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(ee Seis ee CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) ; “Well, the information you have brought me, gentlemen, corroborates the facts which I have already in my possession. As a result of a system- atic inquiry, one of my men stumbled across this boy Smithy of whom you speak, and the house has been under observation ever since. The veiled woman who called and obtained no an- swer is being followed, and I expect some news any moment.” “Faith, ut’s as wonderful as ther black trackers of Australia. Ye just sit here with yer ear to a tellyphone, an’ foller up yer men without seein’ ‘em. Wonderful, aw, yis.” “I have a little further information. Here, James, take this boy and give him something to eat; little pitchers have long ears, and that youngster seems extra sharp.” “And your other information, Mr. Griffin?” It is reported to me that close to Grosvenor Gate a motor car stopped, end the two occupants shook hands with a gentleman on the sidewalk. ‘They only spoke a few words of greet- ing, and then passed on. The occu- pants of the car wore motor masks.” “Aw, sure, an’ can it be the same lot" “The car was painted white, and the mumber was YZ0321, of which there is no register.” “That seems suspicious; but what of the man they spoke to?” “I have here a wire from my man Roop: ‘Booked to Manchester; am following.’ ” “Ah, there is the telephone bell.” * Griffin went to the telephone and @poke for a few minutes. “T have just received a message, gentlemen, that the veiled lady from Greenwich has been tracked to Little Gem street. She entered a house with her own key, and has not yet come out.” 5 “Sure, an’ can ut be bonny Mary Brent? An’ if so, what’s she doin’ there? Come on; let’s go at once an’ solve the mystery—aw, yis, faith.” “The house is watched back and front, so she cannot escape, or any ethers in the house. We will go at once and take the boy with us.” At the corner of Little Gem street they found a man waiting. “Still there, sir; nobody come out.” When the car dashed up to the door Joe Brawn rushed up the steps, and despite Griffin’s expostulations, com- menced to hammer on the door with his heavy stick. “Steady, there; Gently, gently.” ~~ you'll scare them. “Scare ’em! Faith, an’ I will an’ all. At 'em an’ hit ’em, for Joe Brawn. Scare 'em! Aw, yis, sure an’ I’ll do that.” Bang, bang, bang went the stick; ‘the sound reverberating through the #treet bringing people to doors and theads to windows. Joe Brawn cared mot; his placid nature had given way ‘to the fighting fury, and he wanted to whit something. As there was no answer to his vo- eiferous summons his patience gave way altogether. “Faith an’ we’re wasting time, aye, | ‘sure; stan’ back, me boys, while I gits me shoulder to ther timber, an’ we'll have bonny Mary Brent out in no; time; aw, yis, sure.” 4 Standing back a few paces he threw all his huge strength against the eel —once, twice, and yet again—and then 4t flew in with a crash, carrying the wed giant with it. Closely followed by West and Griffin, fhe rushed into the front rooms, only to find them empty. Up the first flight of stairs into the back room where a light was burning, and there the three paused. “There has been some one here in} the last two minutes,” exclaimed ; Griffin; “here is half a cigarette still | smouldering. There has been a strug-! gle of some sort, there is a chair over- turned, and a small patch of blood fhere. They cannot be far off.” “One moment,” exclaimed West. “See here, a copy of the Manchester Tribunal of to-day’s date.” “Faith, an’ sure we’re on the track; come on, me boys, an’ we'll have ’em; «aw, yis, we will an’ all.” They made a rapid survey of the up- ger rooms, only to fing them deserted. Then with one accord they descended to the kitchens. “They have not gone out of the front or back—there must be some secret wmode of exit. Where's that boy?” Toby Bailey was not far away, and ‘when Griffin asked him the questions the stood very serious and silent. “Faith, sonny, go on; don’t ye be afraid now. No wan’ll hurt ye—sure, “There is a way out, but I dassent “tell; mother or the boss ‘ud kill me. “They don’t know as I knows it.” “Love ye, sonny, don’t be skeered. Joe Brawn’ll take keer on ye, faith, .aye, an’ treat ye like me own son.” The boy looked at Brawn with his @reamy blue eyes, and seemed satis- fied with his scrutiny. “T'll do it, if I die fer it. *this ‘ere’s the way.” He opened a cupboard standing in a corner of the kitchen, and, touching a spring, disclosed an aperture. Seizing .@ lamp from the table he led the way, and invited the others te follow. __ Come on; The Empire’s Dream Amazing Adventures of a Gang of Thieves Who Stole a World-Famous Dia- mond of Fabulous Wealth. 5 OF eo “It leads to a stable in the next street. I was there once. Come on.” Following in single style, they went down the damp-smelling passage, hav- ing to crouch in the narrow space. after traversing some two hundred yards they came to another door, which led into a cellar. “They’ve took the ladder up with em, and the trap-door is bolted on the other side.” “Faith, an’ the wood looks rotten enough. Come, West, my boy, up on to my shoulders an’ see what ye can do. Take my stick and have a whack at it. Don’t mind about hurting me; sure, an’ ye’re only a featherweight— aw, yis.” Brawn seized hold of West and lift-’ ed him on to his shoulders with absurd ease, and in that position Godfrey at- tacked the trap. The wood was old and worm-eaten and the bolts gave way after a few blows. Scrambling through the aperture he found a lad- der by the wall, which he lowered to let the others mount, “We are too late,” said Griffin; “the birds have flown.” “Sure, but I’ve found somethin’ an’ all; look at that now. The number board of a moty-car, BZ0634, the very wan we’re lookin’ fer. An’ see here, there’s been a job o’ paintin’ done in this stable, faith, aye; see the white splashes on the floor? Guess the green moty-car is a white ’un now, aw, yis, sure.” “J think you are right, Mr. Brawn. What have you got there, Mr. West?” “A handkerchief, and it seems to be saturated with wet blood. There is a name in one corner, but I cannot quite make it out. It is—— Great heav- erns!” “Faith, an’ whose is ut?” “Mary Brent’s!” CHAPTER VII. “Ballera! Ballera!” As the number went up at the side of the stage the auditorium resounded with a vociferous shout of welcome. The great Hippodrome was. packed in every part, and as the turn of the evening was reached the excitement of the vast crowd was raised to the high- est pitch. Judith Ballara, the famous singer and dancer, ‘was a name to conjure with in the variety world, and the management was congratulating itself upon having secured such a certain at- traction for its hall. A sweet-voiced singer, a most entrancing dancer, she had suddenly sprung from nowhere and secured fame and success at the first bid. A young woman, almost a girl, rather under the average height, a perfectly modelled figure, a bewitch- ing face lit up by laughing eyes and crowned with a glory of red-gold hair —such was the Judith Ballara whom all Manchester was crowding to see. Percy Twist seftled himself back in his stall and lighted a cigar with the air of a man very well content with himself. He looked upon the blase men and callow youths around him with a cynical smile of contempt, while. he shrugged his shoulders with impatience at the anticipatory round of applause The band played through a few opening bars, the curtain was drawn back, and Judith Balara tripped on to the stage. As Twist glanced at the graceful lit- tle figure dancing before him like a gossamer fairy, his apathy was sud- denly aroused to something resembling a faint show of interest. The thought flashed across his mind that the face of the dancer was not altogether unfa- miliar to him, but where or how he had seen her before he was unable to remember. The dance finished amid a tumult of applause and Twist settled back in his seat with puzzled brows, searching his memory for the elusive clue to the artiste’s identity. The band struck up the staccato ac- companiment to a Spanish dance and Judith Ballara literally flung herself into the wild abandon of a fandango. The lithe body swayed backward and forward to the click of the castanets; in the vast audience heads nodded and feet tapped time to the music; then with the excitement worked up to the highest pitch, the music ceased in a erash of chords, and, with a final stamp of the feet, hands on hips, and back half-turned to the audience, Ju- dith Ballara smiled over her shoulder, holding a red rose between her teeth. And in that instant recollection came to Percy Twist. He remembered a photograph, taken in that very pose, which he had seen in the possession of Montagu Winton. Who was Judith Ballara, and what part did she play in the life of Winton? Twist soon form- ed a theory of his own upon the sub- ject, and he determined to test it at the earliest opportunity. He was a, man who made up his mind with marvelous rapidity, and be- fore the audience had _ finished its clamorous applause he was on his way out of the theater. At the stage door the usual crowd had collected to witness the famous dancer's departure. A. pair-horse ‘}elear. Twist pushed his way th the throng and sought the doorkeeper |in his little office. “Can you tell me where Miss Balara is staying?” “No, sir, I cannot. It is against the Tules for me to give the address of any artiste performing at this theater,” “Iam aware of that,” answered Twist, as he quietly pushed a sover- eign under a newspaper. “I only wanted to know whether I should be right in sending a letter to the Mid- Jand.” “Better try the Grand, sir,” answer- ed the man in an undertone. “Thank you;” and Twist, having se- cured his information, mingled once again with the crowd, A few minutes later Judith Balara came out of the stage door and enter- ed her carriage. The crowd surged around cheering, afid eager to obtain a sight of their favorite. One old man pressed forward and gazed through the open window of the brougham. “Eh, lass, but A’d jest loove t’ sithee do a turn wi’ th’ clogs.” Miss Ballara laughed and threw him arose from her bouquet, and the horses started forward, followed by a tremendous cheer. The animals, startled by the sound, plunged madly onward, and, notwithstanding the ef- forts of the driver, turned the corner and dashed into the road. Then came a warning cry, the horses were brought to a standstill by’a policeman, and lying senseless in the road was the figure of a young girl. In an instant all was confusion. A ring was formed round the carriage, and Miss Ballara, in her magnificent dress, knelt on the muddy pavement and supported the fair head of the un- conscious girl. “The poor, sweet darling! And is she hurt-much, do you think, consta- ble?” & “Only a faint, I think, miss; wheel only touched her.” _And, as if to corroborate his words, the girl opened her eyes and looked up at the beautiful face af the dancer. “I—I am not hurt, I think; only I feel very weak and strange.” “Sure and you must be, you poor dear. Lift her into the carriage, con- stable, and I'll take her with me and look after her.” The girl was was lifted into the carriage, and in a few minutes they reached the Grand Hotel, where Miss Ballara occupied a suite of rooms. “And now, my dear, I’m going to look after you for the night; so if you have any friends you'd like to send to you'll find telegraph forms on that table.” “You are very good to me, but I have no friends; at least, I have only one. But I do not know where to find him.” “No friends! Sure, then, Provi, dence has sent you to me, for though! I am known to thousands as Judith) Ballara, I haven’t got a friend in the world. What is your name?” “My name is—but what does it mat- ter? I would rather be without a name. I am told that my father has cast me off and my lover is a fugitive from justice. I—I do not know what to think.” “Ah! Poor little one, you are in trouble. Let me take off your wet things, and sit down in one of my dressing gowns in front of the fire. Wait till I order a nice hot supper to be sent up.” She settled her visitor in a huge arm chair, which she turned round to the fire. After giving her orders she seated herself on the fender, clasping her knees with both hands. “Now, my dear, tell me just as much about yourself as you feel inclined to do; but while you are doing it I want you to look upon Judith Ballara as your friend, and make up your mind to stay with me.” “Ah! You are kind to me, and I want a friend badly, so badly, Many have professed to be my friends dur ing the last few days, but their friend- ship has only led me into further mis- ery.” the (To Be Continued.) Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Bank Deposits. “It’s odd, the different sources of bank deposits,” remarked George Lom- nitz. “For example,” he said, “we re- ceive thousands of dollars every year from Cleveland men in the army and navy. The amounts range from $5 a month from privates to $30 or more from some of the officers. “Most of this is sent to us direct by the paymaster of the army or navy as the case may be. Just now we are get- ting a lot of money from men in the navy on this cruise to the Pacific. The paymaster makes out a list of the vari- ous deposits and sends along a check to cover the total amount. Thus the men draw their pay and deposit it without ever seeing it. Their pass books, in a good many cases, are left right here.”—Cleveland Plaindealer. Offenses Against the Eyes. The first offense against the eyes is reading with a poor light. This re- quires the ciliary muscle to do extra work to sharpen sight. It applies to dim lights, twilight, sitting too far from the light. The second offense is one of posture—stooping or lying down congests the eye, besides requiring un- natural work of the eye muscles. Reading on trains is our third of- fense, the motion causing such fre- quent changes of focus and position as to tax the muscles of accommoda- tion as well as the muscles of fixation. Reading without needed glasses or with badly fitted ones, is the last. Eye strain is certainly a factor in produc- ing disease of every part of the eye. Old age is the time of retribution for those who have sinned against their eyes. Back-pedal when you find yourself talking too much, The foreign | asked to see a native execution and the governor of the province, for a consideration, had consented to oblige them. ; “Have mercy, your highness,” wail- ed the wretched criminals, as they cringed before the governor. ‘Have we no chance?” “None whatever,” responded his highness cheerfully. “It’s a case of ‘Taels I win, heads you lose.’” Battlefield Logic. Among the men who served with Roosevelt's rough riders in Cuba was a little Dutch Jew, who, according to the men in his own troop, was “the very inéarnation of cool, impudent bravado in a fight.” He was a consist- ent fatalist. dodging a spent bullet that had whistled uncomfortably close to him. “Vat’s de use to todge dem pullets?” sang out the little Jew. “Dey’ll hit you shust as vell vere you are as vere you ain’t!” PURE FOOD. No Food Commissioner of Any State Has Ever Attacked the Absolute Purity of Grape-Nuts. Every analysis undertaken shows this food to be made strictly of Wheat and Barley, treated by our processes to partially transform the starch parts into a form of Sugar, and there- fore much easier to digest. Our claim that it is a “Food for Brain and Nerve Centres” is based upon the fact that certain parts of Wheat and Barley (which we use) con- tain Nature’s brain and nerve-building ingredients, viz.: Phosphate of Pot- ash, and the way we prepare the food makes it easy to digest and assimilate. Dr. Geo. W. Carey in his book on “The Biochemic System of Medicine” says: “When the medical profession fully understands the nature and range of the phosphate of potassium, insane asylums will no longer be needed. “The gray matter of the brain is controlled entirely by the inorganic cell-salt, potassium phosphate. “This salt unites with albumen, and by. the addition of oxygen creates nerve- fluid, or the gray matter of the brain. “Of course, there is a trace of other salts and other organic matter -in nerve-fluid, but potassium phosphate is the chief factor, and has the power within itself to attract, by its own law of affinity, all things needed to manu- facture the elixir of life. Therefore, when nervous symptoms arise, due to the fact that the nerve-fluid has been exhausted from any cause, the phos- phate of potassium is the only true remedy, because nothing else can possibly supply the deficiency. “The ills arising from too rapidly consuming the gray matter of the brain ‘cannot be overestimated. “Phosphate of Potash, is to my mind, the most wonderful curative agent ever discovered by man, and the blessings it has already conferred on the race are many. But ‘what shall the harvest be’ when physicians everywhere fully understand the part this wonderful salt plays in the processes of life? It will do as much as can be done through physiology to make a heaven on earth. “Let the overworked business man take it and go home good-tempered. Let the weary wife, nerves unstrung from attending to sick children or en- tertaining company, take it and note how quickly the equilibrium will be restored and calm and reason assert her throne. No ‘provings’ are required here. We find this potassium salt largely predominates in nerve-fluid, and that-a deficiency produces well- defined symptoms., The beginning and end of the matter is to supply the lacking principle, and in molecular form, exactly as nature furnishes it in vegetables, fruits and grain. To sup- ply deficiencies—this is the only law of cure.” Please observe that Phosphate of Potash is not properly of the drug- shop variety but is best prepared by “Old Mother Nature” and stored in the grains ready for use by mankind. Those who have been helped to better health by the use of Grape-Nuts are legion. “There’s a Reason.” BRAIN POWER Increased by Proper Feeding. A lady writer who not only has done good literary work, but reared a fam- ily, found in Grape-Nuts the ideal food for brain work and to develop healthy children. She writes: “IT am an enthusiastic proclaimer of Grape-Nuts as a regular diet. 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