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.”
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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.
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Author o f G h e AMATEUR CRA05M AN.
RAFFLES. Etc .
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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SYNOPSIS.
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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
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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*