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J - ecre o fflVO T& fa MAYRJIEELIE COPYEK3HT SJI BOBBfi-MCEREl OOKBUff SYNOPSIS. Jo Codman and her sister Loulie are left orphans. Their property ha been wept away by the death of their fa jher and they are compelled to cast about lor some means to earn a living. Lou Be answers an advertisement of an Inva lid who wants a companion. She declines Ihe position. Loulie advertises for a po rtion as companion, and Mrs. Hazard replies. She offers Loulie a position as fcer "secretary of frivolous affairs." Her chief work is to steer Mrs. Hazard's son and daughter in the right matrimonial path. Loulie talks baseball to Hap Haz ard and also gains the confidence of Lau ra Hazard. The Due de Trouvllle is be lieved to be interested in Laura. Mrs. Hazard gives a big reception and Loulie meets many people high in the social world. Natalie Agazzlz, to whom Hap has been paying attention, loses an em erald bracelet during the reception. She declares there is not another like it in the world. It develops that Natalie has lost several pieces of jewelry under sim ilar circumstances. Hap takes Loulie to the baseball game. He tells her he is not engaged to Natalie and has been cured of his Infatuation. The scene changes tr the Hazard country place, where many notables have been invited for the summer. Loulie and Laura visit the farm of Winthrop Abbott, an author. In whom Laura takes considerable inter est. Due de Trouvllle arrives at the Haz ard place. Loulie hears "Winthrop's mo tor boat out late at night. Next morning the papers announce the robbery of sev eral nearby" homes. Natalie accuses Lou lie of stealing her ruby pendant. Mrs. Hazard assures Loulie of her confidence in her. Hap declares his love for Loulie. She reciprocates, but will not admit it as he fears what Mrs. Hazard will say. Loulie Is excused from dinner on account of a headache. She is bombarded with notes from Hap Imploring her to see him. CHAPTER XIV. Continued. "That's Winthrop, isn't it?" Hap asked. "I think so. He's coming pretty fast, isn't he? He doesn't always race like that." We could only see a searchlight faintly, for the moon was so bright. It was coming toward us steadily. When almost opposite our landing the boat swerved and came directly head on. It stopped with a snort and a puff, the searchlight was snapped out, and some one landed, tied up the boat and straightened up against the moonlight. "Hello, Winthrop!" Hap called. "Hello, old man," Winthrop an swered. He came toward us. "Is it Miss Codman? Did you see me com ing? I can run away from anybody on this shore. Well!" He dropped down on the sand, took off his cap and turned his face to the breeze. "Were you running away from any body?" I asked. "Yes, I think I was. Funny thing happened. ' I was away up some where along the beach there in front of Hemmingway's or that old Gener al What's-His-Name? Schuyler, when my carburetor balked a bit. I shut her ofT and started to see what the trouble was. I must have drifted in shore, for the first thing I knew three men. ran down the beach, yelled Hands up!' and I was rather startled When I saw by the moonlight that they meant me." "A hold-up!" Hap ejaculated. "WThy, I didn't have anything to teal," Winthrop laughed. "But I de cided I didn't want to put them to the trouble of finding that out. If I had had anything but my bare hands and a monkey wrench I might have given them a turn; instead, I gave the engine full power and came away from that place. One of the foo shot at me got me in the sleeve." Shot you?" I cried. "Just my sleeve," he answered. "Made a hole in it. Daring! a thing like that. It's bright as day and early, too not ten o'clock. Well, it's an Interesting thing to be shot at." He sat up suddenly. Another searchlight swept the water and an other boat came toward us at full power. "We have grand-stand seats to night," Hap remarked flippantly. The other boat behaved curiously. It made for the shore while still hove us and 6lowed up at all the landings as it came to them. We watched it. At our landing the boat topped, the occupants talked excited ly for a while, and one by one came ashore. There were three of them. "Hi, there," called Hap. "What do you want?" "We want you," a heavy voice an wered. They came toward us with assurance. Hap settled his shoulders and I felt sorry for somebody. Winthrop arose. 'Wfcaf the trouble?" he asked quietly. "This young fellow" indicating Hap "has just robbed a house and shot General Schuylet. T'm here to arrest him." "Rats!" Winthrop said. "That's Mr. Hazard. He has been on the beach here. That's my boat." "Then you are the man we -rant. Look boys, there is blood on hig hand. No monkey business now, young fel low. I'm an officer of the law. Just oblige me by holding out your hands." Something gleamed, snapped. I put my hands over my eyes. "Are you afraid to go back to the hoJse alone, Loulie?" Hap asked cr?:!f tly. i c -v- ic ttv b!i1, and went. us mm ft i ' W-w IBusiratiom by V.LEARNES CHAPTER XV. The Box of Jewels. I did not look back as I sped across the lawn, skirted the tennis courts, and reached my room the way I had come. I heard the sputter of the motor-boats as they moved away, mingling with laughter from the drawing-room below. I was in my room, sick with the fear of impending disaster, while the two boats were being tied up at Win throp's landing. Five minutes later the lights were snapped on In Win throp's big living-room. "Gentlemen, be seated," - Hap re marked flippantly. "Cut out the comedy, young feller," commanded the heavy voice as Jim and the other detective snickered. The heavy voice was accompanied by a heavy mustache, a heavy num ber twelve boot, and a heavy derby hat. A half-smoked, fat, black cigar was rammed in his teeth, and he chewed on it as he talked. The oth er two detectives called him Chief. Hap dug his hands into his pockets and turned away to smile. "What can I do for you, gentle men?" Winthrop asked. "Just hand over the sparks," the chief answered, "and be quick about it, too." "I have none," W. "Will you please J things" meaning j- -1 Tnn Vitm ifasten these handcuffs "while I get my a . dressed?" wiped the blood fro his fingers. He "I guess not," iLmed the chief. "You shot General Schuyler; that blood is evidence." "You fool, this is my own blood, Winthrop said quietly. "It's running down my arm." "Search him," directed the chief The other two detectives fell upon Winthrop, slapping him gently first 4n search of a weapon, then poking fingers deftly into pockets like ferrets aiter a rat. uney straightened up empty-handed. "Satisfied?" Winthrop smiled. "You had 'em," insisted the chief. "You've got 'em, unless" he smashed a big fist into the palm of a coarse hand "unless you gave 'em to this young feller." "Hands off me," Hap said, "or ar rest me first. And I dare you to ar rest me!" The chief puffed, then swallowed hard. "Feel him over," he directed. . "Not until you arrest me." "Well, if you ain't got 'em," de manded the chief suspiciously, 'wny do you object to being searched?" "General principles," Hap retorted with a grin. "I have no objection to being arrested. Go to it!" He held out his hands Invitingly. "Now, sup pose you take those handcuffs off Mr. Abbott and we'll attend to that wound before we do anything else." "Get a basin of water," the .chief blustered, "and bring it here. We'll see where that blood come from." "Get a basin, Hap," Winthrop re quested. Hap went out, returning immediate ly with water and bandages. The wound was trivial. The chief looked at it and grunted. The bullet had just nipped the flesh, but Winthrop was full-blooded. Hap washed it and bound it up, while the chief's puffy eyes were fixed on space, and he sat forward in his chair, with a hand on either knee. It was his at- "Look, Boys, There Is Blood on His Hand." tltude when In deep thought. He slapped h's knees finally. "He must have 'em!" he exclaimed. "No, Mr. Officer," Winthrop said, as Hap eased the coat sleeve over the wounded arm, "you've got the wrong pig by the tail this time. I was. fixing my carbureter when you brave offi cers of the law pounced upon me. I hadn't the slightest Idea why, unless you were trying to rob me. I haven't been anywhere, and I p.Bsur yon I haven't stolen anything. I certainly iSiSl have not shot anybody. You see I haven't a gun." -' "Easy to get rid of that," argued the chief. Suddenly an official fore finger was thrust into Winthrop's face. "Young man, you've been snoop ing up and down this 6hore in that boat all summer. We know that long nosed boat of yours. And them rob beries have been happening Just the nights you've oeen out. We've been hiding in the shrubbery ever . since the first one; you've run away from us twice when Dave there didn't keep his eyes open. But we've got you now! You're a darned fool try ing a thing like that when it's as bright as day, and we've got you!" "And now that you have me, what are you going to do with me?" Win throp inquired. "Take you to Jail," the chief re plied succinctly. "Cough up the sparks now, like a good feller." "I haven't them," Winthrop denied. He went to the desk and rang up John Crowninshield. I saw John when he ran out of the house, Jumped into the car Vincent had brought around, and disappeared down the driveway. I even knew where he was going. Just as John turned through the iron gates into the " road Winthrop gathered together and 6haped neatly the sheets of the novel that lay upon his desk, made a note in a book, arose, taking the manusript with him, and knelt before the safe. He worked the combination and pulled open the door. "What you got there?" asked the chief suspiciously. "A novel," answered Winthrop. The chief was regarding the open door of the safe with a cunning eye. "A safe!" he ejaculated. Then he caught his breath with a puff: "Sort of careful of what you write, ain't you?" "Well, rather," Winthrop laughed. Then, to Hap: "Hap, I may want this if I'm tied up in Jail. See, I'm putting it here." The chief's hands gripped his shoul ders and whirled him half-way across the room, while Jim and Dave closed in on either side of the safe. "We'll just take a peek at that safe. Full of novels, I guess? Well, I Just want to see. You know them rob beries have been going on all sum mer." Winthrop looked on, caressing the wounded arm. It was uncomfortable, and he had struck it against a table. His face was white, and he dropped into a chair while Hap put a sympa thetic hand on his shoulder. "He's got no right to search with out a warrant," Hap insisted. "He's doing it," W'inthrop replied. The search revealed nothing but papers, contracts and such, until, just as John slapped on the emergency at Winthrop's door, the detective Jim held up an inlaid box, beautifully fashioned and somewhat heavy. "Looks suspicious," he remarked and passed it to his chief. The chief took it and shook it in qulringly. "Well, we'll take a look at this," he remarked. Winthrop's figure stiffened, but he did not arise. He pointed a forefinger first at the chief, then at the Inlaid box in the chief's hands. "Crowninshield," he directed, speak ing to John, who had appeared in the doorway, mf.ke a note of the con tents of that box and hold that man accountable. He has no search war rant!" John didn't even blink. He came forward, taking a fountain pen and note-book from his pocket. The chief had given the inlaid box a blow against a table and the top of It had fallen open. There came a little cry from everybody, all differently in toned, except from Winthrop and from John, whom nothing could surprise. The two detectives, Jim and Dave, gasped with astonishment, and the chief growled in satisfaction. "Diamonds, eh!" he said. "And ru bies, and and other things." He slapped the lid shut suddenly. "No, you don't there," John said sharply. "We'll make a note of every thing." "I know my business," snarled the chief. "And I know mine. I'm John Crowninshield of Crowninshield & Peabody, attorneys for Mr. Abbott. We'll make a note of everything, my good man, including the fact that you are proceeding without warrant of law." There's nothing that so awes. a de tective as a lawyer in evening dress with his hat off; with a clear, cool voice, and truculent eyes. The chief, after a puff, slowly opened the lid of the inlaid box and put out the jewels, one by one. Finally he held up a bracelet; an old-fashioned affair, set heavy with emeralds. "Not another like It in the world!" Natalie had said "or so many emeralds matched so perfectly." Hap rose suddenly, overturning his chair, and John paused Just the barest fraction of a second before he made the entry. CHAPTER XVI. The Midnight Visitor. It was not very long before Hap came. I knew it was he, for instead of going Into the house and ringing for the gray car like an orderly, well- behaved person, he stood on the ter race and yelled for it. Strangely enough, no one realized that anything had happened. The piano tinkled, I could catch bits of conversation from the bridge players, the click of billiard balls sounded, and there was a rattle of chips from the cardroom upstairs. Hap had disappeared into the house, but presently, when Vincent brought the gray car in front, he came out, climbed into it, threw la the gear with a clatter that made m shiver, and he, too, disappeared down the drive way. ". , A knock came at my door, and Bur rows was there with a note. For the fourth time that evening I opened a note from Hap and read it: Dear Loulie Winthrop has been ar rested, as you know, and the pig headed fool of an officer won't listen to reason. We've got to find a Judge and get him out on bail. It's an awful mistake. Don't get uneasy, John will straighten out everything. The old general isn't badly hurt. It will be in the newspapers. I don't think any power on earth can stop it, but I want to ask you not to believe it, and don't tell Laura unless you must. HAP. I had barely finished reading when Laura knocked and came in. I crushed the note in my hand. "What's the matter with every body?" she asked. "John went away, after a mysterious message, and now Hap has gone, and you're here looking like a ghost. What is it? Has Natalie lost anything else?" "I don't know," I replied. "I haven't seen her." "I didn't dare come up until I saw your light still burning, and I thought, perhaps have you and Hap quarreled?" "No," I said. "Why should I quar rel with Hap?" "Something has happened," she in sisted. "You look queer, guilty. Has Hap been proposing to you?" "How absurd you are," I smiled. "Don't you think of anything, dear, but love and proposals and marriage?" "Perhaps I don't," she replied slow ly. "No one will let me think of any thing else. Loulie, I'm sick of it all," she burst out suddenly. "I've made a fool of myself. I expected Winthrop tonight; I even waited at the gate, There's Nothing That So Awes a De tective as a Lawyer in Evening Dress. sure of him. and he didn't come. Does he think that's the way to win a wom an? Then when I came back, Charley Ayer made a fool of himself. You've been neglecting him lately, and he had to turn to me for consolation, so with Benny Bliss, and now Charlie !" "It's in the air," I said, and the tone was tragic, although I intended to be flippant. "Even His Grace has been consider ing me," she went on, "ever since Mrs. Higginson let it drop how much I was worth in my own right. Of course, he's after money, and I could be the Duchess de Trouville if I beckoned, notwithstanding all that devotion to Natalie. I have more money than she has. I've been wondering tonight if I'm not all wrong, if it isn't wiser to marry some one who wants me rather than some one, I want." She sudden ly covered her face with her hands. "Don't dear," I begged. "Winthrop loves you. He's working for you." "Is he?" she asked, and her hands fell to her sides listlessly. "He hasn't told me so. A woman wants some thing to go on. A woman wants a man to take her and keep her and let nothing matter but that he loves her. That's what a woman wants, isn't it? He would come if he cared. He would ask me to marry him if he really cared." "Perhaps he couldn't come," I said. "I heard him go out in the boat while you were at dinner. Perhaps he in tended to get back and his naughty heroine kept him. You know he solves knotty places like that, and he's try ing so hard to finish. Laura, you know he loves you." "Yes, I suppose so," 6he agreed. "I can't see it that way tonight I'm hurt and I've drifted dangerously near a precipice. cnarlie Ayer nearly pulled me over. After all, I couldn't be so desperately unhappy with Char lie." Perhaps it needed only a word from me to fulfill my duty to Mrs. Hazard, but I couldn't say It. I seized her hands In my own and with a vehe mence that surprised both of us, I said: "Don't give up the man you love, dear. He needs you, he's going to need you more. Love him, believe in him, and whatever happens, keep on believing in him." "What's wrong with you?" she de manded. "You are not yourself. Is anything troubling you? Not that silly ruby? Has John's going away anything to do with it?" "No, dear, there's nothing wrong with me." 'You haven't been been arrested?" 'No, of course not. But I'm dead tired. I think I've let myself get hys terical. Perhaps the summer had been more wearing than I thought. Fm going to sleep now; IH be all right tomorrow." "You're coming with me," she said. "No, not tonight i want to be alono. Ill be up early. : May I kiss you goodnight?" . ; She laughed, kissed me and started out; then she paused and turned back. "Don't you worry over what Natalie said. It's perfectly silly." And she was gone. I noticed that the telephone was ringing insistently on Mrs. Hazard's desk. I answered It It was long dis tance,' wanting Mrs. Hatard. I sent for her, fearing, dreading what might come over the wire. I was so ig norant of what could be done to Win throp. I lingered only with the idea of being able to help her. "YeB," she -answered. "Is that you, John? . . . Wait up? . . . What is it you "want me to sign? . . . Oh!" She held the receiver to her ear a long while, but she didn't say anything else except, 'Goodby." "What is It some one wants you to sign?" Laura wanted to know. "I don't know," she replied. "It was John. I shall have to wait up and see." The tone was casual; so casu al that Laura went back to her room without another question. I was just getting into bed when a knock came. It was not Laura's de cisive tap, nor Celle's inquiring one. I threw on a dressing gown and opened the door. Natalie stood there, her tall, slim figure gracefully outlined against the lighted corridor. "Won't you come in?" I asked me chanically, falteringly. I was amazed. Wliat could have brought her? "May I?" she smiled droopily. "No, I won't sit down" as I snapped on the lights and indicated a chair "I just wanted to say something to you. I couldn't sleep until I did. I want to apologize to you, to tell you that I spoke in haste about that lost ruby. I'm sorry. I know that you couldn't possibly . have done such a thing. couldn't possibls'. I made a frightful mistake. I shall also apologize to Mrs. Hazard. Do you believe me?" She suddenly put out a slim hand, and I remembered the time when I was adrift and that hand had been a protecting one. A little wave of friend liness swept over me. (TO BE CONTINUED.) TO BE SUPERIOR TO CHANCE Man of Necessity Is Made 'of Right Material When He Can Rise Above Depression. Some people are thrown off their balance the moment anything goes wrong with them. They do not seem to have the ability to overcome im pediments and to do their work in spite of annoyance. Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which an noy, harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. In deed, this is the test of greatness. As a matter of fact, the greatest achievements in all time have been ac complished by men and women who have been handicapped, annoyed, per secuted, misunderstood, criticised. But they have been great enough to rise above all these things and to do their work in spite of them. A tremendous power permeates the life and solidifies character from hold ing perpetually the life-thought, the truth-thought, the cheerful-thought and the secret takes hold of the very fun damental principles of the universe, gets down to the verity of things, ex cludes all kinds of errors and lives in reality itself. A sense of security, of power, of calmness and of repose comes in the life that is conscious of being enveloped in the very center of truth and reality which can never come to those who live on the surface of things. Try to visualize the condition of health, happiness and plenty which you long to be yours. The actor does not think that he will sometimes be come the character he impersonates, but he assumes that he is the charac ter now; he makes himself feel that he is the character. He actually imag ines that he is living the life of the character. The Code Feminine. As soon as Mrs. Granger was fair ly past, Mr. Compton heard an irri tated "There! I knew it!" from his wife, and turned to see what was the matter. "She's just as provoked as she can be to think that Mrs. Lombard and I didn't ask her to go out with us to see the Williams baby!" said Mrs. Compton. "She thinks that it was on account of her having said that she didn't find three weeks' old babies very interesting, when of course she'd make an exception of Lena Williams' baby. But that wasn't the reason we didn't ask her; it was because we de cided all in a hurry, and there was Just time to catch the train. She's made up her mind she won't propose our names for the book club!" "How do you know she thinks all these things?", inquired Mr. Compton. "My dear, didn't you see the way she bowed?" asked his wife in a pity ing tone. "Why, yes," said Mr. Compton. "I thought she gave a rather more pro nounced bow than most women do, and smiled quite brilliantly." "You dear thing," and Mrs. Comp ton patted his coat-sleeve, "of course she did! That's how J knew exactly what she was thinking." Youth's Companion. An Escape. "It's useless to urge me to marry you. When I say no I mean no." "Always?" "Invariably." "And can nothing ever break your determina tion when once you make up your mind?" "Absolutely nothing." "WelL I wouldn't care to marry a girl Ilk that, anyhow." Boston Transcript WIBMTIONAL SBNMfSOlOOL LCSS(E (By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening! Department, The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR JUNE 29 THE VICTORIES OF FAITH. READING LESSON Acts 7:-1; Heb, 11:20-22. GOLDEN TEXT "This Is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.." I John 6:1 . The reading lessons for. today are a New Testament commentary upon the past quarter's work. The first lesson Is taken from that marvelous defense of Stephen the first martyr. As he traces the history of the people of Israel, he shows God's continued ac tivities and purposes from the hour he called Abraham until the holy one of Israel came to fill to their fulness all of these same activities and purposes, Stephen also shows us that alongside God's activities was the - equally per-, sistent disobedience of the people which culminated in the betrayal and murder of that holy one. In the por tion selected he sets before us how Joseph is sold into Egypt, yet God was with him and delivered him; how the famine came and Jacob is thereby brought into Egypt only later to be carried back Into the land of promise. Teach Faith. The second lesson is taken from that great catalogue of heroes as re corded in the Epistle to theHebrews. Here we have set before us the fact that God's eternal purpose with man is ever that of faith. Isaac, Jacob and Joseph are here mentioned and the faith of each set before us. Leaving out the Easter lesson we have covered a period of about 50 years, eight lessons dealing with Jo seph, and four with Jacob. Attention has been called to Jo seph as one of the most remarkable types of Christ to be found in the Old Testament (see comments on lesson of April 27). As we have also sug gested Jacob is not so grand a char acter as Abraham yet is much more like the average man. It is interesting to go over these lessons and follow God's purposes and to observe how like Christ Joseph was. In LESSON I. we behold Jacob at the instigation of his mother deceiving his poor old father and being compelled to fly that he might save his life. Re bekah thought she could execute God's purposes; but it is never right to da evil that good may result. In LESSON II. Jehovah appeared be fore this conscience smitten refugee and again promised thaL thw blessing, yes, his own divine purpose, would be worked out in Jacob's life. This is a lesson on the grace of God. LESSON III. sets Jacob before us after twenty-one years' service and separation from his brother Esau. This is a great lesson en God's desire and transforming pover. He trans forms Jacob to Israel a "prince" and softened the heart of Esau. Faith overcame and is strengthened and confirmed. In LESSON IV. we first behold Jo seph particularly loved and favored and as bitterly hated; he was thrown into' a pit to die' but is taken up (typical of the resurrection) and sold into slavery. The development of en vy and the persistent, delivering pur pose of God are here presented in strong contrast LESSON V. shows Joseph's enter ing that dark maze beyond which God was to highly exalt him. By faith he overcame that fierce temptation and his treatment of his fellow prisoner was God's useful agency though it seemed accidental and insignificant God's Continued Purpose. LESSON VI. is the completion of Lesson V. and in It we see Joseph seated in the place of power, able to save the country and also his breth ren. LESSON VH. shows us God's con tinued purpose and the beginning of the fulfillment of his word that the descendants of Abraham were to dwell in captivity (Gen. 15:13). LESSON VIII. is a continuation of Joseph's dealings with his brothers in which their guilty consciences are still further pricked and God reveals to us his immutable purpose. LESSON DC. is a tender one of the meeting of Joseph and Benjamin while at the same time it suggests to us the certainty of the fact that we may "be sure your sin will find you out." Un less covered by his forgiving blood our sin is mercilessly upon our track. In LESSON X. we behold Joseph, made known to his brethren and those In fear are urged to draw near. Jo seph's faith in God saved him from ar rogance and retaliation and Inclined , his heart to tenderness and love in his dealings with his brothers. Even as Joseph revealed himself to his broth ers so will Christ reveal himself. Jeseph's provision for his fathers and his brethren, LESSON XI., Is a. rich suggestion of our father's bounty and care for all who are "in Christ Jesus." By faith Joseph who had be come jgreat in a strange land, identi fied with all of its power and splendor makes provision that when God's pur pose shall be executed and the sons of Israel shall be delivered from Egypt, his bones shall be carried into-. the land of the people to whom he belonged and from whom he has so long been separated. Faith is the se cret of victory. Joseph as & typeo teaches us the lesson cf faith.
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