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MARTHA DELLIM6BR
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8YN0P8IS.
AfUlit Redmond, opera singer, atarona;
for an auto drive In New York, finds a
tranccr sent aa her chauffeur. Leaving
the car, she goea Into the park to lead
the will of an old friend of her mother,
who haa left her property. There she la
accosted by a stranger, who follows her
to the auto, climbs In and chloroforms
her. James Hambleton of Lynn. Mass.,
witnesses the abduction of Agatha Hed
mond. Hambleton sees Agatha forcibly
taken aboard a yacht. He secures a tug
and when near the yacht drops over
board. Aleck Van Camp, friend of Ham
bleton. had an appointment with him. Not
meeting Hambleton, he makes a call upon
friends. Madame and Mlsa Melanle Key
nler. He proposes to the latter and Is re
fused. The three arrange a coast trip
on Van Camp's yacht, the Sea Gull.
Hambleton wakea up on board the Jeanne
D'Arc, the yacht on which Is Agatha
Itedmond. Hla clothes and money belt
have been taken from him. He meets a
man who Introduces himself as Monsieur
Chatelard. who Is Agatha's abductor.
They fight, but ara Interrupted by the
Inking of the vesael. Jimmy and Agatha
are both abandoned by tha crew, who
take to the boats. Jimmy and Agatha
swim for hours and finally reach shore
In a thoroughly exhausted condition, lte
roverlng allghtly. the pair find Hand, the
rhaufieur who assisted In Agatha's ab
duction. He agrees to help them. Jim Is
delirious and on the verge of death. Hand
goea for help. He returns with ur.
Thayer, who revives Jim. and the party
Is conveyed to Charlesport, where Aga
tha'a property la located. Pr. Thayer la
tha brother of Agatha's benefactor.
CHAPTER XII. Continued.
But such a condition was, after all.
more apparent than real. In his heart
Aleck knew that he did love Melanle
"enough," however much that might
be. He loved her enough to want
not only and not mainly, what she
could give to hfm; but he wanted the
happiness of caring for her, cherish
lng her. rewarding her faith with his
own. She had not seen that, and It
was his problem to make her see It
There was only one way. And so, In
foreettlng himself, forgetting his
wants, his comforts, his studies
' his masculine will herein was
blossoming of Aleck's soul.
Melanle Instinctively felt the
and
the
sub
tie change, and knew in her heart
that Aleck had won the day, though
she still treated their engagement as
an open question. Aleck would read
to her in his simple, unaffected man
ner. sometimes with Madame Reynler
and Mr. Chamberlain also for audi
ence, sometimes to her alone. And
since they lived keenly and loved, all
books spoke to themef their life or
their love. A-lIne, a phrase, a thought,
would ring out of the record, and each
would be glad that the other had
beard that thought; sometime they
would talk It all over. They learned
to laugh at their own whimsical preju
dices, and then Insisted on them all
the harder; they learned, each from
the other, some bit of robust optimism,
some hannlness of vision, some
further reach of thought.
After they bad read, they would play
at anolts. struggling sternly against
each other; or Chamberlain would ex
amine Melanle In nautical lore; or to
gether. In the evening, they would
trace the constellations in the heav
ens. During their first week they were
In the edge of storm for a night and
a day; but they put into harbor where
they were comfortable and safe, and
merry as larks through It all
So, day by day. Aleck hedged Me
lanle about with his lore. Was she
thoughtful? He let her take, as she
would, his thoughts, the best he could
give from his mature experience. Was
she ray? He liked that even better,
and delighted to cap ber gaiety with
his own aueer. whimsical drolleries
Whatever her mood, he would not let
her get far from him In spirit. It was
not In her heart to keep him from
her: but Aleck achieved the super
mundane feat of making hla Influence
felt most keenly when she was alone,
She dwelt upon him In her thoughts
more Intensely than she herself knew;
and that Intenseness waa only the .re
flection of his own thought for her.
They had been sailing a little more
than a week, changing, the low
placid Connecticut fields for the
rougher northern shores, going some
times farther out to sea, but delight
lng most In the sweet, pine-fringed
coast of 'Maine. There were no more
large cities to visit, only small vtl
lages where fishermen gathered after
- their week's haul or where slow, prlmL
tire boat building was still carried on.
Most of the Inhabitants, of the coast
country appeared to be farmers as
well as fishermen, even where the soil
was least promising. The aspect of
the shores was that of a limited but
(airly prosperous agricultural - com
munity. Under the shadow of the hills
were staid little homes, or fresh-paint
ed smart cottages. Sometimes a bold
rock-bank formed the snore for. miles
. and miles, and the hills would, vanish
tnr a ac8.ee. Here and there . were
headlands formed by mighty boulders,
Against which the waves, endlessly
hashed and as endlessly foamed back
Into the sea.
fiuoh a headland loomed np on their.
o
starboard one evening when the sun '
was low; and as the plumes of spray
from the incoming waves rose high In
the air a rainbow formed itself in
the fleeting mist. It was a fairy pic
ture, repeating itself two or three
times, no more.
That's my symbol of hope,"" said.
Aleck quite impersonally, to anybody
who chose to hear. "
Mr. Chamberlain turned to Aleck
with his ready courtesy. "Not the only
one you have received, I hope, on this
charming voyage."
Madame Reynler was ready with her
pleasant word. "Aren't we all sym
bols for you if not of hope, then of
your success as a host? We've lost
our aches and our pains, our nerves
and our troubles; all gone overboard
from the Sea Gull."
"You're all tremendously good to
me. I know that," said Aleck, his
slow words coming with great sin
cerity. Melanle kept silence, but she re
membered the rainbow.
The headland was the landward end
of a small island, one part of which
was thickly wooded. A large unused
house stood In a clearing, evidently
once a rather pretentious summer resi
dence, though now there were many
signs of dilapidation. The pier on the
beach had been almost entirely beaten
down by storms, and a small, flimsy
slip had taken Its place, running far
down into the water. A thin line of
smoke rose from the chimney of one
of the outbuildings; and while they
looked and listened the raucous cry
of a peacock came to them over the
still water. Presently Chamberlain
suggested:
"I feel It in my bones that there'll
be lobsters over there to be had for
the asking. I heard your man say he
wanted lobsters. Van; and I believe
I'll row over there and see. I'm feel
lng uncommonly fit and need some ex-
"All right, I'll go too," said Aleck,
"I'll bet a bouquet that I beat you
rowing over Miss Reynler to furnish
the bouquet!" was Chamberlain's next
proposition. "Do you agree to that.
my lady?"
"And pray, where should I get
bouquet?
"Oh, the next time we get on land.
And we won't put up with any old bou
quet of juniper bushes and rocks,
eitherj We want a good, old-fashioned
round bouquet of garden posies,
with mignonette round the edge and a
rose in the middle; a sure-enough
token of esteem that kind of thing,
you, know. Is it a bargain, Miss Rey
nler?"
"Very well, it Is a bargain," agreed
Melanle; "but I shall choose bachelors'
huttons!"
So they took the tender andgotjbff,
with a great show of exactnesses to
time and strictness of rules. Madame
Reynler was to hold the watch, and
Aleck was to wave a wnite nandker
chief the minute they touched sand,
Mr. Chamberlain was to give a like
signal when they started back. The
yacht slowed down and held her place
as nearly as possioie.
Chamberlain pulled a great oar, and
was. In fact, far superior to Aleck in
point of skill; but his stroke was not
well adapted to tne cnoppy waves in
shore. He had learned It on the
sleepy Cam, where the long, gliding
blade counts best. The men stayed
ashore a long time, disappearing en
tlrely beyond the chimp of trees that
screened the outbuildings. When they
reappeared, an old mail was with
them, following them down to the
boat Then the white handkerchief
appeared, and the boat started on Its
return.
leek profited by Chamberlain's
work, and made the boat leap forward
bra shorter, almost Jerky stroke. He
came back easily with five minutes to
snare.
"Good work!" said Mr. Chamber
lain. "You have me beaten, and you'll
get the bachelors' buttons; but you
had the tide with you.
"Nonsense! I had the lobsters ex
trat" asserted Aleck. -
"WelL If you had been born an Eng
lishman. we'd make an oarsman out
of you yet!"
"Huh!" said Aleck.
But they had news to tell the ladles,
and while they were having their
dinner their thoughts were turned to
snother matter. 'The Island, it ap
peared, had for some years been aban
doned by its owner, and Its only in
habitant waa a gray and gristly old
man,' known, to the region as the her
mit. His fancy was to keep a light
burning always by night In the land
ward window of his cabin, so as to
warn sailors off the dangerous head
land." There was no lighthouse In the
I vicinity,' snd by a kindly consent the
people on the neighboring Islands and
on the mainland opposite encouraged
his benevolent delusion, if delusion it
might be called. They contrived to
send him provisions at least once a
week; and they had supplied him with
flag which. It was understood, he
would fly in case he waa In actual
need. So, alone with his cow and hla
fowls, the old hermit spent his days.
winter and summer, tending his lamp
when the dark came on.
Aleck and Mr. Chamberlain had
picked up Borne of this information at
the last port which the Sea Gull made;
but what was of new and real Interest
to them was the story which the old
man told them of a castaway on the
Island a few days before.
"AH hands had abandoned the
yacht Just before she went down, it
appears. The owner was robbed by
his own men and marooned on the her
mit's Island that's the gist of It,"
said Aleck.'
"The hermit said the man wouldn't
eat off his table," went on Mr. Cham
berlain; "but asked him for raw eggs
and ate them outdoors. Said that ex
cept when he asked for eggs he never
spoke without cursing. At least, the
hermit couldn't understand what he
said, so he thought it was surslng.
And while the old man was talking,"
added Chamberlain resentfully, "that
blooming peacock squawked like a
demon."
"The yacht that went down, accord
ing to the man, was the Jeanne D'Arc."
said Aleck, who had been grave
enough between all their light-hearted
talk. "I didn't tell you, Chamberlain,
that my cousin, my old chum, went
off quite unexpectedly on a boat
called the Jeanne D'Arc. Where he
went or what for, I don't know. Of
course, It may have been another
Jeanne D'Arc; It probably was. But
it troubles me."
Melanle was Instantly aroused.
"Oh, I had an uncanny feeling when
you first mentioned. . the Jeanne
D'Arc!" she cried. "But could you not
find out more? What became of the
man that waa marooned?"
He got off the island a day or two
ago, s&td Aleck. The people mat
brought provisions to the old man
took him to the mainland, to Charles-
port."
"The beggar left without so much
as thanking tne old man lot ms
eggs," added Chamberlain.
"We'll put into Charlesport tonight.
if ' you don't mind," said Aleck. k "If
I can find the man that was marooned,
I may be able to learn something
about Jim, If he really waa on the
yacht You can all go ashore, If you
like. There's a big summer hotel near
by, and It's a lovely country."
"We'll stay wherever it's most con
venient for you to have us," said
Melanle, looking at Aleck, for once,
with more than a friendly Interest in
her eyes
"And perhaps I can help you, Van;
two heads, you know," said Chamber
lain.
The village still rang, 1f so staid
community could be said to ring, with
reports of the event of the week be
fore. Doctor Thayer had been sphinx
like, and Little Simon had been Imag
inative and voluble; and it would have
been difficult to say which had teased
the popular curiosity the more. Aleck
found a tale ready for his ears about
the launch and Its three passengers,
with many conflicting details. . Some
said that a great singer had been
wrecked off Ram's Head, others that
(t was the captain and mate of the
Jeanne D'Arc, others that It was
daughter of old Parson Thayer's sweet
heart and two sailors that came
ashore. Little or nothing was known
about the Island castaway. Aleck fol
lowed the only clue he could find
thinking to get at least some Inkling
of the truth.
CHAPTER XIII.
Aleck Sees a Ghost. '
Little Simon drove leisurely up the
long rugged hill over which Agatha
and James had so recently traveled,
and drew rein In the shade at a dis
tance of a long city block from his
destination. He pointed with his whip
while he addressed Aleck, his sole
passenger.
"Yonder's the old red house, mister.
The parson, he hated to have his trees
gnawed, and .Major here's a great
horse for gnawing the bark offer trees,
Ro 1 never go no' nearer the , house
than this."''
"All right Simon; you wait for me
here." ,' '
Aleck walked slowly along the coun
try road, enjoying the fragrant fields,
the quiet beauty of the place. It was
till early in the day, for he had lost
no time in following the clues gath
ered from the village as to the sur
vivors of the Jeanne D'Arc. The air
was fresh and clean, with I tang of
the distant salt marshes. ' . ,
' A long row of hemlocks and Norway
spruce bordered the road, and, with
the aid of a stone wall, shut off from
the highway a prosperous-looking
vegetable garden. Farther along a
flower garden glowed In the fantastic
coloring which gardens acquire when
planted for the love of flowers rather
than for definite artistic effects.
Farther still, two lilac bushes stood
sentinel on either side of a gate
way; and behind, a deep green lawn
lay under the light, dappled shade of
tall trees. It waa a lawn that spoke of
many years, of care; and In the mid
dle of its velvet green, under the
branches of two sheltering elms, stood
the old red house. It looked comfort
able and secure. In Its homely sim
plicity; something to depend on In the
otherwise mutable scenes of life.
Aleck felt an instantaneous liking for
It, and was glad that his errand, sad
as It might possibly be, had yet led
him thither.
Long French windows in the lowet
part of the house opened upon the
piazza, and from the second story
ruffled white curtains fluttered to the
breeze. As the shield-shaped knocker
clanged dully to Aleck's stroke,
large, melancholy hound came slowly
rouna tne corner of the house, ap
proached the visitor with tentative
wags of the tall, and after sniffing
mildly, lay down on the cool grass
It wasn't a house to be hurried, that
was plain. After a wait of five or
ten minutes Aleck was about to knock
again, when a face appeared at one
of the side-lights of the door. Present
ly the door Itself opened a few Inches,
and elderly spinsterhood, wrapped in
severe Inquiry, looked out at him
Can I see the lady, or either of the
gentlemen, who recently arrived here
from the yacht, the Jeanne D'Arc?"
Aiec a. s voice and manner were
friendly enough to disarm suspicion It
self. Sallie Kingsbury looked at him
for a full second.
"Come In."
Aleck followed her Into the wide.
dim hall, and waited while she pulled
down the shade of the sidelight which
she had lifted for observation. Then
she opened a door on the right and
said:
Set down in the parlor while I go
and take my salt rlsin's away from
the stove. I ain't had time to call
my soul my own since the folks came,
what with callers at all times of the
day."
Sallle's voice waa not as Inhosplt
able as her words. . She was mildly
hurt and grieved, rather than offended
She disappeared and presently came
back with a white apron on in place
of tho colored gingham she had worn
before; but it is doubtful if Aleck no
ticed this tribute to his sex. . Sallie
looked withered and pinched, but more
by nature and disposition than by-age
She stood with arms akimbo near the
center-table, regarding Aleck with In
qulsltlveness not unmixed with liking,
You can set down, sir," she said
politely, "but I don't know as you
can see any of the folks. The man,
hes up-stalrs sick, clean out of his
head; the young man, he's nursing
him. Can t leave him alone a minute,
or he'd be up and getting out the win
dow, frail I know."
Aleck listened sympathetically. "A
sad case! And what Is the name. If
I may ask, of the young man who Is
so Uir : ' )
. "Lor, I don t know,? said Sallie,
"The new mistress, her name s Red
mond; some kin of Parson Thayer's,
and sbes got this house and a lot of
money. The lawyer was here yester
day and got the will all fixed. She's
singer, too one of those opery sing
ers down below, she Is."
Sallie made this announcement aa
if she was relating a bewildering blow
of Providence for which she herself
was not responsible. Aleck, who be
gan to fear that he might be the re
cipient of more confidences ' than
decorum dictated, hastily proffered
his next question.
Can I see the lady, Miss Redmond?
Or Is It Mrs. Redmond?"
Sallie gave a scornful. Injured sniff,
"Miss Redmond, sir, though she'
old enough to be a Mrs. I wouldn't so
much mind her coming In here and
using the parson's china that I always
washed with my own hands If she was
a Mrs. But what can she, an unmar
ried woman apd an opery singer, know
about Parson Thayer's waya and keep
ing this house in order, when I've
been with mm going on seventeen
years and he took me outer the Home
when I was no more than a child?"
Aleck s heart would have been
stone had he resisted this all but pas
sionate plea.
"You have been faithfulness Itself,
I am sure. But do you think Miss Red
mond would see me, at least for a few
minutes?"
Sallie recovered her dignity, which
had been near a collapse in tears, and
assumed her official tone. "I don
know as you can. and I don't know as
you can. She's sick, too; fell over
board somehow or other, offer one of
those pesky boats, and get neuralagy
and I don t know what all. But I'll
go and see how she's feeling."
"Stay, wait a minute," aaid Aleck,
seized with a new thought "I'll write
a message to Miss Redmond and then
she'll know just what I want IX you'll
be so good as to take It to her?"
"Why, certainly, of course I will,
said same Kingsoury. "Only you
needn't take all that trouble. I can
tell ber what you want , myself.
Faille was one of those persons who
regard the pen as the weapon of last
resort, not to be used until necessity
compels. But Aleck continued writing
on a blank leaf of his note-book. The
message was this:-
"Can you, give me any Information
concerning my cousin, James Hamble
ton. who was thought to be aboard the
Jeanne D'Arc?".' "
1 tie tore me leai oui, extracted
card from his pocketbook. and "hah 1
ed leaf and card to Sallie. "Will you
please give those to Miss Redmond?"
Sallie wiped her hands,' which were
perfectly clean, on her white apron,
took the card and bit of paper and de
parted, sniffing audibly, When she re
turned. It was to say, with a slightly
more Interested air, that' Miss Red
mond wished to see .him upstairs.
She stood at 'the bottom of the wide
stairway and pointed to a corner of
the upper floor. "She's In there room
on the right!" and so she stalked off
to the kitchen.
Aleck Van Camp sought the region
Indicated by Sallle's gaunt finger with
some misgivings; but he was pres
ently guided further by a clear voice.
Come in this way, Mr. Van Camp,
if you please!"
The voice led him to an open door.
before which he stood, looking Into a
large, old-fashioned bedroom, from
whose windows the white curtains
fluttered in the breeze. Miss Redmond
was propped up with pillows on a
horsehair-covered lounge, which stood
along the foot of a monstrous bed.
She was clothed in some sort of wool
wrapper, and over her feet was thrown
faded traveling rug. By her side
stood achair on which were writing
materials, Aleck's note and card, and
half-written letter. Agatha sat up
she greeted Aleck. t
"I am glad to see you. Mr. Van
Camp. Will you come In? I ask your
pardon for not coming downstairs to
see you, but I have been ill, and am
not strong yet."
She was about to motion Aleck to
chair, but stopped In the midst of
her speech, arrested by his expres
sion. Aleck stood rooted to the door
sill, with a look of surprise on his
face which amounted to actual
amazement. Thus apparently startled
out of himself, he regarded Agatha
earnestly.
"Will you come in?" Agatha repeat
ed at last
"Pardon me." he said finally In his
precise drawl, "but I confess to being
startled. You you bear such an ex
traordinary resemblance to some one
know, that I thought It must really
be she, for a moment."
Agatha smiled faintly. "You look
ed as If you had seen a ghost"
Aleck gazed at her again, a long,
scrutinizing look. "It does make one
feel queer, you know."
"But now that you are assured that
I'm not a ghost, will you sit down?
That, chair by the window, please.
And I can't tell you how glad I am
to see you; for James 'Hambleton,
your cousin, If he Is your cousin. Is
here in this house, and he is ill very
111 Indeed."
Aleck's nonchalance had already
disappeared. In the series of sur
prises; but at Agatha's words a flush
of pleasure and relief overspread his
face. He strode quickly over toward
Agatha's couch.
Oh. I say old Jim I thought, I
was afraid "
Agatha was touched by the evi
dences of his emotion, and her voice
became very gentle. "I fancy It is
the same James Hambleton of
Lynn?" Aleck nodded and she went
on: "That's what he told me, the
night we were wrecked."
Agatha looked at Aleck, as If she
would discover whether he were trust
worthy or not, before giving him more
of her story. Presentlyshe contln-
uea: j1 .
He's a very brave, a very wonderful
man. He jumpea overuoara to save
me, after I fell from the ladder; and
then they left us and we swam ashore,
But long before, we got there I fainted,
and he brought me In, all the way,
though he was nearly dead of exhaus
tion himself. He had hemorrhage
from overexertion, and afterward
chill. And now there Is fever."
Agatha's voice was trembling. Aleck
watched her as she told her tale, the
flush of happiness and Joy still light
ing up his face. As she finished re
lating the meager facts which to her
denoted so many heart-throbs, a sob
drowned ber voice. As Aleck followed
tho story, his own eyes wavered.
"That's Jim, down to the ground.
Good old boy!" he said..
There was a silence for a minute,
then he heard Agatha's voice, grown
little and faint. "If he should die!"
Aleck, still standing by Agatha'i
couch, suddenly shook himself.
"Where la he? Can I see him now?"
Agatha got up slowly and led the
way down the hall, pointing to a door
that stood ajar. It was evident that
she was weak.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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The difficulty of making good cast
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The Iron casting, after being machined
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. It Is then plunged in a chemical
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Sweet Peraulslte.
Candy Is a perquisite of theater ush
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box and lets It, slide to the floor with
several pieces sticking In the corners,
Immediately after the performance all
enterprising ushers se.vch the house
for discarded sweets.
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Similar Position. ! .
Little Robert was much interested
In the picture of a stork which he saw
in a magazine.
"Say, mamma," he asked, ''what has
become of the bird's other leg?"
"It has raised It up among its feath
ers," replied the mother.
"That's funny," the boy observed.
"1 thought it was trying to clean its
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AS TO FLAVOUR,' ...
Found Her Favorite Again.
A bright young lady tells how she
came to be acutely sensitive as to the
taste of coffee:
"My health had been very poor for
several years," she says. "I loved
coffee and drank it for breakfast but
only learned by accident as It were,
that It was the cause of the constant
dreadful headaches from which I suf
fered every day, and of the nervous
ness that drove sleep from my pillow
and so deranged my stomach that
everything I ate gave me acute pain.
(Tea Is 'just as Injurious, because It
contains caffeine, the same drug found
in coffee.)
"My condition finally got so serious
that I was advised by my doctor to go
to a hospital. There they gave me
what I supposed was coffee, and I
thought it was the best I ever drank,
but I have since learned it was
Postum. I gained rapidly and came
home in four weeks.
"Somehow the -coffee we used at
home didn't taste tight when I got
back. I tried various kinds, but none
tasted as good as that I drank in the
hospital, and all brought back tfie
dreadful headaches and the 'sick-all-over
feeling.
"One day I got a package of Postum,
and the first taste of it I took. I
said that's the good coffee we had In
the hospital.' I have drank it ever
since, and eat Grape-Nuts for my
breakfast I have no more headaches,
and feel better than I have for years."
Name given upon request ; Read the
famous little book. "The Road to WeB
ville," in pkgs. "There's a reason.1
Postum now comes In concentrated,
powder form, called Instant Postum. -It
is prepared by stirring a level tea
spoonful in a cup of hot water, adding
sugar to taste, and enough cream to
bring the color to golden brown. ;
Instant Postum la convenient;
there's no waste; and the flavour is al
ways uniform. ' Bold by grocers 48
to SO-cent tin SO cts; 0 to 10Xup tin
(0 cta ; . v -
A 6-cnp trial tin mailed for grocer's
name and 1-cent stamp for postage.
Postum Cereal CO Ltd, BatUe Creek.
Mich. Adv.