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SYNOPSIS.
Y Senator John Calhoun Is ottered the
Jsortfollo of secretary of state in Tyler's
cabinet. Ha declares that If he accepts
It means that Texas and Oregon must be
Ridded to the Union, He plans to learn
the Intentions of England with reg ard to
Mexico, through Baroness Von RH tz,
eret spy apd reputed mistress of the
English ambassador. Pakenham. He
•ends his secretary, Nicholas Trlst, to
Tiring the baroness to his apartment.
"While searching for the baroness' home,
a carriage drives up and he is Invited to
•nter. The occupant Is the baroness, who
•ays she Is being pursued. The pursuers
•re shaken off. The baroness consents to
gee Calhoun. Nicholas notes that she
has lost a slipper. She gives Nicholas the
remaining slipper as a pledge that she
will tell Calhoun all, and, as security,
Nicholas gives her a trinket he Intended
lor his sweetheart, Elizabeth Churchill.
Nicholas Is ordered to leave at once for
Montreal on state business, by Calhoun, and
who has become secretary of state,
Clans to be married that night. Tyler
Warns Pakenham that Interference by
will Ungland In be the tolerated. affairs of The this west continent de¬
not
tnands that the joint occupancy of Ore¬
gon with Great Britain cease, and has
raised Fight.” the cry of "Fifty-four. Nicholas Forty or
The baroness tells she
will do her best to prevent his marriage.
Bhe returns the trinket and he promises
to return her slipper. Nicholas enlists
the services of Congressman Dandrldge,
a rejected suitor of Elizabeth’s, to assist
In the arrangements for the wedding and
entrusts him with the return of the slip¬
per to the baroness. The congressman
beth. gets drunk, Tilt' and sends the slipper to Eliza¬ and
wedding Is declared off,
Nicholas Is ordered from the house by
Elizabeth’s father. Nicholas Is ordered
to gain access to a meeting of the Hud¬
son Bay directors In Montreal and learn
England’s Intentions regarding Oregon.
secs the baroness leave the <11-
rectors’ meeting In Montreal, where he
had failed to gain admission. She warns
him that his life Is in danger and he ac¬
cept* an Invitation to pass the night at
her home. She quizzes him as to whether
his wedding took place, and gets no sat¬
isfaction. She contained tells him that the slipper
■he gave him a message from
the attache of Texas to the British am¬
bassador, saying that if the United
States did not. annex Texas within 30
days, she would lose both Texas and
Oregon. He decides to take the message
to Calhoun.
CHAPTER XVII -Continued.
Tie smiled. “It iss not a chance,
tout a certainty;’’ he said. "It, wass
only agreed last night. England will
anarch this summer 700 men up the
Peace river. In the fall they will be
across the Rockies. So! They can
take boats easily down tho streams to
Oregon. You ask If there will be
troubles. I tell you, yess.”
"What time can England make
with her brigades, west-bound, my
friend?" I asked him casually. He an¬
swered with gratifying scientific pre¬
cision.
“From Edmonton to Fort Colville,
weBt of the Rockies, it hass been done
In six weeks, and five days, by Sir
George himself. From Fort Colville
down it iss easy by boats. It takes
the voyageur three months to cross,
or four months. It would take troops
twice that long, or more. For you In
the states, you can go faster. And
ah! my friend, It iss worth the race,
that Oregon. Believe me, it iss full
of bugs—of new bugs; 12 news species
J haf discovered and named. It iss
■ometlngs of honor, iss it not?”
“What you say Interests me very
much, sir,” I said. “1 am only an
American trader, knocking around to
see the world a little bit. You seem
to have been engaged In some scien¬
tific pursuit in that country.”
“Yess,” he said. “Mein own govern¬
ment and mein own university, they
■end me to this country to do what
bass not been done. I am insecto-
loger. Shall I show you my bugs of
Oregon? You shall see them yess?
Come with me to my hotel. You shall
see many bugs, such as science hass
not yet known."
I was willing enough to go with
him; and true to his word he did show
me such quantities of carefully pre¬
pared and classified insects as I had
not dreamed our own country offered.
"Twelvenew species!" he said, with
pride. "Mein own country will gif
me honor for this. Five years I spend.
Now I go back home.
”1 shall not tell you what nickname
they gif me in Oregon,” he added,
Bmillng; “but my real name iss Wol¬
fram von Rittenhofen. Berlin, it wass
last my home. Tell me, you go soon
to Oregon?"
“That is very possible," I answered;
and this time at. least I spoke the
truth. “We are bound in opposite di¬
rections, but if you are sailing for
Europe this spring, you would save
time and gain comfort by starting
from New York. It would give us
great pleasure if we could welcome
eo distinguished a scientist in Wash¬
ington."
“No, 1 am not yet distinguished.
Only shall I be distinguished when I
have shown my 12 new species to
mein own university.”
“But it would give me pleasure also
to show you Washington. You should
Bee also the government of those
backwoodsmen who are crowding out
to Oregon. Would you not like to
travel with me in America so far as
that?”
He shook his head doubtfully. "Per-
£ap| 1 make mistake to come by the
St. Lawrence? It would be shorter to
go by New York? Well, I liaf no
Lurry. 1 titittjf It over, vess."
“Lut tell me,'where he ached did you get that
Icet'e .l.iig?" me again pr>s-
entiy, fakirg up in his hand the In¬
dian c'.as,-.
”1 t.y.Jvd for it arnons the Crow In-
diths.
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"You know what it iss, eh?”
"No, except that it is Indian made.”
He scanned the round disks care¬
fully. “Wait!” he exclaimed, “I
show you sometings ”
He reached for my pencil, drew
toward him a piece of paper, taking
from his pocket meantime a bit of
string. Using the latter for a radios,
drew a circle on the piece of paper.
"Now look what I do!” he said, as
I bent over curiously. “See, I draw a
straight line through the circle. I di¬
vide it in half, so. I divide it in half
once more, and make a point. Now I
shorten my string, one-half. On each
side of my long line I make me a half
circle—-only half way round on the
opposite sides. So, now, what I got,
eh? You understand him?"
1 shook my head, He pointed in
turn to the rude ornamentation in the
shell clasp. I declare that then I
could see a resemblance between the
two designs!
“It is curious,” I said.
"Mein Gott! it iss more than curi¬
ous. It iss vonderful! I haf two Ama-
zonias collected by my own hands,
and 12 species of my own discovery,
yess, in butterflies alone. That iss
much? Listen. It iss notings! Here
iss the discovery!”
He took a pace or two excitedly,
and came back to thump with his fore¬
finger on the little desk.
“What you see before you iss the
sign of the Great Monad! It iss
known in China, in Burmah, in all
Asia, in all Japan. It Iss sign of the
great One, of the great Two. In your
hand iss the Tah Gook—the Oriental
symbol for life, for sex. Myself, I haf
seen that in Sitka on Chinese brasses;
I haf seen it on Japanese signs, in one
land and in another land. But here
you show it to me made by the hand
of some ignorant aborigine of this eon-
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tinent! On this continent, where it
did not originate and does not belong!
Ir. iss a discovery! Science shall hear
of it. It iss the link of Asia to Amer-
Ica. It brings me fame!”
He put his hand into a pocket, ana
drew it out half filled with gold
pieces and with raw gold in the form'
of nuggets, as though he would offer
exchange. I waved him Tmck. “No,”
said I; "you are welcome to one of
these disks, if you please, If you
wish, I will take one little bit of these
But tell me, where did you find these
pieces of raw gold?”
"Those? They are notings. I recol-
lect me I found these one day up on
the Rogue river, not far from my
cabin. 1 am pursuing a most beauti¬
ful moth, such as I haf not In all my
collection, bo, 1 fall on a log, 1 bkm
me my leg In the moss 1 find some
b.ts of rock I recollect me not where,
but believe it wass somewhere there.
But what I find now, here, , . by a stran- .
ger—it iss worth more than gold! My
friend, 1 thank you, I embrace you! I
am favored by fate to meet you. Go
wnh you to Washington? , . ... Yess, yess.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
The Missing Slipper.
There will always remain somethin,
to tie said of woman as long as there tv-
on# on earth.—Baullors.
[ \Ye passed the luncheon how at the
hostelry of my friend Jacques BertU
Ion; after which I suggested a stroll
about the town for a time.
Before we started, I asked him to
step to my room, where I had left my
pipe. My eye fell on the commode’s
top, casually. I saw that it was bare.
I recalled the strange warning of the
baroness the evening previous. I was
watched! My apartment had been en¬
tered in my absence. Property of
mine had been taken.
My perturbation must have been
discoverable in my face. "What iss
it?" asked the old man. “You forget
something?”
“No,” said I, stammering. "It is
nothing.”
He looked at me dubiously. “Welt,’
then,” I admitted; ”1 miss something
from my commode here. Some one
has taken it.”
"It iss of value, perhaps?” he in¬
quired politely.
“Well, no; not of intrinsic value.
’Twas only a slipper—of white satin,
made by Braun of Paris.”
"One slipper? Of what use—”
"It belonged to a lady—I was about
to return It,” I said; but I fear my
face showed me none too calm.
“Eaeb man studies for himself his
own specialty,’’ mused the old man.
“You haf perhaps studied the species
of woman. Once, also I.”
We walked, my friend musing and
babbling, myself still anxious and un¬
easy. We turned out of narrow
Notre Dame street, and into St. Law-
ence Main street. As we strolled I
noted without much interest the mot-
ley life about me, picturesque now
with the activities of the advancing
spring. Presently, however, my idle
gaze was drawn to two young Eng¬
lishmen whose bearing in some way
gave me the impression that they be¬
longed in official or military life, al¬
though they were In civilian garb.
Presently the two halted, and sep-
arated. The taller kept on to the east,
to the old French town. At length 1
saw him joined, as though by appoint-
ment. by another gentleman, one
whose appearance at once gave me
reason for a second look, He ac-
costed my young Englishman, and
without hesitation the two started off
together As they did so I gave an
involuntary exclamation, The taller
man 1 had seen once before, the
shorter, very many times—in Wash-
ington!
"Yess," commented my old scientist
calmly; “so strange! They go to-
gether.”
~ Ah you know themr x alnlost
upon him.
~ Yess _ last night The tal , ore , ES
Mr p ee i, a young Englishman- the
other is Mexlcan> they said _senor
Yturrio> of Mexico . „ e spoke much
Me, l wass sleepy then. D But * also i that .
ot ( u , r {a]i one we saw go back—that
wass Capt. Parke, also of the British
navy. His ship iss the war boat
Modeste—a fine one. I see her often
v , hen j walk on the riffer front> therc -.
I turned to him and made some ex-
ouse, saying that presently I v.ouid
join him again at the hotel. Dream¬
ily as ever, he smiled and took his
i-ave. For myself, I walked on rapid¬
ly after the two figures, then a block
r ro ahead of me.
i saw them turn into a street which
, as familiar to myself. They passed
• a, turning from time, to time anions-
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the old houses of the French quarter.
Presently they entered the short side
street which I myself bad seen for
the first time the previous night. I
pretended to busy myself with my
pipe, as they turned in at the very
gate which I knew, and knocked at
the door which I had entered with my
mysterious companion!
The door opened without delay;
they both entered.
So, then, Helena von Ritz had other
visitors! England and Mexico were in¬
deed conferring here in Montreal.
There were matters going forward
here in which my government was
concerned.
At the moment nothing better oc¬
curred to me than to return to my
room and wait for a time. It would
serve no purpose for me to disclose
myself, either in or out of the apart¬
ments of the baroness, and it would
not aid me to be seen idling about the
neighborhood in a city where thero
was so much reason to suppose stran¬
gers were watched. I resolved to
wait until the next morning, and to
take my friend Von Rittenhofen with
me. He need not know all that I
knew, yet in case of any accident to
myself or any sudden contretemps, he
would serve both as a witness and as
an excuse for disarming any sus¬
picion which might be entertained re¬
garding myself. ,
The next day he readily enough fell
in with my suggestion of a morning
stroll, and again we sallied forth, at
about nine o’clock having by that
time finished a dejeuner a la four-
chette with Jacques Bertillon, which
to my mind compared unfavorably
with one certain other I had shared.
A sense of uneasiness began to op¬
press me, I knew not why, before I
had gone half way down the little
street from the corner where we
turned. It was gloomy and dismal
enough at the best, and on this morn-
Ing an unusual apathy seemed to sit
upon it. for few of the shutters were
down, although the hour was now mid¬
morning. Something said to me that it
would be as well for me to turn back.
I might as well have done so. VVe>
passed up the little walk, and 1
raised the knocker at the door; but
even as it sounded I knew what would
happen. There came to me that
curious feeling which one experiences
when one knocks at the door of.^t
house which lacks human occupar.'j.
Even more strongly I had that s.range
feeling^ not merely now. that because this sound was
of unoccupied rooms
—it came from rooms empty and echo¬
ing!
I tried the door. It was not
locked. I flung it wide, and stepped
within. At first I could not adjust my
eyes to the dimness, Absolute si-
lence reigned. 1 pushed open a shut¬
ter and looked about me. The roopas
were not only unoccupied, but unfur¬
nished! The walls and floors were ut¬
terly bare! Not a sign of human oc¬
cupancy existed. I hastened out to
the little walk, and looked up and
down the street, to satisfy myself that
I had made no mistake. No, this was
the number—this was the place.
Followed by my wondering com-
panion, I made such Inquiry as ■
could in the little neighborhood. I
could learn nothing.
"Sir,” said 1 to my friend, at last; “I
do not understand it. I have pursued,
hut it seems the butterfly has flown.”
So, both silent, myself morosely so,
we turned and made our way back
across the town.
Half an hour later we were on the
docks at the river front, where we
could look out over the varied ship-
ping which lay there. My scientific
friend counted one vessel after an-
other, and at last pointed to a gap
in the line.
"Yesterday I wass here,” he said,
"and 1 counted all the ships and their
names. The steamer Modeste she lay
there. Now she iss gone.”
I pulled up suddenly. This was the
ship which carried Capt. Parke and
his friend Lieut. Peel of the British
navy. The secret council at Mon-
treat was, therefore, apparently end¬
ed! There would be an English land
expedition, across Canada to Oregon.
Would there be also an expedition' by
sea? At least my errand in Montreal,
now finished, had not been, in vain,
even though it ended in a mystery
and a query.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Accepting Misfortune.
There are many ways of accepting
misfortune—as many, indeed, as there
are generous feelings or thoughts to
be found on the earth; and every one
of those thoughts, every one of those
feelings, has a magic wand that trans¬
forms on the threshold, the features
and vestments of sorrow. Job would
have said: "The Lord gave, and the
Lord hath taken away; blessed be the
name of the Lord”; and Marcus
Aurelius, perhaps, "If it be no longer
aliowed me to love those I loved high
above all. it is doubtless that I may
learn to love those whom I love not
yet."—Maeterlinck.
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