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COPYXASHT 19JJ Johnston fflash Harding Kent calls on Louise Farrlsh to propose marriage and And* the house In great excitement over the attempted sui cide of her slater Katharine. Kent starts an Investigation and flnda that Hugh Crandall, suitor for Katharine, who had been forbidden the house by General Far rlah, had talked with Katharine over the telephone Juat before aha ahot herself. A torn piece of yellow paper la found, at alght of which General Farrlsh la stricken with paralysis. Kent discovers that Crandall has left town hurriedly. Andrew Elser, an aged banker, commits suicide about the nme time aa Katharine attempted her life. A yellow envelope is found In Elser's room. Post Office In spector Davis. Kent's friend, takea up the case. Kent Is convinced that Cran dall Is at the bottom of the mystery. Katharfne'a strange outcry pusslea the detectives. Kent and Davis search Cran l all's room and And an address, Lock Box 17, Ardway, N. J. Kent goes to Ard way to Investigate and becomes suspi cious of a "Henry Cook." A woman commits suicide at the Ardway Hotel. A yellow letter also figures in this case. Kent calls Louise on the long distance telephone and Ands thst she had Just been called by Crandall'from ths same booth. "Cook" disappears. The Ardway post master Is missing. Inspector Davis ar rives at Ardway and takes up Inves tigation. He discovers that tne dead woman Is Sarah Backet of Bridgeport. T/oulss telephones Kent imploring him to drop the lnveattgatlon. Kent returns to New York to get an explanation from IxMitse He finds the body of a woman In Centrsl Park and mors yellow letters. He seies Crandall. whom ha recognises aa "Cook," enter the Farrlsh home. Ixjulse again lmplorea Kent to drop ths Investl- Sitlon and refuaea to give any explana on. Later Kent sees Crandall and tx>ulse In an automobile. Kent returns to Ard way. Davis announces thst hs has planned to afreet the missing postmaster and also the master criminal, while seek ing Ihe criminals. Kent comes across Louise and Crandall. Pursued by Davis the postmsster jumps off a precipice and Is killed. Aleck Young, ths msster crim inal. Is found In a hut In a morphine stupor. Louise tells Kent that shs - and Crandall had come to get papers from Young which gave him a strangs hold over General Farrlsh. It Is shown that Crandall'a only Intereet In the case was to help Katharine recover her father a sapers. CHAPTER XlV.—(Continued.) "But are you sure Young wrote all the yellow letteraT** "Certainly," aald the inapector, get ting up from the bench and entering the cottage. When he returned a few mlnutea la'ter he bad In hla hand a bundle of yellow paper and envelopea. Aa I ex amined them I, saw that they were of exactly the color and texture of all the fragments of yellow letter# that I had seen. "Where did you And them?" I asked. "In a cupboard over there by the fireplace I don't know whether yon notloed It or not, but over there, too, la the type-writer on which Young wrote the letters that he gave Rouser to mall for him." * "What makes you think Rouser mailed them?" "There are six different things that prove Rouser's connection with Young's fiendish plots. The stamps were put on by a left-handed man, and Rouser was left-handed. The answers were received In the Ardway i>ost offlce, where Rouser was post master. Lock Box 17, to which they were ad dressed, was not entered In the list of box-holders. You yourself found a large sum of money In the post-office cash-drawer that had no business be ing there. Rouser himself mysterious ly disappeared when he found that some one was on the trail of the yel low letters. And lastly, Rouser and Young for weeks have been together most of the time." "How did you learn that?" « "Young, It seems," the Inspector continued. "Is well known In Ardway, his boyhood having been spent In the town. His father was a well-to-do lawyer who became addicted to drugs. His mother died in the state asylum for the Insane. The constable, Dodds, has known him for many years. He went to Harvard and there was a classmate for a while of Crandall. He has been going from bad to worse, each time he returned to Ardway on his periodic visits seeming to be more and more addicted to morphine. His Inheritance was spent long ago and it haa been a mystery to every one where be got considerable sums that he has had at times. With all his faults, he has much magnetism and a plausible tongue and makes friends readily. So far as I can discover, after he had concocted his plot against General Farrish he had some difficulty In obtaining satisfaction and tried to enlist the aid of Crandall. Crandall went at onoe to General Farrish and waa ordered out of the house. Cran dall, despite his treatment by the gen , eral. was determined to solve the mys tery, and for months kept track of Young, trying to worm out the secret and render him powerless. At times he gave Young ftmall sums and for a while, as I have Mid, had him in his rooms. One day Young disappeared, taking with him so toe Jewelry of Cran dall's and It was only a few dayf ago • that Crandall succeeded In finding him here in Ardway. Young, having failed to blackmail Oenelal Farrlsh, tried to open up negotiations for the .P sale of his documents through Cran dall. Crandall, of course, could not ~V; * communicate with General Farrlsh, so * he colled Katharine on the telephone and made an appointment with her. ' Evidently ha explained the whol« af fair to her, and when the negotiations SYNOPSIS. failed it *u more than ihe could bear." "That all aeema logical," I said, "but I fall to M 6 yet what connection there Is between General Farrlsh and old Andrew Elser. Nor do I see the con nection between the sutclde of the old woman In the hotel at Ardway and the suicide of the young woman in the park lake, yet In each of these cases there were yellow letters." "I do not see it myself, yet," said Davis frankly, "and yet I know it ex ists. I know that the hellish idea that drove them all to death was planned by that distorted brain inside the cot tage there." He was silent for several mlnutea as he gated at the rising sun, seeming ly absorbed In the glorious spectacle. "IH find out!" he said explosively. "I'll make him tell." "What are you going to do?" I asked. "How will you make him?" For answer he took from the pocket of his coat two sets of thin ateel cuffs, one for the arms and the other for the ankle*, and stepped within the cot tage. I followed wonderlngly and watched him as he turned Young over on hla face and, bringing his hands together behind him, snapped on the cuffs. He shackled his feet, too, and then picking up a stout rope, passed it between the two sets of shackles and around a beam in the side of the cottage wall, leaving enough alack to permit the ahackled man a amall amount of liberty. During the whole operation Young hung limp and ap parently llfeleaa, still in the drug stu por, but aa Davla finished his work he began to talk incoherently. "The shaking up I gave him In fast ening him up," aald Davla, "will bring him to. He will wake up In a few minutes and then I'll find out every thing I want to know. I'll make hfm tell." "Whfit are you going to do," I gaaped, "torture him?" "No," aald the inapector grimly aa he dragged a atool over near tbe couch and placed on it a hypodermic ayringe he had found In the cabin, and with It a morphine preparation. He gaged tbe dlatance with hla eye, and moved tbe atool ao that while It would be in plain alght of the ahackled man when he awoke, it would be utterly lmpoaaible for him to reach it "No," he aald, "I'm not going to torture him. Hla drug-racked nervea will do It for me." CHAPTER XV. The Torture. Hell ia a place of unsatlafled desires, and In its lowest depths are those, who, writhing in the agouy of their decaying nerves, shriek for their be loved morphine and shriek In vain. Many times in my life I have seen the souls of men, and women, too, put to hard and bitter tests. Once I saw a motorman whose car had crushed a lovely child. Around him pressed a howling, angry mob, led liy the baby's father, who would have had bis life. With bold daring, he stood on hla platform as on a throne, with his controller bar for his only weapon, and defied them all. Yet, even as he stood there outwardly so bold, I saw In &ls eyes a misery as great as man could bear and live. For days and months I doubt not that his nightly dreams brought him con stant borror-picturea of the child he had killed. Once, too, I had to be the bearer of the news when a workman's mis step on a frame of steel sent him plunging down eighteen stories to death. In the foul tenement where I told my news I saw a tired, gaunt woman walk the floor and scream and moan, three frightened little children clinging to her skirts. Often, too, in my practice In the courts, I have seen men in dreadful misery—a ruffian bold and defiant de spite the blood-guilt on his soul, face all the world courageously until the Jury's foreman said the word that brought the death-chair's horror to his heart and crumpled him weeping to the floor. Yet all the concepts that my brain had formed of the utmost in pain and shame and misery faded Into Insig nificance before the things I saw In that rude cottage in the Jersey hills where for two long days Davis and myself kept watch on the fettered master crlminal- £ -waltlng, waiting, waiting till hla drug-tortured nerves should make him tell us the secret of his yellow letters. Shackled hand and foot though he had found himself when he came out of his stupor, his self-control waa at first wonderful. For a few minutes after Davis had fastened his bonds he lay there tossing and twitching, then suddenly opened his eyes—piercing. devilish, uncanny black eyes they were —and tried to sit up. The rope through the manacles be hind him stopped him short and threw him back on his couch. At the same time be caught sight of Davis sitting near the toot of him oouch in silence they ayei each other, neither of them saying a word. Stealthily Young uhtfted, first hit hands and then his feet as If to asoertain the extent ot his bonds. Finding himself secure ly fastened, he let his eyes rove around the room, And discovered me. He studied my face sharply, as If to read my mission, but quickly turned his gaze to Davis again, as if recog nising in him his master captor. Then he laughed—a hideous, chil ling, defiant laugh, that ended in an unhealthy gurgle In his throat. "Well?" be asked Inquiringly. I looked for Davis to seize on this propitious moment, when Young, Just aroused from drug-slumber, would be weak and nervous, to ply him with questions about the things we wished to know, but the inspector was too much a master of his craft for that. As If he had not heard his prisoner's question, he sat there staring fixedly at the man before him. One minute passed, two minutes— three, and still Davis sat silent and unanswerlng. The cumulative force of prolonged silence began to grow on my nerves. This waiting, waiting, was torture. If only one of them would speak. To Young it must have been far worse. Still they kept at It, Davis staring straight into Young's eyes and Young trying to stare back. For a few minutes he succeeded, and then his eyes shifted and fell. With a master effort of his will he brought them back to Davis and held them steady. There the two of them sat as in a duel, the prisoner's baleful eyes shoot ing forth venom, hate, murder, while in the other's steady glance was pic tured relentless justice. Of course, there could be but one end to it. Powerful as was the will in the drug-racked body, the twitch ing of the muscles, the involuntary drawing up of the limbs and arms as far as the bonds would permit, and most of all the clasping and unclasp ing of the lingers told what torture the silence was bringing to Young. He burst forth at last In a wild flow of profanity, cursing Davis, curs ing me, cursing everything, cursing God, and still Davis sat there as rigid and as silent as the superior of a Trappist monastery doing penance. At times the prisoner's voice was raised to a hideous shriek, at times It sank to a pitiful sob, and all the while he tugged and strained at his bonds, twisting, turning, reaching, trying always to find some position in which he could gain possession of the morpfline that lay on the chair Just beyond his reach. At laat —It must have been an hour later—physical exhaustion conquered him and he lay back, after one last frantic struggle, weak end panting, unresisting. The Inspector arose, and, walking over to the couch, stood there look ing down at him. "Aleck Young," he said evenly, "your whole game la up. I know all He Studied My Face BHarply aa If to Read My Mission. about General Farrlsh and Andrew Elser and the woman from Bridge port. I know about Dora Hastings, who committed suicide in the park lake yesterday, and about Henry Eberle, who sent you the five thous and. I know everything that your unfortunate aide, Rouser, knew, and now I want you to surrender all the letters and papers In your posses sion." "You will never get them," sneered Toung, as I sat there marveling at the inspector's revelations. It was news to me that he knew the name of the Central Park suicide, and while I myself had found the five thousand dollars, I had had not the slightest intimation that Davis knew from whom it had come. "Either I get those letters," said Davis evenly, "or you get no more morphine." Yauna laughed la his face. "Ton haven't ffee slightest sstdenoe Against me for anything. VKteut tot ters or documents you can prove noth ing. You have no right to keep me bound up here. I shall get free and shall make you pay for this. I don't care what Rouser has told you, you'll get nothing out of me and you have proor of nothing." "VerAwell," said the inspector, "no morphine." Turning away from the couch, ho spoke to me in a tons as indifferent as if we had been camping together: "Come on, Kent, let's see what we can dig up for breakfast." We found the cottage well supplied with provisions, as If it had been tha Intention of the conspirators to make It their headquarters for some time. In a very,few minutes Davis had some -bacon fried and toast and coffee made, which he spread in the Uttto lean-to that was used as a kitchen. "So you mean to starve him, too " I asked in an undertone, pointing te the couch. "It won't be necessary," said Davis. "Take something In to him if you like. You'll find that the only appetite he'll have will be for morphine." Nevertheless, I took a cup of coffee and some toast in to the prisoner. A volley of oaths was my only reward, so I returned and sat with Davta while he ate. I myself bad no appe tite, but the events of the night did not seem In the leaßt to have affected his. I drank only part of a cup of coffee, though he urged me to eat something. "It Is apt to be a long siege," he said, "and you must keep your strength. Our prisoner la a man of considerable will power and is not going to confess readily. If you will keep guard on him for a couple of hours I am going to sleep." "Of course, I will." "Under no circumstances," said Davis, as he flung hlmuelf down on the floor of the lean-to. "loosen any ef his bonds, and pay no attention to his pleas for mercy. He has a win ning way about him that is danger ous." "You need not fear," I replied. "Re member the agony he has caused to the woman I love." "And to many others," said Davis. "Speaking of that," said I, "1 wish you would tell me before you go asleep how you teamed where the flvo thousand cam* from." "Rouser told me." "I was not aware that you had any opportunity to talk with him." "I didn't," said the Inspector. "I just used my eyes In the postofflce." I thought 1 had used mine pretty well in the post office, but; certainly I bad seen nothlpg that would lead me to identify the person who had sent the Ave thousand dollars I had found in cash drawer. "Don't talk In riddles!" I exclaimed rather petulantly. "What did you fin* in the post office?" Davis grinned. I nodded assent. "Did it not strike you as pecullai that there should be over two thou* and names and addresses In the for warding list of a small pist office like Ardway, where probabl]' not morn than ten families move away in ten y—ra?" ' "I did not examine it elosely," I re plied. "but even if I had I am afraid I would have failed to identify it at important." (TO BJS CONTINUED.) Grapefruit With Pipe. . Have some fine figs and cut thea into small pieces; put tbmn la a glass jar and cover with brandy. Let thea stand in this for 24 hours. Cut th« grapefruit in halves, scoop out the lit tie cavity In the middle of each half, aa usual, All this with flgs and let the grapefruit stand oa lee or foui hours before servtag. FIRST MESSAGE 111 WILSON WASTES FEW WORDB IN TELLING CONGRESS WHAT IT BHOULD DO. TARIFF REVISION HIS TOPIC ________ r President Baya the Schedules Must Be Radicslly Changed to Squsre With Present Conditions, but Work Re quires Careful Consideration. Washington, April 8. —President Wilson's first message to the Sixty third congress, assembled In extraor dinary session, was read In the senate and house today. It was surprising ly short, being in full as follows: To the Senate and House of Repre sentatives: I have cslled the congress together in extraordinary session because a duty was laid upon the party now In power at the recent elections which it ought to perform promptly, In order that the burden carried by the people under existing law may be lightened as soon as possible and in order, also, that the business interests of the country may not be kept too long in suspense as to what the fiscal changes are to be to which they will be re quired to adjust themselves. It Is clear to the whole country that the tariff duties must be altered. They must be changed to meet the radical altera tion In the conditions of our ecnomic life which the country has witnessed within the last generation. While the whole face and method of our industrial and commercial life were being changed beyond recogni tion the tariff schedules have re mained what they wer^ before the change began, or have moved In the direction they were given when no large circumstance of our industrial development was what it is today. Our task Is to square them with the actual facts. The sooner that is don# the sooner we shall escape from suf fering from the facts and the sooner our men of business will be free to thrive by the law of nature (the na ture of free business) Instead of by tho law of legislation and artificial ar rangement. Business Not Normal. We have seen tariff legislation wander very far afield in our day— very far Indeed from the field in which our prosperity might have had a nor mal growth and stimulation. No one who looks the facts squarely in the face or knows anything that lleß be neath the surface of action can fall to perceive the prihciplea upon which recent tariff legislation has been based. We long ago passed beyond the modest notion of "protecting" the Industries of the country and moved boldly forward to the Idea that they were entitled to the direct patronage of the government. For a long time— a time BO long that the men now active In public policy hardly remember the conditions that preceded It —we have sought In our tariff schedules to give each group of manufacturers or pro ducers what they themselves thought that they needed In order to maintain a practically exclusive market as against the rest of the world. Consciously or unconsciously, we have built up a Bet of privileges and exemptlonß from competition be hind which It was by any. even the crudest, forms of combination to organize monopoly; until at last noth ing Is normal, nothing is obliged to stand the tests of efficiency and econ omy, In our world of big business, but everything thrives by concerted ar l rangement. Only new principles of I action will save us from a final hard crystallization of monopoly and a complete loss of the Influences that quicken enterprise and keep Inde pendent energy alive. It Is plain what those principles must be. We must abolish everything that bears even the semblance of priv ilege or of any kind of artificial ad vantage, and put our buslneaa men and producers under the stimulation of a constant necessity to be efficient, economical,, and enterprising, masters of competitive supremacy, better workers and merchants than any in | the world. Aalde from the dutlea laid | upon articles which we do not, and probably cannot, produce, therefore, I and the duties laid upon luxuries and merely for the sake of the revenues they yield, the object of the tariff du ! ties henceforth laid must be effective I competition, the whetting of Ameri can wits by contest with the wits of I the rest of the world. Development, Not Revolution. lOwould be unwise to move toward tWs end headlong, with reckless baste, or wMk strokes that cut at the twa has grown up amSngst us by long process and at our own invitation. It does not alter a thing to upset It and break it and deprive it of a chance to change. It destroys it. We must make changes in our fiscal laws, In our fiscal system, whose object is development, a more free and wholesome development, not revolution or «pset or confusion. Wo Woman In Nsw Sphere, Oporto is the only city in Portugal that can boast of having a feminine health Inspector, a woman having been appoiuted by the government to a sublnspectorship In the department of public health. Another striking ap pointment by the government comos with the selection of a well-known woman scholar to a professorship In ordinary at the Universities of Colm bra and Lisbon. The lady professor in question has been appointed to fill tha chair In Germanic philosophy. mast build up trade, especially !»«»■ olgn trade. We need the outlet aad the enlarged field of energy more than we ever did before. We must build up Industry as well and moat adopt freedom In the place of arti ficial stimulation only so far as It will build, not pull down. In dealing with the tariff the method by which thin may be done will be a matter of Judg ment, exercised Item by item. To some not accustomed to the ex citements and responsibilities of greater freedom our methods may In some respects and at some point* seem heroic/' but remedies may be heroic and yet be remedies. It is our business to make sure that they are genuine remedies. Our object is clear. If our motive is above Just challenge and only an occasional error of Judg ment Is chargeable agalnat ua, we shall be fortunate. We are called upon to render the country a great aervlce in more mat ters than one. Our responsibility should be met and our methods should be thorough, as thorough as moderate and well considered, based upon the facts as they are, and not worked out as If we were beginners. We are to deal with the facts of our own day, with the facts of no other, and to make laws which square with those facts. It Is best, indeed It Is neces sary, to begin with the tariff. I will urge nothing upon you now at the opening of your session which can ob scure that first object or divert our energies from that clearly defined duty. At a later time I may take the liberty of calling your attention to re forms which should press close upon the heels of the tariff changes, If not accompany them, of which the chief is the reform of our banking and cur rency laws; but Just now I refrain. For the present, I put these mattere on one side and think only of this one thing—of the changes in our fiscal system which may best serve to open once more the free channels of proe perlty to a great people whom we would serve to the utmost an 4 throughout both rank and file. WOODROW WILSON. The White Houße, April 8. 1913. FAMILY NAMES OF ROYALTY Royal Personages Descended Mostly From Counts, Existing Long Be fore Surnamea Came Into Uae. The royal families of Europe hare not generally a surname because mostly (unlike the English houses ol Stuart and Tudor, which were the re apectlve surnamea of the first king ot each house before he ascended th« throne) they are descended In the male line from some territorial counts existing long previous to the period In which the somewhat mod ern custom of surnames prevailed. King Oeoroge V derives in the mala line from the ancients counts of Wet tin (flourishing In the tenth century), afterwards electors of Saxony, dukei of Saxe Coburg, Gotha, etc. His an cestors In the male line were of th« house of EBte, one of whom. Azo ol Eate, married early in the tenth cen tury the daughter and heiress ol Guelph, duke of Bavaria, from which match sprang In the male line th« dukes of Brunswick-Lunenburg, after wards electors of Hanover, and klnga of Great Britain. The members of the royal family are described by their princely titles In proceedings In the house of lords, and no allusion Is made to any surname—for in stance, they sign the test roll merely by their personal or Christian name, and we know nothing of any surname which appertained by right or by usage, to her late majesty, Queen Vic toria, or to his majesty King George V. Bermuda Fish. At the market during a recent weel many handsome flsh were to be seen, several of them taken by American tourists, and afterward presented to the fisherman who "took thom out." Large amber-Jacks and bonitoes, splen did game flsh and chubs, as plucky and "flghty" a flsh as ever took bait, were well represented, Among the others seen on the mar ket hooks and elsewhere were blue flsh, yellowtalls, red snappers, gray snappers, butterflsh, gaga, hamlets, "hlnes," salmon and black rockflsh, porgies and red rockflsh. "Nigger flsh," the long ago despised finny midget, has been metamorphosed to the now much sought after "choicest of the choice" of sea delicacies, the "butter flsh." —Bermuda Colonists. "Soft" Job for Constable. Pension are not the only things com manded and forgotten. An Inquisitive member of the British house of com mons was struck one day, by the pres ence of a policeman in one of the lob bies. He wondered why this particu lar lobby should always have a guar dian strolling up and down, and made Inquiries. 'The records of the house were searched and It was found that 50 years previously, when the lobby was being decorated, a policeman had been stationed there to keep members from soiling their clothes. The order never having been countermanded, the constable had kept his beat for half a century. Keeping Mind In Condition. No mind is first class that is not continually reading books and con versing with meW that require an ef fort to be understood. The novel soaked Intellect, gormandizing upon easy reading, grows flabby. Of the "Bacchae" eff Euripides. A thtog never to be done again, scarcely to be understood, recognized as the last wltneaa to a beauty of which the secret was lost and the un dent mold broken^ —Qllbart Murray.
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