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PAGE 2 BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, 8. C. GIRL CAPTIVE OF . _ GYPSIES 3 YEARS Louise Mitchell Tells ~oj Kidniap ^tng and Her Marriage Chicf's Son.~ CHAPTER XV—Continued. And so I went oa and on through the darkness .and with ea^hf step grew. My elbow 'grated against the tunnel wg.llj I stepped sidewise toward the center »nd ran against the wall oppo site. The 'light-of the stars was clear In front of me and the eold wind blew npon rny face, and I squeezed through lnJ.o the same scooped-out hollow width I hod entered on the’Same after noon during the course of iffy journey toward the chateuu. The little river giifglvd at my feet, and In front of me I saw a candle flickering In the recesses of a cave, so elflnllke that I could distinguish it only by shielding my eyes against the moon •nd stare. - u- “‘' —- I grasped my pistol tightly and crept noiselessly forward.-If this should be Leroux. as I was convinced It was, I would not parley with him. I would shoot him down In hTs tracks. As I stepped nearer him my ftfet dis lodged a pebble, which rolled with a splash Into the bed of the stream. The man started i ad spun around, and I saw before me the pnle, melan choly features of Philippe Lucrpix. CHAPTER XVI. “A t “You areja splendid woman, Jacque- Mne,” he said’. "I like the way you defy me—by heaven, I do! But you are quite at my mercy. And you are going te~ v yteld.l‘_You will yield your will to mine—*** *•’»;*p. ■ ■ {‘Never!” she Cried. "I will fling myself Into the lake before that shall happen. Ah, monsieur”—her voice to*ft orl a 'pAlidl’ng tone—“why will you not take all we have and let jus go? We are two lielpless people; we shall nev*r betray vour secrets. Why must you have me too?”' ~ ~~ “Because I love you, Jacqueline,” he curled, and now I--heard"* an under tone <*f passion which J had not sus pected In the’ man. He caught her in his arms. She ut tered a little gasping cry and struggled wildly and, Ineffectually in his grasp. T was quite cold, Yor I knew that wns to bo' the lust of his villainies. I entered'the room and walked-up to the table, rny.pistol ll^sed, aiming at his heart, and I felt" my own heart bent steadily and the w^l.to kill rise domi nant above every hesitation.. Leroux spun round. He saw me. and he smiled hts soar smile. He did rroritmeh. utthougTi hp mnsrTTTrvmTTnn^ that my hand was as steady its a rock. “What, you again, monsieur?” h ? nsked mockingly. “You have come back? You are always coming back, aren’t you?” ' ' “I have come back to kill •ybu7L | ‘- rmrx," I answered, ami pulled.tke trig ger six, limes. And each time I heard nothing but the click flf the hammer. Then, with his bull’s bellow, JSlynon was upon me, dashing his fists into niy face and bearing me down: My puny struggles were~»s Ineffective ns though I had been fighting ten men. He had Louis d'Epernay. He* uttered nn oath ; finlY toq^ two iteps backward, but I saw that he was unarmed and that he realized his help lessness. He flung his hands above his head and stood facing ine,. surprise and terror twisting his features Into • grimacing grin. * *T have something of Importance to •ay to you, monsieur," he began. “I can bellevw4JMU." L«nswer*?(L^ > YLLj.ing the floor nnd was kneeling on la about le Vlell Ange, is it not?” “By Gpd, I did not mean—I swear to you, monsieur—listen, monsieur, one njoment only,” hC\ stammered. “Lower your pistol. YoU'see Tfiuf'TI am unarmed !" I lowered U. ’Well, say what you have to say," I said to him. “Leroux Is a devil P-U-be burst out, with no pretended passion. "I" want you to help me, M. Hewlett, and I can help you In a way you da not dream of. M. Hewlett, how much do. -you thtnlc-tbbr seigniory Is-worth ?" “Some half a million* doTTaTST per- haps." He game close to merTfffl hissed Into my ear: “Monsieur, there Is more gold tn thesp rocks ban anywhere In the world! Xook here! Here!” He stooped down and began tossing pebbles at my feet. But they were pebbles of pure^told nnd each one them wns ns large ns the first joint of* CHAPTER XVIL _ The Little Dagger, -Leroux staggered buck HgainsT”‘ttir wall and sfbod there, scowling like a" devil. *It was evident that my answer had been totally unexpected New York,—Kidnaped by gyps teg when her family lived at Roanoke. Va, forced to marry the ‘fliFlnve” of a gypsy band and to tefl for'turfes to nil jt'fimer.s'cblrTtig four years of wandering through tire south, Luutse Mitchell. 18 years old, has been,,-reunited to her family through a chance meeting with an elder Sister in Newark, N. J. She is a younger daughter of Lout* Mitchell, coppersmith. who lives In fUchmotid Hill, L.I. my chest, nnd in a trice the other ruf fians had come dashing along the hall. .Jncquu’Hne was beating _Wlth her -Httle fists upon Leroux’s broad back, but he did hot even' feel the blows. I heard old Charles Duchaint'’?’ piping cries of fear, and then somebody held' me by the throat and I was swimming in black water. “Bring a rope, Raoul!” I heard Si mon call. Half conscious, I knew that I wns being tied. I felt the rope tighten iy wrists aJUd limbs; presently “Did you know fhisrm aflame?” cried Leroux.fiercely to Jacqueline. ‘Yes,” she replied;-*- ‘You lied to shield yourself? ‘No. to shield him,” she cried. “Be cause he *was my only friend whenjl "WITS hctpfpss In a strange city. You TTldT not. steal my money, did you, Paul?” she added, turning swiftly upou mC.'^.“No, you have paid me. You were keying It for ine.” “You lie, ‘d- n you!” yelled L > roux. and he struck her across tl e mouth as he ha# struck me. I wrjthed iq my bonds.- I pulled ti e heavy Itable after md ns I tried impo- tentl.v to craw}, toward him, sending 'f the wheel flyfng nnd all the. papers whirling through the air. I cursed Le roux as blasphemously us he was cur s- Inf? Jacqueline. And at the door was the pale face of Philippe Lacroix. LernHx 44«me4 on me. and. kicked me snUfigelyand dragged the table to the far end of the room nnd struck me re peatedly, while I struggled like a mad man. The oaths and execrations that streamed from my lips seemed to be uttered by another man, for I heard them -Indifferently, .jar-jrajLher some , thing that was I, deep in the maze of jny personality, heard them—not that pitiful, puny, goaded thing-that fought 1 In Its bonds until it ceised, panting and exhausted. There followed a long silence, while Leroux strode 'furiously about the room. At last he stopped; he seemed i . . . v d- . . . ... . how they rotj.d obtain redress. Ft* to have made up his mind. i . ' ,, . ——-» —J: - . l Peter A. McCabe, assistant district nt- I saw Jacqueline I*W*lfHlg Ht me.—H 1 The following simple- recipes have an harmful ingredients and will ac» complish"" results as well as ready Her. adventure became known woen . .... . her father tt^»k. her to the district at* | mixed remedies for the 'same ailments. tOfney’s office' tn Brooklyn to learn An Astringent Cream. —A. well-recommended astringent cream Is made from four ounces of tnutton tallow, one and a quarter ^ounces'of glycerin, one-liajf a drain of tincture of benzoin, a YpiaiTef'bT a | dram «of spirits of camphor. one-*rtgfltb of a dranTof powdercd'hlum.-ione-tpiar- f ter^fji dram uf Russiau ising 1 uss• and by wrapping^ the afflicted toe’ with ® dtdft linen ra_^ wKicle has iteen—satu rated with turpentine, night and rnortr- Ing. Care should be taken to wear shoes sufficiently wide but not too large. " _ __ ’ Excessive Perspiratfon. Sponge off the parts affected at least once a day with boric acid; N us®^ ‘20 parts,of hot water to one of acid... Also dust tin* face and nedk ami wher ever it is necessary with a dry.boraeie [iowder. - one-half a‘iY"ounce of rose water. The T° Overcome Odorous Perspiratioh. rose water, is warmed in a china cup- ^ hen bathing^ put a few drops of set in hot Wafer and the Mnglass H-Jammonin in-the vruter. the skin dissolved in ITT" The mutLun taUow, : welL.iin.1 dust with the following which has previously ..been tried _,jiut powder: .oleatv of zinc, uonte, at a gentle heat and arlded’frr tlie giy- powdered starch, 1 ounce, salitjllc cerin, ls^ then blended wit’ll the ros«*! ac * , h 1 scruple. wntefT-htT«T^the other ingredients are _■-! For Chapp*d Lips. - adde*l while the mixture is being To prevent tlKL <liap]ie<l lips^jhnt beiiten.^ Tills makes a cream which is so frequently result from the high nstmigent, tightening the skin, with- winds try rubbing tlieHtb^. each time ohf allowing it to become flabby,’ njrMntfore.going out with m<e water and often hirppens wheir one is feduclng j-glycerin, mixed in the prop<*rti*»u of flesh. ‘ two parts of-the former to one of the Receding Gums. latter. Good teeth ..are- requisite for both ^ or Feet. i d " .hettith arvd--gju*d l**oks. <;«> to a ibuitist and have the tartar removed from un der- and around the gums, then use tabby Knit mt the gmrrs scTernl ttmrs No. t—Wash the feet in warm wa ter to which a little.hydrochloric acid or chloride of lime lias been added. Nn.. ^ Hulhe tlie JjL-ct often la M Married in Accordance With Some Weird Gypsy Ceremony. ... . . . . . . ,I torney, be outlined her experience as would not meet her gaze, but at last . ... y . 14 _, T. . . , . — - • ... „ n.. „ , he had learned If from h*-r. her persistence cotupelled me. Then I — --ft—dav: - . downward, .^troiig.-solntion of b**rax **r lu com- never crosswise. The teeth should be" mon"kitchen so.Ta disso|v. T (I Hi Wider, cleaned before breakfast, after each ^Lhange the hosierj • meal and before retiring. For a Slight Scar. Spirits of camphor, touching the skin ’with It twice a day, will some times eradicate the spots loft from pintfdes—The liquid should be gently rubbed in’* saw her glance toward the wall: The two broadswords hung ther*- within arm’s reach, above Hie broken mirror. My heart Jeaped. up at th* thought of her valor, mind to yield. But-I shook my head Imperceptibly in answer nnd Tooked down at my bonds. I had been trying hard to devise some method^ of freeing myself struggles had relaxed the rope- Mr. Mitchell In 191. r * lived ai R«*an- oke, Wa„with his wife, two daughters and ^on.^when Louise disappeared. The family was frant,uv~ but n.ever She had uo-i pa ~ ve «P"fioP^ L»*t week the elder daughter, visiting in Newark, spied her young sister on the street. "Slip embraced her and took her home ♦<» - Richmond Hill. \ Louise explained^ tljat. sin- had been To Remove Corns. Salicyellc acid, 1 dram; trim The . corn with a very sharp knifw or razor blade. Apply the acid;’cover with a piece of. court plaster. In ihree days remove the -piaster and tin* corn w ill' show. pink, blue or yellow fimivrs on come with It. Soft corns may bccured i tan or gray linen. — Breakfast L nen, Colored breakfast linen Is in favor. Square cloths which hang only a few Inches over the, edge of* the table and small napkins, about ITim be.-f.square^ are either of . colored linen yc* else botherod w it h U olor.—iiome In sets border wreaths of red roses, some show’’Ted roses with bright green leaves. They suggest break fast sets of-Kngli.sh;ehiua witli its gay colors and stiff figures. The all-colored, sets -H-H- sbow Slim Lines and My cafttured by a gypsy band headed by •t ... ..— who called himself “Gregory my thumb. And I had misjudged his courage, I think, for It' wns avarice ®nd not fear that made him tremble. "It Is everywhere, monsieur!” cried Lacroix. “In this stream, -tar -tfi^Se hills, too. You can gather a mortar- ful of earQTanywhere and it will show- color when it is washed.*—We found tfits place together—” “You and Leroux?” “No! I and—” -\ He broke off suddenly and eyed me irlth furtive cunning. . “Yes, yes, monsieur} Leroux and I. And we two worked here togethe’f, wittr^TmTTung more than picks and shovels and mortars and pestles, Le roux and I. There was nobody else.] It Is the richest gold deposit In the •; world, M. Hewlett, and neither Raoul or JeatvPotitJean knows the secret-- nly Leroux nnd I,_. One cannot llghpL uptm this place save by n miracle of ~ chance, such as brought you here. God put this treasure in these hills, and he.J _ did not mean it to he ftmnth” I graspe*! him Ly the shoulder. “Do around my wrists sufficiently to allow my hands two or three Inches of move .ment, and I hoped, by hard work, tc loosen thbrn sufficiently to enable-nn to get at least one Jjand free. Then I felt that something hard wa«. pressing' Into my back, just within reach of~my right thumb- and fore finger. I let -my thumb and finget travel up and down it. .. lt-rJiilll tin form; of a tiny knife with a heavy, rounded handle. And suddenly I knew what’ It was It was the knife with which -Loul* d’Epernay had been killed! I could just. get j-my finger and thumb round the point of tin- blade The r.qpes—scnmb -^deeply—into , mv wrists as.I \vorked at it, but I fell the. lining give, and presently I had worked the blade-through and had. tbf knife out by the handle. Rut’it was fiiad* Tor thrusting mon .a man ;Tohrr:* J Gregory ftencUd her as ii AYile, - for his son Joe. an*l in a few months they were married'ln aceoVdanee with Isome weird gypsy ceremony. 1 ' r Fwo ~years a go; tlie girj. related, she Hore^ the son a child,' whom the gypsies still possess. From*tin* time, of her kidnaping" the bantf roved nil over the South in a couple of automobiles, tlie girl related— Fabrics stopping here and there to gather ir, . the shekels. They made her pose as a “queen.”—she said,—and , forced her j to tell fortunes wherever they stopped. ’ The band- drifted north this summer, and was fn.the outskirts of Newark when site met her sister. The girl -led her family to where it, had been, but it was found that'the gypsles-kook to their heels’-and fled when they dis- i ebx v ered-4l»at their “queen” had found her folks.- / '• Mr MHe^alve referred the -Mitchel- than cutting, and I had to pick t!i* | f a ^>ly to federal authoritTes in ropes to nieces strand hv strand. , ; -iersey. ,v you see„what this means?” I shoyted. “It means a glorious life!” hecried. “All tlie wealth In the world—” “No, It means (it nth!” I answered. “It means that If Leroux succeeds, In killing me he will kill you tooT Do you suppose that he will share his hoard with you?” “No. M. Hewlett," answered Lacroix -“A'gd that-ty precisely what 1 wanteil to say to you. Yru are not * hog like Leroux; I can trust you. dome with me, monsieur. I don’t know how you got Into th# wrong passage, but It is simple—straight ahead. Come with me! I will pre.iede you, I followed him it lo the darkness, : ud very sooq heard the sound of the cataract again. .Ah4.then one- more I wjhs standing at tlie tunnel entrance, ■under : a brilliant moon and the chateau was before me. I strode steadily across the^snqw- anjl opened the door In the darkjwlng. entered the * h?ilj_ nnd nscendedY the atnlrway, took the fQftr fo The right and passed thriYugh the little hall, I heard Leroux’s harsh voice within, and If I stepped outside it was not In indecision but becgu^e-T meant to make sure of my man’this tnde. “I want you, Jacqueline." t heiiMi him say ln*a voice which betrayed nef throb of passion. “And l am going to have you. I always have my way. I '•hr not life that weak Tool Hewlett” •lacquellne had b**cn imperceptfhl,) j edging away from her father ami le roux; she was now.standing ijnfued’ ately beneath the rusty swyrds.- Aru. Outside'the door I still perceh^ed- La croix. motionless. - • * It fla”shed across'my mind that In understood the girl's desperate ruse’] and that hn was waiting for the'issue'r I Saw Before Me the Features of Phik ippe Lacroix. I opened my aching eyes to find my self trussed like a chicken to two legs of the taiile and Leroux was standing over me. perfectly calm. . “Ah, Paul Hewlett, you are a very poor conspirator Indeed,” he said, “to trv to shoot a man without anything J-picked furiously at the ropes which bfnintt my hnn*Ta~ riTTd: n long Strandun In your pistol. Do you remember.how affectionately I put my arm round you -when you were sitting In that chair writing your ridiculous ctyeck? If was then that I took the liberty of extract ing the two Cartridges, But I. did think^yon,would JiavgL_sen.se enough to -coiled and whipped backmn my wrist Leroux--sfjzed Ja equ el i n e th( wrists iuxd dragged her across the fiooi te me. “Look at him!” he y.-fu-d’ “Looh intd| his face. Will y^u marry me i1 1 let him go free?” “No!” answered Jaequeline. . ^ * “I swear to you that he shall b« examine your pistol and reload before you-returned.” „ ' He picked up a scrap of newspaper from the table nnd held It before my eyes, deliberately turning up the olb lamp’w ick that I miglit read it. I rec- 'thrown from the top efrhe. cataract X i. unless you give your ^Consent withis five minutes.” JX* “Never!" sh^answered firmly. “I wdlf deuounee your father!” “You can’t frighten me with - suet stuff.Xwm-n«»t a-weak old man!” :ou will think differently aftei !ha>les puehnlne has- been flanged it Quebec jail.” le- sneeVt-'l. __ His words receivedSa-wholly uncx ported answer. The ^lotnrd lear oc forward, stooped down and picked HI ognized it at oni'FT'lt waS thtreltpfiing, heavy^ml.-tre wheel. “It was I sent him away, not you.' •ba cried. “Dor you think Tie was btraid of Jou r looked at her in admiration. from the newspaper, descriptive of the miirderetLjnan, whir I had cut out in the train and placed in my pocketbodk. You dropped this, my friend, \ybep you pulled out your pool:ctbook,’ i 'sfrhF Simon. “You "arc ’a very p*jpc_ con spirator, Paul Hewlett. Well?” “WCIIT* - 1" repeated mechanically. 1 “Who killed him?” he shouted. Ha shook tha >paper before my eyes and then he struck me across the face with It ‘Whe killed Louis d’Epernay T" he yellqg, ^and Jacqueline screamed lp.i fear. - < “I did." I aunfe^ed after a moment. ' 7 He ratsed it aloft npd stngges e., Wildly toward Leroux. . * (TO IIE CONTINUED.). X. A P.^ist. , - Why are some folks so set in tE'eir ways? There’s old Opportunity, t* i instance. For countless centuries sl*.< has been knocking at-*-pe*>ple s do, r^ Why doesn’t the old-fashioned tl. nt use the bell, come around to the buck door or else peck on the window ? __ Daily Thought. Success Is counted *wect-** by ilr «. who ne’er aucceed.—BriV I Irktta ; * Victim's Coat Small, Highwaymen Take Shirt Akron.—AlexantTei^ McKenna. !• 27 Glenwood avefme, reported to police that -after- three arin***' men had robbed - htm atob- GlenVrmuJ avenue, they- forced him to take off a siik snirr amT* /hecktie, and only permitted him tb retain his coat after they.AU had tried it on and. found It to be too small. MAN’S EYESIGHT IS RESTORED Eyelids Are Grafted on by Taking Flesh Front Patient's Leg. Bangor, Me.-—Forty-seven years without closing bttr eyes, then a period of total blindness, followed by plete-restoration of sl^ht. _ This Is the experience of John Ran dolph.. -Wats*.n of the tovfn of Siau4- Ish. Mr. Watson was a -photographer In Indianola. and In 18r>6 nn explosion of chemicals burned away his eyelids, although the. sight was- net affected. But with unprotected eyes he con- tlnued for. nearly half a century, three years of fjie period being' spent in Alaska, where the severity of the ■cRroate caused catayacts to form on went ‘to'TffiTladeJphla, where he for merly lived for a time, and was- «t the- Hkhnernann Hospital, and by grafting flesh from tfis leg Jie got a new set of eyelids. bow assured. The cataracts were re moved; ssd the_slght . h as been re stored.' - ’ • Y >; X - Dinner* and evening gowns, perhaps ! ning coiffurb nnd in the most s^leirdfc as the result of a reaction after the Of fans. ^ , restraint of war times, have swung to A lovely example of a sequln-cover- tfie other..extreme and are as/elabo- K° wu ^ or ev«>ning appears at the rate as Ingenuity.can make them, nnd*l" n ^P irtu re<l al*o\e. It .. . . is a combination of-white and black, - M —X' ■■ ■ ™ i yXln which'these g tter ng fabrics are before, for many a yetir. Clotlt of flt thelr best> This gowrI ha ^ lon(J gold and silver, satins with gold or ftn( j almost straight lines and the skirt silver figures scattered over their sur- shows the-fflvposition hfgrow shorter faces, brocades, rich embroideries which IfhaklngltBelffelt Itlgslmrt- -studdedXitli jewels; laces nnd netaJuned at the front. A tuft of ostrich that are a mass of twinkling sequins, feathers at the left side in black and fringes of nil kinds. antKahvays more a big fan of black ostrbfi find them- gold and silver cloth, entice those who j .solves in a i*erfect sefflng.' A-wonder are looking tor regjti things to choose f u i Spanish c**mb makes a'‘simple colf- from. Metallic Jhreads are woven In jjTtin-Jmpfesslve and in keeping with with silk in all 'the- joyely evening the gown. shades so^ that rose ami silver,* fur- But not evefyone cares for so much quoistLirnd gold, nilo green and silver girtrer eV.qiTbr-eTehfhg w’ear. At the make wonderful ^hiinjuacihg >loths. loft/ls a less pretehtious_gown ttmt-lT ■Wherever fashionables foregather there dlgnifU# and beautiful., Black satin, will b«* jnuch glittering this whiter. georgette crepe and beaded bafuls pf . And these, rlcjfl.fabrics*are' not tffo- Jet Wre put together-in n-ctmiposjtion both eyes; resulting In hlindneSs. Hjn ^uopollzed 1*y $e‘ fuJL-fledge*] women that can hardly be-lmproved up*tn—Its -4—..... * *■ '- society. The younger set Is allowed llhes are classic. Tbr«*e-quarter length them as the foundation for frocks, sleeves and a draped skirt (that Is un usually yelled with tulle. ^Artificial usually long! ^-ake cognizance of the flowers deck out pretty dance frocks; mode, and sparkling flantis of sequins In gll The iucc^’ bf the voperiftbir :1» eolonrare, used on tulle to match hrp color:-Fof older women ostrich plumes, enrich gowns where one might l kK>k for flowers, and are used In the eve-