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seconds: Il will ask you this he resumed; If you
should have any news of-her-you will send me
word at once and in secret? Not openly; l am
rounded by spies, all are here Mishka shall
remain here and accompany you to Petersburg. He
will show you where and how you can leave a mes
sage that will reach speedily and infably. For
the present. goodby-and a swift recovery"
He saluted me and clanked out of the ROOM
heard him speaking to Mishka, who had remained on
guard outside the door. minute two later there
hustle in the courtyard below whence had
sounded the clank of stationary motor
l went to the window, walking rather unsteadily;
for felt sick and dizzy after this strange and
what exciting interview. Two magnificent
in waiting, surrounded by little crowd of officers
IN uniform and soldiers guard. After brief in
terval the Grand Duke out of the hotel and en-
tered the first followed by the stout rubicund Of
hcer had seen in attendance on him at Wirballen
merry little man. he seemed, and as he settled him
self in his seat he said something that drew laugh
from the Duke. Looking down at his handsome
debonair face it difficult to believe that he was
anything more than light hearted young aristocrat
with never a in the world. And yet l guessed
them know now-that he merely bluffing an
antagonist in game that he playing for grim
stakes -nothing less than life and liberty
THREE days later l arrived, at last in Petersburg
to find letters from England awaiting me; one
from my cousin Mary to whom had already written
merely telling her that l missed Anne at Berlin and
asking if she had news of her. There could be no
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early. One lovely June morning my matutinal
knows what subtle influences may direct most
seemingly purposeless actions. and thereby shape
our destiny?-along the Ismailskai Prospekt, which
nearly year back had been the of the assass
nation of De Plehve, the who for two years had
controlled Petersburg with iron hand. There
were comparatively few people abroad, and they
were work people on their way to business and ven
ders setting out their wares on the stalls.
SUDDENLY droshky dashed past, at pace that
appeared even swifter than the breakneck rate at
which the Russian droshky driver loves to urge his
horses along. 1t was evidently private one, drawn
by three horses abreast and glanced at it idly it
clattered along with the noise of fire engine. Just
it passing of the horses slipped on the
cobblestones and came down with crash There
the usual moment of confusion the driver
objurgated vociferously, after the manner of his
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harm in that. Anne had played her part we'll that
though Jim had evidently suspected her,-I won
dered now how he came to do So though I'd have to
wait awhile before could hope to ask hm-Mary
| certain had not the least idea that her stay
with them episode in a kind of game of hide
and seek. To her the visit but the fulhlment Of
the promise made when they were schoolgirls to-
gether. And l guessed that Anne would keep up the
deception which forced upon her in way, and
that she would write to Mary. She would lie to her.
directly indirectly, that was almost inevitable
but she would write just because she loved Mary
and therefore would not willingly cause her anxiety
l was sure of that in my mind, and hungered
for of her, secondhand news. But she
had not written!
Il am so anxious about Anne my cousins letter
ran. We've had no word from her since that post
card from Calais, and can't think why. She has no
clothes with her. to speak of, for she took only her
dressing bag, and don't like to send her things on
till hear from her: besides, hoped she would come
back to us soon. Did you see her at Berlin!'
l put the letter aside; l could not answer it at
present. Mary would receive mine from Dunaberg
and would forward any news that might have
reached her in the interval.
And meanwhile l had little to distract my mind.
Things very quiet stagnant IN fact, IN Peters
burg during those hot days of early summer; even
the fashionable cafes in Nevsky Prospekt were
practically deserted, doubtless because the heat,
which had happened to set in
earlier than usual had driven
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class, and a man jumped out of the vehicle and ran
to the horses head.
l stood still to watch the little incident. There
need for my assistance for the clever little
beast had already regained his footing.
Then startling thing occurred.
A woman's voice rang out in agonized cry. in
which fear and JOY were strangely blended. "Mau-
rice! Maurice Wynni Help! Save MEL
On the instant the sprang back into the
droshky, and it was off again its mad career; but
in that instant had caught glimpse of white
face, the CLEAN of bright hair and knew that it
Anne-Anne herself-who had been SO near me and
now being whrled away.
Something white fluttered on the cobblestones at
my feet l stopped and picked it up. Only hand
kerchief, tiny square of embroidered cambria
crumpled and soiled-her handkerchief, with her
initials A. P. in the corner!
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bureau, where in spite Of my protestations was
all the contents of my pockets annexed, well
as the handkerchief Then l unceremoniousy
thrust into filthy cell and left there in state of
rage and humiliation that can be better imagined
than described l seemed to have been there for
half lifetime, though | found afterward it was
only about two hours, when | was taken out and
brought before the chief of the bureau, ponpous
and trucuient individual, with shifty, beadlike
eyes. My belongings lay on the desk before him,
with the exception of my loose cash, which | never
again
He began to question arrogantly; but modi-
fed his tone when asserted that was an American
citizen resident in Petersburg as representative OF
dared to detan me, he would have to reckon with
both the American and English authorities.
That is all very we'll; but you have yet to ex-
Continued II
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CHAPTER XIV.
An Unpleasant Experience

MYTH the handkerchief in my hand | started
w running wildly after the fast disappearing
droshky, only to fall plump into the arms of surly
gendarme Muscovite giant, who collared me with
one hand while he drew his revolver with the other
and brandished it as if he was minded to knock my
face in with the butt end, playful little habit
much in vogue with the Russian police.
Let me go! I'm all right. I'm an American"
cried Indignantly. Il must not lose sight of that
droshky!"
1t out Of sight by this time and
he grunted contemptuously But he put
up his weapon and contented himself
- with hauling me off to the nearest
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which had happened to set in
earlier than usual, had driven
away such of their gay frequent
ers as were not detained in the
city on duty.
| slept i'll during those hot
nights. and was usually abroad
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LIBLE PUBLIC BITES AT
EULIAR ADVERTISEMENTS
Cable TO The Tribune.

al Cable to The Tribune.
RIS. April 23.-An amusing story OF
gullibility OF the public has just
10 light Two boulevardiers bet
$500 that by inserting three adyer-
ents Of three lines in papers in the
OF a week they would receive S100
'ut giving any explanation or max
ny promise 10 the senders. On a
DAY following advertisements APP
"a; Intelligent persons will send
'1cs 10 such an address" On the
lesuay the Insertion ran: Last pos
Gay Is Sunday. Send YOU francs.
or refusal" The third on the fol-
y Saturday was: ''AlI francs
= after tomorrow will be ineNorably
ID By. the Sunday morning sew
seven postal orders for francs
mad come in, and the next morning
1.-TWO more arrived The gullible
mad sent In not 800 i'm a week, but
Having proved their point and won
pet. the two boulevardiers naturally
led the postal orders TO the In
tus senders,
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Wants His own Skeleton.
NAN SUCCUMBS AFTER
TAKING SIX OPIUM PILLS
II Cable TO The Tribune

al Cable TO The Tribune.
RIS, April 23.-Attention has been
10 the alarming growth OF the
n habit among French naval offi-
Now comes another case from
5 DR.. Bechon was called 10 the
of a woman named Suzanne Rol-
kaged %. who was suffering terri
ains. She was barely able to speak.
managed TO convey to the doctor
she had passed portion of the pre-
night in company with friend
some naval officers, and that she
Swallowed six opium pills. DR..
pn ordered the woman to be taken
e hospital. where she died an hour
in fearful agony, The prefect has
ucted the police TO make Inquiries
a View to ascertainlng the names
3 officers who had spent the even
with the woman ROLAND. Coming
so many other opium scandals.
are still the subject of judicial
~. this new affair has caused a
/ sensation.
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|AVD|NAV|A IS To
|HONDR ROOSEVELT
rInth of Reception VIII Be
Unusual While His Stay
Will Be Short.
BY ERIC GRUNDMARK.
II Gable 10 The Tribune.

| lei Gable 10 The Tribune.
IPENHAGEN. April -23.-All Scandi-
will do honor to Mr., Roosevelt II
eeply regretted here that the dis
Iished American will only be able TO
l one day at the Danish capital, but
Danes will endeavor to make up In
4 Warmth of their reception the short
( Of the time they will have to en-
I In him. An effort was made to have
Roosevelt make a longer stay In
Vnhagen, but he has found 1t I'm
lbie 10 get here before May 8, and,
'e Is scheduled to deliver his Nobel
te prize address at Christiania on
e. he can stay here only one day
ng his stop in Christiania he will be
'kuest of King Haakon at the Royal
'se, On May he will leave Chris
q for Stockholm. where he is eX-
'sd to remain three days. The fac
\ of history and philosophy Of the
'uegian university has conferred upon
Roosevelt the degree of doctor OF
lsophy, This intelligence was com
Heated to Mr.. Roosevelt by telegraph.
he Immediately returned his thanks
1Eh the American minister In Chris
Al.
II Has Long Name.
new Princess OF Sweden's first
5hter and third child OF the crown
.ess is to be named 1ngrid Victoria
pe Margaretta, but ~espite this. is
healthy little girl. The crown prince
crown princess are delighted at the
nt of a daughter, the two older chill
the Dukes OF Westerbotten and Up
being boys
Woman Mountain Climbers.
Is. Aubrey lie Blond. an English
In, has established record for
htain climbing In Norway. Sixteen
med peaks in all were ascended by
4 LIE Blond. who left the beaten
4: at Tromso, and on the summit of
height her guide built up a stone
ID to tell future climbers of the
3 conquest.
Wants His own Skeleton.
remarkable case is reported from
|Sholm, In Sweden, where a wealthy
lent has been endeavoring 10 re-
N the ownership OF his skeleton,
'tfy years ago, Albert Vystroem
id contract with the Royal Swedish
tl1te OF Anatomy making over his
' after his death to the institution
turn for a sum of money, Since
], he has come into possession of
/ fortune. and he is anxious to- can
Is contract with the institute. The
sr vas brought before the law courts.
lot only was the case decided against
but he was even ordered TO pay
lges TO the institute for having ex-
ed two teeth without It's authorize
in contraventlon of his contract.
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Mechanical Ear Boxer,
cable 10 The Tribune.

q Cable TO The Tribune.
HLiN;. April ga Rixdorf baker
VI applied TO the German i'm
patent office for protection OF a
eanlcal ear-boxer. The inventor says
many children have their ears In
.py violent boxing. and as boxing
De abolished 1t should be accom-
= oy system. The ear-boxer is
peg with rubber hand, which
The victim q smart smack, not yIo.
aring. INV
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6elleyes Girl Is Heartless,

cable to The Tribune.
sEADE. April 23,-Mllcndo Igna-
an1 Ioder Neshitsh were seltors for
and of Satsia. one of the nrettjast
rs OF the village of Vabova, and
tlu she would marry the one who
1e pest swimmer. For two hours
20 men swan together I'm the waters
Morava. Then Milendo sank and
aToTned;, Toder. who was nearly
sssd. wiz not marry Satsia under
rcumstances.
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they lie very glibly. On the other hand,
there are persons who are on the look
out for precisely such curiosity seekers
They travel throughout the land. Here
and there they pitch their tents for pro-
longed sojourn, and make shrewd inquiry
for local geese. These professional
witches, mediums, wizards, live, we may
say on the goose-hesh of terror and the
stuffing that is greenbacks, without sage!
They weave net of inquisitiyeness
around people who have money and are
possible clients. To the minutest detail
the study all the facts available, when
ever a well-to-do family is bereaved. They
send by roundabout processes invitations
to these mourning mothers or daughters,
and sometimes to heart-broken husbands,
fathers, brothers and sons, assuring them
that something profoundly interesting
would develop If they would call and see
Madame Jay Hawke" But. of course,
such invitations never arose from that
willy lady-bird. Presently comes the in
terview, in it one or two carefully pre-
pared Illusions to things that she could
not possibly know then some imperti-
nent talk about the place in which the
departed loved one now pleasantly re-
sides, and that is all. A long way round,
and when you get there-nothing! Price,
say, $40, which helps the medium to pay
her rent to the spiritualistic information
bureau, open to all practitioners, and to
which she is indebted for the facts
that none could have known but dear
Tom" Could anything be more cold
blooded or more cruel? This is the devil
angling for human hearts and cash with
artificial flies, Those flies are wrought
of loving memories.
But it is the seance artist that has
been having her innings of late. For
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niddle-aged lady from the region of blue
grass and Bourbon!
@ Solomon, surely thou vert traduced!
I was positively assured, however that
Solomon was Mr.. --'s CONTROL" and
that he would put In an appearance, or at
least answer my questions, if l would
attend a seance in my friends dining
ROOM
Let 1t be reckoncd 10 me for modesty
that forebore, excus ed myself, refraned
from trying to do the yellow journal in
terview on so august i spook as Solomon.
If only Mr.. Stead has such a chance, or
even Dr. Funk, or think how the higher
critics could settle the authorship Of
Proverbs Ecclesiastes and the Cantcles!
AS a serpent song saith:
If you only knew love- If you only knew,
OF life's facts few, love, of life's facts
a few,
There's world of care you would never
share,
If you only knew
Quite so.
Sorrowfully I must admit that Mrs. -,
the Solomonic medium, was a deceiver
and deceived. My friend, who promoted
her, was | believe, honestly gulled. In
affairs of business, for the most part,
these people both appeared fairly sane
and moderately successful But they
lacked the power to distinguish between
their own states of mind on the one
hand and objective facts on the other.
And having begun to believe in a queer
world of spiritual manifestations" they
went on deluding themselves, often ex-
aggerating simple facts into monstrous
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philosopher and not poet, and could not
have written the dramas for they are
the perfection of poetry. Cany any man
in this day say that Bacon lacked the
poetic fire and poetic expression? Only
a bold or an unread man would make
such an assertion. Why, even in his
scientific and philosophical works he
could not restrain his poetic fancy. Jew
els of fanciful conceits sparkle here and
there among his most erudite lines. What
did Macaulay say on this identical SUBJ
ject? This: 1.-THE poetical faculty was
powerful in Bacon's mind" Bacon was
a poet" said Shelley. Taine said of Ba-
con, HE was one of the finest of this
poetical progeny" Bulwer Lytton wrote
of Bacon, Poetry pervades the thoughts.
1t inspires the SMILES, 1t hymns in the
majestic sentences of the wisest of man
kind" James SPEEDING. who gave 40
years of study to Bacon. said: Bacon
had all the natural faculties that a poet
wants-a fine ear for meter, a fine feel
ing for imaginative effects in words, and
vein of poetic passion" Can any one
show that the player had such poetic
possibilities? Leave the dramas for the
time let them be ascribed to neither
Shakspere nor to Bacon; consider the
abilities of each man apart from the
works under discussion (for do not want
to be guilty of petitio principiD. then
answer the question Which of the two
men was most likely to have written the
marvellous poetry handed down to us in
the sonnets and the dramas? AS our old
friend Horace said. 'Nocturna versate
manu-, versate diurna."
I think it is possible to see something
of Bacons personal history in the quality
of certain of his dramas. Hamlet and
King Lear were written between 1900 and
1903. AT the latter date Shakspere had
returned to Stratford from London to en-
Joy the money that he had accumulated
In the theatrical business. He bought
property. Became a money-lender and
life was going on smoothly. There was
no perplexing question of philosophy tax
ing his mind. Indeed, there was never a
time, so far as can be learned, when
any such question perplexed him. But
at about this time what of Lord Bacon's
life? Tt was in perfect agreement with
the philosophical sombreness of Hamlet.
and strkingly consonant with the sorrow
of King Lear. The tragic fall of the Earl
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glaso upon the facsimile page of
manuscript of which l have been
ing, and found, in Bacons own ha
writing, the unusual and preposteroL
looking word Observation-Disclosures"
need not say that this is a most ed
traordinary word. There are only four
places in literature, so far as l know,
where it may be found: the first is in
Dants de vulgari Eliquo"; the second
is in an old English treatise called Len
den Stuffe'; the third is in THE Com
playnt of Scotland; and the fourth place
wherein II occurs is Shakespeare comedy
Loves Labor Lost" Here Costard says.
80, they have lived long on the aims
basket of words. | marvel that thy
master hath not eaten thee for a word,
for thou art not so long by the head as
Observation-Disclosures, thou art easier
swallowed than a flap-dragon.' While the
termination of the word in the comedy
is different from the form given on the
fly-leaf, yet. it is the same word. Now,
the point that I urge, Is this: The fly
leaf was written in 1896 or 1897; the COM
edy appeared in 1893. OF the ridiculous
word Bacon made a memorandum on the
fly-leaf for future use; what that future
use was we find in the play.
But would the Baconans have the
dramas and sonnets called The Works OF
Bacon? Never. No one proposes such
change. Those great intellectual monu-
ments shall always stand to the memory
of Shakespeare. though, TO the Bacon
ans, Shakespeare is Sir Francis Bacon
the jurist, the poet. the scientist. the
scholar the courter. the companion Of
monarchs, and, as Pope called him,
1.-THE wisest of mankind
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THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN-By Savoyard

caught it. He was a candidate for vice
president. candidate for president. and
what not He did have the ken, how
ever, to take the correct measure of Will
liam ]. Bryan, and he was thoroughly per-
suaded that the ticket of bryan and
Watson was a kangaroo layout and he
was in no very good humor about that.
for Thomas is a downright man. and
wouldn't hold his tongue to be king, or
president or pope.
That is what makes his character. He
owns all under his hat. He will not
cringe and he loves to fight. Nature de-
MED him tact. He Is the more admrab BILE
man for the lack of that quality, and he
is the less successful man for the same
reason. We may be sure he will make
it break loose again in Georgia, now he
is back in the party.
When he left Congress, Watson went
to making books, and most readable
books they are. I am glad to hear that
he made money by his pen. | wrote
book and put time, whatever little
thought I had, and whatever imperfect
style I possessed, into the work What
is worse, I put $120 cash into the enter
prise. I got less than $14 out of it, and
the fellow who printed it had the unspeak-
able impudence to call that beggarly
sum royalty" l am done with printing
books, though. If I had enough ahead to
live on for a year | could write a book
about the Kentucky Pennyrle that would
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author of the plays was an accomp-
lished classical scholar, while Shaks
pere, so far as can be learned, was
uneducated, never taught his own children
to write, and really did not know how
to spell his own name; he spelled 1t in at
least five different ways, two different
ways in the same day.
The author of the drama was ira ined
in the intricasies of law. No mere bab-
Ter of law terms could have possibly en-
ployed legal technicalities with the deft-
ness with which we find them used in
some of the plays and in one of the SON.
nets. Every lawyer knows how difficult
it is to employ the terms and phrases OF
law with precise and apt application. And
yet, this Is what we find the author of
the works in question doing. Shakspere
was no lawyer, but Francis Bacon vas.
Therefore, what would have been impos.
sfble for the actor of Stratford was eNsy
and natural for Bacon.
Furthermore, there are suggestions Of
scientific knowledge in the plays again
and again. There is not the slightest
reason to believe that SHAKESPEARE ever
read a book on even elemental scien, e,
to say nothing of his having written any,
thing on any phase of that subject, while
the world knows of Lord Bacons contii-
buttons to this sphere of knowledge.
Lord Bacon, too, was a traveller, a
linguist and polished man of the world.
He knew Greek, Latin, French, Spanish
and italian. He had lived in France. In
the plays there is much to confirm this
statement. But far as is known
SHAKESPEARE never crossed the frontier
of England and never had a tutor IN
French nor Italian. The writer of the
New Discoveries would tell the reader
that "Shakspere might have" learned
the Italian stories, such as the Comedy
of Errors" Romeo and Juliet" and
1.-The Two Gentlemen of Verona" from
the sailors who came from Italy to Eng
land; and that he might have" learned
French from those precious Mountjoys,
in "Muggle" street. But this is all in.
ferential nonsense. He might have
done SO! And all this to escape a logical
conclusion, namely. that the most schol.
arly man Of his times, versed in the Lam
guages named and in foreign literature,
out of his own genius and learning, gave
the world the plays of Shakespeare.
But I am reminded that Bacon was a