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ft "yv '1:' i*rv.+& imm4 W- .•'•, ~:iiW Bi] Uictor Rousseau .SYNOPSIS. Nuriea la the Southern hospital at Avontnouth are angered by th$ Insolent treatment accorded them by Dr. John Lancaster, 'head of .the In-! •tltutlon, and there, is a, general feeling of unreet, into which Joan! Went worth, probationary nurse, Is drawn Doctor'" Lah caeter Is parlorming a difficult operation, for'which he has won fame. Joan, with other nurses, la. In attendance. She Is upset .tfarovgh .no fault of her own anil makes-a trivial blunder at a crlt loai moment. The patient dies ah4 Doctor 'Lancaster accuses her of clumsiness. Bhe lar sus pended, the Station meaning the end of her hop* of a career aa.a aursa. Without relatives or' (Hands, and desperate,' Joan, urged by her landlady, goes to Dootor Lancaster's office to aak him to overlook her blunder and reinstate her 8he overhears a violent altercation between Doe tor,Lancaster and other men she does not see. Joan Is struck by the favorable change In the ap pearance and... demeanor of the doctor, recalling that at tlmes in the houpltal he has: been gentle and thoughtful and at others su percilious arid 1kullylng. He tails her he can do nothing for her at the hospital, but offers her a po sitlon In a nursing institution In. the oountry. telllng her she can be of "great' assistance" to him. CHAPTER III—-Contimrad "You're a' fool! Ton dont know when yon are well off. I tellyou, I •wash my hands of you. This'IS,flnai-r? Joan could not help but hear:. And «s she emerged Into, tbe passage, all the time blearing the' sounds of the quarreling voices, My6rs came burry 'ftwr'paet He did not see her. He ran to the •door, flung, It open, and rnshed down the steps lnto the street. As be went *long the passage the girl saw him «tartn| right and left. thai, sis She amS opt, he Saw her and went toward Iter. She knew that it was she whom lie had| .^eep seeking. "Wbatwiur ItDoctor Lancaster waa Maying to: you. JU§aW:entworth, before Joah stared at bftn in astonishment JNow shereallzed 'that shehadmla #eii him, be was not a servant, but Apparently a member of the doctor's household.: 'twill you let me pasS,• please?" *sked Joan, as.he blocked the way. "I want to know what the- doctoi •was saying to you," repeated the man ^doggedly. "Are/ you going to refuse me paa •agef demanded the girl, flushing with anger. He stepped aside with a sneer and mock bow. "O, very well, if that's your attitude,"he answered. .1 shall find out." Joan turned swiftly upon him. 1 idon't know who you are, but I shell «ompla!n of you to Doctor Lancaster," «lie said. Myers looked at her and sneered «hd chuckled:- frien, without a word, lie went b^ck bitit the doctor's room. And still the voices kept up their quarreling dialogue. Joan found, herself In the street In be twilight, .and now the unreality of the absurd Interview strode home to her. She .tried to puzzle It. out Be fore she reached tbe boarding house ehethought she had her .due. 'That Lancaster, the terror of the^ aiurSes,: Bhoutohave beenunable to ftromlse Immediate reinstatement, his evident good-will, his Indecision and Illness were explicable only In one Way. The man Myers must be ja rel« «tlve, tbe third mail perhaps a.nephew. Lancaster had bees supporting a Worthlesspalrla M1eness,and feed tuihed on them lo exasperation. .ihat wiM the meanlnr ef his look of iUoess, lits preoccupatlOn-^-the Shbck ^C some dOmsstic At ahy rate ahe ms SatlsflM «ome such wiltition. A^d sh# cer that, she pleai^ ^th bar •mysterious mission, "frer reinstitwnent would follow: Sbe weat borne happy, and Mrs. Webb read tbe hews ln h^r ace tbe momrat sba opened dobr. w«i,knew It ay dear,** sits with pleasure. kMw ^t you »iiid twjst.that old M)' imM your tia&i ^f«-ytou tried tttaKh." r.fflWrs. Webb, ft w4s nstiiliit: tK^ ta,oae oC tfce klndest,of men. &'s?goltt :td'^ .^:'liav«''iib \dsd^ ««irNraN^v 8lw cltydceAylMfas^ .mddeidf\:M» SQemberlng Xjancas^er'a cautloa. Bot ,^vl5rw»:.U«Bs wa%&e ••.?.--asas^ that day than at any time atnce her mother's death I She leaned joint of the window. 8he suddenly remembered that the .Instf-. Id tute waa not many miles, from her ^p) home It would be almost going home --and on the morrow. Joy leaped Into her heart. Then she saw something that for an Instant chllied the blood In her veins. Across tbe street, leaning against the park railings and looklng up at the house, was a short, square-built figure of. a man wearing a hard hat She could not distinguish the fan, but she thought It was Uyera. And she remembered his threat What dld.lt^ meant Bewildered, die turned Into her room again. She half regretted now that she .was to fo to Lancaster. But In the morning she dismissed the Incident from her mind as a fan a Chapter IV At half-past seven In the evening Joan descended from the train at Lan castef statlon, after an all-day ride. it was like^ going, borne. Joan could not see her village, 'which was on a branch line, .but at Uedllnigtcin she was only four miles away. There were the san»|:ml8^r mountains, break ing the horizon llne„ the same small, straggling towns, tlw same' fragrance "of the deep forests^ brliigliig pack to her those remembrances whichr chance odor suddenly unlooses,' as at the toudb of some maigidan's stave. The two years that Ae had spent at Avonmouth seemed to slip out ot her recollection. As the afternoon fleiw by the dis tant mountains chafed Into a semi circle of Irregular helghta. Now tbe train was dlmblng into the foothills. It was a lopely land. -This was fur th«r In the bade country than Joan hnl eter been. The villages were be coming mere clusters of negro cabins. There had^en twd changes of trains The Horse Breaklno lnto a Short Qal lopNaarEverySummlt and Acb time the coacfc became gab bler and m^re disreputable, and mora Impregnated with, tobacco amolu. character of Joan's ^follow travelers dianged as weU. TH»y were?' un couthor, they wore chln beards and rough store sultS .tbey slA pervlrlng and coharless, the sisft hats pulled over their forehead^ Bui-'iaie looted at/them with the lovlng appredatlon of her. o,wn people thjat was ln C^WitghhlP. Q.Cliipn* ...v (j^er heart, and they. ln tha pres«ince of the pretty girl who wsa tra^lUig alone, displayed the Unnate coilvtesiy oC thi Sontbeniep. The sun deecendedMt was gilding the whole land wltti lei^i rays of gold aud dancing on the horisoB like a red bSU^wben the train pnlled Into Lan caster, the last station b«fore Mlll vllle, the terminus, Joan got down anil looked about her. The station was'atlny place and seemed deserted. Tie booking Office was doeed. In the waiting room, ap pearing almost^ to fill It^ waS~a stout negress witfc docen pkrcela from the wicker Sldea of ,on» two. hens' beads with blUkiaf «yes probfuded. Outside a raaudiadtle' bulgy, with a Ifan chestnut borse -attachedi -was Wawn up to the Sdge'. 'of .tle. muddy A weU-deAsd yobng 0onnta)a boy la a hard-felt hat was- stantlBg be side it As jJo*n caiie'eut'o^ the st»-: ttoB be tnmsd be took ott h)s •".i num tfentirsrtfer:W toaulred, to "Yea. Tou aM from tbe Iftstttutar Tea, Miss WentWorth. Mrs. n«aer Vw be etpectlng )roa* He look«l b^ yond ber," aad Joan. 4«nilag, perceived Mf C2.7'W"'' ir, sioux co to yon that I'm the secretary «r tlM institution. I guess my mannera «la!| "very good, but I (meant no ham." Joan, who had witnessed his prep* ence with consternation, nouf Mt sudden reaction from her fears. 01 coulee,' Myers' explanatlon made tbi situation Intelligible. She bowed, and he turned to ttti. boy. "You can take Miss Wentwortk up," he said. Til find a' bugnr sonie whera" i.. As there was only room for two'iii the buggy, Joan did not demur to the proposition. 8he' stepped In, ths jroung man holding out bis hand ti guard her dims from the whc^L Josa glanced at ths man with momentary interest. He had t^e appearance of a gentleman, and the manners of one There was no hint of either servility or presumption, and yet thSre jras 's sort of Independence about the. man which fitted him admirably. H« flicked the horse, and the buggy begaU to crawl out of the station yard along the single stireet of a tiny vtilagat straggling uphill. It was «4ilte vil lage, but cluster^ of shanties a little back among the pines betrayed the presence of the black element Then waa a store or two, their fronts plas* tered with tobacco and baking powder advertisements, and In front of ec^cb stood, a gaunt yellow-faced hiliman, chewing and gazing after the buggy with unanlmated face. -V "Thla Is Lancaster r* arted Joaa^J "Yes, Miss Wentworth.^ "The '.people here look depresselll^^ 'lliere's .a good deal of sljdoMWS, Miss Wentworth. Hookwoz^ The horse went on again, ^the mad winding ulthlll through pastui^S gay with buttercups and white with little brimdied asters. It dlppedybetween hedgerows pink with meadowsweet Tbe.sun had set, but its light still glided, the hills. The scene was very peaceful. Now the Instltjate aeemed to gwliig out 'from among the undula-: tlons of the mountain .fisnks ilnune dlately .In front of tbeflk The buggy fMune tb S st»Ddstui b(iti fore the. ltmg wooden bnlMln, whtcb was of ubshlngled boards and"''^«y mudi the worse for weather. It had not been pnlnifed for ySac% s^d two. windows In one wing were broken,' A patch qf wee^ tihmpWn 4awn extend ed between *thit had hedgea,l)ut were no^f mere tangles of undergrowth. NeaAy was a large lnclosnre in which were a few chldk^ ens, picking for gratps of com, anf cow at pasture turned her head and gazed at them pladdly. The door opened and looking womai^came forward. "How do yon.do, Miss: Wentworth,? •she said. "I tin the. matron, ^'Mrif Fraser. Doctor Lancaster ttflegraphod about your coming. •#*}.. in .ii'-, ... V'V N ktl)^.lud PIONEER vind what they used to call malaria. But th^ra Isn't any malaria here It's bad diet—salt pork and soda blscultk And there's pellagra lt'a been here for gen erations, but it wasn't till, last year that the inedlciil commission discov ered it" The coachman's knowledge might have been ludicrous in most men of ls class, but-there waa nothing rld|c ulous In the grave, refined fa$e of the young mountaineer. He must: bnt#: .picked ui some knowledge at the ln itltute, thought JOan. ^But if healthy up In the hms, Mlsa Wwt^firth^ he added.- MXbts: the frost kUled the^crops tlaee y^ ago, and the. mill feli:lnto jruln.v Quite a little water power In that s^aam.M. The buggy ascended «steeper. grade,v4he. horse breaking Into a short gallop near ievery summit and then resuming its lelsurely erawL •That's the Institute, Miss Went*: worth,'* the coachman continued, pointing toward straggling building on a little plateau. It had the appear ance of a large but rather dilapidated farmhouse. "It's three mUea by tfiflf road," he added, "but less than a mile over the hills." The horse bad stopped to gain' breath again. Looking, back- Joan' saw a white line that crept- upward over the rocky slopes aliuost direct from the station to the building Half way up was a cllttle Speck of black th^t seemed to mov%. Joan knew it was Myertf hard bat, hisr'hpdy being hidden from view among'the bushes. She shuddered slightly the man was very repugnant to'her. 'VV' HI show yiSs your room attd your supper wUl bs ready In a few minutes." Joan' descended. The driver, who had leaped to the ground, bdd blf band over the wheel, bat did not offwr It to her. Then he re-entered tbe bug and, tatber to .jpan's a|pn^"::tbi'-' n#nd:: by, wjblcfe ''")rhs:vmy|t»iy Mysra th« 'aaisrrt|fy ff Uiv tutIen. lsJoanlBfoi-.dla. Causes and Results of Uie Great Victory of the pi Republican Party. w: jPX EDWARD W. PICKARD BASONS for the tremendous Be pubilcan victory 4n the national friction are .not far to seek First among them come confidence in Calvin Orolldge and faith In his wise devo ttop to the public welfare, and the re p^|nance of a vast majority of the American people for extreme radlcal lfp. jklr. Davis was not a radical,'nor his platform, but the "LaFollette n^iace" was an actuality, threaten bfH a deadlock ln the electoral col and throwing of the election Into is with the possibility of t^e of Charles Bryan as chief ex and about 18,000,000 voters ded that this should not be. La- SttBb of course, never had a chance being Jel$ctkl, but he did have a ot. c^rrylng several of the states in addition to wbldi. vss. conceded to Infowa "and^veralbfthe ii?it|ea," was heivy. but in toe iine ^snerSi 'npon whose dUcon he1uid^^unfed, faUed bim. Fur iore^ :lt was demonstrated again the vote of organlzed labor cbn ddlvered, fi^ Instead of going llette in a body, as Gompers retbmm^nded, it split aloiig normal par^r lines. One thing LaFollette SUd his "menace" did was to bring out ther:largest vote ever cast In an Ameri can election, and this only helped pile up vthe Coolldge plurality of about 10,000,000. P4 RBSIDbNT COOLID0B on March next will take fresh, hold on the beUji of the ship of state with the pleasant. knowledge that the new con gress Is safely Republican and that the ltttie radical group has lost the balance of power, even lh the senate. In the* house there. will be probably api^irbxlmately 250 Republicans, only 12 of whom cannot be counted upon to support the President's policies. Wlthout thls docen the administration seems assured Of a margin of about twenty, above a. majority. The Demo crats W'II 'slWtty __,( .. twe fi^ome^ govemonH^Qie IMrst to be bo' .• lis^Orsd, Mr«. Ndlle T.rBois was, ele 'tha Democrats.ofWyoming to ij^fss$ to ttis oflice of her .hWK ban l^(t:ist*^vwnwr^tosit and un jr vlU taKeibfflce. as sboa aa les.' ^, Te^ .M(a..Mlitan: 1.—Tomb In the.Cathedral of St John ordered built by the late Pope Leo IX and In which his body has bow been placed. 2.—Building and sinking willow mat's on the banks of the Mississippi near Memphis to pro tect the shore line from erosion. 8*—Illinois farmers selecting seed corn from the state's $400,000,000 crop. A1 Smith, governor of New York gave a new and most Impressive dem onstration of his popularity by over coming the plurality of 800,000 by which Coolldge carried the state and defeating Theodore Roosevelt for the governorship by about 165,000 plural ity. In IlUnois the Coolldge plurality was tremendous and the entire state Republican ticket was elected, but Governor Small ran far behind, and Charles S. Deneen's plurality for United States senator was cut down a lot by Albert Sprague. Mixed results attended the active participation of the Ku Klux klan In the election. In Indiana Ed Jackson, Republican candidate for governor, was supported by the klan and thopgh he was elected, he ran a long way be hind the. national ticket. In Texas toe klan suffered severely, for Mrs. Feiv guson is its avowed foe and made her campaign largely on that Issue. In Kansas the klan helped pile up a huge vote for Ben S. Paulen for governor. William Allen White, Independent antl-klan candidate, ran third. Other Kansas candidates whom the klan op posed were successful. In Colorado, judging by Incomplete returns, the klan elected both toe governor— Clarence C. Morley, and a senator for Nicholson's unexpired term, Col. Rice Means. In Denver It made almost a clean sweep. Jack Walton, the Im peached and removed governor of election to the. issue and Wf» beatoi by 'yF: Pibe,' Republican, wjtilcb probably would have hap^nM ev^n if the klan ha(f reversed its- vote. Ohio yldded the Ku Klux what Is accounted a victory. Governor Dbnahey, Democrat seeking re-dection and "favorable" to tbe kian, defeated his Republican riyal, former Gov. Harry L. Davis, "unsat Isfactory" to the klan. His plurality was more than 100,000, despite the Coolldge landslide. On the rest of the state ticket four officeholders seek ing re-election, all "favorable" to the klan, were re-elected. NO number about 185. One So- clalist and two Farmer-Labor mem bera were elected. Tifr.jrtfoatlon In the senate will be bett^r for the Republicans than they had .(anticipated. At/this writing the result. In several states Is stlu In dotdjit, bnt It Is Ukely that the new up p» bouse wlU contain 54 Republicans, only four of whom are definltdy In the liaFollette group 41 Democrats, and: one Farmep-Laborite Forty-nine constltulea a majority in the senate. :Tl^v Sre Irt*^Republican senators who have occasionally voted with the LaFellettO' bloc^' ta|t they can be counted m' to 'join witb.° their party coUeagueS in Qie organisation of the body. Bspeclally gratlQrlng to Repub-. UcanS and. to the mors consi^yative dtlicens «eier^ly was tto SMALL part Of the credit for the Republican victory 1b to be given to General Dawes, President Coolldge's running mate, wl^o, devoted much of his vigorous campaigning to defending our Constitution, and insti tutions against the attacks of the radi cals. Over In France the result of the election was pleasing especially on Dawes' account, for they know Mm much better than they know Coolldge. Pertlnax, political editor of L'Echo de Paris, predicts that now, with the English Conservatives in power, Great Britain more than ever will tend .to co-ordinate her action with the United States, which, be believes, will involve collapse of tbe Geneva protocol on arbitration and security, the assem bling of another disarmament confer ence, and a moderate' bpt strict settle ment of the allies' war debts. tie Journal says the same things in other words. RAMSAY :d«Sfeat :«rf [anna: Johnsonof Mtonesota, er^L^borr by Thomas D. S!)all ^the lB^ubllcah blind congressman. It '|«^^cjught l!or.' several days tint Sei^^ Brookhaft of, Iowa.falso had bee|^c^^ .'..tqr Daniel F. Stock, Dem-,' 'oeiw^,buit wl^n ibex retufna- wMe re che(4ted-the i^ whol^^ Repub- MAODONALD SIR Democrat set ont to vlndl- impeached removed SM^shS-iW*?- defast^:4M|r Bnni|iUcsn offldsi r«mv Robertt Hoi^»former cbiacellor, was ottered the minor position of'min ister. ,labor which he. refused, aad he and his friends fed that he was Insulted.' Before%inltttnc'Ofl^'tte.iabdr niln Istiy made au apparently: sincere ef fort to so|T4 tbe m^t^i'y .' of tbe al leged Zlnoyleff letter idVISing British communists to revolt ItS commlttee fotind lt UUnpossible to come to a defi nite conclusion, on tm matter.- The original letter trail jigrodwefl and Pthat and his cabinet did not watt for the as sembling of parliament but tendered their resignations to King George, who accepted them promptly and Intrusted to Stanley Baldwin the task.of form inga new government The new prime minister soon submitted his selections for the cabinet- and. they were ap proved by the' king. He Is himself first lord of the treasury and Austen Chamberlain. Is foreign secretary, Lord Curzon being given tb? onunnentfl post of lord president of the council. Winston Qhurchlll, free trader and anti-Bolshevist Is chancellor ofthe a chequeri which is :i^trted as. a bid to tbe' Uoyd. GeoqjfeNfellowlng to join with the Conservatives and also as wh tlce toat. the loan to Russia IS. d^ad.. s«^ fk if nfi over to bolshevlsm. He has selzedi)) Imperial palace, evicting the former emperor and his wife and eervanta has occupied all of tbe Forbidden City and has even taken the horses and motor cars of the deposed president Tsno Kun. A bolshevlst ruidp cabinet set up by him has abolished forever the title of emperor and all other titles and has confiscated the palace In the name of the state. A further mandate agrees to pay the foAner emperor $500,000 annually as a private citizen and to appropriate $2,000,000 for the relief of the poor attendants of the household. M. Karakhan, soviet envoy to China, Is said to be most influential In the councils of Feng, .ahd Dr. Sun Yat-sen, leader of the southern .China group, has been Invited* to 'Peking. Mean while General Fu, \yho fled to a war ship at Taku, is waiting for a chance to consolidate the non-bolshevlst fac tions. it will be Interesting to see What course General Chang, the Man churlan, will pursue, for It looks as If Feng wire not proceeding according to Chang's- plans and wishes. The ad vance ruard of Chafag's troops arrived at TleiL-{8in. TKemal T,_, _reT. HE movement to deprive President of growing Stronger dally and since the Kemal of Turkey of his power grand national assembly has just opsbed at Angoi^gthe crisis may be ex ill-Be#, fosinegr pee-. ff4er sfd a great a^val hero, Is the leader of the opp^sltMu a 1 and IS (mipported by sudi ^worfm and popular men as Gen. All Geni,. Klazlm Kara Bekir,' Pacha and DJambolat slble object of tbelr at'. Ismet Pasha. M• REMIER MtiSsoLXNI IS Confident the crisis, which threatened him and the Fascist! has passed and that hip organization will be stronger than ever. The minister of the In terior, Slg. Federzonls, who is re garded as one of the biggest mem ber^ of the cabinet, and who has Won the confidence of toe country for' bis impartiality, Intimated,' toat the Fas clsti are cleaning their own house and are taking energetic means to stop the excesses which were complained of by toe Italians. FInformation ROM London comes toe Interesting that contracts for con struction of an airship twice, the also of,the Los Angeles, formerly the ZR-8 and capable of crossing the Atlantic from London to N6w York lA two days, have been placed by the British government Vlckers, Ltd., the com pany which makes all sorts of war materials and other things, jrfll build the huge ship. •jgMWf". JJENRY CABOT I0DQB, senior senator from. Massachusetts, waa stricken in. a Cambridge hospital where he hbd undergone several opera tions, and at the tine 'of, writing the physicians have little hope for bin recovery. He has been in the senato continuously for tbihy-one yearsr I* chairman of the foreign relations conf mltte and has been tbe leader of those who opposed entry of tbe United States Into the League of Nations. Ferdinand W. Peck, pioneer Ohl cagoan an& for tnany: years one of the moat Influential ,citizens -of. that city, la dead st an advibced agsi. He was prominent In the creation and dlree tlon of the Woriiys Columbian expo Mtlon, was commissioner general el the United States to the Paris ^exposl tlon of 1900 sibd #as a. grand ofllcer of the Vr«ndi Legion of Honor. CMrn^lluB Cole, ,wbo was dected senator .from California wa]r bad* la 187« and wbo '^ad'^teten an Intimate'' friend a control of Abrahsm Lincoln, passed awa». ln Los A^|«'kt"the age of me hun«-ed apd twyears, He Waa bora the r^ar after Nephews ^satb. ryoAzn#i JbS A in yj •*rtZ ml Par lia, slin, J'.uffit The 4su-n tls Premier RAKOVSKY went to PSris and met Premier H^initpt cementing the Franco-Russian accoM. It was an nounced that Leonid Krassln would bo the first soviet ambassador to Frahcfe, and that Jean Herbette would be sent as ambassador to Moscow, Wbch revolution. mmmm trq*. rV '1 p'' ft