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Dodger Te am at into a secluded byway, and there, inimune trom {nterference, Manhandied the trusting visitors ‘within this city’s gates in a manner Seartu to behold. The score wae 10 fABI-Mamaux, the noted tenor, Was } the first to feel the onslaught. Al attempted to stave off the Cincinnat! attack but was forced to retreat in , Yast disorder in the middle of the hegto .Ofth inning, All in all, the , Reds gt to Mamaux for eleven hits j im 4 2-3 innings, which was ample, wufficient and encugh, although they * continued their depredations without ierey dnd chased Clarence Mitchell from’ the premises in the sixth in- ming And pounded young Mohart without reservations, Senatorial. or Gisastrous day for Robbte, 6 second straight day haa forced to wa with impotent ie ruthless, though gradu! sacred of his offieial family. Wedne it-was Burlelgn Grimes and Leon C: dore who wilted under the stress ani strain of the Keds’ attack. Yesterday - was Mamaux, Mitchell and Mohart. ‘o-duy St remains for Rube Marquard “or Sherrod Sr to halt the flying Redy,, or the Robins must return to Ebbets Field far outside the lead ‘Ae ‘it-is, the defeat drops the clan {Robin more than two games below the Reds, and the Giants’ reverse in Chicago {Alrtiion srongthena Rediand’s clutch on ; ‘Ua 0p, rung, For seven innings the Robins were ‘hutdeutved by the great Ditching of it i Adolfo Luque. Then the game Tittle Fubar, wilted under the oppressive t tittd was foreed to re‘ire after Ko- netdhy's double and Miller's single in «they thelr, * procter They added two more in the ninth at the expense of Ray Fisher, thanks to haton's single, with the bases full, the hit scoring Taylor and Neis, Fisher, interrupted the embryonic . Pe gn disposing of Lamar on an in- ay fi _ MAJOR LEAGUE AVERAGES. . TEN LEADING BATTERS. bi NATIONAL LEAGUE. 4 “HMR, Si Craver. 1 SL nag Hie, es oa a 9 SP 3: 3 ag f «LEN LEADING PITCHERS, * ..» NATIONAL LEAGU, sol Witlctpia . 3 een Burwell. St, Uaile 3 Stnken. PHILADELPHIA, Aue @ownfill of another w @favorite with the big crowd. SFive ra es made up the card, White won the mile and 100 yards dash with Guess Work In 2.20, the pro rate. Fecord taken by the winnor being 2.12%. | Stake of $2,500 we oe er Bthel Chimes hat Won the firsi heat. This race was a Procession until the half mile waa reached and then a battle royal between Bthel Chimes and Edna Early to the ‘wire, {n.all three hevts. 000 Bull's Head Bazaar Stake tie S1s"trotters was easy Tor Hollyroot Naomi tn straight heats, all of which atepped in 210%. Comit finish: firat!'in the three heats of the Firat President's Cup for 2.08 trotters. A R eaarceearceeiam Cory to Play Army, WATERVILLE, Me. Aug. mite 9] nim | “They W oh be : on wood! You're feeling finesah? That's great! Keep the en- tive family feeling that way always iL WIE, pecasional Cascarets, When erly ait CINCINNATI, ©, Aug. 21.—Those | i wamipant Reds of Mr Moran perpe- | led another outrage on the meek | Jowly. According to the evi-| and, they lured the| venth bud staked the Robins to only rua up to that stage of the ings. Recs Inciude games played Wednesday, Aus. 18. | Rifle Grenade Bows in Pacing HORE marked the Grand Clreuit races @E'Nerverth. The best Rifle Grenade, which'hung a new. mark for three-year- OM peeing geldings this season, could @o fn the Holmes Stakes was to win the heat in the slow time of 2.08n. June won the first two heats. ‘Grenade was lame and the heavy P was not to his liking, but he was >The Godly College football schedule | an- 9 to-day Includes games with the NR Wert Bol Nov. 20 ana Sith taty Crome a jov. 10, had been scheduled fo1 iN Jae HOW GOLF LEADERS PLAY THEIR ‘SHOTS Juat read Beng Y tory ot baseball, with runs and extra base hits rattling Ifke « halistorm ona tin roof. If these tricks had gone on you could have taken the bat out of baseball. I guess that's about all from yours truly as to his share in baseball. Now 1 want to talk a minute or two to the youngsters who are coming wp, Some of them are playing to-day on the sand lots. And some of them are go- ing to be stars in the days to come, Take my advice and learn to. play every position on the nine. If you think you're how good a shortstop you ar then take & whack at the bags. That's the way to learn the game, Above all, learn to keep your temper. For- get what 1 said about josing my own, because that never got me anywhere, I was foolish not to have had a bet Tor OF SWING FOR DRIVING First of Series Showing Correct Position for Different Strokes and How Famous Stars Play the Important Clubs. NO. 1—LEO DIEGEL. the twenty-one- RO DILEGEL | year-old Chicago professional who came within a single stroke of tleing Ray and who was the chief American hope at the finish of the National championship at iw a fine spectmen of the golfer who gets résults without employing all the graceful rhythm that is com- monly © vledo, alled “form.” Diegel, who began playing golf when nine years old, assumes a _|crouching position for al} his shots. He has not the easy swing that is characteristic of a Bobby Jones, overlapping grip. driving tees Diegel takes a with an exaggerated follow thr ugh. youngster’s ed with a firmness and crispngss not satisied get on the green Uke most prec dinary good yutter. POSITION OF CLUB He has a tend-| A LONG more off his left The accompanying pictures show the the act of making four latest star among American profes- important «hots. Mcholson Agrees to Build Maple Lent. MONTREAL, Aus. 21—chartes £. Nicholson, designer of Sir Thomas Lip- fon's Shamrock 1V., has accepted a commisaion to design the Maple Leaf, proposed as Canada’s challenger for the America’s Cup by A, C. Ross, promoter of the Maple Leaf challenge, Mr. Rosa announced to-day. In accepting the commiseton, Nichol son was sald to have sipulated that the preliminary work of building the yacnt should be carried on in ngland. He then proposed to comple! the construc- tlon of the challenger in Canada. Cae aa Firemen Nine yx. Lincoln Gt Tomorrow afternoon at Protectory |Oval, ‘Tremont Avenue near 177th Street, the ball team of the New York Fire Department will make thelr first appearance this season against the Lincoln Giants in the opening game of a double header commencing at ? P. M ‘The fire laddies have won their last six games and are confident of defeating the colored cracks. In the final game the hard hitting combination, the Hobokens will play the Lincoln Giants. — Elgin Auto Race Postponed for One Week, BELGIN, Ml, Aug. 21.—The Bigin Na- tonal Road Race, scheduled to atart at noon to-day, was postponed this morning | for one week on account of rain, Offi- ‘gials announced that the rain of last |night and this morning had so flooded the course that a start would be im- possible. The same starting hour will be In effect next rday, Aug. 28, as r to-day, ork while. you Sleep” 60 cents.—Advt. Ban Johnson Thinks It Inadvisable For Maysto Pitch Again This Year Chapman, star ball ptayer of the Clevq- fand American League Club and idol of local fans, received the rever awing Cleveland, bell of St, John’s Roman. nim!” the services thousands of stood with bared heads as the who died in New a victim of a pitched therA Monday, was carried to the altar and the dast rites of the church werd performed. It was the largest funeral in Cleve- » and not since of Cardinal Mereler, hero of Bel- gium, has such a m [tempted to enter the However, Disagrees American Catholle Cath Claims He Will Work To- i Inst Tuesda’ American League player, who pitched the ball Monday it | death, will be taken by 1. B, Johnson, President of the The case is ended as far 8 he is con- cerned, Johnson declared. “I could not conscientiously attempt to make any trouble for Mr. Mays,” Johnson said, belief that Mr. Mays nuver will pitch From what 1 nave learned, he is greatly affected and may never be capable temperamentally Then I also know the feeling against him to be so biter among the members of other teams that {t would be inadvisable for him to attempt to pitch this year at any sate.” PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21=Chicago » it two out of three from Phila- | deiphia by winning both games of the double header game was 7 to 4 and the first two out in the local half of the ninth Inning of the second contest the bleacher crowd swarmed on thinking a foul grounder from 8t bat bad ended the gam: fused to leave the field of pitching ‘The fans re- d the umpire, | to C time stood 6 to 2 in favor of the visitors. Klepper, Prestdent of the Seattle Pacific Coast League Baseball Club, announced a Club of the He will report at Cin- Pitcher Carl Mays declared he to-day's game Yankees against the Detroit Tigers. Mays, whose thrown ball fatally in- jJured Ray Chapman, Cleveland short- on Monday, ment when asked about the report that he had suffered a nervous break- He said his illness was noth- ing worse than a headache, and that ‘feeling fine.” would twirl to the Cincinnati ‘ational League. clnoaty Sept. Cardinals |the opening game | Boston by a score of 6 to 4, ced out of the game in the #1 {inning when Lsoeckel's drive, as stopped for five min- playera standing uncovered as @ tribute to Ue memory of series from Miller Huggins, manager éf the Yankees, said last night that despite the Johnson statement that it “inadvisable” for Muy to pitch underhander would be used in his regular turn in series beginning to-day, if he seems able to do himself justice, Mays's conscience PITTSBURGH, Av two straight Philadelphia from Pittsburgh, winning in eleven innings by @ score of the Detrolt no reagon why he shouldn't pitch if he wants to, if he seems to me to be I won't use him to-day—-probably not | Sunday or Monday—but he |NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Bree: baits: AS ever was assailed and he is entitled to amen Yenterday, |@ vindication, “It he gave vj fain the publ now and did not appear would be Justified in eling that some of the things said about him were true, @ chance for him to show that he ts layer, working for the 1 simply ask for success’ of hii “If through nervousne: | t# unable to pitch, I wil but ho is certainly going to get an o or worry he ‘ake him out; any Senened A IR SUSD, & SORGESLY An Intercity golf tournament is being arranged betwe Associations in New York Philadelphia will begin at Newark on Aux. to Brooklyn on Sept t. 28 and wind wp at New Yo J. Franklin Baker went back to his Maryland farm uests that he come back and hel ankees In the pennant fight he simply ‘think them over.’ at if bis mind could be arding the care while he 4 on the next West- | o1 with the elub he would agree | 7 a. Brook- ; whirt ‘a paid he would le wafe to say fous, constipated, headachy, unstrung, Fitlaren” or for a cold, upset stomach, nothing «rn trip acts 60 nicely as Cascarets, 10, 25, will be elght individual priz thirty-ntx holes play, and th the loweat ‘r Raymond will be awarded @ permanent trophy, t. score CLEVELAND, Aus ter grip on It, If you are bat-shy at the ‘plate, I don't know of any better way to cure it than to ut on a mask and pad and catch a few innings every gume, because when the batter swings land misses you'll get all the practice you need in keeping your eye on the ball, Af # rule, you needn't fear get- ting hit by a ball you can see, If you haven't started to mnoke don't begin now. Tf you have, keep it down, expecially during the playing season. J smoke a lot of clrars and 1 wish Duidn't, but fim older than you kids—and L own a olgar factory, which I've got to keep busy, There fan’t any need to caution you about crooking your elbow, because the Highteenth Amendment has fixed that for you. And here's another thing—get mar- ried, Pick a nice young girl who un- derstands you—she'll understand you # long time before you understand land appreciate her—and make a home run. Mra, Ruth was only sixteen when I married her and [ was a youngster of twenty, [ wasn't any kind of a champton then, except a champ pleker, and I certainly was good at that. I bed never known any | xiris while I at St, Mary's and £ didn’t think I'd have much use for them. A lot of wise kids think so too Jat the age of twenty, but, boy, when Fiat J ed “THE GREEN. « OWI CIVIC, » ‘6 “HOMERS” 6 TIMES AT BAT ONE OF THE Bla FEATS OF BABE RUTH (Continued From Third Page.) ing in the outfleld instead of on the | mound gives me the ohance to play | every game Speaking again of homers, you haven't an idea how many sugges- |tions have been made by fans as to the way to get me in a holo go I wouldn't have a chance to whang one out, I heard about a letter that was sent to Wilbert Robinson, manager of the Brooklyn Nationals, It was while 1@ Yanks were playing an exhibition series with the Dodgers last March. The fan wrote: “Dear Robbie: One way to get the best of Ruth ts to tell your pitchers to get him two and one and then he's a sucker.” They tell me that Robbie showed the letter around the training camp and sald, “Yes, that’s all fine and dandy; but somebody's got to tell me how to get those first two strikes on LIKES STRAIGHT, FAST BALL, JUST BELOW WAIST, Many times I've been asked what sort of a ball I like best. The an- swer ought to be perfectly plain to any one who has ever stood at the GET MARRIED Plate—a straight, fast ball, a little below the waist and right up the sroove. When you cateh this ball © upward swing Is at its Kreatest and if you nail it at the bal- | |ance point of your bat, the leverage | is there and the blow gets height and distance \n the right proportions. If the bgll comes shoulder high you will €*ve to lift too far to reach it |and your wallop comes too Jate to do the best work . Oo pitcher I've ever met has been “poison” to me. After the 191) #eu- son some of the critics rummuged around for my weak spot and decided |T couldn't hit left handers, This was ja joke to me, because I'm a port sider | vg, | myself, and a man swinging from the 479 | south side of the plate has a better chance against lefty than a right j hander, because he doesn't get that | sharp curve toward him which ts the | |same as a big incurve to a right |handed batter. My 4920 home rune |are about evenly distributed petwéen right handers and southpaws, ‘They | both throw a nine ounce, cork’ centr horsehide ball, and if it comes an wher near the p |whether the pitcher heaves }t Pai Ses side or left aide or with his en Abolition of the pitching tric hls ar has been a good thing for bisve hall, even though some pitchers who had learned to rely on resin and other stuff to make their curves take nave suffered by it, After all, we are out there to play the game fairly, celying n our skill and natural abilities, and if you didn’t 4) on these devices somebody would be using a squure ball or firing the pill out of @ young cannon You may be sure that the fans ap- I don't caro | it happens and gets you good, ail bets are off, Don't think that because 1 played hookey once upon a time and made STANCE FOR & PETEH | £004 In baseball that hookey Is a good game for you to play, Go to school as long as you can. There is plenty of time for baseball after 8 o'clock and during the summer vacations, wish I had had more books—may be Va be a better author than T am. And now I'm going to say goodby to all my readers. [ can't promise to de- liver a ‘home run for you if you come out to see the Yenks play or if you read the box score far from the big league cities. I can only promise I'll be out there on the lot, trying all the time, swinging with all my power and “playing the game" with all my heart for the game's snke with an un failing remembrance of old St. Mary and Brother Matt os {AN Rint Revered oy Pattee Feature Syndl- <tr SLAYER ESCAPES FROM SING SING McKenna Takes Advantage of Gompers’s Visit to Take French Leave, James McKenna, twenty-five, a con- vict undergotag sentence of from eight and @ half to seventeen years for man- slaughter in Sing Sing, escaped from the prisoh last night. McKenna was missed when the count was taken at 7 viclock. Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, ad- dressed the inmates rday and it is believed that during the flurry tendant upon nis visle Mckenna made nis escape, McKenha, who was convicted killing Harry Green, a wholesale liquor dealer, in his store at No. $01 Ninth Avenue, June 18, 1916, made a break for berty over the ‘Tom! prison wall a few days before he wi taken to Sing Sing, ‘but was ove powered by two guards, 3-YEAR-OLD BOY DROWNED IN TANK Was Playing With Girl When He Fell Into Seven Feet of Water, The body of Benny Morello, three years old, No, 431 Bast 114th Street was recovered early to-day from a big gas tank half Milled with water at 114th Street and Pleasant Avenue, He and Louise Grassi, nine, of No. 277 Pleasant Avenue, were playing near the tank yesterday afternoon. The boy fell in and the girl told his mother. The police worked for hours before they ble to get the body. The tank was formerly used by the Standard Gas Light Company, but was turned over to the Government during war and is still overnment | The water in it is about seven | feet deep. ee DRUGS BLOW UP AND WRECK STORE Explosion Follows Fire and. Four Men Are Cut by Broken Glass An explonion of drugs which followed a fire in the prescription department of Slater & Halpern’s drug store at No, 167 Eighth Avenue wreeked the inte: for of the w out the front 10 o'clock tast none were cut by were Sami thirty-one, proprietor; Benjan twenty-four, his clerk, of No Street, Brooklyn; Joseph Gall fireman attached to r Michael ‘Thompson of No. 248 West 14th Street. ‘The store war damaged to the ex- tent of more than $6,000. What caused the fire could not be learned TED LEWIS BACK IN U. S. Fighter Scored Knovkon Abrond—Hen Welsh Also Arriy Ted Lewis, . formor welterweight champion, who has been boxing in England and France, arrived this morning on the Rotterdam, He fougnt elght times und won every time by « knockout Ben Welsh, the comedian, urrived also | and wil take a part in & play being put on by Arthur Hommerstuin, ‘The Rotterdam carried 455 first, 569 second and 1688 third cabin passengers - a Arrested on Ship Bound for Greeoe, George Vuluros, formerly a candy manufacturer of Albany, Inter Hving at No. 977 Third Avenue, Manhattan, was arrested to-day when he went on bound ship Meganelas 1 He waa charg nia wite and de He hi $5,000 cash, $2,000 worth of jewelry and $600 in ‘travellers’ cheques, out to A with wba ee pee ne tent tee Bb LITO SSE LIENS: y CHAPTER XIy. (Comtioued.) r?4 If the prophecy {twelf, found by Maguennoc in the illu- intnated miasal constitutes the essential factor of the whole, story. Remember that Ma Ruennoe had torn out the famous page and that M. d'Hergemont, who was fond of drawing, had copied it veral times and hug unconsciously given to the principal’ woman the features of his daughter Veronique. Vorski became aware of the existence of the original and of one of the copies when he saw Maguennoc one night looking at them by the light of Die lamp, duamediately, in the aark- » he contrived somehow tO penc HN notebook the fifteen Linvs, of this precious document. He aow knew und understood everytheng, He was dagzied by a Diinding ight. All the scattered elements were xathered nto a whole, forming a compact and solid whole,” He continued; “You understand how the facts are kinked together, don't you Stephane, you who were one of the victims and whe knew or know the oabers! so do you, Patrice, don’t you? In the fit- teenth century, a poor monk, with a disordered imagination and @ brain haunted by Informal vuslons, expresaeg his dreams in a prophecy wiich we Will describe ax bogus, Which reste on ve Serious data, which consists of detaila depending on the exigencies | of the chyme or rhythm and which | certajniy, both in the poet's mind apd | from the standpoint of originality, Posweaes no more value than if the poet had drawn the words at random out of a bag. The story of the God. Stone, the legends and _ tradition: none of all thie provides hfn with the least element of prohecy. The worthy man evolved the prophecy from his own consciousness, not intending any harm and simply to add a text) yoied him, of some sort to the margin of the THE SE eI } 44 a “aS . By MAURICE LEBLANC =~ (Copyright, 1990, by the MoCeuley Company.) bad police would Institute by discovering — the identity bring back to bund of Veronique 4’ the futher of Francois. Is thet you want?" No, nol” orted fia pee hate or) ved, a Litt uw G solution Is no better: Biot tonivhen me ie thet you, Don did not hit upon the right one which would have “There wax only one solution,” Don Luis Perenna sald, glalniy. "There was only one,’ Which wae that?” “Death. ‘There was a pause, Then Don Luis resumed: ‘My friend: into @ court you must not think that your as Judgos are played because trial seems to you to be over, io aul sing. on; and the court not risen, ut is why I want you to answer me honestly: Do you consider that Vorski deserves to die?” Yeu,” declared Patrice, And Stephane approved: ‘Yeu, beyond a doubt,” Don Luis, whistied. One of the Moors rua wp. mr? paire of ep gtes Had.” | he man brought wiasses Don Luis handed them to Stophand and Patrice; We are only @ mile frdm Sarek.” he said, “Look toward the point; the bout should have started.” “Yes,” suld Patrice, presently. you see her, Stephane?” jae tt te w ‘Only what? “There's only one passenger.” ‘ “Yes,” said Patrice, “only one pas- ‘ The ey put down their bincoulars and one of them said: 5 “Only one | cyidentiy, He his accor chao chuckled Don deviliwh drawing which he had #o| “What makes you say that?” painstakingly iuminated, And be is be pleased with it that he takes the trouble to take a pointed implement and engrave a few nes of it on one of the stones of the Fairies’ Dolmen. “Well, four or five centuries later, the prophetic page falls into the hands | of a Superboche, a criminal lunatic, a madman eaten up with vanity, What does the Superboche see in it? A di- verting puerile fantasy? A meaning- leas caprice? Not a bit of it! He re- garda it as a document of the highest Interest, one of those ddowments which the most super-zealous of his fellow countrymen love to pore over, with this difference, that the document to his mind possesses a miraculous orl- «in, He looks upon it as the Old and New Testament, the Scriptures which explain and expound the Sarek law, the very gospel of the God-Stone, And this gospel designates him, Vorski, him, the Superboche, as the Messiah appointed to exeoute the decrees of Providence. “To. Voreki, there is no possibility of mistake, No doubt he enjoys the business, because it 19 a matter of stealing wealth and powel But thie question occupies a secondary posi- tion. He ls above all obeying the mys- tic impulse of a race whioh beHeves iteelf to be marked out by destiny and which flatters itself that It ls always fulfilling missions, a mission of regen- eration as well a8 a mission of pillage, arson and murder, And Vorski reads his mission set out in full in Brother Thomas's prophecy. “Brother Thomas says explicitly what has to be done and names him, Vorski, In the piainest terms, as the man of destiny, Is he not a King's “Why, remember the prophecy mado to Vorski in bis youth: ‘Your wife will die on the cross and you will be pilled, by a friend hua “ft doubt If a@ pred’ ts enough “I have other proofs, though.” “What proofs? “They, my friends, form part of the last problem we «hall have to eluci- date together. For instance, what ts your idea of thé manner in which ? substituted Eifride Vorski for Mad- ame 4'Hergemont?” Stephane shook his head, pat “I confess that I never understood.’ “And yet it's sq simple! When a gentleman in a dbawing-room, th ts, white tie eaid a tall-coat, periprms conjuring tricks or guesdes thoughts, you say to yourvelf, dre you, that there must be some st (flee beneath it all, the assistance j@ confederate? Well, you need seek no further where I'm concerned.” “What, you bad a confederate?” * “Yes, certainty. ? ‘But who was “he . “Otto. " |, “Otte? But you never ieft us! You never spoke to him, surely?" hi “How could I have succeeded with- out his help? In reality, I had two confederates in this business. Hifride jand Otto, both of whom betrayed | Vorwk!, either out of revenge or out of greed. While you, Stephane, were luring Vorski past the Fairies’ Dol- men, I accosted Otto. We soon struck a bargain, at the cost of a few dank= notes and in return for a promise that he would come out of the adventure safe and sound. Moreover, I inform- ed him that Vorski had pouched the sites Aychignat's fifty thousand ran ’ son, in other words a ‘Prince of Al- main?’ Does he not eqme from the country where the stone was stolen from the ‘wild men o'er the sea?” Has he not also a wife who Is doomed in the seer’s prophecies to the torture of the cross? Has he not two sons, one gentle and gracious as Abel and the other wicked und uncontrolled as Cain? “These proofs are enough for him, He now hits his mobilization papers, hia marching orders In his pocket. The xods have Indicated the objective upon which he is to march; and he marches, True, there are a fow living people in his path, So much the bet- ter; it i# all part of the programme. For dt is after all these ving people have been killed and, moreover, kdlled in the manner announced by Brother ‘Thomas, that the task will be done, ithe God-Stone released and Vorskl, the Instrument of destiny, crowned King, ‘Therefore let's turn yp our sleeves, take our trusty butcher's knife in hand and get to work! Vor ski will translate Brother Thomas's nughtmare into real life. You know what has followed!" CHAPTER XY. HE balance of the story is soon told, ‘Traced by the faithful “All's Well" Francoise was found hidden in one of the de- serted Caves. Ho was released from his bonds and soon joined the party. At the suggestion of Don Luls it was decided to leave Vorski to his fate, and when the submarine sailed both the arch villain and Otto, his com panion, were on the deserted island. running on thy surface of the water, Dou Lins sat tailing, with Stephane, Patriee and A gathered round him: “What a swine that Vorski ist” he gaid, “I've seen that breed of mon- ater before, but never one ef his ected ase echoed Don Luis, You & monster In your hands and you let him go free! To say nothing of its being highly iffimoral,| think of all harm that he can do, that inevitably will do! Ita a heavy responsibility to take upon yourself, that of the crimes whicn he 1 still com Do you think so too, Stephane?” asked Don Luis im not quite sure what I think," replied Stephane, “because, tq save i “Very well, But, in that case, th, Francois, | was prepared to make any concess! Bat, all the sume “All the same, you wou have had another solution “Frankly, yen. So jong as that man is alive and freo, Madame d'Herge- mont and her son will ha ory= thing to fear from him, “But what other solution was there? I promised him his Mberty in return for Francois immedtg safety Ought | to have promised him only hls Vife and handed him over to the poitoe?” “Perhaps,” said Capt, Betval. Well, who were | , Patrice | t what I've sald already. | 1 rather| | “Through my confederate mumbet one, through Elfride, whom I comtiné ued to question ina whisper while were looking out for Vorski's and who also, in @ few brief told me what she knew of Vorski's past.” “When all ls sald, you only saw Otto that once.” “Two hours lteter, after death and after the fireworks in hollow oak, we had @ second inter> view, under the Fairies’ Voraki was asleep, stupefied with, drink, and Otto was mounting guard. Yau can imagine that I seized th |opportunity to obtain particulars of | the business and to complete my formation about Vorsk! with the tatle which Otto for two been seoretly collecting about a whom he detested, Then he Vorsk!'s and Conrad's revolv rather he removed the bullets, leaving the cart % handed me Vorski'a and * book, as well as an empty locket and i Piel i ee jme mext day to play the wigard the aforesaid Vorskit in the crype where he found me. ‘That is how: Otto and I collaborated.” “Very well,” said “but still you didn't ask him to kill Voreki?” “Certainly not.’ “In that case, how are we to know Cer “Do you think that Vorski did not nd by discovering our collaboration, which js one of the obvious causes of | his defeat? And do you imagine that Two hours later the submarine was | Master Otto did not foresee this con- Ungency? You may be sure thet there # no doubt of this: Vorski, once unfastened from his tree, would have made away with his accomplice, both from motives of revenge and in " | to recover the sisters Archignat’s 60, 000 franca, Otto got the, start of him, Vorski was there, helpless, an easy prey. He struck him @ blow, I will go further and say that Otto, who Is a coward, did not even strike him a blow. He will simply have left Vorski on his tree, And so. the punishment is complete. Are you ap- pbeased now, my friends? Is your craving for justice satiated 1” Patrice and, Stephane wore sifent, impreasel by the terrible vision whieh Don Luis wes conjuring up before thoir eyes, ‘There, he said, laughing, “T was right not to make you pronounce een, tence over there, when we were + ing at the foot of the oak, with live man in Hig he us! 1 that my two judges = mitgiht flinched a Iittle at. that moment; Aad so would my third judge, @h, Al Well, you sensitive, t pate: And | am Uke you, my friends. We are not people who condemn and ecute. But, all the same, what Vorski was, think of his muners and his refinements j cruelty, and conarateees om hav- ing, in’ the resort, destiny as his judge and the ‘some Otto as os rupee woner, The will of The Bnd. 5 3 i Al ER SL A eee a ee