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| Grease requested. : . Sterling demand 3.80%, ca- rf 3.81; francs demand 12.52, cables > Gablcn ostse. A cables peat ins % Baa fatal kiling ‘was Gone. py | gugar companies, and finally, profes- | Marked weakness of sugar {ssues s the outstanding foature of the market to-day. in contrast {with firmness shown hy most other ‘of stocks, Cuban Cane Sugar, Bett Sugar, Cuban Ameri- and Punta-Alegre broke from to four points, Tho iast named Tone suffered the worst decline. Reasons for the weakness of the omtnageeia are known to be having ty im securing adequate bank and are forced to part of their sugar securi- tes to protect themselves financially. ly, the drop in price of raw hac generated peasimistic Opinion as to the earnings outlook of sional ‘market speculators quick to ecognize the situation have become | ‘bellers of sugar stocks. Sugar apparently is passing through ‘the same process of deflation other eommodities have been and still are going through. During the past Month raw sugay has dropped ap- proximately 11 cents per pound. 'This with a drop of 24 cents per in corn, a drop of 4 cents per © Ppund In cotton and a drup in wheat 08 20 cents per bushel during the last fortnight. The course of the oats, thas been similar, “The same process of price deflation fs going on in most other parts of the ‘world. In England, for instance, po- \ tatoes recently have dropped from $120 to $40 per ton. Outside the sugar group price ehanges are negligible. Money con- @itions again proved to be an ef- fectual check against speculative ac- tivity. The renewal rate for call funds was 8 per cent. On the etrength of the good show- tng madé by Republic Steel in the an early attempt made to lift steel *fasues, but it soon fizzled out. ‘, Railroad shares maintained a firm tone. It has become known that the Farmers’ Grange 1s exerting pressure Against the Interstate Commerce Commission which may tend to 4m announcement of She | Peart cate i ¢, and’ with each Proceeding day Wall Street is becom- ing saan jrmed in the belief that carriers will get all of the in- Coppers, oils and mixcellancous in- jals moved s) whiy. It was of the dullest and most uninter- days of the year. ‘and corn both continued to a ining tendency, The for- receded $2.00 per bale and the ‘one cent pér ibushel. Demand ng eased off to within a frac- | of $3.80. a | FORBIGN EXCHANGE EASY. “Franc checks 12.62, off 15 centimes; | Mre checks 17.72, off 10; Belgian ca- — Biles 11.75, off 15; Swiss cables, 5.76, marks demand lower at 02520, guilder checks at 3460; | 1580c,, Swedivh krona at 2160c., fan krona eabl at 40c., Denmark krona, ‘ oa at 1630c. United States dol-) ‘on Canada demand 8790, Argen- demand 1.1250, cables lirg demand guilders omen Opening quiet; International Pe- troteum 84, off 1-2; United Retail ‘Candy, 13 1-2—14; Galt Creek Produc- 4-87; Murac, 241-2—25; fall eutcoleiin, 18 1-216; White, 1-219; General Asphalt, G4 1-2— | 65; Carib, 13—14. ALLEGED SLAYERS 4 TAKEN TO JERSEY 17,72, cubles 17.70; | 460, cables 3465. | Harold ¥. Lamble and Charles Per- r whose sentences in New York prisone were commuted by Gov. . that they anight be oxtradited ; the New , Jersey authoriticn on a of Killing Edith L. Janny and chur L. Kuppes near Rahway in 118, I pend to-night In separate cells in County Jal, Elizabeth. Lambie, who was serving # six-yoy tence In Auburn, was taken to ‘hd to-day. Perchand was taken there Bing Sing, where he was sorving Ine-yrar sentence. cutor latfeld of Union County * the blame for the upon Pe: | while the lat- will be arrai, mon as ed for plead- ly next week ai ‘September. wil we tried to Get Hoosevelt’s Post tn ie Navy: WASHINGTON, July %.—Thomus J. of Hartford, Conn., is unde to have been selected as Asnlat- wry of the Navy to succeed D. Roosevelt. , ac; i terme us the Con- a Squidation Com" ite toulowing the aria a. Bos HELP WANTED—MAL CARPENTERS SA tein Pax sugar group are threefold. Firstly, a coffee, lard, pork end other markets |‘, second quarter of the year there was | ‘ \yachts in the harbor exchanging con- y {and thrilling race, Then are Quen, tighter, baat Ad, Ramiety om OM Mex Thebtw .. Oy Wh Wh Hh Shed Gold ™ m ™ ™% Abwhs Jucvan s 2 : 2 Allie, Chetemen co] a * rl] Am. Beet Sugar, Lal ~ ay My At, Rew) Meg, ww wT " a Am. Can, . 4“ Am, Car & ley. 185% Am, Car & Fidry pl 107 Am, Cotton 01) “ae Am, Sumatra cy Am. 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Col Fuel & fron mO% Law Hy Higu, Low, o oo | Kets sy ow ie t. | Mesawne ‘Tire Heart Roeuck Bineiair To 74 oT 70% 25% 10% 12 on 16% a om 14% ™! 3% 200 20008 We we BD Ce ae o% OK Oy SHAMROCK SCOURED IN DRY DOCK FOR HER RACE TO-MORROW (Continued From First Page.) olson and Navigator Charles Hick- man, The delay in the programme of daily racing will be used’ on Resct lute for an adjistment of compasses and for making smal) changes in her satis, because of stretching in four daya-of racing. The great grouch which descended | upow the representatives of the cup defending syndicate after the de- fart of the Resolute In light and tr- regular breezes was dispelled by yes- terday’s race. This was made cloar by smiling faces and cheerful word both on the Montauk, the Resolute's tender, and on the deck of the Reso- lute, The owners and their repre- sentative made the rounds of several luck had “was being gratulations that “the changed” and the cup raced for at last.” ~ “Little better than yesterday, wasn't itv? sald Managing Owner Emmons with a triumphant smile when he was called to the side of the Montauk to be asked what he thought of the day’s doings, “It was all we wanted. A Ua, Ry. Inv. Co, Un, Retail Atores, United Food 0, 8, Rubime, . We do not know ourselves what sort of a breeze the aay likes, Sometimes she does very well with one kind of a breeze and at another time does very badly in the same breeze. She ie a delight- a rata prrocnality. She re- nds me of lant but ric! ladies everyone has met. ee “But this much is to be said: Ir- respective of the merits of Shamrock, Resolute is a wonderful boat and she proved St to-day, I have never known @ prettier day of racing. Adams handied her wonderfully, shé had the weather of us all the time and headed into the weather far better than Shamrock. “It waa a great race and Resolute and her people deserved every bit of the victory ney well and hand- somely won. ‘hey're @ fine lot of fellows to 1 against, those fellows over there. . ‘And remember," said Hickman, while Nicholson smiled approval, “we do not know whether such a wind as we had to-day may not suit Sham- yock far better another time. We have reason to believe it may. We will be glad to try under conditions as fair anyway.” This was only one of a dozen hints of confidence in Shamrock IV in her next day of stiff racing, which seemed to indloate that word had been passed on and below decks on the Shamrock about a discovery in the last part of her beat to windward yesterday which promised a remedy of her failure up until] now to keep her nose as close to the wind as Resolute. No amount of inquiry, however, could drag from anybody aboard Shamrock or Kil'ar- ney a hint as to the nature of the ad- justments to be made to achieve this result, The readjustment of plates, It was sugrested by shrewdly curious fishermen and sailors along shore, may have something to do with the sup- posed newly discovered remedy for Shamrock's failure to point as she sulling wind and a chance-to do some real sailing.” , The crow of the Resglute took thelr victory with even more equanimity, No sound was heard through the port boles of their dining saloon gave the sh of knives and forks on plates. There was no boasting or joking, Those who appeared in sight seemed to be pretty well tired out and ready for \beir bunks, Visitors to the yachts at the Hook during the races were astonished by the mood In which Shamrock’s com- pany come home, The yacht sailed past the Hook from Ambrose Light and then and let down and stowed her sails, SHAMROCK’S CREW SINGS IN SPITE OF DEFEAT. While this work was going on the crew kang and frequently broke out Into boisterous laughter, ‘They cheered noisily when — Designer Nicholson and Col. Duncan Neill went off to the Victoria for a few }Moments' chat with Sir Thomas Lip- ton, When ho paused at the ancho age on his way to Seagate with his race gucuts of the day. The crew cheered again when Capt. Byrton helped Mrs, Burton into @ launch and came away to the Killarney with Nicholuon and Turner, with whom he took turt Shamrock in yesterday beautiful piled Into a big roaring to their floating home. Burton was pretty well lay down for a while. it was Nich- almont bewtid a ru Sandy bad discovered @ fault in thet: to be remedied without ment and an Increased handicap— which would solve the Resolute has the capacity to go, yellow sand point of. the || took tow from the Governor Smith | Gord sailing the they all launch and came Ured and olson and Hickman who met visitors with a happiness in defeat which was ng and gave rive to or along the Shrewsbury and Hook to-day that the British boat— remeasure- problem of forcing her as close into the wind as It ‘was evel suggested that a means of changing the vessel's balance with- should, i —_-~ AGED YACHT MASTER DIES. hale toa Capt. 1 Capt. Martin J. Lyons, a” well-know: Aaiiing master who ts reported to have Participated in practically all the inte: national yaoht races except the 1920 series, died yesterday in Jacksonville, according to word received here Lyons who waa ninety years preaentative pilot of the Hng- n sloop ‘Thistle, challenger for Amer- fea's cup in 1887. waa also for many years sulling master for the late James rdon Bennett aboard the yacht Hen- retta, —— Slayer 8 to-day sentenced Genera Volpe, charge, Distrot plained that he had agreed to the plea because Volpe is suffer! complication of diseases and cannot many years, Boomt Rent for Jadges’ Chambers, Rem for the Judges’ chambers So. $1 Chambers Stiwet will be boou! ™ iP Twe Hours For Oper. ation on Stoker. The Stockholm started {ts trip o July 10, While in a heavy aca on Jul ath enced on Manslaughter Judge Gibbs In Bronx County Court a butcher, to serve from Ave and a half to fifteey years in Sing Sing Prison for Killing Genaro Ryaco, a business rivn’, |General of Immigration, arrived at Ellis Volpe pleaded guilty to a manalaughter Attorney Martin ex- opt Judge Gods sald he took | ne matter wad referred to the Comptroller, sa (— caw snort rr) UNuNS DMDED ON WAGE AWARD: Lanne, Ite. ah Loli Valey . or bot, Tin. us leas 1b ” . ’ ihe "Sik for Acceptance, Seven Miner Vac... ws acount, ws Would gel It to Men, Manat Sugar, .. ino i i Nawonal Aniline. 40% Two Undecided. NOY. Cowra ory {on pepe niataad pant un Ss OA wn _ CHICAGO, July 22.—Heads of the Nove Beale sel. 4 say BTeat neilroad brotherhoods this 2 8 morning were divided in opinion on ow “soy the course of action which should | id Wa gue, . af bog be pursued as to acceptance or re- t ts" {#" Jection of the $60,000,000 wage in- w% 2% crease granted by the Rallway Labor oo” Ao Board. . Y Wow viy At the close of an all-night session, Kall Sol Hprings.. We Wie W5% 94% @t which no agreement was reached egy so. (8% YM 01% O14 on a plan for concerted action, six Reviogs Sea Bi 1% 80% © YO% Of the brotherhoods, in addition to pega Dott ‘the Masters, Mates and Ptiots of Saxon Motors, 8% America, had expressed thelr decis-| 142% ton as favorable to acceptance of the} 9% award in ith entirety, seven favored! § ‘referring the question to the unions 20% With recommendation that it be ac-) % cepted; two were undecided and one,! the Brogherhood of Rajlway Tel t raphers, had decided to reject the award and was valid to be preparing ‘for a strike ballot. Efforts to compromise the attitudes of the various brotherhoods was under way thig morning and hope for a re- port by the union chiefs to the 1,000 general chairmen wag entertained. It ‘was pointed out that should no agree- ment be reached by the heads of the brotherhoods, each organization znight take individual action on the award. Despite the differences of opinion among the leaders, the union chiefs retterated to-day that there ‘vas no danger of an immediate and concmted strike. They also were inclined to be- Uttle reported efforts of member of the Chicago Yardmen's Association, 180 of whom struck in Chicago yester- day, to bring about a gengral walk- out and declared that sporadic strikes would be fought to the last ditch by the International Unions. The Railway Labor Board, which yesterday declined to reopen the rall- way wage cases at the request of the brotherhoods and expressed the opinion that it had done ail possible in the case of the railroad employees, to-day began hearings on the appli- cation for increased pay of 70,000 em- ployees of the American Railway Ex- press Company, who were not includ- ed in the railway award, ‘The board declared that reopening the investigation of railway men's wages would delay the back pay award which they believe the work- ers should receive in their Aug. 1 pay envelopes. The award was made retroactive to May 1, and the back poy, Ie estimated to average about 200 each for the workers benefited by the increases. 7 MEN AND DOG IN AUTO LOCKED UP Pelted Motor Cop With Pears Af- ter Kicking Fruit Seller, Court Is Told. Seven men ‘and a dull terrier were Jocked up in cells in the Jamaica, Queens, precinct early this morning. ‘The men were charged with speeding. No charge was lodged against the dog. Nicholas Slano, who runs a roadside fruit stand on the Merrick Road, near Rosedale, Nassau County, claims he was Kicked In the face when he demanded $2 for a box of pears he had sold to seven men in an automobile. Then the car sped off, He telephoned to a police booth at Springfield just as the car raced past, followed by Motorcycle Pa- trolman William Kaltenbach. The oc- cupants of the car threw the pears at the motorcycle polleeman before he pulled his gun and halt them; he declares. Siano {dentitied the men at the Jamaica police station. Murray Fresta, of No, 1525 Dean Street, Brooklyn, one Of the seven, waa oon: victed before strate Doyle of speed~ ing and fined 325. In Heu of payment he was sent to Jail for two days. The others were discharged, but were re- arrested by Sheriff Smith of Nassau County to answer Slano's charge that he was assaulted and robbed. ——__—_ THIRD LEPROSY CASE AT ELLIS ISLAND Caminetti Here to Take Up Dispo- sition of Cases With Com- missioner Wallis. Anthony Camlnetti, Commissioner Island this morning from Washington to discuss with Commissioner Wallis the Government's new polictes in hand- ling arrivals there. In addition to this subject Commis- into consideration also the fact that sloner Caminett! took up the demands pistol ‘concenicd in Ie clothes.” ** ® by men operating the Government outs ei [between Ilis Island and New York. > |They complain they are recelying less \pay than corporations are paying thelr t employees for similar work. Diaposition of three leprosy cases on d Yay from $47,000 to $225,000 4 / PNM Island is another problem put up 0 Commissioner Caminett!, Commla- year, according to a notice served by an sioner Wallla admitted to-day that a gent for the Bugrant Savings Hank third caw “har been discovered’ ant Mullding to-day at the’ Sinks sung avarantined at the Lland. Commission: Gommmiesion meotne. Aho ene Fund oe Walls has authorized. the release by’ the oity are for Supreme Court Mré Girlaco Garelilan, Wife of a lepe uations, whose courts are in the Court being held for deportation. Mra, Gu louse bullding. in city tail er. cillan auld sho did not want to be tes leased, but wished to accompany her husband wherever he might be sent. sis a Lala -| Seeks to Enjoi | Dwelling at Belle Harbor. n John ©. Judge, a lawyer, applied to- y day to Supreme Court Justice Faweott Renting Office an out materially altering the measure-|14, Herman Carlsen took {il yn fe ment of ber waterline had beon dis. |pendicitis at midnight while. atokerini, ing Mdsipive ‘Gaznn apUnetion, r Covered: “Nolody ‘in authority would) Br. Morrite Simon” salt Hon firm of Hitch“ Gnaan, of” Rockin wns # necessary. be aon Park, Queens, : ot Shat anything of the gart had sional te stl fop two mourn and Ra, che eceety Wan INROe 86 8 Gelling v Opelation Was performed successfully, in Belle Harbor, Que : a to) 0% hae 0 i ge re SMa terenan or tacday an] ceatiny Ten tenuate Mo wah wo. Sruliaing far diceilite Surin erat ine. ¢ p 4 Was cone king than the |vask on, the return trig. strary Yb Hous ilacbor'rentristiona, °°" IS CRI é bd * rs $ ; i 3 As 3 TICALLY ILL SOONG OEE REET DE - PRESS Assetuin. CLUS LGSoTeeyooes Stricken at Races, Sportsman Is Said to Be Sinking With Heart Trouble in Paris. PARIS, July 22.—Willlam K. Vandor- bilt Is In a very critical condition. is reported to be slowly declining, su! fering from heart trouble with compli- cations. Mr. better. rumors that he Vanderbilt, racing enthusiast and sportsman, came suddenly Ill while attending the races at Auteuil on April 16. His condi- tion next day was pronounced as much Bince that time there has been was seriously ill, who these were subsequently denied, 60.000 CHEER FOR HARDING AT women HS NOTATION (Continued From First Page.) taking a place fully and equally with men,” he said. SUFFRAGISTS ABANDON PLAN TO PICKET HARDING. The purple, white and gold of the Woman Suffrage cause early made its appearance in the gathering crowds, but a plan of the women to picket the notification ceremonies was aban- doned, At 7 o'clock in the morning a noisy aggression of Marion citizens that looked like half the town led off with @ demonstration that set a mark for the 50,000 out of town folks to shoot To their howling acclaim Senator played the leading part in a flag raising, Stripes to the top of the weather- beaten McKinley flagpole sent here at. pulling the a few days ago from Canton. CROWDS BROUGHT IN BY TRAINS Delegation after delegation, with bands blaring and colors flying fol- lowed up to the Harding front porch as thirty special trains and thousands of automobiles unloaded their con- tributions to the notification crowds. Not content with showing themselves reformed and marched and counter-marched through the city in a riot of color, Patriotic frills and flounces draped the city from tip to toe. Business was adjourned and partisanship was forgotten as Republicans and Demo- in acknowledging the honor that had come_to one of thelr to crats joined the AND AUTOS. nominee, neighbors. From the Senator's home down to the heart of the business section a lane of tall, white pillars formed a spotless court of honor to mark the route of the paraders and along the way scarcely a window was without its portrait of the Republican candi- Flags and bunting were dis- played in carnival profusion in every date, street, SANDWICH STANDS PREVENT PROFITEERING IN FOOD. Painstaking arrangements had been they is an ardent Stars sae vyore rete. reverers visitor. He he- Fred C. but time. Mrs. the id “Now, The made to provide a luncheon for the | shore crowds and stands were everywhere. had been put under the ban by agree- mont of the city's business men and many housewives had laid in an extra supply of food to make sure that no one went hungry. Most of the public counters wore under supervision of the churches. HARDING TO SPEAK IN SOME BIG CITIES, | SAYS WILL H. HAYS National, Chairman Intimates That Camidate May Visit East rel here tee, Chairmen Hays declared it was al- wa improvised sandwich Profiteering and West Coasts. LUMBUS, Ohio, July 2: tor Harding will speak in several of the larger cities of the country, but will not make a “barnstorming tour,” Wil H, Hays, Chairman of the Re- understood ‘publican National Committee, _ to-day, after a conference of the Republican Campaign Commit. | that the —-Sena- the Cit latter the some 8 West. sald | today, faction, he! ‘sidered Despite DESER to Alaska, Lake Michigan to Winona, Captain Street predicted the ‘planes would reach Winona dn four hours if no mishaps were encountered, Fach ‘plane was equipped with a life preserver for thi rom ordinance, I this noon by Judge John W jor Court. THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JULY 22,1920. W. K, VANDERBILT, arnoue asrono, ACH WIDOW BESET [THE SECRET OF SAREK BY BLACKMAILERS: | HOME GUARDED Mrs, Sayles of Pawtucket Is Seu Target of Letters After Will Contest for Millions. whereabouts of the boy. Sayles, the fact Dresser, attorney for Mrs. not attach much (Special to The Frwning Work!, PROVIDENCE, ls true [ have received letters seeking a loan, but as such let- R. i, Jaly ter the wedding, Girt try and swith a to Ke-no, in the Worl forget me Mexico, broken 1} Four Hours. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., ‘The four Alaska-bound army airplanes left here at 11.80 to-day on the third leg of their flight from Mineola, L. 1, takes them across Minnesota. peecties portant centres.” Senator Harding might speak both }on the Pacific and Atanticwoasts, as well as at large cities in the Midddle which @ use of the brouxht ———— at Cay PEKING, July Tuan gz confronted unsurmountable his comm: threatening ters were anonymous I do not consider them serious,” said Mrs, Mary D. A. Sayles, widow of Frank A. Sayles, late of Pawtucket, credited with being the wealthiest mill owner in New England Mrs, Suyles was successful before the court recently in breaking the will ot her husband who left her what Mrs. Sayles friends sald was a sum,” approximately $50,000 annually: The court proceedings were shortened by a decision of the three executors of the wil agreeing to allow Mrs. Sayles $4,000 000 and a substantial an- nual allowance. That the Sayles family did not live 4n harmony was common gossip about Rhode Island. Mrs, Sayles with her family occupied the Sayles home at Newport for several summers and the late Frank A. Sayles was not @ “paltry A woman known as “Amelia,” who was drowned four years ago from a yacht off Bar Harbor, was the mother | of a boy now fourteen years old, East side society gossip Is discussing the ‘Phen, suddenly standing in front of An uncle, Veronique, she said: had a disagreement with Frank A, Sayles several years pre in ihe drawing, ago, and workmen tore down his brau- tiful mansion on East Avenue, Paw-| tuckeet, opposite the home of Fran! A. Sayles. Tenement houses now stand Honorine, “and \t's enough to frighten on the property, much to the discom-| anybody.” fort of the Frank A. Sayles family. that Robert yles, doee importance to the threatening letters, others close to the family say*Mrs, Sayles is being ha- rassed by persons who are said to have stood close to Sayles during his life- Police and private detectives guard the Pawtucket home at Suyles Ave- nue and East Avenue, and the Sayles chauffeur recently was permitted to carry a revolver. TED BRIDE ASKS ANNULMENT He Called Her “Sweetest and Most Wonderful Girl in the World,” But He Went Away. Mirlam Stern Brener, teen-year-old bride of eight asked to-day in the Supreme Court that her marriage be annulled, and that per- mission be granted her to serve sum- mons by publication on her absent hus- band, Elias Brener, who is twenty-one. Two months and twenty-five days af- Mirlam rettrned to their apartments at the Pennsylvania Hotel after a drive and found a letter addressed ‘To the Sweetest and Most Wonderful signed “The Failure (Al). an eighs|woman who believes in ghosts and months, | Jack-o'-lanterns. gyut there, there! | But Verontaue protested tirely),” the young husband wrote, “I'm on my way with the tide of life, me on the shore of recks of destruction.” It waa" write these last few lines, "So good bye (if not forever),” “Sweetest and Girl in the World” lawyer, concluded to break entirely with the husband with the “broken heart. sani el hae to drift hich may throw iccess, or onto the He told her that ‘Most. Wonderful | ‘after consulting a ARMY FLYERS OFF TO WINONA, MINN. Must Cross Lake Michigan—Expect to Reach Destination in July 28.— aviators ‘they owners won in the injunction pro-| ceedings which they of Bridgeport to restrain the making effective a traffi in a decision handed Banks of “nationally He indicated that! future as easily, as the book of the The committee adopted a resolu- tion urging Republicans in the Ten- nessee Legisiature to vote for suf- frage ratification, Chinese Military Party Offers to|°"), of the military party, have been of- fered by Gen, Tuan Chi army commander, it was stated here Jui, but President Heu for your fatber . . |poreh” campaign did not exclude | Shih Chang has met accepted it, ‘ i - % rainst <lown, By MAURICE LEBLANC iVepyrieds, 1920, by th ¢ Macuwley Company.) * SYNOP ING CHAP: | It’s over there. that they are waiting bid dhe it dash das td PB soo ven —t go there! » " jand is under @ curse.” Pe eg a eg Td ‘And my son?" divappeated with kr: san before aw You shall see him to-day, m @ vig few hours.” Veronique gave a @hort laugh! ton Pas | In @ few hours! Woman, you must nderiveg. bo mad! Here am I, after mourning my #on for fourteen years, sudaealy ih? | hearing that he's alive; and you me to wait ‘before I take him in my arme! Not one hour! 1 would rather risk death a thousand times than put off that moment.” Honorine looked at her and seemed to realize that Veronique’s was one of those reaolves against which it is the Ime Bie har thet her eon CHAPTER TIL, é better sort of crying than it was, eh? Cry, until you've forgotten all your old troubles. I'm going back to the village. Have you a bag of any kind at the inn? They know me there. I'll oring it back with me and we'll be off.” When the Breton woman returned, haif an hour later, she saw Veronique standing and beckoning to her to hurry and heard her calling: “Quick, quick! Heavens, what a time you've been! We have not @ minute to lose.” Honorine, howeve: pr pack and did not reply. rugged face was without a smile. “Well, are we going to start?” asked Veronique, running up to her. “There's nothing to delay us, is there, no obstacle? What's the matter? You seem quite changed.” no.” {Continwed.) useless to fight, for she did not insist. RY, my dear lady, cry; it! She crossed herself for the third dme will do you good, It’s a|and sald, simply: 4 “God's will be done." ‘They both took their seate among the parcela which encumibered the narrow space. Honorine ewitohed on the current, seized the tiller and ekil- fully steered the boat through the rocks and sandbanks which rose level with the water, ° CHAPTER Iv, PRONIQUE smiled as she sat to starboard on a packing case, with her face tumed toward Honorine. Her smile was anxious still and undefined, full of reticence and flickering as a sun« beam that tries to plece the last clouds of the storm; but it wae never- theless a happy smile, And happiness seemed the right ex- pression for that wonderful face, stamped with dignity and with that particular modesty which gives to some women, whether stricken by ex- cessive misfortune or preserved by love, the habit of gravity, combined with an absence of all feminine affec- tation, Her black hair, touched with grdp at the temples, was knotted very low down on the neck. She had the dead- white complexion of a Southerner and very light blue eyes, of which the white seomed almost of the same col- or, pale as a winter sky. She was tall, with broad shoulders and a well shaped bust, Her musical and somewhat mascu- line voice became light and cheerful when she spoke of the son whom she had found again, And Veronique could speak of nothing else. In vain the Breton woman tried to speak of the problems that harassed har and kept on Interrupting Veronique: “Look here, there are two vhings which I cannot understand. Who laid the trail with the clues that beought you from Le Faouet to the exact apot where I always land? It almost makes one believe that some one had been from Le Faouet to the Isle of Sarek. And. on the other hand, now did old Maguennoc come to leave the Gomer Pidgin Soy own free will? r was it his de tl ‘ ried? If no, how?" eae ee it worth troubll: r Veronique objected. i wag “Certainly it fs. Just think! Be. sides me, who once a fortnight RO either to Beg-Meil or Pont-l'Abhe in my motor boat for provisions, there are only two fishing boats, which al- Ways go much higher up the coast, to Audierne, where they sell their cateh. Then how dia, Maguennoc get verogs? aan Fag id he commit sutcite? Nee 80,“how did his body disap- did not hasten Her “Then let's be quick." Honorine, with her assistance, put the bag and the provisions on board. re you, that as she was was your- “You're quite sure, |the woman on the cro “Absolutely, Besides, there were « my Initials above the head.” | “That's a strange thing.” muttered “Why should it be? It must have been some one who used to know me and who amused himself by . + It's merely a coincidence, a chance fancy reviving the p: “Oh, it’s not the past that’s worry- It’s the future.” B. don't understand.’ <a, yes, the prophecy made about you to Voraki.” “Ah, you know?” “| know. And it is so horrible to {think of that drawing and of other much more dreadful things which you don't know of.” Veronique burst out laughing: “What! Is that why you hesitate to take me with you, for, after all, that’s what we're concerned with?” “Don't laugh. People don’t laugh when they see the flames of hell be- fore them.’ Honorine crossed herself, closing her eyes as she spoke. Then she con- tinued: “Of course... you scoff at me... you think T'm a superstitious Breton altogether wrong: There are some truths that blind one, You can talk it over with Maguennoc, if you get on the right side of him. “Maguennoc?” 7 “One of the four satlors. He's an old friend of your boy's. He too helped to bring him up. Maguennoc knows more about it than the most learned men, more than your father, “Please don't! for the moment up. were rek Honorine yielded v : entrants to Veronique's “He arrived in pogr Maguennoc' ‘'s arms, a few days after he w: from you. Maguennoc,” who hae Caine matter "Hall be ared Tell me about erase ne Saying that he came to Sa« And yet. | been taught his jesson by your fate a," and] “And yet Maguennoc tried to tempt ped a strange lady had in” fate and to get past what men are|}rusted him with the child; and he (not ,en=| allowed to know.” nursed by his daughter, who has since died, T was away, with a Paris family. came home ngain Bisadon ay grown into a fine little fellow, rune ning about the moors and cli It was then that I took service with your father, who had settled in Sae rek. When Maguennoc's daughter aleg) we took the child to live with ‘But under what name?” € ‘Francois, just Francols. M. d'Hene Monsieur Ans “What did he 40?” “He tried to touch with his hdnd— ‘you understand, with his own hand; he confessed it to me himself—the very heart of the mystery. “Well?” said Verontau , impressed in spite of herself, Well, his hand was burned by the | flames,’ He showed me a hideous | sore; I saw it with my eyes, some- thing like the sore of a cancer, and he suffered to that degree . . - “Yea?” “That it forced him to take a hatchet in his sett hand and cut off is right hand himself.” Bi Sroniaue was dumfounded. she remembered the corpse at Le Faouet and she stammered: “His right hand? You eay that Maguennoc cut off his right hand?” “With a hatchet, ten days ago, two days before I left. . . I dressed myself . . » Why do in a situ. “And his character?" eros nique, with some wey a “Oh, ba ~~ ‘ol that's con: 4 a blessing!" replied Ho: fothing of his father about hes clther, as 'M. “a'Hern , a8 M. d’Hergem admits. A gentle, lovable, most will. ing child. Never a sign of a ways good tempered, 's wh got over his grandfather and made M, d'Hergemont come round to you again, hecause his grandaon reminded, him so of the daughter he had cast off. ‘He's the very image of ‘his mother,’ he used to say, ‘Veronique was gentle and affectionate like him, with the same fond and coaxing ead Veronique, in @ ormecause. husky voice, “because the dead man, the old man whom I found in the rted cabin and who afterward disappeared, had lately lost his right here.” Honorine gave a start. She still wore the Lye poaree. expreeece yed the emotio sturb- sence? contrasted with her t eee Ae siy ways.’ And then he began his seai fhioula thoy the forced down while cro%t: | Gmuatly” calm attitude, And she for you, with ma to help ‘him; for he ; . i d out: , in me. from Grand Hawen to the Wisconsin | ™ Pere you sure? Yes, yes, you're i beamed ‘with detignt ——— right, it was he, Maguennoc . |. . .| Her son!was like her! Her son wag Jitneys Win in Bridge 5 He had long white hair, hadn't he?) bright and kind-hearted! BRIDGEPORT, Conn,, July %2—The| And a spreading beard? . . . Ob,| But does he know about me? sha 1 w abominable!" rane restrained herself and looked around/ her, frightened at having spoken so loud. Shé once more made the sign of the cross and said, slowly, almost under her breath: “He was the first of those who have mot to die. . + He told me so himself +. and old Maguennoc had eyes that read the Look of the “Does he, know that 1’ * “T should think he did! Maire mont tried to keep it from lim at first. But I soon told thing. Everything ? ‘0. He believes that hi dead and that, after the Bin ry in which ‘he, I mean Francolg, and Me a'Hergemont disappeared, we came o nin and hay sight of since, And he ines cater fo) news, cach time I came back from He too ts 90 full of one of my trips! hope! Oh, you can take my word for And he's Ie im- | past, He could see clearly where another saw nothing at all, “The first ‘victim will be myself, Ma'me Honorine ‘And, when the servant has gone, in a ltew! days It will be the master's yturn.'” “And the master was... asked Veronique, in a whisper. Honorine drew herself up clenched her fists violent! it he adores his mother! always singing that song you heard just now, which hi taught him Wide Pest Francois, my own little Fran. cols!" is and | defend him! J wilt!” she de- ‘Ah, y he loves you! ‘The pitulate, clared, “I'll save him! Your father | Mother Honorine. But yourre mothers 22,—-Peace term4,|qhnll not be the second victim. No, {Just that, And he's in'a great hurry amounting to complete capitulation no. I shall arrive in time! Let me/to frow up and finish his schooling tthat he may go and look for you “Hix schooling? Does he have jese go "We are going together,” said Veron- ‘We are going tog: ner? the ique, firmly. jPenes “Please,” said Honortne ,in a voice Yes, with his grandfather and, The terms are being com- of entreaty, “please don't be persia. | since two years ago, with such a nicg munieated to the leaders of the Chili fon: me haya my way, Th fellow that 1 "brought back Chi Jul, it is said, her and your son to you Paris, Stephane Maroux, & by what he con- very ev ofore dinner.” sol ditfoulties, “put why resignation » of the © “The danger is too creat,over there, (™tion. Francois dotes on him.” tnd repecially for 2 Not Mise the Theliling Instagmentt you. Remember the four crosses! lorrew, * } | ~ th iN