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the Iimh unit rry mul ki' HlnnirJ
ilif itfli Julie fi4 a il.t klniiKi. t'luirlottf
Karnluiiu of WuhnNku, Minn., who had
--i-n linn cash Oiilhiulih'a rlit-rk lii Hie
bank. rvoKtuz- lilm. (nut aniil. a li'tfi-r
if Lctruval to llnlhrultli Hiionyiilniiilv'.
(irlawohj 1h un-Kt-t on the iirrHul of lh
tm.it at Hi. J.oui.h. but iM'tipi-M from hm
r.iptorn. Hl U--ilt-a on W'alutMku, Minn..
hk a hliliiik' placr, itml attT outlining
him. If pro-ily, tak tin- trnln. lirla
u "M fjtlia 111 on the Hlei-pcr Hlul I.- run-il
for antl taktn ti liT holm- In Valianka
r-v M'irKry Orli-rori, liiniclitr of J;isp-r
tlii'rvon, tho finnnital inaKniitr of Wa
l.o.u. Mitric'ry tin-la tin iol-n moti-y
In llrinwol'lH HU'tranr.. Hrotlln. ili'tM'llvw,
tal.t'H Hip trail. Mantrry aikn li.-r father
to t.-t 1-Mwanl Hayuier Into ItlmiH'i.il hot
;iit r anil then help him out of It. llrla
lit ri-rovem to timl th atnl.-n money
go! lie meetM MitrH'-iy'A Horlal I'lri ltf
ami forma a frlon.ihlp Willi Haymer,
ttii- iion riiAiiiif.n-tiir-T Itroltlu renies to
WahM.ska In M-nrt tl of the woman who
wrote the anonymon letter to tialhraltii.
Margery takea lirlHWol.J lo the nalety il
poatt vault and turna the atoW-n money
uer to tutu.
CHAPTER XVI Continued.
"You still l.Mnk I could tell you
that. If I clioi,?" she n-.id. willfully
misleading li i in. or at Ic-Aat allowing
bim to mlsleai himself.
"I don't thh.k anything about it 1
know! You'd met tilm somewhere be
fore that day in the bank before you
knew be was goln' to turn gentleman
holdup. That's why you don't want to
i va up his real name."
She had risen, and in self-defense
Rroffln had to grope on the floor for
bis hat and stand up too.
"Walt a minute. I'm an officer of
the law, and I could arrest you and
take you to New Orleans on what evi
dence I've got. How about that?
what?''
There was good fighting blood on
the Farnham side, notwithstanding the
kindly Doctor Ilertie's peaceful voca
tion, and the calm gray eyes that met
Ilroffin's were mllitantly angry when
the retort came.
"If I had a brother. Mr. Rroffln, he
would be able to answer you better
than I can!" she flamed out. "Let me
pass, please!"
It was not often that Rroffln lost his
head or his temper, but both were
gone when he struck back.
"That'll be all right, too!" he broke
out harshly, blocking the way to force
her to listen to him. "You think you've
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:tftn.i-: Ci ' til "4
"I Am an Officer of the Law."
bluffed me, don't you? what? Let
me tell you: some fine day this duck I
whose name Isn't Oavitt will turn up !
here to see you; then I'll nab him.
If you f.nrt out where he Is, and write
to him not to come, It'll be all the
same; he'll come anyway, and when
he docs come. 1 11 get him!"
When Miss Farnham had gone In
nd there was nothing left for him to
do but to compass his own disappear
ance, Ilroffln went away, telling him
self with many blandishments that for
once In his professional career he had
made an ass of himself. The doctor's
daughter knew the man; she had
known him before the robbery; she
was willing to be his accomplice to
the extent of her ability. There was
only one explanation of this attitude.
In KrofTin's wording of It, Mies Farn
ham was "gone on him," If not openly,
t least to Bucta an extent as to make
her anxious to shield him.
That being the case, I3ro(Hn set It
down as a fact as good as accom
plished that the man would sooner or
later come to Wahaska. The detec
tive's knowledge of masculine human
nature was as profoundly acute as the
requirements of his calling demanded
With a woman like Miss Farnham for
the lure, he could be morally certain
that his man would some time fling
caution, or even a written prohibition,
to the winds, and walk Into the trap.
This mlsflre of IlrofTln's happened
upon a Wednesday, which. In Its cal
endar placing, chanced to be three
weeks to a day after Griswold bad left
Mereslde to settle hlmRelf studiously
ITALY UNDER MANY RULERS
Fertile Land, During the Centuries,
His Been Prize Worth the Ex
penditure of Blood.
Charlemagne tacked Italy to bis un
wieldy empire and left It to his weak
ling son, Lothalre, by the treaty of
Verdun tn 843. The peninsula en
Joyed a measure of peace for some
years, then petty counts and dukes
began a series of Internecine wars
which continued until Otbo the Great
4l I W
In two quiet upper rooms In the Widow
Holcomb's house In upper Shawnee
street.
That it wub also a day of other co
Incidences will appear in the casting
up of the Items on the page of events.
For one thing, It marked the formal
opening of the Dc Soto inn for the
summer season. For another, the
special train from the far South arriv
ing at noon and bearing the first de
tachment of the Inn's guests, had for
one of Its Pullman passengers an
elderly gentleman with a strongly
marked Scottish face; a gentleman
with the bushy white eyebrows of age,
the long upper lip of caution, the
drooping eyelid of Irascibility, and the
bearing of a man of routine; In other
words, Mr. Andrew Galbralth, faring
northward on his customary summer
vacation, w hich the fates Intervening
he had this time determined to
spend at the Wahaskan resort.
For a third Item, It was at three
o'clock of this same Wednesday that
Itnymer came out of Jasper Grierson's
bank with his head down and a cloud
on his brow; the cloud dating back
to an Interview Just closed, a short
and rather brittle conference with the
bank's president held in Jasper Grier
son's private room, with the president
sitting at ease In his huge armchair
and his visitor standing, quite desti
tute of ease, at the desc end.
Haymer's horse was c:ily a Bhort
half square away, hitched In front of
the Winnebagr. house, and he went to
get It. I!ut at the Instant of unhitch
ing. Miss Grierson's trap was driven
up and the untying of knots paused
while he stepped from the curb to
stand at the wheel of the modish equi
page. "You are getting to be as bad as
all the others," was the greeting he
got from the high driving seat. "You
haven't been at Mereside for an age
only once since the night you took Mr.
Griswold away from us. I3y the way,
what has become of Mr. Griswold? He
doesn't show himself In public much
oftener than you do."
"I think he has been getting to work
on bis writing," said Raymer, good
naturedly apologizing for his friend.
"He'll come down out of tho clouds
after a little. I understand be dines
at Doctor Ilertie's tonight."
The young Iron founder was looking
up into the eyes of beguiling when he
said this, and, being a mere man, he
wondered what made them flash and
then grow suddenly fathomless and
brooding.
"When you see him, tell him that
we are still on earlh over at Mere
side," said the magnate's daughter
pertly; and a moment later, as Hay
mer was turning out of Main Btreet
Into Shawnee, he narrowly missed run
ning over a heavy-set man with a
dark face and drooping mustaches;
a pedestrian whose preoccupation
seemed so great as to make him quite
oblivious to street crossings and pass
Ing vehicles until Raymer pulkd his
horse back Into the shafts and
shouted.
One more small coincidence will
serve to total the Items on the Wed
nesday page. If Rroffln had not
stopped to look after the man who
had so nearly run him down, he
might have been crossing Main street
in front of the Winnebago at the pre
cise lnstuct when Miss Grierson, with
young Ithlgren In the second seat of
the trap, came around the square and
pulled up to let her horse drink at
the public fountain.
"Who Is that Rltter-creeklsh-looking
man crossing over to the Winnebago
house?" asked Miss Grierson of her
seatmate, Indicating Rroffln with a
wave of the whip, and skillfully mak
ing the query sound like the voicing
of the idlest curiosity.
"Fellow named nroffin, from Louisi
ana," said Dahlgren, who, as assistant
editor of the Paily Wahaskan, knew
everybody. "Says he's In the lumber
business down there, but, 'I doubt it.
said the carpenter, and shed a bitter
tear."
'Why do you doubt It?" queried
Miss Grierson, neatly flicking a fly
from the horse's back with the tip of
the whiplash.
"Oh. on general principles, I guess.
You wouldn't say he had any of the
earmarks of a business man."
"What kind of earmarks has he
got?" persisted Miss Grierson merely
to make talk, as Dahlgren decided,
"I don't know. We were talking
about i)m at the club the other night,
and Sheffield he's from Kentucky,
you know thought he remembered
the name as the name of a 'moon
shine' raider he'd heard of down la his
home state."
"A moonshine raider? What Is that?"
Ry this time Miss Margery's curiosity
was less Inert than It had been, or had
seemed to be, at first.
"A deputy marshal, you know; a
sort of government policeman and de
tective rolled Into one. He looks It,
don't you think?"
Mies Grierson did not say what she
thought, then, or later, when she set
Dahlgren down at the door of bis
newspaper office In Sioux avenue. Rut
still later, two hours later. In fact, abe
marched Into Rome In 9G2 and forced
the pope to place the Imperial crown
of gold on his head. That was the
beginning of the Germanic holy Ro
man empire. It established a prece
dent for the German emperors, and
they continued bringing their armies
across the Alps to feast on Italy's
plenty until Couradln. the last of the
Hohenstaufens, was defeated In 12C8.
The Hapsburga then took up the pur
suit of Italy.
The feudal system never gained a
firm hold In Italy which lightened
gave a brief audience tn the Mereside
library to a small, barefooted boy
whose occupation was sufficiently In
dlcated by the bundle of evening pa
pers under one arm.
"Well, Johnnie, what did you flud
out?" she asked.
"Ain't had time," said the boy. "Rut
ht; ain't no mlllyunaire lumber-shooter,
I'll bet a nickel. I sold him a pape'
Just now, down by Dutchie's lumber
yard, and I ast him what kind o' lum
ber that was In the pile by the gate.
Ho didn't know, no more'n a goat"
Miss Margery filliped a coin In the
air and the newsboy caught it dex
terously. "That will do nicely for a begin
ning, Johnnie," she said sweetly.
"Come and see me every once in a
while, and perhaps there'll be more
little white cartwheels for you. Only
don't tell, and don't let him catch you.
That's all."
CHAPTER XVII.
The Forward Light.
During the days which followed his
setting up of the standard of inde
pendence In Mrs. Holcomb's second
Moor front, Griswold found himself en
tering upon a new field a world cor
responding with gratifying fidelity to
that prefigured future which be had
struck out In the waking hours of his
first night on tho main-deck of the
Relle Julie.
Wahaska, as a fortunate field for
the post-graduate course In Experi
mental Humanity, was all that his
fancy had pictured it. When he came
to go about the town, as he did dalv
after the pleasant occupation of re
furnishing his study and bedroom was
a pleasure past, he found that In some
mysterious manner his fame had pre
ceded him. Everybody seemed to
know who he was; to be able to place
him as a New Yorker, as an author In
search of health, or local color or en
vironment or Borne other technical
quality not to be found in the crowded
cities; to be able to place him, also,
as Miss Margery Grierson's friend and
beneficiary which last, ho surmised,
was his best passport to the good
graces of his fellow-townsmen.
Coincitlently he discovered that. In
the same mysterious manner, every
body seemed to know that he was, In
the Wahaskan phrase, "well-fixed."
Here, again, he guessed that some
thing might be credited to Margery.
As to the manner of conducting the
war against inequality and the crime
of plutocracy, the plnn of campaign
had been sufficiently Indicated In that
white-hot moment of high resolves on
the cargo-deck of the Relle Julie. For
the propaganda, there was h,ls book;
for the demonstration, he would put
the sacred fund Into some industry
where the weight of It would give bim
the casting vote In all questions in
volving the rights of the workers.
With the rewriting of the book fair
ly begun, he was already looking about
for the practical opportunity when the
growing friendship with Edward Ray
mer promised to offer an opening ex
actly fulfilling the experimental re
quirements. Raymer had overen
larged his plant and was needing more
capital; and some of Raymer's half
confidences had led him to tuspect that
the need was, or w as likely to become.
Imperative. Griswold waited patient
ly; he was still waiting on the
Wednesday afternoon when Raymer
called him over the telephone and
made the appointment for a meeting
at the house In Shawnee street.
"Your 'pair of minutes' must have
found something to grow upon,"
laughed the patient waiter, when Ray
mer, finding Mrs. Holcomb's front door
open, had climbed the stair to the
newly established literary workshop.
"I've had time to smoke a pipe and
write a complete paragraph Bluce you
called up."
Raymer flung himself Into a chair
at the desk-end and reached for a pipe
in the curiously-carved rack which had
been one of Griswold's small extrava
gances In the refurnishing.
"Yea," he said; "Margery Grierson
drove up while I was unhitching, and
I had to stop and talk to her. Which
reminds me: she says you're giving
Mereside the go-by since you set up
for yourself. Are you?"
"I'm not likely to," was the sober
rejoinder. "My debt to Miss Grierson
Is a pretty big one, Raymer; bigger
than you suspect, I Imagine."
"I'm glad to hear you put the debt
where it belongs, leaving her father
out of It. You don't owe bim anything;
not even a cup of cold water. There's
a latter-day buccaneer for you!" be
went on, warming to his subject like
a man with a sore into which salt has
been freshly rubbed. "That old timber-wolf
wouldn't spare his best
friend allowing that anybody could
be his friend. Ry Jove! he's making
me sweat blood, all right!"
"How is that?" asked Griswold.
"I've been on the edge of telling you
two or three times, but next to a quit
ter I do hate the fellow who puts his
fingers into a trap and then squawks
when the trap nips him. Grierson has
got me down and he is about to cut my
throat, Griswold."
"Tell me about It," said the one w ho
had been patiently waiting to be told.
"Grierson a year ago tried to get a
finger into my little pie. He wanted
to reorganize the Raymer Foundry and
Machine works, and offered to furnish
the additional capital and take fifty
one per cent of the reorganization
stock. Naturally, I couldn't see It.
This spring we bad the capacity limit
In the old plant and the only thing to
do was to enlarge. I borrowed the
money at Grierson's bank and did It.
My borrow was one bundred thousand
dollars, and there was a verbal under
standing that It was to be repaid out
of the surnlua earn In its. nlecemeal. I
the labor of Germanic commerce. In
1056 the pope and the free commer
cial cities made a common defense
against the emperor. They had mora
or less success until Frederick Dar
barossa swept down on the land and
burled all opposition. The Lombardy
league collapsed In 1167, and Italy
became as much a German province
as Alsace Is today. No German em
peror In those days rested content un
til the pope bad placed the imperial
crown on his bead first the silver
crown at AIz la Chapelle. then the
told Grierson that I should need a year
or more, and he didn't object"
"This was all In conversation?" said
Griswold; "no writing?"
Raymer made a wry face. .
"Don't rub it In. I'm admitting that
I was all tbe different kinds of a fool
There was no definite time limit men
tioned. I was to give my personal
notes and put up the family stock as
collateral. A day or two later, when
I went around to close the deal, the
trap was standing wide open for me
and a baby might have seen It. Grier
son Bald he hud proposed tho loan to
bis directors, and that they had kicked
on taking the stock as collateral. He
offered to take my paper without an
Indorser If I would cover his personal
risk with my stock collateral, assign
ing It, not to the bank, but to him. I
fell for It like a woolly sheep. The
stock transfers were made, and I
signed a note for one hundred thou
sand dollars, due In Blxty days; Grier
son explaining that two months was
the banks usual limit on accommoda-
"Make It Ten Thousand and I'll Con
tribute the Remaining Ninety."
Hon paper w hich Is true enough but
giving me to understand that a re
newal and an extension of time would
be merely a matter of routine."
Griswold was shaking his head sym
pathetically. "I can guess the rest,"
he said. "Grierson is preparing to
swallow you whole."
"He has as good as done It," was the
dejected reply. "The note falls due
tomorrow; and, as I happened to be
uptown this afternoon, I thought I
would drop In and pay tbe discount
and renew the paper. Grierson shot
me through tbe heart. He gave me a
cock-and-bull story about some bank
examiner's protest, and told me I
must be prepared to take up the paper
tomorrow."
"Of courso you reminded him of
his agreement?"
"Sure; and he sawed me off short;
said that any business man borrow
ing money on accommodation paper
knew that It was likely to be called In
on the expiration date; that an exten
sion is really a new transaction, which
the bank Is at liberty to refuse to
enter. Oh, he gave It to me cold and
clammy, sitting back tn his big chair
and staring up at me through the
smoke of a fat, black cigar while he
did It!"
"And then?" prompted Griswold.
"Then I remembered the mother nnd
Bister, Kenneth, and did what I would
have died rather thnn do for myself
I begged like a dog. Rut I might as
well have gone outside and butted
my head against the brick wall of the
bank."
Griswold forgot his own real,
though possibly Indirect, obligation
to JaBper Grierson.
"That Is where you made a mis
take; you should have told bim to go
to h 1 with his money!" was his
acrid comment. And then: "How
near can you come to lifting this noto
tomorrow, Raymer?"
" 'Near' Isn't the word. Possibly I
might sweep the corners and gather
up twelve or fifteen thousand dol
lars." "That will do," said the querist,
shortly. "Make It ten thousand, and
I'll contribute the remaining ninety."
Raymer sprang out of his chair as
If Its padded arms had been suddenly
turned into high-voltage electrodes.
"You will? you'll do that for me,
Griswold?" he said, with a queer stri
dency In bis voice that made the
word-craftsman, always on the watch
for apt similes, think of a choked
chicken. Rut Raymer was swallow
ing hard and trying to go on. "Ry
Jove It's the most generous thing
I ever heard of! but I can't let you
do It. I haven't a thing in the world
to offer you but the stock, and that
may not be wor'i the paper it Is
printed on If J. jper Grierson has
made up his mind to break me."
"Sit down again and let us thresh
it out," Bald Griswold. "How much
of a socialist are you, Raymer?"
The young Ironmaster sat down,
gasping a little at the sudden wrench
ing aside of the subject.
"Why, I don't know; enough to
want every man to have a square deal,
I guess."
"Including the men in'your Bhops?"
"Putting them first," was the prompt
correction. "It was my father'a pol
icy, and It haa been mine. We have
never had any labor troubles."
"You pay fair wages?"
"We do better than that. A year
ago I Introduced a modified plan of
profit sharing."
Iron crown of Lombardy, and then
the one at Rome.
Nature's Crushing Plant
A well-known manufacturer of crush
Ing machinery gives It as bis opinion
! that there Is but one manufacturer
who has ever produced a perfect pul
verizing machine, and that Is the Di
vine Inventor. He continues: "I exam
ined one of His machines In 1 882. I was
Impressed with tbe magnificent output
of a million tons a day, crushed from
coarse to slimes or slit, according to
Griswold's eyes were lighting up
with altruistic Ores.
"Once In a while, Raymer, a thing
happens so fortuitously as to fairly
compel a belief in the higher powers
that our fathers Included In the word
'Providence'," he said, almost solemn
ly. "You have described exactly an
Industrial situation which seems to me
to offer a solution of the whole vexed
question of master and man, and to
be a seed-sowing which Is bound to
be followed by an abundant and most
humanizing harvest Ever ' slntje I
began to study, even In a haphazard
way, the social system under which
we sweat and groan, I've wanted In
on a Job like yours. I still want In.
Will you take we as a silent partner,
Raymer? I'm not making It a con
dition, mind you; come here any time
after ten o'clock tomorrow, and you'll
find the money waiting for you. Rut
I do hope you won't turn me down."
Raymer was gripping the arms of
his chair again, but this time they
were not unpleasantly electrified.
"If I had only myself to consider, I
shouldn't keep you waiting a second."
he returned, heartily. "Rut It may
take a little time to persuade my
mother and sister. If they could only
know you why can't you come out to
dinner with me tonight?"
"For the only reason that would
make me refuse; I have a previous
bidding. But I'll be glad to go some
other day. There Is no hurry about
this business matter; take all the time
you need after you have made Mr.
Grierson take his claws out of you."
Raymer had tilled the borrowed pipe
again and was pulling at it reflectively
"About this partnership; what would
be your notion?" he naked.
"The simplest way Is always the
best. Increase your capital stock and
let me In for as much as my ninety
thousand dollars will buy," said the
easily satisfied Investor. "Weil let
It go at that until you've bad time
to think It over, and talk it over with
your mother and slator." '
The Iron founder got up and reached
for his hat
"You are certainly the friend In
need, Griswold, If ever there was one,"
he said, gripping the hand of leave
taking as if he would crack the bones
In It. "Rut there is one thing I'm
going to ask you, and you mustn't take
offense this ninety thousand; could
you afford to lose It or is It your
whole slake in the game?"
Griswold's smile was the Ironmas
ter's assurance that he had not of
fended. "It is practically my entire stake and
I can very well afford to lose It In
the way I have Indicated. You may
call that a paradox, if you like, but
both halves of It are true."
"Then there Is one other thing you
ought to know, nnd I'm going to tell
It now," Raymen went on. "We do a
general foundry and machine business,
but a good fifty per cent of our profit
comes from the Wahaska and Pine
boro railroad repair work, which we
have bad ever since tbe mad was
opened."
Griswold was smiling again. "Why
sliould I know that particularly," ho
asked.
"Ilecause It Is rumored that Jasper
Grierson has been quietly absorbing
the stock and bonds of the road, and
If he means to remove me from the
map "
"I see," was the reply. "In that case
you'll need a partner even worse than
you do now. You can't scare me off
that way. Shall I look for you at ten
tomorrow t"
"At ten to the minute," said the
rescued plunger; and he went down
stairs so full of mingled thankfulness
and triumph that he mistook Doctor
Farnham'B horse for his own at the
hitching post two doors away, and was
about to get Into the doctor's buggy
before he discovered his mistake.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Bridge of Jehennam.
Griswold took a final look at himself
in his dressing case mirror before go
ing to keep his evening appointment
at the doctor's downtown office. It
was comfortably reassuring. So far as
he could determine, there was little
In the clean-shaven, Bquaro-shouldered,
correctly garmented young fellow who
faced him In the mirror to suggest
either the bearded outcast of New Or
leans or the unkempt and toil-sodden
roustabout of the Relle Julie. If
only she hnd not made him speak to
her. He had a sharp conviction that
the greatest of all the hazards lay
In the chance that she might remem
ber his voice.
He found the cheery little doctor
waiting for him when he had walked
the few squares to the Main street
office.
"I was beginning to be afraid you
were going to be fashionably late."
said the potential host; and then, with
a humorous glance for the correct gar
menting: "Regalia, heh? Hasn't Miss
Grierson told you that Wahaska la still
hopelessly unable to live up to the
dress cout and standing collar? - I'm
sure she must have. Rut never mind;
climb Into the buggy and we'll let old
Rucephalug take us around to see If
the neighbors have brought In any
thing good to eat."
The drive was a short ono. Rroffln
was once more shadowing the house
In which, first or last, he expected to
trap bis amateur MacHeath; and when
the buggy was hailed at the carriage
step he was near enough to mark and
recognize the doctor's companion.
"Not this time," he muttered sourly,
when the two had passed together uj
the graveled path and the host was
fitting his Iatchke7 to the rront door
"It's only the sick man that writes
books. I wonder what sort of a book
he thinks he's going to write In this
flguros given In a report of the United
States geological survey. I am refer
ring to tbe great Colorado river It
generates Its own power, with no Iobs
of time for repairs, no slipping of tap
pets, no broken cams and no dropping
of stamp heads a perfoct work from
start to finish, and a perfect object
lesson for the Inventor Large Irreg
ular rocks are woin Into bowlders, and
from that Into cobblestones, and from
cobblestones Into sand, and from sand
Into slime, and then delivered to
points where the product will do tbe
Inforgotten. turkey-trodden, come
along village of the Reuben yaps?"
Griswold, waiting on the porch while
Doctor Farnham fitted bis key, had a
nerve-tingling shiver of apprehension
when the latch yielded with a cllek
and he found himself under the ball
lantern formally shaking bands with
the statuesque young woman of the
many Imaginings.
"You are very welcome to Home
Nook, Mr. Griswold; we have been
hearing about you for many weeks,"
she was saying when be bad relin
quished the firm band and was hang
ing bis coat and hat on the hall rack
And then, with a half-embarrassed
laugh: "I am afraid we are dreadful
gossips; all Wahaska has been talking
about you, you know, and wondering
how It came to acquire you."
"It hasn't acquired anything very
valuable," was the guest's modest dis
claimer, Its readiness arising out of a
grateful easing of strains now that the
actual face to face ordeal had safely
passed Its Introductory stage. "And
you mustn't say a word against your
uliurmlng little city, Miss Farnham,"
he went on. "It Is the friendliest, most
hospitable "
The doctor's daughter was Interrupt
ing with an enthusiastic show of ap
plause. "Come out to dinner, both of you."
she urged; and then to Griswold: "I
want you to say all those nice things
to Aunt Funny."
In the progress to the cozy,' home
like dining-room Griswold found the
contrast between the Farnham home
and tho ornate manslcn three streets
away on the lake front strikingly ap
parent; as cleanly marked as that be
tween Margery Grierson and the
sweetly serene and conventional young
person who was Introducing him tJ
her aunt across the small oval dining
table.
So far, all wns going well. Rut a
little Inter, in the midst of a half
uttered direction to the serving maid.
Miss Farnham stopped abruptly, and
Griswold could feel her gaze, wide
eyed and half terrllled. seemingly fixed
upon him.
It was all over In the turning of a
leaf; there had been no break in the
doctor's genial raillery, and the breath
less little pause at the other end of the
table was only momentary. When the
dinner was over the doctor, in the act
of filling two long-stemmed pipes for
his guest and himself, was cailed away
professionally. Miss Oilman, least ob
trusive of chaperons, had been peace
fully napping for a good half-hour lu
her low rocker under the reading lamp,
and the pictures In a thick quarto of
Gulf Coast views had pleasantly filled
the Interval for the two who were
awake, when Griswold finally assured
himself that the danger of recognition
was a danger past. As a mental an
alyst he knew that the opening of
each fresh door in the house of pres
ent familiarity was automatically clos
ing other doors opening upon the past;
and It came to him with a little flush
of the seer's exaltation that once
again his prctlgurings were finding
their exact fulfillment. In a spirit
of artistic daring he yielded to a sud
den Impulse, as one crossing the flim
siest of bridges may run and leap to
prove that his theory of safety
stresses Is a sufficient guaranty of hi
own immunity.
"You were speaking of fir3t Impres
sions of places," he said, while they
were still turning tho loaves of the
picture book. "Are you a believer in
the absolute correctness of first Ira
Impressions?"
"I don't know," was the thoughtful
reply; but Its afterword was more defi
nite: "As to plnccs, I'm not sure tha,t
the first Impression always persists;
In a few instances I am qjlte certain
It hasn't. I didn't like the Gulf coast
at all, at first; It seemed so foreign
and different and unhomellke. As to
persons, however "
She paused, and Griswold entered
the breach hardily.
"I know," he affirmed. "There have
been tlmss when, with every reason
able fiber In you urging you to believe
the evil, a still stronger impulse haa
made you believe in the good."
"How can you know that?" she
asked; and again be saw In the ex
pressive eyes the flying signals of in
determinate perplexity and apprehen
sion. Resolutely ho pressed the hazardous
experiment to Its logical conclusion.
Once for all, ho must know If thie
young woman with the sympnthetlo
voice and the goddesslike pose could,
even under suggestion, be led to link
up the past with tho present.
"It is my trade to know," be said
quietly, closing the book of views and
laying It aside. "There have been mo
ments In your life when you would
have given much to be able to decide
a question of duty or expediency en
tirely irrespective of your impressions.
Isn't that so?"
For one flitting Instant he thought
he bad gone too tar. In the hardy de
termination to win all or lose all. he
had been holding her eyes steadily, as
the sure mirror In which be should
be able to read his sentence, of ac
quittal or condemnation. This time
there was no mlstnklng the Budden
widening of the pupils to betray the
equally sudden awakening of womanly
terror.
"Don't bo afraid," he began, and be
had come thus far on the road to open
confession when he saw that she was
not looking at him; she was looking
past him toward one of the windows
giving upon tho porch. "What Is It?'
he demanded, turnlnn to look with her
(TO BU CONTINUED.)
In several towns In Germany work
lngnien are visited at their homes on
pay days by savings bank officials to
collect their sbv!iie8 for banking
most good for the, human race. The
Immense Imperial valley and various
other valleys have the finished prod
uct from that magnificent pulverizing
machine." Engineering and Mining
Journal.
Lucky In One Way.
Rlobbs- RJones Is the most unlucky
fellow at cards I ever met.
Clobbs Then 1 suppose he Is lucky
In love?
Rlobbs I suppose so. At any rate,
be has nevvr been married.
Value of
Memorizing
Scripture
Br REV. HOWARD W. POPE
SupariftMoctMU ! Mri, Moody BibU Latihii
of Chicago
TEXT This book of the law sliail not
ilt-pnrt out of thy mouth; but thou nhatt
meditate therein day and night. Josh.
One of the best habits one can ac
quire Is that of committing to memory
choice verses ot
Scripture. Soma
people commit en
tire books of tbe
Rible, but I re
gard that as ai
unreasonable tai
upon tho memory.
Ot course one
could easily lean
the first psalm,
and the twenty,
third, and tbe one
hundredth and
the one hundred
and twenty-flrrt.
Also the com
mandments an(
tbe beatitudes
Reyond that I should advise tbe mars
Ing and memorizing of choice veriei
as we meet them In our dally reading.
Suppose a farmer were to set out i
dozen choice fruit trees each year. Ii
a few years his farm would be wel
stocked with a great variety of fruit
and each tree would bear fruit as long
as he lived. Each tree has Us own In
dividuality and value., and in course ot
time each ono would come to seen
like an old friend. Some yield sweet
apples and others sour. Some are
early and others late. Then there are
pears and peaches and plums and
cherries of different kinds and flavort
Suppose a person should commit te
memory one verse of Scripture eaci
week. That would not be a very hard
task, but how great would be the re
sult as the years wont on. Each verse
Is like a fruit tree which bears some
kind of choice fruit to enrich hi
mind and ennoble his character and
Increase his usefulness. And these
yield fruit not simply once a year, or
even once a month, like the trees la
Celestial City (Rev. 22:2). but every
day in the year, and all the years ot
his lire.
Take such a verse as John 14:!7,
"Peace ! leave with you, my peace I
give unto you. Let not your heart be
troubled, neither let It be afraid."
How many times, think you, would I
Christian feed bis soul on that verse
In a lifetime? The same Is true ot
Matt. 11:2S and Romans 8:28 and
I John 3:1 and Jude 24.
If one continued this habit a few
years his mind would become a mag
nificent orchard, yielding fruit In such
abundance and variety as to supply
not only the owner himself, but all bit
nelghbrrs and friends. If a man had
no other assets than a mind well
stored with Scripture, he would be a
rich man. Rut ho would have other
assets, because It Is declared of those
who delight tn the law of the Lord,
that they shall be "like a tree planted
by the rivers of water, that bringeth
forth his fruit In his season. His leaf
also shall not wither, and whatsoever
he doeth shall prosper." Psalm 1:3.
Consider also the effect of this bablt
In creating a relish for that which ii
pure andVwholesome In literature, and
a distaste for that which Is vulgar. N
one whose mind Is stored with the
sublime sentiments ot the Bible will
care for trashy" and sensational read
ing. Not only will It affect his mind but
his character. He will naturally lore
righteousness and hate Iniquity. He
will have high Ideals because he is '
miliar with such men as Enoch and
Daniel and Abraham, in time of temp
tation the Holy Spirit will recall to
his mind some suitable verse, as be
did for our Savior when tempted bj
the adversary. When perplexed as to
his duty some passage of Scripture
will flash upon -him and make the pats
of duty as clear as daylight.
Resides, It he is on the alert, he
will find many opportunities to he'll
others. He can correct fulso Impres
sions, answer excuses and objections,
and often lead sinners to begin the
Christian life. I know of a case where
a wife committed two verses at an aft
ernoon service, and at the supper
table she used them on her husband.
He was so affected that he knelt right
down and accepted Christ without
waiting to finish his supper.
In some families the custom pr
vails of each member repeat-1"'
verse of Scripture at family wcrship.
In one family each child has a prom
ise each day, and Sunday morning
they repeat all the promises they
have learned during the week. A
verse from each member of the family
at the breakfast table, with the Lord's
prayer In concert mnkes a very good
form of family worship where som
have to hurry away to business Imme
diately after breakfast.
As a help to those who wish t
know God's Word better the writ''
has arranged a leaflet containing on
hundred choice verses, selected front
the whole Rible. They cover a will
range of ioplcs and are particularly
rich in verses adapted to the use oj
personal workers. They are arranged
In the order Jn which they come l
the Bible, with chapter and vers"
given. The whole verse Is not given,
but only enough to recall It when one
It has been learned. Anyone who m'
ters these hundred verses will bo el'
equipped for any emergency n'cl
may arise. A verso a day for ihre
months would accomplish the task.
The writer has none to sell, but jj
will gladly give a copy to any
will send him hl address on
stamped envelope.
God and His Workers.
God takes away his workers, but '
still cairies on his work. The churc
owes St. Paul to the death of St St
pben, or, as St. Aujustlne puts
the proyer of St Stephen, "I-ord. l
not this sin to their charge." Self
it ;.
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