p ™ 5 O TÏÏ
WOMAN CiTOTO
A plainer lndloatlon was the down
■ay
H e’d better be careful, because
rtght yet sunny manner In which Casa-
I don't take to btm. drunk or aober.
let at once returned to tbe contentious
I ’m not surprised at his master not
topic.
trusting him
It's just possible that
“ Well, my dear Toye, what do you
j the place was open—ha might have
think of It now?"
| been getting out hla cigars before
"I was going to ask you what you
dinner— but I can't say I think there's
thought, but I guess I can aee from
; much In It, Mr. Cazalet.”
your face."
It was open again— broken open—
"I think the polio* nr# rotters for
before many minutes; and certainly
not setting him free last n igh t!"
there was not much In It, to be seen,
"Seruton ?"
except cigars
Boxes o f these were
"Yes. O f course, the caa*'U break
1 stacked on what might have been
down when It comes on next week, but
meant for a shallow desk (tba whole
they oughtn't to wait for th a t They've
place was shallow as the wardrobe
no right to detain a man In custody
ILLUSTRATIONS
that
the
doors
suggested,
but
lighted
IUU5TRAT10NS
by
Q. SOSO
TR
W IN M Y E .R S'
-/ntflitfLL ccvNi\pzwsy^_______
COPvTAtGHT á> o**
when the bottom's out of their case
COP.KIGHT
4*
J - /»UiimtU CGWP/I^/'________
high up at one end by a little barred
already."
window o f Its own) and according
SYNOPSIS.
he quavered
“ Do you hear our Roy,
reflection; for if he meant to stand
“ But— but the paper« claim th e y '»«
SYNOPSIS.
to Cazalet a desk It had really been.
— 7—
miss? I ha n't heard that go on like
by the hapless Bcruton, guilty or not
found the very things they were
His poor father ought never to have
Cazalet, on tha steamer Kaiser Frits, that since the night that happened!”
Cazalet, on the steamer Kaiser Frits, guilty, he could not perhaps begin bet
searching for."
Toye looked non
homeward bound from Australia, cries
Live News Items of All Nations and homeward bound from Australia, cries ter than by getting on good terms been a business man; he ought to out
Then Cazalet introduced himself to plused. as well be might, by an appar
In his sleep that Henry Craven, who
out In hie sleep that Henry Craven, who
hare been a poet. Cazalet said this ten years before bad ruined his father the old gardener whom he had known
ten viara before had ruined hla father with the police. But his ready tact,
ently perverse Jubilation over such In
and himself, Is dead, and finds that H il
Pacific Northwest Cordensed
and nlmself, Is dead and finds that Hll- and in that case cunning, were cer now as simply as he had said It to ton Toye. who shares the stateroom with all his life ; and by rights the man
lon Toye. who shares me stateroom with
Hilton Toye on board the Kaiser Frits. him, knows Craven and also Blanche should have wept outright, or else telligence.
him, knows Craven and also Blanche talnly a revelation to one who had
"They haven’t found the missing
for Our Busy Readers.
Macnair. a furmer neighbor and play
Macnalr. a former neighbor and play known him marvelously as boy and Only he went rather further for the mate.
When the daily papers come I emitted a rustic epigram leden with
"W hat they
mate. When the dally paper» come
benefit of the gentlemen from Scot aboard at Southampton Toye reads that I wise humor. But old Savage hailed c a p !" crowed Cazalet.
aboard at Southampton Toye read» that youth.
land Yard, who took not the faintest Craven haa been murdered and calls j from silly Suffolk, and all his life be have found la Craven's watch and
Craven haa been murdered and calls
Cazalet's dream second sight. He thinks
"I mustn't ask questions,” he con
Cazalet’s dream second eight, lie thlnkz
Interest In the late Mr. Cazalet, be of doing a little amateur detective work | had belled his surname, but never the keye. and the silver-mounted trun
Germans rapture large section o f of doing a little amateur detective work tinued, "but I see you're still search
yond poking their noses Into bis di on the case himself. In the train to town alliterative libel on his native county. cheon that killed him. But they found
jn
the
case
himself.
In
the
train
to
town
they discuss the murder, which was com
French trenches in Artois.
■hey dlzcuez the murder, which was com ing for things, Mr. Drlnkwater.’’
minutive sanctum and duly turning mitted at Cazalet's old home Toye hears He took the wanderer's return very them In a place where they couldn't
at Cazalet's old home. Toye hears
"S till minding our own Job.” said them up at what they saw.
possibly have been put by the man
from Cuxalet that Seruton, who had been
Portland citizens have raised a fund mitted
from Cazalet that Seruton, who had been
Cazalet's friend and the scapegoat for much as a matter of course, very Identified as Seruton!"
o f over $13,000 for the relie f of suffer ’azalet’z friend and the scapegoat for Mr Drlnkwater genially. They had
"H e used to complain that he was Craven's dishonesty, has been released much as though he had never been
’ raven'» dl»hone»ty. ha» been relea»»d sauntered on with him to the corner
prison.
Cazalet goes down the
“ Say, where was that?" asked Toys
ing Jews in Europe.
never left In peace on Saturdays and from
from prison
Cazalet gnea down the
river and meets Blanche.
Toye also away at all, and was demonstrative
with great interest. "M y paper only
river and meet» Blanche. Toye aleo of the bouse, and seen a bowler hat
The W illam ette river at Portland ’ omca to aee her and telle Cazalet that bobbing In the shrubbery down the Sundays, which of course were his comes to see her and tells Cazalet that only In his further use of the East
Seruton has been arrested, but as he
says the things wera found, not
reaches a 19-foot stage and floods all Seruion has been arrested, but as he drive. Cazalet laughed like a man.
doesn’t believe the old clerk is guilty he Anglian pronoun.
where."
ioean’ t believe the old clerk Is guilty he
Is going to ferret out the murderer.
waterfront basements.
"That's a long time since we fared
la going to ferret out the murderer,
"W ell, I needn't tell you I know ev
Cazalet and Blanche go to Cazalet's old
“ No more does mine, but 1 can tell
’azalet and Blanche go to Cazalet's old
home and meet Mr. Drlnkwater of Scot to see you, Mus' Walter," said he
ery Inch of the old place,” he said;
The customs officials at San Fran home.
you, because I helped to find 'em.”
land Yaid
Cazalet k *- c » with Drlnkwa "that's a right long tim e!
And now
"that la, barring alterations." us
cisco have seized a totem pole that
ter to the library where the murder was
“ You don't s a y !”
committed, shows him a secret passage here's a nice kettle of fish for you
C H A PTE R V I—Continued.
bears nude pictures and is otherwise
Blanche caught his eye. "But I expect
“ You’ll never grasp where,” contin
he knew of as a boy.
to
find!
But
I
seen
the
man,
Mus
indecent.
this search Is narrowed, rather?”
ued Cazalet. "In the foundations un
Walter,
and
we'll
bring
that
home
to
"E very Inch of i t ! " he said bitterly
"Bather,"
said
Mr.
Drlnkwater,
C H APTE R VII— Continued.
der the house!”
A lone robber near Cheyenne, Wyo.,
him. never you fe a r!”
‘ But so I ought, If anybody does.’’
standing still In the drive. He had
enters a Union Pacific train and re
Details followed In all fullness; the
"A re you sure that you saw him?’
“
But
these
rhododendrons
weren’t
also
taken
out
a
presentation
gold
“Oh,
that
was
as
easy
as
pie;
I'd
lieves 30 passengers o f their valuables
listener might have had a part In the
asked Blanche, already under Caza
here
In
your
time.
They’re
the
one
balf-hunter,
suitably
Inscribed
In
mem
often
explored
them.
Do
you
remem
Uplands act of yesterday's drama,
and escapes.
Improvement.
Don't you remember ory of one of bis more bloodless vic
ber the row I got Into, Blanche, for let's Influence on this point.
might have played In the library scans
Secretary o f War Garrison resigns how the path rsn around to the other tories. But Cazalet could always be
Savage
looked
cautiously
toward
taking you with me ouce and simply
with hts adored Miss Blanche, so v iv
from President W ilson's cabinet be end of the yard? This gate Into It obtuse, and now he refused to look
the
house
before
replying;
then
he
ruining your frock?”
idly was every minute o f that crowd
cause o f difference in opinions over wasn’t made.''
an inch lower than the detective-
"I
remember the fro c k !”
said lowered bis voice dramatically. "Sure, ed hour brought home to him. Ha was
the defense program.
Miss Blanche. Why, I see him that not so sure that he had any very defl
"N o more It was,” said Cazalet, as inspector's bright brown eyes.
Blanche.
A liquid which bursts into flame they carno up to the new gate on the
"There's Just one place that's oc
It was her last contribution to the night as plain as 1 fare to see Mus nite conception of the foundations ol
Walter now !”
when poured on paper is believed to right. It was open, and looking curred to me, Mr. Drlnkwater, that
an English house.
conversation;
lm m edie'e
develop
"I should have thought It was too
have been used by incendiaries who through they could see where the old perhaps may not have occurred to
ment» not only put an end to the fur
"Ours were like ever so many little
dark
to
see
anybody
properly,"
said
Bet fire to the Ottawa, Can., parlia gateway had been bricked. The rbodo you.”
ther exchange of ancient memories,
tiny rooms." said Cazalet, "where I
Blanche,
and
Cazalet
nodded
vigorous
ment building.
dendrons topped the yard wall at that
"W here's that, Mr. Cazalet?”
but rendered It presently Impossible
couldn't stand nearly upright even as
ly to himself
"In the room where— the room
by removing (,'azalet from the scene
a small boy without giving my head a
The Turkish
expedition against point, masking It from the lawn, and
"Dark, Miss Blanche? Why, there crack against the ground floors. They
with the two detectives. Almost with
Egypt appears to have been post|ioned, making on the whole an Improvement Itself.”
Mr. Drlnkwater's long stare ended
out warning all three disappeared was broad daylight, and If that wasn'
led Into one another by a lot of little
pending completion o f the railroad of which anybody b-t a former son of
down the makeshift trap-door cut by there were tbe lodge lights on to see manholes— tight fits even for a boy,
which is being constructed to the lie house might have taken more ac- In an Indulgent smile "You can show
ount.
him
b
y
!"
His
stage
voice
fell
a
sepul
me
If
you
like,"
said
he
Indifferently.
one
of
them
as
a
schoolboy
In
his
Egyptian frontier.
chral semitone. "But I see him again
He said he could see no other "But I suppose you know we've got
father’s floor.
Tw enty members o f the Elks Club •hange. But for the fact that these the man?"
“ You Ought to Have Been a Burglar,
She hardly even knew how It hap at the station this very afternoon,
at Fort Dodge, la., were trapped in windows were wide open, the whole
1 promised not to talk about
Sir,” Said Mr. Drinkwater.
pened. The little place was so small did!
the club rooms and were rescued with dace seemed as deserted as Little
C H APTE R VII.
that she never saw the hole until It that— you’ll keep that a secret If I tell
ladders by the fire department, when a -ord; but lust past the windows, and
only quiet times for writing.” said the had engulfed two of the trio; the third 'e somethin'?— but 1 picked him out
gas explosion in a three-story building lush with them, was the tradesmen's
After Michael Angelo.
son, elaborating his tale with filial explorer, Mr. Drinkwater himself, had of half a dozen at the first time of
caused damage amounting to $95,000. door, and the two trespassers were
“ I was thinking of his cap,** aald piety. "So once when I'd been trying very courteously turned her out of the ask in '!"
Savage said this with a pleased end
The N avajo Indians are dancing barely abreast of It when this door Cazalot, but only as they returned to to die of scarlet fever, and my mother library before following the others
their war dance and threatening to at opened and disgorged a man.
the tradesmen's door, and Just as brought me back from Hastings after And he had said so very little before vacuous grin, looking Cazalet full
tack white Bettlers in Northeastern
The man was at first sight a most Blanche put in her word, ‘‘What about she’d had me there some time, tho hand for her to hear, and so quickly the face; his rheumy eyes were red
Arizona, in retaliation for the slaying incongruous figure for the back prem me?”
old governor told us he'd got a place prevented Cazalet from saying any as the sunset they faced; and Cazalet
of one o f their number recently by po Ises of any house, especially In the
Mr. Drlnkwater eyed the trim white where he could disappear from the thing at all, that she simply could not drew a deep breath as Blanche and he
licemen, according to tw o cowboys country. He was tall, rather stout, figure standing In the sun. "The more district at a moment's notice and yet think what any o f them were doing turned back toward the river.
from Utah.
very powerfully built and rather hand the m errier!” his grim humor had It. be back in another moment If we rang under the floor.
"F irst time of prompting. I expect!”
Under her very feet she heard them he whispered. “ But there’s hope tf
According to the decision o f the Na «ome In bis way; yet not for one mo "I dare say you'll be able to teach us the gong. I fancy he'd got to tell her
where It was, pretty quick; but I only moving as she waited a bit In the hall; Savage is their strongest witness.”
tional Association o f Merchant Tailors, ment was this personage ill the pic a thing or two as well, miss.”
She could not help nudging Cazalet found out for myself by accident. then she left the bouse by way o f the
"Only listen to that dog,” said
the
ideal Am erican's measurement ture, In the sense In which Hilton
should be, height, 6 feet 0 inches, Toye had stepped into the Llttleford in recognition of this shaft. But Caza | Years afterward he told me he'd got servants' quarters, of course without Blanche, ns they passed the yard.
let did not look round; he had now set the Idea from Jean Ingelow’s place In holding any communication with those
chest, 38 inches; waist, 38J inches; picture.
"M ay I ask what you're doing here?" foot in his old home.
C H APTE R V III.
Italy somewhere."
mutineers, and only Indignant that
hips, 39J inches; thigh, 21f inches;
It was all strangely still and Inactive,
calf, 14j inches; head measure, one- he demanded bluntly of the male In
"It's In Florence,” said Blanche, Mr. Drlnkwater should have requested
as though domestic animation had laughing. "I've been there and seen her not to do so.
y
eighth o f the full length o f the Isidy; truder.
Finger-Prints.
"N o harm. I hope," replied Cazalet, been suspended Indefinitely. Yet the it, and lt'a the exact same thing But
legs straight and fe e t arched.
It was a long half hour that followed
Hilton Toye was the kind of Amerl
smiling, much to his companion’s re open kitchen door revealed a female you mean Michael Angelo, Sw eep!"
for Blanche Macnalr, but she passed It can who knew London as well as most “ They Haven’t Found the Mlaalng
Germany anil Austria, through their
mufti; a sullen fare looked . "Oh, dp I?" be said aeren/ly. "W elL characteristically.
lief She had done him an injustice, form In --w
Londoners, and some other capitals _
Cap!” Cried Cozalet
—
—
'•
J
“
•*
»»sw/
pusaou
,
auii
(w> v o m w « , ‘ ibWfvd'■'«i*‘'Cu M ’ fiiVPfii'itff I
I snail never iorget bow I found out
She turned her wholesome mind to good deal better thao their respective
to treat armed merchantmen as war when they were both obviously In the through tho old green door (only now Its existence."
but
nearly
fatal to the boss police
dogs,
which
in
some
ways
she
knew
citizens of corresponding Intelligence.
ships a fter March 1. That date was wrong, and she greatly admired the It was a red one) they found another
"N o more shall I. You told me all better and trusted further than men His travels were mysteriously but en man yesterday!"
tone
he
took
so
readily.
"I
know
bowler
bat
bent
over
a
[«Ink
paper
at
fixed to g iv e the entente allies tim e to
about It at the time, as a terrific se There was a dog at Uplands, and as viably interwoven with business; he
Hilton Toye, edging in his word,
sign ify their intentions toward the re we've no business here whatever; but the foot of the stairs. There was a cret, and I may tell you that I've kept yet she had seen nothing of him; he
had an air o f enjoying himself, and at said he guessed he visualized—but Just
glitter of eyes under the bowler's
cent note o f the United States pro
it from that day to th is!"
lived In a large kennel In the yard, the same time making money to pay where bad those missing things been
brim as Mr. Drlnkwater conducted his
posing the disarmament o f all mer
"You would," he said simply. "But for he was a large dog and rather for his enjoyment, wherever he went found ?
friends Into the library.
chantmen.
frleudless. But Blanche knew him by His hotel days were much the same all
“ Three or four compartments from
The library was a square room of think of having the nerve to pull up
T w o hundred of a distinguish»! list
It only shows sight, and had felt always sorry for over Europe: many appointments, but the first one under the library,” aald
respectable size, but very cloze and the governor's floor!
him.
abundant leisure.
As, however, he Cazalet
o f 400 banqueters who attended a
dim with the one French window wbat a boy will do. I wonder If the
"Did you find them?"
dinner given to Chicago’s new Cath
The large kennel was Just outside never spoke about his own affairs un
1 closed and curtained.
Mr. Drlnkwa hole's there s till!"
"W ell, 1 kicked against the trun
olic archbishop, Most Reverend George
ter shut the door as well, and | Now all the time the planetary de the back door, which was at the top less they were also those o f the lis cheon, but Drlnkwater dug It up. The
W illiam Munderlein, were taken ill o f
switched on all the electric lamps tective had been watching hit satel of the cellar Bteps and at the hot tener—and not always then— halt hts watch and keys were with It.”
ptomaine poisoning after the soup
tom of two or three leading Into the acquaintances had no Idea how he
; The electric light had been put In by lite engaged In an attempt to render
"Say. were they burled?”
course. The archbishop did not par
scullery; but Blanche, of course, went made his money, and the other half
the ( ’ ravens; all the other fixtures In tho damage done to the mahogany
"Only In the loose rubble and brick-
round by the garden. She found the wondered how he spent his time. Of
take o f the soup, nor did Governor^,/
doors
a
little
less
conspicuous
Net
the room were as Cazalet remembered
poor old dog quite disconsolate In a hts mere interests, which were many. dusty stuff that you get tn founda
Dunne, who was among those present,
ther
appeared
to
be
taking
any
further
them. But the former son of the house
more canine kennel In a corner of the Toye made no such secret; but It was tions."
and both escaped.
gave himself no time to waste in send Interest in the cigar cupboard, or pay
"Say, that’s bad!
That murderer
one that was really worthy of the i quite impossible to deduce a main in
Ing
the
slightest
attention
to
Caza
N ew York murders during 1915 were
mental «omparlsons. He tapped a pair
more formidable carnivora. There was dustry from the by-products of his must have known something, or else
246, in 1914, 257.
of mahogany doors, like those of a let's reminiscences. But Mr. Drink
It's a bully fluke In hie favor."
water happened to have heard every every sign of hit being treated as rhe level-headed versatility.
j wardrobe let Into the wall.
"I don't follow you, Toye.”
Large rebel forces o f China have
Criminology, for example, was an
word, and In the last sentence there dangerous dog that Blanche, Indeed,
"H
ave
you
looked
In
hers?"
d#
"I'm thinking of finger-prints
If
been defeated at 1'ing Shan.
had heard he was; tbe outer bars were obvious by product; It wns no morbid
was
one
that
caused
him
to
prick
up
msnded Cazalet.
further protected by wire netting, tasto in Hilton Toye, but a scientific he'd Just've laid those things right
his expert ears Instinctively.
Washington's stand on the Lusitania
“ What's the use of looking In s cl
which stretched like a canopy over hobby that appealed to his mental down, he'd have left the print o f his
case with Germany is unaltered.
"W hat's that about a hole?” said
gar cupboard?* Drinkwater mads mild
the whole cage; but Blanche let her ; subtlety.
And subtle he was. yet hand as large as life for Scotland
he, turning round.
I Inquiry.
Colonel Hepburn, ex-representative
self in with as little hesitation as she with strange simplicities; grave and Yard.”
"T h e devil he w ould!" exclaimed
from Iowa, dies o f heart trouble.
I "Cigar cupboard!" echoed Cazalet ; "I was reminding Miss Macnalr how proceeded to beard the poor brute \ dignified, yet addicted to the expres
I In disgust. "Did he really only use It the place first came to be— "
in his Inner lair. And he never even sive phraseology of his less enltght Cazalet. “ I wish you'd explain,” he
Evening dress this season is to be
“ Yes. yes
But wbat about some barked at her; he Just lay whimpering
ened countrymen; naturally sincere added; "remember I'm a wild man
" M ay
wine c o lo r«! with lavender vests.
W h a t Y o u ’re Doing for his cigars?"
"A cigar cupboard." repeated Drink- hole In the floor?”
with his te&rrul nose between his two and yet always capable of some in from the woods, and only know of
Here?** H e B lu ntly Asked.
German raider captures Itritish liner
these things by the vaguest kind of
i water, "and locked up at the time It
"I made one myself with one of front paws, as though his dead master l genuous duplicity.
Orissa bound from Chile to Liverpool. It happens to be my old home, and I happened. \V bat was It, If I may ask. those knives that contain all sorts of had not left him to the servants all
hearsay and stray paragraphs In tbe
The appeal of a Blanche Macnalr to
papers. I never knew you could leave
of things, including a saw. It was one his life.
An air mail route from Fairbanks to only landed from Australia last night. In
Cazalet's time?”
such a soul needs no analysis
She
Brooks, Alaska, is proposed to the I'm on the river for the first time, and
"I rem em ber!" came suddenly from Saturday afternoon in the summer hol
Blanche coaxed and petted him un had struck through all complexities to your mark so easily as all th a t"
Toye took the breakfast menu and
Postoflice department.
simply had to have a look around."
j Blanche; but Cazalet only said, "Oh. idays. I came In here from the gar til she almost wept herself; then sud- ’ tbe core, such as It was or as she
Colonel House, President W ilson's
The other big man had looked far '»oil. If you know It was locked there ■ den as my father went out by that denly and without warning the dog might make It. As yet she could only placed It face downward on the table
door Into the hall, leaving one of showed his worst side. Out he leaped admire the character the man had cloth. "I-ay your hand on that, palm
personal advisor, who visited Euro- from propitiated by the earlier of rtn end of It.
poHii belligerents, is returning home.
these remarks, but the closing sen j Drlnkwater went to the door and these mahogany doors open by mis from wooden sanctuary, almost knock shown, though It had upset her none down.” he said, "and don’t move It
for a minute.".
It was the chance of my life; ing her down, and barking horribly, j the less
! fences bail worked a change
1 summoned his subordinate.
"Just take
At E-igelberg he had pro
Cazalet looked at him a moment
Liner Harvard in dense fog in San
"A re >ou young Mr Cazalet?" he fetch that chap from the pantry, In I slipped to have a look. He came but not at Blanche. She followed his I posed to her "inside of two weeks,"
Francisco bay, rams steamer Excel- ortexl
Tom," said he, but the sullen sufferer back for something, saw the very door Infuriated eyes; and the back door ! as he had admitted without compunc before complying; then hla fine, shape
ly. sunburnt hand lay still as plaster
sior, which sinks. No lives were lost.
'T am. or rather I was,” laughed from police rule took his time. In spite you've broken standing ajar, and shut way framed a dusty and grimy figure. tion at the time. It had taken him.
of them, and was sharply rated when It without looking In So there I was Just climbing Into full length on the he said, about two minutes to make under their eyes until Toye told him
A war correspondent declares Get Cazalet, still on his mettle,
he might take It up Of course there
In a nice old trap! I simply daren't cellar stairs, which Blanche had some
many is instigating revolutions in the
"Y ou've rend all about the case be appeared.
up h'.s mind; but the following sum
"I thought you told me this was a call out and give myself away. There difficulty In Identifying with that of mer be had laid more deliberate siege. was no mark whatever, and Cazalet
Far East, hoping to keep Japan from then. I don't mind bettin g"'exclaim ed
laughed.
aiding her allies.
the other with a Jerk of his topper to cigar cupboard?" continued Drink was a bit of loose oilcloth on the Casalet.
In accordance with tome old idoa that
‘You should have caught me when
floor—
"
"W
ell,
you
really
are
a
Sw
eep
!”
she
water.
In
the
browbeating
tone
of
hla
she had let fall to eoften her first re
Prince Oscar o f Prussia, fifth son o f ward the house behind hint.
"There Is still.'' said the satellite, cried when she had slipped out Just fusal. The result bad been the same, I came up from those foundations,
Emperor W illiam , has been slightly
"I'v e read all 1 found In the papers first words to Cazalet outside.
pausing tn his task.
in time, and tbe now savage dog was only more explicit on both sides She not fresh from my tub!" said he.
"S o It la," aald the man.
wounded in the head and on the upper last night and this morning, and such
"You wait.” replied Hilton Toye,
“ I moved the oilcloth. In the end; still hutting and clawing at hit bars. had denied him the least particle of
"Then where's the key?"
part o f the thigh by shell splinters srrears as I've been able to lay my
taking the menu gingerly by the edge,
during the fighting in the eastern war hands on," said Cazalet.
"But, az I
"H ow should I know? I never kept hawked up one end of the board (luck "How did you come out, and where hope, and he had warned her that she and putting It out of harm's way In
had not heard the last of him by any
theater,
tell you, my ship only got In from Aua I t !” cried the butler, crowing over ily they weren't groove and tongue), are the enemy?"
"The old way," he answered. "I left means, and never would till she mar the empty toast rack. "You can't aee
. .
trails last night, and I came round all his oppressor for a change. "H e would sawed through the next one to It. had
anything now. but If you come round
Mrs. Annie Faust fata y shoots
them down there."
rled another man This bad Incensed
... „ u
__ “ „ _____ the w a y In her
There wh s nothing
keep It on his own bunch; find his It up. too. and got through Into the
to the Savoy I'll show you something ”
Rev. H. M. Cagle, a Baptist minister,
"And
what
did
you
find?"
foundations,
leaving
everything
much
her
at
the
time,
but
a
great
deal
lees
In the English papers when we watch, and all the other things that
“W h a t r
st Sherman, Tex,, claiming the preach
'T
il
tell
you
later
I
can't
hear
my
as
1
had
found
It.
The
place
Is
so
on subsequent reflection; and such
touched at Genoa ”
were missing from hts pockets when
er inaulted her.
Your prints, sir!
I don’t say ! m
was the petition between that pair
"I see. I see “ The man was still your men went through 'em. and you small that the oilcloth was obliged to voice for that Infernal dog
The dreadful barking followed them when Toye and Cazalet landed In Eng Scotland Yard at the game, but I can
fall in place If It fell anywhere. But
The National sub-committee of the looking him up and dow n W e ll. ,\|r may find his keys, to o !”
do It well enough to show you how
Democratic party forecasts the nomi- Cazalet, my name's Drlnkwater. and
Drlnkwater gave his man a double I had plenty o f time, because my out Into the yard, and round to the land from the same steamer
It'* done. You haven't left your mark
right, past the tradesmen's door, to
nation o f President Wilson without op- I'm from Scotland Yard
I happen to signal, the door slammed on a petty people had gone In to dinner.”
On this second day ashore, as Caza
upon the paper, but I guess you've left
position.
be In charge of the case ”
"You ought to have been a burglar, the verge of the drive Here they met let sat over a late breakfast In Jer the sweat of your hand; If I snow a
triumph for the servant«' hall; but
an elderly man tn a tremendous hurry myn street Toye sent tn bis card and
sir,"
said
Mr
Drlnkwater
Ironically
now
both
Invaders
remained
within
The Interstate Commerce commi.
'
“ ,d
little French chalk over I t the chalk'll
"T ry your hand on It. Tom ." said the "So you covered up a sin with a crime, —an unstable dotard who instantly was permitted to follow I t rather to ■tick where your bead did. and blow
.ion authorize, the Union Pacific and ,nd
, '*r p r " d B'” ch* mor* < »« "
abandoned
whatever
purpose
be
bad
bis surprise He found hie man frank
"I'm a freelance like half the gentlemen who go
i W o ~ Shcrt Line to carry hay and “ " >,h' n*
from hl,,,’
™ no,h,n« superior officer
off easily everywhere else Say, com*
formed, and came to anchor In front
grain at reduc«l rates for .todays. • bo,U hl,m
llk* <»• here." he ezplalned somewhat super through my bands for the first and of them with rheumy eyes and twitch ly divided between kidneys and bacon round to lunch and I'll have your
and the morning paper, but In a hearty
This order is designed for the relie f o f 8 * P* 1’ of i; ,h' r d» ),,' °? of
Pr« ’ < fluously to the others, as Tom applied last tim e' But how did you get out Ing wrinkles.
print* ready for you.
I'd like aw
mood. Indicative of amends for hit
stockmen in states that have recently
l’* rt of, ' h**
• fU " ,oon An*« himself to the lock In one mahogany of the foundations?”
"Why. If that Isn’t Miss Blaache!” great beat In yesterday a argument fully to show you how tt'a dona.”
door.
"Mau's
been
drinking.
1
should
(TO
HE
CONTINUED.»
been snowbound.
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on
(TO BE C O N TIN U E D .»
WORLD’S DOINGS
OF CURRtNT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around the Earth.
^ TflO M D E
WOMAN WLOWNG
Atifhor o f Ghe AMATEUR CRACKSMAN.
RAFFLES. Etc.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
An American army of 1,000,000 men
w ill need the service* o f 10,000 sur
neons, according to an assertion by
burgeon General W . C. Gorges, o f the
United States army.
The house committee on claims fa
vorably reports Representative Sin-
nott's bill appropiatring $94.648 for
the settlement o f all approved claims of
Sherman coanty, Oregon.
A fte r establishing a monopoly o f the
sugar trade, Switserland w ill again at
tempt to import large quantities from
the United States. The annual sugar
imports amount to 40,000,000 francs.
FU TU R E OF FISHERS ISLAND
Possibility of Orest Doings at Placs
W h ic h Is K t y to Lon g Island
Sound.
Almost off the entrance to the
Thames estuary, whose mouth makes
New I .on don ■ wonderful harbor, per
hap* a sort of delta cast up In soms
former day by the sediment which the
estuary brought down. Ftshere Island
la a remarkable bit o f land.
It la
wtlhal a key to the entrance o f Long
l Island sound and bears an Impor
tant fort whose unseen guns would. If
effectively served, pour terrible hall
; on sny above surface craft whlvh
j should seek to enter for Improper pur
poses the approach to New York and
: the Connecticut coast.
Aside from
! this Ftshers Island has at Its western
end a hotel or two and a few summer
cottages and for the rest It Is a great
poultry range, where are raised tn
astonishing quantities chickens and
-lucks and turkeys sod geese, eays tbe
| New Haven Register.
j
Aulhor o f GheAMATEUR CRACKSMAN.
RAFFLES. Etc.
by O. IRAVUN MVER5
If the now rumored plans are car DROVE HIM INTO TH E ARMY
ried out the poultry will have to moT*
before long to some spot that has ists les'ds History of Circumstance That
Mads Higsbee BesMgs s Defender
strategic military value. Young John
of Hie Country.
Hays Hammond has Invented a wire-
loss controlled torpedo which. It Is an
The evening that Higsbee Beehtgs.
ticipated. has wonderful possibilities
If It will do what la claimed for lt- rattling bis «4 coals In bit right band
•reusers pocket took Mabel Shear
boom around to get a plate of ice
Naturally.
" I saw Mabel buying rouge the cream be bad absolutely no thought of
enlisting tn the army commissary.
other day
"W hat bind will yoa h a v *f" be
"That g ive« color to the import that
asked her
ah* pelais "
"You should say ehat kinds, not
what kind." she corrected btm gently.
"I think I II try every ktnd they’ve g e t
H*-h*. Won’t that he a lark?"
"You m u stn t!" be orteu.
"Oh. but I sh all!” ahe laughed mer
rtly
And she started by ordering
chocolate, peraimmoa and rhubarb
"L e t It go at th at please," he tm
plored her
"It s not being don* by
th* b *«t people *
But she just laughed lightly and be
fan on the rhubarb
When she was
half way through the second order, of
| pineapple, glycerin, olive Ice and tapl
oca. Higsbee Beehlga leaped to hi
fe «t la desperation.
"Excus* me a m om ent" ha tgli
hastily and ran out o f tb* place with
out (topping for bis bat and enlisted
i leaving Mabel with tbe tc* cream bill
j — Detroit Fre* Press.
Ambiguous.
"Such a pretty girl as Mab«l la
. she haa no be*ux: '
"You see her father haa tha ri
1 UUo> o t 5 «ing such a kicker."