14 IPELOVED ADVENTURER J2LEMMETT CAMPBELL HALL A Novelized Version of the Motion • Picture Drama of the Same Name LUBIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY t Continued Meanwhile he set himself to the task of fixing In Betty's mind the idea that, while he would otherwise be rejoiced at her tearing him. Cecil would for the sake of her fortune make des perate efforts to find her and drag her hack to lead the humiliating existence of a despised and hidden wife. "No: he wouldn't waut me back There would be no need." Betty said dally. "1 left for him all he wanted of me—the 'Uolden Hope." " It reqalred all his gambler's training to keep fhe panic, fury aud greed Hj«l9 "Never you mind, Betty," he said sooth ingly. which suddenly swept through Cars, from being mirrored in his face ai > souudiug in his mice. Bettj. sittiii. with bowed bead. did nut observe tli struggle or the p:i us+> in-fore lie said ii. it a easy milliner: "Left liim tile "HojifV' What do you wean. HettyV" Tlie girl did not raise her eyes "I left it for htm." she responded, "because I loved him. I gave it to him J left a deed of gift and an order to the bank I didn't want it—what would a fortune do for nie. since it did not secure the only thing in all the world I desired—his love?" It was a frightful blow to Curson to learn that, instead of being a million airess, Betty had made herself pennt less. The mind of the most successful con fidence man in Nevada worked swiftly and in an instant was engaged in re arranging ills plans. No longer valuable for herself. Betty might still be wcrtli much for what she would bring. Lord Cecil lov-e4 her devotedly and would strip himself of his wealth in order to regain her. Obviously, therefore, the thing to do was to get. to a remote and safe place and hold Betty for ransom. Meanwhile she must be duped into believing that secrecy and flight were necessary. Mr. Carson assumed, a sympathetic man ner "Never you mind. Betty." he said soothingly. -Old Monte always has stood by you, and he won't quit you now. We got to be mighty careful, though, and slip out of this country first chance we get. Von wouldn't want him to make you go bad; and live at Oroftlaigh. knowin' how he feels about you, would you. now?" "I would riuther die!" the girl cried , bitterly. " 'Course yon would—any girl with a mite o' prid« would!" Mr. Carson agreed. "But,"' he added, "this here Lord Cecil, the way I figure it would rather have you there—keep you hid down in the country while he gala- ! vants all around—than have folks ask , where is his wife and he not be able to | say. Sure as a gun's iron, hell try to ! find you and make you go back, and j now that you know all about the way i he carries on. he won't take the trou I We to hide it like he done before." She looked at h>ra with miserable ; appeal. "Then lie mustn't find me, Monte." she said mi.-wftMy. "I couldn't, 1 ! couldn't stand it to have him look at me and feel that he despised me!" "That'll be all right, then." Mr. Car- j sou told her. with inward satisfaction J and outward sympathy. "I won't let ' him find you. if you just stay bore in your room till I get things fixed for us to slip away. You better get rid of j Wbern clothes—there might be a de- | Ucription nut. Give em to the maid. J'll buy you a suit that'll stand travel better" V"All right. Monte." Betty responded wearily. 4 • • • • • • days dragged miserably along at proftlaigh. with no word of the | vanished mistress, though Cecil had j Increased to £5.000 the rewnrd offered for information as to her whereabouts, ond f.here was no reasonable doubt that sK>e "'as still in England. As Car sou hid surmised, every passenger steamer, sailing from the kingdom had been watched 81owly\ the horrible thought that she' might be dead began to force Itself upon Cecil, leaving him pallid with si lent agony. As he sat thus, waiting for the news that did uot come, a sud den commotion outside the house caus ed him to spring to his feet, every nerve tense. An Instant later there burst into the room an aged woman whom he recognized as the holder of one of the ancient cottages of his es tate, and who cast at his feet the bundle of unthreshed groin which she carried and fell upon her knees. "Succor, lord; The sword of Swarth more is Croftlaigh's shield!" she cried, and instinctively, as had done his fa thers for 600 years, the eighteenth Earl, of Swarthmore place Ills hand npon her head and responded as they had done to the feudal appeal: "Swarthniore shields! In seed, tn stalk, in ear and sheaf, the Croftlaieh corn is mine to keep. Speak on." It was a commonplace tale, to tell which the old woinau had invoked the ancient right of Croftlnigb's people to instant speech with their overlord- Meg. the old woman's daughter, had been stolen away Lured nnd coaxed by an artful stranger, she had jilted Ned Alwine. a Oroftlaigh man and Cecil's chauffeur, and had promised to run away, but at the last moment her fears and con science- hml triumphed, and she had refused Then the stranger and an other had seized upon her, by force had dragged her, struggling and cry ing. to the waiting motorcar and sped away. Cecil recalled the girl—sweet and fair as a bawthorne bud. with the clean heart and gentle ways of the maidens who glean in the Westmore land fields. His eyes blazed with sud den fire. "By force they took her?" he de manded. "1 swear it. ray lord! The child fought and cried to me—and I eould not save her! The west road they went, my lord!" Cecil turned away sharply. "The motor at once!" he ordered, and James, who had not dared prevent the entrance of one bearing the symbol of the unthreshed grain, but who had hovered uneasily in the background, hurried to transmit the order. "Be comforted The maid shall come back to you unharmed." I.ord Cecil said and strode out. leaving the old woman muttering blessings. For the time being Cecil's own sor rows were forgotten The traditions tind instincts handed down through Me ages had cast their commands upon him—to abandon all else until be had rendered the protection demanded of j his lordship, though the one in peril ' might be the meanest of his vassals. Not five minutes had elapsed before Lord Cecil's motor was roaring along the road toward the coast with white faced Ned Alwine gripping the wheel. Mile after mile the chase continued without the quarry being once sighted, but at each village and hamlet Cecil was told that a speeding car had pre ceded him by a quarter hour, by ten minntes. by Ave minutes. Fast as the fugitives were moving, they were being ' overtaken In Keuswick an outraged constable pointed to the dust that hung in the air. and by Derwentwater the machine was in sight and evidently aware that it was being pursued, for its speed wag Increased i Slowly, however, the distance be tween the racing ears was cut down until not more than fifty yards inter vened. ' Suddenly one of the occupants of the leading machine rose, knelt upon the seat and rapidly emptied a revolver. Cecil eould hear the bullets hum ming alxive bis head. U-ik\ w P: By 91 ' : I •• - • "Ayo, I'll take thee home, latsia, and God be thanked thee'a saved to mol" HARRISBCTRO STAR-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1914. however, was not high. but found its mark, and the speeding machine yawed wildly us the tire exploded. A yell of triumph cuvne back as the fleeing car disn|i|>eurcd over the next Hilltop. Ue.spite tile delay necessary to change the tire, the pursuit remained a hot one, though the quarry was not again sighted until tiie suburbs of Whiteha ven were reached and speed was re duced to the legal requirements, the abductors not daring to risk attracting tile attention of the police and perhaps thinking l»rd Cecil liaeen drop ped upon tiie floor. "Take her up and carry her to the car," Cecil ordered, aud sprang to the j window, which looked directly upon the wharves. The abductor, had disappeared, hut! Cecil caught his breath chokingly as I his eyes fell upon another ligure. Bet ty was just seating herself in a shabby I motorbont. iijto which Carson also was j lowering himself "Betty!" Cecil cried wildly, and for an instant the girl raised uer eyes to i bis. then quickly turned her head j Carson, with a startled oath, spoke j sharply to his ruffianly pilot, and the | next instant the motorbont shot away | from the shore. I Cecil was half out of the window j before Ned Alwine's restraining grasp fell upon him "Don't, m'lud." the man implored; | "it is too 'igli. Take the stair, m'lud!" j Cecil stared dazedly for an Instant, | then turned his eyes toward Meg. "Take the girl home." he ordered, | and dashed from the room. "Aye. I'll take thee home, lassie, and Cod be thanked Ihee's saved to me!" ! Ned muttered, and raised the girl In bis i arms. To Bo Continued. OLD MAN ROBBED OF STOO Philadelphia Couple in Jail After Al leged Confession Kennett Square, Pa., Dee. 18.— | George Green, an old man who lives by | himself near T'nionville. carried his ! money in his inside vest pocket. A few ! days ago Marshall Martin and wife, of Philadelphia, came to visit him. Yes terday they disappeared and so did Green's roil of S7OO. Mrs. Martin was arrested here, where she was spending money freely, and her husband was arested not far from town. She was searched nnd had $630. S>he said that her husband robbed the old man au.l gave the money to her. Both were sent to jail for trial. BONE GRAFTING SAVES LEG Operation in Hazleton Hospital Makes an Amputation Unnecessary Hazleton. Dec. 18.—Admitted to the !-State Hospital at H izleton thre? months ago with a leg so hopeles lv j j crushed by a fall of coal in the Drifton I mines that amputation seemed the only expedient, l'eter Marley, of Drifton,; walked out of the institution with a j new leg bone constructed oar of splices taken from healthy bones and grafte i i to the splintered member. This is the first instance of bone grafting in the Hazleton < oa! field*, where many miners lose limbs by falls! of rock aud roof in the coal mines. CONVICT EANCING TUTOR Charged With Disturbing Religious Meeting Next to Academy Reading, Pa., Dee. IS. —-Billy Kent, formerly of Philadelphia, this city's j best known tutor of the fox trot and ' other modern dances, was convicted in j court here yesterday on tiie charge of . di&turbing a religious service. The charges followed the breaking up of a service at the 'H'Nai Zion syna gogue, which adjoined Kent's academy,! j on November t!!. Ladies'-- Buy Cigars FOR PRESENTS AT Golden Seal Drug Store, 11S. Market Square. N - J ; BUSINESS COLLEGE*. r— ■ v i UJ4U,. jcSUaiiNiiSS CO . ( 3UU Market btreet I Fall Term September First 1 OAY AND muxlr «■ WINTER TERM BEGINS MONDAY, JAN. 4TH DAY AND NIGHT SESSIONS SCHOOL OF COMMERCE 15 S. MARKET SQUARE HARRISBURG, PA. - Cumberland Valley Railroad In Inflect May 24, ISI4. Tralua Leave HarrUburit — For Winchester joU Alurtlnaburc a.t 0.03, *7.5u a. *3.41) p m. For Uaaerstown, (Jhambers&urg and intermediate stations, at *5.03 *7 i(i 11.53 a. ill.. -J.lo. 5.32. «7.40. 11 oj p. m. Additional trains (or Carlisle and Meuhanlcsburg at 9.18 a. m., 2.1*. 1.27 . 3 erb we raims have ever offered. I Ferns ranging in price from -."Sc to $5.00. Every variety of Xmas greens—roping, wreaths ard genuine Canadian Balm Trec3, t'ro ki::d that do not drop their foliage. Open Saturday evening and every evening next week until Christmas. HOLMES SEED CO. ADDRESS, I 106-108 South Second Street 11 111111 IIBIIIIMBBMH MMMMMMAAAMF What Is Christmas Without Coal? It's pretty hard to imagine a Christmas spoilt in a cold, damp and gloomy house. Yet you would be surprised at the num ber of families this year that are not able to have coal to keep themselves warm. This has been an exceptionally hard year for the poor people and if you could arrange to send a needy family a small amount of coal you will be doing an act of justice. Coal for a Christmas Gift is about as ac ceptable a gift as you can think of. United Ice & Coal Co. Forster & Cowden Third & Boas 15th & Chestnut Hummel & Mulberry ALSO STEELTON, PA. DOEHNE BEER j j 5 A Beer brewed with a double purpose— j 1 ' | To please the palate as a beverage; s A liquid food in the truest sense of the words. I Made from the best selected hops and malt. > Brewery unexcelled for Purity and Excellence of 11 Product. !; DOCHNE ,; Bell 826 L Independent 318 '» [ struotion and skidded into a coal wag i on. William Lynott, aged 10, son ot | Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lynott, sustained ! a broken arm in another accident. Thief Gets Chance to Repay Reading, Pa., Dec. 18. —Pleading guilty in court here yesterday to en tering a home and stealing $66, Charles Seidel was given a chance by the court to pay back the amount at the rate of $5 a week with the understanding that he be sent to jail the first time he de faulted payment. HOUSEHOLD TALKS Henrietta D. Grauel Holiday Desserts "How are currants cleaned for pud j dings?" j Currants should not be washed, as j this carries most of the goodness of the ! fruit. Instead put the required amount j of currants in a colander and sprinkle j with flour; rub well with linger tips j until all the flour is removed and the j currants separated from one another, j The flour and any foreign substance ; will pass through the sieve. Now rub i the currants with a soft cloth for a : moment and use as directed. In making puddings for holidays it j is well worth while to use only the best j ingredients for a greater quantity is not required and if any inferior article is used the whole mixture is tainted. | There are three kinds of puddings— | baked, boiled and steamed. Boiled pud | dings are tied in a floured cloth and j while they are cooking they must be turned over to prevent all" the fruit j from settling to the bottom. Always allow room in the bag for the pudding j to swell in the cooking and remember I that twice as long is needed for boiling lj puddings than for baking. | j Steamed puddings aTe placed in well | buttered dishes, a cloth tied over the top and put in a steamer. The water beneath must be kept at a steady boil. Baked puddings innst be stirred once or twice while baking to keep the in gredients from settling. HE super excellence of Moja quality is due to the knowledge gained through 50 years' experience in cigarmaking. Ability to discriminate in leaf selec tion—to discard as well as accept—to blend the ; Choicest Havana to best please the tastes of the smoker who demands all that goes with a 10c smoke. Mo J a 10c CIGARS JL 3L are all Havana—rich and fragrant—and safest to give the connoisseur. . Made by JOHN C. HERMAN & CO. ELECTRIC TOYS We bought our toys before the war. We positively have the largest and most complete stock this side of New York. "Lionel" trains at cut prices. Catalogue free. YINOST ELEOTBIG CO., 1438 THIRD STREET Open Every Night ; Read the Star-Independent j Suet for Christmas pies, puddings and cakes must be chopped; to do this j well have the suet cold, then break or ! cut it in small pieces and remove the j fibres or threads from it. Chop with a broad cutting knife and if tho suet [sticks dip the chopping knife in flour. | All the fibres must be removed or the suet will not separate into tiny bits as j it must do. Jtaisins arc now seedless but some |cooks prefer those containing seeds, j claiming that they are more full of meat. If boiling water is poured over tin-in and allowed to stay on until cool the seeds may be removed quickly with | a small knife. Recipes have been given in this department for Christmas cakes, ! pies and puddings but for those who | want a simple, easily followed recipe we give the following suet pudding: If is first-class. Mrs. Kufus Washburn's i suet pudding. One cup each N. O. 1110- j lasses, rich, sweet milk, light brown | sugar, chopped suet, raisins, currants, I and mixed lemon and orange peel and | citron chopped fine. One teaspoon each of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, j One-half teaspoon soda. Three cups of j flour. Sift flour and all dry ingredients | together except the soda, add it to mo lasses. Add the molases and milk and fruit; beat well and fill molds half full, j Steam two hours and bako forty min jutes. Nuts may be added if desired. This delicious pudding should be served 'hot with hard sauce.