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Maxim Gorky has received the highest tribute paid by the Russian government to intellect and literary genius. IJe has been summoned to appear before a police tribunal to answer charges of political offenses.

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course at the Mfirmon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, severely reproved the young people who marry Gentiles. ' Look around you,” he said, "and you will see that many of our girls have married outside of the faith and many of our young men have married women.who are not of this faith. They have forgotten the obliga-

tions they are under.”

length and breadth of the

land no place could be found so sleepy, so much behind the times, so tortuour of street and so moss-grown of stone, as Stroan had become, when, by a happy chance, the game of golf cjune down from the North and established Itself as the fashion. Then somebody discovered that the bare and unprodi five sands between Stroan and t

made excellent ‘ilnks;” visitors i to arrive and to pnt np at a l-new hotel built expressly for

their accommodation, and a little breath of active life began to stif once mote in the narrow, winding

streets.

Among the visitors one warm September came down from London three friends, who tempered their devotion

sea i

began t brand-ni

.to golf by various other pursuits, each

according tt

Otto Conybearc. the eldest of the

London mothers have in some way acquired the notion tiat the air of the underground tunnels Is good for all manner of Infantile diseases, including croup, whooping cough, wind colic and teething, and some of them rifle to and fro with their little charges day by day for no other reason than to submit thgA to Us supposed curatrre influences. The theory, of course. Is a pure illusion, and English medical . men advance various explanations of its origin, none of them over-plausible.

three, was a Journalist, who had aspirations to literature of less ephemeral sort. He used his holiday by trying his hand at both prose and poetry, of which bis two companions offered trenchant If not discriminating criticism.

thin, dark-skinned man.

' The New York Times observes that there is to be said in favor of giving, as against leaving, what .Bacon said long ago: "Adjourn not thy Veenfaf- ; Dons till death; for he who does so is liberal rather of another's than his own.” To charge a great estate with the postponed charities of Its accumulator is to put off his public duties to be done at the expense of his suc- ■ ccssors. His successors may plausibly • ask why they should be expected to — pay this expense. The tendency that has so manifestly grown stronger within the last generation in this country | lot men of wealth to give rather than to leave, is an unmixed good for al' ] .persons and interests concerned.

be youngest c

trty, was short and. alas! fat. with iriy. light hair and a huge, tawny mustache, which he had cultivated as the trademark of his calling, which

of in artist

tie

s a !

no one had as yet intrust He was a dark-haired, blue

was that

Clifford King, of the trio, was

• had as

ig m<

barrister, to whom

a brief,

te-eyed. good-

humored -young fellow, whom everybody liked and in whom all bis friends believed with an enthusiasm which was not without excuse, for Clifford

I Eminent physicians continue to send

out warnings against the sin of gluttony. but with little effect on the

! community. The growth of diseases j directly attributable to over-eaUng inj creases, and the Jeata rate gives sol-

emn warnings that seem to b^ unheeded. The case is all the worse because most men who are heavy eaters take so exercises and thus double the danger. An eminent physician has jost

[» given an argument against business

men eating three hearty meals a day without taking any exercise. He says that a man wtito works in the open air can eat as tench as he feels like, but that the man of sedentary habits who partakes of meat three timesaday

j to simply laying up trouble for himself ] and making it necessary for Insurance

companies to change the rates. . The wonders of chemistry applied to the production of "fake'' food* are ily explained to the public, yet they are in some cases unbelievable. It Is difficult to understand/ for Instance. how the perfect Imitations of fruit preserves which are now oh the market can be produced from wholly foreign materials. It would seem, too, to tb* ordinary under*finding, that the intricate chemical methods of Iml-

, tation would cost more than the genu-

la* process. But there to always, of course, some margin of advantage to the manufacturer in tb* making of an

| Imitation. The difference of a small ! frggtlon of 'a cent in the cost of a I pound of the commodity at wholesale ! amounts perhaps to a substantial divlI dead to the stockholder* of a Mg pack-

!- **’ P^rlMK I attoa. The pnbl sarance that W i k

The pubic A** at h

■ *« that the ordinary

THE nTSTERT- of THE INI

Mr.JWrnlt,?

CHAPTER T.

w-^ROSPERITY and the sea haf

I 1 deserted Stroan toget Lx the waves receded. 1

ither.

si. leaving a

bare stretch of sand. Where

I once whole fleets had ridden

at anchor, the once flour

^ •* Ishlng town had dwindled

and sunk. In spite of valiant rive and retain her ahclcni

premney. In the I

on Ike

ICorrUstit.' tw. hr Sobol BoDBMY Bon*.] they nonevea me letter was very important, as It was marked on the envelope "Please deliver Immediately.” And the plotter drew fnmp his pock et. with ostentations ear^a rnlmlvi which he and Clifford had prepared ,together. and which, with great nulty, had been made to look as

had passed through the post.

But Miss Bostal glanced at tho let-

ter and shook her head.

“There Is no one with my father,” she said, “and 1 don't know any' one of that name. But If you will c into the drawing-room 1 will

him.”

rugglet mt sn-

to his Inclination,

nybear i a Jonr

He was a tall, clean-ent

upoi ilon i rdan. short

slooked o

aqol a by

the two others ns

bad brains, and was only waiting for the opportunity which comes to all

who can wait In

'hey had fl the llttl

spoilet

Will

it was alw: ■slst a pair i lue or gray;

attached to the society of Bostal. and wonld Insist u

which

he right way.

t Stroan five days, upid. had already

f the party, i. of course.

:Ie god. Cupi

ly of ctim,

'illle who could not

•ays

resist a pair of handsome eyes, black,

blue or gray; so that when he

c becam 1 Colour

that when

loncl

accom-

gent

man from the Links to his home three miles away. Clifford and Otto ex-i changed winks, and having found ont that the colonel had a daughter, at once believed tha* they had probed - successfully into the mystery of Wil-

lie's civility.

So. justly incensed at_Willie's duplicity. for that young man had spoken slightingly of Miss Boss's attracOtto and Clifford determined,

xaltor to hls lair, a sunny afternoon,

over the re-

claimed marsh between Stroan and

when the stralj

. on a itrht i

t was about half a

the outside, having passed It on many a walk from Stroan to Courtstalrs,

next town. It • mile beyond tbe Bli

essne roadside Inn. which was the half-way house between Courtstalrs and Stroan. Very poor the colonel was, as be took care to inform everybody. and very poverty-stricken bis dwelling looked In the observant eyes of tbe two yonng men, as they rang the bell and waited a long time before any one answered It. Shingle End' was a pretty, tumbledown house, which stood at tbe angle formed by two roads. It had once been white, but neglect and hard weather had made It a mottled gray; while cracked and dusty windows,' rickety shutters and untrimmed trees and bushes combined to give the place a dreary and anprasperous appear-

ance.

Behind tbe house was a garden, with a poultry-run and a paddock; and Otto bad seen, aa they passed, the colonel reading bis paper under on apple tree, while the flutter of a petticoat In tbe background among the trues seemed to confirm their snsp'itons. to,' . “We've unearthed the rascal,” smiled

But when the door was opened their hearts sank, for there stood before them a woman of forty, at least, small. Mas. dowdy, precise of manner and slow of speech, wearing a pair of gardening glove* and a sun-bonnet, who looked at them la aeow surprise, aad asked them stiffly what they

Otta. *bo was acute enough to Wiv* that this must be tha

M. H the 41

ingei If It

tdlng.

ike.” s

into t!

In t

ing 1

ugh

from the garden t of this unusual ■

“Oh, no. not for the world. mid not think of Intrudl must have made a mlataki

ledly

passed out by the llttlo wooden gate

the road.

the meantime, however. Colonel Bostal, having heard tbe voices had come through the narrow passage

to learn the meaning sound. Tbe matter

was explained to him by his daughter, amidst further apologies from Otto. Tbe colonel, a withered-looking, gray faced man of about slxty-flve. in a threadbare and. natched coat and a battered Panama hat, remembered

tbe name at once.

"Jordan? Jordan? Yes. of course, I know him." said he at once. “A little fellow, with a long mustache, he often walks home with me as

but there

is the bridge, s back and e:

he always nself from

turns back and excuses hlmi

coming any farther.”

Otto looked perplexed by this infermation, but over Mlsa Bostal'a thin, pinched face tl^ere came a little, pale

smile.

“Try the Blue Lion," she said, rather primly. - Qtta grew, stiff. * *■' • r My" friend “IT no frequenter 6T tav* ms." said he. "Try the Blue lion," said Miss Bo*U again. Her father burst Into a little, dry laugh.

•The freqi of ol

rlt, tne niece of the man who keeps It. to a protege of my daughter’s, and the

In the

Blue Lion has a good many [uenters who are not frequenters ither taverns,” said he. “Nell Cla-

r very

little

rcttlost g

A light

Miss Bostal Rooked grave. "I shall have to speak to her seriously." said she. with frown. “She encourages half young men of Stroan to waste their time out here.” But the colonel smiled and shook bis bead doubtfolly. "It’s no use speaking to a pretty girl.” said he. with decision. “You will only be told to mind your own business. And there's no harm In

NelL”

“I know that." retorted his daughter, hot spitefully, but with a spinster’* stem solicitude. "I shouldn't lie so much interested In her If I didn’t know that she's a good little thing. But she's giddy and thoughtless. I shall really have to advise her uncle to scud her back to school again.” ^ the ' '

“She won't go.” “And If she would, i

part with ht

effect of your sermi

said

old Claris woul

Wa must rely on tbe

Theodora."

:t of your sermons.

,ther and daughter had carried this dialogue without Including the visitor In the conversatloV so that

agate' prided I*

bserver, I

of peeping into the

led himself upon being

an acute observer, had an opportunity

Into the rooms *n each side tsage. as the doors were

open, without moving from where he

stood.

He was much struck by what he saw; by tbe carpets worn so tbreadbare that there was no trace of the pattern to be seen on them; by tbe carefully - darned table-covers, the worn-out furniture. t All was neatly kept and spotlessly clean; all showed

« ce withdrew with, more apologies as soon as the short discussion be-

aaugntcr was ended,

bis friend outside, said Clifford, as

father joined

and rojoli

"Well," said Clifford, as Ot|o turned toward Stroan In silence, “and what

kept you so long talking to tho severe-

looklng lady?"

. “I wasn't talking. I was listening.” answered Otto, “and working ont in my mind a romance, a pitiful romance, of tbe kind that Is not showy enough for people to care to hear about” "What! Do you mean to say that Jordan's fallen la love with that mature and lean spinster?” asked Cfif-

>re; the

tbe Inn—nobody half so

mm - -

“Ob. dear. no. He’s fallen In love; l’v* found that out; but It Is with

usual maUJ of t| ^ “Yea. I have

■ to a ha

imbled. “And I don’t

very Interesting

do that!” he grumblei think your subject a

one.”

“Of course you would not. It to not obvious or commonplscc or highlycolored enough for you,” rofohted Otto. "But to my mind there Is some thing Infinitely pathetic la tbe tattered old coat of this dignified and distinguished-looking old man, and In tbe darns which tbe daughter must hare lost the brightness of her eyes

over.”

'Decidedly, my dear

poetry, cklngly.

itorted, but that

the little

boy. you

do it In poetry, not prose." said

cur-

ford, mockl

Otto would have ret

they had now reached the little bridge ever tbe River Fleet, and were within a few yards ol tbe half-way house.

epends his

Ing tho way to the "Let's have him out." The Blue Lion was a

tending establishment, ol

iretcnslons to

ms,” sal little h

here Jordan ild Otto, lead very unprefl, but with historical or

erest. s

nlent and weather-beaten. Standing ns It did midway between sleepy Stroan and democratic Courtstalrs, it was the bouse of trail for all the car- , farmers and cattle-drovers all

mnd. while In tbe moflths 1 August its little bar was rlth tbe denizens of tha Road, who take their pleas-

ure in brakes, with concertinas and

howls and discordant songs.

A few late visitors of this sort were in the little bar when Clifford and Otto entered. But there was no sign

of Jordan. Both the j looked with curiosity at

who was serving behind the bar. a portly young woman with a ready tongue, who In her sturdy build and large coarse hand*, as well as In the weatber-bonten look of her complexion betrayed that she was accustomed to fill up her time, when work was slack 'inside the bouse, with out-door labor

ougbest kind.

tbe two friends came ont they at each other In disgust,

ibe Isn't even young!” cried Otto, arcr thirty-five than twenty-five,

swear!"

ind her voice! And her detestable Kentish accent!” added Clifford. "And those high cheekbones, and that short nose! It’s a type I loathe—the type of tbe common shrew.” . "I shouldn't have thought It pf Jordan!" murmured Otto, in pity tempered with Indignation. "But where la the ruffian himself?” asked Clifford, stopping short. "Do you think we are on a wrong scent,

after all?”

t were anybody bnt Jordan, I say yes." said Otto, dellberatelut his susceptibility Is so colosit I see no reason to doubt even

this."

Nevertheless he following Clifford, when the latter turned back toward the little bridge. '.There's a" co:tage.” said tbe more lumane King, “a little cottage by the roadside. Let us see If we can discern a petticoat in the neighborhood of that. We may be doing tbe poor chap an Injustice, after ali." But before they reached thi cottage tbe attention of the two young men was arrested by the sound of a girl s voice on the left. Just before they reached the bridge. It was a voice so bright, so sweet, with such a suggestion of babbling laughter In Its tones, that they both stopped short and looked at each other with faces full of

remorse.

•That's Nell.” said Otto v "We have done him a crui

nurmured Clifford.

And with one accord they

f the

Hers, i

ol the

Whc

looked a

"She 1 "Neare IH sw<

Jter

"If it DUld f

■uel wrong,”

voice, and

getting over a wooden paling by Ide, scattering a colony of

' tnaki

fowls on the' other side, and making their way over the rough grass beside

the ri up v Fleet

en shed,

and two human figures. The one was

ilr way over the rough grass best

i6ats were drat

d excursion I;

Castle, they

and a sti

ipon a woodlell of pitch.

Jordan, coatless, with his straw hat tilted to the back of his head, s tarbrush In one hand and a tin can In the oyier, engaged In the bumble but useful task of covering tbe cow-sbcd with

a new coat of pitch.

But hla two friends scarcely glanced at him. It was the other figure that absorbed *11'their powers of vision—a slender girl In a print frock, with a white cotton blouse and an enormous straw hat. Ifcls was the Nell who time of half the young an. and who wonld have wasted the time of half the young men of London If they had only once

seen her. A beauty of pure Saxon type she was. with the opaque white skin which the sun does not scorch or redden, With rose-pink checks, a child's

den. With rose-pink cheeks, a child’s pouting mouth, and big blue eyes that made a voung man hold his breath. Her hair' had turned since childhood from flaxen to a deeper tint, and was now a light bronze color. There was about her an air of refinement as well as modesty which could not fall to antunish a stranger who found her In these strange circumstances. She saw the -BSwcomers long before poor Jordan did. and she watched them approach while the unfortunate artist tolled on at bis Inglorious task. I’crhaps the girl had seen the three Inly^emlMD* quieknenTof wit which

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