SYNOPSIS. Mrs, Varney, wife of a Conf eneral, has lost one son and ving fro m wot mada She reluctantly her for Wilfred, the your gest, it hd father consents making their last assaul to capture Ri hmond ures from Pres de nt ission for Capt. Thorne, who is ring from wounds f ! at Richmond Capt Edith he has been ordered declares he must not go the commission from the He Is strangely agitated { he cannot accept. Tb to escape while Edith leaves the commission. but is prey * arrival of Caroline Mitford wart Mr. Arrelsford of service, a reje ts Jonas, Mrs 18 a note from a prison Arrelsford ed for Thorne, The tonight Plan Arrejsford consent join the army federals are In an effort Var comn AWAY 11 presi- and i Varr Suspects it reads Tele- secret b is Libby »ditch te SUgRests that The irne be with the prisoner as a » and Wilfred collabo general asking y Join the army I Varn ont at on 1 rate on CHAPTER VIII ~=Continued. Are those women in the ye asked peremptorily “Yes.” “Where is Mrs 0 the re the key?” Varney left the door. is on this side.” “Will you lock it, The woman and returned without a room and went 4 It she said please? softly turned the key to the draw As ing of windows ing room sound she did so the if the long French the both the noise of the open one the 13324 50 of attracted the atten them Edith Varney nervously gan bres verishly room tion of of ntered room stepped forward She be in a low, fe lesaly vOICe Varies her outst want hurried toward retched ha to to speak you,’ can't wait” forward sed +H Were he ans i ar and Arrelsford, ngly at h appre who er elbow peak so loud.” whispered eo socret “Edith,” service her mot! “what is it that bh ie waited for The girl's had it now flushed sudden said soothing 8 changed you?" an answe face le but color Dear,” said her mother, ‘You must i he Edith He went to the ner lest motioned Mr. Arrelsford away with ill concealed im far side of the room the patience and waited vously to something of this the girl What is it, uiother ‘Mamma gaid Edith, the words out, “he-—he-—loves “Impossible!” returned Mrs. Var. ney, controlling her voice 80 that the other occupant of the room could not hear Yes,” faltered the girl, #ome one else must do it” “You don't mean,” said Mrs ney, “that you return" But Mr. Arrelsford's been strained to the breaking He did not know what was going on between the two women, but it must be stopped ward resolutely The girl determination in his face “No, no,” she whispered, not now!” She shrank away from him as she spoke. “But, Edith,” sald Mrs “more reason now than “1 don’t know what you are talking about,” sald Mr. Arrelsford, “but we must go on.” “But why- asked Edith, pleading desperately, “Because | please,” secret service agent, give signal, anxious should miscarry be unfortunate unwilling to play her part dear? CAUSA# ness of whispered “JQer she foreed me" “and Var had point patience his | saw “not that, | Varney, ever." and it was quite Society Can Not gnors its Share of | Blame When the Facts Are Brought to Light of Day. Children work out their destiny along the lines of environment. If two infants, one born in a slum hovel | and the other in a palace, were ex. | changed on the day of birth, each would work out his destiny in accor. dance with his surroundings. The child of the hovel would grow up to / that he was pleased of his satisfaction was due that he had by his own efforts at ast succeeded In unearthing a plot, and had his hands ters. That he country and demonstrating his fitness on the also added to his satisfaction, cessful war “You persisted rival in love as well as before,” of hundreds but in have never pleased Edith. “Hundreds have come up of men have been run down preferred at desk war department, until Edith! Edith!" mother “1 can't relsford “No, have to sit your interposed discuss that now,” said Ar we will not discuss it nothing more to do wit fair.” ‘You threatenirs “Don't nes “Nothir Edith "At your ney won't,” whispered Arrelsford that,” urged Mrs. Var nothing said own Miss Var raisted agent plan everything withdraw of which knowledge 84 i HEY, “tf m him per.” He handed FE cation which best had Jonas earlier mm the “What the girl, “Give it evenin am I to do ing it to him tell him where Tell him it from a prisoner at Libby brought it you." “But why am 1 the girl Why not? If h the harm? If with thi tak and it came from old Jonas got prison and to eis Int if he is in t} ocent not, on the telegraph message paper. will sen to the office tonight we want him.” “But I never promised said the girl with obvious reluctance to do anything not that might tend harm the suspected, but that might work to the furtherance of Arrels ford's designs “Do you stil! believe him innocent > that” only to Edith lifted her head and for first time she looked Arrelsford full in “I still believe him innocent,” an- swered the girl slowly and with delib erate emphasis J hen why are you afraid to give | him the paper?” asked Arrelsford, di rectly with cunning adroitness. The girl, thus entrapped, the paper to her breast, and toward the window tur her to call Her ear, tuned to every sound he made, caught the noise his footfall on the porch her head and spoke to the other "Captain Thorne is coming.” expressionlessly, to be seen, two you want you had better " ‘sald by the this way, "Mm. Varney taking that lady “Here, Arrelsford, the door covered by the portieres The two disappeared, and it was impossible a soul to them in for see in every- could see clearly enough, even dimly lighted drawing room, thing that would happen as if rooted to the floor, the paper still in her hand, when sash which she and entered in through which time before. ward her “You “coming his turn the she had come a short He stepped eagerly to he so long,’ for me, that-' and looked at the matter? were He stopped her face, “is “No. “You that “Only “Only a away such a long had been I thought few minutes the man low and gently he had anything to conceal but because of the softnesss of the moonlight and the few dimly flickering upon the walls of the great room, the look the girl's eyes, the feeling In his heart, A few the girl had sald Ah, it was indeed a years to him “ir it said was because few vears,” His modulated, voice not candles and minutes, few few to you," a effort WAS a the girl with a at lightness, although torn to pieces with ‘what years violent Was of there her heart the emotions a lot of time in" Ny No,” said Thorne, “there {8 only to night” Edith what Thorne her “There's the world.” he said. You overwhelm me “1 can’t help determined not her hand to check heard, but iogser to threw out would fain have she caught fit He came « only myself to tell vou a struggle pf ao by # rign “Prisoner, Sir, Broke Out of Libby.” said the girl, handing him the folded She had intended to look him full in the face as he took it, but at the las: moment her courage failed her She and did not the in- quickly mastered start of Hop stant but Thorne had possessed himself of the document “What Is it?" asked Thorne, holding it in his hand “That is what me,” sald the girl “Oh, don't you know?" said Thorne, now entirely master of himself, “No.” answered the girl, was something in her voice which now fully aroused man. “It appears to be a note from some I want you to tell the paliide.. The child of the — would remain on the level of the sium hovel, While a noted physician was making th learned colleagues, a jury in Chieago found three boys, aged consecutively seventeen, elghteen and nineteen years, guiity of murder and convicted | them to long terms in prison. The slayers were all slum products. Their youth saved them from hanging. Boclety cannot afford to wax sent mental over a murderer because of his one.” he sald casually, * ‘but it is so dark in here. With your permission, I will light some of the candles on the | table, and then we can see what it is.” He took one of the candles from the BCONCEH the wall and lighted the candelabra that stood on the nearest table Holding the paper near the | light, he glanced around rapidly | then read it, giving no outward evi- dence of his surprise and alarm, al though tha girl was now watching him narrowly. He glanced at her and then looked at the paper again, and { read aloud its message “Attack tonight?" he sald very deliberately, “Umph, ‘Plan 37 Attack tonight, plan 3!" This seems to be in some code, Miss Varney, or a puzzle.” "It was taken from a Yankee pris- oner."” on and al for BIOWLY “From a Yankee prisoner!” he ex. claimed brilliantly assumed sur prise Yes, down in “- captured now, He old “That's a little He to one one today at Libby gave it Jonas, and different, the paper on the of our servants, sald Thorne np examining again another face This may be something i tack ight,” he read again, : ! This a ise telegr me, Miss Varney It 10 ter Al Plan uis mat mportant ton sounds portant to 1OOKS me like a plot ment telegraph lin Jonas give it?" “To no use the depar i whom did “8 To one.” how did you—" away fr Well took it rom him.” an swered Edith This was Vi od a very different origi i moment the girl sald mists statement but her pa “1 think that from her intention, the forgot rt Oh” Thorne, Was a ‘® hand fell away nd his ing nonchalance 1” eried the one of the soldiers pointing to the doorway which the two men instantly disap peared What is fit, Thorne composedly corporal his revolver, a of posit On Was one charn “Out here corporal Look out there through corporal? arked The turned and saluted of Li street Prisoner, sir, broke out ! We've run hi he bbw and he good down the m ere turned in that gOomew hers It COmes in enough to “Go on, way, would vou be know? corporal.” said cool I'l look for this window ™ He stepped down the long room ward the far window. drew tains, and with hand volver, peered out into the yond the front of the house {TO VUNTINUED) The Difference in ' Men. One man will settle down into the routine of his calling, digging the ruts deeper each day, until he loses | power to see out from them. Anoth- er, in the same vocation, shows an ability to make each day's work a source of new growth in power and | in appreciation. So, one person will rest passively the fact of some well-established love or friendship, and thus lose, after a time, the beau- i ty of the relationship and the mean- { Ing it once possessed for his life: | while another actively woos the love ol his friend every day, and so finds {a deep, ever opening below deep in the relationship, with an ever fresh | realization of the truth and wonder of life ~Edward Howard Griggs. let us horne out fo the cur. his re be. his on {rees BE on youth. Its duty, in salt. preservation. is to infliet punishment. A part of this self-preservation duty, however, is to prevent the growth of murderers. In 80 far as society allows slums to to be fostered, it Is not without responsibility for the eriminal. ‘Strange Guests at St. Bernard, An enormous flock of swallows was overtaken by a heavy snowstorm near the famous Hospice of St. Bernard in the Alps last winter. When the good | n—— doors and windows of their building that the little feathered strangers might have shelter. All the rooms were crowded with them, thousands remaining until sun- rise, The next day proved fine and the guests pursued their way toward Italy. This is very pleasant to learn, but it saddens one to know that a vast number of less fortunate birds failed to reach the Hospice and were found dead in the snow by the tenderhearted brothers. 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