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•ijxej AXlifliN'X'A u\in rivUJLiLN AJNJJ JNiliVVW. Rhodes-Haverty’s [ Rhodes-Haverty~s [ Sensible Presents for Christmas Make your Christmas giving ex press not only good wishes, but con sideration of one’s comfort and pref erences as well. Furniture pieces are the most logical gifts conceivable. They display good cheer, good taste and common sense. Every Piece Shown in This Illustra tion Actually on Our Floors specially priced am A Few Suggestions: CHIFFOROBES, MORRIS CHAIRS, TURKISH ROCKERS, COMFORT ROCKERS, CELLARETTES, CHIFFONIERS, DRESSING TABLES, CHEVAL MIRRORS, WRITING DESKS, LIBRARY TABLES, DINING TABLES, Center tables, RUGS, SHAVING STANDS, COSTUMERS, HALL CHAIRS, CHINA CLOSETS, BRASS BEDS, SIDEBOARDS, LEATHER COUCHES, DAVENPORTS, BABY CARRIAGES, SEWING TABLES, BUFFETS, PARLOR CHAIRS OR SUITS, JAPANESE PORCELAINS, CUT GLASS, JAP SATSUMA WARE, PICTURES, TABOl'U KITES, GRANDFATHER’S CLOCKS, SETS OF DINING CHAIRS, BOOKCASES, MUSIC CABINETS, PEDESTALS). We Have Made Special Preparations to Put Away Early Purchases Carefully wrapped and tagged in our immense warehouse and to deliver them Christmas eve or Christmas day, as you desire. Open Evenings Till Christmas Rhodes- Haverty’s THE PARMENTER MILLIONS ... A Stirring Novel of Love, Conspiracy and Adventure. . . (Copyright, ISO?, by Arthur W. Uarchmont) „„M. By ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT. Author of “By Right of 8word," “When I Was Caar,” Etc., Eto. Synopsis of Provloua Installment, ju "Mollio O’Brien,", a mold, Oliva Is ora- ninred by Mrs. Merridew nt Sllverbeach. Sihe girl soon makes herself a general fa- vorlte with ‘be °‘ber servants. Lawyer J'sscment prepares to cause the arrest of |ik> Hartmans and others of MerrldeWs gang. __ Olivo dropped another curtsel, nnd the ordeal was over. lira. Cooper took her Into her room and carefully shut the door. "Vou heard what. I said about your work and your character. 1 know It wasn't strictly true, and you know It, too. But you needn't tell any one else, and I shan't. The mistress Is a rare tartar, so be on your guard when you meet her. But she won’t see much of you. I can see you will do, and I've taken a fancy to. you. I wish all the rest shaped as well ns you.” With that Olive was dismissed to her work, and set herself to do it so thor oughly and with such unrufded cheer fulness and willingness to help the rest that every ono quickly grew to '"mie^had stipulated before coming that she should have a room to herself, and as she was always, up llrst In the house and was willing to get things ready for tho rest of the servants be fore they came ..down, she. was allowed to go to bed proportionately early. It was then that her real task be gan In earnest. She had brought with her a long black croak wlth.a: hood so fashioned that she could at need entire ly conceal even her face; and hidden In this she could move freely about the house when she was. supposed (to bo in bed. 1 She had another advantage.; Her po sition as between-mald enabled her, even In the daytime, to be In any part pf the manor without rousing suspi cion. She used this freedom to make herself thoroughly familiar with every change that hud been made In the ar rangement of the furniture, and for the drat night or two her roamings were more to get accustomed to the work of spying and to enable herself to move about silently and secretly and without knocking against chairs and tables and any other furniture. While about her work In the daytime, moreover, she contrived to arrange niany little hiding places—little refuges to which she could dy at need, or where she could conceal herself In order to overhear conversations between mother and son when the latter arrived. In all this her knowledge of the se cret passages of the honse were of the greatest advantage to her, and she found means and opportunity to render them all easy of access In case of emergency. . V, Three days after'her arrival she had a great stroke of luck. In Mrs. Merrl- deiv'S bed room she picked up a bunch of keys. As these would prove of the utmost advantage In the secret searches she Intended to make, she had no hesl. tatlon in keeping them, and placed them afterwards In secure hiding. A considerable stir followed tho loss. But as Mrs. Merridew had been out walking that day. she could not be pos itive that sho had dropped them In doors. The house was ransacked from roof to garret, and no one was more zealous In the search than Olive her self. Even the servants' boxes were ordered to be searched, with the result that two of them refused and left on the spot. Mrs. Merridew Immediately read tbs sefusal as proof of guilt, and thus suspicion never fell on Olive . .As the keys were not found, the lock smith had to be sent for to fit new onea; and Olive took advantage of this to observe exactly which locks she could now open. Soon her opportunity came. A tele gram arrived from Merridew that he was coming down to the Manor; and Olive was Immediately set to get his room ready. Mrs. Merridew occupied the rooms which had been Olive's, and the son those which her father had al ways used. Between the two suites was an ante-room In which was one of the old secret panels with 'a recess be hind It. This might have been specially constructed for Olive's very purpose, as It was possible for any one conctlded within It to overhear all that passed In Mrs. Merrldew’s sitting room. •Merridew arrived after the time when Olive was believed to have gone to bed. and he went straight to hla mother’s room. Olive was watching for him, and as he passed the spot where she was concealed she caught a glimpse of hlR face and observed that he was greatly agitated. The moment he had gone Into the room she slipped Into the recess to lis ten. Then she learned that the arrests had taken place In London; that the utmost consternation had been caused, and that Merridew had come down to Silver- beech lest his Identity as Mawford should be discovered. M'hut was of still greater Importance, he had brought the stolen papers with him; and he now urged his mother to hide them In some place of secrecy and security, Baron Eelskov, to whom they were to have been delivered, had left England for a time, and until hla re turn they could not be handed over to any one. The Interview between the two was very heated. Mrs. Merridew, It came 'GRAND Friday and Saturday Next—Mat. Sat. HENRY. MILLER PRESENTS A Superb Company In the Long Awaited Great American Play THE GREAT DIVIDE Exactly Aa Presented 500 Tlmea In *>• Y. Night 25c to *1.50—Mat. 25c to *1. ™e BIJOU TONIGHT—MATINEE TUE8DAY. The Popular Musical Hit, GAY NEW YORK M'lth Its Funny Comedians— Daintily Gowned Glrla— Elaborate Scenic Effects. Vaudeville all week. Brindamour, Handcuff King. Six Whirling Samoii. j'Bht Feature Acte. Souvenirs for ehil- .1*" **. every matinee. Children free ■t Matinees if with paid grown-upa. Phenes, Bell 3145-M, Atlanta 1764. Up- -wn ticket offices. Soda Fount, Jacobs' Pbarmacyj Kimball Nawa Stand. out, had Insisted upon her sen giving up oil connection with ills old’ associ ates. "Wo hava all- this, Gilbert,'' she declared angrily. "Why, then, g.-t Inti, such a mess as this other thing threat ens to bo?" ■Tvo told you.beforo that they caq't bo shaken oft in such a way, mother. You know what they are. They'd tear us both to pieces If they got wind of this affair hero. Besides, this matter of the secret treaty was virtually settled op before we were certain of all this l'urmentor business, but 1 am going to cut the painter after thle." "I will have nothing to do with It, Gilbert," eald Mrs. Merridew, firmly. “And I won’t have anything hidden here. Understand that!" “Well, you must; and that's the long ond short of It,” he retorted, doggedly: and a long and angry quarrel followed, In which he gained his way In tho end. And aa soon us that was settled, he flung out of the room In a rage. Where would sho put them? Olive strained her ears In the effort to fol low her movements about the room, She heard the rattle of keys and un locking of drawers and the rustle of Mrs. Merrldew's silk dress, as sho moved from place to place aa if in In derision. Presently the door was opened. Olivo slipped from her hiding place and saw Mrs. Merridew go slowly down tha broad staircase. She paused for a mo ment by tho library; and at that mo ment Olivo saw that sho held a small packet In her hand. Sho did not enter the library, however, but crossed tho hall and unlocked a heavy door Into the corridor whjch led. to a> disused wing of the house. Trusting to the concealment of her cloak and the noiseless trend of her felt shoes, Olive stole after her. It-was tho first real test of her ab.lllty as a spy; and the Importance of ascertaining the hiding place of thfe papers was ao crit ical that she could not hesitate. She was-striving now for Jack os well as fur herself. Ills eiifety ns much ilh Ini' own depended upon her skill and nerve. Without a thought that • eager eyes were watching her every movement, Mrs. Merridew went right along the corridor and. entered the room at the end. Sho stood a few seconds at the threshold holding the lamp she was carrying high above her head. She was looking for a hiding place for the ere. .hen sho crossed the room to one of the high windows, pulled open one of the shutters, reached up, and hid the paper In the fold of the upper part. Sho pushed back the shutter, held the lamp up 'to assure' herself that the shutter fitted completely back Into Its recess and turned to leave the room. Olive darted back to one of the rooms the door of which she had noticed open, and waited there until Mra. Merridew had retraced her steps, locking the door of communication behind her. Eager as she was to obtain posses sion of the paper, Ollvp dared not mako the attempt yet. She knew that on some nights the butler went through the empty wing Just before going to bed. Bho must bo sure that he would not come that night. From this corridor one of the secret stairways led to the floor above to a room that was also disused, and from there up to the floor where the serv- nnts’ quarters were situated, nnd as soon as Mr*- : Merrldew had gone Olive opened this panel and waited until the man would have made his rounds. It was a prudent precaution. Bho had been watting about half an hour when the door at the end was unlocked noisily. She hid herself and closed the panel, and heard the voices of two men —the butler’s and one she did not know —as they looked Into the different rooms and slammed and locked all the doors behind them. Then all was quiet. Bhe still waited, however, until tho household should have retired, and then stole out. nnd. almost feeling her way In the darkness, Crept to the hiding place, took out the paper and rushed away with it up the secret stair to her own room. Her' heart was beating fast with the excitement of the adventure, and ahe sat down on her bed to rest a moment. Bhe had provided herself with a small electric lamp, and, getting It from her box, ahe turned the light on the paper and examined It with Intense curiosity, carefully shielding the light under the bedclothes ao that It could not be seen. The pocket was Inclosed In a strong envelope, and there was an Indorse ment on this In cipher which, of course, she could not understand. It waa sa- curley fastened with green tapo and scaled. But sealing had been carelessly done, and the wax adhered to the tape and not to the envelope. In a flash an Idea occurred to her. To take nut the contents and replace them with a dummy of the same size ord shapo,' and then replace the packet whero'she-had found It. This might possibly prevent her act from being discovered, and would certainly post' pone It. Carefully ahe studied the packet, flx. g every knot In her memory. For a long Inne the seal baffled heY, until she saw she must take the riak of cutting the tape and retying It. She waa In the act of doing this when ahe caught her breath. Borne one knocked at her door. Silently and quickly she threw off her clothes, got Into bed and thrust tho precious packet under her pillow. Then she waited for the knock to be repeated, wondering anxiously anil nervously what the meaning of such an Interruption could be. • The knock was repeated; this time a little more loudly. CHAPTER XLII. Jack. Olive did not reply to the second knock. No ono had any right to come and dlaturb her, and she would hot take any notice unless compelled. But a third knock and then a fourth came, each more Insistent than the preceding, and she thought it best to wake up. She made a good nolfe on the bed as If rousing herielf, nnd -then called; "la anny wan there disturbing a creatures beauty shleep?" Motile! Mollle!” waa called In a low voice. "Who la It wants MoUle at this un earthly hour?" and she yaWned loudly. "It's me, Annie.” This wns one of the maids. "I’ve got that tooth bad again and you aaid you would give me some of the stuff you haye." "Ah, bad ceaa to your tooth'to get achin' at this ungeritlemanly tolme. May the dlvll fly away wld it. But I’ll get It for ye." She got out of bed, (truck several matches In lighting her candle, found what waa wanted, and gave it to the girl. "Poor colleen. That'll alnd It to the dlvll, Its masther. Take It wld ye and give It,me In the mornln’;” and with another huge yawn ahe sent tha girl away. . Then ahe returned to her task. She worked at the packet for some two hours, until she was satisfied that the deception was not likely to bo perceived before the envelope was opened and the blank contents found. Continued in Tomorrow’s Georgian.