THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, NOVEMBER 27, 1910
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One of the Greatest Events in the History of Transportation.
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THE KINGDOM
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By HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES
INDIANAPOLIS
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CHAPTER IX.
The Web of the Spider.
fcreonin walked on. lighting des
wrh his ghastly spasm of
"rrtm-rrr .
;- was a nervous artrction which
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-,in: a limo when, in South America,
j?
i an i . isis oi aesperaie. per-.
pjai :-.ar.irii. he had laughed the
;,ea! oi that strange laughter
r .vhifi! iic was to be ever after
s'm:ri. Si;;ee then it had seized him
shs.v tinif-?, unexpectedly and in mo
2nt of strong excitement, to shake
hiai iike a lath. It had given him
ja.rbid hatred of laughter in others.
Kfcenily he had thought that he was
trercoiKiJig the weakness for in two
ear? prist be had had no such seiz-sr-aiid
ihe recurrence tonight
shocked and disconcerted him. He.
;!? man f brain and attainment, to
if jeiii captive by a ridiculous hys
teria, a nerve-racked anaemic
T'pc cold sweat stood on his
B'-'fro ions, 'he paroxysms ceased
c-i he crew calmer. The quiet road j
hi me-rgod into a busier thorough
fare. He walked slowly till his com
iand '-as regained. West of the out
er stoat .i the imperial grounds, he
'.'ced i:r a pleasant lane-like street i
sr'l prrscTi'ly entered his own gate.
Tiie l:' into which he let himselt
"i'ii ? iatrh-key, was a rambling,
indent. tv,T,--tory structure of vel-
stucco. The lower floor was prac
': ai!y unused, since its tenant lived
'"' ard did not. entertain. The
T'l0 Slow, besides the hall, con
taintl siviall bedroom, a bath and
fT&$:nz mom and a large, barely-i,rnih'-'(i
laboratory. The latter was
"red on two sides with' glass- cov
ered shelves which gave glimpses of
rms o! looks, of steel shells, metal
ar. crystal r-'tons and crucibles, the
c'icHH: paraphernalia of organic
c'ieirJstry and complicated instru
ment v. hose use no one knew save
himself a fit setting for the great
ftudent, the peer of Offenbach in
Munich and of Baver " in Vienna.
Against the wall leaned a drafting!
tfard. on which, pinned down by
wumD tacks, was a sketch-plan of
? revolving turret. From a bracket
w a corner the single airy touch
v delicacy in a chamber almost sor
m its appointments swung a
'an boo case with a brown hiwa, or
Japanese finch, a downy puff of
ieahers with its head under its
Ir' the upper hall Bersonin's Jap-si-ese
head-boy had been sitting at. a
small desk writing. Bersonin entered
laboratory, opened a safe let into
a wall, and put into it something
niPh he took from his pocket. Then
donued a dressing gown the boy
"ought, and threw himself into a
ffflge leather chair.
"Make me some coffee, Ishida," he
said.
The servant did no silently and
"1, using a small brass samovar
nich occupied a table of its own.
uith the coffee he brought his mast
er a box of brown Havana cigars.
Lersomn should have in his posses
sion a technical naval chart and
what was the meaning of certain cu
rious markings he had made on it.
CHAPTER X.
other, and the Glider is by way of
coctiibuting my share of the enter
tainment. It is certainly an uplifting
performance." He smiled, but she
shook her head.
j "Ah," she said. "I know! I was at
j Fort Logan last summer the day
! ' :utenant Whitney was killed. I saw
In a Garden of Dreams.
In the garden the moon's faint light ; "
the broad satinvi JU:e smile had laded and her eyes
ad just the look he bad so often
fancied lay in those eyes he had
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For an hour Bersonin sat smoking
in the silent room one cigar after
auother, deep in thought, his yellow
eyes staring at nothing. Into his
countenance deep lines had etched
themselves, giving to his coldly re
pellant look- an expression of malig
nant force and intention. With his
pallid face, his stirless attitude, his
great white fingers clutching the
arms of thee hair, he suggested some
enormous. sprawling batrachian
awaiting its mere active prey.
All at once there came a chirp
from the cage in the corner and its
tiny occupant, waked by the elec
tric light, burst into song as clear
and joyous as though before its free
wing lay all the meads of Eden. A
look more human, soft and almost
companionable, came into its mast
er's massive face. Bersonin rose and
whistling, opened the cage door and
held out an enormous forefinger. The
little creature stepped on it, and.
held to his cheek, it rubbed its
feathered head against if. For a mo
ment he crooned and whistled to it,
then held his finger to the cage
and it obediently resumed its perch
and its melody. The expert took a
dark cloth from a hook and threw
it over the cage and the song ceas
ed. Bersonin went to the door of the
room and fastened it, then unlocked
a desk and spread some papers on
the table. One was a chart, drawn to!
ihe minutest scale, of the harbor of
Yokohama. On it had been marked
a group of projectile-shaped snots
suggesting a flotilla of vessels at an
chor. For a long time he worked
absorbedly, setting down figures,
measuring with infiinile pains, com
puting anglesalways with refer
ence to a small square in the map's
inner margin, marked in red. He cov
ered many sheets of paper with his
calculations. Finally he took anoth
er paper from the safe and compar
ed the two. He lifted his head with
a look of satisfaction.
Just then he thought he heard a
slight noise from the hall. Swiftly
and noiselessly as a great cat he
crossed to the door and opened it.
Ishida sat in his place scratching
laboriously with a foreign pen.
Bersonin's glance of suspicion al
tered. "What are you working at so
industriously, Ishida?" he asked.
The Japanese boy displayed the
sheet with pride.
It was an ode to the coming
squadron. Bersonin read it:
"Welcome, foreign men-of-war!
Young and age,
Man and woman,
None but you welcome!
And how our reaches know you but
to satisfy,
Nor the Babylon nor the Parisian jrou
to treat,
Be it ever so' humle,
Yet a tidbit with our heart!
What may not be accomplishment
Rising Sun?
"By H. Ishida, with best compliment."
Bersonin laid it down with a word
of approbation. "Well done," he said.
"You will be a famous English schol
ar before long." He went into the
dressing: room, but an instant later
j recollected the . papers on the table.
1 The servant was in the laboratory
i when his master hastily re-entered;
coffee trav.
I- Alone once more, Ishida re-seated
himself at his small desk. He tore
the poem carefully to small bits and
put them into the waste-paper bask
et. Then, rubbing the cake of India
iik on its stone tablet, he drew a
mass of Japenese writing toward him
and, -with brush held vertically be
tween thumb and forefinger, began to
trace long, delicate characters at the
top of. the first sheet.
Cross-current of, laying water Thund
er on, Work-Effect
Left Hand Respectfully.
which in conventional English is
to say: s
A Study of . Cross-Currents in Their
Effect on Submarine Mines
Submitted With Difference.
This finished, he sealed it in an en
velope, took a book from the breast
of his kimono and began to read. Its
cover bore the words: t'Second Eng
lish Primer, in words of Two Sylla
bles." Its inner pages, however, be
lied the legend. It was Mahan's In
fluence of Sea-Power on History.
Yet. Lieutenant Ishida of the Jap
anese imperial navy, one time stu
dent in Monterey, California, now in
snecial secret service, read ab
stractly. He was wondering why Dr.
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giimmereu. on
leaves of the camelias and the. n.oii
cate traceries of red maple foliage.
At its farthest side, amid flowering
bushes which cast long indigo shad
ows, stood a small pagoda, brought
many years before from Korea, and
toward this Baunt and the girl whom
he had held for a breathless moment
in his arms, strolled slowly along a
winding, pebbled path tremulant with
the flickering shadows of little leaves.
The structure had a small platform,
and here on a bench they sat down
the fragrant garden spread out be
fore them.
He had remembered that a guest
had been expected to arrive that day
from America, and knew that this
must be she. But. strangely enough,
it did not seem as if they had never
before met. Nor had he the least idea
that, since that short sharp scene,
they hud exchanged scarcely a doz
en words. In his curious sequel, as
he stood listening to the echo ot
Bersonin's strange laughter, he had
momentarily forgotten all about her.
Then he had remember with a shock
that he had left her perched, in even
ing dress, on the high railing of the
arbor.
"I wonder if you are in the habit,'
she had said with a little laugh, "ot
nutting unchaperoned girls on ' the
tops of fences, and going away and
forgetting all about them."
Her laugh was deliciously uneven,
but it did not seem so from fright.
He had answered something inordi
nately foolish, and had lifted her
down again not holding her so close-
beenw.used to gaze at across the burn
ing driftwood his "Lady of the
Many-Colored Fires." He caught him
self longing to know that they would
mist and soften if he too should
some day come to grief in such sud
den fashion. They were wholly won
derful eyes! He had noted them even
in the instant when he had snatch
ed her from the piazza from the
danger into which his cavalier sing
ing had called her.
"How brazen you must, have
thought it!" he exclaimed. "My im
promptu solo, I mean. I hardly know
how I came to do it. I suppose it
was the moonlight (it does make peo
ple idiotic sometimes, 3rou know, in
the tropics!) and then what you
played that dear old song! I . used
to sing it vears ago. It reminds me ''
"Yes?"
"Of the last evening at college. It
was a night like this, though not so
lovely. I sang it then my last col
lege solo."
"Your last?" She was leaning to
ward him, her lips parted, her eyes
bright, on his face.
"Yes." he said. "I. left town the
next day."
Her eyes fell. She turned halC
away, and put a hand to her cheek.
"Oh," she said 'vaguely. "Of course."
"But it was brazen," he finished
lamely. "I promise never to do it
again. '
The breath of the night was coolly
sweet. It hovered about them, ming-
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too lovely to be real! I shall wake
presently to find myself in my berth
on the Tenyo Maru with Japan two
or three days off."
3Ie fell into her mood. "We are
both asleep. That was why the dog
vanished so queerly. Dream-dogs al
ways do. And I don't wonder at my
singing, either. People do exactly
what they shouldn't when they ave
asleep. But no! I really don't like
the dream version at all. I want this
to be true."
"Why?"
Her tone was low, but it made him
tingle. A sudden melee of daring, de
licious impulses swept over him. "Be
cause I have dreamed too much,"
he said, in as 'low a voice. "Here in
the East the habit grows on one;
wo dream of what all the beauty
somehow misses for us. But tonight,
at least, is real. I" shall have it to
remember when you have gone, as
I 1 suppose you will be soon."
She leaned out and . picked a
slender maple-leaf from a branch that
came in through the open side of
the pagoda and holding it in her
fingers, turned toward him. Her
lips were parted, as if to speak.
But suddenly she tossed it from ber,
ipse and shook out her skirts with
a laugh. Carriage wheels were roll
ing up the drive from the lower gate.
'Thank you!" she cried gaily. "But
no hint shall move me. I warn you
that I intend to. stay a long time!"
In the lighted doorway, as Patri
cia and her mother stepped from the
carriage, she swept him a curtesy.
"Honorably deign to accept my
thanks,'' she said, "for augustly sav
ing my insignificant life! And now,
perhaps, we can be properly intro
duced!" (TO BE CONTINUED.)
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ftTH SENTENCE
IMPOSED UPON
STRIKER
Paris, Nov. 26. The death sentence
was imposed today upon Durand, sec
retary of the coal .handlers, union, who
had been convicted of killing a fore
man on the docks at Havre during the
strike in September.
It was proven in the court of assizes
that Durand had introduced a motion
that the union get rid of Donge, the
foreman which was adopted. Donge
was beaten to death the next day on
the streets, the penalty imposed by his
union for deserting the strikers and
returning to work.
Those woh actualy participated in
the killing were sentenced to fifteen
years at, hard labor.
To Celebrate Victory.
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 26. At a con
ference held here between Chairman
Norman E. Mack and Congressman
Champ Clark and prominent Maryland
democratic leaders, it was decided that
a meeting in the nature of a celebra
tion of the recent democratic victory
should be called. It probably will be
held here early in January.
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To say that talk is cheap may be
regarded as an extravagant assertion.
Men's thoughts are much according
to their inclination. Bacon.
iy tms, time. He remembered that led of all the musky winds and flow-
on the first occasion he had held her ' er-months of Eden. A dulled, weird
very tightly indeed. He could still ; sound from the street reached their
feel the touch of a wisp of her hair ears the monotonous hand-tapping of ,
which, in his flying leap, had fallen a small, sho.llow drum. i
against his cheek. It was red-bronze? "Some Buddhist devotee." he said.l
ana it shone now m the moonlight i "making a pious round of holy places.
hhe molten meial. Her eves were I i ctaiirino- nt,vnr in a Ai-mrv
J- J 'M liming l v ' . ' 1 1 tll'fJ
white cotton robe -with red characters
stamped all over it one from each
shrine he has visited and here and
there in a doorway he will stop to
chant a prayer in return for a hand
ful of rice."
"How strange! It doesn't seem to
beiong, somehow, with the telegraph
wires and the trolley cars. Japan is
full of such contrasts, isn't it? It
seems to be packed with mystery ana
secrets. Listen ! " The deep, resonant
boom of a great bell at a distance
had throbbed across the nearer
strumming. "That must be in some
old temple. . Perhaps the man with
the drum is going there to worship.
Does any one live in the temples?
The priests do, I suppose."
"Yes," he answered. "Sometimes
other people do, too. I know of a
foreigner who lives in one."
"What is he? European?"
"No one knows. He has lived there
fifteen years. He calls himself Aloy
sius Thorn. I used to think he must
be an American, for in the chancery
safe there is an envelope bearing
his name and the direction that it
be opened after his death. It has
been there a long time, for the paper
is yellow with age. No doubt it was
put there by some former chief, of
mission at his request. He has noth
ing to do with other foreigners; as
a rule he won't even speak to them.
He is something of a curiosity. He
knows some lost secret about gold
lacquer, they say."
"Is he young?"
"No."
"Married?"
"Oh, no! He lives quite alone. He
has one of the loveliest private gar
dens in the city. Sometimes one
doesn't see him for months, but he
is here now."
She was silent, while he looked
again at the white toe of the slip
per peeping from a gauzy hem. The
silence seemed to him an added bond
between them. The moon, tilting its
slim sickle along the solemn range
of western hills, touched their jag
ged contour with a shimmering radi
ance and edged with silver the vast
white apparition -towering, fllmily ex
quisite, above them, a solitary snowy
cone, hovering wraith-like between
earth and sky. The horizon opposite
was deep violet, crowded with tiny
stars, like green-gilt coals. In the
quiet from the hillside, Barmara look
ed through dreamy eyes.
"It can't always be so beautiful!"
she said at length. 'Nothing could, I
am sure."
"No, indeed," he agreed cheerfully.
"There are times when, as my num-
bsr-one bov says, "honorable weathet
are disgust.' In June the nubai, -the
rainy season, is due. It will pour
buckets for three weeks without a
stop and frogs will sing duclet songs
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deep blue, and when she smiled
He wrenched his gaze away with
a start. But it did not stray far
merely to the point of a white-beaded
slipper peeping from the edge of a
ruffle of gauze that had mysteriously
imprisoned filmy sprays of lily-of-the-valley.
He looked up suddenly, conscious
that she was laughing silently. "What
is it?" he asked.
"We seem so tremendously ac
quainted," she said, "for people who
" She stopped an instant.' "You
don't even know who I am."
In the references to her coming he
naa neard ner name spoken and now,
by a sheer mental effort, he managed
to recall it.
"You are ""Miss Fairfax," he said.
"And my name, perhaps I ought to
add, is Daunt. I am the secretary of
embassy. I hope, after ourvlittle ef
fort of tonight, you will not consider
diplomacy only high-class vaudeville.
Such comedy scarcely represents our
daily bill."
"It came . near enough to being
tragedy," she answered.
"It was so uncommonly life-like. I
was torn with a fear that you might
not guess it was gotten up for your
especial benefit."
"How well you treat your visitor!"
she said with gentle irony. "Had you
many rehearsals?
"Very few," he said. T was afraid
the boy might misread the stage di
dection and slip the dog-chain too
soon. But I am greatly pleased. I
have always had an insatiable long
ing to be a hero if only on the
stage. I aspire to grand opera, also,
as you have noticed." He laughed,
a trifle shamefacedly, then added
quickly: "I hope you liked the final
disappearance act. It was rather ef
fective, don't you think?"
She smiled unwillingly. "Ah, you
make light of it! But don't thinjj: I
didn't know- how quickly you acted
what you risked in that one minute!
And then to run back a second
time!" She ' shuddered a a little.
"You could have done nothing' with
that piece of wood!"
"I assure you," he said, "you un
derrate my prowess! But it wasn't
to be used it was only the dog's
cue." "
"Poor brute!" she said. "I hope
he will injure nobody.'i'
"Luckily, the children are off the
streets at this hour," he answered.
"He'll not go far; the police are too
numerous. I am afraid our efficient
performer is permanently retired
from the company. But I haven't yet
congratulated you. You didn't seem
on bit afraid."
"I hadn't time to be frightened. I
was thinking of something else! The
fright came afterward, when I saw
you when you left me on the rail
ing." She spoke a little constrained-1 in the streets. In July your head feels
ly, and went on quickly: "I really am
a desperate coward about some
things. I should never dare to go up
on an aeroplane, for instance, as
Patsy tells me you do almost every
day. She says the Japanese call you
the 'Honorable Fly-Man.' "
"There's no foreign theater in Tok
yo, and no winter opera," he said
lightly. "We have to amuse one an-
-
as it a red-not learner pmow naa
been stuffed into your skull and
everybody moves to Chusenji or
Kamakura. If it weren't for that, and
an occasional dust-storm in the wint
er, and the centillions of mosquitoes,
and a weekly earthquake or two, we
wouldn't half appreciate this!" He
made a wide gesture.
"Yet now," she said softly, "it seems
Albermarle. N. C, Nov. 26. Winston-Salem
Southbound special en
route to "Wadesboro passed Albe
marle at noon. In addition to the
party carried to Winston-Salem jes
terday, members of the Winston
Salem board of Trade and a large
number of Winston-Salem people
made the trip to Wadesboro, where
they will be the guests of The Wiwe
Awake Club. This afternoon the en
tire party ' stopped at Whitney to
inspect the big dam for the proposed
hydro-electric" plant. Lunch was serv
ed on the train by President
Fries.
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RYE PEO
POISON
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OYSTERS
Mobile, Ala., Nov. 266. Five per
sons in the family of F. W. Gibson, re
siding in this city, including his negro
cook, were poisoned from eating oys
ters today and had a narrow escape
from death.
They ate turkey stuffed with oys
ters left over from the Thanksgiving
dinner and soon afterward suffered ex
cruciating agony for several hours
and it was only by heroic treatment
that their lives were saved. --Gibson is
chief clerk of the United Fruit Com
pany, in this city.
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the family. '
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Four Poster Beds .... $45.00 to $65.00
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