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Next turning from the window I
tell to examining my fellow passen-
gers in the hope of seeing some one
I knew Conversation on trains makes
short journeys I sat up
stiffly in my seat Diagonally across
the aisle sat the very chap I had met
in the curio-shop! He was quietly
reading a popular magazine and oc-
casionally a smile lightened his sar-
donic mouth Funny that I should
e run across him twice in the same
evening! Men who are contemplating
suicide never smile in that fashion
He was smoking a small well-colored
meerschaum pipe with evident relish
Somehow when a man clenches his
teeth upon the mouthpiece of a re-
spectable pipe it seems impossible to
associate that man with crime But
the fact that I had seen him selecting
a pistol in a pawnshop rather neutral-
ized the good opinion I was willing to
form I have already expressed my
views upon the subject The sight of
him rather worried me though I
could not reason why Whither wu
he bound? Had he finally taken one
of Friard's pistols? For a moment I
was on the point of speaking to him
If only to hear him tell more lies
about the ten of hearts but I wisely
put aside the temptation Besides
St might be possible that he would
not be glad to see me I always avoid
the chance acquaintance unless of
course the said chance acquaintance
Is met under favorable circumstances
—like the girl in Mouquin's for in-
stance! After all it was only an in-
cident and but for his picking up
that card I never should have remem-
bered him
Behind him sat a fellow with a
countenance as red and round and
complacent as an English butler's—
red hair and small twinkling eyes
Once he leaned over and spoke to my
chance acquaintance who without
turning his head thrust a match over
his shoulder The man with the face
of a butler lighted the most villainous
pipe I ever beheld I wondered if
they knew each other But closely
as I watched I saw no sign from
either I turned my collar up and
snuggled down There was no need
of his seeing me
Then my thought reverted to the
ten of hearts again My ten of hearts!
The wrinkle of a chill ran up and
down my spine! My ten of hearts!
Hastily I took out the card and ex-
amined the back of it It was an un-
commonly handsome back represent-
ing Diana the moon and the midnight
sky A horrible supposition came to
me: supposing they looked at the
back as well as at the face of the
card? And again supposing I was
miles away from the requisite color
and design? I was staggered Here
was a pretty fix! I had never even
dreamed of such a contingency Hang
it! I now wished I bad stuck to my
original plan and gone to the theater
Decidedly I was in for it there was
no backing down at this late hour
unless I took the return train for Jer-
sey City and I possessed too much
stubbornness to surrender to any
such weakness Either I should pass
the door committee or I shouldn't of
one thing I was certain
"Blankshire!" bawled the trainman
then the train slowed down and finally
came to a stop
No turning back for me now I
picked up by suit case and got out On
the platform I saw the curio-shop fel-
low again Tramping on ahead the
smell from his villainous pipe assailing
my nostrils was the man who had
asked for a match The former stood
undecided for a moment and dm ing I
this space of time be caught sight of
me He became erect gave me a sud-
den sardonic laugh and swiftly dig-
appeared into the darkness All thiq
was uncommonly disquieting in vain
I stared into the blackness that Incl 4
swallowed him What could be be
doing here at Blankshire? I didn't
like his laugh at all there was kt
once a menace and a challenge in it
"Any baggage sir?" asked one of 1
the station hands
"No" But I asked him to direct me
to a hotel He did so
I made my way down the street 1
The wind had veered around and was
coming in from the sea pure and cold
The storm clouds were broken and 1
pcuriding like dark ships and at I
times there were flashes of radiant c
moonshine
The fashionable hotel was full So c
plodded through the drifts to the I
unfashionable hotel Here I found ac-
commodation I dressed sometimes c
laughing sometimes whistling some-
times standing motionless in doubt
Bah! It was only a lark I thought
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—Contnued of the girl in Mouquin's how much
m the window I better it would have been to spend the
2y fellow passen- evening with her exchanging badinage
seeing some one and looking into each other's eyes!
on trains makes Pshaw! I covered my face with
I sat up the gray mask and descended to the
Diagonally across street
y chap I had met The trolley ran within two miles of
He was quietly the Hunt club The car was crowded
nagazine and oc- with mabqueraders and for the first
ightened his sar- time since I started out I felt comfort-
1y that I should able Everybody laughed and talked
ice in the same though nobody knew who his neighbor
are contemplating was I sat in a corner anent and me
I
RANDLETT OKLA PROGRESSOR
The Car Was Crowded with Masqueraders
Millen as a sphinx Once a pair of
blue slippers attracted my eye and
again the flash of a lovely arm At the
end of the trolley line was a carryall
which was to convey us to the club
We got into the conveyance noisily and
good-humoredly The exclamations of
the women were amusing
"Good gracious!"
"Isn't it fun!"
"Lovely!" And all that It must
have been a novelty for some of these
to act naturally for once Nothing lasts
so long as the natural instinct for play
and we always find ourselves coming
back to it
Standing some hundred yards back
from the road was the famous Holly
wood inn run by the genial Moriarity
Sometimes the members of the Hunt
club put up there for the night when
there was to be a run the following
morning It was open all the year
round
We made the club at exactly 10:30
Fortune went with me doubtless it
was the crowd going in that saved me
from close scrutiny My spirits rose
as I espied Teddy Hamilton at the
door He was on the committee and
was in plain evening clothes It was
good to see a familiar face I shoul-
dered toward him and passed out my
ten dollars
"Hello Teddy my son!" I cried out
Jovially
"Hello!"--grinning Teddy thought
It was some one he knew well so it
was "What's your card?" be cried as
I liressed by him
"The ten of hearts"
"The ten of hearts" repeated Teddy
to a man who was keeping tally on a
big cardboard
This sight did not reassure me If
they were keeping tally of all thecards
presented at the door they would soon
find out that there were too many tens
of hearts too many by one! Well at
any rate I had for the time being es
caped detection now for the fun:
It would be sport-royal while it last-
ed What a tale to give out at the
club of a Sunday night! I chuckled on
the way to the ball room I had die
pensed with going up to the dressing
L'ontn My robe was a genuine one
heavy and warm so I had no overcoat
to check
"Grave monk your blessing!"
Turning I beheld an exquisite Col-
umbine "Pax vobiscum!" I replied sol-
emnly "Pax What does that mean?"
"It means do not believe all you
see in the newspapers"
Columbine laughed gaily "I did
not know that you were a Latin
scholar and besides you gave me to
understand you were coming as Jes-
uit Billy" -
Dilly? Here was one who thought
she knew me I hastened to disillusion
her
"My dear Columbine you do not
know me not the least bit My name
is not Billy it is Dicky"
"Oh you cannot fool me" she re-
turned "I heard you call out to Teddy
Hamilton that your card was the teh
of hearts and you wrote me saying
that would be your card"
Complications already and I
hadn't put my foot inside the ball
room!
"I am sorry" I said "but you have
I
made a mistake Your Jesuit probably
told you his card would be the nine
not the ten"
"I will wager—"
"Hush! This is a charity dance no
one makes wagers at such affairs"
"But— Why my goodness! there's
my Jesuit nowt And to my Intense
relief she dashed away
I carefully observed the Jesuit and
made up my mind to keep an eye
upon him If he really possessed the
ten of hearts the man who kept tally
on the cardboard was doing some tall
thinking about this time I gilded
away into the gorgeous ball room
What a vision greeted my eye! The
decorations were in red and yellow
and it seemed as though perpetual au
tumnal sunset lay over everything
At the far end of the moth was a
small stage hidden behind palms and
giant ferns The band was just
striking up "A Bummer Night in Mu-
nick" and a monderful kaleidoscope
revolved around me I saw Cavaliers
and Roundheads Puritans and Beel-
zebubs Musketeers fools cowboys
Indians kings and princes queens
and empresses fairies and Quaker
maids white and black and red and
green dominoes Tom Fool's night
indeed!
Presently I saw the noble Doge of
Venice coming my way From his
portly carriage I reasoned that if he
wasn't in the gold-book of Venice he
stood very well up in the gold-book
of New York He stopped at my side
and struck an attitude
"Paz vobiscum!" said I bowing
' "Be at the Inquisition Chamber di-
rectly the clock strikes the midnight
hour" he said mysteriously
"I shall be there to deliver the su-
preme interrogation" I replied
"It is well" He drifted away like
a stately ship
Delightful foolery! I saw the Jes-
uit and moved toward him
"Disciple of Loyola hest thou the
ten of hearts?"
"My hearts number nine for I have
lost one to the gay Columbine"
"I breathe! Thou art not he whom
I seek" We separated I was mor-
tally glad that Columbine had made a
mistake
The women always seek the' monk
at a masquerade they want absolu-
tion for the follies they are about to
commit A demure Quakeress
touched my sleeve in passing
"Tell me grave monk why did
you seek the monastery?"
"My wife fell in love with me"--
gloomily
"Then you have a skeleton in the
clothes-press?"
"Do I look like a man who owned
such a thing as a clothes-press much
less so fashionable a thing as a lam-
ily skeleton?"
"Then what do you here?"
"I am mingling with fools as a pen
&nee"
A fool caught me by the sleeve and
battered me gaily over the head with
a bladder
"Marry come up why am I a
fool?"
"It is the fashion" was my answer
This was like to gain me the reputa-
tion of being a wit I must walk care-
fully or these thoughtless ones
would begin to suspect there was an
impostor among them
"Aha!" There was mine ancient
friend Julius "Hail Caesar!"
He stopped
"Shall I beware of the Ides ot
March?" I asked jovially
"Nay my good Cassius rather be-
ware of the ten of hearts" said Cae-
ear in hollow tones and was gone
To be continued
DOG'S WONDERFUL DEVOTIO1V
The devotion of a Newfoundland
dog was pathetic His master had
gone out in a boat which had over-
turned and had been drowned A
rescuing party arrived on the scene
just too late and took the body to
the other side of the lake a mile
away
The dog arrived at the edge of the
water just in time to see the body
of his master lifted out Plunging in
he swam across the lake The poor
animal licked the hands and face and
when he saw that his caresses were
In vain he Beate(' himself at his ma
00000eSOCOWJODOWd
A tooth alleged to have been drawn
from Napeo leon's head at St Helena
was Bold for 13750 For Kant's wig
only 140 could be obtained but
Sterne's wig was valued at 11000
Two hundred dollars is said to have
been given for Descartes' skull
whereas 13400 was given for one of
Sir Isaac Newton's teeth and 120000
was offered for one of the teeth of
He loise at the time when her body
was exhumed The waistcoat worn
by Rousseau has been priced at 1190
his watch at 1100 Not all the relics
however in which there has been
traffic have bout genuine Voltaire
ter's feet and refused to move He
followed the hearse to the burying
ground and seated himself discon
solately at the side of the grave
until the services were over Then
every day he made a trip to the little
cemetery and lay with his head be
tween bis paws beside the grave
A few weeks went by and the dos
began to pine He refused to eat his
food and his visits to the grave be
came more frequent And then one
night when the wind was howling he
started out alone A few days later
they found his body on the shore and
buried him beside his master
REAL AND BOGUS RELICS'
t r 4
cannot have owned more than a frac
tion of the walking sticks that have
been sold as his and a tradesman in
France used to boast that he had die
posed of 132 "last walking sticks" car
ried by Jean Jacques Rousseau A
Paris tradesman for a long time did
an equally lucrative business in "the
last pair of trousers worn by Victor
Hugo"
Didn't Take Their Own Medicine
While it may be true that more
than one man made a million out of
chewing gum they did not make it
out of chewing the gum—Detrolt Free
Press
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No sick headache biliousness
bad taste or constipation
by morning
Get a 10-cent box -
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Stop having a bowel wash-day Let
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A Cascaret tonight will make you
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Millions of men and women take a
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Constipation Adv
Conquer thyself Till thou hest done
that thou art a slave for it is almost
as well to be in subjection to another's
appetite as thine own—Burton
SUFFERED AWFULLY
NOW QUITE WELL
--
A Lady's Siffering Was So Intense
That At Times She Was Unable
To Straighten Her Body
Walnut N C--"About 12 years
ago" says Mrs S W McClure of
Walnut "I began to fail in health get-
ting worse all the time I wasn't able
to do my work suffering awfully at
times with pains in sides especially
the right side and none of the time
was I well
Sometimes I could not straighten
up my body for the intense suffering
I suffered more or less all the time
and was irregular
As Cardui had helped others I
started trying it I bought six bot-
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tles I commenced improving getting
better all the time until I was entirely
well
I became strong and healthy gained
flesh weighing 120 being just a
shadow when I commenced taking
Cardui My work is a pleasure and I
feel like doing my work since for the
cure was permanent and I have been
well and strong ever since
Cardui is a fine medicine for suffer-
ing women and I recommend it to all
my friends who have womanly
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Thousands of women have written
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them Cardui is a mild female tonic
acting especially on the womanly or-
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surely worth a trial
Begin taking Cardul today--Adv
An automobile tire with a metal
tread is said to solve the problem of
skidding blowouts and punctures
GIRLS! GIRLS! TRY IT
BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR
Make It Thick Glossy Wavy Lunar
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Your hair becomes light wavy fluf-
fy abundant and appears as soft lus-
trous and beautiful as a young girl's
after a "Danderine hair cleanse" Juet
try this—moisten a cloth with a little
Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair taking one small
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and in just a few moments you have
doubled the beauty of your hair
Besides beautifying the hair at once
Danderine dissolves every particle of
dandruff cleanses purifies and invig-
orates the scalp forever stopping itch-
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But what will pleare you most will
be after a few weeks' use when you
will actually see new hair—fine and
downy at first—yes—but really new
hair—growing all over the scalp If
you care for pretty soft hair and lots
of it surely get a 25 cent bottle of
Knowlton's Danderine from any store
and just try it Adv
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