- 1 3 ; H ! :yy-i w SYNOPSIS. " i.houn becomes secretary of ,-vU-r's cabinet with the fixed de 1 to acquire both Texas and Nicholas Trist, his secretary, is u message to the Barones9 von tnd reputed mistress of the tt.i'.' truster, raKennam. Trlst err haroness and assists her in :r. pursuers. She agrees to . and as a pledge tnat she 11.1 what lie wants to know re . intentions of England toward srives Trlst a slipper, the ( -f , huh has been lost. Trist is or Montreal on state business, and - - to be married to Elizabeth . .; in-fore departing. The baroness . will try to prevent the marriage. -:i congressman, who is assisting needing arrangements, blun :!v : .. mis the baroness' slipper to instead of the owner, and the ,.c- is declared off. Nicholas finds ir.mcss in Montreal, she having suc ,. w ht re he failed. In discovering i s intentions regarding -Oregon, him the .slipper he had. con i ;i note from the Texas attache to . saying that if the- United ; i net annex Texas within 30 days uid lose both Texas and Oregon. j :i orders Trist to head a party I r r Oregon. Calhoun excites the .-v of Senora Yturrlo, and thereby .- the signature of the Texas at i a treaty of annexation. Nicholas s in Oregon. Later the baroness ar !i a British warship. She tells hi 5 that a note she placed in her i i-aused the breaking off of his A iln T T j r: ' t:-. 7 Kr.gi. ! I'ak-: -V ' t- ' tar::' e.rr.v murm.ce. ana mat sne intends to return t.i "Wasliington to repair the wrong. XI ,;:uh.s follows her. He learns on the way that Folk has been elected and Texas annexed, and that there is to be war. with Mexico. The baroness tells Trist that in return for a compromise of the tiivtron boundary on the. forty-ninth (Ittrret. -!;e has sold herself to Pakenham. the tells him the story of her life. CHAPTER XXXIII, Continued. She nodded. "Yes. Debauchee, Take, monster, degenerate, product of that aristocracy which had oppressed us, I was obliged to marry him, a "man three times my age! I pleaded. I bogged. I was taken away by night. I was I was They say I was married- to him. For myself, I did not know where I was or what happened. But after that they said I was the wife of this man, a sot, a monster, the memory only of manhood. Now in deed, the revenge of the aristocracy was complete!" She wnt on at last in ; a voice icy cold. "I fled one night, back to Hun gary. For a month they could not find me. I was still young." I saw my people then as I had no before. I saw also the monarchies of Europe. Ah. now I knew what oppression meant T Now I knew what class dis tinction and special privileges meant! I saw what ruin it was spelling for cur country what it will spell for your country, if they ever come to rale here. Ah, then that dream came to me which had come to my father. that beautiful dream which justified me in everything I did. My friend, can it can it in part justify me now? "For the first time, then, I resolved to live! I have loved my father ever since that time. I-pledged myself to continue that work which he had un dertaken! I pledged myself to better the condition of humanity if I might "There was no hope for me. I was condemned and ruined as it was. My life was gone. Such as I had left, that I resolved to give to what shall we call it? the idee democratique. "Now, may God rest my mother's soul, and mine also, so that some time I may see her in another world I pray I may be good enough for that some time. I have not been sweet and sinless as was my mother, Fate laid a heavier burden upon me. But what remained with me throughout was the idea which my father had be queathed me " , "Ah, but also that beauty and sweet ness and loyalty which came to you from your mother," I insisted. She shook her head. "Wait!" she said. "Now they pursued me as though I had been a criminal, and they, took me back horsemen about me who did as they liked, I was, I say, a sacrifice. News of this came to that man who was my husband. He had not the courage of the nobles left But he heard of one nobleman against whom he had a special grudge, and him one night, foully and unfairly, he murdered. "News of that came to the emperor My husband was tried, and, the case being well known to the public, it was necessary to convict him for the sake of example. Then, on the day set for his beheading, the emperor reprieved him. The hour for the execution passed, and, being now free for the time,, he fled the country. He went to Africa, and there he so disgraced the state that bore him that of late times I hear he has been sent for to come tack to Austria. Even yet the em peror may suspend the reprieve and fcend him to the block for his ancient crime. If he had a thousand heads le could not atone for the worse crimes he has done! - "But of him and of his end I knov nothing. So, now, you eee I was and am wed, and yet am not wed, and never was. I do not know what I am, nor who I am. After all,-1 cannot tell you who I am or what I am, because I myself do not know. "It was no longer safe for me In ay own country. They would not let Ke go to my father any more. As for him, he went on with his studies) tome part of his mind being bright clear. They did not wish him about the court now. All these mat BHSBMBBDia9BEBaBaHaBHKmHanHBnaHnaHaatfli . "Yes," Said She, "Among Other Things ters were to be hushed up. The court of England began to take cognizance of these things. Our government wa3 scandalized. They sent my father, on pretext of. scientific errands, into one country and another to Sweden, to England, to Africa, at last to America. Thus it happened that you met him. You must both have been very near to meeting me in Montreal. It was fate, as we of Hungary would say. "As for me, I was no mere hare brained radical. I did not go to Rus sia, did uot join the revolutionary circle of Paris, did not seek out Prus sia. That -is folly. .My father was right. It must be the years, it must be the good heritage, it must be the good environment, it must be even opportunity for all, which alone can produce good human Jaelngs! In short, believe me, a victim, the hope of the world is in a real democracy. "Slowly, gradually, I was coming to believe that." She paused a moment. "Then, one time, monsieur I met you, here in this very room!. God pity me! You were the first man I had ever seen. God pity me! I believe I loved, you that night, that very first night! We are friends. We are brave. You arg man and gentleman, so I may say that, now. I am no longer woman. I am but' a sacrifice. "Opportunity must exist, open and free for all the world," she went on, not looking at me more than I could now at her. "I have set my life to prove this thing. When I came here to this America out of pique, out of a love of adventure, out of sheer daring and exultation in imposture then I saw why I was born, for what purpose! It was to do such work as I might to prove the theory of my father, and tp justify the life of my mother. For that thing I was born. For that thing I have been damned on this earth; I may be damned in the life to come, unless I can make some great atone ment. For these I suffer and shall al ways suffer.. But what of that? There must always be a .sacrifice." The unspeakable tragedy Qf her voice cut to my soul. "But listen!" I broke out. "You are young. You are free. All the world is before you. You can have anything you like " "Ah. do not talk to me of that," she exclaimed imperiously. "Do not tempt me to attempt the deceit of myself! I made myself as I am, long ago. I did not love. I did not know It. As to marriage, I did not need It. I had abundant means without. I was in the upper ranks of society. I was there; I was classified; I lived with them. But always I had my purposes, my plans. For them I paid, paid, paid, as a woman must, with what a wom an has. "But now, I am far ahead' of my story. Let me bring It. on. I went to Paris. I have- sown some seeds of venom, some seeds of revolution, In one place or another In Europe In my time. Ah, It works; It will go! Here and there 1 have cost a human life. Here and there work was to be. done which I disliked; but I dldlt. Mis guided, tracared for, mishandled as I had. been well, as I said, I went to Paris. ' ' "Ah; sir,, will you not, too, leave the room, and let me tell on this story to mjself,',to my own soul? It. is fitter "for qv confessor than for you." I Have Been 'America Vespucci!'" "Let me, then, be your confessor!" said I. "Forget! Forget! You have not been this which you say. Do I not know?" "No, you do not know. Well, let be. Let me go on! I say I went to Paris. I was close to the throne of France. That little duke of Orleans, son rf T.nii fa PhiHnno wna n nntmat in my hands. Oh. I do not doubt -i did mischief In that court, or at least if I failed ij was through no lack of effort! I was called there 'America Vespucci.' They thought me Italian! At last they came to know who I was They dared not make open rupture in the face of the courts of Europe. Certain of their high officials came to me and my young duke of Orleans They asked me to leave Paris. They did not command it the duke of Or leans cared for that part of it. But they requested me outside not in his presence. They offered me a price, a hrihe such an offerine as would. I fancied, leave me free to pursue my own ideas In my own fashion and in any corner of the world. You have perhaps seen some of my little fan cies. I imagined that love and hap piness were never for me only am bition and unrest. With these goes luxury, sometimes. At least this sort of personal liberty was offered me the price of leaving Paris, and leaving the son of Louis Philippe to his own devices. I did so." "And so, then you came to Wash ington? That must have been some years ago." Yes: some five years ago. I still TOoo ,r,r t tM rnn that must have known me, and so, no doubt, you did. .Did you ever hear of 'America Vespucci'?" A smile came to my face at the sug gestion of that celebrated adventuress and mysterious impostress who had figured in the annals of Washington a fair Italian, so the rumor ran, who had come to this country to set up a claim, upon our credulity at least, to ' I than Amerigo. Vespucci himself! This supposititious Italian had indeed gone so far as to secure the Introduction of a bill in congress granting to 'her cer tain lands. The fate of that bill even then hung in the balance. I had no reason to put anything beyond the au- daclty of this-woman with whom. I spoke! My smile was simply that marked, the eventual voting down of this once celebrateti measure, T, U.VM as merry and as bold a jest as ever was offered the credulity of a nation one conceivable only In the mad and bitter, wit of Helena von Ritz! "Yes, madam," I said, "I have heard of 'America Vespucci.' I presume that you are now about to repeat that you areshe!" She nodded, the mischievous enjoy ment of her colossal jest showing in her eyes; in spite of, all. "Yes," said she, "among other,thlngs, I have been 'America Vespucci! There seemed little to do here in intrigue, and that was my first endeavor to amuse my self. Then I found other employment. England needed a skillful secret agent. Why should I be faithful to England? At least,, why should I not also en joy Intrigue "with yonder government of Mexico at the Bame time? There came also Mr. Van Zandt of this Re public of Texas. Yes" it Is true, I have seen some '. sport here in Wash- ington! But all the time as I played In my own little gamewith no one to enjoy it save mysglf I saw myself begin o lose. This country this great splendid country of savages began to lake me by the hands, began to look me In the eyes, and ask me: 'Helena von Rltz, what are you? What might you have been? So now," she concluded, "you asked me, asked me what I was, and I have told you. I ask you myself, what am I, what am I to be; and I say, I am un clean. But, being as I am, I have done what I have done. It was for a prin cipleor it was for youl I do not know." Tfere' are those who can be noth ing else but clean," I broke out. "I shall not endure to hear you speak thus of yourself. You you, what have you not done for us? Was not your mother clean in her heart? Sins such as you mention were never those of scarlet. If you have sinned, your sins are white as snow. I at least am confessor enough to tell you that." Ah, my confessor!" she reached out her hands to me, her eyes swim ming wet. Then she pushed me back suddenly, beating with her little hands upon my breast as though I were an enemy. "Do not!" she said. Goi" My eye caught' sight of the great key, Pakenham's key, lying there on the table. Maddened, I caught it up, and, with a quick wrench of my naked hands, broke it in two, and threw the halves on the floor to join the torn scroll of England's pledge. I divided Oregon at the forty-ninth parallel and not at fifty-four forty, when I broke Pakenham's key. But you shall see why I have never re gretted that. Ask Sir Richard Pakenham if ho wants his Icey now!" I said. r CHAPTER XXXIV. The Victory." She will not stay the siege of loving terms. Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to soul-seducing gold For she is wise, if I can judge of her; And fair Ehe is. if that mine eyes bo true; And true she is, as she hath proved her self. Shakespeare. "What have you done? she ex claimed. "Are you mad? He may be here at any moment now. Go, at once!" "I' shall not go!" "My house is my ow! I am my own!" "You know it is not true, madam!" I saw the slow shudder that crossed her form. the fringe of wet whlch- sprang to her eyelashes. Again the Pleading gesture of her half-open fin gcrs "Ah, what matter?"-she said. "It is only one woman more, against so much. What is past, is past, mon sieur. Once down, a woman does not rise." "You forget history you forget the thief upon the cross ! " "The thief on the cross was not a woman. No, I am guilty beyond hope!' "Rather, you are only mad beyond reason, madam. I shall not go so long as you feel thus although God knows I am no fonfessor." "I confessed to you told you my story, so there could be no bridge across the gulf between us. My hap- piness ended then." f T nr AAncnnnonia thot Tiro 11 IS ui law vuugvutuv t.uu.b " be happy, madam. I give you back your own words about yon torch of principles." For a time she sat and looked at me steadily. There was, I say, some sort of radiance on her face, though I, dull of wit, could neither under stand nor describe it. I only knew that she seemed to ponder for a long 11 J 1 GITO If she rose and left me, parting the satin draperies which screened her boudoir from the outer room. There was silence for some time. Perhaps she prayed I do not know. t Now other events took this situa tion in hand. I heard a footfall on walk, a cautious knocking on the great front door. So, my lord Paken ham was nrompt. Now I could not escape even if I liked.- (TO BE CONTINUED.) The Polite Chiffonier. A certain woman while walking down the avenue one Thursday after- noon, her negro maid's "day out," chanced to meet that young person ridine In an automobile with two col- rr-o ffionHs The next dav the mis-1 tress inquired how the maid had ten- Joyed her ride. "Oh, it was cerfnly fine!" was the reply. "And the way I came to go, ma'am; was this. I was callln on my cousin when a friend-of hers, a chlf- fonier. came in. He said he had the machine . outside and asked her to have a ride,, and. as he concluded me lh the Invitation, of co'se I went!" ' . , : ' - . Rare Old Wine. Some wine has been discovered In the cellars of the city hall, of Bremen, which has been left there for two and a half centuries. "Great Sums Spent iii- Luxuries! ..'CUM 5.000,000 . CAN0Y 78,000,000 JEWFLRY 80,000,000 IIT A.SHINGTON. When it comes to if a keen understanding of domes tic economy, there is . no man living who has anything on Representative J. JIampton ; Moore of Philadelphia. He has completed a list of luxuries which shows that the candy con sumed in a single year reDresents the cost of a complete chain of canals from Boston to Key West; that the jewelry sold represents twice the cost of building the Panama canal, and that the nickels annually dropped on oda water counters are sufficient to establish a complete inland water way system. The statistics with which Represent ative Moore backs his assertions are colossal. They represent his investi gation into the reason for the high cost Of living, and prove that the in dividual himself is in a large meas ure responsible for the decline of the dollar's value. According to Mr. Moore, the boys Shoddy in Much A PRELIMINARY statement sfcow- ing the general results of the 1909 census for establishments en gaged in the manufacture of woolen and worsted goods- has just been is sued by the director of the census, E. Dana Durand. Although the number of establish ments has decreased, denoting a ten dency toward concentration, which has been the rule in the wool manu facturing industry since 1870, on the other hand the amount of capital re ported as invested shows an increase from $256,554,000 in 1899 to $415,465.- 000 in 1909, or 62 per cent during the decade. The cost of materials used increased 85 per cent, and the amount paid in salaries and wages 58 per cent. The number of salaried offi cials and' clerks increased but 47 per cent, and the number of wage earn ers only 29 per cent. The value of products increased from $238,745,000 in 1899 to $419,826,- 000 in 1909, or 76 per cent. The greater part of this increase took place during the second half df the decade; in fact, the increase of over $100,000,000 in the five years since 1904 is far greater" than that of any decade prior to 1900 in the history of the industry. Economy Board ITHIIIh THEREy CAN BE QUfTE ASAVIMC HERE THE economy and efficiency board is beginning to get results. , It has reached a point in its labors where it thinks it foresees where a million dol lars may be saved during the first year of Us existence. At present it is devoting its atten tions largely to the item of traveling expenses of government employees and to the duplication of work in the de partments. The president and the mem bers of his cabinet were surprised to learn from this board that the travel ing expenses charged against the treas ury last year aggregated about $12,- 000,000. Just how much this enormous sum can be reduced without crippling the public service in the least is still a question, but the members of the econ omy and efficiency board are confi dent that a great saving can be made. Can't Have the i HE navy department probably will be unable " to comply with the wishes 0f the people of California who have asked that the old sailing ship Portsmouth now at the New York navy yard, be towed to the Pacific coast, to be preserved there as a naval mu seum. The people of the 'Pacific coast are anxious to have the Portsmouth sent-to San Francisco bay because she was identified with the early his- tory of California. . She sailed Into San Francisco bay and took possession 1n the name of the United States. If she had not taken this action what is now California might have become a part of the British , empire, as two British cruisers arrived there only a Tew hours after the Portsmouth. The San Francisco people want to use the old vessel as an exhibit in connection with the coming exposition there . The aavy department, however, has 'received a report from a board of sur vey, which estimated that about $25, 000 would be necessary to fit the old sailing vessel for the long crnise to the west coast. In addition the expense of such a long trip would be'considerable In vfew of the outlay. involved). in the and girls of the country 34kT the old- er people, too, spent $25,000,000 UstS year on chewing gum. The country's confectionary bill fot 1910 amounted' to f $7,000,000. . J The $80,00$000 spent on, jewelry twice ' the amount requires! to build the Panama canal. ' . Our soda water bill wai $320,000, 000. The representative says: "Take the egg, for instance; it doesn't cost the hen any more to lay ara egg today than it did 100 years ago, but we pay more than our grandfathers did be cause we don't let the hen lay the egg where we can get out the "back door ourselves and pick it up. The farmer's wife in Idaho goes out and gathers ijp an egg, keeps it till a man comes along with a buggy and takes it from 1 sr. He crates, sorts , and packs it along with others and then carries it to the railrpad. It is laid in April, May or June ; . you don't get it until the following, Christmas, and you have to pay for its keep all that time, pay -for the cold, storage, pay the railroad rates, the expanse of the man who went .around in a buggy and gathered it and the initial price of the farmer's wife in Idaho. It is the same all along the line." Less Demand DON'T BRINCV OUT AhYTHirtC SHODDY I WAriT M0THIHC J3UT THF 6ESTJ The quantity of wool consumed, in condition purchased, increased from 330,179,000 pounds to 474,751,000 pounds, or 44 per cent.; reckoned on a' scoured wool basis, the increase was 50 per cent. The quantity of raw cot ton consumed decreased from 40,245 000 pounds to 20,055,000 pounds, or 50 per cent., while the amount of cotton yarn purchased - Increased from 35,343,000 pounds to 39,169,000 pounds, or 11 per cent. The net re sult is a decided decrease in the amount of cotton used as a material by wool manufacturers. The figures also show a marked de crease in the use of shoddy. This is explained by the fact that the manufacture of worsted fabrics, into which shoddy does not enter as a material to any appreciable extent, has increased enormously, while the quantity of woolen-fabrics in which shoddy is utilized was actually less in 1909 than in 1899. to Save Millions The heads of the executive depart ments have . received instructions to pare traveling expenses wherever pos sible. This order Is applicable to the war and navy departments, as well as to all other departments of govern ment. , . . , Of course, the largeness of the Item for traveling expenses is due in great measure to the laws under which men in the navy and In the army, either as officers or privates, receive travel allowances. The travel expenses -of the department of agriculture " and the department of the interior are also necessarily heavy, and the same is true, though not to so great an ex tent, of the post office department. The injunction that has gone out simply is that travel pay must not be authorized except where travel on government business is absolutely necessary. Soon after President Taft entered the White House, and ong before the present economy and efficiency board was created, instructions went out to the heads of the executive depart ments to curtail traveling expenses wherever possible. . Old Portsmouth proposal Secretary of the Navy Meyer feels that, it jvould be inadvisable for the government to undertake the send ing ofi the Portstnctath j to the Pacific coast. v It is -probable that, she will be turned over to'the'Marine Hospital service for use as a floating hos pital. The old sailing vessel Independence, now at the Mare Island navy yard will also be disposed of soon. Aboard of survey has been ordered to inves tigate'" her coition and recommend what disposition should be made of her. , The Independence sailed in 1815 for the Barbary coast under Commo dore William Bainbridge o arrange the difficulties between the United States and the Barbary powers! She has been used as "a deceiving ship at the Mare Island navyyrd since 1SSIV 1 1 --gssSS TBggfc - I'M its i; 'in-, Is . x ---'il-t . . "s. 1 -f . ,i u Vt fx1 i ' 1 m -f. u ' v .1 HI Pi 4i i1 .4 I- if ! ' 1 1 '1 'I f . 4 t - --1 y- vj ' : . :, j ill y h i ' i i 'J t - f ' - J M J, ' it I' , C ft 1 1 .v

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