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II The II I Sable I I Lorcha 1 If the recognition was mutual. Dr. Addison gave no sign of It. Hit pa? tient demanded and received hit Im? mediate attention. Hsstlly he admin? istered a stimulating hypodermic, and then, himself assisted in carrying her to her room. When he rejoined me In the library, half an hour later, it was with the glad news that she hsd responded gTatlfylngly to treatment, snd was ?leaping calmly. After thanking him for his promptness and efficiency* I aald: Ton do not remember me?" "Oh. yea, I do/' he returned, almost, brusquely, filing me with his gsse, "Ton are Mr. Clyde. Did you get aay rellsf from the prescription T gave yonf*' I had not expected the question and wts unprepared for It. In vsaturiag an evsslve reply I stammered. "1 dea't suppose you even had It filled," he declared, with a grim smile that was at least partially reassuring. Aad I admitted that hla surmise wag, accurate. Moreover I begged him to alt down. 1 have a confeeslon to make. Doc? tor," 1 aald, a little thamefacedly. It Is onnscsssary, Mr. C1yde,H waa hla half-polite rejoinder, as he sank In? to a chair before the fireplace. "I read the newtpapera, aad I have come to understand many things in the j peat few days." An I took a teat opposite to him, I ?aid: The newspapers have been mis? leading. I fear, Dr. Addison." "No," he contradicted, his tone softened. "On the aontrary they have opened my eyes to a truth that waa long hidden; they have made a very contrite and, I must confess, a very unhappy man of me," ?Unhappyr "More unhappy than you can con? ceive, Mr. Clyde. For years I have misjudged one of the best friends Heaven ever privileged man to have." "But, my dear Doctor," I began, "you went not at fault, altogether; yon?" He raised a deprecatory hsnd. "No, pleaae lonV* he pleaded. "You can? not temper it 1 should have taken his word, without question. I knew his krva of truth?I probably more then any one else. What right had I to conclude then, because of certain ap? parently irreconcilable happenings, that hla word was false f' "We are all fallible." I said. "All hut he," waa his prompt reply. And then, leaning forward, with a ?trained, eager look la those piercing wyes, his voice vibrant, he asked : "Is it true that he is very HIT That ha cannot be seen?" For a scruple I hesitated. "The newspapers have been mis? leading. I fear," I said again, and 1 judge my expression of countenance wss ss cryptic as my words, for my vis? itor's look changed instantly to one of dire perplexity. "He Is not HIT* he questioned. Tou mean?" "Confidentially, Doctor." 1 admitted, "we haven't the faintest notion Just how he is. He msy be In excellent health or bo may have ceased to exist" "Good Ood!" he ex^almtd, and hit face was as white as hlr Uuen. "Our best Information is that be it tm a steamer?a trami?bound for China, but we have no p irtlculars, and worse still, no verification." It was neither fair nrr consistent to conceal longer from oie so Justly In? terested the whole truth, snd so, with? out reservation, I told Dr. Addison the story. Before I had quite concluded. Miss Clement wss announced, snd when ?ho waa shown Into the library, in? stead of permitting the phyr.iclan to leave, as he made offer 0| doing, I presented him and Insisted upon his remaining. "I want you to te!l Miss Clement about your patient. Doctor," I said. "Miss Clement is a very good friend of Miss O ray son's." Graciously he complied, making it quite clear that sedatives and sleep would undoubtedly effect a prompt re? covery. "And now Miss Clement will tell us something." I edded "She has had s psttent, too, who dlod this morning, as you may have seen by the afternoon papers?the Eurasian who was shot by McNtsh." l p to that moment I knew but little of what Soy had divulged, for the mis? sionary. In her two or threo brief trle p*-**nlc talk*, hud given us scarcely n,-?ro ii *\r promises of Important reve? lations wu??n opportunity could be mad* for a mee-Mna: and I wan Impu tlent for tho fulfilment. She had chosen a s*at at some little dlittunrf) from u? but now, at my so? licitation, aha accepted a store eest> faflsbln chair, which I placed lg con? fidential Juxtaposition with our own. "ff*l rMti'-r a tStJg story," ?di*? be gsn. In h*r nweotly ipilet voice, "And a* It < an;* :o nie piecemeal, I'm afraid 1 It will N? rather disconnected. Ton ?to this poor follow suffered horribly at time* and when he was not suffer? ing he was under the influence of opi? ates, so ordinarily I doubt that It would be safe to accept as fact a good deal said under sues circumstances. It appears to ms, however, that in his case, these very conditions only , strengthen the probabilities; for his mind seemed to hold only the one theme, snd his statements could hard? ly hars been either spontaneous or studied Inventions. On the other hand, they were rather a sort of invol? untary recital of the particulars of a subject which had engrossed him for years to the exclusion of almost every? thing else." Dr. Addison nodded his head, en? couragingly. "I quite understand, Miss Clement," he said. And I, too, assured her tart her reasoning ap? peared to me logical. "It was significant," she continued, "that so far as I could fix dates, he made no references at all to any hap? pening prior to sixteen years ago. The tragedy of that time was the begin? ning of what I think I may call Mb mania. Everything he told me had to do with it. It came at the beginning, at the apex, and at the end of every revelation." "The tragedy of sixteen years ago?" inquired the physician. "The tragedy of what has been called 'The Sable Lorcha/" I remind? ed him. "Oh, yes, of course." "You know of that, then?" asked MIbs Clement. And briefly I ran over what Yup Sing had told me. i "John Soy, I understand, wbb the cook whom McNlsh Imprisoned In the galley," I added. "It seems he broke his way out Just ss the lorcha was sinking. McNlsh had waited until he had gone to his bunk for his usual hop, and had chosen the hour he was sleeping to get away and icuttle the vessel. For five days Soy floated about on a bit of wreckage without food or drink, and was finally picked up by a proa and taken back to Macao at the mouth of the Csnton river, where, after weeks of delirium, he told his story of the lorcha'a fate. From that day the search for McNlsh began. It seems that he had a partner, an Irishman, named Moran, who for a time was suspected of having been lu the conspiracy; for, you must remember, it was thought then that the sinking of the lorcha had been planned from the first, the idea being that it wbb simply a scheme to get the passage money from the poor coolies, and then drown them." "Horrible!" ejaculated the phy j slclan. j "But the Chinese are just," the mis? sionary' continued. "They discovered that a certain United States cruiser that had been warned of the attempt? ed smuggling, did, on that particular day, give chase to a lorcha, which eventually disappeared In the fog. So the enmity against Moran Bubslded, and, ultimately, this same Moran be? came the most openly bitter of all the avenging horde that for over a decade snd a half scoured the four corners of the globe; for It seems that McNlsh had not only made off with his share of the receipts of their Joint enter? prise, but had left him with a mining lot of debts to settle as well. There was something, too, I believe, about a Chinese woman whose loyalty to Mo? ran, McNlsh undermined, but I con? fess that part of the story was not very clear to me. At all events Soy, the half-breed, and Moran, the Irish? man, who sppears to have been a rov? ing blade, a sort of soldier of fortune i with some tslent for painting, became the prims movers In this relentless quest. In which they were backed by what la known as the Six Companies. All the tosgs, no matter how much at variance on other points, were a unit in this Instance, and unlimited money was always available to prosecute the search." A footman, appearing at this junc? ture with the inevitable tea parapher? nalia. Interrupted temporarily the cur? rent of Milss Clement's narrative. But our Interest was such that we limited the ceasatlon to the briefest possible period. Dr. Addison, whose profes? sional engagements were being top? pled over one after another, politely urged her to continue, directly her cup was in her hand. "Think, Miss Clement," he with an Ingratiating smile, "of the rapt audience you have! I trust It is at once an inspiration and a compensa Uon." "It surely is," was the good lady's prompt acknowledgment. "And, by the way, I must not forget to tell you how this man, McNlsh, actually had the temerity to return to China a few years ago. He appeared to think either that his crime had been forgot? ten or that knowledge of it was lim? ited to the Southern provinces, for in the early fall of 1903, under one of his many aliases, he arrived at Peking, by way of the Trans-Siberian Rail? way." The doctor and I exchanged gl ices' It waa odd how confirmation of the error ho had already avowed should thus come about from the Hps of one v,!.o knew nothing of his story of a shattered friendship. "Oddly enough, Moran happened to be* in tho city at the time and every arrange?snl was gnade to capture the long sought prey and convey 1dm to Cl Iton for some extpilslto torture de? vised especially to tit his crime. In some way. however, the intend* d vic? tim got wind of what wag proposed, I ond came within Jin ace of escaping unscathed from under their very lin? gers. Indeed, be did escape in the end, hut not before Moran had very nearly put a finish to bin bv I knife thrust hj his ba4 k." < ?n? i more i exchanged glances with I the physician, for scarcely half an I hour before, l had told bin of the scar under McNtsh's left shoulder blade, re? ceived as I had been told, In Buffalo. "Moran fled from Peking after this encouBter, not knowing whether his enemy were dead or alive, and for awhile, I believe, 'laid very low,' as they say. In spite of all the efforts of the combined Chinese organiza? tions, McNlsh, warned now of his con? stant dsnger, eluded their search, but at lesgth Soy himself succeeded in tracing him to Canada and thence to Buffalo. There Moran came, post? haste, and once more there was a street encounter. Moran was arrest? ed, and McNlsh charged him with as? sault with Intent to kill. The result was that Moran was convicted and sent to prison for a term of years; and once again the earth seemed to close over McNlsh." The discrepancies between Miss Clement's narrative and that of Yup Sing I did not regard as sufficiently vital to raise a question over, yet I must admit that I could hardly fore? see a conclusion without a much graver antagonism of facts as I knew them. The missionary having paused to sip her tea, Dr. Addison asked permis? sion to smoke a cigarette, which she readily granted. "On Moran's release from prison," Miss Clement continued, fortified by the fragrant Oolong, "he appears for the first time to have considered the advisability of adopting some sort of an incognito. Prior to this time he had, Soy told me, been carefully clean shaven and close-cropped. Now he grew a heard and wore his hair long, and, in addition, he doctored it with henna until it became a flery red. He also changed his name from Moran to Murphy, and Instead of frequenting the busy marts of men, he retired to an Isolated country place on the Cos Cob river and posed as an artist. He employed always a Chinese servant, and at least once a week, without fall he visited Chinatown, keeping always in touch with the powers there, which were still unrelenting in their efforts to trace McNlsh." She came now to Murphy's so-called chance meeting with Cameron on the Fourth of July, of which Cameron himself had already told me. I would have saved her this recital, but it was new to Dr. Addison and so I allowed her to proceed. "It was plainly evident to Moran," she pursued, "that McNlsh?or at least the gentleman he supposed was McNlsh?did not recognize him, and his delight at this discovery was un? bounded; for it gave him opportunity, quite unsuspectedly, to arrange all his plans for a most ingenious campaign of torture. What that campaign con? sisted of, of course, you already know, Mr. Clyde, snd I presume Dr. Addison does, too." "Yes," i replied, "I have told the doctor." "What you don't know, though," she added, "Is how it was managed." "Wo have been told something about amyl pearls," I suggested. (TO BK CONTINUITY) STRIKERS AM) OFFICERS BAT? TLE. Sixteen Killed in Fight in West Vir? ginia Coal District. Charleston. W. Va., Feb. 10.? Sixteen are dead, including twelve miners and four mine guards, after a desperate battle between striking coal miners and officers in the Kanawha county coal fields today. Five com? panies of State militia reached the troubled zone tonight. The Clash occurred near Mucklow. Fred W. Lester, in charge of mine guards, sought to head off several hundred strikers attempting to gain position from which they could fire j on the town of Mucklow and avoid the range of machine guns. In this skirmish two of the officers were shot dead. Reinforcements appeared and during the afternoon kept up a con? stant guerrilla warfare. At every point they wero met by .strikers and were steadily driven buck. The two Charleston companies reached Ronda at 9.4 5 tonight. Im , mediately squads were sent through? out the troubled zone. Every train of the Chespsake and Ohio Railroad in? to the strike territory tonight Is equipped With a machine gun. The gun is screwed to the rear platform, it la manned .*t all times and ready for instant use. Bun t 1'on Believe It. Some say that Chronic constipation cannot be cured. Don't you believe it. Chamberlain's Tablets have cured oth? ers?why not you. Give them a trial. They cost only a quarter. For sale by all dealers.?Advt. When a city is well lighted it makes a tremendous impression upon visit? ors Wilmington has scored along that line, and it can be said that band omely paved streets and attrac? tive lighting f<?rm a combination that la irresistible. Baltimore'? system of ornamental street lighting now covers 10 Plucks, or m arly three miles of streets Wilmington star. Methodic Mi ulster Recommends Chamberlain's Cough Itomedy. Rev. James v. Lewis, Mllnea, Minn., wipes. "Chamberlain's (Tough Rem? edy has be< n a u> < d< ?i and welcome guest In < o? home for s number of years. I highly recommend II to my fellows as nein' a medicine worthj ol t rial In ens. s of colds, < or h : and croup " (it\ ?'h imln i Ii n's i 'o igh IP up ,|\ n tt d and we at ?? conlbb nt you \? HI tuet it very effectual and con I tlnue to use it as oc< islon requires for I\,;iim i.ni". as many others have ' <pme. Fol .- vie b> all d< ah ii: Ao\ t TURKEY SEEKS PEACE. TRYING TO RESUME NEGOTIA? TIONS FOR ENDING WAR. Reports of Fighting are Divergent, Rut Seem to Indicate That Moslems Have Met Reverse*. London, Feb. 11.?it is becoming increasingly evident that Turkey is taking steps to resume the peace ne? gotiations .although it is possible that no direct action will be taken until some decisive result in the lighting In the Gallipoli peninsula has been achieved. Jt is understood that Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish ambassador, has had sev? eral interviews with the British for? eign secretary recently and that Re chad P;isha, head of the first peace delegation, has been ordered to re? main in London. Another effort on the part of the porte to raise a small loan in Paris has failed owing to the refusal of the French government to open the Paris market. Olhcial accounts of the fighting j issued at Sofia and at Constantinople are very contlicting, but it seems to be certain that the Turkish arms have again met serious reverses, al? though Adrianople and Scutari still are holding out. The hoplessness of achieving any success in an offensive movement, combined with a lack of money, ap? pears to have decided the porte again to appeal to the powers to intervene in favor of peace and this probably has been the subject of Tewfik Pasha's communications with Sir Edward Grey. It is reported that this matter was discussed at a meeting of the ambas? sadors at the foreign office today but that it was decided that the powers would be unable to undertake the role because the allies had declared that in the future they would negotiate peace only on the battlefield. TURKISH LOSSFS VERY HEAVY. Moslem Forces In Peninsula of Galli? poli Have Suffered Severely ? Re? pulsed at Tchatalja. Sofia, Bulgaria, Feb. 11.?The Turk? ish army in the peninsula of Gallipo? li lost 6,000 men aijd 50 officers dur? ing the fighting at Bulair, according to an official report issued here to? day. Several thousand Turkish soldiers are declared to have fallen in a bat? tle before the Tchatalja lines on Feb? ruary and thousands more at Charkeui. Today's report says: "The Bulgarian army, having repulsed several Turk? ish attacks along the Tchatalja lines, except on the extreme right flank where they were exposed to the con? vergent fire from the Turkish war? ships In the sea of Marmora and the gulf of Buyuk Chekmedje, retired to fresh positions five or six miles to the rear. The losses of the Bulgarians were insignificant, while '.hose of the Turks amounted to several thousand men, mainly due to the excellently di? rected Bulgarian shell fire. The Bul? garians are entrenching their posi? tions in front of Bulair. Large bodies of men have been sent out to clear the field of battle of the bodies of Turkish soldiers, which number from 5,000 to 6,000. It is believed that the number of wounded Turks must be more than 12,000. "The Turkish warships shelled the Bulgarian left flank all day but only killed one and slightly wounded an? other Bulgarian soldier. "The Turkish troops, which de? scended upon Churkeul near the port of Rodosto on Saturday and Sunday, were almost surrounded by the trans? ports to the Turkish warships. "The Bulgarian infantry on shore kept up a deadly fire on the small boats loaded with Turkish troops, in? flicting losses amounting to several thousand men. The Bulgarian losses in the whole affair <ld not exceed 100 killed and wounded.*' More detailed accounts of the Bu? lair battle show it was a complete dis? aster for the Turks, 2,500 of whom were buried by the Bulgarians and 3,000 Turkish dead were left lying scattered over the battlefield. According to reports received here today neatly 10,000 Turks were wounded. TURKISH SHIP ASHORE. Her Position is Believed to Im? Almost Holcpclss. Constantinople, Feb. 11. A Turkish warship went ashore at Karaburun on the Black sea coast today. Her posi? tion is dangerous. The Ironclad ashore Is the Turkish battleship Assalr-i-Tewflk. Her con? dition is considered almost helpless. The Bulgarians hold the shore in Btrcngth and are dring on the salvage wten tiers. DISPI N SI TTl I l>. Belgrade, Feb. 11. The govern? ment organ, Samouprava, reports that the Bulgarian-Roumanian dispute ha been settled bj a compromise satis factor) t" both p u ties. Unshackling Justice. The most vital subject before fhe country at this time is not the tariff or the monetary system, but the question of efficiency in the admin? istration of justice, according to a vote of the members of the Council of the National Economic League. President Taft's utterances, the Su? preme Court's revision of the rules Of equity procedure, the movements toward codification and simplification of laws in several States, and the practical work being undertaken by the American Bar Association, indi? cate the general recognition of the need for swifter, simpler, surer, more impartial justice. And a judge of New York'a Supreme Court has but recently declared with all the em? phasis at his command that, in fa^t, all men are not equal before the law, and that unless lawyers, legislatures, and judges act, the people will do some rather rough reforming for themselves. The American Bar As? sociation has recognized the justice of the lawyers cries about the "law's delay," and a committee headed by Mr. Thomas W. Shelton is striving to effect a change which will bring "prompt and complete relief" so far as the Federal Courts are concerned. The Supreme Court, explains Mr. Shel? ton, has "just completed a system for the equity side In the Federal courts'* (considered in our issue for Novem? ber 16.) Now let Congress give it the same power over the law side that it has over the equity side, 'in order to bring about an immediate simplifica? tion, cheapening, and expediting of judicial procedure in the Federal courts." Mr. Shelton is very much In earnest. At present, he declares: "Federal judicial procedure on the common law side rr. a likened to crossing an out-of-date bridge in bad repair and with patch decking. The burdenhearer must minimize his load in order to apply his energy in getting over the pitfalls in the de? fective way. His skill, strength, and speed serve him and his employer but little purpose. The bridge ought to be destroyed, and a modern, complete viaduct erected, suitable to the times and the traffic. "Statistics would seem to indicate that just a little more than half the cases instituted are ever tried on their merits. In other cases much valuable time is wasted in conforming to tech? nical requirements that serve no use? ful purpose. The courts, with rare exceptions, are not bo much to be blamed. They are bound hand and foot by this archaic and conflicting pleading and procedure. A judge is only a part of judicial procedure, and can not legally rise above the rules of his cuort. They are the tools with which he works. A law, however wise or needful, is no better than the judicial procedure?the machinery? through which it is enforced." But if Congress can be induced to act upon the suggestion and demand of the Bar Association, explains a prominent lawyer, then "The Supreme Court would certain? ly adopt a simple system similar to the New Jersey and Connecticut sys? tems, and while this could not be forced upon any of the State courts, it would be such an example of what a simple practise could be made that sooner or later its example would cause other States to follow the lead of the Supreme Court of the United States in the matter. Thus the great? er amount of the law's technicalities would be eliminated, because the technicalities of which we hear so much complaint aro mostly caused by the statutes relating to practise." These efforts, naturally, meet with the complete approval of the editors commenting on them. The attempt? ed reform, thinks the New York Commercial, begins very properly in the Federal Courts, "because the problem involved is more easily and promptly handled in their jurisdiction, which depends less on time-encruot ed precedent." But, it adds: "The essential use and importance of reform willl be more specially Bingalized In the effect which such reformation will have on the pro? cedure of State courts. This covers a great multiplicity of causes in trials of the first instance, man} of which in the very siature of the issues in? volved can not get into the Federal courts as their ultimate." And it is doubtless conditions in State, rather than national, courts Which drew from Justice Wesley O. Howard, of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court >f New York, a denunciation of yresont judicial ten? dencies, a warning of coming retri? bution, that is as vigorous and Impas? sioned as any campaign utterance of our most radical political leader*. Speaking In Troy, N? w York, I ast week, Judge Howard said, as quoted in the New Yoi || vVbi Id: "Our laws are becoming Inade? quate; they do not satlsf) the popu? lar conception of equal justice. The people clamor against the law, its delays, its dl criminations, Its In? consistencies and ihej clamor with mui h reason. ? rim thousands of statutes, rules, : u i .1 . and unw ritten laws, uiua rtain to the Jud ? ;. confusing to the lawyers, and utterly incompre? hensible to the people, constitute a condition almost chaotic... "The laws will command respect only when they are worthy of re? spect. Wooden plows onco elicited admiration; to use them now would < xcite only ridicule. Many old laws concerning coemploy<?es, contributory negligence, assumed risks, master ani servant, rules of procedure, and rules of evidence are wooden plows! the use of them now obstructs progress and defeats justice. It is almost su? perstition to venerate ancient laws. "The roads to justice should be straight, short, and simple. There should be no toll-gates on the way; no brigands, no false guide-boards. The suitors traveling in automobiles should have no preference over, those on foot. All this can not be ac? complished in a day, but the reform should at once begin. "It is not well to scoff at the mut? tering of the people; there is much reason for it. But revolutionary measures are to be avoided. The re? call of judge*; and decisions would work no cure?that would precipitate anarchy. "Let us not deceive ourselves; the spirit of recall is spreading; the im? patience of the masses grows deeper. Something will happen. Unless the judges act, the people will act; if they do not resort to the recall they will 1 revise the Constitution and create new courts?courts to do rough jus? tice; courts to do summary justice; courts close to the common people; courts without technicalities, sophis? try, and delay, and where substantial right prevails."?Literary Digest. Banquet of Medical Association. In the account of the medical as? sociation banquet in Monday s Item it was stated that this banquet was given by Dr. E. R. Wilson, president of the association. This was error, a' the banquet was given by the mem? bers of the association living in Sum ter and Dr. E. R. Wilson was only on the committee to make arrangements for the banquet The president of the asociation is Dr. C. J. Lemmon of this city. The Bost Cough Medicine. "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy every since I have been keep? ing house," says L. C. Hames, of Mar bury, Ala, "I consider it one of the best remedies I ever used. 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