. ',, llctotfil Section r w riv . v v'S , ?'' -FT EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA1, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1917 ,r v-v i d nl: i e VHIT FATHB m. . l ., nfn,aa aa wnii mi nmnrnr thieves. And, after all, it doi X"K? i.ra'" 7rf;;; vnn RTnnd whether you consider a snv a ,, or a martyr. Fraulein Schrocdcr proves herself a heroine to the end, despite the rible plot which she engineered neany 10 iruiuuu. t," i or fc 15 si & By LECHMERE WORRALL AMD J. E. HAROLD-TfcKKi Ttoif "JFoman'a Work Is Never Done" Is Proved by Miriam, . Who Not Only Captures the Two Women Plotters and ' Attempts to Satie Fraulein'sLifc, but Who Also Plays the Big Sitter and' Little Mother to Heart-Broken Molly Carl W. Ackerman, in His New Book, "Germany the Next Republic?" Which Begins Hi Tomorrow's Evening Ledger, Points Out That Women Have Worked Untir ingly in the Interests of the United States Throughout the International Crisis (Copyright br Edward J. Clod..) oiei in w-- at r one . iwvi ia,i nan ii"-u .. - MS m lith lnlHt (Itrman SSflAM I,KK. AJBWBW&y:''? U.t;r, lan woman. Sl'jrJUji,f.;fK. a youn i?h n.tura Hat oni I'KJ'kViil'nt in th kupanta of th 1JM. ar.rrrrntatlvji IS"J .'K1 n.turalliatloni 1'K? nsWMKa'-ot a".K,iaur!ff..snV5? flrsplaca a compl ettlnc a mew " .i.i"i..-.nnl. ?KjSrs.i-"-'' complete wl''.''k"..T."iltln.ott for a KVfn aljma'. "rJ"lpo,,. !? Grrat Britain. .v-tehes of the harbor the Pln'ifi...i" !-"-,,. slmal ?p"2 U-boat waltlmJ out t a. They wo etallifor.tMcap.ur.ol w.--...-,hmll ttpssta a I? Ttarta nn a tour of Investigation, one Mrs. l'a puna and returns to Mr;nt tj .warn filn?. ... to Sllrlam;. character. In .order not ho confides that alio la a Oerman i spy. Miner tha plotter, complete detail" rnr ins obstruction of th home and the K't-arwa;,nB Pennlculk Is stationed ty hi" -,c "J'L'S " ptfo n t officer on mard duty on ,h ,c,l'ffv"n3,r1,nJ tell, tho young soldier of tho Fandersona "'later, bsllevlne every one to be out of the living room, nrent enter.. III. pocket "'arch I ght fall, to reveal Sanderson tn" In the shadow of tho bookcase. When Hrent tart, to flaili signal" Handerson .Jump. ul and capture, the nrlllsh Uovernment detrrUia. Sanderson'" mastery Is short-lived, for a quad of Ilrltlsh soldier, appears In Him to save Itrent'a life and to capture the German py. A few second, before th. arrest Pennl rulk shoots Frlti In tho tatter's attempt to ""in The "meantime. Miriam has called for fraulein Schroeder and Mrs. Sanderson In a lame touring car. ostensibly to take them to safety. Instead aho turns them over to the police. Fraulein's Death FlRAULEIN was more self-possessed. Her broad, rather flat face with the sharp and Jutting: features that seemed so curiously at varlanco with It, was always the color of parchment and looked hardly whiter now. Her blrdllke eyes gleamed with a malev olent despair, not the flYed horror of Mrs. Sanderson's. Her compact little mouth was et even more firmly than usual. She looked Miriam thoughtfully up and down tn the glare of the fllckcrlnsfgas Jets. "So you have betrayed u," she re marked. "It you care to put It that way," replied Miriam, "but I should not have thought you would have talked about betrayal." "I was only doln my duty. If I could I would sink the whole town, the whole country, Into the seas, for the glory of the Lord and of Germany." "ily goodness, how they do hate us!" ex claimed the Inspector In mild surprise. "It fair elves ono a turn. I have got the charge sheet made out, Mrs. t,eo. Is there any thing else you have to tell me?" "Walt," put In fraulein and such was the dominant quality this drab little woman possessed that every one turned to listen to her. "There are a few things I must ask Mrs. Iee first. Tell me, you are not alono In this, heln? Brent, he Is In It, too?" "Tes, Mr. Brent and I are working to gether for the English intelligence depart ment" Fraulein drew what was almost a breath of satisfaction. It Is something even In defeat to learn that one's Instincts were correct. "Ah, I thought so," she observed. "What Is ho doing up at the house? Is he having Charles arrested?"' She fixed her birdlike eyes ofl Miriam, hoping against hope aa she spoke, that perhaps, after all, everything had not been discovered and that the bomb might yet go off and at least revengo them, even If Charles and Frits perished also. Miriam guessed the little woman's thought and was aware of a not unnatural feeling of chill. "I should Imagine," she replied steadily, "that by now Mr. Pennt culkhas Bhot Fritz and that the soldiers Mr. Brent had In readiness have arrested Charles von Mantel. Also I don't doubt that the bomb has'Iong since been put out of action." "Ah, so you do know all," commented fraulein, as a low moan burst from Mrs. Sanderson, "Then there remains nothing." Her little thin black silk bag was still in her hands, and now she burrowed In It and produced a large handkerchief, which she proceeded to put to her face. Miriam felt a moment's surprise aa she watched her. Bhe had never imagined frau lein would weep under any circumstances. The next moment she had guessed, but It was already too late. With a convulsive movement fraulein had rapidly swallowed something which had been concealed In tho handkerchief. The Inspector and tho other men were still gazing at her uncertainly when Miriam sprang forward. "Stop her," she cried. "O, It's too late I Get a doctor at oncet she's taken poison." It was about ten minutes after this that house which they had thought never-to again. Neither Brent nor Molly ever forgot ten tirely the night that followed. To Molly the whole thing seemed like a nightmare. The atmosphere was charged not only with Impending death and futile rage and bitter disappointments, but with actual evil. It Boemed to her, so unused to contact with such things, actually to pervade the air. Fraulein had been carried In, a little, twisted, convulsive figure In her brown wrappings, her unconscious face dewed and did all he conld and Mrs. Sanderson sat In a kind of ittfoy despair by the bed. Mr. Pollock went booming round the house, Miss Myrtle, feeling negleoted, had hysterics and brandy and soda In her room, and Charles remained always with that fixed Immobility of hi In the room next to fraulein's, his guard around him. So much Chris had conceded to the misery and terror of Mrs. Sanderson. When the house was fairly reduced to order Chris went In search of Molly. 11 looked tn her room, but she was not there, I " t'VXBKKAjrIS'iU 'sssPtsRsssBs'KSBosB a (V XlfiljiasssW I a. I A'''''''diA''jfiJi!SK9t S:co".ii: J"J'- vrt'V-'"'iL?.-lS?''sWsB?' I if, ?!;jH-aZs'il'IQK.'J!iC 'sTsVJfsTsTsTsTKA . Miriam rang up Cnnn and told him they were bringing fraulein back to tho house. The hospital was on tho far sldo of the town, and fraulein before sho lapsed Into unconsciousness had strenuously demanded that she should be taken back to West Crest. Whether In her ajrendy clouded brain she was obsessed by tho Idea that perhaps after all Charles hnd succeeded in firing the house and wished to spo It for herself, or whether It were not tho mere blind tenacity of her falling purpose which was still fixed Instinctively on tho place whero she had worked. It was Imposslblo to say. Thero was nt least nothing against It, and fraulein was undoubtedly dying, so sho as allowed to have her way. This time a policeman droo the car and others rodo on the steps, and so fraulein and Mrs. San derson were taken back onco more to tho "Stop her!" sho cried twisted. Her Jorklngs were horrible to see, nnd Molly, who with tho rest had crowded Into tho hall, turned and fled down the passage to tho sitting room again, where cho remained huddled up in nn armchair, shaking with what was more distaste than fear. Chris had not followed her there. In that disorganized household some one had to tako tho lead and It devolved naturally on him.' Tho case waa hopeless, as every one could see from the first, but still the doctor "Get a doctor at once; she's taken poison!" and he knew enough of her to be sure Bhe would not be seeking solace either with Miss Mytrle or her father. He went to his own room, wondering If she had gone there to look for him, but that, too, was empty. And when he went down to tho sitting room he found he had been forestalled. Miriam, whoio life had taught her to think of every one's feelings when the work In hand per mitted her to do so, had no sooner done all she could for fraulein than she went in search of Molly. Sho had seen her rush from the hall and had realized what the whole affair must mean to a girl who prob ably had never come across anything worse than a cut finger In the whole of her life. She had found Molly hiding her face In the i cushion and shaking all over. droning up is a perfectly natural process If the ordinary time Is allowed for It, but when a normal law suffers violent upheaval It eati become unnatural, and Molly had done all her growing up since tho morning before. The nervoua nnd mental strain had consequently been very much more Intense than If the usual experiences of life had gradually unfolded themselves to her step by step. That little nlghtmaro of a writhing figure In brown and the knon ledge of what had gone to bring It to that state was so over powering to Molly that In the shadow of it the whole schemo of life seemed wicked and unbearable. She supposed sho loved Chris, but after all what was love In the face of these events which It was so powerless to affect? Sho did not think, as she would have done the night before, that because Chris did not come to her, therefore he did not love her. She knew that he could not and was even able to feel that she would have loved htm les- It he had. But, never theless. In the whirlpool of these events which took no heed of her, s a person negligible to either side, she felt terribly alone and unhappy. She needed personal comfort, and Miriam, who had long out grown any such thing for herself, knew that such must be tho case. As a woman who has suffered much will, cho saw her own youth in Molly and was tender of It accordingly, Miriam was feeling rather shattered her self. It had not been pleasant to realtze by fraulein's sudden convulsion at the police station that she had managed to take poi son. It had not been pleasant, If It came to that, to witness the fury and misery of the two women when they found they had been tricked. Miriam, like Chris, had mo ments of loathing the necessities of her work. Tho drive back to tho house had partaken of the nature of a nightmare, her self and tho doctor seated on cither sldo of the unconscious hut convuked form. Tho fact that fraulein In her mania had been "There, my dear,' rather husky voice. I 0i qulto prepared to sacrifice half a djZl did not entirely dl.alr.9i. ..".'J w tug QjQ Miriam felt that, primarily throun. i Hon, this ono life was drawlnr t tragic close. She, too, was anxlou iJ doing something, nnd her thouiht,'' miiicu iu ...v.. uccaroe sue Knew that a biio wua iL-iiuy nccucu. Just as Molly was feeling franUo ill iu njsiciia puini strong nrmi cint iicr, rue icit ncr tangled hair atnnnthed nwnv trnm lm.. .... . ,".: :: - ..::."" ,ac'' a ui ., ....... iijicu moro warmly. her shivering little figure. iM Miriam's mere's ihum.si mind nhnilt lint. T.a-.ui . 1,1 "" '"Jilling-a .J) . anu everyiraim b going to be all It was one of thoso moments wiiy one of her own sex is more to a d than a man coum be. When once th,, or. emotional scenes was over theu'i woum ausiiKo cacn oiner again lit ever. Molly would always distrust ! while for her part, tho widow, whllf ( ing mat atony was a "sweet lllrt. i would always consider her totally bu eating. But Just now Molly flung herVSl anriam, ciiuk'uk uoiu 01 ner, and'J nem ner uK'my ana Dotn womes . nlnner. thouch If thev werA tM .. . " , ,,,", " "PtH pcriormanco wuen me nao. righted it. would become pretense. Miriam fetched a rug and wrappM up, then disappeared to return In,,. lilUiuioa ,... ..w ..u.,,uijr uui COlBff remedy of not mint. While MoIIt rlrlnblnp It nho bruaheA nwt Vi l.,3 a --- '4 four mopped her race with rose water, ana a dusting of powder, all of which, the last, did more to mako Molly fed again than any amount of brandies sodas or conversation would have doi "There," said Miriam, at length, ftitM'a a final pat to Molly's hair. "Nov;;.)! aallnn VtiktrAF BfMi't VAti" -sW "O, you are good," said Molly, "butjifc only maKO me teei worse in a wiy, think how I have been hating you." "Never mind, It was quite natunl, It's all over now, anyway." "All over," repeated Molly. "Tm, rtajBi thing's nil over you aro qulto right tktsK rr-?rr. Tinnr -rlrrT1TrtTw l.1rfl-,U tt-tr XVlHU.IlMllf GERMANY THE NEXT REPUBLIC? By CARL W. 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