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American Japanese Drops Out Of Oharac
Of the Writer Japanese Sketches Furnished Letter by
Eliza R. scidmore Ernest F. Fenollosa How He
Treats American Visitors.

Miss Eliza r. Scidmore, a popular
writer on Oriental subjects, contribu-
ted a Japanese letter this week to the
Chicago Tribune that was Of great in
terest to Ernest r. Fenollosa, the lee
turer on Japan, who is in the city for
a few weeks It noted the total disap-
pearance from his accustomed haunts
about Toxic of Lafcadio Hearn, the
American writer of poetic prose, who
has become naturaEzed Japanese
under the name of Koizumi Yakumo.
This served as a text for an interest
ing account of this distinguished and
eccentric literary recluse.
Mr.. Fenollosa, according to Miss
Scidmore, Is one Of the very few for
eigners who have lived in Japan dur
ing Mr.. Hearn's residence there who
know him well and see much Of him.
This statement Mr.. Fenollosa con-
f1rmed along with the main portion
Of Miss scidmore's story, altho some
Of the gossipy details he explained in
a somewhat different way. OF Mr..
Hearn's disappearance Mr.. Fenollosa
knew nothing having been away from
Japan for a year or two, but he had
an impression that he was in England.
According to Miss Scidmore Mr..
Hearn's absence is giving no uneasi-
ness to his intimates. He severed his
connection with the imperial univer-
sity where he was lecturer on English
last spring and was supposed to have
departed for England, but It is quite
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had been paid by the rail-
way and steamship company to mem
ton its name, he threw up his con-
tract in a burst of wrath. However.
he was not ready nor willing to forego
his opportunity Of becoming ac-
case to Mr.. Fenollosa, who felt that it
would be q misfortune il he should
not carry out his purpose Of writing
q book on Japan, and he recommended
him to the minister of education as a
teacher of English. The very next day
Mr.. Hearn was offered the choice OF
four positions. He chose to go into
from foreign influence, and the result
Japan VI
In the west coast town Mr.. Hearn
married into a, fine old Japanese fam
lily, and this circumstance has largely
influenced subsequent events in his
life. In order to protect his family In
their property rights he became q
Japanese citizen, not from resentment
against foreigners nor any other fool
ish or eccentric reason such as have
been ascribed to him. He is very de-
voted to his wife and three children
and shapes his affairs with reference
to making the best provision for their
future.
Mr.. Hearn's quarrels with his pub
fishers have given much entertainment
to the literary world. He has resented
vigorously his publishers giving tour
lists letters of Introduction to him, and
his letters of protest are gems of
vituperation. Even T. B. Aldrfch, who
as editor of Atlantic Monthly, ac-
cepted his first Japanese sketches and
gave Mr.. Hearn the most apprec1at1ve
treatment, was treated as CURLY as the
/ most ordinary tourist. But his init
mates are devotedly attached to him.
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But he did not yield-even for her;

But he did not yield-even for her;
and how I loved him for it!
II dare not let the train CO., he
said. Some day you may know why
and do me justice. Good-by."
With this the train began to move.
We stood by the frst-class carriage,
and as Noel turned to go two men
rushed at a compartment which was
labelled reserved" and opened it
with a key they had with them.
There was only one man In the
compartment, tho a glance showed
me that he had Uttered the seats with
small luggage, and he flew to the win
dow protesting. But the men scram-
bled in despite his objections, and
Noel, who had no time to spare for
picking and choosing, dashed after
them. I suppose he thought if these
men could violate the sanctity of a
reserved carriage he might do the
same rather than miss his train, as
every other compartment near seemed
full.
But evidently the men didn't think
with him. They cried out that the
carriage was reserved, and would
have pushed Noel off if he hadn't
sternly chung on, the train meanwhile
| moving faster and faster, and a
guard rushing towards the scene with
angry shouts of warning. It was all
confused and hurried; but T had a
vague impression that the first man
| who had wished to keep the couple
desired the opposite with Noel. In
stead Of protesting as the train car
ried them away from our sight, I saw
that he was trying to pull Noel in
! And when I had time to think of it
wondered why.
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so that perhaps five minutes more
passed before we got to the right
ALI Rights Reserved.

$50 that perhaps five minutes more
passed before we got to the right
platform.
Meanwhile, I had been casting my
eyes about for Noel, but could see
ing fast. I hardly know whether I
wished to have Margot meet him or
not. If she did, there was danger
for me--more or less. If she didn't
she might believe that had lied to
her out of spite, and perhaps the
fact of his departure might never
be quite satisfactorily proved. On
the whole, now that we are here, I
thought I should prefer to have
them come face to face; and as
was making up my mind to this I
was conscious that Notwithstanding
close beside me-gave a slight start.
she in another; and 1t was she who
saw him first. But it was not that
which had made her start, I fancy.
Altho I had the clue to this curious
change instantly discerned in his per-
sonality, I had forgotten it, and was
! to see that he had shaved his MIS-
/ tache.
OF course in few seconds re-
| membered how he was to have been
Struggled out Of the house, but quick
as a flash a thought darted into my
| brain which made me glad that
Margot should see this alteration in
her present mood. 1t certainly looked
as if Noel had removed his mustache
because he was on the way to do
something Of which he was ashamed
| something which made him wish
not to be recognized.
] He was walking fast toward the
train, and whether by some mag
netic influence or not, out Of all that
| crowd Margot's gaze caught his. He
/ looked radiant with delight at first.
| then one could see an idea that wss
not wholly pleasant growing in his
mind, carrying a flush with 1t over
i his brown face and white forehead.
No one, knew better than I that he
was innocent Of any desire to deceive
Margot; but innocence often appears
the twin of guilt, and it was so with
Noel now. After the first flush OF
.ljoy he looked horribly uncomfortable
and tho he came up to us boldly, his
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r.. CHAPTER II.-Continued.
Told by Marion Sitgreaves, Niece Of
Sir Gordon Revelstoke, the
Home Secretary.
4 HOW I ACCOMPLISHED A PUR-


POSE.
Fl I was a little afraid that, after all,
Margot's. father might drop some hint
to her, tho it would have been most
unlike him to do SO. And I was afaid
that something might come out if Lord
Reckworth had stayed to breakfast
But he hadn't stayed, and Uncle Cor
don didn't mention Noel.
1t was a quarter to ten precisely
when we sat down at the table,
and my uncle, who appeared rather
absent-minde had left the house in the
brougham which usually took him to
Downing street by a quarter past ten.
A few minutes later Margot and had
our hats on and were In a hanson.
She scarcely spoke at all as we
drove to the station. Once we got
caught in a. block of traffic, and then
she showed her nervousness by the
canning and going of her color, but
iIA no other way. We had to drive
from Berkeley square to Charing
Cross. and we were just ten minutes
in getting there. BY this time it
wanted five and twenty minutes to
eleven, the hour for the train to go
out. But the station was very
crowded with intended passengers
and porters rushing frantically about
with trunks piled high with luggage,
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hat in his hand, I'm sure he wished
himself at least as far away as Vic

hat in his hand, I'm sure he wished
himself at least as far away as Vic
toria. ~. 49,
had wondered how Margot meant
to account for our presence at the
station, for her coming was to say
little, unconventional. received a
bow and constrained smile, Of course,
but don't think Noels real self saw
me at all; it was only the mechanical
part that bowed.
"Are you and Miss Sitgreaves going
to France this morning? 2" he asked of
Margot when they had shaken hands.
NO" she answered, looking with
her clear hazel eyes, like wells with
truth at the bottom, up into his face.
Are you?"
Eyes" he said, with a. slight nerv-
BUSINESS Of manner, unusual with him
for he was fond of hiding the
warmth Of his nature in almost all cir
cumstances under an appearance of
sangfroid. II decided to go very sud-
denly-after parting with YOU"
Il heard you were going, Margot
returned. THAT is why came here"
(She too, had forgotten me now.)
"Noel, you changed your mind sud
denly, as you say, about this one thing.
Have you changed 1t about anything
else?"
they looked each other in the eyes.
Nothing else," said his-and his lips,
| too. cit was more than good Of you
| to come and say goodbye to me-" he
| added.
''I didn't come only for that, Noel;
thought it would be easy to explain,
| but it isn't. Still, I'm not sorry I
came. You will underestimate you
are all I think you-how, when I
heard that you were going to Paris to
meet Mademoiselle de Nevers, whom
you said you would scarcely cross the
street to see,' could not wait-days,
| perhaps-to ask IL it were true"
The effect of her words was like a
shot. The blood rushed over his face
again In wave, then died away, leav-
| ing him pale. There was ntamazed,
hurt, Mortified look in his eyes. Mar
GOT he exclaimed, who told you
such a thing?"
| II can't answer you that she said;
IT must not. But is it true? Surely,
after last night, I have a right to
ask
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BAN1sHED FOR MAKING 1000 GOO EYES"

Of the choir, and Miss Mason. organ
list, are preparing to leave the model
city. They are doing SO, however,
with a. storm of protest being aroused
on the part of their friends, who think
Overseer Speicher is too harsh in his
commands. It is also limited that DIR.
Dowie himself will not be pleased, be-
cause Mr.. Rice and Miss Mason are his
particular proteges.
Be this as it may, Zion Is doomed to
lose two Of its leading musicians, and
it Is thought that the choir will be
badly affected by the absence of Mr..
Rice, who organized it and brought it
up to it's present strength of 500
voices.
Rice has a. wife and eight children
in Zion. .-.r....---r4. -..--. az
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CHAPTER III.
With the Home Secretary's
Daughter.
THE MAN WHO WAS AFRAID.

THE MAN WHO WAS AFRAID.
It's queer feeling for a man to be
taken suddenly by the nape of the
neck, so to speak, and plunged from
paradise to perdition. But that was
what seemed to have happened to me
when I sprang into the train at Char
ing Cross as it began to move out
of the station.
1t was a narrow shave that I got
in at all. for in my haste I hadn't
noticed that the carriage I aimed for
was reserved. Had it not been for
two men who were bent upon the
same object, and had a railway key
of their own wherewith to accomplish
it, I should have failed. and might
have been by that time too late to
open another door and dart in some
where else. Still, my good luck was
but indirectly due to the men with
the key, for tho they had ruthlessly
broken In upon the privacy Of the
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mand and night-gowns: made with
half low necks and short sleeves are
much worn. This one allows Of vari-
Gus combinations, but is shown with a
yoke of lace and foundation ma
terial Of fine nainsook. The yoke Is
shaped to extend over the shoulders
and so gives the broad line that has
become SO general. The sleeves are
gracefully full and soft.
The gown is made with fronts and
back which are tucked at their upper
edges, so providing ample fulness be-
low, and are joined to the yoke. The
sleeves are tucked to fit the upper
arms snugly but fall in soft folds and
are finished with generous frills that
form jabots at the inner arms.
The quantity Of material required for the me-
dunn size is 6al yards &c inches wide, with X
yard of alIover lace, 3a yards of insertion,
4 yards Of wide lace and LIS yards of narrow
lace to trim as illustrated.
The pattern. 1912. is cut in sizes for a SO,
"a, So i3S and 40-inch bust measure.
In ordering pattern fill in this
COUPON
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:rightful owner, they suddenly grew
loud in their assertions that the car
riage was reserved. They even tried
to bar my way in, when, curiously
enough, the first man, who had done
his best to keep them out. was sud
denly struck with a mysterious desire
to have me for a companion. Some
how, T scarcely know how, I got in
and slammed the door.
The seats were strewn with the
rightful occupants luggage; rugs in
a shawl-strap, two handbags, an over
coat, case of golf sticks, umbrellas,
cane, and what not. It looked as if
he had spread these things scunningly
about on purpose to prevent intend
ing passengers from regarding his re-
served compartment with active envy;
but If this had been his object it had
ANONYMOUSLY failed.
1t even appeared as if he repented
his selfshness, for with a certain
| apologetfc nervousness he began to
pile his two bags and overcoat one on
| top of another.
| won't you sit here, sir?" he said
addressing me, having made room on
the seat next his own corner.
hadn't had time to notice what
! he or the other two were like until
| now; but as the man gazed up almost
me that his appearance was some
| what peculiar.
! In the first place, he did not look
| exactly the sort of man you would
expect to see travelling first-class and
tipping guards to reserve a compart.
ment. Nor was he the kind of in.
dividua1 who usually goes about with
! golf sticks.
He gave me the impression, some.
how, Of being "got up in pains.
! taking way for a special part. His
clothes were good and very new, prob.
and thin and weedy, with little blink.
ing, pink-rimmed, white-lashed eyes
set close to the sharply-pointed nose
He had forehead which suggested
shrewdness; freckles on a pallid skin
a. mean mouth with irritable corners
and weak chin. He might have beer
of any age, between twenty-eight an6
thirty-three or four, and, despite his
would-be smart" get-up, looked rath.
err like an ex-groom masquerading Cir
the phraseology which would appea
! to hin) as a swell
| All these details / took in at 8
| glance, for the study of my fellow
man has always interested me. No
| that this personality was in itself al
interesting one. but it was puzzling
and was at a loss to understand why
| the fellow had been anxious to ejec
the men with the key, yet was read,
to extend welcome to me.
He was so DESTROYS that I, and no.
one of the other two, should sit beside
him, that remembered in a flash
the all-important document which
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CAN'T SCARE HEM.
eyes, you have a right to. ask he

eyes, you have q right to ask" he
repeated, slowly. +,
"Then-teu me! Whatever you say,
TIL believe, Noel. &c know that you
wouldn't lie to me.SN Are you going to
see Juliette de Nevers in PARISH"
IT may see her, he returned driven
into a corner. I was sorry for him.
Yet I rejoiced. And I would have
done what had done again. S
do you mean that it will be a mere
chance--that you're not going entirely
..Margot, won't you trust me, and let
me explain another time2 Believe
me, I would now II 1 could: but it is
impo ssible." -
why impossible"
Because others are concerned be-
Sides myself"
"Others! .Yes-she. That woman
to whom you are hurrying, to-day Of
all days.
''You are cruel, Margot. If it were
my choice to Co.
would you put it all upon her?
No, that would be still more unworthy.
oh, I am glad-glad that I came! If
you had not told me with your own
gave you three months. 1t need have
been only twelve hours. Goodbye,
Mr.. Brent. You will understand that
this is the end
II understand nothing Of the kind,
my darling" he broke in upon her
passionately, yet in a voice too low for
the words to be overheard by anyone
save me. 7 was nobody. didn't
count. "You will be sorry for this,''
he went on. TN a few days.
ttMr. Brent, If you do not go you
will miss your train; and think what a
| pity that would be!--to miss the train
which carries you to her, for the sake
Of a few trihing words with me"
| Child, how dare you speak to me
! like that" he exclaimed, with a kind
| thrilled me to the soul had it been
for me, not her. when come back
which I hope may be tomorrow
How can you come back if you
don't go? demanded Margot, sneering
and bitter, for the first time in my
knowledge of her. Will you let the
train go without YOU, after all? See
| the guard is shutting the doors, and
you haven't taken your place"
For a moment believe he was
| tempted to throw over everything-his
sacred promise to the foreign secrel
tary, his duty to himself. the life
Juliette de Movers. I saw the strug!
gle in his face; but Noel Brent was
not the man to yield honor UP to love
He must have guessed, as I did, that
Margot yearned in anguish to heal
| him cry: II will stay with you!''
/ That If he did this, she was hi.
again with all her heart, in spite o.
every thing. That if he did it not, per.
haps she might never listen to sucl
Explanations as IN future he might bt
lat liberty to. give
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had placed in a large letter-case and
slipped into an inner breast pocket. T
would not feel for it ostentatiously,
but managed while putting my own
bag and umbrella into the rack to as
certain that it was still there. So far
as the business which took me to
France went, all was well, but every
thing else was nightly wrong.
At first, when'I had presented N.Y.
self at Sir Gordon Revelstoke's this
morning, to learn what was the ia
vor" it had been intimated I might
be able to do for him and for Lord
Reckworth, 1 forgot in the interest
of the affairs development that I
ought to have been reader to face a,
Maxim gun at close quarters than to
undertake an errand to Juliette de
Nevers.
The phase I had dwelt upon was
that it would be a very good thing for
my hopes of Margot if / could put
her father under a personal Obliga-
ton. She is So beautiful, SO sought
after, that could not blame Sir Cor
don if he didn't consider me a fit
match for his daughter. 20 be sure,
I had not spoken to him yet. To do
so with no actual promise from Mar
got would have been premature. but
a father must have been blind not to
see that I was head over ears in love,
and as Sir Gordon sees more than
most men, to receive a commission
from him appeared to mean more
than met the eye. I fattered myself
that it was equivalent to his saying:
'tThis is test which I am purposely
giving you. Go in and win if you
cam
Then, when the foreign secretary
had sprung it upon me that I was to
carry a paper Of Importance to Ju-
liette, his information concerning her
was so astonishing to me that at the
time I did not think about that part
Of my conversation with Margot the
night before in which her name had
occurred.
Juliette was a political spy, and
she was going to be married! Jul
liette had somehow, in a way appar-
emily sensational, brought off great
coup by which the British govern
ment had prof1ted. Juliette had an
enemy as well as a lover; she was In
desperate danger, and it was for me
to save her. All this, coming at once.
confused the issues which otherwise
must have been first with me. The
trust placed in me by two such men
as Sir Gordon Revelstoke and Lord
Reckworth fattered my ambition and
fired me to do my best. 1t was only
when Margot, in great beauty, con-
fronted me unexpectedly at the rail-
way station that realized in what a.
position had placed myself by UNI
dertaking to carry a message to Ju-
motive Of my visit to her absolutely
secret.
(To Be Continued To-morrow.)
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which reports no waterworks. Nearly
twenty thousand people there draw
water from wells, cisterns, etc.
It is estimated that there are 49,
100000 more Or less active church
members in this country. Catholics,
of course, predominant in numbers
over any one other sect. The Method
lists have 100000; Presbyterians.
100000; Episcopalians, $4,000;
Congregationalists, $4,000. The Uni
tarians have but $4,000.
The era Of great endowments is
surely upon us. Colleges, churches
and parks and museums are getting
money in chunks of four and six and
ten million dollars from men like
Rockefeller, Carnegie. Field, Gordon
Mckay.
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS

- SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS
The story presupposss diplomatic intrigue
between Great Britain and France and the DO
litical parties therein. Marion Sitgreaves, niece
of Sir Gordon Revelstoke, home secretary, is in
love with Brent Noel, his young protege. But
Noel. having first taken fancy to her, has set
tied his affection on Margot. Sir Gordon's pretty
daughter. Marion is Jealous, and listens to a
private conversation between Lord Reckworth tn e
Foreign secretary, Sir Gordon Revelstoke and
Brent. The last named is commissioned to take
a secret packet Of great Importance to a beau.
tiful actress, Mile. Juliette de Nevers who is
acting as a British spy or "agent" in Paris
Brent and this lady very friendly with each
other. Marion determines to use the facts to her
own advantage. Marion tells Margot that Brent
is going to Paris to make love to the actress
Margot goes to Charing- Gross railway station.
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on the Umbria.

on the Umbria.
Williams is a real negro, and his
disgust was great when he came into
contact. with A. B. Hatfield of Baton
Rouge, La, who had charge Of the
entertainments in the second cabin.
Mr.. Hatfield is an old-time southerner
and objected to the employment of
negro talent.
Williams, however, won out in the
end, for the other passengers insisted
upon hearing him. Mr.. Hatfield re-
signed his dictatorship and gained
some colored adornment under the
left eye, which he told his friends,
on landing, was due to a, fall.
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REGGIE WARDS LUCK
Once a Poor Peddler-Will Marry a
- ,f,j Real Countess.

Boston, Feb. 2.-Reginald Henshaw
Ward was born in Allston, a Boston
suburb, about forty-two years ago. His
parents were unable to give him the
usual advantages, and at time when
other boys. were getting their school
ing young Ward was entered In the
school of life, trudging about from
door to door with his peddler's outfit.
In time he became a Wall street
flnancier.
He is now count by virtue of a
patent Of nobility issued by the pope
and about to marry the Dowager
Countess Howe. She is twenty-five
years his senior, and a granddame in
the English peerage. - 1-,. ..'
+ Count Ward is many times a. mil
lionaire, linguist Of ability, a diplo-
mat, a bon vivant a squire Of DANES,
a, good fellow and withal a handsome
looking figure at all social functions.