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ard with II the first desire to assert his
own individuality. Stung by the con-
hicting emotions. be felt In Chilccte's
pockets for something TO smoke.
Eve saw and Interpreted the action.
Are these your cigarettes2" She lean
ed toward a small table aud took up a
box made OF lizard skin.
Thanks" He took the box from
her. and as It passed from one 30 the
other he saw her glance at his rings.
The glance was momentary. Her lips
parted TO express question or surprise,
then closed again without comment.
More than any spoken words the Incl
dent showed him the gulf that sepa-
rated husband and wife.
Well" he said again. what about
Fraide?"
At his words she sat straighter and
looked at him more directly, as If brac-
ing herself to a task
Mr.. Fralde isis as interested as
ever in you" she began.
cor in your Lcder made the inter
ruption precisely as he felt Chilcote
would have made It. Then instantly he
wished the words back.
Ewes warm skin colored more deep
~. For second the inscrutable I'M
DERIVING expression that puzzled him
showed In her eyes, then she sank
back into a corner OF the chair.
why do you make such a point of
sneering at my friendsT' she asked
quietly. Il overlook it when you are
nervous" She halted slightly on the
word. But you are not nervous to-
night"
Loder. to his great humiliation. red
dened. Except FOR an occasional out
burst on the part of Mrs. Robins. his
charwoman, he had not merited a wo-
mans displeasure for years
The sneer was unintentional." he
said
For the first time Eve showed a per-
sonal interest. She looked at him in
puzzled way. "If your apology was
meant she said hesitatngly. Il should
be glad TO accept it."
Loder. uncertain Of how 10 take the
words, moved back 70 the desk. He
carried an unlighted cigarette between
his fingers
There was an interval I'm which nei-
Their spoke. Then at last conscious Of
Its awkwardness. Eve rose. With one
hand on the back OF her chair she look
&c at him.
mir. Fralde thinks It's such a pity
that'-she stopped 90 choose her words
that you should lose hold on things
lose interest In things-as you are do
ing. He has been thinking a good deal
about you In the last three weeks. ever
since the day OF your-your illness In
the house. and it seems 20 him"-again
she broke of. watching Loder's avert
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That hc was John Loder and no other,
SeSpit> all armor OF effrontery aud
hress. so dominated him that all other
considerations shrank before L. L.
wanted hut one word. one simple word
OF denunciatiOn. and the whole scheme
was shattered. In the diSmay OF the
moment he almost wished that the
word might be spoken and the sus-
pense ended.
But the maid came on in silence. and
80 incredible was the silence that
Ioder moved onward too. He came
Within yard of her. and still she did
not speak. Then. as he passed her.
she drew back respectfully against
the wall
The strain. 50 astonishingly short.
had been immense. but with its slack
ening came a strong reaction. The ex-
pected humiliation seethed suddenly
70 n desire TO dare fate. Pausing
quickly. he turned and called the wo-
man back
The spF where he had halted was
wildly bright. the ceiling light being
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ed head-"lt seems to him that II you
made one real effort now. even now, to
shake or your restlessness that your
your health might improve. He thinks
that the present crisis would be"-she
hesitated-"would give you a tremen-
dous opportunity. Your trade interests.
bound up as they are with Persia.
would give any opinion you might hold
a double weight" Almost unconscious
ly a touch OF warmth crept into her
words
Mr.. Fraide talked very seriously
about the beginning OF your career
He said that II only the spirit Of your
first days could come back Her
tone grew quicker. as though she fears
ed ridicule in Loder's silence. HE
asked me TO use my influence. know
that have little-none. perhaps-but
couldn't tell him that, and $3.50 I
promised"
And have kept the promise?" Loder
spoke at random. Her manner and her
words had both affected him. There
was a sensation OF unreality in his
brain.
g. NIt tuSWtE = AWAY >
want to do-what can"
"As she spoke sudden realization
or the effort she was making struck
upon him, and with II his scorn OF
Chilcote rose In renewed force.
My Intention he began, turning
to her. Then the futlllty OF any dec
laration sllenced him. II shall think
over what you say" he added after a
minutes wait. II suppose l can't say
| more than that"
Their eyes met and she smiled a lit
tie.
Il don't believe expected as much"
she said. II think I'll go now. You
have been wonderfully patient" Again
she smiled slightly. at the same time
extending her hand. The gesture was
quite friendly. but In Loder's eyes Ii
| held relief as we'll as friendliness, aud
when their hands met he noticed that
her fingers barely brushed his.
He picked up her cloak and carried 1t
across the room. AS he held the door
open he laid II quietly across her arm.
"I'll think ovel what you've said" he
repeated
Again she glanced az him as IL sus-
pecting sarcasm. Then. partly reas-
sured, she paused. "You will always
despise your opportunities. and sup
pose ! shall always envy them" she
said. That's the way with men and
women. Good night" With another
faint smile she passed out into the cor
ridor.
Loder waited until he heard the outer
door close. then he crossed the room
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CHAPTER VIII

~1O all men come portentous mo-
ments, difficult moments. trl-
umphant moments. Loder had
IL had his examples OF all three.
but no moment ia his career ever
equaled In strangeness of sensation
that in which. dressed In another mans
clothes. he fitted the latchkey for the
first time into the door OF the other
mans house.
The act was quietly done The key
fitted the lock smoothly. and his I'm.
gers turned Il without hesitation.
though his heart. usually extremely
steady. beat sharply for a second. The
hall doomed massive and somber. des.
pite the modernity Of electric lights.
1t was darkly and extensively dec.
grated in black and brown: a frleze
OF wrought bronze. representing pea.
cocks with outspread tails. ornament
cd the walls: the banisters were OF
heavy ironwork. and the somewhat
formidable fireplace was OF the same
dark metal
Loder looked about him. then al.
vanced. his heart again beating quick.
ly as his hand touched the cold ban.
lister and he began his ascent OF the
stairs. But at each step his conf.
dence strengthened. his feet became
more firm until. at the head OF the
stairs. as II to disprove his assurance.
his pulses played him false once more,
this time to more serious tune. From
the farther end OF well lighted cor.
ridor maid was coming straight IN
his direction.
For one short second all thing
seemed TO whiz about him: the Ger
tainty OF detection overpowered his
mind Tho indisputable knowledge
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thoughtfully and dropped into the
chair she had vacated. He sat for n
time looking at the hand her fingers
had touched. Then he lifted his head
with characteristic movement.
'By Jove." he said aloud. how cor
daily she detests himr'
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CHAPTER TX.

n lODER slept soundly and dream
Iessly Ia Chilcote's canopied
IL bed. To him the big room.
with Its severe magnificence.
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his nosition too uncomfortable for him

his nosition too uncomfortable for him
him to stay in
We Americans sometimes seem Z
little too prone to make mans prk
vate life a test of his public eficiency.
There Is hardly an election, for In
stance, in which the defeat Of some
capable candidate is not urged on tho
ground sthati his personal habits ara
had
However Illogical this may be, It ID
concrete force which must be reck.
oned with. And the larger and mora
important the position Of the man the
more serious must be the reckoning,
When the head of q great stock
company, having in his care the flnan-
cial welfare of thousands OF inves.
tors, is known to be reckless with
his own money, the suspicion arises
that he maybe reckless with other
peoples money.
And when the private life Of man
In such position is known to be Of
the kind to force the wife Of his youth
to seek the divorce courts, and when
such a man. instead Of withdrawing
his domestic affairs into privacy, 50
manages them that they continue to
be Haunted before the public, the aver
age husband and father naturally
wishes to be rid OF such a business
associate.
The domestic affairs of William b.
Corey have, perhaps, been given by
the press a notoriety beyond their In
trinsic interest But the United
States Steel corporation Is a great
public interest It's shareholders are
numbered by the tens of thosands
they probably are more numerous
than those of any other corporation
in the United States. And, since the
conduct of MIR. Corey manifestly az.
fects public confidence in the corpora
ton Of which he Is the head, 1t is not
strange that some of his directors are
ready to see him go. and that quick
1v
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THE CASE OF MRS SIMS.

Mrs. A. B. Sims, duplicate whist
champion Of the world. will hereafter
be known as Mrs. A. B. Sims, reformer
and lecturer. and in the latter role she
will tell Just how bad in her enlight-
ened vision are the Des Moines club
women who daily with the paste
boards. In announcing from the pulpit
of q Des Moines church her determine
ton to go on the lecture platform
among other things she said:
The woman who carries into the
front door Of her home the prize she
has won ut card party, is as bad as
the son who sneaks at the same time
into the back door jingling in his peck
ct the coins he has gained In low
gambling hail.
In speaking of her early life Mrs.
Sims told how before her birth her
mother knelt beside the bed of her dy-
ing grandmother and together they
prayed for the conservation of the life
of the little stranger who had not yet
come to them that her life might al
ways be in the right way. Little did
my grandmother think" she said,
what | might become"
Then Mrs. Sims reviewed the fight
she fought when she determined that
she was in the path of wrong. She
said:,
On January 6, 1906, / wrestled with
God in my closet and as result /
stopped playing six handed euchre a
fortnight later. But could not bring
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A "REMINISCENCES.

Cedar Falls Record-A good story
is told on Hon. Liston McMillen of Os-
kaloosa, the gentleman who has charge
of Senator Forakers' interest In this
state. When a young man he came
home from college to spend his vaca-
ton. His father sent him to the tim
Der skirtipg the Des Moines river after
a load Of wood He made the journey
on the running gear OF the old farm
wagon. 1t was hot summer day and
when he saw the sparkling water, rip
3plfhg over the rocks and sands the de-
sire to take bath seized him. He
stopped his team on the bank of the
river and proceeded to disrobe. The
wagon afforded the most convenient
place to deposit his clothing. conse-
quenIly his wearing apparel was nice
ly stored away on the vehicle. In that
day plug hat was quite the proper
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thing, and one was worn on this oc-
casion. Fearing that the hot sun
might injure his complexion it was de-
cided to wear the hat in the water.
With nothing on but q smile and the
plug hat Liston entered the stream
He began splashing the water, and the
noise thus made frightened the team
He had neglected to tie the horses to
a friendly tree, 50 away they went.
Mcmillan started In hot pursuit, car
ing as much to obtain his clothes as he
did to capture the team. He was MAX
ing good progress until he spied a
farmer driving down the road with
his family In the wagon. Not being
dressed for company ne took refuge in
a friendly fence corner and from this
safe retreat implored the farmer to
capture his runaway team and bring
him his wearing apparel. The request
was complied with and the young man
was soon clothed in his right mind"
AL Swain related this incident to us
many years ago and vouched for Its
accuracy Mr.. McMillen. having gone
into politics, can hardly object to the
publicity thus given 1t even at this
late day
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THE OTTUMW A COURIER

myself to give up my beloved whist.
continued to play and in April, 1906,
/ went to the international whist tour
nament at st. Louis and had the sig
nal honor. with my partner to win, the
championship Of the world
Il ask you If it was not something
to give up, to sacrifice my position in
this most scientific game and give my
self to God without any reserve
Mrs. Sims takes a serious view of
life. and taking this view it is very
fitting that, believing duplicate whist
to be sinful, she should sacrifice the
pleasure the game, afforded her. The
evil Of cards Is after all a matter of
view point. The woman who sits at
the card table with the gamblers earn
estness. forgetting everything in the
excitement of tn game, does we'll to
quit it. But it does not follow that the
thousands of women who look upon
cards as merely healthy amusement
should go into sackcloth and ashes,
when the game to them is nothing
more than a relaxation and affords a
rest from other social and home duties.
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"THE DOLLAR"

Business Mans Magazine. There
is ma sentiment about a dollar.
ItTrests as peacefully in the filthy
pockets of beggar
AS 1t does in the silken purse Of the
millionaire.
It's a blanket that covers multi
tude Of sins.
1t brings Joy today-it's the cause
Of sorrow tomorrow.
It never speaks yet 1t talks.
1t circulates freely--yet 1t keeps In
hiding.
It's the ruinaton Of millions.
1t lifts millions out Of the depths Of
despair.
1t comes with promise Of gladness.
It leaves many disappointments.
We tremble at it's strength.
Yet we can crush it with one hand.
It's always the samey it's ever
changing.
The lack of it promotes industry.
The excess Of it causes idleness.
It creates trouble 1t brings peace.
1t makes one restful--it makes one
restless.
1t lubricates the axle the world re-
wolves upon.
Withal It's silent friend.
Without 1t we perish.
Forthe world lets him
Severely alone
Who has not dollar
He can call his own.
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WHERE is THY BRoTHERa

Washington Post.-When the right
chord is touched the human heart re-
spends with something noble and lofty
Human sympathy makes us all akin,
and the case Of William January Is a
striking illustration. Everybody, saint
and sinner, wise and simple, rich and
poor, rejoices with the wife of this
ex-convict upon the restoration and re-
Mobilization Of ner husband. Made ig-
nominious by crime and conviction, he
redeemed himself by exemplary con-
duct in prison and correct life after his
escape from prison. He won the re-
spect CT all his neighbors, was indus
trious, frugal and what is all to the
purpose, honest In his dealings. 1t is
not strange, then, that men and women
thought of Jean Vatican when gov
eminent sleuth detected this man and
returned MIN to the prison pen whence
he had escaped. Public sympathy was
bestirred and swiftly set about getting
official pardon.
What tricks does fate play US! What
stratagems does she lay for us! 1t is
nowhere better expressed than in
Thackeray's "Catharine:"
''Who has not felt how he works
the dreadful, conquering spirit of Ill?
Who cannot see In the circle of his own
society the fated and foredoomed to
woe and evil? Some call the doctrine
of Destiny dark creed but for me
tory one. - = If we depend Cd our
strength, what is it against, mighty
circumstances? If we look to our
selves what hope have we? Look back
at the whole of your life and see how
Fate has mastered you and 1t. Think
of your disappointment and your sue
cesses. Has your striving influenced
one or the other? "A fit of indigestion
puts itself between you and honors
and reputation; an apple fops on your
nose and makes you a worlds wonder
and glory; fit of poverty makes a
rascal Of you, who were and are still
an honest man; clubs trumps, or six
lucky mains at dice, make an honest
man for life of you who ever were,
will be, and are rascal"
Which is to say, many an honest
man is convict and felon, and many a
knave sits among the elders in the
gates and judges Israel. Mordecais In
Vulnerable have been gibbeted on Ha-
mans gallows and other Mordecais
will meet like fate.
While the world can be sympathetic.
1t can also be uncharitable. Like a
pack of wolves, society has a thirst
Of blood and devours it's members that
are wounded in the chase. Civilized
in many respects, many 1t yet much Of
a barbarian as a jailer. We might put
the famous passage from Dante's over
every prison portal. The state profits
by the ccnvict's labor and leaves his
wife to starve and encourages his
children to become criminals. Our
prisons thus are factories for paupers
and criminals.
Why not set apart what the convict
earns to support his wife and educate
his children? Why not put this little
bit OF hope in his heart. "You may
dwarf man to the mere stump Of
~
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SENATOR ALLISON is HIMSELF
AGAIN

Senator William B Allison, Iowa g
grand old man, is himself again. He has
fully recovered from his illness of the
winter, and though he has not fully
regained his strength and his usual
weight, he has gained twenty pounds
and is gaining daily.
This will be good news to Iowans.
as, regardless of politics, the people
Of the state have grown to feel a deep
affection for the able statesman who
for SO many years has been the senior
senator and leader of the Iowa con-
gressional delegation.
Senator Allison in his home in Du-
buque walks daily to and from his
home and Office He is robust and
hearty and is rapidly shaking off the
effects of the Illness that prevented
him from taking such an active part
in the congress but recently closed as
he has in the former sessions for
years past.
Iowa owes big debt to Senator Al
lison and the country, too, owes much
to the venerable Iowan.
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FATE,s CRUEL TRICK.

A few years ago in little Indiana
town a young girl was the heroine Of
a train incident which resulted in saw
Ing a passenger train from disas-
trous wreck. and the passengers ex-
pressed their appreciation of the brave
act by raising fund that was used in
giving the brave girl musical educa-
ton abroad. That girl is now dead
at Kansas City, and her death was as
violent as that with which the passen-
gers her childhood's bravery saved
were threatened.
1t was cruel trick Of fate that Au-
rora Wittebort, the girl heroine should
be one of the two to meet death in the
University building fire. when SO many
heroic rescues were made.
1t was twelve years ago that Miss
Wittebort saved the lives of a train
load OF passengers, number of
French and Belgian officials en- route
60 Chicago.
A small bridge on division of the
Pennsylvania railroad near Hartford
City, Ind, where Miss Wittebort then
lived with her family caught fire. The
"Cannonball'' passenger train, west
bound, was due to arrive within short
time and Miss Wittebort the first to
see the danger, ran to the top Of a
steep grade east of the bridge and
awaited the arrival of the flyer. she
succeeded in tagging the train with
her red skirt and enabled the engineer
to bring it safely to a standstill with
in a few yards of the bridge.
The incident was brought to the at
tention of the French government,
which, later, decorated Miss Witte-
bort, while the passengers raised a
fund That was used in giving her q
musical education abroad.
But for this act Of heroism, perhaps
the girl would have been denied mu.
steal education and escaped the tragic
death she met
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A DETECTIVE LOST.

The world lost a great detective
when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle chose
writing as his profession. Proof of this
Is given in the latest achievement of
the noted Englishman in securing the
release from penal servitude Of young
English lawyer who. for four years has
been serving a sentence for crime
he never committed. The man. George
Edalt, young Birmingham lawyer,
was convicted on charges of mutilat-
Ing neighbours horses and cattle and
sentenced to seven years In prison.
Sir Conan Doyle's interest in the
peculiar case Of Edaljt was aroused by
numerous printed comments on it
and widespread public effort to get
the home office to pardon the man. and
by letters asking him to take it up
from the standpoint of detective.
He became convinced finally the con-
viction OF Edalji was due to police stu
pidity and persecution owing to pre-
conceived belief that Edalji was guilty.
Sir Conan had no hesitation, after a
personal investigation into the case,
in pronouncing 1T similar to the Drey-
fus case.
~ Seso0 AA0or Swell pIOOl LudL LuS
Sherlock Holmes of Conan Doyle's
books was not altogether a creation
OF the Imagination. but that 1t was the
bone and sinew Of the writer. Sir Co
nan perhaps allowed his imagination
to run riot In some of the wonderful
deductions of his book by which Sher-
lock Holmes unerringly found some
man guilty who was never under sus-
ptcion and then turned the suspected
man lose to the discontinue Of the
police. But the Edalji case shows that
the ground work was there and that
Sherlock Holmes, the detective was
written by the detective in Conan
Doyle
For instance, when Conan Doyle
turned Sherlock Holmes to ferret out
the case he began at once to work on
the theory that some one else than
Edalji was guilty of the crime. and he
found that the disemboweling Of a
pony for which Edalji was arrested, oc-
Cured three-quarters Of mile from
his home on the night Of August II,
1908. that while Edalji was in Jail
awaiting trial, another horse was dis
emboweAed, and that after he was
convicted three more horses and some
sheep were killed in the same way.
Conan Doyle, after personal inves-
tigation, showed that it was impossible
for Edalji to have committed the
crime. and upon his presentation Of the
case, a pardon was granted to the man
wrongly accused
Then he displayed another charac-
teristic Of Sherlock Holmes the child
of his brain, when he roundly denounc-
ed the police for stupidity and perse-
cution. owing, he said, to preconceiv.
ed belief that Bdalji was guilty, just
as Sherlock Holmes always brought
out the stupidity of the Scotland Yard
force.
Which proves that all fiction is not
a pipe dream.