j "THE INSIDER"] A tßy ArKln in Tcrhune Ue j t j CHAPTER XXV. (Copyright, 191", Star Company) It lacked live minutes of the hour of my appointment when I reaeliod the Turkish room of the Waldorf. I sank down upon a window seat after making sure that Mr. Norton wad not I here ahead of me. The few people in the room were chatting in subdued tones. I waa t lie only solitary person here, and I turned my attention to the pass crsby on Thirty-third street. X have aiways enjoyed watching strangers, so now 1 looked at the men and women some handsomely dressed, some plainly clothed who crossed my range of vision. All at onco 1 saw a tall flgure approach ing, walking rapidly, shoulders thrown back, head raised. His whole appearance bespoke pros perity, and I felt a little thrill as 1 recognized the man for whom I was waiting. Two girls emerging from the hotel glanced after him admiringly. Then as he paused in the door of the Turkish room I went quickly forward. "Ah, here you are!" he greeted me with a smile. "I hope I have not kept you waiting?" "It's exactly 4 o'clock," I replied, "and I have been here but a short time." He led the way to the Palm Room and selected a table. When I had * declined to take anything except some tea and toasted muffins, he gave the order for these articles for both of us. When the waiter had gone, he remarked with his straight forward style of speech— "You look awfully nice in that suit. I never saw it before. Is it new?" "Yes," I acknowledged, "it is new. I am glad you like it." "I do," he declared. "And now, leaning across the table as if to attack business immediately, "what is the trouble?" "There is no trouble," I assured him. "I only wanted to see yon alone to ask yon if—if—" I paused. "Well?" he inquired. "You see," I made a different be ginning this time. "I have been in your employ for a number of weeks, —and I would like to know if you are satisfied with my management and teaching of Grace." "Of course I am satisfied," he re joined. "If I hadn't been, I would have told you. But it's been stupid of me not to tell you the truth, anwa.v. Why do you ask you are not thinking of leaving, are you?"I he demanded with an anxiety that was flattering. "Oh, no," I answered, "I have no thought of leaving if you are really satisfied with Grace's prog ress." He sighed as if in relief. Then, kindly and frankly, he went on to tell me that he was much pleased with the improvement in his little girl's health, manners and mind. "You are teaching her in such a way that she is interested in her ..lessons," he observed. "I am thank iHhil it is so." Having learned what I wished to learn about my pupil, I saw here an opening for the Introduction of an other topic. "I fancy Grace will make a good student," I said. "She even likes the little problems in addition and subtraction that I give her. That is rather unusual —for most children of that age dislike mathematics." A shadow crossed his face. "Tom has always disliked them," he re marked gloomily. "That boy is a problem to me." "Why?" I inquired. "I like him, Mr. Norton. X think he Is a tine lad." His face brightened. "Do vo'i really?" he asked. "I am very glad, for he does not get on well with Mrs. Gore never has. in fact. And I have been a bit afraid he was go ing to degenerate into a boor." "Oh, no," I protested, "he won't, for he is a gentleman at heart and in manner, too. I have an idea thkt he can make almost anything of himself if he wants to." "If he wants to!" he repeated. "But there's the rub he doesn't want to!" A Subtle Pica "But he does" I began. Then I corrected myself. "I mean I think lie would if he got with the right kind of person. Some one whom he liked could make him work even at mathematics," I added, trying ,to make my words sound light. "Then I wish I could get hold of some such person to coach him." This was easy. I had not ex pected to bring about results as readily as this. "To coach him?" I asked. "When?" "Oh, next summer but, of course, the upshot of the matter is that he will have to be sent away to some summer school." "Is that fair to him?" T suggested. I was frightened at my temerity. "Fair to him?" he demanded. "Why not?" "Because every child ought to be at home with his people for a part of each year don't you think so?" I ventured. "But Tom's got to study." "Of course he has." I agreed. "And if properly taught, he will." He smiled skeptically. "You don't know Tom." "I know young people," I insisted. "I wish I could teach him but I am weak on higher mathematics. Moreover, Tom ought to have some nice man over him. Hasn't he some friend you could engage for the summer?" He pondered. "I know few men whom I would care to have around the house for nearly four months. It would have to be a cultured gentleman. I have it!" he ex claimed, just as his son had ex claimed two days ago. "I wonder if I could engage that nice chap, Parker, to come to us." 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Spearman , Author of Wiisperiixg Smittv, • COPJWIOMT & cHAftLtj fffIUBHITJ JOHf (Continued) SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I—On Frontier day at Sleepy Cat. Henry de Bpain, gunman and train master at Medicine Bend, la beaten at target ■hooting by Nan Morgan of Muio Mountain. Jeffries, division superinten dent, asks De Spain to take charge ot the Thief River stage line, but he refuses. CHAPTER IT—De Spain sees Nan danc ing with Oale Morgan. Is later derisively pointed out to Nan on the street by Gale, ansl Is moved to change his mind and ac cept the stage line Job. CHAPTER III—De Spain and ride to Calabasae inn and there meet Gale Morgan with Deaf Sandusky and Bassoon, gunmen and retainers of the Morgan clan. Morgan demands the dis charge of a stage driver and De Spain re fuses. De Spain meets Nan but fails to overcome her aversion to him. CHAPTER IV—Sassoon knifes Elpaso, the stage driver, and escapes In Morgan's gap, the stronghold of the Morgans. De Spain, Lefever and Scott go In after him, and De Spain brings out Sasson alone. CHAPTER V—He meets Nan, who de lays hlih until nearly overtaken by the Morgans, but lands his captive in jail. CHAPTER Vl—Sassoon breaks Jail. De Spain beards the Morgans In a saloon and is shot at througli the window. He meets Nan again. CHAPTER VII—He prevents her going Into a gambling hall to find her Uncle Duke and Inside faces Sandusky and Lo gan, who prudently decline to fight at tha time. "Nobody we want." "Nothing going on?" "Not a thing. If you will wait hert for Bob, I'll run over to the offlee ant' answer those telegrams." De Spain started for the statvs. "Henry," called Lefever, as his com panion trotted hastily down, "if you catch up to her, kindly apologize for a fat man." But De Spain was balked of an op portunity to follow Nan. In the street he ran into Scott. "Did you get thf story?" demanded De Spain. "Part of it." "Was it Sassoon?" Scott shook hl3 head. "Deaf San dusky. That man Sandusky,"—Bot smiled a sickly smile—"doesn't miss very often. He was bothered a little by his friends being All around you.' r The two regarded each other for o moment in silence. "Why," asked D* Spain, boiling a little, "should that <1 d hulking brute try to blow inj head off just now?" "Only for the good of the order Henry," grinned the scout. "Nice Job Jeff has picked out foi me," muttered De Spuln grimly, "stand lng up in these Sleepy Cat barroom; to be shot at. Is he the fellow John calls the butcher?" "That's what everybody calls him, I guess." The two rejoined Lefever at the head of the stairs and the threa dis cussed the news. Even Lefever seemed more serious when he heard the re port. Scott, when asked where San dusky now was, nodded toward the big room in front of them. Lefever looked toward the gambling tables. "We'll go in iiinl look ut hiiu." He turned to Scott to Invite his com ment on the proposal. "Think twice, John," suggested the Indian. "If there's any trouble in a crowd like that, somebody that has no interest in De Spain or Sandusky is pretty sure to get hurt." "I don't mean ,to start anything," ex plained Lefever. "I only want De Spain to look at him." But sometimes things start them selves. Lefever found Sandusky at a faro table. At his side sat his partner, Logan. Three other players, together with the onlookers, and the dealer— whose tumbled hair fell partly over the visor that protected his eyes from the glare of the overhead light—made up the group. The table stood next to that where Tenlson, white-faced and impassive under the heat arid light, held the chair. Lefever took a position nt one end of the table, where he faced Sandusky, and De Spain, just behind his shoul der, had a chance to look the two Calabasas men closely over. Sandusky again impressed him a powerful man, who, beyond an ample stomach, carried his weight without showing it. De Spain credited readily the ex traordinary stories he had heard of Sandusky's dexterity with a revolver or n rifle. That he should so lately have missed a shot at so close range was partly explained now that De Spain perceived Sandusky's small, hard, brown eyes were somewhat un naturally bright, and that his brows knit every little while In his effort to collect himself. Sandusky's brown shirt sprawled open at the collar, and De Spain remembered again the flashy waistcoat, fastened at the last button hole by a cut-glass button. At Sandusky's side sat his crony In all important undertakings—a much smaller, sparer man, with aggressive shoulders and restless eyes. Logan was the lookout of the pair, and his roving glance lighted on De Spain be fore the latter had inspected him more than a moment. He lost no time In beginning on De Spain with an in solent question as to what he was looking at. De Spain, his eye bent steadily on him, answered with a tone neither of apology nor pronounced of fense: "I am looking at you." Lefever hitched nt his trousers cheer ily and, stepping away from De Spain, took a position just behind the dealer. "What are you looking at me for?" demanded Logan Insolently. De Spain raised his voice to match exactly the tone of the inquiry. "So I'll know you next time." Logan pushed back his chair. As he turned his legs from under the table to rise, a hand rested on his shoulder. He looked up and saw the brown face and feeble smile of Scott. Logan HARRISBURG OSjßb TELEGRAPH with his nearest foot kicked Sandusky. The big fellow looked up and around. Either by chance or in following the so\ind of the last voice, his glance fell on De Spain. He scrutinized for a suspicious instant the burning eyes and the red mark low on the cheek. While he did so—comprehension dawning on him—his enormous hands, forsaking the pile of chips with which both had been for a moment busy, flattened out, palms down, on the faro table. Logan tried to rise. Scott's hand rested heav ily on him. "What's the row?" de manded Sandusky in the queer tone of a deaf man. Logan pointed at De Spain. "That Medicine Bend duck •wants a flght." "With a man, Logan; not with a cub," retorted De Spain, matching in sult with insult. "Maybe I can do, something for you," Interrupted Sandusky. His eyes ran like a flash around the table. He saw how Lefever had pre-empted the best place in the room. He looked up and back at the man standing now at his shoulder, and almost between Logan and himself. It was the Indian, Scott. Sandusky felt, as his faculties cleared and arranged themselves every in stant, that there was no hurry what' ever about lifting' h.s hand; but he could not J>e i'acfd down without a show of resistance, and he concluded that for this occasion his tongue was sfre best weapon. "If I can," he added stiffly, "I'm at your service." De Spain made no answer beyond keeping his eyes on Sandusky's eyes. Tenison, overhearing the last words, awoke to the situation and rose from his case. He made his way through the crowd around the disputants and brusquely directed the dealer to close the game. While Sandusky was cash ing in, Tenison took Logan aside. What Tenison said was not audible, but it sufficed to quiet the little fellow. The only thing further to be settled was as to who should leave the room last, since neither party was willing to go first. Tenison. after a formal con ference with Lefever and Logan, of fered to take San;ltr;ky and Logan by a private stairway io the billiard room, while Lefever took De Spain and Scott out byway of the main entrance. This was arranged, and when the railroad men reached the street rain had ceased falling. Scott warned De Spain to keep with in doors, and De Spain promised to do so. But when they left him he start ed out at once to see whether he could not, by some happy chance, encountei Nan. T CHAPTER VIII. ' "jr _ A Cup of Coffee. He was willing, after a long and bootless search, to. confess to himself that he would rather see Nan Morgan for one minute than all women else ID the world for a lifetime. The other incidents of the evening would have given any ordinary man enough food for reflection—lndeed they did force De Spain to realize that his life would hang by a sleuder thread while he remained Cat an a continued to brave the rulers of the sinks. (To Be Continued) STATE IW)ABD TO VISIT New Cumberland, Pa., April 12. — On May 8. the State Board of the Independent Order of America will visit the New Cumberland lodge. All the councils of the district are expect ed to bo represented at this meeting. State Regulation Explained By Public Service Chairman Carlisle, Pa., April ll.—That State regulation of utilities concerns as an effective system for all concerned was brought out by W. D. B. Ainey, chair man of the Public Service Commission, in an address here before the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Mr. Ainey out lined in detail the way in which the body works, showing how money Is saved alike for the companies and the people under the plan. He stated that a move is on foot to have the State bear expenses of investigation of con ditions complained of, instead of hav ing them paid by the individual, as is the case now. WEDDING AT HALIFAX Halifax, Pa., April 12.—A wedding took place on Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Prenzel, in Third street, when their daughter, Miss Anna, was united in marriage to Koss E. Zimmerman, in the presence of the immediate family of the bride. Th# ceremony was performed by the l*ev. J. C. Pease, pastor of the Trinity Re formed Church. "Sugar Would Seem to Apl§j|C| be a Food Especially L : 1 * w H iJL Adapted to Children" —from U. S. Govt. Bulletin. §§ IHfflj Sugar is an energy-giving lilsSS** food which is easily assim t§; ilated. Let the children have it in its most wholesome form —simple sweets such as plain candies, cookies, preserves, jams and custards. I"hsml FRANKLIN ggj HHSUGAR [ BBmßi Everyone ought to have two / SSbaSin i pounds of Franklin Sugars in * his diet every week. They Sold in 2. 5,10. ZS and SO lb. fU" Sh "^tICSS, cotton bag j, refinery packed pfaymg Children and StaiU^ for hard-working grown-ups. "A Franklin Sugar for every use" Granulated, Dainty Lumps, Powdered, Confectioners, Brown APRIL 12, 1917. OKDKHKD TO Q. M. DEPARTMENT Carlisle, Pa., April 12.—Lester W. Freeby, of Carlisle, lias received word to report at Wilkes-Barre by April 21, to serve in the Quartermaster's De partment. He is a former resident of that city and one of five brothers, all of whom served in the Spanish War and one -of whom was killed in the Philippines. Ills grandfather was a native of Alsace-Lorraine and fought against the Germans in the Franco- Prussian war. Mr. Freeby has had six teen years' service in the National Guard. GOLDEN BAGI.E OFFICERS Mechanicsburg, Pa., April 12.—Offi cers were elected for the ensuing term on Tuesday evening, at a meeting of Cumberland Valley Comamndery, No. 109, Knights of the Golden Eagle, as follows: Captain, J. W. Rupp; first lieutenant, W. A. Moore; second lieu tenant. G. W. Ivillinger; secretary, A. W. Gill; treasurer, J. J. Gusler; trus tee, three "years, C. F. Cline; trustee, two years, ,T. T. Bender; trustee, one year, J. C. Rupp. The following ap pointments were made by Captain Rupp: First sergeant, A. }V. Gill; sec ond sergeant, Walter Winand; third sergeant, F. W. Wallace. 15 DAILY DOT PUZZLE 23 * 2 .4 2<> 27 25 *jh 22* ' * *2B 2o '/.30 •9. / / 3l 18- / ( .32 "7 \ \33 -i \ • 34 •'<> itr .2 • 3S* • 'V*/ ' + 3 '3' i l x < 9 % ,S S a 1 liV *' ' FdtEMEN TO MEET Enola, Pa.. -April 12.—A meeting of the Midway Fire Company, No. 2, "Will be held this evening. I'lans will be considered to have fireplugs install ed in South Enola. Owing to the lack of water last Saturday morning three dwellings were destroyed by fire. S Renders to the *kin a delicately eler, h pearly white complexion, firings back the fi SV soft smooth appearance of youth. Remit* 5 are instant and improvement constant. 1 Gouraud's s Creams Send JOc. for Trial Sit* & FERD. T. HOPKINS & SON. N.w York | IftiEREIS NOTHI^^^E^ a Comfort Powder \ t TO HEAL THE' SKIN • ■ of infant* and children. 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