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et itis it teltccs arti iitid i if ed iit it Tat Ht . 2 $ {iff 2832 TERE i tt it fs be Teausksesdisesvaszetes¥i!si ss “_ ee Ves a E Bsee ittt iy FF 1857 (Before the Civi! War) 3000 to 5000 each Ip 1870: (S years after the Civil War) 15.000 0 5,000 each mee © © «=,0 @ 50,000 10 125,000 each on $200 to $12 to pay. nn al Send for bookmaps to “THE OUTSIDE MARKET—2.30 P, M. QUOTATIONS Lom, Last.) Boares, ALITTLE _ HISTORY distributing reservoir.| CENTRAL PARK, at 50th St. the site of the. Public Library. Sth to 6th Aves, fe 1847 Lots in this section sold at auction for §200 to $1200 each TODAY they are worth . $100,000 to $350,000 each bre present distributing (Hill View Van Cortlandt Park was opened to the Public in 1889. i Between the Hill View Reservoir and “me Van Cortlandt Park there are about 1250 Lots ““ll Wile are going to sell 741 of these at auction next } terms. They will probably sell WHAT WILL THEY BE WORTH IN THE FUTURE? jj) GO BUY A FEW LOTS! 741 LOTS and one dwelling Between Van Cortlandt Park and Hill View McLean Avenue; Van Cortlandt Park North; Van Cortlandt Park East; and other Aves. and Sts. adjacent to East 242nd St. To be sold at ABSOLUTE Auction Sat., Oct. 9th, 12 M., on the property Ang Mon., Oct. 1 1 th atta tstate Exeiinge, 14 Vesey 5. By order of the United States Trust Co. of N. Y., * Trustes under the will of David H. King, Jr., Deceased 80% can remain on mortgage Savings Bank Books taken as deposit on the purchase of lots, J. CLARENCE DAVIES, 149th St. & 3d Ave. APPLETON, PERRIN & HOYT, 59 Wall Street Attornaye | | 1000 “Knox Divide . | 1000 fan Toy........ 1000 "liver King Divide, 400 Bimon Silver Lead. 400 8 Sliver Lend. wat ory Liberty Ist 41-49 opened $9.40, off 10; 2d 14s, $8.90, up 40; 3d 41-40, ry 4th 41-40, 88.80, up .30; Up 04; 48-40, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, Sterling demand $3.48 1-2, cables $3.49 1-4. Francy demand .0064, cables 0669, Lire demand .0411, cables .0412, Belgian francs demand .0705, cables 0706, Marks demand .0163 1-2, cavies 0164 1-2, Swiss francs deman: 160, cables .1606. Hind, guilders demand 3106, cables 2115, Spain pesetas mand .1465, cables .1470. Sweden kr. demand .199, cables .2000, Norway kr. demand .1400, cables 1410. Den- mark kr, demand | ous te NOTES, Stock Exchange Electrical Supply Company 40,000 ad. ditional shares of no par value. sg to~ Atatiiaga MS. uf. Atlaotie Comat tne, Al Gl & WI Baking Yat, Barrett Co, Beth, Mowry 6... Beth, div B. Wty W'kiyn Uniew Com Wutieriae Co, Ouitky Cont Ou, Chile Cope Uuine Copper ot ‘Cluett Peabady oi, Corn Products... | Com Products pt. . Application has been made to tho Cmchte diet . to lst Manhattan Ose Cane ugar: Ot Det De is Dew & tio Ce Den & Blo Gr of. Dome Mines . D do @h & Af Bikhom > Coal Kadicottdoha Brie ¢ rie | Ramos Wlayem .. Fink itutber 2% 1% | 1200 MeManare .. r 10% “Yom | 1800 Menemare Crescent. Poly vend 12 18 | 2700 Marsh Min bd Uprordy Gold ™ 4 1400 *Motheriode . OF Alanan Javea... 43% 45% | 200 Mother Lode new 5% Alls, Chane... | 3 Am, Agri, Chem. Am. Hert Sugar 4 4 | 12600 May Verde, is wu 8M te Gesiny cnr & Fou ‘Suurma tra Drug ynd Wide “& Leath Mi & ime ot later Corp im ite Safety Rasoe 14 iy Am Mm & Co Cor “Am Bele het 9 6 Am Be & Ret of Stool Foundries 3 in Lae, & Ohio, Hap, Trae. Cand. & Scuthern, Cam Ne, & itea, Cone, Cigar Com, Consol Cae Co Cane Sagar pt | Outen Am Spear *Con. ‘Textile Corp. Gaw.. & Hot ant. Froeport Texas TO THE Public in 1859. THE SECTION between the. RESERVOIR AND the Par CONTA: about 1250 lots. A great residential. | Int Int Int ) Reservoir was opened to the Public in 1917. each, or whatever you choose |} of Reservoir; on lowed. eprsiann summoned from Broad Street for whatever they will byii RAYED trom ae Frompest Place, rookiyn, NO 1 way ; PE | sewn sams dni ike eat oct't4| FIRST PROSECUTION | atsqns en's oi Titles Insured Free Lawyers Title & Trust Co, JOSEPH P. DAY, 67 Liberty Street Agents and Auctioneers Gaston nora "Chose Gen. Dee “Geowal Motors | "Gen, Motors uf. | Goodriot ai Great Nor Ky of... | ee oe leland O11 . Tavinsible OF. Kenan Chis Bo... Keuly Sunnstioks . be FALLING PLANK HIT WOMAN IN AUTO Mrs. May Kradch, Injured While Riding, Taken to Hospital With Fractured Skull, Mrs. May Kradch, thirty yea: ington Wik & Wie Greene Cananee |, | Matt de Backer Howson OW»... } iramots Cont Tmwiration Cowper, | tuterbore Con. | teu Con pt . inter Agr Corp. Harvester: Iut Mor Marine ,. Int Mer Marine of. Nickel Payer No. 610 We | struck'on the head by a falling plank when passing No, 301 Seventh Avenue ‘in an automobile to-day, She was removed to the New York Hospital with a fractured skull, FURNISHED ROOMS WANTED. eee yaar ware for Thivtanas, lace. rs LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS, Seo VHELAN—Suddonly, » 4, MARY PHELAN (ne Foyle), beloved wife of Nicholas of Ballenakill, Queens County, Funeral from roadway, en Wednesday, et St. Mary's Church at 10 A. torment St, Mary’ 2% hed room with bath 2 \ U% + 1% | Lee Rab & Tim... 4% + 4% | Ledien Valley o% 19% ae 3 16 ie . : me 1% + 2%) Mo Ken & Ter 6% 4% O14 + 1% | Mo Pee. + 4% 80 0% Montana Power.... OT = @® tos + |MMdle Stam OF., 16 15% ony Masai Sgn ..., O11 Mt 190% + 2% | Natlonsl Aine a TH% + i |Natlonai Aniline , on rv % “~ oo & 11% Me ” * J 2 2 me a 25% Jol ry ” Pa S333 sata? . s§nege 2 PEt] reeniiny A | oF % oso —% @ +1 won + % +14! na + w! mK — 4) S244) e+ 4! eee +14! * ee i z 3 | Unten OU . “United Alloy .. $+ United Camm ..... 270 “| United Drug im 19% Over Allowance for Is Asked. old, was it 176th Street, $4768,961 given him for 1920, ploy: salaries. plan calling for $761,476 yaree add infaat ‘care Hotel at seeerees UNDER RENT LAWS at Yonkers, N.Y. her Inte residence, Oct. High mass of requiem in Apartment. Cemetery. inaugurated Heights Police Court 608 Woet 177th Street, Aeddon charges that Frank Schaeffler, Wie landlord, has refused to provide tel phono service as per agreement, Bohaef- # held In $36 ball for trial in the Zearein, Beasionsy, fer ce of Bpectal % m+ 4 = 2% + + + a 16% + % steel products probably would be re- Of man power, due to the continued 232: eeeee Bas 335 Hi tll tleeeeeey] Letel eee Lieeee tere tieed rite +eet leer eigts Lilleetetes el t+ tte wuss NEARLY 9 MILLIONS FOR CITY’S HEALTH Increase of More Than $4,000,000 1920 Health Commissioner Royal 8. Cope- land asks $8,621,027.23 with which to run his department next year as against ‘The largest item of increase is $1,612,- 140, to be apptied to increasing em- Dr, Copeland also includes in his ten- tative budget @ pay-as-you-go bullding| Jo ‘These two items, if the committee fol- lows the policy adopted in similar 4 partmental demands, will not be ai ‘Landlord Held for Trial for Failure to Provide Phone Service ‘The first prosecution of « landiont for violation of the rent laws passed by the special seasion of the Legisiature was to-day ‘Washington Magistrate | Bernard J, Douras by Arthur @eddon, @ tonant in the apartment at Now 608- veh nA i LRA Atlee DAS ¥ ’ During the carly part of to-day's stock market ression there was re- sumption of short covering by traders who have built up large paper profits during the recent. sustained down- ward movement, an@ prices of most issues recorded gains ranging from substantial fractions to more than 2 points, When this short covering movement ended, however, the mar- ket again displayed a more or less unsettied ‘tendency owing to the fail- 24 Ure of outside buying th develop. “ While the forward movement was in progress most strength was shown TMH by the ate! shares, Becnuwe of gen.’ citles. 64 @rAl expectations that the price of | duced im the not distant future the steel shares have been singled out for j attack by various bear cliques, With the possible exception of the motors they have held a larger short Interest than any other group of stocks. The statement issued by Judge Gary yeo- terday has created considerable doubt as to whether steel prices will be ma- tertally reduced after all, and bear groupe have considered it a propitious time to convert at least a part of thetr paper profits into cash. U. 8. Steel at one timé\ was up nearly a point compared with the close of last night, and Crucible and other inde- 1 pendents were up from one to more than two points, In the miscellaneous industrial it most strength was shown by \United Food Products, which rose nearly three pointe, and by American Luter- national, The equipment shares were strong, while Consolidated Gas and Peopie'a Gas were in greatly im- proved demand, Alulur shares were Inclined to heavi- hess. The opinion will not down that the companies that have refused to reduce prices will be forced to do av in order to stimulate demand. Rails were decidedly irregular. Profit taking was in evidence in | priced non-dividend paying shares that have recently enjoyed a substan- Ual rise, and with the exception of Atchison, St. Paul, New York Cen- tral and ‘Southern Pueific, moat price chances were downward but were limited to fractions. One of the faciors making for speca- lative caution was the fear that money rates may again become pyrotechnic should any attempt be made to litt market prices at this time, The char- acter of the bank statements issued last Saturday are still borne in mind, the manner in which rates are bove 7 per cent. euch succeeding day is not liked. Then con- sideration is being given the immense amount of new financing that plans are being made for. It is estimated that the note and bond issues that will be offered on the market before the &| end of the year will total from $500,- 000,000 to $60,000,000, In early trading to-day corn and wheat markets also gave evidence of short covering and displayed a steady The cotton market recorded from ten to thirty foreign exchange mar- jeady. HARRIMAN NEPHEW ACCUSES HIS WIFE Sued for Separation, William Budd Says Chorus Girl Induced Him to Wed by Fraud. _ William Hardehberg Budd, a mov- ing pleture actor and a nephew of Frederick P. Harriman, a director of the Guaranty Trust Company, filed to-day in the County Clerk's office at White Plains an aMdavit in reply to his wifo's suit for separation. Mrs. olet Adeline Brooks Budd asked the Supreme Court lest week for $75 weekly alimony. Mr, Budd, who lives with his grand- mother, Mrs, Frederick Harriman at! No, 81 Park Avenue, Yonkers, swears | that he married Mrs. Budd while he was playing In Chicago in “The Lady in Red,” in which she was a choras! girl, He states that she misrepre- | sented her condition to him and that| he married her for the sake of her unborn child. Later, he adds, he jearned that she had practised fraud upon him in inducing him to marry her, ‘The case will be heard to-morrow by Justice J. Addington Young of the Supreme Court, esee & steeds” 1 Feereseceerce serces Fe2# se ve * Seceerseces” #Faieas vets re Aa LAWYER DIES AT DESK. Bleed Clot Heart Valve Selig B. Neobe: Selig B. Neuburger, forty-two years old, @ law meainiber of the legal Arm of nd Neuburger, No, 116 Broad- seated at his ‘k shortly after noon to-day, Death wes caused by @ clot of blood on the heart valve, according to an ambulance het He ie, son and dau te ehter, by hi —— LATE JAMAICA RESULT. RACE For, twe-vear-oldas 008; five and « hal Fresoee, AS polling? puree, Of funk moeeea 2 (Kum- atal to|! 8 apt 2920, Oe ale A te it ei | A. TROOPS IN RUSS ~ RUSHED TO SCENE ian Fronts Greatly . Weaken Lenine. LONDON, Oct. 6.—More anti- Soviet demonstrations have broken out in Russia, according to despatches to the Post to-day. ~ Adviees from Riga said there were riots tn Tam- boff, Saternoff and Kazan, necessitat- ing the sending of troops to those It is maid the Soviet Govern- ment is embarrassed by the shortage pounding of the enemy on the Polish and Ukrainian fronts. Leon Trotsky, head of the Russian War Department, ‘s trying to lash his em on, according to quotations from the Soviet paper Isvestia. An article signed by Trotsky eaid: “The army is weakened by a long campaign. The people are passive. Workmen and peasants must realizé that If the Red Army sustains an- other serious defeat the position of the Soviets will be catastrophi The Russian Soviet Government| hat readhed its most “extreme orisis,” | according to a correspondent ‘of the Manchester Guardian, recently in Moscow. ‘The correspondent said the Russian people were crying for peace at any price and that they were ready for | another Government, Riga, he said the only deterrent to a revolution was that the people realize | they have no other Government to which they can turn. ‘Transporta- tion would be upset with the change in Government and with no way of distributing food it was feared a terrible famine would result, GOV. STH STANDS. ON HS RECORD TO WIN RE-ELECTION (Continued.) no more milk from the farmer be- cause of their $100,000,000 overstocked canned milk supply, “The farmer is faced with a loss or selling his herds, The people are faced with the possibility of a @uid fhilk famine, Had there been some regulatory State body to handle the milk problem to-day such a state of affairs would have been obviated. ‘Some machinery would have been Put in motion that would have ab- sorbed the farmers’ output of dairy products, and the public would have been saved suffering. “The great bugaboo that was passed up to the farmer, at the time milk regulation was recommended, was that somebody was going to confiscate the property of the farmer, eat up his profits and put him out of business, This is too ridiculous even to discuss, In view of the throb- bing need of more food products and the great need of encouraging honest food producers. “So much for this question. “Perhaps even more important than this was the hoysing question, My Reconstruction Committee dealt with every phase of this question, This report was sent to the last regula: session of the Legislature. What happened? The Legislature spent half the time of the State In depriv- ing of their seats a body of men regularly and properly elocted to the Legislature, The housing question was not, settled—a vital element of the health and welfare of the Sta‘e, “I was unsatisfied and disappointed, and called a special seasion of the Legislature for the particular purpose of giving relief to the thousands of people who, as tenants, suffered be- cause of woful laxity on the part of the reactionary Legislators. “The educational programme that | forwarded in the short time of office, rest opponents to question, of $11,000,000 ap- prepriation in 1918, I had the pleasure of aligning an educational appropria- . in 1920, of $40,000,000, % appropriation e. The con- achoola 1s of paramount importance, and these schools cannot rise above the stand- ards and qualifications for the teach- ing service with the efficiency which must be maintained. _ duct of our common FISHER ESTATE 1$ $200,000. ™ eft $10,000 te Clerk Rest to Family, Yonke Wiring from /Smith waa saying about jewels and ;Constance were playing host and| |new chef, and they could safely be SECON CN.GA . (Coprriaht, 1990, by C. R, CHAPTER XI. (Con aued. ) SMITH was on the point of shrinking intq him- self, As was his wont If any personal topte of conversation came up, whe tt flashed into his mind that here was an opportunity. | If he did not take It, so easy a one! might not occur again, He braced himself for a supreme effort, | “Oh, yes, yes, I was robbed,” he! admitted. “A gerious\ loss! Some fine pearls I had been buying—not for myself, but for the Van Vrecks. I seldom collect valuables fof myself. I only wish these things had been mine. I should not have that sense of being an unfaithful servant— | though 1 did my ben “Of course you did, wright soothed him, f it's the same Lady Cart-! “But these | as we) “As for the police, they seem to be nowhet I haven't guffered yet, but each morning when 1 wake up, rything as Not that it wouldn't seem as even if the gang had pald us a visit and made a clean sweep of our Poor possessions, They appear to be, able to leak through keyholes, as nothing in the houses they go to te fever disturbed.” nyhow, they have latchkey retorted Ruthven Smith, with what ‘for him might be considered gayety | without Jetting Ruthven 8m of manner. “The thief or thieves who | elleved me of my pearie—or rather, my employer's pearis—apparently walked in as a member of the house- | hold might have done.” | Among those who had involuntarily suspended talk to hear what Ruthven | Jewel thieves was Annesley, Thou the party would never have been but for Knight and herself, Dick and hostess with all the outward respon- sibility of those Lord Annes- ley-Seton had a duchess on his right, @ countess on his left; Lady Annes. ley-Seton was fenced in by the duke and the count pertaining to these ladies; Mra. Nelson Smith sat be- tween two less important men, who, liked the dinner provided by th American miilionaire’s miraculous neglected for a moment Annesley felt that Ruthven Smith was, in a way, her special quest, and she was anxious that he should not | de the fallure Knight had prophesied. She wanted him not to regret that} he had flung himselfson the tender mercies of this smart house party, | and almost equally #he wanted hi two neighbors not to be bored by him. Knight would hate that. He attached so mucn importance to amusing the people whom he Invited! She lstened and thought that Mr. Ruthven Smith and Lady Cartwright! seemed to have begun well. Then, as she turned to Lady Cartwright's handsome husband (the Duchess of Peebles was talking to Dick Annes- ley-Seton just then), word “latchkey. It seized her attention, She knew they were speaking of the burglary at Mrs. Elleworth's house, She heard Ruthven Smith go on to explain in his high-pitched voice that the two woman servants had been suspected t that thelr characters had “emerged stainless” from the exam- nation. “Besides,” he continued, “neither of them had a latchkey to give to any outside person, The two women slept together In one room. At the time of the robbery there was no butler"—— Annesley heard no more. Sud- denly the door of her spirit seemed close. She was shut up within rself, listening to some vole there, What became of your latchkey? it asked. Her thoughts concentrated violant- ly upon the key. bors spoken she would not have heard but they did not speak, free to let her thoughts run where they chose, They ran back to the first night of her meeting with Nel son Smith, and her arriyal with him At the house .n Torrington Square. She recalled, as if it were a moment ago, putting the key into his hand, whjph had been warm and steady, deapite the danger he was in, while hers had been trembling and cold. said to herself that she must ask Knight, as soon ag they were alone together, what he had done wth the key, whether he had left & in the house or flung it away. Suddenly, while Annesley listened to Ruthven Smith, she became con- scious that, as he talked to Lady Cartwright, his eyes had turned to peo atrong was the call from Ruth- ven Smith's eyes to Annesley'’s eyes that she was forced to look up. § had been sure that she would meet his gage fixed upon her, > it was, He was ataring acros: At her, with a curious expression on his long, hate’ fa CHAPTER XU, t he z, = BRLEY could not read the look, Yet she felt that it might be read, if her soul and body had not been wrenched apart, and hastily flung together again, upside down, it seemed, with her brain where her heart had been, and vice versa. () IDPS IRCIFIKIEW LLIAMSON. and A M. Willemsen.) preasion, And stfil Ruthven Smit® Deered through his ¢: ‘The girl was appalled. What been put into the jewel expert's What precisely had he come to ley House to do ie hae come mond!” the answer brain. Madaiena de Santings’e eves ae piercing as they She might have noticed the wite wore ? to find the o blue die~ eu diamond was hidden at the chain;: yet she could not know for certain, becatiee, Knight would never" ve told her that. \ Therefore it followed that neither could Ruthven Smith know for ger- tain. He meant to find out, and ff he did find out, Knight would be pun= {shed far more severely he jserved for buying # thing ill come by. “1 will save him again,” Annesley resolved, But how? What. might she expect to happen? And whatever it was, how could she prevent It happening? Picture after picture grew faded in her mind. She saw e-, men coming to the house; she saw Ruthven Smith demanding that che and Knight be searched, and ar’ rested if the diamond were found. Something must be done. That thing was to unfasten the clasp of the chain, slip off the ring with the blue diamond, substitute nother ring, fasten the chain again 4 replace it inside ber dress, all th aeroes the table, or her neighbors, suspect what was being done. ‘ The new rings were all beautiful, a The big each unique tn tte way, white diamond of hi engagemen ring was the least original of her pes: sessions, To-night, In addition to’ that and her ding ring, ahe wore on left hand @ grayish star sap~ phire of oval sha curtously sed with four small diamonds, white ones, at top and bottom, pale pink and yel~ low &t the sides. This ring was for her and as ehe wore it above the engagement ring the stones easily slipped round toward the palm. The dark blue scarab on her right band Ruthven might have . but she was hopeful that the star sapphire had ea#cape his notice. e She took it off and laid it im bep, lap, ready. 1 ler dress of white charmeuse, em~ droidered with violets, was front under @ folded and crossed fichu of “shadow” lace and a bunch of real violets held on by an old, Saar brooch. lagewr hee J Heri tod she played at eating punch a = maine, while with her Itt hand abe cont: to undo three or four hooks from r delicately worked eyele! Then, slipping two fingers into perture, she tore open her lace an- rhodice. 3 This accomplished, she felt the rag it ahe dared of the blue diamond; bu not break the chain, as she easily have done. If Ruthven Smith were planning some trick by which to obtain a glimpse of ring and chain, the latter must be intact. ~ + Pinching the chain between thumb and finger patiently, persistently and very cautiously, she pulled it al until she touched the tiny clasp. she did this she glanced down at the lace of her fichu now and then to ake sure that she did not draw the, thin line of gold soytightly across neck flat it became visible in mov! At last she had ‘the clasp in her hand. Pressed upon sharply, it opened, and the ring: with the biue diamond fell into her palm. She pushed it inside her frock as far down her fingers would reach and slid the star sapphire ring onto the chain before fastening the clasp again. She was shivering still as if with cold, and her hands trembled so that she could hardly put the hooks of her dress into thelr eyelets. But somehow she did at last, and was eure that mo. one had neen. 4 More than one course had come and gone before her stealthy task was fin- ished, and three or four minutes after the last hook decided to bite Con- looked” at the Duchess of Every one arose, and, as An- 4 feared, Ruthven Smith fol- lowed the ladies out of the great din- ing hall, The iadies went to a drawing room by themselves, but soon the men came into the room, Ruthven Smith's ‘They had been deserted by t! hardly ten minute: nesley felt sure that Knight contrived to hurry the others. He, too, had guessed why Ruthven Smith gone oul of the dining hall with the women. Perhaps he also had « plan! He came straight to his wite, who: was stending with Lady Cartwright, Not far off was Ruthven Smith, still with his eyeglasses on. was hovering with a nervous air in front of @ cabinet full of beautiful things, n he scarcely glanced. Her mind grew clear. After @ pawee no longer than the drawing of @ breath she was ready to rise to tl situation Knight had created. In fact ty for him and herself, & realistic surprise for Ruthven Smith. But the latter, ren- dered ve to act through fear of' loas, was too quick for her, “T beg you pardon! Before you go may I have the pleasure of a pearep Could her blue diamond be the fa- mous diamond, wbout which .he Jowel expert was telling Lady Cart- wright? A horrible sensation’ over- came the girl, She felt her blood growing cold, and oozing so slug- lgishly through her veins that she could count the drops—irip, drip, ‘The will of Louls G Misher of Yon- kere wi ‘The estate {» oatimated at upwards of $200,000, The will is dated Nov, 12, 1918, By ite terms this clork, Jule Rothelm, wil receive $10,000, His two sisters, Misa Wilon and Misa Cornelia will reoetve delance of tho widow, Mra, Ann! named as exooutrix, eee te “atipatated that the body ts to be oremated, iy ve ‘omer eee tee ee LAUREL WINNERS. meT RACE —Two-; nda} ive . 1.00 1-8. Chow » Tige, Tosca, Kinetic, Devil ‘Goorge ales ran, Preme Court WASHINGTON, Oot, B.—Anti-suftra~ gists to-day carried thelr fight against the Weman Suffrage Amendment to the United states Supreme Court and an- nounced that effort would be made to wet a final decision In the vontroversy | before the November elections, drip! She hoped that she had not ‘turned ghastly pale. Above all things filed in White Plains to-day. she hoped that she was not going to covery of, his secret. ‘qaint! If she did that, Ruthven {Smith would think—-what would he not think? Annesley was forced to admit, much a# she loved Knight, that his daring, original nature might ente! and Intrigue 6 risks. felt sure that he could do nothing unsorupulous. But the deep #lgh that stirred her ouom stirred also the fine gold chain on which hung the blye diamond he had given her, her to woar it thus, and she had never forgotten his Instructions, And Ruthven Smith's eyes seemed to plerce the coyering that hid It, Moreover, her huahand stared as hough sonsing pomething wrong, | dais face wore @ tense, strained ox- 2 Knight Nad advised yp look at that beautiful enamel oft yours?” It was Annesley’s impulse to step ; back as without waiting for permis. sion the narow head, sleekly brushed | and slightly bald at the top, bent over her laces. self in time and stood still, not glance at Knight message of encou ehe knew that for once even his resource. fulness had failed, and that he must bo stecling himself to the brutal dis- | Yet even qhen she did not | what Ruthven Smith's plan was unti} |the thing had happened. He lat the brooch, which represented @ —— of oe in amall ca amethyste and leaves of en enamel, Adjusting his cyemiaseca, they ony from his nose and fell on the lace her fichu, “Oh, how awkward of me! thousand pardons!" he cried. Mak. ing @ nervous grab for the which hung from a chain, he sna her chain as well, ‘and with » quick jerk of seeming inadvertence wrenohed from ite warm hiding p) a ring wi bn flash iMante a glint of blue, bel (Read to-merrows thrill } ing Inetate i)