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2 \ S to ry o f the Fren ch L e g io n in A lg i e r s
B y I. A . R. W Y L I E
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SYNOPSIS.
When Sylvia Oroney. a beautiful F ng-
llah girl, return» from a »earth In A lglcr»
for her mt*»tng brother, her lover, ltlch-
• rd Fsrquhar. And» »he ha* fallen In love
with Captain Arnaud o f the Foreign l e
sion. In Captain Sow er'» room Farquhar
get» deliberately drunk, but when young
r*re»ton loaes all his money to Dew*. a
Shady character, Farquhar forces Sower
to hav» Preston'» I O. U .'» returned to
him. Farquhar 1» helped to hla room* by
Gabrieli« Smith.
“ The call of fighter* to the
fighting m an "— do you know
what It means to respond to the
call of your country when it asks
you to defend It against threat
ening enemies? Imagine what
the sound of bugles and tramp
ing feet and the sight of stream
ing khakl-clad men means to the
Englishman these days.
CHAPTER II—Continued.
“ Now He down. Your head Is aching
furiously I have no doubt, and prob
ably you have work lu front of you
like other mortals. I have some eau-
de-Cologne upstairs.
Don't Jeer.
I
am going to fetch I t "
“ Walt a minute. Won’t you please
tell me your name?”
She put her head a little on one
side.
“ Gabrlelle— Gabrlelle Smith.
Not
very euphonious. Is It? But one's bap
tism is the first occasion where the
great law concerning the sins of the
fathers comes into operation. Now—”
“ And won’t you tel! what you are?"
“That’» a large question. I wish I
anew myself. Officially I am any
thing from a traveling companion to
an unsatisfactory nursemaid. In either
case out of a job. Is that what you
want?”
Be closed his eyes wearl’y.
“ I don’t know—you have been aw
fully—decent—it all seems rather like
a grotesque, gigantic dream from
which l can’t wake up— ” Hla voice
died away.
When she come back with her eau-
de-Cologne bottle and a handkerchief
he was asleep.
CHAPTER III.
The Great Law In Force.
When Itlchard Farquhar awoke from
Ms heavy sleep It was broad daylight
He dressed, and by midday was on
duty. Those who had witnessed the
scene on the preceding night glanced
at him curiously, but his face be
trayed nothing— neither weariness nor
the self-disgust usual on such occa
sions. They saw he had changed, but
the change was indefinable. They saw,
also, that, whatever else had happened,
he had not apologized to Sower. The
two men exchanged the eurtest and
roost perfunctory greeting.
By seven o'clock he stood again in
the Omneys’ library, end Sylvia Omney
stood on the threshold waiting. She
was simply dressed In a dark, clinging
material which set off more perfectly
the fair sweetness of her features.
“ You wanted to speak to me. Rich
ard ?”
“ Yes; It was good of you to come.
I know 1 hadn’t the right to ask. I
behaved vilely last night”
She looked up into his face with an
Innocent wonder.
“ Did you? I didn’t see I t 1 only
thought that you were Just as I had
always believed you to be—generous
and chivalrous and loyal.”
He still held her hand, and with a
grave courtesy he led her to the great
armchair by the fire. She sat there,
her head ben» like a frail flower, and
he turned away from her for a moment,
his face colorless.
“ I want to tel! you that I know,” he
went on quietly. “ I thought It would
save you trouble if I told you. One
has a fine Instinct In these things, and
last night I felt suddenly that I had
gone out of your life. It hurt me un
bearably for a time.”
" I am to marry Captain Arnaud,”
■he said, with a note o f deflance In her
low voice.
“ That can make no difference.
|
take you with me always. You under
stand?”
“ Yes,” she said.
“ Then good by.”
She must have felt that he was
bringing up hie last reserve of self-
control, yet she rose impulsively with
outstretched hands.
“ Good-by, Richard.
Forgive me__
and God bless you.”
He turned abruptly and left her
without answer.
Outside a gray twilight already
shrouded the pompous London square.
Above the Immediate silence there
sounded the note of a bugle, and ufter
that the long-drawn-out wall o f the
bagpipers.
Some regiment on the
march forward.
Richard Farquhar
lifted bis head and listened. It came
down to him through the ages, the call
of tighter» to the lighting man, the
command o f duty. That much was
left.
Richard Farquhar turned and
went homeward.
As he entered and saw Robert Sower
standing by the fireside, bis gloved
hands behind his back, his whole atti
tude expressive o f a cool self-certainty,
his very pulses seemed to stop und
then break luto a hammering gallop of
triumph. He closed the door sharply,
aud Sower turned.
“ Well?” Furquhnr said quietly.
“ I have come for your apology.”
“Then you hare come on a fruitless
errand."
A tremor seemed to pass over Sow
er’s body. The browu. slightly pro
truding eyes flickered. Suddenly and
terribly his self restraint broke down
“ I am the Jew. am I not—the son of
a Jew?— Very well—uow I shall act
like one!”
He began to pace the room with
short, feverish steps. “ I aui going to
tell you something no oue has ever
heard before. Only three people know
If. and they have held their tongues—
your mother and Major Mowbray
No— don’t Interrupt. You can't silence
me with those damned eyes o f yours.
You’ve got to listen. You don’t reuiem
ber your father, do you? He was lu
India when you were a child, and
your mother does not speak very ofteu
of him. You see bow well I know
tiling^. But you are very proud of
him—and rightly. He was a brilliant
soldier and something of an Inventor
He invented a gun that, though It
would be twenty years old now, would
still rank head and shoulders above
anything we have. It was unfortunate
that he spent more than he had and
gambled with what he did not possess.
The British government was. as usual,
dilatory and parsimonious.
Colonel
Farquhar offered his Invention to a
foreign power. My father knew ev
erything. I was a young subaltern at
the time. My father felt It his duty
to inform the authorities. Previous to
this he and Colonel Farquhar had been
intimate. As a last act o f friendship
be warned your father of his purpose
Your father murdered him.
“ My father lived a few hours.”
Sower went on deliberately. “ He was
a Jew, but he was a great man. He
held your father In bis power.
He
could have had his pound of flesh. He
had mercy. He let your father go— on
three conditions. The first condition
was that he withdrew his offer to the
foreign power, the second that he re
signed his commission, the third that
he left the country. These things be
did.”
“ My father died in Africa,” Fsr-
qubar said.
“ So I have been told.”
There was a long silence. Rower
studied the younger man out o f the
corner o f his eyes. There was some
thing he did not fully understand— a
phase o f humanity that did not fit In
with his carefully drawn up catalogue.
Tills red-hot temperament grown sud
denly cold frightened him. It was like
handling an unknown explosive.
“ Your father signed n confession In
front o f witnesses. You will under
stand that In view o f the circum
stances It was felt necessary to have
some hold over him. Here is the pa
per.”
Farquhar accepted the neatly folded
document and took It nearer to the
light
He read It carefully without
any trace o f emotion.
“ I understand.” He held the paper
thoughtfully, as though weighing It.
“ O f course It is obvious that this Is
o f great value to me. How much do
you wnnt?”
“ I am in no need o f money. It Is
your career or mine,” he said. “ You
must resign. H alf ar> hour since 1
would have been satisfied with an
apology.”
Farquhar nodded.
“ I give you my word o f honor that 1
shall send In my papers tonight In re
turn for this letter.”
“ I accept your word. The letter Is
in your hands.”
Farquhar started slightly and then
smiled.
“ Ah, I might have burned It. You
are a man of remarkable discernment.
Well, our bargain is closed. I dare say
I have to thank you for your long si
lence In this matter. But virtue la Ita
own reward. Good night.”
Sower took up Ids hat from the
table. He frowned at hi* own hand,
which shook.
“ You ure confoundedly cool about II
nil,” he said. “ One would thluk you
didn’ t care.”
The door closed.
Farquhar went
back to bis writing table. He did not
tear up the yellow, faded letter, but
propped It against a bronze candlestick
and sat there staring at It with blank
eyes. Then be began to write.
He
wrote four letters. Otic was to the
war office. When he bad finished he
opened a drawer ami took out an army
revolver, which he examined and then
loaded carefully. He switched off the
electric lump. He went over to the
hearth and stamped his fathers confes
sion Into Hie eitiliers. The polished
barrel winked like an evil silver eye
In the reflected firelight.
“ Mr. Farquhar—are you there?*'
Ills hand still lifted, frozen by sur
prise Into 1'iinioblllty. he »aw In the
glass opposite him that the door hud
rise <V Ilfs snd death
Hla fa r* was
ghaatly III Its rigid resolve and ilrsad
“ I don't think It's much good lying
about It. MI m Smith.” be said, with a
short laugh.
“ No.” She nodded. "Toil were go
lug to kill yourself. I have ■e*n that
before.
My father blew out hi»
brain* It was an act of »uddeii uiad
ness. Money drove him uiud. Is It
money with you?"
"No. 1 have lost everything."
“There I* always the light alieud.”
“ I don't understand—"
She turned to him wllh an exprea
»Ion that was new lo him. The »mall,
thin face seemed Illuminated will) an
Inward lire
“ There .« a light somewhere.” »lie
said, aud her voice rang wllh atern
enthusiasm. “ It mu»; exist—und If It
doe* not exist we ui(l»t light It our
»elves, olth our own hands, with our
own Ideals. We must have It or tie
llcve In It."
Ills baud, resting on the mantel
piece. relaxed.
The revolver rang
against the murhle.
“ You say that," he said harshly—
"you who have not had n square meal
for a fortnight!"
She threw liack her head.
“ Who dared tell you that?"
"N ever mind. I know It.”
She said nothing, lint the color died
out of hei cheeks. He turned from
her and turled his face In hla arms,
and there was a little silence. Then
lie felt her hand on his »boulder.
"D o you think I should have the
courage or the meanness to tell you to
go mi If I did not know lu my own
body what going on meant? Disgrace,
poverty, loss t know them nil. But
one can't throw down oiie'a weapons In
Hut first skirmish. I haven't, aud you
shan't. Promts* me. 1 am not going
to leave you till you do.'*
“ Yes." he said, lie held out hla hand
and she gave him hers lie noticed for
the first time that It wn» white and
unusually beautiful lu shape. She aaw
the wonder In Ills eyes and drew back.
“ Thank
I believe that your
life will be o f use some dll▼ to your
self or another. I dare any I shall l>r
«•ten glad that I helped to save It.
Good-by."
" I may see you again—"
“ We may meet again, but 1 think
not.
I have a Job, and nai going
abroad noon. May I take this with me
ns a souvenir?”
She had picked up the revolver from
tin* mantelpiece, and their eyes met.
"Yea,” he mild simply.
Once again we see what the
Influence of a good woman will
do for a man. How do you think
Gabrlelle Smith will affect Rich
ard's life from thia point for
ward ?
(T O
IIK C O N T I N U E D . )
John Adams a Hard Loaer.
John Adams, second president of
the United Staten, was not a good
loser. Ho wanted another term, and
worked hard for I t None of the can
dtdatca received a majority of tb*
electoral votes, ami the election was
thrown Into the house of represents
“ No,” She Nodded, “ You Were Going lives. But Adams had no choice
there, for he wan third In the race,
to Kill Yourself.”
and only the two having the highest
opened.
Against the dimly lighted number of electoral votes could be
passage outside be recognized the neat voted for. Thus the choice lay be
silhouette of a woman's figure. The tween Jefferson and Burr, and Jeffer
next Instant the room was Hooded with son won. Adam* was very much dts
light.
gruntled, and did everything In hi*
"Oh, I beg your pardon. It was so power to make things unpleasant for
quiet and dark I did not know you his successor. Ho filled every vacant
were In. I eatne for my eau-de-Co office he could lay his hands on. so
logne—” She stopped. He bad turned as to leave as little patronage a* poe
Instantly, but not In tlrne. Her eyes slide for Jefferson
Not only so. but
rested on his hand. “ Oh!” she said In the closing hours of bis admlnlstra
under her breath. She closed tin* door tlon he and his party associates ere
and came quietly across the room till ated twenty three new Judgeships, for
she stood opposite him. “ What were which there wan no necessity, and
you going to do. Mr. Farquhar?”
worked till the stroke of midnight on
He threw back bis bead. He was March 3d filling out snd signing com
still very young, an I lu a minute niort missions for these “ midnight Judges,“
be bad counted on facing the tnyste- as they were called.
LAKE TAHOE ONCE HIGHER
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Some Ancient Volcano Became Active
and Great Rocky Block Sank and
Formed Pool Bed.
The statement sometimes made that
“ Tahoe Is an old volcanic crater” Is
not true, according to report of the
government geological survey
The
region about the lake shows evidences
of volcanic activity of various kinds,
and the lake waters themselves have
probably been dammed at times by
outpourings of lava
A lava flow ap
pears to have temporarily filled the
ou ‘ et channel below Tahoe City. The
lake, however, lies In a structural de
pression—a dropped block of the
earth’s crust.
During the Neocene
epoch arid the earlier part of the
Pleistocene epoch the waters of Lake
Tahoe stood much higher than now,
probably on account of lava dams
which have since been cut through.
Distinct beaches that mark former
higher levels are found up to about
one hundred feet above the present
lake, but It Is believed that the waters
formerly rose to still greater heights.
At Tahoe City the most distinct of
these old beaches Is a terrace thirty
five to forty feet above the level of
the lake, and It Is this terrace that
makes the level ground on which Ta
hoe tavern Is built
A Different Sort of 8tudlo.
"A
funny thing happened last
night,” she was telling him an they
were seated In a car. “ You know
those two girls who hnve taken such
n fancy to me. I don't know why?
Well, I dined with them In tholr stu
dio.
It was a lovely little dinner
they had got up for mo. I wan about
to aall In, when all of a sudden they
looked at each jth cr and ono of them
said: 'Shall wo say grace?’ 'Certain
ly,' the other aa!d. And with that they
bowed their heads and aald a silent
grace. 1 bowed mine, too, and did
the same; but I muat say It was the
first time I'd ever seen such a thing
done In a studio where only Bo
hemians are supposed to live.”
Effects of Blasts.
Firing a number of slmnltaneoua
hlasta Is estimated to bo about 25 per
cent more effective In breaking rock*
than bv firing the blasts singly.
Beat Proof That
Rrsinol H eal* Eczema
In our file o f reporta, covering a
period of twenty years, literally thou
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I ha
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Reslnol Ointment and Kestnol Hoap
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Ideal for healing the skin troubles of
Infants and children. Sold by all drug
gists. ( A d v t )
The Truth.
"You told me when 1 bought this
lot that the town couldn't possibly
grow in nny direction but this."
“ Well, it hasn't has It? As a mut
ter of fact, the population has de
creased i»o per cent since that time.”
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