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CHAPTER vi.
Moonlight and Poetry.

A ball followed dinner that night.
Wednesday. The ample lounginsA
room filled up rapidly after coffee:
officers in smart uniforms and spurs.
whose principal function In times of
peace is to get in everybody's way.
rowel exposed ankles, and demoish
lace ruffles. Egyptians and Turks ana
sleek Armenians In somber western
frock and scarlet eastern fez or tar
boosh, women Of all colors (meaninz.
as course, as applied) and shapes and
tastes, the lean and the fat. the tall
and short, such as Billy Taylor Is SAID
to have kissed in all the ports. and
t~ail-coats Of as many styles as ia.
seph's had patches. George could dis.
tinsufsh his compatriots by the at az
the trousers round the instep: the
Englfshman had his fitted at the
waist and trusted in Providence fos
the hang Of the rest. This trihinR de-
tective work rather pleased George,
The women, however, were all Eves
to his eye; liberal expanses Of beautt
full white skin, the bare effect helm.
modified by a string Of pearls or d;a.
monos or emeralds, and hair which
might or might not have been wholl~
their OWN. He waited restlesslv e..
the temperance Of Mrs. Chedsoye
and her daughter. All was right viii
the world, except that he WAS n ..u
altogether too soon. His loan haS
oeen returned, and he knew that Ia,
former suspicious had been most -.
worthy. Mrs. Chedsoye had nav :
received his note.
fTo BE ccNrINurn. y
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Fanny. but they never rang the bell.
nor spoke to her when she passed
them on the street. II she talked of
these men, her mother and the major
would exchange amused glances. moth,
ing more.
II, rightly or wrongly, she hated her
mother, she despised her uncle, who
was ever bringing to the villa men of
money, but of coars fiber, ostensibly
with the view of marrying her OF
But Fortune had her dreams, md she
was quite content to wait.
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in life fiocked about her, why, 1t !
the eternal tribute demanded Of beau
ty. Here and there the men were no
all the daughter might have wished
Often they burnt sweet fattery at he.
shrine, tentatively, but as she coolll
stamped out these inciplent fires
they at length came to regard her al
one regards the beauty Of a frosted
window, as a thing to admire and
praise In passing. One ache always
abided; the bitter knowledge that had
she met In kind smile for smile and
Jest for Jest, she might have been her
mothers boon companion. But deep
back In some hidden chamber of her
heart lay a secret dread OF such q
step, a dread which, whenever she
strove to analyze It, ran from under
her Investigating touch, as little balls
OF quicksilver run from under the
pressure of a thumb.
She was never without the comforts
OF life, wellfed, well-dressed, we'll
housed, and often her mother flung
her some jeweled trinket which (again
that sense Of menace) she put away,
but never wore. The bright periods
were when they left her in the little
villa near Mentone, with no one but
her old and faithful nurse. There,
with her horse, her books and her
flowers, she was at peace. Week into
week and month into month she was
let be. Never a letter came, save
from some former schoolmate who
was coming owe and wanted letters
of Introduction to dukes and duchess
es. II she smiled over these letters
1t was with melancholy; for the dukes
and duchesses, who fell within her
singular orbit, were not the sort to
whom one gave letters Of Introduction.
Where her mother went she never
had the least idea. She might be In
any OF the great ports OF the world,
anywhere between New York and
Port Said. The major generally dis
appeared at the same time. Then,
perhaps, she'd come back from a
pleasant tram-ride over to Nice and
find them both at the villa, maid and
Mayhap a night or two, and
of they'd go again; never a word
about their former Journey, uncom-
municative, rather quiet. These alb
sences, together with the undemon-
s~trative Temperatures, used to hurt
dreadfully. 1t gave. her a
proof of where she stood, exactly
Nowhere. The hurt had lessened with
years. and now she didn't care
much. Like as not, they would drag
out Of Eden for a month or two.
or what true reason she never could
luite fathom, unless It was that at
her mother liked to have the
laughter near her as a foil.
At rare intervals she saw steel.eyed. |
,~rim-mouthed men wandering up and
Town before the gates OF the Villa
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SYNOPSIS.

George Percival AlEernon JopeA vice
president OF the Metropolitan Oriental
Rug company OF New York. thIrsting for
romance, Is In Cairo on a business trip.
Horace Ryannc arrives nj the hotel in
Cairo with "A carefully guarded bundle,
Ryanne sells Jones the famous holy Yhi-
ordes rug which he admits having stolen
from a pasha at Bagdad. Jones meets
Major Callahan and later Ia introduced TO
Fortune Chedsoye by n woman to whom
be had loaned $50 pounds at Monte Carlo
some months previously, and who turns
cut TO be Fortunes mother.
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armor, and she never denied herself
the thrust. Mrs. Chedsoye enjoyed
these sharp encounters, for 1t must
be added that she gave as good as
she took, and more often than not her
thfusts bit deeper and did not always
heal.
Fortune never asked questions rela.
1--WE to the family finances. Ii she
hafoored any doubts as TO their origin,
10 the source Of their comparative lux.
Try, she never put these into speech.
she has never seen her father but
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f; rnd humorously explained why he dial
s0."
us he young. old. ~good-looking. o.
wEat?"
Mrs. Chedsoye eyed her offspring
through narrowed lids.
"T should say that he was about
thirtysdve, tall, something Of an ain'
lete: aud there remains some indiea'
tons TINT In the flush of youth he was
handsome. Odd. He reminded me Oh
a young man who was on the varsity
Observation-Disclosures entered
my freshman year. I didn't know him.
but | was a great admirer Of his from
the grand-stand. Horace Wadsworth
was his name"
Horace Wadsworth. Fortune had
the sensation of being astonished At
something she had expected to hap
pen. I
Just before going down to dinner
that night, Fortune turned to her
mother, her chin combative In it,
angle.
Il gave Mr. Jones a hundred and
fifty pounds out Of that money you
left in my care. Knowing how forget
full you are, I took the liberty Of at
tending to the affair myself"
She expected a storm, but instead
her mother viewed her with apprais
ing eyes. Suddenly she laughed mel
lowly. Her sense Of humor was too
excitable to resist 80 delectable q sit
uation.
"You told him, Of course, that the
money came from me?'. demanded
Mrs. Chedsoye. when she could COZ
troll her voice.
Surely, since It did come frsm
YOU"
my dear. my dear, you are to me
like the song In the Mikado;" and shs
hummed Lightly
ITO make the prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment
OF iRnocent merrfment!"
"Am I a prisoner, then?"
Whatever you like; 1t can not be
said that l ever held you on the lessh."
taking a final look into the mirror.
What is the meaning of this fugs
You and / know who stole it."
Il have explicitly warned you, my
child. never to NEEDLE with affairs
that do not concern your"
Indirectly, some Of yours do You
are in love with Ryanne. q he calls
himself" 70
my dear, you do not usually stoop
to such vulgarity. And are you cer
tain that he has any other name?"
IF l were I should not tell you
"Oh!"
"A man will tell the woman he
loves many things he will not tell
the woman he admires."
"As wise as the serpent" bantered
the mother; but she looked again into
the mirror to see If her color was stili
what it should be. And whom does
he admire?" the Mona Lisa smile how
at the corners Of her lips.
"You." evenly.
Mrs. Chedsoye thought for q mo-
ment, thought deeply and with new
insight. 1t was no longer a child but
woman, and mayhap she had played
upon the taut strings Of the young
heart once too often. Still, she was
unafraid.
"And whom does he lover"
me. Shall l get you the rouge
mother?"
Still with that unchanging smile,
the woman received the stab. "My
daughter" as If speculatively, "you
will get on. You haven't been my pu-
pill all these years for nothing. Let
US go down to dinner"
Fortune, as she silently followed.
experienced a sense Of disconcertior
than Of citation.
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NEGRO GIRL Is PUT
TO DEATH BY STATE
,ContInued from Page one,


on the headpiece Then they step
ped back. A moment later the body
stiffened and twisted wisp OF sick
ening smoke aoated through the
leather headpiece and Virginia Chris
tian had paid the capital penalty The
current was kept on for two minutes.
AT 1925 physicians pronounced her
dead.
Virginia Christian was employed
by Mrs. Ida Belote OF Hampton, Va
as a washerwoman. Last March, Mrs.
Belote severely reprimanded her LOT
negligence in her work. The Negroes
attacked her aged employer Mrs,
Bclote was a frail woman ~ years
old-tclled her with a poker. and III
a frenzy OF rage. beat the unconscious
woman to death. Physicians said the
immediate cause OF Mrs. Belote
death was suffocation as the girl also
choked her. but the womans neck
and shoulders were literally mass
OF bruises and open wounds Not
satisfied with this. the Negress tore
of part OF her employers hair and
With towel stuffed the hair down
her throat
Picking up the bleeding body. the
girl carried il into a back room OF
the Belote home. where she stutted
il away in a corner, hoping TO escape
before Mrs. Belote's daughter could
return and find IT, The daughter cid
not reach home until late and when
she searched /0r her mother discoV-
cred the criNe
! Virginia Christian was Immediately
suspected AID when arrested admit.
ted the murder claiming seltdeier*e
She said Mrs. Belote attacked neF
with a broom. The plea was disprov-
/ ed on complete circumstantial cyl.
/ dence The Negress was condemned
/ 10 the chair after a brief trial. she
I claimed to be only II years old, Dut
appeared much older
/ Well educated and neat. she gave
mo evidence OF the brutal temper that
caused the crime When death
sentence was pronounced she show
ed no sign of emotion. Even during
| the weeks OF waiting for death. she
remained stolid and unafraid. scorn.
/ ing religious consolation.
Great pressure was brought on Gov,
! Mann TO avert her execution Al far
as Official records show, no woman
/ had ever been executed In the his
/ tory of the state. But the governor
refused 70 be swayed on sentimental
grounds and was deaf 10 ali pleas,
I He granted the Negress a two weeks
reprieve, but absolutely refused TO tx.
tend clemency.
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other side OF the Atlantic you eau
have parcels post rates. but you cant
have them Inside the United States
because-may | conjecture the rea
son because there are certain eh
press companies which object.
Now, | move that the objections
OF all private enterprises be over
ruled. | mevo that We establish
parliamentary procedure by which
they will not even be considered. not
that men who have made Legitimate
Investments OF capital may not have
their proper return Tor II, but that
they may not look TO tie government
for their proper return for II. The
trouble with the business of the Uni
ted States under the arin Is mat
men think they can't make money
without the assistance OF the govern
ment And as long AS you allow them
10 think that. then every mother
son OF us is tied TO the apron strings
of the old grandmother sitting In tho
capitol at Washington"
There was time. not many years
ago when | would have utterd sen
timents like these with a certain de
gree OF heat because would have
known, | would have felt at any rate,
that was against an almost ire
sistible force But don't fel the
least heat now We have got them
on the run now. and the resistance Is
very little The friction is going 10
come when they try to put on brakes
and try 10 stop
Il believe that there is COINS TO be
great handsome. peaceful, hopetui
revolution on the NTH day OF NO
vember, 1912, and that after that rev
olution has ben accomplished, men
will go about their business saying
What was II that We feared? We
feared chains and We have won III
erty. We feared to touch anything
for wear We should mar II, and now
everything wears the bright face OF
prosperity and We know that the
right is also the profitable thing ana
that nobody can serve an nation with
out serving also himselfe
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CUSTOMS COLLECTOR AND
OFFICERS IN CLASH

Customs officer George H. Bennett
OF Windsor, has asked the customs
department in ottawa 20 investigate
a complaint he has made against Col
lector OF Customs pr ] A Smith. The
collector recently ordered Bennett
transferred from the Windsor ferry
dock 70 the Michigan Genital station
Bennett efused to.obey the order. rep
resenting thar he was under the super
vision OF aPtricf Hanrahan chief
landing waiter. and that the latter was
not consulted in the matter.
John Barnett. in charge OF the mails
and express packages in the customs
department, post-office building. has
also had a clash with the collector.
The latter ordered him 10 vacate his
postoftice quarters and occupy a build.
ing near By Barnett declined TO
move. contending that tbS vacant
building was unfit for use.
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DARROW. WEEPING,
ENDS HIS ARGUMENT
1Continued from PAGE one,

Tertiary. Can YOU think Of anything
worse than that Would the EreCtors'
association. which put up sucn job,
hesitate to bride, hesitate TO put up
a job on me?
In the Chicago stock yards they
used TO have a steer trained 10 lead
the rest up 10 the shambles and when
he had reached the shambles, the
trained steer would step aside and
let the rest 20 to their doom. That 5
Harrington"
barrow discussed the settlement OF
the Mcnamara case in detail. lie
said in part: The Mcnamara case
was disposed Of several days before
Nov. rs, so far as | was concerned
All OF you may not agree with the
philosophy Of Lincoln Steffens, but be
careful about not believing an ideal
list He MAY be right, as the world
is moving
Ford SAYS | betrayed my clients
IT, who have always regarded my eli
ent as my friend. | gave my very
ltfe's blood for those two Mcnamara
hos.
There is IN every man good and
evil. IL is not his fault God Al
mighty made him. II YOU would hang
the Mcnamara brothers, il would con
ceive more hatred and wrong, more
crime than could come In any other
way.
Let me tell you something about
laboring men. They laid the rails
they made the locomotive so that you
and | ma yride in peace in our Pull
man cars. They take their lives III
their hands daily for you and me.
They are ignorant and rough, but they
ale human.
II took up their case-the case oil
the Mcnamara boys As time went
on, realized that lin Mcnamara
would have TO go | felt "a does
doctor who realizes that his patient
must die On one side were the
Burns men and the Erectors' associa'
ton with all It's men. On the other
was a fund raised out OF the wages
of the laboring men.
II couldn't consider politics. |
couldn't consider persons II ] was TO
save the lives of these men. Did
betray my client? DO you think !
would give Franklin $4,000 TO buy a
Juror and risk my reputation 10 no
purpose
barrow wept. unshamed while tell
ing of his efforts 10 end the McNam-
ara case and save the lives OF his
clients.
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REAL PUBLIC SERVANTS,
NOT POLITICIANS. NEEDED

Politicians were sharply contrasted
with real public servants bY polio"
Justice Edward ] Jenries. Thursday
night, when he defined the politician
as the man who crates much before
election and takes things easy after
reaching office and the real public
servant as the man who keeps his pre-
election promises Enthusiastic gath
eriugs OF voters greeted Judge leffries
when ne addressed three MEETINGS as
candidate for the Democratic nom.
nation for mayor he spoke first in
Weber's hall, Maple-st and 81 Aubin'
ave then in Dickinson hail, No. 422
Grand Riyerave and finally in Day 5
hall Monroe and ST Aubinaves.
The time has arrived said Judge
Ieffries, when the people not only
In Detroit but all over the country. are
calling for candidates who will be pub
lie servants. not politicians. The peo-
nile have awakened 70 the fact that
the government OF the country is IN
danger of being placed in the hands
OF puolic service corporations.
But the d. L. r., which has had
strange hold on the Jhroats OF the
people for so many years is beginning
To realize that the people will soon
have their hand on the rudder that
guides their Own affairs
When YOU kill snake. they say
the body does not cease 70 writhe
until after the sun goes down The
people have been trying 20 Kill the ID
L. r. Tor years and until It's much
sought franchise was refused sis
months ago. Il continued TO strike
lack But the sun will soon go down
and the power OF this company Will be
dead in Detroit Having failed with
many weapons We now advance upon
the enemy with the weapon OF mum
cipal ownership Of public utilities
That is the weapon that the public
service corporations fear because il
has been used against them with sue
cess
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AUTO RUNS DOWN TOT.
FRACTURING SKULL

Knocked down by an automobile at
Gratiot and BclWdere-aves. Thursday
evening Ralph Ashiee. fouryear-old
son OF Walter " Ashlee, OF No li43
Belyidere-aye, sustained a fracture OF
the skull. and is in critical condi-
ton In his home
The little lad was waiting on the
corner for his father. as was his daily
custom. bat he ventured into the
roadway. aud was struck by an auto
driven by r Guerson. OF No. sos
ROhns-ave.
DR.. George K. S,pe. No. 1882 Ora
tiotaxe.. was quickly on the scene
ard took the unconscious lad mono.
Though his condition is very serious.
Dr. Sipe stated Friday. that Ralph Is
somewhat better. and has a good
chance for recovery.
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DETROIT INSURANCE co.
AGENTS HOLD MEETING

In a meeting OF the agency force OF
the Detroit Life Insurance Co. In the
companys Offices. No, 1913 Majestic
building the announcement was made
that in the Is months during which
the new concern has been soliciting
business S4100.000 OF insurance has
been written More than 90 agents
attended the sessions which continued
several days. and there were several
entertainment features, including a
theater party and a banquet.
Al the banquet, held I'm the Hotel
fuller roof garden. VI. +. O'Brien.
president OF the company was toast
master and the speakers Included Or
J. VI Carstens. medical director. r.
+ d. Davis, yice.presidcnt; Dr j. w
4 clover. actuary and r. "A Watson
general counsel
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CALIFORNIA DID NOT
SEE TITANIC SIGNALS

LIVERPOOL, Aug. 16.--In the hope
OF showing that an injustice has been
done him by accusations that he dis
regarded distress signals from the
sinking Titanic, Capt Lord OF the
steamship Californian gave out nab
Tic explanation today of all that hap
pened aboard his boat on the night
OF the disaster.
The evidence is conclusive. he
says, that no responsible officer OF
the Californian was aware that there
had beer such a calamity. The second
officer, who did see signals. was the
only one who saw them and | think
] was justified in relying on his Judg.
ment.
Had the Californian been the
steamship seen by those on the
Titanic, IL would also have been
sighted By the Carpathia.
st is unthinkable that any seaman
would wilfully disregard what he
knew to be distress signals
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LUTHERANS OPPOSE
WOMEN IN PULPIT

SAGINAW, Mich. Aug 16,-The
delegates TO the annual synodical con.
ference OF the Lutheran church went
on record against women preaching
the gospel i'm the Lutheran churches.
The delegates also refused TO change
their rulings regarding the separa.
OF the state and church.
The conference will continue for six
days, and go delegates and 60 visitors
are in attendance The following Off
GERS were elected: President. Rev
Charles Gausegitz. OF Milwaukee.
Wis vice.president. Rev John Hoel.
ter OF Chicago; secretary. Rev John
Myer. OF New Ulm, Mimi; treasurer,
Rev Charles Christensen, Of Detroit:
chaplain Henry Gruber. OF Saginaw.
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ut Is inconsistent FOR any man to
say that he is Tor a clean city, first
and foremost. and still favor tran
chise or anything else that will per-
petuate the hold private corporations
have on the city" said Aid Herman
Schultz, OF the Seventeenth ward, TO
The Times.
Let those candidates who say they
are first for a clean city tell the pub
lie frankly and sincerely whether they
will insist on municipal ownership Of
the street car system To my way Of
thinking the question OF vital import
ance In the coming campaign is not
whether one faYors clean city, but
whether one fayors the means OF OBJ
tanning a clean city We all favor a
clean city. Consequently. that is not
the chief issue The issue is the best
means of Graduating graft. and this
will continue to be- the issue until We
obtain municipal ownership.
IL would like To ask those who have
forgotten the street car situation, or.
would like 10 have the public forget
II, how do you expect TO obtain clean
city SO long as you have private own
ership OF public utilities? Ask a candi-
date that question. get him TO point
10 his record on that issue.
II agree with Justice Jeffries when
he says that municipal ownership is
the paramount issue in this campaign.
The man who says he Is for a clean
city and seeks your vote on that prop
osition solely and remains silent on the
question Of municipal ownership is
just trying 70 hoodwink you. AT best
he is that kind of a civic doctor who
would remove only the effect and nor
dig down for the cause.
Nearly every man who was elected
TO the council two years ago was on
record as fayoring municipal owner
ship. Later when the franchise was
brought out by the mayor many of
those aldermen betrayed their trust.
There was the first evidence Of corrup-
ton. The first thing for the voter is
10 know the man for whom he votes
for city Office. Guard against deCep-
ton and elect only men on whom YOU
can rely 10 vote for municipal owner
ship.
The influence of one private cor
poration | know runs through the city
hall like viper II has and il will
continue TO do so, despite those cries:
A clean city first II will continue
until you put il out OF business In
sidious and dastardly means have
been taken 10 line up the aldermen
by that corporation II is always al
work in the city hall through It's
agents. Therefore, tell YOU that
municipal ownership is the first step
in the direction Of a clean city
The words OF Schultz were in the
ears of the interviewer as he asked
Mayor Thompson his attitude on NUM-
4 cipal ownership. The mayor has been
4 strangely silent on this topic OF late
and he would say only what Is quoted
above
The remarks of Mr. Lawson. as
quoted here, were made the day after
the graft expose, and Indicate that ar
least portion OF the mayors cabinet
Is for private ownership
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GERMANS HAVE GALA
DAY IN MARSHALL

MARSHALL. Mich. Aug. l6-Visit.
ors from Wayne, Washtenaw. ngham.
Kalamazoo and Calhoun counties at.
tended the German-American celcbra.
ton here Thursday 4 large parade
In the forenoon was followed hy a
banquet on the fair grounds. where a
similar celebration occurred 80 years
ago yesterday. Mayor f. G. SAVOY
delivered the address OF welcome
The Concordia Singing society OF
jackson. the American band. OF Mar
shall. and the Chelsea band furnished
music. II was voted TO hold the cele
bration next year at Kalamazoo