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The bridegroom of three months bade his wife adieu one morning and started on a business trip to a town 25 miles distant The Journey was to be made by automobile and he promised to return In time for seven o’clock din ner as usual. But.no husband appeared when din ner was served and the anxious wife watched the hands of the clock as they Journeyed on and announced that the hour was midnight, and still the husband failed to appear. The frantic wife sent telegrams to six friends of the groom living In the town where he might have gone, asking if he was spending the night with them. As dawn appeared a farm wagon drove up containing a farmer and the miss ing husband and furnishing motor power for a broken down automobile that trailed behind. Almost simulta neously cams a messenger boy with an answer to one of the telegrams, fol lowed at Intervals by five others, and all of the telegrams said: “Yes, John Is spending the night with me.” In loyalty what surpasses man? Blessed Sympathy. Sympathy with animals blesses and humanizes men and women. To get into real relations with an animal is a liberal education. It Is something to be really Interested even In a plant and to observe the working of life in any sphere not our own. How much more when that life Is directing a personality which consciously looks up to us and will love us if we will let It!—Christian Register. Standard of Sanity. Shakespeare was asked If Hamlet was sane. "As sane as the Fourth of July," he replied. Helpmates and soulmates are not always synonymous. i—.. ■ TERRIBLE, INDEED. Hoyle—A woman is said to be as old as she looks. Mrs. Hoyle—It would be terrible if she were as old as other women think she looks. Noted Author. "See that man over there with the black mustache?" said Tompy. "Yes," said the visitor. “Well,” said Tompy, “he is the au thor of one of the most popular seri als in a hundred years.” "Really?" said the visitor. "Why, he doesn't look like a literary man." "No," said Tompy. "He isn’t—he's the inventor of popped grits, the best selling cereal on the market"—Har per’s Weekly. Well Defended. He whose study is among the shad ows and lights of nature has an un suspected coat of mail defending him among all the turmoil.—Mrs. Ollphant Stem Call of Duty. Reform is not Joyous, but griev ous; no single man can reform him self without stem suffering and stem working; how much less can a nation of men!—Carlyle. I If there ever is a time when you are justified in cussing, It is when the summer weather sets your appetite to fussing; But there isn’t any need to risk your soul and shock the neighbors— Tempt your appetite with Toasties and go singing to your labors. Written by W. J. MCSGROVI, ; Teuipe, Arias. One of the 50 Jinnies for which the Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich., paid 11000.00 in May. THE HEART OF A WOMAN .... 3Y BAJ*ON£&S QftGXY. Author of "The Scarlet Pi**^aMilonot Rule.” Etc. *--- —-—---* SYNOPSIS. The story opens In Brussels. Loutab Karris, a charming English girl of family, friends ani wealth, while absently walk ing along the Boulevard Waterloo In a November rain, runs Into a tragedy. A man is found murdered In a taxi cab; his companion who bad left the cab some time before and told the chauffeur to drive to a certain address haa disap peared and Is unknown. The soene shifts to London. Lake da Mountford. Louisa's affianced, the nephew and heir of the eccentric and wealthy Lord Radcliffe, is In trouble. An alleged direct heir, the unknown son of another brother, has notified Lord Radcliffe of his claims. The old man. passionately fond of Luke, claims that be has examined the papers and that the claimant is an Im postor. Suddenly the alleged Phillip do Mount ford appears in London. After a ahort in terview with Lord Radcliffe his claims are recognized and he is Installed a» heir. Without explanation Luke is practically disowned. Phillip seems to exert unlimit ed Influence over Lord Radcliffe which puzzles his friends and deflea Investiga tion. Lord Radcliffe will explain to no one. A year has passed since the tragedy In Brussels. Suddenly It is repeated ery detail in London. The victim Is Phil" lip de Mountford. Every circumstance ana a very apparent motive points to the dis placed nephew, Luke, as the murderer, in vain, Louisa, in her blind faith. tried to prove Luke innocent. Every investigation brightens the chains of evidence. At the coroner’s inquest the startling develop ment that the murdered man is not Phillip de Mountford but a common scoundrel de nounced by his father and mother, who identified the body as their son, only com plicates the situation. It does not in the least upset the appalling proofs of Luke s guilt. A warrant is Issued for his arrest but because of his station In life the police secretly warn him to leave the country before the warrant Is served. This he pre Kares to do. Louisa sees him and asks im pointedly for the truth. He con fesses his guilt CHAPTER XXX—(Continued.) He looked the part and always acted It, and fewer blunders had undoubted ly been committed In the detective de partment of the metropolitan police Bince Sir Thomas Ryder took tha guid ing reins In hand. "I suppose," he said at last, “that you’ve some to see me about this de Mountford business." “I have,” replied Colonel Harris, simply. “Well' It’s not a pleasant business." "I know that. The papers are full of it. and It's all a confounded dam nable business, Tom. and that's all about it." "Unfortunately It's not ‘all about It,’ " rejoined Sir Thomas, dryly. “That’s what Louisa says. Women are so Queer about things of that sort, and the papers are full of twaddle. She la anxious about Luke." "I don’t wonder." "But It’s all nonsenai Isn’t It?” "What Is?” Colonel Harris did not reply Imme diately; for one thing, he did not know exactly how to put his own fears and anxieties Into words. They were so horrible and so far fetched that to tall them plainly and baldly to his brother inlaw, to this man with whom he was soberly smoking a cigar In a sober looking office, whilst hansoms and taxi cabs were rattling past in the street below within sight and hearing, seemed little short of idiocy. He was not a man of deep penetration—was Colonel Harris—no great reader of thoughts or of character. He tried to look keenly at Sir Thomas’ shrewd face, but all he was conscious of was a network of wrinkles round a pair of eyes which seemed to be twinkling with humor. Humor at this moment? Great heav ens above! “I wish,” he blurted on* somewhat crossly, at last, "you’d help me out a bit, Tom. Hang It all, man, all this officialism makes me dumb.” "Don’t," said Bir Thomas, dryly, "let it do that. Will,” and the speaker’s eyes seemed to twinkle even more mer rily than before. "Well, then, tell me something about Luke.” "Luke de Mountford," mused the other, as If the name recalled soma dis tant impression. "Yes, Luke de Mountford, who is en gaged to Louisa, your niece, man, and she’s breaking her heart with all the drivel these newspapers talk and I couldn't bear It any longer; so I’ve come to you, Tom, and you must tell me what truth there Is In the drivel and that’s all I want to know.” Sir Thomas Ryder seemed, whilst the other thus talked volubly, to have suddenly made up his mind to say more than had originally been his in tention. Anyway, he now said with abrupt directness: "If, my good Will, by “drtvel' you mean that In the matter of the assas sination of Philip de Mountford. in a taxicab last night grave suspicion rests on his cousin, Luke, then there’s a great deal of truth in the drivel.” Colonel Harris received the sudden blow without much apparent emotion. He had been sitting In an armchair •with one hand burled In his trousers pocket, the other holding a cigar. Now he merely glanced down at the clagr for a moment and then conveyed It to his 11ns. "What?” he asked, "doeat that mean, exactly ?’’ "That unless Luke de Mountford -will, within the next 48 hours, answer cer tain Questions more satisfactorily than he has done hitherto, he will be arrest ed on a charge of murder. "That Is Impossible,” protested Col onel Harris, hotly. “Impossible? Why?” "Because—because—hang It all, man, you know Luke de Mountford. Do you believe for a moment that he would commit such a dastardly crime? Why the boy wouldn’t know how to plan such villany, let alone carry It through.'"’ “My dear Will,” rejoined the other, Quietly, “the many years which I have spent at this desk have taught me many things. Among others, I have learned that every man Is more or less capable of crime; It only depends what the Incentive—the temptation, if you like to call It so—or tlio provocation happens to be." “But here there was no provocation, no temptation, no—” Colonel Harris paused abruptly. He felt rather than saw his brotherlnlaw's eyes In their framework of wrinkles resting with obvious sense of amuse ment upon his wrathful face. No temp tation? And what of a peerage and a fortune lost, that could only be re gained by the deaHi of the Intruder? No provocation? And what of the brother and sister turned out of the old home? The good, simple-minded man had sense enough to see that here, if he wished to speak for Luke, he was on the wrong track. "What Questions,” he said abruptly, "does Luke not answer satisfactorily?” "How ho spent certain hours of yes terday evening." "He was dancing attendance upon Louisa and me." "Oh, was lie? Well, that's satlsfuc I tory tatmgb. At what time dkl you part from him?" "Well, ha escorted us to the Danish lefatlan where we wore dining.” "At what time waa that?" “Eight (/clock dinner.” "But be waa not dining at the Danish legation V “No. Ha cam* and fetched ua again soon after 11," “ttlafa right, but between white* 7" "Tea Between 10 and soon after 11?" "Walk—1 a oppose—I don't know—yea of oourse, I do! What a stupid ass I ana Luke told me himself that he was going to sao his uncle at the Some thing chib In Shaftesbury avenue." "The Veteran's?” “Tea. that's It—the Veterans.’ Luke wanted to persuade Radclyffe to go abroad for the benuflt of his health— Algeclras—that was It.” "Quite so," rejoined Sir Thomas dry ly.” and Luke de Mountford went to the Veterans' club In Shaftesbury ave nue, and h« asked to Bee Lord Rad clylta, who was a mors or less regular habitue at that hour. On being told that Lord Radclyffe was not there that evening, but that Mr. de Mountford was In the smoking room, Luke elected to go In and presumably to have a talk with hla cousin." "X didn’t know that,” said Colonel Harris.' "Ho, but we did. La't me tell you what followed. The hall porter of the club showed Luke Into the smoking room, and less than five minutes later he heard loud and angry words pro ceeding front that room. That a quar rel waa going on between the two oou slns was of course obvious. One or two members of the club remarked on the notes, vid ona gentleman act ually opened the smoking room door to sea what was going on. He eoems to have heard the words 'blackguard’ and 'beggar* pleasingly Intermingled and flying from one young man to the other. This witness knew Philip da Mountford very well by sight, hut ho had never seen Luke. But remem ber that Luke denies neither the In terview nor the quarrel. The former lasted doss on an hour, and Isord Rad clyffe’s Journey to Algeclran was the original topic of discussion. At about 9 o'clock Luke emerged from the smok ing room. The hall porter saw film. He was than very pale and almost tot tered as he walked. Men do get at times Intoxicated with rage, you know. Will." "I know that, and I can well imag ine what happened at that interview. Radclyffe had become such a confound ed fool that he would not move or do anything without this Philip's permis sion; and Luke was determined to get him down to Algcclras at once. As Philip was at the club, he thought that he would tackle him then and there.” "Quite so. He did tackle him. And equally at course the two men quar reled. "But ban£ It all, one’s not going to murder every man with whom one quarrels," “Stop a moment. Will. As you say, one doea not murder every man with whom one quarrels. But you must ad mit that this Is altogether an excep tional case. There was more than a mare quarrel between these two men. Thera was deadly enmity—Justified en mity, I’ll Own, on Luke's side. We have already come across—It was not very difficult—two or three of the servants who were In lord Radclyfte'g house be fore Luka and his brother and sister were finally turned out of it. They all have tales to tell of the terrible rows which used to go on in the house between the cousins. You, Will, must know how Luke hated this Philip do Mountford?" Again Colonel Harris was silent. What was the use of denying such an obvious truth? "You wanted," continued the other man quietly, "to hear the truth, Will, and you've got it- For Louisa’s sake, for all our sakes. In fact, I made up my mind to tell you all—or most—that Is officially known to me at this mo ment. You must get Louisa out of town at onco—take her abroad If you can, and keep English newspapers away from her.” “She won't come," said Colonel Har ris firmly. "Oh, yes she will. If you put it the right way." Which saying on the part of the acute chief of our criminal lnvestlga^ tlon department was but a further proof—if Indeed such proofs were still needed nowadays—of how little clever men know of commonplace women. “The case will be extremely unpleas ant," resumed Sir Thomas, who was quite unconscious of the Ignorance which he bad Just displayed. "It will be hateful for you, and quite Impos sible for Louisa.” "Always supposing," retorted the other, "that Luke is guilty, which neither I nor Louisa will admit for a moment." "That," rejoined Sir Thomas, “is as you please." He put down his cigar, crossed one leg over the other, loaned back In his chair, and folded his tapering hands together, putting finger to finger, with the gesture of one who Is dealing with a youthful mind, and has much to ex plain. “Look bare, Will," he resumed, “I hare three men standing in my outer office at the present moment. Two of them have oorne back after having questioned the past servants of the Grosvenor square household. There was the butler, Parker, and an elderly housekeeper, both of whom are In serv ice In tha west end. The woman tried to screen Luke and to make light of tha many quarrels which broke out be tween the cousins on all possible oc casions, but she broke down under our fellows’ sharp questions. She had to admit that the arrogance of the one man often drove the other to unguard ed language, and that she had on more than one occasion heard the men serv ants of the house say that they would not be astonished If murder en sued one day. Well, we have these two witnesses, and can easily get hold of the two or three footmen who expressed those particular views. So much for the past six months. Now for last night. The third man who is out there waiting for me to see him Is Frederick Power, hall porter at the Veterans’ club. The story which he told to our Mr. Travers is so im portant in its minutest detail, that I have decided to question him myself so that I may leave no possible loop hole to doubt or to inaccuracy In the retelling. I am going to send for the man now. You may come and sit round here, the other side of my desk; from this position you will be able to watch the man’s face, as well as hear what he has got to say. Now, would you like that?” “Right you are, Tom,” was Colonel Harris' brief method of acknowledging his brotherlnlaw’s kindness, in thus breaking a piece of red tape, and set ting aside a very strict official rule. He did as Sir Thomas direoted, and sat down in the recess behind the chiefs desk, in a comfortable arm chair with hi* back to the curtained window. He would not acknowledge even to himself how deeply stlrerd he was by all that he had heard, and now by the anticipation of what was yet to come. Emotion—like he was experiencing now —had never come bis way before now. He had lost his only son on ths Mod der river—that had been sorrow of an acute kind, be had laid a much loved wife to rest In the village churchyard close to Ids stately home In Kent; and he had escorted bis late beloved sov ereign to her Last resting place on that never-to-be-forgotten day close on five years ago now; those three events In his life had been the great strains to which his nerves and sensibilities had been subjected In ths past But this was altogether different The sensations which the good man ex perienced were such (hat he scarcely knew them himself; he had facedsorrow before, never dishonor—some one else'B dishonor, of course—still L* touched him very nearly, for, though he might not be u very keen observer, he dearly loved his daughter, and dishonor seemed to be touching her, striking at her through Luka CHAPTER XX. AND THAT'S THE TRUTH. Frederick Power was shown In. I wont have you think that thovo was anything remarkable about the man, or anything that would—even momentarily—distinguish him from any number of other hall porters, who wear a uniform and peaked cap, have the air of having seen miliary service, and wear a couple of medals on u well-de veloped chest. He was perfectly respectful, all the more so because Sir Thomas was Gen eral 61r Thomas Kyder, K. C. B.—a fact which Impressed the ex-soldler far more than any other exalted title, non-mllt ary In character, would have done. Hs saluted and steed at attention, and as he gave answer to Sir Thomas' preliminary questions his words rang out clear and direct, obviously truthful, as if echoing In the barrack yard at C a. m. of u frosty spring morning. "Your name Lb---?" “Frederick Powers, sir.” “You are ball porter at the Veterans' club in Shaftesbury avenue." "X§6, sir." "You were In the lobby of the olub last night as usual?" “Yes, sir." "And Hr. Phillip de Mountford, who Is a member of the club, was lu the smoking room at S o'clock yesterday evening?" “Yes, sir.” "He came almost every evening, I un derstand?” "That’s right, sir." “Alone mostly?” "Not often, sir. Lord Radolyffa was with him most evenings." "And Lord Radclyffe and Mr. de Mountford dined together on those oc casions In the club dining room?" “Yes, sir.” “But last night Mr. Do Mountford was alone?" “Yes. sir. He had some dinner at about half past seven and then ha went to the smoking room.” "Later on a gentleman called to see him ?" “That's right, sir. It was about a quarter past eight. The gentleman asked to see Lord Radclyffe, but X said thut 'Is lordship 'odn't coine to the club this night. Then the gentleman asked If Mr. da Mountford was In. and I said yes.” “And you showed him Into the smok ing room?" “1 told *Im he would And Mr. do Mountford In the smoking room; yea, sir.” “Isn't that rather against club rulos to allow strangers to walk In and out of the rooms." “Well, sir, the Veterans’ Is a new club—and the committee ain't very par tlk'lar." "I sea" So far the questions and answers had followed on one another in quick suc cession. Sir Thomas Ryder, with his clever lean head held somewhat on one side, appeared to be reciting a well learned lesson, so even and placid was the tone of his voice and so Indifferent the expression of his furrowed face. One leg was crossed over the other and his tapering hands, white and wrinkled like his face, toyed with a large ivory paper knife hardly whiter In color than they. He had not told Frederick Power to sit down, as he might have done In the case of a witness who was a civilian. He preferred to keep the man standing, and at attention, confident that he would thus get clearer and sharper re plies. "Well, then.” he resumed after a brief Interval during which he had modified his position somewhat, but had not varied the placid expression of Ills face, "you told the visitor that he would find Mr. de Mountford In the smoking room. What happened after that?" "The gentleman wulkod In, sir. And he shut the door, sir, after ’im." “Did you brajr anything that went on Inside the room?" "No, sir. I didn't pay no attention at first, sir." "Then afterward? After awhile, you did pay attention, didn’t you?” “Yes, sir, I did. The door of the smoking room Is quite close to the en trance, sir, and presently I heard loud voices like as If the two gentlemen wm quarrelling." "Did you hear what was said?" (Continued Next Week.) A NEW SPELLING CONTEST What word of five letters may be expressed In two? A composition? S. A. Decrepitude. D. K. An English county? S. X. To surpass? X L. A girl’s name? L. N. Another girl’s name? K. T. Requiring replenishing? M. T. This list may be added to by an in genious hostess; the above are merely given to show how the scheme Is worked out. I heard some young peo ple playing this game and a man who has passed the half hundred mile stone said to me with longing In his voice, “Just listen; aren’t they having a good time?" Bon Voyage. From the Denver Republican. Such a death, that leaves so much un done and so many wondrouB plana half wrought, Is nothing short of calamitous. But the last Wight has been taken, with Death at the steering wheel, and the world can only stand with bared head gazing into the unknown and exclaim; "Bon voyage, Wilbur Wright.” The Best Way. From the York Dispatch. A correspondent wants to know how to pronounce Chihuahua. The best way Is to say Chy-hcw-hewa and then laugh as though you knew better. If it Is done ar tistically, you can get away with It nearly every time. 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