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Grip 2" he asked.

uVpf Ht Uo"I''
ness. It's the final refuge Of the fee
BILE minded. You like lit Oh. well. II
you've got to play-if you've no better
resource for leisure, and If nonpartici-
patton isolates you too completely
from other idiots-play the 'imbeciie
gentleman's game, which means a
game where nobody need worry over
the stakes"
"But-they'd laugh at mel!
n know. But Boots Lansing would
not. and you have considerable respect
for him"
Gerald nodded. He had immediate
" succumbed to Lansing like every
body else
"And one thing more" said Selwyn
Don't play for stakes-no matter how
insignifcant-where women sit in the
game. Fashionable or not. 1t Is rotten
sport, whatever the ethics may be.
And, Gerald, tainted sport and clean
record can't take the same fence to-
gether."
A little later the boy started for
home at Selwyn's advice. But the
memory of his card losses frightened
him. and he stopped on the way to see
what money Austin would advance
him
Julius Neergard came up from Long
Island, arriving at the office about
noon. The weather was evidently cold
on Long Island. He had the complex
ion of q raw ham. but the thick, fat
hand. with its bitten nails, which he
offered Selwyn as he entered his office,
was unpleasantly hot, and on the thin
nose. which split the broad expanse
of face, bead or two of sweat usual
ly glistened, winter and summer.
where's GeraldT' he asked as an
Office boy relieved him of his heavy
box coat and brought his mail to him.
81 advised Gerald to go home" OBJ
served Selwyn carelessly. HE is not
perfectly WELL"
Neergard's tiny, mouselike eyes, set
close together, stole brightly in Sell
wyn's direction, but they usually look
ed just little past man, seldom at
him.
"Grip?' he asked.
81 don't think So" said Selwyn.
Lots of grip round town." observ-
ed Neergard, as though satisfied that
Gerald had it. Then he sat down and
rubbed his large. membraneous ears.
Captain Selwyn," he began, "Pm
satisfied that it's deyilish good
thing"
Are your"
"Emphatically. I've mastered the
details, virtually all of 'em. Here's the
situation in a grain of wheat. The
Siowitha club owns thousand or so
acres Of oak. scrub, pine scrub. sand
and weeds and controls 1000 more
that is to say, the club pays the farm
ers' rents and fixes their fences and
awards them odd jobs and prizes for
the farm sustaining the biggest num-
Der of bevies: also the club pays them
to maintain millet and buckwheat
patches and to act as wardens. In re-
turn the farmers post their 1000 acres
for the exclusive benefit Of the club.
Is that plain%
Perfectly"
very well. then. Now, the Siowitha
is largely composed Of very rich men.
among them Bradley Harmon. Jack
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world should really deem her SO love

world ahould really deem her so love
".
"a red headed girl" she said teas
ingly. 81 thought you had better taste
than-than"
Than to think you rnvtug beau
tyw
"Oh," she said. you dOn't think
that.!'
AS matter of fact Re bimse.t Gal
become aware Of it so sudlen.y that
be had no time TO think rer much
about it. It was rather strange. too.
that be had not always been aware
OF It. or was It partly the mellow
light from the lamp tinting her I'll!
she glowed and shimmered like =
young sorceress. sitting so straight
there 10 her turquoise silk and misty
lace?
When Drina had gone to bed Boots
also took his leave. and Selwyn rose,
too, troubled, careVorn expression
replacing the careless gayety which
had made him seem so young in Miss
Erroll's youthful eyes.
wait. Boots" he said. I'm going
home with you" And to Eileen. al
most abscntly: Good night. I'm so
very glad you are well again"
Good night" she said. looking up at
him. The faintest sense of disappoint-
ment came over her-at what she did
not know. Was 1t because in his COM
pIetely altered face she realized the
instant and easy detachment from her
self and what concerned her? Was it
because other people, like Mr. Lansing
other interests, like those which 50
plainly in his face betrayed his preOc-
cupation-had so easily replaced IN in
timacy which had seemed to grow new
er and more delightful with every
meeting?
What was it. then, that he found
more interesting more important, than
their friendship, their companionship?
Was she never to grow old enough or
wise enough or experienced enough to
exact - without eXacting - his para
mount consideration and interest?
Was there no common level Of mental
equality where they could meet-where
termination of interviews might be mu-
tual, might be fairer to ner?
Now he went away, utterly detached
from her and what concerned her, to
seek other interests of which she knew
nothing; absorbed in them TO her Ut
ter exclusion. leaving her here with
the long evening before her and moth
ing to do, because her eyes were not
yet strong enough to use for reading.
Lansing was saying, "I'll drive as far
as the club with you. and then you can
drop me and come back later"
fright. my son. I'll finish a letter
and then come back"
Cant you write 1t at the club"
"Not that letter." he replied in low
voice and, turning to Eileen. smiled
his absent, detached smile. Offering bis
hand.
But she lay back, looking straight M
at him.
"Are you going?'
"Yes. have severap-
"Stay with me-" she said In a low
voice.
For moment the words meant moth
ing; then blank surprise silenced him,
followed by CURIOSITY.
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all over, Captain Selwyn. Fame, Har-
mon & Co. know that. Mr.. Gerard
ought to know it too"
Selwyn looked troubled. Shall |
consult Mr.. Gerard?" he repeated. ii
should like to if you have no objec
ton"
Neergard's small. close set eyes were
focused on a spot just beyond Sci
wyn's left shoulder.
Suppose you sound him." he sug
gested. "ln strictest"-
Naturally" cut in Selwyn dryly
and, turning to his Uttered desk. OPEN
ed the first letter his hand encounter
ed Now that his head was turned,
Neergard looked full at the back OF
his neck for long minute, then went
out silently.
That night Selwyn stopped at his
sisters house before going to his OVID
rooms and. finding Austin alone In the
library. laid the matter before him
exactly us Neergard had put it.
"You see," he added, that I'm a
sort of ass about business methods
This furtive bouncing on thing and
clubbing other peoples money out OF
them with it-this slyly acquiring land
that is necessary to an unsuspecting
neighbor and then holding him np-l
don't like There's always something
of this sort that prevents my cordial
cooperation with Neergard- always
something in the schemes which hints
of-of squeezing-of something under
ground"
Like the water which he's going to
squeeze out of the wells?"
Selwyn laughed
"Phil." said bis brother-in-law. "if
you think anybody can do a profitable
business except at other peoples ex-
pense you are an ass"
IAN II" asked Selwyn. still laughing
frankly.
Certainly. The land is there plain
enough for anybody to see. It's al.
ways been there. It's likely to remain
for few cons. | fancy.
"Now. along comes Meynbeer Julius
Neergard. the only man who seems to
have brains enough to see the present
value of that parcel to the Siowitha
people. Everybody else had the same
chance. Nobody except Neergard knew
enough to take it Why shouldn't he
profit by it?"
Eyes. but If he'd be satisfied to cut
1t up into lots and do what Is fair
"Cut 1t up into nothing Man alive,
do you suppose that Siowitha people
would let him? They've only few
thousand acres They've got to control
that land. What good is their club
without it? Do you imagine they'd lei
a town grow up on three sides of
their precious game preserve? And.
besides. III bet you that half of their
streams and lakes take rise on other
peoples property-and that Neergard
knows 1.-THE Dutch fOx!"
They discussed Neergards scheme
for little while longer Austin.
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pefS. Inc fanl- DTl1lCt poured teU CeIU
ly dined at so pretttlU
Drina could sit up; special treat on ac-
count of Boots presence at table. Ger
aid was expected. but did not come.
The next morning Selwyn went
downtown at the usual hour and found
Gerald, pale and shaky, hanging over
his desk and trying to dictate letters to
an uncomfortable stencgrapher.
So he dismissed the abashed girl for
the moment closed the door and sat
down beside the young man.
go home, Gerald" he said with de-
cision. when Neergard comes in I'll
tell him you are not we'll. And, old
fellow, don't ever come near the Office
again when you're in this condition"
I'm a perfect fool" faltered the boy.
his voice trembling. 81 don't really
care for that sort of thing, either. But
you know how it is in that set
.eWhat set"
"Oh, the Fanes, the Ruth He
stammered himself into silence.
Il see. What happened last nigtt|
1.-THE usual. two tables full of it
There was a wheel too. had no inten-
ton But you know yourself how it
parches your throat-the jollying and
laughing and excitement. | forgot all
about what you-what we talked over
I'm ashamed and sorry. but | can stay
here and attend to things, of course
81 don't want Neergard to see you"
repeated Selwyn.
"W-why." stammered the boy, do
look as rocky as that?"
Eyes. See here, you are not afraid
of me, are your
Mo-
"You don't think I'm one Of those
long faced, blue nOsed butters-in. do
you? You have confidence in me,
haven't you? You know I'm an aver
age and normally sinful man who has
made plenty Of mistakes and who IN
derstands how others make them. You
know that, don't you. old chap"
EYES,"
'aThen you will listen, won't you.
Gerald%
The boy laid his arms on the desk
and hid his face in them. Then he
nodded.
For ten minutes Selwyn talked to
him with all the terse and colloquial
confidence Of a comradeship founded
upon respect for mutual fallibility-no
instruction, no admonition, no blame
no reproach, only an affectionately log
ical review Of matters as they stood
and as they threatened to stand,
TIE boy fortunately was still pliable
and susceptible, still unaarmed and
frank. 1t seemed that he had lost
money again, this time to Jack Ruth
ven, and Selwyn's teeth remained
sternly interlocked as bit by bit the
story came out, but in the telling the
boy was not quite as frank as ne
might have been, and Selwyn supposed
he was able to stand his loss without
seeking aid.
Anyway" said Gerald in a muited
voice, 1--WE learned one lesson-that a
business man can't acquire the habits
and keep the Internal hours that suit
people who can take all day to sleep II
off,"
Fright" said Selwyn.
Besides, my income can't st&nd 1t,
added Gerald naively.
Neither could mine, old fellow.
And. Gerald. cut out this gard bust
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plements, refused to STIR Poor little
Eileen was now convalescent from
grip, but still unsteady on her legs.
Her maid had taken the grip.
Boots Lansing called to see Eileen,
but she wouldn't come down, saying
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-01-08

her nose was
too pink. DTi-
IA entertained
Boots, and then
Selwyn return
ed and talked
army talk with
him until tea
was served. Dri-
ma poured tea
very prettily.
Nina had driven
Austin to YES
ri
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but she u extract
every detail in
ten seconds. |
understand she
adores you, Phil.
Eileen is furious
at being left here
all alone. She's
practicl ally well,
and she's to dine
with Drina in the
library. Would
you be good
enough to dine
tbera with thpm2
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SlO1gAa CA

flo appetite, loss Of strength, nervous
ness, headache, constipation. bad prea'n'
general debility, sour risings, and catann
of the stomach are all due TO indigestion
Kodol relieves ind gestion. This new diScoV'
cry represents the natural juices OF diges'
ton as they exist in healthy stomach
combined with the greatest known tonic
and reconstructive properties. Kodol Tor
dyspepsia does not only relieve Indigestion
and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy
helps ali stomach troubles By cleansing,
purifying, sweetening and Strengthening
the mucous membranes lining the stomach.
Mr.. s. S. Ball, Of Rayenswood W. Va. SAYS
" was troubled with sour stomach for twenty years
Kodol cured me and we are now using it in mix
for baby"
Ko6ol Digests What You Eat.
Bottles only Relieves Indigestion, sour stomach,
oeichng Of gas, etc.
Prepared by E. O. DEWITT & CO., CHICAGO.
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EsTRAY-At my place at Mt.
Sidney, Va, one yearling steer and
one two-yer-old, driven in with cat
tie of Cline, Houff ct ais, from range
near New Hampden.
Dec. lS--4t. j, W. Cline.
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=KChapter' = 3

D-LENT, and the enemy
grins." remarked Selwyn
as he started for church
with Nina and the chill
dren. Austin, knee deep
in n dozen Sunday SUD-
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Refinement which carries US away
from our fellow men is nor Gods re-
inement.-Beecher.
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Perhans He Mas

One pupil whispered to the next.
"Our teacher is regular duffer."
The professor, who had just put n
question to the class, thought the boy
was framing reply and said. Come.
my lad, speak up. Perhaps you are
right. Pathfinder
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Chapter 8

ZEN settled d G epe r
among her pillows as
the table was removed.
and Selwyn drew his
chair forward.
What is the matter
sWith GeraldT she ask.
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UNIVERSITY or VTRGINTA

HAD STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
LETTERS, SCIENCES. LAW,
MEDICINE, ENGINEERING
$40 Gov ERS A l. l. c 0 : l 5
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lowest charges in the South Next ses-
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lngue. University Summer school opeus
July 18Th.
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
A Lincoln Poem

on Abraham Lincoln, which won the
award of $1,000 offered by the New York
Herald in 1895 for the best poem on
American history, has at length at
tanned the dignity of a fourth edition.
1t was published in the Christmas
issues of the New York Herald, the
Boston Herald and the st. Louis Re-
public of the year of its composition.
Abraham Lincoln; POEM" Fourth
edition. By Lyman Whitney Allen.
New York and London. G. P. Put
nam's Sons.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10

A treatise written by a man who has
lived and worked among the people he
describes and is able to converse with
them in their own tongue is always
valuable. In the case of the volume,
I'm TOgo's Country" by Henry B.
Schwartz, the value is enhanced by the
immediate call there is upon every citi-
zen especially if resident on this Pa
cific coast, to learn all he can of the
interesting people who have been
brought so close to us within the past
eight or ten years and who astonished
the world in 19O4-5 by whipping the
Russians. The reader of I'm Togo's
Country will rise from its perusal
with a better idea of what modern
Japan is and aspires to be.
Admiral Togo is the ideal warrior and
hero of the people, the quiet fighter
who won the great naval battle of the
Sea of Japan. His province, at the
very southern tip of Japan proper has
been a nursery of soldiers and fighting
sailors. DR.. Schwartz describes the
place and the people well. and the book
is excellent reading. After few chap
ters devoted to Satsuma, he goes fur
ther afield in the island kingdom. His
sixth chapter is the most readable ac-
count we have of the little known
islands of Loo Choo, which became
Japanese only thirty years ago. Gen
eral Grant was asked to arbitrate be-
tween China and Japan when the ques-
tion of ownership was still pending,
and he was so diplomatic that he left
the question as doubtful as before; but
in 1879 the ancient kingdom became a
prefecture of the Japanese empire.
There is not a dull or uninstructive
chapter among the twelve that make
up this book.
In Togo's Country: Some Studies in
Satsuma and Other Little Known
Parts of Japan. By Henry B. Schwartz.
Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham. New
York: Eaton & Mains
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
"Tono=Bungay" Popular

H. G.. wells "Tono-Bungay" is an
nounced by Duffied & Co. to be in it's
fourth American and it's second Cana
dian edition, with every prospect of
adding to the score. Critics and lay
men are disputing variously as to the
significance, the greatness and the
quality of greatness of this patent med
icine novel. In the meantime Mr.. Wells
is writing a new novel which Duffield
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
Panic Problem Analyzed

Victor Morawetz in "The Banking
and Currency Problem in the United
States" enunciates some very carefully
elaborated and we'll buttressed theories
of recent financial stringencies and
their possible and preferable remedies.
The book should be of interest to
financiers and students of practical
economics.
1.-The Banking and Currency Problem
in the United States" By Victor
Morawetz. New York. North Ameri-
can Review Publishing Co.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
"The Works of Jesus"

OF interest alike to the followers of
the Emanuel movement and of Mrs.
Eddy will be Edna S. Little's arrange
ment of the Bible narrative of Christ's
acts of healing and other deeds in
chronological order under the title of
1.-THE Works of Jesus" No comment
whatsoever is given, but 1.-THE Sermon
on the Mount" is appended as Christ's
own summary of his teachings. The
volume is in press for publication by
Paul Elder e Co., San Francisco
done in a dignified scheme of typog-
raphy with Da Vinci's Head of
Christ" from 1.-The Last Supper" as
the frontispiece.
A Romantic Drama of Old Florence
'The Tocsin," a drama Of the Re-
naissance by Esther Brown Tiffany,
is to be published in a limited edition
by Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco,
with "The Dream of Life" by Michael
Angelo, done in photogravure for the
frontispiece. This book is to be print
ed on Arches handmade paper and
bound in Italian boards.
The Tocsin" is a stirring romance
of brisk action and heroic climax-a
drama of fair Florence in the pi7-
turesque days of the Medici.
Although little more than two weeks
SIHce IL was puDllShed, "A Certain Rich
MAN. is already in its fourth edition
A remarkable record for any book, the
fact that this is Mr.. Whites first novel
makes the achievement still more note
worthy. To it's Amercanism, its seri-
BUSINESS and it's sincerity is probably
due the success of this story of the
middle west Mr. White has not had
to struggle hard to build up a plot, He
has had something definite to say, and
has said it in his own way.
That way is distinctly different from
the methods in fashion among contem-
porary noVelists. Unconsciously, per-
haps, Mr.. White has returned to the
method of Thackeray, doing for the
American of the prairies much the same
thing that the English master did for
the West End of London. In addition,
however, to his skill as a painter of
real life, Mr.. White has shown himself
a prophet and a warrior.
General Theodore A. Bingham has
written for the September Century his
view of "The New York Police in Pol
itics," a presentation which will of
course have very timely interest.
That his story will not be a pleasant
one "goeS without saving"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
Omar khayyam

Paul Elder e Co, San Francisco,
have a new edition of "Omar" on their
list for fall publication. To the text
of FitzGerald's final revision is to
version of the original upon which
FitzGerald's poem was based ar
ranged in comparative quatrains
Edited with biographical preface and
notes by Arthur Guiterman and illus
trated by Gilbert James.
The edition is to be an example of
the best bookwork of the Tolnoye
Press, done under the personal direc-
tion of ]. H. Nash, with rubricated
text and printed on fine papers-the
Naishapur edition on Italian hand
made paper and the Tentmaker's edl-
tion, 200 numbered copies, on Arnold
handmade; a considerable portion of
the latter has already been subscribed
for in advance of publication.
Bible Mosacs
blessings" is the title of a volume
of "Bible Mosaics," compiled by Ag-
ness Greene Foster soon to be pub
listed by Paul Elder & Co. The
work is completed in five chapters or
divisions, entitled BLESSINGS" "Prom-
ises," Commands" "Admonitions,
and Answers" each chapter being q
Mosaic of biblical selections arranged
WITHOUT comment, so as TO form CO.
herent essays illustrative of vital
truths of life. The work will be is
sued in an attractive manner and il
lustrated with productions of a num-
Der of well-loved pictures, such as
Blashffeld's "The Angels of the
Chimes" Plockhorst's Christ Blessing
Little Children" Hofmann's Christ"
and others.
Wilkie Collins Man and Wife,"
"Armadale" and the "Miscellanies"
have gone into fresh impressions on
the Harper press. A summary of re-
ports like this shows that Collins has
exhausted as many editions of his
books in the last year as though he
were a popular contemporary novelist
The Reid Publishing company an
nounces a new novel by Hiram w.
Hayes, the author of Paul Anthony,
Christian" The new work, which will
be ready in October, is entitled "The
Peacemakers" and has handled the
question of peacemaking from an en-
tirely new point of view.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
Doyle Returns to Fiction

Conan Doyle, after a long silence,
will return to the realms of romance in
the September number of the Strand
Magazine. For this popular monthly
ne has written a story entitled 1.-THE
Lord of Falconbridge," and though it
is not one of the immortal Sherlock's
Adventures" it is no less interesting
and exciting. The author adds a sub
title-"A Legend of the Ring"-which
prepares the reader for an account of
a fight written with all Conan Doyle's
well-knoWn powers of description. The
story will be strikingly illustrated by a
Well-knoWn artist.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
"chrlst Among the Cattle"

The first edition of Frederic Rowland
Marvin's humane and sweet spirited
exposition of the ethics of Christianity
as applied to the dumb creation, has
issued from the press. The discourse
was originally preached in the First
Congregational church of Portland,
Ore, and has become something of 4
classic among the leaders of many
modern crusades on behalf of suffering
animals.
Christ Among the Cattle" By
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
BY JAMES NJ DIXON
Professor of English, University of uthern
California

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