ffFSSS'WOTVy 1 SYNOPSIS. Lawrence Jllakolny, lawyer, eota to Ptttaburg with tho forged notes In the Ilronson case to got tho deposition of John ailmoro, mllllonnlro. In tho tatter's homo ho Is attracted fay a picture of a young Klrl whom tho millionaire explains is his granddaughter. A lady requests Dlakeley to buy her n. Pullman ticket. Ho gives hor lower elevtnt and retains lower ten. He finds a drunken man In lower ten and retires In lower nine. Ho awakens In lower seven and finds his clothes and bare missing. The man In lower ton Is found murdered. Circumstantial evidence places both Ulakcley and tho unknown man who It ml exchamrcd clothes with him, under suspicion of murder. Blakelcy becomes Interested In n Rlrl In blue. Tho train Is wrecked. Blakelcy Is rescued from tho hurnlnc car by tho ulrl In blue. Ills arm Is broken. Thov fro to tho Carter place for breakfast. The Rlrl proves to bo All son Wusti his partner's sweetheart, Her peculiar actions mystify the lawyer. Bho drops her gold b.icr nnd lilakoley puts It In tils pocket. Btakctey returns home. Ho finds that ho Is under surveillance and hears of ntrunge doings In tho house next door. CHAPTER XV. Continued. As wo turned tbo corner I glanced back. Half a block bohlnd utf John eon wis moving our way Blowly. When ho saw mo ho stopped nnd pro ceeded with great deliberation to light a cigar. By hurrying, howover, ho caught tho car that wo took, and Btood unobtruslvoly on tho rear platform. Ho looked fagged, and nbsont-mlndcd-ly paid our faros, to McKnlght's de light, "We will glvo him a run for his money," ho declared, aa tho car moved countryward. "Conductor, let ua off at tho muddiest luno you can find." At ono o'clock, nfter a slx-mllo ram ble, wo entered a small country hotel. Wo had seen nothing of Johnson for a half hour. At that time ho was a quartor of a mllo behind us, and losing rapidly. Before wo had finished our luncheon he staggered Into tho. Inn. Ono of his boots was 'under his arm, and his wholo nppenranco was deplor able. Ho was coated with mud, Btreak cd with perspiration, and ho limped as ho walked. Ho chos6 a tablo not far from us and ordered Scotch. Be yond touching his hat ho paid no at tention to us. "I'm Just getting my second wind," McKnlght declared. "How do you feel, Mr. Johncon? Sis or eight miles inoro and we'll all enjoy our dinners." John con put down the glass ho had raised to his lips without replying. Tho fact was, however, that I was like Johnson. I was soft from my week's Inaction, and I was pretty well '.ono up. McKnlght, who was a well spring of vitality and high spirits, or dered a strango concoction, mado of nearly everything in tho bar, and sent It over to the detective, but Johnson refused it "I hato that kind of person' Mc Knlght said pettishly. "Kind of a fol low that thinks you're going to poison his dog if you offer him a bono." When wo got to tho car lino, with Johnson a draggled and drooping tail to tho kite, I was in hotter spirits, I had told McKnlght tho story of tho throe hours just after tho wreck; I had not named tho girl, of course; Bho had my promlso of secrecy. But I told him everything elso. It was a relief to havo a fresh mind on it: I had puz zled so much over tho Incldont at tho farm-house, and tho necklace in tho gold bag, that I had lost perspective. He had been interested, but Inclined to bo amused, until I came to the. broken chain. Then ho had whistled softly. "But thera nro tons of flno gold chains mndo evory year," ho said, "Why in tho world do you think that tho or smeary pleco camo from that nocklace?" I hud looked around. Johnson was far behind, scraping tho mud off his feet with a pleco of stick. "I havo tho short end of the chain In tho sealskin bag," I reminded him. "When I couldn't sleep this morning I thought I would settle It, ono way or tho other, it was hell to go nloug tho way I had boon doing, And there's no doubt about it, Rich, It's tho samo chain." Wo walked along in sllcnco until wo caught tho car back to town. "Wen," ho said finally, "you know tho girl, of courso, and I don't But If you llko her nnd I think myself you're rather hard hit, old man-! wouldn't glvo a whoop about the chain in tho gold purso. It's Just ono of tho littlo coincidences that hang people now and then. And as for last night If she's the kind of a girl you say sho is, and you think sho had any thing to do with that, you you're addled, that's all. You can depcid on it, tho lady of the ompty house last wcok Is tho lady of last night And yet your train acquaintance wnu in Altoona at thrt timo." Just bofore wo got off the car, I re verted to tho subject again. It was neyer far back in my mind. "About the young lady of tho train, Rich," I said, with what I suppose was elaborate carelessness, "I don't want you to get a wrong impression, i am rather unlikely to see her again, but even if I do, I I bolljvo she Is al ready 'bespoke,' or tnext thing to it" Ho made no' reply, but as 1 opened tho door with my latch-key bo stood looking up at me from tho pave ment with bis quizzical smllo. "Love is Uk 'be measles," be orat- JjQWJtRT Uy WAKf ROBERTA RINE SHADOWS "And There's Johnson Just Behind, the Coolest Proposition In Washington." ed. "Tho older you get it, tho worBO tho attack." Johnson did not appear again that day.i A email man in a rntneoat took his place. Tho next morning I mado my initial trip to the ofllae, tho rain coat Btlll on hand. I had a short con ference with Miller, tho district at torney, at 11. Bronson was under sur veillance, he said, and any attempt to sell tho notes to him would probably result In their recovery. In tho mean time, as I know, tho Commonwealth had continued the caso, In hopo of such contingency. At noon I left tho offlco nnd took a veterinarian to boo Candida, the in jured pony. By ono o'clock my first day's duties woro performed, nnd a long Sahara of hot afternoon stretched ahead. McKnlght, always glad to escape from tho grind, sug gested a vaudeville, and in sheer ennui I consented. I could neither ride, drive nor golf, and my own com pany bored mo to distraction. "Coolest place in town theso days," ho declared. "Electric fanB, breozy songs, airy costumes., And there's Johnson just bohlnd tho coolest proposition in Washington." Ho gravely bought threo tickets and presented tho detective with ono. Then wo wont In. Having lived a nor mal, busy life, tho theater In tho nft cruoon is to mo about on a par with ico cream for breakfast Up on tho stago a very stout woman In short pink Bklrts, with a smllo that Mc Knlght declared looked llko a slash in a roll of butter, was singing nasally, with a laborious kick at tho end of each vorse. Johnson, two rows ahead, wcut to sleep. McKnlght prodded mo with his' elbow. "Look at the first box to tho right," ho said, in a stage whisper. " ( want you to como over at tho end of this act." It was tho first time I had Been hor since I put hor In the cab at Balti more. Outwardly t presurao I was calm, for no ono turned to staro at me, but evory atom of mo cried out at tho sight of hor. Sho was lean ing, bent forward, Hps slightly parted, gazing ruptly at the Jnpaneso-conjurer who had replaced whut Mo Knight disrespectfully called the Col umns of Hercules. Compared with the draggled lady of tho farm houso, sho was radiant. v For that first momont there was nothing but joy at tho sight of her. McKnlght's touch on my arm brought me back to reality. "Como over and meet them," he said. "That's tho cousin Miss West is visiting, Mrs. Dallas." But I would not go. After ho wont I Bat there nlono, painfully conscious that I was being pointed out and stared at from tho box. The nbomln ablo Japancso gave way to yet more atrocious performing dogs. "How many offers of marriage will tho young lady In tho box have?" The dog stopped sagel at "none," and then pulled out a card that said eight Wild .shouts of gleo by the audlenco. "Tho fools," I muttered. After a littlo I glanced over. Mrs. Dallas was talking to McKnlght but sho was looking straight at me. Sho was flushed, but more calm than I, and tho did not bow, I fumbled for my hat, but tho next moment I saw that they wero going, and I sat still. When McKnlght camo back he was triumphant. "I've mado an engagement for you," he said. "Mrs. Dallas asked mo to EN bring you to dlnnor' to-night, and 1 said I knew you would fall all ovor yoursolf to go. You aro requested to bring along the broken nrm, and any othpr souvenirs of tho wreck that you may posscbs." "I'll do nothing of tho sort," I de clared, struggling against my inclina tion. "I can't oven tio my necktie, and, I havo to havo my food cut for mo." "Oh, that's all right," ho said eas ily. "I'll send Stoglo ovor to fix you up, and Mrs. Dal knows all about tho arm. I told hor." (Stoglo is his Japancso factotum, bo called becauso ho is lean, a yellowish brown In color, nnd becauso ho claims to havo been Bhlppcd into, this country in a bos.) The cinematograph was finishing tho program. Tho houso was dark and the music had stopped, as it docs in the circus just before somebody risks his nock at so much a nock In tho dip of death, or tho hundred-foot dlvo. Then, with a sort of, shock, I saw on tho white curtain tho announcement? THE NEXT PICTUrtE IS THE DOOMED WASHINGTON FLIEIt. TAKEN A BHOItT DIS TANCE FltOM THE SCENE OP THE WltECK ON THE FATAL MOUNINQ OF SEPTEMBER TENTH. TWO MILES FAItTHEU ON IT MET WITH ALMOST COM PLETE ANNIHILATION. I confoss to a return of somo of tho slckonlng sensations of tho wrock; people around mo wero leaning for ward with tenso faces. Then tho let ters wero gone nnd I saw a long lev el stretch of track, oven tho broken stono between tho ties standing out distinctly. Far off undor a' cloud of smoke a small object was rushing to ward uo and growing larger as it came. Now it was op us, a mammoth in slzo, with huge drivors and a colossal tender. Tho engine loaped aside, aa If Just in time to eavo us from de struction, with a gllinpso of a stoop ing fireman and a grimy onglnoor. Tho long train of sleepers followed. From a forward vostibulo a portor In a white coat waved his hand. Tho rost of tho cars scorned still wrapped in Biumuor. with mixed sensations I saw ray own car, Ontario, fly past, and then I roso to my feot nnd gripped McKnlght's shoulder. On tbo lowest stop of tho last car, ono foot hnnglng free, wan a man. His black dorby hat was pulled well down to keep it from blowing away, and his coat was flying open in tho wind. Ho wnB Bwung' well out from the car, his freo bjtnd gripping a small vallao, overy musclo tenso for a Jump. "Good Ood, that's my man!" I oald hoarsely, us tho audience broko into nppluuso. McKnlght half rose; In his scat ahead Johnson stifled a yawn and turned to eye mo, I dropped into my chair limply, and tried to control my excitement 'Tho man on tho last platform of tho train," I said. . "Ho was Just about to leap; I'll swear that wan my bag." "Could you seo his face?" McKnlght aekod in an undertone. "Would you know hlnf again?" "No. His hat was pulled down and his head was bent I'm going buck to find out where that plcturo was ta ken. They say two miles, but it may have been forty." Tho audlenco, busy with Its wrapa, had not noticed. Mrs. Dallas and Al ison West had gono. In front of us Johnson had dropped his hat and was stooping for it "This way," I motioned to Mc Knlght, and wo wheeled Into the nar row passago behind us, back of tho boxes. At tho end thoro was a door lending Into tho wings, and as we went h61dl through I turnod tho key Tho final Rot was being struck, nnd no on6 paid any attention to .us. Luck ily they 'wora -similarly indlfforont to a banging at tho door I had lockod, it banging whlcih, I Judged, signified Johnson. "I guess wo'vo broken up his inter ference." McKnlght chuckled. Stago hands were hurrying in overy direction; plccos of tho sldo wall of tho last drawing room menaced us; a switchboard bohlnd us was singing llko a tea;kottlo. Bvorywhoro wo stopped wo woro in somebody's way. At last wo woro across, confronting a man In hid shirt sleeves, who by dots arid dushes of profanity Boomed to bo directing tho chaos, "Well?" ho said, wheeling on ub. "What can I do for you?" "I would llko to ask," I replied, "If you havo auy idea, Just whoro the last cinematograph plcturo was taken." "Brokon board picnickers lako?" "No. Tho Washington Fllor." Ho glanced at my bandagod arm, "Tho announcement onys two miles," McKnlght put In, "but wo should llko to know whether it is rail road miles, automoblio miles, or po liceman miles." "I am sorry I can't toll you," ho ro piled, moro civilly. "Wo got thoso pic tures by contract Wo don't tako them oursclvos." "Whero aro tho company's offices?" "Now York." Ho stopped forward and grasped a super by tho shoulder. "What in blazes aro you doing with that gold chair in a kitchen sot? Tako that pleco of pink plush thero and throw it ovor a soap box, If you havo not got a kitchen chair."- I had not realized tho extent of tho shock, but now I dropped Into a chalt and wlpcl my forehead. Tho unex pected gllrapso of Alison West fol lowed almost Immediately by tho rev elation of tho picture, hndloft mo limp and unnerved. McKnlght was looking at his watch. "Ho BayB tho moving plcturo poo pie havo an ofllco down-town. Wo can mako it if wo go on now." So ho called a cab. and wo started at a gallop. There was no sign of tho detocttve. "Upon my word," Rlchoy said, "1 fool lonely without him." Tho pooplo nt tho down-town ofllco of tho cinematograph company woro very obliging. Tho plcturo had boon taken, they saldat M , Just two miles boyond tho Bcono of tho wreck. It was not mfoch, but it was something to work onT I decided not to go homo, but to send McKnlght's Jap for my clothes, and to dross at tho Incubator; I was dotermlnod, if possible, to mako my next day's investigations without Johnson. In tho moantlme, even if it was for tho last timo, I would soo Her that night. I gave Stoglo a note for Mrs. Klopton, nnd with my dinner clothos thoro camo back tho gold bag wrupped In tissue papor. (TO HE CONTINUED.) Why Dickon Wroto "Christmas Carol." I noticed a statement in ono of the papers recently that Dickens wroto his "Christmas Carol" with tho express ob Joct of reviving tho popular Interest In tho Christmas season and Its festivi ties. This Is a pleasing fiction which had often been previously met with. Tho fact Is that Dickons wroto the "Christmas Carol" In tho autumn ot 1843 bocauso ho waB Bhort of money nnd In great need of $5,000, Tho most candid chaptor In Forstor's "Llfo" Is tho ono (In tho second volume) which relates tho talo of Dickens' disappoint ment und despair when ho rccolved the ''Cnrol" accounts, for Instead of tho 13.000 ho "had sot his heart nnd souI upon," tho sum duo to him was only ii.iBO. DIckcnB wroto: "My year's bills, unpaid, aro so terrific that all tho energy nnd determination I can possibly exert will bo roqulred to clear mo beforo I go abroad." Dick ens ultimately cleared J2.G30 by the "ChrTstmar Carol" on a sale of 15,000 copies. London Truth. Good Joko on Voter, An amusing story Is told of what happened to a pluralist votor in the 1000 election In England. He was a keen politician nnd bellovlng that the voto ho posBCBscd In a distant constit uency would bo of valuo to his candi date engaged a special train to take him there. On entering tho polling booth ho found tho engineer of the train at his heels. Ho then discovered that tho engineer happened to bo on tho voting register of the same town and was taking tho opportunity of his accidental prosonco thero to record his Voto which was glvon for the other side. Not Wanted In Calf. Perhaps tho Intending purchaser who recently wroto a London book sellor: "Pleaso forward mo a copy of Tennyson, but pleaso not one bound in calf, as 1 am a vegetarian," intended tq employ tho volume only nti a food for thought Christian ftclencr Monthly, COULDN'T PUT BLAME ON HIM Unreliability of the Doctors Cause ef Tramp's Seeming Disregard of Truth. Clemont J. Drlscoll, Now York's com missioner of weights nnd measures, ad vocates tho salo of bread strictly by weight "Soma bakers oppose this Idea," he said tho other day. "Thoj provq that it is better for tho poor to trust to tho bakor's generosity than to pin him down, as grocors and butchers aro pin ned down now. 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