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Show r KMEPY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLK DALE. Ik nm RETURN TRENT t will cost enoruonsry, and I shall need all my cleverness and scheming." NatJca Grant tired ber out Evta the housekeeper noticed It at the meal they took together. "She's a bard woman to work for" Miss Brewen remarked. "I don't wonder Mr. Grant drinks, although that Isn't the reason. He's afraid Captain Frank may come back and kill him, s he swore he'd do at the trial" aseWseaai 7VVYNDHAM WN.UL STORY FROM imately a detective now. Twc things yon must not da One Is not to be seen with me. and another is not to run the risk of meeting hlra These people with their Jewels won't be here more than a week, and then. I suppose, he will go." "I don't know," she said doubtfully. "Mrs. Grant has a succession of these house parties planned. When do you leave?" "I don't want to go until I know you're safe." he answered. "And that means I shall stay until Yeatman gets out The trouble Is that we can't yet tell certainly which side be Is on now. I'm not one to be able to cast stones. He, too, may have changed." "No, nol" she cried. "One has to catch but a glimpse of his fate to know he Is evil. It was something of violence that I half remember about him." "Take what precautions you can," he reminded ber as she rose to go to her lesson, "and remember you can communicate with me through the butler. After all. If It comes to the worst I don't suppose two more "people than you and 1 are to be found. I'm not going to see yon THE START Anthony Trent. once muter criminal, now reformed, returns w New Tork after four years' He learna bla friend. ibsence. In Cpt Frank laSutton, Is to Sing find surprised Sing. Trent occu-- . kli New York apartment Suttpled by a stranger, Campbell on, who represents himself as tt brothei of Frank Sutton Trent Is asked by Campbell to (ores a confession from Pay son Grant, whom ha accuses of hav-1- st crookedly obtained all of Frank Sutton's property and then Trent parried the letter's wife. starts on a campaign to accomplish the downfall of Grant. He learns that Captain Sutton has escaped from Sing Sing and later, to his surprise, finds tbat Campbell Is really Frank Sutton. Trent takes bis place in society is the opening gun of bis campHe be aign against Grant or me comes a nouse guest Trent discovers in MaGrants. Frencb Natlca'a demoiselle Dupin, Instructor, a friend of the old criminal days. She is now going straight Trent is suspicious of i man known as Yeatman, osten ilbly In the Grant household as (detective. CHAPTER V -- SERVICE Continued 12 "Don't think for a moment that this feu Is going to bother you or search Wr trunks. Be Is here . to watch," Hie reummeu. lira. Grant took up the dainty tele "Pierre Rcdllchl" she cried. ot outside man for them. It was his in." moment "Countess" the bold not be sure that Mrs, Grant not prepared the visit of the de-v- e as a trap. It bad been brought so easily, so naturally, that she pot felt To suspicion was Justifiable. mt to evade the man would be. uispareDtly, an evidence of fear. There was a knock at the door and tlit man who was known as Mr. Teat- - m entered. It was through the mir ror that Mademoiselle Dupin first saw tin She bad turned her back on him vKh a caution born of many barrow- fcg Interviews. For one fraction of a noment she caught bis black eyes tot on her mirrored reflection. It n enough for ber to feel a Dans of lew. For the moment she could not remember how or where she had met but she was certain that she M. And she did not think be was the side of the law. Eagerly she Usteneo for bla voice. Wen be spoke It deepened the Impression of previous knowledge of Mm but brought Identification no Bearer. are keeDina an eve on him?" H Grant queried. is rarely out ol mv slehL ma- lime," be answered. "You have, per- W new Instructions for mer "No more than I have already given W. With a nod of her beud she falssed him. What do von thlnp or him?" Mr "You Grant asked. not a fuvoruhli ImiirPSKiun toi are satisfied that he is genuiner yes. The mature has his "ante in the New York telephone an office, a stenographer, and Uie rest of It I went In to see myself. There Is so much In "It Was wralty in the world wt be too careful." So one bears." of crime that one murmured' Mud "olselle Dupin. one knew that mooi. ah le to place him. It was w.nl.l ru like going "Nogh an old trunk for a mlstiluced "Her. She hud knmvn this nmn anY Jj bad been associated with some one those many incidents outside Uie w which had made up her life, lie D of the uollce or a (Hinfeilor- k of those for whom she worked that had been required of her in w early days in the gay capitals w Europe was that she should look Jng. remain beautiful, and never her heart. The danger of meet-"- I former confederates m rurii. JJ to her now as an agent meeting WDOll It Wag harrtlr rutsullila ..ni..b e through a mirror would reveal " the brilliantly girt of W years before, who lovely had passed as Peat heiress In the Riviera. CHAPTER VI Her Peril. jl M is me lesser 01 twoeviis. told Mademoiselle Dupin, "He "teal, and not to denounce I don't " . ..... ana L.."8 k,mr re In ..merlcn In this nartlcnlnr hnhsp i'l It mn, tven be that ti Is legit . Vivid- ly she called him to mind now. Perhaps she bad seen him no more than twice, but they had talked much of him, the men with whom she bad long ago been associated. This was the Pierre Redlicb who had been a sort Instrument which matched the loadolr furniture. she "Thorpe," when a voice answered jtommanded, let, "send Mr. Yeatman to me at bee." She turned to the onhnppy alademolselle Dupin. "Ton have seen jthe world, tell me what jou think of the ll flash. phone For "Not so loud." said Mr. Yeatman, putting his fingers to his lips. "I have my reputation to think of." Without appearance of he pushed past ber, closed the door and then crossed to a chair by the window. He lighted a Maryland cigarette and turned to Mademoiselle Dupin "Yon do not recognize me?" he demanded, in French. He was smiling. The changed Intonation and the altered face brought back his name In a "Now It Will Cost Enormously." Refrightened or hurt by anyone. member that I am fighting for you. and my position here is a strongly entrenched one. If anything goes badly, send for me, give me a lead, and I swear I'll get you cnt of this house with all the honors of war, even If I have to mobilize the Welds and Bent-ley- s to do it" "I do not think 1 have ever had a friend like you," she said simply. "In other days, when I seemed to have money and position. It was different but now, when I am nothing at all your goodness brings tears to my eyes." She went hurriedly from the room. Always when she bad been talking to Anthony Trent she was filled with courage and hope. Mademoiselle Dupin knew that while Mrs, Grant needed Iter for Instruction In French she chiefly was anxious to learn the etiquette of these old French families which do not welcome foreigners In their midst. In the long talks Nntlca Grant discussed She felt she her ambitions freely could speak freely, as her teacher had none with whom to gossip. One of her chief grievances against Captain Sutton was that he had not let ber know ot his enorjraous wealth on til he was about to leave for France. "And because 1 lid not know." she walled, "1 lived to the wrong places, knew the wrong sort of people and did the wrong sort of things. I could have been received in Newport If he had encouraged me. It would have been easy when I first married, Now work to warn of the approach of the police. It bad been Redlich'a misfortune to engage in combat a gendarme with a singularly thin skulL ' It was craeked like an egg, and Redllch was sent to work for life on a breakwater. "Yon do not remember me as I remember you," said Pierre Redllch, breaking the silence. "What was I to you then? Nothing at all. Something not to be considered. If mademoiselle remembers, she was Madame la Princesse SonlofTsky that season." "Did you come ber to look for me?" There was that perfect command of herself to the moment of danger for which she had been famous. No longer was there fear or hesitation. "I did not know even that you were here. No, That was the luck which fools call coincidence. We are going to exchange confidences, yon and I, and you shall bear why it is 1 am here speaking English perfectly who was condemned to life Imprisonment knowlLg only French and my native Flemish." He took the orange package of Maryland cigarettes and placed It on the white wicker table by the window. Then be removed his coat "It is good to be where there Is no part to play," he commented. "Here, with a friend, I can be myself." "Why should you call me friend?" "I ought to have said rival." "Even that would not be true." "You may lie, but It does not deceive me. Why should you be in a bouse like this If not to rob?" "I am here earning my living honestly. Are you not here for that purpose?" Pierre Itedlich laughed as he tossed from the window. a cigarette-en- d "What a woman !" be said admiringly. "1 am, indeed, an honest business man and can show you testimonials. But I have waited two years for a chance like this. It has been weary And then, when it comes, I work. find i have a rival Now, mademol se'.le, If .vu were a roan I should have killed you. I am at a stage where I will have no other perron come between me and what I want. But you are a woman and a beautiful one." He looked at ber with burning eyes. (TO BE CONTINUED.) XXXXXXXXIZXXX'XXXXXXXXXXXXX Conceit and Timidity Bars to Advancement Henry Ward Beecher once called conceit "the most Incurable disease known to the human soul." Conceit however. Is not to be con fused with pride, self reiect or self confidence. There Is merit In these qualities and many a man of limited i.hllirlps has stamped and pounded his way to the seats of the mighty. But the conceited man moves In quite a different realm. His Is simply an unreasoning, unfounded op,n'on f his own Importance. He Is a giant In n world of pygmies. Many men fall because ot timidity and modesty They secretly tell them selves that they don't amount to much, that they are mediocre and tbat nobody Is Interested In their words ordeeds. They slink Into the hidden re- esses of obscurity of complete fail- ure. There Is a sane middle ground upon which those who get anywhere worth while In life must ever stand. Neither conceit nor timidity will carry anyone very far. Honesty Is the best policy even In appraising one's own talents. Thrift Magazine. Many in tht Running are born reputed, some achieve reputations and o'hers try hard to get away from theirs. Boston Transcript Some men Duties of other people are always doubly clear to us. Statistics show that English women live longer on the average than American wonren. Kngllsh men and American men have about the same ex pectation of life. Rollo Brltert statistician ot the United Stales public health service, finds that the expectation ot life which decreases gradually the older the person. Is higher for English women than for American women at average ag between ten and eighty years. The . difference between 'the two countries tn this respect ranges from about four years In young woman hood to less than one year at the age of eighty. .This means that the Englishwoman of twenty may expect to live to be sixty-nine- , while her American sister may expect to reach an age of onli sixty-fou- r or sixty-fivNo attempt Is made r the public health service to explain why lids difference In longevity exists between the female populations and not be tween the males. st 'wiryrrvyvyw. When Mademoiselle Dupin went to room, stealthily, fearing to en- 1 English Women Lice Longer Than American Is Thirty the Lovcp a Ti2i II. L. Mencken has been a head liner or a long lime. Aft' her counter Yeatman, the was in possession of many useful facts which placed Natlca Grant In a less favorable light A'ow that she was alone she tried to read, so that the hours before sleeping might pass quickly. The printed pages were not able to hold ber attention. She was vaguely uneasy. Anthony Trent had told ber be would help; but lie was downstairs, while she was alone in this upper corridor. She turned out her lights and gazed for almost an hour out at sea. Her ears seemed to catch a hundred harrowing noises In the pessage outside. But her nerves grew taut and the fading courage returned when, out of these vague, confused sounds, there came the definite tapping of hands on ber door. "It has come," she murmured. Then she turned on the lights and flung open the door. The man who passed by the name of Yeatman stood there. She clung to the hope that be might have come to ask ber a few questions which, as a detective, he might find himself expected to do. "You have something to ask me?" she said, with admirable UTAF er esfalliihing a record for himself on the Baltimore Sun, he went to New York, and in company with George Jecn Nathan conducted the maga-tin- e Smart . Set, establishing a tete school of poignant American humor. At vrese.nl he is editor of the American Merventure cury, a magazine which is proving a tremendous success. Ms books, mostly of an ironical nature, are widely He is one of the most read. popular journalists in America. Be is unmarried, but has always held interesting views of matrimony. Animals of the Wild Not Dangerous to Men U MENCKEN Doctor Durant's observation tt.at no rational man ever falls In love after thirty Is surely uot new. I printed It In a book called "In Defense of Women" ten or twelve years ago. Nor was it new when I printed It You will find it If you search hard enough In Shakespeare, and Shakespeare. I have no doubt, borrowed It from an Italian who bad cabbaged it from the Greeks, But, like all other truths, It Is not to be taken too literally. I have seen men of thirty-fiv- e magnificently in love, and full of a fine, fierce pride in the fact. But these same men also wrote poetry, and believed that a couple of quinine pills, taken before goIn ing to bed, would cure a cold. other words, they were excessively romantic, which Is to say, balmy 1 suppose, referred to more ra tional fellows, as I did in my book, and the Greeks long before either of us. Such rational fellows can no more fall In love, In the full romontlc sense, than a dry congressman can resist a drink. Their very Incapacity for it Indeed, is one of the chief proofs of their rationality. For this romantic love, when all la said and done, is simply nonsense, and hence not worth much mourning. Its cause, I am Informed by agents In the medical colleges, Is an ebullition of the hormones; its effects are indistinguishable from those of a somewhat prolonged and Injudicious Jag. The victim, looking at black, sees white. The lady who has knocked him off, seen through his glazed eyes, becomes an amalgam of Florence Nightingale, Marie Antoinette, Lola Montez, Edith Cavell, Grace Darling and the tenth and best wife of king of Babylon. His view of her. In the sight of all other persons. Is apt to seem comical. And when he marries her, he commonly finds that It Is painfully erroneous. Very few early marriages are genuinely happy. They may last, but so do gallstones last I add politely that what Is pain for the gander is probably agony for the goose. But though the romantic love described tn the works of the standard poets Is thus mainly a function of youth, and cannot survive Into actual maturity, I see no reason why a man sliding into the forties should not marry satisfactorily, and make a good husband. His Illusions may be gone. but If the lady he claps his eye on Is really charming there may be a great many soothing realities. The plain fact Is that many females of the hu man species are lovely, and that theli loveliness survives even the harshest of spotlights. They make pretty pictures, especially when competent!) made up. They have nimble wits and are amusing. They know how to be agreeable. They are tolerantly cynl cal, and do not expwt too much either of God or of man. I can easily ot imagine even the most men falling for such a wench. In fact. and observed I have seen them fall them happy afterward. . This, to he sure, is not romantic-loveIt ses It is not Idealistic. nothing that is not actually there But, as I say, what Is there may be very charming. If It Is. then If Is apt to last. For charm Is almost as dur able as gallstones. It Is no more a function of mere youth than it Is n figment of Illusion. The genuinely charming woman remains charming at sixty. She can ho more fade. In uny real sense, than a diamond can facie. It is not necessary to fall li loe with such a woman In order her. Appreciating her is h function, not of the hormones, but of the higher cerebral centers. In othei words, it is a function of men heyrnii By H. Du-ran- . . No wild animal Is dangerous to man nnless man himself provokes the an! mal. The prevalent Idea among city-bre- d human beings that wildest Africa Is a man trap where leopards and the like lurk In every other tree, waiting to pounce on the first passing human. Is so much pish, and not a little tush As a matter of fact, the most din gerous of wild beasts, unless driven to desperation by hunger, will step aside to let you puss, provided you don't make any threatening gestures toward him. Of course, there are a few exceptions, such as old. desperate, lions, who are no longei able to stalk their natural prey, animals suffering from previous wounds or Insane animals, such us the rogue elephants But under ordinary circumstances, a wild animal must be hurt or deviled before It attacks, or must think ft Is going to be hurt. Wynant D. Hubbard lu the Elk., Magazine. man-eatin- . As for women. I don't believe thai art-fathey ever fall li love at all They too Intelligent to do It. When om hears of a woman falling wildly d love with a movie actor, or a gyp violinist, or the rurate of the parish one simply hears of a woman who U trying to tiring the darling of hei heart to terms. Let him show tin proper signs of disturbance, and sin will promptly forget nmr Jack 511 bert. No woman above the Intellectual grade of a culvarynutn or a col roach ever yields herself completely In even to romantic Illusion. fellow, when she has looked at him serlrrasly. she sees a good bus r band. ((fa 1128. W tta Bell Syndicate Inc.) AliOMOWN 's I leJped ByTeking Lydia E. Vegetable, Compound Evansville, Ind. 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