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Show THE MURRAY EAGLE were here, they would unde- covigmt bt WU StVUlV CO. MINTUN,BlCH.t Jf fjrX ''itjML "fM jfy you tiilH favor, but I was fond of and you are the only youiiij 16 beinij who knows ttie site of his "Hut you Raid" Kruve. I cannot believe you will re 'Vdii shut your fare," said Oof-trey- , fuse me, ami so, If It will suit you, I coll fur you today at a quar "Truth 1st stranger t ti:t n fic- tcrwill to three. I'leae will you tell the to the Tin door tion every time. hearer "yen" or "no." HELENA. turret was open nni so were the doors to her room. Hut her room had I went down to the door of The been useil. The thieves hail escaped Heaping Hook to speak to the by the chimney, entered her room groom. by the fireplace, cleaned themselves "Tell her ladyship 'yes,'" I said. CHAPTER Continued XI up in tier bathroom and disappeared." "The obvious thing to do was to pfiiri'ti the castle forthwith, I ought to have said that long before 1 got back the switchboard had been repaired and the light had come on, and while my lady was talking, the stalT which bad been scattered was trickling back. Florin and I Induced some sort of order before beginning As the coupe stole Into the foreI descended the steps of the Inn. Helena smiled and nodded and I took off my hat "Will you drive, please?' With a pounding heart, I took my seat by her side, perceived the court, t'low of her presence, discovered her faint perfume. , . The spot to which we were go ing lay 12 miles off, and, after leav Ing the cftr, we must walk half mile through the forest to come to the dell. He sure, I drove slowly enough. . . . Hut though half an hour went by before we left the coupe, In all that time we never exchanged one word, Again and again I sought to make some remark, but I feared that my mice would tremble and so betray an emotion I did not wish her to see. To sit thus by her s!de as I had sat so often, was stirring the depths of my being, as though with s sword. Though I kept my gaze fast on the rond, with the tall of my eye I could see her peerless features and the gentle, steadfast look on her lovely face. She was neither grave nor smiling, but something betwixt the two: her air was the air of one whose day Is over, who has of choice withdrawn from the lists of life and Is now content to sit and watch the tour ney m which she will ride no more. I had never seen her like this and at first I could not dls cover what It wns thnt I found unfamiliar in the beauty I knew so well: and then I saw the eager ness was out of her face. When I brought the car to rest, Helena was out In the road before 1 could open the door. Then we entered the forest together, as we seemed to have done so often In other days. In silence we came to the glnde where (leoffrey had been pninting when I first set eyes on the thieves, and In silence we passed to the coverts which might have been pl.inted on purpose to keep the dell And then at last we came out not quite as I had Intended, above the bluff, but lower down, between the bluff and the water at the edge of a sloping the search. "We began with my lady's bedroom, One look at the henrth was enough. There was soot nil over the place. Hut nothing and nobody els. Ve left the watchmen there and toy lady and Florin and I went down to the secret room. It was empty now, we knew, for I'haraoh and company were gone: but the floor to the cellnr was open and my lady wanted It shut." He took a deep breath. Til tell you what we found. We found Pharaoh. Dewdrop and Hush all three of them dead." "(o on," said I, Incredulously. "Fact," said my cousin, shortly. "I'm glad you weren't there to see It. It was a dreadful sight Hugh? had done the three In and then cleared out. I fancy there'd been some scrap. Pharaoh's back was broken: he had no wound. "And here's my Interpretation of this astonndlnjr find. "In Pharaoh's absence Bugle and Hush between them let I.ady Helena n. Warrantably fearful of the of whnt they had done, Itush and Hugle quarrelled, and Ilugle killed Hush. Afraid to face rhnraoh such a dereliction of duty mennt almost certain denth I'.ugle decided to kill him and Pewdrop, too. Anil so he did. Then he escaped by the chimney, with I.ady Helena's master key. This let hlra out of the castle by the way by which he came In. Why he waited to let her out. I cannot conceive. Possibly some twinge of conscience you never know. That's one of the points which we shall never clear up. Then everything's over." said I. The terror Is laid." The terror Is In Id." said T.ugle remains, of Ooffrey. Course, itut 1 If we shall see Tory much doubt Itugle again." Thoughtfully I regarded my nap-kin- . lawn. Helena caught her breath. Was It five or sit days before a "Oh, John, how lovely," she said. corpse rose to the surface of the Though I knew the spot was water In which It lay? handsome, when I had seen It be"Then everything's over," I re- fore I had been too much distract pented, ed to consider the features that T:ccpt the Interment," said went to make It so rare. Geoffrey: "which Is fixed for "It's finer than I thought." I evening, as sunn as It's de- said "1 uever saw It from cently dark. As yen seem to have here quietly. had a night ofT. help with that. I think you might days bad g.ne by, and my precious secret was safe. This wis hardly surprising. Only two beings knew that 1 had ap tiie castle that terrible proach rilght: and of thec one was a dog and the other was dead. I had not tis.sl Hurley's plM.d: I had cleaned my emuin's knife; my filthy gar nients Uy Ml In the Plumage woods. Nii1m.tr knew that In my notecase was Helena's master key Put another secret was s,tf. On the Suti.liy nk'tit Pharaoh Ivsdrop nd Huh bad been laid In a commn grave, pot far frm ,, month of the tunnel that ran from the tm:-- , Though fidiivty khew H but I'i v bad jet to appear. For s"tue ijn.i.vetitii ,i.'e rea.n the moat djiii AltMield My rn'ivn age, Twl.e a ws pnln'lrg Plum- yr rt.i.v be v!te,j but I wn invit.--- ! ft. nn w on;. n,. g.i e;( t!tii!,c. , i(i.r wmiM gn in Pit,i;i. al'hoiigh 1 longed til see her he,-- ' n .,, s'ire that lleier.n it with mycouin and tts'cbed h'ru nt work. ! Iii tuade up my mrr.-rt e,XP .1 AMi'4'ieI t" and n'nv nt ,in. brnrk whl.h was a city I knew, M coi,in W.is t ;;,r;,.y . In four ihns' I was siMlns at And Ann,. ftn.f re;ir!rff cerHf tru-V, '. bafpaeV kk: -- 1 s s are, rsi-- e b.md. t-- wh,-- John; t.m.in '""' """ ht uph a fh. l. isvlirg ttn. ' p-- !, f ,n j m;.l , (, trr ,)., !. But he had a spark of feeling. More than a spark, I think. Very few men, placed as he was, would have troubled to let me out." There was another silence. With her eyes on young Florin's grave, Helena spoke again. "That wasn't the only reason why I wanted to see yon before you went 1 want your help In a matter. . . . "Your cousin Is painting my picture he's nearly done. It Is the most lovely portrait. . . . And as he won't hear of a fee, I want to make him a present. Well, I've got a cup at Yorlcb, an old, gold cup, with a curious his tory. Years ago. In the Sixteenth century, the Yorick of that day was painted. A young painter came from Vienna, a man called Latz. Had he lived, he would have been famous, for the picture Is terribly good. Your cousin picked It out In an Instant as being the best of the lot Well, when the pnlnter had finished, the count was so pleased with his work that he called for wine and drank the young man's health, and when he had drained the cup he called for gold. I suppose his treasurer brought It Then he filled the cup with gold pieces and gave the painter the lot I hope It was adequate payment In those days It probably was. The next morning the painter left Yorick to mnke his way home. On his lonely ride to Salzburg the poor man was robbed and murdered his body was found by the road. Now the thieves didn't break tip the cup, but six months later they tried to sell It at Inns bruck where Yorick then had a But, as It happened, they took It to the very goldsmith that Yorick himself employed. The moment he saw the arms, he knew that the cup had been stolen, and, to cut a long story short, the thieves were taken and hanged and the cup came back to the castle because the poor painter was dead. "So you see that nip will make a most appropriate gift. But I'm so afrnld that your cousin may refuse to accept It that, before I ask him to do so, I want to have It engraved with his crest And that's where you can help me. I must have some-thin- g of his that bears his crest, to give to the engraver to copy. c1garette-eaor a flask. Perhaps It's on the backs of his brushes. , . , You see, without that I'm stuck. At the present moment I don't even know what his crest Is." 'Strangely enough," said I. "It's the same as your own a leopard. Hut thnt doesn't mean" ho-te- l. enk-tree.- n. ri,,ip showed him off." "I know, I know. e - ' I nodded. "You can count on me," I said. "You let me come to know you as as I'll never know anyone else." "Will It help, John?" ' "I don't know. I'll write and tell you." "That's right And I'll always answer. You see, my dear, we must never meet again. We've looked at glory together and turned away, It wasn't our fault, you know. We rather . . . rushed our fences, Hut down In that valley of shadow we gave each other Judgment . and the judgments were good." I sat as not speak. I could though turned to stone. My heart In my breast was Ice. The blow which had fallen already, had I had nothing to fallen again. lose, and had lost It "From him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." "I I don't know that mine was,' I said desperately. "I'm afraid it was," said nelena. "I put my love above honor and you mustn't do that. And In any event mine was. You took my love and you put It back In Its place. don't say you weren't right to do It, becnuse you were. liut there are some flowers, my dear, that you can't transplant I mean If you move them, they die." Iilow upon blow. Couldn't she see that the thing she was striking was dead? There was a long, long silence. By the time It was over I had myself In hand. At length "Poor Bugle," said nelena slowly, Tie did me a very good turn." T.y dropping the torch V said I. T suppose he dropped It," she said. Tint Rush was bnllylnc rne, and sometimes I think thnt P.ugle was going to stop him. I don't know, of course. When It fell, I just flew for the door. And In any event he waited to set me free. I think he was the best of the lot." I think you're right," said I. T had a weakness for Bugle, to tell Of course Rush you the truth. For a moment we stood together, down on young Florin's grme. "I must bring old Florin." said Helena. "I think It would help him a little." Helena sat herself down with her back to the rippling brook. "I d like to stay friends," she said. "I know you're going aay, and I think you're right Hut I'd like to think that though our our moments arc over, we still were frlen.K" "If you ple.ne," said I dully, and I sat down a little apart. "I've so much to thank you for." "I don't know that you have. Hut that's neither here nor there. We've peered at h!g things together yo j nd I. We've eaten of strange, eef fruits like two children, hau l In band. And now- we're back where we were where we were when you came to Plumage and I t'dd yoti nh.ittt the gold. "Whntr can The word flame!. go farther biik: perhaps we have. A the saying goes. I almost Hut I'd like to stop there. f leapt jolt on. t mean, one can alwavs be out of my skin: and turned to find her staring tense, w ide eyed and friend" "I can tt"P there." I mtd taring, white to the lips. And then I knew I wns lost. I tlihk'y. "That's right." sild Helena gently. had learned her crest from Pharaoh, J thong!-and Pharaoh was wrong; and I hr.d yon Coilbl." For a moment she iekt at the repeated the error which Pharaoh of her Utile bands, m had made. pahns though to cotnult th"e pretty pages T I thought," 1 stammered, I lefore proceeding with a had an Idea tl at was making my heart cold. "The badge of Yorick Is an Then She tshlspered rather than "When I say friends. I mean f. smke. "We're never displayed the I'll bUsm have a fivllrg that I leopard for more than ? years." can depend itp"f ) nil. I p',.in't The sibilant accusation struck tne t to. veu know, I tm ,? dumb. tcry chid ef the feeling. Yen She was round now and was know wi en rungs g,. wrong. j kneeling, with her arms held close " "'n'i 'i "i Terence ir tun to her breast and her hands to her an say to y..rseif, 'if frauds,, throat Her breath was liUhij looking i .. seemed In her nostrils and her eyes t mv frrflln. shouHelplessly I shrugged my i rstand." (Prate W&M T lder, T suppose I must have were "My God," she breathed, "you she went down, eyes As my there" to her head clapped her hands "It was you ! -1" she cried. God My not Bugle and YOU, You. John, that ..." note-casand I pulled out my took out her master key-A- s I laid it down by her side -Sabre killed Bugle," I said. moat. "Ills body's down In the so I None of them saw It happen, Into the castle and took his e walked place." Helena sat back on her heels, were still fingers to lip. II" eyes to seemed she still staring; wide, could I be murmuring something not bear. "I'm sorry," I said. "I didn't mean you to know." At that a tremor ran through her: she then, with a sudden movement, and face on her down flung herself burst Into tears. For a moment I sat hesitant. Then something snapped within me. I lifted her up and gathered her Into my arms. With my face pressed tight against hers "Don't crv, Nell," I said. T can't bear it. And and please don't send me away." "I'm not sending you away," she sobbed. She caught at my coat. "And I'll tell you another thing. I'd never have let you go. If all else had failed, I was going down to the station." I held her off and looked Into her face. "But, Nell, Just now yon" T wanted to know If you loved me. I had to be sure of that. But now . . ." She hid her face in my coat "Oh, John, my darling, you've made me feel so humble, so cheap tear-staine- d and" I stopped her beautiful mouth. "How d'you think I feel, Nell? How d'you think I felt when I stood In that secret chamber and heard you buying my safety the life and health of the man who'd Just turned you down 7" A child looked Into my eyes, "Shall we . . . take each other back, John?" "Yes, please, Nell," I said quietly. With a little sigh of contentment she slid an arm round my neck, CHAPTER XII Storm Music CR respective tales had been told, my disaffection forgiven, our grace had been said, and we were now standing together at the edge of the lawn. We had started to return to the car, but now with one consent we had stopped to look again upon the beauty which we were to leave. It seemed so strange that life and death and fortune had lain In that peaceful setting, awaiting a sweet to leap to their bat June tle stations, thence to dispute the fate of six human beings, not one of whom, till that morning, had so much as suspected the existence of such a spot A century of dawns and sundowns had found and left It sleeping, as It was sleeping now; and then In a twinkling the earth had opened, the brook had played storm music and. . . . To think." said Helena, "that I treated you as a child." The truth Is," said I. -- we're both children; and children hate to be treated as children, you know." I wasn't," she said. "I was a woman all right But I think It's all your own doing, you know but I think, my dear, you'll have a child for a wife," g Willi Flood Prevention Is Matter of Checking Soil ErosJ Ruin Is Ahead Unless Some Action Is Taken, , Expert Says. Such disastrous floods as those of recent weeks can be prevented only soil by vast undertakings to prevent ex- erosion, according to government Derts. They attribute these floods to de nuding the soil of the vegetation that receives and holds water In the soil and holds the top soil In place, The water from rains and melting snow now rushes over the bare soil without sinking In and carries the top soil away, to boot. Thus our fertile soil Is steadily being washed Into the sea, and life and property are more and more im periled by floods. Example of a country that did not perceive the same danger now confronting us Is China. denuded of trees and other natural vegetation hundreds of years ago and row the perennial victim of the most disastrous floods since the time of Noah. Millions Spent. We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars In attempts to control floods once they develop, but we scarcely have begun to attack the problem at the source the prevention of floods. Under a new government subsidy much may be done to restore the fertility of soil and something may be done to halt the wind erosion of the soil that produces the great dust storms of the last few years. But virtually nothing will be done toward permanent reclothlng of the soil with the verdure necessary to the absorption of flood waters at the source. Morris L. Cooke, engineer and administrator of rural electrification, has been preaching for years the ruin that awaits us unless we mend our ways. Soil Erosion Damage. "We must attack the problem of soil erosion control as we would an armed foe about to defeat us," said Mr. Cooke, "Let things go on as they now are going and In 50 years we will have a total area of really fertile land not much more than three times the size of Nebraska. We are likely to go the way of Asia Minor and Tibet unless we sense our dangerous situation and act promptly." This Is no fanciful picture, according to Mr. Cooke. A single dust storm, he says, has swept away as much as 300.000,000 tons of fertile top soil from the wheat belt; the Mississippi river carries 400.1)00.000 tons of top soil to the Gulf of Mexico every year; more than 100.0ouo.ooo acres already have been destroyed as 'crop bearing soil, while another 125.000.-00acres have been seriously Impaired for crop bearing and an additional loo.ooo.ooo acres are seriously threatened. The total annual damage amounts to 5 400.000.0oo. "We unwittingly have broken the balance of nature's forces," says Mr. Cooke, "by clearing too much of our forests, turning under too much of our sod. and grazing too much of the remainder in such manner ns to destroy the grass roots. We have planted tile, dug ditches and straight-fne- d and cleared creeks and rivers to hasten run-ofConsequently less rain and snow penetrates Into underground storage. More of It rushes to 0 There Is not much more to be told. My cousin's reception of the truth was more than hnndsome; and 1 really believe that Barley would not have exchanged the knowledge that I had caused Pharaoh's death for sll the gold thnt lay In the cel lars of Yorick or anywhere else. But old Florin's simple tribute would have warmed an mnn's n, "FIRST "7 servM' reS, AmnZT" . fie HouseJIj A cloth dipped In rubbed over the kitchen vinegar. it is blacked will retnove thnt PrPJlKO mn.r se.-,in,- Flannels and blankets will soft and white and will not shrink wamieu Willi a lUOIl'Spimn uiuuiu ju uie water. Taste an envelope on tho cover of your cook hoidc to ho i recipes you nave cupped and want' save. One teaspoonful of onion added to each quart of potatoes a different flavor. Boll Syndicate. 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And myself could never have done It so well." It was he who said at once that Bugle's body would be found held down by the grill which kept foreign matter from passing Into the waste pipes thnt led from the moat. Sure enough, there It was. Its removal and the sulnmpietit rltei were grisly enonsh; but the four of us did the bninos without ant help, became having got so far, H seemed a pity that we should theory which Yorick and Yorlck's neighbors had been t such pains to digest. When my cousin hmarhed question of gettirg rid of the gold Helena made no objection, but on!' begged his asiiMiince t0 carr'T through a transaction she dared nn't attempt alone. This to our great surprise, till we learned that her now st an end. """""i oecaue ner lawier nad Said that or, her marriage the cm ,,, rp Invented or lodged at a bat k. And this In due cmir was done. (, cousin arranged the affair with a famous hone and w;:li'n sit a fortnight before we were wed, wa out of tie cellar Helena mistre.s f.f fortune f was considerably crentrr th in f, wh.'cll ber father laid rp (TO ntCUMIMiv tolJ wunu vaIuubie ' The nation's oni ...... according to H. U. c, tne soil conservation Ue a nation-wid- e ' program of ' tatlon. rotation, calculated to hold particularly that of hi., , Jop,'l talnous regions, and to give it the utmj iwiusiiy so mat heavy nin. f have a fair elm nrn .1' Ura'a tl derground. Tells fie Story heart that by the grace of God; for the sea without benefiTTT ' : ti. 1 A' Y . |