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BED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF i ic CHAPTER XI. Conllnued. 15 She lind rushed to the adjacent room. The door slammed. The key turned iu tlic lock. He stared nt the barrier. When he spoke to Otis, who hnd renewed his nttnek with redou bled frenzy nnd threats of legal pun iBhiiient, he was markedly calm. "I wilt go quietly now" putting his antagonist nslde. "I apologize for what I've done." As he descended the stnlrcase, leav ing Otis with his daughter, the bevy of servants In the hall ceased their ex cited whispering, utid rendered him Ilent nwe. Fltzhugh did not go to his ofllco the following day, hut motored far out along the north shore. Ills mind wns blank until his enrwas turning in and out through the mesh of trallle In State street. The nowsboys, ever vo ciferous at the day's end, seemed to have nn unwonted noto of excitement In their hoarse cries of "Extra I" De layed at Monroe street by n policeman at the crossing, he tossed the news vendor on the corner n quarter-dol lar und ordered nil the papers. Tho first ono ho opened wns n plnk-nnd-black sheet, dnmp from the press, nnd blnzlng on Its first pnge this: WOMAN WOULD KILL RUSSIAN KNVOY. I DIES BY OWN HAND. I I Thin much ho rend In one hurried fiance. What followed ho devoured In snatches, getting the gist of tho mat ter In a minute's perusal : "Esther Strom . . . Annrchlst wot . . . Assnsslnato ambassador . . . B. & 0. station . . . Secret Service . . . Swallowed prussle. acid Found dead In cell." CHAPTER XII. , Fltzhugh awakened next morning to the ringing of his telephone. It wns Hunt. Ho cut short tho flood of ques tions, and, still In tils pajamas, got a email valise from a closet and began falling It with shirts, collars, and such other articles as a man needs for a short Journey. j When he reached his office, for twen ty galvanic minutes, without a wasted word, he outlined concisely what he wanted done during his nhsence, con sidering and settling various problems that In the Interim might arise. Per ceiving tho flight of time, he snatched his hat from tho floor, and, with Hunt trotting along beside, hurried to the elevator, still giving directions nnd ad vice. Down tho elevator shnft, through the rotunda of the first floor, to the tutomobllo In Adnms street, and hence to the railway station, ho con tinued the terse counseling. As he dashed Into the Grand Central station, ran down the midway toward his gate, tho conductor called "'Board l" and hln train pulled out. He caught the last Pullman as It moved from the shed. Fltzhugh returned from Washington in four tluys, a changed man. There had been little he could do; so little, Indeed, that ho felt his trip hud been wasted. Ho had located some mem bers of Esther's family nnd had given them, quite anonymously, a sum of money larger than any they had ever known. Then he took a train for Chi cago. There was nothing clso to do. But ho could not forget. Vividly against the background of his mind were marshaled all Esther had done for him, all her little acts of kindness, her unselfishness, but dogllkc devotion. And then ho would think of tho re quital he had made. Ills memory flogged him pitilessly. Ho thought of how he had left her nlouo with Nlko lay that morning, of his lncompasslon ateness tho Inst time ho saw her alive, of the death-dealing message ho hud sent, the needless cruelty . . . "Brute I I wns ulwuys a bruto to her. . . ." It was nenrly eleven when he reached his otlice. Ho had come di rectly from his apartment In his auto mobile, and woro a motoring cap and coat, unessentlals both, the last of which effectually concenlcd all ap parel beneath It from tho collar down. Hunt, coatlcss und with his shirt sleeves rolled to his elbows, sat at the great flat-topped desk In tho Inner sanctum, head over heels in the duy's work. With a brief excuse for his tardl- nets, Fltzhugh took the chair at tho opposite side of tho desk and scanned sonio important papers requiring his signature, conversing busily with Hunt as he read, lie had signed but ono of them, when, with an ejaculation upon the warmth of tho weather, ho flung off his cap, and loosening tho clnsps of his coat collar, walked Into the adja cent room. In a few minutes he reappeared; and, having discarded the motoring duster, he was outwardly transformed. Enow-white ducks, white outing slip pers, with silken hosiery shimmering wbr U showed, a soft white shirt. through the attached collar of which was looped a voluminous tlo of blood red .hue. a crush lint, whlto ns an Easier Illy, turned up In front and down behind and encircled by a crim son ribbon these mnde tip his attire. "You look llko tho cpltomo of a comic opera," Hunt lnughed, aside from the phone. "Whither nwny? Yachting?" "No," replied Fltzhugh, appending his signature to the rest of the pupers. "No, -I'm not going yachting." He put down his pen, picked up his enne, stood up. "I'm going Into the pit." "But what the" Hunt, who had half-risen from his chair, sank back, bewildered. "What tho dickens do you want to expose your hand for, Dan?" Daniel showed his teeth In nn odd grin. For an Instant It somehow sug gested to tho other something sinister llko a wolf bnrlng Its fnngs. "Better como along nnd wntch me, Hunt," stnrtlng toward tho door. "I'm going to give 'cm something to talk tbout. Coming?" He waited nt the door, flapping Ills cane against his Im maculate trousers. And this day began n Bpcctncular flourish of showy histrionics unrivaled before or since on the Chicago Board of Trade. During tho rest of the day's session In tho wheat pit, Fltzhugh, the actor, was the center of all attraction. Tho vIsltoYs In the gallery remnrked him and pointed him out to one anoth er; tho speculators, denlcrs, brokers' clerks, officers of tho board, all those whoso duties brought them on the "floor," soon or Into found their atten tion directed toward him. Ills extreme height, emphasizing his unusual garbf rendered "him strikingly conspicuous among his fellows. Of them nil ho wns the only ono who Btood out dis tinctly. Ho wns tho only ono of his sort Thp dramatic scene comported with him. no was In his native ele ment. This was tho moment ho had dreamed of long ago when he had stood up yonder In the visitors' gallery, his whole being keyed to tho martial pitch of gold that screamed to him from tho battlefield. But how different the realization! None of those who clamored about him, chafing him, seeking to tako ad vantage of what seemed to them a mental aberration, knew ho was being tortured by a ghot. . Tho ghost of a "What the 'pickens' Do You Want to Expose Your Hand For, Dan7" woman of raven hair and olive skin nnd sad, accusing eyes that ever re proached him, that ever seemed to sny: "You wero cruel, Daniel nl ways cruel." They did not know that when often ho gesticulated to no end, or that when he thundered his loudest and nppenred most abandoned to tho feverish excitement of the pit, tho up hrnldlngs of tho ghost wero cutting him to the quick, were lashing him tho hardest. As tho days passed Fltzhugh's pas sion for "showing, off' Increased amaz ingly. Ever prolific with freaks of act ing, he kept his associates on tenter hooks of curoslty. None could Imag ine what ho would do next. He al ways did tho unexpected. Nothing wns too fantastical. Once during a Saturday noonhour ho started n furore In tho rotunda of the bqard of trndo by striding through tho crowd playing boisterously on n mouth-organ, while round him capered sovornl monkeys, borrowed from somo Forquer street Italians; anon at n dinner Jn his apart ment ono evening he received his guests lu war paint and feathers and tho full regalia of an Indian chieftain. Yet those who know him Intimately as Hunt and two or three others were not long In noticing a change had como over him. When ho thought he wns unobserved ho wns given to long period's of brooding, and, as they right ly supposed, all his btzarrerlo was not tho real Fltzhugh, but only a mask, all his theatrical excitement not genu ine, but only a cloak for an Inner un-happiness. H TmLI't It wni during one of these tJ.trk' period." that he stole secretly nwuy not oven Hunt knew of his where abouts and for nearly n week wns un seen In Chicago. The day he returned he went to his safety deposit vault and locked therein a packet of papers. These papers, obtained nt great price and with commensurate difficulty, wero the deeds to tho Fltzrandolph home stead lu Maryland. . . . And still he was not happy. Still there remained the void, the dull gap he could not fill. Time and again during his first yenr of grief Fltzhugh hail endeavored, with characteristic audacity, to see Kathleen, but always substantially In vain. He had followed her to New port, whence she Hew with her moth er after the rupture, 'found sho hud sailed tho day before for Switzerland had tnken the next steamer, only to miss her ngaln, nnd for three months hnd played battledorc-nnd-shuttlccock with two defenseless women over tho major part of tho continent, often stay Ing In the samo hotel, yet never catch ing more than a fleeting gllmpso of tho one he loved. All efforts nt communlcntlon wero likewise fruitless. His letters were re turned unopened. Ills, gifts, too. When they returned homo In tho autumn ho hnd ordered n box of violets delivered to Kathleen every morning. Tho florist was an honest mnn, nnd nt tho month's end ho hnd rendered n bill only for carriage. But Fltzhugh died hard. For thrco years ho never gave up trying. Then the Inst gleam of hope flickered out. She was nbrond most of the tlmo now, returning to Chicago only at raro Intervals, und then but for a brief stny. He heard that Artie Sparkle was often with her, anil sometimes at tho club there wero rumors of But ho lnughed loudly nt these. Ho refused to listen. The Iden wns pre posterous ubsurd. Yet It wns never theless true that this gossip of Kath leen's engagement to Artlo Immediate ly preceded somo extraordinary per formance thnt kept the nnmo of Fltz hugh on tho lips of thousands for weeks nfterwnrd. As another man would have turned to drink, so ho turned to stngey extrnvngnnce. Un convcntlonnllty was his dissipation, nnd In his own way he became Intoxl catcd. Some four years nfter thnt day In .Tune four yenrs In which he hnd seen 'Kathleen less than a score of times and had spoken to her less than thrice Fltzhugh laid tho foundation of tho throne upon which he wns to reign for n brief but blazing period ns King of Wheat. Thcso four years had bred an unwholesome change In tho man. Tho amassing of gold had become his re ligion. Its virus had entered his soul. He allowed nothing to stand between, crushing all opposition with an iron hand. Everything wns subservient to hut one end, and thnt end was Money. All his faculties, all his tireless energy nnd zeal and ambition were concen trated upon it. Wnklng or asleep, tho thought of It was always uppermost Hunt. In the erratic meanwhile, hnd courageously piloted the deserted ship, knowing Its rightful captain would ngaln tnke tho helm when "ho came to himself." More thun any other, Henry Hunt enjoyed tho full confidence of his chief. Ho wns one of tho very few who knew Fltzhugh's renl name and family history. At Irregularly recurring periods Fltzhugh entered tho wheat pit, nnd while thcso Instances wore generally emblazoned with a burst of histrion ics, ho was never for n second blinded by the glnre. When he seemed most ebullient he wns really most cool-heud. ed. no foolod tho pit traders. They could never quite penetrate his "bluff Ing." They perceived his propensity for posing, nnd made tho mistake of thinking him too self-centered to be nllve to his surroundings. While they were pitying him for his rawuess, his crudities, and confidently expecting his downfall, ho would astonish theni by executing some brilliant coup that sug gested deep-laid plans ns splendid us his daring. When In tho conflict of the pit every flbpr of his being wns qulverlngly alert. Seemingly absorbed In thinking of himself and the effect of his pos tures, ho was Searching his opponents' fuces for the slightest trace of mean ing. Not a tremor of thnt higgledy piggledy turmoil escnped him. Eur und eyo wero quick to grasp every vurlatlon. Ho wus Instantly nllvo to every trick, every subterfuge. He was swift to seize upon the merest open ing, swift to attack tho first unprotect ed spot. He wns tho shrewdest of them all, and ha ployed a game none could understand. Outwurdly, the greenest of bunglers at It, Secretively ho maneuvered wltli a master hand. It wns In the winter of this year thnt Fltzhugh went deepest Into tho wheat pit. He plunged In farther nnd farther, nnd with such apparent reck lessness thnt ninny times Hunt held buck, counseling a slower and more cautious gult But tho lender wns ob durate. Ho would listen to no advice. Ho rushed yet deeper Into tho pit, dragging his hesitating follower with blm. Ensued long months of doubt nnd uncertnlnty months thnt ground down tho nerve of one .nnd tried tho mettle of the other. There were times when It seemed they would bo wiped out utterly. Their combined fortunes wero tied up In tho deal to tho last cent All hung In tho balance-. It was the biggest thing Fltzhugh ever engineered. If It went the wrong wny they would bo crushed under It and obliterated. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Have You One? A stone Is considered precious If It Is perfectly transparent, Is bright and clear In color and possesses great brilliance. X3Ae AMERICAN LEGION (Copy for This Department Supplied by National Headquarters of the American Legion.) VOCATIONAL PLAN GETS 0. K. National Headquarters Receives Many Expressions of Approval of the Work Accomplished. Remnrknblc tributes to the success of the American Legion's plan of co operation w 1 1 1) the Federal Board for Voca catlonal Educa tion to bring about Immediate a d in I s s 1 on to training, nt gov eminent expense, of thousnuds of dlsnhled former service men, have boon re ceived nt nation nl headquarters of the Legion, since tho Inaug uration of the G.J. MURPHY. Head of Service Division. system was announced n few weeks ngo. Probably the most significant In fctnncu of efficiency under the new ar rangement comes from Oshkosh, Wis. Oshkosh post, No. 70, located 80 hum who had put In claims for training, but had been unable to obtain u decision on their enses. The post got these men together nnd notified the district otlice of the board at Chicago, which sent n "flying squadron" of trouble men to Oshkosh. Everyone of the SO cases was cleaned up nt once. It Is the Intention of the Legion, through Its nntlonnl vocational olllrer nt Indlnnnpolls, and co-operntlng Le gionnaires in every .depurtinent and community throughout the country, to see thnt this same system Is put Into universal practice until the Inst red tape entanglement Is swept from the path of every crippled veteran, wheth er a member of tho Legion or not, who Is entitled to training under the provisions of the vocation rehabilita tion net. Since the Legion took up this work In Michigan, a total of 2,500 cases have been settled by the Legion and the fed eral board, working together. Confer ences have been held in 15 districts of the state nnd Legion men, accom panied by representatives of the board, met vocational officers of the local posts and sought out the men whose cases hnd not been ncted upon. In New Jersey, the Legion nnd fed eral board have offices In the same building, and through co-operation the board Is brought In touch with every man who has a claim, with the result thnt Immediate action Is being ob tained In practically every Instance. Four district conferences have been held lu Ohio nnd arrangements havo been made to have "Hying squadrons" visit the posts as fast as men having claims can be located und gotten to gether. In Utah, the Legion Is Interviewing very ex-service mnn In the stnte with reference to any claim he tuny have. As soon as such a man Is located, ills case is tnken up nnd settled Immedi ately. In Wisconsin arrangements hnve been mnde to hold n vocational confer ence ns n part of the state convention of the Legion nt Green Bay, as u final determined effort to wind up any and nil cases that may still be pending at that time. Similar reports, ull nttesttng great success for tho co-operative plan hnve come In from California, Arkansas and ' Alabama. GIRL WHO HAS TRICK MEMORY MIm Tlllie Turk Knows Names and Addresses of Scores of the Le gion Boys. There Is n young woman In Now York' who knows "by heart" tho names nnd addresses of more mere men she has never seen and vino nre members of the American Legion, thnn any one in America, Her trick mem ory is one of tho things thnt ena bles her to hold down the respon sible position if head of the mulling department of the American Legion Weekly, the Legion's official mngazlne. Her niiino Is Miss Tillle Turk and her address, ns stated, Is New York City. Footed the Recruiting Officer, . Omar Miller, u member, of the Wy oming (III.) post of tho American Le gion, has n good claim to being tho youngest "gob" In the American naval establishment during tire war, accord ing to n recent Issue of Tho American Legion Weekly. "He enlisted," fiiiys the olllcinl Legion publication, "July 6. 1018, soon after his fourteenth birth day, fooling tho recruiting ofilcer by putting on his first pair of long trous ers tho day he Mgnod up. Ho served on board the New Jersey. Ills father, Dr. Herbert Miller, served four years lu the medical department of the First Illinois cavalry." 'Cat" 5S?lh a2fe MISS LIEUTENANT NOW HERE Assimilated Rank Won for Members of Army Nurse Corps After Long Flnht.. There will bo female officers In the American nrmy hereafter. Tho army nurso tins won her fight for recogni tion. Salted cnrefully nwny In n snfe cor nor of nrmy reorgnnlzntlon legislation as pnssed by both branches of congress Is u neat little section conferring tho "assimilated rank" of mnjor, captain, nnd first nnd second lieutenant on members of tho Army Nurse corps. The superintendent Is to have the rank of mnjor, tho nsslstnnt superintendent, director nnd nsslstnnt directors tho rank of captain, tho chief nurses tho rank of first lieutenant, nnd other nurses are to be second lieutenants. Olllclnlly spenklng, n person holding assimilated rank Is ono who exercises limited authority of thnt rank under ccrtnln conditions, but does not enjoy tho full privileges of tho raiiTc. It lacks several of the elements of absolute rank. It does not cnll for n commis sion and It does not enrry tho pay, nl lownnces or the emoluments of ono. It mnkes no attempt to confer the power of command Incident to n lino ofilcer of similar grade. The only Incidents of absolute rank conferred nre: 1. The dignity Incident to the nnmo of the rank. 2. The right to wear the Insignia thereof. a. Tho eligibility to cxerclso nuthor Ity within the limits set forth In tho lnw, which nre ns follows: "As re gnrds medlcnl and sanitary matters nnd all work In the lino of tlielr du ties, they shall hnve nnd shnll be re gnrded ns hnvlng authority In nnd about military hospitals next after the medical officers of the nrmy." The movement for rank for nrmy 4 nurses begnn with America's entry Into the great war. A scries of hearings on tho proposition were held before the house committee on military af fairs on April 10, April 20 nnd June 7, lfilS. Nothing Immediately resulted, but the nurses mnlntulned nn nctlvo bureau In Wellington, headed by Mrs. Helen Hoy Greeley, a New York law yer. When the war wns ended nnd nrmy reorganization wns plnluly Im minent, they stepped In and won. More than 10,000 nrmy nurses saw overseas service during the war. All were graduate nurses recruited largely through the American Red Cross nurs ing service. Army nurses were nmong the first to represent Amerlcn on the other side. BUSY COUNTING NEW NOSES Recent Membership "Push? Will Re quire Time to Decide Total of New Faces Added. There are two reasons why It wUl be Impossible for some time to an nounce the totnl of new members ob tained in the Legion's recent member ship push. The first Is the Inevitable lapse of time necessary to get Individ ual figures from nenrly ten thousnnd Legion posts In all pnrts of tho court try nnd In some parts of other coun tries. The second Is the fact that, while the push closed officially on May 22, the enthusiasm accumulated and concentrated on that week of effort has spilled over the edges and gone right on effervescing. The full story of the push the meth ods used, all the way from somebody's Ingenious Idea to everybody's solid hard work enn perhaps never be told. Governors of more thnn thirty stntes gnve whole-hearted endorsement to the push, nnd the resulting publicity wns of Immense value In directing at tention to the Legion's effort. Gov ernor John II. Hnrtlctt of New Hamp shire, for Instance. Issued n proclama tion, exactly as on Thanksgiving. "In one sense," rends the proclamation, "this Is nn exclusive affair, ns In the nation only four million; nnd In New Hampshire only eighteen thousnnd men and women nre eligible for mem bership. Yet In n wider sense, tho 'push.' ns It Is designated, cnrrles a powerful appenl to nil Americans who cherish our nntlonal traditions." Visit Hospital Buddies. Fremont Post, Palo Alto, Cnl., has been carrying the benefits of the Le gion to Invalid comrades nt the nearby government hospital In various ways. After wnrmlng the wires last February nnd getting n full-time representative of tho W. It. I. bureau nnd steno grapher on the Job to clear up old compens-ntlon claims, the post has tinned Its attention to Sunday visits. Every Sunday morning, fifteen Legion naires from Palo 'Alto nnd Stanford university nre cnlled on ns their nnmes turn up on the roster, to enjoy n two mile hike to the hospital, where-they hpeiift" the forenoon In the wards, swap ping stories and doing friendly llttlo Jobs. He Won. O. D. (belligerently) Put out thai candle lu that tent. (No action). O. D. (still more belligerently) I'll give you ten seconds to put out that candle. (Light vanishes Immediately). Voice from Inside Ah, hah I I beat elm to It Stlcklor for Details. "You two will remain here," directed tho lieutenant. "We havo reason to believe this trench Is mined. If them Is an explosion you will blow a whis tle. "Yesslr." agreed the downtrodden liunir "Itn wa hlnur If rnlnr nn of I comlug down?" Case Seemed Hopeless Vt ol Don'i, However, Brought Complete Recovery and the Results Have Bean Luting. "1 used to think my back would surely break," says Mrs. II. S. Fix, prominent lodge woman, 340 Carpen ter Street, Reading, Pa. "My back pined mo constantly. I was as help less as a baby and a nurse bad to stay witn me an tne time. The kid ney necre 1 1 o n s burned and pass ed n9 often as every ten min utes. Sometimes my eyes were al most closed by the swollen sail bonoath them nnd my limbs, too, s w e 1 1 cd twice their nor mal sizo. For al most n year I was practically ;-ry Helpless ana ncv Mrs rif cr expected to get downstairs again. I had been told that nothing could bt done for tne, and had given up oil hope of ever getting better. My condi tion was critical when 1 was told about Doan'u Kidney Pills. I began using them and the results made me hopeful of getting well again. The pain in my back caned upland my swollen limbs started to look more natural. 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