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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS WEDNESDAY; MARCH 16, 1010. Ttf r J f STNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP j TERS. ' CHAPTER X-Cisrafca. a Tarter tin. - iMtut nan4 of roHen bearded 4 fkrnfr wb waa prospecting and study 1 las heefc tm th vtotoitr of nr home in ' central Ami, and rvaald to him tlio lo : cation of a wtne of rubies bopanr that Ui Mrantrer would love her in return tor her disclosure. Thay were followed to the cave by tha glrTa relative. . who , blocked u the eatranca, and drew off . ' the water auppiy. leavinr tbe oouple to ' : die. Baraba'fi oouiln Saad, her betrothed, attempted to climb down a cliff overlooking- the mine; but the traveler shot htm. The steaneer, revived from a water sourd Caad carried, dug his way out of the tunnel, and departed, deevrtins the ajlrl and carrrins a bag of rubies. Baraka fathered all tbe genu sbe couid carry, and started in pursuit. CHAPTER n. Marraret Donne (Mar garita da Cordova), a famous prima don na, became engaged in London to Kon- - etantin lxffotheli, a wealthy Oreek finan cier. Her intimate friend was Countess Leven, known as Lady Maud, whose hus band had been killed by a bomb in St. , Feteraborff; and Lady Maud's most intl- mate friend was Rufua Van Torp. an American, who bed been a cowboy in early life, but had become one of the richest men in the worlS. Van Torp wes In love wttji Margaret, and, rushed to London as soon as he heard of her be trothal. He offered Lady Maud J5.000.no0 i for her pet charity If she would aid him i in wincing- the slsser from Logothelt. CHAPTER III. Baraka approached I-ogothetl at Versailles with rubies to ell. CHAPTER IV. Van Torp bought a yacht and sent it to Venxe. He was visited by Baraka, who gave him a ruby after the American had told her of hav ing seen in the United States a man an swering tbe description of the one she loved. CHAPTER V. The American followed Margaret to the Bayreuth "Parsifal" fes tival. CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) The last few words came with a sort of stormy rush, and he turned round suddenly, and stood with his back against the gate, thrusting his hands deep into his coat-pocket3, per haps with the idea of keeping them quiet; but he did not come any near er to her, and she felt she was per fectly safe, and that a much deeper and more lasting power had hold of him than any mere passionate longing - to take her in his arms and press his iron lips on hers against her will. ' Margaret was not angry; she was hardly displeased, but she was really at a loss what to say, and she said : the first sensible thing that suggested itself and that was approximately true. "I'm sorry yon have told nae all this. We might have spent these next two days very pleasantly together. Oh, Tm not pretending what I don"t feel! It's impossible for a woman like me, who can still be free, not to be flattered when such a man as you cares for her in earnest, and says the things you have. But, on the oth er hand, I'm engaged to be married to another man, and it would not be loyal of me to let you make love to That despondency in women is a mental condition often . traceable to some distinctly female ill 1 Women who are well do not have the blues, neither are r they irritable and restless. Derangement of the female organism breeds all kinds of miserable feelings such as baclc- ; acne, headache, and bearing-down feelings. Try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. There is no doubt that it has made many remarkable cures of female ills, after all :: other means had failed. There is hardly a day that some - woman does not write us that this simple old medicine, . made only of roots and herbs, has cured her of a severe illness. - v Here are two such letters genuine and reliable. Platea, Pa. 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' Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thousands of cures to its credit. j 'V"J Mrs. Pink ham invites all sick women : to write her for advice"' She has 'guided thousands to health free of chars:. ; Address Mrs. Pinkh m, Lynn, Mass . "1 don't mean to," said Van Torp stoutly. "It won't be necessary. If I never spoke again you wouldn't for get what I've told you ever! Why should I say it again? I don't want to, until you can say as much to me. If it's time to go, hitch the lead to my collar and take me home! I'll follow yeu as Quietly as a spaniel any where!" "And what would happen if I told you not to follow me, but to go home and lie down in your kennel?" She Jaughed low as she moved away from the gate. , Tm not sure," answered Van Torp. "Don't." fell with an accent of warning, but it was not said in a begging tone either. Margaret's short laugh followed in stantly. " "You said just now that you would not say over again any of those things you have told me to-night. Do you mean that?" "Yes, I mean It." "Then please promise that you woa't. That's all I ask if you are go ing to spend the next two days here, and if I am to let you see me." "I promise." Van Torp answered, without hesitation. She allowed herself the illusion that she had both done the right thing and also taken the position of com mand; and he, standing beside her. allowed himself to smile at the futili ty of what she was requiring of him with so much earnestness, for little as he knew of women's ways he was more than sure that the words he had spoken that night would come back to her again and again; and more than that he could not hope at pres ent. But sbe could not see his face clearly. , "Thank you." she said. "That shall be our compact." To his surprise, she held out her band. He took It with wonderful calm ness, considering what the touch meant to him, and he returned dis creetly what was meant for a friendly pressure. She was so well satisfied now that she did not think It neces sary to telegraph to Logotheti that he might start at once, though even if. she had done so immediately he could hardly have reached Bayreuth till the afternoon of the next day but one, when the last performance of "Parsifal" would be already going on; and she herself intended to leave on the mornlnjr after that. Sbe walked forward In silence for a few moments, ard the lights of the town grew quickly brighter. "You wl'l come in and have some supper wiih us, of course," she said presently. read them they are and I don't have any more IS1I " "Why, certainly, since you are so kjnd." answered Van Torp. "I feel responsible for your having forgotten to dine," she laughed. "I mist make It up to you. By this time Mrs. Rusbmore is probably wondering Wiere I am." "Well," said the American, "if she thinks I'm perfection, she knows that you're safe with me, I suppose, even If you do come home a little late." "I shall say that we walked home vry slowly, in order to breathe the air." "Yes. We've walked home very slowly." "J mean," said Margaret quickly, 'ttat I shall not say we have been out towards the fields, as far as the gate." "I don't see any harm if we have," observed Mr. Van Torp indifferently. "Harm? No! Don't you under stand? Mrs. Rushmore is quite cap able of thinking that I have already how shall I say?" she stopped. "Taken note of her good advice," he said, completing the sentence for her. ''Exactly! Whereas nothing could be further from my intention, as you know. Tm very fond of Mrs. Rush more," Margaret continued quickly, in order to get away from the danger ous subject she had felt obliged to approach; "she has been a mother to me, and heaven knows I needed one, and she has the best and kindest heart in the world. But she is so anx ious for my happiness that, whenever she thinks it is at stake, she rushes at conclusions without the slighest reason, and then it's very hard to get them out of her dear old head!" "I see. If that's why she thinks me perfection, I'll try not to disappoint her." They reached the hotel, went up stairs and separated on the landing to get ready for supper. On his side of the landing. Mr. Van Torp found Stemp waiting to dress him, and the valet handed him a tele gram. It was from Capt. Brown, and had been retelegraphed from London. "Anchored off Saint Mark's square to-day, 3:30 p. m. Quick passage. No stop. Coaling to-morrow. Ready for sea next morning." "Stemp," he asked, as he threw off his eoat and kicked off his dusty shoes, "were you ever sea-sick?" "Yes, sir," answered the admirable valet, but he offered no more informa tion on the subject. During the silence that followed, neither wasted a second. It is no joke to wash and get into evening dress in six minutes, even with the help of a body-servant trained to do his work at high 6peed. "I mean," said Van Torp, when he was already fastening his collar, "are you sea-sick nowadays?" "No, sir," replied Stemp, in precise ly the same tone as before. "I don't mean on a 20,000-ton liner. Black cravat. Yes. I mean on a yacht. Fix it behind. Right. Would you be sea-sick on a steam yacht?" "No, sir." "Sure?" "Yes, sir." . "Then I'll take you. Tuxedo." "Thank you. sir." Stemp held up the dinner-jacket: Mr. Van Torp's solid arms slipped Into the sleeves, he shook his sturdy shoulders, and pulled the jacket down In front while the valet "settled" the back. Then he faced round suddenly, like a soldier at drill. : "All right?" he Inquired. Stemp looked him over carefully from head to foot la the glare of the electric light. "Yes, sir." Van Torp left the room at once. Ha found Mrs. Rushmore slowly moving about the supper-table, more imposing than ever in a perfectly new black tea-gown and an extremely smart wid ow's cap. Mr. Van Torp thought she was a very fine old lady indeed. Mar garet had not entered yet; a waiter with smooth yellow hair stood by a portable sideboard on which there were covered dishes. There were pop pies and corn-flowers in a plain white jar on the table. Mrs. Rushmore smiled at the financier; It would hard ly be an exaggeration to say that she beamed upon him. They had not met alone since his first visit on the previous afternoon. "Miss Donne is a little late," she said, as if the fact were very pleas ing. "You brought her back, of course." "Why, certainly.- said Mr. Van Torp with an amiable smile. "You can hardly have come straight from the theater," continued the lady, "for I heard the other people in the hotel coming in fully 20 minutes be fore you did." "We walked home very slowly," Mr. Van Torp's Solid Arms 8llpped Into the Sleeves. ' said Mr. Van Torp, still smiling ami ably. "Ah, I see! You went for a little walk to get some air!" She seemed delighted. "We walked home " very slowly in order to breathe the air," said Mr. Van Torp Tto breathe the air, as you car. I have to thank you tact, puiab. for giving me your seat, ' Mrs. Rush more." "To tell the truth," replied the good lady, "I was very glad to let yon take my place. 1 cannot say I enjoy that sort of music myself. It gives me a headache." " Margaret ratered at this point in a marvelous "creation" . of Chinese crape, of the most delicate shade of heliotrope. Her dressmaker called it a tea-gown, but Mr. Van Torp would have thought it "quite appropriate" for, a "dinner Iance" at Bar Harbor. "My dear child," said Mm. Rush more, "how long you were In getting back from the theater! I began to fear that something had happened!" "We walked home very slowly," said Margaret, with a pleasant smile. "Ah? You went for a little walk to get some air?" "We just walked home very slowly, in order to breathe the air," Margaret answered innocently. It dawned on Mr. Van Torp that the dignified Mrs. Rushmore was not qnite devoid of a sense of humor. It also occurred to him that her repeti tion of the question to Margaret, and the latter's answer, must have re vealed to her the fact that the two had agreed upon - what they would say, since they used identically the same words, and that they therefore had an understanding about some thing they preferred to conceal from her. Nothing could have given Mrs. Rushmore such profound satisfaction as this, and it revealed itself in her bright smiles and her anxiety that both Margaret and Van Torp should, it possible, over-eat themselves with tbe excellent things she had been at pains to provide for them and for her self. For she was something of an epicure and her dinners in Versailles were of good fame, even In Paris. Great appetites are generally silent, like the slncerest affections. Marga ret was very hungry, and Mr. Van Torp was both hungry and very much in ove. Mrs. Rushmore "was neither, and she talked pleasantly while tast ing each delicacy with critical satis faction. "By the by," she said at last, when she saw trial me millionaire was backing his foretopsall to come to an chor, as Capt. Brown might have ex pressed it, "I hope you have not had any trouble about your rooms, Mr. Van Torp." "None at all. that I know of," an swered the latter. "My man told me nothing." "The Russian prince arrived this evening while you were at the thea ter, and threateaed the director with all sorts of legal consequences be cause the rooms he had ordered were occupied. He turns out to be only a count after all." "You don't say so," observed Mr. Van Torp, in an encouraging tone. "What became of him?" Margaret asked, without much interest. "Did Potts not tell you, my dear? Why. Justine assisted at the whole In terview and came and told me at once." Justine was Mrs. Rushmore's Paris Ian maid, who always knew , every tiling. "What happened?" Inquired Marga ret, still not much interested. ' "He arrived in an automobile," an swered Mrs. Rushmore, and she paused. "What old Griggs calls a sudden-death-cart," Mr. Van Torp put in. "What a shocking name for it!" eried Mrs. Rushmore. "And you are always in them, my dear child!" She looked at Margaret. "A sudden-death-cart! It quite makes me shiver." ' "Griggs says that all bis friends either kill or get killed in them," ex plained the American. "My throat-doctor says motoring la very bad for the voice, so I've given it up," Margaret said. "Really? Thank goodness your pro fession has been of some use to you at last, my deaf!" Margaret laughed. "Tell us about the Russian count," she said. "Has he found lodgings, or is he going to sleep In his motor?" "My dear, he's the most original man you ever heard of! First, he wanted to buT tbe hotel and turn us all out, and offered any price for it, but the director said It was owned by a company in Munich. Then he sent his secretary about trying to buy a house, while he dined, but that didn't ifmm 0D HEADACHE Tata ONE NEURALGIA "Dr. Mile' And of the' Little Tablets V 4 and the f m Pain is Gone Palo Pills km been ased by me for rheu matic paint, beacKbc and pata la back and aides, and la every case they fae perfect! sarisfactloo.' Henry Beexuoo. ft. Y AND THE PAINS Of RHEUMATISM and SCIATICA 25 Doses 25 Cents Yer Dragglst 'sella Dr. Miles Asd-Pan.PlDs and be Is authorized to return the price ei (be first package (only) U h hits to benefit yau. ." , ; mm m$ mm m K Steo succeed either. He must be ver; wealthy or else quite mad." "Mad, I should say," observed Mr. Van Torp, slowly peeling a peach. "Did you happen to catch his name, Mrs. Rushmore?" "Oh, yes! We heard nothing else all the afternoon. His name Is Kra linskyCount Kralinsky." Mr. Van Torp continued to peel his peach scientifically and economically, though he was aware that Margaret was looking at him with sudden curi osity. "Kralinsky." he said slowly, keep ing his eyes on the silver blade of the knife as he finished what he was do ing "It's not an uncommon name, I believe. I've heard it before. Sounds Polish, doesn't it?" He looked up suddenly and showed Margaret tbe peeled peach on his fork. He smiled as he met her eyes, and she nodded so slightly that Mrs. Rushmore did not notice the move ment. "Did you ever see that done better?" he asked with an air of triumph. "Ripping!" Margaret answered. "You're a dandy dab at It!"-' "My dear child, what terrible slang!" "I'm sorry," said Margaret. 'Tm catching all sorts of American expres sions from Mr. Van Torp, and when they get mixed up with my English ones the result is Babel, I suppose!" "I've not heard Mr. Van Torp use any slang expressions yet, my dear," said Mrs. Rushmore, almost severely. "You will," Margaret retorted with a laugh. "What became of Count Kra linsky? I didn't mean to spoil your story." "My dear, he's got the pastor to give up his house, by offering him a hundred pounds for the poor here." Van Torp left them soon after- sup per, and gave himself up to Stemp, pondering over what he had accom plished in two days, and also about another question which had lately pre sented itself. When he was ready to send his valet to bed he sat down at his table and wrote a telegram: "If you can find Barak, please ex plain that I was mistaken. Kralinsky Is not in New York, but here in Bay reuth for some days, lodging at the pastor's house." This message was addressed to Lo go the tl at his lodgings in London, and Van Torp signed It and gave it to Stemp to be sent at once. Logotheti never went to bed before two o'clock, as he knew, and might very possibly get the telegram the same night. When his man was gone. Van Torp drew his chair to the open window and sat up a long time thinking about what he had Just done; for though he held that all was fair In such a con test, he did not mean to do anything which he himself thought "low down." One proof of this odd sort of Integ rity was that the telegram Itself was a fair warning of his presence in Bay reuth, where Logotheti knew that Margaret was still stopping. As for the rest, he was quite con vinced that It was Kralinsky himself, the ruby merchant, who had suddenly appeared at Bayreuth. and that this man was no other than the youth he had met long ago as a cow-boy in the west, who used to whistle "Parsifal" with his companion In exileand who, having grown rich, had lost no time In coming to Europe for the very pur pose of hearing the music he had al ways loved so wall. And that this man bad robbed the poor Tartar girl, Mr. Van Torp had no manner' of doubt; and he believed that he had probably promised her marriage and abandoned her; and if this were true, to help her to find Kralinsky was in Itself a good action. (To be Qontlnued.) COURT HOUSE RECORD Real Estate Transfers. Charles "H. Pope to Axel Lundeen, lot 11, block 158, village East Moline, $350. Hanes & Pinkley to Alice E. Hober, lots 1, C. west half lot 2, block 9, vil lage of Milan, $725. George H. Jordan to Mary B. 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