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WORLD’S DOINGS OF CURRtNT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from All Around the farth UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL Uve News Items of Ail Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for ûur Busy Readers. The Portuguese navy seizes 36 in terned German ships. BRITISH LINER STRIKES MINE IN ENGLISH CHANNEL; 1 4 7 DIE Dover, Eng. The steamship Maloja, a 12,431-ton vessel belonging to the 1 Peninsular & Oriental line, struck a mine and sank within a half hour, two ' miles from Dover Sunday. One hun- [ dred and forty-seven persons were I drowned or killed by the accident. The British tanker Empress o f Fort W illiam , going to the rescue, struck another mine and sank near by. One man o f the crew o f the Empress o f Fort W illiam was drowned. Up to midnight the bodies o f victims landed included 18 men, 11 women and four children, in addition to 11 I.as- ; cars. Am ong the dead is Mrs. Mc- ; L«>d, w ife o f General McLeod. The Maloja left Tilbury Saturday j for Bombay with mails, 119 passen gers o f all aboard, and a crew number- | ing about 200, most o f them Lascars. ! Other passengers were to join the ship ! at Marseilles. The steamer had just passed Ailmir- GEORGE BAKHMETEFF Ex-Senator Root, o f N ew York, is expected to announce hia support to Roosevelt for the presidency. Seattle lumbermen purchase bin Canadian sawmill that has been idle for 18 months and will run it to full canacity. A crazy Montenegrin runs amuck in Seattle and stabs six persons before he is overpowered. One o f his victims is seriously wounded. A Portland school girl, aged 14, was knocked down and killed by a large auto truck, as she was on her way to rehearsal o f a school play. Admiral Winslow, testifyin g before the naval committee, states that one big battleship could rout the whole Pa cific fleet, o f which he is commander. Tw o robbers hold up and rob a Northern Pacific train near Seattle and escape with much booty. The safe was dynamited and the passengers in timidated by piBtol shots. Six ministers o f W hite Plains, N. Y ., drew sealed lots from a hat which w ill instruct them at which church they are to preach and upon what sub ject. The envelopes are not to be opened until Sunday morning. During a friendly sparring bout be tween W illiam ilildebrandt and Au gust Naisel, both 14 years o f age, at the Thirteenth District school, Cin cinnati, Ilildebrandt was strurk on the jaw. He died a few minutes later. John F. Gillies, deposed claim agent o f the Washington State Industrial In surance commission, was found guilty o f grand larceny in connection with the looting o f the industrial insurance fund o f several thousand dollars by means o f false accident claims. In response to agitation by the news papers urging England’ s ministers to set the country an example o f econ omy, preferably by accepting reduc tion in their salaries, it is announced the ministers have agreed for the fu ture to accept one-quarter o f their sal aries in the form o f five |>er cent ex chequer bonds. George uakhmeteff, Russian am b it sador to the United States, whs was In a conference with Secretary Lan sing over the case of the Montenegrin officers recently arrested for violation of neutrality by enlisting soldiers In the United States for service In the Montenegrin army. Montenegro has no diplomatic representative In Wash When the b ig British steamer Tal- Ington, but being one of Russia's al thybius, o f the Blue Funnel line, lies, the Russian ambassador acts for docked at the Smith Cove terminal In It. Seattle, every approach to the wharf was closely guarded by policemen and special watchmen em p loy«! as the re alty pier at Dover and was opposite sult o f an anonymous threat that the Shakespeare C liff when an explosion liner’s $8,600,000 cargo had been shook her from end to end. She listed marked for destruction by alleged Ger immediately to port. High seas were ruunning and the man spies. captain, realizing that great damage President W’ ilson, at the end o f two had been done to the after part o f his days o f agitation in congress for action vessel, tried to run her aground, but wanting Americans off armed mer the engine room was swanqied and the chantmen, wrote a letter to Senator ship became unmanageable. Stone, chairman o f the Senate foreign The plight o f the vessel was nb- relations committee, saying that he j served and dozens o f craft went at full could not consent to the abridgement s|>eed to her rescue. It was one o f o f the rights o f American citizens in | these, the Epmress o f Fort W illiam , any respect. “ The honor and self- o f 2181 tons, that sank. respect o f the Nation are involved, ” Boat after boat and seven rafts were he said. " W e covet peace and shall ' sent away, but several persons leaped preserve it at any cost but the loss o f j into the water and were picked up by honor. ’ ’ | surrounding craft. It was at first Hi G ill is again nominated for thought that all had been saved, but later bodies were w ash «! ashore and mayor of Seattle. i their number was gradually added to A Wenatchee, Wash., couple kept j during the day. their w «id in g a secret since October 3 Owing to the fact that Dover is un- last year. j der strict m ilitary law. it was |«>ssi- The French succeed in bringing to | hie to obtain only meager details from earth a Zep|ielin making a raid over j those rescued. The captian said that | laith passengers and crew behave*! that country. splendidly. Another Portland ('hinaman was shot The passengers were for the most In the tong war Monday, and a Hop l>art British officials in the lislian Sing suspect is in jail. service, the most prominent being Great ava.anches of snow and dirt Judge Oldfield, o f the Indian high In several districts in Germany have court. They were returning to serv- j ice in the East. killed 66 persons recently. The house o f commons votes a new r r « l it o f 2.082,000,000 pounds sterling. Four hundred lumbermen o f the Northwest are holding a meeting in Portland. Alaska’ s trade with the outside world increas«! $12,000,000 last year, according to figures made public by the department o f Commerce. The balance o f trade in the territory's favor was $27.000,(810. Ex[iort* were va lu «i at $66,000,000 and import* at i W illiam Orpet. University o f W is consin junior, is held to the grand jury in connection with the death o f his former sweetheart, Marion France* Immbert. An entente allies'* submarine suc ceed «! in passing through the Dar danelles ami sinking four shipe carry ing munitions. The visitation caused a panic in Constantinople. A ll the income tax cases before the Supreme court are dlsp<i*ed o f in favor o f the government on the authority of the original decision, upholding the constitutionality o f the law. Mildred Marek, 6$ years old, who lived near Boise, Ida., was strurk over the hear* with a batted baseball ami died from the effect*. The Chicago police are momentarily expecting to rapture Jean Crones, the anarrhist accused o f poisoning several hundred banqueters in that city. Colonist passenger fares from points in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota ami nearby state* to Portland. Seattle, San Francisco and other points on the Pa cific Coast and in Wsatern Canada were authoriz«i by the Interstate Commerce coanmisaion. Carnegie Plans School. Dunfermline, S«itland The trustees o f the Carnegie fund for the U n it«! Kingdom announced after their annual meeting Monday that they were con sidering the expediency o f founding a school o f music on a scale analogous to the celebrated schools on the Conti nent, particularly those in countries at present d o s « l to British students. The chairman o f the trustees. Dr. John Ross, said it was felt that after $3,- 000,000 had been s|ient by the trus tee* for church organs they reasonably might terminate such grants. Qloom Rises From Sea San Francisco "G eneral Gloom," who was buriml at sea by the Rotary Club February 22 in a coffin brand«! "N oe-N o-M ore,’ ’ escaped from Davy Jones' locker ami was found Sunday on the beach near Point Reyes. Instead o f sinking, as the Rotarians believed he had. the General navigated his coffin like a submarine, k ic k «! the cas ket to pieces in the breaker* ami marched ashore. When dianvvereti the General, a gigantic hammer, was in perfect condition amt was pounding the beach in his w o n t«! style. IS Oil Tankers Begun. N ew York The Standard O il com pany o f New Jersey has begun the construction o f 13 large tank steamers, which w ill m *t $1,000,000 each, ac cording to announcement made Monday by John D. Archbold, president o f the ««mpany. The other «»m panivs o f the Standard O il group are building 36 ad ditional tankers, he said. “ The de mand for oil is tremendous. We could sell all the oil we prxsiuce if there were enough ships to carry i t . " BERLIN GIVES ORDER N EW S I TEM S 10 DESTROY LINERS About Oregon O f General Interest Armed Traders to Be Treated as Warships by Submarines. U. S. TOLD: “ TOO LATE TO POSTPONE” Washington Is Advised That Great Britain Is Not Trusted Many Broken Pledges Cited. Washington, D. C.— Germany has intruded Count von Bernsstorff to in form the United States government that the assurances regarding the fu ture continuance o f submarine war fare, given in the Lusitania and A ra bia cases, still are binding, but that they apply only to merchantmen o f a peaceful character. The Government is understood to contend that armed merchantmen, without regard to the nature o f their armament, have shown themselves not to be peaceful, and therefore subject to destruction without warning. The instruction* direct the German ambassador particularly to tell Secre tary Lansing that British merchant men! armed ostensibly only for de fense, have not assumed the character o f peaceful traders, but on the con trary, they carry guns for the especial purpose o f attacking German subma rines. To support this contention, the Berlin foreign office has sent the am bassador, for presentation to the State department, a list o f at least 20 inci dents where it is assert«! British mer chant ships have attacked submarines. Confidential advices received from Berlin say that German and Austrian submarine commanders already have received their new order and that from midnight Tuesday they were author ized to sink without warning all armed merchant ships o f the enemies o f Ger many. It was said also that many o f the submarine commanders probably had le ft their bases on voyages and that even should the U n it«! States request the postponement o f the opening o f the campaign, it would be impossible to get word to many o f the subma rines. It was said, however, that so far neither the United States nor any other nation had asked for a postpone ment. Count von Bernstorff and other officials o f the German embassy de clined to discuss the instructions from Berlin in any way Monday. Count von Bernstorff received his in structions in reply to a request from the United States for assurances re garding the conduct o f submarine warfare in the future, occasioned by the memorandum announcing the in tention o f Germany to sink armed ships without warning, which the ad ministration considered to be inconsist ent with the assurances previously given. Regardless o f the form in which the matter is presented to Secretary Lansing, the German ambassador w ill j lay much stress on the assurances re garding the arming o f merchant shi|>s which were given to the United States by Great Britain in a memorandum s ig n «! by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador, August 26, 1914. Southern Oregon Couple On Way To Sunday Sihool Shot From Ambush Oregon State Commission Asks Opening of Northern Gateway Salem — R e lie f o f Oregon lumber mills and other shipper* who are Buf ferin g from lack of car* to ahip their products ia Bought through opening of the Northern gateway*. To this end the Public Service commiaaion tele graphed the Interstate Commerce com mission at Washington, D. C. It is the belief o f the Oregon commiaaion that the railroads may heed a request for a temporary opening o f the North ern routes i f made by the Federal tr i bunal. In its communication to the Inter state Commerce commission, the Ore gon commission said: “ The car shortage is increasing. The accumulated shortage on the Southern Pacific is now 700 cars, and on the Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation company’s lines ib 300. There is no shortage in Oregon or Washington. We feel that we are be ing discriminated against. I f it is possible to open the Northern gate ways temporarily we might procure cars from other lines.” n .. . ¿-7- Replies to inquiries sent by the Ure- Kon commission to the commissions of C alifornia and Washington are that no car shortage exists in those states. Coos Bay Cities Plan Big Railroad Jollification Marshfield — The Marshfield and North Bend Chamber o f commerce have committees organized for the pur pose o f planning for the celebration of completion o f the W illam ette-Pacific railway from Eugene to Coos Bay, but they have been unable and w ill not likely set the date for some time, as the Southern Pacific officials are still hesitant about naming a tim e for the road to be finished. According to the disposition in both cities, the event and entertainment w ill exceed anything ever attempted before on Coos Bay. There are already promises received from the main boosting bodies in the W illam ette valley that big delegations will be sent officially, but the commit tees here wish to have it generally un derstood that everybody and his rela tives w ill be welcomed. The Cher- rians, o f Salem, were the first to give assurance they were preparing to come and see Coos Bay, and although the in formation came in a roundabout man ner, they are expected to participate. Eugene and Albany are also among the cities that w ill send excursions, while the way stations on the Willamette- Pacific w ill have a general outpouring of joyBeekers. Plans for Four Spans Made, Salem— The state highway depart ment announced this week that it had completed plans and specifications for four bridges, two in Yam hill county and two in Columbia. Proposals for the construction o f the bridges w ill be accepted by the counties within a short time. The bridge in Yam hill county at Mc M innville w ill be a re in fo rc «) concrete viaduct to cost $14,000. The other structure is a $13,000 160-foot steel span between A th ey’ s Island and the mainland over W illam ette Slough be low Wheatland. A t Veronia. in Columbia county, a 100-foot steel span w ill be built over Rock Creek, and a 50-foot girder will be placed across Tide creek, near Deer Island. No Logs; Dallas Mill Idle. D allas- For the first tim e in several months, the large sawmill plant o f the W illam ette Valley Lumber company, in this city, is clsoed. This is due to the shortage o f logs. O wing to the heavy snow storms o f the past month, work has been impossible in the camps near Black Rock. The supply o f logs on hand when the snow stop p «! opera tions is exhaust«!. A ll ramps are now in full operation, and by the midde o f next week the mill w ill resume again. Only a few o f the men were laid off. most o f them being em p lo y«! in repairing the plant, which has a capacity o f 100,000 feet a lay. Grants Pass, Ore. Luther B. Akers, ami hia w ife, ami their team o f two horses were all k ill« ! near W ildersvil- le, 12 mile from here Sunday morning alsiut 10 o ’clock by a neighbor farmer, Marshall D. Bouaman, 63 years old. The slayer was lodged in ja il here and confessed to the shooting. Bouaman lay in ambush by the roadside as the Akers couple were driving to Sunday school. Without warning he fired 7 shots from a carbine. The shooting is the culmination o f a neighbors' quarrel over boundary fences, hogs at large and similar mat ters, o f several years’ duration. Although the shooting took place in the morning, the bodies were not dis Stock Go to Bunch Grass. c o v e r«! until evening, as the Akers, an elderly couple, lived on a road that Baker — Hope for re lie f from the th reaten «! further loss o f livestock be is not much tra v e l«!. cause o f lack o f feed is re p o rt«! from ¡»arts o f this vicinity. Horses and Packing Strike Still On. Sioux City, la.- The breach in ne cattle are leaving their straw and hay for the bunchgras*. In the vicin ity of gotiations between officials o f the A r North Powder, where the snow was mour ami Cudahy (tacking um panies unusually heavy, it is re p o rt«! that it ami the 2300 strikers at the Sioux City is m elting ami that it w ill not be long planta was w idcntnl Sunday when at a before the grass starts growing i f mass meeting o f strikers it was decid present conditions continue. ed to demand the original scale o f 22$ John Day stockmen expect that con cents an hour for all common laborers, ditions that have been very threaten instead o f accepting 21 cents an hour, ing w ill improve so that livestock which Saturday was practically d ecid «! there w ill be able to begin feeding on. Unlesa the ¡wickers grant a w rit early next month. ten agreement aetting forth that there shall lie no deviation from wage scales Fairground Sale Likely. for one year there will be no settlemenL Eugene — Within the next few days petitions w ill be circu la t«! in Lane Loss Due to Submarine. Paris An official announcement county to authorize the purchase of the Lane County Fair grounds by the made by the French ministry o f ma county for the sum o r $20.000. The rine regarding the sinking o f the B rit ish steamship Fsstnet says the vessel property is o w n «! by the Lane County Agricultural society, an organization was sent to the bottom by a submarine o f Eugene business men. and has been in the Western Mediterranean. The le s s «! from year to year for fa ir pur crew o f the steamship was rescued by poses. The arrangement ha* proven a French cruiser. The captain o f the unsatiefsetory and it i* proposed to Faatnet rr|s>rts that he saw the same purchsse the property outright. submarine sink the S w «iis h steamer The question w ill be placed on the Thornhorg. the boats o f which the un ballot at th# primary election in Msv. dersea vessel t o w «i sway. The Fast- net was o f 2227 tons gross ami built in Petitions Are Required. 1887. Salem W ith the towns o f Culver, Madras ami MeUdiua contending for British Linss Extended. Ottawa, t>nL— British linss in Bel being »e le c t«! the «»u n t) seat of J e f gium ami France are bsing exten d «! to ferson county at the next election. A t replace French soldiers who are being torney General Brown advised District rush..! to tb* Verdun region to take Attorney M r)era. o f that county, that part in the fighting, "w h ich ha* * e t t l« i Madras and Metolius must file peti down to a terrific slaughter," accord tions containing at least three-fifths of ing to advice* r e c c iv «! here from the all the vote* cast in the «w n ty at the battle front. Approximately 20 army last preceding general election, before divisions have been thrown into the they can be place-! on the ballot a* battl* by the Germans, while the contenders. The county seat ia now French troops number IS divisions, located at Culver, ami by virtue o f i this fact it becomes a candidate. cable message* said. m THOUSANDTH wm W HOM NCi Author o f G h e AMATEUR CRA05M AN. RAFFLES. Etc . o. r R . V C T > i A F Y E R S ILLUSTRATIONS by c o p ym o H T á> SYNOPSIS. —9— Cazalet, on the ateamcr Kalaar Fritz, homeward bound from Australia, erte* out In hi* sleep that Henry Craven, who ♦en years before had ruined hta father and himself, is dead, and flnda that H il ton Toye, who shares the stateroom with him, knows Craven and also Blanche Marnalr, a former neighbor and play* mate. When the dally papers come aboard at Southampton Toys reads that Craven has been murdered and calls Cazalet's dream second sight. He thinks of doing a little amateur detective work on the case himself. In the train to town they discuss the murder, which was com mitted at Cazalet’s old home. Toye hears from Cazalet that 8c rut on. who had b«en Cazalet's friend and the scapegoat for Craven's dishonesty, has been released from prison. Cazalet goes down the river and meets Blanche. Toys also cornea to see her and tells Cazalet that Scruton has been arrested, but hs ho doesn't believe ti e old clerk is guilty he Is going to ferret out the murderer. Cazalet and Blanche go to Cazalet’s old home and meet Mr. Drlnkwater of Scot land Yard. Cazalet g**ea with Drinkwa- ter to the library where the murder was committed, shows him a secret passage he knew as a boy. and leads the wuy through It. In town Toye. talking with Cazalet about the murder, suggests finger prints on the weapon found In the secret passage a. a mt-ans of trapping the mur derer and succeeds In securing * print of Cazalet's hand. Toye trace* Cazalet's movement* while a passenger on th* Kaleer Fritz, find* that he left the boat before the murder and returned juat after It. and warn* him. C H APTE R X. The Week of Their Lives. “ Toye's gone back to Italy.” said Cazalet. “ He says he may be away only a week. Let's make It the week of our liv e s!” The scene was the little room It pleased Blanche to call her parlor, and the time a preposterously early hour of the following forenoon. Caza let In her sunny snuggery rather sug gested another extravagant taxicab But Blanche saw only hta worn, ex cited face; and her own was not at its best In her sheer amazement. “ Ita ly !” she ejaculated. "W hen did he go?” "N ine o'clock last night.” "B u t"— she checked herself— “ I sim ply can't understand It, that’s a ll!" "W hy? Have you seen him since the other afternoon?" His manner might have explained those other two remarks, now bother ing her when It was too late to notice them; on the other hand, she was by no means sure that It did. He might ■Imply dislike Toye. and that again { might explain his extraordinary heal over the argument at Llttleford Blanche began to feel the air some what heavily charged with explana tions, either demanded or desired; they were things she hated, and she determined not to add to them If she could help It. "I haven’t set eyes on him again." ■he said. “ But he's been seen here— ■n a taxi." "W ho saw him?" "Martha—If she's not mistaken." This was a little disingenuous, as will appear; but that Impetuous Sweep was In a merciful burry to know some thing else. “ When was this. Blanche?” "Just about dark— say seven or so. She owns It was about dark," said Blanche, though she felt ashamed of herself. "W ell, it's just possible. He left me about six; said he had to see someone, too. now I think of it. But I'd give a bit to know what he was doing, mess ing about down here at the last mo m ent!” Blanche liked this as little as any thing that Cazalet had said yet. and he had said nothing that she did like this morning. But there were allowances to be made for him, she knew. And yet to strengthen her knowledge, or rather to let him confirm It for her, either by word or by his silence, she stated a certain case for him aloud. "P oor old S w eep !" she laughed. “ It's a shame that you should have come home to be worried like this." “ I am worried," he said simply. "1 think It's just splendid, all you're doing for that poor man. hut especially the way you're doing It." “ I wish to God you wouldn't say that. Blanche!" He paid her the compliment of ■peaking exactly as he would have apoken to a man; or rather, she hap pened to be the woman to take It as a compliment "But I do say It. Sweep! I've heard all about it from Charlie. He rang me up last night." "You're on the telephone, are y o u f' "Every body la In theee daya. W het* hav* you lived? Oh. I fo r g o t!"! And she laughed Anything to lift this duet of theirs out of the minor key! "Rut what does old Charlie really i think of the rase? Thai s more to the point." said Cazalet uneasily "W ell, he seemed to fear there was no chance of ball before the adjourned hearing But I rather gathered be was not going to be tn It him self?" "No. We decided on one of those sportsmen who love rushing In where a family lawyer Ilk# Charlie own* to 8 ___ _ ______ looking down _________ bts note I've seen th* rhap ’ nd primed h'm up about old Savage, and our find In the found» (Ions. 11 * says h ell make an example of Drlnkwater. end Charlie says they call him the Bobby’» Bugbear!" But surely he'll have to tell bis client w h o* behind him?" M A JE S T Y OF SEA R EV EALED “ No. He's Just the type who would have rushed In, anyhow. And It’ll be time enough to put Scruton under obli gation! when I ’ve got him o ff!” Blanche looked at the troubled eyes avoiding hers, and thought that she had never beard of a fine thing being done so finely. This very shamefaced- ness appealed to her Intensely, and yet last night Charlie had said that old Sweep was in such tremendous spirits about It all! Why was he so down this morning? She only knew she could .have taken his hand, but for a very good reason why she could not. She bad even to guard against an equivocally sympa thetic voice or manner, as she asked. "H ow long did they remand him for?” "E ight days." "W ell, then, you'll know the best or the worst today w eek !" “ Y e s !" he said eagerly, almost him self again. "But, whichever way It goes, I'm afraid it means trouble for me, Blanche; some time or other I'll tell you why; but that's why I want this to be the week of our lives." So he really meant what he bad said before. The phrase had been no care less misuse of words; but neither, after all. did it necessarily apply to Mr. Toye That was something. It made It easier for Blanche not to ask questions Cazalet had gone out on the bal cony; now he called to her; and there was no taxi, but a smart open car. waiting In the road, Its brasses blazing themselves, and that aeemsd shock ing to Martha "unless somsthlng was coming of It.” Sbo hid Just sens* enough to keep her conditional claua* to herself. Yet If they were only out to enjoy themselves. In the way Mlaa Blanch* vowed and declared (m ore aham# her), they certainly had done wonder« for a »tart. Martha could hardly credit all they said they bad dona, and as an embittered pedestrian there was nothing that she would "put past ona of those nasty motor». It »aid very little for Mr. Cazalet, by the way in Martha's private opinion, that hs should take her Miss Blanch* out In a ear at all; If he had turned out as well as she had hoped, and "meant an) thing," a nice boat on the river would have been better for them both than nil that tearing through the air In a cloud of smoky duat; It would also have been much less expensive, and far more "the thing." But, there, to see and hear the child after the first day! She looked so bonny that for a time Martha really believed that Mr. Cazalet bad "spo ken,” and allowed herself to admire him also as be drove off later with bia wicked lamps alig h t But Blanche would only go on and on about her day. the glories o f the Ripley road and the grandeur of Hlndhead. She had brought back heaps of heather and bunches of leaves just beginning to turn; they were all over the llttlo house before Cazalet had been gone ten minutes. But Blanche hadn't for gotten her poor old Martha; she was not one to forget people, especially when she loved and yet had to snub them. Martha's portion was picture postcards of the Gibbet and other land marks of the day. ' "And If you're good," said Blanche, "you shall have aotue every day. and an album to keep them In forever and ever. And won't that be nice when It'a all over, and Mr. Cazalet's gone back to Australia?" Crueler anticlimax was never planned, but Martha's face had brought It on her; and now It re mained to make her see for herself what an Incomparably good time they were having Above all was It delightful to feel that thslr beloved car was waiting for I them outside, to whirl them where they liked; for quite early In th# l week (and this was a glaring aggra- j ration In Martha's eyes) Cazalet had taken lodgings for blniBelf and driver | in those very N ell Gwynne Cottages where Hilton Toye had stayed before him. C H APTE R XI. The Thousandth Man. It bad been new life to them, but I now It was all over. It was the last evening of their week, and they were | spending It rather silently on Blanche's balcony. "I make It at least three hundred." said Cazalet, and knocked out a pipe that might have been a gag. “ You | see. we were very seldom under fifty !" "Speak for yourself, please! My longevity's a tender p oin t" said Blanche, who looked as though she Blanche Looked at the Troubled Eyes | had no business to have her hair up, as she sat tn a pale cross-fire between Avoiding Hers. a lamppost and her lighted room. In the sun. an immaculate chauffeur Cazalet protested that he had only at the wheel. meant tbelr mileage In the car; he made himself extremely Intelligible "W hose la that. Sweep?" "Mine, for the week I'm talking now. as he often would when she ral about! I mean ours, if you'd only lied him In a serious voice. "W ell. It's been a heavenly time." buck up and get ready to come out! A week doesn't last forever, you she assured him Just once more. "And tomorrow It's pretty sure to come ail know !" right about Scruton. Isn't It?" Blanche ran off to Martha, who "Y es! Tomorrow we shall probably fussed and hindered her with the best Intentions. It would have been diffi have Toye back." he answered with grim Inconsequence. cult to say which was the more ex "W hat has that lo do with It, W al cited of the two. But the old nurse would waste time In perfectly fatuous ter?" "Oh, nothing, of course.” reminiscences of the very earliest ex But still his tone was grim and peditions In which Mr. Cazalet had heavy, with a achoolboy Irony that he led and Blanche had followed, and what a bonny pair they had made would not explain but could not keep So Mr. Toye must be even then, etc. Severely snubbed on to himself. that subject, she took to peering at turned out o f the conversation, though her mistress, once her bairn, with fur It was not Blanche who had dragged She wished people would tive eagerness and Impatience; for ulm In. Blanche, on her side, looked as though stick to their point "There’s one thing I've rather want the had something on her mind, and. indeed, had made one or two attempts ed to ask you," she began. "Yea?” said Cazalet to get It off She had to force It even "You said the other day that It In the end. would mean worry for you In any case "There's just one thing I want to — after tomorrow— whether the charge say before I go, Martha. You know Is dismissed or n o t!” when Mr. Toye called yesterday, I was Ills wicker chair creaked under out?” him. "Oh. Mr. Toye; yes. I remember. “ I don't see why It should.” she per Miss Blanche." sisted. "If the case falls through." "W ell, I don't want you to say that “ Well, that's where I come In," he he came In and waited half an hour had to say. In vain; In fact, not that be came "Surely you mean Just the other In at all. or that you're even sure you j way about? If they commit the man saw him, unless, of course, you re for trial, then you do come tn. I know. asked." It'a like your goodness.” “ Who should ask me. I wonder?" "I wish you wouldn't say that! It “ W ell. I don't know, but there seems hurts m e!" to be a little bad blood bet—ccn Mr "Then will you explain yourself? Toye and Mr. C azalet" It's not fair to tell me so much, and Martha looked for a moment as then to leave out just the bit that's though she were about to weep, and making you m iserable!" then for another moment as though (TO P E C O N T IN U E D » she would die of laughing. But a third moment she celebrated by mak Authority en Steel Production. ing an utter fool of herself, as she Sir Robert Hadfleld, who has beei would ha»e been told to her face by selec ed hy 'he British government ti an»body but Blanche, whose yellow i assume charge of the englneerlni hair was being disarranged by (be works that It has obtained power ti very hands that had helped to irnprls take over for the manufacture of wa; on It under that motor hat and veil material, ts one of the greatest II* "Oh. Blancbie. la that all you have Ing authorities on the production o to tell me?" said Martha. steel In addition to the Beeeeme And then the week of their lives be medal, which Is th# blue ribbon of thi gan Iron and Steel Institute of Great Brit The weather was true to them, and min. he has received equally blgl this was a larger matter than It might awards from similar societies In al have been They were not making most every country of tbe elvlllzei love. They were "not out for that." world Inventor o f manganese steel a* Blanche herself actually told Mar he Is chairman of the HadDeld Stee tha. with annihilating scorn, when Foundry company L td . at Sheffield the old dear looked both knowing and one of the biggest ordnance and pro longing to-know at the end o f the first Jectlle concerns tn the United king day's run. They were out to enjoy dom. la face In tbe world. ( but Hs wings flashed bright as they I caught the sun), stretched out to s Traveler Is Airship Tsll# H e * Me horizon line which was » perfect sec Wss Impresses by Hia Passage tion of a circle Over the Ocean. ' A.'htnd us. and ahead where the land lay. a screen or light mist Inter From en alrabip H TV truer Allen Pored and cut short our view tn a claim* that for tb* first time be real straight line ized th* full solitude of th* sen Tbs sensation was on* of perfect "T o right and le ft* he writes, "the content mingled with n solemn rev •ea. flecked here and there with foam erence for tbe vastnees o f tbe sea. and Its blue expanse cat sometimes not a sail la sight and nothing to divert by the ash of a seagulls wing (the attention from oer awtft arrow Uke teageil Itself far below was la visible, flight "T b e shadow of the bag moved lightly across tbe wave»- There were no varying sir currents, and tbe air ship kept smoothly on with an even motion. "T h e sea beneath gave aa added •ease of security, as though. If need were. It would break our falL Cven the mechanics men hardened to every form of danger, seemed touched by n feeling of aw* and were silent: they bad nothing to do bet gaze across the tea aa the even roe* of the motor* told tm»t all sae walk*