against 371 given to Paul Doumer, with a total ot 850 voters, so that be only obtained thirteen votes more than the absolute majority requi site for election. Luxurious Restaurant The life of tbe assembly on the day of a presidential election only begins after lunch. The president of tbe sen ate, the president of the chamber aud the ministers have many guests, aud as they are lodged for tbe day in the palace the ancient borne of kings be comes a luxurious restaurant, wherein many a vote la changed by a Judicious presentation of arguments over a meal of the highest excellence. Some days before the election all the re sources of the national warehouse, where all the nation's treasures In furniture are stored, are drawn upon to fit up apartments for these high officials who will use them for but a few hours. To the president of the assembly is allotted an entire sec ond story, with bedroom, as if be was going to stay days Instead of hours. He has sumptuous reception rooms at his disposal and a staff of servants of every kind. The assembly generally opens at one o'clock. The public galleries are then crowded. The president of the assembly takes his scat In an arm chair amid cheers from his admirers, although the presence of an opposi tion can always be detected. The secretaries of the senate tuko tholr places and the president declares the session open. He reads the ar ticle of the constitution by which the assembly Is created and the article which says that the president of tha republic shall be elected by an abso lute majority of the national assem bly for seven years and that he Is eligible for re-election. He then says: "I declare the national assembly duty constituted. The vote will take place at the tribune by calling the names." Letters of excuse from members un able to attend are read and the names of thirty-eight members to count the votes are drawn by lot. These pre liminaries being concluded a letter Is drawn by lot to designate the Initial at which the order of voting shall commence. Fast Work a Necessity. The fastest shorthand writing ever done, so It Is said, was sccompllshed by Nathan Hehrln, a New York court reporter, at a recent contest held by the National Shorthand Reporters' as sociation. He wrote 27S words a minute for five minutes This Is fast er than most people can talk; but then tho court stenographer must be prepared to meet and "take down" the exceptional witness with six cylinder verbal capacity His Pen Name. "Here!" cried the hotel clerk, glancing at the register where the new arrival had Just scrawled "No. 1523." "What's tho Idea?" "Oh, I beg your pardon!" explained tho ex-forger, as he corrected his so cial error. "That's my pen name." Judge. His Best. "He's a brute." "How so?" "When she promised to be his wife he said he would do everything In his power to make her happy." "Well?" "He spends nil of his time at the club!" "Well, If he Is really a brute that ought to help s'ome." childlike nt 4T, and seem delightfully young The grip of ago Is only fatal to a man of thn fifties when he has entirely lout the buoyancy of his own life, and a delight In It. as seen In all tho young life nbout him. When the play pplrlt of the world. Its Immortal youth. Is no pirt or lot of his, then Is he old, centuries old If he has a cer tified place or position he Is all right, but thnre are no further successes for him. Youth Is abundant. It has an excess of energy which will out While a man retains some of his youth ho may conquer more worlds, and he can associate, on equal terms, with those who have abounding life, those who know exuberant happiness, and are ever hopeful and Joyful To Exterminate Vermin. Mix and let staid for several hours one half gallon of gasoline and ten centa" worth of corrosive sublimate. I'nt the mixture Into a pint oil can, with a long spout, and spray Into ev ery place where there are bugs. Air tue ro.jn horoughly. After few ap plications the vermin will bay entire . I RFflTUR SAYS $1,000 IS NOT ENOUGH 111 I II :y or within the son. of high price, that always surround a bU I c J . verhead. L I.. Is far enough away from New ork no to be m.c 7 tronolltan prices and If llev. Mr. Hhaw ha. bis rectory city Itlv metropolitan prices ami u itev. mr. ,', ., n,r. deceutly upon i. hi.. .... I ... ii.iMt.-ra I then he ought to lls "'7 i.rg 1 1 . no mi.ni hi. salary, whether ho Is married or not. ,irratd as "There I. a common Impression that clr "" ' . whole, but I think that all in all they are paid as well M the memo most of the professions or vocations . . . "The average young lawyer, or doctor, or bank clerk has a much har.l. r tu. . w .h. (). vninm minister, can strike for what they want." make a living In the professions, are much greater tnnn ... , the ministry It Is true, however, that the cost of living ha. Inrrr.. -4 w that a dollar Is worth about half of what It was twenty years . ''" ir rease In salaries l.ns not nearly kept pace with the inrrenaml cost or fil ing among the average 'middle class' professional men. Tne suiari . laborers have been Increased more In proportion, because they are uunu anu CHARLES S. WHITMAN WARMLY PRAISED Warmest praise from the bench, bar and forum have recently been showered upon Charles S Whitman, district attorney of New York city, as a tribute to his victory over the alliance of police power nnd gambling In the conviction of Charles Decker. 'The moBt notable victory of law and order In our generation In New York," were the words of a telegram to Mr. Whitman from a famous Amer ican author, and they were the key note of the great heap of telegrams of congratulation which kept his dusk covered for several days. They were echoed In the words of the thousand others -physicians. clergymen, merchants, bunkers and professional men, some who knew him only by sight, who rushed up to grip his hand and tell lilm how they valued what he had done to stump graft into the earth and ring the doom of lawlessness and band vio lence. Some of them told him that they had prayed fur him and righteousness In his glorious undertaking Their pious thanksgiving was one extreme of the reult of ll.cker's conviction which spread through tho wholo city, tt.urhlng evsry walk of life. In the haunts of crime the effect was most notable. In tho prisons th criminals were struck with terror. Tho cheers they had prepared to greet llecker's acquittal turned to thn frightened chatter of tho thugs In the Tomb, some of them awaiting a similar fate for playing the purt of tool In the murder plot which flecker conceived and directed. The thugs knew best of all perhaps how great were thn diincultlr that Mr. Whitman faced and overcame almost single-handed In his hattln to re deem New York from the stigma cast upon her throughout th world by the marvellous story of tho murder of Rosenthal as from day to 1y it grew and stretched Into high and low places. There was not a tear In It. irtit no story of crime has ever held so long thn place it hold In the newsapper. which rv fleet public Interest and give room and prominence only to what the publlo wants to read. NAZIM PASHA, TURKEY'S GENERALISSIMO utumn maneuvers, lie of the grand the teaching he received at the great French school, and. In, , attribute. to It tho high rank to which In. was advanced. Ills remarkable intlu.t.r,. over the Turkish rnnk nnd file was manifested during the ,wr, t,,w( . April 1.1 and 23. 1309, when his appeals to the mutinous soldiers saved V, t stantlncplo from plunder. Recent dispatches would Indicate a il-c,,o of hi. great popularity. Only n few days ngo In his dally olhrlnl dispatch I... I ported that his soldlors would not fight, saying: "My sword hi s melted i my hand." 1 M EH MED V. IS A MOST KINDLY MONARCH With his empire apparently totter lng about bis ears and his intotiragn preparing to fleo across the !n.iporus to ese.npn tho vengeance of I'.iilgnrlnn swordtf, It Is Interesting to nolo the personality of Sultan Mi hmed V, who will likely go down Into history ns tho last Turkish monarch to reign In Kurnpo. I'robably no morn kindly nionnrch exl-its anywhere In Kurope, none who thlnkB more of tils subjects' welfare and less of himself. Thn sultan Is rn membered by those who have met him by Ills benign smile, with which hn favors all, from the highest to the lowest. Ho has a melancholy, medi tative face, but those who nttend him heir no harsh words, shrink from no sullen commands, as did those who attended his predecessors. Tho sultan rises soon after dawn nnd when his attendants bring hltn thn habitual cup of delicious Arabian mocha ho smiles to them and whis pers: "Aiinn be praised rj There is somethln f smile, since It seems' course of th!" rer p " "Ifts." ...I ....i.tii u an !'.- that salary depend, entire y up... cum.ta.ue. Th.cost of living for else, depends . , . - .. . . anvotie minister, nm ' - -inula ....... hrt la married or single. and the failures, wno " L . , v - ."i 1 At the outbreak of the Turko Ila'kan war there Kim. unc,P. lalftty as to the precis commands of the various Turkish generals. The chief command of tho Ottoman forces In Europe was assumed by Nazlm I'nuha. the minister of wnr He re ceived his early training at Ht. Cyr the famous Frenrh military school! Ho Is now sixty four )..Br old. but full of vigor and conMderi-d an'nliU soldier. All Rlza I'aslu. according to thn best sources of Information, was made commander rf i, Turkish western army He as trained the German school. Mahtnud Hhevket i astia was pui in command Turkish forces operating Bervla. ot thn agalniit Nazlm I'asha was spoken of as "the Turkish Kltihensr." He was ono of the most brilliant pupil at Ht Cyr. From tlmn to time he has v'l Ited Franen, and on more t,an one occasion was an Interested spectator ha often exurenet m. . III. t,rln .. .. . countr ire J7 11.000 . y.'ur 1 "o Vhurch TiX U. w. re- -.hough, of court .,.i..lHt..r could '''"r,bl' .T " .... A Mrti1 ran in . i- I ft --. a an Bff.1(l of Oriental fatalistic kismet I w. t-.,A1 1 Thar are ( man who are ly disappeared.
