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his infuriated eyes. Let me explain"
she begged.
He snapped her short: you cannot
explain. The thing is impossible, that
you should have failed. There is some-
thing beneath this, something you
will not tell me-"
She endeavored to speak, but he en-
forced silence with sonorous mol"
His hand sought the row of buttons
on the desk and pressed one long.
Almost instantly a servant glided
noiselessly into the room.
MY daughter Rose have her
brought here to me at oncef"
In another moment the replica OF
his daughter Judith was Eshered haGo
hts presence
Upon this one he loosed the light.
nings OF his wrath without ruth.
Rose suffered him in silence. His
most CALLING recrimination educed no
retort from this one
In luIl in Trine's TRADE, Judith
chose to interject: Don't be 20 hard
on the silly fool: she's not responsible;
she's sick with love Gor that gcod-look-
ing simpleton!''
And you!" Rose turned on her
passionately-"wh about ynu? If
love Alan Law, at least love him
openly. | am not ashamed 10 own it
and l don't pursue him, as ybu do, pre-
tending / mean to sacrifice him to a
wicked family feud, and then spare
him every time | meet him, to lead
him to believe l haven't the heart to
injure hinl-as you do, hoping SO to
work upon his sympathies and earn
a kindly word and a pat on the head
from his hand!"
Fierceiy she leveled denunciatory
arm at her sist4r. ''There!" she cried
to her father-'ff you need to know
there stands the daughter who has
betrayed your faith-as / have not,
who have never even pretended to
approve your viIlainy!7
81 think Trine announced in a
voice of ice-"I have learned now
what l needed to know"
His fingers sought The row of but
tons; and when q servant responded,
I
he inquired
Mr.. Ma1rophat has returned?"
sHe is in the waiting room, sir"
| Conduct Miss Judith to him and
tell him | hold him personally respon-
sible for her safe-keeping. He will
understand
And for long tine thereafter the
father alone with the daughter who
had been estranged from him since
birth By every instinct OF her nature,
| essayed in vain TO break down her
! mutinoAs silence.
| At last Trine summoned two of his
| creatures and had her led weeping
from the rooms to be held prisoner in
her bedchamber on the topmost floor
of the house.
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Face up, it grinned sardonic mock
cry Of Alan's confidence. it was trey
of hearts.
With an ashen face and a trembling
hand, Digby stopped to pick the
damned thing up; but Alan was be-
forehand with him, and got his fingers
first upon the card.
Now will you believer" Digby de-
manded huskiiy.
.Tn what? A simple coincidence" ?"
Alan flouted. mot i! Who knows I'm
In New York-or that the Arthur Law
renee for whom your agent engaged
these rooms was Alan Law. No, my
friend it's bit too thick for me. Take
my word for it, this is nothing more
nor Ess than souvenir of poker
party held by yesterdays tenant Of
this suite
"Perhaps-perhaps!" Digby assent.
ed. stroking tremulous lips. "But I'm
afraid for you, my boy Who knows
that Trine's spies were not watching
INV man when he made this reserva-
sion? Who knows but that Arthur
Lawrence was too thin a disguise for
Alan Law? / tell you, I'm frightened
to the marrow of my old bones! Do
me this favor at least, my boy now
that you've been warned, whether by
accident or design-we won't argue
that-edo leave town-go incognito to
some quiet place near by and wait
| there for the sailing OF the next trans
atlantic steamer Oh, surely you can't
deny me this one wish of my fond old
heart, my boy!"
With gesture of unfeigned affec.
tion Alan dropped hand on Digbys
1 shoulder.
There's nothing on earth would
not do for you,'' he said: you've been
"a father and mother to me ever since
I can remember, even if we were sepa
j rated, most of the time. by three thou
sand miles of salt water. But this
thingzI can't do it, even for you.
can't do it even for myself. Rose
Trine is here in New York, in the
hands and at the mercy of her father
and sister: and you may judge wha
their mercy will be when you learr
all that she has done for me. | wonf
go and can't go until ind her ant
take her with me- And that is final
"Then," Digby struck in, graspins
wildly at a straw of hope, Il have you,
word you'll go, providing | find and re
store Rose to your
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shadow, all its windows dark but
one and that one, in the topmost tier,
showed only feeble glimmer, SO slight
that Alan almost overlooked it.
But once discovered, it focused upon
itself his thoughts with power little
less than hypnotic.
He believed with small doubt that
Rose was prisoner within those
walls; that Judith must have con-
yeyed her there with all speed.
And, this being the presumptive case,
that small, high window Of the light
might well be hers
Directly across the street from the
Trine residence, on the opposite cor
ner, a colossal apartment structure
| stood half-finished, stonework to it's
/ second story. gaunt iron skeleton rear
! ing above.
To his infinite disgust, Alan found
/ the guardian very wide awake, very
much on the job: no chance here to
/ steal unseen into the building.
This in itself might have been
deemed suspicious circumstance:
/ not for nothing does an honest night
! watchman SO deny the laws of nature
and the tenets of his craft But Alan
merely praised the man while cursing
the very fact ofshis existence; and ac-
costing, overcama with bank-notes
what seemed an uncommonly stubborn
reluctance, and got his way.
/ He could not know that another
skulked behind barrier of lime bar
rels and overheard all that passed and.
when Alan had ducked smartly into
the unfinished building, rose and stole
after him with footsteps as noiseless
as cats and a face that had the saw
agery Of tigers when it was tram
silently revealed in shaft of moon
light
At length Alan gained the gridiron
of girders on plane with the lighted
window across the way, and crepl
along one of these, gingerIy on his
hands and knees, until he came to its
end and might, IL he cared to, look
down a hundred feet to the sidewalks
That view, however, did not tempt;
he kept his eyes level; and was re
warded with bare glimpse of pret
tily-papered wall, framed in the lace o.
; half-drawn curtains.
, And of sudden-whether through
. fortuity, or instinct, or the psyche
logical attraction of his steadfast con
centration-the tenant of the room
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CONTINUED from last week)
CHATTER XXI.
The blouse Divided.

Alone in that strange place OF 81
hence and sh5dows--that den OF ths
DEVILS livery, crimson and black
chained to the invalid chair wherein,
day in, day out, for years on end, he
had suffered the Prouethean torments
of the life that would not die out OF
his wretched, wrecked carcass, though
without ceasing shaTp-beaked envy.
hatred, malice and all uncharitable-
ness pecked insatiabiy at his vitals:
Seneca Trine sat waiting, with the inn
passivity of a craven figure waiting
on the imminent hour of ultimate
Rvengement for the wrong shat had
made him what he was.
Another hour! In sixty
minutes more they will be here, Judith
and Marrophat and Rose-poor fool!
and him! In sixty minutes
more they will put him down before
me, bound and helpless, if not dead
A slight pause prefaced words that
were a whimpered prayer: God send
that he be not dead! Have fingered
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came to the window and stood there
for little, looking pensively out alto
gether unconscious of the watcher in
his aerial coign.
Again a horrible uncertainty har
assed him. Was the woman Rose
or Judith? That she was one of these
he could plainly see. But which? Dared
he assume his hopes fulfilled?
With difficulty he detached his
hungry vision from her, and drawing
from his pocket small notebook, tore
out blank page, placed this fiat on
the girder, found a pencil, and with
the assistance of a ray or two oi
moonlight scrawled a message Of al
most stenographic brevity.
When he looked up from this task
she had vanished.
Sitting up, astride the girder, hs
took his watch-a cheap affair he hai
picked up when reclothing himself il
the garments OF civilized society, a.
Providence, that morning-opened thu
back Of the case. and closed it upon
the folded message.
Then drawing back his arm, he
breathed silent prayer to the god Of
all true lovers, and cast it from him
with all his might-with such force
that 1t almost unseated him at the end
of the swing. But nothing less would
have served to bridge that yawning
chasm.
And the watch flew straight and
true, squarely through the lighted win
dow and to the further wall.
AT that very instant Of his exultation
over an obstacle overcome, he heard
sound behind him of heavy breathing.
The assassin had come that close
upon his prey when Alan turned and
discovered his peril
The same moonbeam which had
aided Alan in the composition Of his
message struck across the others face,
and showed it like hideous Chinese
mask Of deadly hatred, with its eye
balls glaring and its lips drawn back
from the naked blade gripped between
its teetha stiletto nothing short Of a
foot in length
With a sharp, startled movement,
Alan swung himself bodily about, SO
that, seated again astride the girder,
he faced the assassin who sat up,
straddling the girder, his feet hooked
beneath it stiletto poised in his
right hand to strike.
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store Rose to your

you have my word to that, unques-
tionably. Bring Rose to me, and I'll
gladly shake the dust of New York
from my shoes, and never return till
Urine is put away comfortably in his
grave"
'It shall be DONE" Digby promised.
'1t must!''
"You believe that?"
"In twelve hours Rose shall be re-
stored to YOU"
"Will you make book on it? TIL
bet you something happens and hope
lose into the bargain. If you believe
you can carry out your promise, wire
the White Star line to reserve the
best available suite on the Oceanic.
sailing tomorrow morning at ten
and make arrangements for a mar
riage before the boat sails"
I'll go you,' Digby agreed: "and IL
fail, forfeit the cost of the reser-
walton. But about this marriage
He hesitated.
you'll have to have a license in
this state-and can't get one except
by applying in person with your BRIDE
to-be. There won't be time"
Then we'll marry in Jersey!" Alan
insisted. dig up some clergyman over
there, if you don't know one your
self"
sOh, I'm well acquainted with the
very mani"
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But even now Alan was III little or
no better case than before. II he faced
the thug, he faced him with no arms
other than his bare hands. He had not
even a pen-knife In hfs pockets.
With low cry Of desperation Alan
snatched off his hat, soft and shape
less felt affair, and flung it squarely in
the fellows face.
Before he could recover before.
that is, it dropped away and cleared
his vision, Alan had bent forward and
grasped the wrist of the hand that
held the knife.
He snatched simultaneously ait the
other hand, but it eluded him.
Alan had this advantage, as long as
the knife might not strike that his
right arm was free, while the assassin
had only his left. With this he stroye
persistently to reach his knife-hand
and possess himself of the weapon.
AS persistently Alan foiled his purpose
by dragging the knife-hand toward him
and swinging it far out to one side. At
the same time he struck repeatedly
| with his clenched right fist at the 9TH
ers face. His blows did little dam
| age beyond disconcerting the other;
| hut this proved a very considerable
| factor in the duel. In the end, they
served together with that steady, re-
4 sistless downward and outward drag,
/ to break the grip of the mans locked
legs.
Abruptly he pitched forward on his
/ face along the girder, kicking wildly,
j grasping at the air. The stiletto fell
from an instinctively relaxed grasp,
and disappeared. And before Alan
could release his hold, or ease the
strain upon the right arm Of the as
sassin, this last had slipped bodily
from the girder and hung helpless in
space, dangling at the end of Alan's
arm-with no more than the grip oi
five fingers between him and death.
/ The shock of that unpresaged turr
brought Alan forward and fat on his
stomach. And the strain on his lef
arm was terrific. He doubted if he
could maintain it for another minute
Nor was there any reason why he
should retain it. The end he had de
signed for his victim was merely hi
just desert.
And yet Alan could not let him go.
Thus the battle began anew-bu
now it was a battle with man half
crazed and struggling SO madly tha
| he WaIl-niph frustrated fha efforts q
his rescuer.
In the upshot the assassin lay like
limp rag across the girder, head an
arms dangling on one side, legs an
feet on the other, spent with his tel
rife exertions and physically sick wit
terror.
And in this state Alan left him: b
had done enough; let the man shit
for himself from this time on.
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CHAPTER xxlaH.
A Sporting Offer.

- SPOttiH9
Some two hours later, that same
evening, Mr. Alan Law, very much
alive and, in spite of a complete new
outfit of ready made clothing, looking
much more like himself than he had
in a fortnight, issued forth from the
Grand Central station, hailed "a taxi
cab, and had himself conveyed to the
Hotel Monolith.
But if he looked his proper self once
more, it speedily was demonstrated
that his wish was otherwise: for after
learning from the room-clerk of the
Monolith that suite was being held
In the name of Arthur Lawrence, that
was the name Mr. Law inscribed on
the register.
On the other hand, it was his true
name that he gave to the person whom
he called upon the telephone immedi-
ately after being shown to his rooms.
But then he was speaking to his old
friend and man of business, Mr.. Digby.
Within another ten minutes this last
was in conference with his employer:
"I think you must be out of your
head" he insisted nervously, once
their first greetings were over. "You
might just as sensibly throw yourself
from the top of the Metropolitan tower
as come to New York while Trine lives
and knows you're this side the water"
"Nonsense!' Alan laughed "Remem-
ber this is New York-not the back
woods of Maine!"
Alan paused and smote his palm
with a remorseful fist. ''By the Eter-
nal, I'm forgetting Barcus!"
"Barcus?"
"Chap whose boat l chartered in
Portland-s sheer luck on my part: he's
one Of the salt of the arth. First,
something must be done for the boy.
You've got influence Of some sort in
New Bedford, surely?"
Digby reflected: Some. There's
George Blaine, justice of the peace"
"The very man. Telegraph him in
Barcus' interests Immediately. And
telegraph Barcus as well-send him
hundred for expenses, and tell him
to join me here in New York as quick
as he cant"
your friends address?" Digby IN
quired, mildly ironic as he sat down
at the desk and fumbled with the sup
ply Of stationery.
New Bedford Jail, of course!" Alan
chuckled but cut his laugh in two as
something fiuttered from the pack OF
envelopes which Digby had disturbed
and fell to the door between the two
men.
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CHAPTER XIV.
The Time O. NIGHT.

The Time o. Night.
Not ill-pleased to be left to his own
devices (whose proposed character
Digby would never have approved had
he SO much as suspected them) Alan
none the less deferred action until
after midnight.
And espionage was all he feared
save and except always, Of course, fail
ure to find his Rose.
1t was about one in the morning
when he arrived inconspicuously (but
not SO much SO as to seem deserving
Of police surveillance) in the neigh
borhood Of the Riverside drive home Of
his mortal enemy, grim white house
that lowered, stark and tall, upon .
corner.
His preliminary reconnaissance pro
vided little more than comfortless ex-
ercise Huge, still, its wall bathed in
the milk and ink Of moonlight and
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CHAPTER XIV.
Chanaelina.

OHdH9etn9s
In the vague, chill gray of that dull
and desolate dawn, Judith stirred abb
ruptly on the couch of sleepless
night, and with the rapidity of one
who has arrived at a settled purpose
after a long period of doubt and per-
plexity, rose and bathed and dressed
herself in negligee.
In the adjoining room she could hear
small, stealthy noises-the sounds
made by her sister moving about and
preparing against the unguessable mo-
ment when her rescue would be at
tempted, according to the information
conveyed in that midnight message.
For chance had conspired with her
insomnia to station Judith in the re-
cess Of her darkened window, idly
viewing the gaunt framework of the
unfinished building from an angle
which, when Alan edged out along the
girder, showed him plainly in silhou-
ette against the sky
In Judith's eyes his identity was un.
mistakable. She had hardly needed
the night-glasses which presently she
brought to bear upon him at the mo-
ment when he was laboriously inditing
his messag age-while grim death stalked
him from behind
She had seen him throw the watch
and had heard the double thump OF its
impact with the wall and floor of
Roses bedchamber.
And she had witnessed with wildly
beating heart that duel in the air
able to surmise it's outcome only from
the fact that the victor spared the life
of the vanquished
The clock was striking six as she
left her room: across the street work
ingmen were streaming into the build
ing to begin the labors of the day.
Brushing unceremoniously past the
drowsy and Indifferent guard in the
corridor outside the door to Roses
room, Judith turned the key that re-
mained in the lock on the outside re-
moved it, entered, and locked the door
behind her
Without any surprise she found her
sister already dressed to the point Of
donning her outer garments.
Rendered halffrantic by this unex-
pected interruption, threatening as it
did the perilous scheme that Alan had
proposed, Rose greeted her sister with
countenance at once aghast and
Wrathful
What do you want?" she demanded
tensely.
ITO come to an understanding with
you Judith told her coolly.
There is no understanding possible
between US: you know that as well as
T."
yet one there must be-
IT insist that you leave this room at
once!"
Insist by all means and be
damned! may leave this room and
I may not, dear little sister But one
of us will never leave it alive"
With start of terror, Rose shrank
back from this strange, wild thing
that wore the very shape and sem
blance of herself.
What do you mean? You cannot
mean to, murder me ii cold blood.
Judith 3,
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Rose Turned on Her Passionately.

here in anguish all these weary years
for the fulfllment of my revenge only
to be cheated at the end by Death?
God grant that Alan Law may be laid
down still living here .at my feet!
Then -
A bitter smile twisted his tortured
features: Then shall my will be done
him die as his father died-then-Ah,
God!-then at last l too may die!
There was a long silence, then
groan of exasperated protest: why
do they not come? Why does Judith
delay, when she knows how l suffer?
Why have I been put off from day to
day with her kilograms that begged
for more time and promised every
thing-but told nothing!-until yester-
day. Where are those mes
sages she sent me yesterday?'
His one sound hand groped out like
claw and sought mass of papers
on the desk beside him, sorting out
from among them two yellow forms.
Painfully he blinked over these and
slowly his pain-bent lips conned their
wording;
Alan and Rose safe with me-will
bring both home tomorrow night with
out fail, (" he read the first aloud; and.
then the second: "tHave motorcar
waiting for me tomorrow morning
from three o'clock till called for New
Bedford waterfront-Judith.'
"No!" he affirmed with the fervor
of one persuaded by his own desires:
Il must not doubt the girl! She has
promised, she has performed:
So still was he, indeed that he
seemed to SLEEP, but so deceptive was
that semblance that he was alert for
the least sound. The girl entered soft
~, as if fearful Of disturbing his slum-
bers; but she found him with head
erect and eyes a-blaze.
Judith he cried, his great voice
vibrating like brazen bell "At last.
Where is he? You have brought him?
Where is he?"
With no more answer than sigh,
the girl dropped her head and let her
hands hang Imply with palms ex-
posed.
After an instant Of incredulous dis
appointment the man shot single.
frigid question at her:
'.You have failed?"
Il have failed" she confessed.
"Why?"
She shrugged slightly. "Who knows
why one fails? did my best: he was
too much for me, outwitted me at
Gfevery turn. Time and again thought
y had him, but always he escaped,
Z either by his own wit and courage or
with anothers aid. Only yesterday
night they were all three in the hol-
low of my hands-but now bring you
only Rose"
She faItered.- awed by the glare Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-02
LABOR MEN VOLUNTEER
TO INSTRUCT PRISONERS
With Approval of Federation Head,
Will Teach Modern Methods of
Manufacturing.

NEW YORK. August with the ap-
prevail of Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor, rep
resentatives of labor organizations
have volunteered to send instructors to
Sing Sing prison to teach the prisoners
modern methods of manufacturing. The
move is in part the outcome of visit
which Mr.. Gompers paid to the prison
yesterday. Mr.. Gompers conferred
with the warden, Thomas NJ Osborne,
and members of the national committee
OF prisons and prison labor He was
accompanied by Homer B. Call, presi-
dent of the New York State Federation
OF Labor. and by several other labor
leaders.
beginning in training the prison :
ers IN the trades will be made in the
garment and shoe shops, where skilled
workmen of the United Garment Work.
ers ana International Boot and Shoe
Makers Union will give the first les
sons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-02
HYPNOTISM USED ON SOLDIERS.
British Hospitals Report Results
Little Short of Miraculous.
'nce Of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press
LONDON. July 1j.-Practically every
British hospital for soldiers now has
on it's staff one or more physicians
trained in administering hypnotic treat
ment. According to the medical cor
respondent of the Daily Mail, the re-
suits obtained have in many cases been
little short of miraculous.
The chief use of hypnotism has been
cases of shell shock, where, in addition
to any actual woundins. the patient is
suffering from a pronounced disorgan-
ization of the nervous system. This
may take the form of complete or par
tial blindness, loss of hearing or
speech. paralysis. melancholia or loss
of memory.
The treatment consists of hypnotic
ing the patient, and while he is in the
hypnotic state the operator coaNes him
to exercise those senses and functions
which previously had been lost or quiz
escent. Then the lost sight or men,
DRY is gradually awakened in the un-
hypnotiZed state, and, according to the
Mails correspondent, a complete cure
is almost always merely question of
time.