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SYNOPSIS.
Miss Patricia Holbrook and Miss Helen
Holbrook, her niece, were entrusted to
the care of Haurence Donovan, a writer,
summering near Port Annandale. Miss
Patricia confided to Donovan that she
feared her brother Henry, who, ruined by
a bank failure, had constantly threatened
her for money from his father’s will, of
which Miss Patricia was guardian. They
came to Port Annandale to escape Henry.
Donovan sympathized with the two
women. He learned of Miss Helen’s an
noying suitor.
CHAPTER III.—Continued.
‘’Drop one of the canoes into the
water,” I said; and I watched the
prowling boatman while Ijima crept
back to the boat house. The canoe
was launched silently and the boy
drove it out to me with a few light
strokes. I took the paddle, and we
crept close along the shore toward
the St. Agatha light, my eyes intent
on the boat, which was now drawing
in to the school pier. The prowler
was feeling his way carefully, as
though the region was unfamiliar; but
lie now landed at the pier and tied his
boat. 1 hung back in the shadows
until he had disappeared up the bank,
then paddled to the pier, told Ijima to
wait, and set off through the wood
path toward St. Agatha's.
Where the wood gave way to the
broad lawn that stretched up to the
school buildings I caught sight of my
quarry. He was a young fellow, not
above average height, but compactly
built, and stood with his hands thrust
boyishly in his pockets, gazing about
with frank interest in his surround
ings. He was bareheaded and coat
less, and his shirt-sleeves were rolled
to the elbow. He walked slowly
along the edge of the wood, looking
oft toward the school buildings, and
while his manner was furtive there
was, too, an air of unconcern about
him and I heard him whistling softly
to himself.
He now withdrew into the wood
and started off with the apparent in
tention of gaining a view of St. Aga
tha's from the front, and I followed.
He seemed harmless enough; he
might be r. curious pilgrim from the
summer resort; but I was just now
the guardian of St. Agatha’s and I in
tended to learn the stranger’s busi
ness before I had done with him. He
reached the driveway leading in from
the Annandale road without having
disclosed any purpose other than that
of viewing the vine-clad walls with a
tourist’s idle interest. The situation
had begun to bore me, when the
school gardener came running out of
the shrubbery, and instantly the
young man took to his heels.
“Stop! Stop!” yelled the gardener.
The mysterious young man plunged
into the wood and was off like the
wind. ,
! “After him, Andy! After him!” I
yelled to the Scotchman.
I shouted my own name to reassure
him and we both went thumping
through the beeches. Whoever the
young gentleman was. he had no in
tention of being caught; he darted in
and out among the trees with astound
ing lightness, and I saw in a moment
that he was slowly turning away to
the right.
"Run for the gate!" 1 called to the
gardener, who was about 20 feet away
from me, blowing hard. I prepared to
gain on the turn if the young fellow
dashed for the lake; and he now led
me a pretty chase through the flower
garden. He ran with head up and el
bows close at his sides, and his light
boat shoes made scarcely any sound.
He turned once and looked back and,
finding that I was alone, began
amusing himself with feints and
dodges, for no other purpose, 1
fancied, than to perplex or wind me
By this time I had grown pretty
angry, for a foot race in a school gar
den struck me with disgust as a child
ish enterprise, and I bent with new
spirit and drove him away from his
giddy circling about the summer
house and beyond the only gate by
which he could regain the wood and
meadow that lay between the garden
and his boat. He turned his head
from side to side uneasily, slackening
his pace to study the bounds of the
garden, and I felt myself gaining.
Ahead of us lay a white picket fence
that set off the vegetable garden and
marked the lawful bounds of the
school. There was no gatq and I felt
that here the chase must end, and I
rejoiced to find myself so near the
runner that f heard the quick, soft
patter of his shoes on the walk. In
a moment I was quite sure that I
should have him by the collar, and I
had every intention of dealing severe
ly with him for the hard chase he had
given me.
But he kept on, the white line of
fence clearly outlined beyond him;
and then when my hand was almost
upon him he rose at the fence, as
though sprung from the earth itself,
and hung a moment sheer above the
sharp line of the fence pickets, his
whole figure held almost horizontal, in
the fashion of trained high-jumpers,
for what seemed an infinite time, as
though by some witchery of the moon
light
1 plunged into the fence with a
force that knocked the wind out of
me, and as 1 clung panting to the
pickets the runner dropped with a
crash into the midst of a glass vege
table frame on the farther side. He
turned his head, grinned at me sheep
ishly through the pickets, and gave
a kick that set the glass to tinkling.
Then he held up his hands in sign of
surrender and I saw that they were
cut and bleeding. We were both badly
blown, and while we regained our
wind we stared at each other. He
was the first to speak.
“Kicked, bit or stung!" he mut
tered, dolefully; “that saddest of all
words, ‘stung!’ It’s as clear as moon
light that I’m badly mussed, not to
say cut.”
’May I trouble you not to kick out
any more of that glass? The gardener
Held Up His Hands in Sign of Surrender.
will be here in a minute and fish you
1 out.”
' “Lawsy, what Is it? An aquarium,
that you fish for me?"
He chuckled softly, but sat per-!
fectly quiet, finding, it seemed, a cer-1
tain humor in his situation. The
gardener came running and swore in
brodd Scots at the destruction of the
frame. We got over the fence and re
leased our captive, who talked to him
self in doleful undertones as we
hauled him to his feet amid a renewed
clink of glass.
“Gently, gentlemen; behold the
night-blooming cereus! Not all the
court-plaster in the universe can glue
me together again.” He gazed rue
fully at his slashed arms, and rubbed
his legs. “The next time I seek the
garden at dewy eve I’ll wear my tin
suit.”
“There won't he any next time for
you. What did you run for?”
“Trying to lower my record—it’s a
mania with me. And as one good
question deserves another, may I ask
why you didn’t tell me there was a.
glass-works beyond that fence? It
wasn't |Sportsmanlike to hide a mur
derous hazard like that. But I clearec!
those pickets with a yard to spare,
and broke my record.”
“You broke about seven yards of
glass,” I replied. “It may sober you
to know that you are under arrest.
The watchman here has a constable's
license.”
“He also has hair that suggests the
common garden or boiled carrot. The
tint is not to my liking; yet it is
not for me to be captious where the
Lord has hardened his heart.”
“What is your name?” I demanded.
“Gillespie. R. Gillespie. The ‘R’ will
indicate to you the depth of my hu
mility: I make it a li{e work to hide
the fact that I was baptized Regi
nald.”
'T’ve been expecting you, Mr. Gilles
pie, and now I want you to come over
to my house and give an account of
yourself. I will take charge of this
man, Andy. I promise that he shan’t
set foot here again. And, Andy, you
need mention this affair to no one.”
“Very good, sir.”
He touched his hat respectfully.
"I have business with this person.
Say nothing to the ladies at St. Aga
tha's about him.”
He saluted aud departed; and with
Gillespie walking beside me I started
for the boat-landing.
He had wrapped a handkerchief
about one arm and I gave him my
own for the other. His right arm was
bleeding freely below the elbow and
I tied it up for him.
“That jump deserved better luck,”
I volunteered, as he accepted my aid
in silence.
“I’m proud to have you like it. Will
you kindly tell me who the devil you
are?”
“My name is Donovan.”
“I don’t wholly care for it,” he ob
served, mournfully. “Think it over
and see if you can’t do better. I'm
not sure that I’m going to grow fond
of you. What’s your business with
me, anyhow?”
“My business. Mr. Gillespie, is to
see that you leave this lake by the
first and fastest train.”
“13 it possible?” he drawled, mock
ingly.
“More than that,” I replied in his
own key; “it is decidedly probable.”
Meanwhile, it would be diverting
to know where you’re taking me. I
thought the other chap was the con
stable.”
I m taking you to the house of a
friend where I’m visiting. I’m going
to row you in your boat. It’s only a
short distance; and when we get there
I shall have something to say to you.”
He made no reply, but got into the
boat without ado. I turned over in my
mind the few items of information
that I had gained from Miss Pat and
! her niece touching the young man
who was now my prisoner, and found
that I knew little enough about him.
j tie was the unwelcome and annoying
I suitor of Miss Helen Holbrook, and
I had caught him prowling about: St.
Agatha's in a manner that was inde
fensible.
He sat huddled in the stern, nursing
his swathed arms on his knees and
whistling dolefully. The lake was a
broad pool of silver. Save for the
soft splash of Ijima's paddle behind
me and the slight wash of water on
the near shore, silence possessed the
world. Gillespie looked about with
some curiosity, but said nothing, and
when I drove the boat to the Glenarm
landing he crawled out and followed
me through the wood without a word.
I flashed on the lights in the library
and after a short inspection of his
wounds we went to my room and
found sponges, plasters and ointments
in the family medicine chest and
cared for his injuries.
"There's no honor in tumbling into
a greenhouse, but such is R. Gilles
pie's luck. My shins look like scarlet
fever, and without sound legs a man's
better dead.”
"Your legs seem to have got you
into trouble; don’t mourn the loss of
them!” And I twisted a bandage un
der his left knee-cap where the glass
had cut savagely.
“It’s my poor wits, if we must fix
the blame. It’s an awful thing, sir, to
be born with weak intellectuals. As
man’s legs carry him on orders from
his head, there lies the seat of the
difficulty. A weak mind, obedient
legs, and there you go. plump into the
oosom oi a mooming asparagus bed,
and the enemy lays violent hands on
you. If you put any more of that
sting-y pudding on that cut I shall
undoubtedly hit you, Mr. Donovan
Ah, thank you, thank you so much!”
As I finished with the vaseline he
lay back on the couch and sighed
deeply and I rose and sent Ijima away
with the basin and towels.
“Will you drink? There are 12 kinds
of whisky—”
“My dear Mr. Donovan, the thought
of strong drink saddens me. Such
poor wits as mine are not helped by
alcoholic stimulants. I was drunk
once—beautifully, marvelously, nobly
drunk, so that antiquity came up to
date with the thud of a motor car hit
ting an orphan asylum; and I saw
Julius Caesar driving a chariot up
Fifth avenue and Cromwell poised on
one foot on the shorter spire of St.
Patrick's cathedral. Are you aware,
my dear sir, that one of those spires
is shorter than, the other?”
“x certainly am not,” I replied,
bluntly, wondering what species of
madman I had on my hands.
"It’s a fact, confided to me by a
prominent engineer of New York, who
has studied those spires daily since
they were put up. He told me that
when he had surrounded five high
balls the north spire was higher; but
that the sixth tumblerful always
raised the south spire about 11 feet j
(TO
above it. Now, wouldn't that, dodd!1;
you?”
“It would, Mr. Gillespie; but may I
ask you to cut out this rot—”
“My dear Mr. Donovan, it’s indeli
cate of you to speak of cutting any
thing—and me with my legs. But I’m
at your service. You have tended my
grievous wounds like a gentleman and
now do you wish me to unfold my
past, present and future?”
"I want you to get out of this and
be quick about it. Your biography
doesn't amuse me; I caught you
prowling disgracefully about St. Aga
tha’s. Two ladies are domiciled there
who came here to escape your annoy
ing attentions. Those ladies were put
in my charge by an old friend, and I
don't propose to stand any nonsense
from you, Mr. Gillespie. You seem
to be at least half sane—”
Reginald Gillespie raised himself on
the couch and grinned joyously.
“Thank you—thank you for that
word! That's just twice as high as
anybody ever rated me before.”
"I was trying to b<t generous," I
said. “There's a point at which I be
gin to be bored, and when that’s
reached I’m likely to grow quarrel
some. Are there any moments of the
day or night when you are less a fool
than others?”
“Well, Donovan, I’ve often specu
lated about that, and my conclusion
is that my mind is at its best when
I'm asleep and enjoying a nightmare.
Then. I have sometimes thought, my
intellectual parts are most intelligent
ly employed.”
“I may well believe you,” I declared
with asperity. “Now I hope I can
pound it. into you in some way that
your presence in this neighborhood is
offensive—to me—personally.”
He stared at the ceiling, silent, im
perturbable.
And 1 m going to give you safe con
duct through the lines—or if neces
sary I'll buy your ticket and start you
for Xew York. And if there's an atom
of honor in you, you'll go peaceably
and not publish the fact that you
know the whereabouts of these la
dies.”
He reflected gravely for a moment. 1
“I think,” he said, ‘‘that on the
whole that's a fair proposition. But
you seem to have the impression that
I wish to annoy these ladies.”
‘'You don’t for a moment imagine
that you are likely to entertain them,
do you? You haven't got the idea
that you are necessary to their happi
ness. have you?”
He raised himself on his elbow with
some difficulty; flinched as he tried to
make himself comfortable and began:
“The trouble with Miss Pat is—”
“There is no trouble with Miss Pat,”
1 snapped.
“The trouble between Miss Pat and
me is the same old trouble of the
buttons,” he remarked, dolorously.
“Buttons, you idiot?”
“Quite so. Buttons, just plain,
every-day buttons; buttons for button
ing purposes.”
The fellow was undoubtedly mad. I
looked about for a weapon; but he
went on gravely:
“What does the name Gillespie
mean? Of what is it the sign and
symbol wherever man hides his
nakedness? Button, button, who'll
buy my buttons? It can’t be possible
that you never heard of the Gillespie
buttons? Where have you lived, my
dear sir?”
"Will you please stop talking rot
and explain what you want here?" I
demanded, with growing heat.
“That, my dear sir, is exactly what
I'm doing. I'm a suitor for the hand
of Miss Patricia’s niece. Miss Patricia
scorns me; she says I’m a mere child
of the Philistine rich and declines an
alliance without thanks, if you must
know the truth. And. it's all on ac
count of the fact, shameful enough, I
admit, that my father died and left me
a large and prosperous button fac
tory.”
“Why don’t you give th« infernal
thing away—sell it out to a trust—”
“Ah! ah!”—and he raised himself
again and pointed a bandaged hand at
me. “I see that you are a man of
penetration! You have a keen notion
of business! You anticipate me! I
did sell the infernal thing to a trust,
but there was no shaking it! They
made me president of the combina
tion, and I control more buttons than
any other living man! My dear sir, 1
dictate the button prices of'the world.
I can tell you to a nicety how many
buttons are swallowed annually by
the babies of the universe. But I
hope, sir, that I use my power wisely
and without oppressing the people.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
What Impressed the Russian
American Gastronomical Delicacy Had
Appealed to Him.
Recently a member of the Russian
revolutionary party, who had been
through all sorts of exciting vicissi
tudes in his native country, was on a
visit to the United States.
Wishing to be polite to him and
talk on those subjects nearest the
Russian’s heart a gentleman who met
him asked all sorts of questions about
the Douma, the Czar, dynamite, and
everything else which he adjudged in
teresting to the foreigner.
Then, when he could think of noth
ing more about Russia, he turned the
conversation in this direction:
"I suppose that you find America a
striking contrast to your own country
—full of liberty and respect for every
body’s rights. It must seem peculiar
to you to note how little the govern
ment interferes with citizens as they
go about their daily work. And the
absence of soldiers—that must strike
you as strange after Russia. I feel
sure that it must. Tell me, sir, what
is it that you like best about Amer
ica?”
The Russian’s eyes lighted u®.
“Waffles,” he replied.
Figures That Stagger.
The amount; of work done by the
wink of an eye equals 100,000,000,009
of the winks marked on the scale of
a delicate instrument, but even this
performance is surpassed by the “co
herers” of Branley of Paris, by which
the Hertz waves of wireless telegraphy
are caught in their pullings through
space.
• A LITTLE COLD.
He caught a little cold—
That was alL
So the neighbors sadly said,
As they gathered round his bed.
When they heard that he was dead.
He caught a little cold—
That was all. (Puck.)
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Made Sure Pair Was There.
A through train stopped a few mo
ments at a small station the other
day. A passenger got off to walk
around a little. As the train began
to move again the passenger jumped
aboard, but just then-'-he discovered
that he had but one overshoe. Think
ing that he dropped the other some
where on the platform, and as the
train was going too fast for him to
jump off and recover it, he pulled off
the remaining shoe and threw it on
the platform, exclaiming: “There,
that makes a good pair of overshoes
for somebody.” Entering the car, he
proceeded to his seat. There, to his
great astonishment, was his overshoe
A look of intense disgust came over
his face, but he did not hesitate.
Quickly picking up the lone arctic, he
hurried to the platform, threw the
shoe as far as he could back toward
the other one, and shouted: “By
jimminy, there is a p?ir of overshoes
for somebody!”
Lost in Antiquity.
A little fellow who had just felt the
hard side of the slipper turned to
h;s mother for consolation.
“Mother.” he asked, "did grandpa
;hrash father when he was a little
hoy?”
“Yes,” answered his mother, im
pressively.
“And did his father thrash him
when he was little?”
"Yes.”
“And did his father thrash him?”
“Yes.”
A pause.
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Tenth Street.
Gardiner, Maine.®Mrs. S. A. Williams, R. F.
D.No. 14; Box 39.
Philadelphia, Pa.*=Mrs. Chas. Boell, 2407 N.
Garnet Street.
riattsburg,Miss.=Mis8VernaWilkes,R.F.D.!.
Female Weakness.
Willimc.ntic, Conn.—Mrs. Etta Donovan, Box
2 JO.
Woodside, Tdilio.=Mrs. Raehel Johnson.
Rockland, Maine.® Mrs. Will Young, 6 Col
umbia Avenue.
Scott ville, Mich.=Mr8.J.O.Johnson,R.F.T>3.
Dayton, Ohi<>.®Mrs. F. K. Smith, 431 Elm St.
Erie, Pa.® Mrs. J. P. Endiicli, It. F. D. No. 7
Beaver Falls, Pa.®Mrs. W. P. Boyd, 2109
Seventh Avenue.
Fairchance,Pa.=»Mrs.I. A. Dunham. Box 152.
Fort Hunter, Pa.® Mrs. Mary Jane Shat to
East Earl, Pa.«Mra. Augustus Lyon, R.F.I). 2.
Vienna, W. Va.=Mrs. Emma Wheaton.
Nervous Prostration.
Oronogo, Mo.®Mrs. Mae Me Knight.
Camden, N.J.®Mrs. Tillie Waters, 451 Liber
ty Street.
Joseph, Oregon.®Mrs. Alice Huffman.
Philadelphia, Pa. = Mrs. John Johnston.‘210
Siegel Street.
Christiana.Tenn.aMrs. Mary Wood, R.F. D.
No. 3.
Pecos, Texas.®Mrs. Ada Yoong Eggleston.
Graniteville, Yt.®Mrs. Chas. Barclay, R.F.D.
mese women are only a tew ot tnousands of living witnesses ot
the power of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to cure female
diseases. Not one of these women ever received compensation in any
form for the use of their names in this advertisement—but are will
ing that we should refer to them because of the good they may
do other suffering women to prove that Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound is a reliable and honest medicine, and that the
statements made in our advertisements regarding its merit are the
truth and nothing but the truth.
Difference That Ten
Minutes Make
From 35 degrees to 70 degrees—
from an unbearable cold to a glow
ing heat that contributes the cheery
comfort you want in your home is
the difference that can be made in
10 minutes when you have the
PERFECTION
Oil Heater
(Equipped with Smokeless Device)
to do your heating. It is unrivaled
for quick work—and effective, clean- *
ly work.
Impossible to turn the wick too high or too low—impossible
to make it smoke or emit disagreeable odor—the selF-locking
Automatic Smokeless Device
absolutely prevents smoke. Lighted in a second—cleaned in a minute
—burns Nine Hours with one filling. Rustless brass font.
Automatic smokeless device instantly removed for cleaning.
Highest efficiency in heating power—Beautifully finished in
Japan or Nickel—an ornament anywhere—a necessity everywhere.
Variety of styles.
Every Dealer Everywhere. If Not At Yours, Write for Descriptive Circular
to the Nearest Agency of the
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(Incorporated)
The Wizard o£ Horticulture 1
Hon. ILuther Burbank
says; “Delicious is a gem—the finest apple in all the world. It is the best in
quality of any apple I have so far tested,”—and Mr. Burbank knows.
Delicious is but one of the hundreds of good things in Stark Trees—the g- <1
things you should know about before you plant this fall or next spring.
Let us tell you about them by writing today for our complete, illustrated price
list-catalogue which describes our complete line of fruit trees, ornamentals, etc
Wanted—A Bright, Capable Man
in each county of this state to sell Stark Trees on commission. No previous e
perience necessary. The work is pleasant, clean work, highly profitable, ar 1 i1
positions are permanent to the right men. who apply immediately.
Matty of our salesmen are earning $50 to 8S0 per month and expenses; * —
are making more. You can do as well or better if you're a hustler and t;
to succeed.
; No investment called for; we furnish complete order-getting outfit free ;
the most liberal contract.
For complete information address the Sales Manager of
STARK BRO'S NURSERIES £1 ORCHARDS CO.. LOUISIANA. MO.
Not Sisters
Now and again you see two women pass
ing down the street who look like sisters.
You are astonished to learn that they are
mother and daughter, and you realize that
a woman at forty or forty-five ought to be
at her finest and fairest. Why isn’t it so ?
The general health of woman is so in
timately associated with the local health
of the essentially feminine organs that
there can be no red cheeks and round
form where there is female weakness.
Women who hare suffered from
this trouble have found prompt
relief and cure in the use of Dr.
fierce • favorite prescription* it £fven yi£nr end vitality to dm
organs of womanhood. It clears the complexion, brightens die
eyes end reddens the cheeks. t
.No alcohol, or habit-forming drugs is contained in “Favorite Prescription.'*
Any sick woman may consult Dr. Pierce by letter, free. Every letter is
held as sacredly confidential, and answered in a plain envelope. Addiess:
World s Dispensary Medical Association, Dr. R.V. Pierce, Pres., Buffalo, N.Y.
CAREY ACT LANDS
$45.50 PER ACRE
Ten years to pay Largest reservoir i*‘
State. Water in canals. New settlers
arriving daily. Write for booklet ‘'Where
tp Live ”
BURTNER IRRIGATED LANDS CO.'
623 Judge Bldg.. Salt Lake City. Utah
PARKER’S
„ HAIR BALSAM
Cleanses and beautifies the M
Promotes a luxuriant growth.
Never Fails to Beatoro Oray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cures scalp diseases & hair feLLisc.
50c, and $1.00 at Druggist*
DEFIANCE STARCH-V^
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