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ifsERIAL^ ;L STORY ) STANTON I (I WINS n By Eleanor M. Ingram Author of "The Game and the Candle." "The Flying Mercury," etc. ///ujfruff'cni fp Frederic Thornbnrgh I 'i Copyright l.ui. Tho II0UU5Merrill Couipauj SYNOPSIS. At the beginning of great automobile race the Mechanician of the Mercury, Stanton's machine, drops dead. St ratine youth. Jesse Kloyd. vohnitcers. and Is accepted. In the rest during tin- twenty- j four hour race Stanton meets a stranger. Miss Carlisle, who Introduces herself. The Mercury wins race. Stanton receives flowers from Miss Carlisle, which he Ignores. Stanton meets Miss Carlisle on a train. They alight to take walk, and train loaves. Stanton and Miss Carlisle follow In auto. Accident by which Stanton Is hurt is mysterious. Kloyil. at lunch with Stanton, tells of his boyhood. Stanton ugaln meet* Miss Carlisle and thev dine together. Stanton comes to track sick, hut makes race. They have accident. Kloyd hurl, lint not seriously. At dinner Kloyd tells Stanton of his twin sister. Jessica. Stanton becomes very 111 \ and loses consciousness. On recovery, at his hotel Stanton receives Invitation and visits Jessica. They go to theater together. and meet Miss Carlisle. Stntiton and | Floyd meet again and talk business. They agree to operate automobile factory | as partners. Kloyd becomes suspicious of Miss Carlisle. CHAPTER IX?(Continued). "Jessica has the right to a chance," he agreed. "I'm not goln' to meddle with things beyond my understandin*. An' I'd rather have her your wife than have anything else In the world. Only ?you've seen her JuBt once?you can't tell If you want her, yet." Stanton shot him one straight, ex- i presslve glance. "She Is like you," slipped from him Involuntarily; then, furious at his betrayal of sentiment, he dropped the other's hand. "We had better go, or we'll miss the train," he bruskly reminded. "Oh. she Is like mc," confirmed Floyd; he turned to look again at the factory. "We are pretty close chums. Yes. you an' I had better be gettln' to the train." They walked back to the nearest trolley line, both silent. The subject was not touched again, until the following morning, when they """f left the train in New York. "When shall I seo you?" Stanton questioned, as they exchanged farewells In the noisy depot. "Tomorrow ?" "I'm going to be out of town for the next two weeks, Mr. Green tells me." Floyd replied. "They want me at the Mercury factory, and there are some other trips, too. I !>elieve. Jessica Is going to be rather deserted; If you happen to look her tip. no doubt sho would be glad to speak to some one besides her nurse." "Thank ?ou." accepted Stanton, as carelessly. "Take care of yourself." He had not reached tho exit when Floyd overtook him. "Here are the entries for the Cup race," he panted, thrusting a folded newspaper into Stanton's hand. "There are two Atalanta cars to run against us. It's you who need to take care of yourself, until afterward." "Floyd, wait! What do you mean? Do you really think?" Hut his mechanician evaded the question. "Some people are boodoos," he laughed. "Keep away from them, please. Good-by." He had not spoken Valerie Carlisle's name, yet Stnnton knew against whom he warned. And the melodramatic 'absurdity of the idea did not prevent an odd thrill of discomfort and insecurity, from which ho took his usual refuge In roughness. "I'm not In the habit of hiding from people, hoodooB or not. Good-by." "Oh, very well," ncquiesced Floyd oddly. "But if you won't take care of yourself, Stanton?" "Well, what?" "Never mind." CHAPTER X. An Interval. It was on the second driy after his arrival in New York that Stnnton called upon Jessica Floyd. This time he went more confidently up the stairs 01 me quiei nimnmeui nouse, sure 01 h 1h right. As before, the little old Irishwoman clad in black silk was waiting to admit hltn; as beforo. be could have j cried out In the wonder of seeing this girl who turned Floyd's candid face J to him and smiled with Floyd's gray eyes. Only, this afternoon Jesslcla did not rise from the piano Beat to greet him, but from a chair near a . window. "Jos Is away again," ?he regretted, giving hint her band. "I came to see you, by his permission," Stanton returned. The rich color (lushed under her marvelous skin, that was like no other woman's ho had ever seen. %Floyd differed there, man from girl, his complexion being much darker and less translucent. ' ' "It Is too early to give yon tea and cake," she told"him, with n playfulness partly shy. "Hut If you will talk to me for half an hour, It will be after - four o'clock and I can offer you hospitality. "What shall I talk to you about?" he doubted. "1 am better at listening. 1 think." "Oh. anything, everything. Suppose 1 were Jes; I like what he likes, rae!lng. factories, motor-cars." Although the season was early, a tire burned In the tiny hearth, on j | either side of which they were senteil. j incing encn oiner. In the ruddy light Stanton contemplated the smiling girl, in her pale-blue gown with its iace I ruffles foaming around her full young ; throat and falling low across her hands. "Your brother has told you of the | i business partnership that we plan for j 1 this winter. Miss Floyd?" She nodded her bronze-crowned head. "Yes; 1 am very glad." "Did ho." a sudden fancy prompted the question, "did he tell you that I was coming here to see you. if I might ?" "Did he know of It?" she asked in counter-question. Floyd had kept the confidence given him. then, although no formal restraint had been made. The expression that crossed Stanton's dark face was warm and very gentle. "He knew. yes. I wish I could have met your brother years ago; 1 might have been less hard a man. more fit to know him. and you. now." "You hnrd!" "Has he not taught you that 1 am so?" In her earnestness she leaned forward. her eyes fearlessly on his. "Never. I>o not Imagine he thinks you that, do not so wrong his memory of your kindness. A rough word?what is it? Yha f rst gentleness cancels it; what In a ..-lend worth who does not understcr J?" Stanton bent his head, looking at the fire. "I have not had much gentleness shown me." he said. "My mother died when I was born; when I was thirteen my father married again. My stepmother was a good woman, whom I loved as well n? niv father am Tint within the second year after the marriage. the horses they were driving ran awav, dragging the carriage over an embankment, and my parents died within a few moments of each other while being taken to the hospital. > Have I said that my father was wealthy? He was so. He had made his will, a year before, leaving everything to his wife; well knewlng that she In her turn would pass all on to me. She was much younger than he. almost certain to outlive him, and entirely to be trusted. Hut she had never made a will, delayed by chance or forgetfulness, I suppose. When he died five minutes before her, all his fortune passed to his wife; then, upon her death without a will, again legally passed on to her relatives. I was left with no share or claim." "Hut It was yours by every right! Surely, surely, your step-mother's relatives did not tako It?" "They took every penny anil every Inch, Miss Floyd. And I, at fifteen, was sent out Into the world, a beggared orphan. They had no Interest In Xfi "Will You Sing I me. and I was old enough to support myself. One of them offered to get i I me a position as ofllce hoy." "Oh! You?" "1 lived." he grimly answered. "I asked them for nothing. What per- i sonal trinkets belonged to me, 1 sold, i for the tlrst needs.: then I set to work. My father had wished me to he a mechanical engineer, and 1 meant to fulfil his plan. Perfect health I did i have?for six years 1 regularly worked twenty hours out or each twenty-four, until I was graduated from college For six years 1 was always tlred| occasionally hungry, and took Just one recreation: every night 1 walked through the avenue where my former home stood, and looked at It. 1 saw < the people who had robbed me go handsomely clad and sleek. 1 saw their carriages and servants pass and repass. 1 watched, and I concluded that there was just ono thing in life worth while." The girl shivered slightly, her gaze t on his Arm profile with Its lines of relentlesB strength. "You meant to punish them," she ' faltered. "Revenge? No; It was not worth taking. I will not deny I thought of that as a boy; as a man I was too practical to waste my time. What I decided to have was money. I found In my aptitude for this automobile racing my best and quickest way to secure a Htartimr rnultnl If t Ullloil myself tn doing It. very good; that was better than poverty. I was poor for six years; poor for a lifetime 1 \n111 not be." "No. you will not be." she agreed, her voice quite low and agitated. "You were born to bend circumstance, for good or 111." "Circumstance bent me. when It set your brother In my path." he corrected. "1 never before had a friend, or cared?" He shook his head Impatiently. turning fully to her. "Hah. what dead history am I boring you with! Forgive me; I only meant to say there might be some small excuse for my savagery. It is after four o'clock. 1 was promised tea." Jessica rose to cross to the little tea-table, but lingered for an instant. "Jes once told me that he had been guilty of the Impertinence of saying his driver had the best disposition and the worst temper he had ever seen. I think that if he were here, ho would apologize for the last part." "Perhaps he may yet retract the first," he warned lightly, yet touched. When she summoned him to take his cup, Stanton looked at the brown beverage, then in quizzical surprise at Ills hostess. "Yes," she laughed, coloring. "With three lumps of Btigar In 1L Jes told me that whenever he was out with you. you drank chocolate syrup and sweet. 1 thought it was only girls who liked sweet, syrupy things." "And do you always give people what they like?" ho asked, amused and oddly pleased. "I would like to." she retorted. "Then 1 would like very much to have you go to the theater with me. to-night." "As you like," she conceded, her heavy lashes sweeping her cheeks. The first step was made. For the next two weeks they saw each other frequently. Twice Stanton brought one of the Mercury cars ami took JesBlca for sedate afternoon drives. Sev- j eral rainy days she gave him sweet chocolate and sat opposite him before the bright little hearth, listening or talking with the equable sunnlness bo like Floyd's. Indeed, Stanton soon came to feel with her the sense of companionship and certainty of l>elng understood that he felt with her brother. Hut he never was rough to JesHiCR. During that Interval he did not meet Floyd, .les was busy thirty miles up the Hudson valley, at the Mercury factory, Jessica said, and as Stanton of course knew from his mechanician's own statement. Only it impressed hlin as rather strange that Floyd could not get away even once or twice to see his sister. Meanwhile the Cup race was approaching. On the last evening before It to M? Nnuut" Stanton went out to the I<ong Island course, ho milled on Jessica. "It Is possible to come Into NewYork. of course," he said to her. "Hut I shall stay out there until after the race. After that, after Floyd and I come hack, shall I see as much of you? Or won't you want nie around when you have him?" Startled, she met his eyes, then turned away hurriedly to the piano. i (TO UK CONTINL'KI).) Woman Bootblack. London is to have Its first woman bootblack. A woman has Just com pleted urrangementa to sot up a bootblacking stand at ono of the busiest corners In tho West End. She believes herself to he the pioneer woman bootblack In England and declares that the men In the business need not fear l^er competition, since she intends to devote herself exclusively to polishing the footwear o( women and children. WENT EAST These young women, representln ask that the Liberty bell be sent to Philip S. Pates, publisher of The N THIEVES N1 * Once Started Continued Through Life, Say Detectives. Sleuth Tells of Apple, Chewing Gum, Secret Packet and Dog Collar Schemes In Stores?Lass From This Source Heavy. New York.?Four Years ngo Lottie i Gross married. Her husband knew that she had served a term In Moyatnenslng for shoplifting Hut she promised him?and she meant It? J that she would never steal again. And i then the baby came. "1 wanted pretty things for her," said Lottie. "And so 1 went back to the old game. If 1 couldn't quit for the best man in the world 1 guess I never can qutt. Stealing is like a disease?except that it can't be cured." That's about what the detectives think. Once a man or woman gets well started at stealing and he or she Is a thief for life. "The big stores lose inoro by amateur Bhoplifters than by professionals." said D. J. Hotter, manager for the criminal department of a detective agency. "A woman steals some trilling thing, that catches her eye? and gets away with It. Then she comes back?and keeps on coming back. They never let up." Cotter takes the professional thiefcatcher's view of the defense of kleptomnnia. Now and then there may be a kleptomaniac. Most kleptomaniacs are just thieves They get started to stealing- and It's like rolling a snowball down hill?the stealing grows. "There was the woman we may call Anna Eva." he said "She Is one of the most dangerous professional store thieves and shoplifters?there Is a differnce In the terms in the country. Her husband is a captain of a lake vessel. So is one of her sons. They have a good home at Cleveland, where tho daughter Is married to a good ninn. Hut Anna Eva began to steal She has been a professional thief for years, and now has a prison record. "Mind you, she has no criminal associates. I do not suppose she knows another thief to speak to, though she may know them by sight She has i nothing to do with other crooks. She Just ideals. She travels most of tho time, living at good hotels She Is a kindly, placid, pleasant woman of middle age?and a professional thief Hike all the others, she began as un amateur. "1 don't know that there are any particularly new schemes against which store managers snouid ne on | OFFERS CHILDREN FOR SALE i Poverty Stricken Mother Advertises Two Girls and Baby Boy for $750 Each. Berlin.?For several days various newspapers of Thurlngla and elsewhere In central Germany liavo contained an advertisement stating that a mother offers to sell "a beautiful girl of fourteen, a handsome girl of five and a bonny baby boy aged one" for $7!?0 apiece. An investigation shows that the woman Is a divorcee, who. despairing of making a livelihood for herself or her children, conceived the idea of selling them. Only the eldest girl is a child of her divorced husband, tho two younger children having been born { since she lived apart from him Tho authorities have decided to ! withdraw the children from their mother's care and to place them In lnsti- j tutions. Orange Restores Man's Memory. New York.?Found wandering aimlessly about the streets of Brooklyn Chauncey Rogers, fifty-seven. of West Orange, N. J., was unable to remember his name or address. As he entered the police station he spied an orange on the lieutenant's desk "Orange," he said. "Ah! That's It. where I live." Further Investigation confirmed his discovery. .Vr _ J*' / TO ASK FOR THE LIB Wj T* A - W j". V ^ v j 1V1 g the Btates of the northwest, have Jusl i the Ihinama-Pacific exposition in San F [orthwest, of Portland, Oro. EVER^QUrn <3 the alert," Bald Cotter. "Every one ' knowB the old trick with a hunk of J chew ing gum. The first thief Btleks a ring under the ledge of the counter t with the gum. Then the other cornea along and runs his hand under the j counter edge and gets the ring and vamooses. Open umbrellas are often used as receptacles. I The neatest trick turned lately was in the weBt, when a good looking, well i dressed man sauntered into a Jewelry store with an apple in his hand. He looked at a tray tilled with valuable rings. "Wall!" he suddenly sputtered. r "This apple Is wormy." t Whereupon ho threw the apple Into j. the street. The confederate, on the r lookout, picked up the apple and the gem which had been hidden in it and c made off. An almost equally nifty de- ' vice is to equip the collar of a pet ' dog with a secret pocket. When the v stolen ring has been placed in the c pocket, while the operator is petting the nnimnl. it leaps to the floor. ^ "Catch my dear llttlo doggie," yelps t the bereaved shoplifter. t Every ono hurries to oblige. The 1 denr little doggie fits its little tail s into the groove and scampers for * homo, as It has been trained to do. j The shoplifter profits by the fact ! ^ that the managers of stores hesitate c IN THE THICK < #~ One of the Thrilling Scenes from t Hardest Fought Sporting Contest Ever Witnessed. r Now York.?Those who have fol- c lowed the International, polo match t played between the English and the { ^ I Thrilling Moment. 1 American teuma at Meadow Ilrook, a G I>ong Island, have little conception of h TAUGHT ROOSEVELT TO DANCE c Dancing Master Who Died at EightyEight Was Also Instructor to Many Other Notables. J o New York?John U. Trenor, who c dieil nt liiu h/..T,o In v..... T>.11.. ... e the age of eighty-eight years, boast- y ed that he had taught Theodore Roosevelt. William K Vanderbtlt, Chauncey fl M. Depew and James Gordon Bennett ^ how to dance. Trenor for many years 8' taught members of New York society (' the art of dancing and accumulated a " large fortune. He claimed to hare ? built the first apartment house in New York, at the corner of Sixth avenue and Forty-eighth street. E Four Years Without Water. ^ Hemet, f'al.?Charles R. KeickehofT of this place has touched neither water or any other kind of liquid than the Juice of fruits for four yeara. RelekeholT, who Is the son of a mil- ^ llonalre living at Orange City, la., came here some years ago determined ^ to live on nothing but fruit and nuts. He says he Is In perfect health. c Ancient Kin at Wedding. w I .end Hill, Ark.?FlmIra Wagoner h attended the wedding of her great- tl great-great granddaughter here. Dosle g Clarkson. who was married to John e< Upshaw. Ci ERTY BELL . 1 t been on a trip to Philadelphia to 'ranctsco In 1915. With them Is -? prosecute. They believe that honst customers are Inclined to shun tores In which such arrests aro freluently made, fearing that an entirey Innocent action might lead to an inpleasant seizure and search. But ho total loss by shoplifting and by itore thieves Is so great that the Nalonal Retail Dry Goods association vas recently formed for co-operation u protection. DOG SACRIFICES ITS LIFE Jttle Canine Makes Vain Attempt to Save Owner In Burning House. C London.?A touching story of a Poneranlan dog's vain atempt to save ho life of Its owner, who was fatally (urned In a fire at Grosvenor-gardensnews recently. Is being told here. The victim of tho Are was Mrs. ioutligate, young wife of a chauffeur u the servlco of Count Apponyl. She i-as seen by a policeman standing at l window with her clothes In flames. While the officer and a chauffeur vere breaking down the front door ho little dog was seen Jumping up at he window, barking frantically. He hen rushed back to his mistress and ipparently attempted to put out her turning clothing with his paws. When an entrance was effected the voman was found to be In a dying :ondltlon and the little dog was dead. OF THE FIGHT he strenuous game polo, when played is these champion pololsta play it. eally Is. The photograph vividly porrays an Intense moment of the second game of the international match tlayed June 14, when the following ilnyors (left to right) Waterbury. 'Yeake and Mllburn (Americans in vhlte Hhlrts, English In dark shirts) vero engaged In a hair raising scrimnagc as Captain Freake sent a smashng drive, but failed to make a goal. rOUNG BRIDE SUES PARENTS Vlfe of Seventeen Years Takes Playthings of Childhood to Her New Home. Denver, Colo.?"Three dolls and a eddy bear." As Constable Sam C. Dorsey of JusIce H ice's court called off these arlcles from n long list of children's laythlngs, Edith V. Chase, a soveneen-year-old bride, sorted them from pile henped high In the outer office. Iho was to take them to her home? er new home?following a decision of he court in a replevin action that she nis entitled to the playthings of her hlldhood, even though her parents, Ir. and Mrs. H. A. Willis, attempted a retain them when their daughter ecaine the wife of S. L. Chase, son f Adjutant General Chase, last Deember. The marriage was objectd to because of the girl's tender ears Other things is the lot were a little ed wagon, a post card with soldier uttons on it, a magic lantern, one chool cook-book, two skirts for a oil, one picture of Cupid, and other tiings, with a value only to the lie who hnu nnmoiiiioH ihum In ?Kli/i ood. IOY HELD AS BLACKMAILER - elegraph Runner, Aged Fifteen, Confesses to Attempted Extortion In London. I'arlB.?A telegraph boy, aged flf?en, wan arrested on a charge of a* L?nipted blackmail, lie and his comades at a branch postofflce had been i the habit of opening telegrams and eadlng them. In this way the boy arned of an Intrigue that was being arrled on by a married woman. Ha 'rote demanding $30 as the price of in silence, but his letter fell Into Se hands of the woman's uncle, wbo ave him In charge. The lad confessd. but the woman declined to proea* lata.