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CHAPTER XXX.

a little exclamation broke from Chris
tines lips as Ambrose entered the room.
1t was Ambrose indeed, but not the Am
brose she had known. He stood before
her transformed. The shaggy name of
hair had been cropped by a fashionable
barber. He wore dark but we'll cut
clothes, clean linen, a gray tie Of fash
iOnable pattern. He wore patent boots,
he carried stick and gloves The hat
In his hand was a black bowler, also
new.
"Ambrose!" she exclaimed. "Why,
scarcely recognized you she added,
weakly.
Ambrose laughed and his voice, at
least, had not changed. Il suppose" he
said, 1.-The wheel of fortune spins to every
one some time. l have been left some
money"
You have given up the piano and the
streets?" she exclaimed.
From necessity" he answered, grimly.
''Those two maniacs smashed it to pieces
the other night. searching for treasure .
What, in the piano." she exclaimed.
He nodded. They were mad he said,
shortly.
She motioned him to a seat. She her
self was ill at ease. 1t seemed to her
that even as he sat there she could hear
the tremulous dramatic words come
throbbing through the telephone. telling
the story of that struggle in the dark
entry. of the dropping of the knife. Of the
flight OF the two men into the darkness.
What a different person it was who sat
there in black coat and we'll creased
trousers! Even his deformity was less
apparent.
Tell me- she said, what you are go
ing to do. Ambrose she cried. with
sudden fear, you have not been taking
money to betray- Tell me, Ambrose
quickly. Has this man Jacques Leblun
found you out?'
What the French detective?" he ask
ed, calmly.
Yes she answered. Have you seen
him? Don't dare to tell me that you
have taken money from him.
(To be continued tomorrow
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In the art of penmanship it is of great
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CHAPTER XXIX-Continued.

She laughed. a little bitterly. What,
of me?" she exclaimed, "a singer in the
streets, a"
"A singer in the streets if you WILL he
interrupted. THAT makes no difference.
AS a singer in the streets l would take
you to my heart tomorrow. gladly and
proudly. 1t is not that. 1t is when you
become the pensioner of Lord E!lingham
that ] am forced to drop my arms.
once asked you for an explanation, but
you would not give it. word from me
this morning and there would no longer
have been a Lord Ellingham. | ask no
reward for keeping your secret. All that
1 ask is that you tell me the truth"
II will tell YOU" she answered. You
have done your service and you shall be
paid. But understand that l tell you
not of my own free will, but because /
may be said to owe it to you. Lord Ell
lingham is my stepfather'
"Your stepfather?' Hannaway repeated
slowly. You mean that he was mar
ried--'' a.
@'He was married to my mother,
Madame de Lanson of Annonay," she re-
peated. "It was when we were all liV-
ing with my uncle at the house In the
Place Noire."
This is amazing Hannaway muir
INJURED. "Why. she died month before
the raid
.She died exactly five weeks after she
was married." Christine answered. Il
think that he tried to be kind to me. but
l was very angry. and 1t was then that
i ran away and joined Ambrose.
80 that is why you were up in the
Place Noire that night?" Hannaway re-
marked You were there to help him
to escape?"
The girl shook her head. On the con
trary,' she said, Il thought it was my
uncle who was with us. He sent an
urgent message for us to go up that
night and to take a suit of workman $
clothes. We went and left them exactly
where he told us, and waited opposite the
house, in one of those dark corners.
When a man came out dressed In those
things we cid as he told us and fastened
away. For years ! thought 1t was Mar
eel who had escaped, and I was always
angry because he had done nothing for
us. He had my mothers money and
mine. After that night we hurried away
into the country. l never looked at The
what had happened. And Ambrose lied
He told me that it was my stepfather
who had been arrested and sent to prison
as the head of the gang and that my
uncle was still free. So | went searching
for him, determined that somehow OF
other l would make him restore the
money which belonged to me, and which
he had promised my mother that l should
have. Then that morning at Victoria
station l saw the man whom ! had be-
lieved was in a French prison.
Lord Ellingham.' HannaWay eN-
claimed. He moved suddenly forward
All the lines i'll his face seemed to yield.
He held out his arms To her but she
drew away.
NO" she said. You have doubted me
| do not blame you, but cannot forget
II. Besides. this is no time for such
things. / am afraid, afraid for him. Am
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cape. Well you remember what hap
She nodded. Il am sorry,' she said.
simply. You can understand now that
we did not wish to come across people
who knew anything of those days"
Il wanted you to know" he said. that
this was not altogether a new thing with
me. ] wanted you to know that I have
carried about with me for years now the
thought Of the little girl who sang in the
Madeleine. If I was unreasonable and
jealous it was because
She stopped him. but there was no
anger in her gesture. 1--WE will forget
that she said. "Only, for the present,
l must think, l can think of only one
thing. Lord Ellingham has been kind
to me- He was always kind to me. He
must be saved somehow from Leblun."
Hannaway held out his hand. IF I
can help l will he said. 1T is a dan
gerous combination. 1t Is a dangerous
and Leblun, who desires to know. But
we will see. You think Ambrose is safe?''
II am not sure" she answered. "Some-
times l think SO. Sometimes l remem-
Der that he was terribly jealous when
left him.
''Leblun will find him out for certain, -
Hannaway remarked.
Ambrose will tell nothing unless he
chooses" Christine answered. He is as
clever as Leblun himself. This afternoon
or tonight l snail go and see MN. IL ne
will promise there will be only Marcel
to fear. And Marcel is hiding, in fear
of his life
May I go with you?' Hannaway
asked.
She shook her head. Ambrose is
strange she said. ITO see you with
me might make him jealous
There was knock at the door. The
parormaid entered a little doubtfully.
There is a person to see you. madam .
he yhn uroS hnrn
d few nights ago"
Christine turned to Hannaway. 1T is
Ambrose" she exclaimed. please go.
L would rather that he did not see YOU
here. Alice will take you out to the
other elevator
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who was not only of them. but who mar
ried outside Of the Balkans. Young Mr..
Talbot would undoubtedly have made
good according to western standards. but
western standards are not always accept
able in the European storm center. In the
telling of the story about Prince Alec
and his little journey into royalty Mr..
narration and holds his reader entertained
throughout. kOsnovia differs but little
from the traditional Balkan kingdom OF
fiction. 1t has its domestic and foreign
problems and is altogether an uncomfort-
able place of residence. In the most ia
vorable circumstances being a king in
that part of the world is no sinecure.
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girl up to his friend. but induced his
noble father to settle sufficient allow
ance on the young woman to enable her
to marry for love, and then he betook
himself to the wilderness of London,
where. as John Paget. he undertook to
find out what the world thought of him
as an individual. stripped of his title and
OF his reputation for great wealth. AS
a social experiment it was not altogether
success. because at the first stage
John Paget met the girl" Thenceforth
he was not concerned in the slightest as to
what the world at large thought of him,
but became intensely interested in how
one person regarded him. He learns this
disappointingly early in the story, and so
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the author turns to another line of in
cidents to carry the reader along. John
Paget is not as entertaining he might
be- Mr.. Martyr shows him distinctly
human. cheerful sort of a fellow, gifted
with neat taste for epigram and a
ready resourcefulness in emergencies. 1t
is rather too bad that he has to go out
on a piratical expedition when he might
have been having really more exciting
adventures in society.
CAR NO. A.. BY r. f. Foster. author
of Fosters Complete Hoyle" etc
New York: Frederick A. Stokes
Company.
. Mr.. Foster has been known heretofore
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Louis Tracy, author of The Stow
away" etc. Illustrated by Howard
Chandler Christy. New York: Ed
ward J. Clode.
One feels in way regretful that Felix
Poluski did not succeed in his mission as
from the kingdom of kosno-
via when he went to Denver to invite
Mr.. Alexander Talbot to return to that
as its king. 1t would be interest
ing to know how the experiment would
have succeeded. We hear throughout the
tale great deal of the lmpiacabie race
pride of the Serbs and the impossibility of
any one ever succeeding as their ruler
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hand. by virtue of which the writing is
much more speedily and legibly accom-
plished. The object of the attachment
for penholders shown here is to provide a
means for so positioning the fingers of
the writer that all movement used in
writing must be made from the wrist and
arm and cannot be made by the fingers.
The attachment consists of two guides.
one adjacent to the pen. to support the
fingers. and the other projecting into the
crotch of the hand. The guides cooperate
In preventing the writer bending his fin
gers and in necessitating the use OF a
free and easy swing of the wrist and
forearm.
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across the edge of the board, for IN
stance. Along the tube scale is marked
BY means of which the thickness OF
board may he measured. as between the
shoulder and the marks on the gauge;
The crayon is for marking boards and
the pencil for recording the various neces-
sary data in the owners notebook For
Iumbermen this little implement is very
useful, as it relieves them of the neces-
sity of keeping their vest pockets stuHed
With a yeritable arsenal of pencils. cray
ons and rules. and also saves them the
time otherwise wasted in hunting for
each of these implements as 1t is re-
quired.
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exclusively as an authority on card
games. Possibly there is something in
the evolutions of systems of leads that
trains a man for writing mystery stories.
At all events this expert card authority
has worked out tale of adventure that
keeps the reader guessing to almost the
last page. For while it seems remark
ably simple but Mr.. Foster turns the
tables on his anticipatory reader in
neat fashion. 1t is a relief to know
that. notwithstanding the suggestions of
a shocking murder there is no killing at
all in the story.
son OF THE IMNORTALS Rv
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PENCIL OF MANY HUES.
Marking Crayon, Lumber Gauge and
Tally Pencil in One.

One of the most ingenious little devices
recently put on the market is that shown
In the cut This device, the invention of
q Maryland man. is combination marx
ing crayon, lumber gauge and tally pencil
First, there is long, thin tube with an
opening large enough to receive a lead
,encil. At the other end is an enlarged
tubular holder for crayon. the crayon-
receiving end forming a shoulder. which
makes the stop when the tube is drawn
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"Hee-Haw" Shoes.

From the Shoe Manufacturers Monthly.
For men the very latest is an oxford or
derby shoe with high toe, high waist and
high heel. also short vamp. To the con-
servative English mind this shoe looks a
freak. One manufacturer calls his high
heel shoes the "Hee-Haw Line" That's
just what the shoe looks like.
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formal portrait of Sir Walter Scott by
Beechey and a smaller portrait Of Sir
Joshua Reynolds by himself, tosetner
with a charming portrait of woman by
George Romney, entitled "Milady.'
At the Oehme galleries next door a
group of paintings by E. Irving Couse is
being shown. Indian pictures all, i'm
asinary, romantic, traditional, but not
perhaps ethnologic.
The work of an English sculptor
Courtney Pollock-occupies the gallery at
Scott and Fowles, and at the Folsom gal
leries figure paintings-nudes in sunlight
with sylvan setting-by Lillian NJ. Genth
are to be seen. Both are sprightly, clever
and essentially personal in expression.
An exhibition Of American landscape
paintings is the attraction at the Ma
tional Arts Club. Under the direction of
]. Nisen Laurvik. assisted by Leon Dabo
and Francis c. Jones, a hundred and two
paintings by living artists have been as
sembled and set forth. Among all these.
of course, some excellent things are to
be found, but taken as whole the
standard of the exhibition is not high.
Hobart Nichols, formerly of Washington,
who now has studio on West 51th
to this exhibitions broad view. Across
the Valley from his home at Tuchahoe.
Birge Harrison sends two of his best. a
snow scene and nocturne: J. Francis
Murphy. William Robinson, Leonard
Ochtman, William NJ. Chase and Gedney
distinctly to the fore, but many seem
given to eccentricity produced by an over
seeking for originality. For example, the
feature of this show is a panel made up
Of paintings by Edward Steichen. aired
Mauer. Marsden Hartley, Maurice B..
Prendergast and William Glackens-
works so extraordinary that they excite
curiosity if not admiration. 1t Is said
that these painters have a purpose, that
they are experimenting scientifically. that
they may yet make some great discovery.
But their productions are at present
without form or significance. inharmoni-
Gus in color, devoid of charm, neither pic
torial nor decorative. If, as an eminent
artist said. they are theoretically correct.
all the painters who have gone before
them Slave been utterly wrong. Easier Is
it to believe that these manifestations
are, as it were, passing nightmares.
And yet another tendency may be noted
in this exhibition-an increasing disre-
gard on the part Of the painters of the
laws Of composition and the value of
pictorial effect. In a few instances the
paintings seem to have been composed
artistically and brought to definite COM
pletion. but more often the subject matter
is presented carelessly and without coher-
ence. To judge American landscape paint
ing by this exhibition would be msead-
ing and unjust.
To the last has been left mention of the
Architectural Leagues annual exhibition,
which opened in the Fine Arts Galleries
little over a week ago, and will continue
for another week !, the big current
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York, the art season belHg at
II it's height and exhibitions
abounding First of all, the great
city itself is show, series OF moving
pictures. Joseph Pennell. Colln Cahnpoei
Cooper and Paul Cornoyer with 'heh
etchings. Autographs and paintings nave
manifested some of the beauty or the
couture Of the skyscrapers. the plctur-
esoueness of the canyonlike streets ana
the gayety of the park region. Not 10
have realized it before now seems strange
Desnite what Sir Aston Webb termed the
unfinished aspect of the city there Is
something suggestive of power and
achievement in the huge mass of struc-
lures piled up irregularly at the extremity
of Manhattan Island like relics OF
Cyclopian civilization; and something
dignified and imposing in the high pullt
streets of the lower city, where, despite
the march Of progress. two old church
burying grounds remain undisturbed.
Farther I'D town the stream separates,
one part flowing up 1.-The avenue ana
the other up Broadway. In the evening
the latter takes precedence. beginning at
dusk when the lights are turned on. and
continuing until after midnight, when the
theaters and cafes have emptied; but In
the afternoon the former is llteraiiy the
parade ground.
It is on 9TH avenue that the majority
of the art dealers have their establish
ments, and there more good pictures are
shown in a year than in all the other
localities in the United States put to-
gether. Time was when the principal
dealers were below ord street: then 3ith
street marked the limit of the picture
market district, but now 1T extends De-
yond 45th, and is still creeping up town
n. E. Montross, one of the more promf-
nent dealers who makes specially OF
American paintings, has this week moved
his old place of business. The first exhi-
bition in the new galleries was opened
Yesterday and comprises twenty-one paint
ings. eighteen of which have been lent by
Mr. Charles L. Freer of Detroit from the
collection decided by him to the Smith
canvases have been lent by his friend and
neighbor, Col. Hecker of Detroit. There
are in the exhibition five paintings by
Thomas W. Dewing. three by Abbott
Thayer. three by Whistler and ten by
Dwight w. Tryon. Two Of the Thayers
and the other is landscape
Mt. Monadnoch in Winter. The Dewinss
without exception are figure paintings.
and all except one are interiors. This
single exception pictures three maldens.
forming with outstretched hands.
what in the spirit of the painting in the
National Gallery collection and yet quite
dissimilar.
ssA.4
The Tryons, which afe most numerous.
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event. This is set forth in three large
galleries. the first given over almost ex-
clusively to mural paintings, the second
to cartoons and studies and the third to
architectural renderings, photographs
and models. as we'll as sculpture. 4 be-
wildering amount of material is set forth
and one with difficulty escapes utter con-
fusion striving to identify the exhibits
which have been catalogued alphabetically
and not numbered consecutively.
At once upon entering the gallery.
however, the visitor notes the series of
thirteen panels painted by F. D. Millet
IN Washington last winter. for the Cleve-
land Trust Company of Cleveland. Ohio.
small replicas of which are shown. And
passing into the next room. attention
cannot fail to be called to a series of
drawings made by f. H. Blashfield for
pendentives in the courthouse at Youngs-
town, Ohio.
William Fuller Curtis, numbered for
many years among the Washington artists,
makes four contributions to this exhibit
tion-two panels in burnt and carved
wood, colored and enameled. sketch in
color for part of a frieze and a pencil
drawing. j. William Fosdick. who is to
be represented in the National Gallery
at Washington, also shows work in
carved and colored wood, but very diff
ferent both in spirit and style from that
by Mr.. Curtis.
An exhibit of much interest is a car
toon with notes. for a mosaic. by Sir Ed
ward Burne-Jones found recently in the
American Church of St. Paul in Rome
and lent by the General Theological Sem
mary. Among the sculptural works most
notable is full-size plaster model for
bronze doors and transom for the chapel
of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. one
of which bears the names of Admirals
Preble. Decatur and Perry. the other of
Farragut, Porter and Sampson
The medal of honor in architecture this
year was awarded to the Messrs. LIE
Brun for the Metropolitan Tower. New
York; the medal of honor in painting to
Kenyon Cox. for his mural decoration,
Judicial Virtues. in the courthouse at
Wilkesbarre, Pa. In sculpture no award
was made.
special prize was offered, as usual.
for work by an architect, sculptor and
painter in collaboration. the problem be-
ing an altar for a church. There were
several contestants, but rather a poor
showing. However, the award and an
honorable mention were made.
In the purely architectural section some
excellent ecclesiastical work by Cram,
Goodhue and Ferguson of Boston. and
some excellent examples of Cass Gilbert S
work are shown. together with picture
of the Carnegie Institute at Washington,
designed by Carrere and Hastings The
new plan for Baltimore recently drawn
by this last named firm is also interest
ingly set forth. Domestic architecture
especially urban, is illustrated, but not
particularly graphically. and there is a
noteworthy absence of designs of impor-
tant public buildings. There are, how
ever, some interesting photographs and
pictures of landscape gardening by Mar
tina Brooke Brown and Beatrix Jones' An
deliberately illustrated catalogue has been
issued. LEILA MECHLIN
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Special Correspondence of The Star.

Correspondence of The Star.
NEW YORK. February II. 1910.
I OR those who are interested in
art, this is the time to visit New
York, the art season being at
it's height and exhibitions
Astounding. First of all, the great
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IRELAND YESTERDAY AND TODAY.
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Andrews. William. Old English Towns. Go
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Armstrong, Sir Walter. Art in Great Britain
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THE MARKET FOR SOULS BY Eliza :
beth Goodnow. New York: Mitchell
kennerley.

kennerley.
only the veritahle spirit of Ben Adhem
could have gone into the secret places of
the human heart, gathering there that
which makes up the substance of these
ira gedies of the street. These stories
about the girl of the streets are not lit
erature They are human documents,
drawn by the author In an outreach for
social succor through the initial agency
of Publicity AS document of this class
ii : logically confined to the use of those
cn.a-ed in social service: as a book
form it is less diffusive than the daily
press which 1t is evidently designed to
complement in the present public agi-
ration and investigation of this particular
phase of social danger. The writer offers
no SPECIFIC. Her mission, to her mind, is
TO draw the picture. Having done this,
she acknowledges the limit of her Office
by throwing up her hands and calling
upon men and women for help. She says
- something must be done, a way
he found to help her Ohe girl on the
street,. l want people, thinking people,
n try TO find that way; not to dismiss
the subject with a shrug. not TO think
that ii is pitch that cannot be touched
without deflement | want to show them
tie life of the girl of the streets--its al
lurements its brutalities, its tragedies
her suffering. her devotion. her fate.
Cleverer people than / must solve the
greater problem. She is human. loving
woman like ourselves, struggling against
great odds.
THE MAN OUTSIDE. BY Wyndham
Nartyn illustrated by C. NJ Rel
yea New York: Dodd. Mead & Co.
Washington: Brentano's.
TO see the girl one is to marry sobbing
a fearful farewell in the arms of close
friend is apt to be a trif1e disconcerting.''
1t was so disconcerting to Niscount
Mountcastle that lie not only gave the