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It was President by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Mow, New York. Wontered at the Post. iatotdl at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, ostracism: for plutocratic thieves. » pointed out that the great corporations, the Standard Oil, the Beef Trust, “the Coal Trust and the railroads, by their ownership of the Legislatures, #0 often heard of the wonders of New _ Set themselves above the law and that the ordinary machinery of the law | not abolish the resulting evils. and women of breeding, intelligence, education and social standing treat rich men who ought to be in Sing Sing like ex-convicts who} 16, O19, vivre NO. ROCKEFELLER AND YALE. Hadley, of Yale, who invented the remedy of social In an address several years ago he He accordingly recommended that lLetters From the “| People By aaa. de elisa Fridey Evening,.— June 30, 1905. R, POWERS has given us a successor to M the Little Black Man, She is the Little Slack Lady and ta the chronology of his | inimitable cartoons she follows him, But as 0 matter of fact she came first, All living men will | end Answers to ag te Quasiony agree to that, and {f any woman ventures to dis Our Exclusive Stock Exchange. To the Editor of The Evening World: Iam a visitor to New York, Having York's Stock Exchange I resolved pase an hour in Its gallery. I presented myself at the door, only to be turned |away with the information that I could [not enter without @ pass. This I could not got as I knew no broker, I think this a very unjust rule, The Stock Ex- to pute It millions of ghostly victims may ¢ise to | give her the le, | Who was the first Little Black Lady? good simple hearted old Mother Eve, ‘The woman that Thou gavest me tempted mo and I did eat.” Could there be more emphatic declaration of her right to the title than this confession of her rueful spouse? And over since the line of Little Black Ladiea| Why our we trail garments of inystic aamite heights of idealism, dwelling remota ible to men aa the Alpine edelweis, somewhere In the valley below some man who, épying us, will ery out, “There is my Little Black tady, It was my love for her that drove me to this!" And even he who, more adventurous than tho rest, struggles upward till we reach out sheltering arms to him and take him, weary and travel- stained, to-our hearts, will glance hypereritically at the mire with think mournfully of all his Little Black Lady has made him undergo, The Little Black Lady has many aliases, In- deed, every man who falls in love with her and} over th» Inacces: there will be) hich he has bespattered us and | The Little ap: a Lady 4 4 By Nixola Greeley-Smith Kipling, t know and did not understand, Tt has always seemed to me strange that a man shouid reproach the Little Black Lady for not un- derstanding. If she understood, she'd quit, So would the farmer looking upon a shell game for the first time, For the game of leve in which the Little Black Lady figures is one in which her alleged victim holds all the cards and her only chance of winning is on a bluff, ‘The fact that we are all@ittle Black Ladies to | some one grows out of the wonderful, self-justify- ing faculty of tho masculine mind, that pecullar bias which would mako a bank burglar, if he hay: pened to fall in love with St. Theresa, attribute the firat robbery in which he was caught to his mad infatuation for her, the Vampire, or the woman who did aot — Beauty % % Hints —_——_— By Margaret Hubbard Ayer Cure for Red Nose, G. MA red nose ts cused by bad circulation and often by stomach trouble, Living in bad+ ly ventilated rooma will often also pros duce this disfiguroment, Exercise a8 much as possible; be moderate in your diet; get plenty of fresh alr and avold all Uihtness of clothes around the body, and for outward application try this: Glycerine, 1 ounce; rosemary water, 1-3 punce; carbolic acid, thoroughly and apply to the face wits 1 soft nen cloth or a velvet sponge. The Depilatory. jes are permanent cures, but you J. can keep the hair in abeyance perfectly If vou apply the pastet wher ever the haly begins to grow again, The only nermanent cures are, as I have freq uy sald, electric needle and the X Henna for the Hair, M C.—No, henna ts not tnjurious ° when used on the hair, and, 'f Still keep te silly Properly applied, the hair will recommend olive or cocoa oll for mas- % drops. Mix has been unbroken from generation to generation. Wo are all Little Black Ladies, indeed. Though’ d' been in Sing Sing and that refusal of social recognition, friendly asso- tion and social equality should be the punishment of the criminal rich. In contrast to these excellent sentiments is President Hadley's accept- “nce of $1,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller as an addition to tha maintenance fund of Yale University, Henceforth part of President at ane | (iroket explain dley’s monthly salary will be Standard Oil money. Part of the sala- ‘STRANGER Providence, Rt. fles of the professors of economics, social science, American history, A Mother's Dilemn philosophy and morals will be Standard Oil money. As one of the) 7the PAltor of The Rvening World: blames her for it gives her a new name, The| Some of us, of course, are blacker than others, most popular just now is that invented by Mr. | But there is small comfort in that, The Mystery of Dreams. _9@ _ By Sir Arthur Mitchell, K.C.B. To fs no such thing as a dreamlesa fleep, During the whole continu- Dreaming Is mental recreation, The study of dreams appears to lead to the fol- change Ss one of the sights of your wonderful city, and I see no reason why a well-dressed, respectable atrangor should not be admitted to Its gallery. | T understand that in other cities ad- | C, C.=None of the paste depilatore ance ol #leop the mind, I believe, 1s occupied with a certain kind of think-) lowing opinions, says Sir Arthur Mitchell In the Chicago Tribune; That there !s ing, which works arjund hallucinations, Every one has some dreams) no such thing as a dreamless sleep, That thinking 1s Involuntary—to the extent, % Now that vacation {s here the annual | Which he thinks ho remembers clearly, and which he can recount In a fashion at least, that we cannot ccase to think under any order of the wil, That) Graduates put it: “No objection to tainted money, We will take all that} verioa of anxiety for us city mothers | When awakened. Often when awakened a person will assert that he has not | thinking never ceases during life, and is essential to the continuance of life, John D. Rockef: i ( bewine, If we keep our children cooped | been dreaming, Nevertheless, after w Iapse of time, he may remember that he ‘That dream thinking Is uncontrolled and undirected by the will, Is never co- in D. Rockefeller will give even if we do have to pay a little more TW 'inaoore they will, wufter for tte Tt had been dreaming aid may be able to remember what he dreamed, If a per| herent and concentrated, 18 more ot less of the same character as thinking in for oil.” | we let them play in the streets there {# | in resolves every time he s awekened to ask himself immediately whether he! delirium, and constitutes @ state of mental disorder which 1s not a state of With the professors drawing part of their stipends from the Standard ol donation and looking forward to old age pensions out of the Car- | danger from automobiles, wagons, mad has teen dreaming, he will generally be aware that he has just passed out of u disease, dogs, kidnappers, &c. If we send them ‘ream, | chat thinking, when awnke, {s always to some extent under control of the to the parks !t means expenditure of If thore 1s no dreamless sleep, (hen it seems to follow that the brain ts un- will, ‘Nhat there are many degrees of sleep and wakefulness, and as many de-, carfare we can {ll afford, If they go | ceasncly at work elther i dream thinking or in thinking that goes on when we grees of eMcioncy {n the controdling and directing power of the will | megie fund, it will require most unnatural, ungrateful and almost super) gown by the river quality, I do not they may drown. | are nwake. Both kinds of thinking differ muoh in different Individuals, What thinking, like breathing or the beating of the heart, does not cause a) fAging the fice, as both are apt to give human mental efforts to prevent the teachings at Yale from being impreg-|1f we were penniless, societies would | rhe continulty of the thinking part of brain work may appear to Prevent | senge of weariness, though all three, of course, have a wearlng out effect on ail the skin a yellowish look, I think ba hi send our litle ones (o the gountry, If| that refreshment to the mind which we commonly regard as obtained through | the organs concerr will Ike this marsage cream as a 8 / nated with some of the spirit which made possible the amassing of the | we were rich we could take them there | sleep. Tut refreshment may come without stoppage of work. Change may be) ‘That tho will's initbiting and directing work brings fatigue and a demand stitute for tho oll: Laanoline, 21-8 Rockefeller and Carnegie contributions. It was not to be unexpected that ght being poor and self-up- | gimoient. In somo parts of the work of the brain it is certain there is no stop- | for resi. [ounces anermacetl, 84° ounces, white at the Yale alumni di ited Ss 1 Yale al | make thelr sumuwer happy and sat page. Tts work, for example, of currying on respiration and the circulation of That the will finds ite rest and refreshment In sleep. Ynsoline, 2 1-2 ounces; cocoanut ol, 7 ‘ale alumni dinner a United States Senator, also a Yale alumnus, Mri the blood never ceases. ‘The thinking part of the brain's work may be regarded) ‘hat the frequent occurrence of a state of disordered mind occurring In sleop NCES! sweet almond ofl, 2 ounces; { should be the first to commend the Rockefeller donation, How Shall He Live on $10 in a sense as involuntary, though it can be modified and directed by the will, | does not do us harm, but, on the contrary, does us good. ive of benzoin, 1-2 dram. Melt the To the Editor of The Evening World, ui Ingredients together, veat I am a young man newly gone tnto adding the u33 0: es, “WHAT'S THE CONSTITUTION?” Dusiness, T am on 8 salary of $10 a week . . 5 vlvop by drop; during Unis bred: Fn seoking to overrle seaion 11 of artcle Vi of the Consituton it aTaeee weeee:| DOING Business from the Jury BoOx.--By Martin Green wis rice iian em young man of moderate tastes to live | and keep Judge Hooker on the bench the unconstitutional precedent Knock-Knees, be Five hundred de: E site of the City Hall. scendants of Jonathan Steelman claim title to the Why does not some one claim to be the owner of | young men who In no way belong to or associate with the hoodlum olass who infest the neighborhood, SPIRIT OF FAIRNESS. feels, but he is seldom as rich as he alu ‘A girl who can love but once spends the most of her time in front of @ mir- see the finnish of thare bankroal. it is a fine and gloarius thing to have freo ejukation for the masses and peeple shaike hands with themselfs and say Thank goodness ejukation js still on the free list and just then maymy patron. A single Treasury note measures 8 1-8 Inches In width by 7 1-4 inches In length, It will sustain, without breaking, length- LOVE !S ALL. or jonny comes running In and exklaimes gleefuly Komensement |s com- wise, When the prize has been won at last on, yet I would like not only to live, but 44 SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, ‘that a) does care about a dancing class he has to steer) be allowed to bring his tools into court and sit _ would be followed by which he now draws extra pay on the Appellate | {010 0140 0 ieee one ee oak: Judge in a murder trial in the Criminal| every afternoon at 2 o'clock. Then it will be Up crosslegged on the stenographer's table, A doiler- G Tmeatiaey ceaeeeeeates ‘Division of the Second Department. ing, oF who have worked, on my present Courts 1s allowing a cotton broker on DORE treat a gs ae Ten Whey araracen ate SoU Beene we atid Abie @UNY. De at your age, elther by lex exere | icle V i salary please - cause with botler-maling in court the lawyer by mechanical massage and pose Seciion 2 of the same Arlicle Vi is violated every time the full may be done and how much I ought to Jury to direct his Wusiness from the Jury while the professor agitates the unwilling feet of couldn't he heard. Rut an insurance neent or solv the wis ot @ brace, | bench of the second Appellate Division holds a session. This section | ih fet.g" *#° ERNEST J. | box,” his pupils. | vook solicitor should errtainly be allowed to con- An Offensive Breath “provides that the majority of the justices in each Appellate Division Suggests Corsets for Men, “Why shouldu't we be kind to the poor business! “Likewise, {f Herman Muldoon, bricklayer, 18 AM yorgo with his vietims back of the Jury box, The pear shearer ae | Shall be residents of that judicial department. There are seven Judges in Ty the maltee ot he Evening World: | |man?” askod the Man Higher Up. “He neods the acceptable Juryman, tt would be the height of In| precedent has been established that jury sery Gin HIT er aeecure utara anneal the Brooklyn Appellate Division, only three of whom: reside in that ap- thelr negligee shirts and belts? Few | money, But as long as we are carrying out the) Justice to cut him off from his $5 ae ue siall not compel any man to sacrifice any of his Le ; aineay nee e By pellate department. Judge Hooker Is one of the four non-resident judges|™men who have any tendency to plump- | principle of kindness why not be kind to every heyday of the bricklaying season. Therefore It income," TBpRALS: BUC IESOURC REM TSTRRI hi Ki th pe tut ' jority of thi ci | ness fail to look ridiculous and hippo-|hoqy? If Mr. Cotton Broker can attend to his Would be up to the Judge in the event of Herman) «put if rd be stuck on a jury and took my iny way causing the trouble you Ripe rene UP) Ane “unconstty sone eg a eon hi eee ke Oe tat wants business from the jury box why cannot Prof,| being chosen to try a murderer to have the bulld- cigar store to court I'd miss the transient trade would better Have them attended to at Judges from up the State who sit in Brooklyn receive $17,300 a give the figure even as good a shape | Aloysius Schwartz, the dancing master? Ing upon which the bricklayer 1s employed moved | that drops into the store," protested the Cigar ones. OF If your digestion Is dad, whiten _ year salary, instead of $7,200, the additional $10,300 being paid from’ as aoes the ordinary vem would be| “When Prof. Schwartz {s summoned for jury) Into the court-room and make the court attend-) sire Man, is often the cause of bad breath, gut f. the New York City treasury. This large bonus at the expense of the a) eibroy eee er Aa SANS So duty he can truthfully say that he don’t care| ants carry the hod, “Maybe the Judgo would move the court to‘, ra ae Wb neta ibe ior Yo i people of the city of New York was given Gov, Odell as a reward for senile shirt and belt and no vest, | Whether the defendant is guilty or not, but that he ‘The busy tailor accepted as a juror ought to! your cigar store,” replied the Man Higher Up, gio your Fmenla’ acid) L) gram) boris political services. Neither he nor the judges who receive it permit the MARY F, eed as Ba amnay thyme (hg meld) 8 constitutionai prohibition to stand in the way. Rowdtes Are Ontslders. Pointed Paragraphs. Little Willie Ss Guide to New York. Tough Bank Notes. tnoture of enlae, 10 grame; distilled As that learned jurist, ‘Timothy Justinian Campbell, used to say, | 7, om (uot ot the ainenie Mee. teh OVE fs blind to the interests of all That Uncle Ban's notes stand a great | water 1 pints, rf 4 ” A | ty i i deal of rough and careless handli a tinge the mouth wi v "what's the Constitution between friends ?”’—especially when one of the! bornood of West Fufty-seventh and Bee oe ot eNeaiin Commencement Week. tack Lhat linprenses 1eeelt uate ane one kWHich /aNoUTd be dlisted ton Guest) tbe friends is the Governor of the State and the other friends are justices | PiftY“ighth streets, 1 know powitively | ai. the average man honest, HIS Is the time of yeer when nu yoark parents are glad to reed the}W20 has ever chanced to note the man- proportion of one-half tooth wash to ; phe Ww. the longer I y way thay Hen the a * pulls samo quantity . ; Col aint ri Iity of tnault! ‘The plainer the woman the longer It staitment that ejukation Is free hecnttse that ts the only way thay{ner in whlen t u vanity of clear water, Use Bec cubreme: Court, : pedestrians, They belong to respects | takes her to select a becoming bonnet, cood evver find {t out, it is komensement weak at the publick skools{@"d Jerks the bills by pushes after each meal and at any time roe : ee rth Ways ihe; Hea ‘as hey working | A young man may be as old as he} and the high skools and by the end of komensement weak moast parents $ ‘hem through the window to the waiting | BG eee Tammany Hall? Possibly the heirs have the two mixed, 2 weight of 41 pounds; a weight of % pouncs, The four to a shest wide by 13 1-2 sheets crosswise, notes run 1 sheet being 8 i-4 Inohes Inches long, One of thea» Jengihwise will suepend 108 pounds, and crosswise 177 pounds. Tt will be observed that a single ror, No woman would ever quarrel with a man if it wasn’t for the pleasure of making it up again. A girl doesn't really believe that @ | young man never made love to another girl, but she says she does, And the laurel 1s on the brow; When the struggle and atrife are past 1t will not matter, I yor, What honor we're called t® share it joy. be not there, not there, ming so pleeze get me a entire new layout of kloathes to be komensed in and munny for the class prezzent for deer teecher and munny for my oan prezzent for deer teecher and munny for the class pin and the class ring and the class flower and munny for the flowers for deckorayshuns and for the class offering. and by that time pa's bank ackownt looks like a high hat that has heeroickally tride to stop un ottomobeel, pa says he has to koff up Remember the Slocam, To the Ealtor of The Evening World: Every time I eee an editorial on the Slocum disaster or any printed refer- ence to It I feel like writing the editor and saying: Let the subject be aired | President Roosevelt said at Harvard that he regards ‘Professional "boxers and wrestlers and oarsmen and baseball men as thoroughly good citizens,” Why not? e note is icine Woes Ea resh ' an} moar munny for the privvilidge of havving me and sister resite Kurfue shal capable of sustaining, crosswise, a J \nen we touch the goal at the end If one juryman is permitted to gamble in otton the Saiscrneett BUN Hosier el et ea dal ed rags afaure “sne} Hot ting tonite on a skool platform in all the kloathes that's fit to ware) “ight of 9 pounds, witch te twlee ihe T sng the race has at last been Tun, i Pe Ennis 3 remaining | As ‘ Byarcela yn syh 2 than he wood have to pay in order to reealize on an eckwittable deferred , When the plaudits through the air ascend, Prociaiming the victory won, It shall not matter what crown wo 4 war If love be not there, kept in the press then the power of the e can sustain lenthwis press must sooner or later right the evils that are rampant. Your editorial | fon the subject entitled "A Skeleton in | he Sand” ts fin H. L. REED, | Thomas E, Watson, candidate of the People’s party for President last |" Gio be Je REED 4 pear, is the last victim of ice-cream ptomaines, while makes up. ‘What has become of the old-fashioned woman who used to roast her own cof- fee? Never judge a man's ability as a |horse trader by the prayers he offers A. A—The Legal Ald Soclety ts at lin public, No, Se Broaaway, | A man can make or lose a fortune are |whlle two women are saying good-by John S.—Cramps in swimming are) tg each other. variously caused by indigestion and the| yortunatuy @ mother never knows oldness of the water, If the swimmer just what the neighbors really think dividend whattevver that may meen, but free ejukation 1s a innestimmible; boon to the poor for on komensement weak it guards them from all dainger! of getting alead of the bank. good oald komensement weak. A. P, TRRHUNE, {i of ths sheet ty o¢ Hi ret lacks Pounds of double the sus taining power'of the lengthwise sheet. id ces | | 8,000 a ‘en of those in the front rank have to | attractive, Doctors’ and Lawyers’ Fees. not there, bar is not unduly paid tn HE bo France. Fees, comparatively, are remarkably small, One or two conspicuous counsel gain from $35,000 to but Energy of Radium. HE quantity of energy put forth by radium {s very Jar, Bx- pressed as heat, it 1s sufficient to its welght of water to boiling Expressed as power, Wor the wreath Is naught without love, And fame ts a paltry thing, And the prize 1s but bless above When love Is the hope and spring, 4 The Longest Duel. L which was fought in Paris ntly lasted nearly two hours A anda half, There were twen three encounters, and as neither man : | + \ *Hinky Dink” and “Dry Dollar” will show the effete monarchies | fwhat-real government is. trom the great majority year, ralse point In an hour, a | will retain his presence of mind they | of her children, the energy of a ‘saltspoonful would lift} was touched the seconds declared that{ pe content with much smaiier incomes. T yeox ait trlumph 18 only despalt 1 Neved. Do not go into the water for/ ably Nye on wind {f the bride's pa$hy the most powerful chomical energy i @duel courage and insisted ON FE LONC ae eee ey beading operators make their Chicago Chronicle. feeth ?, at least an hour and a half after eating. | would raise it for them.—Chicago News. ?hitherto known. tton, $100,000 or $10,000 a year, GF THE FLOWER OF THE TOMBS. € BY NAN PATTERSON. an SXNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. department superintendent at ; cell, Rotner's/ bars, It gequired five minutes of rapid and forceful argue | ment to convince the keeper that his own safety and smiling mischlevously at hm from behind the immediate reply, but sat motionless, "At length he asked: “Does Venner know you care for him?” "We are engaged.’ I cannot understand, “Let me make it then know I can make you happy. no right, perhaps, to Impose upon you with my per+ sonal troubles, but you have always been so good to me—and I am willing to pay you. I have nearly $76 | laid by,"’ [char Ms name, When that ta done, I shail be ready to df) sneritice myself for the sake of the man 1 love; even t though it be a harder fate than to die for him. this felon and be grateful to me for saving you from . ’ . . . . I love you « Soon you will f Charles ‘sadclous value) to Amy Clare, hin tlancee. r for whom Amy works as @ famous Saray ine HARCLAS So position depended on his saying nothing, At the end ‘And you did not tell m There was a world of| ‘There js no question of payment'’ he answered, |him. ‘Nherefore, for your own sake, as well as for) The trial wore on with few details of sensationalism, gné Mine. Delo Breadane, are tho” prevent of that time he relocked Rex in his cell, and with quiet reproach in his tone. ‘Miss Clare,” he con-/almost rudely. "As you know, I never touch even |My own, I make you this proposition: If you will A large crowd, attracted by the unusual naturo of the : fre stolen an arrested, ie elleve that Mme, Delorme has but an iuisrvien with her puinge not from the Stomp isting Tile plaen tring (y5] Del gruff formality conducted Amy down the passage to the elevator, “It they had discovered me before I got to my cell,” thought Rex, as he looked longingly after her, “they'd thiued, “I have tried to make your position in my em- ploy’ as pleasant as possible and to consider your tn- terests in every way, Do you think it was quite falr | be my wife I will save Rex Venner from prison and will clear his name, Never mind how, But 1 can-- and will—do {t, Do you agree?" case, filled the courtroom, Rex's lawyer tolled man- fully tc extricate his client trom the close-woven net | wherewith Circumstance had enmeshed him, | the most ordinary cnse for less than $00. And this is no ominary case. Now listen, Mies Clare, I know more about this case than you seem to think, And, aking nla place ‘during to keep this from me?" {f you'll pardon my plain speaking, I don't belleve| ‘No! A thousand times no! If I'—— Rex Venner, seated bealde his counsel at the tong Tne two, Belarade diamonds, which | NAVe Kearched me and found that diamond, ‘Then It "I didn't keep tt from you! Indeed, I didn’t," she| this Venner fellow le worth} of you, I understand| "Consider! If you refuse, nothing can save Hex | yellow table, listened with growing despair as witnoss ‘Bh of ths | Would have been ten years’ hard Jabor for me, and no 4B ihe dsales at all know anewered, stung by the unjust reproof, "We did not) become engaged until the evening of the day we all! met at Rother'e, You left town that afternoon, you| romember, You left no address, #0 how could I com- munteate with you?" “Twas wrong," he said, briefly, “And—you say you did not become engaged until the evening the Jowel, theft was discovered? But surely you must have! known before then that Mr, Venner was in love with| you “But T didn’t, Venner from prison, 1 shall even consider It my duty to take this diamond to the authorities and toll them you brought ft to me from him, That would clinch his guilt with any jury in the lan "You—you villain!" “Now that is where you wrong me," retorted Beck~ with, easily, ‘I'm no cheap melodrama scoundrel, but @ man who honestly loves you and desires to save you from a bitter fate. For that reason I con- sider it my duty to tell the authorities what I believe concerning Venner, and my reasons for believing tt. | that he has frequently expressed a contempt for ordl- nary honesty and business Integrity and hag openly | said he only awaited a good chance to enrich himself | at his employers’ expense. Now'— “Wait! implored the girl, ‘It's true he said all those foolish things; but he didn't mean them, It was just his exaggerated way of talking. He has! had @ fearful lesson and— Oh! you can save him, | air, If any one can, Please—please go it! 1 will work | | my fingers to the bone, if heed be, to pay you." after witness coldly testitied against nim | throughout the long session, sat Amy Cia Ay pet and white as n death-mask, Her demeanor pussied and dlatressed Venner, tofore ‘sho had kept up his spirit and had ohet by prophecies of speedy and honorable release, But since her interview with Beckwith she had been strangoly changed from her former buoyant, happy She had told him nothing of the bargain the de- tective had exacted from her; but had contented her» Rex returns mistake, . . . . . ‘The next morning Beckwith returned to town, He seemed a Nitle thinner, a little grayer, a ttle more vored with Mfe in general than when Amy had last | 6een him, But as she entered his private office the wan, stern face softened and a look of genuine pleas: ure cre into the tired eyes as they looked on her fresh ng beauty, Amy opened the interview by taking from the bosom CHAPTER vi. The Vanished Diamond. MY CLARE, ewathed in the big bathrobe, her back to the grated door, waited through wnat med @ century of time, for the return or As dusk deepened into dark and hour alter Here- d hina I never dreamed of such thing. tf : rolf with the slatement that Beckwith would clear F crawled by, her nervousness grow wellnigh un- of her dress a little box, opening it carefully and de- Why, tt wasn't until that morning at Rother'a that I], Tiere #@ only one Payment that will be puMelents’ | tite, nies you care to marry me'— | him, Pearable, powiting on the table before the detective a diamond discovered I loved him. It wag all so sudden, #0; reeves arate VERT le onthe: of auch love ap), “Gl¥e me back the diamond! 1 will take it myseit| Just how the detective was going to do this netther Had Rex been captured? Jad an accident betatien tat litte red and shimmered with a myriad im-) beauttfult— yours, He le a thief and would ruin your life if he| to Mr. Rother and explain"— lane nor Rex could imagine, He was not In court, and im? What it?— prisoned fires. She checked herself hastily at memory of Venner's!| YOUrs: : “Explain that Venner | ( i | , ‘ enner gave It to you for safekeep- | us the trial progressed and no sign came trom Book > “Amy! For the first time In their long acquaintance Amy declaration that Beckwith also loved her. While she/™artied you, Why should I save him from merited ke ing? Do so If you wisi—but you have leas brain than auw t As the det punishment in order to wreck your future? with the prisoner and his sweetheart grew more and Phe voice that addressed nrouRN the Meu! grate » de from his habitual strong did not credit the statement, but attributed It to Rex's (i I credit with if don't see that such a mov | i was the vertas: wnisper; yet to Amy ¢ calm. sight of he started violently and jealousy, yet she did not wish to run the slightest, ¥ife of a criminal” —— would ee pats anit Hog uesuon: Dhar tg el ea MARC ta Jury, the whites aleston call of hope, Bhe sprang to the bars, there | ti’ hand he reached forward to seize it trembled as, chance of paining her employer, ‘That Beckwith—the| , “Stop! panted Amy, apringing to her feet, her) (0) a | i face aflame with indignation. ‘Take it If you will,” | haired judge chargin. She stretched out her hand, then withdrew it, leav- | strongly a, ainst the accuse, ‘The jury were out but half an hour. 'f with an agu “How aare you speak confront Rex, draped in raincoat and veil Ky a tremendous effort he Salned imperturbable, bored, brilliant Beckwith—could love | | so of the honest, true man I love! I—- Oh! forgive ‘Then they filed _ “I got past the doorkeeper again without speaking! ontrol, held the diamond up to the light, any one, much less a mere stenographer In his employ, ) 1 °° 14 you mean {t for the best, but you) {ng the stone on the table, Beckwith picked tt up and | pack into their seats, one by one, ‘I'he Judge and the He Whispered norvously. “He asked me a question, f it with the fe of an expert seomed to her the halght of absurdity, PE RAE . rite aap Rd ipa en aet tte Pea Heit eho ala aa CUS aie ia HOE Beevivdidn't anewer. 1 must waste no time, ‘rhe! jae Ne maids Malt to himeelt. 6 iat It Glens || Abd yeu naw noun ne, at your deve for him—or of) Npeckwith sat unmoved by this outburst, When the | safe door seomed to her like the shutting of the door| room; and Rex Vener, for tho first time, forgot the ~ MME esis neve arent AV VAVESNOL COW EOS hild, where did yo et Nes eae Hse ea nee eee at Tia ceekee aeiees girl subsided, sobbing, Into her chair, he resumed, as| of eternity between herself and Rex, Aen BE apediatora' fapees WhEMR | qaue cHaAl etn: wIEE AS Ho passed the cout, hat and vel! through the ty from first to last; beginning that morning—had asked you to marry him—It might | ‘0Ush sho had not rpoken: Sho gave way to a wild fit of despairing sobs, Beck-! him in thought night and day since the outset of the MPaVatGr Amy donned them ho drieily tela her ine | * . eitiad avidentiy-(savaneenl (mee Miss Clare, T repoat, this man is unworthy of you. | with gazed down at the lovely bowed head; his hard, | trial, All hig mind was now concentrated on the Rory of his visit to Mme, Delorme. ia [HOLD ckless plan of eseape she "No, no!’ she broke in, "Down in the bottom of | Your happiness js very precious to me, I cannot seo) weary face softening with a tenderness that beautitied | twelve good men and true” in whose hands lay his PMHiere's tho one diamond 1 got,” he tinished, hand Mi a und Rex's stormy interview with Mme, my heart I have always loved Rex. Only 1 did not YOU *uffer Ifclong misery from your mad infatuation | and ennobled tt. His hand stole forth and all but| future huppiness—or misery, 7 BENS ie little wooden box, “ive It to Mr. ie, ge | oelorm realize it until then.¥ |for such a fellow, And yet it Is hard to see you rested on the burnished gold culls of hatr; then witn-| "Gentlemen,”' droned the court officer, after Rex bad p. RH and let him use hia own cleverness in devisin, Beckwith sat in utter silence while she talked; hia ‘Phe detective shook his head impatiently, aa though Suffers you are now doing becaus: of hin just pun-| drew as though afraid, His face grow stein agnin as| deen ordered to stand and faco his twelve Judges, Peat way to return it to Rother without imoicue £200, 08 emotiontess as a death-mask, his eyes never. striving to banish some idea from his brain, ‘Then, | ‘iment. I love you —— he nsked: “have you decided on a verdict? a cig Une pays she dil not tane chet ving the exprensive, eager cou noe of the girl! Ina brisk, business-Mke yolce, he asked; "Mr, Beckwith! “Well, have you decided?” ‘We have,’ pompously announced the obese fores Ahd I believe bor, Unioes we can find that Da | “Why have you brought that diamond here and| “Walt! Hear me out, Tam no loys wine] "Yes,"* she whispered, her volee broken by racking |man, ‘Then he added: @iamond we are no better off than @efore, 1 uded, he sald why have you told me all this story? What was your: ning your heart and at the same time committing! sobs, "I—I accept! Heaven forgive me, 1 accept! 1t ‘We find the prisoner gutlty of grand larceny in the ‘ no more. 1 i all this for Venner—you have risked | motive?” ipobbery, T am a man who knows his own heant and | {ys for his sake first degree.’ : BRE Gina sed -ercund|the wall or (ne circuiah| oe ur reputation—to save him, Why have "My motive? In ylew of the morning's conyersa-| Who knows tho world. I oan make you happy, 1) ihe poso and faced him, He took a stop toward) Rex sank back tn his seat stunned. Amy Clare'e y wna stopped, wide mouthed, to seo his prise | [tion she found It harder than she had expected to| can give you the wealth and soclal poal'lon euch a! her, | hand closed over his in a clasp of deathiess love and MBS cuinide |Ain dwn joked’ cell; As he she replied, simply, beg Beckwith's assistance, But thought of Rex's | Woman as you deserves, I have the honor to ask you! 4*Don't!'' she begged, and the horror in her eyes went | encouragement, Heckwith had apparently fatled, Hex : Ny forward his amazement was in nba eo Kk wn as iM the tleht (hia favorite post-| peril and the detective's almost miraculous skill) te be my wife.” ke a knifo to the heart of her hearer, ‘Don't kles me| was still hers. YER ears the long term in Me "The Flower of the Tombs" within the| note the. interviewing his cilente), so Army could not |/nerved her to the reply: “Mr, Beckwith!" erled the girl, aghast and bew!l-|—dun’t touch me, Your part of the bargain 48 not es Pateens He was hers—all J | note the effect of her announcement, He made no| “% wished to ask your ald, Mr, Beckwith, I have| dered; “thle-under the clroumstances—le an agult.| twisted! You ary 49 eave him trom prison and Ste Be onelyaedy) vg

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