formal picture an<S the portralts ° v e l y l n c r i m ! n a t l n g a b o u t t h e had told quartera had given Johnson but another week jwrere excellent. Mrs. Elting- A d m i r a l Kltingr in frank confldence that as in which at least to make some attempt. He fcommented on this fact. lifeguard-in-chief he had declded on a sweep- had reported his plan and i u difflculties and

- Yes," said Mr. Aria, "the l n g r S g 'm® t h a t Mr" A r , a ' u n t " h l s w o r k w a s exhorted to get around these latter in king was kind enough to send f,nl®he<1' s h o u l d n o t o f a "y «°od ex- eome way or other, or else tender his resig-me that souvenir. X had the C®P subjected to close examination or nation ae inefflcient. And with that went all honor to be his sruest for several , 5 a t e n S ° m e P ' a c e W h e r e b i s "^eshment hope of a fortune which might set him up days at Sandringham." ^ 3 u n a n t i c I P a t e d - for life.

A , , , Johnson may have suspected this precau- that "everything comes to him whd A manservant approachcd ^ ^ . . . •hjr^ ^ ^ ^ ^ t l o n a n d <iespaired of carrying out his mur- waits applies also to the criminal, and the JMrs. Jidting" ana offered her a » ^ „ . . A „ , , derous design. But in the meantime some- opportunity for/which Johnson might have emall object wrapped in tissue r. , . , . . „ , , , , a er I t ^roved to b h r thing had happened which set him on a waited if he had been foreminded came most eUe^which^she had ov^Tlooked ® f f erent train of thought. Studying the unexpectedly in a day of dense white fog.

Your steward& brought V 8:1,01111(18 through his glasses late one eve- Still better (though he might have got Jeave mad-m " said he a n d M r s Elt ^ ^ ^ ^ o b s e r v e d a s u d d e n activity about on kome pretext) there was no cabin lunch-ing happening ai tha t moment ^ ^ C h a S S e m a C h ' n ° t 0 * t h ° a d m i r a l a n d

to glance a t Dr Isaacs wonder- W a S w h e e l e d o u t a n d r o I I e d across t h e j a w n Mrs. Elting having gone to ?Tne of the ad-ed at the expression of intense t 0 U S f a r t h e r a n d u p p e r l i m l t s ' A l m o s t i m " ^r&Va daughters, while Marcia was lunching

. " , , ' mediately two figures, which he identified a s a t the Arias'. annoyance which crossed his A , „ , ' T a , , , handsome face ^ young Elting, appeared, both Johnson decided to act. He had already despite the heat being bulkily costumed and provided himself with the requisite accesso-

* hooded and masked as for a lofty altitude. ries and going to the sailing-master he asked Aboard the steam yacht Syl- They quickly took their places when the permission to take the dinghy and go ashore,

Via, Steward Johnson found pilot Oakes started the motor and the light saying that he would like to row himself. himself in considerable perplex- machine sped down across the wide declivity This was of course accorded. ity of mind, and when a week of sloping lawn, rose easily, planed off across " Take care you, don't get lost," said tho had passed witl* no developments the water toward the Long Island shore, skipper, jokingly. " l t ' s t'ick as pea soup." ! of any interest to himself this where it took a quick ascent, banked, and 44 &o bloomin' fear, sir," Johnson aziswered. potential assassin grew almost skimmed swiftly away to melt in the haze " I 'm a Londoner." d e s p e r a t f e t 0 t h e s o u t h w a r d . It returned in about an H e went over the side and got into the boat

After the peremptory order h o u r a n d a h a l £ ' J u s t b e f o r e d a r k > a n d t h® wearing a long raincoat which hid his bulg-issued <by Admiral Elting tha t ® t e w a r d o v e r h e a r d the admiral telling the l n g p o c ke t s . The fog was a dense white fluff none of the yacht's personnel s a i l i n S m as te r , Larsen, that Mr. Aria had s u c h a s the sun usually burns up by noon in was to set foot on the Aria es- b e e n s u f f e r m S ^om an at tack of as thma midsummer. But this one persisted as though tate, Johnson took to studying a n d g o n e u p i n t o t h e h i & h a l r i n search of i t might last out the day and so heavy was the grounds surreptitiously with * e l i e f - the vapor tha t it blotted out objects at a strong binoculars through an I B u t t w o m ° r n i n & s later, just before the distance of a hundred yards. open porthole. The result of Johnson heard again the thrum of the J o h n s o n h a d d e parture a little this espionage was such as to J P ^ i n g ^ rp l ane and this time it returned ^ G a k e g , d i n n e r ^ ^ J J render the idea of a nocturnal . ^ twenty.four hours 1]e p u l l e d a w a y i n ^ d i r e c t f o r f J t h e

visit extremely distastefui. H e S t e W a r df t 0 f ' * yacht club untii the Syivia had disappeared.

observed the watchman Connors b e e n » t h e a l r o f t h e Fotornac valley w h e n h p c h a n g e d h i g c o u r g e t Q a ^ and the police dogs circulating t h l s t l m e - A n d s e t h i m s e 1 ^ t o «tudy ™ t h a n a H g h t a n g l e > h e f Q p ^ ^ ^ the premises in the gloaming, a n d means which had no reiation to toad- c l o s e t Q t h e h a n g a r H i s c a l c u l a t i o n w a s

and Johnson knew enough about B t o o l s - accurate and he made his landfall presently these canine protecto.rs to realize J o h n s o n s b r a m ^ a s t r i <*y r a t b e r than in- c l o g e l y ^ h e c o u W g e e ^ ^ that a prowler could not get f a r g e m o n s

; b u t he was useful with his hands and ] i n e o f t h e b i g l Q w s t r u c t u r e > T h e u d e

unmolested. He was also well b e had heard described and read in a treatise o n t h e e b b > a b o u t h a l f Q u t > a n d J o h n

aware that their appetites were °n sabotage issued to members of the 101 m a | d n g f a g t h j s p a i n t e r ^ a r o c k > g t Q o d f w

not susceptible to temptation by « l u b t h e s i m P l e r m e t h o d s *>r making a death m o m e n t l i s t e n i n g > H e a r i n g , n o s o u n d ^ any choice tidbit, however s u c t rap of an airplane in less than five minutes. t h e i m m e d i a t e v i c i n i t y > h e m a d e h i g a g

culent that the first important S u ch procedure, in fact, whether applied to M e n U y ^ ^ ^ o y e r ^ b r Q k e n ^ ^ detail in the training of a chien a i r o r a f t , motor cars, boats, or any other form a n < J g h i n g l e g a n d a p p r o a c h e d t h e h a n g a r f r Q m

policier was to inhibit their o f conveyance, would scarcely need any ex- f r o n t

touching any article of food or planation to the person of ordinary intelii- * drink not tendered them by the & e n o e equipped with a few simple tools. A s t h e s t e W a r d h a d f e a r e d ' t h e p l a c e w a s

hand of authority. He had read The idea struck the steward like a flash ® e C U r e f l G c k e d ' G o i n g o a u t i o u s l y a r o u n d to in an article on the subject tha t f rom hell, making his toadstool scheme ap- S l d e ' h e f o u n d t h a t t h e t w o w i n d o w s o f

many of them were so highly P e ar clumsy, inexact, diffuse, and altogether t h e p i l 0 t S r 0 0 m w e r e s e c u r e d t h e o r d i -intelligent, one might almost say medievaL I t would be the easiest thing in n a r f 7 ^ ™ * * ™ W **** imaginative, tha t from early the world to put in execution if he could only S W e l l e d b y t h e d a m P n e s s » h a d retused to adult life they actually required g e t access to the machine. But while the C l ° S e e n t i r e l y 8 0 t h a t t h e c l a m p h a d n o p u r " , no instruction whatever in this proposition was simple the preposition loomed C h a S e ' / h l S S t r U c k J o h n s o n a s a b i t o f l u c k '

I born an heiress in a 'dobe hut. o n n ... „ . T. . ^ as he dared make no noise for fear of the respect. appalling in size. It often does. laster: " Eight bells, sir," and Johnson's cunning brain suggested thewel l l n the first place, the pilot, Oakes, had hia and also it would have beeii fatal to JS of Admiral Elting: " Make known French apache trick of luring the quarters in the hangar, which in the daytime forcible^entr ^ s l l g h t e s t «vidence ot lent later the bells were struck: dogs away from their beat through that al- w a s visible from all about, while at night 1 1

lg-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding. most irresistible instinct, the mating one. there were also the watchman and his dogs. HJven as it was, he had some difficulty in irew a tulle veil over her ruddy He thought also of having a confederate I t might be quite possible to evade these opewing the window. The conscientious Oakes ed at her mother with a smile. enter the grounds under pretext of selling long enough to do the job, as the hangar was h a d t r i e d h i s b e s t t o ^ a m s n u S , though he lis with the exception of one a brace of fighting bull terriers and acci- on the edge of the rocky bank, opening in h a d n o t c a r r i ed this precaution to the extent tie. dentally loosing their leashes, when they front to free the hydroplane which descended of sawing a window-stick when he found i t

w a t , dea r?" * might manage to kill or maim the police dogs. on a slide, or set of ways, and in the rear impossible to turn the clamp. No doubt he l a t steward, Johnson. 'Somehow the Both of these schemes had to be dismissed, to release the airplanes on the lawn. One reasoned that nobody could force it open l ives me the creeps. He's got such cold, part ly because the canine guardians were a could go directly up to it by boat. anyhow without smashing ^the sash. Tne leyes, and the way he goes slithering pair and partly because it was by no means But knowing the vigilance of Isaacs, or, eteward achieved it, however, with his crate Id. He's iike a bad genie. You don't certain that the bull terriers could make rather, suspecting it, Johnson doubted tha t opener and managed not to sear it notice- . [m anywhere and the first you know he's away with them. the hangar was ever left unguarded except abiy. A moment later he was inside. lu r elbow with his nasty whine and Being no fanatical devotee of anarchy with a t mealtimes, when Oakes went to the " non- As a thief of some slight experience, h i s Ihing you don't want. I t gets on my unselfish though mistaken ideas nor a sin- com's mess," as Isaacs not ineptly called it. first act wiis to open the small door, which p." ister soul ready to run any risk for the lust ^ h e steward had observed Oakes leaving the fastened by a spring lock. In the event of & bnsense. You haven't any. I find him o f k m i n ^ i>ut merely a low grade brave of place every day at 12:30, sometimes returning surpri^e he meant to say that while rowing Y good servant and he came highly rec- whom the sole motive was money, Johnson within the hour, sometimes remaining longer ashore he had got off his bearings in the Inded." h a d n o i n t e n t i o n of taking any chances with absent. He surmised that the young man fog and fetching up at the hangar and see-lell, you'd have to go to heaven or some o w n hide. First and last he was the must be making a course of study along the ing the door a jar he had stepped in to ask I look up the recommendation. Oh, murderous business for himself He would lines of his profession, as light shone f rom if he might borrow a compass a flimsy pre-Ipose he's all right. Come along, n o t ^ave hesitated to betray the plot to Mr. kis window, which was on one side, often text, perhaps, but with plausibility enough liy. We're under navy discipline now." a n ( j s acrifice his confederates but for until late into the night. This was indeed to save him rough handling or arrest. |y got into the launch, followed by Ad- t w o |nhibi t ing reasons. The first was tha t the case, Mr. Aria having advised Oakes to Standing for a moment to listen and hear-I Elting, who, according to etiquette, i n s o ^oing he doubted that he would ever prepare himself for such a position as he i n g nothing, the steward got to work, choos-Kways the last to leave his vessel and d i e o f o l d a g e > a n d i n t h e second something might offer him later in the air transporta- j n g a s the object of his flrst attentions the Irst to go aboard her. Dr. Isaa^s and t o l d h i m t h a t Aria's policy was based on tion scheme .in which he was interested. chasse machine which showed signs of re-Iwere waiting for them at the landing t h a t o £ p i n c kney , " miilions for defense but All of this was ^nfuriating to Johnson, c e n t usage. With a fine file he had jus t | e y walked up to the house where they n o t a c e n t f o r t r i h u t e , " and the steward did especially as he expected any day that the started to nick a forestay close to the turn-Inet by Esther and Mr. Aria. n o t believe that he would be richly rewarded. yacht might leave for a short cruise to the buckle when the faint light from the open I Elting approved of the Aria house- Then came fresh disappointment. Johnson eastward, Newport, and Bar Harbor. The <joor was obscured and he straightened with | n d felt its charm, especially when she had been sure that sooner or later Mr. Aria eteward could not see ho^r merely waiting a s tart to find himself facing a square flgure l i ed to observe a large framed photo- would lunch or dine aboard the yacht and was going to get him any nearer to his ob- i n flannels and looking into the nluzzle of &n I of a group 1n which she recognized had his poison mushrooms in readiness. But ject, his imagination not bfeing quite up to automatic pistol. fcdward .VII, a royal princess, a lady nothing of the sort occurred. The cautious suggesting how this might be brought about. " H a n d s up, Johnson!" said the vibrant Iting, and her present host in conversa- p r . Isaacs had been most unfavorably im- The committee of which he was at that mo- voice of Dr. Isaacs. L a superb sweep of lawn with a stately pressed by the steward's general type and ment the active agent was getting impatient [To be continued.] • in the background. It was ac !p- ^a l thcugh unable to discover anything posi- and spurred on none too gently from head- CCopyright: 1919: By Henry C. Howland.3

r~ „AJ. fication with any particular placci three years at one time, and a little over a , , _ . . . . . * " 7 - ^ ^ and people and knew that while

Sydney Penfold Isham Che8ter Eltim. whose ini- T h e N s u ] t o f t h i s w a B * tial« WOQ for him at sdiool the obvio\ * nickname, f Spice's unfriendly attitude might Spice, comea back to America expectin. to flnd it t h a t the domestic life for which Marcias a dull Plaoe after his adventure. aa an avlator in n e y e r ^ t o no t a c t u a l l y p r e v e n t n e r France. Before he has been home two !ayS, how- moiner imu & r i a g e i t W a s still bound to hur t ever, thinge begrln to happen. From the etudio in happen. Being never identified with any one resentment The which he ha« taken temporary auarters he seea g h e g c a r c e l y and rouse her resentment The | three men breaking into the home of Bernarto Arla. P l a c e r o r a n y i e n g i n O I ' admiral had hoped that his delr- 1 a famous flnancier. He help» Aria ehoot dovn the k n e w w h a t to answer when asked where she ^Wrfnllv 1 marauders, who Prove to be e ^ a r f e . cf a band h a < J ly loved son m g h t cheerful l , 1 of anarchists against whom the flnancier is secietly « v e a » a n u a. « u u j ^ m a k e t h e b e s t Of w h a t w a s al- | operating on beftalf of the grovernment, and on gylvia Briggs realized with a pang of despair volunteering his aid in the flght is cnga.ed to pilot h u s b a n d had entirely lost r e a d y ^ P 1 , Aria on trips to Washington by airplane. Then t ha t she and her husband naa enureiy ioSl T M s g p i c e h a d a c t u a J l y d o n e , 1

! Bpice encounters Marcia Brigps, his newly acauired t o u c h w i t h t h e i r s m a l l circle of early friends .. - n f t r h p c* 1

• s s r x z t x s : - » « — » — • » « -i Spice resents bitterly, but Marcia's breezy cama- manent new ones. . , n n w i t h M r Aria he had dulv 1 raderie provea hard to resigt. And to complicate ington with Mr. Aria he naa au.y matters lurther, Spice flnds himself much inter- i t w a s a peculiar situation and one typ- p a « d r e s p e c t S t dined with his X ^ S S T J S T i r ^ o w » ' Z lcally of western Ameriea, where one rarely f a t h e r a n < J s t e p m o t h e r (Marcla j the 101 club and make new plans for the#murder finds a family living in the habitation of its h a d g Q n e t Q a d i n n e r pai 'ty), and I

Eltingr yacht, which the flnancier freauently visits. mestic triangle, father, mother, and child, n o t k n o w i n g j u s t w h a t moment KPew Tor^wte™ Dr Z7t homeless, practicaUy frienaiess. scarceiy M r A r l a m i g h t w i s h t 0 8 t a r t o a

aide initiates him into the mysteries of an eiab- known in any general locality, and which had t h e h o m e w a r < i fiight. On three TLTZ tfTotZl ZZ It Uved *>r the iast « t e e n years a t the ra te 6 u b s e ( J u e n t t r i p s h e h a d , c a I l e d

ing the apparatus for Spice's beneflt, Isaacs hears 0f SOmewhere between fifty and a hundred e a c h t J m e a t t h e h o u s e f h u t de-

z uJt " u s r s s r - r « » - » « « * « . y e a r , wh1Ch w a 3 w e n c l l n e d t 0 s p e n d t h e n i g h t , a n d

the Elting* yacht arrives for a visit, with the Blt- w i t h i n Briggs' income. He was a natural h y g o m e s t r a n , g e hazard Marcia ings and Marcia aboard^ ^ m Q n e y m a k e r a n ( J p e r h a p s Destiny, h a d b e e n a w a y f r o m h o m e eacfc

FOUBTH INSTALLMENT, • recognizing this fact, thought that he might t i m e #

At the Hangar. a s well have it first as last and unkindly let F r o m b e i n g h u r t > ^ r s . Eltingf

AS Marcia was dressing for dinner at t he him stub his toe against his gold mine. had grown angry a t his behavior.

„ „ . . 0 The kind treatment received ^rias* Mrs. Elting came into her room. Behold the result. If they had spent a ^ ^ ^ ^ f a m i l y a n ( J

If, as maintained by some theorists, quarter of their yearly revenue in two places, f r i e n d s w a s r e assur ing her and one may predict the fu ture physical qualities a summer and winter home, they would have g h e t h o u g h t Spice an insufferable of a girl of 20 by an inspection of her mother established kinsmanly and.socia l relations youny snob, though she had not a t 40, then Marcia's numerous suitors had no a n d n Q d Q u b t p o l i t i c a i o n e s , for Briggs was said so to anybody, not even to

, , . her daughter, who had mad<e no just cause for anxiety. magnetic and masterful, with the gifts of a ^ ^ b o y , g a t t r a c t i o n f o r

Mrs. Elting was a tall, handsome woman l e a d e r . p r o bably there would have been other h e r L i k i n g S p i c e or disliking who in her youth had been the acknowledged chHdren. Sylvia Briggs could have acquired h i m M r s # Elting wouldi have been belle of a t ract of grazing country about the g o m e a c t u a l s o c i a l finish instead of the super- glad to see the two make a match size of France. The fact that at that time its ficial t r a v e l p o l i g h w h i c h a c o u r i e r m i g h t of it. Her horror of an unattach-feminine population might not have exceeded ^ w h i l e M a r c i a , g e d u c a t i o n m u s t h a v e ^ Z V ^ t Z t Z T ^ l tha t of Bordeaux or Brest would have made h a d g o u n d a c a d e m i c b a s i s i n s t e a d of the h e r w e a l t h h a d b e e n s t a r v e d of no particular difference. Leaving the mat ter j o b l o t > f r a g m e n t a r y sort yh ich it actually intimate human intercourse. One of costume out of the question (which as w a g A g g y l v i a w a s w o n t t o s a y > s h e would can thus understand her willing-every man and no woman will admit is the h a y e f e l t l i k e a r e a l p e r s o n inatead of the ness to remarry the kindly AdU only fair viewpoint from which to judge) she fly b y n J g h t a d v e n t u r e s s w h i c h she was often ^ ^ ^ ^ y o u Z ^ o r his 60 could not only have held her own anywhere f o r c e d t Q f e e l h e r g e l f y £ a w ^ v e r y m u c h o f a m a n . but even raided that of other women had it ^ ^ ^ ^ B r i g g g a ^ ^ ^ g t e a d y « W e l l , my dear," said she to been her pleasure, which it never was. * i™ Marcia, " you seem to be getting

u U , K ^ • of S O r t 0 f w a y ' s u c c u m b e d t 0 P n e u m o n i a l n o n p r e t t y w e l l w i t h the spoiled

From her girlhood she had been adept a t ^ ^ h i g ^ M t a l m o g t a g e n g e o f ^ M r t r Z old age.^ all western ladies' outdoor sports. She could ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ M a r c i a p o w d ^ r e d t h e tip of a ride any eastern hobby imported and d l* ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ . n o s e w h i c h like the eye of an mount when she chose without breaking any- ^ e a g l e c o u l d look undaunted at the thing, could throw the lasso with her eyes shut ^ad been the breath of her husband's badly ^ ^ .. ^ ^ b Q t h e r a b o u t S p i c e . and walk through the loop, throw and hogtie treated lungs, During this time her fa ther M a m m y . H e ' s going to pay for Marcia had the singular ,

, . had died and left the bulk of his millions to a n his youthful Alexander airs. I ,, and brand any rider of the plains without n a a a l e a v , v e n . t ' ^rown uo a hotel pest and steamship t h ; l t h e s l n l o v e w l t h E s t h e r A

W At 17 she ealloced Marcia. There had been a reoonciliation of h a v e n t grown u p a notei pesi «The God of Israel forbid. getting kicked or smged. At 17 sne gauopea disturber for nothing."

, .,„ . sorts, and Marcia had visited him upon the alB1- „ . . . _ 3 for all I know. If he is, thoug away from the ranch of her millionaire fa ther is, * „ j t h t h t h c a n s y o u ? H e ought to * . . . . bie ranch which he would never leave. Then ^ „ ' not only Jehovah but Mr. Ari <who was under the wrong impressxon tha t big ranch w ^ h a v e h i a e a r g b o x e d , . w i t h . B u t t h a t - s n o t h i s job." she was too young to wed) to marry a penni- t h e w a r h a d c o m e a n a e y s " H e has." Marcia teased an auburn curl ^ e f f e c t o f a j e w e l e d s i d e . c o l

less young prospector who justifled her fai th Washington, where in the suddenly aug- ^ a flirtation w i t h a p i n k e a r tlp. " I t c a r d e d , t . . C a n . t y o u p u t t w c

b. his star by stubbing his toe almost imme- ^ e n t e d population of " floaters " they had ^ ^ { o r calling me that, though H e g e t h e r _ M a m m y ? J u s t a t t h i s

* . . , found themselves curiously a t home. Mrs. asked me to remember tha t we were dming I g t h e D a v i d t h a t - s g o n e up diately on an outcrop of rich ore. t e e t h a n d p u r c h a s e d a tonight with peopie whose ancestors had been b o l s h e v l k G o l i a t h . T h e y m e a i

Marcia had the singular experience of bemg ^ paying the income tax when ours were drag- J t d born an heiress in a 'dobo hut. For a num- handsome residence on Massachuset s avenue P ^ ^ ^ ^ t h e i r_ c a v e e b y t h e « ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ fcer of months events moved up .so rapidly near the Sheridan circle. She had by thzs ^ „ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ that the beautifui young matron whose fa ther time reached a f rame of mind where the pur- . < W e n > d l d i e v e r h e a r t h e Uke! Sydney M r s . E l t ing 's blue eyes had refused to hear her name mentioried, and chase of a plot in the cemetery would have h a d b e t t e r n o t t r y t o g i v e you any tips on . . G o o d h e a v e n s , M a r c l a _

. h j n „ been a comforting investment, but shortly p 0 Hte behavior. His s i s t d * have told mo a h o d y g U a r d ? » whose husband could scarcely leave h e r i 0 ng f g l t ^ w h a t a y o u n g rowdy he was before the war." . . o f c o u r s e h e T o u

enoiigh to go down hxs burrowana whack oft a a f te r mee g^ .. H i g s l g t e r s m a k e m e t l r e d - M a r c l a said. S p l c e would tak e an ordir few thousand dollars with a sledge, was wash- «nnerenuy aoout ^ m e a n e s t t h i n g a woman can do is to flles Mr. Aria dcwn to ing h e r baby-s clothes on the shady side of a The admiral represented precisely what ^ ^ ^ b r o t h e r . " week and then does a se> dump assayed at about a quarter of a million. her soul craved. This courtly and distin- .. W e n , t h e y don't mind doing it. Muriel is w h i * there. T l . a f s the r Eventually the railroad spur connected with guished gentleman with his honored name. / j e a l Q i j s o f S p i c e . g w a r r e c o r d because her staying over night at th, it and conditions were radically changed. Tho quiet, polished manners. erudition. and solid o w n h u s b a n d s l d e s t e p p e d . He was just above you were to run your hand o^

„ , . „ „ „ i r i o , , ,„,„ f r o m t h 0 social foundation looked to Sylvia Briggs liko d r a f t a g e a n d makes steampipes or some- son tonight a t dinner you f a m i l y r ' T r r - t he capnol or , h e or the Metr<, th i» g . When we were lunching at the R i t , t w o - a n d Ben-Hur, t 0 0 . "

'dobe hut to the most costly suite in the most x n ' t h e o t h e r day Mrs. Howard asked her wha t " Mercy me! Do you thi costly hotel on the Paciflc slope, and f rom politan club or such other long estabhshed s h e a n s w e r e d : « 0 h , in danger?" that time on it seemed to Sylvfc. Briggs, by national institution, and she knew tha t to ^ c h a u f f e u r o r s k y p l l o t o r s o m e t h i n g tot " I don't believe so, Mamm, nature strongly domestic, tha t they were him she herSelf did not look^ike the mint, s o m e r l c h p e o p l e d o w n o f l Field Point.' A have wanted him they'd have iiimnine most of the time. A theatrical stock as she had to a good many other men. Briggs n i c e sisterly remark, wasn-t it? P v e n o before this." She tu ,ned her < jumplng most of the time^ A d e c e a g e d A n d s Q r e a s o n t o b e c r a z y a b o u t S y d n e y . b u t I did liSten. - Who'S that out there? company could scarcely n^ve outek.ppea > t h i n k t h a t w a s p r e t t y r a w » T h e r e c a m e a d i s c r e e t r a p u

them. Briggs became a promoter of mining. they were marr.ed. t h e l r t o n g u e s and and a smooth voice said in the railroad, irrigation. and other propositions, Then came Spice, who acted much a* his ^ ^ ^ Q n ^ s a j n e c l r c u i t . a s o r l b e d t 0 those born within all money making coricernS, and was kept fa ther had foresieen, though rather more so. A n y h o w a w o u l d t a k e a n e x p e r t r i f l e m a n Bow Bells: " T h e h'admiral's constantly on the move, wife and daughter I t was his anticipation of this which had kept ± o g h o o t M u r i e l t h r o u g h t h e brain at ten m'lady, and the launch ls waitii aimavs accomnanying him. the admiral from writing of his prospectiv» p a c e s . A n y f o o i c 0 U ld guess what Spice's " Very well, Johnson. Say v ilIW»Jf O ̂ " " * .. tt rpu. n vf)1i JY1 ladv.

' They lived for varying periods east and marriage. Hohad diecovered tha t Sylvia w a , j 0 b amount , t o ^ o u m e a n ^ u g h the'skyiight they h, , u ^ h . f l fextremely eensitive afcout her lack of identl- Don t be so sweep ng aear. uo you m ™ . x 6