lighted that she should.
They
to tear off hla great »oft hat- It waa awful old duds, I know, but W woul
actually the first funeral he had seen
think them a wonder If you saW w e
since his own father’s; no wonder his
radiance suffered a brief eclipse. But they came from—”
"I'm
sorry to interrupt.” Bam
in another moment he was out on
Blanche, laughing, "but there s yo
Barnes’ Common.
taxi ticking up twopence every qu
It had been the bicycle age when he
ter of an hour, and I can't let it go
went a «a y ; now it was the motor age
without warning you. Where ba*e you
and the novelty and contrast were
endless to a simple mind under the come from ?"
He told her with a grin, was round­
influence of forgotten yet increasing!'
ly reprimanded for his extravagance,
familiar scenes. But nothing was lost
•
on Cazalet that great morning; even but brazened it out by giv ing
a milk-float entranced him. itself en­ smart young man a sovereign he ore
chanted, with Its tall can turned to her eyes. After that, she said he had
gold and silver in the sun. But now better come in before the neighbors
[guSTBATlONg,, by O- .nTWIN A T Æ H 5
he was on all but holy ground. It was came out and mobbed him for a mi
not so holy with these infernal elec­ lionaire. And he followed her indoor*
Hilton Toye. “ I guess I'm not running tric trams; still he knew every inch and up-stairs, into a little new en
6YN O P6I3.
for that reward!”
of it; and now, thank goodness, he was crowded with some of the big o
-»3—
things he could remember in a very
Caialct. on th* Keamer Kaiser Frit a.
off the lines at last.
homeward bound from Auatralia. crlea
CHAPTER IV.
"Slow er!" he shouttd to his smart different setting. But if the room was
out In hi* *le»*p that Henry Craven, who
ten year* before hud ruined his father
young man. He could not say that no small it had a balcony that was hard­
and himself. Is dead and finds that Hil­
notice was taken of the command. But ly any smaller, on top of that undu y
ton Toye. who share* the stateroom with
Down the River.
him, knows Craven and also Blanche
a
wrought-iron gate on the left, with imposing porch; and out there, over
At Waterloo the two men parted,
Macnalr, a former neighbor and play­
a
covered
way leading up to the house, looking the flne grounds opposite, were
mate. When the dally papers come with
a fair exchange of fitting
aboard at Southampton Toye reads that
was past and gone in a veritable basket chairs and a table, hot with
speeches,
none
of
which
rang
really
Craven has been murdered and calls
the Indian summer sun.
Cazalet’s dream second sight. He thinks false
And yet Cazalet found himself twinkling.
of doing a little amateur detective work
“ I hope you are not shocked at my
Five or six minutes later the smart
on the cuse himself. In the train to town emphatically unable to make any plans
‘‘I’m afraid I
they discuas the murder, which was com­ at ail for the next few days; also, he young man was driving really slowly abode,” said Blanche.
mitted at Cazalet’s old home. Toye hears
can't
help
it
if
you
are.
It's Just big
along
a
narrow
road
between
patent
from Cazalet that Scruton. who had been seemed in two minds now about a
Cazalet's friend and the scapegoat for Jermyn Street hotel previously men­ wealth and blatant semi gentility; on enough for Martha and me; you re­
Craven’s dishonesty, has been released
tioned as his immediate destination; the left good grounds, shaded by cedar member old Martha, don’t you? Youjll
from prison.
and his step was Indubitably lighter as and chestnut, and on the right a row have to come and see her, but shell
he went off first of all to the loop-line, of hideous little houses, as pretentious be horribly disappointed abou. your
CHAPTER III—Continued.
to make sure of some train or other as any that ever let for forty pounds beard!"
Coming through the room, stopping
Toye looked disconcerted and dla- that he might have to take before the within forty minutes of Waterloo.
"This can’t be it !" shouted Cazalet. to greet a picture and a bookcase (fill­
treeeed. but at the same time frankly day was out
puzzled. He apologized none the less
In the event he did not take that “ It can’t he here—stop! Stop! 1 tell ing a wall each) as old friends. Caza­
let had descried a photograph of him­
readily, with almost ingenuous cour­ train or any other; for the new you!”
He had
A young woman had appeared in self with that appendage.
tesy and fullness, but he ended by ex miracle of the new traffic, the new
,- threatened to take the beastly thing
plaining himself In a single sentence, smell of the horseless streets, and the one of the overpowering wooden pert1
and that told more than the rest of his newer Joys of the newest of new taxi­ coes; two or three swinging strides i away, and Blanche had told him he
had better not. . But it did not occur
straightforward eloquence put to­ cabs, 11 worked together and so swift­
to Cazalet that it was the photograph
gether.
ly upon Cazalet’s organism that he J J
to which Hilton Toye had referred, or
If a man had done you down like bad a little colloquy with his smart
that Toye must have been in this very
that, wouldn’t you want to kill him the young driver instead of paying him in
room to see it. in these few hours he
very moment you came out. Cazalet?” Jermyn Street. He nearly did pay him
had forgotten the man’s existence, at
off,
and
with
something
more
than
his
The creature of Impulse was off at
least in so far as it associated Itself
a tangent. " I ’d forgive him If he did usual impetuosity, as either a liar or a
with Blanche Macnair.
It, too !” he exclaimed.
“ I’d move fool with no sense of time or space.
"The others all wanted me to live
"But that’s as quick as the train,
heaven and earth to save him, guilty
near them,” she continued, "but as no
or not guilty. Wouldn’t you in my my good fellow !" blustered Cazalet.
two of them are In the same county
place?”
"Quicker,” said the smart young fel­
it would have meant a caravan. Be­
"1 don’t know.” said Hilton Toye. low without dipping his cigarette, “ if
sides, I wasn't going to be transplant­
"It depends on the place you're In, I you were going by the old Southwest­
ed at my age. Here one has every­
guess!” And the keen dark eyes came ern!”
body one ever knew, except those who
drilling into Cazalet's skull like
The very man, and especially the
escape
by emigrating, simply at one’s
augers
manners that made or marred him,
mercy on a bicycle. There's more golf
"1 thought 1 told you,” he explained was entirely new to Cazalet as s
and tennis than I can find time to
Impatiently. "W e were In the office product of the old country. But he
play; and I still keep the old boat in
together; he was good to me. winked had come from the bush, and he felt
the old boat-house at Littleford, be­
at the business hours I was inclined to as though he might have been back
cause it hasn’t let or sold yet, I'm
keep, let me down lighter In every way there but for the smell of petrol and
sorry to say."
than I deserved. You may say it was the cry of the motor-horn from end to
“ So I saw as I passed,” said Caza­
part of his game. Hut I take people end of those teeming gullies of bricks
as I tlnd them. And then, as 1 told and mortar.
let. "That hit me hard!”
you, Scruton was ten thousand times
"The place being empty hits me
He had accompanied his baggage
more sinned against than sinning.”
harder,” rejoined the last of the Mac-
Just as far as the bureau of the
“Are you sure? if you knew it at Jermyn Street hotel. Any room they
nairs. “ It’s going down in value every
the time— "
day like all the other property about
liked, and he would be back some
“ I didn't. I told you so the last time before midnight; that was his A Young Woman Had Appeared !n here, except this sort. Mind where you
night.”
throw that match, Sweep! I don’t
One of the Wooden Porticoes.
card, they could enter his name for
Well, I mustn't ask questions,” said themselves. He departed, pipe in
want you to set fire to my pampas-
Hilton Toye, ami began folding up his mouth, open knife in one hand, plug were bringing her down the silly little grass; it's the only tree I’ve g o t!”
newspaper with even more than his tobacco in the other; and remarks path to the wicket-gate with the idiotic
Cazalet laughed; she was making
name; there was no time to open it be­ him laugh quite often. But the pam
usual deliberation.
were passed in Jermyn Street as the
fore Cazalet blundered up, and shot pas-grass, like the rest of the ridic­
"Oh, I'll tell you!" cried Cazalet un­ taxi bounced out west in ballast
his hand across to get a grasp as Arm
ulous little garden in front, was ob­
graciously. "It's my own fault for tell­
But indeed it wus too flne a morn­ and friendly as he gave.
scured if not overhung by the balcony
ing you so much It was In a letter ing to waste another minute indoors,
"Blanchie!”
on which they sat. And the subject
from Scruton himself that I heard the even to change one's clothes, if Caza­
"Sw eep!”
seemed one to change.
whole thing. I'd written to him— to let had possessed any better than the
They were their two nursery names,
ward the end— suggesting things. He ones he wore and did not rather glory
"it was simply glorious coming
hers no improvement on the proper
managed to get an answer through In his rude attire He was simply and
monosyllable, and his a rather dubious down,” he said. “ I wouldn’t swap that
that would never have passed the comfortably drunk with the delight ot j token of pristine proclivities. But out ! three-quarters of an hour for a bale ol
prison authorities. And—and that's being back. He had never dreamed of
j both came as If they were children ; wool. Y’ ou can't think how every mor-
why I came home Just when 1 did," Its getting into his head like this; at
still, and children who had been Just j tal thing on the way appealed to me.
concluded Cazalet; "that's why I didn't the time he did not realize that it had i long enough apart to start with a good j The only blot was a funeral at Barnes;
wait till after shearing. He’s been That was the beauty of his bout, he j honest mutual stare.
| it seemed such a sin to be buried on
through about enough, and I've had knew well enough what he was doing
"You aren’t a bit altered," declared a day like this, and a fellow like me
more luck than I deserved. 1 meant to and seeing, but Inwardly he was lit­
the man of thirty-three, with a note coming home to enjoy himself!”
take him back with me. to keep the erally blind. Yesterday was left be­
He had turned grave, but not graver
not entirely tactful In hfs admiring
books on our station, If you want to hind and forgotten like the Albert
voice. But his old chum only laughed. than at the actual moment coming
know!” The brusk voice trembled.
Memorial, and to-morrow was still as
"Fiddle!" she cried. "But you're not down. Indeed, he was simply coming
Toye let his newspaper slide to the distant as the sea. If there were such
altered enough. Sweep, I’m disappoint­ down again, for her benefit and his
floor. "Hut that was fine!” he ex­ things as to-morrow and the sea.
own. without an ulterior trouble until
ed In you. Where's your beard?"
claimed simply. “ That's as flne an ac­
Meauwhlle what vivid miles of daz-
“ I had it off the other day. I always Blanche took him up with a long face
tion as I've heard of In a long time "
ziiug life, what a subtle autumn flavor meant to," he explained, "before the of her own.
"U it cornea off," said Cazalet in a In the air; how cool in the shadows,
"W e've had a funeral here. I sup
end of the voyage. I wasn't going to
gloomy voire.
how warm in the sun; what a spark­ land like a wild man of the woods, poee you know?"
"Don't you worry. It'll come off. Is ling old river It was. to be sure; and you know!”
"Yes. I know."
he out yet, for sure? I mean, do you yet, if those weren't the first of the
"W eren’t you! I call it mean.”
Her chair creaked as she leaned for­
know that he Is?”
autumn tints on the trees in Castie-
Her scrutiny became severe, but ward with an enthusiastic solemnity
"Bcruton? Ye*—since you press It nau.
softened again at the sight of his that would have made her shriek it
—he wrote to tell me that he was com­
There went a funeral, on Its way to clutched wideawake and curiously she bad seen herself; but it had n*
ing out even sooner than he expected.” Mortlake! The taxi overhauled It at a characterless, shapeless suit.
such effect on Cazalet.
"Then be can stop out for me,” aald callous speed. Cazalet Just had time
"You may well look!" he cried, de­
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WITOTC
Author o f T5heAMAfHUR CRACKSMAN,
RAFFLES. Etc.
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INCO ME O F A S T R E E T B E G G A R
Curious Résidant on Opposite Side of
Thoroughfare Places Contribu­
tion* at 91,000 Yearly.
Tber* waa a certain Bartlmeus who
• ae wont to take hie east at tho sldo
ot a crowded city street, with a well
fed dog at the aid» sitting on * mat
provided by hi* master, to protect his
hind*rquarter* from th* cold stone
The dog held a tin money box attached
to hi* collar Th* roan had a few lead
pencil» which h* pretended were for
•ale
Th* man simply »at, *nd th* money
rolled in A curtou* resident on th*
oppoelt* *ld* of th* *tr«*t took lengthy
observation*, aud then draw up a cal­
culation based on the assumption that
on* cent was given «very ttm* a con
trtbutlon waa made, though frequently
*l!v*r rnd sometime* a quarter was
seen to descend into the tin, and Uk
lag Into consideration the average
auatber of absences In a given time
due to laclement weather, the proba­
ble Income amounted to about tl.flOO
• rear
The estimate may not be very ex­
act, but tt Is nearer the truth than
the ordinary passerby thinks, or the
stream of coin would not be so copt
oue As he is no longer at the receipt
of custom, the Inference la that be
has retired to live in the country on
the proceed*
Woe* of an Author.
“ How's your uew book coming o n T
“ Passably well. The demand isn't
what tt should be.
I mean among
purchasers And of course, if people
don't buy the book there * nothing in
It tor m e"
” 1 see By the way. I'm reading tt
now. Btcks loaned me a copy that
Tompktne borrowed from Bradley
Pretty fair story "
Hats and Faces.
A Boston man went down to Hart­
ford and said to the Motherhood club
of that city, " If you have a 29-cent
face don't wear a $30 h at”
Of course, the Boston mao didn't
make It clear to the ladies with Hart
ford faces Just what the bat-and face
ratio should be Even a 29-cent face
might hesitate over wearing a 29-cent
hat On the other band a woman with
a $50 face could scarcely be expected
to don a $50 hat
No. the Boston man la wading into
deep water. He quite overlook» the
eternal law of compensation
Let the 29-cent face wear a $30 hat
It may distract attention
As for the woman with the $50 face,
•he doesn't need any hat —Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
KNOW HOW TO PLEASE
Q U A LITY T H A T MAKES FOR pop
U L A R IT Y IN SOCIETY.
Fortunate Arc These Who Have th*
Happy Habit of Doing Instinc­
tively the Right Thing at
the Right Time.
They were talking about personality
and the conversation somehow drifted
not unnuturally, since there were do
meu present, to personality In the
6teruer sex and how It manifested
itself In different ways and uudei dif­
ferent circumstances.
One man was delightful to have u
a guest at a party. He made himself
agreeable to all aud somehow man­
aged to lift the burden of au entertain­
ment completely off the shoulders of a
hostess. As soon as he entered he In­
troduced a pleasurable sense of festiv-
ity that communicated Itself to other
guests. Another man did not shine
especially at parties, perhaps, but be
was Ideal for a solitude of two. He
always made any woman he was call-
ing upon feel that to find her at home
aud alone gave him complete satisfac­
tion.
And then one woman casually re­
marked that the most difficult sociai
role for a man to fill successfully was
that of escort. Not as escort to a con­
cert or lecture or the theater, but to
a social entertainmeut such as a re­
ception or dance.
“ I know one man,” she said, “ who is
wholly delightful as au escort, and the
other day 1 endeavored to analyze Just
wherein the charm lay, I once beard
it said of him, by another man. that
he was u man who always did and
said the right thing at the right time,
and this seems to be true of him I d
the capacity of escort He always
seems to do the obviously correct thing
instinctively.
“ I have never stepped outside my
door with him,” she went on, “ without
experiencing a complete sense of
guardianship until my return. It is
not that his actions indicate any spe­
cial consciousness o f what be is doing.
Oa the contrary, he is engagingly nat­
ural and free from any assumption ot
directing things— but while with him
a woman whom he Is escorting enjoys
a pleasant sense of being his first con­
sideration. He never for an instant
allows her to experience that feeling
of being unattended under which l
have seen many womeu and girls suf­
fer aud have occasionally suffered my­
self.
"1 have known the most well-mean­
ing men to completely neglect some
girl whom they were escorting when
they met some personal friends w'tth
whom she was perhaps unacquainted.
I f the man whom I have in mind meets
ills own friends he immediately intro­
duces them, aud If he occasionally
drifts away he drifts back again with­
out any apparent reason except doing
what he wants to do. Some very nice
men can be exceedingly leaden amid
a large gathering o f people who are
comparatively strangers to then. They
do not seem to have the social Instinct
that makes them responsive to "ran­
gers. and this Is a virtue which a good
escort either has or affects to posses*
There are few things more disconcert­
ing to a woman than to take a man
anywhere and not feel he has enjoyed
himself quite as much as she has.
“ Indeed, the same qualities that
make ‘the born hostess’ seem to be es­
sential to make the Instinctive escort
and these are gracious personality plus
social training.” — Baltimore Sun.
Lots of Excitement.
A Philadelphia woman who has had
trouble In filling her rooming bouM
once had an applicant who objected tc
the lack of interesting surroundings
"Oh. plenty of excitement," said tbl»
wideawake landlady; “ from the front
window here you will have such a flM
view of people missing the suburban
trains!”
Japan Turns to Sheep Raising.
tion Is the same for bright stars as
During the past two or three year»
for feeble ones, and also the law of Japan has sent some o f its expert
distribution is the same from ons stock growers to America to learn ho*
mass to another.
to rnise sheep, and It Is understood
H. von Zelpel has endeavored to de­ that sheep raising will be extensively
duce, from »he apparent density on engaped in over there.
the celestial sphere, the true density
in spare, with partially satisfactory
Weigh» a Fly’s Wing.
results. The distribution of stars near
The weighing machine used in th#
the center was represented in a sat­ laboratory of the bureau of standard!
isfactory manner, but the density at in Washington is said to be the moil
the boundaries Is ess than that re­ accurate in the world. It will welg»
quired by »he theory.
the wing of a fly.— Chicago JournaL
In a new memoir he arrives at a
novel conclusion.
Each of these
New South African Fruit.
masse» ts a gigantic system contain
New South Africa 1* uow sending I»
ing about a million atara; the num­ London a remarkable fru it a »pec!«»
ber of stars visible on a piste is not of orange, similar to a large tanger
the hundredth part of the total nuta ine, very sweet, with an a greca bis
bar.
flavor.
Teuton and CelL
Man’s Heart Heavier Than Woman’*.
Health Hint.
Bermans are lasting in their sym­
Amazing Masse* of Stars.
The average man’s heart weigh»
pathies an4 antipathies and leisurely
An appla eaten before breakfast
By studying the distribution of stars
from ten to tw elve ouncea; the aver*
In their mental processes.
II take* In the globular masses E Pickering serves as a natural stimulant for tha
ag* woman’s from eight to tea.
them a long time to make up their has deduced, from observation, the digestive organa.
mtnds sad longer to get an Idea out apparent density. L *.. the number of
City Built on Islands.
of their heads In ihelr thinking they •tars per unit of aurface at dtfierent
Equally Useless.
Venice has 60,000 residents, aad t4*
try to grasp more things at a time distances from the center ot the I
tr'wn u built on seventy or eigfltf
Faith without work* ta about as
than does the Celt
| mass; be concludes tnat ms diatribu
telata.
*••• *• • watch without wheel»,