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Show Information Adams vent his way to the Deaver sleeper. Finding Winton in his set. tion. pormap and making iver a blue-priing notes thereon after the manner of a man hard at work. Adams turned back to the smoking compartment. Now for Mr. Morton P. Adams the salt of life was a joke, harmless or otherwise, as the tree might fall. So, during the long afternoon which he wore out in solitude there grew up In him a keen desire to see what would befall If these two whom he had so protesquely misrepresented each to the other should come together in the pathway ot acquaintanceship. But how to bring them together was a problem which refused to be solved until chance pointed the way. Since the "Limited" had lost another hour fjllring the day, there was a rush for the dining car as soon as the announce nient of iu taking on had gone through Adams and Winton were the train. of this rush, and so were the members of Mr. Somerville Darrah's party. In the seating the party was separated, as room at the crowded tables could be found; and Miss Virginia's fate gave her the unoccupied seat at a one of the duet tables, opposite steadfast with man gray eyes young and a Van Dyck beard. Winton was equal to the emergency, Adams was or thought he was. still within call, and he beckoned him, meaning to propose an exchange of seats. But the Bostonian misunderstood willfully. "Most happy, I'm sure," he said, coming instantly to the rescue. "Miss Carteret, my friend signals his dilemma. May I present him?" Virginia smiled and gave the required permission- in a word. But for flew shrieking. Winton "Ah er I hope you know Mr. Adams well enough to make allowances for his forhis " He broke down piteously and she had to come to his assistance. "For his imagination?" she suggested. "I do, indeed; we are quite old friends." Here was "well enough," but Wilton was a man and could not let it alone. "I should be very sorry to have you teSTORV Idf A FOOL FOR LOVE j By FRANCIS LYNDE Author of "The Grafters." Etc. J I I M. by J. P. l.ippincott Co.) (Copyright. CHAPTER II. Continued. Carteret was propped among Mrs. the cushions of a divan with a book Her daughter occupied the undivided naif of a tete-a-techair with a blonde athlete in a clerical coat and a reversed collar. Miss Virginia was sitting alone at a window, but she rose and came to greet the visitor. "How good of you to take pity on us," she said, giving hiin her hand. Then she put him at one with the others: "Aunt Martha you have met; also Cousin Bessie. Let me present you to Mr. Calvert, Cousin Billy, this is Mr. Adams, who is responsible in a way for many of my Boston-learne- d gaueheries " Aunt Martha closed the book on her finger. "My dear Virginia!" she protested in mild deprecation; and Adams laughed and shook hands with Kev. William Calvert and made Virginias peace all in the same breath. "Don't apologize for Miss Virginia, We were very good Mrs. Carteret. friends in Boston, chiefly, I think, because I never objected when she to to take a rise out of me." Then to Virginia: "1 hope I don't intrude?" "Not in the least. Didn't I just say you were good to come? Uncle Somer-vill- e tells us we are passing through the famous Golden Belt, whatever that may be and recommends an easy-chaBut I haven't and a window. dis- Been anything but stuoble-field- s at that. Won't mally wet stubble-field- s you sit down and help me watch them go by?" Adams placed a ch;iir for her, and found one for himself. " 'Uncle Somerville' am I to have the pleasure of meeting Mr. Somer- te er-r-- ir Tille Darrah?" Miss Virginia's look was "Quien sabe?" she queried, airing her one westernism before she was fairly in the longitude of it. "L'ncle Somerville is a law unto himself. He had a lot of telegrams and things at Kansas City, and he is locked in his den with Mr. .lastrow, dictating answers by the dozen. suppose." "Oh, these industry colonels!" said Adams. "Don't their toilings make someyou ache in sheer sympathy times?" "No. indeed," was the prompt rejoinder; "f envy them. It must be fine to have large things to do, and to be able to do them." "Degenerate scion of a noble race!" jested Adams. "What ancient Carteret of tbem all would have compromised with the necessities by becoming a captain of industry?" She broke him with a mocking laugh. "You were born a good many centuries too late. Mr. Adams; you would into dehave fitted so beautifully cadent Rome." Twentieth-centurthanks. "No America, with the commercial frenzy taken on: of it, is good enough for me. I was telling Winton a little while ago " "Your friend of the Kansas City sta- she tion interrupted. platform?" "Mightn't you introduce us a little less Informally?" "Beg pardon. I'm sure yours and Jack's: Mr. John Winton, of New York and the world at large, familiarly known to his intimates and they are precious few ad 'Jack W.' As was about to say " But she seemed to find a malicious satisfaction in breaking in upon him. '"Mr. John Winton;' it's a pretty name, as mimes go, but it isn't as strong as he is.. He is an 'industry colonel,' isn't he? He looks it." The Bostonian avenged himself for the interruption at Winton's expense "So much for ydnr woman's intuition," he laughed. "Speaking of idlers, there is your man to the dotting of the i;' a dilettante raised to the, nth power." Miss Carteret's short upper lip curled in undisguised scorn. "I like men who do things," she asserted, with pointed emphasis; whereupon the talk drifted eastward to Bos ton, and Winton was ignored untilVirginia, having exhausted the reminiscent vein, said: "You are going on through to Denver?" "To Denver and beyond," was the reply. "Winton has a notion of hi bernating in the mountains fancy it; In the dejd of winter! and he has persuaded me to go along. He sketches a little, you know." "Oh, so he Is an artist?" said Vlraroused. Interest with newly ginia. "No," said Adams, gloomily, "he Isn't an artist Isn't much of anything, I'm sorry to say. Worse than all, he doesn't know his grandfather's middle name. Told me so himself." "That Is Inexcusable in a df let tante," said Miss Virginia, mockingly "Don't you think so?" "It Is Inexcusable in anyone," said the technologlan. rising to take his leave. Then, as a parting word: "Does set Its own table? or do you dine In the dialog MtV "In the dining car, it we have one Uncle Somerville lets us dodee the H.iKprnnrv', conk wlienewr We OBI was H- i- answer: and with this bit of 1 y I ' V.ss Virginia v..s happy. Dilettante he might be, and an unhumbled man :. bat, use Kevi ,,f to. erend B1I ) phrase, she could make him "sit up." "1 beg yours, I'm sure," she said, demurely. "I didn't know it was a craft secert." Winton looked across the aisle to the table where the technologian wai d Bitting opposite a Herbert James Hagernian, the governor ot ruddy-faoe- d gentleman with fiery eye Ney UsHTlon. who has resigned his office while and fierce white mustache, and shook uncer investigation by the legislature concerning a figurative fist. his part in alleged extensive land frauds, is only "I'd lik to know what Adams hat ll J cars old and one of the youngest governors in been telling you," he said. "Sketch the country. in midwinter! ing in the mountains The charge is that the governor, without the that would be decidedly original, txs V ' and consent Of the commissioner or I rf I knowledge And think of it say the least ' I delivered to the Pennsylvania De lauds, publl,.in j have never done an original thing velopment company a deed for 1,006 acres of timall my life." ber fund; that he took the seal of the commisFor a single instant the brown eyes sioner and unlawfully affixed it to the deed, that looked their pity for him; generic pity the land is worth from $25 to $100 an acre, but that kind of the mounting it was, was sold at only three dollars an acre, that the But souls bestow upon the stagnant. federal law at the time forbade the selling of the subconscious lover in Winton made more than ICO acres to any one purchaser, and it personal to him, and it was the that therefore the territorial institutions to which lover who spoke when he went on. these were defrauded. lands belonged is Is a damaging admission, "That Hagerman Is a product of the west. Horn in Milwaukee, he it not? I am sorry to have to make 11 his boyhood in Colorado and his youth in New Mexico. to have to confirm your poor opinion spent wai appointed in 1897 by President McKinley second secreHagerman of me." of the Btates embassy in Russia. K. A. Hitchcock, now secreUnited "Did I say anything like that?" sha tary tary of the interior, was then ambassador at St. Petersburg. It was largely protested. due to his good work as secretary of the embassy, both under Mr. Hitchcock "Not in words; but your eyes said and later under Charlemagne Tower, that his appointment as governor was thinkbeen I have know you it, and secured. Mr. Hitchcock urged the appointment upon President Roosevelt. ing it all along. Don't ask me how I as it did close upon that of another young man to a similar posiknow it; I couldn't explain It if I Following was drawn that Mr. Hagerman secured his place through the inference tion, I should try. But you have been pity-a with the rough riders, as did the governor of Oklahoma, former connection ing me, in a way you know you but this is a mistake. have." The brown eyes were downcast after her kind Frank and as she was,- - Virginia Carteret was finding it a new and singular experiMrs. Annie Besant of Benares, India, has ence to have a man tell her baldly at been nominated as world president of the their first meeting that he had read her society, to succeed the late Col. Henry inmost thought of him. Yet she would of the orthe president-founde- r Steele Olcott, not flinch or go back. old New an waa who Col. Olcott, "There is so much to be done in the ganization. the civil of a York man veteran and newspaper the do to so work," few world, and to India return his died war, following recently she pleaded in extenuation. "And Adams has told you that I am from Chicago, where he had attended the annual On his not one of the few? It is true enough convention of the American section. deathbed Col. Olcott formally named Mrs. Besant, to hurt." to succeed She looked him fairly in the eyes. who had tor years been his "What is lacking, Mr. Winton the Mm, a prerogative he held. The nomination must oe ratified by a vote of the societies of spur?" to be taken. soon is vote world the and the no is "There "Possibly," he rejoined. Mrs. Besant is a noted writer and lecturer. Her brother is Sir She was born in Ireland. Henry Wood, secretary of the Society of Arts of London, who came to this country in 1903 on business connected with the world's fair at Chicago. Mrs. Besant has ;;ade three lecture tours of America. She founded the Central Hindu College for Girls at Benares, India, which has done wonderful work in raising the condition of the native girls of that country, and as its president. The Theosophical society should not be confounded with the society at Point Loma, Cal., presided over by Catherine Tingley. which is an offshoot from the parent body. The Theosophical society was founded in New York city in 1875 by Mme. Blavatsky and Col. Olcott, and now has branches in all the principal cities of the civilized world. The headquarters of the society are at Benares, India. UNA - t FEOPLE TALKED ABOUT GOVERNOR QUITS UNDER FIRE square-shouldere- w A- 1 - TO HEAD THEOSOPHISTS free-heart- Theo-sophic- NEWS SUMMARY Several earth shocks were felt at on May 9, Leoben, Austro-Hungarbut no damage was done. The state senate without a dissenting vote, passed the bill prohibiting 'bucket shops" in Massachusetts. So far as is known in Simla, India, '.he anniversary of the outbreak of the Indian mutiny fifty years ago was not marked by disturbance. KaldofT. named An anarchist in a plot charged with complicity against the life of King Charles, has been arrested at. Bucharest. The eleven Italians convicted at Wil kesbarre. Pa., of "black hand" crimes were sentenced to one year in jail and fines of $250 each and costs. Ab the result of a quarrel, William O. Kice, a telegrapher, of Washington shot and killed his wife, shot his bab) in the leg and then killed himself. The Missouri senate has passed the house bill giving wards in cities of 6,000 Inhabitants and over the right to vote local option for the individual wards. The commercial modus Vivendi between the United States and Germany, which was referred to a committee May 7, has been accepted by the committee. The 300th anniversary of the landing at Jamestown island of the first permanent English settlers was celeat Jamestown brated Monday, Vir y, ginia day. W. D. Clark has been arrested al Honolulu on a charge of forgery on a warrant issued from Hustings, Mich Clark has been engaged in mission. ary work among the Koreans. The political unrest at Lahore, In dia, is assuming graver proportions The authorities are drafting troops ot all arms and have Issued a proclama, ol demonstrations tion prohibiting kind. every In a pitched battle on Sugar Island creek, near Middleboro, Ky., the result of a feud, John Howard and Mar tin Green were killed, Eleanor Howard fatally shot and Jim and George Green badly wounded. The latest received concerning the loss of the French steamer Poitou, which was wrecked off the coast of Uiuguay, is to the effect that forty passengers and eight members of th crew lost their lives. As the lesult of a fued of long standing, James Leftwich shot and killed T. J. Clark in the court house at Duncan, I. T. Both men were married Leftwich is a citizens and wealthy. Mrs. Ruth Jewett Burgess, wife of Prof. John senator. state candidate for W. Burgess, Roosevelt lecturer at the University The 12,000 textile operatives who of Berlin, has been commissioned to paint a portrait of Prince Augustus Wilhelm, fourth son of are on strike at Orizaba, Mexico, have added to their demand abolition of Emperor William of Germany. Mrs. Burgess was born in Montpelier, Vt, 42 the fine system. Suffering and destiyears ago, and was the only child of Hon. T. P. tution are becoming evident among the Jewett. a leading banker and financier of Ver- strikers, but they are defiant. mont a gyueration ago. Early in life she showed William Wells, a motorman, was a decided talent for art, and this was fostered and developed. Thomas W. Wood, for many years Killed and ten other persons were inpresident of the National Academy of Design of jured in a collision in Lexington, Ky., New York, who was a native of Montpelier and between a street car and a passenger the founder of the Wood art gallery in this city, train. The motorman lost control of early took notice of Miss Jewett's talents and his car, which was demolished. under his instructions she developed remarkable In consequence of the great iucrease skill. While in New York with her husband, when he was professor of con- in emigration, the Hungarian Manustitutional and international law at Columbia university, she studied under facturers' union will begin May 19 an William J. Whittemore and Kenyon Cox of that city. Inquiry, in the hope of finding some During the past ten years Mrs. Burgess has been abroad several times, means of keeping the people at home. studying under the best art instructors and copying from the old masters in Several cabinet ministers will particithe famous galleries of the old world. pate. During the past winter while her husband was engaged in his duties at The jury In the case of Garland the University of Berlin, Mrs. Burgess has been copying several celebrated who stabbed Clara West to Kaiser Friedrich the Moore, and museum Denkmal, Friedrich pictures in the Kaiser the private galleries of the emperor. While engaged in this work her paint- death at Springfield, Mo., because she ing attracted the notice of Emperor William and the commission to paint tho jilted him, returned a verdict of murHOLDING HIS OVERCOAT. WINTON FOUND MISS CARTERET der in the second degree and fixing his portrait of his son followed. Mrs. Burgess inherited a large property from her father, much rff which punishment at twenty-liv- e years In the think for a moment that I would er one near enough to care or to say: she has devoted to charitable purposes. She was much interested la the penitentiary, so far forget myself," he went on, 'Well done!' " Wood art gallery in Montpelier, Vt., which was presented "How can you tell?" she questioned, foundling of the Five years in the military prison at fatuously. "What I had in mind was W. Wood in the hanging there of more than 100 Thomas to that by city is not an exchange of seats with him. Leavenworth is the sentence of Fort musingly. "It always permitted a of trustee this has been art famous products of his brush. Prof. Burgess thought it would be pleasanter for to us to hear the plaudits or th Edward leviner, a Columbus, Ohio, since its inception. gallery you; that is, mean, pleasanter for " hisses happily, I think. Yet there ar who was charged with desertion boy, ar He stopped short, seeing nothing but always those standing by who in of the enemy in the Philipthe face a more hopeless Involvement ahead; ready to cry 'Io triumphe!' and mean a soldier of the Seven while pines, one a when himself distress it, gooo also because he saw signs of approves teeuth Infantry. soldier." or of mirth flying in the brown eyes. Baron D'Estournelles de Constant, one of the The Master Builders' association ol The coffee rehad been served, and "Oh, please!" she protested, in mock foreign representatives at the distinguished Berlin and its suburbs has decided humility. "Do leave my vanity Just Winton sat thoughtfully stirring the cent dedication of the enlarged Carnegie institute the tiniest little cranny to creep out lump of sugar In his cup. Miss Car in Pittsburg, and who received the degree of LL. unanimously to lock out all masons I'll promise to be teret was not having a monopoly ol D. from the Western University of Pennsylvania, and bricklayers of, Mr. Winton. assisting building the new experiences. For Instance Is one of the foremost authorities In the world on good and not bore you too desperately." workmen, on May 10. Over 100,00t "But let's ignore Mr. Adams," she it had never before happened to Johi arbitration. He was a member of the first Hague men are affected. The men demano went on, sweetly. "I am much more Winton to have a woman, young conference, and is now one of the French meman eight-hou- r day. harming, and altogether lovable, read bers of, The Hague court. interested in this," touching the Miss Mattie Watterson, aged 26 of th book a of him lesson out the "Will you order for me, please'.' He is organizing the representative men of to be a niece of Hear Ad said overcomers. years, I International federation, an like" every nation into tnlral Kobley Evans and a member ol He smiled Inwardly and wondered When she had finished the list oi whose motto is "My country's good through the the Daughters of the American Revo her likings, Winton was able to smile what she would say If she could know peace of the world." The arbitration group In enthe drummlni the French at his lapse into the primitive, and to what battle-fiellullon, was found dead In her room It parliament, organized by him. has El Paso, Texas. The cause of death gave the dinner order for two with a wheels of the "Limited" were speeding abled France to conclude many treaties of Is given as heart failure. After that him. Would she be loyal to her fair degret of coherence. anil tell him he must win, a) Winton knew Baron D'Estournelles some time ago Invited they got on better. Despondent because of a delegation of 100 from the United States congress to visit Paris and makh Mrs. Alexander Boston, and next to the weather Bos- whatever the cost to Mr. Somervill Sigsworth killed hei ton was the safest and most fruitful an. a tour of France as the guests of Ms group, child and then shot ano assoclatesl Damn business and his of the commonplaces. Nevertheless, Baron De Constant, who married an American woman and Is a personal killed herself at her home In Alle be hei friend of Andrew Carnegie, Is also a greal admirer of President RboMTOlt it was not immortal; and Winton was Or would she, woman-likjust beginning to cast about for some uncle's partisan and write one John At the time the British and German claims against Venezuela would have gheny, Pa. The bodies wen.' found by her husband when he returned fron. other safe riding road for the shallop Winton down In her blackest book foi led to the use of military force but tor his intervention the president deBaron De his day's work In a steel mill. of small lalk when Miss Carteret sent daring to oppose the Rajah? manded that the questicn be submitted to The Hague tribunal. He assured himself It would make It adrift with malice aforethought. Constant, a member of the tribunal, wrote to the president, thanking him Development of a plan to cement DO jot of difference if he knew. H It was somewhere between the enfor saving It from extinction. He has been Franco ambassador to Turkey 7.000 telephone companies of the trees and 'he fruit, and the point of had a thing to do, and he was pur- and to England. He lias been a senatoi of Prance and Is an orator of m.te. United States and Canada into one gl posed to do It strenuously, Inflexibly. departure was Boston art. ganlic organization is expected to foi of his Yet in the inmost chamber "Speaking of art. Mr Winton, will for the Information Bureau." smother low the gathering In Chicago next in Sojnd. a Difference Just stands the where barbarous ego you tell me how you cams to think of heart, The difference between English and for 'letters," and so on. The Englishmonth of 1,000 managers and presl unabashed nnd isolate and recklessly sketching In the mountains of Colomethods of pronunciation man finally stopped at one of the de- dents of the Interested companies. American minor of moralities the rado at this time of year? I should contemptuous often produces misunderstanding The partments and Inquired whether It an "I am G5, but souud as a dollar and ihlnk the cold would be positively pro- and major he saw the birth of who had was the desk of the hotel "clark." be des- - other day an Englishman must henceforth which for at least 18." After having ' hibitive of anything like that." good Is was "this the the reply, lust arrived at New York went tn the No," reckoned with. perataly " this remark, James Hadfield, a made It Is Winton stared open mouthed, hotel Through say Inn He was a bit lost factor Waldorf-Astoria- . Given a name, this new-borof Polk county, testifying at "clerk" to be feared the of Instead pioneer "dark find youuc tho was love; love barely awakened, and for a minute Junt where to In a civil action at Dei. a: the desk had taken the Eng"I I beg your pardon," he stama man witness W aldorf office being the bonk, n desire a register it. die than masterful yet Hotel mean Clark In hit to mered, with the tBflection which takes to stand well In the lishman forward oae Iowa, Moines, slipped eye of one worn-- i divided into several department, iU pitch from blank bewilderment. hair and dropped to the floor dead. I'd BE CONTJNUJpDJ two-third- s TO PAINT KAISER'S SON 1 1 PEACE ADVOCATE HONORED e. ( d men-int-hi- e, ' i iff' |