The evening world. Newspaper, October 12, 1915, Page 15

aoe _— "== >; [aa ASW ORD *: . EMPEROR trenge Ade the Franco-Prussian War . ' Romance of an American ventures | Jone brief compcien of It. They would setul strain ana for the ‘ 5 i | oe ihe & nad ho MOLES Ue fe muy hide 8 Wend seme thew wate i ee Me Letey . Ae oh ape beg rtee ak fee - | bow and ber adviewrs anmured fund eh Ro At be euehOn wid bey that UO” true ‘Phat you were really OT NON OF Pure BLING ¢ hal) hexte.” be reminded me. Hany wes sh panic, Laat Freuee ted iy ent buchen Greame. ; With « last hetpleas look ef the re ba.ure org er gue Tour record as « scldier here vw oor, 1 followed ie @ dene, to an ae fe for more than a ‘ona the polane gy op A) © ou bad Sever been ‘out oh Brenan, an Repoieoh mee wae Ww lane Aloerie er tarmany t a8 Gas . > fe « 9 body, Wave Read iser CHAPTER IV. |quarters #ere a. Mee Two advance os , Tie enews c 1 Am Sent on a Strange Cente Ma LSPS Ender am Lo etek? Te te for my 8 , Busi re wa ug on We for the embarrassment | mast ‘i Wibead @ «0nd you-fug the 1 found { siooteetul atlack ow doubted yo wordt the prt | ought to ask your Trae be # brief, triumpha: you reparation for*— ae ueb ou owe me nothing!” I oried ve. atte { tact, the Preneh pementiy were ete fully fregments « hanes of ihuusauds of witlin 1 enioled; Une ass ly, lo cleee & mae ae jet me continue the at ancesbip, Mins Clay? don't way you won't, Unconventional and presumptuous country Uoush Whieb lay Weir line unary te Hut it means so much. increuwie? Yes, but history, none the 4 jv howd weil i mynelf uahe vate bureau ¢ Merde at the Tuileries. A ermal, businesslike apart ment it was, far different from the huge gilt-and-seroliwork room 1 had t 0 0 imtely quitted in dingrace. CHAPTER U1. There were two people in the office ‘ (Ouptibuet) as 1 was announced, One was the The Girl and the General, %**: ‘he other no lean & personage DU never saw Sheridan un her Imperial Majesty the Ken o Hugenie, a " yomet im here “1 stood at attention, wondering why | “ Fish edaculated 1 had been recalled, half ting I was pleading a» for my very life. She watched me with a It was not until | Was within twen. Glimost awed stare, As I ceased, ty wiles of F wok that ble whispered he ph held by an ady “Dick Graeme! His every guard of Stonmetes Prussian army. and inflection! It can't be as they brvssard’s diview La the Freneh were manning Uh heights to w ward, prepariig lv alell (he (own, ee oe prjentens tower nied 4 horse and rode over to " worthy the Rey Se Au mnard’s headquarters, in my wml- es ne. a vou usae you be generous enough to it it form A soul I know your love belongs to this mya- Pope tes Mle terlous Graeme—whoorer and wher- { th troops, HK totlons Jomimnary very well une es gel: fos. gual Ga fe so humble a plea as mine. if Clay, “You were with him I might be asked to take writ-| at Winchester, @ knowledgment that my German He checked bimeelf, o new idea were untrue, This last, 1] moe Dossession of him. Then ho auiiniy revolve all the powe ent on, his Keon old eyes acanning prance should not make me do. toy face: “At the battle of Winches uo 1 mtood, after my firet sal ter @ young friend of mine, Kichard waiting calmly for one or the other of Graeme by name, was atruck in the yy jiiuatrious companions to apenk, forearm, just above the wri by ® | had not long to walt, The En fraginent of an exploding shell. The wound never properly healed, for our eurgical arr, ments Just then were not of the best. A red triangular acar has disfigured Gracme's left forearm ever wince, Do you, by any ohance, happen to have such @ scar on your =F ten repo t= TL iiust wail unt the Preneh Wook the town, it wan like the & oe at the Tuileries Oe ee ead na inking. that ue sometimes; that you let me be Winele Was in Bawebruck near you when no one better ean I slopped at the overcrow aim your interest.” in the Littie town whe ‘You are in earnest?’ she asked Was entrene Olticers and enlisted doubting; men Ja streets. As i stood “Lam bemging more earnestly Jat a window of the hotel drawing- ever before In my life,” I exclal P roo the morning after my arrival a “And for a greater favor than any | n cheer rose from the throngs ever coveted in my wildest dreams. My dreams,” I reepated, half ashamed to volee @ thought that always re- curred to me. “T do not know whether i al incompe- | only ask that you let me continue / At Do Meride (© speak to you, That you talk with press, with that generous sintie of hers which none could resist, rose from the armehair beside the table, pick- ing Up, a8 she did ao, @ Jowel-hilted sabre from the bourd, “Captain Benton,” she said, as though welcoming a dear and long- absent friend, “during @ recent scene, which we are all going to forget, your sword had the, mischance to be broken, it is not meet that so valiant @ soldier should carry an empty scab- “Yeft forearm, Captain Ray Bent He pronounced my name with @ dry scepticism that would have net- tied me had I not been too utterly dumfounded by the rest of his speech, For, as it happened, my left fore- gringlod, stern wide rode no less & personage than you are foolish enough to believe tn arm did bear just such a ecar as he bagi pbb tetcal ied fala Us thy Kmneror MiNBRIE tom “renina, Mina Clay. T never used to. described—the scar of a wound re- * © y + apo ‘et the Instant I saw you it seemed to Truly, this was a day of surprise! | "So!" he cried in triumph. “You 1 2ad been kissed and claimed as flance by a girl whom I had never be- het fell @ scar! And yet you deny +14 seen, 1 had been discredited and one wide to the other as the soldiers my wa had met. red: “Vive l'Empereur!” vy, Forne grayish blotched face I 80 well tan ‘bly bt Mpg Fg ts Sod 1 im uM ae i ceived years before in battle, remembered had now a high color. Ward tives tow { learned later, he was rouged (he earned er: ae duet aided Mt ma, of course, Wut when Ta to make the troops think him glow. (cit all at once aa ing with Vigorous healt! But his Sh Sas pin come — Httle, deep-set eyes were dull and a. ai en, me that \giuzed, and he could scarce keep an anme awed, half-fascinated look. . “ ay he X -. Jerect martial pose, in the saddle, f 1 ree me. eng to change 4 PeCencitence™ he mocked, flerce- na De he meme Beene aera: NS ene oie bay: handsome, ex. "AS far aa the ‘myst ly. “Why keep up the silly farce Pres “than that you will bear this | der, falr-halred boy; handsome, OX. tr acid 1. cit eurely theme been new sword ag gallantly as you bore NA‘ cited. 1 knew 4 Hand ee whatever your object may ‘ - citedne Prince, Imperial Who Waa C4sy matter for you now to locate | hooked to receive bis “baptism of Itichard Graeme. I think you sald “EE 4 fe @ farce," I answered, “y ‘© rank and glory!” tw gen Chie a sn teapned a tine Uintted State Government had « 1 sCOV “Poor little ‘Lou-Lou'l" laug! awe m to iclally, to stud: am its victim, not ite author, ‘The | #9 far recovered my wits aa to) Wid sondee suet below, my windows using our cavalry tactlos. As & colaier, he drop on one knee asf took the Sash- a al the prince's Parisian nickname, We surely would hot thine & chance of on”— ing hilt from Eugenie’s hands, Then, jooks aw if he could eat all the Prus- watching the war. a iising. J made shift to mumble some ,* #4 left alone, glowering sulkily been somewhat simpler to let us com- 1voked up expressioulessly into my history's greatest struggles, And I eians he'll kil “Hasn't he presented his oredentiats ‘At Winchester.” at De Moride, who sat watching me pare the serial numbers on the oppo- scowling Visage will try to tell the facts in a mere , “Vive I'Empereurt Vive le Prince at headquarters? Do none of the “at Algiers.” more or less appropriate syllables of with a placid smile of approval on bis site ends of the note? They, of course, “Young sald he quietly, ; Imperiate!* bellowed the troops. And varioun isy commanders, hasew A stified moan of disappointment thanks, face. I should so much have preferred would be the suim “when you have reached my age you Pandful of words. Will you be patient a . anything about him? With such mili- ti Madge a ‘4 by her | Was astounded, What did it all t? take my instructions direct from jie frowned ut the suggestion. Then, Will learn it is often the things that With me? ‘A bas tes maton Prusses!" groaned tary influence as ycur father and his com ce aS ee : ne ned by her nant bey agepeent potentate who had drawing from the breast of his coat a seem most simple hyd 4rereally the In the early years of the nineteenth « fogusned at Y piek wile frend, Gen, Sheridan, can exert in father's wrathful sno just quitted us. w , bound with flat Most important. this were an or- D “he “Pardo ie! laces, the man ough S eaatca Gully: “In these days of stress,” the Eike ““But, attor ull, I reflected, this was frog siria nd sucured with ith tat diuary matter any of adosen Imperiai Century, Nupe et eee wett at ny elbow. “May I look out at that brought to light quieety. cmmaiee te “Here ja the situation: You say 1 Pres® Was saying, “we all have our her errand on which T was to be sent; padlock, he handed it to me. curlers might bave been intrusted *WePt Continental Europe like ener ord L whirled to meet .,,D0. You imagine,” she retorted, @ and De Meride was only her very wo yor wil put this pocketbook ina With it. But it involves responsibility devastating plague. Thrones he bad At the frat wor ried to meet what everything of that sort bee mat welcome “mouthpiece.” So I turned 4nd perhaps far more danger than upset; ho had overturned dynasties, her. Lea be oer to hear his commands. ee eee Sik ween ines You tHiDk - A It wan Madge Clay. during this past wretched “ta the Empress a jeater that s He had changed Europe's map. Few Ang ne T turned, her dear face "0k? My father has set every in- virtually Kicked out of the army by the influence of another woman who | now seemed bent on honoring me as few general officers are honored. “It's surely an odd coincidence,” I muttered, “I not only look like your ka but I have a similar mark be?" the old. May It carve for you @ path @car you speak of I received in battle me, nerves sadly tried. Therefore, If arsh words and unjust were spoken uit your well meant service am your friend, Richard Gru You back up the state nent by ¢ scribing a scar that neither of you Let me say here, in the light of later ceed at 0! b: © other co Hs quiry afoot. The Emperor himself can have seen, I eay Lam Ray Ben isjudged—I ask your pardon in events, that I honestly believe Eu- the Sus trent, pant dust tine ie his for a peny Sand that Sumbled and weeskea i ue eld EAnenTy: indorsed those inquiries. Every cav~ ton; that I never was ¢o fortunate the Emperor's name.” Folie nature of this mission torwhone. orth of the Fiver Saar, “Thence to y ivijian could readily perform? If Mrussia, Added to this, ne hud Loaped CHAPTER VI. Intorforated. ‘The. pollee, hotel ‘apd - aa to see either of you before; that 1 “Your Magesty!” I protested, at ® Berrormance she had bound me, T bes “pres oy witt go to the Pigeon POUr Work seems over @aRY t0 YOU, at cruel inault un Prussle'e U8Oe~ 7 Undertak . iniecronatad. “Tne pollen, Ream» aad i 2 4,-em, and have for years been, an of- 1088 for words. lieve De Merido required a certain yor lun aod will walt until auch time eust,walt until It im successfully per oie Louise, Undertake a Strange Quest. vitiags in France have been over- | - ce's armies. And 1 can “Do not for a moment thin! formed before saying so. i all on not only hundreds of reput- tinued Eugenie, “chat your splendid Atted his purpowe better than did any piong the inn porch, flicking between pronf—justice and common sense as polvon hud fullen and his empire had back with an involuntary {the front with father—egainst hie able officurs, but on the olficial ree. feats of courage here and in Algiers 3 his fingers the toro half of # hundred well--and I began to calm down. hand, and that he persuaded Eugenie franc mote. Ho may be there when “ss 1 dows. crumbled. France, freed of Honapart- “B ve e " . ur brothe cl jut surely, with all that invest!- Sarda, both here and in Als have been overlooked by us, or that to win me back to loyalty and to you arrive, On the contrary, You May Do Metide. “aneak of vod we thet isms, Becaine first @ monarchy, then 4 gesture that went to my feer in F) "con- type of man to do the work, that I as you see a man walk back and forth ‘There was Justice in his quiet re- Then in the course of events Na- S (IE knew me and she shrank Dauled. As a last resort I came here very heart, Then she look- gation, some trace’—- “prove what I suy. It seems a dead- We for one moment underestimate enlist me ie ule anterpring Read to have to wait several days for Bim.” of honor. In Algiers you were reputed republic, Prussia through the long ed at me, with a timid wist- | "A passenger, bearing the name of | Jock. But you must surely own you Your worth, It is to prove that that the end. and T think you will agree tie paused, cleared his throat and to have an unbending, loyal, bulldog years nursed lor grievance, and her fulness as one who would hope but Richard = Graeme and ans ; + eee galatnkac I have sent for you. 1 am going to “sich an act was quite in keeping “onto”: honesty that more than once stood in Geep haterd of France never died. — dare not. She sald, with hesitation: [lck’s general description, landed fii m c ¢ Marseilles, abou' 0 fo) “Mad—quite madi” muttered the trust you as few men are,trusted. with Tullerion polition of that dave as yous Wate ey eeoent thie mnan, showing {he way of your own advancement it six months : your half of the note and asking if the Your Yankew nation ofttimes breeds !4 the early fties rose Louis Na “You-you followed ue here? You much is shown by the Bureau Generai, under bis thick mustache, You are to go on a mission—not only all folk know, ; iwo portions fit together, If they do, such men. poleon, nephew of the great Napoleon, have given up the cruel Joke—or the time of the police. Not one other . He's in dead earnest, A touch of for France, but as your Empres Mare yee sate wort ae De you will hand him ttds wallet and "lor this and for other reasons, [ and sneeringly nicknamed by Victor hallucination—or whatever made you about ‘him can, be ellelted | tn the head from some French Apache She paused, Now I am aware that a sworn sorvant of France, te keep closely as this, And bring it to me, that trust, I know. Hore,” with a . ““belvon the Litue,” by trickery, buck to me vanished hws aduied nis brain’ i her words, as I have here set them this entire transaction secret.” here, in this office, with all possibls more businesslike alr, “is an order on bribery and force of urms overthrow Oh, there wan a world of appeal in “And yoy loved him?” T gasped. Hike to think, T replied, “that down in cold black and white, savor “That is quite needless,” | answered your department treasurer for what- tho republic be had sworp to uphold; her voice. T made wild, helpless an- “Oh, forgive me for intruding on your aM us sine us the average man, i f Phat coldly. “When Her Majesty chose mo T queried, as he ceased. “And ever funds you may need. There If ang had himself proclaimed “Napo- swert arief with selfish pleas for friendabip, t would be an uct of crass insunity overmuch of honeyed flattery, That (. "this affair she knew I could be an eaat-bound train in two hours, ‘ mo aes «ti Not by When your heart must be breaking! for me to deny fuisely the acquaint- Is, in part, because I have scant skill trusted. Between men of honor an "That is all.” Can you be ready to take it?” iwon IU. kmoperor of the French, T have come back to you. Not bY “O10 Gig not seem to have heard mes anceship of such a gitl a» YOUr with the pen; but more because no oath is wholly unnecessary. If [am “All?” I echoed, “I fancied T was I returned. burope ut large looked upon him a@ mny own volition, for I did not know pur wont on: ‘daughter, May L hope that you Will vi wordy can give any faintest Not. man of honor, no oath will bind to be sent on a mission of grave im- (1 buttoned the iron bound wallet in- an upstart charlutan, No Continental you were here, But I would have “He came to France by the long sea PIMOS BEACONS HAE tot toe Gentiaue an iden of the woman's wingome end Tt vortance; perhaps even of peril.” fide my tunle, pleked up the expen¥#o jnoueh Would give him @ daughter crosed the world to come to you, route, hecause he wished to Inspeet } ee ee ay duly bamaat” Satin ak ‘As I assured you," ho intervened, ‘And so you are,” said he. order, saluted and withdrew tor wife, So he married the famous Will you believe that—or will you eet [he British fortress at Gibraltar em \ | a Me Oe ee ote y coun not keen magnetic charm, it is a mere matter of form, and re- “But this is the sort of work any was probably my excited fancy his way here. * fs “He landed at Marsetlies, and that sho cried any mailed me the last letter I ever ‘ jown to Jest or filusion?” sata F > Intell! 1 do with that led me to believe I heard a laugh Swutivl beauty, Kugenie--vourtosy~ tt my ‘even’ trom Madge's face. I had — Moreover, it was no small thing for quested by the Empress, If you ob- intelligent stable lad could a an abu icaraaeaieal an obse caval sap * ject, T would perhaps better tell Her perfect ease, It seems to me, Mon- from the other side of the closed offica Countews of Montijo—who prompuy always scoffed at love at first sight; an obscure cavalry captain to be thus wri tna: Rome other man would sicur le Duc, that it is service better door as T made my way down the ey made herself the most talked of, most —though it seemed to me my rash recetved from him.” yet, unless | was vastly mistaken, L singled out and honored by the Em- 4 ¢ A ; a toy t 1 corridor, : 5 ; Wus rapidly falling « Victim to that Dees of the French, #9 (Rer bigibg ters grndeingty pene rer ae errors t han for ik Ty mission had begun. Vaguely, ) “diiied Woman in Burupe, ardor was not wholly thrown away "It made it a thousand times hard~ @ame tualady, beloved of romance vce nied wit ‘atlance: : Thad forgotten discipline--even bara found myself repeating half alound 540 Was Bol coulent to wet the upon her, “If only you would put ér for you-tt must still make tt soto Half the young officers tn Paris plied with impatience; and I gave ti Pp " see me; when T bring him so vividly writers. 1b 1a ‘ aout of hand the required pledge, clvility—in- my disappointment over De Meride's odd words: World's fasition in dresa and decorum, yourself in the hands of father's doo 9 your mind!" I said, turning to Here was a glorious girl begging would eagerly have cut off one hand “Attar all, my duty as a soldier this anti-climax to my hopes, Gan | “Perhaps tar more danger than you but ius, duu ia poulice aa Weil tor, and"——- “The deepest proof I can > ‘a me to confess that } was her Runces, if with the other they might have re- would have held me to obedience and you wonder I was sick with chagrin? think _ Per yONUGs, Iu Lneir Lue Bene Thy Africanssuns and a wound oF that your happineas means all the ee ee eee vas Le fant ceived the gift that Eugente had just to secrecy. Yet, T could then see no I, who had been summoned by the Bugenie had about ae much BENUs oo ang a railway wreck have not been world to me, is to keep out of your her heart, And hoe samp cn. bestowed on me, Tho other bait "arm In further clinching the matter, Finpress herself, told by her to go C 44 au Angora Kitten, Yet sie was & oe he +p sight, T thank you for the confidence Browing to yearn for that sanm n= ARR, OD Fe ne it with 8 Merida, too, seemed unaccountably forth as her loyal knight, promised a CHAPTER V. Wul du tie duds Of her Unaerupuiuus able to mar my health or mind,” 1 sight, 1 thank you for the confdenes Viable position, and yet forced In would gladly cut off one car if WIth Fetioved, and proceeded, more Driskiy? nolty 18 cube Ot auciees W 4uviters and che kiuperur iB Lurk Wie returped, “So I scarce need a doctor, 704 MAYS shown ng common honesty to deny My BUb- the other they could have heard such Your Instructions are of the nd now the labors of tue “loyal ar—and a Woman. Wax ik her hands, Listen, We will not go over that — phe rumbl 4 boom of Lael eats ee eo OOF Pe words of praise from her, Kimplest. Do you see this?” knight" wera to consist In carrying a ILL you, who have followed »,08%, , trou fter Another she cudiess, purpuscless dispute ugain, shot broke in on the momentary stints Truly & pretty situation, from ; . 1 did. It was half of a hundred Wallet to Saarbruck, into the province brought upon the Prench nauiua, At " I. 6 y still whateve standpoint one might After all, 1 was only thirty; and my franc note that had been torn rougniy of Lorraine, and to bring back a my adventures to this polmt, Just (ue people murmured, ‘Ty dis- Believe me mad or insane--believe ine ness as I moved toward the door, choose to view it! a Gonerat Clay'y Mf Bad been spent in camps rather 4p en ad b OUe UNF i ncket to Paris bear with me while | pause (act Wied 4s Well wy in Obedience to Lenton or Graeme—believe what you 7 yen Another Spe Soler a N - Ber eee ee ant ithe gauay than in court ram 1 the only — “You will take this," he said, The — Truly a glittering inission! Not evan one moment in iny story to [i RG yinhre: Sn penle Blake NG rise will, Only believe 1 am honest and gry \jiery, vanguard Was mates uniform ef an imperial wide-de-eamp, man who has been swep! off his men~ man you are sent to mect will have & Tide of a mile through the cnemy’® i¢)), ay briefly a4 I may, womething of ia —krance's vid-tine foe—was the tat 1 have done nothing to forfeit Suarhruck who had caught sight of mo from tal balance by a beautiful woman's que ameh Balt of ire note. 8 te Fae HT ride might well, as a superior the brief, terrible conflict which the chosen vicuin. the right to make your acquaintance, ‘The Franco-Prussian War had be- ry untied us sn. with an ott Sil) Manes Welle ake Bean you scak, ofticer, have rebuked me sharply for Empress Eugenio was laughingly Ng, MatorIAn bas pyer been able to “Under whatsuover name you pre- Bun! eeetia bow to my 't com. I any case—wise or foollyh—at and not some one who may have tHe lack of respect in my answer, pleased to call “her little w Prussia‘ orifliest atatusunen bad fir-Henton OF Giuemiemwon't you 7 MAG reached Hhe thresheld whee ta Paar ae sent. poat-haste to that moment I was prepared to under- &leaned some inkling of the secrot and Mut"womewhat to my surprise he Believe me, you will be none the loog bien p paring tor Just such a Ht me coutinue the acquaintance wa Madge Clay called roa back, Hier Rare iver r f c ‘ H id nol stead, ho leaned back In shat { ail ‘ ' y — Bag yon. Lye been to Your go the most absurd risks at Kugenin's 14¥ try to palm himself off as the i et tie imine meaning In Worse for refreshing vour memory on Mu'e Ct hn had not actually inspired wu atraniwy began there in the ast Thi, trange 4 ia Bee Ae ee cette uy imperious will, Quite clear oFmake myseit vont of his medal-strewn chest, and the events that led to one of modera }')) runsin nad grown from iu se inety-elghth. Her MaJes! , y * evies Gardens & week ago? Lf you “Wait! she comman sweet dary vlate toa might 18» ded, her fuck hud inyulded her deatines and 2¥¥vt my Worthiness to speak to you volco ringing clarion-Hike | th Hust her. forward, Bey by. gtep, 224 BAY bUL to dak Gon, brossard or the artillery roverberations that shook at Your Majesty's service to "Ag ¢, . wT 4.°r instant presence in the Due de am as iF ‘As far as you £0,’ returne: Yevlue's private office, It isa matter ‘6 death,” 1 replied, somewhat am to proceed to ome place which She sent me after Standiloquently, "lt is my duty, a# you will designate, and there have yt t vee vbher i bere, AU L K the house, 4 Of Urgent Aste. oes ieft the pale Well as my high privilege, to Obey dealings of some sort with a man who Na Malkin Gee, piagnied ola couse 2” — wn NT halted and stepped back tnto. the | you the instant yout Dale our commands, You have only to will present the other halt of this ARE YOU of stuff, had planned cunpaign utter | /WhO are your” whe waked. her room. cH "4 ‘eae t ted General "@me them,” torn banknote." | eamy proved the coun- ROSS OG n OSES vn Oey Cea ie idecio-camp'in Awain sho smiled into my face, T waited. for further inatructions. || ONE OF THE MANY THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO ARE READING Jf | try's Willlam, King of meat ‘When you sogd before ie ‘friendehip, " ake Went on nin “that villainously bad French, and pointing ."! Knew We tight count on you," jut he seemed in no hurry to come THE EVENING WORLD'S Pry a d woendaat ot the luck - Hare & moment ago Rie very. came odd tone, her eyes stil Jane * Ait a iY she said graciously, “M, le Duc de to ess Queen Whom the first Napoleon a ppene eu able anc ailing. “You 8 at me. “Who is this man? to the point. T wil remembered only my frat belief ane manner Oo} Meride will explain your mission in +, a of my own,” s hud insulted, The fated time for nie fame’ greatest wish of your life, core aera S, Huan of MUAY, full, Understand, please, that Dis Ine piaccntiyerthet petinote. ee mocta Complete Novel Each Week? Fechoniny wae GeAWing Rear, | inal yeu tase Dick caciner fecunide CIUnT ett erie stlons ci i i . ne invincad! Niet aching ith ent 01 cy “On 5 id for he answered civilly, If in gome structions come frei me, yaet Bee Pel el SN sie Da Hay ne If net, you are robbing yourself of the richest fiction treat ever that bistanrek und Von Moltke had we. So L spoke on inpulae, 1 foar go po it! ‘be gift is youre,” eis is Captain Ray Benton of the Dis orders you are obeying my earnest plicated, a. password learned by |} offered to the readers of » newap ; |For yeare so carefully been develop. + ust aak Your pardeh |. | HARI “4 Ninety-elghth Hussars.’ request others. But no forgery and no dupli- The Evening World, every week, prints a novel by some famous | (04 Wits 477.000 men in all-at Treves, 0M tee Fepeated aghast «lor the asking, But on one condi- i “Mow long hag he deen in the _“Kemember, I rely on you impiloitly cation on earth can ft exactly Into|f author, These novels are issued complete in six large daily instalments. J jit |ii)itl) {! [aver Hrumsinis power RUF Wiel a ty gg. tht ‘i French army? Captain Benton, And t know L shall one whole piece two torn fragmenta of They are selected with a view to suiting the tastes of all readers, rushing to arms, yall the other plain as quickly as I can what oun IT wilt do everything mortal magm “For at least ten years,” said the not rely In vain, By the Way" —touch- fubric paper that have not originally || And the tremendous success of the plan has long been demonstrated. P| teria nites hod Aucked to Will: fever t wholly explaived to my be- C4 to fUiflHl that condition, be tt puzzled aide. “You can see that from ing 4 roll of parchment on tho table~ heen torn from each other The torn In The Evening World's “COMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEEK" BF iam's siandurd lief. The officer who came to fetch What It may! Name it. the service atripes on his arm. I re- “on your successful return I shall beg oiges cannot be duplicated, Nothing , in Franee-after a silly, you to the palace that day In Paris ,1f My words were mel ioe is the f st work of such “best Fyn Pabaliady > leegy pated Nye up quarrel had he said he had known or known of they were at least ae: i a od Meanwhil call reading his name in the Algerian your acceptance of this, It is a col- will Mt one half perfectly except the ler” authors as Robert W. sa) es ; Chambers, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Rupert Hughes, James Oliver Cur- patiently trumped y Tank Woerk. aaa He atobped tn in dismay. ¥ For Madge, she was gone from the room, Ate, \ bad idea?” ter, Loule Joseph Vance, Edgar Rigs Burroughs and many othere of Pl noisy patriotism. "Ts Berlin!” was “When. ho sald it, something "The you ~ a ad fallen to the robbed of her brilliant presence, the ngipgenious, certainly,” I 1 agreed. equal celebrity, everywhere the cry. France's un- seemed to give away in my h Richard fa ewe Little office seemed curiously dingy, ‘But might it not in this eonguerable armies should make but lt was the climax of the whole