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Evening star., 1907-07-21

went to the police but didn't dare give your real
name without your permission, especially the
authorities had kind of prejudice against it. Fired
off my best Spanish though, and insinuated that
limiting that it might be convenient for his plans
that you should disappear, they wouldn't take
seriously. Were polite and all that promised to look
you up, but intirnated that most people who van
ished had private reasons for doing so.
After that didn't expect them to find out any,
thing, and they did their best to disappont me-
l saw that if anybody going to do the Sherlock
Holmes act, it must be Ropes and l. We sat tight
at the Washington Irving, and looked around; but
at the end of fortnight any wiser than
at the beginning. Then what should happen but the
dear old Colonel and Pillar popped down to see if
they could help. Oh, and forgot to tell you that
meanwhile the people at Carmonas palace had
cleared out They had gone back to Seville again by
train; and what should happen but the Colonel and
Pillar met Carmona face to face in the station"
Not Monica?" | broke in.
No. l suppose the others had got into a car
rage; he was lingering behind to give valet drec-
tons about luggage. And then there was scene.
Pillar told me all about it. Carmona bowed; and
before the Cherub could pull the little girl away as
he tried seeing danger in her eye, she gave the Duke
a piece of her mind Said he was villain or some
kind words of that sort. He retorted by saying to
her father that he could make lot of trouble for
Cristoval if they didn't take Pillar said they
could him of things than he could tkem
and somehow or other, in an evil moment, the SUBJ
Ject of Corc1to gray bull CarmOna once nasty
about, came up. Then, before she knew what she
doing, Pillar flashed out the name of Vivillo the
beast she wanted to buy, you know. And from that
minute the fat in the fire far she was con-
cerned. But about that later. What with you and
she got here, poor child However, she put on ner
thinking cap, and said, Try the Gpsies! See if
they don't know something.
To be continued next Sunday
Evening star., 1907-07-21
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY FL. 1907

IDENTIFY intended for kitchen, but also used by the
solitary tenant dining room. 1t had a window
opening the court. This, however, was covered
with heavy shutters protected by a curtain and
ventilation through adjoining from
a window opening another small court.
Evidently my jaier had been interrupted in the
midst of his supper and hearing noise in the patio
had stopped only long enough to snatch up sword
stick. On the table was simple meal of cold meat,
salad goats milk cheese and fresh fruit; but to my
bottle half full of rel Spanish wine; and | did not
wait for Dick suggestion to sit down. | must get
back my strength, if was to be of any Monica
or myself, and hardly listened to Dicks warning
that starved man must not satisfy his first hunger.
Eat slowly, and not too much, he said with
anxious eyes my face, which must have been
frghtful, though he too tactful to make
ments. AS l obeyed, he told his story, briefly
and disjontedly, as the points came back to him
Didn't hear from you" he said, "and began
bit taken up with my own affairs Just then,
I'm afraid. Yes, l mean Pillar. After five days,
wired the landlord He answered you had left with
a friend. | thought that queer, and set out for
Granada by next train, Ropes with me. At the
Washington Irving l found both my kilograms to
you and letter. Landlord said he got note from
you, dated Motri telling him you d met friend and
gone off Unexpectedly in his automobile. You in
closed more than enough money to pay bill and tips,
and asked him to have your luggage packed and
not for sometime Naturally, he hadn't worried;
and as he had DESTROYED the letter | coudn tell if
it your handwriting.
Well thought you might have rushed off sud-
denly account of some lark of Carmona'S; but
soon found out he still in Granada slowly getting
called but nobody in the house seeing visitors.
Ropes discovered that your in a stable down
in the town, where you had left it, without saying
for how long. He and l were getting scared, and l
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IF that's what worries YOU Look here if this place
has been good enough to box you up in all this time
is good enough to keep him nl he nodded toward
the acove. :" He lives alone here, without servants;
fmaster-guess you know who's in Madrid so
when this chap comes to himself he can try how he
Hikes your quarters. They seem rather nice ones
Judging from what | see; but Carrnona always
docs himself we'll
| Is this Car1nona's house?" asked
"You bet it isl Little private sort of place he
keeps ready when he wants to amuse himself in
|way which Monica and other people mightn't ap-
prove of in Dukes. This old Johnny combination
of Caretaker and physician in ordinary to His Grace
But let's get out of this. can't give you marble
| bath or Moorish decorations at my hotel; but
shouldn't wonder if you'd prefer the accommoda-
ton; and after that conduit business | need wash
and brush up as much as you do. Why, old man,
what's the matter? Not going to crack up, your?
I'm all right" l said; but l haven't had any,
thing to eat since the day after you Off except
mi <, and none of that for the last two days.
Great Scott! We parted five weeks ago!"
The words gave me shock IN spite of the Stubble
on my chin and the whteness of my hands. Dick
had his wet round my shoulders, and we were
lat the door, which he was about to lock- and
startled him by caving in little at the knees.
See here he said, hanging to my if
|afrald should vanish in thin air, we Won wait to
dine at my hotel! Well nose round bit in this old
ohnnv's larder. You must be bucked up before you
|go out into the street Oh, it's safe enough The
|old brute is hermit-for his reasons, or Car
|mona s. Nobody comes near the house, and we
take own time. While you eating you shall
hear everything | have got to tell
He locked and bolted the door, and helped me
down the stairs, up which | must have been carried
unconscious; perhaps by the Gpsy, assisted by the
master of the house.
Below stairs the place dark save for the light
which had streamed out into the patio with the
opening door 1t came from good sized room evil
Evening star., 1907-07-21

again, and soon deep in the clear depths, as we
rested we could see the dim outline of a coral branch
long, anter like shoots of olive, yellow, and brown
Again we hauled, and when the grapnel FIVE
feet from the surface again rested and eyed the
game. There it was, dark, mottled palpitating
mass rising and falling like feshy tide; then as
the Negro pulled up long, snakeike tentacle,
then another
Slack off sah!' yelled Scope, letting go his own
line He's dun comm abo'd d.!
Another big tentacle came twisting over the gum
wall, which | made strike at with knife,
taking off a foot two and then they all withdrew
and my companion announced that the devil fish
had dropped the mass of coral and fastened itself
to the bottom of the boat
On de boat!" shrieked Scope. Den he'll be
comm in next! Yo' mus excuse me, gemen, shore
you mus'!" and with that he sprang to the bow and
using the oar for vaulting pole, swung himself over
beyond the coral into clear, sandy, shallow chan
mel, and began to wade for Long Key, several hun
dred yards distant.
By looking the rail, bending down with head
near the surface of the water, big notified mass
could be clinging to the bottom-our game,
with one of the hooks fastened to it. We decided to
pull into deep water where it could not take refuge
in the coral, and tow it in. But the devil fish did
Evening star., 1907-07-21

Imagine each arm lined on the lower surface with
scores of round, edged suckers, each powerful
enough to grasp large fish, and combined suf
fcently powerful to hold dozen men in the open
water Imagine each of the to be supple
beyond belief, each veritable snake. Imagine the
entire surface of this soft, fabby mucous like horror
to possess the marvellous power of color change;
flashing in deep red or brown; again paling to
become hideous specter, ghost of devil fish, to
flash into being again as black night wave
dreadful shape, blotched, spotted or striped like a
tiger. Imagine this sprawng thing to have the pow
of biting with pair of black, parrot like peaks
and when enraged to eject at you and into the
water cloud of ink that forms dense shroud
under cover of which the animal sinks away.
Imagine all of this, and you have the character
istics of the octopus devil fish, of the highest
forms of the shell family which | invited to
hunt morning the Florida reef with enthu-
sastiC angler.
Why should wish to hunt unpleasant a
game hardly be conceived by the average sports
man; but my friend a naturalist and, like
others of his class, continual and insatiate
search for new species; hence the hunt. | had
frequently felt, when fishing off certain bank of
coral that pitched into the canon like channel,
a geologic wave, produced by some strange animal,
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we slipped over and
swan down the line
twenty or more feet
that is, not Scope,
no indeed!- - swan
until the water grew
cold, to see if possible
the nature of the
game. But the water,
though clear as crys-
tai, gave no sign; til
line led under the
edge of the whole
reef, and we were
forced to devise new
plans. We took the
grapnel of the boat,
a four pronged affair,
lowered it, fastened
to a strong hemp
shark line, hooked it
into the coral, and
hauled, tearing great
branches off the ledge,
under which it was
supposed our game
was fast intrenched.
Suddenly both lines
gave together, and
we laid on heroically,
hauled and hauled
Evening star., 1907-07-21
H u N tt N @ THE VII
all the denizens

|nF all the denizens
~ of the sea, the
most hideous, the
most awe inspiring
to the average man
or woman who is not
familiar with the
dwellers of the deep,
IS the octopus, or
devil fish, a literal
sea spider, a green,
lurid eyed, gelatin
Gus head set between
eight hooked and
sucker lined arms; a
creature that seems
ordained by nature
to alarm man by its
mere appearance and
its strange and weird
habits.
Imagine e spider
with a head as large
as that of a man in
which strong eyes
glitter with lambent
flame. Imagine this
set in a Medusa like
arrangement of legs
Or arms radiating
thirty or more feet
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-05
WILL GIVE MILLIONS
Carnegie to EndOw Pittsburg
Institutions Next.
THE FUND TO BE $15,OOO,OOO
Gift Anticipated When Tron King
Delivers Address ut Dedication on
April 11-If Steel Corporation
Bonds Are Presented, Income viii
Amount 10 S75O,OOO a Year.

Pittsburg, April Alt is reliably sup
posed that when Carnegie delivers his
address at the dedication Of the new Car
negie Institute here on April II he will
formally announce an endowment Of
S15,O0e,0e0 for the institute, the library,
and the Carnegie technical schools. For
scme time the ironmaster is known 10
have been contemplating such a move
and the recent row between the board OF
trustees of the institute and the city OFF,
cials over the S250,00O for the institute this
year is said 10 have precipitated his ac-
ton.
Mr.. Carnegie is tired of the petty bick-
ering and has decided to make the nsti-
tutions which he founded in this city
self-supporting. As the large gifts of Mr.
Carnegie generally come in the shape Of
IS per cent first mortgage bonds of the
United States Steel Corporation. a $1,000
coo endowment would means an Income Of
S75c,000, which. added to the incomes al
ready derived from former endOwments.
would be more than enough 20 maintain
all Of the Carnegie Institutions IN Pitts
burg
Ii was in reference TO this endowment
that Col. Samuel Harden Church and w
n. FrOw were summoned to New York
by Mr.. Carnegie this week
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-05
HILL UNDER ARREST
HarIiman'S Former Secre-
tary Sold Webster Letter.
NOW FACES PENAL SENTENCE
MBgHute's CONFIDENTIAL MAN Is Com
pIainant In Case-Makes Fun Com
fession in Amdavit TO Assistant
District Attorneys Omee-Former
EmpIOye I'm Financial straits.

New York, April 4.-Frank w. Hill who
was private stenographer TO Edward II.
Hartman for twenty-one years. and who
gave away the letter Mr.. Hartman wrote
TO Sidney Webster aud provoked the COLI
troversy with President Roosevelt. was
arrested late this afternoon and locked
up at police headquarters. charged with
violating section Gi2 OF the penal code.
which relates to the publishing of prIvaIe
correspondence without authority and
makes the offense a misdemeanor.
The complainant against him is Alexan-
der NlIar, secretary of the Union Pa
cihc Railroad and confidential man to
Mr. Hartman. Mr Millar went TO the
district attorneys Office to-day and drew
up the complaint with Assistant District
Attorney Paul KrOtel. The latter sent
Detective Sergeant Bernard Flood 70 ar
rest Hill.
The stenographer was found at his desk
in the Office Of De Coppett & Doremus,
stock brokers. Hill, who is married and
has two children, took his arrest very
hard He lives in Brooklyn. In Assistant
District Attorney KrOtels office Hill made
a fun confession in an affidavit. He told
how he had sold the letter to a news
paper. and said that he didn't think he
was violating the law when he did so.
Took Letter by DfetatioB.
Hin said that the Sidney Webster let
ter was one of many he had taken by
dlctation from Mr.. Hartman during the
time he was employed by the railway
magnate. He had retained his notebook.
he said. and the Webster letter was
among the notes he kept.
II developed when Hill confessed that
he had offered the letter to a Brooklyn
newspaper and to another New York
morning newspaper before selling it to
the one that published it. The New York
morning newspaper that refused to print
the letter turned over 10 Assistant Dis
trict Attorney KToteI the correspondence
with Hin in regard to the matter. The
section OF the penal code under which
HIN was arrested reads:
"A person who willfuIIy and without au-
thority either takes letter, telegram, or
private paper belonging to another, or
copy thereof, and publishes the whole. or
any part thereof, is guilty of misde-
meanor"
Hill was discharged by Mr.. Hartman
a year ago, owing to trouble he had with
other employees Of the Office. He has been
rather hard up. and only week ago Sc
cured employment as a stenographer with
De COppett * DOremus. The stenographer
viii be arraigned in the Tombs Police
Court tomorrow morning.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-05
DOUMA'S END APPROACHING
Gathering Of Troops at St. Peters
burg Indicates Expulsion.
Governors and Bishops Declare That
Revolutionary Speeches of Repre-
seBtatiyes EmharTass Reform.

st. Petersburg. April 4.-The arrival OF
large bodies of Cossacks. dragons. and
other troops. as on the occasion Of the
dissolution of the first Douma, confirms
the belief that the expulsion of the new
assembly is impending There are other
facts pointing i'm The same direction. The
telegraph Office at Tsarksoe-Selo is hardly
able to handle the flood of kilograms daily
addressed TO the Car from branches of
the Union of the Russian People through
out the empire. praying him to dissolve
the "seditious Douma." The provincial
governors and the bishops are also bring
ing pressure 20 bear on influential person
ages OF the court to advise dissolution
representing that their work is embar-
rassed by the revolutionary speeches
made in the Douma and printed by the
newspapers.
During the resumed discussion of the
budget in the Douma to-day NJ Alexinski
a Socialist, made a fiery speech. attacking
the government and the bureaucracy.
The members of the Right twice appealed
to Speaker Golovin to prevent Alexinski
from insulting the nobility, but NJ Colo
win, instead, called the objectors TO order.
Their anger was increased by this. and it
finally exploded violently when Alexinsk
read translation of an article in an
English newspaper criticising the dissolu-
ton OF the first Douma as a breach of
faith on the part of the government
against foreign creditors.
Furious, noisy protests came from the
rightists, who Denounced NJ Golovin for
allowing the Car to he insulted, and
after noisy scene all the members of
the right left the chamber. NJ Golovin
then explained that he was not war
ranted in stopping Alexinsky from read
ing an extract from foreign journal.
Later the members of the right drafted
a protest against the speakers action,
which was sent to NJ. GalOvin. Copies
were sent TO Premier Stolypin and the
Car. 1t is contended that the action of
the rightists was deliberately intended to
further the ant-Douma campaign.
There was a certain nervous tension
noticeable among the deputies this even
ing, based on the days incidents, appre-
tensions regarding the future, and the
inpouring of troops. The Rossia, a gov
ernment organ, prints an editorial which
IS generally interpreted as forecasting
dissolution.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-05
here ARE The "HONI,'Q 2S''
But Only 25 VIII Permit Them
selves to Be Rounded Up.
Poor Pittsburg Has to Go to PhiIa-
deIDhia To Help Swell the List
of "W0rthy Sons"

Pittsburg. April 4-The Pittsburg Cham
ber of Commerce held its long advertised
Honest Mems banquet tonight, the
avowed purpose of which was to show
the outside world that every one from
Pittsburg is not a malefactor or a de
generate" as one of the officials Of the
chamber of commerce puts it.
1t was intended 10 have a list of fifty
shining lights on exhibition at the ban
quet. and to have their pedigrees in book
form. But twenty-five could be rounded
up TO stand for their pictures and pedi-
grees in the book of Distinguished
Sons" which was TO be the whole play at
the banquet The book issued tonight
was a bitter disappointment to those who
had been led TO expect much.
The names of the Distinguished Sons"
y no. with their photographs. appeared in
the book. were as follows:
John W. Alexander artist. New York;
John A Brashear. scientist; Dr.. W. J.
Holland. scientist; Andrew Carnegie,
philanthropist; John Dalzell politician;
Samuel H Church, author; George Cook
Reiter L. s. N; Rev. Father Landing
author and historian; Thomas Wightman,
glass manufacturer; James McCrea, rail-
road president; d. T. Watson, attorney;
Arthur Nevin, music composer; P. c.
Knox. United States Senator; George
Shiras. attorney; Henry Phipps, manufac-
turer; Julian Kennedy, consulting en-
gineer; John Q. A. Leishman. United
States Ambassador 10 Turkey; II. Kirk
Porter, manufacturer; c. P. E. SweRson.
Thomas Ridley. railroad man; George ".
Guthrie, attorney and Pittsburg's mayor:
Henry c. Friek, iron manufacturer: Mat
thew B. Riddle, iinguist: George West
inghouse, manufacturer; S. b. If. Young,
Il. S. A.; Henry o. Tanner. artist, of
Philadelphia; James B. Mcdowell. op-
tician. and David D. Wood, musician of
PhiladeIrb{a
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-05
WORKING FASTER ON CANAL.
March Record shows Big Gain ia
Work Accomplished.

The Isthmian Canal Commission Is in
receipt Of d cable message from the 18TH
mus showing that the number Of cubic
yards taken from the Cuiebra cut during
March was Sl5,Z70 This exceeds the
largest previous record for a single month
BY 1900 cubic yards
The total for February was 6sS. .644 cubic
yards, ana for January SCI, 80. The
largest record for a single month pre-
vious TO January was that Of October,
1906 which was S25,s35 cubic yards. The
figures for March, Ike those for all other
months. are based on accurate cross
section measurements and are not mere
estimates
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-05
BARONESS TAKES REST CURE
Wife of Belgian Minister Patient at
Johns Hopkins Hospital.
ExaetiOns of Social Life Bring ON
Nervous haustiOn-Patfeuf
Typical American.
Special to The Washington Herald.

Special TO The Washington Herald.
Baltimore, Nd, April 4-Baroness Mon
cheur, wife of Baron Ludovie Moncheur
Belgian Minister at Washington. and
daughter of Gen. Powell Clayton, former
Ambassador Of the United States to Mex
leo. is a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospi-
tai
The baroness has been under great men
tai pressure recently, and her presence at
the hospital is for relaxation. She arrived
there on Tuesday. and is under the care
of one of the staff physicians. It is said
the baroness is suffering from nervous ex-
haustion. partly due TO the exactions OF
social life at the Capital
Baroness Moncheur is a typical Ameri-
can woman. She has tall and graceful
figure, an attractive face ana possesses
a charmingly frank manner. She was
born at Eureka Springs. Ark, of which
State her distinguished father was at one
time the governor. During his term IN
the United States Senate she finished her
education at a fashionable school in
Pennsylvania Since her debut. some
years ago, Baroness Moncheur has been
popular in the society of the Mexican
capital and several of the larger cities OF
the States.
The husband Of the Baroness. Baron
Ludovic Moncheur, has won much distinc-
ton in the diplomatic corps. He has served
at various periods al Madrid, Lisbon.
Vienna, and Rome. By former marriage
the baron has three daughters, who make
their home with him. Their mother. who
has been dead for number of years. was.
before her marriage. a Miss Holman. the
half sister of Mr. Paddelford. of Wash
ington.