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‘A LITTLE GIRL IN TEARS - HE appetite for adventure grows by being fed. There was a night when Morley Smith, clubman and close to fifty years old, spurred by a chance book of fiction, let the check-boy at the club ease him into his eight-hun- so Il and sick of everything. 1' “Quite sure!” said Morley Smith, = hoped I woull be dead and through|and he bowed himself out of the —_— — ——— S ar er ut er with everything by now, Mr. Cardi-|room and closed the door. He was gan! Then they put me off for a|sure he hear&'the girl sob then. IHe ' day, the people at the society, and I|stood an instant, with his hand on on the top of the packing box, where|to thie door at the end of, the room.|the hospital. Take me now, please.” mother looked from one to the other| “Yes, I did not know what he would [ Nad to wait, although I had written |the knob. to make sure and then das do if he came back and found you |t® John that I meant to—to die. Solopened the door enough to look in- “.’:‘:.?fg:‘:fi:'; with the milk bot- ll:yogelfig under his touch. and h:l:“r; Morley Smith had taken the let- | with uncomp: k and e h 3 im| saw a second rgom, ter from her hand and was reading | “I know the money c: here, or found you I was afraid he might have come. I|side. The girl was clasping her “Well?” queried the girl. . |legs bare than the ome in which helit. He could not make Tuch of It | I'm Mary Singleton, and this is my |away. I don't know e Sr | was afraid he had received my iet- | mother in ner Arms in &n agoay Jof * ¥ ¥ ¥ was. Here was a cheap white iron|It said all arrangements had beep | mothér Martha Singleton, and my |if he comes back now. If he will!ter and might be here, and 1 wanted | love. ’ ITH Delitae ! thent' by the‘bm with tawdry coverings, a £as|made and that the writer would call | father is Edward. My mother was a{listen while you tell him about the|to do what I had written—after| *I say!" said Morley Smith. “The care. stove, a sink. .The room was evident- |that evening, ready to conduct the!Jarney—Mary Jarney. My uncle—the money— mother had gone. It was silly of |chappy you mentioned—John Dredd A cab would [one I thought of when you spoke—| “Give him a bit, to get rid of him|me to think he had come, for 1 don't|—he ix in the other room, what? I fingers, Morley Smith removed (ly bedroom and kitchen combined— his gloves, looking atound the room |& room of the utmost poverty. The tap yielded water, however, and the|dropped the lett: ad. e letter sald. He |wsas Henry Jarney, but he was always | —what?" suggested Morley Smith. know where John Dredd may be by all but forgot the beggar on the couch. pogr. and he died before I was bor ‘Yes, that was what I thought,” sald {now. He may be anywhere in the| Again the. girl Tade. the 3 say, now!” sald Morley Smith. | the g the money is really mine. { world or dead. He probably does|feminine gesture of smoothing her dred-dollar fur-lined coat and sallied | the while. He placed them on top of | young man came back with the milk | “She is right,” sald the girl; “you|,, irl, “1f ‘But how did {on all get here, you|If he had a dollar or two, he would |not care where 1 am, or whether J|hair. She went white and put her forth in a taxicab to seek adventure in a house chosen at random. Trivial as the adventure had been, it was & stirring event in Morley Smith's placid, well-groomed life. For a week he munched it in his mind and was satisfled. He glowed with = feeling that he had seen life. Then came the urge to further adventure. When he had finished his ample dinner at the club, washed down by a half-pint of good sauterne (his fa- vorite dinner-wine), Morley Smith Rhad retired to the smoking-room mothing farther from his mind than « the thought of going out into the miserable, drizzly night. It was a excellent night on which to in drowsy comfort in the club. and he settled himself in a big chair. with a fat cigar and the daily paper. It may have been so slight a thing as a whispering of uneasiness in a re- glon under his waistcoat where all was usually placid. Without know- ing why, Morley Smith felt a vague discontent. He tossed the newspaper onto the table. “Oh, piffie,” he murmured. For an_instant he thought of the opera—which bored him always. He thought of his favorite musical comedy. and thought of it with dis- taste. Suddenly, with the impetus of a flood, there swept through his con- sciousness a memory of the tremu- lous moments during his first ama- teur adventure, when he was not sure whether he would be kicked out of the apartment into which he had so daringly ventured, or accepted as a lawful visitor; and he desired once amore to feel that thrill. He tapped the bell at his si Sy o Mr. Henry said. one outside now, sir.” There was now, in a manner of speaking. no turning back. Of courSe he might. if he chose, tell Henry he rad changed his mind, or he might order the taxi driver to carry him to this or that theater, but as an amateur adventurer such faltering was not according to the rules of the game. The adventure began when the first word was spoken. When he was buttoned into his fur-lined coat and stood with one foot on the step of the taxi the adventure was well along. “Where to, Mr. Morley?" asked the driver. On his way from the coatroom to the street Mocley Smith had plunged deeper into adventure than he had ever imagined possible. This time he would choose mno quiet, respectable street but plunge into the heart of danger, where adventure teems. He would leap into the heart of the tlack area known as the East Side —vaguely so known to Morley Smith. “East Houston Street.” he said. *“I say. 1 don't recall the number, what? When you get there, drive, along a bit slowly. old chap, and I'll know the place.” * ¥ % % HIS was going it strong. He halt- ed the taxi before a tenement- house that was as like all the others on the block, as one third pea in a pod is like the fourth and fiftth. He stepped out of the cab and looked up at the facade ef the building. The East Side! “Wait here for me,’ he said, and the driver clambered down and threw a robe over the hood of his cab. Dis- cretion is the better part of valor. It was as well to have the cab at hand. In the entrance Morley Smith did not find the row of letter-boxes he had expected. Here, evidently. one did not push a button; one entered and went where he chose. He looked up the dusky stairway. A man was coming down. _Morley Smith stood until he should pass., for the stairway was narrow. The man stopped. ‘Here aiready? Thats quick work!” he said approvingly. “It's the fourth floor; the first door on the right. Go right up.” “Thank you, said Morley Smith, and he went up the stairs. As you mount the stairs in a tene- ment, one side of the building is on your right. When you reach a landing and turn onto the floor of the dark, narrow hall, the other side of the biulding is on your right Morley Smith’s heart was beating rapidly, either with the elation due to the adventure or the exertion of climbing the stairs, as he knocked on the door to his right, after trying the bell in vain. He rapped as a . soft-knuckled clubman would rap, not noisily, but with authority, and at the second rapping the door opened. A girl, not more than sixteen, thin, big-eyed and pale, answered. The room behind her was so scantly fur- nished as to seem but a temporary lodging place. There was no carpet on the floor. On a couch pushed against the opposite wall was an un- made pile of cheap bedding; there was no chair and no table. Instead there were a short, nondescript wooden bench and a packing-case on which stood an oil lamp. On the box were a bottle of milk and a loat of bread from which perhaps half had been cut away. On the wall, on hooks, hung several articles of female wearing apparel and a dowdy little hat. The feather of the hat was still wet, or had dried while pre- serving its water-soaked appearance. All this Morley Smith saw, but more clearly he saw that the face of, the girl was streaked with tears, and that tears still glistened in her eyes. She supported herself against the ; in her hand she held a wad of wet handkerchief, and she spoke. she said. “It is the door across the hall.” Morley Smith might have answered that no door/was the wrong door for him since no door was the right Instead he said, “I beg par- questioningly, while his eyes took the girl in. 't is the door the girl repeated. dertaker, aren't you? In the course of his first adven- ture Morley Smith had accepted the suggestion that he was an insurance adjuster and he was ready to accept almost any similar suggestion if it might further his adventures, but he recoiled from the mecessity of posing, even tem , 28 an er. “My word, no!” he exclaimed. *“By i.ov;.,"no'! I don’t look quite that, The girl stared at him doubtfully. “What?” queried the clubman. “But you aren’t—you can't be—" she exclaimed, almost with eagerness, and her tone was s question. Morley Smith’s heart beat even more rapidly. The adventure was moving swiftly and well. With a feel- ing that he was casting all precaution to the winds he answi “But I he id. “Jove, ye: ‘Who esle could I be The girl drew the door more widely nD# and stood asided’ don’t know.” she said./ “I—I thought, from the name, you were a ouldn’ —a lady, of course, or I wi have asked you to_come here. But you can come in. I'm mot afraid.” “By jove, no!” said Morley Smith. *Why should you be?” He wondered who he was, that she hought, was jolly wel : it was ripping, don’t you know! A girl in tears, and a corpse across the hall, and bread and milk on a raw pine box. and all that sort of thing—what? It might be some trick: she might try to black- f that? That in mail him, but what' of Jjtself would be advertyre, for he had ‘never been blackmalled. He entered the room, and the girl closed the deor. She stood with her back against it, with her hands behind her and on the knob, as if to prevent his v'; ing or fto facilitate her escape @eed be. Morley Smith placed. % -his hst remaining milk on the ficor and went. the hat. There was no stove in the |bottle flied. Morley Smith, with a |had better “take her befors father | 7 ) room—no heat except what came |feeling of o Y, for he was doing |comes back, or there will be trouble. . g0 out and not come back until it was|am dead or not. But now,” she gaid i hand to her h: X 4 th h T e e ves hi hee | that Which he had hever expected o It will be all right. mother; you| “We came away from Watertown,"|all spent and before then Miss Cardi-|more cheerfully. “I will o to “iha | amiled and walked foward the other Coat, for all that, and laid it on-one | do; Boured a little of the wi r into ;-:ede not_fear anything: and it fsaid the girl. “It was my fauit; there gap might come for mother.” hospital—if this money is mine. T|door, bravely, and Morley Smith 3 " H wel e 's fore- |you ever grow tired of the new place, | was a boy—a young man—I wan ‘o e me re 1 can earn a T get well.” < SO ol ke o e ah & | Bt Jou “will ‘Femember you are doing it |to punish him because he had flirted | great deal of money for Mary,” said e Sloach e Aocrana s ” said Morley Smith.| Across the hall the door was open, e aiate "wards_that ‘would sef| “Say. Id b " be here when |for me, 8o % and well | with another girl, and father had an | the poor woman brightly. “Money to to formulate words that would set “Say, 1I'd better not ere when " F d - § “There's not a bit of doubt you are v the girl at ease and lead her to tell | she comes to,” said the ysung man. Sh she sald to | offer of a job here in New; York, so| make Mary well. .| the girt” ¥y :tx;g rl:;lrrx‘d" ll‘;’r’ml;i:fllnr,\‘;lh‘r‘lp;:h:: e frowned and looked at his well- |derstand? You let me walt in that other mind taking 3 55 she might sign and found the latest 4 i and she thought he might duit it here, | hospital now. A T e e e T e )'(l.:;e}m;"g.‘ manicured nails. When he looked up, the girl was holding a sheet of note- room there, and if it's all right— “It is cold out, — | m th. Sith B mieh elne to Interest him; but | The mother wandered to the door ifialieilooks likatabe couldpatapcdit-S MoEtey it it was worse here, and he lost_ hin|and lopked ou\, Mstening. made her sign her name to s back io the door. His hand was on place and was always diunk. So I iy on the Dlank snect and tucked it|ner shoulder and his head was — ; ot work, and mother—-' i r,ff/f//// K The girl touched her fowehead with uso you understand now why I was ’rl::lo‘:ly “1‘.';2";",'; pfi:;edw?;flflfi ::5 TS o said Morley Smith her hand. frightened when you spoke of [pe \was getting out again, and that LT el il g “But not badly,” urged the girl. “Oh. | preqa» the girl said. I had|is the ultimate perfection in adven- tiptoed down the stairs very quietiy. “WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT|she is not bad! Father whnts to send 5 o The Tew ol ant: oot JOHN DREDD!" SHE ASKED TENSE- | her to the asylum. but I know it |written to him. . el o i e ad more than he|8nd when he was in the drizzling ;. o jwould be worse for her there, 80 I| “For a bit of cash, what?" asked)y, hat to do with outer air again, he repeated the LY. “HE'S NOT HERE! HE HASN'T e H new what to do with. e A amain. 2 BEEN HEREW | Some ope, ‘and ‘they. thowght as T dig; | Morley Smith. "Right-o" he said cheerfully, “So|Words: “Jove. yes! {but father was mad witii anger. He| “Oh, no! Not that!” exclaimed the | fOW 'lfll'my" b toddling Jalong | - Bechips e Soeant shat adveaturing swore he would cut all our throats.|gir. -To say farewell, for—for the| “you are sure it is all right?” the | well worth while. for he stopped at That was why I wanted you to hurry, when 1 thought you wére from the society.” Smitl 'STERLING HEILIG WRITES OF A FORMER ICZAR’S ADVENTURES ON PARIS BOULEVARD Story of Ferdinand, the Astonishing, and a Dream of Being Em- peror of the East—The Four Kings of Con- stantinople. last time—forever! I thoughtjgirl asked as he drew on his coat |the first florist’s and sent white flow- X mother would be where she would be |and sought his hat and gloves. “It|ers to the room where even the T say, now!” exclsimed Morley | cared for, and father has been noth- |means so much to me—it means life, (sympathy of a poor woman with ing but uel and unkind, and T Yand healt] mind estranged had been welcome. iz I =y N / 1////,/‘/. i, BY ' STERLING HEILIG. PARIS, September 1, 1921. F ERDINAND, ex-Csar of Bulgaria, is reported to be serious- minded, in these latter days, and devoted to daily pious ex- ercises. Descendant of French kings, prac- tically a Frenchman and entirely an ardent lover of Paris half his life no ‘one who knew him then could credit his later adventures. When old Bastien, historical waiter ot the Grand Cafe, starts telling storles of “Prince Ferdinand" it re- vives the prime days of the boule vard. . Albert Edward, one and only “Prince of Wales,” was still higk hero, though forty-four (in 1885) and nearing his dignified middle period He is seen cutting loose “once again with younger Archduke Rudolph paper, looking at it. It was evident!you tell her John Dredd has been here.| “I'm sorry! She has no cost Snough that she was trying. Dy re- | You " neither "have I sald’ the girl | reading some er, to convince her-| - The girl moved. The young man |“Father took the EoTE bt e prosese. there of Morlay | dia ot wall, “He fled to The Witchon | By Jove nowr- sald Morley Smith. | Smith—whoever she supposed him to |and closed the door. Once more Mor-|“So you couldn’t get away, wha (aged twenty-seven), and on a few be—was right. She seemed less|ley Smith wet his hand and moistened | “For whiskey,” said the girl sim- with the recent kai- doubtful now, and folded the letter |the girl's forehead. She opened her|ply, as If that explained it all; & -year-old Prince Wil- Tith one hand, putting It 1n & pocket | eves, looked at Morley Smith duzedly. |80’ it did._Slowiy, for he was hot a [ helm): bear-leader, ap or skirt, Then she sat up, letting her feet slide |nan of brilllance of thought, Moriey | P98, Monsieur-le-Mar-quis-de-Bre. to'the floor. Womanlike, her first act |Sinith began to understand things, | (cuiL” and. always that fne flower o T antedr she sala T This gifl was trying to get her|"CriC'Hllicr cloged ag § & m. savs c o X X mother away to some place whera it So he may” Morley| -Quite s!"" said Morley Smith. she would De cared for. and it seemed | BAnles ™\ ouia amanse himseir M. the sald the girl, | IoLe: YeR the father objected. He was evidently | Jvege. najl or the private supper pointing acrogs the Hall T thought | eqih®,Firl placed her hands on g'ic|® drunken brute. e ho was not particular—anys * D o Sl ieht: atie was atmays | cAxeiotiths couch, not at(ewipting Morley Smith was puzsled. His|Io0me Re was Tot Bn At & 5.m | TOMBS OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE AT ST. DENIS. THEY WERE THE FRENCH ANCESTORS OF FERDINAND. 80 fond of the child. She loved it.| iy = adventure was leading him into a dif- | we waiters were tired.” gl Pttt ——————————LSIRSES S -——————— Mir.Caraigan. - She spent hours with |4 picel JUeER She oald i feal ail | foulty he did not know how to handle. | “'Bastien dreams, a moment of the 1t while It was i1l T thousht it would | Sic, hete a minute, and K1 feel SU|He couldn't take the old dame away,|past, which does not return. 1 all is ready. Ferdinand, be king, and{after the armistice became known In iBalkans, who turned the scale of ' |draw three kings around yo many of its details, that— ! [Ferdinand's destiny: be no harm for her to go there. : . “Quite so. Yes Indecd” said Mor-|2ee. 'I've been sick” she cxplained|ine cab and bundle her in when he did Sotd Sl || Now. what have you SRR “Ameng the promises 'transmitted = {not know where she was to be taken! «\x7E waiters drank the stirrup-cig |!tHat quadr! ta siisane. o to Ferjln,nd‘ly Bcermapy is included : ysantium (antique ~#id-the tender idealist start;the crown ley Smith. £ 2 il Suddenly the girl seemed to have | ©OMe Yet? ja|For a moment he felt as if wisdol ‘Béhold Fesdinind e I RHU a return of whatever suspicion had o sald Morles Smith. He did|i\ficated that he should make some at the corner wineshop. on ouf | prince. It was. t:3mugh: wowers | L i itical | name of Constantinople). but that he not know who “she’ was, but the Ferdipand, on his high political| Tarked in her mind. Perhaps it was|not Know who ‘she’ was, but thelexcuse and go out of the door and|way home Time and again the|did not recognize him. Why, risk his |, = y ! finds it Aificult 1o credi that Morley Smith stood so long and | Erl evidently referred o the Bete0l |down the stair and disapPesc forever, | Prince of Wales would stop and pull agreeable life of Paris and Vienna |career in Bulgaria. Almost every edu-{ *“It was a dream!" 'says Ferdinanc. So strangely, staring at her Some- | ,on who had been so fond of “the (il thet would be 8 paliy.enciag for nisfriendsin. “The white wine is good R e |- onalichdbAbie land]tecntoal in, JE2 20 > il venture. There : : i eves, and she took a step forward— | child, whoever the child had been |gige, too, that forbade nis fying 1n | here. he would say. ‘let's have a glass | Ferdinand showed fii s day. She was :u':llvn.'n mtl-nd owes its origin : = on the floor, a pitiful little heap of was annoyed irritated by the unconsciousness. on her chest. S S it was good; when the patron saw the | of the legitimate old line of French o “Had he niot been seeking adventure| “And he hasn't been hers yetshe room, by the poverty, by the BItiful {yrince there, argulng on the corner, | kings, d;ugh!:l'i of Duke Robert |0wn pockels, ‘Diplumata, technician OF THE YANGTZE the turn affairs were taking would|asked. women. To sneak a' %o |he would send, quick, to the cellar-|OWner of ordly Chambord s | contractors, priests and sisters were < 7+ asked Morley Smith. “John - sneak away would be quick, e cellar HE Yangtze, the great muddy have annoyed Morley Smith exceed-| “Who?" ask: y 2 Eut & farae and ineflicient conclusion, | man of the Cafe Anglals for six bot- | Sxms o L e e through | continually on the go. river of China, is one of the gre: ingly, but he felt an uplift of heart.|Dredd = Ly e ture was becoming worth| As if thewhock were greater than| [T sayi® he exclaimed suddenly. |ties of a certain old Poullly. as limpid : their childless uncle, the Comte de They sowed seeds of understanding e hala mystery. & danger. a|a splash of lcy water, the girl sat| He had had what seemed to him ' as water, at $3.60 per bottle and sell | Chambord, along with sixty millions | with Serbia, Montenegro and Greece. Tair young woman in evident distress. | straight, her eyes suddenly alive &0V t"m TR ad | it to the prince as ‘workingmen’s|of very romantic money, the private ' pu..;q remained He gathered the girl in his arms and |again. She put her hand on Morley |Some to him Iite oy ight out | white wine' for five cents the glass. | estates of Marie Antoinette and Loui: 2 ined suspicious. The birth | cultivated river basin in the world. carried her to the couch and laid her | Smith's arm. arkness ~The girl looked at him We had respect for princes in those |XVI, relmbursed in the restoratiol of & son gave them a chance of recon-| It crosses the whole of China in its on it, her head resting -on his soft,| “What do you know about John|Qquestioningly. .| aays” and ‘accumulated during nearly a cen- | cillation. Marie Louise was terrified . B e i woni | Dredd?: she asied tensely. ~He'snot| “Im not that Frances Cardigan.”| ™"l this to introduce Prince Ferdl- |tury! - erri 3,000-mile course to the sea. The ol doinext: here? He hasn't been here?” he said. “No! Bally strange, I call|nand, sprig of old Bourbon royalty,| She was the bride chosen for him at Russia’s demand that her babyl| Yangtze has a different name in al- evident enough—probably fi What her emotion was that caused lit. what? Same name and all that|mirror of Fashion, pride of the bouls: | by his wise old mother, and the young | Boris be baptised orthodox. Six years{most every province, and pours a dernourishment—and he had a vague | her to. utter the questions with suchleort of thing, don’t you know. She|vard, aged twenty-four, and an enig- | folks dreamed a gorgeous dream UpoON [ ghe held out, but when th flood of diluted d through half fmpression that when one fainted it | thrilling feeling, Morley Smith could |may be a cousin of mine, Cousin|ma to his family. Had he brains and | their gold at Chambord. It was her = e e venerated L M was desirable to unloosen something |not know. He thought he detected| Fanny, what? Just so. smbition? Qream. He absorbed if. While she|Leo XIII himself advised her to yield,; its valley, tingeing the ocean for and use a cold liquid, but there was | fear—al oyerwheiming fear. ' | The wirls eyes flled with trouble. | "We have 3 elimpse of one of these Walked beside him, saint and bride. | Marie Loulse made ner last sacrifice— | Frrc, lhan & hundred Il Srstures e sald, "y 2 who are 2 " a3 y n the bottle Y you then?" sh ‘clocks. The “Marquis du Lau” is it had its power. she gave her first born to the dream | of this most interesting river. no liquid but the milk K on the packing-box,.and the girl's|in the room here, what? u doing here?” | the late du Lau d’Allemans, then fifty- * % * O thio fous Ainga When the snows meit in Tibet and est of streams and its valley is the most densely populated and closely gown seemed loose enough, turned| The girl seemed relieved. She re- said ~Morley [ two years old, muiltimillionaire ad- low at the neck. He reached across |m ""; her h.tn?.hfm Bixmrn “Jove, I'm the ;.',.}' ministrator of the railroads of south | ]JERDINAND was nominally prince| And then she died. She Soonsosn ggufl:g ;:;;: e get ngs clear yet, chap—the lawyer Cardigan. Hunted | Aust of Bulgaria. He must become so| They say that Ferdinand mocked |80 or 100 feet at Chungking, 70 or SR K T Gl atd, S altey yet. T think. You A rince Ferdinand £ 4 at an n fanning the girl wit 5 vet, 1 think, ou up here, and all that rince Ferdinand was of it.” Bas- Z It. As he fanned. he .heard some|did say John Dredd. diduwt you? /el Toing Caomc you know! " Lost. wilh | tien drawls, “the Prince’ of Wales, |In fact—and get together four kings ¥ Gonathe Orebm of Chuictas Phorrl] 5 Mersican, Sretning in % Bacos floos a8 he been| & ¢t mort of thing, just like & Bre;teull, du Lau and Mlle. Marsen, [to regain Constantinople for thelyone, the four kings, with his “‘{i g reiepndiods mll’ob:’r nd then fali- tha Y. heavy-footed. person coming up the I’l‘lG!’ lease, tell me! en stair. “The undertaker,” he thought, | here? :Was he here while I mnm& book.” pearl among women, who created | cpristian world! princess! With a dead heart, Ferdi-|ing as rapidly as a foot a. ngtflnse things happen along this or the man she fears will return| “YouTe a bit off your head St sald the sir, start ‘Nana: They drank at the corn I . " 4 3 l, ng at him er, nand returned to Paris, t oo soon.” He looked up to see the |what?" said Morley Smith. “Imagin o “Oh! Then—the a poor beard | Four hundred and fifty years had| iy, apgame Otero, o eat shad| er of fragrant tea flelds” when d_there was gray door_open, and & man standing on |n R e il airugglea o T Bow son know about John Dreadrs Badlor: But the. Datron would, have | passed stnce the white horse of Ma- | ™ o e nt 0 Ote"ss adorea shad in| il he. landiaarks and boundaries Se - silk (questiop I nl.'}‘":::h'glw_ ek Faot T Ine Bl oo wosk that |, "My word, yes'” said Morley Smith. | ghased him away. Then came Prince |jomet IT sullied the floor of St. So- |season,” observes Bastion. “She would | are submerged: some of them match pearance, and seemed powertully|she had put out a hand and sup- jlmagine your not Sugssing that!lplay a quadriller o ~iddie of|phis and the basilics of Justinan be-|be accompanied by & lady-in-waiting, | STYthing from the “Peteriins” or built. He was, Morley Smith. feit rted herself by holding to Morle’ | woulan't 17" the rue du Helder, monsleur, they|come & Turkish mosaye. The tmesous small bones ith s Specially .| One _year a passenger steamer sure, the “he” whose. return the “You were hunting for us? At|fiwara Prince Ferdinand, M: ‘seemed ripe to the unworldly princess. | vised knife and fork.” found herself aground in a rice field young woman had seemed to dread. ‘Watertown? But—" The girl seemed | anq’ Breteuil. Alas, in those d.l"'"':. She had only a legend to go on. St.| Otero knew her dignity. She far from the river bank and the There was something the girl had|® %y " at" get her now.” 8210, { 1o search her memory. But who| aa Bree A e e et 5 Christian | 4TS 2@ herself half princess. er fast subsiding. The rice farmer wished done before this man re-!catching her breath and making anwould make a will? Who would lose| to indulge f Sophia shall becvme 2 ristian |~ These are strange things. They |raSed, talked of trespass and ground turned. * Morley_ Smith ‘was mot a!sfori."“You must wot her away be-|a will? Not Undle Henryr " v why. ten yoars cathedral again when four kings sit(alone account for the astonishing |Tohl- forbade any injury to his prop. weakling; he Teasu the young |fore father_comes back. She will go| “Jove, y xclaimed Morley | whon King George wished-his meir to | beneath its dome and hear a Te Deum | 21ter e UMt set SRRl foraed”” the shipowners o buy - the In_the e fellow with his eye as the youth|with you. You'll tell her it will be all| Smith. - “You hit it the first time, d ths in Frai ~ C .p“:ed six months in nce, he en-|of thanksgiving for its recovery. ose days the Pope died. "'S{?li field as a storage ;.o:le-;::nl':er e'l:::: crossed the room. He might try to|right. Tell her—tell her I've found|what! Uncle Henry!” ‘Bre theow the yount man out of the|a Job for her—that you have found | R e 2 fadrie the mor.| When the Turks took Constanti-[nand was apathetic in Paris. Leo e e 9 aa place, and he had an impulse to do|one. "Bralding carpet rags! Tell her e married the American Miss Gar- |nople, the plllage was incalculable, [PSsted away and Pius X took his I T N iaied” abter 8008 and so. He straightened himself for the 2 £00d fob and that the money | ([ NCLE HENRY!" said the girl | ner. and Albert Edward, being equally( e Ruselan Cardiaal Isidore valued Dlruck honmand was electrified It!fioated away the impounded ship. it Svork it It should be mecessary, but|will be enough to take care of me in 3 y the young fellow came and bent|a hospital. She will go with you and as the thought that there [Sottled dows, continued the lend- | o+ $400,000,000 merely the coined gold patriarch of Venice sits in St. Peter's s Meanwhils 2 JEnk which had been . tous le e O e then Jooked up at|then. That's all she wants now. to[might be some money came fairly|“"What 1s mot generally known is found in residences. The jewels, plate, | pout™"y A0d Jere wos Bius X, who|ren aground in another field while had been cardinal-archbishop and |Zo% 18™Che besieged ship. and the Morley Smith questioningly. have money to send me to the hoS-|;n¢; her mind, she drew a deep breath. | that one of the dancers of that quad-| o rnaments, furniture, etc. taken in|patriarch of Venice, the first such to! B o e country folk. chea L e pital. And she will not be any trou- e 't Princé Ferdinai ank God she not deadt” ne|Bic "to dhiem. Sust some raas torn up. ‘]l'hen‘he; dujoefuonh eturned like afFlls put Princs Ferdinand on his|,.), oy and churches were never esti- |be elscted R o iperatits Winter prey and profits, set upon the 8o an o load too heavy for her bear. ‘“Bu super: jon, as Ve Lord, what a place for her to be in!| i\ and be no trouble’ at all. gt 5 e mated. Precious carpets, tapestries, yoy p Tevived in Ferdinand. His | Junk With Bitchforke Ar e omk of Can't we get her out of here, Into a | B 250, 06 10, (roRDle ot She 1s do. | he would have had nothing to leave— better sort of place? T've got some|ing it to keep me in the hospital, if | nothing to make a will for," -she money, not much, but you can have -h{ forgets. El‘hey can tell h:r I am | gaiqd : all I've got. Don't you know of|getting well, and she will sit and{ = s some hospital or something you can|braid all day.” & ‘No, by Jove!” sald Morley Smith, | &iaowerhood, eating shad.at the Cafe ' barians get _her into, doctor?” g She took a step toward the door;|mentally figuring how much money|g3e pParis with “Ma-dame-O-ti ) N for the legend. When the;Ferdinand dreamed less and less of ‘So I am a doctor mow. am I?”[but the door opened and & WOman|.. wgd in his wallet in his inne =RO-TC, O, O et 'ge“c- ry ’u ,' singing, more and more being sung | HY the Indian turnip stings has thought Morley Smith. Fe rather|stood n it. he had in his wallet in hle inuer| Have you a friend? Cherish him like|Janissarics burst into Constantinopleabout. - He spared himself mothing, | W mu . n't| "L wel above price! the splendid city was 50 vast and the|aven on the day when he was told been discovered. The name by was the Marquis du Lau d'Alle-|etc, served as bedding to the Asiatic|princess had been right. He went to G Thibet 'ank suaie wrin- ITm.n._ There 1 another glimpse|camels, and 200000 volumes of the[ WOrk SEnin & with —eelf-contained Ter Tuel of her timbers. of him during Prince Ferdinand's|library heated the baths of the bar-|Fesuits. Alas, that Marie Louise was | not . there to hold the dream steady! A Stinging Plant. preferred being mistaken for a doc- -k have—your Uncle Henry. Five hun- Y f its citizens vi for to being thought an undertaker | (((~OME, in, mother,” the girl said; |dred dollars, whatr 2 KT8 Dave oA wotlior? CHBHNN oo Sibt o arhy wetolooting ol | DonoRht totsko s Cermun wite St whicy (he Hadisn iucaly e SRty yoing man. “Ah—quite so!” but the words were not neces- | FIve hundred dollarsty | |her. too. Ferdinand had ons. She|sce and hippodrome before the resi- | Reuss, handsome old maid, and of a e byt ul 9 lent! juarters knew e Wi member of e great a fam| He felt the lapel of his walstcoat, |sary, for the woman did not hesitate. | guch ‘as a doomed soul might utter | yas the masterly Brincess Clemen- |y 3 ] quarters know that L Ttime|mLy overfowing, with imperial o me of the qualities of its rela- r Ferdinand was able to pro- tives, the green dragon, sweet flag, where his eyeglasses swung on their | ghe might have been fifty, but she! when a reprieve P rren i o came unexpectedly. Fashed for refuge to the vast space of | same year silken ribbon. He adjusted the) s THET AN Be e being| | “It's Jolly well five hundred dollarar Oty ey p e v Aad baenils | St Sophin, where 100,000 people bar- | claim 'himself czar (king) of Bul- skunk cabbage, calla. calladium, rhu- n glasses on his nose. 2 rad “And may I ask who you aret”|streaked with gray and her counten- [ TRE LOFieF o th. “And no red tape.[boy she would have won back her|rioaded themselves to the dome.. garia. In the . following spring all | barb, onion, horse radish, grape, i ? i your name and ! fath, ! He w The battering in of the bronze doors | the powers had recognised them as|dering Jjew, calecasin, fuchsia and ance pinched and pallid. She crossed | HRSCT, | JUF, MER JOup, tame 0| fathers Ahrone, ok of Baretiobia® | announced the arrival of the Turks.|csar and csari phyllodendron. The acridity of the na. They | The non-resistance of the tremblin, Four kings were marching on Con- |Indian turnip has been demonstrated whom | multitude made even the soldiers of stantinople. over to_you. Yea!"|Gotha courted his I\l‘htell'. of and at the | Mahomet hepitate between carn: But were they the right ones? the room to Morley SBmith, her thin|thé money t : Y hands clasped against her breast, and| ‘Did he leave it to me?” asked the|had four children, L i ‘aomathing? ‘Bhe's mot|locked up into his fase with the'piti- | rL bor dying, is she?™ £ fully questioning look of & child in| “Right-o!” said Morlsy’ Smith. uilly. Ferdi- [and profit, ahd at that moment came| Ferdinand knew only that he was Ihe dlstress that shome upon the|Der eves. “But—but I was not born when he | na; e youngest, was born in exile. fortunate diversion. .To solemn the right one. He was on the edge I1eYE" all right, mother,” the girl|died.” sald the girl. ~He did not|The péopls of Paris, one bright morn- | music, a great procession of the of Constantinople =He had Adria-|tals, called “raphides’ occur in a awm He could hear the music boom | ber of plants, but in most of them by Prof. Willlam B. Lasenby of the tace reassured Morley | yaia' reassuringly it 1o Mr. Gafdl: | know v to be|ing. came out to the pleasant sub: 1a placed themselves | nople. lr- = P there was ever going to T e ‘g uburb | priests of St. Spphia pa €1 Sople SHRCIII B ae s Mm-eu’m“ € plants, but in most of them Ohio State University, to be due to the presence of needle-shaped crys- tals in the cells of the plants. Crys- % 'his young man was not gan—Mr. . Frané] g 1 told|any me. How oould he—' of Neullly, smashed the iron rates of | between the people and the Turks. I o Y ot~ Jou about him—don't you remember, (*"°1 ‘say, now!" said Motley Smilth. |the o e od the estabiil . Toe coe hordes were impressed, A |crowned, with incense and the pisu- | matter. Those in the Indlan turnip he has only = nted,” Morley [ mothe He i8 going to show you|«rhat's all law-stuff, what? Ordi- | ment, while the »mh king fled with)popular captain sheathed his sword |dits of the Christian world, Emperor of | have not this covering and when the say, now, who|where the work is, the easy work you| nances of the board of aldermen,|children and grandchildren . |&nd laughed. Sound and gesture were | the Bast! plant is chewed or tasted the shai - can do to earn so much money, 80 I aws, and Constitution of the| When, ak a youth, Prince Ferdinand | contagious. No murder- soiled the It was more than Marie Louise had | points of the meedle-like “None of your——" the young man|can be well.” was sent .to school in Paris, he dore|fioor. of St. Sophia. The Greeks promised. Her humble faith had | ome in contast wifh the lips, tehgue but he thought better of it.| The poor cresture looked from Mor- | .11 that sort of thing. the allen name of his father—Saxe- | giratched out their arms to the hand- him o "singing’ part in the|ind® membrancus surface ‘of the “Never you mind me,’ d. “I'm|ley Smith to her daughter and back|mw.i's what we lawyers are for, | CobUrg-Gotha. But was proudest | eufrs. 'e Doum. He desired to be the big | ,5u¢h. They bite, burn and sting. her friend, if it comes to that. Me |again. YL, Wwhat? - Article nine, ‘seven, | Of his ‘mother's blood, the French. He| “rheir last look was for the priests noise. It was the fly in the ointment, and her used to be engaged, if you| But it was a woman" she sald| "y 4ot oort of Seation "| stayed in Paris when his schooling|who had so courageously intervened. the grain of sand in the machinery. p————— want to know it. We used to be—— | falteringl ‘It was -a- woman. | AT R N INE his wallet from his ended. He was so Parisien, the Ml‘!-l: fone were visible; all had disap- Not four kings, but five kings, six Effects of wy cothearts?" ~amked Morley|WamNt It S womant, | o ' ooy, |inner Pocket. and Ne opened it and|Tid JT3, BN, OF L From the' memory of that | XIS had bets fmiied 1o Zh0 DAL g 37 . 'arew the | began counting' the on the tiem. fo Y e trange disappearance rose an em. on the other, | T'HE observations of an emin scientist as to the effects of elec- Smith. “That's it. We was going to be|Dle B Ppacking-box. g R T the 1emend_mot. 0 im.|Hassien jealonsy, Lmt married, but she chucked me. I guess|letter 5 | PecninE 2 with him at the AD, b Jm: ! Germany (seven kings, eight kings to arrict but she cangked me, X guese| *Uwid e was & wgan, mother: | Ars you puse, gulio pure ¢ fe 21| uining, o5 they atdyed f dinner T | NS PYieeat Bt e conatad: | U1F 1%, D1 Mhe rark: SHa-Firainag | riity, o the snimal body shoy e look how she has been living.” He|ino name was Frances.: - T nired anh minety, thres | Shicn he muet have bea. tinopl Zgain become Christias | Counting ‘on Germasy, attacked ""!:Z'.'z';'.‘-'fl; results. Mas has much cast a glance at the room. “Say, can't O HE ons, Tatter in_her | hundred, three hundred and fifty—' s : less susceptibility, than many other In and Vienna failed 1 hyb a upon & €Op- The wi you do something?” hand and held it, but did not look|counted the amatéur adventurer. turn, Berlin ‘Morley Smith took the girl's hand. at it. , she Qi joned _he: | “Fo 3 5 ;| reopen and the old procession rise up,|him. The disgrace of Bulgaria was 1 o, might gt some water he|Sunehters sets. and sbh sew iruth 15 | o stopped whort ‘with the last|Him made Bui B | e kot objects i their Hands. . | evere. -But wait" said Ferdinand, | per piate that rests upon a large said. “Cold water, what?" them. ¢ - g bill, & Afty, in his ham. serve that Ferdl ! “When are things to be?" | “just wait!” 7 plate of zinc is unable to crawl off *t 5% “Yes; let us go at “Right-o!" he said. “You'll have to:slepve the hat took. the|4sked Ferdinand. (Itwas his honey-| “The Germans are a musical J’“’" on mccount of the fecble electric ac- eage: “Ge 1| show .the wlio you. sre!.. Proaf, you|tejek—ploked moon, remember!! § _‘When the world war was due he|tion excited by the contact of the THE young fellow looked for a Rt doesn’ tg:t. -tell me all it 9:1:. His had influence| : "“The legend is Venetian,” said hl: counted izun on _those u% ‘Horses are troubled by slight utensil ad took up the milk bot. [ter. _ Tal oK1y 7 afe i aat Taty, T | of Bngians but Seincoss.. “All will happen When | voices 1018, 10237 boing il | die 2 2 ing ‘most forgot ke Pprove m neutral, “the Turin tle. ' Unceremoniously ‘he threw thelrorley Smith. “I mulb earn s great lyou were you, didm’t 12" % that went s pecause 4 3 of money, for Mary must go te ‘ daid: the e, wh Zleg "

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