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ow ner Med. ke way for theatres, business j houses and parks; vacancies brought about by repairs, alterations and the COX CHANCES URT | general fear of landlords by the pub- Ne who hesitate to seek information j@iscuss the housing situation and 8. Copeland, Health Com- ot New York, testifying to- Before the U. 8. Senate Recon-— ten Committees, No, 29 West! Btreet, advocated the restriction | business buliding during the prea- ‘Rousling crisis, tho appointment ‘® housing board to pass on all! plans and the formulation! _& plan for governmental aid Ma D the consiruction of dwell- Copeland told Senator Calder, presided over the hearing, and tor Hdge, who sat with Mr.| Cs that there ts @ project afloat: $ York which would dispossess 1450 families tiving in apartments and many others in the same section | 1 In rooming houses, a Al ‘he added, “the proposed wil take up im materials labor elements which are iy for the construction of homes. we should have a housing, Edge objected to this on ‘that it would be unfair "he said. “I in favor of euch programme only in the event of a emergency, and in such event it be divorced from politics and 3 indepenently of municipal « Dr. Copeland agreed with Senator , ‘on the latter, but insisted that ‘the sity is now experiencing . the > Sets emergency.” Houses which ae, shelter but fifteen familica, Phe declared, are sheltering thirty- a this increasing the tuberculosis i tor Edge and Dr. Copeland “#* that @ good pian would be to cvusing bonds with a govern- tal guaranty of backing and to ‘the houses erected and operated the proposed housing board, which t# building 6,000 houses, Man- 10,000 and London 100,000, being conducted by each ity aided by a subsidy for builders amounting to about 4 @ room. i The t serious things bringing ie a\scarcity of houses in New Tork, be said, are the improvements, th public and private, which in- the destruction of tenants to ea o : ; “ean KING AND FINANCIAL, _ ed ver Savings Ban y ‘Street, » the Educational Alliance has ined = severe loss. A founder Institution, a (trustees for many ‘et all times he took = deep in- fn ite work, more particularly in etforta to interpret America to the to ald him to undorsta: “@nd adoption and to foster a loyal and MR. sCHIFT Rdueational Alli- ‘onal activity gs well as in bountiful Under the shadow of the Jose the Trustées of the institu- themselves unable to do just! memory of the devoted friend Pamed away but have ap- & special committes to conalder | “ Mibiene tor an appropriate memorial, By order of the Board of Trustoos, BAMUEL GREENBAUM, President, \) BBRNARD ERNST, Seoretary, D.—EMMA. Campbell Funeral , way at , ‘Thureday, AL DIRECTOR! regarding vacancies. rent laws with Senator Senator Calder, discussing the now » sald Edge, he believed the remission of taxes would promote building. “I Welieve everybody who has a” vacant Jot wih build next year.” he watd, Dr. Copeland announced to-day that he intended to send out a cail ‘o the health authorities of all the important Gitles of the country join in a meeting tn thi Pp ably about Thankagiving time, to to surgest means for correcting ex ing conditions, — NOT CONNECTED WITH THE WARD BAKING CO. | Man Arrested in Bridgeport Be- longed to Different Family of Wards. ‘The Bvening World in an early ‘edi- tibn toxlay published a report of tne arrest in Bridgeport, Conn., of Ashiey F. Ward on the compiaint of Anthony Dileo that Ward had induced bim to in- Yeat $14,600 by false representations. ‘The article wated that the accused was head of the Ward Baking Company of New York. This was a1 error which The Pvening World hastens to correct in Justis to the officers of the Ward aking Company, one of whom said to-day: . “The man arrested tn Bridgeport has no connection with the Ward Baking Company nor with the Ward family that ie interested in the Ward Bakt Company. You cannot make the Genial too sweeping. JUROR PICKED LOCK WITH BIT OF WIRE ‘was convinced of the possibilities of lock-picking. } ‘The jury had retired to consider the ense of Arthur EB. Smith of No. 13 Fiftn Avenue, Long Branch, accused of lary In the premises at No, 232 We: When arrested he hal ils “two ke! re. His counsel contended the wires were Just innocent wires. Dr. Waugh enid ‘hat the jury was inclined to acquit when It retired. One the wires ani locked door leading from the chamber. wire, » Dovodk eh RS ATTACKED ON LEAVING HOME When Abraham Jacobs, known as the “Mayor of Havemeyer Street,” Williama- durg. came out jot his house, No, 452 Sou Street, to- hree Snake ‘bine Sm’ Xo ‘hs palisa his watch a fou man, he said, with and hi wil Avenue Btation arresmed Dominic: hos to, who in. th P an held ins too ‘ball tor the: Gvand AQUEDUCT RESULTS. FIR6T RAC! olds; fo one DT 1, Jongs.—Tamariek, 11 and out, fh Aye wet (Mooney), ‘ond; Day 2 and 4 to Ss to 2: OW ‘Clare Vee th A he ae 1D RA handicap for mares of all added: seven furlong: ie. + went “Seatta, hae, fealan 3 tL ; Tallor Maid, 114, Kelay, 6 to 1, 3 id even, second; Lunetia, 11 T to 2, @ to 6 and 1 to 8, thi eg ran in ‘ham ¥ i A to 2; sto IN COLORADO BY Non-Paftisan League Drives Democrats Away. (Tria te the seventeenth of the serica of articles by The Evening World's Special Correapondent on | the political situation in the Weat- ern States.) By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) DENVPR, Col, Sept. 29 (Copy- right, 1920),—Dissension in the Demo- eratic Party and the intrusion of the Non-Partisan League in State affairs by capturing the Democratic pri- maries has just about ruined th chances of Gov. Cox in Colorado. Although the Democratic nominee for Governor hag indorsed Cox, the WORK OF RADICALS Seizure of Control of Party by ‘That current deflation in “The price Of commoditios stil! is the most po- tent factor in shaping the trend of stock market quotations was made evident by the action of the market today. Stocks of companies that have announced reductions in prices or that are believed to have swbstan- tia) price reductions in contemplation Were pressed for sie and recorded losses ranging from two to four points, {| It was announced that the Cleve- land and Chandler Motor Car Com- panies had ordered cuts in the prices | of their cars; that New Bedford milis jar enforcing price cuts, and the be- j Het Ts wecoming much more fixed in the mind of the speculative com- munity that substantial cuts in the prices of finished steel products will ve ordered much sooner than had been heretofore anticipated. In anticipation of price reductions stecl Issues were conspicuously weak Dal to-day. U. 8, Steel sold’ below 86, « loss of more than a point compared | with the close of lust night. It] touched a new low mark for the cur- rent downward movement. Republic, [seconde Ajax ihisber Alenia Cold Alanta Jonoaa ..., Am Se Chennical Beet Sugar Am Tew Mag Am Am oy Am Am, Am, Aen, ” ar & Airy Car & ¥ pt Canton Olt btw ra Dee Send... Hide & tan, H&L. Aw, Int, Con Am, am, Am Am, Am, Aen, Amn, Am, PS ‘Tel & Tel Oo. Thm .., Woot “ Writ, Paser pf eee S58 F FECEK FERC EECES Amete Ren! Ane, Dry sAtetuinan Hy, Aa, o Bae & Barrett Co, Beth Motom Steet host Pedweten Yetgn Hage Town. rank and file of the Non-Partisan Steel declined more than three points Bilm Ue Gas, League voters are free to vote the Farmer-Labor Ucket and many of j them will, This will cost Cox more ‘Votes than the Republicans. Simi larly the regular Democrats have been so antagonized by the Non- Partisan League forces that many of them were not ut all pleased when | Gov, Cox received the League's nom- inee for Governor in his private car and hownobbed with him while ta Colorado, So much more attention, however, fight on out the Non-Partisan League over- | shadows all else, Thus the Denver Post, hitherto a Democratic paper and one of the big influences in the 1916 campaign for Wilson, being largely responsible for his success not only (in Colorado but also in Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho and sur- rounding States, is lukewarm on the Presidential businems, It has devel- oped a more or less neutral attitude jon the Cox-Harding controversy and js dovoting all ita efforts to a fight on the Democratic - Non - Partisan League ticket. | ADVOCATE OF THE LEAGUE UP- HOLDS HARDING, Similarly the Denver Times, al- though a strong advocate of the League of Nations, is supporting Harding, on the theory, evidently, | that he will abandon Senator John- ‘son after the election. Anyway, there is not a newspaper of large influence in Colorado that Is helping Cox. The Ohio Governor is up against a aim. eult proposition; the Democratic or- ganization is disrupted and disorgan- ‘The audience that greeted the Gov- ernor on his arrival in Denver was enthusiastic and cordial, - Some of those who hoard hm sald the Gov- }ernor show the effects of his fas tiguing journey. I find considerable sympathy for 4 | Gov. Cox for his gallant fight against big odds, The feeling here seems to be that Cox is struggling alone and inaided, For instance, to-day, the Denver Post has a cartoon display#i prominently in its first pago with Gov, Cox standifg in an imploring attitude before @ row of sphinx, in- cluding Bryan, Clark, McAdoo and other Democratic leaders, and asking :|them “Aren't you never going to say ve pood, — HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES.” ia , St: claim Oylt tarlongs. lh as Mm Fa adie ood. 100, chiming; for furl eter f, }, laden Sor ect 1 RACK The Havre De 5 uhrae.¥ ATH BAe. ae se ere a emg, RAM sm ty 239 West Ps upply Cay anything?” Even Democratic chieftains who ‘know Colorado's politics very well tolk discouragingly about the out- look for Cox. They’ say nice things about Gov. Cox and think he is mak- ing @ good campaign, but they don’t think he will carry Colorado, WITH COMPARES OUTLOOK THAT OF 1916. How different things are from the 1916 campaign. When the writer reached Colorado in his swing around | 3. the circle four years ago the friendli- ness to Wilson was unmistakable. Every straw vote in this vicinity fav- ora Harding. Republican leaders in 6 told me privately they couldn't cry Colorado and would lose the te by 10,000 majority. President Wilson carried it by 70,000 and this time the Democrats who ought to know predict @ Harding victory by fat least 20,000. The League of Nations is not a con- trolling factor in the election. There only one factor, the impatience @ change of administration, FPurther- more, the Democratic label has got @ black eye by its association with the Non-Partisan League, In the desire 1o vote against the Democratic State F ticket many old line Democrats will | vote for Harding and the whole Re- publican ticket, Some farmer votes that are ordinarily Republican would | go to Cox if it were not for the farmer- |labor ticket to attract the radi | The outlook for Cox is gloomy, ny vote for Cox don't think he has a chance to carry Colorado and they “ae | know the State like a book. er dit aa BARGE CAPTAIN IS HELD. stolen, Reorder Carsten in Hoboken, 405 West” 224 Street, Manhattan, lhy a fake Wiessage deliv denberg that he was wan taurant. The copper wire. was * Monda night) bet ite leas ' to the police until et, hud )4en, at | of my friends here who are going to Capt. Kdward 8. Lance of the New York Central Railroad barge Edgewood, from which $30,000 worth of copper wire was reported vy him to have been and Jacob Vandenberg of No. 68 Garden Street to-day were held in $1000 each as material witnesses by Lance, who gave his address as No. de- clared when he reported the theft that Thad been lured from the barge, lying dend of 62 1-2 ‘ered by Van- “ Axo, sone dei o pe, wae no i ask high THe dividande are, pay to 73, while Repiogte, Bethlehem and | Vanadium registered losses of two | points or more. | "An interesting story ts going the rounds in tho financial district to the |effect that when Henry Ford an- nounced a reduction in the price of | j hia cars, he likewise notified steel manufacturers and others with whom jhe hag been purchasing his raw ma- terials that unless they immediately revised their price ecale downward they could no longer expect to reosive © portion of his business, and that he would fill his requirements for raw materials elsewhere, Despite the donials of big producers of of] that they will revise their price |wchedule, because of the fact that (Consumption still exceeds production, cial district as to whether present Prices can successfully be maintained, On the theory that prices will shortly come down the professional bears «di- rect their fire of attack against Mex!- can Petroleum, Pan-American Pe- |troleum and other leaders of the oil ‘group which resulted in losses &tend- ing to from two to nearly four points. | Paper, clothing, food, motor and | misgellancous industrial issues all were unable to hold their ground. | Losses of a point or more were com. | | mon, and it must be said that the bulk of support seemed to come from that part of the short Interest who, because of the mark: strong tech- | nical position deem it prudent to convert a part of their paper profits into cash. Railroad shares again displayed al- most total disregard of the weakness shown by the rails. Most of the low priced non-dividend paying issuce| and a large number of the higher priced dividend paying shares were able to record fractional gains. The cotton market again showed @ ebarp declining tendency and losses extended to as much as #4 per bale. | Corn and wheat were steady, The foreign exchange markets were steady. Money renewed at 7 per cent. — TO-DAY'S PRICES LIBERTY BONDS. Liberty 31-28 opencd 90.68, up .18; Int 49, 87.20, off .80; Int 41-4, 88:10; 24, 87.58, up .16; 34, 89.06, up .08; 4th, Victory 38-48, 96.70, “up .06; 43-45, 95.70, CURB, Opened steady, Int. Retail Candy, 1—12; Boat, 11-~12; Simms Pet., 121-2--123. White Oil) 23 1-4--23 3-4; Asphalt, 53-44; Sweets Co. of Amer, 2-21-23; Carib., 41 1-2—12. Pet., FORBIGN EXCHANGE OPENING. Merling, demand, 3 cables, 9 8 nes, demand, .0672; ca- bles, .0679% lire, demand, .0619; “ca- bles, .0420; Belgium francs, demand, 0708; cables, .0709; marks, demand, francs, guilders, 7 pesetas, cables, 1470; Sweden kroners, demand, .1995; cab‘es, .2005; Norway kroners, demand, .1430; ca: > 1440; Denmark kroners, de- mand, .1420; cables, 1430; Argentine pesos, demand, .8415; cables, .8435; Canadian dollars, 90.40, EARNINGS. American Smelting and Refining Company—Six months ending June 1920, surplus after Federal taxes and ull charges, $4,080,841, equal after preferred div dends to $3.14 « share ypooye uoultuo? —Qo0'REG‘09S «ON =U Against $2,149,159, or four cents a share fur same 1919 period. Southern Railway System—Lines east and west, third week in Septem- ber $4,312,430 ‘Increase $882,966 Maren — Lewe $107,442,003, increase $15,790,787, Mobile and Ohlo Ratlroad—Third week In September $412,709, Increase March 1 $9,816,048, there are many sceptics in the finan- | Co. Aare Bros, hate Coy hh, Caddo Cent Oil, P= LLit tle) 4444444 ” t+ © Con, Int-Cal, Minn Continental Candy, Cora Products, Crucible Steel. . Cuba Cano Siyese Cuba Cane Sug, pf, we FER 25 6 EF ES SHEE EF FE FRKKRE Del Lack & West... Delaware & Hudewo Deu & Rio Gr..... Den & Iie Ge ‘Dome Mines, Dul So Shore & Atl Kinomon Brant . Endicott Jouneton Brie. Kate 4. Piti¢+d i+ + + eee e Gat, WU & Wie, Generai Chem, General Bice, Geonral Motor General Motors Deb, Goodrich o FSET SE SEEK FHSS FERS Int Mer Marine Int Mee Mar nf Int Nickel Int Paper Inland O11 Tnvineiole O11. Kanes fo (Kelly Soring Lp lete +441 lee le denny Reniyro! | Keveome Tite Lowe's Ine Léctawanna Stee! Lee Itfooee & Tire | Laue Vater. | Lote Ine Voritiend Loate, & Nashvtite, Martin Parry... Marvell Motaw, . “4 * * “ att | - % a =2 my — mM m+ % 2 8% +. ™ % “ we +N 8% + 1% 4 * * * . “ 2% my — % 4+ % M6 + 6% 18% — % 13 + 1% on — % MM + 52% — 3% 81% in sHELEE acaag (WillyeOverland Willye-Overland of, White Motor Wileon Co. Worthington 0 —$—_—— STREET CAR CO. ; FIGHTS TO LOSE Opposes Effort to Shut Off Traffi¢ on Section That Does Not Pay. “This 1s a novel situation—it ts the first time I ever heard of a railway company objecting to an opportunity to suspend service on @ part of its line that does not pay,” sald Deputy Public Service Commissioner Halley to-day to counsel for the Ninth Avenue Railroad Company, The company opposed the efforts of the Washington Street and Greenwich merohants to have the trol- ley cars In those streets cease apora- tion below Canal Street from midnight until 6 o’clgsk in the morning. At the inktigation of the Downtown League a public hearing was held on the question. Dr. Darlington, former Health Commissioner, testified that in the interests of food shipments and movements of necessities of life to ont- of-town points, the triley cars whieh he said carried no more than two or three passengers every twenty minutes In the early hours of the morning shyuid be turned back at Canal Street in the Interests of expeditious sbipinents of produce, Decision DIES IN AMBULANCE AFTER A HARD FIGHT Charles Warren, the Other Party as reserved, venue Railway System— August | gross $1,108,362, 978,928; balance after tax $116,649, de. se $47,825; deficit after charge: $47,878; two months’ re: , increase $218,747; bal- ance after tixes $291,152, decrease | $74,964; deficit after charges $118,047, inorease $72,735, DIVIDENDS, The American Ice Company 4 clared the regular quarterly 1 1-2 per © preferred dividend payable Oct," 25 to stock of record Oct, 11, The E. W. Bilis» Company | de- clared the regular quarterly divi- cents and an extra dividend of % are on the eom- mon stock same as three months and the regular quarterly divi of $1 on the preferred stock? ssot' he Sept. , © stock of to Combat, Says James Carroll Attacked Him. When ‘TraMc Cop John Quell of Brooklyn was called at noon to-day from his post at De Kalb Avenue and Clinton Place the screams of women directed his steps to the second floor of a tenement house at No. 90 Clifton Place, where he found Charles Warren, @ shoemaker, on top of James Carroll Pummeling him with his fs An ambulance carried Carroll to the Fland Street Hospital where a doctor pronounced him dead, Warren sald that hi on his way home to id Carrol attacked him at of the stairs, They fought wh over the hall until the tenant noatly women, ran from their apar' And notified the po: harged with homt- medical SUE ON CLAIM PAID IN ENGLISH POUNDS Taylor, Clapp & Beall, manufactur- ers, of No. 105 Worth Street, to-day |brough suit in Supreme Court against Osborn & Co., insurance brokers, of to recover $13,059, claim, is their loss suffered on $51,458 of marine insurance, ‘The plaintiffs say this insurance was placed with the British marine in- surers Now 15, 1918, and that the reoment called for the payment, in case of loss, of a specified number of | English pounds sterling, which were | expreased in the contract in a spect- ; Med number of Amertcan doliars, The shippers contend that, with the rapid falling off of the English pound, the American dollar should have governed in determining the amount to be paid. The insured cargo was lost on the schooner J. EB. Dublgnon, en route for Buenos Ayres, Tho claim was pald in the depreciated ound. —— CAR THIEF HELD FOR KILLING When Zola Goldfarb, the chauffeur who, after stealing a motor car from in front of thy New York Wacht Club, ran into a crowd at he Hippodrome and knooted down and killed Louls Murphy, was arraigned . to-day before Judge Wadhams in General Sessions to plead to indictments charging him with manslaughter and grand larceny, th» court sald: “This young man should have been indicted for murder in the firat degree. He killed a man while in the commis. sion of @ felony, the theft of a motot District Attorne: who presented the case to the Grand Jury, explained that he had sought such an indictment, but that the jury dectined to find tt owing to sympathy for the prisoner, who is only nineteen old. \dfarb pleaded not guilty and was remanded. — FIRE REVEALS ALCOHOL. Investigation of a fire which started shortly after midnight to-day in @ butiding at No. 42 Grand Street, Brook- brought to light a number of bot~ of liquor on the secgnd floor, ac- reofficials’ who was slight and Marro, lyn cording to police ‘and i inveatfrated:> The fire it out. “Sin the yard at the rear of the build it was said, there was a truck containing a barrel of alcohol. The federal authorities wil investiqute, A till io suspected in the . Willy be plans ‘wedding. CHAPTER VIL. ANAGED the way 1 shall manage it, there'll be no @iMficulty. My, and Mrs. ‘the vestry after they've signed thelr fuunes, and—iose themselves, No reason why they should ever be aa- 6 (Continued) jank will walk out of | Soctated with Mr. and Mrs, Nelson Pa Smith. Do you much mind all these | complications?” | “Not If they're necessary to save you from danger,” the girl answered. “By Jove, you're a trump! But I haven't come to the big favor yet. Now for it! When 1 write my real name in the register I don’t want you to look. Ia that the one thing too much?" Annesley tried not to flinch under his eyes, Yet—he had put her to a severe test. Last night, when he said that it would be better for her not to know his name she had quietly agreed, but there wag the widest difference between then and now. At that time they had been strangers ‘flung to- gether by a wave of fate which, it seemed, might tear them apart at any ifetant. In few hours all was changed. They belonged to each other, This man’s name would be her name, yet he wished her to be ignorant of it! If the girl had not thought of him | truly as her knight, if she had not been determined to trust him, the “Dig favor” would indeed have been too big. - Despite her trust and the romaiitc, new-born love in her heart, she was unable to answer for a moment. Her breath was snatched , but as she struggled to regain it to speak, a , bleak picture of the ture without | him rose before her eyes. She could not give him up and go on living, after the glimpse he had shown her of what life might be! |_ “No, not too much,” she said, slowly. “It's only part of the trust | I've promised to—my knight. He gave a sigh of relief. “Thank you—and my lucky star for the prize you are!” he exciaimed.. Some men would have offered their thanks to God, or to Héaven. Annesley noticed that he praised his “star. The moment the Monarchic's name was brought up she remembered read- ing & newspaper paragraph about the | last voyage of that great ship from | New York to Liverpool. Fortunately ‘or unfortunately, her recollection of the paragraph was nebulous, for when she read news aloud to her mistress she permitted her mind to wander, unless the subject happened to be in. jteresting. She tried to keep up a vaguely intelligent knowledge of world politics, but small events and blatant sensations, such as murders, burglaries and society divorces, she quickly erased from her brain, Something dramatic had occurred on the Monarchic. Her subconscious self recalled that. But it was hess than a month ago that she had read the paragraph, therefore the sensa- tion, whatever it was, must have hap- pened when Knight and the Countess de Santiago were on board, coining to England, and she could easily learn what it was by inquiring. Not for the world, however, would he question her lover, to whom the | subject of the trip was evidently dis- | tasteful. Still less would she ask the Countess behind his back. There was another way in which she could find out, a sly voice seemed to whisper in Annesley's ear. She could get old numbers of the Morn- ing Post, the only newspaper that entered Mra. Ellsworth search for the paragraph, course she would not by trick so mean, She woifld not try to unearth one fact concerning her Knight—his name, his past, or any circumstances surrounding him, even though by stretching out her hand she could reach the key to his secret. He talked of things which at an- other time would have palpitated with interest; their wedding, moon, thelr homecomini ley responded absent-mindedness, It was the best she could do, until the effect of the “biggest favor” and the doubts it raised were blurred by new sensa. tions. She would not have been a ormal woman if the shopping excur- sion planned by Knight had not swept her off her feet ‘The man with Fortunatus’ purse seemed bent on trying to empty It— temporarily—for her efit: if she had been sent out alone to buy every- thing she hed ever wanted, with no regard to expense, Annesley Grayle would not ‘have spent a fifth of the sum, he flung away on evening gowns, street’ gowns, boudoir gowns, hat jhigh-hecled paste-buckled slippers, a gold-fitted dressing-bag, an ermine wrap, a fur-lined moter coat, and more suede gloves and silk stockings than could be used (it seemed to th |girl) in the next ten years. "He begged for the privilege of i*helping choose," not because he didn’t trust her taste, but because he ‘feared she might be economical; and | during the whole day in Bond Street Regent Street, Oxford. Street, and Knightsbridge she was given only an hour to herself, That hour she was expected to pass, and did pass, tf pro- viding herself with all sorts of intl- mate daintiness of nainsook, lace and ribbon, too sacred even for a lover's *yend Knight spent the time of his absence from her upon an errand which he did not explain. MN tell you what I did—and show you—to-morrow when I come to wish you good morning,” he said. "Unless you're going to be conventional and Tefuse to see me till we ‘meet at the altar, as the sentimental writers say 1. think I've heard tho the smart thing. But I hope it won't be your way. If I didn't see you from now till to-morrow afternodn I should be afraid I'd lost you forever. ‘Annesley felt the same about him, and told him so, They dined together, but not at the Savoy. The Countess’s ‘name was not mentioned, yet Annes ley guessed it was becaiise of her that Knight proposed an Italian res | varere ‘soni itey ber tata ner Hance. Meh Tonle (aay wilt an older Wome, ® hen be left her at ‘last at the dood of her own hotel everything was settled for Une wedding day and aften Knight was to produce two fri both men, to one of whom must the fatherly duty of giving the bride away, He sugges their upon her in the morning, white Was with her at the Bavoy, in that they might not meet as etran- gers at the church, and the &j thought this a wise idea. t a half hour together," As for the honeymoon, if she had a choice, waey Pans of or would she a trip to rare ting back to London goon finding a house and beginning ife chore maid she would ii! eal “We might stay at maybe you'll have a glimpne haye a place near by called Vall ‘We'll go to Sidmouth,’ he said. / packing ber new things in her new Nelson Smith had arrived. The gint to show her on the morning of come alone. h ‘hen Dr. Torrance and Marchese di Moreilo may turn fesred to knowing little of outside London, and asked Would sabe 1! to have a Week or so in some county like Devonshire : or the Riviera? it was all one he assured her; only he had set bi heart on they meant to live ‘Annes Devonshire, Sha ke to show it to Knight. think you'll love It,” places I used to adore when I was @ child, And if we get to Sidmouti those cousins you were talking about, the Annesiey-Setons. I believe th House; but I don't know whi they live there or let {1 Next morning at 11 o'clock, Annesley had been up for two hourm trunks and the gorgeous new 4 Ing bag, she wi S°intormed that Me, had forgotten that Knight had hinted at something to tell and something marriage day, and expected to fi his two friends with him; but he bad “We've said. any minute. Torrance is an ‘eldeel man, @ decent sort of ~~ a deadly respectable. He'll heavy father well enough. Paolo Morello is an Italian. [ don't care foe hii but the troublesome bi about my name {js a handicap. . “L can trust these men. And af least they won't put you to shame, You can sodas them when they coma, #0 enough talk about them for thé ‘This is my excuse for and he put Into An: hand a flat, oval-shaped parcel. wedding gift to my beige: he a in a softer tone. “Open it, sweet.” Even the gold was different from other gold, the little that was visible, for the square-cut stone, of pale, solntillating blue, was surrounded by a frame of tiny brilliants encrusting the rim as far as could be seen om the back of the hand when the ring was worn, “A sapphire!” Annesley exclaimed, “My favorite stone. Yet I never saw & sapphire like it before, It's wone dertul—brighter than @ diamond.” 4 it is a diamond,” sald Knight, *& blue diamond, and considered remarke able. It's what your friend Ruthves Smith would cail a ‘museum piece’ if you showed it to him. But mustn't. He'd move heaven earth to get it! Nobody must see it but you and me. It wouldn't be safe It's too valuable. And if you were known to have it you'd be in from all the jewel thieves in Bui and , America, You wouldn't lke ‘No; {t would be horrible!" Annes ley shuddered, “But what @ pity must be hidden. Is it yours?” “It's yours at present,” sald Knight, if you'll keep it to yourself and at it only when you and I are ogether, I can’t give it to you, cisely, to have and hold (as I shall give you myself in a few hours), bes cause this ring is more @ trust than & possession. Something may hag pen which will force me to ask you for it. But, again, it may not. anyhow, I want you to have the until that time comes. I've bor a thin gold chain, and you oo oe it round your neck, unlese—I think you're inclined to refuse?” The white paper wrapping fastened with small red seals. If t girl had knowledge of such things she would have known that It was @ Jeweller’s parcel. But the white, golds amped silk case within surprised ner, She pressed a tiny knob and cover flew up to show a etring pearls which made her gasp. “For the Princess, from her Knight,’ he sald, “And here"—he took the inner pocket of his coat @ of gold set with a big white di "ls your engagement rin, Bvery girl Must have one, you know, even if her engagement is the shortest record, I've the wedding rin But it isn't the time for that, good-sized diamond's the obvious of thing? advertises itself for what js as much as to my, ‘l was ei like everybody elsg’ But if there 4 not a reason against it, this ts wi I ghould like to put on your finge As*he spoke he hid the spark light in his other hand and from th pocket whence it had come produced another ring. If she had not seen this, Annesley weuld have exclaimed against the word “obvious” for the splendid brite liant as big as a small pea which Knight put aside carelessly, But the contrast, between the modern ri with its “solitaire” diamond and wohderful rival he gave it sile her. She was no judge of jewel and had never possessed any wort having, but she knew that this seo= ond ring was a rare as well aa @ beautiful antique. It looked worthy, she thought, of a real Princess. blue diamond th its scintillath frame was 60 alluring that ,Annesl could not refuse. She knew that she would have more pleasure in peept surreptitiously at the secret blue di mond than in seeing the “obvioug® white one on her finj “Tcan't give it up!” she sald, laughs ing. “But I hope it isn’t one of these dreadful historic stones which» have had murders committed for tt, Mk famous jewels one reads of. I shoul hate anything that came from you te bring bad luck. (Read To-Morrow’s Gripping Instale’ ment), f ! f