VILLA IN U. S.
VILLA TORCES RAZE RAIROAD
TRACKS AND HEM IN MORMONS
CARRANZA DEMANDS NEWS ITEMS
RECIPROCAL RIGHTS About Oregon
Of G eneral Interest
IM M O TI
Columbus, N. M.— V illa made his
hiding place known Monday for the
first time since the fires o f looted Co
lumbus lighted his escape into the
gray Mexican hills south of town.
W ith 3000 men at his back the bandit
chief tore up the track o f the North
western of Mexico railroad at Corral-
Eugene The Booth-Kelly Lumber
itue and swept toward the Mormon set
company has just closed a contract
tlements in the San Miguel valley.
which is said to be the largest ob
This bold stroke has cut off from es
tained by a W illam ette valley mill in
cape into the United States 600 Mor
several years, entering into an agree
mons who had planned to make their
ment to suppiy the Raiston Steel Car
way to safety across the border. The
C H APTE R XII— Continued.
company with 9,000,000 fe et of lum
— 11 —
ruthless raider has announced that he
ber to be uaed in the manufacture of
will put to death every man, woman
TBya accepted hit fate with a ready
cars for the Southern Pacific railroad
and child in the settlement.
resignation, little short of alacrity.
company.
The Mormons are all that revolution
The order is the second o f this na- Tbsra was a gleam in his somber eyes
has le ft in the fe rtile country around
1 ture booked by the Booth-Kelly com and his blue chin cams up with a )erk
Casas Graisies in the Guerrero district
pany within the past fe w weeks, ac ‘‘That's talk in g!" said he. "N ow will
o f Chihuahua.
There were formerly
you promise me never to marry Caza
cording to A. C. Dixon, manager.
20,000 Mormons from the United
The ¡umber in the contract is to be ( let?"
States settled at a dozen colonies in
"Mr. Toys!"
used in the manufacture o f 2000
the San Miguel valley. They had es
Mexico C ity —General Carranza Sun freight, flat and other cars.
“ That's talking, too, and I guess I
tablished prosperous settlements at day night issued a manifesto to the
The contract was awarded at a naan It to be It’s not all dog-ln-the-
Columbia), N. M.— Francisco Villa, Dublan, Casas Grandee, Colonia Gar nation declaring that under no circum meeting held in Cincinnati, where a Bangsr, either. I want that promise a
cia, Colonia Guarez, Colonia Juarez, stances would the Mexican government
outlawed Mexican bad nit, raided Unit
large number o f bidders representing lot more than I want the other You
Colonia Chuichupa and other garden grant to the United States a right to lumber companies in all parts of the needn’t marry me. Miss Blanche, but
ed States territory Thursday. W ith spots.
violate her sovereignty by sending an United States were present. The lum- you mustn't marry Cazalet."
1500 men he attacked Columbus, killed
They have been planning since the armed force in pursuit o f V illa with-1 | ber w ill be suppiled at intervals ex- [ Blanche was blazing. "But this Is
at least 16 Americans and fired many raid on Columbus to return to the out the congent and reciprocal privil tending throughout the summer.
simply outrageous— "
V illa was informed. ege being first obtained and admitted.
buildings before he was driven back United States.
As soon as weather conditions per
"I claim there's an outrageous cause
A fte r his raid Into N ew Mexico h e ; General Carranza said in hie mani- I mit the mills at Wendling and Spring- : for it. Are you prepared to swear
across the international border.
hurried to Guzman to await the Mor- I festo:
field w ill resume operations, with pros what I ask, and trust me as I'll trust
A t least 260 troopers o f the Thir mons on their passage to El Paso.
“ I am sure that I interpret in this pects o f a good summer's business, you, or
I to tell you the whole
teenth United States cavalry followed I/earning he was lying in ambush for matter the national sentiment ami that
provided the car situation does not in thing right now?"
the V illa band into Mexico. Reports their destruction, the Mormons delayed the Mexican people w ill comply in a terfere.
"You won't force me to listen to an
their attempt to escape. V illa struck dignified manner with their duty, be
to Colonel H. J. Slocum late in the day
other word from you, i f you’re a gen
outhward and cut the railroad at Cor the sacrifices what they may, to sus
tleman, Mr. T o y e !"
said that V illa had made a stand five ral itos.
tain their rights and sovereignty, if
" I t ’s not what I am that counts.
Klamath Falls — The idea o f the
miles south o f the border, where spir
| unfortunately this drags us into war
Swear that to me, and I swear, on my
ited fighting ensued. In this engage
which the United StateB can n e v e r; farmers o f a neighborhood banding to
side, that I won’t give him away to
justify. We w ill not be responsible gether for organized rodent extermina
ment an unnamed private was killed
you or anyone else. But It must be
tion
work
has
proved
popular
in
K
la
for the disasterous consequences. Up
and Captain-Adjutant George Williams
the most solemn contract man and
math
county.
Besides
clubs
at
Bo
on the heads o f the traitorous M exi
woman ever made."
■ —
was wounded.
cans who, within and without this | nanza, Langell Valley, M errill, Malin
The silver teapot arrived at this
The small detachment o f troopers
Washington, D. C. — The State de country, have labored to produce this and Ixirella, all of which were recently
under Majors Tompkins and I.indsley, partment received Monday a cable result w ill fall the inexorabe justice o f organized, the Hildebrand Farm ers’ j juncture, and not Inopportunely. She
club was organized at Hildebrand, had to give him his tea. with her
fighting dismounted, made a deter gram from Consul Osburn at Havre, j the people.
young meld’s help, and to play a tiny
mined stand against the renewed Villa France, saying that the Norwegian
“ The cause o f the assault which about 25 miles east o f this city, and
attack and at last reports were holding bark Silius had been torpedoed ir. Francisco V illa ami the bandits who the farmers o f the Spring Lake sec part In which he supported her really
their ground.
Havre ^roads, without warning, ac accompanied him made on the town of tion, in the basin east o f the city, are beautifully. She had time to think, al
most coolly; and one thought brought
The raid to American
territory cording to members o f the crew, but Columbus,
in
American territory, j effecting an organization there.
More than 40 farmers attended the a thrill. If It was a question of her
proved costly to the bandit chieftain. that seven Americans on board had burning houses and killin g some o f j
The bodies o f 18 Mexican bandits, in been rescued.
the inhabitants, soldiers, as well as Hildebrand m eeting and 25 joined the marrying or not marrying W alter
cluding Pablo lx>pei, second in com
So far dispatches to the State de citizens, the international situation in club, selecting the follow ing officers: | Cazalet, then he must be free, and only
mand, hail been gathered and buried partment simply have said the vessel these momenta is very delicate, as the President, Charley Drew; vice presi- j the doer of some dreadful deed!
"W h at has he done?” she begged,
before noon and troopers reported an was torpedoed without warning. No North American press have incited dent, J. G. W ig h t; secretary-treas
undetermined number of dead still ly mention was made o f the nationality ; their people against M exico and the urer, W. F. Wilkerson, and poison with a pathetic abandonment of her
Ground previous attitude, the moment they
ing in the brush.
government o f that country hat dis mixer, Charles Drew, Jr.
of the submarine.
It is estimated that V illa has lost
The Americans on board were mem cussed the situation in the American squirrels and coyotes are the pests to were by themselves.
"Must I tell you?” His reluctance
100 in killed and more than tw ice as bers o f the crew.
congress, members o f which have ad be fought. Poison mixtures are pre
pared according to government formu rang genuine.
many wounded, including his losses in
Secretary Lansing has instructed vised intevention.
"I insist upon I t ! " she flashed again.
_________
the pursuit by the American troopers. Consul Osborn to secure and forward
"T h e
constitutional
government ¡as.
"W ell, It's a long story."
le d to the attack under the slogan, immediately all available details of which I have the honor to represent is
"N e ve r mind 1 can listen.”
"D eath to the Am erican s!" V illa's fol the sinking o f the bark Silius.
also occupied diligently in an effort to
"You know, I had to go back to
lowers fought with desperation.
Just
I f a torpedo did destroy the bark, solve this delicate situation, tryin g at
Baker— The largest amount of wool
before dawn they crept along ditches which was bound to Havre from New all costa to maintain the dignity and contracted fo r in years is reported by Italy— ”
skirting the United States cavalry York with grain, the government re sovereignty o f Mexico, and we yet Berthold and Gerson Neuberger, who
"Had you?"
ramp and rushed the sleeping town, sponsible w ill be held to strict ac hope that this lamentable incident may announced they had contracted for
"W ell, I did go.” He had slurred
firing heavily.
countability. Such an act would be be decorously arranged and that there nearly 600,000 pounds for Portland and the first statement; this one was char
The first volley brought American contrary to all the assurances which w ill be no reason for conflict.
“ I did go,
Eastern concerns.
From 20 to 21 acteristically deliberate.
troopers into almost instant action. the United States has secured.
“ I have addressed the government cents was the average price stipulated, and before I want I asked Cazalet for
W hile a portion o f the raiders engaged
Officials seemed inclined, however, o f the United States, through the for- j making an outlay of more than $100,- an Introduction to some friends o f his
the cavalrymen, others, detailed by the to refrain from forming an opinion eign office, stating that the invasion 000
down In Rome."
bandit chieftain, began applying the until it was known positively that a of V illa has historical precedents, as
The clips contracted fo r
include ‘ " I didn’t know he had any." said
torch and shooting American civilians torpedo, and not a mine, sunk the ship. in the years 1880 and 1886, tw o par those of Orson Moody, between 80,000 Blanche.
who
ventured from the buildingM.
Should Consul Osburn’s investiga ties of Indians, coming from the Unit and 90,000 pounds; M. F. Cundiff, 20,-
"W hy, he doesn't have any," said
Lights in homes and public buildings tion establish that a torpedo actually ed States, invaded Sonora and Chi 000 pounds; A. H. Hampton, o f Hunt Toye, "hut he claimed to have some.
immediately became targets for snip was responsible, the United States huahua, committing crimes and depre ington, 95,000 pounds; and E. John He left the Kaiser Fritz the other day
ers posted at V illa's direction. Other officials indicated they will view the dations on the lives and properties of son, 85,000 pounds.
The names of at Naples 1 guess he told you?"
bandits, creeping close to American matter even more serious than i f a Mexicans.
other sellers were not given out.
"No, I understod he came round to
homes, enticed several civilians into passenger carrying vessel was in
“ It was agreed then between the
W ith the lambing season at an end, Southampton.
Surely you shared a
the open with English-spoken invita volved. The American seamen have governments o f the two countries to shearing w ill commence within a short cabin?”
tions. Several fatalities are attributed even a greater claim to protection permit the
respective passage o f I time. Buyers believe that a large per
“ Only from Genoa; that's where 1
to this ruse.
than passengers. A passenger travels armtai forces, resulting in the exterm centage o f the wool this year w ill be took the steamer and Cazalet regained
at his discretion, while a seaman is ination o f the Indians. I have asked contracted in advance.
her."
Washington, I). C. — Washington compel led to do so by his occupation.
the American government to pursue a
"W e ll? "
like course, in order to solve future
stands squarely behind Colonel Slocum
"H e claimed to have spent the In
difficulties,
should
they
arise,
noting
In sending his cavalrymen into Mexico
Salem The retaliatory building and terval mostly with friends at Rome.
that V illa and hia companions are a
in pursuit o f Francisco Villa and his
friends
don't
exist.
Miss
loan association law passed by the Those
group o f bandits whose acts the M exi
band o f outlaws who raided Columbus,
state o f Washington does not give Blanche,” said Toye
Washington, I). C.— The attention can government or people would not
N. M., murdering American soldiers
“ Is tb'.t any business of mine?" she
Corporation Commissioner Schulder-
o f the department o f (Commerce is be responsible for, and that hia re-
and citizens and firing the town.
man, o f Oregon, the right to act like asked him equarely.
Secretary Lansing informed the de railed by the president o f a largo pa- proachable conduct is due to instiga wise and refuse the Pacific Building &
“ Why, yes, I'm afraid It's going to
facto government of Mexico through |ier manufacturing company to the tion o f the reactionary element that, Loan association o f the state o f Wash ba. That Is, unless you'll still trust
fact
that
there
is
a
serious
shortage
of
lacking
in
patriotism
and
convinced
o
f
Kliseo Arredondo, its ambassador des
ington, the right to do business in this m#—
ignate here, that he trusted no objec raw material for the manufacture of its defeat, is trying by all means to state, the attorney general's office has
"Go on. pleasa."
paper,
including
rags
ami
old
papers.
bring
on
armed
intervention.
tion would tie made to the action o f
“ Why, he never stayed at Rome at
ruled.
He
urges
that
the
department
should
"
I
have
not
yet
received
the
answer
the American troops, they having fo l
I f the Washington concern, which a all, nor yet In Italy any longer than It
make
it
known
that
the
collecting
ami
o
f
the
American
government,
and
lowed what is known in m ilitary cir
short time ago withdrew from business takes to come through on the train.
cles as a "h o t tra il.”
No orders have saving o f rags and old papers would from the reports o f my chiefs along in Oregon, makes its annual report to Tour attention for one m oment!” He
been issued for the return o f the sold greatly l>cltcr existing conditions for the frontier learn that the American Commissioner Schulderman, and pays took out a neat pocketbook. Blanche
^ rce s are m obilizing to pursue and
iers, and it is not probable any w ill be American manufacturers.
up its annual license fees, the attorney had opened her lips, but she did not
Something like 15,000 tons o f differ capture and deliver him to the M exi
issued for the present.
general holds it has the right to con Interrupt; ehe Just grasped the arme
Reports that the American troopers ent kinds o f pa|s'r ami paperboard are can authortiiea; that the expedition is tinue in business in this state.
of her chair, as though about to bear
manufactured
every
day
in
the
United
in
the
nature
o
f
a
punitive
campaign
were in action probably 16 miles south
physical pain. "T h e Kaiser Frits”—
States
ami
a
large
proportion
of
this
and
that
the
sovereignty
o
f
Mexico
of the border against a much larger
Toye was speaking from his book—
a
fter
it
has
served
its
purjiose
could
w
ill
be
respected.
force of bandits were heard with anx
"got to Naples late Monday afternoon,
be used over again in some class of
"T h e constitutional government has
Roseburg— For the purpose o f ascer September eighth.
ious interest in official circles.
Seems she was
pa|>cr,
A
large
part
o
f
it,
however,
is
given
instructions
to
its
confidential
taining the needs o f Douglas county overdue, and 1 was mad about It, and
F ive troo|ie o f cavalry crossed the
cither
burned
or
otherwise
wasted.
agent
at
Washington
immediately
to
with reference to state aid in road
boundary early in the day. A t a late
never got away again till the— "
hour it was nut known officially just This, o f course, has to be replaced by make representations that under no construction, John H. Lewis, state
"D o tell me about W alter C azalet!"
new
materials.
It
the
early
history
of
circumstances, with any motive, be highway engineer, passed Saturday in
where they were or just what account
the paper industry publicity was given the reasons or explanations o f the Roseburg conferring with the mem cried Blanche It was like small talk
they had given o f themselves.
W hile no formal word of the policy to the importance o f saving rags. It United States what they may, w ill it bers o f the County court and other from a dentist at the last moment
"I want you to understand about the
o f the administration was given out, it is o f scarcely less importance now. A ju stify the armtai invasion o f Mexican prominent citizens.
"She wait
W hile Mr. Lewis refused to divulge steamer first." said Toye
was reliably stated that free rein little attention to the saving o f rags territory without reciprocal rights be
the
construc ed Monday night In the Bay of Naples,
would be given the army to catch the and old papers w ill mean genuine re ing granted to the Mexicans and that his plana regarding
bandits if possible. It was not consid lie f to our industry and a diminished not for an instant will the invasion of tion of the new state highway through only satled Tuesday morning, only
ered in administration circles that drain upon our sources o f supply for Mexican territory or an outrage to its Douglas county, he said work on the reached Genoa Wednesday morning,
dignity to tolerated ."
road would begin as soon as the neces and lay there all of forty eight hours,
Colonel Slocum's act in any sense con new materials.
as these German boats do, anyhow.
stituted an invasion of Mexico, a pol
sary funds are available.
That brings us to Friday morning be
Intrigue Is Charged
Hair Curling It Fatal.
icy which the administration has op
fore the Kaiser Fritz gets quit of Italy,
posed in the past and w ill continue to
Tokio It is the belief o f the Japan
Seattle, Wash.— Miss Stella Caatiel,
State Charter It Taken.
oppose.
Salem — Conversion o f the Benton doeen't It?"
ese foreign minister that " a certain 20 years old, a domestic servant, was
"Y e e — I suppose so— do tell me
The State department at first hail
European power in the past has en fatally burned at her apartments, 1101 County National Bank at Corvallis to
about W a lte r!"
planned to ask permission o f the Car-
deavored to create differences between F ifth avenue, about 4:80 Sunday after the state system was made Wednesday
rania government to send troops across
"W hy, 1 first heard of him at Ge
Japan and the United States to further noon. An alcohol lamp which she was when the owners reincorporated under
the border in pursuit o f the outlaw
its own ends.” This opinion was ex using to heat a curling iron, over the name of the Benton County State noa. where they figured I should have
bandit. Then came official word that
a stateroom ell to myself, as the other
pressed by the foreign minister before turned and set her clothing on fire.
Bank. The institution is capitalized
the cavalry already had creased. I .ater
the Association o f Am erica's Friemls.
The woman had placed the burning at $60,000, with a surplus o f $15,000 gentleman had been left behind at
Mr. Arredondo called on Secretary
I never saw him till he
He gave it as his opinion that the lamp in her lap while she sat before ami deposits aggregating in excess of Naptee
Lansing, expressed regret for the Villa
efforts of this European power were the mirror ami curled her hair.
When $404,000. The change from a Nation scrambled aboard again Friday, about
raid, and was informed of the attitude
exerted fur the purpose of serving its the lamp upset the alcohol spread over al hank to a state bank was made be the flfty-nlath minute of the eleventh
o f the United Stales.
own aspirations. As that (sewer now her clothing.
The burning wick ig cause o f the belief o f the management hour.'*
"A t Oenoa?"
is occupied with its own troubles, the nited her cothing ami she was warn en that the Federal Reserve obligations
Villa Men Execute Thirty.
"Bure."
source o f intrigue has been removed.
veloped in flames.
of National la rk s impose burdensome
"And you pretend to know where
Laredo, T e x .— Thirty or more Car
conditions upon the smaller banka.
ke'd been?"
ranza soldiers, including several offi
Rich Farmer Thought Murdered.
Government Clerks Win.
"1 guest I do know"— and Toye
cers. were executed by bandits three
Seattle, Wash. The body o f Wm.
Washington, I). C. Representative
Hood Attracts Tourists.
sighed as be raised hta little book
days ago near Torreon, according to Stephenson, a wealthy farmer o f North Borland's amendment to the executive,
Hood R iver— The publicity cam "Catalet stepped on the train that left
authentic information received here Yakima, was fonud beside the North legislative and judicial appropriation
paign waged by the Portland Chabmer Naples all fifty Monday evening and
Friday. The bandits were reported to ern I'a n fir railroad track near Kavene- hill, which would require the thouaamls
o f commerce and the Oregon commis off the one timed to reach Charing
be adhérants of General V illa and were dale, Sumiay. In the dead man's pock- o f clerks in the executive departments
sion last year at the Panama-Pacific fr o s t threwtwenty five Wednesday ”
commanded by Colonel Chacon. The etbook were certificates of deposit on o f the government here to work eight
International exposition in the ex
"The day of the m— "
men executed
a lieutenant colonel, Seattle, Portland ami Tacoma banks hours a day instead o f seven was
ploitation o f the Columbia R iver High
"Y e t I never called It by the hard
two majors, several minor officers and fo r sums totaling $11,000. The shontf stricken from the measure in the house
way gives every indication at present est name, m yself; but It was seven-
24 privates were taken from a train believes Stephenson was murdered. on a (aunt o f order. Mr Borland then
o f having borne fruit. R. E. Scott, thirty Wednesday evening that Henry
en route from Torreon to Monterey, it The laxly was found by a trackwalker intriaiuced another to reduce the num
secretary o f the Hood R iver Commer Craven got hie death blow somehow
was saiil, and were shot by the suie o f half mile east o f Kavensdale. Aside ber o f clerks by 10 per cent on June 1.
cial club, says that scarcely a day Wall, Walter Cazalet left Charing
the cars.
from the certificates of deposit the Republican leader Mann made an at passes that he docs not receive numer
only thing o f value in the clothing was tack on the annual appropriation for ous inquiries from prospective motor
Villa Bandits Located.
80 cents in small change.
automobile expenses for cabinet offiert. tourists from California who are ask
Hachita, N. M
Two hundred well
ing about the condition of the highway.
W a r in Albania Renewed.
Employes O rdered Out.
mounted V illa bandits were reported
War Hts Failed to Produce th* Dis
Jobs Are Awaiting Men.
to be at Wamelas Well, two miles
Berlin, by wireless to Sayville, N.
I .a redo, Tex. — American concern#
card That at On* Tim * Seamed
from the international boundary, on Y. - Fighting between Italian and operating in the Monterey district ami
Marshfield — There are more jobs
Bur* t* Cam*.
the American side, late Friday.
This Austrian troops in Albania has been in the vicinity of Maptmi, state of here than men, in most localities. The
is ten miles southeast o f Hachita. re netted.
Durango, have ordered their employes W illsm ette-racific construction work
Summing up of tb* musical year
Anxiety here over the presence o f the
Austrian forces
advancing along to leave Mexico at once, ow ing to un between Coos Bay and Reeds port is baa begun thougb tha drums, fifes,
bandits at that place was relieved by the coast between Duraxzo encoun rest among the lower classes of M exi short o f workmen ami the crew has trumpets and bands In certain of our
the arrival of the first battalion o f the tered Italian soldiers who, a fter a few cans. according to American passen been reduced from 65 to 12.
It was parks sra stimulating tka public spir
Eleventh United States Infantry from skirmishes, fell back in the direction gers from that section, 260 o f whom reported that the crew ahoTe the Ump it* and heaping up tb* popular an
Douglas, A rit., under command o f o f Avions, their principal position reached the bonier here Monday. There qua river had dwindled from
to ergy
On tb* wbol* » * bav* bean
Major John C. HennetL Citizens and in Albania, according to
an offi is no apparent ill-feelin g
against less than J(A Work is delayed on ac generous. Mr Farcy 8c ha las Ust of
ranchers have armed themselves to cial statement received here from V i Americans in Nuevo I-aredo and the count o f the men quitting
They are lataraad musicians contains a* alien
guard their homes and their livestock. enna.
order in this vicinity is normal.
¡saving for the outside.
Columbus, N. M., Attacked by
1500 Mexican Bandits.
Big Lumber Order Received
for Freight Car Building
Privilege of Crossing Border
Sought by Mexico.
16 PERSONS KILLED
WOMAN we W rmng
Author o f G he AMATEUR ΠA ΠS M A N .
RAFFLES. Etc .
FORMAL MANIFESTO ISSUED TO PEOPLE
United States Troopers Have Brisk
Engagement few Miles South of
Border. Villa’s Losses Big
and Capture Imminent.
Mexicans Told He Will Fight Before
He Will Surrender Dignity and
Honor of Mexican Nation.
Rodent Fighters Unite.
Americans Rescued From
Torpedoed Norwegian Vessel
Big Wool Sale Reported.
.
J
Business Right Upheld.
Serious Shortage in Paper Material.
Highway Route Inspected.
SAN ITY IN M USICAL W ORLD
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Cross again by the nine o'clock that
night, and was back aboard tho Kaiser
Fritz on Friday morning —full of his
friends !n Rome who didn't exist!"
The note-book was put away with
every symptom of relief.
" I suppose you can prove what you
say?" said Blanche in a voice as dull
as her unseeing eyes.
“ 'I have men to swear to him—tick
et-collectors. conductors, waiters on
tha restaurant-car— all up and down
the line.
I went over the same
ground on the same trains, so that
was simple. I can also produce the
barber who claims to have taken off
his beard In Paris, where he put In
hours Thursday morning."
Blanche looked up suddenly, not at
Toye, but past him toward an over
laden side-table against the wall. It
was there that Cazalet’s photograph
had stood among many others; until
this morning she had never missed It,
for she seemed hardly to have been
In her room all the week; but she had
been wondering who had removed It,
whether Cazalet himself (who had
spoken of doing so, she now knew
why), or Martha (whom she would not
question about It) In a fit of ungov
ernable disapproval
And now there
was the photograph back In Its place,
leather frame and all!
“ I know what you did," said
Blanche. 'You took that photograph
with you— the ope on that table— and
had him Identified by I t ! "
"It was the night I came down to
bid you good by,” he confessed, "and
didn't have time to w ait
I didn't
come down for the photo. I never
thought of it till I saw It there. I
came down to kind of warn you, Miss
Blanche!"
"Against him?” she said, as If there
was only one man left In the world.
"Y e e — I guess I'd already warned
Cazalet that I was starting on his
tracks."
And then Blanche Just said, "Poor—
old— Sw eep !" as one talking to her
self. And Toye seized upon the words
as she had seized on nothing from
him.
“ Have you only pity for the fellow ?"
he cried; for she was gazing at the
bearded photograph without revul
sion.
"O f course," she anewered, hardly
attending
"Even though he killed this man—
even though he came across Europe to
kill him?"
"You don't think It was deliberate
yourself, even If he did do It."
"But can you doubt that he did?"
cried Toye, quick to Ignore the point
as that," said B la a c A l " I must sea
him first.”
"Sea Cazalet?”
T oye had coma to his foot, not stm
ply In tho horror and Indignation
which bad gradually takea possession
of him, but under the stress o f some
new and sudden resolve.
"O f course," said Blanche; “ of
course I must see him as soon as
possible.”
“ You shall never apeak to that man
again, as long as ever you live,” said
Toye. with the utmost emphasis and
deliberation.
“ Who's going to prevent me?”
"I sm. by laying an Information
against him this minute, unless you
promise never to see or to speak to
Cazalet again."
Blanche felt cold and sick, but the
bit of downright bullying did her good.
" I didn't know you were a black
mailer, Mr. T o y e !”
“ You know I ’m not; but I mean to
save you from Caxalet, blackmail or
white."
"T o save me from a mere old friend
— nothing more — nothing — all our
liv e s !”
" I believe that.” be said, searching
her with his smoldering eyes
“ You
couldn't tell a He, I guess, not If you
tried! But you would do something;
It's Just a man being next door to hell
that would bring a God's angel— ”
Hia voice shook.
She was as quick to soften on her
side.
"Don't talk nonsense, please," she
begged, forcing a smile through her
distress.
"WU1 you promise to do
nothing If— If I promise?”
“ Not to go near him?”
"N o.”
"N or to see him here?”
"N o.”
"N o r anywhere else?”
“ No. I give you my word.”
" I f you break It, I break mine that
minute? Is It a deal that way?”
"Y e e !
Yes! I prom ise!”
‘T h en so do I, by G od!” said H il
ton Toye.
C H A PTE R X III.
Faith Unfaithful.
" I t ’s all perfectly true," said Caza
let calmly. “ Those were my move
ments while I was off the ship, except
for the five hours and a bit that I was
away from Charing Cross.
I can’t
dispute a detail of all the rest. But
they'll have to fill In those five hours
unless they want another case to col
lapse like the one against Scruton!”
Old Savage had wriggled like a ven
erable worm. In the experienced tal
ons of the Bobby's Bugbear; but then
Mr. Drlnkwater and hts discoveries
had come still worse out of a hotter
enoounter with the truculent attorney;
and Cazalet had described the whole
thing as only he could describe a
given episode, down to the ultimate
dismissal of the charge against Scru
ton, with a gusto the more cynical for
the deliberately low pitch of his voice.
It was In the little lodging-house sit
ting room at N ell Gwynne’s Cottages,
he stood with his back to the crack
ling fire that he had Just lighted him
self, as It were, already at bay; for
the folding doors were In front of his
nose, and his eyes roved Incessantly
from the landing door on one side to
the curtained casement on the other.
Yet sometimes he paused to gaze at
the friend who had come to warn him
of his danger; and there was nothing
cynical or grim about him then.
Blanche had broken her word for
perhaps the first time In her life; but
It had never before been extorted from
her by duress, and It would be affeo-
tatlon to credit her with much com
punction on the point. Her one great
qualm lay In the possibility of Toye's
turning up at any moment; but this
she had obviated to some extent by
coming straight to the cottages when
he left her— presumably to look for
Cazalet In London, since she had bean
careful not to mention his change
of address. Cazalet, to her relief, but
also a little to her hurt, ahe had found
at hia lodgings In the neighborhood,
full of the news he had not managed
to communicate to her. But It was no
time for taking anything but his peril
to heart. And that they had been dis
“ I Know What You Did," Said Blanche. cussing, almost as man to man, If
"You Took That Photograph With rather as Innocent man to Innocent
man; for even now, or perhaps now
You."
in hts presence least o f all, Blanche
she had made, yet none the less sin could not bring herself to believe her
cerely convinced upon the other
"I old friend guilty of a violent crime,
guess you wouldn't If you’d heard however unpremeditated, for which
some of the things he said to me on another had been allowed to suffer, for
the steamer; and he's made good on however short a time.
(TO BE CO NTINUED .)
every syllable alnce he landed
Why.
it explains every single thing he's
“ Rag-Time."
done and left undone. He'll strain
Rag time music, "being la no wise
every nerve to have Scruton ably de
fended. but he won t see the man he's serious," Is the reverse of depressing.
The African Jingles of the present
defending; says himself that he can't
day crest* an emotional atmospber*
face h im !”
"Y es
He said so to me," said of restleasnees and excitement which
is typically American, and which Is
Blanche, nodding In confirmation.
opposed to health only so far aa our
"T o you?”
national restlessnesa and lack of pole*
"I didn't understand him "
land to mak* us • peopl* who** na
"But you’ve been seeing him all this
tional dlseaaa Is nervous exhaustion."
while?"
Roughly speaking, lively music,
"Every day." said Blanche, her soft
such as rag time, la likely to roua* de
eyes filling suddenly
"W e ’ve had—
pressed persons from their melan
we've had the time o f our llv e a !"
choly; sad and pathetic music will
"My G od !" said Toye. "T h e time of soothe the excitable and hypernarv-
your life with a man who'* got another oua.
man's blood on his hands— and that
makes no difference to you!
The
On* Way t* Mak* a Friend.
time of your life with the man who
There are several klada of hypocrisy,
knew where to lay hands on the but tb* on* that masculinity most fa
weapon he d done It with, who went as vors Is spurious davlllshnass Nothing
far as that to save the Innocent, but brings tb* beam of contentment so
no farth er!"
fervently y> th* mediocre ay* aa a Den
"H e would; he will still. If It's still Juan accusation
Dtg him la tha riba
necessary
Tou don't know him, Mr and wink as yon call him a sly dog—
Toye, you haven't known him all your and h* loves yon.
H * may b* tka
life."
qulntesaenc* o f domestic respectabil
And all thta makes no difference to ity. but If you will but tnalst that you
a good and gentle woman— one of the bellev* him eapabl* of maintaining n
gentleet and the beet God ever made?” •eragllo with consummate deceit, you
" I f you mean me. I won't go as far era hia friend.
composers and performers In English
prisons.
But harmony was split
Brodsky «o f Manchester and Russia)
was caught in Germany, Richter re
nounced his English honors. Kretslor
want to fight for Austria, and Lamond
was shut up at Ruhlaben
Harmony
was disturbed
la England the war
threatened tor a moment to banish
th* music mad* An Germany.
But
sanity prevailed Wagner could not b*
banished Th * Royal Phllharm.-ulc re
fused ta abolish th* bust of Baetbo-
>*a from Its place before th* ore ha*- j
tra— possibly bacaua* Beethoven's an
cestry was proved to b* Flemish.
Bach and Brahms hav* bad thalr sal*,
brmtlon upon English strings and wind.
And righ tly!— London Chronicle
Telephone Raearg.
Tka French language has bean
found much butter adapted lo long
distance telephoning than th* English,
and expert operator* la Farla bava
succeeded la transmitting messages t*
London at th* rat* et 1M word* a min
ate