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She had risen to meet him by the
time he had mounted the steps. and
he knew that her first glance was ap-
praisive. He had confidently counted
upon being mistaken for a strange pa
tient in search OF the doctor, and he
was not disappointed.
You are looking for Doctor Farm
ham?" she began. He is at his Of
fce-2O1 Main street"
Brofin was digging In his pocket
for card
4 know well enough where your
fathers Office is. but you are the one
l wanted TO see," he said; and he
gave her the round-cornered card with
its blazonment OF his name and en-
ploymept
He WAS watching her narrowly when
she read the name and its underline,
and tie quick indrawing of the breath
and the little shudder that went with
it were not thrown away upon him.
But The other signs; the pressing Of
the sven teeth upon the lower lip and
the coming and going Of three straight
lines between the half-closed eyes
were not so favorable
VIII you come into the house.
Mr." she had to look at the card
again to get the name-"Mr. Brofin ?"
she asked.
Thank you, miss; it's plenty good
enough out here for me If it is for
you, he returned, beginning to fear
that the common civilities were Civ
| ing her time to get behind her de-
lenses.
i guess we can take it for granted
| that you know what 1 want. Miss
Farnham," he began abruptly. when
| he had shifted his chair TO face her
rocker. Something like three months
| ago, or Whereabouts, you went into a
bank in New Orleans to get a draft
cashed- While you were at the pay
ing tellers' window q robbery was
committed, and you saw it done and
saw the man that d!d it I've come
to get you to tell me the mans
name"
4 have told it once, in a letter to
Mr.. Galbraith-''
Brofin nodded. Yes; in a letter
that you didn't sign I've come all
the way from New Orleans TO get
you to tell me his real name, Miss
Farnham."
why do you think can tell you?"
was the undisturbed query
"a lot Of little things" said the de
tective, who was slowly coming TO his
own in the matter of self-assurance
In the first place, he spoke to you
in the bank. and you answered him
Isn't that so?"
She nodded again You know Sc
much, it is surprising that you don't
know it all, Mr.. BrofIin," she com
mented. with gentle sarcasm.
1.-The one thing 1 don't know is the
thing you're goin' to tell me-his real
name" he insisted. That's what I've
come here for
In spite of her inexperience, which
in Mr. Brofin's field. was no less than
total. Charlotte Farnham had imagi
nation, and with it a womanly zest for
the matching Of wits with a man
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In the world that know least about"
"Oh, but do mean it, honestly" she
averred. You are q philosopher,
really and truly. and can prove it.
Do you feel equal to another little
drive DOWNTOWN"
Being a philosopher, ought to be
equal to anything" he postulated; and
he went upstairs to get street coat
and his hat
She had disappeared when he came
down again, and he went out to sit on
the sun-warmed veranda while he wait
ed He had already forgotten what
she had said about the object of the
drive-the proving of the philosophic
charge against him-and was looking
forward with keenly pleasurable an
tieipations to another outing with her,
the second for that day. 1t had come
to this, now; to admitting frankly the
charm which he was still calling sensu-
Gus. and which. in the moments OF in
sight recurring, as often as they can
be borne to the imaginative, and
vouchsafed now and then even to the
wayfaring, he was still disposed to
characterize as an appeal to that
which was least worthy in him.
Passing easily to Miss Farnham the
ideal from Miss Grierson the flesh-and-
blood reality, he was moved to won
der mildly why the fate which had
brought him twice into critically init
mate relations with her was now deny
ing him even chance meeting. For a
week or more he had been going out
daily; sometimes with Miss Grierson
in the trap, but oftener afoot and
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dergarten work, and was cheerfully
shown the records. When he turned
to the pages signed Charlotte Farm
ham" the last doubt vanished and
assurance was made sure. The anony-
nous letter writer was found.
1t was just here that Matthew Brof-
I'm fell under the limitations of his
trade. Though the detective in real life
is as little as may be like the Inspector
Buckets and the Javerts Of fiction, GER
tain characteristics persist When he
found himself face to face with the
straightforward expedient, the craft
limitations bound him. He thought of
a dozen good reasons why he should
make haste slowly; and he recognized
in none of them the craftsman's slant
toward 1ndirection-the tradition of
the trade which discounts the straight
forward attack and puts a premium
upon the methods of the deer-stalker-
Sooner or later, of course, the at
tack must be made. But only an ap-
prentice, he told himself. would be
foolish enough to make it without
mapping out all the hazards of the
ground over which it must be made.
In word, he must place" Miss Farm
ham precisely; make a careful study
| of the young woman and her environ
ment, to the end that every thread of
advantage should be in his hands when
he should finally force her to a con-
fession. For by now the assumption
| that she knew the mysterious bank
| robber was no longer hypothetical in
Brofin's mind; it had grown to the di-
| mansions of a conviction.
With the patient curiosity of his
tribe he suffered no detail, however,
trivial, to escape its jotting down To
familiarize himself with the goings
and comings of one young woman, he
made the acquaintance of an entire
town. He knew Jasper Grierson's am
bition, and its fruitage in the practical
ownership of Wahaska. He knew that
| Edward Raymer had borrowed money
| from Grierson's bank-and was likely
! to be unable to pay it when his notes
| fell due. He had heard it whispered
that there had once been a love affair
between young Raymer and Miss Farm.
ham, and that it had been broken of
by Raymer's infatuation for Margery
| OAAO4O 1A1SO, 1dSI anu 1SdSI
! tant of all the gossiping details, as it
seemed at the time, he learned that
the betwitching Miss Grierson was a
creature of fads; that within the past
month or two she had returned from a
Florida trip, bringing with her sick
man, total stranger, who had been
picked up on the train, taken to the
great house on the lake shore and
nursed back to life as Miss Grierson's
latest defiance of the conventions
1t should have been a memorable
day for Matthew Broffin when he had
this sick man pointed out to him as
Miss Grierson's companion in the high
/ trap. But Broff1n was sufficiently hu.
man to see only very beautiful young
woman sitting correctly erect on the
slanting driving-seat- To be sure, he
saw man, as one sees vanishing fig
ure in a kaleidoscope. But there was
nothing in the clean-shaven face of the
gaunt, and as yet rather haggard, con
valescent to evoke the faintest thrill
of 1nterest-or of memory.
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alone. The walking excursions had
led him most frequently up and down
the lakeside drive, but the doctors
house stood well back in its enclosure.
and there was much shrubbery. Once
he heard her voice: she was reading
aloud to someone on the vine-screened
porch. And once again in passing, he
had caught a glimpse of a shapely arm
with the loose sleeve falling away
from it as it was thrust upward
through the porch greenery to pluck
a bud from the crimson rambler, add
ing its graceful mass to the Chamber
ing vines. 1t was rather disappoint-
ing, but he was not impatient. In the
fuilness of time the destiny which had
twice interviewed would intervene
again. He was as certain of it as he
was of the day-to-day renewal Of his
strength and vitality; and he could af
ford to wait. For, whatever else might
happen in a mutable world, neither an
ideal nor it's embodiment may suffer
change.
AS if to add the touch of defniteness
to the presumptiye conclusion, a voice
broke in upon his reverie; the voice Of
the young woman whose most alluring
charm was her many-sided changeful-
ness, as If she had marked his preoc-
cupied gaze and OWNED its object:
"You must have little more patience,
Mr.. Griswold. Ali things come to him
who waits. When you have left Mere
side finally, Doctor BERTHE will some
time take you home to dinner with
him.
For his own peace OF mind, Girls
void hastily assured himself that it
was only the widest of chance shots.
Since the day when he had admitted
that he knew Miss Farnham's name
without knowing Miss Farnham in per
son, the doctors daughter had never
been mentioned between them
How did you happen to guess that
1 was thinking of the good doctOr?" he
asked, curiously.
"You were not thinking of Doctor
BERTHE; you were thinking of Doctor
Berries only" was the laughing con-
tradiction; and Griswold was glad that
the coming of the man with the trap
saved him from the necessity OF fall
ing any farther into what might easily
prove to be dangerous p1tfalI. IL was
not the first time that Miss Grierson
had seemed able to read his inmost
thoughts.
The short afternoon drive paused
at the curb in front OF Jasper Grier.
sons bank and a moment later he
found himself bringing up the rear OF
a procession of three, led by young
woman with a bunch of keys at heI
girdle-
Number three-forty-f please,
his companion was saying to eryoung
| woman custodian, and he stood aside
and admired the workmanship Of the
complicated timelocks while the two
entered the archaeological safety de
post vault and jointly opened one OF
| the multitude of small safes. When
| Miss Grierson came out, she was car
rying a small, japanned document boz
under her arm, and her eyes were
shining with a soft light that was new
to the man who was waiting In the
corridor. Come with me to one Of
the coupon rooms" she said; and
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and the man in the chair fell heels
over head downstairs. The man fell
out of the chair with great bump on
the steps From him came a cough
ing sound. and those who were picking
themselves up were startled to see
three large oysters fly from his
mouth.
Immediately the doctors face took
on cheerful expression He sent for
instruments and extracted several
more oysters from the mans aesopha-
gus. and the latter was soon complete
u revived. Then he proceeded TO treat
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whose chief occupation was the meas
uring of his own wit against the subtle
cleverness of criminals. Therefore she
accepted the challenge
81 did my whole duty at the time.
Mr.. Brofin," she demured, with q
touch of coldness in her voice IF
you were careless enough to let him
escape you at St Louis, you shouldn't
come to me. I might say very justly
that it was never any affair Of mine"
Matthew Brofin's gifts were subtle
only in his dealings with other men;
but he was shrewd enough to know
that his last and best chance with a
woman lay in an appeal to her fears
g I don't know what made you write
this letter, In the first place" he said,
taking the welI-thumbed paper from
his coat pocket; but 1 know well
enough now why you didn't sign it,
and Why you didn't put the mans real
name in it. You-you and him-hxed
it I'D between you so that you could
say to yourself afterwards what you've
lust said to me-that you'd done your
duty. But you haven't finished dom
Won duty yet. The law says"
Il know very well that the law
saws" was her baning reioinder; Il
have taken the trouble to find out
since I came home. / am not hiding
your criminal"
Brofin was trying to gain little
ease by fitting his chair. But the house
vail was too close behind him.
People viii say that you are heipin
to hide him as long az you won't tell
HE real name-what?'' he grated
TO BE CONTTNCED0
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The assistant manager hurried in.
A thick-set man lay back in chair.
his face blue. The hotel physician
was sent for, and the body, still in
the chair. was moved to less public
place.
The doctor hurried in and advised
that the man be taken downstairs at
once. He was smuggled around to q
back stairway and the assistant mana
ger and the waiter started to descend
with him He was heavy. and when
they got half gay the assistant man :
ger stumbled. and he and the waiter
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-11
A Stormy Experience.

President Woodrow Wilson is not
habitually a hustler, but it is said
that one day, being pressed for time,
he patronized a quick lunch counter
The results were far from satisfac-
tory to his peace of mind Not long
afterwards he met a friend who ques-
toned him on his experience
Well said the friend, 81 hear you
have been indulging in the popular
habit of the quick feed"
Yes" answered Mr. Wilson grim
ly Il had a lightning lunch, and it
was quickly followed by laundering
palms,"
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Gated by the addresses given in the
Belle jules register. In this arrange
ment Miss Charlotte Farnham's name
stood as No. l.
Landing in Wahaska the next eve
ming. Broffin's first request at the ho-
tel counter was for the directory Run
ming an eager finger down the "F"s,"
he came to the name. 1t was the only
Farnham in the list, and after it he
read: ''Dr. Herbert c., Office 8 to 10,
2 to 4, 201 Main ST., res. 16 Lake
boulevard"
Then he registered for a room and
prepared to draw the net which he
hoped would entangle the lost iden-
tity of the bank robber. After a good
nights sleep in real bed, he awoke
refreshed and alert, breakfasted with
an open mind, and presently went
about the net drawing methodicaIly
and with every contingency carefully
provided for.
The first step was to assure him.
self beyond question that Miss Farm
letter. This step he was able, by a
piece of great good fortune, to take
almost Immediately. A bit OF morn.
Ing gossip with the obliging clerk OF
the Winnebago house developed the
fact that Doctor Farnham's daughter
had once taught in the free kinder
garten which was one of the chart
table outreachings OF the Wahaskf
public library. Two blocks east and
one south; Brof11n walked then
promptly, made himself known to the
librarian as visitor interested in kin
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-11
The Wedding Route.

1t is reported that the latest thing"
in wedding invitations is an engraved
map showing the way 10 the church
and to the house Grinding perplex-
ity is the mother of innovations It
is not SO stated, but unquestionah1y
this helpful scheme originated IN Bos-
ton, where wedding guests have been
known 20 lose themselves and wan
der around for hours through the tan
gfed highways. not reaching the scene
OF the festival until the rice aad old
shoes had been thrown and everyone
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his rescuers to such a flow OF Ian
guage that they put their fingers into
their ears.
That's what you are apt to get in
this business said the assistant man
ager in telling the story recently If
we hadn't stumbled that man would
have choked to death. He had prob
ably swallowed a lot Of raw oysters
so fast that they completely filled his
aesophagus and overfowed into his
wiHdpipe Instead OF thanking Us
for bringing him back TO life he eussed
Us for letting him sall-
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knev, Her Name.

had occasion to pass little boy
a good many times one afternoon He
vas sitting on the steps and although
We we're strangers each time passed
he erected With ne with. Hello. and
I responded likewise. Finally the last
tine 1 passed by he said: Il know
wat your name is and upon IL
curing what. he said: Mrs Going
Back and Forth
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through neglect or
overWork 1 get ru1
down and my appe-
lite Is poor and ]
have that weak, Ian
guid, always tired
feeling, ! get & bot
tie of Lydia E. Pink
hams V eye table
Compound, and IL
builds me up, gives
me strength, and re-
stores me TO perfect
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Rioht Happy.

Knowing that the daughter Of her
laundress had been married recently,
Mrs Blank, of Boston, said to the
laundress:
rs your daughter happy, Chloe?"
We'll, no, ma'am. she amt what
you might call right happy To tell de
plain truf, ma'am she's done had to
pitch in an glib her husban' two or
three good hckin's already, SO dey
amt neither OBJ 'em what 20 might
call right happy, ma'am, no. I3s'am-"
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NOT GRATEFUL FOR THE FALL
eps:np Saved Greedy Mans Life, and
he Immediately Began cussina
His ReScuers

The scene was at the redroom at
the Waldorf and the time the close of
the oyster season. One of the as
sistant managers was summoned there
hurriedIy.
man has just fallen over dead. >.
said the beliboy who brought the
word
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-11

Some folks were married and are
happy. and some are married and
were happy
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-11

else was on the way home--Provi
dence Journal
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And every silver lining has it's
cloud
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health again 1t Is truly 3 great bless
ing TO women, and / cannot speak too
highly Of It / take pleasure in recon-
mending it TO others."-Mrs. ANNIE
CAMERON, RID, No. !, Swan Greek,
Michigan
Another Sufferer Relieved.
Hebron, Me.-"Before taking YOUR
remedies I was all run down, discour-
aged snd had female weakness. I took
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and used the Sanative Wash, and
find today that I am an entirely new
woman, ready and willing TO do my
homework now, where before taking
your medicine It was 3 dread. I try to
impress upon the minds Of all aiiinz
women meet the benefits they can
derive from your medicines. " Mrs.
CHARLES Rowe, Kennebago, Maine.
If you want special advice
write to Lydia E. Pinkham Med
fcine Co., (confidentiaD Lynn.
Mass. Your letter viii be opened,
read and answered by q woman
and held in strict confidence.
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WOMEN WHO ARE
ALWAYS TIRED
May Find Help IN This
Letter.

Swan Greek, Mich cannot sneak
TOO highly Of your medicine. When
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-29

Der Of the 1913 laws limited payment
to $40 month for dependent mothers
having one child, and So for each adj
ditional child; and this limitation is
increasingly followed, having been
written this year into the laws Of New
Hampshire, Oklahoma, Wyoming and
Tennessee, "In this" says the Even
ing Post, as the best evidence that,
new as the measures are, they are
no longer regarded as IN any way ex-
perimental. Their principle has been
very generally agreed to, and there
is no tendency for one state TO hang
back to see how methods work in
another" sa7Sa
Every state where women vote now
has mothers pensions.
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THE MOTHERS CALENDAR.

Recognizing that the health and
happiness Of my family, during the
coming year, viii depend largely on
myself as the home-maker, / am
RESOLVED:
/. That / Will guard my own
health and nerve force in every pos
sible way.
2. That every member Of my fam
lily, including myself, shall have the
proper amount of fresh air in our
home by day and by night.
3. That I will do my housework
in properly ventilated rooms and al
low myself at least one hour of out
door exercise daily.
A. That / will recuperate my
physical and nervous strength by
lying down at least half an hour each
day.
4. That I will conserve my health
by hitting down at my work when
ever this is possible.
s. That / viii simplify the dishes
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served on my table, because variety,
Pourishment, ap roperly balanced diet
and fresh fruits are more important
than fancy cooking.
Z. That I viii place safety first by
knowing the source of our ice and
milk supply, by demanding good
drainage from my house and by fight
ing flies and mosquitoes.
8. That will join hands with
my neighbors in fighting conditions
which imperil the health and hygiene
of the individual family and the com
munity.
9. That 1 will give a little time
each day to the intelligent study Of
child life, the care and feeding of in
fants, diet for older children, dis
cipline and the formation of goot
habits.
10. That in January, 1916, I vii
have better health, better home ant
better children because I have iveC
up to these resolutions.
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To a Suffrage Child
In Grand Street

That were you thinking, little child,
Little child, as the train slid by,
And showed me your can and your bit
Of wood,
Your playthings there, Just where you
stood
On your fire-escape at Grand?
Little child, think of Faerielandl
-(Faeries, that sang your lullabies
Ere he was born, cover his eyes,
Cover his eyes, stife his ears,
So he only hears
The tinkling bells of his Faerieland
That he loved, where he lived, ere
dusty GrandD-
Hush, little child, little childl
What were you hearing, little child?
Was it only the tumult wild
Of the push-carts and trains and the
cursing loud
Jostling up from the shrieking crowd
To your fre-escape at Grand?
Little child, think of Faerielandl
farm of the state, no mother-arm
Stretched out to keep her child from
harm,
No mother-ar that put him herel
And you do not fear
Vengeance viii come from his Faerie-
land
That you stole when when you sci
him down in Grand ~
Hark, little child, little child!
From the Woman's Journal.
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AN ECONOMIC WASTE.

er, and l think, gentlemen, you must
realize, because you must be more IA
miliar surely with the statistics of
all the great industries and profes-
sions and occupations of this country
than am, who am not obliged by my
position to have full knowledge upon
these subjects, you must realize how
large a proportion of the teaching,
not only of little children and of
growing youth but even of maturing
young men and maturing young wo-
men in those great states where wo-
men also are enfranchised, is in the
hands Of women. To my mind it is
one of the greatest inconsistencies of
which any government has been
guilty-to announce itself as de
mocracy and to place the education
of its coming citizens in the hands of
a disfranchised class. applause. y
May Wright Sewell, before the United
States senate. From the Congression-
al Record.
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Listening with profound satisfac-
ton and gratitude to the gentlemen
who could speak for enfranchised wo-
men and the effect of their enfran-
chisement upon their respective COM
munities, / shall not try to duplicate
any of the arguments presented by
them, all of which would so gladly
indorse; but l realize that / am speak
ing before committee representing
a Democratic administration, a Dem
ocratic administration that is pledged
to economy, and I'believe in economy.
And, believing in that principle, I
hope that it will be applied to the
economical use of the. finest forces of
American society. And / would speak
protesting against the great waste
that our country is guilty Of in hav-
ing so large a section of its educated
citizenship disfranchised, with its
educative powers incapable of being
brought to bear upon the questions
that affect US all. (Applause.)
Ny profession is that Of the teach