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/ 8 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1913. * CROP CONDITIONS OVER THE SOUTH TOLD BY REPORTS TO THE JOURNAL TENNESSEE.—This is an exceeding ly busy season with the farmers over the state. Much corn has been planted and estimated acreage this year wiU exceed that of last with indications pointing to a splendid crop. Practical ly all oats have been sown and while the acreage may not be quite so* large as that last year conditions at plant ing time were very encouraging. Th6 wheat crop is in excellent shape and it is believed that th e first offerings of < new crop will be on the market by the middle of June. The cold spell of last month which was at first thought to have damaged the fruit crop, peaches especially, proved to oe not near so disastrous as at first thought, oaly a few orchards being damaged to any extent. Generally speaking the ' r utlook for a good crop year in Tennes see is very satisfactory and encourag ing and the farmers are feeling good. GEORGIA—COUNTY BERRIEN The crop conditions in Berrien county are good, considering the weather. The oat crop is not very good. > NEWTON—Crop conditions of New ton county are from ten davs to three weeks ahead of 1912. About three- fourths of the cotton crop of Newton county has been planted. The cold winds of the past two days have damaged to some extent the cotton that was coming up. More grain was sown in .the winter and more corn planted this spring than any year of the past several in this county. ECHOLS—The crop outlook in this county is not as promising: as it was thirty days agro. The drought has in jured the crops and made it impossible to get a good stand. The cotton crop will be short this year, as the acreage has been cut off. Corn crops are look ing fairly, good. HART The fertilizer sales seem to be gerater this year to this date than last year, though lots of this is going to small grain and corn as the acreage to these crops are greater than last year. This means that there is a re duction of the cotton crop in the coun ty. Better preparation of cotton crop is seen on all roads, though little plant ing is done to date. Seed is in demand and there is not enough in the county to plant the crop. Farmers are buying conservatively. BALDWIN.—Baldwin county farmers have made remarkable progress in farm ing during the past week and much cotton has been plante/3, while plowing of corn has commenced. The grain crop of Baldwin county is pronounced one of the finest ever seen in this sec tion-of the south and promises re markable yields. The first cutting of hay, clover and vetch, of which this section produces a considerable quantity, will begin gen erally next week and much feedstuff will be put on the market here. Sev eral farmers are engaging in growing early sweet potatoes for market and Mr H. W. Beck has 20 acres of Irish potatoes, which are now being dug and sold "at _ profitable prices. The tick .eradication work is also progressing ff nicely in Baldwin, showing advanced type of farming. WEBSTER—Farmers of this county are very hopeful of good crops this year. Although they have been considerably retarded by rain, still by taking advan tage of the fine weather in January, the lands were prepared, to great extent before the excessive rains set in. A good deal of the corn is now up and growing, and the most of the cotton is planted, and with propitious weather from this on the prospects for full crops are bright. MUSCOGEE—Muscogee county farm ers. and those of the five adjoining counties, as well as the two on the Ala bama side of the Chattahoochee, are suf fering as the result of the windy weath- . er, the cool nights and hot days, which is making the you^ cotton sick, playing . havoc with the plant In most -sections, and doing no good to young corn and other young plants, including all vegeta tion. The farmers are some three weeks be hind at this time, owing to the recent [ rainy spell, which was followed by sev- ! eral real cold nights. This necessitated re-preparation of much of the ground I before planting could be completed. In some of the low lands, planting has been | deferred until only a few days ago, in order to get the ground in shape. •Taken as a whole, the farmers of Mus cogee are rather gloomy over present situation, especially over the weather conditions, and they are anxiously hop ing for a change for the better. PAULDING—Paulding county is two or three weekp behind. Continued wet weather has prevented thp farmers from plowing. During the last week, how ever, farm work has been rushed. With one more week’s fine weather the ground • will be rea^y for seed. Some corn has been planted, but no cotton. . PULASKI—-Farmers and supply men here report from 70 to 85 per cent of corn planted and about 30 per cent up. 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EMANUEL.—The growth of the crops that are up has been somewhat re tarded because of needed rain and about half cotton crop is yet to be planted. Farmers waiting for rain. Oat crop damaged some but not materially, and is about ready for harvesting. Large oat crop made. More attention being given to food crops than last year. With the exception of beihg dry the outlook for a larg e crop and better con ditions financially this fall is indeed encouraging. CHATTAHOOCHEE.—Farmers in this section are now pushing the planting of cotton. The weather is ideal and they are taking advantage of same. Good stands of corn, some being plowed out first time. No rain her© since the 11th of this month. Will take good rain to bring up cotton seed planted last five days. Oat crop needing rain. A great deal of complaint of rust in oats in this county. Farmers are more hopeful this year than last year at this time as to the outlook of the crop. WALTON.—Th e happiest men on earth are the ‘Walton county farmers. On every hillside and in every valley the plowman and his whole family, wife and children, could be seen and they ate no idle bread. Walton farm ers were further up with their work prior to Uie recent continued rains than they were at the same time last year. So they ar e going ahead now with con siderably less difficulty. They are putting in guano and some have planted corn. The allowance of a few more bright days will put them where they can kinder see their way out. Th e oat crop in Walton, particularly in some enriched fields, is supassingly great. The wheat, not so large in acreage, is looking fine. The peaches, reported killed by the recent cold snap, are shin ing forth in healthy hue and the farm er trusts that after crops are laid by to sit in the shade of the trees and once more enjoy the peach from his own tre i and the grapes from his own vineyard. All told, the Walton county farmer is going forward. TALBOT.—The farmers in Talbot county are further behind than usual at this season of the year, owing to so much wet weather. A bigger grain crop fvas planted and is doing well, but corn was late in planting and a large per cent of cotton land has not yet been well prepared for planting. In some sections there is a scarcity of la bor, but this has been overcome by the use of improved machinery by a num ber of progressive farmers. Much at tention is paid to the Boys’ Corn club. BARTOW.—Crop conditions in Bartow county are most encouraging. Our farm ers are well uP with their work. Every thing planted and the season’s fine for a good stand of corn and cotton. Our farmers seem more optimistic than for a number of years. In fact they have a right to feel good for it has been a long time since the general conditions were so good to begin with. A great deal of corn has been planted and this year no doubt will witness the largest corn crop ever raised in Bartow county. A large crop of cotton is being planted, but no larger than usual, and the acreage will be about as last year, although a number of farm ers are making cotton this year, strictly their surplus crop. Tax returns for this year are showing the largest number of cattle and hogs* ever in the county be fore. Bartow county farmers are learn ing that the best way to beat down the high prices of food stuffs is to raise it at home, and they are doing it. Tho wheat and oat crop in this county is large and in fine condition. It seems now that nothing short of a calamity can keep this county from making the best and largest crops in twenty years. GWINNETT.—The crop prospects in Gwinnett county never have appeared brighter at this season .of the year than it does now. The weather has been fine and the planters have been very busy. TJiere has been a vast deal of corn and some cotton planted up to now. The acreage will be about the same as last year. The average amount of fertilizers have been used. But most, if not all, of the fruit was killed by the late freeze. PIKE.—Inasmuch as ‘ the weather has been without so much rain for the past ten days, the farmers have about caught up with preparation and planting. In other words, crop conditions for Pike are about normal for the season. Before the first of May, if present weather condi tions continue, the cotton and corn crops will have been planted. Owing to so much rainfall int looked for a while as if planting would be very much delayed, but such is not the case. TERRELL.—The crop conditions are not as -favorable in this section as had been hoped for. Corn is looking well, but the recent cold weather has hurt the cotton crop. A great deal of cotton has been planted over, the srand was so de fective. The cool weather .has caused cotton to die very rapidly. Rust does not seem to be so prevalent among oats as in other sections, but they are seriously damaged. The crop has probably been cut one-third. MARION—The crop conditions in Mari on county at this time, look promising, although there is but little cotton up. The grain crops are fine and if the sea sons hold out favorably for the next for ty days there will be a bountiful crop or oats harvested here. The stand of corn is a fair one, but it is small owing to the high winds, and cool nights of late. BROOKS.—Owing to the best prepara tions the county has ever had and very favorable conditions, crops in Brooks county are exceptionally promising. Farm labor is plentiful and the corn crop is being produced more cheaply than ever before. Farmers are chopping and siding cotton; fairly good oat crop; splendid stand of cotton. Altogether crop conditions are excellent. WHITFIELD.—Warm, clear weather experienced during the middle of April brought the farmers of this section well up with their work. Upland corn and cotton have been planted during the past few weeks. A number have not yet planted cotton, but practically ali have planted corn, much of the acreage being given over to it. THOMAS.—Reports from throughout Thomas county show that crops gener ally are in fine condition, no material injury having been done by the recent cool weather. The corn crop is one of the finest ever seen here at this season and much of it has been worked out. The farm ers are busy just now chopping out their cotton, which is looking well, with the exception of the late plantings, the growth of which has been some what retarded by the cool nights and mornings prevailing during the past ten days or more. Water melon and cantaloupe#ines are growing off well, there being a large acreage of the former. The rust reported some time ago on the oat crop seems to have about disap peared and the crop is reported as a fine one. Rain is beginning to be needed, the winds and bright sunshine having dried off tho top soil rapidly. EARLY.—The cotton was badly in jured by the recent cold spell and many of the farmers have ploughed up and replanted. Much of the cotton was in the ground and uninjured and will do well. It has been very dry the past ten days and rain is now needed. PUTNAM—The best farming weath er of the season, continuing for the past ten days finds Putnam’s farmers busy, striving to catch up with farm work long delayed by continued rains. Plow ing has been possible for more than a week continuously, and a rain at this time would be welcome. Continued cold snaps have damaged fruit and vegeta bles, and delayed the planting of other crops that \tfould not germinate under such weather conditions. Fertilizer sales good, but show no increase up to this date. Corn planted and cotton planting next in order, following pres ent good season. EFFINGHAM—Conditions more fa vorable than they were one month ago, but at this time the ground is a little too dry for the farmers to get good stands of cotton. Sugar cane crop is fairly good stand in most places. Corn stand is not yet good, but corn is start ing off some, yet the cold winds have retarded it. Irish potato prospect good. CARROLL—Crop conditions are much better in Carroll county than one month ago. Farmers have made rapid progress during the month and most of them are through planting cotton. The cold weather has done no serious damage from reports received. Grain generally is looking well. POLK—The farmers of Polk county are well advanced with their work for the season, and every indication is most encouraging for the^coming crop. The Boys’ Corn club are more enthusi astic than ever, many new members joining. The Hal!-God BY ALBERT DOSEINOTOK. Author of “THE RADIUM TERE03L3,” “CHILDREN Of THE CLOVEN HO Of," Eto. GIVE THE JOBS TO MEW, URGES ANTI-SUFFRAGIST WASHINGTON, April 30.—Announce ment of the intention of Secretary Lane, of the interior department, to appoint Mrs. Annie G. Rogers, a leading suf fragist to be receiver of the public land office at Leadville, Colo., because he be lieves that “money can be handled mofe safely by women than by men,’’ brought the following letter from a New York man to the secretary; “This notice of your appointment of Suffragist Rogers has caused great sur prise, and your remarks about men; “The women you know may be of such a type, also the men; but most of us meet women who throw away a great deal of money on dry goods, and tool hats, such as inclosed pictures of them, and nag their husbands for their hard- earned wages, until we men are fasjt going to the criminal class to get money for their wives to squander. “Please use your influence to give men work and make women stay at home and keep it for the comfort of husbands and children, so the homes will not be broken up and the children run wild and unruly.” JEFFERSON MEMORIAL DEDICATEE) IN ST. LOUIS (Ey Associated PresB.) ST. LOUIS, April 30.—The hundred and tenth anniversary of the signing of the Louisiana Purchase treaty .was to bo observed in St. Louis by the dedication of the Jefferson memorial building, a $450,000 structure at the entrance to the old Louisiana Purchase exposition grounds in Forest park. Incidents of the dedication were to be the unveiling of a marble statue or Thomas Jefferson and of a bronze group representing James Monroe and Robert. Livingston, the American minister who negotiated the purchase treaty, and Mar- bois, the French minister of foreign af fairs who signed the treaty for fhe Na poleonic government. , „A congressional delegation of five sen ators and nine representatives is here to take part in the ceremonies. FLORIDA AFTER EXTRA TAX ON CIGAR FACTORIES (By Associated Pro's.) TAMPA, Fla., April 30.—A “head tax’’ is proposed in the state revenue meas ure to be placed before the legislature. Representative Goldstein, who has the measure in charge, proposes to have the state place a tax of 25 cents per man on cigar factories employing more than ten cigar makers. It is estimated that about 20,000 cigar makers are em ployed. in the factories at Tampa and Key West. The proposed tax is a new departure in Florida revenue-raising legislation and will be fought. FREIGHT HITS HOUSE; BLOCKS MAIN LINE (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) DALTON, Ga., April 29 ? —An uqusuai wreck, caused by a freight train on the Western and Atlantic road back ing into a house, blocked the Southern road’s main line just , outside the sta tion here yesterday and necessitated sending fpr the wrecker to clear the tracks. Incidentally the house, the cab and one car of the freight train were disabled. •% (Continuation of Chapter SIV.) Tho presence of her diamond in the radio-active tobacco pouch would scarcely convince the coroner of the cause of Engleheart’s death. The doc tor who had come at the German’s be hest had seen the blighting effects of the real Zeu, had viewed with wonder and awe its flaming rays when he stooped over the body of the unfor tunate sea captain. She could expect no mercy from the Japanese doctor. On the other hand, he was hardly the man to inform the police in regard to Engleheart’s past at the risk of implicating himself in the assassination of Professor Caleret. At home she found everything quiet and orderly. Doctor Rochwarne and his confrere were in th e billiard room, engaged in a game of pool. Bernice hesitated near the open door, fascinated by their nonchalance and professional ease of manner as they followed the game from point to point. Rochwarnes face was bent low over the table, his pallid features receiving the full flood of light from beneath the shade. “You mean that he had already ob tained possession of the super-radium?” “It came into Engleheart’s keeping in a way that baffled Scotland Yard, Mr. Kromer. Some day you may hear the story of how Dr. Hammersho’s bee was released from Caleret’s laboratory, car rying with it the grain of super-radi um. To be brief, Bernice Kromer es caped from the house of the Japanese doctor and followed En^leheaijt to Schlofer’s place. Heue she entered a room where Engleheart lay sleeping off the effects of an opium carouse.” Fabian sat up stifly in his chair. “I apprehend, Mr. Coombes, that you are in Bernicle’s confidence?” The old lawyer inclined stiffly. “I may add to your statement that I have fol lowed the results of the inquest on Mau rice Engleheart with some interest. There is no part of her story that does not agree with the main incidents of the Caleret crime. While seated beside Engleheart’s bed,” he continued slowly, “a strange thing happened. Engleheart, disturbed no doubt, by her entry into the room, turned suddenly on his side. It was this simple , movement which caused his death, Mr. Kromer. His in ner ••pocket contain the grain of Zeu which, under the pressure of his body, became tremendously radio-active, kill ing him almost instantly. Bernice Kro mer appropriated the terrible agent of life and death at risk to herself I will not bother you with an account of the inquest on Maurice Engleheart. Opin ions differ concerning the exact cause of his death. Yet four living persons are acquainted with the true facts of the story!" Was it‘possible for surgeons to in terest themselves in games of skill while the life of a patient hung in the balance? she asked herself. Yet in their reposeful manner she drew a measure of hope and comfort. If Fabian had taken a critical turn they would have been at his bedside. Imry „was placed in the housekeeper’s charge. She would not trust the boy in Miss Allingham’s keeping until Hammersho and his companions were arrested or had left England. When Fabian was able to leave his room she would tell him the truth. He must know everything. In the meantime she could only wait and pray that the coming inquest on Maurice Engleheart would not lead to fresh complications. She had been guilty of no crime; her only indiscretion ’lay in the fact that she had apropriated the little radium- god for Fabian’s use. And who had a beter claim to it than Fabian? He had financed _Caleret’s experiments for years, in the hope that the French savant would produce from his labora tory a remedy for the greatest of hu man scourges! Toward evening a police sergeant called* w’hile she was assisting the housekeeper .to arrange a play room for lmry in the west wing of the house. The sergeant was coldly po lite and informative in regard to the inquest. Her appearance was requested the following morning. Impressing the hour of attendance upon her, with due solemnity, he departed, leaving her utterly miserable and dejected at the prospect of the coming ordeal. Later i nthe evening Doctor Roch warne announced that Fabian was pro gressing satisfactorily. He also in formed her that Calaret’s radium-god had achieved a miracle in modern surg ery, and that Fabian’s case marked the era of a new .dawn in the science of radium therapy. It was too early as yet to predict with certainty, he added, but , there was no doubt in his mind concerning the final result of the oper ation. When the news of Fabian’s cure went abroad, Rochwarne continued, there would be world-wide clamorings for Caleret’s Zeu, but the irreparable trag edy lay in the fact, that therewere no more supplies. With Caleret’s . death and the theft of the Zeu-formula, the secret of its manufacture had been lost to science. Therefore, the single grain which remained in their posses sion would be regarded as priceless until another Caleret was discovered. The Swiss specialist permitted his gray eyes to rest on Bernice’s white, scared features. “I have not pressed you tc tell me how you recovered the Zeu, Madame Kromer. One can not help hazarding a guess that, that—” he paused as one reluctant to urge so deli cate a question. “I knew the slayer of Caleret!" Ber nice flung out in spite of hersalf. Rochwarne stared, his lips tightening with each indrawn breath at her state ment. “I was thinking of the precious formula,” he w’ent on, “and the duty we owe to humanity, Madame Kromer. If these miscreants who shot Professor Caleret are still at large w© should spare no pains in bringing them to jus tice!” “You are thinking of the formula, Doctor Rochwarne?” “Undeniably. It is the life blood of a new science and healing force. It is worth innumerable lives,” he declared with a touch of passion. “If, there fore, you suspect any person of the crime, I implore you, madame, not to hesitate in your duty to humanity, to the unborn children, to the millions of brave men and women condemned to early death. Think of it, Madame Kro mer,” continued, his gray eyes alight with his theme. “If Caleret’s slayers are permitted to escape humanity will some, day see in you and me the very people who allowed them to decamp!" Until that moment Bernice had over looked the theft of Prof. Caleret’s for mula, the small document which con tained the brain and essence of the new found curative element. Rochwarne’s confidence in him might lead to unut terable disaster, ruin. After all, he had striven to appropriate for his own ends the greatest surgical remedy of modern times. She dared not tell Roch warne everything. Beyond his immedi ate sympathy for Fabian’s case her declaration awoke in her a sense of her ■-true position. There was no doubt in her mind that Hammersho had stolen the formula after shooting Prof. Caleret It was this Japanese medical fiend who was only a doctor, a man of no legal knowledge who might carry her secret to the police in his desire to help the cause of science! She could not tell him that she had taken the grain of super radium from the breast of dead Mau rice Engleheart. He would understand her motives no doubt, but she could never explain the substitution of the diamond. It would lead to awkward questions, especially from an unsympa thetic police. Already she had confess ed something of her past to Fabian’s solicitor. But a solicitor was not a doctor, and knew how to respect and protect her from the after consequences of her early indiscretions. She turned to Rochwarne, and the subtle fear of him had left her. “I know the man who entered Jean Caler et’s laboratory and stole the Zeu-tube!” “Have you communicated your knowl-' edge to the authorities, Madame Kro mer?” “They are watching the man. It Is hardly he likely he will be allowed to escape." “He is a Japanese, Madame Kromer?” “Yes; I met him some years ago in the east, but never suspected him of criminal tendencies until his appearance in this country.” The Swiss surgeon shrugged. “You have heard of the death of a man named Maurice Engleheart, Madame Kromer. I am interested in the matter solely on acount of his strange end. The news papers aver that he died from the ef fects of a radium-poisoned diamond.” Bernice confessed her knowledge of Engleheart’s death, but refrained from the making of further statements, feel ing yiat she had admitted enough to appease his justifiable curiosity. Rochwarne deliberated pensively as he turned from the room, then with drew to join his confrere upstairs. Bernice could not shake off the dread of the coming inquest. The following morning found her in a state of nerv ous trepidation in spite of the* cheering reports that came from the sick room. Fabian was progressing under Roch warne’s treatment. For a few brief moments she was allow r ed to sit beside his bed and listen to his half-whispered utterances. They were to visit Italy and the Rhine, he said, the moment he was able to leave England. Life, glorious life, had been promised him by Rochwarne, the king of surgeons. Afterwards they would go to America and Japan and begin life again in a new world. And not a word of Imry or Engle heart. Once or twice as he spoke of the joyous future she fought with shut lips to keep back the story that was like molten poison in her brain. He noted nothing of her inward efforts; he only saw the beautiful oval face, the warm, life-throbbing hands pressed on his own pallid fingers. She told herself then that it would kill him to hear the truth. In a day or two, when strength returned, she would deliver herself of her burden. In the meantime Engleheart’s affair threat ened to imperil her future. She had thought of seeking the ad vice of Mr. Coombes before proceeding to the inquest, but had rejected, the idea for many reasons. The police might trap her into a statement of her past marriage with Engleheart, or they might not. Everything depended on the Japanese doctor’s attitude toward the case. If he came forward and main tained the truth her position would be serious. Her diamond was in posses sion of the police, and there would be the evidence of the old doctor who had been called in to attend the dying sea captain. Would this old family doctor detect the trick she had played? Could he prove that it was the new element, Zeu, which he had seen in Engleheart’s tobacco pouch, and not a diamond which had been afterward substituted? Bernice felt that her whole future depended on the old doctor’s evidence. The police might easily be confounded, but the word of a medical pratitloner counted for life and death at times. The case would present itself to the jury as a mystery needing a great deal of explanation. The presence of a dia mond in a man’s pocket could hardly .be likely to cause death. Yet the au topsy would reveal that Engleheart’s end had been brought about by the presence of a tremendously radio-active chemical. Where was that radio-active chemical; they would ask? What had become of it between the time of the doctor’s departure and the entrance of the police? The German would submit his account of the affair, leaving a weight of suspicion to rest on her. She walked out alone into the grounds to ease the fretting straip V)f mind and nerve. It was 11 o’clock. At 12 she must present herself at the Inquest. The ^air was sweet with many perfumes after the rain. Every leaf and flower was pregnant with life and gladness. Her eyes wandered over the russet woods bounding the western enclosures, and then down to the lodge where the dark poplars seemed to bristle against the clearing sky. She became aware, in a half-fright ened way, of a mud-coated, weather- stained car entering the grounds. Of the numerous evil-looking autos she had seen it was the ugliest and most forbidding. Dowji to its rusty axles and frayed tires it exuded an air of criminality and vice. Bernice glanced at it half hypnotized; a wild desire in her to run away and cry for help seized her. The car stopped in the bend of the path opposite a clump of silver birch which shut out the house from view. The chauffeur’s face was almost com pletely hidden behind a pair of huge goggles, yet Bernice recognized the bul let head and shoulders of O Shani Ma. The bandaged head and face of the little Japanese doctor showed at the window. Opening it with difficulty, he gestured to the mistress or Holmwood. “You eluded us yesterday, Madame Kromer. Today we shall be more definite.. Come closer." Bernice obeyed his command almost mechanically. Flight would not 1 serve her in the present instance. Hammer sho had come with a settled object,, only death or police intervention would wrench him from his desire. “I have not come to complain of the little episode of the toy pistol yester day, Madame Kromer,” he went on, his nervous fingers tapping the car door. “That may pass as a female frolic. It is Engleheart’s affair now. You are going to the inquest!” he declared in feverish haste. Bernice inclined her head. “Have you come to speak of Engleheart, Doc- 1 tor Hammersho?” “That depends, madame. Briefly, will 1 you return the Zeu which you took from Maurice Engleheart?” “No!” “Consider, madame, the consequences of your refusal!” His fingers closed in a fierce grip on the half-open door as though barely restraining himself from leaping upon her. ‘Unless you agree to my proposal I shall attend the Inquest this morning as a witness on behalf of the crown.” “Go on, Doctor Hammersho; your propositions have always interested me.” “It may interest the jury to hear for the first time that Maurice Engleheart was your husband, madame. It may interest them,” he went on with a sup- pressel laugh, “to learn that it was you who entered Professor Calero’s labora tory and filched the result of hia life’s labor!” Bernice paled under his flow of words, the slant eyes that seemed to divine her terror and pain. “The police are watching us both,” he continued. “They have not yet de cided between us. But you hav© plunged deeper than,you imagine. Personally I do not think you are responsible for Maurice's death. Yet . . . madame, a word from me today will make the fact certain. You must also remember that you were seen in Caleret’s house on the day of his death. And, above all,” he concluded with a- leer, “you have in your keeping the Zeu, which went missing at the time of Caleret’s assassi nation!” Hammersho stated his case succinctly enough, and Bernice trembled in spite of herself. It would be her bare word against his, with a dozen incriminating circumstances to support his accusa tions. She felt that her woman’s brain could not match his Asiatic cunning, that her efforts to save Fabian’s life would merely bring upon her a double charge of murdef! CHAPTER XV. Bernice saw her peril now. To gain the priceless crystal of Zeu she had plunged too far in her efforts to save the o*e man whose life counted for everything. This shrunken bodied Jap anese doctor r nad not ventured upon his blackguard career in a fit of impulse. 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