day it's truth. Deicrulx. iti the night I'd spring up thinking he was tu the room, and then I would go blind like I did on the dsy he sailed away and By DOLIOLAS MALLOCH left me nt the Horae Shoe Shoal. "Something seemed to have pulled me to IHuemud Bay. It waa the last spot HIM wns his greatness; he com I expected to find him. and when the old lugger caught my eye I couldn't hlned Vision and Judgment, fact and desumi believe that he wns still on her. When away and followed, gradually closing CHAPTER XIV—Continued. McKns of the coni hulk told me thnt Ills was the truly balanced mind. By LEROY WALLINGFORD Copyright by Irving Bachelier In upon his quarry. When they were —14— he still run her, I nearly went ernsy, Not skeptical, nor yet extreme. well away from the fire. Jack earns Their mission finished, that evening । nnd the hours between then and sunset No thinker quicker cuught the gleam Jack and Solomon called at General I his company had captured a number of close and called, “Bill I" Of new born stars In humun skies. were years of misery. The sentln«*! stopped and faced Washington's headquarters. "I pulled ovsr after nundown, and And yet he tested star nnd stream. The price of * drop of men In a skirmish. be- “General. Doctor Franklin told us ' “Captain, you have done well,” said about. imetlrnee high, though It was dark when I came under the On earth nnd heave* kept hla eyes. "You've forgotten something," said to turn over the bosses and wagons to the general. "1 want to make a scout bown Things seemed to be coir Ing dltlona In th you," said Solomon. “He didn’t tell of you. In our present circumstances Jack. In a genial tone. my way at last. When I started to ’liila was his greatness: lie could be that thara ara only a faw million "What Is it?” us what to do with ourselves 'cause It's about the moat Important. danger Leader and comrade, master, man; quarta of corn derivativ« laft In climb the chains every smell that "Your caution," Jack answered, with tha lea cheat The war haa nothin« •twasu't nec'sary an' he knew IL We ous and dltficuit work there Is to be (drifted over Horae Shoe Shoul came He wore the robe of dignity, to do with thia caae. bls pistol against the breast of his en want to enlist." With human brotherhood his plan. to me again, and my bruin started to done here, especially the work which emy. “1 shall have to kill you Tf you | “For what term?" He was the first American. dig out all the pretty little pictures Solomon Blakus undertook to do. call or fall to obey me. Give me the HALMEIIN moved hurriedly out “Till the Britlah are licked." thut he used to paint about the times A pattern for a nation now. There Is no other In whom I should rifle and go on ahead. When I say gee of the path of u wave that “Tou are the kind of men I need." have so much confidence. Majo* Bart Ills soul ns large as heaven's span, swept proudly over the dump we would have In Lonsdale atreoL I go to the righty haw to the left." said Washington. “I shall put you on Illa heart ns tender as Its dew. felt good, Delcrolx. lett knows the pure of the Une which murk made by Its predeeeas<»r. So the capture was made, and on the acout duty. Mr. Irons will go Into my “I got a ahock when I touched the Colonel Blnkus traversed. He will be way out Jack picked up the sentinel and the waves gurgled pleasantly us If regiment of sharpshooters with the going,out that way tomorrow I should who stood watting to be relieved and moused ut the beui-hcomber's haste. deck. A woman rone out of the shallow This win his greatness: Washington rank of captain. You have told me of Met strength with strength, yet could like you, sir, to go with him. After took both men into camp. The movemftht aroused Delcrolx, and und caught me by the arm. 'Doctor r his training In Philadelphia." be kind she asked, and before I could answer one trip I shall be greatly pleased If he followed the example of his partner From documents on the person of So the two friends were enlisted you are capable of doing the work one of these young Britishers It ap by rolling over the hot sand as the tide she was leading me dawn the atnira Without the look of weakness one and began service In the army of Who firmness, gentleness, combined. to the cabin, the stairs thut I hud alone." peared .that General Clarke was In crept stealthily In. Washington. His was the truly balunced mind Orders were delivered and Jaek re command of a brigade behind the lines, , The silence w as Intense. It seemed been up and down ten thousand times A letter from Jack to his mother ported to Bartlett, an agreeable, mid which Jack had been watching and to rise out of the panting oceun, n before. I knew then thut it was he. That none could flatter nor defame | dated July 2S. 1775. la full of the camp To glory and ambition blind. dle-aged fanner-soldier, who had been rubbing. smothering Influence that choked the She took me up to the bunk, and there He won. unaought. n deathless name. color: he was tossing In a fever und curelng on scout duty since July. They left “General Charles Lee Is In command When Jack delivered hla report the weird notes of the wood pigeons and tn ull the dialects of Polynesia. camp together next morning an hour of my regiment." he writes, "lie Is a chief called him a brave lad and said: hushed the cicadas that sent shrill, “The doctor stunt suited me when rough, slovenly old dog of a man who j before reveille. They had an unevent "It is valuable Information you have needle-like noises from the green I saw the condition he was In. The ful day. mostly In wooded fiats and vines musses over which the lawyer seems to bark at us on the training ' woman hadn't slept for three nights, ridges, and from the latter looking brought V. me. Do not speak of It Let crept like a living net. ground. He has two or three hunting me warn you, captain, that from now so I sent her away. und sut down to across with a spy-glass Into Brutelaml. your "Go on. ” murmured Delcrolx ; dogs that live with him In his tent and on they will try to trap you. I’erhapa, as they called the country.held by the pauses would lead anyone to think you watch him. Somebody has sutd that also a rare gift of profanity which Is British, and seeing only, now and then, even, you may look for daring enter were making up the yarn us you went the world Is only u kraal, und It with him everywhere—save at head prises on that part of their Une." seemed like It to me Just then Some an enemy picket or distant camps quarters. The general was right. The young along.” He spoke Irritably, as If the times us 1 watched him I forgot all About midday they sat dowh In a silence that flung Itself upon them each "Today I saw these notices posted In thicket together for a bite to eat nnd scout ran into a most daring and suc time that Chalmers stopped talking about the hunt of the previous ten camp: cessful British enterprise on the twen months and thought we were back IS IT KISSAM? hud upset his nerves. “ 'Punctual attendance on divine a whispered conference. piling that black-lip shell Into the “Blnkus. as you know, hud his own tieth of January. The snow had been The sun-tanned features of hi« com service Is required of all not on actual swept away In a warm ruin and the lugger nt the reef. way of scouting," said the major. "He HERE seems to he much difference duty.' ground had frozen bare, or It would panion wrinkled into a cynical sneer. “About midnight he became con- was an Indian tighter. He liked to get “Perhaps I am making It up." he “ 'No burning of the pope allowed.' of opinion and uncertainty concern not have been possible. Jack had got ecloua, and then he made a motion for inside the enemy lines and Ite close an ’ said, quietly. “Sometlmes- sometimes “ 'Fifteen stripes for denying duty.’ Ing the surname Klssatn. However, to a strip of woods In a lonely bit of wuter. It wus In it bottle on the table, watch 'em an' tnebbe hear what they “ Ten for getting drunk.’ country near the British lines and was when I tell It to anyone like I nui and It was us warm ns Torres Strnits then' Is no uncertainty concerning the " Thirty-nine for stealing and de were talking about. Now an' then he climbing a tall tree to take observa telling It to you, 1 wonder If I didn't on n midsummer day. Would you have fact that the family founded In would surprise a British sentinel and sertion.’ tions when he saw a movement on the read it In a book years ugo, and Just given 1dm You this country by one John Kissmil, disarm him an' bring him Into camp. ” “Rogues are put In terror, lazy men He stopped fooled myself into the belief thut It wouldn't I Well. 1 didn't like to give born In UM4. who mude bis home tn Jack wondered that his friend had ground beneath http. are energized. The quarters are kept and quickly discovered that the tree huppened to me." so I offered to sell It to him. Itu-hlng. I. I It la not known where He puused for an Instunt nnd mois It to him, clean, the food Is well cooked and In never spoken of the capture of prison was surrounded by British soldiers. 1'hnt Is, some nuthorl- recognise me till 1 told him lie was born He didn't ers. plentiful supply, but the British over One of them, who stood with a raised tened his dry lips. 'Ten drops of water In ex- ties say that he was horn In Englund, the price. "He was a modest man. ” said the "That's a He!” he cried shnrply, tn town are said to be getting hungry.” while others say he wus u native of rifle, called to him: turning suddenly upon his companion change for u pearl,’ I said, mid then Amsterdam. Holland. nnd others have Early in August a London letter yoang scou'. "Irons. I will trouble you to drop he began to underutand thnt Fate hud “He didn't want the British to know as If lie would destroy the doubt occa was forwarded to Jack from Philadel It that be was a Huguenot from Mont your pistols and come down at once." run him up against something." phia. He was filled with new hope where Solomon Blnkus was at work, peller, France. It would be Interest Jack saw that he bad run Into an sloned by his Inst remark. "This Is Delcrolx laughed grimly. "A stHT and I guess he was wise," said the as he read these Unes: ing for some member of the Klssmu ambush. He dropped his pistols and the truth! 1 never think that 1 rend price," he murmured. "Dearest Jack: I am sailing for major. “I advise against taking the came down. He had disregarded the it, not this yarn. Delcrolx! 1 know fnmlly to trace to Its source em-h one “ Stiff I" shrieked Chalmers. “ Was It Boston on one of the neat troop ships chances that he took. It ain't neces warning of the general. He should that—that this thing—Where did I of these traditions. stiff? You have no imagination. Why sary. You would be caught much to join my father. So when the war have been looking out for an ambush. stop? Oh, 1 remember! Well, our It waa a bargain sale price after what The fact thut the Klaauma were al ends—God grant it may be soon—you sooner than he wns." A squad of five men stood about him three Kling divers muzzled the slit I had suffered! ways strong”suplH>rlers of the English That day Bartlett took Jack over near the Horse Shoe Shoal for weeks, will not have far to go to find me. with rifles In hand. Among them was "He refused to buy for two hours, or Episcopal church certainly suggests Perhaps by Christmas *time we may Solomon's trail and gave him the lay Lionel Clarke, his right sleeve empty. und we piled black-lip shell Into the and then hl» thirst got the better of that they were English rather than of the land and much good advice. A be together. Let us both pray for “We’ve got you at last—you d—d hold by the ton. God. It wns rich! him. I didn’t think he hnd the grit Hollanders, though there ure some In We'd sit of a night on the deck of that that Meanwhile, I shall be happier young man of Jack’s spirit, however, rebel!" said Clarke. stances of families of Dutch name old lugger while the smell of half the that he showed then. His Ups were having become devoted Episcopalians. for being nearer you and for doing is apt to have a degree of enterprise "I suppose you nee-1 some one to black, and bls curses Just rnn Into a and self-confidence not easily con world's nations drifted over the tropic what I can to heal the wounds made swear at," Jack answered. long gurgle because his tongue couldn’t •Sometimes the fact that the head of by this wretched war. I am going to trolled by advice. He had been travel “And to stioot at." Clarke suggested. seas, and we'd drentu of what we'd do hack them Into word lengths. Then 1 the family married women of that with out profits. He'd do the picturing be a nurse in a hospital. You see the “I thought that you would not care put up the price. ’Five drops for n church led to the future alliance of truth is that since I met you, I like for another match with me," the young — ‘.hat's why I hated him so much pearl.’ I asld. and he nodded his head the family with that church. all men better, and I shall love to be scout remarked as they began to move afterwards. toward a black box In the corner of the It Is also recalled thut the Klaaama “I remember those nights. The dark trying to relieve their sufferings. . . ." away. cabin, and let me see that the key wus were strong Tories In the Revolution, ness Just snesked down from Asia like It was a long letter but above Is as "Hereafter you will be treated like under his pillow. u fact that has been cited In proof of much of It as can claim admission to a rebel and not like a gentleman," a drifting blanket, nnd the yell of ‘There were 57 beauties In the little the English origin of the fnmlly. But Javanese from the prahu fleet would these pages. Clarke answered. sting the silence like a whip. Ever hag, and I laid them out near the this might be explained In another “Wno but she could write such a “What do you mean?" water bottle ao that he could see thnt way. The Klsanms were from the first letter?” Jack asked himself, and then “I mean that you will be standing, listen to the cities calling In the night, I was acting honest. I measured out persons of prominence In Queens coun Delcrolx? Clink of glasses, kid ’ s prat he held It to his Ups a moment. It blindfolded against a wall." five drops of the warm liquid and gave ty. Long Island, nnd Intermarried with tle. sound of shoes on the pavement, thrilled him to think that even then ’That kind of a threat doesn't scare Hewlett, and the laugh of women—It Just gets It to him, then 1 put one of the pearls the Whitehead, she was probably In Boston. In the me,” Jack answered. “We have too tent where he and Solomon lived when Into your breast like an Iron bund und back Into the bag mid put the bag Into Trendwell, Combs. Van Brunt. Vander many of your men In our hands.” twists your heart strings till you choke my pocket. He bought again In five bilt nnd other prominent families tn they were both in camp, he found the minutes, then he bought ten dropa In nnd about New York city. scout. The night before Solomon had for breath.” CHAPTER XV * A big wave slipped forward quietly one lot, and then fifteen, and then slept out Now he had built a small Semple—There Is no doubt that this twenty. Ever hear of wuter going at and slopped over the bare feet fire in front of the tent and lain down Is derived from an earlier form of sur I was honest. I only In Boston Jail. two beachcombers, and I>elcrulx cursed thut price? But on a blanket, having delivered hla re name. St. Paul. This sort of contrac Jack was marched under guard took the price I had fixed, and M they rolled out of Its path. port at headouarters. tion of a saint's name was quite usual. an extra large pearl Into the streets of Boston. Church there was when, "It was on one blazing hot day In ‘‘Margaret Is in Boston," said Jack Holland -At first sight you might measure to make up bells were ringing. It was Sunday 1 gave 1dm good September that he cut loose,” con as soon as he entered, and then stand suppose that the first to bear this morning. Young Clarke came with for It tinued Chalmers. “ I pulled across to ing In the firelight read the letter to name was a native of the Netherlands, the guard beyond the city limits. They “I cautioned him against extrava a whaleboat on the other side of the his friend. but It Is un English name derived had seemed to be very careless tn the reef, and coming back I was Just gance when he bought a spoonful of from a small place In Lancashire "Thar Is a real, genewine, likely control of their prisoner. They gave lift, and I thought he the stuff In one dreaming of wheat fields nnd orange gal,” said the scout called Holland. him every chance to make a break for groves two thousand miles away us 1 would expire In an apoplectic tit. He “I wish there were some way of liberty. Jack was not fooled. Maud—This Is clearly n metronymic. spluttered that much that he lost half stuck the oars Into that sea of melted getting to her," the young man re Is a surname derived T see that you want to get rid of glass. Then I sort of woke up and of his purchase, and he hnd to repent That Is to sny. It marked. me,” said Jack to the young oflher. from the mother rather than from the the order. No goldfield shanty ever looked around. The old lugger was “Might as well think o' goln' to h—I “You’d like to have me run a race squelching down the sens, nnd that did a trade like mine that night In father. an’ back ag’ln," said Solomon. “Since with your bullets. That is base in* Lowe—This Is usually a German- swine wus rushing round helping the Bluemud bay. D'ye think I was get Bunker Hill the British are like a lot gratitude. I was careful of you when Jewish name nnd. of course, Is from ting a good return for thut pull after Klings to spread more cloth. ing alone for three days when he felt o' hornets. I run onto one of ’em to we met and you do not seem to know the word meaning lion In German. “Do you know how those little puffs the lugger? day. He .fired at me an’ didn't hit a the need of more exciting action. That It” "He swilled the lot away Inside About a hundred yenrs ng», when Ger of nlr race round In the tropics? ’God’s thing but the air an’ run like a scared night he crossed the Charles river on “I know how well you can shoot" breaths' the Orang Lauts call 'em. three hours, und when he saw the lust man Jews were required by Inw to rabbit. Could 'a' killed him easy but the Ice in s snowstorm and captured a Clarke answered. “But you do not They hit a boat every five minutes pearl go he lost consciousness again adopt a definite surname, many took I kind o’ enjoyed seeln' him run. He sentinel and brought him back to know how well I can shoot.” and leave a stillness after them that nnd started to babble about the profits names of animals nnd birds, ns Adler, were like chain llghtnln' on a greased camp. “And when I learn, I want to have a Soon after that the daring spirit of gives you a cold shiver. Well, the that he made on the trip when I had Engle, Hirsch, Hart and Wolf. pole—you bear to me.” fair chance for my life." (® by McClur« N»w,p«p«r Syndleat« ) lugger wns getting those little whiffs the half share. I left him then. I “If the general will let me, I’m go the youth led him into a great adven ----------O----------- Beyond the city limits young Clarke, now nnd then, so I put after h« r. I tip-toed quietly up the stairs and ing to try spy duty and see If I can ture. It was on the night of January can feel that pull now. Every ray of slipped down the chains into the boat. get Into town and out again," he pro fifth that Jack penetrated the British who was then a captain, left them, lines in a snowstorm and got close to and Jack proceeded with the others. the yellow sun went through my hack Half way across the bay I ran Into a posed. £*he Young Lady The streets were quiet—Indeed al like a poisoned arrow, and the reflec dingy carrying the doctor from the “You keep out o’ that business,” an outpost in a strip of forest. There CP Acrow the Way most deserted. There were no chil tion on the oily waters blinded me. He mission schooner, nnd I was so darned said Solomon. “They's t>o many that a camp fire was burning. He came dren playing on the common. A crowd could have potted me with a gun at pleased over the night’s business that know ye over In town. The two close. His garments had been whitened times when I gained on the boat, but I directed him to the lugger which his Clarkes an’ their frier Is an’ Colonel by the storm. The air was thick with was coming out of one of the churches. he didn't. He Just raced round spread two Kanaka boys had been trying to Hare an' his friends, an' Cap. Preston, snow, bls feet were muffled In a foot In the midst of It the prisoner saw Ing more cloth, and Just when 1 thought And for the previous three hours. an' a hull passle. They know all of It. He sat by a stump scarcely Pyeston and Lady Hare. They were there was a chance of getting aboard, Then people tell you there Is no such 'bout ye. If you got snapped, they'd twenty feet from the fire, seeing those so near that he could have touched one of those little puffs would get thing as luck.” stan’ ye ag’ln' a wall an put ye out o’ In Its light, but quite invisible. There them with his hand as he passed. They tangled up In the sails, and the old Delcrolx burled his legs In the warm the way quick. It would be pie for he could distinctly hear the talk df the did not see him. He noted the name lugger would roll away like a drunken sand nnd sat looking out to sen. the Clarkes, an' the ol' man Hare Britishers. It related to a proposed of the church and Its minister. In a few minutes he was delivered at the wouldn’t spill no tears over It. Cap. evacuation of the city by Howe. “What did you do with the loot?” he thing. “I'm weary of starving to death In Jail—a noisome, lll-smelllng, badly “I don't know how far I followed naked, after a long pause. Preston couldn't save ye. that's sartln. him. After a time I couldn't see, but No, sir, I won't Tow It. They’s plenty this God-forsaken place,” said one of ventilated place. "The loot?” cried Chalmers, "1 The yard was an opening walled In them. "You can't keep an army with I kept on pulling. I wns blinded with went down to Peterson's—Oh, what’s o’ old cusses fer such work.” the glare from that red painted ocean, the use of telling now. The loot? For a time Jack abandoned the Idea, out meat or vegetables. I've eaten fish by the main structure and its two wings and a wooden fence some fif and every time I dipped the oars I D—n It, It was mine I I couldn't hold but later, when Solomon failed to re till I'm getting scales on me.” “Colonel Riflington says that the teen feet high. There wusTt ragged, screamed In agony. Once I was quite It, though. What did 1 do with It? turn from a scouting tour and a re near. I could hear him yelling nt the You're an Idiot, Delcrolx. You're an port reached camp that he was cap army will leave here within a fort dirty rabble of "rebel" prisoners, among whom was Solomon Blnkus all crew, then he seemed to understand Infernal Idiot!” He stood up and tured, the young man began to thin'; night." another observed. It was Important Information which out for an airing. The old scout had from my actions that I couldn't see. brushed the sand from his tattered of that rather romantic plan again. and he stopped talking, und all I trousers, then turned and swung down He had grown a full b ard; hla skin had come to the ear of the young scout. lost flesh and color. He held Jack's could henr wus the creaking of the the trull towards the cluster of huts was tanned; bls cloth s were worn The talk was that of well-bred Eng- hand and stood for a moment without speaking. ropes as the old tub got the wind near which the beche-de-mer fleet lay and torn and faded Ills father, who llshmen who were probably officers. (TO BE CONTINUED.) “We ought not to speak of those again. had visited the camp bringing a sup at anchor. “I wns picked up by a trepang-laden ply of clothes for hla son, had failed, matters aloud,” one of them remarked. Hit Letton Went Wrong proa bound for Macassar, and that kept “Some d—d Yankee may be listening at first, to recognize him. Wrong Ideat About Doga The teacher was trying to Impress me three months off his trail. It was December had nrrived. The general like the one we captured.” Many people pamper their dogs “He was Amherst's old scout,” said on the children how Important had three months of hell* for me. Then I was having his first great trial in started out to bent the coast from against colds. If a dog has not had keeping an army about him. Terms another. "He swore a blue streak been the discovery of the law of grav Thursday Island to Cape Otway In distemper care In this respect Is ad of enlistment wore expiring. Cold when we shoved him Into Jail. They itation. "Sir Isaac Newton was sitting on search of him, and every day made me visable, but ordinarily dogs are not af weather had come. The camp was un don't like to be treated like rebels. fected by the germa of colds. Another the ground looking at the tree. An comfortable. Re^ ments of the home They want to be prisoners of war.” more eager. A young man came along with his apple fell on bls h^ad, and from that “I thought I saw him a score of curious belief Is that a dog's ailments sick lads of Nev r.ngtand were leav he discovered gravitation. Just think, times. The swine’s face sprang from can be contracted by human beings. ing or preparing to leave. Jack and a rifle on his shoulder. "Hello, Bill!” said one of the men. children,” she added, “Isn't that won my brain onto the heads of people that This Is true only In the case of certain number of young ministers in the serv The young lady across the way says derful ?" didn't resemble him In the slightest. skin troubles. Even more curious la ice organized a campaign of persua "Going out on post?” The Inevitable small boy replied: "I am, God help me," the youth an Ever have that happen to you? At the belief that In what are known as sho supposes the shipping Interests sion and many v ore prevailed upon Keppel Bay I clutched a pearling skip the "dog days"—the first fortnight In will get on their feet before long to ro-enllst. But hundreds of boys swered. “It’s what I'd call a h—I of “Yea, miss, an' If he had been Bittin' In school lookin’ at his books ho per who had a beard like his, and I August—a dog Is liable to go mad. now, since It’s definitely settled that were hurrying homeward on the frozen a night.” The sentinel passed close by Jack on wouldn't never have discovered noth got a knife In the ribs for my foolish There Is no cause for such a superstl- they don’t have to pay any subsidy. roads. (® by McClurs »'«wipapar Syn-Ucst«.) ness. I.piit.hU» .« times a tiua. Ono day Jack was sent for. He and his way to his post. The latter crept in’.” In the Days of Poor Richard By IRVING BACHELLER* THE PRICE OF HATE WASHINGTON T l]our Last Rame T