f HE FULTOJR COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
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SYNOPSIS.
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Kenneth OrlnwoM, an unmici-eiirful
rtttr. Iier&ll-.w of Hoclulmtic tfhit'-tH'l.'H,
uM up AnOr-w OiiltimUh, pr.-lili-ril of
ll'tt ItavuU Statu 8tH-urltlcn, In tlif ili-nl--nl
prlvum i.rllrn ami nufi with H0.-
lit iiikIi, lly orltfnal mi-tlin.la hf t-n-tup-!
the hui ami cry ami K"-" uliiui'l
t'.H in-lln Jull.- h a klmml. Cli.u l.tt
Varnham of Wuhnnki, Minn., who IihiI
i-en l;un i-anh (iHlttraltli'M ch- k In tho
Miik, ninU" Mm. Hnil ilriMtlfx to d?-uiTit-
lum. Rft'ii the tirulul niutu
u-1 from dr-iwulnif by irl-wlil. Hi
l.ilk to Crum-iM ft nil i,y ht aihlrt Ht-ml
letti-r if txtravMl to ; ul triil I h Hnuiiy-
uu.y ;rt.-woli I hit tt-'l tn tin- ai
i.vmI of the tx :it at St. Iu:, lint
I' m liN f-uptnra. lit' ilr. nl-s mi VVn
I ik;i. Minn., an a hMintc plii-, anl afu-r
i. Mttlnlf liilui.-lf )ro( rly, lik.-s tli"
fci i n. Muritrv tlre-rimn. ti.iiniht.-r of
it-r ilnrrnon. the IliiiinHiil tiKiitntiO' of
T 'f.k;i, Ntartt u amimU'n f .r m m -i nl
t- . :tntion by tli "uM fminll. " of tin-
i i. (irtxwoM f.illn III on lli- nl.-.-p-r
-l iard for an. I takn to lo-r lionn
V V ului.-ka by Marx-Ty. who t1n1-. tho
o? niurirv In hi Mtiitfiiiov Hrotlln,
it !v. taken tin trill. .M uiiiTy H.k
i ' . ither to g.-t Klwari Khwii.t Into
inani i il hot u.itcr aii'l tlooi lo-lti linn
it of It. (irlHW.iiil r Vi-rs to tl II-1 the
ftob-n nionny i;onv lit- iiif-tn MnrK-ry's
hhI.i1 clri.-lo ari.i farm n fru-tnlhhlp with
!'-anir, the Iron rnariufarlurrr.
CHAPTER XIV. Continued.
"Maurice, I've got to find that young
omau If I have to cha.se her half way
luund the globo, und it's tough luck to
fgure out that If you hadu't been In
ruch a blazing h 1 of a hurry to
4ft your supper that night, I might be
Me to catch up with her In the next
lorty -tight hours or so. Hut what's
Vine is dune, and can't bo helped.
Chase out and get your passenger
fist for that trip. We ll take the om
ti as they come, a.id when you've
lelped me cull out the names of the
sues you're sure It wasn't, I'll screw
y nut and quit buzzing you."
The clerk went below and returned
slmost Immediately with the list. To
gether they went over It carefully, and
r dint of much memory-wringing
Haurice was able to give the detec
tive leave to cancel ten of the 17
lames In the women's list, the remain
tag seven Including all the might have-It-ens
who could possibly be fitted
toto the clerk's recollection of the
woman he had Been clinging to the
mloon deck stanchion after her Inter
view with the deckhand.
It was while he was Halting for the
Vparture of the first northbound
trala that he planned the soan'h for
the young woman, arranging the
lames of the eveu might-have-beens
ii the order of accessibility as indi-
"I've Oot to Find That Young Woman
If I Chase Her 'Round the Globe."
fated by the addresses given in the
telle Julie's register. In this arrunge
rent Miss Charlotte Karnham's name
tood as Xo. 1.
Landing In Walinska the next eve
ilng, Ilroll'iii's first request at the ho
tel counter was for the directory. Run
ting an eagor tinker down the "K's,"
le came to the name. It was the only
Farnham In the list, and after It he
read: "Dr. Herbert C, ofliee 8 to 10,
t to 4, I!01 Main St., res. 16 Lake
knulevard."
Then he registered for a room and
prepared to draw the net which he
ioped would entangle the lost Iden
tity of tho bank robber. After a good
light's Bleep In a real bed, he awoke
refreshed and alert, breakfasted with
tn open mind, and presently went
bout the net drawing methodically
and with every contingency carefully
jrovlded for.
The first step was to assure hlin
lelf b-;yond question that Miss Farn
ham was the writer of the unsigned
letter. This step he was able, by a
fiece of grent good fortune, to take
almost Immediately. A bit of morn
ing gossip with the obliging clerk of
the Winnebago house developed the
lact that Doctor Farnham's daughter
lind once taught In the free kinder
jarten which was one of the chari
table outreachlngs of the Wahaska
public library. Two blocks east and
one south; flrollln walked them
promtitly. made hlmaelf knuwn to the
librarian as a visitor interested In kin
SPREADING GOSPEL OF CHEER
tlfe Would Be More Pleasant for All
of Ui If These Suggestions
Were Lived Up To.
The following paragraphs may be
found over the writing desk in one of
the transcontinental trains. There Is
meat for thought In all of them. Tbcy
ireach the goBpel of cheerfulness:
Learn to laugh. A good laugh Is
letter than medicine. A well told
tory Is as "eioonie at a ray of iiiq-
dergarten work, and was cheerfully
bhown the records. When he turned
to the pages signed "Charlotte Farn
ham" the last doubt vanished and
assurance was inude sure. The anony
mous letter writer was found.
It was Just here that Matthew Prof
tin fell under the limitations of his
trade. Though the detective In real life
Is as little u may be like the Inspector
lluckets and the Javerts of Action, cer
tain characteristics persist. When he
found himself face to face with the
straightforward expedient, the craft
limitations bound him. He thought of
a dozen good reusons why he should
make haste slowly; and he recognized
In none of them the craftsman's slant
toward Indirection-the tradition of
the trade which discounts the straight
forward attack and puts a premium
upon the methods of the deer-stalker.
Sooner or later, of course, the at
tack must be made. Hut only an ap
prentice, he told himself, would be
foolish enough to make It without
mapping out all the hazards of the
ground over which It must he made.
In a word, he must "place" Miss Farn
ham precisely; muke a careful study
of the young woman and her environ
ment, to the end thut every thread of
advantage should be In his hands when
he should finally force her to a con
fession. For by now the assumption
that t-he knew the mysterious bank
robber was no longer hypothetical In
nrotrin'a mind" It had grown to the di
mensions of a conviction.
With the patient curiosity of his
tribe he suffered no detail, however,
trivial, to escape Its Jotting down. To
familiarize himself with tho goings
and comings of one young woman, he
made the acquaintance of nn entire
town. He knew Jasper Orlerson's am
bition, and Its fruitage In the practical
ownership of Wahaska. He knew that
Edward Itamer had borrowed money
from Grierson's bank and was likely
to be unable to pay It when his notes
fell due. He had heard It whispered
that there had once been a love affair
between young Kaymer and Miss Farn
ham. und that it had been broken off
by Haymer's Infatuation for Margery
Crierson. Also, last and hast Impor
tant of all the gossiping details, as It
seemed at the time, he learned that
the betw Itching Miss Crlerson was a
creature of fads; that within the past
month or two she had returned from a
Florida trip, bringing with lur a sick
man, a total etranger, who hud been
picked up on the train, taken to the
gnat house on the lake shore and
nursed back to life as Miss Crierson's
latest defiance of the conventions.
It should have been a memorable
day for Matthew Ilrofl'm when he had
this hick man pointed out to him as
M;sa Cri.Tson's companion in the high
trap. Hut Drollin was sufficiently hu
man to see only a very beautiful young
woman sitting correctly erect on the
slanting driving-seat. To be sure, he
saw a man, as one sees a vanishing fig
ure in a kaleidoscope. Hut there was
nothing In the clean-shaven face of the
gaunt, and as yet rather haggard, con
valescent to evoke the faintest thrill
of Interest or of memory.
CHAPTER XV.
In the Burglar-Proof.
A week and a day after the opening
pf new vistas ot Miss tirlerson's "eve
ning." Criswold-rtaymer's interces
sion with the Widow Ilulcomb having
paved the way took a favorable op
portunity of announcing his Intention
of leaving Mertslde. It figured as a
grateful disappointment to him one
of the many she was constantly giving
him- that Margf ry placd no obstacles
In the way of the Intention. On the
contrary, she approved the plan.
'i know how you feel," she said,
nodding complete comprehension.
"You want to have a place that you
run call your own; a place whore you
ran go and come as you please and
settle down to work. Von are going
to work, aren't you? on the book, I
nn-nn?"
Criswold replaced In Its proper
nic he the volume he had been reading.
It was Adam Smith's "Wealth of Na
tions," and he had been wondering by
what Ironical chance it hud found a
place In the banker's library.
"Yes; that Is what I mean to do
he returned. "Hut it will have to be
done in such scraps and parings of
time as I can save from some bread-and-butter
occupation. One must eat
to live, you know."
She was Fitting on the arm of one
of the big library lounging-chalrs and
looking up at him with a smile that
was suspiciously innocent and child
like.
"You mean that you will have to
work for your living?" sho asked
"Exactly."
"What were you thinking of doing?"
"I don't know, he confessed.
Again he surprised the lurking
smile In the velvety eyes, but this time
It was hnlf-mlschluvous.
"We have a college here In Wahas
ka, and you might get a placo on the
faculty, she suggested; adding: "A
an Instructor iu philosophy, for 'exam
ple
'Philosophy? that Is the one thin
rdilno In a sick room.
Learn to keep your troubles to your
self. Tha world Is not interested in
them.
Learn to stop croaking. If you can
not see any good In the world, learn
to keep the bad to yourself.
Learn to hide your pains and your
aches under pleasant unities. No one
cares to know whether you have ear
ache, headache or rheumatism.
Don't cry. Tears do well enough In
novels, but they are out of place In
real life.
Iu the world thut I know least about."
"Oh, but 1 do mean It, honestly," Bhe
averred. "You uro a philosopher,
really and truly, and 1 can prove it.
Do you feel equal to uuother little
drive downtown?"
"Uelng a philosopher, I ought to be
equal to anything," he postulated; and
he went upstairs to get a street coat
and his hat.
She had disappeared when he came
down again, and he went out to alt on
the sun-wurmed veranda while he wait
ed. He had already forgotten what
Bhe had said about the object of the
drive the proving of the philosophic
charge against him and was looking
forward with keenly pleasurable an
ticipations to another outing with her,
the second for that day. It had come
to this, now; to admitting frankly the
charm which he was still calling sensu
ous, and which, in the moments of in
sight recurring, as often as they can
be borne to the Imaginative, and
vouchsafed now and then even to tho
wayfaring, he was still disposed to
characterize as an appeul to that
which was leust worthy In him.
Passing easily to Miss Farnham the
Ideal from Miss Crlerson the llesh-and-blood
reality, he was moved to won
der mildly why the fate which had
brought him twice Into critically Inti
mate relations with her was now deny
ing him even a chance meeting. For a
week or more he had been going out
dally; sometimes with Miss Orlerson
In tho trap, but oftener afoot and
illSlS T
ft
'Open That Box cn the table, Please."
alone. The walking excursions had
led him most frequently up and down
the lakeside drive, but the doctor's
house stood well back in its enclosure,
and there was much shrubbery. Once
he heard her voice: she was reading
aloud to someone on the vine-screened
porch. And once again In passing, he
had caught a glimpse of a shapely arm
with the loose sleeve falling away
from It as It was thrust upward
through the porch greenery to pluck
a bud from the crimson rambler, add
ing Its graceful mass to the clamber
ing vines. It was rather disappoint
ing, but he was not impatient. In the
fullness of time the destiny which had
twice Intervened would intervene
again. He was as certiSn of it as he
was of the day-to-day renewal of his
strength and vitality; and he could af
ford to wait. For, whatever else might
happen In a mutable world, neither an
Ideal nor Its embodiment may suffer
change.
As If to add the touch of deflnlteness
to tho presumptive conclusion, a voice
broke In upou his reverie; the voice of
the young woman whose most alluring
charm was her many-sided changeful
ness, as If she had marked his preoc
cupied gaze and divined its object:
"You must have a little more patience,
Mr. Grlswold. All things come to him
who waits. When you have left Mere
sldo finally. Doctor Bertie will some
time take you home to dinner with
him."
For his own peace of mind, Grls
wold hastily assured himself that It
was only the wildest of chance shots.
Since the day when he had admitted
that he knew Miss Farnham's name
without knowing Miss Farnham In per
son, the doctor's daughter had never
been mentioned between them.
"How did you happen to guesB that
I was thinking of the good doctor?" he
asked, curiously.
"You were not thinking of Doctor
Bertie; you were thinking of Doctor
Bertie's 'only,' " was the laughing con
tradiction; and Grlswold was glad that
the coming of the man with the trap
saved him from the necessity of fall
ing any farther into what might easily
prove to be a dangerous pitfall. It was
not the first time that Miss Grierson
had seemed able to read his inmost
thoughts.
The short afternoon drive paused
at the curb In front of Jasper Grier
son's bank and a moment later he
found himself bringing up the rear of
a procession of three, led by a young
woman with a bunch of keys at her
girdle
"Number tJlree-forty-flv-A, please,"
his companion was saying to the young
woman custodian, and he stood aside
and admired the workmanship of the
complicated time-locks while the two
entered the electric-lighted safety de
posit vault and Jointly opened one of
the multitude of email safes. When
Miss Grierson came out, sho was car
rying a small, Japanned document box
under her arm and her eyes were
Bhlnlng with a soft light that was new
to the man who was waiting in the
corridor. "Come with itve to one of
the coupon rooms," she Bald; and
Learn to meet your friends with a
smile. A good-humored man or wom
an Is always welcome, but the dyspeptic
and hypochondriac Is not wanted any
where, and is a nuisance as well.
Don't- bother others when they wish
to work. Because you are a loafer
you should not force others to become
so.
Perform ypur manicuring In your
own boudoir, not in the street car,
where there Is no escape for others.
If you must pick your teeth, do not do
so la public.
then to the custodlau: "You needn't
stuy; I'll ring when we want to be let
out."
Grlswold followed In mild bewilder
ment when she turned aside to one of
the little mahogany-lined cells set
npurt for the use of the safe-holders,
saw her press the button which
switched the lights on, and mechani
cally obeyed her signal to close the
door. When their complete privacy
was assured, she put the Japanned box
on the tiny table and motioned him to
one of the two chairs.
"Do you know why I have brought
you here?" she asked, when he was
sitting within arm's-reach of the small
black box.
"How should 1?" he said. "Ton take
me where you please, and when you
please, and I ask no questions. I am
too well content to be with you to
care very much about the whys and
wherefores."
"Oh, how nicely you say It!" she
commended, with the frank little
laugh which he had come to know and
to b ek to provoke. She wns standing
against the opposite cell wall with her
shoulders squared and her hands be
hind her: the pose, whether Intention
al or natural, was dramatically perfect
and altogether bewitching. "I was
born to be your fairy godmother, I
think," she went on Joyously. "Tell
me; when you bought your ticket to
Wahaska that night In St. LouIb, were
you meaning to come here to find
work?"
"No," be admitted; "I had money,
then."
"What became of It?"
"I don't know. I suppose It was
stolen front me on the train. It was In
a package In one of my suitcases; and
Doctor Farnham suld "
"I know; also he told you that we
didn't find any money?"
"Ycb; he told me that, too. We
agreed that somebody must have gone
through the grips on the train."
"So you Just let the money go?"
"So I Just let it go."
She was laughing again and the be
dazzling eyes were dancing with de
light. "I told you I was going to prove that
you are a philosopher!" sha exulted.
"Sour old Diogenes himself couldn't
have been more superbly indifferent to
the goods the gods provide. Open that
box on the table, please."
He did It hair-absently; at the first
sight of the brown-paper packet with
in, the electric bulb suspended over
the table seemed to grow black and
the mahogany walls of the tiny room
to spin dizzily. Then, with a click
that he fancied he could hear, the buz
zing mental machinery stopped and
reversed Itself. A cold sweat, clammy
and sickening, started out on him
when he realized that the reversal had
made him once again the crafty, cor
nered criminal, ready to fight or fly
or to slay, If a life stood In the way of
escape. Without knowing what he did,
he closed the box and got upon his
feet, eyeing her with a growing feroc
ity that he could neither banish nor
control.
I see: you were a little beforehand
with the doctor," he said, and he
strove to say It naturally; to keep the
malignant devil that was whispering
In his ear from dictating tho tone as
well as the words.
I was, Indeed; Boveral days before
hand." Bhe boasted, still Joyously ex
ultant. You you opened the package?" he
weut on, once more pushing the Im
portunate devil aside.
Naturally. How else would I have
known that It was worth locking up?"
Her coolness astounded him. If she
knew the whole truth and the demon
at his ear was assuring him that she
must know it she must also know
that she was confronting a great
peril; the peril of one who voluntarily
shuts himself Into a trap with the fear-
maddened wild thing for which tho
trap was baited and set. lie was
steadying himself with a hand on the
table when he said: "Well, you opened
the package; what did you find out?"
"What did I find out?" He heard her
half-hesitant repetition of his query,
and for one flitting Instant he made
sure that he saw the fear of death In
the wide-open eyes that were lifted to
his. But the next instant the eyes
were laughing at him, and she was
going on confidently. "Of course, as
soon as I untied the string I saw It
was money a lot of money; and you
can imagine that I tied It up again,
quickly, and didn't lose any more time
than I could help in putting It away
In the safest place I could think ot.
Every day Blnce you began to get well,
I've been expecting you to Bay some
thing about It; but as long as you
wouldn't, I wouldn't."
Slowly the blood came back Into tho
saner channels, and the whispering
demon at his ear grew less articulate.
He took the necessary forward step
and stood before her. And his answer
was no answer at all.
"Miss Grierson Margery are you
telling me the truth? all of It?" he de
manded, seeking to pinion the soul
which lay beyond the deepest depth
of the limpid eyes.
Her laugh was as cheerful as a bird
song.
"Telling you the truth? How could
you suspect me of such a thing! No,
my good friend; no woman ever tells
a man the whole truth when Bhe can
help It. I didn't find your money, nnd
I didn't lock It up In poppa's vault: 1
am merely playing a part In a deep
and diabolical plot to-"
Grlswold forgot that he was her poor
bew'ficiary; forgot that she had taken
him in as her guest; forgot, in the
mad Joy of the reactionary moment,
everything that he should have remom
bered saw nothing, thought of noth
ing save the (lushed race with Its glo
rious eyes and tempting lips: the eyes
and Hps or the duughter or men.
Above all, lose no chance of giving
pleasure. You will pass through this
world but once. Any good thing, there
fore, that you can do or any kindness
that you can show any human being
you had better do It now. Don't de
fer or neglect It, for you will not pass
this way again.
Public Health Work.
Although local public health organi
zation In America Is over two hundred
years old, It Is still the weakest part
of our defense against disease, accord-
She broke away from hltn hotly
after he had taken the Hushed fnce be
tween his hands and klssc-d her; broke
iiway to drop Into tho chair at the
other side of the tablo. hiding the
flashing eyes and the burning cheeks
and the quivering lips in the crook of
a round arm which made room for It
self on the narrow table by pushing
the Japanned money-box off the oppo
site edge.
It was the normal Grlswold who
picked up the box and put It on the
other chair, gravely and methodically.
Then he stood before her again with
his back to the wall, waiting ror what
every gentle drop or blood In his veins
was telling him he richly deserved.
His punishment was long In coming;
so long that when he made sure she
was crying, he began to Invite It
"Say It," he suggested gently, "you
needn't spare mo at all. The only ex
cuse I could offer would only make the
offense still greater."
She looked up quickly and the dark
eyes were swimming. But whether the
tears w ere of anger or only of outraged
generosity he could not tell;
"Then there was an excuse?'1 she
flashed up at him.
"No," he denied, as one who finds
the second thought the worthier;
"there was no excuse."
She had found a filmy bit or lace
bordered linen at her belt and was
rurtlvely wiping her lips with It.
"I thought perhaps you might be
able to to Invent one or some sort,"
she said, and her tone was as colorless
as the gray skies or an autumn night-,
full. And then, with a childlike appeal
In the wonderful eyes: "I think you
will have to help me a little out of
your broader experience, you know.
What ought I to do?"
His reply came hot from the refining
fire of self-abasement.
"You should write me down ns one
who wasn't worthy of your loving kind
ness and compassion, Miss Grierson.
Then you should call the custodian
and turn me out."
"But afterward," he persisted
pathetically. "There must be an after
ward." "I am leaving .Mereside this eve
ning," he reminded her. "It will be
for you to say whether Its doors shall
ever open to me again."
She took the thin safety-deposit key
from her glove and laid It on the ta
ble. "You have made me wish there
hadn't been any money," Bhe lamented,
with a sorrowful little catch In her
voice that stabbed him like a knife. "I
haven't so many friends that I can ar
ford to lose them recklessly, Mr. Grls
wold." "Damn the money!" he exploded;
and the malediction came out of a full
heart.
Her fingers had found the bell-push
and were pressing It When the cus
todian opened the door, Miss Grierson
was her polseful self again.
"Number three-forty-fivc-A Is Mr.
Kenneth Grlswold's box, now," she an
nounced briefly. "Please register It In
his name, and then help him to put it
away and lock It up."
Grisvvold went through the motions
with the key-bearing young woman
half-absently. Man like, he was ready
to be fo.-civen und comforted; and
there was at least oblivion In her
charming little shudder as the custo
dian shot the bolts of the gate to let
them out.
"Hr-r-r!" she shivered. "I can never
stand here and look at the free people
out there without fancying myself In
a prison. It must be a dreudful thing
to bo shut away behind bolts and bars,
forgotten by everybody, and yet your
self unable to forget. Do you ever
have such foolish thoughts, Mr. Grls
wold?" For one poignant Becond fear leaped
alive again and he called hlmseir no
bettor than a lost man. But tho eyes
that were lifted to his were the eyes
of a questioning child, so guilelessly In
nocent that he Immediately suffered
another relapse Into the pit of eelf-de-splslngs:
"You have made me your prisoner,
Miss Grierson," he said, speaking to
his own thought rather than to her
question. And when they reached the
Bldewalk and the trup: "May I bid you
good-by here and go to my own place?"
"Of course not!" she protested. "Mr.
Raymer Is coming to dinner tonight
and he will drive you over to Mrs. Hoi
comb's afterward, If you really think
you must go."
And for the first time In their com
ings and goings she let him lift her to
tho high driving-seat.
CHAPTER XVI.
Converging Roads.
Matthew Brotlin had been two weeks
and half or a third an unobtrusive spy
upon the collective activities or the
Wahaskan social group which includ
ed the Farnhams before lie decided
that nothing could bo gained by fur
ther delay.
Having his own private superstition
about Friday, Broffin chose a Wednes
day afternoon for his call at the house
on the lake front. It was a resplen
dent day of the early summer, which,
In the Minnesota latitudes, springs,
Mlnervaliko, full grown from the nod
ding head of the wintry Jove of the
North. In the doctor's front yard the
grass waB vividly grefn, gladioli and
Jonquils bordered tho path willi a
bravery of color, and the buds of the
clambering rose on the porch trellis
were swelling to burst their cnlyxes.
Uroflin turned In from the sidewalk
and closed the gate noiselessly behind
him. While he had been three doors
away in the lake-fronting street, a
Bmall pocket binocular had ansured
him thut the young woman he was
going to call upon was sitting In a
porch rocker behind tha clumberlng
rose, reading a book.
Ing to Dr. J. W. Kerr of Washington,
D. C, assistant surgeon general or
the United States public health ser
vice. In many rural districts no at
tempt is made at health supervision,
while In other places the compensation
is so small as to make satisfactory
public health work Impossible. These
conditions, Doctor Kerr says, are
largely due to lack of recognition b7
the public of the value of full-time,
health officers to the community. Re
cent advances In Maryland, New
York and Massachusetts providing for
She ha4 rlsir to meet III in by th
time he lir.d mounted the nteps, and
he knew that her first glunce was ap
pralslve. He had confidently counted
upon being mistaken for a strange pa
tleut In search or the doctor, and be
was not disappointed.
"You are looking ror Doctor Farn
ham?" she began. "He Is at bis of
flee 201 Main street."
llrollln was digging in bis pocket
ror a card.
"I know well enough where youi
father's office Is, but you are the one
I wanted to see," be said; and be
gave her tho round-cornered card with
Its blazonment of his name and em
ploynienL
He wa3 watching her narrowly when
she read the name and Its underline,
and the quick indrawlng of the breath
and the little shudder that went wltb
it were not thrown away upon blra.
But the other signs; the pressing ot
the even teeth upon the lower lip and
the coming and going of three straight
lines between the half-closed eyei
were nut so ravorable.
"Will you come Into the house.
Mr." she had to look at the card
again to get the name "Mr. llrollln?"
she asked.
"Thank you, miss; it's plenty good
enough out here ror me If It Is ror
you", he returned, beginning to rear
that the common civilities were giv
ing her time to get behind her de
reuses. "I guess we can take It ror granted
that you know what I want, Miss
Farnham," he began abruptly, when
be had shifted his clnlr to race her
rocker. "Something like three months
ago, or thereabouts, you went Into a
bank In New Orleans to get a draft
cashed. While you were at the pay
ing tellers' window a robbery .was
committed, and you saw it done and
saw the man that did it. I've come
to get you to tell me the man's
name."
"I have told it once, In a letter to
Mr. Galbralth."
Broffin nodded. "Yes; In a letter
that you didn't sign. I've come all
the way from New Orleans to get
you to tell me his real name, Miss
Farnham."
"Why do you think I can tell you?"
was the undisturbed query.
"A lot of little things," said the de
tective, who was slowly coming to his
own in the matter of Belf-assurance.
"In the first pluce, he spoke to you
In the bank, and you answered him.
Isn't that so?"
She nodded again. "You know so
much. It Is surprising that you don't
know It all, Mr. Broflln," she coin
mented. with gentle sarcasm.
"The one thing I don't, know Is the
thing you're goln' to tell me his real
name," he insisted. "That's what I've
come here for."
In spite of her Inexperience, which.
In Mr. Hroflin's field, was no less than
total. Charlotte Farnham hud imagi
nation, and with It a womanly zest for
the matching of wits with a man
"Damn the Money!" He Exploded.
whose chief occupation was the meas
urlug of his own wit against the subtle
cleverness of criminals. Therefore she
accepted the challenge.
"I did my whole duty at the time.
Mr. Brollin," Bhe demurred, with a
touch of coldness in her voice. "If
you were cureless enough to let him
escape you at St. Louis, you shouldn't
come to me. I might say very Justly
that It was never any affair of mine."
Matthew Broflln's gifts were subtle
only in his dealings with other men;
but he was Bhrewd enough to know
that his last and best chance with a
woman lay In an appeal t ber fears.
" I don't know what made you write
this letter, In the first place," he said,
taking the well-thumbed paper from
his coat pocket; "but I know well
enough now why you didn't sign It.
and why you didn't put the man's real
name in It. You you and him fixed
It up between you so that you could
say to yourself afterwards what you've
Just said to me that you'd done your
duty. But you haven't finished doln'
you duty yet. The law says"
"1 know very well that the law
says'," was her baining rejoinder; "I
have taken the trouble, to find out
sinco I came home. I am not hiding
your criminal."
Broffin was trying to galtv a little
easo by tilting his chair. Hut the house
wall was too close behind hltn.
"people will say thut you are helpln'
to hide hltn as long as you won't tell
his real name what?" he grated.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
i sanitary districts and reasonably paid
health officers encourage the hope of
better things In the future. In Doc
tor Kerr's opinion physicians should
not only advocate public health work,
but should engage In It to a greater
degree than heretofore.
Had Heard Her.
"Are you going to the muslcale at
the Robinson's tonight?"
"I don't know. Are they going to
have music or Is Josephine going to
iConditrtPd by the National Woman')
Christian Temperance Union.)
EFFEQTS OF BEER DRINKING.
The political strength of liquor li
furnished by the wine and beer drlnk
srs. Whisky Interests may be better
organized than the brewers and Inter
fere more activoly In politics, but
the votes which make possible the
sale or Intoxicants are not furnished
by whisky drinkers, who do not al
ways vote aa they drink. The beer
drlnkor gonerally will vote to protect
his habit, bocause he Is far from con
vinced or Its malignancy. From Edt
torlal In Chicago Tribune.
And that Is why tho W. C. T. U. and
other temperance organizations are
bringing to tho masses the truth about
beer and Its malignant effocts upon
the human organism. Concerninj
thoso effocts the Life Extension Instl
tuto says In a published statement:
"One half of one quart or beer ii
sufficient to distinctly Impair memory,
lower Intellectual power and retard
simple mental processes, such as the
addition or slmplo figures. This nar
cotic or deadening influence Is first
exerted on the higher reasoning pow
ers that control conduct, so that the
lower activities of tho mind and nerv
ous system are for a time released.
The everyday, well-polsed, self-controlled
man goes to sleep, as It were,
and the primitive man temporarily
wakes up. Eventually, the nervom
system Is narcotized, and tho drinker
becomes sleepy. Muscular efficiency
Is at first Incroased a little, and then
lowered, the total effoct being a lout
of working power."
A CORRECTION.
Newspapers and magazines are con
tinually publishing erroneous state
ments with regard to the number of
dry states. A leading weekly periodical
publishes a prohibition map showing
17. Iowa Is omitted. A writer In one
of the Juno magazines gives the num
ber as 16, Iowa and Idaho both being
counted among the wets. Up to Sep
tember 21. 1914, there were nine pro
hibition states. Since that time nine
more have been added. The IS pro
hibition states, In tbo order of their
going dry, are:
Maine 1351
Kansas 1S80
North Dukota 1S89
Georgia 1907
Oklahoma 1907
North Carolina 1908
Mississippi 1908
Tennessee 1909
West Vlrglna 1912
Virglna 19H
Colorado 1914
Oregon 1911
Washington 1914
Arizona 1914
Arkansas 1915
Alabama 1915
Idaho 1915
Iowa 1915
PROHIBITION PROGRESS.
(By JAME3 Minm.KTON. In WorU'i
Work.)
About two years ago Mr. William
Jennings Bryan gave a diplomatic din
ner in Washington, distinguished par
tlcularly by the absence of wine. Im
mediately the world burst Into a roar
of luughter; Europeans, especially,
hailed the proceeding as an amusing
Illustration of American provincialism.
A few months ago the king of England
announced that he would himself ab
stain from alcoholic drinks ror the rest
or the war, and that wines would no
longer be served In any or the royal
households. Nine American statei
have adopted -prohibition in the last
eight months. France has legally for
bidden the manufacture and sale of
absinthe, and the Russian empire U
"dryer" at the present moment than
Kansas or Maine ever were. Facti
like these testify to the progress that
the cause or antlalcohollsm has made
In less than a year. When the leader
or the most sophisticated society l
Europe follows the example of out
own somewhat homespun secretary of
state, the cause of tcetotallsm bai
ceased to be ridiculous.
THE SOCIALIST VIEW.
The special committee appointed or
the Socialists a year ugo to atudy the
liquor problem says In Its report, P'
sentcd Mny 13 to the natlonul commit
tee In Chicago that "total abstinence
Is the only absolutely safe -and wise
course to pursue" In view of the dis
astrous effocts of excessive drinking-
' Many .of tho authorities quoted In
the report in coudemnntlon or beef
are German. Among alcohol's recorded
opponents are SOO German and Aus
trian doctors. One statement Is that
"beer Is not the harmless bevcrags
many or the German people think 1'
is."
"The Socialist party," declares the
report, "cannot remain Indifferent w
Inactive, but should take a definite po
sition and activev part Iu combatlnf-
the evils of alcoholism."
ILLINOIS GOING DftY. '
Illinois had twenty-eight Frohll,i'
tlon counties when the women eIt
asked to assist In destroying the sa
loon by their votes. They respond
by driving them out of twenty-three
additional comities nt the first
tlon. FcJur more counties wore md
dry this year, making a total of
five. Reventv enimtv Rpntfl are dfJ'
1,234 out of 1,430 townships In
state have outlawed the faloon.
one foot of dry territory has
changed to wet during the two 'M"
from May 1, 1013, to May 1.'
SOLDIERS DENIED LIQUOR.
Pilraitant in n nv.ln laulicd 07
Colonel Arthur ft Donnelly, the
members of the First regiment,
tlonal Guard of Missouri, find the
selves aboard the water wagon. TJ
order prohibits the use of Hiu"" w
every officer and every private.
PAY BONDED INDEBTEDNESS.
Bedford county, Pennsylvania.
i i i . . frnnl I
reason 01 Having oeeu ueo i.-
saloons ror some time, has boen
abled to make the final paJ'016"'
its bonded Indebtedness of JS.00l.