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CHAPTER XIV.

"This Is very nearly my idea Of per-
feet happiness" Sophy murmured. as
she leaned across the table and listened
idly while John ordered the dinner.
Give me very little to eat, John. and
talk great deal to me. / am de-
pressed about myself and worried
about everything!"
"And T." he declared. Fam Just begin
ming to breathe again. don't think
understand women. Sophy."
wasn't your weekend party a sue
cessf" she asked.
"Not altogether" he confessed; "but
don't let's talk about It. Tell me what
Is depressing you"
about myself. or things generallyT
yourself first"
swell, the most respectable young
man you ever knew In your life. who
lives In Bath. wants me to marry him.
don't think ] could. don't think !
could live In Bath. and ! don't think
I could marry anyone. And I've Just
thirteen shillings and fourpence left.
I haven't paid my rent. and my dress
maker Is calling for something on
account on Monday morning"
There's only one thing to answer
to that" John insisted cheerfully. II
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He led her away, and they passed
down the room. John slowly resumed
his seat.
"sophy," he demanded hoarsely, "teu
me the truth. Is there anything be-
tween the prince and LouiseY
Sophy nervously crumbled up the
toast by her side.
"The prince admires Louise, and has
done 30 for many years." she answered.
"No one knows anything else. Louise
never speaks Of him to me. I cannot
tell you"
But you must know" he persisted,
with a little break in his voice. For
give me, Sophy, II made an ass OF my
self. First Lady Hilda, and then Grail
lot, and then-well, thought Louise
might have rung up TO see whether I
was at home. II she came back sooner
than she expected; and the prince took
the table last night"
She leaned over and patted him on
the hand.
Don't worry" she begged. "If Lou
Use has to choose some day between
him and you, don't think she'll hesi-
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CHAPTER xiv--contlnued.

Sometimes with Miss Maurel, some
times with her little friend, Sophy Ge-
rard, and sometimes alone" John re-
piled. II have bought Baedeker.
taken a taxicab by the day. and done
all the sights. I've spent weeks In the
National gallery, picture gazing, and
I've done all those more modern shows
up round Bond street. have bought a
racing car and learned to drive II.
have been to dinner parties that have
bored me stifr. have been introduced
TO crowds Of people whom never wish
to see again. and made one or two
friends" he added, smiling at his guest,
rfor whom hope am properly CRATE
ful."
"The prince has been showing you
round bit, hasn't heT Graillot grunt-
ed.
"The prince has been extraordinarily
kind to me-" John admitted slowly,
''for what reason I don't know. He
has introduced me to great many
pleasant and interesting people, and a
great many whom I suppose a young
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change. ana her instinct warned her
Of the danger into which she was rush
ing.
"You surprise me very much" she
said. Louise Maurel Is very won
derful woman, but she seems to spend
the whole Of her time with my cousin,
the prince"
'They are, without doubt, very
friendly" John assented. "They have
a good many interests In common, and
the prince is connected with the syn
dictate which finances the theater. I
do not imagine, however, that the
prince wishes to marry her. or she
him."
Lady Hilda began to laugh. softly,
but as II genuinely amused. John sat
and watched her In ominous silence.
Not the flicker of a smile parted his
lips. His visitor. however, was undis-
turbed. She leaned over and patted
his hand.
"Simple Simon" she murmured,
leaning a little toward him. ''If you
60 on looking like that, I shall pat
your cheeks, too. You are really much
too nice looking to wear such tbun-
der cloudsi"
"Perhaps II we chose some other
subject Of conversation--" John said
stiffiy.
"Oh, dear mew she interrupted.
"very well You really are n most
trying person. you know. I put up with
a great deal from you"
John was silent. Her face darkened
n little, and an angry light flashed
In her eyes.
swell, I'll leave you alone II you
Ike" she decided, tossing her cigarette
into the crate. "If my friendship isn't
worth having, let It go. 1t hasn't
often been offered In vain. There are
more men In London than could count
who would go down on their knees for
such visit as am paying you. And
you--you," she added. with a little
tremble Of real anger In her tone,
"you're too hatefully polite and prig-
gishl Come and ring the bell for the
lift. I am goingw
She slid gracefully 10 her feet, shook
the cigarette ash from her clothes, and
picked up her nun.
"You are really an egregious, thick
headed, obstinate countryman," she de-
clared, as she moved toward tho door.
"You haven't either manners or sensi-
billty. am a perfect idiot 70 waste
my time upon you. I wouldn't have
done IT," she added, us he followed her
dumbly down the corridor. III hadn't
rather liked your
II am very sorry" he declared. IT
don't know quite what have done. ]
do appreciate your friendship. You
have been very kind to me indeed"
She hesitated as his finger touched
the bell OF tho lift. and glanced at
the watch on her wrist. She sighed,
and watched the top Of the lift as II
ISsss up Then she dropped her veil
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man In my position should be glad to
know. He has shown me one side OF
London life pretty thoroughly"
"And what about 1t air. Graillot
demanded. "You find yourself some
thing more Of citizen Of the world,
chr
"Not a Bit" John answered simply.
1.-THE more I see Of the life up here.
the smaller II seems to me. mean. OF
course, the ordinary life Of pleasure.
the life to be lived by a young man
like myself. who hasn't any profession
or work upon which he can concen-
trate his thoughts"
"Then why do you stayT"
John made no immediate reply. In
stead, he walked to the window OF his
sitting room and stood looking across
the Thames with discontinued frown
upon his face. Between him and the
Frenchman a curious friendship had
sprung up during the last few months.
1T gather" Graillot continued. shat.
70 put II concisely and truthfully, you
are the most bored man In London.
There Is something behind all this ef-
fort of yours. my friend. to ut your
self, the round human being. into the
square place. Speak the truth. now
Treat me as a father confessor."
John swung round upon his heel, In
the clear light It was obvious that he
was a little thinner In the face and
that some Of the tan had gone from his
complexion.
II am staying up here. and going on
with IT," he announced doggedly, be
cause Of a woman"
GraiIlot stopped eating, placed the
remains of his cake In the saucer OF his
teacup, and laid It down. Then he
opened his lips to speak and abruptly
closed them. HIS face suddenly under
went an extraordinary change. A Few
seconds ago his attitude had been that
of professor examining some favorite
-eb5eet- Of study : now a mora personal
note had humanized hi expression
Whatever thought or reflection IL was
that had come into hin mind, 1t had
plainly startled him.
"Who is the womanT he asked
,ereathlessly.
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tate very long. Don't look so stern,
please. You look very statuesque and
perfect, but don't want to dine with
a piece OF sculpture. Remember that
I am finding you too attractive for
my peace Of mind. There's your text"
He poured q glass Of wine and drank
IL on.
'Tn do my best" he agreed. "If II
sounds like rubbish, you can still be
lieve that / appreciate everything
you've told me. You are pretty. and
am lucky to have you here. Now I'll
try to make you believe that / think
So"
She leaned over 80 that her head al
most touched his.
go on. pleaseW she murmured
Even II 1t hurts afterward, It will be
heavenly to listen toll"
The next night Sophy acted as show
man ut the first production of the play,
so long delayed because of Graillot's
insistence on a scene that promised
to be startling to English playgoera
Her part was over at the end OF the
first act, and a few minutes later she
slipped into seat by Johns side be-
hind The curtain.
"What do you think OF II so farT-
she asked little anxiously.
ut seems quite good" John replied
cheerfully. "Some very clever lines,
and all that sort Of thing; but I can't
quite see what It's oil leading to-"
Sophy peered around the house from
behind the curtain.
"There isn't standing room any
where" she declared. II don't sup
pose there ever was a play In London
that was more talked about; and then
putting II OF for more than three
months-why. there have been all sorts
of rumors about. Do you want to
know who the people in the audience
aref"
mot particularly" John answered.
There are Just few familiar faces.
/ see the prince In the box opposite"
ibid you telephone to Louise to-
dayf" Sophy asked.
John shook his head.
mo. i thought It better to leave her
alone until after tonight"
"You are going to the supper. OF
courser
II have been asked" John replied,
a little doubtfully. II don't quite know
whether / want to. Is II being given
by the prince or by the management
'The management" Sophy assured
him. .Do you come and take mel It's
going to be rather fun"
The curtain went up upon the sec
ond act. John. from the shadows Of
the box. listened attentively. The
subject was not a particularly new
one. but the writing was brilliant
There was the old Marquis de Guy"
roue, a degenerate. but still over
bearing and full OF personality, from
whose lips came some Of Graillot's
most brilliant sayings; Louise, his
wife; and Faraday, a friend Of the old
marquis. and obviously the intended
lover of his wife.
II don't see anything so terrible In
this" John remarked, as the crutain
went down once more and thunders
of applause greeted some wonderful
Itnos 90 n.atllatbo
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am going to lend you fifty pounds while
you make your mind up about the
young man."
She made a face at him.
~ couldn't borrow money from
strange gentleman" she protested.
Rubbish he exclaimed. IF you
begin calling me stranger-but there,
never mind Wen see about that din
-ner Ten me more about your lows ar
fair. Sophy."
ut isn't q love affair at all !" she ex-
claimed, almost Indignantly.
"why, 1 am sorry. Your prospective
olliaace. then, shall / call itY
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JOHN HEARS MYSTERIOUS PHRASES WHICH TROUBLE
HIM WITH GRAVE DOUBTS ABOUT LoUlsE-AT TIMES
He WISHES HE WERE BACK IN THE HILLS.

synopsLoulse Maure famous
rural England
night the
the Cumberland district Before left
had John
looked
playwright and Sophy Gerard lighheared little John
purtanica his views entered the bohemian life the
enthusiasm that John the prince Seyre
rivals for the Louise
fascinating charm and bedevl him.
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The mystery about the life Of
Louise further troubles John
and-he- sets-Yorth psr the ea-
act truth, no matter how tragic
for him II may be.
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(To BR coNTINUEDl
The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1919-07-26

~ congratulate you both on your
good TASTE" said the prince. "There Is
nothing more abominable than river
side retreat out Of season. We are tax
ing the table on the left Louise"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-25
Every step of progress the world has taken
has been from scaffold to scaffold and from
state to state.-Wendell Phillips
BUDGET SYSTEM LEGISLATION.

Congressman Good chairman OF the house
committee reporting the budget bill before con-
gress, has declared that the budget plan pro-
posed would save the nation one billion dollars
a year. There never has been doubt in the
minds of people who have considered the matter
carefully that an honest budget SYSTEM made
practically efficient, would mean an immense
saving Mr.. Good s optimism for the present
plan may be great, but at least the bill is a be-
ginning at getting budget system and basis
for debate that ought to lead to congressional
action at this session.
But it is not altogether comfortable evidence
of what is before the enactment of such legis-
lation that the companion bill by which grant
ing appropriations would be taken from the sew
eral committees and given to a special finance
committee of thirty five members will not be
brought up at this session. Mr.. Good admits
that there is so much opposition to this that it
would endanger the whole budget legislation
plan But the public will want a real budget
system; it will want to know that at least the
government is transactng its business by pure
II business methods. If the companion bill con-
shutting a new committee provides something
essential to economy in government financing,
then postponing its consideration as part Of
budget legislation will undermine public conf
dence in the honest purpose of congress to make
economy and efficiency it's policy
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an ally that will do much to offset the ogre Of
high living costs, or the cost of living high.
DIsINTEGRATED RUSSIA.

If events move rapidly to the downfall of
Lenine's control of Russia disintegration will
follow. Then period of upbuilding in which
various forces will seek stable mastery. The
anti boshevist movement has several agents
and the supremacy of Kolchak is yet to be dem
onstrated. Denikine is at present the chief mill
tary figure in the south. The work in the north
has been done by Russians aided by the allies,
the Films and forces from the Baltic provinces.
No one here knows what progress could be made
st unifcation of these agencies. In the mean
time it is reasonable to take cognizance of the
fact that three powers are in position to exert
great influence from without Great Britain
has command of the waters; her fleets are at
hand and Russia will direly need cooperation
by sea with any stable government there estab-
hshed Germany has accomplished much
through Won der Goltz's operations, how much
Ionly the future can tell. Japan is in. Siberia
and is at present apparently received there
more sympathetically by the Omsk government
than any other power. There will not be lack
ing to disintegrated Russia many protfers of
iaid-at price.
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HOGS AND PORK PRICES.

Sioux City Journal: Live hogs
are quoted on the Sioux City market
at about $14 per hundred pounds for
top sales. with the bulk of sales,
which is really the standard price,
at $3.50 to $13. Roughly speaking
the prices show a reduction of about
40 per cent. from the high mark
reached some months ago. II there
is any relation between the price of
live hogs and the price of pork, the
latter should now be selling at about
three-fifths of what 1t did six
months ago. Bacon, which then re.
tailed for about so cents pound,
should now be selling for 80 cents.
Other prices of pork should show a
like decline. But, granting liberal
allowance in the margin between
the decline in prices Of live hogs
and finished pork products, the price
Of the latter should show a decline
OF one-fourth at least. But they have
not.
Where is the product of $14 hogs
going, If not into the retail trade?
Is it being stored SO as to produce a
shortage which in spite of the losses
suffered by the farmer in reduced
price for his hogs, will hold up the
price of pork productst to the con-
sumner? If SO, the law which has
been passed by both branches of con
gress and has received the presi-
dents approval will reach and pun.
ish those who are doing the hoard.
ing If the department Of justice has
the courage and ability to enforce
the law. II there is no boarding and
the product of S14 hogs is going into
the distribution trade Of the packers,
someone somewhere along the line,
which is decidedly short, Is profiteer-
ing in manner which amounts to
public robbery 1t ought not to be
difficulty to find the profiteer and to
convict him OF his offense under the
laws. If these things are not done,
mand that the administration take
action or change its officials.
The farmers have been accused of
profiteering, because they were re-
ceiving high prices for live stock.
If they were guilty, they should have
been punished. The slump in prices
of live hogs without corresponding
slump in the prices Of hog products
Iproves that the farmers are not the
ones conducting the holdup. They
now do not have to explain the high
costs of labor and machinery and
other things they must buy as q
justification for the prices they are
receiving. Anyone knows that hogs
at s14 per hundred pounds are not
out of proportion to the cost of pro-
Iduction; that the farmer who sells
at that price under present condi-
lions is actually losing money. Thus,
one factor in high prices is elimi-
mated from Investigations which
should locate the trouble. If the
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price OF pork retains the samo i.
1t did when hogs were $40 hun ~
higher because OF the incras.
wages of those who reduce tha Y
hog to eatable meat, they are ~
teers and should come within '' J
regulation and control of the POW,
ment. 1t is useless to e!iminata ,
cause of high prices in one plaza i.
add causes Of high prices in ~
places. The quicker the public tss
a healthy view of this feature If ,
problem and sets about remoyin,
and preventing others. the so s
will the whole condition be imnr0S
and the evil removed. '
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THE BOOK OF BOOKS.

There is a theme to which the church as
whole might proftably give more attention
than it does in these days when the pressure OF
other interests is tending to put the bible out Of
the peoples life. The old view of literal inspi-
ration and verbal inerrancy is shown to be I'M
Itenable, without historical foundation and to
have done incalculable harm in keeping men
away from the bible and from church. The
sacred scripture has free, fallible, human ele-
lment; but is infallible for its great purpose OF
revealing God to man and teaching man how
Ito get to God. With this conception of the bible
in mind people can turn to it with no abatement
of the spiritual uphft and joy many genera
lions of our forefathers have found therein.
accepting it as literature not above the posi-
ibiity of errors of narration the worlds great
mystics, who knew most about the working of
the hidden ways of the spirit have neither de
MED nor doubted any material fact therein set
forth. Books, words letters are valueless in
themselves. The true secret Of their value is
their inspiration. The word is only the vehicle.
The spirit of its potency, it's subtle vitality, can
make any word from any language convey
meaning and suggest a thought. Inspiration
can use empty words as vehicles of spiritual
power, thus making the ordinary language of
time and sense eternal and pouring out through
III abundant wealth and wisdom of higher minds.
Another reason can be dimly glimpsed,
though not perhaps made clear to hasty COM
prehension, why the bible has held and probab-
~ will always hold the highest place among our
books. Countless generations by their belief In
it, their veneration for it, have helped to lift
it to that pre-eminent position. Hosts of the
devout throughout the centuries have found in
it, and thus in sense read into it and perma-
nently fixed there, spiritual values which the
same words in other contexts do not carry.
Finding therein the inner truth for which they
sought, they fastened that character on it, max
ing it easier for others to find it. and the book as
it has come down to US, illuminated, so to speak,
by devotional souls in all centuries, thus reveals
to the sincere seeker ever fresh unfoldings from
TIE heart of life.
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A NEW AGENT FOR CUPID.

Chicago has found new agent for Cupid in
the person Of the federal collector Of internal
revenue located there. This official says that
no single man may manufacture or house in
such premises as serve his for home any alec
holic beverage. No wife, no home brew, is this
officials version of the law Chicago's bache-
1crs are credited with a pensive attitude in
which determination is slowly dominating dis
may and indecsion. Visions Of home and fire.
side are more, stimulating than ever before and
there are indications that Chicago newspapers
will have more than their usual quota Of
Moose of the Weak as Mark Twain called
the marriage notices that he said engaged more
attention from a large class Of readers than any
thing in the columns of daily print. There can
be no doubt that if the Chicago revenue man IS
decision is upheld the country over, Cupid has
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TODAY'S Bat OF VERSE
WONDERLAND.


Sweet eyes by sorrow still unwet
To you the world is radiant yet,
palace hall Of splendid truth
Touched by the golden haze of youth.
Where hopes and joys are ever rife
Amid the mystery of life,
And seeking all to understand.
The world to you Is Wonderland.
I turn and watch with unshed tears
The furrowed track Of ended years;
I see the eager hopes that wane,
The joys that die in deathless pain,
The coward faith and falsehood shake,
The souls that faint, the hearts that break,
The truth by livid lips bemoaned
The right defled, the wrong enthroned-
And, striving still to understand.
The world to me is Wonderland
A little time. then by and by
The puzzled thought itself shall die,
When, like the throb of distant drums,
The call inevitable comes
To blurring brain and weary limb,
And when the aching eyes grow dim,
And fast the gathering shadows creep
To lull the drowsy sense asleep,
We two shall slumber hand in hand
To wake perhaps in Wonderland.
Harry Thurston Pet