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uims JOSEPH VN ILLUSTRATIONS.T t ROPYIXT 1909 y I0UM OSEPH S-- SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I.-The story opens at ' Monte Carlo with Col. Terence O'Rourke in his hotel. O'Rourke, a military free lance and something of a gambler, is dressing for appearance in the restaurant below when the sound of a girlish voice singing attracts his attention. Leaning out on the balcony he sees a beautiful girl who suddenly disappears. He rushes to the corridor to see a neatly gowned form enter the elevator and pass from sight. CHAPTER II.-O'Rourke's mind is filled with thoughts of the girl, and when he goes to the gaming table he allows his remarkable winnings to accumulate in differently. He notices two men watch ing him. One is the Hon. Bertie Glynn, while his companion is Viscount Des Trebes, a noted duelist. When O'Rourke leaves the table the viscount tells him he represents the French government and that he has been directed to O'Rourke as a man who would undertake a secret mission. bAPTER IM.-At his room O'Rourke, who had agreed to undertake the mission, awaits the viscount. O'Rourke finds a mysterious letter in his apartment. The viscount arrives, hands a. sealed package to O'Rourke, who is not to open it until on the ocean. He says the French gov ernment will pay O'Rourke 25,000 francs for his services. A pair of dainty slip , pers are seen protruding from under a doorway curtain and the viscount charges O'Rourke with having a spy secreted there. v CHAPTER TV.-When the Irishman goes to his room he finds there the own er of the mysterious feet. It Is his wife, Beatrix, from whom he had run away a year previous. They are reconciled, and opening the letter he had received, he finds that a law firm in Rangoon, India, offers him 100.000 pounds for an Indian Jewel known as the Pool of Flame and left to him by a dying friend. O'Rourke tells his wife that- it is in the keeping of a friend named Chambret in Algeria. CHAPTER V.-O'Rourke Is forced to fight a duel with the viscount. The brag gart nohleman is worsted in the combat and acts the poltroon. CHAPTER VI.-The loyal wife bids O'Rourke farewell and he promises to soon return with the reward offered for the Pool of Flame. He discovers both Glynn and the viscount on board the shin which takes him to Algeria. CHAPTER VII.-Chambret has left Al geria and O'Rourke has to gain a mili tary detachment going across the desert to reach his friend. As he finds the latter there Is an attack by bandits and Chambret is shot. CHAPTER VIII.-Chambret dies telling O'Rourke that he has left the Pool of Flame with the governor general of Al geria. He gives the colonel a signet ring at the sight of which he says the official will deliver over the jewel CHAPTER IX.-O'Rourke Is attacked by Glynn and the viscount who ransack his luggage, but he worsts them in the conflict. CHAPTER X.-When he arrives at Al geria the Irishman finds the governor general away. He receives a note from Des Trebes making a mysterious appoint ment. CHAPTER XI.-The viscount tells O'Rourke that he has gained possession of the jewel by stealing it from the safe of the governor general. He does not, however, know who has offered the r6 ward for it. He suggests a duel withs rapiers, the victor to get that informationa 'and the 'jewel. CHAPTER XII.-In the duel O'Rourke masters his adversary and secures pos session of the Pool of Flame. CHAPTER XIII. - The efforts of O'Rourke are now directed toward speed ily getting to Rangoon with the jewel and he starts by shi_p. CHAPTER XYV.-IHe finds the captain of the vessel to be a smuggler who tries to steal the jewel from him. CHAPTER XV.-The jewel is finally se cured by the. ship's captain and O'Rourke escapes to land. CHAPTER XVI.-With the aid of one Danny and his sweetheart, O'Rourke re covers the Pool of Flame. CHAPTER XVII. - O'Rourke again forms his plans to pursue his journey tc Ran_goon. CHAPTER XVIlI. It was mid-afternoon of a sultry day. No air stirred. The Panjnab was coal Ing at Port Said.. O'Rourke eyed the vessel with dis favor from the shore; then dropped into a harbor dinghy, ensconced him 1 self at the tiller-ropes, and caused himself, with his luggage and his man-servant, to be conveyed alongside the. steamer. Near the gangway he was held back; another boat had forestalled him, another passenger was shipping for the East. O'Rourke was Interested Idly. He saw a woman, a slight, trim fig ure becomingly attired in white, with a veil about her head, leave the boat and mount the gangway steps with a springy, youthful step, a cheerful and positive air, a certain but indefinable calm of self-possession. At the top she paused, turned, looked down, watching the transfer of her luggage and her maid. . . From sundry intangible Indications O'Rourke as sumed the second woman's figure to be the lady's maid. And so did Danny. The one eyed the mistress, the other her servant, both with interest.... The woma~n on deck threw back her veil. She seemed to promise uncom mon beauty of the English type, full colored and of classic mold.... The Irishman was much too far away to be certain, but he fancied that her gaze wandered toward him and-but this, of course, was only imagination -that she started slightly At all events, she was quick to drop the veil and turn away. Her maid ~joining her, both vanished beneath the canvas awnings. The boat that had brought her sheered off, and O'Rourke was permitted to board the Panjnab. It was a glad day, the O'Rourke told himself, as he trod those decks; it * aw.htm def.nitely,started on his way \ toth East and peered outr -o t~ -Po -nt stateroom. The steamer was plowin; through the Bitter Lakes. He saw string of buoys, a width of water lik' a jade, a vista of sand, flat, gray patched with gray-green desert shrut bounded only by the horizon. . . "Damn . . ." said he listlessly He slipped down again upon his bacb panted, and wiped his brow. Danny, recognizing that he was no expected to respond, and being young man remarkably acute to diag nose his master's moods, prudently re frained from comment. He sat huncb ed up on a cabin stool, his intensel: red, bullet-shaped head bent low ove a bit of -chamois skin, which he wa sewing into a rough, sturdy bag. As the sun dipped beneath the rin of the horizon. a pleasant shadow in vaded the stateroom, until aat me ment blood-red with its level rays And Danny straightened up, droppinj thimble and thread, announcing th< completion of his needlework by briet, contented: "There!" O'Rourke glanced at. the artici dangling from his valet's fingers, an slammed the book against the bull head at the foot of his berth. "Finished, is it?" he exclaimec "Faith, 'tis about time, ye lazy gooc for-naught!" Danny smiled serenely. "And a goo job, too, sor," said he proudl3 "M'anin' no onrespect to yer- honor, he added hastily. O'Rourke took the subject of discu. sion in his fingers and examined i searchingly. "'Twill do," he announced. "'Twi: serve its purpose, if no more. La out me evening clothes now." H stood up, stopping to stare throug the port. "Good enough," he con mented on what he discovered witi out; "'tis passing Suez we are thi blessed minute. Praises be, w caught a boat that doesn't stop here. Danny scratched an ankle though fully. "Yiss, yer honor," he assentei dubious. "But, for all that, phwat to hinder annywan from boordin' u be boat, if they sh'u'd want to?" O4Lourke turned and eyed the ma: keenly. "'Tis a great head ye hav on your shoulders, Danny," he sait "Sometimes ye betray almost canin intilligence. I'm be way of havini hopes of ye. Now get ye on deck ani watch to see who does come aboard If anyone, and report to'me." "Yiss, yer honor." O'Rourke bolted the door after Dai my and assured himself that the key hole was properly wadded, that n< track existed through which his move ments might be observed from th< gangway. Shrugging his broad shoul ders he returned to: the seat vacate< by his valet and thrust a hand be neath the coat of his pajamas, with drawing It a moment later, fingert tightly wrapped about a rather bulk: object And the Pool of Flame lay glitter ing and stabbing his eyes with shafti Qf blood-red light Into its depths of pellucid fire O'Rourke gazed'long and earnestly, ia the most profound meditation. But at length, slipping the ruby lnt< the new receptacle and drawing thf lanyard tight about its puckered throat, he stood up and threw the 1o0] over his head, permitting the bag wit] its precious contents to fall beneat! the folds of his jacket; and, shaking off the sober mood inspired in him by the study of the stone, rang for steward, to whom, when he responded hae entrusted a summons for Danny "if so be it we're clear of Suez." In the course of five minutes or sC Danny himself tapped on the door and presented to his master a bdaming race. "Divvle a sowl !" he announced tri umphantly. "Sure, 'tis ourselves hav4 given thim the slip entirely!" He fished a brand new kit-box fron beneath the berth and, opening it, be ban to lay out O'Rourke's clothing. His master indulged in a sigh of re lief. "Then no boat put off to us at all ?" he questioned indifferently. "Only wan," replied the servant, "and thot wid no wan in ut but a nay gur." "A negro?" demanded O'Rourke, fa cing about. "What do ye mean? Did be come aboard?" "Sure and he did that, yer honor and caught us be no mcore thin the skin av his tathe and-" O'Rourke bent over the man and seizing ~im by the shoulders swung him around so that their eyes met. 'What the divvle!" demanded the ad venturer, "did ye mean by telling me nobody boarded us, then? What-" "Sure, yer honor. . . . Aw, yer honor! . . . 'Tis mesilf meant nc harrm at all, at all!" protested Danny. "Didn't I say thot divvle a sowl came aboord? Sure, thin, is a naygur a hu man?" With an exasperated gesture O'Rourke released the boy. "'Tis toc much for me ye are," he said help lessly. "Now and again I believe yE '1weh makings of a man in ye, and e r re-effand play the-fool! 11 - . -Neve ye 4 punre simnpletom less hide. Get on with ye! Tell n about this 'naygur.' What sort of black man is he?" "Sure, sor," whimpered Danny, "'t mesilf that w'u'd die rather thin hai ye talk to me thot way, yer hono Upon me sowl, I niver thought ye worry about a poor divvle av a na gur, come aboard wid nothin' but say-chist and the clothes he walks i beggin' for a chanst to worrk h passage to Bombay, sor." "Did they let him sign on, then inquired O'Rourke. "Divvle a bit, rayspicts to ye." Moi cheerfully Danny struggled with tr studs in O'Rourke's shirt. "The pu ser was all for kicking him back in1 his boat, sor, whin he offered to pE passage in the steerage. So they 1 him stay, sor." "Seemed to have money-eh?" "Aw, no, yer honor. 'Twas bare: able he was to scrape ut all together "Lascar?" "I belave so, yer honor. 'Tis harn for me to say. Wan av thim naygur as much like another as two pay sor; 'tis all tarred wid the same bru: t they be." L "Ah well," he resumed more pacifi ally, "belike he's what he seems, Da: ny, and has no concern with us at a) Whether or no, care killed th' cat. . . D'ye mind, Danny," he swur r off on one of his characteristicall ' acute tangents, "the little woman wit the red hair? Though 'tis mese a should beg the lady's pardon for me .tioning the color of her hair in tb ' same room with that outrageous heao ' light of yours, Danny. . . . D'y * mind her, I mean ?" e "The wan ye observed at Pool Said, sor? The wan ye told me I discover the name av?" E "'Tis a brave detective ye woul d make, Danny. Ye have me meanin entirely!" "Aw, yiss." Danny's lips tightene as he laced O'Rourke's patent-leathE shoes. He cast up at his master face an oblique glance of disapprova C "I mind the wan ye mane," he a< mitted. He rose, and as he did so, O'Rourk gently but firmly twisted him aroun by the ear and as deliberately an % thoughtfully kicked him. "What the divvle is the matter wit ye, Danny?" he inquired in pained r4 monstrance. "It is mad ye are, c have ye no judgment at all, ye scu t that ye speak to me in that tone?" 1 Solicitously Danny rubbed th 1 chastened portion of his person, grun bling but unrepentant. O'Rourke grinned tolerantly, retail ing his hold upon the servitor's ea1 b "Her name?" "'Ow, yer honor, leggo! .. Missus Prynne, sor!" Gently but Frirmly Twisted Hir Around by the Ear.' The wanderer gave the ear anothe tweak, by way of enforcing the les son. "Prynne, is it? And how dii you learn that, Danny?" t"'Twas her maid told me, sor. Leg go, yer honor, plaze-" "And how did her maid come t< tell ye' ye great ugly, long-legge( Dmadhaun?" J"Sure-ow!-'twas only a bit av - kiss I was by way av givin' her K"That'll do, Danny," O'Rourke chuc kled. SThe peal of the trumpet announcing dinner interrupted his contemplate( -lecture on the ethics of investigatioI and the perils of flirtation as betweer maid and man servant.. (TO BE CONTINUED.) -SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Schedules Effective December 3, 1911 Arrivals and Departures New berry, S. C. (N. B.-Thesle schedule figures ar< Ishown as information only and are no guaranteed.) 8:51 a. m.--No. 15, daily from Co Ilunmbia to Greenville. Pullmar sleeping car between Charlestor and Greenville. 11:50 a. m.-No. 18, daily, from Green ville to Columbia. Arrives Colum* bia 1:35 p. in., Augusta 8:35 p. m Charleston 8:lE p. mn. 2:45 p. m.--No. 17, daily, from Colum bia to Greenville. I9:05 p. m.-No. 16, daily, from Green ville to Columbia. Pulluan sleep ing car Greenville to Charleston. Arrives Charleston 8:15 a. m. Ar rive Savannah 4:15 a. mn. Jack sonvillo 8:MO n. 'i. IFour further informaition ca I on A. E ~ ts, r ~. K.2ca~an,V. P. a & G. M., Washington, D. C.; J. L. Meek, A. G. P. 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January 15, 1912, at noon, for letters dismissory as administrator j of the personal estate of Owen McRae Holmes, deceased. Robert McCaughrin Holmes, " 12-12-4t-1taw. Administrator. Ar. Ar. Columrbia, Newberry & Laurenxs B. E, A Lv. Schedule in effect October 6, 1910 Lv. Subject to change without notice. Lv. schedules indicated are not guaran- ILv. A. C. L. 52. 53. L Lv. Charleston.. ... 6.10am 10.00pmf Lv. Sumter.. .. ....9.4am 6.2Opm ar. C. N. &L. Lv. Columbia......11.5am 4.55pm Ar. Ls. Pr sperf. ..12.42pm 3.34pm Ar. Lv. Newherry.. .. . 12.56pm 3.20pm Ar. Lv. Clinton.... .. ..1.5pm 2.35pm A. [,V,.Laurea....... 2.35pm 2.12pm C. &W. C. Eroi Ar. Greenville. . .. 4.0Opmn 12.20pmn and Ar. Spartanbuirg. .. 4.0C5pm 12.20pm jand S. A. L T ooE to fill space th I invite all fri call at my ne of business. Mayes' Boo] THE HOUSE OF A THOU~ FREE DEMONSTR FARMING' D YN A I Drawn from actual photograph stu Drawn from actual photograph. 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