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Show ARE UNABLE TO CONTROL THE MOB KICARASUA IN Revolution Has Reached a Stage on Anarchy, Rebel Leaders Beirg Unable to Check Violence. Bor--derin- g CHAPTER I. A itill and sultry dusk bad fallen, dosing an oppressive, wearing day: one of those days whose sole function seems to reside In rendering us irrie castably conscious of our ings of flesh; whose humid and Inert atmosphere, sodden with tepid moisture, clings palpably to the body, cnuslng men to feel as if they at the botcrawled, tom of a Eea of rarefied water. The hour may have been eight; it may have been not quite that, but It was almost dark. The windows were oblongs, black as night in the yellow walls of O'Rourke's bedchamber in the Hotel d'Orient. Monte Carlo. I have the honor to make known to you the O'Rourke of Castle O'Rourke In the county of Galway, Ireland; otherwise and more widely known as Colonel Terence O'Rourke; a chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France; sometime an officer in the Foreign legion In Algiers; a wandercosmopoler. spendthrift, free-lanche's been ite a gentleman-adventuretermed. He was dressing for dinner. The glare of half a dozen electric bulbs discovered hi in all but ready for public appearance not, however, quite ready. In hi, shirt sleeves he faced a cheval-glaspluckily (if with the haggard eye of exasperation) endeavoring to outmaneuver a demon of Inanimate perversity which had entered Into his dress tie. Inciting It to refuse to assume, for all his coaxing and his stratagems, that effect of nonchalant perfection so much sought after, so seldom achieved. Patently was the thing possessed by a devil; O'Rourke made no manner of doubt of that. Though for minutes at a time he fumbled, fidgeted, fumed It was without avail. His room Itself was In a state of '"nslderable disorder something due mainly to O'Rourke's characteristic efforts to find just what he might happen to desire at any given time without troubling to think where lb ought properly to be. Something of this confusion, mirrored In the glass, was likewise reflected in O'Rourke's eyes, what time he paused for breath and profanity. "Faith, 'tls worse than a daw's nest, tho place, he admitted, scandalized. How ever did I one lone man do all that, will ye be telling me?" lie flung out two helpless baffled hands, and let them fall. After a meditative Damn that Alsapause he added: tian!" with reference to his latest nnd least competent valet, who had but recently been discharged with a flea in his ear and a month's unearned wage In his imcket. For knowing me ways," sighed O'Rourke, "there was never anyone the like of Danny." For as many as three livelong days this mun had been reduced to the necessity of dressing himself with his own fair hands and that at least thrice dally, who did nothing by halves. And. somehow, mysteriously, his discarded garments had for the most part remained where he hail thrown them, despite the earnest efforts of tin femme de chamhre to e something resembling order from tiii.s chaos. For servants nil liked well the O'Rourke, improvident soul that he was, freehanded to a fault. Yon are invited to picture to yourself O'Rourke as invariably he was in one of bis not infrequent but ever transient phases of affluence: that Is, a very magnificent figure Indeed. Standing a bit over six feet, deep of chest and lean of flank, with his long, straight legs he looked what he had been meant to be, a man of arms and His head was shapely. Its action. dark hair curling the least in the world; and, incredibly stained, a transparent brown, his features were lean, eager, ami rendered very attractive by quick boyish eyes In whose warm blue-gratwinkled depths humor more often than not, though those same eyes were not seldom thoughtful, a truce wistful, pcrhapR, with the look of one who rcralls dear memories, old friends aud sweethearts loved and lost. . . . For he had begun lo live early In life and bad much to look back iiion, though for all ti nt it's doubtful If be were more than thirty at (lie time lie became ln-- t ol ved In the fortunes of the Pool of Flamn. For the nst of him, barring Hip refractory lie, the man was strikingly well groonird, while Ms surroiindincs spoke for camfurtab'c circumstances. On the authority of the absent and regretted luiniiy. who bad lung the O llourki i:i the Intimate capacl confidant and ties of chillin' dim- of the exchequer I this last, there hap-eiiof cuur-if- . to m require a chanany exchequer 4 cellor). tiieic w:n uevr anyone at all too-clos- too-soll- d e, s, uinn-mud- e y se-ve- - wh-ir-- or wear who could spend money clothes like himself, meaning the master. And at this time O'Rourke was ostensibly in funds and consequently (as the saying runs) . cutting a wide swath. Heaven and himself only knew the limits of his resources; but his manner a Monte Cristo might have His play was a aped to advantage. wonder of the Casino; for the matter and extravaof that, his made had entire Printhe ways gant cipality of Monaco conscious of his And you fall presence in the land. in the least to understand the nature of the man If you think for a moment that it Irked him to be admired, pointed out, courted, pursued. He was, Inas when deed, never so splendid aware that he occupied the public eye. In short, he was just an Irishman. . . . So, then, it's nothing wonderful that he should seem a thought finical about the set of his tie. Now as he stood scowling at til's image, and wishing from the bottom of his heart he had never been fool enough to let Danny leave him. and calling fervent blessings down upon the head of the fiend who first designed modern evening-dres- s for men he found himself suddenly with a mind divested of any care whatever and attentive alone to a sound which came to him faintly, borne upon the heavy wings of the sluggish evening air. It was nothing more nor less than a woman singing softly to herself (humming would probably te the more accurate term), and It was merely the tune that caught his fancy; a bit of an old song he himself had once been wont to sing, upon a time when he had been a happier man. It seemed strange to hear it there, stranger still that the woman's voice. Indistinct as it was, should have such a familiar ring In ills memory. He frowned in wonder add shook his head. The ago of miracles lg past," he muttered; twould never be herself. I've had me chance and forfeited It Twill not come to me a second time. . . Of a sudden The singing ceased. O'Rourke swore with needless heat, and, plucking away the offending tie, The dlv-vl- e cast It savagely from him. Is It fly away with ye!" he said. bent on driving me inad ye are? I'd give me fortuno to have Danny back! . . Me fortune . faith!" He laugh'Tls ed the word to bitter scorn. nieself that never had the least of anything like that without 'twas feminine with a 'mis-- ' tacked onto the front And he strode away to the of It! window to cool off. It was like him to forget his exasperation in the twinkling of an eye; another mood entirely swayed him by the time he found himself gazing out Into the vague, velvety dusk that momentarily was closing down upon the falry-Uk- e panorama of terraced gar dens and sullen, silken sea. His thoughts had winged back to that dear woman of whom that fragment of melody had put him In mind; and he was sighing and heavy of heart with longing for the sight of her and the touch of her hand. Even as he watched, stark night fell, black as a pocket beneath a portentous pall of cloud. . Far out upon the swelling bosom of the Mediterranean a cluster of dim lights betrayed a stealthy coasting steamer, making westward. Nearer, In the harbor, a fleet of pleasure craft, riding at anchor on the still, dark tide, was revealed in many faint, wraith-lik- e sliapie of gray, all studded with yellow stars. Ashore, endless festoons of colored lamps draped the gloom of the terraces; the facade of the Casino stood out lurid against the darkness; the hotels shone with reflected brilliance, the palace of the Prince de Monaco loomed high upon the peninsula, Its elevations picked out wtlth lines of soft fire. The O'Rourke shook Mb head, condemning It all. " Tls beautiful. he said; faith, yes! tls all of that. Rut I'm thinking 'tls too beautiful to be good for one like some women I've known In me time. 'Tls not good for Terence that's the 'tls sure; O'Rourke that's going stale and soft with all this easy living. Me that has mere thnn many another to live for aud hope for anil strive for! And Iin lingering here In the . . . very lap of luxury stuffing m.'self with food, befuddling nieself with rarer wines me that has fought a day nnd a night anil a half a day atop of that on nothing and a glass cf muddy water! risking me money as If there was no end to it. throwing It away in scandalous tips like any drunken sailor! Aud all for the scant rut f start leu of behaving like a fool of nn Irishman. . . 'Tin sickening dis. . I'm gust Ing; naught less. . thinking this night ends It, though; come the illuming I'll be pulling up stakes and striking out for a healthier, simpler place, where there's something afoot a man can take an 'oiler high-hande- d 11 ... e And it seemed Impossible to like limpid pools of darkneas touched surmise whence, front which one of all by dim starlight. Inflamed, he leaned toward her. This he meant, firmly, and waa glad the rooms with windows opening upon he stammered. of it, with a heart Immeasurably light- that side of the hotel, had come the Whist, darling!" Tls myself 'tls Terence ened by the strength of his good res- voice of the woman. She might as "Whist! But she was gone. A low, stifled olution. He began to hum the old well have been above as below him, tune that the unknown woman's voice or on either side: he could not guess. laugh was all his answer that and the silken whisper of her skirts as she had set buzzing in his brain, and But he waa determined. Now there waa beneath his window scurried from the window. He flushbroke off to snap bis fingers defiantly at the Casino. That for ye!" he a balcony with a floor of wood and a ed crimson, waited an Instant, then a long balcony, flung discretlnn to the winds, and flouted It Bitting there with your rail of painted smile and your cold eyes, like extending from one comer of the ho- found himself scrambling out upon the the brazen huzzy ye are Goddess of tel to the other. At Intervals It was balcony. Heaven ouly knows to what Chance, Indeed! thinking ye ..have splashed with light from the windows lengths the man would have gone had but to bide your time for all men to of chambers still occupied by guests not the slain of a door brought him up come and render up their souls to ye! belated or busy, like himself, with the standing; she had left her room! So she thought to escape lilm so Here's once ye lose, madam; after this task of dressing for the evening. The night Im done with ye; not a sou of window to his left was alight; that easily! He swore between his teeth mine will ever again cross your ta- on his right, dark. With half his body with excitement and tumbled back bles. I'll have ye to understand the on the balcony, his legs dangling with- whence he had coine. Regardless of O'Rourke's a reformed character from in the room, O'Rourke watched the the fact that he was still In Ills shirtthe mornlug on!" opening on his left with jealous, sleeves he rushed inadly for the door. on the He laughed softly, In high feather breathless expectancy. Not a sound On the way a shooting-jackewith his conceit; and, thinking cheer- came therefrom. He hesitated. door, perhaps In revenge fur neglect "If that weren't her room, I'd hear and maliciously wound Itfully of the days of movement and cnange that were to follow, the song somebody moving about, he reasoned. self around hlB feet ami all hut throw in his heart shaped Itself In words "Tls frightened she Is not suspect-I- him headlong; only a frantic clutch at Tls me. . . . But liow do I know the footrall of the bed saved hint. ujion his lips. 't'.H herself? . . . Faith! could ine Kicking the thing savagely off he I'm Pnfliljr Wlmrk ears deceive me?" flung himself upon the door und threw Frum Biillyhark. With that he took heart of hope ar4 It oMn. His jaw dropped. Not long ago turned soldier O The lift shaft waa directly opiioslte. At grand attack, broke manfully into the chorus, singOr storm or aack. Before It, In more or less patient waitthe to window, ing directly lighted None Ilian I will prove Iiolder-O- !" singing the first line with ardor and ing, st (Kid a very young aud beautiful Ills voice was by way of being a fervor, with confidence nnd with ho.te. woman In a gown whose extreme cantenor of tolerable quality and volume, singing persuasively, pleadingly, anx- dor was surpassed only by the perfection of Its design and appointment but untrained nothing wonderful. It iously, insistently. both blatant of the Rue de la Palx; was just the way he trolled out the e us For the worrld la all a type as common to the cognoscenti rollicking stanza that rendered It Inirresistible. For as he he sang and then paused. He heard of Monte Carlo as the Swiss hotel porfectious, ters. Hut O'Rourke did not know her paused the voice of the woman that no echo. And again he with from Eve: had reminded him of the song capped that in his tone to meltessayed, a heart of Tho dlvvle! the verse neatly. said he beneath his Ice: est In without losing his . . . I'll do just that, I will!" nothing. self-respec- t. iron-flligre- e t n befo-nr- breath. He was mistaken; but the young And now he triumphed and was woman, at first startled by his uncerlifted out of himself with sheer de- emonious appearance, on instantanroom eous second thought decided to perlight; for from the adjoining .came the next line: mit him to discover that twin Imps, at least, resided In heh eyes. And "And landladies ado-or- e ui when his disappointment prevented him from recognizing them, her dawn. Unable to contain he himself, Ing smile was swiftly erased and her ascending eyebrows spoke eloquently enough of her haughty displeasure. at Synchronously the lift hesitated that lundiug and the gate clanged wide; the young woman wound her skirt about her and showed him a hack which at any other time would have evoked his unstinted admiration. Then the gate shot to with a rattle and bang, and the lift dropped out of sight, leaving the man with mouth agape and eyes as wide. A beaming but elderly femme de chainbre on duty In the corridor, remarking O'Rourkes pause of stupefied chagrin, hoped and believed he needed her services. She bore down upon him accordingly. M'sicu la desirous of?" He came out of his trance. "Nothing, he told her with acid brevity. Hut, yes," he reconsidered with haste. "That lady who but this moment took the lift her name? "Her name, ni'sieu'? Ma'm'sclle VolFor the wnrrld An whin we get the route Wld a about. How they pout! Wld a ready right-aboGoes the boulil soldier-boy- ! ut O'Rourke caught his breath, sUf--1 "It cant be " he tied, stunned. whispered. For if at first her voice, subdued in distance, had stirred his le all befo-or- e ue taire." "Impossible!" bo told himself aloud, utterly unable to forge any connecting link betwi'di the lady in the lift and her whose voice had bewitched him. In revolution Washing' on. The Nicaragua has reached a stage bordering on anarchy, as General .Mem. the rebel chief, and his lieutenants aeein to be unable to control the mob spirit that prevails in many of the towns, particularly at Lcun. the scene of several liarbuilc outrages. Dispatches received by the department of state from Minister Wcitzel are the basis of this belief. In a message dated August S and received by the state department on Saturday, the minister repeats his previous statements that outlawry is rampant and that the rebel leaders are unable to check violence against foreigners, even though they had a disposition to do so. The Salvadorean minister at Managua, who was Interned by the rebels at Leon, has returned to the capital and has furnished the American minister with many farts regarding the gravity of the situation. Danger of another attack on Managua has been lessened, It Is believed by Minister Weltzel. by the capture ot So, Oi'O rounds of rapid-fircartridges from the rebels. e Marines Slain in Nicaragua. Panama. Reliable Information waa received from Nlacarngua Saturday that two American marines have been killed there. The KOI) marines sent from Philadelphia on liourd the transport Pruirlo for service in Nicaragua arrived nt Balboa from Colon Saturday afternoon and are camping on the meat to the cruiacr California by tugs ment lo the ruiser California by tugs and lighters. Cuba Hastens Apology. Havana. The anxiety with which President Gomez regards the GihBon affair was made evident Sunday night when he sent a personal message to President Taft expressing his regret that the American charge d'affaires had been assaulted by a foolisk. Irresponsible person, and declaring that the man would he severely and quickly punished. Seven Killed In Wreck, Chicago. Plunging down a steep embankment In the middle of the Wisconsin woods, an express train of tha Northwestern railroad Sunday morning carried seven per ions to their death. Five sleeping cars were overturned. In addition to the eeven killothers were badly Ined, twenty-onof them are expected Several jured. to die. e Conductor Kills Father and Son. Seattle. Wash. Oliver W. Sanford, aged !0 years, and his son Otis, aged 24. were shot and killed at the end or the Bnllird Beach car line Saturn day night by J. T. Tribett, a street car conductor, aged 38 years, following a scuffle on tho car between the conductor and the men. Celebrates Steamboat Centenary. The rentenary of the Glasgow. launching of the first passenger steam- boat in Euroepan waters was celebratJust KiO years agu ed Saturday. Henry Bell's "Comet" left the slips on the Clyde and a great review of ship-pluwas arranged In memory of the g event. Hundreds Perish In Typhoon. Amoy. A violent typhoon swept and caused great loss of life SD'amcis and damage to property. from the north report the sea ofT tha tnoulh of the Min river strewn with hundreds of bodies. Fu-cho- w But assuredly, m'sh-u- . Do I not GEN. LUIS MENA know I who have waited upon her hand and foot these throe days nnd to whom she has not glvm as much an that." The woman licked a fingernail against lor s'roa:; white teeth. "Ma'm'sclle Victorina Voltaire," she asserted stubbornly. O'Rourke fumbled in his pocket and found a golden piece, surrendering It to the woman as heedlessly as though It had been as many cenHI be leaving me room In live times. minutes, now. And do ye, for the love of Heaven, me dear, try to set me things the least trifle to rights. Will ye now, like the best little girl in the world?" The best little girl In the world, who was forty fire If a day, promised miracles with a bob of a courtesy ORourke Caught his Breath, Stunned. But so disgruntled was O'Rourke tlil In anil chimed It and duet a as touch lu, with vague memory they sang lie shut his door in her face. to the rousing finale: thrilling as the caress of a woman's out Tis nieself that's the fool," h hand In darkness, now that he heard said savagely enough, to think for a to ne'er us. They rnyfase the full strength of that soprano, Hut chalk us up will joy moment that ever again I'll set me and spirited, he was sure he Wa taels her tup. we tear her rapon her pretty face God bless It, eyes thisl's the that himself 'd, told knew the singer. He iT.up she may lie! . . . For wherever rrh-For General Mena, who le leading the me.' she there could he no two women In the Whlroo! should 1 deserve to I, the pen- Insurrection In Nicaragua, formerly world with voices just like that; not Isn't he the d.irllnt, the houl.l suMier-hoy- !' why niless ul venturer?" was minister of war. He le a de" another than her he knew could havo termined character and a hard fighter. (TO lE CONTI N L ED ) rendered the words with so true a As the last note rang out and died spirit, so rare a brogue tinged as the next window was darkened; the Carte and Pierce. Colorado Murderer Hsneed. that had been with the faintest, woman had switched off the do you women do at He What lights, Canon Ciiy. Colo. law!s Wechter Imaginquaintest exotic Inflection lie heard a faint rustle of silken ruf- your club? was Satin day for ihc murder hanged able. She Talk about the faults of you fles. 'Tls herself, he declared In of Clifford Burrows in a Denver cafe But she had stopped with the nn agony of do men. do What at you yours? "herseir and verse half sung. Ills pulses quicken- none other! anticipation' He Try to forget the faults of you ( ighl months ago. Wechter entered And I'm thinking she'll the the cafe to rob the till and shot Bur from forth leaned O'Rourke ing, women. Boston Transcript. be coming to the window now " rows. window and carried It on: He was right. Abruptly he discovKind Insinuation. ered her by the reflected glow from Strikers Set Fire to Steamer. O, 'tls thin tliu ladles fair He I sec where (he hunters cr. the Illumination behind him. He was In despair Antwerp. The dock strikers here atconscious of tlie pallid oval of her shooting people, mistaking them for tempted Saturday to burn the Finland Tear their Imlr! Hilt Tls dlvvlu s hit I Clin-!- ' face, of a sleek white sheen of arms game. of the Red Ftar line which carried t.. !'' solillor-lniy Cries the bonld She Then you had better he very American and shoulders, of a dark mass of hair, Olympic team to Stockholm. There fell a pause. He listened but more than all else of the glamour careful about going out, or they nu The flames wore extinguished wllb with his heart In his mouth, but heard of eyes that shone Into his softly, shoot you fur a goose. slight damage. ten-fran- c bell-cle- s |
