4 Rowland Harvey was a gentleman by profession with refined tastes in horse flesh, old wines and big game shooting. These being expensive things and his worldly possessions amounting, in American money, to some fifteen dollars odd, the elothes on nls back and a file of unpaid bills, he Tooked upon the world with a some what cynical eye at the time of which this small adventure is written. Mr. Harvey was lank, muscular and bronzed, with a handsome mustache, splendid health and a somewhat shiny suit of clothes, He was contemplating a new start in life, and not wishing to be trammelled with the possession of uhnccessary property, had determined to dispose | of his present cash holdibgs and start square. With fifteen dollars he could spend at least one enjoyable evening, living on the fat of the land and feast- ing on a rare dish or two of which be had learned in foreign travels—for good clothes he cared nothing, Care less of appearance, he had, however, been a man of some parts, and he felt that his entertainment would be in complete If a mental diet was not in- cluded in his bill of fare; so it was to that end, on a drizzly Thursday even- ing, close onto seven o'clock, that he strolled into, a second-hand book store and idly scanned some tattered volumes of old tales. Most of them geant memories of the elassles. “Hang it all,” he exclaimed aloud, “I can’t make head nor tall of it." A touch on the arm aroused him. A little, ferrity sort of man, seated { at the next table, leaned across toward { him, “Excuse me,” he said, “but you are puzzling over Greek; can I be of any gervice? I-er—in faet, I used to be a teacher of the language.” A Startling Translaton. “The deuce you did,” sald Harvey, “Good. Give me a hand and I shall be awfully obliged.” “With pleasure,” sald the other, seating himself at Flarvey's table. The latter pushed the paper across to the newcomer, tearing off, however, the bottom portion containing the diagram, “This—er—is a most extraordinary document,” sald the little man, *lt is, pardon me, a Jest of some sort, or may 1 ask how you secured it?’ There was latent suspicion in the tone. Harvey glanced up sharply, and returned 4 vague and evasive answer, “It seems to be,” said the %mall man, “in the nature of a—er-confession, a crime—jewels—precious stones—a curl ons documeny altogether. Shall I read it to you?" “Yes,” sald Harvey, with eoncealed interest, were trash, but at ast he found one which suited his bizzarre fancy-—a | quaint little volume bound in brown | cles and began: “lI am dying. Antonio also is dead, a i a ans HE COULD PARK, JUST It was high and leather with the date, 1665 dedicated to the “Most puissant, the Marquis de Noalllea™ and purported to be the private | memoirs of a period when to keep a diary was an indiscretion It was too early to dine—as he In tended to dine—8o he turned Info a neighboring eafe. ordered a glass of | absinthe and began to inspect his par | chase. ) It proved Interesting and not a ttle | and. heedless of the Pass | age of time, he had read twenty pages, when a slin of paper de tached itself and fell to the floor. senndalons maybe The Puzzling Diagram. i He picked It up apd glanced at It} a helf sheet of modern note paper covered with writing in modern Greek. At the bottom was a diagram. With casual interest, Harvey began stumb- ling through it, pleking out a word here and A sentence there by the hid of his almost fofgotten schoolboy | eduenation Suddenly he sat up and rubbed his eyes, for in the midst of the Greek he had come across some scattered English words. One was Raymond, another was Brayford Grange, and then there was some mixed Greek and English reference to a mill house. His Interest was now thoroughly aroused, for, as he was well aware, thede names were connected with the tale of a famous jewel robbery of the ‘W's, a crime with which the whole country had rung at the time, and for which an inhocetit Ian come Dear losing his life. In the summer of 1880, to be pre. cise, an eccentric old gentleman had taken Brayford Grange oh the Thathes. Among other hobbles he had a mania for Jewels which he kept un wounted In trays In a safe. The Ray mond rubles were world-famous. Late one night the safe was rifled and the old man brutally murdered, The crime wis the sensation of the day. The Scotland Yard people covered the greater portion of the stolen , but the rubles, the most famous of all the Jewels, were never found, nor were the pe rm tors of the crime captured, After a tine days’ wonder, public Interest sub. sided, and nothing had been heard since of Jewels or murflerers, Harvey scanned the paper with re doubled care. He remembered that the crime was sald to be the handl- work Fada SWIF are In a bag of soft ! yon | for 1 killed him The stones are safely hidden, Go and feteh them and gell them to Massena, the Jew. It was Antonio who killed the old English man, Raymond, aga my wish Many of the jewels have heen taken from us through Antonio's folly, and are past recovery, but the rad stones are safe. Go to the old milthonse at the end of Prayford Grange. hy the river, and there yon shall find them If you follow these Instructions. “On the lowest of honae fan open - nD descend, using caution, rol 2 nat the mil wn this he stones leather, Inside of h f or is a canvas |! strong =ilk and this fa bar of iron, the whe uts of which yon will find plainly by the dlagram The water Is of great depth. 1 die at the hand of Anton brother, who thought to discover this hiding place To vou aloe 1 Rave the Secreb” There was no signatire, no hint as to the writer's Identity. The little man looked up. His face was pale and his eyes spoke greed i “And the diagram.” he sald, speak-| ing quickly In his exeltement ] “Ah, yes, the diagram,” sald Harvey, “there must have been one” “There was! You tore It off as sure as my name Is Mr. Vyse” “Well, then, Mr. Vyse" retorted Harvey, coolly, “What then? It was | mine to tear and that paper Is my | property.” ! “l am a poor man” the other re torted. “lI have been poor all my lite | and this paper—do yon think “I don't think at all” sald Harvey, | eurtly, “1 know one thing and that Is} that I wish you a very good evening.” | “Walt” snid Vyse, “You have for gotten one thing. Raymond-ah, yes, | 1 reoall the case well. Raymond died | without friend or relative and his! property reverted to the Crown, There wotlld be a reward offered for such information as 1 could give the police,” he said, spitefully. me. to wl if a « attached to a word o reabo Os A Dangerous Bluff, “You venomous little beast, yom sneaking humbug. Police! Oh, yes | know all about treasure trove and the law and all that sort of thing. If you'd been decent, I'd have shared a bit with you for your palus. But blackmailing don't go with me. Call nll the police in London If you want and you will get locked up for a lunatic” And he strolled out of the cafe, Harvey enught the Inte traln for din two hi at Brayford Grange, He forgot ner. He had not taken his # minutes before he saw Vyse's snd little face peering into all the carriages as he walked aloug the platform, Har vey swore below his breath and Con cenled himself behind his paper. In ab other minute the train was off, Ar candles and after with the landlord on fishing prospects, slipped In a question about the mill house, Yes, it was still uninhabited, a ruin, half a mile or 80 away. It was Harvey, the mill house floor, having off a There was no hevond the gurgle of the water He pulled out his dlagram and the situa tion was now clear to him, It 0 sented the opening mentioned and A cross set In the center of the fourth board on the left hand side adm tted of no doubt as to the position of the iron bar. He lit a setond candle, erossed the floor with delfente tread, and found hinelf at the edge of a large square opening. The Gleam of Dark Waters. Below. he conld Just eateh the gleam of dark, swift water. Across the opening at 4 depth of some six feet ran two parallel beams, slimy and rotten with age. To get at the bar he must lower himself on to one of these. Ret ting the ¢andle on the edge of the ing, he canfionsly dropped down cured some desultory chat just eleven o'clock when eandle in hand, alighted on hatter ound shutt anen The The ttle man adjusted his spéctn- | H Yes the cup has been to the lip | are wrong until they are found out, With a qniek t thal 1 petring ato the space. lmptlze and a feeling of disgu he was about to be disappointed seoted the fourth board on the wide, as directed i Is k and attacked feo. Tt yields 1 with a snlash Into t below, disel ne to fr endooking line { at the first t ind ni fi r rusty fron bar 1 thin, roti Ho hold of it and pulled in terror | snap In his grasn, 1 at the end. Finally o conxed it ! mw I shon! weleht ne i upwar + trembling fir ¢ black nearly a small sodden, dripph dnd Ransom for a King. smnzement, 1 of 1 or opening. } excitement. was in his hand nickle.nlat Harves he pol man anid haking hands tO 1 | 4 ve'on they're mine” “You infernal little shysior" Harvey, “put that gun down I tell vou, or 1 will SCTALEY x" Arid ao) 1 upward ¢ ive om a down wring n nt he af 1 I When the nes hoht O18 | 41 } de roby t and (lan - 3:7 Hae swear veh y for one y blood of Vys His | ot wit handkerehlef to 8 face 14) sf1 he found rihles which he | frry five minutes bh swearing and began all, three immense rm bad They w= h well Into the thonsa night's work of hnmo nla {of a Hittle, ferrity man stricken, through the | quivering With a guilty ren v Mall murder which be had and never committed ev London ss II—————— LAV VVVVVAVVVV AVN | 'y : Pointed Paragraphs ¢ SVB AVVVAVVVVR VAN Prom the Chirage Chronicle Mout of the serious slips occur after Some people never realize that they Our Idea of a pleasant mversa tionalist Is one who knows how to make a long story short. It Is easier to make a new quarrel than it Is to patch up an old one, Many a man who thinks he thinks has a wife who does most of his think. ing The self-made man will be a good thing If he ever gets himself finished It 1s always difficult to separate the man who ¢nims to have a woul above mere gain from a little of his money. What a delightful world this would be to live Wu If our neighbors knew linlf as well as we do what Is good for them. si ———— To Be Married in October, “But do you really love me Just as 1 amy “Just as you are, dear, There Is no a thing about you that 1 would change except your name, i : i wing | rived at his destination, Harvey pro-| a wren hed | next second he whi standing firmly, | IN UPPER CURRENTS. TO INVADE THE REALM OF BIRDS, Balloons Have Carried Daring Aero nauts Higher than Loftiest Moun. tains, High Air Currents Blow Two Hundred Miles an Hour. The recent sensational balloon flights of Roy Knabenshue in New ut which half of of the hanging out of nnd the nutowobiles, cabs deavor to keep in windows, or racing down streets trolley nad in gight of the aly 34] nioot LL the « high ing majestically o attention to hy 1 th fal nding chine sal invites places of tained by men ing into and Mr. Knabensh was conducted on a pl or 1,500 feet He the gigantic New ond LY (1! Had he wOIN the earth a thus LR etrat ( louds. '§ In nance ne of ol around over N . nt a distance their height circle the El of the Flat he would have danger i | anle disturbances in the Krakatoa In the East Toes, § ! ta which the was a «light ebul ff tha i " } gb a “ly i * tig . fit iom gion mon f tons o : PRACTICE OF THE BLACK ART, Change in the Navy as a Result of Japan's Sea Victory. ROYED PFERES GHTING. TOF OF DES IUSRIAN BATTLESHIP VIET." the fighting tops of battle ships have been supplied with small caliber quick firlng machine guns, the idea being when vessels came together to sweep the eneiny's deck of every living thing But it has been found that one or the other ship either goes to the bottom or is placed ‘horsde combat’ beforeever they get close enough to allow the it tle guns to do serious execution Therefore these little war devils are MAN'S SUCCESSFUL AITEMPTS| York City | the street population | town was either on the root tops, | up | CArs, | an en- | tn | ty. | the |B 1.000 | COFFEE DOES HURT | HW ] x . $ aa yr al YOUTHGILle ICA VE Ui - 10 days and POSTUM FOOD COFFEE usc a we That's the only way to find out. Postum a Reason.” THE RACYCLE SPROCKETS Like No. 2 Grindetone are Hung Between the Bearings * TP Hn A % A i A i * / 0 ! | a i Sh 7 7 2 Te 78. ¥ Nd k d : RYN i ds Ba 2 Ae1 (DigyCles) ae2 ( RalyGie Which Stone will Turn Easier ? 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