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Pf.'Li.ui(.i', Uunlcl Randolph Kit.
Iiukii, ulillo crossing it Clilatgu
street, causes tlio wreck of an unto,
whoso chuiilTcur dl.'iihleH It trylne
tn mold running lilm down. In
pity the occupant of the unto, u
yuuiiK Blrl) hiivch him from nrrcHi
anil kIvcb him n dollar, telling him
to buy soup, und wush. Ills senno
of uhumu'ls touched, and ho Ini
proves his uppuurunco. That night,
In a crowd of unemployed and un
urchlHta, he meeta Kuthcr Strom
.and In a spirit of brawulo iikiUch ii
speech, IMher Induces KlUhtiKh
to uddrcca the rl.dleul meeting. Ho
clectrllles the crid, und on part
ing the two ngicn to meet again.
Kltzliiigh visits Symington Otla,
prominent financier, and. displaying
u putkiiKe which ho suys contaliiH
dynamite, demands JIO.O'O. Otli
t'lveH lilm a check. At the Iioiiho
ho meets tho girl who hud Riven
lilm the dollar, and learns she Is
Kathleen Otis. She rccoKiilzcn him.
Ashamed, he tears up the check
und escapes, but lu arrested.
Usther visits I'ltzliugli In Jail and
macs iirrntigcnicnts far procuring
legal advice, Ills trial Is upeadlly
completed and ho Is found Insane
und committed to an asylum, from
which ho easily makes his escape.
Kltzhugli takes rcfiiRo In Chicago
with Ksthcr, who has becomo In
fntuuted with lilm, but with the
thouRlit of Kutlilceu In tils mind
ho Rives her no cncouroRoment.
Ills ono Idea Is to becomo rich nnd
powerful, and win Kathleen.
While hiding In Esther's houso he
crows u heard, which effectually
changes his appearance.
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CHAPTER IV Continued.
5
And, heedless of his protestation1,
she told him. She wns a widow. Her
husband lind hern n Russian nihilist
nnd wns killed In Pctrogrud. After
his death she hnd fled to America.
"Now, of course, you want to henr
my story," he decided, when she fin
ished. "Don't .vou?"
She noted the unwillingness In his
voice. "Some other time," she an
swered. "I'd better pet you something to
eat," she reminded herself presently,
nnd rose nnd started toward the door.
"You must he hungry." She paused
with her hand on tho knob. "Isn't
there .something else I can get you?"
she asked.
"Yes ; I wish you'd got me some eve
ning newspapers." He ran his hand,
first lu ono trousers pocket, then In
the other, before remembering their
emptiness. "Never mind," he told her.
"I'll do without."
"I'll get them nil," she promised
soothingly. "It's only n few cents,"
she added ns she went out.
When she returned, bearing a tray
of food and n bundle of newspapers,
Kltzhugli had made his toilet and
looked n little more presentable or,
rather, a little less unkempt.
lie throw aside the more conserva
tive Journals, which announced his es
cape In staid tmragraphs, and read
first those saffron-colored ones, which
told the news with huge black type
ngalnst pink nnd green backgrounds.
The first one shrieked at him:
MANIAC ESCAPES!
OVERPOWERS GUARD AND FLEES
IN STOKM 1
Ho smiled and turned to the next
one. Then he started nnd sat up very
strnlght. Lavishly smeared over the
damp front page, smelling of printer's
Ink, this is whnt he saw:
MADMAN MISSING I
$1,000 FOi: CAPTURE!
SYMINGTON OTIS OFFERS RE-
WARD I!
He read It again nnd again, enjoy
ing the notoriety to tho full. He had
come Into the limelight.
When Esther knocked at his room
next morning about eight, Fltzhugh
had been up un hour.
"Come to my room ns soon as you're
dressed; I've a surprise for you'."
He listened until be could no longer
hear her footsteps on tho uncarpeted
stnlrs, then opened the door and fcund,
Jubt without, a parcel. Opening It, he
disclosed u complement of underwent',
socks, shirt, collar nnd tie. There wns
also n cap. Agalu he experienced an
uncomfortable feeling of gratitude and
shame for accepting, perforce, so
much from n woman. In a closet nt
the end of the hall he had unearthed
nu old wooden clothestub. Ho filled
It nt the hydrant, carried It to his
room, nnd stripped nnd enjoyed a cold
bath. Then, nrrnyed in his new hnh
erdnshery, ho went to his bene
factress.
"You hnve three guesses," she cried
gayly, holding her hands behind her,
her face rndtnnt. She fumbled with
what she held behind her, bhlfllng It
to one hand, reached up, playfully
tweaked his unshaven check nnd
rubbed her palm ngalnst Its stubby
grain. "Now can you guess?"
He nodded, smiling. "You've bought
mo n Muivlng outfit," he said soberly,
"I'm unrry. I'm not going to shave.
I'm going to grow u bearda Van
dyke." She fell strangely silent; and when
she spoke he thought iter voice sound
ed bard, unnatural. "I see. A dis
guise. How stupid of me not to think
of It. That means, of course" she
picked up the shaving mug and ap
peared to be Interested In Its contour
"that means you will be leaving
here."
lie wns In n quandary. lie knew not
how to answer. Deep down lu his
henrt he knew he was going to leave
her, was going to shut her out of his
life. He had decided that again last
night when drawing up his plans. Hut
he could not tell her so now not
while she stood there ipiestlonlng him,
with such accusation, such bitter re
proach. "You will, won't vou?" she demand
ed, her face reddening.
lie chose the path of least resist
ance. He took the shaving mug from
her hands, replaced It on the table,
and put his arms around her and
kissed her on the lips. It was probably
the most prudent answer he could
have made; ami when, upon her re
peating her question, less Insistent
ly, he said, "Don't think about un
pleasant things," she promised to try,
and lighted the oil stove and busied
herself with breakfast preparations;
nnd ns she went about her work she
hummed to herself almost happily.
During breakfast, however, he re
turned to the troublesome topic.
"Daniel," she began, refilling his
coffee cup, "I wnnt you to tell me
what you Intend doing. I don't like
you to have secrets from me."
"Keally, I nm surprised nnd sad
dened. I never suspected I was so
transparent."
"I'll telK you what I'd like, Daniel."
Her voice was low and serious. "I'd
like to hnve you go back to Russia
with me. There's work to be dono In
Russia Ob, such quantities of work!
and you and I could do so much. Oh,
Daniel, you don't know what It's like
"Symington Otis Offers Reward!" He
Read tt Again and Again, Enjoying
the Notoriety to the Full.
In Russia the poverty, the misery,
the millions cowed by tyranny. They
ate groping In the darkness. They
need light. They must be taught that
all worklngmen are their comrades, all
the rich their foes. They must be
taught to strike back when they are
btruck "
"See here, Esther!" Fitzhugh's
clenched fist struck the table a ring
ing blow. His quiet demeanor lut.il
radically changed. "I've .something I
want to tell you. Henceforth my
brain, my energy, every particle of me,
will work toward but one end Ma
terial Success. Money means Power,
and Power Is my goal. I've known all
along I could reach It. 1 shall have to
be cold, heartless, selllsb. There's no
other way. The poor! pooh! What
are the poor but beasts of burden to
pnek and carry for their masters, who
are the rich and Intelligent."
As he talked Esther crouched back
In her chair, cringing from him as
though each woid he spoke wns u
whip-lash across her face.
"Naturally, you hadn't thought of
me," she murmured, when he paused.
"On the contrary," he said, and there
wns it hidden mennlng In bis words,
which, keen ns she wns, escaped her,
"you are tho person of whom I'm
thinking most Just now."
A glad light sprang Into her eyes.
"Then you are going to take me up
with you I With your money you see,
I take It for grunted you will become
wealthy how much we could do for
tho underclasses!"
Ho tossed nwny his clgnrette, took
a swallow of coffee, put down his cup
abruptly "I'll do tho square thing by
you remember 'that. Perhaps money
cannot compensate you frjr all you
hnve done for me I doubt very much
if It can hut If It can, Esther, I shall
repay you a hundredfold."
She sprang up. ITer brief glndnera
had lied, Her face was very white.
"Then you are going to throw me.
over!" she blazed ut him. "I thought
so!"
"Have ever shown nny wild dcslrti
for your company?" he nsked Icily. Ho
also was standing. Ills face was
while, too. "In our short friendship
has It not always been you who took
the Initiative?"
"Rut the first time wo met you had
no money, no place to sleep."
Ills brow darkened. "I thought I
was going to have trouble with you.
Rut never mind. I'll settle In full my
account with you, and we'll quit oven."
A furious torrent of words rushed to
her tongue, but before she could looso
It something occurred which, even In
that tempestuous moment, dammed Its
How, A shadow obliterated the sun
light, and she turned In time to see
what cast It. A second later n per
emptory knocking rattled the street
door.
"Go to your room nnd lock yourself
In!" she ordered, nnd pushed him be
foie her toward the hall door. "It's
Nlkolay the big Russian you met nt
Smulskl's. He mustn't find you here.
He's reaily to kill you, almost. Do
hurry! Run ull the way to your room
and lock the door."
He tarried no longer. Yet the ex
citement of the moment did not ban
ish his diplomacy, for he pressed her
hand and kissed her before going.
After bis departure she composed her
self at the breakfast table. The bat
tering at the door swelled louder with
every second.
Fltzhugh gone, Esther unbnrred tho
door and admitted her visitor.
"Come In Nlkolay," she invited.
He entered, glowering, and sat In
the chair Fltzhugh bad vacated.
"Why did you keep mu waiting?" ho
nsked sullenly.
"Recnuse," she replied evenly, "I
wns trying to decide whether or not I
wnntfii to see you."
"And did you decide?"
She lifted one shoulder, with elo
quent Indifference, nnd stirred her cof
fee. "I hnd to ilet you In. Another
minute, nnd you jould hnve torn the
house down."
He turned lils mnsslve bond this
wny nnd Hint, shilling the air very
audibly. "I take It you care more for
your friend who rolls his own ciga
rettes." He opened a box of Russians
and lighted one.
She did not speak, and ho went on:
"You've taken quite a fancy to this
young spellbinder, hnven't you?"
"If you mean the boy who left Just
as you came he's my brother."
Nlkolay threw back his head, nnd
gave n loud, mirthless laugh. "Brother!
What a liar!"
She caught her brcnth shnrply nnd
sat very erect, n crimson spot burn
ing vividly In either dark cheek. Her
bosom rose nnd fell stormlly.
"Re careful what you say to me,"
she warned him ; but the anger lu her
low voice seemed only to fan his
jenlousy to a llercer flame.
He ground his teeth as be frowned
at her, and the great hairy hand lying
on bis knee opened nnd closed. "You
will equlvocnte, won't you? As If you
could hoodwink me for one Instant !
Don't try It, you Esther. You know
well enough why I lonth this this "
"Randolph Fltz," she supplied swift
ly. So he did not know Fltzhugb's
real name. That was good.
"You know well enough, I say. It's
because you love him."
He jumped up. kicked his ebalr out
of the way, and began pacing the floor
savagely.
"You can't be serious, Nlkolay!" She
made n bravo effort nt gnyety. "I
care for him? Surely you are Jest
lug." She tilted back her chair, as he
stopped and towered over her, and
smiled ui tit him coquettlshly.
"Why wfll you torture me so?" ho
cried, holding out his great arms to
her. "Can't you see how I love you?
Don't you know I've loved you for
years? And this Fltz!" he spat the
word out "this vagabond of a Fltz'
You've known him but n few weeks,
yet you're Surely you cannot love
him! Tell me that you doh't. Tell
me tell me, Esther, that you love onlv
me!"
The woman knew how to net. She
hesitated, smiled up nt him demurely;
then, breathing to herself the nnme of
the man she loved, she rose, and, with
her eyes closed tightly, held up her
lips to the man she despised.
Some while Inter Nlkolay took his
departure.
Nikolay, the big Russian.
(TO Hi: CONTINUED.)
Ski Jumping In Summer.
Since thl Urst cave men slid down
n glacier, skiing has been considered
a cold-weather sport. Among tho
snowclad hills of the cold north coun
tries skiing has developed until It Is
the national sport of Norway. Rut
now comes an expert ski Jumper who
established his own precedent, In good
American fashion, by skiing on the
hottest summer day. Of odds and
ends be has built a slide, approxi
mately 100 feet long und terminating
ut a gap of 2fi feet, beyond which Is
a lauding Inclines of heavier, broader
construction and surfaced with can
vas. This Is kept slippery by applying
soap and lard. Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
Had Preferred Position.
Walford catno home from tho neigh
bors und his mother Inquired what he
was doing. IIo snld they had been
playlqg war nnd were knocking tho
boys down. Ills mother then Inquired
If he wnsn't afraid of being hurt. "Oh,
no; I was ono of the knockers," he re
el led
SPARED FAIR SEX
Oldtime "Knights of the Road"
Not Always Stern.
Even Notorious Freebooters Have
Been Known to Succumb to
Feminine Wlleo Captain Kldd
Among the Number.
lllgliwn.wnen, df undent ballads and
traditions concenilng famous "knights
of die road" may be believed, have
often been polite to ladles; but plinles,
rarely. Nevertheless, the late Eliza
beth Clirlstopheis llobson, in her de
lightful "Recollections of n Happy
I. lie." relates nti Instance of a polite
pirate who not only spared one of her
incest resscs from molestation but
aiade her a valuable present. To be
uie. the lady In the case, who was
Mrs. John Lion Gardiner of Gardiner's
Island, made the first polite lidvnnei's.
and the pirate, who wns none other
than the notorious Capt. Kldd himself,
tneiely reciprocated In kind.
The owner of the Island was absent
when Kldd landed upon It. and Mrs.
Sin diner, lei rifled but keeping.' her wits
ihout her, Invited the form'dable fiee
hooter to dinner In the hope of placat
ing him. He accepted, and she so
wisely and wlllly fed or charmed him,
Dr both, (hat be hirer sent to her two
rich gilts-, both of which are still pre
crcd by her descendants: the "Kith!
pitcher." now strengthened by n silver
amid hearing an Inscription recording
ts history, and the "Kldd blanket." a
piece of superb embroidery two yards
long. In crimson, gieen itnihiold. When
the pitcher was presented, It was full
3f rare East Indian sweetmeats; the
Blanket Is sometimes called the "Kldd
lltar cloth." since ll was presumably
Molen from a South American or Mexi
:an church In some piratical raid.
An Dug the most i'hiiious names In
be reprehensible but picturesque roll
)f Rrltlsh highwaymen Is that of
Claude Duval, who, along with his
French name, possessed a dash of
Flench politeness, at least toward tho
.'air and easily frightened sex. He Is
epuU'd on various occasions to have
quired pretty ladles their rings or
ockets, f they begged lilm wlnnlngly
nough. or had the nrt. which one not
ible belle of bis era professed such a
iseful one to a woman, of "being1 able
o Weep movingly, and that without
streaking of Cheeks, of Rednlng of
S'ose. but soo onely that Grate Teares
)f Pure Crlstall Slide softely from Lids
o Cbinne, Like as Dew Droppes upon
i Rose." His most notable concession
o feminine charm was not. however,
i complete surrender: It was n bar
;aln. The lovely lady with whom It
wis mnde was promised immunity for
til her rich Jewels. If she would but
lescend from the coach and forthwith
lance a coranto on the heath, with the
inllant and graceful Claude for her
wrtnor a condition with which she
eadlly compiled.
A "knight or the road." of less note
ban Duval Indeed, quite n minor,
nodest figure in the annals of crime
levertheless figured magnanimously In
in old. broad-sheet ballad, In which he
isslsted. Instead of despoiling, a lady
n distress. She was, the story re
ntes, the poor but beautiful widow of
i riotous, young nobleman Just killed
n a duel. Although of gentle blood,
die was beneath lilm In rank, and the
natch hnd been secret. When the
ouch was held up she was on her way
o seik out her husband's parents nnd
isk their 'orghoness nnd protection
'or herself nnd her baby boy. All she
lad to prove her ease was her wedding
lug and her certlllcate of marriage,
jentied and signed In Thlnlnture and
arrled in a locket itntud her neck.
iVhen these two precious trinkets were
lemanded at the point of a pistol, she
vns lu despair; lint the robber, hear
ng her story, was moved to pity.
flf ruvp her linek her mnll koIi! rlnic.
He put It ht-r tinner on, '
Jum. "Your nnd inlnu and yours at;.iln,
Though hardly tt uui won"
Hp ruvp her tuck her troliten locliet;
HnyH, "Now think 1 of me,"
Knit Knlil anil rubles to till her pocket
"O tlmilk.i, klmi air!" ayn ilia.
If the grateful pocketing of such
Itililoits gold and rubles by an Innocent
iml lovely heroine in distress seems
lomewhnt strnugi, the reader must re
liember that bioad-theet ballads of the
oad are concerned oitfy with glorlflca
Ion of their highwaymen heroes; con
Money, conscience and the heroines
liemselves are alike unimportant nnd
iicldeiital. Youth's Companion.
Not Dead Ones.
I was using my seven passenger
oiirlng car to help a friend who wns
mining a bus line, but who was tem
porarily short of curs. We were mak
ing certain routes und bad on our
windshields cards giving our places
f destination. I was suddenly called
from my regulnr route to take n
:ouple to tin minister to bo married.
h we weii' going up the street, with
;he bride adorned wltli her white veil
and the groom In bis best suit, both
ilttlng in back, I noticed that many
,vo met were convulsed with laughter.
I didn't realize the cause until I
reached the parsonage and found thnt
I hud failed to remove from tho wind
ihleld the sign: "This car to the cem
jtory." Exchange.
British Columbian Eyports.
Advances noted In practically nil
the principal Items tiuulo up an In
renMJ of $ir,r0f,l0, occurring In tho
ruluo of the declared exports from
nitnrla. Rrltlsh Columbia, tn tho
United Stntes during 1010, ns com
mred with the preceding year, tho
m.il bejng sm.iKn.7n5, nnd $52,850,.
- in UU8 mid linn, respectively.
Lift off Corns!
Doesn't hurt a bit and Freczone
costs only a few cents.
With your fingers! You enn lift off
nny haul corn, soft corn, or corn be- '
tween the toes, and the hurd skin cnl- j
luses from bottom of feet.
A tiny bottle of "Freezone" coots '
little ut any drug store; npply n few
drops upon the corn or callous. In- '
stnntly It stops hurting, then shortly
you lift Hint bothersome corn or cnl- '
Ions right off, root nnd ull, without
one bit of pnln or soreness, Truly! '
No humbug! Adv.
. We've All Heard That. j
"Hnve you ever beard any table rap
ping?"
"No, but I've heard a lot of knock
ing when a plocod-up supper was be
ing served."
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Direction Rook In package tells how
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"There Is n nut needed about that
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For true blue, use Ited Cross Ball
Blue. Snowy-wjilte clothes will he
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Fine feathers may not make line
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