10 HIS Copyright, 1915, by fiecrga Br rr McCuichaon. CONTINUED Fie turned abruptly and left u». We followed him slowly toward the steps. A: the bottom lie stopped and faced me a;ain. "You're a letter man than 1 thought." he said. "If you'll bury the hatchet, so will 1. I take back what I said to you not because I'm afraid of you. but be-ause 1 respect you What say? Will you shake hands?" The surly, arrogant expression was gone from his face. In its place was a ptisr.led. somewhat inquiring look. "No hard feeling on my part." T cried gladly. We shook hands. Jasper jun ior slipped rue on the back. "It's a most distressing, atavistic habit I'm sret tijiir if.ro. knocking people down without rime or reason." "! daresay you had reason." mutter ed ''• lhigraft. "I git what was com iu-.r t > i- c " An eager light crept into iSSI 1 N/ I Extended My Left Fist, and He Landed on H.s Back. his handsome eyes. "By Jove, we can get in some corting work with the gloves while I'm here. I box quite a bit at home, and 1 miss it traveling about like this. What say to a half hour or so every day? I have the g! >ves in one of my trunks. I'm get ting horribly seedy. I need stirring up." "Charmed. I'm sure." I said, assum ing an enthusiasm ! did not feel. Put on the gloves with this strapping, skillful boxer? Not I! I was firmly resolved t" stop while my record was good. In a scientific clash with t,'ie gloves he would soon find out what a miserable duffer I was "And Jappy. here, is no slouch. He's as shifty as the dickens." "The shiftier the better," said I with great aplomb. Jasper junior stuck out liis chest modestly and said. "Oh, pif tle. Colly." But just the same I hadn't the least doubt in my mind that Jas per could "put it all over me." It was a rather sickening admission, though strictly private. We made our way to my study, where I mildly suggested that we re frain from mentioning our little en counter to Mrs. Titus or the countess. I thought Colingraft was especially pleased with the idea. We swore se crecy. "l've always been regarded as a peaceful, harmless grub." 1 explained, still somewhat bewildered by the feat 1 had performed and considerably shaken by the fear that I was degen erating Into f positive ruffian. "You will believe -ne. 1 hope, when I de clare that I was merely acting in self defense when P He actually laughed. "Don't apolo gize" Hi» could not resist the impulse t« blurt out once more. "By Jove. I didn't thi ik you could do it." "With Thy left hand, too." 1 said won deringly. Catching myself up, I hasti ly changed the subject. A little later on as Colingraft left the room, slyly feeling of his javr. Jas per junior whispered to me excitedly. "You"v*> got him eating out of your hand, old top." Things were coming to a pretty pass, •aid I to luyself when I was all alone. It certainly is a pretty pass when one knocks down the ex-husband and the brother of the woman he loves and quite without the least snspicfon of an inherited pugnacity. I had a little note from the counters that afternoon, ceremoniously deliver «J by Helene Marie I.ouise Antoinette. It read as follows: Tou did Colingraft a very gocA turn when you laid him low this morning. Ha is tiresvraely interested m his prowess as a or a bolster. or whatever It is in athletic parlance He has been like a lamb all afternoon, and be really can't get over the way you whacked him. (Is whack the word"i At first he was as mum as could bo about it. but I think lie really felt rc!ie\ed when I told him 1 lu.il seen tile wljuie affair from a win- ! clow in mv nail. Tou wt it gave him a chance to explain how you got in the whack, iir.d 1 have been obliged to listen to Intermittent lectures on the manly art of self defense all afternoon, first from him. then from Jappy. I have a head ache and no means of defense. He ad mits that he deserved it. but I am not surprised. Coily is a sporting chap. He hasn't a mean drop of blood in his body. You have made a friend of htm. So please don't feel that I hold a grudge against you for what you did. The funny part of it ail is that maitima quite agrees with him. She says he deserved it! Mamma Is wonderful, really, when it comes to a pinch She has given up all thought of "putting a foot outside the castle." Can you have luncheon with us tomorrow? Would it be too much trouble if we were to have it in the loggia? I am just mad to get out of doors if only for an hour or two in that walled in spot. Mr. Poopen dyke las been perfectly lovely. He came up this mornifig to tell me that you have not sneezed at all and there isn't the re motest chance now that you will have a •■old It seems he was afraid you might. You must have a very rugged constitu tion Britton told Blake that most men wou!* have died from exposure if they had been put in your place. How good you are to me ALIXE T. P. S.—l may come down to see you this even # <. • ••«••• I shall skip over the rather uninter ?stlutr events ot' (he next two or three .lays. Nothing of consequence happen ed unless you are willing to consider Important two perfectly blissful nights nf sleep on nij- part: also I had tie pleasure of taking the countess "out walking" in my courtyard, to use a colloquialism, once in the warm, sweet sunshine, again 'neath the glow of a radiant moon. She had not been out side the castle walls literally in more than five weeks, and the color leaped j back into her cheeks with a rush that delighted me. I may mention in pass- 1 in? that I paid particular attention to her suggestion concerning my dilapi-' dated, gone to seed garden, although I had been bored to extinction by Jas- j per junior when he undertook to en- | lighten me horticulturally. She agreed 5 to come forth every day and assist me in building the poor thing up. propping 1 it. so to speak. As for Mrs. Titus, that really engag- ! ing lady made life so easy for me that I wondered why I had ever been ap prehensive. She was quite wonderful when "it came to a pinch." I began to understand a good many things about her. chief among them being her unvoiced theories on matrimony. While she did not actually commit herself. I had no difficulty in ascertaining that, fnin her point of view, marriages are not made in heaven and that a proper ly arranged divorce is a great deal less terrestrial than it is commonly sup posed to be. She believed in matri mony as a trial and divorce as a re ward, or something to that effect. My opinion seemed to carry consider able weight with her. For a day or two after our somewhat sanguinary en- j counter she was prone to start, even to jump slightly, when I addressed my- i self to her with unintentional direct- ' uess. She soon got over that, how ever. We were discussing Aline's unfortu nate venture into the state of matri mony. and I. feeling temporarily au- ' gust and superior, managed to say the wrong thing and in doing so put my- i self in a position from which I could not recede without loss of dignity. If 1 my memory serves me correctly 1 re marked with some asperity that mar riages of that kind never turned out well for any one except the bride groom. She looked at me coldly. "1 am afraid. Mr. Smart, that you have been : putting some very bad notions into my daughter's heud." she said. "Bad notions?" 1 murmured. "She has developed certain pronounc- | ed and rather extraordinary views con cerning the nobility as the result of your—ah—argument, I may say." "I'm very sorry. I know one or two exceedingly nice noblemen, and I've no doubt there are a great many more. She must have misunderstood me. 1 wasn't running dowu the nobility. Mrs. Titus. I was merely questioning the advisability of elevating it in the way we Americans sometimes do." "You did not put It so adroitly In discussing the practice with Altne." she said quickly. "Granted that her own marriage was a mistake, a dread ful mistake. It does not follow that all International matches are failures. I would just as soon be unhappily mar ried to a duke as to a dry goods mer chant. Mr. Smart." "But not at the same price. Mrs. Ti tus." I remarked. Sht smiled. "A husband fs dear at any price." "I shouldn't put it just that way." I protested. "A good American husband is a necessity, not a luxury." "Well, to go back to what I started to say, Alio-> is very bitter about mat rimony as viewed from my point of view. I aui sorry to say I attribute her attitude to your excellent eoun.el ine." "You flatter me. I w»s under the Im pression she took her lesson of Tar nowsy." "Granted. But Tarnowsv was unfit Why tnr all of them with the same stick? There are good noblemen, you'll admit" "But. they don't need rehabilitation." "Aline. I fear, will never risk anoth er exneriment. It's rather calamitous, isn't it? When one stops to consider her youth, beautv and all the happi- A.AKRISBURO STAR-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1915. TELLING EVERYONE Without Fear or Prejudice ABOUT IT This superb volume, devoid of diplomatic deceit, uncensored by any power, neutral because true, fresh The hundreds of delighted readers who have already re from the pen of America's best-known authority, can { d thejr volume of .s there may be"— "I beg your pardon. Mrs. Titus, but 1 think your fears are groundless." I "What do you mean?" "The countess will marry again. I em not betraying a secret, because she has Intimated as much to my secretary as well as to me. 1 take it that as soon ns this unhappy affair is settled she will be free to reveal the true state of her fet-Hngs toward"— 1 stopped, , somewhat dismayed by my garrulous turn. "Toward whom?" she fairly snapped. ! "I don't know," 1 replied truthfully and. I fear, lugubriously. "Good heavens!" she cried, starting' up from the lieneh on which we were i sitting in the loggia. There was a i ! queer expression in her eyes. "Hasn't I I —hasn't she ever hinted at—hasn't she mentioned any one at all?" i "Xot to me." Mrs. Titus was agitated. I could sec ■ that very plainly. A thoughtful frown i appeared on her smooth brow, and a gleam of anxiety sprang into l*>r eyes. "I am sure that she has had no op-' portunity to"— She did not complete 1 the sentence, in which therr was a pri-1 ; rnary note of perplexity and wonder, j It grilled me to discover that she did' not even so much as take me into con | shferation. | "You mean since the—er—divorce?" I inquired. "She has been in seclusion all of the time. She lias seen no man—that is'j to say, no man for whom she could pos i sibly entertain a— But, of course, you are mistaken in your impression. Mr. Smart. There is absolutely nothing in : what v *i say." "A former sweetheart, antedating het , marriage," I suggested To Be Continued TWO DEATHS END QUARRELS Husband Shoots Wife, Then Leaps Into a Nearby River Cambridge, M'l.. May 19. —J. Ennals! Beck with, son of the late John M. j Beckwith, killed his wife at their home i in the Comersville Neck district of' Dorchester county Monday night, anil ! then committed suicide by shooting j himself through the head and jumping I overboard at Travers' Wharf, on the j j ( hoptank river. Be kwith long ha i been indulging in . ; liquor, and it is said that quarrels be , tween himself and his wife had been fiequent. A week ago his wife was , visiting in Baltimore, and Beckwith, it is alleged, found her there intoxicated and with another man. ECHO OF EARLY EDISON TEST His Second Power Operation Closed Out for Theatre Site Hazleton. Pa., May 19. —The ahan j doned plant of the Hazleton Electric ' Light and Power Company, installed in 1886 by Thomas A. Edison as the sec ond power operation in the United States to use his then newly-discovered incandescent lights, was wiped out yes terday by its sale to A. J. 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