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just back from England. where his
ineXtinguishable good spirits and
bland cheek" found considerable IA
vor. The Saturday Reviews" critic,
in referring TO Mr. Hamilton and
THE Fortune Hunter" in which he
was playing. allowed that he found
American farce more agreeable than
English. We are sentimental, he
said, but less disgusting in our SEN
timentality than the English. Eng
lishmen are only sentimental after A
heavy meal Americans are senti-
mental before breakfast.
The charm Of Americans is that
they are still able 10 discover and to
enjoy things that were long ago eX-
hausted in Europe. Anybody. who
has heard an American quote from
Tennyson will know what / mean.
The intellectual world is still quite
new TO them. When they succeed in
anneXing for themselves new idea
or in experiencing new emotion
which we, OF course. have long since
explored and exhausted-we feel the
same pleasure in their achievement,
the same delight in their power to
take it seriously and to enjoy it. as
we feel in watching the progress of
a healthy baby
Mebbe so, mebbe so. It's nice TO
think ones young. at any rate
The Drama League Of America has
arranged an interesting programme
for the fourth annual convention to
be held in Philadelphia, April %. "a
and %. Mr.. Ames, Of the Little
Theatre; Mr.. Harrison Grey Fiske,
Miss Fola La Toilette, Mrs. Otis
Skinner and Professor Baker, or
Harvard. are among those who will
speak at the various sessions. Spe-
cjal performances are to be given and
the present day theatre discussed
from all sorts Of points of view.
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4 great many explanations might
ne given-among them the CONNER
cial spirit which dominates nearly
an those with whom an American
plav-vriter comes in contact in
launching his PLAY. the sheer stress
cf living in such a metallic Babel as
New York, q lingering Puritanism
which will not yet admit that the
theatre is quite ''genteel, that it is
10 be taken quite as seriously as
rho magazine or newspaper Office
or art" gallery. But there is
quite another side which may
not he ignored-the really dramatic
quality Of these sudden successes OF
the theatre. There is no more ro-
nance. surely, in strike IN the
klondike than comes into the bfe OF
some slave of the play-writing lamp
when he blossoms overnight from an
unknown literary hack into an
Olympian, living at the rate or his
twenty or twenty five thousand
wear The mere gamble OF the thing
must appeal TO many, 10 whom 1t no
doubt appears as II the gods them
d. selves rather than solid merit deter
mined a plays success. No play can
run solid year or more, as Peg o
nv Heart" has run. for instance.
without having solid merit Of some
tiand. But there is. on the other nand.
no divine justice nor relative merit
10 explain the fact that pleasant
little comedy like that Of Mr.. Hartley
Manners should make him fort
une. while fresh and intelligent
little farce like Miss Eleanor Gates's
eve Are Seven" should fade into
Thin air after two or three weeks.
While Mr.. Edward Peple's new
farce "A Pair of Skies" is fairly
obvious in it's fun and its humor has
little Of that quality which melts the
9spectator as well as stirs him to
laughter, it is well made Of its kind,
PLAYED with excellent speed and
spirit, and Mr. Peple deserves the
success which now appears TO be his.
Mr.. Peple is Virginian, and he
has been pegging away at play
writing for more than ten years. Be
lore that he served as an expert ac-
countant for the American Bridge
Company. His little comedy, The
Prince chap" with cyril Scott, en-
loved considerable success, as did
The Littlest Rebel" in which the
Farnum brothers appeared. in adj
dition TO these two plays, Mr.. PeDle
wrote "The Love Route, THE Spit
tire" "The Mallets Masterpiece"
THE Call Of the Cricket" and THE
Clairvoyant"
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Hale Hamilton. who plays the part
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the famous Ringstrasse. Motion pictures
will show the arrival Of Count Zeppelin
In the diTigible SachSen
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More than four million persons have wit
messed Il, and it is now being performed
in five countries Two organizations arc
performing IL IN the English provinces.
In the production which will be shown at
the Grand Opera House the title role will
be played alternately by Edna Porter
and Diana Strong; the Nobody IS Elmer
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ONE NEW PRODUCTION
Elaborate Revival Of Gilbert and Sullivans "Pinatore
Presented This Week at the Hippodrome with
a Promising Cast.
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE WEEK
a Promising Cast.

ON THURSDAY EVENING.
At III. Hippodome revival Gilbert suvsns "Pinafore
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49, Hale Hamilton, who plays the part
Of one Of the partners IN the digestive
pill BUSINESS in "A Pair of Skies" is
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SOUSA A LAMB STAR"

john Philip sousa, recently elected
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-30

only the present In which they knew that they
loved. With her he was happy, for he had no
time to plan over the future. Away from her
he saw the inevitable barriers providing
against the marriage between a poor young
man and a very rich young woman. man
who has any respect wants always to be on
equal terms with his wife, financially more
than in any other thing. It's the way this
peculiar organization called Society has writ
ten down it. rules Doubtless relic of the
stone age, when Alb went out with his club to
seek a wife and drag her by the hair to his
den, and there to care for her and to guard
her with his life's blood. 1t is one of the few
primitive sensations that remain to us, this
wanting the female dependent upon the male
Perhaps this accounts for mans lack of inter
est on the suffraget question.
Only Susan suspected the true state of at
fairs, being a woman. Having had no real
romance herself, she delighted in having sec
ond hand one, as you might say. She inter
cepted many a glance and pretended not to
see the stolen hand pressures. The wedding
was already full drawn in her minds eye.
These two young people should be married at
Susan Farlow's when the roses were climbing
up the sides Of the house and the young robins
were boldly trying their fuzzy wings. 1t
struck her as rather strange, but she could
not conjure up Cat this wedding) more than
two men besides the minister, the bridegroom,
and the butler.
BY forsaking his accustomed haunts under
the advice of Jones, the hidden warfare ceased
temporarily. You can't very well kill man
when you don't know where to find him. He
ate his breakfasts haphazardly, now here now
there. He received most of his assignments by
telephone and wrote his stories and articles in
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-30
CHAPTER VIII.
TEE wILEs or A WOMAN.

The WlLES OF A WOMAN.
FTER the affair of the auto bandits
IN three of whom were killed. lull fol-
\ lowed. II you're a sailor you know
what kind of lull l mean blue black
clouds down the southwest horizon, the water
crinkly, the booms wabbling Suddenly a series
of " accidents" began to happen to Norton.
At first he did not give the matter much
thought. The safe which fell almost at his
feet and crashed through the sidewalk merely
induced him to believe he was lucky At an
other time an automobile came furiously
around q corner while he was crossing the
street, and only amazing agility saved him
from bodily hurt. The car was out of sight
when be thought to recall the number.
! Then came the jolt In the subway. Only a
desperate grab by one of the guards saved him
from being crushed to death. Even then he
thought nothing. But when new box Of
cigarets arrived and he tried one and found it
strangely perfumed and, upon further anaIy-
sis, found it to contain Javanese narcotic, a
slow but sure death, he became wide awake
enough. They were after him. He began to
walk carefully, to keep in public places as
often as he possibly could.
He was not really afraid Of DEATH but he
did abhor the thought Of it's coming up from
behind. Except for the cigarets they were all
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should be interested in that OF her friend.
"a never saw that ring before"
"A gift of yesterday" The countess as
sumed shy air which would have deceived
st. Anthony. She twisted the ring on her
finger.
:" Tell mel" cried Florence. "You are en-
gaged?"
Mercy, nor
Is he rich2"
No. Money should not matter when your
heart is involved"
AS this thought was in accord with her
own, Florence nodded her head sagely.
1t is nothing serious. Just fancy I
shall never marry again. Men are gay de-
ceivers; they always have been and always
will be. Perhaps I'm bit wicked; but 1
rather like to prove my theory that all men
are weak. If had a daughter I'd rather
have her be an old mans darling than a
young mans drudge. 1 distrust every man 1
know. l came to ask you and Susan to go to
the opera with me tonight You will come to
my apartments first. You will Gomez"
ITO be sure we will"
"Simp1e little fool" thought the Russian
on the way home. "She shall see"
IT believe the countess Is engaged to be
married" said Florence to Jones.
Indeed, miss?"
Yes. couldn't get anything definite out
of her, but she had a beautiful ring on her
finger. She wants Susan and me to 60 to
the opera with her tonight VIII that be all
right?"
Jones gazed abstractedly at the rug When
ever a problem bothered him he seemed to find
the solution in the delicate patterns of the
Persian rugs Finally he nodded Il see no
reason why you should not co. Only, watch
out"
Jones, there is one thing that will make
me brave and happy. Will you tell me if you
are in direct communicates with my father?"
Yes, Miss Florence" he answered prompt
~. " Bat do not breathe this to single soul,
neither Susan nor Norton"
:" I promise that. But ali I hasten the day
when he can come to me without fear"
That is my wish also.
You need not call me miss Why should
your"
{" 1t might not be wise to have any one
hear me call you thus familiarity" be objected
gravely.
Please yourself about that. Now l must
telephone Jim" !,
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"You have thought of something's" she
asked.
You might try It," he said. "They have
accepted your friendship; whether with ulte-
rior purpose remains to be learned. She has
been to your apartments two or three times to
tea and always got home safely"
No." she said determinedly. Nothing
shall happen here. i will not take the risk"
Wait till I'm through. Break up the To-
nance in such a way that the girl will bar
Norton from the house. That's what we've
been aiming at to get rid of that meidling
reporter. We've tried poisons. Try your
kind"
What do you meanT
Lies"
"Ah! I understand. You want me to win
him away from her. 1t cannot be DONE
Pshaw! You have bag full of tricks.
You can easily manage to put him into an
equivocal position out of which he cannot pos
sibly squirm far as the girl is concerned.
A little melodrama, arranged for the benefit
of Florence. Fall into Norton's arms at the
right moment, or something like that
II suppose could. But If failed +. A"
You're too damnably clever to fail In your
own particular work Something has got to
be done to keep those two apart. I've often
thought of raiding the house boldly and carry
ing off the whole family, Susan and all. But
a wholesale affair like that would be too noisy.
Think it over, Olga we have gone too far to
back down now. There's always Russia and
while I'm the boss over here they never cease
to watch They'll make me answer for a
failure like this"
She eyed him speculatively. "You have
money"
90, the money doesn't matter. It's the
game. It's the game of playing fast and loose
with Society, of pilfering 1t with one hand and
making 1t kow-tow with the other. It's the
sport of the thing. What was your thought?"
1--WE could go away together. to South
America"
And tire of each other within a month";"
he retorted shrewdly. q" No; we are in the
same boat We could not live but for this
never ending excitement. And more than
that, we never could get far enough away
from the long of the First Ten. Wen
have to stick it out here. Can't you see?"
Yes, l can see."
But in her heart she knew that she could
have lived in hut with this man till the end
of her days. She abhorred the life, though she !
never, by the slightest word, let him become
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And what has become Of the man over the
wayT
By the Lord Harry" exclaimed Braine,
clapping his hands. at believe I've solved
that. We shot man coming out of Har-
greave's. Since then there's been no one
across the way. One and the same mani"
" But that knowledge doesn't get us any
where"
No. You say they are in love?'
Secretly. l don't believe the butler has
an inkling of it. 1t is possible. however, that
Susan has caught the trend of Affairs But,
being rather romantic, she will in no wise
interfere"
Braine smoked In silence. Presently smile
twisted his lips.
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accidents "" he could not have proved any
thing before jury of his intimate friends.
He never entered an elevator without scru-
pulous care. He never passed under coverings
over the sidewalks where construction was
going on. Still, careful as he was, death con-
fronted him once more. 1t was his habit to
have his coffee and rolls-he rarely ate any
thing more for his breakfast-set down out
side his door every morning. The coffee, being
in silver thermos bottle, kept its heat for
hours. When he took the stopper out and
poured forth a cup 1t looked oddly black, dis
colored. 1t is quite probable that had there
been no series of accidents he would have
drunk cup-and died in mortal agony. 1t
contained bichloride of mercury.
Very quietly he set about to make inquiries
This was really becoming serious. In the
kitchens downstairs nothing could be learned
The maid had set the thermos bottle before
the door at 10 80. Norton had opened the
door at l :30-three hours after. The outlook
was not the cheerfulest. He knew perfectly
well why all these things happened y: he had
interfered with the plans of the scoundrels who
were making every possible move to kidnap
Florence Hargreave.
One afternoon he paid Florence visit. OF
course he told her nothing. They had become
secretly engaged the day after he had rescued
her from the auto bandits. They were secretly
engaged because Florence wanted it So For
once Jones suspected nothing. Why should
he? He had troubles enough. AS matter of
fact, Norton was afraid of Jones. He was
afraid of him in the same sense as boy Is
afraid of policeman
But this day, when the time came, he
accosted the butler and drew him into the
pantry.
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LNEyER SAW THAT RINS BEFORE

Jones, they are after me now"
you? Explain"
Norton briefly recounted the deliberate at
tempts against his life.
You see, I'm not liar enough to saw that
I'm not worried. I am, devilishly worried.
l IN not worth any ransom. I'm in the way.
and they seem determined to put me out of it."
10 any other man l would say travel But
to you say when you leave your rooms don't
go where you first thought you would-that is.
some usual haunt. They'll be everywhere. near
your restaurants, your clubs, your Office
You're methodical young man become err
ratio Keep away from here for at least three
days, but always call me up by telephone some
time during the day. Never under anv cir
cumstance unless l send for you, come here at
night. Only one man now watches the house
during the day, but five are proving around
after dark. They might have instructions to
shoot you on sight. ] can't spare you just at
present Mr.. Norton. You've been goisend;
and if it seems that sometimes did not trust
you fully it was because did not care TO drag
you in too deep
Deep? Norton thought OF Florence and
smiled inwardly. Could anybody be in deeper
than he was? Once it was on the tin of his
tongue to confess his love for Florence. but
the gravity of Jones' countenance was an OBJ
stacle to such move; 1t did not invite it.
To be sure, Jones had no real authority to
say what Florence should or should not do
with her heart. Still, from all points of view.
it was better to keep the affair under the rose
till there came a more propitious hour in
which to make the disclosure.
Love, in the midst of all these alarmsi
sharp, desperate rogues on one side, millions
on the other, and yet love could enter the
scene serenely, like an actor who had missed
his cue and came on too soon.
Oddly enough, there was no real lovemakinr
such as you often read about A pressure of
the hand, glance from the eye. there was
seldom anything more. Only once-that MEM
orable day on the river road-had he kissed
her. No word Of love had been spoken ON
either side. In that wild moment all conyen-
tionalities had disappeared like smoke in the
wind. There had been neither past nor future.
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aware OF it. There was always that abiding
fear that at the first sign of weakness he
would desert her. And she was wise In her
deductions Braine was loyal to her because
she held his interest. Once that failed. b.
would be off and away.
Inc next afternoon the countess, having
matured her plans against the happiness of
the young girl who trusted her, drew up be-
fore the Hargreave place and alighted. Her
welcome was the same as ever, and this
strengthened her confidence
The countess was always gesticulating. Her
hands futtered to emphasize her words. And
the beautiful diamond solitaire caught the
girls eye. She seized the hand Having an
affair of her own, it was natural that she
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his club, In the writing rooms Of hotels and
invariably dispatched them to the office by
messenger. The managing editor wanted to
know what all this meant but Norton de-
clined to tell him.
1t irked him to be forced to rearrange his
daily life-his habits 1t was a revolution
against his ease, for he loved ease when be
was not at work He had the sensation of
having been suddenly robbed of his home, of
having been cast out into the streets. And on
top of all this he had to go and fall in love!
There was no longer a shadow opposite the
apartments of the Princess Perigof. Braine
came and went nightly without discovering
any one This rather worried him 1t gave
him the impression that the shadow had found
out what he had been seeking and no longer
needed to watch the coming and going of
either himself the Countess Perigoff
Olga, 1t looks as il we were at the end of
our rope" he said discouragedly ave have
failed in all attempts so far. The devil watches
over that girl"
Or God" replied the countess gloomily.
In nearly every instance their success has
been due to chance. Somehow I'm convinced
Hargreave escape quietly, followed him, and
made him fast when the right opportunity
came. After month or so his vigilance would
have relaxed; he would have arrived at the
belief that he had eluded u.s.
Indeed !" ironically. He wasn't vigilant
all these years in which he did elude us. How
about the child he never sought but guarded?
Vigilance! He never was anything else all
these seventeen years. The truth is, success
has developed coarseness in our methods.
And now 1t is too late for fnesse We have
tried every device we can think Of and there
they are-the girl free Norton unharmed, and
the father as secure In his retreat as though
he wore an invisible cloak. My head aches
l have ceased to be inventive
" The two are in love with each other
Are you sure of that?"
" have my eyes. But begin to wonder"
"About whati"
Whether or not Jones suspects me aud Is
giving me rope to hang myself with. Not once
have the police been called in and told what
has really happened. They are totally at sea-
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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.
CONDITIONS GOVERNING THE
CONTEST.

Stanley Hargreave, millionaire, after n
miraculous escape from the den of the
gang of brilliant thieves known rs the
Black Hundred, lives the life of a recluse
for eighteen years. HnrgreaVe accI-
dentaIly meets Braine, leader of the
Black Hundred. Knowing Braine will
try to get him he escapes from his own
home by n balloon. Before escaping he
writes letter TO the girls school,
where eighteen years before he mysteri.
Ousiy left on the doorstep his baby
daughter, Florence Gray. Tint day
Hargreave also draws one million dol
lars from the bank, but 1t Is reported
that this dropped into the sea, when the
balloon he escaped in was puncturcd.
Florence arrives from the girls school.
Countess olga. Brnine's companion, Wis
Its her and claims to be a relative. Two
bogus detectives call, but their plot fs
foiied by Norton, n newspaper man.
By bribing the captain of the Orient
Norton lays a trap for Braine and his
gang. Countess Olga also visits the ORR
ents captain and she easily falls into the
reporters snare. The plan proves abor-
tive through Braine's good luck, and
only hireiings fall into the hands OF the
police.
After falling in their first attempt the
Black Hundred trip Florence. They ask
her for money, but she escapes, again
foiling them.
Norton and the countess call on Flor
ence the next day, once more safe at
home. The visitors having gone. Jones
removes section of flooring, and from
a cavity takes n box. Pursued by mem
hers of the Black Hundred, he rushes to
the water front and succeeds in dropping
the box into the sea.
Braine conceives the idea of giving "A
coaching party, to which Florence Is in
vfted. Jones and Norton both go along
and are fortunately hand to save
Florence from being Imprisoned In the
country house to which she is Iured.
Florence goes horseback riding and is
captured by one of Braine's men along
the roadside. Norton rescues her. They
are pursued, however, and the pair make
their complete escape only after Norton
has exploded a tire the fast approach
ting machine with n bullet.