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struck down in the garden, she said;
he was dying, perhaps dead. She could
see the Moor stanching a wound with
q. handkerchief that futtered in the
breeze. Fascinated, although her heart
beat wildly, and her fear remained un-
abated, she did not move from the win
dow. 1t WAS her ardent hope that Doc
tor Xavier might be in the house; and
when she heard his voice, u great
weight seemed to be lifted from her
mind. What could have happened, she
asked She judged that it must be
something terrible.
Many minutes passed in this intoler-
able suspense. She perceived figures
moving to and fro between the trees
and anxious messengers running from
the house to the garden and back
again. No orc appeared to accuse
another or to defend himself. But once
did Esther identify Doctor Xavier; and
this was at the moment when the Moor
lifted a candle and the whole picture
stood out like vignette in the dark
ness. In that instant the scene was
fully revealed. A man lay upon the
grass and four stood about him. Es-
ther observed that he was in evening
dress; and that they had torn his shirt
open to stanch wound in his side.
The Doctor himself held a glass in his
hand. and put it from time to time to
the prone mans lips. At little dis
tam apart the moons beams dis
covered another actor in this grim
drama. He appeared to be a foreigner.
and a loose Spanish cloak covered him
to the knees. In defiant attitude he
leaned against one of the silver birches.
as though entirely unconcerned at that
which was passing so near to him.
Anon, he approached the kneeling
figures, and Esther heard him asking
questions. This man, she imagined
had struck the blow. The dreadful
mystery of it all appalled, her. What
was this house in which such things
were done? Why had she entered 1T
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ests heart. Esther would have slept
again, and was doing orr, when she
heard a mur1uur Of distant voices like
those of monks chanting an office.
Anon, a wild haunting melody arose,
fitful and weird; and TO this there sue
ceeded a harsh cultural intGnatlon,
which again gave place TO the sweeter
music Esther, believing that Doctor
Xavier was still away, and that none
but the servants remained in the house,
started up when first she heard the
singing, and sat. amazed, in her bed
until the last wild chord had floated
away upon the still night air. Anxious
to learn who the singers were, she put
on her dressing gown, and, going to her
bedroom window, she opened it very
quietly and peered thence into the gar
den. Fer many minutes neither sight
nor sound rewarded her. Tine bricked-
up windows of the Doctors study for
bade her to ascertain whether he occu-
pied it or no. Her own little room.
near to it, had the windows shut and
the blinds drawn. Esther could not de-
tect d light anywhere in the house. She
could hear no voices. She would have
returned to her bed. baffied by the
mystery. but for a sudden CRY which
arose upon the far side of the quad
rangle, and was answered by a low
cultural exclamation. and then by the
heavy thud of a falling body. Esther
did not at once understand the mean
ing CT this, nor could she account for
the presence of strangers in the gar
den. She imagined that the servants
would be awakened presently and the
alarm be raised; but when no one ap-
peared and no voice was raised, her
growing dread of some yelled mystery
became a fear surprising words. She
did not dare to move from the window
she feared that some one would detect
her there and resent her presence.
Anon, she thought that she observed
figures moving among the trees, and
then, as the greater surprise. she be-
held Yussuf, the Moor. carrying a can
die, which his long bony hand sheltered
from the wind. Her curiosity now was
raised to the highest pitch. She re-
marked that the Moor crossed the
quadrangle to that corner of the gar
den whence the cry had come. Another
and he stranger, followed at Yus-
suf's heels and carried q second silver
candlestick: and, together, the men
stopped at last as though over some
object which lay hidden by the trees
In this supreme moment Esther first
learned the truth. A man had been
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Esther perceived the soft green carpet
and the polished tables Of the great
room beyond. Cards Uttered the floor;
decanters of wine were plainly visible
in the soft mellow light which flowed
down from unseen lamps. Doctor
Xavier's first act was to close this door
and then to draw the heavy brocade
curtains across the window of her b0u-
doir.
Now" he said, motiOning her to the
sofa, "if you will permit me to finish
my cigar. 1 should like to have chat,
Miss Venn."
Esther obeyed him, as she always
did. and sat down, not a little awed.
waiting fer him to speak. No words
of hers. she thought. were called for
nor would they help him.
You were at the window" he be-
gan. directly she was seated, "and you
are aware Of the unfortunate accident
which has happened in this house to-
night I can quite admit, Miss Venn,
that any young girl might be alarmed
1t is never good for woman to be
the witness of mems differences. In
the case Of my own nation, our quar-
rels. unfortunately, do not. Ike yours
in this country, begin and end with
words. Let me say at once that two
of my friends quarreled in this house
tonight and that one Of them, un-
happily. has some occasion to repent
his hastiness do not think that his
wound is serious; but L am exceed
ingly sorry that he should have re-
ceived j. under my roof. A philoso-
pher. no doubt, would remember the
old apOthegm about a gamblers folly
and it's consequences / say nothing,
because I regard life as a gamble from
the cradle to the grave. If we do
not play with cards, we find more
dangerous tOols-men, women, nations.
powers and principalities. our own am
bitions, the follies OF our friends Cards
are responsible for many pitiful mis-
fortunes; but they are not often OF
the graver kind. I hope they viii not
prove to be so tonight Lorenzo. my
cousin. is more frightened than hurt
L regret the misfortune chiefly for
your sake: but you will be wise to
remember that such a thing is not
likely to happen here again"
Esther listened patiently. for he
seemed to be offering her an apology
for the distress she had suffered. OBJ
serving that she was expected to an
swer him, she took refuge in a gem
eral confession rather than a specific
assent.
Il heard some one singing IN the
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such charge should be made. Day by
day now her interest in this momen-
tous undertaking increased Was it
possible, was it right. she would ask
herself, that d woman should desire
such success or labor for it, And
against this she would pit the Doctors
argument and remember that every
thing which contributed to the happi-
ness of humanity contributed also to
it's beauty. The laws of health, upon
which later day civilization insisted,
the unceasing battle with disease and
death. what were they but instruments
to make mankind more beautiful?
Sometimes she would steal to the mir
ror and look at herself furtiyely as
though afraid of her own temerity. The
face that she beheld there won some
new gift of health and prettiness every
day. Color, she said, had returned to
her cheeks. Her eyes were wonderfully
bright. She had a clearness of skin
which was in itself a dover of great
price. Often when the vision of the
glass was accidental she would start
back from it as from a revelation of
beauty which almost bewitched her
Was this the Esther she had known?
By what miracle had such u change
come about? Esther could not believe
that ii was wholly so. The gowns with
which the Doctors liberality had sup
piled her were. indeed, the MASTER
pieces of a French costumier's art
From time to time in the privacy of
her bedchamber she would put on some
perfect melange of silk and chiffon,
and, amazed and fearful, would ask
herself If any of those who had once
known her would say that this was the
old Esther. Nevertheless, the question
why" was asked vainly. Why had
she been chosen? For what purpose
All, if she could but have answered
that!
We have said that fifteen days
passed and found Doctor Xavier still
absent. 1t was upon the fifteenth night
that Esther heard of his return, and
heard of it in a way that at once star
tied and perplexed her. 1t had been a
wet afternoon, with heavy thunder
storm about six o'clock. The close air
and great heat resulted in such a ner-
vous headache as the old time used to
give her, and Esther went to bed at an
early hour, and for little while slept
restfully. When she awoke, she
thought 1t would be the middle of the
night, for the moon shone full and
golden, and the beams revealed the ar
Dor of the garden like glen at for
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CHAPTER VIII

,-1.ri-ht rs Ma Pe1aberton.
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BFLASCO FIGHTS
The TRUSTS

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. &C.
Few theatrical events in Washington
have aroused more interest than has
the engagement Of Mrs. Leslie Car
ter which begins in Convention Hall.
Mr.. Belasco, Mrs. Carter's manager.
is at var with the theatrical syndi-
cate. which closed all Washington
theaters against him. The syndicate
also arranged to keep him out of
several halls in Washington but
overlooked Convention Hall. Mr..
Belcasco promptly secured the hall
for the present week and went about
converting it into a complete play
house, bringing much Of the neoes-
sary material from New York at
great expense A procenium arch
and stage were built and altogether
the necessary equipment, it is said,
cost the New York manager upwards
Of $4,000.
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issued. Thirsts, however, have
proved stronger than orders.
John D. jr.. suggested to his father
a year ago that he should employ
strategy against Melin. whereupon
the father had private detectives
go out from New York I'd watch the
inn and all who entered it's doors.
They thought they had caught John
selling liquor on Sunday, and a sum-
mons was issued forthwith from
White Plains. but when the sheriff
got to Sleepy Hollow Ind there was
displayed in the front window a Sun
day license.
Perhaps John had that license when
the Rockefeller sleuths were spotting
him. and perhaps he didn'E
The inn property measures only so
by 100 feet, but II mary the view
that sweeps from the sitesof the new
Rockefeller mansion on "Kalkout"
Hill and the Hudson. Perhaps it
also makes the breaths of thpse VINO
work on the millionaire,s great es-
tate too strong.
Some say it is the purpose Of John
d. Rockefeller to dam the southern
end of Sleepy Hollow and make of 1t
great artificial lake. Tarrytown
offered to give him title to the IL
acre pond from which 1t gets it's
water In lieu of the taxes and pay
him in addiation the cost Of the
water 1t used. The oil king refused
this OFFER and now IT is believed that
he may go into competition with the
village In supplying It's inhabitants
with water.
But bsfroe he supplies them with
water there is before him the prob
lem of how to keep John Melin from
supplying them with something
stronger than water. VIII humble
John Melin make John Rockefeller
pay his pricef
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American Hustle

is said there is nothing distinctive about the Amer
lean face there is about all the rest of the groups of
Caucasian faces. 1t has individuality. 1t is without
peculiar features such mark the Irish face the French
face the German face, the Jew face the English face 1t
is peculiar only in its cosmopoansm. It is in
composite face, from which obliterated all the pro
vnca and weaknesses that make the other
faces distinctive and in it is combined the strength of
6 them ALL =. -
Nevertheless the American physiognomy is decidedly
marked 1t is said that American is recognized at
glance in any part Of the world
The thing indelibly written the American face is
"huste" Every American looks if his eyes gar
ing into the far west and the far future He has serious
look that portends business. French imagination flashes
its sheet lightning over half world.
This terrible intensity of purpose and activity very
fine in many respects, but it is at the bottom of the i'll
health which serious to the life of this
try. The American works himself to DEATH
We think and we exhaust; we scheme, imagine, study
worry and enjoy, and proportonatey waste Over
worked brains and stomachs underworked muscles and
limbs derange the balance of supply and demand
We waste faster than enfeebled digestion repair We
feel always little depressed; restore the equilibrium
temporarily by stimulation.
What is most wanting to arduous enterprises in the
present day is-tme. We scarcely command few
hours of undsturbed effecual activity We live in the
midst OF tempests dead calms condemned alternately
to shpwreck inaction. More rapid and controlling
than ourselves events carry away ideas and intentions
before they have passed into facts and often before they
have ripened into attempts. =
In no section or the world is insanity more prevalent
than in this
This startling effect must undoubtedly be traced to tho
general restessness and excitement that pervades the
country and the general resessness and excitement that
pervades the country and the general Indifference to the
common and essential physiological laws.
We have too little recreation, too little regard for the
refreshing and nvigoratng influences of social inter
Our devotion to business of every kind too long
continued and too absorbing. We rise early and sit up
late and eat the bread of careuness and eat it hastily
that we may lose no time from work. g -
Constant care and anxious thought write their deep
traces the brow their corrodng influences consume
not only the elasticity of mind and body, but the better
feelings Of the heart 81
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A Disease in Human Nature

The remarkable operations of Cassie Chadwick were
made possible only by reason of disease in human
ture which might be called putophia-hatred for the
rich
Had her flimsy tales of connections been directed
against any ordinary they would have been prompt
ly dismissed preposterous
But SANDER is too gross for credit if only very
inent man is the object.
In inscrutabe way it to promote salts
faction to believe that the extremely fortunate in the at
fairs OF the world prone than other to stray
from the straight and narrow path.
Maybe there is envy mixed up it. Maybe there is an
instructive feeling in the carna mind of the majority that
success is not separable from lbertinsm.
Anyway, that which, told about ordinary person,
would be dismissed malicious interested fiction is
greediy accepted when is linked with prominent
is easy to imagine if you spared the disgust of
observing with what air of Importance the hearers of such
story hint to their familiars concerning the nsde in
formation they possess and descant upon their small smat
terings of the irregular lives of the eminent
You think that great soidly founded upon
masterful industrial achievement and princey benefc
fence is impregnabe to SANDER.
Then you don know the deep disease in human nature
which just such that to be the most easily
besmirched
You dOn know thhat suspicion is a foul parasite that
nsncvey seeks to attach itself to healthy growth.
But Cassie Chadwick knew it, and the secret invested
her with powers which falsely call hypnotic She ap
peaed to subconscous force in against which their
calm reasoning and careful business training atrophed
and became impotent.
Had she used the name of an ordinary she would
have been promptly shown out of every bank she entered
as a slanderer and a swindler.
But great name-ah! that went straight to the dis
eased spot.
Human nature went half way to meet a SANDER like
Sa1dr and embraced it at once
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THE orRER END OF THEpo} uLAR SPORT
SOME BOwLERs As SEEN BY THE PIN BOYS

Reports are still being sent out
cas- is out trying to form a bush
league for the next sea son. The little
man was over on the coast last week,
according to the dispatches, trying to
work up interest in league compris-
Ing Vancouver. Victoria, Everett and
Bellingham.
Wouldn't 1t be q good idea to try
Cheney, Sprague. Davenport and Will
bur? They're about the right size.
Manager Frank Selee Of the Chica-
go Nationals is down in California
for the winter, getting interviewed
by the sporting writer's. In speaking
Of the discussion over playing rules
Frank says:
IT think something should be done
to help batting. / have read of the
several suggestions that have been
made with great interest and I be-
lieve that anything that can be done
to help batting and base running Is
a move in the right direction. To my
mind the best thing that can be done
to help batting is to make it three
and three. Moving the pitcher back
would check base running. Allowing
stroke shoulder to hip would be q
decided failure. I rather favored this
change at one time, but am convinced
that 1t would be no help now. A
large number Of batters prefer a low
ball to high one and a great many
others are weak hitting at balls about
the hip. With the foul strike abol-
ished and a strike called shoulder to
hip the umpires would all go into a
decline. I sincerely hope that the
foul strike rule will not be dropped.
1t is rule that helps a great ma
jority of batsmen and helps equally
all the teams"
Pop" Arson recently came out
with declaration of his belief that
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the much talked Of "spK ball" is
nothing more nor less than the old
rain-soaked ball under a new name.
Pop" says he never batted at the
new "spit." but allowed he guessed
right the very first time. In contra
dieting Pop" a Cincinnati magnate
says:
"'Pop' Arson shoots wide Of the
mark when he speaks Of the so-called
spit BALI and the ordinary wet ball
IA ball soaked by rain-as ono and
the same thing. Il doubt very much
II Anson ever batted against the
spit ball delivery. There Is no pos
sible comparison between the ball
served up by Jack Chesbro and a
few other pitchers last season and
the ball we face when It Is raining.
Only a small portion of the sphere
is dampened in the spit ball delivery
perhaps the space covered by two
fingers. By grasping the ball in an
other place the pitcher can go back
to the regular delivery. But when
the ball is wet all over-sticky-it
can't be curved much and the pitch
ers resort to a change of pace, either
hurting the ball at us or sort Of
showing it toward the batters. No.
the spit ball was distinctly a 1904
creation and am frank to say 1t was
very clever one"
They're talking of making Sandy
Griswold president Of the Western
Baseball league next year. Sandy is
we'll known as a sporting writer in
Omaha and has good backing. He and
Jim Whitfield. the old sp1rting editor
Of the Kansas City Star. swere great
rivals. Jimmy won out on an cleo
ton to the presidency OF the league
and then shot himself. fThd suicide
gave Sandy a clear field. but he
tactfully waited until suflcient time
had passed before taking up the
fight for himself.
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JOHN MELIN.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-John D.
Rockefeller has succeeded within the
past few weeks In obtaining possess
sion of every plotof ground in Sleepy
Hollow. that hamlet in Pocantico
Hills made mortal by the poem Of
Washington Irving. with the excep7
ton of the land upon which stands
the inn Of John J. Melin.
The offending saloon will pass into
the oil kings possession 'just az
soon," says John Melin, a canny
Swede. las he thanks he can pay mine
price,"
Behind the acquisition Of land by
Rockefeller there lies the tale Of a
fight that should make glad the heart
Of many q man who has felt the
roasting scorch OF Standard Oil mill
lions This John ]. Melin pronounces
his name Mclean. He settled in
Sleepy Hollow 20 years ago. II is
only eight years since Rockefeller
saw the quiet spot and the broad
rolling acres around.
"Ay come here nrst. Yon, he come
second" Is the way innkeeper Melln
spins HIS yarn, and the familiar way
in which John speaks Of "Yon" would
lead one to believe that they were
on terms OF the most intimate in
tercourse. "Ay balm here twanty
year an Ay don't move for no mil
Iionaires. Ay sell sweet cider an
hard cider an something more hard.
Yon. he sell coal OIL"
It 10 because Meiin was in Sleepy
Hollow nrst and because he is wise
in his generation that he doesn't pro-
DOSE to suffer the ban of Rockefeller
or putt his inn business. No sooner
haA the Standard OIL magnate set
tied in the Pocantico Hills and be-
gun TO desire everything in sight
than the edict against Rockefeller
employees visiting Melin's inn was
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Because he quit the track In the
six-day race In New York. Bobby
Walthour. with others. has been sus-
pended for a year by the racing board
Of the National Cycling association.
Bobby Is the only wheelman suspend
ed who races all the year around
and a year off will be a misfortune
to him.
According to the Seattle papers
that unlucky baseball burg is to
have an entirely new team next sea-
son and 1t is announced that our own
favorite, Matt Stanley. will be ono
Of the players. A popular movement
in favor of buying Matt from Spo-
kane has been started in the coast
town and pressure is being brought
to bear on Manager Russ Hall to ef-
feet the purchase.
But over here we've a sneaking
liking for Matt ourselves and 1t isn't
hardly likely that Seattle can raise
enough money just at present to buy
the popular backstop.
That action Of the northern towns
in voting to fine Manager Henry Har-
ris Of San Francisco. chief dictator
behind President Bert of the coast
league, was real nice. The fine tasted
much better to the other managers
than it did to Boss Harris.
Harris fine was $500 for allowing
his team to leave the field during a
game. with Portland after an objec-
ton had been made to a ruling by
Umpire Christie.
!. Umpire Jack Mccarthy has been
offered a berth in the American
league by President Ban Johnson.
Mccarthy will accept the offer made,
which gives him a great chance to
make a record in the easiest league,
for umpires, that exists.
WILLIE B. GOODE
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GOODWIN TO
FIGHT TUCKER,

SALEM, Mass, Dec. 28.-An inter-
esting bout is promised for the arena
of the Apollo Athletic Club tonight,
when Chester Goodwin, Of Chelsea,
and Chick Tucker, of New York,
come together for a ten round fight.
1t will be their second meeting in
the ring. In the previous battle
Tucker scored knockout in the four
teenth round, but the referee refused
to honor 1t.
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GUS RUHLIN TO
FIGHT AGAIN

AKRON, o., Dec. 26.-After a long
absence from the ring Gus Rubin,
the akron Giant" and a one-time
aspirant for heavyweight champion
ship honors, is to make his reappear-
ance tonight at a show to be given
by the North End A. C. Of this city.
His opponent will be Doc" Payne
of Cleveland. Both men appear to
be in good trim and the contest is
expected to be an interesting one.
Meet your friends at the Pfster.
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