10 pOOiaAND HIS"1 AfmMONEY Copyright, 1915, by Cieoiga Br rr McCutcheon. CONTINUED r tnec to smile. "How— how cozy j you are here," I said. "lou couldn't expect me to live in : this awful place without some of the comforts and conveniences of life, Mr. Smart." she said defiantly. "Certainly not," I said promptly. "I am sure that you will excuse me, how ever, if I gloat. I was afraid we had lost all these things. You've no idea how relieved I am to find them alt safe : and sound in my—in their proper place. 1 was beginning to distrust the Schmidts. Now I am convinced of their integrity." "I suppose yon mean to be sarcas tic." "Sarcasm at any price, madame, would be worse than useless, I am sure." Crossing to the fireplace, I selected 1 a lump of coal from the scuttle and examined it with great care. She watched me curiously. "Do yon recognize it?" she asked. "I do," said I, looking up. "It has, been in our family for generations.j My favorite chunk, believe me! Still I part with it cheerfully." Thereupon I tossed it into the fire. "Don't be shocked. I shan't miss tt. We have coals to burn, madame." She looked at me soberly for a mo ment. There was something hurt and wistful in her dark eyes. "Of course, Mr. Smart. I shall pay i you for everything—down to the small est trifle—when the time comes for me to leave thia place. I have kept strict account of"— She turned away, with a beaten droop of the proud little head, and' again I was shamed. 'Madame,'' I said, with considerable feeling. "I have behaved like a down right rotter to<lay. Ido not know who you are nor why you are here, but I : assure you it is of no real consequence If you will but condescend to overlook my Insufferable"— She turned toward me. The wist ful. appealing look still lingered in bee evee. The soft red nether lip seemed a bit tremulous. "I am an intruder," she interrupted, smiling faintly. "Sou have every right to put me out of your—your home. Sir. i Smart. I have been very selfish and cattish and Inconsiderate, Mr. Smart. ■You see, I'm a spoiled child. I've al ways had my own way in everything. You must loot upon me as a very hor rid. sneaking, conspiring person, and I—l reaiiy think you ought to turn j me out." She came a few stepe nearer. Sod-' denly it was repealed to me that she was the loveliest woman 1 had ever; seen in all my life. I am afraid that I stared. "Turn you out?" I cried. "Turn you out of this delightful room after you've had so much trouble getting it into 6bape? Never!" "Oh, you don't know how I've im-' posed upon you!" she cried plaintively. 1 "You don't know how I've robbed you j and bothered you"— "Tes, I do,"' said I promptly, "ij know all about it. You've been steal ing my coals, my milk, my ice, my po tatoes, my servants, my sleep and"— here I gave a comprehensive sweep of my hand—"everything in sight. And you've made us walk on tiptoe to keep j from waking the baby, and"— I stop-! ped suddenly. "By the way. whose i baby is it? Not yours. I'm sure." ' To my surprise her eyes filled with tears. "Yes; she is my baby, Mr. Smart," she said, turning away. CHAPTER VIII. "The count —my husband.* MY face fell. She couldn't have been a day over twenty-two. But she had a baby! Facing me once more, she said: "Doubtless you are very much puz zled by my presence In this gloomy old castle. You have been Asking yourself a thousand questions about me. and you have been shocked by my outrageous impositions upon your good nature. 1 am here. Mr. Smart, because it is the last place In the world where my hus band would be likely to look for me." ; "Your husband? Look for you?" "Yes. I shall be quite frank with! you. My husband and I have separat-i ed. A provisional divorce was grant-: ed. however, just seven months ago. j The final decree cannot be issued for! one year." "But why should you hide from him?" "The—the court gave him the custody of our child during the probationary year. I—l have run away with her.l They are looking for me everywhere. That is why I came here. Do you un derstand?" I was stunned. "Then. I take it. the court granted him the divorce and not you?" 1 said, experiencing a sudden j chill about the heart. "You were de prived of the child, I Dear me!" I "You are mistaken." she said, a flash In her eyes. 'Tt was an Austrian eourt. The couut-my husband. I should say—la an Austrian subject. His In terests must be protected." She said this tfith u ss-ter on her pretty Hps. "You see, my father, knowing him now for what be really is. has" reused to pay over io him like a million dollart. still due for the mar riage settlement. The count contends that it is a Vist and legal debt, and the court supports him to this extent: The child is to be his until the debt is cleared up, or something to that ef fect. I really don't understand the le gal complications Involved. Perhaps it were better If I did." "I see," said I, scornful in spite of myself. "One of those happy interna tional marriages where a bride is thrown in for good measure with a couple of millions. Won't we ever learn?" "That's it precisely." she said, with the utmost calmness and candor. "American dollars and an American girl in exchange for a title, a lot of debts and a ruined life." "And they always turn out Just this way. What a lot of blithering fools we have in the land of the free and the home of the knave!" "My father objected to the whole arrangemeut from the first, so you "I am not asking for pity." must not speak of him as a knave." she protested. "He doesn't like counts and such things." "I don't see that it helps matters. I can hardly substitute the word 'brave' for the one 1 used," said 1, trying to conceal my disgust. "Please don't misunderstand me, Mr. Smart," she said haughtily. "I am not asking for pity. I made my bed, and I shall lie in it. The only thing 1 ask of you is—well, kindness." She seemed to falter again, arid once more I was at her feet, figuratively speaking. "You are in distress, in dread of something, madame!" I cried. "Consid er me your friend." She shook her head ruefully. "You poor man! You dou't know what yo«i are in for, I fear. Wait till I have told you everything. Three weeks ago I laid myself liable to imprisonment and heaven knows what else by abducting my little girl. That is really what it comes to—abduction. The court has ordered my arrest, and all sorts of po lice persons are searching high and low for me. Now don't you see your peril? If they find me here you will be in a dreadful predicament. You will be charged with criminal com plicity, or whatever it is called, and— Oh, It will be frightfully unpleasant for you. Mr. Smart!" My expression must have convicted me. She couldn't help seeing the dis may in my face. So she went on quite humbly: "Of course you have but to act at once and all may be well for you. I I will go if you—if you command me to"— I struck my knee forcibly. "What do you take me for. madnme? Hang the consequences! If you feel that you are safe here—that Is. comparatively 6afe— stay!" "It will be terrible if you get into trouble with the law," she murmured in distress. "I—l really don't know what might happen to you. Indeed. I do not." Suddenly a horrible thought struck me with stunning force. "Don't tell me that your—your hus band is the man who owned this cas tle up to a week ago," I cried. "Count James Ilohendahl?" She shook her head. "No. He is not the man." Seeing that I waited for her to go on, she resumed: "I know Count James quite well, however. He is my husband's closest friend." "Good heaven." said I. in quick alarm. "That complicates matters, doesn't It? He may come here at any time." "It isn't likely. Mr. Smart. To be ' '■ J ' ' N v - . .■ * 4" V r f. HARRTSP.ITRO STAT?-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY FVFNTNG. APRIL 28, 1915. STRATEGIC POSITION OF THE MAIN BRITISH FLEET < § X, T ST is. gJr CRu/se&S} ffigtmi* w / <> \ \ 'i< v 1 0 i */, »52 ° -A- * V-Q/" position of / / yM \ „<*. MAIN BRITISH / o J | \o -** BATTLESHIP / 'JKIf .# & \° <s* fleet, based/ * Y _/<, s* 0- ftrs» CH <? - . V" /777t ?T :^RAM' c vQ THE NAVAL SITUATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY From the outset of the war the British have blot .ed the northern part of the North Sen by a line of cruisers extending from the Orkneys to the Norwegian coast. The distance from the blockading line to the mouth of the Elbe, where the German High Sea fleet is based, is approximately five hundred miles, it was early thought that this distance would preclude submarine attack, and this has proved true, except in the case of the latest aud more powerful of the German under sea vessels. From the mouth of the Elbe to off Cherbourg, that is to say, a course through the Straits of Dover with the open Atlantic as an objective, would involve a steaming distance of about five hundred and fifty miles. One hundred miles more would place a German fleet on the Atlantic Ocean. A glance at the chart will show that from a position on the northeast coast of Ireland a main British fleet would be midway, as it were, ready to block in force either the North Sea or English Channel exits, if the German High Sea fleet is seriously determined to engage the main British force it will only be necessary, it is maintained for the Germans to make an effort to reach blue water. Until that effort is made it Is doubted if the British can be manoeuvred out of position or coaxed into chasing a retreating force over mined areas. perfectly honest with you, I waited un til I heard you had bought the castle before coming here myself. We were in hiding at the house of a friend in Lin/, up to a week ago." "Way I inquire, madame," said I stiff ly, "how you came to select my abode as your hiding place?" "Oh, I have forgotten to tell you that we lived here one whole summer just after we were married. Count Hohen dahl let us have the castle for our—our honeymoon. He was here a great deal of the time. Ail sorts of horrid, nasty, snobbish people were here to help us enjoy our honeymoon. 1 shall never forget that dreadful summer. My only friends were the Schmicks. You see fhe.v were in the family ages and ages before I was born." "The family? What family?" "The Kotbboefen family. Haven't they told you that my great-grand mother was a IJothboefen? No? Well, she was. I belong to the third genera tion of American born descendants. Doesn't it simplify matters, knowing this?" "Immensely," said I, In something of a daze. "And so I came here, Mr. Smart, where hundreds of my ancestors spent their honeymoons, most of them per haps as unhappily as I. and where I knew a fellow countryman was to live for awhile in order to get a plot for a new story. You see, I thought I might be a great help to you in the shape of suggestion.' She smiled very warmly, and I thought it was a very neat way of put ting it. Naturally it would be quite impossible to put her out after hearing that she had already put herself out to some extent in order to assist me. "I can supply the villain for your story if you need one, and I can give you oceans of ideas about'noblemen. I am sorry that I can't give you a nice, sweet heroine. I'eople hate heroines after they are married and live un happily. You" To Be Continued LAWYERS' PAPER BOOKS Printed at tliis ofliee in best style, at lowest prices and on short notice. 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