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bers Of life in that wasted and move
less frame.
An impish malice glimmered in his
sunken eyes as he kept her waiting
upon his pleasure. And when at length
he decided to speak. it was with ring
OF hateful irony in that strangely
scno.ous voice of his.
Rose he, said slowly-"my daugb
teri am told you have today beer
guilty of an act Of disloyalty to me-
She said coolly: You had me spied
upon"
Naturally, with every reason tc
question your loyalty, I had you
watched"
She waited significant moment
then dropped an impassive monosyt
liable into the silence: "Well?"
You have visited the man Digby
servant and friend Of the man l hate
and you love-
She said, without expression: Yes
Repeat what passed between you.
II shall not, but on one condition
"And that is?"
Tell me first whether it was you
who sent the rose to Alan Law-ano
more, where Judith has been during
the last fortnight
Il shall tell you nothing, my child.
Repeat resonant voice rang with
infexible purpose-'repeat what the
man Digby told you"
The girl was silent. He endured her
stare for a long minute, a spark OF
rage kindling to fame the evil old eyes
Then his one living member that
had power to serve his iron will, a
hand like the claw Of a bird OF prey
moved toward row Of buttons SUNK
in the writing-bed Of his desk.
Il warn you I have ways to make
you speak"
With a quick movement the girl
bent over and prisoned the oony wrist
in her strong fingers. With her otner
hand, at the same zine, she whipped
open an upper drawer Of the desk and
took from it revolver which sne
placed at a safe distance.
ITO the contrary" she said quietly,
you will remember that the time has
passed when you could have ME pun
ished for disobedience. You will call
nobody: if interrupted shan't hesi-
tate to defend myself. And now'-lay-
ing hold Of the back Of his chair, she
moved it some distance from the desk
you may as we'll be quiet while
find for myself what l wish to know, ;"
For a moment he watched in silence
as she bent over the desk, rummaging
it's drawers Then with an infuriated
gesture of his left hand, he began to
curse her.
sne shuddered little as the black
oaths blistered his thin old lips, dedi'
eating her and all she loved to sin,
infa.my and sorrow; bat nothing could
stay her In her purpose. He was
breathless and exhausted when she
Strengthened up with an exclamation
of satisfaction, studied intently for
moment sheaf of papers. and thrust
them hastily into her handbag, togeth-
er with the revolver.
Then touching the push-button
which released a secret and little-used
door, without backward glance she
slipped from the room and, closing the
door securely, within another minute
had made her way unseen from the
house
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had none beyond hunting knife belt
ed at the small Of his back. All else
had been either consumed In the for
est fire or stolen by his Indian guide
who had subsequently died while at
tempting to murder his employer.
Since that event, the man had sue
ceeded in losing himself completely.
In seeking shelter from the thunder
storm, he had lost touch with his only
known and none too clearly located
landmarks. Then, after night passed
without a fire in the lee Of ragged
bluff he had walked to discover the
sun rising in the west and the rest Of
the universe sympathetically upside
down; and aimlessly ever since he had
stumbled and blundered in the maze
Of those grimly reticent Businesses, for
the last few hours haunted by fear
of failing reason-possessed by no.
ton that he was dogged by furtive
enemies-and within the last hour the
puppet of blind, witless panic.
But even as he strove to calm him
self and rest, the feeling that some
thing was peering at him from behind
a mask Of underground grew intoler-
ably acute.
At length he jumped up, glared wild
ly at the spot where that something
no longer was, flung himself fran
tically through the brush in pursuit OF
it, and-found nothing,
With great effort he pulled him
self together, clamped his teeth upon
the promise not again to give way to
hallucinations, and turned back to the
clearing.
There, upon the log On which he
had rested, he found-but refused to
believe he saw-a playing card,
trey Of hearts, face up in the sun
glare.
With a gesture of horror, Alan Law
fed the place.
While the sounds of his fight were
still loud, grinning half-breed guide
stole like a shadow to the log, laughed
derisively after the fugitive, picked up
and pocketed the card, and set out
in tireless, catfooted pursuit.
An hour later, topping a ridge of
rising ground, Alan caught from the
hollow on it's farther side the music OF
clashing waters. Tortured by thirst,
he began at once to descend In reck-
less haste.
What was at first gentle slope cov-
cred with waistdeep brush and car
peted with leaf-mold, grew swiftly
more declivitous, a messy hillside, as
steep as a roof, bare Of underbrush''
and sparely sown- with small cedars
through whose ranks cool blue water
twinkled far below.
The shelving moss-beds afforded
treacherous footing; Alan was glad
now and then Of the support of a &C.
dar, but these grew ever smaller, and
more widely spaced and were not al
ways convenient to his hand. He
came abruptly and at headlong pace
within sight Of the caves Of cliff
and precisely then the hillside seemed
to slip from under him.
His heels hourished in the air, MS
back thumped bed Of pebbles thinly
overgrown with moss. The stones
gave, the mosssskin broke, he began to
slide-grasped at random a youngish
cedar which stayed him imDerceptibly,
coming away with all its puny roots
caught at another, no more substan-
tial-and amid shower Of loose stone
shot out over the edge and down a
drop Of more than thirty feet.
He was instantaneously aware OF
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CHAPTER VIII.
The incredible Thing.

Broad daylight, the top OF morn
ing as rare as ever broke upon the
north country: Alan Law. opening be-
wildered eyes to realize the substance
Of dream come true.
True it proved itself, at least, in
part. He lay between blankets upon a
couch of balsam fans, in corner OF
somebody's camp-a log structure,
weather.proof, rudely but adequately
furnished His clothing, rough-dried
but neatly mended, lay upon a chair
at his side.
He rose and dressed in haste, at
once exulting in his sense Of complete
rest and renewed well-being, a prey
to hints of an extraordinary appetite,
and provoked by signs that seemed to
bear out the weirdest fights of his de-
lirious fancies.
There were apparently indisputable
evidences of woman's recent pres
ence in the camp: blankets neatly
folded upon a second bed Of aromatic
balsam in the farther corner; an effect
of orderiness not common with
guides; a pair Of dainty buckskin
gauntlets depending from a nail in the
wall; and-he stood staring witlessly
at it for more than minute-in an
old preserve jar on the table, a single
rose, warm and red. dew upon its
petals!
There was also fire in the cook
stove, with a plentiful display Of
things to cook; but despite his hunger
Alan didn't stop for that, but rushed
to the door and threw it open and him
self out into the sunshine, only to
pause, dashed, chagrined, mystifed.
There was no other living thing in
sight but a loon that sported far up
the river and saluted him with a
shrek of mocking laughter.
The place was a cleft in the hills,
table of level land some few acres
in area, bounded on one hand, be-
meath the cliff from which he had
dropped, by a rushing river fat with
recent rains; on the other by second
cliff Of equal height. Upstream the
water curved round the shoulder of a
towering hill, downstream the cliffs
closed upon it until it roared through
a narrow gorge.
Near the camp. upon a strip Of
shelving beach that bordered the river
where it widened into deep, dark
pool, two canoes were drawn up, bot
toms to the SUM- Dense thickets Of
pines, oaks, and balsams hedged in
the clearing.
He was, It seemed, to be left severe
ly to himself, that day; when he had
cooked and made way with an enor-
nous breakfast, Alan found nothing
better to do till time for luncheon
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CHAPTER vi.
Disclosures.

In a little corner Office, soberly fur
nished, on the topmost floor Of one of
lower Manhattan's -loftiest ofice-tow-
ers, little mouse-brown nah sat over
a big mahogany desk; little man of
big affairs, sole steward Of one Of
Americas most formidable fortunes.
Precisely at eleven minutes past
noon Cor at the identical instant chos-
en- by Alan Law to catapult over the
edge of a cliff in northern Maine) the
muted signal of the little mans desk
telephone clicked and, eagerly lifting
receiver to ear, he nodded with smile
and said in accents Of some relief:
ASK her to come in at once, please.
Jumping up, he placed a chair in in
innate juxtaposition with his own;
and the door opened, and young
woman entered.
The mouse-brownm man bowed. Miss
Rose Trine?" he murmured with
great deal of Difference.
The young woman returned his bow
with a show of perplexity: Mr.. Dig
by?'
"You are kind to come in response
to my-ah-unconventional invita-
tion," said the little man. Won't
you-ah-sit DOWN.
She said, Thank you." gravely, and
took the chair he indicated. And Mr.
Digby, with an admiration he made no
effort to conceal, examined the fair
face turned 80 candidly to him.
1T Is quite comprehensive" he said
difidently-"if you will permit me to
say so-now that one sees you, Miss
Trine, it is quite comprehensive why
my employer-ah-feels toward you as
he does.'
The gir, flushed. "Mr. Law has told
you?"
Il have the honor to be his nearest
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creditors of the said B. B. Barker, de-
ceased, that they be and appear before
me, in the Court Of Probate, to be held
at Pickens, S. c., on the 18th day of
November, 1914, next after publication
hereof, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to
show cause, if any they have, why said
administration should not be granted.
r Given underay hand and seal this I'd
day Of Novembssij ammo Donini; 1914: 3
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Continued Next week.
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CHAPTER Vii.
The Mutineer.

Within the hour Rose Trine stood
before her father in that somber room
wherein he wore out his crippled days,
in that place of silence and shadows
whose sinister color-scheme Of GRIM
son and black was the true livery OF
his monomania-his passion for ven
geance that alone kept warm the EN-.
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the canoe stared along the sights,y
then lowered her weapon and, turn
ing, spoke indistinguishably to the
guide, who instantly began to ply 4
brisk paddle. 20
The canoe sped on, vanished swiftly
round a bend.
After a long time, Alan voiced his
unmitigated amazement:
"Why-in the name OF heaven!
Why"
The gisl said DULY: Don't you
know?" And when he shook his head.
Her guide told mine you had saved
her life on the dam at Spirit Lake.
Now do you see?"
His countenance was blank with
wonder: "Gratitude?"
Rose smiled YEARLY: "Not graft.
tude alone, but something more ter
rible. -. She rose and held
out herrhand. Not that can blame
her. But come; if we strikeS
through here we will, think, pick uI2
q trail that will bring us to Blasss
Beaver settlement by dark" S
Mon+in,,od Nc,rf 1poolrr -, &ss5&3yf
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But there was now no escaf
ordeal. The canoe was aIa
| ming between walls Whefs
ran deep and fast xsts
face.
The next instant 1t was
and the man settled do1
with grim dissemination, p.rss,s S|
age and Strength and ss|
against the rayemng waters
at the canoe .on, every hand
mad clamor beat back and
tween the walls of the gorge IN
bellowings Of Internal mirth.
He fought like: one poss
There was never an instant's
for judgment or execution; tn
must be synchronous with the 80
both instantaneous, or else-destru..
tion.
The canoe wove this way and that
Ike an insane shuttle threading some
satanic loom. Now. 1t hesitated, nuz-
cling a gigantic boulder over which
the watec .woye a pale green and
glistening hood, now in the space Of
q heartbeat it shot forward twice its
length through a sea of creaming
waves, now plunged wildly toward
what promised instant annihilation
and cheated that only by the timely
plunge Of a paddle, guided by luck or
instinct or both.
The one ray Of hope in Alan's mind,
when he surveyed before committing
himself and the woman he loved to
that hideous gauntlet, sprang from
the fact that, however rough, the
rapids were short. Now, when he had
been in their grasp a minute, he
seemed to have been there hours.
His laborings were tremendous, un-
believable, inspired. In the end they
were all but successful. The goal Of
safety was within thirty seconds
more Of quick, hard work, when,Alan's
paddle broke and the canoe swung
broadside to boulder, turned turtle
and precipitated, both headlong into
that savage welter.
AS the next few minutes passed he
was fighting like a mad thing against
overwhelming odds. Then; Of a sud-
den, he found himself rejected, spewed
forth from the cataract and swimming
mechanically in the smooth water Of
a wide pool beyond the lowermost
eddy, the canoe floating bottom up
near by, and Rose supporting herself
with one hand on it.
Her eAss met his. clear with the
sanity ~ Der adorable courage.
10 aorn :dered to her side, painted In
...s..o - transfer her hand to his
s1 u.,on md struck out for the
nearer shores footing at tne s.,,a s,.,
Both founaa out, to collapse, ex-
hausted, against @ -, go;
Then, with sic Alan
remembered the pnFsu rose and
looked up the rapid Just in time to
view the last swift quarter Of the
canoes descent: Judith in the bow,
motionless, rife across her knees, in
the stern an Indian guide kneeling
and fighting the waters with scarcely
perceptible effort in contrast with
AIan's supreme struggles.
Like a living thing the canoe
seemed to gather itself together, to
poise, to leap with all its strength;
It hurdled the eddy In a bound, took
the still water with a mighty splash.
and shot downstream at diminished
speed, the Indian furiously backing
water.
\ AS though that had been the one
moment she had lived for, Judith
lifted her rife and brought it to bear
upon her sister.
With a cry Of horror, Alan flung
himself before Rose, a living shield.
anticipating nothing but immediate
death. This was not accorded him.
For breathless instant the woman In
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Citation

The State of South Carolina,
County of Pickens:
By J. B. Newbery, Probate Judge:
Whereas. D. L. Barker has made
suit to me to grant him letters OF ad.
of the estate and effects ot
3. B. Barker. y
These are, therefore, to c and ad-
monish al and singular thu ed and
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and vital on his fingers. A fine spirit
of resolve set her countenance aglow.
You may count on me for action on
my own part, if l find circumstances
warrant it. l promised not to marry
Alan because of the feud between our
fathers-but not to stand by and see
him sacrificed. Tell me how I may
communicate secretly with you-and
let me go as soon as possble!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-22
LONDON EXPECTS
new "LODY'' TRIAL
Case of "Bridgman" Tay-
Tor Being Watched
with Interest.

r,,don. Nov. 21.-The intense public
:,.e-sst in the case Of Carl Hans Lody,
80 German spy recently executed IN
80 Tower OF London. is being paral-
isie5i lesser degree by the amount OF
...sr+iou which the trial of the man
10 claims 20 be Bridgman Taylor Is
...rse+i~c. In the Bow 81. police court
.o.Sav the prisoner, who has al Ameu-
.sr nsssport IN the name of Brldgman
Tsvlor. but who Scotland Yard insists
=. ore Horst Won der Colt, was re-
~e-ded for q further hearing. IL Is
;--inated that the netX hearing VIII
he before another court, presumably
court-martia-
The only charge against the prisoner
.s We, is that he has not registered as
IN alien 10 is alleged, however that
10 circgrS stances of the case in some
PARTICULARS are similar 20 those Of the
Iosy trial The prisoner arrived IN Lon
5on on November and registered at
hotel as B. II. Taylor, Of II Paso'
Tex. According 20 the stamps on his
passport. he had just come from Ger
MANY. lie is said 90 have boasted Of
Germany great prowess. In the hot~l
he spoke mostly IN German, and when
he uses the LnL.>l lahE udSe D. - WIN
a decided German accent
Other guests at the hotel say that
the man told them he was born in
.Arerica. that his mother was Ger
man and bis father an American. On
NE death of his father, he said, he was
taken by his mother 20 Germany, where
he was educated.
The prisoner is about thirty-fve
wears Old. tall and athletic, and con-
spicuously well dressed. He was penni-
less when arrested, and apparently was
without friends in London.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-22
HOW IT FEELS TO
Be HIT BY BULLET
Wounded French Officer
Thought He Had Found
Perfect Death.
From The Tribune Correspondent


Paris, Nov. 10.-An officer who was
wounded while leading a charge at the
head Of his company has given in a
letter 20 lie Temps his impression at
the moment when he was struck. He
says.
The ball which struck me was fired
iron distance Of about fifty feet. l
suddenly seemed 90 feel a tremendous
blow in the back, although in fact
rad been struck in the breast ! spun
completely round on my heel, and my
sabre, which ] had lowered for the
charge, was thrown twenty feet away
iron me-
The ball continued its course and
wounded IN the shoulder d soldier who
followed me made every effort TO
seep my feet ] realized that ] was
Ialntng and tried 90 prevent myself
ron losing my senses. but little by lit
ue telt consciousness going from me,
ana ] had the impression that | was
qylng .n O. paradise of uneXampled
beauty
1T seemed 20 me that ] had found
me most perfect death possible struck
"hen 40 the head Of my company, sabre
hand and ordering the charge
against the Germans. But then ] real
lled the poss biity there was that
might fall into their hands, and
sought my revolver. but before ! could
use II u was taken from me by one Of
my own men, and | was raised and car
Ied 20 the rear through a storm Of
Ile bullets and exploding shells.
under TODD then how well ! had
gained the confidence and love Of my
men, FOR though / ordered them TO
lsave me they would not obey my com
haads. In the evening ! received a
VISIT from the sergeant Of the company,
70 whom ! had turned over the com
Isnd He came 20 me in the ambu-
.ahee in which ] was about to be car
NED 10 The base hospital lie had pre-
pared little speech, but when he saw
me so pale be believed that was
oy'hg, and only asked permission to
,Aorace me- and as he did so | felt the
warm tears flowing down mis- face"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-22
Large Bodies of Troops
Kept in Big Cities to
Prevent Outbreak.
LOSS OF $75,O0O,OOO
STIRS UP JUNKERS
Banks Closed and People Left
Without Money or En-
ployment.

Amsterdam, Nov. 21.-Authentic par
ticulsrs regarding the general state Of
affairs in Germany have been obtained
here from an impartial and reliable
source. They show that the number Of
unemployed in the fstherland. without
counting those who have Joined tho
colors, are fully 100000. The result
is growing discomfort on all sides. The
people are sullen for the present, but
are likely to burst forth any time.
The authorities are taking no
chances, and despite the urgent need
Of men in the field they keep large
bodies of troops in reserve for emer-
gencies in all large cities, but espe-
clally In Cologne, where the situation
has once or twice assumed a threaten
ing aspect Only recently has tho
truth with regard to the war begun 10
u1ckle through. Notwithstanding the
precautions taken, Sfiss, Swedish and
Danish papers have been struggled into
the country, and the better classes, at
any rate, now know that not only is
Paris not besieged, but that 7either
Calais nor Havre run any danger, and
that II Is untrue that the Germans are
at Dion.
These revelations have had an up
setting influence and have convinced
the most optimistic that the Germans
will have hard fight to win. Things
had reached this state before the refu-
gees came pouring in from East Prus-
Sla. Their appearance caused positive
CONSERVATION. II Is estimated that the
German losses in Prussia by reason of
the Russian invasion already have
reached G15,000,000, most of which is
sustained by the iunkers, who are all
powerful there. This is likely TO have
considerable bearing on the future of
the war, for the junkers have a large
voice in the conduct Of affairs, and
their enthusiasm for war has dimin-
ished visibly since the Russians
started advancing in earnest.
There is no moratorium in Germany,
and the result is that the smaller
shopkeepers are completely ruined al
ready, chiefly owing 20 the wholesale
collapse of the smaller and purely To-
cal banks and the closing down of so
per cent of the provincial branches Of
all the large credit banks. No one
has any money because of this, while
credit has entirely disappeared. Those
who saw what was coming or who had
time TO save anything out of the
wreck sent all their money and securi-
ties 10 Switzerland-o that is, as
much as they dared, for through the
income tax returns the fiscal authori-
ties knew the exact standing Of every
body and used the information to ad-
vantage 70 force subscriptions exacted
for the national defence loan. For
this same operation every savings
bank, friendly society and such insti-
tutions were denuded Of every pfen-
mig Of their reserves, while, as al
ready known, private banking accounts
were raided 10 the same extent