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petltlve i- x a ml nation*. Suddenly the window w?? raised awlftiy but noise lessly. and from without. Oye of Joe'* friends across the table roH?t with terror written on l)U face. He rolnted with. hi* linger at the wlu dow "Look, look," be orled. Tbey looked. A long thin, grlatly brown arin with 16ng clawlike fingers, thrust lUelf through the window and tbruit a fold ed piece of paper Into the breast pocket of Joe Welcber'n co^t. Joe sprang to bis feet, crouched terror stricken In the corner, shielding his face with hie arm. Hi* three cronlee leaped to the window, and looked out. There wan a moon Hut there waa no one to be seen. The owner of the hand and arm had disappeared. Welch er, coming to hims<rlf, clutched at the note, and uufolded It and read, My Charming Friend: (It aaid> Once more I have returned from New York. I etay at Loneaome Cove Inn. Meet me there tomorrow afternoon? perhapa I ahould aay ? thla afternoon ? at three. It la of Importance. When you come, Inquire for Inez Caatro? I have uaed that nam* in order that certain mutual friend* might not hear of it. Aa ever, Irene Courtier. That afternoon at three loneaome Cove ? throe mile* north of Seaport ? was graced by tho presence of Joe Welcher. Welcher made a bee line for the cafe and properly aplced up hla breath bftforo proceeding to keep the rendezvous. Then he approached Mulligan, the HI favored proprietor. "You got a certain party here of the name of Inez Coatro," whispeted Welchor to Mulligan, "What's that to you," said Mulligan. Welcher produced hla note ? the note produced an unusual effect upon Mul ligan. He dropped hi* surliness, and with a wink beckoned to Welcher, leading him down a dim corridor. "Go up that there etalrcaso," he command ed. "and knock at Number Seven." "I sent for you," Inez began, "that you should do a favor for rae^-" Welcher seized her hand. ^That was hi* undoing, in a moment she was in his arms, struggling. He kissed her full upon the Hps. "I'll go to hell and back for you," he ?aid. Struggling, she half screamed. Then something happened. Unknown to Welcher, the door of Room S*v?n opened noiselessly, and a well dre**ed man, with a saber cut across his face, entered on tiptoe. He closed the door behind him, and stood there, watching the struggle, silent, sinister. . Suddenly Inez screamed. She re leased herself from Welcher'* arms ? and reeled agalnat the table, her eyes wide with fright. "My ? my husband," she gasped. She held out her hands pleadingly toward the newcomer. Welcher dowered In abject terror. "It was nothing ? nothing," gasped Inoz, "a bit of play? nothing else-^-be lleve mo ? " Hernandez smiled ? a wicked smile. He never looked at Inez. He glared at Jooy Welchor. "So I boo," he said, "a bit of play." He whistled. The door* opened once again. Two figures entered ? the brute and Ponto. Hernandez gave a Blgn-r and the brute picked Joe Welcher up. whirled him In the air, and brought him down peated at the table. This was the added finishing touch to make Joe reallzo his helplessness. Hernan dez clapped his hands and the# brute left the room. Ponto, the fat Mexi can, curled himself up underneath the tablo. Hernandez seated himself. "A bit of play," laughod Heruandoz, harshly. Then his brow furrowod with wrinkles, his eyes became stern. "Young sir," he said, "your foster sister is ono Annette llllngton. You live in the same house with hor. She has In her possession a small oilskin packet ? a yellow packet ? possibly you've Been it?" Ho waited for an answer. Joe mois tened his dry lips and nodded. "Well and good," went on Hernan dez, "that packet In mine ? It belongs to mo. You shall steal It from her ? steal It for mo. You understand?" t Hernandez smiled. Then his faco froze, ilia hnnd darted forward and he clutched Welcher by the wrist. "My young friend," went on Hernan dez, "you are a crook, i have watched ? you from first to last. Always I have watched you. I watched you while you made lovo to my young wife (his day. 1 watched you when you stole her money from , her a week or so ago." v. "Give mo a drink," cried Welcher, "go on. What do you want mo to do?" "First," returned Hernandez, "say nothing to anyone ? about mo or my j compntilons ? nor about Inez here ? nothing. To you wo are As a sealed book. Bfoak silenco and ? well, my anceBtorn wor > of the Spanish inquisi tion, my young fticnj Sllenco comes first. Next, get that packet. I care not by what moans ? and bring It to me at the time and place I shall hero after designate. Now go. Tonight, you understand ? tonight." That night, Welcher. fully dressed, and tossing In his restless bed. heard the tap-tap of pebbles on his window. Startled, he roso and peered without. The sky was cloudless and tho moon three-quarters ? by its rays he saw threo crouching figures ? shadows of tho night. Ono of these figures held up a white hand. Welcher responded with a silent signal; and then drew back into his room. Ho drew from his pocket a pint flask and drank deep. He smoked a cigarette, taking quick, swift, strong puffs and Inhaling deeply ? he needed strength. He waited un til tho tingling of that first drink had entered his system; and then he took another and another. Then he re joiced, for he was reckless now, reck n Jess as to consequences. He lit an other cigarette, and tossed the lighted match far from him jtnd he tlpiovr<l from the room Softly and in his stocking feet, be crept along the narrow second story hallway. At last he stood In front of Annette'* door. The door wuh closed. Welcher turned -the handle softly, no!?eIessly, and it yielded to hie pressure. The door watt not locked Under hla allent, steady pressure, U opened on a craok?lnch wide ? more . Then auddenly, from within he heard Annette's voice? a dream voice ? ''Neal ? Neal" It atartled him. He vtood there al lent for an Instant. Thon be realUed that something had happened to him* he had become sober, too sober, to do tbe trick. He felt in his pocket for the flask. Mt was not there. He had left in In his room. Htealthily he groped his way back to bis room, opened tbe door and reached for the bottle. Then with u evoking, inarticulate cry, he turned and darted down the stairs, out of tbe house and up tbe road. His \room was a living furnace of red flamea? tbe hastily tossed lighted match had done Its work. Outalde, Ponto and Hernandetf-Von dering, gave chase. Welcher, with fear at hla heels, sped on and on. CHAPTER XVI. Peril. Annette woko, choking. Smoke poured into her room- She realized ttt once that the houBe was burning. She hoard the nearby crackling of flames? Hho aaw the nearby glare of flame. Without the village fire gong clanged ?she heard the shouta of volunteer? coming down the road. She ran to Mre. Hardin's room. The door was locked; smoke was creeping from underneath the door. "Mother Mother llardln," cried Annette. There was no response. In a frenzy Annette rushed back to her room, seUed * chair and returned to the locked door. With a audden twist of her lithe bo<ty Hho raised the chair above her shoul ders and brought It crashing against the door. A volume of smoke poured out. Regardless of It, Annette rushed in, dragged Neal's mother? uncon scious as she was ? from the bed, out of the room and down the stairs. "Joey," gasped Annette, "Joey Wolcher? he's in there. We must save him, too." "No," Interposed a distant neighbor, "he's not in there. I saw him in the village, running for help." During the confusion, throe shadowy figures, returning as from a chase, crept through the smoke and crouched beneath bushes In the rear of the houso, unnothced and unseen. One of these men turned to another. "Ponto," crlod Hernandez In a low voice, "what of the packet?? what of Lost Tale? ? the fool Welcher! By this time we might have had it." Annette, seated on tho ground, with Mrs. Hardin's head in her lap, watched the scene as in a dream. Her glance roved from the flames to the crowd of jostllftg people ? and from thorn back to the flames again. Then suddenly her heart rose to her throat. Peering at her from the middle of a dense mass of shrubbery, thero was a face ? a faoe with staring eyes, matted hair, and un kempt beard. She had Been that face before ? and on that very road ? it had once strick en terror to her heart. This time how ever, It hnd a far atrangor effect upon hor. No so*>ner had sho caught sight of thiB uncanny countenance, than, un accountably bIio remembered some thing? tho yellow packet. "My father's fortune? my father's whereabouts," she cried. She sur rendered her charge to a neighborly woman close at hand and struggled to her feet. She reached her room in comparative safety, save for the chok ing In her throat. Onco there she seized a water pitcher and drenched herself from head to foot? then with dripping hair and -clothes Bhe felt for and found hor hiding place. She groped for the packet. A tongue of flamo swept the window. She shut It, and the glass cracked and fell tinkling to the ground below. Then sho groped again. ?' "I've got it? got it," she cried in exultation, and thrust tho yellow pack .et safoly In her breast. Thero was a Sudden crash. She flung open her room door. Tho staircase, eaten through with flamo as Its top moor ings had fallen In. The hallway was alive with flame. She sprang to her window ? no thoroughfare? the whole aide wall ? the side of hor room ? was now ablaze. Obeying somo instinct Annette threw herself face downward on the floor. The air thero was singu larly sweet and cool. "Somebody will como," sho told her solf. "somebody will come." Without tho word passed that An nette had rushed into the house ? waa inaldo now. A * hugo flgure leaped Into the crowd, parting it right and left and bounded into tho door way of the house. Whimpering with fear tho Hruto ran hither, thither, through tho living room, and entered tho hall? tlnding tho atalrcaae a maaa of ruin. Ho leapod and clutched tho landing up abovo. Somo Instinct led him to Annotto's room. Ho saw and found her? clutched her unconscious form In his hugo arms and leaped with hor to tho floor beneath and, unaoon, laid her unconscious form down at tho feet of Mrs. Hardin, Then black, burned, and unrecognlzablo, ho sped away into tho night. Hernandez gritted hia teeth. "1 thouKht 1 had that brute trained," ho exclaimed wrathfully, aa ho realized that Annette and her treasure had es caped him, "and 1 thought he was afraid of flre. In both I was miataken. We must take it out of his hide, Pon to ? noxt time he must make no mis take." ' * j <TO BK CONTINUED.) ENGLAND'S THRONE. ft On* of tH? Halra to It, til* Qarmar. Cmpiror ta Vtry Ramote. In KUUH'ff to till* >t imii. "Wns tli' pm|x>ror of Germany ever contdderWi mii iieir to the ling 1 lab throne uud did Victoria have n Iiiw i ?:?'*. si- I i?? cM'lilde llllli fr?<IU Illy HUCtDHUkMlT i '?? Philadelphia I'refto hmj-h: ??'riit' |.?iH/<iiiiiit,v of t ho Uenntin I'm peror ever celling t?i the throne <>r Kuglaud I* lip v#fy ivinotf km to cause little thought, There ivu?? mure or le** talk on ? lit- uubjcrt at the timo of tin marriage of the knlaer'* mot liur. to tbc heir to the fieriuun throne In 18f?H. but we ure mm blt? to And tint t any purlin mentary action waa taken even then "After Kin# George come hb* tjv? Won a and one daughter and their chll dreii. If any: then King fl^orgt*? ulx ter Loulae, DucheaM of Fife, bar two daughtera and the von of the elder; then I'rlnceaa Victoria, then Queen Maud of Norway and her hou, making thirteen at present living In the line of aucceaaion. After that the auccee?iou rererta to the deacendnnta of the lote King Edwtird'a brother, Alfred, duke of Edinburgh; Arthur, duke of Con naught, and Leopold* duke of Albany. Am tbcMc all married and had numerous children and grandchildren, there is a long Hue of bcipi to tho throne before the uuccchhIoii would come to' the tie Hccndants of the oldeat slater of King Kdward, the late Empress Frederick of Germany, the flrat of which Hue la Km peror WIlHnm.^ : & PITCHING IN BASEBALL. L.?ok of Cpntrol Will Render Useless All Other Ability. *'Ijq my ten years' connection with the American league an umpire I have seen the fact proved again and again that control is absolutely necessary to win success," writes lillly Evans In St. Nicholas. "The more one studies the different features of the art of pitching the more clearly does ho see the value that control plays In the success of the pitcher. "If the pitcher knows the weakness of the batter and intendq giving him a fast ball on the inside and then delib erately pitches to the opposite side his knowledge of the batter Is of no use to him. Lack of control has rendered his knowledge useless. "If he-knows the shortstop is to cov er and then pitches a ball to the batter that makes 'it easy for him tto hit through the position vacated by the shortstop ho nullifies the strength of his Infield. Lack of control ts again the cause. "If the catcher signals for a waste ball in order to be in a better position to throw out a gunner trying to steal an<| instead he gets the* ball right over the plate he Is handicapping the catcher. Lack of control is again the cause. "After all, most of the liner, points of pitching aro based on ability to con trol the ball." 8tonehenge. No sooner had wo set foot on the first swell of plain than I became awaro of whaf looked like a herd ? of elephants, half a mile ahead. They did not move, nnd slowly it dawned upon me that this was Stonehenge. A few minutes later, Heated within tflie circles of those, enormous stones. I was asking myself the old questions that so many travelers have askeiL. Itor worship, at least, these rude masses were erected ; that seems fairly certain. And to commemorate a battle. If oW may judge from the barrows that crown the neighboring hillocks. Reli gion and war? the two powers that have charmed and ruled and tortured] the world. So mysterious is the whole of life, alike moral and physical, that the haunting wonder of Stonehenge wns neither Increased nor lessened by what then 1 saw.? Scrlbner's. Many Species of Banana. t Tho banana as a- substitute for the potato would have one drawback. It has beep found that those who live mainly upon this article of yjlet soon tend 4o become what is politely called "tubby." The banana w|th which we are all familiar is only one of many useful species. Cochin China produces a single fruit that Is an ample meal for three men, and in East Africa an in- I toxlcating drink Is made from the ua- , tivo banana.? London Chroniclo. The Reason. "The first year of married life la al ways tho most troublesome. After a couple passes that safely the great danger of separation is over." "Why do you say that?" "It usually takes a man a year to learn the futility of arguing with his wife "?Detroit Free Press. Tearing Sounds. The ear can bo trained to accustom itself to tho sound of tho tearing of various materials. The noise accom*'.' panylng the tearing of cotton Is unlike that of linen. The warp has its voice and the filling quite another, the for mer being shrill, while the latter Is apt to be dull. Thoie Dear Girls. Alice (Just engaged)? What do you think Jack said to me Inst night? That if he had to choose olther mo or $10,<?00 ho wouldn't look at the money. Marie ?Dear, loyal fellow! Wouldn't like to risk the, temptation. I suppose.? Boston Transcript. Too Timid. v Green? Has fortune never knocked at Brown'i door? White? Oh, yes. but Brown didn't dare open It for fear *twae * bill collector 1? New York American. FLEETEST OF ALL DOQS. fcrayhounds C*n Run as Past ?? Car risr Piflsons Can Ply. (^ompaftttlvaJ/ few j>eople realise ot what remarkable speed dogs ar? < pHble. The wolf can run between fifty and sixty nillea In one night, and the arctic fox can do quite a* well, if uot better. JS'aurfen met one of theae foxes on the Ice at a point more thau seven* ty mlleH north weat of the Bannlkow teriitory. which Is 480 mllee from the Asiatic const Ksklmo and Siberian dogs can travel forty-live wiles ou the i? ?<> in live hours, und there is one case ou record in which a team of Klskimo dogs traveled six and one-half miles In twenty-eight minutes. English setters and pointers hunt at the rtfte of eighteen to uineteen miles an hour, and they can maintain the speed for at least two hours. Fox* hounds are extraordinarily swift, as is proved by the fact that a dog of this breed once beat a thoroughbred horse, covering four miles in six and one half minutes. Greyhounds are the swiftest of all four footed creatures, and their speed may bo regarded as equal to that of carrier pigeons. Eng llsh greyhounds which are carefully selected and which are used for cours ing are able to cover at full gallop a space between eighteen and twenty three yards every second. It is said that a hare at its greatest speed never goes faster than at the rote of eight een yards a secdud. These interest ing statistics fully prove the right of the greyhounds to rank as thq swiftest of the quadrupeds.? Springfield Repub. t llcan^. VIOLENT DEATHS. ' ' : . ________ ? ' On* Indication Is the Immediate Set ting In of Rigor Mortis. More than once the question o f ?whether u person has died a natural or unnatural death turns upon something grasped Id the hand. The object Is held because the hand stiffens through what is known as rigor mortis (pro nounced rye-gor mor-tls), a stiffening of the muscles of the body after death. Now, if a person dies naturally this stiffening of the muscles does not take place, as a rule, until two hours or' more after death, and then It comes on slowly.* In cases of violent deuth, how ever, rigor mortis sets In Immediately. It is through this that many a mur derer has been caught aud many a so called accidental death proved to be in tentional. One of the most remarkable effects of this sudden stiffening after death ap pears in the account of the charge of Balaclava. Captain Nolan while riding at the head of the noble six hundred had his chest torn open by a Russian shell. Tho arm he was waving in the air at the moment remained high uplifted, and he retulned his seat on his horse, which wheeled around and passed some distance through tho ranks before the rider fell. ' ?/' Portions of tho hair and clothing of a murderer hav? often been found 1A the hands of the victim, while bodies re covered from the water have brought with them clutched in their fingers weeds and mud from tho bottom, show ing that death occurred in the water , and not ou land. ? London Answers. Natural Age of Man. The question as to what is the nat ural age of man is by no means set tled. of course, but many are of the opinion that the Frenchman Flourens was not far out of the way In his esti mate of the time a man should live. Taking his observations from the group mRinmalla, of the class vertebra ta. as having the closest resemblance to man and such species as are per mitted to livo the full term of their natural life under circumstances not dtitpltting of error or doubt. Flourens found that their natural llfre extended to about Ave tim?s the period of their lives from birth up to maturity. Ap plying the rule thus obtained to hu-. man life anil taking the age at which the body Is fully matured to be twen ty years, he concluded the natural duration of the life of man to be 100 years. Something Saved. "What success did you have raising chickens?" "Very little. Some escaped, thieves stole others and a large number died of n mysterious disease." "That was tough luck." "However, I beat the jinx to tho last one." "How was that?" "Before anything could happen to it I had it killed nnd p\it in a pie."? Bir mingham Age-IIerald. Curiosity. * Gladys? Why are you going to all that trouble to open that letter so care tfully, Maud? Maud? Oh, I had a quar rel with George and intended to send <?" his letter back unopened, but I just 'thought I would see what he said be fore I returned It Never. Mr. Willis? But why don't you take your bank l>ook In to have it bal anced ? : .Mrs. Willis? 1 don't want that snoopy looking cashier to know how.* much money I've got In there.? Pitts burgh Press. "c The Indispensable Boy. Caller? How is your now ofllce boy getting along these days? Lawyer? Oh. fine! He's got tilings so mixed up HOW that I couldn't get along without him.? Boston Journal. : The temple of fame stands upon the grave. The flame upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of the dead.? ; Haalttt WvJ. ? ' ? ' ;*? '.I TO MS TKIKI) IN YO VOL ~ I Murderer* of WUwabore Sheriff (tot ciuui{? of Venue. "At the oiaming of the WIiiiihImmo last Wednesday luoruiiiK. Judge it ice announced that the ciiw of (lit* .statr against Jeane Morrison, Ja?. Kawl and Krncst iscnhower, duirged with the shooting of sheriff 4. J), Hood, Hiiral Policeman Raleigh Jlonj ware and the negro prisoner, Jules Sudth, oil the court house steps in June, would Ih? transferred for trial nt York. During the day a formal or dor was signed by the Judge directing that i he cawee t>e tried In York county. Solicitor Henry requested the grand Jury, who were In session, to make a repoirt lu the matter and acquaint him with the vieWH of the i>eoplo, ami In their report, which wm not raid< but which wan made a iwrt of the record they unqualifiedly reported that the ca Hen should he tried in this county, I However, it must Im? stated that few people with whom the correspondent intH talked are of the opinion that a Jury free from Idas or passion could : he secured without great difficulty, a* I almost every citizen seem* to havexaj conviction either on one wide or tlu? other. The next term of Court of General Sessions for York county convene# on November 23, but whether theso cases are to be tried ? t this term has not been determined. PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. We helireby give notice to the pub lic that the foruier partnership of Ma loncvl'ca rce- Young has been terminated by the retirement of Mr. 'Malone and the transfer of his interest to th$_yjv del-signed, who will continue the busi ness as sole owners and partners, un der the lirm name of Pearca ? Young. W. H. PEAftCN, W. M. YOUNG. Camden, S. ('., #cp t. 27th, li)l? KRD CKOH8 HBAl^S American Red ire** Hy. u ]M Kecerd Kale of |$i* wr?v inm.ii.it million um &S ( 'h rlst mas Heal* are now jjJ ??d a ml <llKtrll>ut?Ml t.> Hi,. iljjB lied riOHH and th?> \atlt>tlia Hon for tin- Slu<l> 1Ultl pn.V(J^H Tuberculosis, according to u n..!**! issued by the latter day. Tile proceed# from II, these seals will k<> l-ii Hi,. nK|lt tuberculosis In tin- rinannnillU the seals are Bold. *? The organization <?r the M a, 1 Sea I sale this y ru r w in tulw.*ln?3 HtHte and ter i" 1 1 < ? i \ ,,f the l)a9 Wtates, tlMtfudliiK Hawaii, anil the t'anal Zotu- nv Kx^S 1st. over worker#, a#.,, ;*! 1111*11 and children, will u> ?'iiKai{?iu the campaign, Js lj The khIi* In 11)1 1 la-oke all pM|9 records, totaling over M.OOO.Ouo ^ an Increase of 22 per cent over AH. 'i deducting all i-xiH-nscK, thta |1 nearly $fi0O,(MX) fur tuberculoid w J In thin country. The money I'M aixl Is being expended l?y over 3 different agencies who IwueflUed (3 the sale In amounts rmiKliiK from tm or lexH to oter $25, (MM). The An*rti3 Red Croea announces that it willed tlime it* previous successful pottcs , charging only 10 j >er cent o t the ? ? prt>c**4?lH to state untl-tubercultml* Hoclatlonn, thereby encouraging i0 work. A comedy that havers of romauwli "The Caprices of Kitty," starring fl. Hie Jaals, one of the moat deURhtfellj refined comediennes of the nUge wb? haH made her dehnt into movhtg jfc hires. This picture will he retaaj by TKJBWorth on the rarauiount l?r?. fcriim at The Majestic Theatre todij. ? adv. Reserved seats now on Hale at W. Robin Zenip's drug store for "Peg My Heftrf'-^adv, Take the Children with You TO THE MAJESTIC THEATRE "The B_?5?t There It In Movie*" THE MAJESTIC PROGRAM ALWAYS PLEASE! THE MAJESTIC PHOTOPLAYS ARE SELECTED! THE MAJESTIC CONTROLS IN CAMDEN, THE BEST FEATURE PLAYS ON THE OPEN MARKET OF THE WORLD. V . 9 ' vZ ? . ?" ?? ' . V THE MAJESTIC AIMS TO PLEASE THE PARTICU LAR. ? )? THE MAJESTIC THEATRE BOASTS "THE BEST THERE' IS IN MOVIES" AND STANDS BACK OF IT. 'V THE MAJESTIC HAS REVOLUTIONIZED MOTION PICTURES? IN CAMDEN. ? ' ? 'r ? ' ' ? 4\, * ? *" - ;-<s J#3i THE PEOPLE OF CAMDEN ARE FAST COMING TO FEATURE PLAYS ? R^ALI^ING THEIR VALUE OVER THE ONE AND.'TWp REEL COMMERCIAL . PICTURES. ' ? The Majesty Theatre Show. 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