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The j captain grinned as he added: “The *ltn«ss wants instructlcns. judge." Vou can he perfectly frank. Mrs. Jeffries.' said the lawyer reassuringly. ** hare no desire to conceal any thing from Capt. Clinton" Annie bowed (he Mid slowly; “1 promised J-idge Brews' v that she would come’ here to-night." “Did clie promise to comer growled the captain. “Yea" ^ *lh where is she?" he ’demanded. ’ She hasn’t come yet." she replied, but the will. I'm sure—1 know she will." How did you come to find her?" demanded the captain auspiciously. Annie hesitated a moment and glanced at Mr Jeffries Then she Wild hesitatingly: “That I—I cannot say—now." Capt. Clinton's massive bulldog Jaw closed with an ominous click. ‘ Decline to answer, eh? What’s her namer She remained silent. W bat s her namer he repeated impatiently. T cannot tell you. “ she said firmly. "Do you know ttr he bellowed. T«.” «be answered quietly. “Know It. but can’t aay. eh? Hum!" H* folded his arms and glared at ner Mr Jeffries now Interfered. Ad dressing Annie angrily, he said But you must speak’ Do you real I ire ti,a* wiy arm’s life is at stake T' Yes. i 40,- ,j,e replied quickly. “I’m giad to see that you are begin ning to realise it. too. But I can't tell you yet—" Tha Judge turned to the police rate •aln “1 may tell you. captain, that even 1 myself have not succeeded In learn ing the name at this mysterious per nonage." Addressing Annie, he sald I think you had better tell us. i gee no advantage la cooceallng It any fur ther M« shook her bead. "No* ret."' she murmured; "she will u:i you bereett when she comes “ -Hh! I thought as much!" exclaimed the hanker lncreduoui»ly. The captain roae and drew himself up to hi. full height, a favorite trick (4 bia. when about to aseert his au tLorfty WelJ. when she does come!" he exclaimed “I think you may as well understand she will be taken to bead ! quarters and held as a witness." "TouH arrest her!" cried the law yer. “That's what I said. Judge. She’s a materia! witness—the most Important l<*» the State has. I don’t Intend that ; «h« shall get away—" "Arrest her! Oh. Judge, don't let him do that!" exclaimed Annie In dis may. i Judge Brewster grew red In the . face. Wrathfully ha said: "She Is coming to my bouoc of her i own (run will. She has trusted to my "Ted—yes!" cried Annie. "She trusts to your honor. Judge." Cape Clinton grinned "Honor cuts mighty Uttlo Ice la thlo ■aftor. There’s bo use talking. I shall place her under anust" "1 will not penult ouch a disgrace ful proceeding!" ertad the lawyer. "With all das raopaet Judge," ro tortsd tho pnllpsmsa Impudently, "you won't ho eoaoulfad. Too have do Sr uMd I thank you usay aaAJMt I don’t tool that I aood say turthor worry. She has probably forgotten her appointment. Some people are very careless in that respect" Moving toward the door, he added: “Well, if it's all the same to you. I'll wait down stairs. Good-night." He went out. his hat impudently tilted back on bis head, a sneer on his Ups. The banker turned to the Judge. “I told you how it would be,” he said scornrully. “A flash in the pan!" The lawyer looked askance at An nie. “You are sure she will come?" he asked. “Yes. I am sure!” With concern she edded: “But the disgrace of arrest! It will kill her! Oh, judge, don't let them arrest her!" "Tell me who she la!" commanded the lawyer sternly. It was the first time he had spoken to her harshly and Annie, to her dis may. thought she detected a note of doubt in his voice. Looking toward the banker, she replied: “I can't tell you Just now—she’ll be here soon—” "Tell me now—I insist.” said the lawyer with growing impatience. “Please—please don't ask me!” she pleaded. Mr. Jeffries made an angry gesture. "As I told you, Brewster, her whole story Is a fabrication trumped up for some purpose—God knows what ob ject she has in deceiving us! I only know that I warned you what you al : ways may expect from people of her class.” The Judge said nothing for a mo ment. Then quietly lie whispered to the banker: "Go Into my study for a few mo ments, will you, Jeffries?" The banker made a gesture, as If utterly disgusted with the whole busi ness. “I am going home," he said testily. “I've had a most painful evening— most painful. Let me know the re sult of your investigation as soon as possible. Good night. Don’t disturb me to-night. Brewster. To-morrow will do.” He left tbe room In high dudgeon, banging the door behind him. Annie burst into a laugh. "Don't disturb him!" she mimicked. "He's going to get all that's coming to him." Shocked at her levity, the lawyer turned on her severely. "Do you want me to lose all faith in you?" he asked sternly. "No. indeed.” she answered con tritely. "Then tell me," he demanded, "why do you conceal this woman's name from me?" "Because I don't want to be the one to expose her. She shall tell you her self." That's all very well." he replied, "but meantime you are directing sus picion against yourself. Your father in law believes you are the woman; so does Capt. Clinton." "The captain suspects everybody." she laughed. “It's his business to suspect. As long as you don’t believe that I visited Underwood that night—" j The judge shook his head as If puz- ! sled. "Candidly. I don’t know- what to think.” Seriously, he added: “I want to think the very best of you, Annie, but you won't let me." She hesitated a moment and then, quickly, she said: "I suppose I’d better tell you and have done with It—but 1 don’t like to—” At that moment a servant entered and handed the lawyer a card. “The lady wants to see you at once, sir.” To see me." asked the lawyer In surprise: "are you sure she hasn't come for Mr. Jeffries?" "No, sir; she asked for you.” Annie sprang forward "Is It Mrs. Jeffries?" she asked. “Yes,” he replied. "Let me see her. Judge." she ex claimed eagerly? "I’ll tell her who it la and she can tell you—she’s a woman —and I'd rather. Let me speak to her. please!" Addressing the servant, tbe lawyer said: "Ask Mrs. Jeffries to come up." Turning to his client, he went on: "I see no objection to your speaking to Mrs. Jeffries. After all. ahe is your husband’s stepmother. But 1 am free to confess that I don't understand you. I am more than disappointed in your failure to keep your word. You prom ised definitely that you would bring the witness here to-night. On the strength of that promise I made state ments to Capt. Clinton which I have not been able to substantiate. The whole story looks like an Invention on your part.” She held out her hands entreat Ingly. “It’a not an Invention! Really, judge! Just a little while longer! You've been so kind, so patient!" There was a trace of anger In the lawyer’s voice as he went on: “I believed you implicitly. You were so positive this woman would come forward." “She will—she will. Give me only a few minutes more!" she cried. The lawyer looked at her as It pu» xled. “A few minutes?" he said. Again he looked at her and then shook his head resignedly. “Well, It's certainly infectious!” he exclaimed. "I believe you again." The door opened and Alicia appeared The lawyer advanced politely to greet her. “Good evening. Mrs. Jeffries." Alicia shook hands with him, at the same time looking inquiringly at An nie, who, by a quick gesture, told her that the Judge knew nothing of her secret. The lawyer went on: "Mrs. Jeffries. Jr., wishes to speak to you. I said I thought there'd be no objection; you don't mind. May she?” "Yes." murmured Alicia. “Your husband was here.” said the Judge. “My husband!" she cried, startled. Again she glanced Inquiringly at An nie and tried to force a smile. “Yes," said, the lawyer; “he’ll be glad to know you’re here. I’ll tell him." Turning to Annie, he said: “When you’re ready, please seod and—" “Very well. Judge." The lawyer went out and Alicia turned round breathlessly. “My husband was here?" she ex claimed. “Yes.” "You’ve told Mr. Brewster nothing?" Annie shook her head. “I couldn't!" she said. "I tried to. but I couldn't. It seems so hard, doesn’t it?” Alicia laughed bitterly and An nie went on: “I was afraid you weren’t coming!" "The train was late!" exclaimed Al icia evasively. "I went up to Stam ford to say good-by to my mother." "To say good-by?” echoed her com panion in surprise. “Yes," said the other tearfully. ’1 have said good-by to her—I have said good-by to everybody—to everything— to myself—I must give them all up— I must give myself up.” \ju. 11 i as uau as mar. surely. Alicia shook her head sadly. ''Yes.” she said; *Tve reckoned It all up. It's a total loss. Nothing will be saved—husband, home, position, good name -all will go. You’ll see. I shall be torn into little bits of shreds. They won’t leave anything unsaid. But it’s not that I care for so much. It's the injustice of it all. The injustice of the power of evil. This man rnd<<r wood never did a good action in all his life. And now even after he is dead he has the power to go on de stroying—destroying—destroying:" "That's true." said Annie; "he was no good." The banker's wife drew from her bosom the letter 1 nderwood wrote her before he killed himself. “When he sent me this letter." she went on. T tried to think myself into his condition of mind, so that I could decide whether he intended to keep his word and kill himself or not. 1 tried to reason out just how he felt and how he thought. Now I know. It’s hopeless, dull, sodden despera tion. I haven't even the ambition to defend myself from Mr. Jeffries." Annie shrugged her shoulders “I wouldn't lose any sleep on his account." she said with a laugh. More seriously she added: "Surely he won’t believe—” "He may not believe anything him self.” said Alicia. "It’s what other peo ple are thinking that will make him suffer. If the circumstances were only a little less disgraceful—a suicide’s last letter to the woman he loved. They'll say I drove him to It. They won't think of his miserable, dishon est career. They’ll only think of my share in his death—” Annie shook her head sympathetic ally. "Yes." she said; 'It’s tough: Ths worst of It is they are going to arrest you." Alicia turned ashen pale. "Arrest me!" she cried. ’That's what Capt. Clinton says." replied the other gravely. "He was here—he is here now—with two men, waiting for you.” Apologetically she went on: "It wasn’t my fault, Mrs. Jeffries—I didn't mean to. What could I do? When I told Judge Brew ster. he sent for Capt. Clinton. The police are afraid you’ll run away or something—'* “And my husband!" gasped Alicia; “he doesn't know, does he?" "No. 1 didn’t tell them. I said you'd tell them -yourself, but they won't trust you when they know who you are. Let's tell the judge—he may think of a plan. Suppose you go away until—” Puzzled herself to find a way out of the dilemma, Annie paced the floor nervously. "Oh, this Is awful!" she exclaimed. “What are we to do?" She looked toward Alicia, as If ex pecting some suggestion from her, but her companion was too much over whelmed to take any Initiative. (TO BE CONTINUED.) A Snake Story. Carl Hagenbeck describes an adven ture with caged pythons: “My son Heinrich had no sooner opened the door of the cage than the four rep tiles. as though by prearranged plan, flew at him with wide open Jaws. One of them very nearly succeeded In coll ing Itself round him. but be defended himself vigorously, and I and a keep er ran to his aid, but It .was some minutes before we succeeded In free ing him. "Then the largest of the four fixed himself firmly with his tall on a ratter at the top of the cage and made sav* age bites at ns. When we had thrown a sack over his head we had to oc curs further assistance to unloosen his tall. No sooner had we with great effort got It loose than the mon ster twisted itself around Heinrich's right lag and began to twine Itself higher ap his body. j "It was a Ilfe-and-doath struggle I that then ensued, but by exerting all i ear might we. at last sm seeded In tearing away the reptile and forcing It into a sack." Recognized a Landmark. Dick and Tommy had come down I stairs too late to take part in the fam ily devotions. “Has paw got through yet?" asked Tommy. "He's about half through," whis pered Dick, who was listening at the door of the sitting room. “He’s Just got past ’may our sins be as far re moved from us as the east is from the west’" Money-Making Thoughts. Harker—You seem in a deep study. A penny for your thoughts, old man Bluffwood—O, I'm a rapid thinker and have 600 thoughts at ones. Puss ms over a five spot The Philosopher of Folly. “The reason so many at our pro fsssinnsl athletes aren’t property trained.” says the Philosopher at fit ly, “is that they have to spent ah much time being photographed." Uniform state laws governing cor porations rather than federal corpora tion control Is the remedy proposed for trusts by Edgar H. Farrar, presi dent of the American Bar association. ‘The great American national dis grace," said Mr. Farrar at the recent convention of the bar association at Boston, “Is found In the Issuance ol fictitious or watered stock. This is made possible by those corporation laws which provide no governmental supervision over the organization ot corporations which require no part o! the capital stock to be paid in monej and which permit the Issuance ot stock at the pleasure of the organizers and directors at such valuations as they may choose to place on them. To my mind, the most vicious ot all the provisions In the statutes above enu merated is that authorizing one cor poration to own and vote stock in an other. This provision Is the mother of the holding company and the trust. It provides a method for combining under one management and control cor porations from one end of the nation to the other. “Concerted action among the states will end all the trouble. If every state In the Union will purge Its corporation laws of ail objectionable fea tures. then the breeding places of industrial monstrosities are destroyed. It appears to me that it would require but a small amount of constructive states manship to bring about a state conference and uDlted action on this grave subject." Mr. Farrar ridicules the proposed scheme of E. H. Gary, president of the Steel Trust, for government regulation ot prices. He says: "For government to fix the prices of merchandise bought and sold in commerce Is utterly be yond the power of any legislative body in America; and our free democratic society, based on the independence of the Individual and the development and protection of individual rights, would have to be shattered to its foundation and a new social order built up before any such proposition could be main tained." CHARGED WITH SMUGGLING Nathan Allen, the Indicted leather trust magnate of Kenosha. Wls.. ac cused of smuggling at New York. will. It Is stated, made a spirited defense. It is said the Allen side of the Jenkins imbroglio will specify an attempt to carry out a blackmail scheme. That his wife believes absolutely In Allen's Innocence is shown by the fact that they spent the entire summer togeth er on a Montana ranch. Indictments charging Nathan Alien of Kenosha. Wls.. and John K. Collins of Memphis. Tenn.. with the smug gling of Jewels valued at more than 1100.000 were brought to light In the office of Tnlted States District Attor ney Wise in New Ycrk. The gems are alleged to have been smuggled Into that port from the steamship Lusi tania on June 25, 1909. The Indictments were the outcome of the testimony before the federal grand Jury of Mrs. Helen Dwelle Jen kins. to whom the Jewelry alleged to utttu aiaus.mcu was preseuiea. ana irom wnoia u was laier siuicn wane she was living at a New York hotel. Following the theft of the gems there was a great deal of publicity given to Mrs. Jenkins and Mr. Allen, and the matter was finally settled by a consideration of JTI.OOO. of which Mrs. Jenkins says she received $31,000. A third count In the Indictment also charges that Allen was party to a conspiracy with other persons to defraud the government of duties by "Intro ducing into the country the jewelry and wearing apparel described in two prior counts.” Collins, a coal operator of Tennessee, was a fellow passenger of Allen, the indictment in the Tennesseean's case recites, and it charges him with having smuggled a necklace consisting or five strands of pearls with a diamond and ruby clasp, a pearl and diamond bracelet and other articles of jewelry and wearing apparel. The charge of conspiracy is also laid at his door. GETS FORTUNE FROM GATES Henry Rockwell Baker, a twenty year-old youth of St- Charles. 111., will get $250,000 when be Is graduated from college. Baker is the late John W. Gates’s only nephew. Mr. Gates was very fond of him; the millionaire bequeathed $10,000 to be given to him at once for his expenses at college and $250,000 when he gets his degree. But he will not play football. Al though bis uncle placed no restric tions upon him. the lad remembers that Gates was opposed to football, and. for that reason, will not attempt to make a team. He has promised when be leaves college and comes Into his $250,000, that he will stay away from Wall street. This is also out of deference to his late uncle's wishes. John W. Gates once advised him. If he ever got hold of any money, to keep away from that mart of speculation and the boy regards this advice as a request. Baker was greatly surprised by the munificent bequest, but started In studying to earn it at once. Baker was a student in the St. Charles high school until he finished his studies there last fall; he was half-back on the school eleven and is an all around athlete. “Henry Is a bright boy.” Mr. Gates once said. "He Is a lad who studies and plays football too and that Is the right kind. 1 want him to get an education. He will find an education means more to him that all the money In the world." WOULD TAX THE HEIRESSES Soma time ago Representative Sa bath ot IUinot8 introduced a resolution in congress levying a tariff ot 2i> per •cent, upon all marriage dowries, set tlements between Americans and for eigners. Sentiment in favor ot such a tax has been growing since and if there Is any way ot passing a law which will be constitutional and el lectlve at the same-time, to regulate ibis marriage barter, steps to do so will probably be taken In the next ses sion of congress. There is an economic side to the marriage of our rich American glrla to titled Europeans. It la estimated that the purchase of these titles costs the enormous sum of 91.000,000,000 every ten years—a drain that few countries In the world, perhaps no other country except our own, could stand. The fact that tt la wealth which titled foreigners are seeking wben they marry American _ . evident. Whoever hears of a European noble marrying a poor American girl? Whoever hears of an English heiress marrying a poor American? If later' marriages were based on love the rule would work both ways. The fact the rule Is all one-sided Is conclusive proof of the mar cenarv spirit which actuates the broken-down nobles who seek American millions with the encumbrance of a wife thrown in. While a tax on Amer lean millions going abroad in settlement of marriage barters would not pr» vent such unions. It would be a compensation to the state. SHE GOT WHAT SHE WANTED This Woman Had to Insist Strongly, but it Paid Chicago, 111.—“I suffered from a fe male weakness and stomach trouble, ana i went to mo store to get a bottle of Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, but tho clerk did not want to let me have it— he said it was no good and wanted mo to try something else, but knowing all about it I in sisted and finally got it, and I am so i a uiu, iui ib uurtu me. “I know of so many cases where wo : men have been cured by Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound that I can say to every suffering woman if that i medicine does not help her, there is nothing that will.”—Mrs. Jaxetzki, i 2963 Arch St., Chicago, I1L This is the age of substitution, and women who want a cure should insist • , upon Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable i ! Compound just a3 this woman did and not accept something else on which the druggist can make a little more profit. Women who are passing throughthis critical period or who are suffering from any of those distressing ills pe culiar to their sex should not lose sight ; of the fact that for thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, which is made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for fe male ills. In almost every community you will find women who have been i restored to health bv Lvdia E. Pink, ham’s Vegetable Compound. POSITIVE PROOF. "How do I know that you really love me? What assurance have I that you would be willing to make sacrifices and endure hardships for my sake?” “What more can you ask? Haven't I for six months refrained from lay , ing violent hands on your little ' brother T’ — Masculine Anxiety. Teddy's mother had been taken sud denly ill one morning while he was at , school. On his return, he was admit ted to his mother's room for a few minutes, and found his Aunt Alicia sitting by the bed. "No, Teddy,” said she, “mother has been very 111, and must not talk.” “O, my! I'm sorry, mother,” gasy J Teddy. Mother smiled at him lovingly. Master Teddy seated himself on a large chair directly opposite, and. aft er wriggling anxiously around for a minute or two. delivered himself of the speech. "Mother dear—now don’t try to speak—but if you mean yes, nod your head—this way—and if you mean no. shake your head—this way. Have you seen my baseball bat?”—Llppincott's Magazine. Not All Smoked. L. White Busbey. secretary to for mer Speaker Cannon, was explaining that the speaker did not smoke so much as people thought he did. "My understanding.” suggested one of the party, “is that he gets away with about 20 cigars a day.” “Oh. well," said Busbey. "but he eats half of 'em ''—Sunday Magazine. Didn’t Break It Around Her. Ella—Our friend, the pitcher, has a "glass arm.” Stella—I didn't notice It when he called on me last evening. r i Easy Breakfast! A bowl of crisp Post Toasties and cream— the thing’s done! Appetizing Nourishing Convenient Ready to serve right out of the pacKage. “The Memory Lingers" Porriw CRMKAl. CO., L*4„ lM.nl. Crack. Mick. ^