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Such people can obtain Peruna tablets, which represent the solid _me- dicinal ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet is equivalent to one average dose of Peruna. It may look as though you regularly eet the worst of it in everything, but you don't. Fate is too big to fool with any one individual. BUY GUNS AND TRAPS and ship furs and hides to the old reliable Northwestern Hide & Fur Co., Minneap’lis. They Like Evcitement. ‘Do the trusts really want a presi- dent who would let them do exactly as they pleased?” “Naw. They wouldn’t make no more money, and they’d have considerable less fun.” A Rare Accomplishment. The fairy godmother looked after Cinderella approvingly, as she went off with her prince, “Concerning that slipper episode,” she remarked to herself, “that girl is about the only mortal woman I know who could do the right thing and put her foot in it at the same time.” Fishing From Car Windows. Passengers on Southern Pacific overland trains are having rare sport trolling from car windows for fish in the Salton sea and good catches have been nade. About midway on the sea an arroyo extends back into the moun- tains. The track crosses this on a trestle. The water is fifteen to twen- ty-five feet deep, and it has become a custom of the dining car porter to throw scraps overboard from the ta- bles there. Thousands of firsh of all sizes lie in wait for the train and can be easily seen, A few days ago an irrepressible fish- erman prepared his hook and line, and as the train slowly thundered over the long trestle swung it far out over the water, This the fish mistook for their customary meal, and a voracious carp, three feet long, seized the bait and was drawn aboard the Pullman. SCHOOL TEACHERS Also Have Things to Learn. “For many years I have used coffee and refused to be convinced of its bad effect upon the human system,” writes a veteran school teacher. “Ten years ago I was obliged to give up my much loved work in the public schools after years of continuous la- bor. I had developed a well defined ease of chronic coffee poisoning. “The troubles were constipation, flutterings of the heart, a thumping in the top of my head and various parts of my body, twitching of my limbs, shaking of my head, and, at times after exertion, a general “gone” feeling with a toper’s desire for very strong coffee. I was a nervous-wreck for years. “A short time ago friends came te visit us and they brought a package of Postum with them, and urged me to try it. I was prejudiced because some years ago I had drunk a cup of weak, tasteless stuff called Postum which I did not like at all. “This time, however, my friend made the Postum according to direc- tions on the package, and it won me, Suddenly I found myself improving in a most decided fashion. “The odor of boiling coffee no long- er tempts me. I am so greatly bene- fited by Postum that if I continue to improve as I am now, I'll begin to think I have found the Fountain of Perpetual Youth. This is no fancy fetter but stubborn facts which I am glad to make known.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the book, “The Road to Weliville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Rea- son.” Vee CHAPTER XIX—(Continued.) “A very strange one, William. She said, ‘Gerald is not dead, mother. I know it; I feel it. I feel certain of it, and when I feel thus, how can I say anything to Sir William?’ Then I asked her if she proposed to keep you waiting for the rest of both your lives before she said anything definite. She burst into tears and said that she was very miserable, but that she intended to say something definite to you after the coming reception here, when you are going to show everyone your new invention.” “Yes,” Sir William answered. “She has promised that. But I fear what her answer will be. Well, we must hope for the best, Lady Poole. If I were you I should not worry. Leave everything to me. I have everything at stake.” “Well, I felt I must come and tell you, William,” Lady Poole said. “I felt that it would help you to know exactly how things stand. Perhaps all will come well. Girls are very dif- ficult to manage. I wanted Marjorie to go out a great deal in order to oc- cupy her mind and to keep her from brooding over this absurd fancy that Gerald Rathbone is alive. But she seems to shun all’ engagements. How- ever, she’s fortunately thought that she would like to try her hand at writ- Ing something—she was always in- terested in books, you know—so she’s spending a good deal of time over it— a story, I think—and Mr. Donald Meg- bie is helping her. He calls now and then and makes suggestions on what she has done. A nice, quiet little man he seems, and a fervant admirer of yours. I sounded him on that point the other day, so even this little fancy of Marjorie’s for writing may turn out to be a help. Mr. Megbie is sure to become enthusiastic if your name is mentioned in any way, and*it will keep the fact of how the world regards you well before Marjorie. Now, good-by. It’s a relief to have come and told you everything. I must fly, and I know you will want to get back to your electricity and things.” Sir William went with her to the garden gate in the wall, where her carriage was waiting. Then he went back to the study and took down the speaking tube that communicated with the laboratory. He asked Wil-/ son Guest to come to him at once. In a few minutes the assistant shambled in. His eyes were bright with the liquid brightness of alcoholic poisoning; his speech was much clearer and more decided than it had been earlier in the day. It had tone and timbre. The crimson blotches on the face were less in evidence. Guest had drunk a bottle of whisky since breakfast-time, a quantity which would hopelessly intoxicate two ordi- nary men, and probably kill one. But this enormous quantity of spirit was just sufficient, in the case of this man, to make him as near the normal as he could ever get. A bottle of whisky in the morning acted upon the drink-sod- fen tissues as a single peg might act upon an ordinary person who was jaded and faint. Gouldesbrough knew all the symp- toms of his assistant’s disease very well. He recognized that the moment in the day when Guest was most him- self and was most useful had now ar- rived. The effects of yesterday’s drinking were now temporarily de- stroyed. “J want your help, Wilson,” he said, with a strange look in his eyes. “I want to resume the discussion we were beginning when Lady Poole called. You are all right now?” “Oh, yes, William,” the man an- swered, without a trace of his usual giggle, with the former sly malice of his manner quite obliterated. “This is my good hour. I feel quite fit—for me—and I’m ready. About Rathbone you mean?” “fPxactly. Lady Poole has given me to understand that her daughter Is still pining after this person.” “Call him a thing, William. He Isn’t a person any more. He is just a part of our machinery, nothing more. And, moreover, ‘a part of our machinery that is getting worn out, that we don’t want any longer, ‘and that we ought to get rid of.” e “You think so?” “[’'m certain of it. We must not lose sight of the fact that while there Is life in that body there is always danger to us. Not much danger, I ad- mit—everything was managed too well in the first instance. But still there is danger, and a danger that grows.” “How grows?” “Because at the present moment the newspapers of the civilized world are full of your name; because the eyes ef the whole world are directed to- ward this house in Regent’s Park.” “There is something in that, Wilson. Now, my thought is that if the body could actually be found, then Miss Poole would know, with the rest of the world, that the fellow was actual- ly dead. Could that be managed?” Guest lit a cigarette. “I suppose to,” he said, thoughtfully. “But that would mean giving up an experiment { had hoped to have had the oppor- tunity of performing. Human vivi- section would give us such am enor- Alive or Dead?’ The Strange Disappearance of Gerald Rathbone. By GUY THORNE. mous increase of scientific knowledge. It is only silly sentiment that does not give the criminal to the surgeon. But have it your own way William. I will forego the experiment. It is ob- vious that if the body is to be found there must be no traces of anything of the sort. There would be a post- mortem, of course.” “Then what do you propose, Guest?” “Let me smoke for a moment and think.” He sat silent for two or three min- utes; with the heavy eyelids almost veiling the large, bister-colored eyes. Then he looked up. His smile was so horrible in its cunning that Gouldesbrough made an involuntary shrinking movement. But it was a movement dictated by the nerves and not by the conscious brain, for, dread- ful as was the thing Guest was about to say, there was something in Sir William Gouldesbrough’s mind which was more dreadful still. “The body shall be found,” Guest said, “in the river, somewhere down Wapping way, anywhere in the dense- ly populated districts of the docks. It shall be dressed in common clothes. When it is discovered and identified— I know how to arrange a certain iden- tification—it will be assumed that Rathbone simply went down to the slums and lost himself. There have been cases known where reputable citizens have suddenly disappeared from their surroundings of their own free will, and dropped into the lowest kind of life for no explanable reason. De Quincey mentions such a case in one of his essays.” “Good. But how can it be done? We can’t carry a body to Wapping in a brown paper parcel.” “Of course not. But has it not oc- curred to you that we are close to the Regent’s canal? I haven't worked out the details; they will shape them- selves later on. But there are plenty of barges always going up and down the canal. Certainly we can do the thing; it is only a question of money. We have an unlimited command of money. But listen. Our body is still alive. It will be quite easy for us, with our knowledge, to treat this liv- ing body with certain preparations and in such a way that when it is dead it will present all the app®ar- ance of having been killed by excess in some drug. The post-mortem will disclose it. If we keep it alive during a month from from now we can make it a morphia maniac to all appéar- ance. We can inject anything we like into this Rathbone and make him a slave to some drug, whether he likes it or not.” “No, Guest. The really expert pa- thologist would discover it. It couldn’t be done in a month. It might in six.” “The really expert pathologist won’t perform the post-mortem, William. There are only ten in London! Some local doctor of the police will apply the usual tests and discover exactly what we wish him to discover. ;He will analyze a corpse. He won’t syn- thesize a history of the corpse. Only ten men in England could do that with certainty. And you and I aré two of those ten, though it is many years ago since we gave up that sort of work for physics. So you see your object will be doubly served. The actual death will be proved and the fellow’s life be discredited, while the apparently true reason of his disap- pearance will be revealed.” Sir William looked steadily at his assistant, “Your brain is wonderfully sufficient,” he said. “It is extraordin- ary how it withstands the ravages of alcohol. Really, my dear Wilson, you are a remarkable man. All you say is quite excellent. And, meanwhile, I have a proposal to make.” , He suddenly rose from his chair, and his eyes began to blaze with in- sane passion. He shook with it; his whole face was transformed. In his turn he became abnormal. And just as the famous man had thought of the lesser &@ moment or two ago—had re- garded him coldly, and spoken of him, to him, as a mind diseased—so now the lesser, stimulated to spurious san- ity for the moment, saw the light of mania in his chief's eyes. Guest saw the swift and terrible drop into the horrible and the gro- tesque. He realized that for a brief moment he was master of situa- tion. “Tell me, William,” he said, “and what is your idea?” Gouldesbrough stopped. He turned toward his questioner and shook a long, threatening arm at him. “Why,” he said, “all this time the man» Rathbone has never known why- we are keeping him in prison. He has never seen me, but day by day you have descended to his cell, caught him up in the toils of the chains which he wears, and hoisted him on to the couch. And all this time, when | you have fitted the cap upon his head, the man has known nothing of the reasons. I am going down to tell him ‘| that every thought which has been born in his brain has been noted and recorded by you and me. I am going to tell him what we intend doing with his wretched body. He shall know of your proposals—how that we, his lords and: masters, will simulate in his | tissues the physical appearances of protracted vice. He shall know to- day how his body will be discovered, and how his memory will be forever discredited in the eyes of the world. And I shall tell him: to-day that he is bound and in my power, wearing the helmet of brass which robs him of his own power of secret thought, I am going up stairs to watch his agony in pictures, and that Marjorie will be with me—that she is utterly under my influence—and that we shall laugh to- gether as we see each thought, each agony, chasing one another over the screen. We shall be together, I shall tell him, my arms will be round her, her lips will seek mine, and for the first time in the history of the, world He stopped for a moment. His hand went up to his throat as if the torrent of words were choking him. Then Guest cut into his insane ecstasy. “You are a fool, William,” came from the pink-faced man, in an icy titter. “Of course, when you tell him why and how we have used him, he will believe it. But ‘I don’t think that he will believe in your pleasant fiction of you and the girl as a sort of latter- day Laocoon in one armchair, laugh- ing together as you take your supreme revenge.” ‘ Gouldesbrough strode up to Guest. He clutched him by the shoulder. “Give me the keys,” he said—“the keys, the keys!” Guest was not at all dismayed. Laughing still, he put his hand into his pocket and took out the pass key of the strong room. “There you are, William,” he said; “now go down and enjoy yourself. Our friend is still tied down on the couch—he’s been like that for several hours, because I’ve forgotten to go and loose him. I’m going to have some more whisky, and then I shall go to the big labora- tory and switch on the current. If I’m not very much mistaken, our friend’s brain will provide a series of pictures more intense and vivid, more |. sharply defined in both outline and color, than I have ever seen before during the whole of our experiments.” Gouldesbrough took the key and was out of the room in a flash. Guest groped for the decanter. * * oh * . * His hair was quite gray now. All the gold had gone from it, just as the youth had passed from his face, which was now the color of ashes and gash- ed with agony, And he lay there, trussed and tied in his material fetters of indiarubber and Aluminum. On his head the gleaming metal cap was clamped. He was supine and an old man. All the sap had gone from the fine athlete of a few weeks ago, and the splendid body that had been was just a shell—, a husk. But the soul looked through the eyes still, tortured but undaunted, in agony but not afraid. In the lower silence of that deep cellar where Gerald suffered there were but two sounds. One was the in- sistent whisper of the electric fan, the other was the voice which came from the body of Sir William Gouldes- brough, as he hent over the recum- pent figure—the broken, motionless figure in which still, brave eyes were set like jewels. “So now you know—you know it all. You realize, dead man, all that I have done to you, and all that I am going to do. Down here in this little room, you have thought you were alone. You have imagined that whatever had happened to you, you were yet alone with the agony of your thoughts and with your Maker. But you were not. Though you never knew it until now, you never were. Each prayer that you thought you were sending up to the unknown force that rules the world was caught by me. For weeks I have daily seen into your soul, and laughed at its irremediable pain. I have got your body, and for the first time in the history of the world your ming your soul, are mine also.” (To Be Continued.) NEW GAME OF POOL, Latest Variation Contains Balk Lir ss and There is Much Banking. There’s a new game of pool in town. It is so new that it hasn’t spread be- yond New York to any extent yet. It is called balk line pool and the scene of its birth was the billiard room of the Fifth Avenue hotel. A coterie of expert amateur players gather there for contests, and they have been try- ing out the new game. The standard game of pool is con- tinuous pool. It has held its popular- ity in spite of a thousand and one vari- The Automobile Face. ~ “He has the worst case of automo- bile face I ever saw.” “Has he, really?” “You bet he has. 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