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tCopirioht, 1911,
the STonv thus fah
i.nt'Otl KNI(K, under eecretnry of
Knt.SL'J.'.lt' " In Vienna nnd the
COUNTESH MAIMHIIK STBAIINI. whnm
ne love. overhear on June 12. 1914. the
any the tory opens a corners! Ion In the
roe gardens at Konoplnht Ijoinren the
Oirman Kaiser. Vnn Tlrrlti! and the Aus
tflan Archduke In which "the destiny of
' fcurepe" Is sealed
The pact Is destined tn make the Arch
fluke and his moruanntlc wife Sophie
hotek Important Inures Marlahka Is n
rlo friend of Hophle. hut she decides her
first dut Is to her rountrv and the Aus
, man monarch Krans Josef While she Is
reporting tn him Ilennlck Is InformlnB his
chief. This mans nn estrangement he
twr.'i! Huh "n,l XIarlshka
IIERR HIMJT. chief of the Austrian
Secret 6ervlce. Is Instructed to thwart any
Flans to save the Archduke who has been
ordered murdered In Hirnjevo He cap
turea Renwlck and Marlshka, who were
strlvln to warn Sophie,
CAITAIN noitlTZ. of the derman Rerret
Service, captures Marlshka from Vvlndt
and prorrlses to help her. but not to re
lease her. They arrive "n Sarajevo Just
too late to prevent the assassination of the
Archduke and Sophie Renwlck relensed
bv Wlndt. Is trailed to Sarajevo by (lus
tav T.lnke. In the Austrian Secret Service
Renwlck locates Marlshka'a hiding place
. CHAPTER XVI
The Beg of Rataj
WHEN Marlshka reached the top of
the stairs, and entered the harem,
gazinr terrified into the darkness from
'which Bhe hid emerged, she pushed aside
the Kis-Kellm, listening fearfully for
sounds of footsteps below, then clored
the. door, turned the key, and put
her back against It, viewing with a
new vision the Interior which a while
ago had seemed so friendly. Without
Yca. who had given its disorder a per
sonality, the room seemed alien, hotllo
and madly chaotic For the first time
since the reassurances of Captain Gorltz
In the preen limousine ,ts to her safety,
she had a definite sense of personal
danger, she was not timorous by na
ture, and the hope of success1 In her
mission of atonement had Riven her the
courage for the venture She realized
now that the will which had kept her
buoyant through two arduous days and
nlghto had suddenly forsaken her and
left her supine, without hope or initia
tive. The actions of the man at the
doorway below had frightened her. He
had been so uncompromising in his ugli
ness. The shock of her awakening had
been rudely unexpected, and had be
wildered her with Its brutal significance
She was a prisoner In this Turkish
house. In an obscure quarter of a lnlf
Oriental town, and night was Imminent,
a night which seemed to possess untold
possibilities for evil What wis to hap
pen? Why had not Captain Gorlt? re
turned? Enemy though she now knew
him to be, even Gorltz was n refuge In
this perilous o'tuation. And vet It
seemed certain that the man at the foot
of the stairs was acting under the or
ders cf another who was accountable
to him
Weakness overpowered her and she
threw herself on the pile of cushion-?
In the window and buried her face in
her hands, ns If by blinding herself to
the Imminent facts of her surroundings
she could free her spirit of the terrors
which were overtaking It. An In her
dream, her faculties were elusive,
thouKhtH and half-thouehts conflicting
and interchangeable The ruh and the
roar of the hurrjlng motorcar, the
kaleidoscope of the maddened crowd, the
shots, the sunlight and then the spingled
darkness with the sound of voices She
started upright In her cushions, her face
pallid and drawn, her thoughts now
focusing with sudden deftnltenc-s The
voices! They were no dream no more
a dream than the other honors that en
compassed her. She tiled to lemember
what they had said "Ten thousand
kroner the goose that lavs the golden
egg " What did the phrases mean'
Another "To be kept in occlusion, of
course, but you will accede to all her
wishes." The meaning of tho voices be
rame clearer, at every moment.
"Should she cire to write, you will send
a message '." Marlshka put her hand to
her lips as though to stifle a cry, and
then sank back with a gasp of compre
hension, Gorltz ! He had expected her
to send a message, and had prepared for
Its delivery. Dut whv? How could he
have known Slow Iv the meaning
of It all came to her His certainty
and insistence as to Hugh Renw Ick s
pursuit the belief that Renwlck would
go at once to the Hotel Europa ! The
power of suggestion ! And she had fol
lowed It blindly unawares, leading
Hugh Renwlck Into the deudly trap
which Gorltz had laid She read the
plan now In all Its insidious perfection.
There was somethng malign hypnotic
in an Influence which could so easily
compel compliance And Hugh? She
had written him to come here to the
door In the court below, where men
would be waiting perhaps to take his
life. It was too horrible 1
Nature merciiuny intervenea Tne
strain of long davs and night of un-
guish had reached the limit of her en-
tension, suddenly rebelled She fank
helplessly upon the floor, sobs racking
her body from head to foot. She did
piot know' how long she lay there, but
when she raised her head It wao al
ready growing dark In the room, like the
shadows that were stealing about hei
heart, vvnicnever way sne uirnen, grop
escape, there would be others beneath
,i-.5windows and at the door Into the
harden.
yeva: one ciung 10 ine nope oi
Ten's iilncerltv the last thine left lo
her. It was difficult for her to believe
that this child with the body of a
woman could be guilty of complicity In
any plot. She might have obeyed In
.structlons to be the bearer of any note
that Marlshka might write Indeed her
childish prattle as to the wishes ot her
lord and master vetlfied the voices of
Marlshka's dream, and nuggested that
Marlshka should be permitted to do as
she chose so that Yeva had offered,
without fear of consequences, to deliver
Marlshka's note at the hotel She had
even consented to leavo the lower door
open that Marlshka might escape and
follow her. No woman of the world
could have acted a part as Yeva had
plaved It. II the cfrl had known of the
guardian of the lower door, her skill In
dissimulation was consummate o much
out ol keeping with the simplicity ot
her mind as to be entirely Incredible.
Yeva was Innocent, a mere tool In the
hands ot Captain Gorltz, who disposed
all the pawno In his command to play
his game. Yeva had been permitted to
depart without hindrance. Would
Marlshka's note reach Its destination?
ing mentally ror a tnougiu wiucn wouici i-ji.i". " ' L,"'.t,"";,r,;n,
lefd her toward a light, disorder reigned. I .reature w ho c! fierce? from the courteous
danger threatened If there was a man I German official of Menna and Agram.
.. .T. , r . i,a !.,!, tn nr..snt i, i ilk vph haunted her. the dark eyes
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Mari'hka found herself staring
Or would It be Intercepted and its mes
sage read by Captain Goritz? His
cunning had amazed her, but it fright
ened hei now A ruse h" carefully
planned could have for its object noth
ing lev? thin the obliteration of Hugh
Renwlck, as a prisoner or something
worse perhnps death! She shuddeieil
She. Marlshka, would unwittingly hive
caused It' She had asked h'.m to come
at niUnlght and knock upon tho door
In tho court be'ow and she knew cnougri
of Hugh to be sure that If he received
the message, no mitter how great the
danger to himself, he would come Tie
note' if Pho could recall It' She
would suffer whatever Gorltz hid In
store for her. If Hugh could onlv be
spared She had alreidy done him hurt
enough without the chance of ths ast
most dreadful -acrince in her J'chalf
In vain He would come to lur ana
she must wait vvltnoui me . ;...
warn him. and perhaps tee him killed
before her verv eves
Her thoughts made her "fP"lcr;
anil the idea of nnotlier attempt to
25'ape came Int.. her head If I'-co"'
only re.i.h the street, she could run
and It would be n letter race with i her
mi suer thin hhe hid given Hugh In the
ro--o gaulens of the Arcm.uhe-
-o gaulens of the Arcm.uhe
She mide the attempt, quletlv open-
'.i.-"i". i... iilfii rlie had enteted
ne room an pass ng P-toe dov.n
c corridor to the door with u.litJ
She diew aside the curtain vvl ich i cov
eied it and noiselessly turned the knob.
As she peered out rhe found '
staring straight intr. the eves of ubc.
deh The woman s look was cold but
full of understanding
"Does the Frauleln wish an thing?
she asked without the slightest change
of expression Her voice was colorless,
like the speech which might be etpected
from a graven Image.
T 1 was hungry." stammered Ma
rlshka helplesslj . "I I am sorry to
C,'Ifrvou will return to the room within,
I will bring food at once," she said
stolidly And so Marlshka. once more
balked In her enterprise, went back to
the harem Stiong as she was. armed
anew with the sudden strength of des
peration, she knew that even if she could
use her strength she was no match few
this massive creature who. In the sc
lamllk nearby, perhaps had men within
call She went to the windows and
peered out Into tho street. There wan
no one in sight, except a tall man in
black who carried an umbrella She
il I 1.1 . a iKnrHAnt ll-fM! (fit (llA
cvattre(l screen, but he went up the street
tusippeared around a corner The
p-arden seemed to bo deserted Would
the cate to the street be locked? She
ndn an effort to move the lattice of
meshreblsa, but it was nailed fast to the
main wood work of the house Her caR6
was hopeless There was nothing to do
but wait upon the clemencj the mercy
of Captain Gorltz A new Idea of her
ueing norn in ner, ni
.set Just a little obliquely in his head, a
racial peculiarity which she had not
been nblo to idenlif.v. She knew now
i j ncrj wcic unciimi, hc ui.tj ... ,...
tno'se or me man hl me uuur uewn,
alien, hostile nnd cruel And vet it vvtis
curious how the smile in them had dis
armed her, and she remembered, with H
iutile glow of returning hope, that she
hart not feared him, that she had eveSi
had the temerity to defy him But her
courage had ebbed she could not have
defied him now, and in the darkness,
while Rhe waited for "ieva, she feared
him feared him.
It seemed strange that Yeva had not
eturned. She had been gone an hour
or more. and. the Hotel Europa could not
be a great distance awav. As the mo
ments passed bhe gave up the other hope
of persuading the girl, when she re
turned, to go back at once to the hottl
and reclaim the note before Hugh could
get It Could anything have happened
to her? Marlshka wanted her the
sound of a voice, the touch of a tem
Inlne hand, her air and graces the foi
bles of a child perhaps, but Intensely
virile In their childishness and In
tensely human It seemed that even
Yeva was to be denied to her.
For' when Zubejdeh brought lights
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into the eves of Zuybeydeh.
and food the woman made no comment
upon the absence of the girl a con
firmation of Marlshka's suspicions that
55ubedeh was awale of the conspiracy
and whit was to come of it Rut
Marlshka made a pretense of eating
what the woman had brought, she sum
moned courage to Inquire
"Yova went out Into the city by the
passage to the street She has not et
returned?
'I do not know," she slid In her
heavj colorless voice
The woman lied Marlshka knew It
by the "hlftlng glance of her eje
' Will au kindly Inform his Kxcel
lency I need mention no names that I
should be very glad if he would meet
me at his convenience "
"leellency is not here," said tho
woman
"Well, when lie comes I should be
grateful if vou will dellvei inv mes
sage "
"I will tell him"
Nothing more Her manner was not
discourteous, hut her voice was forbid
ding She had been given Instructions
to keep silence And Just before leaving
tho room, a further confirmation of
Marlrhki's conviction that Yeva was at
that very moment In another pirt of
the hous", SCubevdeh gathered up the
two pieces or drapery wmen Marlshka
had given the girl, and carried them out
of the room
(CONTINUED TOMORROW)
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jour home.
Organic Chemistry
First Chemist Have ou seen
Al todaj .'
Second Nut Al vvhc?
First Chemist Why. Alcohol.
Kerosene him vesterday with his
sister nthjl Alcohol In Bepzole
e-iir driving like fury Iiiulln pto
main street. He ain't benzine
gjme. Well, Iodiform a posse and
go look for him, but I'm sleepy
so I gasoline against a post and
take a naptha Lehigh Burr.
Societ Events
!,ondon Opinion
Old I.ad.v These fatigue parties
vou have are thej as enjojable as
concert parties or garden parties?
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THE CRACK
A STORY OF POLITICS
By Peter Clark
CHAPTER XLI1 (Continued)
ON MONDAY night Jerrj made the
last speech of the campaign In seven
different places over the eltv. and each
time concluded with
And now, voters nf Philadelphia,
the coinpalgn Is over It has been
fought hard It lins been necessary to
do and to sav some relentless things
If any man Ins been hurt personally
by the words my tongue has spoken I
am sorv sorry that It had to be nec
essary to hurt an Individual In order
to serve what 1 might call the larger
selllsliness, at least the larger self-interest
of this communltj Hut the
larger self-interest Is the thing which
I have had In mind the one legitimate
goal. To reach It I um not conscious
of having spared mvself inv thing, hut
whether 1 do reach it or not lests with
vou
'Tomorrow we are going to witness
the miracle of democracy, the sight of
men coining out from the workshop
and store, writing their individual wills
upon pieces of piper, and thus dictat
ing the government of their citv We
become accustomed lo this sight nnd
wc see It debased often enough but,
after all, it Is a sublime spectacle. It
marks the most foiwaid step In gov
ernment the world his .vet attained
t Before thnt sublime spectlcle nil
thoughts of personal Ivxiies fade away
Indeed, the dearest Issues seem small,
Inconsequential, unlmpoitant before
the fact tint the citizens havi had
their way nnd wrought theii will
"In the election' now nt linnd I long
for vlrtorv. but I shnll not be crushed
l) detent. I have but one hope for to
morrow mat i cinuot give un It is
that the voters mav hnre their wnvt
that, untrainmeled by bosses or bribes
or bludgeons, thev mav rernrd the
Just, sober ronvlctlnn of their own
hearts, and to that verdict whnlevcr It
he, whatever It mean to the fortunes
of Jeremiah Thomas rchcr, 1 In ad
vance humbl bow,
' The campaign lias brought me neat
lo thousands, to tens of thousands
of men and women I had never met
before, and would nevei have known
had my life gone the way that was
planned for It I value those new
acquaintanceships bevond the powet
of words to describe The more Inti
mately I see the lives of wot Mug men
and women, the more admirable those
lives become in my ees Though
defeated tomorrow. I sh ill be glad I
mndo the race I would lathei my
pfo Itself weio totn out In th- routs
than that these choice experience!
were torn out of my mind and heart
I hope for vlrtorv, but I do not fenr
defeat Good right, inv friend'', good
night '
Election dav Itself was a dav of tur
moil The machine fought as If In Its
last Intrenchnient , all the weight of su
perior organization, all the power of
greater experience In the practical mat
ter of getting out the vote and count
ing It, all the subterfuges of unscrupu
lous men, an tne devices or accomplished
trlcksteis, all the Insolence that came
of possessing the election boaids, all
the rfrronterv and brutnlltv that re
sulted from having control of police nnd
mag strates were emploved Hut the
Ileal Republican workers stood up stoutly
foi their right, and so greit was the
popular feeling which its voung lead
er m warnings had aroused that the ma
chine dared not go the length of foimti
davs in the emplojment of vlolenc.
At 5 o'clocit ot election day Jerry
issued his thinks and congrauil itlcnn
to the workers of the Real Republican
Oigaulzatlon fur the r faithful and ef
fective effort In getting out the votes
'The next thing Is to get them counted,"
he reminded "Elections have been won
and stolen hi Philadelphia Let every
man whose dutv It is to enter imon the
long vigil of counting the ballots in Ills
division remember that a giave lespoti
slbilltv rests upon him to see that this
election, which I believe we have won,
is not stolen from us befoie morning
The same courage and tldclitv wnlch
were needed during the dav must be
exercised In double measure tonight "
The Interval between the closing of the
polls and the time when the count of the
first precinct was complete was the most
anxious hour for Jerry that he had ever
Known I'namo to it stiu, no tote nim
relf away from headquarters and went
down tn walk about, but there was no
such thing as a calming stroll, for on
everv hand people pointed him out or
crowded around to speak to him, to
wish him buccess or to Inquire what the
poitentu were Secreting himself in a
telephone booth he called up Ruth nnd
Invited her to go fur a ride, gaining
further prlvacv bv hiring a taxlcab
Instead of going back to headquarters
for Ills own automobile. Jerrv was soon
on the great boulevard with Ruth b his
side
It was like stepping into heaven for
a moment The short November daj
was drawing to its close The sharp,
cool breath of night filled his lungs and
washed his blood char of the fever of
political strife With Ruth so near him
evervthlng ele moved a great way off.
The city, the campaign, nothing mat
tered now but love and Ruth. Her hand
had stolen Into his, his arm whs around
her waist, her head was on his shoul
der, and there was little conversation
Each had so many, many things to think
about that speech was rather unneces
sary Life was flowing on their lives
were- flowing on the future, drifting
down upon them fast was big with the
niomlse of the unfolding of the mvsteiy
of love. That was enough to keep them
busv, and it did.
Thej did chatter though after a while,
and somewhere about 7:30, rested and
tiemendously refreshed. Jerry delivered
I Ruth at honiti foi hei dinner and piom
' ised faithfully that he would himself
take a bite at the club Uerore going to
headquarters for the first of the returns
As he dismissed the rah on Broad street,
however, his eje caught tho nickel of
a light nn a stereoptlcon sheet stretched
above the low buildings across the way.
A moving picture was dancing on the
screen, hut Just then gave way to a
slide which said'
'First returns, fortv-elghth division
Thlrtv -fourth Ward. Archer, 172, Far
rell. 41.
Jerrv ' heart leaped This was his
home division He had made it his cate
to know every voter in it personally; it
had given him a tremendous majority ,
but, as the figures still stood before his
eyes, and a faint cheer rose from the
gathering crowd his spirits sobered
"To think," he reflected, 'that forty-two
men In that division voted for Farrell.
Who are they? Who could they be?"
Jerry passed on Into his club, but the
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IN PHILADELPHIA
Macfarlanc
longer he thought of this the more the
returns from that first division dis
quieted him 'If Farrell got forty-two
votes, one-fourth hs many a I among
my own neighbors. In one of the most
Intelligent wards In the city, what will
he get In the downtown wards'' That
was his tcHsonlng as, with a cup of
coffee and til most nourishing sand
wich which a heeflesH Tuesdav afforded
ho sought to fortify himself against the
strains of watching which Hie night
would have In store for him
Leaving his club, and walking up
Broad street again toward Real Repub
lican headquarters, Jerry paused from
time to time to iei.1 the returns which
were beginning to appear quite regular
ly now Upon the newspaper screens
These were the outlying sparsely popu
lated wards of the well-to-do that count
ed first; mid invariably they were re
turning Archei majorities but these tna
Joiltles wtie not large enough to satisfy
the young man
As he nicked his way ucYosw Walnut
i street, a passing patrol wagon held him
up for a moment, jerry got a glimpse
of the Intel lor of this and saw It full of
men
"Vlctoi if gathering em In he re
marked to himself with grim satlsfic
tlon "Thev mav hti.il It from us but
this will bo a hard fall foi clectlun
thieves."
In the nest hlmk along Broid street,
two other wngon-loads of men in chaige
of olllcers went bv, but this time they
wire not pitiol wngons, but open auto
trucks, with Improvised neats of boards,
and olllcers in charge were plain-clothes
men Again Jcrty chuckled
'That's Victor agiln," he said, and
the picture of this beginning of court
battles which would help to clem up all
elections in the future elated the younr
reformer almost as much as the fair
prospect of his own election When he
reached the campaign headquarters he
asked about the arrests even before he
Inquired "Well, how's it going-"
'No arrests tonight." was reported to
i,ii "i.uiln fraud reported so far"
But I saw wagonfuls going down
Broad street "
' Don t know anv thing about II Look
at these. Mr. Archer," and the secretary
pushed a small sheaf of return sheets
under his hand ' It's going great' '
lerrv scanned them lmstllv.
' I can't see It." he said shortly, han
ing tho sheets back
Why, you're leading everywhere, so
tjr" " . , ,..
'So far," shrugged Jerry, pessimistic
ally, and passed on to his desk, where
he sat down and for a few minutes felt
himself rather a lonely figure of a man
His forte was action The time for ac
tion was over There was nnthlnp to
di now but wnlt The hour fn m 1 to
10 seemed longer than all the rest of the
campaign It was, moieover. a puzzling
houi for .Jerry and tor every oooy e-isc ni
headquarters The returns Indicated
strange things Ills majorities fluc
tuated strangely. They were small vvnere
thev should hive been big and big where
they should have been small
Jerry sit with a late edition ot the
Evening Courant on his lap
LANDSLIDE FOR ARCHER" Its
sweeping headline declared, but it was
predicated on those first early leturns
from the residence wards
From S o clock on these returns had
grown steadily less promising About 0
It had appeared that some of these so
called better-class viards were actually
voting against him giving their majori
ties for Farrell Jeirv contemplated
these with dismay
"Jerry." suggested Mike Kellv, who
was on hand at headquarters, 'did it oc
cur to you that vou are going to get
vour heaviest majoiitles in the down
town wards the old machine wards
some of them"
"No," lesponded the candidate, with
gloomy emphasis, "It didn't I expected
to cut 'cm down there somewhat, but
what I depend upon Is these great out
side districts and and Kensington I
expect Kensington to do very well for
us "
"Well, look at this " Kelly handed
him the returns from a division In the
Fourth Ward Archei, 184, Farrell, 92"
"What do you think of that?' laughed
his friend
Jerry walked over to a map on the
wall and located the division
'That's where I put that street
through and bioke up a nest ot rotten
tenements," he explained
"Well." Insisted Kelly. that's Just
a hunch You watcn You're going to
win, old man and yeu're going to win
with the votes of the commonest of the
common man "
Jerry's face lighted
"I d rather have that kind of a victory
than any other lies the only man worth
fighting for The others can take care
of themselves "
Kellv went nwav chuckllnp and Jeiry
fell to watching I.Ik totals again There
could be no doubt his majority was
slowlv dwindling At 10 15 It was no
longer a majority Tarrell was leading
and Broad street outside had become
a pandemonium of a fresh kind ot
rancous noises
But the next computation showed the.
pendulum slowing swinging back, and
ii
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at lO'oO jerry was ahead again
10 45 his majority had increased
uuu , at li o clock it was iimju
Kellv came back crowing, for it nasi
he totals beginning to come In from
flia Iniiiiaf rial vi u -H l (lint um.-. Im-nlun
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the scale
Jerry s face lighted up ' Thev did
believe me dldn t thev?" he exclaimed
"Those fellows out there And they
couldn t be biibed or Intimidated"
"J-ooks good" smiled Kelly. 'Looks
good '"
At 1 1 o'clock the majority had climbed
another fifteen hundred and tha "dope
sters," the keen heads, old or young, with
a nose for figures and a head for statis
tics, were sitting with maps before them,
on which returns of other years weie
plotted, and estimating majorities for
different sections of the city on the
baFls of the returns received thus far
tonight Just before 12 o'clock these
men had got their estimates combined,
and one of them came lushing to Jerrv
"You win'" he exclaimed "You will
carry the city by twenty-two thousand ' '
Jerry almost forgot to rejoice
"Is that all'" he asked hollowly
realizing now that he had hoped for a
very great majority, seventy-flve or a
hundred thousand
But there were plenty of others to re-
A. complete new ndiJ
CHAPTER IV
I'eggy Flies to Sea
(Promt Jollows Uencral Tin If I i 11
Si S. uimu In nil airplane factoni
'J'hric ihe hrlps catdi a spy, uiei
frle to dlanblc a new seaplane in
ii'lilih a naiji aviator. Lit utrna.it
Young, li about to go tn search uf
On mon mbmaiinca )
". CHARGE this man with liav lug
filed the wires of this senplanc
so that thev would break undei the
strain of flying," said Lieutenant
Young to tho guards who selrcd the
guilty foreman "I wish everv one here
to take particular notice of all that
occurred so that thev can testify at his
trial"
The workmen gave a low giowl of
anger and started toward Carl
'Hang the spy'" some one shouted
Lieutenant Young Jumped In fiont of
the prisoner.
"No, none of that'" lie cm led 'Let
the law take care of him We have
woik to do now. This seaplane must
he fixed so I can got after those (Jei
man submarines "
The men reluctantly olieyed though i
they threw threatening glinces at Carl '
as ne was hustled away by the guards
Genet a Thrift came flying back in
Peggy's aerial chariot.
w hat s tills I hear about a spy dam I
aging oui work?" he cried. Peggy told '
him and lie was very Indignant I
jiiaes me wuy the Huns try to hold
us back, but they can't do it." he ex
claimed "We're picpared for them,
thanks to the bovs anrl ghls and
grown-ups who support out army. Get
busy, you Whizzes, this job cun't wait
a minute'"
And the Whlrzes did get busy Thev
flew around with a zest and vigor that
astonished Peggy. In a ti Ice they hud
new wiies leady and by the time the
vvoikmen had removed the damaged
hi aces and had put them away to
be used as evidence against the spy
the Whizzes had everything ut hand
to rush the work through.
While the wires were being tight
tned, Peggy hnd a lot of fun climbing
aiound the deck of the seaplane and
examining the controls, the machine
gun and thp bomb chopping appaiatus
General Thrift and General Swallow
were as much interested us she was
and kept close beside her.
The seaplane was repalied in a sui
prisingly short time. Lieutenant
loung examined evety vvlie himself,
gave a satisfied nod, jumped Into his
jolce Cheeis. handclapplng.and hilari
ous laughter broke out The head
quarter rooms were suddenly crowded as
If everybody ut once had discovered that
vlctoi y had perched on the banners of
the Real Republicans and was pouting
In to enjoy the triumph with the leadeis
Prominent men. who had taken an
nggiesslve Intel est In the campaign,
came In to offer their congratulations
Jerry lecelved these felicitations of
Ills warm peisonal friends modestly, and
slipped away to the privacy of an Inner
room to telephone to Ruth To Ills sur
prise she was leported not nt home
'Out with Miss Letllia, Mr Aicher, '
reported the butler.
Jerry chuck'ed 'Out in the car
watching the election returns, I'll bet
a dollar was his conjecture
CHAPTER XLIII
The Court of Last Appeal
JERRY returned to his desk, ictor
As
Rolllnsoii, who had been out of
sight alt evening, appeared, his tall
figure threading its way through the
massed humanity and clouds of tobacco
smoke, his brow grave and troubled,
till he taught Jerry's eyes upon him,
then he smiled happily
"Youve won. handsomely '" he said,
gripping his friend's hand warmly
'Weve Just squeaked In," deprecated
Jerrv
"No," Insisted Rolllnson ' It was a
knockout fight and you won But It
was only a preliminary skirmish a -"urt
of ground-clearing action to what Is
ahead of us . We haven t got Into
the real campaign at all yet, old man
Could you slip out of here for a few
minutes and let me show you some
thing? '
"It would be a relief,' declared Jerry
The two men elbowed their wav out
to the elevator, and down to the street
Through crowds that hurrahed wlldlv
for Archer, Jerry, with his hat pulled
low over his eyes, hurried after Rollln
son as fast as the thronged streets per
mitted, and within n few minutes Rol
llnson had led him to the marshal s
room In the Federal Building, which
they found crowded with newly ar
rested men
"What's this"' Inquired Jerry ' They
said they werent making any election
arrests till tomorrow "
'This" explained Victor ' l our real
job We have been dealing through this
J V"x".t?L'"l,"" ", " 'J."F.?. """. .
campaign with little A u question"
Philadelphia of Pennsvlvania. of Amei-
I . .. '. . ... .... ' .
mu tne i vv vv or ims country
l don't get vou" said Jeriv These
men don t look like criminals Why
whv thero's one of oui workmen"
"You'll find three others of your
workmen among the two bundled men
arrested here tonight This Is the Eed
eral round-up of a wholesale plot for
sabotage, at son, possibly murder, that
was to have been sprung In Philadel
phia tomorrow at 9 o'clock.
' You don't mean It ' ' gasped Jerry
It's the solemn trutn Sylvv got
the first Inkling of it from her father
months ago The day vou were stabbed
I started Simmons on the trail
"But what are our men doing in
It?
Simmons teds me his operators found
neatly a wagonload of dvnamite about
your works tonight, and the search is
still going on," replied Victor
Jerrv felt suddenly weak
"And weve always dealt squarelv
with our men, and treated them like
human being The the vipers'"
Tut' tut' Dont call cm that, said
Victor ' Call em fools, dupes. mad-
'DREAMLAND ADVENTURES'
By DADDY
FIGHTING FOR AMERICA
- Hltwrw eacn .trcK. ocotnmno ilnnnrw
"Hang the spy !" some one flioulcd
seat nnd befoie Peggy knew what
he was about, started his engine There
was a tremendous roar and a grout
blast of wind a .hs propellei caught
the aii Peggy nnd Geneial Thrift
threw themselves flat on the deck and
grasped stays to keep from being
blown off Geneial Swullovv wasn't so
foitunite and was whirled into the
air fui behind
The seaplane gave a luich glided
down the wavs and btruek the water.
Theie was a sudden smother of foam
as the Imatllke machine lushed across
the bav anothei lurch, and it begun to
climb into the cleai air
men, if nu want to Though thee
fellows ate not criminals, 'irtf sn t
c . r.i l t
anv crime some or tnem would stop at
They've had it .'lumped jnto 'cm by
agltatois Thev supplv the spirks and
we, the employing class of Amciica.
supply the powder In the rorm of our
blind mishandling of labor, and labor
tituatlons
"Jerry, Its a crude kind of fight
v.e've been in A sort of rudimentary
one It was a fight that had to be
mule, but aftei all. It was only a symp
tom Corrupt political machines have
got to be smashed, of course Our
laws have got to be enforced, and bad
ones lepcaled and better ones made
But. fostcted by old evils new evils
have grown up This pruhlem of the
relation between capital and labor, this
question ot u sir ml nit anrl nssiml nt-
Ing the it wards of Industry, of secur
ing ot such rights for the masses as
the classes are able to secure for them
selves thatH the problem ahead of this
country ' And government has got to
solve It '
CONTINUED TOMORROW
THE DAIL Y
I p i
W' Jm? - Aw TL
i
r s
Qualifying
fl) KATHLEEN ,M. MOORE
GLENV1LLE was only n small town
The male populttiun was in the
mlnorltv but the town boasted a sK
stai service fiig
A few of the girls had organized a
benefit club
"Well call It the S S S Club sug
gested Vera Qulun, ' and no one hut a
soldier 01 sailor's sweetheart will be
eligible '
' KIne ' esclalined Gladvs 'Then
Baby wen t be eligible becaiitc she liasn t
anv sweetheart '
The. aforementioned IJabs heard of
the plans and applied for inenibeiship
on the giouud that she had two bi oth
er aid four cousins in the service all
volunteers
"But you mus have a sweetheart in
ordei to qualify ' informed Vera e
are soirv but y.u cant join
Oil, verv well miss she replied
I tartlv 'III quallfv befoiji another
i month l Up or my nime tsn"t Baibara
Helena Willows
Girls called era 'well put It this began "I not oiuy mide myself eligible
way If Baibara Willows gets a sweet- to the club, but I -helped Increase the
heart In the service inside of one inenth ranks of Uncle Sam by three. Evl
well have to admit bet to oui iluh If deuce' and line she opened the door,
not, she cant have anothei chance and admitted two khaki-clad boys, and
Airlving at this agreement the clublone In nuval uniform,
, IJourned , The girls gasped in surprise as they
The club met foi Its regular weekly behc,d BArt and'Bll in khaki, and Ted
mee'.ne and since Babs had another, n K lmtty blue salor 8U)t
week In which to quallfv the whole Here is my evidence." Babs con-
evening was spent In dli utslng herltlnued, taking note of the surprised
progress i i00ks on the glrla' faces
' Po vou think there i any chance of i m,, .,. ,, . .,j l
her iolnlne' asked the president who . M'f" ,era-.lad"8.u lnfd her .."V"
was 'not overanxious for her member-
shin
'Of course not leplied Ruth Why
Wednesdav night 1 saw hei at the
movies with Bill Stratam and if lazv
Bill ever joined the whole town would
die of surpilse '
'And 1 saw her In the paik Prlday
night vv th Ted Barlow e. a likely young
man. but too fond of the glad rags
lo don a uniform " put In May
i savv her sitting on the porch one
night last week with handsome Art
Gordon but there s no chance of his
joining And thus thev picked ut tills
one and pecked at another
M
and ending Saturday.
K"AB '5
Peggy's bteath vvaa taken awajritw'J'SJ
U. -..,1.3-.... e i. , t ZJVt i 1
l ouuuciiness cii it. uu. ji waa wrFf3.v,
eral moments before she realized trSit vA
fihp Ufla liplncr rnrrlnrl anrav that n.U'' .Sw
was an unintended passenger OrtI'
seaplane that was rushlnjr to battle tan V
America Hhn folt n llttio hlvi- f .v
fear, then a thrill of Joy.
"W-vv.vvhat fun'" she shoutdfitoA 1
General Thrift. "We're going to g,l
::..... . rs . f
jiurran:- nnswered tho general, jm.3
"but I'm sorry General Swallow -SPt Tsjjj
lost." , ' Pl
"Don't worry about me," shrilled; :
voice, and Oeneral Swallow dartediift ' ,(
Denmci tnem. "This machine will ha S J
w rts- .. iui woici cci jusc inc. Vl
Lleutcnnnt Young gave them pletitV A
ui c-Auiiemeiu. ne tested tne seapMm
thoroughly, diving, wheeling abouf,
and doing a lot of hair-raising oturltt.
Satisfied that it was all right, he sped
down the bay and dropped to the ur
face of the water In front of a navy
yard As lightly as though It were a
PHnrin. fir bt-nllcrlit Iho uaantona .. a
1 an incline where a young ensign and
u crew oi sailors awaited him.
'Oh, he isn't going to fight after
all " cried Peggy, much disappointed.
But she spoke too -soon. The young
ensign saluted Lieutenant Young.
"Are you ready, sir7" he said.
"All readv. Ensign Ward," an
nounced the Lieutenant.
"Then we will load, sir," answered
the ensign.
The crew turned the seaplane
around and hurried bombs aboard, ,
"See? my Whizzes!" cried General
Thrift, proudly, as thousands of tiny
workers' assisted the sailors. H
"And there are. more Whizzes!"
cried General Thrift, pointing to A
shipyard nearby, where the 1110
workers were fairly swarming, hurry
ing woik along.
"And there are still more," he
shouted, pointing to coal docks where
great piles of fuel were being rushed
Into the bunkers pf transports and
fielghters. "Everywhere Whizzes are
lushing war woik and fighting for
Uncle Sam!" X
And it was tiue. In whichever "di
rection Peggy looked In the busy har
bor there were the tiny soldiers push
iiig things along. When she savv. all
that they were doing she was ghift
that her workers were among them
and she made up her mind that she
would earn and save every quarter
she could to put an additional Whizz
to work. -..ji.
She was so much absorbed In watch
ing the Whizzes that she scarcely
noticed that the sailors had finlsnea
I loading the keaplane with Its bombs and
' Itri l-il-vtrl (li a mill tinimilntllnn nnrl Ikrlt
UK rapid Jlie Kim ammunition, and that
Trw le. ll'd .l l,n,l 1AA-..J 1 li
Ensign Ward had leaped Into theyoh
server's &eat. Again there was a roar
from the piopeller, again the wind,
neaily blew her away, again the sea
plane swilled through the water, and
again It rose gracefully Into the air,
mounting higher and higher and head
ing to the eastvvaid. Far away In the
e.nly morning light Peggy saw a rip
pling sparkle. It grew wider and
wider.
"Why." exclaimed Peggy. "It's the?.
ocean." MfMi
ill iv lew ,niiiii-3 ciicrjr ncic uw-VT
. 1. l.ll. .All!.-. .. n.,AM ..h.1 W-m.-A-.
uici luc iiifc,ii luiiinij natca anu vis.ii,'
toward the open sea where MlMd
Uncle Sam s transports in denanc '
the treacheious U-boats that layc,
wait for them. j
(7oniorioiv will be told
.otoVts
icanlane. tilth 1'eoou on board
earehrs the ocean for the German ?fe7
submarines ) j&
NOVELETTE
Tuesday night came and the girls
had assembled early, and were await
ing Barbara anxiously
"Has any one seen Barbara since our
last meeting" asked the president.
There came a chorus of noes
The discussion drifted to a new fam
ily ihat had moved to Cenvllle a few
days ago Fifteen minutes had elapsed
but no Barbara then there came a long
peal from the doorbell
"There she Is now," they all cried, as
Ruth hastened to open the door.
Babs enteted. looking very charming,
and. smiling prettily, she said. "Well,
girls, I have won without trying, ana
now may 1 be a member of your select
club"
' Pirst give us evidence of your quali
fication,' demanded Vera, growing 'un
easy ' es produce ev Idence," cried the
others
'Veiy well, replied Babs, in a mat-ter-or-tact
tone of voice "My work
this month has not heen in vnin" .h.
'V,3"'" "' "a,u' ",e" " n?".4.?y5
But which is your sweetheart?
They
can't all be "
But wed like to," piped the boys,
cheerily
.None of them, ' and Babs laughed
mischievously
"N'cae of them ' echoed the girls
'Then I fall to tee where you have
qualified, ' Vera said hastily, ,
"But. Msn President, don't Jump at
conclusions. ' Barbara responded, "I
haven't finished yet Here Is my sweet
heart and here is proof that ho Is my
sweetheart," and she held up her Isft
hand, displaying a dazzling solitaire.
At the Bame time a stalwart young
man, dressed in khaki, made his ap
pearance, smiling.
Allow me to Introduce Sergeant Al
bert Phillips, a new resident of the
town of Glenvllle," said Babs. "Jjei;
geant Phillips and I have been goiil
friends for a long time I met him
through my brother when he was at
camp. ' in answer to their questioning
glances "Being home on furloukh be- ;
cause of Injuries sustained In action, &
he paid pie a surprise visit. Ted, QUI s. ''
uuu irL liav line iisceueu cu my uibwju- .'"
Ing for a month or more, enlisted .-je jiEf
uncie nam anu eieciea me as ensir o-
muiucr outs uuve i iiuhiiucui . i-fjl
she tossed her head saucily to the side. - ,.'
The girls cast envious glances toward !.;';
Babs and her young army. After a Y
biief silence Vera said. "We ce.rtalrdv' 3
tnV nn nor hatn to nu. Barbara. UYMI
have overquallfled. We admit you are T
a full-fledged member without further ;f
ado " j. p-
tsarDara emuea upuu iier nriuyr wmen, f- j,
stood erect behind her and said. "Well. Vf
l,nv, T linvtt mm nllf OrtrsrlnUa. fllirS J.
like you boys are going to do some day' fl
and turning to her club sisters she MtdJ , M
"We'll leave Qlenvllle tomorrow. The ' j
Doy s lor mcir uiucrciu itwi mwx. v, -
for a. farm, where I am engaged let W
wont 2
all summer."
Th lrla Ynreeri their remit U
this news, but congratulated Barhalk
on her patriotic spirit. r
"I move we enroll Babs as an teaftV
orary member of the S. B. S. CW.
bmaCa km 1?,,S T
OffVIV Ul .U.(4. ?
Tne motion was carried unanimn
and patriotic Barbara and her ;A
friends received a hearty aend-oS I
club, and the town ox uienvnie j
added four more stars to Us)
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