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Show Friday, Novembe r 9,1928 THE MIDVAL E JOURNA L .... The Colfax Bookplate IJy AGNES MIJ l.ER W1'fU B•ntce e b7 Th• C•ntut7 0a. J CHAPTER XIV-Contin ued -22"And Julia won't be alone, eltber, now," said I brilliantly. ''She bas her uncle-'' "She wouldn't be alone long, any· bow," observed Nancy, demurely, A faint Ousb mounted to Peter's serene brow, but he offered no rebuke. So we all smiled with highly spon· taneous cheerfulness. and he observed modestly: "Well, I'm not Ulf!!ly to start anything I can't finish I" Nancy snorted. But here came a fortunate inter· l'uptlon. Outside, 8 motor rolled up to the curb, and In walked Mr. Darrow, wearing a portentous expression; something Important was Impending. to bring him to the shop at thlr hour. Being one of the employees be spoke to, I said, careful, however, not to be too forward or unconventional: - "Good morning." He admitted my existence, but not Peter's nor Nancy's. "Good morning, l\Ir. Darrow," said .Nancy, sweetly. "Isn't It lovely out so early!" "Delightful, Indeed," murmured Mr. Darrow, with slightly uncertain over· cordiallty. "You don't know me," said Nancy. "I am l\Iiss Burton. Miss Wilkes Is kindly giving me special training to _become Miss FuUer's pri-vate secretary. This is my brother." "Ah·h·h !" observed Darrow. "Back. are you, Burton?" "Yes, sir, assented Peter. Then, ejDboldened by our having survived "' nncy's coup, be added: "I got a full set of the broadsides l\lr. Darrow; at a bargain." "Ab !" observed lllr. Darrow. "You might come and tell me about It." "He's a perfect dear, but he needs a lot of help l" sighed Nancy, viewing the retreating forms of the two gen· tlemen. "Mr. Darrow needs help?" "All men do, but I was referring to Peter. He's going to marry Julia." ''Is he?" "Well, can't you see that? ls It al· ways net·essary to say everything right out? Aren't you glad?" "If It proves to be true, I shall be very glad." "F;::;pec!ally because you helped make It happen. Of course I did most of lt; but you certainly helped." "Do tell me how you did most ot it. Nancy!" I begged. "\\'ell," heg.un 8ancy, with Intense satisfaction, "the tirst night we were at,. Normandy terrace, the most tea·ri· bl>t noise woke me up. rt was Peter singing In his sleq,J; he dues that sometimes, when he's very tire<! I knew that trip to Richmond and the :! ss about !.llalvintl and his worry about me bad just woa·n him out. and a.-~o.,. certainly felt the pangs of remorse. B he had gone on, r<::mesto would have put us on the street; so 1 went to the keyhole and moaned like a banshee until he tm ned over very loud and was quiet. But that wus not before 1 hurl made out what be was singing: a love song. and a slushy one at that I Peter-fancy I Then first thing next morning, bt nearly swooned when he saw the paper, and tried to explain it by just mentioning .::usually that 'the young lady who fainted In the shop yesterday lives downstairs'!" "You thought there wa!l more to tt than that?" "Hather, when I heard that that young lady wanted VIrginia books. that her grandfather collected them. .;:hat he was attacked In the taw-hook alcove; espe<'ially when l rememhered that my old friend Ba·andon Tower had been after a book In Peter's suit· case which was an old VIrginia law book. l couldn't relate all these facts. 1 admit, until dear Daisy Abbott . helped me. She caught me In the hall one day, and chatted lovingly, and asked me quite tncldpntally how Peter had met !\!Iss Grosvenor before!" "She had riPtectlvE: aspirations. I'll tell you about them, some time." "She bad matrlm<mlnl aspirations, too. I fixed thPm. I'll tell yon how. some time. "1 told Julin about my elopement. so she would never be surprised at hearing of It Indirectly, or think It was at all Important. or that I cared a bit for him, ever. And she said I was a good sister, and rewarded me." But here even Nancy bad to stop a minute. 1\lr. Case arrived as van· guar of the staff, greeting us affably nd rassing on to his office with all the r:easnnt courtesy which bad ne,er deserted him during that past trying week, except once when old as· soclatlons had been too poignantly aroused. ~ "Nice, notta l'' murmured Nancy. ''.Some would say dull, but I say good." "Corr~<~t," I affirmed. "How did Ju!l,a nl"'ard you?" .. - ' ..... '!he leat me this to bring here toda)-," answered Nancy. l'rom her pocket she drew a anall copper plaque, which she laid on my desk just as Captain Ashland. who had the moment before stepped out of a taxi, appeared 1n the doorway. One look, and with a shriek I bounded toward him, brandishing the plaque. "The original I" 1 cried. "Colfax's own copperplate I" He seized it, stared at It speechless. "I say I" he ejaculated futally. "Yes, here's the circled serpent quite 1n form • • • and the ship • . • and the pillars • • . and the Instruments. Where did you get this?" "I got lt I" announced Nancy, loud and clear; "I got 1t out of the little sewing-table In Julia Grosvenor's • • 1 mean Julia Harrington's • • . house." I glanced nervously at the captain, sorry for the allusion, In his presence, to the Grosvenor mystery ; but to my amazement, he looked more interested than ever. I stammered : "Out of the sewlng·table? But It was a dummy; it didn't open-" "That's what everybody thought," returned Nancy, Ignoring the captain temporarily, for it was no time to ex· plain to him about sewing-tables; ''but Julia's mother must hav9 discovered otl.erwlse. And I suspected that table all along, myself; it was so curious and striking. .Tulia thinks her mother probably hid the copperplate there to safeguard her copy of the bookplatethat Is, so that her copy would never be shown up by some engraved one being struck from the copperplate; she must have realized that, with everybod.v thinking the table was a dummy, the copperplate would almost certainly never be disturbed, especially If she bid the key, too. I tried the sewing table yesterday after I'd tried Julia's boxes, and given her the chance she wanted to talk to you and Peter. And there was this copperplate, all carefully packed Into the little drawer, so It would never rattle, with t.bis paper!" Dramatically she produced an old, stained, yellow sheet. Bending our he~s over It, the captain and I de· ciphered the following legen~: · "To Dr. Charles Grosvenor "from "Hugh Coltax, "this bookplate, In profound gratitude. "In his peaceful home, may he re,·all the gren t days of the l\lacedonlan nod the Esmeralda.'' This was pure Greek to me, but , the captain started back In amazed recol· lectlon. "The Esmeralda?" he cried. "Why, that ship's one of the most famous prizes In England's nava. history! She was captured off Callao by the British Oeet that went to the aid of the revolutionists of Chile in 1820. We've got It at last, l believe l Colfax's !'on must have been there!" "He was!" I cried. "Never mind now I know ; that. can walt. But afterward he fell a victim to yellow fever, and b!s life was saved by Doctor Gros· '~nor, then an American naval sur· geon. Though just bow he happened to be on the spot 1 don't know-" "1 do!" broke fn Nancy, determined ly. "Julia told me. That ship on the hookptn te Is the Macedon ian. the doc· tor's ship, which was on a voyage and lying off Callao at the time of the ac· tlon between the Esmeralda and the British fleet.'' "But," I objected-} bad been ex· amlning the copperplate closely again -"the r.Iacedon!an was a very famous American ship, Nancy, anrl Captain Ashland says this Is 8 Rrltlsh-b•;Ut frigate- Oh. rny gosh!" Just too lute I perceived that my wonderful memory bad not been quite wonderful enough. The sincerity ot "You Don't Know Me," Said Nancy "I Am Miss Burton." my contrition was such that the Inelegance of Its expression was overlooked by Nancy, wh~ !'aw that she must quickly forestall questions hovering on the wholly perplexed captain's Ups. "Speaking of prizes," she salel lightly, ''the lllacedonlan was one. too; It was captured In the War of 1812• . . Oh, you remember now. dt· you, Constance? f guess you dltln't take many prizes In history, did you?'' Tbat nice Captain Ashland smiled his sweetest smile; In fact. he laughed aloud. "Then tbe last of the bookplate mys. tery's solved," he declared, "thanks to Miss Burton !" "How?" I demanded, recovering speech. ''Since the l\Iacedonlan was a prlz~ captured by America fn the War of 1812, that accuunts for its being Brit· ish bullt." "Oh, dear l Then we've flnlsbed wltb Page Seven . . the bookplate t" t~lgbed Naner, pick- he had seen the professor, then a boy, Ing up the copper plaque regretfully. down In Virg1nla, be must have known ..I haven't." said the captaiD. Miles, too; and ao old colored nurse, "How so?" &he asked. long years a Grosven~r retainer, who "Because I've really just began on had tended both Mary Grosvenor and her account of lt. It had great Influence, little daughter, had been sent home to you see, In forming my decision to VIrginia for giving that child Informastay here." tion that was to be kept from her. "Here?'' Far more important Information, con"Yes, I'm staying lndefl.nltely. My fided by that dylni mother to her old uncle always urged 111e to come, 1but nurse, must have gone the rounds of my first morning here I wasn't very the log cabins tn Eliot's Crossing, and keen on It, I must admit. I felt put found its way north again to one who otr a bit; safer in the war, what? But secretly knew the gray-haired prothen you-and Miss Fuller, of course fessor as more than one of the detalls -drew my attention to-the book· of life 1n Darrow's. plate, and so I've decided to stay and And finally, Ulysses, seeing the help In the business on this side. 1 sprfng·lancet under my desk that telephoned my uncle my decision last Thursday, had undoubtedly recognized night and I must be off now to see ft In some way. Exactly ho\v, would him, for he said he'd be here early to never be known. Yet ft might be welcome' me. I believe I'll have time safely assumed that his old father, to learn the business and do some with the interest In bodily Ills charother things 1 want to, now that Alroy acteristic of his r.ace and class, had says he's through with me.'' told Ulysses over and over again of "Mr. Alroy Is through with you!" 1 the One young naval surgeon who once, ejaculated. "'Why, what do you mean, long ago, by means of a strange little Captain Ashland? You weren't helpiD$ brass box full of knives, bad cured solve the Grosvenor mystery, all thl.JI him of pleurisy. And It was the more time? And I never knew It l" likely that Ulysses bad heard this "'Helping?'" repeated the captain, story frequently because this admir· dazedly, "I say, were you in It, too? I had no Idea I" "Ob, I didn't do much," 1 demurred feebly. "Nor II Just made a nuisance of myself soothing my uncle, and beg· glng for tea, and insisting on an orlg· ina! for that copy of the bookplate, COYOTE,. FOX and SKUNIC The Kind Mo•t Men Fear and what not.'' JlxTBRJONATO.a OA.DSUL•s. Go~ 9 coyote& one nif!.bt.llrougbt muo. lllinks-Are you afraid of storms? "See here," said 1, severely ; "how Free Clrcul.-. Free Fonnutas .... Jinl~:s-Only when they are domes· long has Mr. Alroy known, anyhow, IMinlctioas. GEORGE EDWAROS.l.Jvia&ston. Montau lie.. that that book was an object of InterMammoth JJ•on&e Turk~.:r•; l'rlze \VInnllllt est to the Grosvenor connection?" stock. Mated Pens or single birds. Pl'lcea on request. Hugh G. Stringham, Moroni, Utah. The captain chuckled delightedly. "Go<ftl joke on all of us, what? Why, MEDITERRANEAN ~cf:!:e you know, his · interest to the case ss "Transylvania " sailing Jan. 3~ started when he beard Professor HarClark's 25th cruise, 66 days, including Madeira, rington was among those present; of Canary Islands, Casablanca, Rabat, Capital of Morocco, Spain, Algiers, Malta. Athens~ Con.. course, he k11ew about hlm personally, etnntinople.l& days Palestine and EtJYPt, Itnly, but be also remembered that the police Ri·liera, Cherbourg, (Paris). lncludes hot:elil, guides. motors. etc. had been called In wheL Harrington's Norway-MedltetTanu n, June29,18H; $800•• library was robbed, some years back. I'R.ANK C.C:LARK, TlmesBids.,M.T . So he reads that case over, to .refresh his mind; and then, when he walks Into my uncle's office, last Monday noon, there's one of the very books Abaorbine vrlll rcduoe that was stolen, tying on the desk I strained. swollen tendons. lil!lll!lE•ntll And then, with all the Grosvenor clan tnuscleo. Stops the lameness and from a splint, side bone or bone spavin. rushing hither and yon for V!rglnlana, N<> blister, no hair gone, and hcorse can the rest was easy.''. be used, $2.50 nt drurr;;ists. or pootpaid. Dcscrlbo your ease for opecial batruc"Oh, was It?" said 1. tions, Interesting horae hook 2-S free. "Of course It was, when be had so "Is That There a Clew, Miss Fuller?" From a rsce horso owner: ••used much help from experts!" Absorbino on a ycar:;nk' pacer '\Vitb Inquired Ulysses, Indicating the tn. strained tendon. Colt all over lnmenesa, No woman would wear dressrs. or "Mr. Alroy," observed Nancy, lr· strument. though for atime,c:ouldD'ttak., llatep. blouses, or stockings of a color that's relevantly, "told me one day to take Great etutf." able doctor was so strangely one of decidedly out of style or faded, if all care of my tine brother. So I did." "We were puppets In his hands l'' I these no-'cot:nt Grosvenors no Harring· of us knew how easy it is to mal'e ton retainer would have had use for. things fresh, crisp and stylish by the murmured. And so Ulysses, seeing the spring- quick magic of home tinting or dyeing-. "Positive puppets," beamed the t·ap lancet under the desk, and knowing Anybody can tint or dYe successful· taln. "Going up, are you, Miss Bur· the suspicion hovering over Julia and ly with true, fadeless Diamond Dyes. ton? Do tell me bow you took care the evil reputation of her grandfather, Tinting with them is as easy as bluing, of your brother !" had kept the secret in her defense. and dyeing takes just a little longer. So young England and young "He must be rewarded," proclaimed New, stylish colors appear like mag-ic, America departed, each with a prize; Mr. Darrow, as I finished. "His dis- right over the old, faded colors. Dinor perhaps America had two, for cretion bas safeguarded the Interests mond Dyes never spot, streal;: or run. Nancy bore off the Colfax copperplate. of my house In aiding a favorable out· They are real dyes, like those used AD dealen are authoriud to rdaad your lllllllOJ for tlae "i\flss Fuller, you seen the paper this linl Uottle ii not J11ited. come of the Investlgatlvn, and he bas when the cloth was made. Insist on maw·n ?'' A dark band held out Dally been loyal Indeed to the former bene· them and save disappointment. Snapshots. "Bookshop Mystery," ran factors of his family." Some Man-Made Seas 1\fy new 64·page fllustrated book, the largest caption: "Clew's Denoue"He expects a set ot red·satln turn!. ·'Color Craft," gives hundreds ·of 11 the Bouldel' dam of the Colorado ment," above an enlarged reproduction ture," said I. money-saving hints for renewing river Is ever completed ns rlcsi~ned It of the spring-lancet. "He shall have it at once. Your In· clothes and draperies. It's Free. Write will J1ave a capaeity of 2H.OO!l,IJUO acre"Is that there a clew, Miss Fuller?" terestlng story, Miss Fuller. confirms I for it now, to Mae ~fartin, Dept. D-143, feet of watPr. Some of the other great Inquired Ulysses, indicating the instrn· me In the desire I have to discu!'ls Diamond Dyes, Burlington, Yermont. constructions of this character crement. with you a certain matter. sinc-e It ated storage ns follows: Go tun dam, "Yes, Ulysses.'' With sudden deter· shows you have won esteem In widely When 11 mnn's business runs down, 4.410,000; Assouan dam. t.RO~l,()(JO; m!nat!on 1 resolved to ask hlm one varied classel!l of society-an assH, In- the sheriff comes along and winds It Elephant Butte dam, 2.~08,0tl0, and question; he seemed communicative, deed. By the way, you have heard of lnp. Almanor dam, l,:ns.ooo. for him. "Have you ever seen Miss the gratifying offer I have received for - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Barrington, too? I mean, as well a"' Ciarlhew's 'Notes'?" her grandfather?'' "Not yet." "No," didn't know her 't all," de· "Magistrate Juddes will • give six nfed Ulysses. "We·all knew Professor hundred dollars for lt. I let him have It for that figure; be desires It for a Harrington. of "ourse." special purpose. He was purtlcularlv "You mean, down In Virginia." Fortune favored the bold. Ulysses attracted to It by the s!gnlfl1~ance of the substitute bookplate which you so proffered a single confidence: "Yas'm; my old father, be lived wltb astutely Inserted, that bearing the the Bnrrlngtons. They had elegant motto 'lnvictus,' most appropriate for big white house all full of red-satin his political purpose. You understand furn'ture. l loves grand furn'ture." me?" "Quite." Then ·be was gone with his Snapshots, "I think, Miss Fuller. you do ordl· leaving me with my thoughts and cata· nary things rather well.'' togue proof, Nhlch lasted me until late "Thank you." that afternoon, when, true to form, Mr. ''Now, w!th my nephew's most grati· Hoberts Interrupted on the telephone. tying decision to remnln here on ru~ "Are you busy?" account. we shnll unquestionubty be In "No," I answered, also true to form. a position to Increase our lnterna· Then 1 was kindly $0 come to Mr. tiona! business through Ills connection. Darrow's office. Not once before in Be belleves, accordingly, that It would nine years bad I been summoned to Daughtet< ofMra, Catherine Lamuth be well if a reliable and experienced Daughtet< of Mn. E.,. Wood Howe the Presence. I wondered why Mr. Bo:o: 72, Mohawk, Michia:an 1006 South H. Street, Danville, W. person could be sent to England very Darrow should take the trouble to fire ''After my daughter grew ~·z praise Lydia E. Pinkham~s shortly for six months. to ohflerve the me personall~. but marched Into his into womanhood she began to conduct of Ashland'!.' business, so that VegetableCom pound for what cherry\vood headquarters and faced we might feel get their rundown point and of ,·iew weak as and a it has done for my fourteen~ him and Mr. Hoberts with all the comhe Is getting ours. Now, how do you friend asked me to get her year--old daughter as well as for posure I could muster. feel about It? You undPrstand m"?" your medicine. She took Lydia me. It has helped her growth "Ah I Mts~ Fuller?" said Mr. Dar· "Captain Ashland's judgment l..s ex· E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com· and her nerves and she has a row, as if he wasn't quite sure. "Sit pound and Lydia E. Pink- good appetite now and sleeps down. Now, In reference to that book· cellent, I am sure," 1 replied cu m!ly, though nearly suffocating trow neart plate- You know what I mean?" ham's Herb Medicine. Her well. She has gone to school failure. "I think so," I murmured. nerves are better, her appetite every day since beJinning the "Ah I It Interests sou?" "Miss Fuller showed considerable in· is good, she is in good spirits medidne. I will continue to "It sounds most Interesting." tell!gence In thn t connection," Inter· and able to work every day. g{ve it to her at regular in~ "Well, Miss Fuller, I am well lm· rupted Mr. Roberts, We recommend the Vegetable tervals and will recommend it "All Alroy's efforts seem to have pressed on the whole wltb your cou· Compound to other girls and to other mothers who have been crowned with success," said Mr. duct In Important matters dnr!ug this to their mothers."-Mr s. Cath..- daughters with similar trou· Darrow, hastily. "I have been glad to past week. 1 am wondering If I could erine Lamuth. · trust you with something larger.'' bles."-Mrs. Eva Wood Howe. exert my poor Influence to obtain for "1 should be so glad," I murmured him the vacation he has long desired to spend with his worthy aged parents bumbly. "I do not wish to stnrtle you; but on their picturesque Maine Island. I would not see one who has exerted the fact ls, I should like you to under· himself In behalf of the cause of jus· take this mission. I believe you have t!ce and my house remain unre- enough lntelllgence to sen•e my Interests well." warded." "I'll say," said 1. "you ought to be"Then don't forget Ulysses!" said 1. lieve It l" And, swearing both my astonished "I assure you, .Miss Fuller," said bearers to secrecy, I outlined Ulysses' Mr. Darrow, soothingly, "you have my epic of devotion, for such bls whole entire confidence!" course of conduct during the previous [THE END] week had to be accounted. 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