[]jPl Reading fpfWjfueiv ai\d all ike K\rciil\j "The Insider" , By Virginia Terhune Van de Water Chapter XVI Copyright, 1917, Star Company When the guests went away that evening, and Mr. Norton after seeing them oft' stopped to put out the draw ing room lights, I went .towards the stairs. But his voice checked me. "Miss Dart!" he called. "Wait Just a moment. 1 want to say good night." "Good night!" I said as he came to wards me. "And I want to thank you," he went s>". "for acting the hostess so gracefully this evening. I am also grateful to you for not correcting the error those people made with regard to Your position here. There was abso lutely no need of enlightening them. They probably will not be here again lor a long time—if ever—so why tell them that you are not our cousin when they had derived the impression that you are?" I wondered inwardly how they had derived iho impression. Still I did not care to ask. "Oh, that's all right!" I said lightly. "Why not allow people to be mistaken when it does no harm?" "Yes, why not?" he echoed. Then, as I started away again, he said ruddenly—"Do you know as I watched you preside this evening it occurred to me that it would be a great convenience to have you do this at other times, when Mrs. Gore is not well? Or --ven when she is well it would bo mighty nice to have you at dinners, etc., to help along with the conversation, you know. It would brighten things up a bit." "Thank you," 1 said, "but —but please do not think o£ that. I am Grace's governess, you know, and my place is with lUr." "But she is not a baby who needs a nurse with her day and night," he protested. "Moreover, you are not a nurse. When she is in bed, you can be spared." "Perhaps," T admitted. "But if she awoke it would be my business to be .with her. Moreover, my place here is settled, like my duties, and it would be wiser for me to run no risk of overstepping the one or neglecting the other. Good night again, Mr. Norton. And," 1 added, byway of softening ■what I feared might be an abrupt leave-taking, "thank you for a pleas ant evening." Mrs. Gore Calls Airs. Gore's door was ajar, and her voice arrested me as l was passing on ray way to my own room. "Miss Dart!" she called. "Come in, please." • I entered, but, as the room was dark, paused uncertainly near the foot of the bed. "I wanted to ask you if you will tell Maggie to stop in here before she Koes to bed," the invalid said. "She is in your room, you know." "Yes," I replied. "I know she is. I will tell her." "Did the evening go off pleasantly?" she queried. I knew now that the message to Maggie was but an excuse, and that 1 HIjD MAX FOK MFItDEII New York, March 20. —The police took into custody yesterday a man Vnown as Benny, who is said to have leen an acquaintance of Mrs. Elsie Eee Hilair, the woman who was found stranged to death Saturday in a room in a Broadway hotel. 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If. you wait much longer, you'll have to pay Kemember your pocketbook is your best J. B. MONTGOMERY THIRD AND CHESTNUT STS. ji Bell Phone 600 C. V. 4321 li TUESDAY EVENING, ( Mrs. Gore's real reason for calling me j had been to learn how 1 had acquitted | myself and if her absence had been ' noted. I was sorry for this lonely soul. "Yes," I replied, "the evening went off pleasantly. Of course Mr. Norton's guests asked for you and regretted that you could not be down. The> had hoped to meet you." "I am usually well enough to enter tain Brewster's friends." she assured me. "This is the Hrst time 1 have failed him. I am sure I shall not be so unfortunate again soon." "I am sure I hope not," I said sin cerely. "However," she went on, "I arti glad you could save the situation from awkwardness. I thank you for taking my place." "Don't mention it," I rejoined. "1 am here to be of use in any way you think best." I would not let her know that I was aware that the suggestion that I pre side at the table to-night had not orig inated with her. Why should I thus antagonize her? It was plain that she wanted to be on agreeable terms with me. Perhaps she had decided that neither animosity noi' jealousy had ; been a successful means to an end. In any case, it was my duty to follow her I lead. A Friendly Wish I "I hope you will be better to-mor ! row morning, and able to be up," I ! told her. 1 went out, closing her door behind me. I had not heard Mr. Norton co.me upstairs and I started nervously as 1 came face to face with him in the j hall. "Good night again!" he said. "By | the way—as man to man—tell me, did I you ever hear another woman ask as j many questions in a given space of time as Mrs. Oilman did to-night?" "No." I smiled. "I do not think I ever did." "Her husband has my sympathy," he remarked with a laugh. "She won't ! miss anything if she knows it." When I went into my room I found I Maggie fast asleep in a great chair, i and I had to shake her to arouse her. "Evidently Miss Grace has not I waked up." X remarked when she was i fully awake. "No, ma'am, she hasn't. I guess she | don't wake up any more nights, does she?"' "No." I said, " at least she hasn't since I came here." "Then 1 don't see why Mrs. Gore's so afraid to have her left up here alone," the girl ventured. I would not discuss a mistress' pe culiarities with her maid, so made no reply. Secretly T agreed with the girl. If Grace sle'pt soundly through every ! nisht, why need I stay up here and listen for her? 1 abruptly stopped this train of thought. "That is one of the things you are hired to do!" I reminded myself sharply. "Then don't consider the pos sibility of your not doing it!" (To be Continued) T. It. URGES ACTION New York, March 20.—"The news of the sinking of our three ships with loss of American life makes it impera tive that every self-respecting Amer ican should speak out and demand that we hit hard and effectively in re turn," says Colonel Theodore Koose velt, in a statement issued at Oyster Bay yesterday. "Words are wasted upon Germany. What is needed is ef fective and thorough-going action." Copyright, 18H, by Cubldy, & C. t Continued.) The feeling soon passed. We march ed cheerfully away, our hopes busy with what we would do when we reached New York. Johnny and I had accumulated very fair sums of money in spite <>f our loss at the hands of the robbers, what with the takings at (laugman's Gulch, what was left from the robbery and Italian Bar. These sums did uot constitute an enormous fortune, to be sure. There was noth ing spectacular in our winnings, but they totaled about Ave times the amount we could hare made at home, and they represented a very fair little stake with which to start life. We were young. We found Sacramento under water. A sluggish, brown flood filled the town and spread far abroad over the flat countryside. Men were living In sec ond stories of such buildings as pos sessed second stories and on the roofs of others. They were paddling about in all sorts of improvised boats and rafts. 1 saw one man keeping a pre carious equilibrium in a baker's trough, and another sprawled out face down on an India rubber bed. paddling over side with his hands. We viewed these things from the thwarts of a boat which we hired for $lO. Our horses we had left outside of town on the highlands. Everywhere we passed men aud shouted to them a cheery greeting. Everybody seemed optimistic and Inclined to believe that the flood would .soon go down. "Auyway, she's killed the rats," one man shouted in answer to our call. We grinned an appreciation of what we thought merely a facetious reply. Hats had uot yet penetrated to the mines, so we did not know anything about them. N'est day in San Francis co we began to apprehend the man's remark. Thus we rowed cheerfully about, having a good time at the other fel low's expense. Suddenly Johnny, who was steering, dropped his paddle with an exclamation. Yank and I turned to see what had so struck him. Beyond . ■ -'V- '■ I •-s' . • The Small Bo.it Immediately Headed In Hie Direction. the trees that marked where the bank of the river ought to be ire saw two tall smokestacks belching forth a great volume of black smoke. "A steamer!" cried Yank. "Yes, and a good big one!" I added. We lay to our oars and soon drew alongside. She proved to be a side wheeler of fully 700 tons, exactly like the craft we had often seen plying the Hudson. Along toward midnight as I was leaning on the rail forward watching the effect of the moon on the water and the shower of sparks from the twin stacks against the sky I was suddenly startled by the cry of "man overboard" nnd a rush toward the stein. I followed a? quickly as I was able. The paddle wheels had been In stantly reversed, and a half dozen sail ors were busily lowering a boat. A crowd of men. alarmed by the trem bling of the vessel as her way was checked, poured out from the cabins The fact that I was already on deck gave me nn advantageous post, so that I found myself near the stern rail. "lie was leaning against the rail," one wes explaining excitedly, ' nnd It give way, nnd In he went He never came up!" Everybody was watching eagerly the moonlit expanse of the river. "I guess he's a goner." said a man after a few moments. "He ain't In sight nowhere." "There he is!" cried n half dozen voices all at once. A head shot Into sight a few hun dred yards astern, blowing the silvered water aside. The small boat, which was now afloat, immediately headed in his direction, and a moment later he was hauled aboard amid frantic cheers. The dripping victim of the accident clambered to the deck. It was Johnny! He was beside himself with excite ment, spluttering with rage and utter ing frantic threats against something or somebody. His eyes were wild, and he fairly frothed at the mouth. I seized him by the arm. He stared at me, then became coherent, though he still spluttered. Johnny was habitual ly so quietly reserved as far as emo tions go that Ms present excitement was at first utterly, incomprehensible. It seemed that he had been leaning against the rail, watching the moon light, wheu suddenly it had given way HARRISBURG TELEGI APH beneath his weight, and he had fallen Into the river. "They had no business to have so weak a rail!" he cried bitterly. "Well, you're here, all right," I said soothingly. "There's uo great harm done." "Oh, Isn't there?" he snarled. Then we learned how the weight of the gold around his waist had carried him down like a plummet, and we sensed a little of the desperate horror with which he had torn and struggled to free himself from that dreadful burden. "I thought Fd burst!" said he. And then he had torn off the belt and had shot to the surface. "It's down there," he said more calm ly. "every confounded yellow grain of It." He laughed a little. "Broke!" said he. "No New York In mine!" The crowd murmured sympatheti cally. "Gol darn it, boys, it's rotten hard luck!" cried a big miner, with some heat. "Who'll chip In?" At the words Johnny recovered him self. and his customary ease of man ner returned. (To Be Continued.) lIISSIOX SOCIETY TO MfcfcT Lemoyne, Pa., March 20.—A meeting of the Young People's Missionary So ciety of the United Evangelical Church will be held at the home of Miss Sloth ower, Hummel avenue, this evening. ff = = Remember Our Location PRIfF . I Remember Our Location | 20 N. 4thSt. 20 N * 4thSt Harrisburg, Pa. jI f IMHarrisburg, Pa. Near the Young Women's U^ 1 ZO NORTH FOUKIHST