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LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE

and the abrupt crackle and detonatior
of the spark broke upon the quiet. some
how thrilling with its monotonOus insist
ence. endlessly iterating its tocsin cry
through night-bound leagues of loneli
ness.
After the first dozen or so explosions
Crittenden started and smothered an ex-
clamation. Cynthia studied his face as
revealed in the diffused glimmer of star
light that penetrated the port. His look
was strained she thought; and his hand
grasping the brass-bound opening was
rigid and motionless. She OWNED that
he was Influenced by strong excitement
What is it?' she asked.
IS o s. he told her. quickly: 1.-The
wireless signal OF distress. 1t has come
quicker than ] thought. - ."
She stiffened with a shock of alarm
Are We in danger. them
mo. Not really Wait
"But WHY
He caught her hand. needless of all
save what was unfolding to his inteli-
gence, and put upon her slender fingers a
pressure that insisted on silence equally
as ii hurt.
But she did not complain. Neither did
she seek to draw away. Only something
moved in her bosom and something tight
ened in her throat. Fastening her breath
ing as she stood in patient waiting, star
ing up at his thoughtful. intent counte-
nance.
Wait" he repeated. II must get this
There he added, as there fell a
n.omentary break In the continuity OF
Thurlow's urgent sending. He's stop
ped to listen for an answer"
Sharp upon the subsistence of his whis-
per sounded the kissing clash of a switch
shot home: and again the splutterng
shocks shattered the silence
Crittendens fingers closed like bands
of steel on Cynthia's hand for an instant,
then In the unconsciousness of his pre-
occupation relaxed.
BY George he cried. He's picked
up Key Vest
What is il about? Can you tell?"
asked Cynthia, herself infected with his
agitation.
Listen: I'll try to translate as he goes
on
In a voice low but clear Crittenden be-
gan to render into English the fluent
stream of crepitant sound; between the
periods Of almost deafening clamor COM
municating its import to the girl as in
telligibly as his handicap permitted.
Steamship Cynthia; Lobb, command
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CHAPTER XIII.-Continued.

Down from the crow's-nest dropped the
lookout hail, weirdly resonant and
stirring:
Breakers ahead. Four points off the
STANDARD bow.
Some one responded from the bridge.
Then a second cry from the eyrie on
the fopemast-'.Land- ho"'-and again the
curt acknowledgment of the officer in
charge of the bridge
Almost Immediately there was "A stir
and hustle audible on the deck overhead.
4 man came running forward. boot heels
ringing loudly on the planks. and darted
up 10 the bridge. Another shot down the
companion ladder from the promenade
To the main deck and stumbled forward
to the bows. where others Joined him.
\ little later this maneuver was ac-
counted for by the tedious announce
ments of the leadsman
In the bowels OF the vessel the bell of
the engine room telegraph tangled and
had echoes In the instrument of the
bridge. The vibration Of the ship at once
iessened. and there was notable dimi-
mutton of speed
Somewhere overhead the voices of two
men were heard IN heated wrangling.
presently to he silsnced by the peremp-
tory accents Of third
Cynthia stole To Crittendens side
What does IL mean" she breathed.
1t can't be possible we have made a
larbor hereabouts, can it,
lie laughed uneasily. I'm afraid We
ave. or soon will. It's part of the
anne"
But
Hush he said, gently. Footsteps
we're sounding Immediately above Some
me began 10 let himself down the ladder
before the port. with a caution in strong
contrast TO the impetuosity OF the sea-
nan who had preceded him. AS the man
tound footing at the bottom Crittenden
recognized the figure and habit of Perez.
Wait he admonished the girl a Sec
ond time. in a whisper
The Brazilian turned Immediately to-
ward the wireless deckhouse and disap-
peared. They heard him speak. EVIL
IDENTIFY addressing an order to the oper-
ator. The dynamo began to purr, its
volume waxing TO windy roar; there
was clicking or switches easily audible,
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looking block in the upper fifties'' where
nilnlearYS Saffiad Themselves ON

looking block in the upper fifties where
the Dunlearys settled themselves on
their arrival from Ireland, they could
not have made the place brighter than
it was. 1t shone with good humor and
high spirits and affection. for there lived
"Didy.' who had been baptized Sabina.
Truth to tell. Didy is almost bit unusually
good and beautiful and all that sort oil
thing that delights the novelist In his
| rendering of heroine. 1t would be
relief if she would fly off the handle oc-
casionaEy and show bit of temper
She has occasion enough in good sooth.
for to her mothers roof come strange
peoples seeking shelter. The most in
teresting of these is O'Dowd. physician.
crank, samaritan and guardian angel in
combination, ODowd. whose long
speeches and breathless dissertations
make convenient skipping places for the
hurried reader. but excellent matter for
the discriminating. This is a good, whole
some, jolly story of Irish people trans
planted to the new country, and it de-
serves better illustrations than those
which mispresent the characters.
THE PERMANENT UNCLE. BY Doug
las Goldring. New York: E. p. Dut-
ton & Co
There is something undeniably refresh
ing i'll the unconventionalty Of this story
of English people. and inasmuch as the
publishers present it first perform
ance" by a new author it is to be well
coined as an augury of even better things
to come For one who can write as
we'll as this can do better A young
English husband. whose wife becomes
unreasonaby jealous, leaves her and sets
off adventuring and falls in with an
eccentric character, who is travelling Tor
a patent medicine. These two, being
of congenial temperaments, have most
remarkable experience with a young run
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and myrtle. Towering out of TINS are
venerable locust trees. Certain other trees
gnarled pears. big spruces and arpor-
vitae, show that a fine garden was once
here There are two old specimens or the
Sophora Japonica, telling that the former
dwellers here sought rare trees for the
establishment of their homes
Under this tangle of vines lie heaps OF
brick. the ruins of one OF the mes rS;s
was Oxon Hall. 1t was built by the I'M
migrant John Addison. a cousin or the
Addison Of Spectator fame. 1t was John
Addison who in the seventeenth century
obtained a patent for all those lands ~
ing between Piscataway creek. which en-
tiers the Potomac at Fort washington,
and the Eastern branch. Being PROUD
of his Oxford affiliations and being an
Oxonian he called his great home In the
new world Oxon Hall. 1t has given its
na1ne to creek. Hill, churches and post
Offices. which in many prints nave come
to be spelled Oxen In this jungle lie
also the graves and fiat gravestones OF
some of the Addison family.
The records of Broad Creek Church.
three miles south of the ruins. date back
TO 1898, the year after the creation OIL
the parish, which at different times has
been called Piscataway, King Georges.
st. Johns and Broad Creek. In the rec
ord Of 1898 occurs this:
by a sufficient and lawful authority
the inhabitants of Piscataway county
having met at the house of John Addison,
ESQ.,. Of Oxon Hall. in same parish, Sc
lected the same John Addison foreman
and William Hatton, John Smith Will
liam Hutchinson, William Tannehill and
John Smallwood to be vestrymen In said
parish; and they ordered that the forty
pounds Of tobacco per poll be paid to
John Addison. esq, and William Hutch
inson. and that they do employ carpen-
ters for building church.
It is reasonable to believe that Oxon
Hall was built about 1860. The hall re-
NAMED long in possession of the Ad-
olson family. Then it passed to the
Berry family. and Thomas Berry was
living there during the civil war. The
Berry grave vault was in the hillside
near the house and skeletons lay exposed
there for many years. but in the last
decade or so the vault has been broken
up for the brick it contained and The
Star man found no one who could tell
him the fate of the bones that were
housed there Oxon Hall burned down in
the nineties: since then vines and wild
shrubbery have closely embraced the
ruins
The theory is that this Indian pipe clay
pit was the pit whence clay was OBJ
tanned for the making of brick which
Oxon Hall was built. OF course, Oxon
Hall. like all other colonial brick houses
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ten records 1t is the study Of earth
layers and soils. of heat and cold, of wet
and dry, to determine the zones of human
habitation and to discover, IL may be.
what these PARKWAY folks did to keep
body and soul together. to grow and null
tiply and gather into primitive societies.
1t is the laborious study of every remain
ing scrap of this rude existence. of what
appear to have been shelters, tools. weap-
ons, what not of human use in the Strug-
gle for survival. The study of these scat
tered and scanty remains partakes OF
magic-the magic Of science. which adds
to each in coherent unity the whole or
which 1t is SO meager part. This simple
and most readable study recasts the
molds. as II were from which the civili-
cations around the Mediterranean sprang
and took on. each. the general form and
tendency of the matrix in which 1t was
conceived. The little volume is an adj
mirable example of how a thorough and
comprehensive knowledge may reduce it
self to perfect simplicity. where half
knowledge or superficial knowledge is
unable to do this.
THE RED LANE; q Romance Of the
Border. BY Holman Day author OF
King Spruce" etc. Illustrated
New York: Harper & Brothers.
In the twilight zone which separates
the Canadian provinces from our down
east states that little known but fas-
chatting region Of vast forests. deep and
sullen streams peopled by rugged men of
red blood, the author has found the
characters and made the setting for a
stirring tale. There Is no clink of tea
cups or front veranda uttle-tattle in this
story. hut there Is pabulum for strong
and hardy folk. who would read of men
and women in their struggle with almost
primeval nature and little short OF
primeval passions. Mr.. Day tells of the
smuggler folk along the border, men who
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away girl whom they adopt and carry
to France for protection from cruel and
avaricious relatives Some astonishing
situations develop. the author handling
them with breezy capacity for the de-
lineation of innocence. He gives a vivid
description of silly Bohemian life In pass
ing and after months of maneuyerng
brings his people together into requisite
sentimental relations at the close.
THE COUNSEL ASSIGNED. BY Mary
Raymond Shipman Andrews. author
of The Perfect Tribute etc. New
York. Charles Scribners Sons.
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
This story, under the title The Counsel
for the Defense" took the first prize i'll
the Sunday Star Magazine contest which
closed with the announcement Of the
winners in May last Ii is "A most effec-
tive Lincoln story. presenting him who
afterward became the war President OF
the United States in the role eff lawyer
pleading for the life of a boy accused OF
homicide.
WHEN THE WAR Is DER BY Maj
r NJ. Peacock. author of Military
Crime" etc. New York: Longmans.
Green & Co.
Mai Peacock has written several
stories of British military life heretofore
and IN TINS one ne ioiloWS the sdIie
theme and draws a picture of regimen
tai commander in evolution from subor-
dinate officer of no particular promise.
Incidentally he gives some descriptions
of military work In the Boer war and
at the same time tells a love story ef-
fectively. the scene shifting from India
to Africa and finally to England. Quite
obviously many of the characters are
drawn from life and the incidents have
their counterparts in actual military rec
ordS
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Now she's hopping mad. declares she
wont be a party to the plot il il ruins
her to expose it, and it begins to look as
| IL she'd snarled it up impossibly. Perez
wants to put her out of the way and
take her jewels and And I've no
right to be telling you all this to brighten
YOU
His voice assumed a weary tone. But
now you know-you had to, sooner or
later-and YOU know just what l am. the
associate and employe of thieves and
He stopped speaking in sheer amaze
ment and solely because of the reason
for that emotion; Cynthia hand. warm
soft and gentle, that had found its way
to his lips and closed them with its
siiken pressure.
Il know assented the girl. No. let
ME speak. It's my turn. now There
was deepened richness in her voice
that perturbed him-sympathy therein
mingled with understanding and resoIu-
ton and with something else. something
infinitely sweet and tender. like a caress
4 know you-yes.'' she said; 'and
since that's SO. you mustn't maiign your
self to me. Bruce. / know you better
now than | have ever known anybody
in all my life, and 1 won't hear you Ii
beled. even by yourself"
But he protested alarmed, you
don't seem to understand
Il do: 1 understand too well. Listen to
me, Bruce. There We're two OF us-two
fnnocents drawn into this, almost
against our wills, because We're poor
and friendless and But wait No.
don't say anything just Yet, please. Give
me time to think out what / want to say
to you
She hesitated a short minute. -
Through all the time he had been lay
ing bare to her the scheme of the swim
dlers she had been mindful OF what he
said only with her objective senses. Be
meath them ran a feeling new discovered
that set her riddle She must tax all her
wits to read. Throughout that span her
woman's heart had been busy with its
problem. weighing il. considering II in all
its battling completely; devising its
shrewd snare for the feet of happiness
Love was her birthright decided to her
with her sex. Contemplating it from
afar. from the remote heights of maiden
simplicity she had somewhat misprized
it, perhaps: now that il was come to her
and she knew herself a woman. she
would have 1t at whatever price. 1t was
her woman's right she who loved must
in her turn be loved-or the world We're
well lost and despised.
CTo be continued tomorrow
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cannot appreciate the theory of the pro-
tective tariff. and insist upon trading
their lamb for calf with a neighbor
across an imaginary boundary line his
majesty's and Uncle Sans customs laws
to the contrary Notwithstanding. But
there are good people among the bad, and
acts of heroism. sef-sacrifice and forti-
tude are frequent. The appearance in the
midst of this turbid population of a
voting girl to the manner born. but bred
in q convent sets many things askew and
furnishes the thread of the narrative.
It is a strong story and refreshing IN
the novelty of the scenes and characters.
THE WORLDS LEADING PAINTERS.
BY George b. Rose. author of
Renaissance Masters" With por-
traits. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
To the general reader on art subjects
these biographies Of Leonardo Da Vinci.
Raphael, Titan, Rubens. Velasduez and
Rembrandt will be of material assistance
in placing these masters In the surround
ings from which their work naturally
sprung Mr. Roses biographies have the
excellence of being brief, readable. COM
prehensive surveys of the dominating cir
cumstances in the life of each OF these
great painters 1t. further, covers the
latest conclusions about them and their
works, over which there has been much
of controversy and subsequent revision.
This volume forms a useful and authori-
tatfve unit in the series of the Worlds
Leaders" now issuing from the house of
Henry Holt & Co.
THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND'W WELL
COMES ("cead Mile Failthe"). BY
f. r. Iipsett. With eight illustra-
tons by Joseph Damon. New York:
John Lane Company.
If the Thousand candies of Mr. Mich
olson's story stood in the windows OF
tho establishment in the trim. clean
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Tennyson in French.
From the London Chronicle.

Tennyson held views about the iiriita-
tons OF the French language. The pres
ent Lord Tennyson. in his life OF his
father, says that in 1855 TRANSACTIONS
into French of Ring Out. WIG Bells
and Mariana In the Moated Grange were
sent to him from France" He pointed
out what a poor language French is for
translating English poetry. although IL is
the best language for delicate nuances or
meaning. How absurd Ring out, Wild
Bells sounds in the translation 'Sonnez
Cloches. Sonnez,' and what a ridiculous
rendering OF He cometh not. she said
is Tom ne Went pas'r And have we
ever done better with that Hebro-Franco-
German Hefneo
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and the wearisomeness of their work, and
the driver mopped his brow.
'.How much does the wagon hold:' the
Star man asked.
Five hundred gallons
and what does that amount of water
weigh?''
about two tons.
How far does that sprinkle a street!'
About 1cOOO square yards
And how many times day do you
fill the wagOn?'
About thirty times.
Here are some interesting facts. Ten
thousand square yards is 10000 square
feet There are 46, 800 square feet of as
phalt pavement in Pennsylvania avenue
between 18th and 18th streets, counting
from the middle of the cross streets. That
area exceeds an acre 2,44O square feet
The wagon therefore, with one load OF
water, would sprinkle nearly twice the
surface of the Avenue between 18th and
18th streets, or approximately two and
ne-ninth acres of asphalt
1t is a thin wetting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-03
A Broken Tradition.

THE tradition that marble granite
shaft should mark a soldiers grave
at Arlington has been broken in upon and
in that beautiful temple whose roof is the
foliage of great trees. whose carpet is
green turf and whose aisles are lined with
graves and gravestenes. a cannon has
been planted over a tomb. 1t is a hand
some brass field piece of the civil war
period-a smooth bore for the delivery of
grape or canister-when such weapon
was thought more effective than a rifled
gun discharging time or percussion shrap-
mel or explosive shell
No doubt this gun has a glorious his
tory though this is not told by an in
scription. 1t is piece of excellent work
manship and those who know the story of
the gun could tell in what brave actions
1t has served.
A bronze plate on the trail of squared
oak records this:
Wallace Fitz Randolph,
Major General United States Army.
June H. 1S41.
December 81, 1910.
On the muzzle of the gun in stamped
letters and figures is this:
NO. Al ii. y. IL. L. Co. 1899 lbs T. ]. r. 1867.
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His Bank.
From the London Standard.

While an Aberdeen pawnbroker was en-
deavoring to dispose of an old silk hat on
Friday she discovered in the lining bank
deposit receipts of e6Oo. Fortunately the
pawnbroker knew that the hat had be-
longed to local gentleman who had died
three years ago. and on communicating
with his representatives she was informed
that the missing securities had been the
subject of prolonged search and litigation.
Their discovery cleared the deceased 8
lawyers of a suspicion of carelessness.
The deceased had been in the habit of
using his hat as a bank
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The Park Fences.

@ID-TIMERS in Washington remem-
~ Der when many of the parks and
parklettes that are now beautiful were
commons-grazing grounds for cattle ano
swine and ranging places for geese ann
chickens They can remember when TINS
open condition came to an end and high
wooden fences were built around some OF
the parks after they had been brought
under cultivation. When the wooden
fences came down castiron posts about
two feet or two and a half feet nlgh
were set up. These posts were nolioW
with octagonal tops. and on these tops
were the large raised letters y. anu
"P b. g. the last three letters stand
ing for public buildings and GROUNDS
These posts supported iron chains tnat
swung in more or less graceful loops from
post to post. The cement coping around
the parks superseded in a large number
of cases these post and chain barriers.
though a respectable number OF them
survive, especially In the southeast and
northeast sections Of the city.
IL the question should be asked of the
everyday Washingtonian what use had
been made Of these old posts and chains
he would perhaps say: ASK me some
thing easier" One may find hundreds of
the posts-most of them beheaded or
otherwise broken and with but little OF
the familiar green paint clinging to
them-in the extreme southern part OF
the city.
Travel down among the market gardens
and the untitled fields toward BuzZards
point, where several streets leau'ne
south from the Capitol dip into the East
ern branch. If one studies the surveys OF
Washing ton it is easy to trace the streets
and avenues down to the southern tip
But If one goes down that way he finds
that some streets change into dusty OF
muddy roads, narrow and crooked. and
that avenues in some cases become only
foot paths and that in other cases they
are not even so much improved as that
There are acres and acres OF land
which at this season are overgrown with
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mn i,n,,o of woods
uaeds &c tau as man9dense tangled
masses of them. Here and there in this
wcedy waste is line OF the Ola pos's'
mostly minus thelr .nai.,s =, ara for res-
~ 49, farr,ad Nv tho junction Of ave
nues that do not exist with streets that
also do not exist.
long SOUTH apou. .he III - ~ .ne 80
NJ NJ 80 a,,arma striIes "A and y streets
southwest The lot is used by the neigh
borhood bows for base ball and the land
is Scared with weIl-wOrn bases and base
lines. Weeds claim the rest of the land.
ONLY two sides of the triangle are mark
ed by the old posts those that marked
the third side having disappeared if they
ever were set up. No chain connects