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eleven other bottles at 50 or SO apiece:
and when he had slept over the ad-
venture, father and daughter spent
day in seeing what could be seen in
the time from Southampton-Port
mouth and the Victory in particular.
And at the end of that day they dined
together in a private room of the hotel,
which was to cater for their one re-
naming night in southampton.
Somehow, it was not an extremely
lively dinner. In point of fact, 10th
were a little dull 1t is possible that
Mr.. Merrick somewhat regretted the
Tokay. He was lavish enough with
his money, but he had a considerable
dislike to looking foolish, and he had
something more than vague idea that
he looked a little foolish over this
transaction of the wine-at any rate to
himself He rather wished, now, that
he had kept it. There would have
been drawbacks, of course. A great
case of a dozen magnums of precious
wine would have been sad encum-
branee in the pursuit of the express
rate tour which he and Daisy designed
for themselves, there would have been
constant anxiety as to breakages-and
probably there would have been the
actual breatages also. Still, he wished
he had kept, at any rate, a single mag
reserve price on the rest.
AS for Daisy, she also was a trif1e
less ViyaciouS than usual. Perhaps
when one has been in daily acquain-
tance with few pleasant people in
the narrow confines of a steamship for
best part of month, it is a little de-
pressing to lose them all suddenly and
find oneself in u hotel where everybody
is strange; perhaps one is none the
Iacc 611I1 yxrh On Of I1n fY.in dc ar.
have gone is a pleasant and entertain
ing man of hirty-five-Harvey Crook
was entertaining and pleasant; also
thirty-five. Thirty-fiye is quite young,
nowadays, for man. Not that that
mattered, of course. Why should it?
Mr.. Merriek alluded to the subject
of his own thoughts; Daisy said moth
ing about the subject of hers. Coffee
was brought and Mr.. Merrick lit a
cigar.
well. Daisy" he SAID, 81 guess I
shall have to do without a glass of To-
kay this time
Are you only just beginning to re-
gret your speculation, father?" asked
Daisy. You will observe that, al
though she was an American young
lady, she did not say pepper" or pop
or paw" That was because she had a
sense of htlmor and saw no reason for
making both herself and her father RI
diculous
We'll" that gentleman answered, 81
suppose no man would be over and
above highland mighty satisfied with
a speculation that lost him thirty
-fortietns of his stake, as a spec
ulation. But I was thinking it might
ha' been as well to keep one magnum
anyway-just as a curiosity. II
nlightn't have been altogether a mis-
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And, indeed, it was the cat, which,
encouraged to emerge from its retreat
by his more familiar presence, had ap-
preached him from behind. The gray
p1an seized one of the precious rolls OF
painted silk and struck savagely at the
creature. which lodged and turned and
sprang off into the dark corridor. The
gray man turned to Crook again.
81 am growing sadly nervous of late, :
he said, @and a very little thing affects
me. You must forgive my little eccen-
tricities. I was speaking Of my house
keeper the good soul insisted that
something must be done to offer you
refreshment. I have to ask your par
don for SO many things tonight that
am sure you will overlook any short
comings in this respect There is a
cold fowl in the larder, and if you will
return to the dining room I think / will
do myself the pleasure of acting host
and waiting together"
1t seemed that this odd person had
already ceased to be interested in the
painting which Crook had brought. so
now nothing Eemafned but to approach
the matter Of the Tokay. as dinner might
give the opportunity. So Crook made
the feeblest possible protest that COM
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mon politeness would permit, and fol-
lowed his host back into the dining
room again.
There he sat in the brilliant light of
the many candles while the gray man
carried the lamp to and fro between
dining room and kitchen, and so set be-
fore him the materials of a very decent
cold dinner.
"As to wine now," asked the gray
man, presently, what are your prefer
ences? I think 1 can give you almost
anything YOU may fancy. including
some exceptionally rare vintages. / do
not collect wines with the same assldu-
ity which devote to other things. but
/ have had some pieces ofSluck now
and again.
Here was an opportunity. Yes" as
sented Crook, "1 heard of one such
piece of luck when was told of your
liking for Oriental art. They told me
that you bought kakemono at Law
sons the other day, and at the same
sale were lucky enough to secure
magnum of very old Imperial Tokay.
"Ah, yes-the Tokay!" The gray
mans eyes lighted up as from the sud
@The Tokay! How lucky you should
remind me. We. will open it, Mr..
Crook. Come, will bring it at once!,
Here was another curious thing.
This connoisseur of Eastern art, yes
terday learned and enthusiastic on the
subject of ancient Chinese paintings.
and today almost ignorant of them,
careful even to avoid their very names,
was now betraying curious Ignorance
as a connoisseur of wines. For who
would think of drinking old Imperial
Tokay with his food, instead of after
But Crook had his object to gain, and
was not disposed to be critical
Presently his new acquaintance re-
turned with the magnum-not carrying
it tenderly at a proper slope as one
who understood wines, but graSplng u
upright by the neck
Here it is," he said, putting it dowN
on the table with a jar that would
have torn the nerves of a true judge OF
old wines, land since it pleases you,
am sorry f-did not get more, for 1t was
quite cheap"
He took a corkscrew from the side
board, and essayed to open the bottle
But now Crook was surprised to per-
ceive that his hands, steady enough fol
less exact work, were trembling SO thai
he stabbed seal and corkscrew togeth-
er half a dozen times without hitting
the center.
"ket me try, suggested Crook, jump
ing at the opportunity. My hands are
particularly steady, and an old wine
like this needs especially careful hand
nng.1
His host yielded bottle and corkscrev
gladly, and Crook saw that the seal wa:
old and dirty and quite unbroken HI
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open the writing table without trouble
We're in a pocket of waistcoat of Mr..
Clifton's which hung under a heap of
other clothes in press in his dressing
room.
So much Harvey Crook learned, with
the rest of the world, at the inquest or
before it. But he had not learned all,
nor even all that concerned himself and
his search.
CHAPTER w
The Stewards Magnum-and Another
So far we have followed Harvey
Crook in his quest of the scattered
magnums of Tolay and what some one
of them might contain besides the
wine. We how return to the scatterer
of those magnums-SMr. Lyman w.
Merrick, of MerricksviITe Pa.-and his
daughter Daisy
When he and his daughter-auite as
important as her father in other be-
sides his own fatherly eyes-had hidden
good-by to Harvey Crook; when the
sale was over, and Mr.. Merrick had
calculated that his one bottle of ToFay
had cost him $975. while he had sold
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He took up the lamp once more, and
Crook followed him with the old kake-
mono. The drawing room was large,
and far fuller of everything furniture,
pictures, china, bronzes-than the din
ing room. The gray man turned to
large cabinet and pulled open its doors
unlocked, fortunately" he said.
"As a matter of fact, L was having a
little hunt for my keys when you ar
rived, and I am particularly anxious to
find them soon, for other reasons.
Here are the-well, the specimens, you
know"
The cabinet drawers were full Of
rolled pictures, Chinese and Japanese,
and the gray man wandered among
them, unrolling first one and then an
other, but never coming upon anything
that might be considered copy Of
Mokkei.
II am afraid my things are in sad
confusion" he said Though, of
course, this is nothing to the confusion
I should suffer from If 1 kept more
servants. l find it a great advantage
to keep the esta blishment so low that
they barely have time to do the neces-
sary work of the household without in
terfering with my beloved litter. But
the windows are sad affiiction to my
excellent housekeeper! You noticed
the windows? OF course you did
everybody does. By the by, speaking
of my housekeeper, if you will pardon
me once more, should much like to
see how the worthy soul is getting on
She has these little attacks sometimes
but she usually RECEIVERS before long
Do you mind? Perhaps you can amuse
yourself with the-specimens till l re-
turn
He was gone little longer this time
The carpets were soft, but Crooks ears
were sharp, and he fancied that his
host had gone no farther than a dool
a few yards away.
AS Crook sat and waited in the dimly
lit room q large black cat came purring
in at the door, stared at him full-eyei
for some few moments, and then re-
treated behind a pile of portfolios
Just then there was a sound from some
neighboring room-slight, but notice
able in that still house. 1t might have
been breaking stick.
Almost Immediately the smiling gra.
man came back.
Il really must beg thousand par
my awkward situation, don't you? TIL,
poor old soul is a little better. but still
far from WELL You didn't hear any un
usual noise, did you?"
Crook was beginning to answer whel
a shadow crossed the door opening a
the gray mans side, and he turne
with a gasp of terror.
'.What-whats thGt?' he exclaimed
almost in a whisper. 'The cat-it
the cat!'
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floor. Across the room stood a writing
table. of which all the drawers but two
had been forced open; and, as he saw
this, Crook remembered the cracking
noises he had heard, and remembered
how the gray man had complained of
the loss Of his keys. While here, he
knew now, lay Mr.. Basil Clifton, dead
in his blood, while he, Crook, had been
sitting at table with his murderer!
Harvey Crook ran out at the front
door, and beat at the knockers of the
villas opposite. What followed he
never afterward remembered with
much distinctness. Women tainted,
men were white in the face, and after
a time there was a returning servant
girl hysterical and screaming. Then
the police came. and he was told that
for the present he must consider him
self in custody; and that cleared his
faculties.
Harvey Crooks arrest was not long
one, and, after certain explanations and
an hour or two'S detention, he was al
lowed to return to his hotel, though he
had more than a suspicion that he
was still under observation. But
at the inquest the whole matter
was made plain, partly by the
testimony of the housemaid, partly by
by other evidence. The vanished mur-
derer was one James Pritchard, a
friend of Mr.. Clifton's in early youth.
In middle life affairs had gone i'll with
him, he had made efforts to repair
them, in which the practice of forgery
was involved, and penal servitude was
his punishment. Mr.Clifton had strong
ly upheld his innocence, and, now that
he was released, had begun to employ
him tenn nora rilV To catalogue his Ii
brary, while some more permanent en-
ployment might be looked for; and this
was the end of it all. The ungrateful
wretch had murdered his benefactor
and the housekeeper, the only other
person in the place, for the sake of
whatever he might find in the safe.
1t was not very much, after all-9 SO
or e 70 in notes and gold, so far as
could be ascertained. 1t became plain
that the crime must have been COM
mitted just before Harvey Crooks ar
rival, and that it was only on turning
over his victims papers that the mur-
derer learned that Crook was expected
and became acquainted with the reason
sof his call. Before he could find the
keys with which the safe might be
opened, Crook arrived, and in order to
gain time to gather his plunder un-
molested, Pritchard had adopted the
expedient of himself posing as Mr.
Clifton Harvey Crook was young
strong and alert, or possibly the wretch
might have made a further attempt or
him. As it was he contrived to leave
cure. 1t turned out afterward that tbs
his guest from time to time, break oper
the drawers of the writing table till he
had found the safe keys, and at last
decanlp with what p1under he could Sc
keys which would have enabled him te
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The eternal Feminine

..Well. Molly. I've been comm to see
YOU for nigh onto fourteen years now
..hon,t We think we'd better begin ter
think about gittin' married?''
'.Oh, john this is so sudden!-Hous-
ton Post.
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~ RooK stepped out. and found
III himself before a detached house
W of moderate size, standing
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THE SENATORS GROW
SOMEWHAT ORkfOR|CAL
Achi Provokes Storm Trying to Find Out
What it Will Cost to Run the
Proposed Counties.

The Senator's in despite of they present
force Governor Carte first official reception Thursday night
gathered early for the business day yesterday really
seemed to be fine for their paytime good
thing for old boys,
The Senate has caught with for little
toward the close Of the session yesterday thought that
adjournment would be taken Monday
tees could also catch but the chance passed and there will be
session today The Senate however has all well
in hand and there will be number OF important bills final read
Mondays After these disposed of
possibly lag little waiting the report the County
Committee.
The House also dispatched with
less tendency than usual There slight unpleasant
when Representative Kanho exceptions the work
Carl Smiths reference Later Mr. Kanho before
the committee and satisfaction disposition
had been made of his bills And unpeasantness
thing OF the Representative Quinn introduced bill that
mends the Sunday law radically almost wipe OF
There little the corridors during the
that the transators had formed hui would
work for less TIM folio price fixed by the
printing committee being member of the ocaed hui
had said outside translator threatened i
with deep legislative dspasure he did that had been
him less than fifty The outsider chairman
Greenwelo the printing advice chairman
laughed a him.
There who refused 50
cents, said Mr. Greenwich "but if there hui do know
anything about The said the threat
has been and taken work this afternoon There
be plenty of ranslato and they willing work at
the price set
And story Of possible graft goes gmmering.
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open until II o'clock. The section re-
speeding amusements is amended to
read that no sport or game shall be
played in such a manner as to be a
common nuisance on Sunday.
RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED.
During yesterdays session the fol-
lowing resolutions We're introduced and
passed on to the Reference Commit
tee:
To appropriate $4,000 for repairs to
bridges, $1,000 for culverts, $4,000 for
general road work, and $4,000 for Ka-
luanuini breakwater, all in Koolauloa-
(Rep. Cox.
For 5000 for the erection of a shed
for Waimea landing. (Rep. Sheldon).
For $22150 for schools on Maui, Mo-
Iokai and Lanai. (Rep. Haia).
For $4,000 to complete the Manoa
road. (Rep. Andrade).
For $4,000 to erect schools at Laupa-
hoehoe and Pohakupuka. (Rep. Fer
nandez).
For $4,000 to erect a new fire sta
ton at the corner Of Maunakea and
Pauahf streets, Honolulu. (Rep. Ma
helona).
For $500 for new fire station near
Judd and Nuudnu streets, Honolulu.
(Rep. Mahelona).
a joint resolution for the giving of a
bounty for coffee raising was submit
ted by Rep. Greenwell and was receiv-
ed.
To appropriate $4,000 for the new
Pauoa road. CRep. LilikaIanD.
To appropriate $4,000 for adding so
new fire alarm boxes to the Honolulu
system. (Rep. Mahelona).
To appropriate $4,000 for a beach road
from Honuapo to Punaluu. (Rep. Pu-
Iaa)
For $3.50 for a teachers cottage at
WaiaIua, Molokai. (Rep. Nakuina).
For appropriation of $6S70 for d new
chemical engine, horses, harness and
supplies for new hose company at Judd
and Nuuanu streets. rep. Water
house,.
For 500, 1000 for the establishment of
a new hose company at Kalihi near
GuIick road. CRep. Mahelona).
The bills introduced were:
To quarantine live animals. (Rep-
Fernandez.
To regulate veterinary medicine,
and dentistry. CRep. Andrade).
The House rose at noon.
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A CHANCE FOB A GOOD home.

II you want a fine lot ready Tor
building at Kaimuki, do not buy BEFORE
you have consulted the undersigned.
who offers bargs ms at your own terms
and without interest
Two 50x1O0 Kewalo lots at $500 each-
A nice lot. with a new, comfortable
house, at KaIuapalena, Kalih1, for 1901
One pretty home new house, IN
Nuuanu Tract, provided with GOV
eminent water, $500; bargain. Also IN
the same tract (the coolest and healtn-
lest place about the city, some nne,
cheap lots at your own terms
J. II. SCHNACK.
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THE SENATE.

There was some little oratory in the
Senate yesterday over a resolution in
troduced by Achf intended to get at
exactly what part of the tax levy it
would take to carry on the new coun-
| ties, provided that there are to be any
new counties, it being the sense of the
Senate, apparently, that Achi was ask
ing for something that it would be
impossible to get at this time.
HE is jumping across his bridges
| before he gets to them" said Dowsett.
THE spirit of the resolution is all
right said Bishop, but Senator Achi
is asking us to fulfill an impossible
condition. He wants something that
does not exist
Achi spoke at some length in support
of his resolution, claiming that it COW
cred a plain business proposition, but
in order to remove any vagueness in
the matter he consented to modify it
so as to make the information sought
relate to the counties that might be
created under the bill presented by
the County Act Commissioners. In
that form the resolution passed. It is
as follows:
BE it resolved by the Senate the
House of Representatives concurripg;
that the Committee of Ways and Means
of the Senate. and the similar Commit
tee of the House of Representative
are hereby appointed Joint Commit
tee of the Legislature of the year 1905;
said Joint Committee is hereby order
ed to make, or prepare and report to
either House within five days an esti-
mate of the expenses of the following
Counties. in case a County Act would
be passed by this Legislature: East
Hawaii. West Hawaii Maui County,
oahu County, and Kauai County, ac-
cording to the form proposed by the
County Commission
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
The days session opened with
message from the Governor to the eff
feet that he had signed the joint reso-
luton instructing the delegate in Con- /
gress to work for the passage of /
law appropriating $150,0o0 for the sci
entific study of leprosy.
An invitation was received from Su-
of Schools Atkinson in
viting the Senators to be present a
the opening of Royal School. The Com
nittee on Education was instructed to
accept the invitation.
The Committee on Education report
I'd in favor of appropriating $500 for
school at Honuapo. Hawaii. said ap-
preparation to be Immediately expend-
ID out of the unappropriated balance in
he loan fund. 1t was explained that
there is an unexpended balance Of
something like $4,000 from which this
money could be drawn. There was
OF of discussion, the resolution being
1t last returned to the committee for
correction,
The Judiciary Committee reported
that House joint reso-
ution No. be laid on the table. The
'eport follows:
Your Judiciary Committee to whom
vas referred House Joint Resolution
40. 5. beg leave to report as follows:
The idea of the resolution is good
me. But We are of the opinion that
he Legislature of the Territory Of Ha-
vail have ample power under Section
3 of the Organic Act to pass a law or
avs which would enable homesteaders
0 construct roads to their holdings
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TRESPASS NOTICE

Notice Is hereby given that any per-
son found within the enclosed bounda-
ries of the lands of Hoaeae and Pouha-
Ia, in the District of Eva, Oahu, lying
above the upper fence of Oahu Sugar
Company's cane field, for the purpose
Of shooting game or otherwise without
written permission, will be considered
as trespa ssers and poachers and VIII
We prosecuted to the full extent of the
law. NJ. P. ROBINSON.
7015
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THE HOUSE.

| Yesterday was a day of real work
while there was not great deal of ora
| tory, there was a busines-like discus
sion of bills submitted after having
passed the ordeal of the Committee on
Public Lands and Internal Improve
ments.
\ rift in the lutte was apparent, how
ever when Rep. Kaniho objected to be-
| ing called on to explain the object of
! one of his bills to the Reference Com
| mittee and his objection seemed almost
certain to crystalline into a general pro-
test if Chairman Smiths Committee of
Reference should constitute itself rath-
er into a Committee of Revision.
RESOLUTIONS REPORTED.
Chairman Mahelona of the Commit
tee on Public Lands and Internal I'm
provements reported on the following
resolutions:
For an appropriation of $500 for a
court house and jail in the district of
/ Hawaiian, Kauai. Recommended.
For $4,000 for the extension of Pua
street from King to School street eX-
tension. Recommended.
For Sc, 900 for completing the road
from Kaola. to KaIaupaa in Puma, Ha-
wall. Recommended
For $50, 0G0 for the extension of Vine
yard street to Kalihi street. Refused.
For $500 for a road from Kikiula to
Hanalei. Recommended.
For $4,000 Tor mac.tIamf"ing the
Waialae road. Recommended that S.,
40C be appropriated for HIacadaluizins
from Kaiulani avenue to Isenberg's
Waialae ranch.
For $4,000, new bridges and culverts
for Waimea district, 5000 fer reg1ad-
ing road through Waimea village; $4,000
for concrete piers for Hanapepe bridge
and $1,000 for roads and bridges, gen
eral Waimea. Recommended
For 81, GOO repairs TO main road from
Kukuihaele village to top of Waipio
pail, Hamakua and for $500 for re
pairs to road on the Pail o Kaluahine,
Waipio. Recommended.
For $50. 900. new road from Multi, Ko-
hala, to the Honokane Nui gulch; $4,000
new road from Mahukona to Puakea;
for $1,000 for road from NiTfu TO Kaic-
phi. Refused as unnecessary.
For $4,000 to repair government road
haze landing. Refused, as the road
needs no repairs.
For So, 200 for new bridges and Gull
verts, Koloa: $40 for relocating portion
Of Lfhue road. Recommended. For
s12, ass. macadamizing roads in and near
Koloa: recommended that $4,000 be ap-
propriated for roads and bridges For
$500 per month for roads in Koloa dis
-rict Disallowed.
For $40. 600 for the extension of Queen
street to Waiakamilo road. Recon-
nended.
For $500 for new court house, Jail I.
and offices at North Hilo. Recon-
nended. For $4,000 for schoo. house
At I.aupahoehoe and $4,000 for school
1t Pohakupuka: referred to the Com
uittee on Education.
For 100000 for constructing a Wa
erworks system in Manoa- Refused
- the government IS not owner Of the
water rights in Nanoa valley, Rep.
tndrade dissented from the finding Of
he committee and on his motion the
,eport was tabled. Tt VII he consider
d in connection with the Appropria-
ion Bill
For 81. 00o for Kaupo bridge in Wal
lIua: for 81. 600 for Kaika bridge: for
g. eco for Paukauiia bridge and for 81,
oo for bridges. piers and abuttments
.cross .Keamanfa. AokuleIa and Ka-
xaihapai gulches: recommended to
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open until II o'clock. The section re-
speeding amusements is amended to
read that no sport or game shall be
played in such a manner as to be a
common nuisance on Sunday.