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t5 he MoUaday He arose and went siowiy out, ana t nntwi tho utrpnoh of his fiacre, the Ehort neck The waiter came with bread and bat ter, and I realized suddenly that it was long past the half hour. Indeed, a glance at my watch showed me that nearly an hour had gone. I waited fifteen minutes longer, ate what I could, and, taking a box lunch under my arm, hurried back to the coroner's office. ' As I entered it I saw a bowed figure sitting at the table, and my heart fell as I recognized our junior. His whole attitude expressed a despair ab solute, past redemption. "I've brought your lunch, Mr. Royce," I said, with what lightness I could muster. "The proceedings will commence in half an hour. You'd bet ter eat something." and I opened the bos. He lookeir at it for a moment, and then began mechanically to eat. "You look regularly done up," I ven tured. "Wouldn't I better get you a glass of brandy? That'll tone you up." "All right," he assented listlessly, and I hurried away on the errand. The brandy brought a little color back to his cheeks, and he began to eat with more interest. "Must I order lunch for Miss Holla day?" I questioned. "No," he said. "She said she didm't Svish any." lie relapsed again into silence. Plain ly he had received some new blow dur ing my absence. "After all," I began, "you know we've only to prove an alibi to knock to pieces this whole house of cards." "Yes, that's all," he agiee "But sup pose we can't do It, Lester?" "Can't do it?" I faltered. "Do you mean" , "I mean that Miss Holladay posi tively refuses to say where she spent yesterday afternoon." "Does she understand the the ne cessity?" I asked. 'I pointed it out to her as clearly as I could. I'm all at sea, Lester." "Well, if even he were beginning to doubt, matters were indeed serious! "It's incomprehensible!" I sighed, after a moment's confused thought It's" "Yes past believing." "But the coachman"- "The coachman's evidence, I fear, won't help us much rather the re verse." I actually gasped for breath. I felt like a drowning man from whose grasp the saving rope had suddenly, unac countably, been snatched. "In that case" I began and stopped. "Well, in that case?" "We must find some other way out," I concluded lamely. "Is there another way, Lester?" he demanded, wheeling round upon me fiercely. "Is there another way? If there is I wisli you'd show it to me!" "There must be!" I protested des perately, striving to convince myself. "There must be. Only, I fear, it will take some little time to find." be remanded! Think what that will mean to her, Lester!" I had thought. I was desperate as he, but to find the flaw, the weak spot in the chain, required, I felt, a better brain than mine. I was lost in a whirl wind of perplexities. "Well, we must do our best," he went on more calmly after a moment. "I haven't lost hope yet chance often di rects these things. Besides, at worst I think Miss Holladay will change her mind. Whatever her secret, it were better to reveal -It than to spend a single hour in the Tombs. She simply must change her mind! And thanks, Lester, for your thoughtfulness. You have put new life Into me." I cleared away the debris of the lunch, and a few moments later the He arose and went slowly out, room began to fill again. At last the coroner and district attorney came in together, and the former rapped for or der. "The lnayyt will continue." he said. A Mystery Of Two Continents By BURTON E. STEVENSON Copyright, 1903, by Henry Holt tnd Comp&ny witn tne esaminanon ox duun xuuu&b, Miss Holladay's coachman." I can give his evidence In few words. His mistress had driven directly down the avenue to Washington square. There she had left the carriage, bid ding him wait for her, and had contin ued southward Into the squalid French quarter. He had lost sight of her In a moment and had driven slowly about for more than two hours before she re appeared. She had ordered him to drive home as rapidly as he could, and he had not stopped until he reached the house. Her gown? Yes, he had no ticed that it was a dark red. He had not seen her face, for it was veiled. No, he had never before driven her to that locality. Quaking at heart, I realized that only one person could extricate Frances Hol laday from the coil woven about her. If she persisted in silence, there was no hope for her. But that she should still refuse to speak was Inconceivable unless "That is all " said the coroner. "Will you cross examine the witness, Mr. Royce?" My chief shook his head silently, and Brooks left the stand. Again the coroner and Singleton whispered together. "We will recall Miss Holladay's maid," said the former at last. She was on the stand again In a mo ment, calmer than she had been, but deadly pale. "Are your mistress' handkerchiefs marked in any way?" Goldberg asked as she turned to him. "Some of them are, yes, sir, with j Iter initials, In the form of a mono gram. Most of them are plain." "Do you recognize this one?" and be handed her the ghastly piece of evi dence. I held my breath while the woman looked it; over, turning it with trem bling fingers. "No, sir!" she replied emphatically as she returned it to him. "Does your mistress possess any handkerchiefs that resemble this one?" "Oh, yes, sir. It's an ordinary cam bric handkerchief of good quality, such as most ladies use." I breathed a long sigh of relief. Here at least fortune favored us. "That is all. Have you any ques tions, Mr. Royce?" Again our junior shook his head. "That concludes our case," added the coroner. "Have you any witnesses to summon, sir?" What witnesses could we have? Only one, and I fancied that the jury men were looking at us expectantly. If our client were indeed innocent, why should w hesitate to put her on the stand, to give her opportunity to defend herself, to enable her to shatter, in a few words, this chain of, circum stance so firmly forged about her? If she were innocent, would she not natu rally wish to speak in her own be half? Did not her very unwillingness to speak argue "Ask for a recess," I whispered. "Go to Miss Holladay and tell her that un less she speaks" But before Mr. Royce could answer a policeman pushed his way forward from the rear of the room and handed a note to the coroner. "A messenger brought this a moment ago, sir," he explained. The coroner glanced at the super scription and handed it to my chief. "It's for you, Mr. Royce," he said. I saw that the address read: For Mr. Royce. Attorney for the Defense. He tore it open and ran his eyes rapidly over the lnclosure. He read it through a second time, then held out the paper to me with an expression of the blankest amazement. The note read: r The man Rogers is lying. The woman who was with Holladay wore & gown of dark green. CHAPTER IV. I STARED at the lines in dumb be wilderment. "The man Rogers is lying." But what conceivable motive could he have for lying? Besides, as I looked at him on the stand, I would have sworn that he was telling the truth, and very much against his will. I had always prided myself upon my judgment of human nature. Had I erred so egregiously in this instance? "The woman who was with Holladay wore a gown of dark green." Who was the writer of the note? How did he know the color of her gown? There was only one pos sib'e way he could know he knew the woman. Plainly, too, he must have been present at the morning hear ing. But, if he knew so much, why did he not himself come forward? To this, too, there was but one answer he must be an accomplice. But then, again, if he were an accomplice, why should he imperil himself by writing this note, for it could very probably be traced? I found myself deeper in the mire, farther from the light, at every step. "Do yon wish to summon any wit nesses, Mr. Royce?" asked the coroner again. "I shall be glad to adjourn the hearing until tomorrow If you do." Mr. Royce roused himself with an ef fort v !. ha oald. "I mar. ask yon to do that later on. . Just at present ' I wish to recall Mr. Rogers." '- "Very , well," said the coroner. And Rogers was summoned from the wit ness room. I I looked at him attentively, trying to j fathom his thoughts, to read behind his i eyes; but, look as I might, I could see I nothing in his face save concern and grief. He had grown gray in Holladay's omce, ne naa provea nimsen a nun area times a man to be relied on, he had every reason to feel affection and grat itude toward his employer, and I was certain that he felt both. He received a liberal salary, I knew, and was com fortably well to do. . That he himself could have commit ted the crime or been concerned in it in any way was absolutely unthinka ble. Yet why should he lie? Above alL why should he seek to implicate his employer's daughter? Even if he wished to implicate her, how could he have known the color of her gown? What dark, intricate problem was this that confronted us? In the moment that followed I saw that Mr. Royce was studying him, too; was straining to find a ray of light for guidance. If we failed now I read the note through again "a gown of dark green." And suddenly, by a kind of clairvoyance, the solution of the mystery leaped forth from it. I leaned over to' my chief, trembling with eagerness. "Mr. Royce," I whispered hoarsely, "I believe I've jsolved the puzzle. Hold Rogers on the stand a few moments until I get back." He looked up at me astonished, then nodded as I seized my hat and pushed my way through the crowd. Once out side the building, I ran to the nearest dry goods house three blocks away it was, and what fearfully long blocks they seemed! then back again to the courtroom. Rogers was still on the stand, but a glance at Mr. Royce told me that he had elicited nothing new. "You take him, Lester," he said as I sat down beside him. "I'm worn out." Quivering with apprehension, I arose. It was the first time I had been given the center of the stage In so important a case. Here was my opportunity! Suppose my theory should break down, after all! "Mr. Rogers," I began, "you've been having some trouble with your eyes," haven't you?" He looked at me in surprise. "Why, yes, a little," he said. "Noth ing to amount to anything. How did you know?" My confidence had come back again. I was on the right track then! 'T did not know," I said, smiling for the first time since I had entered the room, "but I suspected. I have! here a number of pieces of cloth of different colors. I should like you to pick out the one that most nearly approximates .he color of the gown your visitor wore yesterday afternoon." '; I handed him the bundle of samples, and as I did so I saw the district at torney lean forward over his desk with attentive face. The witness looked through the samples slowly, while I watched him with feverish eagerness. Mr. Royce had caught an inkling of my meaning and was watching him too. ' "There's nothing here," said Rogers at last, "which seems quite the shade, but this is very near it." He held up one of the pieces. With leaping heart, I heard the gasp of as tonishment which ran around the room. The jurymen were leaning forward in their chairs. "And what is the color of that piece?" I asked. "Why, dark red. I've stated that al ready." I glanced triumphantly at the coro ner. "Your honor," I said as calmly as I could, "I think we've found the. flaw in the chain. Mr. Rogers is evidently col or blind. As you see, the piece he has selected is a dark green." The whole audience seemed to draw a deep breath and a little clatter of ap plause ran around the room. I could hear the scratch, scratch of the report ers' pencils. Here was a situation aft er their hearts' desire! Mr. Royce had me by the hand and was whispering brokenly in my ear. "My dear fellow, you're the best of us all. I'll never forget it!" But Rogers was staring In amaze ment from me to the cloth in his hand and back again. "Green!" he stammered. "Color blind! Why, that's nonsense! I've never sus pected it!" "That's probable enough," I assented. "The failing is no doubt a recent one. Most color blind persons don't know it until their sight is tested. Of course we shall have an oculist examine you, but I think this evidence is pretty con clusive." Coroner Goldberg nodded, and the district attorney settled back in his chair. "We've no further questions to ask this witness at present," I continued. "Only I'd like you to preserve this piece of cloth, sir," and I handed It to Goldberg. He placed it with the other exhibits on his desk, and I sat down again beside my chief. He" had regain ed all his old time energy and keen ness. He seemed another man. "I should like to recall Miss Holla day's maid, if you please," he said, and the girl was summoned, while Rogers stumbled dazedly off to the witness room. "You're quite sure your mistress wore a dark red gown yesterday after noon?" he asked when the girl was on the stand again. , "Oh, yes, sir; quite sure." "It was not dark green? Think carefully now." "I don't have to think!" she retorted sharply, ..with a toss of her head. "Miss Holladay hasn't any dark green gown, nor light one either. She never wears green. , She doesn't like it. It BUSH PROTECTION. Roaes, Shrnba, Bupberrici , and Blackberries. Many of the roses and shrubs that make ; grounds 'attractive must have protection against the cold of winter. The cuts from Farm Journal show a quick and effective means of giving protection to separate bushes. Drive three stakes as shown in Fig. 1. ; Between these and over and around them place a -thick.jnat of straw. Wrap about this a short strip of wire poultry netting, twist the end wires together. FlCr. 1 PBOTF.CTINO EOSEBUSHES. draw the top together and tie with a string. Keep these strips of netting for use each winter.. Fig. 2 shows the rork complete. Another way of protecting roses (those that are planted in masses) is to bend each shoot carefully down to the ground and hold it in place with stakes. Then cover the whole bed with a foot of leaves or dry straw and place a piece of eight een inch wide wire net ting around tl?e bed. Hold this net ting in place with stakes and the mulch will not blow a way. In many localities raspberry and blackberry bushes must be tied up to prevent heavy snows from stripping off the new and tender shoots that will produce the fruit of the coming season. F6. 2 SUPPOET FOB BEBKY BUSHES. The usual stakes and supports are in the way of the cultivator. Fig. 1 shows an excellent plan for supporting the bushes. Fig. 2 plainly shows a sectional view of the same stakes, wires and bushes. This method keeps the bushes erect and gives a clear, open space be tween rows for the cultivator and for the pickers. - "Woolly Peaches and Rot. The cjaim that fuzzy or woolly peaches are better able to resist rot than the smoother ones is, I believe, not well founded. Soma years the one and other years the other suffers most. The Amsden rots badly every year. The Sneed is but very seldom affect ed. The Champion last year was en tirely free from rot, while this year we lost nearly all of them, and the Elberta is nearly rot proof. The very frequent Showers kept the spray mixtures thor oughly washed off at the most critical time, so that we lost control of both in sects and fungi. The insects not only ate the fruit full of holes, but I sup pose actually inoculated it with the rot. There is an old belief that the curculio dislikes the woolly peach. I believe that insect is responsible for much of the spreading of the rot, concludes an Indiana correspondent in Rural New Yorker. Handsome "Mums." Commenting on the annual chrysan themum show of the bureau of plant industry at Washington, Gardening says: The giant of the lot is the yellow Lieutenant Colonel Ducrosit, which is indeed a mammoth and should com mend Itself for show purposes If for no other. Roi d'ltalie. another yellow, has the appearance of being a very useful bloom for commercial ' purposes, and Jeanne Falconer is another that looks well. Donald McLeod is a yellow that shows the peculiarity of coming in dif ferent forms and shades. Some blooms are incurved and compact, while others are open with lanky petals. Amateur Conseil is a good red. Edgar Sanders is there and shows up in fine shape, as also does John K. Shaw. The Old Garden. Of all the scenes of childhood there is none to which memory turns oftener and clings more lovingly than "the old garden." From the time in early spring whey we heaped the brush on crackling bon fires, through the miracle of bursting bud and leaf, the gorgeousness of mid summer, the crisp, spicy days of au tumn and even when winter covered all with its mantle of snow it was an ideal playground. Chloroforming Plants. A French experimenter, M. Leblanc, chloroformed some azaleas for forty eight hours. Seventeen days later they were in full bloom. Other azaleas which had been grown under similar conditions, but not exposed to the chloroform vapor, did not bloom until a fortnight later. Grapevines. Grapevines are desirable and attrac tive for covering sides of buildings, barns or walls, and you need not be afraid that the vines will do the build ing or walls any harm. They will pro tect them. Plant grapevines for the health of your family and for their en joyment' Dahlia Roots. Leave the dahlia roots in clumps, as, when dug in the fall, in the spring they will start to sprout and then, should be severed. by a sharp knife,. for If they ire torn apart some wiir'be destroyed, ' RAISING MILK CATTLE. feetioni of Sire and Care of Dam. Feeding tbe Calf. . My care of a calf begins with the sire before the cow is served, writes a Pennsylvania farmer in American Ag riculturist. -1 prefer a sire two years old at least I keep him thrifty and vigorous. During the service season he is limited to two services a day, one in the morning and one at evening, and only one service to a cow. I believe . this plan insures a strong, healthy calf at birth, provided the dam has been properly fed and cared for during preg nancy. : My cows have only ordinary farm care, but I aim to allow them to go dry at least two months previous to calving. I lose a little milk by giving them so long a rest, but believe I make it up in the calf, if he is well enough bred to be worth raising at all. When a cow is about to calve I place her in a comfortable box stall, using plenty of straw. After the calf is born I give the cow a pail of warm drink and leave the calf with her from twelve to twenty-four hours, or until he has nursed once or twice, to be sure that he gets well filled with the first milk. This is nature's provision for his first food, and I want to be sure that he gets It. He is then placed by him self and the cow is returned to her ac customed place with the rest of the herd. The calf is now fed new milk from a pail for a week or ten days, when I begin to put in part skim milk. At about two weeks old he is on his regular ration, which Is four or five quarts skim milk, to, which is added a tablespoonful of ground flaxseed. I prepare the flaxseed by putting it into an earthen dish and pouring a teacup- I ful of boiling water upon it and allow ing it to stand from one feeding time until the next, when it is stirred into ! the milk and more prepared for the next feed. When the calf is about one month old he will begin to eat hay and grain. I feed him all he will eat of both, pref erably clover hay. For grain I have had good results with one part, by measure, cornmeal, two parts oats and two parts bran. The above ration is fed for four or five months. The milk and flaxseed are then discontinued. As my calves come in the fall or early winter, they are ready to be placed on pasture. I would like to continue the grain feed, but find they do not care for it when they have plenty of grass. Good Cows Hard to Get. When you find it difficult to procure a good cow you should remember that a cow of this class is seldom for sale. She fills her place so perfectly that the owner naturally refuses to part with her. 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