The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1916, Page 12

ae OE ellie "TTHE SECRET OF THE SUBMARIN Peed ee A Roman ic story of an undersea boat designed to remain beneath the surface for weeks with the beautiful daughter of the invent figuring a» the heroine in (hrilling situa- tions - we ae an Powe SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS ze Spt te cnet tie, tet, oe slice! Fle , ELEVEN TH BPISODE, UT, out over the yawning gulch she awung until, feeling earth beneath her feet again, she released her hold upon the gran. ( vine and dropped upon the opposite bank, But, though etag ing from fatigue, she dared not rest, for she well knew the relent- losaness of her pursuers, Her clothes torn nd driers, hor face and hands soratched and bieeding, fa choking sobs, she yot stumbled on and on until she dropp g@heer exhaustion, She had reached the very limit of her strength; @! @ould go no further, For an hour, two hours, perhaps, sho crouched amid the bushes, wino- fae at every sound, for she coukl not bring herself to believe that Maniin @Ad Bateuma would abandon the pursuit, Tortured by the thought of Hope nd Hook lying wounded, perhaps dying, knowledge that if the man she loved was to saved she must reach the Dearest settlement and send them help, she twice struggled to her feet, but @he bad sprained her ankle in her mad fight and each time she sank back, 7 Helpless and groaning. Nor could #he hope to find her way down the moun~ 4 tainside, for she had completely jost her bearings and darkness was already Overcome by loneliness, and misery, and fear, she threw herself faco @ownward on the ground and her slender figure shook with sobs, for, be it THE BLACK COUNCIL GIVES THE 8 femembered, she was very young and very unhappy and very, very tired. : But all at once she ceased her sobs and sat erect, tenso with terror, for her bony fa AO eg he iolemay htige | quick ears had caught the murmur of approaching voices, Mablin and Bat- Cleo's uma must have found a way asound the gulch and again picked up hor trail. At the thought she fell into an uncontrollable ft of trembling. Btout-hearted though she was, the RAR ECRRaEN with firm ground barely fifty yards away, they were as helpless as though nkie, their lower limbs were incased, from not deep,” he @aid to Cleo. the waist down, In plaster of paris. “Wo easily wade across—or, Scar had Hope realized that he Ty you. could ‘no longer free his feet, than rous lookin’, there came to him a still more tor- ik. “Better go rible realization—slowly, almost im- nc the mountainside to @ shallow niche joo nt,” warned Ho in the face of the cliff. Though barely careful or you may ba large enough to hold the three of getting out.” them, it was dry and clean, while th discovered it at almost the same mo- great mass of rock which overhung said Hope careless! ment, for she sald in a startled voice: it ke a portecoc! ne! the get into trouble, It's only a bit of “Jarvis, I feel as though I were of Morton than to double purpose of shielding it from swampy ground. I've shot ducks in sinkin, f such observation and from the weather. far worse swamps than this hundreds “It's all right, dearest,” he answered bower of such Gn the level rock in front of the niche of times.” And lifting Cleo in his reassuringly. ‘There's nothing to be ‘human form as she knew Hope started a brisk fire. arms be waded out into the marsh. worried about. Stand perfectly etill to be, Yet she could ha) re, started. Woon dieappenses, pad} ig hy + Bagg os eo 4 ong Gs fm cag ges Baw ag a only to retui lenced no culty, but, as he ut despite his confident tone he ‘jo further. Her ankle was swollen staggering under a load of leafy proceeded, the surface became softer, was worried, terribly worried, for he surely, they wore going down. Cleo agony g she have submitted ey was her excruciating of sf pats. "ao know that hor sole chance haifa ost gu the rocky Avor of thal added welyt every edeaperaie ones ne 0 eecape was to remain hidden in sleeping Leven ace vot risa ey ey trib po yay oe character ‘Don't come any further, Hook,” he the bushes that they might pase ber Mans, DAiTom rot ary leaves and fully,” ho wetrumgled on. “Rivalete of Called ,io,the seaman, who had started by. crass. rapiration were streaming down back at once or you'll be in trouble voices were nearer now. 80 it was the pounding of her heart q it seemed as though it must be- : her, Now she could distinguish tones, About them there was thing familar, Then she knew. was not Mablin and Satsuma who approaching, but Hope and ¥ waited, breathless, until “It fan't quite up to the standard his face and he was pantin, m his yourself. ob Besant atte ep, te, 0 Carked, exertiogs—out be wae helt way "Cuets tne matte, loctenahtt viewing his work with satisfaction, @crosa now, shouted Hook, as, obeying Hope's or- “but it's softer and cleaner than lots Then came disaster. Without the der, he regained the bank. “Are you of beds that I've slept in, There may slightest warning the character of the in quicksand?” in it, but we're too marsh through which he had beon so) = “J'm afraid Now, we would laboriously wading abruptly changed; “we can't move and we seem to be be quite comfortable if we only had he suddenly lost his footing and glowly sinking, something to eat.” lunged forward, and, before ~~ “What shall I do?” the satlor “I've some chocolate,” announced !#ed that his struggles wore only mak- shouted. “Shall I get some \branch- Cleo, producing trom the pocket of !M@ matters worse, ho was ingulfed in es?" it a wood, eine y Quicksand to the waist. Cleo, appre- “I don’t think they'll do any good, ed; thought we might be hungry before clating the handicap which her wel Hook,” came the answer. “We're in ea." We got back to town, so Dut 3 m: ruggied from me deep, a only wa; to, wet us ket before we the cabin. out is ith a rope. fou" or Poally for you, dear.” cried ‘Hope, into the mire, Standing side by ide, hurry down the valley and ace if wot The Evening World’s Beauty and Health Column “Thats only the Conducted by Pauline Furlong ot i ' 7 i i i by Hook, ushes and gathered her Played three avape ree ra loa’ With luscious wild blackberries. "T bushes are covered with them.” she explained. “I picked them while you were gathering the wood. After they had consumed thelr scanty, but none the less satisfying meal, Hope insisted on examinii be ankle, wales jan body arouen and was causing er acut ret Gloss by &, mountain stream tumbled Through This Column Miss Furlong Will Reply to Women jownward in @ serics of cascades an . pools and, in order to reduce the swell; Readers’ Questions Regarding Exercise, Diet and Other 10] re leo to put her foot fore Cae ie the icy Water ANGE Means of Preserving Good Health and Good Looks. bathing the ankle with whiskey in lieu of alcohol, he skilfully bandaged it Oa with @ strip torn from the bottom of] For the month of August I will not | Will fou Bloase savise me what to do her skirt, and, lifting her in his arma, carried her back to the niche in the |{U#sest any now exercises for either smploy in their) weight, It is not # difficult matter €fforta to lose or|to lose twenty Peunds, if you try. The vichy and Kissingon waters, o¢ he rushed if think of what mu, Cleo, darlin, that hell-ho! a when you were struggling lin... 1 gaw you fall then they both atarted after « + + I knew that the only to help yor wan to reach the mm and get assistance . . . gol vam. . . they nearly caught me on the edge of # guich, but | swung it on a grapevine . . , then eprained my ankle and couldn't go any wom we ‘3 pees ®0 wor- Flea about you, Jarvis . . . are ju badly hurt?” and her hand felt usly of the lamp that Sateu- ma's weapon bad op the back of his head PP! into the niche, which, as he had pre- | ald sf dicted, was Comfortably warm, and] gain fea, but} aits, will show little results unless 4 stretched his aching body on the . will devote my SOnly a tap, dear ne nnewered boughs beside Cleo, Spwice during the Sime to aiding |e tee aah che aneinie ie oon RET. inutens Hook pot a nasty Hight he softly atole out and replen- | nee gence d jth, Fy fom mittee ives fwonty mine /Hed the fire. Creeping allently back ; Stes before 1 was able to bring him !® order not to awaken his compan. | ng the exercioes Ground, As soon aa he was avle to 10% he bent for a moment over the | 1 have already] RHEUMATIC PAINS—MR&S. R. H. walk we started in the direction you Sleeping girl. Never had he seon such given them, writes: .'I would like you to advise a picture of loveliness and innocence. me in regard to my.health, Iam five Her figure, he noted, was go slender aa | anne ama Bere fers Soll ond welen UH) ponds to be almost boyish; her glorious hatr | ular pains in|have paine in my arma and legs #0 fete * had tumbled down and formed about | answering =a 11| 98arp that I cannot walk much, My Hing’ to’ unk of what Cag yap head a golden aureole; her blouse your questions | koeee are etiff and I have sharp paing od.” was unfastened at the neck and the jin my hands. n't worry about {t any more, flickering frelight revealed her snowy relative to the mastery of those/I cannot sleep well. What exercises Gear,” said Cleo, putting her lips up throat, Even as Hope gazed, spell- | relses, and to advise you care- | would you advise for me? Tam much to be kissed, “I'm safe in your arms bound by her beauty, her eyes opencd | fully just whether or not, from your Re out around the abdomen and y and she murmured ‘sleepily, 00) ory vodad rx, cole auerne oon, Aearae eeplly, “L love | reports, you are getting from them |" irom your letter I gather that you « any further to: the proper benefits, for J am r he! 4 my ankle pains too wakened by the mo Just as|are a sufferer from rheumatism, You Sat: neoakfasted on the F anxious as you are to see that you| “re thirty-five pounds too heavy and chocolate and more wild blackberries [Peach the physical goal you have set | Mould start In to reduce by cating : ' less of all kinds of foods, especially and stare a down me mountain. help | yourself to attain, fat-forming ones, These pains ars Hee ee a hee ch pfet| Also 1 will answer the queries of | also caused by retained waste matter that alo Was ablo to Walk only with |"eder® who seck taformation regard. | in the ayaton, Dulnk much water the danistance of her companions, [IN proper diet, Diet te quite as| ANd KeoP Che powell, ope oe ee Seadually tue ry dl which they |necessary to achlev-ng certain results| are best for you. Take no alcoholi cern aggre rage arteed exercise, In aidition 1 will be | And little meat. (Green veretablon and S eaUn wae kay the | Bl , " area, not too acid fruits, auch as pears an and furs gave way to live oaks; the [Pleased to answer “boauty” queries | Dring will be best for you, Eat dark Lreads—graham, whole wheat and had taken, but we could find no sign of you, #0 we ect out of town to rais & ‘Posse and search the mounains much.” “It would be foolish for us to at- tempt to get down the mountain to- night,” said Hope decisively, “It ts @lmost dark ard we don't know the Path anyway. The best thing we @an do is to make ourselves as com le as possible for the night and t fresh in the morning. n't we start a fire? hiveri “T'm a taking a chance,” said Hope, a Pock-walled canyons became ravines, |from readers who wish information doubtfully, “because if Mahiin » ravines ran out In valleys, that will ald them in accomplishing| qluten, Practice swaying, body- Gatsuma are still looking for us gent! es were carpeted | physical attractivencas, Bending and trunk ralaing, with the might attract their attention, But hy 8 Attle did | _— - feet braced to reduce the abdomen, fancy that they've given up tho they dream that \n this fair and smil. | : — : as hopeless by this time... ing region death lurked in its most| Letters From Readers. FOOT TROUBLES—MRS, A. M. p-vithowt & fire we would freeze hideous form, WANTS TO REDUCE--M. A. MeK.| writes: ‘I am @ constant reader of K, ne sore morning, You y Emerging on the upper slopes of|writes: “Ll have been watching your| your aluable articles and have with Hook, dear, and I'l! skir- one of these mountain valleys, they |articlos on obesity reduction With| heen intending to write to you each round and see it we can find a aw below them a broad band of |great interest, 1 am five feot five I love cold baths and bathe Prpere.we ose build a fire with. its viscid, slimy surface|inches tall and weigh 161 pounds. day, When I get into cold r and there by clumps of |Piease tell me through you column | baths, especially every summer, either m winding like a|what my weight should be and how]ocean or tub bathing, the skin be- loathsome serpent down the |to attain it. | have been taking the|tween my toes cracks and they hurt valley floor, To ¢ old this bog would, |vichy and Kissingen waters for two dreadfully, Please tell me what I Hope guessed, entail a detour of sev-'weeks, but do not wee any welght, can do for this trouble? I am very was back. Pye found a place that might have for us,” he announced, the way @ short distance up titres (Se ORS OOM - 00 8 OR ODOR some trouble perceptibly, indeed, but none the less q "Hope answered.” THE BVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 81, Tip / « in the forest, and goaded by the Df fat \ \ FOUR WEEKS TO SECURE THE SECRET—OR Di you can find help, You may run across a cowboy with a lariat, But you'll havo to hurry or you'll be too late . . , we're steadily sinking.” But to himself Hope said: “He can never make it. We will have sunk long before he can get back with help, God—what @ death—to die in juicksand.” “Keep cheered up, Misa Cleo, and too, Jootenant,” called Hook, as started off on @ lumbering run. ll be back with @ rope before you know Ive star ee denly Cleo’s young volee rang “Hook, Hook!" she called, it a minute, I have an idea,” for all at once there had come to her the recollection of how the day be- fore whe Bnd saved herself from Mahlin and Satsuma, “Listen to me, Hook,” she com- manded, “There is no time to find &@ rope—we would be dead before you back with one. But you can got gTapevine—a long one, such as I swung across the gulch o: -—there are lots of them in the forest —I saw them this morning, But you must hurry, Hook . .. hurry + + OF you will be too late.” Nodding his comprehension of her Pan, the sailor turned and ran to- ward the forest. “It is a splendid idea, dear,” said Hope. “It never occurred to me, If we are saved it will be due to you.” “I hope that he will get back in time,” she remarked, as mattor-of- faotly as though there depended upon his return nothing more important than @ social engagement, but terror zo careful about my feet and never have ® corn or other foot trouble, Pl let me know the nearest gym! jun. to my home, where I can take dal! exercises, I want to lose thirty pounds, I have tried your trunk. raising exercise and might do it sev- eral timer and then not think of it any more jometimes excessively dry feet, which are often the result of too much acid in the system, causes the and lea’ coc butter on bver night. I hardly think the baths could cause this condition unless, of course, you failed to dry the feet well between the toes. This also causes soft corns. The Y. C, A. has many gymnasium branches i over the city, CHAFING—FREDA_ G, writ 4 “What will oure chafing? Fivery- thing which touches me seems to chafe me.” Make a paste of Ianoline and pow- dered boric and spread on the parts, This will bring almost instant relief. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew recently celebrated the second anniversary of their marriage. “Home Talent,” the newest of the Vogue-Mutual two-reel comedies, shows how some amateur Thespians try to play “East Lynne.” Murtel Ostriche will soon be nine- teen years old, Honest! There's no “eatch" to this, The Metro announces that “Romeo ond Juillet,” with Francis X. Bush- man and Beverly Bayne in the title roles, will be released within « month, Doris Kenyon, while on a farm recently, began to pick bugs off tho potato vines. Somebody told her it was too early for that work #0 eho put the bugs back Scenes for the Vitagraph's big film, “The Dattle-Cry of War," will be filmed at the Military Training Camp at Plattsburg. Harry T. Morey ts to direct them. Mrs, V. EB. Ranney, of the George Kleing press department, appears as a maid in one of the chapters in Tillie Burke's “Gloria's Romance.” She did it to help the director out. & Apperson Jones, technical stage area ne RR SR cee ee meee Prnovopia w& was gnawing at her heart, for she could feel herself siowly sinking. The tine dragged by. The seconds and the minutes Though tormented hey dared not stir for foar of hastening the end. Al- ready the black 0029 was above their hips and was slowly, * said Cleo, after a long “if—1f Hook should not back in time, I want to go down hold- I shall not be fright- her. “Dear heart," ing your hand. ened of death, then. brave git,” Hope; “this is all my fault, I seem to have brought you nothing but misery and trouble.” “You have brought happiness, dear,” sat: terrors #0 long as you it me nothing but id Cleo, “And Her quick eye had detected the rea- man as he emerged from the forest, and he had, as she said, the grapevine ~-a monster creeper, as thick as a} cable and almost as strong. Ventur- ing as far into the marsh as he could Hook coiled the giant vine and threw it as a cowboy throws “Take hold of it, Cleo,” Hope di- “and hang tight. count three Hook is to be is worth and you must gle, do everything you can to loosen The seaman, wrapping with safety, director with Thomas H. Ince, has gone to Minneapolis to arrange the resentation of the prologue of A enema which opens there The Vitagraph's film, “The Alibi,” in six parts, featuring James Mor- shown privately at the projection room, to-morrow, beginning at Sheldon Lewis, now under contract to the Frank Powell Productions, Inc., to star in photoplays, hes played something like 800 cnaracter roles since be began acting twenty years rison, will be Vv. L. 8 Ethel Barrymore, for film work to the Metro, will begin work in about two weeks in a pic- “The Awakening of Emily Stevens will begin work soon in “Capital Punish- ‘W.| ment” for the same company, “I bear her grammar is atrocious,” aid Gladys Hulette, at the Than- houser studio, the other da: ther young woman, the other girl, her grandpa is an old fool too. While Mary Pickford was at work on a picture at a studio in Fifty-seo- ond Street Saturday afternoon, an express wagon, containing four steel safes guarded by men armed with guns, stalled in front of the studio's A amall boy, who had beer in a window at . “Say, Minnie, under contract turization of Helena Ritchie. ‘and they say noticed the wago! called to @ little gtr They’s bringin’ Mary's salary up to her.” DR. WILBUR CUTS THROAT WITH RAZOR; WILL LIVE ALBANY, July 81.—In a fit of mel- yy L. Wilbur, director of the Division of Vital Statistics of the State Health Department, made an un- successful attempt at suicide yesterday by slashing his throat with a razor, At Albany Hospital this morning it was stated that he had a fair chance to re: ancholy Dr, Cr Dr, Wilbur has been fn fll-health for For two weeks he was at the hospital, but yesterday was taken to Mra, Wilbur left him alone for a short time and later found him in the bathroom with his throat bleeding, born et Hillsdal eee we Nhe the enchor tno tug pet on hie single hand ead, Hope gaye the sienal, threw every ounce of his three hundred Pound bie pull, while at the eame tne Cleo strugmiod frantically to free herself. Slowly, eulleply, re- luctantly the marsh monster feleased ite prey and Me her to the ban end fety V & mob of oheer- townemen ed up the main of Banta Na bearing on ite shoulders @ weary, very imud-stained but very beautiful girl and two equally weary and mud-stained m Cleo Burke, whose mysterious dimap nee had aroused the whole ntryside, whose pictures and de ription were on the walls of every police station and post office in the Btate, had b found, oe «© © # @ @ The repeated fatlures of Mahiin and Satsuma to gain possession of the secret of th bmarine finally drove their tion, and hare! cided upon. moned before the black executive body of the sec of their government. The meeting was heid in the council chamber amid black trappings and ghastly remind- ers of the fate that awaited treach- ery or failure, A grave assembly of marked figures listened cold while their chief, the only one whose iden- tity was not hidden behind a biack mask, questioned Mablin and Sat- sum regarding their activities in pursuit of the much desired et. Their explanations failed to satisfy. the decision of the council was an- nounced cold-bloodedly and phath, cally by the chief, They must secu! the secret within the next four weeks or death would be the penalty! ¢ 6 6 6 & 8 30 Upon thetr return to San Francisco, Hope found awaiting him at his hotel ‘an official envelope bearing the famil- far heading of the Navy Departinent, ‘The letter It contained, which was marked “Strictly Confidential,” was signed by an official high in the Bureau of Naval Intelligence. ‘As you are perhaps aware,” tho letter concluded, “there exists at the moment between the United States and @ certain power whose name it is unnecessary to mention, a situation of the utmost gravity. This power is convinced that we have permitted our navy to deteriorate to such an extent that hostilities could be in- Sugurated against us with a reason~ o! mula may gave his nation from in- on, Inder these circumstances there is no need for me to urge you to prosecute the search with the utmost energy, The safety of the United States may well depend upon your succes: “We musn't lose a minute In con- tinuing the search,” said Cleo de- sisively, when Hope showed her the letter, “But I thought we were to be mar- ried this week, dearest,” he demurred, “The wedding can watt for a few ys," she answered, “There is too much at stake for us to think of any. thing but the discovery of tho secret. “But it will only take @ few hours for us to obtain a license and a ‘gyman,” urged Hope, We can wait that long.” “You don't think that I'm going to be married without a wedding wn and @ trousseau, do you?” sho lemanded, “Beocaune if fas do you are sadly mistaken, I only expect to be marriod once and I've set my heart on having the things that other girls have. Our happiness can wait for @ few days, dearest,” she added reuasively. “Our country comes first.” “You're perfectly right, doar,” agreed Hope, secretly applauding her patriotic stand. “We will take up the search again at once. There are only five books etill to find and the missing philosophy must be one of them.” ‘Whose name tg next on the list?” the asked, “Joaquin Romero,” he answered. “Not the poet and naturalist?” eh eagerly inquired, “The same.” “The man who writes those won- derful poems about the forest and the flowers and the birds?” “That's the man.” “He has a cabin, I understand, in the High Sierras, He lives there eo thet he can study nature at first hand, * will pay a visit to Mr. Rom- ero,” she announced, “I lo nis poems and I've always wanted to meet him.” To reach Romero's Bierran home took them a day by train and another day on horseback, but when at last they reached it they understood why the famous poet-naturalist had chos- en such a remote location, for the tong, low building of logs which he modestly referred to as his “cabin” was shaded by a magnificent group of giant redwoods, and its flower- smothered veranda commanded a panorama of forest, mountain and stream unequalled in all the world. Nor did they need to be assured of the identity of the tall, eagle-faced old man with the keen bluo eyes and the mane of snowy hair who greoted them on the veranda, for hia features: had long been familtar to them through newspapers and magazinos, “Mr, Romero,” sald Hope, “I am By E. Alexander Powell The Famous Wa Terror was gnawing at Cleo's heart, for she could feel herself slowly sinking in the quick- sand. The time dragged by. The second ssed like minutes and the minutes seemed ike hours. Though tormented by myriads of insects neither she nor Hope dared to stir for fear of hastening the end. Already the black ooze was above their hips, and was slowly, inesorably creeping higher. Correspondent Lieut Hope of the navy end thie ie of Dise Cleo Hurke No relation, | suppose, of Heiph Murke, the laventer, whe rewentiy?” inquired the natur He Was my father, sir,” proudly Biess my soul,” exclaimed rowel, Mime “I knew your tat nd adinived hers mysterious deat Jost formula aud of how much pended on its recovery, of the ven in the letter whieh she covered in fath dewk, of discour ond they for t message containes in th she had found in the cabin on ther ledge “So T have my fathe the conclude eoventh Word on p t bel Mr, Homers osophy ch you bought at Dawe son'® auction rooms containg the veret.” “My dear child,” sald Romero, who had listened to the long recital with the utmost sympathy and interest, “you must prepare yourself for great disappointment, It is true that A philosophical work at the r father's library—but, wide unately, I have lost it.” ciamations of discouragement and i air, “It was @ small book,” continued the naturalist, “so last week, just as J, Was starting on a camping trip, I silpped it into my pocket, intending to read it that night in camp, But night came tt was gone. It had evie dently fallen out of my pocket somes where on the trail. To have searched for it in (he mountains would have been a hopeless task, even had @ realized Ite value, which, of course, 7 did_not.” “Do you remember the title of the book?” Hope asked eagerly. “Whe was the author? Or tne publisher? sounds absurd, I know,” come fessed the naturalist, “but I don'é, know the title of the book or who wrote it. Indeed, my chief reason for Didding tt in was because it had bee longed to my old friend, Dr. Burke ‘They wrapped {t up for me at the aug tion rooms and I did not take the trowe ble to unwrap it before slipping it into my pocket when I started on the trip, All I can tel! you about it Is that it was quite a small book and, from its condition, evidently an old one. It ig indeed @ great sorrow to me, Miss Burke, that you should have suffered #0 great @ loss through my careless. ness. “I'm afraid, dear,” said Hoy having taken leave of Romero, ' ney were riding down the trail which led to the railway, “that this pute an end to our hope of find. ing the secret, at least for the present. If we only knew the title of the book that Romero lost we could - obtain @ duplicate copy, but, as we, don't know it, the only alternative we have left 1s to apply the key to all* ilosophical works we can find in they ope that wo may eventually ‘strike the right one, It may take us « long time, thought.” “I won't have told me tho other day that I would. be very rich when the secret wap found , . . but Iam already rich in having your love, dear heart Believe mo, Jarvis, secret or nO 6O= orgt,. Tam perfectly content.” : you count my love ag wealth,” sald Hope, “then you are quite richest person in the world, tor know that no one ever loved a womam, @8 much as I love you, And if loan't give you many luxuries, dear, I ean , at least make you very, very It was with singing hearts, fore, shat, ee loos of the book already lorgotten, they boarded train Ban Francisco, * omy Aa they entered the hotel Cleo was’ chatting gayly about her plang for the wedding, which was to take place Sp See of the following week, “Of course,” she was sa; “now | that the eecret of the fa (a probably lost forever, we will have ve on your Jarvis, must have 0 very fstmple wedding. ++ + I'm going to be dove-gray suit . do yon thak you will like me in Jarvis?” “Like you? he repeat n moon and me; Poste the stars to 4 “Beg pardon, Lieut, Hope,” rupted the clerk, “but here's a saul delivery letter for you. It came tm: this morning.” * lancing with some surprise 1 superscription, which. was in + b ing feminine ‘hand, Hope tore the envelope and drew out the sheet of crested and scented note paper. At first he glanced curiously at the closely written sheet; then, as ¢ he could not credit the evidence his eyes, be read it again, significance of the message dai upon him he turned deathly pale; the” hand holding the letter dropped Hie. o lessly to his side; a hoarse exclamae . tlon escaped him, Mottonlesa,. as though carved from atone, he stared. before him with unsceing eyes, the image of & man completely crushed, (To Bo Continued.) The Twelfth Instalment of THE SECRET OF also has o Vhroughout th Will Be Published THE SUBMARINE Monday, August 7 _