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I Thn Hirm nf ? J I lib l il ill ui 3 I Girdlestone B Y A. CONAN DOYLE i CHAPTER XX. (Continued.) "Of course. What could bo more de lightfully simple? Friend Hurt here does hi! work r we curry her through the gar den gate, aud lay her on the darkest part of the rails. Then we miss her at the house. There is an alarm and a search. The pate is found open. We nat urally go through with lanterns, and find her on the line. I don't think we need fear the co1 -or, or any one else, then'.'" "lie's a .arp 'un, is the guv'nor, cried Hurt, shipping his thigh enthusias tically. "It's the downiest lay 1 have heard this many a day." "Mr. Hurt can do his part of the busi ness out of doors. We can entice her out uiHin some excuse. There is no rea son why any one should, have a suspicion of the truth." "l!ut they know that she is not mad." "They will think that she did it on purpose. The secret will be locked up in our three breasts. After one night s work our friend here goes to the colo nies as a prosperous man, and the tirtu of Girdlestone holds un its head once more, stainless and irreproachable." "Speak low !" said Ezra, in a whisper. "I hear her coming downstairs." They listened to her light springy footstep us it passed the door. "Come here, lurt, he said, after a pause. "She is at work on the lawn. Come and have a look at her." They all went over to the window and looked out. It was then that Kate, glanc ing up, saw the three cruel faces survey ing her. "She's a rare, well-built 'un," said Hurt, as he stepped back from the win dow. "It is the ugliest job as ever I was on." "Hut we can rely upon you?" Girdle stone asked, looking at him with puck ei ed eyes. "You bet as long as you pay me," the navvy answered phlegmatically. CHAPTER XXI. The grey w inter evening was beginning to steal in before the details had all been ai ranged by the conspirators. It had grown so chill that Kate had abandoned her attempt at gardening, and , had gone back to her room. Ezra left his father and Burt by the fire and came out to the open hall door. The grim old trees looked gount and eerie as they waved their naked arms about in the cutting wind. A slight fog had come up from the sea and lay in light wreaths over the upper branches like a thin veil of gauze. Ezra was shiv ering as he surveyed the dreary scene, felt a hand on his arm, and looking round sow tbatthe maid Rebecco was standing beside him. "Haven't you got one word for me?" she said sadly, looking up into his face. "It's but once a week, and then never a word of greeting." "I didn't see you, my lass," Ezra an swered. "How does the I'riory suit you?" "One place is the same as another to Die," she said drearily. "You asked me to come here and I have come. You said once that you would let me know how I could serve you down here. When am I to know?" "Why, there's no secret about that. You do serve me when you look after my fnther as you have done these weeks I tack. That old woman isn't fit to man age the whole place by herself." "That wasn't what you meant, though," said the girl, looking at him with questioning eyes. "I remember your face now as you spoke the words. You had nc mething on your mind, and have now, only you keep it to yourself. Why won't you trust me with it?" "I have a great deal to worry me in business matters. Much good it would do telling you about them !" "It's more than that," said Rebecca, doggedly. "Who i? that man who has come down?" "A business man from London. He has come to consult my father about money matters. Any more questions you would like to ask?" "I should like to know how long we are to be kept down here, and what the Meaning of it all may be." "We are going hack before the end of the winter, and the meaning of it is that Miss llarston was not well and needed a change of ir. Now. are you satisfied?" lie was determined to allay as far as pos sible any suspicions that the girl might liave previously formed. "And what brings you down here?" she asked with the same searching look. "You l.u't come down into this hole without some good reason. I did think at first that you might come down in order to see rue, but you soon showed me that it wasn't that. There was a time when you v as fond of me." "So I am now, lass." "Aye. very fond ! Not a word nor a look from you last time you came. You must have some reason, though, that brings you here." "There's nothing wonderful in a man coming to see his own father." "Much you cared for him in London," she cried with a shrill laugh. "If he was under the sod you would not be the sad der. It's my belief as you come down after that doll-faced missy upstairs." As the light faded and the grey of evening deepened into darkness Kate sat patiently in her bare little room. A coal fire sputtered and sparkled in the rusty prate, and there was a tin bucket full of -oals beside the fender from which to re plenish it. She was very cold, so she drew her single chair up to the blaze and livid her hands over it. It was a lonesome and melancholy vigil, while the wind whistled through the branches of the tis and moaned drearily in the cracks and crannies of the old house. When were her friends coming? Perhaps some i thing had occurred to detain them to-day, ' This morning such a thing would have ap peared to her to be an impossibility, but now that the time had come when she had : expected thorn, it appeared probable j enough that something might have delay ' ed them. To-morrow at latest they could not fail to come. She wondered what ! they would do if they did arrive. Would ! they come boldly up the avenue and claim i her from the (iirdlostones, or would they j endeavor to communicate with her first? Whatever they decided upou would be sure to be for the best. She went to the window once and look ed out. It promised to be a wild r.ight. j Far away in the southwest lay a great j cumulus of rugged clouds from which dark streamers radiated over the sky, like the advance guard of an army. Here and there a pale star twinkled dimly out through the rifts, but the greater part of the heavens was black and threatening. It was so dark that she could no longer see the sea, but the crashing, . booming sound of the great waves filled the air and the salt spray came driving in through the open window. She shut it and resumed her seat by the fire, shivering partly from cold and partly from some vague presentiment of evil. An hour or more had passed when she heard a step upon the stairs and a knock came to her door. It was Rebecca, with a cup of tea upon a tray and some bread nnd butter. Kate was grateful at this at tention, for it saved her from having to go down to the dining room and face Ezra and his unpleasant looking companion. Rebecca laid down the tray, and then to her mistress' surprise turned hack and shut the door. The girl's face was very pale, and her manner was mild and ex cited. "Here's a note for you," she said. "It was given Mrs. Jorrocks to give you, but I am better at climbing stairs than she is. so I brought it up." She handed Kate a little slip of paper as she spoke. A note for her! Could it-be that her ftiends had arrived and had managed to send a message to her? It must be so. She took it from the maid. As she did so she noticed that her hands were shak ing as though she had the ague. "You are not well, Rebecca," said Kate, kindly. "Oh. yes, I am. You read your note and don't mind me." the girl answered in her usual surly fashion. Instead of leav ing the room she was bustling about the bed as though putting things in order. Kate's impatience was too great to allow her to wait, so she untwisted the paper. w hich had no seal or fastening. She had hoped in her heart to see the name of her lover at the end of it. Instead of that her eye fell upon the signature of Ezra (Jir dlestone. What could he have to say to her? She moved the solitary candle on to the mantelpiece, and read the following note roughly scribbled upon a coarse piece of paper : "My Dear Miss llarston I am afraid your confinement here has been very irk some to you. I have repeatedly requested my father to alleviate or modify it, but he has invariably refused. As he still per sists in his refusal, I wish to offer you my aid, and to show you that I am your sincere friend in spite of all that has passed, if you could slip out to-night at nine o'clock and meet me by the withered oak at the head of the avenue, I shall see you safe to Hedsworth, and you can, if you wish, go on to Portsmouth by the nest train. I shall manage so that you mny find the door open by that time. I shall not. of course, go to Portsmouth w ith you, but shall return here after drop ping you at the station. I do this small thing to show you that, hopeless as it may be, the affection which I bear you is still as deep as ever. Yours. 'E. Girdlestone. Our heroine was so surprised at this epistle that she sat for some time dang ling the slip of paper between her fingers and lost in thought. When she glanced round. Rebecca had left the room. She relied the paper up and threw it into the fire. Ezra, then, was not so hard-hearted as she had thought him. He had used his influence to soften his father. Should she accept this chance of escape, or should she await some word from her friends? Perhaps they were already in Hedsworth, but did not know how to communicate with her. If so, this offer of Ezra's was just what was needed. In any case, she could go on to Portsmouth and telegraph fioin there to the Dimsdales. It was too good an offer to be refused. She made up her mind that she would accept it. It was past eight now and nine was the hour. She stood up with the intention of putting on her cloak and bonnet. CHAPTER XXII. Ezra and his father had composed the letter together, and the former handed it to Mrs. Jorrocks, with a request that she should deliver it. It chanced, however, that Relecca, keenly alive to any attempt at communication between the young mer chant and mistress, saw the crone hob bling down the passage with the note in her hand. "What's that, mothef?" she asked. "It's a letter for her," wheezed the old woman, nodding he'r tremulous head in the direction of Kate's room. "I'll take it up," said Rebecca eagerly. "I am just going up there with her tea." "Thank ye. Them stairs tries my rheu matiz something cruel." The maid took the note and carried it upstairs. Instead of taking it straight to her mistress she slipped into her own room and read every word of it. It ap peared to confirm her worst suspicions. Here was Ezra asking an interview with the woman whom he had assured her that he hated. It was true that the request was made in measured words and on a plausible pretext. Xo doubt that was nwrely to deceive any other eye which might rest uiKin it. There was an under standing between them, and this was an assignation. The girl walked swiftly up and down the room like a caged tigress, striking her head with her clenched hands in her anger, and biting her lip until blood came. It was some time before she could overcome her agitation sufficiently to deliver the note, and when she did so her mistress, as we have seen, noticed that her manner was nervous and wild. She little dreamed of the struggle which was going on in the dark-eyed girl's mind against the impulse which urged her to doize her imagined rival by the white throat and choke the life out of her. "It's eight o'clock now," Ezra was say ing downstairs. T wonder whether she will come?" his father said brieu. "Suppose nlie didn't?" "In that case we should find othet means to bring her out. We have not gone so far to break down over a triile at the last moment." "I feel as cold as ice and as nervous as a cat. I can't understand how you look so unconcerned. If you were going to sign an invoice or audit an account or anything else in the way of business you could not take it more calmly. I wish the time would come. This waiting is terrible." Ezja, leaning back in his chair with the firelight flickering over his haggard but still handsome face, looked across at his father with a puzzled expression. He had never yet been able to determine whether the .old man was a consummate hjpoerite or a religious monomaniac. Hurt lay with his feet in the light of the fire and his head sunk back across the arm of the chair, fast asleep and snoring loudly. "Isn't it time to wake him up?" Ezra asked, interrupting the reading. "Yes, I think it is," his father answer ed. Ezra took up the candle and held it over the sleeping man. "What a brute he looks!" he said. "Did ever you see such an animal in your life?" The navvy was certainly not a pretty sight. His muscular arms and legs were all a-sprawl, and his head hung hack at a strange angle to his body, so that his fiery red beard pointed upwards, exposing all the thick sinewy throat beneath it. His eyes were half open and looked bleared and unhealthy, while his thick lips puffed out with a whistling sound at every ex piration. His, dirty brown coat was thrown open, and out of one of the pock ets protruded a short thick cudgel with a leaden head. John Girdlestone picked it out aud tried it in the air. "I think 1 could kill uu ox with this," he said. "Don't wave it about my head," cried stand iu the firelight brandishing that stick in your long arms you are less attractive than usual." t John Girdlestone smiled and replaced the cudgel in the sleeper's pocket. 'Wake up, Hurt," he cried, shaking him by tne aim. "It's half-past eight." The navvy started to his feet aud then fell back into his chair, staring round him vacantly, ac a loss as to where he might be. "I've been asleep, guv'nor," he said hoarsely. "Dird you say it was time for the job?" "We have made arrangements by which she will be out by the w ithered oak at nine o'clock. "Come on, then !" said the navvy. "Who is a-comin' with me?' "We shall both come," answered John Girdlestone, firmly. "You will need help to carry her to the railway line." "Surely Burt can do that himself Ezra remarked. "She's not so very htavy." Girdlestone drew his son aside. "Don't bu so foolish, Ezra," he said. "It must be done with the greatest carefulness and precision, aud no traces left. Our old business watchward was to overlook ev erything ourselves, and we shall certainly do so now." "It's a horrible affair!" Ezra said, with a shudder. "I wish I was out of it." "You won't think that to-morrow morn ing when you realize that the firm is saved and no one the wiser. He has gone on. Don't lose sight of him." They both hurried out, and found Burt standing in front of the door. It was blowing half a gale now, and the wind was bitterly cold. There came a melan ..." n. 7rm thP .Paf. I'UUIJ lasting auu . L - I less wood, and every now and again a sharp crackling sound would announce that some rotten branch had come crash- ing down. The clouds drove across the face of the moon, so that at times the cold, clear light silvered the dark wood and the old monastery, wnne at oiners all was plunged in darkness. From the open door a broad golden bar was shot across the lawn from the lamp in the . .S ural in the yellow glare. "What if she fails to come?" From the spot where they stood ttiey had a view of the whole of the Priory. I Kate could not come out without being seen. Above tne uoor was a ioug umiuw window which opened upon tne staircase. On this Girdlestone and his son fixed their eyes, for they knew that on her way down she would be visible at it. As they locked, the dim light which shone through it was obscured and then reappeared. "She has passed!" "Hush !" (To be continued.) A Watch ot the Blind. The novel watch for the blind invent- rul ttr ' ,srn fovar n (!nrm!iii wntch "She Is sure to come,' .it i J i- - hki 1 there is no better indicator of this radi niaker, is designed to supply a reliable ""c u u cal change between the woman our timeniece at a much more moderate cal " 6 cost than any yet used by the sightlesa The dial has an ordinary minute hand, while the hours are indicated by twelve buttons in relief, each button sinking into the dial in turn with the passage of the hours. TV) find the time, the fin gers are passed over the dial, when the depressed button makes known the hour, and the hand gives the minute by its isition. The dial covers a circu lar plate which takes the place of the ordinary hour hand, ns its circumfer ence lias a notch into which each but ton drops in turn as the movement of the works causes the plate to revolve. Hlnh Altitude fur a Kite. The highest altitude ever reached by a kite in this country, according to Prof. Henry, of the weather bureau, Is sephiue 9 aevoiion, everywnere rrom that recorded recently at the Mount garret tq throne. It has nodded its low Weather station in Virginia, when an ly head, with a success undreamed of altitude of slightly over 2.1,000 feet by haughty garden beauties. Modesty, wns "attained. At that height a tern- sweetness, Innate gentility these perature of 5 degrees Indow zero was glowed in the deep blue of each fra recorded. Prof. Henry says that ex- grant messenger. But, gracious alive, periments in' kite flying have leen car- who wants to be that nowadays? ried on in other countries where an "Violets? Dear me! Don't get those," altitude of 23.fiO feet was recorded, said the florist with a prescient glance That means a height of about four and ne-thlrd milts. - Why the Weaker se "Pa, why do they call women th WCJlkOr RX? "That s something I ve never been able to figure out myself," responded . tht fond parent Detroit Fre Press. I . ft Ji 1 A TRICK OF MEMORY. T Memory Is one of the most useful nnd least trustworthy of our faculties. "I mind It weel, but I hue ma doots o ma mind!" said a canny Scotchman In the witness box. A wholesome charity for the mistakes of others was learned by a certain woman from her own ex perience. She was about to cross the continent for a three months' visit. On the day of her departure she went to the safety deposit vault where she kept her valuables, nnd said to the manager that she wanted to take her box, with Its contents, to her lawyer's office for an hour. Could he arrange that for her? The manager assented, nnd wrapped the box in a newspaper, that It might make an inconspicuous bundle. The dny passed and the woman did not return. The next morning, inquiry revealed the fact that she had gone ou her Journey. The manager was curious enough to ask her lawyer if he knew anything about the box. "She left here intending to ,tnke it directly to you," said the lawyer. That wns enough to Justify a tele gram, as soon as the woman had reach ed her destination, six days Inter. Tel egram : "Where did you put your safe ty deposit box?" Answer: "In the vault where it belonged." Telegrnm : "It is not there. Return at once." Another week passed In wretched suspense for everyone concerned. When the woman nrrived, she was In n state of nervous rage, nnd ready to neeus the olliclals of every crime In the cal endar. She declared she had driven straight from her lawyer to the vault, The manager had himself let her In, nnd talked with her. Her story was complete In all its details. But the FKENCH MAKE MONEY REARING ANGORA RABBITS. COMBING THE HAIR. TICKING IT, AND PACKING FOR MARKET. Thrifty French men and women make tidy sums of money renring An gora rabbits, and selling their "hair or fleece, which is woven Into a superior quality of cloth much like silk, and is worn next the skin by those afflicted with rheumatism, who say they derive beneficial results. The better the animal is nourished and cared for, the longer, finer aud thicker is the hair. The rabbits are also consumed for food. It is said that with proper care eaehWbbit may be made to yield a net profit of three dollars a year, and the occupation is very pleasant. records of the deposit company did not substantiate It. That cast doubt enough on it so that it seemed worth while to look up the cabman who had driven the woman on that fateful dny. He wns found. He remembered tha Mrcumstnnce well. Had he any recollection of stopping Lany where else? Scratching his gnzz.ea head, he slowly retraced the course. and then said, "W ny, yes i vei.r". j at the bakeshop on the corner of M street, nnd you went in!" j jjere was the clew. A hasty visit to thf bakery revealed the newspaper bun- de tucked away on a high sueir, wirn its precious contents undisturbed. gtood for a fortnght, - & &nd & llalf.(lozen mcn , were staying awake by night and fret- ting by day, accusing each other or lying and stealing, nil because one woman's intention gut uue.iu w performance and imprinted a He on the tablets of her memory. Youth's Companion NO LONGER LOVED. Vloleta Forchaed Only hy Old-Faah-loned 31 en Who Say "Thank You." If a straw may show which way the wind blows, says a well-known news paper writer, then a violet may also serve as a vane to Indicate the passing eephyrs of society. In the present vanishing of the violet, ! fathers used to call "mother" as she 6tltched and sewed -and smiled upon her little brood, supremely happy with the bouquet of violets that sometimes graced her gown, and the smart, up-to-date Mrs. B. Formerly when flowers were distinct ly emblematic, deep with esoteric meaning, there was no greater compli ment than to be presented with a bunch of violets. Toets the world over, since Adam delved and Eve went violetlng. have rhapsodled over the womanly sig nificance of its quiet fragrance. From first reader ditties about the "mossy dell where the humble violets grew," to Napolen's eloquent tribute as he plucked it as the springtime emblem of his return from Elba, and also of Jo- like an up-to-date Sybil with a fat bank account. "They re way out of style. jfo one ever buys violets any more! They're too little, too modest," she .. to . few meaKer bouauets that 1.1 am. ms-islnc fVwYnAtl i4i-wroln rr .... wlUed not hftlf .howT enouifh not quite correct," she beamed, with fiefl nlte finality, "and one might Just as well be out of the world as out of the style, you know. Of course they're sweet nnd pretty nnd fragrant, nnd nil thnt," she said, giving them n vlgorpus shake, as though they needed a course In gymnastics. "But who wants any. thing like that, indeed? t "Oh, yes, sometimes some men, the old-fashioned kind, that wenr silk hats and sny 'thiink" you,' occasionally buy them, and then, too, when a girl is in mourning and can't wear anything else, there is a slight demand, but to send violets to a girl" she held up her hands In horror. "Why, I am sure she'd give them to the cook." j "Well, what do they like?" I asked, i For answer I was treated to a glance thnt would have been a credit to an emigrant inspector. "Like?" echoed sharp-eyed Sybil "Why, anything that stands out, shows off; lets everybody know that you're wearing them, speaks for themselves; that's what they want." She swept by a bower of roses, dusky with velvet beauty, and pointed to a great patch of gaudy orchids. "There! there!" she exclaimed. "That's the kind that makes the hit; 1 JT75Tbe Quebec Act became law pro . . , . ... v , viding for the government of tan- Just look at them. There won t be one GoverDorBnd Council. left after the ball to-night. Of course, I'll have to fall back on the roses to help out, but It'll be those bright ones there," she pointed to a crimson blot staining some snow-white hyacinths in the case beyond. "You know," she con fided, "I do believe some girls would wear sunflowers if they were only fash ionable. Those chrysanthemums nnd bright flowers do mnke an awful hit, and ns for orchids" I followed her forefinger trying to find some mythical meaning other than n loud plea for dollars and cents. "Those, of course. are most expensive, and therefore best of all." "Violets." she shook her head, "beau tiful nnd fragrant and tenderly sincere, If you like, but old-fashioned, dread fully old-fashioned, and not even to be considered, you know." CATHEDRAL MADE OF MATCHES. A, coal miner named Wllhelm Lem pertz nrrived here a few days ngowith a cathedral a cnthedrnl made of matches. He came from Port Arthur, Texas, where he had been employed until recently. The cathedral repre sents two years of Lemper tz's lnbor, such painstaking labor ns few men are capable of performing. For 20 years Lemper tz has been a coal miner. He worked In the mins of Germany nnd Amerlcn, but a few yenrs ago he had to give up mining on BUILT OF 2,000,000 SPLINTERS. account of 111 health. x While he was Hi he did various things to while away the time. One day he started to build a to cathedral patterned after a pic ture he saw In a magazine. Ills build ing materials were matches and glue, his tools a pocket knife and a glue brush. The plan was laid out for a building 14 feet high, 14 feet long and 7 feet wide. He worked with remark-,' able patience, oftentimes putting in all his waking hours at his task. After two years of almost continuous appli cation the Job was finished. The walls of the cathedral, the tow ers and turrets, the galleries and stee ples, the ornaments all are of match es. It took more than 2,000,000 match es to build the church and more than 100 pounds of glue used In fastening the 2,000,000 matches securely. New York Tress. After an affecting scene at a play the men all blow their noses vigorous ly, and the women pat their eyes. A man's way of crying Is to blow his nose. If there is one thing a garrulous man detests more than another It If , a talkative woman. ' THE WEEKLY 1404 Jamaica discovered by Columbus and named St. Jago by him. 1002 Queen Mary II. of England born. 1070 The Hudson's Bay Company formed in England. ' ' 1707 Legislative union of England and Scotland put into effect. by 1770 Adoption of the Pine Tree flag by great and general court of Massachu setts. 1788 Maryland ratified the Constitution of the United States. 1S08 Spanish organized a revolt against Napoleon. .. .Charles IV. of Spain Abdicated in favor of Bonaparte.... Union Temperance Society formed In Saratoga county, New York, this being the beginning of the Prohibi tion movement in the United States. 1827 French National Guard disbanded. 1S54 First railroad opened in Brazil. 1850 Montmorency bridge fell. 1859 Colorado river expedition ended. ''.80,' Sir Samuel Cunard, founder of th Cunard steamship line, died. 1877 Occupation of Bayazid by the Rus sians. 1878 First elevated trains run on Third avenue in New York City. '881 First sod turned in the construc tion of the Canadian Pacific railway. 1882 Charles S. Parnell, the Irish lead er, released from Kilmainhnm jail. 1885 Col. Otter attacked the Canadian rebels at Cut Knife Creek. 1888 Henry M. SUiley found Emia Pasha on the shore? of Albert Ny ansa. 1894 Many lives lost by earthquakes in Venezuela. . . .International bimetal lic conference met in London. 1898 Spanish fleet destroyed in battU of Manila bay. 1903 Landslide at Frank, B. C, with the loss of seventy-five lives. 1005 A score of lives lost in a tornado at Laredo, Texas.... Steamer Fa lk wrecked off Lands End, with loss of nearly 100 lives. 1907 Attempted assassination of Presi dent Cabrera of Guatemala. Construction work on the line of th Erie apd Jersey road and the Geuesse Kiver road is being pushed rapidly. I The South Hnkota railroad and ware house commission has decided to order I freight rates reduced west of the Missouri r"iver. A new tariff is now being worked out. ) i The balancing of the books of the Penn sylvania railroad for 1!07 shows that, while the system earned $.'10,000,000 more than in 1900. it paid $19,.V0,000 more , for labor, or 05 per cent on the increased earnings. Those opposed to closing the Red rivet tn nnviirntion had a mnioritv nt Hip hour. j Ing before Major Schunk of the United States engineer corps at Fargo, and they are confident that the plan to close the river below Belmont will be rejected by the federal government. Roads running east from Chicago seem to be all at sea regarding the policy to be adopted on the testing of the consti tutionality of the 2-cent maximum rate laws passed by many of the States. The matter was taken out of the hands of the passenger officials by their executive officers some time ago. The usual Ait-and-dried proceedings at meetings of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada were varied at the semi-annual gathering of the directors of the road in London, by heated charges of mismanage ment, and thereport of the board was only adopted after earnest appeals for unity of interest for the company's credit "Wd been made. An order for 200 refrigerator cars wn placed recently by the Northern Pacific as an addition to its equipment in order to be fully prepared to handle the annual fruit crop of the Northwest. It Is ex pected that the demands on the roads this year will be heavier than ever, and for that reason those reaching the fruit dis trict are all providing extra equipment. One road which began in 1899 by hand ling 11$ cars, expects to haul 3,500 thi year. Some of the eastern roads are said to be working ot a system whereby the National Educational Association not only will be given a rate of cents a mile for the round trip for its annual convention, which is to be held this year at Cleveland, but will continue to receiv the $2 membership fee which the roads in past years collected for it, without getting Into conflict with the ruling of the Inter state Commerce Commission that It is Illegal for the roads to collect this fee In connection with the sale of tickets and then turn over the amount thus collected In a groM sum to the association.