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CHAPTER VTII.-Continued.
Told by Juliette De Nevers the Hour
After Midnight.

AS I spoke there came knock at
the front door. Maximes knock, I
was certain. I grew giddy, andr1ny
presence Of mind deserted me(J If
only Noel had come when he prom
ised by this time he would have been
gone; but now I knew not what to do
for the best. I had suffered SO much
that my power Of prompt decision
seemed dead.
1T is Maxine, I know" whispered,
''What Is to be done?"
LET him In, and tell him that T
came to see you on important business
from friend in England, which could
not wait till tomorrow"
Il daren't. I'd forbidden him to
come here. I told him was Ill, and
must go straight to bed. He saw me
with Count Ipanoff, and now, If he
finds you with me what will he think :?
Yet the door must be answered. List
en- to that knocking! I can't send him
away. Hide yourself!-quickly,
quickly-and I'll have Henri let him
in. Oh, why do you delay? Go into
the next room. You can get out thru
the window and leave the house while
Maxine and I are talking
"I'll do what you wish," said Noel.
"But beg Of you take my advice, and
don't attempt to deceive him. Better
let me-"
vising!' cut in, in fierce whisper.
l"He's knocking again for the third
time. Go-go-go!"
He went without another word into
my boudoir. which adjoins the draw
.iing-roonl. The key was in the door.
I turned it in the lock, snatched it out,
and slipped it into my pocket. Hardly
had done SO when Henri appeared at
the only other door--tfe one leading
Aske the entrance hall.
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drawn matches. The spectators went
home full of enthusiasm over the
sport, and the next day 200 spectators
saw the semi-finals. These were even
better than the bouts Of the preceding
day, and seven minutes was the time
fixed for each contest On the third
day the finals were held and a third
added to the price Of admission, and,
as it was a bank holiday, nearly 400
people attended.
The popularity of the sport was as
sured and the boyshad reaped q har-
yond their widest expectations. They
organized two teams of six players
each, called the Whites and
"Blacks,'' and prepared for a. match
game. Each team practiced in secret
and each. devised some very clever
pieces of "team work"
The BLACKS, had a flying wedge
formation and the Whites elected to
charge in two divisions of three play
ers each, one assailing the enemy from
behind. AS soon as a player was
"downed" he was to be out Of the
game and his side. thus weakened by
the loss of a man, and they contrived
sudden flanking movements of the
whole team to pick off individual:
| players.
The secretary Of the club sketche6
| several pOSlelS SllOWlllS
in the game and put them in, conspicu-
Gus places#about town. When the
day of the game came they had tc
print more tickets and after three
games had been played four Other
| teams sprang up among Other
crowds of boys, and a series OF
championship contests were arranged
in a big hall loaned for the purpose
by a gentleman who had been an en-
thusiastic spectator Of every game.
The battle royal was the last Of the
lot, and it packed that hall to the
doors. The, boys were. able to offer {
handsome silver cup as prize, ano
when they counted their receipts they
found that their longed for clubhouse
was at last within reach.
| It would? take a page to tell the full
and benefit there is in the game, bu
one trial will show you, and you anc
all who see it will become Bounce
Battle enthusiastic. Try it.. 49, =
The very best thing about the gam
is that YOU cannot get hurt.
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HE GOT THE JOB.

'I was much amused the other day."
said an uptown hardware dealer, .at
q small boy who came around look
ing for a job. One of the clerks had
dropped lot of sharp-pointed tacks
into a drawer Of brass screws and had
given UP the idea Of taking them out.
:'When the youngster turned up
looking for a Job we thought we would
try him out by letting him sort the
two articles. He went at it the same
way we had begun, picking out the
tacks with his fingers and getting the
point of every third tack. in the ball
of his thumb.
He had enough in about a minute
and he Strengthened up. We all began
to smile, expecting him to give up the
job. Instead of that he went over to
the show case and picked out horse
shoe magnet. Then he came back to
the box. In thirty seconds he had the
tacks out and the screws were still in
the compartment. He knew that the
magnet would attract iron and not
brass, and in a jiffy he had accom-
| pllshed what we had been trying to dc
all the morning.
| We didn't really need a boy, but
this chaps smartness appealed to us
and we find him SO handy to have
around that next Saturday he gets a
raise"
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This is one of the greatest. sports.
you can Imagine and has the adyarl-
tage of being almost as much fun for
two players as for twenty, besides
being a spectacle that even grown.
ups are always eager to see. The
reason for this is that to. win requires
brains, strength, skill, quickness and
courage just as: much as Football Or
baseball, altho it has none of the
roughness Of football and requires no
training.
1t is very, very old game, and was
played centuries ago when all the
gentlemen Wore plumed that's and
swords. and the funny clothes that the
pictures in your histories show. Later
it was played in the English army,
and is still, to this day. a favorite
sport among. British soldiers garri-
soned in foreign lands. The school,
boys at Elton and Balliol, the great
English schools play it, too, but on
certain days, making a formal func-
ton of it just like the freshman and
soph spreads over here. $50 -~s..s
It is called "cock fighting" there,
but as the American version is a little
different, we use a name of. our own.
A boy bends over until his. elbows
are below his knees, and clasps his
hands about his shins. A comrade
| thrusts a smooth, round stick thru
Tie JOlIllS OL Ills hllcS5 ,dllu SlbO"o, DIP
shown in the picture, and he is
'trussed'' and all ready for the fray.
Another boy Of about the same size
and weight is similarly prepared and
the contest may begin. "
When you are "trussed'' in this
| manner you will find that the only
way you can go about is by little hops
of a few inches, and even then, UNI
less you are careful, you will lose your
balance and roll over on, YOUR back,
and find that no matter how you try
you cannot regain your feet without
unclasping your. hands and removing
the stick. The game itself is very
| simple. 1T is just to push your OPP
ponent off his feet and send him
tunbling while you maintain: your
balance in triumph: There are NUM-
Der Of ways to do this. a gentle
shove with the shoulder, a: jog with
an elbow or a jolt with a hip will all
cause his downfall, if delivered at the
right time. The keynote of success
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is to time your attack so that it will
catch your opponent. just when his.
balance is in danger. If you should
hop directly against: him the chances
are that he would be all braced to-
meet: you and you might be showed
over yourself, or hesmight dexterous-
ly hop tos:one side just as. you lungeds
forward 50 that YOU would topple over
from. your own momentum. An effec-,
tive mode of attack isato hop swiftly
toward him, and; just as he expects
the shock to come, hop to one side.
He will lean forward to meet your
charge, and as at the last minute you
do not push him after all, he will very
probably lean too far and topple over
forward. Or if you try this feint once
or, twice without success, hop directly
against him, and as he expects you to
dodge. again without touching him,
he will not be properly braced and
you will shove him over backward.
There are few contests Of strength
and skill that give such chances for a
display of generalship.
A bounce battle tournament is great
fun and a bounce battle game be-
tween two teams Of six players each is
sure to draw a large audience. Best
of all is a bounce battle royal, where
a dozen or more players all engage at
once, each one for himself, and the
one WHO keeps his Ieel Tile 1oISeSI Is
! the victor.
Some English school boys decided
they wanted to build a clubhouse, and
they did it, too, with the aid Of bounce
battle, or "cockhghting,' as they
called it. First they had tourna-
me1lt . charging admission: Only
about twenty people came the first
| day. Some thirty. biys were entered
and they all divided in pairs and went
at it one pair at time, with an UNI
pire and timekeeper to direct the con
| test. Each pair were allowed five
minutes for their .tbattle,' and If by
the end, of that time both We're on
their feet it was called asdraw and all
other. pair took their places.
About three minutes elapsed be-
| tween the bouts, and for an hour and
a; half the; audience laughed them
selves hoarse over the funny incidents
that took0place in. every. bout. Eight
contestants went down in defeat and
eight victors prepared to fight another
} day, and two pairs were credited with
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did not. try to keep back the tears. for
T wanted to bring him to my feet in
repentance. And I hoped that I might
still be telling the truth. I had heard
no sound from the next ROOM but it
might we'll be that Noel Brent had
found his way out and was gone.
NO; it is not enough Maxine an
sWered. There is something you
must make clear to me first before I
go On my knees to you, as hope to
do in a moment more. IF YOU came
home alone and no man has been with
you since, why did see you at the
gate, opening it yourself, and admit
ting a lna1l?" -.
wonder that I kept myself from
fainting. He had seen that, and waited
all this time to spring the mine upon
me? There was nothing else to do
[ instantly determined to deny it, and
at every hazard stand by my own
falsehood.
you could not have seen that
Maxine" I said, very slowly and
quietly. tho my lips would scarcely
form the words, because it did not
happen. Tell me exactly what you
think you did see, and then we shall
perhaps, be able to fathom the seem.
! ing mystery together. Meanwhile,
| ask you to give me at least the benef
| of the doubt. You arrived at sthi:
house. You stood near the gate, il
the street. Is it not so? Well, wha
! them"
cit is So" Maxine confessed &c
had to come, could not keep away
| was on the other side Of the street
for did not let my cab set me dowl
before your house. 1 got out ant
walked a short distance, on the darke
side. Just as I came to a standstill, O
/ a minute later, q man came along
walking very fast. I could not Sc
his face, or. even recognize his figure
but he was tall and we'll built. I
might have been Ipanoff tho h
seemed to me slenderer. He rang tn
bell-not very loudly-and wit
scarcely any delay the gate wa
opened for him-opened so wide tina
II distinctly saw a woman's form sill
/ houetted against the light whic
1 streamed from the entrance hall g
the house. thirty feet away
4 "a woman's formi'' I caught hir
up quickly And are there no othe
] women in this house but it's mistress
i Did it not occur to you that 1 have
maid, who is young and pretty, an
human enough for a f1irtation?''
!. The blood ndshed UP to Maxine
s forehead. II confess that I though
!. only of you,'' he said.
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PHYSICIAN SAYS HE CAN CURE LEPRosY

stage. Great red sp1otches of the dis
ease appeared on his body and he was
wholly insensible to touch or to the
effects of heat and cold. Now the red
splotches are rapidly disappearing,
while the patient has sensitive touch
and is conscious Of changes in tenn
perature.
The idea of the contagious nature of
the disease DR.. Hyde declared to be
due to superstition acquired from the
Bible. He said that no clean person,
had ever been seized with leprosy from
association with lepers.
DR.. Hyde's statements were received
by prominent medical men of the city
with great interest. DIR. Nicholas
Sem, who has travelled widely in ORR.
entail countries, where leprosy Is most
prevalent. said:
SO far as l know, this is the first an
| ilouncement made Of a cure Of leprosy. I
am of the opinion that tubercular lepresy
cannot be cured: What is, known as ner-
yous leprosy sometimes cures itself. Ply
| sicians who have made a special study
of leprosy have been agreed for some time
| that it is not contagious disease. -
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BETWEEN TWO FIRES
By MRS. C. ~ WILLIAMSON
Author of *Iady Woman Grey"
fortunes Sport" Etc, ...#
By MRS. c.. N. WILLIAMSON
All Rights Reserved

"Mademoiselle,'' he quietly an
nounced, Somebody knocks Is it
that you left the gate unlocked? And
am to admit any one?"
Henri is a well-trained old servant,
and his face was expressionless; yet 1
knew, as his eye moved about the
drawing-room, that he was surprised
to find me alone.
If the person knocking is the
Conte de Ribaumont you may admit
him. I said. "And--Henri-nobo
else has been here tonight since re-
turned from the theater."
Very well, mademoiselle; quite
understand" said the old man, with
an immovable countenance.
sank into chair and threw Off
the long, white-hooded wrap which
had forgotten to lay aside until this
moment. I tried to give myself an air
OF lassitude; but, act as I might, I
could not subdue the burning color
| In my cheeks, or the fever-light in
my eyes, which I knew was there.
| Opposite to the fauteuil into which
I had thrown myself was a long mirror
glanced across at it, fearfully anxious
to see if my face would bear Maxine S
searching gaze; and as I studied my
own reflection Maxime's image ap-
peared behind it, pale and stern. Our
eyes met in the glass, and never had
his been so cold to me.
Ny only hope with him was ito take
! the initiative, and steal his weapons.
Il know why you have come,' ]
| said. "Ipanoff told me what he had
said to YOU
''You admit it, them" asked Max
ime. He crossed the room and stood
in front of me. his arms folded. He
was handsomer than he had ever been
and I adored him. Something inside
L me seemed to keen w11iSnprir1pr. 6
is yours tonight. Make the most OF
your hour, for tomorrow oomes-tlle
deluge."
! ibid you expect me to lie to YOU Q, ]
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retorted. bravely, looking him straight

retorted. braNely, looking him straight
in the les.
their depths. 'tJuliette,' he exclaimed,
for Heavens sake give me back my
faith in you. 1t is death to lose it."
should speak of losing it, I answered
him, as boldly as if I deserved the
faith I claimed from him as my right.
Ivan lpanof hates me now far more
than he ever loved me, and a nature
like his will stoop to the lowest depths
of infamy for revenge. He has seen
that we care for each other, and he
would part us if he could. He'd stop
at nothing. There's no lie too base
for him to tell you Of me; yet till this
instant / would have sworn that you
loved me too well to believe one
In saying this, perhaps, half-uncon-
,sciously, built a hope that, if the
crash should come Tomorrow might
persuade Maxine that it was a villain
Gus trick Of Ipanoff's toa ruin us both
at a blow, thus saving his love for me
in spite of all. It was mad hope and
a wicked one; but was at<my wits
ends; and, if innocent of this one
crime, Ipanoff was guiltyzof many an
other which had not yet been brought
home to him.
''How could I help believing my own
eyes 2" Maxine demanded. tsThe fell
low dared to offer a wager, but, OF
course I would not listen. When he
said that he was to sup with you al
your house here told him he lied, and
resolved that I would not even watch
you leave the theater, as he suggested
Even to do that would be weakness
and lack Of faith, assured myself
And yet, when the time came, couI6
not resist. would have staked m.
life that, if he tried to speak with yo,
as you We're going to your carriage
you would not permit him a word; and
it was because ] persuaded myself a
last you might need protection from
J him that I finally waited to see 20,
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70. d. : i,
suspected something, and would catch
me tripping--that, inadvertently, I
had given him d new hook on which
to hang his jealous suspicion. My
heart began to. Knock sickeningly
against my: side. So far: there had
been enough of truth in my story to
keep my conscience comparatively
clear, and to enable my manner to be
convincing. / could not see how had
tripped anywhere, yet that awful look
in the eyes / loved made of me a cow
ard, and turned my blood to water.
Oh, to sob out all the truth on his
breast, and beg forgiveness, whatever
happened. because it had been for his
sake! Yet I knew that the depths Of
his great love We're not deep enough
to hold pardon for such a sin as mine.
TO keep him I must keep my secret,
| if either. could be kept.
81 drove home alone I repeated,
thankful that twas the truth.
Neither Ipanof nor any other man
was with your
mo man at ALL" answered, EN-
phatically. My training as an actress
stood me in good stead onw; yet how
soon it would cease to bear me up I
knew not. The nerves Of my face
We're quivering. I prayed that Max
| ime did not see.
you mean to tell me that no man
has been with you to-night?''
F. A purplish haze rose before my
strained eyes, and floated like vel
of gauze between mesand him.
you are: here" I said, smiling
stiffly.
"Ah! Is that your answer, Juliette
Am the only one ~
Why do you ask me a question thai
that in itself, spoken as you speak
it, is an insult %
ct is rot an insult. have a righ
to ask it.. Presently I will tell yol
why. But first answer me-.
Il have answered. What do yol
want more? Maxine, I don't know
you tonight, and I am i'll. Do y0l
want me to suffer? I was good t.
you, too. But, perhaps, you dom
4 know yet. Have you opened the little
4 silk bag that I gave you at the thea
4. ter?''
!, NO; promised you I would not
until I reached home. / haven
thought of it from that minute to this
y How, could-I2 -Juliette. answer me
Do not try to put me off. have no
come here in a mood for trif1ing.'
II tell you I have answered. Their
!, is no one here but you. Is not tina
. enough for you?" I let my voice ris
. to hysterical sharpness now, and
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D. THAT is scarcely f1attering, since
you thought of me only to doubt me-
'"Then it was not you I saw at the
gate. You did not open it and let
some one in a quarter of an hour
ago."
IF you were so sure it wassI why
did you not try to prove your theory,
right or wrong, by following the man
you thought 20 usaws me adIiit?" CIT
was sheer bravado to ask this ,ques-
ton, but brayado was my line of de-
fense.)
Z was OH the, opposite side of the
street, and the gate was quickly shut.
Still [ WOULD have crossed and tried
the lock if there had been no one near.
There, was. however, a coup in the
street, which stopped in front Of your
gate. There We're two women in it.
and they appeared to be excitedly
arguing some question. While they
were there I would not attempt to
enter. lest they were spies, and you
should be compromised. I waited in
the shadow until the. coupe drove out
of the street. then I tried the gate,
found it unlocked, and came in
ITO accuse me Of sins against you
which I never dreamt Of committing!
| Yet, if you still believe me gui1ty,%I
| know not how to prove to you that I
| am innocent. Bessed We're they who
believed without seeing, Maxine
II do believe. I must believed" he
cried, fiinging himself on his knees at
my feet. With his lips on my hand
my pulse gave a leap, for in the next
room I heard, or fancied I heard, a
sound. Noel Brent was there still; and
if Maxime's ears should tell him what
mine had told me I was lost I hast
ened to cover the sound by rushing
into speech, saying the first thing that
sprang into my head. I had not
| meant to mention the duchess neck
lace again tonight, but, to my own
surprise, heard myself speaking Of 1t
as tho, the voice belonged to some one
lelse. 20
Then, if you believe In me, will
heap GOALS of fire on your head by per
hitting you to look at the thing [ CAV
Iyou in the theater-looking at it now
without waiting"
Still on his knees. Maxine thrus
his hand into the pocket where L haf
seen him place the little silk bag.
quick obedience rose from a desi-
, to please me, [ knew, rather than Gu. !.
osity, for there was no eagerness
his face, and his eyes were OF mi;
asking forgiveness. But suddenly
|, look of blank amazement dawned
. them. Its gone!" he exclaimed.
(To be continued to-niorroW.l
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IF YOU DO NOT KNOW
YOU OUGHT TO KNOW

-
THAT -
Much good is being done by the
open-air treatment for tuberculosis.
OF patients treated at such hospitals
and they only go there when all hope
is gone--the mortality is but Is per
cent, surprisingly low, and as many as
60 per cent of the patients are dis
charged as cured.
We paid about cents per acre for
Alaska and have already taken out Of
her, in gold, fur, lumber and other
natural products, 40 cents an acrei
There were 5000 licenses to hunt
ers issued this year, in Minnesota.
$4,000 deer were killed there. It is
estimated that there are 100000 deer
in the state and the Iavages Of the
wolves are more feared than the pop-
| ping Of hunters. @-..- c:;~
| In 1886, during: the. great etulfp
craze. in Holland, a, single bulb Of the
| "Semper Augustus" sold for a sum
| equal to 200. - 49,
| 1T is estimated that the sunf1ower
plant draws from the soil and :exhales
| into the air twelve ounces of water
| for every twelve hours it blooms.
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come out: I could: hardly credit the
evidence of my own eyes when I saw
you whispering with him, apparently
making an appoiltm ent, and by that
time was half mad. I followed your
carriage. saw it stop. I saw you
after putting me, off with q. plea, of
illness, despite my love and longing
/ saw you drive, not towards the, Rue
q Ar1jou. but away from it. J. know
not what terrible thoughts did battle
inEr1y brain. I hailed a cab, and told
your broughanl in sight. But, after
ALL lost It. and followed another by
mistake, only learning that I was
wrong Whenit stopped and a strange
man and woman got out. -. Then 1
came here. Now I have confessed all
my doubts. Tell me-, with your dear
voice and true eyes, that they, have
wrenged you, and make me believe in
your love and loyalty to me again if
you cam,
tried to laugh, but the effort was
Enot q. success. "You have little faith
| in yourself as we'll as in me-" said
| IF you can fancy that I would be
false to you for man like Ivan
| Ipanoff.''
( s'Who can tell what a woman loves
IN man? Explain yourself to me,
Juliette. Don't palter.''
| "Ipanoff pretended that he knew a
/ terrible secret concerning you" I
said, as steadily as + could. II feared
that in some strange way he had
heard about-the necklace. He vowed
that he would tell me all, and help
me to save you from ruin, If would
let him drive with me tonight for
half an hour, in. my brougham. He
said this in a letter which was handed
to me by the stage dOorke eper justafte1
I parted with you. IF it had not been
for the necklace I would have re-
fused; but felt that ] must find out
If he really knew anything. It was al
for you, Max-all for you. Now do you
! believe me 90
/ Think that I believe YOU" he
lsaid. slowly. And yet-and vet.
rs there an and yet?' Don't yor
see the plot p The man was playing
us off, one against the other. He
4 boosted to you, and, in order to keel
his boast, he tricked me; for in real
ity he knew nothing. I soon discoy
Tered that, and sent him adrift. ,Wllel
II had got rid of hint drove home
4 alone. =
You drove home alone ?' echoed
Maxine, with an expression growing
s In his great dark eyes that fright
Iened me. Instinctively I felt that Ii,