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Show THAT GIRL of babal of noises, they grew fainter and fainter, and died away among the pines, the hands about her throat reShe looked around to see if laxed she were safe, she was dazed, bewildered, but her one thought was that Some one spoke no one must know to her, and she looked up steadily, crowding down the dumb terror In her heart Dr Uunwiddie wa standing beside her with his band on her arm "Mrs Allen," he said, quietly, "you will take my place for a few minutes. Miss Johnson must breathe some of this pure, sweet air after the storm. He opened the door and stepped down on the door stone, with Dolores standing listlessly in the doorway, never showing that he had seen the flitting expiesHon of was it triumph? m the woman's face as she passed into the silmt bedroom 'How pleasant everything is after the storm," said I)r Dunwlddie, with a smile, as he entered the house a few minutes later Adding to himself as the room beyond he "It was ov er fatigue and shall not think you will happen again And bear watching, as well as some other. JOHNSON S Ty JEjKH K.A.TE LVDLXM. AiUHjr 6 ' At f7g M Lu r MOTIVE IN KIDNAPING OF AMERICAN CITIZEN IN TANGIER TICKLE, MSS BY he purchased his Tangier chateau. and they accompanied him BYRON WILLIAMS Entered Arcordini to ct of Congre ,n uie ear Lv Street & Smith. abtoad. In the Ufr.ce of if e Librarian of t! onfiett, at aabitigtoa, D C In his youth he was considered a i A Midnight Episode. universal genius, with a talent for "Fire! Fire! Fire!" nearly everything of Interest. He was, in addition to being a writer, painter The CHAPTER XVI. cry of alarm, that moment, bringing the doi tor's sup-Ie- r and n.unieian, a fine athlete and much pierced the stilly night Windows ami a half baleful glitter appeared Interested in the occult. He was an were thrown up hastily and whit "Man Proposes; God Disposes" In her eyes as she saw the two enthusiastic supporter of Home, the robed apparitions appeared In the Johnson dnl not die, that he lived utterly unconst tons of l.er presence. Then came the pit I erect, Sprituallst, and was also a student of sat r Dunwtddle suddenly through the terrible strain upon his ter patter of hurrying feet, and faint the doctrines of Swedenborg. vitality showed that he had au iron with his usual quiet dignity, the girl RaiMill, the brigand, whose- - band shouts as one breathless runner asked that the depleted treasury of the Maconstitution, the doitorb said, but the had startled him out of himself; he him off, has been at Mr. Perbe the other: carried cedonian replenher might insurgents men at the tavern bhook their heads had fot gotten everything but Where is It? Wheres the ished, it is conjc cturi cl that the ban- dicaris' house, and has always been over it, and looked meaning!) at each Her grave face, with its solemn eyes dit chief of uortheru Morocco la hold well treated there, but on these visits fire?" other. They had their own opinion of tourl ed by the sunset, framed by the Soon a red glare lit up the aky. Th Ine his captives for ransom suffleient- - he learned enough to know his host the matter; perhaps they knew more heavy tresses of loosened hair, was was the kind of person for whom he fire fiend was abroad in the village! men like an exquisite Madonna, and he held than the doctors did, the wi-To the north one block to the west could command a large ransom. Mr. might open their eyes in amazement his breath in admiration and mute Perdicaris has the reputation of being three and then down past Widow should they cho se lo tell their sus- wonder As he noticed Mrs Allen, to the house of generous and kind to all who come In Clajiahans picions. Johnson wab kept under the however, he regained his composiye McGuire they ran and there the contact with hint, and he was especiInfluence of opiates for three days and while Dolores gathered up her hair element fierce ally kind to the Moors, who are now, angry raged, its nights; he was not left alone one mo- slowly, and stooped to pick up her Amerithe to to his letter the and tongues its licking according aky ment; they fed him on Mrs Allen's comb It had snapped In two can Consul, treating him with as ominous crackle portending sorrow to beef tea and drinks, and cared for him You two are excellent nurses," Mrs. Mra. Allen as a captive the local insurance agent! much consideration as though he were a baby, the men Allen said, softly, a smile on her lips It Is connection In could this expect. Suddenly the crowd fell back as toward said in half whispers him, with mus- as she motioned with her head CHAPTER XVII. apRalsull, to that know Pat McGuire, abbreviate dressed, Interesting cles like iron and cords like an ox. the bed. the delicate health of Mr. and coughing like a holsteln heifer preciating with once brief Lodie dally carried the news, Dr. Dunwlddie turned at The Freaks of a Woman. Perdlcarls and the fact that he might that bad Just swallowe a rutabaga Items briefly told in bis measured The sunlight Hooded the mountains slight exclamation, and Dolores suffer from the absence of accus- by mistake, burst from a cbambeit tones as they gathered in the outer and the quiet settlement; the sky was tomed comforts, sent back to bis cha- window in a cloud of flame and smoked room of the tavern of an evening, or blue, the pines along the bank for bedding for him. Thia sIbo and fell with a stifled moan upon tta teau deeply called now and then across the beside Dolores' window stirred softly Illustrates the daring of the bandits, grass, braised and choking, but saved! drenched gardens to each other, or met In the low wind that stole down from hand with the Cheer after cheer rent the midnight) wbo, being hand-lat the wells. And the women over Moorish soldiery, have little to fear. summit laden with spicy odors. air. the clothes washed as the their tubs, they Down In the valley the river ran riot, The kidnaping was accomplished Hurrah, for pat, bea Safe!," they up and down, and soaped and rinsed i Its jubilate as it swirled unVy with great ease and without exciting bawled! shouting and wrong them in clear water, to well known waa Ralsull even But aa der the rotten bridge and whirled In FZFiniCAKi.i raised suspicion. their, they Ing them to soak till the storm should Mr. Perdlcarls, having often been voices In exultation, Pat, once more mad eddies up the coarse grass along ly large to enable him to successfully be over, gossiped about this thet hev its banks. overthrow the present sultan and treated kindly there. On the evening 'upon hia feet, rushed madly toward' hap'd Johnsing, and his girl, and the Dr. Dunwlddie, standing in the door of May 18, Ralsull with a few of bla the house! usurp his throne. airs they put on since Lemuel John and while of the tavern, "Stop!", they cried as one vole inhaling draughts who a is deep Mr. Perdlcaria, wealthy band entered the place, eon he who was born In the settleaervant but Pat would not stop! the attacked of them some Doof the odorous, watched 64 years old, having been piny air, now is man, his with come ment years ago had Unhand me, mem" he cried. "I gor lores with grave. Intent eyes until she borp in the United States consulate who Interfered, the owner of the chagirl and hia gold to see that his brothturned from the doorway and entered at Athena April 1, 1840. His father, teau and hia stepson were carried out, to save me and folks, like other er should live "But why did you not bring your the quiet house; then he turned away Gregory A. Perdicaris, was a natural- put upon horses and led away. was not so no 'count an Bhefless Is counted by time In Mo- child with youT they moaned, ding-- , Distance no one ever and waa knew of he what of the and held citizen ized position Dolores, knowing nothing of these rocco, and as t captives were car- Ing to hia shirt tails! thinking, or the thoughts that would consul general. For a while Mr. Why, oh, gossipings, and caring nothing for ried off to about a day Journey, It i of his friend over In the town come why? In was of Greek Sr., professor them, had she known, watched her As Pat stood there In the tableau,, who was leaving this girl in his care Harvard. Ion Perdicaris was educated probable that they are not fifty mile She never com father untiringly. In the lime light as It were, he turned; with the utmost confidence the girl, at Trenton Academy and spent the from Tangier. South At- and cast a withering glance:, plained of being tired; she seldom he well know, whom Charlie' loved. first twenty-liv- e years of his life In .Rear Admiral Chadtelck spoke. And should he betray his truBt to hia Trenton, where the family was fam- lantic squadron will be sent to TanWhy not? he ahouted! Why not?! Young Green had gone home, but gier from the Azores, and Rear Ad Well, mother of Moses, 01 had t aavej friend? Should he prove a traitor? ous for its entertainments. During he came over every day, bringing genShould he let this kindly feeling for the civil war It gave liberally to the mlral Jewell has been ordered to meself foirst, didnt 01?! and aa the: Your father will recover. tn cruel wall caved in upon him and tle messages and delicacies. this brave, beautiful, womanly girl southern cause. At one time Ion Per- make a demonstration off Tangier auFor three days Johnson lay In this arose with the comb in her hand, her grow into more than order to convince the Moroccan shut him out from the light of their purdlcarls seriously contemplated merely friendly thorities of ttla government! earnest- eyes forever, they recognised hi stupor so like death, scarcely stir- hair falling around her, her eyes dark feeling, knowing of his friend's thought chasing the Bonaparte estate at ring, not opening his eyes; his face as though tears were in them, her of the girl? Could he be capable of hut having spent several ness In the demand for Mr. Perdtcar philosophy and fell upon each otters) As she turned her was thin and drawn, hia eyes sunken lips shut close. and Africa, he finally rls release. This Is not the first time necks and had a fit! to She be in that? wonderwas, a Europe sure, years and hollow; his hair, a few days be- eye toward the bed she met full in ful girl, shut In by her surroundings, decided to make Morocco his home. the United States warships have been fore so lightly sprinkled with gray hers the weak gaze of her fatter. but growing mentally thousands of He bought the sultan's old palace a sent to Morocco. In 1801 Tripoli dehad grown suddenly white. He had Only for a moment, however, for the miles beyond them. She was a woman few miles outside of Tangier, and clared war against the United Statea, Instead, thl govcompaneyea closed almost Immediately a aged so that his every-dathere he and hit family have since demanding tribute. man should be proud to own as ernment sent n squadron of frigate, ions would not know him. though the light hurt Clem, but In friend and more In spite of her resided. Commodore Preble, and after Dolores saw this In silence; her that moment Dolores once more facet strange, unfriendly life In the stolid The, chateau of Mr. Perdlcarls Is under were and everal land bombardment her four but were lips with soul hi ber. busy, thoughts little mountain settlement. But and built upon a bill, which Its owner has the Barbry 8ttte engagement Once more her fatter opened hi there was a graver line of a dumb. Young Green's eyes had grown is It Mount named Washington. thought, a Rover eye and looked first at the doctor, sudden deepening of the lines of no- magnificent place, and has been for ceased hostilities, hnd the Sail! wonderfully keen to note the changes aha-o- f. Mediterrathe to ceased upon the and prey suggesthe doctors then at her. At et the sweet, pale face, bility around the set mouth under the years one of the show plaoea and the nean and the North Atlantic. the dark, wondering eyes. tion she spoke to him. mustache wuM the love xit center of the social life of Tangier, black For he knew that he loved her. It had Mr. Perdicaris, who i president of she said, slowly, that ha even such a woman atone In any de"Fatter, MADE HIS OWN WAY. come upon him the first night as he might understand, the Father." Hygienic Commission, la, of gree for the loss of manhood, the stain all to known the well stood behind her in the firelight and had diploon face her But the eyes resting of a traitor? Charlie had left in hia course, Englishman Has Had watched the pure face bent above the no gleam of pleasure at seeing her hands the care of the and consular representatives In Arlstoeratle girl he loved, matic alCareer. Chscksrsd come the Arthur Sir Nicholson, book on her knee. It had said be there It Tangier. mightthere; rather and he would never be straightened extreme has bees In a the Romantic of full Is but hi at blow first, a British Minister like personal In most there, the himself up to his full height in the was a flash of hatred there as who has Baron American-Cof career Lyveden, the of full also, pain sweetness that was friend, and Mr. Gummere, the old days. Then they drooped again low and unconsciously doorway 1 and both are just arrived with a parliamentary onsul, another; she was so high above him, she had and closed, and presently his breathclenched his bands he would never la possible to secure his party from England to tour this counnever a thought of love, she had never ing Indicated that he slept. was worthy iiolng all that Charlie his friend. betray as others He Is not unknown to the try. By going on the stage when aeven known what love was 'Miss Johnson, Dr. Dunwlddie said, even Dolores Johnson, and he would release. there And life. the poor of the Moorish boy he offended his fatter, an arlstohome end In the It THIS 18 ONE WAT. knew and by, as be sat by the window never be guilty of even an attempt sultan, by of tn A Missouri clergyman baa evolved the thought was a tenderness Mrs. Allen had to come between him and the woman eating the supper a future state for mankind. After hew he he, the first one in the world broifgbt him, 1 told you the other day he loved, be she though she might, a be love what death, he says, we will go to the otter might to show her r would was woman father It with the strength and depth possible your the depth of Its that planets now visible through telewould prove not recover; do you remember?" and nobility of character which the scopes. Just how we will he trsnt-fere- d tenderness and holiness. head tn acquiescence daughter of this mountain blacksmith bowed her She or where newspaper men will At sunset the third day the rain but did not speak ' N possessed. complimentary get tickets, the good ceased, and the mist dragged Itself the docThen he turned, and the face was u My dear Miss Johnson, and cheering gentleman does not say, brokenly across the peaks of the tor's voice was grave, but there was a grave, as apparently unconcerned as hut it worth something to kntw mountains; the hills were loud with ring In it, a hidden note that struck usual, as Cinthy called him to join the we are going visiting anyhow! the cry of the swollen river In the her ear as unusual. Miss dear at the table. My family valley, and the cascades shouted aloud Johnson, I believe I am safe in saying Jones said hia comrades that - - On th Lake. as they leaped 'the riven sides of the that your father will sleep through Johnson's 111 among luck bad brought good - a health to yon! tn the twilight Heresat eat and the to river mountains join blue the night a natural, quie slumber, luck to him, for during the years he While the west Is streaked with redt the worn old bridge at the foot of the without the aid of opiates? and if he bad lived there, never before bad so Here is Ilf terene! in the water' sheen roadway. Neath the rising moon o'erbead! does he will recover. He will be lame many such men as now sought his The rain had ceased at last, and Dr. always; he will not have quite his old lodging. In th hasy hue gainst the banka of Dunwlddie, who sat at the bedside, blue but he will live and be much (To be continued.) hia eyes Intent on the face of the girl, strength, Of th twUlght on th lake. self his old again." are all aioua 'mid th Wo sephyra o grave and quiet in the light of the blown. The grave, attentive face at the Appearance in Her Favor. Wind God In our wakof sunset, had raised the tiny window to head of the bed changed not at all, th By S. P. Langley, the aeronautical let la the cool wind from the west us lose our earo In th twilight fair the drawn disappioneer will never discuss flying m- city have every reason to know him, cratic clergyman. The youth cama to Lot The clouds just above the distant though from around expression And remember but our love. the mouth, and achine with newspaper men, but oa peared w a after a As drift along with s low, sweet sudden la waiter in became America and relenting peaks parted were clear and level In their other toplcB he la not so reticent. for to them he has become a genuine song three days and nights of Interminable the eyes the Bowery restaurant. Next he waa a benefactor. de Count Buiaserat, th bending skies a bovs! 'Neath gazou He talked the otter day about his boraining, and through the rent the set- Belgian Minister, Is hia neighbor, oc- fisherman down In North Carolina, There sre woes, tls true, and th glass For a moment Dr. Dunwlddie was yhood. ' ' and when be Tired of that life he . of ruo, cupying n villa adjoint Mr. uncertain whether or not the girl was - t ' , But there's only Joy "Among the memories of my boworked hi way bask to England and on our In the lake boat afloat odd glad, of the news. She gave no sign, yhood, he said, tiny there 4s o&e there - became a sailor, Finally- -, he The captlve'kas tong been known Cuptd, --8My ahoy! and said not a word, but stood grave, episode that 1 vivid, it a of hi career on wound end particularly this as e part up palntef of ability, afid stately, and womanly. Witt-thla a conversation that I overheard e nssculptor a musician; and It Is said lb at it the American liner Part, now the 'Love may be' blind but a man, of the night gathering shadow morning between two women. Th was his love for the beautiful that lei Philadelphia, on which he wm a wife, for a blind woman, can certainaround her, stealing along the bed, women were babie-tt- elr about, him talking to make Tangier hi hemp. fof it steward. In 1901 he succeeded, on th ly nee through a. good many of bln across the face of the sleeper, and up health and size, weight, y Is the one place on the borders death of the second Lord Lyveden, to excuses for being out late! . . toward her face. apd up forth. 'Include which has not the title "and elates,-whic- h of Mediterranean the Suddenly they clutched . at her Why when I was a week old been Europeanized. It Is still n very some 16,000 acre of the best land la It Is only when a man begin to get throat, tightening their hold, like Iron said the first woman, I was such a when, aa Northamptonshire, and since that time and ago, town, years foreign that he realty and truly ever bands; contracting, growing little baby that they put me in a quirt young man, he saw it first, he was he has become one of the most popu- appreciates how happy he was when firmer, unyielding; a thousand Iron and He lar peerila the' United Kingdom. lid on over me. a small boy with a fighting dog and captivated with Its appearance. hands were on her, a thousand elfish pot"The put the woman . was amsid subsequently returned to It and purotter a stonebrulse. voices, shrill and wild and weird, horrified. 'And did Col. Pope's Rla to Success. chased the palace El Minzah, which you liver filled the corners of the room, the of fame CoL A, Albert bicycle Pope asked. overlooks the sapphire water of the Russian bear, that walk Ilk bouse; 'filled the darkness, crowding hss reached hia 64th year. He la hale a That They say I did, her friend Mediterranean. man, always remind me of the new it upon her, till It seemed as though as and is young spirand just hearty swered. good womans walk; the walk with the stiff Early in hia life he passed she were suffocating, till It seemed as wen, weH,' exclaimed tt deal of his time In New York, where it as he was -the first dsy he turned knee action and the Grecian bend. Well,, When asked as to how though she would die. Loud and weird second woman, and abe a gianced at fh his accomplishments were thoroughly out bicycle.and terrible they were to herT'fllllng otter became a successful business man he and art studied almost donbtfuL" had He Rose will predominate on ladles appreciated. ber ears, shouting of the evil that had and for a while re- he referred to his young days, wheu bats this spring. And n muni the in music Europe, come through hatred and malice, and 4 - A Nile sided In London, where, about thirty-fiv- he used to get up at oclock in thfi homeliest woman on the promenade , Village. of what would follow upon so evil and plow a field and then morning was contributing A traveler of the upper Nile thus he , will wear the prettiest roses years ago, deed. The hands were tightening their describe a typical native village: taper on art topics to The Galaxy," later sell vegetables. He also read hold, they were straggling one with The house are built of Nile mud Hia parent continued to reside In a the biographies of big men and tried Well, It n to the street car now. another for the mastery; a dozen each house Doloraa slowly raised her head, a family fine residence In Trenton until 1877, to emulate them. Its accommodating just wonderful how dangling ttag tun flooded jthe summit with a hands were torn from her throat only of no .matter of what size, the Inhafrom a strap fer thirty minute put International Unhappy Marriage. to be Instantly replaced by others bitants Gould. Helen radiant glory that was dazzling. of Pen Picture double-bitteof each village almost all f appetite! Baroness Halkett, eldest daughter of the cages on a Mias Helen Miller Gould probably Dolores, as though roused by the stronger and firmer. She caught at lated to each so comprising no other, Anson Phelps Stokes, longer makes sudden rush of the sunbeams, slowly them, and straggled, r receives more requests for ber photoshe fought time several hundreds of When a man 1 desperate he goes even an outward show of living with raised her bead and looked up to the against them, but she dared not cry graph than any other woman In Amerturn on all the gas jet and street are littered with home, Austrian and will her there husband, favorably. radiant mountain. Her sal, dark eyea for help. This that she was suffering them let them burn n ga of every kind obstruct ones ica, but never respond lighting before he legal separation long, it Is She has sat for her picture two or grew softer and deeper In color, and no one must know; they would know path dogs growl and snarl at the as a new sealskin-sacquburns big was a unTheir marriage splenthought 11 strict with the her pa set close as In sorrow, slowly soon enough every one- .pearance and intrusion of a stranger. three Uses, alwayi one else n for and while bardid one the affair, gets no The voices grew wilder about her; women rash parted In one of ber rare smiles. As A .Missouri paper chronicles the oness shone In the exclusive society about, hiding their face derstanding that conabe turned ber bead the comb an they shotted in elfish glee; 'their In their yashmaks lest a white Ea of the photographs without ber , marriage of MD Sledge and Mr. she but of Vienna, eventually quarshe e tortol-that kail ben words ran in together unmeaningly should behold their features. FI:3 sent. As an additional precaution Ham-tier- . Wouldnt that Sledge-Hamme-r with and reled her husband returned Gould her mother's suddenly slipped from except one or two close to her ear, in swarms settle on the children and buys the original plates. Mlss knock you? Her to who America. married sister, Is a brunette, with brown hair and the heavy coil of ber hair which, so that whispered, with deadly meaning: lay their eggs on their eyelids, of the University-Settlemen your fatter la well enough washed, because they believe it to h eyes. Her face la not pretty, butHerit Robert Hunter, Isheadleading -- A man can make a dozen opportuniloosered, fell In a tnaes of beauty, an Ideally to prove to prove m 13 singularly sweet In expression. wash glinting, lustrous, about her, for success while he Is waiting for to ties to their contrary religion happy life. - The nurse voice la low, pleasant to hear. Then slowly she came out of this remove the flies from softly opened the door at one to make itself for him! their eyea O I) e It is believed that the kidnaping of Ion lerdicaris, an American, and his stepson, Cromwell Yarley, a Hrittsh subject, by Haisuli, the Moorish bandit has a deep r significance than at first aiqieared for there is now an nipiession that the leader of the bandits in northern Morocco may incite to rebellion the people already dissatisfied with tiie reform which the new to inspire. As sultan has emlc avor Miss Stone wak held for ransom so when blood-curdlin- g quasl-mooallgh- cow-stabl- e 1 n lav Per-dlcarl- y - to-he- , ht -- e to-da- bald-heade- d -- e. d peopi-Thei- e. ment I.'i. sf ' |