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Show SERIAL STORY By JACQUES FUTRELLE SI IUujtrutionj by CJ IWW, 9 M. KETTNER by T tin Avt'xMatr-liab, by lh Bobbe-Merril- l Kiimlay Company. SYNOPSIS. Count dl Roslni. the Italian ambassador. is at dinner with diplomats when a messenger summons him to the embassy, where a beautiful young woman asks for a ticket to the embassy ball. The ticket is made out in the name of Miss Isabel Thorne. Chief Campbell of the secret service, and Mr. Grimm, his head detective, are warned that a plot Is brewing In Washington, and Grimm goes to the state ball for information. His attention is called to Miss Isabel Thorne, who with her companion, disappears. A shot Is heard and Senor Alvarex of the Mexican legation, is found wounded. Grimm is assured Miss Thorne did it; he visits her. demanding knowledge1 of the affair, and arrests Pietro Petrozlnnl. Miss Thorne visits an old bomb-makand they discusk a wonderful experiment. Fifty thousand dollars is stolen from the office of Senor Rodriguez, .the minister from are InVenezuela, and while detectives vestigating the robbery Miss Thorne appears as a guest of the legation. Grimm accuses her of the theft and threatens her with deportation. er CHAPTER XI. "But tested. If I am (Continued.) Innocent? she pro- "You must prove It, continued Mr. Grimm mercilessly. "Personally, I am convinced, and Count dl Roslni has practically assured me that Its unjust! she interrupted pasIts Its you have sionately. proved nothing. Its unheard of! Its beyond !! Suddenly she became silent A minthree minutes ute, two minutes, passed; Mr. Grimm waited patiently. Will you give me time and opportunity to prove my innocence? she And if I do condemanded finally. vince you ? 1, should be delighted to believe that I have made a mistake, Mr. Grimm assured her. "How much time? One day? Two days? "I will let you know within an hour at your office, shetold him. Mr. Grimm rose. "And) meanwhile. In case of accident, I shall look to Count dl Roslni for adjustment, he added pointedly. "Goodmorning. One hour and ten minutes later he received this note, unsigned: "Closed carriage will stop for you at southeast corner of Pennsylvania Avenue" and Fourteenth Street at one." He wa3 there; the carriage was on time; and my lady of mystery was inside. He stepped in and they swung "But If I Am Innocent? out Into Pennsylvania Avenue, noiselessly over the asphalt. "Should the gold be placed In your she hands now,' within the hour, queried solicitously, "would it be necessary for you to know who was the the thief? "It would. Mr. Grimm responded without hesitation. "Even if it destroyed a reputation? be pleaded. The Secret Service rarely destroys reputation, Miss Thorne, although It holds Itself In readiness to do so. I Ndare say In this case there would be ho arrest or prosecution, because of of reasons which appear to be good," There wouldnt? and there was a note of eagerness In her voice. The Identity of the guilty person would never appear? It would become a matter of record In our office, but beyond that I think not at least In this one Instance. Miss Thorne sat silent for a block or more. YouTl admit, Mr. Grimm, that you have forced me Into a most remarkable position. You seemed convinced of my guilt, and, If you'll pardon me, without reason; then you made it compulsory upon me to establish my Innocence. The only way for me to do that was to find the guilty one. I have done It, and Im. sorry, because It'a a little tragedy. Mr. Grimm waited. "It's a girl high In diplomatic so ciety. Her father's position is an honorable rather than a lucrative one; he has no fortune. This girl moves In a certain set devoted to bridge, and stakes are high. She played and won. and played and won, and on and on, until her w innings were about eight thousand dollars. Then luck turned. She began to lose. Her money went, but she continued to play desperately. Finally some old family jewels were pawned without her father's knowledge, and ultimately they were lost. One day she awoke to the fact that she owed some nine or ten thousand dollars In bridge debts. They were pressing and there was no way to meet them. This meant exposure and utter ruin, and women , do strange things, Mr. Grimm, to postpone such I an ending to social aspirations. know this much is true, for she related It all to ipe herself. "At last. In some way a misplaced letter, perhaps, or a word overheard she learned that fifty thousand dollars would be in the legation bank overnight, and evidently she learned the precise night." She paused a moment. Here is the address of a man In Baltimore, Thomas Q. Griswold, and she passed a card to Mr. Grimm, who sat About four motionless, listening. years ago the combination on the legation safe was changed. This man wag sent here to make the change therefore some one besides Senor Rodriguez does know the combination.- I have communicated with this man today, for I saw the possibility of just such a thing as this Instead of your stethoscope. By a trick and a forged letter this girl obtained the combination from this man." Mr. Grimm drew a long breath. She intended to take, jerhaps, only what she desperately needed but at sight of it all do you see what must have been the temptation then? We get out here. There were many unanswered questions In Mr. Grimms mind. He repressed them for the time, stepped out and assisted Miss Thorne to alight. The carriage had turned out of Pennsylvania Avenue, and at the moment he didn't quite place himself. A narrow passageway opened before them evidently the rear entrance to a house possibly in the next street. Miss Thorne led the way unhesitatingly, cautiously unlocked the door, and toThen gether they entered a.Tiall. there was a short flight of stairs, and I hey -- stepped into a room, one of a suite. She closed the door and turned on the lights. The bags of gold are in the next room, she said with the utmost composure. Mr. Grimm dragged them out of a dark closet,, opened one there were ten and allowed the coins to dribble through his fingers. Finally he turned and stared at Miss Thorne, who, pallid and weary, stood looking on. What "Where are we? he asked. house is this? v "The Venezuelan legation, she anWe are standing less than swered. forty feet from the safe that was robbed. You see how easy And whose room? inquired Mr. Grimm slowly. Must I answer? she asked appealingly, "You must! Senorita Rodriguez my hostess! Don't you see what youve made me do? She and Mr. Cadwallader made the trip to Baltimore in his automoShe stopped. "He bile, and and ! knows nothing of it, she added. Yes, I know, said Mr. Grimm. He stood looking at her In silence for a moment, staring deeply Into the pleading eyes; and a certain tense expression about his lips passed. For an instant her hand trembled oh his arm, and he caught the fragrance of her hair. "Where Is she now? he asked. Miss replied bridge, "Playing It Is Thorne, with a sad little smile. always so at least twice a week, and she rarely returns before two or halfShe extended both hands Impast. Please be generous, Mr. petuously. Grimm. You have the gold; dont destroy her. Senor Rodriguez, the minister from Venezuela, found the gold in his safe on the following morning, with a brief note from Mr. Grimm, In which there was no explanation of how or where It had been found. . . . And two hours later Monsieur Boissegur, ambassador from France to the United States, disappeared from the embassy, vanished! - 1 u the room, closing the door behnd him. Hls stenographers impression was that some detail of business had occurred to him, and he had gone Into the general office to attend to It. I may 6ay. Monsieur, that this impression seemed strengthened by, the fact that he left a fresh cigarette burning In his ash tray, and hls pen was behind hls ear. It was all as if he had merely stepped out, Intending to return Immediately the sort of thing, Monsieur, that any man might have done. It so' happened that when he went out he left a sentence of hls letter Incomplete. I tell you this to show that the impulse to go must have been a sudden one, yet there was nothing in his manner, so hls stenographer says, to indicate excitement, or any other than his usual frame of mind. It was about five minutes of twelve o'clock high noon when he went out. When he didnt return Immediately the stenographer began transcribing the letters. At one oclock Monsieur Boissegur still had not returned and hls stenographer went to luncheon. As he talked, some Inbred excitement seemed to be growing upon him, due, perhaps, to hls recital of facts, and he paused at last to regain control of himself. Incidentally he wondered if Mr. Grimm was taking the slightest interest In what he was saying. Certainly there was nothing In hls impassive face to Indicate it. Understand, Monsieur, the secretary continued after a moment, "that I knew nothing whatever of all this until late that afternoon that is, Tuesday afternoon about five o'clock. PROGRESS WGllLD the of I. of .. rT"TS i. SOME THINGS THE BUSY WORKER IS DOING FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION PAYS BIG DIVIDENDS MAKE PRICE TOO HIGH You will find It Is invariably the Courtesy Always an Asset in the case that the men at the head of big Conduct of the Modern Busibusiness enterprises are uniformly EXPENDED ENERGY FREQUENTLY NOT WORTH THE COST. courteous. This is not, as many people suppose, simply a veneer covering, Let Common Sense Rule In Matters but Is a true indication of their real Where Much Labor la Required True courtesy must be dispositions. for a Given End. MAKES AMD KEEPS FRIENDS genuine, and no other kind Is worth considering. It Is a habit that must Naturally every one believes In orbe acquired by constant civilization, der and It will be beneficial in any line of It and cleanliness and tidiness, but sometimes comes home to one that Little Acts That Show Consideration business. order is occasionally Are Valuable Items, Though They at a which makes a hubought price May Not Figure in the Ledger Stranger Quick to See Chances. man beings something not far removHow the stranger In the city finds ed from as Accounts to Bs galley slaves or beasts of bursuccess where the native will not den. One hears that Collected. prisoners condream of looking for It is constantly demned to the treadmill die of heartIt pays to he courteous. No matter brought to light In Chicago. Some break. They plead to be gived work whether you are an employer, or a nine months ago tw-- Arabians came which when done may exist In some worker, you cannot afford to. be dis- here. They landed on the west side form to represent their labor, may do courteous to those with whom you and began to look around for a loca-tlp- some earthly good, and when denied come lq contact. wlijre tljey coul start some sort they waste away. How credible it is! Comfng home from Italy on a slow "Courtesy In business pays bigger of small business. A certain corner, dividends than any other single quali- which hundreds of Americans passed steamer a lady noticed day after day fication, declared the head of one of up in looking for a business location, a man whose sole work It seemed to the greatest corporations In Chicago. "looked good to these Arabians. They be to clean the brass rims of the port"Courteous treatment wins friends fixed up a fruit and soda water stand holes on the promenade deck. These and patrons In every line of trade, and on this corner. That was nine months were the porthole of the dining sasuch customers become walking adver- ago. Now the men, who cannot put a loon, the library, the smoking room, tisements of the store or institution sentence together in the English lan- the lounge and a number of deck cabwhere that sort of policy prevails. No guage, are making a weekly profit ins, and there was an infinite number ' business can succeed unless it makes which. If a bookkeeper got it down- of them. ,,, friends of Its patrons. Friends make town, be would call a pretty good salThe man worked from morning until business, and courtesy makes friends. ary. night, day In, day out, scouring and Travel, the novelty which changing polishing those brass rimB, down one It Is easy to be courteous to a friend, but the courtesy that counts of place and surroundings brings ' with side of the deck up the other, and of these two for most Is that which is accorded It, was the making before he could get around the A couple of years away long Arabians. conacts show Little that strangers. circle the first ones were of necessity sideration for persons with whom one from home, away from the watchful dingy and splashed with verdigris Is dally thrown in contact are most sollctitude of a mother and an older spots from the salt spray that blew will put considerable backbone Important, because the one who makes sister, against them. The man never stopped It a habit to be courteous at all times Into many a young man who is In cleaning them, and yet those portholes Is the most successful employe or em- need of It. Chicago Tribune. were never clean. What an existence!, . r V, ployer, as the case may e. Perhaps Every one likes the sight of bright more discourtesy is shown in answerbut when It Is Married Seventy Year. polished brass-y- es ing telephone calls than In any other Mr. and Mrs. James Danby of Rose bought at the price of the unceasing way. Cottage, Bardney, Lincolnshire, have labor of a human being it seems as If "Courtesy should be practiced at been married for fO years. Although no one would not prefer that polisheef home, In the office, In the store In nearly a centenarian, Mr, Danby In- trass painted over, done away with, fact, it should be practiced all the tends walking down to the railway substituted by anything, no matter time. You cannot be really courteous station, half a mile from hls home, to how unornamental, which should not In one place and not in another. It is help carry the baggage of hls numer- represent quite such waste of human never considered servility to go out ous descendants who are going to see energy. That special man may not of your way to do a favor for some him. He worked until he was ninety, have realised the painful futility of hls one else. Little acts of kindness are and claims to be the last of the labor, though Judging byUhe doglike the ones that pay the biggest divior workers in Spanish appeal of his eyes and the deprecating "' t dends. They may not be In the Bhape leather. London Express. pathos of hls smile he did. of immediate cash, but they will come In lasting credit to you and your employer. i !It Is- - Just as essential for an employer to be courteous to those who work for him as It Is for hls employes to treat customers with consideralittle things that Come td your "dec tion. Courtesy on the part of the Business Man Knows Vast Di- that you feel like doing yourself. Pe boss engenders loyalty among workhaps It wont take you five minutes i fference Between Theory and clear them off. If you do it, It won ers, and that qualification is absolutely take many of them before you ai Actual Fact necessary to business success. Courtesy la not so much what is said, but spending five or six dollars worth bow it Is said. A courteous person can time every day doing something thi a $15 a week man could do Just t deny a request in such a way as to GENERAL ARE IDEAS leave a better taste than some other FAKE well. So you will be losing actui person who grants it. money, to say nothing of the loss your mentality caused by dlrectlr "Courtesy Is in reality an application to every day life of the golden Small Savings That Heads of Depart- your attention from the big thing ments May Consider Worth While, rule, and Lord Chestergeld gave an exMy practice is to do nothing that an one else can do, because I am tt cellent example of it when be said, If Looked Into Will Be Found Whatever pleases you most In others highest priced man In my employ, to Figure on the Ledger will infallibly please others in you. leaves me with time and energy f as a Lots. the bigger things that come along. There are a great many kinds of I Thats the way successful men d Genius Requires Work. dont mean to hold myself up as a Is Genius a great ornament to economy, and most of them are exof success, because I am on pattern man. It Is the exceptional endowment pensive, said a prosperous Chicago There is a moderately successful, compared wit which may enhance all effort many business man recently. of finance and such men; bt fold, hut it Is only an Innate force. lot of truth in the old adage: Penny captains It must be exercised, It requires ac- wise, pound foolish. I knew a man youll find that they never do anythin one else can do. Can yo tivity to develop it. It requires to be that ran a drug store. He couldnt that any worked In harness, as It were. bear to see anything wasted. Every Imagine Plerpont Morgan fussing wit It has been said of Nathaniel Haw- morning when he opened hls mall he hls trial balance? An extreme cas thorne that his genius was augmented stopped to split the envelopes and again, but It shows what I mean. by patient and painstaking effort. For save them for scratch paper. He kept 13 laborious years be lived a hermits Eyesight and Efficiency. a clerk busy most of the time picking life, practicing the art In which he knots out of the strings that came A large percentage of the workm perfected himself, so that be could around packages and smoothing out whose efficiency decreases with m: to the the give a wonderful product they were wrapped lu, so die age owe their declining world. Robert Louis Stevenson prac- that paper could use It again. They powers to their eyes. Most earni; they perso ticed Just as assiduously hls chosen lost not the time It took to save experience a change In vision aft only Men art of writing. who do not write the second hand material, hut they they pass their fortieth birthday, I seldom leave us records which show lost enough time In finding the common trouble being an Increasli how lndusirlous they are, but any one also piece of paper and the right tendency toward right who can read In their great sum of when they wanted to Vrap up not a few manufacturing plants the string accomplishment the Items which make a to pay for fresh material. Is an organized Inspection of eyes, package In no It has realizing that difficulty systems the y they lost customers by the Incidentally there have been steady days of never old stuff. That was penny wise of all employes are examined by using labor. ending man heavily. skilled specialist The more commi A man who has worked thus and at- economy, and cost the I mention him as an extreme case. practice, and an effective one, is to tained, has some reason to be Impaslst upon an examination when I have been guilty of false eceno-mtient when a fellow man says, "Arent I first superintendent or foreman finds r once. When more than you a lucky dog? But waiting on luck suspect that something never brought it. In one of Haw- started out on the road, twenty years son to with the eyes. It is not u save I wrong ambitious to was money ago, conhe The thorne's stories ays; a workman bolding to see common On and house my for the myself. trast between him and hls former I bad a night blueprint or a piece of work far fro I first remember, trip, be for briefly marked, partner may Brown never reckoned on luck, yet run, leaving one town at about 11 and him in order to see It better. Su condition naturally slows up t: alwayB had It, while Peter made luck arriving at my next stop at 6 in the a the main condition of hls projects and morning. I decided that I would save man. Clear vision Is a large asset, t the price of a sleeper by sitting up. peclally where work requiring pi always missed It." When I got to my town I was so clslnn Is Involved. Iron Age. To Revive Mesopotamia. sleepy that I had to get a room at a When Alexander determined Maine Squaws' Plug Hats. on hotel and go to bed until noon. If of The Indian maidens sending hls fleet up the Tigris he cut I had slept on the train I would not Maine, r ; of a century the earthen dams thrown across the have needed the room, because I could ago, used river. He put the boats where he have got out of town In the afternoon. to wear tall hats much the same as wanted them for military purposes, But worse than that. I lost a big sale did Pocahontas, according to a print but he destroyed the productiveness of that morning One of our competitors made in her time. For generations customer the village of the Passamaquoddy the land, and returned It to the called on our principal which has brooded there ever while I was recovering from iny econo- Indians In easteri Maine has been at since. Pleasant Point, tear Eastphri. my and sold him up to the guards. An Now Sir William Wlllcocks, the "Another disastrous economy is In aged resident of E.istport says: "When 1 was a boy, the young great English Irrigation engineer, pro- trying to save the cost of labor by doThere Is a prinposes to the Turkihh government that ing things yourself squaws wore tall black bats with' a portion of Mesopotamia be redeemed ciple that people are apt to lose sight broad silver bands, sliver disks upon from aridity to productiveness by re- of. That Is, that you can never af- their bosoms, and, below, their short storing the ancient dams In the Tigris. ford to do anything that a cheaper skirts, Dgglns trimmed with beads This will put an end to navigation be- man can do just as well. If you can and scarlet cloth. They always wore tween Bnsraklsh and Bagdad, but the earn $10,000 a )eHr for yourself your bright-beademoccasins. To us chip water would suffice to Irrigate land time Is worth 7 cents a minute, figur- dren they were a gorgeous sight, and on which $37,500,000 worth of cotton ing 300 working days In the year of they certaluly did wear their silver-bandecould be produced annually. tall hats with dignity. eight hours each. There are lots of ness Concern. n " There Are Only Two Entrances to the Embassy. Now, Monsieur, I was engaged all day upon some Important work in my office, and had had po occasion to see Monsieur Bois-s- , - n since a word or so when he cam?, jin at ten oclock. My attention was called to the affair finally by his stenographer, Monsieur Netterville. who came to me for instructions. He had finished the letters and the ambassador had not returned to sign them. At this point I began an investigation, Monsieur, and the further I went the more uneasy I grew. Now, Monsieur, there are only two entrances to the embassy the front door, where a servant is In constant attendance from nine in the morning until ten at' night, and the rear door, which can only be reached through the kitchen. Neither of the two men who had been stationed at the front door had seen the ambassador since breakfast, therefore he could not have gone out that way. Comprenez? It seemed ridiculous. Monsieur, but then I went to the kitchen. The chef had been there all day, and he had not seen the ambassador at all. I Inquired further. No one in the embassy, not a clerk, nor a servant, nor a member of the ambassadors family had seen METHOD IN ECONOMY 1 ITO BE CONTINUED.) hard ware line of goods had a novel way last seasoh of exciting at least a momentary interest in his prospective customers In the new territory he had been given. On entering the office of his prospect hls first remark was; Mr. Smith, we are both business men with whom time is money. 1 only ask for three minutes of yours, as I can orly give you three minutes of mine. Lets be sure we keep to the CHAPTER XII. limit. Thereupon he pulled from bis pok The Vanishing Diplomatist. It was three days after the ambas- et quickly and placed on the desk of sadors disappearance that Monsieur hia hearer, well within hls vision and Rigolet, secretary of the French em- reach, a reat little article of the samo shape as and patterned after the bassy and temporary charge-daffalrehour glass, but containing only matter the to Chief reported Campbell in the Secret Service Bureau, add- sand enough to require three mlnutei ing thereto a detailed statement of for its passage from the upper to the several singular incidents following lower compartment. You keep tab and don't let ms close upon it. He told It In order, overtalk the limit. System. to and the while concisely point, Grimm and his chief listened. Morgan, Sentimentalist. "Monsieur Boissegur, the ambassaThe sentimentalist of the world of dor, you understand, Is a man whose habits are remarkably regular, he be- finance Is J. Plerpont Morgan, lie lie hail made it a rule to be gives money widely and recklessly to gan. at his desk every morning at ten Jielp men who think they have some Invention or other thing o'clock, and tetween that time and wonderful one oclock be dictates his corre- that will be a sensational benefit tc spondence, and clears up whatever the human race, A few years age an routine work there Is before him. I electrical experimenter got semis have known him for many years, friends to obtain a hearing for him and have been secretary of the em- with Morgan. He had plans for ths bassy under him In Germany and greatest of all Inventions. He had no I have money himself; ho had no hacking, Japan and In this country. never known him to vary this general lie weut away wlih a fat check, hul order of work unless because of ill- returned for more again and again. In tho course of tlmo he received ness, or necessary absence. "Well, Monsieur, last Tuesday this $150,000 to perfect hls wonder, but It Is Friday the ambassador was at his was not perfected even then. desk as usual. He dictated a dozen made a final appeal for $50,000 more. or more letters, and had begun anoth- Morgan wanted to send It to him, but er a private letter to hls sister In some of the other members of the Paris, lie wns well along In this let- firm Induced the banker to shut down ter when, without any apparent rea-on- , on the supplies until there should b he rose from hls desk and left more signs of aiaklug good. S. s, him since he left his office. Again he paused and ran one hand across hls troubled brow. How He Timed Hls Talk. A successful salesman for a J y well-know- n three-quar.e- rt . j d |