The evening world., 1914-11-12

the English Gdeshowa Forbes was
firing Of the French. The wounds
Persis had inflicted ON his heart and
his pride were still fresh and bleed
ing. The fever had not left him. At
the thought of her. or the sight OF
papers. or her portrait In the illus
trated papers. the scarlet shame OF his
defeat still ran acros his brow. still
the hunger for her grtppsd him. re-
gret sickened him.
Senator TAFT had not enjoyed the
progress Of his conspiracy. For sec
rotary he had taken Stowe Webb.
Hamlet with . heart draped In black.
For military attache he had brought
Forbes, whose thoughts flew back
ward to the past instead OF scouting
ahead. For acting ambassadress he
had brought . daughter who, though
torn away from her New York char
tics. found new miseries to engage
she had sought distress-in the stoke
hold. In the steerags. In the second
cabin. Instead OF holding hands In
moonlit hooks and funnel-corners. she
was taking up purses, sterilixinY milk
for sick babies. and selling tickets
for a benefit concert.
Forbes admired Mildred profoundly.
but he preferred his own sorrows to
the woes she discovered In other peo-
pie. Mildred liked Forbes immensely.
In q motherly. elder-sisterly. trained
them there was no visible trace.
TAFT grew fonder and fohder OF
Forbes as q son. but he could not con-
trive him a. Q son.iu law. The
mating OF human hearts, he found,
was q task beyond diplomacy or
politics. lie wondered II he would
have more success In promoting af-
fection between America and France.
the two republics that made each
other possible. He wished that he had
never undertaken any OF his tasks
to take over the embassy on the 9Th
of July. Hardly more than o week
remained OF his freedom, and that
week was the big week Of tho year
the grande semaine.
He did not know that other dangers
lurked In ambush ahead OF himself.
Mrs. Men, ignorant OF Stowe Webb's
once, had come straight TO Paris
from the Imperator. bound to expose
Alice again to the Senator's inspec-
ton. Moro dangerous yet was Wini-
fred Mather. TAFT had been warned
Of Mrs. Mem. but not OF Winifred.
Winifred had . widowed sister In
Paris. Mrs. Mather Edgecumbe. With
her AZ complotter and under her
aegis Winifrod attacked Senator TAFT
In campaign 90 skilfully arranged
under so many disguises that TAFT
was left hardly a minute to himself.
All his invitations included Forbes
and Mildred and young Stowe Webb.
At one OF them, a night fete In
Mrs. Mather Edgecumbe's house In
the Rue de Monceau. with musicians
In Persian costume playing In the
garden under the illuminated trees,
Mrs. Mem and Alice were ipcluded
unbeknown to Winifred. She was
aghast ut the tactical mistake, and
she was curt enough when Alice,
Fastening as usual In one direction
and looking In another. ran into her
"Oh. It's you. Alice. How are you
! didn't know you were In Paris. Fol-
lowed the Senator over. ! suppose
your"
where's your mother?"
Shes probably looking for me.
hope she doesn't ind me. Have you
seen Slower"
"somewhere." said w,nifred. with
. perceptible thaw. Does your
mother know he's here?"
III she did, should be here" Alice
giSgled. and laughter dubbed from
Winifred. too. II continued with In.
crease as Alice went on: 1.-THE SEN
ator ana have come to a perfect un-
derstAnding. He knows ! don't love
him. and that I DO love Stowe. He
gave Stowe his Job a. . starter to
got me with. Yes. he aid! Ny awful
mother. OF course. 10 Away: conspir.
me. SENDS W driving and Louvrs-inl
together. Well, that angel man. thI
senator, Just waits tin namma Il
safely cut % slght, thea 10 potliei