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MRS. GRUNDY, TRACY CITY, TENNESSEE I The ?7bin I "DESTROY- THIS LETTER1" Synopsis. Typical tramp In ap pearance, Daniel : Randolph F1U hugh, while crossing a Chicago street, causes the wreck of an auto, whose chauffeur disables it try ing to avoid running him down. In pity the occupant ef the auto, a young girl, saves him from arrest and gives him a dollar, telling him to buy soap, and wash. His sense of shame- la touched, and he Im proves hia appearance. That night. In a crowd of unemployed and an archists, h meets Esther Strom and in a spirit of bravado makes a speech. Esther Induces Fltshugh to address the radical meeting, f He electriSes the-crowd, and on part ing the two agree to meet again. A few days later Fltzhugh visits Sy mington Otis, prominent financier, and displaying a package whch be says contain dvnamlta. but Vl'ch is merely a bundle of paPrjTxU mands 110.000. Otis gives hlrirt check. At the house he meets the girl who had given him the dollar, and learns she -Is Kathleen Otis, She recognizes him.- ABhamed, he tears up the check and escapes, but Is arrested. Esther visits Fltzhugh In Jail, and makes arrangements for procuring legal advice. His trial is speedily completed and he is found Insane and committed to an asylum, from which he eaBily makes his escape. Fltzhugh takes refuge In Chicago with . Esther, -who has become infatuated with hlm. but with the thought of Kathleen In his mind he gives her no encouragement His one Idea is to become rich and powerful, and . win Kathleen. While hiding In Esther's house be grows a beard, which effectually changes his ap pearance. Nlkolay, a big Russian, becomes Jealous. . , . CHAPTER V. ., . ' ' It was ten days since the reward fcr Fitzhugh's capture had been of fored. and though " detectives, city, mateur, and private, as well as the police, : had kept hot on unremitting search, not a" trace of the fugitive rould they find., "dues," they had by wores, but they led owhere. This tenth day fell n a Thursday In April a cold, dark day of incessant rain. Nlkolay invariably called upon Esther rrery Friday, but on'thls particular Thursday, night, happening to be In tor neighborhood, he decided to take advantage of the" opportunity, and Jrop in on her for a pot of hot tea and word of good cheer. , He was about to pass under the wooden staircase, and so to' her door, when suddenly. Just opposite the win flow he stopped still and stood as though hewed from stone, ; - What he saw was this: , In the cen ter of the room, her back toward him, stood Esther; arms held out, her head back, she had the unmistakable pos ture of a woman waiting only for the One Man. The next instant a very tall man, young-looking despite the short, ontrimmed beard on his lean face, stepped from some point outside Niko lay's range of vision," and took her in his arms and kissed her. V - His pimply face livid with fury, yel low hair seeming to stand on end, Xikolay burst Into the room, i - : Fltzhugh sprang from his place and faulted the table, bringing it between fclmself and the door. "Get out, Esther," he ordered quietly, rolling up ftls shirtsleeves. "I'm going to slaugh ter this beast"';-:--;' . ; She made no move to go, however, ftut drew to one side, and with, hands pressed to her cheeks, watched tiie two gladiators with mingled horror and fascination. Nlkolay had the ad vantage of some forty pounds in weight, but Fltzhugh was vastly his superior in stamina, fistic skill and quickness of eye and movement. To win the fight be judged he had to do lint one thing: to keep free of the 'ether's clutches. Once the big Rus sian got those tremendous s arms around him the combat would be un equal. . Nlkolay rushed upon bis foe like an Infuriated bull, and Fltzhugh ducked and sidestepped like a lean panther, springing In quickly to deliver two blows in rapid succession, the last of which brought blood. In the next rush, however, a sledge hammer seemed to Wing upfffl the point of his chin, and be spun dizzily backward, unable to regain his balance, and fell heavily against a fender. But Nlkolay was not quick enough to follow up his ad Vantage, and when next he charged, TltabiXEa had recovered, and was andng around him as before, his Up - drawn back from- his gleaming teetb In a taunting smile. The bloody was streaming from a dozen cuts on the Russian's face,' Its crimson blots In his eyes; and ever swam before him like a pirouetting phantom. ' . ' .. Knowing his endurance to be his strongest, and the other's weakest, point, Fltzhugh desired chiefly to wear his opponent down "until such time as he could rush In and finish him. v Nlkolay was fast becoming exhaust ed. Ten minutes of this mad pace was more 'than he could stand. His breath came shorter and shorter. At last he stopped -and allowed his arms to dangle limply at his sides. For a little while, coughing and spit ting blood and. catching his breath in wheezy gasps, he stared drunkenly. Then, seizing a heavy water pitcher from beside an overturned chair, he hurled it, with a vile word. Fitzhugh dodged the missile and leapt for his foe. He put every atom of his vigor ous young strength into the blow he landed "under Nlkolay's Jaw, and the man went down like a clubbed sr. The conqueror walked to a corner, picked up hi? coat, and slung It over his shoulder, ne came back to Esther, crouching against' the wall like one awakening from some horrible dream; He smiled, but In the neutral light the smile was ghastly . "I'm sorry you liad to see It, I told you I'd slaughter him." The next moment the woman , was sobbing hysterically In his arms. "I can't let you go I I can't I can't I" She clung to him as a drowning per sonclutching his hands, his arms, his neck. ' 1- - .'.,; ' ; "You must, Esther." He stroked her hair tenderly. . "The police, may be here at any moment. Get away as quickly as possible. Never mfnd about him heTl be- all right presently. I'll write you care of the post offlce. You write me, too. Good-by, dear, good-by." With these words of parting he turned and left the house. Fitzhugh entered a saloon and laved his hurts and washed up, afterward surveying his face verytfitically In a 1 BXSft WJ&Z,& V-fi:-H v'' t t 'ia t,.: Rushed Likean Infuriated Bull. mirror. lie concluded he was ef fectually disguised ftgalnst anybody who had. not seen him during the past four weeks.-' He left the saloon and continued northward. In State street he stopped before an alleged restaurant one of those dis colored, unwashed places that can be scented a hundred yards off on a warm day, and where a "full meal" may be had for twenty cents and read this sign hanging from a nail on the door post; S ' " .. ' "DISHWASHER WANTED." , He removed the sign, walked inside and handed It to the chemical-blonde cashier perched on a high stool be tween cash register and a pyramid of toothpicks, , " ; , v "I'm It," said he, favoring her with an engaging smile. ' It was a sweltering, . filthy place, reeking with multitudinous odors and overrun with cockroaches. The soiled dishes came In a never-ending torrent, and all day, with three respites for food, he bent at the' wash-bench, his arms Immersed to the elbows In black soapy water. At eight came the night man, and he drew a breath of relief and a dollar on his weekly wage, and started home. Or, rather, he started to look for a borne. He found one for two dollars a week a depressing room, little larger than a coalbor, tucked away In the upper regions of a shoddy lodging house. He paid the slittil grim-faced landlady half of his capi tal, bought a packet of tobacco and an evening newspaper, and went to hla room. -"" .. . ' ' ;; ,., ,., . He disrobed to his underclothing, and 'with the newspaper and a clga- rette stretched himself on the couch bed, allowing hl feet to '.rest, on a chair. He mailed a satisfying cloud of smoke and "unfolded the news sheet and his fingers closed rigidly on the paper ; his heart seemed to stand still. What he read at a glance stretched across four columns of the front page: MURDER MYSTERY AMONG REDS I OLAF NIKOLA Y, RUSSIAN NIHIL IST, FOUND DEAD IN SOUTH : SIDE BASEMENT I WOMAN SUSPECT GONE! The story ; so shrlekingly heralded was told In a few paragraphs, and Fitzhugh breathed easier as he read. Substantially,-It related that Nlkolay had been found that afternoon by Es ther's landlady, who, thinking the man drunk, had called the police. An ex amination showed that he was stabbed to the heart and had been dead for hours. Esther had disappeared, leav ing no trace behind her. Fltzhugh dropped the paper to the floor and stared thoughtfully at the celling, crushing his cigarette slowly between, his fingers. Suddenly he. jumped up and began pacing the floor restlessly. : "Pshaw 1 she'll get away all right Yes, yes, she'll get away all right" On his way to work next morning he called at the post office and found, as he expected, a letter from Esther. It was written on a scrap of wrapping paper with ajead pencil, and bega'n without preface : If I've sinned It was because I loved you so. I did it for" your sake. I am praying God that your desire for wealta may be granted you. Even tnougn your ambition Is one of which I do not entire ly approve, I. would willingly die that you might achieve it. Tiiat is now 1 love you It may be a long while before you bear from me again betatu&a I am going tar away. . Destroy tmJrtsitoY. . Your adoring , ' , - ESTHER. He burned the letter In the kitchen range and knuckled downto his op probrious toil as on the previous day Fltzhuch hud a clearly defined rea son for doing scullery work in a res taurant. It ; provided a ; steady, if small, Income; it facilitated economy, and. nbove all. it afforded him a secur hiding place during the day. He in tended to stay there six weeks, tfy that time his beard would be suffi ciently long to be shaped into a Van dyke. Also, for he practiced the most rieorous frueality. he expected to have thirty dollars -with which to buy some presentable clothes. From that point on he felt positive that somehow bis soaring aloft would be swirt ana sure. Only once was the monotony, of thnt month broken. By one of thosa anomalous conditions peculiar to some cities, the street ihe restaurant was on, a miserable, poverty-stricken thor oughfare, is less than ten minutes' walk from Chicago's wealthiest resi dential section. This Incongruous Jux taposition accounted for the break in Fitzhugh's routine. It was late one warm nicht in June, and he had walked a few streets from his boa.d- lnir house and was taking the air along the Lake Shore drive, when he saw Kathleen Otis. A shining limousine stopped before the iron -. gateway through which "he had twice passed, and as he drew back Into the snaaows of some shrubbery she aligbtedwith her father. How exquisite she was how desirable I . , Every night after . that Fitzhu;h promenaded the drive. ; But he never saw her again. He read later that she had sailed for France with her mother and would not return until the au tumn., -'i, . .From dishwasher to v . ;, (TO BE CONTINUED.) HlQh Prices During Civil War. The cost of staples were extremelj high during the four years of the Civil war, and a decline In prices began tc set in In 186ff and 1867. The followlni are the -prices of staples which pre vailed m iwjt : vo&u b.ou per ton) flour. $11.25 per barrel: sugar. 14 cents a pound; butter, 49 cents pei pound ; -a rresn Deer, cents pa pound ; eggs, cents per aozen, ' Substitute for Beeswax." A substitute for beeswax and Dnr affin Is btttined in China from wai deposits nf an Insect living on a treea '- ' WATER WITH ASPIRIN Bayer Company, who Introduced Aspi rin In 1900, a've proper - ' directions.' 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