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SYNOPSIS.
At the beginning of mat automobile
the mechanic!)) n of the Mercury
5I?.?0,,t" mhlna. ope dead. Strange
youth. Jease Floyd, olunteers, and la ao
tepted. In the rent during the twenty,
lour hour race Stanton meeta a stranger.
Mlaa Carllale. who lntroducea heraelf. The
Mercury wlna race. Stanton receives
. ower from Mlaa Carllale. which be lg
" ?"." Et'nton meeta Mlaa Carllale on a
J"11- They alight to take walk. , and
train leaver Stanton and Mlaa Carllale
follow In auto. Accident by which Btan
2uJ,.u,1 ' myterioua. Floyd, at lunch
with Stanton, tells of hla boyhood. Stan
ton again meeta Miss Carllale and .titer
In together. Stanton cornea to track
?V makea race. They have accl
ient. Floyd hurt, hut not aerlously. At
dinner Floyd tell Stanton of hla twin
i?' ,slca- Stanton become very ill
ana loses consciousness. On recovery, at
Ma hotel Btanton receive Invitation and
teJte Jessica. They go to theater togeth
er, and meet Miss Carlisle. Stanton and
IToyd -meet again and talk business.
Tney agree to operate automobile factory
if. Partner. . Floyd becomes auaplcloua of
Uaa Carlisle.
CHAPTER IX (Continued).
"Jamaica has the right to a chance,"
fee agreed. 'Tm not goln'to meddle
with things beyond my understands'.
Aji I'd rather have her your wife than
nave anything else In the world. Only
you're seen her Just once you can't
toll If you want her, yet."- ' ' .
Stanton shot him one straight, ex.
presslve glance.
"She Is like you," slipped from bltn
Involuntarily; then, furious at his be
trayal of sentiment, be dropped the
ether's hand. "We had better go, or
well miss the train," he bruskly re
minded. "Oh, she Is like me," confirmed
Floyd; he turned to look again at the
factory. "We are pretty close chums.
Tea, yon an' I had better be gettin' to
the train."
They walked back to the nearest
trolley line, both silent.
The subject was not touched again.
until the following morning, when they
ten the train In New York.
"When shall I see you?" Stanton
questioned, as they exchanged fare
wells In the noisy depot "To-mor
row r
"I'm going to be out of town for the
next two weeks, Mr. Green tells me.
Floyd replied. "They want me at the
Mercury factory, and there are some
other trips, too. I believe. Jessica Is
(olng to be rather deserted; if you
happen to look her up, no doubt she
would be glad to speak to some one
besides her nurse."
"Thank you." accepted Stanton, as
carelessly. "Take care of yourself."
He had not reached the exit when
Floyd overtook him.
"Here are the entries for the Cup
race," be panted, thrusting a folded
newspaper Into Stanton's hand. "There
are two Atalanta cars to run against
us. It s you who need to take care
of yourself, until afterward."
"Floyd, wait! What do you mean?
Do you really think "
But bis mechanician evaded the
question.
"Some people are hoodoos," he
laughed. "Keep away from them,
please. Oood-by."
He had not spoken Valerie Carlisle's
name, yet Stanton knew against whom
ho warned. - And the melodramatic
absurdity of the idea did not prevent
aa odd thrill of discomfort and Inse
curity, from which he took his usual
refuge In roughness
"I'm not In the habit of hiding from
people, hoodoos or not Oood-by."
"Oh, very well," acquiesced Floyd
oddly. "But If you won't take care of
yourself, Stanton"
"Well, what?"
"Never mind."
CHAPTER X.
An Interval.
It waa on the second day after his
arrival in New York that Stanton
called upon Jessica Floyd. This time
he went more confidently up the stairs
of the quiet apartment house, sure of
is right
Aa before, the little old Irishwoman
elad In black silk was waiting to ad
mit him; as before, be could have
srled out In the wonder of seeing this
girl who turned Floyd's candid face
to him and smiled with Floyd's gray
eyes. Only, this afternoon Jesslcia
lid not rise from the plaffo seat to
greet him, but from a chair near a
window.
"Jea Is away again," she regretted,
riving him her hand.
"I came to see you, by hla permis
sion," Stanton returned.
Tbo rich color flushed under her
marvelous skin, that was like no other
woman's he had over seen. Floyd dif
fered here, man from girl, hla com-
MT9M
Eleanor
M.
ing:
oTTq Game and 'deCandb'
flym Merciay etc.
plexlon being much darker and less
translucent
"It la too early to give you tea and
cake," she told him, with a playfulness
partly shy. "But If you will talk to
me for half an hour, it will be after
four. o, clock and I can offer you hos
pitality. .-
"What shall I talk to you about?" he
doubted. "I am better at listening. I
think." i
"Oh, anything, everything. Sunnoae
1 were Jea; I like what ho likes, rac
ing, ractorles, motor-cara.'
Although the season waa early, a
lire burned in the tiny hearth, on
either side of which they were seated,
facing each other. In tie ruddy light
Stanton contemplated the smiling girl,
In her pale-blue gown with. Its lace"
ruffles foaming around hflr full vnnnc-
throat and falling low across her
nands.
"Your brother has told you of the
business partnership that wa plan for
this. winter, Miss Floyd?"
She nodded her bronze-crowned
nead. ' .
"Yes; I am very glad."
"Did he," a sudden fancy prompted
the question! "did .he tell you that I
was coming here to see you. if I
might?"
"Did he know of it?" she asked In
counter-question.
. " Floyd had keDt the confident riven
him, then, although no formal re
straint naa been made. The expres
sion that crossed Stanton's dark face
was warm and very gentle.
i "He knew, yes. I wish I could have
met your brother years ago; I might
have been less hard a man, more fit to
know him, and you, now."
. "You hard!"
"Has he not taught you that I am
so?"
In her earnestness she leaned for
ward, her eyea fearlessly on his.
"Never. Do not lmaelnn he thinks
you that, do not so wrong his memory
of your kindness. A rough word what
is it? The first gentleness cancels It;
what Is a friend worth who does not
understand?
Stanton bent his head, looking at
tne nre
"I have not had much gentleness
snown me, he said. "My mother died
when I was born: when I was thirteen
my father married again. My step-
motner was a good woman, whom I
loved as well as my father did. But
within the second year after the mar
riage, the horses they were driving
ran away, dragging the carriage over
an embankment and my narents died
within a few moments of each other
while being taken to the hospital.
Have I sa!dthat my father was
wealthy? He was so. He had made
his will, a year before, leaving every
thing to his wife; well knewlng that
she In her turn would pass all on to
me. She was much younger than he,
almost' certain to outlive him, and
entirely to be trusted. But she had
never made a will, delayed hv ehnnn
or forgetfulness, I suppose! When he
aiea nve minutes before her, all his
fortune passed to his wife; then, upon
her death without a will, again legally
passed on to her relatives. I was left
wUh no share or claim."
"But It was yours by every right!
Surely, surely, your step-mother's rel
atives did not take it?"
"They took every nennr and
inch. Miss Floyd. And I, at fifteen,
was sent out into the world, a beggar
ed orphan. They had no Interest In
me, and I was old enoueh to tnmuirt
myself. One of them offered to get
me a position as office boy."
"Oh! You"
"I lived." he erlmlv answered. r
asked them for nothing. What nan.
sonal trinkets belonged to me, I sold,
for tne first needs: then 1 set to work.
My father had wished me to be' a
mecnanical engineer, and 1 meant to
fulfil hla plan. Perfect health I did
have for six years I regularly worked
twenty hours out of each twenty-four,
until I was graduated from college.
For six years I was always tired, oc
casionally hungry, and took Just one
recreation: every night I walked
through the avenue where my former
home stood, and looked at it I saw
the people who had robbed me go
handsomely clad and sleek, I saw
their carriages and servants pass and
repass. I watched, and I concluded
that there was Just one thing In Ufa
worth while."
The girl shivered slightly, her'a-aia
on hla firm profile with 1U lines of re
lentless strength.
"You meant to punish them." she
faltered.
'Revenge? No; It waa not worth j
taking. I win not deny I thought of
that as a boy; aa a man I was too
practical to waste my time. What I
decided to have was money. I found
in my aptitude for this automobile
racing my best and' quickest way to
secure a starting capital. If I killed
myself In doing it very good; that was
better than poverty. I was poor for
six years; poor for a lifetime 1 will not
be." ; . . ' ' - '
' "No, you will not be," she agreed,
her voice quite low and agitated. "You
were born to bend circumstance, for
gooff or 11L"
"Circumstance bent me,' when It set
your brother In my path," he cor
rected.. "I never before bad a friend,
or cared" He shook his head Impa
tiently, turning fully, to her. . "Bah,
what dead history am I boring you
with! Forgive me; I only meant to
say there might be some small excuse
for iny savagery. It Is after four
o'clock, I waa promised tea."
Jessica rose to cross to the little
tea-table, but lingered for an Instant
"Jes once told me that he had been
guilty of the Impertinence of saying
his driver had the best disposition and
the worst temper he had ever seen. I
think that If he were here, he would
apologize for the last part" . (
"Perhaps be may yet retract- the
first," he warned lightly, yet touched.
When she summoned htm to take
hla cup, Stanton looked at the brown
beverage, then In quizzical surprise at
his hostess. " ;'
"Ys,' she laughed, coloring? rWith
three lumps of sugar In it Jea txld
me that whenever he was out. with
you, you ; drank chocolate syfup",and
sweet .1 thought. It was only girls who
liked sweety syrupy things." "
"And flo . you" always ;' give ''people,
what they- llke?" 'he - asked.' amused
and oddly pleased..,-' . ;,"
"I would like. toV'sbe retorted''
"Then I would like,' jvery much to
have you go to the theater with me.
to-night" .:
" ?'As you Mike" she conceded, her
heavy lashes sweeping, her cheeks.
The first step was made. For the
next two weeks they saw each other
frequently. ' Twice Stanton brought
one of. the Mercury cars and took Jes
sica for sedate afternoon drives. ' Sev
eral rainy days she gave him sweet
chocolate and sat opposite him before
the bright little hearth, listening or
"Will You Slnfl
talking with the equable sunniness ao
like Floyd's. Indeed, Stanton soon
came to feel with her the sense of
companionship and certainty of being
understood that be felt with her broth-
'
Why the Planets Collide
Gravity and Other Agencies Are at
Work In Bringing Stars
Together.
There Is good reason to believe that
the bodies in space both luminous
and dead occasionally fall together,
and his conception of such an event
was given by Prof. A. W. Blckerton
In a late Royal Institution lecture.
The collisions do not come At ran
dom. Gravity and other agencies are
at work, and before two suns collide
they come Into each other's Influence
for hundreds of years, being drawn
towards each other with constantly In
creasing speed. As the velocity would
be proportionate to size, the collision
would take place In the same time
about three-fourths of an hour for all
bodies. With the collision tho two
or. But he never was rough to Jes
sica.
During that Interval . j ' did not
meet Floyd. Jes was busy thirty miles
up the Hudson valley, at the Mercury
factory, Jessica said, and as Stanton
of course knew from his mechanician's
own statement Only It impressed him
as' rather strange that Floyd could not
get away even once or twice to see
his sister.
Meanwhile the Cup race was ap
proaching. On the last evening before
Stanton went out to the Long Island
course, he called on Jessica.
"It Is possible to come into New
York, of course," he said to her. '"But
I shall stay out there until after the
race. After that' after Floyd arid I
come baqk, shall V see as much of
you? Or won't you want me around
when you have him?"
Startled, she met his eyes,, then
turned away hurriedly to the plana
(TO BE CONTINUED.) ,
Gifts for Filipino Tribesmen.
While traveling around among these
people of the mountains the giving of
presents enters a great deal Into the
methods of treating with tbem. As a
rule the gifts which are acceptable are
mere trifles. Among (be Ifugaos a cus
tom formerly required them. to wear
in the hair a white rooster's feather
on fiesta days. , More recently a atrip
of onion ' akin ' tissue paper an inch
wide has been introduced and it la
now the-universal present from the
secretary on his visit These papers
are worn aa a sign of holiday, and
after the fiesta Is over they are care
fully preserved till another occasion
(calls them forth. The Uon-gots and
Callngas like beads,' and a common
bead of Imitation agate which is worth
a few centavos in ; Manila, has. its
value enhanced till It Is worth CO cen
tavos in the hills. Scarlet, cloth Is
also acceptable, to the Ifugaos and
Ilongots. One of the very highest
prizes of all Is the pearl oyster shell,
and several of these are always taken
along. ' A great deal of discretion must
be exercised in giving such presents,
so as not to cheapen them, nor to
place them in the hands of the wrong
people. Manila Times.
'" Gone. .
"We don't hear much about spelling
reform now." ,
"No, nor of Esperanto."
It to Me Now?"
"I wonder what has become of
them?"
"Nothing. How can you expect any
thing to become of what la wholly Im
aginary?" stars become a new one, the tremen
dous speed Is suddenly converted into
heat, and the explosive force expands
the new star at the rate of millions of
miles an hour. This, Professor Blck
erton believes, explains the origin of
Nova Persel, which suddenly flashed
out In 1901 with 10,000 times the bril
liancy of our sun. This star became
the brightest In the heavens except
Sirlus, and was the most brilliant new
star that has appeared In 300 years.
In a Different 8ense.
'1 understand Puffersbulk wai a re
markably small baby."
"He must weigh over two hundred
pounds now."
"No doubt he does, but a great many
people say he la a remarkably mall
man," .
NOVEL USE FOR MUSIC
MAY BE MADE TO EXTINGUISH
FIRE IS CLAIM.
San Francisco Man Makes the Asser
tion, and Bases It on Vibration
Theory Sclentista. Unconvinced.
Listen With Respect.
Whpfl Phnrlna Tfollniru rf Sa Waft.
cio v -
Cisco announced that he could sing a
Ore out there was scofflng among the
unbelievers. They had heard of this
man before, and knew he could Imi
tate any bird he admired in the wood
land; that he had been able to pro
cure wonderful pictures of wild ani
mals through the Sierra Mountains,
because he made them completely un
afraid by his singing; they knew that
serpents had absolutely no terrors for
him. But a fire, they argued, "has
no life, no mind, therefore it cannot
be hypnotized, tamed or lulled."
Nevertheless, fires are being " sung
out " under test conditions.
Fire, says Mr. Kellogg, who denies
a!l wizardry, Is vibration; and Just
as it has been shown In the laboratory
umi one vioration may annul, control,
silence another, so the proper one will
still the vibration of fire, and, when,
the vibration is stilled, the fire is out
Mr.- Kellogg makes no claim that
any human voice can sing to quietude
the vibrations of a conflagration. The
extinguishing vibrations must be of
volume commensurate with those to
be controlled, ' but he does maintain
that the fire-fighting operation in the
future will be based upon these prin
ciples. "... 1
According to this theory, one may
live to see giant tuning forks or musi
cal instruments taking the place of
the fire engines. '
Kellogg was born In the California
mountains, where he grew up in cIobb
touch with nature. His ability to re
produce musically all Bounds of
mother earth is' phenomenal.
. Make a few Bimple little experi
ments In vibration on your own ac
count. Hold an empty cigar In your
hands in the room where someone Is
playing the piano, and every now and
then you Will feel that box vibrate.
Try singing In a room where there
are several small stringed instru-.
i- j . lit . i . ... : J
uieuiB unu you win ue pieasea some
times to hear a string sing with you.
The soothing, healing power of
music In treating the Insane has
called forth remarks lately. Will the
physician of the future take tempera
tures, with a tuning fork and pre
scribe . harmonious chords to allay
fever or a " concord of sweet sounds "
to hasten the knitting of bones?
'' He Cannot Forget.
A musician seated far out on a wind
swept pier at Atlantic City, was tell
ing stories about composers.
"Dr. Richard Strauss," he said, "vis
ited America before he achieved world
fame, and the sapient, cock-Bure crit
ics of New York were very hard on
him. In fact, they were so hard on
him that Dr. Strauss had not yet
either forgotten or forgiven them. The
wound is still raw. . It still bleeds."-
The musician regarding with an ab
sent smile the . slow, lazy graceful
dives of a school of porpoises In the
tumbling water, continued:
"I had the honor last year of attend
ing one of Dr. Strauss' rehearsals in
Munich, it was a new symphony, very
beautiful, but very bizarre. In the
middle of it the composer rapped his
desk impatiently and called to the
double bassoon:
" 'Why don't you play the F sharp
that is marked?'
"The bassoon, a bullhcaded sort of
fellow, answered:
"Because it would sound wrong, that
la why.' .
"Dr. Strauss cave a harsh lauxh and
shouted:
" 'Hlmmel! Are von a Nrw York
critic in dlsgulae?' " Washington
Star.
Unappreciated Mercies.
"You're glad to got them back
again. I guess," said the optician at
he carefully adjusted a pair of spec
tacles on a customer's nose.
"Yes," replied the customer, a
boy of eighteen, "I am indeed."
"That poor boy," explained the op
tician after the youth had left the
shop, "has practically lost the sight
of one eye, and the other Is so near
sighted that he can see with it only
by the aid of the strongest glass.
Hard to go through life so handi
capped!" "And I've ben groaning and com
plaining," said the man who had Just
had a pair of eyeglasses made, "be
cause I have to wear specs to cor
rect a mild astigmatism. How little
we appreciate our mercies!"
Prince as Art Critic.
AugUBt Wllhelm, the kalser'a fourth
son. known as the civilian ortnee be
cause he has adopted civil life by be
coming a lawyer, has been annotated
head of the art commission to select
paintings and sculpture for the na
tional gallery at this year's art exposi
tion. '