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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-14
CHAPTER xvIII-contlnusd.

1T was a mamie was looking in
Mt the window" she returned In low
tones. Il thought saw him once be-
fore: but this time am certain!"
Griswold sprang from his chair. and
q moment later was letting himself out
noiselessly through the hall door.
There was nothing stirring on the
porch. He was still cropping among
the bushes. and Miss Farnham had
come to the front door, when the doc
tors buggy appeared under the street
lights and was halted at the home
hitching post.
Hello, Mr.. Griswold; is that your"
called the CHEEKY one, when he saw
q bareheaded man beating the covers
in his front yard.
Griswold met his host at the gate
and walked up the path with him.
Miss Charlotte thought she saw
someone at one Of the front windows"
he explained; and moment after
ward the daughter was telling 1t for
herself.
Il saw him twice." she insisted;
"once while we were at dinner, and
again just now. The first time ]
thought l might be mistaken. but this
time"
Griswold was laughing silently and
inwardly deriding his gifts when. un-
der cover of the doctors return, he
made decent acknowledgements for
benefits bestowed and took his de-
parture. On the pleasant summer
might walk to Upper Shawnee street
he was congratulating himself upon
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-14
Came Handy In His Line.

There is nothing like Sleep" re-
marked chance acquaintance to the
newspaper man as he sized up the
belated sleepers in New York sub
way car in the wee hours of the morn
ing. "All my life have done what
ever has been in my power to help the
cause of sleep in the human race.
Whenever | have heard that doctor
is counseling his patients to sleep
longer, have made a point of writing
him letter of congratulation. And
do not mind saying that / myself have
done a bit to persuade people that
sleep is the greatest blessing to man.
kind" THE perfect sleeper" OBJ
served the newspaper man, SIS he who
by rigid and constant practice has
brought his power of sleep to such a
stage that he does not awake even
when dynamite bomb is set off in his
ROOM" The chance acquaintance
leaned back in in his seat with rapt
expression, as if contemplating beau
.iful vision And what makes you
take such an interest in the slumbers
Of the human racer" was asked. Il
am burglar" he replied. But just
because one of my fellow men did not
reach the stage of soninolent perfec-
ton | had to. abandon my trade for
some years."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-14
CHAPTER Xxx.
Broken Links.

II was on the second day after the
pistol-buying incident in Simmons &
Kleifurt's that Broffin. wishful for soil
tude and chance to think in perspec-
tive, took to the woods.
A letter from the New Orleans Of
fee had reopened the account of the
Bayou State Security robbery. The
mail communication was significant
but inconclusive. One Patrick Shee-
han. st. Louis cab driver, dying, had
made confession to his priest. For a
bride of two hundred dollars he had
aided and abetted the escape of a
criminal ON day and date correspond
ing to the mid-April arrival of the
steamer Belle Julie at st. Louis. After
ward he had driven the man to an up
town hotel name not given). He could
not recall the mans name. But the
destination address, "Wahaska, Min
nesota," was submitted with the con-
fession.
Broffin felt, himself short-sighted
from the very nearness of things. The
single necessity now was for absolute
and unshakable Identification. To es-
tablish this, three witnesses. and three
only, could be called upon. OF the
three, two had failed signally-Miss
Farnham because she had her own
reasons for blocking the game. and
President Galbraith That was an
other chapter in the book of failure.
Brofin had learned that the president
was stopping at the De Soto Inn, and
he had Unanswered to bring Mr.. Gal
braith face to face with Griswold in
the Grierson bank on the day after the
pistol-buying. To his astonishment
and disgust the president had shaken
his head irritably. adding rebuke.
INA. ma. man; your trade makes We
over-suspicious. That's Mr.. Griswold,
the WATERMAN and a friend of the
Griersons. Miss Madge was telling
me about him last week. He's no more
like the robber than you are. Haven't
| told we the man was bearded like a
tykef"
With two of the three eye-witnesses
refusing to testify, there remained
only Johnson. the paying teller of the
Bayou State Security. Broffin was
considering the advisability Of wiring
for Johnson when he passed the last
OF the houses on the lakeside drive
and struck into the country road which
led by cool and shaded forest wind
ings to the resort hotel at the head OF
the southern bay. Presently a vehicle
overlook and passed him. 1t was Miss
Grierson's trap. drawn by the big Eng
lish trap-horse. with Miss Grierson her.
self holding the reins and Raymer
lounging comfortably in the spare
seat.
Half an hour later Broffin had fol.
lowed the huge footprints of the
great English trap-horse to the drive
way portal Of the De Soto grounds
where they were lost on the pebbled
carriage approach. Strolling on
through the grounds into the lake
fronting lobby of the inn. he went in
search Of Miss Grierson. He found
her on the broad veranda. alone. and
for the moment unoccupied. How to
make the attack so direct and so over
whelming that 1t could not be with
stood was the only remaining Ques-
ton; and Broffin had answered 1t to
his own satisfaction, and was advanc-
ing through an open French window
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Important Russian Industry.

q
The production of wood pitch and
tar is "a highly important industry of
the timber districts of Russia. A
large quantity of such substances is
not only used for home consumption
in Russia, but is also exported to for
eign markets. England alone takes
over 100000 barrels yearly of Russian
pitch and tar. In normal times pitch
is exported chiefly to England from
Archangel, where it is one Of the prin-
cipal articles of trade, while turpen-
tine has been shipped to Germany
from the Baltic ports and overland.
In recent years in western Russia, es-
pecially near the Vistula river, large
quantities of pitch and turpentine have
been distilled from the stumps left
after the clearance of woods, this hav-
ing been in great demand in Germany
on account of it's good quality and low
price. Up to the present time the OPP
Grating methods employed in this in
dustry have been, for the most part,
of primitive character. and carried
on in small establishments, where the
owner is at the same time workman
and salesman.
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SCORED HEAVILY ON PRINCE
Master of Situation, but Victory
Was a Costly One.

The greatest dandy and fop Of mod
ern times was George Brummell,
known as Beau Brummell. He lived
a life delicate and leisured, and since
he was poor his living depended upon
the favor of the court. The court
at that time was represented in the
set where the beau's influence was
felt by the prince of Wales, who was,
il truth must be told, not slender
man. 1t happened that the prince
and the beau quarreled.
To be a dandy is not generally con-
sidered the first mark of being a
brave man, but Beau Brummell gave
instant proof that he was not only a
great dandy but great man as well.
The details of the story are somewhat
vague, but the main facts are certain.
Brummell knew that his quarrel with
the prince would mean an end of his
prestige, but he refused to yield. and
on the day following the quarrel went
walking with a friend, said to have
been Sheridan.
The news of the rupture between
tue prince anu the dictator OF fashions
had spread, and there were not
few who gathered in the hopes of q
passage at arms between them.
1t happened that Sheridan and
Brummell met the prince and his
party. With princely ostentation the
royal parsonage called Sheridan aside
and spoke to him, pointedly ignoring
Brummell, who stood by. Brummell
did not finch in the crisis, he was
the only person who seemed to be in
different. Then Sheridan returned.
With gesture of indifference Brum-
NELL lifted his glasses to his eyes
and, indicating with slight wave of
his hand the person to whom he re-
ferred, he asked in clear but Ian
guild voice the famous question:
Sherry, who's your fat friend?"
Brummell spent the greater part
of the remainder of his life in Calais.
an outcast, broken man. But with
the memory of his great rebuke, 1t
can hardly be said that in the crisis
he was found wanting.
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Wireless Aids Surveyors.

The determination of longitude by
wireless telegraphy was a striking
feature Of the recently concluded ex-
ploration and ILLUMINATION of the Bo-
livia-Brazil boundary. carried out by
joint commission of the two coun-
tries, as described by Commander Ed
wards of the Brazilian party, in the
Geographical Journal. There is a
powerful wireless station at Port
velho about 1900 miles from the At
lantic ocean at the head of naviga-
ton on the Madeira river. The first
step was to determine the position Of
this place accurately. A party was
left here with instructions to send
wireless time signals every night at
specified time. The rest of the
expedition then began it's explorations
to the westward, carrying portable
wireless outfit which was set up each
night in time to receive the signal.
The longitude Of all camping places
were thus obtained with great accu-
racy. and were used to check the in
termediate traverses.
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underfoot, as he was always obliged to
do in these talks with her. II should
be discouraged II you didn't keep on
telling me that the story. as story,
Is good"
ut is good; 1t is big story" she
asserted, with kindling enthusiasm.
The plot. so far as you have gone
with 1t, is fine; and that is where you
leave me away behind. l don't see
how you could ever think IL out. And
the character drawing is fine, too,
some Of 1t. Your Fleming is as far
beyond me as your Fidelia seems to
be beyond you"
"You don't know Fleming yet. Have
you ever met Fidelia?" tsN9e
Not as you have drawn her-no.
She is too ,unutterably fine. If she
had single shred of humanity about
her, l should suspect you of meaning
to fall In love with her, farther along
to the humiliation and despair of poor
Joan, who, as you say, is mere daugh-
ter of men,"
But how about Joan?" he fretted.
is she out of drawing. too?"
Yes; you are distorting her The
other way-making her too inhumanly
worldly and insincere." Then, with an
abruptness that was like slap in the
face: IF you didn't spend so many
evenings at Doctor Bertie's, you would
get both Fidelia and Joan in better
drawing"
He flushed and drew himself up,
with stabbed amour propre prompting
him to make some singing retort con-
trasting the wells of truth with the
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Griswold looked and was reasonably
sure that he could make out the
shadowy figure of man leaning
against one of the trees.
"That is my shadow" she said, low
ering her voice; "Mr. Matthew Brof.
fin Of the Colburne Detective agency,
In New Orleans. He has foolish idea
that I am in communication with the
man he is searching for, and he was
brutal enough to tell me so. What he
expects to accomplish by keeping an
absurd watch upon our house and dog
ging everybody who comes and goes, I
can't imagine"
you have told your father?' said
Griswold, anxious to learn how far this
new alarm fire had spread.
Certainly; and he has made his pro-
test. But 1t doesn't do any good; the
man keeps on spying. as you see. But
we have wandered long way from
your book. I've been trying to prove
to you that am not fit to criticize It,"
No; you mustn't mistake me. !
haven't been coming to you for criti-
cism,"" was Griswold's rather incoher-
ent reply; and when the talk threat
ened to lapse into the commonplace,
he took his leave. Oddly enough, as he
thought, when he was unlatching the
gate and had shifted one of the newly
purchased automatic pistols from his
hip pocket to an outside pocket of the
light top-coat he was wearing, the
shadowy figure under the shading
trees had disappeared
II was only few minutes after the
lingering dinner guest had gone when
the doctor came out on the porch.
bringing his long-stemmed pipe for a
bedtime Whit In the open air.
"You are losing your beauty sleep,
little girl" he said, dropping into the
chair lately occupied by the guest. did
you find out anything more tonight?'
The daughter did not reply at once,
and when she did there was note of
freshly summoned hardihood In her
voice.
"We were both mistaken" she af.
firmed. Condolences are always
likely to be misleading. am sorry
told you about them. He has certain
ly been present help in time of need
to Edward"
AS before, the good little doctor had
recourse to his pipe. and it was not un-
til his daughter got up to go in that
he said gently: Zone other word. Char
lie. girl: are you altogether sure that
the wish isn't father to the thought
about Griswold?"
Don't be absurd. papa!" she said
scornfully. passing swiftly behind his
chair to reach the door; and with that
answer he was obliged to be content.
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brackish waters of sheer worldliness.
Then he saw how inadequate 1t would
be; how utterly impossible 1t was to
meet this charmingly vindictive young
person upon any grounds save those
of her own choosing.
THAT is the first really unkind
thing have ever heard you say" was
the mild reproach which was all that
the reactionary second thought would
sanction.
''Unkind to whom Ito you. or to
Miss Farnham?"
ASK yourself" he countered weak
ly, and she laughed at him.
Griswold did not reply to the laugh.
He was gathering up the scattered
pages Of his manuscript and replacing
them in order. When he spoke again
1t was of a matter entirely irrelevant.
II had an odd experience the other
evening"" he said. Il had been dining
with the Raymers and was walking
back to Shawnee street. A little news
boy named Johnnie Fergus turned up
from somewhere at one of the street
crossings and tried to sell me a pa
per-at eleven o'clock at night
bought one and joked him about being
out so late; and from that on couldn't
get rid Of him. He went all the way
home with me. talking blue streak
and acting as II he were afraid Of
something or somebody. l remem-
bered afterward that he is the boy who
takes care of your boat. Is there any
thing wrong with him?"
Miss Grierson had left her chair and
had gone to stand at one of the win
dows.
Nothing that know Of" she said
"He is bright boy-too bright for his
own good, I'm afraid. But / can ex-
plain-a little. Johnnie has taken a
violent fancy to you for some reason,
and he has fallen into the boyish habit
of weaving all sorts Of romances
around you. think he reads too many
exciting stories and tries to make you
the hero of them. He told me the
other day that he was sure somebody
was 'spotting' you"
Griswold looked up quickly. Miss
Grierson was still facing the window.
and he was glad that she had not seen
his nervous start.
"Spotting' mew he laughed. where
did he get that idea?"
"How should | know? But he had
made himself believe 1t; he even went
SO far as to describe the man. Oh, |
can assure you Johnnie has an imagi-
nation; I've tested it In other ways"
81 should think sol" said the man
who also had an imagination. and
shortly afterward he took his leave.
An hour later the same afternoon,
Brofin. from his post of observation on
the Winnebago porch. saw the writing
man cross the street and enter hard
ware shop. Having nothing better to
do. he, too, crossed the street and. in
passing, looked into the open door OF
Simmons & Kleifurt's. What he saw
brought him back at the end of re-
Elective stroll around the pablo square.
When he entered the shop the clerk
was putting a formidable array Of
weapons back into their showcase
inches. Broffin lounged up and began
to handle the pistols.
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directly behind Miss Grierson's chair
to put the answer into effect, when the
opportunity was snatched away. Ray
mer, his business apparently conclud.
ed, came down the veranda and took
the chair next to Miss Grierson's.
Broffin dropped back into the writ.
ing-room alcove for which the open
French window was the outlet and sat
down to bide his time.
Its a shame to make you wait this
way, Miss Madge. McMurtry said he
had an appointment with Mr.. Gal
braith for three o'clock, and he had to
go to keep it. But he ought to be
down again by this time. Don't wait
for me If you want to go back to town.
can get lift from somebody
THAT would be nice. wouldn't it?"
was the good-natured retort. ITO make
you tie up your own horse in town
and then leave you stranded away out
here three miles from nowhere! l
think see myself doing such thing!
Besides, haven't thing to do but
wait"
Broffin shifted the extinct cigar he
was chewing from one corner of his
mouth to the other and pulled his soft
hat lower over his eyes. He, too, could
wait. There was little stir on the
veranda; rustling of silk petticoats
and the click of small heels on the
hardwood floor. Broffin could not for.
bear the peering peep around the shell.
tering window draperies. Miss Grier-
son had left her seat and was pacing
slow march up and down. That she
had not seen him became a fact suffi-
ciently well-assured when she sat
down again and began to speak to
Griswold.
How Is the new partnership going,
by this timer" she asked, after the
manner of one who rewinnows the
chaff of the commonplaces in the hope
of finding grain enough for the immedi-
ate need.
$50 far as Griswold is concerned.
you wouldn't notice that there is a
partnership" laughed the IRON
founder. II can't make him galvanize
an atom Of interest in his investment.
All I can get out of him is, Don't
bother me; I'm busy"
"Mr. Griswold is in a class by him.
self, don't you think?" was the ques.
tioning comment.
"He is all kinds Of good fellow:
that's all l know, and all | ask to
know" answered Raymer Loyalty.
81 believe that-now," said his COM
panion, with the faintest possible en-
phasis upon the time-word.
Broffin marked the emphasis and
the pause that preceded 1t, and leaned
forward to miss no word.
Meaning that there was a time
when you didn't believe it," Raymer
asked.
Meaning that there was a time
when he had me scared half to death. "
confessed the one who seemed always
to say the confidential thing as II 1t
were the most trivial. do you remem.
Der one day in the library. when you
found me looking over the file of the
newspapers for the story of the rob.
berry of the Bayou State Security bank
in New Orleans?"
Raymer remembered it very WELL
and admitted 1t.
Yes; ! remember it all very clearly.
Also I recollect how the second news
paper notice told how the robber es-
capped from the officers at St. Louis.
But you haven't told me how you were
scared" Raymer suggested.
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from true time, for its employees
watches at 80 seconds a week. This
means that the balance wheel shall
not vary In its motion to the extent
Of one vibration out OF every 10000.
Taking into consideration the various
causes of disturbance to which a rail-
way engineers watch is subjected. the
jolts and jars, the changes Of tempera-
ture and the magnetic influence Incl
dental to the proximity Of large masses
Of iron and steel. this performance is
truly remarkable. That 1t is possible
to secure such accuracy IN such tiny
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Elopes While father prays.

While David Kennedy was on his
knees saying the evening prayer Miss
Josephine Kennedy, his daughter.
aged sixteen, aided by her mother,
eloped with Frank Stelltano of
Waynesburg to Cumberland, Nd.
where they we're married.
Closely watched by her father. who
objected to the marriage. the young
couple were frustrated in every at
tempt they made to leave the city.
The night previous the mother sue
ceeded in getting her daughters bag
gage to the railroad station and told
her to slip away at ten o'clock the
following evening when her father
was saying the family prayers pro-
paratory to going to -Scottdale
PA Dispatch to New York Sun.
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CHAPTER XIX.
Pitfalls.


Within a week from the day when
Raymer angrily jubilant. had rescued
his imperiled stock. 1t was pretty gen.
orally known that Kenneth Griswold,
the writing man. had become the
fourth member in the close corpora
ton of the Raymer Foundry and Ma.
chine works, and Wahaska was ca.
gerly discussing the business affair in
all its possible and probable bearings
upon the Raymers, the Griersons and
and the newly elected directory Of the
Pineboro railroad.
OF all this buzzing of the gossip bees
the person most acutely concerned
heard little or nothing. Digging deeply
in the Inspiration field, Griswold speed
lily became oblivious to most of his en-
compassments; to all of them, indeed.
save those which bore directly upon
the beloved task. Among these, he
counted the frequent afternoon visits
to Mereside, and the scarcely less fire.
quent evenings spent In the Farnham
home. He was using each of the
young women as a foil for the other
in the outworking of his plot; and he
welcomed 1t as sign of growth that
the story In its new form was acquir-
ing verisimilitude and becoming CRATE.
fully, and at times, he persuaded him
self. quite wildly. human.
When he got well into the swing Of
It and was turning out chapter every
three or four days. he fell easily into
the habit Of slipping the last install.
ment into his pocket when he went to
Mereside. Margery Grierson was add.
ing generously to his immense obliga.
ton to her; hoping only to find a
friendly listener, he found a helpful
collaboration. More than once, when
his own Imagination was at fault. she
was able to open new vistas In the
humanities for him, apparently draw.
ing upon reserve of intuitive con.
illusions compared with which his own
hard-bought store of experimental
knowledge was almost puerile.
Il wish you would tell me the secret
of your marvellous cleverness," he ex.
claimed, on one of the June afternoons
when he had been reading to her In
the cool half-shadows Of the Mereside
library. You are only a child In
years; how can you know with such
miraculous certainty what other
people would think and do under con.
ditions about which you can't possibly
know anything experimentally? It's
beyond mel"
There are many things beyond you
yet, dear boy; many. many things"
was her laughing rejoinder; from
which 1t will be inferred that the cpl
sode in the Farmers and Merchants
burglar-proof had become an episode
forgotten--or at least forgiven. you
know men-a little; but when it comes
to the women 4. well, II l didn't
keep continually nagging at you. your
two heroines-with neither of whom
you are really in love-would degen-
crate into rag dolls. They would, &C
tually"
That's true; l can see II clearly
enough when you point 1t out" he ad-
mitted putting his craftsman pride
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common in Austria-Hungary. and EN-
peror Franz Joseph is master of them
all. 1t is said that there are go vocab.
laries in Brazil In Mexico the Nahua
is spoken in 700 dialects. There are
hundreds In Borneo. while in Australia
there is no classifying the complexi-
ties. According to the latest stats.
tics, English is at present spoken by
130.000.000. German by 100000
Russian by 100000. French by 49,
100000. and Italian by 100000. and
II is constantly on the Increase owing
to the increase In commerce. in Spain.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-14

Der of battle honors is one that has
already been in the thick of the fight
ing in France. the Kings Royal Rife
corps. Already in the great war 1t
has acquired another Victoria Cross.
that OF Major DINNER Of the Second
battalion
In the Boer war the regiment car
ried of two " C.s. fourteen d S.
O.s. anc thirty-fve ID. C. Ms. 1t has
been through about forty battles. the
names OF the most important of which
appear on the cap badge.
The Kings Royal Rifle corps was