The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1915, Page 13

The Auther of the Famous Ratfles Storice Creates « New and Strange Romance of Criminelegy. Woprright, 1014, vy the Bobve-Merrill Co.) SYNOFSIA OF PRACHDING CHAPTERS. an old convict. who has spent belt bis life in Wty 3 He would have had fi for’ the other $ night's work, rept any question | , Of & murder; they'll s! CHAPTER Il. (Continmad.) The iLife Preserver. T was—an accident?” he sald, ,; hoarsely. He could look at it as though the accident had not been fatal; he had lese command of his voice. “eg cal it one; the law may not,” @ald che resignedly. “Yet I didn’t even know that I possessed such & ‘weapon as this; it was soli to me as @ Mfe-preserver, and nothing else, out ef @ pawnbroker’e window, where I train. to eee it on the very morn- img of the raid. I thought it would be just the thing for emashing other ‘Windows, especially with that thong to go round one’s wrist. I thought, tee-I don't mind telling you—that, it E wore roughly handled, it was a thing I could use in self-defense, as I Couldn't very well use a hammer.” “And you were roughly bandied by Bergeant Simpking?” he suggested eegeriy. “Very,” she said, with @ certain re- Igetance. “But I expect the poor fel- low was as excited as I was when I tried to beat him off.” “I suppose you hardly knew what You,were doing, Lady Vera?” “Not only that, Dr. Dollar, but, I jdn't know what I had done.” “Thank God for that!” “I did think that I had knocked him out. But that was all that ever entered my head until this very morning.” “Were you close to your broken window at the time?” “Very close, and yet out of sight in the fog,” “And you had seen nothing of this man Croucher, and his hand in the affair?” jot after I'd done my part. I did Just before, I'm certain it was the #umme huge man that they describe. heard the whole thing while we uggling. They were blowing polfce whistle and calling out Sonleven!! ‘I remember hoping that the policeman would hear them, and Jet me go. But [ suppose his blood up, as well as mine.” after you had—freed your- £2" said the doctor, trying not to om, his teeth. “{ ran off, of course! I knew that 1 had done much more than I ever intended; but that's all 1 knew, or suspected, even when I found this thing open in my hand.” ‘he doctor groaned; he could not al first audible P himself while, ail the Sb 4 being told; and the gi ti acknowledged his consideration. “[ didn’t know what I'd do member! e said with sharp solici- imply paek him off to Dartmoor or Portland when | we've saved his miserable neck. An “I don't see that you need trouble about it,” said Lady Vera, concerned at bis distress, “beyond putting me! in touch with Mr. V! ke will be up to him, as after all, it won't “ye anyt! “f rrible to mé, Bo now, Dr. oe Bl i taking me to see the Howe Secretary at once?” ‘He {s aot in town. ‘IT think not quite so late as that Fey Home Secretary left Muston at ““Where tort. cal ae aes ten ry Promise not Xe follow Lal Bi by yee text “When does it go?’ “I want you to leave the whol thing to m ment till you hear from me again.” “When would that be, Doctor Dol- lar?” Pag 2 “ I aiisinves Mr, Vin- ere is no we Red me to"—— Peay Yuen if you care to motor there, I will have one of our care at the door here for you in ten minutes,” “But” — “Till go echaed Ban @ taxi and send ight round with a pt she won't know; she isn't strong enough to use the cart Dollar had Aaah from Topham Vin- son—that day at lunch—that Lady Vera's excape: had made her mother, Lady Armagh, seriously ll, In a dream he saw a small hand the taxicab vanished round dealt out death, and awoke in his wintriest clothes, his greatest coat, to find himself called upon to top the lot with another of unkempt fur sent with the car. The dapper chauffeur huddled over the wheel, and, with Doll beside him, he started the car on its journey to Stockersham Hall, where Vinson had planned to spend Christmas. At last they were skirting one o! the longest and stumpiest stone wall: in feudal England, and all of a sud- den it parted in twin turrets joined by triple gates. Over the central arch heraldic monsters pawed the stars; underneath an are lamp hung re- plendent; all three ga! and the drive bey tive of guiding lights. a case of Christmas festivit! suitable scale at Stockersham comparatively simple por- perlatively splendid menial locked askance at the doctor’s bor- rowed furs, but was not unimpressed by a curt inquiry for Mr, Topham Vinson, and consented to inquire in his turn. “Be quick and quiet, and give him this card,” said the doctor, slipping half a sovereign underneath it. “I want to see Mr. Vinson—no one els on urgent business from the Home Office.” “a core, Pad know until this Yet the next minute merely brought x rd of the case for forth an imposing personage whom ae frat t Tae Eneatd Cho neat time the dapper driver did not fall to s:i- e stains on the dagger—at wien, you've been trying so hard not Do look at tl Doctor lute; even Dollar was not. positive until. summoned indoors with the can be no subtie condescension of the supremo they it I ghall be eservitor. jad for you to prove it to Soon Dr. Dollar came back. Vin- ‘@ satisfaction.” ly 00 lad,’ Lady Vera?” “Doctor Dollar,” she said, tensely, apthing can undo this hideous thing, gh hope to live long enough to eon was with him. Together they set off for London, in the car. For a time they rode in silence. Then: “Do you atill refuse to give hor name?" demanded Topham Vinson, such poor amends as a human exactly as though they had been talk- can. But in this other direc- ‘they must be made at once. It’ ‘wee thinking of what can't be un- Sone til we have undone what we ‘a ‘we are quick! That's wR, I to go atraight to the Home Sec ‘anawhy'l have come straight _ “In that case we have no secret ig all the time, “IT must,” said Dollar, in @ muffled voice, and he pointed to the hunched shoulders of the chauffeur within a yard of their noses, Doctor replied the Home Secretary, with a tend hep Hs} Oy aut Ince him sneer. “But why must you, Dollar? ‘whatI pave i a is the whole oth! Pemate ed vat! your- Bhe seems to have made no reserva- If you think tions with you, yet you would make this enormous one with me.” ‘about those Dioodstains. on we “It's a secret of the consulting reom, ake’ the pa with doctor applied a t. He stooped over the he ‘are Mr, Vinson; thoge of the confessional are not more sacred, as you know perfectly well.” ed tee} between the “ang you expect me to eat my de- bare, ieouled It it re) the open window, cision on the Spreng ,of @ hearsay off a scale and Szamined Ri ‘anonymous confession? "I do—in She past, instance,” pale under « misc one with | tremendous score AG extre: precision Lady Ve ls followed - ti with an impersonal interest uosupported strength of what I told Bt could hot but include the oper’ you at Stoekersham. You've got that al 80 ptent upon bi kful Pio have a task vioualy most an- course this is is task, #0 ob- , ot sort In hand. But when he rose "Sis microscope It wet with @ ly » hang your he cried, as if it were her ‘I'm much obliged for your valu- It would take hours to make Sle advice. But it's ‘analysis that’s really wanted.” ol ‘s far as you bave gone, Dr. ane look like blood, Lady Vera if course it is blood. There's an- thing thet, will help us, too.” that?’ "One of the best pointe s to i, de. lady's name, unless 90 far as I've was about the prisoner's knife, New, if we take this with us, either we des Home Secretary, or, if he still getuses to to see me, to New Scotland “Lady Vera!” the doctor ipter- , aghast at her suicidal seal. {t possible that you realize the position you are in? It isn't only “Ww got to face; that you’ A done, 6 Orally. Pond Pat far as I have gone—which isn’t Jagal or medical inch—it certainly thing or the oth: poor devil has quite long enoug! “And have you ierestian how near- ty you decided in his favor, Mr. Vin- qithous all this to turn the once for all; on tenter-hooks It’ * no good, m:; dear fellow!" Vin- eon exclaimed. must have the determined ; y tbat it's her Moyte was one of the Oxford Btreet division,” Vinson remarked, at last. “I know all about hi wise I should want to know about If I thought she was the did not on weight pe by repetition, but the broken sentence ed with some effect: ‘I'd le! rejoined Dollar, ‘et you would have me risk my prion” exletence fer one of her Fits et ald The Evenlay World Daily me geel Se — y, Webrvery 2: tinue militant a woke the little chauffeur, I be eye she has had her fill of snoring heartily over his wheel. were driven to Vinson's house. On ‘t ask you in this time,” said Topham Vinson, smiling. “Apart from the hour I've got to Ko atraight to the telephone, get througn to Pentonville and spoil ernor's night!" “Reprieved?" gasped the doctor. It was the one word that would come, The Home Secretary nodded rather grimly, but was smiling as he shut the 1 door almost on the hand with which John Dollar wo handful of the curious already col- lecting on the pavement. Dollar's Welbeok ny of Crouch- gs, but might of monthly and weekly literature, h trays and match boxes were comfortable evidence; a bed of purity was turned down in readiness, Hut in that case it of gay pajamas airing than a shower of coals, with @ pethgaws on @ set of bright continuous downpour, and they fell with @ curiously oe ond were oem ony = alee Snr with's Lieae tal their arrival, “I Street house removed lingering mingivii have created them in a more sophistl- Snglish break- fust fit for a foreign potentate; there were soles, kidneys, eggs and bacon, hot rolls and tashin as made Mr. Croucher forget a craving for alcohol. quent cigar was up to the visitor's |, and the subject of & more articulate appreciation than all that had gone before, “You shall smoke the box if you »" sald Dr. Dollar, with a warmer amile. “Stay with you!” exelaimed Crouch- ffering a return of his worat » “Why should I stay with his go bail for her if you like, It She is heartbroken and you don't know her—I 'd back her not to r uch another accident! “And what if she rounded on me? However such a@ thin, would be my ruin, Dollar.” “It wouldn't come Fy) through her!" “I'm not tryi whi want in a rv Naaiee ut way,’ the nerve to state. ing to pump you, Dollar, but—would it make a very great scandal if we had to fix this thing on this particu- lar young lady?” “4 can't answer about scandals, plied the still not unwary doctor. would break hearts- “The bathroom ts next door," ex- of such coffee ly to yourself, but your would be your castl And he pointed out came out it highest standa have seized his There was a shooting of uggested Croucher sus- ‘ve given up try- “Certainly not; you may have the key; but I should expect you to keep pa to your own floor, a Dollar turned slowly round, won- dering if at last he could tell the little driver something about the enterprise in which he had played #0 There was no need, Tho driver had kept eyes and ears wide open—and collapsed once more ¥ This time it was not In sleep, but in a dead faint; and the driving goggles were all awry, the hat had tumbled off, the driv- er’s hair had broken bounds. It was a girl's hair, and the gin was Lady Vera Moyle. CHAPTER IIl. A Hopeless Case. LFRED CROUCHER had the refreshing attribute of look- ing almost as great a ruf- flan as he really was. eyes swelled with a vulgar cunning, his mouth was coarse and pitiless; no pedestal of fine raiment could have carrected so low a cast of countenance, or enabled its posses- for a moment as a gentle- man or @ @ecent liver. often looked a worse imitation than on the morning of his trumphant exit from the jail, heroic a part. “Because there Croucher, and oi you @ bit of a “A bit of one!” pad the other, ina snarling whine, eo just about done me in, doctor, if you want to know. Two munfa' ‘ard, that 1 was never ordered, on top‘of one in the condemned cell for what I never That's ‘ow they've tret me— somefink crool—wuas than vat you'd treat @ dawg wot derer in her own eyes, aver the wheel. what else as a resu! do anybody the least bit of good, b ause you would atill have to ultable term for hi 0." w And it woulda’ et them has left outside world than wun Croucher, of his Rogele ey “And plenty of square meal haps not #0 square as this n because you won't have any exerc: but that sort of thing.” “A little drop of anythin’ to drink, It was 3 o'clock on Christmas morning when they saw the lights of London from the top of Brockley a minute later they were on whether it was the host or his butler } most immediately in the puriteus of done? 'E!) pea me- self when the “stutt was under nose, an’ me starvin’, an’ the jooler’s winder ready brok them as never ‘ad his temptitions, don’t say it was right, mind you; but that much I did do, and not what they said I ‘ad an’ couldn't ‘prove. They couldn't prove it, because I never done it; they couldn't ‘ang me, cause they didn't dare; shiver just the years off of me they give me such a time as I n't forget till my dying day. And as if that wasn't thick enough, they give me two munfs’ ‘ard on their own—no judge or jury for that little lot—an’ turn me out wot you calls a bit of a wreck, but I calls a cres The trip did not end without a telling taste of Mr. Vinson’ dividual quality. iT nounced his intention of having the life preserver identified in those very small houra by the pawnbroker who had sold it on the morning of the autumn. raid. crime doctor was terrified; for aught he knew the man might be well aware that he had sold it to Lady Vi She was notorious enou, in all conscious; in the fact that he himself had not known her by eight before that day. In vain he raised various obje: tions; they were well met by his own previous arguments for the immedi- ate reprieve of Alfred Croucher and he feared to preaa th only the name of the pawnbroker's street, but here Cockney sharpness came in again and they were pound- ing on the right Gottere up reat & sash A| out came an an- “With your meals, and in modera- tion, by all meani for bighteaps, and don't try to smug gle anything in,” wouldn't do such a thing! med Croucher, with virtuous de- “Doctor, I'm your man, and ly to turn in as soon as ever you And a ahabby waistcoat hung un- buttoned at the swoop of & horned moment," said the doctor, “If you are really coming to me, coming to stay, 1 am to telepho my tailor, who will take sume time getting here.” his bullet head in a borrowed cap, his formidable physique tempered by @ Burberry all too sober for his taste. Nor was that all the change in Mr, Croucher at this agreeble crisis of The bulging eyes were glazed with a wonder which quite eclipsed the light of triumph; and they , in unwilling fascination, upon the tall figure to which the borrowed plumes belonged, whom he had never beheld before that hour, but at whose heel he trotted from tls prison to the motor-car flashing in the sun beyond the precincts. “Alt a mo'!" cried Croucher, mak- ing @ belated stand instead of jump- in as he was bid. rightly catch your name inside, let alone wot you got to do with me If you come from my e'lic'tor, I should like to know wh: if you're on the religious lay, ‘ere's your ‘at an’ coat and I wont trouble you for a lift.” “My name is Dollar,” replied the eto “where the douce does ‘¢ come in?" "You may well ask!" replied Dollar “That friend in need, who was the firat to assert your Innocence, and to whom you owe more than you will ever anxious to give you a fi forehead wet alrea: of deglutition, and eyes that were at all, before appl » and an entire new outfit in which to make 1t.” I call that ‘andsome,” de- clared Alfred without reserve, tg no more, but I shall live in ‘opes 0° * thanky like a he “for them as is rich ‘and to them as “What you say is perfectly fatr,’ a in a sadly unim “but it is also fair to observed the passioned tone; ‘My name ts Topham Vinson,” one of the swaddied men in a sepul- “I'm the Home Secre- tary, but I can't force you to come down and speak to me because of I can only make it more or less worth your while.” He was fishing for his sovereign In another minute the private door had shut behind him d Doctor Dollar, and an obsequious sack of humanity shuffled before them into a sanctum still redolent of & somewhat highly-: 5 IT remember ‘aving it in the thop, head protruding “But I can't thay it aa here—that I can thwear in @ court of juthtith, my lord! beathly thing, but I thwear it swath here when I took over the remember that others h. arst ‘oo i you to thi free this morning as to your mental and findin’ out an’ added after all, to ‘old out an ‘elpin’ is pore and ‘ave been tret like been, through no fault o° But it ain't everybody that, an’ it makes you think better of the world when you strike ult. A, bodily. aufferin the effects for myself, and tho: least T could undo. idea in meeting you, and perhaps I ought to say at once that it was not It was that of the unknown friend of whom I have already spok- en; but Tam prepared to carry \t out. IT run a kind of nursing home, here in my house, and there's a bed ready for you if you care to occupy It.” “A nursing ‘ome shrinking from case as he spoke, I've as sees it Lk them as agree,” said the doctor, in a tone rely lost on his ex "'m griteful to ' went so far as to too, sir, if it comes to tha Doctor Dollar took the of being no less explicit in his turn it should athe unkempt naive patient said Croucher, dite you and it's time lwa nuffunk so much the matter with me that I want to go into an ‘ome.", “Nothing that rest could not cure— and diet—I agree, ; with an eye on t opportunity ded 1 legal nor religious, and it need not necessarily be medical, happen to be a doctor. t @ friend of your r, to see if there's nothing we can do to make up to you for all you've been through.” “A friend of mine!" aging incredulity, but dryly, as he one of the many unknown friends you have Mr. Croucher, like to make one more, if only to the little spin and some lon't care how or when it came here,” said Topham Vinson, counting the sovereigns in the gold case at- e watch chain of other red! want to know if you re- member color, this life-preserver?” though I do npress on You I came at the ngement with the friend friend. | “Lt extraordinary interest quired Croucher, thinking of the kid- “I'm atony’broke in your he explained with increased who takes th: In this statement its relative of sheer resentn but especially in was reminded with ‘Our friend insists on paying the bul,” said the doctor, grimly “And who is our wonderful friend, doctor, when ‘e or she's at ‘ome?” Doetor Dollar laughed as he pushed “It would beet me thee—thome time lartht October or Novembe: “Do you rermonnter, wy bought it?” Dollar breath not know her Reme at first he was ahi on the point of per- But the doctor as- The doctor smil = aul tr, Croucher. In retentive memory o a flash the lot had fused in his suspt cious mind, and #0 visibly Was relieved to find himeel? ‘The man did And I 6hould that Dolar {t's Just because tt extent of a breakfast at my house. more aympathy for you than you seein nd one or two of us are ready to show it in any way you But I wouldn't stand here, unless | you want a public demonstra- see the room up your mind againat it. Tt was at the top and back of the sonal appearance. went against your » Krow! wrowiler's teeth and a show « i ‘ope you don't think T went i the thme, do yer?" “I don't follow you, Croucher." “1 mean the big the one I very n tered the fellow, ad to possess. The man fel straight to the trap, recalled every imaginary finally earned big cingly copnecting veasever with the dat ‘ted hs the way weckse on a previous occ larly appointed, the morning 1 ready crackling in r a eugher decided to disregard picions that a kindness mind, and took honree avd hot with “Idy Moyle—Lidy Vera Moyle, One of the suteryelieg is white wieker chair and ‘maweal “No; indeod I don't.” the ateawn with the and recom alike ware the mast I was Sire are Sh ch had e after prison as the seventh heaven aft a4 been duly ineavared, and decently awake until the A substantial tea, when bd was the least they could | after neglecting to rouse 8 man midday meal; but a distinct grievance ‘on that score was forgot In the that accrued for dinner, and the finitely tactful choice of the eventful viands. Steak and onfona wae ae atrong act of a romantic dram the very heart this (rosspetins rough. If he had been shown a bill A fare Alfred Croucher would chosen steak and onions, with cieh rarehit to follow; and Welah rarebit did follow, as if by magic. There was rather less to be aald for the drink patient could have done with @ longer and @ stronger draught. drop of good stuff, if Mr. Kory yd wes any judi create a possibly ta wee impres- ston wv complaints of quality er ntity. ou” None me top-‘ole,” he mur- mured, rolling his bulbs of eyes when Raucy glans o' wine that, too, Not that I was. ever much ‘and at the but there are times grata Woes yer good. 1 continue to take medicinally,” returned Dollar, stavety “but don’t count on the type of fare Three meals in em to have aucceede: But remember you low, and that doesn’t food. Sufficient for the da: Here are some flowers from the friend who works by stealth, and these are the w 1 promised you thi morning, You might do worse tha: judge the givers by their gifts.” was perhaps as well that Alfred ucher did not pause to pussle that saying, for rare blooms were as be oa the trough without de matter of ed sluggord was blissfully asl once more, his door locked and bolt on principle, and @ red fire dying in tinkle, Moreove: from the fire after all, “6 side of the room. deceived Somebody was at his wit d, of course, to You would not be a pris. remembered with but if you went cher, I'm afraid you would He had himself considered that un- protected window and those can- duotye leada, in one of his last wak- ing moments, as not In tle r what you require, in the first #lution of the whiskey problem. instance, Is absolute reat und no more truck with the you had where you have been. folesome grub? with another si! A sash went up too slowly, limbs crossed the sill and felt the floor with excessive caution, and for a It little Hfetime Alfred Croucher su fered more exquisite terror than toward the end in the condemned cell, A monster was leaning him, hreatitale hotly in his face, all but to is his frozen akin. “Alt nid & blessed voice, as a tiny light struck through the com- preased eyelids. And once more Al was a man and a lar, croaked with a sepulchral sob. me asleep an’ dreamin’ like a bloom- in’ babby! Why, wot you doin’ ‘ere, ” aad “But like me “what you're up to In @ ‘ous like thie? “*Avin the time o’ me life!" whis- cited patient. Livin’ cock, on the fat o° tee land, at some ruddy ol expense!" @ poured into the still ad- jJacent ear the true fairy tale of his first day's freedom, his intro- duction to Doctor Dollar in the pre- cincts of that very jail which waa to have been his place of execution and mere sepulchre. “I know. [ seen you come aut with him," sald Shoddy, “an' drive off in yer car like airy lord, I wap there with a “There t “That's more findin'; of mine a shover in t showed me the back blowed if I didn't ‘em up murmured Bhodd, ies bow! of ase beau- tieg filled the ‘aink light; “" genera, 4 Waals aise Nye the fair a, cully! most big things; the projector at his o So end mi jog r pomp! nently practical pro} jere'a m ently from the window on the oppo- \Croucher lay Uetening until his Nckened senses could no longer be Crouol {atlon "Bound | ite dg way foie we ~ e return of Beok, was cause of lengthier Va bea oy | the doctor, aie oo brighten when It fall Cra’ thet of e man put on tis crease ghange et dal top ba ose in the | det new Ouse rt clothes, Shoddy! Lat me eit ap. oro whe anon wala My Ren “Roses, in the “rn arke ert nald "alte, preae teeth that chattered with emotion. very near ‘anged for the litte biter, and don't you forget it!” “Not me,” said Shoddy, ateert the the bed with his headlights of ute hot filament and red-hot ‘wot brought me ‘ere through thick ick ang thin,” “Bo she's the great unknown!” Croucher more than ence, but ee in Re. same tone, “Bo it was was 4 hoddy inaiated 1_ keep tellin’ yer?” sald reddy ~ “That's wot brings me, at Vaicer bit o" filet, to% wAudiest risks you ever iy ey in on tt you've nerve enough for’ the Ey It was @ simple thing, howeve: it ja; and ina ena thinks o° givin’ me @ start in life, any'ow.” “This'¢d be a start an’ Smt, Alfie! Besides, it'd be your reve: don't you forget wot you've area’. jh.” urged the ether. ih me!" said Cepughe Seen’ “But—don'cher see? fuck so much that I wi Jookint are dosain’ do entimiam of pronpetere. Ing the dines % s “ighted but unewi on a lower level. And certain appointed bouts, i it might have been caugh' or van inthe aot of wae Gut vot tke acto, cia tere written list of books the . “In epite of te mame,” added Dollar, in etudied disparagement. Croveher took the hint, and “4 would ne bave that And then one morning he came is rite & blue magazine a buttmbent ee Rome Express wn ing with the Precocious ‘spring: ‘and hrough a melli syenieg night of revere’ oe moon, famous train - comfortably crowded; it wes bot ay ta nor he who will tw EB pettinee seers eae a sleeper which in Swi ould cost gone s renty winder go oft! of those who committed the ex- "That must ‘ve been early on, old travagance seemed by way of get man? I bin in bed all day, Oh, such th I'm goin’ to sleep me p afore I leave it.” said Shoddy firmly. comin along o' me, Alfie, ‘# why I'm ‘ere, me,” replied Alfie, with equal “8, “L kiiow w'en I'm wellott— “i'm wiv yer there!" Shoddy nod- adroit sympathy; he had kept ping all the time; inence of ¢ye and his electric lamp b an extra proi wene were not inarticulate countenance of his t 've been ‘ell, Alfie, real old red- ‘ell! “And all for wot I never done,” he e atiffne: in © Was a note “That's it,” the ot! greed, with recalled perfunctory promptitude, “But tha sto the exactly why I'm ‘ere, All You dtdn't think I done a job like this for the nd, didger? you didn’t elf, Alfe, t I'd got to ok or crook before the sake of tikein’ fold of commit ye: yer by Waa oul What diye mean?" Well, If you didn’t stiffen that » copper on the night o' the sufferygite dist oanee-—en' we know you didn't then somebody elve did!" “You don't mean to tell me you kuow who dia?" think it 4 And ‘ere's another thing, @ thing that A oats of lip and a n= lit, though ps > verre we dining In the res have etruck an ome. She waa going to her mother, whe ice Cl had been sertously il) now completing in Rome. An et ne meant leas to the wayward child who hi ly in the trein de rane, first time, sl mereiful wisdom oF Providence in matter. Alfred Croucher was @ free man; that wae ue ty thing. There were moments when 78 a8 8 an oven thing than I ae 4 eacence, Breater et yet for at float over In the ns gs. a ae aor Croucher ear Doster Ber Bollar'be fe hi at last! lett Parle: neh % @