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The green gave a much better effect
Of moonlight on the foor.
She called herself back out Of the
mists of her previous thought Who
was this Gail, and what waS she?
There had come a new need In her, a
new awakening. Something seemed
to have changed In her, to have crys-
tallized. Whatever this capitalization
was, 1t had made her know that mar
riage was not to be looked upon as q
mere inevitable social episode. Her
thoughts few back to Aunt Helen.
Her eyelashes brushed her cheeks,
and the little smile of sarcasm
twitched the corners Of her lips.
Aunt Helen's list of eligibles. Gail
reviewed them now deliberately; not
with the thought of the social advan-
tages they might offer her. but as men.
She reviewed others whom she had
met. For the first time in her life,
she was frankly and self-consciously
inte? ested in men; curious about
them. She had reached her third stage
of development; the fairy prince age.
the Il suppose shall have to be mar
ried one day" age, and now the age
of conscious awakening. She won
dered, in some perplexity, as to what
had brought about her nasence; rath-
er, and she knitted her pretty brows.
who had brought it about?
The library clock chimed the hour.
and startled her out of her reverie.
She turned on the lights. and sat in
front of her mirror to give her hair
one of those extra brushings for which
1t was SO grateful and which it repaid
with so much beauty. She paused de
liberately to study herself in the glass.
Why, this was a new Gail, more po-
tent Gail What was 1t Allison had
said about her potentialities? Allison.
Strong, forceful, aggressive Allison.
He was potence itself. A thrill of
his handclasp clung with her yet, and
slight flush crept into her cheeks.
Aunt Grace had worried about Jim's
little cold, and the distant mouse she
thought she heard, and the silver
chest, and Lucile's dangerous-looking
new horse, until all these topics had
failed, when she detected the unmis-
taxable click Of a switch button near
by. 1t must be in Calls suite. Hadn't
the child retired yet? She lay quite
still pondering that mighty question
for ten minutes, and then, unable to
rest any longer, she slipped out of bed
and across the hall. There was no
light coming from under the doors of
either the boudoir or the bedroom, so
Aunt Grace peeped into the latter
apartment, then she tiptoed softly
away. Gail, in her cascade of pink
flufferies, was at the north window
kneeling, with her earnest face up
turned to one bright, pale star.
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twenty-five miles; fairly level
grade, and one bridge"
Couldn't think Of It," decided Will
cox, looking at the map. WED like
to have your freight, for there's a lot
of traffic between Silverknob and Mug
get City, but it's not our territory. The
smelters are at Silverknob, and they
ship east over the White Range line.
Anyway, why do you want to take
away the haulage from your northern
branch?"
Figure on disseminating it. The
grades are steep, the local traffic is
light, and the roadbed is in a rotten
condition. 1t needs rebuilding through
out. I'll make you another proposi-
ton. I'll build the line from Pines to
Nugget City myself, If you'll give us
track connection at Copperville and at
Pines, and will give us a traffic con-
tract for our rolling stock on rea-
sonable basis"
Again Wilcox looked at the map.
The Silverknob and Nugget City road
began nowhere and ran nowhere, so
far as the larger transportation world
was concerned, and it could never fig
ure as a competitor. The hundred
miles through the precious natural
pass known as the Yando chasm was
not so busy a stretch of road as 1t
was important, and the revenue from
the passage of the Silverknob and
Nugget City's trains would deduct
considerably from the expense of
maintaining that much-prized key to
the golden West:
"I'll take 1t up with Priestly and
Gorman," promised Wilcox.
How soon can you let me know?"
Monday"
That afternoon saw Allison headed
back for New York, and the next
morning he popped into the Offices OF
the Pacific Slope and Puget Sound.
where he secured a rental privilege to
run the trains Of the Orange Valley
road into San Francisco, and down to
Los Angeles, over the tracks Of the
P. 8. and P. s. The Orange Valley
was little, blind pocket of a road
which made juncture with the P. s.
and P. S. just a short haul above San
Francisco, and it ran up into a rich
fruit country, but its terminus was far
far away from any possible connection
with northwestern competitor, and
that bargain was easy.
That night Allison, glowing with an
exultation which erased his fatigue
dressed to call on Gail Sargent.
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OLD AS THE ETERNAL HILLS
r. z. Morse, the Outlaw, Lurked In
shadewae'n Garden Of Eden, and
is Still With Us.

II Adam were still alive he would be
about the same age as R. E. Morse
Adam met him after he was banished
from the garden of Eden. Eve also
knew hima after she ate the forbid
den fruit. Pharaoh must have been
well acquainted with him, as he met
him repeatedly. He was with Joseph's
brethren a long time after they sold
Joseph into Egypt. Saul. David, Solo
mon and all the kings of old knew him
we'll. And in the New Testament we
find men who also know him. Judas.
who betrayed the Lord and afterward
killed himself; Peter. who denied his
Master, and so on all the way through
the Bible and up to the present time.
We all know him or have met him.
Could We by any power annihilate
r. q. Morse, how happy we should
make the worldl But no one cares to
profit by the experience Of others. and
therefore all n st learn by the one
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TO APPEAL OYSTER CASES.
States Attorney Tuil Acts Under d.
rection OF Atterney-General Poe.

Princess Anne. - States attorney
Gordon Tull, Of this county, filed in
court an order for an appeal to the
Court of Appeals in each Of the 3S
cases involving the condemnation OF
oyster planting ground situated with
in the waters of Somerset county and
the assessment of damages to the
lessees of each lot under the provisions
of the Shepherd bill. The damages as
sessed by a jury against the State
amounted to $257,975.
The filing of the orders for an appeal
has caused surprise and speculation in
this county, and no one seems to be
able to say on what ground the action
is to be taken. States Attorney Tull
states that he was directed by AttOr-
ney-General Poe to file the orders, and
that he knows nothing more about the
matter.
During the trials no demurrer was
filed to the pleading and no exceptions
taken to the testimony or the prayers
granted by the court in any of the
cases. Several attorneys have ex-
pressed the opinion that as no excep-
tions were noted there are no grounds
upon which an appeal could be asked.
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of his own. Immediately after, in the
directors meeting. he elected himself
president, and, kindly consenting to
talk with the reporters of the Denver
newspapers, hurried back to Chicago,
where he drove directly to the head
Offices OF the Inland Pacific.
i've just secured control of the Sill
verknob and Nugget City," he in
formed the general manager of the In
land.
so noticed" returned Wilcox,
who was a young man of fifty and
wore picturesque velvet hats. "The
papers here made quite sensation
of your going into railroading."
They're welcome" grinned Allison.
Say Wilcox, If you'll build a, branch
from Pines to Nugget City, we'll give
you our Nugget City freight where we
cross, at Copperville, east of the
range"
Wilcox headed for the map.
"what's the distance?" he inquired
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CHAPTER V-contlnued.

He allowed himself four hours for
sleep that night, and the next after
noon headed for Denver. On the way
he studied maps again, but the one to
which he paid most attention was a
new one drawn by himself, on which
the various ranges of the Rocky Noun
tains were represented by scrawled,
lead-penciled spirals. Right where his
thin line crossed these spirals at
converging point, was Yando chasm,
a pass created by nature, which was
the proud possession of the Inland Pa
cific, now the most prosperous and di.
rect of all the Pacific systems; and
the Inland, with an insolent pride in
the natural fortune which had been
found for 1t by the cleverest of all
engineers, guarded its precious right
OF way as no jewel was ever protect.
ed. Just east of Yando chasm there
crossed a little "one-horse" railroad.
which, starting at the important city
Of Silverknob, served some good min
ing towns. below the Inland's line, and
on the north side curved up and
around through the mountains, ram
bling wherever there was freight or
passengers to be carried, and ending
on the other side of the range at Mug
get City. only twenty miles north Of
the Inland's main line, and hundred
miles west, into the fair country which
sloped down to the Pacific. This road.
which had Its headquarters in Denver
was called the Silverknob and Nugget
City; and into its meeting walked AL
hson, with control.
His course here was different from
that in Jersey City. He ousted every
director on the board, and elected men
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STATE
STORY Of SAL ROADS roLO.
H. G. Shirley Explains Work Before
Engineers Club.

ENGINEERS Oiups
The story of the construction and
opening of State highways was told
before the Engineers Club by n. g.
Shirley, chief engineer of the State
Roads Commission, at the clubs head
quarters in the Arundel Club Build
ing, Baltimore. For more than an hour
the leading civil engineers of the city
listened while the difficulties of con-
struction were related and the solving
of engineering problems explained.
Mr.. Shirley had before him a large
map Of the State roads and he told
how the whole State was covered. The
cost to date, he said, had been $751;
770, 900. about 100000 of this being
spent in Baltimore city. The engineers
were taken along the main highways
from Oakland on the west to Belair on
the east, and then down the Eastern
and Western Shores. Much interest
was aroused when Mr.. Shirley told of
the battle with muskrats near Church
Creek.
The road builders would finish q
stretch of road and few days later
the muskrats would burrow through
from swamp to swamp and teams were
almost engulfed when the roadbed
sank. The plan was hit upon finally
of building roadways of pipe down
under the road for the muskrats.
The object in view in the construc-
tion of the State roads, he said, was
to connect the county seats of the
whole State with Baltimore, and he
declared this had been accomplished.
o. E. Weller, chairman of the StaIe
Roads Commission, was scheduled to
speak, but sent word that he was worn
out by the campaign Just closed.
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teacher whose lesson is bitter in the
Homer's alrthpIaee

Chios is the most probable birth.
place Of Homer, and shows the blind
bard's cradle, school, house and tomb
Near the poets alleged school," says
the Pail Mall Gazette, is a little wine
shop bearing across the front the
coaxing saying of Hecuba to Hector.
Wine doth vastly increase the
strength of a weary man" Although
almost exterminated by the terrible
massacre of 1922. the people OF Chios
are the most prosperous in the Levant
Nearly all leading Greek bankers and
merchants hail from this island and
the families Of Ralli and RodocanachI
are Of Chiot origin.
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William E. Cox. of fredericksburg.
who is an extensive grower of and
dealer in sweet potatoes. has awarded
prizes amounting to $45 in gold for
the three best deliveries of 200 or
more baskets made to him during the
season. The first prize of 500 was
won by G. w. Phillips. The second
Of SIS was won jointly by N. F. Mills
and G. w. Williams, the third prize
Of $40 being divided between j. A..
Nichols and A. j. Handy, who tied for
third place. Mr.. Cox has handled
10000 baskets of sweet potatoes thia
season.
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rha rronhla MIth An.

Men are without great dreams in
these days, and art is elaborate and
fussy and self-conscious. The techni-
cal part OF the work is predominant.
One sees the artist holding up a mir.
ror to himself as he works. Pygmalion
congratulatea the statue upon the fact
that he carved It, instead of being
lost In the love Of creating 1t is as
though lover should sing of himself
instead Of singing of his lady. The
subtle poison Of self-advertisement has
crept in and peers like a satyr from
the picture and from the Statua
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Making a Rug sAntluue." !"

How genuine antique rugs" are
manufactured and prepared for Euro.
pean and American markets is told
by a writer in the National Geographic
Magazine. who visited Bagdad.
The shopping streets seem like tun.
nels. he writes. They are arched over
head With brick keep out the heat;
thus they run, Ike Subways. ~ and
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SYNOPSIS.

Square church Gail Sargent listens to
discussion about the sale of the church
tenements to Edward E. Allison, local
traction king, and when aske her opin-
ion of the church by Rev. Smith Boyd.
says 1t is apparently lucrative business
enterprise. Allison takes Gail riding in
his motor car. When he suggests he ls
entitled to rest on the laurels of his
achievements, she asks the disturbing
question: "Why?" Gail, returning to her
Uncle Jim's home from her drive with AL
iison, finds cold dlsapproval in the eyes
At bobsled party Gall finds the world
uncomfortably full of men, and Allison
tells Jim Sargent that his new ambition
10 TO conquer the world. Allison starts a
campaign for consolidation and control of
the entire transportation system of the
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She Sat With Her Brown Hair Rip
pIIng Around Her Shoulders.

cellent matrimonial material Of which
traordinary talents and beauty, my ad-
vice is just to the contrary. You
should delay until you have had a
wider opportunity for judgment. You
have not as yet shown any marked
preference, hope"
Calls quite unreasoning impulse
was to giggle, but she clothed her
voice demurely.
mo, Aunt Helen"
you are remarkably wise," compIi-
mented Aunt Helen, bit of apprecia-
tion which quite checked Calls i'm
pulse to giggle. "In the meantime, It
is just as well to study your opportu-
mites. OF course there's Dick Rodley,
whom no one considers seriously, and
Willis Cunningham, whose one and
only drawback is such questionable
health that he might persistently in
terfere with your social activities.
Houston Van Ploon, l am frank to say.
is the most eligible of all, and to have
attracted his attention is a distinct tri-
umph. Mr.. Allison, while rather ad-
vanced in years"
"Pleasel" cried Gail. you'd think
l was a horse"
81 know just how you feel" stated
Aunt Helen, entirely unruffied; "but
you have your future to consider, and
wish to invite your confidence" and
in her voice there was the quaver of
much concern.
"Thank you, Aunt Helen" said Gail.
realizing the sincerity of the older
woman's intentions, and, putting her
arms around Mrs. Davies neck, she
kissed her. 1T is dear of you to take
so much interest"
81 think it's PRIDE" confessed Mrs.
Davies naively. 81 won't keep you up
a minute longer. Gail. Go to bed, and
get all the sleep you can. Only sleep
will keep those roses in your cheeks.
Goodnight" and with parting caress
she went to her own room, with
sense of duty well performed.
Gail smiled retrospectively, and
tried the blue light under the canopy
lamp, but turned 1t out Immediately.
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Farmers in the neighborhood of Cal
vert and Zion, Cecil county, have
formed the Ninth District Farmers
Club. C. w. Mckinney has been elect
ed president, and Mrs. Howard Brown
secretary.
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he wrote, ito laugh at serious things +"
1t is often our habit-especially in mu.
sical comedies-to laugh at serious
things
But. according to Dumas. the only
right attitude is to laugh at things
which are not serious. and which
make no pretension of being serious.
When we are face to face with a
grave social danger it is a very Gu.
rious sort of wisdom which dismisses
such subjects with a laugh.
There is, of course. touch of ped.
antry in an observation like this,
and there was certainly a good deal
of pedantry In Dumas didactic at.
titude. Nevertheless. there is solid
truth beneath, which is very applica.
BILE to our modern audiences.
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CHAPTER VII.
stIn PleeIna Out the World.

The map of the United States in
Edward e. Allison's library began,
now, to develop little streaks, but they
were boldly marked, and they Rugged,
with extraordinary closeness, the pen
Gil mark which Allison had drawn
from New York to Chicago and from
Chicago to San Francisco. There
we're long gaps between them, but
these did not seem to worry him very
much. It was the little stretches.
sometimes scarcely over an inch.
which he drew with such evident
pleasure from day to day, and now.
occasionally, as he passed in and out,
he stopped by the big globe and gave
1t contemplative whirl. On the day
he Joined his far western group of
little marks by bridging three small
gaps, he received a caller in the per-
son Of short, well-dressed old man.
who walked with cane and looked
half asleep, by reason of the many
puffs which had piled up under his
eyes and nearly closed them.
"I'm ready to wind up, Tim," re-
marked Allison, offering his caller q
cigar, and lighting one himself. when
can we have that Vedder Court prop
erty condemned?"
Whenever you give the word" re-
ported Tim German, who spoke with
an asthmatic voice. and with the quiet
dignity of man who had borne grave
business responsibilities, and had
borne them well.
Allison nodded his head in satisfac.
tion.
You're sure there can't be any hitch
In it?"
mot If say it's all right" and the
words were Tins only reproof. His
tone was perfectly level, and there was
no CLINT in his eyes. Offended dignity
had nothing to do with business. "Give
me one weeks notice, and the We'd
der Court property will be condemned
for the city terminal of the Municipal
Transportation company. Appraise-
ment, thirty-one million"
Il only wanted to be reassured,"
apologized Allison. 81 took your word
that you could swing it when made
my own gamble, but now l have to
drag other people into it,"
That's right" agreed Tim. 81
never get offended over straight busi-
ness" In other times Tim German
would have said get sore" but, as he
neared the end of his years of useful
activity, he was making quite a spe-
cialty of refinement, and stocking a
picture gallery, and becoming a con-
noisseur collector of rare old Jewels
He dressed three times a day
(TO BE CoNTINUED1
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maryland news
IN SHORT ORDER
Latest DOings in Various Parts
of the State.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

The 29S-acre Derrickson farm on
Bohemian Manor, one of the finest
farms in Cecil county, has been pur-
chased by Holden S. Ireland and Geo.
w. Ireland.
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PRESENT INDIAN PAGEANT.
Rockville High School Folks Give
Novel Entertainment.

Rockville. = The Indian pageant
Powhatan was presented in Seco Hall
here by the teachers and pupils of
the Rockville High School, assisted by
a number of others, about 100 being in
the cast. The production was enjoyed
by a very large gathering. The lead
ing parts were taken by Misses Estelle
Ricketts,, Elizabeth Prescott, Faith
White, Edith Lamar. Helen Fisher.
Rose Dawson, Elizabeth Defendorf and
Mary Dawson and Messrs. Charles G.
Myers, w. f. Pumphrey. Arthur B.
Mcfarland, Theodore Ricketts,. viii.
liam L. Hawthorne, R. L. Watkins and
William A. Baker.
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down the bazaar quarter Through
those long, sitting, faintly-lighted tun,
nels throngs the eternal crowd of men.
mules and camels.
Often you will see a fine rug lying
nat in the filth OF a narrow street.
ground beneath the tramp OF men and
beasts; but there is method in this.
Foreigners make Oriental rugs. bright
and new. in Persia, and sell them
through Bagdad. Since an "old rug
is worth more, willy brokers have hit
on this shameful way to make a new
rug look old.
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Dewitt Hart, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John T. Hart, of Riverdale, member
of the sophomore class of the Mary
land Agricultural College, was killed
by an express train at the Riverdale
station in full view of his mother.
Young Hart and his mother were wait.
ing at the station for local train to
pass. Just as 1t pulled away, the boy,
who was 1s years old. dashed around
the rear, directly in front of the ex
press, whose approach had been hid
den by the local. Heswas struck and
hurled to the side Of the track and
his skull fractured.
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The corn exhibit at Elkton Fair by
members Of the different boys corn
clubs in Cecil county is to be sent to
Baltimore for exhibition in the Fifth
Regiment Armory during Maryland
Week, November 16 to 20.
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CHAPTER VI.
Had They spolIed Her2

Music resounded in the parlors of
Jim Sargent's house; music so sweet
and compelling in its harmony that
Aunt Grace slipped to the head of the
stairs to listen in mingled ecstasy and
pride. Up through the hallway floated
a clear, mellow soprano and a rich,
deep baritone, blended so perfectly
that they seemed twin tones. Aunt
Grace, drawn by a fascination she
could not resist, crept down to where
she could see the source of the mel.
ody. Gail, exceptionally pretty to-
night in her simple dove-colored gown
with its one pink rose, sat at the
piano, while towering above her, with
his chest expanded and look of per.
feet peace on his face, stood Rev.
Smith Boyd.
Enraptured, Aunt Grace stood and
listened until the close of the ballad.
Leafing through her music for the next
treat, Gail looked up at the young doc.
tor, and made some smiling remark.
Her shining brown hair, waving about
her forehead, was caught up in a
simple knot at the back, and the deli
cate color of her cheeks was like the
fresh glow of dawn. Rev. Smith Boyd
bent slightly to answer, and he. too.
smiled as he spoke; but as he hap
pened to find himself gazing deep into
the brown eyes of Gail, the smile be-
Gan to fade. and Aunt Grace Sargent,
scared, ran back up the stairs and into
her own room, where she took a book,
and held 1t in her lap, upside down.
The remark which Gail had made was
this:
''You should have used your voice
professionally"
The reply of the rector was:
81 do"
Il didn't mean oratorically." she
laughed, then returned nervously to
her search for the next selection. She
had seen that change in the smile. "It
is SO rare to find a perfect speaking
voice coupled with a perfect singing
voice." she ratified on. Here's that
simple little May Song Just har-
mony, that's ALL"
Once more their voices rose in that
"NSNrS~r>~1-0-s~@sNs~N~
teacher, whose lesson is bitter in the
extreme.
Experience! II our conscience were
not hardened. and we would listen to
its dictates oftener. we might become
less familiar with R. e. Morse. Look.
ing back is the time we see him. R e
Morse is always right there behind
US. If he would only come out into the
open. SO we could see him as he is.
we might avoid his acquaintance-the
outlaw. Remorse.-Christian Herald.
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Frank DearnbeYger was found dead
in the carriage shop of Sharar Bros,
Hagerstown. Death is supposed to
have been due to heart trouble. Dearn-
berger was fully dressed when found
and evidently had gone into the shop
to sleep.
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NEGRO ACCUSED OF MURDER.
William Ross Charged With Killing
Another colored Man.

Rockville.-As a result of an investi.
cation into the murder of John Nash,
colored, who was attacked as he was
walking along a path in a woods near
Takoma Park. Sheriff Peyton Whalen
swore out warrant charging William
H. Ross, colored, whose home is near
Takoma, with murder.
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Ross Hall was injured and a horse
Of Milton w. Race, Frostburg, was kill
ed when an automobile driven by
Morris Dantzic struck the animal upon
which Hall was riding at Narrows
Park. Dantzic says the horse turned
out into the road as he was passing.