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I fsERIAL^ I STORY J STANTON n WINS n By Eleanor M. Ingram Aulhor of "The Game and the Candle," "The Flyin* Mercury," etc. Illustration* by Frederic Thornbnrgb i ? 'I p/rkgbl U'li The Bobbs-MorrkU Com pan/ 18 SYNOPSIS. At the beginning of great automobile race the mechanician of the Mercury, Stanton's machine, drops dead. Strange youth. Jesse Floyd, volunteers, and Is accepted. In the rest during the twentyfour hour race Stanton meets n stranger. Miss Carlis'o. 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, anil train leaves. Stanton and Miss Carlisle follow In auto. Accident by which Stanton is hurt is mysterious. Floyd, nt lunch with Stanton, tells of his boyhood. Stanton again meets Miss Carlisle and thev 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 sister. Jessica. Stanton becomes very 111 and loses consciousness, tin recovery, at his hotel Stanton receives Invitntion and visits Jessica. They go to theater together. and meet Miss Carlisle. Stanton anil Floyd meet again and talk business. They agree to operate automobile factory as partners. Floyd becomes suspicious of Miss Carlisle. Stanton again visits Jessica. and they fast friends. Stanton becomes suspicious of Miss Carlisle. Just before Important race tiros needed for Stanton's car are delayed. CHAPTER XI ? (Continued). The assistant manager stared in a reproach touched with hysteria. His collar was wilted, his eye-glasses dangled by their cord. "Buy them? Buy enough racing tires fitting the Mercury to last you for a three hundred mile road race, and get them here by to-morrow morning? What's the matter with you. Stajiton?" "Well, since thero is nothing to do "ui ?-iu, cume iu ainner, t loytl," said the other. "It isn't dinner, it's supper," corrected his mechanician. "This is the country and you had your dinner at noon. Hut I'll come, anyhow." At the table in the course of the meal, a small tea-pot was seb before Stanton. "Chocolate, sir," he was apprised. "Why, you had none at luncheon!" The pompadoured wnitress giggled. "No, sir. Rut the gentleman sent a boy after some and came down and saw the cook, and cook's that fond of nonsense, and she fifty-four next December?" | Stanton looked across into Floyd's mirthful gray eyes. "I hadn't anything better to do," was the malicious explanation. "And I was afraid your nerves would go to pieces if you didn't get your usual drug and then you'd wreck us to-morrow." "He'd coax a bird ofT a tree, sir," tittered the departing maid. "Give me your cup and have some," Stanton briefly commanded. "Going to throw it at me. like you did that jug of water on the first night we raced together?" teased his companion. obeying. sranton s nead lirted slightly, the regard in which he enveloped Floyd was almost savage in its leap of intense and tenacious passion. Such a glance from man to woman would have been a declaration, from man to man it was not a thing to be voiced. Floyd himself faltered before it, startled into pallor. "You can throw it at me. if you like, and square up," was all Stanton said, and reached for the sugar-bowl with his customary nonchalance. "Thanks; it's boiling. I guess I won't," Floyd acknowledged. But he did not look at the other, and his manner was troubled. The meal was ended and the evening had commenced, when a telegram came in from New York. "Car marked Ruby Co. consigned to Mercury Co. Coney Island, left here last night." Mr. Green uttered a howl and felt for the telephone. "They've shipped the car to Coney Island Instead of to Lionsr Rrsnch " ha raged. "The tires must be out at the Beach track, or near It." "Don't telephone; send some one out there to get them." advised Stanton practically. "I've got to be here, and I can't get our New York men In time, now." "Well, I'll go, then. Coney Island has got to be raked fine and the tires brought here as soon as they are found." "You? You? Traveling and wearing yourself out on the eve of a gruelilug race? No. Go to bed and get your rest, please, Stanton. I'll send some one." Stanton did not go to bed, but he went Into the hotel room across the hall and played billiards with three of his fellow-drivers. He was less forbidding, less caustic of speech than formerly. Floyd had taught him the art of companionship. Before the game ended, the four players found themselves very good company and drank a good night in Apollinarls, to the landlord's Bacchic disgust. About ten o'clock, Stanton looked Into tiie apartment where Mr. Green ^ \ I sat between the telegraph operator and the telephone. "Where Is Floyd?" he casually Wondered. "Hello, hello?no. hold the wire. What Is It? Floyd? Oh, he's gone to Coney Island. Hello, yes?wrong number." "To Coney Island! You sent him?" "He offered to go." Mr. Green jerkily Imparted. "Please go to bed. won't you? Floyd can take care of | himself, I should think, and he has had a two weeks' rest to get ready for this." "What do you mean? He has been working at the factory or with you ever since we came back from Indianapolis." In a nervous exasperation the assistant manager whirled his chair around. "He had a two weeks' vacation." he reiterated crossly. "He told me that ho was going off by himself for a quiet rest. You don't have to know everything, Stanton. I fancy he needed a rest after what you put him through out west, he asked me not to tell you about It. Hello?454?" Stanton paused for n moment, dumb, then turned on his heel and went out. He was so stunned and bitterly angered that little red flecks danced before his vision. Floyd had lied to him. systematically deceived him: in order to escape from his too pressing friendship. no doubt. He remembered that the mechanician had always shrunk from his personal advances and only yielded to them under compulsion. Now he understood the letter which he had received the previous night from Green, and Mr. Bailey's confused answer to his question about Floyd, lie had been put off to be amused by .Jessica, until Floyd was again ready to use him in the plans for the Comet factory. Jessica! Stanton stopped short in the dark hall. Had Jessica also deceived him? Was she too playing a part in order to keep him In a good humor? He struck his clenched hand violently against the wall beside hint. "What's that?" cried the affrighted Mr. Green, within the room. "Who?" "I ran against the wall, in the dark." Stanton called, his voice a little hoarse, but evenly controlled. "Good night." "Good night. We'll flx things all right. Stanton; you take a good sleep." "I shall," promised the driver. He did not. At seven o'clock, the next morning, Mr. Green burst into the hotel diningroom where Stanton was at breakfast. "He's got them! They're coming," he rejoiced maniacally. "The car wasn't at Brighton, but he located It mlln, ? -Ul ? And he raised such a disturbance around the express people's ears that they unloaded the tires then and there, and rushed out two motor trucks to cart them across to us. They'll he here by eight and the race starts at nine. I have been up all night?an hour ago it looked as If you would have to he withdrawn from the contest for lack of a few sets of rubber tires. That fool tire company!" He wiped his forehead. "Don't you want to come out to the course, after you finish here? Floyd is due on the train which arrives In fifteen minutes, If he isn't smothered by the crowd. I never saw such a mob of people; they have been coming since dawn; all night, in fact, and they're still coming." "Yes." acquiesced the other unemotionally. His dark face gave an Played Billiards With Three of His Fellow Drivers. effect of bronzelike Immobility, his blue-black eyes held steel glints. "Well," the assistant manager resumed, and paused. The pom padoured waitress was leaning between them, placing a teapot 00 the table. "Chocolate, sir,' she giggled. Stanton pushed back his chair, then checkc' hlmr.elf as sharply. "No," he stated, and set the pot away from before him. The movement was not violont, but there was in it so much poorly restrained force that the china vessel shattered upon striking the table and all the fragrant brown liquid ran over the white cloth. The girl exclaimed in dismay. Mr. Green stared; Stanton only dropped a dollar bill beside his plate and rose to go. "I am ready," he signified. The Mercury camp was a scene of animated preparation, twenty minutes later, when Floyd emerged from the dense press of arriving spectators and gained the inclosure. The assistant manager almost received him in his arms, the rest of the force clustered around. Gay, blithe, triumphant, here, if it wasn't for you." he declared, once. "I'm awfully bright," Floyd agreed, but he did not smile. The machines were preparing to go to their stations for the start, Stanton was in his scat at the wheel, when Floyd came over, and leaning against the car, looked up into the driver's face. \ "What have ! dot}*?" he ashed sltiV I Ply- 1 Both men were still unmasked, their ' privacy of speech was secured by the uproar around them. Stantou looked grimly back. , "Lied to me. You were not kept ' away from New York by work with Oreen. or any other work, for tho last ; two weeks." | A tinge of scarlet streaked Floyd's pallor, he bent his head. "Yes. I lied to you." he admitted. Stanton's gauntleted hand closed on his wheel. | "There was no need. Your time was your own. Floyd; I claimed no control over you. I don't know why you did it, | to be rid of me for a while, I suppose, but the reason doesn't matter. I.ast night I thought a good many wild things about you. and your sister, but this morning I've got my grip ngain. No doubt you had all you could stand of me. I'm not precisely lovable and 1 I would have llll<lerstr?r?il tf vnii hnrt J just told me so. But I will have no '< friend I can't trust all the way. Get ' In?we will finish this race, and part." 1 Floyd-raised his head and gave to ' the stern scrutiny his candid gray ' eyes. "Stanton, trust me all the way now." ' he nppealed. "Can you do that? Can 1 you take my word that your friendship Is the only thing In the world 1 want? If I deceived you. It was so I could be here to race with you to-day. I will , 1 tell you afterward. 1 can't now." "You mean?" ! 1 Floyd held out his hand. "I've got everything badly mixed up. but it's clean to offer you. Stanton." As swiftly impulsive as his condemnation was Stanton's movement as ho bent to give the clasp. "All right." he snid curtly. "Get in; I ought to have given you a chance." And as the other obeyed: "I didn't mean to meet you ns I did. an hour ago. anyhow; it slipped me." "They're signaling." wnrned Mr. Green, hurrying over. "Are you ready? Goth of you?" From his place beside Stapton, Floyd turned a face of Incarnate'sunshine to the assistant manager, a face so changed in its color and glow and warmth that all who saw drew breath in sheer wonder. "We're ready." his lilting tones assured. "Don't worry." Stanton laughed with him. fastening on the mask, and sent the Mercury rolling forward. The world was right once more, and llfo sane. It was an exquisite morning; windless. cool, with happy little effects of snowy cloud against a cobalt-blue sky. The October air was a summer- i distilled cordial, an ethereal intoxicant. The racers hail no time to notice it, yet the effect was there. Tho speed made on the first laps was record-breaking. The brown or gray streak of road ahead, the deadly turns, the treacherous smooth hill down which it was so easy to make Bpeed and still more easy to meet disaster?for the flrst hour Stanton had no attention to spare from these. Moreover, the spectators were massed over the course in many places, recoiling Just enough to leave a lane for each car's passage, and so imposing another anxiety upon tho drivers who knew the swerve of a foot must bring death to some one. "t\ir behind." Floyd's clear accents gave the familiar cautions, from timo to time. "He's tryln' to get us before the turn. The Atalanta's head in the dust." The pace maintained was the fastest at. which the Mercury could be held to the road. It was Stanton's way to gain the lead first, when possible, then keei> a steady average regardless of his rivals' spurts of speed; unless the race were too short to i>ermlt such j tactics or the contest too close. Now, nt the end of the second hour Floyd made the desired announcement, as they shot past the grand-stand and the bulletin boards. "We're leadln'. The tires have been holdtn' fine?look out for them this round." Stanton moved his head affirmatively, his narrowed eyes unswerving from the line of course ahead. Heeding the advice, he did take the turns more | carefully. TO HE CONTINUED.) Bird's Nest in Mail Box. Probably a bird's nest In a rural mail box is a rare thing, if It has evet happened before, but out in Oswe gatchie a small bird has taken possession of a mail box and has already built her nest and laid three eggs and it looks as though she would complete her work of hatching and rearing her young. The particular box picked out by the bird is one that is In use daily and the mail carried never misses a stop at this box. Mrs. Hird seems to enjoy the idea to have the mail carrier lift the cover of the box and deposit the mall and will sit on her nest as unconcerned as can be. The mail box has been fixed so that it will not close entirely so that the bird may complete tne tasK 01 rearms: nor young. it 19 | not known what kind of a bird thia ia. i but it la thought that it is a phebe, i being brown of color and about the size of a sparrow and laying sky-blue eggs.?Watertown Corresi>ondent New London Day. Much Required of Physicians. In Beloochistan when a physician j gives a dose he Is expected to par take of a similar one himself as a guarantee of his good faith. Should the patient die under his hands the relatives, though they rarely exercise it, have the right of putting him to death, unless a special agreement nas been made for freeing him from all responsibility as to consequences, while, if they should decide upon Immolating him, he Is expected to ylek' 1 to his fate like a man. I WILD AUTO CHASE IN NEW YORK CITY Police and Motorists Pursue Speeder Three Hours. <NOCKED DOWN WOMEN I ?-? Bullets Flew After a Car That Had Run Down Several Peoplo and Then Ran Away?Collapsed Wheel Finally Ditched the Machine. New York.?Roaring through the streets of the upper west side with m occasional burst of Vanderbllt cup speed, a low built racing car was run to earth early the other day after a , continuous chase of three hours, in which a motorcycle policeman led a I lleet of private cars. The pursued machine, driven by Its j jwner, WUKam C.ohlhaus, a motor car dealer, had knocked down three women who were crossing r.vc 1 nue at One Hundred and Thirteenth I street. The accident was seen by three men in another car and they started the pursuit in which Motorcycle Policeman Oclionhirt joined almost immediately. The pursued car ran the gauntlet of tire from Ochenhirt's revolver. One policeman after another, attracted by the noise of the pursued, stepped out from street corners and blazed away, hoping to strike a tire or cripple the machinery of the flying ear. Colilhaus slid far down in his seat and his two companions crouched in the touneau. The chase was the most dramatic ever known in this city. Up into the open spaces near Van Cortland Park and back Into the swarming streets of the upper west side, the big six-cylinder car whirled. ?utout open and its exhaust roaring and spimug name liko :i cup racer. Ochenhirt hung to the trail, about two short blocks behind. Ills cycle was good for 55 miles an hour and he said he had it going at the top notch. Steering with one hand. the police man loaded and reload'd his revolver and emptied it, but with no effect. A little girl sitting at a basement win dow received a painful llesh wound from one wild bullet and sev? ral win 3 JTTTTZ dM a y y k \ v) .(i'pa Kpp _A?L.cTinr g ggafe S ?. *? ^b Pace Began to Tell. dows were bn>keu and heads barely missed by the shots. The whole upper section of the city was on the Btrnot to watch the sport. t ar after car got in line, each with a policeman hanging on the running I board blowing his whistle to get the right of way, or taking long distance shots at the flying quarry. Hut the pace began to tell and the number of pursuers slowly dwindled I toward midnight until Anally there were only Ochenhlrt on his still faith- j ful motorcycle and the three men who had started the pursuit. After 150 miles of city streets had been covered Ochenhlrt found hiin- | self the only pursuer. Slowly he drew In 011 his quarry and Anally far up ' town, the pursued machine's front j wheel collapsed and the car flopped j into a ditch. One of its oecupantB fled, but the other two, Oohlhaus and his chauffeur, were arrested. The three women Oohlhaus's car had knocked down were taken to a hospital. FIGHTS SNAKE; SAVES MASTER Dog Seizes and Kilts a Rattler as Reptile Is About to Strike. Clearfield, Pa.- Tippy, a little mongrel dog, saved the life of his master, Frank G. Harris, one time county treasurer, the other day while the lat- j ter was on a fishing trip to Moose ; Creek, near here, Ly attacking a big rattlesnake that was aboift to striko Harris in the face. Mr. Harris, desiring to reach the other side of the stream, started to crawl over on a slippery log. .Just as ho reached the far end of the log a big rattler raised his head directly in front of his face and drew back to strike. vTlppy," who had swam the creek, darted at the snake and obtained a hold just back of the head. His keen teeth made short work of the rattler V BRAVE OHIO WOMAN WHIPS VICIOUS DOG Animal Bites Her Maid and Threatens Daughter in a Railway Station. Cleveland, Ohio.?In the dim interior of the Union Station Mrs. T. H. Street of 11418 Euclid avenue, society woman, fought with a ferocious dog which had severely bitten her maid and which was trying to sink its teeth into her daughter the other afternoon. The battle, in which Mrs. Street had no weapons but her hands, was wit te) Gripped His Throat. nessed by h crowd of passengers from | :? New Vork limited train and several 1 hundred persons waiting to depart. Diamonds Hashed and costly mi- j mont was bedraggled and torn as Mrs. Street wrestled with the dog, upon ; whose throat she fixed a grip that did not relax until i'atrolmau Skala came to her aid. The maid had lied scream ' ing. and Mrs. Street's daughter, a girl 1 of about ten years, was trying to help , iter mother when the patrolman ar- i rived. The owner of the animal. Lucy Dor I ills, who is housekeeper for a family j of the name of Prazer in Salem, Ohio, i added her shrill protests to the bed- j lam. She declared that her "Maje" . was inoffensive and that he should J not he choked. By this time "Maje" was fast losing ; lis interest in life. Mrs. Street's grip was slowly but surely choking the life jut of him. "Maje" was sent to the health depart incut, where he was placed under J ?bservation to see if he develops rabies, and Mrs. Street drove her maid, daughter, the patrolman and the owner of the animal to headquarters. The party scrambled into Mrs. Street's automobile in the presenci of i crowd which jammed the roadway. Formal ^complaint was lodged and j Mrs. Street drove off. seeking a physl- ! dan to attend the maid's injury. IT AIN'T ME," SAYS KEILY Sister Thought Corpse Was Brother, j but Happy Reunion Proves She Was Mistaken. New York.?When Mrs. Christina O'Brien read a notice in the newspapers that James J. Keily, sixty-one years old. had died in St. Michael's hospital, Newark, she went to the hospital and identified the body as that of her long lost brother and had it sent to her home at 619 John Btreet, Kearney. N. J. Mrs. O'Brien called a priest and an undertaker, sent out notices and telephoned to all friends and relatives that the funeral would be next day. Among those to whom she sent a notice was John Thompson! a contracting painter for whom iter brother had worked. When Thompson received the notice by mail he went over to a house his men were painting and called James J. Kelly off the Job. "1 guess they have you dead up at your sister's house, Jim," he said. "Wo better go up and see about it." So they went up to Mrs. O'Brien's house "and the servant ushered them into the front room, where several women were moaning over the coffin. Keily tiptoed in and took a look at the corpse. "That ain't me," he said, just as Mrs. O'Brien entered the room. uruiiit:r iiuu HiHier ten in eacn otner's arms and later the body was sent to the morgue in Harrison to await a claimant. Dodging Snake, Cyclist Is Hurt. Hawrenceburg, Ind.?Bernard J. Kneptlo, aged twenty-one years, was coasting down a steep Incline on his motorcycle as a large blacksnake crawled across the road. Knepfle attempted to make the machine juoip over the snake to avoid getting Its body tangled In the wheels. The motorcycle went over a 25-foot embrank ment and Kneptle had both wrists broken. Jersey Calf Has Three Legs. Rosenhayn, N. J.?S. Andisman, a farmer, has a calf wiui three legs, the third leg extending from the middle of the breast. The animal is perfectly formed otherwise and has made normal growth the first week of its existence. / w ^ * .. V v* MTOMnONM." suNMrsoiooi i Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS. Director of EvenInn Department The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) LESSON FOR AUGUST 3 THE PLAGUE8 OF EGYPT. I.ESSON TEXT?Ps. 106:25-36 (cf. Ex. 7:6-11:10.) GOLDEN TEXT?"Whoeover shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted."? R. V. Matt. 23:13. While this Psalm Is a succinct state iticui. ui un mm in contained in mxodu8, chapters 7 to 12, still no teacher can judge himself as having made proper preparation who has not studled carefully the earlier record. Beginning with those of discomfort the plagues become more and more severe until the last and the crowning one, the death of the first born, caused the Egyptians to thrust out the Israelites with haBte and gladness, laden with an abundance of "spoil." Pharaoh trusted In the superior greatness of the Egyptian gods, he also had great pride in his absolute power and hated to lose the profitable service of his Hebrew slaves. Over against this was God's right to demand the worship of his chosen people, God's profuse warnings to the proud Egyptian, and the inevitable outcome of the man, tribe, or nation who sets up human will in opposition to the plans of an Omnipotent God. True thanksgiving and praise are based upon "His marvelous works" (v. 5 R. V.) Israel Made Strong. I. The Induction of Israel Into Egypt, vv. 23-25. By "Israel" in verso 23 the Psalmist docB not refer to the nation but rather to the supplanter who became "Israel, a prince." His induction into Egypt was in accordance with God's purposes and plan, yes, his specific command, Gen. 46:2-7, ActB 7:9-15. God Increased the descendants of Israel greatly in the land of Egypt, see v. 24. At the same time God made those same descendants stronger than their "adversaries" on account of the fact that Jehovah fought on their side, see Rom. 8:31. II. The Exodus of Israel From Egypt, vv. 26-36. Now the Psalmist Is referring to the nation. In Exodus there are recorded ten plagues, here there are mentioned but eight. The plague of the murrain of beasts and the plague of boils, the fifth and the nivth orn horo 1 ?-*f f ????.??, u> V I1V.IC 1U1V. V/UL LVI D'JUiO ICOBon best known to the Psalmist. God saw the afflictions of Israel but sends relief through human agents. Moses was God's "servant" (v. 26) and Aaron "His chosen" (I Sam. 12:6) so also Is every true believer. Their work has to "shew" (v. 27) God's won- ? ders in the land of Egypt (Ham). They were to shew "His" wonders, signs, the "Words of His signs" (R. V. inarg.), and none of their own. In other words they were to be the visible embodiment of God's character and power. Worshiped the Nile. The Psalmist then turnB to the first of the historic plagues. The Egyptians were so dependent upon the Nile that they personified It and worshiped it. They had shed the blood' of the Israelites and were given blood to drink, see Rev. 16:5, 6 and Gal. 6:7. The third plugue was directed against the goddess "Hekt," queen of two worlds, and who was represented by a frog-like figure, see Ex. 8:8. It was after this calamity that Pharaoh temporized. The third and fourth plagues are grouped together in verse 31. God often uses very llttlo things to humble the great ones of earth. Life is made up of trifles, but life is no trifle. Pharaoh had proudly boasted of his agnosticism (Ex. 5:2) but when he sought to try conclusions with God and said. I "Neither will I let Israel go" God let j him wrestle with frogs, lice and flies. We thus see a man setting himself against God who Is not able to overcome these smallest of pests. As we have mentioned, the fifth and sixth plagues are omitted from this record, hence the plague mentioned In v. 32 Is In reality the seventh (Ex. 9). It was a rebuke to the God of the air, and from Rev. 8:7 and 16:21 we learn that It la to be repeated in the end of time. Though Israel was free from the eighth, the plague of locusts (v. 34) they did sufTer from a like experience in later days, Joel 1:1-7. These small pests can turn a fruitful land into a barren waste. Hut the culminating plague (v. 36) was the smiting of the first born. Even Israel could not escape this calamity except by the previous shedding of blood, Ex. 12:3-18. God gave Pharaoh nmple warning, Ex. 4:23. Refusing to yield under the lesser Judgments, God brought this supreme penalty, smiting all the first born, "the beginning of all their strength" (R. V. m&rg. v. 36). III. The Teaching, Before the plagues Pharaoh was warned; before the second one he was given an opportunity to repent and because of the suffering thereby he relented and ask ; eu ror a respite. Refusing to declare God's greatness (Ex. 8:10) "be (Pharaoh) made heavy his heart" (Ex. 8:15), an act of his own, not an act of God. No warning is given of the third plague for Pharaoh had broken faith. The acknowledgment upon the part of his magicians of a power greater than their own did not serve as a warning and he continued In his rebellion v