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I The story Is told by Nicholas Trist. Ills
chief. Senator John Calhoun, offered the
portfolio of secretary of state In Tyler's
cabinet. Is told by Dr. Ward that his timo
,1s short. Calhoun declares that he is not
Iready to die, and If he accepts Tyler's of
fer It means that Texas and Oregon must
i be added to the Union. Ho plans to learn
the intentions of England with repard to
Mexico througrh Haroness v on Kitz, se
cret spy and reputed mistress of the Hncr
lish ambassador Pakenham. Nicholas is
Bent to bring the baroness to Calhoun's
apartments, and while searching for the
baroness' house a carriage dashes up and
Nicholas is invited to enter. The occu
pant is the baroness, who says she is be-
lns? pursuea. 1 lie pursuers are shaken
off. Nicholas is invited Into the house
and delivers Calhoun's message. lie notes
that the baroness has lost a slipper,
Nicholas is given the remaining slipppr
as a pledge that she will tell Calhoun
everything. He gives her as security an
Indian trinket he intended for his sweet
heart, Elizabeth Churchill. Elizabeth's fa
ther consents to Nicholas's proposal for
her hand. Nicholas is ordered to leave at
once for Montreal on state business, and
decides to be married that night. Cal
houn becomes secretary of state. Tyler
warns Pakenham that interference by
England in the affairs of this continent
will not be tolerated. The west de
mands that the joint occupancy of Ore
gon with Great Britain cease, nnd has
raised the cry of "Fifty-four. Forty or
Fight." The baroness tells Nicholas she
will do her best to prevent his marriage.
She returns the trinket and he promises
to return her slipper. Nicholas enlists
the services of Congressman Dandrldge,
a rejected suitor of Elizabeth's, to assist
In the arrangements for the wedding: and
entrusts him with the return of the slip
per to the baroness. The congressman
gets drunk and sends the slipper to Eliza
beth. The wedding is declared off, and
Nicholas is ordered from the house by
Elizabeth's father. Nicholas is ordered
to gnin access to a meeting of the Hud
son Bay directors in Montreal and learn
England's intentions regarding Oregon.
CHAPTER XIV.
, The Other Woman.
The world is the book of women.
Ttosseau.
I needed not to be advised that pres
ently there would be a meeting" of
6ome of the leading men of the Hud
eon Bay Company at the little gray
stone, dormer-windowed building on
Notre Dame street. For myself, it
was out of the question to gain admit
tance. In those days all Montreal was iron
Ehuttered after nightfall, resembling
a series of jails; and to-night it
Eeemed doubly screened and guarded.
None the less, late in the evening, I
allowed seeming accident to lead me
in a certain direction. Passing as oft
en as I might up and down Notre
Dame street without attracting at
tention, I saw more than one figure
in the semi-darkness enter the low
chateau door. Occasionally a tiny
gleam showed at the edge of a shut
ter or at the top of some little win
"dow not full screened. As. to what
went on within I could only gues3.
i I passed the chateau, up and down,
at different times from nine o'clock
until midnight. The streets of Mon
treal at that time made brave pre
tense of lighting by virtue of the new
gas works; at certain intervals flick
ering and wholly incompetent lights
served to make the gloom more vis
ible. None the less, as I passed for
the last time, I plainly saw a shaft of
light fall upon the half darkness from
a little side door. There emerged
upon the street the figure of a woman.
I do not know what led me to cast a
second glance, for certainly my busi
ness was not with ladies, any more
than I would have supposed ladles
had business there; but, victim of
some impulse of curiosity, I walked a
Etep or two in the same direction as
that taken by the cloaked figure.
Careless as I endeavored to make
my movements, the veiled lady seemed
to take suspicion or fright. She quick
ened her steps. Accident favored me.
Even a3 she fled, she caught her skirt
on some object which lay hidden in
the shadows and fell almost at full
length. This I conceived to be oppor
tunity warranting my approach. I
raised my hat and assured her that
her flight wa3 needless.
She made no direct reply to me, but
as she rose gave utterance to an ex
pression of annoyance, "lion Dieu!"
I heard her say.
I stood for a moment trying to re
call where I had heard this same
voice! She turned her face in such
a way that the light illuminated it.
Then indeed surprise smote me.
"Madam Baroness," said I laughing,
"it is wholly impossible for you to be
here, yet you are here! Never again
will I say there is no such thing as
chance, no such thing as fate, no such
thing as a miracle!"
She looked at me one brief mo
ment; then her courage returned.
"Ah, then, my idiot," she said,
"Bince it is to be our fortune always
to meet of dark nights and in impos
sible ways, give me your arm."
I laughed. "We may as well make
treaty. If you run again, I shall only
. follow you."
"Tberi I am again your prisoner?"
"Madam, I again am yours!"
"At least, you improve!" paid she.
"Then come."
"Shall I not call a calcche? the
night is dark."
"No, no!" hurriedly.
We began a midnight course that
took us quite across the old French
quarter of Montreal. At last Ehe
turned into a snail, dark street of
modest cce-story residences, iron-ehut-
BYEWRfON HOP
AWKOR. OF TS1E XUfPlfSlWI BUBBIX
ILIUJTRATION hy MAGNUS
I Walked a Step or Two in the Same
, Cloaked
tered, dark and cheerless. Here she
paused in front of a narrow iron gate.
"Madam," I said, " you represent to
me one of the problems of my life.
Why does your taste run to such quar
ters as these? This might be that
same back street in Washington!"
She chuckled to herself, at length
laughed aloud.. "But wait! If you
entered my abode once," she said,
"why not again? Come."
Her hand was at the heavy knocker
as she spoke. In a moment the door
slowly opened, just as it had done
that night before in Washington. My
companion passed before me swiftly.
As she entered I saw standing at the
opening the same brown and wrinkled
old dame who had served that night
before in Washington!
For an instant the light dazzled my
eyes, but determined now to see this
adventure through, I stepped within.
Then, indeed, I found it difficult to
stifle the exclamation of surprise
which came to my lips. Believe it or
not, as you like, we were again in
Washington!
I say that I was confronted by the
identical arrangement, the, identical
objects of furnishing, which had
marked the luxurious boudoir of
Helena von Ritz in Washington! The
tables were tho same, the chairs, the
mirrors, the consoles. On the mantel
stood the same girandoles with glit
tering crystals. The pictures upon
the walls, so far as I could remember
their themes, did not deviate in any
particular of detail or arrangement.
The oval-backed chairs wera dupli
cates of those I had seen that other
night at midnight. Beyond these
same amber satin curtains stood the
tall bed with its canopy, as I could
see; and here at the right was the
same low Napoleon bed with its rolled
ends. The figures of the carpets were
the same, their deep-piled richness,
soft under foot, the same. The flow
ered cups of the sconces were identi
cal with those I had seen before.
"You are good enough to admire
my modest place," said a laughing
voice at my shoulder.
I turned to her then, pulling myself
together as best I could. Yes, she
too was the same, although in this
ease costumed somewhat differently.
The wide ball gown of satin was gone,
and in its place was a less pretentious
robing of some darker silk. No pale
blue fires shone at her white throat,
and her hands were ringless. But
the light, firm poise of her figure could
not be changed; the mockery of her
glance remained the same, half laugh
ing and half wistful.
In some way which I did not pause
to analyze, I felt perfectly sure that
this strange woman could, if she
cared to do so, tell me some of the
things I ought to know. She might be
here on some errand identical with
my own. Calhoun had sent for her
once before. Whose agent was she
now? I found chairs for us both.
An instant later, summoned in what
way, I do not know, the old serving
woman again reappeared. "Wine,
Threlka," said the baroness; "service
for two you may use this little table.
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Figure.
monsieur," she added, turning to me,
"I am most happy to make even some
slight return for the very gracious
entertainment offered me that morn
ing by Mr. Calhoun at his residence.
Such a droll man! Oh, la! la!"
"Are you his friend, madam?" I
asked bluntly.
"Why should I not be?"
I could frame neither offensive nor
defensive art with her. She mocked
me.
In a few moments the weazened old
woman was back with cold fowl, wine,
napery, silver.
"Will monsieur carve?" At her nod
the old woman filled my glass, after
my hostess had tasted of her own.
We had seated ourselves at the table
as she spoke.
"I did not expect you would come to
Montreal."
"Then you know but of course, I
told you."
"Have you then no question?" she
went on at last. Her glass stood half
full; her wrists rested gently on the
table edge, as she leaned back, look
ing at me with that on her face which
he had needed to be wiser than my
self, who could have read.
"May I then?"
"Yes, now you may go on."
"I thank you. First, of course, for
what reason do you carry the secrets
of my government into the stronghold
of another government? Are you the
friend of America, or are you a spy
upon America? Are you my friend, or
are we to be enemies to-night?"
She flung bacy. her head and
laughed delightedly. "That is a good
beginning." she commented.
"You must, at a guess, have come
up by way of the lakes, and by bat
teau from La Prairie?" I ventured.
She nodded again. "Of course. I
have been hero six days."
"Indeed? you have badly beaten
me in our little rac."
She flashed on me a sudden glance.
"Why do you not ask me outright why
I am here?"
"Well, then, I do! I do ask you
that. I ask you how you got access
to that meeting to-night for 1 doubt
not you were there?"
She gazed at me deliberately again,
parting her red lipn, again smiling at
me. "What would you have given, to
have been there yourself?"
"All the treasures those vaults ever
held."
"So much? What will you give mc,
then, to tell you what I know?"
"More than all that treasure,
madam. A place "
"Ah! a 'place in the heart of a peo
ple!' I prefer a locality more re
stricted." "In my own heart, then; yes, of
course!"
She helped herself daintily to a por
tion of the white meat of the fowl.
"Yes," she went or., as though speak
ing to herself, "on the whole, I rather
like him. Yet what a fool! Ah, such
a droll idiot!"
"How eo, madam?" I expostulated.
"I thought I was doing very well."
"Yet you cannot guess how to per
suade me?"
"No; how could that be?"
infill
"Always one gains by offering some
equivalent, value for value especially
with women, monsieur."
She went on as though to herself.
"Come, now, I fancy him! He Is
handsome, he is discreet, he has cour
age, he is not usual, he is not curi
ous; but ah, mon Dieu, what a fool!"
"Admit me to be a fool, madam,
since it i3 true; but tell me in my
folly what equivalent I can offer oneJ
who has everything in the world
wealth, taste, culture, education, wit,
learning, beauty?"
"Go on! Excellent!"
"Who has everything as against
my nothing! What value, madam?"
"Why, gentle idiot, tovget an an
swer ask a question, always."
"I have asked it."
"But you cannot guess that I might
ask one? So, then, one answer ? for
another, we might do what you
Americans call some business eh?
Will you answer my question?"
"Ask it, then."
"Were you married that other
night?"
So, then, she was woman after all,
and curious! I pulled myself into con
trol and looked her fair in the face.
"Madam," I said, "look at my faca
and read your own answer."
She looked, searching me, while
every nerve of me t!ngled; but at last
she shook her head. "No," sh&
sighed. "I cannot yet say."
I raised my kerchief over my head.
"A truce, then, madam! Let us leave
the one question against the other for
a time."
"Excellent! I shall get my answer
first, in that case, and for nothing."
"How so?"
"I shall only watch you. As we are
here now, I were a fool, worse than
you, if I could not tell whether or not
you are married. None the less, I
commend you, I admire you, because
you do not tell me. If you are not,
you are disappointed. If you are, yea
are eager!"
"I am in any case delighted that I
can interest madam."
"Ah, but you do! I have not been
interested, for so long! Ah, the great
heavens, how fat was Mr. Pakenham,
how thin was Mr. Calhoun! But you
come, monsieur, the night is long.
Tell me of yourself. I have never be
fore known a savage."
"Value for value only, madam!
Will you tell me in turn of yourself?"
I saw her dark eyes study me once
more. At last she spoke again. "At
least," she said, "it. would be rather
vulgar if I did not explain some of
the things which become your right to
know when I ask you to come isto
this homo, as into my other home in
Washington."
"In Heaven's name, how many of
these homes have you, then? Are
they all alike?"
"Five only now," she replied, in the
most matter-of-fact manner in the
world, "and, of course, all quite alike."
"Where else?"
"In Paris, in Vienna, in London,"
she answered. "You see this one,
you see them all. They serve, they
suffice. This little scheme i has
phased me to reproduce in some of
tho capitals of the world. It is at
least as well chosen as the taste of
the prince of Orleans, son of Louis
Philippe, could advise."
This with no change of expression.
I drew a long breath.
She went on as though I had
spoken. "My friend," she said, "dc
not despise me too early. There is
abundant time. Before you judge, let
the testimony be heard."
"I am not your judge, madam, but
it will be long before I shall think a
harsh thought of you. Tell me what
a woman may. Do not tell me what a
secret agent may not. I ask no prom
ises and make none. You are very
beautiful. You have wealth. I call
you, 'madam.' You are married?"
"I was married at 15."
"At 15! And your husband died?".
"He disappeared."
"Your own country was Austria?"
"Call me anything but Austrian! I
left my country because I saw there
only oppression and lack of hope. No,
I am Hungarian."
"I should guess then perhaps you
went to Paris?"
"Of course," she said, "of course!
of course! In time reasons existed
why I should not return to my home.
I had some little fortune, some
singular experience, some ambitions
of my own. What I did, I did. At
least, I saw the best and worst of
Europe."
"I have heard vaguely of some such
things, madam," I said. "I know that
in Europe they have still the fight
which we sought to settle when we
left that country for this one."
She nodded. "So then, at last," she
went on, "still young, having learned
something and having now those
means of carrying on my studies'
which I required, I came to this last
of the countries, America, where, if
anywhere, hope for mankind remains.
Washington has impressed me more
than any capital of the world."
"How long have you been ia Wash
ingtcn7" f asked
JTO BE CONTlJiUEDJ
PUBLISHER OF HAMPTON'S MAGA
ZINE RETRACTS ACCUSATION
AGAINST STANDARD.
ARTICLE CAUSED LIBEL SUIT
Hampton's and Moffett Declare Upon
Investigation Oil Company Is Not
Connected With Sale cf
Impure Candlec.
New York. in th w ttcr of tho
libel suits brought by th Standard Oil
company for $250,000 damages against
Hampton'B Magazin and for $100,000
damages against Cleveland Moffett,
the former the publisher, and the lat
ter the writer, of an article in the Feb
ruary issue of the magazine which de
famed the company in connection
with the sale of glucose and candy ia
Philadelphia, the following retractions
have been signed in the office of
Shearman & Sterling, the Standard
Oil company's lawyers in the case,
and have been issued from the com
pany's offices at No. 26 Broad
way: "Hampton-s Magazine, CG Weet
Thirty-fifth St., New York,
"Jan. 31, 1911.
"Standard Oil Company, 2S Broadway,
New York.
"Dear Sirs: In the February issue
of Hampton's Magazine there was
published an article written by me,
entitled, 'Cassidy and the Food Pois
oners.' In that article I referred to
the investigation of Mr. Cassidy; with
respect to the manufacture and sale
of impure candles in Philadelphia, and
made the statement that your com
pany manufactured and sold impure
material which went into these can
dies and that, when the various deal-:
ers were arrested and fined, at the in
stance of Mr. Cassidy, your company
paid the. fines.
"Upon investigation I have ascer
tained that your company was in no
way concerned with the transactions
referred to and I hasten to retract in
the fullest manner all charges made
against your company and to express
my sincere regret that I should have
fallen into this serious error. Yours
truly, Cleveland Moffett."
"Jan. 31, 1911.
"Standard Oil Company, New York
City.
"Dear Sirs: Referring to foregoing
letter of Mr. Cleveland Moffett to
you, we beg to state that we are con
vinced that Mr. Moffett was in error
in his statements with reference to,
your company. We greatly regret that!
these errors should have been made.!
It is the desire of Hampton's Maga
zine to be accurate and fair in all
things. In our March number wo will
publish this letter and the foregoing
letter of Mr. Moffett. Yours truly,
Benj. B. Hampton, President, Broad
way Magazine, Inc."
MUST TELL GRAFT STORY
Danville Judce Orders Prosecutor to
Answer All Questions Put by
Jury in Bribe Quiz.
Danville, 111. Judge Kimbrough in.
the circuit court handed down a de
cision in the case of City Attorney
Jones, who declined to answer certain
questions regarding vote selling and
buying which the grand jury put to
him.
The court instructed Jones to an
swer all questions. The opinion stated
that, according to a decision of the
Supreme court of tho United States,
a witness before the grand jury is
immune from indictment. The court
also held that the city election law is
unconstitutional, which means that
Jones cannot be questioned about hap
penings more than eighteen months
ago.
This means that the Investigation
will continue until all the witnesses
now summoned are examined. It is
said that many indictments have been
voted, but whether they are for vote
selling ia not known.
VOLCANO'S TOLL IS 700
Five Thousand Families In Philippines
Have Been Wholly Ruined
By Disaster.
Washington. The eruption of Taal
volcano and the accompanying dis
turbances in the Philippines killed'
700 people in the town of Talisay, ac
cording to the report of the governor
of Batangas province, which was ca
bled to the war department by Gov
ernor General Forbes of the Philippine
Islands.
The earthquake shocks continue, the
governor general added. Five thousand
families have been ruined by the dis
aster. :
The Philippine authorities are face
to face with the absolute necessity of
adopting relief measures in order to
avoid suffering, as the falling mud
and lava destroyed the crops within a
considerable radius of the volcano.
DECIES HONEYMOON IN EGYPT
Vivien Gould, After Wedding to Eng
lish Lord, Will Take Trip
to Africa.
New York. It Is announced that
Lord and Lady Decies, the latter
cow Miss Vivien Gould, who are to be
married February 7, will spend their
honeymoon in Egypt. They will leave
America February 18 by the Ctmard
liner Carmanla. In Egypt they will
epend a few days in Cairo and then
.visit notable points in upper Egypt
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TOO MUCH FOR THE CORPSE
Exhibition of Meanness That Galvan
ized the "Dead" Irishman Into
Indignant Life.
"Don't be mean ltiA S offerings,"
paid T. P. O'Connor, ivf afpte in New
York for the Irish cause. "The Irish
can't stand meanness.
"No, no; the Irish can't, stand mean
ness. Take O'Grady's case. You know,
in Ireland, some CO or 70 years ago,
when a poor family lacked a coffin
they made the corpse beg for it.
"This custom, alas! sometimes led
to imposture. Thus, Thirsty O'Grady
and his friends wanted money badly
once, and O'Grady was assigned to
act the corpse. So they laid him on
a bier outside the door and they put
r, pewter plate beside him for the
pennies.
"As O'Grady lay there, so still, with
closed eyes, an old woman stopped
and dropped sixpence Into the plate.
Then she began to take out change.
A penny, tuppence, threepence she
took out, and O'Grady couldn't stand
such meanness. Corpse as he was, he
said:
" 'Arrah, now, don't mind the
change. " Washington Star.
It Wasn't a Fire.
The principal of one of the New
York East Side night schools was en
rolling a new pupil, who was togged
out in a suit of clothes so new that
it hurt him. Just before the boy came
in the principal had heard the sound
of fire engines in the street.
"What is your name?" the principal
asked the lad.
"Tom Dugan," was the reply.
"Where was the fire, Tommy?"
asked the principal as he wrote down
the name. There was no reply; only
a scowl.
"I say, where was tho fire?" repeat
ed the principal.
"Don't git gay wit me," was the
somewhat astonishing answer. "Dere
wasn't no fire, see? I bought dis here
suit and I paid seven-fifty for it."
Great Baseball Play.
"What was the greatest baseball
play you ever saw?" asked a friend of
Governor-elect John W. Tener.
"The greatest play I ever say," said
he, "took place in an amateur game
on a town lot at Charlerol. The teams
were playing on a wet field and an
outfielder who wore a derby hat went
after a high fly. He came to a little
pond and takrng his eye off the ball
made a jump to cross it. As he was
leaping tho ball struck him on the
head, went through the crown of his
hat and lodged there. The base run
ner was out and the fielder had not
touched the ball with his hands. Can
you beat it?" Washington Corre.
tpondence Pittsburg Dispatch.
Hear It.
Ball What is silence?
Hall The college yell of the school
of experience. Harper's Bazar.
RESULTS OF FOOD.
Health and Natural Conditions
From Right Feeding.
Come
Man, physically, should be like a
perfectly regulated machine, each
part working easily in its appropri
ate place. A slight derangement
causes undue friction and wear, and
frequently ruins the entire system.
A well-known educator of Boston
found a way to keep the brain and
the body in. that harmonious co-operation
which makes a joy of living.
"Two years ago," she writes, "being
in a condition of nervous exhaustion,
I resigned my position as teacher,
which I had held for ever 40 years.
Since then the entire rest has, of
course, been a benefit, but the use of
Grape-Nuts has removed one great
cause of illness In the past, namely,
constipation, and its attendant evils.
"I generally make my entire break
fast on a raw egg beaten into four
spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts, with a little
hot milk or hot water added. I like
it extremely, my food assimilates, and
my bowels take care cf themselves.
I find my brain power and physical
endurance much greater and I know
that the use of the Grape-Nuts has
contributed largely to this result. -
"It is with feelings of gratitude that
I write this testimonial, and trust it
may be the means of aiding others in
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Interest.
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