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This Day in History.
^*HIS is the anniversary of the end of the famous Wars
of the Roses in 1486, when Henry VII., who defeated
the' villainous Richard HI. at Bosworth Field, married
Elizabeth of York, thus uniting the two factions of York
and Lancaster which had longed plunged England in strife.
The Mystic Pleiades.
UIGH aloft south of the zenith, in Ihe early evening,
hangs the glimmering group of little stars named the
Pleiades. There is nothing like them elsewhere in tbr sky.
Good eyes may catch sight of all of the "seven sisters," but
most persons can distinguish only five, or at most six.
The telescope shows hundreds.
" i lf ? A Story of
When a Girl Marries Early Wedded Life j
Anne Humiliates Herself to Virginia and Actually Gets j
That Staid Person to Act a Bit Like a Human Being I
- By Ann Liste.
(Copyright, 1?19. Ktn* Features t?> ndicats.
Inc.) *
CHAPTER LXXIII.
TIMIDLY. feeling as if it
didn't belong there at all. I
entered our bed room. No
Jim! For a moment I was
frightened?and then the sound of
his limping step# came to me from
the living-room. He had gone out
through the kitchnette?to avoid
me perhaps?as I came in by the
other door.
I hurried out. and just as I got
Into the living-toom. there stood
Jim, with his hand on the knob of
the door. He wore hat and coat
and waa leaning on a heavy stick.
Whore could he be going alone?
except to Virginia?
Flying across the room. I laid my
hand timidly on his coat sleeve.
"Jim.'' I said huskily, in a voice
that almost refused to come. "^m.
will you give me a minute?
please?"
. "What is it?" he demanded with
itxvpatiencc.
"Jljn, If you ever loved me. come
back and sit down?so I can talk
to you. And don't?look at me as
If I were a?stranger."
Wearily Jim closed the door and
erosa?d to a stiff. high-backed
chair. He laid hat and stick across
the table and sat auaterely waiting
for me to begin. I came and stood
in front of Jim. leaning against the
refectory table for support, looking
at him searchingly as I trembled
for words.
"Jim. don't judge me until I've
tol* yon everything. Last night
you loved me completely. To
day "
"Please. Annie?no heroics." Jim
Interrupted, wearily. "I've had
about all I can stand. Tomorrow
t I start a new job. I owe it to Terry
and Norreys to be (It, and all this
agonizipg makes me realise that
r*e been all ?hot to pieces. I'm
?orry I'm in ?uch shape?but there
It is."
Asiae Trie* to Kxplain.
Til be brief." I gasped. "Well,
It's this way?after you left Vir
ginia, Neal and Phoebe didn't get
their evening together?at least,
not alone. Virginia persuaded Shel
don Blake to motor all four of them
out in the country for dinner."
Jim rose.
"So it's to complain of Virginia
that you're keeping me. Really.
* Anne?you seem to be?insane on
4 the subject.
Til swallow the hurt of that.
: Jrm. I had to tell you. You see,
Neal 'eaves for camp at 2:30. He's
' going a thousand miles away. Then
overseas. I suppose. H? may?
never?see Phoebe again. I know
you're fond of him?mayn't he have
his good-by?"
"Phoebe's only a baby," muttered
Jim. as if thinking aloud. -
"She'a a woman now. That's what
war does to girls. If she's resent
ful. if she feels that we didn't give
her a chance, that we didn't under
stand her .feelings. Phoebe may
imagine she's a martyr. And?
thwarted love isn't healthy. Oh,
don't you see that it might make
her bitter?hate all of us?harbor
It against VirginiaT It's better to
take it for granted?just boy and
girl love?sweet, approved of?not
Romeo and Juliet stuff.
Unexpectedly Jim flung back his
head and laughed.
"You funny little solemn thing!
So that's why you had to get rid of
Virginia? Well, for Neat's sake?
and Phoebe's?I'll forgive you, and
you forgive me. too, dear. But.
Anne, won't you be a little more?
considerate of Virginia?"
Then in dawning hope that Every
thing might be coming right after
"all. I rushed to the phone and called
Virginia. Phoebe answered, ami
after a brief word of explanation 1
asked her to call Virginia. When
Virginia's cold, surprised voice
greeted me. I nerved myself for
what 1 must say.
"Virginia?I've never done a thing
to make you like me. But now I
want you to do something for me
as if?as if you were Very fond of
me. Will you?" I pleaded.
"What can I do for you?" Vir
ginia coldly questioned.
"Just this. N'eal leaves'for camp
in a few hours. He's my brother?
I adore him the way yt>u do, Jim.
He may never come back, and he ,
wants a few minutes alone with
Phoebe. He'll be tender with her?
and sweet. She's, his ideal. He
wants a word from her to carry
away with him. Please, Virginia?
please. It means so much to him
?and he's only a boy hurried into
being a man. Will you trust
Phoebe to me?"
Virginia L'oaaeata.
There was a minute's pause. I
Then Virginia's voice came back to
me with a queer little husky note
in it. '
"After all, Anne, young love?
I and faith?comes only oner. I'm
| going1 to Betty?and I'll bend
j Phoebe to you."
Her kindness startled me. For a
minute I glimpsed something be
hind the curtain of her own life.
*1 couldn't Uave anything but tho
truth between us at that moment.
"Thank you. Virginia. I thought
all of us would get out of the way
a little while?even I, though that
hurts me. So I asked Betty to
phone >ou?will you forgive me for
scheming?''
I heard Jim ejaculate:
??Well, of all the tactless things!"
Then a stronge sound came over
the wire. Virginia's laughter?
clear and silvery?full of honest
amusement.
"So Betty's conspiring against
the "cruel stepmother' also?how
delicious! I'll pay that scamp for
her scheming and conniving. Tell
the boy I wish him luck. Anne?
and if he's feeling kindly toward
me. I'll see him when he comes
! bad-'k'"?beforo he goes jjverseas.
i Good-by, you amusing person!"
Smiling with delight. I left the
| phone. Virginia and I had shared
1 a laugh. She had patronizingly
called me an "amusing person,"
while she has cozily and chummily
exclaimed that Betty was a
j "scamp." But not even those oon
| tractlng attitudes bothered me?
t then.
(To Be Continued.)
The Lessons of the War
By Eleanor Gilbert.
HEAD over heels thousands of
women have flopped into
weird and wonderful occu
pations because of war ne
cessities. Women mechanics are
no longer a rarity, the woman con
ductor or longshoreman or black
smith or machinist is a sober, se
rious fact, and not merely a car
toonist's fancy.
Now, since women have proved
that when the emergency arose they
were able to handle the typically
men's manual jobs, why can't we
go a step further now that the
mere emergency situation is no
longer so pressing? Why can*.t more
women take serious training for
those manual occupations for which
they have a taste?
Before the war, if a woman had
a genuine desire to be a carpenter
or a plumber, or even adopt the
professional calling of architec
ture, she deeded courage more than
ability. For man held these tasks
to be sacredly his own. None of
these were women's jobs. The few
women architects who are succeed
ing face as much opposition a?
women lawyers or doctors did ten
years ago!
But while there are manual jobs,
and sometimes difficult muscular
ones at that. I see no reason why
women should not take serious
training for them. I sec a tremen
dous advantage in having women
take up the manual crafts con
nected with housebuilding. I be
lieve if our houses were designed
by women architects, built by wom
en masons and carpenters and
plumbers and painters and plaster
ers they would be far more com
fortable places to live in. Closets
would not be tucked in any two-by
four space that was left over, but
would be ample anti within con
venient reach; there would be bet
ter facilities for easy housekeeping
so that the modern type of apart
ment house would be co-operative
in the full sense.
But. of course, all this requires
training. Women need years of
schooling and practical apprentice
ship in crafts like these to become
effective in them; but here is at
least one branch of effort hitherto
considered man's domain in which
women can become useful and effi
cient.
1 hope that it will no longer be
considered radical for a girl who
graduates from high school to take
training for a manual instead of a
purely abstract or mental occupa
tion. It was splendid of women to
jump haphazard into manual occu
pations as a wartime emergency
measure: but the evidence of wom
an's .ability in. unusual fields has a
deeper significance. If without
adequate training women have
proved efficient, how much more
can we do if we have training!
And so I hope we won't rest con
tent with our record in manual jobs
into which war needs threw us pell
mell. The big opportunity lies in
going a step farther(now?in tak
ing training for such jobs and, by
adding woman's peculiar talents
and insight, improve and develop
the whole industry.
Proper Recognition.
?It .is remarkable that so many
women should be working,'* eaid
Mr. Morridge.
"Women have always worked,"
replied his wife. "The principal dif
ference just now is that they ar?
working away from home and get
ting paid for it!"
There Was No One About the Theater and the Powerful Katrinka Wanted to Know
What the Movie Was to Be That Evening. ?
By FONTAINE FOX.
iCvprrt*ht. 1513. by Tb?J Wheeler Syndicate. Lac.)
A Woman of Deeds.
Helen McCormick, Assistant District At
torney of Brooklyn, is interested in the pro
motion of labor legislation making for the
further protection of young workers. Her
plans have the santion of the labor leaders
throughout the country.
The Child vs. Housework
By Loretto C. Lynch.
U, DKSP1SE housekeeping." the
I prospective bride was say
1 ing. "I toM John that I
? wouldn't keep houyc for the
best man that lived, and so we ex
pect to board?always."
To the casual listener Anna w ould
seem to be a slacker, but to those
01 us who knew ln r she did not.
We, who knew her, placed most of
th* blam<- on her mother. Anna waa
the eldest girl of a large family.
And the mother, not re< ognizing
Anna's rights as a child, shoved off
the work that properly belonged to
herself on this child.
When the little girl returned from
school each day, the breakfast and
luncheon dishes awaited her. Alter
she washed these she had to help
prepare supper. Then she spent the
evening comforting or rocking to
sleep one of her mother's many
.children while she endeavored to
study her lessons in a half-hearted
v\ a.
As Anna grew older her tasks
were increased. Kirst. she had to
"rub out" some dainty things for
haby. but gradually she came to do
most of the family washing on Sat
urday.
By the lime Anna was eighteen
and was self-supporting, she left
home and went to board. And her
resentment against home life and
house work grew each time she vis
ited Iter mother, only to find her
younger sister taking her place as
general household drudge.
She said "No" to more than one
desirable suitor who was looking
"to settle do? n in a home <?f his
own " Anna had a horror of house
keeping. she had thruvi upon her
girlish shoulders all the tasks of
the mature housekeeper without
any of the joys of the beloved wife.
In other words, she had had all the
bitters without any of the sweets
of liomemaking.
Now, of course. I do believe, that
children should be taught sonic of
the household task", but the trick
in making them like these tasks
seems to be in presenting them as
play. .
"Let's wash the dishes together
and see if you can dry as fast as
I can wash," says I lie che.erful
mother to her playful little daugh
ter. But drive a playful child, and
she'll hate the task the rest of her
life. Or, "Now today I'm going to
let you play mother and take care
of bab>." sa.\s the tactful mother.
Rut that doesn't happen every day
of the week.
Often I t"ail <>\er tiie laws m$d<
to protect birds and animals, and I
. wonder wh> some law isn't enacted
| to protect these older girls in larr*
I families. Surely the state loses in
the end. These older girls see only
the worst side of home-making.
The mother's job ia forced on.them.
They have no real claims to sup
port from the babies they raise.
Many of thnii aie denied even a
few pennies of sprnding money in
return for their labors.
Mother.", our berys have made the
supreme sacrifice that tlie American
home might continue to exist. Arc
you going to thrust your burdens
upon your little daughters uiit '
they tell us they hate housekeep
ing?they despise children ? until
they see only the disadvantages of
marriage and home life?
If you have undertaken a home
and the care of -children, remember,
except for occasional help frotn your
children, the job b"'l?n(t? to >ou.
Think it over. Wouldn't you he first
to complain against an orphr.n
asylum that worked a twelve-year
old cii'I as you complacently work
your ?>?
Kven an older girl in a family has
rights. 'And it is the sacred fiuty of
her mother and father to sec to it
thht she has a childhood and conies
to young, ladyhood with proper
ideals*and with a vast quantity of
colorful illusions about marriage
and the home.
DO YOU KNOW
THAT?
PIC AT and chalk arc being ex
tensively used for briquct
ing in Canada.
Siamese natives obtain petroleum
from the earth 1?> digging pits
about sixty feet deep and dipping
il out with pails.
Stainless steel cutlery contains
about IS per cent chromium. The
use of this ingredient in the oianu
facture of steel for this purpose
has been temporarily Mopped.
A large deposit of graphite a?
Skaland. in Norway, under the con
trol of the Metallurgists A. S.. of
Bergen, has been prnspectod, and
now proves to be sufficiently exten
sive to supply the Norwegian niai
ket for some years to come.
Kxperim< nts have been recently
made in Kratice with a view to util
izing dead leaves in the manufac
ture of paper. The leaves are crush
ed, then the powdered portion is
carefully separated and the fibrous
ribs and veins tcrr.ed into pulp.
These are made ready for use by
simply treating with lye, washing
anil bleaching.
The average life of a locomotive
is about fifteen years.
It is estimated that four miles of
an ordirery spider's thread would
weigh one sra-ln
The Man With the Club-Foot
Desmond and Francis Walk Fifty Miles to Bellevue,
Monica's Castle, Which Lies Near Dutch Border
iRy nopals of precedlnr CtapUnl
Dftmond Ok ?wood. BrttUh trmjr of
ficer. ion to Uerniany la o??rch of bl?
brother. Francis. a member of tho BrU
lih ?ecre! service. At a bo?H front lor
town a m?n'named Sumlto. a Germaa
Government asenU drops dead In hl?
room. Desmond approprlatoa Semllat
pjperi and aaaumea hla Identity. Ha
reaches Berlin without Incident and U
conducted Into the preaaace of General
Von Buden. an aide of tha Kalaer.
Dvsatnond. having convinced Von
Boden he la really Semlle. la uahaicd
Into the residence of the Ka-isar.
Later he receives a cipher
from hla brother. Francis
Desmond meets Clubfoot, who ex
plains what he wanta of Somlta.
Dcamonil encounters Monica, wb?
hidea hlin from Clubfoot'a man. 8ba
explains lhat Clubfoot's Identity ta a
mystery *o her.
The amateur apy ta forced to flaa
from hla hiding place and la adrift In
Berlin He foes to a aocret a?enl
who disguises him snd gets him a Job
as waiter. The plsca Is raided by
Clubfoot and agents. but Desmond
escapes by a ruse. He flees lo Duaetl
dorf where he finds hla brother.
You remember that Monica told
mc, the lsu?t time I had nee* her,
that she wan shortly going to
Schioss Bellevuc, a shooting box
belonging to her husband, to ar
range some shoots in conncction
with the governmental scheme for
putting game on the market.
Monica, you will recollect, had
offered to take me with her, and
1 had fully meant to accompany her
but for 'Jerry's unfortunate per
slbtence in the matter of my pass
port.
I now proposed to Francis that
we should avail ourselves of Mon
ica's offer and make fey Castle
Bcllevue. The place was well sit
uated for our purpose as it lies
near Cloves, and in its immediate
neighborhood is the Reichswald. that
great forest which stretches from
Germany, clear across into Holland.
All through my wanderings, I had
kept this forest in the back of my
head as a region which must offer
facilities for slipping unobserved
across the frontier. Now I learnt
from Francis that he had spent
months in the vicinity of Clever,
and I was hot surprised to find,
when I outlined this plan to him
that he knew the Reichswald pretty
well.
"It'll be none too easy to get
across through the forest," he said
Puss in Boots
Jr.
By David Cory.
WELL, after Puss Junior
gave the silver fish the
message for his father,
he crossed the bridge
and continued on his journey
through New Mother Goose Land,
and by and by he had an adventure.
A farmer went trotting upon bis
gray mare.
Bumpety, bumpety,' bump*
With his daughter behind him so
rosy and fair,
Lumpcty. lump< ty, lump!
An automobile with a siren came
by.
Bumpety, bumpely, bump!
The mare gave a jump almost up
to the sky,
Lumpcty. lumpetv, lump!
But when the chanffcur saw th?
beautiful maid.
Bumpety. bumpety. bump!*
He put on the brakes and went to
her aid,
I.umpoty. lumpety, lump!
He gallantly helped her then into
his car.
Rumpetv. bumpety. bump!
While on the rear seat 'he tucked
in her papa,
Lumpetv. lumpety, lump!
And then to the rear of his auto
i'ar brown.
Bumpety. humpety, hump'
Ho tied the gray mare and drove
into town.
Lumpetv. lumpcty, lump!
"Hold en!" chied Puss Junior, for
he re. nsniTod the daughter so rosy
Hn<1 fair, for it was she for w h?m
he had boueht a. new dre?s in Old
Mother Goose Land. "Hold on!
Give nio a ride!"
*nd Ihe grav mar* snor'ed and
ht?-l. on her hsltf to keep
the automobile from runninc a"-av.
Of course. Ihe farmer Knew Pu?s
?Ti.nior at on?-e. s"<1 he called cot.
"Hold on there!" and then h!?
daughter so rosy and fair looked
around and she railed out. "*-ToM
on! For there i? m>? dear friend
Pu*s in Boots Junior!"
And then at last the chauffeur
?jtoppod l>is car. and it was lucky he
did. for the grav rnare's neck w?s
almost broken and her eves were
pooped on* of her liead. the halter
was so tieht about her reek.
Tlien P>i?? l>onp?d into the car.
a I'd weren't I h?v glad to see hire
Well. 1 r-uess Ihev n-ere! And th'n
they (old the chuii^eur how a lone
time aeo when they both ?',e rid
in tr tlic t-rav mare ? raven flew hv
pnd cried croak snd ihe ma'f was
frich'ened and fell down sed broke
her knee and Puss had t-<ken the
dauehter so ro?v and fair to the
town .-?nrl had housht her a pretty
gown t^rfe.
And then they a'l laurhed. for it
was a lovely day and each one ?-?n
?"??elintr hanpv a* 'WiM be And 'n
the ijevt storv if ?l>ev don't l??e *he
gray mare I'll tell vou something
n*ore nh-Mit Pm?? in Pools .Tun'or.
{Copyright. 191!*. by Panicl Cory.l
A Novel Dance.
The word "ball." applied to a
dancing party, came to he used in
the tiest instance from an ancient
"hall play" civen in chttech by the
dean and rhoir hoys of Naoles dur
ing the Feast of pools at !'??*?-?or.
At subsequent dancing-paries in
Naples the dan corn threw a ha'! at
one another to the sound of-tltc.ir
own singing. They- whirled about
in measured time, and the sport
consisted in loosening hands In
time to catch the ball.
doubtfully, "It'a Ttry cIokIjt pa
trolled, but I do Know of on* place
where we could lie pretty ?nuf for
* day or two wtltlic for a chance
to make a dash. But we have bo
earthly chance of retting through
at present, our clubfoot pal will see
to that all right. And I don't much
like the idea of going to Bellevoe,
cither: It will be horribly danger
ous for Monica'."
-I don't think so," I aald. "The
whole place will be overrun wtth
people, guests, servants, beaters and
the like, for these shoots. Both you
and I know German, and we look
rough enough: we ought to be able
to "get an emergency Job about the
place without embarrassing Monica
in the last. I don't believe they will
.ever dream of looking for us ao
close to this frontier. The only
possible trail they can pick up after
me in Berlin leads to Munich. Club
foot is bound to think I am wak
ing for the Swiss frontier."
Well, the lory, and the short of It
was that my suggestion was
csrrled, and we resolved to set out
for Bellevue. that very night. My
brother declared he would not re
turn to the cafe: with the pqrscnt
shortage of men. such desertions
were by no meant uncommon, and If
he were to give notice formsJly it
might only lead to embarrassing
explanations. *
80 we strolled back to the city In
the gathering dsrkness. bought a
map of the Rhine and a couple of
rucksacks and laid in a small stork
of provisions at a great department *
store, biscuits, chocolates. some
hard sausage and two small flasks
of rum. Then Francis took me to a
little restaurant where he waa
known and Introduced me to the
friendly proprietor, a very Jolly
old Rheinlander, aa his brother Just
out of hospital. I did my country
good service. 1 think, by giving a
most harrowing account of the effi
ciency of the British army on the
Sommel .
Then we dined and over our meal
consulted the map.
"By the map," I said. *-Bellevue
should be about fifty miles from
here. My Jdea is that we should
walk only at night and lie down
during the day, as a room is out of
How to Cure
Stammering
By Brice Belden, M. D
THERE are said to be about
one hundred and flfty thou
sand stammerers in the,
United States, which gives
some Idea of the magnitude of the
problem presented by speech im
pediments.
In a community of one hundred
thousand persons there should be
found from four hundred to one
thousand stammerers. Stammering
may be noted at all ages, even from
the beginnings of speech, but seven
males to one female are afflicted.
Tn some cases the spasm of tlie
muscles concerned in spcc?n is *0
strong that the victim cannot talk
at all if anyone besides himself 1a
present, and may even be obliged to
carry a writing pad around with
him in order to make himself un
derstood.
The obvious fact about stammer
ing is the apeech difficulty, but the
deeper fact is an inward emotional
disturbance. Of course, after years
of stammering, a habit is estab
lished. and then the emotional ele
ment plays little or no part in the
trouble.
The emotional disturbance is a
social phenomenon, and is associ
ated with a feeling of embarrass
ment with respect to the stam
merer's ' speaking relationship to
those in the immediate social group.
The explanation of stammering,
in short, is that there is a disturb
ance of the nervous and muscular
control apparatus of the mechan
ism of spcech. incitcd by tociaJ
emotion.
There is no an&lomical imper
fection in the brain or in the organs
of speech of those afflicted by
stammering.
When alone, the subject prac
tically loses his tendency to stam
mer. but the tendency immediately
reasserts Itself upon -.he advent of
a person or persons Anything
which Increases emotion, excites or
increases the stammering.
Ninety per cent of ihe cases origi
nate before the sixth year of life.
Cases due to fright or imitation de
velop later.
Stammerers possess superior in
tellect and are likable people.
Charles Umb. the great English
wriler. stammered ballv.
Very few persons "grow out" of
stammering without treatment by
medical experts. There are many
swindlers and quacks mho profess
to cure it. even through .corre
spondence method,-.
Cure depends upon educating
and training the stammerer Into
normal self-control under all cir
cumstances. and Is beat attained by
medical special'.sts. The afflicted in
dividuals'* personality and psych
ology must be studied and under
stood.
The principles of prevention are
now well understood and are be
ginning to be applied in the bchcols.
Strict Scrutiny.
A young soldier in a bat rack
room not having much time tx>
dress for guard, had cleaned fcia
hoots very well in front, but acarie
Iv at all behind A comrade noticed
this and said: "Why don't you clean
the hacks of your boots. George?"
"Oh," ssid George, hurriedly pull
ing on his eap and hurrying out,
"a good soldier never looks be
hind.'* However, he was repri
manded by the adjutant, and a few
days afterward his friend, noticing
a difference in his boot*, said to*
him:
"I thought a good soldier never
looks behind, George?"
"No," was the reply, "but the ad
jutant does." __
tli? queiUoa for me without say
papers. I think we should kM|
away from tb? Rhine. 4oa'l ypat
aa otherwise we shall paas tkra?||
Weael, which Is a fortrr ?. and,
aequcntly, devilish . unhealthy for
both of UK."
Francis nodded witt bit
full.
"At present we caa count
about twelve houra of darki
I continued, "a?, leaving- a ?
for the alight detour we ahall ? ?
for rests and for loth* the war, I
think we ought to be able to reach
Castle Bellevue on the third night
from thia. If the weather bolda up.
it won't ho too had. hut if It rains,
it will he hellish: Vow, hare yoa
any suggestions?"
ldy brother ac? ill tweed, as. iw
deed, he bad la everything I had
proposed since we met. Poor fel
low. he had had a roughiah time;
he seemed glad to have the direqr
tlon of affairs taken oht of his
handa for a bit.
At half past seven thst evening,
our packs on our batiks, we stood
on the outskirts of the town where
the road branches off to CrefeM.
Tn the pocket of the overcoat I had
filched from Hum's f found an
automatic pistol, fully loaded (moat
of our customers at the beer cellar
n-ent armed*
"Voa ve got the document. Kms
els." I said. "Tou'd better bav?
this. >too!" and I passed him the
- gun
Frsncis wsved it sside.
' "Tou keep It," he said grimly. ~K
may serve you Instead of a pa?
port."
80 I slipped the woapos hack
into my pocket.
A cold drop of rata fell upon my
face.
"Oh. hell:*' 1 cried. "it* beginning
to rain!"
And thus we set out upon oar
Journey.
? a a ? a a e
It was a nigh Una re tramp. Tha
rain never ceased. Ry day we lay
in icy misery, chilled to the hows
in our nopping clothes. In soma
dank ditch or wst undergrowth,
with aching bones and blistsihA
feet, fearing detection, but f *
even more. Uir coming of
an<l iw- ?
vuviing or night
and the - reaumpt Ion of our march.
Tet we stack to our program Ilk*
Spartans, and about 8 o'clock on
the third evenfhg. hobbling pain,
fully slong the rood that runs from
Cleves to CaJcnr. ws ware reward
lb* of a long maasfva
building, witb turrets st tie cor
ners. (landing back from tH?j hlgh
wav behind a tall brick buildinr
"Bel'evuer I said to Frsneia.
with pointing finger.
We left the road ant climbing a
wooden palisade, struck out across
the fields with the idea of getting
into the park from the back W?
passed some black and silent farm
buildings, went through a rata and
into a paddock, on the further stda
of which ran the wall surrounding
the place. Somewhere beeoad the
wall s fire was biasing. We c?*ig
sec the leaping light of the flames
and drifting smoke At the sams
moment we heard voices, loud voices
disputing in German.
We crept across the paddock to
the wall. I n*f Francis s back
and he hoisted hlrr?elf to the t?p
and looked over. In a moment he
sprany lightly down, a finger to bis
<ips.
??Soldier* around a fire.*" he whis
pered. "There muft be troopa hi'-'
leied ber*. Come on ? ? ? we'll
go further round!"*
We rcn softly alone the wall te
where it turned to tl?e right snd
followed it round. Presently ws
camc to a small iron gate in. tkt
wa'l. It stood open.
We listened. The sound of voices
was fainter here. We stilt saw tbe
reflection of the flames in the aV?*.
Otherwise, there was no sign or
soond of human life.
The gate led into an ?rnimrstal
garden with the ca?tle at the fur
ther end. All the windows were te
darkness. We threaded a garden
path leading to the house. H
brought usinfrortof a c'nas deer.
I turned tha fcnadie and it jitMH
to my grasp
I whispered to Francla:
"Stay where you are! Ard If roa
hear mr shout, flv for your ILCai"
For. I reflected, the place rnlarht
be full of troop*. If there wer*
any risk it would b? better for i?'e
to take it. since Francis, with Ms
Identity papers, had a better rhanr#
than I of bringing the doetiment
into safety.
I opened the s'ass door snd found
myself in a lobby witb a door as
the right.
- I listened again. AII was still,
cautiously opened the door and
looked in. A? I did so the place was
sudden'y flooded with light, and a
voice?s voice I had often heard in
my droama?called out imparious'y:
"Stay where you are snd put your
hsnds above your head!**
Clubfoot stood there, a pistol in ,
his great band pointed at me.
"Grundt!" I shouted, but I did no*
move.
And Clubfoot laughed.
(TO BE CO*T?*CKD HO*DAT>
(Copyright. 1IU. McBrMa 1
(Copyrtsht. lta. Public Lodgar Oa)
The Reason Why.
The reformer occupied the comer
scat in the third-class compartment.
Me had been holding forth for tha
edification of all travelers.
"Have you any children?" H* ai*
dressed the pale-faced man
site.
"Tea. air: a son."
"T?oee he smokeT
"No. sir. He has never so
aa touched a cigarette."
"So much the better: the use of
tobacco is a potsosou* habit. Does
he frequent the clubs?"
"He has never put hi* foot la
one!"
"Allow me to congratulate ynai
Does he never come home l?t?r
??Never! he goes to hod directly
aftet dinner."
"A nioucl young man. air?a mot
el young man! How old Is hs?"
"Just two months."