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ua okmwmm a«U9. ~t »nj jou, cu*e me.“ Not wmltlBC »ny response, sbe t tllj- ran op ti>e stnlra. After her. for • moment, gated the Franeiscnn, then shrugged his vide shoulden. and plocged Into the crowd. While she danced, while sbe chattered and laughed and dntered Into the mad gaiety of the evening. Lode Lethat ominous Franciscan. Bov could danols could not banish from her r be have known? Bov could he hare

barely suspected? There vas no proof, of coarae; the very breath of at cion seemed a calumny against an upright man! had aotd that Terre-

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Tbatr queried Lode, Innocently, producing a scrap of chamois and dabbing at bar nose. "Oh. that's very Interesting! It vsa made for Queen Hortanae—*o vaa UUa scarf that keeps my ragfad hair from lopping out! They arare a praaent—only this morning.* “Olrtr The lady’s voice was harsh. “A prevent? From ‘whom. If

"Columbine r . A 1 hand fed upon bar wrist- "Columbine! Turn and cos * thy dns P She had come to the foot of the wide, oUMashlnaed stairway that led to the floors ahora, and had da bar had

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regarded by the Ed Innovation, and I as a delightful naalf that only indhU house. Invlta-

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fn^waiy appeared a Franciscan monk.

"Too frightefted me, holy man!” she cried, gaily. “Confess to you. indeed!

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"Never a better chance, butterfly of the world. Baste not to the dance, fair stater—tarry a *bUe and Invite the sod ta spexfl of Import! Haring paaaed the dragon at gate, tarry a moment with this man of rowe—" “Shrive me quickly. thaa.“ she said.

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«... t la of uneasy suedrion; U Is typUlad by a hard-Upjvd. mmtag man. oot thought to of profonai ragrat; U to typified by a darkly wailing riieam of oil- One thought- '

Lucie had shrank away

tram him. "Who—who are your the breathed, with a gasp that WM almost of fear. “Who art you. monsieur?' -A humble brother of minor orders.” sad he bowed. '.Shall I not continue •ith my reading' The third, madem..!■Ua. to ow of • U to trr'fled h? • Hall man who to draawd uU In Tirie turned asray frem him quickly. T think t!ia2 you fA»a made s«m? grate eerot. mousleur." she said Her

•f her own afBown about the was a case only

ef bad judgmaot. Tat Indu’dubly. he sr-s now a shareholder sad officer la ?he Bayou Oil company, the concern whtcu bad bought that atrip of land. Lude strove angrily to banish the dark thoughts from bar mind. Why. Halliard was a rich man. a banker, an honorable gentleman! To doubt his boaoc. although be was a harsh and a stem man. was Impossible. Lude knew him better than moat, and could

not bell ere—

"May I crave pardon for my error came a voice at her elbow. She turned, to aae the Franciscan again beside bar. "With a thousand apologias for

not dance with Columbine for prrtaerf So aaytag. the monk proved Us word by the deed and proved it well. Nor

But who was this brown temed to k who danced so divinely, was Ilka music? A vague in the girt s mind, but sbe had no proof. Half an hour after this Bob Halliard came to bar. and with Impatient words made a path through the circle which surrounded her. "I. know you now. Lode!" he murmured. “I must eee you ut ones—in the conservatory." She was minded to refuse, but assented briefly. The words of the monk Intrigued her; what had the man guessed? ' If Bob were Indeed about to propoae. she would this time

“By gad. Lode, you're beautiful tonight. Where did you get that collar of jewelsT" “Indeed r The girl proudly drew herself up. “What buatneua Is that of yours, alrr “Aren't you one of the family? 0—o It—Lude! Don’t you know that I want to marry you—" “My dear Robert I certainly do not want to marry any man who swears to my face—you least trf all!” she coldly Intervened. T have already refused yon three times; let this be the fourth and last- Now, kindly inform me why you wished me to meet you tere." "I have a chance to make some money far you In a hurry." he aald. “Tour father left you a good deal of isnd up Bayou Terrebonne way—" “Tour father sold some of It" she put In. Idly. His eyes flickered to "Tea: but you've plenty left, near Paradis. IT* away from the gas field, but I'm In fervent, la an cl 1 company. We’ve plenty ef money, and we're going to go strong after the liquid gold. That land of youra to good for nothing else, and if you want to make some money out of It 111 swing the company Into leirtag at a good figure nd drilling thscu." “Too think there’s otl an the lead?" “No." He made c swift energetic gesture of dlsrant “To be frank. I don't. But I'd like fa throw a bit of luck your sray. Lurie. That fallow Graniont—the prince, you know him s an engineer and a geologist, and he's In the swim.'

SUMMER TALKS •T had a talk with wmie Billie Brovrula to Witty Witch. “and I do think be la a dreadful little “He told me that he deed an he could chase his enemies from one branch to an-

in the water, oc land and everywhere. “He said that be was very bloodthirsty end that all the

dreaded him

-Had a Talk."

“Tea. be toid me he was a very deugerona enemy and that he even Attacked enimqis bigger than himself. “He said that be would kfll each of *lto enemies so quickly with one good stroke, but when I asked him If •«Mistimes be didn't censlder It waa a bad

was not afraid of anything ami that be waa rather proud of being cruel. “Then be also said that there were

me fed particularly pleased, i

that when t changes bto suit to a white oce—*s there to saow and If it la coM cough “He likes to match the weather, though I told him If that waa the case he should be wearing a green dull now Instead of a brown ooe. “But he said the earth was brown, sot green, and that U was the earth's covering that he cared shoot. “Then I told him that the grass was very green and that morn -as vary green, hot be said he couldn’t Mk to me any more. “He bad so

*T was glad when Le left me and I went and talked to Hr. Bald Eagle. “He told me how proud all his famTy were because they bad been cuoacs as the American bird 8t Freedom. “He told me bow different th«y ware from other birds In many ways— rigger and stronger—but mostly I was thrilled by bearing that their eyesight was so wonderful and that they felt It waa because they couM aee such distances that they had been birds of Frte“Tou see. Mr. Bald Eagle said that he thought that It was because of the fact that they could eee such dlsthat they had been chosen berm use that that meant that they were birds of a country who were going to look ahead to an Meal and a goal her than grasp the nearest thing! ’Ha sang me a little song, too, which HI ten you." “Do." raid Kitty Witch. ‘This Is the song:

of course but I liked It, and Mr. Bald Eagle told me that It eras their Fourth of July song, though tfiev sang It at other times of the year, too." “It’s a fine lit..c song." said Witty Witch eothuslastlcallr. “And tbea," Billie Brownie continued. T made a few coils upon the wild

Tell-Tale Traits. You cannot rtghtl; Judge people by who! others say about them, but you ran *>y what tucy aay about writers.— Boston Trsn*.tlM

’ertiaps the easiest way to haw " yirj time Is to go ahead mad have It.

“I chatted with

family. “Jack-ln-tho-PulplL Bouncing Bet (and bow gay and amusing she was!), the I rim family, and heard from them how they treated the bees right royally. o many flowers told me of their _. great banquet halls; some of them were reserved for the HummingBirds. “And the Fir* Weed told roe bow It triad to cover up ahabbltieas. “All toid I bad a series of delightful calls and while I don’t care for WUUa Weasel l was filed to bear there were not many of them—end then the Bitd Eagle and the flowers were such a rice ending to my flay."

■€RE ABOUT VACUUM TUBE AS A DETECTOR

How a “Thrae-Etefctrode'’ Is Connected in a Simple Radio Receiving Circuit. Obviously working the tube at a point on the upper bend of knee of the characteristic curve would produce the same symmetrical changes In the plate circuit by symmetrical change* In the grid potential as It will if the tube la worked at the lower end of

plate circuit current and the tuba would not function as a detector Fig. 10 shows how a three-electrode vacuum tube Is connected In a simple radio receiving circuit. The “B" battery furnishing the necessary plate potential Is connected with Its positive side through the phones to the plate. The filament Is heated to the required temperature by the battery “A" The Incoming radio frequency alternating current Is applied tr the grid and the*negative side of the filament through the “C" battery. By connecting the negative side of the fxiatnent to the midpoint of the “C" battery a positive potential can ba applied to the grid by moving the slider on the “C" battery potentiometer up, or the grid can be made negative with respect to the Clamest by moving the slider on the “CT battery potentiometer down. In practice a “C’’ battery U not used to force a three-electrode vacuum tube to function as a detector.

Was Frsm Missouri. The Banda) school superintendent war reviewing tbv lesson- "Who led lbs Children of Israel out of Egyptf oe asked. T' ere waa no aiuwer. i’olBllng to a little boy at the tud of the seat, he demnnded a Ultle cr»Mly: ’Little boy. wti'i led the children of Israel out of Egypt r The little boy »a» ready to cry as bo piped cub with a quavering voles: "1‘ieaas. sir. It warVt me. We Just We’re from

» of the curve. However, the i> attag current applied to the grid Id bow produce a large decrease sad a small increase of the plate current. the reverse of that shown la Fig. 8. Tbs objection to corking the tabs on the upper bead of knee of the curve to that when do potential to applied to the grid a relatively large

Fig. 11 shows how a so-called grid condenser and a grid leak resistance are used In conjunction wilt a threeuun. tube so that it will a detector In a radio recelvtng circuit The grid condsnaer to connected In series clth the grid of the tube and shunted by the grid leak resistance.

Should the tube, by means of the potential applied to the grid, be made to operate at a point on the characteristic curve midway between the upper and lower bends—that to, on the straight part of the cum. symmetrical variations In the grid potential

The grid condenser will allow alternating current tc flow to the grid but will not allow any charge that eight collect on the grid to flow through It to the filament. The only -ay a charge that might collect on the grid could flow to the filament would be through the high resistance of about 900,000 to 2.000,000 ohms and would allow the charge on the grid to leak off slowly.

USING ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRE

Esparto Tell the fiafe Way to Employ This fiystom far Faflls

Since the announcement that the bureau of standard* of the departit of commerce had perfected a bod of employing electric light wires In place of aerials considerable expertnfanting has been done by variamateurs, some of whom have had good luck while other* auccvx only In blowing a Urge oumbet tses. Engineers of an eastern electric light company have offered the following iggeations fa amateurs: “Flrat—Successful results have been obtained so far only with and loo bulb seta. Crystal sets receive the signals, but for some reason they arv vary weak and Indistinct. ecood—No set should ba used on this system without air or oil fined condensers, placed In series with either the antenna circuit or tbs ground circuit—preferably In the antenna circuit. bird—A fuse not beavtar than one-half ampere should be used In aeries and Just ahead of the antenc

“Fourth—An ordinary separate detachment plug—1. e.. one with two blades connecting the two separate halvas of the plug—1* u*«d. Only ooe wire la run from this plug, the other binding screw left undisturbed. Thl* ■Ingle conductor wire should be long enough to reach from a handy electric light socket to the table where the Instrument to located and should terminate in the fuse mentioned above. In case an externally connected condense. 1. used, the circuit should be run from the fuse t<. the condenser and from the condenser to the antenna binding post of the receiving set. “In set* where the condenser la built Into the Instrument the connection irom the fuse la run directly to the si.teons binding post. All other connection* should !« -xactly the aanie a* for conventional overhsad atrial receiving. ‘'Screw the attachment plug Into the electric light socket and tune a* usual In case m> signals are rectivad reverse the blade* in the attachment plug by sunplj polling the attachment

plug apart and turning the lower half half-way around. "Caution—Under no consideration should the connection from the electric light socket be brought directly Into contact with the ground coan'ctlOB, or fuses sill be blown In the house circuit end the whole house left without light. Operators should also ba careful about making contact themselves bodily with the electric light wire and ground at the same time. In order to avoid shock."

SHORT FLASHES The first national radio compass station on the Great Lake* waa recently Installed. Other stations will shortly be In service whan the “graveyard" the lakes will have lost la terror*. It Is claimed that John Huyes Hammond. Jr, and Dr. E L. Chaffee have Invented an appliance that Insure* aecrecy in wireless. The system U baaed on principle of producing characteristic waves to which only especially equipped receiver* are responsive. Secretary Hoover's force of “ether cops" may take the form of special government detecting stations where aerial compasses could be arranged so us to detect the direction from which interruptions come. By a aeries of relays, the govertaueiit station nearest the violating amateur coaid be notified and the source of trouble stopped. Now the fans In England are having a hard time with their air. According to a report from England there are only 8.0U0 authorised amateur operator* in the United Kingdom. Tbc London Daily Mall slate* that the reason for the art** tardy growth Is the fact that “hampering and senseless restrictions in this country prevent wireless amateurs from getting practice. The old fogies of the finny and navy air farces are afraid of the amateurs and use their influence In having the poftofflee authorities Impose Impossible and vexatious restrictions that limit the field.”