The Saturday Evening Post 1906-03-31: Vol 178 Iss 40

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THE SATURDAY EVENING P | Copyright 1.906, by THE Curtis PustisHinc Compaxy, Founded A°D' 1728 by Benj.Franklin Entered at the Philadelphia Post-Office in the United States and Great Britain. as Second-Class Matter. Published Weekly at 425 Arch Street by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY London: Hastings House.10, Norfolk Street, Strand,W.C. Volume 178 PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 31, 1900 Numbes 40 i HE business of Keen & Co., Tracers of Lost Persons, had grown to enormous proportions; appointments for a personal interview with Mr Keen were now made a week in advance; so when young Harren sent in his card the gaily-liveried negro servant came back presently, threading his way through the waiting throng with pomp and circumstance, and returned the card to Harren with the date of appointment written in ink across the top. The day tt named was Wednesday. On Tuesday Harren’s leave expired 1 lan brusquely; ‘‘I must see ‘That won't do,” said the young n Sant F Mr. Keen to-day. I wrote last week for an appointment.” The liveried darky was polite, but obdurate “Dis here am de ’pintment, suh,”’ he explained persuasively “But I want to see Mr. Keen at once,” insisted Harren ‘Hit ain’t no use, suh,” said the darky respectfully; ‘dey mi’ions an’ mi ions ob gemmen Jess a-settin’ roun’ an’ waitin’ foh Mistuh Keen. In dis here perfeshion, suh, de fustest gemman dat has a ’pintment is de fustest gemman dat kin see Mistuh Keen You is a military gemman yohse’f, Cap’m Harren, an’ you is aware dat precedence am de rigger.” The bronzed young man smile d, glanced at the date of appoint- ment written on his card, which also bore his own name followed by the lettets U.S. A., then his amused gray eyes darkened and he glanced leisurely around the room,where a dozen or more assorted people sat waiting their turns to interview Mr. Keen: all sorts and conditions of people—smartly-gowned women, an anxious-browed business man or two, a fat German truck-driver, his greasy cap on his knees, a surly policeman, and anold Irishwoman, wearing ashawl and an ancient straw bonnet. Harren’s eyes reverted to the darky *“You will explain to Mr. Keen,” he said, “that I am an army officer on leave, and that I am obliged to start for Manila to-morrow This is my excuse for asking an immediate, interview; and if it’s not a good-enough excuse I must cancel this appoint ment, that is all.””. The darky stood, irresolute, ir clined to argue, but something in the steel-gray eyes " of the man set him in involuntary motion, and he went away once more with the young man’s message. Harren turned and walked back to his seat. The old woman with the faded shawl was explaining volubly to a handsomely- gowned woman beside her that she was looking for her boy, Danny; that her name was Mrs. Regan, and that she washed for the aristocracy of Hunter's 4 Point at a liberal price per dozen, using no deleterious substances in the suds as Heaven was her witness The German truck-driver, moved by this confidence, was stirred to be- gin an endless account of his do- mestie misfortunes, and old Mrs. Regan, becoming impatient, had already begun to interrupt with an account of Regan’s recent hoisting on the wings of a premature petard, : # when the dark servant reappeared. ry ‘‘Mistuh Keen will receive 5 ; you, suh,”’ he whispered, lead- ing the way intoalarge room where dozens of attractive

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“Take this memorandum,” he said. he girl picked up a pencil and pad; and Mr. Keen, still pacing the room, dictated in a quiet voice as he walked to and fro: “Mrs. Regan’s Danny is doing six months in Butte, Montana. Break it to her as mercifully as possible. Heisa bad me. We make no charge. The truck- iriver, Becker, can find his wife at her mother’s house, New Jersey Tell him to be less pig headed or she'll yo Ten dollars. Mrs M., No. 36001, can find her missing butler 70 Vine Street, Hartford, Leonia, r good some day. in service at THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 31, 1906 “T feel like a fool to tell you,” he said. “*T’m not an imaginative man, Mr. Keen; I’m not fanciful, not sentimental. I’m perfectly healthy, perfectly normal—a very busy man in my profession, with no time and no inclination to fall in love.” “Just the sort of man who does it,” commented Keen. ‘‘Continue.”’ Harren fidgeted about in his chair, looked out of the window, squinted at the ceiling, then straightened up, folding his arms with sudden determination. “‘T’d rather be boloed than tell you,”’ he said. ‘‘ Perhaps, after all, I ama lunatic; Connecticut. She may notify the police whenever she wishes. His portrait is No. 170529, Rogues’ Gallery. Five hundred Miss K. (No. 3679) may send her letter, care of Cisneros & Co., Rio, where the person she is seeking has gone into the coffee business. If she decides that she really does iove him he'll come back fast enough. Two hundred and fifty dollars. Mr. W. (No. 3620) must go to the morgue for further information. His repentance is too late; but he can see that there isa decent burial. The charge: one thousand dollars to the Florence Mission. You may add that we possess his full record.” The Tracer paused and waited for the stenographer to finish. When she looked up: ‘‘ Who else is waiting?” he dollars. a ked. Che girl read over the initials and numbers. Tell that policeman that Kid Conroy sails on the Cara- nia to-morrow. Fifty dollars. There is nothing definite in the other cases Re port progress and send outa general alarm for the cashier inquired for by No You will find details in Volume X X XIX under B.” “Is that all, Mr. Keen?” 360s, “Yes. I'm going to be very busy with’’—turning slowly toward Harren with Captain Harren, of the Philippine Scouts, until to-morrow —a very complicated case, Miss Borrow, involving cipher codes and photography Harren started, then walked slowly to the centre of the room as the pretty stenographer passed out with a curious level glance at him. “Why do you say that photography plays a part in my case?”” he asked. Doesn't it? Ys Bu Oh, Lonly guessed it,”’ s t how aid Keen withasmile. ‘I made another guess that your case involved a cipher code Does it? Y-es,”’ said the young man, astonished, ‘“‘but I don't It also involves the occult,” observed Keen calmly ‘We mav need Miss Borrow to help us.”” Almost staggered, Harren stared at the Tracer out of his astonished gray eyes until that gentleman laughed outright eated himself, motioning Harren to do likewise * Don't be surprised, Captain Harren,”’ he said pose you have no conception of our busine f ot ts and I sup- 3, no realization its network of information bureaus all over the civilized world, its myriad sources of information, the immensity of its delicate machinery, the endless data and the infinitesimal details we have at our command. You, of cour e, have no idea of the number of people of every sort and condition who are in our employ, of the ceaseless yet For example, when your letter came last week I called up the person who has charge of the army list. There you were, Kenneth Harren, Captain Philippine Scouts, with the date of your graduation from West Point. Then I called up a certain department devoted to personal detail, and in five minutes I knew your entire history. I then touched another electric button, and in a minute I had before me the date of your arrival in New York, your present address, and '’— he looked up quizzically at Harren —‘‘and several items of general in- formation, such as your peculiar use of your camera, and the list of books on Psychical Phenomena and Cryptograms which you have been buying 7 Harren flushed up scope inoffensive surveillance we maintain. Deo you mean to upon, Mr. Keen? ‘**No more than any body else who comes to us as a client. There was sh red his houlder “Ours is a business, my say that I have been spled the surveillance.” He and made a deprecating gesture. dear sir, like any other. We, of course, are obliged to know about people who call on us. and Limmediately set every wheel in motion; in other words, I had you under observation from the day I received your letter to this very moment.”’ “You learned much concerning me?" asked Harren quietly ‘Eractly, my dear sir.” * But,” continued Harren with a touch of malice, “ you didn't learn that my leave is up to-morrow, did you?” ‘Yes, I learned that, too.” “Then why did you give me an appointment for the day after to-morrow ?"’ demanded the young man bluntly. nothing offensive in Last week you wrote me All Sorts and Conditions of People Sat Waiting Their Turns The Tracer looked him squarely in the eye. ‘‘ Your leave to be extended,” he said. “What?” “Evactly. It has been extended one week.” “How do you know that?” “You applied for extension, did you not?” “*Yes,”’ said Harren, turning red, ‘‘but I don’t see how you knew that I-——”’ “By cable?” ““Y-yes.”’ “There’s a cablegram in moment,” said the Tracer carelessly. ‘‘You have the extension you desired. And now, Captain Harren,”’ with a singularly pleasant smile, ‘‘what can I do to help you to a pursuit of that true happiness which is guaranteed for all good citizens under our Constitution?” Captain Harren crossed his long legs, dropping one knee over the other, and deliberately surveyed his interrogator. ‘I really have no right to come to you,” he said slowly. ‘Your prospectus distinctly states that Keen & Co. under- take to find /ive people, and I don’t know whether the person I am seeking is alive or —or ig His steady voice faltered; the Tracer watched him curiously. “Of course, that is important,” he dead ‘s * She a your rooms at this very “Tf she is said. “Didn't you say ‘she,’ Captain?’’ “No, I did not.” “IT beg your pardon, then, for anticipating you,”’ said the Tracer carelessly. “Anticipating? //ow do you know it is not a man I am in search of ?”’ demanded Harren “Captain Harren, you are unmarried and have no son; you have no father, no brother, no sister. Therefore I infer several things —for example, that you are in love.” I? In love?” ‘* Desperately, Captain.” ‘Your inferences seem to satisfy you, at least,’’ said Harren almost sullenly, ‘‘ but they don’t satisfy me —clever as they appear to be.” “Exactly. Then you are not in love?” ‘I don’t know whether I am or not.”’ “a do,”’ said the Tracer of Lost Persons. “Then you know more than I,”’ retorted Harren sharply. ‘But that is my business —to know more than you do,” returned Mr. Keen patiently. ‘‘ Else why are you here to consult me?”’ And as Harren made no reply: “I have seen thousands and thousands of people in love. I have reduced the superficial muscular phenomena and facia! sympto- matic aspect of such people to an exact science founded upon a schedule approximating the Bertillon system of records. And,” he added, smiling, ‘‘out of the twenty-seven known vocal variations, your voice betrays twenty-five unmis- takable symptoms; and out of the sixteen reflex muscular symptoms your face has furnished six, your hands three, your limbs and feet six. Then there are other superficial symptoms -" “Good Heavens!” broke in Harren; ‘‘ how can you prove a man to be in love when he himself doesn’t know whether he isor not? If aman isn’t in love no Bertillon system can make him so; and if a man doesn’t know whether or not he is in love, who can tell him the truth?” “‘T can,” said the Tracer calmly. ““What! When I tell you I myself don’t know?” ‘**That,”’ said the Tracer, smiling, ‘‘is the final and con- vincing symptom. Jou don't know. J know because you don't know. That is the easiest way to be sure that you are in love, Captain Harren, because you always are when you are not sure. You'd know if you were not in love. Now, my dear sir, you may lay your case confidently before me.” Harren, unconvinced, sat frowning and biting his lip and twisting his short, crisp mustache which the tropical sun had turned straw-color and curly AWN BY EMLEN ME CONMELL perhaps I’ve had a touch of the Luzon sun and don’t know it.” “T’ll be the judge,” said the Tracer, smiling. “Very well, sir. Then I'll begin by tell- ing you that I've seen a ghost.” “There are such things,”’ observed Keen quietly. “Oh, I don’t mean one of those fabled sheeted creatures that float about at night; I mean a phantom—a real phantom—in the sun- light —standing before my very eyes in broad day! - Now do you feel inclined to go on with my case, Mr. Keen?” “‘Certainly,”’ replied the Tracer gravely. tinue, Captain Harren.” “All right,then. Here’sthe beginning of it: Three years ago, here in New York, drifting along Fifth Avenue with the crowd, I looked up to encounter the most wonderful pair of eyes that I ever beheld —that any living man ever beheld! The most — wonderfully — beautiful ie He sat so long immersed in retrospection that the Tracer said: ‘‘I am listening, Captain,” and the Captain woke up with a start. ‘What was I saying? ae nly to the eyes.” “Oh, I see! The eyes were dark, sir, dark and lovely beyond any power of description. The hair was also dark very soft and thick and —er—wavy and dark. The face was extremely youthful and ornamental to the uttermost verges of a beauty so exquisite that, were I to attempt to formulate for you its individual attractions, I should, I fear, transgress the strictly rigid bounds of that reticence which becomes a gentleman in complete possession of his senses.”’ **Eractly,”’ mused the Tracer. *‘ Also,” continued Captain Harren, with growing anima- tion, ‘‘to attempt to describe her figure would be utterly useless, because I am a practical man and not a poet, nor do I read poetry or indulge in futile novels or romances of any description. Therefore I can only add that it was a figure, a poise, absolutely faultless, youthful, beauti- ful, erect, wholesome, gracious, graceful, charmingly buoyant and —well, I cannot describe her figure, and I shall not try.” ““Eractly; don’t try.” “No,” said Harren mournfully, “‘it is useless;” and he relapsed into enchanted retrospection. **Who was she?”’ asked Mr. Keen softly. “T don’t know.” ‘You never again saw her?” ““Mr. Keen, II am not ill-bred, but I simply could not help following her. She was so b-b-beautiful that it hurt; and I only wanted to look at her; I didn’t mind being hurt. So I walked on and on, and sometimes I'd pass her and sometimes I'd let her pass me, and when she wasn't looking I'd look —not offensively, but just because I couldn’t help it And all the time my senses were humming like a top and my heart kept jumping to get into my throat, and I hadn't a notion where I was going or what time it was or what day of the week. She didn't see me; she didn’t dream that I was looking at her; she didn’t know me from any of the thou- sand silk-hatted, frock-coated men who passed and re- passed her on Fifth Avenue. And when she went into St Berold’s Church, I went, too, and I stood where I could see her and where she couldn’t see me. It was like a touch of the Luzon sun, Mr. Keen. And then she came out and got into a Fifth Avenue stage, and I got in, too. And whenever she looked away I looked at her—without the slightest offense, Mr. Keen, until, once, she caught my eye ——”’ He passed an unsteady hand over his forehead. “For a moment we looked full at one another,”’ he con tinued. ‘I got red, sir; I felt it, and I couldn't look away And when I turned color like a blooming beet she began to turn pink like a rosebud, and she looked full into my eyes with such a wonderful purity, such exquisite innocence, that I—I never felt so near—er—Heaven in my life! No, sir, not even when they ambushed us at Manoa Wells—but that’s another thing—only it is part of this business.”’ He tightened his clasped hands over his knee until the knuckles whitened. ‘That's my story, Mr. Keen,” he said crisply “All of it?” “Please con- ” How far had I proceeded ?

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Harren looked at the floor, then at Keen You'll think me a lunatic if I tell you all “Oh, you saw her again?”’ ‘N-never! Tl ; Never? Not in—in the fle Oh, in dreams Harren stirred uneasily them 1S iat h I don’t know ; I have seen her since the sunlight, in the in my quarters in Manila, standing there perfectly distinct looking at tiful “Go on,” me with such strange, beautiful eye said the Tracer, nodding ‘What else is there to say?"’ muttered Ha ‘You saw her — or a phantom which resembled her she speak ?”’ No.”’ **Did you speak to her?’ ““N-no. Once I held out my —n **What happened ?”’ ‘She wasn’t there,”’ said Harren simply ‘*She vanished?” “No—I don't know. 1 Didn't she fade?" ‘No. I can’t explain. the room.” ‘How many times has she appeared to you?” ‘‘A great many times.” “In your room?” “Yes. And in the road under a vertical sun; in the for est, inthe paddy-fields. I have seen her passing through the hallway of a friend's house turning on the stair to look back at me! I saw herstanding just back of the firing-line at Manoa Wells when we were preparing to rush the forts, and it scared me so that I jumped forward to draw her back. But-—-she wasn’t ther Mr. Keen. “On the transport she stood facing me on deck one moonlit evening for five minutes. I saw her in Frisco; she sat in the Pullman twice between Denver and this city. Twice in my at the Vice-Regent she has sat opposite me at midday so clear, so beautiful, so real, that —-that I could scarcely be- lieve she was only a , He hesitated “The apparition of her own sub-conscious self,’ said the Tracer quietly. ‘‘Science has forced to admit such things, and, as you know, we are on the verge of understand- ing the alphabet of some of the unknown forces which we must some day reckon with.” Harren, tense, a trifle pale zed at him earnestly “Do believe in such things?”’ “How can I avoid believ- ing?’’ said the Tracer. ‘‘ Every day, in my profession, we have proof of the existence of forces for which we have yet no explanation —or, at best,a very crude one. I have had case after case of premonition; case after case of dual and even multiple personality; case after case where appari- tions played a vital part in the plot which was brought to me to investigate. I'll tell you this, Captain: I, person- ally, never saw an apparition, never was obsessed by pre- monitions, never received any communications from thé outer void. But I have had to do with those who undoubt- edly did. Therefore I listen with all respect to what you tell me.”’ “‘Suppose,”’ said Harren, growing suddenly red, ‘‘that I should tell you I have succeeded in photographing this phantom.” The Tracer sat silent not betray it. ‘You have that photograph, Captain Harren? Yes.”’ ‘Where is it?” ‘In my rooms.” ‘You wish me to see it? Harren hesitated. ‘‘I—there is—seems to be thing almost sacred to me in that photograph You understand me, do you not? Yet, if it will help you in finding her ‘ “Oh,” said the Tracer in guileless astonishment, ‘ desire to find this young lady. Why?” Harren stared. ‘‘Why? Why do I want to find her? Man, I —I can't live without her!”’ rren Did arms.’ 1y I didn’t see her any more.’ She there was only myself in room a been pre you “Captain Harren, I Can as Seriousness and He was astounded, but he did some- you See Nothing upon this Bit of Paper that Resembles in the Remotest Degree a Human Face or Figure’ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 3o superbly healt life : rangely at That probably what sent it half the w | confront said the spiritual he Tracer gr alth. I think, Capt been seeing you, too, during these three years, but, pro bly, only in her dreams —m her sub-conscious self floating over continents and ocear you the mere desire to find the ng original unaware.’ love her The Captain colored like a schoolboy, linger Harren held the } ire Llignt taring tullat the Lracet door, hat in hand. Then he straightened up A dull flush mounted his forehead, an height of his slim, but powerful, figure laid the picture before the Tracer of Lo At three?"’ he inquired bluntly Minute “At three o'clock in the photograph, | finely-modeled features absolut (;,ood-morning, C levoid of you, aglow with nor f . . , emories of your encout in a quest of which her waking intelligence i ng at to the alter minute sped while tl Tracer Hotel Vics aptain.” levoid exp! said Harren dreamily, and head bent, gray eyes lost in retro pectio your room, Regent Good-morning,”’ iway lean, bronzed, attractive face an afterglow of color wholly ndow becoming I'he ul HEN the Tracer of Lost Persons entered Captain Harren's rooms at the Hotel Vice-Regent that after faint} noon he found the young man standing at a centre table pencil in hand, studying a sheet of paper which was covered with letters and figures. The in then Harren pointed gr mily to the « figures covering dozens of table ’ riving. that dreadf j oe + ‘ ‘That's part of my madnes he itha Can you make anything of such lunatic we The Tracer picked up a sheet of paper covered with letter of the alphabet and Roman Arabic dropped it presently and picked up another comparative blank sheet on which were the following fig I silence for a momet! I don't know nf on of letter ’ P rvthinge crew ct her ttle bw lit two men eved one another sheets Iving on the thing began to stir under! tunned sense that germ of scattered said W irk graph: besides, it had gz te dark, and | and numefra Ires V-Ta bCISSD | I Ye . from living 34567890 tesence the N-ray is in living org: ti WvVVuUWwKx hes “er He studied it for a while, then glanced interrogatively at Harren. “It’s nothing,” three years inisn wemu b-aura in the phanton Pre 2 a better term, the su IL ently the bent over the photograpt! together ra aid She 1 ry beautiful Harren’s dry lips unclosed, but he uttered no sound She beautiful, repeated the turning to look at the young man very, Ve is she not? Tracer, for He said Harren. ‘I've been but it’s no use. That’s lunatics groping work - (Centr i ery

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ITH ourselve the ket- tle began it! Or was it th candle Shaker chair Rather upon the gradual inception of the t was the combined influ first pair of ticks! Or the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE QUEST of the COLONIAL By Robert and Elizabeth SHRACHK LET O §R March 31, 1906 \ 2 \ Examples of Charming Old Chairs of Simple Design, None of Which is of Mahogany. 1 — Slat-Back Rocker from the Shakers; 2 the chair and the candlesticks and the ' an of it made in two part rr } needer matter cna Wa i t irse of cor tlement near the cit re to t tr olk, and id neir ¢ ‘ ‘ we ered att vhen w ne t ther be d a hold | VT ner ‘ ' re mu the eT ' r ’ } } ‘ Nar I Phe ed Wa t ' i with here ‘ 1 and the t a room ar t k the “a their sockets burnishing, but ence Oo kettle They were indu- graceful, and they were offered rice of twenty cents t that iplece To was but a juisition still more delightful in For there u vas a Shaker set- where we used to live, and it was rie finding them e, so hospitable were the kindly ich an aroma of sweetness did they o gent ly cordial that the cold text of their religion Vtes rustful of people of the outside necessary communication with per to dra $ prose] osorely in need ¢ nger blood X i | Be! - f »- % aS 1 Pair of Brass Andirons from Blennerhassett, Specially Described. 2 A Brass Pair from Tallahassee t would seem, on look- f Thekettlh acharming ¢ bony-handle dthing, quat, round, of captivating curves, the body + + but with such skill i ; " . fy ”_sthat the brazed edge almost defies detec- Mee, 6 OF e t d there is thus the air of having been hammered out of a single sheet — came ancestrally, having crossed the ocean many decades ago The candlestic caught the eve, one day, by a felici- is chance, on the window-ledge of a shop prosaically devoted to the | ng and selling of scrap metal. They e nine and a quarter inches high and of excellent d Indeed, after all these following years of quest d succe the tand honorably among our treasured quisitior Very dirty thev were those brasses, in hat old-met dow, and the fragments of tallow dip J W a line of men’s heads bent over the table, a row of blue coats with tails carefully parted on either side of the low- backed chairs, and, on the other side, a row of little muslin caps and plain tippets and dresses of calico. These people, self set apart from the world, showed us the inside corners of their warm hearts; and it seems, look- ing back upon it, as if the taste for the quaint and the old- Brass Andirons, Unusually Heavy, and “ Rights and Lefts.” They were Made for This Fireplace fashioned, even then strong within us, was strengthened by know ng these folk, who seemed like veritable bits out 1e past. They themselves realized that there was some- thing in accord between us, 1 one of the oldest of the Sisters gave us her own particular chair which had been made wcially for her, in ner youth, when she taught ewing to the children whom they then had in their sckool. I a slender, narrow rocker, with slim, high back; im- possible to rock, indeed, for the dear old lady had found it 11 : ; ‘ iable to tip over backward, or to threaten to tip, and so had had one of the Brothers saw off the rockers short and fasten on the stubby ends prohibitive bits of cork. The chair, charmingly proportioned, with low-set arms, has nothing about it that is elaborate the code of Shakerism allows nothing of dis} but it is most carefully made, is splint- bottomed, with a curious variety of Roman-key design, and the ends of the a ms and the tops of the side pieces end in delicately ovaled knobs. The chair stands in our Beginning at the Left: Old Painted and Gilt Chair; 3—Style Called Fancy by Sheraton; 4—Armchair to Match; 5—Ante-Revolutionary Period, a New York Chair,Showing Marked Dutch Influence MAHING A BEGINNING guest-room, holding in remembrances the kindly folk, hundredsof miles from where we now are, by whom, long ago, we were made welcome guests. And so, from the possession of these grew the idea of out- fitting our home with the charming and stately furniture of an the past, with the mahogany and the walnut, the brass d the china, of the olden time. Even with this beginning, the idea was slowly adopted, with much of hesitating de- mur as to the possibility of it all. For, until we had well begun, the plan seemed so impractical, so impracticable! This sense of the ultimate futility of the attempt, even after a few delightful acquisitions, was strong within us because of our living in a city of the Middle West, where old-fashioned furniture is, necessarily, far less common than in the Eastern States; but even had we then lived in the East there would have been little encouragement offered. Survey of the charming things of long ago is offered with generous freedom, alike in the superb collections of public organizations and in the fine old Colonial mansions, in various States, given into the charge of patriotic societies and filled by them with the furniture of the past. But the line between seeing and acquiring is closely drawn. Those who show with opulent freedom will only suggest, for purchasing, to go directly and prosaically to the shops where things with claim to age are sold. But it was no part of our scheme to obtain our treas- ure prosaically or from sources open to any degree of doubt. From the very first we experienced, with the joy of having, the concomitant joy in getting. With our earliest acquisitions — the Shaker ch ir, the candle- sticks and the kettle there was the tang of some de- lightful association and the charm of the personal touch ; and we were resolved, having delightfully begun, not to be content with methods and results less interesting And here, first, is the fact which, little appreciated, lies at the bottom of it all. There is, as yet, no essential scantiness of supply of the delightful and desirable old! There is just enough of scantiness to render the quest alluring. And it would be strange if there were any prohit tive scantiness. A century ago there were in existence millions of pieces of furniture of the shapes that are now held in admiration. Things that are now the posses- sions of a few were then the common possession of all In one singk year, near the opening of the century just past, the shop of a single Connecticut maker turned out the movem for three thousand tall clocks. Other things were made in numbers proportionate — tables airs, bureaus, andirons, candlesticks So many were the chanics engaged in the manufacture of furniture, that f. . { by ‘¢ ¥ 1 af I \ 1— Brass Andirons from Near the Connecticut Line. This is the Oldest Design of the Four Pair and is Probably of About 1770. 2—Brass Pair from New York State. These are the Youngest of the Lot, Probably About 1820

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ee oe the trade came to be in there were men engaged in nothing but the construc- tion of Windsor chairs! All of these millions of articles were all were not worn out and thrown away or turn to museums An enormous total is still great numbers of pieces may be sought out and secured by the collector of to-day Realizing this -and how realize it matter of learning where to seek with the gre of finding Although it is in the East that far the greater number remain in existence, we found that in the Middle West there came many a fine specimen by ox-cart from Connec- ticut to the shores of Lake Eri down the Ohio in the early day through Cumberland Gap by and farther South, many a piece went westward from the Carolinas, or, Mississippi, stayed at some point along the Although the bulk of furni- ture remained in New York, P} Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or elsewhere near

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now dé in existence few !— it is but a atest prospe ct many were flat-boated trailed Kentucky ; of settlement or the pioneers of entering the river's banks Boston,

the coast, the early folk of Cleveland and Louisville and St. Louis, of Pittsburg, Cincinnati and New Orleans, were not without old treasures In what was deemed the back- woods there were houses of log or of hewed timber in which family silver alternated with gourds, and in which fine mahogany stood on puncheon floor And, in the West asin the East, during the period that the taste pre vailed the taste which has so strongly revived-—addi- Pair of Old Sheffield Plate with Concave Panels Note the Places. 2 Single Brass Squat Stocky 3 Shop, Among Our Very First Candlestick. 5 -Old Snuffers

Beginning at the Left: 1 Unexpected Slenderness in The Pair from the Junk Old Brass Bedroom Brass, Wrought Silver, with Beaded Edge and Extinguisher, from United Pair of Slender Fluted Brass. 8 Sheffield Single Sheffield Plate and Beaded Edges Acquisitions 4 Steel Damascened lron 6 States Navy 7 Plate, Very Fine Design, Cost Ten Cents. 9 Fluted Columns. 10 — Single Sheftield Plate Single

rheoreticall er no re eX the powe one that the old was all hand e, wl the f ture of to-day 1s not ful as beautifula hat of the pa l is not. anv more thar he cl he { lay « i t ancient cathedrals Ir ich Case ! of ta of theor Che graceful ‘ Dr . , int nN ‘i otat 4 ne ¢ ‘ ! i! Ciist { imitatior And, in add t the t } peaut there I ehar ola i t ing past Phe tende ( ia i na ead | about the stately fireirons of the time of Washit nortl ful ct r which was used it t i of Re " Che charn nee fe it never ppear ri ir o mat airec or ' } } ne 1 , go, in the search of the old ha t ne } matter for needful plannir B t ol \ «il it I I » iT i}? cal t ‘ I ! ot rreaterT ' the ‘ cal a ‘ ' 1 eX ‘ meanade B ne t i l

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tional furniture was made, on the graceful lines of (4 . g the old, by local cabinet- q makers. And outside of the known lines of travel , and of settlement, many “Ys 4 a piece of fine design has wandered erratically to some unexpected spot ea and is waiting to be dis- : é covered and appropriated. Old Urn and Kettles. Beginning at the Left ' Copper, Iron J O INEZ MARTINEZ HE four of us spent a few weeks in San Francisco getting rid of a part of the had so easily obtained by the sale of the Stonewall Jackson Mine, but before long we began to hunger for the mountains and for the free life of the trail. We had, moreover, heard a great deal from fellow-miners about the wonderful silver mines in the northern States of Mexico, and how, in addition to much valuable country yet undoubtedly remained undiscovered and unclaimed, there were, all through the Sierra Madres, traordinary richness which had in old times been worked by the Jesuits and abandoned for various reasons, either because the levels had become too difficult for their com- paratively primitive methods, or on account of their own expulsion from Mexico by the order of the Government Although we discounted most of these stories, we nevertheless, information of credible character money we

that as mines of ex- received, Most of this had come from a man named Clarence King whom I had met in Virginia City and later in San Francisco, and who had become one of the very best friends I had He was the most expert metallurgist I ever knew and at one time held the post of mineralogist to the United States I do not recall whether we King or not, but somehow we learned of a once valuable, Government heard it from but now abandoned, property lying in one of the the Sierra Madres of Sinaloa We accordingly took steamer to Mazatlan, procured a complete outfit and made our way up the river Del Presidio. It was our first visit to the Sierra Madre, that wonderful country of dreamy mountains which soon to become the scene of my most arduous labors and spurs ol was so Editor's Note This is the second installment of the narrative of Robert Henry's curious adventures, of which each installment is an episode complete in itself

AQUISTITA Robert Henry’s Own Story of His Captivity and Enslavement ultimately the place of my captivity ily from the placid waters of the Gulf of California, and a we ascended the river the landscape about us changed gradually from semi-tropical to temperate It was ear autumn and clear, blue, cloudl da icceeded oF another All about us rose tier after tier of maj mountains, ridge piled upon ridge, until th eemed a frozen sea of gigantic billow Along the river-banks tl cottonwoods gave place to splendid growths of may cedar, and higher up the pine Che air was wart sparkling. Birds of beautiful plumage flew about us, ar huge woodpeckers, fully two feet in length, with ul crests, tapped industriously the fallen tre« Near the headwaters of the river, and some fifty) from the little town of Totner " ontl i mountain the mineof which we had heard. We had pe knowledge that th e | r one hur re 1 i 1 { It ‘ I 1 of Me co is nece i t pr Thus, we had far as we 1 ‘ ‘ We werea 1 high spirit I I easily make our future in th nderful lar f treasure Moreover, we had plent ol! ne afford to begin operations on a proper We menced by cutting in a tunne i ! ia it hundred and fifty feet rhis cost us in the neighbor 1 of twothou an 1c lar ° il l slter< it I y nr u n tne lt igre we sent samples to the nearest mountain establishment The report wa looked as though we had distant some four or five mile exceed ingly encouraging, and in fact Sheffield Plate

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Murphy Stormed Up and Down F-B-MastTcrRd inquired of the soldier beside me who she was, to which he replied, La belle Anta.’ He told me she was Bachecco's only daughter. Our entrance into the a cut off further comment. We found Bacheeco to be a middle-sized, vacant-faced Spaniard, from whose expression it was absolutely impos- sible to discover anything of what was passing in his mind He listened polite lv to our grievance, and then expre ssed the sincerest regret that we should have lost our money and have been put to such a vast amount of trouble and disappointment However, he assured us that he owned the mine It was all very unfortunate; very much to be lamented. Still, what could he do? It was his I asked him why he hadn't worked it for t hundred and fifty vear lo this he he last one lied nout a tremor t } was working it rig i N« what could vou do with a man like that ? Murp! lifted up his voice and swore Bacheceo didn't move a muscle of his face, but merely touched a little silver bell and a ldier came in and stood behind hin The governor again expressed | neere regret He was quite ready to d u the matter, but his answer was simply a traverse of all our statement He iggested that it would have been a good thing if we had come to him before starting out on our expedition He didn't say why He obviously ¢ xpecti d us to ask. Then he hinted that if we cared to make him a silent partner in ot hereafter he could put us into a lot of good th lying around everywhere ‘Tell him to go to thunder! shouted Mur} hv, unable And I did so--in polite lar guage. I also tried to impress upon him the fact that we were Americans and didn't propose to be imposed upon he would hear from us again At the door Murphy, who went out last, turned around and in good plain American called down the vengeance of Heaven upon the governor's bullet-head. He and his were to be blighted——his mules were to contract conta- r undertakings i igs that were longer to restrain himself gious diseases — his creps to wither-—his pigs to die —and In fact, it was a regular old-fashioned curse --the kind that, delivered in the right way, sends the shivers creeping down your spine. Bachecco didn’t enjoy it by any means, for, although he could not speak English, he could gather what Murphy meant, and he turned quite white and crossed himself, and fingered a little silver cross that hung about his neck From Culiacz his cows to go dry went back to Mazatlan, where we inter viewed the United States Consul, who, unfortunately, was unable to give us any encouragement whatever. We talked the matter over and decided that the only thing to do wa ogoto Washir gton and lav the matter before the Government Accordingly, as I had not seen my parents since my departure from home now a matter of nearh six years—I volunteered to go. My partners were to con- tinue prospecting through the Sierra Madre and | was to join them on my return, wherever they happened to be My journey home was a pleasant one, and | found myself rather a hero when I reached Fishkill. I had grown from a boy into a man, and the comrades of my youth seemed THE SATURDAY EVENING POST strangely immature and undeveloped. After a brief stay at home, I hastened on to Washington, where Clarence King introduced me to Mr. Blaine, who was then Secretary of State. Accompanied by Senator Miller, I explained the case to him in full. He showed the intensest interest, gained a thorough knowledge of the case in a remark- ably short space of time, and laid the matter before the Mexican Government. He was a truly great man. Foratime the matter was vigorously pushed, until the deaths of Mr. Blaine and Senator Miller put an end to any hope I had of ever accomplishing any result through governmental action. At this time, I am sorry to say, the United States did not espouse with any great enthusiasm the interests of its citizens engaged in mining operations in foreign lands. "s During my stay in Washington I had renewed my friendship with King, who now suggested that my partners and myself should, on my return to Mexico, associate ourselves with him in working a silver mine once operated by the Jesuits and located near the town of Sombrerete in the State of Zacatecas. The mine had not been touched since it had been exploited by the fathers a couple of hundred years before. The proposition sounded very aitractive, and in any event it would have been a pleasure and a privilege to work either with or for King, so I agreed to do so, provided, of course, my partners would consent. Two months later found us at Sombrerete hard at work on our new proposition. With King behind us, there was no fear of any Governor Bachecco butting in, and we found, as our new employer or partner had suspected, that the mine, though fairly well worked, was exceedingly rich. The Jesuits’ method was to put a station in the shaft every fifty feet and install a windlass and a mule to pump out the water. In this particular mine, where they had reached a depth of six hundred feet, they had found the flow of water so strong that they had been compelled to abandon it. King, knowing the exceeding value of these mines, decided to operate them in the most effective manner possible. He accordingly procured all the latest inventions in machinery, built a large hoisting works, a ten-stamp mill, and put in a pump that would throw over six hundred feet. I took charge of clearing out the old, or, as it was called, the San Pedro, shaft. At a depth of only one hundred feet we came upon a station where the drifts ran in three different directions, one of which we found had been bulk- headed up. It was rather extraordinary to find a bulk- head for the purpose of keeping out water at that level, and if that had been the object the mass of water behind it would have been enormous. At any rate, it was important to find out what was there. I discov- cred that the old Spaniards must have possessed the secret of making an ex- traordinary cement, for that in the bulkhead excec ded, for quality and strength, any I had ever beheld. I immediate ly ordered all the Mexi- cans to the top of the mine, and with only Benson and the foreman started in to open up the wall, which I did by making first an opening of only an inch or so square. Imagine our surprise when no water came out. 1 then broke away the hole until it was large enough to admit my body, and, taking the candle in my hand, entered what seemed to be a cave hewn out of the solid rock. By the faint light I saw to my surprise and horror the figures of two men and three women reclining ipon the floor all dressed in what seemed to me to be the costly raiment of the time of Ferdinand the Second of Spain Their hands were crossed upon their breasts and they lay upon their sides appar- ently in sleep, while the jewels on their necks and fingers shot back the beams of the candle. The air about me was abso- lutely still and the flame burned steadily and bright, reaching up in a long, thin stream toward the ceiling of the cave Neither was there odor of Carroll and I Took Turns in Holding the Child March 31, 1906 any sort in that dry atmosphere. My heart leaped in my breast and the blood hummed in my ears—I was afraid terribly afraid. The next moment I realized that the silent ones upon the floor were dead, yet I could almost have sworn that I had seen them breathe. Benson whispered something and we stepped silently forward, moving with the utmost caution in order as it seemed, that we might not wake those who had slumbered there so long. At the first female figure | stopped and lowered my candle. She had evidently been a young woman of about thirty years, well-featured her eyelashes and brows and thick raven hair still un- disturbed, her eyes closed, and her mouth parted as if in sleep. Upon her neck rested a turquoise necklace, and upon the middle finger of the left hand an emerald ring. As we knelt beside her she sank into herself, shrinking and disappearing beneath our very eyes— col- lapsing, as it were, like a child’s balloon pricked by a pin The skin shriveled hollow upon the cheeks, the bosom fell beneath its covering, the sleeves and arms dropped from the shoulders, and the head twisted sideways and rested, disconnected from the body, upon its nose. We both gasped aloud and scrambled to ourfeet. Where before had been the fair semblance of a woman, there lay a straggling pile of bones, clothing, dust and jewels. “Bah! Let’s get out of here!’’ exclaimed Benson ‘I’m not in the cemetery business.” **Look!”’ I cried. For as Benson spoke one by one the bodies collapsed, disintegrating into a grayish-yellow dust. We had now no fear of the place and decided that we might as well take the jewels before closing up the tomb. | therefore scraped away the dust and procured the orna- ments, which consisted of rings, bracelets, necklaces, buckles, buttons, clasps and a Spanish medal, all of which I presented to the church of San Xavier in Sombrerete. King was much interested to find out who these five unfortunate persons could be, and as Carroll was a good deal of a scholar (could speak and read French, Italian, German and Spanish) he asked him to investigate the records in San Xavier’s. In the towns of Mexico the historical records are not kept as with us in halls of record or regis- ters of deeds, but in the churches. It took Carroll three whole days to do it, but he finally found some old manu- scripts which gave the entire history of these people, and showed that they were political prisoners sent out from Spain to be entombed alive. The records are there yet, but I forget the names of the prisoners or for what crimes, if any, they were punished. In a month or two more my partners and I, believing that we could do better by working some property in which we owned the entire interest, started northwest again on our old business of prospecting. Once more we plunged into the fastnesses of the Sierra Madre, working from Zacatecas through Durango, and west over into Sinaloa then back eastward through Chihuahua, and across again

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to Sonora. It was a haphazard, happy-go-lucky life, and although we found many abandoned mines, and many indications of silver, we were always looking for something better. From time to time we stumbled upon indications of a prehistoric race among the mountains, cave (some of them large enough for a tiny village bridges used for fortificatior ane markings upon the cliffs of anything very like what | afterward saw in Joaquistita At last, always working northward, we neared the R walls evident] de Bavispe and established ourselves in the mountains Maria it ful grove about a hundred miles north of the town of Santa Sonora. Here we built a large cabin in a beaut of tall pines, and for several weeks spent our time in riding le isurely over the mountains and in excursions to the neighboring Mexican towns This was the first and only romance. I was now twenty-one years old, strong, athletic, sure of scene of my foot and a keen shot with the rifle; 1 had already seen as much of the world as most men in the course of their entire lives; 1 was weary with traveling and of the life and hard- Here in ships of the camp, and I had never been in love. these beautiful, mysterious mountains, with the pines all about me and the sky always blue over my head, I began to long fora home stately THE SATURDAY EVENING birds and beast but never repay us, the tine weather and the ft Imyv ai the highest spirits and set us all laug ul nging slightest pretext As we came he tair toward the camp about set, I ke ea f } blue smoke w h st } e be re ne ‘ ! WaS none It } han , a } I see he 4 } } horse hoo ‘ } fa ne \ t 1 ‘ r ‘ | i ‘ ‘ r ot ame t ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ hundred-f ne t} 1 ‘ re circled la he | e. ¢ f e, andy t Putting rs to our tired horse we ped « rail linto the grove he cabin was a mass of blacker I verywhere lay scattered the little homely con hich we had provided for our wilderness life threshold, and big sward. The turf was marked |} hoofs, and not far distant wer rifle lay across the pattered the the tread of cé splashes of blo preen untles of my own and a more settled form of life The nearest town of any was, as I have suggested, Santa Maria, and to that place we were accustomed to ride every week or so to buy supplies and to talk with ourfellow-beings. The largest landowner for miles about was a haughty old Spaniard by the name of Pedro Marti nez, who occupied the proud position of a sort of prince of the country, for in ad dition to possessing many square miles of territory which roamed herds of cattle, he had farm upon farm fruitful almost beyond imagination. He lived in a beautiful old hacienda not far from Santa Maria with an enormous house- importance over countless hold of peons and servants, as wé ll as t two sons and only daughter, Inez. The girl was at this timeabout seventeen, lithe, graceful, an expert rider, and enjoying vastly more freedom than her country- women in the larger cities. I miniature of her before meas I write which shows her small, shapely head covered with heavy rolling hair, and her wistful smile and deep black eyes. The first time I saw her was on horse- back with her father, riding toward the village as we leaving it for ou camp, and without a moment’s thought I wheeled my horse and followed them After that I practically lived in Santa Maria, and, although her father had a fierce hatred for the Americanos, I n aged somehow, as a lover always will, to meet the object of my affections In spite of the fact that we had but few opportunities for meeting, I] my suit with such ardor that Inez promised to marry me, and even to follow me to the United States, if neces sary. At the first suggestion of the matter to her father he into such a furious fit of anger that he became almost apoplectic and ordered her never to set eyes upon me again. There was nothing left for me, therefore, but to take the law into my own hands, and that night Inez left the hacienda and made her escape from her father’s home by the big gate, which was opened for her by an old have a weet, were ali~ prosecute a before long tlew Spanish woman, her godmother, half servant, half relative, named Cantana. I was Waiting, and we rode away in search of a priest or clergyman to unite us as man and wife We dared not remain near Santa Maria, however, and so we were forced to ride all the way to Bisbee, Arizona, before we could find any one to marry us. Here by some odd chance we came upon an old fellow named Spalding, a Hard-shell Baptist, who performed the ceremony. Then we turned our horses’ heads south again and rode back vo the mountain camp where Murphy, were Waiting for us. Our happiness was short-lived. We Jenson and Carroll continued pro pecting in a leisurely fashion, sometimes even going awa for a night or two from the camp, but on these occasions | supplied Inez with plenty of arms and ammunition, and | had absolute faith that we had nothing whatever to fe in our mountain fortress. Several months after my marriage the four of us went to inspect an old mine of which we had heard, some seventy- across the mountains. Phe found nothing to five miles to the east occupied three days, and although we trip And That Night Inez Left the Hacienda and Made Her Escape from Her Father's Home by the Big Gate two roughly-made grave Almost bereft of n ‘ I threw myself upon th and covers The others hastily turned up the earth in tl } Staring up through that of the first lay Ju M mv wil elder brother, and in the other a ; empl or? father-in-law! ihe shout 1? t brougnt 1 t : horrible a , } } : n ‘ ior ta } ] I ‘ " " I } early We 1 i ] horse i i ‘ it Me» iT I r or 4 ‘ i formation whatsoeve I ere influence of Martinez and either directly or in his employ We therefore rode or Vard Sa iM ¢ reached the foll ngeveni But here we fared 1 ‘ POST

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8 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 31, 1906 The Revolution of the Century Revolution dominated the Will the Russian twentieth ? HE French nineteenth century Revolution dominate the There are many reasons for believing that it will, that it will make itself felt over the whole world At present it is regarded as a tragic, horrible drama which the other nations can watch from their cushioned stalls in the amphitheatre of the world. Ina very short time it 1 that it is but the prologue of a play in hall all have to takea part. Asthe Japanese War was the prologue of the Russian Revolution, so the Russian Revolution may be the prologue to the reshaping of the world. Of course, it is quite possible that no such por- tentous consequences will result from the upheaval in Russia. But the world is much smaller, if distances be ured by , than it was in 178%, and the Russians are ju s were the French. The French Revolution conyulsed Europe and the Mediter- littoral. It left the other continents practically The Russian Revolution with its prologue ll be discovere meas time t four times as numerous ¢ ranean will have its most immediate and more gigantic results in Asia t is no continent which it will not affect soner or later, probably sooner rather than later. Che first, the deepest and the most far-reaching lesson of the R an Revolution has been the demonstration of the impotence of milit ry force against the passive resistance of an unarmed people. This doctrine which the Quakers have often pre preached has at last found its way into the con- nankind. Ata moment when militarism had ruse ot its apogee, and when it was being accepted as an machine guns had rendered insurrection im- po ible, there has suddenly emerged a demonstration of the insurgents, a resource against which guns and high explosives are powerless Armed supreme what evolution can be greater reached that ° new resource of the The dethronement of arbiter of human destiny Yet that Foree as the than this? or something very much like it, is the lesson which the Russian Revolution is teaching to the world. It may be said that there is nothing new in a lesson Which the Roman plebs knew and acted upon in the far- away da by their exodus to Mons Sacer they suc- lling the patricians to grant them their But there is nothing new inthe world. All that to rediscover old truths, and apply old ecircun mankind does is lessor to new The real beginning of the modern political strike was the in Russian jails that they could No con- are more abso- stances prisoners * jailers to reason by a hunger strike nagined in which the weak ‘mercy of the strong than those which prevail na convict prison. The prisoners are absolutely at the Their turnkey has only to forget to open the door of a cell for its inmate to die of starvation of thirst he has only to omit to light the stoves for the n to death. The captive has neither erty nor opportunity to provide the elementary necessi- ties of existence. He may be tortured with impunity and remark. The conditions of weakness mercy of the authorities yrisoner to be froze murdered without and strength are in such cases carried to their ultimate extremes. Yet it was there, where weakness was the weak- est and strength the strongest, that the talisman was discovered which may yet revolutionize the world. The abolition of the ill-famed Kara political prison was brought about by the persistent refusal of half a dozen brave women to take food. Three persisted i ixteen days, cre ated such a seandal that, ulthoug strikers pe rishe d, it led to the ¢ xposure of the ainst which they protested. odd that officials sufficiently brutalized as 1 hunger strikes, the last of which was Wrongs ¢ It may seen to be mere cogs in the wheels of convict-prison discipline hould recoil from the spectacle of seeing their prisoner committ te abstinence from food; but he succes rer strikes showed that, given the requisi even the weakest and most helpl f mortals had one last argument against which his opp! or was not proof. Of this a curious illustration was afforded only last November. The Peasants’ Committee of lich had been arrested by the Government, imple method of refusing to release by the | eat. Instead of letting them starve the authorities let them ro free It was_not till last October that the Russian revolu- tionists show possibility of using this if of the powe rless ¢ nst the forces of the Government The ir success astonished no one so much as themselves. They discovered that the simple refusal to work was a weapon against which machine guns were powerless. No hostile army could have inflicted such a blow upon the Government as was dealt by the railway workmen when they decided to home instead of going to their daily toil. When stay at The Prologue of a Play in Which We are All to TaKe a Part By W. T. STEAD they were joined by the other workmen the Government was powerless. It was a hunger strike on a gigantic scale, and it achieved an astounding success. The success was, indeed, so startling and so complete that it turned the heads of the strikers, and for weeks afterward their leaders brandished the menace of a renewed strike before the eyes of the Government whenever anything was done to which they took « xception. But no folly of this kind could blind the eyes of a watching world to the immense significance of the new weapon which lay ready to the hand of a resolute democracy. It is objected by some that the new weapon cannot be employed without an amount of discipline and organization which it is vain to hope for in other countries. But there is not a country in which there is not far more discipline and organization than there was in Russia last October. The strike was one of the most happy -go-lucky , Sporadic revolts ever witnessed. There was no attempt made to feed the strikers. That would have involved organization, funds and elaborate discipline. Nothing of the kind is necessary when all that is wanted is a readiness to starve in idleness until your object isattained. What isindispensable is that the immense majority of the population should be of one mind, and should be willing to suffer to achieve its end. The substitution of Suffering for Force as the final determining factor in this world’s affairs is equivalent to a subversion of the whole foundation on which states are constituted to-day. We shall not have to wait long to see its results. Take the case of India, for instance. British authority among three hundred millions of Asiatics rests at the last resort upon the bayonets of 190,000 white soldiers of the garrison. So long as British authority could only be contested by appeal to the sword, the British raj was as firmly seated as the Russian autocracy appeared to be three yea No one denied the intelligence of the Bengalees, but because the baboos were of no value in the fighting line they have been treated as a negligible quantity inthe councils of the Viceroy. But whatif the intelligentia hould follow the example of their equally impotent brethren in Russia and challenge their rulers to a contest in an arena in which artillery can find no target and the soldier no foe? If the discove ry of the powe rof patient suffering is likely to destroy empires based upon military conquest, and to render unprofitable markets opened by the sword, it may f and more subtle effect upon the rela- The Russian Revolution, which every- ial rights of men and women to all ayo vet have a far wider tions of the sexes w here procla rY the eq has done much more than assert the political privilege right of woman to citizenship. For, by the blow which it has administered to the dominance of Force, it has opened the door for the emancipation of woman. The Magnificat may once more be uplifted from the grateful heart of the womanhood of the world when it is seen that the sceptre so long wielded by Force is to pass to the hands of Suffering. Women are not as strong as man in fighting force; they are immeasurably his superiors in the capacity to suffer. The boycott and the strike, the new weapons of the weak, can be wielded as effectively by women as by men To secure the enfranchisement of their sex it will not be necessary to go on the barricades or to shoot down the garrison of the fortress of male monopoly: ‘No vote, no dinner! No citizenship, no service!” Under such watch- words women would hardly need to appeal to force in order to compel recognition Of course, Militarism and Force, of which it is the ultimate expression, will not surrender without a struggle They will slay and they will torture and they will tet rorize without mercy and without stint. But when once the masses realize the significance of Shelley's words ‘We are many, they are few,” not all the goading of tyranny will provoke them to armed resistance, or induce them to abandon that via dolorosa of Suffering which leads to Vic- tory. It is impossible to see in how many ways this new weapon will be used. In England speculation is already rife as to whether the resistance of the House of Lords to measures of radical reform might not be more easily over- come by a simultaneous railway strike than by any other means. The Irish, who twenty-five years ago invented the boycott, may take a hint from Russia and use a polit- ical strike as a means of compelling a reluctant Govern- ment to concede them Home Rule. In the United States itis possible that a solution of the threatening difficulty of multi-millionairism might be found on somewhat similar lines. The State and organized Force will, of course, sharpen their weapons and increase their garrisons, and in particular strengthen the severity of their laws against combination and industrial conspiracy. willing to suffer, to take Joy fully the spoiling of their goods, to welcome the starving of their bodies, and to disregard imprisonment, all the resources of authority will be exerted in vain. There is one form of strike which has been much talked of in certain quarters, but which few have ventured to put into practice. That is the strike against military service That has long been advocated by Count Tolstoy as the only way to suppress Militarism. A general refusal of the whole population to obey the summons to the colors would lay the axe at the root of the upas tree of Militarism. The strike against military service was very general in Finland, where it led to the abandonment of the military requisition of the Government of St. Petersburg. It is likely to spread far and wide throughout Russia, and from Russia outward If the Russian Revolution is likely to gain its widest and subtlest influence in the world through its dethrone- ment of Force, then its most immediate, and at first sight its most dangerous, effect will be the fierce stimulus which it will give to the Reds all over the world. There is some- thing contagious in the sight of successful revolution 17S, But if people are Revolutions are as contagious as the cholera. In and again in 1848, the revolution made the tour of Europe Russia has hitherto been the central citadel of authority Now that the red flag is seen floating very near the top- most turret of the Russian citadel, it is not difficult to understand the fierce ferment of excitement which such a spectacle sets up in the masses of the European Continent Bebel frankly told Von Biilow from the tribune of the Reichstag that, but for the iron discipline of the Social Democratic party, what was happening in Russia would be reproduced in Germany. M. Jaures, the most eloquent, and in many respects the most statesmanlike, of the French Socialists, speaking at Paris on December 11, did not hesitate to proclaim the distinctly international character of the Russian Revolu tion. He predicted that the ‘shattering of the Russian throne would bring down all the other thrones in Europe The proletariat of the whole world were now rising.”’ If leaders as responsible and as wary as Herr Bebel and M. Jaures hold such sentiments we can imagine what kind of talk goes on in the obscure haunts where the children of despair meet to discuss their grievances against Society and to plan revenge. In Great Britain the influence of Russian example is alveady acting like vodka upon the more ex- citable members of the Social Democracy. Threats of “*Give ‘em a taste of St. Petersburg!’ are now and then heard at meetings of the unemployed, and at some meetings of late the incitations to violence and rapine have been weighted and barbed with references to the Russian example Whether the working of the tionary leaven will be felt across the Atlantic is a matter or which opinions differ. But one thing is certain: the masses in every country will be more turbulent and less manageable as the result of all that is going on in Russia The first immediate visible result of the upset in Russia has been to bring the demand for manhood suffrage to the front with a rush in Prussia, Saxony, Austria and Hungary In Vienna and in Budapest the Governments have prac- tically capitulated. Universal suffrage has been officially constant revolu

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inscribed upon the banner of the the Imperial Parliament is elected by universal suffrage but the Prussian Landtag is based upon a limited fran- chise. The demand of the mass r adr 10on Within the paie of the constitution Is being pre ed wit , s\ the agitation in Pru a has not been accompanied ¢t at t il is demand Bohemia M« 1 ha “nt even less fortunat: Collisions with the ldiery have no way repressed the ardor of the demonstrators, ar not dificult to foresee an abandonment of the te franchise all along the line In Finland there appea to be « in 4 or I T 4 = t the ba of the reformed D I da 1S likely to } catcning ent ithe} lic nt M the y . ’ ail

I f the Tuileries were } ! I i B r ha hi t ! { i f the ¢ e! Tha ich more il ne A Hed ler of societ han Fr I I e the niv nation of pract lal ntt ‘ The f } peasant 1S an intense 1 idual rhe R ‘ is socialist to the backbone It Rus I Henry George's ideas about the nationalization of the land found any national response Whatever comes of the } n nr eme! . the one thing certain is that the peasar V ot n, legall or illegally, an increase of land. Hundreds of thousar acre will be transferred fr the nad qual ind Vner whether a noble, a monastery, or re} r e of the crown—to the collective oc« itior he pea

However this process may be disguised it will be iz

essence an endowment of the Have-nots with the lands and possessions of the Have And tl transfer of property from the hands of the few to those he many vill be an object less to the masse hy } it irope Whether it will be applic 1 the shape « rr é The Inc B Y XVI Continued ADY ST. CRAYE was more

charming than ever Ver non knew it, and some times he deliberately tried to let her charm him. But though he perceived her chart he could not feel Always before he had felt what he chose to feel Or perhaps—he hated the thought and would not look at it~perhaps all his love airs had beer pictures perhaps he had never felt anything but an artistic pleasure in their grouping and lighting ‘erhaps now he was really feeling natural human er ( the call it that 4 But he At ist t W i ne te i eSel T ent dissatisfaction, a growin I control ever ‘ to 1 rearrange h ‘ 1 1; felt it he hi eolf was controlled. He felt like a wild cre ire, Caught nu trap wa ot gil ana [ ¢ very uncon Even the affair ne alr ceased hit H i hard ‘ ’ ‘ Cal Ss! t (ra t > t lé I ‘ ()} ‘ t} ‘ His Easel. He SATURDAY

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10 be sure what he wants. That’s very clumsily put—-what I mean is “T see what you mean,’ said Temple impa tiently : It’s the devil for him, because then he iets himself drift and the one who wants him collars him, and then of course she always turns out to be the one he didn’t want. My observations are as full of wants as an adver tisement column But the thing to do in all relations of life is to make up your mind what it is that you dv want, and then to jolly well ee that you get it What I want is a pipe You tall aid Temple slowly, ‘‘as though € a man could get any one—I mean anything, he antead dear chap, if he only wants he 1 to make the supreme sacri- fice lemple inquired Marriage,’’ Verno ‘there's only one excuse for m E.xeéuse ? Excuse (nd that excuse is that one couldn't help it--the only excuse one will V to the recording angel, for all one other faults and follies. A man who ¢ help getting married, and ‘ to otler, ore day, doesn't, deserves all he gecs.” THE SATURDAY EVENING POST school—if it’s only Hebrew or Algebra. Not just parish duties that she didn’t begin, and doesn’t want to go on with. But some- thing that’s her own work.” ‘You're beginning to see straight. I surmised you would | a by-and-by. But don’t you go to Vy. x ‘ the other end of the seesaw, 16 ' Miss Daisy-Face!”’ , ‘“What do you mean?”’ asked FF Betty. It was the morning inter- 74 val when students eat pitissert 4 out of folded papers. The two were on the window-ledge of the atelier, looking down on the con- vent garden where already the ie buds were breaking to green leaf. “Why, there’s room for the devil even if your flat ain’t swept and garnished. He folds up mighty small, and gets into less space than a poppy-seed.”’ ‘What do you mean?” asked Betty again. “‘T mean that Vernon chap,” said Miss Voscoe downrightly “IT told you to change partners every now and then. But with you it’s that Vernon this week and last week and the week after I don't agree with you in the least,’’ said " next lemple—‘‘about marriage, | mean. A man “‘T’ve known him longer than to want to get married : I have the others, and I like “« ea for th . ” lo anybody Without its being anybody Betty Poured Tea for the him,” said Betty. ; . : Other Woman to Drink $6 ° 7 > icular? Oh, he’s all right; fine and Yes,”’ said Temple stoutly If he gets to dandy!”’ replied Miss Voscoe. thirty without wanting to marry any one in particular he suught to look about till he finds some one he does want It's the right and proper thing to marry and have kiddies.” Oh, if re going to be patriarchal,” said Vernon What a symbolic dialogue! We begin with love and we nd with marriage! There’s the tragedy of romance in i nutshell Yes, life a beastly rotten show, and the ight won't last more than another two hours Your hit ‘ delicate as gossamer,”’ said rempk Dor ything at me I'm going.” in Vernon's hands ; the worst of walking care- ily all vour da you do come such an awful cropper ru do come one [Two women. The jasmine lady 1 ay yracticing on his poor little heart Heigh- . 1 wish she could do as much for me! And the other one | Ippose The use of the pronoun, the disuse of the grammar 1} ip short By Jove,” he said, ‘that’s what people say when But I'm not in love with anybody I want to work.” But he didn't work. Heseldom did now And when he t 1 His easel held most often the portrait of Betty that had been begun at Long Barton but a disquieting likeness He walked up and down his room not thinking, but dreaming. His dreams took him io the warren, in the pure morning light; he saw Setty; he told himself what he had said, what she had said And it was I who advised her to come to Paris. — If only was not roo i known th He stopped and asked himself what he knew now that I ‘ n, refused himself the answer, and went; the bleak winds of January i snow lay white on the walls of and garden | The empty s life was full now : cage that had opened its door to love at Long Barton had now other occupant Ambition was beginning to grow its wing feathers She could draw at least some day she would be able to draw Already she had won a prize with a charcoal study of a bare back Sut she did not dare to name this to her father, and when he wrote to ask what was the subject of her prize drawing she replied with misleading truth that it was a study from nature. His imagination pictured a rustic cottage, a water-wheel, a castle and moun tains in the distance and cows and a peasant in the fore ground But, though her life that first-comer was not ousted. Only he had changed his plumage and she called him Friendship. She blushed sometimes and stamped her foot when she remembered those meetings in the sumr beats And oh, the ‘“‘drivel’’ she had written in snow crowded with new interests, ner mornings, her tremors, her Girls ought never to be allowed to lead that ‘sheltered home life,’’’ she said to Miss Voscoe, ‘‘ with nothing real in it It makes your mind all swept and garnished and then you hurry to fill it up with rubbish “That's so,”’ said her friend “Tf ever ] have a daughter,” said Betty, ‘ work at something definite the very inst she shall set to nt minute she leaves ‘He’s a big man, too, in his own line. Not the kind you expect to see knocking about at a students’ erémerie Does he give you lessons?"’ ‘*He did at home,” said Betty ‘Take care he doesn't teach you what’s the easiest thing in creation to learn about a man.” “What's that?’’ Betty did not like to have to ask the question. “W hy , how not to be able to do without him, of course, sald Miss Voscoe “You're quite mistaken,” said Betty eagerly. ‘One of the reasons | don’t mind going about with him so much is that he’s engaged to be m: ed.” Acquainted with the lady? **Yes,"’ said Betty, sheltering behind the convention that an introduction at a tea-part y constitutes acquaint- anceship. She was glad Miss Voscoe had not asked her if she kne Lady ot Craye. “Oh, well’’— Miss Voscoe jumped up and shook the flakes of pastry off her pinafore if she doesn’t mind, I guess I've got no call to. But why don’t you give that Saint a turn? Meaning?” Mr. Temple Headmires younoend. He'd bealways in your pocket if you'd let him. He’s worth fifty of the other man I keep my eyes skinned — and the sketch club gives me a chance to tot them both up a man, if he isn’t as an artist I guess I can size up a man some. The other man isn’t That's how it strikes me.”’ t?”’ echoed Bettv, bewildered. t dye: fast color. I suspect he'd go wrong a bit in the wash. Temple's fast color, warranted not to run.’ I know,” said Betty, ‘but I don’t care for the color, and I'm rather tired of the patte rn.” I wish you'd tell me which of the two was the three- polite-word man.” I know you do. But surely you see? You're too cute. Just as likely it’s the Temple one, and that’s why you're so sick of the pattern by now.”’ Didn't I tell you you were clever?” laughed Betty. Bui, all the same, next evening when Vernon called to take her to dinner she said “Couldn't we go somewhere else? nier Fa Fas I'm tired of Gar- Vernon was tired of Garnier’s, too Do you know Thirion’s?"’ he said Thirion’s in the Boulevard St. Germain, Thirion’s where Du Maurier used to go, and Thackeray, and all sorts of celebrated peopl and where the host treats you like a friend, and the waiter like a brother.” I should love to be treated like a waiter’s brother. Do let's go,” said Betty. The Fate who was amusing herself by playing with Betty's destiny had sent Temple to call on Lady St. Craye that afternoon, and Lady St. Craye had seemed bored, so bored that she had hardly appeared to listen to Temple's talk, which, duly directed by her quite early into the channel she desired for it, flowed in a constant stream over the name, the history, the work, the personality of Vernon. When at last the stream ebbed Lady St. Craye made a pretty feint of stifling a yawn. al March 31, 1906 “Oh, how horrid I am!”’ she cried with instant peni- tence, ‘‘and how very rude you will think me! I think I have the blues to-day, or, to be more French and more poetic, the black butterflies. It 7s so sweet of you to have let me talk to you. I know I've been as stupid as an owl. Won’t you stay and dine with me? I'll promise to cheer up if you will.” Mr. Temple would, more than gladly. “Or no,”’ Lady St. Craye went on, ‘‘that’ll be dull for you, and perhaps even for me if I begin to think I’m boring you. Couldn’t we do something desperate——dine at a Latin Quarter restaurant, for instance? What was that place you were telling me of, where the waiter has a wonder- ful voice and makes the orders he shouts down the tube sound like the recitative of the basso at the opera? **Thirion’s,”’ said Temple; ‘‘but it wasn’t I; it was Vernon.” “Thirion’s, that’s it!’’ Lady St. Craye broke in before Vernon’s name left his lips. ‘‘ Would you like to take me there to dine, Mr. Temple?” It appeared that Mr. Temple would like it of all things. “Then I'll go and put on my hat,” said she, and trailed her sea-green tea-gown across the room. At the door she turned to say: ‘‘It will be fun, won't it?’’—and to laugh delightedly, like a child who is promised a treat That was how it happened that Lady St. Craye, brushing her dark furs against the wall of Thirion's staircase, came, followed by Temple, into the room where Betty and Vernon, their heads rather close together, were dis- cussing the menu. This was what Lady St. Craye had thought of more than alittle. Yet it was not what she had expected. Vernon, perhaps, yes: or the girl. But not Vernon and the girl together. Not now—at her very first visit It was not for a second that she hesitated. Temple had not even had time to see who it was to whom she spoke before she had walked over to the two and greeted them “How perfectly delightful!” she said. ‘* Miss Desmond, I’ve been meaning to call on you, but it’s been so cold, and I've been so cross, I've called on nobody. Ah, Mr. Vernon you too?” She looked at the vacant chair near his, and Vernon had to say: **You'll join us, of course?” So the two little parties made one party, and one of the party was angry and annoyed, and no one of the party was quite pleased, and all four concealed what they felt and affected what they did not feel, with as much of the tact of the truly well-bred as each could call up. In th polite exercise Lady St. Craye was easily first. She was charming to Temple, she was very nice to Betty, and she spoke to Vernon with a delicate, subtle, faint sug- gestion of proprietorship in her tone. At least that was how it seemed to Betty. To Temple it seemed that she was tacitly apologizing to an old friend for having involun tarily broken upadinner@ deur. And each one interpreted her tone exactly as she meant that one to inte rpret it. To Vernon it spelled out an all but overmastering jealousy proudly .overmastered. All that pretty fiction of there being now no possibility of sentiment between him and her flickered down and died. And with it the interest that he had felt in her ‘She have unexplored reserves? Bah!" he told himself, “*she is just like the rest.”’ He felt that she had not come from the other side of the river just to dine with Temple. He knew she had been looking for him. And the temptation assailed him to reward her tender anxiety by devoting himself wholly to Betty. Then he remembered what he had let Betty believe as to the relation in which he stood to this other woman His face lighted up with a smile of answering tenderness Without neglecting Betty he seemed to lay the real homage of his heart at the feet of that heart's lady. ‘*By Jove,” he thought, as the dark, beautiful eyes met his in a look of more tenderness than he had seen in them this many a day, “if only she knew how she’s playing my game for me!” Betty, for her part, refused to recognize a little pain that gnawed at her heart and stole all taste from the best dishes of Thirion’s. She talked as much as possible to Temple because it was the proper thing to do, she told herself, and she talked very badly. Lady St. Craye was transfigured by Vernon’s unex- pected acceptance of her delicate advances, intoxicated by the sudden flutter of a dream she had only known with wings in full flight, into the region where dreams, clasped to the heart, become realities. She grew each moment more beautiful. The host, going from table to table, talking easily to his guests, could not keep his fascinated eyes from her face, The proprietor of Thirion’s had good taste, and knew a beautiful woman when he saw her Betty’s eyes, too, strayed more and more often from her plate, and from Temple, to the efflorescence of this new beauty-light. She felt mean and poor, ill-dressed, shabby, dowdy, dull, weary and uninteresting. Her face felt tired. It was an effort to smile. When the dinner was over she said abruptly:

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“Tf you'll excuse I don’t want any one to see me home. Just put me ina carriage.’ She insisted, and it was done When the ¢ cochére of 57 Boulevard Montparnasse, Betty was sur- i prised and wounded to discover tI ‘Well, you here thev were eng herself into her room with her latchkey they were engaged! What did you expect? Temple could not remember afterward exactly how he got separated from the others. It just happened, as such unimportant things will. He missed them somehow at a crossing, looked about him in vain, shrugged his shoulder and went home. Lady St. Craye hesitated a moment with her latchkey in herhand. Then she threw open the door of her flat ‘Come in fire-warmed, flower-scented, lamplit room Vernon also hesitated amoment. Then he followed. He stood on the hearth-rug with his back to the wood fire. Hedid not spéak Somehow it was difficult for her to take up their talk at the place and in the strain where it had broken off when Betty pro- ( laimed her he adac he Yet this was what she must do, seemed to her, or lose all the ground she had gained. \ ou've been ve ry charming to me this evening,”’ she said at last, and knew as she said it that it wrong thing to say ‘You flatter me,” said Vernon ‘I was so surprised oO see you there,”’ she went on. Vernon was Surprise d that she should say it. He had thought more highly of her powers The pleasure was mine,” he said in his most banal tones, ‘‘ the surprise, alas, was all for you~ and all you gained.’ Weren’t you surprised ?’’-— Lady St. Craye was angry and humiliated That she she should find herself nervous, at fault, find herself playing the game as crudely as any shopgirl! No,” said Vernon. Sut you couldn’t have expected me?’’ She knew quite well what she was doing, but she was too nervous to stop herself. “I’ve always expected you,’’ he said delibe rately, ever since I told you that I often dined at Thirion’s.” You expected me to i lo run after me?” said Vernon with paraded ingenuousness yes didn’t you?”’ “TJ run after you You she stopped short, for she saw in his eyes that, if she let him quarrel with her now, It Was for ever. He at the same moment awoke from the trance of anger that had come upon him when he found him- self alone with her; anger at her, and at himself, fanned to fury by th thought of Betty and of what she, at this moment, must be thinking laughed. ‘‘Ah, don’t break my heart!’’ he said. “T’'ve been so happy all the evening fancying that you had—you had Had what?”’ she asked, with dry lips, for the caress in his tone was such as to deceive the very elect. Had felt just the faintest little touch of interest in m« had cared to know how I spent my evenings, and with whom!” ‘You thought I could stoop to spy on you?” she asked ‘Monsieur flatters himself.”’ The anger in him was raising its head again Monsieur very seldom does,”’ he said. She took that as she chose to take it. ‘‘No, you’re beautifully humble ‘‘And you're proudly beautiful.” She flushed and looked down. ‘‘Don't you like to be told that you're beautiful?” ‘Not by you. Not like that!” ‘And so you didn’t come to Thirion’s to see me? How one may deceive one’s self! The highest hopes we cherish here! Another beautiful illusion gone!” She said to herself: ‘*I] can do nothing with him in this mood,”’ and aloud she could not help saying: ‘‘ Was ita beautiful one?”’ ‘Very,” he answered gayly. ‘‘Can you doubt it?” THE re drew up in front of the closed porte- won tyou ?*’ she said, and led the way into her “How Perfectly Delightful!"’ She Said Miss Desmond, I've Been Meaning SATURDAY EVENING POST ind Kissed he i I ( enir ‘ } } | St } he t } 1 SS} \\ Vl XVI INTERVENTIONS us Yipes } La St. ( \ - th i hra \ cT AT ne t ‘ ! \\ i t t f t } } \ it la na ( ‘ ! \ nad won t ‘ ( had bee mere t i | I id You el ¢ ! \\ deuce a il l t The } ing It ? he t I I I ( even the last of thet \ ‘ t had I ‘ \ t Lady St. ¢ ‘ } ! St. ( ‘ on of herself Lot hi i it \ ‘ I | ( i } | AY | ( hat Mr. Vert ‘ But | | M to Call on You, but It’s Been So Cold” (rave for ! : 1e-scented leisure Lady St. Crave ana ed I th L kr I herself, and him and Her Above all Her —> who v To find out how it all seemed to her that, present Vert Cra the one p , t ) n 4 t I ! cr i tT ‘ { ‘ d ri re I ( 1 at falsif her ¢ | 1 a | } me S} } richt ar S t Ve " - witha grace that Lady St. Crave had not seen in her She R M des! nd ( ee tehed her was dressed in a plain gown, that |} f } | | ral in long, straight, green folds Her hair was dowr ind Bett noranee of the Betty had beautiful hair Lady St. Crave hair had never her friend C} | A been long. settv's fell nearly to her kne« prompting of nature, tk ‘ a h decrees that one “Oh, was the door open?” she said didn’t kno hould not speak of the thir } rea ntere ne I’ve—I’m so sorry I've been washing my hair

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A°D'‘ 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 ARCH STREET ) 427 GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR PHILADELPHIA, MARCH Single Subscriptions Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers For Countries in the Single Subscriptions, $3.25 Remittances to be Made by Internationa! Postal Money Order The People TaKe a Hand THE SATURDAY EVENING POST company show the policyholder every year exactly what it has earned on his money, in such form that he can readily compare it with results obtained by other companies, and economical management will follow automatically. Life insurance’s generous political corruption were simply a symptom of life-insurance graft contributions to The officers paid blackmail precisely because they them- were using dishonestly Remove the managerial graft and the yellow-dog funds will inevitably go with it re the world over rigidly limits the investment of trust funds to first-grade, non-speculative securities. The first step in life-in reform should be to impose this usage upon insurance funds To Let—In the Hall of Fame HERE has never been a time in the history of the world where the giving of money for philanthropic and pub- and on such a large Although the opportunities for useful giving are even vaster than the libs rality of our selves policyholders’ money Sound t urance lic uses was so common present in this country rich men, and infinitely more varied than they ever were before, yet givers seer to keep pretty closely to the old, ife line hospitals, art museums and educational insti- tutions. Of all the notable givers of our time Mr. Carneg is the only one who has shown any power to strike out ne conceptions of usefulness, or any desire t explore n fields. His Carnegie fund for research, and his pensio fund for college prof rs, are novel ¢ xperiments 1n givin and they promise well. Certainly nothing is needed in phi anthropie enterprise more than imagination, and, judging by the bequests of great millionaires, the money-getter seems to lack that quality. Possibly would-be benefactors leave to others whom they consider competent to judge the selection of the channels through which their gifts will gx the public, and their advisers choose the safe things. Of all the fields of creative activity calling for imaginatio: would seem to be the worked and the most has gone begging, for example national theatre! It would take considerably less than to endow a university properly, and would do far more to elevate the public in taste and morals than ten universities. Here is a niche in the world’s hall of fame empty for the want of a man of great wealth imagination. that of giving away money most because the least far- What an in the attractive, reaching opportunity creating of a great and some Celestial Cooks W* HUMBLY ubmit that the United States should open a small back door in that stiff wall which shuts There less, in this most out the Chine We hasten to explain why. iborer are at present 1,647,301 families, more or prosperous land who cannot corral the ‘‘ hired girl’ (of tra- dition) by lo money or physical force. We would not iggest that one job, even that of a domestic servant, be taken from the hands of true Americans (be they Swede, Ir h, Italian, Greek or Hottentot Ne vertheless, some remedy is due the distressed American housewife, who, with money in hand, sits all day in the employment bureau American’ rherefore, let Government admit in bond, to be kept in torage in some and is spurned by labor central spot, a couple of hundred thousand meek Celestials Then, whenever the American housewife shall have duly advertised in vain for “ help,”’ let her have the right to apply to the of the court permitting her said place of storage not more than one vant —the employer to maximum t wage and to make affidavit vearly that due efforts titute for the ran order nearest from the to extract pay the t i rY le Lo secure an merican coolie laborer. Whenever an American fe Chinan ih theecn nor inne ‘ al dey Lhe manufacturers ol food-products ma} be expected to rt } I for the Chinese are renowned cook espe ! lisguising the true inwardness of any dish They can make n elou pies out of sawdust, and counter- any dainty or ht. They might convert the public ) coal tar and aniline dyes, boracie acid, and the entire pharmacope@ia of the new 1ousands of Celestial Let Us Abolish This, Also HAVE dist to be rec think the of Congress and size We have yn of the Senate tin the But nobody st who modest House inds up and which demands the extinguishment of the Supreme Court really surprising, when you consider that the avowed object of all the publicists is to produce a more truly repre- entative form of government Everybod: this time, has noticed the large, constant hadow which rests upon the railroad rate regulatior t ness at Washington -to wit, the question whether, March 31, 1906 President and Congress having agreed upon a law, the Supreme Court will not wipe it off the statute-book. We need no great constitutional lawyer to help us to the great constitutional guess that if the new law should contain anything that restricted the powers of the judiciary, tend- ing to prevent it from taking a decisive hand in matters of interest and moment, the law would fare very badly when it was put on trial for its life. No doubt four of the nine justices would dissent from the decision, as happens with all important decisions, and the whole question of rate regulation would actually hinge upon the tempera- ment, associations and habits of thought of one man. We suppose nobody seriously argues that any of the great five- to-four decisions actually turned upon anything more than the mere individual bent of a single justice. If one indi- vidual’s bent had been different, the Northern Securities merger would have been legal, the income been valid, and so on. Illinois, we hear at this writing, distracted because one Supreme Court judge is ill, and the remainder of the bench is evenly divided as to the con- election act that infinite effort rets well and makes up his mind nobody nearly tax would have titutionality of an cost Until the judge whether t } knows e act Is law or Waste paper A Jury of His Peers AS A SOCIOLOGICAL exhibit the acquittal of Pat 4 Crowe at On vas less important than thecomments + } best-informed local opinion, evidently ahaw upon it. From the shared by the trial judge, it appears that Crowe was guilty ol kidnapir g the young son of Edward Cudah father by threatening to put out the and extort ing a ransom from the j but the acquitted him because he is a poor, vntrodden thief unfortunate, dé and desperado, whil Cudahy is a millionaire partner in the despised and op- pressive Beef Tru lhe jury's supposed theory that, if a man’s commercial methods are unpopular, his small chil dren n L with in applause in the eriticisn the main question at issu Let us Say that the | characteristics neither uncommon nor cognizable ut any law that we know of. Running over some of the utter- ances evoked by th« we shudder to think what the fate of this merely foo ry would be if tried by a panel of selected editors who ] ged the case in the which they commented upon it. The be wider of justice than the one important organ of public opinion hotl received with " ldnaped punity, was courtroom, and with an outburst of heated upon elsewhere which throws an interesting light two } jury was stupid and prejudiced erdict, Same passion in tinding would surel) was. We have pointing to the another sternly add- es of the trusts, which, by exas- Crowe verdict case as an effect of yellow journalism; ing it to the list perating the people, The sense of justice Is not native, but ac quire d elect few ever acquire it in such degree that they are just when their passions or preposss iched. The lawyer always rejects the venire-man whose associations or habits would tend to bring a personal feeling into his con- sideration of the case. About two times out of three the passion of a community, if widely and deeply aroused against the accused, will hang him without much regard to law or evidenc: No human institution Trial by jury is very, ver) far from perfection than any other s\ the moralist kind we've got of the crit corrupt their native sense of justice ssions are t as a great many instances show perfect But on the whole it gives better results em. ‘‘Human justice often errs,’ ’ said the judge, ‘ said ‘but it’s the only **Gentlemen’s Agreements” —— recent decline of cotton below eleven cents a pound naturally sharpened public interest in the fate of the t rowers’ association, which proposes, by limiting the area markets, to secure a minimum price next crop. Whether the gr of thirteen cents wers tove the icceed depends upon whether they st whether thev stick toge ther This at coéperation and combination. freedom except as a sort of depends upon whether they have suffered enoug! is true of nearly all attempts Generally men will not surrender their individual i las? resort The great industrial consolidations of '97 and "OS were partly born of the fearful depression of ’93 and ‘96 The labor unions are, of course, the greatest example of Their vital basis lies in codperatior the wretched con- dition of labor before the days of unions. A man who Knows hunger either by expemence or tradition Is reader o trade a part of his individual liberty for something that will safeguard him from hunger. Thus, about four times out of five the codperation of the workman is far solider ind more effective than the opposing coéperation of the regulate railroad xy “gentlemen's agreements" almost always fail rates and other things Not Here growers have combined effectively —after idual freedom great obstacle npts to 4 t 1 and there fruit tasting bankruptcy in untrammeled indit of the The actual prosperity farmer is th to agricultural coéperatior

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 13 The Packers and the Future rvwraotermcriew Dy J. Ogden Armour

thir 3 of a merchant wi . lead Phe r e com? il fal } Mars} Field | behind } isal 1 th pr one fixed business rul I | ar ita ur price The private cat ne inter hliy pre sent a » be judged no ! nit { Wi . nh e been in the refrigeration service busir for venty ear Weha he iccessful e e det nd has required that ever ak ir ear it } ( ‘ ( e » has had Oo Dack Into ne ndit ent Cray ( il oryvanization to take re t ‘ i ( ( , made po le e st ‘ Id ‘ | ‘ have | ip i t! cal ‘ } ir (

inothner, ne \ a 1 alme make pr M M i the compant nee d He Mar } que ek i, for ¢ t ‘ t ! hy P } ; “ae ' ; Mic} r The P Marquette hungry for more tr Armour we ot f the Pere Mar te d guara i f A tr ta iW t I el irn i I M i t ‘ ‘ ise nor it Art , , f pme lr} I M e had a ! ‘ ! ! t or i 0 i t ¢ it ( } peo ng own lit hat statement is misleading as a whok il i} ‘ ! false in de il The writer of it ne r ( re ‘ | { o make it if he had ht the H have ¢ cou ‘ rned them from the | Com1 Cor Me exe Af ‘ { } } ri \ . me i th if | ri f ! . Pere M — KR id , eS} I M ii I nh reirigera ! he I n re Harr ‘ 1 ya w old refrigerator I ) \ i r r the te i} m other lines Phat se vith s ! e and lor ho lis f , ' \ nsequent | fr mbered with a at the r 1d M n peach i } f t 1 el pr f the h th ry ntra ex e « h th nd iw } | } “7 \r ir Car | When tl hiy ‘ tt Pere Marquette Railroad officials made inquir i yng Quality First: Rate Second the crows: } ppt ‘ } | } ; ae i how he } ‘ j er 1} rms sso he i fthe A rvice and | ‘ ot } eX ‘ i he Per mer i ed ‘ ace th ‘ 1 t he «¢ { I t f ' from « P } The Pere Marquette Case abour t t . o or experimental, contraet was executed July — gomus firet wos lusiefline the Facts Ri Is, 100. the econd < executed n I m Y | \ os 3

is Mt / hich he P ( I é e Pe Ml If the Pere M t f I 1 I \ ¢ ; 4¢ ( ‘ ‘ d ana 4 i ; : } : ; pa i { 1} noth the meat- ff et , cari iw contract. Other pach ma ree i Mic ’ I ments with the Pe re Marque eat tin nt? ’ i r f 1904. r e] } } h} And right here it should be said tk } ! ( I tatement come is near tl rutt he char ‘ r brought to sho he ! i i] ba t it lich fT iilroads into giving hi es exclusive ntracts for than for] ear } r I the refrigeration of fre ts and vege to 1902the M nra Now there is a sequ Pere Marque a ae anit cae the sequel should be interesting to those whoss mpathi« iftert e been wrought upon

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As well say that every suit of clothes is equally good and all suits ought to be sold at the same price. Let me recapitu- late, briefly, the main points of the service: Refrigeration service of the first class— the kind private car lines furnish—must be thoroughly organized and manned by spe- cialists, and must be comprehensive in its field of operation, equipped to give the shipper service in wa to any part of the country. Its cars must be specially de- signed for carrying highly perishable berries and fruit; it must keep those cars in the best possible condition, and permit them to be used but rarely and discreetly for carrying anything but fruit, berries or vegetables. It must maintain, the year round, an expert and npn force of men to prepare, in detail and long in ad- vance, for the car supply, ice supply, in most districts bracing and stripping "lumber, labor, ete., to meet the varying demand of each season in each district where it oper- ates. It must carry a still larger force to manage and supervise loading and icing stations during the shipping season, men who receive traveling expenses as well as salary, and who are idle atthe expense of the car lines practically three months in the year. It must maintain throughout the country icing stations, icing Inspectors, and men to handle the ice for prompt re-icing of cars and whole trains in transit. It must maintain car building and car repair shops near all the large fruit districts, and often gangs of repairers in the field, for hardly a car makes a trip without needing some re- pairs. The employees in the field are, in most cases, practical fruit men as well as refrigeration men, who can show the inex- perienced grower how to handle his crop. What the Car Line Risks And, finally—but by no means least —the car line must assume the risk. It must buy an . store great quantities of ice and organ- ize s force of emp before the first fruit tree tl loss It may make all the exten- sive prepar ‘ations for a record crop that turns out a total failure and converts prep- arations into dead loss. On the other hand, it may re, on the best tainal an average crop and upon to handle a ae ee one; rt of enough ears, ice or men to han- nexpectedly weed y or fast-ripening tand the « onsequences, At this writing we are put to extreme of the open winter, to secure an ice for next season. At one northern po int alone we are spending $100,000 for an ice machine to meet this Again, we are buying machine ice where we should have iral ice, and shipping it from remote points. All this heavy expense involves no advance of re- frigeration rates. The burden falls on the car lines, not on the growers Without the guaranty of an exclusive contract, as I tried to make clear in a former article, the private refrigerator car line could not afford to assume the risks of this business; neither could it afford to furnish the service at the price it charges Expe ri- ence has demonstrated that to the satisfac- tion of growers, shippers and railroads. Experience has demonstrated, too, that the exclusive contract is as much a bene- fit to the car lines’ customers as it is to the car lines. It is a guaranty to the grower, the shipper and the railroad that when the fruit crop ripens in a given territory there will be an ample supply of first-class refrig- erator cars to carry the fruit in, and an organized refrigeration service to protect the fruit on its way to any and every market. The refrigerator car line and the exclusive contract exist solely because they have been loyees estimates ob- be called and if it f alls s crop, it must measures, because emeryvency, handling of ye tshable jruits and vegetable They owe nothing to favoritism and none is practiced by means of them, directly or in- directly, for or against any railroad, car line, grower, ‘ship yper or receiver of shipments. Some of ye most imports ant contrac held by the Armour Car Lines are in that THE SATURDAY EVENING POST great fruit belt extending through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Caro- lina, where the railroads could not possibly be coerced by Armour & C».’s “great power over the railroad” as ‘‘a great shipper. The railroads there with which exclusive contracts have been made for years are competing lines : the Southern, the Sea- board Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line, the Central of Georgia, the Western and Atlantic, and the Georgia Southern and Florida, and so on. How would you force the same kind of an exclusive contract from each of three competing lines by threaten- ing to divert freight from one to another? Another point: Armour is not a “great shipper” over any of the railroads in that territory. The meat and provisions ship- ments that go over these roads are not heavy through shipments on a wholesale basis—for export, for redistribution, ete.— but are only the comparatively small ship- ments to supply local consumption in a territory whose largest city has a population of only 150,000. Shipments of that char- acter hardly give Armour “ great power over the railroads.” Now let us see what there is to the com- plaint that the exclusive contract gives the private car line a ‘‘monopoly”’ and enables it to ‘‘charge what it likes.”’ No Monopoly A refrigerator car line does acquire, by an exclusive contract, all the refrigeration business arising during the life of the con- tract on the particular railroad contracted with, and acquires it for the reasons already explained; but this contract no more createsamono oly, in the accepted meaning of the word, than does the contract under which one paper mill, for example, supplies all the paper of certain grades used by the United States Government. The refriger- ator car line’s contract, like the paper mill's contract, 1S simply an agreement that certain well-defined service shall be per- formed during a certain period at a certain price, and in accordance with specifically described conditions. The contract is open to compe tition before it is executed. The specifications or conditions as to car supply, ice supply, re-icing, ete., are care- fully drawn to meet the requirements of the shippers and the railroads. Maximum rates are named, it is specified that the rates shall be reasonable, and the car line is no t left a chance to ‘“‘charge what it likes.’ Contract conditions having been thus prescribed, the railroad naturally lets the refrigeration contract to the car line that is best able to carry out the contract con- ditions. Right here I may explain that in many cases, and whenever conditions warrant it the rates charged are less than the maximum rates named in the contract. And if rates should be made tee high—so high as to be burdensome—the railroad, which ought to be selfishly interested in encouraging its shippers, has the remedy in its own hands. It can annul the contract for cause. To emphasize what I have before suggested, look at this rate question from the cold viewpoint. Tue Sarurpay Evening Post, for example, has a monopoly in its own peculiar field as a high-class weekly magazine. Could it afford to put its price per copy so high that the seumie would not buy it; or could it afford to put a prohibitive price upon its advertising columns—a price that would make it an unprofitable medium for adver- tisers? The greater the quantity of fruit grown, the greater the volume of business for refrigerator cars. No car line could afford to make oppressive rates that would discourage and diminish fruit growing. And if the car line were so foolish as to do that, could the railroad afford to let it be done and so rob itself of freight revenue from fruit shipments? In view of the facts I havestated asto how car lines’ exclusive contracts are made, the logic of your own business experience ought to make it plain that a car line cannot business-sense “charge what it likes,’’ and, if it could, would not desire to charge unreasonable rates, Now for a few facts on the broad state- ments and broader insinuations to the effect that certain strong railroads—too strong to be influenced by the power of ‘‘a great shipper’’—furnish better refriger- ation at lower rates than private car lines do. Certain railroads do operate their own refrigerator cars, but chiefly in the dairy products and produce business. The pri- vate car lines which are under fire do berry and fruit refrigeration chiefly, which is March 31, 1906 Have Been Established 54 Vears favorable comm day from an point tl 1an all o' ther makes combined We Challenge Comparisons. By our easy payment plan every famil in moderate circumstances can own a vose piano. 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‘ I ferer I I I 1 Ar was a ¢ I daar } i i ( juently, ! i < } iL eS ther ‘ 4 4 r Onlv a verv few 1 a fur el I ition ona scale ete | ‘ nspectior re a } ive ne VI Mc ( roads which « } istheS a } I ( i] ; . . ’ f ] } \ nm service or t ca i Ca ‘ i \ i rate i i ‘ ads which ‘ eft t f 1 ( rate do this bu a 1 bx ke they would s ite i pr Phe Penr i Na ind th ca i Gould Lines have been met da iN ] efused to make ¢ S ri i I ISO7, ‘ private ¢ nes, the li ne that { ur f , " { Ihe De Lune hey were rh ) W La . octopus.” th fa Phe ‘ ‘ I} { I ar lines have no formal « ! I ne \ Gccil asl 4] Pennsylvania Ra read, t I Nel { an ears has handled most of the be ind == ¢ e} { ‘ - 1, \ l & 8 I I retri ‘ al ‘ tl 4 I t | al in Delaware ne! eb l ] ice) T | < | ( i 1 Rai re I al T years . ) : originates private car ‘ i ‘ t ( l IN] Dp « { I beer l ne ulroad t i irt if | f the berry efrigera on the dk i 1) ‘ Pennsvlvar t Nea he prese } i \\ if ner} Pennsylvani: re erator ¢ iré iy 1 t ad | ; . ‘| ‘ used for dairy K ul } | tal i tt Ty y 1¢ h i] The Gouk i r not ol eca t own any retrigerator cars; they do own tl vi es pra l { Nes hi ) American Refrigerator Transit C ANY I ng this, mar i t ‘ | Pa ’ which is a separate corporatior nd ji living has been reduced | = WHT TI the Armour and er egetable development Me , < * vill bye a ‘ e. Mostofthese A.R.T. — servic t | ‘q ioe 1 for da pre ind ¢ ipparecnt ild lit he ID er and é { , in ex¢ e contra h AL Ube i privat ee re 14 OF of. 190 g cars then replaced a —. PWead ites Pseofcce ag a Diaencipher 1 Bee, sect Running a New Line The Knapp-Felt 4). ¢) el for handling Colorad lar ar r g | age te ear a friend of 1 ’ ‘a ee ee fruit business. About nth ago the old bank clerk in a city of firmer texture of Knapp exclusive contract betwe+ he Ay wn five th ha , i ( iT ] Ines ind the Der er a R ry l t t! ‘ | | \ it ! | ‘ li (| | | ) Lt 1) a Gould line, \ renewed — b . tant t| in ft i { \ 4 ua i i i lor s line So tl | ate ca pl hir cyt { , rnd ‘ ne re! ator cars l re i ( irs t ; on a Gi railroad. These f ht to — life Cronap blac atisfy the 1 t captic that ther no \ } ! \ hone the itement orinsir } hund i } retain il railroads furnish bett r thar er | H } | ! private ¢ ir line 10 ¢ ha od ser Uric t ! I Ol iN le . pth ce at lower rates, « hey are forced in an « rnd bloom to take our servict of M } railroad officials who have had t ( im} ‘ | he r ¢ l l special attent Oo! to reir rerat n prac ! t 4 1 t VM ! ‘ ! tically all to the contrar Che railroad far d " he « characterist on which the great bulk of highly perishabk th here ‘ fruit business originate the Southerr t} ‘ to rel Pacific, Pere Marquette, the untic = five he ‘ ent in Coast Line, the Central of Georgia ther The t ! : southeastern lines—long since ad« d the bank I fi ticeal ye ( 1« private car line service and facilities under ibility of the n that, to aid his ex-clerk exclusive contracts, to the bett tisfactior he secured for 1 f t i little place f wance of LV / g t rl ( ! { } ' 1 . . in ‘h . ed and tf Tes toy cther with perb qual The Consumer's Interest and three vea me itv int hest « velop left the lit i five } ‘ cn The consumer, too, has a vital interest in intact for the venture ment of thr | itl tke | art this private car lin tior Every city For the first eigh ! wel, wife of mode eans kr that friend had « i ! I I \n unl WCCO] ] il l the season during which she can have fresh t econo! ‘ ( } erences ahaa. Pty ct talita tu mncuntl 0 a <teege not proper, no matter what longer now than it used to be six to ten Since th he busir ha name or trade-mark it \ years ago. Then only the very rich could _ per far beyond the f ‘ } f disregard the season by disregarding ex- founder, and the y I unde pense in supplying the table; but familie gained rob I } mast f " - of small or moderate incomes had to g profitable and hich he - ‘ ; their ‘‘fresh’”’ fruit, berries and v t d Hi f | } ‘ ] ] ] )-4 4 finaps + out of cans fora large part of the ye: ‘ ed Ply1 h R " 43] l I | P4 { condition was not changed until refrig n is paid 1 car S¢ rvice, developed and made ethe The eg ire ( ected 1 or | , | P the specializing of the private car 3, nes daily, and are caref sorted Hats are made ina sulficient opened the way for growers in all part of according t ind ! rh ire f . { ; . { the country to grow and market early fruit colors: pea I I I " vie —e ; 7 and vegetables at a pront. The truth of dark-creal! Uy I i ) I 1 () \ ( ) this will appeal to any city resident whether colored eggs are rejected at 1 with a member of a family ora patron of aboard- brand in the open market hat for ¢ Voda ANC | ing-house, hotel or restaurant. The mod- After the « i thr : erately circumstanced in all cities had dozen to a package, in a neat past urd 1p Ue i Ihe no fresh fruits and vegetables until crops box expr made for the purpose, ar +] Ky ; | De] ripened at near-by points. In Chicago they ittra ‘ ibeled h the 1 ul ' Me . :' waited for strawberries until they came add f the f SO Kona | t 44 from Indian: { southern Illinois and did to ha ne pac i t not revel in them until the Michigan crop pe t The | A ; ripened; New York's economical house- giving eal rand ¢ I . wives waited for Delaware’s crop. The Ther i ? I I . ‘popular price”’ restaurant or hotel did not tit n, ar | I ! B . pretend to carry lettuce, fresh tomatoes the package correct ibeled. Ten of and such tender vegetables in ire packed ina " winter menu; if they appeared : he by the evenir iin, I winter they appeared only as novelties f enterprise by th 1 a stroke ol!

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This sim ly double e iit t the nbbon Inte rchangeable Carriage —The regu the machine can be removed and a differ t length or longe t ubstituted for spe al k Detachable Platen —1| ate etachabl I 1 an extra platen for stencil itting of mune h work can be quickly sut Line I ock - The keys all lock firmly at t ' etermined $line These aré the features you have always wanted in a typewriter. They are found only in THe NEW VISIBLE Every expert who has examined this machine has pronounced it a marvel of completeness. LD ' ‘ terature n request Fox Tesewtter Company Executive Office and Factory 468 Front St., Girand Rapids, Mich. ne (an you not see she is? he asked im- patie ntly No, : said the Trace fi Harren stared at him. Captain Harren,” continued the Tracer ‘I can see nothing upon this bit of paper that resembles in the human face or figure.” Harren turned white. ‘Not that I doubt that you can see it, pursued the Tracer calmly. ‘I simply repeat that I see absolutely nothing on this paper except a part of a curtain, a window- pane, and —and is ‘ What! For God'ss hoarsel) remotest degree a ake!”’ cried Harren ‘I don’t know yet. Wait; let me study it ‘Can you not see her face, her eyes? Don’t you see that exquisite slim figure by the curtain?’’ demanded Harren, laying his shaking finger on the phot ograp yh. ‘W hy, man, it is as clear, as clean cut, as distinct as though the pic ire had been taken in sunlight! Do you mean to say that there is nothing there that Ll am crazy? No. Wait.” ‘Wait! How standing there can I wait when you sit staring at her picture and telling me that you can't see it, but that it is doubtless there Are you deceiving me, Mr. Keen? Are you trying to humor me, trying to be kind to me, knowing all the while that I’m crazy 7 Wait, man! You are no than I am. [I tell you that I more cTazy can see something on the win- dow-pane ; He suddenly sprang up and window, leaning ing the ilked to the close and examir glas Harren followed and laid his hand lightly over the pane. ‘Do you see any marks on SH . the glass?’’ demanded Keen. — !} Harren shook his head. a5" ~ ‘Have you a magnifying- OST 18S s asked the Tracer H: uren pointed back to the table, and they returned to the photograph, the Tracer bend- ing over it and examining it through the glass ‘All I see,” he photog a corner olf a cur window on which certain figures nave been cut Look, Harren, can | them ? I see some marks squares You can't see ssaeiine written on that s though cut by a diamond? lung distinct lving the ain anda seem to Captain still st Said, raph, °"1s Vou see some pane it you see /i erfectly. I I In minute detail ? \ es [he Tracer thought a moment Doe he a ring ant ou set it for me The ea i themselves side by side, and Harren dre 1 rough sketch of the ring which he insisted was JS so plainly visible on her hand: & OF} observed the Tracs she wear he Seal of Solomon on her ring.” Harren looked up at him That sym bol has haunted me persistently for thre I have found it ticles that I buy, on the belts of dead krises, on the rs, on the headstalls of horses. If they put a laundry mark on my linen it’s certain to “ ertain be this! If 1 buy a of matches the sign is on it Why I've even seen it on ypical insects. It about it ears,’ he said \ here-—on ar house ladrones funnels o fur ir y furniture, on on the hilts of steame vot on my aream mu puy books pou { ind try to work out its mystical meaning’ sug me ated the Tracer, smiling. y eves Were serious He By t Harren’s gr: never comes to me vithout that 1 somewher: about her. . . . I i she never spoke to me. That i true: vet once, in a vivid dream of he dic peak I | wa 4imost asne to t 1 of tha rell me,”’ ‘A—a dream Do vou wish to know what I dreamed Yes--if it was a dream.” ‘It was. I was aslee pon the reat sag Mindinao, dead tired after a fruitless hi THE SATURDAY EVENING POST S OLOMO N’ the brilliant wings of S SEAL I dreamed she came toward me through a young woodland all lighted by the sun, and in her hands she held masses of that wild flower we call Solomon’s Seal. And she said —in the voice I know must be lik« hers: ‘If you could only read! If you would only understand the message I send you! It is everywhere on earth for you to read, if you only would!’ ‘I said: ‘Is the message in the seal? Is that the key to it?’ ‘She nodded, laughing, burying her face in the flowers, and said: ‘Perhaps I can write it more aon for you some day; I will try very, very hard ‘And after that i: went away —not swiftly —for I saw her at moments far away in the woods; but I must have confused her with the glimmering shafts of sunlight, and in a little while the woodland grew dark and I woke with the racket of a Colt’s % automatic in my ears, He pas sed his sun-bronzed hand over his face, hesitated, then leaned over the photograph once more which the Tracer was studying intently through the magni- fying-glass There the photograph which I’m going to copy, Please shove a pad and pencil is something on that window in he said. toward me. Still examining the photograph through he glass which he held in his right hand, Mr. Keen picked up the pencil and, feeling for the pad, began, very slowly, to form the following series of symbols ES] S153) GS) GSHSS Fd SHES) SHE & Gets GA HES GH GS GAS] HE ES Gd BS SHE EHEC GQ GA KAR HS G0 03 GS GH GS Fe HS Beth) HE KH BS What on earth are tered Captain Harren mustache in pe rpl xity. I am copving what magnify written pane in the photograph,” calmly Can't you do now; I before parti larly scratches there When at ler his work he s: it in Harren, you doing?’’ mut- twisting his short through this the window- said the Tracer those marks?”’ never noticed them only that there were I see ing-glass on see gth the Tracer had finished chin on hand, examining Presently he turned toward sile nee quired the younger m ») those scratches representing anything? strangest cipher said Mr. Keen — ‘the strangest ever heard of I ha seen hundreds of ciphers--hundreds -secret codes of the State Department, secret military an im- | mean I ever en- countered, codes, elaborate Oriental ciphe rs, svmbols used in commercial transactions, symbols used by criminals and every species of malefac- tor. And everv one pth 0 in be solved with time and patience and a little knowl- edge of the subject Sut this’’--he sat look ra t with eyes half-closed this Ss too simple ‘Simple! ‘Ver It's so simple that it’s baffling.” Do you mean to say you are going to be able to find a meaning in squares and CTOSS€ l I « t bel iS roing to be so ery diffi to tr ate them.” guns!’ said the Captair ‘Do to say that you can ultimately ite that cipher?” Tracer miled. Let’s examine it aL ns first. Here we have this svmbol Bz] f peated five times. It’s likely bes ri the letter E L think His ice ceased; for a quarter of ir he pr red over the SVI ibols, pencil id, checking off some, substituting a and there. iid; ‘‘the usual doesn’t work case. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST bracketed! those must te ? I er any t I 7 ' 1 ) quiring two figures I ha t i = » to ! He fell silent aga ar | anott ~ quarter of an nour he remaine ! ? i} A i immersed in th probler befor } What d " M | | Harren frowning at the } I ver | ] vd | shoulder | Come!” said the Tracer iddenl Oh! Ar Creek’ i M this won't do There are too few s the inscription a I la CUT oy ™ bols to give us a ke too few repet I to her by me ‘ | MERE to furnish us with any key basis. Con ( aptain, let us use our nteiect let ] Thank 1 eT ? } }?r | talk it over with that paper ing there V end a messenger M l between us. It’s a mple cipher ‘ i copy of tl t tior G ! | childishly simple one if we use our w He} ow, sir, What I see repeat: etore us on Tully, Opened the | r agai | this sheet of paper is merely one of the forn into the | of a symbol known as Solomor Seal wok here!’’ ened the Capta il | 1 The symbol is, as we ite of ex , I've . | many times Every numb id aott ed or crossed o1 W ‘ ? i | the lines composing look ‘ th young ‘ broad ipled with bracket h rs at a she f pay ‘ What of it?” inqu number | ‘Well, sir, in the tirst place, that symbol 9—1l4—5 4 S19 IS Supposed to represent the spiritua l | 14 | = and material, as you know What 9—1 | —1 | else do you know about it? 9—20—S8—9—14 | i Nothing I bought a book about it, **Marvelous!”"’ repeated the Tracer, smil but made nothing of it ing Now what uu suppose those i Isn't it supposed,” asked Mr. Keen numbers can stand for to contain within itself the nine numerals, Letter innounced the ¢ tain tr | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, S, 9, and even the zero umphant lake the number nine, for BR 8 , symbol?” example The ninth letter the alpha | ' Bat N | believe so.”” l I! Mr Keer Ippose Wwe V : —=>= = = - ** Reractly Here's the seal Now down the letters according to that tem! I'll mark the one, two and thres Suppose we do agreed the Tracet KING Vv crossing the lines, like th $s: one, KO grave : . ° the hree, elimina x] Ss int inder his breath, t yung [ olding “ Brae Palace tar ude tama eet ate CANVAS BOATS there remains the on e two order. not attemntine to eroun thy re “e- thre E fe. wr lhere 1" the yg word INEVERSAWYOUBUTONCEILOVI Pp into ® package I7z4 YATXY YOUEDITHINWOOD King} be vsene 672 W North x seen Sieh Then he leaned back, excited, trium- | - > and the zero idden excite- phant ‘ ment stirred > a. he leaned There you are! ne ud only, of is a over the paper, gazing earne tly at the course t make no sense He examined = ™ t cipher; the Tracer rose and glanced around — it ir ence, and gradua 1 hopeless ex B re Ti the room as though in search of something pre n effaced the animatiot How nyo bol * Is there a telephone here he asked the deuce am | going to separate that ma ‘‘For Heaven's sake, don't give tl ip of lette nto word he muttered just yet,” exclaimed Harren These It Va) iid the Tracer, smilingly (ka DN things mean num bers; don’t you see taking the pencil from his fingers, and he Look at that! _pointi ng t — i pair wrote I-—-NEVER—SAW Yo BUT ger ene T'4.2 ~ eans the ONCE. I LOVE—You, EpitH May we This of seals ¢ ; ans th ‘ hy- ca-bal ; number FSSELSZI ni teen! You INWOOD Send —— Bottle ' can form ing only Then he laid the pencil on the table and . COULEIEL c “w ¥ ’ ‘ . the crossed lines of the seal Don't Walked to the window oO Tev ta kOe meats Gath > 12 $1 age 4 : vou see, Mr. Keen?” ms ¥ Once or twice he fancied that he heard \ u | I ree pay ex} ‘ I ‘ “Yes, Captain Harren, the cipher is, a incoherent sounds behind hin And after we “ i Son ’ you say, very plain; quite as easy to read a while he turned, retracing | tep I ! ~ ‘ " } ¥ : . ; f as so much handwriting That is why I leisurely. Captain Harren, extremely moe hekorad -_ y . the wish to use your telephone—at once, if pink, stood tugging at h hort mustache ” ’ | you please. and studying the papers on the desk Va yy She Ellas U1 Cou (3 A “It’s in my bedroom; you don’t mind Well inquired the Tracer, amused ‘ if I go on working out this cipher while The young man pointed to the transla- | and our book, “ The Mission of the Mout! Dept. A, 64-66-68 West 125th Street, New York you're telephoning?” tion with unsteady finger W-what on | Bat! ist to show you that we are in = “Not in the least,’ said the Tracer earth doe that mear he demanded earnest when we blandly. He walked into the Captain's hakily Who is Edith Inwood? W-what bedroom, closing the door behind him; on earth does that cryptogram mean or A Smaller Shoe— then he stepped over to the telephone, un- | the window-pane in the photograph? How y- C a- O x ft . ‘ hooked the receiver, and called up his own did it come there Itisn'tonr window can often be — with greatest « : by buying the headquarters : pane, you se¢ ‘Hello. This is Mr. Keen. I want to The Tracer said quietly That not a " x ; tograph of your window ™ Worth Cushion a sa iertnannane tie Borrow answered err Se — Mou t h 7 Bat h Il am here, Mr. Keen ‘No, ¢ iptain Here! Look at it closely A pen \ r eye to a toilet delight the Good. Look up the name, Inwood through this gla There are xteen | like of wt you have never experienced Try New York first —Edith Inwood is the small panes in that sash; now count the and havi nce experienced, you w : name. Look sharp, please; I am _ holding vanes in your window —eight! Besides, never be w t the wire.”’ ook at that curtain It is made of He held it for ten full minutes; then M figured stuff like chint Now, look at 1 Borrow’s low voice called him over the wir own curtain yonder! It f plain velour Thy-ca-lol is the Only Proved z ag ahead,” ag the oo we tl But but I took that photograph! Antiseptic Pre pared Eexclu ere IS Only one saith nwood 1! she stood there there | that ver win Ive . . m e cont New York, Mr. Keen—Miss Edith Inwood, dow! snipe Anvipdocanclgansearaagucerediccecian “noted : Bogs eae Beit Ss Big aac — graduate of Barnard, 1902-—left an orphan rhe Tracer leaned over the photograp! M i gnc ents = rhe A : ages 1903 and obliged to support herself —be - examining it through the gla And, wate Saat cages came an assistant to Professor Boggs of tudying 1 rid I) p soa who desire to wear sty ’ res | the Museum of Inscriptions Is considered in this pho raph, Captain Ha with ybers - authority upon ee oryptogran or Can you not see | 1 tel et Ah “and y. 94 @23 £ | as written a monograph on the eratl o, mi red t! ira Men's s4 & 0. Women S $3.50 | symbol short tre aise on the Swastika the window which she really st lL by wher . , If — , | She ip tipeatednes years of age Do you her phantom came here seeking U \ | require further details?"’ that ifficient Come, Captain Hart : “get ae | No,”’ said the Tracer; “ please ring off."". we are going out t« 406 uae in Mass. | Then he called up General Informatior Phe Captain looked at | : = I want the Museum of Inscriptior Get omething in Mr. Keer ( eemed t Elwie Post ~ , me their number, please After a mo-_ fascinate hir > 100 Visiting Cards pais SOc | ment:""ts this the! Museum of Inserip- “You think that that i's likely we an rg Birth, rof tions ? y-roing to set he faltered t at rks f If I were you,"” mused the Tracer of reali seine Brccsaves ; Is Professor Boggs there?" Lost Persons, joining the tit f } ; E. J. Schuster Ptg. & Eng. Co., Dept.4-D, St. Louis,M . fingers medita if | 1 | A Painting i Whitewashing Machi ‘Is this Professor Boggs?” should wear a silk hat and a frock coat. It - t's afternoon, anvhow he added depre ; Does nw Work of 20 Men “Could you find time to decipher an cat ingly , and we are liable to make a call The Eiwia Laboratory ‘ inscription for me at once? Captain Harren turned lil man ina 325 Main Street is free ‘J 8 "DEL SOLAR. “tos Fulton st, "New York, N.¥ dream, and entered h bedroon And Poughkeepsie, N.Y

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The Tracer, apparently engrossed in his own story, went on withit. ‘Three years ago the young girl who wrote this inscription upon the window-pane of her her bedroom, I think it was—fell in love Do you follow me, Miss Inwood?” Miss Inwood sat very still—wide, dark eyes fixed on him. “Fell in love,” repeated the Tracer musingly, ‘‘not inthe ordinary way. That is the point, you see. No, she fell in love at first sight; fell in love with a young man whom she never before had seen, never again beheld—and never forgot. Do you still follow me, Miss Inwood ?’’ She made the slightest motion with her lips. ‘*No,”? mused the Tracer of Lost Persons, *‘she never forgot him. Iam not sure, but I think she sometimes dreamed of him. She dreamed of him awake, too. Once she inscribed a message to him, cutting it with the diamond in her ring on the window- pane = A slight sound escaped from Miss In- wood’s lips. beg your pardon,” said the Tracer, ‘did you say something?” The girl had risen, pale, astounded, incredulous. **Who are you?” she faltered. ‘* What has this—-this story to do with me?” “Child,” said the Tracer of Lost Persons, ‘the Seal of Solomon is a splendid mystery. All of Heaven and earth are included within its symbol. And more, more than you dream of, more than I dare fathom; and I am an old man, my child—old, alone, with nobody to fear for, nothing to dread, not even the end of all because | am ready for that, too. Yet I, having nothing on earth to dread, dare not fathom what that symbel may mean, nor what vast powers it may exert on life. God knows. It may be the very signet of Fate itself; the sign- manual of Destiny.” He drew the paper from his pocket, unrolled it and spread it out under her frightened « ves. “That!” she whispered, steadying her- self blindly against the arm he offered. She stood a moment so, then, shuddering, covered her eyes with both hands. The Tracer of Lost Persons looked at her, turned | and opened the door. “Captain Harren!"’ he called quietly Harren, pacing the anteroom, turned and came forward. As he entered the door he caught sight of the girl crouching by the window, her face hidden in her hands, and at the same moment she dropped her hands and looked straight at him Vou she gasped The Tracer of Lost Persons ste pped out, closing the door. For a moment he stood there, tall, gaunt, gray, staring into space. “She was beautiful—when she looked at him,”’ he muttered. For another minute he stood the re, hes- itating, glancing backward at the closed door. 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It is likely enough that, had there then been numerous disappointments, our ardor would have been chilled. But, as encouragement at the commencement, and marking the ever- existent possibility of finding prizes in un- expected places, we secured a distinguished pair of brass andirons at a place where it would have been deemed absolutely impos- sible to get them. That impracticable place was Blenner- hassett Island! For almost every particle of the furnishings of that stately mansion which made the island famous was lost in the fire and looting which followed the fail- ure of Burr to carve for himself, out of the West, an empire that was to wax strong among the nations of the earth. Now but the barest vestiges of the foundations of the mansion are to be seen. And yet, when we went there, we found a treasure out of the past! And it was not something offered, by an island resident, as having belonged to Blennerhassett or as having been used by Burr. There had beena heavy flood in the Ohio; one of those floods which come every dozen when the stream swells to mighty volume and overflows vast stretches of land and sweeps away fences and houses and barns. In walking about the little island, with a mah who had long lived there, and who was well acquainted with the outlines of the great, semi-circular house, with the site of the old-time landing-place, with the curious local history, he remarked that Blenner- hassett had not chosen most wise ‘ly from the standpoint of one who wished use the island for residence purposes only, because, rich as it is as farm land, and superbly lo- cated as it is in the midst of the bending stream, it becomes periodically untenable. Then, thus reminded, he went on to tell how, driven to the mainland by the last flood, he watched the water's steady rise aan the day, and next morning, looking across at his submerged island from his West Virginia refuge, he saw that a dwelling- house had stranded there. In the course of the day he was able, with a companion, to row overtoit. Noone waswithin. But the furniture was in place, just as the fleeing family had left it; and the two men put into their boat this pair of acorn-top andirons, which they lifted from the hearth, and a little round-topped hair trunk which was standing in a corner. Another morning came; but the river had risen afresh in the night, and had picked up the stranded house and carried it away. They opened the trunk, but there was noth- ing init to give the slightest hint as to where the house had floated from. It might have floated a hundred miles or more. A mys- tery it had come, and had but touched there for a few hours on its way to the oblivion into which it disappeared. The man, alt hough impressed by the strangeness of it all, clearly set no particulé ar value on what he hi ad found: his ‘*} Nlunder r, as he called it. He showed the on wel and we admired them. **Shouldn’t you like hammock?” It was certainly a curious thing for two travelers to have, and, in truth, it was an odd chance that it happened to be in our posses- sion at the psychic moment. We had left it on the mainland while we rowed over to the island, and it had seen a summer's use The unexpectedness of a hammock ap- pealed to him. “Yes: if ] like the looks of it,” He liked it, became ours. Our Lares and Penates were mahogany and brass! Nor must all ‘ years or so, to trade those for a he said. and the precious andirons to be of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 31, 1906 W ISE shoe selection saves both shoe and pocket- book from the busy little imps, “ Wear” and “Tear.” Resistance to both at its maximum, is found in the Abbot Shoe. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Incomplete Amorist ( , ER RA Do sit down,” she said. “I'm gid || JX you came-—-because 1 know exactly what you Mean, now.” “If the knowledge were only mutual!” sighed Lady St. Craye, and found courage to raise her evebrows wearily ‘You don't like my going about with Mr Vernon. Well, you've only to pos sé Only when you're married you'll find you've got your work cut out to ke¢ Pp. hi m from laving any friends except you. Lady St. € rave had the best of reasor for believing this likely to be the truth She said: ‘‘When I'm married?” Yes,” said Betty firmly. ‘You're jealous: you’ve no cause to be— and I tell ee because I think being jealous must ‘Bohn S y phon But it would have been nicer of you | GLOSS WHITE | if you'd come straight to me and said Refrigerator ti | Look here, 1 don’t like you going about | | with the man I’m engaged to.’ I should A: have understood then, and respected you But to come like a child’s Guide to Knowl- is edge . WEARS LIKE IRON rhe other woman was not listening How the Railroads Determined | Which Refrigerator Is Best & a $$$» ing } Engaged to him!” The weno sang How the Bohn “keeps Things” Longer deliciously, disquietingly in her ears. ‘‘ But \ WICKER CHAIR | who said I was engaged to him?” | | | ‘He did, of course. He isn’t ashamed of i i it -if you are.” ee seagaee i A ng wl xis ‘He told you that?” } pine y ushio nee aa r wt : } } Yes, Now aren't you ashamed of | t \ Irv for 10 dave FREI | ttractive piece of furnit fit for yourself? the best room in the hou | Country-bred Betty, braced by the | sale by all paint deal straightforward directness of Miss Voscos and full of the nervous energy engendered by a half-understood trouble, had routed fora moment, the woman of the world. But only fora moment. Then Lady St. Craye unable to estimate the gain or loss of the pepe cM coe tote lly oe encounter, pulled herself together to mak« good her retreat. : . ‘Yes,”’ she said with her charming smilk ‘ ‘Iam ashamed of myself. I ealous I own it But I shouldn't have shown it a ] did if I'd known the sort of girl vou are WHITE ENAMI agg ge “~~ Come, yet me! Can't you understand adi ae and forgive?” F “It was all my fault.’’ The generosit ° ~ ms of Be tty hastened to meet what it took to 2 4% | Mm t ec | A Ss t be the generosity of the other ** Forgive P me I won’t see him again at all—if you DO YOUR OWN | don't want me to.” “No, no.”” Evenat that moment, in one VAR NISHING ) illuminating flash, Lady St. Craye saw the | awkward explications that should come GOOD SERVICE - * after the announcement of that renuncia- tory decision. ‘‘No, no. If you do that t I shall feel sure that you don’t forgive me A C { hi B IK for being so silly. Just let everything go Pll Opy 0 t IS “—s on—won't you? And please —please don't oe i lacie % we tell him anything about about to-day.” | : ee. ~ to make yout ‘oa “ae — % — —_ wonder. | pas Eee room the most ||, Ab, yourestillangry. Andno wonder. | QEmattsato CLEVELAND ©. modern ind com- frie Mir ny —— esmond, and iets be 1 assets Over Forty-Two Million Dollars | fortable room in Betty’s look as she gave her hand was . oa your house How doubtful. But the hand was given. GRE Ie} : 'S FIN : “+ me wre ut oN il health and sick- **And you'll keep my poor little secret ?'’ | ™ colors. - dar Pe ge ¢~ BATH ROOMS ness are prevented “IT should have thought you would he * bys “- tary method proud for him to know how mu h you care.” B. H. 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“Tae Original Old Mic tory Furniture Manufacturers ' | soft, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST still with anger, and resentment, and other feelings less easily named. Vernon was to come to fetch her at seven. She would not face him. Let him go and dine with the woman he belonged to! Betty went out at half-past six. She would not go to Garnier’s nor to Thirion’s. That was where he would look for her. She walked steadily on down the boule- vard. She would dine at some place she had never been to before. <A sickening vision of that first night in Paris swam before her. She saw again the Café d’Har- court. In that rout the face of Temple shone —clear cut, severe. She remembered the instant resentment that had thrilled her at his protective attitude; remembered it and wondered at it a little. She would not have felt that now. She knew her Paris better than she had done then And, with the thought, the face of Temple came toward her out of the crowd. He raised his hat in response to her frigid bow, and had almost passed her when she spoke | on an impulse that surprised herself: ‘“‘Oh— Mr. Temple!”’ He stopped and turned. ‘I was looking for a place to dine. I’m tired of Garnier’s and Thirion’s.”’ He hesitated. And he, too, remembered the night at the Café d’Harcourt, when she had disdained his advice and gone back to take the advice of Paula. He caught him- self assuring himself that a man need not be ashamed to risk being snubbed—making a fool of himself even if he could do any good. So he said: ‘‘ You know I have hor- rid, old-fashioned ideas about women is and stopped short. ‘Don't you know of any good, plac e near here?” said Betty. ‘Now yougive me courage,” hesaid. ‘I do know a quiet little place quite near here. And, as you haven’t any of your friends with you, won't you take pity on me and let me dine with you?” ‘You're sure you're not giving up some nice engagement—just to—to be kind to me?” she asked. And the forlornness of her tone made him almost forget that he had half promised to join a party of Lady St. Craye’s at the Théatre Frangais that evening. “T should like to c ‘ome with you —I should like it of all things,” he said; ‘and he said it convincingly. They dined together, and the dinner was unexpectedly pleasant to both of them. They talked of England, of wood, field and meadow, and Betty found herself talking to him of the garden at home and of the

quiet things that grew there, as she had talked to | Paula, and as she had never talked to Vernon. “It's so lovely all the year,’ she said. ‘When the last mignonette’s over, there are the chrysanthemums, and then the Christmas roses, and ever so early in Janu- ary the winter aconite and the snowdrops, and the violets under the south wall. And then the little green daffodil leaves come up and the buds, though it’s weeks before they turn into flowers. And if it’s a mild winter the primroses — just little baby ones —seem to go on. all the time.’ . "he said, ‘1 know. And the wall- umn they're green all the time. And the monthly roses, they flower at Christmas. And then when the real roses begin to bud and when June comes—and you're drunk with the scent of red roses—the kind you always long for at Christmas 4 **Oh, yes,” said Betty; ‘do you feel like that, too? And if you get them, they're limp-stalked things, like caterpillars half disguised as roses by some incompetent fairy. Not like the stiff, solid, heavy, velvet roses, with thick green leaves and heaps of thorns. Those are the roses one longs Se **Yes,”’ he said.

‘Those are the roses one longs for.” And an odd pause punctu- ated ‘he sentence. But the pause did not last. so much to talk of resentment, broken down. each— the love of the other for certain authors, certain pictures, certain sym- phonies, certain dramas. The discovery of this sort of community in tastes is like the meeting in far, foreign countries of a man who speaks the tongue of one’s mother- land. The two lingered long over their coffee, and the Grand Marnier which their liking for The Garden of Lies led to their ordering. Betty had forgotten Vernon, forgotten Lady St. Craye, in the delightful interchange of: Oh, I do like-——”’ “*And don't you like——”’ There was now that old barrier of wattled with remorse, was

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‘And isn’t splendid These simple sentences, interchanged, took on the value of intimate confidences. ‘**T’ve had such a jolly time,’’ Temple said ‘Il haven't had such a talk for ages And yet all the talk had been mer confessions of faith —in Ibsen, in Browning, in Maeterlinck, in English gardens, and in Whistler and Beethoven I've liked it, too,”’ said Betty And it’s awful jolly,” he went on, ‘‘to feel that you've forgiven me” the speech suddenly becan difficult ‘‘at least mean to say he ended lamely. ‘It’s I who ought to be forgiven,” said Betty. ‘‘I’m very glad I met you. I'v enjoyed our talk ever so much.”

Vernon spent an empty evening, and waylaid Betty as she left her class next day “I’m sorry,” she said. ‘‘I couldn’t help it. I suddenly felt I wanted something diffe ‘rent. So I dined at a new place.” “Alone?” said Vernon. **No,”’ said Betty with her chin in the air. Vernon digested, as best he might, his first mouthful of jealousy —real downright, sickening jealousy. The sensation aston- ished him so much that he lacked the cour- age to dissect it. **Will you dine with me to-night?” was all he found to say. ‘‘With pleasure,” said Betty. But it was not with pleasure that she dined. There was something between her and Vernon. Both felt it, and both at- tributed it to the same cause. The three dinners that followed in the next fortnight brought none of that old light-hearted companionship which had been the gayest of caliedenenatienn. Something was gone--lost—as though a royal rose had suddenly faded, a rainbow- | colored bubble had broken. ‘I’m glad,” said Betty; ‘‘if he’s engaged I don’t want to feel happy with him.” She did not feel happy without him. The inward monitor grew more and more insistent. She caught herself wondering how Temple, with the serious face and the honest eyes, would regard the lies, the trickeries, the whole tissue of deceit that had won her the chance of following her own art, of living her own life. Vernon understood, presently, that not even that evening at Thirion’s could give the key to this uncomfortable change. He had not seen Lady St. Craye since the night of the kiss. It was after the fourth flat dinner with Betty that he said good-night to her early and abruptly, and drove to Lady St. Craye’s. She was alone. She rose to greet him, and he saw that her eyes were dark-rimmed and her lips rough. ‘This is very nice of you,’’shesaid. ‘It’s née arly a month since i saw you.” ‘Yes,” he said. ‘“‘Iknowitis. Do you remember the last time? Hasn't that taught you not to play with me?”’ The kiss was explained now. Lady St. Craye shivered. ‘I don’t know what you mean,” feebly. “Oh, yes, you do! You're much too clever not to understand. Come to think of it, you’re much too everything —too clever, too beautiful, too charming, too everything.” ‘You overwhelm me,” say. ‘Not at all. You know your points. What I want to know is just one thing — and that’s the thing you're going to tell me.”’ She drew her dry lips inward to moisten them. ‘‘What you do want to know? Why do ou speak to me like that? What have done: ‘That's what you’re going to tell me.” **T shall tell you nothing — while you ask in that tone.” ‘‘Won't you? How can I persuade you?” His tone caressed ae stung. ‘What arguments can I use? Must I kiss you again?”’ She drew herself up her powers to resent the insult. came at her cail. ‘“‘What do you want me she said she made herself y I called wildly on all Nothing to tell you?” | she asked, and her eyes implored the mercy she would not consciously have asked. He saw, and he came a little nearer to her—-looking down at her upturned face with eyes before which her own fell. ‘*You don't want another kiss?”’ he said. “Then tell me what you've been saying to | Miss Desmond.” (TO BE CONTINUED) SATURDAY EVENING POST

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