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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
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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
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"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,
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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.
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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."
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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
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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!"
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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
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