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ton. have vitality important news TO
give you, news that concerns your ia
ther and which you can obtain from
none but me. y III
stThere's always Andre, bluEted. jS
.Andre, for reasons of his own. and
mighty good ones, wonld never reveal
it to you-not though you fed and;
pampered and housed and paid him for
years to come. You will understand,
why when-and five have come toS
terms and my secret becomes yours
Very we'll, then. The position, say,fisG
this am in possession Of this Informal;
ton. You, being dutiful son, are nat
urally DESTROYS of obtainingit it. That iss
point No. 1. Point No. Q: You chase
me (heaven knows why into a hole in
the ice which in itself is enough to
close my lips forever, in so far as con-
Germs the opening of thesame to do you
any service; but, point No. 8, you pulled
me out again, at some risk and with some
pluck as am ready to admit, which
reopens my lips to your advantage, if
(point No. ~ you make it worth my
while to do SO, and (point No. 81 since
my secret in itself is Of some value, and
(6) since am running risks which you
little suspect in coming under your roof
and selling my secret to you. (point
and last) cannot possibly put the fig
ure down at less than 10. 900 rubles."
would have given the sum named,
think. to take the little rascal by the
shoulders from behind and to kick him
round the room until either he died or
l tired, but kept my temper and
showed little or no signs of the rage 1
felt 1t was his conceited manner that
angered me far more than the exorbi-
lance of the sum he demanded for his
information
To receive news which would set us
upon track which should ultimately
lead to the discovery of my dear father
| would gladly have paid ten times the
sum asked. But this little student wore
such detestable air as he spoke, and
was, besides such consummate little
villain on the face of him, that would
have given worlds. as say. to kick the
secret out of him or garote him till he
was glad to save his neck by confessing
to his share Of the devilry that must
have been played with his connivance
upon my poor father.
May consult my two friends anc
my mother before answering your cues
ton ," I said as calmly as could. l
don't think the calmness was very
striking, however.
Certainly not Your mother and
the rest may agree afterward. This
matter is between you and me. Who
are your two friends by the way ~
"One is school friend, an English
man, I said, "and the other is Borof-
sky, whom you must have seen or heard
Of from your friend Andre. :"
"What That little fool? The one
that brought Andre over and tried to
palm him off upon you as Count Lan1
drinof? Tell Shim what you like, my
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You ore Boris Ldndri,,of, 500, of Count
Vladimir Londrfnot, are yoal notg"
side of the yard To the very end of
this took him. and. ringing up the
housekeeper,. babe her prepare warm
room quickly for guest.
The old lady merely raised her hands
and eyes in surprise at the peculiar
aspect of the guest had brought in, but
she was too polite and too well trained
to say anything. She hustled about, and
in five minutes she had a comfortable
room ready and a grand wood fire crac-
king and roaring in the stove
brought the student suit of my
own clothes-old including plen-
ty of warm underwear, and the SILVER
ing little rascal climbed into them with
Il chuckle of delight. Then babe him
sit and warm himself till dinner time,
when he should have the finest meal
brought in to him that ever he had par
taken of on this planet
When he had consumed this-and he
ate every particle of each course that
was placed before him-and had negoti-
ated bottle Of wine, which, of course,
he drank to the dregs / returned to
see in what frame of mind he now was.
found him in the most amiable,
and. observing that this was so, asked
the fellow whether he was now pre-
pared to strike a bargain, and, if SO,
whether he could give some indication
of the kind of information he had to
sell. He grinned and lay back in his
chair, entirely happy.
you are, Boris Landrinof, son of
Count Vladimir Landrinof, are you
not?" he asked lazily.
replied with beating heart that |
was.
well" he said! sit SO happens that
have something to say about him
| that may interest you.
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friend, afterward. But now, TINS mo-
ment, our little matter must be decided
by our two selves. Either you sign an
agreement with me for 10000 rubles
payable tomorrow morning, together
with guarantee that in case of any
trouble my name is not to be- toned
as in any wav connected with any mat
ter whatever that may be mentioned
between us. Either this agreement, I
say. or the thing is off, and so am I.
and you may whistle for my secretl''
comet" said, trying rather
feebly to assume nonchalanceswhichs
z did not feel In that case the police
will soon find means to induce you to
tell as what you know.
The student made gesture of spit
ting
ssTfni'' he said, ssthat for your POI
licel They have nothing against me. II
you declared to them (and you would
be q fool to do it, that / had said this
and that,tI should say, simply, This
man ID II liar. Ny word is as good as
yours, Why should they believe yours
and mott mime? Let them prove that
you spoke sruth and that liedl,i sS
I Thisrwass the fact, and recognized it.
But another and better idea struck
me- 4ssssss lS 5stS
s.stop isS u said "You are going too
fastl iYons have forgotten the terrible
risk you are running, as You took care
to inform me- py stopping in this house
and dealing viii me for your secret.
There is our Iii end Andre to be consid-
cred. In settling he terms for your in
formation we must take into considera-
ton that word III Andre would get
you into trou BILE.
Dare to do It'll Only dare to attempt
it, curse you'll cried The student, grow
ing suddenly white as paper You are
right as to the fact b1 & see here. You
shouldn't live day, neither you nor
your mother, if you play ed the traitor;
I swear this There are many who
would avenge me- ~!
Nonsense. :" I said. ssfy one knows
you are here, and we shal take good
care that no one discovers fhe3interest-
ling fact. For the rest, spare your
threats until you are in better posi-
ton to carry them out and until you
have better reason, moreover You are
perfectly safe here, my friend, and I
am prepared to pay fair Price for
your news, but you shall not cheat us-
What say you to 5000 rubles2'l
"Cash DOWN. asked the gtudent
with glowing eyes. "And guarakteeif"
Certainly, said I. 81 will g4aran-
tee that no one Of my party mem lions
your name or says anything to coA nect
you with these matters. Z
"Donel'' cried the little ras4al.i
"Fetch your cashbook and pen and iMk,
and We'll settle the matter before WI
sleep. =
ITO be Continued)
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CHAPTER XIX.
AMATEUR DETECTIVE WORK.

HI AMATEUR DETECTIVE WORK.
This was queer ending to my crude
bit of amateur detective work. / had
hoped to track my man to his own den,
and all that I succeeded in doing was
to follow him into an ice hole. and very
nearly into the next world.
chafed the fellows limbs and tenn
Piles as we'll as I could. The exercise
warmed me. and the treatment appar-
emily suited my patient well enough.
for he soon revived and sat up, looking
round him in puzzled way. and shiv-
ering
ssDo you feel well enough to stand
mp and walk2" ] asked. "I'll give you
an arm.
"What has happenedf Where are
VET" he said "And who are your
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hand farther round toward the back of
his neck. Then 1 pulled at him. trying
to force him to let go and float. SO that
l might tow him sideways to the edge.
He would not loose his frenzied grip,
however.
Then l forced the game / purposely
stepped upon one of his hands, and
with yell and curse he let go.
Quickly / pulled him backward and
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SecOndG'
along. The plan succeeded admirably.
l got him sideways against the side of
the ice, higher up stream, and hitched
his face and left shoulder upon the
edge. But the frightened fool spoiled
my game by losing his head and strug-
Cling to lay held of something for him
self.
Unfortunately the thing his hands
first met and clutched was my left leg.
He seized it and tugged. Heaven knows
what he hoped to gain by the suicidal
action.
What he actually did was to cause
me to slip and lose my balance. Ifell
close to the edge of the ice, and the
fellow instantly clawed at me and
pulled me into the water.
By the mercy of Providence I kicked
myself free of him as slipped into my
icy bath or he would have pulled me
down beneath the surface, and we
should have died together, fighting
madly for moment OF two beneath the
ice.
/ don't think l was in the water five
seconds; I never even allowed myself
to float down stream to the lower end
Of the hole. As / touched water I
struck out upward and, Selling the
rough edge of the ice, swung my chest
well out of the water and lay thus
second half in and half out. The cur
rent swept my legs up behind me and
rather assisted me to make good my es-
TN ELL
length on the ice, half dead with cold,
but safe and grateful
\ Then thought of the student and
looked round over my shoulder as j
struggled to my feet. He had gone,
doubted not, beneath the ice and was
| by this time SO yards away, bobbing
| his poor head against the pitiless ice
roof that kept him from life and hope
drowning fast, perhaps already dead.
But, to my surprise, saw that he
still chung, exactly as he had chung at
first, before my attempt to rescue him.
to the farther edge of the ice There he
chung and gasped, trying to yell, but
making very little noise, for his head
had been under, suppose, and he was
half choking with the water.
Ny mind was quickly made up I
knew what should do now. 1 had no
intention Of being pulled into the water
a second time. might not be quite so
fortunate as to kick myself free from
the frenzied little fool again.
| ran round to his end. He saw me-
sSaye me, save mel" he gasped.
laid hold of him by the collar as be-
fore. using my right hand, as the
stronger; then with the left dealt him
as hard blow on the ear as my doubled
fist could deal in this awkward position
4 It proved hard enough for my pur-
pose.
| The poor fellow gave kind of snort
His hands loosed their grip of the ice.
his body foated backward and came I'M
resistingly along in obedience to my
tugs. He lay like log, and like log
dragged him out and stretched him on
the dry ice-safe, half drowned, half
stunned and more than half frozen, but
safe. little as he deserved his safety.
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and see that And, tnar my rrleno
who is staying in the house is ont of
the way. If the coast is clear, will
come up.
did as he desired and found the
coast clear
Come, said, ''it's all rightl'' and
up the marble steps ran my shivering
will O. the wisp and entered the house
Through the front part of the build
ing led my man and into one Of the
long wings that ran down on either
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CHAPTER XVIII.

CHAPTER XVIII.
RESCUE OF THE STUDENT.
My heart sank. I knew,in an instant
that was in for an adventure, wet
and cold one probably, and perhaps a
very dangerous one.
did not feel heroic. I don't think
am made that way, and / honestly
ayow that if had thought this wretch
ed student fellow would be sure to get
himself out of the water without assist
ance from me / should gladly have
turned at this emergency and gone
quietly home.
But unfortunately, or fortunately, my
conscience would not hear of it for a
moment.
ssThe little rascal will go under the
nee IN minute, 7 it said, unless you
go and pick him ont of danger. 2
I knew my conscience was perfectly
correct. Ones conscience is about the
only thing in this world that is infalli-
BILE. Conscience is always right and al
, 1901-10-31
TELEGRAPH NEWS NOTES.

The trade Of Madagascar has in
creased from 10, 200, 900 francs to 81,
OOO, 900 francs in five years.
Goldman. Sachs & Co. shipped 5000,
900 and Lazard Freres shipped $4,000,
O0Oin gold to France today.
Fire destroyed the summer resi-
| dence Of Walter J.. Mitchell at Man
cherter-by-the-Sea, N. H., entailing {
loss Of $4,000.
The New York sub-treasury ha:
asked the aid Of the Washington Sc
cret service bureau in stopping the
flood of lightweight silver half dollal
pieces recently discovered in that city
The London Chronicle does not like
the news it has received from Wash
ington that Sir Julian Pauncefote hal
received full power to sign the new
canal treaty.
Madame WI Ting Fang, wife Of thu
Chinese minister to the United States
arrived in San Francisco Tuesday OF
the steamer Gaelic from China, accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss WI 81
Ching.
Controller Coler Of New York open
ed bids Tuesday for $500, 900 Of 3H
per cent corporate stock Of the city o.
| New York. Sixteen bids were receiv
ed, the highest being 107,271.
John D. Rockefeller has presented
$1,000 marks to the Berlin American
church fund, which now amounts te
200, 900 marks. Work on the new
structure will be begun Immediately
The British local government board
has issued a statement that two per
SONS died from the plague during DC
tober at Liverpool, according to BAG
THEOLOGICAL tests made after the
deaths.
The Knoxville, Tenn, chamber Of
commerce has instructed its secretary
to invite Admiral schley to visit that
city. The city officials will join in the
invitation.
The French cabinet has approved
the bill authorizing a loan Of 265, 900,
900 francs in 3 per cent perpetual
rentes to reimburse the treasury for
its outlay as a result Of the Chinese
expedition and to pay indemnities to
sufferers in connection with the expe'
dition.
Three hundred delegates, 200 from
Chicago, are at the eighth annual con
vention Of the National Association
Of Agricultural Implement and Vehi,
Gle Dealers at Kansas City.
, 1901-10-31
r MEMORABLE
Laws Which Separate Whites and Ne
groes in South, Says Ayeock.

Raleigh, N. c., Oct. 31.-Governor
Aycock, in opening the negro state
fair, urged the negroes to build up so
cfety among themselves, founded on
culture, intelligence and virtue. Re
ferring to President Roosevelt dining
Booker T. Washington, he said that
the best friends Of the negroes lived
in the south. He told them they did
not need recognition by the president
as it would avail nothing In the south
He said:
1.-The law which separates you from
the white people in the state socially
has been, and always will be inexora'
BILE, and 1t need not concern you or me
whether the law Is violated elsewhere
for 1t will be violated in the
south. Its violation would be to your
destruction as well as to the injury
Of the whites"
In reply Dr.. c. H. King, a prominent
negro minister of the Methodist
church, said that the negroes did not
want social equality; that neither he
nor his people wanted to sit down at
the dinner table Of the whites, and
that they were not in sympathy with
any such idea.
, 1901-10-31
Valuable Postage stamps.

In the recent edition Of the Pan.
American two cent postage stamps II
was found that the illustration was
printed upside down, and as only a
few Of them were sold before being
noticed, the value Of them has been
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place a very high valuation on 1t as
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, 1901-10-31
NEW TRIAL.
Man Twice Convicted and Twice Sen
fenced to Hang Has Another Show.

Helena, Mont, Oct. 31.-Joseph Shat
fer, twice tried and twice convicted Of
murder in the first degree and twice
sentenced to be hanged, has been
granted q new trial by the supreme
court.
Four years ago Shaffer killed a man
named Hawkins in Butte. At the first
trial the jury found him guilty n he
was sentenced to pay the extreme pen
atty. He was granted a new trial on
a technically. The second trial re
suited in a verdict of murder in the
first degree and he was again sentenc-
ed to death. The case was appealed
to the supreme court and an opinion
just handed down favors the condemn
ed man because an error was made by
the lower court in i~nstructing the
iury,
, 1901-10-31
TO BOYS.
Slave to Cigarette Habit Kills Him
self After Leaving His Sweetheart.

Terre Haute, Ind, Oct. 31.-MyroI
Beard, a cigarette smoker, aged Is
years, committed suicide Tuesday
night, just after leaving his sweet
heart at her home, after a ride she had
taken with him in his buggy.
AT l o'clock yesterday morning
Boards father found the horse stand
ing at the closed gate. In the bed OF
the buggy was the body OF the youth.
Miss Mollie Mccarthy, the sweet
heart, says Beard was in good spirits,
but that he said he would kill himself
before he got home. Board told other
persons he would kill himself because
he was a slave to the cigarette habit.
, 1901-10-31
Hated His Step-ChiIdren.

St. Louis. Mo-, Oct. 31.-Henry
Schroeder. an employe Of the Home
Comfort Range company, shot his
step-daughter, Katie Kirst, aged Z,
through the heart, killing her instant
ly, and then fired two balls at his STEP
son, Henry Kirst, aged II. both of
which missed him. Schroeder then
swallowed a dose Of carbolic acid and
fired a bullet into-his own brain. dy'
ing in a few moments. 1t is said that
Schroeder hated his step-children.
, 1901-10-31
TO RAMBLER
SUCH IS A UTAH OPINION OF
THE MICHIGAN COPPER
MINE.
Visit Of Laramie Gentleman Told in a
Special Dispatch from Modena,
Utah-W. A. Whitney on Tour Of
Inspection to His Mines Near
That City.

Modena, Utah, OSt. 31.-W. A
Whitney, me of the principal owners
of the Michigan copper mine nea Lar
annie, Wyo., a mine fast being devel
oped to u bonanza, second only to the
great Rambler mine of that state, ar
rived here Monday from Stateline
Mr.. Whitney Ia also vice president OF
the Orc Mining company, whose prop
erty Is within a mile and a half of Mo
dena, and came south al the instiga'
ton of Secretary r. S. Nolf of the Orc
company. who accompanied him on a
tour of inspection to the Fay and
Stateline camps. Speaking of the
trip, Mr.. Whitney said:
MY main object in coming south
was to inspect u Orc property. and
l must say l am more than pleased
with the way the property is showing
up. am surprised to find how great.
ly the properties at Fay and State.
line have developed in the last year
and a half. The Horseshoe at Fay is
certainly a fine property and much bet
ter equipped than l expected to find
any property in SO new a country.
The Orphir mine at Stateline, with
its great mill nearly completed, is a
sight for sore eyes; and l fear my
friends will feel as skeptical as did l
belize coming south, should I attempt
any hing in the descriptive line;
hence, l feel there is only one thing to
do, and that is to persuade them to
come south and see for themselves.
Stateline," said he, certainly should
make a great camp. note that such
properties as the Johnny mine, Big IA,
Burro, the Margaret and a number OF
others have developed to near that
point where production mean profit
and the fact that we find the same
character of ore in such great bodies
here at Modena, certainly indicates
that the zone is very extensive"
Messrs. Whitney and Nolf left for
Wyoming that night and will return
in a few days with a party of friends
whose interest in this section has
been aroused.
, 1901-10-31
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HAS COME,
Rear Admiral sehley Doomed for
President by Missouri Democrats.

o Rich Hill, Mo-, Oct. 31.-A Q
Q Schley club has been organized Q
Q here by some of Rear Admiral Q
Q Schley's democratic admirers. 9
o Strong resolutions endorsing him Q
Q for the next democratic nomina- @
Q ton for president were passed. 9
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, 1901-10-31
MISS GOULD ACCEPTS.
Will Act as Woman Manager Of St.
Louis Purchase Exposition.

st. Louis, Oct. photographic ad
vices from Van Buren,, Ark, say that
National Worlds Fair Commissioner
P. D. Scott had received a telegram
from Miss Helen Gould, in which she
accepts the appointment of woman
manager of the Louisiana Purchase ex
position.
Miss Gould was named by Commits
sioner Scott at the recent meeting o.
the federal commission in this city.
, 1901-10-31

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