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1HE FULTOfl COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURQ, PA.
JeDDICE
fMNCIS LYNDE
niiciifflONS
SYNOPSIS.
Kenneth Grtiwold. an uirtucfessful
rrtur bfcaue of oclalltlc tmulenrUi,
kold.i up Andrew Oulliraith, pr.-lunt of
h Bayou Ftntu Sm-urltlen. In the pr.sl
tal t prlvute office anil eecupm with $100,
M In cash, tly orlKlnal nn-tliods he iu
rapri tlm hue and cry and kix; aboard
th Bull Julie na a deckhand. (.iuirlettB
ramhani of VVahaska. Minn., who Inul
mn lilm ali Gulbrulth's cheek In th
bonk, rvi'OK'iiXi'i him. anil Beniln a letter
f betrayal to Gulbraith anonymously.
Grlswold In arreati d on the arrival of the
okt at St. LimiIb. but rsrapfx from his
aptma. II" derldi'g on Walmskii, Minn.,
ka hliilni? pliu'e. and after outlining
klmwlf properly, taken the train, lin.i
wold falls III on the sleeper and t cared
for tnii taken to tier home In Wahnaku
fcr Margery (Srleraon. ilmmhter of Jasper
(Irlitrsuii, the tlniiiuial inuKiiate of Wa
tiuka. Marvry llmls the sti.li n mum y
In flriswonl's MUlti-nae. Hmtlln. det-rtive.
taken Hie trail. Marnery nl(s her father
to Ret Kdward ICnyiner Into tlnanelal hot
water and then help him out of It. tjria
vulil reeovers to find the utolen money
fn lie meets Mercery's net;il clrrle
nd forms a friendship with Kaymer. tin
Iron manufacture. Itrottin entnes to Wa
r.aska In seanh of the woman who wrote
the anonynimm letter to Ualhralth. Mar
gery taken (iriswtilil to the safety deposit
vault and turns the stolen money over to
tlm. Charlotte hlulTs nut llrottln and
Harxery Ip-kIii t) wateh lilm. Criswold
putn his money In Itaymer's plant anil
ominenres to rewrite Ids huok. flrlswi!'!
Soes to ilinmn at Pootor l-'arnham's mil
i not sura Uit Charlott but not reco
liml him.
CHAPTER XVIII Continued.
"It was a man he was looking In
t the window!" she returned in low
tunes. "I thought I saw him once be
fore; but this time I am certain!"
C.rlswold sprang from his chair, and
niouient later was letting himself out
aoljelessly through the hall door.
There was nothing stirring on the
aorch. He was still groping among
the bushes, and .Miss Farnham had
tome to the front door, when the doc
tor's buggy appeared under the street
lights and was halted at the home
hitching post.
"Hello, Mr. Criswold; Is that you?"
ailed the cheery one, when he saw
bareheaded man beating the covers
to his front yard.
Criswold met his host at the gate
wad walked up the path with him.
"Miss Charlotte thought she saw
voraeone at one of the front windows,"
ke explained; and a moment after
ward the daughter was telling It for
kerself.
"1 saw him twice," she Insisted;
"once while we were at dinner, and
again just now. The firs time I
thought I might be mistaken, but this
time"
Grlswold was laughing silently and
Inwardly deriding his gifts when, un
vr cover of the doctor's return, he
vade decent acknowledgments for
Vonefiu bestowed and took his de
parture. On the pleasant summer
light walk to Upper Shawnee street
le was congratulating himself upon
mi
IV'V,; V
U Wat a Man He Was Looking
at the Window."
the now quite complete fultlllment of
Ike wishing prophecy. Miss Farnham
tin going to prove to be all that the
ost critical maker of studies from
i(fe rould ask In a model; a supremely
perfect original for the character of
Tidnlia in the bonk. Moreover, she
would be his touchstone for the truths
tad verities; even as Margery Crier
tan might. If she were forgiving
noui;h to let bygones be bygones, hold
the mirror up to nature and the pure
umanities. Moreover, again, what -
vr slight danger there might have
y in a possibility of recognition
kit a danger outlived. If the first
meeting had not stirred the sleeping
Emories In Miss Farnham, subse
quent ones would Berve only to widen
ih gulf between forgetfulness and rec -
llection by Just such distances as the
Wahaska Grlswold should traverse In
fckting behind him the deckhand of
lb Belle Julie.
How much this might have been
odlfled if he had known that the man
whose face Miss Farnham had seen at
Urn window was silently tracking him
through the tree-shadowed streets is
b matter for conjecture. Also, it is
HORSE ROUTED BY PHEASANT
' Hen Almost Blinds Animal
While Protecting Brood Which
Wat In No Danger.
Oy Bradford of Center Hall, near
.'PtaU College, Pa , who has hunted
taaoaats through the Seven moun
tains lor 20 years, found the llvest
taw of that species Inhabiting the
raik In Center county, be believes.
Sr hi Bradford's story:
Utile be was hauling cement to
I vAI 1 !;! ki m
i k m
- cDpnotts
copYtcHr 'flvcwftrj scwews sos
to be presumed that much, tf not all,
of the complacency would have van
ished If he could have been an unseen
listener In the Farnham sitting-room,
dating from the time when little Miss
Gllman pattered off to bed, leaving
the father and daughter sitting to
gether under the reading lamp.
At first their talk was entirely of
the window apparition, the daughter
Insisting upon Us reality, and the fa
ther trying to push it over Into the
limbo of things imagined. Driven
finally to give all the reasons for her
belief In the realities, Charlotte related
the incident of the afternoon.
By this time the good Doctor liertle
had become the Indignant Doctor lier
tle. "We can't have that at all!" he said
incisively. "You did your vlule duty
in that bank matter; and it was a
good deal more thau most young wom
en would have done. I'm not going
to have you persecuted and harassed
not one minute! Where la this fel
low slopping?"
The daughter shook her bead. "I
don't know. He gave me his card, but
It has the New Orleans address only."
"Give It to me aud I'll look him up
tomorrow."
The card changed bands, and for a
few minutes neither of them spoke.
Then the daughter began again.
"I've had another shock this eve
ning, too." she said, speaking this time
In low tones and with eyes downcast.
"This Mr. Criswold did I understand
you t j say. that he had lost all of his
money?"
"Yes; practically all of It." said the
father, without losing his hold upon
what a certain great London physician
was saying through the columns of the
English medical Journal.
lint afterward, long after Charlotte
had gone up to her room, he remem
bered, with a curious little start of
half-awakened puzzlement, that some
one, no longer ago than yesterday, had
told him that young Criswold was
rich or It not rich, at least "well
filed."
CHAPTER XIX.
Pitfalls.
Within a week from the day when
Raytner, angrily jubilant, had rescued
his imperiled stock. It was pretlv gen-
1 erully known that Kenneth Criswold,
i i )i'iltin it mi q n hail ifitmrt tVlA
. ... ,. , . ' , . --..
I tion of the Uaymer Foundry and Ma
i chine works, and Wahaska was ea
! gerly discussing the business affair In
all Its possible and probable bearings
I upon the Kaymers, the Grlersons and
i and the newly elected directory of the
j Pineboro railroad.
j Of all this buzzing of the gossip bees
! the person most acutely concerned
I hemi titiU nr nothing DleeltiE ileetilv
in the inspiration field, Criswold speed
ily became oblivious to most of his en
compassmetits; to all of them, Indeed,
save those which bore directly upon
the beloved task. Among these, he
I In the outworking of his plot; and he
; welcomed It as a sign of growth that
i the story In Us new form was acqulr
! lng voritiimilituile and becoming grate
; fully, anil at times, he persuaded lilm
j self, quite vividly, human.
! When he got well into the swing of
I it atiil was turning out a chapter every
! three or four days, he fell easily into
I the h j hit of slipping the last install
nieiu into his pocket when he went to
j Mereside. Margery Grietsoti was add
ing generously to his immense obllga
tinn to her; hoping only to find a
friendly listener, ho found a helpful
j collaborator. More than once, when
! his own Imagination was at fault, she
I was able to open new vistas In the
humanities for him, apparently draw
ing upon a reserve of intuitive con
clusions con. pared with which his own
hard-bought store of experimental
knowledge was almost puerile.
"I wish you would tell me the secret
of your marvelous cleverness," he ex
claimed, on one of the June afternoons
when he had been reading to her In
the cool half-shadows of the Mereside
library. "You are only a child In
years; how can you know with such
miraculous certainty what other
people would think and do under con
ditions about which you can't possibly
know anything experimentally? It's
! beyond me!"
' There are many things beyond you
yet, dear boy; many, many things,"
was leer laughing rejoinder; from
which it will be Inferred that the epi
sode in the Farmers' aud Merchants'
burglar-proof had become an episode
1 forgotten or at least forgiven. "You
know men a little; but when it comes
to the women . . . well, If I didn't
keep continually nagging at you, your
two terolnes with neither of whom
you are really In love would degen
erate into rag dolls. They would, ac
tually." "That's true; I can see It clearly
enough when you point It out," he ad
mitted, putting his cragsman pride
the borough reservoir an enraged hen
pheasant, protecting her brood of six
youngsters, flew from the bushes
along the mountain road and viciously
attacked his horse. She alighted on
the animal's head, beating vigorously
with her wings.
The frightened horse bucked, reared
and lunged In its fruitless efforts to
dislodge the mad pheasant. Finally
the bird pecked at the horse's eyes,
blinding It so that the heavily loaded
wagon was backed oH the road and
down the mountain. Bradford leaped
un.lerfoot. as he was always obliged to
do in these talks with her. "I should
be discouraged If you didn't keep on
telling me that the story, as a story,
Is good."
"It Is good; It Is a big story," she
asserted, with kindling enthusiasm.
"The plot, so far as you have gone
with It, is fine,; and that Is where you
leave me away behind. I don't see
how you could ever think It out. And
the character drawing is fine, too,
some of it. Your Fleming Is as far
beyond me as your Fidelia Beems to
be beyond you,"
"You don't know Fleming yet. Have
you ever met Fidelia?"
"Not as you have drawn her no.
She Is too unutterably flue. If she
had a single shred of humanity about
her, I Bhould suspect you of meaning
to fall In love with her, farther along
to the humiliation aud despair of poor
Joau, who, as you say, is a mere daugh
ter of men."
"But how about Joan?" he fretted.
"Is she out of drawing, too?"
"Yes; you are distorting her the
other way making her too inhumanly
worldly and Insincere." Then, with an
abruptness that was like a slap In the
face: "If you didn't spend so many
evenings at Doctor Rertlo's, you would
get both Fidelia and Joan In better
drawing."
He flushed and drew himself up.
with stabbed amour propre prompting
him to make some stinging retort con
trasting the wells of truth with the
4
Instantly the Primitive. Inttlnct of
Self-Pretervation Sprang Alert.
brackish waters of sheer worldliness.
Then he saw how Inadequate It would
be; how utterly Impossible it was to
meet this charmingly vindictive young
person upon any grounds save those
of her own choosing.
"That is the first really unkind
thing I have ever heard you say," was
the mild reproach which was all that
the reactionary second thought would
sanction.
"L'nklnd to whom? to you, or to
Miss Farnham?"
"Ask yourself," he countered weak
ly, and she laughed at him.
Grlswold did not reply to the laugh.
He was gathering up the scattered
pages of his manuscript and replacing
them in order. When be spoke again
it was of a matter entirely Irrelevant.
"I had an odd experience the other
evening," he said. "I had been dining
with the Kaymers and was walking
back to Shawnee street. A little news
boy named Johnnie Fergus turned up
from somewhere at one of the street
crossings and tried to sell me a pa
per at eleven o'clock at night! I
bought one and Joked him about being
out so late; and from that on I couldn't
get rid of him. He went all the way
home with me, talking a blue streak
and acting as if he were afraid of
something or somebody. I remem
bered afterward that he Is the boy who
takes care of your boat. Is there any
thing wrong with him?"
Miss Crierson had left her chair and
had gone to stand at one of the win
dows. "Nothing that I know t)f," she said
"He Is a bright boy too bright for his
own good, I'm afraid. But 1 can ex
plain a little. Johnnie has taken a
violent fancy to you for some reason,
and he has fallen Into the boyish habit
of weaving all sorts of romances
around you. I think he reads too many
exciting stories and tries to make you
the hero of them. He told me the
other day that he was sure somebody
was 'spotting' you.
Grlswold looked up quickly. Miss
Crierson was still facing the window
and he was glad that she had not seen
his nervous start.
" 'Spotting' wie?" he laughed. "W'hero
did he get that Idea?"
"How should I know? But ho had
made himself believe It; he even went
so far as to describe the man. Oh, I
can assure you Johnnie has an Imagi
nation; I've tested It In other ways."
"I should think so!" said the man
who also had an Imagination, and
shortly afterward he took his leave,
An hour later the same afternoon,
DroIIin, from his post of observation on
the Winnebago porch, saw the writing
man cross the street and enter a hard
ware Bhop. Having nothing better to
do, he, too, crossed the street and, In
passing, looked Into the open door of
Simmons & Klelfurt's. What be saw
brought him back at the end of a re
flective stroll around the public square.
When he entered the shop the clerk
was putting a formidable array of
weapons back Into their showcase
niches. Brolfln lounged up and began
to handle the pistols.
In time to escape Injury. He said he
would not try pheasant gunning from
horseback next fall.
National Airs for All.
The band started up one of Its big
strains. "There Is a grand tune 'Die
Wacht am Rheln' I always like It,"
said one. "But," said the other, "that
Is not 'Die Wacht am Rheln,' that's
'The Marseillaise." " But It was really
"The Star-Spangled Banner" that the
band was playing. The lesson Is that
all patriotism la founded In an Inspl-
"If I knew enough about guns to be
able to tell 'em apart, I might buy
one," he said, half humorously. And
then: "You must 've been having a
mighty particular customer to get
so many of 'em out."
"It was Mr. Grlswold, Mr. Ed Ray
mer'a new partner," said the clerk.
And he wag pretty particular; wouldn't
have anything but these new-fashioned
automatics. Said he wanted
something that would be quick and
sure, and I guess he's got It I sold
him two of 'em."
Broffln played with the stock long
enough to convince the clerk that be
was only a counter lounger with no In
tention of buying. "Took two of "em,
did he? for fear one might make him
sick, I reckon," he said, with the half
humorous grin still lurking under the
drooping mustaches. "Automatic thirty
twos, eh? Well, I ain't goln' to try to
hold your Mr. Grlscom, did you call
him? up none after this. He might
git me."
Whereupon, having found out what
he wanted to know, he lounged out
again and went back to the hotel to
smoke another of the reflective cigars
In the porch chair which had come to
be his by right of frequent and long
continued occupancy.
Criswold had left the Mereside
library considerably shaken, not in his
convictions, to be sure, but In his con
fidence In his own powers of Imagi
native analysis. For this cause it re
quired a longer after-dinner stay at
the Furnham's than he had been allow
ing himself, to re-establish the norm
of self assurance. Charlotte Farnham
was never enthusiastic; that, perhaps,
would bo asking too much of on ideal;
but what she lacked in warmth was
made up In cool sanity, backed by a
moral sense that seemed never to wa
ver. Unerringly she placed her linger
upon the human weaknesses In his
book people, and unfalteringly she
bade him reform them.
For his Fidelia, as he described her,
she exhibited a gentle affection, tem
pered by a compassionate pity for her
weaknesses and waverings; an atti
tude, he fatuously told himself, forced
upon her because her own standards
were so much higher than any he
could delineate or conceive. For Joan
there was also compassion, but It was
mildly contemptuous.
If I did not know that you are In
capable of doing such a thing, I might
wonder If you are not drawing your
Joun from life, Mr. Grlswold," she said,
a little coldly, on this same evening of
rehabilitations. "Since such characters
are to be found in real life, I suppose
they may have a place In a book. But
you must not commit the unpardonable
sin of making your readers condone
the evil In her for the sake of the good.
I'lease forget what I have said about
your Fidelia and and your Joan. You
are trying to make them human, and
that is as it should be."
Grlswold could scarcely believe the
evidence of his seuses. He told him
self fiercely that he would never be
lieve, without the convlncement of
fact, that the Ideal could step down
from Its pedestal.
"You are meaning to be kind to me
now, at the expense of your convic
tions, Miss Charlotte," be protested
warmly.
"No," she denied gravely. "Listen,
and you shall judge. Once, only a
short time ago, I was brought face to
face with one of these terrible com
promises. In a single Instant, and by
no fault of my own, the dreadful shears
of fate were thrust Into my hands, and
conscience what I have been taught
to call the Christian conscience told
me that with them I must snip the
thread of a man's life. And then chance
threw us together. A new world was
opened to me In those few moments. I
had thought that there could be no
possible question between simple right
and wrong, but almost In his first word
the man convinced me that, whatever
I might think or the world might say,
his conscience had fully and freely ac
quitted him. And he proved it; proved
It so thut I can never doubt It as long
as I live. He made me do what my
conscience had been telling me I ought
to do just as your Fleming makes
Fidelia do."
"And he was taken?" he said, and he
strove desperately to make the saying
completely colorless.
"Ho was; but be made his escape
again, almost at once. He Is still a
free man."
Instantly the primitive Instinct of
self-preservation, the Instinct of the
hunted fugitive, sprang alert In the
listener.
"How can you be sure of that?" he
asked, and In his own ears his voice
sounded like the clang of an alarm
bell.
Again a silence fell, surcharged, this
one, with all the old frightful possi
bilities. Once more the loathsome
fever quickened the pulses of the man
at bay, and the curious needlelike
prickling of the skin came to signal
the return of the homicidal fear-frenzy.
The reaction to the normal racked him
like the passing of a mortal sickness
when his accusing angel said in her
most matter-of-fact tone:
"I know he Is free; I have it on the
best possible authority. The detectives
who are searching for him have been
here to see me or, at least, one of
them has."
The hunted one laid hold of the par
tial reprieve with a mighty grip and
drew himself out of the reactionary
whirlpool. m
"It Is an outrage! I hope It Is an
annoyance past."
His companion leaned forward In
her chair and cautiously parted the
leafy vine screen.
"Look across the street under
those trees at the water's edge: do
you see him?"
ration that speaks out In a kindred
note. It Is like the w-ord mother It Is
nearly the same In all languages. Pa
triotism rightly understood Is a combi
nation of love, enthusiasm and cour
age, and its expression In muslo shows
the same grand outburst of the heart
"God Save the King" Is another one,
They are all part of the same Inborn
sentiment that belongs to all nations.
We saw a man stand one time when
"The Marseillaise" was played. He
made no mistake, though he thought
It was his own country's air.
Grlswold looked and was reasonably
sure that he could make out the
shadowy figure of a man leaning
a ;alnst one of the trees.
"That Is my shadow," she said, low
e:lng her voice: "Mr. Matthew Brof
fln of the Colburne Detective agency,
In New Orleans, He has a foolish Idea
that I am In communication' with the
man he Is searching for, and he was
brutal enough to tell me. so. What he
expects to accomplish by keeping an
absurd watch upon our house and dog
ging everybody who cornea and goes, I
can't Imagine."
"You have told your father?" said
Grlswold, anxious to learn how far this
new alarm fire had spread.
"Certainly; and he has made his pro
test. But It doesn't do any good; the
man keeps on spying, as you see. But
we have wandered a long way from
your book. I've been trying to prove
to you that I am not lit to criticize It."
"No; you mustn't mistake me. I
haven't been coming to you for criti
cism," waa GrlHwold's rather Incoher
ent reply; and when the talk threat
ened to lapse Into the commonplaces,
he took his leave. Oddly enough, a he
thought, when he was unlatching the
gate and had shifted one of the newly
purchased automatic pistols from his
hip pocket to an outside pocket of the
lljlht top-coat he was wearing, tho
shadowy figure under the lake-shading
trees had disappeared.
It was only a few minutes itfter the
lingering dinner guest had gone when
the doctor came out on the porch,
bringing his long-stemmed pipe for a
bedtime whiff In the open air.
"You are losing your beauty Bleep,
little girl," he said, dropping Into the
chair lately occupied by the guest. "Did
you find out anything more tonight?"
The daughter did not reply at once,
and when she did there was a note of
freshly summoned hardihood In her
T0lC9.
"We wpre both mistaken," she af
firmed. "Coincidences are always
likely to bo misleading. I am sorry I
told you about them. He has certain
ly been a present help In time of need
to Edward."
As before, the good little doctor had
recourse to his pipe, and It was not un
til his daughter got up to go In that
he said gently: "One other word, Char
He, girl: are you altogether sure that
the wish Isn't father to the thought
about Grlswold?"
"Don't be absurd, papa!" she said
scornfully, passing swiftly behind his
chair to reach the door; and with that
answer he was obliged to be content.
CHAPTER XX.
Broken Links.
It was on the second day after the
plstol-buylng Incident in Simmons &
Klelfurt's that Broffln, wishful for soli
tude and a chance to think In perspec
tive, took to the woods.
A letter from the New Orleans df
flee had reopened the account of the
Bayou State Security robbery. The
mall communication was significant
but Inconclusive. One Patrick Shee
han, a St. Louis cab driver, dying, had
made confession to his priest. For a
bribe of two hundred dollars he had
aided and abetted the escape of a
criminal on a day and date correspond
ing to the mid-April arrival of the
steamer Belle Julie at St. Louis. After
ward he had driven the man to an up
town hotel (name not given). He could
not recall the man's name. But the
destination address, "Wabaska, Min
nesota," was submitted with the con
fession. .
Broffln felt himself short-elghted
from the very nearness of things.. The
single necessity now waa for absolute
and unshakable identification. To es
tablish this, three witnesses, aud three
only, could be culled upon. Of the
three, two had failed signally Miss
Farnham because she hud her own
reasons for blocking the game, and
President Galbralth . . . That was an
other chapter In the book of failure.
Broffln had learned that the president
was stopping at the Do Soto Inn, and
he had maneuvered to bring Mr. Gal
bralth face to face with Grlswold lu
the Grlerson bank on tho day after the
pistol-buying. To his astonishment
and disgust the president had shaken
his head Irritably, adding a rebuke,
"Na, na, man; your trade makes ye
over-suspicious. That's Mr. Grlswold,
the writer-man and a friend of the
Grlersons. Miss Madge was telling
me about him last week. He's no more
like the robbor than you are. Haven't
I told ye the man was bearded like a
tyke?"
With two of tho three eye-witnesses
refusing to testify, there remained
only Johnson, the paying teller of the
Bayou State Security. Broffln was
considering the advisability of wiring
for Johnson when he passed the last
of the houses on the lakeside drive
and struck into the country road which
led by cool and shaded forest wind
ings to the resort hotel at the bead of
the southern bay. Presently a vehicle
overtook and passed him. It was Miss
Grlerson's trap, drawn by the big Eng
lish trap-horse, with Miss Grlerson her
self holding the reins and Raymer
lounging comfortably In the spare
seat.
Half an hour later Broffln had fol
lowed the huge hoof-prints of the
great English trap-horse to the drive
way portal of the De Soto grounds
where they were lost on the pebbled
carriage approach. Strolling on
through the grounds Into the lake
fronting lobby of the inn, he went In
search of Miss Grlerson. He found
her on the broad veranda, alone, and
for the moment unoccupied. How to
make the attack so direct and so over
whelming that It could not be with
stood was the only remaining ques
tion; and Broflin had answered It to
his own satisfaction, and was advanc
ing through aa open French window
Skeleton Twenty Centuries Old.
An Interesting discovery was made
oa the farm of Kelr, Helhelvle, Scot
land. In the course of cultivation, iu
a field near by a clump of trees known
as the Halrcalrn, an ancient gravo
was discovered containing a perfect
human skeleton and three urns. One
of the urns was practically whole, but
the other two were broken. The
grave, which was about four feet long
by two and one-fourth In width and
depth, was composed of stout un
dressed slab stones. The find wu ax-
directly behind Miss Grlerson "ha;
to put the anBwer into effect, when the
opportunity was snatched away. Ray
mer, his business apparently conclud
ed, came down the veranda and took
the chair next to MIbs Grlerson's.
Broffln dropped back Into the writ-Ing-roora
alcove for which the open
French window was the outlet and sat
down to bide his time.
"It's a shame to make you watt this
way, Miss Madge. McMurtry said he
had an appointment with Mr. Gal
bralth for three o'clock, and lie bad to
go to keep It. But he ought to be
down again by this time. Don't wait
for me If you want to go back to town.
I can got a lift from somebody."
"That would be nice, wouldn't It?"
was the good-natured retort. "To make
you tie up your own horse In town
and then leave you stranded away out
here three miles from nowhere! I
think I see myself doing such a thlngl
Besides, I haven't a thing to do but
wait."
Broflin shifted the extinct cigar he
was chewing from one corner of his
mouth to the other and pulled his soft
hat lower over his eyes. He, too, could
wait. There was a llttlo stir on the
veranda; a rustling of silk petticoats
and the click of small heels on the
hurdwood floor. Broffln could not for
bear the peering peep around tho shel
tering window druperles. Miss Grler
son hud left her seat and was pacing
a slow march up and down. That she
had not seen him became a fact sultl
clontly well-assured when she sat
down again and began to speak to
Criswold.
"How Is the new partnership going,
by this time?" she asked, after the
manner of one who rewinnows the
chafT of the commonplaces In the hope
of finding grain enough for the Immedi
ate need.
"So far as Grlswold Is concerned,
you wouldn't notice that there is a
partnership," laughed the Iron
founder. "I can't make lilm galvanize
an atom of Interest In his Investment.
All I can get out of him Is, 'Don't
bother me; I'm busy.'"
"Mr. Grlswold Is In a class by him
self, don't you think?" was the ques
tioning comment.
"He Is all kinds of a good fellow;
that's all I know, and all I ask to
know," answered Raymer loyally.
"I believe that now," said his com
panion, with the faintest possible em
phasis upon the time-word.
Broffln marked the emphasis and
the pause that preceded It, and leaned
forward to miss no word.
"Meaning that thero was a time
when you didn't bulleve It?" Raymer
asked.
"Meaning that there was a time
when he had me scared half to death,"
confessed the one who seemed always
to say the confidential thing as if It
were the moBt trivial. "Do you remem
ber one day In the library, when you
found me looking over the file of the
newspapers for the Btory of tha rob
bery of the Bayou State Security bank
in New Orleans?"
Raymer remembered It very well,
and admitted it.
"Yes; I remember it all very clearly.
Also I recollect bow the second news
paper notice told how the robber es
caped from the 'officers at St. Louis.
But you haven't told me how you were
scared," Raymer suggested.
mm
"There Wasn't the Llttlett Thing."
"I'm coming to that. This escape
we read about happened on a certain
day In April. It was the very day on
which poppa met me on my way back
from Florida, and we took the eleven
thirty train north that night. You
haven't forgotten that Mr. Grlswold
was a passenger on that same train?"
"But, goodness gracious. Miss Mar
gery! any number of people were pas
sengers on tbat train. You surely
wouldn't "
"Hush!" she said, and through the
lace window hangings Broflin saw her
lift a warning finger. "What I am
telling you, Mr. Raymer, Is In the
strictest confidence; we mustn't let a
breath of it get out. But that wasn't
all. Mr. Grlswold was dreadfuly sick
and, of course, he couldn't tell us' any
thing about himself. But while he waa
delirious he was always muttering
something about money, money; mon
ey that he had lost and couldn't And, or
money that he bad found and couldn't
lose. Then when we thought he
couldn't positlbly get well, Doctor Ber
tie aud I ransacked his suitcases for
cards or letters or something that
would tell us who he was and whore
he came from. There wasn't the lit
tlest thing!"
(TO BR CONTINUED
amined by Dr. Alexander Low, a pro
fessor of Aberdeen university, who
expressed the opinion that the remains
were about 2,000 years old. Nothing
was found in the urns. Permission
Is being asked to remove the relics
to the university museum.
Mr. Gloom's Lack of Enthusiasm.
Braggtngton (who has just pur
chased a rattler) Now, there's a car
that Is a carl
J. Fuller Gloom Ah, yes! What did
you suppose I'd think It waa?
IB, If i
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STARTS PROBE Df
PARALYSIS AT El
Outbreak Of Infantile Disease InvJ
gated by Htalth Commit,
aloiier Dixon.
Harrlsburg. Commissioner
Health Dixon arranged for an extJ
ed Investigation on the part of r
State Into the outbreak of lnfac
paralysis at Erie by Dr. Herbert T
director of the Pepper Research lJ
oratory, and Dr. Damasco Rlvag, an
pert pathologist of the University
Pennsylvania. They will make
thorough study of the outbreak a
establish a branch laboratory at Er
State and local health authorities h
Ing been Instructed to aid them
every wny possible In determlnlngi
source of the disease. Dr. Fox,
was formerly head of the deparim
of health laboratories, and Dr. Rh
did considerable work In the Stat,
investigation of the outbreaks of
fantilo paralysis at Bethlehem, U
easier and Dubois several yearn n
According to reports received at i!
Department of Health from Danv;
there nre ninety-six cases of typfc
fever with a total of four deathj
the State Insane Hospital and twp;
rases In the town. State medical
spectors and nurses are at Danvii:
Child Paralysis Very Infectious
Commissioner of Health Samuel
Dixon, asked regarding the pn
epidemic of Infantile paralysis at E:
which Is alarming the residents oft!
city, Issued the following statement
"Poliomyelitis has been known
the medical profession since 1840 a
In America since 1896. Epidemics
considerable size have been repor
nt varying intervals throughout i
North Temperate Zone from 188! I
. i . . ,tn.n . v. . n n . . . ..n
uie iirnnii unit-, nit? iiinL i?uitr:
break In this country occurring in V
mont In 1894. Pennsylvania had i
epidemic of nearly 200 cases In :
vicinity of Dubois, Eauclaire, nidgvi
and Oil City In 1907, a small outbrn
In the vlclnty of Gettysburg in l:
and a State-wide outbreak in 1310.
eluding a total of more than 1,
cases.
"The disease Is sudden and Insldi
in onset, accompanied by digestive 4
turbances, slight fever and often c
slderable stupor, a red rash appear!'
In some Instances. The average a
only is diagnosed about four or t
days before paralysis occurs.
"The causative factor Is so n
that it will pass readily throuch
best of fillers and may be found V
with dark field microscopes of gt
magnification. In the department's H
search laboratories we often lu
transmitted Infection from monkey
monkey. How it Is transmitted fr
man to man still Is In doubt, althot
much evidence has accumulated wh
would point the finger of suspicion
ward biting Insects.
"It Is well to disinfect all dwelli:
at the conclusion of the disease w:
both formaldehyde, gas and sulpl
sulphur to insure destruction of lns
life;' and, if tables are near, to n
them disinfected thoroughly and f
In sanitary condition. Damp to
should be dried out thoroughly N
heat."
Unsafe Building's Owner Sued.
Actlni? for tho State Fire MafA
Department, Attorney General BroH
brought suit against C. D. Saylor,
Ohio Plve. Fayette county, for the
covery of $Ji.)0, alleged to be due U
State In penalties for failure to
move or repair a building pronounc
by the Fire Marshal to be a fire in
and dangerous to the community, t
penalties amount to $29 a day, co
ering the period from July 30 to S
tember 4. Saylor is said not to n
paid any attention to the warnlc
of the State officials. This Is the t'
suit of the kind brought.
Organization Of State Insurance Fu'
State Treasurer Young, Commissi
er of Labor Jackson and Insurao
Commissioner Johnson conferred
Aihert T.. Allen, assistant manager
the New York State Workmen's Col
pensntion Fund, regarding the orp
Izatlon of the Pennsylvania State
surance Fund. Arrangements f
made for the framing of a schedt.
and other details.
Inspectors In New Typhoid Eplde"1
State health Inspectors were detail'
to go to Cannonsburg by CommM"
er Dixon to Investigate an outbrw
oi typhoid fever. Eight cases
and
number of suspected cases were M
ported. The Health Department
Inf.pmi1 thut there nre 100 cases
typhoid at Danville State Hospital.
Increase of. two
Almshouse Betterment.
The State Board of Public Char!''
directed that notices be sent to -authorities
of several counties to
nnn.ltilnna nt tlllla And "
IIVIV WHUI.IUItil .. j... ' - j
houses. They Include WasblaP0
Greene, York, Butler, Cumberland -Northampton
almshouses and Prl1 j
in Fayette, Bradford, Huntingdon
Susquehanna. The Executive ComO,
.1.1. in Phil
phna to hr-ar reports on conditio"1
others whose oitlclala nave ue'-
notice to better conditions.
State Will Get Mexican Q""'
Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of
State Game Commission, has arrM ,
with the national Government for
mission to this State, under Prope ,,,,
spection, of quail from Mexico If
A . ... a this "
BiocKing or. fiuiu pnwin .j
and winter. The commission has
endeavoring to secure quail In J
States, but has found all of th""1
posed to the birds being takea
It Is improbable any Cuban ",tif,
ho kniiirht an arnArlmpntS Wit" I
did not prove successful.
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