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r " n i Tirmm mm mi "gnB1WIMi"at8mWri'iiriIMfiIllMiH ill MRS. SPELL'S SICK SPELL ELIJAH MEETS AHAB SYNOPSIS. I Benator Joi Calhoun Is offered the Iortfolio of secretary of state In Tyler's cabinet. He declares that If he accepts It means that Texas and Oregon must be dded to tha Union. He plans to learn the intentions of England with regard to Mexico, through Baroness Von Rita, se cret spy and reputed mistress of the English ambassador, Pakenham. He eends his secretary, Nicholas Trist, to bring the baroness to his apartment. "While searching for the baroness' home, a carriage drives up and he is invited to enter. The occupant is the baroness, who says she is being pursued. The pursuers re shaken off. The baroness consents to see Calhoun. Nicholas notes that she has lost a slipper. She gives Nicholas the remaining slipper as a pledge that she will tell Calhoun all, and, as security, Nicholas gives her a trinket he intended Jor his sweetheart, Elizabeth Churchill. Nicholas is ordered to leave at once for Montreal on state business, by Calhoun, who haa become secretary of state, and plans to be married that night. Tyler warns Pakenham that interference by England in the affairs of this continent will not be tolerated. The west do tnands that the joint occupancy of Ore gon with Great Britain cease, and has raised the cry of "Fifty-four, Forty or Fight." The baroness tells Nicholas she will do her best to prevent his marriage. Bhe 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 pets drunk and sends the slipper to Eliza beth. The wedding fa declared off, and Nicholas is ordered from the house by Elizabeth's father. Nicholas is ordered to gain access to a meeting of the Hud Bon Bay directors in Montreal and learn England's intentions regarding Oregon. Nicholas sees the baroness leave the di rectors' meeting In Montreal, where he bad failed to gain admission. She warns him that his life is in danger and he ac repts an invitation to pass tho night at Ler home. CHAPTER XVI. Continued. 1 "Yet you spoke of others -who might come here. What others? Who are they? The representatives of Mex ico? Some attache of the British embassy at Washington? Some min ister from England itself, sent here direct?" She smiled at me again. "I told you not to go back to your hotel, did I not?" I got no further with her, it seemed. "You interest me sometimes," she went on slowly, at last, "yet you seem to have so little brain! Now, in your employment, I should think that brain would be somewhat useful at times." "I do not deny that suggestion, madam." "But you are unable to analyze. Thus, in the matter of yourself. I suppose if you were told of it, you would only say that you forgot to look in the toe of the slipper you had.' "Did you credit the attache of Mex ico with being nothing more than a drunken rowdy, to follow me across town with a little shoe in his car riage?" "But you said he was in wine." "True. But would that be a rea son? Continually you show your lack of brain in accepting as conclusive results which could not possibly have occurred. Granted he was in wine, granted he followed me, granted he had my shoe in his possession what then? Does it follow that at the ball at the White House he could have removed that shoe? Does monsieur think that I, too, was in wine?" "I agree that I have no brain! I cannot guess what you mean. I can only beg once more that you explain." "Now listen. In your most youth ful and charming innocence I presume you do not know much of the capabil ities for concealment offered by a lady's apparel! Now, suppose I had a message where do you think I could hide it; granted, of course, the conditions obtaining at a ball in the White House?" "Then you did have a message? It came to you there, at that time?" She nodded. "Certainly, Mr. Van Zandt had almost no other opportun ity to meet me or get word to me." "Van Zandt! Madam, are you in deed in the camp of all these different Interests? So, what Pakenham said was true! Van Zandt is the attache of Texas. Van Zandt is pleading with Mr. Calhoun that he shall take up the secretaryship. Van Zandt promises us the friendship of Texas if we will stand out for the annexation of Texas. Van Zandt promises us every effort In his power against England. Van Zandt promises us the sternest of fronts against treacherous Mexico. Van Zandt i3 known to be interested In thi3 fair Dona Lucrezia, just as Polk is. Now, then, comes Van Zandt with his secret message slipped into the hand of madam at the ambassa dor's ball madam, the friend of Eng land! The attache of Mexico is curi ous furious to know what Texas is Baying to England! And that message must be concealed! And madam con ceals it in " She smiled at me brilliantly. "You come on," she said. "Should your head be opened and analyzed, yes, I think a trace of brain might be discovered by good chemistry." I resumed impatiently. "You put his message In your slipper?" She nodded. "Yes," she said, "in the toe of it. There was barely chance to do that. You see, our skirts ara full and wide; there are curtains in the east room; there was wine by this time; there was music; so I ef fected that much. But when you took : r I BY EMERSON HOUGH : I .AUTHOR. Or THE MISflfIPPI BUBBJLI5 - 1 IIXTJJTRATIONy by MAGNUT G.KETINER- "Then You Think There Is a Chance and England the slipper, you took Van Zandt's note! You had it. It was true, what I told Pakenham before the president I did not then have that note! You had it. At least, I thought you had it, till I found it crumpled on the table the next day! It must have fallen there from the shoe when we made our little exchange that night. Ah, you hurried me. I scarce knew whether I was clad or shod, until the next afternoon after I left you at the White House grounds. So you hastily departed to your wedding?" "So small a shoe could not have held an extended epistle, madam," I said, ignoring her question. "No, but the little roll of . paper caused me anguish. After I had danced I was on the point of faint ing. I hastened to the cover of the nearest curtain, where I might not be noticed. Senor Yturrio of Mexico was somewhat vigilant He wished to know what Texas planned with England. He has long made love to me by threats, and jewels. As I stood behind the curtain I saw his face, I fled; but one shoe the empty one was not well fastened, and it fell. I could not walk. I reached down, removed the other shoe with its note, hid it in my handkerchief thank Providence for the fashion of so much lace and so, not in wine, monsieur, as you may believe, and somewhat anxious, as you may also believe, expecting to hear at once of an encounter between Van Zandt and the Mexican minister, Senor Almonte, or his attache Yturrio, or between one of them and some one else, I made my adieux I will warrant the only woman in her stocking feet who bowed for Mr. Tyler at the ball that night!" "Yes, so far as I know, madam, you are the only lady who ever left the east room precisely so clad. And so you got into your own carriage alone after awhile? And so, when you were there you put on the shoe which was left? And so Yturrio of Mexico got the other one and found nothing in it! And so, he wanted this one!" "You come on," she said. "You have something more than a trace of brain." "And that other shoe, which I got that night?" Without a word she smoothed out a bit of paper which she removed from a near-by desk, and handed it to me. "This was in yours! As I said, in my confusion I supposed you had it." I spread the page upon the cloth be fore me; my eyes raced down the lines. I did not make further reply to her. "Madam," went on the communica tion, "say to your august friend Sir Richard that we have reached the end of our endurance of these late de lays. The promises of the United States mean nothing. We can trust neither Whig nor Democrat any long er. There is no one party in power, nor will there be. There are two sec tions in America and there is no na tion, and Texas knows not where to go. We have offered to Mr. Tyler to join the union if the union will al low U3 to join. We intend to reserve our own lands and reserve the right to organize later into four or more states, if our people shall so desire. But as a great state we will join the union if the union will accept us. That must be seen. "England now beseeches us not to of Trouble Between Our Country Out There?" enter the union, but to stand apart, either for independence or for alli ance with Mexico and England. The proposition has been made to us toy divide into two governments, one free and one slave. England ha3 proposed to us to advance us moneys to pay all our debts if we will agree to this. Settled by bold men from our mother country', the republic, Texas has been averse to this. But now our own mother repudiates us, not once but many times. We get no decision. This then, dear madam, is from Tex as to England by your hand, and we know you will carry it safe and secret. We shall accept this proposal of Eng land, and avail ourselves of the rich ness of her generosity. "If within thirty days action Is not taken In Washington for the annexa tion of Texas, Texas will never in the history of the world be one of the United States. Moreover, If the United States shall lose Texas, also they lose Oregon, and all of Oregon. Carry this news I am persuaded that it will be welcome to that gentleman whose ear I know you have; and be lieve me always, my dear madam, with respect and admiration, yours, for the state of Texas, Van Zandt." I drew "a deep breath as I saw this proof of double play on the part of this representative of the republic of the southwest. "They are traitors!" I exclaimed. "But there must be ac tion something must be done at once. I must not wait; I must go! I must take this, at least, to Mr. Cal houn." "Have I been fair with you thus far?" she asked at length. "More than fair. I could not have asked this of you. In an hour I have learned the news of years. But will you not also tell me what is the news from Chateau Ramezay? Then, In deed, I could go home feeling I had done very much for my chief." "Monsieur, I cannot do so. You will not tell me that other news." "Of what?" "Of your nuptials!" "Madam, I cannot do so. But for you, much as I owe you, I would like to wring your neck. I would like to take your arms in my hands and crush them, until " "Until what?" Her face was strange. I saw a hand raised to her throat. "Until you told me about Oregon!" said I. I saw her arms move just one in stant her body incline. She gazed at me steadily, somberly. Then her hands fell. "Ah, God! how I hate you both!" she said; "you and her. You were married, after all! Yes, it can be, it can be! A woman may love one man even though he could give her only a bed of husks! And a man may love a woman, too one woman. I had not known." "Monsieur, adieu!" she added swift ly. I bent and kissed her hand. "Madam, au revoir!" "No, adieu! Go!" CHAPTER XVII. A Hunter of Butterflies. I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women. Queen Christina. There was at that time in Montreal a sort of news room and public ex change, which made a place of gen eral meeting. It was supplied with newspapers and the like, and kept up by subscriptions of the town mer chants a spacious room made out oJ the old Methodist chapel, on St. Jo eeph street. I knew this for a place of town gossip, and hoped I mighi hit upon something to ahl me in mj errand, which was no more than be gun. It seemed. Entering the plac shortly before noon, I made pretenst of reading, all the while with an ey and an ear out for anything thai might happen. As I stared in pretense at the pag before me, I fumbled idly in a pocket, with unthinking hand, and brought oul to place before me on tho table, an object of-which at first I was uncon sciousthe little Indian blanket clasp. As it lay before me I felt seized of a sudden hatred for it, and let fall on it a heavy hand. As I did so, I heard a voice at my ear. "Mein Gott, man, do not! Yot break it, surely." t rr,r-tnA d tha T had not heard JL DIM 1111 any one approach. I discovered now that the speaker had taken a seat near me at the table, ana ccuiu uui fail to see thi3 object which lay bo fore me. "I beg pardon," he said, in a broken speech which showed his foreign birth; "but it iss so beautiful; to break It iss wrong." I pushed the trinket along the tablo towards him. " 'Tis of little value," I said, "and is always in the way when I would find anything in my pocket." "But once some one hass made it; once it hass been value. Tell mo where you get it?" "North of the Platte, in our west ern territories," I said. "I onco traded in that country." ','You are American?" "Yes." "So," he said thoughtfully. "So. A great country, a very great country. Me, I also live in it." "Indeed?" I said. "In what part?" "It iss five years since I cross tha Rockies." "You have crossed the Rockies? I envy you." "You meesunderstand me. I live west of them for five years. I am now come east." I was afraid my eye3 showed my interest; but he went on. "I haf been in the Columbia coun try and in the Willamette country, where most of your Americans are settled. I know somewhat of Califor nia. Mr. Howard, of the Hudson Bay Company, knows also of the country of California. He said to those Eng lish eentlemans at our meeting last night that England should haf some thing to offset California on the west coast; because, though Mexico claims California, the Yankees really rule j there, and will rule there yet moro. He iss right; but they laughed at him." "Oh, I think little will come of all this talk," I said carelessly. "It is very far, out to Oregon." Yet all the time my heart was leaping. So he had been there, at that very meeting of which I could learn nothing! "You know not what you say. 8 A thousand men came into Oregon last year. It Iss like one of tho great mi grations of the peopfes of Asia, ol Europe. I say to you, it iss a great epoch. There Iss a folk-movemen1 such as we haf not seen since th days of the Huns, the Goths, tho Van dals, since the CImri movement. II iss an epoch, my friend! It iss fate that iss in it." "So, then, it is a great country?" I asked. "It iss so great, these traders do not wish it known. They wish only that It may be savage; also that their posts and their harems may be undis turbed. That iss what they wish. These Scots go wild again, In the wilderness. They trade and they trav el, but it iss not homes they build. Sir George Simpson wants steel traps and not plows west of the Rockies. That iss all!" "They do not speak so of Dr. Mc Laughlin," I began tentatively. "My friend, a great man, McLaugh lin, believe me! But he iss not Mc Kay; he iss not Simpson; he Is3 not Behrens; he iss not Colville; he iss not Douglas. And I say to you, as I learned last night you see, they asked me also to tell what I knew of Oregon I say to you that last night McLaughlin was deposed. He iss in charge no more so soon as they can get word to him, he loses his place at Vancouver." "After a lifetime in the service!" I commented. "Yess, after a lifetime; and Mc Laughlin had brain and heart, too. If England would listen to him, she would learn sometings. He plants, he plows, he hass gardens and mills and houses and herds. Yess, if they let McLaughlin alone, they would haf a civilization on the Columbia, and not a fur-trading post. Then they could oppose your civilization there. That iss what he preaehfs. Simpson preaches otherwise. Simpson loses Oregon to England, it may be." "Then you think there is a chance of trouble between our country and England, out there?" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Sunday School Lenon for Feb. 25, 1911 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT-I Kings 21. Memory verses 17-19. GOLDEN TEXT "Tako heed, and be ware of covctousness."Luke 12:15. TIME Four or five years after the last lesson. Prof. Beecher puts this story in the 20th year of Ahab, B. C. DOG (or 803, Assyrian) between his Syrian campaign, I Kings 20 and tho war described in I Kings 22. PEACE Ahab's house In Samaria, and Naboth's vineyard in Jezrcel, 20 miles to the north. For four or five years Elijah seems to have retired from public life. He was practicing the lesson he had learned on Horeb. He was at work, but in a different way. His stormy work was not in vain. That plowed the ground, and now was the time for sowing the seed. The seven thousand hidden believers were permitted to come into the open. Persecution had ceased. Others came out and joined them. The prophets had no longer to be hidden in a cave by Obadiah. Elijah encouraged and was at the head of the organized communities or schools of the prophets which existed as far back as Samuel. In his last journey he visited the "sons of the prophets" at Bethel and Jericho, and is spoken of as their head master. From these centers and from the schools at Gilgal, Ramah and Gibeah they exerted a strong influence and their appearance at any particular spot was often the signal for the cut break of a contagious religious fervor. These settlements may be described as training schools for religious pur poses. Elijah was thus educating the people in the true religious life. He was working in accordance with the still small voice of God. Elijah's success was in finding and training Elisha to be prophet in his stead, training under these newer in- j fiuences and methods. The great prophet, so lonely hitherto, had found a friend. If there was one thing Eli jah needed to mellow him, it was that! Naboth, a native of Jezreel, had for his vine-yard an ancestral possession. We learn that Naboth was a worship er of Jehovah, and in spite of tho per secution of the prophets did not shrink from making it known to the king by his language. Here was an example of one who had not bowed the knee nor given a kiss to Baal. Jezebel coveted this vineyard. Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard. And Ahab went. The Septuagint adds that he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth, as though shocked at his crime and anxious to prove his Innocence to his own conscience and to the people. But the hypocrisy of the act was shown by his willingness to accept the fruits of the crime. This mourning for the means but acceptance of the fact would not be in disaccord with Ahab's moral weakness. Covetousness is "a root of all kinds of evil." It is the desire, the motive that lies in the heart, "the prolific mother of all sins, the cockatrice's egg from which breaks forth the viper and the fiery flying serpent." It is not an awful thought that the deadly sin of Judas and of Ananias sprang from greed? "Still as of old, man by him self is priced; for thirty pieces Judas sold himself not Christ!" Much of the sin and danger to our land springs from covetousness. The graft, the dishonesty, the liquor sell ing, the bribery, the fraud of every i kind. A clear vision of the evil covetous ness works in the covetous man's own character and destiny. How it de grades him, shuts him up in a narrow ing prison like one described among the tortures of the Inquisition, where the walls drew nearer together by one notch each day. The doors of oppor tunity are. gradually shut against him, and his part in the blessing of the great world. The one essential cure is a change of heart that leads to a change of character. It is to give your heart to God, to consecrate your whole being to him, to love and obey him, to strive with the whole soul to build up his kingdom. Love is the cure of covet ousness; love to God and love to man. Use every opportunity of giving and serving others. Don't complain of so many calls, but rejoice in the oppor tunity; search for opportunities as for hid treasure. God loves the whole souled hilarious giver. Even the poor est can give. They can say, as Peter said to the lame man at the Beautiful gate of the temple, "such as I have give I thee." There is much more to give than mere money; sympathy, work, time, aid in sickness, feeding the hungry, shelter, care and a multi tude of other things. Elijah confronted the king in his ill. gotten property. The word of the Lord came to Elijah. In what form we do not know, any more than we know all the ways in which one spirit Influ ences another. But that it was God's word is a fact. "It is implied that Elijah found Ahab strode into his presence in the vineyard. Ahab walks around his newly gotten vineyard. He admires trellis and clus ter. Suddenly Elijah stands before him. He had not seen Elijah for five years. And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: be cause thou hast sold thyself to work evil In the sight of the Lord. Hi3 sin had found him out., Then Elijah spoke to him his doom. The dogs should lick his blood in the very spot where they licked Naboth's blood. His sons should be slain, his wife, Jezebel, perish mis orably, his whole dynasty come to an end. Happy Ending to Experience TnzX Might Have Developed Fatal Results. Hayne, N. C "I was in a very low stato cf health last spring," writes Mrs. Z. V. Spell of this place, "and was not able to be up and tend to my duties. We consulted our family doc tor, and he advised me to try Cardui, which I did, and soon began to feel better. I got able to be up and help do my housework. "I continued to take your medicine, and I am now able to do my house work and to care for my children, and I do not feel as though I could ever thank you enough for the bene fits I have received. I shall heartily recommend Cardui to all similarly af flicted, for I think your medicine a Godsend to all women." 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Queen Mary is following the ex ample set by her mother, the duchess of Teck, who at the time of her daugh ter's wedding with the present king declared that for the trousseau "not a yard of cambric or linen, of flannel or tweed, of lace or ribbon, should be bought outside the kingdom," and who kept to her word. Queen Mary Is having her coronation robes and gowns for court functions as well as the opening of parliament gown made by a British firm or all British mate rial. She has ordered eight dresses so far, and work on them has commenc ed. London correspondent New York Sun. And It Was All Imagination. "I wonder how much imagination governs some persons' senses?" re marked a visitor at the St. Regis yes terday. "For a Christmas present I sent to a young woman of my ac quaintance one of the most elaborate sachet cases I could find. 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