The Plotters
A New Serial of
East and West
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CHAPTER xxvn
Elizabeth was so astounded by
Clifford Chapin's question that she
did not reply immediately. When she
did, it was slowly, as if feeling her
way.
"Why, yes—if there is anything
especial you want to talk about. But
as this is your last evening with
your mother, I dislike to take you
from her."
"Oh. that's all right," Mrs. Chapin
assured her.
The parent began to fear that
Clifford was in a bad humor, and she
dreaded crossing him. She had al
ways let him have everything he
wanted, and the habit of years was
strong.
"I will detain you only a few min
utes," Clifford said to Elizabeth.
"Will you walk down to the gate
with me?"
Mutely, she arose and joined htm
at the top of the steps. Here she
paused and glanced back.
"I will be gone only a few min
utes, dear people," she remarked
with a little laugh. "All this sounds
■very mysterious, doesn't it?"
In the dim light, her eyes sought
Butler's, and he smiled at her.
"We'll be waiting for you," he
said quietly.
Clifford was silent until he and his
companion were out of earshot of
the group on the veranda.
"I just wanted to tell you," he
announced then, "that I know who
you are."
The girl at his side made no re
sponse. It was too dark for hint
to see that she pressed her hands
tightly together. She must keep her
senses about her and not let her
temper get the better of her dis
cretion.
When the gate was reached. Clif
ford spoke again. "Suppose we go
down the road a little way. We can
talk better there."
"I prefer to remain here," Eliza
beth answered quietly. "We can talk
quite as well standing as walking."
A Blunt Attack
Her equanimity surprised the man.
It also irritated him. He had an
ticipated an appeal for mercy.
"Perhaps." he said bluntly, "you
do not understand what I meant just
now. I know you are not Lizzie
Moore. You are no cousin of mine."
"I certainly am not," she admit
ted with unflattering promptness.
"Then why did you pretend to
be?" he demanded.
"For reasons that are good and
Vj'flivient to myself." she told him.
but which I am under no obliga
tions to explain."
"Is that so?" he speered. "Well,
you don't need to make any expla
nations. I know who sent you here."
How long have you known?" she
asked.
There was no curiosity in her
manner. She behaved as if his reply
concerned her very little.
"I suspected you from the first,"
Clifford Chapin burst forth. *But i
I knew to-day, as soon as I saw
that letter, who sent you here."
"I noticed that you were studying
the address with much interest." she
observed coolly. "I noticed it par
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It is not considered good form."
She was intensely angry, yet her
tone was so calm that it exasperated
the listener.
"The men in your class!" he
snorted. "Perhaps you think I am
not aware who they are."
"You could hardly have met
them," she reminded him.
"Well," he spluttered. "I know
who one of them is—and that's the
one who sent you hefe. Douglas
Wade sent you and pays your ex
penses."
"That is his privilpge," she re
joined.
Her unruffled demeanor took away
his breath.
"You admit it!" he exclaimed
"You have the shamelessness to ac
knowledge it!"
"I see no shamelessness in it," she
affirmed. "This farm belongs to Dr.
Wade, please remember."
Clifford Thinks Again
Her reminder checked the torrent
of words that came to his lips.
Did the girl suspect his father's
scheme? Was she warning him that
it would be unsafe just now to cross
Wade? Did Wade have more money
than Amos fancied? If not. how
could he pay this girl's expenses?
What was the game anyway?
"If you have nothing more to talk
about I will return to the house."
Elizabeth said. "But." slowly,
"since you know the truth, I would
suggest that you be careful how
you use it. You may have Dr. Wade
to reckon with—and when he pays
a score he pays it thoroughly. My
disinterested advice to you would be
to keep your lips tightly closed un
til you understand just how matters
are. More depends upon it than you
realize."
Turning sharply, she went on up
the walk alone.
She was so angry that she could
not trust her voice to say more.
This cad had had the audacity to
intimate that her brother had no
right to send her out here to a farm
that, he owned. She was also per
plexed at Clifford's attitude. How
dared he resent her brother's ac
tion?
It was all too much of a puzzle
for her to understand. This fellow
would soon be gone. He would
hardly have an opportunity to speak
alone with Butler within the next
hour or two before his departure for
Midland. She must try to arrange
that no opportunity offered itself for
a tete-a-tete between the men.
Upset and indignant as she was
she must remain on the veranda
until the son of the house took his
departure.
John Butler arose at her ap
proach and pushed forward a chair
for her.
"Sit down." he said gently. "We
are glad you returned so soon."
She could scarcely speak as she
listened eagerly to his kind words
and refined intonations. How pleas
ant it was to be in his protecting
presence!
(To Be Continued)
THE KAISER AS I KNEW
HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS
By ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. D. S.
(Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate)
(Continued)
It was because the Kaiser's un
derlying purpose was to some extent
frustrated when Harvard sent Prof.
Muensterberg, a German, to Ber
lin to occupy the Harvard chair,
that that well-known psychologist
was so badly received. It was
noted by the newspaper correspond
ents at the time that the Kaiser
conversed fully half an hour with
Prof. Smith, of the University of
Virginia, who occupied the Roose
velt Chair, but that he devoted only
five minutes to Muensterberg. What
was the sense of wasting time and
effort on a German? The object
was to Germanize Americans.
The report that although the Kai
ser attended Muensterberg's lecture,
he paid very little attention to the
lecturer, brought a spirited rejoinder
from the professor in question. He
declared that it was quite untrue
that' the Kaiser had slighted him tn
any way. On the contrary, he in
sisted. the Kaiser had been a most
interested listener and had been
seen, indeed, to nod his assent sev
eral times in the course of the lec
ture —which led an American for
eign correspondent to comment that
"not only was the Kaiser seen to
nod at Muensterberg's lecture: he
was likewise observed to yawn!"
Some time before the Kaiser con
ceived the scheme of the exchange
professors, he sent his brother.
Prince Henry, to this country to
draw the two nations closer together
and to instill in the heart of every
child born in America of German
parents an abiding love for the
Fatherland.
Just before the war broke out, he
was planning to send one of his
sons here with the same object.
He told me of his project and
asked me to which part of the
United States I thought he ought
to send the Prince.
'"That depends, your Majesty'" I
replied, "upon the object of the
visit. If the purpose is to meet
American society, I -would recom
mend such places as Newport in
summer and Palm Beach in winter.
To come in contact with our states
men and diplomats. Washington
would naturally be the most likely
place to visit."
The Kaiser thanked me for the
information, but did not enter into
further details as to the object he
had in mind or which son he had
planned to send across. #
It was to curry favor with Amer
icans that the Kaiser had his yacht
Meteor built in our shipyards, and
it is a fact that more American
women were presented at the Ger
man court than those of any other
nation.
When he presented a statue of
Frederick the Great to this country,
in McKirUey's administration, it
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created a great stir in Congress. |
What could be less appropriate, it j
was argued, than the statue of a j
monarch in the capital of a repub- |
lie? The statue was not accepted'
in McKinley's administration, but j
Roosevelt accepted it in the interest j
of diplomacy and had it erected in j
front of the Army Building.
Seeing that his gift had had just'
the opposite effect to that intended,
the Kaiser reprimanded his ambas- |
sador for not having interpreted ■
American sentiment more accu
i ately. *
A few days after the death of 1
King Edward. Robsevelt arrived in !
Berlin. Despite the fact that all j
Europe was in mourning, the Kaiser j
arranged the most elaborate mill- j
tary dress review ever given in
honor of a private citizen to cele- |
brate Roosevelt's visit The review
was held in the large military res- j
ervation near Berlin. More than
100.000 soldiers passed In review!
before the Kaiser and his staff and j
their honored guest.
How far the Kaiser would have |
gone in his attentions to Roosevelt
had he not been in mourning it is (
impossible to say, but I don't be- j
lteve he would have left anything |
undone to show his admiration for i
the American ex-president, and to
curry favor with this country
But Roosevelt was not only |
American to whom the Kaiser made 1
overtures. He was constantly inv'.t- j
ing American millionaires to pay l
him yachting visits at Kiel or whtr- j
ever else he happened to be
He sat for a portrait by an Amer- |
ican painter, which was exhibited j
with a large collection of other j
American works under the Kaiser's j
auspices.
There was nothing that the Kaiser
did not do in his efforts to ingrati- I
ate himself with this country in the !
hope that he would reap his reward!
when the great war he was antici- |
pating eventually broke out.
Taken individually, these various j
incidents seem trivial enough, i
but I have every reason to |
know that the Kaiser attached con- !
siderable importance to them. I I
know that there was a good deal of!
chagrin in the tirades he delivered!
to me against America for her part j
in,supplying munitions to the allies)
—chagrin at the thought that the |
seed he had sown in America had<
failed to bring forth better fruit, i
When we finally entered the war'
©MAKING THE MOST OF ~
OUR CHILDREN \J
A Series of Plain Talks to
\ foffm )By Ray C Beery, A.8., MJL
President of the Parents Association,
No. 8. Should Children Be Allowed to Quarrel?
(Copyrighted, 1918, by The Parents Association, Inc.)
YOU may think quarreling is
necessary among children. You
may even, if you are quite de
tached and much in need of enter
tainment. enjoy seeing a good chil
dren's quarrel, Just as some persons
enjoy a cock fight, or a bull fight.
But If you are a wise parent you will
know that quarreling only tends to
make children selfish and unreason
able and should*therefore be discour
aged at every opportunity.
"What can I do to stoiy my ten
year-old daughter and my twelve
year-old son from quarelling? They
are at it continually." ,
Sometime, just after you have plan
ned a little trip with your daughter,
or when she is in good spirits, speak
very confidentially to her and ask a
favor of her in this manner: "I
want you to help me with brother.
He has been developing a temper
lately and I want to help him to con
trol himself. Sometimes I catch my
self saying things to him which make
him angry and I am going to try to
watch myself more closely. And I
want ybu to help me, too. Let us
I both be careful not to say anything
to him that will make him lose his
temper. Will you help me as much
as you can?— All right. I know we
can help him overcome his temper If
we do this for a while. Of course,
neither of us will tell him that we
have this arranged, but we will carry
out the plan."
After you get your daughter to
agree to co-operate with you in this
way, your problem will be largely
solved. If you find It necessary, yt>p
and he realized that all his carefully
nurtured plans of years had availed
him naught, he could not restrain
his bitterness nor conceal his dis
appointment
"All my efforts to show my friend
ship for America —exchanging pro
lessors with your colleges, sending
my brother to your country, all—
all for nothing!" he exclaimed dis
gustedly, after we had entered the
war.
On another occasion he showed
even more clearly how far America
had fallen short of his expectations:
[ "What has become of those rich
Americans who used to visit me
with their yachts at Kiel and come
to my entertainments in Berlin?"
he asked, sarcastcally. "Now that
we have England involved, why
aren't they utilizing the opportunity
to serve and to make their own
country great? Do they think I
put myself out to entertain them
because I loved them? I am dis
gusted with the whole Anglo-Saxon
race!"
The Kaiser couldn't understand
Why the United States did not seizo
:>oth Canada and Mexico. Appar
ently, from the way he talked from
time to time, it he had been sitting
in the White House he would have
grabbed the entire Western Hemi
sphere.
That the Kaiser followed Ameri
can politics very closely, especially
after the war broke out. was very
natural. The fact that there was a
great German-American vote In
this country wis not overlooked in
rotsdam, and I haven't the slight
est doubt the Kaiser imagined that
he could exert considerable Influ
ence on our elections through his
emissaries in this country.
I know that in 1916, after
Hughes had been nominated for
the presidency, the Kaiser spoke to
me several times about his candi
dacy. I got the impression that in
Hughes the Kaiser thought he saw
a chance, perhaps, for a more favor
able attitude towards Germany tnan
this country had displayed under
Wilson, and that his early intention
was to throw whatever influence he
possessed in America into the scale
in Hughes' favor.
I returned to Berlin late in Oc
tober of that year. Within a day
or two after my arrival I received
a telephone message from the
Reichskanzler von Bethmann-Hcll
-1 weg to the effect that the Kaiser
can deal with the boy In a similar
way. After you have snown him some
special consideration, get him to co
operate with you in treating his
sister kindly.
Whenever you see any indication
that a quarrel might start, quickly
"nip It in the bud" if you can. That
is. say something—no matter what —
just so it is something to divert their
minds. For example, you might ask
one of the children a question or call
their attention to something which
will take their thoughts away from
quarreling.
Children quarrel only when they
have time for it. Therefore, keep
your children busy with whatever is
of interest to them. Furnish the boy
with hammer and nails to make some
flower boxes for you and then ap
prove the workmanship. Likewise,
furnish the girl with materials for
whatever work you will be in
teresting to her.
Too often, when children start to
quarrel, we hear the parents say
something like this: Children, chil
dren, when will you ever learn to
play together? I never saw such
children for quarreling in my life!
Now, Robert, hand that over to Esther
at once and don't bother me again."
,Such remarks, If they have any ef
fect at all, actually make the habit
worse, through suggestion.
The proper method is that describ
ed because it is based upon confi
dence. You co-operate with the child
and get the child actually to exert
self-control In order to help the other
child.
had sent him word of my return j
and that he would like me to call.
at his palace either that noon or |
at 4 p. m.
I told him that 4 p. m. would be
more agreeable to me. That noon,
however, the president of the min
istry of Vienna was assassinated
and the Reichskanzler called me up
again and stated that owing to cer
tain developments since morning, he
tyould be too much engaged to keep
the appointment he had made with
me and asked me to make it 10.30
the following morning, which was
Sunday.
The next morning, accordingly. I
called at the Reichskanzler's palace
on Wilhelmstrasse, wondering very
much what it was they wanted of
me.
I was ushered into a very large
room in the corner of which was a
business-like looking flat-topped
desk but which was otherwise eian
orately furnished. The Reichskanz
ler, a tall, broad-shouldered, hand
some specimen of a man. came over
to me. and putting his arm' in mine,
walked me to a seat beside the desk.
He asked me what I would smoke,
and upon my taking a cigaret, he
did likewise.
"The Kaiser's been telling me.
Doctor,"' he said, "of your recent'
\isit to America, and I would like
to ask you a few questions."
I said that I was always glad to
talk of America. Indeed, I was
particularly glad of the opportunity
to speak with the Prime Minister
of Germany at that time.
Then followed a bewildering suc
cession of questions, the purpose of
which was not at all clear to me.
We had a peculiar conversation—
half in German, half in English.
The Reichskanzler did not speak
English particularly jvell.
"How are things in America?"
he asked. "Did you have any op
portunity to gauge the political sit
uation? Who do you think will be
the next president? Do you think
that Americans are opposed to
peace because that would end their
chance to make money out of the
war? Are your people so mercenary
that they would like to se the war
prolonged for the sake of the money
they can make out of it?"
"No, your Excellency." I replied,
"you are quite wrong if you imagine
that my countrymen would like to
prolong the war for the sake of
war profits. That is very far from
being the case. On the contrary,
the country at large is anxious for
peace."
"Don't forget your people are mak
ing a lot of money out of this, war,"
the Reichshanzel persisted. "They
are becoming very rich. They will
soon have all the gold in the world.
Putting an end to the war would to
a great extent end American oppor
tunities for making money on this
enormous scale."
"That may all be true." I replied,
"but fortunately my countrymen
think more of the blessings of peace
and liberty than they do of war
and profits, and the sooner peace
can be brought about on a basis
which will have some assurance of
permanency the better we will
like it."
He switched the subject. He asked
me how I had been treated in
America in view of the fact thai I
had come from Germany
"It made a difference, your Ex
cellency," I replied, "when I first
arrived in port. That is to say, I
was examined more thoroughly by
the officials than I had even been
before. It was considerable of an
ordeal they put me through before
they established to their own satis
faction that I was not a *py, but
when it was all over I felt rather
glad to fc-el that my country was so
keenly alive to the fact that the
greatest precautions were neces
sary"
"Wilson has the greatest oppor
tunity ever presented to a man to
make his name immortal —by bring
ing about peace in the world," he
w-cnt on. "We feel now that he is
not our friend, but friendly to the
allies; but. nevertheless, he may be
able to see that if this war is pro
longed indefinitely, it will mean the
destruction of all the nations in
volved in it. Do you think there is
any possibility of America entering
the war?"
"That, of course, will depend,
> our Excellency." I answered, "upon
developments. I dtfn't believe my
country is anxious to fight, but I'm
quite sure that nothing in the world
will keep us out of it if our rights
as a neutral nation are not re
spected."
"V.'e certainly don't like the way
Mr. Hughes has been talking on the
stump," declared the ReichskaAzler.
"Did you hear any of his speeches
or any of Wilson's?"
I said I had had no opportunity
|to hear any of the campaign
speeches, but that I had followed
tncm in the newspapers.
| "Well, did you gather from what
you read that the American people
want to see peace in Europe or do
they want the war to go on so they
can continue to make fortunes out
of it?"
Again I replied that 1 was certain
our country would never be influ
enced by such sordid consideration*
a* were implied in the Reichskan
y.U'.r'a question, but -.hat U the right
kind of peace , could i>e brought
about, the whole ccit.Uy would
eg; braee It.
"(To Be OontbrnM.)
AUGUST 19, 1918.
How to Conserve
Canning and Packing For Win
ter's Use Explained in Detail by
National War Garden Experts.
CANNING TOMATOES
Select fresh, ripe, firm tomatoes.
Grade for size, ripeness and quality.
They will cook better if the same de
gree of ripeness apt! quality, and will
look better. Wash, scald one-half to
one and one-half minutes or until the
skins loosen, but do not break. Scald
means to immerse in boiling water.
Cold dip, but do not allow them to
remain in the cold water. Cut out
the stem end. taking care not to cut
into the seed cells or the seed and
pulp will later be scattered through
the liquid. Remove the skins. Send
for the free canning manual which
the National War Garden Commis
sion. Washington, will send to you
upon request for a 2-cent stamp to
cover postage.
Pack the tomatoes whole in the
jars, doing one jar from the begin
ning to placing in sterilizer, before
starting on another. Shake down
well, hitting the base of jar with palm
of hand, and also press with a table
spoon, but avoid crushing.
Do not add water. Hot tomato
pulp may be added, otherwise add no
liquid whatever. Tomatoes are an
exception to the general rule of hot
water for vegetables and hot water or
hot syrup for fruits. A large part of
the tomato is water. It is not neces
sary to add anything but one level
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