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Show 1 n v llej,' Hi STORV loo 4 n THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES o No E r MEREDITH NICHOLSON Dx Aattof 1 1 "THE MAIN CHANCE," Eic. VANE1UN, ZELOA 1 Copyright th( HI, Mut by Muliba-lUrrl- Co. CHAPTER XII. Continued. "But I suppose the Sisters are awful-J- It strict" Theyre hideous, Rt perfectly y hide- ous." Where is your home? I demanded. "Chicago, Louisville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, perhaps?" Humph, you are dull! You ought to know from my accent that Im not And I hope I from Chicago. havent a Kentucky girl's air of waiting to be flattered to death. And no Indianapolis girl would talk to a strange man at the edge of a deep wood in the gray twilight of a winter day, thatB from a book; and the Cincinnati girl Is without my elan, esprit, whatever you please to call it. She has more Teutonic repose, more Gretchen of the Rhine valley about her. Dont you adore French, Squire Glenarm? she concluded, breathlessly, and with no pause in her quick step. I adore yours, Miss Armstrong, I asserted, yielding myself further to the Joy of idiocy, and delighting m the mockery and whimsical moods of her ' Hi. talk. I did not make her out; indeed, slbt I preferred not to! I was not then,-an- d I am not now, thank God! of an 1 analytical turn of mind. And as I dost grow older I prefer, even after many a ring blow, to take my fellow human beings And as for women, old :ty. t as I find them. prise, an Amerlran stamp and postmarked New Orleans. It was dated, however, at Vera Cruz, Mexico, December 13, 1901, and gave a characteristically racy account of his efforts to dodge the British detective who was pursuing him. He hoped, he wrote, to cross the borders Into Texas, but declared that he should keep clear of Indiana, as he was unacquainted with the Indian language. Bates gave me my coffee In the library, as I wished to settle down to an evening of reflection without delay. Larry's report of himself was not reassuring, despite Its cheerful tone. I knew that if he had any idea of trying to reach me he would not mention it In a letter which might fall into the bands of the authorities, and the hope that he might join me grew. I was not, perhaps, entitled to a companion at Glenarm under the terms of my exile, but as a matter of protection in the existing condition of affairs there could be no legal or moral reason why I should not defend myself against my foes, and Larry . was an ally worth having. My neighbor, the chaplain, had Inadvertently given me a bit of Important news; and my mind kept reverting to the fact that Morgan was reporting his injury to the executor of my grandfathers estate in New York. Everything else that had happened was tame and unimportant compared with this. Why had John Marshall Glenarm made Arthur Pickering the executor of his estate? He knew that I detested him, that Pickering's noble alms and high ambitions had been praised by my family until his very name sickened me; and yet my own grandfather had thought it wise to intrust his fortune anJ my future to the man of all men who was most repugnant to me. I rose and paced the floor in anger. My rage must fasten upon some one, anLI passed him and went on into or yonng, I envy no man his gift of - "Bates!" Yes, sir." I heard feet scraping on the stone floor of the porch. This is a devil of a place to talk in, but its the best we can do. Did the young man know I sent for you? No, sir. I kept him quite busy with his books and papers. Humph! We can never be sure of i him." I suppose that is correct, sir." .Well, you and Morgan are a line pair, I must say! I thought he had Borne sense and that youd see to it that he didnt make a mess of this whole thing. He's in bed now with a hole in his arm and youve got to go on alone. I'll do my best, Mr. Pickering." Dont call me by name, you Idiot Were not advertising our business from the housetops." Certainly not, replied Bates hum- bly. The blood was roaring through my head, and my hands clenched as I Btood there listening to this colloquy. Pickering's voice was and Is unmistakable. There was always a purr- - ,( parts. Copyright by Waldos Fwe Charles Hallam Keep, formerly assistant secretary of the treasury, Is chairman of the commission appointed by the president to reorganize the e methode In use In practically all of the government departments. Much of the hae been abolished by the body and tho government service generally revolutionized. Before snterlng the government eervlce, Mr. Keep wae a Buffalo lawyer. old-tim- red-tap- e BOAT AND BALLOON. BROOKLYNITE INVENTS MACHINE er, and professes to have sold two TO CONQUER AIR AND SEA. steamship patents for 1200,000 each. Mr. Bliven says that he has refused an offer of (750,000 for the airship patVessel Built with Wings Like a Bird ent and that negotiations are now pending between the syndicate of ownand Can Keep on Water for ers and European capitalists for the PatTime Craft a at Day sale of the foreign patients for (1,750,-00ented, In 8ix Countries. or a pro rata value for each councombination boat try, while the North American patents Brooklyn. A and balloon a thing that shall sail on are being put into a trust, at a valu' the water and then, by letting go a ation of (500,000. Tbe consists to of a huge egg bird a like rise little ballast, ship any height from which to drop lyddite shaped silk bag, containing hydrogen shells on vessels of an enemys fleet, gas, encased In an aluminum cover. This rests on a small hull, shaped UJce a nautical freak, both fish and bird Is what A. Perry Bliven of Brooklyn a boat, though with twice the amount claims to have invented. He declares of beam generally allowed a boat he has patented his Invention in six Propellers on the side of the hydrocountries, and says that if It were not gen bag and a propeller at the stern ' forward. mechanically perfect patents would of the hull drive the bird-boa- t not have been granted by so many Illuminating gas is used for fuel, and the propellers are reversible, so that governments. Mr. Bliven has been a working In- the boat can be turned quickly. ventor for 40 years. He is considered As all the weight of the craft la In an expert on boiler and marine en- the hull and the lifting pwer is aloft, gineering. He Is also a yacht design the airship should keep right side up r solving them into elements. As well Coo, carry a spray of arbutus to the labored story or subject the enchantment of 1 1 moonlight upon running water to the as try to analyze flame and blow-pipthe heart of a girl, particularly a girl !(j g, with a sure stroke j who paddles aa canoerace with a rabbit, and good up puts ;85c i'hile! lamp shone ahead of us at the trance of one of the houses, and lights appeared in all the buildings. If I knew your window I should certainly sing under it, except that s'r youre going home! You didnt tell me why they were deporting you. Botlfc Im really ashamed to! You would Jiirtic never " Oh, yes, I would; Im really an old friend!" I insisted, feeling more like lmt-a- n Idiot every minute, bet Weih dont tell! But they caught e 7ue flirting with the grocery boy! 7 ' iw arent you disgusted! I cant believe it! Thoroughly! crerwiiy, youd a lot better flirt with me, immiri suggested boldly. lev "Well, Im to be sent away for good with at Christmas. I may come back then for If I can square myself. My! Thats n. 'slang, Isnt it adorable?" . ;nd t The Sisters dont like slang, I sup-lu- t e . when In flight Also the side pro pollers have a steadying effect based on the mechanical principle of the gyro wheel. The hunt can be made to rise by letting out water ballast, for bull and bag weigh less than the air displaced. The ship can be brought back to the water by letting out some of the hydrogen gas In the. bag. The upper part or egg shaped aluminum balloon, according to the details of construction, contains hydro-- 1 gen gas of a lifting power 15 per cent, greater than Is required to raise the weight of the boat The balloon Is put frame through Into the aluminum manholes while In a state of collapse. When the gas has been pumped In the apertures the aluminum covers are sealed so that no gas can escape. Below the aluminum body is the hull which contains a cabin, engine-rootwo apartments for kerosene, two for water ballast, and 30,000 cubic feet of Illuminating gas. As this illuminating gas also has great lifting power, the work of the hydrogen bag is made easier. In order not to make the boat too light, the water ballast is carried In sufficient quantity to offset the lifting power of the illuminating gas. As the gas is used up, the water ballast is allowed to run out. The kerosene Is kept on hand In order that fuel will be ready should the Illuminating gas escape. The hull of the boat Is made watertight and seaworthy, Its supporting power being live times the weight or the bag, other cabin, engines, ballast, and buildings a man camo hurriedly from one of them and turned toward the chapel. I first thought it was Stoddard, but I could not make him out In the mist and in my uncertainty waited for him to put 20 paces between us before I followed. He strode into the chapul porch with an air of assurance and I heard him address some one wl.o had been waiting. The mist was now so heavy that I could not see my hand before my face, and I stole forward until I heard the voices of two men dlsth' ctly. i In ; HEAD OF KEEP COMMISSION the grounds. A whim seized me to visit the crypt of the chapel and examine the opening toihe tunnel. Aa I passed the little group of school , Directly over the stde propellers and attaohed to the aluminum egg, are wide wings, sloping as those of a bird. This, the inventor contends, If the hydrogen gas should escape, would serve as a parachute, and prevent the boat from falling with dangerous velocity. The Inventor claims the following special advantages for the Bliven airship: It can be driven over- - the surface of the water for days at a time, and then be made to rise by letting out the water ballast The form of the ship Is such that It can be driven through the air with the maximum amount of speed attainable by ta engine. Ly the arrangement of its screws It can be bandied In air as readily as a modern steam yacht on tbe water. It can take flights of many days, owing to its space for crew, provisions, etc. It can be constructed in any size up to 600 feet In length, having a carrying capacity ranging from BOO to 100,000 pounds, independent of Its weight, which means that Its passenger capacity may be from three to 300 men. As an engine of war It would be terribly effective; and for meteorological and observations . Itgeographical would be Invaluable. Tbe inventor has proved all his ideas, he says, on a model airship five feet long. He has obtained patents In tbe United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, and Italy, so far, and he has made requisitions for patents In other lands. SECRETARY OF WAR WILLIAM H. TAFT Impose? They loathe it! Miss Devereux, you know who she is! she spies on us intil t lelln-an- d yies ED. L. DOHENEY OF TEXAS MADE RAPID ADVANCE. tells. dont say so; but Im not at her! Ive heard about her!" You f fI declared bitterly. We had reached the doof, and I ex-- i her to fly; but she lingered. Oh, if you know her! Perhaps jnT:, a spy, too! Its Just as well we 10 pyoure Then You Prefer to Ignore the First Time I Ever Saw You?" .dicflbould never meet again, Mr. Glen-nearm, she declared haughtily. . 6 The memory of these few meetings and Bates was the nearest target for ing softness in It He used to remind will always linger with me. Miss Arm- It I went to the kitchen, where he me at school of a sleek, complacent strong, I returned in an imitation of usually spent hts evenings, to vent my cat, and I bate cats with particular Lher own tone. feelings upon him, only to find him loathing. t Bit i shall scorn to remember you! Is Morgan lying or not when he gone. I climbed to his room and found tw'and she folded her arms under the it empty. Very likely he was off con- says he shot himself accidentally?" d I1 cloak doling with his friend and fellow con- demanded Pickering petulantly. tragically. In t our meetings have been all to few, spirator, the caretaker, and I fumed "I only know what I heard from with rage and disappointment I was the gardener here at the school. You'll Armstrong. Two, exactly, I thoroughly tired, as tired as on days understand, I hope, that I cant be ioub! Then you prefer to ignore the first when I had beaten my way through seen going to Morgan's house. elna tlme I ever saw you, she said, her tropical Jungles without food or water; Of course not. But he says yon but I wished, in my Impotent anger haven't played fair with him, that you jvetahand on the door. - ' Out there in your canoe? Never! agalnBt I knew not what agencies, to even attacked him a few days after JlsAnd youve forgiven me for overhear-ddetiln- punish myself, to induce an utter Glenarm came." (TO BE CONTINUED.) weariness that would send me exyou and the chaplain on the wall bed. to hausted please!" ,r KEEN INTELLIGENCE WANTED. She grasped the knob of. the door The snow in the highway was well twfl beaten down and I swung off country-warA Story That Illustrates What Banks ger and paused an instant as though pon-.dering. past St Agathas. A gray mist Are Looking For. lent t "I make it three times, without that hung over the fields in whirling clouds, Pierce Jay, the commissioner of one, and not counting once in the road breaking away occasionally and show. and other times when you didnt know, ing the throbbing winter stars. The banks of Massachusetts, at the Amerif Glenarm! Im a foolish little walk and my Interest in the alterna- can Bankers' association's convention In St. Louis, advocated a better acand girl to have remembered the first I tion of See now how blind I have been, landscape won me to a better state of counting system. d But above all," said Mr. Jay, in a mind, and after tramping a couple of I discussion of his idea, we want IntelShe opened and closed the door for home. Several I out set miles, an(i j heard her running up the times on my tramp I had caught my- ligence, If embezzlement is to be thortenC self whistling the air of a majestic oughly put down. Systems are good, steps within. I ran back to the chapel, roundly old hymn, and smiled, remembering but intelligence is better, and in cashhas abusing myself for having neglected my young friend Olivia, and her play- iers and tellers and bookkeepers and Jt Bs'my more serious affairs for a bit of ing in the chapel. She was an amus- note clerks we want the same keen, e bsl!ly talk with a school girl, fearfu ing child; the thought of her further quick Intelligence that characterized ablest the openings I had left at both lifted my spirit; and I turned into the old CapL Hiram Cack of Gloucester. ilen ends of the passage should have been school park when I reached the outer .. Cack lay very 111. One day he got o:dlscovered. Near the chapel I nar--t gate with a feeling that his case wish to No'rowly escaped running into Stoddard, pass near the barracks where she was hopeless. " I fear, doctor, he said, 'there isn't but I .slipped past him, found my spent her days. much hat Clantern, pulled the hidden door into hope for me.' At the school gate the lamps of a 'Oh, yes, there is, the doctor annd tplace, and, traversing the tunnel in mist the blurred carriage suddenly Three years ago I was la Incident, soon climbed through the Carriages are not common in this re- swered. Bt ibatchway and slammed the false block gion, and I was not surprised to find your condition precisely, and look at gt Securely into the opening. that this was the familiar village hack me now.'i Cack, Intelligent and alert, said that met trains day and night at HAS ir n Accumulates Millions by In Oil in 8tatt of California and In ths Republic of Mexico. Plainsman Ventures Denison, Tex. Tblrty-flv- e years ago Ed. L. Doheney rode out of Texas on tbe back of a paint pony, driving a herd of cattle toward Wichita, Kan. He was employed by the firm of Lee ft Reynolds, then the great traders of , His fortune was Indian territory. represented In his six shooter and his boots. The other day, after a trip back to the old state he knew as a cowboy, Doheney again departed from Texas, this time In a special car of which he ts the owner. Times have changed for Doheney. Salted away in California banka he has a dosen millions or so, and planted In Mexico he has the monopoly of the oil production which Is netting him e millions more. d While In the state on his last trip he visited Columbia and the oil district being developed by CapL Lee, eon of bis former employer, associated with W. C. Hoggard and others. It Is on tbe banks of the Brazos river, from where Doheney formerly drove Good-by- ! the long horns to Wichita. The 35 years that have Intervened between the wild life of a cow puncher and the wild life of high finance were those of experience. A year before Doheney came to be a millionaire be was riding around Ixs Angeles on tbe high seat of an oil wagon, guiding a team and measuring gasoline to customers. , Afterward he steered a drill Into the oil sand and made tbe etake upon which he started. Then he turned the screws of a contract Into the Santa Fe Railroad Company and made a fortune. At the same time he made things so Interesting for President Ripley that ,1 the two became business associates. Mr. Doheney did not say whether CHAPTER XIII. he expected to Invest In the Columbia Some parent, I conjectured, quickly: "What doctor did you have?'" oil field, but the association of hts paying a visit to St Agatha's; possi,A Pair of Eavesdroppers. ict me and the trip there caused a number of others pleasDrlvtn To It. thought gave bly 'rec' When I came down after dressing ure perhaps the father of Miss Olivia i He She married a worthless noble- to Isvest. He said he did not want his name to Influence anyone to make hapirfor dinner, Bates called my attention Gladys Armstrong had come to carry man. an Investment I pounced eagerly her home for a stricter discipline than. ,10., o a belated mail. She How did that happen? They seem to have found eome oil vlnftapn a letter in Laurence Donovans Sister Theresa's school afforded. lie Despondency. She was Jilted down there," he said. "What they The driver Bat asleep on his box, by hor father's onachman. Puck. pafwcllknown hand, bearing, to my sur- g ire soft-imnifi- down-hearted- 11 I mist-wrappe- d Btar-llghte- d d Uopjrtf ht by Waldos fkweott The cabinet member who undoubtedly etande closer to Preeident Roosevelt than any of tho others Is the eecretary of war, and according to thoso who aro supposed to know he le the preeldente choice ae his successor In tho Whitt House. Hs recently returned from a trip around tho world. are going to find remains to be seen. paint pony to the upholstering of a As for my going In, I cannot say. It private car represents what the career Is possible, but at present I do not of Mr. Doheney happens to be. The know." first thing he bought when he became Asked concerning his rapid rise and flch was the car he rides In now. That was all for comparison. career, Mr. Doheney said: Mr. Doheney Is president of an oil Any mans career is interesting If company In the southern republlo that you get down to brass tacks. Thirty-fivIs selling 600 barrels of oli dally to years ago I was a In Texas. Thats about all there is the Mexican Central railroad. That means almost as many dollars every to It. From the saddle on the back of a 24 hours. e cow-punch- v. CORN LIKE CENTURIES. AGO. small grain, having little EarSimtlar to That of Ancients Grown that ofIn any some of which perfect grains cups, of Nature. Freak by with-sLet'b- . 1 I Des Moines, la. Nature forgot Its centuries of education near Adel last fall, and by some strange freak produced corn as It was originally found In Its wild state. Tbe ear of corn Is the most remarkable ever shown In the corn belt. At about tbe middle of one aide of the ear a little sprig came out, extending about four Inches long. At first glance It looks like a portion of the tassel bearing corn. But it Is not a tasBOl It Is a head 'like of corn have formed. It Is claimed this was the original form of corn by agronomists who have seen It and that centuries of cultivation has brought It to the present form. Providing for tho Future. Mike Olm goln t gtt me loif insured, Nat. . Pat If wats thot for? Mike So OlU have somethin' t live on sfther Ol'm dead, b' gorrvl Chicago Dally News. |