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A Song to Brave Women
They were married in the autumn when the leaves were turning gold,
And the mornings bore a menace of the winter's coming cold;
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Nebraska genius who has a clever way of
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i. l:a is prolific for geniuses says
inh from Blair to the Chicago
v. They grow here as thick
. i,rn?h on the Western plains,
up in every town and
and ourishes like green
. !.( .side running brooks. There
i;.ing in the very air and the
seems conductive to ecentric
; uiaticism. 10 ng hair, wild
V.'.ius. Populism and poetry and
1- abound iw the bug eaters
i t is the home of the crank, the
hoath of the freak, the habitat
s:-". niter.
no locality especially favor--,,-
western part of the State," the
Dart of the State, the Southern
northern parts of the State have
m-odmed. North Platte has her Wil-
Van GUV, nuuwii liwm wuc uv-
2one aiui pole to pole as "Buffalo Bill."
Newman's Grove had her J. Narver
Gorti; the poet of nine volumes, au
jor c'l the immortal lines.
Vv'o iuii turkey for dinner today,
The rinest the State could product,
And as cn the table it lay
Tv.as better, I thought, than a
sroose.
Beatrice has her Walt Mason, of
Tvhom .lames Whiteomb Riley said:
"He might have been the best-known
humorist in the West, but he lost his
srip." Omaha has her George Francis
Train, prince of all cranks and emper
or of all freaks. Bellevue has her Pat
Crowe, the most famous kidnapper the
world has ever known.
Ami now from Washington county
and the to'wn of Blair comes the latest
aspirant for notice and the most recent
candidate tor the title ' genius.
Will A. Campbell, printer, editor,
human being and genius, saw the light
of day first in some obscure little Ne
braska town. He grew up like other
childrenof Nebraska towns, obtained
some schooling and oegan to scramble
for a living when he was yet at a ten
der a?e.
There was always something the
matter with him. He knew it, and
others knew it. but he never knew
what it was until he started a little
magazine called The Knocker, and
then it developed that he was a genius.
In the initial number of his literary
venture the young scribe relieved him
self of 26 articles of faith, which have
been eagerly perused by a large num
ber of readers. Some of these articles
follow:
I knock on the self-righteous. They
are usually people who by worldly suc
cess have crowded into view. The best
we can do is to be virtuous as possible.
I knock on the social rule that per
mits a woman to cover indiscretions of
ether days with a sealskin cloak. A
voman has a right to "live it down,"
but a rich woman should have no
shorter probation than a poor pne.
I knock on the man who tells
children that there is no Santa ,Claus.
The tragedy of life begins when faith
departs, and the man who will hasten
the departure is related to the devil.
I knock on the knocker who
knocks on his wife. . A man who re
spects not the mother of his own child
ren respects not himself. His plaint
that she has not kept up with him
fools nobody. He has his ye on an
other woman. In the Greek "for bet
ter or for worse," means "take your
medicine."
I knock on the social pest, whose so-
tial rating is a hat full of prunes, and
who passes by old friends. He is a
snob. Trace him back to his father
and you'll find a rabbit.
I knock on the woman who nags her
husband. More men have gone to hell
T this route and picked up corespon
dents along the way than by any other.
i Knoc k on the American girl. The
girl who has been raised in a cultured
home; who possesses both talent and
accomplishment; who has grown into
a womanly woman and is too worthy
for any young man, btit who casts her
life by her own choice with a smooth
guy, whose brains are worth 2 cents
a pound for soap grease a descendant
of a long line of half-wits; a dizzy
young dude too lazy to work and too
cowardly to steal, too everlastingly
"ornery" to raise a respectable crop of
wild oats; a young lollipop ribbon
clerk on $2 per and monopoly on the
gall of the globe that is the kind of
Apollos American girls admire, and it
whould give a buzzard a bilious attack.
I knock on the mother-in-law who
goes loaded with advice". She is not
so many as some make out, but, like
the bad egg in the dozen, it is tough
on the man who gets her.
I knock on the pessimist. He is an
Ishmaelite and tells disagreeable
truths. The thing to do is tt join the
procession and stand for the things
"what is."
I knock hard on the bum the legiti
mate offspring of hoodlumism, the
curse of modern civilization. He never
pays taxes, but makes a monthly tour
in search of a soft snap, where wages
are higher. He knows the road to ev
ery joint and his example artistically
escorts the youth to damnation. He
scoffs at the church, defies good citi
zenship and ruins the community. The
man who will not work heads the ex
cursion to hell. May the Lord have
mercy on his soul.
I knock on the man who knocks on
this magazine. He is an intellectual
dwarf, a parody on manhood, and is
in for a roast in the next issue.
I knock on the little pothouse politi
cian who poses to run the whole Elec
torial College and point out wiser men
their duties. He is a bore and don't
know a fundamental principle from
his funny bone. 4
I knock on the trying to reform fall
en women by turning them over to the
police a la Parkhurst. Better put
some lucre into the work instead of
supporting missionaries to peddle sav
ing grace in pagan lands who inci
dentally extend the market for tobacco,
snide jewelry and forty-rod juice.
I knock on the "philanthropist" who
tosses a million or so to some conspi
cuous charity and next day corners a
human necessity. He don't fool God.
I knock on the subjects of puppet
kings and dukes who come to this
country and breed discontent and an
archy by kicking on the Government.
To live in America is to be a king.
I knock on the man who gossips.
The guy who tells his troubles to oth
ers instead of keeping them for home
consumption. If he was up to the
moral level of the mangy coyote or the
intellectual altitude of an 'acephalous
kouse I would give him more space,
but he's too small fry.
I knock on public osculation. A man
should have some sympathy for by
standers even if he don't know they
are by. Such offenses are against the
noble in man and the modest in wo
man. These osculatory demonstrations
of esteem should be reserved for the
holy of holies and not be permitted in
well-regulated parlors. We know a
young man whom we would like to
fake out behind the smokehouse and
cause him to pass to the untimely
bourne where all, faces stand ajar in
everlasting singing.
I knock on the modern song writer.
He balls up the English language and
his verses are without rhythm or sense.
I knock on the girl who is christened
Mary changing her name to May, then
to Mae and then finally to Mai. Such
an evolution is ridiculous. It is done
to attract attention and is nauseating
and freakish.
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Side by side they stood and promised, hand in hand, to walk through X
life,
And the parson said, "God bless you!M as he named them man and wife.
They had little wealth to aid them: little of the world they knew;
But he whispered: "Oh, my darling, I have riches I have you."
Then they vowed that, walking ever side by side and hand in hand,
They would gain the distant summits of their far-off, happy land.'
Side by side they walked together, lingering sometimes for a kiss,
Dreaming of those far-off summits, of the future's perfect bliss;
But the battle-stress was on them, and the foeman bade them yield,
And their onward steps were hidden by the smoke upon the field;
And his heart grew .faint within him as he murmured: "I must fall,
For the foeman presses ever, and his cohorts conquer all.'i
But the woman, loyal ever, only whispered: "You shall win!
You shall snatch the victor's laurel from the battlestrife and din."
Then again he struggled onward, though his wounds were gaping wide,
Listening ever for a whisper "I am battling by your side."
Struggling onward, struggling ever, though the mists were dark about;
Beaten downward by the foeman, lost in mists of gloom and doubts;
Still he heard that gentle whisper that his spirit must obey
Till he reached the golden summits past the borderland of gray.
Then the world, as wise as ever, said, "Behold a conquering, knight!"
For it never heard the whisper that had urged him to the height.
Call it fable, fable only; lo, the world is full of these,
Men who struggle onward, upward, till the splendid prize they seize;
Men who stumble, stumble often, dazed or stricken in the din,
But to rise and falter forward at the whisper, "You shall win!"
And we name them knights and heroes of the battle and the fray,
Knowing not that there behind each is the one who showed the way;
Just some little, loyal woman forcing back the tears that blur
You may honor your brave hero; I will sing a song to her.
Alfred J. Water house, in September "Success."
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(Chicago Tribune.)
Maurice Barrymore, actor, who is
dying slowly of paresis, is a man who
never slept so long as there were en
tertaining companions ready to talk
and listen, a man who was never at a
loss for an answer. If his witticisms
were collected they would fill a book
and lose half their charm. Probably he
never uttered many of the clever things
attributed to him, but there never was
an epigram too brilliant for Barrymore
to have made it. Some were bitter as
gall and a few had no more sting in
them than a butterfly. But all of tliem
showed that he possessed a remarkable
mind.
He was essentially a combatant and
a chivalrous man. He lovjsd a fight, in
tellectual or physical, for its own sake.
Once, when he was livid with rage over
a reflection cast upon a; woman he
knew, a 'friend asked hfed;why he re
strained himself.
"Every blow struck in defense of a
woman is a dent in her reputation,
was Barrymore's reply.
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He could be severe with women, too.
Once he was playing with a "star'
whose life was notorious. He quietly
reproached her during a'scene for lirt-
ing with a man in a box.
"Mr. Barrymore," she demanded,
furiously, "have you never known what
it is to be associated with ladies?
"Yes." said Barrvmore. easily. "I
was born and I am married."
"I said ladies, sir! ladies!"
Barrymore grew white with ' anger,
but the auick mind brought the bit
terest retort he ever made.
"O, dear me, "yes," he said. "I un
derstand. You mean, demimondes. Yes
I know them also."
He was once at a table with a young
woman who wanted to taste absinthe.
She wrinkled her brows for a few mo
ments and then said:
"It is like something I had when I
was a child. I mean it's just like pare
goric." "You are quite right," remarked Bar
rymor. "Absinthe is the paregoric of
second childhood."
Many were the passages he had with
his wife, Georgia Drew Barrymore,
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B arry more
! a convert to the Catholic church. One 1
morning, when he was coming home
from an all night session, he met her at
the door starting forth for early mass.
"Just getting it, Mr. S. Barrymore?"
he inquired, politely.
'No; I am going to church, while
you, sir, are going to the devil."
He once had a dispute with a boast
ful bully in the St. James cafe, who
declared:
"If I had you in Texas I'd blow your
head off."
"Then your courage is a matter of
longitude," observed Barrymore, sweet
ly.
He was once on his way to the Cats-
kills for a holiday when he fel lin with
three other men.
"I am an actor, broken down by over
work, seeking health and rest," he
said.
"I am a business man, going to the
mountains for the same reason," ex
plained one of his hew acquaintances.
"And I am an engineer, also broke
down by work," said the second. .
"And you, sir, are in the same boat
with us?" was asked the third.
"No, I am not. Iam going to the hills
for pleasure. I don't work. I am a gen
tleman." "And plainly on a vacation," added
Barrymore.
At one time "Barry" became inter
ested in Christian Science. A physi
cian said to him:
"I suppose, 'Barry,' you would throw
physic to the dogs?"
"Not good dogs," he returned grave
ly. There wras a painting called. "Sum
mer" in the Players' club that had been
severely criticised. One evening Barry
more was listening to a discussion on
the prodigality of actors and the near
ness of the idle season.
"WThy don't you save your money
like me? But cheer up, boys; summer
is not half as bad as it is painted." '
Wrhen Steele Mackaye told Barry
more that he would never become a
great actor until he experienced a great
sorrow or, a thrilling experience, the
retort came in a flash:
"Write a play for. me, Steele, and I
In spite of the fact that the women
departments of various newspapers
teem with advice to brides on how to
get cheaply married and estimates of
the cost of trous-seaux, the everlast
ing truth remains, says the Nashville
American, that the real financial bur
den of. a wedding is 'vested in the
bridegroom.
He is not an interesting figure at
the wedding, all will admit. Just so be
is there nobody thinks further about
him. But he is the real promoter after
all, because he pays the price. Woman
may dispose about the details of her
wedding, but it is man who proposes
in the first place, and his occupation
will never be gone as long as he is
needed to pay the bills.
With men. of average financial
standing nerve is the essential re
quirement in, getting married. All the
estimated cost of a bride's expenses
that were ever, written could not ap
proach in interest to counting the cost
for the bridegioom if one only knows
how to go about it.
Nowadays social customs, even
among the unambitious, demand that
the daughter of 'the house shall have
certain fuss and feathers attached to
her wedding ceremony. It is a popu
lar fallacy that the brunt of the ex
penses incuired in giving the bride a
proper shove out, into the matrimonial
sea falls upon her parents. For the
benefit of the single only it is neces
sary to correct this impression. Any
married man knows who pays the
bills.
In marrying credit is bad form.
There are a sood many things one
may do without cash.
The expectant bridegroom should Te
member this: Don't go in, for even a
moderately planned wedding unless
you are prepared to deliver up $800
or $900 on short notice. If you go in
debt for the indispensable accessories
of the ceremony the chances are ten
to one it will take you the rest of your
life to play even, and you may die
after years of more or less happy mar
ried life with some of your wedding
bills unpaid.
The average man who marries a
sensibly minded little woman will not
have an elaborately planned wedding
with 16 groomsmen and ushers and
half as many bridesmaids with bou
ouets and souvenirs to correspond.
The man of moderate salary who does
consent to it is a crass idiot, for whom
there can't be much sympathy.
But even with a very modest, and,
as nrevailing customs go, a sensible
wedding, the expenditures that pile up
for the purseholder, the groom, are
decidedly jarring.
Sav the wedding takes place at a
church, but with ushers, groomsmen,
hest man and bridesmaids an cut oui.
Here is the way the bill will pile up:
Engagement ring (average) ..$100.00
WoiiiTi? rins (average).. .. 8.00
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am. of the groom (average)., iuu.uu
Wedding fee (average) 10.00
fix cpVtnn for onenmg cnurcn d.uv
Bride's bouquet
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In addition to the clothes for tho
wedding occasion the bridegroom must
consider the expense of certain neces
sary additions to bis wardrobe. Even-
if he limits himself to the bare neces
sities, which he will not, the bill
grows this way:
Two new suits of clothes at $45
each $90.00
One dress suit for the wedding. 60.00
One dozen shirts at $3 each .. . 36.00
Four suits of underwear at $5
each 20.00
Half-dozen pairs of socks.. .. -3.00
Ties and new pair of sieve links 10.00
Two hats 10.00
One pair new shoes.. .. .. .. 6.00
Overcoat (tailor made) . . . . . . 50.00
One dozen handkerchiefs at 50
cents each 6.00
Two white vests 6.00
One dozen collars at 25 cents. .3.00
One dozen pairs of cuffs at 40 "
cents a pair.. 4.80
Smoking jacket.. 5.00
whose wit was as keen as his. She was shall get both.
PURITY OF WATER- SUPPLY.
FRESH-LOOKING FROCKS.
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A peculiar trait of humanity is what
15 failed absent-mindedness. A person
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uorn absent-minded, whether
? is clever or stunid. remains so to the
-n- 0: hig iife Which is strewn with
f anoyances resulting from this very,
ini-ouvenient quality. "By Jove, I'have
jorgutten my watch!" exclaimed a man
0 ins companions as a party of young
f'!he 'v about to take the train
utT Beach. "I must have left it
undo' IKY nil low 0 V, T, 4-1 T inc.-
1 1".w,t a L LUC 11ULC1. A Will JUOl
to go back and get it," he
1 pulling out his watch from
ft- "Yes, I can do it!" he ex
making a rapid calculation.
t off at a run for the nearby
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ll ' ; not l)erfectly natural, but a
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;'i;z"rl that the absent-minded
fonthhip,
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V-n . Ul rlmefl himself with the very
at,':i that he went for.
ryV ? ?U f'uld fil1 a book with Har"
V,"; ul,;'f ---minded performances." said
ahn', . "Ho is always doing the most
tan',.. l!Iis- He forgot me in a res
in Boston not long ago. and
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tHJi nprprl thot T woe iTi me
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'n- New York. We were both
I from the annex and he from the col
lege and he had the money and the
tickets. We went together to the
for luncheon, after which he left me to
get a cigar. I waited and waited, and
no Harry, until finally I imagined what
had really happened i. e., that after
purchasing his cigar he had entirely
forgotten that I was with him ana naa
gone to the railroad station. Leaving
word with the'waiter, in case he should
return to fetch me, I rushed to the
station and found that our train had
gone, then back again to the restau
rant, where, as I had expected, no
Harry had turned up. As I had only 50
cents in my purse, I spent part of it m
telegraphing an explanatory message to
mamma, and with the rest returned to
Cambridge, where I found a telegram
from Harry which he managed to get
sent from the train. 'Did you worry?' I
asked him afterward. 'Oh, not a bit! he
answered cheerfully. 'I knew you would
be all right, but I was .glad the mater
received your telegram before I arrived
home.' V
The absent-mindedness of a certain
,iivr,nWn nrofessor led to an amus
ing scene the other day. He was walk
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investigations To Be Made By The
Geological Survey.
Washington, Aug. 22. The Division
01 Hydrography of the United State
Geological Survey, under the super
vision of M. O. Leighton, has institut
ed a branch of research which, is ex
pected to be of value to municipali
ties and industries dependent on the
purity of their water supply, and also
to have a beneficial influence on the
health of the general public.
i The investigation aims to discover
the condition of all the important
supply streams of the United States
by chemical and bacteriological ex
aminations of their waters, and also
by measurements of their turbidity
and color. The Division of Hydro
graphy has been for a number of
ears collecting information regard
ing the volume of flow of the country's
streams as a basis for municipal sup
plv, water power, irrigation and, other
uses, but tests for quality and condi
tion have not been made before ex
cept by a few cities which hold as
advanced position in matters of public
hygiene.
Salt With Their Cheese.
Orientals, who understand the nice
ties of eating from a hygienic stand
point much better than we of the Oc
cident; always take salt with their
cheese. After one becomes addicted
to the salt and apple habit, they feel
that app?es should never be eaten in
anv other way. Emma Paddock Tel-
iford in Good Housekeeping.
How The Energetic Girl Keeps Or
gandies Crisp And Pretty.
The greatest trouble that the. visit
ing girl has in summer is to keep her
thin gowns in good condition when she
is at home, and when these rrocKS De-
comes stringy she can eitser aave the
maid nress them. or. boldly invading
the kitchen, "do" them herself.
In a hotel it is impossible to do this
work oneself, and if one sends an or
rflnrHk in anv wav elaborate to the
laundrv to have the wrinkles smoothed
out of it she pays from $1 to $2 for the
privilege. It would take the purse of
Fnrtunas to keeD this up for three
months anyone can see at a glance
Thnt' thfi reason so many fluffy as
thev should be by nature.
The girl of limited means who al
locks fresh and crisp as to frocks
owes these qualities generally to the
alcohol lamp, iron and little ironing
boards that she keeps in her room
hfse implements and a half
hour each afternoon, the most wilted
gown can be restored to almost pristine
beauty. More. than this, veils, sasnes
and neck ribbons may b improved by
the same means.
' Under the hands of the amateur the
-oiaue skirt emerges white and suit.
One young woman e en presses her
hats, and declares they look the better
for the process. To look as if she wore
a new costume every time she appears
outside her room is a girl s idea of hap
piness, and when it can be so easily ac
rnmnlished. why should not every
feminine at the seashore be beniflcally
happy.
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Total.. .. 241-00
Total $309.80
Few men settle down to married
life without some sort of a wedding
journey, and a trip to New York is the
favorite, though it must be said this
eats into the bridegroom's hoardefe
store worse than the elephant of
"Wang" memory (fid into the hay.
It is safe to count the cost of the
bridal trip, as it is nearly adways as
much a part of the wedding as the
ceremony itself.
Two tickets to New York at $25
each (round trip) $100.00
Sleeping car section (each way,
$12).. 24.00
Hotel bill, $10 a day, for seven
days ,. .. ... .. .. 70.00
Amusements and incidents dur
ing the week 50.00
Meals on car trip, 36 hours out,
$5 aniece (round trip) .... . . 20.00
Tips 5.00
Steamer trunk 8.00
Total $277.00
Or, if a cheaper trip is selected, with
Asheville 'as the objective point, the
expenses would run something like
this:
Tickets for two (round trip) . . 54.40
Sleeping car section (round
trip) -10.00
Hotel bill for a week at $8 a day
for two. 56.00
Incidentals and amusements for
the week 35.00
Tips 5.00
Total ....$164.40
Counting on the basis of the New
York trip the total costs foots7 up a
sweeping $827.80. Or, if the Asheville
trip is selected it will be $715.20.
Even if the honeymoon trip be more
economically planned the expenses
will amount to considerable. Most any
sort of a trip costs from $100 to $150,
including hotel bills.
These figures, it must be remem
bered, represent only the simplest
kind of a ceremony wedding.
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For three months, says the Boston
Post, the world's slickest swindlers, a
fictitious priest, a prisoner and a pret
ty maiden have been trying to bunco a
Boston man, James waisu, vl xo
West Sixth street, South Boston, by of
fering him a fortune of nearly $o00,000
and the custody of a beautiful young
Spanish girl. Mr. Walsh naa oniy w
send something like $3,000 to secure
the great prize.
Walsh had heard ot tne scneme ue
fore, or thought he had, although for a
while he believed tnat goou wnuuc
had smiled on him as it seldom does on
anyone, tie conunueu w ny
with the men in Madrid wno were iu
place at his disposal great wealth. The
vmintr triri whose father was supposed
to have died in prison as the result of
persecution of his connection wun tne
great Panama scandal, which disrupted
France, was pictured as all that is
beautiful and good and with her Walsh
was to receive a great fortune.
About May 1, Walsh was informed
in a closely written letter mailed from
Madrid that he had a relative, uuu
Louis Rodreguez, then in prison at
Gibraltar, charged with stealing State
documents in France.
Rodreguez said that he had been
badly wounded while resisting arrest,
and, expecting to die, hoped that Mr.
Walsh would accept his great fortune
and the care of a beautiful young
daughter, then budding into a glorious
womanhood. Reference was made to a
trunk with a secret drawer, containing
securities and valuable papers.
Walsh was thrilled at the prospect,
but his wife rather disliked the notion
of the beautiful ward, while she longed
to close in on the fortune.
It was stated in the letter that a
friendly priest would take charge of all
communications passing between
Walsh and the dying Spaniard and see
that they reached the proper person.
, Mt. WalsH answered the letter, ex
pressing his deepest sympathy for the
misfortune of his until then unknown
but distinguished relative. He hoped,
he said, to hear more from him.
He did.
In a remarkably short time a reply
came from Madrid. The letter was
written on a sheet of note paper of ex
traordinary dimensions and in a hand
writing so fine that a magnifying
glass was necessary to make its pur
port clear. The English, too, was bad
ly mixed, except when instructions
were laid down and then nothing could
have been more explicit or diction
In each case the communications
were signed Louis Rodreguez Walsh,
although the unfortunate Spaniard had
stated that his mother's name had
Walsh, not his father's. It was evident
to Mr. Walsh that the injured man
thus expected to make his relationship
more clear.
Then came a letter from the Rev.
Pascual Martinez, bearing the sad
news of the demise of Mr. Walsh's re
lative. The missive was couched in the
most gentle phraseology, although
somewhat mixed. Mr. Martinez stated
that the rich American, Mr. Walsh,
had been appointed the guardian of the
beautiful Mary Rodreguez Bonnett and
that just as soon as the money neces
sary for the payment of the legal fees
had been sent she would depart with
the good priest and the trunks contain
ing the key to the great treasure for
America.
Mr. Walsh had dreamed of the mys
terious trunk with the secret drawer
which would make him worth a quar
ter of a million dollars, but he did not
send the money necessary to release
the poor girl and bring him the for
tune. He knew that the great Spanish
swindling syndicate was at work and
he led them on.
"I do not quite understand what you
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