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people who actually surrounded Sir Henry |
upon the moor, he got on tho |
right track, and DR.. Watson certainly did
good work there under great difficulties. for /
he collected several threads which Holmes |
contrived to weave together successfully and
use to draw him and Watson and the new
Sir Henry to the prey upon the edge of that
dreadful moor. The last maneuver Is fitting
climax to this tale of horrors. hut 1t was on
just such occasions that Sherlock Holmes was
in his happieet mood. Nerve and courage
were required and Holmes was at the acme
OF his professional ability then. If the reader
has held his breath several times in previous
chapters. he will hear his own heart beats
when he comes into the fourteenth chapter,
which describes the final act of the long and
quest.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall. BY
Charles Major, author of When Knight
hood Was in Flower. illustrated by How
ard Christy. New York: The Macmillan
company, 66 Fifth avenue. Price SD
Mr.. Major in this novel returns with sig
nal success to the elder day Of English his
tory of which he romanced so happily in
When Knighthood Was in Flower" The
period is the contest of Mary, Queen Of Scots,
for the throne Of England, occupied by her
cousin, Elizabeth, who hated the beautiful
Mary Stuart most, heartily The story's vital
ity is in the movements and risks of the par
tizans of both queens. who come in close
contact with their royal principals, and two
love affairs are evolved very effectively,
showing the tortuous and perilous course Of
true love in such tempestuous and treacher-
Gus times The story is put in the mouth OF
Sir Malcome Francois de Lorraine Yer
non, who claims to have been in love with
Queen Mary Stuart and to have been loved
by her in return, but not being able to marry
her, he conceitedly enough went down to
Haddon Hall to marry his cousin, Dorothy
Vernon, whom he had not seen since she
was small girl. He found her vision of
glorious womanly beauty with masses of
golden-red hair, and also discovered that
although Sir George Vernon, her father,
wished him to marry Dorothy, she had no
idea CT marrying anybody she did not love,
and her love was bestowed upon Sir John
Manners, whose father was hated by Sir
George. So Sir Malcolm fell in love with
Dorothy's blind but beautiful cousin, Madge
Stanley. The career of these lovers In those
trying times is we'll told. Dorothy was a
high strung beauty, subject to strong tides
Of passion and plucky to the last degree and
wildly INSCRIPTIONS. Every time her father
ordered her to marry some one OF his choice
she threatened to kill herself and when he
discovered she was secretly meeting a lover
unknown to MIN, and corresponding with
him, he took awful oath to whip her till
she would bleed 1t she did not give him up
There Is dramatic scene worth quoting
when Sir George demanded the name of her
lover. .-. -..~ 4.-s .
Course the day you were born, you wanton
huzzy Curse you! Curse you! Tell me the
name Of the man who wrote this letter. Tell
me his name or I swear 1t before God,
swear it upon my knighthood, l will have
you logged in the upper court until you
bleed 1 would do it If you were fifty times
my child Then Dorothy awakened. The
girl was herself again. Now it was only for
herself she had to fear. Her heart kept say
ing: This for his sake: this for his sake. ,
Out OF her love came fortitude, and out Of
her fortitude came action. Her fathers oath
had hardly been spoken till the girl tore her
bodice from her shoulders. She threw the
garment to the floor and said: / am ready
for the whip, I. am ready. Who is to do
the deed, father, you the butcher? 1t must
be done. You have sworn it, and, | swear
before God and by my maidenhood that will
not tell you the name Of the who wrote
the letter. I love him, and, before I tell you
his name or forego his love for me, or before
1 abate one jot or little of my love for him,
I will gladly die by the whip in your hand.
I am ready for the whip, father. am ready.
Let us have it over quickly The girl, whose
shoulders were bare, took few steps toward
the door leading to the upper court, but Sir
by the terrible scene, and I determined to
prevent tho fogging If to do so should cost
Sir Georges life at my hands. I would have
killed him ere he should have laid single
lash of the whip upon Dorothy's back.
Father continued this terrible girl, are
oaths Surely, you would not be forsworn
before God and upon your knighthood. A
foresworn Christian? A foresworn knight? A
foresworn Vernon? The lash, father, TIL
lash-I am eager for it. Sir George stood
in silence and Dorothy continued to move
| toward the door. Her face was turned back
| ward over her shoulder to her father, and
she whispered the words forsWorn' Tor
sworn, forsworn!' AS she put her hand on
the latch, the pteous old man held forth
his arms toward her and in wall of agony
| cried: Doll! Doll! My daughter! My
| child! God help met He covered his face
| with his hands, his great form shook for a
moment as the tree trembles before the fall
| and he fell prone the floor, sobbing forth
| the anguish Of which his soul was full: IN
| an instant Dorothy was at his side holding
! his head upon her lap. She covered his face
With her kisses and while the tears streamed
| from her eyes, she spoke incoherent words OF
| love and repentance 49,. H..
But the beautiful Dorothy was liar as
| well as an actress, and Sir George, after his
temporary softening, began cursing her again
| OuC ne ola not uUS uSI. IlOW DIG Aou LIZ
own way as to Sir John and how Sir Nal
colin Vernon pulled through the wrath o
| Queen Bess for his support of Mary Stuart Il
thrilIingly, related. "
I Sixteenth Annual Report of the Com
| missioner of Labor, 1901. Strikes ant
! Lockouts. Washington: Government Print
| ing Office
This report covers the investigation int
strikes and lockouts in the United States from
jan. /, 1881 to Dec: 81, 1900, disturbances o
less than one days duration not being con
sidered. During the twenty years there 'wer
22,7s3 strikes the number increasing from Al
in 1881 to 1877 in 1899 and 1 ,779 In 1900 ther
= being 1917 establishments involved In 1898
} the largest number in any one year of tn
twenty, 417O7 employees being thrown out o
, employment and sos, 06S being thrown out l.
1900. During the period there were stxt
lockouts where the employees were shut out b
the proprietors to get them to come to thei
! terms, in 2,2Sl establishments, throwing 62,65
employees out of work. There were 6,1CS, SO
people thrown out Of employment In strike
during the period, 80 per cent males and
per cent femalesS BY lockouts SOY, 3N peopl
wero thrown cut, of whom 1924 per cent wer
males and 1876 per cent we're females. TIL
strikes ordered by organizations numbere
g. 46 per cent of the whole. The average dur
alton of strikes during the twenty years wa
1913 days and Of lockouts 971 days. The los
of wages aggregated s257 1863, 47ss- and labo
unions paid out Of their sustentation fund
s1G174 1913 and employers lost $122, 731 1: