Show r a a A j B r 1 0 y LTrflAPIJN CRAwronD AUTHOR Or IlRACYEclfA I jRETflUJAElrETt LUJTRATIIJLJY sC WElL < r O f I RlGNr 1907 BY FfARON CUIWFORO SYNOPSIS aka II TL clttd girl stranger become enamored who t was brllrIod SS lMn herbs In the geidenand studying g cling nnd In central Asia end tf of her him home the Ithe trungerawoeld let l to king that tho straner hOping disclosure WI for her her jnoDeturn to te cttvo Vy en o I followed > the were f00 who blocked up the en I rel drew off the water supply ereaoda ° L dreW and die nnraknB cousIn e t 0 i the couple attempted to climb he betrothed her oerlookln tre mine but a cuer him I he Sad car + reveler shot water Roiird Stiad car ed fromwaY out of the tunnel and dug his waY ° the girl and carrying the deserting the ted rublealnDurakalgatheredalt < > hof ruble BarakaBaUirted In of and started purr she could carry Donne Mnrearlta daM da-M rSLUg donna became famOus ptomIConetrarrlin Lo ova n London to Konstantln ad1n I London uhv Greek financier Her K Itad friend wealthY was MBud Countess whosl husband n as killed IadY by nn bomb In St Peters en Maud most Intimate and LadY Van Torp an Amerl was HUCUS one of the richest who had become Torp was In love in the world and rush to London as Margaret lied M of her betrothal afar he hrani 5000000 fnr 1IlI tot d Ida Maul would aid him In wInning ty t If she Logothetl Darnka ap from with Inger at Versailles bed Logothrtl presented a ruby and to sell lie bought a yacht and lorp tan net lie was visited by It to Venice attire She gave htm a In male of a had told hel falter the American united States a man I Been nd the rtplipn of the one she rlnl the yP r u nM t r followed Manartt rThe American Parsifal fe tlval Mar Dsrreuth to Vnn Torp who pre took a with IIklnJ the ruby Dilraka had lien KralhiSlY Il nusslan him Count Van Torp believed d at Bayreuth pursuing Baraka waR o be the arrested one In London on the I was from Pinney n jew of stealing she had sold to LogotheU the rubY were the thieves Lady strangers that LogotheUa uasoela believed naraka were open to suspl with Margaret Van Informed and believed so that Krnllnsk was they In hIs young man he ha4 known f secured Dnraka ro and LogotheU then with her us his guest acht Erlnnl1 Darnka hls yacht to sea on for revenge on the ns her hall plans deserted her and left her who LogotheU succeeds In moderating Lady Maud arrived In Bay age Margaret and Van Torp entered agreement to build u tremendous n who house In New York Tho thief the ruby from Mr Pinney wail ar l In New York and the stone recov Maud confided to Van Torp I bellied KrnllnBky to be the she Van Id she had believed dead Inr promised nd The party lila help to ered unravel on Van the fnacht ami Iady Mnud discovered I Krallnsky la lh her hlislmnd Ho of rejoin and bo true to her She to ToVhetl took Duralm ashore pIes to procure her a proper outfit reposed to marry her half In Jocu and she agreed to do so If IIhe find the limn ahe sought Vans I Van-s yacht arrived at Messina and not iKOthctJ there tho party went on pies g The yachts met nnd Baraka ted In Krallnsky tho man shell she-ll LoROthell Baralca and Spiro aboard the Lancashire Lass CHAPTER xv continued It t now at the very moment of mg Margaret he knew that If ho her very angry with him he d 1 simply listen to what she hay ha-y make a humble apology state truth coldly and return to his I yacht with naraka under her eyes and in full sight of Lady i and Mrs Rushmore Besides it tolerably sure that when Spiro I to carry out the young Tartar murderous Instructions shod sho-d forget all about the oath she porn by the Inviolable water of It Styx and try to kill him with her ht hands so that It would be necos my to take her away abruptly and in 1 forcibly end ore tho Erlnnn hud quite lost le Ivar Logothotl had his naphtha ute jth puffing alongside and ho got II I I JiUlth t Barnka and Spiro and tho Shire Lass had barely time to ie I her ladder while still moving u 11 f before the visitors were there o 1 aka bade Logothetl go up first rod daintily on tho grated uteps LD e followed him The chief mate Iklef steward were waiting at tho ray The mate saluted the rd led the visitors to tho main IB ushered tliemMn and shut the r mf Spiro of i wis loft outside t Etc 1 tiaaitd Van Toni shook hands coldly Iak Clt ILogothetl Iaraka walked direct J Krallnsky and then stood stone before him gazing up steadily cHon 0 Ils eyes lid Ih tor Margin nor Mrs Rush t Wb j was to be seen Van Torp and on ins IM both washed tho other two fha1 f 19 from one face to the other are bIr naky with his eyeglass In his 1 aflt surveyed tho lovely young bur rfalo Is unmoved mind tho sllonco lasted minute Then sho spoke in her l10gnuge and Krallnsky answered ther and only logothptt understood that th they said to each other Prob ihousaa Itflld t not occur to Krnllnsky that retk know Tartar must b n are not lvau you arc fatter lark ot On have not his eyes n heU drew a 1 long breath I1 I answered Krattnsky I am his brother n sict I never saw you and Ir told me of a you here Is Ivan 7 Id proud little head was bowed Iuy N V Inomont mud naraka did t till 8vornl seconds had mum rtiaBtir Then she looked up again dy i aos y ref t M her llluk eyes were iuto ft her A long re than I the Othl foul months know Its md ClD Cis pith I him 1 4 amid burled hlin ixuryl nOugh dear an a turned her fiend high and went moor dinner or mind no Ohio hindered her pestau tong out I lIon Logothetll Lady Maud I called him and the Greek crossed the 1 saloon nnd stood by her lie Is not I the man I see she said with a vague doubt In her voice No Van Torp was speaking with Kra Insky In low tones Lady Mnud spoke toLogothetl again after an Instant In which she drew a painful breath and grew paler Miss Donne knows that you are on board she said but she wishes me to say that she will not sue you and that she considers her engagement at an end after what you have done Logothetl did not hesitate Will you kindly give a message to Miss Donne from me he asked That quite depends on what It Is Lady Maud answered coldly She felt that she herself had got something near a deathwound but she would not break down I beg you to tell Miss Donno that I yield to her decision said Logothetl with dignity We are not suited to each other nnd it Is better that wo should part But I cannot accept as the cause of our parting the fact that I have given my protection to a young girl whom I have extracted from great trouble and have treated and sill treat precisely as I should have treated Miss Donne if she had been my guest Will you tell her that I will tell her that Thank you Goodmorning Ho turned and went towards the door but stopped to speak to Van TorpThis This gentleman he said Is not the man my guest was anxious to nnd though he is strikingly like him I have to thank you for giving hef nn opportunity of satisfying herself Good morning Mr Van Torp was extremely grateful grate-ful to Logothetl for having ruined himself In Margarets eyes and would in any case have seen him to the gangway but he was also very anx ious to know what Krallnsky and Jla raka had said to each other In Tartar He therefore opened the door for the Greek followed him out and shut It behind him Baraka and Spiro had disappeared they were already In the launch waiting Now what did they say if It Isnt a rude question asked the American Logothetl repeated the short conversation conver-sation almost word for word Ho said that his name was Yuryl he concluded That Is George In Eng lisp Oh hes George Is he And whats his dead brothers name again please Ivan That Is John Before we part Van Torp I may as well tell you that my engagement with Miss Donne is at an end She was good enough to Inform me of her decision through Lady Mud One thing more please I wish you to know as between be-tween man and man that I have treated Baraka as I would my own sister since I got her out of prison nnd I beg that you wont encourage any disagreeable talk about her Well now said the American slowly Im glad to hear you say that just in that way I guess itll be all right about any remarks on board my ship now youve spoken Thank you said LogothPti moving mov-ing towards the gangway They shook hands with some cordiality cor-diality and Logotheti ran down the steps like a sailor without laying his hand on the manrope stepped on board his launch and was off In a moment mo-ment Goodby goodby Miss Barrack and good luck to you cried Van Torp waving his cap I Logothetl translated his words to Barakn who looked back with grateful I grate-ful smile as If she had not just heard that the man she had risked her life to find In two continents had been I dead four months It was his portion she said gravely Logo with ly I when sho was alone theti on the Kiinna and the chain was coming In gist Van Torp wont back to the main saloon and found Lady Maud and Kra husky there She was apparently count for she was about to leave tho coming towards the door and her oyes were dark and angry Hefus she said this man Is m > husband and Insists that I should back I will not ttlll you lake him SSly put ashore before you kindly l have mo ready start again My things are now answered Mr Van Excuse I mo largo thumbs Into digging his his Ton waistcoat pockets theros a tats lies not your husband talC Maud cried lady lie Is Indeed friend never forgot I In a lono her Krallnslt Leven said Boris i I alll coming authoritative tone and ln an almost defiantly forward Snrla tell the Tartar Than why did you was George girl that your name unmoved Van Torp naked Mr I dill not forgotten That evidently Yottto lartm better reek gentleman speaks where yet Ialneli I wonder learloid than you said y our Just told me you Itt lies George was nal110 nTfGcorgo Boris an My namo Is conlldontlj i iniinskv loss 1IlInsltY swore1 wE ± coward but he had Ill suns nol a C0 < 0 i L i y fI i p d L4 She Followed Him I lover been face to faco with Van Torp when ho meant business and the terrible American cowed him My husbands name Is only Boris nothing else said Lady Maud Well this isnt your husband this Is George whoever ho Is and If you dont believe It Im going to glvo you an object lesson Thereupon Mr Van Torp pressed the button of a bell In the hulkhead near the door which he opened and he stood looking out A steward camo at once J Send me Stamp said Van Torp in a low voice as he stepped outside Yes sir And see here send six sailors with him Very good sir Mr Van Tort went In again and shut the door Krallnsky disdained night and was looking out of a window win-dow Lady Maud had sat down again For the first time In her life sho felt weak In less than ono minute the door opened and Stomp appeared impassive impas-sive and respectful Behind him was tho boatswain a huge Northumbrian and five young seamen in perfectly new guernseys with fair quiet faces Stomp Yes sir Take that man somewhere and shave him Leave his mustache on Van Torp pointed to Krnllnsky For once In his life Stomp gasped for breath Krnllnsky turned a greenish green-ish white and seemed paralyzed with rage Take his beard off sir you mean Yes Leave his mustache Here men added Van Toip take that follow fol-low outside and hold him down In a chair while Stomp shaves him SeeThe See-The boatswain looked doubtful Hes pretending to bo somebody hes not i Vnn Torp on my snip find 1 i said mutiny if want to see his face Its you dont obey orders Aye aye sir responded tho boat hualn cheerfully for ho rather liked the job since there was a good reason for it But Instead of going about his business busi-ness gently the Northumbrian giant suddenly dashed past Van Torp In a lash and jumped and hurled himself head foremost at Kralinskys legs exactly ex-actly as If ho were diving In the counts violent fall the revolver he hand had drawn was thrown trom his and went oft In the air rime boatswain boat-swain had seen It in time The big man struggled a little but the five seamen held him fast anti carried him out kicking Stomp The valet was preparing tj follow the prisoner and was quite calm again I Yes sir If ho wont sit still to be shine I cut his head off Yes sir Van Torps eyes were awful to see In his Ho had never been so angry life Ho turned and saw Lady Mnud pressing her bandkorchlef to her right temple Tho ball had grazed It though It hind certainly not been meant for her Rufus she cried In great distress what have you done The question Is what hes done to Torp I believe you answered Van blackguard has shot you the 0 4 M4 A1 p I zI f I s i r Q Wandering Alone In Search of Plants and Minerals Its nothing Thank God It lilt me It was meant for you Van Torps rage Instantly turned Into tender care and ho insisted on I examining tho wound which was slight but would leave a scar By n miracle the ball had grazed the anglo of tho temple without going near the temporal artery and scarcely singeing singe-Ing the thick brown hair Van Torp rang and sent for water and absorbent cotton and mnilo avery a-very neat dressing over which Lady Maud tied her big veil Just as this was dono Stemp appeared at tho door Its ready sir If you would like to como and see Ive not scratched him once sly All rightVnn Torp turned to Lady Maud Do you feel faint Lean on my arm But she would not and sho walked bravely holding herself so straight that sho looked much taller than he though sac felt ns If sho were going to execution A momerU later she uttered a loud cry and clung to Van Torps shoulder with both hands But as for him ho said only two words You hellhound The man was not Boris Lovcn The eyes the upper part of tho face the hair even tho flowing mustaches were his but not the small retreating chin grossed by the sharp thin scar of a swordcut long healed I know who you are said Van Torp surveying him gravely Youre Longlogged Levis brother that disappeared dis-appeared before he did I remember that scarLet scar-Let mo oft easy said Longlegged Levis brother Ive not dono you any harm Beyond wounding Lady Maud after aft-er trying to pass yourself off as her dead husband No I wont lot you off Boatswain I want this man arrested ar-rested and well take him and all his belongings before the British consul in Messina In less than nu hour You Just attend to that will you Somebody Some-body go and toll the captain Aye aye sir I The rest Is soon told A long Inquiry In-quiry followed which led to tho solu t + a tlOII of the mystery and sent CountY Count-Y uryl Loven to Siberia for ho was Jorla Lerons twin brother The truth turned out lo bo that there md been three brothers tho youngest being Ivan and they had all entered limo same Cossack regiment and had served In the Caucasus where most fllcors learn tho Tartar language which Is spoken by all tho different tribes It will be simpler to designate horn by tho English equivalents for their names Boris bohaved himself tolerably well In the army but both his brothers broth-ers John and George who was Ids twIn wero broken for cheating at cards and emigrated to America So bug as they all wore their beards as officers of Cossack regiments usually usual-ly do they wore very much alike They were all educated men of refined tastes and particularly fond of music When his two brothers wore cash bored Boris resigned entered the diplomatic dip-lomatic service married Lady Maud IToxwcll and was killed by a bomb In St Petersburg John and George separated In America when they were tired of punching cattle John was something of a naturalist and was by far tho most gifted of the three as well as the most daring He gravitated to China and at last to Mongolia wandering alone In search of plants and minerals and It was to him that Baraka showed the ruby mine Ho got back to civilization with his treasure and took It to Petersburg unmolested There ho found George earning a poor living In an obscure position in I the public service his conduct In tho army having been condoned or overlooked over-looked John who was tho Incnrim tion of Bullishness would do nothing for him George exasperated by him and half starved murdered him In such a way that ho was supposed to have died by an accident took possession posses-sion of his hoard of unsold rubles and 1 wrote to his twin brother to como and share the fortune John hind left them George and Boris had been In constant con-stant correspondence and had oven helped each other with money from time to time Some weeks elapsed after Boris return to St Petersburg before his death and during that time ho told George who know London well and had moreover helped him in his attempt to get a divorce a vast number of details about his married life and his wifes behavior hor character char-acter and tastes Then Boris was killed In the street and George left the country and changed his name with the vague Idea that his own was not a ory creditable ono and that If he kept It ho might bo troubled by his brother Boris numerous creditors Ho i began life over again as Kit llnaltY Ho had not entertained the least Intention I In-tention of passing himself for Boris and claiming Lady Mnud ns his wife till he mot her and her beauty made him lose his head completely when ho saw that she took him for her bus band He I would have I boon found out Inevitably sooner or later but Van Torps vigorous action shortened Lady Mauds torments George was tried and Russian justice Jus-tice awoke possibly under pressure from England The family history of the Levens was exhumed and dissected dis-sected before the courts The creditors of Boris Leven appeared In legions and claimed that In proper course he should have Inherited the rubles from his murdered brother and would then have been able to pay his debts Tho court thought so too and ordered the confiscated treasure to bo sold But since It had been Boris tho law was obliged to declare that the residue of the money after paying tho debts was the property of Countess Loven Boris widow Lady Maud thus found herself In cuLn c possession of a considerable fortune for she accepted the Inheritance when she was nssurod that It would go to the Russian crown If she refused It The wealth Lady Maud thus commands com-mands enables her to carry much further than formerly the peculiar form of charity which she believes to bo her own Invention If It may he properly called charity at all and which consists In making It worthwhile worth-while and agreeable to certain unfortunate unfor-tunate people to live decent lives In quiet corners without starving instead In-stead of calling to them to como out from behind the virtuecurtain and be reformed In public It Is a very ex iienslve charity however and very hard to exerclsoand will never bo popular for the popular charities aro those that cost least and aro no trouble trou-ble Mme Konstantlnoa Logothetl Is learning French and English on the Bosphorus with her husband and will make a sensation when ho brings her to London and Paris On the day of his marriage In Constantinople Logo thetl received a loiter from Lady Maud telling him how sorry she was that she had not believed him that day on the yacht at Scaletta and saying say-Ing that she hoped to moot his wife soon It was an honest apology from an honest woman He received a letter a few days later from Margaret and on the same day a magnificently printed and recklessly reck-lessly illustrated booklet reached him I forwarded from Paris The letter wa from Margaret to tell him tlat she 1 also took back what she had thought h about Baraka and hoped to see him t and her before long Sho said sho was glad on tho whole that ho had fit acted like a lunatic because It was likely that they would both bo Imp 1 prier She herself she said was going go-ing to be married to Mr Van Torp at St Georgos Hanover square before sailing for Now York whore she was k + ry going to sing at tho opera after Christmas If ho should be In town then she hoped ho would come and bring his wife The booklet was an announcement Interleaved with fine etchings to the effect that The Mme da Cordova and Rufus Van Torp Company would y open their new opera house In Fifth avenue less than two years hone with a grand Wagner festival to last two months and to Include the performance per-formance of Parsifal with entirely new scenery and the greatest living I artists whose names were given S t + Mr Van Torp had told the diva that he would like her to choose a t h wedding present which she really wanted adding that he hnd a few Y things for her already He produced 1 some of thorn but some wero on pa the latter house In per Among was a ti New York overlooking the park and il copied exactly from her own In London ii l Lon-don the English architect having been s j yet sent to New York himself to build it r 9 + Two small Items were two luxurious i private cars of entirely different patterns t m pat-terns ono for America and ono for Europe which she won always to use r when sho traveled professionally of otherwise He said ho did not give her tho Lancashire Lass because it till i wasnt quite new having been about s d ten months In tho water but he had 1 b his own reasons ono of which Will r t that tho yacht represented a sentiment t µ senti-ment to him and was what ho would have called u souvlnor But If she w could think of anything else sho fan clod now was tho time f I I Sho said that there was only one N thing she should really like but that M ° she could not have It because It was t not In the market Ho naked what It was and It turned out to be the ruby v which Logothetl had given her and 4 had taken to 1lnneys to be cut and r which had boon the cause of so many r unexpected events Including her marriage d tt mar-riage Logothctl had It In his poshes slon sho supposed but ho had shown i good taste In not trying to press It on i + t her ns a wedding present for she could not havo accepted It Nevertheless Neverthe-less sho wanted It very much more o fU as n remembrance than for Its beauty Mr Van Torp snld ho thought he i 4 could fix that and ho did Ho went sz directly to Mr Plnnoy antI n8Kc d tar z what lint become of tits fltone Mrr c Plnney answered that It was now cut and was In his safo for sale The i 4 good man had felt that It would not bo tactful to offer It to Mr Van Torp Logothctt who was a fine gentleman at t In his way had ordered It to bo sold when a good opportunity offered and directed that tho money should be l a given to the poor Greeks In London 4 t under the supervision of Lady Maud 4 Loven the Turkish ambassador and the Greek minister as ri committee Mr Plnney after consultation with the best experts valued It nt 14000 I t N y pounds Mr Van Torp wrote check for tho money put tho stono > lnto an Inner pocket and took It to the diva 4e t Well ho said smiling heres s o t a your ruby anyway Anything else today I t to-day Margaret looked at him wonderingly 4 r wondering-ly and then opened the small morocco moroc-co case Ohohoh she cried In rising h Intimations of delight I never saw t anything so beautiful In my life Its inter UM much moro ivlnrtmia tl man c uen I last saw It Its been cut since then observed I If Mr Vnn Torp It ought to have a name of Its own Im sure its more beautiful than many m of tho named crown Jewels She felt t half hypnotized as she gazed Into the t glorious depths of tho great atone Thank you sho cried thank you so very much Im gladder to have It i than all tho other things And thereupon she threw her magnificent mag-nificent arms around Hufus Van Torps solid neck and kissed his cool flat i cheek several times and It scorned i quite natural to her to do so and she wished to forget how she had once r kissed one other man who had kissed her I It wants a name doesnt It assented as-sented Mr Van Torp Yes You must find one for It Well ho said after whats happened e hap-pened I suppose wed better call It t 1 The Divas Uuby THE END r Sugar from Old Rags Sugar Is now manufactured In Germany Ger-many from old rags Time rags are h u treated with sulphuric acid and converted con-verted Into dextrine This Is treated with a milk of lime and Is then subjected y sub-jected to u now bath of sulphuric acid which converts It Into glucose Tho glucose obtained by this process Is Identical l with that of commerce and may be used In the same way for confections con-fections Ices etc a f Y k krr 1 fr |