Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 25, 1902, Page 2

‘ , 0-0 : “Corne-| “My—my name is 'Ubbard,” replied Ra: lius! Cornelius!” the trembling youth. “I ’eard a goo¢ COST SCESCESS SE CCST TS After a moment or so the noise of] deal about this place; I ’ad seen the re- someone moving about in an>ther room} ward offered for a man named Ricker- was heard, and then the shuffling steps] py; I was a sort of private detective his head, and called, sharply, Dashington C, lashington Chat. of the old man. Directly afterwards | on’ my own account. Don't be ’ard on Special Correspondence. gre ckerb 5 EF oll Leathwood drew in his head, saying to} me, gents. I don't know nothin’ that's some one outside: “Here, I want you; | worth talkin’ about.” ‘The Wadsworth bill, offered as a sub- A Few Drops there’s business for you here.” The wretched man had fallen upon] stitute at the last session for the Grout Cures an Aker The old man came in slowly, dressed | his knees and had raised his hands in| pill, is to be retntrodi i nt luced b; a in a long, faded dressing gown, of no| supplication. Nugent Leathwood wen'| Mr’ Wadsworth, chairman of the house Of Aches particular color and of no particular} across to him, and stood calmly in from | committee : 5 on agricuiture The Wads- ‘The short cut 5 By TOM GALLON cut; in his hand he carried a battered of him with his hands clasped behind | worth bill is an ingenious measure, de- Taken internally % oe ce edaxe Pct Aiba ea i ty tin candlestick, and he looked all about | him. signed to deceive those who are not fa- ternally. Perfectly clean and pure. him with sleepy, resentful eyes. “You know a great deal too much,| miliar with the eubject. On its face it tists in Scent and 60 Cont bottles “Weil, whet the Wickens ie i 0: my friend,” he said, in his soft, low] looks as if it proposed et addres tet , 5 * pri to carry into he asked, with a snarl. “First, I’m] voice. “The next time you try detect-| effect the vital principles of the at GooDEICH JENNINGS, “Snobs, Mian, dragged out of bed in the niiddle of the! ive work—that is, if you ever do try it aw é " bill, when, as a matter of fact, it is a 4 00-0-0-0-0-00-0-00-0-0 I oe night by some wretched woman who's | again—don’t go about it so clumsily. | legislative subterfuge, letenaing to mis- | ————________________., | CHAPTER XIL. slipped out into the garden and stood | lost ’er ‘usband; I'm kept talkin’ at the} Get up!” lead members who have not studied this LOADED DOWN WITH BOOKS. Master Veevers Gives Trouble. under the night sky. eo ; me ag ae Pua a ae perpunae The wretched man rose slowly from | legislation. a - . 1 The moment he got there he began to | ’e a 5 his knees and looked around a} alin; The He juable Information That Was Giv- The. gentleman Of ihe Newmarket | cider why he had ventured out; why, | ‘ere; an’ now you start shoutin‘ all] jy at the three faces. But he aie tile Apres achiral of the Wadsworth |. About the President of the Unit- ‘oat, who had claimed the hospitality 5 ‘ provision requiring manu ” in fact, he had left his warm bed. For | over the ’ouse for me, afore I've got} mar locked as impassive as ever; Cor-| facturers to imprint the word “Oleo- ed States. ‘of Rickerby's Folly on the strength of] ¢y. detective instinct must be very | fairly warm in bed again. What is it?”| netius wore upon his face the most aw-| margarine” on each block of the prod-| A certain literary man is engaged in calling Cornelius his father, was one of | een, and very stroag, to be alive fully| “Don’t talk there; there’s been | ful grin it is possible to imagine; and| uct offered for sale. It provides, also, | *Titing an article on President Roose- ‘hose persons born into the world with | at 4 o’clock on the morning of a chilly great deal too much talking already,” | Nugent Leathwood was smiling quiet-| that aleo shall be sold in original pack- velt. A few days ago he happened to a curious faculty of thrusting their} spring day; when there is a damp mist | said Nugent, quietly. “Shut the door.” | jy Then in a moment, at a sign from| ages. The Wadsworth bill is opposed mention this circumstance to a New rising to hide the poor apology for a| Then, as the old man obeyed, wonder-| the latter, Cornelius moved briskly] by the dairy interests, and they will not York publisher, and the latter re- bors.As a youth this young gentleman | $U2 which is to come later. With his ingly, Nugent pointed at the trem-| across the room and caught one arm of | accept it as a compromise. In fact, they marked that ‘t might be interesting to ardor very considerably cooled, Mr. | bling Mr. Hubbard. ‘Look at this man.| Mr, Hubbard: Leathwood laid his grir | would prefer no legislation at all to the state that the president invariably car- moses into the business of their neigh- had devoured detective stories by the | Fuyyara was about to return to bed in| I found him in the garden just now, | upon the other. adoption of this measure, ‘The wisdom [Tied a copy of Plutarch in his pocket. score, had invested his first pocket-| sjguct when something happened that | shouting mad things about murder, and| “Oren the door, Jemima,” said Leath-| of the committee in limiting the time |The Suggestion was aecepted and the money in a dark lantern, and regarded] prought all his faculties into keen | bedies hidden at night, and what not.| wood. ‘For to-night we'll take you to| for hearings on the anti-oleomargarine note incorporated in the article. \ every policeman he met with an awe} working order in a moment. I tell you, Cornelius, we stand in dead-| your room; ery out, or try to break| legislation is shown in the fact that | TWO days later, the writer met an- e which usually attaches only to royalty. ‘That something was a light, which | ly danger. But a few hours ago a man] away, and I'll strangle the life out of} nothing particulafly new has been de- other publisher, and informed him also, i = Later on, with the first down upon | Ganced about along the base of the gar- | came here, claiming to be Gilbert Rick- | your ugly body before you've had time | veloped by either of the industries rep- ae i ae was being prepared. publisher said: den wall, and touched, here and there, | erby, and knowi1g, I daresay, a great | to shout twice. You'll play the detect-| resented here. ing the “Agony the trees and bushes as it passed. It | deal more than he confessed. A little| jy. with me, will you? Now then,| The question was thoroughly discussed his lip, he took to study! Column” in the daily papers, and striv- “Well, now, I'll tell you something ing to picce together the mysteries | Was a very faint light, and one which | time since his wife put in an appear-| march!” before the committee a year ago, and an | that ought to be of use to you. I'm which they hid, or tried to hide, from evidently came from a distance; but | once demanding to Know where he was, In that order they went out of the| immense amount of information on the told by one of his most intimate friends the gaze of those not actually con- | {t eame from a source within the radius | and threatening, Heaven knows what,| room, and up the stairs, came to the| Subject adduced. The hearings will be ven pe nat oh avdes. has a vol- ucydides w! ‘im. of the garden. Mr. Hubbard drew his | if we couldn’t give her the information landing out of Which opened the room| Closed on Monday, when the officers of soat about him and advanced, cautious- | for which she. ashed. By Jove, man./ ¢rom whence he had come that night,| the national dairy union will conclude. cerned in writing or reading of rt n is is The same evening the literary man them. By he occupied a position ; ae behind the counter of a hardware es-| ly out into that desert of weeds and | don’t you see that we shall have the} ang took him into it. It was a room| The various bills will then be consid- was dining at a hotel up-town, and, eo tablishmer whose very knives sug- | dead leaves, through which he had | place about our ears before we know | a¢ the very top of the house, with a | ered by the committee, and it is the im- while sat ack a post-prandial cigar, 4 sted possible imes; by ni plowed his way when first he had been | where we are? I curse the day I ever ? ft ression that the measure offered by Mr. | W2% accosted by an employe of one of f gested possible future crimes; by night, narrow window, which had, for some | P! yy the federal departments at Washing- f brought into the house. knew the name of Gilbert Rickerby;| peason or other, had bars placed out-| Henry of Connecticut, who is a member The light came from the right—from | but I'll fight this thing out to the bitter| sige jt. Then, taking away the light, | of the committee, will be selected as the the direction of the house that was re-| end. I’ve got a big stake to win or to they left him: he heard the key turned | 0n¢ which shall be reported. garded as haunted. Almost holding his} lose and, if I’m to lose it, I won't los¢| on the outside. tte hav donned the Newmarket coat, he bl omed out into a very private de- tective of his own making—a man who scented a mystery with every shadow ton. The latter had heard that his j friend was endeavoring to obtain copy A about the president, and proceeded to i furnish him with some. In the course that crossed a blind in a dark street, or | breath, Mr. Hubbard crept out into the/ it Hghtly!” > \ All his dreams for fame and glory in] There is a prospect for a renewal.of i saw a fugitive from justice in every re- | arden, and, in the shadow of the ‘Who'se doin’ the talkin’ now?” asked | the profession he had mapped out for| the agitation in fevor of a pure-food raa Hooda heat hy . trees, made his way towards the spot | Cornelius,“If you've brought me ’ere to | nimself were gone; he dared not sleep; | law In the present congress. The pres- ee ee o out without a little pocket volume of Herodotus.”—New York Times. spectable citizen running to catch a train or keep an appointment. To such a man, the advertisement which had appeared in the papers con- cerfing Gilbert Rickerby, came eas something more than food and drink. In the first place, there was the £100— sufficient to tempt any man to bring all his powers to bear upon the case; inj the second place, when he came to dive inte the matter, and to make cautious from which it came. It was evident} prate about what you'll do and what} he did not know what might happen to| ence of a number of dairy and food com- that he wasat last to be rewarded for | you won’t do, you'd best let me go tO| phim at any hour in that dreadful] missioners and others interested in this all his watching and his patience; even| ped again. As for this fellow, I know] house. He sat un the side of the bed,| class of legislation, called here by the while his teeth chattered with cold and| nothin’ about ‘im, ‘cept what 'e's said| quyxing with terror, and striving hard | contest over the measure to tax colored ‘piper 4 with nervousness, he chuckled softly to | ‘imself. Ask Jemima.” to bring his mind to the accomplish- | oleomargarine, hes brought out further | na himself with satisaction as he glided| Ncw, Nugent Leathwood was so cer-| ment of some daring deed which should | discussion of a pure-food law. ie bay rani shoal fo dapper piney saint along in the shadow. tain in his own mind that Mr. Hubbard} get pim free and overwhelm his ene- A measure of this character prepared, John Caldwell, Minneapolis, Minn., He got to a clump of trees quite near | had discovered something concerning mies, in large part, by H. C. Adams, dairy leather stretching device; Charles Pe- ' to where a little group of four people} the murder that it never entered his He tried the window, but even his] and food commissioner of Wisconsin, |'ersen, Minneapolis, Minn., typewriter; nei stood; down on the ground, in the] thoughts to ask any questions about] s)imness could not get ‘ouee the diffi-| was presented in the last congress by Charles Scroth, Winona, Minn., chim- oe) {nquiries in tne neighborhood, there | ™idst of them, were two lanterns. | the matter; of all things, that was the| oujty of the bars outside. He tried the| Representative Babcock. There were | "cy thimble; Edwin Thomas, St. Paul, athe haunted house, Small wonder | Bending forward eagerly, Mr. Hub-| onc he was most anxious to avoid. But] oor, but it was locked securely; more- | differences in regard to this bill, on ac- Minn., haul-up-chain unloader for oe now that Mr, Enoch Hubbard (to give | bard saw that one of the group—a tall | he had his suspicions, naturally enough. | over, he had no desire to risk a meeting | count of the fact that it omitted all ref- |®2W mills; Edwin Thomas, St. Paul, , him his right name) flung himself ea- | ™an—was working away busily in the | about a man who apparently prowled| 6, the stairs with Cornelius or Leath-| erence to restriction on impurities in | Minn., double-cutting band saw; Ed- gerly into the business, and felt that | earth, digging as though his life de-| about.at night and talked of dead od-| \ooq, even if it had been possible to | drugs, ani in this respect was objection- win Thomas, St. Paul, Minn., recipro- here, at last, was his supreme opportu- pended on it. Then, in a moment or| fes; he wanted to know who that man| pot out by that way. Finally, he sat | able to some of the scientists in the ex- cating lumber-mover for saw mills. nity. two, the digging ceased; and this same | was, and why he had come to Ricker-| gown on the bed again and tried to| ecutive departments. ois Pioneer Pros Bia at res te He began, as has been shown, linger- | 2M and another lifted something be-/| by’s Folly. After gazing gloomily ®t! comfort himself with thoughts of all] Representative men from a number of cath hi eer ing cuteide the house and watching the | tween them and lald it carefully in the | the young man for a few moments, 6) the ‘heroes of whom he had read who| the Western states bave been in confer- In A. D. 1906. people who came and went. In that, earth—something that bore the unmis- }.turned suddenly on Cornelius. 5 had got out of remarkably tight placcs| ence the past few days in efforts to a : aeoe are wleaned from Mr. Taggett the| takable likeness of a body. Mr. Hub-| “Fetch Jemima,” he sald. 0 11 clear with the aid of a jack-knife and Provi-| reach an agreement upon a new bill te PRE Sire, eg be a ae be opportune suggestion concerning <he| bard erebt nearer still; save the soll eres Snatee ae at once. tei dence. In the midst of these reficc- | be introduced later in the session. PRE racine antomobile lect son of Mr, Veevers, embraced it | Stand at the-head of the grave he bad) spies lurking about here and prying! tions—which did not, after all, bring] Legislation of this class, in one form | “apout forty-five miles, as the flying eagerly, and got inte the house., Once |, 20s 2ud:speak some words sony, while) into/ times taae somite COnCoEE them. | him very much comfort—he fancied he | on another, has been pending in cong- | machine flies,” responded the man there, he set to work to find out what} te oftera iatood grouped sbous Dine Mekch Jemina. restick ana} 2eaTd @ curious, rustling nolse at the |Tess for a dozen years; but it has made | jeaning up against the fence.—Brook- he could without exciting suspicion. then saw the earth shoveled in an Cornelius took up his candlestick and) goon of the room. A dreadful feeling | little progress, not only on account of | jyn qagle. beaten down and the awful work hid-| shuffled away to the door. As he! (ime over him that the two men had | the continued opposition by manufact- aon pponmabeb pile een Ie Aiea den, so far as was possible. opened it he paused and looked back at} come back for the express purpose of | Urers of adulterated products, but also y ing. Cornelius Veevers had shown, no}| He was. too much’ feacinated by what | his*mesten: putting an end to him—perhaps of | through failure of the advocates of re- bey } particular affection’ for-or. interest’ in| We® Sone On tp De aware Of tbe NeDGct) |e Lou yee scUr ‘and to a tougher| burying him in the same place as that | strictive legislation to agree upon a | ; Novelist (desperately)—Unless = my fim; Jemima Veevers had accepted his | He Stood in of being discovered; it was | job than ever man mastered yet.” he) ocupiea by the other man; he started | measure. bapwationeeds at once, I shall starve to only qvhen the lights upon the ground | said, solemnly. “On’y mind—there ain't! 4.5. fear gave him a cour: ve Eas were Suddenly extinguished and two of | no ‘us’ about it; you stands alone in| Use eculd have done. So ae It has been decided by the house na- sAarieedsice, ae "woth sy the figures began to move towards him | this.” With that he opened the door} “pne rustling continued; then came| val committee not to grant allowance of | could do would better advertise your that he realized that he had been seen | and was gone. he grating of a key in the lock. Mr.|clothing to enlisted men of the navy. | work, I think.—Life. e yt and that he stood in peril. Then, see-] In the interval kefore his return Nu-) diuppard put himself into an attitude | Rear Admiral Crowninshield, chief of : Mattick — ing that one of the men had begun to| gent Leathwood said not a word: he) dissestive of defense, and made up his| the bureau of navigation, made tn im- Miles of Potatoes. make a circuit stealthily, as though to| paced about the room, now and then) ming to sell his life dearly. portant recommendation to the commit- | yerybody knows that the John A. cut off any retreat he might have de-| glancing at his prisoner, even stopping) qne door opened slowly, and then the | tee the other day, when he appeared be- | salzer Seed Co., La C ae cided on, Mr. Hubbard took to his heels | once or twice, as though he had made impassive face of old Jemima peered | fore it, in connection with the annual of st sy rosse, Wis., are and ran. a up his mind to say something; then | ,ounq it; after a moment she came, appropriations for the service. He e largest seed potato growers in the Tt was at this point that he discov- | repenting of it and striding on agatn. stealthily, into the room, carrying 4| urged that an appropriation be made by world, so when their President, Henry ered, after running aimlessly for some | When, at last, steps were heard outside| congie, She set the candle down upon| congress for clothing and personal | A Salzer, recently purchased 21,000 ffty yards, that the tall man was gain- | he stood still and awaited the coming of | . chair, snuffed it with her fingers, and | equipment of enlisted men of the serv- | acres more of ideal potato land, all * | coming as one of those disasters for which the best of us must be prepared én a storiny world. From his own point ef view this was all that Mr. Hubbard could have desired; it was not-his wish that questions should be asked; he was glad enough to be accepted—for the time, at least—for what he pretended to be. He wandered about the house— coming against the various people who inhabited it at odd corners, but re- ceiving no attention from them in any way. In fact, he began at last to think a thet he was ona ela eosas chase, and | ing on him rapidly; he gave a shriek | Jemima and her husband. air addressed the prisoner, without looking | ice. wondered what for. Well, it is for poe- i that the sooner he left the piace and | of despair and faced about, not with| They came in, yet with what a dif-| 4: him, and speaking in the most casu-| At present. when a man gces into the | tatoes—miles and miles of potatoes. | durned his attention to other matters | 2BY sFecial bravery, but rather in des-).ference “hetwoen them?» Core ius | a1 fashion: navy his wardrobe is taken from him, | the better it would be. peration. showed in every iine of his face dis-| «7 managed to git the key; Cornelius} nd he is compelled not only to equip Had Observed It Often. : | Wie was plessed, however, at the | The tall man closed with him at | trust and resentment, mingled with 91 1aiq it down and fell asleep. "E won't | himself with the uniform, but to pur-| Cholly—Have you ever noticed that ’ ChaGght of Low easily he had gat thts | ORC& and showed himself, even in that | little fear of what was going to B8P;| never suspect me.” She straightened | chase of the government underclothing | most of what you might call the events j the ante and his vacite was tletled at | S'8t rip, to be a man of strength and ren; the old woman was as calm en) her back and looked at the man who) and other artictes of practical use, {n- | of lite come in threes? | th remembrance of how completely he |.Ucerranationm: Mr. eimbideg, oneed 0 eon eine eae ee eae stood, expectantly, watching her. “| cluding even a hammock mattress. The |” pweddy--Baw Jove, yes! Whenevab ie } defend himself, struck out as manfu'ly | lack-luster eyes upon Nugent and the suppese you don’t know why I do this] cost of the equipment is from $40 to $50, | 7 sneeze I always do it thwee times— _ ana the expense is charged against the recruit and deducted from his pay. Brooklyn, N._Y. Ia the army there is a clothing allow- Ned Ril op bape Glee has en earnin reputation that is, rare— ance for the enlisted men, so arranged ft is UNIVERSALLY praised! This rem- * as to provide comfortable wearing ap- | edy presents. unusual attractions to parel for different latitudes, and the | those in search of health; it is made of i HERBS that cure in Nature's way—by } moat aeleears ae Sere ieeastinee as he could, end at the same time| other man with a faint air of surprise. | _ op @ittie longer. So he consented to betake raised a feeble shout of “Murder!” Cornelius shut the door, and, as a pre-} «7¢ jg very kind of you,” said Mr. Mina ks bed at a late howe, to the | ‘The tall man selzed him then in good | cautionary ‘measure, put his P9ck| Hubbard, lamely. eocen which Hel best assigned ‘to him: | caTnest. and got such a grip of his col- egainst it. x She shook her head: and, weary with excitement, and not ry lar as effectually silenced him, Then, ‘Now, Jemima,” began Leathwood, “Tt wasn’t fer you,” she said; “but the ; " while they rocked and swayed about to- | “let us have the whole truth. I’m loth) thought came into my old ‘ead just Jan, 20.—For many ? aes little bored at the reminiscences of old » ornelius conc2rniag : “| gether, a door was pulled open sudden- | to think you've been playing me false! now, while I lay in the dark, that the | raval authoritles have had in mind for Sraoed hareen tee ae Reon oe ane | Iyand a man ran out of the house | about this matter: af Want to know ex=| child 1 lost might—it ’e'd ‘ad any luck— |. long time that a simflar allowance Cots ape peter ogi pane ae Sa quickly fell asleep. straight towards. them. VAs: Ke came) ectipsow we siqnd. 70 ‘ave grown up something like you. Lord | should be made for bluejackets. the biood and establishes a_perfect ac- close to them in the darkness, the tall| here was brought by you into the | ‘ea ave been a bonny lad if 'e’d lived. aa tion of the digestive organs. It is equally He was awakened at fome dark hour | man flung Mr. Hubbard. with all his | house—" ‘And paps ’e aight? Cinch wake tnorinea | 00% for young and old. of the night—or of the early morning—| strength, against the newcomer, so that| ‘Not by me, Mr. Leathwood—bes- | g, B: Se re bh =) Peat » Seen, Tro years. 560. Pipayreyal Luntipeta i Arion ithe Si \ by the pealing of a bell far down in the | )6 peeled and staggered against him, | gin’ your pardon,” brcke in Jemima, naa Ara ‘rouble, an Sr inh a5 the construction of a gun! fons sia er he s cntal i ous hhovee below him; he had come out of | "ster turned nimeelf and ran in the | wagging her old head, so that the gray| "ive im a chance to get out of It Geet dies, 100, She ee or ean op Great Dane—That terrler from Bos en Uneasy dream, and fat’ up in bea; | Se them tune oleae ta es eat rete rath RE OIe Re ax Weal clileomtireet tees tek a rs ee aa tars ts Occ eer acnltlt feria thie ee er apa rae ea hot and trembling and frightened, won-| “Wien” Mr, Hubbard recovered he| “aot by me, Cornelius interduced the| Face nearly all my life: I've se Ea Seas ae ear ates legate tie ce oasetisin heensy Piel eurtataly)sin+8 dering for a momeat where he was or| ¢gung himself clutching a man wildly | young gent to me, an’ said as ‘ow it ae ie Mostly eet sad t ee or pega) 2 ee Say mun ates cgitonn Hat si oe ae = £ (aed what was happening. Then he heard | jy the dark and ejaculating “murder!” | was my son: An’ I’v2 seen too much i hsdergaity Bf ae a oe ei ee be haga ofa conaiine f the vert si, ee eal tied ta = | the bell again, and, a little later, the| 1" Wntereals. ‘The man grappled with | of Cornelius not to know it ain't well| Src: pesiaes, But t Epes nO Sy ay | CONE TRESS a et the: Bye f i sharp voice of Nugent Leathwood, call-| him. and seemed to be striving to get | to conterdict 'im.” else besides, But to-night it’s all gone | Durirg the negotiation of t! A bag Pigo's Cure for Consumption ia an intalltble t ing querulously to Cornelius, and the] 4 pand over his mouth to stop that aw- “But, good heavens, you surely know from ame; I’ve got back some’ow to the} Pauncefote treaty it was dec! e to inedicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SaMUmL, rumbling voice of Cornelius in reply. | py: word. your own son?” cried Nugent. “This VCH FS. I San apy child was in my arms, | make no attempt to secure the ee Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17. 1900. } Phen shuffling feet went down, the | "i saw it—I saw it—I've got you—you | man is brought here, claiming to be] ‘i " fovene ay Tia ela, aoe this id s irheaeyerthentie ns Ta Not Exactly What She Wanted. | stairs, and he heard a side door unbolt-| can’t get away!” gasped Hubbard, | your son; you accept him as such—” dag aa rama d ih ah toe Sea ets Bese a dein; couatereel “George, dear, what did you ever see \ a. faintly. “Oh, good heavens—dead pod. | “On’y under orders, Mr. Leathwood,” pw wae fog Tee nba hey Dee bak te : Mae patie F. in ine te made you want to marry Clean By that time Mr. Enoch Hubbard was | {es puried under bushes!—but I've got | sald the old woman, submissively. “The | o” Say You was my Som. Noe art! | Representative Mickey does not wish | me } sully awake and was out of bed. Creep- | you: Oh, good heavens'—murder!” | on'y child T ever ‘ad dled of croup at] Zr'wnae might ‘ave been, an’ fer that |the naval militia to be deprivd of the | ‘I'm blest if T know, darling.”—Chi- H fng to the window and pulling aside the |" “Hold you tongue, you idiot!” ex-| the age of eighteen months, just three| pq risk 5 ag thin’, I tell you. There’s| gunboat, and has presented a bill pro- | cago Tribune. : \~ ; blind, he looked down into the garden| ciaimed the voice’ of Leathwood. | months after Cornellus left me. W'en| tie goor: Til light you down, an’ you | viding for the construction of a gunboat below, and saw the bobbing Mght of the “what the dickens is:your game here? | this went she tngice ied Mr. Hubberd | OS Git ou | viatne Helena type, to be stationed on| Hyrecrisy in a young man and af- preeqial remgieh apranr nine DUA cata’) Mmmigmsie em Tye eect yearns him | “pte went free: but It ts to be regretted|| the Miesiesipni river, for the use of the | fectatton in an old man are synony- the conversation that took place there | "st fei goa r wawr It” guaped Hubal mp aon X Glan't think tt wae, worth | Tune a Bederstnod So) Ula cis TO ts |e eat river. The oobt te ftet-at-§150,- : etween the anxious Mrs. Reeks and| pard, again,/ clinging desperately to| w'ile conterdictin’ ‘im. In fact. it . ne aa ae 5 ape nia 92 000. ' the shivering Cornelius, but he saw the | Teathweod, “1 came here to find out| wasn’t worth mentionin’. I thought if| are oa ae ne ee Senne 4 Vie gate shut and the lantern carried back | apout It; and I've found it the'fizat| Cornelins ’ad took it into ‘is ‘ead to| Tounded the garden and shcok hi Mint | fidien Gomuilasonar “acnea, tise wee to the house. time! Dead dodies—hidden at night--’ | adopt a growin’ boy, it wasn’t fer me| ““arurder—is it; and burying—eh? | commended to Secretary. Hitchcock that = Glancing at his silver watch, Mr. Without another word Leathwood | to raise no objection.” She smiled be- We'll see! I'll a. peer with you yet, or| the attention of the attorney general be j Hubbard saw that it was close on 4] caught hold of him savagely and be-| nignly upon the discomfited Cornelius, ois hate ain’t "Ubbard!”” f directed to the case of the Common- | o'clock in the morning. He was in no} gan to drag him towards the house. and adjusted her wrapper more com- with that, he shook his fist again ana| wealth Lumber company, with a view “4 \\ mood to go back to bed; the ringing of| “I'll silence you, you madman!” he | fortably about her. “f ran off in the chill seeanine aah to-| to having legal proceedings instituted 5 ° against it. The company wa3 called =| } the bell and the movement in the house | whispered, hoarsely “I'll give you Nugent Leathwood turned to Mr. had disturbed him, and he was most | talk of dead bodies! Come in here and | Hubbard, There was a deadly cold po- painfully wide awake. As he sat on| cease this raving! Come in here, 1/ liteness about his tone when he spoke wards the busier streets. (To Be Continued.) upon several weeks ago to pay to the government the price of the gr2en tim- —* the edge of the bed he heard a wiadow | say!” that boded no good to that unfortunate Sixteenth Century Music. per removed during the dcad-and-down thrown up, and the voice of Leathwood The weedy Mr. Hubbard was no| amateur detective. As we go back to study the state of | operations on the Chippewa reservation. demanding to know what had hap-| match for the stronger, better-trained “Now, sir,” he said, “I should like to} wijsic in Shakespeare’s time, we find} No answer has been made by the com- pened; then the surly tone of Cornelius | Leathwood. More than that, he was} know who you really are, and with} that the English »eople in the sixteenth} pany to the demand of the department, in reply. He could not catch what was | too much demoralized by actual terror, | what purpose you got into this house. | ¢.ntury were enthusiastic lovers of the| 9nd Commissioner Jones believes that eaid, but his curiosity was pean hint aking and by the strange experiences of the | I might as well tell you that it will be crt. There were professorships of mu- legal proceedings hould be started to eroused. night, to know fully what was heppen- | well for you to speak the truth; you] gj. in the universities, and multitudes| recover the amount demanded. “There's something goin’ on as r don’t | ing or in what peril he stood. Feebly | have played this game for a reason of | o¢ teachers of it among the people. The ae ee ool {now nothin’ about,” ‘he muttered. | protesting, he allowed himself to be| your own, and I want to know what| jonarch, the artisan, the rustic clown,| Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister, aa “Tain’t likely they'll show their ’eads| dragged along towards the house,| that reason is. Now then’—he ad-| tne plind beggar—all ranks and condi-| had an interview with Secretary Hay “py daylight; if there’s any fool busi-/ through the open door and up the| vanced upon the man with a sudden| tions of society, from highest to 1 St, that he night is th time ft “let’ lone. * 0 lowest, | Saturday, at which it was arranger ness goin’ on, the nig! is the e for} stairs. Nor did Nugent Leathwood re-| fierce hurry about him—“lIet’s know tivated the tice of si or of t] look into this at once.” oa sds inging, or of $976,900 in silver bullion, seized by the 4t. I must look in' is nce. lease his hold until he had him safely | who you are and what you want. This playing upon some of the numerous in- { Without further, delay, Mr. Hubbard | in the room wherein James Holden had | is not a house where men can come and| struments of the time.—Sidney Lanier, American bluejackets and marines in slipped on his outer garments and pre-| met is death and he had planted his | play the spy without taking the conse-| j,. Lippincott’s 6 Magazine, ‘| 'Tien-Tsin when that place was cap- THE PAST GUAR. SF AS ANTaES THE FACT THAT St. Jacobs Oil to Apventignt® ee ont Pala a own back against the door. quences. RESIS aa vt ‘i tured by the allies in 1900, should be re- ing down stairs, he found in the ha “So you'll prate of dead men—will ‘I—I tell you that I saw in the garden The Ring to Biame. turned to the Chinese government. This IKE MA that long Newmarket coat which dis- | ycu?”" he panted, looking at the abject | to-night a dead man.” Con Seet—Diamond engagement rings] loot was taken from the Chinese treas- AETS eic ae tinguished ete pes 8 24 oye or ee Mr. Hubbard, and wagging his head at| “Stop it! I warn you to say no more!”| are, very evidently, not fashionable} yry at Tien-Tsin, placed in a bank in Cc fe) N Q U E R S |. Comin; ig: 4 night was co ming ig him fiercely. ‘You'll talk of dead men | cried Nugent, raising his arm, fiercely, | any more. China, and a draft for the value sent to door, he found, to his surprise, that tt} hidden at night, will you? We'll see—| as though to strike him, “We'll have| Ascum—What makes think so? wa‘, unbolted, for Cornelius had used | we'll see! Where's that idiot of a fath- | no talk of dead men here. Now, then, Con Seet—I offered eave Miss Rox- euetrearacs i cae aoe the smaller side door in going and com- | er of ycurs?” out with it, Who are you and what do | Jey last night, an] she wouldn't have it| men Seen ces tng. Opening it softly, Mr. Hubbard He pulled open the door and thust out | you know?” at ep areaey ae Press. aneHe