Man
From Home
her daintily uoiveil hands together u. d
cried softly:
"Brava!”
That they were old friends, these
two. was to be seen at a glance. There
was no inquiring us to each other's
tastes and dislikes. It was evident
that.long association had ingrained an
intimate knowltslga of the other into
the mind of each, and they met as
good comrades without more than per
functory courtesy. The earl went on
as he reseated himself.
“I didn't meun Almerlc, however,
Helene, but my august sister iu-law."
Without further comment he turned to
the paper again and read. The amia
ble countess smiled at him enigmatic
ally and broke a roll with the gesture
of an empress.
"The amiable Lady Hermtoue Tre
velyau Creech has dejeuner in her
apartments. What do you find to read,
mon cher?”
'f
< An Amateur Burglary
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By ROSALIE THURTEE.
LCopyright. 19u9, by Amejk-un l'res» Asso
»
ciation.]
"O heavens-!'
"What's the matter?"
“Th»« key.
Mother told me to tie
Hine and take it. I forgot it.”
"Well?”
"Mother has gone out to speml the
A Novelization
evening with Mrs. Tomkins, father Is
of the Play of
at th»1 club ami the majd was called
the Same Name
away yesterday to her sick mol her."
"That means that there is no
to let us in and we must
Copyright. 1909, by American
steps till some one comes
Press Association
“1 am afraid so."
"This Is the house?”
uriving at the attachment of a young
“Yes; fourth from the
SYSNOPSIS
Hawcastle threw the paper dowu block. I wonder if it is third or fourth
ami helpless girl's money with the
upon the cloth with an exclamation.
Chapter I---Daniel Voorhees Pike, a rising foreknowledge of a lifelong misery for
—fourth, I'm sur»1."
“I'm such a duffer at Italian,” be
young Kokomo (Ind.) lawyer, hears that his her as the consequence.
"What made you hesltut
This morning he was clad in au im said, “but apparently the people along
ward, Ethel Granger- Simpson is to be married
"Don't you know we only movisi in
the coast are having a scare over an last week?"
abroad to the son ol an English earl. I ler maculate suit of lightly strlixMl white
flannel, with carefully pipeclayed shoes, escaped convict, a Russian.”
“Oh, yes; 1 forgot.”
father was his nearest friend, and he has long
The hovering Muriano, who was flit
and the pale rose necktie that lie
They sfl »town on the stone step and
loved the girl. He goes abroad to arrange with
wore was a living monument to the ting about the table like a wounded talk of a small party they have attend
her the business matters connected with her mar
fact that the well groomed English sparrow, started slightly and hesitated ed. The step is cold; so is the wind.
itime. H ---Ethel Granger-Simpson and her man knows no peer on earth, while the
with a silver cover in his hand, then
"What kind are tlie window catch
brother, Horace, have become anglomaniacs and
jaunty exactness of bis snowy pan stepped forward.
es?” he asked.
are spending much of their late father’s fortune
ama hat was a revelation In proper
"If milor' will pardon me”— The
"Old fashioned. These houses
in travel and entertaining. They become inti
countess also started and put down all old fashioned.”
mate with luidy Creech, the Ear I of I fawcastk, headgear.
As he entered the terrace bis alert her fork with a slight rattle.
“I wonder if 1 can turn »me of them
hu son, Almeric St. Aubyn, and Countess de
“A Russian?” she ejaculated.
Champigny, an adventuress and associate of the glance swept It from end to end, and
with my knife blade?”
earl’s. They are at a hotel at Sorrento, Italy.
he noted that there was no one about.
"Yes,” grumbled the earl. "An es
He steps to a balcony on which the
He moved at once to the table that caped Russian bandit has been traced front windows open. Inserts ids knif«
Mariano had set for him, aud at the to Ctislellumure"— He paused to in blade and tries to move tin1 catch
(CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK)
instant he sat down Michele ran down sert the choicest bit of melon in bis He falls. He rattles th«1 sash. It is
the steps of the hotel with a folded mouth, and Mariano's jaw dropped very loose. lie puts both hands In p<>
"There Is an American sinoi. newspaper in his baud which he pre
with tlie excitement.
sition to act as levers on tlie sash and
ua, Mees Granger Seempsoue. \iil oli sented to milord with a low bow.
"Castellamare not twelve kilometers pushes.
Something gives wav. ami
Creeslie travel with her to In1 < hap Mariano entered bearing a coffee tray,
from here!” he whispered in awestruck th«1 sash goes up. Watching him from
eron.” Here he bet-amt* entliii hi ti a
anil the earl greeted him with a cheer tones, and the earl coutiuuttd when ho the sthop. she sees him disappear In
the memory of sundry pieces < f gold ful good morning which Mariano ac-
had masticated the fruit:
the window.
and silver wakened liis keen tli lights. knowledged as one would a favor from
"Aud a confidential agent-secret
"Why is he so long? He must have
"She is young, geliel'oso; ».lie give a king.
service man, 1 dare say—lias requested gone in to light up nini open the d<
I
money to every one; slit* Is multa bella.
"Milor’ is serve,” he announced with his arrest from the Italian authorities. for me."
so pretty, weeth cliarm”-
soft accents and took the hat aud light But, to quote from our grandiose II
She waits for
"You mean this lardy Creeshe?” in
walking stick, tiestowing them with Mattino, ‘the brigand tore himself from since ho doesn't
terrupted the Frenchman, with a puz
the rail on to th«1 balcony and
zled frown.
at the window,
“No, no, no!” cried Mariano in horri-
nothing, she calls
tied amazement. "Miladi t'reeshe is ole
"Where ar«1 you
lady aud does not hear so well; quite
"Here Inside.”
deaf; no pourboires; nothing. I speak
"What are you doing
of the young American lady, Mees
“Sitting on some one
Granger Seenipsone, who the English
“Good gracious!
What
bonorabile sou of Milor' Hawcastle
mean
?"
wishes to espouse, I think."
"As soon as the window
Rlbiere wrote rapidly in his note
felt
myself seized by some one a man.
book and without looking up said:
I
suppose
who dragg«*d tn«1 in through
"Who else Is there?"
the window I put m.v arm around him
"There is tlie brother of Mees Gran-
and downed him."
ger-Seempsone, a young gentleman
“Oh. my goody gracious!”
from also North America, lie make
"I wonder if we've got in tlie wrong
house."
“Why don’t you ask him?”
“1 have asked him who ho Is
what lie meant by grappling me, but
nil I can gel out of him la ’Nix fur
stay.’ He must be a German. An
way. he doesn't seem to nnderstnn I.'
"How provoking!
What
world are we going to do?"
"Lucky he doesn’t holler. We'd be
caught red handed In an net of bur
glary. Th»» lions«1 can't be yours.”
"Oh, dear! Did I ray th«1 fourth
house from th«1 end of th«1 row? Come
"Alwiiys incognltoF
to think of it. it's th«1 fifth.”
the eyes all the day al another I.id. ,
“Maybe it's the fiftieth.” This In
who Is of the party, a FTeneli lady.
dissattsfled tone
Comtesse de Champigny
Ha, eet
“That's positively cruel. IIow can
aiiiUHf me!" And lie burst into a re
be expected to know th«1 position of
spectful titter
house I’ve not lived In a wi'ek
Rlbiere looked nt him with grave
“How long am I to sit on this man?
astonishment and bent once mor»1 to
"I’ll call the police.”
his notebook, over which the pen flew
"If you do I'll speml tile time set
with a practiced hand.
apart for our honeymoon In Jail."
“Why?" he said shortly.
“Can't you leave him, jump out of
Mariano smothered his mirth with
the window and run for It?”
the napkin lie carried and w ith an ef
"And have him yelling 'Stop thief!'
fort controlled himself.
and I run Into a cop's arms? That's a
"Becoss,” he answered "beei
brilliant idea."
have thought that madame tin1
“Gott In himniel! I'gli! I'm!" from
tesse is so good a friend of tlie ol'
the man underneath, struggling.
llsh Milor’ Hawcastle. A niaitr«1
»’Shut up!”
tel see many things, eh. and I think
"What in th«1 world will be th«1 end
Milor' Hawcastle and madami1 have
of this? We'll I«»1 arrested, and the
known ea< h other from long perhaps,
least we can expect" is that it will all
This dejeuner is for them; also '
be in the papers tomorrow morning.”
from the girl.
think from what I hear that both have
A RL’S&'/A-VF' EHE EJACULAI EL».
"If I knew th»1 inside of this house I
been in Russia one time They splk
could lock him up somewhere,” from
tegez.wr in Russ.”
"Pouf! They will not reeognlz»1 my reverential care upon a side table. As the hands of the carabinieri,' or some the young man.
“Hans! Yas 1st?” This conies from
employer,” said Riblere. "no more tlie earl unfolded II Mattino be glanced thing like that. 1 can’t lie sure, but it
read to me”—
upstairs.
than tliis North American who travels up.
Mariano broke in excitedly, lie had
The young burglar »-laps tiis hand
"No English papers?" hi* said.
with him and who Is as innocent as a
"Milor', the mail is late,” answered pirdred up the paper anil was devour over Ilans’ mouth.
ba lie. Set dejeuner on the table in
A light is coming and the sound of
Michele and bowed himself up the ing it with avidity.
stantly, when he shall arrive, for two
"If milor* permit, aad madame”— steps «i the staircase. A young wo-
H perch, petit pois, iced ligs, tea. I will stairs.
•end his own caviare and vodka from
“Also Mme. de Champigny," growled lie bowed like an automaton—"I shall man in night rob»1 peeps cautiously
over the banister and gives a shriek,
what I carry."
the earl as he glanced down the unfa translate."
“Quite right. Mariano,” said the earl,
“For heaven's sake keep qtllvt. Do
"Va bene, signor!” answered Mari miliar pages.
ano aud vanished Into the hotel.
As he spoke the countess, clad in the and tile maitre d'hotel went on avidly. you speak English?" cried th«1 burglar
"The brigan' tore himself,” he read in anguish.
very- latest Parisian creation, swept
"Yah. Vot's <1‘ matter?"
CHAPTER IV
down the steps and approached the excitedly, "from the hand of the cara
“Tell this man in German, if he un
table. Sh«» lookerl well, and she knew binieri, and without the doubts he con
STRANGE NFWS.
ceal
himself
in
some
of
these
grotti
derstands
German and Isn't a deaf
HE Earl of Hawcastle was near It.
Apparently about thirty two, she near Sorrento, and sean-hment is being mute, that I got
ly at tin* end of his financial
execute’. The agent of the Russian I’ll let him up if
ro|>e
And yet to look at him would probably have confessed to fir«
embassy have inform’ the bureau that peaceably.”
as he entered upon the terrace years more under pressure, but her
“It was al) m.v mistake,” called the
this esiap«1 one is a nios’ in-fray-mose
from the lemon grove no one would dark beauty was well set off by the
girl
outside "I live In this block, the
robber
and
danger
brigan'."
have thought that a care in th»1 w«wld light colors she affected, and the Ult
“What name does the paper say he fourth or fifth house from tlie end I
of
her
parasol
revealed
more
to
the
possessed him.
don't remember. oh. do pleas»1 tell
Added to the natural calm demeanor tapable eye of an observer than a has?” Interrupted Mme de Champigny,
him. Is he your husband?"
of the Englishman of station was a bum of self description or admission.
vitti a catch of her breath, and Marl
"My husband! Neln! You think I
pertain s»df possession gained by years
She was of that type tliat causes the ino bowed again Jerkily In her direc am old voman!"
gf standing on the brink of events, tlderly dowager of any race to reguril lion.
"Oh. dear. I'm so unlucky! I niAko
and. while this brilliant morning his her with suspicion and to gather tier
"It has not to say, tnndame,” he re nothing but mistakes tonight."
cares hail hung even a little more male entourage beneath the protecting plied
“That Is all. And will milor’
"Will you kindly cons«1 to mnk»1 any
heavily upon him than was bis desir»1, wings
Mme. de Champigny. raising nnd Mme. la Comtesse excuse me?
mor»1 mistakes till nfier we have Rot
yet he gave no outward hint of any her hnml w ith a little gesture of greet And may I take the Journal? There is
out of this?" says th«1 young man Ini
troubles that beset him.
ing. pause»! an instant as she stood at one who should see It."
patiently. Thon to the woman on the
He was a well preserved man of tlf the top of the steps and cried softly:
Hawcastle smiled slightly nt hfs ex stairs. “Tell him. please."
ty-slx. with close cropped Iron gray
oItement and nodded
"Me v..|. I’"
Then* was a parley in German,
hair and a straight cut military mus-
The earl Jump<*d to his feet and
(TO BE CONTINUED)
which th»1 trespassers did not under
tache that liid certain cruel lines In bowed. Inquiring at the same time:
stand. At last the interpreter sni»l the
his mouth and softened the severe
PROPER TREATMENT FOR DYSENTERY
"My eat«*emed
relative Is still
man was satisfied Then he was per
He carried himself with asleep?"
lineaments
AND DIARRHOEA
mitted to arise.
au erectness that bespoke pride in
The
great
mortality
from
rlynenteiy
The countess swept forward to her
"I don't know how I cam«1 to mak»1
race, if not in deeds of his own. He chair, which Hawcastle pulled out for and diarrhoea is due to a lack of such n mistake." said tin1 girl as they
was distinguished with that curious her. and murmured:
proper treatment at the first stage moved nwny.
individuality that causes those In the
"I trust your l»eautiful son has found of the disease, Chamberlain's Colic,
"Nor I." said the young man sen ten
street to nudge one another and ask I much better employment — ns our Cholera and Diarrho a Remedy i« uously.
in whispers who another may be, and hearts would wish him, eh?"
reliable and effectnal medicine. an«l
"Iler«1 conies mother. Mother, whaf'«
he was unmistakably high bred.
Hawcastle l.iir. h»«1 shortly and mirth when given in reasonable time will <»ur number?”
prevent any dangerous consequence»..'
True, his sense of honor that would lessly.
"Forty-«ix. That’s not It Seventh
balk at cheating In a card game or '"He has He's off on a cantor with It has been in use fop many voir- . house from tha ist end."
ths larceny of a traveling bag was the little Americnn."
with unvarying i Th»' young man jyeut hqme wfth»ytrt
I and has always met
suSclent to debar him from con
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the usual kiss.
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