The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 13, 1916, Page 4

The Seattle Sta Kotered at Seattia, Wark, Postoffiog as second-class By mall, out of city, one year, 48.50 ter the $1.90) Abe per mont By carrier, city, Be @ month The New Secretary of War “IT have always been a peace advocate,” Baker said. “TI believe in peace and in the proper enforcement of the laws of peace—by force if necessary.” The foregoing is all the new secre- tary of war has allowed himself to say P so far as to his personal policy i He is for peace and the ENFORCE- | MENT OF THE LAWS OF PEACE BY FORCE, IF NECSSARY q In this short sentence he informs us Fon two things—he is with the president fon preparedness; he is for the preserva tion of international law. 4 International law is the law of peace. Tt makes war more difficult; if enforced it makes wholesale, unrestrained killing More difficult BECAUSE, HERE AND | THERE, IT PREVENTS BELLIGER- | ENTS FROM GOING THE LIMIT _ The neutral which consents to the viola- tion of international law during the prog- ress of war, or consents to changing in- tional law during the progress of a ar, assists in dragging doin, lower and rr, such of the spirit of peace as is in the world; consents to the mak- of war more devilish and inhuman; comes the PONTIUS PILATE OF NATIONS by calmly and deliberately enting to plans set up for the purpose killing more people—non-combatants well as warriors. Therefore, Secretary of War Baker elares that he favors the enforcement the laws of peace and by force if ay also, he stands with the in his submarine policy, which DISTINCTLY A_ POLI OF CE AND HUMANITY! Value of a Baby NE HUNDRED DOLLARS apiece for babies! That is one plan, born of the war, that is advanced by an nization devoted to the repopulation the German empire. As an incentive to maternity they that the state pay the sum of $100 mothers on the birth of each child after fourth baby. The probably never will go But even if it did the staté would ing off mighty easy at $100 apiece _ When the war is over and torn em- res begin rebuilding why don’t the pow- era that be see that mothers are Bs ID and CLOTH- and SHELTER sufficient to insure health while they are bringing fu- citizens into the world? And instead of a few paltry dollars doesn’t the state give the mother that her child will be given a ng chance for life by providing it its BIRTHRIGHT—PURE MILK D PURE AIR? Burn It Now HE state fire warden’s office has sent out a notice urging all proper- ty owners to take advantage of good burning weather in March, April and May, ‘and thus rid the ground early in the season of all inflammable material. This advice should be generally fol- lowed, In addition to ridding our forests of/a great menace during the dry season, the plan has many other advantages Dead ferns and other rubbish will burn at this season of the year after a few hours of sunshine as readily as dur- ing July or August. The fire if used now won't take the life out of the soil, won’t run in green timber, won't catch in dryrotted logs and won't kill off green grass. It won't fill the atmosphere with smoke at a time when the country is full of tourists. And a person does not have to take out a permit at this time of the year. Surely reasons enough why the burn- ing should be done now instead of later. How about it, Mr. Man on the Land? She Saluted T MONTEREY, Cal, the other day, Mrs. Vanderbilt chanced to be passing the military post at “retreat,” the ceremony which in- cludes the lowering of the flag to the accompaniment of “The Star Spangled Banner.” As the first notes of the bugle sounded, Mrs. Vanderbilt's car stopped and she rose and stood at attention until the sun- set gun sounded. A little thing, perhaps. Once the writer was in a Chihuahua, Mexico, theatre. The audience, a gala one, was liberally sprinkled with Ameri- cans. The orchestra broke into “The Star Spangled Banner.” A few Americans applauded, but only two arose to their feet. They were rough miners, and ex-United States soldiers. Then the band played the Mexican national air and all the Mexicans in the audience sprang to their feet, headed by the governor of the state, in his box. Successively, the orchestra played the national airs of Germany, France and England, Each tinie the citizens of those po pias stood reverentially until the end. There are those who claim that, after on Americans are but a race of dollar- Elsie French —— TWO YEARS ago, the Interstate commerce commision authorized the raliroads to Increase rates 5 per cent. Considering present raliroad Profits, there ought to be a 10 per cent cut In rates, Do you hear anybody howling for it? “FOR 100 YEARS, with Europe fully armed and strong, we have been eafe.”—Henry Ford, But we've had to fight about one every 25 years, on the average, Henry. times in seven yea: me well except that he fi terms of a girl attention to during one of He says he will leave and go back to her, for nag and scold like | SE were heartbroken. What ido? - LONELY WIFE. Do as he says—don't nag and He probably magnifies the| of nagging you have done,| give him any excuse on score. Treat the matter, on the surface, yet convince ike the primitive woman, man {# yours and no other has the power to take him Intend to eerve chicken at) dinner for about 20 peo- to have plates filled in me any longer. child, | A—There is very little hope for and cook the chicken until help from your former husband, More Profit—Less Risk In these times of sudden style changes, | many merchants are carrying smaller hrough WESTERN UNION Letters and stocks of merchandise. Da: ight Letters they quickly fill broken lines with new, fresh Resulte—more and faster turn-overe, goods. smaller investment, fewer left-overs. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. Q—! am divorced, and my hus) band has never paid anything to- ward the support of our child. do not know where he Is. tried to get work but failed. people where | stay will not keep What can | do? if 1 could find my husband, | would go | © back to him for the WwoORRI tender; remove the bones and save since he has neve: the broth. Then serve the meat in|by the child. Nie ibid Pee the form of pressed chicken, tim-| can do ts to put the child in one of bales or creamed chicken with|the boarding homes and get work peas, peppers and carrots added. The best thing you jyourself. You must not be dis |couraged, but rely on yourself. Re Q—1 wish to walk from here to member, the man ts not your hos. San Francisco, and would like to band advertise some line of goods which sho1ld be made would help on expenses. Can you child, ff he can be located advise me where to inquire? now, so forget to him. support He the R. £. | Q—The Industrial insurance com- AA shoe manufacturer might [!sslon granted me insurance after be willing to outfit you with shoes #7 Injury, and sent the check to to demonstrate how many miles of "¢ |” a letter, tramping his goods would endure. livered to Dealers in other lines of clothing might think it good advertising to fit yon out. You should apply at leading manufactories. This letter was de the addr joard, but a man th his por ion, fan't there a pen- ‘ality for stealing money from a let ter, and, if so, what Is it? A READER. A.—Postoffice authorities that stealing money from a letter is just the same as stealing it from any other place, and that com plaint should be made at a police station. If the man has tried to cash the check, he is guilty of a eater crim. You will have to establish by testimony the sending nd delivery of the letter. 1| 1 have ke of the) D MOTHER. Q—Will you kindly name of the United Sta’ In Vancouver, C. C. and oblige A MOTHER, A.—R. FE. Mansfield ts the United States consul in Vancouver, B. C. Q—None of the boys seem to | like me, and | think it Is because | have an ugly nose, or because | don't dress as well other girls, What can | do to be. come more popular? LONELY GIRL, A.-You should dress neatly, tho the Ilkableness of a girl does not depend so much on and clothes as you think, manners and good-humored friend Mness go much further tn friend ship than mere prettiness looks | @Q—About a month ago | gave a party at which a girl friend and a boy friend of mine met for the first time, Ever since, they have been | going together. This girl accepts | his invitations to dances, parti |for him, But she makes fun of him behind his back. She has no occasion to do this, as he is a young man that any girl should be proud to go with. Do you think | ought to say something to him that would open his eyes? A. T.F, A—It {8 not honorable to be two. faced. But the tale-bearer never yet came out with honors, I ad vise you to let the affair between your two friends remain, as it 1s, strictly their own business, 8 some of the! Agreeable! and dinners with a grace that would convince any man that she cared |) ©TAR—MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1916. PAGE 4. | | CHAPTER I, Anarehy own you gonna have?” | To this quiry the | patron made no response; head bent, she pored sedulously over the magazine. The waltresa renewed her de mand. “Say, Ma'en; what you want?” |. “White n, vetled with potnt d'Angloterre,” Miss Manvers re plied, distinetly, Pardonably startled, the waltress demanded with the rising inf! Wha-a-at? The court train,” Mii pursued in abstraction, “Is dotted with bouquets of orange bios some——" She checked herself suddenly “Ham-and, please.” “Plate of ham-and. Yes, tood coffee |Manvers heasttated briefly napoleon.” Tho waltrons withdrew, For the next few maqmenta the customer neglected {he fashion magazine which she had found on the seat of the chair next her own She stared blankly at the spotted bill of fare. She was deeply tn tricued by the mystery of human frailty, as exemplified by her reck lems extravagance tn ordering that superfluous bit of pastry, Mise Manvers’ rae contained a quar ter of a dollar; being precisely the sum of her entire fortune. Her ham and beans would cost 16 cents, the coffee and the napoleon & cents each, She would be penniless when she had paid her score. In due course Mies Manvers de. livered at the desk of the blonde cashier, and, penniless, wandered forth tnto the brutal sunshine. She went slowly, weartly, as anit ed a drudge, The burning alr beat up into her downcast face from sun-baked stones that scorched thru the soles of her shoddy shoes |__A few doors north of Lexington ave. she climbed weather-beaten stops to A brownstone entrance and addressed herself to three jong filehts of naked staira | Sho gained at the top an open door whose panels sported a sim ple rectangle of cardboard adver tising the tenancy of (tn engraved |seript) Misa Lucy Spode, (in ink) {M. A. Warden, and (in penctl, scrawl) Manvers “and a |Perched, thin shoulders rounded over the tnkatained drawingboard Testing on her knees & start and cried tn a voice of the Southern born My land, Sally! LT hiad In the act of unpinning her hat Miss Manvers paused to consult an alarm clock on an adjacent shelf. “Twenty past three,” she report- od, sententiously. The artist buslly scratched once more. “Scared mo.” she explained, “com- ing home #0 early!* Sally removed her coliar with a wrench. “Got a date?” “Sure; with Sammy—4 o'clock,” announced Lacy Spode. “Where's Mary Warden?” “Lytic Hall—rehearsing.” “Lucky Mary!" The artist looked fahment. “Lucky!” What time ts up tn aston sho protested; in this awful heat, and no pay for rehearsals!" “All the same,” Sally contended, understudy, and her principal might fall i!l—or something. That's bet ter than marrying a man you don't care for—which you are Iikely to door clerking at Huckster's for a Week.” Gay, Sally. haven't been “Fired again? laid off What is KP You Not exactly. Just indefinitely—that’s all. back next September.” Yh, but honey!” Lucy explained, crossing to drop a hand on Sally's shoulder, “I am sorry “Of course you are,” turned stonily, “But you needn't be. I'm not gding to let this make things any harder for you and Mary Warden,” “Don't be silly, Lacy! you're w ome" “Of course I do. All the aame, |I'm not taking any more, I was laid off last Saturday, I didn’t say anything, but I've been looking for mething else ever since—and this fs Wednesday, and I'm thru.” “Well, well,” said the other tn dulgently, “have {t your own way. | What are you going to steal first? A diamond sunburst? But if 1 stop |here listening to you I'll be late |for Sammy. So I'm off.” Pausing lin the doorway, sho looked back You know Manvers| Near the windows, on the end of! }a box couch, a young woman was| Interrupted, she looked up with) “dancing till she's ready to drop,| “she's got some chance. She's an/ Something's happened to you to-| With good tuck I may get my job! Sally re R”’ By Loule Joseph Vance—Copyright, Frank A. Munsey Co. “AN OUTSIDE | NEXT WEEK, “THE MAXWELL MYSTERY” with funt a trace of doubt coloring! the window, for tho first time re her regard, “Promise to do nothing! alizing that her presence in rash before I come home.” | house, however tnnocent, wouldn't “Promises made for keeps are} be eaty to explain to one of a specifically prohibited by article| policeman’s tneredulous {diosyn nine of the Soctal Pirate's let crany, | Hut I don't mind telling you the Hut nobody knew; {t was only! chances aro you'll find me on the| 4:30 by the clock In the kitchen; | roof when you get back, unless this|{t was reasonably improbable that heat lets up. I'm going up now;| the faithless servants would come thin place is simply suffocating!” | back much before midnight; and But her smile grew dim an she| she need only walt for the storm resigned herself to an evening! to pass to return across the roofs. whose loneliness promised to be un-| None the less it was quite with | broken, After a time she rose and| ont inite design that ly re moved languldly out tnto the hall,| traced her way to that multe of from which an fron ladder led up| rooms {n the second story which thru & scuttle to the roof, the refuge| seemed to be the quarters of the and retreat of the studio's tenants| mistress of the establishment on thoae breathless, intermina And when the girl pursued her summer nights when their quarters| investigations to the point of open-| wore unendurably stuffy, Here they| ing closed doors she found clothes) were free to lounge at ease, en| presses containing & wardrobe to! deshabiile; seldom did other fig-| cope with every imaginable emerg-| urea appear on any of the roofs| ency—frocks to ravish any woman's| which ran to the Park ave, corner| heart | on an exact plane broken only by| Her heart ached with a reawak-| }low dividing walls and chimney! ened sense of the cruel unfairness stacks |of life. Her flesh crept with the Three chaira of the steamer type,|touch of her rain-soaked clothing | all maimed, comprised the furniture; And in her thoughts temptation of this roof garden. Selecting the! stirred Itke a whispering serpent soundest chair, Sally settled down| “It’s only for an hour, No one] and closed her eyes. | need ever know. I'll leave every-| Thoughts bred of her talk with| thing just as I found it, And I'm Lucy for a time distracted her, But) so uncomfortable!” at last she slept | She hesitated a moment longer, |but only a moment. Her first move was to turn on hot water tn the shining porcelain tub. 1 Ttalf an hour later, deliciously ca-| ressed by garments of soft white silk, she sat before the dressing table, drying her hair in the warm | ldraft of an electric fan And when she could do no more to beautify her per Sally turned! again to the clothes presses, by now fo far gone In self-indulgence that she could contemplate without a }qualm leas venial experiments with aw. nd what I need ehe'll never mins, Besides, I can send back everything {n the morning, anony- mously, by parcel post. It's only borrowing.” © The testimony of a small gilt \clock startled her whgp, at length, | the stood ready for the next step in| her nefarious career—the hour CHAPTER II. Burglary She awakened in a sharp pante. Without the least warning the atmosphere quaked with a terrific shock of thunder, and the down- pour became heavier. The girl #prang from her chatr| and groped her way to the scuttle. It wan closed, Somebody, presumably the jant tor, had shut ft against the !mpend- tng storm without troubling to make sure there was no one on the roof, Half stunned and wholly terrified, the girl dashed the rain from her eyes and strove to recollect her | wits and grapple eanely with her piight | It was a bare chance that a tle on some one of the ad ing — be, at least, not fasten’) nang was passing ten a Sally put out the lights and went} Fighting the buffeting wind, theiin the door. She stole h thra scourging te i salon Baye the hallway and up the stairs to |the topmost floor, where, perches roof fo the west, but found it 1™|unon the iron ladder, ehe tried her | movable. patience sbrely with a stubborn Panting, even sobbing a little 10/ scuttle cover before recalling the her terror, she scrambled on thra/ctick that had accompanied its clos tort of nightmarish progress toling—the click of a epring Iateh the next roof, and on andontothe) fut this Inst, when located next and the next |proved equally obdurate, Now she} She couldn't have sald how many! must leave by the street. And now roots she had crossed, when at) «! ‘emembered the policeman who! length she discovered a scuttle that) kept nightly vigil at the avenue was actually ajar, and without) crossing! pause to wonder at this circum At the foot of the stairs Sally stance, or what might be her re|paused. She could see nothing; she ception, she swung down fnto that) had heard no sound; her hands had hospitable biack hole, and by mis-/touched nothing more startling than chance dislodged the tron arm sup-|the banister rail, and yet-— porting the cover. That there was something wrong Tt fell with a bang and a click,|In thet house, so strangely deserted, and Sally barely escaped crushed| was evident beyond dispute. She fingers by releasing the rim and/stood facing the dining room door, tumbling Incontinently to the floor.|the door to the library on her left. She stood tn what at firat seemed | Thru tho former opening her viston, unrelieved darkness—but for giimp:|ranging at random, detected a alen sen reveaied by the incessant fash|4er beam of artifictal Mght no and flare of lightnin one ond of |thicker than a lead penctl. j short hallway, by the rail of For a moment the girl lingered, | irease well. Three or four doors| fascinated by that slender, swerve-| opened upon this hall; but she de-|le#* ray; then, slowly, holding her tected no sign of any movement in|>reath, she crossed the threshold the shadows, and heard no eound of the dining room, following the| Then step by timid ep, she| light back to fts source—a narrow deacented to the next floor, which | Crack in the folding doors communt | she found devoted to three hand-|°Sting with the library. rely appointed bedchambers, also} The girl stole to the folding doors | }empty. And slowly, as her courage ant put an eye to the crack An} served, another filght took her|Clectric chandolfer was on full-blaze |down to a story given over wholly|®0re the heavy center table of| to two bedchambera with bath,|AhoKany, beyond which stood a| dressing rooms, and bondotre ad-/ 408k of the roll top type—closed. | Joining, all very luxurious to a/ Above, the wall was decorated with | | hasty survey. ngs nce — Senor a | t uge canvas, the por. ee ae ae ee tri (trait of a beautiful woman beautl | drawing room’ s library, and, at the) {uly Painted. And tmmediately be-| back of the house, a dining room. |Dent® the portrait stood a young | And finally the basement proved Mies etek abstraction, star-| | be, Ae deverted as any room above! te rested lightly against the| moment's sober thovaht once catie | ‘Able his back square to Sally's fat sus wen .ainaa te eau a view, revealing & well-turned head Jone reasonable solution to thel) oe with Germ Rate, end’ the) puzzle that the owners had ene Of one Jean. brown cheek She} town for the week-end, leaving the| y disappointed. For worthy servants, who had promptly] sthor accented trro-nithoe a dann aoa seek their own akan ng eracksman {fn full blown even Content with this theory, Sally] “ress, or a common yer, in| chose one of the windows of the| — TOs aad tatters) of 8 tramp sacvente’ dining room from whiny | But this man wore unromantic blue] to spy out stealthily, first remark.|*re* UPon ® person neither fas-| ing that the honse wan near the) “tine nor repellent | Park ave. corner, finally a police-|, a os i yr Bg & truly erlm man sheltered in the tradesman’s| on, G pomton she was not per entrance of the dwelling across the) Mitted long to doubt; for tn an-| way. other mo! nt he st » alertly to} At this last disquieting discovery} tt? Wall and grasped the handle of a Sally retreated expeditiously from| *ortbladed seut thrust the point of the sword be-| |Astonishing Pow Down, Ordinary Nuxated reugth of Per Cent tn in Many In- Physician Says Irom Will Incrense ate Folk 200 we Weeks’ Time atnnces, NEW YORK, N. ¥ discourse Dr. F r t ity, & | In a Spociatint recent |make an’ a [people wh ably be & an exceedingly large n ! and wh are I D reason than the lack of moment mn in supplie multitude of dangerous [disappen Without tron the blood at once loses the power to change | food into living tissue, and therefore nothing you eat does you any good |you don't get the strength out of tt [You f i mere! Passes tre in blo ple become gene and all equently develop rvous run all One is too thin another t# burdened with unhealthy r no weak they on hink they have trouble others are some fusny skinny and K physteal pow In much casen it} Hishtens to ts atimulating dicines narcotic drugs, whieh ¢ whip up your fg. ® for the moment rit not strong 4 jth following tor fee how long you can work or far you can walk without becoming tired, Next take two 6-grain tablets of ordinary Berbera baa SAN to Give Strength to Broken- of tween tho writing pad and the edge| of the roll top, forced the blade| well In, and bore all his weight] upon the haft of this tmprovised| jimmy. Promptly, with a sound of rending wood, the top flew up. At this the man released the sword, which fell with a thump to the rug at his feet, and, bending over the des explored its rack of pigeonholes and drawers. One of| the latter eventually yielded the ob | ject of his search; he took from tt} first a small automatic pistol, which placed carelessly to one side, then a small leather-bound book This found, he turned across the room beyond a bookcase, thus van ishing from the field of Sally's vision, Now was her chance to slip down jstairs and away, But sho simply had to know the meaning of those} noises he was making They were difficult to dtagnose an odd whirring sound broken by| repeated muffled clanks, But tn} the end she identified those sounds! beyond mistake; the man was frets! ting the combination of a safe, paus. ing now and again to try the handle. For what, indeed, had he forced that desk if not to find the com bination? In due course the notses ceased and the malefactor reappeared, bringing with him a morocco-bound | box of good size, She had no} doubt whatever that this was a Jewel case For now the miscreant was fac.| ing Sally as he bent over the table! and fumbled with the lock of the! case, A moment later, finding the] ease to be fast locked, the burglar turned back to the desk to renew his rummaging--in search of a Roman sword. He} er of Iron Nervous People [nuxated tron thran times par day, af- tor ments, for two weeks. Then teat your strength agatn and see for ourself haw much you have gained seen dozens of nervous, run ple who were ailing all the iron in th after they had In some cases been doctoring for months without ob- taining any benefit. You can talk As you pleane about all the wonders w remedies, but when nto hard frets there hing like good old tron to put your cheeks and good, sound, flosh on your bones. It 1s t nervy atomach and he world ble was that the old for janie tron, Itke tincture ete... often of Inor- of Iron, Iron ruined pe et their stomachs and were imilated, and for these rea frequently aid more harm with the discovery the newer forma of organic tron this has been overcome. Nuxated Iron, for example, {# pl take, does not Injure the te |is almont 1 y beneric NOTE—The manufacturers of Nuxated nded confidence in authorize the an if they cannot jany charitable 1 toke any man or woman under 40 fron and tncreasy their cent or over In they who strength ke’ time, ormante refund your Nuxated Tron have no It tm dt by Owl Drug Bwitt's Phas that! Bot his busines | there, 7 BY CAROLYN WELLS. she guessed re was inter rupted hen a second man hurled himaelf upon the back of the first. In a twinkling the two went headlong to the floor. For an Instant Sally remained where she was, rooted tn fright and wonder; but the next she found herself beyond the threshold to the library, commanding an unobstruct ed view of the conflict Apparently this neared ita cul mination, Tho he had gone down face forward, Blue Serge had con. trived to turn over on big back, In which position he now Jay, still struggling, but helpless, beneath the bulk of his assaiiant—a burly, black-visaged scoundrel—who strad died the chest of his prey, a knee pinning down either arm, one hand eripping Blue Serge’s throat, the other striving with purpose un- doubtedly murderous to get posses sion of the short Roman sword. At this @ strange thing happened strangest of all to Sally. For she, who never in her life had touched firearm or viewed scene of violence more desperate than a schoolboy! fquabble, discovered herself stand. ing beside the desk and leveling at the head of the heavy villain the automatic pistol that had rested key to fit the e Simultaneously she was aware of the sound of her own voice, ery. ing: “Stop! Drop that sword and put up your hands!” The stout and turned up to the amazing ap- parition of her a ludicrous mask of astonishment. Then slowly he ele. vated two grimy hands Start It Today Nestden all the other things thin 1 tempted to despair Then the door suddenly yielded: the door slammed behind her with |a crash that threatened its glass and her panic-winged heels had car ried the young woman well round |the corner and into Park ave. be |fore she appreciated how interest ing her tempestuous flight would be apt to seem to @ peg-post police | man. But a covert glance aside brought prompt reassurance; the policeman wan just then busy on the far side of the avenue, hectoring humility into the heart of an unhappy taxt cab operator. But the police were bound to learn of the affair all too soon her part in it was fs certain to become known; too late she was reminded that the name “Manvers” indelibly identified every garment abandoned in the bathroom! Be fore morning certainly, before mid night probably, Sarah Manvers would be the quarry of a clamorous hue and cry. Appatled, she hurried on atmlens ly, with many a furtive glance over shoulder, with as many questing roundabout for refuge or resource. With the start of one suddenly delivered from dream-haunted sleep, she found hefself arrived at 42nd st. For several moments she re mained at a complete standstill there on the corner, blindly survey ing the splendid facade of Grand Central station. Now, as she lingered on the cor- ner, people were passing her con- tinually,on thelr way over to the terminal; and one of these present ly caught her attention. “Get up!” she snapped, keep ‘your bands in sight Now stand back-—to the wall! Quick!” The rogue obeyed, keeping his hands levgl with his ears. — Still holding the pistol ready, the gtr! shifted her glance to Blue Serge. He had picked himself up, and now stood surveying his ally with & regard which wavered between amaze and admiration, suspicion and surprise. Catching her inquir ing eye, he bowed Jerkily “And gow,” Blue Serge suggested, “by you? 1 o-" Drawing near the girl, he held ont his hand for the pistol, and to her own surprise she surrendered it, suddenly conscious that he was rapidly assuming command of the Situation And incontinently, aa tho he had taken away all her courage, to- gether with that nickel-plated sym- bol, she started back, almost cring- ing in a panic of sadly jangied nerves. - Once he had disarmed her, Blue Serge transferred his interest ex- Sally caught her breath sharply. The man was Blue Serge, the same Blue Serge who owed his life to Sally Manvers! ‘The man moved smartly on again, with every indication of one spurred on by an urgent errand—but went no more alone. Now a pertinacious shadow dogged him into the railway station, even to the platform gates that were rudely slammed in his face. Blue Serge strode back Into the waiting room, and when a minute later he addressed himself to the Pullman bureau, Sally was still his shadow. . “f've just missed the 11:10 for Boston. @ heard him explain, as he displayed tickets on the marble ledge, “and, of course, I'm out my berth reservation. Can you give me a lower on the midnight ex- press?” “Nothing left on the midnight.” “Well, then, perhaps you can fix me up for the Ow! train?” “Owl train? De luxe room or ordinary stateroom—all I got left.” clustvely to his late assailant. He stapped over, poked the pistol's n significantly into the folds of the! ruffian’s neck, and slapped smartly his two hip pockets; !n consequence of which singular performance he thrust a hand beneath the tall of the fellow's coat and brought away a bulldog revolver of heavy caliber. And then he stepped back, smil- ing, with a sidelong glance of tri umph for Sally's benefit—a giance that spent Itself on emptiness, CHAPTER Il. Blackmal! 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