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Show , r mi) mm MM 4 m i SERIAL OTORY SCTSE MmlW fra Cmidf ! IWSimImm Dm By to hee U ILLUSTRATED Fiw FtaMnik tk Pier uriiteii Br Iwf W. Bmrf OwMK MU. SYNOPSIS. Lieut Harry Mallory le ordered to the He and Marjorie Newton Philippines. decide to elope, but wreck of taxicab their, seeing minister on the way to the train. Tranecontlnental train Is takPorter has a lively ing onwithpassengers. an Englishman and Ira Lath time rop. a Yankee business man. The elopers have bn exciting time getting to the train. Little Jimmie" Wellington, bound (or Reno to get a divorce, boards train In maudlin condition. Later Mrs. Jimmie appears. She Is also bound for Reno with name object Likewise Mrs. Sammy Whitcomb. Latter blames Mrs. Jimmie for her marital troubles. Classmates of Mallory decorate bridal berth. Rev. and Mrs. Temple start on a vacation. They decide to cut loose and Temple removes evidence of his calling. Mdrjorle decides to let Mallory proceed alone, but train starts while they are lost In farewell. Passengers Join Mallory's classmates In giving ws-ktt- , bachelor, discovers an old sweetheart, y Anns Oattle, a fellow passenger., vainly hunt 7or preacher aifcong the jSaSMlTgiif. Mrs. Yfelllngton hears tittle Jimmie's Mrs. Whitcomb. Mallory reports to Mar. torts his failure to find a preacher. They decide to pretend a quarrel and Mallory finds a vacant berth. Mrs. Jimmie discovers Wellington on the train. Mallory for a again makes an unsuccessful ashunt a physipreacher. Dr Temple poses cian. Mrs. Temple is Induced by Mrs. Wellington to smoke a cigar. pre-ren- te Mal-IcSf- I CHAPTER XIX (Continued). ' And a lady who was evidently Mrs. Deacon spoke up: Well miss you terrible. , We all say you are the best pastor our church ever had. Mallory prepared to spring on his prey and drag him to his lair, but Marjorie held him back. Hes taking our train. Lord bless Us dear old sonl. And Mallory could have hugged him. But be kept doae watch. To the raptwain, the ture of the wedding-hungrpreacher shook bands with such of Us , flock as had followed him to the station, picked up Us valise and walked up to the porter, extending his ticket But the porter said and Mallory eoud have throttled him for saying It: Souse me, posson, but thats yo train ova yon da. You betta move right : smafet, for its getting ready to pull . , out" ; I With a little shriek of dismay, the parson elutched his valtso end set off at a run. Mallory dashed after Um and Marjorie after Mallory. They shouted as they ran, but the conductor of tho train sang out All aboard!" and swung on. The parson made a sprint and caught the ultimate rail of the moving train. Mallory made a frantic leap at and missed. As he s fixing coat-tai- l end Marjorie stood gazing reproachfully at the train which was giving a beautiful Illustration of the laws of retreating perspective, they heard wild howls of HU hi!" and "Hay! hay!" . and turned to aee their own train In motion, and the porter dancing a Zulu step alongside. y east-houn- d . CHAPTER XX, Foiled Again. Mallory tucked Marjorie under hla arm and Marjorie tucked Snoozleums under hers, and they did a tort of three-legge-d race down the platform The porter was pale blue with excitement, and It waa with the last gasp of breath In all three bodies that they scrambled up the stepa of the only open vestibule. The porter waa mad enough to give them a piece of hit mind, and they were meek enough to take It without a word of explanation or resentment And the train aped on Into the heart of Nebraska, along the unpoetic valley of the Platte. When lunchtime came, they ate It together, but In gloomy silence. They sat in Marjories berth throughout the appallingly monotonous afternoon In a stupor of disappointment and helpless dejection, speaking little and saying noth Ing then. Whenever the train stopped, Mai lory watched the passengers with his keenest eye. He had a theory that Blnce most people who looked like preachers were decidedly lay. It might be well to take a gamblers chance and accost the least ministerial person next. So, In his frantic anxiety, he selected a horsey-lookin- g Individual who got on at North Platte. He looked so much like a rawhided ranchman that Mallory stole up on him and asked him to excuse him, but did he happen to be a clergyman? The man replied by asking Mallory if he happened to he a maverick, and embellished bis question with a copious flow of the words ministers use, but with m secular arrangement of them. In tact he split one word In two to Insert curse. All that Mala double-barrellelory could do' was to admit that he waa a flea bitten and hack away. After that, If a vicar In full uniform bad marched down the - aisle heading a procession of choir boys. g flea-bitte- n d what-he-sald- ,' J eeoond nfghtY couple made up quarrel yet? The Malloryar Mrs. Temple flushed ae she answered, mercifully Oh, yee, they were very friendly again this morning. Mrs. Whitcombs countenance was cynical: My dear. Ive been married twice and I ought to know something about honeymoons, but this honeyless she cast up her eyes honeymoon and her hands In despair. The women were so concerned about Mr. and "Mra. Mallory, that thej hardly noticed the uncomfortable plight cf the Wellingtona, or tho curious behavior of the lady from the stateroom who seemed to be afraid ol something and never spoke to anybody. The atrange behavior of Ann Cattle and Ira Lathrop even escaped much comment, though they were for ever being stumbled on when anybody went out to the observation platform. When they were dielodged from there they sat playing checkers and talking very little, but making eyes st one another and sighing like furnaces. They had evidently concocted some secret of their own, for Ira, looking at hla watch, murmured sentimentally to Apne: Only a few hours more d L nr te. Nr H ft. Mallory would have suspected him. He vowed In his haste that Marjorie might die an old maid before he would approach anybody else on that subject. Nebraska would have been a alee long state for a honeymoon, but Its four hundred odd miles were a dreary length for the couple so near and yet so far. The railroad clinging to the meandering Platte made the way far longer, and Mallory and Marjorie left like Pyramus and Thisbe wandering along an eternal wall, through which they could see, but not reach, one another. They dined together as dolefully as If they had been married for forty years. Then the slow twilight soaked them In Its melancholy. The porter lighted up the car, and the angels lighed up the stars, but nothing lighted up their hopes. "Weve got jo quarrel again, my beloved, Mallory groaned to Marjorie. Somehow they were too dreary even to nag one another with an outburst for the benefit of the eager-eyepassengers. A little excitement bestirred them as they realized that they were cona fronted with ' another night and a morrow without changfc of gear. What a pity that we left our things in the taxicab, Marjorie sighed. And this time she said, we left them, instead of you left them. It was very gracious of her, hut Mallory did not acknowledge the courtesy. Instead he gave a atari and a gaap: Good Lord, Marjorie, we never paid the second taxicab! "Great heavens, how shall we ever Hea been waiting there pay him? twenty-fou- r hours. How much do you suppose we owe him? "Iboufa year of my pay, I guess. You must send him a telegram of apology &nd ask him to read his meter. He was such a nice man the kindest eyes for a chauffeur." But how can I telegraph him? I dont know his nsme, or his number, or his company, or anything." Its too bad. Hell go through life hating us and thinking we cheated him." Well, he doesnt know our names either." And then they forgot him temporarily for the more Immediate need of clothes. All the passengers knew that they had left behind what baggage they bad not sent ahead, and much But sympathy had been expressed. most people would rather give you their sympathy than lend you their clothes. Mallory did not mind the men, but Marjorie dreaded the women. She waa afraid of all of them hut Mr. Temple. 8he threw herself on the little ladys mercy and waa asked to help herself. She borrowed a nightgown of extraordinary simplicity, a shirt waist of an ancient mode,' and a number of other things. If there had been anyone there to see she would have made a most anfi- cnronlstic pride. . Mallory canvassed the men and Obtained a shockingly purple shirt from Wedgewood, who meant to put him at hts ease, hut somehow failed when he said In answer to Mallorys thanks: "God bless my soul, old top, dont you think of thanking me. I ought to thank you. You see, the Idiot who makes my shirts, made that by mistake, and Id be no end grateful If youd jolly well take the loathsome thing off my hands. I mean to san I shoudnt dream of being seen In jt myself. You quite understand, dont you?" k Ashton contributed s maroon atrocity In hosiery, with equal tact: If they lit you, keep em. I got stung on that batch of socks. That pair waa originally lavender, but they washed like that Keep em. I wouldnt be found dead In em. The mysterious Fosdlck, who lived a lonely life in the Observation car and slept In the other sleeper, lent Mallory a pair of pyjamas evidently Intended for a bridegroom of romantic disposition. Mallory blushed as he accepted them and when he found himself In them, he whisked out the light, he was so ashamed of himself. Once more the whole car gaped at the unheard of behavior of Its newly wedded pair. The poor porter had been hungry for a bridal couple, but as he went about gathering up the cast-of- f footwear of hla large family and found Mallory's shoes gt number three and Marjorie's tiny boots at number live, he shook hla head and groaned. "Times has suttalnly changed for the wuss. If this Is a bridal couple, gimme divorcees. night-robelea- turned geranlum-coio- i and dropped a handful of checkers. "1 dont know how I can face it. Ira growled like a lovesick lion: "Aw, what do you cars?" But I was never married before Ira, Anne proteated, and on a train, too." Why, all tha bridal couples take tfl the railroads." I should think It would bo ths last place theyd go, said Anno a senalbls woman. Anno! "Look at the Mallories how miserable they are." I thought they were happy, said Ira, whoso great virtue It was to pay Uttlj heed to what was none of his business. ' Oh, Ira, cried Anne, I hope we hant begin quarrel as soon as wa are married. As If anybody could quarrel with you, Anne, ho said. "Do you think 111 he so monotonous as that? she retorted. Her spunk delighted him beyond words. He whlepered: Anne, youre so sweet If I dont' get a chance to klee you. Ill bust Why, Ira were on tho train." Da darn the train! Who ever heard of a fellow proposing and got ting engaged to a girl and not oven kissing her.. But our engagement Is so short "Well, Im not going to marry you ' , until I get a kiss. Perhaps Innocent old Anne really g believed this threat It brought her Instantly to terms, though he bluahed: "But everybodys al ways looking. Come out on the observation platform, Oh, Ira. again?" "1 dare you. I take you but seeing: that Mrs. Whitcomb waa trying to overhear, she whispered: "Lets pretend Its the scenery." So Ira rose, pushed the checkers aside, tnd said In an unueually post tlve tone: Ah. Miss Gattle, wont you have a look at the landscape? "Oh, thank you, Mr. Lathrop said Anne, I just love scenery. They wandered forth like the Sleeping Beauty and her princely awaken-er- , and never dreamed what gigglings and nudgings and wise v(ent on bjtck of them. Mrs. Wellington laughed loudest of all at the lovers whose heads had grown gray while their hearts were still so green. It was shortly after thle that the Wellingtons themselves came Into prominence In the train life. Ae the train approached Green stream, River, and Its copper-basinethe engineer began to set the airbrakes for the stop. Jimmie Wellingin the smokton, boftzlly ing room, wanted to know what the name of the station waa. Everybody la always eager to oblige a drunken man, ao Ashton and Foadlck tried to get a window open to look out tf blood-curdlin- . The remarkable success that Clarke the Washington team this season has set all the experts to doping out the reason therefor and they are telling that it is because the Old Gray Fox" understands pitchers and knows just when to use them and relieve them; or that it is that he knows baseball and has a faculty of Imparting that knowledge; or that he has the spirit that inspires young players. And a few other reasons. However, Griff cant be pre-- , sumed to have gained all these talents since the first of April; he must have had them last year and he couldn't win at Cincinnati. Therefore, if we are permitted, it le suggested that there are two psychological elements in his success with Washington, says the Sporting News. One Is that Griffith is back in the company he enjoys and the other is the difference in spirit between Washington and Cincinnati. In Redland they demand and promise themselves a pennant each spring. When the demand Is not met and the promise flattens out they grump." In Washington they take the other course. They never promise-themselve- s much there and it ia a happy condition which has no reaction. Aside from these elements Griffith also has a real ball team, which counts for something in itself. ERROR MADE BY CLEVELAND ' "Smiling Joe Boehllng. , Manager Clarke Griffith's latest pitcher acquisition, Jos Boehllng, la the latest idol of the Washington baseball fans. He recently established a record for himself by winning eleven straight games. He Is popularly known aa "Joe Bowleg and la one of the youngest pitchers In the major leagues. In 1911 he waa secured from an amateur team in Richmond, Va., and after a tryout was sent to the Southern league. Thla year he came back and has made good. He la only twenty years old. WANT KING COLE FANS TO SEE WAGNERS MITT Pitcher, Who Virtually Won Pennant for Chicago Cuba, Has Regained e Form. Rallcs of Great Player of Pittsburgh Wanted for Carnegie Muteum on Hie Retirement Three years ago Leonard Cole was moat prominent pitcher In the National league. ( Three years ago he virtually won the pennant for the Cubs, working in 33 games and getting an average of .833, which gave him the leadership in the league. He fell. His brilliancy faded. He waa sent from Chicago to Pittsburg. Fred Clarke believed he still had the winning stuff In him. Fred was wrong. He released him to Columbus. That was last year. Now see what happened. McQuillan of the Columbus club waa the star of the A. A. until a short time ago. He waa grabbed by Pittsburg. Up bobbed King Cole. He took McQuUlan'a place. He filled It so sat-- Baseball is at last, recognized aa telling posterity something worth about In fact it la going to be preserved in concrete form for the benefit of unborn eyes to gaze upon. That Is, If Honus Wagner, the highflying Dutchman of the Pirates, will consent to his part of the deal, namely, the tendering of hla palmless glove and hla uniform to the Carnegie museum when he retires from the diamond. Dr. W. J. Holland, director of the museum, announced the other day that it was the desire of the Institution to secure from Honua hla baseball accoutrements when he haa at last retired from the game, the same to be placed among the relics of other distinguished and skillful men who have gone before. Doctor Holland said that the achievements of all great and skillful men and the games In which they were skilled were handed down to posterity from the past ages, and there was no reason why Wagner should not be so honored. BIG CLUBS Old-Tim- the Bill Carrigan, the new leader of the Boston Red Sox, says he has the poorest pitching staff in the league. Pitcher e Martin Mlalsh, Ed. Walsh's brother, is twirling sensational ball for a team In Stam. ford, Conn. d - The Providence ' club has secured from Detroit Walter Pipp, the young lafactorily. In Tact, that about a dozen first baseman secured by the Detroit major league clubs now would like to club from Kalamazoo. grab him. He pitched 58 innings In 17 days and Gonzalez, the Cuban catcher whom allowed a trifle over an average of two Tinker thinks of (TO BE CONTINUED.) trying out and holdruns per game In alx contests. He won for next season, is as tall as Larry ing was a one which a of five of the six, Truly Nervy" Youth. McLean, but very slender. A New York barber says he has affair. Mil at discovered the nerviest man alive. He Since his no-hperformance Dave Altlzer is leading off for Joe le young yet, but when he la fully de- wsukee a short time ago there has Cantillon8 Minneapolis team. He isnt veloped with a mature growth of been a vast change for the better in hitting so hard, but hes getting on nerve he will be a startling prodigy. hla work. the bases, and that's worth a lot. Into This fellow came my shop the other day, said the barber, and Fans 8tlck to Tinker. New York fans are picking Art Shaasked me to shave hla neck. I speedJoe Tinker stands ready to throw fer to do great work with the stick In ily accomplished the gentle task, and up the job of managing the Rede at the coming worlds series. Another called out, Next. While I was ad- any time Garry Herrmann wishes. It Frank Baker," is the way they put it of around a neck towel the justing Is said, however, that despite the poor the next customer I saw the other showing of the Cincinnatis the local J. Franklin Baker, the home-ru- n youth going out the door. fans are sticking to Tinker loyally clouter of the Athletics, Is getting his someHavent you forgotten They believe Tinker is fighting his batting eye into fine order for the thing? 1 asked him. ' head off to win, is making very few series with the Giants in the He felt in hla pockets and eald he mistakes and is hampered by Inferior coming fall. had all that belonged to him. f support and a lack of the right win T mean you forgot to pay ms for The Philadelphia club sure Is strong ning spirit in some of the players. The that shave. home rooters recognize the fact that for mascots. now have two a 'Pay for that! Just shaving my Manager Tinker cannot he blamed for hunchback andThey a costumed comically neck!' he said, with astonishment T the poor showing of the club. The Red and the African is touted as one never heard of paying tor ao little a leader la having a hard row to hoe, but negro, s of the surest that ever thing aa that 1 could have done tt he is keeping up hla courage and may came up from Alabam. myself with my safety razor, only I get thdre in time. couldnt reach hack there. Christy Mathewson has pitched Entitled to Fame. two games this year In which he Big Sellar" of 1758. The fact that Walter Johnson has neither fanned a batter nor. presen ted In more hardy days than these snuff out the Athletics twice this sea- one with a base on balls. The Philahut an as was used The eye liniment sufficient reason for fame be- lies and Reds were his opponents. la son Compleat Housewife, or Accomplishthruet upon him even if he had ed Gentlewomans Companion, which ing himself to be one of the Fred Clarke ia pleased with the not proven 16 editions Into run had by 1758, extols worlds pitchers. - It takes way hla pitchers have responded greatest its virtues. Accomplished gentlewomen who find their sight falling with ad- "some pitcher to. do that to the lately. "Hendrix Adams, McQuillan, . Robinson and Camnitz are all In per; vancing years are advised to rub the Mackmen. feet trim now, says the Pirate leader! right sort of Portugal nuff into the , Maks Groh Their Target. ' eyes night and morning, and take It Clark Griffith, who has heard the Heine Groh, the youngster who also through the nose. This treatment, It la asserted cured Sir Ed- javorttng around second for the Reds, music of the anvil chorus so often, i ward Seymour, sir John Houblon and teems to be a target for the opposing enjoying continued at prosperity Judge Ayres, so that they could read tatters. In 12 games 78 balls were Washington, where he Is given credit and for making a former candidate for without . spectacles after they had tit to him. He mado 24 4 assists in the 12 contests, and bnt the cellar position ft Some used them for many years. pennant ine error. people would prefer spectacles. Pitcher King Cols. it town-palntlng- d. Bill Bernhard and Not Lajoie Should Have Been Appointed Manager of Team In 1905. Had William Bernhard been appointed manager of the Cleveland club In 1905 there is little doubt that they would have won the American league pennant. The above statement waa made by Charley Carr, manager of the Kansas City ball club, the other day. When the Cleveland club management appointed Lajoie aa manager in 1905," said Mr. Carr, it made a serious mi b take to my way of thinking. Not that Lajoie was not a competent man for the position, but because it did not result in the harmony necessary on a team to make it a pennant winner. I do not want to infer that Lajoie was not able to handle the affairs or to keep the men In line, for every one had the highest regard for Larry, both as a man and a player. There were angles which caused some dissatisfaction and the players mm head-noddin- half-awak- e FANS OF WASHINGTON Never Promise Themselves Much and There Is No Reaction From This Happy Condition. gql-darn- Matrimony to and Fro. And the next morning they were In Wyoming well toward the center of that State. They had left behind the tame levels and the truly rural towns and they were among foothills and mountains, passing cities of wildly picturesque repute, like Cheyenne, and Laramie, Bowie, and Medicine Bow, and Bitter Creek, whose very names Imply literature and war whoops, cowboy yelps, barking revolvers, another redskin biting the duet, cattle stam humorous pedes, lynchlngs and bronchos in epileptic frenzy. But the talk of this train was concerned with none of these wonders, which the novelists and the maga-ztnlhave perhaps a trifle overpub-llsheThe talk of this train was concerned with the eighth wonder of the bridal couple. world, a Mrs. Whitcomb was eager enough to voice the sentiment of the whole populace, when she looked up from her room and, novel In the observation nudging Mrs. Temple, drawled: "By r, has that bridal the way, my-dea- LOYAL Griffith has had with Annie. And Anno CHAPTER XXI. semi-detache- d VASHItIGTONS LATEST BASEBALL IDOL luck-brlnger- see .- -, put-out- Manager Charlie Carr. were 'not working together aa they should have done. The man who could have had perfect harmony on the team was Bill Bernhard, for every man liked him and would have worked hla head off for him. It was Lajoie himself who would have liked to have seen Bill in charge, for he stuck to him like a brother. It may not be known outside, hut when Lajoie signed up with the Cleveland club for a long period it was with the understanding that Bill Bernard was to he there and never receive a cent less than any other pitcher in the club. That is how strong i erry was for Bill. To my mind the Naps that year had one of the strongest ball teams ever got together, but it was lack of harmony that prevented them from winning the pennant. RESERVE RULE IS ESSENTIAL So Says John Montgomery Ward, Old-TiBall Player Needed to Maintain National Game. me John M. Ward, who probably knows as much about the workings of baseball as anyone, having been a player as well as a magnate, says: "The reserve rule is essential. It must be kept in effect to maintain baseball.- - When the brotherhood was organized the fight made by the players was against a salary limit. The contract In those days contained a clause which reserved a player without 'his consent. But things are different now. The modern contract Includes an agreement by the player to permit his employer to exercise an option on his services for the ensuing year. If it werent for the methods employed by organized baseball the players would not bef drawing such large- salaries.. The ' national agreement and the national commission are bulwarks of the game. Should they be abolished players who are demanding $15,000 would he forced to , $1,500 Instead. - ao-ce- Dorey Miller Gets Job. Dorey Miller lr. now holding down third base for SI McDonalds |