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SYNOPSIS.
Eleanora do Toscana was singing In
Paris, which, nerhnm. accounted for Ed-
ward Courtlondt's appearance there. Mul
timillionaire, lie wandered about wnerc
fancy dictated, lie mltrht be In Paris one
3aj- and Kamchatka th next. Following
xne opera he goes to a cafe and is ac
costed by a pretty young woman. She
cave him the address of Flora Deslmone.
vocal rival of Toscana, and Flora gives
him the address of Eleanora, whom he Is
determined to see. Courtlandt enters
Eleanora's apartments. She orders him
out and shoots at him. The next day
Paris is shocked by the mysterious dis
appearance of the prima donna. Realizing
that he may -be suspected of the abduc
tion of Eleanora Courtlandt arranges for
as alibi. Eleanora reappears and accuses
Courtlandt of having abducted her. His
aJlbt Is satisfactory to the police and the
charge Is dismissed. Eleanora flees to
Lake Como to rest after the shock. She
Is followed by a number of her admirers,
-among them the prince who really pro
cured her abduction. Courtlandt also goes
-to Como and there meets JImmIe llorrl
ean, retired prizefighter and father of El
eanora. whose real name Is Nora Harrl-
f an. Harrlgan takes Courtlandt Into his
avor at once. He Introduces Courtlandt
to his daughter, but the latter gives no
.Blgn of ever having met him before. She
studiously avoids film. Nora's confessor
scents a mystery Involving Nora and
Courtlandt He takes a strong fancy to
the young man. Nora's suitors become
tnore and more persistent.
' , CHAPTER X Continued.
"Abbey, I wouldn't climb those Btalra
for a bottle of Horace's Falernlan,
served on Seneca's famous citron
table."
"Not a friend in the world," Abbott
lamented.
Laughingly they hustled him Into
the hallway and fled. Then Courtlandt
went his way alone.
Harrlgan was In a happy temper. He
kissed his wifo and chucked Nora un
der the chin. And then Mrs. Harrl
gan launched the thunderbolt which,
having been held on the leash for
several hours, bad, for all of that, lost
none of Its ability to blight and scorch.
"James, you are about as hopeless
a man as ever was born. You all 'but
disgraced us this afternoon."
-Mother"
"Me?" cried the bewildered Harrlgan.
''Look at those tennis shoes; one
-white string and one brown one. It's
-enough to drive a woman mad. What
in heaven's name made you come?"
Perhaps It was the after effect of a
good dinner, that dwindling away of
pleasant emotions; perhaps it was the
"very triviality of the offense for which
ho was thus suddenly arraigned; at
any rate, he lost his temper, and he
was rather formidable when that oc
curred. "Damn It, Molly, I wasn't going, but
Courtlandt asked me to go with him,
and I never thought of my shoes. You
aro always finding fault with me these
days. I don't drink, I don't gamble,
I don't run around after other women;
I never did. But since you've got this
social bug in your bonnet, you keep
me on hooks all the while. Nobobdy
noticed the shoe strings; and they
would have looked upon it as a joke
If they bad. After all, I'm the boss
of this ranch. If I want to wear a
white string and a black one, I'll do
ft Here!" He caught up a took on
social usages and threw it out of the
window. "Don't ever' shove a thing
Uko that under my nose again. If you
do, I'll hike back to little old New
York and start the gym again."
Ho rammed one of the colonel's per
fectos (which he bad been saving for
the morrow) between his teeth, and
stalked into the garden.
Nora was heartless enough to laugh.
"He hasn't talked like that to mo in
years!" Mrs. Harrlgan did not know
what to do follow him or weep. She
took the middle course, and went to
Led.
Nora turned out the lights and sat
out on the little balcony. The moon
shine was glorious. So dense was the
earth blackness that the few lights
twinkling here and thero were more
like fallen Btars, Presently she heard
a. sound. It was her father, returning
s silently as ho could. She heard him
fumble among the knlckknacks on tho
aantel, and then go away ugaln. By
daithy olio saw a spot of whlto light
wave hither and thither among tho
grape arbors, For five or six minutes
be watched It dance, Suddenly all
hcmo dark again,
"Kw, aro yon there?"
fitful Mom
"Yes. Over horo on tho balcony.
What wore you doing down thoro?"
"Oh, Nora, I'm sorry I lost my tern
per. Hut Molly b begun to nng me
lately, nnd I can't stand It, I wont
after that book. Did you throw some
flowers out of tho window?"
"Yes."
"A bunch of daisies?"
"Marguerites," sho corrected.
"All tho samo to mo. I .picked up
tho bunch, and look at what I found
inside."
Ho extended his palm, flooding it
with tho light of his pocket lamp.
Nora's heart tightened. What sho saw
was a beautiful uncut emerald.
CHAPTER XI.
A Comedy with Music.
The" Harrlgans occupied tho suite
In tho cast wing of the villa. This
consisted of n largo drawing room and
two ample bedchambers, with window
balconies and a private veranda In
the rear, looking off toward tho groen
of the pines and tho metnMIko luster
of tho copper beeches.
It was raining, a fine, soft, blurring
Alpine rain, and a blue-gray monotono
prevailed upon the face of tho waters
and defied all Bavo tho kconest scru
tiny to discern whero tho mountain
tops ended and tho sky began. It was
a day for indoors, for dreams, good
books, and good fellows.
Hero thoy all were. Mrs. Harrlgan
was deep In tho Intricate mazo of tho
Amelia Ars of Bologna, which, as tho
initiated know, is a wonderful lace. By
ono of the wlndowB sat Nora, winding
Interminable yards of lace hemming
from off the willing if aching digits of
tho Barone, who wab speculating as
to what his Neapolitan club friends
would Bay could they see, by some
trick of crystal gazing, his present oc
cupation. Celcsto was at tho piano,
playing (pianissimo) snatches from
tho operas, while Abbott looked on,
What She Saw Was a Beautiful Uncut
Emerald.
his elbows propped upon his knees.
his -chin in his palms, and a quality of
ecstatic content in his eyes. .
"Play the fourth ballade," urged
Abbott
As Celeste began the andante, Nora
signified to tho Barone to drop his
work. She let her own hands fall.
Harrlgan gently closed his book, for
in that rough kindly soul of his lay a
mighty love of music. He himself was
without expression of any sort, and
somehow music seemed to stir tho dim
and not quite understandable longing
for utterance. Mrs. Harrlgan alone
went on with her work; she could
work and listen at tho same time.
After the magnificent finale, nothing
in the room stirred but her needle.
"Bravo!" cried the Barone, breaking
the spell.
"You never played that bettor,"
declared Nora.
"That's some!" Harrlgan beat his
bands together thunderously. "Great
stuff; eh, Barono?"
The Barone raised his hands as If
to express his utter Inability to des
cribe his sensations. His elation was
that ascribed to thoso fortunate mor
tals whom the gods lifted to Olympus.
At his feet lay tho lace hemming, hope
lessly snarled.
"Father, father!" remonstrated Nora;
"you will wake up all the old ladles
who aro having their siesta,"
"Bah! I'll bet a doughnut their ears
aro glued to their doors. What ho!
Somebody's at the portcullis. Probably
the padre, como up for tea."
Ho was at tho door Instantly, Ho
flung it open heartily. It was char
acteristic of tho man to open every
thing widely, his heart, bis mind, bls-
hato or hiH affection.
"Como in, como in! Just In timo
for tho matluco concert."
Tho padro was not alono, Court
landt followed him In,
"Wo havo been standing In the cor
rldor for ten minutes," ufllnncd tho
padro, sending a winning oinllo around
tho room. "Mr. Courtlandt was for
going down to tho bureau and wending
up our cards. Hut I would not hour
of audi formality. I am a privileged
person."
"Suro yosl Molly, ring for tea, and
tell 'cm to make it hot. How about a
llttlo peg, as tho colonel Bays?"
Tho two men declined.
How easily and nonchnlantly tho
man stood thero by tho door as Harrl
gan took his hatl Colosto was aqulvor
with excltoment. Sho was thoroughly
a woman; sho wanted something to
hRppon, dramatically, romantically,
But hor want was a vain ono. Nora
h&tod scones, and Courtlandt had tho
advantage of hor In his knowlodgo of
this. Colosto remained at tho piano
but Nora turned as If to move away.
"No, you must sing. That 1b what 1
caine up for," Insisted Uio padro. If
there wbb any nmllco In tho church
man, It was of a negatlvo quality. But
It was In his Latin blood that drama
should appeal to htm strongly, and
here was an unUBual phaso In Tho
Groat Play. Ho had urged Courtlandt
much against tho lattor's will this day
to como up with him, simply that ho
might sot a llttlo Bcono such as thlB
promised to bo and study it from tho
vantago of tho prompter. Ho know
that tho principal thomo of all great
bookB, of all groat dramaB, was nntng
oulBm, antagonism between man and
woman, though by a thousand other
namos has it been called. Ho had
ofton said, in a spirit ot raillery, that
this antagonism was principally duo
to the fact that Evo had been con
stmctcd (and very woll) out of a rib
from Adam. Naturally sho resented
this, that sho had not been fashioned
Independently, and would hold It
against man until tho truo secret or
the parablo was mado clear to hor.
Nora saw that opposition would
bo useless. After all, It would bo
bettor to sing. Sho would not bo
compelled to look at this man sho
so despUcd. At the beginning sho had
Intended to sing badly; but bb the
music proceeded, sho sang as sho had
not sung In weeks. To Oil this man's
soul with a hunger for tho Bound of
hor volco, to pour into his heart a
fresh knowleflgo of what ho had lost
forevor and forever!
Celcsto turned from tho keys after
tho final chords of "Morning Mood."
"Thank you!" Bald Nora.
"Do not stop," begged Courtlandt.
Nora looked directly Into his eyes
as she replied: "One's voice can not
go on forever, and mlno is not at all
strong."
There was a knock at tho door. The
managing director bandod Harrlgan a
card.
"Heir Rosen," ho read aloud. "Sond
him up. Somo friend of yours, Nora;
Herr Rosen. I told Mr. JIUI to send
him up."
The padro drew his feet under his
cassock, a sign of perturbation; Court
landt continued to unwind tho snarl ot
IaciJ dropped by tho Barone; the.
Barone glanced flercoly at Nora, who
smiled enigmatically.
Herr Roson! Thero was no out
ward reason why tho name should
bavo set a chill on them all, turned
them Into expectant statues. Yet, all
semblance of good fellowship was In
stantly gono.
Mrs. Harrlgan smoothed out tho
wrinkles In her dross. From tho oth
ers thero had been llttlo movement
and no sound to speak of. Harrlgan
still waited by tho door, seriously con
templating tho bit of pa&tcboard in
his hand.
Herr Rosen brushed past Harrlgan
unceremoniously, without pausing and
went Btralght over to Nora, who was
thereupon seized by an uncontrollable
spirit of devilment. Sho hated Herr
Rosen, but sho was going to bo as
pleasant and as engaging as sho know
how to be. Sho did not caro if ho
misinterpreted her mood. Sho wel
comed him with a hand. Ho went on
to Mrs. Harrigan. who colored pleas-
urably. Ho was then Introduced, and
ho acknowledged each Introduction
with a careless nod. Ho wbb thero
to seo Nora, and ho did not proposo
to put himself to any Inconvenlenco
on account of tho others.
Herr Roson Instantly usurped tho
chair next to Nora, who began to pour
tho tea. He had come up from tho
vlllago propared for disagreeable
half hour. Instead of-TJelng greeted
with Icy glances from stormy eyes,
ho encountered such Bmlles ns this
adorable creature had never before be
stowed upon him. He was In tho
clouds. That night at Cadennbbla had
apparently knocked tho bottom out
of his dream. Women wcro riddles
which only thoy themselves could
solvo for others. For this ono woman
ho was perfectly ready to throw every
thing aside. A man lived but once;
and ho was a fool who would hold to
tinsel in preference to such hanninoHR
as ho thought ho saw opening out bo
foro him. Nora saw, but alio did not
caro. That In order to reach another
sho was practising Infinite cruelty on
this man (whoso ono fault lay in that
ho loved hor) did not appeal to her
pity. But her arrow flow wldo of tho
target: at least, thoro unuearod no rn.
suit to her orchory Jn malico. Not
onco had tho Intended victim looked
over to whero she sat. And yet sho
know that ho must bo watching hn
could not possibly avoid It and bo hu
man, And when ho finally enmo for
ward to tako hlu cup, oho leaned to
ward Herr Hoson,
"You tako two lumps?" sho asked
awcotly. It wh only a clionco uot,
uui sus nu on uio truth,
Ami vmi rnmemburT" excitedly.
"Ono lump for mine, plonso," mid
Courtlandt, smiling.
Bho picked up n oubo of sugar and
irni,n.vl It Into hU cup. Bho had tho
air of ono wishing It woro poison. Tho
rnrlnlont of tills KOOd Will, With pOf
foct understanding, roturnod to tho
ill van. whero tho padro and IlnrrlKan
wcru gravely toasting each other with
linncdlctlnu.
Nora mado no mlatako with either
Abbott's cup or tho narouo's; but tho
two mon woro tilled with but ono do
slro, to throw llorr Roson out of the
window. What hud bogun aB a beau
tiful day was now becoming black and
uncertain.
Tho Uarcno could control ovory fea
turo savo his eyes, and theso openly
ndmltted dcon anger. Ho rocollcctod
Herr Roson woll enough. Tho on
counter over at Cadonobbla was not
tho first by mnny. Horr Rosonl Ills
prosenco In this room under that naino
was nn Insult, and ho Intended to call
tho Intorlopor to account tho very first
opportunity ho found.
PcrhnpB Colosto, sitting as quiet as
a mouse upon tho piano stool, was tho
only ono who snw theso atrnngo cur
rents drifting dangerously about. That
her own heart ached miserably did not
provent hor from observing things
with all her usual keenness. Ah, Nora,
Nora, who havo everything to glvo
and yet glvo nothing, why do you play
so heartless a gamo? Why hurt thoso
who can no more help lovln; you than
tho earth can holp whirling around tho
calm dlspasslonnto sun? AlwnyH thoy
turn to you. while Lwho havo so much
to glvo, urn given nothlngl Sho sot
down her tea cup aud bogan tho aria
from La Hohonio.
(TO HE CONTINUED.)
NOT A NATION OF SAVERS
In the Matter of Thrift tho Unlttd
States Is Far Behind European
Countries.
A tablo prepared by Dr. Honry 8
Williams for Moody's Magazine places
the United States nt tho bottom of a
list of 15 countries as a nation of sav
ers. Tho comparison la on tho num
ber of savings bank depositors per
thousand of population and r-nges
from 554 In Switzerland to 09 In this
country. Denmark, Norway, Swcdon,
Belgium nnd Now Zealand follow tho
Swiss. Franco leads tho big nations,
then como Holland, Germany, Eng
land, Australia, Japan nnd Italy.
Our 10.800,000 depositors, with tholr
(4,728,000,000 deposits, or almost $410
per depositor, may bo contrasted with
Germany's 22,500,000 depositors with
but $4,942,000,000, or only J 189 per
head. The United Kingdom has al
most 15,000,000 depositors, but only a
llttlo over $1,250,000,000. Franco has
nearly ns many depositors with a cou
ple of hundred millions less, but this
takes no account of tho Investments
of French thrift. Ruanla has 8,000,000
depositors, but only $800,000,009 be
tween them. Austria has 0,500,000,
with about tho same amount an Groat
Britain. Italy hnB as many depositors
as Russia, but with ouo-fourth moro
deposits, Japan has about 20.000,000
depositors, but they do not average $9.
Tho savings habit. It can bo seen, in
very much more general abroad whero
the opportunity Is very much less
Three-fourths of our saving Is being
done In the Now England nnd Eastern
States. Then como tho Middle Went,
tho Pacific Coast, tho South nnd tho
Wcstorn States.
FEET TO BECOME OBSOLETE?
In View of Present Cheap Electrlo
Conveyances There Seems to Do
Such a Possibility.
As a result of tho quick and cheap
modes of convoyanco prevalent nowa
days pcoplo aro not walking so much
as formerly, asserts a writer In Lon
don Answers.
Thero was a period whon wo were
able to move our cars at will, but dis
use of tho organ did away with tho
power. It Is possible that our foet
may ono day becomo obsolete.
In tho year 1912-13 3,219,857,293
was tho stupendous total of tho num
ber of passengers carried on tho elec
tric tramways and light rallwnys of
tho United Kingdom.
In tho Btenm period of 1898 tho num
ber of passongors carried was 858,485,
512, and In tho day of tho horao, 1879,
tho figure reached 150,881,515.
Tho public havo certainly gained In
convenience but not in health. Thoro
has never boon any dispute of tho fnct
that walking is tho most health-giving
and natural exorcise possible. And
yet It docs not como within tho dally
curriculum of the average man and
woman to exercise naturo's own equip
ment, but bus or car Is hailed.
Four Precepts.
Four precepts to llvo bys To break
off old customs; to uhnko off spirits
IlldlspoHod; to mpdltnto on youth; to
do nothing against ono'a gonlus.
Hawthorne,
Nothing Like n Understanding,
'"I bun your pardon lr " "Granted!
lUt It'n IIO UNO hiMulnu for nnvMiIni
!J"aiuHgow lliaoid.
NEVER TENDER FATHER
LEO TOLSTOY NOT A MAN TO IN
OPIRE AFFECTION.
His Son Writes That " niy
"Good Night" nnd "Qood Morning
to Hl Children as a Matter
of Duty.
Thnro wan' ono dliitliiKuUhlnR ami,
at first Blglit, peculiar trait. In my fa
ther's charactor, duo porhapa to w
fact that ho grow up without a mbthor,
and that was that all exhibitions of
tomlornosH woro entirely foreign to
him.
I nay "tondornosn" In contradiction
to hoartlnoss. llcnrtlnosii ho had.
and In n very high dogroo.
Illii description of tho death of my
Undo Nikolai Is characteristic In this
connection. In n letter to hU other
brother florgol Nlkolalorltch, In
which ho doscrlbod tho last day of hie
brother's, life, my father tollB how ho
helped him to undress:
"Ho submitted, nnd becamo a differ
ent man. Ho had a word of pralso for
everybody, nnd sold to mo: 'Thanks,
my friend.' You understand tho sig
nificance of tho wordu tiu botwoon ua
two." V
It In evident that In tho language of
Uio Tolatoy brothorn tho phraso "my
friend" was an oxprosolon of tender
liouo beyond which Imagination could
hot go. Tho words astonished my fa
thor oven on tho Hps of his dying
brothor.
During nil hla llfotlmo I novor re
ceived any mnrk of tondornosa from
mm whntovor.
Ho was not fond of kissing chlldron,
nnd whon ho did no In itaylng good
morning or good night, ho did It morely
ns a duty.
It Is thcroforo easy to understand
thnt ho did not provoke any dlMplny of
tendernosH toward hlmHolf, nnd thnt
hearnosa and doarnoa with him woro
novor accompanied by any outward
manifestations.
It would novor havo como Into my
bond, for Instance, to walk up to my
fnthor and klBa him or to ntroko hla
hand. I wns portly prcvontod alao
from thnt by tho fact that I nlwnyu
looked upon him with nwo, nnd hla
spiritual power, hln grontnoas, pre
vented mo from seeing In him tho
mero mnn tho man who wna no plain
tlvo and weary nt tlmon, tho fooblo
old mnn who ao much needed warmth
and reat.
Tho years will pnnn. Tho nccumu
lntcd Incrustation which hldo tho
truth will pass away, Much will bo
wiped out and forgotten. Among oth
er things my fnthor'u will will bo for
gottenthat will which ho himself
looked upon ub an "unnecessary out
ward mcana." And mon will aoo moro
clearly thnt legacy of lovo nnd truth
In which ho believed dooply, nnd
which, nccordlng to hln words, "can
not porlah without a trnco."
In conclusion, I cannot rofrnln from
quoting the opinion of ono of my kins
men who, nftor my father's death, read
tho diaries kopt both by my father nnd
my mother during tho nutumn boforo
Lyoff Nlkolnlovlch loft YnBiiaya Poly
ann. "What a tcrrlblo mlHundorBtand
Ing!" ho said. "Each loved tho other
with audi polgnnnt affection, each wntt
suffering nil tho tlmo on tho other's
behalf, and then thin tcrrlblo cndlngl
. . . I iioo tho hand of Fato in this."
From Count Ilya Tolstoy'H "Remln-
Isconcos of Tolstoy," In tho Century.
Humane Grafter.
Tho St. Louis Tlmoa telle how n
workman grafted a now tall on a cow.
Tho animal lost horn In an accident
and ho grabbed a fresh ono from tho
B'aughtor-houHo and successfully at
tached It to tho suffering animal. This
man la about tho most humane grnftor
St. Louis has produced In many a day.
Houston Post.
House Cat Mothers Daby Wildcat
Frank T. Robinson, a Baltimore &
Ohio cnglneor of Cumberland, Md.,
hno a houao cnt that 1h mothering a..
baby wildcat. Two klttons, tubby'n
own, nharo with tho wild ono tho
favors of tho mothor.
A groundhog huntor rnn ncroan a
den of four wlldcntii near Foloy, n fow
inllcn north of hero, on top of tho
AllcghonlcB. Ho brought two homo
and gavo ono to Robinson, who placod
tho llttlo wildcat with tho mothor cat,
and It io thriving, being nourished
along with tho klttons,
Sheepmen Fined.
Two Bhoopmon of Idaho woro flnod
$100 each In thq -federal court for
violating tho government lawn by mov.
ing n Hock of sheep from ono district
to another without tho required gov
(ntmont Inspection,
Mean Suggestion.
Mr. Yeast I in noarly four Iiun
drml women applied for putoutu In
KriKliuiiI during (ho lanl your,
Mr. Venut J'ulonlu on wliut Imnv
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