w ,m ,vtpm.ml'mt. I m fc s The fPirate of 9 9 RUPERT SARGENT HOLLAND Author of Tin Count at Harvard," etc. Copyright, 1000. by J. t. Llpptncott Company, All rights rsrrd. IT CHAITRIt Vttt. (Continued.). "Don't you think that a girl who's en gaged to out man ought to tell other men drew back sharply and faced me with astounded erf. "Why, what do you mean, Mr. Sel den!" I mi in for It, so plunged ahead. "That day you cam to the Ship, I hid no Idea," I blundered on. "I did not know yon were such a friend of Isllp's." "Well," ah said, "and now that you know!" "I think you should bar to'd me, I oatht to have known before that after noon." 8h was haughtiness Itself. "Why. what affair was It of yours?" I throned my shoulders. "I was enti tled to know.' "I cannot understand whj. What makes you think that Mr. Isllp and I"- tb hesitated a second are. sura old friends!" Of a sudden we were tn a very nasty tempest, facing each other. "I happened to see his picture In your locket. It was lylsg open, face upward." She did not even tap her fool ; she sim ply rat still and looked her Indignation . at me. "Really, Mr. Selden, I cannot sec how that affects yoa. What reason could there lyi for telling you my personal affairs!" I stuck doggedly at It. "I think I should hare been told." I repeated. She rare m a single glance, then ros. "I am going back to the Pengnln Club," she said. I ro also. "Very good. I will see you there." "No;" she turned to ra sharply. "I prefer to go back alone." She was Imperious; I could be equally so. "And I prefer to go with you. The pines are loctly. and It Is growing late. I owe at least that duty to your aunt." Thin she tapped her foot Impatiently, angrily. "You are very tiresome. Mr. Selden. I am my own mistress, and I do not want your company." "And I will not let you go back alone." "Ton are rery rude." She looked over at the beach as If for some possible help. "Is there no one ete?" she asked aloud. There came a rolce from the cabin steps behind me. "If you will permit me, mademoiselle, I should esteem It a great honor." We both started as If we were shot, and faced about A tall, somewhat angu lar man stood before us. hat In hand, bow ing low to Miss Graham. ! "J heard your Question." he said, "and I took It on biyslf to answer It. Permit me." He stepped forward and placed himself at the girl's side. "Who are yooT I asked, all amat taent. for I was surprised out of my wits. "My name Is I'lerre Dapo-jcenu." the stranger said, lenorinn me and addressing Miss Graham, "and I count myself fortu nate In coming on a lady In distress." We both stood still, taking In the queer figure. Never bad I seen a man Just like him. II was dressed all In black, but his clothe were singularly rich and of strange pattern. From his shoulders hung a black closk held under his chin by two heavily wrought gold chains. Across bis open waistcoat, which was black satin flowered In white, were three rold chains, and there were rings on hi fingers. Moreover, his manner was strange, exotic, polished to a degree, and hit voire had a peculiar, fasHnatlng for 'lgn softness that I had never heard In any other man. His height was over six feet. I recognised the figure that I had seen In the storm. H was smiling easily, the least per turbed of the three. "Permit me, made moiselle," he repeated, and offered Miss Graham his arm. Kb shet one glance at me, and then, half sailing, placed her hand on bis arm. fy he led her across the deck to the lad der. I was still dumb with surprise. I saw tb man In blark leap to the path, help Miss Graham down the ladder, cross the causeway, and disappear with her behind the cliff. Then I sat down on a chair. Was I awake or dreaming? A man had come out of the Ship at a crucial mo ment, and a nun who, my Instinct told me, was not of our age or people. I no longer recognized Alastalr; I was begin ning even to doubt my sober self. CHAITRIt IX. Darkness fell, and still the man In the cloak did not return, and I went back to the cottage with my curiosity unsatisfied. I did not know what to make of his sud den appearance, nor of tb summary fash .ion In -which be bad Interposed between Miss Graham and myself. He, a total stranger, escorting her home through the woods! And ytt this phase of tb nut ter did not w much surprls me, for I felt Intuitively that wa wre dealing with a gentleman. As far a my recollection of sea-rovers went, I recalled that pirate had always been scrupulously polite In tbelr relation with th gentler sex. Ther was no gainsaying that this sud den apparition bad Interposed himself be tween UUm Graham and me, yet I did not Syastair resent this so much as I might have, be cause, tilings hsd been coming to n very bad pas, and might speedily have, result ed In even more serious trouhle than bad occurred. I questioned Charles closely as to whether ho had defected any suspicious eharacters prowling about the beach, but hi answer was tn tho negative. "If yon should nolle anything untnuil." I told him. "be sure to report It Immediately to me." It was clear to me, that something was happening of more substantial texture than a dream. Later In tb evening I lighted my pipe and walked In the direction of the Ship. As I came to the path I saw the man lit the ctoak silting on deck, nnd hailed him. "May I come on board. Monsieur Du panceaul" II ros and peered at me through the dusk. "Is It the gentleman who dined here this Afternoon!" he asked, somewhat suspiciously. "Th name." "You are welcome,' he nnswercd, and I could not help smiling at his attumptlon of ownership. He shook bands with m as I came on board, waved to the meant cbalr, and poured m water In one of my own glasses. "I must apologise that I have ho wone to offer yon," he said In sucii a tuauntr that my likings Instantly went out to htm. "I should not en ham had the pleasure of offering you this but for tb fact that you yourself provided It." "Will you smoke!" I handed him a ci gar, which he accepted, and lighted with a match I furnished. For the first tli.M I noticed a pair of heavy pistols on th table. "You travel welt guarded," said I, loosing- at them. "I have need." he answered, "grav need." I looked closely at him. He 4Ms In perfect earnest, his pale face absolute ly serious, his deep eyes set beneath black brows. He pushed bis somewhat long hair bark from a fine, broad forehmd. "I do Dot know you you are, sir, but I take you for a friend one I assure you of a class now sadly small." "I live aczr tho beach," I explained. 'nud mr came Is Seldon. I Imaglno that you are a stranger to tills shore 1" "An absolute stranger. I come from the other sld of tb ocean. This Is th first time I haw ever been to America." I waited, but he would vouchsafe noth ing further. So we sat and smoked si lently, while I felt his keen eyes studying me. "May I ask your age, Mr. Selden!" he raid at length. "Certainly. Twenty-Wght." "Ah I You are very much younger than I. I am somewhere between 10 and SO, one who has seen mueh, and so almost an old man. ' I could not Imagine what was coming. "It is In reference to this afternoon," be said, as though In answer to my thoughts. "When I bear a woman In it !r tress I am water, I cannot but inter pose. Still, as I returned here this even ing I thought that possibly you might feel aggrieved. Ilellev me, Mr. Selden, at the tlm I bad rye only for the lady." II paused, then went on: "If you will pardon a much older man, I would glv yon a bit of counsel. Never contend with a woman; let her have her way. Above all, never contend with a woman who cares for you." "I liar the least reason In the world to think that this ona does!" I answered. He made no reply, but smoked thought fully. I suddenly found his further si lence unendurable. "What are your plans, sir?" I asked abruptly. "For I do not suppose that you dropped down here entirely by chanco, and Intend to stay until chance again moves you away." "No, I did not arrive solely by chance," he answered, "although that bad much to do with It. Kut I expect to stay until fortune, be It good or bad, summon m. That Is, always supposing, Mr. Selden, that you do not drive me away from your beach." "1?" I said, much surprised. "How ran your stay her hurt me?" Sly new acquaintance let Jils eye rest upon my fare a moment, then smiled a though at a passing joke of his own, "You hate a saying that 'where Ignor ance Is bliss 'tis folly to be wlso'; I will not explain, therefore, and only hope that you nay neer know; but" and bl eye shifted for a moment from mine to the .Ittols on the table "If jmi do know, It will not U a very pretty piece of infor mation." I clenched my pipe between my teeth J th night wind was stirring; the flavor of strange adventur bung over tb fthlp as strongly a the salt breer from th sea. I ftlt myself Indef.-rlbablr fasci nated. Duponceau drew bis cloak oro what closed around hlw, nud muffled It about bl chin, so that ill Of bis face. I could clearly se wa hi long, wonderful black eye. Indeed, they vera wonderful those ye of his. The nice I looked Into them, th znor they held me, and jet the less I knew about th man him self. I was Just wondtrlng It thla Dupaaeeao was not n,mthtng of a hypnotist when I found that he was speaking In a soft, low, almost mmtnatUe nlii "I like you, Mr, Selden, t like you ex tremely, nml so I would tint bring joil Into any harm; and yet If jmi are mj friend I shall most likely do so, for lhn curse was laid upon me In the past, t have had many friends nnd rin more enemies, and soma of tho friends hive turned enemies, but notie, of the enemies friends, 1 tell jott this so tlint you may the better judge, because jou must be una or tb other, Nolxxly has ever been Indifferent." I could not detect arrogance; simply th statement of facts, "I would rather be jour friend," I an swered, Uk was silent agnln, gating at and through me with his dreamy, speculative vision. I bad the fcellug that I was In a measure spellbound- that I could not start a conversation for mjself, couM not net without his volition, "There aro reasons," he continued In time, "whll I cannot tell you much. It I am not one of the world's great men by .birth, I am by achievement. There was a Corslcan born In the last century whom all the Hwers of KuroM sought for years to bind and silence ; lhre are many men there who would do the same for me Wherever Napoleon went lis brought strife; wherever I go strlfft follows." II ceased looking through me, and gated at me. tou hae your quiet beach, your snug house, your summer with the fair lady of this afternoon; do you still wish me to stay?" "Th Ship Is any one's property," I salil, "and the shore Is free. If you want more, )u have only to ask for It at my cottage." "What would the lady say!" h contin ued. "The lady has nothing white er to say In the matter," I returned, annoyed at his continual reference tn Miss Graham. "I am free to chooe for myself." Dupoiicenii smiled. "Mr, Selden, yotl are a tons; man of spirit, but you ar Ignorant, very IgBorant. It all depends on the lady, iou would not weltfj me In the bah nee for a moment If she willed otherwise. No one Is free; there Is at wars some other power. Kvrn th Corsl can could not withstand his star." Th smile fad), vanished; Puponcenn' eye were stern and fixed. "I have been called a pirate, a robber, a modern Juggernaut, but It was only lie cause I had my vision, and could seo far ther than others could." H was league away, his thoughts fighting, t watched htm until his mind cam hack. "Now," he said, "w will fight It out. I take you at your word the Ship I mine, the shore any one's proerty." Suddenly he ru ami stood peering up tbe beach, "Some one Is coming," h uld, and I saw that hla hands felt tor the pistols on th table. I looked, and saw Charles swlngtng a lantern. "It la only my servant," I an swered. "Can he be trusted!" "Itnnllcltlr." "Tell him who I a'm." We waited until diaries cam on board. He showed no surprise at seeing the two of us. "I ram for th dinner things, Mr. Fe lix," be stated, looking at nvs and Ignor ing Ouponrrau. ''Charles," I said, "this Is Monsieur IUNncmti, who has lately com to stay In this Ship. You are not to mention hi presence here to any one, but will do whauver he asks. You netd not tak tht thing away; tboy way I of u to htm In the cabin. Monsieur Ihiponeeau, yuu may rely on Charles as on yourself." Charles bowed to the man In black, a fine figure, gailng steadily at my 'man. I could not help noting tb picture that he made, his band still on the pistols, bl soft black hat low upon bl forehead, bis cloak flung across bis shoulder. Charles turned to go. "Has ther been any message for me!" I asked as an af terthought. "No, Mr. Felix." Charles hesitated, "but I found a man prowling about the hack road after supper, and, though I'd never seen him before, I couldn't learn bl business. He looked like a sly one, sir." I turned to Duponeeau; he was smil ing. "You see, Mr. Seldon, how quickly my words find proof. Where I com strlf follows." (To be continued.) In lllslrrsa, "Wlicro be J 011 going In such n hurry, pa?" naked tho till wotiinn In the red aunbomict n lior husband dathod by with a powerful pair of farm horses. "GoIhk to pull nn automohllo party out of tho mud, sis," liiughcd Rio old farmer. "They've got tho 'a D. Q.' signal flying from their machine." Tuetlol aUIII. Ho (thotightlossly) Till bread Isn't Ilka tho kind Sho (angrily) Well, your mother nmilo It, nil tho Kiime. Ho (dcprccutliigly) I wns going to say, my dear, like tho kind vo had tho lout tlmo ou uinilu It. llultltnora American. Work Ilolb 1Vr. "Matrimony without love," remarked tho married woman, "Is somothlug awful." "It can't bo more nwful tlmn lorn without matrimony," sighed tho spin ster. Unsatisfactory Hlstollon, Rlquor How does tho now f urnac , work? KlquorWork? 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The exterior of Ilia tmlldttiK with Its colunnndo lit with blue mercury Hunts la familiar to ever) otto who haa been to Pari, but until the visitor has witnessed this nccnn of shimmering wtln and nparkllnic Jewels lin will hnvn missed rw markabla night 'which only the open can ahnw hint. Science nvention www Arkansas lead amonx tho state In the production of bauxite, her output being morn than 60 per cent of the total last year. Holland bn a new law forbidding the adulteration of butter, under pin atty of Imprisonment, whioh may reach one year. Tho brilliancy of a limelight used in i demonstrating lantern can b In creased by slipping It over an ordi nary gxs mantle. Tho United State government main Ulna flflysoven wireless telegraph stnlons nnd hag ninety-six vessel fitted out with tho Apparatus. A professorship of aerostatic ha been founded In Gettlngen tlnlversl ty, and school for training aeronauts nra to be established In aovernt Ger man cities. Tho word "tungstollcr" hat been coined to define, tlm fixture used to hold a group of tungsten electric lights In proper position to glvo the beat service. Austria limits tho number of drug stores to tho number of Inhabitants of a district or city, and tho need of an additional one must be clearly shown beforo tho tlcenso Is Issued. The seologlcal survey Is erecting at Pittsburg a testing plant for structu ral material that will bo able to han dle girders CS feet long nnd give them a tension of 10.000.000 pounds. Govornment testa hnve shown that many coals which aro too high In ash and sulphur tor economical use under hollers or for cooking may bo mado commercially raluablo by proper wash ing. Messrs. Henri and Btodol recently demonstrated to the Trenrh Academy of Sciences the practicability of steril izing milk by means of tho ultraviolet rays emitted by mercury vapor lamps, Milk thus treated can be complotely sterilized In the cold. At tho same meeting of the academy Mons. A. Gascard showed that milk to which potassium bichromato has been added as n preservative keeps much better In the dark. The Yana language of northern Cali fornia represents a distinct linguistic stock, and had formerly threo dlilects, Opo of which Is now extinct. It pos- sosses two forms of speech, ono of which Is employed by men speaking to men, while tho othor Is used In all other cases. Practically, the language has only nouns and verbs, tho adjcctl Ives, ndvorbs, numerals, Interrogative pronouns and conjunctions being form ed from the verbs. In the Calnveras National Forest there aro two groves of big trees. In tbe North Grove, In Calaveras County, there nro ten trees each having a Hlnmoter of 2B feet or over, and morn .han goventv having a diameter rnnir. jnK between 15 and 25 feet. The tree called the "Father of (he Forests," which now lies on the ground, Is estl- r.i cJfbt &mm. QlB - THE GRAND STAIRCASE. mated to havo had a height of U0 feet, and ft diameter, at th ground, of more than 40 feet. The hark on theso trees runs from C Inches to 3 feot In thlcktifss, Reside the giant sequoias, there aro hundreds of sugar pine and ynllnw pines from 8 to 10 feet In diameter, and ranging to S73 foot In height. AltNOLD'S TREASON EXPECTRD. ItettitilllitHKrr J.rMre t.nlelr ""lit Tell of III T.irr KrleniUhlp. An Interesting historical Utter, r latlng to Ilenedlrt Arnold's treason, (Hn, Gates disastrous campaign In tho Southern States and the appoint ment of Gen. Nathnnael Greene to sue :ced him there, fotched 155 At Free man's In Philadelphia a few days ago, tho Now York Times says. The lotter was written to Greene from Philadel phia, Oct. 5, 1780, by Charles Petit, n member of tho continental congress, who also wns assistant to Greene while the latter was quartermaster general. ' In regards to the West Point Unison Petit wrote: "I cannot say (hat Gen. Arnold's treason, so far as respects his turn ing lory and deserting tho American cause, was any grvat surprise to me. The constant and uniform tenor of his conduct In this city looked strongly that way, and the court lie paid to the tortus was too plain and evident and too universal to nrlso from auy other motlvo than the laying of a foundation for Joining them at somo day or other, but tlm magnitude of his treason and the oxtent of hi plan, 1 must eoufwu, starllo and amnio me: I .could scarely hao conceived that tho prldo of nn Ambi tious man and that sense of honor, or nt least tho pretension to It, which every man of station thinks himself bound to wear tho nppenrnnco of, whether ho really feels It or not, would hnvo prevented n mnn of his sltunllon to rush at onco Into n vll Inlnty so atroolous and degrading to human nature. Hut ho soums to havo been determined not to be a llttlo vil lain. Nothing short of tho highest rate could satisfy him, nnd In this ho lin shown his courage, though his plan has fallod. I shall nt present add only ono reflection upon this af fair, nnd that Is Hint I consider It ns n public benefit not only tbnt tho plot lias hcon so seasonably discover ed, but that tho attempt has been mado," In writing about (ion. Ontes' South ern camiinlgn Potlt says: "Tho Southern gentlemen ixirtlculnrly seem ed, desirous that ami. Green o should be appointed, Tho Southern peoplo aro strongly prejudiced against n Calo donlan (Gen, St. Clair), having nn ugly pest of thorn In tholr own bow els In North Carolina." nun Mu, "New thought will beautify tho pinincsi kin." "That may be so, but very few girls aro going to glvo up lotions for no tions." Mllwaukeo Journal, It costs more to avongo a wrong than It doos to let It go by default. DIltD GABTLKSW Til 13 llooKa, Teit 'llii.H.rtlllt Hints l,lr t,utt Hook on the .llMUttnleii l. (, To sro tho oilier riicluUriieri ' must go nn farther to tlm uma From tho MngdAleus to tu nioat northern land one will m,t t),, pifctplloti Islnud. and ii-atllnna tenanted by the hardy senhlrd wliWi delight In slirer height suh a turn most men dUxy. Great I lir.l iuk, ol the Magdalen group, far mu in 'u,. turuulvut Gulf of Ht. Lnftrviue th most Accessible from cIvIIimuou 0( any of tho colonic uf thU ,n uy, Herbert K. Job, In Outing it AtlMl rums lllm tnoeksr, thougii j r tn U the term "accelb it ( a (Uutloil nf degree, fur even thla Is remote nud linrd to reach at it best. Yet such a place n Great Imd Hoek Is one of the seven wonder of th world, If nny one who iruh Umi wild naliiro desires a ri and ontu thrill by nit menus hn or ii should Konieliuw visit Great llird IUhk. It lowers fnnn a nlormy, f g ti(rt occnti, lonely, buffeted on evert side,' exposing It towering cliff to th a. most unrrmlttfd assaults of th ), incuts, It linn been my good fortune twits to visit till great osstto of th birdt. Tho first time we went In a -iiKnfr of goodly slxe, wero left on tlm roes, and railed for two da later Tht next time, four )ers after, the vessel failed to keep the np(Hilntmetit and, raher than give it up. aehd (iur clmiipo and ran out from the Mg dalrns In nn open lobster boat v were hurled ashore by the surf u th I one bit f rocky ImmcIi under th ma, i Hurriedly hltrhlug on the steam winrlt tackle, we had Hie boat hoisted ul of danger, nnd scrambled up the long ladder 110 feet to the summit. lit we were loyally cored for by th keep er and tils family, who had rrivl but one visitor since the previous No vember On the sheer walls qf this precipi tous Island, on the many ledge. Iiv ome ten thousand st birds. Th sights aro Impressive beyund the pow er uf nny words adequately to de scribe. From below, a we apprntrh In the boat, we galo upward with nwa nt the circling swarm of th birds, note the rows and compani upon the ledges, listen to the screams of tho birds snd th din of th surf, which pounds nway ceaselessly at tk cliff. On r, boat I plunging, In every thing there Is motion, the height of tho rocky wall Is appalling, And th very unlverso seem to rrcl and stag' ger. And when, either by cllmMng the ladder or being hoisted up by ui steam winch, wo gain the sum. "it and look down, tho scone la ejii ly Impressive. From some promontory of tho cliff wo gain down upon hit of birds iiimjii their t-ggs. Home of tho eggs wa ran see ns the owmrt launch forth and scalo swiftly down ward And rlrelo out over the ocean to join the ever circling throng SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONS. By Clarence I Cullsn. When a woman looks Just rlgut la a bathing suit It's a sign that nil Ike other women call her a bold, braien creature. Tho man who can't swim, but who wlfo can, has to stand for a lot of patronlilng by his spousa during th bathing month. The woman who looks tlm most toil ful nnd supercilious In a motor r usually Is tho woman who I the least accustomed to siiah vehicle. Familiar quotation: "Now, I warn youIf you go out this evening with out taking mo, you won't find me her when you come back. Mark my nrd. sir!" There nre slews of pretty nnd agree nhlo trained nurses, but tho only tun n married man draws ono Is when he gets sick nway from horn nud i' U his own nurso. Tho only wny to got even with her for squirming nnd wriggling when you'ro hooking up tho bnok Is to pull thnt squirming ntimbar yourself hen sho's tying your dress tie. The woman who keeps her hair In "kids" nearly nil day Sunday can't understand why her husband I choppy nnd so nuxlous In go some whoro -anywhere on his day of rest. Ono uf thoiu serlo-comls effects Is when a wotnnn, unconscious of nn un hooked back plnckot, haughtily turns her back upon n rival nnd than lonkt stunned nnd puixlod whon sho hears tho giggles behind hor. Tho womntt who hnrpn the mot upon tho swell matrimonial chanrei lio tossed nway to marry tho man whoso nnmo sho boars Is tho one who runs nround In tnntrumlsh clrclos If hor husbind oven accidentally lota slip tho nnmo of somo girl ho know heroro his mnrrlngo. t A bnuy ftvorngos up fnlrly well If U Is halt m pretty nn Its mother mj It Is, or hnlf ns homely as the .lf bora think It Is,