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i $ MARY ROBERTS HNEHART
I ' ' CHAPTER I.
. .. . ' . those early days when he righted what,
Hilary Kingston had been shot. t0 his crooked mind, were wronjs.
Old Hilary had been a familiar fig- There were twelve in the band at the
mre in the village of Woffingham for beginning, apd for five years there
rears. - The eccentricity of his crav were no changes. Then came th kid-
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weight oi depression, over, them all.w prA thought It would have come soon-
T; Elinqr was at her "father's right. er in the Parker matten I wonder f
siuipiy. uresseu. xue yuiuers were ai- , ge gianced through the open aoor xo
j wa'ys atrial-to her. She jvaspalpitat- ithe,bHUard room, where old Hilary's
; ingly anxto that the. papers before . DOdy lay on the tn HefiiiaS'
old Hilary be !n order W Moday, to wonder many things-
xey were i- XTW ffilfl!3S : whether, after all, old, Hilary dannt-
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I different to. If her fsither
It took on order, bccajaa a L
a thing,
Tpss sDlrit had gone cut like a
This white and carven thing in the
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derby hat, his beetling gray brows, his
alwifs fresh gray gloves, his erect,
Tather heavy old figure, singled him
out from the mass of commuters that
thryaged the city trains. The gray
jttoby was a part of old Hilary. Ex
icept on those rare occasions when he
attended service at Saint Jude's he
twaa never seen without it.
He lived on the hill above the vil
lage, with his daughter had lived
there for ten years. The hall was
Ibeautiful, but old Hilary received no
Visitors, returned no advances. Visit
ors thought this curious. The villagers,
prosperous business men with smart
iwives, shrugged their shoulders. The
tman's house was his. own. If he found
tthat he could do without the town,
the town could get along without him.
There was no mystery about the
jhall, and little curiosity. Cars going
to the country club passed under the
brick wall of its Italian garden: Their
occupants sometimes caught a glimpse
of Elinor Kingston there, reading in a
rose arbor, vandering among her
ipeonies and iris in the spring, or cut
fting sprays of phlox in midsummer.
t The men thought her rather lovely;
the women, odd, with her blond hair
tend dark eyes. The assistant rector
of Saint Jude's, newly come to the vil
lage, met her face to face on one of
ihis long country walks, a month or so
before eld Hilary's death, and could not
forget her.
He led the conversation to her that
inght at a dinner.
"An exquisite face," he described
!her, "but sad, almost tragically sad."
- "Blond?" The lady on his right was
z Mrs. Bryant. In honor of the new
assistant rector, who came of fine fam
ily and was a distinct acquisition to
the village,. she wore the Bryant pear
jshaped pearl. She spoke rather curt-
Jy. ?I should not call her exquisite
'but you probably met Elinor Kingston.
'Her sadness is a pose, I believe; she
jhas everything she ants."
The assistant rector was young, but
napping and holding for ranso.n of
Mackintosh the banker in Iowa, and
the unexpected calling out of the state
militia. The band had hidden Mack
intosh inv a deserted mine and three of
the band went down in the shooting
that followed his discovery. In the
looting of Tiffany's vaults, which has
j never been published, a French uan
named Dupres was killed ; and only
recently a tire had burst"" after- the
holding up of the car of the gov -nor
of Delaware, and their car, overt tim
ing, had crushed Jerrold, the meeh mlc
of the band and old Hilary's chauffeur.
One way and another, there were nly
five left: Talbot and. Lethbridge the
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To Pit His Wits Against the World
and Win That Had Been Old Hi
lary's Creed.
Englishmen; Boroday, Huff and old
Hilary himself. And old Hilary's hour
Ivery wise. SO he snoke no more of
jElinpr until the women had left the was almost come.
jtable. Then he ventured again. j Old Hilary lived well, as he might
"Don't Join the army of those of us His foreign servants were artists. He
?who worship from afar," advised the liked good food, good wines, good
yonth who had moved up beside him, books. He even had a few pictures
r"She's the loveliest thing in this part from the leading galleries of Europe,
jof the country. But, except our sainted He hung them in the house at Voffing
ffector, no one ever gets to put a foot ham, with a cynical smile.
Ion the place. It's excluslveness to the "Safest place in the world," he said
;nih power, and then some. There's to old Henriette, who protested. "The
lot of talk, of course, or used to be. ' village has neTer eTen feSdrtF them 1
viu ivjngsion Dnngs ms servants from
Jfew York, and
There were present Talbot mi;: Leth.
bridge, tho tTnglislimn; BoroCajv
whose rescue from Siberia hail mae
him eld Hilary's linchmnn ;
llu.li A&U.i. H.J liKJ i:ic i
clan. He had . been "-trained iathe
Blerlot works ; 'airplariSS to wirejess,
automobiles to automatic pistils; ,he
knew themall makes, all gjfi If
eld Hilary was the brairispKilff'was
the hands of the band.
s He sat beside Elinor, '?fnd watched
her wi tli worshiping eyes. Terhaps It
was as well that old Hilary was intent j
on his food, and on the business in
hand.
The routine of the annual dinner j
seldom varied. Five of them then, I
that last dinner around the table, In j
evening clothes, well set up, spare, '
three of them young, all temperate, 1
honorable - about women as polished,
as harmless in appearance, as death
dealing, as the gleaming projectile of
a twelve-inch gun! - . j
First old Hilary went over the books.
It might have been the board meeting
of some respectable bank. He stood
at his end of the table, and the light
from the chandelier fell full on him j
"I have to report, gentlemen," he
would say, "a fairly successful year."
Thi3 is where it "differed from a bank.
The association had had no bad years.
"While our expense's have been heavy,
returns heve been correspondingly so." -y
And so on, careful lines of figures, out
lays and returns, to the end. For old
Hilary was secretary and treasurer as
well as president. I
Thlstime, when he had reached the
end of what was to be his last report,
he paused and cleared his throat. ;
"Unfortunately, that is not all, gen
tlemen. 'Nothing can we call our
own but death. And it is my sad
duty to report, this last year, the loss
of three of our number. A calamitous
year, gentlemen."
lie might have bTcn a trustee, la
menting the loss of valued supporters
to a hospital !
i next room, with stiffening hands and
the cray derby at its feet, surely there
was 'no mystery about it. This was
not old Hilary : that was all. But
wherertherilrasold Hilary rThelRus-j
slan, who had been raised' Within -the
pale and enn ancient faith, and who
had bow lost his best friend, felt all
the bitterness of his unbelief. -
Elinor stirred. '
. "fie will have to be burled," said
Henriette. "The news has gone
through the town. The assistant reetdrl
"Let Them Bury Him as They Will,"
Said Boroday.
of the church has telephoned, and is
Afterward, in the library, with El- on his way Jiere now. What am I to
fnor embroidering by the fire, thev do?"
cashed in. They dealt only in cash.
Securities were dangerous. Once or
twice Boroday had successfully nego
tiated with a fence in Paris, but al
ways under old Hilary's protest
The routine never varietf. Elinor
unlocked the door to a winding stair
case, which led to a basement room
where the steel nlt stood in-its ce-
"Let them bury him as they will,"
said Boroday. "What does it matter?
he would himself have seen the humor
of it.'
Hilary Kingston had been shot cfar
ing the daylight robbery of the Agra
rian, bank messenger. He was shot as
an innocent bystander, and was re
ferred to by the press as philanthropist
And so In this atmosDhere with
except an elderly whirh ho
lionsekeeper, none of them speak Eng. living and wrong thinking, of atheism
Jlsh. They used to say around here raised almost to religion, of no law
that to was a refugee, but that's all and no Christ, old Hilary had brought
jot He's a stingy old dotard, afraid up his daughter. He had been proud
(some handsome youth like myself will 0f her In his way; absolutely selfish,
rfaptivate the girl. That's all there is too. She had had no other compan-
' , j . , '" 7 , on. He taught her his unbelief, point-
The assistant rector, whose name TnToutlEe churchgoers, as they drove
E? , USm f3 PerfunctorlIy- In- together on Sunday mornings, as
22Sr gaming table, spread slaves to a myth. Also, he taught her
with flowers and candles, with the gay to hate a lie, and to give alms. Early
jcolors of cordials and liqueurs, he was in her life their drives together had
jseeing a girl standing at the turn of a been punctured with questions,
country road and gazing down into the . "But if my mother is dead,' where Is
ralley and the distant village with she?" asked Elinor on one of them.
(ombereyes. . ; Old Hilary had eyed her from under
iuui, uuye ana cnanty, mnd the eyebrows that
"She lives in the memories of those
that knew and loved her."
"But I neverjmew her. Then for me
she doesn't live f' But Mademoiselle"
she checked herself. Suspicion had
been dawning in old Hilary's eyes.
"Death is the end," he said tersely, l
and quoted Darwin and Haeckel to ,
her. But at the end of the drive he ;
interviewed Mademoiselle, and sent
her flying to her chamber, where from i
under the carpet beneath her bureau, 1
she got her rosary and wept over it.
Elinor was twenty tlie year, her fa- 1
ther died, a slender girl, fond of flow- ,
ers, rather a dreamer. JWell educated,
too. Old Hilary had seen to that ; she
knew Malato, Haeckel, Bakunin ; spoke
French vand Spanish Hilary had
spout -much time in Central America
helping the insurgents ; it was he who
financed the Insurrection in northern
Mexico and wrote fluently the form '
of shorthand that her father had de
vised as n means of communication be
tween the leader of the band. A keen- i
eyed, wistful-mouthed slip of a girl, '
nuit off in the great house on the hill
above Woffingh
big theor
loused to
r.nd viewing wistfully from her win
dows the little children in the road be-
ment wans, ine five went down. re. nnd mnrtvr. Sr. mnh t
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turning shortly with the cash-boxes. Uon and the annual gift to Saint
The money was divided on the library Jude's.
table. It went by percentages. Hll-! , As a matter of fact the Agrarian af
ary drew 20 that last year, each of fair was calamitoas in several ways. It
the others 10-n total of 0 per cent. , bore too close a resemblance to a St
The 40 per cent remaining was di- Louis matter of several years back, in
vided, or sent as a' whole, according ' which Boroday haa come under bus
to the sense of the meeting. Berlin pfdon. TcaS3CSIS01
S!Jfa" T 7T fr tinstance t0 i On a Tuesday meting, th cash be
Boroday's disgust Russia generally ing more than the bank cared to have
received a large proportion. The Chi- about, two hundred and ten thousand
nese revolution; the defense of Berk- doll ta ant
phardt, who killed Ecker the Dork. Twn oinfi,. fmm fkA .
packer; a shij)ment of guns and am- the messenger, who went by taxlcab.
munition to Central America-thus It There are twp direct routes to the
AiL,h IrTT1"- i 2S house: one along one of the
I preferred only money, g?iat avenues, the other through the
now and then the loot Included jewels, newspaper district v Here, at ten-thirty
MJH?m? ?QSentl mQh gms' in the morning, things are rather quiet,
stripped of their settings, were put and except for vans delivering roils of
aside for Elinor. They meant nothing paper, there Is little traffic.
iu nur. naa anyone torn hor thnt fnr
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methods. I
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fereatest of these is faith. Faith in our
jgelves, faith in those around us, and
jthat sublimest faith of all which
trusts in something beyond. To all
pen is given such faith at the begin
ning of life, and some keep it to the
fnd. But here and there is one who
pas lost it, who cannot turn his eyes
pp and say "Lord, Lord." Old Hilary
pad not kept the faith.
t Years ago he had not been evil. He
had gone from philosophy into unbe-
flief, that route which all must travel.
ut, unlike the many, he had not come
ack.
He had started with socialism, but
socialism must be founded on the
Christ, and him he scorned. So from
socialism he had drifted to anarchy.
To rob the rich and give to the poor,
at first. Later on, to rob the rich, to
Incite seditions, to arm the rebellious
oh, it was comprehensive enough, vast
ly wicked with that most terrible law
lessness of all, that believes itself law.
jf To pit his wits against the world
and win that had been old Hilary's
peed. "For the oppressed" liad been
at first the slogan of the band he gath
ered around him.' "Against the op
pressor" it became later on. Vastly
different the two. "Most of human
charfty and kindliness lay crushed
(down and trampled underfuot during lew.
wv miary-s progress from Christ to
Antichrist.
The band had "been gathered with
much care. Respectability, order, de
corumthese spelled safety to old
Hilary's astute mind; Most of them
were younger spns oEnglish landed
families, wia sprinkling of other na
tfiaa!lttJr Young Huff was an Aus-
several years her share had been
greater in actual value than ail the
money that had fallen to her father
she woul(f not have believed it . . .
Four days or so after the annual
meeting, the rector of Saint Jude's was
always asked to dinner. And although
the reverend gentleman would undfcr
normal circumstances have been fish
ing in Canada, he never went until this
function was over. For old Hilary, de
testing his creed, respeeted the man.
A certain percentage, then, of old Hil
ary's share went over the library ta
ble, after the "dinner, to the rector.
"Use it where it will do the most
good," he would say.
"The church ( organ "
"Not a cent to the church organ.
Buy the youngsters a playground, or
build a lying-in ward in the hos
pital." Elinor's mother had died in child
birth. The last check had been unusually
generous. The rector, who had bn
smoking one of old Hilary's choice
cigars, put it down and faced his host
resolutely. It took courage.
"Mr. Kingston," he said, "the church
needs men like you. Why be a Chris
tian in the spirjlt and avoid the let
ter?" "Tut." Old Hilary rose and looked
down at him. "I am like all fisimhiws
The taxicab went by tnis latter route.
Opposite the Record office, where the
presses stood, silent monsters waiting
to leap, old Hilary Kingston was
standing, kidgloved and wearing the
gray derby hat he affected. As the
taxicab bore down toward him he
hailed it.
"Taxi V he called.
The taxicab slowed down. Old Hil
ary, seeing it occupied, waved it off
with his stick. But it had come to a
full stop. There was an alleyway be
side the Record building, and now three
men ran out from there, and thrust re
volvers through the open windows of
the cab. After thatit was hot work.
Marshall of Jhe bank went back with a
bulfet through his lung. The bank
messenger fired pointblank, and missed
his target; but old Hilary, gray derby
nd all. went clown where he stood,
twenty feet away. The uninjured clerk
fcad an automatic gun, and swept a
circle with it over the bag' which lay
at his feet. There was no getting In
side that ring oi death. The bandits
retreated, firing as they ran, and
climbed into an automobile up the
street. When the reporters in the Rec
ord office wakened to the if act that
there was a story under their windows,
the street wa3 clear. Only old Hilary
lay dead on the pavement, with a bullet
inv his head.
The chauffeur of the taxicab drove
: An Ambition and a Record
THE needs of the
cf the SoarbenrfcaUbrsT':
the upbuildis of tba ether
The Southern Raihrij
i acsordsd to others.
South r? i Jentical with the needs
.or; ao special prlrilefe not
J unity of iotere jt thatii tan of w-o, ' -.on between th; public and
uejauraias; ij sesperieceJ uitf..- outrank polxr In the aanare
meat of nilraait which ia?!:--! t.j . corrf l '-s orernmental
sgendess Mrealize thatjKbcnlity of tnr.. a i . will enable it
to obtain the additional capital, needed for u - i Jv . of better and
enforced fadHtiei incident ttis dsbrcd i-weaied lad better
To taks JtJ nlcha -h the bod polldc of the Sooth alonpide of
tftber SYeat indajt.ies, v!jh no core, but with equal liberties, equal
tights and eqaal opportun&ie.
" The Southlern Serves the South."
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RAINY DAYS
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am; living. her life of iiUTa""u tneciv to your poor is the j madly to.the hospital-' with Marshall.
es and small duties, cal- bP 1 to luck. That's all. air.M who was dying, and then to police
robbery and violent deeds, 'm f oue closed 01(3 discussion. quarters, where he gave himself up. He
' CHAPTER M.
Once a year the association closed
its books. During all of the-June .be
fore old Hilary's sudden death, Elinor
ine wora "gambler" worripd rbn
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tor. He thqught over it on his way
down the hill-to the rectory. But his
poor were very poor. He cashed tie
check the next day; . ; .
. Elinor was in therlibrary that sunny
August - day when they brought old
Hilary "to her. She had neyer. seen
death before, except on the streets of
Mexicoy and for a good many years he
Hilary gave his annual dinner.
was released, of dourse. His name was
Waltc Huff. He was shown to be a
new man; but sober and industrious,
one of the best drivers in the! employ
of the taxican company.N It "was also
shown that Hilary Kingston had hailed
him; Huff explained his stopping. Mr.
Kingston was a regular patron; he had
mtant to tell him that in. five minutes
ne wouia come DacK and pick him up;
Huff was under, surveillance for
f.fld llPPn hnetr''rpin(rln fimitmo
lectins dafa.in tbo owntin Bhnrrtonri nad W a11 she. lwd-smce her last
she knew. Then, on the first of July, fh racc-najLDeen discovered three days. His conduct was Impec."
; 3t-Afe ic lwsurunu-naa neen ; cable, s
iTfllifln Tor TmtflnPP. thA srsn rf a
Wealthy, sheepwner. Boroday the : The bandm twelve, was down to 1 y?ed from th
CRutslftn Implicated In the bomb- uve.
IthrowinK that destroyed the minister around
of wa was a nobleman. Old Hilary tiers
nad got him out of Siberia durinsr .. W Piayeahd percentages 'would
assistant rectbx
cameupthe hill
AL,,V . rv-:, , , r,H : be,larg(4v: Nevertheless there was a.!??0Jl fZ. fisihi lAtdai The ncwit '
Gome to everybody. Life has
more ups I than downs. Right
now; while you are making,
you ought to be saving; then
when the downs come you will
have '-something to fall back
upon. 1
Where is the money you have
been earning all these years?
You spent it and somebody
else put it in, the bank. Why
don't you put your own money
in the bank for-yourself, why
let the other fellow save what
you earn ?r -
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