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IN THE SHADOW
OF SHAME
By Fitzgerald Molloy
Copyright by 12. Fitzgerald Molloy.
Synopsis of Precedlug Chapters
Olive P urn burton, alter the legnl separation from
her bitital huabaud, becomes a suce.essfi;! nuthoreMS
and lives quietly with bet daughter, Veronica, in
Hexti'ii Road, hr. .!olm's Wood, London. Her luh
band secretly returns to Londou and by letter makes
further demands for money. Her cousin Valerius
i albri.ith. a man of Independent wealth who lias
been in love with her since earl\ vouth, calls to say
furt*well before starthig on a trip to iv'ypt. A fort
night later Olive I>llllll i« ton NJoiind ! i libr.irv
holdine a «lujrtr« r over the dead bu.jv li»-r husband.
She i k arrested nno held lor trial, and detectives are
nut on the ease, t.eorge ftostoek. the publisher, and
\ a'erhis Galbralth take an aethe interest In the In
vestigations, and the former 1h hbadowed by Inspector
Mack worth. Angela M'v/.a, an ltuiian woii.an, wears
to Mrs. liumburton and inspeefor Macku that t!ie
in.uder uas ( oiiunltted by her huHmmi. Tli" Inspector
discovers l'lt iio. u model and former companion of
Mez/.a.
"No. Pictro did not know lie was in
London till I told hitn last night."
"Tliey were good friends."
Lorenzo said nothing, but contented
himself by nodding his h"ail by way of
assent; and Mackworth, thinking there
was no further information to be ob
tained from him, hastened away in
search of the Summers sticct lodgitv
house.
CHAPTER XV.
On reaching MariK Roselli's house,
the number of which had been given
him by Lorenzo, the inspector knocked
loudly, and then impatiently waited for
an answer. None came, nor did
any soutid of voice or movements
within the dwelling indicate that
it was tenanted. lie rapped again
with like result and then stepped into
the street to view t'.ie dwelling. As he
did so, the high, narrow door from
which the paint had long since faded,
opened, and a woman's figure stood
framed in the portai.
Mack worth, ear.erly observing her,
raw she was tall and thin, her years
about sixty, her regular features wear
ing a hard expression, the dark c\;
eld and speculative, tie fare lined and
wrinkled, something masculine in bear
ing.
"Are you Maria Roselli?" he asked,
advancing toward her.
"Y"s," she replied, returning the gaze.
"Then 1 want to speak to you.''
"You can talk here," she said in ex
c< "mt English.
"It is something I don't wi-h to say
in the street."
She hesitated a moment, then drew
aside to hi him pass into ihe hall,
clo«ed the door, and ushi-r I him into
a harelv furnished, room.
Marco Mezza in the house?"
Maekworth began.
"Marco Mezza?" she repeated, with
out surprise being noticeable in her
voice or face. "No."
'Then where he?'"
"I don't know," she replied, frigidly.
"Rut he has been here?"
"Oh, yes."
"When ?"
"Some time in September. I don't re
member the date."
"I want you to tell me all you know
abOjit him."
"Why?" she asked, Staring hard at
Maekworth.
"I am a police officer. He may be
concerned in a very serious business;
you will see why I ask for him.''
Maekworth saw she expressed neither
astonishment, interest nor anxiety. His
words left her perfectly indifferent to
their inference.
"I know very little of this Mezza. He
came here some weeks ago, as I have
said."
"He was a friend of yours?"
"I had never seen him before. A Nea
politan living in Paris gave him my ad
dress," she answered.
"How long did he stay with you?"
"Three days. I would keep him no
longer."
"Why?" asked the inspector, anx
iously.
"Well, he was nearly always drunk,
and then he was ill; his coughing kept
my other lodgers awake at night. My
house was no place for him.''
"And so you got rid of him?''
"I told him he should goto the hos
pital."
"And he went?"
"He left here for the hospital, but 1
don't know if he ever went there," she
answered, the same calm indifference
noticeable in her manner.
"What hospital?"
"The Italian; he spoke little English."
"And afterwards—did he return to
you
"No; he knew I would not take him.''
i"Have you made no inquiries? for
him ?''
"No; why should I?" Maria Roselli
asked, in her hard voice. "I have to
mind my business if I would live, and
I have had trouble enough in my own
life without going in search of it among
strangers."
"Had he any friends to sec him while
he was here?"
"Not one. He slept all day. because
he was awake coughing all night. When
he went out in the evening it was to
the public house."
"Which public house?"
"That I don't know."
"And he returned alone?"
"Always."
After this the woman moved toward
the door, as if to indicate the inter
view must end. She had neither the
curiosity nor sympathy to inquire what
it was Mezza had done to put the police
on his track.
Maekworth, seeing she could give no
more information, became impatient to
reach the Italian hospital, which he knew
was situated in Queen's Square. There,
no doubt, he would be able to learn
where Mezza had gone* on being dis
charged, and perhaps to trace directly
to bini the mad deed which, no doubt,
his illness and want of opportunity had
prevented him from committing during
the first days of his return to Eng
land.
Passing through the wide hall of the
hospital, which had been the dwelling
of people of fashion when Queen Anne
reigned, Maekworth was shown into a
reception room, and soon the door
opened, and the superioress entered and
bowed.
"Rueno giorno, signor," she said, in
a pleasant voice.
PICTORIAL MAGAZINE ANI) COMIC SECTION
! "I am English, madam," the inspec
tor replied.
"And so am I," she said smilingly,
"but as you came to make inquiries for
a patient I supposed you to be an
Italian."
"The patient I came to a r k about i
not a friend, but a man in whom 1 am
interested "
"What is bis name?" she asked, in a
business-like manner.
"Marco Mezza."'
"I remember him well."
"Pray tell me, madam, everything you
know about him."
"He came here sufiering from an ad
vanced -tagc of pneumonia."
"Do you remember the date?"
"I can find it for j u. 1 should think
he bad 1. i-n i: ;ing for s.r.ne time. At
all ev' nt , he had greatly neglected him
self and was in a very bad condition."
"Ilow long did he remain here?"
"lie lived for about twelve days."
"Livedthe inspector repeated.
"Then he is dead?"'
"Yes, he is dead."
_ "Rut, tell me, did he leave the hos
pital f'>r a day—for an hour—from the
time he came in until he died?"
'No; that would have been impossible.
The doctor knew from the moment he
saw him that Mezza was a dying man."
Maekworth'- astonishment and dis
appointment were grei't. Ff Mezza was
in the hospital on September 21, then it
was not li" who had murdered David
Dumbarton.
"What was the dr.tc of his death?"
"J will bring you the book in which
all particulars of our patients are en
tered." the npcriorr said, and she
quickly left the room.
"Can it be po -ible Mezza is inno
cent?" the inspector asked himself, un
willing to roi! out the idea which had
taken possession of his mind.
In a couple of moments the superior
ess_ returned, carrying a heavy book,
which she placed upon the table.
"Ah, here it i>: Marco Mezza, admit
ted the Sth of September; suffering
from pneumonia, accelerated by drink;
place of birth, ■ : age, .|0; profes
sion, vi lini-t; address Rue Petit Mae
fre, Paris; date of death, 21st of Sep
tember, hour, G p. m." I
. ..
B: %
1/ /
• 4 Date of doulli, *<£ l.st of September."
Marco Mezza had died but a few
hours before the man whose life he had
threatened to take had been killed.
"Did be not send for his wife or his
friends?" Maekworth asked.
"He told us on entering he bad no
wife or 110 friends in London; that he
had come from Paris four days be
fore."
"Rut toward the end he did not in
quire for them ?"
"He did not know he was dying, and
during his last three days he was de
lirious. We sent the certificate of his
death to the Italian Consul, who will
forward a copy to Mezza's relatives in
Naples, if they can be found. He is
buried in Ken-al Green."
There seemed nothing further to be
known regarding this unhappy man;
here was the end for him, so far as this
world went. Maekworth thanked the
superioress for the trouble she had
taken, and left the hospital in a differ
ent mood from that he felt on enter
ing, all his plans upset, bis spirits de
pressed.
The man who had killed David Dum
barton was still to be discovered.
CHAPTER XVI.
On a cold and cheerless afternoon in
October, with a gray and lowering sky
above and a drenched and sombre
world around, George Rostock took his
way to see Olive Dumbarton.
Walking along the broad, soft-ear
neted corridor leading to the drawing
room, he glanced toward the entrance of
the study where the terrible tragedy had
taken place; the study with its floor
still smeared and stained with blood, its
windows closed and shuttered, its fur
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man lie loved.
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till and almost breathless, gazing be
fore him. The apartment, which was
faintly lighted by a single lamp, showed
him the figure of the woman he sought,
seated at a table on which she had thrust
out her arms, between which her head
was buried. There was something so
j.itiful and despairing in the abandon
ment of her attitude that all the misery
lie had felt, that day became suddenly
•i-centua'.ed. and lie recognized that here
iay the cause.
With intuitive delicacy he stepped
back, until, the servant's entry having
listurbed her mistress, the latter rose,
and. turning her back to the light, pre
pared to receive him. Dimly seen as
it was, her pallid face, drawn and hag
gard, with its eyes dull and swollen, its
month quivering, and, above all, its ex
pression of utter misery, startled him.
The hand he held in his trembled and
felt cold as death.
"What lias happened?" he asked,
while dreading to hear her reply.
"You have not heard?" she said, in
a low. broken voice.
"I have heard nothing new. Tell the
what it is.''
' All hope of saving me is lost."
"No, no, not that!" lie cried out,
fiercely, as if in defiance of the state
ment.
"All. That man—the Italian "
"1 las escaped ?"
"Has been traced to his grave."
"Well ?'•
"He died in a hospital a few hours
before my husband was killed," she said,
striving to steady her voice.
In a second lie realized what the con
sequences of this discovery might prove
to the woman before him.
"When did you hear the news?" he
a ked, presently.
"This morning; the inspector came to
tell me."'
"And you have been alone ever since
your trouble?'' he said, looking at her.
"1 sent for my cousin, but I suppose
he was not in his rooms when my mes
sage reached him," she replied.
"Rut tell me about Mack worth; has
he no nother clew?"
"Not that I know of, at least," she
answered wearily.
"He may have, though he withholds it
from you,'' he remarked.
"Why do you think he would keep it
back from me?''
"He might not wish to speak until
he was able to prove his case."
"I see," she answered, a grateful look
in her eyes, "you are striving to give
me hope, but I cannot blind myself to
the fact that circumstances seem dead
against me."
Though her voice was calm, there was
an undertone of pitifulness in it that
appealed to her hearer more directly,
■ more keenly, than she could have be
lieved possible.
"No matter; it's my belief, one of
two things must happen," he said, his
manner growing more serious, if p6s
sible.
"And that'" she said, eagerly.
"Either the man who killed your hus
band will be found—"
"Or?"
"Or he will confess."
She shook her head sadly, saying:
"I fear the murderer will never be
discovered; you see, all these weeks go
by and no definite clew has been ob
tained ; as for confession, that I dare
not hope for."
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"What are they?" she asked.
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otic who had never wronged liitn,'' he
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"You think so?"
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She shook her head,paying:
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"There may be exceptions," he an
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"Such things can only be known to
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"But my prospects look black."
''You forget the old saying, that the
darkest hour is nearest to dawn."
"And you really think that my inno
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"Sure?" she repeated, surprised alike
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"Yes?" she said anxiously, her feel
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"Because, as I have c aid, murder will
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Her eyes expressed the disappoint
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"Is that all ?" she asked, in a low,
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Before he could reply the bc-11 of the
garden door rang loudly through the
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"It is Valerius," Olive Dumbarton re
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"I must go now," Bostock said as tie
rose.
She did not ask him to stay, but said:
"You will come and see me again soon,
I hope?"
"Very soon," lie replied gravely, as
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As he passed through the corridor on
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displeasure in hi? prominent blue eyes,
coldly regarded the publisher. They
bowed as they passed without speaking.
"She loves him," George Bostock
thought, as he emerged into the rain
and darkness, and the depression he had
felt all day grew deeper yet.
(To be continued.)
Largest Private Estate
By the recent acquistion of a tract of
170,000 acres Santa Gertrudes Ranch, in
southwest Texas, already reputed to be
the largest estate ifi the world owned
by a private individual, was increased
to the immense proportions of 2,000
square miles, or 1,280,000 acres. This
single ranch is, therefore, almost twice
as large as the State of Rhode Island
and contains 25,000 more acres of land
thatl does the State of Delaware.
All this immense area, says Harper's
Weekly, is owned by one elderly woman
of simple tastes and retiring habits, who
takes no active part in its management
and does not even live upon the land
for the greater part of the year. Her
interest in the ranch is strongest during
Christmas week, when, with traditional
Southern hospitality, she entertains half
a hundred guests in the great manor
house.
However impressive the statistics of
Santa Gertrudes may be on paper, the
visible reality is not at all imposing. On
a slight swell of ground, bv no means
high enough to be dignified by the name
of a hill, stands the ranch house, a neat
white building large enough to serve the
purpose of a good-sized hotel, with de
tached dining-room and kitchen and
abundant verandas, after the Southern
style.
To the reaf is a g'ass-bordered reser
voir fed by an artesian well, an untidy
barn and corral, and blacksmith shop
and some shade trees. At the right is
the ranch commissary, whence are
drawn all the necessaries of life and as
much of its luxuries as the scanty Mexi
can population of the ranch ever know.
Beyond the commissary lies a hamlet of
neat brick cottages, which house the
} Mexicans who are employed at head
quarters.
From the upper windows of the ranch
house one may look out in any direction
over an expanse of level prairie fringed
with mesquite, until the hazy rim of the
horizon shuts out the view; and that is
absolutely all. However thoroughly con
vinced one may be of the existence of
those 2,000 square miles, or of the 80,-
000 head of cattle and 2,000 head of
horses and 2,000 goats that graze
thereon, as a spectacle the largest private
| estate in the world is a distinct failure.
1 It does not take many men to run a
big ranch. The total population of
Santa Gertrudes, white and Mexican,
men, women and children, is three hun
dred. If the ranch were as densely pop
ulated as Rhode Island it would have
814,000 inhabitants. Even the three hun
dred are scattered so that very few of
them are ever seen together.
The ranch is divided into seventy pas
tures. On each of the largest and on
groups of two or three of the smaller
pastures a family lives. A small pas
ture, in this instance, is understood to
mean 5,000 acres or so.
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Tn the horse department a foreman
and forty men have charge of a herd
of c ix hundred Perclieron and thorough
bred brood mares, but as the breeding
farm occupies six hundred acres, there
is no crowding.
There are never any murders or s!ug
gings, nor even a strike to add to the
zest of excitement to the life of the
ranch. All the employees here, as else
where in southwest Texas, arc Mexi
cans, who are actually content to be
faithful, industrious, honest, trustworthy
servants; as long as they are decently
treated
At a salary of ten dollars a month
and rent and provisions they render
faithful and cheerfully willing service
under all circumstances, and train their
children to take up their tasks where
they lay them down. The old cook at
the ranch house has held his post for
fifty years. There is no labor problem
in southwest Texas.
_ The only time when there is keen ac
tivity around the ranch is during the
great spring roundup, when the calves
are branded. There were 24.000 calves
to brand last spring.
It took the corporal and his thirty
vaqueros a solid month of severe toil to
do the trick. Cowboys, by the way,
never see anything but hard work. Their
hours are from 4a. m.to Bp. in., or as
much longer as circumstances may re
quire, every day in the year.
Santa Gertrudes ranch was founded in
1853 by Captain Richard King, a former
Mississippi river pilot, who, with his
friend Captain Mifflin Kennedy, had
charge of the transport service on the
Rio Grande which supplied General Tay
lor's army during the Mexican war.
Captain King's ambition was to possess
the largest and best conducted ranch in
Texas, but he died twenty years ago,
after accumulating 800,000 acres.
The property was left to his widow,
Mrs. 11. M. King, who turned the entire
management over to her son-in-law, R.
J. Kleberg, a lawyer, who was born and
brought up within one hundred and fifty
miles of the ranch. Under Mr. Kle
berg's management the acreage has been
increased more than 50 per cent.
When Mr. Kleberg took charge of the
ranch it was stocked with the usual in
ferior long horned native cattle. He at
tempted to improve the breed, but the
costly blooded bulls he brought to the
ranch invariably died a few days after
their arrival.
Investigation led to the conviction that
the fatal malady was caused by the bite
of a tick, with which all cattle were in
fested, but to which the native cattle
were immune. He invited the co-opera
tion of the Agricultural Department in
seeking a preventive. Indue time a
process of inoculation which was found
to be almost infallible was perfected at
Santa Gertrudes.
The discovery put an end to the loss
of untold millions, for Texas cattle had
theretofore left a trail of infection and
death among their kind wherever they
went in the North. Incidentally, Mr.
Kleberg was enabled to breed up his
cattle until all those 011 the ranch are
now from one-half to fifteen-sixteenths
Hereford or Durham.
The practical value of the discovery
was illustrated last spring, when a lot of
10,000 yearling steers was sold at sls a
head, and another lot of seven hundred
bull calves was sold at S4O a head. Long
horn yearlings were worth SB.
Autumn Recipes.
Woodsman Stew.—Procure for this
two pounds of the pieces of beef or
mutton that are cheap and not desirable
for roasting or broiling and cut them
into cubes of one inch. Put a quarter
of a pound of sliced bacon into a good
sized saucepan, cook slowly until all the
fat is tried out, and remove the frizzled
pieces. Dust the beef with one table
spoonful of flour, throw into hot fat, and
stir until nicely browned. Draw the
meat to one side, add to the fat one
tablespoonful of flotir, mix and add one
pint of boiling water; stir constantly un
til boiling. Add a teaspoonful of
chopped onion, four tablespoonfuls of
vinegar (not too sour), one teaspoonful
.of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper.
I Cover and simmer gently for one hour.
Then add the grating of the yellow rind
;of a lemon. Cook thirty minutes. Try
the meat. If it is tender, take it from
the fire. Otherwise, cook thirty minutes
longer. Serve with ? ? ?? ?
Hominy Croquettes.—Wash one-half
pin hominy very carefully in cold wa
ter; add a quart of milk and cook in
a double boiler three hours. Add a tea
spoonful of salt, a saltspoonful of pep
per and the yolks of two eggs. Mix
thoroughly and turn out to cool. When
cold, form into cylinder shaped cro
quettes. Dip in egg, roll in bread
crumbs, and fry in hot fat.
Chocolate Rread Pudding.—Soak two
cup 9 of stale bread crumbs in four cups
of scalded milk for thirty minutes; melt
two squares of chocolate in a saucepan
over hot water. Add one half cup of
sugaf and enough milk taken from the
bread and milk to make a consistency to
pour. Add to mixture with one quarter
of a cup of sugar, a one quarter tea
spoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of va
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into buttered pudding dish and bake one
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hour in a moderate oven; serve hot with
cream.
Corn Chowder.—Pare and cut four
good sized potatoes into dice. Peel and
slice two medium-sized onions. Scald
the rows of a dozen ears of corn and
press out the pulp. Put a layer of the
potatoes in the bottom of a saucepan,
then a layer of the onions, a layer of
corn, a sprinkling of salt and pepper, and
continue so until all the materials are
used, having the last layer of corn. Add
a cupful of boiling water, cover the dish,
and cook slowly on a moderate fire foi
twenty minutes. Rub together threfc
tablespoonfuls of flottr and one table
spoon fttl of butter. Add to these two
cups of milk, stir until boiling, and add
to the chowder. Stir the whole care
fully without breaking the potatoes.
Bring to boiling point, add six crackers
broken into bits, and cover the dish fof
five minutes more. Beat the yolk of
one egg w'th two tablespoonfuls of
cream or milk and stir in at the last mo
ment.
Delicious Supper Dish.—Select fdur
eood sired tomatoes. Plunge them into
hot water, remove the skins, cut into
halves, press lightly to take out the 9eeds,
cut each half in halves again. Put two
tablespoonfuls of butter into a saucepan
and add two onions chopped fine. Stahd
the saucepan in a pan of water and cook
slowly until the onion is tender. Add a
teaspoonful of curry powder and a cup
of water. When this ftaclies the boiling
point, putin the fomatoes y cov.er the
saucepan, cook over a moderate fire for
twenty minutes. While these are cobk
ing boil one cupful of rice. l)raih the
rice, and when dry heap it into the cen
ter of the serving dish; put around it
the tomatoes, which should hot be
broken; strain the sauce over and sind
at once to the table.
Almond Cake Without Butter.—Chop
finely half a pound of almonds frofn
which the shells, but not the skins, have
been removed. Beat together the yolks
of seven eggs and one half pound of
sugar until very light. Then fold in the
nuts and the grated rind of cmt lemon.
Last of all, fold in the whites of the
e.Tgs which have been beaten until light.
Bake in a slow oven for one hour.
Coffee Cakes to be Served Warm.—
Beat four eggs in a saucepan and add to
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rapidly over boiling water until the mix
ture is heated through, but not hot.
Take from the fire and whip continu
ously for fifteen minutes. Add slowly
one cup of sifted pastry flour. Half
fill gem tins which have been buttered
with the cake mixture and bake for fif
teen minutes in a quick oVen. Serve
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