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Show pm Charted Edmondd Author of llotti-tcr- . SYNOPSIS. lU'lh hi'sn Vrhitt.t a i.nr, stM,hd Ni uil. a hou irfiM liina IIO.H-- . iri Iiiiri rir H u17ie mid afternoon th (In msi-lvmid r (Mi iidl a chxtilod um mor lli kohlnur mor in a uf ftlilth h sa tllMatcr and .. tll ho Oral M1 a. On of corner tif A ready thing ha observed Of a alfhllgor, il(, for of hla mmain mol am. t,rrhuul 141 rarw. A man I foiviiiijr ,jet. I som minutes, underneath hi troubled fr.on lit hniia. Van V. him ami T"in niedltatlohi allrrml a " un follow III man and find Mm 4ad In ' ntwl Van Vwhin I aniaid In Hir I My Sens that ha aa being w s', died; of ontooh. and haniHiilna to built In ooriuln ill, fj. of a girl In ih rruwd rmimdin ih. body. I MethisI v Khnl II rw,,uni hi mil on Van VeMn in (laliro encountered a nun rhm alon of in iradr. Tom I'Mnn honi ha had not befor II 0011 anom kmil on a yachting trip, ni nrona In a bnai two P,nl"y up to tb stranger mior n mr in lino and demanded to know what ha waa mrn ahom h had on ,,f them. ..Mr, i f Myiry. ii. Wnnard. tba aacond on ahor lt-- r and follow Mm dolng on i'nIii. blindfolded and Inkrn to a mata, waa a wltnaa to tha episode. Tom la d bow. A girl h took It upon himself to explain. froit of hi rapiers. and mnl ih rooahn Ila'a all right, air. Mr. Willard Van Verhtrn call on hi um I. Theodor n Yerhiea big mn In Wll lrei. and known a Ih "Mlt of Iron." In brought him aboard laat night" With tba moral of Information that tba regarding Ih hereabout of arw. Irtrtlv nawcomar had baancertainty watching him all Hint ahow Van Vrrhi.n a gold meh our found In Ih ltu of klyirv afternoon, Tom want to hla cabin. s recoantae Ii a belonging to Intg Alona, b Th Toni , .. doubttook up again tha burden rrw. girl help lm-A 1 and uncertalntie from IMnney nm 8huw .m wmard that itm mrm';i?. ! Mim (srsf clot UpOD bit trill? Whftt ms I itih iniM for Nw Yorli Kvsrnui, Iim previnu.ty. It d.vei.nw that ih would Willard think of tba Man of ladle Vlnlled Ih Rntlh bom of Tern-- 1 Interfercnca? Ilia poaltlon n tie thinner, owner nf in iiou nf lery, it i reiied that Tempi thmner II alrongly urged blm to go to tba char- wa In lov with a daughter of Compton P matter before him. 5 who married Mag Wtliarifc Th other daughter married a man named I Then hla vacillating Will would taka In-were Willard and lievereaua. thinner I'VMJUIUm awing to tba other eg friend. A aearrh la atarled for wiitard. Van VerMn enter ih iiou I trema; ba ought to go over to the of Myiery Mr ih hack door In lime 10 Claremont n1. Pnon cllnt Wher W II In- hear John Callla threaten a girl. . but i I wro waa to ba found; If tba latter and help ih girt In the atruggl rendered unmnat-lnwere really eneaeed In tin OUUonor with Callla. Tom fhlnney get. a Job a maeter of Urownlow'a yat-li- i Kohlnur, I able employment, then no harm could hlrh haa been rharlered for gome mva-- 1 come to him lerhiu mlaahin. The ohnrlerer. M.ia Willard. and hla frleiula hoard Ih yacht al night and Tom hears th voir nf the girt Van Verhlen, remverlng ,,i th,. 1 I "? al iln r.nli ald, 8Id llr awaot-vntrw- 'i wl-voti-e- il ap. t"meg til M-"- ..i 1 1 em-ap- u from Inlurlea received In hla Ovhl with Willard In Callla. Is vlalled by . the whom b recoghltea the girl who w cle went hla thoughta, with no hope of ranee nf ih fl.hi. ii drtnn- - id lov for her. Bhe tell him that if hi fcding arriving at a volution of the many dlf- ha 1 not changed one week from that I flcultlea. If be could only talk to day ah will marry him. Jol 1 I Mia, alone, for half an hour, perhaps the could help him. Hut be did not ea her again that day. BOOKJII. CHAPTER VIII. Continued. not to ba rallied, however, and the meal waa a long drawn out affair for blm. Ilia brain waa the battle ground of conflicting doubts and mleglvinga that led to a moat Irritating condition of lr- revolution on bla part. If he had been governed by any policy thus far, It had been one of passive As master of the Kohlnur, his duties began and ended with tbe obligations adherent thereto, and he had neither communicated to Van Vechten the facta that had come to his know) edge, nor had he Informed Max Willard that the police were detdrous of finding him. Ilut now It waa being forced upon him that such a course, notwltbstand lug Hrownlow'a and Willard's protestations that everything waa fair and honorable, was only a shirking of responal bllity, and that the time waa speedily drawing near if it had not already arrived when he must make an initiative move one way or another. His meeting witb Flint had been fertile with references that had brought his relegated misgivings and perplexities to a position where they demanded that some disposition be made of them, and the crowning difficulty straightway arose: liow was he to do so? Was Max Willard a fanatic ptanning some stupendous catastrophe with his new explosive, and holding tbe KohiHe waa - Friday evening brought a change. Tha male element of Willard's party became animated by an unusual activity. Thera waa much going and coming between the Kohlnur and tbe landing, and the glrla retired before n,n o'clock, jf to be out of tbe way I n,l then, tome time clone to mid night. Max Willard and two of hta young men boarded the launch; but now, instead of going over to the Claremont landing, the little craft fluttered away down-atreaand waa soon lost in the night. Tom retired to hla cabin, but could not sleep. He was oppressed by a sense of anticipation, a conviction that something was about to happen. When he heard the launch returning after two o'clock In the morning, he was curious enough to go above to see If anything would transpire to account for the secret midnight excursion. Willard came first up the ladder. Isdirections to the two suing men. Then they came, with considerable difficulty by reason of their unwieldy burden. As well as Tom could make out in the darkness, in shape and size what a box aa 1 rrle(l wa JUHt ,hey used as a container for a coffin. The three went quickly below with their burden, and quiet reigned over the Kohinur. In point of fact, from that time on until the final terrible hour when despair and horror laid their icy clutch upon Tom Phlnneys heart, an unnat ural calm seemed to prevail. It was as if the yacht and all on board were subdued by an apprehensive dread of impending tragedy. And still Tom could not make up his mind as to what he ought to do. Hut this Intolerable mental stress was in a measure by two occurrences of Saturday afternoon. About three oclock Max Willard in structed him to get up a full head of steam at sunset, and be in readiness during the night to drop down the river. asked "Are we to clear tonight? Tom with considerable eagerness. "I dont know positively yet, Willard replied in a lifeless tone. "When the signal comes to get under way, it will come in a hurry, and from then on until we are well out at sea speed will bo a matter of considerable importance. You will know before mornlow-voice- d high-tensio- Just Such a Box as Is Used as a tainer for a Coffin. Con- our in readiness for his escape? Here on board were hie daughter and per- haps another daughter, or his wife but. no, his wife was dead at any fate, his entire family and Tom as captain was lending himself to the crime, if a crime was being projected. Hut where did Delia come into the roaze? And who was she, anyway? The time had come for him to know, and he meant to get some sort of ex- planatlon out of her, willy-nillJust as soon as an apportunity presented The party returned to the yacht, and there by and by Tom began to fear that the opportunity to talk to Delia ould not occur. In truth, had he been a bit more discerning, in the persistency with which Delia kept Jessie Willard close to her, he must have suspected a definite purpose. PaternoderKuhy? Etc-- GQPyttGXT JS?2 M.CWcClUCr&:Ca , fotiu input! (ruin I" I Nlol I'oalmun rlub, Hon of Mvl-ry- , of m at iniriai nmi-r-nii.r I So llil Van VrM irrra M hi frin.l. Tom I'lilnn-- v, rar.Hr.a I fit xIh.ui girls lo tired, mid Tom not of yir N ttmn rulrf Hi Your Irrigation Poes your wotxlcn Hum? leak? Write U3 today giving Or nin.over nt one ml nnd length, grade nnd required half full nt the other? a score of your flume or of such troubles are eliminated miiacity Vc will advise you acwhen you install a Ihvi Metal pipe. riume uniter our direction. cording to your exact needs. Co. Flumo Tho Hess DENVER. COLORADO "The Sitter BhdeE . FIXUP Ditches Now niiiile which, In hU ratimatlon, going for all hla hours of lonellm-M- , and her first word made hint forget hla 't'kptuln I'hmiiry," ah began, "do you know, If la downright adflah of you not 10 grant me tt legal a ocp room up forward, where at that ro you ape nd ao much of your time." "The cl.erl houae? he exclaimed "Why, you ran have It for a boudoir, if you want It. Come on. Once ineido, Tom Instantly recognized what, no douht, had been In the girls mind from the beginning that white they might talk with absolute assuranre against being overheard, the numerous ports rendered them visible to any of the men forward who cared to look that way, and those of the watch who had occasion to pass on one side or the other. "Oh. how comfy!" ehe exclaimed In a low voire ae soon aa they had entered. "If I was the Kohinurs skipper. you would always find me right here." "And 111 spend a good part of my time here, once we're out at sea," Tom responded, "and I hope you'll want to find me often. Ilut If you're Judging by these comfortable quarters that my Job'a a sinecure, why, you you " "Have another guess coming?" she finished for him. He nodded dejectedly. "'Mistaken was what I was trying to think of, though." Then, with an abrupt change of manner and tone, be went on: "Delia, no doubt you have noticed the past two or three days that I have been as worried as the dickens. It la bad enough to have charge of thia boat and know that something secret Is going on, without having an Inkling of what that secret Is; a fellow Is bound to make all sorts of conjectures and be suspicious of Willard, you know. Tbe certainty that you couldn't be mixed up with anything crooked la the one thing that's made me rather ashamed of my own auspiclons. "Hut I have reaeons aside from all this for being worried, reasons you haven't the slightest Idea of, that make my position about aa devilish a one as a fellow ever got into. Cntll this week I never knew I had any nerves; now I'm nearly a wreek." "Ierhapa," said the girl slowly, "1 know more about the real cause of your perturbation than you suspect." "No," returned Tom, confidently, "you couldn't. Kemember the chum I told you about whose cousin disappeared? Well, some way ahe's Involved In whatever it ia old Willard's plotting What's the matter?" His hearer had uttered a little cry, and was now looking at him with a shocked and puzzled expression. "How in the world," she demanded, "did you reach euch a conclusion?" "I didn't, truthfully explained Tom. "Hut a detective and Iluddy that's my chum did because the missing girl's purse was found In that old house where Willard hung out so long There was a silent pause while the girl seemed to consider, and Tom watched her earnestly and fondly. At last the fine hazel eyes met his with a sober look. "What Is it you want to know?" she gravely asked. "Della" Toms voice lowered perceptibly and a serious note crept Into it you ought to know you ought to see where my chief Interest lies Hang it all! I wish I could express Ilut If you cant see myself better. that my first conceifl Is for you. It's fully rompt-iiMir- car, Tom Everything is in readiness, advised him. That is very gratifying." The magnetic eyes rested searehlngiy upon the skipper for a moment, Willard Reked Captain Phinney after the pause, do I appear composed? Why, yes, returned Tom in surprise. "I shouldnt have thought otherwise." Indeed, save for the burning bril iiance of his eyes, Max Willard's mien was, if anything, dull and dispirited, "Well, then," he said, it will be flcult to make you believe that no man ever labored under a greater mental and nervous strain than I do at this moment. God help us all! ttith which cryptic and disquieting utterance he abruptly walked away. Tom had not yet ceased pondering the incident when Delia approached. alone. She met him with a charming f. dashed hard for me to ex "t'ai'ialn I hlnney," returned the gill a moment, "I sought this Inter view d liberatfty, I wanted to tell you thnt I have seen just how harassed with anxiety you have Men. and that I have a dep appreciation nf your fidel tty to a project about which you know so little, and which at best you fear Is irregular -- dishonest, perhaps. Hut please God-- by this lliti tomorrow all cause for worry will hav been re moved; and If my word heart any weight, you have nothing to causa you any concern or misgivings." "That." Tom Interjected, "remove th Isil doubt. You're a brick!" Hut she was not through; the con tinned, haltingly now and with slowly heightening color: "I am telling you the things be cause it la not right that my Influence should govern you, aa It teemed to be doing, and you Ignorant of my very Identity." In this mien the girl waa ao alterably avert and charming that Tom could acarcely contain himself lie darted a scowling look at the uncur talned porta, at which her color all al once deepened atlll more, and the dropped her gaze with a nervous lliils laugh. It waa Just that easy to follow bla train of thought. "That' something toon remedied." be urged her eagerly. And now the beautiful faro took on a tantalizing ei press Ion, th lashes drooped and aha regarded him quit after tlraliy. "Captain Ihlnney, hasn't even the tiniest suspicion entered your head aa to who I am." the asked. "Why should there?" he relumed "And why la It Captain Fhlnney' to day? Night before laat I waa Tom' easy enough." "Well, then Tom. I have no especial reluctance to calling you Tom; I have known you for yearn." He sturrd at her In astonishment. And the watched him smiling, mocking, altogether bewitch open-mouthe- Ing. himself Gradually Tom recovered "Conn, now, he protested. "I really thought you were In earnest." Of a audilen she dropped upon a t locker teat and motioned him to do likewise. Slowly and dazedly, he obved. I know a "Listen." she pursued. girl who has lived nearly all her life abroad. She haa a man cousin of whom she haa alwaya been awfully fond: whom, aa a very young girl, she looked up to and regarded a quite the personification of wisdom and every manly virtue. Now, that cousin had a chum of whom he thought so murh that he never tired of singing his praMes to the girl cousin. She waa fourteen years old. I bdleve, and very impression aide. Anyway, she became so Interest ed In her cousin's chum she had never seen him, mind that he aasumed In her fancy the place of a hero. She even stole one of his photographs and kept it hidden away where nobody else could see It, but where she could take a peep at It whenever she wanted to" The expression that was slowly overspreading Tom's visage was almost lu dlerous. Ily degrees he was comprehending; but conviction hud not yet come. "Cant you guess?" she asked. He rose inertly to his feet. He spoke thickly, like a man stupefied. You are that girl. You you are " "Iaige Carew." she said. (TO HR rONTINCRD DOC n ing. to h l.iln,' nnnDDDnDq ONE but lie had never before seen gold fill lugs in a prehistoric skull. The gold That Ancients Knew the Art of was on the edges of the teeth, and had been applied from the Inside. H Dentistry Haa Been Abundantly showed little on the outside, so the Proved by Discoveriea Made. purpose appeared to be less for ornu Tooth-pullinis doubtless as an- mentation than for utility. Some of the teeth were filled with cient a surgical operation, if so It may be called, as is known to mankind, hut cement. In ail cases, whether the fill tooth-fillinhas been supposed to he a lugs were gold or cement, the borings modern invention. Herodotus, and of Indicated that a tool had been used course, Galen, knew something about that didthe work possibly as well as dentistry, but apparently not about the instruments of the modern dentist fillings. Rut as early as the sixteenth Some of the teeth that apparently hud century there is found printed evi- been loosened were held together b) dence that the use of gold leaves to gold hands. . . . Professor Seville fill cavities had long been known, if said that the residents, or natives, o' that part of Ecuador where he found not generally practiced. Tho assertion that Egyptian mum-- the skulls and the pottery, Just north 8 Equator, apparently were the mles have been found with gold-filleteeth is now generally thought to be only primitive peopM who understood an error arising out of the fact that the art of using Jewels and platinum decorative art. One of the objects the Egyptians often gilded the teeth in of mummies for ornament The ques- In using gold in the teeth doubtless tion comes up in connection with the was prnamentation, hut the chief pur seems to be to preserve. explorations of Professor Saville of pose In found He Ecuador. many Columbia, c skulls perhaps 1,000 years Why Ho Welcomed It. Hriggs Thank goodness the opera old, of a type superior to the Aztecs, and what was especially remarkable season will soon be open! was that their;teeth showed both gold Griggs Didnt know you ever atand cement filling. tended. teeth struck him as The Hriggs 1 dont; but my wife and the most unusual feature of his finds. daughter do. and that gives me a In Mexico, he had dug up skulls with chance to slip out to the club for n teeth filled or ornamented with stone, quiet game. PROFESSION pre-Azte- gold-fille- AN OLD till I9b StRUT. Branches I tocTfree asA jVcrioR, coto. Confidant an Cnamy Will Appear. Tho Irlxh people ar managing to LUHa Incldtnt May Explain Why get xom old fashioned fun out of tha situation In t'later. Tho Automobilva So Ofttn Fall to lamduii C'hronlt'l (which In for bom ProMtr a "Lift." rulel xx x that at tho moment whnix "I mu Iced In a paper tha ether both hand of volunteer wer swarman t'later town a volunman at th abed, ing through lay," Mid ih xom of teer kind. In full panoply of "that xu in body rails automoMlul to waa In met war. th street by a friend. to mor acctmiit fur not bdiiR willing Midi "Hu you ar going to fight offer pedestrian a lift, t pat a p th friend. xn xtrxni-r-lift rli entir "Ye." th oilier day and h certainly did "Who ar you going to fight, tho Nx inak th nmat of U. Tho find thing llonallxlsr h sold wa: 'Why don't you ux a "No, w ar hot going to fight tha Hr that laxta? They tell m there's Nationalist." nothing Ilk Foppleton's tiumelxxllc. "Ar you going to light th pollc?' And, tay, I se you ar uxlng a ma"No. I do not think w ar going to ker cyclometer. Friend of min taya h wouldn't txk It for a gift. Ho fight th poltra "Ar you going to fight th Kngllxh haa a lllrkenlooper. "Hlanied If th fellow didn't go on soldier ?" "No, I don't think wr shall fight tho In that strain all tb way down town. . And what do you think? Wken ho English soldier." to who ar "Then light? going you h out said: don't you get got 'Why "Tho Iord will provlda" a good carF "Cleveland WITH MIS COMMENT r 11 , Not t Siam "What shall w do, John," aald lh farmer wife, who had retained muefx 42(0 80. California Ava, Chicago, 1IL of her sentiment through 2S year of" "About a year ago my faco waa full married life, "what shall w do to col- -' of pimple and rod a pot a To aleep ebrat our silver wedding?" on night without Itching waa almoat "Reckon up where all th Oliver1 80m of tho ptmpteo Impoxxlhla to In bringing up our family,1 ' would get big and red nnd If I touched gun them they would pain, whllo other grumbled ha "Oh, no, John, tt must bo something; would get whit heada on them and real good and out of th ordinary. I when they broko pen aotno matter whaL Let ua kill tb fattoaf tell you cam out. They would burn and Itch and glvt a banquet" pig nnd I acratched them ao that aoma "Marla" aald tba husband solemnly, time they would break and bleed. "I don't ae how tho unfortunate aniThat alwaya cauaed them to bo won mal Is to blamo for wbat happened "I bought all klnda of aalvea and creama and I found out that they did years aga" mo no good. I noticed tb Cutlcura Uncertain. Soap and Olutment advertisement and Th secretary of on of tha roller I aent for a frea aampla I went to tho drug ator and bought a cake of classes at Princeton, In sending ool anCutlcura Soap and aome Cutlcura each year a list of question to bo of th swered la members clast, by Ointment and I found tb plmploa wer drying out In two month I order that the results may ho duly ta wm welt. (Signed) Chaa J. Feck, ulated and act forth In tho university annual, la aald alwaya to Includo la May 7. 1914. "Ar you eo. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment aold hit list this question: gaged?" throughout the world. Sample of each It would seem that ona of tha mem, free, with . Skin Hook. Address post, bera waa cursed with doubt In this r card "Cutlcura, Dept. L. Hoston Adv. xpcct, for In the blank apace gives over to the query mentioned he made In With tha Trust his return aa follows: Did I understand you to aay that "Do not know. Am awaiting letter." Senator Fluhb came from tbe FACE FULL 0F . 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