Sf«THÜttM)ln
WftAN WHOM«
I
tb»
fougbt for twenty minutes behind
wood-heap, then he gave me bast, hut
1 bad to turn In till I could
a* aln
“ You don’t mean that he
Blanche had looked rather disgust
ed the moment before; now s h e wa
all truculent suspense and indigna
tion.
j i „.a
“ Beat me?” he cried. “Good Lord.
no, but there was none too much in
d
m
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s
Prostrata,!
Fires died down In her hazel eyes,
lay lambent as soft moonlight, flick
ered into laughter before ha uad seen
the fire.
“ I’m afraid you're a very dangerous
person,” said Blanche.
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“ You’ve got to be,” he assured her,
“ It’s the only way. Don't take a word
close observer might have thought
SYNOPSIS.
from anybody, unless you mean him to
her almost anxious not to Identify her
wipe his boots on you. 1 soon found
Cazalet, on th » steam er K a is e r F ritz, self too closely with a popular craze.
that out. I'd have given something to
homeward bound from Auatralla. crlea
‘T dare say you mentioned It,” said
out In hta sleep (h at H enry Craven, who
have learned the noble art before
ten year* before had ruined hi» father Cazalet, but rather as though he was
went out Did I ever tell you how it
and hlmaelf, la dead and fin d » that H il
ton Toye. who »h ares the stateroom with wondering why she had not
was 1 first came across old Venus
him. k n o w » C raven and also Blanche
” 1 dare say I didn't!
Everything
Macnalr, a form er n e ig h b o r and p lay
Potta?1
won’t
go
into
an
annual
letter.
It
was
mate.
W hen
the
d ally
paper» come
He had told her at great length, to
ab orrd at Southam pton T o y e read» that the winter before last— 1 went out
Craven h a» been murdered and c a l!»
the exclusion of about every other
C a za le t'» dream second sight. H e thinks with Betty and her husband.”
topic, In the second of the annual let
o f doing a little am ateur detective work
“ And after that be took a place
on the case h im self
In the train to town
ters; and throughout the se.ies the In
they discus» the murder, which was com down here?”
evitable name of Venus Potts had sel
m itted at C a zalet's old home. T o y e h ear»
“ Yes. Then 1 met him on the river
from C azalet that Scruton. who had been
dom cropped up without some allusion
C agalet’ * friend and the scapegoat for the following summer, and found he'd
to that Homeric encounter. But It w’as
«'ra v e n 's dishonesty, has been released got rooms In one of the Kell Gwynne
from prison.
Cuzalet goes down
the
well worth while having It all over
Cottages, If you call that a place.”
riv er and meets Blunrhe.
again with the intricate and picaresque
“ I see.”
embroidery of a tongue far mightier
CHAPTER IV—Continued.
But there was no more to see; there
than the pen hitherto employed upon
never had been much, but now
the incident. Poor Blanche had almost
"I wonde" who can have done It !”
Blanche was standing up and gazing
to hold her nose over the primary
“ So do the police, and they don't out of the balcony Into the belt of
cause of battle; but the dialogue was
look much like finding out!”
WCK :
singing sunshine between the opposite
delightful, and Cazalet himself made
"It must have been for hla watch side of the road and the Invisible river
it *
a most gallant and engaging figure as
and money, don't you think? And yet acres away.
he sat on the sill and reeled It out
they »ay he had so many enemies!”
"Why shouldn't we go down to Lit
Z> p
i 3
Twenty minutes later, and old Venus
Cazalet kept alienee; but »he thought tleford and get out the boat If you’re
Potts was still on the magic tapis,
he winced. “ Of course It must have really going to make an afternoon of
» ,
though Cazalet had dropped his boast
been the man who ran out of the It?” she said. “ But you simply must
ing for a curiously humble, eager and
drive,” she concluded hastily. "Where see Martha first; and while she's mak
were you when It happened. Sweep?”
yet Ineffectual vein.
ing herself fit to be seen, you must
“ Old Venus Potts!” he kept ejacu
Somewhat hoarsely he was recall take something for the good of the
tm
lating. “ You couldn't help liking him
ing the Mediterranean movements of house. I'll bring It to you on a lordly
the Kaiser Fritz, when at the first tray."
And he'd like you. my word!"
mention of the vessel's name he was
“ Is his wife nice?" Blanche wanted
She brought him siphon, stoppered
firmly heckled.
to know; but she was looking so In
bottle, a silver blscult-box of ancient
tently out her window, at the opposite
"Sweep, you don't mean to say you memories, and left him alone with
came by a German steamer?”
end of the bow to Cazalet's, that a
them some little time; for the young
man of the wider world might have
“ I do. It was the first going, and mistress, like her old retainer in an
thought of something else to talk
why should I waste a week? Besides, other minute, was simply dying to
you can generally get a cabin to your make herself more presentable. Yet
about
self on the German line.”
Out her window she looked past a
when she had done so, and came back
willow that had been part of the old
“ So that’s why you're here before like snow, in a shirt and skin Just
the end of the month,” said Blanche. home from the laundry, she saw that
life, in the direction of an equally
''Well, | call It most unpatriotic; but he did not see the difference. His de
typical silhouette of patient anglers
the cabin to yourself was certainly vouring eyes shone neither more nor
anchored in a punt; they had not
some excuse."
raised a rod between them during all
less; but he had also devoured every
‘ his time that Blanche had been out in
"That reminds m e!” he exclaimed. biscuit In the box, though he had be
Australia; but as a matter of fact she
“ I hadn't It to myself all the way; gun by vowing that he had lunched in
never saw them, since, vastly to the
there was another fellow In with me town, and stuck to the fable still.
“ Where Did You Meet the Fellow?”
credit of Cazalet’s descriptive powers,
from Genoa; and the last night on
Old Martha had known him all his
He Inquired.
board It came out that he knew you!” life, but best at the period when he
sne was out In Australia still.
“ Who can It have been?"
“Nelly Potts?" he said. "Oh, a Jolly
used to come to nursery tea at Little- ored walls In the place of remembered
“Toye, his name was. Hilton Toye.” ford. She declared she would have pictures not to be compared with her. good sort; you'd be awful pals.”
"An American man! Oh, but I known him anywhere as he was, but It was there that she was all golden
“Should we?” said Blanche, Just
know him very well,” said Blanche In she simply hadn't recognized him In and still girl.
smiling at her Invisible anglers.
a tone both strained and cordial. “ He's that photograph with his beard.
They poked their noses Into, and
"I know you would,” he assured her
great fun, Mr. Toye, with his delight
“ I can see where it's been,” said they had a laugh In every corner and with immense conviction. “ Of course
ful Americanisms, and the perfectly Martha, looking him In the lower tem so out upon the leafy lawn, shelving she can’t do the things you do; but
delightful way he says them!”
perate sone. “ But I'm bo glad you’ve abruptly to the river. Last of all there she can ride, my word! So she ought
Cazalet puckered like the primitive had It off, Mr. Cazalet.”
was the summer schoolroom over the to. when she's lived there all her life.
man he was, when taken at all by sur
"There you are, Ulanchle!” crowed boat-house, quite apart from the house The rooms aren’t much, but the veran
prise; and that anybody, much less Cazalet. "You said she’d be disappoint Itself; scene of such safe yet reckless das are what count most; they’re bet
Blanche, should think Toye, of all peo ed, but Martha's got better taste.”
revels; In Its very aura late Victorian! ter than any rooms.”
ple, either "delightful” or "great fun”
It lay hidden In Ivy at the end of a
She was still out there, cultivating
"It isn't that, sir,” said Martha ear
was certainly a surprise to him, if It
neatly. "It's because the dreadful now neglected path; the bow-win Nelly Potts on a very deep veranda,
was nothing else. Of course It was
mau who was seen running out of the dows overlooking the river were though her straw hat and straw hair
nothing else, to his Immediate knowl
drive, at your old home, he had a framed In Ivy, like three matted, whls- remained In contradictory evidence
edge; still, he was rather ready to
beard! It's in all the notices about kered, dirty, happy faces; one, with ; against a very dirty window on the
think that Blanche was blushing, but
him, and that's what's put me against Its lower sash propped open by a Middlesex bank of the Thames. It
forgot, if indeed he had been in a fit
them, and makes me glad you've had broken plant pot, might have been was a shame of the September sun
stats to see it at the time, that she
grinning a toothless welcome to two to show the dirt as it was doing; not
yours off.”
had paid himself tho same high com
one« leading spirits of the place.
only was there a great steady pool of
Blanche turned to him with too ready
pllment across the gate On the whole.
Cazalet whittled a twig and wedged sunshine on the unspeakable floor, but
a
smile;
but
then
she
was
really
not
It may be anld that Cazalet was ruf
that saBh up altogether; then he sat a doddering reflection from the river
fled without feeling seriously disturbed such a great age as she pretended, and himself on the sill, hla long le^s in
on the disreputable celling. Cazalet
as to the essential Issue which alone she had never been In better spirits In side. But hla knife had reminded
looked rather desperately from one to
her life.
leaped to his mind.
him of hla plug tobacco. And hla plug the other, and both the calm pool and
"You hear, Sweep! I call It rather
“ Where did you meet the fellow?"
tobacco took him as etraight back to the rough were broken by shadows,
he Inquired, with the suitable admix lucky for you that you were— ”
the buah aa though the unsound floor one more impressionistic than the
But Just then she saw his face, and
ture of confidence and amusement.
had changed under their feet Into a other, of a straw hat over a stack of
“ In the first Instance, at Eugelberg.” remembered the things that had been magic carpet.
straw hair, that had not gone out to
said about Henry Craven by the Caza
"Ell gel berg! Where's that?”
“ You almply have It put down to the Australia— yet.
lots'
friends,
even
ten
years
ago,
when
“ Only one of those places In 8wlt
man's account In the station books
And of course Just then a step
xerland where everybody goes now- she really had been a girl.
Nobody keeps ready money up at the sounded outside somewhere on some
adaya for what they call winter
bush, not even the price of a plug like gravel. Confound those caretakers
sports ”
CHAPTER V.
this: but the chap I'm telling you
"1 say. Blanchle!” he blurted out. “
8h* was not even smiling at his ar
about (I can see him now. with his do believe you'd like It out there.
An Untimely Visitor.
rogant Ignorance; she was merely ex
great red beard and freckled fists) he sportswoman like you!
I believe
plaining one geographical point and
She really was one still, for In these s »o r»
was c argtng him for half a | you'd take to It like a duck to water,
another of geueral Information. A days It Is an elastic term, and In pound more than he'd ever had W . 5
, t o b e CONTINUED.»
Author o f T3he AMATEUR QJAQvSMAN,
RAFFLES, Etc.
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Blanche’s case there was no apparent
reason why It should ever cease to
apply, or to be applied by every decent
tongue except her own.
Much the best tenuis player among
the ladles of the neighborhood, she
drove an almost unbecomingly long
ball at golf, and never looked better
than when paddling her old canoe, or
punting In the old punt And yet. this
wonderful September afternoon, she
did somehow look even better than at
either oi auy of those congenial pur
suits. and that long before they
reached the river; In the empty house,
which had known her as baby, child
ana grown-up girl, to the companion
of some part of all three stages, she
looked a more lustrous and a lovelier
Blanche than he remembered even of
old.
But she was not really lovely In the
least; that also must be put beyond
the pale of misconception Her hair
was beautiful, and perhaps her skin,
and. In .-«me lights, her eyes; the rest
was nob It was yellow hair, not gold
en, an« Cazalet would have given all
he had about him to see It down again
as in the oldest of old days; but there
was more gold In her skin, for so the
sun had treated It; and there was
even hint or glint (in certain lights,
be It repeated) of gold mingling with
the pure hazel of her eyes. But In
the dusty shadows of the empty house,
moving like a sunbeam across Its bare
boards, standing out against the dlscol-
CARING FOR THE OIL STOVE
piece of choose cloth kept for the pur-
________
| pose. Of course care must be used not
8lmple Matter If One Will Remember to allow food to boil over on the cook
ing surface or Into the burners. This
• Few Matters That Are
. causes trouble even with a gas stove,
m p o r an .
and the burners of an oil stove are
more work to clean than the gas
The care of the oil stove, the mod burner.
ern blue-flame variety, la very simple
In the wlcklras type, the asbestos
Human Frailty.
klndlers should he renewed every six
Let a bishop appear and members
weeks, as a general rulo. Wicks In
the stoves wtll last a season. A new of his church will he preached a
wick should be put lit about every six great sermon. The appreciation Is for
months If used all the year round. the mau's reputation and position
They come all stretcluwi on perforated Thousands of books actually worthless
metal cylinder*.
; receive whet Is called appreciation be-
Glass reservoir* *nd glass Indicator cau“ » ,lh8y »fw wHtten by noted men.
tube* tell the height of the otl In the printed by noted publisher*.
You
supply t»nk. Never let the oil run ' aukh *t the Jokes of s clown but
ouL Tbla Is especially necessary In * °uld not smile at the same nonsense
the wick stoves. The wtcklose stoves ^ Rered by a neighbor. How the chtl-
requlre to be set perfectly level in dren ,auFh
the teacher's Jokes!
order to have an even height of flame **ow an agent laughs at your Jokes
on each burner OI»>aning up about i “ hen he thinks he has you In a buy-
the stoves It made much easier If the ln* humor! We are actually honest
stove Is equipped with one of the new al>out nothing— From E W. Howe's
enameled drip pant, shirk come with Monthly
}
one type of stove. The surface of the
stove, particularly the drip pan. should
be wiped off a 'ery day with * soft
“ Pope's Size.”
of It to remain on the surface of the
A curious Item In the trade slang of furniture. Remember that the office
hosier» Is the terra "pope s size,” ap of a renovator is simply to remove
plied to vesta. They classify the scale ' dirt and grease and not to give It a
of chest measurements for these as: new surface
Hence, when you rub
¡Small men'*. 32 Inches; slender men's. w'tta ® renovator, follow it with an
31 Inches; men's. 36 Inches; pope's. 39 other rag and wipe off thoroughly.
Inches; out size. 42 inches
|
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The origin of this term, which has
Fewer Germs or Linen,
been current for nearly a century, was
Experiments have shown that germs
discussed tome year« ago In Notes do not Increase as rapidly on linen
and Queries, when it was stated on a* on wo°L »ilk and cotton. This is
good authority that It bad no connec- why 11 *• of » ° much value in surgical
tlon with the successors of St. Peter u8e and why many persons think if
It appear* that the head of an old the mo8t hygienic underwear,
firm of West end hosier*. Messrs 1
—----------------------
pope & Haute, ordered thlt i|z# tQ bt>
Its Kind.
made specially for his own personal
"That fellow has what I call par»-
use. and the manufacturer called It doxical Impudence.”
after him for want of a better name —
“ How do you mean?”
London Chronic!»
He I* always to the front with back
talk
Polishing and Renovating.
________ ___________
When the furniture begins to lose
To Cure Corns
Its original appearance of freshness
Sort corns can be quickly cure.» h.
n k U„
A
* » « “ » « talcum powder and a piece of
polish calls for raw linseed oil. tur tissue between toes
P
f
Do not use cot-
pentlne and vinegar, well shaken.
-»bile (hi* i. really . good pollan | »hat causes soft c o r n s .-G ^ H o m
cough teando*
your strength.
The clogged air-tubes directly W.I
feet yonr lungs and speedily
pleurisy, pneumonia, consuniDtJ!I
SCOTT'S EMULSION
bronchitis m an easy, natural w . l
Its curative OIL-FOOD Mcthta ,? f
inflamed membranes, relieves til'
cold that causes the trouble
and e v e r y drop helps to
strengthen your lungs.
All Drvggijt s Haom It
1444
REFUSE SUBSTITUTES
telffH-'A« UT-ECQ
Hard Work.
A visitor was being shown
the editorial rooms of a great**
paper.
“ Is that the man who writes i
profound editorials on affaire
state?” he asked, pointing to a i
whose corrugated brow indicated d
thought.
“ Oh, no,” replied the guide. .
the baseball editor trying to think's
a new rumor about the Fe<
league.”— Philadelphia Public
Hereditary Pants.
An anecdote of a little boy wa
ing a flock of sheep on the screen!
told.
“ Aunt Mollie, what’s those thin
"Sheep,” his aunt replied. “ SheepJ
wool is what your pants are made oil
“ Huh!
No, they’re not,” Will
snorted. “ Mamma made my pantso
of Charlie's old ones.”—Philadelph
Public Ledger.
His Snarl,
“ Yes, I take a cold bath every i
ing.”
“ Yah!”
"You seem to doubt my statement
“ My dear sir, if every man took i
cold bath every morning who
about taking a cold bath every moi
ing, my business would be doubled.”
“ What is your business?”
"The soap business.” — Louisv:
C urier-Journal.
What to Do for
Itching Skins
Eczema, ringworm and other II
ing, burning skin eruptions are so
ily made worse by improper treatmi
that one has to be very
careful.
There is one
method, however, that
you need not hesitate to
use, even on a baby's
tender skin— that is, the
resinol treatment. Res-
inol is the prescrip
tion of a Baltimore
doctor, put up In
the form of resinol
ointment and resinol soap,
proved so remarkably successful,
thousands of other physicians ha'
prescribed it constantly for over twi
ty years.
Resinol usually stops itching
stantly, healing the eruption quic
unless it is due to some serious ini
nal disorder. Resinol Ointment
Resinol Soap can be bought at
druggist's, and are not at all ex
sive. W rite for free sample, Dept.
Resinol, Baltimore, Md.
Of a Poker Kind.
She— Now tell the truth. Weri
you gambling at your club last nig
He— Indeed, we had only been
ing of spiritualistic experiments
we were just sitting around the t*
holding hands.— Baltimore Amerto
Co-Operation Suggested.
Woman— Are you fond of chick«
New Servant— Yes, ma'am, and |
hope you are too. I don't like to L
the entire bringing up of them.—M
York Globe.
Rare Opportunity.
"H ow did you like the show
night?”
Great. For the first time I've i
my wife she<1 tears that I ’m not I
sponsible for.”— Satire.
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If you h.*ve such a co*r. bujr • psekag«
K 'c from your feed dealer or druggi**
■cording to directions. You’ ll be surprised
d rfereace it makes ia her general health fod ••
yield. Kow-Kure is especially reco®»»®**** 3 3
preventive and cure for Abortion. Barren®®** * 2 1
rever. Scouring. Lost Appetite. Bunch«® ®®®
corrmoa ailments.
«1
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