SYNOPSIS. Miss Patricia Holbrook and Miss Helen Holbrook, her niece, were entrusted to the care of Laurance 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. Donovan discovered and captured an intruder, who proved to he Reginald Gillespie, suitor for the hand of Miss Helen Holbrook. Gillespie disap peared the following morning. A rough sailor appeared and was ordered away. Donovan saw Miss Holbrook and her fa ther meet on friendly terms. Donovan fought an Italian assassin. He met the man be supposed was Holbrook, but who said he was Hartridge, a canoe-maker. After a short discussion Donovan left surlily. Gillespie was disc overed by Don ovan presenting a country church with $1,000. Gillespie admitted he knew of Hol brook's presen'e. Miss Pat acknowledged to Donovan that Miss Helen had been missing for a few hours. While riding in a launch, the Italian sailor attempted to molest the trio, but failed. Miss Pat announced her intention of fighting Henry Holbrook and not seeking another hiding place. Donovan met Helen in garden at night. Duplicity of Helen was confessed by the young lady. She admitted conniving with her father despite her aunt’s precautions, in a night meeting with Don ovan. The three went for a long ride the following day. That night, disguised as a nun. Helen stole from th** house. She met Reginald Gillespie, who told her his love. GMlespie was confronted by Donovan. Helen’s lover escaped. At^ the town post office Helen, unseen except bv Donovan, Flipped a draft into the hand of the Ital ian sailor. She also signaled her father. Miss Pat and Donovan “took in’’ the canoe carnival. \ young lady resembling Miss Helen Ibdbrook was observed alone in a canoe, when Helen was thought to bare been at home. Donovan met Gil lespie. CHAPTER XII—Continued. *‘I. myself,” he continued, taking a chair near me and placing his feet in an open window, “am cursed with rugged health. I have quite recovered from those unkind cuts at the nunnery —thanks to your ministrations—and am willing to put on the gloves with you at any time.” “You do me great honor; but the affair must wait for a lower tempera ture.” “As you will! It is not like my great and gracious ways to force a fight. Pardon me, but may I inquire for the health of the ladies at Saint What’s-her-name’s?” “They are quite well, thank you." “I am glad to know it;”—and his tone lost for the moment its jaunti ness. "Henrjf Holbrook has gone to New York.” “Good riddance!” I exclaimed, hear tily. “And now—” “—And now if I would only follow suit, everything would be joy plus for you!” He laughed and slapped his knees at my discomfiture, for .he had read my thoughts exactly. “You certainly are the only blot on the landscape!” “Quite so. And if I would only go hence the pretty little idyl that is be ing enacted in the delightful garden, under the eye of a friendly chaperon, would go forward without interrup tion.” He spoke soberly, and I had ob served that when he dropped his chaff a note of melancholy crept into his talk. He folded his arms and went on: “She’s a wonderful girl, Donovan. There's no other girl like her in all the wide world. I tell you it’s hard for a girl like that to be in her posi tion—the whole family broken up, and that contemptible father of hers hang ing about with his schemes of plunder. It's pitiful, Donovan; it’s pitiful!” “It’s a cheerless mess. It all came after the bank failure, I suppose.” “Practically, though the brothers never got on. You see my governor was bit by their bank failure; and Miss Pat resented the fact that he backed off when stung. Hut the Gil lespies take their medicine; father never squealed, which makes me sore that your Aunt Pat gives me the icy eye.” ' Their affairs are certainly mixed,” I replied, non-committally. "They are indeed; and I have studied the whole business until my near mind is mussed up, like scrambled eggs. Your own pretty idyl of the nunnery garden adds the note pi quante. Cross my palm with gold and I'll tell you of strange things that lie in the future. I have an idea, Dono van; singular though it seem, I’ve a notion in my head.” “Keep it,” I retorted, "to prevent a cranial vacuum.” “Crushed! Absolutely crushed!” he replied, gloomily. "Kick me. I'm only the host.” We were silent while the few sounds of the village street droned in. He rose and paced the floor to shake off his mood, and when he sat down he seemed in better spirits. “Holbrook will undoubtedly return,” 1 said. “Yes; there’s no manner of doubt about that." “And then there will be more trou ble.” “Of course.” “But I suppose there's no guessing when he will come back.” "He will come back as soon as he's spent his money.” I felt a delicacy about referring to that transaction on the pier. It was a wretched business, and I now realized that the shame of it was Jaot lost on Gillespie. “How does Henry come to have that Italian scoundrel with him?” I asked after a pause. “He’s the skipper of the Stiletto,” Gillespie replied, readily. “He's a long way from tide-water,” I remarked. “A blackguard of just his sort once sailed me around the Italian peninsula in a felucca, and saved me from drowning on the way. His hero ism was' not, however, wholly disinter ested. When we got back to Naples he robbed me of my watch and money belt and I profited by the transaction, having intended to give him double their value. But there are plenty of farm boys around the lake who could handle the Stiletto. Henry didn't need i a dago expert.” i “What the Devil Did You Bring Me Up Here For?” The mention of the Italian cleariy troubled Gillespie. After a moment he said: "He may be holding on to Henry in stead of Henry's holding on to him. Do you see?" “No; I don’t.” "Well, I have an idea that the dago knows something that's valuable. Last summer Henry went cruising in the Sound with a pretty rotten crowd, poker being the chief diversion. A man died on the boat before they got back to New York. The report was that he fell down a hatchway when he was drunk, but there were some ugly stories in the papers about it. That Italian sailor was one of the crew.” “Where is he now?” "Over at Hattie Orchard. He knows his man and knows he'll be back. I'm waiting for Henry, too. Helen gave him $20,000. The way the market Is running he’s iikelv to go broke any day. He plays stocks like a crazy man, and after he's busted he’ll be back on our hands.” “It’s hard on Miss Pat.” “And it’s harder on Helen. She’s in terror all the time for fear her father will go up against the law and bring further disgrace on the family. There’s her Uncle Arthur, a wanderer on the face of the earth for his sins. That was bad enough without the rest of it.” “That was greed, too, wasn't it?” “No, just general cussedness. He blew in the Holbrook bank and skipped." “You told me that Henry Holbrook found his way here ahead of you. How do you account for that?” He looked at me quickly, and rose, again pacing the narrow room. "I don’t! I wish I could!” “It’s about the last place in the world to attract him. Port Annandale is a quiet resort frequented by western people only. There’s neither hunting nor fishing worth mentioning; and a man doesn't come from New York to Indiana to sail a boat on a thimbleful of water like this lake.” “You are quite right.” “If Helen Holbrook gave him warn ing that they were coming here—” “Don’t you dare say it! She couldn’t have done! She wouldn't have done it! I tell you I know, independently of her, that he was here before Father Stoddard ever suggested this place to Miss Pat.” “Well, you needn't get so hot about it.” And you neean t insinuate that she is not acting honorably in this affair! I should think that after making love to her, as you have been doing, and playing the role of comforter to Miss Pat, you would have the decency not to accuse her of connivance with Hen ry Holbrook." "You let your jealousy get the better of your good sense. I have not been making love to Miss Holbrook!” I de clared, angrily, and knew in my heart that I lied. “Well, Irishman,” he exclaimed with entire good humor; “let us not bring up mine host to find us locked in mor tal combat.” “What the devil did you bring me up here for?” I demanded. “Oh, just to enjoy your society. I get lonesome sometimes. I tell you a man does get lonesome iq this world when he has nothing to lean on but a blooming button factory and a step mother who flits among the world’s ex pensive sanatoria. I know you have never had ’Button, button, who’s got the button?’ chanted in your ears, but may I ask whether you have ever known the joy of a stepmother? I can see that your answer will be an unregretful negative.” He was quite the fool again, and stared at me vacuously. “My stepmother is not the common type of juvenile fiction. She has never attempted during her widowhood to rob the orphan or to poison him. Bless your Irish heart, no! She's a good woman, and rich in her own right, but I couldn’t stand her dietary. She’s afraid I’m going to die, Donovan! She thinks everybody’s going to die. Father died of pneumonia and she said ice-water in the finger-bowl did it, and she wanted to have the butler ar rested for murder. She had a new disease for me every morning. It was worse than being left with a button w'orks to draw a stepmother like that. She ate nothing but hot water and zweibach herself, and shuddered when I demanded sausage and buckw’heat cakes every day. She caught me one day clearing up a couple of chickens and a mug of Bass with the gardener, and it was all over. She had noticed, she said, that I had been coughing of late—I was doing a few cigarettes too many, that was all—and wired to New York for doctors. She had all sorts, Donovan—alienists and pneumogastric specialists and lung experts. i ne people on Strawberry Hill thought there was a medical conven tion in town. I was kidnaped on the golf course, where i was about to win the eastern Connecticut long-drive cup, and locked up in a dark room at home for two days while they tested me. They made, all the known tests, Donovan. They tested me for dis eases that haven't been discovered yet, and for some that have been ex tinct since the days of Xoah. You can see where that put me. I was afraid to fight or sulk for fear the alienists would send me to the madhouse. 1 was afraid to eat for fear they would think that was a symptom, and every time I asked for food the tape-worm man looked intelligent and began pre scribing, while the rest of them were terribly chagrined because they hadn’t scored first. The only joy I got out of the rumpus was in hitting one of those alienists a damned hard clip in the ribs, and I’m glad I did it. He was feeling my medulla oblongata at the moment, and as I resent being man handled I pasted him one—he was a young chap, and fair game—I pasted him one, and then grabbed a suit-case and slid. I stole away in a clamboat for New Haven, and kept right on up into northern Maine, where I stayed with the Indians until my father’s re lict went off broken hearted to Bad Neuheim to drink the waters. And here I am, by the grace of God, in perfect health and in full control of the button market of the world.” “You have undoubtedly been sorely tried,” I said as he broke off mournful ly. In spite of myself I had been en tertained. He was undeniably a fellow of curious humor and with unusual ex perience of life. He followed me to the street, and as I rode away he called me back as though to impart something of moment. Too Much Work For One Wife Nigerian Needs Several Properly to Minister to His Comfort. According to (he Geographical Jour nal of London the marital relations among the peoples of Nigeria vary somewhat according to their state ol civilization: "Po'.ygamy is the rule, the reason given being that It is im possible for one woman to do all the work of the house, look after the cbil dren, prepare and cook the food, fetch the daily supply of water (often an arduous Job), cultivate the plantation and go to market. The African is an exceedingly hungry person. It is the custom to eat several times a day when at home, and the men spend most of their day sitting in the pala ver house or market place, while the women bring the food all day long. One wife could not possibly do this. Besides, the African lady encourages it, for she says, ‘The more wives, the less work.’ “Among the Ahiaras, Onichas, Obu wus and the lower class of pagan tribes in the interior, there is very little form of marriage. As soon as a man has the means, he pays the par ents w hat they want, in the shape of goats, cows, beads and money, and takes the girl. There is no ceremony at all. The more wives the greater riches he is supposed to have and the better he will be looked after. "If, of course, they can manage to seize a woman from the neighboring tribe while she is fetching water or working on her farm, so much the cheaper. With this method in vogue for centuries, no wonder that it is as much as a native’s life is worth to go out of his own village, and that the country is so backward.” Most Obstinate Things. A bachelor says a mule is the most obstinate thing on earth, but married men know better.—Chicago Daily News. Circumstantial Evidence. “Is it true than an employe of the street-cleaning department was seen intoxicated on the street?” “No; the rumor started from the fact that some people said they saw him fall off the waterwagon.” “Did you ever meet Charles Dar win?” “He didn’t need me for proof, But tons.’” “I wish I might have had one wrord with him. It's on my inind that he put the monkeys back too far. I should be happier if he had brought them a little nearer up to date. I should feel less lonesome, irishman.” He stopped me again. “Once I had an ambition to find an honest man, Donovan, but I gave it up —it’s easier to be an honest man than to find one. I give you peace!” I had learnad some things from the young button'd;ing, but much was still opaque in the affairs of the Hol brooks. The Italian's presence as sumed a new significance from Gilles pie's story. He had been party to a conspiracy to kill Holbrook, alia-? Hart ridge, on the night of my adven ture at the houseboat, and I fell to wondering who had been the shadowy director of that enterprise—the cow ard who had hung off in the creek and waited for the evil deed to be done. CHAPTER XIII. The Gate of Dreams. In my heart I was anxious to do justice to Gillespie. Sad it is that we are all so given to passing solemn judgment on trifling testimony! I my self am not impeccable. I should at any time give to the lions a man who uses his thumb as a paper-cutter; for such a one is clearly marked for bru tality. My prejudices rally as to a trumpet-call at the sight of a girl wearing overshoes or nibbling bon bons—the one suggestive of predatory habits and weak lungs, the other of nervous dyspepsia. The night was fine, and after re turning my horse to the stable I con tinued on to the Glenarm boathouse. I was strolling along, pipe in mouth, and was half-way up the boathouse steps when a woman shrank away from the veranda rail, where she had been standing, gazing out upon the lake. There was no mistaking her. She was not even disguised to-night, and as I advanced across the little ver anda she turned toward me. The lan tern over the boathouse door suffused us both as I greeted her. “Pardon me. Miss Holbrook; I'm afraid 1 have disturbed your medita tions,” I said. “But if you don't mind—” “You have the advantage of being on your own ground." she replied. “I waive all my rights as tenant if you will remain.” “It is much nicer here than on St. Agatha's pier; you can see the lake and the stars better. On the whole,” she laughed, "I think I shall stay a moment longer, if you will tolerate me.” I brought out some chairs and we sat down by the rail, where we could look out upon the star-sown heavens and the dark floor of stars beneath. Helen bent forward with her elbows resting on the rail, her hands clasped under her chin. The lamplight fell full upon her slightly lifted head, and upon her shoulders, over which lay a filmy veil. She hummed dreamily for a moment while I watched her. Had she one mood for the day and another for the night? I had last seen her that afternoon after an hour of ten nis, at which she was expert, and she had run away through Glenarm gate with a taunt for my defeat; but now the spirit of stars and of all earth's silent things was upon her. I looked twice and thrice at her clearly outlined profile, at the brow with its point of dark hair, at the hand where on the emerald was clearly distin guishable, and satisfied myself that there could be no mistake about her. “You grow bold,” I said, anxious to hear her voice. “You don’t mind the pickets a bit.” “No. I'm quite superior to walls and fences. You have heard of those East Indians who appear and disap pear through closed doors; well, we ll assume that I had one of those fel lows for an ancestor! It will save the trouble of trying to account for my exits and entrances. I will tell you in confidence, Mr. Donovan, that I don't like to be obliged to account for myself!” (TO BE CONTINUED.) A GOOD COUGH MIXTURE. Simple Home-Made Remedy That Is Free from Opiates and Harm ful Drugs. An effective remedy that will usu ally break up a cold in twenty-four hours, is easily made by mixing to gether in a large bottle two ounces of Glycerine, a half-ounce of Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure and eight ounces of pure Whisky. This mix ture will cure any cough that is cur able, and is not expensive as it makes enough to last the average family an entire year. Virgin Oil of Pine com pound pure is prepared only in the i laboratories of the Leach Chemical ! Co., Cincinnati, O. PATIENCE UNREWARDED “Are there any fish in the lake here?” “I dunno! 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