VOL. XX

OCEAN CITY, X.

OCEAN CITY SENTINEL. OCEAN CITY, N. J., g. C. ROBINSON Eiilor ail Propntlor.

CITY DIRECTORY.

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KIRKBRIDE & MARSHALL SM.m.1 U tn T UISIULL

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JOSEPH SUTTON BOURSE BUILDING OCEAN CITV. N i Conieyancins, Real Estate Insurance, Mortgages and CcilectiODs Sttlt n ’ l |L^L .Ilrtttl- Ttr. utr tIU. ,nJOSIPM M. CORSON Real Estate Agent PALERMO, N. J. I bane t,u*i*i <>lhiu ,or B j5 l * B jU t ‘ , ^55^ ‘SS’la^Sf’ina « , ’Siritj! , "TaP?be « » ->m. |e,m.fc*eal»o«ilbeiu»lntaB4;K>iu« targelb. E. CLINTON ft CO., -Sr.-BRUSHES, 0011 Alin. Ud S S. TENTH ST., rMII.ADM.PM I A. PA. PETER MURDOCH, COA.L. and "W'OOO, Ocean City, N. J.

ed to Win,mil lha tlirfl for my make. Andrea Bec*.“ »'* entried a large .r ‘ aud ale 0 1 '“ d r “"> r«KU>r.ed .u j j . iverrelj bad »» bsao saalrd a few | farta afid Etrrn blm the damar »o- ui.-meat. wbaa n>» frlmd He. k eMeirJ

nofrooted oa Iba light

farta

tef of tba

'Okbranno* Ot .5.Irate’ bad prepared, died out of his fi

be turned the boat aod put me aahure Hr

the Nook, afterward rawing rapldlf took of easpli-ioa. while Ron down to ShrppertoB to ebangr and go there eo-aped a at onir to Lundoa ~ Without further

. . _ a hurried

la med sternly. eatt. but la a moment Soutn. detecting o." alie gnawered. reassuringly, faia Intentioa. sprang lonard the dour "Poor Dudley a as aiuply my friend, and pretested him.

He called oa you end ealrarted the ' WellT''he asked, with a sorry en

dear or to remain cuoL "Why are you

TCM THE EYE.

i.m hta Itpn , T,.,,, , , ; r] *

mprerwtioa. ) btiitan a .1 "

■— 1 “• *»• TuaartML- I cried •

m a hurried ( d « th

a. deteiUng ^^ rrT ' b ' ''u,a V ■ J iba An... I . .a le*U a

"Dudley Ogle’” I erhoed la blank d.*utnent from your porkrt while yi amaaemeet. - Are you certain that the lanrhed together, because be saw la aer*ant'i anaplctoaa were drroid of what a dilemma 1 waa. He knew I

,< "” 1 ,uu ,, '* rl T. •"4 never once spoke

Absolutely" she answered in quick .Single „f affection tb me brwathlp.snes, “In tb<*e days I was ’Tram Waterloo station be Tele. supercilious and disdainful, being graphed to me that he had anccesafullr taught to regard my dignity as Grand scored the agreement and handed tt Du. hi* with too great conceit to make to the chief of spies An hour aftera mesalliance. My mother used eon- ward, fearing that yon might suspect

stnotly to urge that In the marriage*

contracted by np-ml-en of our family to dine with us. well knowing lore was not abeolutely necessary po- ready the text of the conrentlon was ; nltlon was everything. Well, the that moment being transmitted to 8 months went by. We left Algterw. re- peteralmPg, and that war Waa imm turned to Peiergbunr, and soon after- n. nt. Vou came; you kissed me. ward my mother died, learlng m» i 0 »ed yon dearer than life fhidftul alone I found myself possessor of white we were at dinner, and you we great wealth, and when, after a period laughing, happy aod unrouactous • of mourning, 1 reappeared In society 1 the conspiracy against the pri ce of was courted and Battered by all sorts Europe, a thought flashed arruaa my and conditions of men In a year I mind. It occurrad In e» aa I aal by grew tired of It all and lunged to re- your side, that 1 would, using the teUirn lo England, the land wherein 1 cret cipher I bad been p.-ovloed with, bad spent many year, of my youth; telegraph to 8l Petersburg la the therefore I engaged a woman 10 pose as name of the chief of spies, assuring my mother, and dropping my tllle our Foreign Department that a mistake went to London and Used there at Kl- had been made. 1 sent a message statla latlng TLeq. then I met you." and mg that the text of the convention alahe paused, looking earnestly Into piv ready sent had been diarorered to be

face with her deep blur eyes. To me she had embodied everything that was fair, honorable and pure, yet 1 bad dreaded some sinister peril from an un-

known source.

• "And we loved each other.” I said

simply.

"Yes." she went on. fervently. "But from the Ural 1 was fettered, bring unable to an as my heart prompted. 1 loved you fondly, and knew you wished to make me your wife, yet I dared not risk suidi a step without the permission of our hottsSL I went to Petersburg. explained who and wbat you were, aud craved leave to marry you. A family council waa held. l>ut the suggestion was unanimously denounced as a piece of sentimental folly I pleaded to them upon my knees to let me obtain happiness In your love, but they were Inexorable and refusttl. At Irngtb. when in a moment „f despair I threatened, that if shut out from my love by the barrier of birth I would

y life, i

L prompted by tba Household. Yet t was ready to commit any art. to do anything In order to secure happiness with you. Permission was given me to marry you on condition that I entered the Secret Service as a spy. I personally to the Cxar. hut In

"What followed waa a dark, mysterious tragedy, 'while all the lime I kuew that you must suspect- that, after all. you might forsake me. Within a week after binding myself Irrevocably lo I be Ciar’s army of spies I made a discovery that held me appalled. I found Ibal my master, the roan •" whose will 1 waa compelled to submil. waa none other than our discharged valet da rhambre. the man who two yean before had declared his love. At the time my mother had eagaged blm he was already In the Secret Service and had. no doubt, kept watch upon vs. He came to me at the Nook, and exulting In the fart that 1 had become hia puppet, renewed his protestations of effect Ion. When, frankly. I told blm that I hated blm and lured only you. he at once Informed me. with a grin of satisfaction, that the department In Petersburg found U compulsory to obtain possession of a copy of a secret eluded between your country and Germany and that I must get possession of It at any coat through you. It was lu order that I might betray you that the Imperial permission had been given to our marriage, la Indignation I refused. whereupon he threatened to expose me to you as a Rusatan spy, and I saw only too clearly that any such revelation must end forever our acquaintance. He cajoled, urged, threatened and explained all the elaborate precautions that had been taken by two clerks In Russian pay at your Pbrelgn Office In order that ou a certain day you should carry the precious document In your pocket, and bow he had prepared the dummy .envelope sealed with your Minister's seal. At last, after striving long and vainly against the performanew of this Ignominious action that I knew must reflect on your honesty. I

was compelled to submit.

”1 decleved you,” she went on In a hard, monotonous voice. "Bot only because I loved yon so fondly and dreaded that this man w ho had long ago vowed to wreck my life would expose and thus part ua. Once It was thought that the secret convention would be sent to Warnbam Hall, and I waa compelled to go down there and devise some mean* of obtaining IL I found Dudley staying In the village, and we returned to LBndou together. The end must soon come, I knew. Therefore. I lived on In dally terror of wbat most follow. At Dot the day dawned 00 which I had to meet you at the Foreign Office and filch from you the bond of nations. After breakfast I stood out on the lawn by the sunny river’s brink, contemplating suicide rather than your ruin, when there rowed np to the steps Dudley Ogle, who hailed me, Inviting me to pull up to Windsor, end there lunch with him. At once I accepted, and after embarking told him of my dilemma, and besought hit assistance. Without thought of the consequences he rteolv-

of a rejected draft, and not (hat of the actual defensive alllsnce that bad received the signature of Etnperor WlllisaL” * Then It waa actually this menage of yours that prevented war!” I gasped. In profound asumlsbmenL

celpt of my telegram all preparations were being made for the commencement of hostilities, but on lu arrival the Cxar at once countermanded the

thereby spared the terrible and bloody

conflict.”

Her asloiindln* rftsrbwnrra held me dumbfounded. 1 remembered vividly trow, during our lonch et the Ship. Dudley had risen and gone out to the bar to speak to an acquaintance. It waa at that moment, having stolen the document from me. he glanced at lu register number and Imitated It upon the dummy with which Ella had pro-

vided him.

"But how came you possessed of the original of the convention T’ 1 asked. "A week before 1 fled from you I received It by post anonymously," she replied.^ "When compelled by my enemy to leave you and return here to my true position. 1 unfortunately left It behind, and knew that, sooner or Ister. you must discover It. The man who, with the Cxar's authority, held me under the lash, still bolds me. the plaything of bis spite, and threatens that If I allow you to come here and occupy your rightful place as my husband, he will denounce me tfft the British Government as a spy. Hrnre, 1 am still his puppet; still held by s bond of gulll that I dare not break asunder.” "Be patient.” urged Souls, In a deep, calm *vice. "Be patient, and you shall

yet be free."

"Ah! Geoffrey.” sobbed my wife, her _ _ _ blanched, tearful face buried lo her ! locked away in

hands, "you can never. I fear, forgive, many months before I had shown After all. notwithstanding the glamour you and explained that It was son

all hi

This Is u

■Im with dart. I

’They could have been conveyed b] a penny stamp.” he retorted, imps

tiently.

"You taunt me. do you,” she cried ii n towering passion. Ton. the ^ alnnlng. cowardly spy whom I shield ed because you professed lov* for me! Had I spoken long ago you would havi met with i

Justice.

of the K,h,lists or atones* of , "■“' l Although myselfa^minal. I**.

Although

I yearned for love, and foolishly lieting that you cared tor me. preserved the secret of your guilt, allowing you to wreck the happiness of Geoffrey Deedee. the min who twice proved my friend, aod of Ellsaveta. Because you were chief of the Csatr's spies you

Yes.” she went on defiantly. ”1 know you are anxious to close my lips because of the startling disclosures ft Is within my power to make The department In Feterahorg has In you n keen, running spy. but when It becomes known throughout England that Andrew Beck, the popular member for Weet Rutlandshire, la In the pay of the Russian Government do you anticipate that you will still occupy your sent In the House of Commons or at the committee yon have so ingeniously obtained for the investigation of the strength of England's defencHe started. -His tare waa ashen pale; bl* cigar dropped from his neoalsaa. trembling fingers. • Geoffrey," the went on. "has already heard from Ellsaveta how cleverly you tricked her. and with what dastard knavtahness you compelled her to Instigate the theft of the secret-TOncra-tion. She—” "Then the world shall know that the Grand Dntheas Eliiaveta Nirolayevna Is In the secret service!" he cried, fiercely. "She has betrayed her country. and her kinsman, the Emperor!” Sonia, nailing Tn contempt, said: "The denunciation wlU he your coa-

• Why? What bars I to lone?” he

naked. Indignantly.

"Tour life. The police have out yet forgotten the tragedy at tbs Nook." He glared at her open-mouthed. "Perhaps ft may be well at this moment to recall some facts that you may have found convenient to forget." the went on ruthlessly, while I. elandIng beside Ella, drank In eagerly every word. "You will remember where you reduced the stolen document to cipher. Imitating Dudley’s handwriting on 1 he telegraph forma. It was at my house. The snveluis containing the

friend.” I answered, plainly bow. while I I with the dead man. yo pocket the brass ml fi

the foUowInK aftei whole of the start

that Andrew Beck w

> spade The epuuBUU has ■I— but ■» c-cmd *i«b a tough Altogether I.i-t* aaffiaeaaay oband far fr.ltn s delicacy In appear-

tent Inn being to rep sen It at the Foreign Office. But ft was I who brokt the teal. In your hurry you left the document behind, and even when you returned two hours later your mind was to full of other things tbst you did not remember ft; to I gummed down the cot edges, and sec', ft after to

you had with you a p_lr of man’s C vea Whose they were I know not, you got me to ei w Inside the Index finger of the left a • uy jagged splinter of (lass, and that r1as> when yon thought I did got obsarre you. you smeared some of that fluid that Ruyendex. the Hsytlna merchant, had glv-

4aon I kept

ie Ohio it Hatred! that they cotoe up nil the »rey gentleman, who. known lu both, had ! from the gulf of M ex leu every spring to sought to assist Ella In unsanLrox ! spawn al tbs faiia. but more credit Is the Identity of Dudley's ihaiUrrer. So- i given the theory that they Hre sentnia had misjudged Wry «.(, eutlr- ly. ; t-ird In the river^rixbt along end oajy Cecil, and the latter, betus at that roo- LoohrvHle Orarier J00real, mrnt a gleet In the'Rari’e h'troe. wsa j wSS^TSSSSSSm. sent for. and before us nil the pal ’ - - . Ellis tots Nicolayevns, or rain, as I j u still call her. now renounced her conn- i tain'toarkoewledge t» try. and bersOie thoroughly English. - - A year ago lsard Warnbam. ae- ured of : « my wife’s probity, for. greatly' to M. j lighting. GrodekofTa dismay, she had given | l(l geoy tl some valuable Informal ion regarding j ful In s « the activity of the K<i»i.iao Secret Set- 1 iicere are diapoegd t vice at Downing strew, appointed me tdesraph to to a reaponaibls poet at our Kmbaaty j la Paris, so that we now live togstfcev ! at the big white buum In the Ammcs j dee Champs Elmer*, while Souls sad j Cacti are Alas ■scried And live togsti- ! lootleute of Electrical ti IMN-Msmml’s taw for the (sags Igoahng namely, that It to proousl to the product of the heights re vertical wire* used at the send

powerful sparks i-uts lo (be Ighl be cm tried

I A silver tsldei b | Quaker looctiug Maas., w here Whittier n It was but It In ISM. and the details of its c-ostrwvkm were left by tbs swetaty to tl* .are of Mr. Whittier. As tfcw

is Grand Ducb-

that most surroifhd k

man who foully betrayed you. the man who loved me. Can you ever forgive "Tee," I answered, fervently pressing her closely to affectionate embrace. ’Then you still lova me. Geoffrey?" she cried, pan ting, gaxlng up Into my

For 1

<’H4PTKR XXXV. rawer I bent until my lips mat s long sad fond caress.

t with

Again and again my Ups murmured words of tender

she declaring that her crime had been flagllloue and unpardonable, yet assuring me of what I now felt convinced, that her lore had been unwavering. Thus we stood together, locked In each other’s arms, exchanging ones again vows of love eternal, while Sonia stood watching os anfl, sliest, and motionless save for a deep sigh that oore escaped her. She knew that su-

bitterest foe.

It was t o'clock oa the following afternoon that, accompanied by my wife and Sonia. I walked up Old Broad street to that pile of offices known as Winchester House, sad thev. passed down a long corridor to a door oa ; which was Inscribed Us name of "Mr.

e stogie

paralysis of the 1 mlaatru without

by the Obeah

rapid was ft in effect th

drop would heart wAhlt

leaving nay trace of poison. Too obtained a key to that cabinet, for when I had gone from The room on that afternoon 1 watched you nn.’pck U. lake eat the reed oentalUtg tks decoction, and prefers Me glorw” "Liar!" gasped Berk. "I didn’t

er In s Quaint old manor bouse near Thera was n paragraph In the newspapers elating that Andrew Beck had been found drowned In the Scheldt, near Antwerp, and fool play was suspected. Then Eita explained to me that the woman who had passed as her mother. Mrs. Lalng. was n wellknown Nihilist, and it was In order to keep observation upon her that the detec tire Renouf had entftod her service. This woman, whose real nuns wan Sophie Grijnssberg. was greatly Incensed against Back on account of certain false sccscwllnns hs had mads against members of the revolntlonskry organisation. and there waa little doubt that he had fallen beneath their far-rem h-

M* waa worn cot a Ueurgta ragimtot t.TJw-d A Omnia aoMtse pat hie riSe ip -iL-.-iioBt the tenta on the othaaMV

waa the chief ef Russian spies, and yon feared lest he about I expose yon. as no doubt ha would have dune If yon bad not. with cowardly cunning, token hta Ilia" "Murderer!” cried Ella, amaxed. "Tou-yoo killed him! Ah! I suspected IL Tel us. Soata. bow It wss accumpltsked " ’The gloves toll maa brought to my house ware a pair he had taken np by mistake when at Shappartou on the previous evening. For cool aug desperate plotting the moaner In whlqh be killed the maa he feared was astounding. for having Introduced Into ths finger of the glove the tiny piece of glsae he. during that evening at ths

A tost on r days ora full of paaslooato Iots and Idyllic happiness. Verily there to graat truth In I hose words of Holy Writ "Whoso liudeth a wife, flndeth a good thing." frea sap.]

cf where Long

, •• Well ” hr as ni. "this la pretty hud ! —to fixbt all day sihI march all alghk But 1 auppn-e I rso do It fur loveaf mff 1 cantry He cmtinoed “I can go fight, if need be. 1 can

die for my on

roontry Bel when th I* falowrd If I lirv-rl toy I" — WuiiistTe Jum

it is over 11

would you ’

Mr Willinghaio-

do. Mr RorkinglaaJHHHMMHVI yon for vonr dsnghL-r in marring*? j 1 Mr Kockimcton—Well, that is same- i 1 thing that I hardly want to a newer off- , hand ‘ 1 Mr Willingham—I’m glad of that i Now. If 1 could be snre that you Would | Dot answer with yoor foot I would frel free to go ahead- —Chicago N> wa In ths year IfiUfl a party of n a-ad-re brought a number of free tm-lnw home b) England with them from Dsiuaeraa. end three Bouriebrd so well that iu a short time the taaniifol iV.w.ra were to hr found rverywbrre thtoogfauBt the

“Why. darting.” eictatmed the preV r bride of three week! ~ 1 rnibrmce her husba wea of y ou L skip to