The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1922, Page 20

Ee: 20 — Market i\Sidelights By R. R. Batson. ‘With Wall Street diligently search- {ng around for factors prompting 80- called inside jnterests to purchase stocks on a large ecale, two hucely important developments are appar- ently being overlooked. One is the pronounced rise in foreign exchange rates and the other the rise in market Prices for wheat and corn. Foreign exchange operations are 30 complicated that comparatively few people have gained oan insight ‘nto their significance, But it may be stated that there are few factors hav- ing a more important effect on the business of the country than fluctua tions in exchange. For instance, demand sterling at Its Jow record point, established about two years ago, was quoted at $3.19. If an English merchant or manufac- turer desired to purchase goods In this country to an amount of say $405,000, two years ago it would have required 125,700 pounds sterling. To- day, it requires roughly enly 92,600 pounds sterling, Stated differently, whereas he could purchase only $819,- 000 in American goods two years 4go with 100,000 pounds jn English money, to-day he can purchase $432,000 of American manufactures or raw ma- terials. The low value of foreign money has cer.ainly hindered American foreign trade. With lim yrovement in thy value of foreign money. whic! means for- eign credit, foreign trade and busi- ness generally is bound to improve. This ts being reflected in the stock market. The advance in the market prices of farm products, and more particu- larly wheat and corn has done more to help the position of the farmer than the sponsors of the Agriculture) Conference ever dreamed of accom- plishing through the conference. From its low price wheat has risen 18 cents a bushel. Corn has gone ui YB vents a bushel When it is remembered that the wheat crop of 1921 amounted to ap- proximately 000,000 bushels and¢ that the corn crop xmounted to 3,159,- 000,000 bushels the significance of th advances In the prices of these prod- ucts may “e more readily understood Viewed in a broud way it has p tie case of wheat udded approximately $185,000,000 to the wealth of farmers and in the case of corn had added ap: proximately $160,000,000. a tota) of nearly $300,000,000. One of the muin reasons for the cur- rent appreciation in the price of change and the Curb Market Associa- | tion exercise their prerogative, and make a systematic examination of New York Stock Exchange proposes to do, it Is dificult to sec how bucket shops can long continue to exist. The prediction was made in this column recently that some of the Jarger systems would soon begin to place large orders for equipment. The Harriman lines have just ordered $12,000,000 of freight cars and locomo- tives and it {s known that other large carriers, including those in trunk line territory are preparing to place orders of approximately the same amount. When one examines the earnings statements of the Atchison, ample reason is found for the common styck selling near par a8 a 6 per cent. 4 vi- dend payer. Thanks to the fat stored up in joo) times, the Atchison has been able to weather the railroad depression in an impressive manner. With most railroad systems 1921 was @ disastrous yeur. Not so with this company. Out of every doiiar o* business handled the company wes utle to save 24 cents for net operat- ing income. This compured with 9.6 ceats in 1920, 22.3 cents in 1919 and 23.7 cents in 1918. Net operating income for *92% amounted to $54,451,000, compared with $24,339,000 in the previous year 12,255,000 In 1919 und $44,374,009 in #18, There is little wonder us to way Atchison has retained its reputation ar one of the premier railroad invest- ments, REVOLVER CHECKERS FLOURISH IN CHICAGO Between Crimes Ganmen Leave Their Weapons With Dis- creet Bartenders. CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—There are sa- loons in Chicago where checking revolvers for bandits and burglars ‘» the main source of mcome to the proprietors, according to statements of police officials, Judges, and of- ficers of civic organizations for the suppression of crime at a meeting here to-day. These clearing houses for re volvers have done more to keep up the present wave of crime in Chi- cago than any other thing, they said. The system of checking revolvers was decribed by Chief of Detectives flughes, who said that an {ntelll- gent criminal did not jeopardize bis treedom by carrying a revolver ex- copt when he Is out to commit a crime | Se eee DENIES THAT HYLAN SUPPRESSED LETTER B+ars Roebuck. Hurvester und st% ke of other companies whose business is largely confined to the agricultural communities, is that becuuse of che increase in the value of crops furn- ers ure uble to begin to pay off accounts due and these companies in turn are working into a more com- fortable financial] position. The way of the bucket shop man Is becoming increasingly hard with each succeeding day. Officials of the New York Stock Exchange have announced that they are determined to put them out of business. The Consolidated Stock Exchange states that It {s an- xious to co-operate to the full extent ia ridding the street of the ouchet shop evil. If the Consolidated Ex- Did Not See Rallroads’ te om Tannel Pl Saye Hulbert. Denial that Mayor Hylan sup- preased the letter from the Railroad Executives refusing to participate in the city plan for a Staten Island tun- nel was made yesterday by Acting Mayor Hulbert. It appeared from Mr. Hulbert's statement that five days after the let- ter had been received he was prepar- ing to make {ts contents public when he learned it had just been given out by E. H. Outerbridge, Chairman of the Port Authority. The letter was received on the eve of the Mayor's departure for Palm Beach but was not brought to the latter's attention, Mr. Hulbert said. BANKING AND FINANCIAL, a Eat BANKING AND FINANCIAL. the whol include: 2,500,000 acres 1,025,000 acres Besides these, there dance of possibilities Jones & Baker-“infc latest market news, informative booklets. in service rendered. 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Adama Beprene Adv Runwly Ady Rumely pf. Ajax Rub Ain Cah sesesseee Am Car & ary. ‘Am Cotton Oil Am Hide & Leath Am Hide & L pf. Ate Ice Am International. Am Am Sumatra fob, Am Tel & Tel Ani Tobacco Am Too cts Teo. Am Radiator ..+ Am Wool . Am W Paper pf. Asano Dry Atchison Ry Atl Const L Atl Guif @ WL. Atl Gulf & WI pf Baldwin Loco... Balti & Ohio Balt! & Ohio pt Beth Steel 8a. Leth Steel Bs. Wkiyn Rap Trans, Bklyn Rap T etfs Brown Shoo hurna Bros Cerro De Pasco Chandler Motors. Chea & Ohio. Chie & Alton Chic & N Weeeee Chile Copper Chino Copper -Coln o| & Southern Gaw & Elec.. lamblia Grapho Co Consol Textile ton Inter-Cal Min nt Insurance. Couden Oi! Corn Products Crucible Steel Cuba Cane Sugar Cuba Can Bug pt Cuban Amer Sug Davison Chemical De Beers Mining. Del & Hudson Del Lack & ¥ Dome Min Elkhorn Co: Endicott-John Erle Hee Ist pf. Fisk Rubber Freeport Texai General Asphalt, Gen Anphalt pf. General Goodrich Goodrich p: Granby Mining Gray & Dagyin.... Great Northern pf Great Nor Ore... Guan Sugar ..... Gulf States Steel. Houston O11 Hupp Motors Indiahoma Ret Inspiration Cop Int Cons Corp... Int Cons Corp pf Int Ag Corp pf.. Inter Paper Int Mer Marine.. Int Mer Mar pt Inter Nickel .... Invincible Ot. Inland On Iron Products Jones Tea... Kansan City So.. Kelly Springfield Kennecott Cop .. Keystone Tire Course Dinner $] Luncheon 50¢ Excellent Cooking and Service Chinese and American Dishes Special Menu After the Theatre Krei Fi -431 St Wt tat Lackawanna Steel 48 48 4k 4g Lee Rub & Tire. 28% 28% Km Dame Loft Inc. . 10% 10% 10m Man Shirt 40% 40 40% Martin Parry 2 MH *|Muth Alk Wks aL MeIntyre P Mines 2% Mex Petrol ...... ait Miam! Copper ... 64, Middle States Ol 13 Midvale Steel Petry Minn & Bt L .... 4 Me Kan & Tex 1 Mo Kan & Tex pf. Vir M> Pacific . ast Mo Pacific pt. ved Ment Ward per Mutlins Body . Cloak & Sult M% 48 oe Nevada Consol is N ¥ Airbrake Be N ¥ Central 70% NY,NH&H.. 18% 18% OPen, Norfolk Bouthern. 11% Norfolk & Weat, 100% Nerthern Paciflc,, 18% Okla P & Ro... Orpheum Cireuit . Owens Bottling Vac Dev Corp Veelfie Gan . Pacific Oi Pan-Am Petrol . Pan-Am Pet B . High. Pere Marquette . Phillips ‘trol Pierce Arrow. Pierce Arrow /pt Pond Crock Coal 14% Pressed Steel Car 66% Han Co .... 113% Tunte Aleg Bug . 87% ure OW. 35% Pierce Ol pt 63% Tall Bt Springs 08% Ray Copper Reading 3% Rep Iron & Bteel 53 Rep Ir & Bteel pf 64 Republic Motor . Royal Dutch N ¥ Bt L & Ban Fr. Pt L & Sweat .. et L & B'west pt Savage Arms ... Saxon Motors .. Reab'd A Line pt Seure-Roebuck Seneca Copper . Binclatr Oil Southern Pacific Southern Railway Southern Ry pf.. Stand Ol N J pt Studebaker . Bubmarine Boat Tex Gulf & Sulp. Tenn Cop & Chem Texns Texas & Tex & Pac Coal.. Third Avenue ... Tobaceo Products Tranacon Oil . Un Bag & Paper. Unton Ot ‘ Union Pacific ... C I Pipe pf.. 3 § Ind Alcohol. 1 8 Realty & Imp 8 Rubber ) S$ Rubber Ist pf 7 8 Steel . U 8 Bteel pf. Uta Copper Va Caro Chem! pf : B31, Winsconsin Central 26 264 Woolworth ...,... 131% 151% Woolworth pf... ITM 17% MT (Complete Stock Exchange and Curb Quotations Appear Daily 4m Wall Street Final Edition of The Evening World.) { WALL STREET GOSSIP | LIBERTY BONDS. Liberty 2d 41-48 opened at 96.04, up 1-8; Anglo-American, 18, up 1-8; Inter. Rubber, 10 5-8, off 1-4; Magma, 31, up 1-8; Lincoln Motors, 3 1-2. FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPENING. Sterling, demand, 4.33 1-4; cables, 4.33 3-4, up 1-2. mand, .08¢4 +0008 1-2. French francs, de- up cables, .0844 1-2, Lire, demand, .0478 cubles, .0474, up .0002, Belgian francs, demand, .08051.2; cables, -0806, up .0001. Marks, demand and cables, 0049 8-4, unchanged. Greek drachma, demand, .0450; cables, .6455, up .0003. Swiss francs, demand, »1955;. cables, .1957, off .0003. Guil- ders, demand, .3720; cables, .8725, up +0005, Pesetas, demand, .1543; cables, +1546, up .0006. Swedish kronen, de- mand, .2585; cables, .2690, up .0v12. Norwegian kronen, demand, .1625; cubles, .1630, up .0005.* Danish kro- nen, demand, .2037; cables, .2042, up -0002. a SWINDLED, SAYS OLD WOMAN Accuses Former Salv; ion Army Man of §2,144 Thert. William H. Copeland, seventy-five. a former Salvation Army worker, was accused yesterday of swindling Miss Maria Wall, seventy-elght, out of $2,144. Ho was held by Magistrate Brown tn the Adams Street Court In $2,500 bail for a hearing to-morrow. eH was arrested Saturday night at Jamestown, N, Y. Miss Wall lives at No, 154 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn. She said she signed Bank. She alleges she had given him $3,000, Copeland denied the charge. ieee 60TH ANNUAL CHARITY BALL WILL TAKE PLACE TO-NIGHT. ‘The 66th annual Charity Ball for the benefit of the Waldorf-Astoria, Originally was held In the Academy of Music on lath Street, and about twenty years ago it settled down at the Waldorf: ASQUITH TWISTS HIS KNEE. ; LONDON, Feb. 7.—Former Premier Asquith slipped last night and twisted his Knee. He will be unable to at- tend the opening of Parliament to- | morrow, \ * 4|Mina there was geography to study. % | | Tap, tap, tap, came a rap on the The Evening World’s Kiddie Klub Korner Copyright, 192: (Mew York Prening World) by Pree Pabtisiing Os. Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Woodland Wonder Tales By Cousin Eleanor ENA BRIGHTEYES was the first of the four Brighteyes children to wake. She put her head up over the top of their nest and looked out at the morn- Ing. “Oh,” she sald, very disappointed, “It's raining! “Is it? Meena asked in a doleful squeak, “That's mean," said Mina. i “It sure is," agreed Mo. Four such crestfallen squirrel children you never | did see, Their daddy, Billy Bright: | eyes, had promised that if it snowed he would let them off from lessons for the whole day so they could all go bobbing. i And now it was rainin “Where's Daddy?" first to i ‘ss him. “T don't know where he {i admitted. “Neither do na was the said Mina “Search me,"’ came from Mo. Then, “Hello, what's this? It's for you, Fena," said Mo, reading the name on the outside of an envelope. He handed | it to Kena, “Why here are some more; one for Meena, one for Mina and one for me." Mo was delighted. Nothing pleased him quite so much as a brand new unopened letter, ena, you go first,"’ said Mo and aad HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB. CUT OUT THIS COUPON. Boginung with any number, cut out sa of these coupons, 898, 899, 900, 901, 902" and 93, und'mall to Cousin Blea- nor, Evening World Kid- die’ Club, No. Park Row. New York Gity, with’ @ note, in which sive your NAME, AGE and Please be careful to mention hot only the city in which you live but the borough also. All children up to stateen years of may become members. Each member ie Dresented with a silver gray Klub Pin and nyembership certith COUPON 898. |their Daddy had left. Kena's contained stims to do. Vor | History tes for Meena to learn and ja long list of words that Mo must know how to spell before the day was done, Daddy Billy Brightey gone away and would not be until evening, “I wonder where he has gone to?" jsaid Mo, “To the city, do you sup- | pose ? “No, he could not go to the city and back in one day,"’ said Eena, “The city ts a long way from here," reminded them. M and wade in the river,’ ‘thought Tom. trunk of their hemlock tree. Four{+] don't see what harm there aan \Brighteyes ch oke y e . pi i ltopeot the aemmen looked over the} that.” Sc Tom and Tim went down \oiee Gratenenpreyt <, to th: river, took off their shoes and eS addy Gray! ome UP | stockings and waded out into the Granddaddy! Come up to see us," | water they sang out. “Would you have an old man climb] the siver, sows thele lite waite et the river, saw their little white fect | ; | Wabash ..... away up there to see you? Won't fl 0 wh | Wada oases * a four phy MUS Coase 1 ou vont | and she pulled them down with her. Wane BLA: 24 2 DOWN to wee wae Uke Sou. come} Tim und Tom were very much ufraid | 3 tee | ie ’ -| when they saw the big castle mude Weat Maryland .- 9% 94 |daddy? My Western Union . 80% Ina twinkling they were all gatn.| Of Sls and shells. ‘Tho Pixie did not | y Gath-| give th Weatlngholiee, 13% eink on te geeudd an 6 give them much time to look around, Wheeling & LE. 7% aaday: . around Grand-/ for she was very hungry, so she called Walle Meter “Tell us a story; tell us a story,” | Nem and said White OU. 3 us a story, Dy) yi : . t they ‘berged. So Granddaddy cay | ,.! Wil give you two hooks and If) you do not catch any fish I will chop | off your heads.” Tor a long time th-) boys stood there and tried to catch some fish, but could not. At last a told them one of his quaint old stor- ies of the time when he was a boy. Before they knew it it was lunch time. Granddaddy Gray went home to his wife Goody and the Brighteyes children began to study their lessons. “Six times four are twenty-four Six times four are twenty-fou! Eena repeated again and again. “An What are you standing there for?"* “The Pixie told us we must catch ;|4 fish or she will chop off our heads. Please let us catch you," they said. | buck and give us money. jaw. I wiil not stoop so low with the | - candle. Oh, what a fine pile they get! It will make the blaze beautiful. All ready, yes? IT will = @ cor. By THE BeLL SYNDICATE ~ inc VIRGIL DRACE—A young Yankee of New Orleans on a mission of reven: Btepho La Vi @ guerilla in the able passion for gambling. of wine addressed to cides that they should sail up the GENERAL BETHPAGE—From whose noose to hang Steph built of periwinkle shells. She be men are away, and on his way baci CHAPTER Vil.» yt (Continued.) RACE lay quietly tugging at the ropes that pound him. If he could spring out free, what a scattering he would make of them! They stopped. entering some sort of doorway, and rested the canoe on the ground. Tonez lighted a candle, and Drace saw that he was in an old cabin, almost ready |! to fail, They rolled him out on the|* floor, face down, and beneath his arms they passed the paddle of the canoe, so that he could not turn over. Then the others went out, leaving Tonez’ holding the candle, “Does the kind gentleman know why they gone? They go to get the dry rushes and the dead bark. For why? To make the fire. It fs not cold, no? But they will make the fire of the cabin, und when the morning come, there will be the ashes of the kind gentleman; and the people they will say: ‘Ah, he lie}! down to sleep, and burn up.’ Drace heard them piling their mur- derous fue! into a corner. Again he appealed to ther, tried threats, told them that his friends would haog themj but they laughed, Tonez bend- ing over him with the candle. “In a few minutes I light the blaze and take the candle away. You talk of Stepho's daughter. Remember she may love me some, to’ “You Spanish devil!” “The kind gentleman he close. ter. what come When Stepho come we tell him we do and he pat us on the But the light would hurt the kind gentleman's eyes when he lie that way on his touch it off."” Drace could not see him, but he heard the first crackle of the dried rushes, saw the flame dim the candle éemarkable [dana ot RE OLD SouTH BEGIN THIS STORY TO-DAY AND MEET LIBERTY SHOTTLE—A young man of good family, but with an insati- NADINE LA VITTE—A beautiful girl, who has attracted Virgi tion, and proves to be old. Stepho's daughter. She is rescued by Dri in a riot, and then disappears, but when Liberty discovers ho La Vitte at Farnum’s Finally he g# him to leave until Stepho and his |pered, and the blue ends of stuccoe periwinkles gleamed out upon her. was as neat as a fairy's abode. bed Was fleecy, and white as a noon time cloud, ‘There was but one window, vined an! without rushes, woven. for old Stepho's footstep. come, and undressing, she lay down mused a long time, and slept A knocking on the door, and Stepho'« voice called her: leetle gel she sleep.” to him and pressed cheek against ‘the Away but here he sat relaxed in his rock pared the morning's meal. cool shade. big chair, looking up at the cane thu! hid his home. through salt marsh with not the malaria. ways like a flower." here? here to live all the time?’ I'm Portuguese. But no mat- [the nest, to try her wings? the way of birds and women. I suppose, If you marry him, you would not so much leave me. buy from me the mules and cattle which I bring down from the hills Why you no wish to marry him?” island is a body of land surrounded by water,’ said Mina in a low mur- mur. Mina tried to memorize. ‘Co lumbus discovered America in 149! while Mo twisted his tongue uround The fish was a jolly one and he| light. Now he roared aloud, the men thought it would be a good joke to|!2uening. the mounting flame crack- fool the old Pixie, so he told them to|ling louder. Tonez came back to him. jump on bis back and he swam upto! “We leave you now. You will not shore. They thanked him und ran {need this candle to light you to bed; young man. I owe him muoh; and he know much about my business that he would keep quiet about it—If he was of the family. And he would take you what she thought was a receipt for at different times sums amounting to Nursery and Child's Hospital will be given to-night in the the ball then {n Carnegie Hall, later in the Metropolitan Opera House home as fast as they could, and you may be sure that after that they scratch, scratch, Somebody “was| Rover trailed their toes in the river coming up the hemlock tree. Soon)” Chippie appeared at the nest door. | Sentiby INEZ IBARSEN, pease ier} (Not original.) the eses in Mississij.pi. Scramble, scramble, _ scratch, up .04; 8d, 97.10; 4th, 96.14, up .04;| . $ Victory 3 3-48, 100.20, off .02; 43-48,| might mine ocoot viment tmat he The Kiddie Klub. 10920; OFF 706; | “Come along then, we'll take a Kiddie Klub, / CURB. turn around the lake.”* Kiddie Klub, | Opened firm. Tob Prod. Exp. 6;| Next to visit was Bobbity Bobtail I adore. City Service, 173; Radio, 41-8, up|jr- ‘‘Eena, Eena,"’ he called. ‘‘Come But Cousin Eleanor, | 1-16; Inter. Petro., 15; Carib, 3 7-8,| Out and see me. L love My frosted ears are all well, Come out and play." It was More and more. the first time Bobbity Bobtail jr. had By WILLIAM CARR, West Hobo- been out in so long that Wena could ken, N. J. not refuse. Silas ‘Then Meena und Mina, the two wlo FEBRUARY CONTEST. | were left, began to play together. Subject: A Kiddie Klub Song, | “Have you done your lessons mi , lasked their Daddy, Billy Brighteyes,) Te awards of $1 each will be when he came home ut sunset. The @Warded the ten Kiddie Klub mem- three girls hung their heads, but Mo|bers, aged from six to fifteen, inclu- meant to brave it out. |sive, who send in the best poem for “Where have you been all days! yiagie Klub song. | Daddy?’ he asked, trying to change“ 2 The poem must not be copied . nd the topic of converration. ‘Will you the contestant must not accept help tell us?" Yes," answered Billy Brighteyes, | from others. “] will tell you that I have been in| A note from the parents or teacher the second tree from here right where | Of the sender saying the poem is orig- I could see what my four little) /nal must accompany each contribu- children do about their lessons when| tion. their daddy is away. Write NAMB, AGE, ADDRESS and “It was Mo's turn to hang his| CERTIFICATE NUMBER distinctly. head, and he did. | Address Cousin Eleanor, New York Evening World, No. 63 Park Row, New York City. Dear Cousin Patriot: Two of the noblest of all Americ were born in the month of Februar: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We want to hear what our) Cousins nave to say about the two at Presidents of earlier days. Send u m f vee of your thoughts about Abraham | §!2°% BOOSTED: oe World War, Lincoln and George Washington to| 5°P4 your rie one © Cousin Elea- Tineciiddie Klub Korner. | What of R&r and look for the answore in the their patriotism, loyalty to their cause, Bani Klub Korner for Thursday, the sacrifices they made and their| Peb- 9 service to our Nution? Send me yotfr notes as soon as you can so that they can be printed in the Kiddie Klub Korner in time to honor the birthdays of these two men of history. And I wish our artists would busy QUESTIONS ANSWERED, —about the heavens, the earth, plant life, animal life, races and people, natures, science, invention, the Eng- lish language, wireless, steam en- —>—___ WOULD INSURE CROPS. Illinois Comgressman jas a New Plan te Aid Farmers, WASHINGTON, Feb, 7.—Establish- themselves with making valentines to| ment of a Bureau of Farm Risk In. books, but later learned it was a th ‘ e check, on which the prisoner drew the|decorate the Kiddie Klub Korner on| i;ance in the Treasury Department money from the Brooklyn Savings| Feb. 14. The valentines may be to | is proposed in a bill Introduced in the House yesterday by Representative King of Ilinols, An appropriation of $1,000,000 for expenses and a revoly- ing fund of $10,000,000 to pay claims arising against the bureau are providea for. Under the bill, which h proval of various agricultur clations and workers, the bureau isto insure growing crops of non-perish- able products against loss or damage by action of the elements. The Secre- tary of the Treasury would be au- thorized to adopt and publish a form | of farm risk policy and to fix reason- | able rates of premium, The director of the bureau would ve $5,000 a year and be aided by n Advisory Board of three experts, to be appointed by the Secretary of whom ever you please, mother, sweet- heart, sister, brother, any one your choose. ‘And while you are occupied with pen and brush 1, too, shall bo fush- foning a valentine. Whom do you suppose it will be to? Can you guess? Try. On Feb. 14 you shall see whether you guessed aright, for it will be printed, along with yours, in the Kiddie Klub Korner that day, As you know, COUSIN ELEANOR, The Wicked Pixie. Once upon u time there live two little boys called Tom and Tim. Their! mother told them they must never, never ko down to the river wid trafl the Treasury, at a salary not to ex- their toes in the water, lowed $35 @ day while actual}\ em- “| wonder why we can't go down! ployed. NY} 2 ‘ cs so I blow it out, see? And I take it with me.” They hastened out and he heard them laughing as they ran through the underbrush. With all his har- nessed might he strove to break the paddle so that he might roll toward broke only the tip of the blade. A louder crackling told him that the) dry boards above Soon the roof would fall in; great }sparks would fly upward, fall and| hiss in the water. Why should he lie there, seeing all | this in his mind, he wondered. He had read that men approaching death sometimes speak foolish words, and here he !ay, with his mind on trivial things, Soon he would writhe | ina furnace. How all about \ glared! He wondered how long it would be before a tongue of flame should lick him with Its agony, . And then something touched his hand, something cold and swift. A | knife cut the ropes that bound him: | and In his great and sudden Joy Drace almost lost his reason. But he did not | ery out; no word was spoken. Just | one look, and then he screened her from the flames as they fled through the door, out through the light into the shadow of the trees. And then he spoke. God bless you, Nadine!" He had held her hand, leading her as they ran, but now in the shadow safe from danger she withdrew It from him, and when he reached again to take {t she shook her head. “No, it must not be. I told you to go quick, but you did not go quick enough. Then Tonez he see your boat, and with the others he wait for you. T run around and I watch him, with the knife to stab him if he hurt my brave friend. Then in dim light I see them carry the boat, and I think they have killed you; and I steal along to stab, but then I know you are In the boat. All I do then was to watch till them go, and then I go in. It was not hard to do. No.” “You are an angel."” | Sbe laughed, shaking her head. “Angels do not go into the fire. They do not belong there . . . Now, I tell you. I show you the crooked way, through the woods and out to the river. The moon has come and we can see. If you know the way you are safe; but if you do not you mire down and die in the ooze, and not in the flame. You would please follow me now.” He followed her, walking swiftly ‘Pell me,"? he inquired, ‘what has to-night, I hope, does not change what was set for Thursday.’ ‘The land was ‘eginning to rise, and she was walking faster. ‘Thursday you may come."’ She halted in an open space and pointed toward the river. ‘The bird, 1 hear him sing now. ‘The magnolia trees are over there, ‘and now it was again good night." Old Stepho had not come home when lthe Creole girl reached the house in \tre swamp. She went to her room and lighted the lamp, revealing the gilt a j blushed finery taken fro:: the cabin often to the city and give you ri dresses and diamonds. have the diamond too. But you mus know that I get lonesome here, | cannot play with the book all the time the door, but {t was strong, and he|caftle in the hills, are you not?” were catching, | the hi |when the sun came about, she drew his chair into the shade. his ey | again, looking, him, with hand upraised, cautioning him | 2 asierp."* back not again.’ of e wealth and position, who goes te ge for the hanging of his father by Civil War, He is joined by atten- river and visit his unc house Virgil goes with a hangman's Nad fore a small house, k he is overpowered by three men, The wails were not pa- Al! The sun-sucked of its rain ASS, The carpet was which she herself had deftt Her mirror, framed with other of pearl, was from the bride'# -partment of a ship. She sat down to think and to listen He did no’ “The sun he was high, but the Soon she came out, and he drew her his sandpaper coil of her hair from home he knew no rest ng-chair; and she sang as she pre They sat where the house threw ii* Slowly he rocked in his “This air, he good. He come from the gu!! You bloom « “But Father, when do we lea It must not be that we wrt “Ha! The little bird wish to leave’ That is Soon. you will wish to marry ine man and leave your old “No—it is not that. I love you. - But it is lonely here, and’"—. “Mr. Boyce, he is a fine young man I see him often. He ut I do not love him.” “You would soon learn; he {s a fine “My dresses they are fine enougt + ., You are going again to bi) “1 will buy them, yes.” “And you must on Thursday go i “Yes, on the Thursday T will go.” He fell asleep, for he was tired, ani He opened patted her hand and slept he heard a slight sound, and saw Tonez coming througy he cane. Swiftly she advanced towar| t ' ; i “You must make no noise. He 4 “But | have come to tell htm t the carpetoagger spy he gone to con “Go awu + and you can come bu ay and talk with Stepho's voice called out: come, I sm here," She did not wish to hear tflem tai! She looked at the Portuguese ui’! mused as she walked away: “You not know, you scorpion, how clo you come to the stab. Your tin) will come, and I watch you." On the island were two great Ii\ve oaks, not far apart, and bet r them lay her theatre. With creat! y fancy tha one, with weariness NM noise the other, youth and old ag may make fruitful their solitude. | Here Nadine had built a universe, peopling 1* with men, women an? children from Paris, London, New York, and from her native town, ly ing crescent along the river. But now, out of life, there came one to dwarf the others, to thrill her, new to ner art; and she trembled tn exquisie fear, she who would have been coo! and firm to stab the Portuguese. CHAPTER VIIL T was # long time before Drac) | found a boat to set him over to th opposite shore. It was so lat when he reached tho Bethpage pi that he did not go up to his roon ‘The house was so quiet, the hound themselves asleep, that he stole int the garden to pass the remainder « the night on a couch in the summe house. The air was heavy with roses breathing in through the lattice; and as he straightened out, grateful for repose, this thought came to him: “Pale they call death, but to me jt will ever be red, And [ have looked Into its red countenance, and was not afraid. [ thank God that He gave me that strength, . But what « melodrama Day must be coming, for dark- hatred night was bleaching her tresses. Plantation bells began to ring the ris- | ing hour for toil, and stabled mules | blew loud thelr brazen trumpets, maj shalling the negro roustabouts whose duty It was to feed them. Do Not Miss To-Morrow's tn§erestin, Inetalment | | i