The evening world. Newspaper, May 20, 1915, Page 17

—— No. 2 Schuyler Pia JA NEW YORK MYSTERY ROMANCE By HOWARD FITZALAN oe hemes ‘ww = & om she hed cloeed the dow, | eshed (0 ws nm to be seated ehsn OMAPTEnE Vivery (mel saw the man T notions ‘ steniiie Rome Other point of peculiarity about tre | Tore tim * #08 (he Mansive s-s eaeee ae eee of bie 1 which seemed to be o enatond ot Gah heavy for his shoulders, welehing imme Oe tae him down end giving him that oh er ey wee humped-over appeare which, in tee secret OURO Conjunction With bis sable attire, bad ant eget anew os nee ermen, @ YOON the vorasion for (he pickname viet View benae, With whieh He 4 tamed him. The letter oe doted Aw he wat down in @ great carved chair, which seemed to awaliow bir hee ot het ete ME Meaving only hin shining wite hat A distinet pote, L could aoe the justice A of another of Kegenta deseripiuns jrme Mewen! to 6 lireen of Bim that be resenbied # couexe , professor ee intern ear bie eamintaint om 1 suppor you have @ reason for calling, said Megent coldly, after be had tendered Whiskey and cimaretion At mudnight » tein the Toy enter and joey bad been rejected vy our age th front vinitr hey ee ey th Ailnd about the aale of On another wo, Sehuyier Place,” re ind & menace woman Haven, as coully as though to the hewne oveniime her as the LO Werw A f agent on regular and Lalar Lady. Regent reecuce ter while ohe le lek! tinale business #Ui] UocouA ious abet Orriee her to hie Grmeneton Taent & inessage to your © by Vilege bute Mr. Cotton,” Kewent (old him, try sebasiee Pe. ing to copy bin detached air as much Hegent refuses to dive her up and telepione the 4s possible. “Did you get iT" jaiiee The police come W the house and at once frreat Hegent and Jacou, Securing his liberty, after mk ¢ Hoge: returns home wo find “We did. And | come to offer you Just twice the original sum- or, to be more exact, four times what the house “tee Lalee Lady" gone, iw really worth. If you will do me the « honor to follow me, ne tions were pending with Min horn when CHAPTER X. was taken til and ordered to the mudas: She remained there for (Continued) reven months, During that time, she forbade her agent to trouble her By Special License. with business mutters, When she . died, and wo learned that you were dU know, It's stuff and non- West and wo: be home for some senso about him being In months, we fh to conelude the love with this woman, of deed of Bee retina ga cevialved rh 7 ork; by or miscarr! . course, That's what make® ang after you recelved the second me furious, If he was one, all the others we wrote failed to rifeing himself for a real woman you eS fe n you came to visit Number —"— wo, three days ago, I detailed “Oh! So you still have tho nerve to watch you, and see that you did ‘co insinuate that we dreamed the young lady,” I sneored, : Most of her,” he replied enigmat- ically, “But—well, there's no use In frguing with knight-errants and ro- mantic fools.” “Mr. Cotton,” 1 sald, infurtated, “I shouldn't like to hit you in my own house He went, shaking his head, and I rejoined Richard Regent, telling him what the eminent man had said. “Of course, Dick,” I said gently, ‘s right—in a way. You can hardly ‘be in love with a woman whom you've only seen, You must admit that.” “You'll do me a great favor by not discussing the matter,” was his reply; and he rang for his new valet to bring up his breakfast. ‘There are such things as premont- tions, and I suppose he had one when he took such extraordinary care in making himself beautiful. He argues that it was because he had nothing better to occupy his mind, since he did not care to dwell upon our mutual obsession. He was fond of color echemes, and to-day he fairly revelled in blues—his favorite color, since it matches his eyes. When he strolled into the library downstairs, where I was going over the housokeeping book, he seamed to have shed his hunted look with his dressing gown; and now he stood, tn all the glory of «a new lounging sult of blue flannels, a tle in which ultramarine and navy bi@e alternated in stripes, pierced by & magnificent sapphire pin. He asked me whether I considered the new chauffeur reliable; and when not come back without our knowledge Rut, in some way, you eluded me in the theatre—and saw what you had no business to see, The next day still without knowing that you had Visited the house the previous night- T had a telephone conversation with Mr. Ashford, and he told me that you might double on me. “Then camo last night! It te partly your fault, partly ours. We wish to palllate what It Waa necessary to do © you, and we are willing t bettas bet ee Howe: “Ashford'a man will be here in half an hour. : ia an hour. Do you ‘© hear him recount it, one wou have imagined that he had cone a nuriber of praiseworthy deeds, and that we were Ingrates. His conclusion riumph 0} - Biutcae self-sacrificing in afraid,” said Regent, “that you don't give me credit for much stabil- ity Ky characte “If you will name your price"—— Tho Raven waved his rloany hat. “That ridiculous condition aside, of course. We'll consider that a momen- tary aberration.” ‘The aberration, as you pleare to call it" was Regent's atiff response, “in the only thing we need to discuss in that connection.” He was as prim as a solicitor of fifty years’ standing. “My dear str’— Regent arose. “I'm afraid I'm not very hospitable,” he said, “But I'm going out for a drive; so you will excuse me.” By this time the Raven recognized that he was in earnest. “ait down, Mr. Regent,” ho sald, “i'm doing you a very unfriendly act, I suppose, but it 1s impossible to deny your legal right to Number Two Schuyler Place. Nor can we deny your equally indubitable right of re- siding there, tf you choose—a contin- gency which we do not care to face, since your constant residence there would prove too much for your san- Hes ane wall BAS ca ite srudge against you. Your condition was, J had shrugged my shoulders, thon, that we return the young pressed a wish to test him by a trial woman to this house. What, may I spto uptown. His peculiar calmness ask, do you intend to do with her?” %§ le had Regent there; for Regent made me suspicious, and the elabo. certainly did not know. Being in rate care with which he extracted jove, he was under the foolish de- lusion that only a miracle from DBeaven could make the Lilac Lady care for him, “It_is necessary for me to atate, the Raven went on calmly, “that I may surrender the young woman to one person only—her husband He waited a moment bofore adding: ‘And she has no husband.” his cheap cigarette from his expensive ruby-monogrammed case heightened my suspicions, He was entirely too asual. “You've got something up your sleeve,” I said. After considering for a while, he aLowed me to what depths tne inci- pee ae ceeaaly + nts whe dunt of Mr. Cotten! ned his throat, and disarranged a perfect- brought him. “Well,” he said, “I'd jy knotted tie, under some vague im- suther manage this affair on my own, pression that he was straightening it. if you don’t mind. “Well,” he wied, avoiding the Raven's gase, “I can't make her marry “You distrust me?” I asked fiercely. Me!" ‘Well, Jacopo,” he admitted, “if you want to know, I'm golng to see a private detective. 1 promised vot to ‘ell anybody about the black cross, avd the house, and all that, but I certainly didn't promise to refrain {vom bunting up a pack of scoundrelly vervants. If I can find Hughes, or Marie, or Schmaits, and learn from them why they were frightened out of the house, | might get something to go on. Because, of course, my dear “voy, You don't imagine that Im done for yet; especially when—wel, under the circumstance: I rang for the new matd, and told her to fetch in the chauffeur; but, as abe started off, the doorbell rang, Bhe went to answer it first, after getting a nod from me, and returned almost im- mediately, “A gentleman to seo both Mr, Re- gent and Mr. Winters,” she informed us. “He won't give his name,” “Bend him in,” said Regent. me, can I? She doesn’t know me— can't possibly give two raps for me, Why—why—sh never even seen me. You forget about Washington,” 1 reminded him, “Oh—Washington!” he said, wi ing, “That doesn't count. was made up like—like"——— The thought gave him a fancied grievance against me, and he eyed me reproachfully: “Something told me it would be better not to come out in that make-up; you remember, I want- ed to shed it, then, Ah, well!" His sign made me responsible for all the tragedy in hia existence. “The point Mr. Regent wishes to bring out,” I informed the Raven, “is that the young lady has never seen him as he is, and he fs, therefore, doubtful of her willing to marry him." “The point is getting a bit twisted.” @aid the Raven smoothly. “It 1s, rather—is he willing to marry her?" Look here, my dear sir!” sa'd Re- went impatiently. “I'm not « thor- cugh-going ass, you know, even if T do think I'm tn love with her, 1 don't want to buy a Turkish 5 I want te win a woman. I gather, from what you say, that she can be forced to uarry me. Well, I don't want that. Neither of us was surprised to see I want to make her care for me the Raven appear, and stand In the snough to marry me. Catch my point?” “I understand you perfectly,” re- ‘urned our visitor, “but that's some-~ thing I've got no control over, See here. He handed Regent a folded paper. Dick looked it over, and gave it to me. It was @ special licenss per- doorway, holding the brim of his gila- tening silk hat with both hands, ap- parently awaiting our pleasure. “You needn't mind calling Francois just y Edna,” I told the girl, hav- ing reference to the chauffeur, When ~ matting th went and J e mere of Richvrd Re ane Si ‘Toe Kaven misunderstood from our silence ty lice: ur mor er—pertins think. accede to Ashford's tHlemen, we ¢ And so rat ho nse," he recent wan id, sho Jings with sou ve you, Mr. ie- for stability, of than you seemed to we ure prepared to your very disastrous desire, clerk will be here in « few inu 4 that » credit acity, minutes, and he has the deed of saie for made out young wor ry you, a Take my v riage Regent. person of will have mystery She may you Wish But we ca as your w Nuinber Two, involves no Schuyler Place, If you will sign it, the man~Miss Smith--will mar- nd be very glad to do so. word for that. Hut the mar- explanations, Mr. Sho is just Miss Smith, a antecedents unknown, You to aceept her as such. No is going to be explained. never love you in the way you are taking that chance, n surrender her to you only ife, Are you willing to take those chances?" I was re gent’ The more wilk want You'll go what you willing to seen——~ “Maybe native, marry yo! grudge a. you to marry eighty your house, and forget accept ratehod Richard ited the ‘Before thing.” he troubl tako a leap into the he answere: “Tt 19," sald the KR. of an alter jon with Miss-—Miss Sor tell you anything, She w simply say that she is willing, esponsible for breaking Re- d silence. 1 said: “Don't dark, like that. the more yo you ove | to know ut her past erazy—sur And, think will of me, a woman who's marry @ man she's r It's a ques fon of an alter- re quietly ea, “a question ative. Se prefers to Mr. Regert. Having ni ainat you, I do not advise er. Take a friendly tip: thousand dollars for all about this husiness.” Regent looked up, and re- » Raven thoushtfulty binding myself to do any- said, “may I have a short ——most certainly, But You can send Mr, Winters in to mee her, {f you like, She will promise to marry him, just as willingly ~belleve me. Jood Lord!” I breathed, “Dick-~ Dick"— “It'a pretty awful.” he agreed: “pretty awful to think what sort of an alternative it must be to drive a girl like strange mi I—I shoul for the remainder of my didn't do mot to! out. you take coldiy. “She ta motor ear, ring for your maid. Thank you, tel! her to man outsi: room, Marie's successor appeared, given her bied violently as she w The Ra that to marriage with a an. It's—it’s—— But, Jake, dn't have a moment's rest life, 1f 1 it, I've got to, Jake—I've Lord knows how it'll all turn T'm doing the best T can.” He faced the Raven again. ew me to her?” he requested waiting ontside In a closed “replied the Raven, “Please And request the lady and gentle- de to go Into the drawing- and was Regent trem- nt out. and ope Instructions ven arose ed the folding doors between drawing-room and libra there was ry, arranging them until perhaps half an inch be- tween them, “T want telling the truth, and is coming.” he sald, allow you with her deed of sa out for $80,000, your inter and your return hal ciated, If, to marry will accept now!" to satiety you that T am ut she really uso T can't to have that interview unt!! you have signed the je, That clerk has made it If you deelde, after view, to marry Mias Smith, conscience prompts you to f of that, it will be appre- however, you do not wish Miss Smith, we hope you the sum, Look, entire Roth Regent and I advanced to the peeping 1 int, and saw a man and a woman enter the darkenel drawing- room. Then, curtains, and ad sun, we as the maid drew the itted the afternoon saw, gleaming under the woman's hat and vell, that remark- able red-gold hatr, She was attired tn a long coat of black fur, that fell to her ankles; her hat was a black toque of the same material her vell was heavy and dotted; but, for all her shrouding, one familiar with her face was not 0 be mis apt in, I saw from Regent's tac ho Was thoroughly her identity. anion, alse the asl seek, his iron gE vestinents of 4 ven closed the you recogniae t again, Regent ny have clergyman, and beide yes, even the ring! You s He exhibited a plain gout band nd if you are looking horrified because that dear old man in th he knows cept that he stantial contribution to fund, to marty : counsel to © fair young orphan will no doubt invite you and has been given ¢ bis Hollot This should be friend from Ashford’s." He ha appearance of Edna, who a Haynes." This gent recognized, on his coeksure hobbledehoy man about umber Two shuyler Tlace, and who didn't be in flat dwellers having gardens. He sald a few commonplace things, while Re- cube Was in biack, thrill of indignation go ow that his Was ca- provided every- Raven, with grim hu- appears to be my accomplices, let me assure you that sthing of the matter ex- sub charity ind provide spiritual He your beautiful helpmate to take ter with him and his wife, after the ceremony. our young broken off his banter at the nounced we entrance Aas who knew kent was glancing through the docu I'm a notary.” he tnformed us, and T can ite the deed, you know.” He showed his stamping machine tn doput iten the to which Re- He also mit a fountain pen, shook It at c ad it to Regent; and began to for a a box he carried t mahogany desk at had drawn up ¢ airs. a blotter, and proffe nt demurred, srourh his pen certain favorite penholder shall have to have two witn said Haynes. and this tleman? inqulringly at the Raven parent that tray tily, “I never si hing—anytlting he maid will do,” T suggested What followed remindes much of a play. pen on a blank sheet of paper, us all one tn a desperate hurry staccato pushes of a th for a sleeping olevMtor boy In hasement out Intermission, and Regent a feotfnt Ht mebod for half a of the eyebrows ‘8 got A nerve,” way, We heard Kana expostilating ‘The decisive voice of a man who had an object interrupted her: and at the sound of that voice I saw the Raven get to his fect with a haste that proved him to be human, after all. ‘Then the door was flung open, and a man with a fur collar turned up about Inck hat pulled red in the his ears, and a soft down over his eves, doorway, Immediately, he addressed the Raven: “Who is this?” Te pointed to Re- gent. The Raven told him. “And this?" He indicated Ashford's clerk “A Mr. Haynes, from the reat estate office.” “Ask him to withdraw, and come to-morrow. Quickly!" He had turned from the Raven to Regent, and al- though th Ss were curt and abrupt, ry were pregnant with serious portent, Regent turned to Haynes, his glance implying that he wished the clerk to adopt the stranger's suggest: rang for the maid’ and Hayne: sullaly gath fountain pen, and other was conducted out of the room, The stranger closed the dyor. te Mr, Wintera?” n. banalities which 1 returned in Mr. Winters looked It was ap- he had never seen him ‘ot 1." responded the Raven has- my name to any- Regent had tried the nd was dipping it into the ink, prepara~ tory to siening, smoothing the deed out with his other hand, when a ter- rifle ringing at the doorbell startled Tt waa the ringing of some hose short, nb on the button which one generally employs the The peals continued, with- minute; down his pen, with remark- ed young Haynes, tn his pert, familiar after ing up his notary’s seal ssories, ahe Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, 1 said it was. ‘Good, then!” fe waid turned "You havent ed that # about to do 90," replied He am glad you haven't: We doe you to yield anything under pretenses. We are still willing to vield etehty thousand dollars for th house. Hut the marriage that cannot 4 from his fn r ait up, open tus it idly, AS his glance rested apon the front page, I aaw that it was just vs possible for him to be aghast as for Us His face wax whiter than the mar ble statuette 4 aned ov headlines before be of the paper, Jed the TICE BLIND INDE! rible Miscarriage of the stranger nor the Raven was looking at me. The latter stared inte vacaney; the former bad his eyes ‘ you think of us," he said. “You have suffered at our hands. Some day, we may make amends, Meanwhile, our affair with you in closed, unless you wish to aell the house at your own valuation, We can do cothing more for you. He turned to the Raven. you mind stepping out into the hall?” As the Raven started past hem, he caught his arm and said something in a foreign language, but so foftly that T could not catch even its char- acteristics, The Raven ded, and stranger turned again to Kegent. r your own sake,” he said, “I must ask you not to attempt again the solving of this mystery, [t may be possible to explain to you, sone —but not now, But please do interfere again.” ‘You mean,” choked Regent, who had by this time got his breath, "that you now go back on everything that your precious friend has agreed to in » last hour?" If you mean that we no longer have the power to compel the y lady to marry you—yes! So she may marry, but it will be whon she chooses, The necessity for her marrying at all haa disappeared. Not even to gain that house of yours are we willing to put pressure upon her now. Belleve me, we are acting a cording to our own lights, and we think they are ahove a few conven- tions, You may see the lady agat we sincerely hope you may be happy Three honks from an automobile horn broke tn on hia ation, He opened the door. “Good day, he waid, The door closed after him, and he was gone before we had any further impressions of him than that he wore a fur coat, # soft hat—which he did not remove--and a thick black beard, shot with gray. Then | emerged out of stunned silence, and sprang after hi but the front door had closed before [reached it, T ran to the street, and saw two motor cars speeding away Slowly I returned to the house and entered the drawing room. The old rector sat there, tracing 4 pattern in a Bokhbara rug with the point of bis neatly rolled umbrella, Pardon me, doctor,” I said, “but— the young lady?” “The gentleman just took her out,” he sald, looking up. “He said some- thing about the bridegroom being tl. Poor fellow! [ was wondering if I could be of any assistance.” I said that I thought not, and thanked him, seeing bim to the door. I was in no mood to be polite. We passed Regent at the doorway. There was no need to explain to bim "So the Raven took her off, while we were talking to the other man.” ho sald. But he Was neither angry nor vmazed. We hat long ago passed beyond the reach of such sensations, “Yes,” [responded viciously, and clapped on my hat mitre going to try to follow them No." T repiled. "I'm going to_buy the jatest edition of the New York Sphere.” CHAPTER XI. The Newspaper Story. HE Raven, as I have aad be- fore, was a person of im- Perturbable calm. That a glance at a newspaper should reduce his complex- fon to chalkiness was suMetenc upon which to base an opinion that the press had, tn some way, got wind of & nefarious transaction which threat- ened the safety of those who worked beneath the shadow of the black cross, A newahoy was shouting an “ex- tra,” the price of wh he r ly stated to be a nickel, But such news as I was seeking was cheap at any price, and I did not trouble to get the change from a dime, Nor did J Ma ° . oa #1 the passenger + My end apoio lend wr Washing . an Bs.» e ‘ ' we t prod on since oi , { n family Were poor, and * “8 Hor? ' + picture wae ‘ newspapers, a Frenen 'o M sneourt, @ | ie Sort ar ia Veter Win | banker, on a vim ew York, abso . Be Nab fc we Jent with a ooMr “ windiod bie te had an unconquerabie mania for Pan) a be bas Sere ards He sted hie OWN patrte 4 private dining Maxine ® jnuny « the Frenee year before At chat time Miae and Italian coamts, and the Ja French and her father were te Pare and terrific ateaia iad 1 Dim, tow zal § ‘ seok the aupport of am ine, In SUE SPATE NOUae 16) FONG Ce atoning At the Hote Athene, Of Hereatiy weak alway, he formed the Vor a halt t leaned ag Ne ite TOreHe COP dru habit, which ) broweht out Anp poat pa clenched with reap ta of the New York pap all that was evi in tim: and he Be bath mwaible an a by Mra ay tentified ‘ at 1 Mrs. Ffreneh I copy the following from the clip. On the night of Ww the French geacred him at ville, and came ping. which Thave tn front of me ae t Jules Gave apoke. Miss to Landon, where ahe had wired her 1 write Fereneh again rot lier, then in Baris, to meet her mie vaeiiimmut the The baby, Edith Winchester Crane JUSTICE WLIND INT alibi with ourt, Was but @ year oid att Terrible Miscartinge of Law'e ther, They had dined, she qpmerted, Wd the in fom the Intent in nome restourant in the Latta fhousadd upon her ROSEMARY PPRENCH 19 arter, and had afterward gone to that Crancourt had to depend on. He UILTLNSS! Cancer Roses Seen tre. followed hit wife to London. She re Aichi, nite rab fused to return to him, and he ineth Hollenden Pfrench, Her Father, member the name of the reataurant: tired suit for divorce and the custody Returns and Makes Good and although her photograph w the child) Mrs, Crancourt tr Her Atibis nent to the af the Conce Rugiond for America, but vith. detained by Engliah law In view of An injustice that cries aloud to no t rom wan Bort Te eS ote tefuaal te live tak ha en has been perpetrated by husband, the Kngliah courte granted Btate of New York Pfrenen . vok pen bis plea, and gave him the child. Bhe omen ened, the beaut! ful git cab ny ‘etal fur the == gtives’ threate: to rancourt de State when father should nan ment of the la murder of Morris Coin, ts abs to clear ber. Mut he did nut return, and the oblid was taken from ite ely without guilt! Mr. Fireneh's photowre ve AO mother. Me Some poopie asaumed that Rosemary court off, but tappeared that he had ment In pedot.of Her thaoe had confeased to bin, and that, an affection for aby, just es Nine months before this story opens rather than perjure himacif, he lett ich as for the money, and would a man and a woman, both fashional dressed, were « Hotei At the next table sat Jerome Levy and Mortis Coin, membere the brokerage firm of Thomas & Co, Wall Street. They were attracted the looks of the woman, and Ci deliberately firted with her. She sponded in kind, over to the tab her companion—an Englishman good manners, who insisted that two men should Join them at dinn ‘The party drank @ great deal much champagn the Englishman Inaleted on going round of gambling houses. an pointed out that she could not company them, and entered a protest. She suggested that, as a comprony they hire a private altting room the hotel, and that she would play poker with Mossra, Coin and La and when the Englishman felt t he was able to understand the game, Hoe aasentod, in a he could join tn somewhat drunken manner. Coin and Levy, It appeared, were not averse to shearing the jamb; both had checks for a thousand dol- Jars cashed by the management of the hotel. The arrangement were to share the proceeds with woman, who called herself Mra, Li she taking one-half, each man hav! one-quarter, Mrs, Dale a companion for money with which play, and he took out @ sheaf of “yel- jow backs" which seemed to amount to more than both Coin and Levy had. They engaged the private itt room, and began to play-—-Mre. Dale, Coin and Levy. Mra. Dale nearly six hundred dollars; then novice took a hand, and shuffled and dealt clumsily, He t steadily, Mrs. Dale began to win from every- body, until she had won the two thou- They wanted to continue to play with L. 0. and from Lavy and Coin, U's; put the Englishman became denly abusive, o: diately. pollt, Ffranch knew youne Mr. Gra- dented Mt But qiclienden Ftreneh ime, and, ns Lg m abo ie ou ut %. le intro- By this time Coin and Levy began poat, ‘had urged fresh air as the best du: himself and professed himeelf to suspect trickery, and tried to de- means of producing sobriety, There- eager to introduce the half-sister tain the pair. The Englishman fore, he feit gomennat pesrcnslbie ig ee miraculously resembled each binaned Lash Gat. for him whon he fell overboar le the other, panes se breil OR RCSPENA had a hard time keeping the young The girl turned suddenly and said w m, got him to the floor, and man up, and very little lung power bitterly that she was not fit to meet was choking him, when the woman left for shrieking, even if he could a girl like Miss F¥rench, Mr, Ffrench picked ap struck Coin across the hi i i river, and Mr. Ffrench, exhausted, Tr possessed. And he knew her, a Levys claimed to have aeen had made out a ship passing Just also, for a user of drugs. happen as he raised Himself from the above them, ant 41 caught at the ° father could interfere floor, dory which trailed after her. After rancourt had declared that, to " pushing Grahame into the hoat and prove her assertion of unfitness, she Tho two, percelving that Levy was hoisting himself aboard, he had be- would like to Ffreneh unconscious, bound and gagged him. eome unconectous: ant when >a was that her futher h. 4 roan unsuc- Then they left the room and locked revived, he fount that he had uncere. cessful attempt to break the bank at ‘he deen montoualy thrust himself upon a sally Monte Carlo, backed by her own ba tng ship, loaded with cotton good’, money—taught her to be a card levy remained bound and gagged and hound for Liberia sharp, and that they made their liv. vntil the next morning, wnen the The «htp was w off the Afrt- ing in that manner. She gave him maid ontered with a pass-key. Coin CAN const ane Surry rs bad her address—a smal! hotel in the found to be dead; _ ospent months before reaching 9 trad- Rue Vingt-neuf de Juiet—and asked, eee, ad; he bad evi- ing post. Here a ship carried then to that Mr Pfrench bring his daughter sently died Immediately, as an effect Capetown, from which Halsey Ora pat window on the following of the blow. hame had wired for money, and Mr noon in order that she, A weok passed, during which time Ffrench had wired to his daughter ar might see whit she muh? ha » Was absolutely no clue tu wo criminals ‘o visit @ theatre, and in one of ing at the Unico! and invited Coin introducing him to and, after dinner, The wom- wan that they ed he lost to the two men ed them offensive names, and insisted on going imme- a champagne bottle and Then Lavy happened y 20, 1915 a THE DRUMS OF WAR By H. de Vere Stacpoole Spt RARDIN Bd Bade dd he ‘ the charges as refused to give it up ® hinted that his away with him, biy the country. Ov yield it. Mre. daughter had nad ain. Public sentinent wae against Miss Was brought to trial nimple one, she f absolute lano- ried, but he no loner wanted her, * “hen she was barely eightes n Winchester was taken home, -stricken woman; an of Ffreneh, and st The caso Was 4 clung to her story vence, and Lavy and Gavrotte as ateadily clurys to their identification Such was the story until the Sphere reporter found Mr. Majlenden Frenc leaning the rail of t loptic, Mr. Ffre established both alibis, of Hin daughter had been at home with by later, Crane re in Shanghal the him that night; she had retired at Ffrench to locate ber firetboce, meres IL o'clock, As for Gavrotte’a story, unavailing: and, after OF. he riddled tha , with eubstantia- hate. wees tion, and requested that the papers M. Achille Lagumbret, a Breton gentleman, who had 6: words with him, Mr. Ffrench, in the Medaille d'Or, Kue Vaugirard, on the evening In question, He could account for his own disap- eo without any trouble whatso+ Mr. Halsey Grahame will bear had said, turning to @ man who had stood beside him on the Kloptic. Ho added that he was sorry + to have to draw Mr. Grahame into such publicity; but the young man owed him a debt of gratitude nearly a year's exile, and now wa too it Was #0 perfect the rtands for remembrances Edith Winchester Crancourt been little over a year old when mother it ine, in 1 Rosemary, ther the two little girle realized. She died {ter Rosemary's birth, Ftreneh had cecomm v; hat the time to help him out. Air. {He reporters go to the Metropolitan Grahane, a younx, well-groomed man Musourn of Art, where was hung a of twenty-six, blushed, 1 told the Portrait of Mrs, Ffrench by Heeves: story. aud it would be found to be, parring Ho wan a passenger on a ferryboat ‘he difference in going f Twenty-third Street to -O# and costume, a replica of Hose eraey City, Tle was very agrunk, He ary had leaned too ty er the rail, and | He passed on to an accoun* of hia had Kone overboard. It was a foggy "eetlng with Edith Crancourt. Hg night; the sirens of half a dozen Psd seen bor in Paris, sitting a a box the craft were screaming, There had “! the Opera Comique. He was un accumpanied; 8 with some school friends w vere passing through Paris. At fir been few paswongere at that hour, nd only one stood near hin—Mr. french, who, being a good swimmer, had plunged after him and managed to to met hold of hia ce ‘The fur and the noise of the siren had, no doubt, caured the incident to go unnoted by the people of the ferryboat. Hoth men had been atanding forward, near the chains of the upper deck. Mr. Ffrench explained his preacnce on the boat by etating that he never managed to ge asleep befor 3 companion. clock in the morning, and toinduce | He was in the midst of a sleep he walkod the streets, rode on the cars or went back and forth with the ferryboata, after his daughter had retired. He stated that he could pro- duce a dozen ferrymen who would wear to having had him for a pas- senger on the late boats for the past four or five years. He had friends who knew of hia insomnia and his idiosyncratic method of treating It he referred to a number of well knows men. it and entered. Ho greeted was sufficient to Waintan: the her companion —an forty-five, hollow cheeked, but of eye. He had seen th drugs and the habit tn this man. ud- he called the Engiianman by nam The effect of the name was tnstan. have been heard The current had carried them down looked ath same glassiness of eye the Washington Square ny could not tmagine why the had not been delivered ‘This matter was investiented tn 9 xe He sage (To Be Continued) the me the boxes he saw a woman who reminded ‘ater edition of the Sphere; and a GOING AWAY FOR THE catliegram to french, Washineton him of Mra, Dale, He studied ber square,” and reading: “Sate. Home | SUMMER? Remember The Eve- shrough opera glasses and became |n three weeks. Pater," wos found in . World . e convinced. Ho then telephonad to po- in cable company's offices. marked | Ming World prints each week a iice headquarters and had a detective (UM {niverad’’ the house in Washing: J complete up-todate novel —a sergeant in plain clothea sent to him. Mr Ffranch gave the names week's reading! Have The Eve- At the conclusion of the play Miss other survivors of the Susan Dy Kosemary Ffrench waa arceated, Who would baar out his story: ning World sent to your sum+ Lovy swore to her identity with Mra jay ih tesiacy cheat mer address Dale. Bimself to Capetown. Also, tiv sho and again tried Crancourt offered tu returo to him thea and be remar:? her sorrow hained unabated until she met an@ married Hollenden Ffrench, two years rt disappeared with the child wolng to Australia, some said. Othe era claimed that they had seen him At all events, the early efforts on the part of Mrs. Hollenden she bore a child to Hollenden Ftrench, replica of her firat ttle girl that she called it Rosemary which, if you remember tbe play, er jw her; but she had had pronounced individuality, for a baby ~as distinct as her own—and Mra ffrench was continually remarking Upon the resemblance between Edith” Her fondest wish—ta tour nded that tyles of hairdreas- Misa Ffrench was din- he thougbt that it was Rosem: +s welf, come to the theatre atter Glaner and he went to the box door, cpaned er, -hen saw that, though the resemblance delude & casual ace it could not stand for ali those intimate things which a father kuew of @ daughter who was also «, confused explanation when he caught sight of Englishman of hy . of complexton, and staring and iclanay fects of immediately recognised His mind travelled quickly back to the unfor- tunate first marriage of hia wife, and taneously apparent, although the mam r closely and saw the which her