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-1 5 piermgd 3T rAMClL^ COpY&fG'+T. /906 & 77V£ CHAPTER I. An Adventure In photography. Frederick Courtland Hardy, ex member of Mrs. Johnny Folkstone's emart set of Boston, ex-cotillion lead er, yachtsman and clubman, was On his Way to Russia to take charge of one of the American Trading Company's stores at Stryetensk. He had lost his money and his fair-weather friends, and had been jilted by a girl who, as it proved, was not the ideal of nobility and womanly grace he had supposed her to be. Though plucky, he was, to use an expression more forceful than elegant, "sore.*' Had he but known it, the escape from the girl was a bit of good luck sufficient to compensate him for the loss of his wealth for no woman who. deserts a man at the first blast of misfortune is good to tie to for a lifetime. He did not realize this, for it is hard to be philosophical when a man has just lost his girl, his friends and his money. He received his appointment to Si beria through a friend of his father's, old Frederick Emery, who had gone out, to that country some years before and came back to Boston on a visit, rich and eloquent of the resources and possibilities of that great empire so little known and understood by Amer icans. The series of adventures that caused the ex-cotillion leader to forget his troubles began at Yokohama, and dated with his first meeting with Stapleton Neville in the dining room of the Grand hotel. The two men were seated together at a small table, and the American was gazing dreamily over the room, most probably thinking of the girl who dropped him when he lost his money. "It's a jolly gay scene, isn't it?" re marked his vis-a-vis, smiling pleasant ly. He was a florid blonde man, with the peachy complexion of a Swede, rather thick lips and nostrils, a square chin, the bluest of blue eyes and white even teeth like those of a young dog. His expansive shirtbosom, for he was in evening dress, dis played to the best advantage his depth of chest. "These people seem to be all Amer icans," remarked Hardy. .They looked like Americans, and the accent of Produced a Card Bearing the Name. those passing by, or sitting near enough to be heard, was unmistak able. "Yes," replied the other, "I suppose they are, nearly all of them. The show places of Japan are thronged with your countrymen a£ this season, and they make fashionable resorts of them. I have been staying here for several months, and I do believe I'm about the only Englishman here. Per mit me to introduce myself"—and he produced a card, bearing the Vname "Stapleton Neville, Travelers' club, London." "My countrymen," replied Hardy, Of fering his own card, "have a way of taking' America with them wherever they go. They travel to the ends of the earth to get out or their oVn land and then they so thoroughly Americanize their favorite foreign re sorts that thej- might quite as well have stayed at hotne." "When 'do you leave?"" asked Ne ville. "The day after 'to-morrow," replied Hardy. "I am on my way to Russia on business, and I am supposed to get there with as little delay as possible." "But there is no boat starting for a week. You can't very well leave for Vladivostok day after to-morrow." Hardy smiled. "You forget our American enter prise," he replied. "I have learned that a small boat leaves Hakodate in three days, crossing the Japan sea, end that by taking the train north ward through the island, I shall ar il^ five at Aomori, near the northern end of Nippon, In time to connect with this boat. I hare already had the ageat here telegraph for passage for I shall thus save a week's tlm«. •M sluall d« aalt to n—, fro tk« ear '-As G£OMGE uomoN .K 0OJD8S~SjZMM/U. COHMNY window, the Interior of Japan—that portion of "the country which our friends in the dining room there get little idea of." "By Jove! Do ydu'know that would jolly well fit in with my plans, if you wouldn't object to a traveling com panion and there should be room- for me, also?" "I'd be delighted," replied Hardy "charmed, I assure you, to have ^rou come along. Traveling alone is a bore.. Shall you %e going through to Aomori?" "Farther than that. I, too, am go ing to Russia, through to Moscow^ and from there back to England." "Why, then," exclaimed Hardy, "I shall have you as far as my destina tion, Stryetensk!" "Exactly so. And, as we are leaving the town so soon, what do you say to our prowling about to-morrow, to give ou an idea of the bally place, and to taking it, in in the evening in a jin rikisha? It's Very picturesque, both by night and by day, and you'll not find me a poor guide, as I have knocked around considerably since I have been here." The American fell in with this plan gratefully, and thought himself in good luck that he was about to have for a guide an Anglo-Saxon who knew the principal places of interest, and possessed a slight command of the language. Neville, he learned, had been in the country over three on They were out early the next morn ing and spent the entire-day tramping about the fascinating streets of the Japanese city. "Did you bring your camera with you?" Neville asked Hardy, as the latter appeared on the veranda.of the hotel, Avhere he found his new-made friend waiting. "There's a deal to photograph and these" people are cer tainly picturesque, even if they aren't much else." "Will they allow one to take pho tographs?" asked Hardy. "Oh, certainly. There are no re strictions, whatever. Their civilization is imitative, you know—copied mostly after the English and American. They allow perfect freedom in such mat ters, simply because the Anglo-Saxons do. They are a nation of monkeys." Hardy went back after his kodak. The two men, as they walked away from the front steps of the Grand ho tel, presented, in their physical ap pearance, as great a contrast as pos I sible: Neville, tall, large-boned, florid, blue-eyed, thick-lipped Hardy of me dium size, dark, slender, well-knit, and so erect that he seemed to be slightly I taller than he really was. His suit of dark gray fitted him with that unob trusive elegance that proclaims the most expensive American tailors, while his gold-rimmed pince-nez add ed intellectual distinction to a high bred, somewhat ascetic countenance. In the afternoon they walked down toward the sea-shore, the Englishman still acting as guide. I "That would make a fine view," sug gested Neville, "those houses along the beach, that bit of sea, and the hills yonder." "That is so," assented Hardy. "L be lieve I'll take it If I'm not careful, I shall get all my films covered with babies." He opened his camera and rolled out the bellows, Then he strolled back and forth for several mo ments, gazing into the finder, as he tried to decide on the' composition of the view that he would take. -He pressed the bulb and was closing*the instrument when a Japanese in Euro pean dress stepped up to him and laid a detaining hand upon his arm. "You must give me that camera, sir," said the Japanese quietly, in per fect English. Hardy looked about in amazement. Naturally his ^v first thought was that he was being robbed. "Don't try anything of that kind here, my man," he replied, "or I'll give you into the hands of the police." The threat was." 'suggested by the presence of two-'police officers who were standing iiear," "evidently watch ing the scene. The .Japanese now called to them in", his own tongue and they approached. "I am an officer of the law," -he said, "and you will-be taken into cus tody if you resist. I beg that you will not compel me to. have ,the camera ta ken from you forcibly." Hardy rarely allowed himself to exhibit excitement. "Better hand it to him,", advised Neville: "He is evidently laboring un der some mistake, which the authori ties will be jolly well anxious„„to recr tify when they find it out." .Hardy handed over .his camera "I'll go. with you to the police sta tion," he said to the officer. "Do not. put yourself to the trouble," said the Japanese, "the police will know where to find you: when they want you. The instrument will be re turned to you, when we are through with it, at the Grand hotel." "Well, I call that cool!" said' Hardy, as he stood watching the,three men, who were walking off with his cam era. "I'll hare that instrument back If 1 hare to sts^ her«_a moatli and wonder what they wanted of .it. What in "t Haven't the_ least idea,* replied Neville.^'Probably they,have heard that some" other country prohibits ta* king photographs. As I told you, they jure a nation of monkeys." pfeMr. Hardy found his camera on hia return to the hotel, with a note stating that the films would be returned to him in the morning, developed. The Incident, which had been conducted in a masterful manner, threw a new light on Japan. It led him to believe that this was something more than a comic-opera country, _iind that the inc. habitants were not all babies, -T .-I: CHAPTER II." Searched by the Police. Jj? 4"The Anglo-Saxons are_ the only peo* pie who have any idea of personal lib erty," remarked Hardy, as the two meh stood on the -steps of the hotel, waiting for their jinrikisha to arrive. "Fancy the authorities in New York or "London taking away your camera and developing the films, just to see what pictures you have taken! Well, I got my camera back all right, and I'm going to consider" myself in luck because I get my films developed, free of charge. I wonder if there's any thing else this obliging people would like to do for me before I go away?" At this moment the jinrikisha came up and the newly-eaade friends start ed out for their night expedition about "I Am an Officer of the Law." the streets of Yokohama—such an ex cursion as only Pierre Loti or Lafca dio Hearn could describe adequately. An American's chief sensation on first getting into a jinrikisha is loss of dignity. There you sit,, perched in a narrow trim baby carriage, driving a bare-legged little man with an invert ed fish-basket on his head. They trotted from place to place till midnight or after, Hardy enjoying himself hugely. He took away with him a confused memory of dark, nar row streets swarming with Japanese, mostly babies of occasional low build ings where something seemed to be going on inside of steep acclivities at which it was necessary to get out and walk and of steep declivities where the man-horse, leaned back at an aa^ gle of 45 degrees and the muscles on his legs stood out in knots. "I say," cried Hardy to Neville, "if this thing ever gets away from him I'll be in a pretty pickle." "You'd travel to_ the bottom ~jolly fast!" laughed Neville, who did not seem to be the least bi^ nervous. There were innumerable paper lan terns, -of course, and one quarter of the town was lighted as if for a lawn party. They were sitting on the floor in the back room of a tea-house, listen ing to the music furnished by three geishas, when they were arrested. Hardy had felt it a privilege to go into this place, because his compan ion assured him. that it was the real thing, and not- one of .^those resorts that are run for foreigners. This state ment was borne out by the fact that the dozen or more patrons whom they found there were natives, with the ex ception of one, a little foreigner who spoke bad English, and who, as Hardy remembered afterward, sat offensively close to him, This man had a prq fuse, shapeless beard and bad teeth and persisted in drawing Hardy and Neville into conversation. The American took a dislike to him from the first. ..."' "Don't resist, don't resist," whis pered Neville, as. four policemen stepped up to them. "It won't do you the least good in the world, dont you know. They've made some bloom ing mis take, and when they find out what it is they'll do. everything in their power to make amends." 7 "I haven't the least idea in the World of resisting," replied Hardy good-naturedly "this- is 'really .inter esting. Whom do they take .us, for, I. They were escorted to a cab and: whirled off to a large modern-appear ing building of stone, whose front was lighted by an electric globe. They walked up a broad flight of stairs and" entered a room^ in the center of which a. middle-aged Japanese, In" the uni form of a general in the army, sat at a table writing. He was a corpulent man* in whose shrewd eyes and stern features European training contended with Mongol cunning. He spoke for' a very few moments in a low tone with' a subordinate, andi evidently as a result of this- conference, -Neville was led from the room. He returned after about 20 minutes'-and Hardy glanced at him curiously. If anytfiing unpleasant bad been "done to him, it did not show in Ills face—a fact which fh«r American. attrfbuted to theotk el's British SmwHtwbabllitr IS Hardy himself was now led away. He was taken .into a room about' ten feet square, with bare floors and not an article of furniture. He found him self alone with two Japanese, one of whom addressed him immediately in & language that he did not under stand. "I can not speak Japanese," he re1 plied "if you wish to talk with me, you will have to find some one who can speak English." "I was not talking Japanese to you, as I think you know," replied his in quisitor, in absolutely perfect English. "You are too modest as to your really remarkable, linguistic acquirements. _. But if it suits you to speak English at the present moment, I shall be most happy to oblige you. I am sorry to inform you that you must submit to being searched."" "Now, really, wouldn't that be car rying matters. too far?" asked Hardy. "I had intended to take this thing good naturedly, as it interests me but searching me—I really think. I shall enter a protest against that. I am an American citizen, you know, and if any indignities are offered me, I shall not fail to demand redress." "Unfortunately, we have nothing to do with that feature of the case," re plied the Japanese. ''We are under, orders, and we trust you will not put us to the disagreeable necessity of using force." "Well, go ahead," said Hardy cheer ily, "and if you find anything out of the ordinary, I'll eat it." They stepped briskly up to him and began to run their hands rapidly and deftly over his clothing and through his pockets. As they worked, he talked. "If this had happened in Russia, now, where every man is suspected of being an anarchist or a spy, I shouldn't have wondered at it. But we Americans have begun to look on you Japanese as civilized people. We call you the Yank,—hello, what's a They had taken from his overcqat pocket a bundle ^of papers, which they opened under tfie electric bulb hang ing from a wire in the middle of the room and began to examine. Hardy stepped forward briskly, out of curi osity, but one of them threw out an arm as rigid as a bar of steel and pushed him back as easily as if he were a child. As nearly as he could tell from the distance maintained, the paper seemed to be covered with drawings and plans of some kind. "I never saw that before!" he ex claimed, much wondering. They went out together and left him in the mid die of the room. Having nothing bet-" ter to do, he lighted a cigarette and attempted to stitdy it all out, standing there with his Sands in his "pockets, "I only hope they don't' keep this farce up till I miss my train," ho mused "I have bought my ticket." He was not kept waiting long. The general himself came in to see him. "Of what am I accused ask£d Har dy, "and why am I subjected to these indignities?" The general also spoke English. He had shi*ewd, fearless, penetrating eyes, and an absolutely dispassionate, businesslike air. ,"You can not brazen the matter," he replied. "The papers found on your person leave little'goubt as to the nature of your mission in this coun-1 try." "I should like to see those papers," said Hardy. "I can not imagine what they are, that you should be interest ed in them. I didn't know that had any papers in my overcoat pocket." The general smiled. "We shall be under the necessity of detaining you," he said, "and of ex amining you more at our"~leisure." He pushed a button in the wall. TWo soldiers entered. "You will go with these mem." ...•' •. "But you are making- some great mistake, that will get you all into trou ble. Iv am a- well-known American cit izen, now on my way to Russia. I ar rived only this morning, direet from my country. I demand to be taken be fore the American consul—or, better, I will semi for him." "You say you arrived this morn-' ing?" asked the^ general. Hardy's earnestness was so great that it was, almost convincing. Besides, the Jap anese had no desire to alienate. Amer lean sympathy., "Come out into my office and wait I a while," he said "I will telephone to your consul." Hardy found Neville still waiting in the office, smoking a cigar and ap pearing quite cheerful, under the cir cumstances. "Oh, this is good of you to wait for .me," said the American, sitting down. "Couldn't help it, my dear fellow," replied Neville. "They haven't let me go yet." "But what do they suspect me of? What have I—what have- we done? Have you any idea what those papers were that they ^found in my- overcoat-,} pocket?"-" -"Not the least in .the world, but I suspect. You see, th#se people are simply spoiling for a fight with Rus -sia. They talk and think of nothing else. "Ja'pan is a volcano of war^ ready -to erupt at- any moment. Consequent ly, they are suspicious of foreigners. They probably take you for a French man or a Russian—a spy, in fact." Neville spoke quite loud, so that it "was possible for any of the officials standing near to hear him. Hardy admired his imperturbability. The: consul soon arrived, a forceful man who understood his business. Hardy produced his passport, a card, and sev er&l letters: (To be''6outinue£) JSf»S: -'Wallpaper—One and two' room quantities of the better gwides wall piper for/tale cl^iip. K. 0/-SWrtdL SPECIALS LOW RATES TO THE2 WEST YIA Chicago Great R"Western ailroad TICKETS ON SALE DAILY, SEPTEMBER loxn TO OCTOBER 15TH, XNOIiTJSXVE, AT REDUCED RATES TO POINTS US' 7" CALIFORNIA OREGON, WASHINGTON BRITISH COLUMBIA IDAHO,UTAH, COLORADO TEXAS, ETC. TEDES GREAT WESTERN AGENT WmL.GLADLY GIVE YOU THE RATES, ITUIZLi DEFORMATION IN REGARD TO TRAIN AND SLEEPING- OA1S SEBYIOE. ASK HTM. Citation for Hearing on Final Account and for Distribution. STATE OB MINNESOTA, County of Mower—ss, In Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of Hannah M. Slaven, decedent. The State of Micnesota to the heirs at law of said deceased and to all persons interested in the final account and distribution of the estate of said decedent The representative of the above named decedent having filed in this court the final account of the administration of the estate of said decedent, together with his petition praying for the adjustment and allow ance of said final account and for distribution of the residue of- said estate to the persons thereunto entitled Therefore, yon, and each gf you, are hereby cited and lequired to show 'cause if any you have, before this court at the Probate Couit Rooms in the Court House* in the city of Austin in the county of Mower, state of Minnesota, on the 4th day of October, 1S09, at 10 o'clock a. m., why said petition should not be granted. Witness, the judge of said court and the seal of said court, this 1st day of September, 1909. J. M. GREENMAN, (Seal) Judge of Probate. F. W. GREENMAN. Attorney for. Petitioner. Sept. 8.15, 22. Citation for Hearing on Final Ac= count and for Distribution. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Mower—ss: In Probate Court: In the matter of the estate of Laura A. Carter* decedent. The State of Minnesota to the heirs at law oi said deceased and to all persons interested in the final account and distribution of the estate of said .decedent: The representatives of the above named decedent, having filed in this court the final account of the administration of tbe estate of said decedent, together with their petition prayiig for the adjustment and allow ance of said final account and for distribution cf the residue of sail estate to the persons therounto entitled Therefore, you, and each cf yo'j, ai hereby cited and required to show cause if any you have, before this court at the protate court rooms in tbe court house in the city of Austin in the county or' Mower, state of Minn^szta. pn the 11th day of Octobor, 1909,11 10 o'clock a m, why said ^petition should not b( granted. Wituesc, the judge of said court and the ee 1 cfs .iJ pon rt, this 13th day of Sept., 1909. (SEAL) J.M. GREENMAN, Judge of Probate. Sept. 15, 23, 29. Citation for Hearing on Petition to Mortgage Land •TATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Mower—ss. In Probate Court: In the matter of the estate of G. W. Grim shaw, Decedent. The State of Minnesota to,Geo. W. Rice, May A. Faber, Eddie D. Hanson, Ida M. White, Rose E. Rice and Lorena E. Grimshaw and to all persons interested in the mortgaging of certain lands belonging to said Decedent: The petition of R®se E. Rice as one of the representatives of the above named Decedent, being duly filed in this court, representing that it is necessary and for the best interests of said estate and of all persons interested therein, that certain lands of said Decedent described therein be mortgaged and praying that a license be to Rose E. Rice and Ida M. White granted to mortgage the same: Now Therefore, you, and each of you, are hereby cited* and required to show cause, if any you have, before tiris court, (it the probate court rooms in the court house in the city of Austin, County of Mower, State of Minnesota on the 11th day of October, 1909, at- 10 o'clock a. m. why the prayer of said petition should not bo granted. Witness the judge of said court and the seal of said court, this 10th day of September, 1909. (Seal) J. M. GREENMAN, Probate Judge, CATHERWOOD & NICHOLSEN, Attorneys for Petitioner. S 1 5 3 2 2 9 Citation for Hearing on_ Petition for Administration. STATE OP MINNESOTA, County of Mower—ss. In Probate Court,. .. In the matter of the estate of Charles H. W, Peck, decedeht. The state of Minnesota to the heirs at law. of said deceased and to all person^ interested in-the granting ot,administrationof the estate of said decedent. The petition of Ina May Peck having been filed in this court representing that Charles H. W. Peck, then a resident of the county of Mower, state of Minnesota, died inte state on. the 6th fi-ay of September, 1909, and praying that letters of administration of his estate be granted to Ina May Peck and the court having .fixed the time and place for hear ing sftid petition: Therefore, you, and each of yon, are hereby cited and required to show cause, if any you have, before this court, at the probate court rooms in the court house in the city of Austin, in the county of Mower and state of Minnesota on fhe 18th day of October, 1989, at 10 o'clock a. m.,"why said petition should not be granted Witness, the Judge of said" Court and the Seal of said Cpurt, .this ISth dav of September, 1909. J. the M. GREENMAN (Spay Judge cfProba'e. CATHERWOOD & NICHOLSEN, Attorneys for Petitioner. Sep 22-P9 Oct. 6 Citation tor Hearing on Petition to Sell Land. STATE OP MINNESOTA County of Mower—ss. In Pjobate Court. 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