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FOURTH PAGE THE SUNNY SOUTH. OCTOBER 13, 1906. f Double Trouble ^ Continued from First Page. back with a notice that the deal is off except at a lower price. How'm I to make anything of this business, I'd like to know, if you—’’ Atnldon was surprised that Stevens was ignoring his threat to resign; but he was firm In his resolution to en force discipline. The fact that he him self had been so long in a state of another stood at the door; and still an other. in complete uniform, with sword and belt, began hustling the members to seats. “Tlie Deacon Militant.'' said the solemn and edifying matters. Stevens felt very much the same way about it, and was full of expectancy when Inform ed that the next degree would test his obedience. He highly resolved to obey to the letter. The next act disclosed Stevens hood winked. and the room light. He was in formed that lie was in the catacombs, ail present are known and tested mem bers of our Dread and Mystic Con clave.’’ “All, Most Sovereign Pontiff,” re sponded the Deacon Militant, who proved to be the man in the uniform, j groped his way along by it to tiie station fear and under control, made the lux- J “save certain strangers who appear i of the next officer, who warned him of ury of assuming the attitude of com mand an irresistable temptation. "Mr. Stevens.” said he sternly, "have the kindness to read what is painted on that door!” Though lie had no need, Mr. Stevens gazed in astonishment at the word "Private." "Kindly ask Mr. Alderson to step here a moment,” went on Mr. Amldon. Stevens stood mute, but Alderson overheard and came. "You may draw Mr. Stevens a salary eheek to date, and a month in advance, in lieu of notice,” said Mr. Amidon. "Mr. Stevens, you are no longer in the employ of this concern. Mr. Alderson confines of our within the basilica.' "Let them be tested,” commanded the ■Sovereign Pontiff, "and, if brethren, welcomed; if spies, executed!’ rolled down on Stevens’ side and up on J was sent by no one but the devil. She the other. The deacon militant, from his j appeared only twice at the opera house perch on the chair, encouraged Stevens as a dancer. The impressionable Lud- to climb faster so as not to be outstrip- i wig was present on both occasions. He ped. With labored breath and straining feP. completely under her intiuence. Ho muscles he climbed, the Martyrs rolling did not attempt to resist her fascinations, on the floor in merriment all the more He fell so deeply in love with her at her violent because silent. Amldon himself! lirst appearance that he summoned her laughed to see this strenuous climb, so; to the palace, and, after her second ap- strikingly like human endeavor, which ! pearance, at his request, she retired from puts the climber out of breath, and raises' the stage and too»k up her abode in a him not a whit—except in temperature. | little palace which he rented for her At the end of perhaps five minutes, when j use. She became 'practically the ruler of Stevens might well have believed hirn-j the state. She was not only a lovely self a hundred feet above the roof, he and witty woman, but was reckless, au- had achieved a dizzy height of perhaps dacloug and ambitious beyond reason. She __ six feet, on the summit of a stage prop- doubtless expected to become queen of red i the. deadly Consequences of disobedience. I erty mountain, where he stood beside Bavaria, and but for the remonstrances Thence lie made his way onward, hold- 1 the deacon militant, his view of the sur- of hl s ministers, Ludwig would have mar- wielder of the gavel, “will report if j familiar to the early Christians, and must make his way alone and In dark ness, following the clue of faith which was placed in his hands. This clue was a white cord similar to the sort used by masons (in the building trades.) He ing to the clue of faith—until he touched a trigger of some sort, which let down upon him ah avalanche of tinware and 3uch liight and noisy articles, which Amodln started, and looked about for mghtened hlnl so that he parted to run, aid or avenue of escape. Seeing none, he warily watched the Deacon Militant. and was dexterously tripled 'by the dea eon militant and a spearman, and caught That officer, walking In the military j [ n a held 'by two others. A titter & Order by Mall Kentucky’s Great Whiskey •sfc. 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He gnade her countess of Lama- the deacon militant confided that here felt, and commanded the army to pay her was a candidate to be tested and quail- t be royal salute, fied. Whereupon the foul fiend remark- j For two years she exercised absolute j ed, “Ha, ha!” and bade them bind him authority; her slightest wish was law; the' ~ to the Plutonian thunderbolt and hurl king was her willing captive. Her power i lands in a desert, only they are here him down to the nether world. The thun- 'grew so great and her spirit so ambitious | called savannahs, derbolt was a sort of toboggan on rollers, tbat - not only the ministry but the pub- for which there was a slide running down '*<3 became alarmed presumably to the nether world, above lowed. Many men died and suffered for mentioned. i !ier folly, and Anally she was forced to The hoodwink was removed, and Stev- A ee from Munich to save her life. She We ship on 30 days* credit if yonihaye your merchant or bank write usiguar anteeing account. 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As may readily be imagined, these spots can only be found in their wilder- ens looked about him, treading warily, was badly wounded and was ill at Berne ; ness of swamps, by those who know the ural forts and hiding places served the small bands of patriots well. They not only afforded refuge from a too power ful enemy, but gave concealed shelter from which many a sortie was made, many a wild dash on Briton and tor . The unexpected assault of bands of p - triots from these depths of swamps. _ _ ! _ _ _ like one on the top of a tower; the great f° r several months, after which she went J depths of the latter, and hence they j and their as swift disappearances when f all present had been put to the test' password, "Ichthus,” whispered so that height of the mountain made him giddy. ta America and married a newspaper j formed natural strongholds for the peo- | sourse of care and anxiety to the Brit- you may take charge until a successor ; and welcomed. Then, for the first time all in that part of the room could hear Obediently he lay face downward on tlie writer named Hall. j pie of the country, and played no un- i ish commanders, who never knew when to Mr. Stevens is found. I should now ; remembering that lie was not among tlie interdicted syllables. But he was thunderbolt, and yielded up hjs wrists After she -was driven from Munich she ; important part in the final rout of the ! their work was done, were regard It as a favor if T might have | the strangers, so far as known to tlie adjured never, never to utter it, unless and ankles to fastenings provided for seemed entirely indifferent to her royal my private office to myself and my j lodge, Amodin breathed freely, and; to tlie guardian of the portal on entering, them. lover. He tried to persuade her to re- stenographer!” rather regretted the absence of exeeu- j the lodge, to the deacon militant on the “They’re not going to lower him with tire witb him to Italy, but she refused and Alderson took the paralyzed Stevens! tions. opening thereof, or to a member, when those cords, are they?” I ho never met her again. Her indifference 8hou.dei. and '' a * k ' d ™order!” was the next command. The pontiff. Then he was faced toward the ness which spake thus. ed to break hls spirit. He felt that he in o e n ° ‘ th check to ' mystic symbols were placed on a stand vice pontiff, and told to answer loudly! "Oh, I guess it’s safe enough!” srfti could not regain tlie confidence and love ring forth the mystic symbols of the : he, Stevens, should become- sovereign It was a stage whisper from the dark- ar >d the humiliation he had suffered seem ed to break hls spirit. He felt that he British forces in the south. These nat- constant or where th enext blow would fall. as he waited for the check to mystic sy another, in the same sort of agitated of h,s 'People, and so he abdicated In ! By OWEN OLIVER o e. «■-> j in the middle of tlie room, and turned and distinctly the questions asked liiin. I ano1 come In for his signature. j out to be a gilt fish about the size of a "What is the lesson inculcated in this whisper. , favor of his son, Maximilian II, brother hls tetters v ■ *c paper in . < four-pound bass a jar of human bones, i degree?” asked tlie vice pontiff from the “Safe!” was the reply. “I tell you, it's the present regent, and went to Italy, «elt in a blissful state of general insur- | and a roUed . up acro ii sa id to contain the j other end of Hie room. j sure to break! Some one stop ’em ” I where he lived for eighteen years. fortnight seemed to foil from him. Af- deacon militant, typified a great many ter he had signed the check, he turned t ijj ngs connected with early Christianity, gospels. The fish, as explained by tlie "Obedience!” shouted Stevens in reply. I To tlie heart of the martyred Stevegg Lola Montez. or Mary Sllbcrt, as she these words struck panic. But as lie was name d at birth, led a checkered life opened liis mouth to protest, tlie on- in New York on the stage, and did a She died at the “What is the password of this degree? _ "lehtlius!” responded Stevens. to Miss Strong. and served always ai= a reminder of the A roll of stage-thunder sounded deafen-i tastrophe occurred. There was a snap, great -deal of mischief. "If you please," said he, In a voice password of the order. The relics in ingly over his head. The piano was swept and the toboggan shot downward. Bound aRe of 43 and buried in Greenwood of tense stridency, "I will give you a i t j ie j :tr were tho bones of martyrs. Tlie by a storm of bass passion; and deep as Ile was, the victim could see below cemetery. few letters.” : scroll was tlie book of law. Amidon cries of "Treason! Treason!” echoed from him a brick wall right across the path Maximilian IT. was a good king, an The stenographer, who seemed to re- j was becoming impressed; the solemn I every side. Poor Stevens tottered, and °*' hls descent. He was helpless to move; earnest scholar and a sincere patriot, giard tha events of tho past few min- , and ornate ritual and 'the dreadful sym- fell into a chair placed by the deacon! was useless to cry out. For all that, but he had a del'oate constitution, a. utes as nothing short of a cataclysm, ! bols sent shivers down ids inexperienced militant. He. saw tlie enormity -of the as be felt in imagination the crushing melancholy temperament, a taint of flatteringly leafed over her book, and : and unfraternal spine. Breaking In with deed of shame lie had committed. He: s,1 oek of his head driven like a batter- insanity, and was fond of solitude. He Just as "Amidon begun wondering what 1 unintiated eyes, as he had done, now had told tho password! I ing-ram against this wall, he uttered a did a great deni for th© city of Munich. “You have all heard this treason.” said roar such as from Achifies might have He erected several of its most beauti- he could think of to put into a letter, ■he burst into tears. Amldon closed •seemed more and more a crime. f Dying' Lilies .IVER. ■ fore I got the battalion. Warren w.'i.a I there then. So was she. So was a fel- were sitting in the mess '■ low named Mordaunt, Indian civil. T'n- room when Steel, of the I commonly nice chap. Young and good- . looking: and best pig-sticker I ever met. K. A. M. C.. c me in irom ! she was engaged to him. Most awful making the post-mortem : s, oons I ever saw. ‘Warren was sweet on her. too, but ; lie hadn't a chance. He took it awfully ; well, and was very friendly wi ll them, seemed blowing it hotter, i but every one knew h» was hard hit. The but no one had called for I morning of the wedding Mordaunt died. like Warren. Heart failure, too. Tie- sort of fellow yo-u might have back-d examination. The air was hot, and the punkah a drink. The silence was hard to break. to live to a hundred. They found h; u The colonel did not look! sitting in his chair with her portrait jus jin front of him. Her portrait! She took | it awfully hard, and nearly died Beg- j geil every little thing out of his room to There was an ' opening ode " which was j the sovereign pontiff, in the deepest of rouse <3 armed nations to battle. And even ful buildings and laid out a number desk with a ban'- and giving \ld»r- ! s '° badly sun S to mitigate tlie awe; chest tones—”a treason unknown in all as he dId so, his head touched the wall,, its mo st beautiful streets. He died in . 6 . and an “order of business” solemnly i tlie centuries o" •on orders covering his absence, walked out Into the streets, full of tho joy of gratified destructiveness. He met Al- vord, and temerariously agreed to go with him to the lodge that evening. He gone through. Under the head “Good of tlie Order'' tlie visiting brethren .spoke as if it were a chess meeting and they giving "testimony,” one of them very volubly reminding 'the assembly of tlie finally found Blodgett, and informed ; great principles of tlie order, and the of tiie past! What, is tlie there was a crash, and Stevens lay safe 1864, and wae succeeded upon tlie will of the conclave?” | a mattress after his ten-foot slide, throne bv his son, Ludwig II, the, friena 'T would imprecate on the traitor’s! surrounded by fragments of red-and- of Wagner, of whom I wrote vou the head.” said a voice from ”*■**“ *---•• ----- ■ high (backed chairs, "the anoie the law ‘Doom, doom!” said a 11 in unison, hold-' beved when he had assured himself of down from the ceiling, and the second in com mand did not look tip ; keep. 'They shall stop with me till from the floor, when Steel entered, and ' ’ ' ' — the adjutant and I thing. "What did lie die of?” the adjutant one of tho' white paper which had lately been a other day . After the W agner incident, j ®f ked ^ length; and the colonel looked t-ient doom of! *«»• , To was pale and agitated, and Ludwig retired from Munich to the wil- dow " 1 qul 1 ck,y ’ and the second com- ! ? 6nerally done for; but tremendously re- anA thA mn#r ! n™nd looked up. Warren, of the artil- hlm of what had been the result of his j mighty work it hud already accomplished j ing tlie “oo” In a most blood-curdling | tb e integrity of his cranium. This he did first morning in the office. demess and built several of the most fantastic and extravagant castles that in ameliorating the condition of a lost i way. “Pronounce doom! and wandering world. Amidon felt that j “One fate, and' one alone," pronounced ! he must have been very blind in failing I tiie sovereign pontiff, “can be vours i to note tllis work until u was thus | Brethren, let him forthwith be encased ! eet- F°rced on his notice: but he made a men- j in the chest of the clanking chains, and ! tal apology. j hurled from tlie tarpeian rock to Pel ‘■■By the-way, Brassfield,” said Mr. Sla- dashed in fragments at its stony base’” ter during a recess, preceding the initia- Amidon's horror was modified bv the! tion of candidates, "you want to give j evidences of repressed glo» with which' by repeatedly feeling of his head, and ''' ere ever kn0wn ' T1,e5 ; are probably looking at his fingers for sanguinary re- ,he most expensive buildings that were suits. As Amidon looked at him, he re-' Pver erected and none but a crazy man, pented of what he had don© to this thor- wlth a refined taste for art could have oughly maltreated fellow man. After tlie erected them. His eccentricities, liow- Catacombs scene, which was supposed to ever, became so pronounced, his beha- "Well, it's your business, Florian,” said he, "but you'll need somebody who knows something about your affairs. And if you go on attend ng lod. fngs where you don’t know tlie pass words, and nosing into houses where you don’t intend to go. and discharg ing all the trusted men in your em ploy, you’l! soon have more things to j Mombs scene. Wlill you make it just j good deal of concern as they brought attend to than a couple or mesmerists . straight ritual, or throw In some of those j a great cher t, threw the struggling gtev- ! achievement, while he looked half-pleased safety of the kingdom. A commission am an e c (1 > < .. . _ 1 ; specialties of you ns.? ons into it. slammed down tlio ponderous! an( * lialf-bored. Amidon with the rest de lunatico pronounced him insane, and Stevens Catacombs!” gasped Aim- , lid and locked It. Stevens kicked at the! greetec! him ' an3 told him tha t a ' ter his a medical attendant was appointed *o I ,l d. but said notliThg. Tlie members leap- vacation was oyer, he hoped to see him; take charge of him One nisrht the be impressive, and some more of the vior so scandalous and his extrava- "sccret" work, everybody crowded about gances'so dangerous to the credit of Stevens, now invested with the collar and tlie nation that the royal family, the j Stevens the best you’ve got in tlie cat- j tills sentence was received. Yet ho fell a! "jewel” of Martyrhood, and laughed, and parliament and tlie ministers decided on some great that his abdication was necessary for life,’ she told me when I spoke to h< r | about it—she was just the age of my id not say any- | daU giiter—‘and remind me. May God forget me if ever J forget!’ She kept them in her room after she was engaged to Warren even; and Steel is right. She didn’t care for him. She’ll never care for anybody but Mordaunt. God forgive us if we misjudge her!” ‘T don't misjudge her,” I stated hotly. “Tlie idea is preposterous. Why should she kill a man because he was going to inu rry her?" The colonel relit tlie cheroot and look- . . i ed hard at the second—so hard that our was the second in command who went ! eyes had to follow his. The second in first. They had always been friends, j shifted his head again and gave a soft You could count Warren’s friends on j little groan, the fingers of one hand. “What did Warren die of?” Steel drew with his finger on the table, as if he lery, had been late for his wedding with Miss Craven that morning, and when they went to look for him they found him dead in his bungalow, staring hard at nothing, as if he saw death come. It ; coRgrati.V.’ed him of But it's your affair; I've known j you too long to try to turn 3’0u when I d on, ‘•specialties-! I—” you get one of your tantrums on. The; “I wish you could have been here when j ed with joy. A great chain was bron t smash-up ought to be worth seeing, j I was put through,” went on Mr. Slater, j and wrapped clan-kingly about the‘chest anyhow!” t “I don't see how any one bui a pro- ! "Let me out.” now yelled tlie Christian fessional actor, or a person with your: martyr. “Let me out *|amn vou"' dramatic igift. can do that part at all- j “Doom, do-o-o-oom!" roared' the voices; and said the sovereign pontiff in impres sive tones. “Proceed with (he execu tion!" Now tiie chest was slung in tho ceiling, and gradual! by a pulley until it was f 1 book i back tlie XIII. THE MARTYRDOM OF MR. STEV ENS. Pietro; Th' offense, it seemeth me. Is one that by mercy’s extremest stretch Might bo oerpassod. Cosirno: Never, Pietro, never! The Brotherhood’s honour untouchable ' question. Is touch’d thereby. We build our laby- ! 011 the vama in that part can we?” I smothered profanity. tome, Brassfield. said the sovereign j him dowu t0 . the traitol , s death! „ host was loosed, and swung like a. pendulum down almost to it's so sort of ripping and—and Intense, you know. I look forward to your ren dition of it with a good deal of pleasura ble anticipation.” "You don’t expect me to do it, do you?” asked Amidon. "Why, who else?” was the counter- back at the office. "That was a fine exemplifaciton' of the! bodies of tlie king and hls physician were found under the water of Lake principles of the order,” said Alvord as Z J 7, , , , they went home St?-mberg, grappled as if they had died j in a struggle. There are several theories and conjec- “What was?" asked Amldon. "Hiring old Stevens back,” answered Alvord. "You’ve got to live your prin ciples, or they don't amount to much.’ tures, hut there is no doubt that tlip wretched man sought his own dea'h rintli Of sacred words and notent spoils, and all Tlie deep-involved horrors of our craft— Its entrance hedg'd about with dreadful oaths. And every step In thriddlng it made dank By dripping terror and out-seeping awe. Shall it be said that e'en Ludovico May break our faith and live? Never, say I! —Vision of Comiino. “Suppose some fellow should get into' and either forced his physician to die a lodge,” asked Amidon, "who had never 1 wit . h hinl or ,lle Iatter l0? t his life in been initiated?" i trvin.g to prevent Jum from carrying out , WHS ln « c * ,un, - er -| heads of the men. the chains meanwhile! ‘ ^ell,” said Alv n. \Ve can t be extpected to play j clanking continually against the recep- Phan ° e of tlmt ’ 1 bench the best man in Fennsyl- . tac]Pi )rom whIch came forth a stream P f ! You can’t tell wha in that part, can we?” when such sacred «,.t,t 1 intentions. Many of tlie peasants •‘ ’ ’ df theie Isn t much in the neighborhood of Ms casries do shouldn't dare to say. not believe that lie is dead- tliev be- t the fellows would do lieve lie is a prisoner of the nol'ticians were making a “That is what I want you fellows to tell me.” The colonel leaned forward. “A doc tor never knows, of course." lie said, with some undercurrent of meaning that I could not fo'low; "but it's nis business to pretend that he does.” His eyes and Steel's met. The colonel has strong eyes, but Steel's are stronger. "If the doctor won't pretend,” he re torted. “there's an inquest.” “Good heavens, man!” the second in command jerked out, “you’re not going to have any foolery of that sort ” Steel drew another temperature chart- fever, with the line running up high and coming to a sudden stop. We knew it. “I didn’t look at it like that at the time.” she said huskily, "when I—I went in. I thought perhaps she's given him •ip at the last moment, and—and—lie temperature chart. ' wouldn't like it talked about, and she wouldn’t. But T didn’t care about her. ! It was—well, we’d always been friends, ‘ he and I. Perhaps I understood him bet- j ter than some of you; and—anyhow, I : put it in my pocket, and— It’s cursed I hot.” He ipulled a stout brown cardboard box j out his jacket pocket—a box of the size that might have held a locket, or a trinket or two; and a torn wrapper of : white paper that had gone round it. lit- pierced the edges of the paper together on tlie table. His hands were too un steady to lay them quite straight, and Steel smoothed the jagged edges out. and fitted tiie letters neatly together; and this wa s what the writing said in Miss Crav- , en's pretty, pointed hand— "In memory of my wedding."—Sylvia ! Craven. pontiff, "get on your regalia for the j touted the sovereign pontiff The catacombs. We are about to begin. ' . . - s p ..." 111 i such sacred things were profaned, they wear buttons on which ids pnr- know. You couldn't tell what they painted and revere the memory “Oli, say, Fow!” said Amidon, trying , ' 5 to 'be offhand about it. “you must get " r ! ' e room - ’ somebody- else ” ! _ h “ flo0r and U ” nearIv you might do! (TO BE CONTINUED.) omebody else “What’s that! Some one else? Very ! likely we shall! Very likely!” thus the | sovereign pontiff with fine scorn. "Come, the regalia, and no nonsense!” “I—I may be called out at any mo ment," urged Amidon, amidst an outcry that seemed to indicate a breach with ■ the martyrs then and there. “There are Hie Bellevale lodge of the Ancient Or- reasons why- " Edgington took him aside. "Is there t mA hP : fomale diseases can be cured. le profanity now turned into a yell of i '° prove it I sen d free a package of m\ rror. The martyrs slapped one an- vegetable cure. Write Mrs U Tii- terror. The martyrs slapped one an- '■''setaoie cure. uv r ( te Mrs. Cora | other’s hacks and grew blue in the face ■ ‘ er ’ 4iox 2056, Kokomo, ind. *** ' i with laughter. At a signal, a light box j was Placed where the chest would crush GILDED ATOTi RTOnTum/, j It (which it did with a sound like a REVOLTING FOLLY j small railway collision); the chest was' i stopped and the dd raised. "Let tiie body receive Christian burial jou like, he offered, but I ni going u> s tiook. He was younger than the rest of th© strange k>ng with the pale face: settle this by myself. Sliall we do it 'of us here and now?” j Steel took the lid off the box gingerly The colonel glanced at him under his ar - d foil it with liis fingers. "If you thick eyebrows and nodded, and tiie sec ond in command nodded, and I nodded and the adjutant nodded. "But 1 don’t know what's ■ and haunted ex ores-ton who was always j generous and considerate to them, hut so-—*-*■ pops dashed bv their cabins in ’he i middle of the night like a living i Wali-urie. Ludwig is buried in the I basilica that he built in imitation of i St. Paul's without the walls of Rome. He ties in a. s’niTde sarcophagi's of about,” he protested. all “Neither,” I said, "do I.’ "I think," said Steel, "the colonel and Perhaps you'll der of Christian Martyrs held its meet ings in the upper story of a tall build- J any truth in thi-s story,” said he. ‘‘that tag. Mr. Alvord called for Amldon at yOU have had trol,blP with elglit, and took him up, all his bold- vens, and discharged nim?” "Oh, that Stevens!” gasped Amidon, ness in the world of business replaced ; as if tlie whole discussion had hinged bv wariness in the atmosphere of mys- I on T'"‘kl n g' out tlie right one among an As he and his compaion went : annj ’ of Stevenses. Yes, it’s true, and 1 can t help confer this—” tery. into an anteroom and were given broad collars from which were suspended Edgington whispered to tiie sovereign i . , , . ,, , . , | pontiff; and the announcement was metal oalleu jewels, he tell : ___ . . . .. . , __ _ . ... _ I made that in the catacombs scene Broth- ■ said Hie sovereign pontiff. “Our ven- ! geance ceases with death.” I This truly Christian sentiment was rF-| I reived with universal approval. Death I seemed to all a good place at which to j stop. "Brethren,” said tlie deacon militant, as j lie struggled with tlie resurgent Stevens, j “there seems some life here! Methinks j tiie iieart beats, and— ” granite without epi’apli or embellish ment. a striking contrast to the fan tactic life he led. Has Set Race of Mad Monawho ; Otto, tlie present king. Is never seem the second could guess. naichs to J >v [J, A people. Tie has not appeared j put the case, colonel?" in public for several years. He Is con fined ill the castle of Furstenried. a few miles from Munich, in charge of a medical commission, while Lui“old. his uncle, reigns ns regent in ids ninte. Rule Bavaria. Continued from Second Page. was always glad to divest himself of hls l-oyal robes and go about among Ids sub jects as their equal. He hated war and practically abolished the army, using the for art and education. He made Munich an art and educational center. The remainder of the passage from the alld not only followed the example of Max AFTER THE FALL OF CHARLES- ton—How the Cauldron Beiled Over. Continued from Second Page a good deal like a spy. Tliev walked into the lodge room where twenty-five or thirty men with similar “jewels" sat ■moking and chatting. All seemed to know him, but (much to his relief) be er Brassfield would he 'exteused. and Brother Bulliwinkle substituted. ritual wa: lost to Amidon by reason of the fact that Stevens had placed one foot against the deacon's si »mach and hurled "I know 1 never, in any’ -place of con- i august 'Officer violently to the floor seiousnee«, saw any of this, or knew any fore he could be included in the conver- incredible! tation, the gavel fell; certain ones with more elaborate "jewels ’ and more or nate collars than the rest took hi ;her- hacked and more highly unholstered .hairs at the four sides of these things.” thought Florian. “It is “Let every test or life he applied.” said the sovereign pontiff. "Perchance some higher will than OL.rs decrees liis preservation. Take the body lienee for a Conviction, however, was forced upon him by the fact that lie was now made t.me; possible, restore him to life, and to don a black domino and mask, and to march, carrying a tin-headed spear, of the room, I with a file of similar figures to examine I tlie candidate, who turned out to he the will consider liis fate.” The recess which followed was clearly necessary to afford an opportunity for the calming of tiie risibilities of the Mar- di-'seph, his predecessor, -but exceeded th?l of Burgoyne. was on his way to assume i ■ 1 1ui.s o, bis extravagance to make the! command of the southern troops, capital of tiie kingdom attractive, tlie I This latter fact, had the patriots but j Athens of modern times; the home of lit-1 known it. was anything but cheering 'with oratur©, science, music, architecture and' for the cause of liberty. General Gates all schools of culture. ; was not the "right man in the right During his youth he liad spent much 1 Place.” The glory of the victory over time in Greece excavating among the I Burgoyne belonged to tlie officers and ruins with liis? tutors, where lie became] men of the army nominally command©,, fascinated with the science of archneol- by Gates, who sat at ease in his camp ogy. Ho spent two years among tlie stu-! while his officers planned, and his men dents of Italy learning to paint; and fought. Washington knew this. Him- Piles Cured ’ discharged Stevens, witting in an ante- | trv - s - -| llc stage, too. had to he reset. came to the throne, -lie gave iris se 'f a southerner, he knew well the QuicKiy at Without Pain., Cutting or Surgeiy. Instant Relief. room, foolish and apprehensive, and look ing withal much as he had done in the counting room. He was now asked by j the leader of tiie file, in a sepulchral tone, several formal questions, among others whether lie believed ill a Supreme Bei : He Amidon's ethnological studies had not tas te full sway and spent S23.000.0CC. r.eeds and temper of the southern peo- ! equaled liis reading in belles-lettres, and which was a great sum in those days, to ! ple - He knew very well that General ! he was unable to see tlie deep signifi- beautify Munich. He reproduced tlio i D ftte s was not tlie man to meet the ! cane© of tiiese rites from an historical propylaeum of the Acropolis of Athens to Present emergency in tlie south. His j standpoint, and that here was a survival celebrate the election of bis son Otto as I own choice for the command was Gen- orgies to which our painted king of Greece; he reproduced the Arch e, ' al Greene, a true and tried soldier. even “It’s no use putting- guesses.” the colo. ! nel objected, “and I've no wisli to put j any case at all. You’ve asked for it. Go on.” ! “Very well." Sieel lit a cigarette, took a few slow draws, and threw it impa. j tiently away. "I don't want to put tlie . case either, but—it's this; Warren was i to have married Miss Craven this niorn- ing. If she didn't mind, there was no j reason why lie should.” Steel shrugged his shoulders ever so slightly, and tlie I second in command drew himself up rigidly. "He was inv friend.” lie remarked., tlie ring of combat in liis voice. He knew that we didn’t like Warren. “I was merely disposing- of the the u v of suicide." Steel explained. "I know lip was your friend and—I’m sorry. A quarter of hour after lie was due at tlie church, lie is found dead, apparently of heart failure. He did die of heart fail ure. Most people do; but we only call it that when we can't find any reason why tlie heart failed. The symptoms allow me to put it down to that. Tiie will notice.” he said, a* if be were de livering a lecture, "the edges of the box have little frills of wadding to make it air tight. It would keep the vapor in till it was opened under anv one’s face, and then—heart failure! Smell the dying lilies. There's nothing left to hurt now. You needn't lie afraid of it ” "Lilies?" T questioned, but my voice sounded doubtful, even to myself. ‘‘An>! suppose she did send him some flow ers ?’' ‘‘■She didn't send him flowers," said Steel. "She sent him—this!” He held up a minSfture, with ids (lingers covering tlie face. "I don’t know who it is, or why she sent it; but i think I could He removed liis ringers suddenly, and the colonel put up his hands, as if lie wanted to escape the sight. "She's mad,” he said. “'Mad! We must ihusTi it up somehow. It will do no good —no good!” I took the miniature from Steel and looked at it. it was tiie picture of a good looking young fellow of about 25; a pleasant face, smiling as if be saw beautiful Sylvia Craven, and death and the scent of dying lilies were not in tlie world. "It is Mordaunt.’ 'the colonel said. "She was very much in love wi-nh him. and—| suppose it preyed upon her; and when the time came to marry Warren she couldn’t do it. Or else she sent it to show that she was breaking with the past. Or else—or else—-. You smelt i Steel, yau said?" “ Ismelt it.” Steel said quietly. "And He would go sniff- 1 ‘' ' ,11 -- ] there was the dog. He would go snitt also allow me to pm it to another cause h aiboi „ his master to see what was -only one. That cause is he inhaling j the matter , and . . . Funny little dog ot a certain drug. It isn t known to \ A nd what’s European medical science, and Im not going to make known. Thev know 1 tun yet dica and desired to Amidon) in awesome accent’s intoned, “Be brave and obedient, and all may yet be well!” and they passed back into •tlie lodge room. Amidon was now W* Prove It. Sample Pa-ckage Free. Seven people out of ten are Bald to have Files. i\oi one man in a muilon need nave them, arm we are proving it every day at our own expense. Vv e send a sample package of tue wonderful Pyra mid File Cure to any person absolutely free. We don’t do this as a matter of amusement or philanthropy, -but cause it is to our Interest to do We know tnat the sunerer from tormented and driven almost cjjjzy this wretched trouole. will rind suen mediate relief tnat lie will go at to his druggist and buy a box am well. We know that wo have got tlie great-, • tst remedy in the world lor piles, and Motion ot t.ie same office we are ready and willing to stand or fall highly improving lectures. Every thn© by tlie veruict of those who make ttie lie was asked il' he were willing to do trial. We have been doing tniB tor anything, or believed anything, he said some years now, and we never yet have had occasion to regret it. And tne remedy at tlie drug store is exactly the same as tlie sample we send out. As, for instance, here is a man who got suen iinined sample that he at Wus it just tiie sa since it cured lum kinds of things had failed Here is a Km.pie of the ki.’.l we get every day, and we don’t ask for them. Then all (except ! obedience, reentered on his ordeal. • w as now informed by tlie officer at other end of tlie room, that every imposing palaces, hospitals, homes forj the friendless and asylums for tiie afflict-j ed. He brought tlie university from! man must ascend into tho mountains of Landshup, 'built it a magnificent home and ’ liquation and be tested, before he could gave it a munificent endowment. He; to be done?’ 1 „ . , T There was a long silence, and no one U well enough In Indta-Warre,, caniej movod exCf>pl stevl \. ho fWgeted with the ; lid of the ’box, scraping gently with his slender white fingernail, and wetting the paper which had been pasted over it, w-h« re it wouldn't come off. 'She’s a murderess,” said the second • •• ,,n ,... ■ ... command at last, "and he was mV That, said the colonel, is tne hues- | friend By heaven> she shan han g Dr I it!" He struck liis big liana on tlie table. ■'X'o!" cried tiie adjutant sharply. ting his mouth with a snap. ! “Surely——" the second in command . 1 r ‘ a . ?. tt T . ’ - coming, combined with ] ^£ n ' hi “'f He-iie wm* frien<f° and ' "'' he " lu ^ have” lost* her reason.” T that of DeKalb, was potent, and the th J “ enra-cti to her and Supdo?c 1 said ' ‘ -I understand how you feel about cauldron began to boil harder than ever. I i,‘,.„l-^ i,' ! , ■„! >L Sinclair; but she’d never have done ir the acted rom. time the efficiency of Greene ” But just then tlie halo of victory hovered around General Gates, and the j news of his from India: so did Miss Craven. “I object to that remark, 1 inter- [ posed. “Miss Craven is a friend of- mine, and very nearly tlie nicest girl at | the station; and’ slip was engaged tot him. There's no need to drag her in.” | colonel, “is tiie ques- ] tion, 1 take it?” He looked at Steel; j and Steel nodded. “The whole question.” he said, shut- ] upon accompany .stitutions, all of which have proved a] struggle for freedom, one of the ino<q leave it alone, right enough. Look here! splendid investment, -for they -bring stu-; linians, Thomas Sumter, surnamed by “Yes.” Finally, with the scroll of tho chair. ! law in one hand, and with the other rest- 1 Up tlie ladder labored Stevens, this companion stair will you.” But there was no other ladder and the den:s and tourists 'by thousands every; liis fellow countrymen, deacon militant had to stand upon a year. j Cock.” the "Game Surnter was at this time be- Inio tin's happy and refined community, i tween forty and fifty years old. brave, but, engaged In the cultivation of the useful hardy, energetic and resolute. In his I don't think if was Sylvia Craven who I found Warren's little dog curled up! kbl T cd , l"!! 1 ' , ,, ... . ^ , behind tlie curtains, stone dead. Heart I Ht we.ted the IM of the box again, failure, too. Funny little beast he was. j dr ®J v another scrap or paper. Remember bow she used to howl when ! *k>ok, he said, and we looked; ani Warren faint fussed over her? There was just i we . 3 , aw in M arren s writing on tbs scent about the room when I card!tovd that Steel had laid bare: on the bone-s of martyrs, surrounded though lie climbed manfully, he remained and beautiful, came a heartless and vain . boyhood he had served against the In- : noticed carefully, like the odor of lilies ! From R. Warren by the bretnren whose drawn swords less than a foot above tlie floor. The American girl. Many people think she dians in the old French war, and was ' when they're going off a bit keeip don it seemed really awful—albeit some what 'florid in style; and when Alvord nudged him at one passaye in -the obli- Received your sample of File Cure, and i «ation, lie resented it as an irreverence, have given it a fair trial, and it has j Then he noted that it was a pledge to proven the best I ever tried, and enected j maintuin the sanctity of the family clr- & complete cure. 1 can recommend you cle of 'brother martyrs, and Alvord’is ref- liighly in this vicinity. Have used your i erence of the night before to the o'bliga- sample and one box. and it has been a : t j on as affecting his association with the complete cure, to me. It lias been worth SIOU "strawberry blonde” took on new and Thanking you for the sample and the ] fearfal nieanin S- ire, I will recommend you to every- | Steven’s seemed to be vibratinig be- i body. Yours respectfully, Julius Mayer, ] tween fright and a tendency to laugh, j Dealer in Feathers, Ginseng and Hides, l as tlie voice of some well known fellow j forced to surrender as prisoners, to flee in the natural fastnesses of their own province, Sumter chos© the latter altern ative. Taking hls family with him, he retired to one of the savannahs on the ' W A ’I! H Yon * i N 7 Would you obtain a good paying position or »e-! border of the Santee river. These Sa- ; iLH — — . — ,—-——cure mi increase in salary? Would you possess’ vannahs are peculiar features of South ‘ * capacity that directs and controls large bust ness enterprises/ A knowledge of accounts in- Bookkeeping That's i To Frank Mordaunt On_his weddinsr morning.” relics room; : and 1 iiate relief from tne and leveled spears threatened death, lie ladder went down like a treadmill, as wa s employed by politicians and the ene- ’ one of tiie survivors of Braddocx's de- 1 tbe way tho smells—afterwards. No j I',' 1 ’/' n ', or r.lT S: ' ' , T once bought a ox. repeated an obligation which bound him Stevens climbed—it was an endless ladder mies of the church, but more likely she 1 feat. In the present war he had held I one CVer l0ld how 11 smells at tbe ; !hnt •S£rx rr-r*!’ ^^- - • !?iSir 1 -«... -ft-:.. Ef?in men in tlie continental line. After the fall of Charleston, when. hand shook a trifle. The second shifted ! * be . " asn I mad. And it's murder and hls head again. The adjutant and I s we have seen, tlie patriots were, stared at one another. 3 adjoining provinces, or to seek refuge .. ,' Y ? U Ve . J II ? tb l nK connect her with nmJ to sorrow uL z! Jit,’’.he s aid hotly. I don’t..believe it.” "No.” said 'Steel slowly, “I’ve nothin to connect her witli it, except that I sb“'s rid the world of a cursed scoun drel!” “Thank Goil he didn’t belong to the regiment,” said the colonel. The second swayed a little in his chair. ‘He—was—my—friend.” he groaned; an® don’t think she wanted to marry him. i then he swayed a little more; and the Anyhow, she didn’t care for him, and— colonel caught him by the arm. Bedford, Ind. citizen rumbled out from behind a dead- Fyramid Pile Cure is for sale at every i jy weapon. 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A poa.al card will bring it. Address. It. Adores MUtssa. Rochester, N. T. very likely there isn’t anything in it, but—I noticed a curious look on the colo nel’s face when he told her; and a cu “Poor old chap!” he said gently. Steel urew a temperature chart upon tlio table—an fh comprehensible chart. rlous look on her face when she looked j witli lines running wiggly-waggly, up and at him. Can you tell us, sir?” The colonel turned the cheroot round in his fingers and inspected it as if it were a doubtful recruit on parade. “There may be nothing in it,” he said; “and she’s a woman, and entitled to the benefit of every doubt that we can give her. I wasn't going to say anything. down, up and down. “I need not trouble you any more, gen tlemen,’ 'he said in a professional voice. “I find myself able to certify to death from heart failure.” He wrote the same certificate for Syl via Craven; hut wTOn he spoke to us he called it a broken heart, and he put a but I’m like Steel. I don’t care to set- j heap of wth!te flowers on her grave. Tt i- bls b V myself I was on the staff i was his solitary outbreak of sentiment, at Simla, a« you know, a year ago, be- | he apologized. '