v ' rr — CHAPTER XXV-—Continued. wn] Tn not reply Sabron could his eyes like a kaleldoscope. His flush had made him more natural. his invalid state, back from something about him. looked on his fine brow, there spiritual and The Marquise d'Esclignac a man who had been cord to back. She said gently, over his: “Get strong come more , monsieur—get well. you. spare you. Sabron was departure t receive no days, and It needs brave hearts.” so agitated after her hat the nurse said he must more visits for several he meditated and ly cursed the life that had him back to a world which lonely for him henceforth When he sat up in bed shadow. He had a book to read a few lines of it, but down as the letters blurred sitting so, dreaming and how true or how false it had seen Julia Redmond come se times to his bedside during days of his illness here in 8 troubled m pital. Then suddenly words that he heard sing, them. The Red Cross charitably sang in to the wards and One another son must he he put He was was that the hos across hi came the her and he tried to recall nurse who so came asion familiar the hospital her mo Sang began she 3 after 188 * “How Sabron for How the poor devil thought, and he charity familiar her voice! only » began to the distance tune, the melody haunted h was because he was and t was wonder and across notes of the song that had months came th« of the many im for When she had were tears on the he was remembered up to him and master’s hand to wipe away ished singing there and ashamed. Pitchoune, who the tune as laid his Sabron the soldier's cheeks not well, erept on his just time the head had tears when de Tremont came in. “Old ing Miss ments? » » od - - - *» Due fellow, to few feel up gee. for a do you Redmond mo When she came in he did not know whether he most clearly saw her gim- ple summer dreas with the single jewel] at her throat, her large hat that framed her face, or the gentle lovely face all sweetness and sympathy. He believed her to be the esse de Tremont ‘Monsieur de Sabron, we are all so glad you are getting well” “Thank you, He great Mademoiselle.” seemed to look at her from a been traveling. She was lovelier than he had dreamed, more rarely sweet and adorable, Monsieur?” “It was good of you to sing it.” “This is not the first time I have teen you, Monsieur de Sabron. i came when you were too ill to know of it.” “Then 1 did not dream.” officer simply. He could only suppose her engaged to the Duc de Tremont. It explained her presence here. In his wildest dreams he could not suppose that she had followed him to Africa. Julia, on er part, having done an extraordin- ry and wonderful thing, like every and a sudden cowardice. Sabron, after all, was a stranger. How could she know his feelings for her? She spent a miserable day. He was out of all danger; In a fortnight he might leave the hospital. Bhe did not feel that she could see him again as things were. The Com tesse de la Maine had returned to Paris as soon as Tremont came In from the desert. “Ma tante,” said Julla Redmond to the Marquise d'Esclignac, “ean we go back to France immediately?” “My dear Julia!” exclaimed her Wa Te ad - —— Te ———— in surprise and delight. "Rob- | enchanted, but he would! not be able to leave his friend so | soon.” “He need not,” said the girl, need you leave unless you wish” The Marquise d’Esclignac entertain. | ed a thousand thoughts. She had not | studied young girl's minds for a long She had heard that the mod- ern American girl was very extreme and she held her in rather light es Julia Redmond she had con. sidered to be out of the general rule “Was {t possible,” she wondered, “that Julia, in comparing Tremont with the invalid, found Robert more attractive?” i “Julia,” her niece chair, “sit down.” Slightly smiling, obeyed her aunt “My dear, I have prices from France by pleading heart Hiness could 1 dissuade ing Into the desert with Now, without any you wish to return “The reason been “" nor | 1 she sald severely, child, as though were a pointing to a the young girl followed your ca Africa. Only failure and mortal you from go- the caravan apparent reason, to France” Coming to for here te been found.” have found him has accomplished, ma Mi ieur de Sabron has “And now said the ma tan "a that you You discover romantic fancy igined, you ar in e ED ng to run away from him short, him over.’ “Throw him mured the girl the chance Sahron BHetweor mysel and friendship.’ Fiddlest ignac fcks!’ d'Ese inderst When He Sat Up in Bed He Was a Shadow. She marriages I am your mother's at least tween than makes her subsequent my dear, woman of ex! girl and her “our aunt, gister, and a ty-five years’ You Julia was not following her aunt's train thought, but her own, She felt the hint of authority and bondage in her aunt's tone and repeated “1 wish to leave Algiers tomorrow.” “You shall do 50.” said her aunt. “1 am rejoiced to get out of the Orient It is late to order my dresses for but | ean manage. Before however, my dear, | want you own divorces nore arience have.” of BO, “A promise, ma tante® she The girl's did not think she would give it “You have played the part of fate | in the life of this young man, who, I find, is a charming and brave man. must stand by your guns, my dear Julia “Why, how do you mean, ma tante?” | “You will go to Paris and the Cap- | itaine de Sabron will get well rapidly. | He will follow you, and if it were not | for Tremont, myself, your Red Cross | Society and the presence here of | Madame de la Maine, you would have | been very much compromised. But | never mind,” sald the Marquise! d'Esclignac magnificently, "my name is sufficient protection for my niece. I am thinking solely of the poor young man.” “Of Monsieur de Sabron?” “Of course,” sald the Marquise d'Es clignac tartly, “did you think I meant Robert? You have so well arranged his life for him, my dear.” “Ma tante,” pleaded the girl. The marquise was merciless. “lI want you to promise me, Julia, before you sail for home, that if Sab. ron follows us and makes you under stand that he loves you, as he will, that you will accept him.” Julla Redmond looked at the Mar quise d’Esclignac in astonishment. She half laughed and she Balf cried, “You want me to promise?” “1 do,” sald her aunt firmly, regard. ing her niece through her lorgnon. “In the first place the affair is en tirely unconventional and has been since we left France. It is I who should speak to the Capitaine de Sabron. You are so extremely rich that it will be a difficult matter for a poor and honorable young man. . . Indeed, my dear, 1 may as well tell you that I shall do so when we reach home.” “Oh,” sald the girl, turning per fectly pale and stepping forward to- ward her aunt, “if you consider such a thing | shall leave for America at once.” The Marquise d'Feclignac petulant sigh. : “How impossible you are, Julia. my dear, 1 do not want a woman of my family to be a coquette, do not want it said that you are an American flirt—it is in bad taste and entirely misunderstood in the Faubourg 8t.-Germain The girl, bewildered by her aunt's attitude and extremely troubled by the threat of the marriage conven- tion, said: “Don’t you understand? In this case it is pecullarly delicate. He might ask me from 9 sense of honor.” “Not in ang sald the quise d'Esclignac. “It not curred to the poor young suppose for a moment that woman with millions, as fortunate self like thought so | vou, Julia. solely my child. This young He believes that you doubt. You have gi reason, heaven knows! her aunt emphatically, “1 tend that you should brea It Marquise gave a Mar OC to young are derange her him If 1 not ha brought I have done, | of sense,” has officer iu you gO would to follow would What for to be, this ve have done mind, your peace man loves you love ven him in k his heart 40 not was more ti d'Escli back twenty-five vhen as a rich American, # in deferen had Hag 3 obediently not ' I nirom pron tante ” WOMAN THE HOME BUILDER Undoubtedly the Chief Trade Which Females of the Country Are Engaged. in owas t! at {led by the ucation Of the years of NG.000 are engag: be other trades eral enter may ing. Girls ¥ into ing more and more but in the t analysis ly fall back or advance homemakers, #ays the the attention vocational hope of being able to hire a cook apt to disappointed as frequently a8 the hope of keeping one when ghe is hired it is the oddest things of life that cooking, the prep las they to the E®l rank of Hence, al board, cial Federal E ation mportance of giving spe in to scientific the cooking schools The gir be one of the in tures, art that can waste economize chief item of family expendi is so largely left to be picked up as best it may be without serious consideration or training. if the woeful waste resulting from amateur or the and cents it would rival the war bills of Europe. If the indigestion, dyspep caused by tabulated of killed, incapable cooks could be they would dwarf the list missing and wounded Lost Hand Digging Grave. Grave digging is not an extra haz- ardous occupation, even though in ex cavating graves it is necessary to use dynamite to break hardpan, the indus- trial insurance department has decid: ed. The department rejected the claim of John Borgford, a Seattle sex- ton, whose left hand was partly blown off by a dynamite cap Although use of explosives generally makes a class extra hazardous, the general occupation of grave digging is such a peaceful one that exception can- not be made when blasting is neces sary, the commission holds. Olympia {Wash.) Dispatch to the Portland Ore gonian. Flag for New York City. The board of alaermen adopted a flag for the city of New York-three perpendicular bars of blue, white and orange, which were the colors of the Dutch flag used when New York was New Netherlands. The board also adopted a new city seal, which will appear in blue on the white bar of the flag. The new emblem will be raised on the city hall on fune 12, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the board of al dermen. FIFTY MILLIONS A DAY FOR WAR Startling Review From Finan- cial Standpoint EFFECT ON WARRING NATIONS The National City Bank, Which lssues the Review, Sees In the War the Need Of Greater Economy Here. stands a year New York.—How the world from a financial viewpoint after of war is ably set forth in a issued by the National City Bank ‘The war expenditures have equalled the travagant predictions.” says the review, "the fighting has been and the results review Most @ continuous casual ing. but the nothing end. Ti ueres eR art ! es appall signify practically onfliet will that either a8 to when the are running the countries no signs out of men or money that ring people of the war Are weake confidence continues of fy : % futility Of The review ‘The developments self have shown the of ing hostile populations; they the 1 dispossessed of ori to be loyal swell the volun and they trade paRY LAXCs The war rope oCon Ths “this Bank greater oCON0 o1 fegson for Coun it sees 1) tional City need of SIX LOST ON IBERIAN Of German Submarine The British Queensiown official list of the dead on the shelled by a German counts for six men-—-three and three Englishmen. The Mark Wiley's, of Boston; Carroll and Sheridan: English men. Proudfoot, Appleby and O'Keefe The wounded Americans are Henry Velah, Charles Hansbury and John Brawell. The British wounded are James McGuigan, J. Berry and L. Bol ton atea mey submarine, ac Americans were ADVENTISTS DENY REPORT. Do Not Expect End Of World When Constantinople Falls. Fort Worth, Texas. Seventh Day Adventists denied reports circulated recently saying that the Adventists en- camped at Dalworth, Texas, expect the second coming of Christ when the Alles capture Constantinople. Ad ventists said the report grew out of an Adventist belief that Chriat's see ond coming will take place when the Turks make their final riand as 8 nation at Jerusalem, AMERICAN HOSPITAL HIT, German Bomb Goes Through Dining Room; One Man Killed. Ponta-Mousson, France. — A German shell fell into the messroom of the field hospital of the American am- bulance of Paris while the staff was at dinner. The missile penetrated the floor and burst in the cellar. A French orderly was killed and one American was slightly Serniched by a fragment of the shell THE LEELANAW DID TRY TO ESCAPE But Captain Stopped When Warning Shots Came. Captain Of the Leelanaw Declares He and His Men Were Well Treat. ed and He Makes No Complaint, Washington. With the recs of a Lor- ipt pedoing of the American stean submarine, beg to G 1er [Lee Hiate the ermany request payment of damages the that the Prussian-American of 1828 had been A report Dennison officials of a note Department an prep ing the nd treaty on violated from American Consul Dundee to light the fact tain of the at Scotiand that the cap Leelznaw submitted attempted to - : ana red lared but after “RCA De 10 visit #gearch The right is conceded by ghots were fi offic wamMming to escape false dec internat onal iInw epeated attem] ible ing the noi AR inl On General Joffre Plans To Germans By Attrition Francs and Franos be WN drawn-out pressure tactics he ear thousands He SAVE ix sald to exponent 0 ermany by atirition, no and on takes, Francs ositl long it being in a better | the Central matter how her Allies play a waiting game than Powers Germany summer, which will endeavor to do he European I 'nless strikes biow this prisoners say she in mot toboggan according only French authorities, but to the cap tured Germans of the Heidelberg pro feasor type French mills are busy turning out uniforms and other winter equipment public opinion is beginning three hs she will on not French winter in the Although Joffre infrequently for not more, some of his not hurrying matters the army #0 as to have a large and wellconditioned force when the other side is thinned ont and groggy LOOK FOR “SECOND COMING." Adventists Expect It When Constan. tinople Falls. Fort Worth, Texas Eight hundred Seventh-Day Adventists, camped at Dalworth, between here and Dallas, expect the “second coming of Christ” and the “marshaling of the heavenly army in the skies” as soon as the Allies capture Constantinople, it is an. nounced. KILLED GERMAN WIFE; FREED. Frenchman Saye he Daily Scoffed AL French Army. Paris’ — Because she persistently praised Germany Andre Barbier, a Lyons engineer, shot his German wife dead with a revolver last month. A court-martial acquitted him atter his statement that she daily ridiculed his patriotism and scoffed at the French army. b, * veaawsy at yt a a RA. YA WALF ER ATTORNEY APGAW PRLLEVeEYR 0 Pe BW. Beh teen HA preteen einem prespity smstet ABD Gawme Jus J Bows w.a ATTORNNTB AT ALAW Bios Biosn BELLEFONIA ba ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLE OFTRY, Potion all the sourns. Csasnltation ATTORNEY AT-LAW Penns Valley Banking Company Centre Hall, Pa. DAVID R. 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