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Sl.SOPer Yea JANUARY 9, 1908. of the., Anmlo-Indian S*crmtS*roicm YOUNG MISTLEY BSBSJLusiz Mmrriman^ CHAPTER XXIL 14 Continued. Then be mounted. The last per son with whom he shook hands was his brother Charlie, who had been standing at the horse's head. It was strange how tl^e young sailor Invari ably found something to do, and was never to be discovered Idle. "Come, Adonis!" Wlnyard called out, and then he vanished In the darkness. Then Mrs. Mlstley, Mrs. Wright, and the colonel turned and entered the house. Lena and Charlie were left alone. They stood side by side, and listened for a sound that won dead. So still were they that Char He could hear the hurried tick of his own watch. Lena stood motion less, and showed no sign of moving. Her companion waited for some min utes with the peaceful patience of a sailor, and then he said In little more than a whisper: "Come, Lena!" 8he turned and looked at him vaguely, as if she had not been aware of his presence. He was standing in front of the open door; a beam of light flooding out into the darkness rested on his upright form, and gleamed on the dead white of his linen. He was motionless and quiet as usual ? the personification of equa bility and strength. From his un usual hf:ight he looked down at her gravely. "Come," he repeated. "We have ?had aT^ard day ? let us go in. Be ware of that little step." And, under pretext of guiding her, he took her hand within his arm, and entered the house. They found the old people In the drawing room. "Well?" she said, smiling, as she crossed the room. "Well!" replied Charlie at once, without turning round. "I think," said Lena, without ad dressing any one In particular, "that It was a great success, don't you? Everybody said they enjoyed them selves Immensely, and I really be lieve they meant It." "I am sure they did," affirmed her mother, readily, with a little contrac tion of the eyes. "The floor was love ly. I know, because I tried It. Char He led me astray as usual, and made me dance against my principles and despite my gray hairs." "I heard," said Lena, mischievous ly, "several people talking about an elderly lady from London being the best dancer In the room. But ? there Is papa pulling his mustache to keep himself awake. You old peo ple keep such shocking late hours. Puff ? thero goes a candle ? puff there is another Good-night, Mrs, Mlstley; good-night, mother; good* night, poor, sleepy old gentleman; good-night? Charlie." / CHAPTER XXIIL Disguised. The rays of the setting sun, pierc ing the frosty air, gleamed luridly on every dome and minaret of grand old "Mother" Moscow. The bell sus pended In the white tower of Ivan Veliki was thrilling the entire city, far beyond t'he Kremlin gates, with Its deep, continuous voice. There was no sound of metallic concussion, but one great unbroken hum vibrated over all, like the buss of some huge winged insect. It was a feast day, and the Metropolitan was about to bless the people from the Jeweled altar steps of the cathedral. The shopkeepers in the Slavonskl B*taar were busy closing their little narrow booths, knowing that their commerce was finished for the day. From one of the arcaded passages there emerged an old man, bent and limping. He was clad in a long gar ment eonflned at the waist by an old leather strap. His high boots, reaching almost to the knees, were Innocent alike of grease or blacking. On his head was a black astrakhan cap, all glossy with newness, and In bis hand he carried five or six more. This type is common enough in Mos cow ? the man was an itinerant ven der of astrakhan caps, and, liko the rest of his kind, was quite ready to take that from his head to offer to any would-be purchaser. As he came out of the Slavonskl Bazaar, he turned his head as if a dog should have been at his heels; then beneath his shaggy curls of grlstllng brown he smiled a Uttfe grimly. Painfully he made his way across the broad market place, not In the direction of the Holy Gate, but to ward the marvelous Bftail. Opposite this, the most lovely , building ever erected to ibe glory of Ood by a man who knew not His love, the old hat-seller stood and gased. For greater donvenience he laid his cdne of fur hats upon one arm and raised hie two bands tp the crook of his staff. The eyes that re*ted on the glori ous curve of varying cupola and min aret were strangely youthful and pen etrating. Admiration for this trl umph of Eastern architecture was expressed thereto, but wonder there was not. It was as If the old man knew every line and turn, and was now casing on them as one who bids farewell. The sharp, concise tread of an ofll clous police agent sounded on the stones behind the old fellow, but he never turned or heeded It. He seemed lost In a reverie where in perhaps figured the grim personal lty of Ivan the Terrible, who had caused thla same Basil to be built; snd then, when It was finished, see ing, despite his coarse and barbar ous nature, that It was almost super Human, had blinded ToVever Tts name less architect. But what should an old hat-seller know of these things? "Thou wilt sell no caps here," said . the obtuae police apy at hla elbow. "No?" an8wered the old man quiet ly, without looking round. "No; go on, one way or the other." "Then In Moscow one may not even look at a church?" said the old man, turning to go. "No. I turned away an English man from here yesterday; and If an Englishman ? for they see every thing ? may not look, surely thou may eat not." "Same fellow, my man. Same fel low, you thick head!" muttered the old man In perfect English, a3 he hobbled toward the Holy Gate. In passing through ho reverently bared his head, looking sideways up with senile awe toward the sacred picture. He quickened his shambling pace, but stopped suddenly in one of the narrower streets of New Moscow. A blue letter-box was fixed to the wall, and upon this he laid his atock of fur caps, separating them and shak ing out the little black curls of hair with a practiced hand. He arranged and sorted hla diminutive stock In trade for some time, till the atreet was clear of passers-by. Then he slipped one hand Into the breast of his long coat and produced a letter. After glancing at the address, he dropped It into the box, and mur mured In English: "There goes the last link. I am oft at last, and a week ago to-day I was putting up scenery at Broom haugh!" When tho Post Office collector came shortly afterward with his bag to clear the box, the old hat-seller was still examining his wares, one of which he pressed upon the letter car rier with a little clumsy pleasantry about the cap coming in useful when he received his pension. The old fellow spoke the guttural, coarse Russian of the south. Beneath his shaggy brows he watched his letter fall from the box Into the canvas bag, and then turned away toward the high road leading to Nljni Novgorod. Thus Wlnyard Mlstley turned hit back on civilisation, and started on hia lone and wearisome journey of -three thousand miles. The hurried leave-taking at the porch had been indeed a farewell, despite his cheery assurance to the contrary. Twenty four hour* after leaving Broomhaugh he was on board a little merchant steamer gliding slowly down tho Humber. An Interview at White hall, a second at the War Office, and he had received his instructions. No outfit, no letters of Introduction, no baggage. "Was there anything to delay his starting immediately?" he had been asked. "No, nothing!" The answer was not very prompt; there was the shadow of hesitation In it; and for ? moment the white haired, anxious soldier who had asked the question relaxed the coldness of his official demeanor. "It is sometimes better," the old, worn-out traveler said, "to find that there Is no time to say good-bye ? do you not find It so?" "Yes, perhans It is better so," Win yard had replied, with a sudden smile, and all was said and done. And now that was all over ? a mere memory of the past. The hur ried preparations, the difficult letter to Mrs. Mlstley, written at a club amid the laughter And merry-making of men who would have been silent enough had they known. The un comfortable farewell at King's Cross Station, and the last grave prossure of the hand from the two old travel ers, who, partial strangers as they were, had made a point of seeing him off. Now he was fairly at work, and his old confident delight In the at tendant difficulties was returning to him. CHAPTER XXIV. The Black L4ne. Only a fortnight had elapsed since Wlnyard Mlstley's departure from BpoomAaugb, and Colonel Wright fcraa already beginning to experience some anxiety at the absence of news from him. The old soldier, too 1m- ' pulslve for a diplomat, grumbled aloud at the prolonged silence of his pupil. He knew that there must be good reaeon for It; but Ml at the mm* tfm* ^ or an people* ?mt rMMMitr #Mt t* be *ept fully posted M.lB WlBTird'i move* meats. On the ftttMBtk morning the tardy Utter arrived at last, havlag been forwarded by Mrs. Mistier from Paris. Tow vuloaiX 73S& it itew!** for It was written In pencil on the torn-oat pace of a sketchbook. Then he tarned the paper over again and read It aloud: *? "Dear Colonel ? I leave Moscow this afternoon, walking to fhe first station on the Nljnl Line. 1 am fair* ly off now ? right tn the heart of the country, and no one the wiser. Give me twelve months before you think of getlng anxious* eighteen before you show your antlety, and twenty one before yon send Wilson and Bates. Let them come unknown to the newspapers* If either of them be unable to come? I do not anticipate unwillingness ? some one else must. Do not on any account send one man alone. If I should not get back, and Wilson falls to hear ot me, shed a friendly tear, but shed It In private; our white-coated friends must not bear of it. By the bye, on second thoughts, please tell your ladles and the mater all about Marie Bakovltch. It will be safer. Do not lose sight of The mater, and take care of the re spectable Adonis. Yours, * "W. M.M ? The colonel's voice quivered a lit tle as he finished reading. Lena, slowly sipping her coffee, looked over her cup toward her fa ther , with an Interested hut some what critical expression on her face. "It is to be hoped," she said, "that the respectable Adonis will appreci ate the Interest shown In his wel fare." "Ye-es," said the colonel, vaguely, as he slowly folded the letter. "There!" he continued more ener getically, as he placed it in his pock et, "you know as much as I do." Mrs. Wright slowly raised her eyes from her plate, and looked across the table toward her husband. "Except," she said, suggestively, "la the matter of Marie ? something or othor." "Marie Bakovitoh ? yes, I must tell you about her. It would interest you, I think." Lena was still sipping her coffee indifferently. "Marie Bakovltch," continued the colonel, "Is a young lady, beautiful and accomplished. Two years ago she undertook to remove me from the face of the earth. She is What is called in some countries a patriot, and that is the form taken by her patriotism. Of course shd belongs to several crack-brained societies, and one of these was kind enough to' in form me by letter that I was con demned, at the same time warning Mlstley, He had the effrontery to reply to their formal communication, but I did not see the letter. Since then I have heard nothing about It. Some time later Mlstley received a threatening letter, and since then this girl has followed him like a shadow." Lena slowly set her cup down upon tho table. With one white finger she began polishing the top of the silver coffee pot with peculiar attention, like a child who being gently scolded. > "By some means," continued the colonel, "he turned the wrath of these mistaken patriot* from my head, and called it down upon his own. Marie Bakovitch followed him to Walso, and actually attempted to shoot him, down at the Broomwater one day when he was fishing. She missed him, and then fainted Into his arms ? In the most oonfldlnc man ner, Wlnyard said. The fellow man aged to make ?ren that Into a funny story. He generously kept the whole affair quiet, and succeeded in getting the girl away from Walso. She ??en promised to leave England, but whether 6he will keep her promise or not, I cannot say. He was afraid that they might have beea seen to gether, and that gossip would get about, so he asked me to tell you the truth about It." Tho two ladles were silent. Lena bent her head over the coffee pot as If she were short-sighted and wished to see the result of her prolonged polishing. It was only when he looked across the table and met his wife's eyes that Colonel Wright fully realized what Winyard Mistley had done in taking this danger upon him self. "And you knew thla all along?" said Mrs. Wright, presently, with gentle severity. She was recalling, with the unerring memory of a wo man for such details, the thousand passing incidents in which Wlnyard Mistley and his chief might have be trayed their anxiety concerning Marie Bakovlteh and her presence In Walso. Women usually consider that they have the monopoly of the minute dip lomacy of every-day life. They love to comment on the clumsthess and want of tact with whieh they are pleased to endow their husbands, brothers and sons; and when a rev* elation comes to them, as it had now come to Mrs. Wright, the result is a trifle humiliating. Most women learn sooner or later in their lives that the men whom they pride themselves up on blindly leading, allow themselves to be led just as far as suits them, and not an inch beyond. Lena must have been thinking of this also, for presently, without look ing up, she said: (To be continued.) The Mexican Government charges on transfers of land deeds amount to from $40 to $46 Mexican on 91000 value, According to the laws t t that country it Is necessary for foreigners to havo their nationality mentioned in the Jtle, otherwise they become Mexicans. 1W0 RECEIVERS NAMED Mp Mkkari Grants Frtyw F? luiirti^ll Toe the a? boar* All Um Iirib hb Appd=$? I. D?> via Warfldi Ml HJjaomg wu> Iff to Tata Tiixllitt Fmm? ston of Ike Rallread. Richmond, Va., Special* ? Judge Pritehard, judge of the United States Circuit Court, entered a decree nam* ing S. Dariea Warfleld, or Baltimore, and R. Lancaster Williams, of Rich mond, as receivers to take immediate possession of the property of the Sea- ( board Air Line Railroad. The bond of each waa fixed at $50,000 By the decree the receivers sre empowered to borrow money if need ful to pay such rental as may becomo due, purchase cars, etc., and pay for labor and supplies but not for any other purpose without an order of the court having primary jurisdiction. They Sre ordered to pay forthwith all installments and interest that was due and payable January 1, 1908, notes or trust equipment certificates and all eoupons and interest matur ing January 1, 1008, on the first mort gage bonds of the Seaboard Air Line and embraced roads such as the Ral eign and Gaston, Rsleigh and Augus ta Air Line, the Georgia Carolina and the consolidated mortgage bonds of the Carolina Central. Burglar Got a Surpise. Richmond, Special. ? Effecting en trance through a front window in the residence of Mr. R. I. Barnes, at Sherwood Park and Brook avenue, at an early hour Thursday morning, someone, evidently s burglar of the professional species, walked through the parlor, crossed the hall and walk ed into the room in which was lying the body of Mrs. F. F. Herdy, Mrs. Barnes' mother. He was so badly frightened that for a second he was afraid to run. Then, without a word, he turned and fled the way he had come, diving through a window, tak ing with hiih the majob portion of the lace curtains stid landing on the porch, from which he jumped to the ground.* It all happended bo sudden ly that the persons sitting up with the body were unable to tell whether the intruder was white or black. They saw a tall, slender man, wearing a gray overcoat and a slouch hat, and that was all Examination of the premises show ed that the burglar had pried open the blinds, carefully raised the win dow and as carefully lifted the screen on the inner side. He left everything open behind him, and bin escape was accomplished with such celerity that he was gone almost as soon as seer.. Mr. Barnes' daughter was asleep in the room above the parlor and was awakened by the noise of the en trance. Knowing that persons were up and moving about, however, she thought nothing of the disturbance and went back to sleep. But the whole household was aroused when the intruder msde his sensational dive through the window. Rev. Mr. Templeman and the others sitting up with the corpse were too dazed to move when they saw the door slowly open and then a man's form slouch upon the threshold. But the vision was m much astonished as they, and he did not stand upon the order of his going ? but went. T?km Editor Killed by His Wife Halletsville, Tex., Special. ? Thurs day afternoon a* be was entering his office, "W. R. Beaumier, editor of the Halletsville Herald was shot and kill ed by his wife. She was arrested and plarcd under $2,000 bail. Domestic troubles ore snid to be the cause of the killing. Official Report of Alabama Mine Dis aster Filed. Birmingham, Ala., Special. ? State Mine Inspectors J. M. Gray, James Hillhousc and Edward Flynn has filed with Governor Comer a full re port of the explosion which took place in the Yolande mines last month, in which 50 men were killed. Chief Inspector Gray's opinion is that a miner allowed some dynamite to go off and that this ignited dust. The assistant inspectors uxpress the opinion that there was a gss sxplosion followed by a dust explosion. New Orleans Bnterpriaw Show No Decrease in Dividend*. * ii New Orleans, La., 8(aecifl^Divi> dend payments of abort $1.^000,000 wiU >? made in New Orleans thy month. These payment^ ?now np de crease under the dividends paid a year ago, for although ratea have been reduced in many cases, a large increase in capital invested makes up the defiicit which otherwise there would be. POLITICAL POT A-BOILING. - Secretary Taft's tour of the world Is to bo put on tho stag*. | A carload of now la to bo deliv ered dally to the Democratic Na tional Convention at J>enver. Senator McCarren, of Brooklyn. ?nm?d prophet and predicted that Hughe* could not be nominated for President. There are more than ninety mem bers of the House of Representatives who are serving their country for the first time. Vice-President Fairbanks was en thusiastically urged for President at the biennial Republican "love feast" at Indianapolis. Judge W 11 lard M. McEwen will open In the Great Northern Hotel. Chicago, within two weeks his fight for the Gubernatorial nomination. Indications are that the Iowa dele gation to the Republican National Convention will support Governor Hughes for the Presidential nomina tion. Mayor McClellan, of New York, asked the 8upreme Court to compel Jackson to submit a more complete bill of particulars In his suit to oust the Mayor. Senator Tillman attacked the pol icy of the administration in Issuing Panama bonds and three per cent, certificates of Indebtedness and ques tioned the authority of law for such action. The Missouri Republican State Committee indorsed William H. Taft for the Republican nomination for President and selected St. Louis for the meeting place of the State con vention. President Roosevelt told his friends that the nomination of Secretary Taft is practically assured. His con fidence is based on the refusal of the New York County Republican Com mittee to indorse Governor Hushes *?>?* President. "~ Greensboro Has $45,000 Fire. Greensboro. N. C., Special. ? Fire damaged the plant of tho Sherwood ttohbin Works Friday night at 0 oVlock to the extent of several thous and dollars. The alarm sounded al G:30 from box 54 and the firemen responded promptly and did some very effective work, saving the main building, but the dry klip, containing a large quantity of stock, and the boiler room were destroyed. The en tire plant was insured for $03,500, and the estimated damage is $45,000 The High and Low Trse. A well-known fruit expert says thai the cost Of picking a barrel of applet upon very large, high trees Is 20 centi per barrel, while on low-headed treei the cost does not exceed seven centi per barrel, a very great difference 1| favor of low-headed trees. I FEMININE NEWS NOTES. I Telegraph operating la a favorite 1 pursuit (or women In England. Woman's average life la forty I four years, and man 'a forty-one I yeara. An exhibition of the clothing. Jewelry, etc., worn by women during the laat 300 yeara haa been opened In Rome, Italy. A mualcal atage training school for English girls la to be opened in London under the management of M. Edouard de Reazke. Although women were admitted to university study In Norway twenty five years ago only 800 have In that period availed themaelvea of the privilege. Translation of an ancient papyrua In the Toledo Muaeum showed that I the "new woman" Idea awayed | Egypt to an extreme degree 2200 I years ago. Ella May Burke, known on the atage as Mlgnon Worth, was burled by a Mrs. Burke, of Rochester, N. y., as her daughter, a girl of the same name, who la alive In New Or leans. A new prima donna is Elizabeth Parkinson, a young soprano who has created a real sensation In Paris and London. She la a protege of Mme. Melba, who predicts a great future for the Western songster. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith-Miller and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higgln son are now the only two survivors of the eighty-nine persons who signed the call for the first national wom an's rights convention, which was held in Worcester, Mass.. in 1850. Mrs. John R. McMahon, a news paper and magazine writer under the name of Margarita Arllna Hamm, died in New York City from pneu monia. She was a war correspon dent in the Spanish-American war. She was connected with the London Geographical Society. Receiver For Furnace Company. Gadsden, Ala., Special. ? Capt. W. P. Lay was appointed receiver for the Quinn Furnace Company, the ap pointment being made at the instiga tion of local creditors, whose claim amounts to between $G,000 and $7, 000. It is stated that New York bondholders will bo consulted before it is decided to file a petition in bank ruptcy. There is little danger of high fl nr.:ic? becoming too honest. There If I'.ttle danger of rich offenders be ing too uniformly, too unfailingly, too severely punirhed. Even if there were, insists the New York World, and even if a Wall street panic were the result, it would he far less dis astrous than the indefinite continu ance of unfair competition and the* Il legal exp'.oitaticn of the people. PROMINENT PEOPLE. District Attorney Jerome an nounce* that he Is tired of pubUo lire. Admiral Dewey celebrated his sev entieth birthday, naval officers re peating the President's toast In his honor. Andrew Carnegie has added the sum of $2,000,000 to the $10,000, 000 endowment fund of the Carnegie Institution. 1 Signor Gianturco, Minister of Pub lic Works. Is dead In Rome. -He is rae fifth colleague whom Prime Min ister Glolltti has lost through death or lllneBs. Alfred Q. Vanderbllt gave $100.* 000 to the Y. M. C. A. of Newport, R. I., to erect a new building as a memorial to his father, Cornelius Vanderbllt. , General T. S. Harrison, Consul General at Cairo. E?ypt, during Mc Klnley's administration, wps sued for $10,000 by T. 13. Wbitmarsli, me chanical engineer. , Charles G. Dawes, president of the Central Trust Company of Illinois, and former Comptroller of the Cur rency, will quit banking and finance to become a composer of music. Professor Edward W. 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