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la my heart, though, Indeed, I pretend ed to father that I had forgotten ho ex isted. But tho next Instaut Bcskl had dropped down on ono kuee, taking my hand and kissing It. , , , , "I am a dog, Fraulelul" ho said sim ply. "I- did not tuink of what I spoke. But It is tho thing for which i forgot nil else to meet this man yho killed my son. For your father and yourself, have uo fear. It Is 1 tlmt will vor watch. You trust lne, Frnuloln "Indeed, Beski, I do," I answered him; and ho we parted. (To bo continued.) MISTAKES OF RUSSIAN POLICE. Canr'a Law Olllccri lJccliircl lo o The Trail of the Dead: THE STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF DR. ROBERT HARLAND By B. f LETCHER ROBINSON art J. MALCOLM fRASER (Copyright, 1003, tty Joseph B. Bowlc) CHArTEIl XXIII. (Continued.) "Wo shall soon hnvc news," he said quietly. "For Information thnt will lead to his arrest, I have offered the police, here nnd on the contlneut, a reward of five thousand pounds." He spoke the truth. Xowscamo noon, Indeed. Wo were lunching together In Graden b chambers on tho fourth day after their departure, when the telegram arrived. My cousin opened It. Aa he read, I saw the line of his jaw set and harden. Then he handed it across tho table. This was the message: "Fear wo are In great peril. Come at once. Weston." The realization of those words must have come to me slowly, for It was Gra den's hand on my arm that woke me from tho stupor Into which I had fallen. Even then I could hardly understand. Thero Is a train at two-twenty," said he. "Can you be ready in five minutes?" "But how can the man how can Maraac have discovered where they nre?" 1 stammered. 'In five minutes, I said!" he barked out. "1'ou have no tlmo to waste." W'e had still a quarter of an hour to np.ire when our cab rattled over tho cobbles of the station-yard. While my cousin took the tickets, I stood at the bookstall, staring at the backs of the nov els, with that call for help twisting in a ilreary chant through my head. "In preat peril. Come at once," so it ran, over and over again. Several passing strangers turned and regarded me curi ously over their shoulders. I do uot think we spoke more than once before reaching Dover. I asked if he had telegraphed a reply. He had done so. he said, at Channg Cross. There was a brisk sea running In the Channel, but I felt no sickness. Indeed the passage did me good; for I behaved quite sanely as we passed our bags through the Calais customs. Into the train again, and on' Into the night that had fallen. I had a sleeping berth reserved in the wagon-lit, but I did not visit it. Sometimes a fury of 1m- nntipnrfi seized me. so that I paced the corridor, peering out into the moonlit country that went sliding by, in its never- vnrvinz sentience of nlam and woouianu nnd steeple-crowned village; but, for the most part, I sat huddled In my cnair thinking. Heaven help us! What tor ture an active mind inflicts upon poor humanity! Gfant a man the imagina tion of an ox. and many are the woes he will be spared! Dawn stole out on us at Basle, and we stood upon the platform, our faces shnwlnff n.ile In the tinted curtain of the pky that hung above the snow-clad ridges to the westward. The air was very cum, but not with the English bitterness in its brenth. We hnd half an hour to wait Graden despatched a second telegram to Pontre- Rtn.i. mnrkine the nrozress oi our jour- uey. He also wired to Thusis, ordering p. carriage to meet our train. nriAPTER XXIV. The sun was up, very red and bold, as we passed through Zurich; and where it .touched the great lake, the waters shone scarlet as blood under the slanting rays. tw,, thn Una were heaving upward, growing mightier every hour, with the plnuncles of their strange frost kingdoms blushing in the early suusume. tj '.l- linrt left the open couutry, :., int n Inbvrinth of valleys .i nine, waiting black and -:i..f tiioir nnw carnets. scorea wun . o.wi nntehed with frozen tarns, -v.;- u.-. renehed bv half-past one, and the narrow gauge of the Thusis line car ried us through meadows and brushwood l-,,l,ggl.. until we crossed the upper ti.: r.,i ,irow into the station which t . .,,ia, the Miff bastions, outworks B DCl uuuvt ww - - It was then three of the clock. There -were still forty miles left of our journey n ten hours' drive over the passes to .!. .Itatnnt TCllfTilfllllC. 4 r.ni with three horses was wait i . ny r,ier without the station, r ,i u nt nnro. aud the driver strung his team into the T efenkas ell road. Fifty francs from bradeii lino im pressed him with the necessity for haste, ... nml was insufferably tedi ous. Once across the bridge, we dropped into a walk, while our straining team i.envilv ud the pass of bchyn. To our left the ridge barred the view; but on the right,- narrow valleys sliced deep into the glittering heights above gave us ii.f f he statclv peaKS mai uenu the eastern sky. In an hour w bad entered the forest of Versasca for such. I have lenrneu, is us namt anu nn through the dismal ave- .,. r.f tines till we passed through gal leries and tunnels, hewn deep in the cliff side, out into the barren snow fields once again. The sun was setting as we rattled over the pavement of the hill village of net cnkastell, that crouciieu in uio biiuuuw f the Albula Gorge. The dying ray struck fiercely on the distant peaks, un til those pale ice maidens found rosy Mii.imi for such reckless gallantry. It nvn n snectaclo of infinite grandeur, and despite my impatience, I leaned from tho window watching tho light fade and whiten into tho opals or tue arter-giow, "Wo ean thank our luck that there's t moon," said my cousin, as I drew back w mv eorner. "These drivers know the road like u book, but I should like fniinw to see where lies going in tho Berguner Stein." "Is It dangerous?" "A leiiiro for a carriago way, and for a ditch on the near side, is not particularly pleasant for the nerves van rnn't see your uunu uui" . livii J v - - you." 'Vnii have been here before, then?" "Oh, yes!" he snld, and so wo fell iuto fdleuce., It wag past six o'clock when wo left villain- .a tlnv srroun of deep-eaved houses, and dropped dowu tho hillside to the stream. As we rose the further slopo through a wood of scattered pines, tho moon camo peering out from behind two bare and lofty peaks that towered above us Into tho southern night, lighting their Icy summits so that they glittered like blades of polished steel. It was a scone of such melancholy desolation that aa our horses halted on tho crest of tho hill, I lowered the window, thrusting out my head for a better view. In front of us the white road curled down into a gorge, an ink-black wedge of shadow that drove Into the dlstanco between silver cliffs bright with tho moonlight Is this tho placo you spoko of?" I asked. It's the Uerguner Stein, If It's that you want to kuow," growled my cousin from amongst his wraps. "Also, 1 wish ou would have the goodness to shut that window." But the remembrance of what he had told ine about the dangers of tho place sent my eyes to the driver's box. 'As I was leaning from the left-hand window, I did not expect to see more than tho fellow's hat; but, to my surprise, thero he was well In view, his coat huuuieu about his ears. As we moved forward, the mystery explained itself. The man saw was not driving. "We'vo taken up a passenger, Cousin Graden," said I, pulling In my head. "What's that?" ho asked sharply, tor my voice had been lost in the loud com plaining of the brakes as we trotted down the decline. "The driver's giving a friend a lift, I Cr'.ed, leaning towards him. "I supposo he picked him up at the last vniage, where " I reached no further, for at that in- stant there rose from witnout a cry or such utter terror that I sank back into my place as if struck In the face by a crushing blow.. I saw a falling body Hash bv the right-hand window; the out cry of tho brakes ceased with a grating clang. And then, with a bound like that of a leaping horse, the great post-carriage rushed roaring down the hill. I thrust out my neau, clinging to me sills of the open window. The man upon the box seat was lash ing the horses so that they sprang for ward in furious bounds. Even as I watched, he cast away his whip with a peal of wild laughter that sounded-high above tho turmoil of the flying hoofs and tho heavy wheels. He turned his head, bending sidewnys, the reins held loosely In his right hand. It was tho race or Maniac that stared down upon me. His hat had gone, his white hair streamed backward in the wind. And he was mad mad with an open insanity of which I had observed no trace be fore. He shrieked at me in triumph, waving his hand now to the horses, now to tho chasm beyond the four-foot wall that guarded the road. He cursed me with furious gesticulations. Even as I write. I seem to see those eyes staring at me out of the white paper eyes gog gling with the lust of murder. Heaven send that time will wipe tnat remem brance from my brain! I shrank back Into the carriage, that rocked and swung and danced beneath me. Graden's huge shoulders almost blocked the other window; but I caught sight of the glint of his revolver In the moonlight Was it to be man or horse? One or the other, if we were not to leap the precipice at the lirst sharp turn, auu denly he shouted, and again I struggled to my post In the darkness down the road was the glimmer of lights. Nearer and nearer they drew, and I, too, raised my voice in a scream of warning. The last fifty yards we took in one bound or so It seemed. I saw a carriage gfow out of the shadow that the cliffs above us drew across the road; I saw our leadinc horso swing to the lett and leap unnuiy at the low wall that hid heaven knew what frightful depths below; and then, with a tottering slide that seemed to wrench the heart out of me, we curled, as a motor skids, into one thunderous crash that -blotted out the world. MBS. nABLAXD'S XABBATIVE. Kxtrcmoly Stupitl. s ChoimlnK lt"i". The best inn docs not always wonr ii.,u emit or tho lintuisomest tacv. llll! ....v.,. , . ThoCzurSo bureaucracy has for oirl. lean, Um t or a v. me. -ears been so . thoroughly detested by when they nre Urn bol n "J " J" .11 classes of Busshuis that now It Is men and 5- tlio llttlo (1-yoitr-oltl orphan In tlio ny lum to tlio lnily of lilh dcjrrco. In any Cuban Hchool, teachers anil pupllu aro llko uuHiarlngly iHiwdered, and n towdcr box 1h to bo found In ovory deck, and, iih likely as not, keeping company with tho chalk lined for tlio blackboard bull who uuv-ivu UtOl - . '. .. .mil liiitiuKomc several times, ns so tunny corresponu- uotu wen "" " , , ... i i i ti. iwiiiro In ov'milv that very often girls do not 10011 vuio uiv'i i. --- - t . . ... .....1 v . - Ilu. a.irfiin KOOd I0OKH ery instance tnu most nenso oi mm mm. uivw " - mitlsfv From my newspaper friends I heard good clothes aro enouj to nat scorea of stories about this stupidity, them. If n mail is al l of ace These two are typical: badly urcwwi, ua-j Some time ago a man threw a bomb worth cultivating. ....... I V.,.. nnrnr f-llll tell, girls. W lint l"t at a governor, kuicu mm " ..v.. ----- - - . vmlti, The government sent all over the cm-1 development of the gaulo. J plro a placard and two photographs of may bring. Lincoln " ' 1 the assassin, his front view and his ward and badly di-essed, a. d tt hi profile. And three weeks later a po- woman who mnrrled hh v id liceman In western Siberia telegraphed ; have exchanged liliu for t he os "Have captured both criminals and feet Adonis. Take the Iron Wj 1. 1 n am bringing them to l'etcrshurg" out what there Is In a man bef ore jou At midnight In Petersburg an Inno- condemn him for his ba i i ui K cent peace-loving professor stood on a clothes and h0 bridge staring Into the sluggish waters' work wonders with tho man wlio lous thtnU-liiLr nf n rival hor- vi niv. vmi. rt ( . , . , i .. ...ltli ii Supposing you ran in io man who has no regard for the little t,..,ti.w r dnws. It will worry i I of course, for every girl wnnts to be d' proud of the appearance of her sweet- professor who had a new theory about gravitation. "That man," said the professor aloud, "Is the dullest Idiot In Bussla." upon him out of tho darkness and with-1 heart. But don't bo unnappj uiti . . out a word began dragging him off. The Go to work and bring all your inn u poor old professor shook with terror. enco to bear In persuading mm to ..... t or...!t,wn" ho erleil JnL-.. mnrn nnlns with his appearance. vi.nt u mv crhno?" You will have to work on his anlt. "High treason!" growled tho police- but you will win out In tho long run I.ntly fluuittrtict'ii NHeeonNor. Tho Countess of Carlisle, who linn been elected to succeed Lady Somerset as world's president of tho Woman's Christian Temper auco Union, In tho wife of tho ninth Karl of Carlisle, and was before her marriage In 1601 tho Hon. Bona 11 ml Frances Stan 1 oy, youngest daughter of the second Lady Stanley of Adder ley. Hho lutK been COL-KTCHB CAM.1HI.K. for yoaiS COIlSplCU- pus In teniixraiico work, and In 1000 was chosen president of tlio British Women's Teinperanco Association. Sho also has been an earnest worker In tho woman suffrage movement In England, nnd founded the Woman's Liberal Fed eration and became Its president ,'ountess Carlisle likewise has been en ergetic In procuring higher education for women. Sho has a warm. Impulsive nature, great strength of character and a charming jwrsoiiallty. man. "But why? Why?" "Oh, don't try to fool mo! You called his Imperial mnjesty nn Idiot!" Heavens!" cried the horrified pro fessor, the spectacles fnlllng from his nose. "Why should you think I was speaking of the Czar?" The big policeman stopped and looked down, puzzled. No girl of sense will keep herself from loving a man simply because he is plain of face. As long as ho looks clean and manly and honest any man Is good looking. If he Is not all of those three, he can't nmount to anything Don't waste your time and affection nn n iiressed-un dummy. Benii'inber that It takes more tlmn good looks to mnke a good husband. What you want Tho iniw mint in Bussla." he Bald is a good, honest man. a good provider, slowlv. searching his memory. "Who 'if he Is also good looking, why nil tho else could you have meant?" All Horaea Ilnte Cnnieli. . Smoking a clay pipe, the circus actor sat In the winter training qunrters. Under his supervision a thi.n boy was learning to ride erect on a quiet horse with a brond, flat back. "In some towns they won't let us show," scld the man, "unless we have no camels with us. Camels are a seri ous drawback to shows. Horses are so much afraid of them that lots of towns won't let a camel enter their gates. "A horso won't go near a piece of ground a camel has stood on. The very smell of a camel In tho air will mako a horse tremble and sweat And this fear Isn't only found occasionally In a horse hero and there. It Is found in every horso all over the world. Queer, Isn't It? I often wonder why It Is. Cattle hate dogs In the same way, and cats bate dogs so, too. Here, though, wo can account for the hatred. Dogs In primitive times fed on cattle, no doubt, and even to-dny, hero and there, ttiey kill nnd feed on kittens. "Horses love dogs. I'm sure I don't know why. Dogs fear no animals but pumas and leopards. You can take a dog up to a lion's or a tiger's cage and he will show no fear, but tako him up to the cage of a puma or a leopanLand he will tremble and moan and slink away out of sight. "All very puzzling, Isn't It?" Phila delphia Bulletin. better, but that Is the least Imiwrtant of any ouallty in a husband. Don't Brmii vnnr whoh life by placing It nhnve'tbe other ounlltlcs necessary In the making of a good husband. Caro Hue, In Chicago American. l-'rench Model Hnt. jr. CHAPTER XXV. I have been asked by my dear husband to conclude the story of which he has placed the greater part before you. I should have preferred that be had not tried to recall details which I know he cannot remember without suffering; but having once yielded to the persuasion of his friends, I am ready to take every share of the burden that he will yield to me. My father nnd I, with Beski, the man that Sir Henry had summoned from Po land, arrived in the Engadine without any incident that is worthy of descrip tion. We had engaged rooms in the prin cipal hotel under the name of Jackson, ns had bpen suggested. My father stood tho Journey very well. But this neces sity for giving a false name annoyed him extremely. It was tho first time In his life that he had done so, he said, and I had sorno dllllculty In persuading him not to confess the wholo circumstances to the manager on tho day ufter our ar rival. It was on the fourth day of our visit, about five In tho evening, that we re ceived a telegram from London. It read: "We aro coming at once. Qradeu." As can bo Imagined, wo, were very puzzled about It Wo hud sent no mes sage, and we could not think what was tlio reason for their sudden determina tion. Beski behaved in a most curious fashion when I told him. It might havo been tho news of some great good for tuno that had reached him. "It Is very well, very well," ho kept on repeating In German a Iunguago which, fortunately, I can speak, though not very correctly, "What do you mean?" I asked him. "Ach. Fraulein! If the two English men are coming, does It not mean that Maniac is here?" I (suppose I turned rather pale, for tho fear of that dreadful mau was alway AVIiy "Womnn Din-tor I'roapi-ra. Tho New York Herald Hays that men physicians In a certain manufacturing district of Greater New York are com A physlclnn, partisan of the cure by suggestion, met the ton of a friend and "NotTaU veii ' saiil liie child. "He "lli!!! says he Is very 111." "What nonsense! Tell him from me tbut he only thinks he Is 111 1" Some days after the doctor met tho najne boy. "Well, how Is your father?" "Oh, doctor, he thinks he Is dead." II Mondo Uniorlstleo. At first the masculine doctor tolerated the lady who appeared iijkiii tho scene but ho has now come to think her a serious evil. The young doctors, treat lug the men hurt In the factories, and knowing that the fee was conditioned on the financial status of the patient preferred In many cases amputating ii i i. r... tno "'"h rather than giving for next -vh,,t hee,..ne nt that contortionist nothing a long course of treatment ue, in n,lvnrtl,, the 'boneless Tile WOIlieil, bolllg IlKirO COIlSCluiltloilS wonder'?" queried the reporter. rli lm nt- niiiithnr Infi." retilleil the museum manager. "He's getting $r,00 Kratcful and the "womnn doctor" Is a week doing a female Impersonation Puiar w.ui an or mem. act nnd posing for the Illustrations In a fashion magazine," have In every case tried the treatment first to save the limb. Tho men are I)lIllJM)lllfll. Mavme Why did you allow him turn down the gas? Edyth Oh, merely out of curloBlty. I wanted to kco If he would try to kiss me. Mayme And was your curiosity sat isfied? Kdyth I should say not Ho only kissed mo once, Invlxlltle l Home. A Wo inn n Ciui Keep it Hci-rd. Miss Mary H. Anthony, slNter of the noted Susan B. Anthony, says that It to Is not true that women tell secrets; a least, they only tell trivial, things that harm no one. -They do not tell secrets mat wouki arrcct uieir Husbands or children that Is, very few women do and when such a thing does happen women nro the first to condemn the tattling woman. She related a story of a woman whose husband refused to tell her about a business transuc- out lm ninilQ un ovw . ' rendered darker In tan. M'o H'''oofthoiX,CatllD A Jacket thnt luu all tb. . of tho original b!Mer narrow, rounded roreri over collar, trlmmoj Jft narrow hrnld put on l ? r Ion. It opens over J t vet two shades darker If f'" of tho suit mnlcrlai C tons ndoru either side of tM, little coat, nnd three o & nnlrti to thobln.hand,!K,, decoration of tho Z1 Irish laco blouses will contlnuo In fnvor for wear with hnudsomo suit. A silvery gray voile, with n shndow check over It, mnke n charmliiK gown for a bride. A good many all-red and all-blue hats will he worn with tho now mixed cloth suitings. A blue corduroy suit has n waistcoat of tan suede with a rather long-skirted Jacket of tho corduroy. A deep wine odor, neither rod nor purple, Ih a rich, warm shado for win ter, and will ns much seen ou tho street tho coming season. A black velvet hat with n crushed crown, somewhat like a man's soft felt. Is faced with white ullk under the brim and Is trimmed with a Hluglo long white feather, held In placo by a cut steel buckle. Felt trimmed with velvet an old combination, and velvet with felt a new one nine out of ten hats show tho combination, often the two materials matching exactly ; hut some wonderful ly Interesting effects aro obtained by almost daring contrasts The girdles which were deeply point ed back and front nro now curved con vexly la front and arched In tho back, and If properly made widen means being wollboncd go far toward glvhic tho much desired vanishing curve to the figure. For plump women, how ever, they are quite the reverse of ad mlrable. The black and white trljH?d material should le made up over white slllc or pale gray. Black would uot bo at all attractive. In the colors also white Is iKMt. although a pale blue of the shade Itself Is often effective. Silk, of conwe, Fronih ...... . uaTe J(J . ... . U llVm I 10 WMF H..I. Six Hemes Imvo been Inncd. A prominent ere myinti.1 u ! land Dr. Mnltland limuj, hi 3 ) married n practicing phnid,.'i :ilznbeth I'nce. ""'l Lndv Alln Vnro tlllL.-L , ...... iunr tm Krandaugltter of the pott, DpTi comes a peerwj In tier on MM mv uuuiii ui nur miner, iONLon, Queen Maud of Nowar bat m an album containing nm tings relating to bewlf andKtyfl lion. There hns recently Iwn onsrfl uessnu, uermnny, a school for 1 chemists. Graduates can eamf to $18 per month. It hns been decreed bj & i board of Wabash, ImL, that i lag must Ik! taught In the public t thero and tlutt boyi Kir ti Klrls. Miss Ornco M. Yarcot hit i tho Atlantic twenty-one Una i ncnt of an EnglUh dlimoM nnd on ench trip she has i her gems valued at $ 1 50,000 to f icirrW Beaded Uresis IllWfc, Tim most dcfolcable foitu rHl i the to1! race ui - . ...!.. mim The fcw l-m.lt- w-irsJS Is Just a naua even tne wise man puts n top tolti iv n trood row being to aid la pn"H :7 i... Hint ward! tm:u " ; ... .... ...... iom tue 1110 limn " . . Mfjii wife should Uica brio IMP climax. PHASES OF PARISIAN MILLINEBY. Itlon. savlug. sneerlnirlv. that in u-niiinn "Henry," said Mrs. Meeker, as sho coula k n sccrot (lj0, , laid aside the paper, 'I don t see tho M.,f0 ..((1 , oycr , t, H' point to these everlasting Jokes about tll0 0KIlKeillcllt P,K you . a man being henpecked." i,J0Ht cmwa yearH 0? D(, , Fv, i nui.iw i.i, I.. .ran, 0. on(J ,t . .,, Mr. Moekor: "nolthor dnf'H thn i ' i.".v, piled man.' i)i-vo(-ii n I'oiviiur 1'iiir, The Cuban woman, octogenarian as ri-liM fl!inriir ill., llnri.. "Tell me," said the Boston matron, wel1 ,,H "mvoet Hovontecn," considers "do you believe In long engagement?" Iw',lcr n oro necessary article of tho "Beally," replied the Chicago mat- J0"0 tl",,, Honn w,t,r. Utter- mn "I nfivfti' iravo that miu'b thnn-rlif ly Indispensable to her attractiveness. but t can't, say that I believe In lou w,,ldl u, Ih lll!r uoluto duty to pro. iharrlugei." I'hlludelphla I're-s.- v"v- eius or too community ,, 1 nro devoted to tho powder puff, from ra iMiaBm .JaaHiUHKam JU Mi 'mm tm I Mrawn msacamam av 1 m mm ir