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FOR $3,000,000 CATHEDRAL
LEADING MISTAKES IN LIFE
SYNOPSIS.
Iviwrenco Illakeloy, lawyer, rocs to
flttnburg with tho forged notes In tho
llronson cneo to take the deposition of
Iho chief witness for tho prosecution,
John Ollmore. n millionaire. In tho lat
ter's house the lawyer Is attracted by
the picture of n girl, whom Qllmoro ex
plains Is his granddaughter, Alison west.
Ho says her father Is a rascal and a
frlond of the forger.
CHAPTER II.
A Torn Telegram.
I lunched nlono at tho Gllmoro
house, nnd went back to tho city at
once. The Bun had lifted tho mists,
nnd a fresh summer wind had cleared
nwny tho smoke pall. Tho boulevard
was full of cars flying countryward
for tho Saturday half-holiday, toward
coif nnd tennis, green fields and bab
bling girls. I gritted my teeth and
thought of McKnlght at Richmond.
And thon. for the first time. I assocl-
ntcd John Gllmore's granddaughter
with the "West" that McKnlght had
lrrltnblv flunit at mo.
1 bHU rnrrled mv traveling bag, for
McKnlght'fi vision at tho window of
thn omntv house had not been without
effect. I did not transfer tho notes to
my pocket, and, If I had. It would
nnt imvA altered the situation later.
Only the other day McKnlght put
this very thing up to me.
"I warned you." ho reminded me
"I told you there were queer things
coming, and to bo on your guard. You
mivM to have taken your revolver.
"It would have been of exactly as
much use aB n bucket of snow In
Africa," I retorted. "If I had never
closed my eyes, or If I had kept my
flntror nn the trlceer of a six-shooter
(which Is novelesquo for revolver),
the result would havo been tho same.
And the next tlmo you want a little
excitement with every variety or tnrm
thrown In, I can put you by way of It
You begin by getting tho wrong berth
1 In a Pullmnn car, ana end
"nh. I know how It ends." ho fin
tnhnd Hhortlv. "Don't you suppose tho
whole thing's written on my spinal
tnnrrow?"
Dut I am wandering again. That la
thft difficulty with tho unprofessional
story-teller: He yaws back and forth
and can't keep In tho wind; ho drops
his characters overboard when ho
hasn't any further use for them and
drowns them; he forgets tho coffeo
pot and tho frying pan and all tho
other small essentials, and. If no car
rles a love nffalr, ho mutters a fer
vent "Allah be praised" when ho
lands them, drenched with adventures,
at the matrimonial dock at tho end 0
tho flnnl chanter.
I put In a thoroughly unsatisfactory
afternoon. Time drngged eternally. 1
dropped Into a summer vaudeville, and
tinnpht Komo t es at a haberdasher s
I. was bored but unoxpectant; I had
tin nrnmonltlon of what was to como.
Nothing unusual had over happened
to me; friends of mlno haa some
tlmoR sailed the high seas of adven
turo or skirted tho coasts of chance,
but all of the shipwrecks had occurred
nftor a woman passenger had been
taken on. "Ergo," I had alwayB said
"no women!" I repeated It to my
self that evening almost savagely,
when I found my thoughts straying
back to the picture of John unmore's
granddaughter. I even argued as I
ate my solitary dinner at a downtown
roRtnurant.
"Haven't you troubles enough," I
reflected, "without looking for more 7
Hasn't Bad News gone lame, with a
matlneo race booked for next week?
Otherwise aren't you comfortablo?
Isn't your house In order? Do you
want to sell n pony In ordor to havo
the library done over In mission pr
the drawing room in gold? Do you
want somebody to count the empty
cigarette boxes lying around every
morning?"
Lay It to the long Idle afternoon, to
tho new environment, to anything you
like, but I began to think that per
haps I did. 1 was confoundedly lone
ly. For tho first tlmo In my life Its
even course began to waver. The
needle registered warning marks on
tho matrimonial seismograph, lines
vague enough, but llneB.
My alligator bag lay at my feet,
still locked. While I waited for my
coffeo I leaned back and surveyed tho
people Incuriously. There wero the
usual couples Intent on each other;
my new Btnte of mind made mo re
gard them with tolerance. Dut at the
next table, whero a man and woman
dined together, a different atmosphere
prevailed. My attention was first
caught by the womnn's face. Sho had
been speaking earnestly across tho
table, her profile turned to me.. I had
noticed casually her earnest manner,
her somber clothes, and tho great
mass of odd, bronze-colored hnlr on
hor neck. Dut suddenly sho glanced
toward mo nnd the utter hopelessness
almost tragedy of her expression
struck mo with n shock. She half
closed her eye's nnd drow a long
breath, then she turned again to the
man across tho table.
Neither one was eating. Ho sat low
In his chair, his chin on his chest,
ugly folds of thick flesh protruding
over his collar. Hn was probably 60,
bald, grotesque, sullen, and yet not
without a suggestion of power. Dut ho
MAN
lOWERT
hy- MAKY" ROBERTA felNE)
ILLUSTRATIONS Ljr 1TX. G. KJBTTISI-
CoPYRiour ijy OODBS JrlERRiLL COMPANy
had been drinking; as 1 looked, ho
raised an unsteady hand and sum
moned a waiter with n wlno list.
Tho young woman bent across tho
tablo and spoke again quickly. Sho
had unconsciously raised her voice.
Not beautiful, In her earnestness and
stress sho rather Interested mo. I
had nn idle Inclination to advise tho
waiter to remove tho bottled tempta
tion from the table. I wonder what
would have happened If I had? Sup
pose Harrington had not boon Intox
icated when ho entered tho Pullman
car Ontario that nlghtl
For they were about to mako a Jour
ney, I gathered, and tho young wom
an wished to go nlono. I drank threo
cups of coffeo. which accounted for
my wakefulness later, and shameless
ly watched tho tableau before mo. Tho
woman s protest evidently wont for
nothing; across tho table the man
grunted monosyllabic replies and grew
more and more lowering nnd sullen.
Once, during a brief unexpected plan
Isslmo In tho music, hor volco enmo
to me sharply:
"If 1 could only seo him In time!"
sho was saying. "Oh, It's terrible!"
In spite of my Interest I would havo
forgotten tho whole incident nt onco,
erased It from my mind as ono does
tho inessentials and clutterlngs of
memory, had I not met thorn again,
later that evening, in tho Pennsylvania
station. Tho situation between them
hnd not visibly nltered: Tho samo
dogged determination showed in the
man's face, but tho young woman
dnughter or wife? I wondered had
drawn down her veil and I could only
suspect what whtto misery lay bo
neath. I bought my berth after waiting in
"Which Will You Have,
a line of somo eight or ten people.
When, ,Btep by step, I had almost
reached the window, a tall woman
whom I had not noticed boforo spoko
to mo from my elbow. Sho bad a
ticket and money In her hand.
"Will you try to get mo a lower
when you buy yours?" sho nskod. "I
havo traveled for threo nights In up
pers." I consented, of courso; beyond that
I hardly notlcod tho woman. I had
a vague Impression of height nnd a
cortnln amount of stntellness, but tho
crowd was pushing behind mo, and
somo ono was standing on my foot.
I got two lowers easily, and, turning
with the change and berths, held out
the tlckots.
"Which will you havo?" I asked.
"Lower 11 or lower 10?"
"It makes no dlfferenqe," she said.
"Thank you very much Indeed."
At random I gave hor lower 11, nnd
called a porter to help her with hor
luggage. I followed them leisurely to
tho train shed, and ten minutes more
saw us under way,
I looked Into my enr, but It present
ed the peculiarly unattractlvo appear
ance common to sleepers. Tho bertha
wero mado up; tho contor nlslo was a
path between walls of dingy, breeze
repelling curtains, while tho two Boats
at each end of tho- car were piled high
with Butt cases and umbrellas. The
perspiring portor was trying to bo in
six places at onco; somebody has said
that Pullman porters aro black bo
tliey won't show tho dirt, but they
certainly show tho heat.
Nlne-flfteen was an outrageous hour
to go to bed, especially alnco I sleep
little or not at all on tho train, so I
made my way to tho smoker and
pnssod tho tlmo until nearly 11 with
clgarottCB nnd a magazine I
The enr was very close. It wna a 1
warm night, and beforo turning In I
stood a short tlmo In tho vestibule
Tho train hnd boon stopping at fre
quent Intervals, and, finding tho brake
man there, I asked tho trouble
It seemed thnt thoro wns n hot-box
on tho noxt enr, and that not only,
. 1 . V- . . . ... ... n ..n rtnlniflncr '
vcro we iuiu, uui wu nmu uu..o
tho second section, Just bohlnd. I wns
beginning to fool plonsantly drowsy,
and tho nlr was growing cooler as wo
got Into the mountains. I Bald good
night to tho brakemnn nnd wont back
to my berth. To my surprlso. lower
ten was already occupied a suit caso
projected from beneath, a pair of shoes
Btood on tho floor, and from behind
tho curtnlns enmo tho heavy, unmls
tnkablo brcnthlntr of dcen sleep. I
hunted out tho porter nnd together
wo Investigated.
"Aro you asleep, Blr?" asked tho
porter, leaning over doferontlally. No
answer forthcoming, ho opened tho
curtains nnd looked in. Yes, tho in
truder wns asleep very much asloep
and an overwhelming odor of
whisky proclaimed that ho would
probably remain aslcop until morning.
I was Irritated. Tho car wns full,
and I wns not disposed to tako nn
upper in ordor to allow this drunken
interloper to sloop comfortably In my
berth
"You'll havo to get out of this," I
said, shaking him angrily. Dut ho
merely grunted nnd turned ovor. As
he did so, I saw his features for tho
first tlmo. It was tho quarrelsomo
man of tho restaurant.
I was less disposed than ovor to re-
lllnqulsh my claim, but tho porter,
Lower Ten or Eleven?"
after a littlo quiet Investigation, of
fered a solution of the difficulty,
"There's no ono in lower nlno." he
suggested, pulling open the curtalnB
just ncross. "It'B likely nine's hia
berth, and he's mado a mistake owing
to his condition. You'd better tako
nine, sir."
I did, with a Arm resolution that if
nlno's rightful owner turned up later
I should bo Just as unwaknblo as tho
man opposite. I undressed leisurely
making suro of tho safety of tho forced
notes, nnd placing ray grip ns beforo
between myself and tho window.
Delng n man of systematic habits
I arrnngod my clothes carefully, put
lng my shoeB out for tho portor to
polish, and stowing my collar and
scarf In tho little hammock swung for
the purpose.
At last, with my pillows bo arranged
thnt I could seo out comfortably, and
With tho unhyclonlcloolflnir hlnnknt
turned back I havo alwayB a distrust
or tnoso much-used affairs I prepared
to wait gradually for sleep.
Dut sleep did not visit me. Tho
train came to frequent, grating stop
and I surmised tho hot box again.
am not a nervous man. but them was
something chilling in tho thought of
tho second section noundlnir alone ho
hind ub. Onco, as I waa dozing, our
locomotive whistled a shrill warning
"You Keep back whero you bolonir
screamed to my drowsy oars, and
from somowhero behind enmo a chaa-
toned "AlJrlght-I-wlll."
I grow more and more wide-awake
At Cresson I got up on my elbow nnd
blinked out at tho station lights. Homo
passengors bonrdod tho train thero
r.nd 1 neara a woman's low tones, a
southern volco, rich and full. Then
' "WMWUi 'i fHk I
quiet again. Every nervo was tense.
Tlmo passed, porhapa ten minutes,
possibly half nn hour. Thon, without
tho slightest warning, ns tho train
rounded a curvo, a heavy body waa
thrown Into my berth. Tho incident,
trivial ns It seemed, waa startling In
its suddenness, for .although my ears
woro painfully strained and awake,
I hnd hoard no stop outside, Tho noxt
Instant tho curtain hung limp again;
still without n sound, my disturber
had slipped away Into tho gloom nnd
dnrknrss. In a frenzy of. wakefulness,
I sat up. drow on a pnlr of slippers and
fumblod for my bnth robo.
From a berth across, probably lower
ton, enmo thnt particularly aggravat
ing snoro which begins lightly, doll
cately, faintly soprano, goes down tho
schlo n noto with every breath, and,
after keeping tho listener tenso with
eXPCCtntlOn. ends with nn OYtilnalnn
thnt tears tho vory air. I was morn
and moro irrltnblo: I sat on tho edgo
r tho borth and hoped tho sriorcr
ould choke to death. '
Ho had considerable vltnlltv h nw.
over; ho withstood ono shock after
another nnd survived to start again
with new vigor. In desnornttnn f
found som6 clgnrottos and-ono match,
piled my blankets over my grin, nnd
drawing tho curtnlns tocrnthnr nn
though tho borth woro still occupied, I
made mv wnv tn thn vnntthnln nAt,
w aw I ..... I U ... U U U1V
car.
I waa not clad for dress narado. Is
It becauso tho male 1b so restricted to
gloom In his ovory-day attlro that he
blossoms Into gnudy colors In his pa
jamas and dressing gowns? It would
tako a Turk to feel at homo boforo nn
audtonco In my rod and yellow bath
robo, a Christmas romembranco from
Mrs. Klopton, with Bllppers to match.
So, nnturally, when I saw n foml
nlno flguro on tho platform, my first
Instinct was to dodgo. Tho womnn,
howover, wns quicker than I; sho gave
mo a startled glanco, wheeled and dls
appeared, with n flash of two bronze-
colored brnlds, Into tho noxt car.
CIgnretto box In ono hnnd, match
r: tho other, I leaned against the un
certain frame of tho door and gazed
after her vanished flguro. Tho moun-
tain air flapped my bath robo around
my bore ankles, my ono mntch burned
to tho end and went out, nnd still I
stnred. For I had seen on her cxpres
slvo face a haunting look that was
horror, nothing loss. Heaven knows,
I am not psychological. Emotions
havo to bo written largo boforo I can
road them. Dut a womnn In trooblo
always appeals to mo, and this woman
,wns moro than thnt. Sho was In dead
ly fear.
If I had not been afraid of being
ridiculous, I would havo followed her.
Dut I fancied that tho apparition of a
man In a red nnd yellow bath robo,
with an unkempt thatch of hair, walk-
lng up to her and assuring hor that
ho would protect her would probably
put hor Into hysterics. I had done
that onco before, when burglars had
tried to break Into tho house, and had
startled tho parlor maid into bed for
n week. So I tried to nssuro myself
that I had Imagined tho lady's distress
or caused it, perhaps and to dis
miss hor from my mind. Perhaps she
was merely anxious about tho un
pleasant gontlemnn of tho restaurant
I thought smugly that I could havo
told hor all about him: That ho was
sleeping tho sleep of tho Just and tho
intoxicated In a berth that ought, by
all that was fair and right, to hnva
been mine, and that If I wero tied to
a man who snored llko that I should
have him anaesthetized and soft pal
ate put whero it would never again
flap llko a ldoso sail in tho wind,
Wo passed Hnrrlsburg as I mood
thoro. It was starlight, and tho great
crests of tho Allcghanles had given
way to low hills. At Intervals wo
passed Btnudgos of gray white, no
doubt In dnytlmo comfortablo farms,
which McKnlght snys is a good way
of putting it, tho farms being a lot
moro comfortablo than tho pcoplo on
them.
I was growing drowsy; tho woman
with tho bronze hair and tho horrified
fnco wns fading in retrospect. It wna
colder, too, and I turned with a shiver
to go In.
As I did so, a bit of paper fluttered
Into the nlr and settled on my slcevo,
llko a butterfly on a gorgeous red and
yellow blossom. I picked It up curi
ously and glanced nt It. It was part
of a telegram that had been torn Into
bits.
Thoro wero only parts of four words
on tho scrap, but it left mo puzzled
and thoughtful. It read: " ower ton,
car Beve " "Lower ton, car seven,"
wns my berth tho ono I had bought
and found pre-empted.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Farmer Doy Presidents.
Prof.- W. J. Splllman declares thnt
tho farms havo furnished this country
with 92 per cent, of its presidents, 91
per cent, of Its governors, 83 per
cent, of Its cabinet officers, 70 per
cent, of Its senators, 04 per cent, of
Its congressmen and 65 per cent of Its
railroad presidents.
The Chinese Day.
The Chlncso dlvldo tho day In 12
parts. Each part Is distinct In Itself
and Is of two hours' duration.
Archbishop Ireland's Life Dream la
Slowly Approaching Consumma
tion In St. Paul.
St. Paul, Minn. Slowly rising upon
tho crest of a hill on fnshlonablo Sum
mit nvenuo, St Paul, Minn., Is a
13,000,000 cathedral, tho consumma
tion of ono of tho dreams of Archbish
op Ireland. Stono by stone and block
by block, tho great gray granlto struc
ture Is taking form, nnd when com-
plctod will bo tho moat mngnlflcont
Catholic cathedrnl In all America. No
houBO of worship will surpnss It, un
less It bo tho Cathedral of St John
tho Dlvlno In Now York, which la be
ing erected by tho Episcopalians.
The beginning of this cathodral waa
In tho mind of Archbishop Ireland on
the evening of Holy Thursday, March
81, 1904. Tho next day he Imparted
his ldoa to somo of his Influential
friends, and on April 9, following, tho
ilto was purchased at a coat of C2,
000. Slnco then Archbishop Ireland has
nrorkod continuously for tho culmina
tion of his plana. In response to his
roquosts for money, persons In his dlo
coso havo subscribed $1,072,390. Of
this sum $416,209.10 has been paid In.
round for tho cathedral was brokon
In 190G, nnd tho cortior stono was laid
Juno 2, 1907. Tho foundations aro
completed and material Is arriving for
tho walls.
Four years havo boon apont In
making tho foundations for tho build-
lng, and they aro calculated to bo of
Bufllclcnt strength and durability to
last 10,000 years.
Tho cathedral ltsolf will bo built In
tho form of a cross, surmounted by a
domo and flanked by towers. It will
bo 274 foot long, 214 foot wldo, and tho
dlstanco from tho ground to tho top of
tho cross which will rlso ovor tho top
most plnnaclo will bo 280 foot. Tho
great domo will bo 120 foot wldo, the
height of tho facado 130 teot. and tho
height of tho towors 1D0 feet Tho
building will be constructod of Minne
sota whlto grnnlto and will bo Roman
In architecture It is planned to havo
It finished In throo or Jour years, but
tho architect says that 60 years from
now mon will still bo engaged In "put
ting on tho finishing touches." Whon
complotcd It will scat 3,400 persona,
Thero will bo 12 chapels on the
main floor.' CIobo estimates of Its
cost and furnishing bring tho figures
to npproxlmately $3,000,000. Arch
bishop Ireland, through his own in
fluonco, expects to obtain this sum bo-
roro no ceases.
ORIGINATOR OF "SUNNY JIM"
New York Society Girl Who Drew
the Funny Page Character,
a Deauty.
New York. Among tho lenders of
Now York's Four Hundred who aro
famed no beauties may bo montloncd
Miss Dorothy Flckon. Vivacious and
cultured, hor personality charms all
who como under Ub influence. She ii
,tho daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Ed'
wards Flcken, prominent Now Yorkr
era. Now thnt Vlco-Proaldent Shop
man Is famed tho length and breadth
of the country as "Sunny Jim," Mlsi
Flcken is brought into especial promt'
nenco for tho slmplo reason tb it she
Is responstblo for tho original "Sunny
Jim," probably tho most noted dls
poller of tho blues who ever appeared
on paper. This young aocloty woman
la recognized as a clover artist nnd
her work has often been exhibited.
"Cheating cronuet" Is tho fashion
ablo game nowadays, only you must
not lei 11 no ouserveu ay me ouior
players.
Writer Haa Recorded Ten, of Which
Most of Us Assuredly Have
Our Share.
Soma of us may bo glad to be told
that thoro nro only ten llfo mistakes,
for thoro seem to bo so many moro,
but a rocont writer haa catalogued
them. Perhaps theso nro only tho ten
lending ones from which tho smallor
errors arise Let's look ovor tho Hat
and boo how many of them aro oura:
First to aet up our own standard of
right and wrong and Judgo peoplo ac
cordingly; second, to mensuro tho en-
oymont of others by our own; third,
to expect uniformity of opinion In this
world; fourth, to look for Judgmont
and oxporlonco In youth; fifth, to on
doavor to mold all dispositions nllko
sixth, to look for perfoctlon In our
own actions; seventh, to worry our
solves nnd othora with what cannot
bo remedied; olghth, to rcfuao to yield
In Immnterlnl mat tors; ninth, to re
fuso to allovlato, so far as It lies In
our power, all which needs allevia
tion; tenth, to rotuso to mako allow
inco for tho inflrmttloB of others.
EPIDEMIC OF ITCH IN WELSH
VILLAGE
"In Dowlnts, South Wales, about fif
teen years ngo, families woro strict
en wholcsnlo by a dlseaso known as
tho itch, llollovo mo, It la tho most
torrlblo dlseaso of its kind that I
know of, as It Itches all through your
body and makes your llfo an Inferne
Sleep Is out of tho question and you
fcol as if a million mosquitoes wore
attacking you nt the same tlmo. I
know a dozen families that wore bo
affoctod.
"Tho doctors did tholr best, but
their rcmcdlea woro of no avail what
ovor. Thon tho families tried a drug
gist who was noted far and wldo for
his rcmarkablo euros. Peoplo came
to him from all parts of the country
for treatment, but his medicine mads
mattcra still worso, as a last resort
they woro advised by a friend to usn
tho Cutlcura Remedies. I am glad Xj
toll you that nftor a few days' treat
ment with Cutlcura Soap, Olntracnl
and Resolvent, tho effoct waa wonder
ful and tho result was a porfoct cun
In all cases.
"I may ndd that my threo brothers,
throo sisters, myself and all our fam
ilies havo been usora of the Cullr.urr,
Remedies for fifteen years. Thomafi
Hugh, 1050 West Huron St, Chlcagr
III., Juno 29, 1909."
DESERVED t
Rnfltua Playin' poker hands laaf
night I accidentally throw flvo aces.
Sambo What did do oddors do?
RastUB Throw mo outef do wl
flow.
j
More Serlout,
"Mathlldo Drowno wna vory rudo to
nn overdressed old woman buo mot on
tho street tho othor day." -
"I know tho story. Th old womnn
turnod out to bo Mathilde's very rich
aunt, and now she's going to glvo all
hor monoy to a hospital for decroplt
dogs."
"Nothing of tho sort In fact, It's
worse Tho old woman was the,
IJrownes' now cook and now thoy
haven't any."
The Home of the Cod.
Thero Is Just ono other great cod
bank In tho world besides those ot
Nowfoundlnnd. It lies off Capo Agul
hns, which Is tho southern tip of Af
rica, and south of tho Capo of Good
Hope Tho Agulhos plntonu Is Bald ta
bo almost a duplicate In slzo and rich
ness of the north cod bnnks. Dut this
is too far off, bo thoro Is littlo promise
of Kb appeasing tho hungry appetite
of tho world for cod.
Initials.
"What aro Mr. Wise's initials?"
"Can't say. Ho has been taking bo
many college degrees that nobody can
keep track of them."
For Breakfast
Post
Toasties
with cream or milk
The smile that follows will
last all day
"The Memory Lingers"
Sold by Grocers.
Pkgs. 10c m4 15c
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