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Show THE MISSING MAN , .. By MARY . "R. Author of "The P HATCH Bank Tragedy" Copyright. IMS, by l.ee and CHAPTER V. Shparl What folly is this, Constance," said her uncle, sternly. "Henderson and held out till we could do so no longer. The proofs were overwhelming; the account you have read is true." "But because he went away and does not return, is that criminal? He People fremay be ill somewhere. quently have brain fever and cannot tell so much as their names." "But Vane was well on the 28th of He was at the. bank the 22d. May. He got five thousand dollars at the national bank in Boston on a note which he presented himself." "But hadn't he a right to when he is the treasurer?" "Listen, Constance," said her uncle, quite patiently, though he inwardly wondered that women could be so un"The proofs were overreasonable. whelming before; they satisfied every one else; but when Low's letter came to the president of the bank, then a tploirram statine details, we had 10 believe. If more proof were needed, it was supplied afterwards when another altered note, this time altered from f.,ur hundred to four thousand, came in. For a day or two it looked as if the bank must fait. The trustees is sued a circular to the banks ot tne country to send in any deposits they might have of their paper, but th re was no response, so it Is likely no other not6S were offered. That is ex actly as the matter stands. Constance. I thought it wrong to leave you in Ignorance any longer. You know how I hate unnleasantness or trouble of any sort, and that I would not have told you if it could have been avoided.' " I know, Uncle Carter, you meant to be kind.'' said Constance in a lowrestrained voice. "I am sorry I spoke to you so sharply, but I was upset by having the matter broached when I had set it one side. I don't believe it now, and I am sorry that you do. But no matter," as he opened his mouth to speak, "vou cannot help it. perhaps i You did. I did not know him as 1 Mr. Carter Breaks '.he Matter Gently. In less than two weeks the injunc- about Hamilton's past life, the portion of it which wu compressed fato the two weeks in each May which, since his marriage at least, he invariably pfiit away from Oroveriale. progressed, As hit investigations Bruce" grew more and more excited, and it is not too much to say that he was completely mystified as well. Kor it was in the most questionable streets and among the most dishonest haunts that he found the surest traces of his presence. He had his photograph, he had the assistance of other detectives, and as the search went on, it w'as proved that Vane Hamilton, or his double, was the frequenter of places which the honest people of Grovedale would have shuddered to contemplate, even in imagination. Bruce went West again, lor he was Hi An in Dopes to discover tnai tuauun had retraced his course to the States. if involved in dishonest schemes in western towns now, as Bruce felt convinced that he had been in the past, he was likely he thought, to return for prudence is not common-- ! ;iytheday.characteristic of a rogue. First Bruce went to Valparaiso, a new but exceedingly enterprising town in Kansas, where he fancied tidings were to be found of Hamilton's TownMWM- - Gossip of Gotham Interesting Comment from the Eastern Metropolis Glories in an Anarchistic Schoolgirl Who Is a Mystery HEARST TICKET Sixteen-Year-01- d Title-For- tune for Bible Fund. Candidates Can Not Have Names Placed Under the Emblem. Big Bunch of YORK Elizabeth Flynn, the old high school girl, who was at t ested in this city for preaching to a crowd in the street, while a red nag waved over her head, delights in the NEW title hef socialist friends have bestowed upon her, "The Daughter of the Reds." Petite, well formed, with almost faultless fea tion was removed from the bank, Decision is Based on Technicalities, tures, dusky hair and great, star-likeyes, this which resumed active operations. The not down is of child skirt the Petitioners Having Failed to lti. tweed whose gray bondsmen paid the sum for which they to her shoe tops, said in reply to a question: Observe the Letter of tne Law. were obligated, and matters rapidly "No, I do not object to being called 'The took on their usual aspect. ColI the at of that the Reds.' got Daughter Mr. Carter and his partner were dolectivism' dinner, and 1 should like to explain not well it the New York. -- The appellate division could at mill, but don't object to it. The red Hag ing right now why It does not mean riot, bloodshed and anarchy. be denied that the loss of money and of the supreme court, reviewing the means the red. health) blood of the people. 1 am Vane's defection were hard to bear. of the board of elections on decisions in that sense a daughter of the reds, and I love Pitying his niece deeply, he could not contested nomination cases in New ilw red tbitr." in iinilAratianrifttB th:it bear to add to her grief by telling her who lulV. met her. York tliOSO mkl .... onial'S ,.f'i intolloot i ill.-- -l"MIIMIU county, on Friday handed down liinit' IJ Kill, w UOSit' ullll of the terrible suspicions entertained Is the daughter of Thomas Flynn. a civil engineer of New Yorlt. sne saia a decision removing from the ticket a now almost universally, ami so he sat ho. ,i k, ,... ,.) , ,..,,! sialism because her father was cheated majority of the candidates nominated generally quite silent at his meals, out of two years' wages by bis employers. Last winter, during a long illness, conshe became" absorbed it. the works of Walt Whitman. Fiber. Hubbard. Robert by the Independence league for spending his remaining time at the G. Ingersoll and Tom Paine, which she studied In connection with the Blue. the state senate and the asoffice, under the plea, correct enough, gress, At iHrla . liurlna aside their .lolls she is deeply versed .ho. of press of business. several against whom no Aina friends are Bolton Hall, .1. G. Phelps Stokes lack sembly In r liam kmr.ni hr But one day he decided to tell his will have places on the care not do It anneared that a iA,iin. ,n,i ,,.i,.,r urwiatu.s He was right she has met Gorky, but aaj niece the whole matter, and so after what read at her reason that objection to would for the sevballot in men had of Thev are to meet geniuses. trio always egotistical. unscrupulous tea one evening he sat down in his them." was not made within from eral instances set up a bank in new thev write and keep aloof She ob- - their candidacy arm chair beside her and said, "Are Tii- a m hi t Inn iK to hH.I a reform movement for women sucTo these will ba time and and towns the operated growing prescribed too busy to talk a little toyou .loan of Arc." "because I am not religious. several against whom no processfully until they had victimized the jects to the title. "Socialist added night?" moneyed men, when they had closed HIS RICHES GOES TO BUY BIBLES. test was entered, and others still will "I am always busy, for 1 find so and decamped. As the up suddenly ot bv be placed, not under the "balanced the relatives to i do. and want to get everymuch oi himo entertained ' scenes of their operations were thouH. Cutter, the famous "poet lariat scales," the emblem of the league, but Bloodgood thing In order before Vane comes. sands of miles apart, and their names of Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad.'' who died But I am ready to talk with you, for In another column beneath a distiuc-tiv- s were assumed, they escaped detection, at Little Neck, L. I., recently, that he had died you have seemed too tired lately for symbol. his $750,000 strange as it may appear, until they intestate, and that they would divide conversation. You have really earned The decision affecting tnese local was ended when the last came to Valparaiso. This was early in them, estate among I am a rest, and when Vane comes will and testament of the eccentric nonagenarian nominations is based on technicalithe year 1887. sure he will insist upon your taking was discovered in a secret drawer of an antique But two men came at first. Their ties, the petitioners in each instance it." cabinet in one of his rooms, by William Purnames were given as Scoville and to observe the letter of the law. falling venerable poet's "Constance." he said gravely, "has chase, who had acted as the A private Brown. was opened bank Counsel for the league announced valet for vears. it not occurred to you that your husand operations begun, but for some half 20 of half brothers, that each will the they had filed an application with By band may never return?" reason the business men of the little a life of appeals at Albany asking Is court the relatives bequeathed other and sisters "He isn't dead! You don't mean to city were shy of them. Suddenly a interest of $5,000 each in the estate, the balance for a special session of the court, at tell me that?" she cried in a sharp, divisand new member joined Scoville being left unconditionally to the American Bible which the ruling of the appelate wild voice, clasping her hands and ion may be argued. as joint owner of the bank. society. Brown, looking at him with wide eyes and terSince the death of the "farmer poet," as he This was in May, as Bruce easily disrified gaze. BOLD DEED OF SHOEMAKER. sometimes called, energetic search had been was covered. He gave his name as Ashley, found the its without being as "No, no, child, I don't mean that, but and the after for made day passed will, day and was a genial, handsome man who and of the relatives that each would fall heir to a goodly legacy became Takes Command of Grenadiers maybe it is as bad." won his way to public favor at once, hopes so that the finding of the instrument has plunged them into deep Robs Burgomaster. "As bad! Nothing could be as had brighter, as the others had not succeeded in dejection. There is already talk of contesting. as to lose my husband, uncle. I could Berlin The pretended captain of doing. His wife was with him, a The will bequeaths the poet's vast collection of curios gathered on 14 I all else besides. lose have better OctoMark Twain with emerald-tintemade one he hair. woman with grenadiers of the guard who, on voyages around the world, including the thought about it a great deal since he Abroad" to the ber 16, oh a forged order took comin his "Innocents Immortalized humorist which the and I Valto Bruce, as have said, went went away, and I am convinced that to Museum of Art. These curios fill three big farmhouses. The mand of a detachment of twelve men paraiso and to the residence of one of Metropolitan iose Vane would kill me." 5.000 volumes is left to the Long Island Historical society. of the principal business men. who had library whom he met on the streets in this arbeen deeply victimized by the bogus ORGANIZED GANG OF HOTEL ROBBERS. - ,j 4m' city and proceeded to Coepenick, bank. For under cover of Ashley's treasthe and the rested burgomaster Tenants of the Ansonia. at Seventy-thirhis wife's pleasant fellowship and urer and took possession of the cash, street and Broadway, have been victims during grace and beauty the good people soon the last of so or Despite many burglaries. year amounting to about $l,uuu, turns out had cause to abuse their own credulclosest watch things have systematically disthe to have been a shoemaker of lusit ity. Bruce got the account from Mr. appeared. One day half a dozen pairs of silk hose named William Voigt. He was arresttoo was who and himself, be would glad or a bit of lingerie only Hayes reported stolen, ed Friday by four commissaries of poto relate it when it might be of use in the next a quantity of jewelry. The succession of thefts was so daring and systematic that W. lice at his lodging place in a quiet, retracking the swindlers. fashionable hosal"We fought shy of them at first," E. D. Stokes, proprietor of the spectable quarter of Berlin. Volgt, had begun to believe he was harboring a shoeat the said Mr. Hayes, "but when Ashley telry, tiaderof though working "R: flies" in bis house, but the arrest of Lena You came it changed everything. a pretty maid formerly employed by maker, has committed a long series of Blodgett, robberies, by never would suspect him of being a the wife of llynian Sonn, a guest of the Ansonia, felonies, principally means of forged documents. He ha.--i scamp never. Such an open, honest has cleared up the mystery. served five terms in prison, finishing a countenance, and that wife of his was Accomplices of Lena Blodgett were Frank fifteen years' sentence in February. a little beauty, if her hair was green!'' Fanning, the head carpenter, and Patrick Walsh, He is nearly GO years old. been whom have of employed both his assistant, "Was she really his wife, do you hntoi for spvpral vears and were trusted iho hv think?" access to all apartments. BOYCOTTING JAPANESE. employes. These men while about their work had "He introduced her as such, and she Kate Gallagher, a former sweetheart of Fanning, is believed to have given appeared to worship him. They took Information to the police which led to the arrest oi tne gang, one nau usj of San Francisco Making Life a handsome furnished house on Main failed to find favor in the eyes of Fanning, and this was her method of People Burdensome for Brown Men. street and went to keeping house. M. and Schwab, Mrs. Charles One of the victims is said to have been Washington -- Secretary Metcalf of They gave a big party, and we all last June was recovered by the from her was stolen which some property the department of commerce and labor went. Such a crush! Well, after that guests for the period during police Mr. Stokes is preparing a liston. of his will all was plain sailing for the new bank turn it over to the police will go to San Francisco to Investigate He which the robberies have heen going You can't mistrust a man after you when it is are already reported will and make a full report on the situation than robberies more manv that thought have eaten his bread. We can't here be brought to light. The police say the missing property may run in value as affecting the Japanese there. in the West. Deposits began to pour as high as $:!0,000. Japanese restaurant keepers have in on them. All of the solid men The police complain that residents of swell hotels such as the Ansonia. suffered Indignities in San Francisco thefts make not easy only banked there. Well, the upshot was by their carelessness in the case of their valuables, of employes of the as well as Japanese school children, the in way but temptation place of accomplishment, in ten days after Ashley came we The hand dropped bes.de her and an ashen hue covered her face. a class of workers as any in the city. according to reports received by the found we had been swindled, our notes house who are about as poorly inpaid the Ansonia, it will be remembered, that in his apartments was It I am Vane the about but in or money, as Constance, now, sorry other banks Japanese ambassador from Japanese sold "Oh, come, deposited "Al." Adams, the former "policy king," committed suicide a few weeks ago. consular officers In that city. wouldn't go on like that. Women's will reimburse you if fie is living. If collateral security for cash paid to At least seven or eight reports have husbands die every day, and they don't not, I will." and Constance took up Scoville, Brown and Ashley, and in at LETTER TO DR. STORK. made concerning a boycott InPATHETIC been 'em some of a get most needle, sewing, and, selecting feel like that; the least a dozen instances the figures had oi against Japanese restauyear-olnine the augurated daugnier adopted Irene, husalready threaded, took a few tremu married again. I only wish your been altered so that the scamps got N. J., rants In the California city. of F. F. Oradell, Blenckstone, Druggist lous stitches. ten times the actual value of the nob s band was as well off as theirs." wrote a letter to the stork in the Central park Her uncle went out the door and It was a gigantic swindle," and Mr. "As well off as theirs dead! What The Question of the Hour In France. zoo two months ago. asking that a little baby down to his office ruminating. the and soon as convenient as do you mean, Uncle Carter?" said Con got home up apartment paced at left her be Hayes sister Bordeaux. France. Cardinal LeCot, "She has doubts, I can see that, but nervously. to the stork. No baby arrived at the Blenckstance, rising with indignant face, of Bordeaux, has issued an archbishop a before. she won't give way to them. There girl baby stone home, but. Saturday night, (To be continued.) crimson where it was pallid faithful not to Join "false A. the whose to Hating, appeal arrived at the home of Everett are deeper feelings at work in her "Are you crazy?" of Catholics and bad priests" in the fora is playmate Margaret daughter show. Conher words thatf Poor HE HAD THE EVIDENCE. "You will make me crazy. Constance, heart Irene Blenckstone. mation of associations to take over if you go on that way. Your husband stance! What a brave soul she has! The latter at once concluded a serious mishe it to should think And It desert and warns the par her! Hostler Knew Something About New is a dishonest man. there!" blurting take had been made and she so told Margaret. church property, his Injunction to who refused and was Horse's Bad Temper. Ishloners disobey obdurate out and mopping his face energetical- is hard to believe all this of Vane But her playmate it to you Hamilton." So Irene, that A certain gentleman will lose the right to confess the baby away to the claimant. recently purly. "I meant to have broken they give Hard, indeed, but how many in- chased at a rather high price a caron Monday, wrote another letter to the stork, and receive the sacrament, and notl easy, but you wouldn't let me," he on are it like record. Institustances he But altone. an addressing It Central park. She wants a baby fled the he animal to match a complaining said in riage horse priests that they would be prosister before November. was alarmed directly by Constance tions for savings have been proved ready possessed. see she to from preaching and adminisIrene hibited called who a To reporter, most The trustworthy men. A day or two later he asked his I am falling back in her chair. Her hand necessary.are sacrament, that those "who stork the kind sure I the one. good, want tering "I love babies and really hue as they supposed to be, are placed groom what he thought of the new ar saiddropped beside her and an ashen but she loves babies, too, and won t give hers thus wrongfully acquire church prop me. for meant center. baby the Margaret's nearest money Responsiin'a state of sin, rival. covered her face. Her uncle thought letter to the stork and placed a blanket on the erty will not only die to me So I wrote ano-heto sleep on when she arrives. but the obligation will rest upon their she was dying. He flew to her side, ble men, in most cases personal "Well, sir." said John, "he's sartain will have babv something so the over sofa night are not babies. I want something posterity so long as the memory of 'he Brasned a tumbler of water and was friends, are held as sureties under ly a grand looking 'oss. but I'm afcard have, dolls and a cat and dog, but they And yet what is the bonds. I have no brothers she but or sisters and If the robbery endures." with heavy it, her talk to a to bit can learn his deluge about touchy." to plav with that temper's d send me a can I am sure it w be read almost It result? any said sometimes, and weakly: get put up her hand "What makes you think so?" asked stork knew how lonesome W. C. T. U. Convention. in the newspapers In the records day I am so cold." She little baby.'' good not master. that, "No, Conn The of bank defaulters. In the history of .John's Hartford. thirty third wrote follows; she chatThe letter teeth and her was shivering now, "He don't appear to take kindly te 1 will please ask you again, please bring me a baby. men whose honesty was slowly conof the National Wo Mr Stork; convention Dear annual He don't like me going You will find a blanket and pillow on the sofa, because I sleep there every tered audibly. to temptation, the nobody, sir sumed by union man's Christian Temperance box even to feed him " "What shall I get you?" cried her Incident toproximity his nto-h- t into K kindlv bring it before November. I would like a little girl. M great trusts. Lillian Mrs. 30 here m. at onened p. Friday. uncle. "Oh," lightly responded the horse know a little girl who only got a baby last Saturday Bruce, meanwhile, was pursuing his soon. I Me IRENE BLENCKSTONE, better be Portland. I of shall N. presided, Stevens settled down yet owner, "he hasn't "Nothing. will investigations in his own manner. are His surroundings and more than 450 delegates from all am better. You were saying, uncle" Irene Is confident that the good stork will not disappoint her and that's all. sucstrenuous Bruce endeavor By a second mistake. I don't not make there's to him. think gfce said feebly. strange parts of the United States were pressaid. Folks get ceeded in discovering the fact that the with his temper." "No matter what wrong anything ent, and some from Austria, Japan. ABROAD. mistaken. Forget It all. I would. Don't woman with the emerald tinted hair "I didn't at first, sir," remarked MORTON ON INSURANCE Pngland, Greece and other countries. off al the train at Mechanic Falls, got bother your head about It." president of the Kqultable Life you see. he's kicked me Paul Morton, "but, John; The feature of the opening session some She motioned to her work basket. though Libby professed to recollect clean out o' the box twice, and, when ssurance society, has been abroad to for desk his was the address of the president, Mrs to a ticket she that returned bought through "Get that paper." she said. yon comes to think about It, that s time and has but recently who has been at the head of Stevens, folded Portland a saw building. in and the neatly looked Equitable He sort o' convlncin'." Ixmdon Answer. afslnc the death in of the Insurance organization conditions the are The learned detective that further "What contain newspaper, the Boston Globe, of the founder. Miss Frances 1898 asked. was Morton Mr. . t in a run sne went norm nai uigii.. wnen Kurope?" fairs Ing as Mr Carter saw directly, The Howling Mob. "I went across." Mr. Morton ultimately paid, ductor Stone was in charge of the of the bank examination, unChiIs of the thirteen father Jones "to see what (..old be done lo smooth over Borne train, to Island Pond. She staid all France to Send a Warihip to Tangier. der sensational headlines. week troubles which had been encountered In France, at Wldnes. lives snd ltst ldren, ..whv." iraned her uncle, "1 thought niRht at the Stewart House, and in he took them all to one of the thea- but found our company could live undei the conParis - In view of the situation in the morning took train for Coatlcoke. French government and the vou knew nothing about It." by ditions Imposed to On the the at Liverpool way Morocco, the French government has I In fact, ostensibly, but as he shrewdly sur- ters that we could operate under these laws "I did not until yesterday, and small the headed he prore-station as decided to send a warship to Tangier. stringent was mised, she was qui'e as likely to have laws of New York state are Just would not believe It. The paper and his wife brought up the rear the sion. ot destiA special dispatch from Tangier say of her short it Kurope. those are as that stoppVd supposed over a week old, and I though "The Kqultable will continue in France. The he wa enabled to with the youngest boy. Thus far nation but that a state of anarchy exists In the first suspicions, related to the one of the laws of that nation, while generally favoring the station and In entering no Upon he farther hut track fact, her, regions of Hnbat and Casa Blatica, that since then all had been proved do not discriminate against companies, knew nothing atx.ut her after she left porters rushed upon Jones and asked French of foreign . lfefSiB viae all transportation that . . , . , ,., .nose oi right." , ,. him what he had been doing. Pond. The dispatch says In reply to another question, Mr. .Morion skhi uie ucm Knw "Matters were set right at the bank Island varant-ly- . stared to goods has ceased amazed, Jones, continue will was "we Pwr his The ends. wits' at lie to Bruce said, went amount eat," Whatever the they chief who Is abroad. out died bandit bondsmen hi? the paying RalSUll, by and answered: eating our meats we gave them that fifteen hundred dollars held out by for the disorder prevailing supply During the short time thev si. ...pel that was missing. Constance." responsible If entire the that a made proposal While In Kngland "Nothing. Why?" the t.BJJt president, together with proAmerican oatmeal In complete control ot "You were one of them, uncle." meat our company would insure at Arlzllla, Is between "Then what's the blooming crowd British armv was fed wholly on Elaralsh and fessional pride, made him unwilling lo the territory sell KuroseanS "Yes." f.dlerlne yer for'" Liverpool (Eng.) everyone in' the armv at regular rates We not only want to set he and the undertaking, he back relinquish comes Tangier. "Well, when Vane our mef.ts, but to Insuie their lives after they buy It.' bin, self to finding out what he could Mercury wtl'i pay you." ... ... mm 1 -l i 1 j) 1 If nine-year-ol- r 1 -- 1 Wll-lar- ; Am-nc- ati d |