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ways sorry for it, because it is bad
for the voice
Mr.. Van Torp reached his quarters,
and prepared to scrub and dress COM
fortably after week at Bayreuth and
railroad journey.
Lady Maud did not begin to dress at
once, as there was plenty of time be-
fore dinner; she left the stewardess to
unpack her things, and came out upon
the six-foot gangway outside her cab
in door to breathe the air, for it was
warm. The city lay half mile away
in the afterglow of the sunset.
But she felt none of that healthy
pleasure which lovely sight naturally
gave her. She was at crisis of her
life, and the exquisite evening scene
was the battlefield of a coming strug-
gle, with herself, or with another, she
hardly knew. In half an hour, or in
an hour, at most, she was to sit at ia
BILE with a man she fully believed to
be the husband for whom she had
been wearing mourning, out of mere
decency, but with the profound inward
satisfaction of being free.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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| ent, and decide what we'll do. | sup
| pose the best thing is for me to put
him off with some excuse, so that you
can come on the yacht
Please do nothing of the sort!"
| cried Lady Maud.
''But I want you to come" objected
her friend.
Il mean to come. Do you think I'm
afraid to meet him?"
| Van Torp looked at her in some sur
prise, and not without admiration.
There isn't anybody like you, any
way" he said quietly. But there S
going to be a circus on that ship if
he's Leven," he added. eff he makes
fuss I'll read the riot act and lock
him up"
ooh, no." answered Lady Maud, who
was used to Mr.. Van Torp's familiar
vocabulary, why need there be any
trouble? You've not told him | am
coming, you say. Very well. If he
sees me suddenly after he has been
on board a little while, he'll certainly
betray himself, and then I shall be
sure. Leven is a man of the world
was or 'is'-God knows which! But
if it is he, and he doesn't want to be
recognized, he'll behave as if nothing
had happened, after the first moment
of surprise. At least I shall be GER
tain. I must be positively sure
whether Leven is alive or dead, for
what [ have got back in these last
two months is my whole life. A mere
yards is not enough. 1t may be only
a marvellous resemblance, for they
say every one has a double some
where in the world"
''They used to say, too, that if you
met your double one of you would
die" observed Van Torp. Those
things are all stuff and nonsense, of
course. | was just thinking Well"
he continued, dwelling on his favorite
monosyllable, "if you decide to come
on the yacht, and if the man doesn't
blow away, we shall know the truth in
three or four days from now, and
that's a comfort. And even if he turns
| out to be Leven, maybe we can man
age something
Lady Maud chose not to ask what
her friend thought he could manage; &"
for she had glanced at his face when
he had spoken, and though it was half
turned away from her, she saw his
expression, and it would have scared
a nervous person. She did not like
him to be in that mood and was sor-
ry that she had brought him to it.
But Mr.. Van Torp, who was strong
man, and had seen more than one af-
fray in his ranching days, could not
help thinking how uncommonly easy
it would be to pick up Count Kralin-
sky and drop him overheard on a dark
night next week, when the Lancashire
Lass would be doing % knots, and
there might be little weather about
to drown the splash
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CHAPTER XI.-Continued.

He turned the page round, and
handed it to her. The writing was
large and perfectly legible, but very
different from the commercial hand
of most American business men. Any
one word, taken at random, might
have seemed uniformed, at first sight,
but the appearance of the whole was
oddly strong and symmetrical. Mar
gaTet read the clauses carefully. She
herself had already signed a good
many legal papers in connection with
her engagements and her own small
fortune, and the language was not so
unfamiliar to her as it would have
been to most women.
Shall l sign first?" she asked,
when she had finished. My own
name? Or my stage name?"
Your own name, please" said Van
Torp without hesitation. The others
only binding in your profession, be-
cause you appear under it, and it's
your business style
She wrote Margaret Dome" at the
foot of the page in her large and rath-
er irregular hand, and passed the pa.
per back to Van Torp, who signed it.
He waved the sheet slowly to and fro
to dry the ink
It's only preliminary agreement"
he said. but it's binding as far as it
goes and I'll attend to the rest You'll
have to give me power of attorney
for my lawyer in New York By the
by, if you decide to come, you can do
that in Venice, where there's a real
live consul That's necessary. But
for all matters of business herein set
forth, we are now already The Nine.
da Cordova and Rufus Van Torp Com
pany, organized for the purpose of
building an opera house in the city of
New York and for giving public per
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FACTS ABOUT MOTHER EARTH.
Points of Interest Concerning This
Wonderful Globe, as Vouched
for by Scientists.

Our dear old earth which seems
immovable and solid as we go about
our daily work or travel over its fur
rowed surface, is yet spinning, and
rolling, and swaying in complex but
orderly motion Its axial rotation
gives us day and night. It's circuit
round the sun brings the seasons and
the year. The circling of the poles
produces the procession of the equi-
noxes. The planets perturb in its
courses. The plain of it's orbit sways
up and down, and it's perihelion is
slowly shifted The moon swings it
around a center of gravity common
to both, while the sun and all our sys-
TEN speeds onward to some far distant
goal. And if the bright star in the
Taurus is the central point round
which this vast orbit sweeps then AL
cyona is the center of the universe
for us.
AS far as astronomers can Judge
this motion through the vast abyss OF
intersteller space is at the rate OF
about a million miles day, and it is
in the direction of the constellation
Hercules The motion through space
is believed to be away from Argus
and toward Hercules. Some have
thought that Alcyona in the Pleiades
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LEADS A QUIET LIFE
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie Prefers
Home to Society.
Devotes Time to Daughter, Loves Mu.
sic and Aids Husband in PhiIan-
thropic Work--May Control
Millions.

New York.-The recent accident to
Andrew Carnegie and the solicitude of
his wife regarding the condition of
the famous ironmaster- philanthropist
has indirectly focused public attention
upon one of the least-known of the
worlds wealthy women Mrs. Carne-
gle probably will control for many
years one of the greatest American
fortunes. She is considerably younger
than her husband and it is only nat
ural to suppose that in the ordinary
course of events she will outlive him
many years. Moreover, it will be years
before little Miss Carnegie, the only
child becomes of age, so that Mrs
Carnegie will upon the death of her
ality the custodian of her daughters
fortune as well as her own.
That Mrs. Carnegie is one of the
most retiring of women is due entire
ly to her own wish. She has been i'm
portuned time and again in every pos
sible manner to enter fashionable So
cial life, but she prefers to make her
nome and her family the center of her
interests. 1t must not be supposed that
Mrs. Carnegie is III any sense narrow
in her activities or her sympathies.
Mrs. Carnegie, who is now in her
fifty-second year, is native of New
York city, which has always been
home" to her, for all that she has
acquired such an affection for her hus-
bands's native town of Dunfermline,
Scotland. AS Louise Whitfield, the
daughter of a prosperous wholesale
merchant, she grew up in the metrop-
oils and quaint old Gramercy park,
close by her home, was her play
ground. The Carnegie and Whitfield
families were old friends and the mer-
chants daughter and Andrew Carne-
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Spider Colonies.

Our native spiders are notable for
their extreme unsociability. Of those
which are spinners each one con.
structs it's web apart from those of
it's kind. And those which hunt pur.
sue their prey alone, says the London
Globe.
In other countries, however, there
are spiders which live in communities,
and one such, a native of Mexico, is
described by M. L. Diguet. 1t is known
as the mosquero and makes a large
nest in oaks and other trees. Here
the spiders live gregariously and along
with them in the nest is found a mi
mute beetle and another species of spi-
der. The beetle is said to act as
scavenger. Parts of the nest of the
mosquero are hung up in the houses
during the wet season to get rid of the
flies.
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hand to him. He pressed it quietly,
and smiled.
''Do as you would be done by he
said. That's the cOmpany's rule"
She laughed at the allusion to their
agreement, of which Lady Maud knew
nothing, for they had determined to
keep it secret for the present.
Mr.. Van Torp had not found an op-
portunity of speaking to Lady Maud
alone, but he wished her to know
when Kralinsky might be expected.
"Stemp," he said, before leaving the
cabin, "have you heard from the
count?"
Eyes, sir. He got here this morn
ing from Vienna in his motor, sir, and
sent his things with his man, and his
compliments to you and the ladies,
and he will come on board in time for
dinner. That was all, think, sir"
Lady Maud heard, and made a
scarcely perceptible movement of the
head by way of thanks to her friend,
while listening to Margaret's enthusi
astic praise of everything she saw. Mr..
Van Torp and his man departed, just
as Potts appeared, accompanied by a
very neat-looking English stewardess
in a smart white cap. Lady Maud was
unusually silent, but she smiled pleas
antly at what Margaret said, and the
latter made up her mind to drown her
anger against Logotheti, and at the
same time be avenged on him, in an
orgy of luxurious comfort, sea-air, and
sunshine. The capacity of a perfectly
healthy and successful singer for en-
joying everything, from halfpenny
bun and drive in hanson to mil
lionaire's yacht and the most eXpen-
sive fat of the land, or sea, has never
been measured. And if they do have
terrible fits of temper now and then,
who shall blame them? They are al
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CHAPTER XIII.

The millionaire did things hand
| sOmely. He offered to motor his party
to Venice, and as Margaret declined,
because motoring was bad for her
voice, he telegraphed for a comfort
able special carriage, and took his
| friends down by railroad, and they
were all very luXuriously comfortable
Kralinsky was not on board the
yacht when they came alongside at
sunset in two gondolas, following the
steam-launch, which carried the load
of luggage and the two maids.
Stemp led the way, and Mr.. Van
Torp took the three la5ies to their
cabins; first, Mrs. Rushmore, who was
surprised and delighted by the rich
and gay appearance of hers, for it
was entirely decorated in pink and
gold
On the writing-table stood a tall,
gilt vase full of immense pink roses,
with stems nearer four feet long than
three. Mrs. Rushmore admired them
very much.
How did you know that I love
| roses above all other f1owers?" she
asked. "My dear Mr.. Van Torp, you
| are wizard, I'm sure!"
Lady Maud and Margaret entered,
and kept up a polite little chorus of
admiration; but they both felt uneasy
as to what they might find in their re-
spective cabins, for Margaret hated
pink, and Lady Maud detested gild-
ing, and neither of them was especial
ly fond of roses. They left Mrs. Rush
| more very happy in her quarters and
| went on. Lady Mauds turn came next,
and she began to understand, when
| she saw quantity of sweet wood vio-
lets on her table, just loosened, in an
old Murano glass beaker.
Thank you," she said, bending to
smell them. How kind of you!"
There was not trace of gliding or
pink silk. The cabin was paneled and
fitted in rare natural wood of a
creamywhite tint.
Beg pardon, my lady," said Stemp.
This and Miss Donne's cabin COM
municate by this door, and the door
aft goes to the dressing-room. Each
cabin has one quite independent, and
this bell rings the pantry, my lady,
and this one rings Miss Donne's
maids cabin, as l understand that
your ladyship has not brought her own
maid with her.
Very NICE" said Lady Maud, smell
ing the violets again.
Stemp threw open the door of COM
munication to the cabin he had pre-
pared for the prima DONNA The two
cabins occupied the whole beam of the
vessel, excepting the six-foot gangway
on each side, and as she was one of
the largest yachts afioat at the time,
there was no lack Of room.
"Carnations, at this time of year!"
cried Margaret, seeing half an arm
full Of her favorite dark red ones, in a
silver wine-cooler before the mirror.
you really seem to know everything!
Thank you so much.'
She buried her handsome face in the
splendid flowers and drew in a deep,
warm breath, full Of their sensuous
perfume, the spicy scent of a laden
clove-tree under a tropical sun
Thank you again!'' she said en-
Enthusiastically. Thank you for every
thing, the delightful journey, and this
lovely room, and the carnations!"
She stood up suddenly to her height,
in sheer pleasure, and held out her
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SYNOPSIS.

Baraka. q Tartar girl, became enamoled
of golden bearded stranger who was
prospecting and studying herbs in the
vicinity OF her home in central Asia, and
revealed to him the location of mine
of rubies hoping that the stranger would
love her III return for her disclosure.
They were followed to the cave by the
girls relatives, who blocked up the en-
trance. and drew off the water supply,
leaving the couple to die. Baraka's cousin
Saad her betrothed, attempted to CHIMP
down q cliff overlooking the mine; put
the traveller shot him. The stranger was
revived from Il water SOurd SadQ Cal ,
ried dug his way out of the tunnel, ana
departed, deserving the girl and carrying
a bag of rubies. Baraka gathered all the
gems she could carry, and started In puF-
suit. Margaret Dome OIargarita ga
COrdOVa), a famous prima donna, became
engaged in London to Konstanun 10 10
gotheti, a wealthy Greek tfnancleT. her
known as Lady Maud, whose husband
had been killed by a bomb in st. PETERS
burg; and Lady Maud's most lntlmate
friend was Rufus Van Torp, an AmeFl-
can, who had become one of the richest
men in the world. Van TOrp was IN love
with Margaret and rushed to L0nqoh %
soon as he heard of her betrothaI. ne
offered Lady Maud $5,OOO,OOO for her PEI
charity if she would aid him in winning
the singer from Logotheti. Baraka ap-
preached LOgOtheti at Versailles with
FuDleS 10 sell lie presented d Ivy
Margaret. Van Torp bought yacht and
sent it to Venice He was visited by
Baralza in male attire. She gave him a
ruby after the American had told her OF
having seen in the United States man
answering the description of the one she
loved. The American followed Margaret
to the Bayreuth ''ParsifaP festival Mar
garet took a liking to Van Torp, who pre-
scented her with the ruby .Baraka had
given MIN. Count Kralinsky. a Russian,
arrived at Bayreuth. Van Torp believed
him to be the on Baralla was pursuing.
Baraka was arrested in London on the
charge of stealing from Pinney, jew
eler, the ruby she had sold to l1ogothet1
Two strangers were the thieves Lady
Maud believed that Logotheti's associa-
tons with BaraIa were open to suspl-
cion, and so informed Margaret. Van
TOrp believed that Kralinsky was the
cowboy he had known in his young man
hood. LOgothet secured Baraka's re-
lease, and then, with her as his guest,
went to sea on his yacht Erinna. Baraka
explains her plans for revenge on the
man who had deserted her and left her
TO die. LOgOtheti succeeds in mOderatng
her rage. Lady Maud arrived in Bay
reuth. Margaret and Van Torp entered
into an agreement to build a tremendous
opera house in New York.
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CHAPTER XII.

On the morning after the transac-
ton last described, Van Torp's atten'
ton was arrested by sensational
"scare-head' about a thief and a ruby
worth $4,000. Some disaffected col
league in London had known, or
cleverly guessed, where the stone was
that had been stolen from Mr.. Pin
ney's, and had informed the police;
the nice-looking young fellow who
spoke like an English gentleman had
walked directly into the arms OF the
plain-clothes man waiting for him on
the pier in New York, the stone had
been found sewn up in his waistcoat,
and his pleasant career of liberty had
ended abruptly in a cell.
Mr.. Van Torp whistled softly as he
read the account a second time. Then
he neatly cut the column out of the
paper folded it with great precision,
smoothed it with care and placed it in
his pocket-bOOk next to cheap little
photograph of Nine da Cordova as
Juliet" which he had bought in a
music shop in New York the day after
he had heard her for the first time,
and had carried in his pocket ever
since.
He took up the mutilated newspa-
per and looked up and down the col
umns, and among other information
which he gathered in a few moments
was the fact that Logotheti's yacht
had passed Capt Saint Vincent, going
east. owner and party on board The
previous telegram had not escaped
him, and if he had entertained any
doubts as to the destination of the
Erinna, they vanished now. She was
certainly bound for the Mediterranean.
He remembered having heard that
many steam yachts coming from Eng
land put into Gibraltar for coal and
fresh provisions, coal being cheaper
there than in French and Italian
ports, and he thought it very probable
that the Erinna would do the same !;
he also made some deductions which
need not be explained yet. The only
one worth mentioning here was that
Logotheti would be likely to hear in
Gibraltar that the ruby had been
found and was on it's way back to
England, and that as he would know
that Margaret would be anxious about
it, since he had already given it to
her, he would hardly let the occasion
of communicating with her go by. AS
for writing from Gibraltar to any
place whatsoever in the hope that a
letter will arrive in less than a week,
it is sheer folly. Mr.. Van Torp had
never tried it, and supposed it pos
sible as it looks, but he was tolerably
sure that Logotheti would telegraph
first, and had perhaps done so al
ready, for the news of his passing
Cape Saint Vincent was already "a
hours old
This was precisely what had hap
pened. When Mr.. Van Torp opened
his door, he came upon Margaret and
Mrs. Rushmore on the landing, on the
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gle were good friends for years ere
any thought Of tenderer relationship
seems to have entered the head Of
either. The romance that eliminated
in their marriage began in 1879 when
Andrew Carnegie returned from trip
around the world and found his girl
friend transformed, in a comparative
ly brief space of time, into an attrac-
| tive woman.
However, 1t was not until eight
years later and following the death OF
the ironmaster's mother, that the two
| were married.
The honeymoon was passed on the
Isle of Wight and then the couple
went to Scotland, where they leased
castle, which they occupied for some
ten years, until Mr.. Carnegie, in 1897
purchased his now famous Skibo es
tate and removed, with his wife and
baby daughter Margaret, to the pic,
turesque castle, where ever since II
has been their wont to pass the inter
val from May to November of every
year.
Notwithstanding the demands upon
her time by many house guests, by
voluminous (much Of it uninvited)
correspondence and by elaborate
housekeeping arrangements which she
personally supervises, it is seldom that
Mrs. Carnegie finds it necessary tc
digress from her rule to give over the
morning hours of each day to her
daughter Margaret-reading and talk
ing with her, playing games and, il
opportunity offers, riding, driving or
walking.
While Mrs. Carne gle is fond of out.
door life she does not go in for siren
uous athletics and she has no fads un.
less a passionate love for music can
be considered one. She has a prefer
ence for the music of the pipe organ
and 1t is she who has been the in.
spiration of Andrew Carnegie's nu.
merous gifts of organs to churches
on both sides of the Atlantic. In not
a few instances Mrs. Carnegie has her
self paid the salary of good organis'
in order that the people of poor con
gregation might derive full benefit
from an organ installed by her hus
band-or through his aid-for Andrew
Carnegie, following his custom, pre-
fers to contribute from one-half tc
four-fifths the cost Of the instrument
rather than to donate it outright.
Mrs. Carnegie's simplicity of taste
extends to dress, though 1t may be
added that this simplicity is of that
difficult-to-attain variety which in
wolves the use of rich materials, har
mony of colors and artistic ensemble
She has her own personal charities
apart from those to which her hus
band gives so much of his time, and
on several occasions, in connection
with her work on behalf Of the thous
ands of tenants of the Skibo estate
this reserved Lady Bountiful has beer
induced to make an impromptu public
address.
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If we allow six inches, the measure
of the English sparrow of our streets,
to be the average length of migra-
tory bird, then, this mighty host, if
we could arrange it's restless, fitting
members in quiet, orderly manner,
like soldiers on parade, would make a
line 4,O9O,9O9 miles long. This earth
is much too small for such line We
might arrange our birds in 1926 lines
and each would extend from the
north pole to the south pole along the
whole length of North and South
America. If we arranged the birds at
the equator they would encircle the
globe 1853 times.-D. LANCE, in the At
lantic
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re /C4T 1907 ~ EHINRI0W CRHWFORD

formances of musical works in the
same, with a nominal capital hereaft-
er to be agreed upon That's what
we are now"
He folded the sheet, returned it to
his inner pocket and held out his hand
in a cheerful, business-like manner.
Shall we shake hands on it?" he
asked.
by all means" Margaret answered
readily, and their eyes met; but she
drew back her hand again before TAX
ing his. This is purely matter OF
business between u.s." she said, you
understand that? It means nothing
else?"
Purely matter of business an
swered Rufus Van Torp, slowly and
gravely.
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Just One Turkish University.

Turkey has, but single university
that of Constantinople, with faculties
of medicine, law, theology, science and
letters. In this last department, the
literatures studied are the Turkish
Arabic, Persian and French. In time
says the minister of public instruc
ton, Nahil Bey, the study of German
and English will be added.
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Live in TODAY.

Tomorrow you have no business
with. You steal if you touch to-mor.
row. 1t is Gods. Every day has in
it enough to keep any man occupied
without concerning himself with the
thin=s beyond. Henry Ward Raaehaz
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is somewhere near the center of the
vast circuit swept over by the sun
and his attendant worlds. If this is
true, that beautiful star as it silently
wrinkles in the constellation Taurus
becomes of surprising interest to
mankind.