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thinker gets his candidates Into power, there
ftnd disc0nt (1-
or trying to make an honest living. They
make it their business to be conspicuous in-
.stead of the opposite, and so get themselves
elected. As a body of men they know prac-
from the start we had been governed our
best minds, instead of by our wors as a
nation we had been run from the beginning
How many billions of dollars was this
country worth, as land, coal, oil, forest, gold,
silver, iron, etc., etc.? Only astronomers
think In big enough figures to answer that.
A*yh.°r\?8
t,
natl°n
cheated lt all
Think of a whole country run as a trust.
'with employment at more than a fair return
If there Is salvation ahead of us. Instead or
This gospel then must come from where?
Why, from heaven, of course, whence all
good gospels have come, or are usually be
lieved to have come. And, seeing that we
are In America, where the women are given
the best of everything, our heaven-sent mes
senger must be a woman.
I see your gesture of horror. But she shall
not be as you see her. She shall be young
and beautiful and .good and sincere. She
shall not speak her own thoughts, but ours.
Yours as ever.
To this letter Professor Stilliter received
the following answer by return messenger:
Dear Stilliter:
I'll help ff you can answer one thing satis-
w/2
22ges£f?ni
mum
... -i- INTRODUCING'
EARi,eWilliams.as Tommy JWcfajf
Anita Stewart The *dde»s
$ritfenSy GotlVERNElR MORRIS
'Qx&natned'*& a&tofo-'Piqy
Av*ti0r ^jp "Theltbrila of VauSKvff
Copyright. 1915. by Star Company.
higher than it ever was before the next
H&st nota&lefi4Ures trt Awenca/f Ltirnrfurp)
Dear Barclay: comes from heaven? You say she must come
Every Individual voter feels that he coula from heaven In order to believe. It Is quite
run the nation better than those appointed
a
to do BO by himself and thousands of others thinking and experimenting- for years toward
just like him. One voter would put the tariff
marii and
would abolish It. But. whichever type of Tours with sincere interest. B.
remain always In these United States mil- Barclay
Jlons of people who have to be poor, dirty
and AI upon
tented. She only has to believe that she comes front
With mighty few exceptions, those whom we his voice began to fall him. He finished with
put over ua to govern us are the most In- these words: "And for a few of us. as a mere
competent lot of legislators and admlnlstra- side issue, there's billions In it.
tors in history. For the most part they are Gordon Barclay remained for a long time
men vaguely trained to the law. They talk j„ profound thought.
better and oftener on a greater variety of "There is, as you say." he said at last,
topics than the average man who is making ..bl„lon8 ,n
tlcally nothing about anything useful or im- ..
portant, and their small minds are so tangled
with the little law they know that they are Jiik "woi.idn'^vl!,'"
unable to see through the tangle Into the myself with it. Wouldn you.
heart of law, which is Justice. If lawyers Barclay shook his heavy shoulders, lifted
'could be counted on to do right tho pawn- his leonesque head and smiled.
broker down the street and the shoemaker "Of course," he said, "I was dreaming. I
round the corner would not have to be called believe the thing can be done. And without
aw ay from affairs, important to them, to sit any sacrifice whatever, either spiritual or
on Juries and do Justice. material."
But the thing goes deeper. "What in each "It will take a long time."
^voter's Judgment is the one chief thing that "I understand that. You Have to teach her
*ls wrong with these United States? There
if "would be almost as many answers as there
Ji are voters. I've asked lots of men, and no
**two agreed, but I liked one man's answer a
•r-lot He said: "The chief trouble with the
country is that Its citizens have to pay taxes one.
when they ought to be receiving dividends. .Tnrhat
And this,'' he said, "would be the case if ..0nly
for every able-bodied man. and fat dividends beautiful young woman lent to this unusual
for everybody ln good years! In such a state Item of news a tinge of real tragedy,
by force of public opinion even a^3ryan might Professor Stilliter was out of bed ln a
be made useful. Even in Utopia there are twinkling of an eye. He bathed and dressed
offices which have to be swept out. with miraculous speed. It made you think
a little of the way a fire engine horse is har-
er.ough and contented enough as Individuals times.
will be pulled down from our high places and
The masses will believe In her. The classes Amesbury wouldn't get well." He said no
may. and if they don't they will have sense ™«re. but his whole attitude and "Passion
enough to pretend to.
idiiiLiuiiiiiifTinijLiij
IftcExfofEld.ine'
She must believe what she preaches. If she
Is sincere, how can she tell people that she
aome
rigmarole. I know that you have been
such end as this. But I am a business
have to be shown.
To th(a
cou
profesaor stilliter answered:
.. heaven. If she can be made to believe that.
From this even a child would conclude neaven. «. »n
either that a vast majority of people are are you satisfied?
doomed to unhappiness by the God who- That night the two men met by appolnt
made them, or that a vast majority of politi- ment. Outlining his plan, and occasionally
clans are Incapable governors. As to the first going into detail, Professor Stilliter talked
conclusion, we know nothing: but as to the rapidly for almost two hours without stop
second. we are certain beyond peradventure. ping, till the sweat stood
jd
ma
almost from the beginning."
"I don't teach her exactly.
believe."
"Have you a child in view?"
'Now that you're with me, I shall soon find
BPe the
eartll to
am 0p the reV
as near
being so, and a blot upon us that can never touching It. It was, however, his usual time
be wiped out, a wrong of our own doing that for beginning the day. for at that moment
can never be righted. It is ten thousand his valet brought In the morning papers.
jltlejl that we haven't been efficient, too.
h„_an to Diav
owned it. And then we began to play ducKs
and drakes with it. If from the Btart our
resources could have been handled by a
Rockefeller he—well he might be a thousand
times richer than he is, but we—we would
none of us be poor. And our house would
be clean and efficient from garret to cellar.
and not gutted and creaky and full of ver
min and half the ceilings down.
"Brilliant John Amesbury, who
married one of America's greatest
beauties, killed by a trolley car.
Widow, prostrated by news, not ex
pected to recover."
A cut of a beautiful young man and a
nesaed-
ruin, something of this sort will have to be
." i«f» tn 11. of our Swift as were all his motions, he dwelled
worked out from what Is left to us of our
aomewhat upon h,g
natural resources. server might have noticed that he chewed
Failing this those of us who are rich
every
were
We breathe is 10 per cent air and 90 per cent country road that bordered the narrow front
revolution. In other parts of the country the jawn- Tommy Barclay, aged twelve, hearing
The only man with sufficient mind and this racket from afar and full of the tragedy
power to effect anything good Ss yourself, which had overtaken the kind and friendly
But lf you personally were. to preach the people in the big house, came up on a dead
gospel of efficiency people would think you run. His efforts to Interfere with the eport
were working, to put lt bluntly, for your own an* to secure peace and quiet for the sick
pocket. This gospel then ostensibly must not woman ln the house were not met with ap
come from you. It must not come from the proval, and Indeed for a moment lt looked as
rich. From whom then? From the poor, you If the noise of the dbg flght was going to be
answer. But alas, my friend, even the cham- swelled by the noise of a boy fight, a dozen
pions of the poor are open to suspicion.
:i[Li7imi
h!£ a"?
lt Tet !f wa8 Bure that we
ke lt happen, really make every-
bofly contented and not poor Vd be
to
cou
content
give up everything I have already, and I
,d ,e
happy
..
e*°'al"1®d Stll,1't®r
hurriedly,
and
I make her'
chances against us?"
theae
That before we bring her to
pr6acij
our
born & dlfferent and
the way Standard OH, for Instance, has been
',, Professor Miles Stilliter was never idle, ex
run as a trust. cept when he was asleep. On a certain morn-
I am not standing up for the rapaclousness ing: (n the Spring of 1900 Professor Stilliter,
oi trusts, only for their efficiency. As a na- having mislaid his glasses, was unable to tell
tlon we have been more rapacious and dis- hat time, it was, though he held his watch
honest than any trust that ever lived. This
gospel you are dead, or I
olution has already come, and
better fruit for us all."
t0 his eye-ball as he could without
Professor Stilliter did not read the papers
word by word, but column by column. It
was astonishing to see so much intelligence
and energy and adroitness ln a young man
who resembled nothing so much as a mon-
7reomrtheedpeoplle who The following headline in the New York
ducks American almost immediately caught his eye,
and put an end to any further search for
nflws:
breakfast. A close ob-
mouthful exactly the same number of
The late John
trampled by an unreasoning mob until there gcgrsdale. On the morning In which this
Is no longer anything stable nor any one narrative opens a number of village boya
contented. The air of this great city which
Amesbury's house was at
pulling off a dog fight In the quiet
to one. Fortunately for Tommy, the door of
the house opened, and a trained nurse, with
a Ions: face like a horse and a domineering
eye, came running down the front walk with
an expression so ominous and formidable
that, without a word spoken, the dogs were
dragged a part and the boys made off at high
speed. Something in Tommy's face attracted
the nurse's attention. She was far kinder
than she looked.
"Do you want anything?" she said.
"The papers said," said Tommy, "that Mrs.
a
po'Kna,nt
quC8
With you to help, I believe, upon my word clumsily, shook her own head Just the veriest
sf honor, that I can make this thing happen, trifle and hurried back to the house.
Will you help? What do you think?
MILES STILLITER.
tactorlly. To be a successful gospelist the preferred to tell almost any other man that
^cfnaa. as you intimate, must, b* ilneara, it v.. atiniut. his question an-
vhis
on
Th® n«rs®
la,d
hand suddenly on brown head, patted
A shadow fell upon Tomjny, and he found
himself looking Into the Immense thlck
rlmmed glasses of Professor Stilliter. Intui
tively the boy and the man disliked each
other. Professor Stmiter would rather have
asked almost any other small boy lf that was
the Amesbury house. Tommy would have
rnirnip^rM^i^i'^iiinm^
_I
TRAGIC END OF A EUGENIC ROMANCE." calves of her legd, and when he made her
,.
her shake Hands with Professor Stilliter. He
told her that Professor Stilliter was very
fond of little girls, and wouldn't she do her
best to entertain him, while he himself was
with her mother upstairs? -,
open her mouth and looked in and murmured.
me snow mm mo =-w
THE PAILY GATE CITSI
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5i|iS|l
*o£'on Picture Seria/ and.
"Gentlemen," he said, "fifteen years from to-day she will bring
the worrd to her feet—and to ours."
swered, moved energetically upon the house. Professor Stilliter In
and from the maid who answered the bell the room had
a
inquired for the latest bulletin of Mrs. Ames- of hypnotic effect
bury. He stepped forward as If to enter the upon the two men. He
house, and the servant made the least show stood In shadow
in the world of shutting the door In his face, against the wainscot
Professor Stilliter turned reluctantly
"What Is tliat funny thing on the piano?'
asked Professor Stilliter. The little girl _0je)n
looked In the direction indicated, and told ..
ceeded ln diverting her attention the young ,n ,ltB
man had. slipped the three photographs in
their folded leather frame into one of his
capacious pockets. His mission ln the house
to her. she could neither ac!ord nor refus«.
shrugged his great -noulders, grunted like a
that was her very own and kept on crying
until she
Tommy
8t 11
premises, traced the infantile wails to their
comfort. Presently he took from his pocket ]ay ,^3
V"i jt
away
and heard the closing of the door.
At that moment a buggy driven furiously
stopped at the front gate, and, thanks to his
glasses, which gave his helpless eyes an al
most hawk-like vision, Professor Stilliter
recognized Dr. Walnwright. an old acquaint-
ance. if not a friend. f"at
the waves, Intermln-
can. I never knew Amesbury. I don't know bright as m|dnight as at noon, and as
his wife, but as a eugenlst I was Immensely crowded: buildings so tall that they stag
interested in their marriage, and I have gored fcelief and sWayed In the wind hos
deep scientific Interest in seeing the daugh- pilals. hotels, banks, libraries, cathedrals,
ter. Now at such a time as this I could not Kreat acreages of rock and gravel turned into
very well force myself upon thfe household, green umbrageous playgrounds for a free
but If you could slip me in with you as a people.' He showed them department stores
consulting physician I will be Immensely teeming with life, vast terminal stations, tun
obliged to you, and there will be no talk nels passing under broad rivers, great ll-
her up In his arms, and kissed her. He made capital was to build, and which men already
Professor Stilliter could not conceal the
fact that the child's appearance delighted _____
evident admiration the firm and chubby
a
more than a duck's back is affected by water, tattered rags, with the forehead of the first
{he neare8t Jamp poB
an
0
and
IN.T.IL MNJL 4A1I(
During the moment in which he had sue-
him that It was a Chinese "ephelent." »h°^«dJ.h.e™ nor aut
to a plaza that opened off the living room, begging, now commanding, now wheedling, J7"*
a
a
had thrown one leg. started tears again, for the answer?"
a little rag doll, and very shyly, for now that psychologist."
he looked at it again, it seemed a poor gift,
he offered It to her.
There was silence in the room, at once so
rich and repressed In Its moldings and fur
nlshings, where Gordon Barclay received and
gave orders to such of his fellow-mtllipnajres
as were in his confidence.
Vtf SKj
kind
ing, and his eyes
never left the back
of their heads.
At first Barclay
showed them some of
the
achievements of
caP»tal
steamers too
to
*ossed .**
A 'A'
iotrv ev&r ct'esiteel
-ninvi!i:ur:iim a^n:iiiimuiir:!v^:imri'.ji,
"Glad to see you," said Professor SUlUteT. able freight trains
"Are you in charge here?" creeping over high
"Yes," said Dr. Walnwright. ,r .:• trestles, square miles of corrugated iron roofs, photograph of the little Amesbury girl with
"Then you can help me, as nobody else chimneys belching black smoke streets as the tip of his finger.
of splitting fees." brarles. free to ri'ch and poor alike. The he said, "that she Is only dying In grief. As
waters of whole counties coaxed by one mlr- a matter of fact, she is taking a great place
®r- Walnwright smiled and nodded.
acle
*6 i.'SSi#" 4 i'.A'-i
1
after another into one city to keep its In the march of events."
The object of Professor Stllllter's Interest millions .healthy and clean. And thejr stood What are the child's habits?" 'M
v.-as not hard to find. She was seated, for- with him upon the bridge of a warship and «she
called the Panama Canal.
And then he showed them some of the fait
ures of capital—men and women starving In
hundreds. rotting of dlsfeases or perishing of
'sheer disappointment and despair. Bread-
him. and that his appearance did not furnish swift dashes he showed them, standing upon -the triumvirate as they were both popularly
her with the same delight affected him no
She had been too weil brought tip, and car- Napoleon and the lion-roar voice of Mlra- selves. In a car driven so swiftly that the
stlncts prompted her. She did not resist when chlevous, ^nd filled their hearts with fire and them long to reach the A'mesbury house.
he lifted herefrom the floor, asked her age passion and hate. They did not, however, draw up bfefore the
mers,
dragKlnK out an
and
on
lines, soup kitchens he showed them roof- plete mystery to Sturtevant and myself."
less men dying of exposure And then in in spite of Professor Stllllter's guarantee.
soap box at the corner of a slum, a man in fend unpopularl'y called determined to have
and said, "My. how heavy she was!" She H) showed those same men, armed with house Itself, but ln the wood hack of it. Here would last as long as he chose.
winced a little and flinched a little when he gU118i vvlth poles, with hatchets, with ham- togged out in Indian dress so that she re- "Show me," he said, "where nurse keeps
prodded her arms and chest and felt th
"Colossal." But when he asked wouldn „row(« »ver erowlnc in numbers and They complimented her unon the health and stairs and out ln
she show him the pretty house in which she
but to her famous father and her mother. mangled upon the sidewalks. And, ever she the finest child you ever saw. or Isn't
Btreets,
vated
finished, he" asked her if she would give hiM Tda£nU^ fnd
a kiss. This was a thing which, it seemed ranlne.
Here she seated herself on a very small chair now killing, and then he showed them battles ?/len impressions do not long survive.
fved, she did so gladly, for lt seemed to put ,howed them banks and other strongholds after her mistress and learned with every the Journey to the north woods which she
an end to being handled.
For his immediate purpose Professor Stilll- puffs of sordid-smelling gray smoke, and ing hourly. They Joked Professor Stilliter a tomoblle ride, the Montreal express held up
ter did not need to penetrate beyond the were—not. He showed them short sieges. In little on the fear with which he seemed to in- between stations, the long drive into the
cheerful living room, for here his eyes at which for a while, rifles flashed from the win- spire the child. But to Stilliter, looking far woods, and after that, when they had come
once singled "out fro'm many three photo- dows of Fifth avenue palaces. He showed, ahead, perhaps this aversion seemed a serl- to the end of the road, the long toilsome up
graphs, ln which Justice had pretty nearly them these same palaces a few minutes later, ous thing. and down hill tramp, through which she rode
been done, not only to his small companion, turned inside out, half in ruins, the defenders "Well," he said brusquely, "am I right? Is
growing ln power and leadership, he kept she? Just see the breadth of her skull above
the llon-roar voice of Mirabeau.
tomobUes could move 80 Kt
trains, beneath which no subways ran,
It ln
TholJ^
a^^
011^^1^
a and he 8howe
pig and abruptly took his departure. Mirabeau bringing order out of chaos, and through fire with him
Still weeping, the little girl found"her way preparing to hold what he had taken, now
nd leaping cannon—and at last a white flag ?*|e
iiy all three, in the uniform of generals, lead ..
R.„i,v -tm Unfprln* .bout the forth blind folded and bound and Stood with
to
in his confidence, were strangely moved. The
great man for once had not been dealing with and their daughter were as certain and sud-
facts, but with fancies. Very quietly and den in their effect upon the eye as is the
earnestly he had been painting for them that beayty of the Yosemlte Valley.
terrific future to which, as he saw It, the rest- "But." said Sturtevant. "what
less forces of the world were driving. remedyT*
It may have been that th» nraaane. of War anmmar Barclay
__ __ TKerv SEE It All irv
nanr'j-iorxinr
,ead It Here Kowl MOVING PICTlRJEs
rr
^nn.i iai: ^a?n
O
4& i'
TT
lf rt trians
city through which neitner carriages nor au- her she showed neither fear nor averafnn «...
.eat
wa
the ruin
'She Is the answer," he said, "but. by the
very slightly.
"Dead?"
"Dying."
Barclay was not unmoved. "She thinks,"
has a nap
lorn and disconsolate, upon the bottom step passed from the world's second ocean to Its »from iq to 10:30 and from 3 to 3:30. At other opened a door through Which she was at lib
of the front stair. Dr. Walnwright picked flrst, through the Incredible ditch, which jtne8
Bh
nurse There lB a
^er* 's absolutely cut to our plan."
Which," said Stmmes, "is so far a corn-
a look at
rled her three or four years with too much beau—a man who spoke to the wretched and traffic cops had to look tie other way so as Professor Stilliter had long since slipped
dignity to run from him and hide, as her In- he unfortunate, and the idle and the mis- „ot to get dust in their eyes, it did not take
only a
above which crawled no ele- ...
at n^ght
the others: "The world's greatest
"You do not have to tell us that," said
Semmes. and they bowed to the Professoi.
"Well,* said Barclay, 'let's have a look at
her."
folded picture frame of red leather. When
hanging him. more dead than alive, to difficult task for three such men to lull any "Now, give me your hand," he said, "and
haVf
"?ne,
11UJ®
wo"'
had almost forgotten what she was raised over a fortress, and themselves persot- ,vnCfc, !r nurse, nor her Indian Although Professor Stilliter had told her to
crying about.
s"*
their backs against a whitewashed wall. °"ection of three great and Important per-
sources. The sight of his sympathetic face Finally Sturtevant looked his fr end and important than they were, and who on part- ^Utlv t^sT.et. at^
above the veranda railing, across which he master ln the face and said: "Wei., what
plad
he was her best friend In. the world, and she "I think," said Barclay, "that I have de- if she had been a princess. It wasn't, exactly
wished to tell him all about the wicked man vised a remedy Which shall serve us all. Mr. a recollection either, for she did not remetn- It ?.
with the black-rlmmed spectacles. Tommy Stilliter." ber their faces nor how they came Into her
took her on his knees and listened and gave
A,
ity^ coilaoorAtion, witK wie^og?
Pre^ntacl by this Newspai^T
1
ouluwt
the little Amesbury girl for them-
stopping a limousine on Fifth Avenue, sembled the ornamental side of a cent, they Tour coats and hats." He selected a hat for
ld man in a fur-lined coat, found the object of their search. It was no Ker and her warmest coat.
t. He shoWed them that suspicion that the child's nurse may have had. don't make any noise." Ho led her do^n-
ger. tearing a policeman to pieces he good manners of her little charge, inquired She never afterward recalled anything of
capital that rose suddenly heavenward ln semblance of regret that the latter was sink- made with Professor Stilliter. The long au-
showing them the man with the head of Na-- the ears." Here ln the warm Spring sunshine on ledges
.. noleon and the llon-roar voice of Mirabeau.
of my
the nurae for a
them the Napoleon- the nurse's hand, so sturtevant.
professor Stilliter advanced, Mr. Bar- nor how they departed. It was more like ,ftt?a ^ddie
a
°r
B"^ay',howiver'
neither remember her father nor and did likewise, and then Semmes.
ihe
8ee~"aw
ayS.
,n
a
vaRU® rec"
sonages, who treated her as If she wete more 14
tng from her bowed
hand and kissed It for all the world a.
dream, only fragments of which here and .1 v.~- kli.
there survive in the waker*s mind. It wasn't
altogether a pleasant 'dream. There mingled
with It a certain something of the essence
of a mghtmare. Whether lt was another man
In the background or some monstrous beast
with extraordinarily large, black-rlmmed
Profesaor Stilliter drew from his pocket a eyes she did not know.
ilded picture frame of red leather. When
the gentleman had examined the photograph*,
t.fe.n th. m/iA 1..V. which came presently from the house—a lessly back Into place, and the four men Who
„„,i
•""r1®*®. ?ro.u5ht
It
|8 curious that she should
and
Is the
on®
ch,Id*
wfi'*. ".mI*'' ...
""most likely tliat it* Should remember onlj
''the novelty of the swift locomotion, and not
fthe
reason that called for lt.
The little Amesbury' girl continued to liv«
on In her father's house. The law said sh«
might until things were straightened out
J'i There were no relatives to interfere.
But lt was a stran^e_ life. There was ne
''longer any discipline iii'.the house even the
trained nurse with a faoe like a horse had t«
go. The servants began to negelct their work
knd to amuse themselves. There were always
"gentlemen friends" In the kitchen. Often
the lights did not go .out till yerj^ late at
night. And there were always great goings
on and laughter at JoV.es that could not' have
been half as funny as the laughter was loud.
Nurse began to neglect her charge. She
would tell her not to go off the 'piazza till she
came back, while she herself scuttled off to
the big kitchen to take part In the conversa
tions and the flirtations and the continual
round ?f good things to. eat and drink.
The littel Amesbury gtrl was Hot a.philos
opher. Had she been, she must have noticed
with some cynicism that when laboring peo
ple get a little liberty and power they do not
necessarily make the best use of them, but
try at any price to Have a good time. Just the
way rich ^people do.
But being, neglected by nurse liad its ad
vantages, for Tommy Barclay came every day
to play with her. and often many times in
one day. He was a much better nurse than
nurse was. He knew more games and
stories lie wasn't always "sharp set" for a
cup of tea he wasn't always breaking up a
game right in the middle to talk to amounted
policeman. Sometimes the policeman dis
mounted and sat with nurse on a fallen tree.
Often she got giggling so that he had -to put
his arm around her to keep her from falling
off. Sometimes he would pretend that she
was his little "Baby" (that is what he called
her) and makes her sit on his lap, and then he
would hug her and kiss her. she laughing
and screaming and pretending to fight him.
But Tommy Barclay wasn't such a fool. He
took good care of her all the time, and she
loved htm with all her heart
That night about 12 o'clock, nurse's bed in
the little Amesbury girl's room was empty.
The house was In darkness, except for the
kitchen. From this came sounds of revelry
mense.
way, Stilliter, what do you hear of the her and she walked with a scream.
mothep." For once In her life she had dreamed true,
Professor Stilliter shrugged hie shoulders for Professor Stilliter was bending over ner,
and th£ fingers of his left hand were clasped
almost chokingly about her baby throat. In
his ijight hand he held before her eyes a lump $£'•
'of rock crystal the.-slze aud shape of a hen's
egg. The crystal appeared to exercise an W
instant fascination upon her. She forgot that( 5®.
she was afraid and that she wanted to Bcrea«**-ggL
for, help. She even forgot the presence of
profesaor Stilliter
In which she has a playhouse, a see-saw, etc.
If you wished to see her lt would be a simple
___ matter, but I am ready to stake my reputa-
Is mostly' out of doors with her erty to look Into fairyland.
Wood back of the house. Very, far away she heard a voice that said
the
The little
and of a Victor talking machine.
Amesbury girl dreamed that a man with Im-
black-rlmmed eyes was bending over
Professor Stilliter. She thought Indeed that
she was all alone and that somebody, had
very quietly, 'Now you can't scream."
Of course, she tried to, and found that ehe
couldn't.
"And now," said the voice, "you can't da
anything unless I tell you to. Get up." She
slipped obediently out of bed. ,r
"Dress yourself," said the voice.
For the first time In her baby life the little
Atn®8lury
whlch
Into the night.
flr8t on the
on the
can,e
rock a
a vi touched her, but she shrank were coiled In a horrid mass. She does not
BPOk? to
pleasant shyness. 'version, were three men who wore Mack masks over
thelr
I
®'rl dressed herself. She even tie4
her own talr rlbbon ln a
knot and
presentable bow-
buttoned her own tiny boots.
crystal back Into Its leather case and
,nto h,s
pocket. The' spell of hypnotism
he had cast over her by Its means
"holders of one man and then
shoulders of another, until the party
to a wild spot at the foot of the cliff,
number of drowsy rattlesnakes
"member that here, as If watting for her,
faces.
be,°r®'" h® s.ald'
which no statues or things of beauty very fond of little girls, and since foot of the cliff had gone, with the exception
When
the men who had brought her to the
Propose to of Professor Stilliter, the three masked men
Leaving the others, he took the child and Sumter, withdrawn & little so that eh#
little drive ln the car, and
8hul1
not
prepared
ae®
hlnn flrst
°e
a11 and
fright*
Barcaly advanced with great Ceremony.
dropped on one knee before her :nd kissed
Amesbury girl was of an age her hand for all the world as If she had been
a
an(J'
princess. Then Sturtevant came forward
wake up, "the' spell of the crystal was still
upon her like drowsiness after sleep. To re-
duce her onc# moPe to a comple
over her chubby, dirt- ilk. of .Vim .11*
ro
^,^ i£h0ut
D,a,
te state of
Tr /d
dV.
tnd
*La?"aK® "V"
appfa™°
'ea®
aire.
witbout
tlm® th*
cTudely'blu'rted'forth ln\^,"he7nl'go7i Z7h'oth*7
ao,,nd
eervant to another remained without turned somewhat slowly^
"Come quick, Mary, and bring the baby "Gentlemen." he said, "fifteen years from toi"
the missus is dead." She does not remember day '^i« will leave that cavern and bring Hi
running to the house between two women, world to her feet—and to •tM"
touched the drmnred hr the hand and if she did It .Is (To be frmtlsiisi)
There was a^d?£
jnond star ln her. dark hair, and ehe wore a
white earment that fell from her shoulders
ln stately fold* ilk. those of a Roman toga.
She came forward, caught the littler Ames
bury girl up'lovingly ln her arms, turned
*a"ed back Into the
passageway and disappeared. For a long
her «andled feet upon the $
Barclay was the 0rst to break the silence.