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~ THE — ‘| Captain’s Double 3 By LILLIAS CAMPBELL DAVIDSON <<<22545550006b0bb06066008 CHAPTER 1IX.—(Continued). “First, we have approached the servants. The footman of the house has proved a dolt and incorruptible. He would have been useless had he yielded to persuasion, for he appears to have been born without sufficient sense to act even under the bidding of the society. No offer of any sort has had any effect upon him and he is discarded as useless. “In the second place, the female servants have been worked upon. This has been done with much success in two cases, but, unfortunately, though the women would have done what they could for us, they appear to possess no knowledge on the subject. It has not been wasted effort, for we have ob- tained valuable information in other ways. We are now in possession of the fact that the papers we are in quest of are in the room known as the office, that they are kept in a safe built into the wall there, and that the key is never out of the possession of the commandant except when it is en- trusted to his aide-de-camp.” There was a movement on the part of one of the silent men near the fire- plac Signor X— glanced sharply at him and raised his eyes. “Exactly,” he said, as if the man had spoken and he was answering him. “But that is what I am going to dis- cuss to-night. We all grasp the deduc- tion. The aide-de-camp is the object now of our hopes. It is to decide upon the plan of attack that I have con- vened you. I anticipate a settlement of the matter tonight. Unfortunately, ihe is at present away from the neigh- borhood on what is known as a fur- jJough. Weare forced to pause in our work. But this delay gives us but the better time to formulate what we have before us. If there is any one with a suggestion to offer which may be of use to us, let him speak.” There was a moment of silence. Then a voice came from the distant corner. “There is one rule in the so- ciety in these cases; find the weak point for attack.” Signor X— raised his eyebrows again with that gesture of faint con- tempt. “Quite so. It is the weak side which we are sounding for. Our effort must be to discover where it lies.” A voice from the door spoke hoarse- ly. “There is the baron,” it said. “He is of the age of the aide-de-camp, in friendship youth has its lures. Set the baron to gain his friendship, and let thim do the rest.” . Another voice broke in sharply. “Is not the aide-de-camp young, as has just been said? The member who speaks of the baron forgets that youth has weaker spots than friendship. Woman may do what man cannot. Where is the Countess Ilka?” Yet a third broke in. “Above the confidence of friendship and the love of woman,” it said, “there is a passion that all humanity shares. Gold has a value that outbuys all other prices— offer enough gold and he must be your own.” CHAPTER X, The Other Man. Signor X— responded to the last suggestion. “The man is not the bought with an open bribe.” sharp sneer but imperfectly. sort to be He hid a “He is what is known as a gentleman. He will net sell the thing he calls his hon- or but at a certain price. Gold is too vulgar for him; place and position are his to lose, not to gain, by such a thing as this. It must be the finely- (baited trap that catches his kind, not the snare set in the sight of the world. ‘The baron, good! Countess Ilka, bet- ter! She has done more tasks for us than any other instrument we have in hand.” A man who had sat silent till now raised his hand, and the signor saw it and responded with a look. “May one offer another suggestion?” a deep, grating voice asked. “I have another thing to bring forward—substitution. What does the signor say to that?” “A certain weapon in some cases, but a dangerous one, at best. Unless there is such resemblance that the disguise is undetectable—unless the personator is so skilled, so subtle, that he can play the part like the principal, there is no chance of success. A slip would lose all and gain nothing. The other schemes are best.” “And if the personation is accurate -—if in ordinary life the personator cannot be told from the principal? If the needs assume nothing, act and speak and look but himself, to deceive the whole world, and be taken for the) man he takes the place of, what then, 'O chief?” Signor X— frowned slightly. “Then, indeed, the personation wold be the surest way,” he said. “But the age of miracles is not now and there is no hope of it. Also, the time of parables is past.” “There is no parable, O chief. Ican ‘bring a man to help us so like the one we want to make our own that his own mother would not know him from the ‘other but with long watching. He would deceive her till/she studied him 43343dO5b5bdbbbbbb0bb6 30400000000 CC Co MCC CC——E —no casual look at him or speech with him would tell her she spoke to an- other—he could take the part of the “commandant’s aide-de-camp and the commandant would scarcely guess it; he could walk in and out of the strong room, were the right man away from it, unchallenged and unstopped.” Signor X— turned his piercing glance on him and a sombre light flashed in his eyes. “If there be such a man,” he said, “he would fit our pur- pose. But where is he to be found?” “Let me but go in search of him. I will bring him here’ to you in the briefest space of time that can be named. I had the thought only yes- terday, for I was sure then. I saw a photograph of the man we are talking of, and I suspected. I needed to wait to see him till I was certain. I went to the place where he stays, in another county, and I saw him in the hunting field. He is so like the mah I would put in his place that I could believe I saw himself, were it possible for him to be a gentleman among gentlemen.” “And you can lay your hand upon the other?” “T saw him only last week in Lon- don. He did not see me, but I know where he may be found. I saw him last in India. I never thought that he was in this country, but he is the in- strument to our hand.” “The instrument! But will he work for us?” A sardonic, chilly shadow of a smile crossed the face of the other man. “He was in trouble in India,” he said, “such trouble as he left the country to escape from. He would do a good deal rather than be handed over to the authorities. When I tell him who I am and what I know about him he will be ready to do what we want, and more, to save his own neck. I have the key to the situ- ation; I promise to use it. Have I au- thority?” Signor X— hesitated. “As a last re- source,” he said, considering. “It may be of the greatest value to us. But there is still danger in acting through a non-member of the society, which we all recognize and admit, and which it is best to avoid if other methods will do. We will confide the first venture to the baron; should he fail, which we have no reason to anticipate after his past successes, there is Countess Ilka. If she, hitherto invincible, should fail also, we accept your plan and leave the operation in your hands. I need not remind you how great will be the reward of success. The first deal lies with the baron; let him speak for him- self.” A man in a corner rose slowly and removed the hat slouched over his brows. He was a middle-aged man, wit ha beard and mustache and impe- rial; his complexion was sickly and he looked like a clerk. He spoke in a voice thin, penetrating and disagree- able. “I am here, signor, at your service. What are your orders for me?” “You have heard. To you is entrust- ed a thing of weight and importance. It is yours to obtain these papers on which so mighty a secret rests. You will win the liking and the friendship and the confidence of the aide-de-camp to the commandant; yqu will lead him on to talk. If he knows—as they say he does—he can be made to tell you; if he only knows the place where lie the papers, that will also serve. You will find if he is to be won to show them to you. Try him on the side of vanity, of pique, of trust in you, of mere bravado; try him on his every side. Get the secret from him; it is to be had. You have a charge entrust- ed to you that if you fail will be hand- ed to a woman. Do not let your man- hood have that taunt.” The sickly complexion turned faint- ly red at the words of the signor— «strange sign of youth, where there was none other to be seen. The eyes be- low their shaggy brows flashed fire; the hand went to its side as if a sword were there. “I hear, signor.” It was the only reply, but it was in a voice that forgot to be disguised. It was the voice of a man educated, and trained, and cultivated—startling to hear from under that uncouth beard. Signor X— noted the sudden slip from self-possession and noted it down in his secret mind. The baron was forgetful under a sting—a trifle; he was less to be trusted with an embassy difficult and dangerous. But he gave no sign of his inner thought beyond a brief “It is well.” The baron little knew that his unguarded look and tone in that moment of offended dig- nity had brought upon him the doubt of the chief. “And Countess Ilka?” asked a voice. “What of her? Is she also at hand?” Signor X— smiled again that shadowy, sardonic smile of his. “We have no ‘women at our meetings,” he said, “but they are at hand when they are need- ed. Countess Ilka awaits our orders always. We leave the matter now with the baron. He will need all his time and all his powers for the work in hand, if I kno wthe stuff he has to deal with. The peasant Briton is hard to deal with in a case like this, but the Briton who is called a gentleman is ten thousand times harder than any man under the sun to corrupt. To lead him on through his trust and his permitted to use all means?” “You are permitted to use such means as assist your character in the part you have to play. The society ble way “Oniy one word more, signor. I on Cured by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, the » Remedy Which Actually Makes ; New Blood. f Anemia makes the patient short of Reward Sixty Years Delayed. A-kind act performed by the parents of Margaret Mueller, in Germany, has borne fruit after more than 60 years. Miss Mueller, who is now 80 years old, traveled throughout the world in her younger days as a musician, with supplies you with the funds, as usual breath so that there is often a sense of a brother, but has been in indigent and you will account for the outlay You will maintain the character which will come easily to you—the part of the young foreign noble visiting this country for the first time. You wil! affect the habits and ways of your class and the customs he is used to You will make his acquaintance and become his friend. When he has giv. en you his confidence you will know what to do. Report to us from time to time the measure of your success, and we will judge for ourselves if it an- swers the measure of our anticipa- tions.” “It is well,” answered the man they called the baron. He made a gesture of salutation and softly and silently stepped to the door. It opened to al- low him to go through, then it closed behind him. The first memebr had quitted the meeting and it was now about to disperse. One by one the oth- ers rose and glided out, no two going together. An interval elapsed between the departure of each. As each one reached the street outside he paused, glanced up and down till he made sure there was no one in sight and no one approaching. Then with swift and stealthy steps he darted to the corner and sped away into the black night. The baron, who had gone first, did not go farthest. He lingered in the dusky shadow of an alley till he saw emerge from the door of the house of meeting the man who had proposed the substitute. Then he turned on his own track and noiselessly pursued him, keeping him in sight until he had gained a wide thoroughfare, empty, like most of the other streets at this time on so inclement a night. Then he quickened his steps to overtake him, walking just behind him, not at his side.. He kept his voice level and hushed as he addressed him. The man in front did not turn his head. “You have seen the man. What kind ofa manishe? Easy to make ac- quaintance with?” “No easier than other Englishmen of his position. He is friendly to his equals, of whom he knows something, but he needs to know who they are.” “Who are his friends already?” “T only know those with whim he is staying in that other county. When he comes back here they can be seen. He can be more easily approached, without doubt, through people he knows already than if he is approach- ed direct.” “Enough. Thanks.” The baron quickened his pace and passed the other—no one would have guessed that he had spoken to him, or done more than pass a stranger in his path. When he disappeared in the murk of the glaring gaslamps the man he had addressed gave a faint and dis- dainful snort. “So he is to have the honor of the first attempt, eh, my chief! You have not shown your wisdom by that deci- sion to-night.”. He muttered the words to himself, and flicked his fingers as if he cast off a trifle that was of no ac- count. “He is to try, and then the Countess Ilka, and then it comes my turn. Eh, well! Let him have his at- tempt. I tell you, my chief, it will come to nothing. The baron will fail and the countess will fail, and then the wheel turns round to me. It is I who hold in my hand the card that wins, and I will be the one to play it. Make all your imbecile efforts, and then leave the field clear for me. The man who is called Baverstock will sweep the board for me, and the next time there is honor to be gained by work like this I shal not be put at the end of the line!” He laughed bitterly and angrily under his breath, and strode down the long street that ended in the outskirts of Portsmouth town. The baron went on with a light step to a coffee house, where he called for a bag he had left, and when he came out he hailed a slowly crawling cab from the station. He was quick in his movements as the cab rattled over the pavements toward Southsea, for when he stopped it and got out again the cabman, had he looked at his face more closely, would have taken him for another man than the one he had picked up. (To Be Continued.) How He Discovered the Thief. An English country clergyman de- tected a thief in the following astute manner: A laborer had informed him that a sack of potatoes had been stilen from his garden. “Well, well,” said the minister, “I'll see to it after service.” He preached on the eighth com- mandment, and ended thus: “And now I have a sad tale to tell. One of our neighbors has missed a sack of potatoes from his garden, and the thief is even now sitting among you. Has he a feather on his head? At once a man in the congregation was seen to put his hand surreptitious- ly to the top of his head. All Rare. The “old clothes” man arrived at the door of the multimillionaire’s man- sion. “Any old clothes?” he asked, me- chanically. “Nope!” snapped the cold-storage butler. “ “Any old shoes?” “No.” ; ; “Nothing! Surely there must be something in the closets you don’t want.” “Not a thing. There were a lot of miscellaneous skeletons, but the so- ciety reporters have rooted them out long ago, and sent them to New suffocation, sometimes there is a cough and the sufferer seems to be going into consumption, at others there is a mur- mur of the heart and heart disease is feared. In the following case severe fainting spells were au alarming symp- tom resulting from ‘too little blood.”” Mrs. George Forrester, of 7 Curtis street, Watertown, N.Y., says: “Some time ago I took a heavy cold and it left me in a very weak condition. I be- came worse and worse until finally I had anemia. I lost flesh and appetite, had no color and was subject to faintin; spells. Sometimes they would actack me suddenly and I would fall to the floor with hardly any warning. ‘‘T had one of our best physicians, but after he had been attending me about a mouth without any improve- ment in my condition, I decided to see what Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills would do. “The pills were well known to me for, about two years before, members of my family had taken them with the best results. I soon found that the pills were just what I needed for I soon be- gan to notice an improvement. After I had taken them a while longer I was en- tirely cured, and we all believe in Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills and recommend them highly.’’ Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills actually make new blood. They do that one thing and they do it well. Impoverished blood is deficient in red corpuscles. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills increase the number of these red corpuscles and in this way send health and strength to every tissue. All druggists sell Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills or they will be sent by mail, post- paid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Wil- liams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. ‘ Everybody wants to boss somebody, and there is always somebody who wants to boss everybody. Complexion bad?_ Tongue coated? deranged? Take Garfield Tea. Liver Rash. Made Johnny feel quite gay. He went to swim—the obsequies Are being held to-day. BOY’S HEAD ONE SOLID -SORE. Hair All Came Out—Under Doctor Three Months and No Better— Cuticura Works Wonders. Mr. A. C. Barnett, proprietor of a general store in Avard, Oklahoma, tells in the following grateful letter how Cuticura cured his son of a ter- rible eczema. “My little boy had ec- zema. Hig head was one solid sore, all over his scalp; his hair all came out, and he ‘suffered very much. I had a physician treat him, but at the end of three months he was no bet- ter. I remembered that the Cuticura Remedies had cured me, and after giving him two bottles of Cuticura Resolvent, according to directions, and using Cuticura Soap and Oint- ment on him daily, his eczema left him, his hair grew again, and he has never had any eczema since. We use the Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and they keep our skin soft and healthy. I cheerfully recommend the Cuticura Remedies for all cases of eczema. A.C. Barnett, Mar. 30, 1905.” Time Not Fixed . Wiggles—When do you take your vacation this year? Waggles—I don’t know, exactly. My wife hasn’t decided yet just when she will go away. “In Love” and Loving. Being “in love” is very different from loving, and may be only a selfish emotion which is the direct opposite of loving. Being in love without lov- ing is bondage—sometimes pleasant and sometimes painful, but always bondage. True loving means freedom —freedom both for ourselves and, as far as it is in our power to give it, for all whom we love; for when we truly Jove anothe rhuman being we love him for the sake of his best strength, his best use, and his best happigess, and not at all for the sake of ourselves. Dog as Guest of Honor. Shot, a handsome retriever, was the guest of honor and the recipient of a testimonial at a dinner at Hanley on Saturday. While Mr. Harold Godwin, the son of a builder, was walking through a quiet part of his father’s works in De- cember, a man flung a heavy piece of jagged iron at him and stunned him. Shot flew at the ruffian’s throat and kept him a prisoner until aid arrived. The dog is the hero of the place and Mr. Godwin’s workmen subscribed for a silver collar for him with an in- scription. TRANSFORMATIONS. Curious Results When Coffee Drink- ing Is Abandoned, It is almost as hard for an old coffee toper to quit the use of coffee as it is for a whisky or tobacco fiend to break off, except that the coffee user can quit coffee and take up Postum Food Cof- fee without any feeling of a loss of the morning beverage, for when Postum is well boiled and served with cream, it | is really bettter in point of flavor than SEER Panes Chest acet « Bee EN and to the taste of the connoisseur it is like the flavor of fine Java. A great transformation takes place in the body within ten days or two weeks after coffee is left off and Post- um Food Coffee used, for the reason that the poison to the nerves has been discontinued and in its place is taken a liquid that contains the most power- ful elements’ of nourishment. ~ It is easy to make this test and prove fee to Postum Food Tae sunshine warm and budding trees | |circumstances here for a long time. An annuity that will make her re- ;maining years comfortable has just been settled upon her. Miss Mueller’s parents were wealthy and once be- friended a little girl who is now rich Jana living in Philadelphia. This woman has come to the aid of the daughter of the people who gave her a home when she was without friends. Those who know the name of the Philadelphia woman refuse to reveal it, saying that it is in accordance with her wish.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Lingerie Hats. The lingerie hats for this summer ,are to be more used for dress occa- sions than those of last year. Many of them are made on wire foundations ‘that turn up sharply at the back and have a full bunch of flowers, often ;roses or violets, resting on the hair jat the back. A wide embroidered strip edged with scallops is used to cover the under part of the brim and a cir- cular piece of the embroidery comes for the crown. Around the crown is draped some soft material like maline or chiffon and this entirely covers the upper part of the brim. A piece of soft gold ribbon is often tied round the crown and gives a finishing touch. More Than He Bargained For. “Madam,” said a nervous passenger to the mother of a howling imp in the express train, “is there anything any of us can do to pacify your little boy?” “O, thank you, yes,” said the moth- er of the spoiled child. “You see, the dear little pet just wants to throw his jam tart at the passengers, and I was afraid they wouldn’t like it. Please to stand where you are. Now, stop crying, darling. This kind gentleman wants to play with you.”—Pittsburg Post. A Stammering Child. In training the stammering child make him repeat slowly from a spell- ing book a number of words of one syllable. When he blunders make him go over the word again, insisting that he does not hurry, and that he takes before each utterance a full breath. Then go on to words of two and so to those of three syllables. Make him at- tack each syllable as a separate word and in the course of a few weeks you will find him able to say many-syllabled words without a break. A New Skirt. To help out the overworked circular skirt is one style which has been find- ing great favor. It is something like the circular skirt of the winter—the particular model which had tucked panels down front and back. This new skirt has those panels with an extra plaiting set in on both sides, running cnly about half way up from the hem of the skirt—enough to get. around the question of the circular cut without disturbing the smooth set over the hips. Drop Cakes. Beat one-half cup butter with one cup of sugar until you have a perfect cream. Add one-half teaspoonful soda dissolved in one-half cup sour cream and stir into the mixture of cream and sugar. Then add, beating until very light, two and one-half cupfuls of flour and nut meats, if preferred to fruit. Flavor with vanilla and drop spoonfuls on a buttered sheet or pan, and bake in a moderate oven. About Plants. It is best to wait until the plant shows it needs water, then give it a good dous- ing in the bathtub. A plant with its roots constantly in mud cannot thrive. If hot- house plants are watered once a week with water in which there is a little am- monia they will thrive well. Sometimes small white worms are found in the earth. Ammonia or lime water will kill them. Stir up the soil, to expose as many as possible, before pouring it one. Apple Snow. Three large tart apples, three whites of eggs, half cup powdered sugar, half cup jelly. Stew or steam the apples, cored and quartered but not pared, and then rub them through a hair sieve. Beat the whites of the eggs stiff, add the sugar, beat again; add the apples and beat till like snow. Pile light in a glass dish; garnish with jelly or hol- ly leaves; serve with boiled custard. Reducing Waist Measure. Bending exercises are excellent for reducing the waist and the size of the hips and abdomen. They should be practiced every morning and at night before retiring. Practice until you begin to teel tired. The movements should be moderately slow. Ammonia for Cleaning. ‘The use of ammonia at cleaning time is a great saving of labor. When scrub- bing floors and tables a little ammonia in the water will whiten them in a short time. To Friends in Mourning. Cards of invitation should be sent to most of the coffee ‘served nowadays, acquaintances and friends that are in| mourning, giving them the privilege of declining. For Chapped Hands. Glycerine, two ounces; egg albumen, two ounces; oil of roses, two drops. Rub the mixture into the skin several times a day. Improves Stove P There Is no Rochelle Salte, Alum, Limeor ja in food made with Calumet Baking Powder “NOT IN THE BAKING POWDER TRUST@= It makes pure food. Denying a fault doubles it. Garfield Tea overcomes constipation, sick headache, liver and kidney disease. Some people who pose as cynics are only cheap mimics. A Valuable Agent. The glycerine employed in Dr. Pierce's medicines greatly enhances the medi- cinal properties which it extracts and holds in solution much better than alco- hol would. It also possesses medicinal wove of its own, being a valuable jemulcent, nutritive, antiseptic and anti- ferment. Tt adds greatly to the efficacy of the Black Cherrybark, Golden Seal root, Stone root and Queen’s root, con- tained in ‘‘Golden Medical Discovery” in subduing chronic, or lingering coughs, bronchial, throat and lung affections, for allof which these agents are recom- mended by standard medical authorities. In all cases where there is a wasting away of flesh, loss of appetite, with weak stomach, as in the early stages of consumption, there can be no doubt that glycerine acts as a valuable nutritive and aids the Golden Seal root, Stone root, Queen’s root and Black Cherrybark in Pevasing, digestion and building up the lesh and strength, controlling the cough and bringing about a healthy condition of the whole system. Of course, it must not be expected to work miracles. It will not cure consumption except in its earlier stages. It will cure very severe, obstin- ate, chronic coughs, bronchial and laryn- geal troubles, and chronic sore throat with hoarseness. In acute coughs it is not so effective. It is in the lingering coughs, or those of long standing, even when accompanied by bleeding from lungs, that it has performed its most marvelous cures. Send for and read the little book of extracts, treating of the perties and uses of the several med- inal roots that enter into Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and learn why this medicine has ‘such a wide of application in the cure of diseases. It is sent free. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. The ‘Discovery’ con- tains no alcohol or harmful, habit-form- ing drug. Ingredients all printed on each bottle wrapper in plain English. Sick people, especially those sufferin; from diseases of long standing, are inviti to consult Dr. Pierce by letter, free. All correspondence is held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce’s Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stam) for paper-covered, or 81 stamps for cloth- copy. Hospitality. “Talk about hospitality,” observed the portly passenger as he lighted an obese cigar with a red and gold life preserver around its stomach, “they certainly have it down in Atlanta. During a three days’ sojourn there recently they would not let me spend a cent.” “Must be something like Chicago,” rejoined the tin can drummer. “The last time I was there they didn't let me spend a cent, either.” “So?” queried the other, skepticaily. “It is even so,” continued the tin can man. “They held me up half a square from the depot and took every cent I bad away from me.” Appropriate. When the verdict was rendered, the friends of the fair plaintiff gathered about her and congratulated her on having obtained a divorce. “What will you do with your alt- mony?” they asked. “I think I shall build a house,” she replied, “if I can find the right loca- tion.” “Why not build it on statutory grounds, they cried.—Puck. has Stood for the BEST during seventy years of goods for all kinds of wet work. 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