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* ' V.'v ^ . Jf . ? Mynhe BY ST. QEORQ' f?VTV? i COPTBIGHT18P3, KOI ^tran.w CHAPTER XXI. [Continued.] f "My plan. broadly speaking and without the details that must be arranged later, is something like this: We will arrange matters so that the baron steps into the little parlor of the ?nr\wlA?* Tin t-aoo o lucftinnc mnrcol CJ-'lUVI XJLV ov. V O <1 iUOMVUO lUVicvt <.uv?v and is tempted to devour it. Just then his feet are entangled in the web and t he finds himself powerless. Aft=?r that he leaves the country on board * sailing-vessel, to be landed perhaps on a desert island or conveyed to South America. The chances arc ten to one he will never care to indulge in any more of these games in ease he lives to reach Russia again." "Your idea is a good one. Of course, It must be understood that under no circumstances will the hand of the British authorities be seen in anything we undertake." "That can be arranged easily enough. Things are often done sub .rosa, and Mthln'* left t? tpll the tale." "Ah!. A thought strikes me; let us have It out while I find It fresh on my mind. You spoke of an attractive ' bait." . Mr. Grimes bites his lips. * "That was it, Joe." "You had something definite on your mind when you spoke in that way?" "I did for a fact," watching his companion out of the corner of his eye. "Someone I know, sir?" t } "Well, I am free to confess it." "Plainly, 1hen. Mr. Grimes, you had ; % reference to Miss Tanner." "To be equally frank with you. 1 : <Hd. my boy. You frown. I under- j rtand your feelings to a dot. Yon have my sympathy, my dear fellow. I If that will do you any good." Mynheer Joe frowns savagely now. i J "Give np the Idea, sir." < "Why sd?" "Because I put my foot down upon 1L" At tbls; the other arches his eyebrows and pretends to be taken aback. Not that he is at all convinced that ' . his plans must be altered, for it j chances that Mr. Grimes Is quite a tnbborn man in his way. "Pardon me. Mynheer Joe, but for j nee I must decline to see your au- j thorlty. This young woman has a father, and he is one of the party. I have lad a talk with him. He gives his consent to the plan I sketched for { his benefit." "Confu3'on! Well, what If he dors? Because a foolish father agrees to en- j danger his child's happiness, her life even, Is that any reason I should aiso j consent? Not for Joseph, sir. I come i down flat-footed against the Idea." ; 'And the traveler looks as though he , might annihilate the person who could I thus propose such a thing to him. ? : "The young lady agrees to It," says ' Grimes, in a most nonchalant manner, j "What! You have spoken of It lo Molly?" flashes from Joe's lips. This j "hot shot really crumbles his last bulwark away. "l'es. I ou remember we three were left last n gkt I was about to retire, as I had a lame ankle and a headache, when c native servant came with a , message from Tanner. I hobbled to his room and found Molly there. "It struck me at once that there "was something in the wind, for while abe young lady's face looked serious. that of the Illinois legislator was black as a thunder-cloud. Before one word j had been spoken. I was aDie to unner-1 Ktund that trouble was in the air. and j ; -could give a shrewd guess as to whoj was to blame. In his own peculiar, j blunt way. the senator l>egau to toll j me, now and then ?-alling ujwm his J daughter to refresh his mind. Thus 1 was soon in possession of the whole tory. ""To be brief In telling you. It seems i % that the audacious baron has gotten ahead of you. Perhaps you noticed native jiand Miss Tanner a letter while .you wefe admiring the great temple of Jtahaluxmee?" ""Jove! I do recollect it! Heard hiu; ^ *ay in good English: 'Read it when Alone, lady,' and* saw Molly mechnuically slip It Into her bosom. Then i forgot all about it, you know." says Joe, somewhat eagerly, his curiosity excited. "That was a lost opportunity, my dear boy. Had you asked Molly to open It then and there, you could not have failed to tell her your secret." "My secret, Mr. Grimes?" turning pale. 'Certainly. Yon love the girl and dare not tell her. Good heaveuS. man! The fact is patent to us all. 'Faint heart never won fair lady.' I'm nstounded! Yon, as bold as a lion in everything else, to be a laggard it! *iove. Go W and win, my boy. You've a clear field, and the game is yours tf you only show nerve enough to put out your hand and take it." * i "'Do you think so, my friend':" j ""Why should you doubt it?" * "I will tell you. frankly: Ever since Molly learned that I was Joe Miner Carriugford. she has not been the same toward iue," the other says seriously. *t which Crimes laughs with the air of ? man of the world. v "NMnraily to. Joe. There are two yersors for <*.:> !; a clir.nge on her 4 er Joe. 99999999 < E JRATHBORNE. | IERT BOKKER'S SONi. I " part. In the first piaco. tno ract rna* you arc the lieir makes her feel differently toward you. She fears lest people may suspect that she angles for you." "To perdition with such gossips!" roars Joe. "Exactly my feelings; but that docs not mono matters a pamcie. mc uma thing is wb.it bas influenced Molly most," continues Mr. Grimes. "Well, what is the tenor of that?" "You will forgive me if I am personal ?" "Of course." "Then bark to the words of a man whose business it has been for years to read human nature, until from experience It has become very much like an open book to him. The hour that Molly learned the truth and knew the man who saved her from the cruel waters of the Mediterranean at Malta was no other than he whom she sought, the heir to vast estates?then she suddenly awoke to the consciousness of the fact that she loved him." "God grant It!" almost whispers Joe. "Her maidenly modesty put her on guard lest she betray her secret That is all. Be the man in love jou have been In battle, Mynheer Joe: wall; right up to the cannon's mouth, and the prize is yours." "I will," responds Joe, with a sudden determination. "And yet, bang it all. Grimes, you don't know what a queer feeling comes over me whenever r start to tell of my love and look up into Mnllv's bright eves. Somehow the words j\ice into another channel ( of themselves. But see here, what d:d you mean about the baron getting ahead of me? Was that letter from him':" with' a fierce frown. "It was. offering his hand and heart, i not to speak of his estates, at the feet of the queen of beauty whom we know as Molly Tanner.4' I Mynheer Joe looks serious. < "That was a confounded neat trick of his?proposing right under my nose. : But I don't imagine he has any show. < Do you. Grimes?" ' "None at all. I assure you," with a i grin at the anxiety apparent In Joe's i voice. "She knows him loo well. Thank Heaven, there are some sensible American girls who will not sell themselves for a title!" "Why, old Tanner tells me she has had proposals from Sir Hugh Trclawny and Lord Arthur Stanhope. Slu 1 refused them because she did not love them! Think of it, man!" "G vl bless her! She's worth the < winning! And you think I'm safe, old fellow?" "You've jrot the Inside track, unless you let It so too lone. In matters of this kind delays are always dangerous." , "Well, so Ions." i "Hold on, my friend: where away?" "To find Molly; to tell her what a blockhead I am, and ask her to take me in hand," responds the man of nc- , tion, at which his companion bursts , into a roar. "Time enough for that, .Toe. Don'* i do it in an abrupt way. Watch yonopportunity. man. The women?bless 'm?like to be wooed and won In tli?? proper way. Many a girl has beenfrightened into saying no when she meant yes by the awful abruptness \ of her lover's proposal. Besides, I am I just getting to business. Sit down and > behave yourself." "I suppose I must, but It's too bad I can't put my fate up to the test, now i that I am all worked up. Ten to one < when the chance comes again I'll prove ' to Ih? a miserable coward." mutters I Mynheer Joe, who is developing some < new and singular traits of late. Mr. Grimes taps the foretlnger of I bis right hand upon the palm of his | left, as if to give an expression and < force to his words. i ^Ali hough this proposal of the bar oil's was apparently couched in ele- 1 gant language, there was a threat bc,hind it. He says " "What!" cries Joe. "He dares threat- 1 en Molly, the miserable hound?" "Even so. I don't know but thai 1 it is the custom in his country when a man of the nobility deigns to propose 1 to one beneath him in their social 1 rank. The Russians have peculiar ways as well as the Turks and Arabs. 1 At any rate, this man has avowed to make Molly Tanner his wife, and 1 means to raise Cain if she will net ' consent to become a baroness. He ' seems to consider It an honor to have asked her, and takes it for granted she will accept in spite of her father or any one else." "I always did say he was a conceited ; ass. His ears give him away," grins Joe. whose hands are working nervously, as though in sympathy with his 1 feelings. He would give all lie ever expects to handle of his naclt's estates for the privilege of laying hold of that same Baron FopofT at this moment. "True. But we must not deceive ourselves. lie may be conceited; hut. at the same time, he is a dangerous man." "Ah! I gran* you that. He played with tko sword as 1 have seen lev. * - - e ! ? ?S / men do. Yes, the baron is no fool, after all." "We three discussed the matter thoroughly last night. I found the senator a level-headed man. and his daughter backed up propositions made by myself in a manner that did her credit. In 1J end we arrived at a conclusion, and the story you have told me this morning only convinces nie we did the right thing." "What was this conclusion?" asks Joe. as his companion looks down the avenue'. "Speak of the Old Nick and you'll get nn odor of brimstone. Yonder goes the man wc were talking about. Notice his arrogant strut. The natives seem to quail before him as I've never seen them do when in the presence of a British officer. Ah. it will be a sad day for poor India if the Iron heel of the White Czar of all the Russias is ever set upon her borders!" "Stop your philosophy. Come to business, Mr. Crimes. Tell me your plan without delay," growls Mynheer Joe. who cannot help sending a black lock after the retreating form of the proud man who has crossed his path nr.d seems destined to give him trouble. ""Well, here ft Is in a nutsiieii: Molly has consented to appear to favor his suit." "Misery!*' groans the traveler. "Of course It Is only assumed, for she solemnly assured me that if the baron were the last man on the face of the earth, she would not have him. This will in a measure pull the wool over his eyes, and we can lead Mm the easier Into the trap. All of us seem to be of the same mind?that this man must be transported out of India. We bad not decided last night how this was to be done, but our morning talk has developed the Idea." "I am beginning to fall in with your plans. All I want is an assurance (hat Molly may not be assigned any duty to bring her into danger,"^ Joe remarks, gravely. "Readily given, my boy. and don't lorgct J l. l^l'l JJJt.* uui J \Jui IT vo? this morning. I suppose money is no object here?" "I am ;i man of wealth. Whole lakhs of rupees, as they say here, are at your disposal. Call on the senator and charge to my account. lie told me to draw on him without stint." "Good. Now listen. As soon as convenient I want you to hie away to the river ghauts, and find the owner ;>f some vessel about to sail for South America or some far-away port. Make irrangements with hini to take a secret passenger as a prisoner, a man tvhose ravines on the voyage must be treated as though he were a crazy man. Mynheer Jce jumps up. "Thunder and Mars! Why didn't. I hink of it before. Captain Ben is the ery man! If the good ship Ava!tnche hasn't sailed yet. the baron stands a chance of landing at Valparaiso. in Chile, some mouths lience." je exclaims. CHAPTER XXII. ?AFTAIX BEX, OF THE GOOD SHIP AVAIiAXCHE. A short time later Mynheer Joe makes his way in the direction of the ivcr. determined to carry out his share of the plan as proposed by Mr. irimes. If the Avalanche has not nl-uo/i'v cotic/i Be is sure of heartv co >peration on the part of his friend, the j JTankee skipper, and so far as this diare of the contract is concerned it can be set down as good as already accomplished. There is considerable foreign shipDing at Bombay, much of which lies n the river, as the Indian Ocean can >e very treacherous, and great tidal raves have done a tremendous amount ' ?f mischief in the past. When Mynheer Joe reaches the ter-aees. or ghauts, that line the river, i ie finds himself In the vicinity of the ilace where the dead are burned. A rreat pillar of smoke rises, and by rlnneing over a wall he can see the 'uneral pyre, with all its primitive ac ?essories, the sad mourners, the black ittendnnts and the bodies that are being thus cremated, their ashes to be :ast upon the sacred Ganges. , Although the weird spectacle might Interest him at another time. Just at present Mynheer Joe lias something lse on his mind which he cannot dismiss. Eagerly he scans the surface of the , tvater In search of the clipper ship. )t i tves here Captain Ben told him the 1 rcssel lay. A number can be seen icar by; one bears the Star and i Stripes, and upon her Joe fastens his ?yes. He speedily makes her out to be < he Avalanche, since she carries out die verbal description Captain Ben ' rave. To his chagrin, he sees signs hat indicate an early sailing. "By my life, they look as though diev onlv wait for a boat that may !>e out! Another hour, and I might liave missed him!" he exclaims aloud, when a heavy hand comes down with a thump in the middle of hi* back, and a hearty voice roars: "Well done. Mynheer Joe! Reckon rou've come down to see what kind of x craft I sail. Go with me on board: we can have some hours of chinning ere the anchor is heaved." Of course, it is bluff Captain B-?n himself, the old schoolmate with whom Joe tussled many a time in the days gone by. That worthy shakos hands eagerly now; he could almost hug the Yankee sailor, such is his intense delight at seeing him. [To be Continued.] ' The State of Washington promises io be a large producer of beet sugars in the early future. " i' ., . .. Snpportf. tlic Brownlnw Kill. |H1X a recent communication 1?J la to Congressman BrownIlow, Mr. K. W. Richardson, Secretary of the NaIfnlI i. 1 / '?/%,! \ Cwnolo. ( UUUUI UUUU iiuaug ^oouviu tion, supports the Brownlow bill iu the following language: "I have carefully read n copy of your bill, being II. It. 15.3GD. creating a Bureau of Public Roads in the Department of Agriculture, and providing fot a system of national. State and local co-operation in highway improvement. I desire to commend you for your initiati-e in this most important and necessary public improvement. It seems passing strange that the people of the United States, who are so progressive in every other avenue of commercial and industrial development, should so continuously neglect to give even reasonable consideration to tlie public roads. It is safe to estimate that more than ninety per cent, of the area of the States of the Uniou is without improved roads, enduring almost Impassable mud in winter and insufferable dust in summer, old and antiquated wasteful methods still in vogue in attempted road-making and * * repair, nunureus or inuusiiuus ui u.>.lars wasted each year in these metliods. to be repeated again next year, and all this without any change from the road conditions our fathers left us, except in the majority of cases for the worst. "National, State and local co-operation is the modem and sure method of equalizing the burden of ccst, giving proper supervision and restriction, and securing an adequate system of improved highways. The postal, educational, military and economic interests of the general Government justify Its active Interest in this behalf. "You are to he heartily commended for your effort. If you succeed you will have reared to your name an everlasting monument in the ever-growing anpreciation of the people. Our association stands ready to give you every aid possible." European Method*. The great highways of Europe are none o? them built by the farming regions through which they pass. No rural neighborhood can alone hear the cost of good roads. The central governments in Europe pay half or more of the expense, of road-building. In France the broad roads which cross every dep.- rtmrnt are paid for from the national treasury. The department builds roads across every commune. The commune or township builds only tue narrower unim-u iu<iur. Countess Alida von Krockow -writes as follows in the Chicago Tribune: "Germans find that it pays to encourage peasants to free their fields of stores. The property rises in valuetaxing value. The stones thrown into heaps by the'roadside are purchased by the district fond repairing commission. Poor men. who otherwise would liave to be supported in almshouses, are hired to break these stones r.nd then are' trained to the work of repairing the roadbeds. The money to pay the men is made by auctioning off to the highc t bidder the erops of fruit trees that were planted on both sides of the highway when it was built and which were nourished well by the manure that falls along the road and is pushed at intervals by the road tender upon their roots. The purchaser of the crop sees to it that his fruit is not stolen. The road commissioners have no I bother about that. And although tbej sale be by auction It brings in considerable. Every burgher knows how 1. hlMln-o llJUt'll, uct.iu.ir I lie- w. fruit crops are published In the local newspaper." What th?? 6o?frnof r*T?. Hosely associated with the subject of rural public schools is ihe question of public roads. Coed roads would en-1 nblo country schools to bo consolidated ,md strengthened, and at the same time facilitate the attendance of students. In the last few years there has been a general awakening throughout the couutry on the subject of gocd roads. Public highways are arteries of local commerce and trade, and when made permanent r.rd substautlal they facilitate travel, cheapen transportation of farm and other products to market, stimulate business, attract desirable citizens nud increase the value of lands. They fill school-houses and churches, eneorrare social intercourse and advance civilization. Reducing Ihe quesilon to a purely business basis, good roads pay. If wisely and economically constructed, thev are one of I he best Investments that can be made by the State or county. ... I trust | that your honorable bodies win give this important subject the most careful study, and amend the present law or enact some new law that will Insure to the people of Tennessee a better system of public highways.?Governor Fraz>r of Tennessee. Imported Crime. The destitute aliens in London, it Is very evident, are becoming more and more a den of thieves. The only course with these people is to repatriate them as far as possible, and for the future to tate the most strenuous measures to oppose them landing on our shores. Other countries have had to do that before, and sooner or later wo shall be obliged to follow their example.? Country Life in America. Glasgow is pursuing a crusade against girl howcr-scllers in the street. . j v TCTfr - . V'~S ' " 3 cc ' Pncp Potp dale Tennis Club, CI" ence advises all young j and sickness peculiar to Lydia E* Pinkham's V How many beautiful young girls deve women, simply because sulHcient attention development. 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