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Show TIIE SUNDAY STANDARD: OGDF.N UTAH, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1507. r. ! v Bhe Girl Across the Aisle By E. H. HOUGH Copyright, 107. by E-- her expression varied from one of hope fernal muchlnea, snatched it from to the deepest depression. For the threw- out a quarter and shut uie H. Hough. ETVRMXO to my car as the train started. I noticed that I had neighbors acroae the. a isle, apparently wen dressed, and bsi riled man. hi wife fxA their daughter, the latter ee lovely that I atared at her until my perv latency provoked a been, flerca glance from her father, whoreup-o- n I ithdrew my gate, and ha raaumad Immediately the girl hie ucwepaper. acmes the aisle a lanced around, and I Intercepted a flash from a pair of dark eyes Instinct with what seemed like leer or entreaty. put not even the beauty of my fair could succeea fully divert my inind from the painful theme vpos which it waa dwelling with a of humiliating failure. The cashier and confidential mah ef ia rye business house had absconded with half a million dollars In cash and neffotlahls securities, and simultaneousr ly the only daughter of the Arm's era-lomember had eloped with a worthless snltor. My firm was not professionally Interested In this branch of the case. W were to trace the absconding cashier, described as twenty-seve- n years ef age; tall, slender and dudlsh; heavy smooth shaven black mustache, cheeks, while certain memoranda evidently forgotten, and discovered in a secret 'compartment of his desk, seemed te render the task of overtaking him a matter of little time and ordinary , want of better occupation I continu'd the experiment awhila, finally ceasing altogether, whereupon she sank back ar.d Inert. ajiunsi the seat, pale By and by tha cars stopped again, and my attention was attracted te a boy oa the platform. Jerking a rosined string through a drum shaped pl-- cs of eardboard- -t sample of the basketful he carried and which he was tleinon-atratiwith a seal and volume of discordant sounds that rivaled pandemonium. Instantly the girl across the aisle that wee tha side nearest tha station platform became violently excited. the blood rushed to her cheek and tsars to her ayes. Touching her father's arm. shs exclaimed eagerly: Papa, papa, buy ms one ef those pretty, noisy playthings!" I fancied I detected a sinister gleam in the man's eye, but bo answered roughly: No, thit thing is only for boys and children!" Oh. please, please, papa!" aha per- - ray-hair- ed ng via-a-v- ie i him. win- I rapped dow. He tossed it in the girl's There! See bow long that will amuse lap. you. As ha resumed his paper I watched the girt acrou the aisle with a new interest, coupled with growing mystification. She turned the toy over and over, held It to her rheek and lips, her fare instinct with passionate yearning, than slowly and timidly drew ths string back and forth, producing a auccesalon of abort Jerky, reaping sound which sho gradually tempered and softened. Finally, tiring of watching her, I resumed iny pastime of drumtniag with my fingers. Instantly she stopped, regarded me eagerly, then sadly shaking her bead dropped her crude plaything In her lap. What waa tha girl trying ta do? A look into her aet tense face scouted thq idea of anything so trivial as a flirtation. When 1 Mopped drumming she resumed her performance; when I drummed she waa quiet, listening intently, but with evident disappointment. Giving up the riddle at lait I leaned bark with folded arms. Imme-diatelwith a most Inexplicable look toward her father and toward me, the girl across the aisle resumed, with aa air of desperate determination, the same unvarying iteration of sound and pause until the performance became almost Intolerable. Indeed, it was getting upon my nerves, and I was contemplating an appeal ta her father when I stumbled Into tha light. Her maneuver waa making its way not upon my nerves alone, but upon an inner consciousness, slowly responding to the magie code. I Iegan te fallow and analyse that rhythmical succession of sound and pauses until 1 was able to recognise, distinguish end translate them. The girl across ths aisle was communicating, through her crude plaything, telegraph messages te me! Noting my expression, she stopped, then flashed n significant glance toward her- - father. Obeying her unspoken Injunction, I busied myself with a book, but in a moment eh wee at work again, and her message read: I ain trying to apeak to you. Do you understand? My response was to cast a bewildered glance at her. Instantly sha turned bar fare from me, toward tha window, ,but I was on tha alert for the next me, Tes," keeping my eyes on improvised tele- t,k. Then her graph spoke again. ihy Hs robbed my father, abducted me and will force me M marry him a aoua aa he Is safe from lie threatens to kill me if 1 li y to escape or betray him. His name is Jeremy Maunders. Have you understood r Had 1? If ever I needed nerve tt was then. On my return h.imr, defeated, baffled. I found myself by a fieak of -- skill. My assignment on the ease was a high compliment, and I had bean sanguine of success. But- most of the clews I followed ended- ta a pocket;" my carefully formulated theories end hypotheses proved fruitless, snd While debating as to what I should do. next I received a peremptory telegram dito recting my immediate return ' headquarters. ' While ruminating thus I fall to drumthe ming with my fingers on the arm seat Instantly the girl acroae the aisle looked up, darting a keen, inquiring Her lips moved ee glance at me. INSTANTLY THE GIRL ACROSS THE AISLE1 LOOKED UP. sag. "Drum with your fingers on the arm of your seat aa you did before. I can read that Don't look at ma," Here waa tha last link la the riddle. 1. must slated, clasping her hands. have it! 1 want to see if it will sing I rarped: I understand you. How can I holp for me. Quick, quick, before he is your gone!" She appeared not to notice me. sitA she would not be pacified, and some ef the peaeengere were looking at ting with her hands relaxad, apparently her, her father smiled grimly and lost In reverie. ' But another message soon followed. thrust one hand into hla pocket. This man who pretends I am entry Anything to ploaso a fool! ha muttered. Opening the window,, he bade is not my father nor an old man, only Read again. the bey outside toes up one of hie in twenty-seven. Y-J- OW a Well Planned oa Das- tardly Scheme Was Foiled by Its Clever Intended Victim Re doue w Ith that infernal din!" he exclaim id. It to past all endurance! The Mid the girt wearily. tune w uu't She and I'm sleepy lay back with closed eyas. !! About time!" I ejaculated. Will a cigar with ms la the smoker? I'm feeling a hit dotty myself." "Thank, m I dare net leara tha girl. This w her-flr-st outing for three weeks, and 1 swear U will be the Inst." I don't blame you. Well, I'll have a emoka and dispose of this thing" I took the toy gently from her kg Bo you have long." Passing through the train to tha telegraph operator's car, I sent a cede message to the Rochester authorities: Arrest mau, woman and girl alighting from car Cumberland, train if. Will signal. Send men who knows me. Farnhnm. When 1 returned te my section Vise Osgood was etlll sleeping and Saunders rending, but I managed te engage him In conversation until we reached Recheater. Then he qjade n sign to his sister, whs shook Mias Osgood non tee gently. Tou alight here?" I said. "So do L We may aee more of each ether." I think not." he answered shortly. I stop over but a few hours." As hi sister was arousing her charge I rapped one more message. "Stumble when you reach tha station platform. Cough if you understand y, though repeating noma forniuih, and aa I kept on drumming her 'excitement Just then her favisibly Increased. ther, looking up from his paper, frowned at her, and glancing over at me tapped his forehead, waving hie other hand toward the girt She looked at me appealingly and seemed about to burst Into tsars, then as suddenly settled back with compressed lips, while her father resumed his reading, bia wife being asleep. For awhile I kept up my drumming, ind while the girl did not appear ta ' lotlcs me, I could see that she was Islenlng intently; her Ups moved and W m PRODUCING CUCCE88ION SHORT, RABPlNd BOUNDS. A OT fortune hot on the trail. Across the touch him, yet so secure in his disguise that he mo could mock to my taco, aat my quarry, wblla to thin girt, hla prisoner, had coma tha heavsa sent inspiration wo both naadrd Steadying my fingers by au effort, 1 rapped: Tee- Tour 'bam next. Will aid you with my life. 1 am Aims Osgood," sha responds!!. Tha woman Is Saunders' slater We alight at Rochester, and unlens help cornea quickly I am lost, I consulted. my time table. We would reach Rochester In an hour. and temporary Do you fear-arredetention? I rapped. I fear nothing that will free mo from this man, waa the prompt response. If In mortal Very good," I replied. power 1 will free you. Say no more; It la risking too much." , Aa I rapped the last words Saunders flung down hie paper. alal. so near that I could st rival. That evening I heard Mite Osgood's story. SauaJera was my father's confidential ma" she said, snd a secret suiter for my hand. 1 disliked and distrusted him. The day of the robbery he seised me on a bystreet, put me la n carnage and kept me somewhere, right In the city, for several days. I overheard Mm when he thought I slept, telling that hs had written father that I had eloped with a msa 1 had laag before dismissed- - Finally w left Cincinnati. and bo has passed me off at y daughter end declare that when oaf from pursuit ha would force me te marry him te preveat father from prosecuting him." Tell no more. If It peine you!" I urged, as her lip quivered and her eyes filled with tear. Tou It relieves me." she replied. were the first friend I found, and by that time I was nearly In despair. But from the moment I looked into your face I felt that 1 could treat you. I had studied telegraphy as a pastime Ms-cras- me." A brief suspense, then Miss Osgood sat up, roughed sharply and shot n look at ma, The women fairly Jerked her te her fset. end w proceeded. Saunders first, 1 behind him, and tha others following. Glancing through tht end window, 1 spied three men scanning the cars. On the platform Miss stumbled, Osgood falling heavily against ms. Instantly I caught Saunders by ths shoulder, exclaiming: Hart they art! Taksall One officer seised Saunders, and ns hla slNtsr tried to dreg the girl away I caught her arm. Jarked her around and In n moment sha and Miss Osgood were prisoners. After the first gasp of astonishment and fuy Saunders fought Uka n demon. Ho plunged one hand In hi pocket and shot It out toward Miss Osgood, who was doe betid him. but I struck hi Ibow, Bonding the object flying, then springing peat him secured It. It looked like n fountain pen, but proved ta bo n hollow tube with n sharp metallic tip and filled with poison. One prick ef that tiny weapon on the girls flesh gud ah would have been dead past nil help. Handcuffs were finally enapd on Saunders' wrist, and we were nil inarched off te n vehli le In wailing. Committing Mias Osgood to the rare of the prison matron, w ho took her to her own comfortable home, we kept telegraph and long distance telephones hot for awhila I waa tha hero of the occasion, receiving euloglums from my chiefs and from Mr. Osgood, nil of whom requested me to await their ar J the study when a lad, intending at that time te tit myeif f an expert telegrapher," I answered fervrntly. When I am IMnkiug deeply 1 UU instinctively Int the habit of keeping tally, aa it were, with my fingers. But why did you not try to open communication with me In the same way?" 1 waa afraid I risk tt for fear ' 8 under would notice me and suspect what I was doing" "What would he have don in that caaeF I asked. Nothing that any one would be likely te notice. He would simply have pressed a tlay needle point into my arm. and I should have fallen back, dead, while aa be took care te warn pm beforehand the only verdict would be heart disease. But when I caught alght ef that boy with his wares I believed I could find tha w ay. while Inducing Bsundvrs t believe that temporarily demented as he evidently did i catch and fix your attention until you discovered what 1 waa really about." "You certainly kept me guessing n good while" I said, smiling. "But It teak you so long to guess right!" eho rejoined, with a sigh. Agsta and again' yea seamed almost ta catch tha daw, only ta lose it. X beasa ta feel as 1 might If I were drowning and there was n spar floating almost within reach, but as often as I put out my bead te grasp it some advene wave would sand it still briber away." What ware you doing when you held that toy t your lip before you begun le use It?1 1 naked, with n sudden recollection." I was preying." she answered In a low voice. No need ta nek more. Tear brimmed my eyee at the brief, pathetic response, SHOT IT OUT TOWARD MIBB OB- - GOOD. while tha rantamplalioir of what her fale might have been had I failed te understand her la time t make my knowledge effective kept me tossing half the night. But nelly, the greatest risk wee when you began to reply. said Miss Osgood, after n pause. "I feared that one of us 'might make anm unlucky slip or gesture that would betray ua and ruin all. I stayed with Jdls Osgood as lata aa her hostess would permit ere I bed her good night. When the verioqe interested parties arrived, the following day, 1 was lauded le the skies. .Air. Osgood declared I had mode him my debtor for Ufa. Morning brought the no wo. that tha prisoners bad made a elmultanaoua and almaat successful attempt at aulclde. but they ware la time and subsequently tried, convicted and scat t long terms at Imprisonment When I bad Miss Osgood brawalt tw days later, aa aha left Rochester with her father, her sweat eyee confirmed Me cordial invitation that I ahould be hi guest at ths first opportunity. and my chief very kindly made that opportunity an early on. . ed and bad area substituted on ena occasion fur a girl friend t give her nn opportunity te have two weeks rest in the country without the risk of having her position filled by tome one, else who would want ta ksep It. aa af aourea I recognised your tappings Immediately. How I thanked heaven fur that , knowledge!" And I thank heaven that t took up A Cozy Corner of Entertainment, Information And Nonsen "2 .For the Little Men and Wbmen fry The Enchanted Cupj By ALBERTA PLATT ITT LB FRANKIE was stretched on the sitting room couch. That I" morning his father had carried him down from hla bed up- -. tain, and, it had sasmed a delightfully long trip. "Hi ankle had been so long getting better after the dreadful fall, that he had grown tired of the little room at the top of the bouse la which he had been k prisoner. At noon his mother came in with n beautifully arranged tray. The china cup on It 'waa new, brightly colored and encircled with rosebuds. Frankie was pleased ta see that it contained some tempting looking cocoa, oa tha top of which floated an island af whipped cream. Frankie was vary fond of j The bored expression 'had disappeared from Frankie's face, and tie was now aU smiles and animation. ' Tell ms all about yourself!" he " cried. Tou must excuse me from that today." replied the cup. "Tou know it Is la very bad taste to be constantly talking about oneself. Instead I will tell you the story of cocoa. The slave of the lamp often told us in the garden that cocoa trace were among those that grew in tha palace park of great -- Prince Aladdin, whom bo eerved. I never saw those trees, but the tea drinking mandarin In whoao possession I eras last took me from China with him on one of his visits ta the Philippines. This waa a moat enlightening Journey, and my master teamed to like the strange drink which Is made by crushing the seeds or nuts of tlio cacao tree, great plantations of which belonged to the wealthy relative whom he was visiting. The cacao plants, a tbo Spanish peep) of the islands call tha cocoa, are very much like young cherry trees. The trees are about twelve feet high, but a short distance from tit ground divide into several stoma. The leaves are a dull green, and the yellow flowers are very beautiful.. The fruit looks something Uke gourd. . It la long and slightly ridged, the color varying from yellow ta some klfide to bluish red In others. In each fruit are COCOA FRUIT. eut It which sharp knives from the trees. It I allowed to lie on the ground for e day end night that It msy dry In the sun. When it Is fresh cocos fruit may ho eaten !U er.y other end will be found to have e sweet end rather sharp taste. If th( bean ere to be made use of, the fruit Is sliced, tha content are taken out and the seeds dried in trough or In ihe earth end then packed In bags to be sent to other countries, where they ere roasted, crushed and around to be mads 'Into chocolate The kernel when reduced to a past era mixed with sugar end various spices snd while heated put Into molds whence they come out cakeo of chocolate. Breakfast cocoa Is merely the powdered bean from whlih some of the oil has been taken. Ton can see. my dear boy. how muth must bt done before even your cup o( cocoa or your chocolate tor take or bonbons ir ready for use." Did this cocos come ell the way from the Philippine Islands." silted Frankie. "No." the cup replied reluctantly, "It probably came tram Mexico or South America, where the cocoa tree le na- - What a pretty cup!" Frankie said as he sipped the cocoa, Tea, and It la an enchanted cup," hie mother replied, for it Is going to tell tou the story of thf drink It brings rou. When you have finished your sinch it will begin." Of course Frankie did not linger over the meal, and when he hnd finished he at up looking bright and expectant. His mother rolled a well draped table between the couch and the door and Pieced the cup on top of it. tSond afternoon." piped a tiny voice that seemed to come directly from the exclaimed Frankie "Tou probably never did." the 'cup seined to reply blandly, for enchanted miking cups are rare. .They had prac-3cal- ly disappeared when Aladdin found lamp, fpr there were only a very few ot them even In the enchanted Tarden. Ten see. people are not ao !M'eful ef Ailna as I ahould wish, and ups are but fregtla thing at tht best. Before I tame out I had some fnght-btll- y narrow escapes In the hands of Uie young lady genii whe dust and sash us up every few hundred years." 1 NUGGETS London's net municipal debt amounts over 1:29,444.404. uU sixed quarts mining claim! is Nt wide and 1.104 feet long, thus being approximately twenty scree la te ircti The copper belt la Cochise county. Arixona, is three or four miles wide and number for melee end 4.4 per cent In NEWS. female In England A Russian apple, the yellow transparTh nut trees of the world could, tt con be traced for sixteen miles north of Uie international boundary line and ent. promisee te supersede the early I calculated, provide food ail the year round for tho population ef Ihe globe. several miica acpirt the line into Mas!- - harvest, which has so long been popular in the middle west. Bratil nuts grow in such profusion that fd. Th British lunacy commission rethousands of tone of them are wasted Th mountaineers ef Georgia catch trout with a sledge hammer. Their port that the cases for which alcohol every year. Practically the entire commercial practice le to thump a rock under Is assigned as ths cause ef Insanity which a trout seeks refuge with a ham average III per cent ef the whole wealth of India's 444.404,444 inhabitants OF I tlve. Cocoa grows In warm countries pill name aa English lady of tltlet A Frinca of Wales and tha water from a - I fountain? On is heir to tho thron b. Dutch only and prefers a marshy location. What Is tha difference between th I and the other thrown to th air. But, Mi, dear. It Is tim for ma to tsk a bath! I hoi you will excuse ma toTHUNDER IN A TUMBLER. day. Hannah haa the dishwater nice and hot and soapy. I should hate to get Into It after some of that common ironstone chlnswara." The curtains that covered the table might have been noticed to heave rather lurpli'kiusty, and there waa a queer scraping noise in its rear as if some one were crawling beck out ef th door, but Frankla pretended not le notice that. His mother picked up th cup end put It on th tray after be hod exTHUNDER IN A GOBLET amined tt curiously, and when grandpa i cocoa. On a little bonbon dish were eevsrnl chocolate creams and a thin plica of chocolate cake accompanied the dish of berries. tup. "Weil. I never! tt amaaement. , from twenty to thirty bean that look something like almonds and consist of a white pulp In a . thin shelL Two crops of the cocoa beans are gathered from the plantations, although only one la yielded by th wild tress The plantations consist of rows of trees connected in some cesaa by narrow ran sis, along which water is run for the benefit of the plant ta dry seasons. When th fruit Is reedy, coolies with poles to mer. end th fish senseless concussion readers the THt Goblets in Water. GRANDPA COMES IN WITH RUMPLED HAIR. efime In with twinkling ryes and rather ruffled heir Frankie seemed to be ee Interested in the enchanted teacup end He curious history a if hs really be lleved tt had beee talking CONUNDRUMS. What meal is like a roar of laugh ter? A hearty one What letter in the Dutch alphabet Did you ever hear ut thunder In a tumbler? .Of course It le very smell thunder or it would .hatter tht tumbler In pieces; ta fact. It really Bounds more like the pupping of a cork from a bottle. But th principle ef thunder is there that in the Inrushing of air to fill a vacuum. Here la aa experiment von cib try for youndvci Take two tumbler and ploro them mouth to mouth, la then pul round them, where the brlmn meet, a rubber band about aa Inchwill width, t prevent th passage of air. New try to pull them apart, and yau find that they stick together very closely, no close that you Buy swing them as a pendulum without their separating. But pull with still more fores, ana they will cjnu sport with S noise like thunder. wiih th tumblers. Immerse There i still another experiment to he mad easily, and them In water contained In n vessel large enough to hold them both band rouna while under the water place them mouth to mouth. Put th rubber tho water, them while they are In this condition, and. having taken thorn out ofthem to pull apart you will find that you can ewlng thorn as before snd that empty The reason I that the warequires more force tbxn when they were tumbler ter does not expand like air. so that th moment yen begin to pull the of the outside air makes tttsm apart tbe vacuum is formed and the pressure ' to vacuum tno greater. more because closely adhere the sis of tho about one twenty-fift- h own more of North it but States, rajahs. States does. Tha United States one had t im- America than the Unitedmad ta Gerare Marbles chiefly end many sumps port rallwgy engines, marble or other Inventions from England. Up to many. Rough fragments of two art grouad betwtea 1414 it had no postmaster general and agat and flnlehsd between hard atone no postal service worth mentioning. In a wooden cask. hundred a cylinders few is within Bahara The Pins art not used In Chino. Clothes square miles of the else of the whole and button of the United (States. Great Britain la are fastened with buttons Is in ths hands of 44,000 Parsees and mill-oton- es or with loops and Bogs, aad a person to considered untidy whs resorts to such makeshifts as pine. Th ajtnoumwment comae from Paris that th French Academy has reached tha letter C" or the eighth edition ef dictionary. Th edition wan begun lu 1477. o that at th present rate of In progress th entire work will not be completed for 444 y holes - N. |