COPYRIGHT BY CHARLES SCRIQNERY SONS > 1 TWO RUNAWAYS, wpsis.—Richard American playwright, fides to his friend, Bob Sing the fact that, inspired genius of a young actress he had seen in London, written a play, “Lady Larksg with the thought interpret the | This girl, has lisappeared aviator, has just lided) from France 1 , Ray- mond Bashford, had contracted a marriage a short tim bef his death, while on a Japan, He left Singleton nparativ small amount of 1 p privilege of a reside age’ of his sum = on-the-Sound, ! Mrs Bashford is believed to be travel- ing in the Orient It rusehold at Barton is made up of broken- down employees of a New hotel, wher Bashford ma home, Singleton goes to taking with him the 1» “Lady Larkspur.” The he the household strangely upset, s of its members being suspected by thelr comrades of pro-Germanism Antoine, head of the establishment, informs him that he has been per- plexed by the somewhat mysteri- ous visits of a stranger, apparently a foreigner, seeking Mrs. Bashford, Antoine has formed the male mem- bers of the household into a guard for protection. Singleton reads “Lady larkspur” with approval “Aunt Alice" arrives unexpectedly, meets with a reception and turns out to be young and « ing. Mrs. | nsworth is her eling companion. Torrenze, fgrd’s lawyer, suspects nen and warns Sing may an impostor. mysterious stranger, Count tani, makes a call and is seen be very much ir rested In “Aun Alice's” ostrich- fan, whi had been repaired t A jeweler In Japan. Singlet: i ated | Searles, cessful eton, the solely should acter. (inva- re ely FAr- ia vt SAT lively be , Mon- CHAPTER Ii1l-—Continued. we] “Get some dry clothes for this man and lock him up in tl wihouse, Be | sure he has blanket : give hin some hot « The captive m decision and broke me, which he di His submissiveness perplexity 0s he Ww “troops, —Dutch ) vindicated himself rather disdainful of his comrades, I hurried to the house, where I found Alice and Mrs. Farnsworth ministering to Elsie, who had been taken there by their order. Elsle, sharing with Dutch the honors of the night, lay on a dav- enport, where she had first aid. Alice rose from her knees as I entered, gathering up strips of band- ages, and turned to me laughingly. “Elsie’'s injuries not only disagreeable bruises in the face. | will be no I'm sure. | We'll keep her at the house for a few days until she’s quite fit again. Sure- ly any one loyalty ought to “You certainly managed it cleverly, Elsie. We're all very grate- ful." Elste, her face ages, acknowledged her Mrs, Farnsworth sald she would put Elsie to bed. Now, I thought, Alice would make some sign {f she Knew anything that would explain Montani and the prisoner in the toolhouse. But the whole affair only moved her to laughter and she seemed less a grown woman than ever in her white robe. My efforts to impress her with the geriousness of the attempt to secure the fan only added to her delight. “How droll! How very droll! You couldn't possibly have arranged any- thing that would please me more! It's delicious! As you say in America, it's perfectly killing!” 1 suggested that the holding of a prisoner without process of law might present embarrassments, “I know,” she cried, clapping her hands joyfully. “You mean we are likely to bump Into dear old habeas corpus! The sheriff will come and read a solemn paper to you and you will have to hie you to court and pro- duce the body of the priscner, That will be splendid!” “It won't be so funny if" “Constance and I so love the un- usunl--and it Is so hard to find!” she continued, “And yet from the moment I reached the gates of these premises things have happened! Nothing is omitted! Strange visitors; flerce at- tucks upon our guards, and still the fully and disposed to be received are serious: There SCATrs, who has questioned Elsie's be satisfied now.” very band- | by with thanks covered my wiggling foot. GU) TERY ever he Is! But you are a hero, too! shall be decorated!” She walked to a stand and pondered a long-stemmed red one and struck me “Arise, sir knight! You should monk's robe.” I couldn't be sure whether she was mocking me whether there was or was beyond the point of being Impa- I was helpless in her would do with ft was my to meet her us best I she me ns she and business to could in the realm of folly. “You must go!” she exclaimed sud- will be stairs for me in a moment, “Tomorrow—" I began. The wistful had at times came her yes ns she stood in the center of the “Constance calling into ' she “and ye “Tomorrow,’ repeated, endless tomorrows I said, and took the The revery “There must be for you and me.” her hand. th Lie At She hadn't moved “Nothing little: must happen re- ing a Please CHAPTER Pursuing Knights. I didn't sleep until was Vv. near daybreak ful ’ o'clock by door tray. aroused who appeared is chauffeur's “The Logs, wife didn't come gorr, Sorry to } car waken you, but I'm takin’ the new , I sat up and rubbed “Who's going to the iS Fol “The They sent or ladies ders Me, Sorr” I sprang out of bed and plied with questions, moat of which he him was ex that 1 did, however him the information had occurred after I retired women at the residence and was no reason why Allee shouldn't run to town If it pleased her to do so, and yet it was odd that she hadn't men- tioned the matter. Flynn hurried away, and from the window I followed the car's course to the house, and a moment later caught a glimpse of it on Its way to the gates. I called from the window to one of the gardeners who knew how to man- age a machine and told him to be ready to drive me to the village in half an hour. at ten-forty, and by taking it I would somewhere In New York when runaways arrived. Antoine packed my suitease; I am not sure that he didn't shed tears on my belongings. The old fellow wags awed into silence by the rapidity with which history had been made In the past twenty-four hours, and clearly was not pleased by my desertion, We drove past the tool-house, where I found the prisoner seated on a wheelbarrow smoking a cigarette, He was no more communicative than voiunteered nothing as to his identity and the guards sald that a thorough search of the captive's clothing had disclosed nothing Ineriminating., lle had three hundred dollars in currency (this was to cover Elsie's bribe money, I conjectured), a handkerchief, na cigar- ette case, and a box of matches, 1 di- rected that he be well fed and given all the reading matter he wanted, and hurried on to catch my train, I took a room at the Thackeray club and pondered carefully whether, In spite of my misgivings, I hadn't better gee Torrence and tell him all that had happened since his call on Mrs, Dash- ford, If there was any chance of do- ing the wrong thing In any matter not prescribed In the laws governing the administration of he would be sure to do it; but I was far from satisfied with the results of my own management of affairs at Barton. I finally ealled ap the trust company and learned that estntes, Torrence was in Al- of days, His nid he instructions to wire ay daily report to Albany. developments at secretary Barton. and went out walked. all occupled until sev No one had Mrs. me heard of a lashford or a Farusworth. pants Of severa automobiles proved e ate a lonely ed about theater and SIN ing doors ing at the is not a nine o'clock belated theater tired and footsore, of Searles’ “Who Killed the door of the “As Yon my 1 sought a in rack—ant place (n the middle As 1 had dozen most flaming as The a Cock Lobin?” over It" caught at—the eye, last the of last row, seen the ienst a the times, its nov but the laughter cheer- elty wa wis ful craftsmanship. As the curtain the ced f-turned face ACTOSS outlines a which, at the m his handkerchie It was Mi Montani- my nt question ana he turned rou Ti I watched hi until I remem? that bs tari places id satisfied i companions Mrs. Fa As into animated talk I saw that in her gayest humor. The istinguished tragedian seemed greatly what ste was saying to isworth, wns |) by sed "Must members of Arrowsmith's of my neighbors re- “They open in weeks in Shakespearian repertoire.” Montani half risen, the better focus opera-glass the box. the see. one two had an on gunounced her nore chair Mon- his glass faded Alice, with the languorous gesture 1 so well re- opened her fan-—tle fan moved ond o face act, and Alice the stage. Once As the lights membered dusk after the curtain rose. Alice, Montani, and the fan! To this combination I had now to add the new element introduced into the situation Farnsworth with Arrowsmith. And yet, ns the proceeded on its swift-moving course, I reasoned that there was noth Alice and Mrs, eminent actor. He had long beep knighted. with him at the theater really dis. The presence of Arrows smith had put zest into the company, ance of Searles’ play. The trio In Singleton finds “Aunt Al- ice” in New York and the mystery deepens. (TO BE CONTINUED.) w— Dubious Compliment, “I saw Mrs. Cad on the street to. day,” cried Mabel apgrily, “and the horrid old snob refused to speak to me, just becnuse she was with Mrs, “From these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.” NATION HONORS ALL HER HEROES Memories of Veterans of Three Wars Are Enshrined in Country’s Heart. Memorial day is the day the though newly veterans of three and pol passed despal wer those meaning and the holy the = it is that that distingul this year, « that both 1} the where mart und opportus is pal the ceremony at the vd ATS, been cemetery no Wilson in the very presence of the dead has Presider fciated selves, takes on an character, For American expeditic ft helpful accessory on the Red selves as In their concern’ that the la ahro les, 1 so distinguish the Cross, resting place of those who fell yi! should be neither unknowr nor unhonored. As a res determined } of rated effort of od where thes and cons ail services, the hero dead, be they lo fell remo centers of burial lected at appropriate American ceme atten new graves or ed rman to the I that ! been se the nye places nas official teries, celve every ion § thers in a grateful Re parately the cross, due from thelr bre me and a graves, all ¥ marked with star, gave in name and title, no distinction . there” country. and the singly or nll devised as to And while much that the handling followed of these the Memorial day, so familiar to us all, is new to our allies, and to the French, though they have gladly co-operated with the American forces In order to wake the day a truly notable one and one of general and significant com: mwemorntion, So.far as the general cemeteries go sve have followed the British in the CEES EOPEPOEPPPOPILPEPPOEPPPIOIO0 THE NATION'S DEAD, 1861-1865, yd thousand men, Food-—-the true, mountain gien, priscn pen, and you! thousand of the brave r ransomed soll their -the me zen camp eased his any a f charged — th riress wall 8 smoke vest were the for me and r martyr spirits grew ature like the saints of 014; amid agonies untold starved for and you! e patient and the tried, hundred thousand men have died For me and you! Good friend, for me and you! me apap good, we ne'er can them ia A debt pay justiy due; to the nation's children’s EAY, yey died for me and you!“ hundred susand of the brave this cur ” day sti atest chlidren shall the ransomed soll their grave + me and you! i friend, for me and you! 1 3 borers esp plan for the separate graves, but they CREEP OEPPPPEOP PEPCPPOBEEEECPPPPIOELEPPEEPOPEOPEPEPPEELEEOCEELOEOEL EL PEPEPELEPELEEPEPPPPPEPPPE Eo “We here highly re- solve that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from or in the years to come This is ail as it should Significant That in Omaha Three Posts of Veterans Have Had to Be Consolidated. numerical This it the great organization « wore the blue and marched with and Sherman, is passing on apidly than we realize. They boys In "G5, when the conflict but that was more than half sireng 3 favs rsl is simple men sheltered under a soldier's cap his association of shared together hard- ships and privations, the dangers and triumphs of war, should in for are immor- in who the pass its members only the deeds they wrought “the muffled drum’s sad roll” and the Stone of Remem- brance,” the stone bearing the inscrip- tion, also suggested by Kipling, “Their name liveth forevermore” Save for this, the great concentration ceme. teries of the American forces. such as Romagne-sur-Montfaucon, the largest, containing 35.000 graves of those who fell in the Meuse-Argonne battles, will represent little more than the sim. plicity of Quaker burying grounds, since the permanent memorial monn. ments that may be erected are yet to be determined. But there is no ques. tion of the monumental effect of the commemoration, nor will those who le in the smaller cemeteries or in the little French churchyards be over Grand Army ; the last veteran will have been lald away to await the bugle sounding reveille In eternity, the last the tattered old battle flags and the stained uniform, and the Grand Army of the Republic will live only in the memory of a people who will more and more enjoy the fruitage of its history. For On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, While glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead Day of Solemn Ceremony. This Memorial day 1s a time when the people of this country unite in paying tribute to the thousands whe made the supreme sacrifice in the greatest of all fratricidal wars, It is a solemn occasion, and ncthing should be permitted to mar its sanctity. Cer tain it is that the day should not be given over to sport. HINK of the slaughter of Cold witness the so rison! Milllons” “How absurd!” erled Julia, sympa- thetieally. “Just as If you were not her equal. Why, she's just a conceit ed Idiot!” mystery depends in the wee sma’ hours, with heroes and heroines at every turn! To think that that absurd little Dutch was asleep In the garden and really captured the spy or what when I had questioned him after his capture, He smiled In a bored fash fon when I asked If he wanted any. thing, and sald he would be obliged for cigarettes and reading matter, He to be sure, but many would now be looking complacently out toward the setting sun. ildren and we who have now never crossed the threshold of existence — would have been gathering about them in affectionate reverence. What infinits pathos in the toll of war!
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