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i( - rv OJ lt li--. ? 4. r re t.v fi -'S'f V. 1 p1 mJ, yw . !.; !AV At "Vc I- .. fWW-- i l I). ? o I V 9 u F 1 . r r r CHAPTER XXX, Continued. "The papers from the safe, did yoa ay?" asked Helena in slow wonder. "Perhaps you know that I was Im prisoned in the room yonder. It took me three hours to loosen the bar of the window. I made my way round the sloping roof of the towers by the stone gutter to the window of that other room. The window was open. When I gained it, and was about to enter it, I saw this man, whom I be lieved to be your brother, enter the room, bolt the door behind him, kneel at the safe, open it, and abstract from it a packet of papers which he now has in bis pocket." If Forbes had expected Helena to be dumfounded at thl3 surprising news, his wish was gratified. But it was wonder tempered with infinite Joy. The papers that convicted her brother of guilt had been rescued from the cruel clutch of Madame de Varnier. She did not realize at once that I had steered clear of Charybdis only to fall foul to Scylla. The peril of Sir Mor timer's guilt being known was now in finitely greater than it had been half an hour ago. Helena's defense of my self, and Madame de Varnier's untime ly interruption, had both alienated all sympathy from Helena and strength ened his conviction that I was one of the conspirators. If I had kept silent so long, if it seems unmanly that I should have al lowed a woman to plead In my behalf it is because I was racking my brain for a means of escape from the awk ward predicament that held me cap tive. "I have told you. Captain Forbes, that I have ample reason to believe in the honesty of Mr. Haddon. If he has taken any papers from the safe. It is with .my fullest and deepest gratitude. It was the woman there who had stolen them from my brother. They are personal papers. They concern only my motherland myself now. that Mortimer is dead: Mr. Haddon will restore them to me." "I shall forbid that," protested Forbes hotly." "I tell you. Miss Brett, those are papers of State. They be long to the State. I must see that they are placed in the hands of the ministers or the Foreign Office. For the last time, give me those papers." I leaped at the loophole Helena had offered me; If I could not prevent their falling into the hands of Forbes, at least I could delay that dire event "I shall obey you, Miss Brett. Into your hands alone shall I place those papers." "If you please," she said with dig nity, and held out a hand that did not tremble to receive them. And still I hesitated. I saw the gleam of resolution in the glitter of Forbes' blue eyes. If I produced the paper now it would be only to have the king's messenger snatch them from my grasp. Forbes turned to Helena in angry triumph. "You see. Miss Brett, he hesitates. The woman and himself are as reluct ant that the papers fall into your hands as they are that I obtain them. He thinks that he may trick you, as he has already once tricked me. Is there nothing I can say to shake your blind confidence in this treacherous impostor?" "Nothing," said Helena, with resolu tioa; bat I could see her troubled sur prise at say reluctance. "Then I shall be forced to resort to violence. I am going to have those papers, and at once. If you are so Iliad to the grave danger of letting this man keep the papers, even for the momeat I am not. How could he have taken them from the safe unless it were with the permission and per haps at the entreaty of this Madame de Varnier?" "The inference is clear enough, I should think she. must have left the door of the safe open." Helena spoke confidently, but trust In me had been put to a sore test. "Your credulity Is very, great if yoa think that Why, madam, I saw him deliberately work the comaiaatloa of the safe." Helena uttered a cry of horror at my supposed treachery. Her trust was shattered. "I could not dream of a villainy so hypocritical." . Instinctively she came close to Forbes' side as if for protection. She had read in my eyes that Forbes spoke the truth. No words of mine could convince her, now of my sincerity. Madame de-Varnier "had been quite forgotten by us all. Until now she had been listening in breathless si lence Forbes' declaration that I had taken the papers must have seemed to her the sheerest absurdity. She had been certain that she had locked the safe; she was equally certain that no one but herself knew the word by which it might be opened. She must have thought, too. that my.tacit cob fession of taking the papers was a ruse to deceive her, though she could not guess its purpose. But when Captain Forbes asserted with evident sincerity that he had seen me working the combination her anx iety became unendurable. At the risk of being surprised at the safe, she had stolen Quietly to the room, thinking herself unobserved. But through our backs had been turned from the room, I had seen her movement by her shad ow cast oh the floor by the setting sun pouring in the open window through which Captaia .Forbes .had made his entrance. I clutched the arm of the king's mes seager; I made an imperious gesture for caatkm and silence. I pouted to Msdsmc de Varnier disappearing iato the little room of. the ala.s With a :'- ucredibly light for; so Forbes tiptoed after 1 a. f wmEtmm L sPP!75rrTS Mg- - i, .bBBmmmmmmBBV mfamrr m FW m m mm m m watched her open the safe through the half-closed door. It was only a question of instants before she had thrown open the door of the safe with a cry of dismay. But that instant sufficed. As Forbes turned his hack to me I took swiftly from my pocket the two packets. One envelope was plain, with no writing on it. The other was ad dressed to Sir Mortimer Brett and bore a foreign stamp. No word was spoken. I had but to hold the two packets before Helena. In an instant she had hidden in the bosom of her dress the first packet I have mentioned, whose envelope was plain; the other I returawfl t say pocket. Madame de Varnier sprang to her feet with the litheness of a tigress. She came toward me "as I stood by Forbes' side with a rage that was dreadful In its intensity. Before I could guess at her purpose she had torn my coat open and seized the packet I had placed there. She pressed it into Forbes' hand. Her bit ter rage and disappointment made her oblivious of the fact that she had given only one of the packets. 4"Take it!" she screamed. "Take it! Ah, M. Coward, you are clever, but it shall avail you nothing. At least I shall have my revenge." Forbes buttoned his coat over the papers he had received with an Take It!" She Screamed. Take it!" amaaed but grim satisfaction. Helena, standing apart from us, was convul sively clenching and unclenching her hands. Uaseen by the other two, I cast her a meaning glance that she should exert her strong will to regain her poise. When they looked at her she stood passive and acqulscent As for myself. I affected an air of chagrin and defeat. "Ton will bear me witness. Miss. Brett, that I did my best to place the packet in your hand. I can only hope that Captain Forbes will restore you those papers without reading them, or that they are of little importance." "Little importance!" hissed Ma dame de Varnier. "Sir, guard those papers well; your ministers at Down ing street will not thank you if you lose them. And now, M. Coward, that you 'have conquered me, but not rob bed me of my revenge, how much longer are we to stay here?" Captain Forbes showed little surprise-at the turn affairs had taken. He interpreted Madame de Varnier's move as that of one who had be trayed a confederate for motives of revenge. While he recognised the fact, he mistook the motive. "And they speak of honor among thieves!" he sneered in an aside to Helena. I feared that Helena might make an indignant protest But she said nothing. I supposed her silence dic tated by prudence; this was no time to champion -my cause. But as I looked at her I read her perplexity in her troubled eyes. I had given her back the papers indeed, but that I should have known the combination was too startling a fact to be 'ac cepted without distrust I could have known the combination only, from Madame -de Varnier; that proved to me to have been in her confidence. If I had repented and betrayed my' accomplice in my remorse, she was' grateful for the act itself, bat she could ao longer trust me. ' ' "As this woman says," Forbes was speakiBg to me, -"there Is notaiag fcv detain as. here kmger. Bat yea, air, as well as this woman, win leave this room only to be placed ander arrest. Torn must consider yourself my prfcv oner." , VI " With these words he strode toward the door of the staircase, aad taried the haadle. It Is iockeaTiie said sterary.Who has the key?" -1 handed it to him in silence. Ashe received it from me he glanced mean ingly toward Helena. It was one more link In the chain of evidence. I con-. fess I could have wished the. key had not been la my pocket. He turned the key., To the conster nation of all of us the door still resist ed his efforts. He ' exerted an his strength to no purpose. "What aew trick Is this?" ha. de maaded furiously of me. "I think," It was to Madame de Var nier I answered, "that Dr. Starva has taken the precautioa of insuring him self a free field." CHAPTER XXXI. "' The Ladder ef Stones. Madame de Varnier had been seated ra sullen apathy. At my words she looked up at me for a moment in dull surprise. Then slowly, as if a mask had fallen over her face, an expression of horror and insensate, fury disfigured her beauty. She rushed to the door; she shook it frantically; she beat on it futile blows. "What does it mean, this locked door?" demanded Forbes of me once more. "It means that Dr. Starva.' the ally of. this woman, for some purpose of this own. has imprisoned us here." I answered calmly. "Even you. Captain Forbes, will not accuse me of fasten tag the bolt." Ha turned from me in contemptuous silence. "It is only a question of a few hours at the most," he said reassuring ly to Helena. "At dawn we can at tract the attention of some one from the street In the meanwhile we must be patient." "I am thankful that you were able to make your way to me," said Helena brokenly. "It would be dreadful to be here alone with my brother lying dead in that room." "Are we to make no effort!" I de manded. "Surely in some way " My words were arrested on my lips. Madame de Varnier had abandoned herself to her despair. As I spoke she looked ap furtively, aad then traas fixed me with a glaace of warning. If yoa can suggest a mesas. I am ready to listen," said Forbes. "Bat that door of oak with Its bands of steel Is beyoad my strength. As to the pos sibility of a descent from the outside. It Is hopeless to think of It Even If one existed, I should scarcely avail myself of it, leaviag you with, these people. Miss Brett" "Bat Mr. Haddon" "Is not to be trusted, I am afraid." said he, with a sneer. "Mr. Haddon, It is hard to believe yoa guilty of treachery. In spite of everything, I wish to keep faith with yoa. Bat will you not explaia to Cap tarn Forbes" "No; Miss Brett," I returned bluntly. "I shall make no explanation to Cap tain Forbes until he sees fit to ask me for. one." "And I should refuse to believe any." said Forbes with contempt "Ton say your brother .is in that room. May I see him?" She led the way to the oratory in silence. The door closed gently be- ' Showed Trades A blind street musician, reports a Chinese paper, stood oa the shore of a river, puzzled how to cross the stream. He implored aa oil dealer, who, happened to- come along, to as sist him. The oil dealer had pity on the helpless man; "took him on his shoulders gave aim his money bag to hold aad carried him across. -'When he deposited his burden' on the other shore the bHnd man refused to return aim Us money hag, raised a noise and declared that the money was his property. The Blatter came before the judge, and each maa said oa oath, that the money beloaged to him. The jadge fiaally ordered. thebag.of mosey emp tied mfb a water, tank, aad thea sad- aaaoaaced thatrthe oil dealer the owner. Whea asked for thai. for his decttloe. he declared that the of the oil hind them. Madame de Varaler aad I were alone, j- ,, IAcpcyoVartf- with 'your,advntBsm; Una Castle of ur,advtMs m" Una Castle HapalaeiV; sob.- ; ; ilaeas," she? saidjwitb a! hysterical 4'V "I am waiting for the climax.? I aa swared signlficaatly "Is it-to,be a comedy tor a tragedy?" "Ok, Qpd!"jrdie raised her clenched hands la a gesture full of aagulsh. "K ' is I whe am asklag that" V" "Why dfd yoa look at me; la that manner. Ton wish to tell me some-' thing to wara me." , v ' "The death-mask " she whispered. Her emotion suffocated her. "Why should Dr. Starva have lmprlsoaad us here, unless" I looked at her stupefied. "But Prince Ferdiaaad is not here at, the chateau." Her self-control vanished utterly. She clung to me in her despair. . "Save him! Save hfln!". "But Ferdinand is'aot at the cha teau!" I. repeated "Last Bight in the music room that death-mask! " She Spoke incoher ently, but her meaning was too clear. Tpa' knew that ,he was .coming fiawsackV . fv i i, ., . 'When, you told, me of the death- mask, when I. saw., the., rage of. Dr. Starva I realized his', danger. Yes, he was coming here to-night Bat I telegraphed him that at all costs he must not comet But if Dr. Starva by some means intercepted that tele gram" '"Who sent It?" I questkmed anx iously. . "Jacques." "Then your prince is doomed. It was Jacques who betrayed to me your presence here. I thought it was be cause I bribed him sufficiently welL Be sure of, this, he is Starva's crea ture." "Heavens, how you torture me! But if this ,is true, why did he allow Sir Mortimer's sister to come to me? He must have known that you sent for her." "With ourselves she would be safe ly out of the way. Dr. Starva is more ingenious than I have given him the credit of being. We are caught like rats in a trap." "But you must save him!" "Impossible!" "Listen; it is not impossible. There is a ladder not on this side, but be neath the window of the oratory." Her eyes glittered in the semi-dark-ness. She placed a finger on my lips. I had cried out In my surprise. "A ladder of a hundred feet or more! And it stands against the wall of the tower!" I exclaimed incredulously. "Besides, if it were there, Captain Forbes must have seen it" "This ladder, I call it so for want of a better name, is made of great stones half as long as one's forearm that project from the smooth masonry at intervals of a foot The chateau Is old, very old. In feudal times, with a stout rope, one might escape from the tower. But it is impossible! We have no rope." She wrung her hands. "But if this ladder of stones reaches from roof to terrace, it would be sim ple enough without a rope. The stones are built out at regular Inter vals? How far are they apart? "At intervals of a foot they reach In a straight line for 100 feet But the chateau is '150 feet high. These stones begin at the roof. No one could drop that 50 feet to the. marble terrace be low and live. Yes; we are caught like rats in a trap." "Fifty feet! It would mean a broken limb, if not certain death. But if a rope could be knotted of our clothing for half that distance!" I went into the room through whose window the king's messenger had made his untimely entrance. I leaned far out of the window, shuddering. I was resolved to make the descent my self. Twice I had proved myself a coward. This was to be my chance, unless Forbes should stubbornly re fuse to believe in the existence of Ferdinand's danger. The moon was rising; it shed an un earthly light on the pale face of Ma dame de Varnier as she looked ap at me anxiously. The wind came la fit ful gusts. Suddenly there sounded a muffed re port At first I thought it thunder la the faraway mountains. Bat as I lis tened intently the mysterious sound was repeated again and again, though more and more feebly. And it came from above. "Do you hear It, that Strang, mat fled clap?" I asked of Madame de Var nier. She took my place at the open win dow. For some moments she heard nothing. Then, strangely enough, though the wind was blowing almost a gale, it sounded distinctly. "It is a flag on the high flagstaff of the central tower." she said presently. "But who can have given orders that it be raised?" "That is a matter of indifference." I said Joyfully. "An ensign so large as that requires a fairly substantial cord. If we can get that cord and plait it Where is it fastened? Surely at one of these windows?" "No," she said anxiously. "It is Dr. Starva who has raised that flag. But why?" The question seemed to In crease her anxiety. CTO BE CONTINUED.) vrYivTYrWMWrWvinAnnnnwwwnnnnAW of His Business certainly show traces of his business, and. indeed on the surface- of the water traces of oil were found. Disgrace to the, Profession. Wareham Long I ain't arskin' far somethln' to eat mister. I'm tryia to raise a little money so's I can git out, o this town. I need a change of air, jFellaire (formerly Rusty Rufus) Yoa do, you grimy old fraud, but yoa need a change of shirts a thuaderiag sight worse. 'Here's a dollar aad1 a kick, to assist you in effectlag both of those changes. Have the to move on. ' ' " Hers Has Small ,Ia proportion to its sise, the aaa tae smauesi suanaca ozaaj POOR SHADE "3 OF ROYALTY i -. Baroness Harden - Hkkey Once Ruled in Royal .State on the Island of . Trinidad, Now with Mind Hopelessly Gone, Is in Sanitarium with Debmons of Former Greatness Her Only Comfort: t - New York. "Almost a. queen!" Fit title for a modern melodrama, this phrase which, in invisible: characters, is written over the door of a private .room in a sanitarium "at Stamford, Conn. Almost It might -be called 'an epitaph, for behind that door. sits the mental wreck of a NewYprh, woman who ruled figuratively by her beauty and charm, and literally by the title conferred upon her by her own hus band, his highness, Jacques I., prince of Trinidad. , To-day Baroness Anne Harden Hickey has for her subjects only de voted attendants and fellow-delusion-ists, each of. whom in his or her way rules over a little kingdom which none other may-enter. For the once beautiful and gifted daughter of J. H. Flagler, cousin of Henry M. Flagler, the Standard Oil magnate, has lost her reason. The death of her dare devil husband, whom she worshiped, and drugs, taken to forget her loss and grief, have done their work. The woman who was almost a queen will never mingle with the world again. On East Fifty-fourth street, be tween Third and Lexington avenues, tbey still talk of the stately woman who walked among them unseeingly, save when she performed some regal act of kindness or charity. There, in a commonplace apartment house, she kept up her little court circle and for got all else. A few of her immediate family she received as her equals; all others were given a regal audience. And yet an audience was eagerly sought by her neighbors, for despite certain eccentricities which come with failing mentality, Baroness Harden Hickey was a woman of marvelous charm. Her neighbors never laughed at her. Thoughtless children never pointed the finger of youthful scorn at her wavering figure. Tradespeople and policemen on the beat rose as oie man to protect her coming and her going but few, indeed, knew the true history of their almost queen. Wooed While Being Educated. Baroness Harden-Hickey, born Anne Flagler, received every advant age, and her education was completed by several trips abroad. On one of these she met and was wooed by Jacques or James Harden-Hickey, as dashing a character as the nineteenth century ever knew outside of book covers. He claimed to be a French man by birth, but rumor has it that he was born in San Francisco in .1854 and removed to France, at a very ten der age. However this may have been, he grew up a pronounced royalist, and after the establishment of the republic was a diverting political figure. After being graduated from the French mili tary school at St Cyr, where he left a brilliant record as a duelist at least, he established a newspaper of his own called the Triboulet As be was only 23, his career as an editor and pub lisher was marked by a succession of duels, fines for damages, assessed by the French tribunals, and strong ani mosity among the Republican poli ticians, rather than, subscribers and financial returns. It ended in his fleeing to London, where he found life altogether too tame, so he took pas sage on the British bark Astoria, to ., -' "LOST COLONY" IS FOUND. Evidence That It. Settled on Roanoke Island in Sixteenth Csntury. The mystery of mysteries in our American chronicle has been solved at last The famous "Lost Colony of Rcanoke" has been traced and1 its de scendants found, in an obscure region where they still retain the ancestral names, cherish, traditions that explain many of the gaps in history and pre serve customs brought over by their forefathers, who vanished utterly from the ken of the mother country, says a writer in Appleton's Magazine. I have been among them. and talked with them. The story of the lost colony is familiar to every student of American history.. It will be remembered that Queen' Elizabeth granted to Sir Walter Raleigh a patent "to discover, searche, finde out and. .view such remote, heathen, and barbarous lands, v coun tries and territories not actually pos sessed of aay Christian prince." ; The first expeditioa landed on Roanoke island July 4 (old style). BBsaassw mvurmaaVaBY .fljaviBasaVaaBaBal BBsaaaVasaaaaaaaaaaaamW T bbbbbbbbbbb! tW.?et iHt. then coast of Brazil, la the South Atlaatlc. the boat was thrown out of its coarse hy a storm, aad a Boat's crew, lacludiag. their passenger keea for ad venture, went ashore oa a precipitous Island named Trialdad for water and such fresh provisions as .might be picked up. .- -The crew found an abandoned Portu guese settlement; buildings falling to decay, all signs of cultivation hidden by wild vines and plants. The imagiaation of Jacques Harden Hickey was fired. He saw that' with cultivation crops might be raised. There were fields of guano and pasture enough for sheep raising and. best of all, the .island was unclaimed by any power. Some day he would be king of this Island. On his return to Europe he met Anne Flagler, and in less than a year had won and married her by a special dispensation of the pope, who also created him a baron. This was in 1889. In 1893 he realized his ambi tion. Financed largely by his wife and her relatives, though there were rumors of a $100,000 loan, he landed his colonists on the forlorn . little island of Trinidad, and there he set up his court. His overseers were white, but the land was cultivated by peons. His palace was a mere hut, but it stood apart from the rest, and his court was held as punctiliously as that of St James. To be sure, there was a great shortage in court ladies, but the beauty and enthusiasm of his devoted wife, who entered into all his plans, made his peculiar kingdom a paradise. But one fatal mistake had been made. The foreign powers had been formally notified that the Island of Trinidad had been colonized as an in dependent state or principality under Prince Jacques I., and two years later, in 1895, Great Britain decided that she needed just that island for a future coaling station. Their movements ac celerated by a British gunboat, the colonists fled from the island in- the 3acht of their prince and princess. For years Jacques '1. of Trinidad fought for the recognition of his rights and almost made Trinidad an international issue. But after being mixed up in a filibustering scheme aimed at one of the Hawaiian islands no.t yet annexed to the United States, the Harden-Hickey star waned. 'Al ways accompanied by his devoted wife,' he led a more or less adven turous career, and finally wound up in El Paso, Tex., where a pistol shot MAP or TRINIDAD ended his disappointments, in Feb ruary, 1898. Adventurer though he was, Harden Hickey was a man of honor and finan cial probity the type of man who commands the respect of his wife and Anne, princess of Trinidad, never ceased to grieve for him. A .Parlor Her Throne Room. She came north, and though her per sonal fortune had been dissipated through her loyalty to her husband and his many schemes she was amply provided for by her, relatives. Society no longer charmed her. To ease her aching heart and find comfort ia sleep she took to chloral, and then began her new life the life in which she was, to her own diseased mind at least, a veritable queen. The comfortable front room or par lor of her small apartment at No. 147 East Fifty-fourth street became her throne-room. Here she graciously re ceived and mingled with her relatives, who never ceased to humor her in her desires and whims. Here, on rare oc casions and with due form, she re ceived such neighbors as she felt were worthy of admission. And here she lived with a single lady-in-waiting, who never failed to bring out the royal robes when they were demanded, who served meals to her sovereign, with all the glittering formality the apart ment's simple fittings would permit; and from the humble door of the gray stone apartment-house Baroness Anne passed out when so inclined, to drive or walk her triumphant way through the neighborhood. Always stately and gentle, gracious and especially kindly to children, she never became an object of pity or MY Yr f fiajrnf 1 TRIWPAD r i00im00m0000000000 1584, but without making .any settle ment; a second group gave up in a year and returned; later 15 men left by Sir Richard Grenville to hold the place were either drowned or,. mas sacred. In 1587 the indomitable Raleigh sent out 100 men , and 17 women, with John White as governor. This was the memorable "Lost Coir ony," which, contrary to Raleigh's counsel, settled on the ill-starred Roanoke island, described as "very sandy and low toward the water side, but so full of grapes as the very beat ing and surge of the sea overflowed them, of which we found such plenty that in all the world like abundance is not to be found." In August, 1587, the colonists need ing supplies and other, necessaries, the governor was, "through their ex treme estreating, constrained to re turn to England." Before-he could get back the great war with Spain broke out In 1580 Raleigh -sent two ships with Gov. White, bat Spanish war ves sels boarded, rifled and drove them back. It was ia 1591 before another at tempt could be made. This time Gov. White reached Roaaoke. He describes ia the She aever mambled to those who Jive la a world ef Mr ewa ofttimes do. She carried herself Mke a princess aad aever Became gro tesque. Walked in Regal State. To be sure, her costumes were aot always of that tailor-made braad af fected by New York's well-groomed women. Sometimes she decided that her triumphal progress through the streets would be hetghteaed by aa all over lace ireck, worthy Indeed of a court appearance, though decidedly behind the times. Bat the court traia was there, the feathered headdress, the dainty handkerchief and faa, the high-heeled shoes, and 'the regal car riage of oae who had beea almost a queen. When she entered a shop la the neighborhood and left aa order she did not haggle about prices aor limit her purchases by mere pounds or quarts. Sne ordered as for a royal household, and the tradespeople knew how much should be sent. No one Im posed on the queen of East Fifty fourth street Map ef Trinidad. Sometimes, when the chloral had been less deadening than usual, Anne Baroness Aane would catch frag ments of some neighborly sorrow. Then indeed did the queenly nature come to the Burface. With all the graciousness which a Victoria might show to the family of a hero, to which Anne added the democratic personal sympathy which a real queen may aot display, she would go to the stricken one and minister financially aad spir itually. The children of the neighbor hood built 'fairy tales, about the says terious woman who sat all day long in her apartment in queenly state, waiting for the king who had passed out of her life forever. Or,, again, she came slowly into their midst and wait ed for an open carriage a victoria preferred in which she mlghV leaa back and bow graciously from side to side as the women and children of the neighborhood saluted her. The cab bies all knew her and stood, at atten tion as she entered .her vehicle. The motormen on the Third avenue aad Lexington avenue cars knew her, too. and watched for the quaint figure which stopped not for trolleys nor trucks nor ambulances; but swept se renely on its vay across crowded thoroughfares, secure in the belief that :c man would run down a queen. Sudden Disappearance. But there came a day when her wan derings led too far from the graystone apartment-house, when her lady-in-waiting could no longer control the household expenditures and the chari ties of the woman who was almost a queen drained, upon the purses even of her .millionaire relatives. Then Baron ess Anne Harden-Hickey disappeared from her little kingdom on East Fifty fourth street Her neighbors spoke of her regretfully. The cabbies and the motormen looked for her in vain. Their erstwhile queen was in the care of relatives who had spirited her away, far from prying eyes and gos siping tongues. For almost a year she lived thus in retirement; where, none but her family knew. Then came the public announcement that Baroness Anne Harden-Hickey had been re moved to the Stamford sanitarium, there to reign over her imaginary sub- jects and to await the call of her princely consort from that dark aad uncertain shore whither he had pre ceded her on adventures which she had always yearned to share with him. The Teacher. If we work upon marble, it will per ish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal souls, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of .God and love of fellow men. we engrave on those tablets some thing which will brighten all eternity. Daniel Webster. fVMAMMMWMi what happened in phrases of uncon scious poetry, giving a strangely vivid picture of the. loneliness of the New World and the Lost Colony. "We let fall our Grapnel neere the shore & sounded with a trumpet a Call, & afterwardes many familiar English tunes of Songs and called to them friendly; but we had no an swere." Gov. White gave up the search and nothing more is known of him.. Raleigh, ruined financially, having spent $200,000 on his colony without a penny of recompense, turned over his grants to the London compruy. with the advice that they seek to col onize Chesapeake Day, and later the settlement at Jamestown was made. Raleigh urged the new colonists to seek the old. but both the Croatans and the colonists had totally disap peared. I first heard the tradition of the present existence of Raleigh's Lost Colony here at Manteo, aamed after the old chief who went to Eaglaad and was made "Lord of the Island of Roanoke and Dasamoaguepec" first of all Americas titles. M m ti i vl V h& ,: -1- - Vrr'ttS , t3ir ..v mthhi.dl s&Jisfcci&rs .4. J, aiiXK. 35-CiS.'V-v4 Si 'J- -.; r.itife.'.. .''i.ja. i..iAist&irrsu u-; i' '--,- aM&--i- 1 ' - ' . .Sfrti. .Ty -&.!? ft-, -r -