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Show .WEIL d isor. U TfMiANof7bHQUte BO!5fi3-yefclCl- CO U . but I am expecting to see him vanish aaln!.-- , . ',. T TBr sentence .affected the colonel nnpleasantiy7why; need she he pssfngr before blm, as if that "first disappear-&nchad had any real fright in it? bow,he nonaged, but he showed him up; and-- Keatcham gave him jhe sack in trtS70WB way:. --I know tnnlycBSHattyBmTny consin, Ralph.Sf huyler, went to prep, school with him, so I got his . character Of ,a.l I straighte off the bat.- - His- father was a mah f roth Mississippi, though Aunt Rebecca might have told, patent-medicinwho made a fair pile, a couple orhun- hershe Uought to have told her .and! J jA....ik V. 1 dred thousand which looked good to don't know he was on to the game;. but be didn't that section, you know his inward anything about hia people except that like it. Unconsciously, criticism made bis tone drier as he re- fiis father made the 'Celebrated Atplied with a little bow thaihe lra- - kins' Ague Busters;' and that Atkins shook jglaedArchle was quite safe, now. Was ashamed ofhls' peopIeAad and ,he would ask to be excused, as he his married sisters who came to see had to attend to something before him. in rather a lirut-a- i fashion ; but I dlnnerr-rt- know thlng orvtwo about him ; he : her Tare was one of those nounders who curry iWas It liisiancy-4h- at changed and her eyes looked wistful? favor with the faculty and the popular It must have been. He walked stiffly boys and never break rules Apparently, " away. Hardly had he entered his but go off and have sly little, bats by room and turned his mind on the themselves. He never was popular. changed situation beforfrthe telephone yet, somehow,- he gof Into things; he j to where lend money t and h,e Mr. knew . a him that gentleman, apprised in Gardlnw, rwepresented the - pre was- - simply -- srcjenjngrycieyer; less Cook Stove, said that he h ad ah math, he was a wonder-- . Ralph hated him.-- ; For one'ihing he Col. -- Winter to ughtim4n app&atr$eBtwi fo'eeatHl? tllerAttlatrrtfitehfaB bach being TttrttEfldicott"-- TfaciyTnteeBC anff- - contrived" To "prevent his kaosK: elected: clasa. presidentantf : when he smiling. "Where's the kid ?. ie"8. backjejreW ;;cpuld"n't prevent. Ralph'S makJng his he that he had been hunting senior society the happy thought the kidnapers to no purpose. "Except struck Atkins to get on the iniilatloa that I learned enougtf'to know, they committee. They had a .cheery little pu up a job with the Justice, all right ; branding game to make the .fellows tTTieOexi to that game Without any quHcsuTa they uuioiiKedr: you' kliowt ar 44i!aehlavellian-exertion- r famriied- iiut they got aad-h: stump- into away,. Who. la It? Any.pf Keatcham's Ralph's arm so that Ralph had ' : and a narrow squeak for his gang?" , f'Atklns,'' jsaid tie colohel.xpncisely. life.' You see that I'm not prepos - Tracy whistled and aiwlogized. ""It's seesed n the fellow's favor. -- He's got a blow," ' he 'confessed. "Thai little inn vlvll on tmsiirtn B f n.n fnr m ' " wretehiiflerarrarns to7T)iirnnd. ' "Seems to have,'" acquiesced -- th - .'' ' . not an . punce ; of conscience. j Xom colonel. made an know- he has been mousing round at "I think, you know"-Traceffort to be just i'Lihihk 'AtklnEL was I the hotels afierLKeatcfiam's-jnaii-L;-"Hedidttt'ettt?- ,v ' - w rather souredr Some or the fellows "No, Carey had covered that point, made fun of the 'Ague Busters, he had "a" notion T:fhar th eTreason 11 ""was" Cary- har"th8ughrinls "ainoutef carefully, but Atkins has got on to such up hill work for him in the school " cold-bloode- d e - 1 .'I - L. Afar-- -- YW f-r- W esf-pial-ft l . . his-eig- -- blood-poisonin- g l -- - . - . f ' 8YN0PSI3, . I hotel with Keatcham. But he doesn't know where we come tnr whether didn't burn you or cut you or twist Keatcham's gang is just lying low for your afmt7"6rtrylinrner oftJtetr some-Ig- a me3rCJJt9llo hetier playluwayatMra: Winter demftad'ed; we've got him. At least. I don't be-and Janet "began; feeling the. boy's HeFeJie; i arms,' breathing . more quickly. The ."You ought not to be talking so free : colonel only looked.. : ly with me; I haven't promised you Ncheidn"t-dhingrne- w anything, you know warned the toio-ne- l. they; wouldn't, .too," Archie . assured her, earnestly.' "I told, them If they you've got your nephew back. did "anything Uncle Rupert and you all right; we have been on the" square would make them paF".;;v':;''".'vv-with you: why should you butt in? I y !'Andyoa.weren't-rightened,-waknow 'ypu rmoti uirlde of young Mercer.-- Re met Cary Mercer brother of the dead ludent. Three years later, in Chicaifd, In VM, .Col. Wlnterloverheard Oary. Mercerap-niireiitlrilarinihK in kldnao Archier-tl- i ttiiund'a ward, and to gttht possession t - Aunt Rebecca winter's minions., a mis v- a A (treat, financial Magnate 4onxplnttor. CoJ, Winaboard the train ter tfcet bis Aunt Kebecc.ar MIn Smith nd Archie- .- Col. Winter learned, that the financial ftiagnata is Edwin 8V Keatcham. Winter, aided by Archie, cleverly frusa trated a hold-ti- p on the train.!- - He took Ml her to tjrtuth, deapitegreat IlklnK niyaterl-cnial- v Archie plot. alleped kldnapirir In Frisco... Blood In a disappeared ! nearby room at thejiotel f aueedieajt the boy' Jife. The lad's voic was heard ft the and howevcrr over telephone, woman's volcethat of Miss later nt Smith. Cot Winter and - detectlva set out tor the empty "mansion, owned by Arnold. Harvard graduate. They were met with an explosion within. Mercer WlnieTHhat-Arvhi- e uppparedT-He-isswr" had returned. The colonel iaw a vUrfon thehaunted auppoaedly flitting from Col. house. It was Mis Janet Smith. "Winter to himself admitted that lie loved Mi KmithMercer tokl Winterthat Archie had overheard plana for a coup and had been kidnaped. One 'of Mercer'a friends on returning the' boy to hUit aunt " tiad len arrested Tor apeedtny tie returned from tlwi police station to hi Hiito the lad was arone, Mercer eonfeaaed h wa forcibly detaining Keatcham,' told his life ..story, relating how KfHtehanv and hi scoundrel aecretary. had ruined Uim, the liis wife. Mercer 'was holding him priaon- er In order that hw pould iiot get control of a railroad which waa the pet project of the father of iila oollege friend, KndlcoU Tracv. Aunt Rebecca aw Archie in a cah with tw men.' Then he vanished. 8he followed In an auto, .Into the Chinese district and bv the use' of a mystrtoua Chinese 'Jade ornament she - Secured . a .promise from an Influential Chinaman that the - boy would be returned. Archie iMMuFiwd- and told his story, Atkins, seornaty no Kenttham; being hi ccond kidnaper. knpwsV,.,Vv - ; wasThirf alheWa'aer&lMubtttet did get nasty licks- - at first ; and he's revehgful."' He hasnt got "on In society to his not outside either this ys being & university. B)an. ... You sea his father lost some of his money arid put him: to, work instead of In college, He maa-w- a a'o'appeiw'1 little was willing enougn . at me iiroe i Harvard a man still In clothes, evening shape but to married he wanted think get ift jHnffFith-TOUHdiaek-hedafterward, wlen he was letting a good colo- salarv and nlllneliD moneylotf Bis tips. so, it was an accident not- to, the lllrlnn i ?- -a hebega :tothlnkhathe-had-tost- 4 "Damn you' " whispered ' Rupert more than he had' bargained for AlWlnter very softly; "What Is your Ht- together, he's soured. Now, .what he he-la- wn'rSj The story' open at harvard wbereXoV Kiirwrt W inter. II. & A vtellioft. saw the - ' cmcOMSaryrwaa: "Oh, They Bluffed a LJttle," Returned Archie Carelesslyr I . - 4 lantgf n6";tnake a"thundertngJ-bi- 4le g game?-- - his cigar-casthe manager compll- Tiiflitpdlts" contents, as he selected a cigar; and hoOT gentlemen bowed. - A wanrioritiff hnmciilAV K rflnnhnon vhA viewed their parting, felt refreshed as by a breath from his own land of admirable manners. Meanwhile, the " j- -- y - ;' DloneLas.ainlnitbin''CoB- j- found. his insinuating eurloslty l but 1A qnap Bee4esdekaving4elK ItdaniCnCtoT reckon I headed him off. And who at the him meet to . Haley phoned Smith. on ?OhK:V my to," observed the colonel, the terf buy what he calls 'a seat and. would have thought,-'- , he wondered f0r- sent h?ai court. entered ne When dear! rshechokM.:g":v "And I think the old boy Is going James1 end set up for asouthern gen"that I could he goTngTo dine little the loraly, tables, among rapidly glance southto give in j he has made signals ef dis- ftiemaiu Ha's trying to marry a wag a, "Well, maybe - wth- the boy safe and x e dteerB,-hj goantjl nqd.be antedhls ern girl, they say, who a kin to the" ftept "thinking of a" rotten Tarn"6l Tress, to my'thinkln an Carters- aBd the' iees perlenced.adisagreeable . surprlse It feelingsQjike 4 .whipped iound!l rKipUng'a aomethtnf"MpeneTT6rhTmT mallfnd wanted, down Jn2the underground quarter, in formed Cary he saw him for the first and the Carys why, you know her, did not come from the sight of Sergt. - But none of this showed dunhg the Haley In his Sunday civilian clothes, dinner at which Mlllicent was in high he had .bigger things she's Mrs, Winter's secretary." yust such a J)ot.. hole, time the Call; It came from good;nmor, havihg obtained Informs' f guess, as 1 was In ; you remember, on deck than the Midland; and wanted ."Does does she eare for him?' the stolidly reading -Bowing? tlon about most astounding" bargains' Atklnsstandlng, Baoutn WssJaTiei7ttem "the; gamrTir cards ICgeFaTTnem ' WeYe T6T6neFBuadenIy felt with Janet Smith. jn me cninese quarter from Mrs. Wlg talking animatedly was" of conscious and the Mexican stabbing a Chink for out all' right." parcheoTbe' savagely Instead of approaching Haley, Win gles worth. Her good numorxtendetf-hismbunttng color, What a fiendish cheating, and "how Kipling jumped up Atkins getg at him. fell iiackJand scribbled a few' words .even to Miss Smith.' Wno received-ltilet and .ran ifor hla Jlfe,' never . looking Lthe colonel suggestedr-Ypu' neTerdreamed oughtn't while without enthusiasm, albeit courteous a page of his on around:' and don't you remember that to have' come here, Oardlners Pon't of this! Well, whether she cared for shielded by a safely Thepynd-wh- o readilyconsented io be how sure he lie felt man had hfnf or a"brute bit, nasty was, they "not3ne go bomef npw.JWait juntir later and -"who note he "to her companion fctham6rnlng"sairyr"; Haley. dispatched was" one cerdealt with" the greaser'lhelr own way let me rig you, up. In another-lo- t of shouidn't get her. That promptly joined him. While they on the distressed (Jrlentals, whose dlf and he'd never get up to the light togs and give you my own motor car.. tainty In the colonel'svffilnd. stood, talking "on apparently indiffer- Acuities with theycustoms had reduced' -', Better." "Why, Cary'vows sh doesn't, that ent again" subjects, Miss Smith passed. them. them to'the necesstity of sales."at any i'L've been remembering thajt story .Tracy was more than Impressed by jt' was' only a girlish bit of nonsense Whether because he was become sus- - Cost ; Aunt Rebecca, listened with, an all this' afternoon, ... answered - Miss the proposal; he was plainly gratefut, up In Virginia, that time" he was pros? plcious or because she had come..upx)n4absent smlleSWhlle-Archl-eUh a shudd6rsvv I so feel Smith But don't know. He entered with enthusiasm Into the pecting,-yo. . laughed at i him suddenly, she colored slightly. But everyl leeoiesii joKe or. nis uncle m a a such nice for too safe. "Agreeable little tale." 'said Aunt soldier's masquerade-r-TraeShe's, alhad, she smiled as she saluted him and boyish interest so little like his forRebecca, dryly "Archie, you must ways had a weakness for theatricals and you know what women are; the " mi to be awfully spoke in her usual tranquil tone. You mer apathy that of tenj MiSB Smith's have had a right nasty quarter of an some of his Hasty Pudding "Portraits pJcest of. them-seea ; to. with re usaren't-dine, ugoing y ou,: eyes brightened and - half timidly hour. Jlow did you get away There' no betting of Unknown" People We Know", had queer about Jntn.: ?" eald she, "i think pinner la sought the ' colonel ' uncle'Sjas If calling his atTen on tnem?' "Why, a Chink came and called the von him fame ,at: Cambridge. """'" to be served." about tention' to Ihe change. Oily a few just "I'm the remarked afraid not," little man off; and there was a lot of minutes later, there'""sat siip'po"Be the ' The colonel would be with them dt hours his would have back, In- 1 couldn't heax and the his he But put fingers which rightly. colons! a .florilrfaced. muslached. weat " talking yt;mij.in answer;- "now, h loosened as if his side and collar It, cop. was swearing; I think they didn't em commercial traveler.whose plalded Haley's eyes followed her; he had avoided her glances. Yet somehow,' choked. he i felt ; like It. J5ut, In a minute the China tweeds, being an of venture returned her nod and Inquiry for his his7 heart felt heavier when CHAPTER man he waa an awful nice little feller Haley's which the colonel had taken Because he.had a dozen questions wife and they little Nora with a military ceased. ' For his part, he wa4hankfui "Archly " r the - colonel ; Interjected i he came up to me and took me out, off his. bauds, and found- - no subject of auarrellng for precedence In his head, salute - and the assurance that they to have his aunt request his company here, "was one of the men a little fel- led me all sorts of ways, not a bit charity-quitobnoxious renough to de- he asked "hot one. He only Inquired both wonderfully well and Kin a little - promenade around thw'' with a rouad black like the way l came in, and got lne out serve thetHj natilv&ny; did not fit the regarding ' the situation r discovering were low, with the country. aa pleased she VA termed illogglal ne it. overlooking fceadbluli eyear-oofjlls eyes winks io the etreet, The other fellows were present wearer, bur suited hts"hiane- hat- boih Mercer and Tracy were Sure; aln t it remarkable the .way l a HttleTfasler than the otherTnfa V very polite they told me jhat ithey complacence of bearing and might pass, equally in tbe dark with nira?elfaato . uVotr irttf-tf nr A ft Vfiit IrnnwT were" mOrfends aijd only, wanted "to for a bad case of ready made purchase, ,Atk n8 p s, Atkins .store of infor- " aon.t " crle(, .Afl. "I didn't know j I guessed. Well, get find a clew to my kidnapers and the How he experience; and to ask his "Now." said the adviser, "I'll notly matlon, Atkins' resources and straight? Ol've been always tdwld on;" loTpumptyonlwhen turnlng-holJa me-wonly ra joke Haley to have hired mdtoriiuld have waylaid ,Tracy and the.boy- thim- - southern ladies had the ran opinion ior the enigmatical appearance" of Atkins; ."He was. strongly tempted,-!; to give me' an excuse ' to break, niy ready for you and you can 6lip out and without, knowing whence ' they came they got you safely out of sight?' way .return,- - to ., question - her franklv waa aa - . ,"YegjArchJ"Bald.::',they;itl;rne It waaiiultji afteV puzzling; you've-hawhylieyi ji.it puzzling The uBustiar richness bfjlaley's eomethlag1 to ' iahout Miss Smith, to tell her of seeing t sweat-bodid know t he Into he all rlght." wouldn't hurt mefor the world yj?.r gttrullgwi't '.tM rWuYjBT?rwat; oweverresstnnhig-thabrogue was a sure sign of feerfng. The iu muer wnn Atkins V . V i .4 .,1. A ''Dld you tell them anything? asked tended to be fooled,' and sa.ld. it was Haley will bf there. Ieave it.at the': V only that even-mAfter he n ne kne w that it was : the sensible ' Mrs. Winter. all right,- - tad looked pleasant ; but ; drug store on Van Ness streetHaley a had taken Haley to. safe nook for his thing to do but at her reprchfujly. I'd like to scare, them the same way, will give you the number and get hjBlmply could npt ' a. .nook .wherethere were do ifcr confidence., To frame his suplclons r Did she-- think that ho had -- gone to once, all the sameT SantannasaescrtptlottT - - ..,,. past or no"meia8unoDtTUsivyas posslbler woman heHtovedr to dls--' exwas his whlch twelThe school He ElOLUie off Hp at You for can thea boy caught boBrding nothing? cuss the a""'"" manttmtlng in aj dartr-rooirembllnlmd tended - with B "8haky motor:if ' necessary. zYpa'FSToorowa" plained that; being a titrnngera-jthe down the. office he was but ' " tha ". a for black cat isn't there.' about Miss clenched fist Smith not tell the could Unworthy' of her; uhderneath except "your- coat. Wrap laugh. town; he anything hailed hy ':.tlj'e":jMa.neiCh6''mahagef man.,ioainsomel' to orse, oaiance the nos.sihnitlot f where he'd been.- There was an asenf at by her side; but she dropped the arm that, in .a..ney&papfirand-xarrj;i:I J!l a ani eTnt, ypl w ould better keep her turning la her turn and sumthe house tryiirg to sell Htoves, and they near Archie, and said In a don't know that Atkins has any one away from me," was safely ' back. Heiet the chancing anybetrayer tlemanwas damage to her benefae- let him take him off bat to the hotel.. sprightly toue: - "Archie, - you on., guard at the hotel, but I think it ming up of the situation;"! tlon't wanf faint radiance" of in." Jnienigent,1 re nd kinsman for this fellow's Tbe tnan' seemed to"' know afl atfout really ought to" go, dress and wash more than likely he suspects some to be inhospitable, but' the sooner you spectfully : tactful HlitmiBefhis iress use-- no, it, was heyond him. He had y 1m h.e. lArciiie) was, and about his for dinner; excuse me for jneijtlp.njng connection, between our party and are off, and out of the hotel, the safer wards and tntlmate tbat his iMfftrdr Mfindei ta dlscust-hls- - aanfFpart X would Ibaveh 'iitavfOQneffwajrt The ineirisked It, but you have no- Idea how grimy Keatcham's. But first, tell me About for your specula! Ion." waylaying of ' with calm- . him an awful lot of. questions about you are. about do know will him? the what "Frlend3 Atkins; you please accept parry from him. The - colonel felt an Bess and. with. theKeatcham, Reference due s'ald he He bow lis ii8 taken away.; said Tracy,-goohumeredly! ; The commonplace turn of .thought it's an American name." ; ; :"a 'reprehensible unsparingly; he meant to show" didn't know, and he'd promised not to did Us errand: Archie, who had been "America can take ell the glory of "Very well,' it's 23 for me. I'm hoping snare dttemper which did not show in tell. He couldn't tell, They said he bracing himself anew against the hor- htm. I fancy," said Tracy. - "He's been you'll see your way clear to run "over I lowered volceas hji hlir Z L lpoint out 1 omi ourse. to to her th r,it. has-- surren would liave to go to Jitll If he dfdnt ror which" nT remembered, dropped Keatcham's man old soon as the as six for years Kj?Jled.LiMtsMiJ3cyfcXQa secretary; ""' 6 Jl to warn Eer how" ;roen"whtr1i&dBtm: TiricinTd'Ia'fam niaf fcabi fs and lie seems awfully mild and tiseful and dered) I'm goingToTnYitelilm'ta make tha hnv'a nit rlirHt hut SaYf Pranropn-- l hideous mleht be the consequences of were sm!i bsd --nieii- IJuUhe-dld- a't thel t see and the dust, ilmld. He's. not a bit tlmlcLl.lIe's full ua. a. proper yisit. then, Jumped .upconsclouslyv ."It's jg o Pi8ce for anvinnocpnt kid even tell. he offered, bashfully. his "I of resource; : he'fl" sidled , suggestions country. Im always for letting the to take the motoring, walk.: What new anxfetr "Did they try to frighton you to ought to have washed before I came Into Keatcham's ear and has "been conquered keep their sort of a police system have you, any- SH h,ad ,ll8turbed Wcalcula, . ,. up. Well, that's all; we came straight gradually working to make himself He went iwaxsiB,iiiB&ju3 flashing hown you tell?" said Mrs. Wiirujf. -pst5t "f11";-and- ; he couldf a; here. '"v'TmT Now, may I grr take bath?!.. Oh.- they bluffed turned it md atthe hotel as The he aimed inl!ft,-an'BT--ohraRA 'shnnt lint - a curl-- " I thepOlgnant wa)1iif"nii"t It rnn(A'nn nor "fhot, fcetn t Hngcolonel 'tiea ry." about sign brass'ng I rill c a 6 i rl:? ' w . Which, he hint nvn-n s b th w o a. a i on. iitr neck, She wouldn't stand for think 'it was- in f of- -? recognition from : :the window Chinese quarter, either. I confess I'jtt y se.and Qua y( out the J'a color watched the boy run to the open door. revenge that he sold out some , , of whence he observed him. Instead, he felt particularly :TmcoTOf ortable,' my that the i n . I t' If Well .1 ! I ex Ia the Into "I wish the It secrets. co last drew Keatcham's mlsht on to back self, room, day. ;v you'll frowning; your you'd Cary got quickly, 'j j the Tfilplnos with their bows and arcolonel," said M!sa Smith, "and see that and has a score of his owntd be a mere accUent that only a hand's cuse the advice liast said, you know, rows fighting machine-gun! to tlm. It's silly. settle with hira, lesMes. I dun't ksiow breadth cf trco frenj the ycuas t : J" Thy f that P'tMr,5 rnpi The colonel codded. He proffered! t t' r7 i' V (TO ifSJ CONTINUED.) frome'yerYj&nenrthat.-hideoia- r J llttlr-icare- me - na8ty-Bmllln- fllled-wit- h nd g iI:' Cz: W, " trlck-otatel-he-- -- L note-boo- great-palm- ,, and-whe- . v - g M " . cdr.-But-" y - colo-he- l, for-ni- er . ly ' ." . -- - . -- ' Xllv-Contlnu- ed, " " e clean-ehave- -- fr ' -- I tM't they-wante- es aa - my-o- wn fdmlseernbwishrue?' v d g x, ' - ? "? - J . . . - togs-iathe -- 4 A SC trr nd- half-wa- - , y : chances-otirerBirectTon'f- -- -- - L matter-of-fac- t, 1 in-t- he , - -' her--b- ut - ungra-tefntrlrrath- , .'. safest-lookin- g . side-arm- m-i- . - - 1 I -- cried Miss ed blow-killin- J ? ttrj jade-1-locke- . i d abioluteiy-necessaryI-thl- , . : inanacer-shootlilahea- !2Sm8i .tf d. ,V ? ! s i . : |