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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-
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"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. Feeley, who
will build a big theatre OD the site.
t HOUSEHOLD
i TALKS
T v .
k Henrietta D. Grauel
From the Delicatessen Shop
I
We were talking tn the little baker
011 the street above to-day about
business and he said, "Aeh, sure.it is
pood! Why not. when all the competi
tion I have got is from the women who
know how to cook, und dey are not so
many, eh?"
-In his window were little mutton!
pies looking as rich as Croesus and as
crisp as a fat man's temper, and alto
gether irresistible. After we bought a
half dozen of them and a pot of beau
tifully browned baked beans, some cot-j
tage cheese aud steamed Boston brown
bread our neighbor became quite con
fidential.
The mutton pies cost, he said, about
twenty-five cents a dozen to make, and
they were not all mutton but a mixture!
of mutton and veal or mutton and beef
or whatever cold meat he had left.
After the cold meat was chopped, one
fourth its weight of cracker dust was
added. This lie called filler and said it
gave richness to the filling and kept
the cost of the pies low.
The little brown crocks of beans held
enough for two hungry persons and sola
at fifteen cents. To make and bake
them he reckoned cost about four cents,
as he allowed nothing for the heat.
The oven, he explained, must always
be full of foods cooking when it was
started. "If it was not full of things,
then all mine profits they go out mid
the gas, but there are so many things
dot ran cook in the oven as good as on
the stove dot I save all the times."
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It is interesting to see success in any
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but one thing he said is especially worth
thinking about. That is, that women
who can cook are the only ones he fears '
in his business. Other women must buy |
all their food and he can increase his |
business without taking a single cus-1
tomer from other bakers, but if a ]
woman can make these delightfully j
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or a little crock of beans?
Baksd Beans for Two
Have a bean pot with a cover, those j
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one quart when full. Soak one pint of i
beans over night and in the morning
wash them again and place in the crock. '
cover with warm water and add one
level teaspoon of salt, one tablespoon ,
of New Orleans molasses containing a !
pinch of soda, one teaspoon of sugar 1
and sufficient pepper to season. Cut
salt pork in cubes and place over the i
beans. Put 011 the cover and bake five !
hours or longer in a moderate oven. ;
Serve iu the baking pot.
If you want this dish flavored with
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from the oven raise the lid and pour
in three tablespoons of tomato sauce
or mild catsup.
To-morrow—Smooth Housekeeping.
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