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Show LUv world, I reflected, scanning the headlines. Dates had placed me so that I faced the windows, an attention to my comfort and safety that I appreciated. The broken pane told the tale of the shot that had so narrowly missed me the night before. Ill repair that sir, Bates remarked, seeing my eyes upon the window. , , You know that Im to spend a year on this place; I assume that you are acquainted with the circumstances, I said, feeling it wise that we should understand each other. Quite so, Mr. Glenarm. Im a student, you know, and all I want Is to be let alone. This I threw In to reassure myself rather than for his Information. It was Just as well. I reflected, to assert a little authority, even though the fellow undoubtedly represented Pickering and received orders from him, In a day or two, or as soon as I have got used to the place, I shall settle down to work ln the library. You may give me breakfast at seven-thirty- ; y luncheon at and dinner at seven. Those were my late masters hours, , to-da- the house of int h of) THOUSAND A is. CANDLES - Tht 'ed c B Lost f MEREDITH NICHOLSON - TSsasa-'a- " Copyright IM by al ty, B; M 'St, sed id er alcfa e Sto tod fflmer as be nd he Certainly, sir. I believe, Dates, that wed the blinds down at night ese duck hunters hereabouts are sir. Wcntly reckless. You might Very well. And Ill eat anything to them now, and every evening you please, except mutton broth,' meat Wafter." pie and canned strawberries. StrawHe gravely bade me good night and flowed him to the outer door and berries ln tins, Bates, are not well calculated to lilt the spirit of man. jitched' hts departing figure, lighted I quite agree with you, sir, if you a single candle that he had pro-rewill pardon my opinion. from his pocket And the bills" stood for several minutes listening They are provided for by Mr. Pickhis step, tracing It through the hall as far as my knowledge of the ering. He sends me an allowance for ,oir the household expenses. use would permit Then, In So you are to report to him, are regions, I could hear the clos-o- f doors and drawing of bolts, you, as heretofore? I blew out a match with which I had rlly, my jailer was 'a person of lighted a ctgar and watched the smokInstaking habits. ing end intently. opened my traveling case and I believe thats the idea, sir." its contents on the dressing It Is not pleasant to be under com- I bad carried through all my ventures a folding leather photo-ipholder, containing portraits of and mother and of John f father irshall Clenarm, my grandfather, this I set up on the mantel in the tie sitting-room- . It was with a new I curious interest that I peered into r grandfathers shrewd old eyes. He td to come and go fitfully at my .ier's house; but my father had disused him in various ways that I d not recite, and my father's death i left me with an estrangement ich I had widened by my own acts. Now that I bad reached Glenarm, my nd reverted to Pickering's estimate the value of my grandfathers estate, bough John Marshall Glenarm was eccentric man, he had oeen able to And bet-kee- p one-thirt- at-V- d d ilthou d Ibr t: it. thlch ere ai 'est, of tbi he fa of, ot it t leposi! ind 6: In fu VN. Opt at 5. Wit Oglyce be coi secure ie mo stat v Co. CHAPTER 1 beg you not to mention it, Mr. Vann" If you But it was a little queer. (lld gain any light on the subject, me know. ial bs e cot SoStw-IUrr- Ui mDA tin' nttr expt ip ban! stoo luildlr ire ny tit un-ow- n dls-bute- d "3 I suppose you all knew my grand1' father hereabouts." Well, yes; you might say as we did, or you might say as we didnt. Ha wasnt Just the sort that you got next to ln a hurry. He' kept pretty much to himself. He built a wall there tc keep us out. eit he needn't have troubled himselt We're not the kind around here to meddle, and you may be sure the summer people never bothered him." There was a tone of resentment lu his voice, and I hastened to say; Im sure youre mistaken about the purposes of that wall. My grandfathet was a student of architecture. It was a hobby of his. The house and wall were lu the line of his experiments, and to please his whims. I hope the people of the village wont hold any hard feelings against his memory or against me. Why, the labor there must have been a good thing for the people hereabouts. It ought to have been," said the man gruffly; but that's where the trouble comes in. He brought a lot of queer fellows here ..nder contract to work for him, Italians, or Greeks, or some sort of foreigners. They built the wall, and he had 'em at work Inside for half a year. He didnt even let em out for air; and when they finished his Job he loaded 'em on to a train one day and hauled em away. That was quite like him, Im sure, I said, remembering with amusement my grandfathers secretive ways. I guess he was a crank all right." said the man conclusively. It was evident that he did not care to establish friendly relations with the resident ot Glenarm. He was about 40, light, with a yellow beard and pale blue eyes. He was dressed roughly and wore a shabby soft hat. "Well, I suppose Ill have to assume responsibility for him and his acts, I remarked, piqued by the fellows IN A By CHARLES BATTELL CHAPTER V. Tam-oShante- her-thn.- -. d lift.' t opped In? Major Tuition enator ne be d bad taken He . tnc Queen as r u war tibonn j who Tf the had ked tc ig the be- r lt chborv , chief would once- - per half-finishe- i d 1tes. ""od morning, Mr. Glenarm. 1 trust rested quite well, sir. s figure was as austere, his tone and colorless as by night morning light gave him a pallid Uo suffered my examination enough; his eyes were, Indeed, best thing about hint. Jou may breakfast when you like, thus admonished I went into refectory, newspaper lay at my plate; It was mornings Issue of a Chicago daily, u. then, not wholly out of the hnd - 4 Thaw, The second trial of Harry the charge of killing Stanford White, has been postponed until JanK. on uary 6. Twenty-on- e sailors Implicated ln he recent mutinies at Vladivostok have been condemned to death by a courtmartlal. v In the United States district court at Norfolk, Va., last week, Judge Wad-di- ll decided to appoint receivers for the Jamestown Exposition company. Thousands of mill operatives throughout New Englund resumed work last week. In moBt cases the mills hereafter will be run on full time. Herbert L. Fudyear, a house painter, was called to the door of bis home In Kansas City, Kan., late at night, and fatally shot by one of two would-b- e make-believ- robbers. . v . poet-ridde- n poet-ridde- n 0, 1 iitania Consc beaten Inutes NEAV8 SUM5IARY -- looked out on the bright October ruing with a renewed sense of lsola-Tree- s Cunan crowded about my win-s- , d many of them Btill wearing their 'al colors, scarlet and brown and Th d. with the bright green of Borne )auntV bborn companion standing out here wnnty recovd. coated boy and girl. I asked a man when the hells began to rIug(for 1 had been told that they only rang at night.) ot an hour, alrr, Every quar-rte- r theyll be ringing in a couple of minutes, slrr. One likes to Indulge In a bit of sentiment sometimes, and I stood and waited to hear the bells of Shandon that aound so grand, on the pleasant of the river Lee. I had left the Lee to the fishermen and the e swimmers, but the bells would sound sweetly here under the tower that held them. A minute passed, and then another, and then I heard music music that called forth old memories of days long since dead. How It pealod out Its delight on the (Icy) air of night. And how well I knew the tune; "Down Where the Wurzhurger Flows." No, It waa not the chimes but a nurse ln the hospital at a piano. Before she had finished, Shandon bells began, but what they played did not blend with what she sang, and I went on my way thinking on the potency of music. I passed on down where the River Lee flowed,, and the fishermen wera still fishing, but the little boys had tired .f swimming. Two signs met me at nearly every corner. One read, James J. Murphy & Co.," and the other Beamish ft Crawford," or "Crawford ft Beamish, I forget which. Both marked the places of publicans (and sinners. I doubt not), and both were brewers' names. The publican's own name never appeared, but these names were omnipresent. Again I thought of Shandon Bells, and the romantic song, Down Where the Wurzhurger Flows, and leaving the Lee Etill flowing I sought my ho- Mrs. Holly Hollingsworth, of Greenville, Tex., was arrested at Alberta, Okla., last week, on a charge of having murdered her brother, William Riley, near Greenville, a month ago. . The value of the coin executed at' the mints of the United States during November, 1907, waa $35,983,260; ot which $33,840,000 was gold, and silver, and $121,000 minor coins. The London Tribune declares that the reports that Embassador Bryce will return from America and will be succeeded by Sir Henry Howard, the minister at The Hague, are without' foundation. New Berlin, eighteen miles east ot Jacksonville, Ky., was visited by fir early Sunday morning. Loss, $75,000. The First National bank and the Warren ft Boynton bank were among the buildings burned. ' "The Brazilian coasting steamer tel. Guasca, Captain Ramos, 650 tons, has I would like to make a revolution- gone down off Paranaqua, Brazil, as ary statement that is more often result of a collision with an unknown thought than uttered, but before I vessel. Thirty persons on board the make it, I would like to say that Guaaca were drowned. there are two classes of travelers; Colonel Goethala, chief engineer of those who think there la nothing in the Panama canal, has cabled the caEurope that compares with similar nal officers ln Washington that alt things ln America, and those who records were broken for the month think there 1 nothing in America that of November ln the matter of excacan hold a candle to similar things vation on the Isthmus. f In Europe. statement of the pubThe monthly I hope I belong to neither class. If I mistake not, I am a Pharisee, and lic debt shows that at the close of thank my stars that I am not aa other business November 30, 1907, the debt, men are. Most of us are Pharisees, less cash In the treasury, amounted to $874,479,839, which Is a decrease but few will admit It I began being a Pharisee when I for the month of $1,746,794. Physicians are greatly interested in was a small child, and that la the the case ot Edward Shea, a well time that most people begin. I kept it up. In this, I am like the known young man of Montclair, N. J., who has been in a trance for ten multitude. days, only occasionally becoming let thus stated my position, Having me go on to say, that I am perfectly partly conscious for a few minutes. Over a score of persons, mostly willing to admit that this or that bit of scenery in France, or Switzerland, women from Xenlai Ohio, were more or England, or Ireland, lays over any- or less seriously Injured when a Day-to- n and Xenia traction car got beyond thing of the sort I ever saw ln America, if I think It does, and I am equally control of the motorman on a steep vtiling to say, that America has al- hill e&Bt of Dayton and overturned at most unknown bits, that are far bet- a curve. ter than admired, and By a vote of 124 to 4. the house places ln Europe. Democratic caucus voted down the Twin Lakes ln Connecticut Is one proposition of Representative Jones of them, and Killarney ig a of Virginia to take the designation of place. minority members of the committees Why, even In Ireland, there are out of he hands of Minority Leader ' places just as lovely as Killarney, Williams. but they have not been written up, Robbers who tried to loot the Salle and ao no one goes to visit them. hank shot ' and I felt that one of the worst things bury (Mo.) Savings woynded Ashley Dam-eroabout Killarney was the American dangerously the city marshal, who Blept In Bightseer, and 1 came away soon. a room ln the rear of the hank buildCook's Tourists have never heard of ing. The robbers failed to get Into sweetest' Twin Lakes, thank fortune, and it will the safe. During the time I watched the set- be some time before they (the lakes) The Lincoln league, the leading Reaun which was still at It and, are spoiled. ting The Lakes of Killarney are ao beau- publican organization of northern by the way, performed some lovely scheme on color a tiful that they are worthy of the pen New York, with a membership of variations simple has adopted resolutions recomln the sky not even an eel was of a poet, hut the pen of a poet does Governor Hughes to all Remending more and fishermen under make cast lake not but the beautiful, any caught, as the next Republican publicans the bridge, let their halt flout down I am quarreling because ao many peothe (un) pleasant waters, and drew In ple refuse to believe the evidence nominee for president The Banco Mobllarlo, an Important tlielr lines again and again mute ex- of their own senses, and take their amples of a patience that one does natural beauties at the say so of an- nitrate bank of Santiago, Chile, susnot associate with Ireland. pended payment on December 7, and other. There Is a tower going up In New tho Bank of Chile took charge of the At last I left them and started out The liquidation Is still York at present, a tower that with the situation. to find Shandon church which seemed but a few squares away. exception of the Eiffel Tower, Is the general and the financial crisis con' tinues to be very scute My pathway led through the slums, tallest on earth. One of Van Dyke's great masterMany persons look at It reflect that and up a hill so Btccp that I hopo horses only use It as a means ot de- Its Is a skyscraper, and then dismiss pieces, "The Erection of the Cross, scent I passed one fireside where It as therefore, hideous. But It Is real- has been stolen from the church of tho folks looked cosy and happy and ly very beautiful, and seen from cer- Notre Dame, Belgium. Tho thieves warm. It was a summer evening, hut tain vantage points, it Is architectural- carefully cut off the canvas from the frame and carried it away. They ure chilly, and the place into which I ly one of the glories of New York. If it ever gains a reputation for believed to have been experts. looked whs a shop for the sale of coal. Morris Burk, who murdered Mrs. children are generally beauty, you will find persons raving Shoemakers class It among tne Charles A. Canfield, wife of a wealthy were over it, who barefooted, hut these hideous skysoraiiers. l.os Angeles oil operator, on Jauuary burlng their own coal, and the mothA hundred years ago there were 17, .1906, paid with his life for his er and the dirty children -- sprawled around the store or home, In a shadow gome skyscrapers lu Switzerland, and crinio on December 6 upon the scafcasting way, that would have delight- they were thought to ho hideous. Aft- fold at Han Quentni prison, lie died ed Myuhecr Rembrandt if he had er awhile, a man wjth a poet's eyes game and expressed no regret for his ' and a courageous tongue visited them, crlmo. passed by. The superior court has refused the I was struck wlih the population of and he said the Alps are beautiful." for sideWhen their on of the beauty petition of A. Augustus Hartje ot Cork. It was most reputation it ln his suit walk, and nearly all of It was under was established, travelers left tho re- Pittsburg for a 16. Pretty faces, too,- - among them, gion round about tbo ltoekles to go for a divorce from his wife, Mary and hivppy looking. I think that sym- and rave over the beautlea of Switz- Scott Hartje. The court recently a decision of tho Allegheny pathy would have been wasted on erland. county court, which refused Hartje a That's all. them. They had so much more room divorce. (Copyright. 19"?. by W, G. Chapman.) than they would have In New York, William F. Britt, better known as and they were not any dirtier than Willus Britt, brother and manager Diamond Diggers. New Yorkers of the aame class. After I had reached the top of tho Divers work aa diamond digger In of the prize fighter, Jimmy Britt, and two Shandon for looked I and turned Smith Africa. They work in Icy cold Indicted by the grand jury with hill, of other members the Trust," Fight I About church and It wax gone. asked a hoy water and black darkness. of San Francisco, cannot be found by what had become ot It and he told me three and a half miles down the river the sheriff, who holds a warrant for la a wire rope that In following m? winding way .from Klerksdorp his arrest. known aa stretched across the Vaal river from through the convolution The collective result of the muniatreeta, I had gotten as far from the the Transvaal to the Orange River colelections held ln thirteen of the cipal church as I could In the time, lie ony aide, by means of which a large thirty-threcttlns ln Massachusetts 1 where to how to ln me acow go told midstream, pleasantly, just placed shows a very considerable week lust get to the church, and It involved the diver descend and work In from colIn the total of gala beand hill water. of tho of 62 At reet foot to the to 48 present they umn, and while changes were made going have no light and work for three or In the liquor policy of two cities, one ginning again. I asked a number of times after four hours In cold water and Intense offset the other. that, and always got courteous but darkness. All they are able to do at By a vote ot 205 to 10, with four abrapid answers. The Irish are great present la to gtope around, move the sent, House Bill No, 1, known as the talkers, but the Corkonian could hand- big boulders with crowbars and scrape "Jim Crow measure, providing for icap himself with a mornings alienee, up tho smaller stuff from tho bed of separate coaches and watting rooms and beat his brothers from other coun- the river, emptying It Into a large was passed by the Oklafor wire drum, which takes about homaracea, ties before evening. An enthusiastic demonhouse. At last I came on the church, pass-It- s half an hour tc fill. the announcestration accompanied 1 quaint and curious (to quote three lug just before reached It the Grocn- ment of tb vote. - declar for LOOMIS. KlUarney, Ireland. They told me that Cork was a very dirty city. They even said it was filthy, and they said it In such a way aa to reflect on Irishmen ln general and Corkonlana ln particular. Yea, they said that Cork was a dirty city, and so I found it almost aa dirty aa New York. This may sound like a strong statement but I mean It When I arrived in Cork I aaw a hill and made for It at once, because after railway travel there Is nothing that ao takes the kinks out of a fellows legs as a walk up a stiff hill. And anyhow I was on a walking tour. I arrived at the top about sunset. On reading this sentence over I find that it Bounds as If the hill was an all day journey but It was only a matter of a few squares, and when I started the sun had long since made . up its mind to set. , In Ireland the sun takes on Irish ways, and la JuBt a little dilatory. It always means to set, and It always does set ln time to avoid being out ln the dark, but Its an unconscionably long time a dying. At the summit of the hill I aaw a church steeple that appealed to my esthetic sense, and I asked a little boy what church It was. Shandon churrch. Birr," said he with the rapid and undulating utterance of the Corkonian. Where the bells are? said L Yes," said he, smiling. And over beyont Is the Lee. "The pleasant waters of the river Lee, I quoted at him, and he smiled again. Probably every traveler who goes to Cork quotes the lovely old bit of doggerel, but the Corkonian entiles and smiles. The river Lee runs through the center of Cork, and at evening it is a favorite place for fishing, also for learning to swim on dry land. The fishermen Beera to fish for the love of casting, and the little boys swim on the pavement two pursuits as useless as they are pleasant. Over the bridge the fishermen leaned, and cast their lines in anything but pleasant places for the river Is malodorous and the little boys stood on benches and dived to the pavement, where they spat and then went through the motions of swimming. There were dozens of the little boys, and most of them seemed to be brothers. Some of them were quite expert In diving backward, and all of them were dirty, but they seemed to be happy. I could not help thinking how soon the Celtic mind begins to use symbols, for It was easy to see, that when the boys spat It signified a watering place to them. I dare say they were breaking a city ordinance ln aplttlng and If they knew that they were that much happier stolen aweets are the , l . T Tourists. 1 there with startling vividness. I on an old corduroy outing suit and ivy shoos, ready for a tramp abroad i went below. , he groat library seemed larger than r when I beheld it ln the morning ;t. I opened one of the French Jews and stepped out on a stone ace, where I gained a fair view of exterior of the house, which proved he a modified Tudor, with battle-it- s and two towers. One of the lat- was only and to It to other parts of the house the kmen's scaffolding still clung, ps of stone and piles ot lumber e scattered about in great disorder. house extended partly along the " of ravine, through which a dor crock ran toward the lake. ' terrace became a broad balcony icillately outside the library, and "atb It the water bubbled pleasant-irounheavy stone pillars. Two ty rustic bridges spanned tho no, one near the front entrance, other at the rear. My grandfather projected his house on a generous i. but burled as It was among the , It suffered the lack of porspec- However, on one side toward tho " was a fair meadow, broken by a "Mower, and Just beyond the west thug wall I saw a little eliapel; and further, ln tho same direction, the UtK'S of tho buildings of St. thas were vaguely perceptible ln 'her strip of woodland, he thought of gentle nuns and olglrls as neighbors amused me. I asked was that they should keep heir own sldo of tbo wall, beard behind me the careful step - ERIN with 8urplua Rhymes and Herded a large fortune; and yet Red - IN Placet Just aa Beautiful at KlUarney That Hava Not Been Contaminated tamely permitted the executor to appea: Ime that he had died comparatively or. In so readily accepting the ms ot the will and burying myself pties. i region of which I knew nothing, I th n, i cut myself off from the usual chan-- s a Iron of counsel. If I left the place to on ira to New York I should simply at th inherit myself. At Glenarm I was, arenti there I must remain to the end of of Ln year. I grew bitter against Picker-a- s ' giver I reflected upon the ease with a. Im ich he had got nd of me. I had rhomp ays satisfied mysejf that my wits ited re as keen as his, but I felt now that of bav ad stupidly put myself in his power. .lavetry A SPOTS EN ' id y. wh impso: MIT COi City Nearly as Dirty as New York, POET-RIDD- h cumulate HD ot Poes words), statues of a green pulsion, to feel your freedom cur tailed, to be conscious of espionage. I arose without a word and went into the hall. You may like to have the keys," said Bates, following me. Theres two for the gates In the outer wall and one for the St. Agatha's gate; they're marked, as you see. And here's the hall door key and the boat house key that you asked for' last night." After an hour spent ln unpacking I went out Into the grounds. I thought It well to wire Pickering of my arrival, and I set out for Annandale to send him a telegram. the gate through which we had entered the grounds the night before without difficulty, and started off in an amiable state of mind. My perplexity over the mysterious shot was passing away under the benign influences of blue sky and warm sunshine. A few farm folk passed me In the highway and saluted me in tho fashion of the country, Inspecting fay knickerbockers at the same time with frank disapproval. When I reached the lake I gazed out upon Its quiet waters with satisfaction. At the foot ot Annandale's main street was a dock where several small steam craft and a number of catbouts were being dismantled for the winter. As I passed a man approached the dock In a skiff, landed and tied his boat. He passed at a quick pace, then turned and eyed me with rustic directness. "Good morning! I said. Any ducks I found about?" He paused, nodded and fell into step with me. "No, not enough to pay for the trouble. I'm sorry for that I'd hoped to pick up a few. "I guess youre a stranger In these parts." he remarked, eyeing me again, my knickerbockers no doubt marking me as an alien. Quite so. My name Is Glenarm, and Ive Just come." I thought you might be him. We've rather been expecting you here In the village. I'm IRm Morgan, caretaker of the rceectem houses up the lake." We had reached the center of the village, and he loft me abruptly, crossing the street to one of the shops. I continued on to the railway station, where I wrote and paid for my message. The station master inspected me carefully as I searched my pockets for change. You want your telegrams delivered at the house? he asked. Yes, please," I answered, and he turned away to his desk of clicking Instruments without looking at me again. It seemed wise to establish relations with the postoffice, so I made myscll known to the girl who stood at the de livery window. You already have a box." she advised me. There's a boy carries th mall to your house; Mr. Bates hlrei him." Bates had himself given me this la formation, but the girl seemed to find pleasure In Imparting It with A cor tain severity. I then bought a cake ol soap at the principal drug store and purchased a package of smoking tobacco, which I did not need, at a grocery. News of my arrival hail evidently reached the villagers; I was conceited enough to Imagine that my presence was probably of Interest to them; but the station master, the girl at the and the clerks rt the shopa treated me with an unmistakable cold reserve. There was a certain evenness of the chill with which they visited me, as though a particular degree of frigidity had been agreed on In advance. (TO BE CONTINUED.) ' ' post-offle- e Might Head Her Off. Henry," said Mrs. Pock, I am going 'to get a phonograph and talk Into It, ao that if I happen to die first you can Btill hear my volco." Perhaps," replied Henry, hop fully, 1 will dig4 first" Houatta Post A Slight Difference, Friend Well, did you got your copyright for that last work? I did, hut the Author (mournfully) Ualtioiore Amor printers didnt lean. e to-du- 1 e e Iron-boun- d |