THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA.
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CHAPTER XXVI Continued.
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1 mat be going," the said, rlslnf.
g;M will give me my envelope?"
ft erossed to the safe and got it lor
cunoany wns sun seen
4jt4, but he beat It back manfully
1 visk yo woman t hurry, be taia
tapKably. He wai searching the
duugeful eyes for the warrant to say
Bore, but be could not And It
lie was obliged to let It go at that;
Mt when they reached the phaeton
u4 the horse-holdlug clerk bad teen
relieved, be spoke ot another matter.
I'm a little worried about Ken-
stth," be told her. "He came down
tfeja morning looking positively
rrrtched, but he wouldn't admit that
be wis sick. Hare you seen much of
tin lately?"
"Not very much guardedly Did
yen say he had gone home?"
1 don t know where he hat gone.
lie left hero about halt an hour before
jon came, and 1 haven't seen him
dwe."
"And you are worried because be
feeen't look well?"
"Not altogether on that account I'm
tfrald he Is In deep water of some
kind. I never saw a person change as
bt bas In the past week or so. You
know Mm pretty well, and what a big
keart be bat?"
Ebe nodded, bait mechanically.
"Wll. there have been times lately
vtiei I've been afraid he'd kill some
body tu this squabble of ours, you
know. He bas been going armed
ihlcb was excusable enough, under the
drfiEisiancet and night before last.
ibft we were walking uptown togeth
er, I bad all I could do to keep him
from taking a pot-shot at a fellow
vfco, k thought, wai following us. I
lost know but I'm taking all sorts
of infalr advantage of him, telling you
llli behind his back, but"
'No; I'm glud you have told me.
Ma j be I can help."
He pul her Into the low basket teat
ind tucked the dust-robe around her
carefully. While he was doing It he
looked ap Into her face and said: "I'd
lore ynu awfully hard for what you
have done today If you'd let rie."
It was like her to smile straight
bits his eyes, when she answered him.
nnen yo can say mat in just
that way to the right woman, you'll
tni a great happiness lying in wait
tor yot, Edward, dear." And then she
tpoke to the Morgan mare and dis
tance came between.
As ence before, In the earlier hours
of the same day, Miss, Grlerson took
the roundabout way between the Ray
mer plunt and Mereelde, making the
circuit which took her through the
college grounds and brought her out
it the head of upper Shawnee street
The Widow Ilolcomb was sitting on
her front porch, placidly crocheting,
then the phaeton drew up at the
euro.
Mr. Crlswold," said the phaeton's
occupant "May I troublo you to tell
him that I'd llko to speak to him a
moment !"
Mrs. Holcomb, friend of the Ray-
oers, tha Fartihams, and the Oswalds,
ind own cousin to tho Darrs, was of
the perverse minority; and, apart I
from this, she had her own opinion of J
young woman who would wait at the i
ioor of a young man't boarding house j
ind take him off for a night drive to
toodncss only knew where, and from!
which he did not return until good-j
Best onlv knew when. So there wan nn i
stitch missed In the crocheting when j
ihe ald. stiffly: "Mr. Grlswold Isn't
In. He hasn't been home since morn
ing." Wfs Ciiereon drove on, and the
Best casual observer might have re
narked the strained tightening of the
Hps and the two red spots which came
ud went In the damask-peach cheeks.
Rut It was not until she had reached
McTc.-Ulo, and had gained the shelter
of the deserted library, that speech
cane
"0 pitiful Christ!" she sobbed, drop
ping Into a chair and hiding her face
the crook of nermann; "he's done It
t last! he's trying to hide, and that't
that they've been waiting for! And
1 don't know where to look!"
But Matthow Broffln, tilting lazily
ta bis chair on the downtown hotel
Krib. knew very well where to look,
he was watching the one outlet
of the hiding place as an alert, though
Mvardly disregardful, house cat
ches a mouse's hole.
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Quality of Mercy.
On no lets an authority than that of
JJ16 Ereat doctor who came agnln from
Co'engo for a second consultation
"h Eoctor Farnham, Andrew Gal
Jfaith owed hit life during the two
0iT following hit return to conscious
""ss to the unremitting care and de
Uon of one person.
Seconding the efforts of the physl
jwn. and skillfully directing those of
nurses, Margery threw herself luto
vicarious struggle with the gener-self-sacrifice
which counts neither
t nor loss; and on the third day
bad her reward. Her Involuntary
FOUND HIMSELF UPSIDE DOWN
,rlh Aviator Lived to Tell of Weird
Experience That He Had
In a Cloud.
British naval airman when flying
"ard recently entered a thick white
(mi and wfiolly lost his sense of
lrctton. He only realised that be
"lBlde down on finding that
"t were falling out of bis pockets
bis belt broke, and he bad to
U"S on by bit kneet an Ohowt. At
ter, and again, to the two doctor de
clared, the balance was inclining slight
ly toward recovery.
It was In the afternoon of this third
day, when she had been reading to
htm, at bit own request, the saying of
the Man on the Mount that be re
ferred tor the first time to the details
of the accident which had so nearly
blotted him out Upon his asking, she
related the few and simple facta of
the rescue, modestly minimizing her
own part In It, and giving her com
panion In the catboat full credit
"The writer-man," be said thought
fully, when she bad finished telling
blm how Grlswold had worked over
him In the boat, and how he would not
give up. "I remember; you fetched
him out to the botel wltb you one
day; no, you ncedna fear I'll be for
getting him." Then, wltb a shrewd
look out of the steel-gray eyes: "How
long have you been knowing blm,
Maggie, child?"
"Ob, for quite a long time," the has
tened to tay. "He came here, tick and
helpless, one day last spring, and
welt, there Isn't any hospital here Id
Wahaska, you know, so we took blm
In and helped him get over the fever,
or whatever It was. This waa bl room
while be stayed wltb us."
Andrew Galbralth wagged hi head
on the pillow.
"I know." he said. "And ye"re doing
It again for a poor'auld man whoso
siller has never bought blm anything
like the love you're spending on him.
You're everybody' good angel, I'm
thinking, Maggie, lassie." Though he
d'd not realize It, his sickness was
bringing him day by day nearer to his
far-away boyhood In the Inverness
shire hills, and It was easy to slip Into
the speech of the mother-tongue. Then,
after a long pause, he went on: "He
wasna wearing a beard, a red beard
trimmed down to a Bplke this writer
man, when ye found him, was he?"
She tbook her head. "No; I bave
never seen him wltb a beard."
The sick man turned his face to the
wall, and after a time she beard him
repeating aoftly the words which she
had Just read to him. "But If ye for
give not men . . . neither will
your father forgive. . . ." And
again, "Judge not that ye be not
Judged." When he turned bark to her
there were new lines of suffering In
the gray old face.
"I'm sore beset, child; sore beset,"
he sighed. "You were telling me that
MacKarland and Johnson will be here
tonight?"
"Yes; they should both reach Wa
haska this evening."
Another pause, and at the end of It:
"That man Broffln; you'll remember
you asked me one day who be waa, and
I tell't ye be was a special officer tor
the bank. Is he still here?"
"He Is; I saw him on the street this
morning."
Again Andrew Galbralth turned bis
face away, and he was quiet for so
long a time that she thought he had
fallen asleep. But he had not
"You're thinking something of the
writer-man, lassie? Don't mind the
ctavers of an auld man who never bad
a chick or child of his aln."
Her answer was such as a child
might have made. She lifted the big
Jointed hand on the coverlet aud
pressed It softly to ber flushed cheek,
and be understood.
"I thought so; I was afraid so," he
said, slowly. "You say you have known
blm a long time; It canna have been
long enough, balrnle."
"But It Is," she Insisted, loyally. "I
know him better than he knows him
self; oh, very much better."
"Ye know the good In him, maybe;
there's good In all men, I'm thinking
now, though there was a time when
I didna believe It."
"I know the good and the bad and
the bad Is ouly the good turned up
side down."
Again the sick man wagged his head
on the pillow and closed h'.s eyes.
"Ye're a loving lassie, Maggie, and
that' a' there Is to It," he commented;
and after another Interval: "What
must be, must be. We spoke of this
man Broffln: I must see him before
Johnson comes. Can ye get him for
me. Maggie, child?"
She nodded and went downstairs to
the telephone, returning almost Imme
diately. "I was fortunate enough to catch
blm at the hotel. He will be here In a
few minutes," waa the word she
brought; and Galbralth thanked her
with his eyes.
"When he comet, ye'll let me see
him alone Just for a tew minutes," he
begged; and beyond that he said no
more.
It was after the click of the gate
latch had announced Broffln' arrival
that Margery drew the shades to shut
out the glare of the afternoon sin,
lowering the one at the bed's bead so
that the light no longer fell upon the
Instruments of the small house tele
phone set mounted upon the wall be
side the door.
"Mr. Broffln la here, and I'll send
him up," blm said. "But you mustn't
let him stay long, and you mustn't try
tn talk too much."
length be emerged from the cloud and
naw the sea apparently over his head,
tut was able to right his machine and
continue bit flight
A young Lngllsh aviator, the bullet
bolet In whose planes bore testimony
to bit repeated exposure to Are, had
one narrow escape wltb an amusing
ending Mistaken lor a German air
man, be was fired ci b; the French
and forced to dsrend through the
puncturing or bit petrol tank When
the mistake was discovered, of course,
profuse apologlot were forthcoming.
The alck man promised, and as the
was going away she turned to repeat
the caution. Andrew Galbralth't eyet
were closed In weariness, and be did
not see that the wai standing with ber
back to the wall while the admonished
blm, or that, when the had gone to
tend the visitor up, the earpiece of the
house telephone set had been detached
from Its hook and left dangling by It
wire cord.
Mlsa Grlerson wont on Into the li
brary aftor abe bad met the detective
at the door and bad told blm bow to
find the upstairs room. When tbe
sound ot a cautiously closed door told
ber that Broffln had entered the sick
room, she snatched the receiver of the
library bouM phone from It hook and
held It to her ear. ' For a little time
keen anxiety wrote Ita sign manual In
the knitted brow and the tightly
pretsed Hi. Then the smiled and
the dark eyoa grew softly radiant "Tbe
dear old saint!" she whispered; "the
dear, dear old saint!" And when Brof
fln came down a few minutes later, she
went to open the hall door tor blm,
serenely demuro and with honey on
her tongue, at befitted tbe role of
"everybody' good angel."
"Did you find him worse than yon
feared, or better than you hoped?" she
asked.
"He' mighty near tbe edge, I should
say what? But you never cat) tell.
Some of these old fellow can claw
back to Mmi tup o' the hill after all
the doctor In creation have thrown up
their hands. I've seen it What does
Doc Farnham tay?"
"What he alwayt say; 'while there'
life, there's hope."
Broffln nodded and went his way
down the walk, stopping at the gate to
take up the cigar ha had hidden on hit
arrival.
"So Galbralth't out of It lock, Btoct
and barrel," he muttered, as he strode
thoughtfully townward. "I reckoned
it'd bi that-a-way, as soon a I beard
the story o' that shipwreck. And now
I ain't so blamed sure that It't Ray
mer aholdln' the fort In them pretty
black eye. The old man talked like a
man that had Just been honeyfugled
and talked over and primed plum' op
to the muzzle. Why the blue blazes
mmmm
"Ht'a Trying to Hide and That What
They've Been Waiting For."
can't she take her Iron-molder fellow
and be satisfied? She can't swing to
both of 'em. Utnp! the old man want
ed me to skip out on a wild goose
chase to Frisco In that bond businrss,
and take the first train! Sure, I'll go
but not toduy; oh, no, by grapples;
not this day!"
It was possibly an hour beyond Brof-
fln't visit when Margery, having suc
cessfully read the sick man to sleep,
tiptoed out ot the room and went be
low stairs to shut herself into the hall
telephone closet. The number she
asked for was that of the Kay mer
Foundry and Machine worka, and Ray
mer, himself, answered the call.
"Have you heard anything yet from
Mr. from our friend?"
"Not a word. But I'm not worrying
any more now. I've been remember
ing that he la the happy or unhappy
possessor ot the 'artistic tempera
ment' and that accounts tor anything
and everything. I'd forgotten that for
a few minutes, you know."
"Well?" she said, with tho faintest
possible accent of Impatience.
"Ho has gone oft somewhere to plug
away on that book of his; I'm sure of
It And he hasn't gone very far. I'm
Inclined to believe that Mrs. Holcomb
knows where he Is only she won't
tell. And somebody else knows, too."
"Who Is the somebody else?"
Though the wire was tn a measure
public, Raymcr risked a single word.
"Charlotte."
None of the sudden passion thai
leaped Into Margery Grlerson 't eyes
was suffered to find Its way into her
voice when she said: "What makes
you think that?"
"Oh, a lot of little things. I was
over at the house last night, and there
Is some sort of teapot tempest going
on; I couiun i mane out just wnai
But from the way things shaped up, I
gathered that our friend waa wanted
In Lake Boulevard, and wanted bad
for some reason or other. I had to
promise that I'd try to dig him up, be
fore I got away."
"Well?" went the questioning word
over the wires, and tht time the Impa
tient accent was unconcealed.
"I promised; but this morning Doc
tor Bertie called me up to say that It
waa all right; that I needn't trouble
myself."
"And I needn't have troubled you."
and be was presented by the mayor
of the district with a uouquet
Talking of bullet boles, by the way.
I may mention tbat tbe record sure
ly belongs to a British aviator wbo. es
caplng from a hall of shrapnel, count
ed 90 separate puncture In bis planes
C. L. Freotlon in Scrlbner's Maga
line.
When Glass Adheres.
If sheets of plate glass be piled up
horizontally to a considerable height
without the precaution ot separating ,
said the voice at tbe Mereslde trans
mitter. "Excuse me, as Hank Billings
ly used to tay when be happened to
shoot the wrong man. Come over
when you feel like It and bave time.
You mustn't forget that you owe me
two call. Good ty."
After Margery Grlerson had let her
self out of the stifling little closet un
der the ball stair, the went Into tbe
darkened library and sat for a long
time staring at the cold hearth. It was
a crooked world, and Just now It was a
sharply cruel one. There was much to
be read between the line of tbe short
telephone talk with Edward Baymer.
The trap was sprung aud it Jaw were
closing; and in his extremity Kenneth
Grlswold waa turning, not to tbe wom
an who had condoned and shielded and
paid the costly price, Imt to the other.
"Dear God I" abe mM aoftly, when
the prolonged stare bad brought the
quick-springing tears to her eyes; "and
I l could bave kopt blm safe!"
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Ptndulum-Swlng.
To a man seeking only to cacape
from himself, all roads are equal and
all destinations likely to prove uul
foimly disappointing. Turning his
back upon tbe iron works In the day
of defeat, with no very clear Idea of
what he should do or where be should
go, Grlswold pushed through the
strikers' picket Hues, aud, avoiding the
militant suburb, drifted by way of sun
dry outlying residence street and a
country road to the high ground bank
ot tbe city.
In deserting Raymer be was actu
ated by no motive of disloyalty. On
the contrary, to much of the motive at
had any bearing upon his relations
with the young Iron founder sprang
from a generous Impulse to tree Ray
mer from an Incubus. If it were tbe
curse of tho Mldas-touch to turn all
i things to gold, It seemed to be his own
peculiar curse to turn the gold to
dross; to leave behind him a train of
disaster, defeat and tragic depravity
The plunge Into the labor conflict bad
merely served to afford another strik
ing example of his inability to break
the evil spell, and Raymer could well
spare him.
On Urn long tramp to the bills the
events of the past tow months mar
shaled themselves In accusing review.
No human being, save one, of all those
with whom he bad come in contact
since tbe day of dragon-bearding In
the New Orleans bunk had escaped the
contaminating touch, and each In turn
had suffered loss. The man Gavltt
bad given his name and identity; the
mate ot the Belle Julie had sacrificed
what little respect he may have had
for law and order by becoming, poten
tially, at least a criminal accessory.
Tbe little Irish cab-driver had sold
himself for a price; and the negro
deckhand had earned bis mess of fried
flsh. Tbe single exception was Char
lotte Farnham, and he told himself
that she bad escaped only btcause she
bad done her duty as she saw It
And as the bedeviling thing bad be
gun, so it had continued, losing none
of ita potency for evil. In the little
world of Wahaska, which was to bave
been the theater ot Utopian demon
stration, the curse had persisted. Tbe
money, used with tbe loftiest Inten
tions, bad served only as a means to
an end, and the end bad proved to be
the rearing of a,n apparently Impas
sable wall of bitter antagonism be
tween master and men. And the se
cret of the money's origin and acquisi
tion, which was to have oeen so easily
cast aside and ignored, had become a
soul-sickness incurable and even con
tagious. Grlswold was beginning to
suspect tbat It had attacked Margery
Grlerson; that It had subconsciously,
If not otherwise, thrust Itself Into
Charlotte Farnham' life; and the
days lately past had shown him Into
what depths It could plunge Us
wretched guardian and slave.
Now that the plunge bad been taken
and be bad been made to understand
tbat he must henceforth reckon with a
base and cowardly underself which
would not stop Bhort of the most hein
ous crime, be told hiiusetf that he must
have time to think to plan.
Caring nothing for Its roughness, he
followed the country road Into a valley
forest of oaks. After an hour of aim
less tramping be began to bave occa
sional near-hand glimpses of the lake;
and a little farther along be came out
upon the main-traveled road leading to
the summer resort hotel at the head of
De Soto bay.
Still without any definite purpose in
mind he pushed on, and upon reaching
the hotel he went In and registered for
a room. Here he drew the window
shades and lay down, and since the
week of strife had been cutting deep
ly into the nights, when he awoke It
was evening and a cheerful clamor In
the dining room beneath told blm that
It was dinner time.
It Is a trite saying that many gulf.
seemingly Impassable, has been safely
bridged In sleel. Bathed, refreshed
and with the tramping atalna removed.
Grlswold went down to dinner with tbe
lost appetite regained.
Early on the following day he sent a
note to Mrs. Holcomb by one of the
Inn employees; but the copy of tbe
Dally Wahaskan laid beside bis break
fast plate made It unnecessary to tele
phone Raymer. The paper had a full
account of the sudden ending of tho
lock-out and the resumption of
work In the Raymer plant, and
he read It with a curious stir
ring of self-compassion. As be had
reasoned It out, there was only ono
way In which the result could have
been attained so quickly. Had Raymer
taken that way, tn spite of bis wrath
ful rejection of the suggestion? Doubt
less he had; and on the heel of that
conclusion came a sense of deprivation
them by sheets of paper, the glass tn
certain places adheres at tightly aa It
It were cemented, to tbat It is neces
sary to remove It bit by bit This is
due solely to cohesion which Is the
property of bodies to adhere as soon
as their molecules are In contact It It
almost impossible to make surfaces so
smooth and to exert pressure so great
tbat the molecuhs of the two surfaces
will actually be in intimate contact I
but In certain machines this does oc
casionally take place with both steel
and lead, eflectlng a sort ot welding so
that was fairly appalling, and tbejjonnson; I want you iu annuo handi
neaitny breakfast appetite vanished.
Grlswold knew what It meant, or be
thought he did. Margery Grlerson wa
gone out of bis life gone beyond re
call. After that, there was all tbe better
reason why he should grapple with
himself In the fallow Interval; and for,
two complete days he wai lost, even to
tbe small world of the tummer resort
tramping for hours In the lake shore
forest or drifting about in one of the
hotel skiffs, and returning to the Inn
only to eat and sleep when hunger or
wearlnesa constrained him. On the
whole, the discipline was good. He
flattered himself that the sense of pro
portion wa returning slowly, and with
It some saner Impulses. Truly, It had
boen his misfortune to be obliged to
compromise with evil to some extent
and to involve other, but was not
tbat rather due to the ineradicable
faults of an Imperfect social system
than to any basic defect In his own
theories? And was not the same Im
perfect social system partly responsi
ble for the quasl-crlmlnal attitude
which had been forced upon him? He
waa willing to believe it; willing, also,
to believe tbat he could rise above the
constraining forces and be the man he
wished to be. That he could so rise
was proved, he decided, on the morn
ing of the third day, when he chanced
to overhear the hotel clerk telling tbe
man whose room was across the corri
dor from his own that Andrew Gal
bralth still had a fighting chance for
life. In the pleasant glow of the blgb
resolve the news awakened none of
the murderous promptings, but rather
tbe generous hope that It might be
true.
It was late In the afternoon of this
third day, upon his return from a long
pull in the borrowed skiff around tbe
group of islands In tbe upper and un
frequented part of the lake, that he
found a note awaiting him. It was
from Miss Farnham, and Its brevity,
no less than Its urgency, stirred him
apprehensively, bringing a suggestive
return of the furtive fierceness which
he promptly fought down. "I must
see you before eight o'clock this eve
ning. It Is of the lust Importance,"
was the wording of the note; and the
heavy underscoring of the "last," and
a certain tremulous characteristic In
the handwriting, stressed the ur
gency. It was still quite early In the eve
ning when tbe Inn conveyance set him
down at the door of his lodgings In
upper Shawnee street To the care
taking widow, who would bave pre
pared a late dinner for him, he ex
plained that he was going out again al
most at once; and taking time only
for a bath and a change, he set forth
on the cross-town walk. It lacked
something less than a half hour of the
time limit set In Miss Farnham's note,
but he attached no special Importance
to that. He knew that the doctor'
dinner hour was early, and tbat in any
event he could choose his own time
for an evening call.
It nettled him angrily to find that
the premonition of coming disaster
was still with him when he crossed
the courthouse square and came luto
the main street a few doots from the
Winnebago entrance. Attacking from
a fresh vantage ground It was warn
ing hlin that the town botel was the
stopping place of the mun Broffln, and
that he was taking an unnecessary haz
ard In passing It. Brushing the warning"
aside, he went on defiantly, and Just
before he came within Identifying
range of the loungers on the hotel
porch an omnibus backed to the curb
to deliver Its complement of passen
gers from (he lately met northbound
train.
Grlswold walked on until he was
stopped by the sidewalk-blocking group
of freshly arrived travelers paus
ing to identify their luggage as It
Deftly the Man Catcher Worked Them
Open.
waB handed down from the top of the
omnibus. Alertly watchful, he quickly
recognized Broflln among the porch
loungers, aud saw him leave his tilted
chair to saunter toward the steps.
Then the fateful thing happened. One
of the luggage sorters, a clean-limbed,
handsome young fellow with boyish
eyes and a good-natured grin, wheeled
suddenly and gripped him.
"Why, Griswold, old man! well, I'll
be dogged! Who on the face of the
earth would ever have thought of find
ing you here? So this is where you
came up, after tbe long, deep, McGinty
dive. It it?" Then to one of his '.!
low travelers: "Hold on a minute.
perfect that even the microscope can
not detect the place of union
Out of Do-r.
To him who sleeps out of door
these days there will be no confused
feeling In tbe mind as be springs
from bis blanket, no heavy taste In
his mouth. The sweet airs from the
hills, the healing breath from the
woods will not permit that "wrong-way-out-of-bed
feeling" so common
among the dweller ot closely packed
tenement.
with an old newspaper pal of mini
from New York, Mr. Kenneth Oris
wold. Kenneth, this is Mr. Beverly
Johnson, of tho Bayou State Securltj
bank, In New Orleans."
Thus Balnbrldge, sometime star re
porter for the Loulslonian, turning ui
at the climaxing Instant to prove the
crowded condition of an overnarrow
world, much as Matthew Broffln had
once turned up on the after-deck of
the coastwise steamer Adelantado te
prove It to him.
While Grlswold, with every nerve
on edge, was acknowledging the In
troduction which be could by ao
means avoid, Broffln drew nearer
From the porch tteps he could both
tee and hear. Balnbrldge, cheerfully
loquacious, continued to do most of
the talking. He was telling Grlswold
of the streak of good luck which had
snatched him out of a reporter's berth
In the South to make him night editor
or one ot the St Paul dailies. John
son was merely an onlooker. BrolTln's
eye searched the teller't face. Thus
far It was a blank a rather bored
blank.
"And you are on your way to St
Paul now?" Grlswold said to the news'
paper man. Broffln, whose cars were
skillfully attuned to all tbe tone varia
tions In tbe voice of evasion, thought
he detected a quaver of anxious Im
patience In the half-absent query.
"Yes; I was going on through to
night, but Johnson, here, stumped me
to stop over. He said I might be able
to get a news story out of his sick
president" Balnbrldge rattled on
"Ever meet Mr. Galbralth? He la the
bank president who was held up last
spring, you remember; fine old Scotch
gentleman of the Walter-Scott brand."
"When did you leave New Orleans?
Grlswold asked; and now Broffln made
sure he distinguished the note ot anx
iety.
"Two days back; missed a connec
tion on account of high water in tbe
Ohio. Might have stayed another 12
hours In the good old levee town If we'd
only known, eh, Johnson?" And then
again to Grlswold: "Remember that
supper we bad at Chaudlere's, the
night I was leaving for the banana
coast? By George! come to think of
It I believe that was the last time we
foregathered In the Say, Kenneth,
what have you done with your beard?"
Something clicked In Uroflln's brain.
The final doubt was cleared away.
Grlswold was the man he had seen and
marked when the two were saying
good by on the banquette In trout of
Chaudlere's.
BrofTln's right hand went swiftly to
an inside pocket of his coat and when
It was withdrawn a pair of handci.ftg,
oiled to noiselesBness, came with It
Deftly the man-catcher worked them
open, UBlng only the fingers of one
hand, and never taking his eyes from
the trio on the Bldewulk. One last
step remained; If he could only man
age to get speech with Johnson first
During the trying Interval Griswold
bad been fully alive to his peril. He
had seen the swift hand-passing, and
he knew what it was the Broffln was
concealing In the hand which had
made the quick pocket dive. He knew
that the crucial moment had come:
and, as many times before, ihe sav
age fear-mania was gripping him. In
the cold visc-nlp of It he bad become
ome moro the cornered v.ild beast
(TO RE CONTINUED.)
Whooping Cough.
The Bureau of laboratories of the
New York board of health has been
conducting an extensive investigation
of whooping cough, and Dr. Paul Lut
tinger recently reported to the Medi
cal association of the greater city of
New York some of the results ot that
Inquiry
Among the most Interesting con
clusions reached is that the early part
of the disease Is the most Infectious.
The bacillus tbat Is believed to cause
It Is rarely found in the sputum after
the first week of the paroxysmal, or
whooping, stage, so "there would seem
to be no necessity for the child to be
kept In the bouse for more than a
week after the waoop appears."
Doctor Luttlnger says physicians un
derestimate the seriousness of the dis
ease and fall to report cases. Only
28 per cent of cases tn a certain area
were reported, and "probably not more
than 10 per cent are reported in
Greater New York."
Good Men Are Scarce.
Col. E. Polk Johnson of Ixulsvllle,
who fought for the Confederacy, read
something In the dispatches from the
front the other day that reminded him
very much of what happened when
be was serving In the western array
tn the Civil war. "I remember It was
a wet cold, rainy night In the middle
of winter," said the veteran, "when a
long, lean chap In my regiment was or
dered to go on picket duty. He
thought the situation over for a min
ute and then be turned to the ser
geant who had brought the message.
'You go right straight back wiiar you
come from," be drawled, 'and tell the
cap'n I J!8t natchelly can't do It I
got a letter from Gin'ral Brags this
mawnin', and be said good men was
gittln' almighty Bkeerce In this here
army, and for me to take good cars of
myse'f." "
Respirators tor Mir Raids.
As a reBuli of the police wamlnx
advising people to keep all windows
closed In the event of an air raid on
London, and thus prevent the admis
sion of deleterious gases, there has
been a rush to buy respirators Stores
were sold out within an hour or two.
The most popular form was tbat made
of either nontnflammable celluloid or
rubber, except the mouthpiece. They
have motor goggle fittings to protect
the eyes. London Globe
For Men of Forty.
The United States public health
service states that the expectation ot.
life after the age ot forty la less now
than It was thirty years ago, owing
largely to the increased prevalence oi
diseases of defeneration. It recoin
mends as a remedy for this state of
things: "Take exercise. Have a nobby
that gets you out ot doors. Walk to
your business, to your dressmaker',
keep chickens, make a garden, play
golf or any other game, but lake two
hour' exercise a day."
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest Gleanings From Ati
Over tbe State.
I0LD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Child Incinerated In Kerwvrtt Squaw
Fire Raise Men's Wage tf
Per Cent Farmer ReuU
Highwayman.
Falling from a haymow, Thomas
Atn, a Zenith fanner, aged sixty-nine,
died as the result of internal la.'triea.
Principal Ross, of the Doyloetown
schools, Is arranging to get the co
operation of business men in making'
the commercial course fit thoir kusl
nes needs.
Having run away from borne. Rich
ard, seventeen-mnnths-old son of D. P.
S. Boyer, Mldvale, walked across a
rilro:,d track and his right leg wa
cut oft by a train.
Lewis Martini and Joseph Nortlni,
after firing a shot In a breait at tho
Alaska collier, were blown many feet
by an explosion of gas and probably
fatally injured.
As the result of a fall downstairs,
Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged 107, died at the
home of her son, J. J. Kelly, Pitta
burgh. Mrs. Kelly had resided In
Pittsburgh seventy-five years.
I. C M. Ellenberger, superintendent
of Sunbury schools, declared that the
school facilities are entirely too small,
and told tbe school board that some of
the pupils are quartered in a shack.
Governor Brumbaugh granted a res
pite staying the execution of H. E.
Filler, of Westmorelund county, from
tbe week of October 11 to the week of
November 8.
J. B. Millard and Company, owner of
limestone quarries In the vicinity of
Annville, has announced a voluntary
raise of 10 per cent In wases, effective
at once. Forty men will be added to
the pay roll.
Colonel Joseph B. Hutchinson, who
recently resigned as chief of police,
Harrisburg, will become head of the
police department of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, at Steclton, it ia re
ported. A Pennsylvania Railroad train
crashed Into an automobile In charge
of C. A. Wert, Mt Carmel, the cor hav
ing stalled on the crossing near John
son City. Wert escaped by leaping
from the machine which was wrecked.
Miss Mary E. Morgan waa acquitted
by a Jury in the Blair County Court,
at Alioona, of the charge of larceny,
preferred by John A. Fox, manager of
an Altoona furniture company, by
which ehe had b-en employed a book
keeper for six yeva.
Jacob Innefht, a Jacobus butcher,
held up at the point of a gun by a
highwayman while on bis way to mar
ket In York, handed over his small
change, but A. Downs, a farmer, who
followed him, slashed the road agent
across the face with his buggy whip,
and the latter beat a haaty retreat Into
a cornfield.
The stone tenement house on How.
ard Griffith's farm, Kennett Square,
was destroyed by fire. It waa occu
pied by Arthur Atwell and his family
nt eleven, all of whom escaped In their
nl?ht clothes, except the youngest
child, Irving, aged three, which wa
burned to death. The eldest daughter,
Margaret, fifteen, was injured from
Jumping from a window and waa taken
to a hospital.
Without showlns the slightest emo
tion, Mrs. Catharine Strlngfellow
signed a plea of guilty of murdor in
the second degree, thereby Insuring
hprself a term In the penitentiary. At
the same time, however, she made
sure of her escape from the electric
chair. Mrs. Stringfellow was charged
with the murder of James A. Bowen In
Chester on May 19, as the latter waa
leaving the home of Mrs. Charles
Rostron, a widow, whom Mrs. String
fellow Is alleged to have considered a,
rival for the affections of Bowen.
Six employes of the Reading High
way Department bad a narrow escape
from death when they were overcome
by sewer gas In a trench sixty-five feet
below the street level. James J. Gal-.
Ingher, forty-eight years old, and Wil
liam M. Burleigh, aged thirty-eight, are
In a serious condition at the Reading
Hospital. The others were revived
with a pulmotor.
After serving three months and nine
days of a nine-months' sentence, Im
posed following his conviction of ex
tortion of $55, former Constable Seneor
A. Phlllippl waa released on parole by
Judre George W. Wagner, at Reading.
Affidavits were presented to the ef
fect that Philltppl's health had failed
from Imprisonment
A complete set of by-laws has been
made by the newly-formed Student
Council at Urslnus College, which will
give the students complete control
over student conduct
Mrs. N. Gulley Finch, of Allentown,
accidentally threw a paper in which
'"r d'amonds were wrapped on the
rubbish pile, and the ashmen, hauled
them to the dump. The gems, worth
several hundred dollars, were re
covered. Miss Annette Umbenhen, a public
school teacher, daughter of Rev, J. H.
Umbenhen, pastor of Trinity Luthoran
Church, rottsvlllo, was married to
George Wolf Ryon, a State forester.
The ceremony waa performed by th
bride's father.