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8YNOP8I8.
CazalM, on the ntcntnor Kfilnflr Fritz,
nomcwnn) houml from AiihImIIu, crloi
out.ln IiIh Nlfcp Hint llmiry Cruvnn, wlio
ton ynrs licforo hud ruined Ills fattier
and Mm.setf. Is dcinl iitnl llmls that Hil
ton Toyo. who oliaroH tlm nlutrioom with
him, known Crnvun nnd ul.io lllnncho
Macnalr. n former tiplRhfoor and play
mate, when the dully imperii cotno
aboard at Houthnmptun Toyo rendu that
Craven liaH been murdered and cnll.1
Caxalat'a dream second HlKht. Ho tlilnhn
of doing a llltli" iimntour dutectlvo work
on tho cbbo himself. In the train to town
they (IIhciihb tho murder, which was com
tnlttcd at Caxalct'a old homo. Toyo heara
from Cazalct that Hcrutcn, who hud beon
t'axnlefn friend and tho acapeiroat for
Craven's dlahonrNty, liaa ticun releimed
from prliton. Cazalct Kuoa down tho
rlviT and moots llhinche.
CHAPTER IV Continued.
"I wonder who enn havo dono It!"
"So do tho police, rind thuy don't
look much llko finding out!"
"It ninut liavu been for his watch
nnd money, don't you think? And yet
they say ho hud uo ninny cnuiuicfll"
Cnzalet kept alienee; but sho thought
lio winced. "Of courso It must havo
boon tho man who rnn nut of the
drlvo," Hlio concluded hnfltlly. "Whero
woro you when It liuppciiGil. Sweep?"
Somowlmt honrscly ho was recall
Ins tho Mediterranean movements of
tho Kaiser Fritz, when at the llrst
montlon of tho vcrsoI'b nnnio ho was
llrmly heckled.
"Swoop, you don't menn to nay you
camo by a German steamer?"
"I do. It waa tho llrst going, nnd
why nhould I waBto a week? besides,
you can generally get a cabin to your
Bolf on tho German line."
"So that'B why you'ro hero beforo
tho ond of tho month." said lllnncho.
"Well, I cnll It most unpntrlotlc; but
tho cabin to yourself was certainly
Bonio OXCUBC."
"That romlnds mo!" ho cxclntmcd.
"I hadn't It to myself nil tho way;
thoro was anothor fellow In with mo
from Gonon: and tho last nlcht on
board It camo out that ho know you!" J
"Who enn It lmvo been?"
"Toyo, his namo was. Hilton Toyo."
"An American man! Oh, but I
know him very woll," said lllnncho In
a, tono both etralncd nnd cordial. "Ho's
great fun, Mr. Toyo, with his delight
ful Americanisms, nnd tho perfectly
delightful way ho says thorn!"
Cazalct puckered llko tho prlmltlvo
man ho was, when taken at nil by stir
prlso; nnd that anybody, much less
lllancho, should think Toyo, of nil peo
ple, clthor "delightful" or "great fun"
wan certainly n surprlso to him, it it
Was nothing olso. Of courso It wnn
nothing cIbo, to his Immediate knowl
edge; Btlll, ho was rather ready to
think that Ulaucho was blushing, but
forgot, If indeed ho had boon in a lit
Btato to boo it at tho tlmo, that sho
had paid himself tho samo high com
pliment across tho gnto. On tho whole,
It may bo said that Cazalot was ruf
fled without feeling seriously disturbed
Wb to tho essential Ibbuo which alono
leaped to his mind,
"Whoro did you meet tho fellow?"
po inquired, with the sultablo admix
ture of confidence and amusomont.
, "In tho first Instance, at Engolborg."
"Engolberg! Whero'B that?"
"Only one of thono places in Swlt
erland where everybody goes now
adays for what they call winter
p ports."
Sho was not even smiling at his ar
jrogant Ignoranco; sho was merely ox
plaining one geographical point and
another of general information. A
cIobo observer might havo thought
iter almost anxious not to identify her
Wolf too clOBOly with a popular crazo.
"I dare say you mentioned it," said
Cacalot, but rnthor as though ho was
wondering why she had not.
U"I dare aay I didn't! Everything
on't go into an annual lottor. It was
tho winter boforo last I went out
with Dotty nnd her husband."
"And attor that ho took a place
4own hero?"
, "Yob. Then I mot him on the river
.the following summer, and found ho'd
ot rooms in ono of tho Nell Gwynne
Cottages, it you call that a place."
"I boo."
Dut there was no moro to sco; there
never had boon much, but now
jBIancho wns standing up and gazing
out of tho balcony into tho belt of
kinging sunshlno botweon tho opposite
iiido of tho road and tho invisible river
ores away.
"Why shouldn't wo go down to Lit
tloford and got out tho boat if you'ro
really going to roako an afternoon of
It!" elio said. "Dut you simply must
eeo Martha first; and whllo olio's mak
ing herself lit to bo seen, you must
take something for tho good of tho
houso. I'll bring it to you on a lordly
tray."
Sho brought him siphon, stoppered
bottlo, a silver biscuit-box of ancient
ye memories, and left him alono with
thorn Eomo llttlo tlmo; for tho young
mistress, llko her old retainer in an
other minute, was simply dying to
mako herself moro presentable Yet
- whon oho bad dono so, and cumo back
like enow, In a shirt and Bklrt Just
homo from tho laundry, sho saw that
.ho did not seo tho dlfforeneo. Ills do
' Touring eyes ehono neither moro nor
J)ms; but ho had also devoured vry
biscuit in tho box, though ho had be
gun by vowing that ho had lunched in
town, nnd stuck to tho fnblo still.
Old Martha had known htm all his
life, but best nt tho period when ho
used to come to nursery tea at Llttlo
ford. Sho declared sho would have
known him nnywherc nu ho wns, but
nho Blmply hadn't recognized him in
that photograph with his beard.
"I can bco whcio it's been," said
Martha, looking him In tho lower torn
pernto zono. "Hut I'm so glad you'vo
hud it off, Mr. Cuzulct."
"Thcro you urc, lllanchlo!" crowed
Cnzalet. "You nald sho'd be disappoint
ed, but Martha's got better taste."
"It Isn't thnt, air," said Martha enr
nestfy. "It'll because tho dreadful
man who was seen running out of tho
drlvo, at your old home, ho had n
I) card! It's In all tho notices about
him, anil that'B what's put mo against
them, and makes mo glad you'vo had
yours ofT."
Ulnnche turned to him with too ready
a smile; but then Bho wns really not
such n great ago as nho pretended, and
alio had never been in better spirits in
her life.
"You hear, Sweep! I call It rather
lucky for you that you were "
Hut just then sho saw his faco, nnd
remembered tho tilings thnt had been
said nbout Henry Craven by tho Caza
lota' fi lends, even ten yenra ago, when
sho really had been n girl.
CHAPTEn V.
An Untimely Visitor.
Sho really wns one still, for in theso
days It la an elastic term, and In
Hlnncho's cnBO thoro wna no apparent
reason why It should over cenno to
apply, or to ho applied by every decent
tongue except her own.
Much tho beat tonnls-plnyor among
tho Indies of tho neighborhood, she
drovo an almost unbecomingly long
ball nt golf, and nover lookod hotter
than when pnddllng her old canoe, or
punting In tho old punt. And yet, this
wonderful September nftornoon, alio
did somohow look oven better than at
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He Inquired.
olther or any of those congenial pur
suits, and that long beforo thoy
renched tho river; In tho empty houso,
which had known her nB baby, child
and grown-up girl, to tho companion
of Bomo part of all thrco stages, she
looked a moro lustrous and a lovelier
lllnncho than ho romembcred oven of
old.
Hut sho was not really lovely In tho
loast; that also must bo put beyond
tho palo of misconception. Her hair
was benutlful, and perhaps her skin,
and, In somo lights, hor eyes; tho rcBt
was not. It was yellow hair, not gold
en, and Cazalot would havo given all
ho had about him to see It down again
as In tho oldest of old days; but there
was moro gold in hor skin, for bo the
oun had treated it; and thoro was
ovon hint or glint (In certain lights,
bo It repeated) of gold mingling with
tho puro hazol of her oyos. Hut in
tho dusty shadows of tho empty house,
moving llko a sunbeam across Ub baro
boards, standing out ugalnst tho discol
ored wnlls In tho place of romombercd
pictures not to bo compared with her,
It was there thnt sho was all golden
and still girl.
Thoy poked their noses Into, and
hoy had a laugh in ovory corner and
so out upon the leafy lawn, shelving
abruptly to tho river. Last of all thoro
was tho Bummer schoolroom over tho
boat-house, quito apart from tho houso
Itself; Bceno of such safo yet reckless
rovols; in its very nura Into Victorian!
It lay hidden In ivy at tho end of a
now neglected path; tho bow-win-dows
overlooking tho river woro
framed in Ivy, llko throo mntted, whis
kered, dirty, happy faces; one, with
Ita lower sash proppod open by a
brokon plant-pot, might havo beon
grinning a toothless welcomo to two
onco lending spirits of tho place.
Cazalot whittled a twig and wedged
that sash up altogether; then ho sat
himself ou tho sill, his Ions Iocs in-
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cide. Hut his knife hud .itninueo
him of his plug tobacco. And his plug
tobacco took him as straight back to
the bush as though the unsound floor
had changed under their feet into a
magic carpet.
"You simply have It put down to the
man's account in the station books.
Nobody keeps ready money up at the
bush, not oven tho prlco of a plug like
this; but tho chap I'm telling you
nbout (I can seo him now, with his
great red beard and frcoklcd fists) he
sworo I was charging him for half a
pound moro than ho'd ever hnd. We
fought for twenty mlnuteB behind the
wood-heap; then ho gave mo best, but
I had to turn in till I could seo again."
"You don't mean that he"
Ulancbo had lookod rather disgust
ed tho moment before; now she was
all truculent auspenso and indigna
tion. "Heat me?" he cried. "Good Lord,
no; but thero was nono too much In
It."
Fires died down In her hazol eyes,
lay lambent as soft moonlight, nick
ered Into laughter beforo ho had Been
tho fire.
"I'm afraid you'ro a very dangerous
pcrBon," said Ulnncho.
"You'vo got to bo," ho assured her;
"It's tho only wny. Don't take a word
from anybody, unless you mean him to
wlpo his boots on you. I soon found
that out. I'd have given something to
havo learned tho noblo art beforo 1
went out. Did I ovor toll you how It
wns I first came across old Venus
1'OttB?"
Ho had told her nt great length, to
tho exclusion of about every other
topic, In tho second of tho annual let
ters; nnd throughout tho sorlen tho In
evitable nnnio of Venus Potts had sel
dom cropped tip without some allusion
to that Homeric encounter. Hut it waa
well worth whllo having It all over
again with tho lntrlcato and picaresque
ombroldory of a tonguo far mightier
than tho pen hitherto employed upon
tho Incident. Poor Hlanchc had almost
to hold her noso over tho primary
catiso of battlo; but the dlaloguo was
delightful, nnd Cnzalet himself mado
a most gallant and engaging flguro as
ho sat on tho sill and reeled It out.
Twenty minutes later, nnd old Venus
Potts was still on tho magic tapis,
though Cazalct had dropped his boast
ing for a curiously humble, eager and
yet Ineffectual vein.
"Old Venus Potts!" ho kept ejacu
lating. "You couldn't help liking him
And ho'd llko you, ray word!"
"Ib hlB wife nice?" Blanche wanted
to know; but sho was looking so in
tently out her window, nt tho opposite
end of the how to Cozalet's, that a
man of the wider world might have
thought of something elso to talk
nbout.
Out her window she looked past a
willow that had been part of tho old
life, in tho direction of an equally
typical sllhouetto of patient anglers
anchored in a punt; they had not
raised a rod betweon them during all
this tlmo that Hlancho had been out In
Australia; but as a matter of fact sho
nover saw thorn, since, vastly to the
credit of Cazalot's descriptive powers,
sho was out In Australia still.
"Nelly Potts?" ho said. "Oh, a Jolly
good sort; you'd bo awful pals."
"Should wo?" said Blanche, just
smiling at her invlslblo anglers.
"I know you would," ho assured her
with ImmenBo conviction. "Of course
sho can't do tho things you do; but
sho can rldo, my word! So she ought
to, when she's lived there all her life.
The rooniB aren't much, but the veran
das are what count most; they're bet
ter than any rooms."
Sho was still out there, cultivating
Nelly Potts on a very deep veranda,
though her straw hat and straw hair
remained In contradictory evidence
against a very dirty window on the
Middlesex bank of the Thames. It
was a shamo of the September sun
to show tho dirt as it was doing; not
only was there a great steady pool of
sunshlno on tho unspeakable floor, but
a doddering rollectlon from the river
on tho disreputable celling. Cazalot
lookod rather desperately from one to
tho other, and both tho calm pool and
the rough were broken by shadows,
one moro Impressionistic than the
other, of a straw hat over a stack ot
straw hair, that had not gone out to
Australia yet
And of courso Just then a step
sounded outsldo somowhoro on somo
gravel. Confound thoso caretakers!
What were they doing, prowling
about?
"I Bay, Blanchlo!" he blurtod out. "I
do believe you'd llko It out there, a
sportswoman like you! 1 believe
you'd tako to It llko a duck to water."
(TO DE CONTINUED.)
"Pope's Size."
A curious item In the trade slang ot
hosiers 1b tho term "popo'a bUo," ap
plied to vests. Thoy classify the scale
of chest measurements for these as:
Small men's, 32 Inches; slender men's,
34 Inches; men's, 36 inchoa; pope's, 3lf
Inches; out size, 42 Inches
Tho origin of this term, which has
been current for nearly a century, was
discussed somo yeurs ago in. Notes
and Queries, when it was stated on
good authority that It had no connec
tion with tho successors of St. Peter.
It appears that tho head of an old
linn of West end hosiers, Messrs.
Popo & Plunto, ordered this sizo to bo
mado specially for his own personal
uso, and tho manufacturer called It
ufter him for want of a better name.
London Chronicle.
Its Kind.
"That follow hnB what 1 call para
doxical Impudence,"
"How do you moan?"
"Ho Is always to the front with back
talk."
TRUNK REVEALS
MURDER MYSTERY
Workmen's Pick Uncovers Hidden
Crime More Than a
Year Old.
BURIED IN QUICKLIME
With Identification of Body as That of
Man Missing Many Months, Former
Employee Is Placed Under
Arrest.
Philadelphia. A workman who
drovo lib) pick Into a wooden box
burled in tho collar of nn old building
that waa being razed In this cly, un
covered a hidden mystery. Tho box
was carried out nnd broken open. In
It wns n brass-bound trunk and in
tho trunk was tho body cf a man part
ly destroyed by quicklime. Tho body
had ulso been covered with strips of
leather, which hnd been soaked In
acid to hnston tho work of decay nnd
destruction.
Within n short tlmo tho police of
tho city hnd cstnbllshed tho Identity
of tho murdered man. From tho teeth,
a partly destroyed notebook and a few
remnants of clothing, tho body was
recognized as thnt of Daniel J. Mc
N'lehol, aged 25, who had disappeared
from his homo on March 30, 1011. Mc
NIcliol was In tho leather business
and had for his foreman Edward J.
Kelley, who, after tho fnlluro of tho
leather concern, opened a laundry In
tho bulldjng under which tho body of
McNIchol wns found.
Quarrel Led to Killing
Thcro had beon financial transac
tions between McNIchol and Kelley
mid It Is tho theory of tho detectives
that tho men quarreled In tho clllco
of tho leather company on March 30,
and that Kelley struck down his em
ployer, placed his body in tho trunk
nnd took tho latter in hia wagon to
tho building whoro tho laundry waa
opened up tho next day. About tho tlmo
of McNIchol'a dlaappcarance, Kolloy
wnn seen nt work excavating a hole
In tho collar of his now placo of busi
ness. He said ho was digging a placo
for a furnace
Following tho discovery of tho body,
Kelley read in a paper that ho wna
wanted, and, after consulting his wife,
telephoned to tho polico that ho was
In the Trunk Waa the Body of a Man.
willing to submit to arrest After he
had been questioned ho was held as
a suspect, but subsequent develop
ments resulted in a formal charge of
murdor being lodged against him.
Kolloy declares ho is innocent and
says McNIchol is allvo and thnt he
had mot him a number of times since
hlB disappearance.
BCYS FORM THIEVES' CLUB
Two Members of the "Terrible .Fifty
Eight" Arrested by the Polico
in Orange.
Orange, N. J. Tho arrost of two
lada, nino and ten years old, in this
city brought to light tho oxlstenco in
West. Orango of a club ot small boya
banded together as tho "Crooks' Ath
letic Club, or tho Torrlblo Fifty
Eight." Tho object of tho club, aa
ascertained by Polico Chief John Dra
boll, is to promoto potty thlovlng
among Its mombors.
Gcorgo Durr of 2 Orango placo,
West Orango, and John McNorney cf
Elm Btroot, that town, wero paroled
fo appoar boforo tho Juvcnllo court
on a chargo of larceny. Thoy woro
arrested for shoplifting in Henry F.
Schmidt's Btoro at 200 Main streot
this city. Thoy had taken pen knives,
cigarettes, flashlights and other loot.
Fined for Sleeping In Station.
Boston. Gcorgo S. Whlto of no
placo in particular excopt tho North
Btatlon in Uoston, waa recently flnod
f 10 by Judge Hurko in muuiclpnl court.
Whlto admitted ho had slept in tho
station whllo standing erect and that
his position caused a groat crowd to
collect.
Chief Won Goose But Lost Job.
Wost Borwlck, Pa. Chief of Police
Georgo W. Sllkor took a chanco at a
party and won a gooso, but drow a bub
ponslon from Chief Burgess C, W.
Freas. Ho Ib charged with "allowing
gambling and supporting tho gambling
by participation."
LONG A PLAGUE TO YOUTH
8choolboys of Many Centuries Ago
Had to Wrestle With Problems
of Arithmetic.
Tho modern schoolboy may find
comfort In tho fact that for 3,000 years
schoolboys havo beon worried by Just
such desperato problems In arithmetic
aa .' noy him mo3t.
Among tho archcologlcal discoveries
In Egypt Is a papyrus roll, In excellent
condition, dating from a period about
1700 B. C. This roll, which has a long
heading beginning "Directions how to
attain tho knowledgo of all dark
things," proves beyond a doubt that
tho Egyptian of that tlmo had a thor
ough knowledgo of tho elements of
arithmetic.
Numerous examples show that their
principal operations with units and
fractions woro mado by means of addi
tion and multiplication. Subtraction and
division woro not known in tholr pres
ent form, but correct results wero ob
tained, nevertheless.
Equations nro also found In tho
papyrus. Hero la one which brings the
Egyptian Bchoolboy homo to ub:
Ten meusures of barley aro to bo di
vided among ten persona In such a man
nor that each subsequent person shnll
recclvo one-eighth of u measure loss
than tho ono boforo him. Another ex
nmplo given Is: Thoro aro seven men,
each ono has seven cnta, each cat has
eaten soven mice, each mouse has
eaten seven grains of barley. Each
grain of barley would havo yielded
seven measuroa of barley. How much
barley has been lost?
Tho papyrus also contains calcula
tions of area, tho calculation of tho
area of a circle, nttempt3 nt squaring
tho circle, and finally calculation of
tho cubic measurements of pyramids.
Shallow.
Hodgo Is ho a deep thinker?
Dodgo No; Ho bogina to flounder
beforo ho getu out very deep.
Joy la tho greatest Intoxicant
known.
A womnn may havo a poor memory,
but sho nover forgets a compliment.
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Weather-Proof
Any man with a title to normal health may hurl
cheery defiance in the teeth of the weather, even in its
wilder moods.
It's wholly a matter of blood-current and tissue
cells, and everybody knows that sturdiness and vigor
in these regards depend largely on good, nourishing
rood.
Much of the food in the ordinary dietary is lack
ing in certain vitalizing elements which Nature has
designed for sturdy growth and resistance to disease
Especially is this true of white bread and white flour
foods, because in making flour white most of the ener
gizing mineral phosphates of the grain are thrown out
in the milling process.
These vital elements are retained in the scientific
ally prepared food
Grape-Nuts
Made of whole wheat and barley, this food provides
all the nutriment of the grain, including those vitalizing
phosphates that mean everything in building up and
maintaining a robust, vigorous body and keen intellect
A ration of Grape-Nuts along with the other food
has worked wonders for thousands. Ready to eat.
economical, appetizing.
"There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
Mlsunderctocd.
"Aro you a plain cook?"
"I aupposo I could bo purtlor, mum."
BANISH PIMPLES QUICKLY
Easily and Cheaply by Using Cut leu ra
Soap and Ointment. Trial Free.
Smear tho pimples lightly with Cutl
cura Ointment on end of finger and
allow It to remain on flvo minutes.
Thon batho with hot water and Cull
cura Soap and contlnuo somo minutes.
This treatment la beat upon rlaing and
retiring, but la effective at any time,
Freo samplo each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, DopL I
Boston. Sold everywhere. AdT.
Good Prospect for Business.
A young lawyer tells this Btory on
himself with a keen appreciation of
Ita humor:
"A negro camo Into my offlco re
cently and consulted with mo about
getting n divorco for his daughter, who
waa tho oldest child. After ascertain
long from tho old negro tho grounds
for a divorco ho asked mo what my
charges would bo. I told him, nnd he
said aa follows: 'Mr. , you knows
I's nlwnya given you my bualnosa?' I
told him. 'Yes,' nnd I appreciated 1L
"You knows I's nlways going to glvo
you my bualnosa, nnd Mnry what
wants tills divorco la my oldost chllo,
nnd fust nnd onllcat ono married. Tills
thing Is Just atartln', mid I has clovon
chlllun, and, of course, you'll got them
all, and couldn't you mako mo a
wholesale prlco on them?' "
Taste In Reading.
"Oliver's taato for hooka soema to
bo improving."
"I'm very glad to hear that. Hut
aro you quito Euro about It?"
"Perfectly sure. Last wool; I caught
him perusing n five-cent hair raiser,
and tills week he Is reading nothing
but dlmo novcla. That'a a hundred
per cent improvement:"
Couldn't.
She Hut papa says you'ro living be
yond your means.
He Absolutely untruo I havo no
meaiia.
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