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Show THE VAGRaANT DUKE9 By George Gibbs Th Vagrant Dtik," by Geonr- Gibbs, ip a romance of surpaasins; Ppirlt and thrills. Priven from Red Russia, Grand Puke peter-Nlrho-aovitch leaves the old world and comes to America. Yours; and handsome he faces the necessity of mak-tns; mak-tns; hfl own wy, and his career commences com-mences ty him waittmr at the eieamer'a tu tie. thus earn ins; hi paEMajre acmes the Atlantic. In New York he at one comes up against a dihonet but templ-injr templ-injr chance of mnney-srettins; offered by a pul he had known on shipboard. Htit PetT decides on makins; his wsy cleanhanded, clean-handed, with onlT his own personality a cosmniterlltan knowledre of the world, and an ability to speak Knghnh. learned from bis Knsjlish mother, to help him. Fortune leads him, now plain Peter Nichols, to muck Hock, the estate of Jonathan K. McGittre, mitltl-mllllon-alre. Here he finds a myeten. inexplicable, inex-plicable, and stnis'er. which haunts Mc i wuire. reter hearts the hodvKuard which the old millionaire keeps about himself and strange events make real the. fears thnt nana; over the place. TO lovely Beth Cameron, filer of ICc-Gulre'a ICc-Gulre'a housekeeper, Peter is drssrn and as events uifld their love tak form in the midst of the danrers which Hock about "HIack Hock" from out of Mc-Gulre's Mc-Gulre's past. A mysterious fellow named "Hawk is at the heart of the trouble, and Peter, aidtna; McGuire, ;radually learns the truth of the situation from a series of thrllllnaT and danfterous han-penlntrs. han-penlntrs. He battles now not only for McGuIre but for Beth, snd It fs in the midst of a forest ftre, whose flames brins; not only destruction but also solution of this absorbing romance of mysterv that 1 the final reckoning c?mea. -(D. Apple ton 1 CO.. New York.) |