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Batal request! ‘ O U N D OUT Author o( "Mine Own Familiar Friend." etc. '»/, by C a s $ t t t Pub tiehiny Company. I . 1901, bystreet * Smith. CHAPTER XVI. “To Be Left Till Called For.” Three weeks later and the curtain rising discloses the same scone. It is the second interview between Mr. John Sharp and his new client. “Ho you had my letter, sir?” said the former. “I hope you didn’t tUiuk I was wasting time? But the fact is, you gave me rather a iarge order.” “I do not care how much time you take over the affair so long as you bring it to a successful issue. The question is, what have you been do ing? What have you discovered? Ami do you think that you are on the t ight track?" “You shall see fur yourself, sir." said the detective. "To begin with. I hud to discover at which hotel the two gentlemen put up. I went first ! of all to the ‘Lord Warden,' before 1 trying any of the others, and in the visitor's book I found a couple oT en tries, both under the same date— April 24th—'James Ferrers’ and 'S. Hurritt.’ ” At this remarkable confirmation of his suspicions, the young man could not restrain a violent start, which Mr. Sharp received as a tribute to the profession in general and himself in particular, "1 had not expected that you would discover it so easily,” murmured his client, “It almost seems—but never mind, go on!” with eagerness. “That was the name of the gentle man who arrived first and secured a private sitting room, mentioning at the same time that he exacted a friend from London, who would re main for the night and would require a bedroom. Between six and seven, a gentleman did arrive, who inquired if anyone of the name of Ferrers were stopping there. The waiter told him yes, that a gentleman of that name had arrived by the boat that morn ing, and directed him to the door of "But have you discovered anything relating to the past?—anything to show why he left Knglaml and went to America?" Mr. Sharp referred to another of the documents before him. “1 have been hard at work ever since my re turn to town, trying to pick up the thread. At. last it occurred to me to try and find out the photographer— the one who took this photograph”— selecting it from amung the other ar ticles before him. "Somewhat to my surprise, I found the same firm stii! carrying on business. I explained matters, and found them very obliging and willing to give any assistance in their power. Of course, it was too much to expect that they would re member anything about a customer who came to them so far back as 1858; but they referred back to some of their books, and"—triumphantly— "they found the name and an address. Here it is." Mr. John Sharp handed him another paper, which had an address written on it, and continued, "I went to this place, No. 23 Soutli Street, Penton ville. There happened to he a card in the window announcing ‘apartments to let for a single gentleman.’ I saw the landlady, an ancient party, and led her back by degrees to the date in question, and found that she did remember a Mr. Ferrers, or some such name, who was with her from 'fifty eight to ’sixty. Hut after that date lie left her, and went to the West End to live, ‘and she did hear-’ ” "What?” v\as tlio question, short and sharp, which fell from the other's lips. " ‘She did hear,’ ” continued Mr. Sharp, " ‘though how she came by it she didn't know, that lie subsequently went abroad under a cloud.’ ’’ "And that is all?" "That is all at present, and not so bad. I think.” "And what is to be done now?” was “Packages and cases with the initials ‘J. F.”' the private sitting room. The waiter also Informed me that they dined to gether at the table d'hote, and seemed, to al! appearances, on the most ami cable terms. The next morning they breakfasted together in their private room, and left by the 4:30 train in the afternoon. The waiter mentioned a circumstance, which I take to be of considerable importance, which was that one of the chambermaids told him that, from the appearance of the tied, she believed that the gentleman in No. 37—mennlng the one who had crossed by that boat—had slept with a pistol, or something, mulor his pil low. Ah! you sec the importance of that bit of evidence? "The next thing 1 had to do.” con tinued Mr. Sharp, “was to discover the boat by which the gentleman, who gave the name cf Ferrers, had ar rived. This was easily dotre. I found ihat he had crossed from Calais by the Hlaek Eyed Susan: that there had been a large amount of luggage which had all been sent ont to Lon don to await the owner’s arrival. As soon as I ascertained this tact, I came back here directly. I obtained per mission to inspect the luggage depot an(}-'* He paused for the sake of effect. “Go on! go on!” exclaimed the other. “I fount! a number of largo pack ages and cases marked with the ini tials .1. F. still waiting to be claimed. From the marks ami directions upon them. 1 made out that the party they belonged to had come from America, that he had visited Paris, and after wards crossed to Dover via Calais. Now, either he will claim his luggage, and by that means render detection a mere matter of A, B, C, or ho may de cide to relinquish his property, what ever its value, as being, after all, loss precious than his own safety. I in cline to the latter view myself.” His listener's face clouded. “Then it all depends upon his ap pearing to claim the luggage?” *‘JL good deal depends upon that, and everything depends upon nothing occurring to excite his suspicions. Above all things, we must keep quiet, and if the police authorities should pay you a visit, for the purpose of making inquiries into the matter, you will remember to be cautious and not give them the least hint, or we shall have it proclaimed in ail the papers, that the police have a clue, and that will put our man on his guard at once.” Thd assented to this, and asked, the impatient question. “Well, sir, in my opinion there is only one thing.” "And that is?” “Wait and see what happens!” CHAPTER XVII. At Twelve of the Clock. It is all very well to tell another person to wait, but it is not so easy for the other person. However, Ted Tlurritt had plenty to keep him em ployed. There were all his father's affairs to be settled, and arrangements made for carrying on the business in Tim [ her Lane. T'ne words (unknown to him! which his father had spoken, such a very short time before his death, as to how this event would affect his fam ily. were fully realized. They wore, at least, spared any anxiety as to the future, and were not destined to suf fer those pecuniary trials which often add so much to the sorrows t*l' a be reavement. A reward had .been offered by the police authorities for any information that might lead to the discovery of the murderer in what was now geuer ally known as "the affair of the Dover express." Copies wort? posted up out side all the different police stations and presented themselves prominent ly to the view of anyone who hap pened to pass bv. " One hundred pounds reward!” and. but for the detective's advice, this sum would have been doubled and I trebled by the son of the murdered man. “Wait and see what happens,” were the words of the oracle in the person of Mr. John Sharp. “Let nothing be done to excite the alarm of the in dividual under suspicion.” Ted had written to Dr. Jeremiah according to promise, and the doctor’s answer, when it came, contained the news of an approaching flying visit to London—an expedition which was to combine business with pleasure. Under these circumstances, of course, he must be invited to make Magnolia Lodge his headquarters. The Invitation was dispatched and accepted, and, in due time, the doctor arrived, gold-rimmed spectacles, mil itary bearing and all complete. It is hardly necessary to state that he made himself quite at home in an astonishing short space of time. “I like your doctor,” said May Bur ritt to her brother. “I liked him be fore ! say; him, from what yon told me about him: but 1 like him better even than I thought l should now I've met him.” loiter on, in the retirement of the best spare bedroom, Dv. Cartwright v.as communing with himself: ■'F had an idea slic’d be a nice girl, and I wasn’t far out. If I’d said an un commonly nice girl, I should have boon nearer the mark. Seems a sensi ble girl, too, this one. 1 should say her waist was quite twenty-two inches —and an appetite to match! And her name’s May! Pretty name that— short and sweet!” At the same moment that the doc tor was pursuing these reflections, Ted Burrltt was inserting the key into the lock of the study door. Dur ing ail this time, he had allowed none to enter tin* room except himself, it seemed to him to be full of mysteri ous associations, which no outside influence should be allowed to dis turb. Nothing had been moved. His fath er's chair, pushed back against the wall, remained just as lie had left It on the last time he had entered the room. The pen lay beside the blot ting pad, and the dust had accumulat ed over everything. He placed the lamp upon the table and drew up a chair. Then lie unlocked that same com partment., removed the bundles of pa pers as before, touched the spring which opened the secret recesses and took from it the burnt letter. Again he took a sheet of paper and a pen from the desk—he would not use that other which lay beside him, with the ink dried upon it—and be gan again to write and re-write the words which he knew by heart: "Have not forgotten ... of twenty years ... on receiving this letter ... at once for Dover ... expect to reac h ... There is that between us which ... not allow you to deny ... I ask ... and many ... you alone can ... if you refuse, I shall ... that you ... as the criminal ... of your youth ... •• i-" After working at this for about ha! an hour, without being able to add so much as a single syllable to what lie bad already deciphered, lie threw down his pen. "I would give anything to lie able to discover the missing words, but it is quite beyond the bounds of possi bility. And there is no hope this time of any intervention—any guiding in fluence to direct me—to point out the way—of any spirit voice to speak to me and tell me-” Tailing up the sheet of paper agaiu on which he had been employed, he saw. to his surprise, as he turned it over, that it was the same on which his father had written those words: "Mv dear-” The letter which had never been finished; It was strange he had not observed this before! Then he took up the pen which his father must have last used, with the traces of ink dried upon it. Should he put it away carefully as a relic? Or should it remain where it was a little longer? He dropped it and gave expression to something between a yawn and a sigh. "I'm uncommonly sleepy." he said, "and yet 1 don’t feel in the ieast inclined to go to bed. 1 have a sort of feeling as though 1 had to sit up for someone.” He gave a short laugh. “Suppose I turn in on the sofa for a hit? I wonder what makes me so sleepy? I didn't take anything at dinner but a little--” His eyes closed, and in a few minutes he was sound asleep. A clock outside in the hall struck the half-hour with out auy change taking place In his condition. Another interval of tlmp passed and then the clock struck again. One—two—three—four—five— six—seven—eight—nine — ten —, elev en—twelve! As it gave the last stroke he started up. (To be continued.) OLIVE OF ANCIENT LINEAGE. Trees 2,000 Years Old Are Still Bear ing Fruit. The olive that the bartender drops into the popular cocktail is an old campaigner. Wine drinkers thousands of years ago liked it, and for centuiv?s no banquet lias been considered com plete without it. Tile tree, olea Europea. is not only one of the oldest trees known to natu ralists, but its longevity and produc tivity are astounding. Several of these trees over twenty feet in cir cumference, according to the scien tific calculation of a foot for a cen tury, must have been bearing fruit be fore the Savior walked and talked on the mount of Olives. The olive has been n symbol in mere than one mythology. The dove bringing the branch to the ark gave it to the imagination of the Orient as an emblem of peace or confidence re stored. Among the Greeks it was the sign of peace and the placid power of wisdom. Though a native of Syria, and pos sibly of southern Greece, the olive nourishes anywhere in a mild climate. Western Asia, southern Europe, north ern Africa, southern England. South America. Mexico—in all these places the olive grows readily, taking on an average seven years b« fore bearing fruit. Two hundred years ago it was in troduced into California by priests from Mexico, and there it has thriven mightily. In South Carolina it is hardy and fruitful, but unfortunately the crop matures there just when all labor is needed in the cotton fields. The fruit is too bitter to eat unless pickled. Hanging in size from an acorn to a largo plum, it Is gathered green and placed in a strong solution of potash or lye of wood ashes. When the olives change color this denotes that the potash has struck through the stone and they are placed in wat er, renewed several times a day, foi* five days.—New York Herald. ^« » ♦♦♦♦♦♦ »• ♦ • ♦ I FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF E. H. J j HARRIMAN. SECURED IN OMAHA ♦ ET*M* fievrnrnan •!* K. H. Ilarriman, who a few days ago was elected president of the Union Pacific railroad, has. so far as known, never had a photograph taken, and the only picture of him heretofore available has boon a snap shot. which shows little of the face. The above picture is the first photo graph. It was taken in Omaha with a small camera. SPENCER AN EXCITABLE MAN. j Rarely in the Mood to Discuss Meta physical Questions. Sir Leslie Stephen, the longtime friend of Herbert Spencer, the re cently deceased philosopher, tells this to illustrate Mr. Spencer's excitable temperament: “He would not Join the Metaphysical club,” Sir Leslie said, “because he and his temper would not stand it. I remember seeing him at a dinner brandishing his knife and fori; in the face of a lady with whom he had entered into an argument. He was quite unconscious of the act; his zea! had run away with him.” Sir Leslie tells another story of Mr. Spen cer: "A lady who was kindly dis posed toward the philosophers con ducted a party including Mr. Spencer and Sir lxudie over Hampton court. When the maze was reached Herbert Spencer undertook to be the first one at the center. “The rest of us,” said Mr. Leslie with a smile, "decided that whatever route Herbert Spencer should take we should take another. The result justified our selection; the philosopher reached the center last. Mr. Spencer was chaffed, but quite abashed he replied: “It. proves my theory. If I had taken the other way I should have been first.” DANGER IN THE AUTO. Extreme Nervousness Brought On by the Rapid Transit. French physicians report an in creasing number of eases of acute nervousness which are due directly to automobiling, and they predict that with an increase of the sport will come an increase in the number of the eases. The sickness is called the neurosis of anxiety, and may be traced to the excitement and mental tension of rapid traveling with the emotional repression necessary to se cure a reasonable feeling of enjoy ment while speeding rapidly, with risks and dangers constantly at hand. FORTUNE OF $7,000,000 LEFT. After Generous Gifts Ex-Gov. Bushnell of Ohio Still Is Rich. Ex-Gov. A. S. Bushnell of Spring field. Ohio, recently gave a dinner .party at his home to his family—in cluding his two married daughters, with their husbands, and his son. with tne latter’s wife—and to the women he gave $150,000 each in stock of a harvester company which pays 5 per cent, while to the men he gave $100, 000 each of the same stock, making a total of $750,000. The governor after ward told a friend that lie is worth just $7,000,000 after having given away his harvester stock. Check on Dishonest Servants. It is difficult in Germany for a pro fessional rogue to enter a family as a domestic servant. There every ser vant has a character book, in which the mistress must enter the dates of the coming and leaving of the ser vant. with her character while in the service. This the girl is obliged to take to the nearest police station and have it dated with the official stamp, thus preventing the manufacture <5f bogus recommendations. Origin of Famous Phrase. W. R. Givens, who wrote the inter view in which Pierpont Morgan made use of the famous phrase ‘•undigested securities.” says the New York finan cier is not the author of that quota tion. It originally appeared in a finan cial article In the London Times, and its patness induced the interviewer to ask Mr. Morgan as to its significance. HIS THOUGHT WENT WRONG. Resident in Italy Unable to Influence Mayor McClellan. Already Mayor McClellan’s fame has readier beyond the Alps where lies Italy. His honor some time ago received from a subject of King Victor Emmanuel a letter in which the writ er explains that he is an adept at thought transference. He snys that a thought has been wafted across the ocean informing him that the mayor would lend him 1,000 lire for a short time. Since then two more letters have arrived from the same corre spondent. Col. McClellan has figured it but that. 1,000 lire Is about. $195, so ho has done his best to transfer this thought to Italy: ’•Nothin’ doin'.” RICH PRIZE FOR COLLECTOR. Asked for Autograph and Got Per sonal Letter From Mommsen. The late Prof. Mommsen had a hor ror of autograph eollectors. One day be received a request from a young man whose father he highly honored. Without replying to the son’s request he wrote a long letter to the father giving his reasons for refusing his au tograph in detail. One of these rea sons was that the collectors made notoriety rather than fame their stan dard. the result being that professors, ballet girls, swindlers, generals and others were mixed indiscriminately In their albums. His letter, of course, found its way promptly to the young man's album as a grand trophy. AGES OF GREAT AMERICANS. Prominent Men Who Are Getting Along in Year*. Richard Olncy of Massachusetts will be HO on Sept. 15. Grover Cleve land will be 67 on March 18. Alton B. Parker of Now York will be 52 on May 14. Arthur Pue Gorman of Mary land will be 65 on March 11. David B. Hill of New York will be 61 on Aug. 30. George Gray of Delaware will be 64 on May 4. William J. Bryan of Nebrnska will be 44 on March 16. President Roosevelt of New York will 1)0 46 on Oct. 27. John Hay of Ohio will be 66 on Oct. 8. Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio will be 67 on Sept. 24. William H. Taft of Ohio will be 47 on Sept. 15. APPEAL MOVED THE SENATOR. Responded at Once to Constituents' Request for Bibles. One day recently the clerks in Sena tor Scott's committee room were busy packing up and shipping bibles and new testaments to West Virginia. The senator had received a very pathetic letter from a school teacher in his state saying that she was unable to secure copies of the scriptures and that the community was sadly in need of this kind of literature. Senator Scott immediately bought a supply and had them sent. He said he did not wish the people of his state to want for the good book. Kipling's Juicy Royalties. Rudyard Kipling wa3 38 years old on next to the last day of last De cember. The London Chronicle re marks that he "is perhaps the only living poet of ours who can claim roy alties that are really reyal. Publish ers did not find much margin for themselves when they gave Lord Tea rs son £4,000 a yet for ail his copy rights; but a single book like ‘The Seven Seas’ yields its author, accord ing to popular report, even richer treasure trove.” ALL DONE OUT. Veteran Joshua Heller of 70t> 3. Walnut street,L’r hana, 111., says: "In the fall of ISO?) after taking Doan’s Kidney Pills 1 told the readers of this paper that they had relieved me of kidney trouble, disposed of a lame back with pain across my loins and beneath the shoulder blades. During tho interval which has elapsed I have had occasion to resort to Doan's Kidney Fills when 1 noticed warnings of an attack. On each and every occasion the results obtained were jutt as satisfactory as when the pills were first brought to my notice, i Just as emphatically en dorse the preparation today as l did over two years ago,” Foster-MIlburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.. proprietors. For sale by all druggists, price GO cents per lios. General Miles’ Savings Deposit. In liis speech at an Evacuation day dinner in Boston (he other evening General Miles mentioned that while working in that city before the civil war he saved up a dollar and depos ited it In a savings bank. He had not thought of II for many years, hut his visit to Boston recalled the mat ter. The officials of the hank looked over their books and sure enough found that the dollar was there in the name of Nelson A. Miles. Unfor tunately for him howvcr, no deposit of less tahn $:J draws interest, so he might as well have had his treasure hidden in a stocking. Cruelty in the German Army. Cases of cruelty to privates In the German army multiply daily. Thu most recent are that of Franszkl. a non-commissioned officer In tho Eighty fifth infantry, who was tried on 1,520 counts of cruelty und convicted on 100 of thorn. He got ten years. The in teresting point of the case was that Franszkl had left the army and was serving as a policeman in Hamburg when the accusations were made. An other interesting case is that of a pri vate who was tried for desertion In Koentgsburg and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. After he had begun to serve his sentence the case was reopened. It was learned then that he had deserted through fear of his life. Once a non-commissioned of ficer had threatened to run him through with his sword. Tho original sentence was quashed and the soldier restored to duty. No less than ten “non-coms” of his regiment are being tried for cruelly. Words of Algonqum Orir;in. Alexander F. Chamberlain has di3 povered that there are 131 words of Algonquin derivation in the ICnglish language. 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