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such a fool.”
Hugh smiled, and as has been said
before, Hugh's smile transformed his
face.
«I must remember that opening,” he
said. “It establishes a basis of in-
timacy at once, doesn’t nt”
She swayed a little toward him,
and then, before he realized her in-
tention, she put a hand on his shoul-
der.
“Don’t you understand,” she whis-
pered fiercely, “that they'll kill you?”
She peered past him half fearfully,
and then turned to nim again. “Go,
you idiot, go—while there’s time. Get
out of it—go abroad; do anything—
but don’t fool round here.”
“It seems a cheerful household,” re-
marked Hugh with a smile, “May 1
ask why you're all so concerned about
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«Teil Me, You Ugly Man,” She Mur.
mured, “Why You Are Such a Fool.”
me? Your estimable father gave me
the same advice yesterday morning.”
“Don’t ask why,” she answered fe-
verishly, “because I can’t tell you.
Only you must believe that what ~
say is the truth—you must. It’s jusu
possible that if you go now and tell
them where you've hidden the Ameri-
can youll be all right. But if you
don’t—" Her hand dropped to her
side suddenly. “Breakfast will be at
nine, my Hugh: until then, au revoir.”
He turned as she left the room, a
little puzzled by her change of tone.
Standing at the top of the stairs was |
Peterson, watching them both in si- |
lence. . . .
TWO.
In the days when Drummond hal
been a platoon commander he hal
done many dangerous things. The or
dinary joys of the infantry gubaltern’s
life-—such as going over the top, and
carrying out raids—had not proved
sufficient for his appetite. He had |
surprising ; as nearly as a man may be
he was without fear. And when the
idea came to him as he sat on the
edge of his bed thoughtfully pulling oft
his shoes, no question of the possible
risk entered into his mind. To explore
the house seemed the most aatural
thing in the world, and with characte=
istic brevity he summed up the situ-
ation as it struck him.
“They suspect me anyhow: in fact,
they know I took Potts. Therefore,
even if they catch me passage creep-
ing, I'm no worse off than I am now.
And I might find something of inter-
est. Therefore, carry on, brave heart.”
It was dark in the passage outside
as he opened the door of his room and
crept toward the top of the stairs. The
collar of his brown lounge coat was
turned up, and his stocking feet made |
no sound on the heavy pile carpet.
Like a huge shadow he vanished into
the blackness, feeling his way forward
with the uncanny instinct that comes
from much practice. Every now and
then he paused and listened intently,
but the measured ticking of the clock
below and the occasional creak of a
board alone broke the stillness.
To the left lay the room in which he
had spent the evening, and Drummond
turned to the right. As he had gone
up to bed he had noticed a door
screened by a heavy curtain which he
thought might be the room Phyllis
Benton had spoken of—the room
where Henry Lakington kept his ill-
gotten treasures. He felt his way
along the wall, and at length his hand
touched the curtain—only to drop it
again at once. From close beside him
had ccme a sharp, angry hiss.
He stepped back a pace and stood
rigid, staring at the spot from which
the sound had seemed to come—but
Le could see nothing. Then he leaned
forward and once more moved the
curtain. Instantly it came again,
sharper and angrier than before.
Hugh passed a hand over his fore-
head and found it damp. Germans he
knew, and things on two legs, but
what was this that hissed so viciously
in the darkness? At length he deter-
mined to risk it, and drew from his
pocket a tiny electric torch. Holding
it well away from his bedy, he
switched on the light. In the center
of the beam, swaying gracefully to
and fro, was a snake. For a moment
he watched it, fascinated as it spat at
the light angrily; he saw the flat hood
where the vicious head was set on the
upright body; then he switched off the
torch and retreated rather faster than
he had come.
“A convivial household,” he mut-
tered to himself through lips that were
a little dry. “A hooded cobra is an
unpleasing pet.”
Hugh had just determined to recoun-
hoter the curtained doorway again to
see if it was possible to circumvent
the snake, when a low chuckle came
distinctly to his ears from the landing
ahove.
He flushed angrily in the darkness.
‘there was no doubt whatever as to
: the human origin of that laugh, and
| Hugh suddenly realized that he was
making the most profound fool of him-
«elf. To be laughed at by some dirty
awine whom he could strangle in half
specialized in peculiar stunts of his | 2
own: stunts over which he
gularly reticent; stunts over which
his men formed their own conclusions, |
and worshiped him accordingly.
But Drummond was no fool, and he !
had realized the vital importance of |
fitting himse:? for these stunts to the
best of his ability. Enormous physical
strength is a great asset, but it car-
ries with it certain natural disadvan-
tages. In the first place, its possessor
is frequently clumsy: Hugh had prae-
ticed in France till he could moye over
ground without a single blade of grass
rustling. Van Dyck—a Dutch trap
per—-had first shown him the tries, by
which a man goes forward on his el-
bows like a snake, and is here one
moment and gone the next, with no
one the wiser.
Again, its possessor Is frequently
slow : Hugh had practiced in France
till he could kill a man with his bare
hands in a second. Oiaki—a Japa-
nese—had first tutight him two or
three of the secrets of his trade, ard
in the intervals of resting behind the
lines he had perfected them until it
was even money whether the Jap or
he would win in a practice bout.
And there were nights in No Man's
Land when his men would hear strange
gounds, and knowing that Drummond
was abroad on his wanderings, would
peer eagerly over the parapet into the
desolate torn-up waste in front. But
they never saw anything, even when
{he green ghostly flares went hissing
up into the dagkness and the shadows
danced fantastically. All was silent
and still; the sudden shrill whimper
was not repeated.
Perhaps a patrol coming back would
report a German, lying huddled in a
shellhole, with no trace of a wound,
but only a broken neck; perhaps the
patrol never found anything. But
whatever the report, Hugh Drummond
only grinnned and saw to his men’s
breakfast. Which is why there are in
England today quite a number of
civilians who acknowledge only two
rulers—the King and Hugh Drum-
mond. And they would willingly dle
for either.
The result on Drummond was not
was sin- | £2
{He Laughed Gently; Then He Fought
in Silence.
a minute—was impossible. His fists
clenched, and he swore softly under
Lis breath. Then as silently as he
had come down, he commenced to
climb the stairs again. He had a hazy
{dea that he would like to hit some-
thing—hard.
There were nine stairs in the first
half of the flight, and it was as he
stood on the fifth that he again heard
the low chuckle. At the same instant
something whizzed past his head so
low that it almost touched his halr,
and there was a clang on the wall be-
side him. He ducked instinctively,
and regardless of noise raced up the
remaining stairs, on all-fours. His
jaw was set like a vise, his eyes were
blazing; in fact, Hugh Drummond was
seeing red.
He paused when he reached the top,
crouching in the darkness. Close to
him he could feel some one else, and
holding his breath, he listened. Then
he heard the man move—only the very
faintest sound—but it was enough.
Without a second’s thought he sprang,
and his hands closed on humsn flesh.
He laughed gently; then he fought in
silence.
(To be Continued.)
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65,000 Girls Disappear in Year in U. S.
Sixty-five thousand girls disappear-
ed in the United States last year with-
out leaving a trace. The great major-
ity were lured to the big cities from
the small towns and farms. They
have dropped from sight. Their fate
is an unsolved mystery. This story
was brought to the National Congress
of Mothers and the Parent-Teachers
Association convention in Washing-
ton with a plea for the creation of a
——— i ———————
Central Bureau to help find missing
girls. Lt. Catherine Van Winkle, of
the District of Columbia, police de-
partment, told the convention one of
the biggest needs of the country was
to save the army of girls that annu-
ally are lost in the big cities. Police
departments and civic associations de-
voted to the task are unable to cope
with the situation fully, she said.
She asked the convention to take
immediate steps to create a central
——
bureau and auxiliary bureaus in all
parts of the country for the purpose
of resting facilities for finding lost
girls.
Now a Weedless Lawn.
A long sought fertilizer has at last
been secured, after twenty years of
research, which will slowly and sure-
ly extirpate the weeds, while permit-
ting the grass to grow freely. Am-
monium sulphate is found to be more
advantageous than sodium nitrate,
ES AS RT A BERRY,
which tends to create an alkaline con-
dition of the soil, especially favorable
to the propagation of weeds. Ammo-
nium sulphate produces reversed con-
ditions and the grass flourishes and
the weeds are so weakened that they
are crowded out. Of course this plan
of fertilization must be qualified, as
only grass that is an acid tolerant
would develop along the line of extir-
pation of the weeds. The weeds to
resist must be non-acid tolerant also.
— Scientific American.
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He who dances must pay the fiddler.
That is an old saying which is full of
truth. The primary idea in this say-
ing, of course, is that one cannot have
any pleasure without paying for it in
some way, but this is not the only
sense in which it may be construed.
It means that we cannot pursue any
foolish policy indefinitely without pay-
ing for it in the end. !
No man can overtax his physical
strength indefinitely without risk-
ing ultimate disaster. Dissipation
or overwork may be continued for a
time without any noticeable results,
but if continued for a sufficiently long
time the inevitable comes to pass. The
laws of nature cannot be violated with
impunity. If one takes out of life more
‘than he puts in, if he tears down his :
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What is true of the laws of nature!
is equally true of economic laws. The !
people of a community may for a time
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without meeting disaster, but it cannot |
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they must pay the fiddler.
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The person who makes his living in
a community, receiving the money of
products of his labor, and then spends
his income outside of his community
is helping to exhaust the resources of
the community just as the man who
expends his energy through dissipa-
‘tion or overexertion faster than he
builds it up is exhausting his physical
resources. One man may do this, of
course, without noticeably affecting the
economic strength of thegcommunity,
but when a dozen men or women do
it the effect becomes noticeable and
‘when a hundred do it the resources of
the community become exhausted to
the point where collapse is inevitable.
Those who are responsible for this sit-
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There are some persons who seem to
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much effort. There are sors who pro-
ceed on the theory that the world owes
them a living and they proceed to cox
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and give nothing in return. Such per-
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| more than their share and these are
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whom the living of every person in
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or failure of an individual merchant
may not be of particular concern to
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place, provide a market for a large
part of the products of the farmers
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in small quantities, in accordance with
their need, and some of them buy in
larger quantities for shipment to for-
eign markets. If the merchants could
not do this there would be no market
at least for the small quantities except
at ruinous prices. If the farmers could
not realize a reasonable profit from
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things which the merchants of every
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Business in a community cannot be
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cannot take out of his community a
good living for himself and family and
give nothing in return. He may do
so for a short time and get away with
it, but in the ehd he must pay the
fiddler.
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