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I "She Shall Never Marry 7 SYNOPSIS. George Perclval Algernon Jcnes, vice president of the Metropolitan Oriental Rug company of New York, thirsting for romance. Is in Cairo on a business trip. Horace Ryanne arrives at the hotel In Cairo with a carefully guarded bundle. Ryanne sells Jones the famous holy Yhi ordes rug which ho admits having stolen from a pasha at Bagdad. Jones meets Major Callahan and later Is Introduced to Fortune Chedsoye by a woman to whom he had loaned 150 pounds at Monte Cqrlo some months .previously, and who turns out to be Fortune's mother. Jones takes Mrs. Chedsoye nnd Fortune to a polo game. Fortune returns to Jones the money borrowed by her mother. Mrs. Chedsoye appears tp be engaged in some mysterious enterprise unknown to the daughter. Ryanne interests Jones in the United Romance and Adventure com ?oany, a concern which for a price will irrange any kind of an adventure to or der. Mrs. Chedsoye, her brother. Major Callahan, Wallace and Ryanne, as the 'Jnited Romance and "Adventure company, >lan a risky enterprise involving Jones. CHAPTER VII.?(Continued.) "I accept it as such. I am tired of petty things. I repeat, failure is not jossible. Have I not thought it out, detail by detail, mapped out each line, anticipated dangers by eliminating them?" "All but that one danger of which we know nothing. You're a great woman, Kate. You have, as you say, made ninety-nine dangers out of a hundred impossible. Let us keep an eye out for that hundredth. Our pho tographs have yet to grace the rogues' gallery." "With one exception." Ryanne's laughter was sardonic. "Whose?" shot the major. "Mine. A round and youthful phiz, a silky young mustache. But rest easy; there's no likeness between that and the original one I wear now." "You never told me ..." be gan Mrs. Chedsoye. "There was never any need till now. Eight years ago. Certain powers that be worked toward my escape. But I was never to return. You will recol lect that I have always remained this, side. Enough. What I did does not matter. I will say this much: my crime was in being found out. One venture Into New York and out to sea again: they will not have a chance. I doubt if any could recall the circum stances of my meteoric career. You will observe that I am keyed for any thing. Let us get to work. It doesn't matter, anyhow." "You did not ..." Mrs. Ched soye hesitated. "Blood?" reading her thought. "No. Gioconda; my hands are guiltless, at least they were till this Bagdad af fair; and I am not sure there. I was a trusted clerk; I gambled; I took money that did not belong to me. And here I am, room number 208." "It doesn't matter. Come, Kate: don't stare at Hcddy as if he were a new species." The major smoothed the ends of his moustache. "This con fession will be good for his soul." "Yes, Gioconda; I feel easier now. I am heart and soul in this affair. I need excitement, too. Lord, yes. When I went to Bagdad. I had no idea that I should ever lay eyes upon that rug. Rut I did. And there's the emeralds, too, major." The major rubbed his hands pleas urably. "Yes, yes; the emeralds; I had not forgotten .them. One hundred lovely green stones, worth not a penny under thirty thousand. A fine collec tion. But another idea has taken pos session of this teeming brain of mine. H'ive von noticed how this fellow ! Jones hovers about Fortune? He's worth a million, if he's worth a cent. I am sure, in pure gratitude, she would see to it that her loved ones were well taken care of in their old age." "I am going to marry Fortune my self," said Ryanne blandly. "You?" The major was nonplussed. Wallace shuffled his feet uneasily. T^: Will a Man of Your Stamp." This blond companion of his was al ways showing kinks In his naturo, kinks that rarely ever straightened out. "Yes. And why not? What is she to either you or her mother? Noth ing. Affection you have never given her, being unable. It surprises you; but, nevertheless, I love her, and I am going to marry her." "Really?" said Mrs. Chedsoye. "Even so." "You are a fool, Horace!" with ris ing fury. So then, the child had not Jibed her in a moment of pique? "Men in love generally are fools. I've never spoken before, because you never absolutely needed me till now. There's my cards, pat." Mrs. Chedsoye's fury deepened, but not visibly. "You are welcome to her, if she will have you." "Yes," supplemented the major; "if she will have you, my friend, take her, and our benedictions." Ryanne's shoulders stirred sugges tively. "Of course, I expect to have the final word to say on the subject. She is my daughter," said Mrs. Chedsoye. "A trifling accident, my dear Gio conda," smiled Ryanne! "merely that." "Just a little oil, just a little oil," the major pleaded anxiously. "Dash it all, this is no time for a row of this silly order. But it's always the way," irritably. "A big enterprise, demand ing a single purpose, and a trifle like this to upset it all!" "I am ready for business at any mo ment." "And you, Kate?" "We'll say no more about it till the affair is over. After that ..." "Those who live will see, eh?" Ryanne rolled a cigarette. "To business, then. In the first place, Mr. Jones must not reach the Ludwig." "He will not." Ryanne spoke with quiet assurance. "He will not even see that boat," added Wallace, glad to hear the sound of his voice again. "Good. But, mind, no rough work." "Leave it all to me," said Ryanne. "The United Romance and Adventure Company will give hinfc an adventure on approval, as it were." "To you, then. The report from New York reads encouragingly. Our friends there are busy. They are merely waiting for us. From now on Percival Algernon must receive no more mail, telegrams or cables." "I'll take care of that also." Ryanne looked at Mrs. Chedsove musingly. "His real estate aeent will wire him, possibly tomorrow." "In that event, he will receive a cable signifying that the transaction is perfectly correct." "He may also inquire as to what to do with the valuables in the wail safe." "He will be instructed to touch nothing, as the people who will occupy the house are old friends." Ryanne smoked calmly. "Wallace, you will return to New York at once." "I thought I was wanted here?" "No longer." "All right; I'm off. I'll sail on the Prince Ludwig, stateroom 118. I'll have my joke by the way. "You will do nothing of the kind. You will have a stateroom by your self," said Mrs. Chedsoye crisply. "And no wine, nor cards. If you fail. I'll break you ..." "As we would a churchwarden's pipe, Wallace, my lau." Ryanne grip ped his companion by the shoulder, and there was enough pressure in the grip to cause the recipient to wince. "Well, well; I'll lay a straight course." Wallace slid his shoulder from under Rvanne's hand. "To you, then, Hoddy. the business of quarantining our friend Perclval. Avrfkor of HEAT C/ie f\AN ON Ilkisfraiiorv^ by Is COPYRIGHT 1911 2>y BOE Don't hurt him; simply detain him. You must realize the Importance of this. Have you your plans?" "I'll perfect them tomorrow. I shall find a way, never fear." "Does the rug come In anywhere?" The major was curious. It sometimes seemed to him that Ryanne did not al ways lay his cards face up upon the table. "It will play its part. Besides, 1 am rather inclined to the idea of tak ing it back. It may be the old wish ing-carpet. In that case, it will come In handy. Who knows?" "How much is it worth?" "Ah, major, Percival himself could not say exactly. He gave me a tnous and pounds for It." "A thousand pounds!" murmured Wallace. The major struck his hands lightly together. Whether In applause or wonder he alone knew. "And it was worth every shilling of It, too. I'll tell you the story some day. There are a dozen ways of sup pressing Percival, but I must have something appealing to my artistic side." "You have never told us your real name, Horace," Mrs. Chedsoye bent toward him. He laughed. "I must have seme thing to confess to you in the future, dear Gioconda." "Well, the meeting adjourns, sine die." "What are you going to do with Fortune?" demanded Ry^nne. "Send her back to Mentone." "What the deuce did you bring her here for, knowing what was in the wina r "She expressed a desire to see Cairo again," answered Mrs. Ched soye. , "We never deny her anything." The major rose and yawned suggestively. In the corridor, Ryanne whispered softly: "Why not, Gioconda " "She shall never marry a man of your stamp," coldly. "Charming ^mother! How tenderly you have cherished her!" "Horace," calmly enough, "is It wise to anger me?" "It may not be wise, but I have never seen you in a rage. You would be magnificent." "Cease this foolery," patiently. "I am In no mood for It tonight. As an associate in this equivocal business, you do very well; you are necessary. But do not presume too much upon that. For all that I may not have been what a mother should be, I still have some self-respect. So long as I have any power over her, Fortune shall never marry a man so far down in the social scale as yourself." "Social scale? Gioconda, how you hurt me!" mockingly. "I should real ly like to know what your idea of that invincible barrier is. Is it be cause my face Is in the rogues' gal lery? Surely, you would not be cruel!" "She is far above us all, my friend," continuing uprufTled. "Sometimes I stand in absolute awe of her." "A marvel! If my recollection is not at fault, many a man has entered AV- Trnio TT'o nTiiT nrlfK a xH cxttt i r\ nAnrk tilt? V lilt* i' auaj, nitu u T1V/" tw v-uui i ship, men beside whom I am as Roland to the lowest Saracen. You never objected to them." "They had money and position." "Magic talisman! And if I had money and position?" "My objections would be no less strong." ( "Your code puzzles me. You would welcome as a son-in-law a man who stole openly the widow's mite, while I, who harass none, but the predatory rich, must dwell in the outland? Rank injustice!" "You couldn't take care of her." "Yes, I could. With but little effort I could make these two hands as hon est as the day is long." "I have my doubts," smiling a little. "Suppose, for the sake of an argu ment, suppose Fortune accepted me?" Mrs. Chedsoye's good humor re turned. She knew her daughter toler ably well; the child had a horror of men. "Poor Horace! Do you build upon that?" "Less, perhaps, than upon my own bright Invention. My suit, then to be brief, is rejected?" "Emphatically. I have spoken." "Oh, well; the feminine prerogative shall be mW, the last word. Good night; dormi bene!" He bowed grandly and turned toward his own room. He possessed that kind of mockery which was the despair of those at whom it was directed. They never knew whether his mood was one of harmless fun or of deadly intent. And rather than mistake the one quality for the other, they generally pretend ed to ignore. Mrs. Chedsoye, who had a similar talent, was one of the few who felt along the wall ns one does in the dark, instinctively. To night she recognized that there was no harmless fun but a real desperate ness behind the mask; and she had held in her temper with a firm hand. This was not the hour for a clash. She shivered a little; and for the first time in the six or seven years she had known him, she faced a fear of him. His great strength, his reckless cour age, his subtle way of mastering men by appearing to be mastered by them, held her in the thrall of a peculiar fascination which, in quiet periods, she looked upon as something deeper. Marriage was not to her an ideal state, nor was there any man. living or dead, who had appealed to the physical side of her. Hut he was in the one sex what she was in the other; and while > MACGE>ATH JTS AID .MASKS Turpi T2/-W V IIIL, UUA ^. Gr.KETTiVKR- ? !>E>? - MERRILL COMPANY she herself would never have married him, she raged inwardly at the possi bility of his wanting another woman. To her the social fabric which holds humanity together was merely a con venience; the moral significance touched neither her heart nor her mind. In her the primordial craving for ease, for material comforts, pret ty trinkets and gowns was strongest developed. It was as if this sense had been handed down to her, untouched by contact with progression, from the remote ages, that time between the fall of Roman civilization and where modern civilization began. In short a beautiful barbarian, whose intellect alone had advanced. Fortune was asleep. The mother went over to the bed and gently shook the slim, round arm which lay upon the coverlet. The child's nature lay revealed as she opened her eyes and smiled. It did not matter that the smile instantly changed to a frowning inquiry. The mother spoke truly when she sriid that there were times when she stood in awe of this, her flesh and blood. "My child, I wish to ask you a ques tion, and for your own good answer truthfully. Do you love Horace?" Fortune sat up and rubbed her eyes. i?U. xaau ucr wna ueen ibbb scattered she might have paltered. The syllable had a finality to It that reassured the mother more than a thousand protestations would have done. ''Good night," she said. Fortune lay down again and drew the coverlet up to her chin. With her eyes shut she waited, but in vain. Her mother disrobed and sought her own bed. Ryanne was intensely dissatisfied with himself. For once his desperate mood had carried him too far. He had made too many confessions, had antagonized a woman who was every bit as clever and Ingenious as him-* self. The enterprise toward which they were moving held him simply be cause it was an exploit that enticed wholly his twisted outlook upon life. There was a forbidding humor in the whole affair, too, which he alone saw. The possible rewards were to him of secondary consideration. It was the fun of the thing. It was the fun of the thing that Had put Him squarely upon the wide, short road to perdi tion, which had made him first a spendthrift, then a thief. The fun of the thing; sinister phrase! A thous and times had be longed to go back, for he wasn't all bad; but door after door had shut behind him; and now the single purpose was to get to the end of the road by the shortest route. He did not deceive himself. His desperate mood was the esult of an infernal rage* against himself, a rage against the weakness of his heart. Fortune Chedsoye. Why had she not crossed his path at that time when he Height have been saved? And yet, would she have saved him? God alone knew. ne neara joiies surnug in 1113 rooui next door. Presently all became stilL To sleep like that! He shrugged, threw off his coat, swept the cover from the stand, found a pack of cards, and played solitaire till the first pallor of dawn announced the new day. Reclining snugly against th6 para pet, wrapped in his tattered arbiyeth, or cloak, his head pillowed upon bis lean arm, motionless with that pre tended sleep of the watcher, Mahomed El-Gebel kept his vigil. Miles upon miles he had come, across three bleak, cold, blinding deserts, on camels, in trains, on camels again, night and day, day and night, across the soundless, yellow plains. Allah was good to the true believer. The night was chill, but certain fires warmed his blood. All day long he had followed the accursed, lying giaour, but never once had he wandered Into the native quarters of the city. Patience! What was a day, a week, a year? Grains of sand. He could wait. Inshalla! CHAPTER VIII. The Purloined Cable. George, having made his bargain with conscience relative to the Yhlor Wants Pictur Present Day Cooks Like to See Fu ture Working Place Before They Engage Themselves. "A phase of the servant girl ques tion that was new to me was sprung the other day when I called at an ! employment agency to hire a cook," said the nervous woman. "A prepos | sessing looking girl was brought for ward for an interview. Her first ques tion was: Have you any pictures of your kitchen?' "I said I had none. " 'It is always best to bring them,' said the girl loftily. 'It saves time j and trouble, for with them to look at a cook can see at a glance the posi ' lion of the sink, the tubs, the range, j and the cupboards, and can tell if the place will suit her.' ' "While 1 was adjusting my mind to {that phase of the proposition another 'woman with a wider experience than mine piped up that she had brought view of her kitchen. From that min ute I was out of it as far as that par ticular cook was concerned. The pic tures met her approval, and the other voman hired her on the spot. 1 asked , the manager if it was the custom for | housekeepers to produce views of | their home when hiring servants. r The Porter Had No Suspicion That des rug, slept the sleep of the untrou bled, of the just, of the man who had nothing 4n particular to get up for. In fact, after having drunk his breakfast cocoa and eaten his buttered toast, he evinced his satisfaction by turning his face away from the attracting morn ing light and passing off into sleep again. And thereby hangs this tale. So much depended upon his getting his mail as it came in that morning, that Fate herself must have resisted sturdily the desire to shake him by the shoulder. Perhaps she would have done so but for the serenity of his pose and the Infantile smile that lln ? ? -3 n wVtllsv ?/Mir A hia Una "Co + A I gei'till lui a wutic i uuiiu uio iijiu, i-nro, as with most of us, has her sentiment al lapses. The man next door, having no con science to speak of (indeed, he had de railed her while passing his twenti eth meridian!) was up betimes. He had turned in at four; at six he was strolling about -the deserted lounging room, watching the entrances. It is inconceivable how easily mail may be purloined in a large hotel. There are as many ways as points to the wibd. Ryanne chose the simplest. He waited for the mail-bag to be emptied upon the head-porter's counter. Nonchal antly, but deftly, while the porter looked on, the adventurer ran through the bulk. He found three letters and a cable, the latter having been re ceived by George's bankers the "day before and mailed directly to the ho i tel. The porter had no suspicion that | a bold theft was being committed un der bis very eyes. Moreover, circum stances prevented bis ever learning of it. Ryanne stuffed the spoils into a pocket. "If any one asks for me," he said, "say that I shall be at my banker's, the Anglo-Egyptian bank, at 10 o'clock. "Yes, sir," replied the porter, as he began to sort the rest of the mail, not forgetting to peruse the postals. Ryanne went out into the street, walking rapidly into town. Mahomed El-Gebel shook the folds of his cloak and followed. The adventurer did not slacken his gait till he reached Shep heard's hotel. Upon the steps he paused. Some ^English troops were marching past, on the way to the rail way station; the usual number of na tives were patrolling the sidewalks, dangling strings of imitation scarabs; a caravan of pack-camels, laden with cotton, shuffled by haughtily; a blind beggar sat on the curb in front, munching a piece of sugar cane. es of Kitchen ? ? " 'The custom is not yet universal,' he said, 'but It Is growing. In one sense the girl is Ight; it does save time and trouble.' " Formula for Rapid Firing. The rifle for rapid firing should have shotgun weight, shotgun bal ance, shotgun trigger pull, shotgun fit and the sights must be such as can be caught instantly without effort in alignment. The hands grasp the piece firmly, not with the rifleman's loose grip, but the left arm pushes forward while the right draws back, and the trigger is pulled by trans ferring the drawing back force to the trigger finger, and not by any con scious crooking of that finger. The moment the l*ad covers the mark the bullet must be under way, be the aim good or bad.?Outing. Towns Without Taxes. It was recently reported from Ger l many that there was a little town i within the empire in which there were | no taxes. The town possessed bene ! factions, the revenues from which en i abled it to pay its way without the in tervention of the tax gatherer. France never likes to be outdone hv M j . PF Ryanne, assured that no one he knew was about, proceeded into the writing room, wholly deserted at this early hour. He sat down at a desk and opened the cable. It contained exactly what he expected. It was a call for ad vice in regard to the rental of Mr. George P. A. Jones' mansion in New York and the temporary disposing of the loose valuables. .Ryanne read it over *a dozen times, with puckered brow, and finally balled it fiercely in) his fist. Fool! He could not, at that. moment, remember the most essen tial point In the game, the name and office of the agent to whom he must this very morning send reply. Hur riedly he fished out the letters; one chance In a thousand. He swore, hut In relief. In the corner of one yt the letters he saw' that for some unknown reason the gods were still with him.. Reynolds and Reynolds, estates, Broad street; he remembered. He wrote out a reply on a piece of hotel paper, in tending to copy it off at the cable office. This renly covered the ground convincingly. "Renting for two months. QUI friends. Leave* things as they are. P. A." The initials were a little stroke. From some source Ryanne has picked up the fact that Jones' business correspondence was conducted over those two Initials. He tore up the cable into small illegi ble squares and dropped some into one basket and some into another. Next, he readdressed George's mail to Leip zig; another stroke, meaning a delay of two or three months; from the head office of his banker's there to Paris, Paris to Naples, Naples to New York. That Ryanne did not open these letters was in nowise due to moral suasion; whatever they con tained could be of no vital importance to him. "Now, Horace, we shaM bend the crook of our elbow in the bar-room. The reaction warrants a stimulant." An hour later the whole affair was nicely off his hands. The cable had cost him three sovereigns. But what was that? Niente, rien; nothing; a mere bagatelle. For the first time in weeks a sense of security Invaded his being. " 1 f\ . o*sA Dail il Was uy Liu w a u uuun, auu * oi clval Algernon still reposed upon his bed of ease. Let him sleep. Many days were to pass ere he would again know the comfort of linen sheets, the luxury of down under his ear. (TO BE CONTINUED.) anything German, so a Paris contem porary has set itself the task of find ing a parallel. Something more than a parallel has been discovered, for not only are there no taxes, but the tim bers on the communfl lands are su3 cient 10 grant eauu i/trauu a omtm an- i nuity. This happy land is Montmar ion, in the Midi." There are seven elec tors in the hamlet, so to avoid any-> thing like rivalry the seven return . themselves to the local council. Cutting down the trees and selling them is sufficient to provide a llveli-^ hood for these simple people, whose tastes are so modest that they may be termed by some uncivilized. Long Record as Public Singer. What is probably the world's record as a public .singer is held by Mrs. j ! George V. Johnson, who for more than ; fi2 years has ben soloist in the Presby terian church. She has traveled a distance of more than 40.000 miles in merely going to and from her choir rehearsals and church services, while ! the actual time she has spent in a choir seat would amount to the equiv alent of one year and a half.?Pike j (N. Y.) Gazette. The Open Book. The life which is an open book re remds us rhiefly that an open book is nci a handy thing to carry around.? Puck. PUT UP DOUBLE THAT AMOUNT. THE TERMS OF THE PROPOSAL $ u V. <r Are Received By Governor Bleaae From Ritchcock and Wilson A# To Federal Aid For Road Building in v ' M State of South Carolina. f Columbia.?"If you will cause to be selected in your state a suitable road about fifty miles long over tbe entire length of which there is delivery ot mail by rural carriers and will ari range to have 120,000 raised by the state or local sub-divisions thereof, in accordance with the requirement o; tha law, tbe government will set aside $10,000 additional from the appropri: ation granted by congiess and will expend the sum of $30,000 thus pro vided, or so much of it as seems wise, for the improvement and main < tenance of the road ^erected," is j paragraph contained In a letter from Postmaster General Hitchcock and ? Seretary of Agriculture Wilson ad- ' dressed to Governor. Blease. . >?$ The letter asks the governor to cause to be selected a piece of roa<^ : which would best meet the require- /| ments of the bill and adds, "Which the qualified authorities are .prepared &S to give sufficient guarantee that theli proportion of the cost will be met.' Any road deciring to take advantage ' /> of this opportunity should notify the governor at once so he can send theh name on to the federal authorities. Congress appropriated $500,000 foi Y\ the improvement of the public roads _ '& q n ^ nrniri Hoa onw atofA Af? Iaao1 ' '/v.# imiu |/iutiuvo tauw au; ovav<o wi . wv?< subdivision taking advantage of this appropriation was to put up double the mount exended by the national government, all to be done under the national government's direction anc supervision. Tho ostmaster genera) and the secretary of agriculture wew to have charge of the distribution o; this $500,000 and they desire to divide it equally between the states. This ii the opportunity to get some federal Aid and some good roads and any road in South Carolina willing to complj with the terms can get a fine road Any section so Interested should noti fy Gov. R1ajl?o * ; m Money Subscribed to Be Returned. v , \ Charleston.?The money subscribed ' > by the business houses of the city for '' Fleet Week entertainment, about $2,< 000, will be returned to the subscrib ,-rrs, according to a resolution adopted - ' ' oy the committee on Fleet Week en tertainment., This step was taken up- : j . on the suggestion of the'chairman ol the sub-committee on finance. Mr. Pinckney stated that as those who,4 subscribed the majority of the fund 1 represented business bouses that in no way were directly benefited by the visit of the fleet, and that as thoee who were the direct beneficiaries did not contribute, the members of the finance committee had considered il best to return all moneys subscribed Pee Dee Fair (a Assured. Florence.?The meeting in the ini terest of organizing s an agricultural fair for the Pee Dee section took defi nite form at the Chamber of Com merce when the committee appointed at a recent meeting to devise a plan of organization reported the result ol its labor. This committee presented the following resolution: "Resolved, That this committee of citizens^ ap pointed to look into the advisability and plans for the establishment of the Pee Dee Fair Association, in Folrence; recommend that the whole matter be turned over to the Chamber of Com merce. / postmaster For Colleton County. Washington. ? Two foarth-clasa postmasters for Colleton County, South Carolina, were appointed by Postmas ter General Hitchcock. They are Le land A. Grayson, at Colleton, to suc ceed R. F. Ramsey, resigned, and Wil liam J. Brabham, at Williams ,to suc ceed W. F. Grayson, resigned. Much Trouble in Saluda. ^ Saluda.?A warrant sworn out by GJ W." Mathias and J. H. Orlander charg ing B. A. McGee with assault and bat> tery with intent to kill was issued by the local magistrate. McGee gave bond and in turn had a warrant served for Mathias and Orlander charging them with assault and battery with intent to kill, the specific charge be ing that he was held up in the public road several days ago by Mathis and Orlander, the one with a shotgun and the other with a pistjl. All parties are young white men. Frest Fires Are Raging. Mallory.?Forest fires have been raging in this neighborhood for aboul two weeks. Great damage has been crrrxnr I n tr t Irnhoro Horcja clouds of smoke have settled over the community at times which were ex> tremely disagreeable for the residents. Wins Verdict of $1,000. Greenville.?In the court of common pleas E. D. Bingham suing the South ern railway for $20,000 damages for the loss of an arm was awarded a verdict of $1,000. Disastrous Fire in Mullirvs. Mulling.?The residence of Chas. P, Mayers located on Main street, wa?i destroyed by fire, the fire having orig inated in a front room of the house. The residence was completed last year at a cost of $2,000. Mr. Mayers had Insurance to cover the loss of house hold furnishings. Much fear was felt for the Methodist church, which occu pied the corner lot just across the street opposite the burning building] and had not the wmd shifted thej handsome brick building would doubt less have caitfirt, J