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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
MHIlINENG'
Especial star. Bulletin UoIrsspOndsnes.

tspsciaI star. Bulletin ooTfsspoudsncs.y
WAILUKU, Maui, Sept. 26.-On
Thursday last q meeting of the Cen.
trail Maui ministers Of the Hawaiian
Board churches was held at the Paia
Union church, There was large az.
tendance. The morning was rpent In
listening TO addresses in theology.
after which the ladies OF the Paia
Union church served luncheon.
Miss Gertrude B. Judd, who Is act
ing in conjunction with committee Of
Maui ministers, has begun this week
her classes at the Wailuku Union
church in theological study for several
of the pastors of the Central Maui
churches. The class will meet four
mornings a week and will consist OF
ten or twelve members studying In
two groups each week. The work for
this year will be divided into three
terms of about s. hours each term.
The members Of the class are most en-.
thusiastic in beginning study In
classes again.
Rev. and Mrs. George Z. Lake OF
Hama are spending the month OF Sep
TENDER in Kohala, where Mr.. Lake is
supplying the pulpit of Rev. John F..
Cowan, d. D., who 10 on the mainland
for a vacation of several months. The
month of October Rev. w. B. Coale
of Lahaina will preach for DR.. Cowan.
Mrs. Coale will accompany her hus-
band to Kohala.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
AUCTION BULLETIN

We are in the market at any time to
buy your used Furniture, to take at
once or to take at some future time,
thus relieving you of care as to its
disposal when reaC-- TO go, or we
will sell it for your account by
Public Auction at our Popular Auc-
ton Sales" on Tuesdays and Fri.
days, where the people attend in
crowds every time. We find that the
more goods the more people attend,
hence we are on the look out for
PEI all possible chances TO handle ">Tr
= used Furniture, and il is directly
ysto your interest as well as ours to
let us handle the sale through
Honolulu Auction Rooms, ]. S.
Bailey. -.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
PALMIsTRY
sCIENTIFTc PALMIsTRY

SCIENTIFIC PALMlSTRI
NINE. CLEO Is an experienced prae-
toner in the Science of Palmistry,
by which she has made many re-
markable predictions. The lines IN
the hand show the powerful in.
fiuence Of All Affairs OF Life such as
business, marriage and health. III
Beretania street. cor. OF Union, En-
trance on Union street. Have
NINE. CLEO read for you today.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Hours, 8
to 12-1 to 8. Evenings by aD-
pointment. Phone ais.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28

Five.passenger REQ in excellent condi-
ton, $4,000 cash. Phone 7077. 1892
Koa avenue, Royal Grove, Waikiki.
6S99---tf
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28

The owners Of the Argentine sailing
vessel Ofiana prepared claim
amounting to $3S5.000, which will be-
stated to the foreign minister and
forwarded to the German government.
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HONOLULU STAR.BULLETIH
DAILY AND sEKI.WEEKL~

Terms Of subscriptions:
Daily Stnr-Bulletin Is cents per moA'n'
So per year, 5 cents per copy
Semi. Weekly Srar-Bulletin. ~ per Se@'
Advertising r e5:
Classified ant Business Announce
cents i cent per wC-d per eac-. inser-
ton, UP TO one week.
Estimate six W. IDS per line.
Per line, one week ......''.'So cen.o
Per line, two weeks. .......'.4o GEMS
Per line, one month. ......-. ~ cehts
Per line. six months. 80 cents e. mo.
other rates upon application.
no advertisements or liquors or GER
tain proprietary medicines VIII De &C
cepted. 3D.
In. replying to Advertisements ad'
drc-s your replies exactly as stated IN
the advertisements
II YOU are a telephone subscriber;
,.bone YOUR advertisement; we Will
c. argc II.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
69OI-lst

Mrs. Ray Rietow went TO Honolulu
last Saturday evening TO snn-d u w-salI
with her parents. Her mother. Mrs.
Thomas II Gibson will accompany
Mrs. Rietow upon her trip home, re-
naming here for some weeks. =
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
FOR SALE
AUTOMOBILES.

Hupmobile. Touring Car for sale. Call
or phone Captain Crystal, at Fort
Shafter. i'll. 6S99-tf
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
AUTO Accessories.

1916 Ford Touring Car. Inquire 2422
y Kalakaua avenue! 6902-tf
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
FOR RENT

Six Co warehouses for rent. Apply
Warehouse Trust, FoIt and Mer'
chant SITS. 6SS5-tt
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
LOST
NOTICE.

will not be responsible for any.
debts or obligations contracted for by
anyone. whoever they may be. without
m! written order.
NJ. G. SILVA.
690l-l2t
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28

Unused Remington typewriter, No. 10,
$500. Easy payments. P. o. Box
4S3, 6S67-1m
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.

Secondhand cameras and lenses
bought, sold or exchanged. Koda.
graph Shop, Hotel and Union SITS.
63o7-tt
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28

An makes of auto and bicycle tires
and tubes; auto accessories; also
vulcanizing, retreading, rebeading,
etc. Taisho Vulcanizing Co., Ltd,
$50 Merchant, Eva Alakea street
Phone 1897. 6582-6m
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
HOTELS

Furnished cottage with sleeping porch
and private bath, with board, also
furnished double rooms with board.
Vida Villa, So. King St 6SS9-1m
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28

One flag locker, me office locker
(koal; at 4. of P. hall. Telephone
. 1872. RI. -.. 6SS3-tt
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28

Combination sketch box and easel, 1877
King street. .> 689S-et
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28

One spring upholstered self-adiustable
Oak Morris chair. Tel 1912.
. ~. '-...< 6S51-tt
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28

ALI kinds Of frun, vegetables and
seeds. 1061 Aala street, Phone 1854.
- c779-tt
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
REAL ESTATE.

$1,000 square feet In Dole street, Pu-
nahou district. Apply Bishop Trust
Co. 6866-tf
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
POULTRY.

Piano $4,000, On account of going to
+ the states. 727 S. Beretania street.
....-. III. 6S9S-6t
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BUSINESS PERSONALS
cHIRoPopIST.

Dr.. Cathartne Schumacher. ga S. King,
cor. Richard H3u--, $50 to $50.
Tel. 1906. Home appointments.
6e92-tf
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28

Automobile, carriage, wagon supplies
Quaker. Portage tires, tubes. New
Oahu Carriage Mfg. Co. Tel. 2742.
6S03-6m
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12
5OLDIERS WIFE
AND FAMILY IN
NEED OF HELP

Mrs Harry Knott. whose husband
is Ia Uncle Sans army. with her
little family OF 1--WE a baby girl of
I'VE months and four boys aged two.
our. nine and ten, Is having a hard
''me to keep body and soul together
for herself and the brood, In a small
cottage al 40 l57 Nermontave
Thru the interest Of several wo-
men who learned OF the dire straits
of the family. The little house was
rented. necessary furniture Obtained,
nd fuel and food provided for the
immediate present The mother has
a small allowance from the govern
ment as soldiers wife. but it is far
rom enough 10 cl0the. feed and
louse the five children and herself.
The most pressing need az this
imo is for clothing for The children
md the charltahly Inclined viii End
a real place ror their help in this
'ule lone. according 20 those who
have already done their hlt toward
aiding the children and their brave
mother
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12

cnt 20 public Instruction. has sug-
Er.f.d Chat the holiday vacation bo
rH.rteutI aH that tht -prlng term
r.ulI nr earlier lt - his idea l'
r..ra-e Students early I'm the sumo
U.I -p. many pf them can g. tH
work uu f8rus. Dr. Cuudscy thiuhs
the plan might he worthy or tfial
lu fdiIl districts
Tho department OF buildings and the
depnrtment OF snfrt9 engine rinE
have put before 1uosc tvhuIis ''s
.blem or Oct ft-litluB WA4tA "i
ia,m has jurisdiction oNcr tat
building otcupied Dy the IucIsIE
-.-i.----+- a.-,+---- t--ffii+-tftt ,-t+-- -
l..ut0u-st The building was re-
Nluf frIpI and the safety engineering
department gave permlssiou o. oc-
tIIl no The building ucIArti icni
ctUrlcs the structure had b"eu rec
model wl h'ui "a proper permit.
90 ais. ,laIms that there nr' m re
than Ir ruHmers ABOVE thf l'a-
ranm and therefore. Tho cI1HriiIr1-
ff.n ~ thT place ls changed a .NS
connolly VIII decide which q part
mont has tho power 20 order The
required alterations.
Tenchcrz in the public schools nre
hclng asked. thru Assistant super
iuf,ut. lt of Schools Frank Cody,
f.r names ~ Chtlircu ln nced}
fGwii SEES who require winter shots 3.
a I.r t'irnU Rotary club, OF
tends q. llStt' butte about BOO pairs
~ p .ys Co. children as a Chris mas
G.fr THn it "a l.tu~ always s'f' q
HfHa7 go rtt.rfnr nt ~ S' me
kind f.r tAe children In public In
~ IfInrs iu th" City, but THIS ear
w.Il omit tire entertainment ana
900 a ttfifI amount lu p'"NltiN b
U. H.ne IID comm Itt. "rt'.Ht -
NtiI lU .lDt h.H God. l.I -
Oa" inter r
.rnl I'D. if.....II laI N. atf.. To '.fr~
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12

Despite the fact that an uucou
rauablc Hre has been buruine in
re basement OF the Northern high
chool Tor more than two wecEa
ho 2,lO0 pupils With but slight u
TrUTTfJI5. nave Jctn Attending
ilsscs every day
Supt. George c. Bechtel an
7ounccd 20 parents OF the pupils
hat there is no cause for alarm
and that the building is In no
danger The FIRE Is confined to two
i00-ton coal bins whore workmen
lre continually carrying out the fuel
and pouring water on the smolder-
ng piles
Spontaneous combustion In
cheap grade OF coal Is said 90 be-
be cause Of the ere The same
condition was found in the Grueset
cuool week or two ago. The coal
as carried into the yard and the
Gre extincuishcd.
The coal being stored in larger
quantities than usual This year, ls
more liable 20 This condition, 30 is
said
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12
COLEMAN GETS
LOCAL BAPTISTS
UP IN THE AIR

George w Coleman OF Boston.
had the Bapusts Of Detpoit all up
In the air I'm the First Baptist
church. Tuesday night He did o.
With BITS vivid recital of his scusa
lens I'M an 1erOpl1no Gi"hr. which
he used 20 Illustrate the changed
conditions ~ The world 20 which
the modern hurch must adjust ii-
self n must I've on an the gospel
not haH of 20 and relate religion
not 20 rhc individual soIclF bar to
'h' sOc.1l ana economic interc0ur5c
indIr.dua's
Nj. Coleman. wnD was me founder
~ Ford Han I'm Boston, congratu
lated thc l.trait rar'isfs upon their
r.rpOsc ot c.ta ab - forum, and
.hus being hc 1rs, rclieou9 bod
90 combine ,a.s douocrauz.us idea
.th denominations life. Tie de
cllDd thD church should be brave
enough 20 lcr thc man outside the
church be bourd i0 rhe forum
Mr Coleman wiIl go to France
De FIRST 0f the year 0s representa-
tlNc of the Baptist chur hes OF
hurr,ra r'uruin in time 90 report
to rha uat.nl convention IN Allan
tic city in My
Row. H. G. GIelsr. superintendent
Baptist union and R.v W n Pilot
city pecian-t rep red hopefully on
The prog OF Bap e church OK
fDr.i.u ar- }ugI.or'7 zion $40 X 10
'olro. several gcuIitestlb' -h
VI cbuclo L.ta shown u-prisinE
gains.
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12
RAILWAYS
DECISION IS
Due TODAY.
Adoption of Definite
Policy Is Likely Be-
fore Night

WASHINGTON, Dee l2-Plans
Tor war time control OF railroads
viii probably be completed before
night
With the railroad war board sched
uIed 70 see President Wilson and
with brotherhood chiefs IN town. n
appeared likcly that definite meth
ds OF unified operation would be-
devised.
The president VIII be ready with.
In q short time 90 advise congress OF
hts desires as 10 this vital project.
AS anairs are now shaping. II ap-
pears likrly that "a government rail
'pad q 'aiol perhar Ss cary of
hc interior Lane VIII b- appointed
~ run the Tines
ID world gave mower % pool Jhs
lines AMI heir equpmen. 10 elm
mate mrssoHtial schedules and go
III ect Sin noes thai the rail Dads at
hc end O. his tenure would be ON a
Ounder basis than before.
lo'h The ailr13d war board and
the brotherhoods intend 20 impress
apoa he president their views that
private control, with a single head.
can accomplish desired war emcien-
cy. provided the government tends p
hand In strengthening the roads
finances.
The president has been non-com-
initial thus far tho the general i'm.
preston is that he is favorable 20
The government control idea Con
gress az whole appears sympa
thetic 90 such a solution OF the prob
lom
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12
Trust Companies Name Directors.

Four Detroit trust companies
elected directors Tuesday. making
hut few changes The Security Trust
company added Emory ". Clark,
president of the First and Old De
roit National bank. and John Kel-
sey. head of tho Kelsey Wheel com
pany. 10 its board. The American
Loan g. Trust company increased IT'S
board by five The new directors
ire. Robert Wldrig. Judge Clyde T.
Webster. Frank q LATER. Gordon "
Kingsbury and Donald Clark Dt
rectors OF the Detroit Trust com
panv. The Bankers Trust company
md the Guaranty Trust company
were reelected only two of the
ccmpanier. The American Loan g
rusi and the Guaranty Trust elect
I'd oficprs There were no changes
in fho personnel
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12
Tenchcrs Ia she public schools nre
EI CAPTS OR
OHIO. IS PLAN

CLENE' AND, o., Dec l2.-So
rcrioue q, The coal shortage thruoui
'hIa tbu State Fuel Administrator
I.mcr johnson Is today considering
rHt ing on card system 10 insure
equitable distribution OF coal 20 in
dustrial and domestic consumers.
Ten thousand men thrown out Of
work because OF lack OF fuel 10 oper-
ate plants are expected back 20 work
-tt.a4A-er tomorrow as a result of tho
release of tho Cleveland lake coal
pool
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12
TEDDY AND SARAH
MOST STOP SHOW

NEW YORK. Dec IL Col Roose-
welt and Sarah Rernhardt met az "a
musical show hero and almost stop
ped the performance When Teddy
bowed 20 Bcrnhardt, the band played
American and French national airs
and everybody stood up 10 cheer
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12
Law Students Are Winners.

The Detroit College Of Law basket
ball team defeated the team OF As
sumption college Tuesday evening
by a score OF l3 to II The game
was bitterly fought and al times be
came very rough. but the players
kept within the rules so that 10 was
not necessary to call fouls.
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12
Dr. Charles T. Chndscy. suPcrint nd
- -. .-Lu.La - II a. - ~
Cen. AIlenby, With hBaredHead,
Marches With His Soldiers
Thru Gates of jerusalem

WASHINGTON tread the
French and Italian marched down the historic
dispatches received
the o. Sir
the commanders OF French and Italian forces and the head Of
British political officer
Italian viii safeguard the holy places
the of dispatches said
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12

a Harvard professor ut chemistry
Is W He crpn .umts wiih lachry-
9oen lH 90. uec iu 'he trenches
lf causes c0r'uus weeping that rem
lcre accurate marksmanship im-
f,t r. bio
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12

Miss Helen =. Mccormick. New
Y0rk's FIRST woman prosecuting az
tOrpoy. "a advocating women judges
for children's courts. FOR night
courts and for courts Of domestic
relations.
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12

Chairman off War Service Com.
miuecs. representing every branch
of industry In the country, have
heou called by the Chamber OF Com
mprcc Of thc United states 20 meet
IN Washington today 90 perfect
plans for cooperation with the gov
errwent
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12

Dorothy Dalton. screen actress of
Unusual ability will bc he Mu 'ie u
'tfra tlon urst week in "The Price
dark Tho scenes 2 TIN. f'iI.e
|fark are laid in EEvJt 1uf Sow
Fork and fuu advantage has been
AIKEN uf the exceptional orpnrfuuI-
les for vp .,tureFque phott Ehs
'he story is build around fho 70 us-
les and triafs ~ beauUful country
Elrl who sr-ks Thtafrira1 .rnrfep.
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12
City News in Brief


ig addition 90 the appointments an
inounctd tuesday, Mayor Mars has
named tHlih cnllaluore ~ tar
'rtfutrriuE hrU ~ smith, lllucN-
man 81 til} .ia t' IH the Naca,,s
eu iH. board ~ boiler Ilies caHeea
ly tla rr-.enaHnu ut JHrn H. De
N.arr Nr lilaWure lives az NO.
4 Fourteenth street ear hit an At
iuurlf a Pacific Ten eu WpuuN
Hu.L aI F.auuIeu and H Eh-sts.,
TIeeday afternoon and injured two
Eur- driver. who sustained q dis
-l--i--4.a-.44- -,--4t--f- 4trltttt-- aHd
Sam Bl4lIeIc. IA compa a.a who
..utruI IA crushed chest Both
Police rursdas night arrested Mn"ie
Reeves on charge or tniS ing
af ,h. Harr ua Motor corporation
Nelson said ID. fut Few minutes.
rEst with the young woman at
firf when they parted the money
tss- gone when the police ar
rrsfei the girl they found purse
and money on her.
Mrs N'FholuS l.. anderson m"ther OF
hrs. hiip ~. Nc hili"n' OF thiH
't-l lD'7,.h. iu ., h.'' 'H
"a ht.u MI@. AHbtf@'N was
If Az oh1 i'i many 'hi y
was ONO 'l Tho prominent h'
80 '. -'Htl tom a'.
alit ..'' 't "ii' u i.''I
| ,f.ii.t -r.l,. trtt.r VA,
.. d. 49,, -.ler, fsoth rpr1e
a. ~ tFII.. f.rt o. trDtf Tuesdav
r.ott f.r ug.4Htrrt.r
TWO u,-u chnru = ,tifh hpui-,s- ~ et~
rrrlt -urd hrrort justice Sea t.rs op
TI.. Ni,.r %
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12

~ Man send &c stamps
LtluI auE tmg az lN. llNsut- -tn Lne-
afrrr Uffrr nrrn ctrninrs Wood
ward Theater CO.. Sod Breltmever tiir
The Detroit times., 1917-12-12

with J Barney Sherry and Ada
Gleason heading the cast. Fanatics
written ny JoI1 Lynch. viii have ite
FIRST local showing in Tho Regent next
week. Tho supporting cost includes
william v. MunR. AlEs Grey and
Eugene Barr Fanatics rs the stur,
~ wife who attempts g. rcveng.
hcr husband = death when hc loses
his fortune and then his life iu ava
attempt 90 please n beautiful adven-
turess. IL includes n number 90 i'm
duvirial scenes arnu one ~ tho
BIG steel plants tog thrr with 20
bc shorter nims in addition 60 th
feature
The Press., 1917-07-19
Tn. Mar wbo Tb;nL,

A man with dirty face and hands. shirt soaked with precipitation, stopped, laid down his dinner bucket, rolled q broken knuekle out of the pathway be tween the tracks. put it close up against the ends of the ties, where no one could stumble over 1t, picked up his dinner bucket and plodded home.
 More than fifty other employees had preceded this man, each one carefully picking his way around the obstruction
 l asked this man why he took the trouble to roll the knuckle out of the pathway. He seemed surprised at such a question and said, "Why, some of the boys might get bad fall If that knuc- kle was there after dark" said, ''All the other men passed it by," and he re piled: "Oh, they're all good boys. They'd have done the same thing if they'd thought about it.
 He said something, didn't he?
 ''If they'd thought about it." An, yes, If they'd thought about it."-Erie Railroad Magazine.
The Press., 1917-07-19
Keep the Machine In Repair.

Think for a moment. A man who would no more run his mOtOrcar on deflated tires or with sand in the gear box than he would use sulphuric acid for motive power will keep going right on at his business when the tread of his own physical mechanism is f1atten- ing out and the gear box of his mind is filling with the wrong kind of grit. The impatient optimism that shakes of a vague oppression with the assur- ance "I'll be all right tomorrow has had as much to do with lengthening out the list of bankrupts as any other thing that could be named. You can't correct bad condition by persisting in the things that cause 1t. You will only make it worse. You can easily enough, if you are obstinate enough, make it so much worse that it will 'be the death of you," or, anyway, put you out of business.
The Press., 1917-07-19
InmscRn Are Curious.

In many ways the structure of in- seets is wonderful. They are gifted with muscles of extraordinary strength and are yet destitute of bones to which those muscles can be attached. They possess a circulatOry system and are without a heart. They perform acts involving the exercise of certain men tai qualities and are without a brain. But more remarkable still. they breathe atmospheric air without the aid of lungs. If we take any moderately large insect, say wasp or a hornet, we can see even with the naked eye that a series of small spOtlike marks run along either side of the body. These apparent spots. which are generally eighteen or twenty in number, are in fact the apertures through which the air is admitted into the system and are usually formed in such a manner that no extraneous matter can by any pos sibllity find entrance.
The Press., 1917-07-19

ing room, but If time pressed with me she would dismiss him and give her at- tention to business.
 Meanwhile the talented Dane con- tinued to discourse most excellent mu- sic, and although my conversation with Mrs. Culver occupied more minutes than the brief summary of it might seem to indicate, MT. Kronold did not cease to play. The sound was always in my ears, although not constantly at tended, yet I am sure that if 1t had been interrupted beyond the natural small pauses of the musical score l should instantly have been aware of the fact and should not have failed to remember 1t afterward.
 have said. however, that did not give a steady hearing to the sweet strains that were waited across to us The reason was twofold-frst, l pre- ferred the voice of my hostess to any other music. and. second, l had Ob- served something which, though 1t had no especial significance at the moment. excited my curiosity and tended to de fleet my attention. Behind Mrs Culver there was a mirror, and 1t gave me a view of the part of the hall and of the entrance of the room where Mir. Kro. mold was. 4 heavy curtain was hung across that door. saw the butler-a lean, dark, anxious man, whose name is Derby-draw the curtain aside and enter. l saw him presently emerge, and 1t seemed to me that his demeanor was not ordinary. It was furtive. tense and nervOusly indecisiVe. g..
 There was a chair in a corner Of the hall, and he sat down in it and got up again in an unnatural way, as if his action had been part of mild night mare. I saw his right hand lowering around the breast pocket f~his coat. and knew that that pocket held un- usual contents. Finally he glanced to- ward the door of the reception room, caught glimpse. suppose. of my ob- serving eyes in the mirror, and imme- diately his distress increased.
 By all means." said I in response to a renewed suggestion by my hostess, '1 should be very much pleased to meet Mir. Kronold.''
 Upon this we crossed to the drawing room. the butler holding the curtain for our convenience and enteIeIg after us in response to sign from his mistress, who doubtless required some small service of him. though what it was she could not remember, for the excite ment of the next few minutes obliter- ated the matter from her mind.
 Mir Kronold seemed oblivious of our coming His back was toward us; his eyes were inlsnt upon the score. for 1t appeared that he was playing some thing new to his repertory, purchase