Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-04

VI
 sical by the pealing of dis.
 tant chime calling vespers to its broth
 CTS in Antwerp's hundred belfrics.
 Like the beating of mighty heart
 heard through the rushing clamor of
 the pulses. a single deep throated bell
 boomed solemnly six heavy. rumbing
 strokes
 Six o'clock. Klrkwood reused out of
 his dQur breeding. The Amsterdam ex.
 press would leave at 6:32. and he knew
 not from what station.
 Stridng swiftly across the prone
 made. he entered a small tobacco shop
 and made inquiry of the proprietress.
 His command of French was tolerabie.
 He experienced no difficulty in com
 pretending the good woman's instruc-
 tioDs.
 Trains for Amsterdam. she said. left
 from the Care Centrale. a mile or so
 across the city. Monsieur had plenty
 of time and to spare. There was the
 tram line if monsieur did not care to take fiacre If he would go by way of the Vielle Bourse he would discover the tram cars of the Rue Kipdorp. Monsieur was most welcome.
 Monsieur departed with the more haste since he was unable to repay this courtesy with the most trifilng purchase. After n brisk walk of some fifteen minutes be reached the station.
 A public clock treasured him with the informa ton that he had the quar- ter of an hours leeway. It was only seventeen minutes past IS o'clock Bel 1 gian railway time, always confusing. 1 lnquiring his way to the Amsterdam train. which was already waiting at the platform, he paced It's length. peer | ing brazenly in at the coach windows. | now warm with hope, now shivering | with disappointment, realizing as he could not but realize that. all else aside. his only chance of rehabilitation ay in meeting Calendar. But in none I)f the coaches or carriages did he discover any one even remotely re- tembling the fat adventurer, his daugh. ter or Mulready.
 Satisfied that they had not vet board ed the train. be stood aside. tortured with forebodings, while anxiously scru- tinizing each individual of the throng of intending travellers. Perhaps they had been delayed-by the Alethea's lateness in making port. very likely. Perhaps they purposed taking not this but later train. Perhaps they had already left the city by an earlier or had returned to England
 On time. the bell changed it's warn Ing. the guards bawled theirs. doors were hastily opeied and slammed. the trucks began to groan. couplings jolt ng as the engine chafed in constraint. The train and Kirkwood moved simul- -aneously out of opposite ends of the station, the one to rattle and hammer 'ound the eastern boundaries of the 'ity and straighten out at top speed on he northern route for the Belgian line. he other 10 stroll moodily away. idle iands In empty pockets. bound aim. essly anywhere-it didn't matter.
 -'othihS NhiAtNeT UdttcTeU Tn the l mallest degree. Ere now the outlook lad been dark. but this he felt to be he absolute nadir of his misfortunes 'resently-after awhile. as soon as he ould bring himself to it--he would ask he way and go to the American consu- ate But just now. low as the tide of nance had cbbed leaving him strand d on the flats of vagabondage, low as howed the measure of his self esteem, e could not tolerate the prospect of egging for assistance. He found himself. neither knowing or caring how he had won thither. T the Place Verte. the vast venerable } He of the cathedral rising on his \ ight hotels and quaint old world wellings with peaked roofs and ga- { les and dormer windows inclosing he other sides of the square. Tn hines (he could hear none but those the cathedraD were heralding the our of seven. Listless and preoccu- fed in contemplation of his wretched ase. he wandered purposelessIy half ourd the square. then dropped into a elch on It's outskirts.