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off and ran aft to rummage under
the cargo for his precious bundle
For the whistle was sounding for al
landing, and it was high time that
he was afoot and fleeing. But when
his hand reached the place where the.
bundle should have been, the blood
surged to his brain and set up a.
clamorous DINING in his ears. The
niche under the coffee sacks was
empty.
While Griswold was graphing
afresh with the problems of escape,
Charlotte was sitting behind the
locked door of her stateroom, try-
ing to write her letter.
She knew it would be hard, but it
proved much harder than she had
feared it would be. Try as she might,
she could not eliminate the factor
of personality. Truly, this man was
no more to her than any stranger in
the passing show, an impersonal unit
of class with which society is at
war; and yet, at the end of every
effort, the point of view shifted, and
in the whole world there were but
two persons; man who had sinned,
and woman who was about to make
him pay the penalty.
lTO RE-
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CHAPTER vi.

Charlotte Farnham's friends were
wont to say of her that she was as
sensible as she was beautiful She
was, as Griswold had guessed, of New
England lineage. Her parents had
migrated for the health of the wife,
but the migration had been post
poned too long. The mother died in
the early Minnesota days, but the
daughter lived to grow up unspoiled
and beautiful.
She had been spending the winter
at Pass Christian with her aunt, who
was an invalid; and for the invalid's
sake the return passage was taken
on the Belle Julie" On the morning
of the second day out, when the New
Orleans papers came aboard, the two
of them were sitting in the shade
of the hurricane deck aft. Charlotte
bought paper and read the account
of the bank robbery with a little
gasp of belated horror.
what is it, Charlotte?" asked the
invalid.
Charlotte read the reporters story.
Dear me! How shockingly bold!"
commented Miss Gilman.
Eyes; but that wasn't what made
me gasp. The paper says: "A young
lady was at the teller's window
Aunt Fanny, I was the young lady, >"
you? Horrors!" calculated the
invalid.
Its true. And I had no more
idea-why, it seems Incredible"
II should think it would"
"There wasn't anything about it to
suggest a robbery" Charlotte went
on. 1.-THE man was smiling, and he
had a good face-a face that one
would trust almost intuitively."
"Charlotte!" exclaimed her aunt.
IT do hope they can't trace you by
your fathers draft"
what if they could?"
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I'd like to be planted 1ongside o.
the woman and childer, if I could
make out to get there"
| "Where?"
The consumptive named small
river town in Iowa.
"And you were going to work your
passage?"
II was allowin' to try it. But I'm
done up, now
Griswold's impulsiveness was east
ly dominant in any appeal to his
sympathy; and his compassion went
straight to the mark, as it always
did when his pockets were not
empty.
"What is the fare by rail to your
town." he inquired.
II don't know; I never asked. But
it's between $40 and $50, I reckon;
and that's more money than I've
seen sence the woman died."
Griswold hastily counted out $100
from his contingent fund, and thrust
the money into the mans hand.
''Take that and change places with
me- he said, slipping on the mask
of gruffness again. PAY your fare
on the train and I'll take your job
on the boat. Don't be fool,' he
added, when the man put his face
in his hands and began to choke.
Its fair enough exchange, and
I'll get as much out of it one way
|
name? I may have to borrow it,"
John Gavitt."
Cali right; off with you," said the
liberator; and with that he shout
dered the sick mans load and fell
into line in the ant-procession.
Once on board the steamer he fol-
lowed his file-leader aft and made it
his first care to find a safe hiding
place for the knotted bandanna.
That done, he dropped into line
again, and when he went ashore the
sick man was gone.
Injured to hard living as he was,
Griswold had made no more than a
half-dozen rounds between the levee
and the after-deck of the Belle
Julie in the ant-procession before he
was glad to remember that the
steamers lading was all but COM
pleted. 1t was toll of the sharpest,
and he drew breath of blessed re-
lief when the last man staggered
up the plank with his burden, while
the bell changed it's final summons,
and the slowly-revolving paddle
wheels took the strain from the
mooring lines. Being nearest the
bow line, Griswold was one of the
two who sprang ashore at the mates
bidding to cast off; and they were
in the act when carriage drove
rapidly down to the stage and two
tardy passengers hurried aboard.
The mate bawled from his station
on the hurricane deck:
"Now, then! Take turn on that
spring line out there and get them
trunks aboard! Lively!"
The larger of the two trunks fell
to the late recruit; and when he had
set it down at the door of the desig-
mated stateroom he so far forgot
himself as to read the card tackled
upon it: charlotte Farnham, Wa
haska, Minnesota"
'Thank you," said musical voice
at his elbow. MAY trouble you to
put it inside?"
Griswold turned as one smitten,
and was not without embarrassment
at having been caught reading the
tag. But when he saw the owner of
the voice, CONSERVATION slew shame,
and he was prompted to make a wild
dash for liberty. For Miss Farnham
was no other than the young wom-
an to whom he had given place at
the teller's window in the Bayou
bank.
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galleys was ever in bitterer bond
age. What condemned felon was
ever in worse case than these poor
drudges who are free only to bear
burdens and to be driven like cattle
under the yoke? Oh, good Lord
look at that"
The ant-procession had attacked
the final tier of boxes in the landing.
and one of the burden-bearers, a
white man, had gone down like a
crushed pack animal under load
too heavy for him. Griswold was be-
side him before he could recover, and
was lifting him tenderly out of the
way of the others.
"Why didn't you get out from I'M
der it and let it drop?" he began,
gruff1y, as an offset to the woman
ish tenderness; but when the man
gasped for breath and groaned, the
mask of gruffness fell away from
him. "Where are you hurt?''
The crushed one sat up and spat
blood.
II don't know; inside, somewheres.
1 guess. I been dyin' on my feet any
time for year back"
"Consumption?" queried Griswold.
II reckon So"
"Then you've no business in a deck
crew."
The mans smile was CHASTITY.
Reckon I hain't got any business
anywheres Out'n a hospital or a hole
in the ground. But I kind O. THOUGHT
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CHAPTER VII.

In yielding to the impulse of the
moment which prompted him to bor-
row the identity of John Gavitt, Girls
void was not without some forecast
ings of the event. He knew that the
river steamers were manned by pick
up crews assembled at the last mo-
ment, and reasoned that the officers
| of the belle julie would not vet
have had time to individualize the
members of the crew.
But. apart from this, he was not
unwilling to add another chapter to
his experience among the toilers; and
as to this, he Immediately found him
self in fair way to acquire the COW
eted need of it. From the hour of
his enlistment, it was heaped upon
him unstintingly. Without having
specialized himself in any way to the
bullying chief mate, he fancied he
| was made to bear the brunt OF the
mans wrath. Curses, tongue-lash-
ings without mercy; contumely and
abuse, with now and then at the
| night landings, when no passengers
All these buffetings, or at least
his share of them. Griswold endured
as became a man who had volun-
| tarily put himself in the way of such
things. And, fortunately, he was not
hopelessly unequal to the physical
trial. Physically, as intellectually,
| the material in him was of the fine
grained sort in which quality counts
for more than quantity. None the
less, the first ight with its uncount-
ed plantation landings, tried him
sorely, and he was thankful wien
the second day brought fewer stop
ping-places and more time for rest.
1t was in one of the restful inter-
walls that he had been sent aft to
readjust the tackle of the suspended
yawl. He had come upon Miss Farm
ham and her aunt unexpectedly, and
so was off his guard; and he made
sure the young woman had recog-
nized him. If so. what would she
do? He recalled his written sum-
mary of her character, and decided
that she would be sexless and Just
before she would be womanly and
merciful. At least he hoped she
would. Ideals are much too pre-
cious to be shattered by mere con-
siderations of personal safety.
But while he theorized upon the
probabilities, he was. fully alive to
the necessity for prompt action. If
Miss Farnham had discovered him,
she would doubtless lose no time in
giving the alarm. She might even
now be in conference with the cap
tain, he thought.
At this he had his first shock of
genuine terror. Up to that moment
he had suffered none of the pains of
the hunted fugitive; but now he
knew that he had fairly entered the
gates of the outlaws inferno; that
he should never again know what It
was to be wholly free from the ter
TOR of the arrow that flieth by day.
The force Of the Scriptural smile
came to him with startling emphasis,
bringing on return of the prickling
paralysis Of fear; but he shook it
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Don't you see! You'd be dragged
into court to identify the robber.
And that would be simply dreadful"
Il shouldn't want to be dragged.
1t would be simple duty to go will
lingly. More than that, 1 think
I ought to write to Mr.. Galbraith and
give him my name and address,"
But at this the invalid protested
with what authority there was in
her, and Charlotte agreed finally to
wait until the matter of duty had
been submitted to her father.
Here the subject was dropped, and
| Charlotte went to her stateroom to
| get book for herself and a maya
zine for the invalid. It was a full
hour later, and Miss Gilman was deep
in the last installment of the maya
zine serial. when Charlotte gave up
the struggle with the book. Do what
she could. the scene in the bank
would thrust itself between; and at
length she let the thought have it's
will of her.
From where she was sitting she
could see the steamers yawl swing
ing from it's tackle on the stern
staff. In the midst of the reminis-
| cent thought. she saw that the ropes
were working loose; that the yawl
would presently fall. When she rose
to go and tell some one, a man came
| aft to make the tackle fast, and she
stepped aside to let him pass.
1t was Griswold. She saw his face
as he passed. and there was some
thing strangely familiar in it. When
he had fastened the rope and was
returning, she had a fair look at him
and for an instant was fain to grip
the back of her chair to keep from
crying out. For in that instant she
recognized him.
Now, this young woman was wise
beyond her years, and she knew
| what she had to do. None the less,
she was true woman, with heart
full of tenderness and pity. So it is
not wonderful that for a moment
conscience turned traitor, and was
dumb. But it was only for mo-
ment. The simple and obvious thing
to do was to 60 at once and tell
the captain what she had discovered;
and she was deferred from so doing
only by the reflection that less ter
rible alternative would be the send
ing of letter to the New Orleans
bank people.
This she determined upon, telling
her aunt nothing of her discovery,
but merely saying that upon second
thought she felt that she must write
to Mr.. Galbraith at once. Miss Gil
man withdrew her objections reluc-
family.
IF you must, Charlotte. But it
seems like a very dreadful thing for
you to have to do"
1T is very dreadful" said Char
1otte, with a sob in her voice. New
ertheless, she went away quickly to
write the letter which should set the
machinery of the law in motion.
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TO BE CONTINUED
lowa's Unique Enterprise.


Iowa has entered upon a new field
OF endeavor that promises to have the
most farreaching and important eff
fects upon the future of the Hawkeye
State. 1t is no less than an attempt,
made in Europe, to have desirable
immigrants settle within the confines
of the commonwealth.
Hitherto the states of the Union have
been quite willing and eager to have
good settlers establish homes within
their domain, but their attitude has
been receptive rather than aggressive.
When the immigrants, with their new
ness and strangeness and homesick-
ness, came, they were made welcome
and found willing hands to assist in
their assimilation with the former res
ldents. But the new departure goes
beyond this. It contemplates the dis
semination Of printed matter in various
languages, the establishment of agen-
cies and the sending of commissioners
to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ger
many, Ireland, Scotland and EnglSnd,
and possibly Finland and Russia. The
opportunities, wealth and the glories
of the state will be painted in brilliant
colors, and the tempting picture will
be displayed where the people TO be
benefited will be most likely to see it.
OF the Immediate, great and last
ing benefit to Iowa there can be no
doubt. Already the Hawkeye State
is great and flourishing member of
the Union. Few if any exceed it in
recent growth. Native sons there
are in plenty, but it is scarcely to be
denied that large share of the pros
perity of the state is due to those
who have moved into it during the
last generation or two from the rocky
hills of New England, the stony, per-
pendicular fields Of Norway, the Swed-
ish lake region or elsewhere. Iowa has
used the desirable immigrant to good
purpose in the past; she can find en-
ployment and happiness for more in
the future. "Iowa might just as we'll
have 100000 population as 2,OOO,-
OOO," says the secretary of the Des
Moines Exchange, the prime mover in
true of many others of the western
states, always providing that the i'm
migrants be Industrious, law abiding
and Intelligent. Such are the classes
to be reached by the Hawkeye State,
and it's example in getting out and
'hustling" for desirable settlers might
we'll be followed with good results by
other communities.
That the new plan, if carried out
and extended to it's full limit of posi-
bility, will be beneficial to the United
States is not open to debate. There
is, however, another side to the shield.
Will the European nations in question
allow themselves to be thus drained
of their best blood? Already COM
plants, loud and deep, have come
from the other side of the ocean that
we are taking their best and giving
little or nothing in return. Will not
the nations of Europe tell us that our
proselytizing will not be allowed?
Time alone can tell, but in the mean
time it is we'll to express the opinion
that the proposed plan is one worthy
Of the highest commentator and most
earnest support.
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CHAPTER Y.

For an hour after his ventursome
return to the bank Griswold tramped
up and down the levee, and the end
of it found him still undecided as
to the manner and direction of his
fight.
The hour had not been altogether
triumphant. The partition which is
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It is interesting to note that Sir
Thomas Upton has decided to call his
third Americas Cup challenger Sham
rock III. Perhaps the gallant jack
tar will continue to name his cup hunt
ers in this manner until he finally cap
lures the trophy. In that event he
will probably have at his disposal a
whole feet of shamrocks before he
gets through.
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1t is reported that one of the great
eastern railroads is to abolish the GUS
tom Of kissing goodby at it's depots.
The musty, fusty officials claim that
the time table is deranged, trains are
delayed and train service demoralized
by the awful practice. Well, what Of
it? Let it be known once for all that
kissing is beyond and above train
schedules and such unimportant mat
tiers, and that not an order of rail-
road company or municipal ordinance
or an act Of congress can have any
effect whatever upon it. Nothing short
Of direct Intervention Of Providence
can or will affect the ancient and hon.
orable custom Of kissing ones rela-
tives, friends or sweethearts goodby
at railroad depot There!
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stampede for the front was started, but
the words Worcestershire Sauce on the
end of the box dispelled the illusion and
the case was knocked down at q dollar.
One man bought a sewing machine for
$3.50, but failed to produce the coin, and
it was hastily resold to the next highest
bidder. N credit, no renigging were among
Doc Ashbaugh's rules. The bids have
to be even quarters, and nothing is sold
for less than quarter.
man bid 10 cents on an old wash
sist him, but he was saved by a person
who purchased the relic of scrap heap for
Is cents.
The highest bid during the sale was on
piece of granite, a tombstone. which sold
for S32- Another stone weighing about two
tons, four times much as the former,
only brought $750-eVidently the pieces
were not based on weight.
A full barrel of sample packages of
laundry starch sold at $50.
"A little paint and varnish goes a long
way" was the way the auctioneer intro
duced a couple of dilapidated bedsteads
and they sold for more than they were
worth. One Junkman bought large box
of patent medicine printed matter. What
do you expect to do with that stuff %
medicine company and tell them that can
sell them a few thousand of their pamph-
let's at q figure far below the cost of print
ing. and they will purchase all right an
sWered the buyer.
Only a few women attended the sale and
the entire crowd seldom numbered more
than hundred. A policeman was detailed
to attend, and the pr0miscuOuS stealing
which occurred last year was not repeated.
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Minneapolis are at the west hotel. par

Minneapolis are at the West hotel par
lors 2oS and 210.
The Copeland county Republicans
generally congratulate them selves that
Turner wasn't nominated by the fus-
ionists for congress in the Sixth. dis
trict They say he would have been
the hardest candidate to beat the OPP
position could have named.
Prof. E. Haworth. of the State uni
versity, is now trying to gig back on
his statement that he would resign his
position at the university provided
there was gold in Kansas shale. He
says that the interview in which he
made the statement was all joke.
Saturday is the monthly cleaning up
day appointed by the Civic Federation.
People are supposed to put on their old
clothes, and hire a drayman. They Will
then pick up tin cans and things, load
them into the dray. and thus make the
city beautiful or at least dispose of "A
blot on it's surface.
City Engineer McCabe has returned
from Emporia, where he went to at
tend the graduation exercises of the Col
1ege of Emporia. Mr.. McCabe's son.
Frank ". McCabe. a member OF the
class, won the Hood debate last Mon
day night, with a prize Of $50 He is
also a star football player. He has been
offered a position to teach Latin and
French at the College of Emporia next
yer.
port of the government which is a week
old is as follows for Kansas: Kansas
Topeka: Cool, wet week, beneficial to
wheat, oats and grass, but retarding
growth of corn; wheat Improvement
general, ripening south. some rust in
few central counties; corn beginning
to foul, too wet to cultivate, needs sun
shine; first alfalfa cutting delayed by
rains; grass fine"
DR.. G. A. Crise Of Manhattan, secre-
tary of the Kansas Christian Endeavor
Union, and George Gillies of this place,
treasurer of the same organization, will
address a rally of local Endeavorers to
be held this evening at the First Con-
gregationaI church The gathering is
held for the purpose of working up an
interest in the state c. E. convention
held in Leavenworth June 1920. There
will be social music.
J. Edward Hazen of Topeka was mar
ried Wednesday afternoon to Miss
Imogene Decker at the home of her
parents near Concordia. Mr.. Hazen is
quite we'll known in Topeka. He was
in the volunteer army. He is the author
of book on the history of the Ameri-
can army in the Philippines that is
now in press. He has lectured over the
state during the past year on the war
in the Philippines and the habits and
customs of the people Of that country
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LITTLE RED DEVILS.
Mind flakes Peculiar Things.

Coffee almost kills some people before
they are willing TO admit that coffee is
really the cause of the trouble. Yet It
is easy to break off the habit providing
Postum Coffee, well boiled. is served in
its place.
A lady says, AFTER coffee drinking
had become a habit with me I expert
enced a sense Of faintness in the stom-
ach with lassitude and dullness of the
mind This was accompanied with
severe pains in the region Of my liver
Gradually my health failed and be-
came thin and a nervous wreck, having
sick headaches every day Then in
somnia set in and I suffered for four
wears such torments as those who have
been through the experience know Of
At night I would grow SO nervous over
the continual distress in my stomach
that I would imagine hundreds of little
red devils had strings attached to the
back of my stomach and We're trying TO
pull it out. I was compelled at times
to take laudanum to relieve the distress
and cramps.
This condition lasted with some varia-
ton for about three. years. tried vari-
GUS physicians, and finally was advised
to try leaving of coffee: this I thought
could not be done was finally IN
duced to give up coffee and use Postum
and began to get we'll
When ] recovered and thought 1 was
well enough to go back to coffee again
I tried it, but after using it a short
time the old stomach trouble came back
and I threw the balance of the coffee
in the stove There has never been a
grain Of the old fashioned coffee in the
house since and never will be as long
as I am running it.
Postum coffee is delicious when made
according to directions and served hot
with good cream and some sugar The
whole family use it and enjoy it greatly.
I have gained 40 pounds in the last year
and my nerves are fast becoming a
thing Of the past. I sleep perfectly all
night and am a well woman, thanks &c
Postum" Name given by Postum CO
Battle Creek, Mich.
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HANNA MADE A MISTAKE.
.nded in Enemy's Camp While
Hunting For Help.
Landed

San Francisco, Cal, June 6.-Presi-
dent Newhall of the chamber of COM
merce has received from Senator Hanna
a telegram in which the latter says:
LAS a member of the Isthmian canal
committee. Of the senate, I am decided
" in favor of the Panama route, which
has the unanimous support of the COM
mission appointed by the president and
as a business proposition is the route
we should choose. I wish you would
wire your senators here to join with me
in securing the passage of that bill.
They seen to be in doubt as to the SEN
timent in California and are among the
very few Republican senators who have
not announced in favor of the Panama
route. You can trust my Judgment in
this matter"
President Newhan sent the following
telegram in reply:
After conference of presidents Of
commercial bodies here, I am instructed
to say Pacific coast wants Isthmian
canal. Regret question should arise re-
garding route. Commercial bodies OF
this city always advocated Nicaragua
route Refer the matter to our senators
and representatives who are thoroughly
cOnversant with the subject"