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at half-past nine one comfortless,
drizzling morning.
THE girls left Paris and he
must have more money. At once,
tool"
He threw off his wet overcoat,
sat down and was silent for some
time, his face growing ever
blacker.
What a fool he is! What a
chance he's throwing away
through his cursed folly! And my
chance, too, just as much as his.
Il thought-but. no matter.
Paris has been too much for him.
And now he imagines he's got me
roped fast to grubstake him to a
finish!"
His beard and moustache were
bristling with rage. His eyes
blazed.
"Ill stake him! I'll stake him
SO that he won't move hand or
foot when I've done with him.
"Wulf! Wulf! Are you there,
Wulf? Run round to Rischoff' s
and tell them to send me a ticket
for Paris. Yes, Paris, first-class,
lowest rate, by the very first boat.
Find out when l must be on
board"
| Twenty-four hours later he set
out on Seager's track, and for six
long days at sea did his wrath fer
ment. Bottled up, 1t acquired a
still more dangerous head. He
counted the hours while they slip
ped away in an enforced idleness,
and ground his teeth every time he
heard clock tick. He knew to a
minute when the period of grace
allowed by Miles Quaintance's will
would expire.
He was in no pleasant humor,
therefore, when he reached the
Hotel du Palais, and 1t was perhaps
just as we'll for himself and Domi-
mic Seager that the latter was not
at hand when the irate traveller ar
| rived
Arendsen left his cab at the curb
and asked snappishly at the bureau
for the number of his confederate's
room, with the intention of taking
him unawares there, and then
swore at the clerk on the score of
his slowness in furnishing the in
formation required. 1t did not
soothe him to learn that Seager
had recently been evicted from the
hotel, and still owed lengthy
score there.
IF monsieur will be so good as
to settle that" suggested the clerk,
turning the others angry eager.
ness to his own employers advan-
tage, 81 shall be happy to tell him
how he may perhaps find his
friend"
"And II not?" asked Arendsen,
struck by the impudence of the pro-
posal.
IF not" he returned, ut may be
concluded that the gentleman is no
friend of monsieur's."
Situated as he was, Arendsen
had no option but to accept his
offer.
Make out the receipt" he growl-
ed. tn pay. And where shall
seek the debtor?"
The clerk took good care to have
the transaction completed to his
own liking ere parting with news
of such consequence, and, having
first counted carefully the notes
handed him, locked them away.
"Monsieur's friend has come here
once or twice since he left, to in
Quire for cablegram he expects"
he said quietly. 1T seems that,
when 1t arrives, he will settle his
bill and then sue the Hotel d,l
Palais for damages on the ground
of wrongous ejectment. He will
doubtless, therefore, return, and, If
monsieur cares to await him
But may have to wait for
1 Il n n
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A MILLION
hDy HudsoND Ou8lae
eaenvsr7 ssss ~ kxssssz:
CHAPTER x11.-continued

What he wanted to know at the
moment was how much money he
could comamnd to that end. He
had hundred francs in his pocket
and some small change. When he
reached his room and had gathered
together his entire resources, there
were not quite three hundred
francs all $old. Sixty dollars to
pay his hotel bill and travelling ex-
penses! The thing was absurd and
impossible. He must have more
money, and that instantly. 1t was
Arendsen's fault that he found him
self stranded at a crisis so unfor-
seen. Had that niggardly specu-
lator put UP the two thousand dol
lars required of him, his unfortun-
ate partner in the deal need not
have been left in any such hole. He
must cable Immediately.
He did SO. stating that his
quarry had left Paris, asking for a
prompt remittance by wire in or
der that he might follow her. And
Arendsen had a note Of the date
on which their venture must per-
force lapse should the terms of
the will not then be fulfilled.
THAT ought to fetch him, I
think" he reflected angrily. re-
reading what he had written, and
babe the boy who answered his
bell bring a brandy-and-soda as
soon as he should have despatched
the message. --
"Gad!" he said to himself after
he had swallowed that beverage
and lit one of the expensive cigars
with which he had thoughtfully
filled his case over night at the
Ritz. what a note! II I had
only known who she was I'd have
got my kiss after all. Think of all
that poor devil has missed! Think
of all that's coming to me! Dom
inic, my boy, you're going to get
your deserts at last. After all
these ups and downs you'll take
the top notch you're entitled to.
I'll be of the moment Arendsen
sends me the price of my ticket
Lets see. It's two o'clock now.
If he wires at once I'll be able to
touch the bank before closing
time today. If not, I'll have to
wait till tomorrow. Thatll leave
me a short enough few days after
! land again to fix things up In. but
I'm a lightning artist when / see
a chance of drawing free-hand
checks for the rest of my life. And
furthermore I'd move heaven and
earth for a girl like that, quite
apart from the money Ill get with
her."
His most immediate move, how
ever, was in the direction of the
buffet, where he swallowed a Sec
ond brandy -and-soda to coothe his
overweight nervous system. BY
four o'clock he had two more to
settle for, and no cable had yet
come. He cursed Arendsen bitter
ly, and then made excuse for him.
Black Dirck might have been
out of town. And besides, two
hours was a short enough time
in which to expect reply. There
were half a dozen possible reasons
for the delay. He would have his
remittance in good time for tomor-
row morning, and as to the pres
ent, he might just as well put in
his time pleasantly as hang about
there counting the minutes In the
company of lot of snobs who
took no interest In his converse
ton.
He called a cab, crossed the In
valides bridge, and sought mex
pensive distraction in Mont
parnasse, with the remains of his
working capital In his pockets.
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CHAPTER XIII
Why a Millionaire Shook the
Natal nu palaia

80 that's his game Is it,"
snapped Dirck Arendsen. flinging
down with contemptuous gesture
the cable message which he had
found on his desk when he enter
ed the dingy Duane street office
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Hair switehes-All lengths and shades;
Just the same as the stores here have been
charging you $500, $500, $3.50 and some
s ssas and sns aox s' s tsf choice $248
Coronet curls-$1.50 values; in any
shade; six curls to each piece; made OF
good German hair: on sale at. ........ .48c
Coronet Curls-$2.00 values; in all
shades of best hair; eight curls to the
niece: ON sale at .79c
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17

1t 10 hereby enacted By the General As
sembty of the State of Vermont:
SECTION l. Section 1922 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Section 822. Every person other
than the father, mother, husband, wife,
lineal descendant, stepchild, adopted child,
child OF stepchild or of an adopted child,
a daughter of decedent, bishop in his
ecclesiastical capacity for religious uses
within this state, or a city or town for
cemetery purposes; and every charitable,
educational or religious society or insti-'
tuition other than one created and existing
under and by virtue of the laws of this
state and having its principal Office herein,
that shall receive in trust or otherwise a
legacy or diStributive share consisting of
or arising from property or an interest
or the decree of court in this state, from
deceased person who owned such prop
erty at the date of his decease shall, eX-
cept as otherwise provided in this chapter,
pay to the state tax of five per cent of
the value in money of such legacy or dis
tributive share.
SEC 2. Section s24 of the Public Stat
utes is hereby amended so as to read as
follows:
Section s24. If a transfer or other
similar tax has been lawfully paid to an
other state or to a government other than
the United States, for or on account of an
assignment or transfer of stocks, obliga--
tions, securities or other evidences of
Indebtedness, or for or on account of the
collection, delivery or assignment of Sc
curities, deposits or other assets, and such
stocks, obligations, securities, other evil
dences of indebtedness, deposits or assets,
or the proceeds thereof, shall in whole or
in part be included in any legacy or dis
tributive share decreed subsequent to the
ninth day of December, 1904, by probate
court OF this state to legatee or heil
liable to the tax imposed by section eight
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SPECIAL TAXATION.

the company on the last day of July, 1909.
SEC. g. A domestic fire insurance
company other than domestic mutual
fire insurance company, a domestic acct
dent insurance company, or a domestic
fidelity, surety or guaranty company, at
the times and in the manner provided in
the preceding section, shall, in addition
to the tax assessed on premiums and
assessments, annually pay tax to the
state which is hereby assessed at the rate
of one per. cent on the surplus over all
liabilities of such company on the last day
of December next preceding.
Sec. 3. Said insurance commissioners
shall SeasOnably certify the amount Of the
surplus specified in the two preceding sec
lions to the commissioner of state taxes;
and said companies therein specified shall
make and file returns showing the amount
of such surplus at the times and in the man
ner provided in chapter So of the Public
Statutes.
Sec L. Section 1877 of the Public Stat
utes is hereby amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 1877. Except as otherwise pro-
vided by this act, real and personal estate
used in operating railroad, or a steam
boat, car or transportation company, and
appraised under sections 706, TOT and
1922 of the Public Statutes; or used in
carving on express. telegraph or telephone
business in this state; and money, stocks,
bonds, mortgages and other evidences
of indebtedness belonging to insurance,
surety or guaranty companies, and shares
of stock in telephone, telegraph, insurance,
surety, guaranty, steamboat, Car and
transportation companies organized under
the laws of this state and taxed by chapter
35 of the Public Statutes, shall not be set
in the grand list to the owner thereof.
Sec. s. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved January %, 1909.
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NUMBER 29.
AN ACT IN ADDITION TO SECTION
TIA OF THE PUBLIC STATUTES,
RELATING TO THE TAXATION
OF RAILROADS.

1t IS hereby enacted By the General As
senably OF the State of Vermont:
SECTION /. In case a corporation or
person owning or operating a railroad
located in whole or in part within this
state sells or furnishes gas, electricity or
power for the use of another whether for
hire or otherwise, such company or person
shall, If election is thereby seasOnably
made to pay the tax imposed by section
seven hundred fourteen of the Public Stat
utes, keep separate daily iten1iZed records
of the earnings derived or collected from all
sources also from the operation of such
railroad and from the sale or furnishing of
gas, electricity or power as aforesaid, said
records to be SO kept that collections or
Earnings derived from each and all of the
aforesaid sources shall be classified to show
from what source derived.
SEC. 2. Such records shall at all times
be kept in this state at the principal Office
herein, if any, of such corporation or
person; and shall together with all reports.
vouchers, entries, data or other records
relating thereto be open at all reasonable
times to inspection and examination of the
commissioner of state taxes or any person
whom he may designate to make such in
6pectiOn and examination in whole or in
part.
Sec. 8. The property and franchise of
a corporation or person taxable under
section 713 of the Public Statutes, shall not
be construed to include tenement houses
lands or buildings rented for general COM
mercial purposes, and not used in opera
ton Of railroad; water power, electric
light and gas plants; nor farming or timber
lands owned or leased by such corporation
The income from said houses, lands or
buildings shall not be included in comput-
ing the gross earnings under section TIA
of the Public Statutes, provided such cor
poration shall keep and exhibit to the
commissioner of state taxes a separate
record of the earnings of said last named
properties nor shall the income derived
from the sale or furnishing of gas, electri-
city or power be included in computing the
gross earnings under said last named sec
tion if the records specified in section one
shall be kept and exhibited as provided
in the preceding section
Sec. 4. If corporation or person
owning or operating railroad as aforesaid
keeps and exhibits such reports, vouchers,
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1t is hereby enacted By the General A Is
|senlbIy of the State of Vermont:
SECTION 1. Section 713 of the Public
Statues is hereby amended so as to read
Jas follows:
Section 713. For each fiscal year be-
ginning with the first day of January, 1909,
IA tax is hereby assessed upon the property
and corporate franchises of each person
or corporation owning or operating a rail-
road located in whole or in part within
this state, at the rate of one and one-fourth
per cent of the appraised value thereof,
obtained and established as hereinbefore
provided. One-half of the tax imposed by
this section, covering the six months end
ing with the thirtieth day of June in each
year, shall be paid to the state treasurer
on or before the fifteenth day of the fol-
lowing October, by the person or corpora
ton then owning or operating such rail-
road: and the remaining half of such tax
covering the six months ending with the
thirty-frst day of December in each year,
shall be paid to the state treasurer on or
before the fifteenth day of the following
April, by the person or corporation then
owning or operating such railroad.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
Its passage.
Approved January 9, 1909.
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entries, data and other records as herein
before provided, such corporation or per-
son may in the computation OF the tax
under section seven hundred fourteen of
the Public Statutes exclude from the
entire gross earnings derived from all
sources during the six months all sums,
derived from the rental of such houses,
lands or buildings of from the sale Or fur
nishing of gas, electricity or power as
aforesaid, during the same period:
Sec. 5. Upon petition in writing OF
corporation or person owning any houses,
lands, buildings or plants specified in sec
ton 8, the commissioner of state taxes
shall except as herein otherwise provided
on or before the last day of May, 1909, in
the manner specified in sections 706 and
TOT of the Public Statutes, and agreeably
to section of this act, reappraiSe the
property of such corporation or person
acquired, constructed or used for railroad
business or purposes, including the cor
porate franchise; and shall, on or before
the fifteenth day of June, 1909, make such
records, give such notices, and furnish
such copies as are required by the pro-
visions of section 709 and ITO OF the Pub
lie Statutes. The aforesaid petition shall
contain brief description OF all property
of said corporation or person set in the
grand list in any town or city in this state
in the year 1909, the location and appraised
valuation thereof, and shall be verified by
oath. No re-appraisal under the prOvi-
sions of section 8 shall be made by said
commissioner unless it shall be made to
appear to him that such property so set in
the grand list in the year 1909 was not set
to such corporation or person in the grand
list of 1908, and that the taxes thereon
have been paid thereby.
Sec. 6. A party aggrieved by such
re-appraisal may on or before the first day
of July, 1909, appeal therefrom as pro-
vided in section I'll of the Public Statutes;
and on or before August 1, 1909, such pro-
ceeding shall be had and such records
made as are provided in sections I'll and
712 of the Public Statutes Unless in
consistent with the provisions of this act,
all the provisions of sections 706 to 712 OF
the Public Statutes shall be observed in the
manner therein specified, and at the times
herein provided.
SEC. 7. All such re-appraisals shall
have the same force and effect as if made
on or before the thirty-first day of Deem
Der, 1908, and all taxes based upon ap-
praisal for the fiscal year commencing on
the first day of January, 1909, shall be
assessed upon such re-appraisal in lieu OF
the appraisal made on December 3d. 1908
SEC. s. This act shall be construed
agreeably to the provisions of chapter one
of the Public Statutes so far as the same
is applicable hereto.
Sec. 9. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved January %, 1909.
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NUMBER 80.
AN ACT RELATING TO THE TAXA
TON OF INSURANCE CoMPAN-


les.
1t is hereby enacted by the General A s.
sembIy of the State of Vermont:
SEC. l. A domestic mutual fire in
surance company shall in addition to the
tax assessed by section TAO of the Public
Statutes, pay tax to the state, which is
hereby assessed at the rate of one per cent
on the total admitted assets, not including
premium notes, of such company after
deducting therefrom the necessary reserve
for reinsurance on all existing paid up
policies computed according to the laws
of this state and fifty per cent of premiums
paid in advance on mutual policies in force.
and certified to the commissioner of state
taxes by the insurance commissioners;
the value of all its real estate situated in
this state, or elseWhere;' all unadjusted
or unpaid claims for losses; taxes assessed
upon real estate, but not paid; and all
other accrued liabilities including current
expenses. Such tax shall be paid annually
in the month of February and shall be
based upon the condition of such company
on the last day of July next preceding.
The first tax to be levied under this Sec
ton shall be based upon the condition OF
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NUMBER 80.
AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE PAY
q. MENT OF BANK DEPOSITS TO
FOREIGN EXECUTORS OR AID
ILLUSTRATORS.

1t IS hereby enacted by the General As
senabLy of the State of Vermont:
SECTION 1. No action at law or in
equity shall be maintained against national
gress, nor against savings banks, savings
institutions or trust companies for the
recovery of a deposit or any part thereof.
with the dividend or interest thereon
or country who has deceased, payment of
which has been made to the executor or
administrator appointed in the state or
country where the depositor resided at
the time of death, before the appointments
of an executor or administrator in this
state, and upon the delivery of the certi-
ficate of the commissioner of state taxes,
as provided in section 882 of the Public
Statutes.
Approved December 3, 1908.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17
NUMBER 33.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 900 OF
THE PUBLIC STATUTES, RELAT-
ING TO PEDDLERS.

1t IS hereby enacted by the General As
sen1bLy of the State of Vermont:
SECTION 1. Section 902 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Section 9O2. A person going from town
to town, or from place to place in town,
carrying or exposing for sale goods COM
posed in whole or in part of cotton, linen,
patent medicine or compound medicine,
the composition of which is kept secret
from the public, watches or clocks, stoves
or ranges, groceries, oranges, bananas
person who transports such goods, wares
or merchandise from town to town, or
who comes from without the state into
town within this state, bringing such goods,
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highway taxes assessed or voted on or
after the first day of March in any year
and before the first day of March follow
ing, and fire district taxes assessed or
voted on or after the first day of January
in any year and before the first day of
January following, shall be assessed on the
grand list returned to the town clerks
office in May of such year; except that in
case of Incorporated villages that have
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hundred twenty-five, such legatee or heir
shall be liable to pay to this state under the
provisions of said section only such part
of the tax therein imposed as will make
the entire tax both within and without
this state, based on such portion of a
legacy or diStributive share taxed in such
other state or government, equal to five
per cent of the total value thereof, to be
determined as provided in this chapter.
Sec. 3. Section S57 of the Public Stat
utes is hereby amended SO as to read as
follows:
Section 957. Whenever a person be-
queathS or deviSeS the use of property for
the term of a natural life or l'7es, or for
term OF years, or gives or conveys such
use in the manner provided in section
eight hundred twenty-three, to or for the
use OF any person, society, institution or
corporation exempt from the payment of
tax imposed by this chapter, and be-
queathS, devises, gives or conveys the re-
or corporation subject to the taxes herein
before imposed the value of the prior estate
shall, in the manner hereinbefore provided,
be deducted from the appraised value of
such property; and the person entitled to
such remainder shall be liable to the tax
imposed by this chapter. Such tax shall
become due and payable at the same time
that a tax would become due and payable,
II the entire property, instead of re-
malnder therein, had passed to the person
receiving such remainder.
Sec. 4. In determining the amount
OF any tax imposed by sections 876 and
878 of the Public Statutes, no deductions
on account of debts or expenses of adj
miniStratiOn shall be made except such
debts or expenses have been allowed by
the probate, surrogate or other court hav-
ing original jurisdiction of said estate.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved January %. 1909.
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THE PUBLIC STATUTES, RELAT-
ING TO ASSESSMENT OF TAXES.

1t is hereby enacted By the General A S.
semabLy Of the State of Vermont:
SECTION 1. Section SIC of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Section SIS. State and county taxes
assessed, and town, village, school and
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NUMBER 81.

AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AND IN
ADDITION TO CHAPTER 3S OF
THE PUBLIC STATUTES, RELAT-
ING TO INHERITANCE TAXES
AND TAXABLE TRANSFERS.
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their annual meetings before the first day
of March, taxes so voted at such annual
meetings shall be assessed on the grand
list returned to the town clerks office in
May of the year when such taxes are voted.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
it's passage.
Approved January 27, 1909.
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NUMBER %.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 713 OF
THE PUBLIC STATUTES, RELAT-
ING TO THE RATE OF TAXES
ERTY.
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such society, when notified, may give such
town authority to collect the rent without
discount.
Approved November IT. 1908.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17
! NUMBER 27.

IAN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 57e OF