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A RemoLrkecble Story of Love Gold and
By ST GEORGE RATHBORNE
Copyright by Stukkt Smith New York
CHAPTER XX Continued
It seemed that the captain owned a
llouse far off In the neighborhood of
Yest Brompton and into this lie had
moved the wreck of his fortunes in
cluding his family
The marquis waited a certain length
of time
Then one afternoon he appeared at
the new home of the Livermores
To himself he declared many times
that he intended this visit as a posi
tive means of increasing his hold upon
the captains wife over whom he
seemed to be exerting some peculiarly
hypnotic power with the eventual aim
in view of inducing her to leave
liome and seek some asylum on the
continent
For years he had looked forward to
this same moment with the keenest
anticipation for years he had in his
mind gone over every little detail had
seen her surprise and alarm with his
own great triumph as he sent his
shafts home with the arm of ample
revenge yet strange to say he did
-not approach the subject with the
eagerness he had expected the fever
ish thrill was only conspicuous by its
absence and he even started guiltily
Avhen from some distant part of the
Tambling old structure a peal of child
ish laughter was borne to his ears
there was something so condemnatory
in the merry sound
By degrees he brought the subject
around to where he wanted it and the
manner in which he accomplished this
declared that his strategic powers had
not waned a particle
Have you had any American
friends he asked
Yes one came the rather confus
ed reply and the listener knew he had
caused her mind to revert to that un
liappy past about which she even
usually avoided thinking
Pardon me but I once knew a poor
fellow an artist out in Mexico who
said he had been well acquainted with
Captain Livermores wife he went on
deliberately
An artist she echoed looking
pained and yet showing an eagerness
in her voice
Yes by name Jack I chanced to
do him several favors and he even
confided his history to me Poor fel
low he had suffered bitterly
Confided to you then you know
in alarm
That you and he were once be
trothed yes That while he labored
unceasingly in the hope of gaining
fame and fortune your love for him
began to grow cold He had been the
means of reconciling you to your
proud old English grandfather In the
whirl of society you met Captain Liv
ermore then the lion of the hour You
forgot to write to the man who be
lieved in you as he did in Heaven He
came to London unable to breathe
outside your presence Then you
crushed him by declaring that while
you still loved him you loved position
still more and that you had agreed to
marry the captain
Fedoras head had fallen on her
wildly heaving bosom but she neither
looked up nor uttered a word as yet
being too stunned as the tremendous
revelation was forcing itself upon her
mind
He went on pitilessly
Jack sought a quarrel with the
man who had robbed him of all he
had on earth perhaps you never knew
of it but they met at dawn in the
deadly duello each determined to kill
the other The captain as they ad
vanced toward each other fired first
and only inflicted a wound He was
then at Jacks complete mercy since
lie was allowed the privilege of walk
ing up as close as he pleased and send
ing a ball through the heart of his
adversary
Fedora groaned but never moved
The captain was no coward believ
ing his hour had come he deliberate
ly opened his coat and awaited the
fatal shot his eyes looking into those
of the man he had wronged without
knowing it Twice Jack took aim but
each time he failed to pull the trigger
Finally he raised his pistol fired in
the air and fled from the scene
For the first time she raised her head
and looked at him her troubled face
marked by conflicting emotions
Then came the wedding wK wh poor
Jack saw from the organ loft enduring
the tortures of the damned while the
woman whom heaven had given to him
was united by law to man she did not
love
Then he fled from London as from
a place accursed and sought fortunes
smiles upon a new field hating women
because one had been false to her vows
and always hugging to his heart -the
resolution to some day return and take
full satisfaction for that treachery
That was Jacks story doubtless
other men have suffered in the same
way from a womans hand but none
more cruelly And yet it seemed that
fortune took a strange delight in com
pensating him his loss oy throwing
into his hands the most wonderful
treasure ever known surpassing all
tales from the days of Ophir and Solo
mon down to the present More than
this he was given power and made the
head of the Central American republic
whither fate had drifted him
Thus when ftve years had passed
rich beyond the wildest dreams made
a noble of Spain because of some finan
cial assistance he had given the gov
ernment at Madrid Jack came back to
Ixndon with the full determination to
repay the debts he owed at compound
interest down to the last penny
She was looking at him now with
fear haunted eyes looking at him as
one might gaze upon some dreadful
spectre of the past
You are Jack she said slowly
as if almost unable to grasp the idea at
once
I am that once miserable wretch
Having embarked upon my campaign
I lost no time in making your hus
bands acquaintance It was my hand
that in a fair and honorable way
stripped him of all he possessed That
is only a beginning
Jack Jack Have you no mercy
she groaned wringing her hands
wildly
Did you have any when you so
coolly turned me down to stay in the
mine while upon my shoulders you
mounted to a position in society and
gave yourself to a man you never
loved I know all you would say and
be sure I have steeled my heart against
all arguments What I seek is only
justice a fair equivalent I have suf
fered God only knows how much It is
your turn
He looked like a man of stone upon
whom pleading and tears would be
wasted
Fedora attempted neither at first
she seemed to act and speak as if in a
dream for his influence whatever it
sprang from dominated her personali
ty to a remarkable extent
Had it been so in those days of yore
Fedora would never have willingly giv
en him up
You speak of heaven in the same
breath with vengeance surely you
cannot believe Jack that God ap
proves of such things I did wrong
you oh most grievously but I have
bitterly repented it ever since and
hoped the day might come when I
could tell you so Often I have wept to
remember your despair It has been
the one black spot upon my life and
kept me from being truly happy But
Jack wont you forgive if you can
never forget see I plead with you
hold this wretched remembrance no
longer against me Be my friend my
brother You already respect my hus
band why be the means of his ruin
While I cannot forget I must not
forgive You have not yet begun to
know what suffering means When
the world seems dark and your soul
prays for death
But Jack stop consider you can
not have revenge upon me without in
juring my children she said sudden
ly remembering his weakness of old
and how a child had never appealed in
vain so long as he had a sou left
This was a harder task than the oth
er and the indomitable marquis was
compelled to grit his teeth in the en
deavor to stem the signs of retreat that
threatened to overwhelm him
I regret exceedingly that they must
suffer for I am not that cruel to desire
through their hold on your heart to in
flict pain on you but as I an innocent
party once paid the penalty of your
sin so they too must inherit the leg
acy
Is there no way in which you may
be satisfied without the burden falling
on them
I know of none They must suffer
when you do all being members of
one family It is fate
Jack have mercy see on my
knees I beg you to forgive It is true I
wronged you most fearfully God
knows I am wretchedly sorry But out
of that wrong has come your bright
fortune and perhaps Jack some more
worthy woman may fill the place in
your heart I once occupied Forget the
past and live for the future Grasp
them before they have flown Rise
above this spirit of revenge upon a
weak wretched woman who in her
thoughtlessness did you harm and
lived to repent Already you have as
you say brought ruin upon us and
cast us out from society For that I
care little but for Gods sake leave
me the love of my husband my chil
dren
It was enough to melt a heart of ice
and reason combined with emotion in
the argument Had not the marquis
threshed this same straw himself al
most daily had it been thrust sudden
ly upon him he must have been fairly
overwhelmed
It was not his design tnat Fedora
should see any sign- of weakness in his
manner and he maintained the same
passionless exterior he had shown
through the whole interview
I promise nothing Only this I
say that your children have doubtless
saved you from a fate that might have
come upon you I do not relent I sim
ply change my tactics and for their
sakes spare you that humiliation that
shame What further means of pun
ishment I may decide to invoke you
will know in good time As you sowed
so must you reap That is the law of
recompense of stern justice There
fore weep over your wretched lot and
bitterly regret that false step in which
you were tempted by pride I do not
dare remain here longer in your pres
ence At least thank heaven that I
have decided to abandon the plan upon
which I was working as unworthy of
an honorable man
You are going Jack
Yes
Without seeing the children
pressing a button while he was not
looking
They remind me too bitterly of
nygnjji
what you their unhappy mother
seemed to me in the long ago all in
nocence and trusting love No I dont
wish to see them now
Oh Jack be reconciled I shall pray
daily that you cease to hato me for the
sake of those little ones Did you
know the boys name is jack
What he gasped weakening Do
you mean to say your husband allowed
you to do that and I the man you
loved Incredible
I told him all and it was he who
first proposed it You dont know his
generous nature I can see now what
it was so disturbed him you took his
fire and freely gave him his forfeited
life Oh wretched woman that I am
to have been loved by two such noble
men and to have brought sorrow to
both Who will deliver me from the
bondage of my sin
As If in answer to her forlorn cry the
patter of little feet sounded some
where the marquis alarmed at his
own weakness turned to fly but made
a miscalculation for in the hall he was
waylaid by the enemy who rushed
upon him with exultant cries
He made a swoop for the little girl
and swept her up in his arms until her
golden curls nestled against his shoul
der when he kissed her pouting lips
again and again
Then came the boy to whom he had
paid so little attention before Now he
held him off at arms length where he
could look into his resolute face and
bold black eyes yes he was surely the
image of what Liyermore must have
been as a lad and yet and yet strange
to say the marquis actually believed
he could see some traces of his own
characteristics in the boy learned
philosophical and psychological schol
ars and doctors have long argued this
point and agreed that it is not only
possible but actual the image of her
first love still remained strong in Fe
doras heart at the time the child was
born
Kissing the youngster the marquis
hastily quitted the house followed by
the anxious gaze of the wretched Fe
dora until the children astonished at
the strange actions of their friend
loudly bewailed his flight and demand
ed her attention
Weep no more tears of repentance
and fear wife and mother since the
seed has been sown and the harvest
must come in due season that name
of Jack together with the captains
generosity proved the last straw that
broke the camels back
CHAPTER XXf
Love has redeemed me
The game was drawing near its
close
With each struggle that iron will of
the marquis which had been the mar
vel and admiration of his friends came
out much weaker
Perhaps the thing that had the most
decided influence upon him was the
startling conviction that there had
been awakened within his heart a glow
of love for the little miniature painter
With the flower of love blossoming
again in his heart he could hardiy have
continued in his former policy
Should he be magnanimous and free
ly forgive or should he turn aside the
bright vision that tempted him shut
himself up in a narrow compass and
carry out the miserable plan of the
past
Thus he debated pro and con But
it chanced that the marquis was not
given an opportunity to fight his battle
to a finish in the usually accepted term
there was a surprise in store for him
a flank movement as it were on the
part of one who meant to be an ally
yet proved his worst enemy
That person was the Spanish-American
belle of San Jose
It was on the evening following that
when the marquis received such a
shock at the hands of Fedora
It was probably 11 oclock when one
of the hotel lackeys came with a card
on a silver salver and presented it to
the marquis
This was a frequent occurrence but
on this special occasion those who
were near by saw the usually cool na
bob give a plain start
To be continued
Photographers as Sportsmen
In a recent book a hunter tells how
he spent many weary months in the
attempt to shoot an eagle and at last
ambushed so successfully that he ac
tually touched the bird with his fin
gers Having got so far he was con
tent and let the eagle go free It may
be a hunters tale but there are at
present a very considerable number or
sportsmen who are a great deal keener
to see their game at close quarters
than to kill it Instead of the old
phrase Let us go and kill some
thing the hunter now says Let us
go and focus something The camera
has supplanted the gun There are
now made all manner of devices more
ingenious and intricate even than the
older trappers devised for getting the
camera to bear on unsuspecting ani
mals A boat resembling a little the
duck shooting boats used on the Irish
coast has been devised which is pro
pelled without oars or sails and has a
beautiful photographic apparatus
rigged up in the bows There are other
not less clever means for approaching
and photographing deer in their native
haunts and they have been used with
altogether remarkable success Hu
manitarians are already pointing that
that this sport with the camera gives
all the excitement of the chase without
any of the cruelty and at least this
much may be conceded that the diffi
culties of photographing say a weasel
are considerably greater and therefore
more attractive than those of shoot
ing it
The busiest man on earth is the man
who keeps on a continual run getting
out of the way of work
An old bachelor says that matrimony
is the best cooking school
BEET SUGAR EACTS
ITS IMPORTANCE ILLUSTRATED IN
THE STATE OF MICHIGAN
Qlyei Profitable Returns to Farmer and
Benefits the Consumer by Establish
ing a Competition Hoyoud the Power
of the Suffiir Trust to Suppress
The Journal in this issue makes a
presentation of the importance of the
beet sugar industry to the farmers of
the state What the factories that take
this product of the farm have done
will amaze those who now for the first
time read of the extent of their oper
ations The money paid out for sugar
beets has added materially to the pros
perity of the districts in which they
are produced and has continued on its
way to stimulate every Interest in
which the farmer appears as a buyer
It will be noticed that there is
claimed for each beet sugar factory
some measure of success As a matter
of fact not all of them have made
money in the sense in which it is made
in many old established interests But
if all of them had it would still not
operate powerfully to the sane mind
as a reason for placing this industry
in jeopardy by reduction of the tariff
on imported raw sugar The policy of
Protection is sustained by the votes
of this country not that the protected
industries shall barely make both ends
meet The industry of sugar making
in the United States is protected that
it may be profitable so that it may
pay up to the American standard for
labor and be a factor in lowering the
price of a given article to the com
munity
The beet sugar industry does both
these things It gives satisfactory re
turns to the farmer or else he will not
raise the beets the whip hand thus
remaining with him and not with the
factory It has lowered the price of
sugar to the consumer by the confes
sion of the trust and the evidence is
to be had at any grocery store the
price of the refined article being now
nearly or quite down to the figure it
touched under free trade in foreign
sugar
The beet sugar industry has thus
justified its claim for protection by
benefit to the consumer by good prices
other Western states to be on trie alert
for the interests of their constituents
The effort is being made to bring up
the Kasson reciprocity treaties which
mnny senators hold are dead because
not ratified within the prescribed time
It is asserted that Senator Cullom of
Illinois has given his word that tho
long delayed treaties shall be acted on
to which there Is no objection if they
are acted on rightly
The treaty which the Northwestern
senators should look out for Is that ne
gotiated with the Argentine Republic
which provides for a material reduction
in the duty on wool The effect of the
great wool growing interests of Mon
tana and other wool growing states
can be appreciated and the treaty In
question should not be ratified
Reciprocity is all right if carried on
along the lines laid down by President
McKlnley so that its provisions shall
not prove injurious to any American
industry The treaty with the Argen
tine Republic would prove extremely
damaging to the wool interests of this
country and therefore should not be
ratified Helena Mont Record
What Wo Knoiv
We know with much accuracy that
free trade for Cuban sugar means the
destruction of our domestic sugar in
dustry We know that it came into
being by protection We know that It
was the first significant extension of
protection to agriculture and we know
that the farmers of many states have
profited by it and that it means the
adaition of a new crop to the variety
by which they make a living from
their land Extension of protection to
them was an economic experiment that
has become a demonstration Why
should it be abandoned to the injury
of American farmers in order that
Cuba may be delivered from hypo
thetical distress Why not consider
the interest of the American farmer
and make the Cuban the subject of
experiment Why not let Cuba go on
organize her government take the in
dependence for which she fought and
which we gained for her and wait
and see whether she goes over the
hill to the poorhouse by losing the
chance to sell one ton of sugar In
Spain to forty sold in the United
States San Francisco Call
More Than Our Duty
We have performed far more than
our duty toward Cuba We cannot
IN GREAT DANGER
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to the grower and by adding to the
general prosperity of the State The
plea for lowering the tariff is founded
on
An alleged suffering Cuba
In all sincerity the Journal de
clares that it cannot conclude that
Cuba is suffering There were brought
before the ways and means committee
of the House a number of Cuban sugar
planters We have yet to read the
testimony of one who did not acknowl
edge that the island was prosperous
that labor was better employed than
ever before that any enlargement of
the sugar industry by increasing the
size and number of the plantations
would mean that labor must be im
ported to work them cheap labor not
American labor In fairness let us
admit that some of these same Cuban
planters predicted suffering in the fu
ture if the sugar crop of the island
could not be sold at a higher rate than
offered now
Grant that But in whose hands
then is the price In the hands of the
Sugar Trust If the tariff is cut 20 or
some other per cent there is no cer
tainty that the Sugar Trust will do
other than say to the Cuban planter
The price of sugar is fixed in the
London market any reduction in the
tariff is velvet for me If you do not
wish to take the price we offer there
are thousands of tons of surplus sugar
in the market to be had at that price
Michigan capital is slowly building
up an industry of profit to the com
munities in which its factories are lo
cated and the source of a cheaper
household necessity to thousands It
was started under a pledge a written
pledge not one in the air like that said
to have been made to Cuba a pledge
to so protect beet sugar that so much
cf the home market as it could supply
should be saved to it by a tariff on
raw sugar
All that the industry asks is that
that pledge be kept If there is some
where a pledge to Cuba the rich Gem
of the Antilles let that be kept too
but at the expense of the taxpayers as
a whole not of one industry Detroit
Journal
Protect Our Wool Growers
There is a fine opportunity for the
senators from Montana Wyoming and
pamper it and get the return to be ex
pected from a spoiled child It is not
our business to provide concessions for
Cuba simply because it is Cuba
The island will soon be foreign soil
under its own President and Congress
with its own fiscal and other policies
The latest Republican national plat
form says We renew our faith in the
policy of protection to American la
bor In that policy our industries
have been established diversified and
maintained As to the general prin
ciples of reciprocity the platform de
clares We favor the associated pol
icy of reciprocity so directed as to
open our markets on favorable terms
for what we do not ourselves produce
in return for free foreign markets
That is as far as the Republican
party has declared itself To make an
exception in behalf of Cuba or any
other independent nation would be an
injustice in government as well as par
ty stultification Trenton Gazette
Same Old Fight
The citrus fruit growers of this and
other states where the orange grows
are beginning to realize now what one
cent a pound tariff on that fruit for
which they work so hard means They
thought they knew before now they
know that it means more profits on
their productions The prices on citrus
fruits in the American markets are
higher than before but better profits
are being realized notwithstanding the
high freights to the East Still we
shall have the free trade doctrine to
fight again and again Petaluma
Cal Argus
Of Course Not
The Boston Herald Free Trade
is pleased with Congressman Babcocks
plan of placing a large line of iron
and steel products on the free list
but considers that he is in error in
keeping upon the dutiable schedules
the crude materials out of which his
proposed free manufactured materials
are made This is neither scientific
nor reasonable says the Herald
Of course it isnt How could it be
scientific and reasonable and yet be
Babcocks plan
There are few lives without that de
lightful element of possibility
which makes some men not only en
durable but hopeful Trinitv Bells
INSPECTION OF IMPORTED ANIMALS
The socrotary of agriculture saya
In order to prevent tho Introduction
Df animal plagues an Inspection ser
vice is maintained at our principal
seaports and along our frontier Quar
antine stations have been established
for animals coming from countries
where contagious disease exists There
wero quarantined at these stations
during last year 559 cattle 525 snoop
31 swine and 118 anlmal3 for menag
eries and zoological parks There
were also admitted after inspection
and In some cases quarantine over
242000 animals from Canada and about
100000 from Mexico Tho examina
tion of this vast aggregate of Imported
animals amounting In all to over a
third of a million Is a most responsi
ble task but so far It has been suc
cessfully conducted and none of tho
exotic plagues of the domesticated an
imals has been allowed to reach our
territory With our enormous Invest
ment In animals that are susceptible
to such plagues It Is clearly a duty
which the government owes to our
stock raisers to maintain this Inspec
tion and quarantine with the utmost
rigidity The ravages of the rinder
pest as It Is sweeping over the African
continent should be an object lesson
Indicating the terrible destruction
which such a disease would cause
among our immense herds of valuable
stock
The tremendous possibilities of loss
from imported contagion suggest that
possibly the time has come when It
might be well for us to consider
whether it would not bo best for us to
follow the example of Great Britain
and exclude entirely live stock from
other countries Inspection and quar
antine however carefully and con
scientiously performed are acknowl
edged by most countries to be only a
relative and not an absoluto guaranty
of protection Should not our animal
industry have the most complete safe
guards thrown around it which the
experience of the world has shown to
be required for the most absolute and
perfect protection In this connection
we are reminded that some of the ter
ritory which has recently come under
our flag Is believed to bo infected with
animal plagues and parasites unknown
to the United States and that may
work great injury If they are trans
ported to our soil It would appear to
be wise for such legislation to be en
acted as would provide against ani
mals from this territory being allowed
to enter our ports whether these an
imals are brought by individuals or
returning troops
Lois of Molsturo In Incubator
Bulletin 73 West Virginia Station
The chick absorbs oxygen and mois
ture and certain gases are thrown off
through the shell Under normal con
ditions the total amount of moisture
and gases vhich have been thrown off
at any particular time corresponds to
that particular stage In the develop
ment of the chick or In other words
when an egg Is incubated under per
fectly normal conditions the total loss
in the weight of the egg corresponds
within certain limits to the stage of
development of the embryo If the
operator of an incubator knows how
much a certain number of eggs have
lost in weight since the beginning of
the Incubating period and compares
this loss with the normal loss of the
same number of eggs for the same
length of time he will know definitely
whether the eggs havo decreased prop
erly in weight If they have lost too
much providing of course that the
temperature has been normal they
are drying up too rapidly and either
more moisture should be supplied or
the amount of ventilation should be
reduced but in reducing the circula
tion of air through the incubating
chamber it must be remembered that
pure air surrounding the eggs is just
as important as a proper temperature
on the other hand if the eggs are not
losing weight as rapidly as they should
they are either kept too moist or they
are not receiving the proper amount
of ventilation or perhaps they may be
kept too moist and insufficiently ven
tilated also
Why Danish Hotter Is Superior
One reason why the Danes turn out
such uniformly fine butter is that they
pasteurize almost entirely In that
country they have a number of in
spectors who go around to the dairies
and creameries to see that things are
all right When the butter is found
to be faulty the buttermaker is told
to change his starter The buttermak
ers work by rule and can scarcely give
a reason for what they do In this
they contrast strongly with our buc
termakers I think on general princi
ples that the American buttermakers
are better than the Danish The point
I want to make is that if a Dane is
asked for an explanation as to why he
did this or that he cannot tell you
Put the same question to our butter
makers and they know why every
thing is done and what will result
from their work Prof G L McKay
A Popular Fallacy
A strongly intrenched popular fal
lacy often exposed but constantly be
ing revived is that sulphur is a valu
able remedy against Insects when put
into holes bored into the trunks of
trees the idea being that the sulphur
when plugged in Is carried up by th
movement of the sap into the
branches and distributed in the foli
age rendering the latter distasteful to
insects In point of fact the sulphur
remains exactly where It is placed and
is of no possible advantage from an
insecticide standpoint or any other
and furthermore the treatment is
mischievous in that it injures to that
extent the soundness of the trunk
Bui 58 Texas Staton
Work and sleep the two periods oc
unconsciousness of self are the two
periods of happiness