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By ALBERT PAY COPYRIGHT. 1908. B1 CHAPTER IV. The Waltz. ANCE with me!" repeated So li ia. The faroff orchestra had struck up a dashing, gar Jfarsovian air. Impelled by the music and her glance of daring. Danilo sprang forward. In an instant the two were whirling madly amid the Intricacies of a wild Itussian daucc such as has for count less centuries been performed from Si beria's ieo plain to Tartar steppes?a dance of youth, aginry. utter aban don. Yet as they came panting to a halt at the last crashing note of musie the face of neither reflected the exhilara tion the swift motion and stirring measures usually evoked.1 in fact. Da nilo's brow wore a very perceptible scowl. Sonia. too. was downcast. IIa:! her rash experiment iVJled: "You didn't enjoy that." said she. "Not especially." he confessed. "Did you?" "No. You don't dance as well as you did." "You've probr.bly grown to prefer French partners." be replied, piqued at the reflection on bis dancing. "From all I hear." she retorted, "you have little right to reproach me on that score. You dance a good deal at Maxim's, don't you?" "Now and then." be admitted. "And with what sort of partners. I wonder?" she scoffed, a touch of scum in her sweet voice. "With polite ones," said Danilo Icily. She winced ever so little at the re proof and went on. "I suppose you dance better with them than with me." "Possibly." be agreed1. "You see. I. too. may prefer French partners." She raised lier great dark eyes to his. a world of meaning in them. "Do you?" she asked, almost in a whisper. The distant orchestra had been play ing agaiu. this time not a native air. but a dreamy, infinitely sweet Vien nese waltz. The opening uotes of the haunting melody, though softened by distance, were wafted none the less distinctly to the listeuing couple. Again their eyes met With a mutuaT-j Impulse they drew toward each other. Then began a dance as different from the stillly eouveutioual ballroom waltz as moonlight differs from a gasoline flare. With more than a bint of the free, marvelously graceful poses of Slavonic dancers. Danilo and Souia- be gan their wondrous waltz. Throwing herself back Into the strength of his circling embrace, the girl's outstretched arms swayed like wind blown lilies in rhythm with the music, her light step scarcely tone-bin? earth as the prince guided kcr through *he mazes of 1 lie daucc. It was a strange, dexterous blend of east and west, of <tss?iu one*;;:! pos toring and of gliding, modern waltz steps?the very poetry of motion. Nor from the first note until the last strain of music died away did either dancer's eyes leave the other's. Lore, eager and eternal, was in the gaze of each. Eye said openly to eye ''A luiiy went into the summer house v;;h ? <i ijcHllcinan." what .snllen pride forced back from the lips. Then a last dreamy ehord and the music was hushed. Danilo and Sen;:, started, amazed, as though from sonic vision of paradise. The widow, fearful lest by Impulsive word she might wreck her plan of bringing Danilo ber feet, darted breathlessly away tc welcome a now group of guests. The prince, left alone, stared after her, open mouthed. A clapping of applauding bands aroused him. "Bravo, bravo, my dear prince!" wheezed. Oe SDlI^5E5ll2E. fcliiLne for SON TERMINE f HENRY W. SAVAGE DMBBBOBiaaniBiBciiaonnni^ ward. "U nat a uefig?tiul luue dUncei But is it customary to catch one's part ner in a jiu jitsu grip like that, or is it a fashion that has come in since my waltzing days?" j The old bore's feeble jest brought I Danilo quickly back to earth and to a sense of everyday surroundings. I "Were you looking for meV" he asked, none too civilly. ! "Only to see if you had succeeded yet in finding who the lady is with whom Pe Jolidon is in love. She must be made to win him away from auy ideas of marrying the widow." "To blazes with that aud all the rest of your silly plans!" shouted Danilo. "Don't worry any more about the widow. It's no use. I tell you. She is going to marry a Frenchman in spite of us all! Aud." he went on bitterly, goaded by the chagrin and abject dis appointment in Popoffs face. Tin go ing to dance at her wedding." "Going to marry a Frenchman, is she':" yelled the distracted ambassa dor. "Preposterous! I'll find a way of stopping it.' And it is De Jolidon she thinks of marrying;" "What's that to me? I don't know who she's engaged to. and"? But PopofT waited to hear no more. Catching sight of Nisb. he rushed upon that unhappy clerk. "Find M. de Jolidon!" he command ed. "Keep your eye on him all the rest of the evening. See if he makes love to the widow and report to me. I have already told Mine. Popoff to sound him on the subject. Among us all we ought to learn something before we're done." "You'll learn 'something' if you keep on spying." muttered Danilo under Iiis breath as he moved away. "But I'll bet a year's income it'll be something that will give you more surprise than pleasure." Dusk was falling. Above the myriad colored lights that dotted Use garden the moon was rising. Along one of the hedged paths leading to the Stim mer house a man and a woman were slrolIi::g--Mme. Natalie Popoff and M. de Jolidon; "And so your worthy husband set you the task of finding out whom i am in love with'.-" De Jolidon was saying. "Yes." the ambassador's young wife answered. "He Is afraid you will marry the widow." "Why shouldn't I?" queried De Joli don jokingly. "You told me to." "But?bill you won't, will you?" she pleaded. "Why don'l you look at me': What are you looking air" De Joiiuou's eye; hail faiieu.on the fan where It lay forgotten <?:i i he bible. "The fan you lost and that your husband pocketed," he said, bandln;: it to her. "Thank goodness!" Natalie exclaim ed, seizing it; then: "Lend me a pencil." She wrote a sentence on the fan di rectly beneath the three words be had scribbled the night before at the ball. "There." she sighed, handing it to him; "keen that a.> a reminder.'' He held the fan up to the light and read: am?a?dutiful? wife." ?'Remember thai always," she ad jured. "Natalie!" he cried passionately. "it is true?I am a dutiful wife. If I have been foolish enough to listen to your lovcninkilig, at least 1 have never encouraged it. 1 have always rebuffed you for conscience's sake. 1 am a dnti rui"? "Why remind me of the hopelessness ?if my love'/'' murmured De Jolidon. "You may refuse to reciprocate it, but von cannot prevent my telling you"? "But I can. After this evening we must not meet again. My husband trust* me. This must be our farewell interview. Don'l try to alter my pur pose. I have made up my mind. Aft j er this evening 1 shall never"? "Natalie, you can't mean"? "I do. This is the last talk we two shall ever have together." "Then." implored De Jolidon, "if it is really to be our farewell iuterview. why must we talk here in the garden, where at any moment others may come to claim your attention? Grant me a final half hour of your society all to myself. Let the talk bo uninterrupted. Let us sit in the little summer house over there. See?it is empty." They entered the little inclosed ar bor It was lighted by a string of Japanese lanterns, and two rustic chairs were at opposite sides of its round ceuter table. There was a door at.each end of the tiny room?an ideal spot for a tete-a-tete chat now that the moonlight had wooed most of the guests out of doors. The light wicker door swung shut be hind the couple. Natalie quite en joyed the prospect of listening to her adorer's melodramatic words of fare well and of posing herocially as a self sacrificing, dutiful wife. In half an hour at most she would rejoin her hus band with the righteous consciousness bi her heart of having dismissed for ever ihe one man besides Popoff who had ever made love to her. So interested was Natalie in De Joli dou's parting speech that she did not hear the ambassador, just outside, de elare excitedly: "Nish. I'm sure I saw that summer j house door elose behind a lady's skirt Let's see who Is in there!" (To be continued. I The power of foes without depends on the fears within. Dr.King's New Life Pills The best in the world. SAVED FROM THE NOOSE. Too Much Confusion in Witnesses' (Jives Murderer but 20 Years. In the Criminal court, at West Chester, Pa., Angela D'Ermenegildo, tne young Philadelphian, who was charged with the shooting to death o( Passuale deFelico and his son, Ales ? sandrc, on the streets of that bor jough. one Sunday evening a few jweeks ago. entered a plea of murder I in the second degree. The plea was accepted in view of conflicting testi mony as to the facts of the crime. The testimony was to tne effect that Beuern in io DeGildo, who com mitcd suicide and was an uncle of the prisoner, had fired several shot at Alessandro, the young shoemaker, and then, when pursued by the mob, believing that he had killed Alessan dro, fired a bullet into nis own brain, amid the shrubbery on the Veit lawn. Judge Butler sentenced D'Ermene gildo to serve 20 years in the Eastern penitentiary, only one c?arge being pressed by the commonwealth, though it was claimed that the con victed man had killed the two deFe Iicos, and had wounded Patric. .7 phy id the leg and .Mike Saraceni on the elbow. > IN HARD LUCK. Clerk in City Treasurer's Office Ar rested for Embezzlement. , Chief Clerk Vital Tujague. of the New Orleans city treasurer's office, was placed in the parish prison Thursday night on a charge of hav ing embezzled about $30,000 in city funds. Tujague was lormerly city comptroller and has been actively identified with local politics for many years. The alleged embezzlement of Tujague makes the fifth shortage of a public official in New Orleans dur ing the last IS months. * Child Rescued From Hi^b Wire. Little Sophia McTague, of South Omaha, Neb., was playing on the roof of a three-story building, last week, when she climbed onto the coping and fell off. Ten feet below her was a mass of telephone wires. On these she struck, grabbed them in her little hands and held on tightly, yelling as she dangled 30 feet above the street. The child's brother leaned far out of a window just by the wires, grabbed the little one's clothing and dragged her into the window un-i injured. ?1 Took $75,000 From Miners. Six feet, tall, handsome, well dress ed and highly educated, Wilhelm De Revy has been arrested at Cincitina ti, O.. and locked up on the charge of j embezzling $75,000 from three banks in Uniontown, ra. Warrants for the man's arrest had been mailed to, Cincinnati authorities. It is alleged ' that the man was a bank clerk and j that he failed to deposit large sums that foreign-born miners in Pennsyl vania gave him for that purpose. :> Chicken Thief Killed. Shot by a watchman. Peter Klossen, at the poultry farm of W. S. Ginnell. Garden City, L. I., Andrew Heinz died, the next day, in a hospital from his wounds. Heinz was shot about midnight and had nine hens in his hands when found by the watchman, who had been given a gun to ward off intruders. .Mr. Ginnell had been! missing choice bens for some time past. *-i Thieves Hid Victim's Wooden Log. Robbers who entered the house of Oscar O'Harrah, railroad ticket agent at Colliers, W. Va., hid his wooden leg, and when he awakened he had to lie, helpless, on his bed, and watch them go through his clothes and steal $125 in money and other valuables. When they had finished, the burg lars told their victim that he would find his leg downstairs. Fires Stiy Unabated. A dispatch from Kort William. Ont., says there is no charge for the belter in the fire situation in this section. The fire line now extends from Grand Marias to Chicago Ray. a distance of 25 miles, and it. is re ported that the camp of the Pigeon River Lumber company has been destroyed. The fire damage in the White Fish valley has b<-en very great. A Fatal Apple Hunt. Daniel McKeever, 17 years old. residing near London. Ont., was kill ed near Pottersburg. He was out shooting with some companions, and, seeing tin apple tree in a field, jump ed a fence, and using his rille as a club, tried to kock theapples down. The gun exploded, the shot entered his body above the heart, tearing a gaping wound. Death was instantan eous. Many Return to Work. A large number of men returned to work in the mining drstricf. last week. The effort for a general re sumption of operations in the Alaba ma coal mines Is now on. and if is estimated that during the week no less than 10,000 men returned to work after an idleness of over two months. (,'ot Him at fjnsl. I Alleging thai ho is .lames C. Dun ham, who 12 years ago. it is charged, killed three men and three women at Santa Barbara. Ca!.. Deputy United Slates Marshal Lee McFe, on Thurs day, caused th<- arrest of a man known in the community in which he had resided for a year. Whitmore, Texas, as "Bill" Hatfield. Bad Auto "Loop the Loop." Their automobile turning turtle, Paris Fletcher, a real etate man of St. Paul. Minn., was killed aud his wife was seriously injured last week.* Dreams of golden streets will not pass iu place of-deeds of the golden rule. DEATH ENDS POVERTY. Wife's Letters Hint That She Might Use Poison Also. That desperation at his inability to obtain work drove him to take ;.some subtle poison is the opinion ;jof the New York city coroner, after >an examination of the body of C. H. Brooks, who is thought to have gone .to the metorpolis from Portland, l Mo. In the dead man's pockets there 'Iwere found several letters, apparent ly written by his wife, in which the {writer threatened to kill herself and (their children "if your next letter jdoesn't 'ring something in the way of encouragement." On the back of the envelope of the letter, which jwas addressed to "C. H. Brooks, J1?9 Dnan street, care of W. L. Ramage, with Armour & Co.," was written: "I don't feel as bad as I did when I wrote this letter. Read between the lines. I will write a better one . Sunday. Cheer up?you will soon be dead." Y\T. L. Ramage, in whose care the letters were addressed, declares that he knew very little of Brooks. He 'haul that he beneved that at one time Brooks had been a practicing, physician, but had later become a traveling salesman, it is the theory of the coroner that the man, through his knowledge of drugs, procured and took some rare poison. An au topsy wiil be performed to deter : mine' positively the cause of his :death. ? WANT'S TO WED RICH WIDOW. Young Athlete Furnishes New York With Latest Romantic Rumors. Fashionable sojourners at Sayville, I L. I., a resort for the wealthy of New I York, say no one will be in the least surprised at any time to see an an nouncement of the marriage of Mrs. Edward Kelly, rich widow of the son of Eugene Kelly and mother of Mrs. Frank Oouhl, to Ralph Craft, 24 year old, athlete, yachtsman and prime favorite all along the shore of the Great South bay. He is an in surance broker. ,: Mr. Craft has been paying Mrs. Kelly very marked attention for a year, has visited often at her. home and has taken her on automobile trips to Sayville. j When the subject was broached to Mr. Craft that gentleman did not i seem in the least surprised. And, what is more to the point, he did not deny that he hoped to make Mrs. j Kelly his bride. He did deny that there is a formal engagement of mar I riage. I "It's all Vot," ,said Mr. Craft at first, but he said it in a curious tone, and when the name of one of Mr. Craft's friends was mentioned as an authority for the rumor that the mat ter was being k?pt secret because Mr. Craft, Sr., did not know of it. the young man, a little off his gnnrd. replied: "My father knows all about it. He objects to it. But I don't see what difference that makes." 85 STARS LEFT BEHIND. Detachment From Battleship Fleet Looking For Stragglers. J A patrol from the American bat tleship fleet is still searching for the men who failed to go aboard 'heir ? ships when they sailed from Mel bourne, Australia. These number 85. Nearly all the stragglers left be hind at Sydney returned to the fleet A wireless message from the flag ship Connecticut says that every one aboa-d, from Rear Admiral Sperry down, gratefully remembered Mel borune, and that all considered the Australian visit the greatest demon stration of international friendship in American history. The Argus, reviewing the visit of the fleet to Australasia, says in an editorial: "A more orderly body of men never landed. Officers and men alike inspired sincere regard and es teem: Never in history have two countries of different flags found such immediate and deep sympathy." * Money Was Melted, But Not in Value. While Frank Marks and his wife, of Strongville, O., were away from home, recently, robbers searched the premises for the money which he was known to possess, as he was dis trustful of bauks. Incidentally, the thieves fired the barn and the pig pen. When Marks returned home he searched the ruins of the pig pen and surprised his friends by unearth ing a lump of gold. He had hidden his money, in gold coins, beneath the pig pen floor, and the intese heat had melted it. The lump was worth sev eral thousand dollars. Rood Horse Sense. Only th'- fastidious sense of taste of his horse, saved Robert M'C'or mick, of Fat Mountain, Conn., from losing $1,200 in bank bills, which he had secured on selling his property, a few days. McCormick, on return ing from the bank, put the bills in a sack of feed in tin- barn, thinking the money safer there. The next morning he fed the horse from I he sack of feed which contained the bills, and forgot all ahaul Mie money, until his wife asked him, later, where was. lb- rushed to the ham. rem embering, but \u his great joy found that the horse had not eati n the money, lie had cleaned up I is food but th-' roll of bills lay intact in the manger. Attentat Ity May Die of Wounds. With both hands and arms swath ed, a victim of blood poisoning, from being bitten by wolves several times during bis recent hunt in Wichita mountains. United States Marshal .lohn R. Abernathy. of Cut brie. Ok la.. President Roosevelt's guide who ["catches 'em alive," has returned to his father-in-law's home, near Guth rie, with his child-bride, with whom he recently eloped. Abernathy may develop hydrophobia as a result of his wounds. * FOUND NOT GUILTY. Jury Returned Verdict in Case of Dr. Linder. A dispatch from Union says that the case of Dr. \V. L. Linder, a prom inent young physician of that city, charged with killing Lucy Lipscy, a jnegress. was given to the jury at noon Thursday and they returned a verdict of not guilty. Dr. Linder in his tes timony toid of various threatening letters, he had received from the wo man and that he did not shoot her until he saw her reach for her hand satchel, in which he supposed she had a pistol. The woman'^ dying state men' was put in evidence by state, | in which she declared she had not threatened, him, hut loved him unto death, would forgive him everything and did not want him hurt. * , UTOPIAN DREAM SHATTERED. St. Louis Millionaire Gives Up Plan of Ideal Town in Indiana, It is reported that the efforts ol N. O. Nelson, the St. Louis million aire philanthropist and idealist, tr: onvert the little town of Dublin. Ind.. into a Utopian colony, have met with failure. The people of Dublin took little interest in his plans to erect public buildings in which each citi zen was to be a part owner. 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