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company pays the government $3.50 900
q year for the privilege.
1t took five years to build the road
When 1t was begun the isthmus was a
miasmatic wilderness. and the line ran
through the sWamIs and along the val
leyS of the Chagres and Rio Grande
rivers, crossing the mountain range at
an elevation of 268 feet. Forty-seven
miles of such road could be easily and
comparatiVely cheaply built in the
United States. Here 1t cost, by the
time it was completed, $4,000, 900. 1t be-
gan to earn money as soon as the first
few miles of track were laid and when
the road was opened for traffic, in 1856
1T had already received over 50, 600, 900
for transportation, and within four
years its earnings were more than it's
original cost, and the owners were
walking on velvet. During one year It
carried 100000 passengers, receiving
$2O,0O0,0O0 from that source alone It
has carried as much as 500, 900 tons Of
freight in year, and within twelve
years after 1T was finished $3.50 900, 600
worth of specie passed over 1t on it's
way from San Francisco to New York
1t got all the gold passengers of the
early Sos who crossed the isthmus and
made them pay heavily for carrying
their gold mining outfits in addition to
the $25 fare.
a Dead Man for Every Tie
Even at these. rates the trip was a
cheap one, for it shortened the danger
of the fevers which often caught these
gold hunters who crossed on foot. The
ride by rail is less than four hours.
By mule or on foot it took two or
more days. The health of the isthmus
was then worse than it is now. Dur
ing the building of the road the COM
pany ran a funeral train, and it Is
said that there were more deaths than
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CHAPTER xxx.
Strategy.

l was overwhelmed.
What said I. you still doubt?'
II always doubt" he gravely replied.
''This cellar bottom offers a wide field
for speculation. Too wide, perhaps, but
[ have a PLAN
Here he leaned over and whispered
few concise sentences in my ear in a
tone so low [ should feel that | was be-
traying his confidence in repeating
them. But their import will soon be-
come apparent from what presently
occurred
Light Miss Butterworth to the stair
way" Mr.. Gryce now commanded one
of the men, and thus accompanied
found my way back to the kitchen,
where Hannah was bemoaning uncom-
forted the shame which had come upon
the house.
[ did not stop to soothe her That
was not my cue, nor would it have an
sWered my purpose. On the contrary,
[ exclaimed as I passed her:
What a shame! Those wretches
cannot be got away from the celia.
What do you suppose they expect to
find there? [ left them poking hither
and thither in a way that will be very
irritating to Miss Knollys if she is such
a woman as 1 am. I wonder William
stands it,
What she said in reply I do not
know l was half way down the hall
before my own words were finished.
My next move was to go to my room
where I had among other small neces-
saries tiny hammer and some small,
very sharp pointed tacks. Curious ar
tlcleS, you will think, for a woman TO
carry on her travels but 1 am a woman
of experience and have known only
too often what it was to want these
petty conveniences and not be able to
get them. They were to serve me an
odd turn now. Taking half dozen
tacks in one hand and concealing the
hammer in my bag, L started boldly
for Williams room. l knew that the
girls were not there, for 1 had heard
them talking together in the sitting
room when l came UP. Besides, if they
were, I had a ready answer for any
demand they might make.
Searching out his boots, I turned
them over and into the sole of each
put them back in the same place and
position In which 1 found them. Task
No. 1 was done.
When I issued from the room I went
as quickly as I could below. 1 was
now ready for talk with the girls.
whom I found as 1 had anticipated,
talking and weeping together in the
sitting room.
They rose as I came in, awaiting nv
first words in evident anxiety They
had not heard me go up stairs l i'm
mediately let my anxiety and only too
deep interest in this matter have full
play.
my poor girls! What is the mean
ing Of this? Your mother just dead
and the matter kept from me, her
friendl 1t Ia astounding-incompre-
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night. Not from choice, miss, but from
necessity. 1t was I your brother saw
in the cottage. 1 could not give away
my plans by refusing the task your
brother offered me-
ut is WELL" Lucetta had risen and
was now standing by the side of Lo-
reen. Such a secret as ours defies
secrecy. Even Providence takes part
against US. What you want to know
we must tell, but 1 assure you 1t has
nothing to do with the business you
profess to be chiefly interested in
nothing at ALL
Then perhaps you and your sister
Will retire." said he. DISTRACTED as
you are by family griefs, I would not
wish to add one iota to your distress.
RMS lady, whom you seem to regard
with more or less favor as friend or
relative, will stay to see that no dis
honor is paid to your mothers re-
mains. But her face we must see, Miss
knollys, if only to tighten the explana-
lions you will doubtless feel called upon
to make"
1T was Loreen who answered this.
If 1t must be- said she, remember
your own mother and deal reverently
with ours" Which word and the way
IL was uttered gave me my first dis
NOilNiNlioii liidl IL WAS truth IneSG
girls had been telling and that the girl
child we had come to unearth was the
Althea of my early friendship, whose
fairylike form 1 had for so long a time
believed to have mingled with foreign
dust. The thought was almost too
much for my self possession, and I ad-
vanced upon Loreen with dozen burn
ing questions on my lips when the
voice of Mr. Gryce stopped me-
Explanations later" said he. For
the present we want you here
1t was not an easy task for me to
| linger there with all my doubts I'M
| solved waiting for the decisive moment
| when Mr.. Gryce should say: Gomez
Look! Is it she?" But the will that
had already sustained me through so
much did not fail me now, and, griev-
Gus as was the ordeal, I passed stead
| lily through it, being able to say, though
not without some emotion, 1 own. ut
| Is she! Changed almost beyond con-
| ception, but still She" which was
happier end to this adventure than that
we had first feared, mysterious as the
| fact was, not only to myself, but, as
! could see, to the acute detective as
| well.
The girls had Withdrawn long before
this, just as MIR. Gryce had desired, and
| now thought l might be allowed to
join them, but Mr.. Gryce detained me
| till the grave was refilled and made de-
| cent again, when he turned and to my
| intense aStonishment-for had
| thought the matter was all over and
the exoneration of this household COM
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CHAPTER xxx.
Investigation

The shock of these words-if false,
most horrible, if true still more hor-
rible-threw us all aback and made
even Mr.. Gryce's features assume an
aspect quite uncommon to them.
Your mothers grave?" said he,
looking from her to Loreen with very
evident doubt. II thought your mother
died seven or more years ago, and this
grave has been dug within three days"
II know" she whispered. ITO the
world my mother has been dead many,
many years, but not to US. We closed
her eyes night before last, and it was
to preserve this secret, which involves
others affecting our family honor, that
we resorted to eXpedients which have
perhaps attracted the notice of the
police and drawn this humiliation down
upon US. l can conceive no other rea
son for this visit, ushered in as it was
by Mr. Trohm.'
Miss Lucetta," Mr.. Gryce spoke up
quite quickly-if he had not 1 certainly
could not have restrained some express
sion of the emotions awakened in my
own breast by this astounding revela-
tiop-'Miss Lucetta, 1t is not necessary
to bring Mr.. Trohm's name into this
matter or that of any other person
than myself. I saw the coffin lowered
here, which you say contained the body
or your mother Thinking this strange
place of burial and not knowing it was
your mother, Miss Knollys to whom
you were paying these last dutiful rites,
took advantage Of my position as de-
tectlve to satisfy myself that nothing
wrong lay behind SO mysterious a
death and burial. Can you blame me,
Miss Knollys? Would I have been a
man to trust if 1 had let such an event
go by unchallenged in this lane?"
She did not answer. She had heard
but one sentence of all this long
speech.
You saw my mothers coffin lower
ed? Where were you that you should
see that? In some of these dark pas
sages, let in by I know not what traitor
to our peace of mind" And her eyes,
which seemed to have grown almost
systematically large and bright under
her emotions, turned slowly in their
sockets till they rested with something
like doubtful accusation upon mine
But not to remain there, for Mr.. Gryce
recalled them almost instantly back by
this short, sharp negation:
mo, l was nearer than that. I lent
my strength to this burial If you had
thought to look under Mother James
hood, you would have seen what would
have forced these explanations then
and there"
And you
"And 1 was Mother Jane for that
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hensible. do not know what to make
of it or of you
ut has a strange look" said Loreen
gravely, "but we had reasons, Miss
Butterworth. Our mother charming
and sweet as you remember her, has
not always done right, or, what you
will better understand, committed a
criminal act against a person in this
town, the penalty of which is states
prison."
With difficulty the words came out
With difficulty she kept down the flush
Of shame which threatened to over
whelm her and did overwhelm her
more sensitive sister. But her self
control was great, and she went brave
ly on, while I, in fair,t imitation of her
courage, restrained my own surprise
and intolerable sense of shock and bit
ter sorrow under a guise Of simple
sympathy.
ut was forgery" she said. ''This
has never before passed our lips.
Though a cherished wife and a beloved
mother she longed for many things
that my father could not give her, and
in an evil hour she initiated the name
Of rich man here and took the check
thus signed to Hartford. The fraud
was not detected, and she received the
money, but ultimately the rich man
whose money she had spent discovered
the use she had made of his name, and
if she had not escaped would have had
her arrested. But she left the country,
and the only revenge he took was to
swear that if she ever set foot again
in x. he would call the police down
upon her. Yes, if she were dying. and
they had to drag her from the brink
of the grave And he would have done
it, and knowing this we have lived I'M
der the shadow of this fear for eleven
years. My father died under it, and my
mother-ah, she spent all her life under
foreign skies, but when she felt the
hand of death upon her her affection
for her own flesh and blood triumphed
over her discretion, and she came,
secretly 1 own, but still with that hor-
ror menacing her, to these doors, and
begging our forgiveness lay down I'M
der the roof where we were born and
died with the halo of our love about
her"
"Ah," said I, thinking of all that
had happened since [ had come into
this house and finding nothing but
confirmation of what she was saying,
81 begin to understand
But Lucetta shook her head.
mo- said she, you cannot under
stand yet. We who had worn mourning
for her because my father wished to
make this very return Impossible. knew
nothing of what was in store COR us Ill
a letter came saying she would be at
the c. station on the very night we
received it, To acknowledge our de-
ception, to seek and bring her home
openly to this house, could not be
thought of for moment. How then
could we satisfy her dying wishes
without compromising her memory or
ourselves? Perhaps you have guessed.
Miss Butterworth. You have had time
since we revealed the unhappy secret
of this household.
YES" said 1t have guessed"
Lucetta, with her hand laid on mine,
looked wistfully into my face. An
she said, when we saw her she was
driven up to our doorstep through the
weeds and grass, and William, who
had not dared to go to c. lest our
strategem should fail stepped down to
the carriage and. lifted her out in his
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MONEY IN MANGANESE

ton, or, at the present shipments. of
from SGT 1000 to $4,000 month. Within
the past year and a half this company
has shipped 24,000 tons, and it is now
only two years since it got possession
of the property. The company is cap
italiZed at 100000, and the chief stock
holders are John K. Cowen, of the
the president of the Maryland Steel
company, and Henry Parr, of Balti-
more.
How the Mine Was Found.
The story of the mine as told me to-
day is as follows:
1T was discovered" said Mr.. Hyatt,
''by Spaniard, who showed specimens
of the ore to a man named Popham,
who was a United States inspector of
customs at Colon. Popham went to see
it. He did not then know manganese
from stove backing, and had no idea
whether the stuff was worth anything
or not He took specimens, however
to New York and every one told him
that if there was much of the stuff it
was better than a gold mine. He in
tcreSted the Baltimore parties, and they
sent experts down to examine the prop
erty. Their report was that there We're
several thousand tons in sight, and
company was at once formed to buy
the mine and develop it. This was two
years ago. We now have nine miles
of railroad running from the port
Nombre de Dios, where our wharves
are, to the mines. We have put up
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moved off, and Mr.. Gryce turned to-
ward US, changing his whole appear
ance as he advanced till no one could
look more cheerful and good humored.
well. that is over" said he Mere
form, MIR. Knollys-mere form. We
have to go through these things at
times, and good people like yourself
have to submit, but 1 assure you it is
not pleasant, and under the present
circumstances am sure you under
stand me, Mr.. Knollys-the task has &C.
casioned me feeling almost of re-
morse. but that is inseparable from a
detectives life. He is obliged every
day of his life to ride over the ten
derest emotions. Forgive mel And
now, you boys scatter till l call YOU
together again. 1 hope our next search
will be without such sorrowful accom-
paniments.''
1t succeeded. William stared at him
ana stared at the men slowly filing off
down the yard, but was not for a mo-
Inent deceived by these overlooking ex-
pressions. On the contrary, he looked
more concerned than he had while seat
ed between the two men manifestly set
to guard him.
The deuce!' he cried, with shrug
OF his shoulders that expressed any
thing but satisfaction. "Lucetta always
said''-But even he knew enough not
to finish that sentence, low as he had
mumbled 1t. Watching him and watch
Ing Mr.. Gryce, who at that moment
turned to follow his men, thought the
time had come for action. Making an
other spring as if in fresh terror of Sar-
aeon, who, by the way, was eying me
with the meenness of a lamb I tipped
over that pail with such suddenness
and with such dexterity that its whole
contents poured in one food over VIII
liam's feet And my third task was
accomplished.
The oath he uttered and the excuses
which L most volubly poured forth
could not have reached Mr. Gryce's
ears, for he did not turn. And vet from
the way his shoulders shook as he dis
appeared around the corner of the
house judge that he was not entirely
ignorant of the subterfuge by which 1
hoped to force this laundering BOBBY Of
ours to change the boots he wore for
one of the pairs into which had driven
those little tacks.
(To be continued)
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there are ties in the entire line. I was
talking yesterday with an American
who ran the funeral train. He says
they put the dead in rows, piling- one
row crosswise ON the top Of that be-
meath it, until the big hole made for
the days burial was nearly filled, when
earth was thrown in, to fill up. One
thousand Chinamen were. imported for
the work. Within month a number
of them had died, and hundreds Of the
remainder committed suicide, so that
the station where they worked is now
called Mato-chine, which means Kill
Chinaman. We brought down a Brook
Ign boy with US who has the job Of
station agent at thiss place. 1 would
not take the place for the isthmus. 1
met yesterday a graduate Of the Bos-
ton school of technology, who has
come here to work on the railroad. He
told me he received $150 a month, which
was better than he could do in the
states, but that he had just gotten up
from an attack Of malarial fever I
met Baltimore mana Mr.. Hodges
who is employed in the general offices,
who told me he had had a siege of yell
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built by Americans, and today all of
its oAicia IS, including the ticket agents,
conductors and engineers, come from
the United States. 1t is a golden mon
ument to American pluck and energy.
The concession for it was granted to
an American syndicate in 1885, and
this included all the rights of way
across the Isthmus of Panama, which
is, as I tod you,- 400 miles long. No
one can make even wagon road
across the isthmus without this com
pany's permission, and so far no road
of any kind has been attempted. AS
we went over the railroad Col. Shaler,
the superintendent, tod me that the
natives whom we found walking or
riding on the edge of the track were
able to do so only by the sufferance of
the company. The original grant gave
the company all the public lands on the
line of the track, and provided that the
ports of Panama and Colon were to be
free ports. This last is the case today.
The original concession was for only
forty-nine years, but it has since been
extended, with some notifications, to
ninety-nine years, during which the
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curst,
There lieth the land of perpetual thirst.
The following is more glowing by far
than the reality. The Chagres is really
beautiful stream and not half so bad
as painted. The terrible miasma was
at Its worst years ago, when the
swamps were dug up for the canal and
railroad. Today the isthmus is com.
paratively healthy:
"Beyond the ChagresD
Beyond the Chagres river
Are paths that lead to death;
To fever S deadly breezes-
To malarias poisonous BREATH
Beyond the tropic foliage,
Where the alligator waits
Is the palace Of the devil
His original estates.
Beyond the Chagres river
Are paths foreer unknown
With spider meath each pebble.
A scorpion meath each stone!
IT'S here the boa constictor
His fatal banquet holds
And to his Shiny bosom
His haplesS victim folds.
Beyond the Chagres river
Turks the panther in his lair,
And ten hundred thousand dangers
Are In the noXious air.
Behind the trembling leaflets
beneath the fallen reeds,
Are the ever-present perils
OF million different breeds
Beyond the Chagres river
IT'S said-the story's old
Are paths that lead to mountains
OF purest virgin gold;
But It's my firm conviction,
Whatever tales they tell,
That beyond the Chagres river
All paths lead straight to hell,
We crossed the Chagres and about a.
hundred other waterways during the
trip and saw women with little or moth
ing on them washing their clothes in
the streams. All washing here is done
with cold water, and my towels at the
hotel are frequently ornamented with
burs caught from being dried upon the
bushes and weeds.
Frank G. Carpenter.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-27
BIG MINES ON THE ISTHMUS OF
PANAMA

Where They Are, How They Are
Worked and Their EnOrm nous Prof
its-A Ride Across the Isthmus
on the Panama RaiIrOnd--The
Story of This Line, Which Has
Made So Many Fortunes for Amer
icans--It Cost n Life for Every
Tie and Charges the Highest Rail-
Road Fares in the World--HOw
the Road Is Run and the Wages
of Railroad Men-The ChR4res
River and It's Pretty Washer Girls
An American Poet at Panama.
Copyright, 1898, by Frank G. Carpenter.
PANAMA. March 15.-The biggest
enterprise on the Isthmus of Panama,
outside of the canal and the Panama
railroad, is the manganese mine which
has been lately opened up by Balti-
more parties on the Atlantic coast
about forty miles above Colon. This
company IS now shipping from 1000 to
5000 tons of manganese a month, and
they have, 1 am told, over 100000 tons
in sight, and are discovering new de-
posts right along. At the present cost
of working their mine, a hundred
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HOW'S THIS?

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not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
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by their firm.
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Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
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and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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plete-said softly and with telling en-
phasis in my ear:
Our work is not done yet. They
who make graves so readily in cellars
must have been more or less accus-
digging to do"
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The herald., 1898-05-15
Pudding in Prison.

One day in the month Of May, 1888,
a man, of the name of Winters, was
sentenced to fourteen years imprison-
ment for embezzling sum of money.
Having served ten years, he was well
accustomed to prison life. Every Sun
day the prisoners are allowed a pud-
ding, and for these buildings Winters
had Partially. Any one who has any
idea of a prison well knows that the
pigeon holes through which prisoners
receive their meals are only a foot
apart One day of which write, the
prisoners heard the warder, who had
peculiar impediment in his speech,
shouting Pudding ready" and they
held out their hands to receive the
same. After few minutes had elapsed
the old stager Winter. initiating the
warder, shouted out, "Puddings out for
treacle." His neighbor in the next cell
unfortunately put forth his pudding
awaiting the treacle, and as he did SO
Winters snatched it from his hand, and
had the pleasure of eating it in addi-
ton to his own.
The herald., 1898-05-15

some lunch, and then drove to Hyde
Park Gardens.
rs Mrs. Valance at homer" he in
CURED
Yes, sir. Hope you're well, SIR" said
the man; II think my mistress has beer
expecting you" lie added. I'VE all
(the we is a privilege of an old SER
vanD heard you were back, sir"
Yes, I'm quite well, thanks" said
Grant, with whom the old man was a
favorte. Il hope all here are WELL"
Yes, sir; thanks. Will you please
step this way"
Grant was shown into Mrs. Vallance's
own room. where he found both her
and Ethel. After the usual greetings
he had to recount his adventures and
undergo a cross-examination of his do
ings and journeyings in Egypt. Both
his questioners were greatly interested
in all his adventures, and they must
have talked for more than an hour be-
fore Grant was able, in his turn, to
hear what had happened since his de-
parture. At length Mrs. Valance said
1T was past four, and, as she wanted
to make a call and the carriage would
be round in a few minutes, she would
leave Grant to Ethels tender mercies.
Make her give you some tea, Evan"
she said, ringing the bell, as she left
the room, land you must stay to din
ner."
Over their tea, the two chatted gaily
enough, and for time Grant felt less
of a criminal and more of a lover than
he had done since that night on the
dahaheah Rut there was still some
restraint which Ethel noticed, and at
length she said:
"You don't tell me much about your