MH Sw me TC — ) er — ppt , — a SYNOPSIS. we Fr Te Comte de Sabron, captain of French cavalry, takes to his quarters to raise by hand a motherless Irish terrier pup. and names it Pltchoune, He dines with the Marquise d'Esclignae and meets Mise Julia Redmond, American helress, who sings for him an Eoglish ballad that Hogers in his memory. Sabron is ordered to Algiers, but is not allowed to take servants or dogs, iss Redmond offers to take care of the dog during his master's absence, but Pitehoune, homesick for his master, runs away from her. The Mar- quise plans to marry Julia to the Duc de Tremont u nknown to Sabron, Pitehoune follows him to Algiers. Dog and master meet and Sabron gets permission from the war minister to keep Ms dog with him Julia writes him that Pltchoune has run away from her Fle writes Julian of Pit choune, The Du Tremont finds the American heires ipricious, A newspa per report that Sab: is among the miss ing after a: it with the natives causes Julia t« aunt that she loves him ed in an en agen f a bed of river, “tohount and is wats 16 v . Vy I CHAPTER XHi1—Continued. “But,” Sabron sald aloud, “it is a prayer to be said at night and not in the afternoon of an African hell ” He began to climb;, he pulled him sell along, leaving his track in blood He fainted twice, and the growth held him like the wicker of a cradle, and before he came to his con- sciousness the sun was mercifully go- ing down. He finally reached the top of the bank and lay there panting Not far distant were the bushes of rose and mimosa flower, and still pant ing, weaker and ever weaker, his cour- age the only living thing in him, Sab ron, with Pitchoune by his side, dragged himself into healing hands All that night Sabron was delirious; his mind traveled far into vague fan- tastic countries, led back again, ever gently, by a tune, to safety. Every now and then he would real ize that he was alone on the vast desert, destined to finish his existence here, to cease being a human creature and to become nothing but carrion. Moments of consciousness succeeded those of mental disorder. Every now and then he would feel Pitchoune close to his arm. The dog licked his band and the touch was grateful to the deserted officer. Pitchoune licked his master's cheek and Sabron felt that there was another life beside his in the wilderness. Neither dog nor man could long exist, however, with- out food or drink and Sabron was growing momentarily weaker. The Frenchman, though a philoso pher, realized how hard it was to die unsatisfled in love, unsatisfied in life, having accomplished nothing, having wished many things and realized at an early age only death’ point of view changed and the phys ical man was uppermost He groaned for water, he groaned for relief from pain, turned his head from side to side, and Pitchoune whined softly. Sabron was not strong enough to speak to him, and their voices, of man and beast, inarticulate, mingled-—both left to die in the open. Then Sabron violently rebelled and cried out in his soul against fate and destiny. He could have cursed the day he was born. live, everything a man values, why should he be picked and chosen for this lone iy pathetic end? Moreover, he did not grasp on life, to go on into wilder delirium and to die! He knew enough of Injuries to feel sure that his wound alos would not kill him. When he had first dragged himself into the shade he had fainted, and when he himself he might have stanched his blood. His wound was hardly bleeding now. It had already died! Fatigue and thirst, fever would finish him, not his hurt He was too young to die With great effort he raised himself on his arm and scanned the desert stretching on all sides like a rosy sea Along the river bank the pale and deli cate blossom and leaf of the mimosa lay like a bluish veil, and the smell of the evening and the smell of the mi mosa flower and the perfumes of the weeds came to him, aromatic and sweet. Above his head the blue sky was ablaze with stars and directly over him the evening star hung like a crystal lamp. But there was no beau ty in it for the wounded officer who looked in vain to the dark shadows on the desert that might mean approach- ing human life. It would be better to die as he was dying, than to be found by the enemy! The sea of waste rolled unbroken as far as his fading eyes could reach. He sank back with a sigh, not to rise again, and closed his eyes and waited. He slept a short, restless, feverish sleep, and in It dreams chased one sn other like those evoked by a narcotic, but out of them, over and over again Same the pleture of Julla Redmond, and she sang to him the song whose words were a prayer for the safety of a loved one during the night. From that romantic melody there seemed to rise more solemn ones. He heard the rolling of the organ In the cathedral in his native town, for he | came from Rouen originally, where there is one of the most beautiful cathedrals in the world. The music’ desert’'s face. It seemed to lift his spirit and to cradle it. Then he breathed his prayers—they took form, and in his sleep he repeated the Ave Maria and the Paternoster, and the words rolled and rolled over desert’'s face and the supplication seemed to his feverish mind to mingle with the stars. A sort of midnight dew fell upon him: so at least he thought, and it seemed to him a heavenly dew and to cover him like a benignant rain. He grew cooler He prayed agaln, and words ther® came to the young man an ineffable sense of peace pillowed his aching mind upon too, and the palin of and he thought aloud, night airs to “If this is death | is not so bad. One should rather be afraid of life. This is I should ever get out of here not regret this night.” only the broken sentences: turned to speak to his little compan forgotten Pitchoune Sabron faintly called him was no response. Then the listened in silence. It was absolutely unbroken. Net the call of a night-bird—not even the cry of a hy- ena-—nothing came to him but the in articulate voice of the desert. Great and solemn awe crept up to him, crept up to him Hke a spirit and sat down by his side. He felt his hands grow cold, and his feet grow cold. Now, un able to speak aloud, there passed through his mind that this, indeed, was death, desertion absolute in the heart of the plains. aeyen CHAPTER XIV. An American Girl. The Marquise d'Esclignac saw that she had to reckon with an American girl Those who know these girls know what their temper and mettle are, and that they are capable finest reverberation Julia Redmond was Otherwise she would never very soung have let was not indifferent to him, and that she was rather bored with the idea of titles and fortunes. But she adored her aunt and RAW, moreover, some thing else than ribbons and velvets in the makeup of the aunt She saw deeper than the polish that a Parisian Hfetime had overlaid, she loved what she saw. She respected her aunt, and knowin point of view, had been timid and hesi tating until now, Now the American girl woke rather asserted herself. My dear Julia,” said the Marquise d"'Esclignae, “are you sure that all the tinned things, the cocoa, and so forth, are on board? 1 did not see that box.” “Ma tante,” returned her nlece from ber steamer chair, “it's the only plece of luggage I am sure about.” At this response her aunt suffered a slight qualm for the fate of the rest of her luggage, and from her own chair in the shady part of the deck glanced toward her niece, whose eyes were on her book. “What a practical girl she is” the Marquise d"Esclignac “She seems ten years older than IL She Is cut out to be the wife of a poor man. It is a pity she should have a fortune. Julia would have been charm. ing na love in a cottage, whereas i »” up, or She remembered her hotel on the Parc Monceau, her chateau by the Rhone, her villa at Bilarritz—and sighed. She had not always been the Marquise d'Bsclignac; she had been an American girl first and remembered that her maiden name had been De Puyster and that she had come from Schenectady originally. But for many years she had forgotten these things. Near to Julia Redmond these last few weeks all but courage and simplicity had seemed to have tarnish on its wings. Sabron bad not been found. It was a curions fact, and one that transpires now and then in the history of desert wars—the man is lost. The captain of the cavalry was missing, and the only news of him was that he his body had never been recovered. Several sorties had been made to find him; the war department had done all that It could; he had disappeared from the face of the desert and even his bones could not be found. » From the moment that Julia Red mond had confessed her love for the Frenchman, a courage had been born in her which never faltered, and her aunt seemed to have been infected by it. The marquise grew sentimental, found out that she was more docile and impressionable than she had believed herself to ve, and the veneer and etl quette (no doubt never a very real part of her) became less important than other things During the last few weeks she hed been more a De Puyster from Schenectady than the Marquid® d'Esclignac. “Ma tante,” Julla Redmono had telecram was brought in to the Chateau d'Escll gnae, “1 shall leave for Africa tomor row.” “My dear Julin!” “He is alive! God will not let him die. Besides, 1 have prayed. 1 believe in God, don't you?” “Of course, my dear Julia” “Well,” sald the girl, whose palo cheeks and trembling hands that held the telegram made a sincere impress sion on her aunt, “well, then, if you believe, why do you doubt that he is alive? Someone must find him. Will you tell Eugene to have the motor here in an hour? The boat morrow, ma tante.” The marquise rolled her embroidery and put it aside for twelve months Her fine hands looked capable as sho did so. “My dear Julia, some woman cannot daughter of the regiment, fortunes of a soldier.” “But a Red Cross tante, and I have my diploma.’ “The boat leaving tomorrow, dear Julia, doesn't take “Oh, ma tante! There other boat for Alglers untill . . oh, galls to a young and hand follow like a after the nurse can, ma ba my he opened the new heave ens! “But Robert de in the harbor.” Miss Redmond sposechlessly. “I shall telegr: wonville and ask permission go in that as an auxiliary of the rather, hall telegraph him gpaper, I'remont's yacht lcoked at her ph Madame 4° Haus Robert Nice. 1 “Oh, ma tants “He asked me party ean,” said the thoug briny. Miss Ra id fetched the telegr ipl pad from the table The n to her cheeks for a cruise on the Mediterran- Marqui d'Esclignad and rs color began to retur from her mind the her aunt had plans for her All way were fair in the present situation, The Mar d'Esclignac dispatch, a very lon slowly. She sald to her servant Call up th She put quise wrote her E On« Perroquets at with the 8he Wag Bored With the Idea of Titles and Fortunes, Tremont.” She then drew her niece very gently to her side, looking up at her as a mother might have looked “Darling Julia, Monsieur de Sabron has never told you that he loved you? Julia ahook her head. . “Not in words, ma tante.” There was a silence, and then Julia Redmond sald: “1 only want to assure myself that he fs safe, that he lives. 1 only wish to know his fate.” “Bat if you go to him like this, ma chere, he will think you love him. He mast marry you! Are you making a serious declaration.” “Ah,” breathed the girl from be tween trembling lips, “don’t go on. 1 shall be shown the way.” The Marquise d’Esclignac then sald, musing: “1 shall telegraph to England for provisions. Food is vile in Algiers Also, Melanie must get out our sum- mer clothes” “Ma tante!” sald Julia Redmond, “our summer clothes?” “Did you think you were going alone, my dear Julia!” She had been so thoroughly the American girl that she had thought ot nothing but going. She threw her arms around her aunt's neck with an abandon that made the latter young The Marquise d'Esclignac kissed her nloce tenderly. “Madame la Marquise, Monsieur le Due de Tremont is at the telephone.” the servant announced to her from the doorway. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Criticizes Mospitals. Mrs. W. K Vanderbilt has given much time and money to the question of the selling of drugs and the treat ment of those who become victims which the city of New York takes care She now declared the manner In which the city of New York takes care of the drug “flends” a hideous farce After ten days the victims are sent out of the hospitals “cured” and she says they leave shattered In nerve and unable to fight against the drug Katherine 'ement Davis, commission er of charities in New York. says tha: between 15 and 50 per cent of all the criminals are drug flends FOR WORLD COURT Note of Optimism as Peace Congress Ends. [MARINES RUSHED 10 SUBDUE YAQUIS Will Land in Mexico, if Neces- sary, to Save Americans. John H. port ls Certain Once Europes Mas Ended Plan To Be Outlined By Commission. Carnage In Cleveland, O gress held ts cons X here legates he opi that the lates world peace, as gress’ idea of pressing { movement toward ressad in the international a& conclu und {nited tt will make thi a league future plans of the lined in an address h W. Jenks They inning over of untry ant » a thre we court dreed of the congress A rv 8 the ich launched tb act in all futy desire th power to is the sralistan peel WIS rid that existing vention of war enlarging.” mmittoe of hundred one start work to in the matter at once FOCUS Bi by our government Mr. Hams Congress “We hope to th 3 nond at the conclusion of to aniist Loe that it will firat looking forw agreement among nations.” The time and place of the next ses determined by mittee of one hundred. The present iz to be permanent government make the io an e extent advance ard glo will he the com Olgaaizailion WILL NOT CARRY CONTRABAND, Officials Of American Line Make An nouncement, York. - Now Steamahips of the York and Liverpool will contraband of war as freight, announced here by the International | Mercantile Marine Company operates the line. Vessels of fly the American flag. the line's decision was not the result of the German submarine activity nor not accept | ton. As a matter of fact, stated, no contraband had been carried since the outbreak of the war GERMANS RUSH T0 NATURALIZE. | Gain Of 300 Per Seni, Since Lusitania Disaster, i Refugees From the Colony At Esper Given Haven Aboard United States Warehips At Guaymas. arza To Be Depart Maox Uies Lhe and the ate to At any Americans mergency party inland he department til Admiral Howard had reported the necessity of such action nt the warst r whe their way to the rales wk of Willi Mockes colony, un der at Guayraas, but in Wilson and W. A American, J J. arpong the missing ICCAD the res Tees v4 anciher ONE TORPEDO MIT LUSITANIA German Report Tells Of Explosion In. side Ship, Berlin, via Amsterdam to London. — From the report received from the sud which sank the Cunard Line steamer Lusitania last Friday, the fol. lowing official version of the incident is published by the admiralty staff, un the gsiguature of Admiral Be hncke “The submarine sighted the steamer, which showed no flag, May 7 at 2.20 o'clock P. M., central European time, on the southeast coast of ireland in weslher o'clock one torpedo was the Lusitania which hit her starboard #ide below the captain's bridge. The detonation of the torpedo marine der “At 3.10 jexplosion of extremely strong effect “The second explosion must be the ignition of quan- SUPREME COURT RUSHED. Postpones Argument On Pending Cases Till October 12. Washington. — The Supreme Court postponed until October 12 next argu ment on all pending cases not yet It will meet Monday, however, the Lusitania, the number of Germans applying for naturalization in this city hes increased nearly 300 per cent, it was stated by Naturalization Commis sioner Weiser, in the Federal Build. ing. Mr. Weiser added that the great. est number of applications for some by side with the Russians, he declared. DR. ALDERMAN NAMED. — Mead Of U. of V. Member Of Treaty nounee the date of other decision days for the rest of the term. The court will probably adjourn for the summer about June 21 WALL FALLS ON FIREMEN. Six Crushed In $300,000 Blaze In Newark. Newark, N. J. -8ix firemen were crushed under a falling brick wall while fighting a $300,000 fire which burned three fourstory buildings of the leather manufacturing plant of George Stengel, Inc, here. Some of the firemen were s0 severely Injured that they may not recover. 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