OtQIOIOIOIOIOIQlOIOIOtOlOti * *? ? * * ?.? + +? +V+ ?jr - TH Ij Road to Gi?i o O C ?J-*1 Z?r TSorcthe 04 *1 w.'j'icr vf 'HlovjIC. ' iAT! -j?.\ r } "" .(/ .;. in J. p.. LirnxcoT ?> "She was fretting herself into an t early grave." Torment ilia cried: "she's often told me so. and others J j as well. And she ought to know." j) Still he made no remark, but as he : > glanced at that shadowy head in the i ; next room he groaned a liitle. | < "Do you want me to tell you what I think?" he asked sharply. 1 She didn't much, when she saw his . face, but he proceeded: "I think it is always?always, ' mind?a mistake to play Providence to other people. These things turn out badly enough if they're left alone, but when they're arranged for us, they're?well, they're infernal. I beg your pardon, but it is so." Tormentilla thought of .Mrs. Flanelle's story, and said nothing. "Take my advice," said he, "and ? leave these two to mismanage their : own affairs. Good God! child, don't t 1 HI juiim 01 01 OI OIOI 010 > OI 01 01 OI 0 10 E ? lie etna Green || *jo n Z)ealiin, *j? Z\? ic 7! t'shhiy TJc. & r COMPAQ :*. -I.'! ri'jiil* rrtsn'f. +V * \z. 5*10" ."oTo! o foTo iqTo i o i o7<5?o ;ourt responsibility in this insaue ,vay!" And if TormentiMa wondered as ;he left him whether siie hadn't done r.ore harm than good, you cannot be surprised. But her intentions were jxcellent; and now. at any rate, he cnew the truth about Lise. "He can never suspect her of plavne; cat and mouse after this." she ;aid. with much satisfaction, "or of )ehaving like a lighted candle ;ither." CHAPTER a i.iee was lunching with the Cogvheels. AVhen Audrey took her up 0 her own room and locked the door, ;he guessed at once what she was to )e shown. Audrey's sea-blue eyes vere full of joyous interest. "It's rather an awkward kind of rousseau to arrange, you see," she aid. "because one can't take very nuch luggage in the cars, unless one ;ends it on by rail, and that is so irosaic, isn't it? So wanting in imagnation! But I've got the sweetest notor-coat?only it hasn't come yet. t bad to be taken in a little in the >ack seams, but it's a perfect dream: vhite cloth and sweet little tabs and he most exquisite paste buttons, dother was charmed with it. She aid it looked quite bridal. Poor Inrling, she little knew what she was aying. did she?" "Xoi" said Lise absently, gazing at 1 forget-me-not hat in Audrey's left land. "Put it cn. Audrey." "It's so charmingly simple," said Audrey, tilting it forward over her iretty, delighted face, "and with a eil it keers on beautifully. One culdn't go on one's honeymoon in a notor-cap. And I've bought a dozen if the most ravishing veils. Mother s quite pleased. I am afraid she hinks Mr. Standring?Mr. Nigel, T near?is going to take us out in his I ar again. It is most unfortunate j hat I have to deceive her. but a leartless mother makes a deceitful hild. She has been cruel to us, iasn"t she?" "Has she?'* Lise asked slowly. Audrey turned surprised, innocent yes. "She encourages father," she said, in the most barefaced way, and ever showed the least sympathy for is. I often said to her, 'Dearest,' I aid, 'you were young once yourself ?perhaps even beloved.' And she aid that she had learned wisdom ince then, though father says be oubts it. 'It hurts me more than it urts you,' she always says. It's her! ne excuse, and such a poor one! .till, she is my mother, isn't she?? vi -1 T /?a? f a/%H n ry -rv? Kin I Hi 1 L.ciii L IIc?[v unoci auiy: ' i-hen I remember how deeply I have o stoop to deceit." "Can you be ready by Wednesday, o you think?" Lise asked impa-1 iently. "Oh!" Audrey put down the girl?h hat and counted on her fingers. Isn't that rather soon?" she asked .'ith a blush. v "Xot too soon," said Lise coolly. When did you see Michael last?" "Oh, not for days! I've had sevral letters from him, but I've been oo busy to see him. And he never nentioned a date." "Well, if I were you," Lise purued, smoothing out a crumpled leaf n the forget-me-not hat with her uick little fingers?"if I were you, should make it Wednesday. Don't ;aste any more time. Things always :et discovered if you leave them too ong. I shall tell Michael, that you onsent to Wednesday. But you'd letter see him yourself about it, ladn't you?" she suggested in some urprise. Audrey sat down suddenly In a hair by the window, and Lise studied ler carefully. There was a little mile hovering about her pretty lips, nd her eyes were far away. "She looks happy enough," Lise Vifto t + caiii n "Vrtn'll i 11VJ 11 ? ? 11 I ?? 1111 OVIUC ** ee him yourself," she repeated, "of ourse." "Oh, do you think I really need?" Audrey * asked sci'tly. "I am quite atisfied to leave all the arrange- j nents to you and to him. I shall lave so much to do if it is to be oon." Lise "was a little surprised, but as he told Tormentilla afterwards, she lever pretended now to understand Vudrey. And she went home at four ("clock in a much more settled and comfortable state of mind than she lad experienced for some time. She vas, in fact, so pleased with herself md the world in general that she de ided to put on a really pretty frock, i lavender muslin?Jack's favorite olor?before he came in to tea. It vas a charmingly pretty dress, very nil a: d long and elaborately simple, md she picked a bunch of purple and vhite and lavender sweet peas to tuck nto the pretty embroidered folds at ler breast. And she parted her hair >n one side, as he liked it best, a veakness she hardly ever descended o. "I don't suppose he'll even notice t," she murmured with a sigh, and lor usual lewif'Ticy 10 etpeci me vorst. "And even if lie does. I expert \'igel will drop in us usual and spoil >verything." She was rlnht in her fi"st surmise. Ie noticed neither the lavender dress 10r the boyish parting of her hair. "Oh, you've come at last!" he said. 'I'm glad of that. I want to speak to rou. Lise." She raised her little pale face to lini, and her black eyes filled with ear. .lack looked angry. Siie had ;o often tried, so often wanted, to nake him really angry, but now?she lidn't think she liked it much now. He came up to her and flung himself into a chair. His lips were set md his eyes were hard. Lise was as:ouudeiL "What is the meaning of this infer nal tomfoolery about Audrey Cogwheel and Michael Kenworthy?" he asked. But Lise was too frightened to reply, too stunned even to lose hei temper. "I hear," Jack pursued coldly, "that you "iave encouraged, and perhaps even inspired, an absurd scheme of elopement for these two. Is it true?" '"Yes." said she hoars; 1 v. "Why?" He asked the question with a contempt which would have roused . her to a frenzy yesterday. What had come to her? "Why?" lie repeated it curtly. j Lise made an effort. I "Because they were in lovs with each other. Because there was no 1 reason why two young people should ; have their lives ruined through a : mercenary prejudice. Bccause?" | "Don't lie to me, Lise. Why are j you helping theru? What business is it of yours?" "None," said Lise helplessly. "I should think not. I wonder you , dare encourage a mad plan which is almost sure to end in disaster." "Xot more than most other marriages," she answered slowly. "Ours, for instance?" She nodded. "Perhaps not; but the mero fact of being in Purgatory yourself hardly : justifies you in reaching out and j dragging all your friends after you, does it?" "I suppose not." "I wish you would tell me truthfully what influenced you in this affair?" Lise made an effort to show a proper spirit. "Don't please speak to me like . that," she said. "You have no right to speak to me like that. I did not? i to be quite sincere, I began it ! thoughtlessly to please that little gin." j "The girl at Malinder?Miss Green?" he asked sharply. j "Yes, Tormentilla. She was so j wrapped up in the idea, so deter' mined to help those two lovers to be j happy, so enthusiastic and unselfish : and sincere about it, that she carried j me away, and I promised to help her. Audrey had been weeping in her ; arms, you see, over her brokenj hearted and shattered happiness, and they are very ignorant, childish, uni selfish arms. Michael, too, had impressed her so much by his gloomy appearance and his obvious inability to settle down to work. She didn't know that the disability, was chronic, i you see." She laughed a little in spite of herself, but her husband's eyes did not soften, and she hurriedly went on. "She bad made up her mind to help those unfortunate lovers to happiness at any cost. She is such a plucky, straightforward, trusting child, that 1?well, I believe you'd have wanted to help her yourself if you'd listened to her. She Idealizes all love, and lovers, in the most curi ous way. She is absolutely ignorant of life as It really is. How could I discourage her? And, after all, I think they stand quite a good chance of being happy on Mr. Cogwheel's money. I think Michael might be quite a different character if he were comfortably off." Standring stretched out his legs and plunged his hands into his pockets, and Lise thought she'd never seen him look so disagreeable. "It didn't occur to you, I suppose, to consider Nigel in the matter?" She started and grew pale. Now she understood. "Nigel?" she asked disingenuously. "Yes. Nigel would have :aarried the girl if he'd had time. The father and mother are most anxious for his i engagement. Audrey was simply playing with him. It was merely a question of time. Nigel was sure he would win her in the end. And he's simply mad about her. He says he I sees her faults, but that he's be[ witched. He looks so thin and worried and miserable that I can't bear | to see him about the place. He gives [ me the blues. He can't do a thing at the office. I wish to heaven he'd j leave the business alone while he's in his present state of mind. He ato a mutton-chop for his lunch yesterday without noticing it. The waiter I brought it by mistake, ana ne nn| ished it to the bone before he found out. His state of mind when he'd I realized what he'd done was awful. I Looks upon himself as a kind of cannibal now, I believe." To be Continued. Hollow-Eyed Look. . Congressman Carlin, of Virginia, i tells of a little country girl who vis| ited city relatives who dwelt in a flat, j Her visit lasted two weeks, and all of the time they were warning her 1 not to make so much noise; not to , run across the street, and not to i waken the people in the adjoining flats. In fact they were constantly curtailing her freedom. When she 1 came home she told hei papa she j never wanted to go to the city again, ' and be said: ! "You must have had a hard time ( of it. You do look hollow-eyed." j "Well, papa," sh?- said, "if you had j folks holierin' at you all the time, I you'd look holler-eyed, too."?Washington Herald. Tbrce-Year-OId Eggs in China. According to the Secretary of the National Poultry Organization of London, England, an ee;g should he either at least three or four years old i or not more than three or four clays. I Me says: "I have eggs from China : which are excellent. The Chinese i wrap them in clay, put. them away , for three years and then hake them. "The flay pulls off Ihe shell and ; the interior resembles a plover's eg.q I in appearance. They are much nicer ; than a stale English egg, because the chemical process of change is complete. The Dcntli Watch. The "dea*.h watch" that produces : the weird tickings formerly so much feared is nothing more or less than a mischievous and destructive little beetie madly in love and very desirous ol finding it? mate. Thus is the fallacy of our anc??tors regarding this mystery dispelled.?Strand. Man has bravado, woman heroism, explains the New York Presa. : FORCE HIGH PRICES I [ MONOPOLY'S PRIVILEGE UNDER NEW TARIFF LAW. ] t Figures Made Public for the Period \ During Which It Has Been in ] Operation Are Interesting 1 to the Consumer. i 1 The bureau of statistics at Wash- j I Ington has recently given out. some J fragmentary information relating to ( Imports into the United States during the twelve months from August 1, 1 1909, to July 31, 1910. This practically J covers a year under the Payne-Aldrich tariff, as the present law went into ( effect on August 5, 1909. The Re- * public has heretofore commented on 1 the complete statistics for eleven ( months ending May 31 and its readers ' -"'111 -nn nlofJCO/1 tn TlOtG that ^ "ill iiU UUUL/L UV, i^ivuwvu the later information given out in nowise changes the significance of the < more Incomplete data previously analyzed. 1 The lesson strongly pointed by the figures for the lesser periods of time 1 is In fact emphasized by those for the ( greater period. The total imports du- 1 ring the year amounted to $2,562,621,- ( 181, of which almost 50 per cent., or ' $768,047,231. came In free of duty. The ( fact that the free imports are greater ( than in any prior year In the history of the government and that the percentage of such free imports to total * Imports is greater than in any year ' except the last twelve months of the 1 Wilson law's operation is by Repub- 1 Means held to justify argument pal- 1 Iiating in at least some slight degree ' the new law's iniquities. One has to know, however, of what * these free Imports consist before accepting them as an indication of the ' law's effects. Detailed figures from J August to August at hand for the pe- j rlod show that free Importations of that raw rubber in which Mr. Aldrich's rubber trust deals so largely and with such lucrative results amounted In eleven months of the fiscal year ending June 30 to more than $100,000,000. t The figures on raw rubber for the en- j tire twelve months of the Fayne-Ai- j drlch bill will undoubtedly be still more Impressive. It will be found f that considerably more than $100,000,- j 000 out of the total $768,047,231 free , importations can be credited to rub- . ber. We have also shown that during ( eleven months "crude materials for ( the use of manufacturers' were im- f ported to the total amount of $531,- ( 000,000, or an average of about $44,- ( 000,000 a month. If the average was ( maintained for the entire twelve t months It would mean a total of $575,000,000 In free crude material for the ^ scle benefit of manufacturers. To ? subtract that amount would make a , big crimp In the total of $768,047,231 < in free imports which are claimed to furnish a basis for extolling the new < law. t Analysis of all figures so far made j public shows that the following epti- * tomizes the new law accurately: It ^ permits the manufacturer to obtain at t a cheaper price many of his raw ma- j terials, which are placed on the free t list, while excessive protection still , continued on his manufactured prod- 1 ucts enables Him to exact even nigner ( prices than heretofore from the Amer- ^ lean consumer.?St. Louis Republic. ^ Idle Talk About "Conditions." There are many novel Ideas In Mr. Roosevelt's recent speeches dealing . with the tariff. But the most novel, and at the same time the most amusing of them all, is that "conditions" compelled such men as Aldrich, , Lodge, Cannon, Smoott, Payne and the i othert; to disfigure the tariff bill. It was not "conditions" that turned over i the making of the woolen schedule to Whitman, who made the schedule of , the Dingley tariff, and who at the time he represented the woolen interests . also acted as secretary of a senate committee dealing with the tariff. Sup- ' pose the "conditions" are the only i criminals?who made the conditions, . i who has permitted them to continue . for a generation? The men responsible for the present tariff enormity were not constrained or coerced by "conditions." They simply made the sort of tariff that they thought the country ought to have. In this case, a3 In others of like character, as in the Paul Morton case, "guilt is personal " "Conditions" indeed! We are 1 not dealing with them, but with men, * as the Insurgents have more than 1 once shown. The Insurgents have held t Aldrich, Cannon, Smoot and Payne re- 1 sponsible, as Indeed they are. r t Turning the Conversation. t It 13 reported mat secretary cauin- i ger Is about to prosecute vigorously p certain land frauds In an effort to t make people forget the Cunningham t claims. s When you have caught your small c boy In the jam have you ever noticed u how he tries to turn the conversation g to the piece of candy he expects to get 1; for you with that penny you gave him 1 yesterday? n Not for the President to Judge. In their first elections, New Mexico, supposed to be Democratic, went s Republican, and Arizona, supposed to " i be Republican and long represented g by a Republican delegate in congress, ii went Democratic. The result is said u to make certain an initiative pro- v vision in uie new cuusmuuuii auu aw- ^ j mir.istrationfsts predict that Mr. Taft b will reject the instrument when pre- tl sented to him. Irrespective of his e own or others' views as to that pro- : li . vision, what justification could a q I jurist of Mr. Taft's experience offer t] for rejecting a device which the c whole people of Arizona believed to o be essential to their welfare and by 11( official vote had included among their ' p constitutional safeguards? a Standard of Greatness. v It will have to be admitted by the j tl ' colonel's ministerial admirers that if j a | Mr. Roosevelt isn't the greatest man I u in the world, he can at least have j c credit for making the most noise. If | that measures greatness we shall j hereafter have to give credit to the ' tl man in the band who plays the bass ; t( 1 drum.?Rochester Herald. : ii rHE PHANTOM 'TARIFF BOARD' Already Ample Demonstration of Its Perfect Uselessness Has Been Given. All activities of utility except those "elating to salary-drawing have practically been suspended by Mr. Taft's phantom "Tariff Board." Its status is hardly of more pronounced a character than that of Mr. Roosevelt's 'amous national art commission which lever had any recognition except from VIr. Roosevelt himself and which died )f inanition. The agent of the "Tariff Board" sent abroad has encountered difflcul:les rendering his mission a failure, rhe "board" at home has made the Hscovery others' made weeks ago? :hat it is entirely without authority :o compel persons having pertinent lata to supply it and the highly pro:ected trusts are not rushing to it with volunteered information that might ;end to a reduction in the duties on heir products. This demonstration of the "board's" pathetic impotence is highly important is well as highly humorous in an mte-electicn view. Dogmatic defense )f the Payne-Aldrich measure has alnost entirely ceased. From Mr. Taft lown. Republicans are admitting its mperfections and promising a real Jownward revision, if the people will 3nly try them this once more. Of course, it Is not very convincing :o assert that the party which has 'ailed miserably once In fulfillment of campaign pledges will respect its pledges with any greater fidelity in :he future, but they have a new idea low, they say. The measure Itself created a "Tariff Board," they assert, md this little new "Tariff Board" is joing to be a big help to its parents ivhen it grows up in placing revision m a scientific, instead of a political, Dasis and preventing the horrid trusts ind stand-pat congressional representees of the trusts from dictating sltIH legislation. nooseven ana xne i arm. It Is a new thing for Mr. Roosevelt o take any Interest In tariff discussion. :t cannot be said that his views add nuch illumination. His theory that 'conditions," not men, are responsible 'or the iniquities of the present tariff s more curious than convincing. He idheres firmly to what he calls "the principle" of protection, and thinks It ill right as long as it Is not pushed :oo far; that Is as long as the "good ;hings" are not too good. He does not avor "a jumble of privileges and preferences," fyut he does favor "scientifically" adjusted privileges and prefer;nces. He expects large things of proection, as witness this: "What we want is a square deal in ;he tariff as in everything else; a iquare deal for the wage earner; a square deal for the employer; a square leal for the general public/' Jn other words, we want a miracle! Fou cannot have a "square deal" as between the man who pays a tax and the nan who gets it; between the taxed mblic and the coddled industries. The hlng is impossible. There are only wo parties to the transaction?those 'rom whom the money Is taken, and hose to whom it is given. Mr. Roosevelt's idea of a square deal is not that ye should cease taking money from me man and giving it to another, but hat we should take less from one and jive less to the other! ; Reason for High Cotton Prices. 'The Republic asks why 20-cent cotx>n should be a strong Republican argument in the south this year. The mswer is that under the last Democratic administration and downward :ariff revision cotton got down to five :ents."?Globe-Democrat. Did any downward tariff devlBion aver go farther down in the case of :otton than the present Aldrich law, n which "cotton and waste or flocks" ire enumerated among the items on :he free list, in accordance with the policy of enabling high-protected nanufacturers to buy their raw materials cheap and get bigger prices for :heir own goods? As suspected, the -1 r? J 1.. J T)/Nn,,kll/%nn!n?v> j.-JU. iuviuucm rtcpuuiiuouiom aiuuu5 soil exhaustion, boll weevil and other levastatlng causes that now send the :otton quotation up to an abnormal igure.?St. Louis Republic. Storer-lreland Letters. The thing that Mr. Roosevelt roundy asserted in 1906 that he did not do, iLrchblshop Ireland wrote in 1903 that he president not merely had done but toasted of doing. For a man so directy Impeached merely to say now that le will not "reopen" the case, is in eality a confession that he is unable o meet the damaging implication of he new letters. Mr. Roosevelt's riends, especially his friends and emiloyers In the Outlook office?ought to ell him that this will never do; and hat if he does not Instantly take teps to meet the terrible exposure if him which Mrs. Storer has now lade, the press will soon be speaking enerally, as the World does editorialy, of "the habitual inveracity" of 'heodore Roosevelt.?New York Eve;ing Post. Col. Roosevelt's Controversies. It is not flattering to the moral ense of the American people that the indiscretions" of Col. Roosevelt are enerally treated as a jest, (he "Ananis Club" particularly being looked pon as a huge joke. Here is a man . ho has held the highest office in the ift of the people and who still numers his admirers by the hundreds of housands. Yet time after time he has ngaged in controversies in which is veracity has been brought into uestion. Surely it cannot be that h.ere Is a great conspiracy to disredit him. and that all of his antagnists have deliberately lied in order iniuro him. The alternative to this ropositioi. is one that is painful to n American to contemplate. It would be refreshing to see the 'hole snbjtct taken by the mass of tie people in a more serious spirit and n attempt at least made to find here justice lies in these unfortunate ontroversies. Now that you mention It, Mr. Cox, tie tariff commission didn't appear :> be very effective as a life saver 1 Maine. Was He a By CARL Copyright, 1910, by Ass Dr. Hargraves, retired and said to be wealthy, has more or less business to do with a certain safe deposit company. He thus came to know young Austen Parker. There came to be a social as well as a business side, and after a time Mr. Parker was a caller at the house. Dr. Hargraves was a widower and in poor health. The light of his eyei and the joy of his heart was his daughter May. A sister oversaw the house, but the doctor used to say that his daughter oversaw him. The friendship between them was almost selfish. Miss May's handsome face attracted many, but she received them all as callers until Mr. Parker came. In his case, alter a Dit, tne iatner tnougm ne detected more than usual interest, and lie was secretly pleased. He knew that his ailment must carry him off at the end of a few years, and he hoped the daughter's future would be settled before the dark day came. The doctor and his daughter were at the Harbor hotel when Mr. Parker and his mother arrived. It was simply chance that brought them together there, and all were pleased over it. A week had passed very pleasantly when one day the doctor, Miss May and Mr. Austen were on the long wharf below the hotel to sit in the band house and enjoy the cool breeze. There were women and children about, and here and there a man was lazily fishing. Of a sudden a women screamed out. Hsr boy of five fiad climbed the railing and fallen into the water. There were shouts and screams from others, and a hubub all aiong the wharf. I The. accident occurred within thirty f^et of the band stand. Mr. Parker reached the railing in four or five bounds, tore off his coat and kicked off his shoes, and was on the point of ? I "Oh, Go-Go-Go!" Called Mlaa May. leaping the rail Into the water when he suddenly halted and stepped back. "You can get him?you can get him!" urged the doctor as he came up. "There's his hat?there he rises'" "Oh, go?go?go!" called Miss May to the man who stood wringing his hands and his face pale as the dead. "I?I can't!" they heard him say. "Man?man, are you going to leave the boy to drown?" cried the doctor in astonishment and indignation.Mr. Parker advanced to the railing, looked over at the child struggling in the water and then threw up his hands with a groan and retreated. He even picked up the things he had cast off and almost ran from the wharf. Splash! Splash! Splash! Three men leaped the railing, one after another, and, as the little lad was sinking for the third time, he was rescued, and there were tears, cheers and shouts of congratulation. The doctor and his daughter returned to their seats and sat for a long time without a word between them. Then the girl asked In a hesitating way: "Was it because Mr. Earker can't swim?" "He could have got the boy and hung to a spile until a boat came. Heavens, but if I had been in his place!" "Then?then what ailed him? He seemed to be frightened." "He was!" was the grim reply. "Father, you can't mean " "But I do, dear. You have only to hear what the people around us are saying. Too bad. I feel sorry for him. He and his mother will have to go today." A hundred people on the wharf had words of praise for the three men, and words of censure for the one. It Is at such times that men curse In their throate and women refuse to forgive. A man is either recorded as HISTORIC SL1 * Marlborough's Brief Message to Wife Written After Battle of Blenheim, Preserved by His Descendants. A scrap of paper that carries one back to the very atmosphere of a great decisive battle In the world's history is among the historical treasures of Blenu. kn,ico fin tli, after him." "Poor bQy! We should not have come to the water." With that she turned away an4 . ;% commenced taking her garments down off the hooks and folding and packing them. When the son could .control hW voice he stepped to the telephone an& asked for his bill and ordered a cart riage for the depot. Two hours late* mother and son were on their waj* home. When they talked it was not of what had happened on the wharf. "Don't you see he couldn't hava done anything else?" queried Dr. Har-j graves at lunch, when some one saldj that "the coward" had departedi : ' p; "VTa naocpa rtnt nf mir livafl. ot . course." " V ' % And It so comes about. When thet doctor again visited the safe deposit company he saw young Mr. Parker* , ^ but neither bowed. Some one else .v waited on the patron. People who hadi met the young man socially at ttal } doctor's residence Inquired about him in a careless way, and were as car&j lessly answered.^ Now and then thd father wondered if the daughter had! boen Interested enough to care or b4 disappointed, but he could not makol up his mind. The affair had nevexj , been referred to again after the flrsH day. A whole year passed. Father and! <; daughter were again bound for th? same hotel, but this time they wenj rmotoring a part of .the way, the cai; being driven by a chauffeur. In the middle of the afternoon, on a broad highway, four foreigners wkol had struck work In a quarry not far! away and were ripe for mischief^ i. i\& halted the auto to commit highway robbery. The chauffeur was a pal* troon. He could have run them down* but he halted the machine. The doctor was not armed, hut ha refused to leave the car, and struck at the fellows who sought to pull thai daughter out Such a one-sided conflict could not last long, and munti terminate in a victory for the attacks era. xney were pusnmg tne advantage of numbers when a second atrial rolled up quietly behind them and ai young man leaped out Without any1 weapons but his bare fists he sailed ' into the four. They drew knives on him, but he struck one after anotheij and fought fiercely and silently. The battle raged up and down the road torj five minutes, and then the used-up men retreated to the woods. . v The doctor and his flaug'nter had watched it without a w r