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CLOT V n IMG L0U15 JOSEPH VANCE AUTHO R <=/ "THE LONE WOLF," "THE BRASS BOWL/'ETC. COPYWCMT o r LOUIS JOSEPH VA MCI CALLED UPON SUDDENLY TO AID HER FATHER IN HIS SECRET SERVICE WORK, LYDIA IS ATTACKED IN THE DARK BY STRANGERS BUT IS RESCUED. Synopsis— Lydia C raven, trav elin g under the nam e of Lucy C ar teret. runs aw ay from h er home in England to go to T hnddeus C raven, h er fath er, in New York, whom she h a sn 't seen fo r five years. T hree days out on board the ste am er A lsatia, she ru n s plum p Into her fa th e r m aking love to Mrs. M errilees, a young widow, engaged to m arry him. T h ere is some em b arrassm ent, fo r C raven w as know n as a bachelor in Am erica, but explan atio ns clear th e a ir of doubts. C raven tells Lydia he is a secret service a g e n t of E ngland in New York. T he last In stall m ent told th a t C raven had asked Lydia to m eet him outside h er stute- room a t m idnight. CH A PTER VII—C ontinued. SAGE TEA DANDY TO "Y’es, y e s!" she nodded. "Yea, th a t's It d o n 't tell anybody. Prom ise me th at please prom ise!" "If th a t’s your w ish." he said coolly. " I’ve no right to oppose It." “ I’m sorry." she f a ltc f c d ; "hut It’s C H A P T E R V III, som ething I can't explain. If I'd only She checked In L a te r she recalled th a t one of the m yself to think of foghorn’s agonists! squalls had seemed consternation at th at slip. I t ’« (•ramimother's Recipe to "I see," Quoin said gently. " It's a n like a signal fo r th e attack . It was llHng Rack Color and rev e rb e ratin g In h er ears, like the o th e r's secret not all your ow n?" She was silent. shriek of n dam ned soul, all the while Lustre to llair. "B ut," he persisted, “you’ve been she w as struggling In th a t b ru tal em brace. It wns still yam m ering even robbed of som ething valuable— w hether You can tu rn gray, failed h a ir beau yours or an o th er's. D<> you m ean to w hen she w as released. tifully d ark and lu stro u s alm o st over let It go w ithout effort to regulu It?" T hroughout h er consciousness w as "Oh, no som ething m ust ho d o n e!” lig h t If you'll g et a 60 c e n t b o ttle of faith fu lly reg isterin g nightm are Im W yeth's Hugo and B ulphur Com She w orked her bunds to g eth er lu help pound" a t any dru g sto re. M illions of pressions—of th e second man closing In to nld h er llrst a s s a ila n t; of a sav less torm ent. bottles of th is old fam ous Hugo T ea “T hen you don't mean to let the Recipe, Im proved by the addition of age te a rin g o f h er c lo a k ; of cynical accen ts b reath ed hatefully In her ear. m a tte r drop? Hut can you accom plish o th e r In g red ien ts, a re sold annually, “ E asy n o w ! T ak e It easy, little one. anything unaided? I d on't w unt to say s a well know n d ru g g ist h ere, be If you don’t w an t to get h u r t ! Steady seem Intrusive, hut I'm really u bit cau se It d a rk e n s th e h n lr so n a tu ra lly and evenly th a t no one can tell It has —so !" of som eone sw earing fre tfu lly ; experienced In such m atters, you been applied. of a th ird voice rapping out an oath of know. And of the m any who have T h o se w hose h a ir Is tu rn in g gray ra g e ; of sounds like the crack of n tru sted me, none bus ever reg retted o r becom ing faded have a s u rp rise pistol shot, th e thud of a heavy fall, a It." uw altlu g them , because a fte r one o r "Oti, I know, I know, Mr. Quoin I tw o a p p licatio n s th e gray h a ir van g ru n t of pain, n vile expression from But w hat can I tell you? T h a t 1 don't ishes and your locks hocomo lu x u ria n t him who held h er— ly du rk and beautiful. And then she wns fret1—and the fog know w hat It Is I've lost?" T h is Is th e age of youth Gray- His brow s lifted at this. “ Is thut horn still screeching! haired . u n a ttra c tiv e folks a re n 't want- possible, Miss C raven?" She staggered back to th e rail, her " It's the tru th ," she p ro tested . " I t— ed aro u n d , so get busy w ith W yeth'a b ra in reeling, no tru e coherence In her S age and S u lp h u r C om pound to n ig h t som ething w as given me to tak e cure and you'll ho delig h ted w ith your d ark , consciousness—only the struggle be tw een in stin ctiv e desire to scream and of, som ething—1 don’t know w h a t—In handsom e h a ir and your youthful a p th e know ledge th a t for some reason a little wooden C hinese puzzle ( mix , u l id p e a ru nee w ithin a few ilaya. th a t has been stolen from me." T h is p re p a ra tio n Is a to ile t req u isite she m ustn't. Quoin nodded. “T hese men who a t and la n o t Intended for th e cure, m iti T hen a friendly voice saluted facul gation or prev en tio n of dlseaso. tacked you—do you know them ?" ties Just beginning ft» com prehend th at "I h aven't the slightest suspicion chance had sen t a rescue. “You, Miss w ho they w ere.” SKIN-TORTURED HAIIIKS C raven? Y'ou?” Quoin was bending T here w as honesty In her a c c e n ts; solicitously over h er ns she clung trem Quoin believed her. "I th in k —|s>ssl- Sleep, M others Reat A fter T re a tm e n t bling to the rail. bly 1 cun And them for you, w ith your W ith C u tlcu ra—T rial Free. W ords come w ith difficulty from n perm lssloti." th ro a t parched w ith fright. “O h !” she "You saw them ?" Send today for freo sam p les of cried, one han d to her bosom. “Mr. "No. But am ong our fellow passen C u tlcu ra Soap am i O in tm en t and learn Q uoin l" gers a re tw o card sharps, one of whom how quickly th ey reliev e Itching, bu rn “You’re q u ite safe now. But are a t least Is q u ite capable of m ore felo ing sk in tro u b les, and point to speedy you h urt. Miss C raven?" nious work. I know both,’’ he Htulled h e a lm c n t of baby rash es, eczem a and "I'm all right, I think. Oh, thank ltehlngs. H aving clgared baby's skin gravely, "In u business w ay." keep It c le a r by using C u tlcu ra ex you, Mr. Q u o in !" “But surely >ou couldn't have rec- Clualvely. “T h e re ! I’ve done nothing—Just ognlzed e ith er—" F ree sam ple each by m all w ith happened along n t the right time— "No. T he fog w as too thick. But B ook . A ddress p o stcard , C utlcura. th an k G o d ! But the flrst thing Is I m arked one of the b ru tes fo r fu tu re D ept. L, B oslou. Sold everyw here. to get you out o f th is confounded f o g ! ” — Adv. Identification." “ No—please—one m om ent—” "M arked?" T he girl w as searching frantically "T h e sign of my list on his face—a League to Enforce Peace fo r the lining pocket In her cloak. heavy blow, so heavy It brulsi-d my And then ut last she found It, und Takes $10.000 Liberty Bond own knuckles. Give me perm ission to it w as em pty. do wlmt i enn, and I'll hs>k up the New York A subscription by the She tu rn ed n vacant s ta re to Quoin's q u a rte rs of my acquaintances, th e card I/<-Hgue to Enforce Peace to $10, (KM) puzzled regard. A sense of suffoca sharps, m ake them let me In—I know worth of L iberty bonds was announce ! tion oppressed her, and his voice a way to coerce ’em —and see If either Wednesday by H erbert S. Houston, sounded from u fa r d ista n c e : w ears my brand. If so, you'll have the treasu rer of th at organization. Mr. “ W hat’s th e m atter? Y’ou 're sure you’re not h u rt? Can I do anything?" | puzzle w ithin fifteen m inutes—und no Houston made this statem en t: " P re sid e n t William H. T aft of the “I'v e been robbed!" she m anaged to I questions a s k e d !” “You a re very kind," th e girl m u r le a g u e to Enforce Peace has sent out a rtic u la te piteously. a call to members to subscribe to the “T hen,” he urged, "let me see you to m ured in confusion. L iberty loan honda and the league your stateroom . A fterw ard I’ll find itself is a t once entering its subscrip th e c a p ta in —” tion for $10,000. Doesn’t the suspicion grow In "No, no! Oh. please, no! Don’t your mind th a t Quoin Is using "A n d what the league is doing na tell anybody." tionally in response to President T a ft's his rep u tatio n as a detective for H e stared . "L et me get this strn lg h t." call, a num ber o f the sta te branches some secret, Illegal purpose? Do he said a fte r a mom ent. "You’ve been are doing, in addition to practically you fathom his gam e? subjected to a d astard ly atta c k , and the en tire m em bership of the organize robbed, and d on't w ant me to lodge tion. Wilson H. Lee, the sta te trea s a com plaint w ith the officers?" iT O 11!-; C O N T IN U E D .! w as w hirled about into the hollow of a pow erful arm , and an Incipient scream w as sm othered on her Ups by ibe Im pact of n heavy palm. proofs, and I've got the evidence to d iscred it him ,” he paused ugnin, She had begged to be p erm itted to touched his b re a st lightly but effec help him, and C raven prom ised to tively, “h e re !” com m and h er services, if ever need A gain In terru p ted by th e foghorn, he should a ris e : but his tone in prom ising s ta rte d and frow ned Irritably, seem had been mellow w ith an Indulgence ing to detect som ething sardonic In Its deprecating th e im plication th a t accent. I »owning S tre e t's secret am bassador “W ell—th a t’s all. Y'ou und erstan d could ev er need th e nid of w om an's now. T he point is. I'm known to hnve h an d s and w its in his occult and mo —a h —stolen th is evidence. B ut don't m entous affairs. w orry. T his Is w here you come In." Yet alread y th a t tim e h ad com e! From his coat pocket C raven produced She w as h alf wild w ith delight. a sm all, oblong box of Inlaid wood, A fter some m inutes th e q u iet of the highly polished. “I’ve m anaged to puck ship w as m ade m usical w ith th e m el th e evidence in this, one of those Chi lo w and d elib erate sounding of eight nese puzzle boxes. If you don’t know bells, m idnight. She hud still h a lf an th e com bination, it needs an ax to open hour to w ait—an alm ost insufferably It. P u t It aw ay som ew here— your p ro tracted vigil, w ith every faculty tru n k till we land—but ta k e It ashore ten se in apprehension of th e p rem a in your handbag. A tip from th e o th er tu re re tu rn of h er D ow ager D ragon. side, you know, and the custom s In B ut ton ig h t nothing h appened to spectors'll tu rn my luggage inside o u t ; change th is c u s to m : and th e stro k e of b u t you're perfectly safe, you see. one bell of th e m idnight w atch found com ing In as an nlien. T hey’ll p ass you Lydia, unhindered, leaving h er door, a on your d eclaratio n .” long clonk effectually disguising her T he girl slipped the box—It wns lig h t d in n er gown. about large enough to hold a deck of Cautiously, w ith sw ift glances mak- | card s—into the lining pocket of her lng su re th a t th e alleyw ay w as em pty cloak. “I ’ll keep It safe,” she said all dow n Its d arkened length, she stole quietly. forw ard, slipped quickly through the “D ear c h ild ! I t’s so good to have p o rt doorwr-v into th e w elcome 'blank you to count o n !” C raven p atte d her ness w hich closed round h er like a cheek affectionately. “N othing like m agic g arm ent of invisibility. At one’s own flesh and b lo o d ! I thought in terv als electric bulbs incased In \ I could tru s t th a t m a n : he w as my u rer of the Connecticut branch, has hem ispheres of clouded glass blotted only aide th is trip .” lie sighed pro- ju st sent word th at of the $5000 of th e obscurity overhead, but lent little foundly, and shook a doleful head. available funds in his bands, $-1000 aid to th e g irl’s stra in in g vision. And, W rote a Fam ous Song. SHE IS MUCH-NAMED PEERESS now th a t m ost of th e p assengers w ere Annie M'VIcnr Grunt Is n nam e that was being put into L iberty bonds. abed, every port she passed w as dark. " O u r program calls for a league of W idow of Sir M c G a r e l - H o g g H a s will alw uys be honored by Scotchm en, At th e fifth stanchion, m idw ay be ns th a t of th e a u th o r of "T h e Blue n atio n s to esta b lish and m a in tain peace C h an g e d C ognom en O ftener T h a n Bi-Ils of Scotland." She w as born In when th is w ar is over. As th a t is the tw een tw o of th e overhead lights, she Any O t h e r P e r s o n in E n g l a n d . Glasgow 102 y ears a g o , and as a c h ild 1 g r e a t ob ject fo r which A m erica and found no one w a itin g ; and. since she had encountered no one on th e way, A propos of a p arag rap h about "th e w as brought to Am erica by her fath er, I her allie s a re fig hting th e le a g u e ’s pr<>- -lie groped on to th e sixth, found it la te S ir M cGarel-Hogg,” u correspond an officer of th e B ritish arm y. Her g ram becom es, not m erely in effect hut childhood w as spent In Albany. At *r» fa c t, the purpose o f th e w ar. So deserted, and, retu rn in g , se ttled down en t w rite s: to w ait. “ H is widow. Lady M aghcrnm orne, Is th irteen she w as tak en hack to Scot the league to Enforce Peace, which Suddenly C raven stood b efore h er— still living, age eighty-tw o. Although land. and while still a girl becam e the has never believed in a dove-cote pa the effect as m ysterious us his busi only once m arried, she has probably w ife of IU*v. .fam<-s G rant. H er hus- cifism but has stood from the first for n ess: with no w arning of any sort, he had m ore nam es th an any o th e r person bund died, leaving In-r w ith eight chil double-fisted, m ilitant pacifism, is be w ns th e r e ! In England. B om a D ouglas, she h**- dren to support, and she tu rn ed to lit hind the w ar and in the w ar to tho W ithout «peaking, Lydia sfrptehed cam e D ouglas-I’ennnnt when her fa th e r e ra tu re as a m enus of earning a living. lim it of its men and its m oney." She w as a prolific w riter of both fo rth a hand to his. lie suffered her assum ed the la tte r nam e. caress w ithout ap p aren t em otion, and, “On m arrying, she becam e Mrs. verse and prose. || e r " L e tte rs from peering anxiously into his face, she H ogg: then her fa th e r w as raised to the M ountains," In th ree volumes, and saw it set in a mold of care and vigi th e peerage as Lord P enrhyn, and she “M emoirs of tin A m erican Lady," In lance— even now, when they w ere u t added ‘Hon.’ to h er nam e. T hen her tw o volumes, w ere widely read, and terly alone! husband succeeded to th e baronetcy, th ese and o th e r lite ra ry w orks provld ed Mrs. G rant w ith an excellent In W hen he spoke it wns In a preoc and she w as th e Hon. Lady Hogg. cupied tone. * “Hope I h av en 't kept “T hen he added M cOarel to his sur- come. Of all th a t s h e w rote, however, you w aiting.” nnnte and a fte rw a rd becam e Lord only h e r fam ous song, "T he Blue Bells (g^CWT/wf" M agheram om e. of Scotland," has survived to the p res “Only a m om ent.” Mrs. G ran t died In H e shook his head w earily. "I w as "W hen her husband died she w as the ent generation. detained.” F or several seconds he D ow ager Lady M aghernraorne, hut 18.'i3, at the age of eighty-three. seem ed deep in thought. T hen his “T here! I’ve Don»- N othing—J u s t a f te r her eldest son died and his widow D erivation of "G erm any.” w ords came sw iftly, "I’m suspected— 1 H appened Along a t the Right T im e!” rem arried she again beeaine Lady Ma- ghernm orne. as the p resen t peer is a w atched! Did anyone see you?" A m ong th e v irtues o f Lydia E. “G erm an" and "G erm any" com e from She thrilled deliciously. "I th in k “" 'e l l —g o o d n ig h t ngain. I’ll go a ft bachelor.”—London News. the L atin G en n an lcu s and G erm ania, F in k h am ’s V egetable Com|iound is the not. I've been here some time, quite ! >'r>u forw ard. We m u stn ’t be which were the Homan nam es fo r the ability to c o rre c t ste rility in the u n d istu rb ed .” ! seen confubulating o u t here a t this New S u b stitu te for Sisal. G erm ans and th e ir country. T he words cases of m any women. T his fa ct is well established as evidenced by the "Good. B ut they nearly got m e!” l,our-” A ccording to F arm and Fireside, a re supposed to be from a C eltic root following le tte r and hundreds o f others "W ho?” H e stepped hack tw o paces and van- C h arles C hristudoro has found th a t w hich some say m eant "sh u n ters” and w<- have published in these column. H e sm iled faintly. “The o th er side.” ished like a shape o f dream . New Z ealand tlax yields u fiber nearly o th e rs say m eant "neighbors." T he F oplar Blutr, M o.— " I w an t o th e r L ydia’s grasp tightened on his F o r a m om ent o r tw o the girl lln- tw ice ns tough as sisal and en tirely j G erm ans call them selves "D eutseh," women to know w h a t a blessing I.ydia E. F in k h ain ’s Vege plum p fingers. “Y’ou—you’re not In gered, listening k een ly ; but, hearing ad ap ted to hinder tw ine m anufacture.. w hich Is from th e sam e root ns table Compound has dang er?” nothing, not even C raven’s re tre a tin g “Tiffs flax of which he lists sen t us a "D u tch ” nml “T eu to n .” T he root been to me. Wa "D on't he alarm ed. T hey’d never footsteps, she finally took h e a rt and sam ple,” says Farm and Fireside, "has m eant "of th e people” or "belonging to had alw ays w nnted d are a tte m p t anyth in g aboard this ves- moved quietly fo rw ard beside th e rail, been successfully grown as an o rn a the people," and may have been the re a baby in our homo «el. B u t I've stolen a m areh on them 1 B ut she had p put u t barely eight paces m ental p lan t In the W est, th riv es on sult of an effort to p u t Into b arb arian b u t I w as in poor —and som ething else, som ething more behind h er when she checked sm artly, o rd in ary soli and will w ithstand a tem tongue th e Greek word ethulkoa, m ean h ealth and not able valuable.” S train in g a dram atic w ith an in a rtic u la te gasp. Just short p e ra tu re as low ns 10 degrees F a h re n ing the sam e thing, “of th e people" or to do my work. My pause to th e snapping point, he eased of one whose burly figure, m otionless, heit. I t m atu res from roots In two “racial.” T he relation betw een m other and h u s It w ith a word, "E v id e n c e !” band both urged mo barred her p ath . And then, ns she years, and may be expected to yield "D eutseh" and ‘STouton" Is m ore easily to try I.ydia E. Fink- At th is th e foghorn whooped like a stepped back and tu rn ed In tow ard ab o u t 15 tons of leaves per acre, equiv seen when we consider th a t “D eutseh" h a m ’ a V egetable demon of derision. U ntil It w as quiet the su p erstru ctu re, thinking In her a le n t to tw o tons of fiber.” used to be spelled “T eutseh.” Compound. I did ngnln C raven stood moveless, ehln on panic to escape by u sudden dash for so, m y health im- bosom, eyes blank w ith abstraction. The Intensive G ardener. the compnnionwny, some whim of Lost Again. roved and I am now the m other of a “Yes," he affirmed, “dev’lish good chnnce caused th e te n a n t of th e n e a r “A re you going to raise vegetable«?” A t a certain public school It w as the ne baby girl and do all my own house evidence! Look here, I’ll have to tell est stateroom to tu rn on the lights, and custom fo r th e teachers to w rite on "Yes. I t ’s going to give rne a g reat w o rk ." -M r* . A i . u a B. T im m ons , 216 you som ething. W e’ve been sold out— two square windows leaped refulgent the blackboard any Instruction they deal of pleasu re to pull up the rubber Almond St., Poplar Bluff, Mo. I m ean th e re ’s a tr a ito r in our corps.” out of the gloom, the n earer silhouet desired the Jan ito r to receive. In many other homes, once childless, tre e my w ife keeps In the hall and there are now children because of tho "B u t can ’t you do som ething?” ting the head and shoulders of an o th er O ne evening, while cleaning a room p la n t a p o tato In Its place." fa ct th a t Lydia E. Pinkham ’s Vegetable " R a th e r ! ” C raven laughed shortly. man Into whose em brace, as well, she th e Ja n ito r saw w ritte n : Compound makes women n o r m a l , *In fa c t, I have done som ething al had been on the point of throw ing “F in d th e g re a te st common denom Economy of W ickedness. healthy and strong ready. H e w on't go f a r ; fo r his word herself. in a to r.” K nlcker—“ Why don’t you tu rn W rite to the I.ydia E. Plnkham Medi —a sq u e a le r's w ord—w o n 't have much Sim ultaneously stro n g hands fell “H u llo !” he exclnlm cd. “Is th a t a new leaf?" L ocker—"W ith p a p e r so cine Co., Lynn, Maas., for advice—it w eight w ith th e ofber side, la ck in g upon her shoulders from behind, she d arn ed thing lost ugnin?” expensive?"—New York Tim es. will be confidential and helpful. ... MOTHERHOOD WOMAN'S JOY Suggestions to Childless Women. S