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*fsERIAL^ 1 STORY J n= 1 STANTON 4' [l WINS n By Eleanor M. Ingram Author of "The Game and the Candle." "The Flying Mercury." etc. Illustration! iy Frederic Thornbnrgh 'topyrlgtu ItfU. The Uobbs-Merrill Company 10 SYNOPSIS. At the beginning or great uutomobllo race the mechanician of the Mercury, Stanton's inuchtnc, ilmps ilead. Strange youth. Jesse Floyd. volunteers, ami Is accepted. In the rest during the twentyfour hour race Stanton meets a stranger. Miss Carlisle, who Introduces herself. The Mercury wins race. Stanton receive s flowers frotn Miss Carlisle, which ho Ignores. Stanton meets Miss Carlisle on a train. They alight to take walk, and train leaves. Stanton and Miss Carlisle follow In auto. Accident by which Stanton Is hurt Is mysterious. Floyd, at lunch with Stanton, tells of his boyhood. Stanton ngaln meets Miss Carlisle and they dine together. Stanton comes to track sick, but makes race. They have accident. Floyd hurt, but not seriously. At dinner Floyd tells Stanton of his twin later. Jessica. Stanton becomes very 111 and losea consciousness. On recovery, at his hotel Stanton receives Invitation and visits Jessica. rHA9TCD \/ll (C ?: ?IX "I nm alone In the rrowd, too," he rejoined. "If I thought Floyd would not object, or feel that I took advantage of his absence, 1 should ask If you would do me so much honor as to go to the theater with me, this evening." Her gray eyes widened, the color flushed through her transparent skin. Suddenly and vividly Stanton was reminded of Floyd's face on the tlrst night when he Invited the mechanician to race with him for the s<l\son. "You nre asking me?" she doubted. "I would like to do so. 'Hut not if you think Floyd would refuse to let me, if he were here. He can't have much of an opinion of me." "I wish I might tell you what Jet: thinks of you," she made grave answer. "I am quite sure that he would let me go with you, Mr. Stanton; you are very good and I thank you from the bottom of my heart." The little old Irishwoman in black silk opened the door for him, beaming and smiling. Amazed at himself, f bewildered by a sense of having seen Floyd and yet not seen him, Stanton ^ x ncut uuwu im.u iiic practical cny J street. He spent twy hours in selecting an irreproachable play and theater; a task of some delicacy in this his native town. After which, he ate a per. functory dinner and went home to dress. Stanton, whose overbearing willfulness spared no one, whose rough tongue hurt his mechanician as often as they met, would no more have taken Floyd's sister to dine with him in, a public restaurant without Floyd's permission, than he would have stolen his purse. It was a dazzling Jessica whom he found waiting for him, at the appointed hour. Yet she was simply gowned In delicate gray, with a demure lace collar that came up to her round chin, and long lace sleeves. It was her vivid, expressive face; the bronze ., a curls massed under the wide gray hat, the splendid glow and young vitality of her, that made people look ind look again. Stnnton approved of her unreservedly; he had fixed masculine notions of. what women should wear in public places. On her left arm, over the transparent sleeve, she wore an antique silver bracelet fully four inches in breadth; 1 singular ornament, set with dull turquoise matrix. When Stanton assisted her to remove her cloak, at the theater, she suddenly winced. "The bracelet?it caught my arm," she explained, before he could question. "It is too hpavv roollu wear." But nevertheless, she did not take It off, and several times through the evening touched her gloved finger to the silver band as if to assure herself that It was in place. A Bouvenlr, t perhaps, Stanton idly reflected. He was too much interested in the wearer to pay heed to the bracelet. Except for the hours passed with Floyd, he had never experienced anything like this satisfying companionship. The performance had ended, and Stanton was carefully piloting his charge through the slow-moving mass of people, when he heard his own name exclaimed. He glanced around, and saw Valerie Carlisle coming dpwii the stairs from the boxes, her laFge, amber eyes fixed upon him. ITnder the strong light, in her elaborate pale-green gown, her shoulders bare and showing satin-white where her cloak had slipped back, her blonde hair circled with a wreath of green enameled and Jeweled leaves, she was conspicuous enough to draw the glances of all those passing, as well as that of the man she called. Stanton bowed and would have continued pn his way. but she called a second time, adding a gesture of summons "Mr. Stanton!" Evidently she expected him . to excuse himself momentarily fpm his companion, as she had mA&H few steps from .her father and' the ibrihger gentle At ati "wiio abcompani&f 'ifer. Bfrt .Stanton's eyes glinted cold reststanoe of the attempt at ccinmand. He de- ci liberately retained Jessica's hand pi upon his arm and, since he must go. ei led her with him. "You called me. Miss Carlisle?" he ni questioned. "Miss Floyd, let me in- ft troduce Miss Carlisle." The two women bowed without effusion. Valerie Carlisle scrutinizing Jessica with an acute attention that seized every detail of her appearance. "Miss Floyd, have we not met?" she a puzzled. "Pardon, It seems so to me." "Probably you have met my twin s< brother." Jessica suggested, gravely ft self-possessed. "He is much with " Mr. Stanton." ci There was a shock of antagonism g in their meeting gaze, as there had n?>en oei ween rioyd and this girl a: when he had seen her in the railroad depot on the way to Lowell. Miss g Carlisle turned to Stanton, enllght- ic ened. u "Oh, your mechanician; I remem- a ber." tl "My friend and mechanician, yes." ii he amended. si "Ah? Hut I am detaining you?I S merely wished to ask If you had quite o< recovered from your illness. When you left us that night, I never imag- Q, ined you would try to race next morn- c Uig. And you Bhoul'' ' ,^?ie so; It resulted in an accident." t He opened his lips to deny that his f{ illness had caused the Mercury's mis- n hap, then paused. If he had not felt ^ the average irritability of a strong man c] sick, would he have quarreled with a Floyd and taken his car around the turn at such ruinous speed? lie did K net know. s] "I am perfectly well, thank you." he answered, instead. tl "Indeed, I am glad. Will you not a come to see us soon?you owe us a r. dinner call, you know." He did not echo her delicately ex- ^ pectant smile, his dark face hard. "You must believe my appreciation of the dinner without that formality, ^ Miss Carlisle. I start for Indiana in a few days," lie regretted. Her amber eyes also hardened, sud- n denlv and strangely; she moved a step n to retire, catahlng up her trailing lengths of satin and lace. ^ "As you will, of course. Ah; we found out what car wins when you V are taken from a race. Mr. Stanton, * as at Lowell. And you Judged wrong ?it was not the Duplex, but the Atalanta. flood night." Stanton looked after her, amazed, then abruptly turned his eyes to the frank, steadfast face of Jessica Floyd. K "Come out in the fresh air," he re- e quested. "That perfume she wears smothers one." ci "Sandalwood," Interpreted Jessica, " turning; she had her brother's habit of instantly obeying a suggestion. And as they emerged: "May I say o somefting Interfering and impertinent?" a "What right have I to object to any- h thing said to me? I show smntl grace to others." o "Then, pray do not go near Miss Carlisle just before a race." F He stopped short on the sidewalk. ti "You know?you think?" "I know only what Jes knows," she ci declared. "Hut I think that Miss Carlisle is not good for your racing. Some \v people are naturally unlucky influences, perhaps." d Stanton shook his head, unbeguiled t< by the pleasantry. r< "I understand whs.t Floyd believes, h but it Is impossib'.*, absurd. Besides, di x v> \ \ \o ol \v; : "Mias Floyd, Let Me Introduce Miss Carlisle." I er I " It is to her interest for me to win; tl the Mercury uses her father's tires." p "Yes," agreed Jessica impersonally, li When hw left her, in the faintly light- n ed hall before the door of her apart- a ment, she drew off her glove with a e swift movement. o "My father used to say that one n only offered a covered hand to an en- I; eray," she said half playful, half serl- Ji ous. "Good night." i There was a tinkling crash, before t he could reply. Stanton bent and re- p covered her wide silver bracelet, shak- t en loose by her rapid gesture of the o previous moment. h "May I put It on?" he asked. t But she held out her hand for the v trinket; in the dim light he could b have Imagined that she had become suddenly agitated and hurried. "No, It 1s too heavy," she declined. "Good night, I have enjoyed this eve- n nlng very much." t In his own hotel apartment, when o he drew ofT his gloves, Stanton was f puzzled io find his right fingers slight- ii ly stained with crimson. Slowly mem- t! ory brought back the fact, unnoticed t] at the time, that Jessica's bracelet h had been warm and damp to the touch s when he picked it up. It had cut her h trm, then, in falling, he deduced. And o she had not spoken of the hurt or s -led out! Stanton laughed In aproving admiration, she had her brothr's pluck. He hated whining people. Only he wished that her eyes were | ot ao exactly like Floyd's; It con- | iscd him. ^ CHAPTER VIII. T cam-Mated. Floyd returned Stanton's call after ^ fashion of his own. sotnc days later. "There's a gentleman down-stairs to je you. sir," the bell-boy brought In- ? nutation to the latter, one afternoon He won't come up because he says he tin't leave his automobile, but he'd be lad If you'd come down, sir." Stanton looked at the card presented, nd rose with alacrity. I His mechanician wjs in the hall, axing across the wl ie windows at a >w-swung. long-bo .meted, dull gray lotorcar that stoo>. by the curbstone; car stripped as oare of every super- > uous belongings as a pugilist enter- p lg the ring. At the hiss of the de h trending ele' ator he turned to meet 0 tanton wP ? his smile of sun-shot t ordlallty I "I w* j afraid to let your machine t .? my sight." he exclaimed. "She c > going on to Indiana, to-night, and I le chief wanted you to see her first o here wasn't time to get you out to the ? ictory, after fixing her steering busi- c ess the way you wanted, so they sent B er down for you to look over. Tho v hlef sent word for you to try her out r nywhere you liked and he would pay t le cost if you got in trouble, but to j et her shipped west to-night unless v tie had to go back to the factory, for f lere were rumors of a strike among ^ te train men and we might not bo c hie to get her through In time for the ice." "Who drove her down here?" Stan- , t in demanded, casting a jealous c lance out the window, but accepting 1 le facts more amiably than could t ave been expected. i "The chief, until he left me at the a venue corner, just now. He said? t ever mind." "Oh, go ahead." 1 "Well, he said he had been a racing j river himself and knew how you t ould feel about having your car anked thirty miles across country t aads by another driver; and. er?that t e guessed that he was the only man i 1 the shops who'd care to tell you ho ( ad done It." j "I'll get some driving things." sug- t ested Stanton, and went back to tho 1 levator. When he joined Floyd beside the big 1 nr. he stood for a moment busied with 1 le clasp of his gauntlet, before atimpting to start. 1 "Miss Floyd told you of my call, the I ther day?" he queried "Yes. of course. I was sorry to be i way; I had never thought, of your I anting mo up." * "You did not object to my taking her ut? There was no way of asking you." * This from the self-willed Stanton! loyd's eyes glinted with an apprecia- ^ on at once humorous and touched. 1 "Object? Why? You could take 8 ure of her." he countered. "Fix the spark." bade Stanton, and * ent front to crank his motor. "We'll not get half a block without rawing every mount, d policeman for 1 ?n miles," Floyd callt d. above the * >ar of the exhausts. "We ought, to ? ave made ready by putting on a few < Dzen mufflers." j t "What time must she be shipped?" "We must have her at the Mercury ? [lice by six o'clock, unless you say sho * as to go back to the factory." i "It is after four, now. No time to ( y the I.ong Island course, and there i i a motor-cycle race on the Hench > aek. Oet into your seat; we'll take ] elham Parkway." i "Pelham Parkway! Why?" "Have you anything better to pro- > i ose?" > "It's a first offense." Floyd resigned c imself. "They can't do worse than 1 ne you." t Stanton shrugged his shoulders, and * ie car rolled forward. The Mercury glided through the joining. congested streets, and left a ] lultless record behind her. Not a t afllc officer's slightest signal was dls- j f Bgarded, no speed regulations were | r taterially fractured; Stanton drove j Ke a mw-aoiuing cnauneur rrnm trie ^ uburbs, and until they were In the ( ark. i c (TO BE CONTINUED.) I t Imagination. : . The faculty of imagination Is the real spring of human activity, and % ho principal source of human lm- i s rovement. As It delights In present- 1 tig to the mind scenes and characters lore perfect than those which we are 1 cqualnted with, It prevents us from 11 vcr being completely satisfied with c ur present condition, or with our past 8 ttalnments, and engages us continual ' y In tho pursuit of somo untried en- 8 oyment, or of some Ideal excellence, lence tho nrdor of the seltlsh to bet- r er their fortunes, and to add to their * lersonal accomplishments, and hence s he zeal of the patriot and the phllos- r ipher to advance the virtue and the 1' lapplness of tho human race. Destroy <1 his faculty, and tho condition of man .1 rill become as stationary na that of c irutes.?Dugnld Stewart Only Problem of Happiness. r "Real happiness Is so simple that a lost people do not recognize It They J blnk it comes from doing something c n n big %eale. from n big fortuue. or I rom so.do great achievement, when, r n fact. It Is derived from tho simplest, i he quietest, the most unprete ltlous c hlngs In the world. Our great prob- i 8m Is to fill each day so full of sun- t hlne. of plain living and high think- t ig. that there can be nc commonness j, r unhapplness In our lives."?Orison j weet Nlarden. ; . t I : , V 0 irnmoioNAL SiiNnarscnooL Lesson Ry K. O. SKLLEItS, Director of Evening 1 Apartment, Tho Moody ltlblo Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR JUNE 29 THE VICTORIES OF FAITH. READING LESSON?Acts 7:3-16: lob. 11:20-22. GOLDEN TEXT?"This Is tho victory hat hath overcome tho world, even our tilth." I John 6:4. Tho rending lessons for today are a few Testament commentary upon tho mat quarter's work. The first lesson s taken from that marvelous defense it Stephen tho first martyr. As ho races tho history of the people of srael. he shows f!orl's rnnllnii.J <tr. lvities and purposes from the hour ho ailed Abraham until the holy one of srael came to fill to their fulness all f these same activities and purposes, itephen also shows us that alongside lod's activities was tlio equally peristent disobedience of the people vhlch culminated in the betrayal and nurder of that holy one. In the porion selected he sets beforo us how oseph is sold into Egypt, yet God was kitli him and delivered him; how the amine came and Jacob is thereby rough t into Egypt only later to be arrled back into the land of promise. Teach Faith. The Becond lesson is taken from hat great catalogue of heroes as relorded in the Epistle to the Hebrews, lero we have set beforo us the fact hat God's eternal purpose with man s ever that of faith. Isaac, Jacob md Joseph are here mentioned and he faith of each set beforo us. Leaving out the Easter lesson we ta^'o covered a period of about 50 rears, eight lessons dealing with Joseph. and four with Jacob. Attention has been called to Joloph as one of the most remarkable ypes of Christ to bo found in the Old Testament (see comments 011 lesson >f April 27). As we have also suggested Jacob is not so grand a charicter as Abraham yet is much more ike the average man. It is interesting to go over these essons and follow God's purposes and o observe how like Christ Joseph was. In LESSON I. we behold Jacob at the nstlgation of his mother deceiving his >oor old father and being compelled 0 fly that lie might save his life. Itelekah thought she could execute God's mrposes; but it is never right to do svil that good may result. lu LESSON II. Jehovah appeared beore this conscience smitten refugee md again promised tha h?- blessing, res, his own divine purpose, would ie worked out in Jacob's life. This is 1 lesson 011 the grace of God. LESSON III. sets Jacob beforo us ifter twenty-one years' service and teparation from his brother Esau, rhis is a groat lesson on God's desire ind transforming power. Ho trans arms Jacob to Israel a "prince" and toftened the heart of Esau. Faith ivercame and is strengthened and lonflrmed. In LESSON IV. wo first behold Jo teph particularly loved and favored iml as bitterly hated; he was thrown nto a pit to die but is taken up [typical of the resurrection) and sold nto slavery. The development of en ry and the persistent, delivering pur ;iose of God aro hero presented in strong contrast. LESSON V. shows Joseph's enter ng that dark maze beyond which God vas to highly exalt him. lly faith ht ivercame that fierce temptation and lis treatment of his fellow prisonei vas God's useful agency though il teemed accidental and insignificant. God's Continued Purpose. LESSON VI. is the completion ol josson V. and in it we seo Joseph leated in the place of power, able tc lave the country and also his broth en. LESSON VII. shows us God's con inued purpose and the beginning ol ho fulfillment of his word that the lescendants of Abraham were tc lwell in cantlvltv lllon LESSON VIII. is a continuation ol Foseph's dealings with his brothers in vhich their guilty consciences are itill further pricked and God reveals o us his immutable purpose. LESSON IX. is a tender ono of the neeting of Joseph and Benjamin while it the same time it suggests to us the :ertainty of the fact that we may "be ure your sin will ilnd you out." Urn ess covered by his forgiving blood our in is mercilessly upon our track. In LESSON X. we behold Joseph nade known to his brethren and those n fear are urged to draw near. Joeph's faith in God saved him from arogance and retaliation and Inclined lis heart to tenderness and love in his lealings with his brothers. Even as oseph revealed himself to his broth ;rs so will Christ reveal himself. Jeseph'8 provision for his fathers ind his brethren, LESSON XI., is a ich suggestion of our father's bounty ind care for all who are "in Christ osus." lty faith Joseph who had be^ :ome great in a strange land, identi led with all of its power and splendor nakes provision that when God's pur >ose shall be executed and the sons if Israel shall be delivered from Egypt, his bones shall be carried intc he land of the people to whom ht lelonged and from whom he has so ong been separated. Faith is the se ret of victory. Joseph as a typt eaches us the lesson of faith. 1 / V.' \ MsniNGif Motor Trucks Displacing I WASHINGTON.?"The motor truck is hound to mark the passing ot' the army mule, just ns it has begun to oust that animal's shorter-eared half-brother, the horse, from the trans- ' portal ion scheme of civil life." said an : army officer on his return from an ex- I tended European tour. "It is only a matter of a short time before that ( picturesque and faithful adjunct of , our military force is relegated to the j much more prosaic life of the farm. "What has been and is being ac- ; complished by European governments in the matter of army transportation can be accomplished in our own country. And abroad the motor truck is being put to every conceivable test as to its fitness and capability in military maneuvers. "The possibilities of the truck In J our own army schemes are made evident in the report recently made by high army officials to the war depart- j ment. According to this report the total weight of supplies and impedl- i William F. McCombs Is V( WILLIAM F. M'COMHS, the Democratic national chairman, has a decided penchant for the society of men of mountainous build. He himself does not tip the beam at even welterweight figures, but he lives with men of the white hope caliber when it comes to size and strength. When he was an undergraduate at Princeton his tastes were decidedly literary. McCombs, when it came to the club elections, took an election to the "foot ball club," as one of the leadi ing clubs there is accurately de- j scribed, and among his intimates In bis class were such old football stars as "Garry" Cochran. "Ad" Kelly, "Hill" Hannard and "Sport" Armstrong. I When McCombs left Princeton to enter the Harvard Law school none of , his athletic friends went up to Cam- | bridge with him. He solved the prob- ; lem by living through his three years' j ; course with the man who had j broken all the strength records of liar | vard. His new chum was Henry F. Coch- I > "to, .?us# iiuu tumo io narvaru witn tli?? reputation of being one of the best football stars in the west. Coch; ems had played four years In the University of Wisconsin backfield, and was ineligible, but he would have proved a tower of strength to the Crimson. An Interesting Grove of IF you are interested in lofty, I broad, noble and venerable oaks the I ! writer will point you to a stately , grove. , In going eastward along the Hunker , Hill road turn to the right at the , crossing of Queen's Chapel road and , near midway between the Hunker Hill [ road and Rhode Island avenue you will , see on the left of the way the oak , grove indicated. Under the boughs of the great trees is a frame house [ with flower beds and flower-planted | j tubs in front and on the sides. The j writer's first idea was that some grand ( mansion must once have stood in that grove of high oaks, but this idea, like t so many other first ideas, proved on ( Investigation, to be wrong. . The present happy tenants of that j , cot among the oaks are Mr. and Mrs. j Christopher Columbus Murphy. Mr. . Murphy is seventy-one years old, son ' I Here Is a Man Who Eat THK national capital boasts at least one sand eating man. HIh name i is Julian Gmmons and he is a door i hi me nuuHH or represents- ' tires. Kmmons hails from Nobles- ' : vllle, Ind., and came to Washington j with the Democratic regime in the house more than two years ago. lie ; Is slxty-flve years of age, hale and hearty. Hmmons swallows a teaspoonful of \ sand after each meal He never leaves home in the morning without | a phial of coarse sand. Ho says he was troubled constantly with sour stomach, heartburn, indigestion and kindred ills until he started the "sand cure." Now he asserts that he is never troubled at all, jellshes his food, sleeps like a baby and enjoys life to the full. He has one remedy for all ills. It [ ????wmm Mules in Army Service menta that must be carried with an army division of 20,000 men is 2,883,000 pounds, or a full load for 961 of such army wagons as are now used. "These figures in road space alone show that there is a great waste with present methods. That number of wagons require a space of approximately eleven miles on a twenty-yard road, a column that is vastly too large to bo economically handled. And, besides, with eleven miles of wagons occupying the roads, there is no space lnff iiuIaou If lo u-ui.. J *u V&V, uuivoo AC in UU1UI o ur uciuuu UIO column, for the troops. "With mule and wagon transportation the troops are confined to a movement of only tbout 24 miles per day. for this Is the limit of distance which mules or horses can cover In a day without injury. "With truck transportation this handicap Is entirely eliminated. Not only cnn the supplies be moved with one-half to four-fifths fewer vehicles? for a motor truck will carry from two to five times as large a load as a mule wagon?thereby working a great economy in road space, but the truck can travel at a vastly greater speed than the men. Where three to five miles an hour is considered good speed for a heavily laden mule wagon. the truck can travel at the rate of ten to twenty miles an hour, and can keep it up twenty-four hours a day If necessary without tiring." ;ry Partial to Big Men (Will) zTTFTverV^) v\pOMO OF After McCombs went to New York to establish himself in law he naturally looked around for another strong man to share his apartment. He found him In Big Bill Edwards, now the Btreet commissioner of New York, who was a freshman at Princeton when McCombs was a junior. According to Tom Reed's definition that no man is a gentleman who weighs over 200 pounds, that New York apartment housed a gentleman in the person of McCombs. i^unaiuo MJitJItCU lilt) Dig IOOIDCU1 games for years with great success until one day, when Pennsylvania was playing the Indians, a facetious undergraduate sang out: "Hev, Bill Edwards, get. off the field so we can see the game!" Next to big men, McCombs is equally fond of big cigars, the thick black ones that "Uncle Joe" Cannon made famous. Venerable Oak Trees of Thomas Murphy, waa born within 300 yards of where he lives today, and his life's experience has been confined to that pretty and romantic seclion of the District. Mr Murphy said that when he was a little boy the land around there belonged to John Hqover and then to Walter Scott. Much of it later passed Into the possession of John Britton, who kept a stofe on Seventh street, and a little, later -it passed to John B. Kibbs, who subdivided the big tract into small holdings. The Murphy place three generations ago belonged to Tobias Talbert and th? Murphy house was built about 50 years ago by a man remembered as Knight. "All this country was grown over with oak trees like those," continued Mr. Murphy, "and the grove of 20 is about all that remains of the wide forest." '? It is worth a trip out that way to HUB t h A kirwl r\f tlmhof W? %tu?i/bi i not WllWO UUffired the wooded sections of the District of Columbia. The Murphys constructed a rustic bench under one of the big trees. It was built so long ago that it is a very old bench now. When this reaches print it may be that these old oaks will be in leaf, and If you pass that .way you should take a rest in the shade of the glorious trees. s Sand for All His Ills ? i% ?- (THIS 3AH0 Is sand. If a dark brown taste is present upon arising in the morning, do not fall to reach for the sand bottla lie urges coarse sand, not too sharp, and forswears the fine white variety because) he says, it dissolves in the intestinal processes and is of no value as an aid to tns functions ol digestion.