So JACQUES FUTRELLE 3e Hilastrations by M. KETTNER Copasiuny, 1908, by The Amsociated Sunday Magaxines prright 1, oy he Boble Merrill Company. 18 SYNOPSIS, Count 4! Ros! sador, is at A messenger bassy, where Asks for a ti The ticket is Miss Isabel the secret servi head detective brewing Ww to the state ba r information tention is ca 1 to Miss Isabel Thorne who with her companion, disappears shot is heard and Senor Alvarez of legation, is found wound is assu Miss Thorne did | demanding knowledge Ita ambas ats wi the i r with dipl mmons him to the a beautiful young wo tet to the embassy out the name + Chief Campbell and Mr : in red CHAPTER XXlll—{(Continued. “Miss Thorne has ter fairly, 1 believe, and Mr. Grimm permitted his eyes linger a the flushed of this woman who, in 8 way, was de- fending him. “But there is ly one thing Miss Thorne.” He talking to her now. “There is no mid dle course. It is a problem that has only one answer-—the de- struction document, and the High sonal stated your High tO moment on face on to do, was posaible of that departure of Ness, care all matter you, my pe: I Imagin:d this that day on end here, now, vou, and your for Italy the had under way ended steamer; it will night.” The prince watch, then percussion which, with a curious ed over to the squat his the glanced ag thoughtfully ain at weighed hand, after he walk globe in an He bent sy 4 cap In opposite corner of it ened up “That cap, advantage.” y “When it is over half straight Mr. Grimm, has he remarked c¢ attached one dis asually ine f0O a m or How Much? torpedo it can not without firing it. It is attached” turned to the others. "It is needless to discuss the matter further just now If you will follow me? will leave Mr. Grimm here.” With a strange little ery, neither anger nor anguish, yet oddly partak- ing of the quality of each, Isabel went quickly to the prince. “How dare you do such a thing?” she demanded florcely. “It Is mur der.” “This is not a time, Miss Thorne, for your interference,” replied the prince coldly. “It has all passed be yond the point where the feelings of any one person, even the feelings of the woman who has engineered the compact, can be considered. A single life can not be permitted to stand in the way of the consummation of this world project. Mr. Grimm alive means the compact would be useless, if not impossible; Mr. Grimm dead means the fruition of all our plans and hopes. You have done your duty and you have done it well; but now your authority ends, and I, the spe tial envoy of" “Just a moment, pleass,” Mr. Grimm fnterrupted courteously. "As 1 wun: Aeratand it, your Highness, the mine there In the corner is charged?” for purposes of experiment.” “The cap is attached?” “Quite right.” The prince laughed “And at three o'clock, by watch, the mine will be fired wireless operator fifteen miles an by a “Something like that; yes i three.” tered it. The car trembled and has “Thank you. 1 merely wanted Mr up against the door “Now, gentlemen,” and he of three o'clock At mine will explode. We will all when it happens, un- the compact.” Eyes sought eyes, and the His face was bloodless Grimm gave ture “If any man,” and Mr room | know he will die; and there's a bare chance that the percussion cap will fall work. 1 can {f there is a rush” “But, man {if that mine explodes we shall ‘killed—blown to pleces!” burst from one of the cowled figures “If the percussion cap works,” sup plemented Mr. Grimm Mingled struggled flushed face of Isabel as she Mr. Grimm's impassive countenance “1 have never disappointed you yet, Thorne,” he remarked as if it an explanation l not to all all be in the studied emotion Miss shall She turned r Highness, ink ft irther,” needless “We have there is onl) she sald fn the matter; $ sesrinact ™ the compact Grimm bet s absurd to let one man sta declared 3 ir i Da an mg the prince ir Highness « ask man “for : me to prevent t one a the way?’ quick change came face The eyes and lines geen appeared in a flash, t Was od forth na's a8 ware get had mo never Here aside, this dis ulation cast Hiant, things The compact will she said NO “ys declared the prince must be destroyed Must? J Mus pacing back with thao in his hand Isabel stood room tehing minutes!” Mr And now broke out an « babel of French those 0 had held all began talking at or * far 1 : ef, a Spanish; wh ian, cowled ones y long of them hed at Bla COM pad the sana arguing with ¢ atill ed face “Do know you if 1 do as you savagely ed as traitor, you wii! be brand that your your ‘It means you name, “If you ness." that [I have will pardon interrupted, me, your High- power to me to ig a matter and my as it affects she ‘the used was gi it It between me and as far ven used § . Have to be settled You will destroy the compact.” “Nine minutes!” sald Mr monotonously Again the babe! broke out "Do we understand that you the compact?’ one of cowled men asked suddenly of Mr. Grimm as he turned “No, 1 don't want to see it fer vot to see It." With hatred blazing in his eyes the prince made his way toward the lamp, holding a parchment toward the blaze “There's nothing else to be done,” he exclaimed savagely “Just a moment, please,” Mr. Grimum interposed quickly. “Miss Thorne, is that the compact?” She glanced at it, nodded her head, and then the flame caught the fringed edge of paper. It crackled, flashed, flamed, and at last, a thing of ashes, was scattered on the floor, Mr. Grimm rose. “That is all, gentlemen,” he an nounced courteously. “You are free to go. You, your Highness, and Miss Thorne, will accompany me” He held open the door and there was almost a scramble to get out, The prince and Miss Thorne waited until the last, “And, Migs Thorne, if you will give us a Ht in your car?!” Mr. Grimm Grimm I'd pre membered something, and leaped out. “Walt for me!” he called. a man locked in the coal-bin!” He disappeared into the house, and Miss Thorne, with a gasp of horror sank back in her seat with chalk The prince glanced at his watch, then spoke curtly to the chauffeur “Run the there'll be moment.” They had gone perhaps a hundred feet when the building they had just left seemed to be lifted bodily from the ground by a great spurt of flame which tore through its center, then collapsed like a thing of cards. The prince, unmoved, glanced around at of danger; there in a car an up out explosion him ahead,” timore.” beside he commanded. “Bal “Go CHAPTER XXIV. The Personal Equation, Mr. Campbell talking and the deep earnestness that had settled on his passed, leaving instead ti blank. inscrutable mask be- ceased face of “You, Thorne, Your Highness, and Will Accompany Me" belitnd which his clock like | The resident inquir. untenance right, wd which it cabinet f Chief an - There nis gathered the bs ey 13 aour had d, at last » not made explain it WHERE IS CIRCUIT RIDER: Old-Fashioned Preacher Seems to Mave Vanished From Present-Day Warld. itinerant s has become of the ol He te ighed entirely 4 cireul gone, to from the pres older "er What rider? seems to have world, although to the figured in the lives of » people to whom he ministered ions he n thelr day the circuit riders knew or rest, for each from seven to fifteen parishes, miles apart from each other. When night overtook the cireuit rider and his horse-—this was the minister's usual mode of travel-~he stopped with some member of one of his parishes. And be it sald it was great honor, indeed ¥ n some the minister at a meal or over night Probably the much overworked derstanding bered and are gone, probably never to ful in the performance of it They Are Tinkering With Pisa, the present condition of the Leaning Tower of Plsa, it appears that, instead of being supported on a massive found ation, the tower rests on a. ring shaped masonry base, with an in ner diameter of 24 feet 3% Inches exactly the same as the Inner diame eter of the tower, The tower is abomn 177 feet high, and in 1829 is sald tc have been 14 feet § Inches out of plumb; since that time its inclination has been increased by an additional 0.0066 foot per foot of its height. In 1834 an earthquake caused a deflection of about five inches, On Bargain Day. Gentlemen-—Er—where can 1 find the silk counter? Floorwalker--Third battle to the right.~-Judge. THE NEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA e— a Freeland —8teve Harlack was kill by a fall of coal and Michael his laborer, was fatally in. in the Jeddo mines of G B. Norristown. Elva Tarbutton, of Penn street, Camden, died at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. A. R. Tar- button, from tetanus, caused by dirt getting into a vaccination wound Reading. —The torch was applied to the stack of the Empire Iron & Steel Company, at Topton, Thursday. There are now three furnaces in blast in that vicinity, with the prospects of another going in some time this fall, Easton. The jury Coroner Fetherolf to death of Miss Catherine this city, who was killed last an auto accident, found a verdict that it was due to excessive and reckless driving. Parents of the dead girl have entered Diehl for $5,000 damages, At torney McKeen is the case with a view of proceeding against Diehl Reading who impanelled by inquire into the Warner, of week in speed suit against and District ooking into for reckless running Vanaman, the murder Matthew E found Mary was sent was guilty of E. Vanaman, enced to hang Endlich When to sav, Van of his wife, last February, ed by he had be # fudge asked if anvthing aman ad wick, Peace State Legislature attack th an self wi revolver ward ¢ South cials of Coopersburg fused to listen 1 petition of iis lovees that they be ! for 100 girls na Huns strikers, hroke bottom huge rock giruck mpleted 1 work is being as specifica Opiaga of $800 for the a ’ » contract a saving ! York.— While his tending Ing and 5 sae ome wt Mahanoy ton I Ridge bed colliery { Adam Anth were rescusd nd Melusky, Dennis + for their short experience Ihe ree men were last i a rush in the RAangway Their absence was and a force organ ized, which never faltered in the face of grave perils, until the three men were reached and released Potteville nor, George Haines, a long in the county prison for horse stealing, walk. caught dis covered rescuing Pardoned by the Gover sentence a free man he Invented to Since his imprisonment a lifesaver, which is be used as one while he was States upon it prison the United Office by He has also and there will be no more deaths of aviators. Though penniless, he has refused $50,000 for his lifesaving in- ventions, and will hold out for double that sum. Pittsburgh. — Vaccinated twenty-one days ago upon entering school, Albert (i. Glass, aged six, died at his home in New Brighton, from lockjaw. 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