A ROMANCE By Louis Joseph Vance MMustrations by Ray Walters (Copyright, 1910, by Louis Joseph Vance.) 17 SYNOPSIS. Garrett Coast, a young man of New York City, meets Douglas Blackstock, who invites him to a card party He accepts, withough he dislikes Blackstock, the rea. son being that both are in love with Kath erine Thaxter Coast fails to convince her Blackstock is unworthy of her iendship At the party Const meetin two ed Dundas and Van Tuyl There ia quarrel, and Blackstock shoots Van Tuy! dead Coast struggles to wrest weapon from him, thus cover them, Coast Is arres He is convicted, but tence, Dundas names murderer and kills comes free, but Blackstock Katherine Thaxter and fled chases a vacht and while salling man thrown from a distant boat Aen the fellow who is named They arrive at a I islar v land, Coast st place and come buildings He discon ‘pon going further ar ise he sees himself *O tress has married Const meiy r In Ss als that he is CHAPTER Xl|.—(Continued.) “The warm of the and without goodish room, der a single roof, by all and stuffed full of apparata of various kinds There big gas-motor singing away at end, running a dynamo. Right near the window was a4 heavy table with parapher nalia of a w “There Ld because window was wis for that could was taking place being seen It sized three open- and stand qui enough fog 1 te near see what inside was a ’ one « un appearances, Was a one all the ireless station Was A young man right by the table, evidently of his chair. He was telephone headplece when | him He looked and wore red halr and a unburn; and ad & naa a standing just out off first thirty good coat mad clean man who doorway taking the Baw to be under ¢ i he was t another 4 was standing 1st inside a to ther The out leading was evidently just ant room i closed. second from » 1't know--didn’t start row, and it en er | came within hearing er chap was saying-—he !} brogue: Mister wired you wl +H a ae ‘Don’t let I'l have a relief ls at dinner, Black you know | for night, the 18 were and i tan in a pretty steady volce, consider: ing bow hot he had just been: ‘Get back to bed, Kate. [I'll stay up the rest of the night. That matter's set. tiled; you needn't worry any more.’ I thought his vqice sounded not un- kind, but it was plain his temper ruled the man. “His wife hesitated, but seemed { afrald to cross him. She sald some | thing 1 didn’t catch, and went back, | closing the door. “I was of minds, whether to | follow Power (if I could) or walt and { see what next, and while | was debat ing it, Black returned, pulling on his coat. He'd managed to get Into clothing in a surprisingly short time. He went straight to the door, jerked two { came path as Power. [ followed, | judging my distance at discretion. { “The path led us directly to | farmhouse { overcautious, and so permitted Black | to get too far ahead. By the time | { caught up, something had happened | didn't through, at first 1 | heard click behind Black, | then as he pounded Across voices by a fling, scuffling feet Hl was alone the quite the his fee gate footsteps sound of tut when | found gitting aloe followed him again he in the kitchen, in the house. He had drawn a chair up to the table and sat square to fit, floor, his hands [ could see him quite cpen door. He at the blank course, he couldn't his feet solidly on the out flat through gat there, spread | plainly i just wall the staring fr opposite (of Were Having It turned in at the home of fice Put “Black my report that in your pipe, {as he called him) to lose control of himself for an stant He sort of lurched forward, his bands working as if he was going to throw himself at younger man's throat: then he caught up, thinking better of it, as if he knew the other feliow had grabbed his chair by the back and stood ready to brain him with it; which he couldn't have known, for it turned out he was blind ‘if 1 had my sight,’ he sald, ‘and could lay hands on you, Power, I'd break every bone In your body “That staked Mr. Power to an ugly laugh--the kind of a laugh that's cal culated to make the other chap's biood boil. 'Divvil a doubt of that,’ says he: ‘but well you know I'd stop at noth ing to protect myself against a brute like you, Mr. Black. And what's more’ (I thought he tried to hold his tongue, but couldn't; this last seemed fairly to burst aut of him) *l warn you if ever again ! gee you lay finger on that unhappy woman, your wife, I'll murder you with the first weapon that comes handy. Remember that’ “Black was white with rage by this time; 1 don’t think he could have held fn much longer. As it happened, just then the door bebind him opened, and a woman In a dressing gown stepped into the room. She was ghastly pale, frightened to death, but otherwise Just about the prettiest woman | ever Inld eyes on. She sald just one word in a pitiful volece— Douglas’ and touched her husband's arm; but | saw her eyes were praying Power to go. He saw it too. “Very well, then,’ he sald with a little bow to the woman. ‘I'll be go ing now.’ “Amd you needn't come back, sald the man he called Black. ‘I'll do with. out you until your successor comes. “ “That sults me to a T, saya Pow. er. ‘Good morning, Mrs. Black; I'm sorry we woke you up. “Black listened to his footsteps, with that weird expression the deaf and blind have, for some seconds aft- er | had lost the sound of them; then he shook himself and sald to the wom: now.’ the t ana see anything, for that matter) never moved a8 muscle through what | seemed me an eternity “1 daresay this lasted over ten min utes: it seemed hours. Then sudden Iy It came--what we'd both been wait ing for—like a thunderclap for unex pectedness, only more awful i fancied | heard, first, a thin, far shout; at any rate, Black threw back his bead, as if he had heard some | thing The next instant the air seemed to shudder with the most ter {lo of mortal agony . “Then silence again-—-nothing more Jeyond that preliminary start, Black { hadn't moved I, and better, what had happened off there in the darkness: that Power, suspecting Biack’'s Intentions, had made a break to get away by boat, but had been overhauled by some: body instructed by Black--overhauled { and murdered. And he could conscience , . .! “After a while | heard something moving In the barnyard and dodged back into hiding-—into the shadows Then a man passed between me and the light, like a ghost, trotting along nolselessly. He jogged up to the house and into the kitchen: as he entered, Black swung round sharply. This new arrival was a Chinaman-—-a low-caste coolle, 1 judged. 1 couldn’t hear what they said-—-they spoke In undertones ~«put ‘1 managed to catch a word or two, among them ‘boat.’ which fitted in with my suspicions. At once Black got and went through the house and out by the front door; | tagged along, of course. He went directly back to the wireless station, sat down at the operating table, and gave another | marvelous exhibition of what a blind | man can accomplish, with Instinct re. inforcing the sense of touch. “He threw in the motor cutoff switeh, to begin with, and the motor started on the spark, just as some automobile engines will. Then be monkeyed with the detecter for a while, listening. Nothing doing, ap parently--though he may have been { getting the range for New York j next thing, he disconnected the te celving apparatus, threw the current in through the starting box and pri mary switch, and began calling the New York office of the Standard Wire- less, stopping now and then to liseen for thelr response. Presently that came through, and he told 'em to stand ready to take an Important message for Voorhls, the second vice-president: they were to get him on the telephone at once-—-wake him up and insist on an instant Answer You's have gathered that I number in the list of my many and varied accom plishments the ability to read Morse | by ear; once upon a time | was a | regular telegraph operator “The message was: ‘Power has without warning, taking boat to row | to Vineyard. Absence just discovered Send trustworthy immed} ately. When may | expeet him? quiet here; island fog-bound.’ “The reply through {twenty minutes—which was i quick work Of course | i hear it; | only knew {i | ceived “Just as Black gave nal and shut off the mo, door wife spoke to him timidly: ‘Douglas is anything the matter?” He sald in a rough, sur ‘Everything's the has stolen one of the and left th island just Voorhls to send some one in He says there's a man on Power in h left hetitute gi] All within pretty couldn't was being re- came the 0. K motor and dyna and his sald, almost BIg the opened again, She tone matter That ass, Power, boats I've asked ‘ his | the WAY, piace it seams Hot and Heavy. resignation were his as | can i something offensive | the finish of that he'd thank her to leave erator alone said { if he'd hit her with a whip. Then he i Bot up and announced that he was i going to the farmhouse to got some breakfast. It was then just getting a { little light. He said she needn't hur i ry, that he would probably be at the beach by the time she came to break | fast-— wanted find out which boat Power had taken. Then he went away, and the woman shut the door again. ‘ | ~“Thia time I let Black take his road i alone; I'd other fish to fry. 1 could hear his wife moving about in the other part of the bullding and judged she was dressing; but she took an in- terminable time to ft In the { course of the next century or two, | however, she came out, dressed, and took the path to the farmhouse. | let her go, timed myself as close as yesterday evening’ # ect Those a8 nearly He added that being and that next op ‘Oh-h! "as words, In « them about fHirtation remember the She to room. be worth a pleayune: know Voorhis's message, . “1 started the motor and called New York. When they answered | i gave Black's signal and demanded a repetition of the message. That was taking another chance: at the other end might recognize the differemce In our styles of sending and refuse me. But he may have been sleepy; at all events he obliged with out comment. Voorhis had wirelessed: ‘Power gave notice he wus leaving yesterday evening. New man on way, should reach New Bedford this mor. ing, isidod by evening, conditions fa- voring. Name, John Handyside. He is In my confidence.’ . . . At least that was the substance of it. , , . (TO BE CONTINUED) Beware First False Step. He who Is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom and will find the flaw when he may have for gotten the cause. ~—Henry Ward i Beecher | MADE UNITED GERMANY HONOR ACCORDED AUTHOR OF “DIE WACHT AM RHEIN.” Schneckenburger, is Preparing to Erect Monument to Its Fa. mous Citizen, Neldingen, Gutmadingen, Gelsingen, Immendingen, Moblringen, Tuttlingen our first camp. But of these Tuttlin- is our darling. We have not passed a viMage that could have made us happy for many days; each with its ruined castles, its medieval tower, its steep gables, colored tiles, cheery peasants; but, writes Poultney Bigelow in “From the Black Forest to the Black Sea,” all this, and more, too, 1s united in Tuttlingen This 1it- tle town also has its feudal castle, its ruined battlements, its legends, and 1t8 quaint gables; but it has more than this—it has the proud distinc tion of having educated the poet who made United Germany. The warsong that has made Germans merge their local differences in one great purpose-—the common fatherland; that united and Prussians, Saxons and in 1870; that brought victory over the French, and an imperial crown to the house of is “Die written at the lad whose school Tuttlingen., It is his nane is Max its 1 ail Bavarians Wurtemburgers, Hohenzollern—that BONE Wacht am Rhein,’ of twenty-one, by a ing was obtained in th Schneckenburger The people of Tuttlingen are now raising here a worthy monumont who has m They have plac upon the nute invitation help on Of from age needless to gay at the needed to place to the money man famous, ade town square pedestal as a noble ban the stream the brought our Atiantie, and promised friends in Tuttlinger nittee leading citizens are prepared to and acknowled contribu- wor of mite ACTO%S to sti up also. of the receive tions of Schneckenburger. thirty father blackened in a village ingen, but was ob r character for he erchant Little is known He died In 154 years of boots and tavern viously }, when His only age [ted trunks near Tutt of superio ! éventually became a small and married well but In Tuttiingen he schooled and gent land, where of was given mn Max was. too poor; thoroughly Switzer was then to the post him in a His short life was or and y loved fatherlar errand boy Rrocery glore, ie of hard work his be the the ' 8 ar from ings ar irom 4 i and seeing of small ea rey a world only appeared in ymmercial that Schnecken- rayer for his course of trips made ag a « traveler fils widow Ures us a burger di fatherland d AY never chosen at word wrote indig- nch he battles had been ma a4 © pres fought before | mtry was know the inspira tion Behr ther ity to thelr of the many names loves to honor, bu discovers t iman which, alas! bumanity its honor has material couse ng after ceased to be of quence. any Got Rid of His Creditor. Lespes, the French journalist, known as “Timothee Trimm.” was once dis agreeably intruded on by a creditor, who announced his intention of not de- parting until he was paid. The credi- tor planted himself on a chair. and Lespes beheld him, with consternation, draw bread and cheese from his pock- as though to fortify himself against events, Several hours glided by: Lespes had resumed his writing and finished an article. The creditor showed no signs of moving. Suddenly Lespes rose, and with bits of newspa- apertures through which alr could come into the room. He then made preparations for lighting a charcoal fire; but before applying the match, pasted on the wall, just opposite the creditor's eyes, a paper thus laconical- ly worded: “Take notice that we died of our own will” “What are you do- cide together,” Art of Happiness, and Invariably answer that they are striving for it daily. 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