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SYNOPSIS.
The story opens on Long Island, near
New York city, where Miss Emily
ich. ______
a relativa
of Ethan ____
Ffrench.
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manufacturer of the celebrated "Mer-
•ury" automobile, loses her way. The
car has stopped and her cousin. Dick
FYrsnch, la too muddled with drink to
direct It aright. They meet another car
which is run by a professional racer
named Lestrange. The latter fixes up
the Ffrench car and directs Miss Ffrench
how
to
proceed homeward.
Ethan
neh has disinherited his son. who
disappeared. He Informs Emily
plainly that he would like to have her
■tarry Dick, who la a good-natured but
Irresponsible fellow
It aipears that a
partner of Ethan Ffrench wanting an ex
pert to race with the "Mercury” at auto
«vents, has engaged Lestrange. and at
the Ffrench factory Emily encounters the
young man.
They refer pleasantly to
their meeting when Dick comes slong and
recognizes the young racer. Dick likes
ths way Lestrange Ignores their first
meeting when he appeared to a disad
vantage. Lestrange tells Emily that he
will try to educate her indifferent cousin
as an automobile expert.
Dick under
takes his business schooling under the
tutelage of Lestrange. Dick Is sheer grit,
and In making a test race meets with
an accident. Lestrange meets Emily In
the moonlit garden of the Ffrench home
voder an Impulse he cannot control he
kisses her and she leaves him, confessing
ther own heart that she returns his
V«.
CHAPTER VII.—(Continued).
"I thought there was to be no more
trouble." she faltered, distressed.
Lestrange looked down at her stead
ily, his gray eyes darkening to an ex
pression she had never seen.
“Have I no right?” was his question.
“Is there no canceling of a claim, is
there no subsequent freedom? Is it
all no use, Emily?”
Vaguely awed and frightened, her
fingers tightened on his arm in a
panic of surrender.
“I will come to you, I will come!
You know best what is right—I trust
you to tell me. Forgive me, dear. I
wanted to—"
He silenced her. all the light flash
ing back to his face.
“A promise; hush! Oh, I shall win
tonight with that singing in my ears.
I have more to say to you, but not
now. I must see Bailey, somehow, be
fore I go.”
“He is at the house; let me send
him here to you.”
“If you come back with him.”
They laughed together.
“I will— Do you know," her color
deepened rosily, "they call you
■Darling;’ I have never heard your
own name.”
“My name is David,” Lestrange said
quietly, and kissed her for farewell.
The earth danced under Emily’s feet
as she ran across the lawns, the sun
glowed warm, the brook tinkled over
the cascades in a very madness of
mirth. At the head of the veranda
steps she turned to look once more
at the roof of the white pavilion
Among the locust trees.
■“Uncle will like you when be knows
you," she laughed in her heart “Any
one must like you.”
The servant she met in the hall said
that Mr. Bailey bad gone out, and
Mr. Ffrencb, also, but separately, the
former having taken the short route
across toward the factory. That way
Emily went in pursuit, intending to
overtake him with her pony cart.
But upon reaching the stables, past
which the path ran, she found Bailey
himself engaged in an inspection of
the limousine in company with the
chauffeur.
“You’ll have to look Into her differ
ential, Anderson,” he was pronounc
ing, when the young girl came beside
him
“Com«, pl«ase," sh« urged breath
lessly.
“Come?” repeated Bailey, wheeling,
with hie slow, benevolent smile. "Sure,
Miss Emily; where?”
She shook her head, not replying un
til they were safely outside; then:
“To Mr. Lestrange; he is in the pa
vilion. He wants to see you."
“To Lestrange!" he almost shouted,
halting. Lestrange here?”
“Yes. There is time; he says there
la time. He is going back as soon as
bo sees you.”
“But what’s he doing here? What
does he mean by risking bls neck
without any practice."
"He came to see me,” she whip-
pored, and stood confessed.
“God!” said Bailey, quite reverently,
after a moment of speechless stupe
faction. “You, and him!”
She lifted confiding eyes to him.
moving nearer.
“It is a secret, but I wanted you tt>
know because you like us both. Dick
■aid you loved Mr. Lestrange."
"Yes," was the dazed assent.
"Well, then— But come, ho Is
waiting.”
■ho was sufficiently unlike the usual
Miss Ffrench to bewilder any one.
Bailey dumbly followed her across
th« park, carrying hie hat tn hie
hand.
A short distance from the pavilion
Emily stopped abruptly, turning a
startled face to her companion.
"Sonn on« is there." she said.
"Some on« is speaking. I forgot that
Uncle Ethan had gone out."
She heard Dailey catch his breath
oddly. Her own pulses began to beat
with heavy Irregularity, as a few steps
farther brought the two opposite the
open arcade. There they halted,
trosen.
In the place Emily had left, where
all her feminine toys still lay, Mr.
Ffrench was seated as one exhausted
by the force of overmastering emo
tion; bls hands clenched on the arms
of the chair; his face drawn with pas
sion. Opposite hint stood Lest range,
colorless and still as Emily had never
conceived him. listening In absolute
silence to the bitter address pouring
from the other's lips with a low toned
violence indescribable.
“I told you then, never again to
come here," first tell upon Emily's
conscious bearing. "I supposed you
were at least Ffrencb enough to take
a dismissal. What do you want here,
money? I warned you to live upon
the allowance sent every month to
your bankers, for I would pay no more
even to escape the Intolerable dis
grace of your presence here. Did you
imagine me so deserted that I would
accept even you as a successor?
Wrong; you are not missed.
My
nephew Richard takes your place, and
Is fit to take it. Go back to Europe
and your low-born wife; there is no
lack in my household."
The voice broke in an excess of sav
age triumph, and Estrange took the
pause without movement or gesture.
“1 am going, sir, and I shall never
come back," he answered, never more
quietly. “I can take a dismissal, yes.
If ever I have wished peace or hoped
for an accord that never existed be
tween us, I go cured of such folly.
But hear this much, since I am ar
raigned at your bar: I have never
yet disgraced your name or mine un
less by the boy’s mischief which sent
me from college. The money you
speak of, I have never used; ask
Bailey of It, If you will." He hesitat
ed, and in the empty moment there
came across the mile of June air
the roaring noon whistle of the fac
tory. Involuntarily he turned his head
toward the call, but as Instantly re
covered himself from the self betray
al. “There is another matter to be
arranged, but there Is no time now.
Nor even In concluding It will I ever
come here again, sir."
There was that in his bearing, in
the dignified carefulness of courtesy
with which he saluted the other before
turning to go, that checked even Eth
an Ffrench. But as Lestrange crossed
the threshold of the little building,
Emily ran from the thicket to meet
him, her eyes a dark splendor in her
white face, her hands outstretched.
“Not like this!" she panted. “Not
without seeing me! Oh, I might have
guessed—’’
His vivid color and animation re
turned as he caught her to him, heed
less of witnesses.
“You dare? My dear, my dear, not
even a question? There Is no one
"Well,
Then—But Come,
Walting.”
He
Is
like you. Say, shall I take you now,
or send Dick for you after the race?"
Mr. Ffrench exclaimed some lnartlo-
ulate words, but neither heard him.
"Send Dick,” Emily answered, her
eyes on the gray eyes above her.
"Send Dick—I understand, I will
come.”
He kissed her once, then she drew
back and he went down the terraces
toward the gates. As Emily sank down
on the bench by the pavilion door,
Bailey brushed past her, running after
the straight, lithe figure that went
steadily on out of sight among the
huge trees planted and tended by five
generations of Ffrenches.
When the vistas of the park were
empty, Emily slowly turned to face
her uncle.
"You love David Ffrench?" he asked,
his voice thin and harsh.
"Yes," she answered. She bad no
need to ask if Lestrange were meant
“He is married to some woman of
the music halls."
"No.”
"How do you know? He has told
you?"
She lifted to him the superby confi
dence of her glance, although nervous
tremors shook her in wavellke suc
cession.
“If he had been married, he would
not have made me care for him. He
has asked me to be bls wife."
They were equally strange to each
other In these new characters, and
equally spent by emotion.
Neither
moving, they sat oposlte each other
in silence. So Bailey found them
whan he cam« back later, to take his
massive stand In th« doorway, his
hands in bls pockets and his strong
Jaw set
"I think that things ar« kind of
mixed up her«, Mr Ffrench," he stated i
grimly. “I guess I'm tb« on« to l » 'A "W 1
I I 1 . !■ »I I W'l
straighten them out a bit; I’ve loved'
Mr. David from the time he was a kid 1
and never saw him get a square deal '
yet You asked him «hat he was do
Ing her«—1'11 tell you; he is Le
strang«."
Ther« Is a degree of amazement FUN WITH COMICAL FIGURES
which precludes speech; Mr. Ffrencb
looked back at his partner, mute.
Boy May Csuse Merriment By An
"He Is lestrange. He never meant
ranging Funny Head to Long
you to know; he'd have left without
Stick, Covered With Cloth.
your «ver knowing, but for Miss Km
lly. I guess I don't nc«d to remind
Much amusement may be given by
you of what he's done; if it hadn't any boy on a winter's night by arrang
b«en for him we might hav« closed' ing a funny head to the end of a long
our doors some day. He understands 1 stick. Around the neck gather a loose
th« business as non« of us back-num I skirt of some cheap diirk material,
her, old fashioned ones do; ha took' long enough to reach to the ground
hold and shook some lite Into it We when the stick Is held at arm’s length
can make cars, but he can mak« peo above the head of the boy who will
pl« buy them. Advertising!
Why. be Inside. The material should be
Just that fool picture be drew on the coarse, so that the boy Inside can see
back of a pad, one day, of a row of through. About the height of bls
thermometers up to ona hundred knee wire the skirt to make It stand
forty, with the sign ’Mercuries are at out, and another wire the height ot
the top,' made more people nolle«.”
the neck will keep the view clear and
Bailey cleared his throat "He was
always making people notice, and
laughing while he did it. He's risked
his neck on every course going, to
bring our cars in first, he's lent his
fame as a racing driver to help us
along. And now everything is fixed
the way we want, he's thrown out.
What did he do It for? He thought
he needed to square accounts with
you, for being born. I suppose; so!
when he heard how things were going 1
with us he came to me and offered his
help. At least, that’s what he said
I believe he came because he couldn't
bear to see the old place go under."
There was a skein of blue silk
swinging over the edge of the table.
Mr. Ffrench picked It up and replaced
it In Emily's work basket before re
plying.
"If this remarkable story Is true."
he began, accurately precise in ao-
cent.
"You don't need me to tell you t\ ■
Comical Giant.
Is,” retorted Bailey.
“You
know,
what my new manager's been doing. |
why, you disliked him without seeing keep the folds of the skirt awsy from
him, but you had to admit his good his face. When the person is Insid«
he will look like a funny giant, and
work.
And I heard you talking
the attitudes and movements be makes
about bls allowance, Mr. Ffrencb. He
will please his audience. The accom
never touched It, not from the first;
panying pictures will give some of ths
it piled up for six years. I.ast April,
when we needed cash tn a hurry, he
drew It out and gave it to me to buy
aluminum. When he left here first he
drove a taxicab in New York city un ■
til he got into racing work and made '
Darling Lestrange famous all over the !
continent. I guess it went pretty bard
for a while; if he’d been the things'
you called him, he’d have gone to the
devil alone In New York. But be
didn’t”
An oriole darted In one arcade and I
out again with a musical whir of
Amusing Dwarf.
wings. The clink of glass and silver
sounded from the house windows with
a pleasant cheerlness and suggestion movements and show the change from
a giant to a dwarf. If the performer
of comfort and plenty.
"He made good,” Bailey concluded, is deft, he can make up attitudes and
thoughtfully. "But It sounded queer introduce funny speeches while he gl-
to me to hear yon tell him you didn’t rates about the room
Had Kspt Her Bargain.
An lusenlous trick was recently
played on some women of Mau Ik Jun J,
Madras, India. They handed sums of
money to a woman who said that she
possessed the power uf doubling the
contents. Th« victims had
their
packets returned to them after seven
days, when th« silver coins they had
contained wero found to hav« bu«li
changed Into copper ones.
CHILDREN
want him around because Mr Dick
took his place. I know, and Miss Em
ily knows, that Dick Ffrench was no
use on earth for any place until Mr
David took him in hand and male him
fit to live. That's all, I guess, that
I had to say; I’ll get back to work.”
Hs turned, but paused to glance
around. "It's going to be pretty dull
at the factory for me. And between
us we've sent Lestrange to the track
with a nice set of nerves."
His retreating footsteps died away
to leave the noon hush unbroken. As
before, uncle and niece were left op
posite each other, the crumpled news
paper where Lestrange's name showed
In heavy type lying on the floor be
tween them.
The effect of Bailey's final sentence
had been to leave Emily dizzied by
apprehension. But when Mr. Ffrench
rose and passed out, she aroused to
look up at him eagerly.
"Uncle.” she faltered.
Disregarding or unseeing her out
stretched band, he went on and left
her there alone. And then Emily dared
rescue the newspaper.
"A substitute,” she whispered. "A
substitute,” and laid her wet cheek
against the pictured driver.
No one lunched at the Ffrench
home that day, except the servants.
Near three o’clock in the afternoon
Mr. Ffrench came back to the pavilion
where Emily still sat.
"Go change your gown," he com
manded, in his usual tone. "We will
start now. I have sent for Bailey and
ordered Anderson to bring the auto
mobile."
"Start?" she wondered, bewildered.
He met her gaze with a stately re-
pellence of comment
“For the Beach. I understand this
race lasts twenty-four hours.
Have
you any objection?”
Objection to being near David! Em
ily sprang to her feet.
<TO BE CONTINUED.)
ORIGIN OF DIFFERENT WORDS
Common Slang Term “Mash" Is From
Gypsy Word, “Mafada” Meaning
“to Charm By the Eyes.”
"Pow wow” comes from the North
American Indians.
The word boss conies from the low
Dutch and means master.
Kidnap comes from the napping or
stealing of a kid, gipsy for child.
Calaboose, a prison; picaroon, a pi
rate; palaver, to talk, are all Span
ish.
*'A rum chap" is simply a gipsy lad;
it has no relation to the product of
the still.
Pal is a brother, and "conk," for
nose, comes from the spouting foun
tain, the concha of the Romans.
Demijohn comes from the Arabic
damaghan, Itself taken from the Per
sian glass making town of Demaghan.
The common slang word “mash" Is
from a beautiful gipsy word, "mr-
fada,” which means "to charm by the
eyes.”
Why should a man be called a
spoon? Why spoony when he is mak
ing love? Simply because he Is a
"loeffel,” which also means spoon.
A tinker’s dam has nothing to do
with (wearing. It is merely the dar
or stoppage, mnde of flour and water,
which which the tinker stops the gap
he la mending until the tin or the
pewter he is using had cooled.
RIDDLES.
What is it we all often say we will
do and nobody has ever yet done?
Stop a minute.
What word contains all the vowels
in their proper order?
Facetious.
What word of fifteen letters is
there from which you can subtract
twelve and leave ten?
Pretentiousness.
Why have poultry no future state
of existence?
They have their necks twirled
(next world) in this.
What is It that never was and nev
er will be?
A mouse's nest in a cat’s ear.
Why is a locomotive like a belle?
Rhe scatters the sparks and trans
ports the malls.
Wholesale Burning of Books.
The French should win Edmund
Gosse's commendation for the whole
sale manner in which they have de
stroyed books. They have even gone
to the extent of coining a special
word, "blblfolytle," to donate "la de
struction volontaire des livres." The
greatest date In the annals of blbllo-
lytle is 1790, when church property
was confiscated by the revolutionary
government. During that year, in
Satisfied.
Paris alone, 808,120 volumes taken
Uncle John—Willie, if you could
from monasteries and convents were have your way, who would you rather
burned, and throughout the whole be than anybody else?
country the total destroyed is said to : Small Willie—Just me—if I could al
have amounted to 4.194,400.
ways have my way.
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H < eves White Vs« Walk.
Allan's FiMii-Ea*« ia ai-erlaln curator hot.
««callus,rallua,ami •wollau, m-liluc teal. Hold
by allbrugxl.l*. Price .Ik’. 1‘on'i m - ccu I any
«u bell lute. Trial .... kace rilkk. A-U lece
Allan H Olmctc.l, t.a liny, N. V.
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BAD ROADS WASTEFUL
Antiquated Methods In Illinois
Cause Big Loss.
Accomplishing.
It la vary Important that th« young
man select his Ilf« work early and
band «v«ry energy toward accom
pllshlng something. One of the iikmi I
common causes ot failure In this Ilfs
Ilea In the fact that men do not see
the important)« of being thorough uu-
til It is too late Horence Vidette,
Conference Held st Peoria Approves
English Stump Speech.
Program for “Pulling Illinois Out
A correspondent. “Old
Briney,*'
of Mud”—Recommend State
send« us th« following specimen of
frenzied
stump oratory:
"Follor
Prisoners to Be Uoed.
blokes! Thanks tor th* guv'ment, yer
Bankers,
farmers, sutomobtlists, got yor d'nilnlahln' wage, and yer Hi
Wotcher got
educators, labor and business MS ll« loaf, m * all that
from all over Illinois met at Peoria ter do now la ter go fer devllootlon
the other day aud approved unani and local anatomy, an' go It bllud!"
mously a general program for "pull (Loud cheers.) I-ondon Globo.
ing Illinois out of the tuud.”
Be thrifts on little thlncc like bluing. IX-n't on.
After three rousing meetings they Kt
wclvr fur bluing
A.k for 1U.I I' ium Poll
ic, the nUi z « bm 1 value blue.
prepared a resolution to the next stale
législature setting out the Unes ou
By Installments.
which they think state luglalatlou
The "epoch making advice" of a
should be baaed
bookmaker to a colleague tn distress
The Illinois highway Improvement
Is related In Vanity Fair. The col
commission, which called the meeting,
league had been paid £25 on a bet
declared 455,000,000 will bo wasted lu
Illinois during ;hu next twenty years by a certain captalu, who, in a fit of
absent-mindedness, paid him the same
unless tho present antiquated meth
amount again next day. "What shall
ods are changed.
I do about It?" asked the bookmaker
To prevent this waste the confer
of his friend: and prompt cam« the
ence urges the creation of a small
answer: "Ask him for if again."
state railway commission to replac«
the present army of local commission
Steel Stays »topped Bullet.
ers, more active assistance by the
Steel stays have saved many a wom
state for the trunk Hues, and mor« an's life Not long ago Mary lleneasy
active insistence by th-) public on was taken to Bellevue hospital with
good roads
a flesh wound In tho aldo, and Dr.
It is proposed that prisoners In the Drury discovered that hud It Dot been
state penitentiaries be used not only for a steel stay which deflected tho
for tho preparation of road building bullet tho wound would have been
materials, as nt present, but. If possi fatal, for the slug had boon traveling
ble, for actual construction
work toward a vital or--.»
through the state.
Clogged Sewing Machine.
It Is proposed to follow the Colora
When a sewing macblnn will nol
do method, using tho honor system,
and sending tho gangs out with work, stand It near thu Ora so that
guards.
th« oil may malt, and then clean with
The legislation recommended by pur« paraffin, putting It into «very
oil bole. Work tho machine well, and
tho conference would provide:
State and county co-operation tn then wipe every part with a clean
the construction and maintenance of cloth. When perfectly clean, lubrl
cate with machine oil.
main highways and bridegs
A non political state highway com
As a Man Thinks.
mission of at least three competent
Jennie—"He must have a soft spot
members, who shall devote their en
in his heart for me." Wennle—"Why
tire time to their duties.
Improvement In such counties as so?" Jennie—"He says he Is always
elect to come under the provisions of thinking of me." Wennle—"But, you
the law, of main, contlnuoua inter know, a man doesn’t think with his
county highways connectlug county heart. The soft place must b« In bls
seats and other important cities, prin bead.”—London Telegraph.
cipally at the expenso of the state and Mothen win find Mrc Window's Roointni
county; such roads to be selected and Syrup L' a beet reinedv to use 'ue Ibali vUUdzea
improved by county authorities, sub fur lug .he teething period.
ject to the approval of tho state high
Happiest Home.
way commission and after improve
But tho happiest home la built
ment to be turned over to the state
when the twain together meet ths
for perpetual maintenance.
Improvement, maintenance, and con trials and catastrophes that comi
trol of remaining roads (about 80 per from the outside world with the good
cent, of the whole) under supervision health, the common sense, the humor,
the patience and courage that will
of county and township authorities.
Effective measures to guarantee rout them It should not be necessary
maintenance after roads are once con for these qualities to be used by the
one to combat the faults of the other.
structed.
Use of tho state automobiles tax. — Barbara Bovd.
together with such other funds as the
Learning by Love Letter.
legislature may appropriate in the Im
”Ix)ve letters between young men
provement of highways.
and women are an excellent method
Use of state prisoners—under state of teaching literature," says Dr. Ar
direction—on an honor system. In ao- thur Holmes
But it must bo done
tuai road work when practicable.
tactfully. We have known a young
Payment of all road taxes in cash.
lady who broke off an engagement
Compulsory dragging ot all earth because her fiance returned her love
roads.
letters with the spelling errors neatly
Proper construction and guarding corrected In red ink
of crossings at railroads and inter
section of street and highways.
TO CtllK A COLD IN ONE DAY
The “platform" of the conference ’Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets
Includes resolutions In favor of fed ?!;;•'»“!• mfun.l money It It fall« to eura. E. W.
jICO V t, S dgnstura icon each buz. ZAc.
eral aid for postroads and national
highways, and calls attention of Illi
Not Inconvenienced.
nois congressmen to this position.
“Did the dissolution of your gigantic
Jesse Taylor of Jamestown, O , told corporation cause you Inconvenience?"
the convention the difference between "Not the slightest,” replied Mr. Dustin
hauling cost In Belgium and America. Stax. "I needed an enlarged and ink-
13 cents a mile, meant a waste of proved system of branch offices any
8127,500,000 In this year's farm crops how."
alone.
Wanted to Llv« in History.
Rome men’s Idea of fame la cen
Egg Material.
The laying mash has become gen talnly a distorted one. A murderer
erally recognized as tho most conve In Routh Carolina pleaded for tho
nient as well as economical method privilege of being th« first man to be
of providing a hen with egg material. electrocuted when that new mode ot
The following is a good formula: execution was introduced into ths
Coarse wheat bran, coarse middlings,
ground corn and oats, alfalfa meal,
No Us« for Boy« Any More.
meat scraps, each 100 pounds, linseed
Somebody has Invented an electric
meal forty pounds, fine table salt ten lovlce that will split kindling wood.
pounds. This 550 pounds ot feed, cost Gradually we are gottlng It so ar
ing around |10, should be enough to ranged that the world will have ab-
last a flock of 100 hens one month lolutely no use for small boya.
and should produce during that time,
at December and January price«, from
|50 to
worth of eggs. There la
not another anlcnnl on the ranch that
will show thiB profit from the same
amount of feed given In addition to
the regular rations.
Plant Food.
When plants run to vines and tops
it is a sure Indication that the soli
Is full of nitrogen and lacking In pot
ash and phosphoric acid. This fre
quently comes from the use of large
quantities of stable manure. A fer
tilizer low In nitrogen and rich in
potash and phosphoric acid will bal
ance up the plant food ration.
Difficulty With Guinea«.
One difficulty about raising guinea«
1« that the young birds ar* vary aasUy
killed by mites and 11c*.
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PISO S RLMEDY
B m < C«B<h >ymp. T m ( m Good. U m
In time. Bold by Dniitirti.
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