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CHAPTER II Continued
Naturally Charlie Stuart was justi
fied In believing the girl to be the child
of some Flemish citizen True she
was not dressed in the usual Dutch
fashion but her golden tresses and
blue eyes that shone like twin stars
made him take the fact for granted
He was therefore considerably sur
prised when springing to her feet she
advanced a step or two toward them
holding out her hands a look of great
joy illuminating her face and in a
voice which the echoes of her recent
sobs still haunted addressed them in
purest English
Oh sirs Heaven has heard my
prayer and sent you to my rescue
Stuart made up his mind then and
there strange as such a proceeding
might be that there was a deeper mys
tery about the presence of this young
girl in these terrifying surroundings
than had at first occurred to him
Many things united to make him be
lieve this the fact of her not being
missed by her party her manner in
avoiding any reference to the friends
who should be so anxious yes then
and there he became convinced that a
story lay back of it as startling as any
product of an opium smokers dream
Charlie knew it would be well for him
to divert the girls mind as much as
possible from the horrors she had so
recently been forced to face Thus as
they walked along he even grew
somewhat merry and his object was
accomplished since the girls tempor
ary trembling fit had passed away and
she was now calm enough to ask ques
tions regarding their opportune pres
ence in the dismal place
Several times Charlie knew she was
looking at him intently
He believed that he could guess the
reason that she had a story to tell a
story far out of the ordinary run and
was studying him when she thought
herself unobserved studying him to
determine whether she dared entrust
him with its astonishing details
CHAPTER III
Charlie Makes an Engagement
Who was she
This question came into Chalies
mind many times while they walked
through those ghostly passages seek
ing the worn stone stairs at the top
of which stood the roughly hewn oak
door studded with rusty nails
At the foot of the worn stone steps
the girl came to a sudden stop
Sir she said addressing Charlie
as though he were the only party in
sight unless I am mistaken these
steps lead up to the museum of the
Steen and we have reached the exit
of this horrible underground tomb
We can be in the light as soon as I
unlock the door up yonder he said
quietly
One moment before we ascend I
want to catch my breath to tell you
how grateful I am for your timely as
sistance
Please dont mention it said Char
lie
Indeed it was a great pleasure fair
lady chirruped Artemus eagerly
You overwhelm me with confusion
I have as you may well suppose re
ceived something of a shock and
hardly feel equal to the task of ex
plaining to you just now what strange
circumstances brought me into the
desperate predicament from which I
have been rescued by your assistance
But I trust I may see you again soon
when the explanation that is due will
be gladly given Forgive me if I say
I have been studying you all this time
and something tells me I may surely
trust you with my life God knows I
need friends
Her words thrilled Charlie
Pardon me miss I should have
told you before my name is Charlie
Stuart I am at present an exile from
old London in search of a mission
Perhaps I have found one he said
with an amused smile
A faint flush chased across her coun
tenance
And I am Arline Brand
She had a small reticule attached to
her girdle as was the custom Open
ing this she took out a quaint little
inlaid cardcase and handed him a bit
of pasteboard
When you call ask for me under
that name by which I am known But
let me say again as a duty I owe you
Mr Stuart let me give you full warn
ing that while I appreciate the great
favor you have done me I must tell
you I have enemies and that if you
should seek to continue the acquaint
ance so strangely begun it might pos
sibly bring you into trouble
I never yet have allowed fear of
mortal man to influence my actions
Stuart said proudly
But these men are cruel and un
scrupulous You can realize that after
seeing to what a dreadful fate they
would have condemned me because I
refused to carry out their will
They are a set of precious scoun
drels and cowards he declared
Ah but perhaps they are all-powerful
at court men in touch with a
dynasty that can shake the earth if
aroused to whom one poor human life
is as a fallen leaf she said as if test
ing his loyalty
It is the same I see no reason why
I should draw back Taking out his
watcfc he continued in the most de
liberate fashion It is now almost
high noon At eight then this even
ing to the minute I shall do myself
the honor of calling upon you at your
hotel and until I am convinced that
it is unlawful for me so to do all the
police of Antwerp shall not stop me
in my rights of a British citizen travel
ing under the protection of his flag
Arline impulsively held out her
hand
I thank you God bless you Mr
Stuart she said in broken tones
And Charlie as he felt the little
hand quiver and throb in his found a
strong indignation arising within his
breast directed against those un
known parties who had so mercilessly
condemned so charming a young wom
an to a cruel fate
It was Artemus who unlocked the
heavy door and ushered them into the
garish light of day who gravely re
lieved Charlie of his brass candlestick
and placed it together with the rusty
keys where they belonged
Charlie saw that his companion
glanced hastily to the right and left
through her veil Once he was almost
sure she gave a start but by no word
did she signify discovery
Could you get a cab for me she
asked with a perceptible tremor in her
voice
Easily no doubt There are usual
ly vehicles waiting outside the Steen
This way please
Before the vehicle started Arline
Brand threw back the veil and again
Charlie was given the privilege of
looking into those honest blue orbs
rivaling the heavens in their hue
I will release you from your prom
ise if you regret making it Mr Stu
art she said softly
Thanks but I am a singularly ob
stinate man I fear At eight to night
I said Besides I confess to much curi
osity to hear what you promised to
tell
Those wondrous eyes beamed upon
him a little hand crept out to allow
of a parting pressure then the ve
hicle lumbered away leaving him
there in front of the historic Steen
watching its progress down the crook
ed thoroughfare and wondering at the
change that had broken into his quiet
life
When Charlie Stuart reiterated his
rash promise with regard to seeing the
owner of those marvelous cerulean
orbs that same evening he had but a
faint conception of the magnitude of
the task he had taken upon himself
He was dimly conscious of a figure
hanging from the rear window of a
second old vehicle a figure that made
all manner of pantomime gestures and
in which he recognized his friend Arte
mus
Remembering the quaint methods
by which Artemus Invoked the dra
matic muse he ended with a laugh
No harm done I imagine he said
aloud To his surprise some one
added
That remains to be seen young
sir
Turning indignantly to see who bad
dared to thus address him without in
vitation Charlie faced a middle aged
gentleman of military aspect who was
regarding him with much urbanity
I am quite ready to explain the
meaning of those words I uttered
young sir on condition that you favor
me with your name
Charlies first hasty inclination was
to refuse point blank but he had up to
this point of his existence never
known the time when he found reason
to be ashamed of his name It be
longed to one of the best families in
Scotland and his ancestry dated back
to the days of Bruce and Wallace
That is a condition easily complied
with as I have never yet refused it to
any man who felt enough interest in
me to ask It is Charlie Stuart
The other bowed
Good I see we shall get on to
gether amazingly well There need be
no trouble whatever since we agree so
charmingly he said
Ah about what now asked Char
lie once more keenly on his guard
Hm Say the pretty fraulein
But perhaps we do not agree on
that subject in fact our views may be
diametrically opposite Tell me why
do you waylay me I am a complete
stranger I never saw you before
Quite true quite true young sir
chuckled the other but I have seen
you before I know when you came to
Antwerp and just how you have em
ployed your time since
The deuce you do Then you must
have known my name Why did you
ask for it with the light of suspicion
and unbelief in his eyes
To ascertain how far you would
have confidence in me I see you are
incredulous but young man it is my
especial business to know every
stranger who comes to Antwerp
whether he be French English Rus
sian American or Turkish also to dis
cover as much with relation to his bus
iness here as is necessary to under
stand his status in society Although
you have never met me before I doubt
not you would recognize my name
Permit me
A card was thrust into Charlies
hand
Mechanically he glanced at it
The result was peculiarly unpleas
ant
It simply bore a name but that
name was as famous ar St Petersburg
and Paris as in Antwerp Baron De
metrius Peterhoff
This wonderful man had been at the
head of the famous Third Section in
Russia he had been the terror ot
Nihilists for years an argus eyed head
of police until unfortunately a cog
slipped with fatal result since the
Czar Alexander was murdered through
the instrumentality of a bomb and
from that hour Baron Peterhoffs use
fulness in Russia was at an end
Ah Charlie said very calmly I
have heard of you very often baron
but really I confess the prospect of
meeting so renowned a character never
entered my mind To what am I in
debted for the honor
Again the distinguished gentleman
uttered the word that had startled
Charlie before
To the pretty fraulein
Charlie frowned
See here baron I know this lady
as Mile Arline Brand Surely there
must be a mistake
She has golden hair
Yes
And eyes so blue holding up his
hands in a dramatic manner that
would have delighted Artemus that
they shame the lovely skies of the
Riviera
Charlie groaned an assent A crush
ing weight seemed to press upon his
brain and he felt as though tottering
on the verge of a precipice
As to the name continued the
baron coolly what does it matter
Mile Arline Brand is as good as an
other indeed when you come to ex
amine it there is something of the ad
venturess stripe about so delightful a
cognomen dont you think young sir
To my knowledge that is only one of a
score of different names the lady has
adopted within the last few years
Adventuress
How like the shock of a rattlesnakes
stroke the mention of that word fell
upon Charlies hearing
Since you have been so kind as to
give me warning suppose you tell me
who this wonderful lady of many
names is he asked coldly
You must have heard of the Count
ess Isolde Brabant
It was a name he had often seen
mentioned in London and continental
papers a name belonging to a beautiful
Russian young woman given over
heart and soul to the cause of Nihil
ism connected with high families in
the Land of the White Czar banished
through royal decree and now turned
adventuress in Vienna Paris and other
capitals of Europe
He shuddered at the picture
At least I am under favors to you
baron for your kindness and if I
make a fool of myself it will not be for
lack of warning
Well young sir I owe my life to
your father Before Sebastopol when
a fierce engagement was in progress I
had been cut down and lay there help
less when a squadron of British dra
goons charged They would have
crushed me to atoms but that a
wounded Highlander captain crawl
ing over shielded my body with his
own and raising himself waved his
tartan in the air at which the dra
goons separated sweeping past to the
left and to the right That brave
Highlander was your noble father
For years we corresponded but in my
eventful life the memory of the debt I
owed him more shame to me became
obscured by other issues Young sir
for his sake I have sought to save you
from the snare of the fowler Be
warned in time
A cab doubtless previously signaled
dashed up the busy baron jumped in
waved his hand to Charlie and was
gone
He left a very puzzled and deeply
worried young man in front of the
Steen
Charlie seemed wrestling with the
problem and drawn first this way
then that but his natural obstinacy
finally won out
Well he muttered through his
teeth I said eight oclock to night
and come weal or come woe I shall
keep the appointment
To be continued
QUESTION DEVIL COULDNT ANSWER
Unable to Predict Action of n Now York
Jury
While waiting for the verdict in the
Patrick case a few days ago somebody
remarked to Mr Van Diver of the Dis
trict Attorneys office that he thought
the jury would acquit the lawyer who
had conspired with William Marsh
Rices valet to gain possession of the
Texas millionaires fortune Mr Van
Diver who had followed the case close
ly for several months doubted this
but added reflectively
Of course nothing is more uncer
tain than the action of a jury I re
member a story my father told me
when I was a boy in Alabama The
story was of His Satanic Majesty and
a plain citizen who met one day on a
narrow pathway cut in the edge of a
cliff On side there yawned a preci
pice On the other side was the solid
rock There was only room for one to
pass and of these two one must lie
down and let the other walk over him
If youll propound three questions
I cant answer suggested Satan Ill
lie down and let you pass over my
body The citizen asked r
What is whiter than snow
Cotton was the answer
What is sweeter than suger
Thats easy again molasses
What will be the next verdict ren
dered in this county by a petit jury
Pass on your way said the Devil
as he made a carpet of himself
The natives of Palestine have a
kettledrum tne body being made of
pottery and the head covered with
parchment It is provided with a
cord and is borne in festal proces
sions
IS IT OUT OF DATE
OLAIM THAT PROTECTION HAS BE
COME OBSOLETE
Han the Doctrine of Blaine SIcKlnloy
and DIngloy Served Its Day and Out
llrnd Its Usefulness to American Labor
anU Industry
In its issue of March 24 the Pough
keepsle Eagle says
The American Protective Tariff
League asks us to join in protesting
against any change in the Dingley tar
iff in connection with tho pending re
ciprocity treaties or reciprocity con
cessions We respectfully decline We
believe with all our heart in protec
tion but we believe just as fully in
reciprocity The old fashioned pro
tection which built up a wall around
our country to keep foreign imports
out has served its day and become ob
solete The protection of the future
will take into consideration all Amer
ican interests and will be as much con
cerned with bringing into the coun
try things that we need and in pro
moting the export of things which
others need as in keeping out arti
cles which compete with our produc
tions The American Protective
Tariff League has in time past done
some very good service but it wants
to get out cf its rut and take a broad
er view of things Some of those who
assume to speak for it are showing
such a disposition to imitate the Dem
ocratic policy of organized negation
that they are greatly reducing its rep
utation and influence
Welcoming fair criticism and hon
est controversy concerning our aims
and methods we gladly print the
above expression It is typical of the
view entertained by a very consider
able number of important newspapers
of Republican proclivities newspapers
which like our Poughkeepsle neigh
bor formerly believed unreservedly in
the principle and policy of protection
but now are of the opinion that it
has served its day and become ob
solete The American Free Trade
League hold precisely this view with
the difference that it never held any
other view it always believed that
there should be no wall around our
country to keep foreign imports out
Free Traders never did and do not
now want to keep foreign imports out
They want them to come in without
restriction of any kind On that line
Protectionists and Free Traders have
divided ever since the organization of
our government
Is the line about to be obliterated
Shall we now tear down the wall and
let in the foreign imports Is that
what the Poughkeepsie Eagle means
when it avows its acceptance of the
new doctrine of reciprocity and its
rejection of the old fashioned pro
tection which built up a wall etc
If it does not mean that what then
does it mean Reciprocity as now
advocated by many newspapers of Re
publican proclivities either contem
plates a larger importation of com
petitive articles and an equivalent dis
placement of domestic production or
it amounts to nothing Reciprocity
in articles which we do not ourselves
produce and which will not lessen
the sum total of employment and
wages in this country would be of
relatively little value to foreign pro
ducers That kind of reciprocity we
already have With the things we
need we are amply supplied and
they are nearly all on the free list
A trifle less than half of the total bulk
of our imports are non duitable We
are liberal buyers of the things we
need and there is no tariff on those
things Reciprocity takes no account
of articles of this kind They are
wholly excluded from the scheme
What it aims at and insists upon is
that we shall tear down the wall and
let in a lot of things which we do not
need If we dont do that we dont
reciprocate That is the situation in
a nutshell and we are indebted to the
Poughkeepsie Eagle for presenting
the issue in a shape so practical and
tangible It has assisted in the plain
presentment of the question Has the
old fashioned protection served its
day and is it obsolete The Re
publican party is now engaged in
wrestling with that problem in con
nection with the domestic production
of sugar and tobacco What will be
the solution Not such we hope as
shall register the decision that pro
tection for each and every domestic
industry is old fashioned is obso
lete and has served its day
Should Bo Careful
No tariff is perfect even for the
time at which it is framed Every
tariff act like legislation of any
other sorts is a compromise among
diverse interests It satisfies no one
entirely and it grows in spots less
and less satisfactory as time alters
conditions But there is always a
chance that when any revision at all
of a tariff is attempted the whole sys
tem is taken up for discussion In
every instance when tariff changes
have been started the changes have
affected more articles than the chang
es intended at the outset One of the
consequences of this tinkering has
been that men in nearly all sorts of
industries have been made uncertain
regarding the outlook and as a con
sequence enterprise is blighted for the
time
The Republican party has a special
incentive to be careful about tariff tin
kering at the present time An elec
tion for Congress will take place some
months hence and congressional elec
tions which come at the middle of a
presidential term are apt to hamper
the party in power in the presidency
The Republicans of course went
through the congressional canvass of
1898 in the middle of President Mc-
Klnleys service successfully but their
lead in the House of Representatives
was considerably shortened On tho
other hand the Democrats in 1894 In
the middle of President Clevelands
second term and the Republicans In
1890 half way in the Bervlce o Presi
dent Harrison met a disastrous defeat
which was a presage of the overthrow
In each case of these parties at the
polls in the presidential canvass two
years later Oyster Bay N Y
Pilot
Remember 1802
Shall history repeat Itself in the mat
ter of Tariff revision Is the country
prepared to duplicate the folly of 1892
Congressman McCleary of Minnesota
in a letter to some of his constituents
answers these questions in a broad
comprehensive clear and philosophi
cal manner Ten years ago the people
of the United States were persuaded
that prices were too high and that in
order to bring about a general reduc
tion in values the McKinley Tariff
should be repealed It was repealed
and prices fell mightily Four years
later the problem was How shall
prices be increased This time the
Democratic solution was A Fifty Cent
Dollar McKinley pointed out a bet
ter way to restore the good prices that
had been foolishly flung away in 1892
His plan was to open the mills Instead
of the mints His plan was adopted
Prices revived under the workings of a
Republican Protective Tariff All
prices revived prices of things to be
sold prices of things to be bought
prices of labor Tremendous prosperity
resulted greater than any people in
any period of human history had ever
known That prosperity has continued
for nearly five years There is no
break in sight Once again however
it is contended that prices aro too
high Once again it is proposed to
lower prices by Tariff revision It was
done in that way eight years ago It
can be done again in that way Shall
it be done
He Continues to HovrL
Uncle Sam Whats the matter
with that dog Will nothing satisfy
him but another total eclipse of the
moon
Not So S trance
The Providence Journal thinks it
strange that the promoters of the beet
sugar industry should have been able
to hold up legislation for Cuban relief
Does the Journal forget that the
domestic producers held a specific
pledge from the Republican party
that their industry shall be Protected
Is it so strange that they should ask
the honorable fulfillment of this pledge
and that a considerable number of
loyal and consistent Protectionists in
Congress should do all in their power
to prevent the violation of this pledge
The strange thing about it is that there
should be a single Republican mem
ber of Congress claiming to be a Pro
tectionist in favor of withholding from
the domestic growers their just and
lawful right to the same measure of
Protection that is granted to other do
mestic producers
A Good Riddance
Congressman Babcock authorizes the
statement that he has changed his
attitude on the question of the con
tinued Protection of the domestic su
gar industry and is now prepared to
join the knifing that industry by a
reduction of 20 per cent of the Tariff
on Cuban sugar For a time the Wis
consin Tariff Ripper stood with the
Protectionists in opposing this sur
render to Free Trade and Sugar Trust
pressure He has been made to see the
error of his ways and get in line If
anything could add to the dignity and
the consistency of the attitude of the
anti surrender wing Babcocks defec
tion has done it He could well be
spared
Sound Sense
It is said that as there are no sugar
beet raisers in Maine there is no oc
casion for Mr Littlefield to be inter
ested in their protection But if the j
doctrine is to obtain that no congress-
man is to vote for a protective duty
unless it benefits some industry in his
own district the whole system will
soon be in ruins Portland Press
Take Notice
To favor the Sugar Trust at the ex
pense of the growers of sugar beets
will be to serve notice to the farmers
of the West that no favors are needed
at their hands Grand Rapids Her
aid
Why
Why should the beet sugar people
be so wildly denounced for their in
sistence in objecting to giving us part
of their protection Racine Wis
Journal
At Ploughnastel a small town in
Brltany all the weddings of the yeas
are celebrated on one day In Febru
ary last 34 couples were married simul
taneously
MARK TWAIN AND HIS Z2SINE
Unique Slethod of Propulsion or the
Mississippi River
Captain Thomas Blxby under whom
Samuel L Clemens Mark Twain
sorved as pilot and engineer on the
old Mississippi river boat Swallow
has given in a New Orleans paper tho
following description of tho engine of
tho Swallow
Tho craft was a llttlo shaky af
fair which plied between St Louis
and Cairo It had a Btern wheel a
place for freight and passengers a
pilot house and a place on what may
be called the pilot deck for tho en
gine
That engine went aboard when It
was needed and only then It burned
no wood or coal but ate a powerful
sight of grass It was a largo gray
mule named Jerry which worked a
troadmlll that propelled tho boat
Samuel Clemens was chief engineer
and pilot
He had a system of signals which
was effectivo and ingenious By pull
ing a cord he could raise a head of
cabbage just out of reach of the mule
The engine would start and begin
to walk after it and the boat floated
majestically down or up the river as
tho case might be
Without deBlring to be personal I
will say that Jerry was one of the
most intelligent animals I ever met
His voice was more on the order of a
fog horn than a whistle being too
much of a barytone for the latter
When Samuel wanted to whistle for a
landing ho just hit Jerry with a stick
Youths Companion
HADNT RECKONED ON SPELLING
WouId ISe Joker Who Went Up Against
an Old Old Game
It is related that Dr James Wise of
Covington Ky is the victim of one
of his own Jokes and that he is in
half mourning on account of it From
all the evidence that can be produced
it appears that some time ago the doc
tor went up against an old game
One of his friends met him and
producing a pencil said Doctor
see this pencil I can make it write
any color I want to
Lets see you make it write indigo
blue
Tho owner of the pencil promptly
sat down and wrote
Then the doctor tumbled and said
Thats pretty good Ill just go down
the street and try that on Theodore
Hallam
Down tho street he went looking
for Mr Hallam He finally fond
him and producing the pencil said
Theodore heres a pencil that I can
write any color I want to with
Then the doctor gathered himself
for a good laugh
Lets see you write ecru said Mr
Hallam
The doctor smiled picked up a piece
of paper and started to work and for
ten consecutive seconds said nothing
Then he said swear words and added
I have forgotten how to spell that
word
JAPAN RUSHING TO BANKRUPTCY
Island Empire of tho East Has Seen
Recklessly Extravagant
Frederick Taylor a son of the late
Moses Taylor of this city known In
ternationally for his work as an ex
plorer was a passenger on the steam
ship Nord America which arrived re
cently
Mr Taylor made a study of the Boor
prison camps in Ceylon and Bermuda
explored the jungles of Borneo visited
the Malay Peninsula and many points
of interest in China and Japan
Mr Taylor had no very exalted
opinion of the commercial integrity of
the Japanese especially when com
pared with that of the Chinese
It has been the experience saH
he of all good sound banks in the far
east and most particularly of the
Chartered Bank of India Australia
and China that in all their dealings
with Chinese merchants for many
years they never lost a dollar while
with the Japanese they lost thou-
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Japanese are the Yankees of the east
New York Times
How Ho Worked It
I dont see why they call you the
star boarder complained the fellow
vho always got the wing
Thats easy replied the other in
his copyrighted superior style I just
twinkle twinkle and the landlady
doesnt know what I am and lets me
stay on blind faith
Wanted to Be Prepared
Lady said Meandering Mike
would you give a starvin man some
thin to eat
Perhaps But you are not starv
ing
I know it lady But an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure
aint it
Cyclists and Hens Warned
The church in Buecken a German
village of about 1000 inhabitants has
a notice board which bears the follow
ing legend in large letters Cyclists
and hens are forbidden to wander
around the churchyard
The world is always suspicious of
fat philosophers