r\_*_ I.. thi; TEETH OF THE TIGER v» by J MAURICE LEBLANC TRANSLATED RT ALEXANDER T01XE1RA DE MATTOS H== V J -V CHAPTER FJVE. (Continued.) “And in this case?” “In this case, Mazeraux, a man like myself, who knows Neuilly and themeighborhood of the Hois, is at once struck by those three let ters, ‘B. It. W.’ and especially by the ‘W.,’ a foreign letter, an Eng lish letter. So that in my mind’s eye, instantly, as in a flash, I saw the three letters in their logical place as initials at the head of the words for which they stand. I saw the B’ of ‘boulevard.- and the ‘it’ and the English ‘W’ of Richard } Wallace. And so I came to the Boulevard Richard-Walluee. And that, my dear sir, explains the milk in the cocoanut.” Mazcroux seemed a little doubt ful. “And what do you think, chief?” “I think nothing. I am looking about. I am building up a theory on the first basis 1 offers a probable theory. And sav to my self * I say to myself * * * 1 „ay to myself. Mazcroux, that this is a devilish mysterious little hole and that this house-Rush! Listen--— ’ ’ He pushed Mazcroux into a dark corner. They had heard a noise, the slamming of a door. Footsteps crossed the courtyard in front of the house. The lock of the outer gate grated. Some one appeared, and the light of a street lamp fell full on his face. “Dash it nil.-- muttered Mazer oux. “it’s he!” “I believe you're right.” “It’s he, chief. Look at the black stick and 1 lie blight handle. And did you see the eye glasses — and the beard? Wluit a finer you are, chief!” “Calm yourself and let’s go after him.” m*_ i i !*« it i IUC 111«1 II IUUI HU.1.V .1 MM IIUUl' • Yard Richard-Wallace and was turning into the Boulevard Mail lot. lie was Walking pretty fast, with his head up. gaily twirling his stick, lie lit a eigaret. At the end of the Boulevard Maillot, the man passed the octroi and entered Paris. The railway station of the outer circle was edose by. He went to it ami, .still followed by the others, stepped into a train that took them to Autcuil. “That's funny." said Mazeroux. "He’s doing exactly what, he did a fortnight ago. This is where he was seen." The man now went along the fortifications. In a quarter of an hour he reached the Boulevard Suchet and almost immediately afterward the house in which M. Fauville and his son had been mur dered. He climbed the fortifications op posite the house and stayed there for some minutes, motionless, with bis face to the front of the house. Then continuing Iris road he went to La Muette and plunged into the dusk of the Bois de Boulogne. “To work and boldly!” said Don Luis, quickening his pace. Mazeroux stopped him. “What do you mean, chief?” " Well, catch him by the throat. There are two of us; we couldn’t hope for a better moment.” "What.! Why, it’s impossible!” "Impossible? Are you afraid? Very well. I'll do it by myself." "Look here, chief, you're not serious!” "Why shouldn't I be serious?" "Because one can’t arrest a man without a reason.” “Without a reason? A scouu fired like this? A murderer? What more do you want?" “In the absence of compulsion, of catching him in the act, I want something that I haven't got." What’s that ?“ A warrant. 1 haven't a war rant." Mazeroux's accent was so full o! conviction, and the answer struck Don Luis Perenna ns se comical that he burst out laughing. “You have no warrant? Pool little chap! Mo.ll, I’ll soon show you if l need a warrant!” "You'll show me nothing,' cried Mazeroux, hanging on to he companion's arm. “You shan' touch the until.” “One would think lie was yoni mother!” “Come, chief.” “But. you stick-in-the-mud o an l.oimst man," shouted Don Luii 14 agrily, “if we let lliis opportunity slip shall we ever find another?” “Easily. He’s going home. I’ll inform the commissary of police. He will telephone to headquarters; and tomorrow morning-”< “And suppose the bird has flown?” “I have no warrant.” “Do you want me to sign you one, idiot?” But Don Luis mastered his rage. He felt that all his arguments would be shattered to pieces against the sergeant’s obstinacy, and that, if necessary, Ma/eroux would go to the length of defend ing the enemy against him. He simply said in a sententious tone: “One ass and you make a pair of asses; and there are as many asses as there are people who try to do police work with bits of pa per, signatures, warrants, and other gammon. Police work, my lad, in done with one’s fists. When you come upon the enemy, hit him. Otherwise, you stand a ehaincc of hitting the air. With that, good night. I'm going to bed. Tele phone to me when the job is done.” He went home, furious, sick of an adventure in which he had not had elbow room, and in which he had had to submit to the will, or, rather, to the weakness of others. But the next morning when he woke up his longing to see the po lice lay hold of the man with the ebony stick, and especially the feeling that his assistance would lie of use, impelled him to dress as quickly as he could. < t rr *i . i_u. . ii.. » y *i l uuijl b ruiur iu im; renciu', lie thought, “they'll lot themselves be done in the eye. They’re not equal to a contest of this kind.” -lust then Maze roil x rang up and asked to speak to him. lie rushed to u little telephone box which his 1 predecessor had fitted up on the first floor, in a dark recess that communicated onjy with his study, and switched oil the electric light. "Is that you, Alexandre?” "Yes, chief. I’m speaking from a wine shop near the house on the Boulevard Richard Wallace.” ' Wind about our man?” "The bird's still in tin* nest. But we're onlv just in time.” "Really?" ' "Yes. lie's parked his trunk, lie's going away this morning.” “How do they know?" “Through the woman who man ages for him. She's just come to the house and will let us in.” "Does he live alone?” "Yes, the woman cooks his meals and goes away in the eve ning. No one ever calls except, a veiled lady who has paid him three visits since he's been here. The housekeeper was not able to see what she was like. As for him, she says lie's a scholar, who spends his , time reading and working.” ; “And have you a warrant?” “Yes, we’re going to use it.” “I'll come at once.” i “You can't! We’ve got Weber at our head. Oh, by the way, have you heard the news about Mine, Fauville?” “About Mine. Fauville?” "Yes, she tried to commit sui cide last night." "What! Tried to commit sui ! eide!” Perenna had uttered an excla mation of astonishment and was very much surprised to hear, al ' i most at the same time, another cry, i j like an echo, at his elbow. Without ■ letting go the receiver, he turned -1 round and saw that Mile. Laves i jseur was in the study a few yards away from him, standing with a . distorted and livid fare. Their ■ eyes met. lie was on the point of speaking to her, bill she moved away, without, leaving the room, - however. " What the devil was she listen ing for?” Don Luis wondered. ; "And why that look of dismay?” Meanwhile, Mnzeroux contin ued : "She said, you know, that she woiildn try to kill herself. But it must have taken a goodish amount of pluck." s "But how did she do it.?" Per t eniui asked. "I'll tell you another tiuie, p;They're calling me. Whatever y'ou do. chief, don't come.” "Yes," he replied, firmly, “I'm f | coming. After all. the least l car s, do is to be in at the death, seeing that it was I who found tjie scent But don t be afraid. I shall keep in the background.'’ “Then hurry, chief. We’re de livering the attack in 10 minutes.” “I'll be with you before that.” He quickly hung up the receiver and turned on liis heel to leave the telephone box. The next moment he had flung himself against the farther wall. Just'as he,was about to pass out he had heard something click above his head and he but barely had the time to leap back and escape being struck by an iron curtain which fell in front pf him with a terrible thud. Another second and the huge mass would have crushed him. He could feel it whizzing by his head. And he had never’ before experi enced the anguish of danger so in tensely. After a moment of genuine fright, in which lie stood as petrified, with his brain in a whirl, he recovered his coolness and threw himself upon the obstacle. But it at once appeared to him that the obstacle was unsurmount able. It, was a heavy metal panel, not made of plates or lathes fastened one to the other, but formed of a solid slab, massive, firm, and strong, and covered with the sheen of time darkened here and there with patches of rust, (fa either side and at the top and bottom the edges of the panel fitted in a nor row groove which covered them hermetically. He was a prisoner. In a sudden fit of rage he banged at the metal with his fists. He remembered that, Mile. Levasseur was in the study. If she had not yet left the room-—and surely she could not have left it when the thing hap pened—she would hear the noise. She was bound to hear it. She would be sure to come back, give the alarm, and rescue him. He listened. He shouted. No reply. His voice died away against the walls and ceiling of the box in which he was shut up, and he felt that the whole house—drawing rooms, staircases, and passages— remained deaf to his appeal. And yet * * * and yet # * * Mile. Levasseur “ What does it mean? be mut tered. “ What can it all mean?” And motionless now and silent, he thought once more of the girl’s strange attitude, of her distraught face, of her haggard eyes. And he also began to wonder what acci dent had released the mechanism which had hurled the formidable iron curtain upon him, craftily and ruthlessly. CHAPTER VI. Til H .M AN WITH THE EHONT WAI.K1NO STICK. A group consisting of Deputy Chief Detective Weber, Chief In spector Ancenis, Sergeant Maze roux. three inspectors, and the Xeuilly commissary of police stood outside the gate of No. 8 Boule vard Richard-Wallace. Mazeroux was watching the ave nue de Madrid, by which Don Luis would have to come, and began to wonder what had happened; for half an hour had passed since they telephoned to each other, ami Mazeroux could find no further •pretext tor delaying the work. “It 's time to make a move,’ said Weber. “The housekeeper is making signals to us from the win dow: the joker’s dressing.” “Why not nab him when he comes out?” objected Mazeroux “We shall capture him in a mo ment.” “And if he cuts off by anotliei outlet which we don't know of?’ said the deputy chief. “You liavt to be careful with these beggars No, let’s beard him in bis den. It’s more certain.” “Still——” “What's 1 he matter with you 'Mazeroux?" asked the deputy chief, taking him on one side “Don't, you see that our men an j getting restive? They’re afraid oJ this sportsman. There’s only oru way, which is to set them on bin) as if he were a wild boast. Besides the business must be finished by • the time prefect comes.” ! “is he coining?" : “Yes. He wants to see thing* j for himself. The whole affair in jterests him enormously. So, for i ward! Are you ready, men? I'n j going to ring." The hell sounded, and the house keeper at once came and lial ' opened the gate. Although the orders were to oh servo great quiet, so as not t* | alarm the enemy too soon, the feai I which he inspired was so intensi | that there was a general rush; um I all the detectives crowded into tin j courtyard, ready for the fight ! But a window opened and sonu lone cried front the second floor: ! ■' What’s happening?" ) The deputy chief did not reply ; Twb detectives, the chief inspcc J tor, the commissary, and hiutsel entered the house, while the other 4 j remaihed in the courtyard and ! made any attempt at flight impos | sible. ■ The meeting took place on the first floor. The man had come ! down, fully dressed, with his hat : on his head; and the deputy chief I roared: J “Stop! Hands up! Are you I Hubert Lautier?” ; The man seemed disconcerted, j Five revolvers were levelled at j him. And yet no sign of fear showed in his face; and he simply said: “What do you want, monsieur? What are you here for?” ‘ ‘ We are here in the name of the law, with a warrant for your ar rest.” “A warrant for my,arrest?” “A warrant for the arrest of Hubert Lautier, residing at 8 Boulevard Richard-Wallace. ’ ’ “But it’s absurd!” said the man. “it's incredible! What does it mean? What for?” They took him by both arms, without his offering the least re sistance, pushed him into a fairly large room containing no furni ture but three rush bottomed chairs, an armchair, and a table covered with big books. “There,” said the deputy chief. “Don’t stir. If you attempt to move, so much the^worse for you.” The man made no protest. While the two detectives held him by the collar, he seemed to be reflecting, as though he were trying to un derstand the secret causes of an arrest for which he was totally un prepared. He had an intelligent face, a reddish brown beard, and a pair of blue-gray eyes which now and again showed a certain hard ness of expression behind his glasses. His broad shoulders and powerful neck pointed to physical strength. “Shall we tie his wrists?” Maze roux asked the deputy chief. “One second. The prefect’s com ing; I can hear him. Have you searched the man’s pockets? Any weapons?” No. “No flask, no phial? Nothing suspicious?” “No, nothing.” M. Desmalions arrived a no, while watching the prisoner’s face, talked in a low voice with the dep uty chief and received the particu lars of the arrest. “This is good business,” he said. “We wanted this. Now that both accomplices are in custody, they will have to speak : and everything will bo cleared up. So there was no resistance?” “None at all, Monsieur le | Prefet.” “No matter, we will remain on our guard.” The prisoner had not uttered a word, but still wore a thoughtful look, as though trying to under stand the inexplicable events of the last few minutes. Nevertheless, when he realized that, the new comer was none other than the prefect of police, he raised his head and looked at M. Desmalions, who asked him : “It is unnecessary to tell you the cause of your arrest, I pre sume?” He replied, in a deferential tone: Excuse me, Monsier ie Frefet, but I must ask you, on the con trary, to inform me. I have not the least idea of the reason. Your de tectives have made a grave mis take which a wor<|, no doubt, will be enough to set right. That word F wish for, I insist upon-” The prefect shrugged his shoul ders and said: “You are suspected of taking part in the murder of Fauville, the civil engineer, and his son Ed moud.'’ "Is llippolyte dead?’’ The cry was spontaneous, al most unconscious; a bewildered cry of dismay from a man moved to the depths of his being. And his dismay was supremely strange, his question, trying to make them believe in his ignorance, supremely unexpected. "Is llippolyte dead?” lie repeated the question in a I hoarse voice, trembling all over as i he spoke. ! “Is llippolyte dead? What are you saving" Is it possible that he can be dead? And howr? Mur dered? Kdmorul, too?” 1 The prefect once more shrugged ! his shoulders. “The mere fact of your calling ; M. Fauville by his Christian name shows that you knew him inti jmately. And, even if you were uot j concerned in his murder, it has II been mentioned often enough in ' | tin; newspapers during the last i fortnight for you to know of it.” ‘ j “1 never read a newspaper, I Monsieur le Frefet.” “What! You mean to tell ‘ i me-1” (Continued Next Week.) • A Russian Inventor living In Michl - gan has obtained a patent for a motion I'1 picture theater contained In a railroad 1 I car sio that It can be moved around the t ^ country. *“444♦44444444444+444444444 4 4 4 THE OLD FARM. 4 + -.•- +■ 4 T'r<>m the Gidumbus IDispatch. 4 4 The d farm’s for ».uc. Tt Is ad- 4 4 vprt w,1 in t.h»' county papers. Two -e 4 hurdled good a/res' of ard. and 4 4 household articles too numerous to 4 4 mention.—and a few horses, and 4 4 some cows, and a number of sheep 4 4 ;.nd hers and the agricultural ini- 4 4 plements. To b - -• .Id to the high- 4 4 e«t bidder. All sum® under $5 cash 4 4 in hand. On all sums over $•"». a 4 4 cred.t. i f 12 months will be given. 4 4 wit 1 r.pproved security. 4 4 Years ard years ago the old farm 4 4 -which wasn’t old there -became 4 4 llie l: :ne of a certain couple. A 4 4 family wat brought up on the farm 4 i 4 —several girls and boys. The girls 4 4 have married: the sons have farms 4 4 of their own in other section® of 4 ; 4 the county—nl! except one. the 4 ! 4 youngest. lip is in the army. 4 j 4 That’s why the eld farm s for sale. 4 4 There :: no one left to operate it. 4 4 and some of the children want their 4 4 portion of the estate: even before 4 4 mother or father passes away. So 4 4 the old farm’s for sale. 4 4 Jt will be Bold to a stranger. For 4 4 a few years it will be known by 4 4 the name of the people who now 4 4 own it. Then, gradually, the name 4 4 will give way to the name of the 4 4 new owner—and the last trace of 4 4 the old family will have dhsap- 4 4 peared from the neighborhood. The 4 4 war only hastened the sale of the 4 4 old farm, for the younger boy 4 4 would soon have left it any way. 4 4 But. came the war, and the old 4 4 farm’s for sale. 4 £44444444. 4 444 4 444444 The Change in Austria. From Band and Water. Eowlon. A change of considerable importance has long been effected in the Austro Hungarian service. A complete study of it has recently appeared on the continent, and its effects will be. interesting to note in the fighting of this war. Even allow ing for the large number of Slav prisoners which that service has lost, the majority of Its recruitment is still neither German nor Magyar in race, but Slav, with a cer tain small proportion of Rumanian (about 7 per cent of the whole). In the first part of the war, when re cruitment was local and fairly homo geneous. these subject and discontented elements all mustered together in the same unity, gave active opportunities for revolt and organized disaffection, a® also or general surrenders—especially to the Russians. In the latter part of the war nearly every non-German or Magyar unit has been thoroughly leavened with Ger man or Magyar elements, while Slavs have been dispersed into many units of non-Slav origin. This policy has been pursued even in the case of the officers. The result is that actively organized op position or- mutiny is more difficult to produce and has almost disappeared. Moreover, the defeat of Russia has helped the process. On the other hand, the best, units have lost their old quality under his policy, and there Is a. sort of dilution affecting the whole army, and lessening its vigor and driving power. Some special corps— for instance, the mountaineer® from the Tyrol, have remained untouched. But these are exceptions. The mass of the forces have suffered the process ? de scribed. It has given political, though very shortlived, advantages, at the ex pen®e of purely military considerations. Why bpiders Fight. From the Ieoa Angeles Times. When two or more spiders fight there is usually a good reason for the furious attack anil vigorous defense that always follow. It is not generally known that after a certain time has elapsed spiders be come incapable of spinning a web through lack of sufficient material. The glutinous substance from which tile spider spins its slender web is limited; therefore, spiders cannot keep up the construction of new snares for their prey when the old are destroyed. Very often when the web material is exhausted, they are able to avail them selves of the well-producing (lowers of their younger or more fortunate neigh bors, and this they do without any scruple whatsoever. As soon as a spider's web-construct ing material has become exhausted and its last web destroyed, it usually sets out in search of another home, and, unless it should find that is unoccupied, a battle usually ensues, which ends only with the retreat or death of the invader or defender. .Such a struggle is intensely interest ing. and will reveal some wonderful tactics and skill in spider warfare. The Invader usually comes of victorious, although in some cases the defender offers such a stiff fight that it is able to hold its own in spite of the attack of the intruder, which is in desperate straits. One curious fact is that the web ma terial will Increase alter so long a period, and the spider will spin a net in which to snare its many varieties of prey in the form of different species of insects. Spiders that are very successful In capturing food are often set upon by other spiders which have for some rea son not been as successful as their neighbor. Art in American Hotels. From the Yale Review. The fact that art has been the preroga tive of the wealtuv has been responsible for the importance assumed by the hotel In modern decoration. The opening of each important new caravansary in New York has marked a period of architectural styie. After Che Ritz we had an epoch of Adam; after tile Riltmore an era of Shiane. Nothing has fostered the American Jove of new paint and varnish so much as the hotel. In this the architecture of din 20th century has sunk even lower than dial of the 19th. Compared with our modern hotels, the mediaeval exteriors and wholly evil Interiors of Richards, n appear models of refinement and even of intellectuality and the influence of the pseudo-Roman esque was certainly less baneful. The Weary World. The war is breaking- tin world and making It sicker than an owl: the farthest nations are short of rations, and puttim-' up a how l I've just been readin' how poor old Sweden is one hi" snarl and kink: die kaiser's war way has busted Norway, and lien mark's on the blink. No laud so bum ble, it does not grumble; no country's so remote it isn't reeling, and madly feeling that it will lose its goat. In every dwelling some gent is yelling that war's a frightful frost; in mountain cot tage the peasant's pottaee costs twice whet it once cost. Tile lone Xganzas, as well as Kanas. have felt the dead I v cltill; ill Chinese Clinton they get u slant on a vastly bigger bill. The shepherd lonely whose lask is only to gu^ril Ids wool'- bunch, feels Wilhelm hitting when lie’s sitting down t»» eat ids frugal lunch. The Arctic hunter, whose spear is blunter thnn any spear should bo, thinks war costs trying when he goes buying a brand new snickersnee. There Is no tavern, no hole or cavern, no inn gl dense and dark, no river dismal, no Jungle dense and dark, no river dismal, no gulf abysmal, where war s not left its mark. Marvelous Story of Woman’* Change from Weakness to Strength by Taking Druggist’s Advice. Peru, Ind.—"I suffered from a dl* placement with backache and dragging down pains sd badly that at times I could not be on my feet and it did cot seem as though I could stand it. I tried different medicines without any benefit and several doctors told me nothing but an operation would do me any good. My drug Elst told me of ydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound. I took it with the result that I am now well and strong. I get op in the morning at fouro’clock, do my housework, then go to a factory and work all clay, come homo and get supper and f 6el good. I don’t know how many of my friends I have told what Lydia E. Fuikham’s Vegetable Compound has done forme. 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Your grocer has the lemons and anj drug store or toilet counter will supply you with three ounces of orchard whit# for a few cents. Squeeze the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle, then pul in the orchard white and shake welL This makes a quarter pint of the very S best lemon skin whitener and complex* ion beautifler known. Massage this fra ffrant, creamy lotion daily into the face* leek, arms and hands and just see ho## freckles, tan, sallowness, redness and roughness disappear and how smooth* soft and white the skin becomes. Yes I it is harmless, and the beautiful result! will surprise you.—Adv. * Expert Advice. “My husband always makes a fusa t hen 1 tell lilm I need a little money." “Your system is all wrong. Tell dm you need a lot of money. Then ! ie'11 be glad to compromise on a lib le.”-—Louisville Courier-Journal. jJQSCHEE’S GERMAN SYRUP Why use ordinary cough remedies, vhen Boschee’s Oernian Syrup has )een used so successfully for fifty-one rears in all parts of the United**' n« states for coughs, bronchitis, colds icttled in the throat, especially lung roubles. It gives the patient a good light's rest, free from coughing, with “iisy expectoration in the morning, fives nature a chance to soothe the nflamed parts, throw off the disease, iclping the patient to regain his iiealtt. Made in America and sold foi more titan half a century.—Adv. 4 Defined. “Her moistened eyes were fairly Dialing at no with rage.” I see: an attack of liquid tire." GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS WONDER How they ever got along without Red Cross Ball Blue. This really wonder* 1 ful blue makes clothes whiter than snow, '.“let the genuine Red Cross Ball Blue at your grocers.—Adv. In roiric social circles only ruen with tn income cau come In. 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