b «K M H t | W «M W W lu . A . ' S h i f 1* ** . - f l ,. io H hmw 1 ii Political V en d etta By W E LD O N J. COBB O T C H A P T E R X I.— (Continued.) TTope spring to the gap, hands out­ stretched, to stay his, *i>eeding foe. but Kane had vanished. Peering past the edge of the broken balcony floor, he saw Kane go feet foremost down past the side­ walk and through a window area, arched with a stone copjng. The fall was a full twenty feet. ” IIas he escaped me—-killed?” cried Hope. The thought aroused him to quick­ ened action. He swung bads to the win­ dow, upsetting |n obtruding politician, whose attention had been attracted by the noise of the scuffle— in the precipitancy of his rush."’ Through the room, down a staircase and out to the street Hope hurried. lie reached the spot where he had seen Kane disappear. He stared down the dark aperture, then called : "You— K a n e!” Xo response. He knelt and flared a lucifer. Its rays showed a shallow dip, faced only by the barred cellar window. “ Hone r Electrified, baffled. Hope sprang to his feet and glared around the spot, piercing the distance with much the furious glance o f a tiger thrown from the trail. It was presumable— it was certain— Kane had sustained a light fall, had in­ stantly recovered hia wits and had climb­ ed out of the window area and escaped. W hither! . - Hope ran twenty feet in one direction, then in another, paused— growled, enrag­ ed. His fingers tore the air— he was on fire with chagrin and fury. Abruptly he focussed the contending emotions that distracted his usually keen wits to a rea­ sonable but rapid estimate of the situa­ tion. He had alarmed— had warned— his enemy. Kane's one thought now would be of flight, o f hiding. He was beggared, discredited; the friends he had dragged down to ruin would be friends no longer. H6pe could think out his probable course. First, money— then, distance. Would he baffle vengeance? Oh, never, «e v e r! Kane parted the crowd in the street withoat ceremony. He reached a more ’ quiet side thoroughfare. An empty cab came dashing around the corner, its driver fresh for bis night's work, the steed at­ tached mettled and ready for speed. In a minute Hope was inside, brief, ex­ act orders given to the cab driver. The ▼chicle became a thing o f flight. 1 i ! I i C H A PTE R X II. Inside o f the honr Hope made three calls— all disappointing ones. T o the elegant apartments occupied in the past by the arch-swindler, to the home o f bis chief and confrere, to a club where both sometimes spent their evenings. H e got trace o f the company president. H e was with some choice friends, drown­ ing fear and dejection in strong drink. W ith him Hope had nothing to do, so he continued his search, but be gained no conclusive trace of the man he sought. He knew the machinery of the law well, from past critical experience, and besides had a hundred— aye, a thousand— ready aides whom he could rely on— recent as­ sistants in the political battle he had fought so hard to win, but which now seemed as a bauble, a mere bubble to him. The first reckless fever of triumph and hate had changed, however; he no longer thought of immediate public denounce­ ment o f his enemy. A slow, refined method of meting out his vengeance ap­ pealed to him. and he considered only per­ sonalty securing the fugitive again, se- cretely arraigning him. probing deeper for detailed confession and postive, conclu- gamated says do it?*’ “ I must find him— I. alone— before the night is through.” decided Hope. “’Where is ha hidden? What will hia course be? Free— the fight is lost! I acted with rash precipitancy, but the temptation was strong. Patience. Everett— my murdered brother! Ten years, and so many days In all those years! Yet ail »worm to this clim ax! Patience, the hour has surely com e!” But precious time had already gone by and Kane had not been found. Every min­ ute at leisure thus meant golden time to perfect his plans for security for the fugi­ tive. Finally an inspiration seized Hope. “The mills!” he said, swiftly, and the driver, appraised, started his horse's head In a new direction. The works were not in operation. Here and there presented evidences of light and action, but only to a degree evidencing the necessary means of keep­ ing important steam and blast essentials in shape for the morrow, The election had caused a general stoppage of labor, and as Hope neared the mills at a furious rate of speed, the grim, black outlines of stacks and bunkers were ghoulishly sug­ gestive of the ruin brooding over the doomed enterprise. His body thrilled in the swaying vehicle and bis eyes lit up, as, sharply scanning every pert of the structure where the gen­ eral offices were located, be made out a certain speck of light. It was in the single room bulb illnmi- nant In the entire building, and it marked that section of the same given over to the private headquarters of the executive. A quick theory, a keen hope, inspired the trailer. It was quite natural that Kane should come hither. Some spoils there were yet on hand to seize, some Incriminating documents, doubtlessly, to destroy before be abandoned the sinking craft, and signaling a stop in an avenue formed by towering heaps of pig iron, Hope leaped to the ground. “ W ait for me here,” he ordered the cab driver. “ A il right, sir.” Hope sped forward. He was yet a lit­ tle ways from the mills proper, but he ad judged it best to approach with caution. There was a labyrinth of criss-cruas lanes and roads to pursue, and suddenly, as be emerged into the main cindered path, that «■ t the factory expanse due south and north, ha very nearly fan under the fart of two prancing steeds drawing a closed carriage. He darted back in time to save himself, though the vehicle guards quite grazed his hotly. Inside he made out a single oc- cupnnt of the carriage—-a man. “ Not Kane” he reflected rapidly, “ hut someone on a mission of urgency. 8ent for? Y e s!” Stroug in this conviction, Hope hasten­ ed forward. He was soon lining the side of the building he had in view. The car­ riage was no longer in sight. It had pro- ably cut around to the main front en­ trance. His steps bent also thither. Hope paused ahruptely. A watchman might challenge him, the doors might be unlocked to admit the visi­ tor, re locked to exclude others— hence, no thoroughfare. Again, it was an intermin able, and in the dark an unfamiliar dis­ tance from the portal to the secluded and exclusive corner range o f private of­ fices on the third floor, where Hope had observed the guiding light. It shone there .vet; he could note its rays piercing a prism frame, and immediately he resolved to gain its vicinity by especial and origin­ al means. F'or too many long, watchful weeks had that nest of luxury and scheming known the untiring cynosure of Gideon Hope, that he should not now know its environ­ ment and every available outside ap­ proach. His motive at present, clear and simple, was to speedily reach the vicinity of the room beyond the lighted window, With feverish activity he scaled a fire- escape, gained a roof, espied the situation in closer touch and found how he could get within direct sight and sound range of the occupants o f the room that was his present objective point of interest. The apartment fronted the mills. It led out at the rear to a light shaft. Here there was a single small window. Its base was broad and extending, sufficiently so to admit of a person finding safe and com­ fortable foothold there, and thither, with­ out much difficulty, by clinging to some wires looping from the roof, Hope lower­ ed himself eight feet. Now he could see into the room, and also hear what might be spoken within its confines, for the upper sash was tilted outward for ventilation. He saw Percy Kane at a first quick scan of the office interior; he heard his voice also. A ll the hot, surging passion of bis na­ ture once more set brain and heart on fire. Swung perilously pendant above far nothingness, at midnight, here and now Gideon Hope watched a new chapter oplen in the tragedy under play— the final one he grimly considered, for the white face, the haunted eyes, the trembling, twitching frame of the man upon whom his glance rested, told him surely that Percy V. Kane, wreck«*, assassin, fugitive, was at the last ditch! C H A PTE R X III Kane bore the appearance o f a man in a frightful state of mental incertitude and excitement. The high strain of tremendous thoughts obliterated all his customary steadiness of glance and bearing, and ev­ ery action was spasmodic. He had just welcomed to the room tb« occupant of the carriage. Hope had noted this person centered the watcher’s immedi­ ate attention. Hope recognized him ns the cashier of the principal local bank, guessed his mission, grimly decided he had come upon the scene fortuitously. “ I called you up,” he distinctly heard Kane say. “ You roused me out of bed.” answered the other. His glance took in Kane grave­ ly and anxiously. “ What’s up, now?” he continued. “ I sent for you as a friend,” said Kane, in a pitiful, faltering tone. _ “ Very well— I come as a friend,” re­ torted the other. “ But I intimated business, further— vital, speedy.” , “ I am prepared for that also,” observ­ ed the bank cashier. He placed a hand «beyond the buttoned lapels of his coat, half withdrew, wholly replaced again, a bulky, oblong package. Kane’s eyes lit np electrically, and im­ mense aspiration of relief, of joy, escaped bis lips. “ Friend, Indeed!” he cried, effusively grasping and wringing the band of the other “ Wortle, it’s life or death for the T ru s t! It was a queer message to send to a man— in the dead of night, but there was no other way. See here— we are in deep waters!” “ I know that, of course,” observed the oaidjier. “ But I estimated you knew your business. You telephoned me to get two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in cash, bills o f large denomination, and bring them here at once.” “ And you have them?” “Tw o hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars bills— yes.” The schemer’s face flamed with gladness — and sinister triumph. “ Now, what is your proposition?” re­ sumed the cashier. “ Simply this: “ As I say, we are at the limit with that money, I can hurry to Pittsburg, may be able to make a turn that saves us. You have pretty nearly everything tangible we’ve got in the way of securities. I pro­ pose to turn over to you, in addition— wait. I ’ll show yon I esteem this friendly act of yours.” He turned to the vault. Click— click! His nimble fingers sent the disc spinning, came for me, and blindly I obey you, though—oh ! the woe of I t !— I have gone to become Percy Kane's w ife !” “ The bonds and stocks of the execu­ tive.” he explained— “ the last dollar wa bold. I turn them in as collateral, trust­ ing you absolutely.” , The man of money was fairly amazed. He stood staring down at the securities in the tin box. “ Kane,” he said, a flush of genuine pleasure and emotion on his face, “ this is generous I O f course, only considered as firin g ns absolute control of everything. i : r y u iiifip j is the security valid, but It shows you M ENELIK n AND HIS PXOKJL- don’t intend to leave a friend like a»y». lf In the lurch if anything happens, ah?” M l s k t r M o n a rc h o f A b y a a l a la W h o “ Never V 'ff spontaneously t- -asserted A h» * * ' W e lc o m e s C iv ilis a t io n . other, never flinching as he realised the Few m ightier monarcha than Menellk vast’ treachery this transactlop .a gita ted I I o f Abyssinia ever swayed the desti­ towards hia confreres in the trust, • Nearer to'the ventilating slit In the nies o f a people. Throughout the vast window frame Gideon Hope pressed his territory o f the Abyssinian highlands face. With burning glance he viewed the his individual w ill is law to some m il­ contents of the tin bos gone over. The lions o f subjects, laws also to hordes cashier examined the bonds and «stock it o f savage Mohammedan and pagan contained. The flush on hia face shov ed tribesmen without the confines o f bis that he was satisfied with the security offered, but he was slow and methodical, kingdom. Ilia court includes no coun­ Aloue throughout the long and the impatient Kane, watching |>i»< cilors. «■overtly, frequently wetted hia dry, parch­ years o f his reign Menellk has dealt ed lips with his tongue, and panted quite, with all domestic and foreign affairs and often start«*] at the slightest strange o f state. outside noise. Hope read him through But now this last splendid survival and through— at cowardly sacrifice be had o f the feudal absolutism exercised and Recured the ready means to carry him to enj«>yed by medieval rulers la about to the ends of the world, if he choose— and he was anxious to start upon the journey. pi “ All right,” sonorously stated the bank cashier at last, replacing the securities in the box, and getting that receptable near his hat and cane on a stand, as if taking possession. Then his hand again sought his breast pocket. Kane’s eager, brilliant eyes rustled like a ferret. He stole out a hand trembling from excitement, to seize the coveted money. A t that moment Gideon Hope restrain­ ed himself no longer. “ Hold I” he cried. Both men started— the cashier in clear amazement profound. Kane as though a voice from the grave— or the rostrum of justice— had challenged him. Hope pressed on one window frame, hut could not move it from the outside. This commotion at once centered the attention KINO MENELIK II. of the two occupants of the room. “ What’s that I” sharply demanded the dlsapi>ear beneath encroaching waves cashier. of civilization, which long spare noth­ “ Give me the money!” breathed K an e, ing picturesque. Cables from far off “ the wind, some drunken workman. Hurry up, W ortle! I ’ m due to make quiet on the house In search o f a basement win­ He found the table In your library, say, and— ” dow that he could force. “ Pardon me,” Interrupted Mr. Meek­ one at last, opening over the coal bln; ly, without turning his head, “ but I but the door leading up-stalrs was se­ have already the best letter opener, and curely barred, and at 2 o’clock in the morning a dejected boy lay down on the quickest.” “ How long have you had it?” per­ the cement floor, with feet propped sisted the agent. “ You know there are against the furnace, and fell sadly constant Improvements always being In­ asleep, to dream o f the things an irate father, egged on by a stepmother, would troduced.” “ Mine couldn’t be Improved," re­ do to him in the morning. Th e next minute It was daylight, and sponded the gentleman. “ I ’ve had her fo r about two years now— anniversary a pleasant voice close to him was say­ o f the wedding next month ¡’’ —Stray ing, “ O James, look! On that cold floor all night I H e must have forgotten ms Stories. ________________________ key. I saw it on his dressing table H a v a Y o u Seen l l e r f when I went In this morning. And we “ W hat kind o f a woman Is she?” closed the house so ea rly ! H e did It “ One without diplomacy.” fo r me, James, I know he did. You “ W ithout diplomacy?” spoke at dinner about my headaebs, “ Yes, she w ill argue with an Iceman and he wouldn’ t disturb me by rin gin g; about the size o f the lump until It all but I couldn’t hare slept a wink I f I melts aw ay and there is only a wet had dreamed he was down here. H e’s spot on the sunny sidewalk.” waking up, James.” D lW e r e a t V ie w p o in t « . “ There, son, th ere!” said Chic's fath­ Said She— I always enjoy meeting er, with unheard-of gentleness, as he man with a history. helped the astonished boy to his feet. Said He— I don’ t My office boy baa “ P retty hard bed, wasn’t It? You might strict orders not to admit book agent» ba rs rung, my boy, but I'm proud o f you fo r being so thoughtful. Wash up now and come to breakfast.” W ith that lie started up-stalrs, hut Chic, still blinking, stood and stared at Ms stepmother. Could it bo— waa ah* really so lnuocent, or----- “ T o think Chic,” she was saying, soft­ ly— and there was a look on her fact that made him remember hia own moth­ er— “ I waa afraid you didn’t like met' “ P o o h !” he answered, with a sudden big lump in his throat. “ I guess 1 dot' — Youth’s Companion. 014 F a s h io n e d Nothing I Ate - Agreed With Me B r e a k fa s t . How dear to my heart is that scene of my childhood Which fond recollection recalleth to v ie w ; The damask-clad board with ita lavishly piled food, Delectable fare my young appetite knew, 4 The thick, juicy beefsteak, the omelette by “ « The crisp, fried potatoes, seductively brown, The rampart of toast with the marma­ lade nigh it— Ambrosial breakfast, where now thy renown ? The old-fashioned breakfast, our fore­ fathers’ breakfast. The long-ago breakfast of vanished re­ nown. Those rich-tinted waffles, how toothsom* and tender. Their dimpled delights on those morn­ ings of yore; How oft to their delicate charms I ’d sur­ render, How sweet the libation I ’d over them pour. How calm the content that would softly enfold me. As each melting mouthful slipped lus­ ciously down. And how I'd have sorrowed had any one told me That opulent breakfast would lose its renown. The old-fashioned breakfast, our fore- • fathers’ breakfast. The long-ago breakfast of vanished re­ nown. Um m m m m m i m ■ MPS. LENORA BODCNHAMER Mrs. LenOra Bodenhamer, R. F. D. 1, Box 99, Kemersville, N . C., w r ’.tea: “ I suffered with stomach trouble and indigestion for some time, and nothing that I ate agreed with me. I waa very nervous and experienced a continual feeling o f uneasiness and fear. I took medicine from the doctor, but it did me no good. “ I found in one o f your Peruna books a description o f my symptoms. I then wrote to Dr. Hartman for advice. He said I had catarrh of the stomach. I took Peruna and Manalin and followed his directions and can now aay that I feel as well as I ever did. “ I hope that all who are afflicted with the same symptoms will take Pe­ runa, as it has certainly cured me.” The above is only one of hundreds who have written similar letters to Dr. Hartman. Just one such case as this entitles Peruna to the candid con­ sideration of every one similarly afflict­ ed. I f this be true o f the testimony of one person what ought to be the tes­ timony of hundreds, yes thousands, of honest, sincere people. W e have in our files a great many other testimo­ nials. How bleak is this modern repast o f the morning. It differeth far from the feast of my dream. That succulent fern the bare table adorn­ ing, I yearn to devour with sugar and cream. I ’m weary of hay, predigested and shred­ ded, On health-giving sawdust I look with a frown. The pangs o f dyspepsia are less to be dreaded— Oh, bring back the breakfast of ancient renown ; “ 20 -Mule-Ttui” Born Prewitt. The old-fashioned breakfast, the dear, deadly breakfast. Semi for 40-pag* Catalog o f 1000 Valuable Pre­ The long-ago breakfast of vanished re­ sent«« we rive Free for Top» and Wrapper» from “ 20-Mule-Team“ Borov products. You will find nown. Get a Watch Ring or Pin But Is there no hope? Must I ever con tin «« On flakes of dried science to nourish my brain? While “ vigor” and “ force” feed my mus­ cle and sinew, My poor, patient palate petitions in vain. Dear meal of my youth, with what rap­ ture I'd hail thee. Could I but before thy abundance sit down! W ith keenest enjoyment I'd haste to as­ sail thee. Thou memorial breakfast of blessed re­ nown ; The old-fashioned breakfast, our fore­ fathers’ breakfast, The long-ago breakfast of vanished re­ nown. — Richmond News-Leader. many article» of household and personal uae that you con obtain AB SO LUTELY FREE. All you have to do 1» to SA V E TOPS OB W R A P ­ PERS. Addresa PACIFIC COAST BORAX CO.. Oakland, Cat. A C o o lin g T k o o z k t , W hat makes one man warm makes another cool. During the hottest week last summer a gentleman walked into the country store to get hia mall. An old “ darky” was sitting In the blazing «mi, in a rocking chair, on the piazza o f the store, looking “ as comfortable as a chocolate ice cream.” The whits man sank Into another chair and fanned himself with bis limp handker­ chief. “ W ell, Uncle Jeb,” he said, “ I rnhat say that you seem pretty comfortable. How do you manage to keep to on a day like this?” C a re t * 4 O a t l a a t r a c t t o a s . “ Massa,” said the negro, “ I ’a thlnk- Every sailor has his story o f the mis­ ln’ dat de sun what’a makln’ dla yere takes which landlubbers make over the heatness Is a-amliln’ down on all de names o f things at sea. which always watermilllona in Georgia, an' makln’ seem to be exactly the opposite o f what (lorn Jest so red an’ ripe dat my mouf they are on land. most eayn’t keep from awallerln’. I A new hoy had gone on board a West daon’t min’ de heatness when I ■ spec’- India ship, upon which a painter had late on dem watermilllona.” also been employed to paint the ship's aide. 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