The evening world. Newspaper, June 29, 1905, Page 14

ae The Evenin the Press Publishing Company, No, 8% to 63 Park Row, New ‘York. at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, @udliched by VOLUME 4B.....0 serves oares —$<<$ $ ; A CENSUS TIP? {¥' (Although the law requires the State census to be taken on June 4 ‘Whe canvassing has dragged along and many enumerators have not com- thelr work, There is a great difference in the population of New fork.on the last day of May and the Fourth of July. There is a corre- fiponding difference in the population of the rural counties. Not only do many residents of New York go to the country “9 spend the summer, but there Is a large efflux of summer hotel employees, me- chanics and laborers who regard New York as their home and who spend thelr winters here, but go away to out-of-town employment during the gummer months. It is a moderate estimate that 5 per cent. of the popu- lation of New York is elsewhere during the summer. Considering the in- crease in recent years in hotel and lodging-house population, a great part of which, representing both social extremes, goes away during the sum- mer, there is certainly 8 to 10 per cent. difference between New York's winter and summer population. Measured in Assemblymen and Senators this difference would affect the contro! of the Assembly and the tying of the Senate, While there has been no suspicion that this present State census has repeated the crude methods of 1890 of destroying population sheets and failing to count names already enumerated, there is no doubt that the delay and the failure to make a thorough enumeration in a number of districts will have the effect, if not rectified, of materially diminishing the representation of the Legislature to which Greater New York is entitled. Every family which resided in Greater New York on June 1 should be included in the census, If this has not been done, and to that effect there are many indications, the execution of the law by the enumerators has been at fault. Did they get a tip? THE JURY SYSTEM. Secretary Taft attacks the jury system and favors the abolition of the right of criminal appeal, He says juries are too apt to be merciful to the accused brought before them, That may be. Perhaps the fact that Important and powerful criminals do not fac the jury may incline the jurymen to leniency to the friendless. if the officers of the Beef Trust, of the Equilable Life Assurance Society, of the Consolidated Gas, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and other great law-breaking corporations were brought before an ordinary jury Secretary Taft might not have lenient verdicts against them as one of the items against the American jury. ‘The fault is not with the jury system, but with the officials who do not submit to a jury the cases of the greatest offenders, Let the Depart- ment of Justice and the attorneys-general and the district-attorneys throughout the United States submit to a jury of twelve men the many glaring cases of public law-breaking and Secretary Taft will find quickly enough that the discrimination of juries is the reverse of that of prose- i cuting officers, e BLACKMAIL, Rarely is there a case of blackmail comes through light. Above all else, the victim shuns exposure, It is one of the most common of crimes in a great city, because its perpetrators have little dread of exposure if they are sure of their facts. They may fail to collect their attempted tribute, but usually there is no prosecution. On the other hand, victims of blackmail should recognize that those who attempt to prey upon them also have nothing to gain by exposure, Blackmail, once paid, is a confirmation of the charge and an invitation to further extortion, Promptly refused, the blackmailer goes his way to easier victims. Tessie McBride, a five-year-old Williamsburg girl, is dying from eat- ing poisoned candy, The poison was not put in the candy to kill Tessie, but only because it was a chez substitute for a flavoring extract and the manufacturer saved a few cents on every hundred pounds of candy, Dissension in the S. P. C. A. is resulting in charges and counter- charges between its officers. Personal jealousies and disagreements often do good in the publicity they bring. What harm would it do if the Mott street Chinese mil to carry guns and parade? ja are allowed The policeman who jeered at the automobile of Mr. McAdoo's secre- tary has been transferred. DS SYNOPSIS OF PRECED It's fol “on, CHAPT Fenner, deparement Rdant ay Hotnere | basil been wich ahie K Try more athe Belgrade iamonds.ttwo genes NY gush an ets : ’ iny Fe antes ocharie | the days of Sharkey a whom Amy w e the beautitl whtow r are aw) Rex “Ty was thelr case that You say plea to Mme. Delorme, a8 of your only hope reaident, Monte are étolen and theft jmember thatt And thus after long, ea: down hia objections and CHAPTER V. A Daring Exploit. | the mad experiment, . . . “ HIB is my plan," repeated Amy Clare !9 proniiy at § etslock 4 guarded tones that could not reach the next) door of 4 cell just ag cell, ‘It will be your exercise hour at 6. leased for their exercise lessly am: the motley The keeper on kind in letting me pass to and fro wt ver Is very nen To wish tas the wh dared io shambling, nd in allowing you east an time as usual, and as It Isa stormy the corridor, The girl ca madnosst v Insole HR a OC NN ad World’s Home The Lover’s Vocabulary : HP newspapers I for the Inst two days have con-| Tal too fervid Jettors p) tdrecsed by a young IY Now York broker to + woman much older shan himself, The etters were produce | n evilence In @ sult wrought by the wom- n agatnat him, for an intimely frost had nipped the tender ‘ude of her affection detore they had time! to flower into orange blossoms, As the letters were, all addressed to My) own dear little Bweetheart” or “My dear little Queen,” any one vereed tn the eccentricities of human affec-| tion as manifested in the lover's vocabulary would not have been surprised to see the chunky forty- year-old object of eo much fervor altting in the court- symbole found in the Passion flower, If a etalk of Brake fern {a cut low down in September a aprend- Ing oak tree will be found. In the midst af the periwinkle 1 a neat ittle brush, ‘The paney contains the picture of a man in a@ pulpit. The poppy can eaaily be turned Into en old woman In a red Own; the enap-dragon can be made to vawn In the funniest way if ite aides are | Pinched; the mallow contains the most attractive little cheeses, just the thing to serve with your poached eggs (heads of daisies) when you are playing toa party with flowers for provisions, Rules for Gett W i | | | Curious Flowers. HE most wonderful of ail ere the Now act and whore you have so muoh at stake? | gust | the meoting, That first half-scoond after the caller's entering an eternity of a faflure, A man wo has heen forced to period of years perhaps grows to be nervous under the to all sorts of trickery for the purpose of aviding the interview, and !f It comes | that his office door must swing open he may still have the purpose to “biuft'' the cailer if he can; he may reason that the man sho cann ts not worth the expenditure of his time anyhow, says Chicago Tribune. Sentence Sermons, ICHEST joys are often nearest. R There can be no truth without Uberty, O ‘The etze of w saint does not depend ‘on tw sighs, It takea more than honey to mend the broken word. A good shepherd does not need a crook In hin character. Happiness would be bleak without sor- row for a background. Always better is tho thorn on the brow than the one in the heart. Many men try to find tho deserving poor by looking {n a mirror, Ow hind, | of the boarders get up nerve enough to escape, but it | was a question of loging ail our worldly goods or our fair names In Thirty-firet street, so we th hte it was | a pretty even chance to take, What do you think? | | ess wliere we moved? In a Harlem flat, At least 8 what they call i. If we had the place back moe we could lose the whole estab!.shment In our re beds Any wey more theatrical boarding houses for me. Oh, | yes, I suppose we left our reputations be- ‘The landlady always has a scundalfest if any | 3 all cut up into cubes, with mantels llanaeeean (ebeland’ (rings in ithe venous enactments, | so tt looks kind of cute, ( | Wo hadn't any niore than got Inside than we nearly | died of fright at an unearthly squav king coming from | It can't sutceed, There pe from the Tombs since Maggie Jortan, and'’— Rave me the {dea, Come! of safety {8 In a personal nls ts the only chance you to the fron barrier itself, Rex Venner gasped and toward the gate {Be thet se that Mine, Daovme har goles will have to make such a plea, You must do tt |ran cold and tte throvbing deafened him, Dut an incerview, with her Diinga no results. dear, Mor my sake as well as for your own, It 1s “1 guess Bt mat ree! eine | ny happlivees you haye to consider, sweetheart. Ia: | stairs,” |panton, “Looks Uke & The gate swung 8 rnest argument she fought won reluctant consent passed out into the murk . . . He drew the girl appeared at the ne tlor's prisoners were ree [DMsoner can know, ne Amy moved fe There was no time to waste mob, and not acrimtnal |for @ block or #o he dived a mtorehouse shuffling group of * i‘ 4 trem rried a small wult case. Sis in white 1s dressed; B= has learned @ recitation, Both filled with anticipation Bub forgets his recitation, 6is speaks prettily Of vhe transaipine location Where lies Italy, HAT do you know of the man wim you moan to see to-morrow, or next week, or month, on that business tople in which you are 6o interested Thousands of faflures are written every day for the reason that persons on | such missions pay no heed to the fact that the range of Ind{y {duality % fa infinite, and thar the dress, and face, and manner, and front’ which the in- Possibly terested ono carries with him may menn everything In the first half-second of | Buppoge you ars entering the office of an unpolished, self-made man, and yet ‘4m fancy have conjured up the figure of a caroful, though:ful, Judicial tempera- ment which developed under the softening influences of education and the {deals Little Willie’s Guide to New York. butt into the noarth rivver, they reely go. “Leaving pretty quick, alr't you?" the doorkeener thus hailed him, He mado no reply, bul with bent head passed on Every drop of blood in his body ‘3 had a querre! with her steady up- he heard the doorman whisper to @ com- open and that shoole so they could scarce support his welght, n huge breaths of the wet alr and thrilled with tho wild sense of freedom that only a released Setting down the bag, ing handa to his throat to unfasten the clasp heavy for you, Better let me carry It, en?” ee Magazine, ‘Thursday Evening, June 29, 1905... © © room with the pallid bloat of the Tenderloin showing underneath her rouge, placidly sucking the red paint from her lips, But tho sentimentalist, in response to such phrases, would rather conjure up a vision of a woman young and sweet and altogether lovely, The only diMculty in that case would be in finding letters to fit the Indy! For men may have deals of what constitutes beauty and sweetness and really cherish them. But they cherish them too much generally for every-day use, and we find them offering their hearts instead (0 persons whom any self-respecting ideal would have to cut dead on the atreet. ‘ Every man atarta with the same {deal—an impoasi- ble blending of snow and fire not unlike the culinary @coentricity known as baked loe-cream which ad- venturous confectioners are now and then led to attempt by browning white of egg on an ice-cream brick, The leading lady of his dreams ts a wort of emotional Galatea whom he, as Pygmalion, is to waken to love and life, But very often this leading lady ts gradually overshadowed by the soubrette, For, after all, the role of Pygmalion involves co! siderable trouble and worry which one might just well save one’s self. The unfortunate victim—victim te the most appro- Commencement Week. By Walter A. Sinclair. Bub can only stutter Pleces he can’t utter at their best, Why 1s Sis so pleasant? ak AA Ma hale ecra Parents now are proudly ewelling; }0a in peaking, to use the term “More | Stopped Lill I was off the water front and In Tom Sharkey's Seaman's Rest, Working for a present Very proud they are slour’ and ‘Madomolaelle,’ unless, as in “Don't you zo voyaging in them subway submarines, mate, they're hot On Commencement Weel, While thelr Sis or Bub 4s telling: sme families, the custom ts aban- | “Twinkle, little star!" Is Vacation Time, ‘When he tries to speak On Commencement Week. Cheer up, Bub, don't sorrow If you miss your rhyme; Bear in mind to-morrow ° e By Nixola Greely-Smith| A Symposium of Mixed priate wort of a woman's first love is truly to be ptt- fod, for he will find himself the slave of her idealism, instead of making ner minisirant to his materlalisni, And when he has been out with that vague but fasein- Trades. No. 4—The Sailor In the Subway. By Proy L. McCardell, “NMI ATE, I took passage on one of them Subway hookers, and you can take my davy it's my last voyage aboard that kind of eraft —while os for slaning with 'em, I'd rather be keelhauled, “It's Bill Brown, my shipmate, gets me on that voyage, and I must have ‘been half hocuesed before he shunghaled me aboard. “All I can remember {s going down to a dock and seeing a queer craft warped close in against the bulkhend, “she was 4 wheleback submarine as near as I can make out, with al machinery below water line and olectrically steered, ty “Well, Bill gets mo aboard across the gangplank with a gang of crowd ing, swearing, shoving landlubbers, and says I to meself, ‘This is one of them excursion boats, no more, no less,” “The dockmaster was singing out ‘All aboard! Step lively!’ And then they slammed the bulkhead collision compartments shut and some ‘body gave two bells for full steam, and wo were off, “I've passed coal on an ocean liner, shipmet, and I have windjammed out from Dow's Stores to the China Seas, but a torpedo boat was nothing to the speed of this here subway clipper, “We hadn't lort our harbor roll before we ran into a storm. Siclt screechings and groanings I never hear, The wind howled through the rige ging and the craft rocked from side to side, never on an even keel one mine ute, and Hable to turn turtle before you could say ‘Jack Robinson'—'Lord help them poor folls ashore,’ says I, ‘this night!’ : “Just as I thought {t was all up with us the officer of the deck pokes his head through the forward hatch and gives it out we dock soon and all them that's for shore better look after their dunnage and tumble up. “T was the first man ashore, and I ups the cutter landings and never ating generality, ‘the boys,'' ho will have to go home to an unreasonable creature oh the verge of hystert instead of a good, comfortable soul who will rouse from her slumbers long enough to tell him not to forget to put the chain gn the door or that he really must speak to the janitor about the dumb-waiter to-morrow, I umd to look at the elderly eirens, pre-eminent heroines of police and divorce court romance, and noting the general lack of beauty supposedly essen- tial to the siren, would wonder what the secret of thelr charm might be, But not any more. Mor the| mysteries of masculine preference transcend the limtte of the broadest feminine speculation, One can only think that perhaps the tady with th overhanging jowls has mastered the secret of having her eyes blacked gracefully or thet the elderly allen- ator of @ youthful husband's affections knows how to make a Welsh rabbit that doesn't call for nut- orackers or has invented a more foolish pet name for him than any ever lavished on him before, And, #0 thinking, we rejoice over his Rate, as he will never do, A French Betrothal, HERB ts not muoh pleasant free- Hom of Intercourse bdetwoen young engaged oouples in France, it Im Mode Illustree, Journal de Is Famille, is an authority. Here is what {t says in {te etiquette column: “After the betrothals ure cclebrated, the young couple, up to the day of the religious ceremony, continue, in writing as the fire hold of a Red D tramp, and it's only a mirachs keeps ‘em from Davy Jones's locker, 8'help mi —_—_——_4 o— . doned; but the prudence and delioncy which have inspired the usage should not be forgotten, The correspondence of the flances pass always under the eyes of the mother of the young girl." Said w on « the » Side. * s % | CAUBIECTS of Harvard seniors’ com- 168’ and “pewees'? of tho nation if Ing a O ¢ ° ° By John A, Howland S mencement paris, “Public taken in hand ea e e e 4 Ing Schools,” "The Ttallan I pastors mere saad Nene) that still came of 1imwhat are you going to 49 In tha! firm shosk of tho discovery? | ae ane : eeu oe ne a cation seas geste that It lee tite You may have xteenth of a second for thy matamorphosis {n your mans | ea Bvigence thar the J tuoEnts wives. th 19 are the packers, j Mer and bearing and Ine of procedure. Can you make the chango? Certainly ee ial LAC liad ee ] you cannot approach the ons man as you would approach the other; ff vou ho | 2A! toples than they used to Jo. ‘Aires Joke Hope | seeking a salaried position ‘inder such a man, indesd, you may have te discover | & pthl 2 ANd) a0) marries In men of yourself in that first {ustant tha: you and he are impossible as business “at-| Further evidence of thelr close waten Mt Mita back to He in finitles."” on current eventa in the sion of Moss be tait white As a Lusiness proposition, the man with a business instinct and capacity can-| More of them to go Into faw thin Inia | not do betier i\Molpation of a bualnoss futerview than first to assure himse!f any other profession, Must hav read | 2 Rr offlce may be the dectding | of the type of man whont he ts to niet. ‘This will be a hard study for the person some of the published facts alot inet Interesto 1 in tainted money &, eafeguard his itme for a| who has not some knowledge of nen perhaps, but # will be the easter task In the company legal fees and Eq le re: § will observe that a Staten neces! He may resort | €nd merely because of the effort, tainers, ‘ wife left her busband tn Ailt hat te off-color may wreck m man's prospects tn_many a clreumstance, | se | (aren than se on tha inoney. He.enrny in many another m C98 y c to ta nN , " Wich? ah ng. HOU ES OE i y nan dress that may smack a Mtilo too atrongly of the caref Aha whitarslilly nv oollseacaunseete, Je | eas 7 Johu A, Howland, tn the Harlem Frenzied Gransit. NCE thare was a man from pompton n, j, and he came to nu yoark and rode up and down on the subbway all day long and then he said This nu yoark scenery ain't all it’s cracked up to be and when he was asked what was the straingest sites he saw in all nu yoark he said Thare was 2 of them and one was the underground ralerode running up in the air at manhaten streat and the other was tho ellevayted running underground at a hundred and 65th streat, freeks happen to rappid transit just as if the cars and tranes had sald We will behalve propperly untill we get as far north as a hunderd and 25th streat and then we'll cut loose and bave a good time. the subbway runs oaverhedd and the ellevayted runs underground and the amsterdain avnoo cars gets twisted and run ackross town to therd aynoo and the cars labeled Brodway get exited and run down 139th streat to the foart lee ferry, and if it wuzzent for the ferry howse thay wood probably but noboddy maikes a kik becawse fokes up in harlim are greatful to have cars go in anny dirextion at all so long as A, P, TERHUNE, when you get to harlim all soa likew! Good ould harlim. The Girl from Kansas « « & By Alice Rohe. THE FLOWER OF THE TOMBS. * BY amazement. “ie--the gentleman ts h hm in at once! No, not | here,!* Rex Vennor, wet, dishoy cryin’, Rex Venner, cloned the door behind him le and Mme. Delorme witch studying and wonder! of the ather, on legs and rain of the night, Rex tad sought a similar the desired change After walling briskly into the dark doorway of ho ratse’ his | lind tatted uptown covered that both he a.¢ t h me alone in the © of the corridor | word (oward the "Flower of th of the voluminous raincoat important Item of the expedition—money. He had | was pertious lo luok upon, i ; He tey ra aeorsiee hour, Be ih aeeraerneassit We THe IE he Gla wo a dagen of hte fevows stooa | Before ha could touch however, the [not a jenny im hls pockets, his ow money having | And he told her Wrlely of the danger Amy Ciara eHanthe anes buns toe osu te dorama tee cena 4 Nai is ready and eager to avenge the Insult with fst and | fisure of a man appeared mat, heap (sched up with tne rest of his'vuluahles when, | Was itt that moment undergoing for his sake, Pane feemed too ood to be wasted—when Mo down, When the time exerclse PUL ON | bog, “L saw you ahead of moe on Centre street, Uttle he firot went to the Tombe, and Amy having neg: "And." he concluded, “would you hays mo leave iM ash wae out looking at the accident. 1 stepped: your bathrobe ver your | And thus she came to where Rex awalted her, girl,” sald the stranger In the volce pecuilar to the | lected io think of the matter of trans tition, hor tieiy to suifct in my place while T hid be bata! as i SAAR cos took one of the two stones pay you feel cold. 1 wht come to ser clad In a long bathrobe, at the desested a New York masher, “and your sult care seemed ton | Thus he had been compelled to walk tha entire | your wuirta? Madam, you must hav: nd put an Imitation from the lower drawer in its disia = nee uptown to Mo and tasty may be as ruinous to prospects. What kind of a man Js 4t on whom | brary, and, withous giving or recei ting salutalica, faced each 0! After his adyonture in the Centre street doorway sf clothing, Cup on head, and with the raincoat, vell and hat in tho suit case, 1 may be noted that. Miss Eleanor 1 Thy r aca all? Ne found b Gov. | i Oh ee vile shan berets you Introduce yourself In the pri Pear eels tal ty tho. Standard. OM watfaree te flee hi Pe oh ne tnes® of his office. | qogroe, Seams to be getting the recommend the ad ’ ize him up for yourself from sight, ask about him, and judge well of the fudy-| and hes already acquired enough an emblen RUIN lene eel inent of others, ‘Then be voursel! if yeu ean In the meeting, but aomething 80 ging to put her In the Presidential Ulnehi Patnabe prastiia andthe Woes see ey Hata : Du ctlve, and the wons ness Is business, clasa, der will be that Kansas should find os 4 6 It neesssiry to go beyond her ows Barkless Dogs. Many remarkable stock ventures borders to wet a new Idea, floated In Wall atrest, but doubtful if it] go © teach a dog not to bark would) wit take kindly to the proposition mate Re seem to be as impossible by a Western minister to underwrite THE MOON, teaching a child not to cry or a roy mot to talk loud. But there Is a case on record where a dog was 9 taught, though ft took the trainer threo years to accomplish it, Then he thought he had a dog that differed from all other dogs in the world, but In this he was mistaken, for there ore at least three varietics of doxs that never bark—the lon-headed dog of Thibet, the shepherd dog of Egypt and the Australian dog. These would be vhe right kind for pets, xo that nervous $50,000,0 of bonds In a “Cooperative Christian Federation." Treasures in Heaven not acceptable as collateral In the street. The moon rode high within the sky, The little stars attended, And held their breath es though in death At her procession splendid. Above the line of cedars fine A man and maiden viewed hep And eyes grew soft as there aloft ‘The spoonful eyes pursued hert The tnfluence was sure immense, ‘Thetr attitude did show it; i} | . | Kansas Clty boy who has stretched himstif two inches to reach the mini- mum height required for entering the Naval Academy is now almost up to Nelson's stature. May yet pull himself vp to the quarter-deck. Interesting to note that the stretclfng idea has ex- rts of quear 1zo thay do, tended to the University of Colorad people would not be disturbed at night, | rado, | He murmured: "How The law in some countries is very se-| Where experiments on ten stujents have pow!!! eeshentins, vere on night-barking dogs. In Japan, Tesulied tn elongating thelr bodice by | gh, ‘What's your fav'rite poet? New Orleans Times Demoorat, al from two to five Inches within two months. Apparently hope for the “short- for instance, the owner of one is able | to arrest. > ef The Laughos “T understand," sald one Russian Gen- cope Je 1B moved," sighed the Giri from Kansas. “No, somewhere Dalsy thought some one was ruaning a stalment man was around to-day and we got a double | era}, “that the Japanese are planning a ’ goose farm in the nelghboruood, but after a while the | cot that looks like a loveiy couch, AN of our dishes | gurprise.”* ; remarked the tomperance y Janitress, who, I'm afrald 's going to be almost as bad | and things we bougnt at the ten cent store, and, say’, ible, answered the other. | moequtt Gan Teadily believe that a as our erstwiillo landlady, came tearing up to know [It's fine, Oh, of course, we have a plano. It fils up could eta prise us now.—| tiene te Rt become paralysed by why we hudn't answered the damb waiter, so mucii room we don't need anything else and we | Washington Star, ing wome people 1 know." —Philadel “Yes, we know what a dumb walter {s now, It's a | hired a lovely one for $44 a Oh, 1 guess we'll ee Fila erst sliding affair where you get your cream and ice sont | get along all right, We've only had one scrap with the | . 2 a | up perl led the lady on the floor below don't eneak satitress ‘Phat was hecaure she tried to beat us out | ‘My son," he sald sternly, as, switch) He (morallzing) — After all man te inner , ( + ay i ty [In hand, he confronted the lad, “do you weak. then first, ‘That's @ stale vaudeville Joke, you eay? | of §2 for cleaning tho windows, and whenever anybody | 0 Uns fe, ; ae 18 Bete Well, 1 can't help that, {t's true, and I don't see where | would deliver furniture she would atand at the foot of | KNOW why 4 am goin $e See ew lyou know Yen union thers Hi RurengeN " the Joke comes In, the stairs and scream out that we owed a poor, hard- iat sheen fellow, OW—Topeka State Journal, ‘ in “You know the folks at home would have a spell | working woman money, We fixed her, though, and 1) i og 7 Tee DIRES BID ties Of course the world may ow Hi if they could see Daisy and me living {n a house that | guess we'll have a now jan‘tress next week, There's PP BOO A living to us, though * iy t cover any more ground than the red barn, but | one adVantage of the Janitress over the landlady. She ¢) 8) @ AVare abl tn fice, " chueked full of people. ‘They just simply wouldn't bo-) simply can't get into your rooms and yeu can have| "I see by the papers,” remarked © Fate unkind!— i Leve lt, your own keys Lauschinan, ‘a certaln doctor claims that Collections very slow, jl “We're golng to furnish It real cute, Yes, the in- | “What makes you smile when I say Hariem the bite of a mosquito may lead to —Philadelphta Ledger, i NAN PATTERSON. g@ | subsequent opening and closing of the front door, Miss Clare, Go back to her. Let her shelter you name. In return I promise th. ‘ " See enero ith an unenveloped wate, which [and save you {f ahe can—or will, Or, stay!” she |you took them, 1"— ABO On SHAH RRO \ his heart stood still as |she nanded to her mistress, Mme. Delorme glanced |added, impulsively, ‘I make, you a falr offer, I] Mme, Delorme staggered to her feot and, as if in buat tre two scrawled pencil lines In incredulous {tm not rok, but I have endugh for two. 1 wil! |daze, went to her desk. Lg Opening 0 secret drawer in the ‘back of the escritoire she drew forth @ emall Wooden box and placed {t In Rex's hand, “Take {t!"* she cried hyster cry betore I repent of my folly! RITE SERS On ee Venner engerly seized on the box and opened it Thero in a heap of cotton wool blazed a iuge dia mond, He recognized it at a glance as one of the’ two missing Belgrade gems, and a thnll of Joy ran through him, He searched the cotton wool for the ce eas it was not there, here 1s the other one? The es Fondt HprewMen IN eactioneby ee “I do not know." Ho looked at her incredulously. Yet there was no #iyn of dissimulation either in her face or her mannes as she repeated: hide you here In my own houso until the search for you 1s over, Thon we will marry and go to Paris, I have property I can turn tnto enough money there to enable us to live in luxury, You may think dt te unwomanly of me to throw myself at your head Ike this, bat when we Southern women lov» we love with our wholo hearts, See! I, in whose veins runs tho royal blood of cid Spain, offer my hand, my life, my wealth to you! It ts nothing to me that you aro Iron, disgraced and a fugitive from justi you that pale-faced Northern girl offer proo? of davoiton ar I now offer you?" “She has offercd me a far greater proof,” repiled Rex, with oyes averted, for the splendid beauty anit | wild self-surrender of the regal woman before him “show In ere?’ she asked, Into the ¢rawing ro2u1, eled, haggard, entered the Thus fue a full minute cr In ailence, ing at tho allrred agpect ns nnd retreat unl had effects) Amy hail ever'coked ona Delorme's house, arriving | Op-on of me than I have of any person alive." | Place, ‘Then 1 ‘hurried out and Joined ‘the crowd that my long, loose raincoat, » big Hat and a hi ero's a cap tn this," she v sred-as ane dle | Hncouraged by the supposed giri's frightened si-|there a little after 6 drenched, footaore and dis: | To wis astonislinent Mme, Delorme, after gazing | filled the front store, coming back a few moments MEARE atstortic mane for) sour lovmip onthe oonty.| vested kewmale THE WIA Cd: Relnwouce amen ae Ibiike, the ThUEGdeN BrSSRBHEA LG chioh WARE CheteanllauiRaged) AWudly at hin for a moment, sank ino a chair, Jator when the salesroom wag no longer empty, 1 was hat and yell and leave the prie | utalde slip into some doorway and take off these | aid mode a playful attempt to raise it It wes Mme, Detorine who broke tue silence, nut Gurying her fave in her hands, burst into on not pressed for ready money, but my capital wae fast ‘ ‘But you?" tuings of mine and_-put then ia the big. ‘Then put | The next Instant he was whining backward to-| + tavught—I—I wes told you wero in prison,” she | Ue enable pacoxyamn CEN AUT EA TC TS ning Ine ani 2 would nevenheve 96 good 6 OB AReE te rial \ “Y whall put on your bathrobe over my dress, go |on the cop and continue your journey aa it you | ard the gutter from the impact of a crashing loft+ lexcluined, “It eeema 1 was deceive’ land f'0, her whole queenly tuim shaken and von-| place myself beyond the roach of want, 1 knew of ‘ ack to my cell hefore the hour is over, had ao reason at all to fear, If you look about yon | hand blow on the Jaw, ‘You wore not deceived, madam,” replied Rex, | Vulaed with #ops, ; 4 jelaces In Paria and Amsterdam where I could eet tie, akAGeA wid’ cover my thi maven andl he CURVE WAV POUVere GoIng How (he Oral 16s . . . . . . he perscn who told you 3 was In prison {8 too), 14% Nehner leaned smnir vi Ay mantel, staring at | diamond recut, And""— ' Ke that way, as if aslee he keeper comes | tooman you meet will arrest you on susple Here | Mme. Delorme gat under the sa shaded cluster st to He. i es from tho ‘Tombs an hour | her in*stupld, ‘helpless La) “Then where is the second Belgrade diamond? Both } Jock the call, It \ y unvthreda, too, It'e ratuing hard." of electric Inmps that lighted her tiny Hbrary, ‘che ond T have came atectly to you, At length she raised her head and the man was hor-' were stolen, Ah, Madame, if you have (t, complete el But if is discovered he Wax speaking she had fglshed the ex- | March rain lashed and boat against the windows and ou have eseuped? ao tifted at the alteration in her distorted, tear-defiled your deed of nu.e generosity and rostore it to me, “Ey won't be, till you get back, T ‘The only nye of costumes aud had arranged the vell close |the beavy el T am here,’ seaturen \ Epos eal danger {8 when you go thr vhat Iighted | about Rex's features, in the draught they shut o7 ) hallway downstairs and past the doorkeeper, dus You'd make n lovely girl!' she murmured with | the room, SF etop on the way in and talk with the doorkeeper a pysvtercal Uttle laugh as she stood back to survey | Tho South Amer'can was trying to read, lor 4 minute, #9 he can see my cowt As long | ver handiwork, “Now, go! And—God bless you!” |eftort was futie you return before 1) o'clock there ts no earthly | ‘Yhe man gathored her close to his breast and the |her bovk Feason why you should be detected. Then, when | lips he premicd to hers were like ico, ‘Then ho re-\noals of the little open snate. a lo Ket back and up here at your own ceil, we | leased her and startet on his perilous Journey. Down | had grown strangely wan ss, fave to tel! the keeper of the ther, But as he |the winding stairway of that grim bullding, where nN aking ‘riles by letting us talk together outside | averytaing seems to be of stone ot fron, and where |)ad ylelded to a furt.ve h at exercise hour he {5 not Hkely to betray |avery one who does not wear a hat ‘s a prisoner— | pens olatly when he sews you are exfely in his |to the ground floor and out into the lighted hallway, We Gre oimost exactly of a helght, and’—— | past the counsel rooms and "searching" rooms and pertcres sway {he muffied wihir of the From time to time rhe laid aside with a sigh and gazed Into tho glowing few days and her former buoyant gayety of manner Bo felf-mbsorbed wan she that she fatled to hear and Nat in of no concern, ml you came strnipit murmured the Sour An, than to him, and some of crept back to her cheek ple'on, she asked: "Wh; "To throw myself on slowly une from tho interior of but the 1 Her beautful tace and lined duriig the past blight my whole\lifo and t At this last yoftoned at the bekinning took of misery end bus- | @lectrio doorbell, mor tho} ‘J thought #0!" your mercy, vex you to right a great wrong. jAuse madam's face, took on a look of dyld fury. eneered, “To help “What de you want?’ she walled, brokenly, {a it you wish of me?’ Something told Rex that this was the psycholog'cat moment that might not come twice in a Ufetime, rhe woman's spirit and pride were momentarily broken; and he must press his advantage while the sorter moo# endured. “What do you want me to do?” ghe repea .a Letseen ‘her eobs, ‘ { “T ask you to right the wrong you have done—to give B de diamonds you atole, that I may " lear my. ‘a “what to me--to ine first of all,” crigan, racher to herself the former radtant color Then, with a note of sun ave you come here?” madam, To To awk you not to hat of another.’" which had of his plea, hardened and ‘1 know nothing of it,’ she affirmed, solemnly, swear It by the Blessed Virgin and by'— "It in enough!" he interrupted. "You are telling the truth, And I—I am thrust ack Into the darkness Of the maze just as I thought I was coming out into the sunlight! The mystery is a8 black and unfathomanie as ever!’ x “Where are you going? sho asked, as he moved towanml the door, hh