FWiP ?w,jffi'(W'jt(i-'v 'crv'r$si'$v-iT jf --' v j I ..! "? - ..i. :-) ? , . - .-j,-! , ,Vv. EVE&ItfG MJBLrO LUlLli-l'HlLABBLPHIV, SAOTfiDAY, "aTJGUEjI! 0 &19 i J , i-. -,Kyti Ai S1 Haw &. ' n. v, The Lady of the Night Wind (Copyrluht. 1WB, by the MucbuUv Co.) f (Copjrlsht, 1810, by the Tubllc ledger Co.) F THIS STARTS TI1K STORY iA week-end house party Is being held at the home of Kntlierine and Bingham Harvard. Anions Hie guests arc Clancy, Arrlior. Dem tiling, Sears and one Conrad Belknap. Katherine discovers Ilelknap cheat ing at a game of cards. She deninnilH that he leave her house immediately, Ho scornfully refuses to do so. Kath crinc Is about to tell her husband of the occurrence, but hesitates owing ru u peculiar influence which Bel knap seems to exert over her. Con vinced of his deception, however, and suspicious of his actions, she is all the more determined to ferret out his real identity. Kntlierine hns former ly hnd an experience ni n police head quarters detective under the name of JLady Kate of the Police. She inter -repts a telephone call of Belknap's and discovers the name and address of a woman confederate whom he calls Hcrta. Sh leams Hint lMknnp has set afoot some scliniuc. Realizing that he is suspected li Kntlierine. Ilelknap threatens to impose the fact that Katherine's brother. Roderick Mnxwllton, who is believed hj his parents to be dead, fines n term in prison. Ilinchnni Harviird, who once bore the alias "The Night Wind." "becomes suspicions of Belknap and Katherine's attitude toward him. Katherlne's parents arrive nt her home. Seuorila Ccrvantez. a pianist, also arrives, she apparei.tlv i un able to speak. A Hash of rcognitinu seems to pass between her and Itel knnp. AM) I1ERK IT COXTIM'KS mO HETTY, by whose side lie seated " himself, he appeared trnngcl pre occupied: so much so, indeed, that she fcpokc about it. "I was thinking," be o-cl.uiw.l smilingly, "what it pit it is that one so exquisite! ' lovely as that pinim player shou'd be speechless. By every rule of fair play, joii know, she ought to possess a beautiful voice: one ex pects it of her. 1 or 1 experienced something very much like a shock. Mrs. Clancy, when 1 was told that she is dumb." "You met them, nnd Kntlierine pre sented you? Isn't it too bad?" "Too bad ! Why, if you knew what a voice she I niu getting twisted. If one stop to realize what a voice she ought to have, to match such n face " lie stopped again, and a crlmnce which mb-bt have cx.M-esse.I re- BWt,dlMPPo!ntnieiit.n.liiilrntl..i..nrrc-,3 sentient, and which, in fact suggested aii four. found expression in bis features, "To think of her being 11 dummy!" he ndded. sotto voce, but with emphasis. "That is distinctly nn unkind oxpros- 1 Blon, Mr. Ilelknap," Hetty exclaimed ' indignantly. "She is not a dummy. Sh lost her voice while she was taking fcinging lessons strained it studying for tho opera. She was to be a very great Btar, but her voice left her. Her hearing is perfectly good: sometimes khe can spenk, in n very slow whisper, although it is very great effort for her ; to do it. and nobody ought to asl; it ot her. Always she can talk with her fingers on the piano keys. Sh "l'ou surprise me. Mrs. Clancy. 1 am not aware that you knew the lady. I had been led to believe that she was a utranger to nil of us," Ilelknap snid quietly. "Have you er met her be fore somewhere or heard her play?" "Ko. I ilou't know her nt nil, al though I feel as though 1 should. She is " Betty stopped. "She is what?" Belknap asked with rcpresseil eagerness to bear the answer. Retty tossed her head and laughed -"--.' - aloud as she started from her .'hair to a . her feet. "I started to say that twice," she re marked, with mischief in her eyes, "but just because you seem so anxious to know the rest of it. I won't finish it. I am afraid, Mr. Ilelknap. that you are considering the practicability of a serious flirtation with a speechless woman, so I shall keep half an eye on jou." "Are you leaving me so quickly?" he asked, with a show of regret iu his eyes. "Yes, M. l'athetique for you are pnthctie in your pathos over the beau tiful pianiste I am going iu. to the telephone, to speak ta my husband. To-i Is so impressionable thnt I really think he should be warned beforehand of the presence of one so surpassingly beautiful ns Senorita Ccrvantez. Alle-ka-iam. Mr. Belknap, " she finished mockingly. and ran away, laughing. Without in the least realising it. she left the man writhing. Betty had done nothing more than banter him. without forethought ,.- b- jective; but in both her wonl . aid her manner he read-it wa, pure fan.-, of coursc-n threat. She hnd .w . wed the idea, without intention t, d, so. that idle had seen, or hear I. nr kn .vvn Senorita Ccrvantez before th it day. and that for some undisclosed reason he preferred to keep others iu ignorance of that fact. If Hetty had sought with studied de liberation to stick a poisoned pin into the only vulnerable part of Belknap's anatomy, she could not have accom plished It so well ns by those carelessly and mischievously chosen words. He stared after her, wondering what couid lie behind what si,,, had said.' for he was strangely puzzled, oddly di- turbed, and actually worried by the d iclopmcnts that had followed upon the arrival of Senorita Ccrvantez ; nnd he was asking himself over and over again : "What the devil does she mean bv playing dumb? What's her game in being speechless? Hns' this con founded Hetty Clancy ever seen her. ' or beard her play, or heard her speak?! And If so, does she know that the dummy act is a lie? Has Hetty Clancy. seen me before, too? Has she seen Herta' and me together somewhere? She is! from the South; it might be so. And' whnt the devil is she telephoning to JCr w York nbout, right off the bat after ' this happens?" I Those were the questions that flew I lato Belknap's mind when Hetty left ill,- but the most puzzling one of the t was the first one: "What iu the I h 4i whrbJ does Berta menn whnt is her f ' ii! what does she hope to. accom- ' cjifcu by playing dumb?" ',' Jf , Lady Kate Gets Wise iy'li "I-jBTTY, having Tom on the tele- ff w'4J phone, announced tne arrival ol tne Ita, uexcriocu ner uvnui) mm urr expressed the hope that lie WMIiMWr nmterlnl questions, nnd finally came to the real purpose of calling him up. "I want you, please, to stop nt the house on your way out tonight, nnd I ring to me thnt old morocco case with the strnp nround it, thnt used to belong to my grandmother. You remember it. don't you? It's in the safe where the silver Is kept. I'huh. Y'es, dear. There are some old daguerreotypes in it. vou remember? They were made about i thousand years ngo, but nil the same. Tom. this Senorita Kspanola is n dead ringer for one of those old d.igucrrro- ypes, miles I m very greatly mis- tanon. vvnen sue nrsi .ippcu..-.. onion r ior u e ,.., u, , ...,. ,..,. ... .,,.... i .,. uf ..i..i. ...i. ....,, it was Hint I had seen her before, nnd lien I remembered that old portrait in ginndinother's niorncco portfolio -case. Of course, dear. It may lie jut a fool notion of mine, but I'd like to see for aivself, so you needn't look nt it: jou wouldn't know, anyhow, because von haven't seen her. A beauty ? Oh, my dear! I should say sol Mr. Belknap 'ms lost his heart to her already. Any - until Kntlierine. havin, attended to the waits of her beautiful entertainer, nnd isked her to join the guests on the veranda as soon as she wns inclined o do so. and having directed thnt the .enorita's small trunk be brought from the station, went out of the house l,j the side door, nnd. without previous intention, but because she found it ilensant tn be alone for a moment Iropped upon the sheltered- rustic seat low. 1 wo in insi uie in n',, ii-i ,,i,i. ...... ,,,.., .i,",., in,- iiuiiiii, unit nil- u-on, And iii n few moments 1 ... . ..... . . eliemv : M w-otnnn win, must. nprfMrco. .. .,. . .... i, ...... . ' .iiu jii n n vv iiioiutiiis .... ,', . 1. I... .1. . I 111, ,',(1111,1,11 ,.,,1111111 ,.1111 lltl, 11 ,!, 1111,11 1 old P cture, f 1 ilocs iook iikc ner. , i , , i i t- .i away, inmost indistinct wnispermg con- . ,.Vi.tilti- clothes hnd been chnn . . ' .. , , v.... also Inn e know edge of Kntlierine s so- i . ..v . ... , ,.. ' ,"""" ' .': l". """ "rPn l"nn 1 I linn. J es, near, hi nnuv, .u, - iiinn-u. mu i- mi ni-rri inn love y ., smart s k bath nir sn I nnd her i ' """.. ' iret. ii till w in hill come there to net lis . ... .. , i .. . .'. ' vm"" siik Hamuli, Mill, and ner listen. ,, i V. . .,,.,, ,l" "" -,lr-s- Harvard. lorglve niu It ,l.,nced as she stenned softlv from tlm I ' an accomplice and assistant to' Belknap ' i sp.,n. ,..., f.,,niiinr " ""' ' " ", MM ,. ,' ', ' so,llJ lrom tne She finished by making n sound in j , threat to divulge it. unless nn- . ' . ... . ' ll0"-'' ,""1 r" ''"''"J- ,I,nv" io t1"" le- I ... i . .... I. .... .. .... . I hCIl. tl) K:il heritlP iWfnr nmtiTr.. s..i-f.wl tini1i '.i.i ..ti tf si-. Mil 1 1 lime i. a.. . int ' ' nil u-nw r in hit? iv u tnr " ""- .....u..s. -'mm'i ...... i.. Ill l"ll v" " " --- -- iiiii.v. ...... ...... .... ,-.,......, ...... beneath the ro-e Imwer w inch luo 1 neen .1(,(M,.., Kntlierine lifted her head, and even while she returned Roberta's cm-' II'"-'"?- I'1"1 sll( s,'ttl(''1 llcrsl'lf -be s ic of one of her verbal contests , ,t, partly distended nostrils, started racf Shc w!ls r(.Iir-llod and attracted ' fortablv when the crunching sands sent with Belknap. t , her feet beneath the rose-bovver, with Th(, wnnmM friBht(.uc(1 hvr ., cIlHnnC(j t a friendly warning that some one O -mild see out from its f collided the light .if battle shining in her eyes. KT s-h.. wanted to strike her and . "'Ke also walked the beach at midnight ; eeess much better than into it froin'wiHi delian. e in her heart nnd brain, hurt her becauso of her association with I but she was deaf to their call, for nl- without. and from where she sat. , "nil with 'he glory of successful con- . Jtolkuiip. and she longed to embrace her ready she had fallen asleep nnd wns hrongh the interstices between climbing ' quest for her accepted goal. ! and nake a friend nnd confidante of dreaming. use-stems and iuterla I bmiglis of. "So be it." she murmured, nnd her, 'because of the magnetism and the! Dreaming of hospitals in a far-off foliage, she caught glimpses of the tig- ; ires around the tennis-courts and of .In.so iipim the veranda. She saw Betty leave the side of Belknap and go into the house, laugh ing: she saw Belknap, presently, rise and stroll about the grounds with ap parent nimlessncss, although and she found that she was watching him in tently, without having realized it each t in ti that lie made carried him nearer to that same shp entrance from which she had just conic. i s in l'Iii tho rnir n- nnti an nnn ii'itemi She saw, too. that when he hnd passed . . .'.'," , ' ' . 1 ' " lh'" " n j "11 no W ! ver if notice was - - being taken of his movements. Then, of a sudden, he started into .piicker motions, approached the steps to the side entrance, sprang up them, and darted inside. It was then that Katherine's police training in other words, the habit of suspicion proved its value. As palpably as if the words of it had been spoken into her ears, the truth about Senorita Ccrvantez was betrayed to her. Senorita Ccrvantez was not Senorita Cervuntez nt all or, if she were that jf Ccrvantez happened to be really her line name, then her other one. her first one, the given name that belonged to' her and that hnd not been mentioned, was icouerta. She was the woman with the voice! She wns the female accomplice of Conrad Belknap, whose arrival at My- liiest she bad been anticinating Katheriiie wns dazed by the shock of the intelligence and s,e sat verv still indeed iu her rose bovver ' ' ' s!,, ,, , , , , , Mie hn.l not dreamed of such a p.issi- t,:i;.. .1,1 11 n,.,,i " " ni"" although she realized that she Kvi,h her conipaniou. The nrticles were. mif'ltt lll)t ll. It'll lir.rtn. .... .. ...... ..... !.. . 1 I iiittiii. icii iv MiiTin wii me 11-11 is. ii. ,r , , ;. ', , , , .... ...ii. i mum nni-ii u.r uccoiiipneo was to be expeted to arrive at Mv - quest? Such a thought would not have ";i'l'"'''i'l " '"'r in wildest in.a if she had not seen and watched Belknap's actions just then; but was not the time at hand for the fulfillment of the "arrangements." for the appear ance at Myqucst of the no omplice, as revealed by the voices in the telephone ' "Assuredly," she told herself iuaudi bly. "there can be no mistake." She recalled also the meeting betweci me two on me veranda, when she wa taking the senorita into the house - Belknap's apparent amazement becaus. of the pinuiste's infirmity, which had been natural enough at the time, but which took on nn entirely new aspect iu 'I'e list of the later revelation. lie had not anticipated that; he had not exnected it: it hml nninnnl him n of his studied reserve nnd calm be- cause he bad not been told to expect it ..ij,., ,..,,.. ...... ., ,. . .,,. Kath in h,, , ed of hers.df vo u '."",, '' , .. . 'r"r'at Heh't m f " "rrat ,l8,,t ...I!,' .,, ,,,.,- . , .J ' ,,,,,'"I,,? Ither.ne did not n'" " ' iiivuiiii..s, mil. uir.i were ii.ifectlv worded lor all of that:1 and she replied to the self-asked j query "Because she did not know it herself until, upon that instant when she heard i my voice speaking to her in welcome, and recognized it, she knew that she would betray herself to me on the spot, if she utteied a word. That's why. And oh, what wit! What splendid presence DOROTHY DARNITNursie Hath Charms to Sooth, , I HE.ARD TOMMY .THOMAS WA5 SICK of mind ! Whnt superlntlve mentnl pre- ,.,, v,,,ii r-.-, ,i, ,iu,-i viji n-;, . klll mil- : III'- t'll'l i'l ill,- .llllllllll, Willi IIKl' 111 never once batted an eye.'' coquette with him, nnd Roberta (It, was It would be difficult to describe the thus that Kntlierine mentally named her precise effect upon Kntlierine Harvard ! now) wns standing beside n ehnlr oc of thnt suddenly acquired knowledge leuplcd by Mine. Snvnge, and wns writ for, be it snii! with all emphnsls, it ing rapidly upon one of the tablets wns knowledge absolute, even though Itltignln, evidently responding In the Inn hnd not been so much ns suggesteiKto gunge of Castile. ner mind until flint moment n! com plete conviction of its truth. It stunned her for the moment. The fnce, the manlier, the personal ity of the senorita. had imnresseil Knth- ,.r,I(, ,s fnvnrnuiv ns in,i the woman's voice when she hnd I rst heard t nnon . ... : . . . , ,,, trleplmne wire. She hnd been drawn tl, t,p entertainer. strangely, oddly, psychologically, intuitively inexpli inhly Is perhaps a better word than any I of them and the fact remained, the I puzzling fact, too, that it hnd been a rare event, indeed, in Katherlne's ex periences, when her intuitions had been at fault. Yet, present in her own home wns -what could it be that Ilelknnp and tlii liciitititul woman were after at My- quest .' And in her wns no inenn adversary. In her was a foemnii worthy of all if Kntheriue's skill: as subtle, as re siMineftil. ns rcaily of wit. and as cour ageous ns Kntlierine herself. I. iki-the wnrhorse that scents the (lis- taut battle, like the cavalry steed that .ar ,,e hugle s peal to hoots an. ..tepped from the bower into the patli- way, moving svvutiy niong u toward the side entrance through which Bel- knap had disappeared. , She peiieve.i mat no ua.i gone in io seek an interview with the senorita, and she hoped that she might find them and surprise them in the act of con versing together, thus exposing the se norita' i subterfuge. Such was Katherine's intention when she started forward, for she was filled ivvith resentment at the deception that ' I, ml been sn .leftlv iirncticfd unoii her : - .,,.........-- . .--- - - - . ... hot l.v the time she passed the door- n second thought convinced her of the impracticability of Mich an act. ... . . . . 'Hottrr. mnn. iwifor. to iimkp inrtn both believe that I 11111 ignorant ( deception," she told herself, "nnd to watch nnd wait and to keep 011 watching and waiting." She came upon them silently, herself unobserved, where they fiice.l one nn other in the embrasure of a window in the drawing room. Senorita Ccrvantez, pianiste, 1111- loubte.l accomplice of Conrad Belknap voiceless, and yet, if the truth were known, the possesor of the most at- tractive speaking voice that Kntlierine had ever heard proved herself through 1 carelessness at the very beginning of j her stay at .Mynuc&t. She was stnndinir in the embrasure ' of the drawing-room window, with ; Belknap, it is true, when Katheriiie 1 noiselessly approached them through the music room ; but .1 little sheaf of ivory I tablets and a tiny gold pencil (not unlike the same convenience that was, nfT''''1,(1 b' Mmi'- Snvnge) dropped from , 1"'r m"t01's at ,Ik '""'uent when Kath- ori"e (list'"vrrMl thola' un(1 ll wou,,l lmv'' bwn "Pl'iircnt to anybody that o, i,,i i, vini. both tn converse' .!.. ..... r i. ... .I,. .. i-ocmingiy. u part 01 ii4;r rcKiii.u ,.p- parel uu.i were nttaclied to a tine gold Ll,,,),, thnt encircled her neck, as nn older woman nugh bnve carried a lorgnette. There was not n circumstance con nected with her expression or demeanor to betray her to the sharpest observer and the sole satisfaction that Katheriiie , oul.l glean by reason of her stealthy ipronc-h was in Ilelknap s attitude. He was plainly annoyed, palpably 'iistrated and flustered. It was evi- I 'nt to Kntlierine that he had de- I 'tided an explanation nnd thnt it bad een denied to him. If shc had been i,t... i. ,,.f..i i - n .in..inH,..i ware of the last communication thatily vns written on one of the ivory tablets. i nil as speedily erased, she would have comprehended better the reason for the exasperation that gripped him. One 'more such rcmnrk from you I will send me back to where I came ! fmm- J wl1' ,nltc no risks-. It-'s si"tPI' is -"'"'l''' t'ian -vou think fnr- If ' -vo" d0"'1 I),ay "P to me tliorouRlilj . !' wiU s nwa3"' aml y0U w.,n ,",VP ,0 P'a5' n l0"P ,1BI,.d ! !,B1t is .fina1' ""I what the senorita had written - and I Catherine had not nnved on the scene soon enough to overhear the remark tnni nan induced u, n.. ..... u...n ,i.. . ... wns r(,ady to ,,nd the interview. Kven ns Kntlierine crossed the music room toward them and saw th" ivory tablets drop from Roberta's fingers, she stepped through the open window to the veranda, and Ilelknap, perforce, followed. So did Katherine, in effect, although the passed out by way of the door i' W DID T SO HOW YES. HE"5 SICK IN BED GE By VARICK VANARDY Author of "The Tuo. Fared Man," "Alias the Night Wind," etc j Ilelknnp Joined the society buds at' So she wns quite prepared in. thnt way, too, anil was not to bo 'surprised when Kntlierine went outside. Kntlierine went to them, and Roberta wrote: "IMcaso go with me to the piano and i lf , ,.i,,.. (,. ,. i.. i"".' -"l - "" ..., imiv . otlieis not to follow us. 1 wish to nliiv now. to vou. alone." So Kntlierine mntlc the announce ment nn tl then, as they went toward the doorway side by side, she felt one er ,.,,r in' nil, ' M !7hri,.S:f",Btwtorw,,l',M!n,i "May 1. please V" And. when Kath- erlne nodded her head in reply, and i ment, Roberta kissed her on the cheek. Wns the strnnge woman a saint in j the toils of Sntan, compelled agninst i her will to become Belknap's accomplice In dishonor and (lime' Wns she. also. n victim of the effrontery nnd threats of Belknap, because of some secret of 'hers that the man possessed? Or, was she .hist n willinir tool, no initiioi-til itch . ,tnre, a beautiful vntuliire. and. with it all, a perfect, n superb actress? i K...ri,.( shruddercd Invnb.ntnrllv fascinution that she exerted. Roberta played. ,-,,... , . , , . , , . L .. , T" ..,, .". "',.".! .. llll in-, . mi,,, nil lllu illlll u, ji, uuu her chin in Jut hand Never, never, hn.l she listened to such i j i .. music as sue near.i tiien. Senorita Ccrvantez had written truly upon her tablet when she asserted that she could talk with her lingers. ! Such fingers and bauds, such mes-1 ., . . !-nK,'s as ""'v ''"' 0,lt- Ml1'" music ns tll,'-v produced. It was wonderful iui- lITonipiu, also, iv.nl Hie believed. ,. ., . i It begnn with brilliance, ns if por- Itraying the fullness of life's content- " ri' "r ... "VJ " """" "l, ninnt if fr win, int.. tiw fit !,... ..r Of tllPi"1111 "I'1J 11 IWO, WHO WCrP 1L Ills all the world to one another, were alone , together, and dwelt 111 happiness ; it , rumbled into distant storms . ' . and the ' thrrntenings of gathering clouds; it crnshed into violence, and upheaval, and strife, and terror; it minoied into ' pathos and sorrows, and into the shad- i ows of regret and remorse; it rose again 1 into a tarantella of recklessness and abandon, of license nnd irrcsiuinsibilitv : it subsided, slowly, into the humdrum j of mingled storm and -clearing; it died 1 away, gradually, in major and minor ' minirlincs of uncertainties nnd .lmilitu I mitigated by the offerings of promises and hopes nnd at last it tinkled away into silence, at high treble, followed by n single, distant note of bass, uncannily giving the impression ot n double iu- terrogntion nt the end. Truly the woman could talk with her fingers. ltnhertn left the niano nnd went ?, Katheriiie where she sat iu silent and motionless absorption. She bent down close to her beautiful young hostew as beautiful in n different type as her- . ..., ...s... 1... ...... ....Vi.. ,.-..,. .en uuu win. iivi 110s iimii-uiuk i-viuu- Prine'K ear. whispered, so faintlv that '. .... ,t was aIl impression rather than a , sound that escaped her: "Dear Mrs. Harvard, did I say truly when I wrote that I could talk with my fingers? I have tried to t.-Il you i sofiietliiiiK- about myself something ul .the past." She seemed to hesitate, then, for an instant, and added the whispered words being fainter than b fore: "I want oh, bow much I do t want to bnve yon try to love me." Kntlierine. stnrtled bv the nnssinnnte longing thnt was conveyed, even by so faint a whisper, looked up .piickly, but already Roberta had pulled herself erect, had turned away and was gliding swift out of the room Truly was she a woman of mystery aye, truly ! Then it was that Katheriiie saw something more ; she saw Belknap ns he stepped partly into view from be- hind an easel in the drawing room she saw him trust out nn arm and hand and seize upon on. of Roberta's wrists; She saw him draw her forcibly after him as he retreated again behind ll.e easel, and shc saw a frown between his eyes and the sneering snarl of his wolfish smile baring his glistening teeth. Also, having studied it and been trained to it, she could lip-rend the words he uttered, although shc could not hear them but, if Katherine had needed con Urination of her suspicions, she re ceived it. "You she-devil!" were the words he used. "What do you " Then they both passed beyond her view. (TO BE CONTINUED) etc., B utNotto Cure HE IT BAD? ' MEGLECT'. INSTEAD OF sendin'for A DOCTOR, THEV PLAYED THE PHONOGRAPH 1 DAILY NOVELETTE MOONLIGHT AND MIDNIGHT By Llule M. IVnbody VyilKN Carol riding alighted from' the car and stepped Into the beauti ful cottage near the beach at Garden-town-by-the-Scn, her long and tiresome journey ended, the tun was sinking In the west like n great ball of fire, Riving promise of another wmin day to come; but evening brought cooling breezes, and later, in her room, she rapidly wrote ninny letters. When nil had been sealed, stamped nnd addressed she placed them on the hall table, where the butler would find them in the morning nnd give them to the chauffeur to mall, and with n sigh of relief pnused at her window to look nit on the beach which she had not jet visited. A ,W,t R"rf I,rnk" "I10" " "!"- :v"' !';v,,nn" 1"okr(1 """" "" siill Mill" SOil, All was so beautiful, so quiet it was , 1 1 :.'10 why couldn't she ? She her ged for cj'o.x It was a wonderful sensation, this' seeming possession ot nn enennutitig little world all her own, and she paced j buck and forth humming little snntchesl lt song; but nttcr a winie, the silence, , the solitude, the very beauty of it, all ' inspired her with a feeling of awe and loueliness. and glancing nt her tiny . wrist wnteh she decided to lie down no the sands liv the side of a large Tock I near for a few moments, and then to bathe and go back to the cottage. I foreign land, of lier past labors mere, us u nurse, of bruve soldiers nnd of one ! in particular. In the distance the village clock In the old church steeple could be heard chiming the hours of 112, and the tall. i.,i. shouldered voiine mnn with the ' , ,-. I vim t, nn win iiu tt tin iii its; it ntiu litll. military figure, counting the strokes to fnce. Rhodo standing for one nnd she I and striding by Carol without scelngjfor t,0 other, her. suddenly decided to turn about; When they were alone, Rhodo's eyes I ami then stood staring nt the sleeping I softened, nnd lie came near to her. "You girl whose face looked so fnir in the i asked me what I wished to tell vou," I mooniignt. i simw : i in uiniuuik, lie muttered. "It 4'iin't be." But lie ,,. ,,,,,. , T .1 1. stepped close oesi ic nei ami 4 .,11.1, . . i 1 i. .1 1 1 .1 WV ,"Mls, '" "'V Ml.? I '-N" "" " l P ..,,: V:i.iit iin m.1,1 MJ. nml vi'L . ' iiiP" --i 11 nm mij . .-. . -n 1 " , ...........t !.... s...i r..1 .iL,t-..,lf l.m.,t Mlt "I" '" .1 m-. .-.,v-s .nm H,in,.-,i m. ,.... Whnt a wonderful dream. she 1 1 ......I.. .!!.. ..I ' muiiniiic.i. ..s mi.- .kih eiMn. , strange surroundings, or mm, and Held "'it her arms. In a second he was: down on his knees beside her. but his uick movement had fully awakened her. nnd she rose quickly to her feet. Con- fused, bewildered, she stood looking j down upon him. i "It is really you, Dicky? Or is it a dream?" she asked, wrinkling her fore- head in perplexity. "It's l)iekv." he smilingly affirmed as he rose and stood beside her. "nnd after my search for you day alter clay ' for months, in any place where I thought . vou might be, believe me it wns u surprise to me to nnd you nere ami "Hut wasn't it careless of me to 'my father's daughter, but I have not fnll asleep here?" she asked with a been a Romany since I was ill in l-'ng-little shiver. land. I will not go back ; I shall go with "Yes!" he agreed seriously. "Hut if 'the man I love, to be his wife, here, you had not. I should have gone away in the (Jorgio world. You believed my tomorrow still searching for you and father when he spoke; well, believe me getting farther and farther away from! I speak the truth. It was my lather's jou." will that I should be what I am, and "When you thought you were dream- 'do what I am now doing. Nothing can ing. you welcomed me," he said sud-j alter me." ilenly' nnd smiled. I "If it be that Jethro Kawp is still Teasingly, she drew away from him, saying severely, "but you can't hold, me responsible for what I did in my i dream, you know," aud then, under the look in his honest blue eyes, the dark ' eyes fl'U, and stepping forward she held out her hands to him. "I'm wide awake now, Dicky boy," she said, "and I'm telling you I wrote five letters this evening nnd each one was nn inquiry for you." Aud so the quarrel which hnd been the means of their losing sight of each other was made up. and a few weeks later they stood ngain iu the same place; but the light winds fluttered the veil of rich old lnce and silken garments of a bride. The chimes of the village clock strik ing the midnight hour came faintly to their cars ns the white-haired clergy man began reading the marriage serv ice; and down by the moonlit sea with the starry sky above them and for their carpet the soft singing sands, they made their solemn vows to the accom paniment of the music of the waves aud the thunder of the surf. Tho next complete novelette Blue berries and Fate. .Travelers' Beneficial Society Owing to the numerous postponements of sailings people arc getting n bit chary of giving farewell evenings to their friends who nre departing for Americn. Iu one case recently a fifth farewell dinner wns enjoyed by the in tending traveler before his boat finally got away. London Opinion. WHAT DID THE.YU THEY THOUGHT DO THAT FORr J I HE Shi - r js h i m n y I n if r t A . ' 3 J 1 A--' V Jf (V I ? sPlvVV v -v ir ii i i r ? ii &w v The World for Sale (Copyright, 1D15. by llnrper k Bros.) ON KlTIIKIt side of her, but n few feet behind, stood Hliodo nnd Ingolby. I'rcscntly In n low, firm voice Rhodo spoke. "The 'Ry of Rys Is dead, but his daughter must stand upon htr feet, nnd in ins plnce speak for him. Is It not well with him? He sleeps. Sleep is better thnn pain. Let his daughter speak," , Slowly Klcda nrose. Not so much what Ithodb had said as the meaning In his voice nrouseit her to n situation which sho must face., Rhodo had said that she must speak for her father. AVhat did It mean? "Whnt is It .vou wish to say to me, Rhodo?" sho asked. "What I hnvc to sny is for your cars only." waa the low reply. "I will go," said Ingolby. "nut is it a time for talk?" lie made a mo tion toknrd the dead mnn. "There nre things to bo said which can only be snld now, nnd things to be donc'which can only be done accord ing to what is said now," grimly re marked Rhodo. "I wish you to remain," said Fletla to Ingolby with resolution in her bear ing, as she placed herself beside the chair where the dead mnn sat. "Whnt i t. ,. .., n nv tr. m.t" i. aokpfl Rhodo ngain. "Must n Romany bare his soul be i forft strnliger?" replied Rhodo. "Must a mnn who hns been the voice of the Ry of Rys for the long years have no words face to face with the Ry's daughter now that he is gon.d Must the secret of the dead be spoken before the robber of the dead " It was plain that some great passion was working in the man, that it was wise and right tp humor him, and In golby intervened. "I will not remain," lie said to Fleda. To Rhodo he added: "I nm not n robber of the dead. That's highfalut ing talk. AVhat I have of his was given to me by him. She was for me if I could win her. He said so. This is a free country. I will wnit outside," he ndded to Fleda. ,She made a gesture as though she would detain him. but she realized that the hour of her fate wns nt hand, nnd i., ,i, i.i iir ,i ti, . ... ..., '. .. . .. .- mo said. "See then. 1 want to tell you flint it is for jou to take the place of . . . ... . . . . .. the (lead Ky. liverywliere in the world Ith , I-'"in"JS -nn,,w t,,c- wl" l'pJoi" to hear that a Druse rules us still. The ..u.n. i.',i ,1 ' "i" ," wfini ni inn uv nr itvs wns nv ; wif.r in lu-umt iv uv iiifuu nun uuin- , mill I. Ill' I f 1. .. 1 A - 1. - 1 . . ... 1 v wisneu to oe undone wns undone, lie cause of you he hid himself from his ,.. , . r .... people; occause 01 you 1 wns ior ever wandering, keeping the peace by lies for love of the Ry and for love of you." I Us voice shook. "Since ypur mother died nnd she was kin of mine 'jou were to me the soul of the Romany people everywhere. As a barren woman lores a child, so I loved .vou. I loved you for the sake of your mother. 1 gave hcr'to the Ry, who wns the better man, that she might be great aud well iilneed. So it is I would bnve von he 'ruler over us, and I would serve you as 1 served your father until J, also, fall asleep." 'It is too late," Fleda answered, nnd there was great emotion in her voice now. "I am no longer a Romany. I am DREAMLAND AD VENTURES-By Daddy "THE PRINCE OF DOLLARS" (The Prince of Hollars, seeking Vie rharminp mermaid, finds her in one of his mills. Lightning sets the mill'afire and the prince, with Peggy aud Hilly, rushes to the rescue of the mermaid and girl workers). Into the Fire "CURE!" "Fire!" shouted the Prince of Dollars dashing into the mill. "Fire! Fire!" cried Peggy nnd Billy, following nftcr him. "Hoo! IIoo! Too! Too!" screeched Judge Owl like n fire whistle. The people in the mill had been startled by the thunderbolt which had crashed into the building, but they had no idea that the lightning had set the roof ablaze above their heads. So they were much surprised when the prince and Peggy and Hilly rushed in with the alarm. The girls jumped up from their machines and fled to the (loors and windows. And the flames were spreading so fast that if the warning had been delayed another minute many would surely have, been burned to death. The prince showed himself n hero, for he stood right where the danger was greatest nnd coolly hurried the crowd to safety. Away up nt the other end Copyright, 1010, by the Bell Syndicate. Inc. and Yvj'asmt HE? WAS DANCIM r i wjvry r alive ho Is free from the sentence of the 1'ntrln, and he will becomo the Ry of nys, said the old man with sudden passion. "It mny be so. I hope It Is so. He Is of the blood, nnd I pray that Jcthro has escaped tho sentence which my father passed,' answered Fleda. "Hy the river Htarzlte.lt was orllaincd that he should succeed my fntlicr, marrying mo. Let nun succeed. Tho old mnn raised both hands, nnd mndo n gesture ns though he would drive her from his sight. "My life hns been wasted." he snld. "I wish I were also in death beside him. He gazed at the dead man with the affection of n clansman for h'is chief. Fleda enmc up close to him. "Rhodo! Rhodo!" shc said gently nnd sadly "Think of him nnd nil he wns, nnd not for me. Suppose I hnd died in England think of it in thnt wny. Let mo bo (lend to you nnd to nil Romnnys, nnd then you will think no evil." The old mnn drew himself up. "Let no more be snld," ho replied. "Let it end here. The. Ry of Rys is dead. His body and nil things thnt nre his belong now to his people. Sny farewell to him," he added, with authority. v "You will take him away?" Fleda nsked. Rhodo inclined his head. "When the doctors have testified, wo will take him with us. Say your farewells," he added, with gesture of command. A cry of protest rose from Fleda's soul, nnd yet sho knew it wns what the Ry would have wished, that ho should be burled by his own people where they would. Slowly she drew nar to the dead mntl, nnd leaned over nnd kissed his shaggy head. She did not seek to look into the sightless eyes; the il lusion of slqep was so great that she wished to keep this picture of him while she lived; but she touched the cold hand which held the hat upon the knee nnd the other thnt lay upon the chair nrm. Then, with n mist before her eyes, she passed from the room. The World for Sale A S TIIOHOII by magic, like the p!c i tures of n dream, out of the horizon, in enrnrnns, by trnin, on horseback, the Romany- people gathered to the ob sequies of their chief nnd king. For months, hundreds of them had not been very far away. Unobstructive. silent, they hnd waited, watched, till the Ry of Rys should come back home ngain. Home to them wns the open road where Romnnys trailed or camped the world over. A clot of blood In the heart had been the verdict of the doctors; and Lebanon nnd Mnnitou had watched the Ry of Rys carried by his own people to the open prairies near to Tckewani's reservation. There, in the hours be tween the midnight nnd the dawn, nil fJabriel Druse's personal belongings the clothes, the chair in which lie sat, the table at which he nte, the bed in which he slept, were brought forth nnd made into a pyre, ns wns the Romany way. Nothing porsonnl of his chattels remained behind. The walk ing stick which lay beside him in the moment of his death was the Inst thing plnced upon the pyre. Then came the match, and the flames made nshes of nil those things which once lie called his own. Standing npnrt. Tckewnni nnd his brnves watched the ceremonial of fire with n sympathy born of primitive cus tom. It wns nil in tunc with the tradi tions of their rncc. As dnwn broke, nnd its rosy light vnlnnecd the horizon, n great procession moved a wny from the River Sagalac to ward tho F.ast. to which all wander ing nnd Oriental peoples turn their eyes. With it, nil that was mortal of Gabriel Druse went to its hidden burial. Only Ho lowered her to outstretched hands and himself dropped safely to the ground of the mill Peggy caught a glimpse of the incrmnld. She, too, wns helping others to escape. Finally it appeared that every one was out, and the prince nnd Hilly dragged Peggy nwny from tho hungry flames that were now darting fiercely townrd them. "Hurrah! Hurrah for the Prince of Dollars!" shouted the" crowd. Hut the prince was looking anxiously nbout. v By Ch(i8. McManus NAVv HE HAD CHILLS AND FEVER HHTi JF,ij!j 5a i .BrTDWBsHH-HyrjHK-i -wKBUE P!ylf:T.;2P Piiil Kfecf ES&fm ii i i By SIR GILBERT PARKER Author of "Tho Seats of the. Mighty," "The Money Master," etc. to the Romany people would his last resting pince bo known j It would be as obscure as the grave of him who was laid "By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this sldo Jordan's wave." Many people from JInnltou nnd Leb anon watched the long procession pass, nnd two rcmnlned until the last wagon had disnppenrcd over tho crest of the prnlrle. llchlnd them were tho tents of the Indinn rescrvntlon ; before them wns the nlert morn nnd the rising sun ; nnd ever moving on to the rest his body hnd enrned was tho great chief lovingly nt tended by his own Romany folk ; while his daughter, forbidden to share In the ceremonial of rncc, remained with the .stranger. With n fnce ns pale nnd cold as the western sky, alio desolation of this last parting nnd trngic rcnuncintion giving her n deathly beauty, Fleda Btood be side the man who must hereafter be to her fnther, people, nnd nil else. Shud dering with tho pain of this hour, yet resolved to begin the new life here nnd- now, ns the old life fndetl before her eyes, shc tinned to him, nnd, with the passing of the Inst Romnny over the crest of the hill, she snid bravely: "I want to help you do tho big things. They will be yours. Tho world Is all for you yet." Ingolby shook his head. lie hnd hnd bis Moscow. Ills was the true measure of things now; his lesson had been learned ; vnlues were got by new stand ards ; ho knew in a real sense tho things that mattered. "I have you the world for sale!" he said, with the air of one discarding. n useless thing. (THIEEND) Here's a Mall Record To the Editor of the Stars and Stripes: Kindly publish the following in be half of my buddy, who, being n mem ber of the A. E. V., wishes to know if any one over here can come any where near equaling his record of re ceiving mail. To begin with, It nil hnppcncd back in God's country, where he inserted the following advertisement in n few of the widely circulated New Y'ork nnd Chi cngo newspnpers : "Lonesome soldier boy wishes to cor respond with some person who hns no relntivca in the army. Address, etc." Two weeks latcr.be received thirteen bags of first-class mail, 1115 registered and specials, and two truckloads of second-class. It took thirty-seven men, including him and myself, nine days (twenty -foi and sort it. (twenty -four hours a day) to read over In the registered nnd specials ho re" ecived the small sum of SUST.i'l, and in the second-class such articles ns sweaters, helmets, gloves, etc. ; in fact, enough to, equip two companies of In fantry. The next week he received, via the Southern Railway, forty-four cars in one block (net capacity of cars twenty tons) nnd it took hnlf the entire camp of .'10,000 men twenty days to read nnd sort it; three cars were registered let ters, five specials, twelve first-class, and the balance second-class. I will not try to tell you the nmount of money he received, because he and I got tired counting it, but can assure you he has enough left to make life what it is when he gets home. Now, he does not wish to gain no toriety, but, for the benefit of those in doubt, kindly publish his name : l'vt. William T, Sheridan, Ho., 104th Ammunition Trnin, Twenty-ninth Di vision. Thanking you for your past amusing editorials, I remain. W. L. McDONOUGH, Corp'l 101th Ammunition Trnin, Twenty-ninth Division. "Where is my mermaid?" he cried. The crowd looked puzzled. They did not know whom he meant. "The girl with the wonderful hair! The girl with the beautiful voice!" explained tho prince. "Oh, you mean Anita," cried some "i some "i I t, but tJ me of ill of tho girls. "She helped us out, we do not know what has become her." "Teacher! Teacher!! Teacher!!!" screamed Warbler Ovcnblrd Nightlm gale. Looking up to n window on the sec ond floor, the crowd saw two girls. One wns the charming mermaid. The other was an unconscious worker. The mer maid was lowering tho other to the ground with a rope made from strips of her own dress. Eager hands stretched up nnd cnught the worker nnd the crowd shouted to the mcrmnid to jump. But ns tho mcrmnid, choking and coughing, tried to crimb out of tho window, she fell back, overcome by the smoke. A cry of horror went up from the crowd. The whole Ailll was blazing. It seemed certain the brave mermaid would perish. Then enme a cry of hope, for tho prince was climbing a watjr spout ns nimbly as a squirrel climbs a tree. When the prince reached tho second floor he swung himself from window to window until he reached that where the mermaid had stood. Into this he bounded, nnd in a moment was owt again, holding tbn mermnt.l tn his nrnvS. lie lowered her to outstretched hands nnd himself dropped safely to the ground. Now nrose shouts of rejoicing. Thanks to tho dash through the river and the quick alarm not one life wns lost; and no one was even seriously Injured, for the mermaid quickly recovered from her faint, nnd smiled up at the prince, who was bending anxiously over her. "Speech! "Speech!" cried the crowd to the prince. Then he told them thnt he wasn't sorry the oldSprlsonllke mill had burned, for he was going to build ' a better mill, oneln which it would bo n joy to work7. And the crowd yelled In glndness. But, when the prince turned to look for tho mermaid, she was not there. Down the road was speeding on auto mobile and from It came the mermaid's , song : "Prince of doiinrs, prince of my heart Snd is the fate that keeps us'npart." "Come back! Come back and wo never more will part," shouted tho prince. But the mermaid didn't come-back, and why she didn't will be toId ut oarly, asked a lot ot lui- '" k '' A i- T m uuumcr aiuf iwxv ween;. . f? V .., Si. l . t. . .. ' w , t . !.' . -jr ' -c ?' . . " A, - njittflfa.-vly. J--Ti..--tMtri Ii'.. 'I.. ... 8lK -. -- . -- inim--ni----n-r n-i - -- - r" " " '' wi -ff ij i i mi,h!i --- .-wwa. -- t - -"j T j -, , -"-ti ' ;rT-iWi i f . . . 7 r k.'Jr. wT
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