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,' MONDAY EVENING, WIFEHOOD'S, WAGES ^^B&iff* - ARE SELDOMljUSt *V. - ' -'p vs *f Married Man Discusses Wisdom and Justice of Separate'Allow^ ance for WifeWhat a Bride Said After Wedding Journey- on Working for "Board and Clothes"Average Man's and ~ Woman's Expenses Compared. By JOSEPH'M. WEBER, Theatrical Manager and Author. Copyright, 1008, by Joseph B. Bowleg. TH E question, "Shall a wife have a separate allowance of her own?" must Invariably be (. answered by a man, by each woman's husband. His is the last voice, the final word on the sub ject (not a too common event in mar ried life), and all theories pro or con must vanish before his simple "yes" or "no." So an opinion on that all-important theme will perhaps be more author itative coming from a man (a hus band, too, of course.) than from a woman. It is perhaps the only subject connected with marriage on which woman's testimony is not far more valuable than is "mere man's." Andas a "mere man" as a hus bandas a fatheras a person of av erage common sense (I hope) and honesty, I say most unhesitatingly: "Every wife should have her own pocket money." And. I may add, if she is a good wife, she earns her allowance, no matter how large it may be. For the average housekeeper and homemaker does work that comes under the head of "skilled labor" of the most skilful kind and keeps it up daily for a term of hours that would cause her expul sion from any labor union under the sun. For a m an to expect to get such service and to pay for it merely by food, lodging and clothes, is reminis cent of the famous exchange column Item: JOB, EXCHANGEONE CANCELED 2-OENT stamp. In perfectly good condition, for a dla i mond tiara, a 24-foot catboat or a corner , lot. Men don't realize what an unheard of good bargain a really good wife is. For the same amount of work (not done half as well) any paid house keeper would expect board and lodg ing and at least $30 a month. Why grudge your wife the same sum? A girl of my acquaintance was mar ried a few months ago. On the return from the honeymoon she had the ensu ling little business talk with her hus 'band: "By the way, dear," she began, "you know I'm to keep the house in order, manage the servants, plan the meals, entertain your guests, keep your clothes in good condition and do a few hundred more tasks of the same tri fling order. What do I get out of all this?" The surprised benedick began to mumble fond nothings concerning a life-long devotion, the love of a good man, etc. But she cut him short. "For all that," she said "I make full return in kind. But what do I get for being your housekeeper and general supervisor?" "You get a good home," he re torted, a little nettled, "and I will see that you have as good clothes as any woman you know, and" "Dear," she interrupted, "several thousand people used to work for just those wages up to forty years ago. Only they were called slaves. And the country showed its disapproval of such payment by abolishing that form of slavery and by declaring Jt illegal. You couldn't get any one on earth to-day to work for you for board and clothes wages. Why do you try to force your wife to?" Whereat, being at heart a sane man, he began to see light. And since then they are happy she prov ing to be a model housekeeper and far more than earning the handsome allowance he gives her. Personally, I began married life with the allowance idea. My wife and 3 have separate bank accounts. I have no idea what sum of money she has in bank, nor is it any affair of mine. My sole affair is to see that &he always receives her just allow ance and that she shall be spared the humiliation of having to ask me for the money that is rightly hers. ', For women are not like men in this * matter of asking for money. If m an is broke he seldom has any vast hesitation in "touching" his best friend for the wherewithal to tide over the difficulty. The flush of shame does not mount to his brow to any extent as he breathes the plea: !$10 till Saturday?" ' But with women it is different. They hate to ask their husbands for money. At least the best of them do. They don't seem to realize that the hus band's vow, "With all my worldly fgoods I thee endow," makes his money 'as much theirs as his. If they could jbe brought to realize that, there would rbe far fewer hearteaches. But since, ^apparently, they cannot bring them selves to that wise frame of mind, I n*HMMfWMtHtf,,tU,iMMMMi THE MISSING MAN think husbands should save them em barrassment by making them a regu lar weekly or monthly allowance. Let the sum be sufficient to pay for clothes and for the countless little ex tras so dear to the feminine heart. There is no need for a man to impov erish himself in order to do this. A common sense talk Before marriage should inform him as to how much (or how little) his future wife needs for spending money, clothing, etc. If he can meet the demand he should do so. If not, let him figure out how much of his salary he can afford to give her as allowance and if she is the right sort of girl she will usually make it suffice. Of course' there are women whose one joy in life is to spend their hus band's money recklessly. There must be. The comic papers and the bach elors say so. But there are also men mean enough grudge to their wives-.to IF YOU DO NOT KNOW YOU OUGHT TO KNOW THAT Cuba has $4,000,000 in her treas ury, or, in other words, her revenues amount to $18,800,000 and her expen ditures to $14,800,000. In 1899 her im ports exceeded her exports by $21,- 715,000 to-day her exports exceed her imports by $12,000,000. ***** India has a population of 300,000,- 000 people, a fifth of the entire popu lation of the world* and it is so dense that there are 167 persons per square mile of territory, whilst our own pop ulation is only a little over 25 per sons per mile. It pays bounties for the destruction of depredating ani mals in 1902 it paid for 4,400 leop ards and 1,300 tigers, not including those shot by sportsmen for sport's sake. During the year 1,046 people were killed by tigers, one man-eater being credited with 65 individuals. Thirty thousand cattle were killed by tigers and a still greater number by panthers and leopards. These ani mals are also charged up with 3,700 hum an victims, while 24,000 people are known to have died from the ef fects of. snake bite. Good place to keep away from. a Chicago has 63,396 widows of all brands. Her excess male population is 63,246, and there are only 24,000 widowers. Widows and all there are HNMIMMMUMHOWmHIHim By MARY R. P. HATCH, Author of T/e Bank Tragefa"}^* ?Z CHAPTER XIII.Continued. , , ' The Cashier's Return. *v "Are youd sure?green-hajred " v "Yes an the woman who spoke to you was named Leonora, and she was Ashley's wife." "I have no recollection of any such name. Dreams are hard to explain. But how do you know all this about Ashley and a wife named Leonora?" "It was brought out by Bruce's in vestigations," said Mr. Carter. "You see there was reason for suspicions." "So it seems. This Ashley may be my double. There are wonderful re semblances in the world, and it isn't to be wondered at, either, when we consider that of all the millions born, with trifling exceptions, they all have the same sets of features,two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, and there are only a few varieties of hair. The wonder is there are no more doubles." "Bless my soul, I never thought of that. It is odd. How the Creator, with such scanty material, could make millions, no two just alike, for there is always a little difference, is a won- der." "Yes but this Ashley probably does "not look very much like me, if we should be seen together. Well, I shall look Into the matter, talk with Low, and if I find, beyond doubt, that jf have been guilty of altering notes and other questionable acts, I will set them right." "It is hard on you, if you were not to blame." "Yes, but no one else oujrht to suffer. But I still feel as if Low must have been mistaken. If it could be proved that I was in some other place, that would be the same as saying that some man used my name and position for ' fraudulent purposes." Copyright by Lee & Shepard, Boston, Mass. "Did you appear sane at Seattle?" "So they said. They said I seemed keen enough about most things and was a fair workman. The only thing that connected me with a former ex istence was an idea that I was going to Grovedale, that a man there named Carter meeded me to work." "True enough, Vane. And did that lead to anything?" "That seemed to be the point around which my faculties rallied. It came to me after awhile that Grovedale and Mr. Carter were in Hamp shire. N-ext, and family, and last my own name. At that point, satisfied that I had re covered my lost identity, I started home, the workmen clubbing together to provide the means. I shall send it back to them at once." "What name did you go by till you recollected,your own?" "Carter, recalled." "Vane," said his wife, "will you tell us why you went away?" The children had now retired and the three sat alone together. "Why I went away?" he repeated, slowly. , "Yes." ' "I went on business. Did I not tell you so?" "Yes, you told me so, but that does not explain why you went away every May since our marriage and stayed two weeks. You know and I know that there was a secret reason for your going." He listened intently to her words as if heeding them well and speculating on their intent. Once or twice after she finished he appeared about to speak, but did not. He literally did not seem to know what to say, how to answer her. At last he said: "The same reasons for not telling It was the only narfle I THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. TALE OF,,ABOOKWORM WHO FOUND A CHANGE OF DIEX Copyright, 1908, by Steve Floyd, N. Y. Once upon a time there was a m an whose lpng suit was knowledge. His name was Kelsey Kempston Kantell. Kelsey wore more characters on the end of his name than a railroad offi cial, and he had a perfect right to do it, for he was graduated from everything from grammar school to Heidelberg university, which is more than can be said of a G. P. A. & T. M. Every-dadally y observadbrea - tion tells us that. So the average Is probably quite as much to one sex as to the other. Many a man who brands his wife as extravagant would "fall dead" if she spent as much on her amusements as he spends on his. Many a man grumbles that his wife has no idea of the value of money. When I hear a man say 'that sort of thing I mentally explain his wife's ignorance of money values on the ground that she never has any money to experiment on. ***** I once know a man whose wife lived on board-and-clothes wages. He was suddenly called out of town and left her $100 with which to manage the house in his absence. In joy at having such an enormous sum to handle, she rushed out and spent 20 centsyes, twenty* whole centson chocolates. I'he husband returned unexpectedly the same night and demanded the money he had left with her. Shame facedly and trembling she handed him $99.80, and faltered out the terrible truth as to the missing 20 cents. - "Just like a woman!" sneered her lord and master. "The best of them can't be trusted to handle cash." When a man dies and leaves his for tune to his wife, small wonder she so often squanders it. Had she handled it more freely in its collector's life time she would dispense it more wise ly after his death. From the bottom of my heart I feel a deep pity for the average married woman. She earns her money as nobly and as completely as does any day laborer. She keeps a man's house, rears his children, makes his life happy. And for this she receives no pecuniary compensation beyond an in adequate amount of money, too often ungraciously given. Surely a high price to pay for the privilege of writ ing "Mrs." before her name! An allowancea liberal allowance ungrudgingly bestowedis the solu tion to more domestic difficulties than this world dreams of. "KELSEY COULD BEAD SANSCRIT WITH ONE EYE AND GREEK WITH THE OTHER.' Kelsey could read Sanscrit with one eye, Greek with the other, write Arabic and talk Latin to beat the pope all at the same time. He could translate the hieroglyphics on the stones of Egypt, explain why magnetic disturbances are indicative of the approach of the period of maximum sun spots, why one-half of a seidlitz powder is always wrapped in blue paper and the other in white, and why hens don't crow. He The strikes of- $500,000,000. you are still in force. The secret is i not my own. If it were I would tell I you. -But the time will come when I can tell you. ' For,the present is it too, much to ask that/a wife trust her husband?" - ' ,-' * . "Yes, it is too.much,".she-cried, pas sionately, "too much. It is that- which has caused all this trouble." ' - . , "Constance," he said, taking her hand and looking at her appealingfy, '.f^Vnn,? I remembereNew d my home "I wish I could tell you. It Is a slm- -t pie mystery, nothing that nieed coSe SS^hi?^* between you and me.." between you and me ||But it has," she cried. - "Yes, I see. I have come to you' just as I went away, with ho greater secrecy between us than there was* then. I have suffered illness, loss of mind, absence from home, from you. and the children, and yet",- he stopped as if unable to go on. ,\ "Never mind Constance, Vane, she is hard' to please, that's a fact. Vane will explain when he can without breaking confidence, you know," said Mr.You Carter.d sai yourself that" he ought to * tell me." - " - "So I did, BO I did. B ut I didn't understand that there was another party in the secret.. ..That makes a' difference." **-! - - - - Constance turned away as if"still un satisfied, but in a moment said in a low tone: "You recollected the children's com missions, but did you not forget mine?" "Did I ? Was it not myself I was to bring?" She did not answer, pleased," he said, sadly. "Why is it?" pleased," he said, sadly. Why .is it?" Still she" did not answer. ^Was there 'anything else?" If so, I have forgotten." "You have .not brought- the same S)jlj HT-Kf^, could classify a flower by its odor, a fish by its bite, .or a bird by its tail feathers. Kelsey knew William Shakspere by heart, Richard Harding Davis by sight and Mary MacLane by reputation. Fact is, he knew everything except the current brand of woman. Kelsey had everything except a wife, and when t,he women got wise to that fact they baited their hooks for him and made no'bories of -it,.,- They or% *K! - - ganized debating contests, biblio graphical parlor societies, bugging and botanizing expeditions and a lot of other pastimes calculated to inveigle him Into stepping, unbeknownst, upon their flypaper. J/henever. one of the petticoated trappers got a promise to call from Kelsey, she would shut herself up in the parlor and bury her face in the encyclopaedia until she had something WHMWMWMMMWMMMlMMMmMmwlMtWMWMlMtMHMMMtllMWMlMHHM.i 454,062 unmarried women .and 517,608 unmarried men. The city boasts of two widows under 15 years of age, 57 between 15 and 19, 2,200 between 25 and 30, while the widowers of that age number but 569. , From 45, to 54 there are 14,492 widows and 4 877: ers, and from 65 up there are widows and 5,538 widowers. 4676 Girl's Box Reefer, 8 to 14 years. Girl's Box fieefer, 4576.- ,r Loose coats are exceedingly smart for young girls as well as for the older folk and are to be commended from every point of view. They slip on over the gown with ease and readiness, they do not rumple the'waist worn beneath and they are more generally becoming to youthful figures than are the tighter ones. The model is made of dark blue zibeline with collar of velvet a nd is stitched with Corticelli silk, but all of the rloaking materials of the season are appropriate, cheviot, cloth and the like. The coat is made yfith fronts and back and is fitted by means of shoulder and under-arm seams. The fronts are faced and turned back to form lapels which meet widow - s l'4j527 last year cost us T TP- TO-THE-MINUTE FASHIONS. A Daily Hint of Practical Value to Journal Readers of the Fair Sex. The fashion picture^ given daily in this department are ejnlnently practi cal, and the garments pictured can be reproduced easily from the paper patterns, which may be obtained at trifling cost thru The Journal.. The models are all in good style, pretty and original hi effect and not too elaborate for the ambitious amateur to reproduce. ,^\, \ . deep down pat. Then she would put the calf-bounds back on the Bhelves and cook up a scheme to have the subject come up by accident, so that Kelsey would think she knew just as much about everything else. But when Kelsey called something always happened to steer him away from what she had been looking up. If she tried to lead up to botany by speaking of theThcollar thataris seamed to the neck.v v the color of a new chrys anthemum, she would start Kelsey emitting elucidation about the primary colors as seen thru the spectrum, and how they are formed by rays of light or other radiant energy in which the parts are arranged according to their refrangibility or wave-length, so that all of the same wave-lengths fall to gether, while those of different wave lengths are separated from each other, forming a regular progressive series just as is seen in the rainbow. Of course, the poor little creature never for an instant imagined that speaking of a chrysanthemum would lead to such a horrid thing as a spec- e sleeves e wide and ample* below the elbows, but snug above, in conformity with the latest fashion, and are finished with shaped cuffs. Tlie quantity of material required foivmedium "1=e (12 years) is 2#, yards 44 inches wide or 2 yards 52 inches wide. The pattern 457G is cut in sizes for girls of 8, 10, 13 apd 14 years of age. In ordering pattern fill in this coupon?:., - Size PATTERN,NO. Name Address -. ., : & "CAUTIONBe careful to give cor rect Number and Size of Patterns wanted. When the pattern is bust measure you need only mark 32, 34, 36 or whatever ,it jmay be. When in waist measure, &2K 24, 26, or what ever it may be. When misses' or child's pattern, write only the figure representing the age. It is not neces sary to wrije "inches" or "years." Pattern for this, garment will be sent postpaid on receipt of 10 cents. Be sure and mention number of pat tern. Address PAPER PATTERN DEPARTMENT, -JOURNAL, MINNEAPOLIS. SHOOTING IN THE AKMY. Standing, kneeling, sitting and lying down are the four positions pre scribed for firing by the army regula tion's. The lying position alone Is pre scribed for the oo and 1,000-yard ranges, while at all the other ranges up to, 2,000 yards the lying and sitting positions are used". At 100 and 200 yards the sitting and standing posi tions are prescribed. Wherever the sitting position is prescribed the kneel ing my be substituted, but for the ma jority of persons the sitting is by far the better position of the two. Nevet* refer to your first husband if you wish to keep peace 7if % / ' A C : in the family. nmwwiiwiiiiMiimiiimiiMiMiniiiMiii self that you took away," she cried, passionately. "You are not the same." : He started to his feet, as if stung v by her words, but was calm in a mo ment, and answered reasonably and f kindly*. "Is hot,the .defect in you, Constance? r see,none -hx myself. I feel the same toward your. It is you who are changed." He arose and looked for his hat and gloves. - ,. , j "What bless my soul!- You ain't going, Vane?" "Yes, I will go to the hotel for the present. Is .that your, , wish, Con stance?" v_ She bowed her head and murmured something about "changes to be made." - . ' ~r, "Oh, but L. wouldn't.".- Don' t go." said Mr. Carter,e gettinsgsup^e,andd fusst- 1n - . , r ?^ d . and a sh di no f fn.1jt. i ? r C 2 n .l t" i? c 1 ! l, rtffht' a ,ittl Jtiachildren d no place In " The , sleepyours."y in m room, uncle. ^ ' . "You women beat the deutch " . Uncle Carter," said Constance, fac ing about and seting down her lamp, for she had started to retire, "I don't feel quite sure that it Is Vane." Are you crazy, Constance?" "No but somehow I feel a doubt," - "Well, of all the notions you ever took up, that is the greatest, and you ve took up enough of them. Pri mus Edes, for Instance. You thought, I believe, that he looked like Vane, when nobody else could see a look. Perhaps he is your husband," said her uncle, thoroiy - prqyoked by her ex trordinary behav/ojr. "I never said-so, uncle, and. I don't say that this man is not. I say I have a doubt. At all jeyents. he win have 1 thlngr has come between u. ' Perhaps - j ftH - -BY BILLY BURGUNDY- trum. And it just made her Heart ache to think that after she had found out that a stipule is one of* a pair of usually foliaceoua appendages at the base of petiole or certain leaves, that she couldn't get a chance to tell him before she forgot it. If' she referred to Kipling's latest poem, Kelsey would shift to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, of which she had never heard. If she spoke of Rembrandt, Kelsey would drift into a discussion of the perspective plane as applied to the canvas. Every time she tried to deal a lead she would fumble the cards and hand out a mis lead. " Whenever a subject on which she was particularly strong came up something would happen to change it before she could shoot her bolt. Such was the case with every dame who stacked the cards so that she could con Kelsey into -thinking she was real intelligent and eligible to preside over the aft end of his table. Of course, they knew it was very - A 1 tliAt iliitt tUll A. A. A. A A. A. X I Marrie d Lifeas See n from the to prove his identity, and he will have to tell me why he went away before I receive him. About that I am de termined." "What folly is this? Constances you are a changed woman." To his vexation she burst into an uncontrollable fit of weeping. "I am a most unhappy woman," she sobbed, "I know that." "Unhappy when your husband, for whom you mourned, has just come back?" She did not answer, but took up her lamp and went to her room, her form shaking Avith emotion. When there, she sat down, still and quiet now, and thought deeply. Then the sounds of a violin stole across the fields and reached her, tho faintly. But she did not raise her window for a moment, as she had sometimes done. She sat still and listened till the sound died away and then she retired. But she did not sleep. She lay all night thinking, pondering, wondering, fear ing-what? ,-".': & husband / Still he w jS t o - ne 1 lift- her face kissed her oh her cheek. Then he weiu\ out with a warm glow on his handsome face, a perplexed look im his eyes. - J "Wh at do you mean, Constance, by turning a m an out of His own house In this way?" burst forth her uncle as soon as he was gone. ' "I did not turn him away. It was his own proposal to go to the hotel." "But why, with a house full of rooms? I could have given up mine if you " * - u i CHAPTER XIV. A Meeting of the Bank Officers.*' Mr. Hamilton, for so I shall call him despite the doubts of Constance, evidently had no intention of desert ing his own fireside for hotel pre cincts. He returned early and break fasted with the family, much to Mr. Carter's delight and not to the too evident displeasure of his wife. - He still remained after Mr. Carter went to his office and the children to school, for a meeting of the bank directors had been called at 10 o'clock at his own residence.' In the hour of waiting there was much serious conversation between the husband and wife. It could be denfed that she appeared a little ex acting and unreasonable, while he was quite gentle and forbearing. Could a stranger to both have been present at the interview, the chivalrous, lover like devotion of Mr. Hamilton would have seemed in direct contrast to her own more distant and constrained manner. At last he-said "I can see you doubt me. Some 7r?vma. 16, 1903. ..MORAL: naughty and wicked to pretend to * ~'' know a whole lot about the awfully " profound things, but wh at else could. ^ they do to win a m an who was cer- = * talnly too brilliant to care for a girl who was the least bit frivolous? ' 1% *#- Well, to get to the point, wherever %*,** Kenlsey went the he-catchers tried to r " ' win him out by displaying their .= ^ breakfast-food brand of intellect, but w there was nothing doing. - One day Kelsey met a giddy little . -M blue-eyed blonde, who could talk,*'.' nothing more abstruse than caramels, "* "4 chiffon and Booth Tarkington. ' * Blondy was an affectionate little thing - ~.f*s- and very becoming to a cozy corner. - "- When she got Kelsey into the speak easy where hung guns, swords, - shields and Indian blankets, she - nestled her curly head upon his bosom, lifted her wondering eyes and said: "Does 00 'uv 00 'ittle ducky?" Kelsey must have, for he married her the next day. MoralYou cannot fool a gambler with loaded dice. - - IIMMMIIIIIMmMIHMWM^MIIIMmmiHHHIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIMMIIIIMII ++*" IMHMMHHIWMIHM|||||||n,||M||M it is that unhappy secret. I have been gone so long, too so many traubies have intervened they have tended to set you apart from me. Is not that so?" -. . "Perhaps so." ' ', "Then I would not" have you do violence to your feelings. I will stay hereit is better so for many rea sons but you" shall live your own life until such a time as you can truly feel that you love me as you once did. I want to be near the chil dren, I want to be near you, Con stance. May I? May I have the room next-to your uncle's ?V "Yes." \ , if** ' "And will you try to"love" m'e again?" he asked, gently, yet with an eager ness he could not quite conceal. "Love cannot be forced," she an swered. "But it will come in time if you will let it." But suddenly, evidently recollecting some resolution he had made, he checked himself and said no more, while Constance sat idly turning over the leaves of a book until she saw the bank officers coming up the street. Then she arose to go. , President Hartwell and eight trus tees, with Tony Osborn, soon* entered: The new cashier, or treasurer, was not present. There was some constraint mani fested by each of the party, unless Tony be excepted.* Indeed, his ex terior was seldom ruffled but it could be seen that he was fully alert to the demands of the occasion, and, strange as It m ay seem, did not range himself ostentatiously at all on the side of the returned cashier. Indeed, he greeted , him very quietly, and sat down where , he could watch proceedings. Mr. Hamilton's manner was very cordial and easy. Well as the several gentlemen thought they knew him, they were not'prepared for so much composure and freedom from nervous A rumor of lost identity as the se quel of his mysterious absence had al ready reached them, early as it was in the day and they were, therefore, prepared to listen without interrup tions or exclamations, until he had fin ished the tale up to the awakening of his dormant "perceptive faculties, which had occurred, he said, but a short time previous to his return. There was a silence of many sec onds ere any one spoke. They were , evidently digesting in their minds this curious loss of'personality, which was the first instance of the sort known , to the most of them. At last Mr. Hartwell. said, cautiously "Did you say your memory Jiad re turned to you?" "Not fully. I remember all of my past life, I think, now, with the ex ception of the brief time when the sus pension in my ordinary faculties took place. Whether the events of that period will ever be known to me I * cannot tell. I shall consult a physi cian in regard to the matter. At pres- , ent it is all a blank." "You came to yourself in Seattle, - * you say?" '. :,, -- j - . . - ,"Yes." ' " v -,***.:.-', \, 4* "Can you give us addresses there where we may be able to learn cor-, roborative facts. Mr. Hamilton?" "I can give you addresses of the. workmen and of the men who owned - * the factory. Barnacle & Co. that Is all, for I made few acquaintances, as you will understand. But those with.^^1 whom I came in contact will readily'. corroborate ~my story." ^fcr The president took down four or flve^M--. addresses given him by.Mr. Hamilton,!-^.'"v after saying, gravely: , *?*, "It is necessary that the matter be, ^ thoroiy investigated, as well for your , ?, sake as ours." ' "** "Certainly. I court the closest In- ft quiry. You will find all my declara-. _tions true." / "No doubt," said Mr. Cowdrey,. oned the trustees. "You appeared to rep ness If not natural tu^n it resent perfect innocence, and insen sibly, as each felt the cordial grasp of his hand and the fine, genial warmth of his manner, their suspi cious attitude became less rampa nt and more acquiescent to the probable explanations he would offer. wa B ^a- uolf tn e trustees . "Yo u have hear lleve, a warrant out for your arrest." Mr. Cowdrey knew perfectly well that there was, but it was an awkward thing to say to a man in his own house. Mr. Hamilton gave a start. (To Be Continued To-morrov| : rlfr^. 3 Inside.i :J l X x II