The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1920, Page 14

THE EVENING WORLD, GLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS ia WEDDED BLISS Ades Bevrem 5. wy and persistent selling of re fumaly ot, caused @ severe break in the Ajai Rubber in date trading to-day and \laea Gold issues that are pronounced Mive favorites showed losses 4, from 8 to 7 points, compared A: the final prices of the previous 4m. Allis, Chalmers... Am, Agri, Chemical Pressure extended to the ne corn, wheat, oats and pro- A Cotton broke $3 per A™. and oats, wheat and corn all from seven to eight oonts per Aap. a Lackawanna Steel. lee Raier & ‘Tire Lyne, & Nawb Maxwell Motors, be a Mexican Detrveun, ‘The financial pessimism which the A™- poi Various markets reflected seemut to due almost entirely to the money ‘The statement of condiiion 4. house banks, issued Satur~ deficit in reserves and ‘4m, Tobacco @tatement of reserve banks indi- that little if any progress is \™ made'in the attempt to reduce lume of commercial credits. y opened to-day at eight per Aste Heaization comt. and in the late afternoon roge per cent. With each succes- Auto sale Cop.- ) jump in the money rate selling Au, Gut & W, 1, 16% jure in all the markets increased. refused to pay attention to Baltimore & Utlo, favorable phases of the for- disregarded the Beth. Motom iMty that the announcement of eth. Atel, tential freight rate increase will Reth, Steel B. United States Steel foil below 89 and hee me vumper of the leading oi], Rute Cop. & Zino 8% ent and miscellaneous indus- Butte & ‘Superor. 2% umd WUCLLG Lhe Lowest FEUTES Caddo Cont, Oil that had been recorded in many weeks, Ca¥, Pourtoum, At no time did the market display caur Pet. ...... rallying power and it appeared that Canadian Pacific. ‘buying came principally from profes- Cent, Leather, Mulling Hedy. Minn, Kan, & Tex. FPPEL Middle States Oil. . (Nettonal Anitine. . Net, Cloak & uit Nationetl Lew). Pritt Norfote & Went. Northam Tas. . Richion Wy of.. TH Baldwin Loco. . Owens Bottling Puc, Derel. Corp, . Pan Amer, Petrol . uation and Henn Bea Stoel Pere Manruette FLEELitepitet Pitts & W Va Peed Creek Oonl Punta Sugar. . Rail Steel springs, . ebezis eieceer VELESELOLUSS EE FOREIGN EXCHANGE FIRM. Demand sterling opened 3.78 1-2, UP, 1-4c; frano checks 12.67, up %0 contimes; lire checks 18.02, Belgian cables 12.05, up 36; Swiss marks demand higher at 4.09360, cables .0238, up .0008c; Swed- | . krona cables ‘at .2150¢ peseta 115200. Norwegian Denme: . «rona Col Gas & Heo, Ol Graphayhone .. ee Conwol Olar Corp Cone Gas Oo . Con Inter-Oal Otinn Continental Candy. Cora Weadvete Com Products yf. . prog te Sewer. ‘Cute Cane Sug pt Coban Am Sugar, , Con Textile Comp. 32 Del Lack & ‘Went, 208 Delaware & Hud, 40 Den & Rio Grande Den & Bo Gr zf., wee eo FER ESTES les lower at krona cables 1630¢, cables .1620c, United States dollars on Canada een tine pesos deman: 1260. fling demand 3.781-2, cables os demand 12.87, cables 12.85. demand 18.02, cables 18.00 demand 34.55, cables 3: ee EPETELET I 11 ‘Tranme & Willama 1% Union Bag & Vay. 1 ry 780c, Argen- Un, Retall Stores, Dadioust.-ohneton , us * Mrs. Catt Claims, NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 26.—Mrs. Catrie Chapman Catt announced to- day that sufficient pledges had been obtained by her organization and Suffrage leagues to insure rati- of the Feleral amendment by cial sessiun of the Tennessee Great Nor, Tey, pt. Galt Stator Steot.. BANKING AND FINANCIAL, Juapiration Capper. 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Six months of married life resulting in $6,000 in debts convinced Paul Keurajian of No. 247 Audubon Ave- his helpmate is a greater luxury than he can stand, according to his complaint filed in Supreme , In which he asks a % separation from his wife, Clara, When he was married tn Jan, 29, 1920, Keuragiem recites, he had $1,800 in the bank, Everything now has fone to gratify the whims and fancies 1% of hin wife, he asserts, despite which she had treated him in a cruel and inhuman manner from a period dat- nue tha Court to- ing but two months after marriage. He relates that he ‘has been forced 6% ‘Tepentedly to borrow money to re- % plenish the purse of his wife. Be- 4 sides buying her an automobile, he eays in his papers, he has given her % between $90 to $100 a week spending 2% money. Further, he changes, Cla camouflage, ‘Once she came home, he continues, with arms and neck scratched and told him of a fight she had had in a restaurant. He alleges that she told him ‘she! would be good to him as long as his! so that she did not york, and would not down by matrimony. She re- fused, he saya, even to cook his medls, ‘money lasted elieve in house te ti > | HE START: BUT LANDS IN JAIL) But 225-Pdund Haggerty First Puts Up a Fight on Liner Celtic. « Sheriff Dayid H, Knott and Deputy Sheriff John P, Murphy staged a ‘bat- ‘tle royal all over the steamship Celtic just before she sailed on Saturday noon, it was learned to-day, to attach the per- son of John J. Haggerty of No. 65 59th Streot, Brooklyn, a thirty-four- year-old, 225pound, six-foot Irishman bound for the “auld sod." Gheriff Knott received an order signed ‘by Justice Faweett of the Kings County Supreme Court, directing the arrest {| Saturday mopning, The warrant was issued on a claim pending in Supreme Court, by Joseph Larkin, a cafe owner of Brooklyn, charging Haggerty with | the embezfiement of $9,150.29, being a sum of collections made fer the cafe owner ‘between June 25 and July 1. # When the Sheriff and his assistant — 2%] found ‘Haggerty on the Celtic a ‘half hour before sailing time and informed him of the warrant he showed fight. In the midst of a fierce hand-to-hand struggle with Qlurphy.. Haggerty lost his footing and the pair rolled down the gangplank to the pler, where Murphy succeeded in snapping handcuffs on his Haggerty is in Ludlow Stree $2,500 bail low Street Jail for a CUMMINGS MAY RUN FOR SENATE Discusses That Question and the League of Nations With President Wilson, WASHINGTON, July 26.—Homer 8. Cymmings, retiring Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, talked with President Wilson to-day, discussing 1% | tho “political situation and present tus of the League of Nation: ‘The possibility of Cummings running for the United States Senate from Con- necticut against Senator Brandegee, League opponent, was also discussed. Cummings said he was undecided 2% | whether to make the race or to take the stump in the Presidential campaign, lv] He will make known his decision about Sept. 1, “The League of Nations will be the determining issue of the campaign,” said Cummings following his conferen Nattempts of the Republicans. to, ma ‘Wilaonism! the issue will be frustrated by Gov. Cox in his speech of ac- ceptanc : ea LAMB COURT MARTIAL ENDS. No Verdict Announced tn Liquor Onse of Navy Lieutenant. The Navy court martial of Lieut. Frank Lamb, senior officer of Seaplane No. 3606, adjoined to-day without an- nouncing its verdict, Secrecy has sur- rounded the case in which {t wos charged that the seaplane carried a cargo of liquor from Kimini, Bahamas, to Miami, Fl dsor H, Cushion, Junior xonerated last week He was with Lieut, Lamb during the filght and denied he knew there was liquor on Qoard Lieut. Lam estified fre-~ ntiy during Cushions trinl, but did not take the stand during his own, ‘tush! testifying for him. Lieut, Com ander A. M, Baldwih of the Key West tation was to take the s Lamb, but was reported ee OLD SKIPPE Capt, Davia Found Dead in New! Brighton Rooming House, Thomas Davis, eighty, famous old Yankee skipper in the days when Amer- low’s square rigger formed the greatest merchant marine in the world, to-day was found asphyxiated by illuminating gas at No. 39 Tyson Street, New Brigh- ton, Capt. Davis, for twelve years at Satlor's Snug Harbor to get into the harbor, went to Mra. Mary Monahan's rooming house for the | United States army airplanes, en route d him dead with the m= night. he fou kas turned on, Deputy Medical in ord said death may have y | awe tal. ‘The window in |%us open and he had not b Capt, Davis sailed from Bangor, Me. s MONDAY, JULY 26, JITNCYS REPLACE IDLE STREET CARS ~—INBRIDGEPORT Connecticut Company Service Because City Permits Motor Vehicles to Compete. With every trolley car here id Jitneys in almost countless numbers carried 90,000 residents and suburban ites who have depended heretofore upon the trolleys to carry them to and from work. The last of the cars went into the barns last night. ‘The Connecticut Company's with- drawal of its cars following the denial by the City Council to grant its peti- tion that jitneys streets, marks the beginning of an en- durance test in which the public is the chief sufferer, Jitney service in Hartford curtatled, it was reported here, as a result of a general exodus to this city where the public service drivers anticipate a be ruled off Chief Clerk Weitstein and clerks and inspectors, ' Commissioner Stoeckel from Hartford issuing Hcenses to drivers who are using thelr cars as jitneys to meet the ra is given to staying out o' mights and to dgnor- ing his comforts. On June 7 last, he says, though he lay upon a sickbed, his wife stayed away all night. When he taxed her with this, he says, ehe changed that his sickness was only ‘The last trolley car on the streets met the New York-Boston and then went to the barns. an hour the streets were cleared of all persons except the police and a few night workers. At the office of the Bridgeport Bus Association it was announced that additional buses—brand new— | would arrive from New York, New | Haven and Waterbury, to care for the rush-hour business. It also was announced that there 'S FOR ERIN | woud bo an all-night service, buses | running once an hour on all lines, and that the fares would be held down to Mayor Clifford B. Wilson is m@k- ing strenuous efforts to meet the) situation and protect the ot the public. He appointed a spe-| cial commission yesterday, which will hold its first meeting to-day to con- sider the problem, make an investi- gation and report on what should be ‘The commission includes four of the most prominent men in the city—P. |. Litchfield, President of the New England Coal Company and formerly Assistant Superintendent of Trans- portation of the New York, New 4Haven and Hartford Railroad; Stan- ley Bullard, President of the Bullard Machine Tool Company; Edward Dil- lon, a retail merchant, and Alderman} Arthur Brown, Chairman of the Com- mittee on Streets and Sidewalks of the Board of Aldermen. member will be appointed, making a commission of five members. — Harry Frank and George Bevans, President and Vice President of the Park City Bus Association, and John President of the Bridge- port Bus Association, have been ap- pointed special policemen to assist in regulating jitneys on the ee eee EMPIRE CITY RESULTS. p Bhadel ee FIRST RACE—~The two-year-olds; 4 half Purlongs.—Chevaller, 4 to 5 and out, Superb, 111 (Lyke), 6 to 5, 1 to 4 and (Schuttinger), 10 to 1, 8 to 6 and out, third. Time, ‘Only three starters. SECOND RACE—Maiden three-year- $1,060; one mile and a@ sixteenth.—Wil- freda, 96 (Weiner) 5 to 1, 8 to $ and 4 to 9 first; Lux Enjolour, 106 (Coltil- etti), 9 to 5, 7 to 10, 1 to 3, second; King George, 111 (Johnson), 9 to 10 and 1 to 3, Bastern Glow, 30 to 1 to 1; Alfred Clark, Judge Jivid, i2 to 1, Clare Boothe, to 1; Runee: Fool, 10 ‘to 1, and also ran in order named EMPIRE CITY ENTRIES. ‘The entries for toanorrow's racrs are as fol: about. six ferrloimp, Tha: Ben Gow." 111; Hocaelt, = Rhye Dartugpue *Nelle: Yorke, 1d lou; Tar M16, Lie SKCUND RACE--For three-yearolds and. up; ne mile and eorenty yards, 4 Laud, 100; Wikt Tho Car three-year-olds and Vpwand ; 1; Dennacana, d for Lieut, | ‘Singin Queen, R_ASPHYXIATED. | ER CANADA Mineola Will at Saskatoon, ARMY FLYERS ENT Four Planes returning too late 1920. BOTH PARTIES SHY OF FUNDS; WORRY Quits subscriptions up to one thousand dollars, and they must raise at least $5,000,000, It is much harder to ¢ fons to contribute $1,000 Democratic parties, The best system yet devised is the ished just close of the 1916 campaign, foun themsel ve. con. rsh of lowa, treasurer, and W. D, Jame- one the Democrats estal after the when th fronttd with a deficit. Wilbur Ma son, also of lowa, director of finance organized a regular fi 1 factory which did nothing but write letters asking for subscriptions, Five men would be asked to give small sums, for instance; and each requested to send in the names of ‘ive other persons who might be in- equal Democrats have acquired a mailing list of about terested in contributi amounts, In that way th 300,000 names. DEMOCRATS COLLECTED NEAR- | that LY $2,000,000 AFTER ELECTION. Mey collected in this way ne the last Presidential they conside: so many contrityito no chance for any individual to a disproportionate hold on the sue cessful candidate when he takes of- fice, and, second, the increased num- ber of subscribers means an almost equivalent) number of — volunteer | workers on Election Day. The Republicans have urged switch from a paid to a vo.unteer basis. In a few places where the | throat. Democ organiz ations have acquired rful influence same ing workers ob- | the tains; but, generally speaking, neither | revolver at political party could afford to’ buy the services of many workers on !lestion |one was Day without subjecting themselves to embarrassments. So there are Republicans who | wish their party had adopted the policy of asking for small subscrip- | ed | {no limit of $1,000. For the Demo- | crats get both the small and the} eriptions. In some quar- | tions and at the same time had pla large sub: ters here it is predicted that by the time October arrives the Republicans | will hav limit isn't getting results and that a general appeal for funds of any size, large or small, with the right to re ject contributions from sources no’ considered disinterested will have to be made. Of course Fedefal laws are very weak with respect to campaign fi- nances and there are plenty of ways of certifying that only $5,000,000 hu been spent by a national party when | a total of five and six times that sum may have been expended by State | committees who do not have to make their contributions public or even cer- | tify to them. it is a fair estimate that the } tional Campaign Committees of the| Democrats and the Republicans re- spectively will run up bills of at least $°,000,000 each before thy can get through with the present campaign. But in the effort to elect. S Representatives, Governors and S' ate officials millions will be spent “in the | interest of the party” within the State which need never be revealed in a certificate of national campaign ex- penses, Both the Republicans and the Dem- oorats of the National Committees | are getting ready to make public weekly or semi-weekly if necessary, all contributions, No sensations need be expected, for with the Republicans limiting their funds to $1,000 and the Democrats centring all their efforts on small contributors, the two cam- paign committees probably will strug- gle along during the next few months and wake up with deficits on the day after election, Already there fre murmurs about the high cost of travel for speakers, the high cost of advertising and pub- licity, and the fact that whereas a party worker would give all his time in the old days for $5 a day, h wouldn't leave hig job now for’ less than $10 or $16 a day t stand around the polls and coux yoters to “vote right ' With women voting, moreover, the work will have to be largely one of education through public speech and written word instead of the indivu- dual canvass of other ye WEDDING GIVES SURPRISE. William G. Miller and Mrs. Ham~ mond Married at Freeport, There was surprise In eport, L. 1, to-day when it became known that on Saturday afternoon William G, Miller, even years old, former village President, ani a director of the eport bank, had married Mrs. M. Loulse Ham- mond, sixty old, widow of Dr took place at th copal Chureh, parsonage, rnes officiating, Mr. and Mrs left at once for a hone moon in the ferkshires Dr, Hammond died about ten ago, leaving his wif ay erty. Mr. Miller has been a widow for about two yea He has two sons Raymond A., a village trustee, and Dr. Willlam Miller, and two married daugh ters, Mrs. Mille a son. a Child Falls Prom Canat Boat § and In Drowned. George Knight, ‘fv ne on the canal boat Astoria, which ts from Mineola, N.Y left Portal at clock this morning, Dominion of Canada ‘Bie planes’ route to. Alaska, lead [ane went around Cape Worn sour limes. |through nerthwestena Canada, moored at the MoWilllams Shipyards, New Brighton, Staten Island, was! drowned When he fell into the Kill von) Kull in stepping ashore from the boat| was just able to gras to-day —_ Mother and Son Drown: ACCORD, N.Y. July 26.—Mrs Harry Probler and her son, Herman, fourteen, of New York City, were drowned’ while bathing in Rondout Kk, near here, yesterday, Th @ not been recovered, THE SECRET OF SAREK By MAURICE LEBLANC (Copyriant, 1920, by the Macaaiey Company.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING|4 voice repeated. “Go, quickly, Your CHAPTERS. he Tele of Sar OVER CAMPAIGN (Continued From First Page.) ¥ yLpepelt wotian.” journeys to 28 Me io near 800, wan i ‘Veronique learne tas Sora ded son murder her father, who ba + 5,000 per- ece than it is to get 50,000 persons to give $100 each, for the first must be accom- plished by individual canvass and soliciting while the second might be collected through a mail organization if there were time to build one, It CHAPTER IY. thought» of Francois. Where was Francois? followed Stephane Maroux in his inexplicable flight? Had he isn't that 6,000 Republicans can't be gone in search of assistance? And found to give $1,000 each, but all con- who was it that M. d'Hergemont had tributions must be made public and apostrophized as a monster aod & the art of giving money to campaigns murderer? ig not highly developed except in a small circle in both Republican and The ladder did not'reach the win- dow; apd Veronique at once became f the effort which would be was to climb over Nevertheless she did They were fighting up Hi the struggle was with stifled shoute uttered by She went up the ladder. ‘The most that she could do was to N grasp the battom rail of the baleony, @ narrow ledge enabled her to hoist henself on one knee, to put her witness the wag being enacted in necessary if a'Hergemont once more retreated to the win- and even a little beyond she almost aaw him face to face, He stood without moving, haggard- ry Qed and with his arms hanging in $2,000,000 in the two years following election, and the advantages two-! fold. First, the money comes from something terrible eally you? Oh, curse you! Francois that there is) fran | He was no doubt calling upon his| and Francois no to some at- perhaps wounded, was meant to cry. distance of paces, against the opposite wall of » one pointing # a’Hergemont and de And that soute . oh, horror! nized the ‘red cap of whicw Honorine had spoken, the flannel shirt with the gilt buttons, She beheld, in that young face, con vulsed with hideous emotions, the very expression which Vorski used to wear times when and ferocity, gained the upper hand. The boy did not sce her. were fixed on the ma posed to hit; and he seemed to take a to confess that the $1,000|sort of savage joy in postponing the the | tive And above all rk which he pro- Veronique herself was silent. Words or cries could not po. stbly avert the What she had to fling herself between her father and hold of the up and climbed through the window. It wag too late. The shot was fired, M. d'Hergemont fell with a groan of And, at the ame time, at that very moment, while-the boy still had his | pon, outstretched and Was sinking into a huddled heap, a| |door opened at the back. abominable sight ck her, so to speak, The boy sprang at her. The woman tried to bar his w even a strugs y. There was not The boy took a step pack, quickly raised his weapon and Honorine’s knees gave way beneath her and she fell acréss the threshold. And, as he jumped over her body and fled, she kept on repeating: No, it's not true! . Oh, can it, There was a burst of Yes, the boy had laughed, Ver- that horrible, | laugh, so lke Vorski's laugh; and it all agonized her with the same an- gulsh which used to sear her in Vor- laughter out- She did not run after the murderer. She did not call out. ce beside her was mur- muring her name: M, d’Hergemont lay on the ground, ing at her with glassy were already filled w when she tried to unbutton his waist- bloodstained shirt, order to dress the wound of which he s dying, he gentl She understood pushed her hand She stooped still lower, utterance of his d him on the forehead and had something else to say; his mouth vainly emitted sylla~ bles which did not form words’ and to which she listened in despair, was ebbing away. fading into the darkness, glued her ear to the lips which ex- hausted themseives in a supreme ef- fort and she caught the word: His mind was Hia eyes flashed as though lit by the bf an expiring flame, selved the impression that as he looked at her, understood nothing but the full sig- presence and fore- dangers that threatened 80 years old, living] “You mustn't stay... death if you stay. death if y lof Maguennoe He stammered | words which head fell back dicy grows heavier second afte “You must escape from this island,” father bade you, Mme. Veronique. Honorine Wan beside her, livid t the face, with her two hands clasps ing @ napkin, rolled Into a plug and red with blood, which she held to her chest. a “But I must look after you first! cried Veronique. “Wait moment . . . Let mo see. « “Later on . . they'll Attend to me presently," spluttered Honorino, “Oh, the monster! . « tt only come in ! But the door be- low was barr. fe ¥ “Do let me your wound,’ Veronique implored. “Lie down.” “Presently . . . First Marie 1& Goff, the cook, at the top of the stalr- caso... Sho's wounded, toa ; mortally perhaps . . « GW and see.” Veronique went out by the door at the’ back, the one through which her son had made his escape. There was a large landing here. On the top steps, curled into a heap, lav Marto Le Goff, with the death-rattle in acr throat. She died almost at once, without recovering consciousness, the third vetim of the incomprehensible tragedy. As foretold by old Maguen- noc, M. d’Hergemont had been the second victim. CHAPTER Y. ONORINE'S wound was deer but did not seem likely tv prove fatal. When Veronique had dressed it and moved Marie L# Goff's body to the room filled wit"! books and furnished like a study iit which her father was lying, sh’ closed M. d'Hergemont's eyes, cov- ered him with a sheet and knelt down to pray. But the words of prayo: wotld not come to her lips and her mind was incapable of dwelling on ¢ | Single thought. She felt stunned by the repeated blows of misfortune |She sat down in a chair, holding he: head in her hands. Thus she re- |mained for nearly an hour, while | Honorine slept a feverish sleep. With all her strength she rejected ‘her son's image, even as she had al- | Ways rejected Vorski's. But the two strength and succeeded in setting foot | M man- | on th agers in some populous States to pay | their workers, and it is difficult: to mages became mingled together, whirling around her and dancing be- |fore her eyes like those lights which, |when we close our eyelids tightly, | pass and pass a gain and multiply and blend into one. And it! was always one and the same face, cruel, ear donte, hideously grinning. She did not suffer as a mother suf- fers when mourning the loss of a son. Her son had been déAd these fourteen years; and the one who had come to life again, the one for whom all the wells of her maternal affection were ready to gush forth, had suddenly be. come a stranger and even worse: Vorski's son! How indeed could sho have suffere: But ah, what a wound infilcted in. the depths of her being! What an upheaval, like those cataclysms which shake the whole of a peaceful coun- try-side! What a hellish spectacle! What a vision of madness and horror What an ironical jest, a jest of the most hideous destiny!” Her son kill- ing her father at the moment when, after all these years of separation and sorrow, she was on the point of em- ‘bracing them both and living with them in sweet and homely intimacy! Her son a murderer! Her son dis- pensing death and terror broadcast! Her son levelling that ruthless wea- slaying with all hie heart and cant and taking a perverse delight in it! The motives which might explain | these actions interested her not at all. Why had her son done these things? Why had his tutor, Stephane Maroux, doubtless an accomplice, possibly an nstigator, fled before the tragedy? These were questions whictr she did >” hot seck to solve. She thought only of the frightful scene of carnage and death. And she asked herself if death ; was not for her the only refuge and the only ending. “Mme. Veronique,” whispered Hons orine, “What is it?" asked Veronique, roused from her stupor. ‘Don't you hear?” “What?” “A ring at the bell below. They must be bringing your luggage.” She sprang to her feet. “But what am I to say? How can I explain? . . . If I accuse that boy .. “Not a word, please, Let me speak to them.” Uj “You're very weak, my poor Hon- orine. ‘No, no, I'm feeling better.” Veronique went downstairs, crossed a broad entrance hall paved with black and white flags and drew the bolts of a great door: It was, as they expected, one of the sailors: “I knocked at the kitchen door first,” said the man. “Isn't Marie Le Goff there? And Mme, Honorine?” “Honorine is upstairs and would Mke to speak to you.” The sailor looked at her, seemed impressed by this young woman, who looked so pale and serious, and lowed her without a word. saad Honorine was waiting on the first floor, standing in front of the open doo! “Ah, it’s you, Correjou? . . . Now listen to me... and no talk, please.” oy, “What's the matter, Mme, Honos__.. rine? Why, you're wounded! What is it?” She stepped aside from the door- way and, pointing to the two bodl Under their window-gheets, said elme pl ‘Monsieur Antoine and Marie Le Goff. . . both of them mur. dered.” The man’s face became distorted, He stammered: “Murdered . . . you don't Agu . Why?" oy. “I don't know; we arrived after it happened. “But . . . young Francois? 5 4 Monsieur Stephane? , ‘Gone... . They must have terrified but quite distinct voice, he |been killed too.” “But . . + but . . . Maguens “Maguennoc?, Why do you speak It mdang | noc Pscape this “| speak of Maguennoc, I'speak of cronique|Maguennoc . . , because, if he's lalive . .. this 1s a very different he four crosses |business. Maguennoc always said */tnat he would be the first. Maguen« |noe only says things of which hi tertain, Maxuennoe — understands. sated these things thoroughly.” Honorine reflected and then said: “Maguennoc hag been killed,” ‘ Another Thrilling’Ghapter To-M. - “Ss: