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xxini /v'j ljiwvfA OK(JH(n.\N AND NEWS. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Edllor. F. L. SEELY, President. T. B. GOODWIN, Gen’l Mgr. Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 25 VTcit Alabama St, Atlanta, On. Subscription Rslssi On« Tear 8lx Months Three Months ■•g One Month By Carrier, Per Week ,..»«»»»»»»» Telephones eonn#e.tln|T all depart ments. Long distance terminals. resentatlres for Georgia. Ciltago Office .... Tribune Bnlldjni. Saw Sort Office .... Bronawlcli nidf. If too hire ear trouble fitting THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS, telephone the circulation department and here it "promptly remained. Telapbonee: Ball 4027 main; At DUI'r.l‘"UI. —■ QIAN ANI) notify this office on th« ■-• — tlon: otherwise, It wllf.be contlnm fscontlnned mast te date of expire- vaaiui or e veep ... res.) b« COOttOttM ft the regtilsr subscription rates until notice to atop Is rsceltsd. In ordering a change of address, pletse gt»e toe old as well as the new address. It Is desirable that all communleA; HsgteiN f ?. r ^fe o, f.a2p 100 wordi In length. It la imperative that they be alaned, ae an erldance of toad faith. Bfjeeiod mannscrlpta will hot be retnrned unlcea atampe are eent for the porpoet. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS print! no andean or objectionable advartla- Inc. Neither doea It print whlaky or uy liquor ads. mmwi piaut«7 aV It "now" own. Its wsl bv. ,o 0 4 h : r . M onoA*Tn& GEORGIAN AND NEdfe ballovee that If atreet railway; can be sisS. stotmMrsi & not can be done now, and It may b years btfor an nndertnli set Ita face I. Dot we do not batter# this ana now, and It mar be tome SSHF The State’s Duty to Rural Schools Tho Georgian of Tuesday repro duced an editorial of much Interest from The Vldalla Advance, advocat ing the cauao of the rural schools of Georgia. The Advance makes an ear nest, forceful pica for the proper sup port of the schools In the country dis tricts of tho state, and with unan swerable srgumeat states the claims of these schools to the support of the Taxpayers of Georgia. The rural schools have received and will continue to receive the Interest tmd Influence of Governor Smith, who has given to no public quostlon more serious consideration than that of the school system of the state. Hla po sition on this Important question should be thoroughly well understood by tho pcoplo at large by this time. He urges that better normal school facilities Shall be provided In order to give the school system thoroughly well-trained teachers. He strongly advocates industrial and technologi cal education for the girls and boys .of tho state; he stands for agricul- j tural education and places much stress upon the need of larger appro priations for the rural schools. The hope in a large measure of all Southern states for future prosperity has its basis upon the generosity of tho state authorities toward the main tenance of the country schools. The unfortunate preponderance of Illiter acy In the South Is due to the lack of proper financial aid to the schools In tho rural districts. The Inadequate salaries paid the country teachers have become a pub lic reproach and arc unworthy of the people of a section now ranking with tho most flourishing and prosperous portions of the republic. The South can no longer 'claim poverty as an excuse for any neglect of duty In this great matter, nor can Georgia expect to maintain her rightful position ns the Empire State of the South until she has solved this problem involving the education of the children In the country districts. Every child In the state has a right to an education, pro vided by the state, and every child Is entitled to the care and direction of teachers adequately remunerated for services rendered. Without proper educational oppor tunities there can be but small hopo for the development of the best inter ests of Georgia along any line of pub lic endeavor. And Georgia can not claim or expect these advantages un less she payi adequate salaries to the teachers In the rural districts. A financial burean ticker Friday brought the remarkable announce ment that "Charles G. Oates made his appearance on the feggojygojyndkplp- naujkndlujmnkjdupodrjydgajog." How did he get there?—New York Com- erclaL ALABAMA JOINS THE PROHIBITION COLUMN. The passage of tho statutory prohibition bill on Tuesday by the senate of Alsbsma with a vote of 32 to 2 was one of the most significant epi sodes in the history of the conflict between the factions representing pro hibition and sntl-prohlbltlon in the South. Never previous to tho present campaign has Alabama taken active part In tho battle against liquor traffic as a state. In many parts of the state local option has been In force for several years, but Alabamans bad never been brought to a con sideration of this serious question as a state aggregation. The growth of public sentiment In favor of prohibition In Alabama has been phe nomenal In the extreme. Like tho proverbial wild fire It has taken pos session of the state, subordinating nearly all other questions In tho force and strength of Its growth and In the remarkable enthusiasm It excited. Women and children crowded the corridors and galleries of the historic old capltol at Montgomery on Tuesday and Beenes wore enact ed that can not soon be forgotten by the politicians In whose hands was held the fate of the prohibition bill. A compromise was effected be tween the antis and the prohibitionists which provides that not until January 1, 1909, shall the law passed on Tuesday become effective In Alabama. A feature of Importance also due to a compromise was that the anti- prohibitionists in the Alabama legislature shall not oppose a bill to ap propriate $5,000 annually for the proper enforcement of the statutory prohibition law. The action taken recently by Birmingham and Jeffer son county making prohibition effeettvo January, 1908, will not be al tered by the law passed Tueaday at Montgomery. It Is understood that Governor Comer will sign the prohibition bill at once sad that every fa cility will be given by state authorities to make as far as possible pro hibition In Alabama a complete and glorious success. Georgia extends the heartiest greetings to her sister state In this hour of her magnifi cent moral triumph, and shall watch with generous Interest her up- . ward march toward those things which make for the development and welfare of her splendid people. CHRIS NICHOLS IS DEAD. Can we believe that old Chris Nichols has left us—and can anyone believe that he has left us for long? No—even the little of life any of us has left to us will not be long, and fow men doubt that we will meet again, soon—somewhere. The years and years we have known Chris, In'season and out, sum mer and winter, he was living, working and fighting the fight of life for the profession he loved—the great "fourth estate.’* Aa he goes out from us to worlds unknown, men who knew him everywhere will bow their heads in sorrow and thank God for the rough lessons of perseverance they learned from him. Emerson said that courage was the assurance of having done the thing before. Chris waa a living epitome of thfs spirit. Everything he did waa done with courage. Men In business seldom resisted him, be cause they knew ho would triumph anyway, and the peculiar spirit of sympathy and brotherhood that seems to exist among the men who fol low Journalism made men love him everywhere. • Chris had his faults. No one now who In spirit stands beside hla deathbed remembers them. Fie was charitable and faithful to the last, and we believe that, aa hla spirit la wending Ita way through the clouds today, flying fait to reach the eternal reat that awaits men who have lived and loved and dlad aa best they could, there are a myriad of pray ers and hopes and loves arising from the heart* of the friends he has left that speed on before him to light hla path to hla long home. Chris la dead, but It la good that he has lived. A REAL ESTATE FIRM’S OPTIMISM. A newspaper uaually tries to avoid the singling out of Individuals or firms for editorial compliments or comment, since It usually cause) more or less dissatisfaction with the neighbors of the ones singled out. But In a time like this, when some of our real estate men have not done all they could to keep cheerful, an act like that of Grant A Petty, In ad vertising their actual sales, la worthy of the commendation of all. Theso gentlemen do not claim to have the largest business of Ita kiud In Atlanta, but a business for October that totals only a few hun dred abort of 840,000—and that, divided Into fifteen different transac- actlons—la a pretty credltablo showing, and the beat of It la that while people aro claiming to have little to do, theie gentlemen come out and dispense good cheer ami Atlanta Spirit by printing their actual sales, and they say they are willing to swear that It Is accurate, though their standing In the community makes this quite unnecessary. I-et’i all cheer up! DOING NEXT THINGS NEXT. He la just a little bit of a man, weighing perhaps 130 pounds, and standing about 5 feet and 3 Inches In hla shoes. Years ago he waa as poor a boy as ever trod the streets. Now he Is a man of slxty-three. From a very humble beginning he haa worked himself to the presidency of a largo bank. Hla name Is a household word all through western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He Is on the directorship of a great many corporations, Is elder In hls church and secretary of one of the larger educational Institutions. Ho Is famous among hls friends and ac quaintances for the lmmenso amount of energy that la wrapped up In hla small body and the wonderful amount of work he accomplishes In n day. He has been known to have a telephone receiver to each ear. hold a con versation with two different parties on the wire, carry on a conversation with a business friend In bis once, and have hla stenographer by blp sldo all In the same minute. He never aeema to get excited. No one ever taw him rattled. He has gone on In this way, Increasing In strength, until today he la a tower of power In the community. The other day while ho was writing a check for one of hls benefac tions the one who was to receive the check said; “How do you manage to accomplish to much work? What you do would kill the ordinary man.” And quick as a flash, with no ceaaatlon of writing, came the reply; ’T always put next things next." That la the secret of euccete. Today’s work Is today’s work. It can not, must not be put off until tomorrow. And he never leaves hla office until today's tag ends are all out of the way. How do you do your work? •' It's an impertinent question, under some circumstances, but In this case It Is one of pertinence to yourself, for to yourself, and to yourself only, you are going to answer the question. So the question Is repeated, how do you do your work? You know men who get their work Into as many kinks as a boy gets hls shoestrings when he la In a hurry to go In swimming, or Is In a hurry to get Into bed before father comes upstair* and discovers that he has been out on the street later than the allotted time. Do you get your work all kinked up because you do not take the proper time to arrange everything in ordci*. so that when you come to the next thing you can do It easily and well? Some men do their work aa the shepherds In the Delectable Moun tains did theirs. They spend to much of their time looking at Che fu ture, far-off thtngs that they neglect that work In the present that lies close to their hand. It’s well to make plana for the days that are to come. He who does not plan for next month, next year, will find when that far-off time Is at hand that hls work la In confusion. But while thinking of the far-off time do you neglect your work today? How do you do your work? Today Is the supreme day In every man's life. As he doea hla work today so will hls tomorrow be. Today Is the hinge on which the gate of human destiny swinge. Things of today must be done today. Tomor row's things will be taken care of all right In tomorrow If you do the next things, next of today’s work right Learu to put and do next things next ,-■* ——'“ Growth and Progress of the New South Tho Goorjflnn boro record* oneb day •ome economic fact In reference to tbe onward progress of the South. JOSEPH B. LIVELY further demonstration mlrbt b« doalred of the stability of industrial development In Georgia nn«l Alabama and of the substantia' character of the uninterrupted progress which b being made In theao two at a to*, it la to !hs found In the magni tude cf enterprise* that hare beeu definitely projected during the week ending-to day. A number of these invoke large Investments, and Illustrate tho varied re sources of Georgia and Alabama. At Gadsden, Ala., furnaces which bare been idle for some time iiave been placed lu operation, and about $125,000 will be expended, principally by St, Louis capitalists. In making improvements and extensions. At Itockmnrt, Ga., a cement plant will be established and a large deposit of cement rock will be developed. An electric power plnnt will l*e established near Albany, Oa., and 109,000-borsepower will be developed to be transmitted to near-by cities and- town^for the operation of manufactories, and for other purposes. th ateamboat lines; practically nil °t tbe required 'SSI funds have building an electric railway between Dothan, Ala., and Genera, Ala., and the making of preliminary surveys for nu electric railway between Ma rietta, Oa., and Atlanta, Ga., has been ordered. “In const ruction lines the progress !• none the leas marked. Among other ltema, The Index reports tbe following to be constructed: "Churches at Dalnbrldge, Ga.. and Brunswick, On., court honso nnd jail lit Fitzgerald, On., bridges lu Ben IIIII mid Chatham counties, Georgia, 110.000 Odd fel lows* building at Decatur. Ga., seven miles of sidewalks to be paved In Decatur, Ala., 110,000 high school building In Brunswick, Ga., $50,000 college building, prob ably, at Jasper, Ala., odd numerous residences and business buHdlngs. A car manufacturing company at Anniston. Ala., has been awarded $200.00) contract to furnish cars for use on n Ceutrnl American railway. A Hpnrta. tin., nnarry hns . BC( j |n the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at SI. Louis, Mo., and Mobile, Ala. Fleetrlcal con tractors will furnish and Install thirty-four electric motors and equipment for substituting electricity for steam ns motive power. In railroad shops at Whistler, "Hartford, Cotin., capitalists have purchased for $53,000 fifty acres of land at Mobile. Ain., and will develop this property Immediately. "Kreven new corporations with total minimum capital stock of $865,000 are re* S orted. Nations) bank wjll l»e established at Clio, Ala. An ejection has been or- ered In Ben Hill ncmity. Georgia, upon the issuance of $100,000 of bonds for con structing a court house, Jail and bridges and fur the improvement of public roads." nl! of the granite to be used MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO. CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS. Capita! $200,000.00 Surplus ahd Undivided Profits $600,000.00 Commercial Accounts Invited. Four Per Ceht Intersst Paid on Savings. • •MMSIM.HtaMM.HHM, CONGRESSMAN EDWARDS THINKS • REMOVAL OF THE TARIFF WILL BREAK UP THE PAPER COMBINE -mr- r Savannah, Ga., Norember 16th, 1907. P. L. Seely, Publisher The Georgian, Atlanta, Ga. receipt of your favor of 14tb Inst, asking If I will assist in the effort that la being toad# to remove tbe tariff on news print paper. You can rest assured that I will at all that I can In this direc tion. As It is, the combination la squeezing the papers, and the natural result la for the )spera to make the people pay more dearly or the paper. If the tariff Is removed this M e combination that has crown rich the dreams of avarice will not have " Inge Its own way, but will hove to com own markets, thus giving relief and assist ance not only to the newspapers but to the pcoplo a* well. I agree with you that the newspaper! are tno greatest educators and moldorn of moral sentiment lu the country, when their offices are properly performed, And In this noble work they should bare "a square deal." In pH my actions I shall always Insist upon the paper* having "a square deal," especially where the Interests or peojdo are so vltslly concerned. With kind regards, I ant PEOPLE AND THINGS GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS AND THE STREET CORNERS ‘‘An amusing thin* happened at Cor- dela," said L. O. Benton, the prominent Montlcello banker and manufacturer, at (he Piedmont Wednesday, "when the clearing house certificates were first Issued. A big country negro went Into a grocery etore and ordered 25 cent* worth of cider and drank Then he shoved across the counter a 15 certificate. The storekeeper prompt ly shoved back 14.75 in aUver. ■The negro’s ey,s opened wide as he gathered up the money. ‘If I’d a knowed that thing was anj count,' he said, ‘I.. wouldn’t a drum that much cider.’ But they all know they are some aocount now and they are mighty anx ious to get them. Ws have had a great demand for the tl Issue and peo ple do not try to get rid of them and get currenoy for them." Mr. Benton Is the main factor In asveral banks throughout the state and thoroughly conversant wtth the financial situation. He le very opti mistic and says the South la In better condition than ever. few day* ago an elderly negro walked Into the office of the prison commission and said to Captnln Yan cey, the secretary; "Cap'n, I loa’ my brother, an' got a little clew dat he Is In some Convict camp eoni’ere, 'roun' here. Hla name Is Tom Burge. Ken you gib me any Information about him?" Captain Yancey began searching hla books, and presently paused. Then he ■aid: "Tom Burge waa aent up for life In 1895, and died eleven months later In the Dade camp.” "Dat was him. Po. Tom. He ain’t heard nothing cr him In 13 year. He was a good boy, but had company rulnt him. Well, day ain’t nothing we can do now." And the old darkey went out wiping Ml* eyes. Many little tragedies like that aro of constant occurrence in the convict system of Georgia. “Peoplo In Gwinnett county have no fault to find with Atlanta clearing house certlflrntes, except that they could use twice aa many If they had them. They would like to have all they could get." L. M. Brand, cashier of the Brand Banking Company, of Lawrencevllle, and one of the beat posted bankers In the South, spoke In this manner at the Piedmont Wednesday. Mr. Brand Is In Atlanta for a few days undergoing treatment for hla throat, and he talked Interestingly of the flnrfhclal situation. "Folks up my way," he sntd, "are not making any kick on the certificates. They are Just as good as real money to them and they take them as quickly as they would gold. The money strin gency Is not hurting the people of my section, and we are etlll having a por tion of the prosperity which Is apparent over the South. Panics may come and go. but the farmers of Gwinnett will keep on raising plenty of cotton and other crops, and they forget there is such a thing as Wall street.” After remaining here several days under the care or a throat specialist, Mr. Brand will go to Florida for a few week, before returning home. R. L. Shropshire, the well-known young attorney and candidate for the eglslature. left Tuesday night for Val dosta to attend the state Baptist con vention. Mr. Shropehlre went as a del egate from the Young Men's Mission ary Society of the Second Baptist church. Judge George A. Hlllyer, A. Adair and Dr. E. L. Connally will also attend the convention as delegatus from the some church. ARMY-NAVY ORDERS AND MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS. Army Ordara. Washington. Nov. 20.—FI rat Lieutenant Lewi* M. Adams, from engineer school, Washington barracks, to l'lttaburg. Captain Salmon F. Dutton, commissary, from Chi cago to Ban Francisco; thence to Philip pines January 5, 1008, relieving Captain Wil lard 1). Newblll, commissary, who will pro ceed to San Francfaco. Captain William It. Grove, commissary, from 8t. Louis to military academy, rellcv- {? Ciijitaln Thomas Franklin, commissary, .j Pb Hugh procoed to Shu Francisco. First Lieutenant James W. Everlugton, Twenty-Sixth Infantry, to general hospital, Presijeo of San Franc I geo; Captain Mat thew O. Butler, Jr., Bcranth cavalry, to general hospital, Washington barracks. Navy Ordara. Commander C. R. Gelfrlng, detached navy yard, Mnre Island, November 30, to navnl station, Cavite; Commander It. 8. Knapp, detached war college to West Virginia, as cblof of staff: Assistant Surgeon G. L. Wicker, detached recruiting station. Kan sas City, to recruiting stutTou, Omaha. Movements of Vessels. AKBIVED—November 16, California at Bremerton, Washington; 8aturn and Pints nt Mare Island; Albany at La Union, Ban Salvador; November 17. Hnlubow, Galveston aud Chnttnnoogn nt Vladivostok. “ ULED—November 16, Stirling, Ports- ;th, X. II., to Lambert Point. Cents With a Silver Center, eurlous cent, dated 1792, which has come Into tbe hand* of a coin dealer, le said to represent the first attempt to strike " coin Of this denomination at tbe United into* mint at Philadelphia. On the obverse Is a rather ugly head of Liberty to the right, with hair flowing !«*• ... . - sir * L - when s fire alarm box Is The fire lx»x and It doesn't give any states the mayor, "but an excited person nt the 'phone seldom turns In an alarm right. ie io *ena in n nro ninrm •in box Is anywhere near. Is made for that purncse. ire any room for mUtnkea, — ma : I remember when I was chief n well known man called np over the 'phone and said hls huuse was burning. I didn't know who It wts at the time. 'My house Is burning'.’ he shonted over over aesln. But, where Is your house?* I kept ask ing him. Finally be answered. Just as au- - *- *dV try). _ the words, and surround the Inscription, "United States of The piece, la miu-h manlier than the ordi nary colonial cent, being about the sise of tho H cent struck In the year following. It is composed of copper, but Ik*fore placing the blank In the coinage pres* a small ' of silver bnd been Inserted In the mli and the rarity now 1* known to colt* col- lector?* us the "silver center cent." It Is snid tho intention (u putting iu this plus of silver was to brlug up tho intrinsic value of the coin to exactly one cent. It Is thought that the cent was the de sign of a blacksmith named Peter Gets, of Lancaster, Pa., a self-taught engraver, who was employed nt the mint when that Insti tution first began operations In 1792. a ml who cut the dies for several other varieties of the early coins. The same deign was struck In plain copper, but without the sil ver plug, nnd this variety, too, is very rare. —New York Herald. THE PARMENTER MILLIONS ... A Stirring Novel of Love, Conspiracy and Adoenlure, ., (Copyright, 1907, by Arthur W. Marcbmoflt.) By ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT. Author of "By Right of Sword,” -When I Was Czar,” Etc., Etc. Synopsis of Previous Installment. Olive, UI.xulse.1 ns Otgo Schmidt, a Ger man hmt.einald, «oe» to work lu the home of the foreign uilirtstor os » spy for Gilbert Uerrldtw'B robber band, Bho lenrns that no member of the bund esn hold hock nny mnnev from the others, nud she plans to get Merrldew Into trouble nt the earliest tote which thnt he Is in po«»e«>!on of the e»- onee her father's. you storied ret?' •• ’Now, listen here, yon Idiot,’ I told him, getting angry myielf, -yon Ju.t keep cool. Now, tell me whnt street yon live on nnd we will come oat’ Then he told me and b« left. "A Br# olorm box wss not ■ liloek owsy. remember several Instances where excited people-men ns well n, women nnd children —colled np nnd enve their telephone num ber. Instead of the number of their streets and then the - Dickens woo to pay sure enough.” The Gregory Hunting Clnb, s Louisville, Ky„ organisation, composed of prominent dllieno of that elty, passed through At lanta Tuesday night tn ronte to Arcadia, Fla., and the visitors were met tbe Term!- ns I Motion by Mayor Joyner nnd n party of cltlsens. F. H, Moore, who has been III several weeks nt hla home, 54 Spring street. Is Im proving rnpldl.v. Mr, Moore Is one of the best knowu member, of the Internal reve nue department, and hls friends will lie pleased to lenru of the improvement In hla Fred Beni, after en Illness months nt the Wesley Memorial Itoapltal. haa gone to hla psrenta’ home In fit. Louie regain hla strength, hla health having •ady been reatareil. he fionthern Association of Bookkeepers „„1 eonveue Wednesday evening tn mske preparations for the t.lg gathering of book keepers which will be held here In Decern- 'or. 1’ittil W. Spink la dangerously III of ty- hold faver at the Presbyterian Hospital. .Jr. Spink hns been anpertnten.lent of the Atlanta Transportation Club for the past two years, and he la one of the beat known hotel men In tbe South. The announce, rather I had Inst been I ment of hie Illness will bring grief to hnn- r. nnd ns It happened i deeds of Southern homes. did to. When he an-1 re.i ana rouna it ws. me he won mad Colonel P. D. McCIn.key, of dsisn. who was operated upon at the fit. Josephs nearest silver he shonted, ‘herea t ladnusry, it Improving. ’ Why, It's 75. yon blockhead.’ And with tnst he IttiUg up ihe rccelvM, a 2d I was no better off than when I started. I told Cen tral to glee me the number I had talking to right nwsy. nnd an It the remembered and did so. When he an-1 It was a condition which suited Olive’s work well enough. There was neither order nor method; and It waa possible to wander Ml over the house nt any time without the least remark being made by any one. Tho-servanta either did their work or left It undone as they pleased, and were nlwqys able to elte some ridiculous order of the I oueekeeper In excuse. They were al ways ready to chatter, and In a couple of days Olive had all the Information she needed. The minister’s wife was an Invalid and spent nearly all her time In her rooms, generally on her back. Tho minister himself rarely went to bed before 3 or 4 o’clock In the morning, and Iny late to make up for It. . He scarcely ever went to Downing street before the afternoon, and In the morn ing papers were brought to him—gen erally by Mr. Fenwick—and ho dealt with them In the study which adjoined hls bed room. In the meantime Olive set about the work assigned to her very quietly; evaded the showers of questions which the other servants rained up6n her by the simple device of answering In such broken English that they could not un. derstand her, and was most careful not to give offence to any one. With Mr*. Grlmston—shrew as she ns—Olive speedily became a favor ite. Quick to observe what the house keeper wanted, she was generally able to anticipate her wishes and to Inter pret her most extraordinary orders cor rectly. I wish they were all Germans, like you, Schmidt,” she said more than once. "You are about the only creature In the place, except myself, with any thing like a head on your shoulders; and heaven knows we want something like Intelligence In a body nowadays. I’m sure I don’t know what servants are coming to. I woe almost afraid to take you, for we do hear such dread ful things about what some of you foreigners do. But you're not bad, you know, nnd sometimes I’m almqst glad that you came. You can consider yourself permanently engaged, even If the rest do hate having a German about and speak of you as a sausage; but I told them there’s more sense In your plump body than any sausage could have.” And In this style she rat tled on at great length and inconse quence. This was when granting Olive’s re quest to be allowed to go out on the following afternoon. Jack had been back for some days lous to see him; and she wrote him to meet her at the Robsons. As soon as she was well away from the big house she Jumped Into a cab and drove to the house where her clothes were, changed Into Olive Par- menter once more, and hurried to Chel sea. VV learn what she had been doing In hls absence. Ho had called for her Imme diately on hls return, and had been told that she was away and that the Rob sons did not know her address. "I have been finding out things. Jack; but you musn’t ask me for any particulars at present. I have found out for myself, however, that Selma Hammond was quite right when she said that mischief was brewing for you.” “All right,” he laughed easily. “But I suppose you’ll admit that I can take care of myself.” “Against any open attack,, yes, of course; but this Is aimed at your offi cial career. There Is a plot on hand to steal some Important papers from the foreign office, and to put the theft on you. You go nearly every day to the minister’s house In South Kensing ton—" "How do you know that?” "I told you not to ask questions, Jack,’’ she replied with a smile. "I know It; and I know that you are closely watched all the time. The min ister gets up late and you transact most of your business with him In the little room next to hls bsd room.” "Olive!" He was surprised now. In deed. "What does all this mean?” "That a number of people have band ed together to obtain possession of these papers—I don’t yet know what they are—and as you are supposed to handle them at times they will seek an opportunity of getting them from you. I want to warn you, therefore, to be always on your guard." "This Is very serious, Olive. Who are the men?" "I shall learn It all In time; but If you are well In your guard, the at tempt will of course fall. But I am ry serious," •How did you learn It?" "That for the moment I can’t tell you." "Do you mean you ore running the rlek of mixing with these people? My dear girl, think of the danger, the mad ness of such a thing.” “I am In no danger, Jack, but If I were, It would make no difference to me. I can’t stop to think of danger. I have found out a great deal more than I have yet told you; and I mean to go through to the end." ’’But how does this affect your mat ters—Gilbert Merrldew and the rest?" ”1 can’t explain yet; but It docs. I am going to win, Jock. I am confident now. 1 believed It before, but 1 am sure of It now. X have found out for certain that he Is a scoundrel, and this discovery about you has come as the result of some of my Inquiries.” “I think you ought to tell me all you know, Olive.” - ’’Don’t say that. Jack. Let me go my own way. If anything were told before the proper time, tt would spoil all the plana I have made. I must go my own way. There Is another thing, too. I cannot see you very often for a time. I have been away from this house ever since you left, and I can’t tell you where I have been. You shall know all some day, of course; but not yet.” ‘‘You’re not afraid I should blab out anything?” “Of course not But you might think that my safety made It Impossi ble for you to agree to It all.” ’’Safety? Now you are positively frightening me.” "But I assure you there Is no danger, at any rate, yet. And If there should be any, I promise you I will at once send for you. The very Instant “It will be too late then,” he said gloomily. But Olive held to her declslpn; and although he tried every argument and Inducement he could think of to per suade her to tell him everything and let him help her she would not yield and would promise no more than that If she hod any cause to fear for her safety she would send for him at once. He was very uneasy; and for the first time In their lives there was a re. stralnt between them; and when they parted this was not removed. “I shall remember your warning, of course, and be on my guard; but I still think you should have told me more. Olive. This foreign office affair is a ticklish matter and too grave to be trifled with.” The little cloud depressed Olive’s spirits as she changed back to “Olga Schmidt,” and returnedito South Ken sington. But she knew her lover well, and was sure that she had decided rightly. If any pollco measures wsrs to be taken against Gilbert Merrldew at once her chance of forcing the truth from him would be gone. She must be In a position to prove that she alone held the reins over him, and that she herself could either se cure hls exposure and punishment, or hush the whole matter up, occordln as he told ths truth about that allege marriage. So far as that marriage Itself was concerned, she was as far from her end as ever, and the truth would never be known unless she forced It from him. With all the will In the world to help her. Jack would never consent to the course she was now taking. Fear for her would, as she had told him, lead him to take some steps which would ruin the whole enterprise. And this must be prevented, whatever the cost to her. Even hls displeasure—and hs had mode no secret that he was dis pleased—must not affect her decision. Certainly he must never know what she was doing until her work was fin ished, and they could laugh over her experiences together. But the next day Olive was soon aware that something unusual was to take place at South Kensington. It began with an awkward Incident for her. Mrs. Orlmston sent her down stairs by the main staircase on some trivial errand, and on the landing she came face to face with Jack. He looked at her sharply, and she believed he had recognized her. With great presence of mind she turned her head away and called out In German, as If to some one above, that she would be there directly. "German, by Jove,” she heard him say to himself In a tone of suspicion. Then to her In that language. "Frau- leln, I wish to speak to you.” But Olive had slipped past him and was running downstairs. Without look ing back she called: "Directly, sir;" nnd did not stop until she was below In the servants’ quarters. There the housekeeper found her some time later and rated her soundly for her neglect. But In the middle of the scolding something else slipped out. Mrs. Grim- ston had been carpeted by the minis ter and he and Jack had piled her with all sorts of questions about ths servants and particularly about Olga Schmidt, who she was, where she came from, what character she had; and the cross-examination had. con cluded with the request that ths girt should be sent up to them. Continued in Tomorrow’s Goorglsn. 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