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VOL. IV. NO. 46. CAMDEN, S.C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1907. Sl.OOPer Year A TaU Of th ?. Anglo-Indian Smcret Service YOUNG MISTLEY By.. ........ Ussx. Mmrrimaru, ..CHAPTER XVII. 11 Continued. WltlS a gesture which was almost ft command, he bid her resume her ?eat, and then In a masterful tone he ?poke. , "Mademoiselle," he said, "I must ask you to leave England at once. You will return home, and Im mediately aend In your resignation to the Society of Patriots on account of your approaching marriage with Monsieur Meyer, which will disquali fy you aB a member. Have I your promise that you will leave here ? if not to-morrow, as soon os possi ble? I ask this of you, though It Is In my power to command. And now I beg of you, for the sake of Ivan Meyer, .for the sake of all you love on earth* to give' up forever your connection with any political society. Politics is not for women; it is a man's work ? leave it to men. Every woman who has meddled With it ha/? brought misery to herself and sor row to those who loved her." The girl slowly r%ised her eyes to his, and watched his earnest face as he spoke. There must havo been ?omethtbg strange in her gaze, for the yoafeg fellow winced beneath it. It had #ever been his lot to look on genuine, hopeless misery before-, but he instinctively recognized what he ?aw in those sud blue eyes. , "I will ?o," said Marie, softly. Then Winyard mechanically moved toward the- door. With a silent in clination of the head he left them. Meyer aione returned the salutation, but did not stir from his position neat- to Marie Bakovltch. "You see," he whispered, "she is going rtad!" In all and through all Winyard Mlstley was eminently practical. "Are jrou quite alone?" he asked. "Have you no friends in England? Has she.no maid, oven, with her?" "Yes? ?he has a maid who is now Bleeping- in her room. She is young, but intelligent." "Youi'must rouse her. I*et her persuade mademoiselle to go to bed, and she jnust remain by her side to night. In the morning, if mademoi selle it hotter, you must get her ?way from hero at once. If ? if she is worse, send to me, and my mother will cojae to her ? a woman will know btst what is to be done. I can not( understand ? anything; but I am convinced that mademoiselle is not going mad; it is only temporary. I think It must be what is called hys teria. Have you no friends In Eng land?" v "Wo have but one ? a Monsieur Jacobi, of'London." "Monsieur Jacobi, of London. Who is he?" asked Winyard. "I know him very slightly; but ho has been kind to Marie. Ho is a musician, and ? and is connected with some society to which Mario bo longs." Winyard shook his head. "Ho Is no good, then," he said. "You must go to your Consul, that Is all. If I do not hear from you by eleven to morrow morning. I will know that you have left Walso; biit if you re quire assistance of any dercrlption, wrlto to mo or telegraph at once. Put my name In full ? Winyard ? W-d-n-y-a-r-d ? in tho address, so that no mistake can arise. Do not thank mo, for I havo done nothing yet. Oood-nlght." And so they parted. - Ivan Moyer re-entered the cottage and closed the door. Marie was walting^ior hlin in the little parlor. She was sitting by the table, and her attitude was characterized by - pe culiar stillness which had no feeling of repone about. He stood watching her for some moments with weary, yearning eyes and haggard face. "Marie," he said at length, In a voice that was no longer pleading as of old, "let us understand cach > other." "Yea, Ivan," she replied, softly. "What do you not understand?" He came nearer, and. leaning ono hand upon the back of her chair, he bent over lier. "Will you not do what the Eng lishman asks?" "Yos." she replied. In a dull tolce. "All?" ho asked, with trembling lips. "Yes. Ivan, all. We will go to America, as you desire. Oh, I am so tired! My head Is throbbing! I will go' to bed now. Good-night, j Ivan!" She rose and extended her hand to him. Jn a wouderlng manner ho raised tho delicate lingers to his lips ?/- very tenderly, very lovingly ? and h^ld the door open whilo she passed out. Then ho dropped into a chair, ^nd sat staring stupidly at the parafllne lamp till the distant chime of two o'clock arouaed him, and sent him mechanically to his room CHAPTER XVI IT. Tho Love Scene. Monday evening had been fixed Cor lUo flnt rehearsal of the great dramatic entertainment; and, as the time came near, Lena discovered that she was growing Just a littlo nervous. Charles Mistley, as stage-manager, had naturally spoken much of the play, giving, in his good-natured, lazy manner, tentative opinions, and asking advice of Lena and his broth er upon sundry situations to be de picted. Of all had he fully treated, excepting this one most trying scene between herself and Winyard, and this he appeared content to leave to their discretion. Instinctively she knew, however, that the part was within the scope of her little-tried histrionic powers. She felt that she could endow it with life and semblance; and, above all, she understood the character of the girl she Intended to represent. Such stage intercouse as she had with Charlie gave her no trouble. He was, indeed, supposed to be her lover; but of an old standing in love, and therefore less embarrassing; while the difficulties that lay in Win yard's path, of a cross and under current stream of passion, flowing into and discoloring with its villainy ?.he purer and colder river of mild affection, required a tact and dra matic delicacy which Lena knew him to possess. The first rehearsal bid fair to real ize the misgivings of the elder ladies, so Intensely ridiculous was it after the preliminary nervousness had quite worn off. This was the result of a deliberate plan on the part of the stage-manager, whose experience taught him that rehearsals beginning with laughter usually finish up with succcssful .acting. Winyard and Lena were not in the first scene, and Charles Mistley's part was too unim portant to have efTect on it; and Mrs. Wright, who was prompting, had but little work to do. The sec ond scene began in the same manner. "Win, this will never do," whis pered Charlie. "It is more like a board-school examination than any thing; else. We must wake them up somehow." Winyard obeyed his brother's In structions, and on receiving his cue, introduced two new elements into the performance ? merriment and 'earnest acting, which cau bo com bined with great facility. In the midst of all the laughter, tho idea suddenly came to Winyard that it would be a worthy triumph to quell the merriment, supplement ing it with tho opposite cmolion, which is so near at hand. In a whisper he said to Lena: "Now we will show them what wo can do!" leaving her to understand it as she could. But soon she did understand, and aided him beyond his expectations. Tho difficult scene appeared to pass away as If it were a portion of their real and earnest lives? for life is as real and enrnest to the merriest of us as it Is to those who pull long faces and suffer from dyspepsia. By the sheer force of his dramatic power he carried her away, and brought for ward tho talent of expressing pathos which he had detected when sho had Rung unwittingly to him. For the moment she was no longer happy Lena Wright ? for assuredly nothing could whisper of sorrow in her young life ? but the heart-broken girl, part ing from her lover forever; and he, Winyard Mistley, acted the part as if he knew too well the pain and anguish ho depicted so cleverly. First the laughter died uway, then vanished tho last smile, as these two searched deeper and deeper into every human heart for the emotions which cannot fall to be hidden some where there. It was almost an In spiration, and quite a passing stroke or genius. No word of forethought bad passed between them, and yet no mistake could be detected ? tho art, . art there were, was so well l.Jddeni so craftily covered, that none could determine where it lay. The spectator* were hushed Into silent wonder. With the majority of them, however, it was merely a piece of clever acting ? an exhibition of dramath? talent sueh as lies in the power of most of us. though tho de mand for It may never corno. But to two of them It was something more. The prompter drew In a long deep breath, and glanced nervously toward the stage-manager. Of course It was acting ? mere acting? but Mrs. Wright did not like It. 8uch acting, such rehearsals were dangerous, and why had that gray, dra-vn look come over Charles Mistley s calm face? AV hen It was over there was a mo mentary sllencc, as if each person present were waiting for some one else to rpeak. Winyard dusted somo Imaginary specks of carpet from his knees, as If family prayefs had Just been offered up, nnd proceeded to move tho furniture and rearrango the Improvised sta>;e. This ho did quietly and mechanically, which served very well to easo tho breaking | of that silence, and to allow Lena time to come back to workaday ."perch and thought. 1 **Wel1 done?" said the colonel softly; and Charlie suddenly clapped his strong hands together, and spoke a little rapidly. "Splendid!" he said. "Splendid! Everybody is all that a manager could dealre. We will bring down the house with applause, I am cer tain. I am very much obliged to every one for the intelligence and diligence with which they hare studied their respective parts!" When at length the two brothers were left alone to smoke a last pipe before going to bed, they sat for some time without speaking. They had never been so much together, those two. and perhaps it was owing to this that they were somewhat dif ferent from other brothers in their mutual love. Mutual respect had an important place in the love they bore toward each other, and, as a rule, brotherly affection is without it. Charlie knew that his younger brother was cleverer, quicker and tn | every way more brilliant than him self, and he was content that it | should be so. Indeed, he was proud of it ? proud to be the brother of Winyard Mistley. And Winyard, the observant, was fully aware that this big, grave lirolher of his was a better man than himself. On this particular evening Win yard felt a strange increase of affec tion toward his brother. Never be fore had they possessed so many in terests in common; never had the thought come so prominently before his mind that too little had been said between them, too much left to the. Imagination. Charlie sat by the open window of the little study in a low basket-work chair, and smoked *vith that good natured placidity and sense of strong repose which suited so well his fair face and splendid stature. Winyard, seated near the screened fire-place, smoked more rapidly, as If to keep pace with his quicker thoughts, con suming more tobacco, enjoying it per haps less. The calm peacefulness of his brother's demeanor quelled the words that were within his heart, bid him to be as self-contained and Belt-suppressing, drove back the rest less eagerness of his soul, and spoke of a quiet attendance on the course of events which was beyond his com prehension, and had no place in his character. If Winyard could only have seen beneatji that calm and indifferent ex terior, he might have put into words the unusual thrill of brotherly love that warmed his heart. But English men aro not made so, and the mo ment passed, never to return; the op portunity came 110 more, and Silence numbered another victim to her ruth less bow and spear. It is only on the stage that men have time and oppor tunity to make that little farewell speech which is to put a graceful fin ish to our comedy, clearing up the doubtful passages, explaining away misunderstandings, and mingling a prayer for charitable remembrance with the rumble of the curtain roller. It almost seemed as if Winyard Mist ley knew that this was a last chance of breaking down that invisible bar rier which stood between his broth er's heart and his' own, a barrier which was naught else but shyness and a habit of reserve on either side. It almost seemed as if his imagin ation could span the 400 miles of si lent, night-ridden land that lay be tween him aud two gray-haired, grave - faced men, who were at that moment speaking of him within a littlo curtained room beneath West minster's great tower. It seemed as if he could read the message ad dressed to him, and containing the mandate of an almost certain doom that lay beneath the anxious states man^ hand. ! CHAPTER XIX. On Duty. The following morning at the breakfast table, a telegram was hand ed to Wlnyard, with the intimation that the messenger was awaiting the reply. The young man broke open tho envelope' and read the flimsy pink paper. It took him scarcely a couple of seconds to glance over It, and ho proceeded immediately to fill in tho addrogff in the reply form Inclosed. All at the table noticed that there was no hesitation, no indecision In his movement*, and they remembered that Incident later. Then he added the singlo word "Yea," and handed tho reply over his shoulder to the servant. "May I trouble you for the jam?" he said, with an impudent smile to ward Mrs. Wright; and It was only after he had helped himself largely to that condiment that he tossed tho telegram to his brother at the head of tho table. Life hud. It seemed, for hira no eamest p.ido at all. The bite of toast which Mra. Miat lcy had Just placed between ' her strong, short teeth tasted as no toast had ever tastod to her before. It was a peculiar mixture of absolutely no flavor and a nauseating bitterness. Sho know that this telegram was Im portant. and meant tho end of these happy days; all her five senses were lost in one great throb of sad fore boding. (To be continued.) Avnl^r.tlio's Secret. An Alplno avalanche lias just yielded up ono of its secrets. Last January an enormous mans of snow foil from the mountains ahovo Hallo and a theological ptudent named IJeckcn perished iu it. He was caught while making an ascent on ski. All efforts to recover tho body f^Ued at tho time, but with the incit ing of the snow In tno vrillcy It has at last been laid bare. It has been per fectly preserved * ?* refrigeration, but shows marks of terrible prewore.? I ondon Globe. CALL FOR SHOWING Government WW Ask Reports from National Banks. WILL BETTER THE SITUATION Comptroller of the Currency is Ex pected to Issue It This Week and the Revelations, It is Believed Will Aid llatrially in Restoring Confi dence. New York, Special. ? A ??&*; upon the 'national banks for n statement of tlieir condition of a very recent date is e.\|>ected by bankers here to eoraq from the Comptroller ot' the Cur rency, this week. Four of t lie live culls required each year by law have already been made, the last having shown the condition of the national blinks on August 22d. It is passible that the cail now anticipated will have an impoitant inilucncc on the financial situation. It is expected that it will reveal large reserves of cash in the country banks and this will tend to restore ooniideuce among dei>ositors to a degree which will make it easy to resume currency pay ments throughout the country. The banks, even in normal times, usually prepare for a call by strengthening their cash ; iii order to make i> good showing, not only to the Comptroller but to their clients. Their state ments are required by law to be pub lished , in a local paper, and. tlicy are also forwarded to Washington, where they arc compiled by cities und Staites. The effect of call for report ??f condition on a tixed date, which is usually a few days before the call by the Comptroller, is to enable the bank to release cash after the cuil, with the knowledge that another call is not likely, lit the natural order of thing*, for about two months. In the present situation, it is declared by New York bankers, the call will show that hoarding is not being done, by New York bankers ? as indeed their deficiencies in required reserves already iudicati ? but that many of the interior banks have reserves run ,ning up to suck proportions as forty or tifty per cent of deposits. The facts will reach the public for indi vidual banks through publication lo cally and then will come to the public generally through the compilation made by the Comptroller. If large reserves in lawful money in 1 heir own vaults are revealed gen erally hv the reports, it will at once inspire confidence in the strength of the hanks and create a demand which they will no longer be disposed to re sist. after sending in their reports, for the immediate resumption of cur rency payments. Chairman Fowler, of the House committee on banking and currency, made the following statement re specting the outlook for financial legislation in the Sixtieth Congress: ''There should certainly be some remedial legislation and 1 can assure you that the members of the com mittee on hanking and currency will bend their energies to that end. What we shall lie able to accomplish no man can answer. Hut that there is urgent need l'or help no man can deny. "At the dinner of the American Hankers' Association at St. Louis, a year :i^>. I predicted that the thing which has happened, uiu -t happen 'unless some immediate action was taken; that there was not a banker in the I'nited States who would not regret it if Romething were not done. "At the close of the last session of Congress I said that the condition of our finances and < uvrcncy was such that it would, of necessity lead to t lie destruction of our prosperity. Klloil ir. Auto Crash. Rending. Ph.. Special. ? llurry M. SehaelTer. aged "Jl vcars, died here Sunday us 1 lie result el' injuries sus tained by his automobile colliding with a telegraph poie. He wnx the son of Charles Jl. Schnreff?r, pre>?i dent of the National Union Bank here. Detroit, Mich., Special. ? A Free Press special from Kschanabn, Mich., savs: Captain Frank E. Bent, of (Company l.Twentieth Regiment, Wis consin Nationnl (luard, was instantly killed in an automobile accident near here and four others wore injured. Sumner K. Prtscotl, vice president and general manager of the Present I Iron Works, was internally injured, and it is feared, he may die. Isaac Stephenson, Jr., nephew of Cnitcd States Senator Stephenson, had an arm broken, and Jospcli Duxbury suffered frnetuiex of his collar bone ami one arm. Albert Unionist was badly bruised. Still Another Victim. New York, Special. ? Rnrle Ira Mc Donald, of Holly, N. Y., was killed when an automobile, which he wua driving in company with several com panions, collided with a sand pile in Bay Ridge. McDonald, it. is said, would have come into an estate val ued at $150,000. His companions es caped unhurt. NEWSY GLEANINGS. All the Governors have been In* Tlted to the White House in May. Viscount Aokl denied that he had Invited Rear-Admiral Evans and hit fleet to visit Japan. Advices from Brussels hint at a complete disagreement between King Leopold and the Congo delegates. The Sturgis liquor law deputies were mobbed by a crowd of 1000 persons during a raid at Oldtown, Me. German students in the Berlin Uni versity denounced drinking and formed an organization- to check the habit. The newspapers of Valparaiso, Chile, published articles protesting against the immigration of Chinese Into the .United States. Increasing pro-American sentiment In St. Croix and St. Thomas indicate a desire for the annexation of the Islands by the United States. The Hepburn banking commission obtained data from which to recom mend legislation putting a stop ..o outrageous receivership charges. President Roosevelt, in his message to Congress, has recommended the construction of four battleships more 'powerful than any now being built. J. Plerpont Morgan arranged for the sale of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company to the Steel Trust and cleared up the whole trust situation. Three grammes of radium have bean extracted at Vienna from 10,000 kilogrammes of pitchblende at one third the cost of previous production. President Trumbull, president of the Colorado and Southern Railway Company, said the gross earnings of his road were increasing, despite the hard times. The revenue of British Columbia i9 twenty per cent, greater than last yur. Arrangements have been made with the Salvation Army to bring over 1000 immigrants. Drowned in a Bath Tub. Ossinging, N. Y., Special. ? (liarlo L. Ferguson, Jr., was drowned in * bath tub at his home early Sunday. Ferguson, who was in business ic New York, was married two month* ago. Sunday he was bathing wluu: his wife retired. If was several hour? later when Mrs. Ferguson awoke and found the body. The coroner decider! that Ferguson had fainted and slip t>ed below the water. A HEAVY hOAH. Irate YVifo (to bibulous husband). ? Where have you boon until this hour? 11. H. ? Keon out shoppin'. m'dcar. Irate Wife- -Then why didn't you have ycur purchases sent tiome in stead of trying to carry auch a load yourself? ? Detroit Free I'ress. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Kaiser Is said to harp left $10,000 In a tip at Windsor Castle. Mr. Richard Croker will leave Ire land (or Cairo, Egypt, to spend the winter. Count Olciima. lender of the Jap anese Progressives, is the enfant ter- : rible of the Mikado's household. Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, wants the States to pass uniform laws which would foil the tux dodger. Because of their annoyance to Mrs. Morgan. J. P. Morgan decided to dis pose of his valuable high-bred collies, which cost $1,000,000^ Brigadier-General George E. Pond. U. S. A., retired, was stricken with apoplexy at Winston-Salem, N. C., and died in a few hours. Tlie story is current that William Flinn. of Pittsburg, hns said he'll lie I United States Senator frpm Penusyl- | vanla if it costs him 12.000,000. I A. H. Harrison, an English explor er, has returned to England after spending two and a half years in con- i tinuoUs work in the Arctic Ocean. Captain Rould Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, was the guest of Governor Curtis Guild. Jr., at a lun cheon at the Algonquin Club in Bos ton. The French Government has con ferred the Cross of the Legion of Honor upon Carroll D. Wright, for merly United States Commissioner of ! Labor. George McManus, an Industrious and painstaking American comic il lustrator. lias received merited recog nition from the Crown Princess of Germany. I Lord Clifton, whose coif'nc: of age has been celebrated at Cobham Hall. Kent. England, is si:: feet seven inches iilgli. His father, the Er.rl of Darn ley, Is six feet four Inches. John Burroughs terms Roorevlt 'the most vital man on the planet." Exploding Boilers Wreck Building. Brunswick, Me., Special ? The lx?it ers of tlie heating apparatus at the Maine Central Kaiimad station ex ploded shortly after midnight, blow ing the roof entirely off the station and reducing the building to a mas* of wreckage. Three men are known to have been injured, and it is fear ed that others are under the ruins. The Mangor & Portland night tram had pulled out o ft he station about three minutes before the explosion occurred. THE CAT. Mistress ? 1 >i<l you remember to feeil the eat every <lay during my ab senee? Servant ? Kvery day but one. ma'am. Mistress ? An<l ?1 i?l n*t the poor thinu liavi? anything to eat all day? Servant ? Oh. y.?s; nm'am. she ut ?? i the canary. ? Chicago Daily News. COMPLIMENTARY. "Gracious! my dear." said th* Hrst society belle. "I do hope \ou ara wot ill: yon look so much older tmihihl" | "I'm quite well. ? thank you. 4o*r_~" replied the other. "and yjou ? fc*?w wonderful improved you are! Ton look positively young." ? \Vaslilnjct?u Herald. News in Brief. Senators Kittml)^ and (lambte. ?* South Dakota; Senator I lausbrtat^r') iikI Representative Hull, ot' Iowa, ?Ii declared lliat tlu> people would kavr nobody hut Koosevelt for their ?f&: President. Adjutant General Ainswoilh, in kis report, sa'nl thnt conscription may fx necessary to till depleted ranks in tire army. President Koosevelt will entertain . Admiral Fvays Friday, as last honvi> before the Admiral tal?-- the l!e?l I< the Pacific. Seventy-live fishermen ? ?!' the S? Pierre llect are believed to h:v\e bv* . lost. One thousand Momi-h i internet who attacked a French cmu}i wen heat en ??tt' with a loss <> i' I .lilltf. ' (Jen. Sir Henrv Kdv\;:rd OJriJj* was kilh*d while out on a ino(orcy?.-2< in collision with a friend \-? antom^ hil?. Sixteen persons perishe?i in a New York tenement l">use tire. The watch .uess of a Kus^inn road ^itard pi- 'ented Tuft's trail from lakinir a .witch and crashing into Some freight ea."s. lleinrich Coiiricd is ??aid U? be tii t erested in a project tt- huiid an $S. 000.0(10 American opera t. utsc in l't? ter den Linden, Berlin. Two trains in the New York ^uh wav were in collision because, il 7 helieved the iiiotormau of the nvit train, who was killed, had a stri>k? of apoplexy. William F. Feriruson ??!' - port. Pa.. committed snieide hi moml because of domestic fr?>ublc-:. David P.. Cook. SI years old. LdJu. himself in Alexandria uhih dcK^KM? denl. Mrs. Hannah Krtker, 7: t year* hauled herself at her home in Windsor. Slie hud he. n dc-.poc.ieiw because of ill health. 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