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Show THE TIMES-NEW- S. NEPHUTAH. PMIIIIIIIIIHilllHIIIIIIIIIIIII'llMlllllltlllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIiniilillllllHIIIIlllilllllllHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMHiiiHnH GREEK FANCY Bkrr McCUTCHEON By George iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiii Author of "GRAUSTARK," "THE HOLLOW HER HAND." "THE PRINCE OF GRAUSTARK." "FROM THE HOUSETOPS." ETC. OF Doing a Man's Part. "What are you doing for our asked a suffragette worker. Thankful for Small Favors. The oilier evening a young matron was scolding her husband for having forgotten to observe their fifth wedding anniversary. Her single sister, a town schoolteacher, happened to come to their house in time to bear a great part of the lecture. At Its end she turned to the defense ?t her brother-in-law- .. "I think you should be thankful enough for having had the wedding without expecting anniversaries," she told her sister. cause?" "Doing?" replied the man. "I'm supporting; one of your most enthusiastic members." One little flower to a living man Is worth more than a wagon load of floral emblems to a dead one. Tne pill of experience is seldom sug- ar i.ttated. jfliiimiMiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiititiitiimm Copyright by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc. CHAPTER XV Continued. His uneasiness Increased to he discovered that when Sprouse had not yet put in nil appearance. What had become of the man? He could not help feeling, however, tlmt somehow the little agent would suddenly pop out of the chimney in his room, or sneak in through a crack under the door and laugh at his eonster-niitio- the name of God, Barnes, how did you happen to fall in with the vilfore. 13 n fears. Shortly before the noon hour, Peter Ames halted the old automobile from fireen Fancy In front of the Tavern nd out stepped O'Mowd. followed by no less a personage than the pseudo Blr. Loeb. There were a number of traveling bugs Id the tonneau of the car. Catching sight of Barnes, the Irish-iia- n shouted a genial greeting. "The top of the morning to ye. Yon remember Mr. Loeb, don't you? Mr. Curtis' secretary. Mr. Loeb is leaving is for a few diiys on business. Good morning, Mr. Boneface," he called out to Putnam Jones who approached hI that Juncture. "We are sadly in want of gasoline." Barnes caught the look that I he Irishman shot at him out of the corner of his eye. "Perhaps you'd better see that the scoundrels don't give us short measure. Mr. Loeb," said O'Dowd, Loeb hesitated for a second, and then, evidently in obedience to a command from the speaker's eye, moved off to where Peter was opening the intake. H'Oowd lowered his voice. "Barnes, 1 let you off last night, and I let her off as well. In return, I ask you to hold your tongue until the man down there gets a fair start. A day's start and " "Are you in danger, too. O'Dowd?" "To be sure but I love it. I can always squins out of tight places." "I would not deliberately put you in Jeopardy, O'Dowd." "See here, I am going back to that house up yonder. There is still work for me there. What I'm after now is to get him on the train at Hornviile. I'll be here again at four o'clock, on hie word of honor. Trust me, Barnes." io you mean to say that you are coming hack here to run the risk of being " "We've had word that tiie government has men on the way. Why, hang It all. Barnes, don't you know who It was that engineered that whole business Inst night?" Barnes smiled. "I do. He is a secret agent from the embassy " "Secret granny !" almost shouted O'Dowd. "He Is the slickest, cleverest crook that ever drew the breath of And he's got ava.y with the life. Jewels, for wii'.ch you can whistle in ruin, I'm thinking." "For heaven's sake, O'Dowd " begun Barnes, his blood like Ice In his veins. "But don't take my word for It. Ask her upstairs there. God bless her! ask her if she knows Chester recting me to go to Spanish Falls, rope have been suitors for her hand, where I would be met and con- and the other half would be If they lain?" ducted by Prince Sebastian himself didn't happen to be of the same sex. Barnes passed his hand over his to the place called Green Fancy, Oood-by- . I must be on my way." He which was near the Canadian border. arose and held out his hand. "Good-b- y brow, dazed. "He he represented A safe escort wouid be himself as hook agent," he mumbled, provided for and good luck forever." "Jones us, and we would be on British soil "You are a brick, O'Dowd. I want striving to collect himself. knew him. Said he had been around within a few hours after our meeting. You will always to see you again. here for weeks. I I " It is only necessary to add that when find me " "That's the man," said O'Dowd, I arrived at Green Fancy I met Prince . "Thanks. Don't issue any rash Invi"He trotted all over the Cgo and understood ! I had careful- tations. I might take you up." scowling. county, selling books. For the love of ly covered my tracks after leaving Barnes started upstairs as soon as it. do ye think? Not much. He had Boston. My real friends were, and O'Dowd was off, urged by an eagerother fish to fry, you may be sure. still are, completely In the dark as to ness that put wings on his feet and a Barnes, If we ever lay hands on that my movements, so skilfully was tie thrill of excitement in his blood. Half; friend of yours well, he won't have trick managed. way up he stopped, short. A new conto fry In hell. He'll be burnt alive. "And now for Chestei Naismith. It dition confronted him. What waB the Thank God, my mind's at rest on one was he who, acting for the misguided proper way to approach a person of score. She didn't skip out with him. loyalists and recommended by certain royal blood? He would have to think. They all think he did. Not one of young aristocrats who by virtue of Pausing at her door, he was at once them suspects that she came away their own dissipations had come to aware of voices inside the room. with you. There Is plenty of evidence know him as a man of infinite reHe rapped on the door, but so timthat she let him in through her win- sourcefulness and daring, planned and orously that nothing came of It. His dow " carried out the pillaging of the palace second effort was productive. He "All ready, O'Dowd," called Loeb. vaults. Almost under the noses of the "Come along, please." foreign guards he succeeded in ob"Coming," said the Irishman. "Don't taining the jewels. No doubt he could blame yourself, old man. See you have made off with them at that time, later, Barnes. So long!" but he shrewdly preferred to have them brought to America by some one CHAPTER XVI. else. It would have been Impossible for him to dispose of them In Europe. The First Wayfarer Visits a Shrine, You see how cunning he Is? Confesses, and Take an Oath. "He was no doubt thwarted in bis How was he to find the courage to design to waylay me on the road from impart the appalling news to her? He Spanish Falls by a singular occurrence was now convinced beyond all doubt in this tavern. He was attacked In his that the Sprouse had made room here, overpowered, bound and off with the priceless treasure and gagged by two men. He knew the that only a miracle could bring about men. They were thieves as clever and Its recovery. He realized to what ex- as merciless as himself. They too tent he had been shaped into a tool to were watching for me. I do not know be used by the master craftsman. He how these men learned of, my intensaw through the whole Machiavellian tion to come to Green Fancy." scheme, and he was also now mor"They came to the Tavern four or ally certain that Sprouse would have five days before your arrival at . sacrificed him vrithout the slightest Green Fancy," Barnes interrupted. hesitation. told me that they were se"Sprouse In the event that anything went cret service men from abroad and that wrong with their enterprise, the man he was working with them. My theory would have shot him dead and earned is this, and I think It is by the gratitude and commendation of his events: The men were justified secret really would have been agents, sent here to watch the moveassociates! He glorified and not crucified by his ments of the gang up there. They friends. came upon Sprouse and recognized With a heavy heart he mounted the him. On the mentioned they overstairs. At the top he paused to delib- powered him day and forced him to reveal erate. Would it not be better to keep certain facts connected with affairs at her in Ignorance? What was to be Green Possibly he led them to "Miss Cameron Is But believe Fancy. Lovingly Known In gained by revealing to her the were one of the conthat you Own Land as the Countess Miss Thackeray was luring him on to Her arThey waited for your Ted." destruction. She stood outside the door spirators. rival and then risked the hazardous and beckoned. Then she closed the door to Green Fancy. They were disheard Miss Thackeray say "good gratrip from the outside, and Barnes was covered and shot." cious," and, after a moment, Miss alone with the cousin of kings and "I believe you are right," she cried. Cameron's subdued: "What is It?" and queens princes. "Then we have accounted for Mr. "May I come in?" he. Inquired, "I feared you had deserted me," and I am no longer interested rather ashamed of his vigor. "It's Sprouse, she said, holding out her hand to him in the unrnveling of the mystery sur- only Barnes." as he strode across the room. "'Come in," was her lively response. the deaths of Roon and rounding "I saw no occasion to disturb your Paul," said Barnes. "There is nothing "It was awfully good of you. Miss rest," he mumbled. to keep me here any longer, Miss CamThackeray, to let me hear your lines. "I have been peeping," she said, eron. I suggest that you allow me to I think you will be a great success in him at "Where looking searchingly. escort you at once to your friends, the part" is Mr. Loeb going, Mr. Barnes?" wherever they " "Thanks," said Miss Thackeray "O'Dowd says he is to be gone for a "I'll come In again and let She was to While this dryly. opposed plan. few days on business," he equivocated. that Sprouse you hear me in the third act." She "He will not return," she said quiet- there was still a chance might be apprehended In the neighbor- went out, mumbling her lines as she ly. "He Is a coward at heart. Oh, I or the possibility of his being passed Barnes without seeing him. know him well," she went on, scorn In hood, "I hope you will feel able to leave by the relentless pursuers, she caught voice. her this declined leave. to place tomorrow, countess. We not in "Was I wrong trying to atop must get away almost immediately.' I also said shall he "Then, stay," him?" he asked. "Ah, you have been listening to promptly, and was repaid by the She pondered this for a moment. tremulous smile she gave him. He wns O'Dowd, I see." "No," she said, but he caught the dubiHe tells me It will be dangerous note in her voice. "It is just as helplessly In love with this beautiful ous"Yes. And well, perhaps, that he should disap- cousin of kings and queens. "He is right. It would be difficult when he thought of kings nnd queens pear. His flight today spares but we he me to clear myself. No one would for realized all that beyond question more are interested in the man believe that I did not deliberately was love his hopeless. Sprouse. Has he returned?" make off with the Jewels. They would "No, Miss Cameron," said he ruesay that I oh, it Is too dreadful !" CHAPTER XVII. fully. And then, without a single res"Don't worry about that," he exof he laid bare the ervation, story The Second Wayfarer Is Transformed. claimed. "You have me to testify When he defection. Sprouse's inquired O'Dowd returned late In the after- that" If she had heard of the man known as "How little you know of Intrigue," Chester Naismith, she confirmed his noon. He was In a hurry to get back she cried. "They would laugh at you misto wns no Green there Fancy; worst fear by describing him as the and say that you were merely another guard who watched beneath her win- taking his uneasiness. "For the love of heaven, Barnes, get fool who hod lost his head over a dow. He was known to her us n thief woman. They would say that I duped her away from here as soon as of International fame. and do It as secretly us you you " "You were no match for Chesier "No!" he cried vehemently. "Your Nnlsmlth. Do not look so glum. The can," he said. "I may as well tell you know better than you think. people In Is more from that she the danger shrewdest police officers in Europe are You disheartened, discouraged. secret than from service have never been able to cope with government Things will look brighter tomorrow." anyone up yonder." him. Why should you despair?" "I don't know what I should do with"She may prefer to fnce the music, He sprang to his feet. "By gad, he out you," she said. hasn't got away with It yet," he O'Dowd. If I know her at all, she will grated. "I will run this scoundrel down refuse to run away." CHAPTER XVIII. "Then ye'll have to kidnap her." if I have to devote the remuluder of said the Irishman earnestly. "There my life to the tnsk." Mr. Sprouse Continues to Be PerplexShe sighed. "Alas, I fear that I will be men swarming here from both ing, but Puts His Noot to th Ground. diall have to tell you a little more sides of the border by tomorrow night Barnes was abroad early. He was ibout this wonderful man you know or next day. It's the gospel truth, and breakfast when Peter Ames called at to mouths be nil us It's the bad If of for ts Sprouse. Sis ago going An Inspiration seized him when up. e legltl-natwhen we're here "rlends and supporters of the they come." mentioned the wholesale chauffeur the "Who Is she, O'Dowd? Man to man. exodus: he hired Peter forthwith successor to my country's throne and onsummsted a plan whereby the tell me the truth. I want to know Just ordered him to report Immediately crown Jewels and certain documents where I stand." with the car. He was up to O'Dowd of state were surreptitiously removed hesitated, looked around Oreen Fancy for Miss going Cameron's from the palace vaults. Instead of de- the taproom, and then leaned across wardrobe. positing the treasure In Paris, It wns the table. Two minutes after Peter uj "Miss Cameron Is In reality the to the Tavern he was on the droveback v to this country In charge of a way fagtoup of men whose fealty could not Countess Therese to Green Fancy again, and seated behe questioned. The man you know as miliarly and lovingly known In her side him was Thomas Kingsbury Loeb Is In reality my cousin. I have own land as the Countess Ted. She Barnes, his new master. known him all my life. He Is the wns visiting In this country when the There was not a sign of human life youngest brother of the pretender to war broke out. If It Is of any use to about the place. Peter it! throne, and a cousin of the prince you, I'll add that she would be rich If him upstairs to the room accompanied recently ocAladdin could only come to life and ho Is held prisoner hy the Austrlans. Miss Cameron. by cupied This prince tins a brother also, and It restore the splendors of the demolThey found two small leather ished castle, refill the chests of gold wns to him that was supposed to detrunks, thickly belnheled, In tbe room liver the Jewels. I traveled from New that have been emptied by the conBoth were locked. York, but not alone as you mny sus- querors, and restock tre farms that upstairs.. (TO BE CONTINUED.) I was carefully protected from have been pillaged nnd Ltvaatated. In pect. the absence of Aladdin, however, she the time I left my hotel there nntll Altar vs. Hatter. Is almost as poor as the ancient well, until I arrived In Boston. Said the facetious feller: "Nobody "While there I received a secret church mouse. So there you are, me expects a wedding cerepny to go man. Half the royul progeny of V, message frorr frienrlr p Canada di through without a hltoV In wit to" ims-slbl- a Thief He Wm Known to Her International Fame. e' She'll tell ye. my buck Nnfsnilth. been standing guard outside In window for the past three nights lle'a He's " "Now I know jrou are mistaken.' rrtcrt Karnes, a wave of relief surging over him. "He ban been In this tuv rrn vvery night "Sure he has. Rut answer me, did ye ever see him here after eleven In the evening? Too did not not until last night, anyhow. In the struggle he had with Nicholas last night he was That'a why poor old recognlsied. Nicholas Is lying dead up there at the I tons now and will have a decent hnrlnl unbeknownst to anybody but his friends." ''Hood God, O'Imwd, you can't mean lint he he killed" "He stuck a knife In his neck. The And tbe chief trusted !irly snake wik ever was trusted be t of lie . . Mnra-Dafand- u Don't Poison Baby. YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child most ham or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs will produoe FORTY and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the 8LEEP FROM WHICH THERE! IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who have been killed or whose health has been rained for life by paregoric, laudanum and morphine, each of which is a narcotic product of opium. Druggists are prohibited from selling either of the narcotics named to children at all, or to anybody without labelling them "poison." The definition of "narootio is : "A medicine which relieves pain and produce deep, but which in poison out doses produces stupor, coma, convulsions and death." The taste ana smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold under the names of " Drops," " Cordials," " Soothing Syrups," etc You should not permit any medicine to be riven to your children without you or your physician know or what tt is composed, oaoiuiua wjejs CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it beam the signature of Chan. H. 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