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The Tribune
F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
KBCZ
NEBRASKA
HEARTS
AND
MASKS
By
HAROLD MacGRATH
Author of The Man on ths Box etc
With Drawings by Harrison Fisher
Copyright 1805 by Bobbs Merrill Co
CHAPTER II Continued
Next turning from the window I
fell to examining my fellow passen
gers in the hope of seeing some one
I knew Conversation on trains makes
short journeys I sat up
stiffly in my seat Diagonally across
the aisle sat the very chap I had met
in the curio shop He was quietly
reading a popular magazine and oc
casionally a smile lightened his sar
donic mouth Funny that I should
run across him twice in the same
evening Men who are contemplating
suicide never smile in that fashion
He was smoking a small well colored
meerschaum pipe with evident relish
Somehow when a man clenches his
teeth upon the mouthpiece of a re
spectable pipe it seems impossible to
associate that man with crime But
the fact that I had seen him selecting
a pistol in a pawnshop rather neutral
ized the good opinion I was willing to
form I have already expressed my
views upon the subject The sight of
him rather worried me though I
could not reason why Whither was
he bound Had he finally taken one
of Friards pistols For a moment I
was on the point of speaking to him
if only to hear him tell more lies
about the ten of hearts hut I wisely
put aside the temptation Besides
it might be possible that he would
not be glad to see me I always avoid
the chance acquaintance unless of
course the said chance acquaintance
is met under favorable circumstances
like the girl in Mouquins for in
stance After all it was only an in
cident and but for his picking up
that card I never should have remem
bered him
Behind him sat a fellow with a
countenance as red and round and
complacent as an English butlers
red hair and small twinkling eyes
Once he leaned over and spoke to my
chance acquaintance who without
turning his head thrust a match over
his shoulder The man with the face
of a butler lighted the most villainous
pipe I ever beheld I wondered if
they knew each other But closely
as I watched I saw no sign from
either I turned my collar up and
snuggled down There was no need
of his seeing me
Then my thought reverted to the
ten of hearts again My ten of hearts
The wrinkle of a chill ran up and
down my spine My ten of hearts
Hastily I took out the card and ex
amined the back of it It was an un
commonly handsome back represent
ing Diana the moon and the midnight
sky A horrible supposition came to
me supposing they looked at the
back as well as at the face of the
card And again supposing I was
miles away from the requisite color
and design I was staggered Here
was a pretty fix I had never even
dreamed of such a contingency Hang
it I now wished I had stuck to my
original plan and gone to the theater
Decidedly I was in for it there was
no backing down at this late nour
unless I took the return train for Jer
sey City and I possessed too much
stubbornness to surrender to any
such weakness Either I should pass
the door committee or I shouldnt of
one thing I was certain
Blankshire bawled the trainman
then the train slowed down and finally
came to a stop
No turning back for me now I
picked up by suit case and got out On
he platform I saw the curio shop fel
low again Tramping on ahead the
smell from his villainous pipe assailing
my nostrils was the man who had
asked for a match The former stood
undecided for a moment and during
this space of time he caught sight of
me He became erect gave me a sud
den sardonic laugh and swiftly dis
appeared into the darkness All this
was uncommonly disquieting in vain
I stared into the blackness that had
swallowed him What could he be
doing here at Blankshire I didnt
like his laugh at all there was at
once a menace and a challenge in it
Any baggage sir asked one of
the station hands
No But I asked him to direct me
to a hotel He did so
I made my way down the street
The wind had veered around and was
cOming in from the sea pure and cold
The storm clouds were broken and
scudding like dark ships and at
times there were flashes of radiant
moonshine
The fashionable hotel was full So
I plodded through the drifts to the
unfashionable hotel Here I found ac
commodation I dressed sometimes
laughing sometimes whistling some
times standing motionless in doubt
Bah It was only a lark I thought
of the girl in Mouquins how much
better it would have been to spend the
evening with her exchanging badinage
and looking into each others eyes
Pshaw I covered my face with
the gray mask and descended to the
street
The trolley ran within two miles of
the Hunt club The car was crowded
with masqueraders and for the first
time since I started out I felt comfort-
able Everybody laughed and talked
though nobody knew who his neighbor
was I sat in a corner silent and mo
tionless as a sphinx Once a pair of
blue slippers attracted my eye and
again the flash of a lovely arm At the
end of the trolley line was a carryall
which was to convey us to the club
We got into the conveyance noisily and
good humoredly The exclamations of
the women were amusing
Good gracious
Isnt it fun
Lovely And all that It must
have been a novelty for some of these
to act naturally for once Nothing lasts
so long as the natural instinct for play
and we always find ourselves coming
back to it
Standing some hundred yards back
from the road was the famous Holly
wood inn run by the genial Moriarity
Sometimes the members of the Hunt
club put up there for the night when
there was to be a run the following
morning It was open all the year
round
We made the club at exactly 1030
Fortune went with me doubtless it
was the crowd going in that saved me
from close scrutiny My spirits rose
as I espied Teddy Hamilton at the
door He was on the committee and
was in plain evening clothes It was
good to see a familiar face I shoul
dered toward him and passed out my
ten dollars
Hello Teddy my son I cried out
jovially
Hello grinning Teddy thought
it was some one he knew well so it
was Whats your card he cried as
I pressed by him
The ten of hearts
The ten of hearts repeated Teddy
to a man who was keeping tally on a
big cardboard
This sieht did not reassure me If
they were keeping tally of all the cards
presented at the door they would soon
find out that there were too many tens
of hearts too many by one Well at
any rate I had for the time being es
caped detection now for the fun
It would be sport royal while it last
ed What a tale to give out at the
club of a Sunday night I chuckled on
the way to the ball room I had dis
pensed with going up to the dressing
room My robe was a genuine one
heavy and warm o I had no overcoat
to check
Grave monk your blessing
Turning I beheld an exquisite Col
umbine
Pax vobiscum I replied sol
emnly
Pax What does that mean
It means do not believe all you
seen the newspapers
Columbine laughed gaily I did
not know that you were a Latin
scholar and besides you gave me to
understand you were coming as a Jes
uit Billy
Billy Here was one who thought
she knew me I hastened to disillusion
her
My dear Columbine you do not
know me not the least bit My name
is not Billy it is Dicky
Oh you cannot fool me she re
turned I heard you call out to Teddy
Hamilton that your card was the ten
of hearts and you wrote me saying
that would be your card
Complications already and I
hadnt put my foot inside the ball
room
I am sorry I said but you have
made a mistake Your Jesuit probably
told you his card would be the nine
not the ten
I will wager
Hush This is a charity dance no
one makes wagers at such affairs
But Why my goodness theres
ray Jesuit now And to my Intense
relief she dashed away
I carofully observed the Jesuit and
mnfln un my mind to keep an eye
upon him If he really possessed the J
ten of hearts the man who kept tally
on the cardboard was doing some tall
thinking about this time I gilded
away into the gorgeous ball room
What a vision greeted my eye The
decorations were in red and yellow
and it seemed as though perpetual au
tumnal sunset lay over everything
At the far end of the room was a
small stage hidden behind palms and
giant ferns The band was just
striking up A Summer Night in Mu
nich and a monderful kaleidoscope
revolved around me I saw Cavaliers
and Roundheads Puritans and Beel
zebubs Musketeers fools cowboys
Indians kings and princes queens
and empresses fairies and Quaker
maids white and black and red and
green dominoes Tom Fools night
indeed
Presently I saw the noble Doge of
Venice coming my way From his
portly carriage r reasoned that if he
wasnt in the gold book of Venice he
stood very well up in the gold book
of New York He stopped at my side
and struck an attitude
Pax vobiscum said I bowing
Be at the Inquisition Chamber di
rectly the clock strikes the midnight
hour he said mysteriously
I shall be there to deliver the su
preme interrogation I replied
It is well He drifted away like
a stately ship N
Delightful foolery I saw the Jes
uit and moved toward him
Disciple of Loyola hast thou the
ten of hearts
My hearts number nine for I have
lost one to the gay Columbine
The Car Was Crowded with Masqueraders
I breathe Thou art not he whom
I seek We separated I was mor
tally glad that Columbine had made a
mistake
The women always seek the monk
at a masquerade they want absolu
tion for the follies they are about to
commit A demure Quakeress
touched my sleeve in passing
Tell me grave monk why did
you seek the monastery
My wife fell in love with me
gloomily
Then you have a skeleton in the
clothes press
Do I look like a man who owned
such a thing as a clothes press much
less so fashionable a thing as a fam
ily skeleton
Then what do you here
I am mingling with fools as a pen
ance
A fool caught me by the sleeve and
battered me gaily over the head with
a bladder
Marry come up why am I a
fool
It is the fashion was my answer
This was like to gain me the reputa
tion of being a wit I must walk care
fully or these thoughtless ones
would begin to suspect there was an
impostor among them
Aha There was mine ancient
friend Julius Hail Caesar
He stopped
Shall I beware of the Ides of
March I asked jovially
Nay my good Cassius rather be
ware of the ten of hearts said Cae
sar in hollow tones and was gone
To be Continued
Goatskin Imports Increase
Washington Goatskins to the
value of 32000000 were imported
into the United States in the fiscal
year 190G against 10000000 worth
a decade earlier These figures were
gathered by the bureau of statistics
of the department or commerce and
labor and in making them public it is
stated that the only important article
of manufacturers materials showing
a more rapid gain is pig tin Of the
importers of goatskins India is the
largest contributor having supplied
11000000 worth in 190G
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From itereograph copyright by Underwood Underwood K Y
Delmas although unknown in the East has made an enviable record for
himself as a criminal lawyer on the Pacific coast He will aid in the defense
of Harry Kendall Thaw at his trial for the murder of Stanford White
A FORT QF 76 FOUND
SECRET REFUGE IN BOSTON RE
CALLS REVOLUTION
Wonderful Network of Concealed
Rooms and Trap Floors Disclosed
Accidentally in a Raid Made
on a Gamblers Den
Boston A wonderful network of
concealed rooms secret passages and
trap floors sufficient to serve as a
hiding place for a score of men and
probably secret meeting places during
the revolutionary war for the colon
ists have been unearthed by Chief T
O Urquhart of the Arlington police as
the result of a raid on the famous old
Cooper Tavern on Massachusetts ave
nue Arlington
The raid followed the issuance of a
warrant for a sea 2I1 for liquor but so
astounding were the discoveries that
Chief Urquhart will continue his
search until he has laid bare all the
secrets of the famous old hostelry
The discoveries so far show that the
old house is literally honeycombed
with secret rooms and passages in
one of which was found a full gam
bling layout Early in the raid a pa
trol wagon full of liquor was taken
from the place and liquor of every
kind from champagne to beer was lo
cated The place was being conducted
by Louis and Ida Brown and run with
out an innholders license
Coopers Tavern was built prior to
the revolutionary war and was im
mortalized by the martyred deaths of
Jabez and Jason Winship who made
their last stand behind its stone win
dows hemmed in by the British le
gions in April 1775 Others in the
building at the time disappeared and
it has always been thought they es
caped by secret recesses
It fell to the lot of gamblers the
police say to discover the hidden
haunts and their knowledge was
guarded well The police at the raid
discovered that the foundation wall
seemed too short for the actual sup
port of the walls of the building and
digging down laid bare a complete
room small but compact Inspired
by their discovery the police contin
ued in their search and will not rest
until the entire inside of the building
is torn away
CITY OVERSTOCKED WITH CASH
Money in Treasury Is Becoming a
Veritable Drug
Crystal Falls Mich Crystal Falls
is crowing over other towns in the
upper peninsula for the latter have a
hard time making both ends meet and
they often borrow money to tide the
municipality over until the annual
collections have been made
Crystal Falls city is so loaded with
money that the surplus funds are be
coming a veritable nuisance and the
council has decided to invest 10000
of the money putting it into circula
tion instead of allowing it to lie idle
in the hands of the treasurer
The annual report of the treasurer
showed a balance on hand of about
13000 over and above all outstanding
orders As the time for the collection
of taxes is at hand the funds in hand
will be increased very shortly by an
other 10000
The sewer work is all paid for and
the suspension of operations has elim
inated the demand for money from
that source until next spring The
treasurer has been instructed to place
the money at interest wherever the
best rate can be secured
Love Not Marriage Motive
Paris A French statistician recently
asked 95 girls between 15 and 17 years
why they wished to marry Sixty one
were unable to specify their reasons
five replied that they wanted to be
able to go out alone ten in order to
amuse themselves five so they could
travel seven because they wanted to
own their own homes and four want
ed to marry for the sake of a future
family Three did not wish to get
married None suggested love as a
motive for matrimony but doubtless
many of them were too shy to do so
IRELAND SENDS OUT 5000000
Irish Emigration to This Country Has
Been Enormous
Washington No page in history
reveals such a migration as that of
the Irish to America The figures
are astonishing From 1840 to 1860
not fewer than 2000000 crossed the
ocean to settle in the United States
from 1860 to 1880 an additional 1000
000 made a fresh start in life in the
great republic over the seas and from
1880 to the present time another
1000000 was added to our population
Since 1860 the average has been 500
000 a decade
The 12 agricultural states repre
sented by Ohio Indiana Michigan
Illinois Wisconsin Missouri Iowa
Minnesota Kansas Nebraska North
and South Dakota contain one fourth
of the 5000000 Of the portion set
tled m the North Atlantic states but
one fifth are on farms but this ten
dency to crowd Into towns disap
pears when the surroundings are agri
cultural as is shown by the large per
centage more than 50 of those who
have taken to farming in the 12 agri
cultural states above mentioned
It is only because the bulk of the
Irish in America are not in the midst
of farming districts that they are
less an agricultural people than the
other immigrant elements added to
the population They have found an
outlet for their energies in the con
gested districts and their wonderfully
adaptive natures have allowed them
easily to enter upon the industries of
the people among whom they were
thrown
It is in the eastern states that the
Irish promise to ultimately constitute
a majority of the population This
is already the case in three New Eng
land states and in many New England
cities In New York city they are
barely behind the Germans and slight
ly so in Chicago
ENORMOUS SALT DEPOSIT
Bed 15 Miles Long and Eight Wide
Found in Utah
Denver Col During 1906 wonder
ful progress was made on the con
struction of the new Pacific coast line
of the Denver Rio Grande Thirty
nine tunnels are being bored through
the mountains There is one 75-mile-stretch
of track that will cost 100000
a mile to build The object of this
expenditure in construction is to obtain
a direct and low grade route through
the mountains
Track is already laid from Salt
Lake City nearly to the Nevada state
line a distance of nearly 90 miles In
California the track is laid into Oak
land and Stockton It is believed the
entire line through to the coast will
be in operation by January 1909
Among the curious things encoun
tered in the construction work is an
enormous deposit of pure salt found
on the west side of the Utah desert
not far from the Nevada state line
This singular deposit Is 15 miles long
and eight miles wide Excavations to
a depth of more than six feet are still
in solid salt The salt that has been
found is suitable for stock and can
be readily refined for table use
Unquestionably this section was
once the bed of the great Salt lake
and even now may have a subterran
ean connection with that mysterious
body of water more than a hundred
miles distant
X
RICHES OF UNCLE 11
TOTAL WEALTH REACHES STU
PENDOUS FIGURES
More Than Half a Dozen American
Worth More Than All the Rulers
of the World Together All
Records Broken
Washington The United States ifr
the wealthiest nation In the world
said a close friend of President Roose
velts the other day who had just
gone over a remarkable official report
which Is soon to be made public He
added
In a brief span of young life this
Infant nation has broken all records
relating to the accumulation of riches
We are beginning to think in billions
instead of millions Take It any way
you like our affluence outstrips any
thing ever known before
Our country has more actual mon
ey more gold a larger volume of ex
ports greater banking facilities rich
er farms more productive mines mora
railroads more internal commerce
more millionaires more farmers moro
highly paid laborers and a greater
distribution of luxuries than any othei
has enjoyed since time began
To prove all this some facts ar
gleaned at random from the reports
gathered by the statistical department
of the treasury
One day last October Uncle Sam
had gathered into his money store
house in Washington the greatest
amount of gold ever collected in one
place in the history of the world
gold representing 871893899 This
was indeed the high water mark
There was in one little room moro
gold than was in circulation in Great
Britain
The largest receipt ever given and
the greatest money trust ever under
taken was when the present treasurer
of the United States Charles H Treat
went into office He receipted to Ellis
II Roberts retiring treasurer for all
money and securities in the vaults of
the treasury a total of 125959827S
It required trom July 1 to Sept 5 to-
count the money and at the comple
tion of the task the accounts balanced
to a fraction
The costliest governmental estab
lishment in the world is the British
navy upon which 1500000000 has
been expended within the last ten
years Yet three individual Ameri
cans Rockefeller Carnegie and
Clark could have paid the whole bill
and have pocket money left
The United States is spending about
100000000 a year on its navy and
the country is new at this kind of ex
penditure That it is not investing
more than it can afford is shown by
the fact that the display loving women
of the United States spent 100000
000 for diamonds purchased in foreign
lands during the last two years In
fact we are so rich the sales of prod
uce and manufactured articles we are
sending abroad each year axe equal
to a sum sufficient to support all the
navies in the world
When it comes to individual wealth
we have dozens of citizens who are
worth more than all the kings and
rulers of the world taken collectively
or severally The czar is reputed to
have a greater income than any other
living man but his private fortune is
so mixed up with government rev
enues that it is impossible to separate
them If distinction could be made
John D Rockefeller undoubtedly could
make comparison with Nicholas and
show the biggest revenue The Rus
sian monarchs wealth is the accumu
lation of an empire centuries old in
making while the Ohio oil magnate
can remember when he had nothing
Leopold king of the Belgians is the
richest monarch in Europe after the
czar Although his income from the
state is but 1700000 a year his
business interests ar so large and the
income from the Congo Free state so
great it is estimated he gathers 5
000000 annually Senator Clark has
an income that is at least three times
as great
Alphonso XIII has 1400000 a year
to provide a style that should sur
round a king but John Jacob Astor
could easily outstrip this youthful
monarch if he felt disposed The kais
er receives a small annual allowance
only 650000 so that either William
K Vanderbilt or August Belmont has
more ready money at hi3 disposal
than Germanys emperor
HEADS LIST IN BUCKEYE STATE
Columbus Man Says He Was First to
Enlist in Ohio at Call of Lincoln
Columbus It now develops that
Major Henry M Neil of this city was
the first man to be enlisted in Ohio
under the call for troops by President
Lincoln for the civil war
Major Neil has never spoken of his
distinction until now The Major says
that when the message came from
Lincoln for the quota he was in Gov
ernor William Dennisons office
The governor who was his brother-in-law
related the contents of the
telegram and Major Neil followed by
saying that he could be counted on
and desired to be the fir3t man en
rolled When Lieutenant Bob Wil
liams arrived from Washington that
night to recruit soldiers he swore Ma
jor Neil in as a private
Neil served in the short service and
was mustered out in 1864 after com
manding a battery he had raised This
honor of being the first Ohioan to en
list has always been credited -to Lorin
Andrews of Ashland who died in Sep
tember 1S61
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