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CHAPTER XIX.
Night.

Nl9nt.
A quicker breeze was stirring as
John Valiant went back along the Red
Road. He had waited in the garden
at Rosewood till Shirley. aided by
Emmaline and with Ranston's anxious
face lowering in the background. hav.
ing performed those gentle offices
which n woman's fainting spell re-
quires, had come to reassure him and
TO say good night.
AS he threw off his coat In the
bedroom he had chosen for his own.
he felt the hard corner of the Lucille
In the pocket, and drawing 1t out. laid
1t, on the table by n bedside. He
seemed to feel again the tingle OF
his cheek where a curling strand of
her coppery hair had sprung against 1t
when her head had bent beside his
own to read the marked lines.
When he had undressed he sat an
hour in the candle-blaze. a dressing.
gown thrown over his shoulders. striv.
ing vainly to recreate that evening
call, to remember her every word and
look and movement. For a breath
her face would flush suddenly before
him, like a live thing; then It would
m~ysteriously fade and elude him.
though he clenched his hands on the
arms Of his chair in the fierce mental
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SYNOPSIS.

John Valiant, a rich society ~favorite.
suddenly discovers that the Valiant cor
poration, which his father founded and
which was the principal source of his
wealth. has failed. He voluntarily turns
over his private fortune to the receiver
for the corporation. His entire remaining
possessions consist of an old motor car. a
white bull dog and Damory court, a neg
lected estate in Virginia. On the way to
Damory court he meets Shirley Dand-
ridge. an authenticated beauty, and de-
cides that he is going to like Virginia I'm
mensely. Shirley's mother, Mrs. Dand-
ridge, and Major Bristow exchange rem
iniscences during which It is revealed
that the major. Valiant's father. and a
man named Sasson were rivals for the
hand of Mrs. cambridge in her youth.
Sasson and Valiant fought n duel on her
account in which the former WINS killed.
Valiant finds Damory court overgrown
with weeds and creepers and the build
ings in a very much neglected condition.
He decides to rehabilitate the place and
make the land produce a living for him.
Valiant saves Shirley from the bite of a
snake, which bites him. Knowing the
deadliness of the bite. Shirley sucks the
poison from the wound and saves his life.
Shirley tells her mother of the incident
and the latter is strangely moved at
bearing that a Valiant is again living at
Damory court. Valiant learns for the
rrst time that his father left Virginia on
account of a duel in which Doctor
southall and Major Bristow acted as his
fathers seconds.
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Tried the Numbers Carefully, First
Right, Then Left: 17-28-94-o
The Heavy Door Opened.

Haven't l any privileges at all? Can't
l even faint when ! feel like 1t. without
calling out the fire-brigade? You'll
pamper me to death and heaven knows
| don't need it."
You won't let me telephone for Doc
tor %Southall?"
Certainly mott"
And you are sure It was nothing
but the roses?"
Why, what else should it b ?" said
her mother almost peevishly. II must
really have the arbors thinned out. On
heavy nights it's positively overpower-
ing. Go along now. and we'll talk
about 1t tomorrow. l car ring If l
ant anything"
In her room Shirley undressed
thoughtfully. There was between her
and her mother a fine tenuous bond
of sympathy and feeling as are. per
haps. as it was lovely. She could not
remember when the other had not
been a semi-invalid. and her earliest
childhood recollections were punctu-
ated with the tap of the little cane
Tonight's sudden indisposition had
shocked and disturbed her: to faint
at a rush of perfume seemed to sug-
gest a growing weakness that was
alarming. Tomorrow. she told herself.
she would send Ranston with a wagon
load of the roses to the hospital at
Charlottesville.
She slipped on a pink shell-shaded
dressing-gown of slinky silk with a
riot of azaleas scattered in the weave,
and then. dragging her chair before
the open window. drew aside the light
curtain n began to brush her hair.
All at once her gaze fell upon the
floor. and she shrank backward from a
twisting thread-like thing whose bright
saffron-yellow glowed sharply against
the dark carpet. She saw in an in
slant. however. that 1t was nothing
more dangerous than a fragment of
love-vine from the garden, which had
chung to her skirt. She picked up
the tiny mass of tendrils n with a
slow smile tossed it over her right
shoulder through the window. IF 1t
takes root" h said aloud. my sweet
heart loves me-" She leaned from the
sill to peer down into the misty gar.
den. but could not follow its TALL.
Long ago her visitor would have
reached Damory Court. She a a
vision of him wandering, candle In
hand, through the empty echoing
rooms, looking at the voiceless por-
traits on the walls. thinking perhaps
of his father. of the fatal duel of which
he had never known. She liked the
way he had spoken of his father!
AS she leaned. out of the stiffness
there came to her ear a mellow sound.
1t was the bell OF the courthouse in
the village. Sc counted the strokes
falling clearly or family as the slug.
gish breeze ebbed or swelled. 1t was
eleven.
She drew back. dropped the curtain
to shut out the wan glimmer, and in
the darkness crept into the soft bed
as If into a hiding place.
A warm sun and an air mildly mel.
low. A faint gold-shadowed mist over
the valley and a soft lilac haze blend.
ing the rounded outlines of the hills
Through the shrubbery at Damory
Court a cardinal darted like a Grim
son shuttle. to rock im%pudently from
a feering limb, and here and there
on the bluish-ivory sky, motionless as
a pasted wafer, hung a hawk; from
' time m tima oDa If tbaen uro,a.aa -
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slanted swiftly down. to climb once
more in a huge spiral to its high tower
of sky.
Perhaps 1t wondered, as its tele-
scopic eye looked down. That had
been its choicest covert, that dishev-
eled tangle where the birds held per-
petual carnival. the weasel lurked in
the underbrush and the rabbit lined
his windfall. Now the wildness was
gone. A pergola. glistening white. now
upheld the runaway vines, making a
sickle-like path from the upper ter
race to the lake. In the barn loft the
pigeons still quarrelled over their new
! cotes of fresh pine. and under a clump
OF locus trees at a little distance from
the house, a half-dozen dolls cabins
on stills stood waiting the honey-stor-
age of the black and gold bees.
There were new d%enizens, also.
These had arrived in a dozen zinc
tanks and willow hampers. to the
amaze OF a sleepy express clerk at the
railroad station: two swans now sailed
majestically over the lily of the
lake, along its gravel rim and a pair
of bronze-colored ducks waddled and
preened, and its placid surface rippled
and broke to the sluggish backs of
goldfish and the flirting fms of red
Japanese carp.
The house itself wore another air.
Its look of unkemptness had largely
vanished. The soft gray tone of age
remained, but the bleakness and for
~lornness were gone; there was about
all now a warmth Int genial bearing
that limited at mellowed beauty, fire
light and cheerful voices within.
Valiant heaved a long sigh of salts
faction as he stood in the sunlight gaz-
ing at the results of his labors. He
was not now the fippant b~oulevardier
to whom money was the sine qua non
Of existence. He had learned a sover-
eign lesson-one gained not through
the push and fight Of crowds, but in
the simple peace of a countryside, un-
vexed by the clamor of gold and the
complex problems of a competitive ex-
istence-that he had inherited a need
of activity, of achievement that he had
been born to do.
"Chum," he said. to the dog rolling
on his back in the grass, what do
you think of 1t all. anyway" He
reached down. seized a hind leg and
whirling him around like a teetotum,
sent him flying into the bushes,
whence Chum launched again upon
him. like a %catapult. He caught the
white shoulders and held him vise-like.
Just about right. Ell? But wait till
we get those ramblers!"
And to think" he continued. whim-
sically releasing him. that l might
have gone on, m of the little-neck-
clam crowd I've always trained with.
at the same old pace. till the Yer
mouth-cocktail- Palm-Beach career got
a double Nelson on me and the umpire
counted me out. At this moment I
wouldn't swap this old house and land.
and the sunshine and that .gyarden
and Unc' Jefferson and Aunt Daph
and the chickens and the birds and
all the rest of it, for a mile Of Mil
~lionaires' Row"
He went into the house and to the
library. The breeze through h wide
flung bow-window was fluttering the
papers on the desk and the map on
the wall was tapping sidewise. He
went to straighten 1t. and then saw
what he had not noticed before-that
it covered something that had been let
into the plaster. He swung it aside
and made an exclamation.
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Not There for Experiment.

Edith and Flora were passing their
summer vacation in the country.
DO you know" said Edith, that
young farmer tried to kiss me. He told
me that he had never kissed any girl
before"
What did You tell him?" asked
Flora.
Why" replied Edith, II told him |
was no agricultural experiment sta
ton "-Harper's Bazaar
, 1915-07-22

I He was looking at a square. uncom-
promising wall-safe. with a round fig
ured disk of white metal on its face.
| After a moment 1t turned easily. But
the resolute steel door would not open.
though he tried every combination
that came into his mind. mo use."
he said disgustedly. "One must have
the right numbers"
Then he lifted his fretted frame and
smote his grimy hands together. Con
found i'll" he said with a short laugh.
Here | am. a bankrupt, with all this
outft-clear to the very finger-bowls-
handed to me Of a silver tray. and I'm
mad as scat because | can't open the
first locked thing fnd!"
He ran upstairs and donned a rough
corduroy jacket and high leather leg
gings. We're going to climb the hill
today, Chum." he announced. fand no
more moccasins need apply"
In the lower hall. however. he sud
denly stopped %stock-still. THE slip Of
paper that was in the china dog!" he
exclaimed. What a chump | am not
to have thought of Ill" He found 1t
in its pigeonhole and. kneeling down
before the safe, tried the numbers
carefully, first right. then left: II
2S-94-O. The heavy door opened.
81 was right!' he exulted. It's the
plate" He drew 1t out. piece by piece.
Each was bagged in dark-red Canton
flannel. He broke the tape of n bag
and exposed a great silver pitcher.
furnished purple-blue like a ravens
wing-then a tea-service. Each piece.
large and small, was marked with the
greyhound rampant and the motto.
"And to think" he said. that my
neutrality-suspicious. buried you
with his own hands under the stables
when Tarleton's raiders swept the val
ley before the surrender at Yorktown!
] Only wait till Aunt Daphne gets you
polished up, and on the ~sideboardl
You're the one thing the place has
needed"
With the dog for comrade he ira
versed the garden and plunged across
the valley below. humming as he went.
The place vas painless and over.
grown with paw-paw bushes and sassa-
fras. Great trees stood SO thickly
in places as to make a twilight and the
SUMMER spots were masses of pink
laurel. poison-ivy, flaming purple rho
dodendron and wine-red tendrils of in
terbraided briers. This vas the for
est land of whose possibilities he had
thought. In the heart of the woods he
came Upon a great limb that had been
wrenched off by storm. The broken
wood was of a deep rich brown, shading
to black. He broke off his song. snap
ped a twig and smelled 1t. Its sharp
acrid odor was unmistakable. He sud.
denly remembered the walnut tree at
Rosewood and what Shirley had said:
II know a girl who had two In her
yard, and she went to Europe on
them"
He looked about him; as far as he
could see the trees reared. hardy and
perfect. untouched for a generation.
He selected one of medium size and
pulling a creeper. measured its cir
conference and gaging this measure
with his ave.. made a penciled calcula-
ton on the back of an envelope.
Great Scott" he said brilliantly to
the dog; that would cut enough to
wainscot the .Damory Court library
and build twenty s~ideboards!"
! ITO BE C~ONTINUEDJ
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Chicago Grain and Provision Price

Chicago.-Wheat-No. 8 red, $l.2O'
OLLIE; No. 2 hard, nominal.
Corn-No. 2 yellow, 79A @791ac;
No. 4 yellow, 7s%c.
oats-No. 8 white, 55@56A; stand
ard. 55h Q56Ac.
Barley-73@7Sc.
Timothy-$5.5O@s.75
Clover-$S.5Oq13.25
Pork-$15.10.
Lard-$s.12@S.27.
Ribs-sy 100000.
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Chicago Live Stock Quotations.

Chicago.-Hogs-Bulk. $7.O0@7.4Ol
light, $.3OQ7.S5; mixed, S6.s5@7.70;
heavy, $6.65Q7,45; rough, s6.65Q6.S0;
pigs, $6.75@7.7O.
Cattle--Native beef steers. $6.7Oq
1O.4O; Western steers, $7.15@S.S5"
cows and h%eifers, $3.2O@9.25; calves,
$7.OO@10.5O.
sheep-$5.6OQ6.75; lambs, s6.25@
$50.
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Cotton Market.

New York.-Cotton-July, $S.6S;
October, $40; December. $9.37; jan
uary, $9.46; March, 1910. Middline
uplands, 500.
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LATE
g s
western Newspaper Union News Service.
DENVER MARKETS.
Cattle.

Cattle.
Beef steers, cornfed, good to
choice ..S.25@S.S5
Beef steers, cornfed. fair to
good ..7.75qS.25
Beef steers, hay fed, good to
choice
Beef steers, hay fed. fair to
good
Beef steers, pulp fed. good
to choice .7.O0@S.65
Heifers, prime, cornfed. ....7.50@S.0O
Cows and heifers, cornfed,
good to choice. ..7.00@7.50
Cows and heifers, cornfed,
fair to good. ..6.50@7.00
Veal calves 10. 00@11.O0
Bulls 5.00@6.25
Feeders and stockers, good
to choice ................7.O007.50
Feeders and %stockers, fair
to good 6.50@7.00
Feeders and stockers, COM
mon to fair. ..............6.00Q6.50
Hogs.
Good hogs Observation-Disclosures
Sheep.
Lambs . Observation-Disclosures
ewes ..............
Yearlings . .......... 6.75@T.25
Wethers ............. "a
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Duluth, MINI. = Linseed - Cash.
$1.72; July. $1.70h; September, $1.74.
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Metal Market Quotations.

Lead, New York, offered at $685.
Bar Silver, 471sc.
Spelter, st, Louis. s20.60.
Copper, casting, 1925.
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Sheep.
Hay and Grain Market.

IF. o. 3. Denver, carload p.ice.J 7
Hay.
Buying Prices.
Colo. upland, per ton ...12.00@13.00
Nebraska upland, per ton. 10.O0@11.OO
Second bottom Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton. 9.00010.00
Timothy, per tor .......14.00@15. 90
Alfalfa, per ton ......... 5000 900
South Park, choice, per
ton ...14.00@15.0
San Luis Valley, per ton. 1000 Hoo
Gunrison Valley, per ton. 12.00@13,0O
Straw. per ton .......... 5000 $50
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was in search OF. Yes, thank you. q
small whisky Is before."-London Tit.
Bits.
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Grain.

Rye, Colo, bulk, 100 lbs,
buying ............ 1.6O
Idaho oats, sacked buying. 1.SO
Colorado oats. sacked, buying LES
Corn chop, sack, selling... 1.S0
Corn in sack, selling. ....... LAT
Bran, Colorado, per 100 lbs.
selling . lao
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Flour.
Selling Prices.
Standard Colo, net.............s2.9
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
May Make England 'fDry"
Because the Drink Habit
Cripples Work Of Army

LONDON. March 30. 1905 p.m.-Pro-
hibftt0n, rs drastic a. that prevailing
In Russia. today faces the United King
dom. Press discussion Of the letter sent
by David Lloyd George, the chancellor
Of the exchequer. to the Ship Owners
Federation c0mpetes successfully In
point Of interest with the news Of the
sinking Of the British liner Falaba by
n German submarine with the loss Of
more than 100 lives.
The chancellor In his letter said:
1--WE are fighting Germany. Austria
and drink. and so far ms 1 can see the
greatest OF these three deadly foes 10
drink" and added that he had a grow
ing conviction that only the severest
method would be Of avail in dealing
with the evil.
The employers are backing what Mr..
Lloyd George terms "rOOt and branch
action" even to the extent of promising
to seal their own wine cellars and to
prohibit the use of intoxicants at their
clubs. while labor leaders are equally
anxious for the Institution of some
prObibitOry measure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
Territory Offered Bulgaria.
GERMANY IS WARNED
OF RUSSIA'S STRENGTH

AMSTERDAM, March 28. via London.
March 30.-Prof. Vogt, q well known
German authority on Russian affairs,
warns Germany in the Vorwaerts tnat
.It will take long time, great en-
ergy and patience. and many victories
10 gain headway against this new Rus
sia."
Answering the frequently heard Ques-
tion as to how long Russia can fight.
Prof. Vogt says:
..Russia's offensive powers have hard
,v been touched. Her staying powers
are enormous. Her army has done
magnificent work, while the Russian
nnancial and economic position has sell
dom been better"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
Under German Commander.
GERMAN NAVY BEGINS
BLOCKADE IN BALTIC

LONDON. March 3O.-German naval
activity has been resumed in the Bal
tic sea and the Gulf of Bothnia, with
the intention of carrying out block
ade campaign against the trade of
Finland and Sweden. according to a
Copenhagen dispatch to the Daily
News. The correspondent declares that
attacks on the Finnish coast probab ably
are proposed also. as German sub
marines have been reported not far
off shore.
A German fleet has been observed
north of the Aland Islands Several
Danish and Swedish vessels are re-
ported to have been halted by German
submarines. but SO far as known only
one was fired upon. and she escaped
unharmed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
NOT JULIUS TOWER GOLD.
Berlin Denies Any Of French In.
demnity Has Reached England.

BERLIN. March 80. by wireIess.-In-
cluded in the budget of news. given
out by the Overseas News Agency, is
the following:
Certain English banks on receiv-
ing British sovereigns from Scandi-
navian countries. pretended that the
origin of the currency was the war
treasury in julius Tower. at Spandau,
and that 1t had accumulated from the
French war indemnity of 1871. The
Nord Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitunk
points out that the assertion Is childish
as the julius Tower contains only Ger
man gold coin.
amounts are allotted in the German
budget this year as were appropriated
in preceding years, for the fNrtherance
Of German schools and medical and
other institutions abroad"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
GETS PORTO RICO PLANTS.
New York Botanical Garden Re
ceiyes 200 Specimens.

NEW YORK, March 30.-The New
York botanical gardens was enriched
today by the receipt Of more than 200
specimens of water plants. collected in
the vicinity of Porto Rico by-a party
under the supervision of Dr. N. L. Brit
ton. director of the gardens. who. had ID
Just returned from scientific expedi-
tion to Porto Rico. Other members Of
the party who made the collection were
Prof John F. Cowell, director Of the
Buffalo botanical garden, and N, stew
ardson Brown OF the Philadelphia
Part of their work was under tha
direction of the New York Academy ~
Sciences, which contemplates a series
of geological. Photographed and
geological surveys in Porto Rico.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
HOME FROM P|UTE TRIP
Gen. Scott and Aid Arrive From Salt
Lake City After Hard
Journey.

Brig. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief OF
staff of the army. and his aid. Lieut.
Col. r. E. l.. Michie. returned today
from their highly successful mission
to the mountain Businesses of southern
Utah for the pacification Of small
band OF Piute Indians who had had
trouble with the cowboys and were
said to have gone on the war path.
Gen. Scott and his aid have been
travelling almost constantly since their
departure from Washington March g.
last, and came here by rail direct from
Salt Lake City. So they were pretty
we'll tired out on their arrival early
this morning and went to their re-
spective homes for few hours rest
before-reporting to tho Secretary OF
War
While at Thompsons, Utah, March
%, Gen. Scott sent an unofficial tel
egraphic story of the peaceful sur
render to him of the four Piute chief
tains who had resisted arrest by the
marshaIs posse and had intrenched
themselves in the. mountains 1t was
similar to the story of Gen. Scott's
experience published in The Star last
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
BULGARIA HOLDING UP
GERMAN WAR SUPPLIES

GENEVA. via Paris, March 30.-Dis-
patches received here from Sofia state
that Bulgaria is holding up shipments
of German artillery and large quanti-
ties of ammunition destined for Con-
stantinople.
Many German officers travelling to
and from Turkey, some of them wound
ed, are awaiting passports at Sofia to
enter Austria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
RECORD REALTY DEAL.
Chicago Fine Arts Building Sells fol
100000.

CHICAGO, March 30.-The largest
single real estate transaction in the
history of Chicago was recorded yes
terday when the Fine Arts Building,
controlled by the Studebakers. was sold
to the Charles A. Chaplin estate for $3,-
900, 900.
The sale was said to have been on a
basis of $2,790.0O0 for the land and
100000 for the building, making the
land sell at $4,000 a front foot and
$87.46 a square foot.
Much of the frontage involved was
$500 a front foot. The property fronts
on Michigan boulevard near Van Bu-
rem street. The previous record for a,
single deal was $2.900.O00, for which
the Fort Dearborn building sold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
SUBMARINE CHASES LINER.
Danish Ship Arrives at Philadelphia
After an Exciting Voyage.

PHILADELPHIA, March 3O.-That he
had been pursued for miles by a Ger
man. submarine was asserted by Capt.
Tholandsen of the Danish steamship
Paris. which has arrived here The
for Copenhagen.
While of Lowestoft, England, in the
North sea. German submarine was
sighted" said Capt. Tholandsen. For
miles she pursued the Paris. which put
on a full head of steam. 1t, was not
until British torpedo boat came to
the rescue that the German undersea
craft gave up the chase"
Capt. Tholandsen said that all through
the chase the Danish flag was flying
from the mast of the Paris. Many
floating mines also were sighted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
Lane Inspecting Colorado River.

YUMA, Ariz., March 30.-Secretary
Franklin K. Lane of the Interior De-
nartment arrived here last night, ac-
comnanied by Gen. w. l.. Marshall. en-
1,near In charge of the Colorado river
n,ofection work. He planned today to
ria. over the government railroad to
~. Arizona-Sonora boundary and later
r,.k. an automobile trip through the
Yuna project lands, visiting Laguna
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
LIVE STOCK IN GERMANY.
Cattle Increased ], ,000, 900 and Sheep
100000 During Last Year.

BERLIN, March 80. by wireiess.-The
Overseas News Agency has issued the
following:
According to a census of December
1 1914. there were in Germany $4,000
900 head of cattle, as against 21 ,O00, 900
M, the same date In 1918. The figures
also show that there were 5000, 900
sheep in December as against 100000
the previous year.
IAN Austrian crop report says that
satisfactory conditions prevail for the
spring sowing. Large districts which
formerly were used for sugar hoets
are now being used for gralD.ss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-30
Hem in Villistax
ANGELES FOR PRESIDENT.
Villa and Zapata Agree on Mexican
Artillery Chief.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, ~. Gen.
Felipe Angeles. chief Of cry. has
been decided upoh for provisional presi-
dent by the Villa and Zapata factions.
says a dispatch received here from
Mexico City. The selection of Angeles
will take place. according to the mes
cage, ut a convention to be held in
Mexico City within ten days.
Gen. Villa asked that the convention
be delayed for a few days until he can
scIear the eastern border of obstruc-
tions and have time to consider peace
SuI matters of import"