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He sprang hark to the door. -When* When did »L* gor The tcatt had come forward, her bands trembling, ter bps quivering Struetbiag »n the terror of her face •eat the hot loud from Nathaniels Cheeks They amt for her aa boar ago." •be said The king wet Obadiah Frier tor ter* O. my God!" she •hr.-bed suddenly, clutching at her breast Tell me—what are they doing •Sth Mar.ua—' -chert up!" snarled the old man "Tnafs is Strang's business. She ha* gone to Wrung" With aa effort be straight* ia-4 himself until his tower tag form roue bail a bead above Na than.- 1 "She has gone to the king." be repeated. "Tell Strahg that she will wive tin tonight, as abe has promised'" la spate at tls effort to control him a*-JS a tern! w cry trim from Na than.*-!'* !lpa He Sung open the door and Mead for as instant with bis white (ace turned back. "She went to the castle—an hour ago”" he crW. ‘Tea. to (he castle—with Obadiah The ias* word* followed him as be sped oat Into the night As swiftly as s watt he rsnd across the rtearing to the trail that led dow n to Si James Sown fMag teemed to hare hurst la Ms ‘*ralfc. something that was not blood, hat are. seemed to burn it bis veins—« mod desire to reach «tr=ng to grip him by the throat, to mete out to ta the vengeance of a Bend ia stead of that of a man He was too tale to save Kim*' His brala reeled w stlt the thought T»i late—too late— too late He panted the words. They came with every gasp for breath Too late! Too late! His heart pumped I S* t-t, os he sprained to keep «p bis speed He passed s njo and a boy hurrying with their riSet to St James and made no answer to t!e*r shoot; a galloping hors* forged ahead of him and he tiled to keep up with H. and then, at the top of the kmc hill that sloped down to the mrunghold of the Mormon kingdom .ag seemed to sweep his l<-g* from ceder him. and he fell pu'ing on the ground. Far a few moments he lay there looking down upon the rtty Tt» great bell at the temple was now silent. He saw huge fires burs isg for a mile along the coast, hundreds of lights were twinkling is the harbor, theta cam* up to him aofUy. subdued by distance, the sound <: rnssoiMS and excitement far be low His eye* mated on the beacon above th> prophet's home, burairg tike a ball , of fire over the black canopy of tree lops Marlon was there! lie suae U> hia fact again and west as reason and t; . gn.en. returning to him—telling him that he was about to play against {odds; that his work was to be one • f strength and g neralsbip and not of madness. As he picked his way ' n.cr r low ly arid cautiously down the slope a new hope flashed upon him. Was it possible that the discovery of the ij'i roach of the uiainlardors had •erred to save Marion? ia the ex 'eri.er.t that follow-d the calling of the Mormons to arms and the prep are'u :.s for the defense would h'trang the master of the kingdom, the bul wark of his people, waste priceless time in carrying out the purpose for which he had seat for Marion? Hardly did hope burn anew in his breast w hen there came another thought to tpuer h It. Why had the king scut for Marion on this particular night and at this late hour? Why. unless at 'he approach of bis enemies he had feared tLat he m.gtit lose his beauti ful victim, and in bis overmastering passion tad called her to him even as Lis p*-..ple assembled in defense of ; his kingdom. There was desperate coolness in Xa approach now. Whatever had Lapj^ened he m .Id do what Neil had threatened to do—kill Strung. And whatever had happened he would take Marion away with him if it was only her dead body that he carried in his anus To do these things he needed strength He advanced more slowly and drew deeper and deeper drafts of air into his exhausted lungs. At the edj- of the grove surrounding the castle he paused to listen. For the first time it occurred to Nathaniel tnat the prophet might have assem bled some ot his lighters to the de fense of his harem, which he knew would be one of the first places to 1 le<-l the vengeance of the outraged j m*-n of the mainland. IJut he heard no voices ahead of him. There were \ no fires to betray the approach of the enemy. Not even the barking of a d<g gave warning of his stealthy advance. Soon he could make out a light in the king's house. A few steps more and he saw that the door was open, as it tad been on his first visit to the castle. He dodged swiftly from bush to bush, darted under the win dow through wpich he bad seen Ma rion. leaped lightly up the broad steps and sprang into the great room, his pistol cocked in his hand. The room was empty. He listened, but not a sound came to his ears ex cept the rustling of a curtain in the breeze The huge lamp over the ta bic was burning dimly. The five doors hading from the room were tightly ; cloved. Nathaniel held his breath, tried to still the tumultuous pounding ’ of his heart as he waited for a sound <A life—a step beyond those doors, a woman's voice, a child's cry. But none came. The stillness of desertion hovered about him. He went to one of the five doors It was not locked. He opened it silently, with the cau tion of a thief, and there loomed be fore him a chaos of gloom. “Hello:" he called gently. "Hello Hello—" Th* re mas no answer. He struck a march and advanced step by step, holding the yellow bit of flhme above j h<> i »-ad It disclosed the narrow malls of a hall and an ppen door lead ing into another Voom. The match sputtered and went out and he lighted another. On a little table ju3t outside the < <>or was a half burned candle and he r< placed his match with this. Then I he w ent in. At a glance he knew that he had <-ntt red a woman's rocen. redolent with the perfume of flowers. On one | t ie mas a bed and close beside it a cradle with a child's toys scattered j about it. The tumbled coverlets showed that both had been recently j Ml About the room were thrown ar u<-i.» of wearing apparel; a trunk had b*-en dragged from a closet and was 'half packed; everywhere was the dis order >f hurried flight For a few feiotnents the depth of his despair held f Thaaiel motionless. The castle was d« rt* d—Marion was gonel He ran btek into the gr»at room, no longer Irving to still the sound of his foot s’. -ps. and opened a second door. The same silence greeted him. the same I disorder, the same evidence that the wives and children of the Mormon king had fled. He went into a third room—and then a fourth. For an instant he paused at the threshold of this fourth chamber. A light was burning in the room at the end of the hall. The door was closed with the exception of an inch or two. “Marion!" he called soUly, and lia tened intently. He went on when there was no re ply. and pushed open the door. A candle was burning on a stand in front of a mirror. The room was as empty as the others. Hut there was no disorder here. The bed was un used, the garments in the open closet had not been disarranged. On the floor beside the bed was a pair of shoes and as Nathaniel saw them hia heart seemed to leap to his throat and stifled the cry that was on his lips. He took one of them in his hand. his whole being throbbing with excitment. It was Marion's shoe— incrusted with mud and torn as he had seen it in the forest. With hei name falling from his lips in a plead ing cry he now searched the room anc on the stand in front of the mirroi he found a lilac colored ribbon, soiled and crumpled. It was Marion’s rib bon—the one he had seen last in her hair, and he crushed It to his lips as he ran back into the great room, call ing out her name again and again in the torture of helplessness that now possessed him. Mechanically, rather than with rea son, he went to the fifth and last door. His candle had become extinguished in his haste and after he had opened the door he stopped at the threshold of the black hall to light it again. There was a moment's pause as he searched his pockets for a match, a silence in which he listened as he searched, and suddenly as he was about to strike the sulphur "tipped splint there came to his ears a sound that held him chained to the spot It was the sobbing of a woman; or was it . child? In a moment he knew that it was a woman; and then the sobbing ceased. There was nothing but darkness ahead of him; no ray of light shone under the door; the chamber itsell was in utter gloom. As quietly as possible he relighted his candle. A glance assured him that this hall was different from the others; it was deeper, and there were two doors at the end instead of one. Through which of these doors had come the sound o! sobbing he had heard? He approached and listened. Each moment added to his excitement, his fears, his hopes, but at last he opened the door on the left. The room was empty; there was the same disorder as before; the same signs of hurried flight. It was the room on the right! His heart almost stopped its beating as he placed his hand on the latch, lifted it, and pulled the door in. Kneeling beside the bed he saw a woman. She had turned toward the light and in the dim il lumination of the room Nathaniel rec ogr.iz^d the beautiful face he had seen at the king's castle the preceding day —the face of the woman who had sent him to find the prophet, who had placed her gentle hand on Marion's head as he had looked through tht window. There was no fear in het eyes as she saw Nathaniel. Some thing more terrible than that shone in their glorious depths as she rose to her feet and stood before him, het face lined with grief, her mouth twitching in agony. She stood with clenched hands, her bosom rising and failing in the passion of the storm within her; and she sobbed even as Nathaniel paused there, unmanned in this sudden presence of a distress greater than his own; sobbed in a choking, tearless way, waiting for him to speak. "Forgive me," he spoke gently. "1 have come—for—Marion.” He felt that he had no reason to lie to this woman. His face betrayed his own anguish as he came nearer to her "I want Marion," he repeated. "Mj God, won't you tell me—?” She struggled to calm herself as ht spoke the girl's name. "Marion is not here," she said. She crushed his hands against her bosom and a softer look came into her eyes; her voice was low and sweet, as it had been the morning he asked foi Strang. As she saw the despair deep ening iu the man’s face a great pity swept over her and she stretched out her arms to him with an aching cry, “Marion is gone—gone—gone," she moaned, “and you must go, too! O, I know you love her—she told me that yon loved her, as I love Strang, my king! We have both lost—lost— and you must go—as—I—shall—go!” She turned away from him with a cry so heart-breaking in its pain that Na thaniel felt himself trembling to the soul. In another instant she had faced him again, fighting back a strange calm into her face. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Do Birds Return to Old Nests? Whether birds, especially migratory ones, return to the same nests year after year is a question of much in terest to the naturalist. Swallows that summer In England do not winter north of Africa, but an observer at High Halden, Kent, England, has re corded that one returned on April 12 to a nest it occupied last year. It was recognized by a ring that had been placed on its leg. To gain a better knowledge of bird habits, more than 2.000 British birds were last year marked with inscribed aluminum rings, and twice as many more will be similarly tagged this year. — Canada Needs Rat-Traps. According to Consul General Jones at Winnipeg, Canada is in great need of rat traps. Farmers in the grain belt are becoming anxious over the invasion of rodents and are willing and able to pay a good price for a trap thlkt will combine durability and efficiency. Logical. Green Purchaser (in automobile ware rooms)—My friend sent me here to get a rheumatic tire. Clerk—Rheumatic? You mean pneu matic, don't you? Green Purchaser—Perhaps It is pneumatic. I thought it was called rheum atlo because it’s swelled. GUN PRACTICE AT ONE OF OUR COAST DEFENSES \Y\^\H<b N -- THK question of coast defense is just now being given much attention by the military authorities, it is averred that, for some reason or other, this "line of defense" has not received that consideration in the past to which its mportanee entitles it. During this year, however, the matter will be taken up in earnest at Washington, and it is safe to say that many points on our coast that are now unprotected will ia due season be equipped with forts of the ype represented in the picture above. This photograph was taken during target practice and at the moment of the iring of one of the 12 inch disappearing guns with which Fort Wadsworth is armed. The roar and concussion of the explosion of these pieces of ordnance are alike tremendous To counteract their effects on the body, the soldiers are nstructed to raise themselves on their toes and open their mouths. In some instances the men reinforce these instructions by covering their ears with their hands. I Great Britain on Still Hunt for Good Animals. Sum cf $250,000 to Be Set Aside for, Developing Equine—Choice Ones Go Abroad Because Foreigner Pays More. London.—A sort of government stud, of which the purpose is to establish a : new breed of horse, is not unlikely to be presently endowed by the commis sioners of the development grant. They have promised, as recently an aouneed, $250,000 for the eficcurage ment of horse breeding; but the more any definite scheme is inquired into the more clearly it appears that the cardinal point, so far as the army is concerned, is money. The best horses go abroad simply because the foreign at a meeting of the City of London Territorial Force association, in which the secretary of state for war wrote that progress was being made with the scheme for the supply of horses on mobilizalion. and before long^ def inite instructions would be issued. In the meantime Mr. Haldane did not see any reason for a conference with the association on the subject. FAYING CHICAGO FIRE DEBT Last of $50,000 Bonds Issued by City of Buffalo Will Not Be Retired Until 1917. Chicago.—The city of Buffalo Is still retiring bonds issued for the relief of Chicago at the time of the fire. It issued $50,000 worth of 7 per cent, bonds OcL 10, 1S71. and this indebted er pays more: and to supply a govern ment department with extra doles is no business of the commissioners. What they do should be done princi pally on behalf of the breed itself. This being so, it is preposed as a 3rst step to try to convert the hunter from a mongrel to an aristocrat. The hunter is the horse of horses for util ity. The cavalry and the territorials want nothing but the hunter. At pres ent the breeding of hunters is a jan 3om business, as it always is in cross bred stocks. Thoroughbred sires are sent to the several centers by the royal eommis i slon on horse breeding, but the breed ing of hunters would be on a very dif ferent footing if the hunter type could be. as It were, stereotyped in a distinc tive pure breed. In many parts even af Ireland, the paradise of hunters, the type is depreciating and nowhere is it J improving. It is argued that a really scientific and practical body, with the grant of several thousand dollars a year, could evolve a pure bred hunter of just the sort required, just as the pigeon or dog fanciers have evolved birds and dogs 3f every sort of "pattern.” Similar ex periments recently made in Hertford shire in regard to polo ponies are very promising; and these have been under taken on no very scientific method. The evolving of such a horse would make horse breeding for the army a steady, lucrative business instead of a lottery, and would be a constant source of wealth to the country. It is to be hoped that a small part of the $250,000, vaguely and conditionally of fered, will be spent on such a progres sive experiment as this. There are scores of men who would co-operate. Hackney enthusiasts be lieve that hackney blood should ap pear in such a breed and would, as recent ofTers prove, lend mares as oth ers would lend stallions. It Is not oft ' en that the opportunity is offered of organizing so useful an experiment so cheaply. A letter from Mr. Haldane w-as read ness will not be wiped out until 1917, according to the date of expiration of the latest refunding of the original issue. Information on this subject was ob tained by the county architect, Edwin Bice Baker. Seeing in the last annual report of the comptroller of Buffalo, William G. Justice, an Item of a $20. 000 bond issue, marked "Chicago fire relief bonds.” he wrote to the comp troller of that city for enlightenment on the subject through curiosity and as a matter of general public interest. Play Ball on Ice. Sandusky, Ohio.—The novel experi ence of witnessing a baseball game ! on the frozen surface of Lake Erie, oft the south shore of Kelly's island, was the pleasure of nearly two thou ; sand islanders. A regulation diamond was marked ! off on the ice and the rules of the national game were followed. The teams playing were dubbed the Elfers and the Porters. The Eliers wen by the score of 22 to 20. TOY HOUSE TO BE RETAINED even Though Girl for Whom It Was Constructed Has Since Married and Moved Away. Chicago.—The bijou toyhouse for children, which for many years has gladdened the hearts and excited the interest of children passing the home of Thomas Lynch, Dearborn avenue, is ; to be kept in repair and renovated. The wedding recently of Miss Leila Lynch, for whom the model house was constructed, when she was a small I girl, revived a desire of Mr. Lynch j to keep intact the miniature dwelling which had brought as much jov to members of the family. Miss Lynch is now Mrs. J. F. Stevens and her home for the present is at Washing ] ton. D. C. The little home, about ten feet long and eight feet wide, situated in the yard adjoining the Dearborn avenue address, is or was complete in its i appointments.. It is a replica of a . modern house, but now sadly in need of repair and fresh paint. A veranda which formerly made a pleasant loung ing place for the small residents of i the house has fallen away in ruins. ; Electric light and the connections are broken, and the inside of the dwelling • is one of chaos. Much of the ap pointments of the apartment, howe\er, remain to demonstrate its former j glory and completeness. II Three rooms comprise the lower floor, with stairs leading to a tower, from which a view of the neighbor- ■ hood can be obtained. A bedroom con- j tains a bureau and mirror with a closet and chairs. There Is a small sewing machine and piano in the liv ing room, with a table and couch. A • i gas burning grate formerly provided heat for the apartment, while electric fixtures testify to modern lighting ef- 1 fecta. Real windows with shades, an electric dcor boll, small dinner dishes and other accompaniments of a per fectly ordered household were enjoy ed by the small owner and guests. A 3agstaff surmounts the tower top and a small yard surrounds the house en circled by an iron fence. "It sure was some house, wasn't *t7" commented the coachman of the household to a visitor as he crawled out of the door and fastened it with a string. “It's a shame to see it* go to pieces." It is to be repaired, how ever. and kept in shape. PARROT CHEWS UP HER TAG Express Employes Had Lively Time Caring for Bird—Death Follows Delivery to Owner. St. Paul. Minn.—A parrot, sent to SL Paul from Chicago, chewed up her address tag and made things lively for the last ten days In the office of the Wells-Fargo Express company. She perished after reaching her rightful owner. "Why. that parrot was talking the whole blessed day; we could hardly get in a word edgewise," said one of the clerks. “We took her out of the box every day to feed her, and we al ways had trouble catching her again.”' Polly was shipped to a Mrs. Cook by her son in Chicago. The bird man aged to reach the label on the box and destroyed It and there was a long delay In getting a duplicate address. Mrs. Cook called at the office of the St. Paul Humane society and in formed Miss Alice Niliard. secretary, that the Wells-Fargo company had de tained her parrot for ten days because they had lost thd address and that she did not believe the parrot had been cared for all that time. The ex press company officials say every at tention was paid to the bird and that it really got a good deal more than was its due. WAITERS MUST BE HEALTHY -- i Big New York Hotels to Require Phy sical Examinations Similar to German Custom. Xew York.—The German system of supervising the health of hotel em ployees for the protection of guests is being put into force in the larger Xew York hotels. A large Broadway hos telry, employing 450 servants, put the Bystem into operation lately. The serving of food by infected wait ers imperils the health of patrons, ac cording to sanitarians. “The hotel guest,” said one manager, in speak ing of the Innovation, “is at the mercy of the management of the hotel which he patronizes in respect to the selec tion of employees. A hotel ought to protect its guests from diseases just as any private householder would pro tect himself and family. “Only recently It was brought to my attention that a man and his wife and child who had been staying at a hotel, whose name should have been a guarantee for the utmost cleanli ness. became infected with a horrible skin disease. It was learned that a scrubwoman who suffered from the disease had used a drinking glass in the guests' room. The disease had been communicated to a cut on his lip and thence to his wife and child." The question of requiring similar inspection of dining car waiters pre sents more difficult aspects to the health authorities attempting to solre the problem. They point out that congress should authorize a national health bureau, as recommended in the president's message, one of the pow ers of which might be to supervise the sanitation of interstate carriers. Of the 450 employees in the first hotel to initiate the German system only 12 refused to undergo the physical ex amination. They were discharged. To mingle our sorrows is to sweet en them. Law on Rctten Eggs. Albany. X. Y.—The New York state department of agriculture announces that in its efforts to enforce the pure food law it has been difficult to obtain evidence to convict persons who seli tad eggs for food. “It is the practice.” says the depart Kent in its circular, “to ship rotten eggs to New York city from the four corners of the earth marked ‘noUfor food’ or 'for tanning purposes.’ ~ “This makes the shipment legff^ it is not until the shipment rea._J the consignee that its purpose l" changed.” -i Dog Is Hero. London.—Jess, the Irish terrier of the paralyzed Islington watchmaker, has been presented by Mrs. De Courcy Laff&n with a collar admitting it to the Brotherhood of Hero Bogs. Known as the dog with the human brain. Jess Is in the habit of answer ing the door for her master, and helps him by holding and fetching tools, running errands and generally acting as a domestic. SAVED FROM DAM TION—NEIGHBOR TO DO FORBUC I too wish to add irf thousands you no doi tell you what your gri me. Several months ago sick with bladder tr pains and suffered j could net stand on r chair and often was with pain. I consulted two do, I different kinds of me< no good. It seemed ’ j of their medicine I tj came. The doctors 9 puzzled over my casej consultation, I was ; severe case of inflami J and an operation was | I was being prepan 9 hospital, when a nt 5 house and said, ‘W r bottle of Dr. Kilmei j was willing to try a S from my suffering. 3 3 tie of your medicine and soon noticed a < I continued taking i| j along, my appetite aide to resume wer' I have used sevei Root and know that I would have been baps never reeovere ray frierrls alout 1 Reot as I know it from suffering and j case, a dangerous o] ' Yours gratef | S3 State of Minnesota County of Hennepii Personally appeari day of Sept., 19 9. city of Minneapolis sot a, who subscrilx oath says that sam and in fact, M. Commission expin letlrr to Dr. k.la-r &. fo. Biart W. Y. Prove What Swamp-? Send to Hr. Kil ! ton, N. Y., for a s. j convince anyone, a booklet of valua!.. all about tbe kidney writinc. be sure an. 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