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weil | THE 3 io Captain’s Double Oe: By LILLIAS CAMPBELL DAVIDSON SFOS 009055000000000000000! CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) “{ thought him so when he arrived on the scene of my distress.” “Come to the fire and tell your ad- ventures, before we go to dress. I was just beginning to have visions of you with a broken neck, or something as cheerful. Did Merrylegs throw you, or did you get down, or what?” “Alas, I was unseated, like Percy at Chevy Chase. I never knew the extrem- ity of abject helplessness until I saw somebody else’s mare vanishing into the faint distance and felt the vanity of pursuit. If Capt. Winstanley hadn’t come out of his own road, I might have been wandering around those cross- roads now, coming nearer to a jibber- ing idiot every step. I never felt so fond of anybody as I did of him, never —before [ saw whether he was a hun- dred, or squinted, or had had small- pox——it was his mere role of deliverer | that made him dea “He's quite worth liking on his own account,” retorted Freda, as she nes- tied down among the cushions on the old setile in the corner. “I met him at the Nortons’ dance and thought him delightful. He’s only down here on leave, w luck. We don’t often get such a d dancer and hockey player end all-round man altogether in these n't he come from Portsmouth?” D. C. to the commandant ra good billet, I should hat, personally, I should always like an upper footman. To wri and leave cards and get everybody’s blame, that’s about sum-total of the dvtie: When vrong at the entertainments the A. D. C., and when girls sit ou people don’t get cards after they’ve written their names in the book, it is always the wret dA. D.C. that gets the scowls and the hatred.” ‘I should think one could put up with that if it wasn’t deserved.” “Frankly, I think it mostly is. How- ever, I'm quite sure that if people don’t get their due at Government House at Portsmouth it isn’t the fault of that -e Capt. Winstanley. he was allowed to get all just now. By the way, I leave at thought he couldn’t be spared a min- ute from duty at the general’s side.” ‘Why now more than usually?” Ur- sula found a peculiar interest in dis- 1g Capt. Winstanley. His first claim to her liking and her gratitude might have been earned by his playing the rescuer; but she had found in him on that long homeward drive some- thing that made her want to know more of him for his own sake. “Oh, because of this wonderful new discovery of Gen. Kenyon’s. Haven't you heard of the new explosive that’s going to revolutionize warfare and make England the invincible owner of the world? The eyes of the world are upon Portsmouth Government House just now. T should have thought you must have seen the hints in the pa- pers, at least.” “Perhaps they were so dark that T didn’t grasp their meaning. At any rate, I don’t know anything about this discovery.” “Really?” Freda settled herself in her corner with satisfaction. She loved to tell a story and rather flat- tered herself that she did it with tal- ent. “Have you heard of Gen. Kenyon at all? Not heard uncle speak of him, or enything? Oh, well,” as Ursula shook her head, “he’s a dabbler in science, they say, and has a passion for experi- ments. People think he does too much of it sometimes—a paternal war office doesn’t look with benevolence on special cleverness. But. anyway, they say—I don’t know with how much faet in it—that when he was in Switz- erland last summer he came across an American scientist who was trying to perfect a new explosive, but hadn’t the money to carry out the scheme of ex- periments. Gen. Kenyoa was struc< with what he saw of it, and offered to bear the expense if he might claim a share of the result. The sequel was that between them they are supposed to have found out the secret of some perfectly marvelous explosive, far su perior to anything ever used or even dreamed of up till now.” “How appailing!” ‘Not at all. They say it will do more to insure universal amity than all the peace councils ever devised. No one will ever go to war again—they won't dare to, When we possess a thing that couid reduce every other nation to atoms at a turn of the wrist!” But ¢an it?” “They say so. Of course, it’s all sup- posed to be the profoundest secret just at present; at all events, tilll the war office are satisfied with the results of the experiments they are having tried, Not a whisper is supposed to be breathed to any living creature, lest some other nation should get hold of it and turn the tables on us.” “Then, if it’s such a_ state secret, how does anybody come to know?” “J can’t tell you. Who can ever tell how things get whispered? The fowls of the air carry them, I believe. But, though the press has hinted, there’s mot a thing known openly—to much care is taken for tnat.” . A. D. C. to anybody; one } overnment House dances or \ any | I should have | SS OCOOC COSTES ESETESESESSS “How did you get your information” “Oh, I saw a paragraph in the ‘Dip lomatist,’ and I asked a man I know who knows most things. He told me all I've been telling you, but he says that even that mustn’t be made public for a time. You can see how fatal i would be for any one to get the secret but ourselves.” “A secret like that seems to me most difficult thing on earth to be k. There must be so many who are tempt ed to betray it.” “Of course, no one would be trusted who wasn’t the soul of honor. In point of fact, I suppose no one knows who can be kept out. The American, they say, is under lock and key while he makes it, and Gen. Kenyon won't even talk about it to his wife. I shouldn't be surprised, all the same, if Capt. Winstanley were in the secret. His father was an old friend of Gen. Ken- yon’s. I rather think he’s the ian who shot Maj. Winstanley out in In- dia, now I come to think.” “What an extraordinary showing friendship!” “My dear, your humor is ill-timed! I only meant to say that, of course, it makes the Kenyons all the more anx- ious to be good to the son in 2il sor of ways. He’s like a child of the house. I hardly thing the general could re- strain his tongue from confiding in him, whatever his reticence with te- gard to Mrs. Kenyon.” “And what are they goi the explosive when they've gct think it must be a horrible, thing.” “That’s the beauty of it. My told me it will blow up a ‘lo: ship and a town like a there’s something abou knows what, that makes it quite diffe: ent from any other engine of destr ‘tion in the world.” way of 3 to do with 2 7 friend one house, ond t, goodness CHAPTER VII. The Growth of Kindness. “One will be afraid to live in a world of ‘such dangers.” “That’s just where the virtue of it comes in. If we keep the secret in our hands we shall be the dominant power of the world without any question. If another nation got it we should have to take the backest of back seats. It’s a mercy the ‘Amervican didn’t offer it to his own country first. I fancy, from what they say, that he’s one of those dreamy enthusiasts who care for nothing but the mere pursuit of a fad in itself. He never would have done anything practical with it but for Gen. Kenyon.” “And, of course, it will make his fortune.” “Most decidedly, I should say, and his fame through the world.. Perhaps they'll call it the Kenyonite, or some- thing of that kind. Fancy going down to posterity in connection with a new dynamite.” “Yq rather go down in connection with a new medicine that would cure stead of kill.” “Oh, well, I suppose one will be as much a benefactor to one’s species if one is the cause of making wars to cease.” “And does Capt. Winstanley dabble in the thing as well?” It seemed to Ursula to be more interesting to talk of him still, than of Gen. Kenyon and explosives. “Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps he'll have a share in the glory, and in the money, too. Not that he is in any such need as some men might be who depended on their profession exclu- sively. He's got a rich bachelor uncle Sir Richard Winstanley—and I believe he’s his heir. However, we shall go without dinner if we don’t hurry. There’s Newton scowling at me every time he comes through the hall and looking meaningly at the staircase. That's the worst of an old butler. He never will realize that you are grown up. “T know a girl,” said Ursula, sympa- thetically, “who went home to stay after she was married, and the butler told the footman at dinner to take away her wineglass, for he knew Miss Ethel never was allowed to have champagne. Yes, I smell the soup when the door to the kitchen passage opens. We'd better go, if we don’t want to be disgraced.” It was hardly strange that the next afternoon, as the girls were about to go out, the sound of wheels was heard in the avenue and the Lascelles dog- cart should be seen approaching at a smart trot. Freda, who was in the hall, caught sight of Capt. Winstanley on the front seat, and withdrew to the decorous seclusion of the drawing room, In another minute he was an- nounced, locxing very bright and ani- mated, and explained his errand to the assembled group. He had called to inquire after Miss Hamilton. He hoped she was none the worse for yesterday. Freda, watch- ing the eagerness with which he greet- ed her, shrugged her shoulders pri- vately. “I always knew the old-fash- ioned novelists understood their busi- ness,” she said to herself, “when they made their heroes and heroines meet by means of a danger and a rescue. back of a shilling novel is undoubted- | ly the thing to awaken interest and o begin a romance, as a dozen trite ~alls and garden parties can’t do. Vell, he’s a good sort, there’s no de- 1 ying,and even if I did find him agree- ble in my own case, there’s no rea- son why I should grudge him to a lit- le cousin, any more than I do Merry- ‘egs. He thinks her fascinating, that’s evident, and she certainly is a dear.” When a girl says that of another girl, with whom she has shared her les- sons and her scoldings and her dolls, one may be pretty sure it’s the case. That call of Capt. Winstanley’s was along one. The girls did not get their walk into Shepton Priors after all. They took him to see the gardens and the puppies at the stable, and when they came back tea had been brought in and was standing by Aunt Marion’s couch. Ursula felt that she knew Capt. Winstanley very well indeed by the time he rose to go. It was odd to find that he was at Portsmouth, for here was a*prospect of their meeting sgain shortly, though he was going back from here next Wednesday. She had promised a visit to an old friend of her mother’s who lived at Hamp- shire, and she found now, in speaking about it, that it was closer to Ports- mouth than she had imagined. “Only half a dozen miles or so away,” Winstanley assured her, in a voice that sounded well pleased. “One is out that way half the time, what with hunting and shoots and skating —when there is any; it’s quite a rar- ity in that part of the world.” “And it’s quite country, I suppose?” “Quite; very pretty country all that side of the Portsdown hills. But near enough to Southsea for concerts and balls and the theater. I hope you'll let me know when you come; if you’re fond of music, the R. A. band is coming down for a very good invi- tation concert, and I should have great pleasure in sending you cards.” “That was clever of him,” thought | Freda, who respected tact of that kind tremendously. “Now she must let him know without it looking marked, and , he won’t lose any of her time down . there by not knowing.” “Oh, thank you; I shall be delight-, ed. I’m glad there's a chance of good music, I’m so fond of it; and, of course, in India one had to go with- ; out. There was nothing but the regi- mental bands, and now and then a regimental concert—not always class- ical!” “We've very good bands at Ports- mouth, and there’s a lot to interest any one who doesn’t know the place. The dockyards is quite worth seeing, only you mustn’t take photographs of . it. We have to keep some of our se- crets to ourselves. you know.” “One specially big secret?” asked Freda, with a little charming inquisi- tiveness. He laughed, but he did not deny. “All secrets, of course,” he answered. Freda told herself that he certainly must know more about the explosive than he chose to say. “T shall have plenty of time to see it all, I hope. I may be there a good while,” said Ursula. His face did not hide that he thought that good tidings. “Shall you? That's capital,” he said, heartily. “Then you must see all the sights. There’s Por- chester—the key of England—the place the Romans first landed and con- quered the country from, and the forts, and the island, and a score of other things. We'll see if we can’t keep you interested for any length of time.” “T expect I shall wait there for my father. He’s coming home almost at once now.” “Yes,” broke in Freda, who never keenly appreciated a conversation she did not personally engage in, “I think it rather odious that my cousin won’t wait here. She’s evidently tired of us.” “[ have to get in all my visits be- fore daddy comes. He'll want me all to himself,” said Ursula, with a laugh. (To Be Continued.) The Approved Type. We were about to engage a new chauffeur. “Two hundred a month, the salary you demand, is reasonable enough,” we said, “but can you furnish a refer- ence from your last employer?” “Oui, monsuir; in one month,” the applicant replied. “In one month?” we objected. why not now?” The fellow’s explanation was volu- ble and ready. “Helas, monsieur,” he said, “my for- mer employer is in the hospital and it will be quite a month before he is able to write again.” “But Printers’ Errors Again. “I guess I was dreaming,” said the first compositor, “but at any rate.I set up the page ad of the Blick Gold Mine so that it read instead of ‘10,000 shares at $5 a share,’ ‘10,000 snares at $5 a snare.’” “In that report of Senator Smooth’s speech last week,” said the second compositor, “I went wrong on the word ‘shouts,’ and a sentence read, ‘The au- dience rent the air with their snouts.’” “In another speech of Senator Smooth’s,” said the third compositor, “he called the national guard ‘a great constitutional force,’ and I, alas, made him call it ‘a great constitutional farce,.’” His Awful Fate. Giles—According to the coroner’s verdict a mob composed entirely of women was responsible for Greene’s demise. Miles—How did it happen. Giles—He accidentally got near a bargain counter where $1 shirtwaists were being sold at 98 cents and was trampled underfoot | GAN'T STRAIGHTEN UP. Kidney Trouble Causes Weak Backs and a Multitude of Pains and Aches. Col. R. S. Harrison, Deputy Mar ‘shal, 716 Common St., Lake Charles, La., says: “A kick from a horse first weakened my back and affected my kid- neys. I became very bad, and had to go about on crutches. The doctors told me I had a case of ehronic rheuma- tism, but I could not believe them, and finally began using Doan’s Kid- {ney Pills for my Kidneys. First the | kidney secretions came more freely, then the pain left my back. I went and got another box, and that com- ‘pleted a cure. I have been well for two years.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. He Wasn't Diplomatic. He—And am I the first man who ever Joved you, darling? She—Sir, you are insulting. RUNNING SORES ON LIMBS. ~ Little Girl’s Obstinate Case of Eczema —Mother Says: “Cuticura Reme- dies a Household Standby.” “Last year, after having my little girl treated by a very prominent physician for an obstinate case of eczema, I resorted to the Cuticura Remedies, and was so well pleased ‘with the almost instantaneous reliet afforded that we discarded the physi- clan's prescription and relied entirely on the Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Oint- ment and Cuticura Pills. When we commenced with the Cuticura Reme- dies her feet and limbs were covered with running sores. |weeks we had her completely well, and there has been no recurrence of |the trouble. We find that the Cuti- cura Remedies are a valuable house- hold standby, living as we do twelve miles from a doctor and where it costs ‘from twenty to twenty-five dol- lars to come up on the mountain. Mrs. Lizzie Vincent Thomas, Fair- imount, Walden’s Ridge, Tenn., Oct. 113, 1905.” NO WONDER BROKERS STAND. Seats at $97,000 Make Sitting Down Expensive. Shortly after a seat on the New York stock exchange was sold for $97,- 000—the record price—a woman vis- itor was an interested spectator in the gallery. With her was a well-known broker. As the closing hour drew near the floor, as usual, became a chaos of voices and frenzied movement. “You are now gazing into the crater of American finance,” the broker vol- unteered, “at the most extraordinary drama of dollars on earth. And we pay a pretty penny for the privilege of acting down there. A seat brought $97,000 the other day.” “Ninety-seven thousand dollars for a seat!” exclaimed the visitor, review- ing the scouting and shoting standees below her on the floor. “No wonder they never sit down.” Right Up Against It. First High School Girl—I don’t know what I am going to do about my essay. Second High School Girl—What’s the trouble? First High School Girl—Oh, the teacher has given me such a mean subject. Second High School Girl—What is ibe, First High School Girl—Why, she wants me to write on “What Is the Difference Between Bridge Whist and Gambling?” and I can’t seem to think of anything to say. A BUSY WOMAN Can Do the Work of 3or4if Well Fed. An energetic young woman living just outside of New York, writes: “T am at present doing all the house- work of a dairy farm, caring for 2 chil- \dren, a vegetable and flower garden, a large number of fowls, besides manag- ing an extensive exchange business through the mails and pursuing my regular avocation as a writer for sev- eral newspapers and magazines (de- signing fancy work for the latter) and all the energy and ability to do this I owe to Grape-Nuts food. “It was not always so, and a year ago when the shock of my nursing baby’s death utterly prostrated me and ‘deranged my stomach and nerves so that I could not assimilate as much as a mouthful of solid food,and was in even worse condition mentally, he would have been a rash prophet who would have predicted that it ever , would do so. | “Prior to this great grief I had suf- fered for years with impaired diges- tion, insomnia, agonizing cramps in | the stomach, pain in the side, consti- pation and other bowel derangements, all these were familiar to my daily life. Medicines gave me no relief— nothing did, until a few months ago, at a friend’s suggestion, I began to use Grape-Nuts food, and subsequently gave up coffee entirely and adopted Postum Food Coffee at all my meals. “To-day I am free from all the trou- bles I have enumerated. My digestion ‘is simply perfect, I assimilate my food | * | without the least distress, enjoy sweet, restful sleep, and have a buoyant feel- ing of pleasure in my varied duties. In fact, I am a new woman, entirely made over, and I repeat, I owe it all to | Grape-Nuts Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. ~ There’s a reason. Read the little ,book."The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. In about six} and Postum Coffee.” | ‘GOVERNMENT TO THE RESCUE ; CABINET TAKES ACTIVE MEAS- URES FOR RELIEF OF SUFFERERS. MINNESOTA 0 THE FRONT PEOPLE OF THE STATE WILL HELP VICTIMS OF SAN FRAN- CISCO HORROR Washington, April 22.—The cabinet yesterday considered the San Fran- cisco situation and it was decided that Secretary Metcalf should proceed to that city as the representative of the national gevernment and aid the authorities there. Every available goverament vessel] in the vicinity of San Francisco, which belongs to the army, na¥y, revenue cutter service, fish commission or light house service has been: directed to carry supplies of | every description to the stricken city and render other assistance, while army officers have been given impera- tive instructions to ship tents, rations, medical and other relief supplies. Co-operation with the local authori- ties of San Francisco is the official command, and reports received here are that the order is being obeyed. Offers of nee from abroad have been made to the president, but he feels the United States is able to} care for the San Francisco sufferers, and contributions from foreign coun- tries will be declined. The question of an additional appro- priation for government work in San Francisco will be brought before con-| gress to-day. It was announced that! the war department forwarded to San Francisco 1,000,000 day rations, some of which have already arrived there, and most of which will be due to-night. Minnesota to the Front. St. Paul, April 22—St. Paul and the entire State of Minnesota will come to} the front for the relief of those made destitute by earthquake and fire in San Francisco and other California cities. Steps were taken yester which will result in a substantial re- lief fund to be forwarded immediately. | While the relief work will be conduct- ed along systematic lines, there will be no red tape about it. The main point will be to get suc- cor to the unfortunate people as soon as possible and in the manner to their best advantage. With this in view ev- erybody who is able is asked to step to the front with a contribution. The money will be used where it is need- ed most, and money for the bare ne- cessities of life is needed as it was never needed before. Gov. Johnson started the relief or- ganization yesterday morning by issu- ing a proclamation calling upon the people of Minnesota to do what they can for the earthquake sufferers. He named a general committee of eigh- teen to take charge of the work, and this committee will be responsible to the people of Minnesota. New York Will Give $3,000,000. New York, April 22.—More than $1,- 000,000 was subscribed here yesterday toward the relief of the sufferers in San Francisco and other California cities. Yesterday was the first day of partly organized effort at securing funds. Conservative estimates indi- eate that the total contributions from New York will not be less than $3,- 000,000. Funds raised by the mayor's committee will be sent direct. Gives Half a Million. Boston, April 22. — Responding to Boy. Guild’s appeal Boston and Massa- chusetts placed half a million dollars to the credit of the sufferers in Cali- fornia. Last night food and other necessities were being rushed from this city. Chicago Unties Purse Strings. Chicago, April 22.—Chicago untied her purse strings yesterday and the fund for the assistance of the Pacific coast swelled to nearly half a million dollars. Fully 100 organizations took up the work of charity and the fund promises to be tripled during the next forty-eight hours. Steamer Loads of Food. Sacramento, Cal., April 22. — Five hundred-women are packing food and clothing and citizens generally are subscribing large sums for the com- mittee’s use. Nearly $100,000 is now in sight. One steamer load is sup- plies had been sent and another went yesterday. Steckton Sends Food. Stockton, Cal., April 22.—Stockton is hurrying food to San Francisco. Thursday night a boat load went down and yesterday two more at 1 and 5 p. m. Car loads of food ready to eat left on the Santa Fe last evening. Over $20,000 has been raised. | NO USE TO WIRE. Delivery of Messages in Stricken City Is an Impossibility. San Francisco. April 22.—The deliv- ; ery of telegraphic messages from out- side points to people in San Francisco is an impossibility. The messenger §sPE-RU-NA WORKED SIMPLY MARVELOUS.” Suffered Severely With Headaches— Unable to Work. Miss Luey V. McGivney, 452 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, N. 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The Washington correspondent hast- ily called up the cabinet officer by tel- ephone. | service of both the big telegraph com- panies no longer exists, Even had the companies an army of messengers they would be of very little value for the reason that the people are scat- ; tered far and wide. “Pardon me for disturbing you, Mr. Blank,” he said, “but will you please telll me whether or not the rumor that is in circulation as to your retirement is true?” “Yes, sir,” answered the cabinet offi- cer, “it is. I was just about to retire when you called me. Good night.” —___—- F