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Exeter Advocate, 1913-10-11, Page 2t'Ile•112 1 Le -Wont inuere. Caere found some letters Llnd kelerr4111. %leen required immediete attention, awaiting him; and wlieu lie returned to 01103V01101` equure the phaeton 'was at the dor; but he found, Lady Edith in •the drawingereoei loakiug downcast and (Us. aalto In led. -Father bee .lueb emit to Say treat lie hat been detained by- important erteiness- •imitate, of eoureel rias eat and drina PIld s•eep politiee-he auggeste thee shonal go by train later. But it islet at all the thing -we plauned„ le it? Who wante -to eo a tautly train? I want to drive belated the new getraa lier dieappoietmeut was evideetly keenthat Clive said, almost un.thinkinglY! "Why shouldn't I drive you down, and Lord Cheeterleigla join us by train?" "Why, how alerer of yoal" oho cieed, her face lighting up. "That will be splen - teal We ehaant lose our drive after an. FU wiite 8. tt She stopped, and. the color rose to liar fae; for he had eaddenly semembered that it wae seareele the conventionel thing for her to be drivieg about the emen- try Mane with Clive. Aud yet haw tlelight- fat it would be! after all, they ceuld take the groom, whica they bed not intended doing. And even if it were a sin against Society's miwritten code, would it not be worth 'While to eommit it? "Yee; I'll write to fattier!" The nenrest station is called. Perry," remarked. Clive, who had been looking at the Bradshaw, 4nd had not noticed her leeitatiou mid her blush. She eimibbled a note, and placed it on the table 'which her father used for writ- ing; and they \vett out to the carriage. 'Et wasae slie had. said, a isPleadaeloue -phaeton, and the cabs were all that contd be desired. She wae ia good eplrits when So clear Ws ran Yea Ora-ought:a The moment you see it you will want it • It is crystal clear—a pure, translucent green, the shade of violet leaves. Everywhere that this soap has been brought out, the demand for it has been in- stantaneous. Every person who sees it wants it. YQU, t00, will want it. There are many other reasons why you will like this soap; its fragrant odor of fresh cut violets, its instant lather even in the hard- est water; the glycerine in it, the finest skin. food there is. JergeNs VIOLET Glycerirte Soap 10e a eake. 3 cakes for 25c Get a quarter's worth Cagadiatt druggists front coast to toast now hare this map. Ask yours for it. ror a sample cake. send Pc starop to Sae Andre,,. Jerreas Co. Ltri 6 Sherbrooke Street, Perth, Ontarlo,„ • 1 Clive ana she :started; they veee etill high - er es they lete Inatioe behind and dreve through the lanes, soff'y glewing iti their fairing leea. Clive wee glad to get eviay from London tout the etornel roultd at worla and be felt heppier at any rate more aa etree, thee he bad bowl einee the fatal day 'Mine bad. must him eff; beleed, it wOuld laave been Tether difficult to be It n taPPY in ewe porta. • Ise,i lei, 8.1141 wita so beautiful and bright e oempanioa. Tater halted aelf-way, to rest the norees and get some tea, for theneselvee, ann., in. defiance of •canventirmealty, they drank it at the table miteitle the rustle inn. When they started. again, she asked Olive to let her dive. "Do you think you can =Aimee there?" he eat& ."They ere YoUng and. feeell- "Cl, • yes." she replied. "Besides), I can't come to tine aarea while you are sitting' beekle me." He told the groove to take up a, link in the curb, and lie sat, and watched her e cee y as h e droee„ admiration; for elm managed the /ilea fettled horses very well. Atter a while Clive turned to the gloom to ask if they had got, the horeee too tightly curbed; • the nem touched We hat, and bent for. ward. as it he did. not bear the question; and Lady Edith said in an undertone: I You must epealt a little lender; cv ilie aux is rather deal at times nd this is , one of hie bad days. lie is lima. older ' than be looks,” sb.e remerlted, after eeve ,had, repeated the question and had re - I ceived a eatiefaotory reply; but. nearly • all our serrente are old; we scereely ever . • diecaarge therm for anything short of mur- . der; asad I think that some of them are really attacbed to es." "Your old ayale Sara, for instanee," said Clive; he :merest rery devoted." Lady Edith nedeled and. mashed. On„ she is quite %silly,' ehe said, 'I -mean in ibis devotion of here She woult1 let. any of us jump on her. She belouge to a very hot and paesionate race, and is nnewerv- ing in her lore and hete. Sometimes she reminds me of one of the eats, the, big 'wed oate in her own jungles; softly purr. the one menaent, all claws and fury . the next. By the 1)74.Y, you are a great favor- ite of here: I appe you feel nattered." b.tke laaahed as he glanced atahim. "I do, said. Olive; "but I am rather eur. prised. I thought she regarded me some- what unfavorably;, "Oh, that wee some time ago, perhaps, when she first knew yen; they always re- gard one with a certain amount of SUS- picioR: it is their nature to, ae Dr. Watts saye. 'Well, I'm glad I'm in her good beaks now, et any rate," %said Clive. "Whah a pretty bat of country we are going through." "Isret it lovely!" she reeponded. "I .aon.'t know when I have seen anything eo beau- tiful, or when. I have encl.:wed anything so much as this drive. What noneenee it is to say that there is no happinees in this -world." She -farmed. her face to bira; it, was radi- ant:. her +wee, blue as the silty, elione with the happiness of watch she had spoken, her delicately -cut lips were half -parted with a smile of nalloyed pita/sure. • Clive cheeked a sigh. "I am glad," he said. They reached Palmer's Green, and their arrival created no little stir at the tiny, • outeof-the-way inn. It was a charming lit- tle place. ha.Incovered by ley and alight with sprieg !femme. The 'parlor" was scrupuleaely clean, and, for a wonder, had an odor of lavender instead. of damp. Olive found. that chops were above the eapaeltY of the establishment; but he or- dered baxa and. eggs and a high tea. The landlady, grate one of the worthy old tyie, took Lady Bath upstairs; but bust- led back •to Olive to assure him that she wonld make them as comfortable as she amosibly could. ePerhare you and your good lady wared like to go and see the churah while the ineal'a being prepared, sir; she said. It's consid5red to be a very line old build- ing, and -there's some rose ancient enenu- rnente and carying' Clive looked ep eharply at the "your good lady," and was about to correct the wonum; but he clacked himself; it was searcely worth -while to take any notice of the mietake. Pie proposed the chureb to Lady Edith when she came skarn; she aseented promptle; and they strolled to it. It. really was a line o4 church; and they got the key from the sexton's cot- tage, and examined the monuments. the ea.rved oak, and the brasses. There was a sugestion of batienacy in the way they sauntered about alone together, of which Ciao -was vaguely consoious, and which Lady Edith keenly felt: certainly her hen- pinees was not yet waning. "I *wonder whether Lord Chesterleigh will be here in time for tea?" he +said. • "1 doter knew,- replied Lady Edith eas- ily. "He may not come until it is just time to start for home. It wi.I be bright moonlight to -night, and. he -will enjoy the drive. I knew 1 hall." . They wandered about, the lanes for half an liana sometimes silent, sometimes talk- ing in the leisurely, rambling way born of the occasion and their surroundings; then they got hungry, and made their way back to the inn to find A nondescriet but enticing meal awaiting them. Lade Edith enjoyed it immensely, end declared! that she would often have just such a i meal at Grosvenor Square. "But I am afraid it would be different there," be said with a little sigh. '. She presided over the tea at one end. of the table and -Clive sat behind the liane and eggs at the ether; and they certainly looked so very much like II recently mar- ried couple that there was some excuse for the lanclia.dy, who waited, beaming on them' benevolently, after the manner ofe her /rind all the world over when they are regarding a bride and bridegroom; ! •"I teeny cannot eat any more, _ Lady 1 Edith. declared with a, laugh, LIG she . re' fused a further enemy from the huge dish. "I have enjoyed it so much." "They have certainly done us very well," admitteel Clive. "111 go and look at the homes.' • 0 ,, . a meats a you want to smoke, . said Lady 7cldith, •smiling up at hem! "Pray do so here, when you come back,' if you want to. I hke, it." Clive found. the horses all right, and talked them ATOP with the aged Williem. e "You don't know how far it is from the station, 1 suenoee ie as red, Lord Cheeterleigh le comiug down by trsin," William touched hie hat, and teplied in the negative, and Clive, as he sannterecl off, said: "Yea, can loosen these curbs goitig back.' At once, sir?" rieked William. •„en?, Oh, yes, if you like," said Clive abeently. Meanwhile, Lady Edith had wandered into the old-fashitarted warden. "Wliat beautiful flowers; you hate." she eaal to the landlady. 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GREEN op riaxga But -but 11 10 very late already; by the time Ton, have got the fly .and we Mom reached London, it *will be---" 8110 4top- ped and bip her lip. "I know; he setae soothingly; "but I will explain to Lord Chesterleign." "Ify father?" she staid, leaking beyond "It's my con's hobby, ma'am," said .the landlady beanatigly, berg% mall Ineese to pick any that takes your fancy, and Meae bawkay for your goed gen- aeman, Lady Edith's fen ace Saed, and, like Clive, she wee aholit to correct, tee but sise too obeolxed lioreall, thinla him with a growing- fear in her eyes. ae he had tbought, that it did not "He will understan, ; but the servants, - matter, Bet the eimple worae rang in her aa other people?" ears, and made her heart beat quiekly, Clive's heart emote him, andehe felt as and elle steeped over Home fragrant steolte if be could knock his head against the to liide .her eutilthing face. Clive found wall. And the wort of it W06 that he lier Id find thin to say that would pet "rve full perniiseiou," she said. "Are'ne her fettle nk rest, nothing that would not they lovely! Smell!" She held the bunch be too hopelessly banal • He took tip las to hie' face with a novel air of abandon- hat as he heard the landlady's step in the Mont, of simple gaiety which would have eataage, • . <alarmed. any mIr an. 'ou %shall have one. "I do lepe you will not be more (lis- ter your ooat. What shall it be -a pink?" tressed than you can he p," he said. "1 She eeleoted one, and he fumbled. with shall never forgive myself for my care - it. at bie buttoreh•ole; but men are notere • leseueese-I will be back as quickly as I ouely clumey in suck mattere, and she, can; pleaee don't fret abotit it. • with st little gesture of impatience and Be took a step or two towards Iter; she womanly scorn at his efforts, put it ia ite • had sunk into the ohal e egain, and with place, found a pin, and fixed it. She IVP 5 hands tightly claeped in her Ina was star- neceessallY very eloee to him, and, as he ing anxiously at the ere. No men 'with Molted down at her -he had not to look a heart in his bosom could refrain from far, for she, was tall -he could riot fail pitying her. She seemed to Clive like a to notice the lovelinese of the upturned clued, to be isoothed, reassured. His hand. face an its frame of golden hair, blown went to her shoulder; but it fell to hie it little loose by the eeft breeze, She side Swain before he touched her, and glanced up to scan her work, and met hie without another word, he left the room gaze; her eyes fell suddenly, a faint blush quickly, Tose to her face, and e e turned her Ile and the by reached Hansford, to head away, find a small village wrapped' in peareful Clive wae only human, and, like most slumber. Wit/a some difeculty Clive sue - mon alio are worth anything at all, ad- <seeded in waking up the landlord of the mired, beauty of any kind. If there had inn and obtaining, a raixishackle fly -it been no Miva he would have been atirred was.' in feet, a veluele -whicla only resenate to the depths by the prase:any of this ex- led the ordinary fly in ite antiquity and treniely beautiful woman; even as it WOG, mustiness -and with etil greater dif. he was not inseneible to her charms. Ite moved uneaelbe flculty obtained. a driver, with whom Olive and the boy returned to Palmer's Green. "Shall we walk towards the station on Lady Edith was already dreesed for tbe the chance of meeting Lord Caesterleighe" journey. She was calm but very pale, be eaid• • .- and, after a swift g/ance at Olive, her eyes Lady Edith $tifled' it sigh but of course avoided his. He borrowed mine wraps aesented promptly, Raving reeeived inna and a rug from the landlady, and made 'ate instructions as to the way, they start- Lady Edith ae comfortable ae Ite could in ed: and, of course, lost it. However, they the vehicle. At the last -moment he got a reached the station at laet, and, inquirieg glees of hot milk, and insetted upou her when the next London train came in, were drinking it. .11e wondered whether elle informed by an aged porter that it was would prefer that lie should ride on the due in ebout an hour's time. Clive tip- box; but, •aliable to decide, he took; his ped him, and, describing Lord Chester- seat 'berade her. • ieigh, told the jp-ortor to direct the gen. The night was as lovely as the day lad tleman answering that description to the been; and, under .other oixeumatances, inn. the drive would have been enjoyable They went beak slowly; the moou had enough. .As it was, Clive isaw that it was risen from a low bank of claade, and the Incumbent upon him to render it as lit - pretty, "gentle" country seemed lapped tle miserable ae possible; and he tried to in peace; it was a tight for lovers, and talk te her to divert her froze dwelling the miasio of a thrush singing softly iii on the embarrassing situation; and after en ram was echoed. by Lady Laths llama, a time her face lcat its pallor and grew If only •these wonderful, happy hours brighter: the .fact wee she could nee be could last! If she could hold the emir. -unhappy while she was by his side and ance that they too should spend mealy so near, so very near, to him. such hours together alone! 1-3b.e gleamed She said very little, but nestled amidst at him now and again; but though Olive her wraes, her eyes glancing at him now was too well mannered to be absent or and again, and at times closing as if she pireoexupied, ehe had ir painfu1 eenee that were asleep; but she was not sleeping: his feelings were not na harmony with she was asking herself what he would do hers: if they were, how could he refrain when they reached to -syn . Would he --was from ispeakiest the words of love for welch it poesible that a etill greater ha,ppleess her Soul thirsted? than that she wee feeling might be born The night grew slightly chilly; the land: of this contretempe? lady, -with kindly forethought, had lit a Olive -was also asking himself, during fire, aria though the room wae ,not cold, the interanki in which she seemed to be the alaze, reflected in the old' parallieg,eleepieg,_ what eourse he should take. Had made the roam cheerful. Lady. Eolith hie care'esendss compromieed her? If so, drew's, low chair ij M the fire, and leant has course wasaplain, hie duty Obvious. A forward 'with her hands .clasped round vague doubt that -Wee almost a dread' ate Iter knees, making a very graceful pie. sailed aim; and yet with the dthibt 'was ture: it was as if rank and fruihion were mingled an intense pity -for the woman. playing at country eimplicity; sho ap- he had placed in push an iteetward are- peaxed in it new charaoter that night, dicaznen,t, whose good Name he had so thought Clive as he leant against the unwittingly imperilled. raa,ntelehelf above her, and smoked a six- (To be continued,) arette. lIer voice, when she Spoka-there were long intervals of silence, broken only by the spluttering and the crackling of the fire of great logs-owae soft and low and almost dreamy. . Coneciouely or unconeeioutay, she was exerting the influence of sex; and 0011- 0 1- unconseiottely, Clive wee be Ing drawn under itis smell. A clock struck the hour; he started, and looked at hie watch. "Lord. aliesterleighougait tO home been here half an lour ago. he said. "How the time Mee!" "Father ie tot coming," she said. with anything but poignant reerpt. . "I sum 'pose we ought to be starting?" Olive know thee if Lord Chesterleigh were not coming, they await net to be juststarting, but ought to have done eo some home ego; if -ideal, eught not to have come at all; but be nodded eheerful y, and went out to tell William to rut the horeee to, and to help him if .necessary. The horees were not in the stable, the car- riage •was not in the y.erd, and wabam presenting herself as a. German goy - was not to be seen, and did not come when Olive called him: but the landlede erness, moved into a vinecla,d cottage came to the back deer, and 'regarded. Olive in, Southend, 'a little village just out- with swine surprise.• ' side of Shoeburyness, England. •Were you cal ing for your men, sir?" she inquired. "Bea gene." Frieda Schoberg told. those who "Bel Gone where?" asked Clive, 1 were inqUisitiVe enough to inquire "Gone back to •London, sir." elle re- 'that she had been employed by several "Ile Started back a long Ychlia a go• ." She saw' Clivee free tliat ri-oise-- Prominent families to ,give lessons in thing .evals amiss, though ho irstantly sup- German to the children of Southend. "Preseed any show of ettiar!se• "I gave These lessens, She declared, were to him hie tha, early, beceree lie said thee be given in their own homes. von were going back by train, and that he was to take the homes back to Len- A governess, thus employed, finds don at ones." 'occasion to go out a great deal, and hi • "Ab., yea" estid Calve ca,sually. "When is the next train, by thway?" the course of reasonable time Frieda e era ask, eir," she said. "Tbe eorter is Schoberg fennel' it necessary ,to take in the tap"°'n'" fredllent journeys to Shoeburyness, Olive returned to the parlor with a smile which he trusted would not, appear where the English government main - false. to Lady Edith . tained a School of Instruction for naval "Your man mieunderetoad eornethirg efficers and where naval experiments that I sale. said 1ln driven back to L"" were carried on. Here Frieda forrtied don; we Shall aave to return by the e_ train, he said in a, matter-of-fact tone, !ale acquaintanee of a young naval 'Tin very sorry. • officer, who seemed to take keen in - Lady Edith laughoA. She wonyl have terest in' the governess. At South - preferred the drive home alone with him; re, • but, they be be alone in the reilwee route 18 order to avert suspieion, cn,'lag6-np<j the Ineeli was 'till on ber Frieda Schoberg subtly let it be known lips when the lama -lady came in, dropped that she and the officer were eoon to • curtsey, and aid: "The lent trPin has gonh, eir; it went heTTieedi ore an a an our ago. overness's vi mI, sits to Shoebury- nese betame marked by their fre- ;4. We don't ank you to patua a cent until you have used this Wctederful modern tight in yeur own home for ten days, then You triay return it at our expense if not perfectly satiefied, We want you to prove for yourself that it gives fie to fifteen tithes as much light as the ordinary, oil Iarnis,• beats electric, -gaeoline or acetylene. 'Lights anti* put out just li kettle oldoil lamp: glign 70.11guRS .0O, 1 GALLON 011. 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German Governess Sorely Tempted a 'Young English Officer. Four years ago Frieda Schoberg, re- A - ---- - CHAPTBR XXII. eneency. She was a beautiful woraara The laugh died from Leda Edith's litie, brilliant, talented, refined. She took and she etarod with Vatet eyes at the more than a casual interest in guns woman; for eiuldenly, in a neat, she real- and naval affairs generally, and this ized the situation. The /andlady looked from 0710 IAD the other with rome distrese, Unusual interest is thought to have "rm Yam!" sorry, eir," she murmured. proved her undoing. "If so be ae You'd like to sine I'd do nier, The ahignea emcee, on the point of beat to make you comfortable." Tho •bleocl burnt in Lady Edith's face; losing his heart to the captivating governeesI• Pulled Himself Together. tlien it. died siWaY, at.pale to the lira, she rose fa her feet_ Clive VMS pale, too, era he Goa instantly, tamest etetnly: - "We must return to, London, and tal night, at once. Will yen pleaeo get US n, This womritee interest in affairs in and c8rTiage• a t1, anything?" eaboitt Shoeburyness Were of a char - The la,ndlEtdy began to see hor mistatte • me& eeerereea stammered an teleology:, acter to arouse his suspicion. He Clive oit liOt' A or . withheld' . his proposal,. Taut beearrie • "Yee: ,yeei No matter! The carriage, thl AY! - more attentive. One afternoon while be Wris drly- The -woman almost broke down, "There isn't froth it thing in the place, sir he hag with the ghvernese, Frieda Scho- said, "We've no horee or airmage of any berg brought up the mutually ,ititer- kainnadav,atpte,rne'.ost nnetthaeg but, a ratieh 100117 eseing eylejeee of neerai eareare. She awacre can gat„ oner, olive asked, Intimated, as only daring avent Ur- "Pray do Dot be; eletesed, wee tet ess can, that In exchange for dCertain your fault -it wee mires, ell mine., What ramie of fortifieatiOne alid kindred is the,rienrest Pleee!" , "'roil mighm t get a y at Hansford; that's trt.onge a 'Sinn of ImMeY .1.1.at would Dien upott three-,milere. if .you recream make the young ofileer indepeedently. tlie fielaa eir, 111 5e/14 7tY bOY i.o eee 11 wealthy was .at his corainand. • %he be 0011 get one: but 1111 it at all eitre that he will, Oh, dear, deaal If I'd 0111Y officer immediately reported the at- 111.er at- known' go' sield Olive; •"the boa een ell fee ran the waY." .. • " He closed the (toot on the wornea arid • foreerl n goulit "what R,71 awkward eel" lir, seat "Ilue shall he tpio to g4t some' kind at rev • tw Pio:leo, don't. be distresAed• appear before the eoUulianding oflieer at Shoeburyliess, lladauuted, fOie :meneterto ghaiint4. t owilltaetz. thueeireoormwinitinudiubSe known, ha Frieda Sehoberg hastened back to her hanible vitteclad cottage convinced that Southend anti Shoe' buryness Were unhealthy'. places In which to spend one's life, re eda Schoberg disappeared, later tePorting b.er• unlucky attempt to the govern - in whose employ ehe daily rieked her all •on the single throw of the dice, This is but one instance in the. life of the military tied naval spies of for- elgn countries. There are huudrede of them, all wonderfully beautiful and attractive, who follow this vocation. They are to be found in all parts of Europe living as peasants, waitresses, social l'eaders. Beauty, vivaciousuees, cultnre are their principal assets. Without these qualities they cannot hope to win the confidence mid atria, tion of the men who best cart furnish the in formation they seek. Have Unlinilted Funds. They must v.seertain, under what- e'ver pretext they choose, infornaation concerning the military and naval secrets of the great nations. That is what they are paid for and what they risk their lives for. Minute details Of the armaments, fortafica,tons, for, cgs and defences ot the countries they ;invade must be sent to the govern - [meet that pays 'heir wages. • The women spies of the European nations are supplied With almost Ma- i limited funds. They may practice their art wherever they will, so long ,as they do so without involving tne ' country in 'whose service they have enrolled. A few weeks ago George Herbert Parrott, then a gunner in the English navy, was adjudged guilty of commun. ibating naval secrets to a foreign power. " Parrott, it is conceded, Was the victim of a woman spy, who is said to have been. Margaret Tyrrell. He met her in a music hall and ims mediately became one of her most arden_t admirers. Parrott was sent- enced to four yeats' penal servitude. In imposing the sentence Judge Darl- ing addressed Parrott: "I have little doubt," he declared, that you were entrapped by a woman who was nothing but the agent of some foreign person engaged in this traffic, and that you were ingeniouslY entrapped and fell. Because I think that, I may show some sort of len: lency, but it - cannot be light—the 'crime is too great." Many women Were employed as spies by England during the South African war. They were in the field b.ospitals as nurses, and it was while acting in this capacity that they exer- cised their subtle charms and fascin- ations over many of the woemded Boers, thus obtaining military secrets which the British could have procured in no other way. A Young Russian Woman. Rose Patrovitch, employed as. a spy by the Russiane during the Russo- Japanese war, was one of the most daring of these adventuresses of raod- ern times. She is said to have been a member of one of Russia's most distinguished families. At Manchooria she met a young Japanese officer, Who at once became her devoted slave. Tall, graceful, ravishingly 'beautifuj she was a woman who would gladden the life of any man. Rose Patreivitch desired, above all things, certain details and plans re- garding the guns and movements of the, Japanese army and navy. The officer, maddened by her beauty and infatuateel with the prospect of be- coming her hitiband.in the event he played into het heads, threw discre. tion, loyalty and patriotism to the winds and agreed to furnish the in- formation she 'sought. A fellow officer, hewever, in some mysterious `way, had learned of the plans of Rose 'Patroiritcli and her Jap- anese loVer, "Me called the matter to the. attention of •Ilis` superior officer. The superldr officer, on investigation, found that his country was about to be betrayed. 'The -following morning Rose PatroViteh and her suitor dis- appeared. Appa.rently, they met vtith a merciless fate, for -they have never since been Been 07 heard of. • Joanne Renee, alias Bourg, was an opium slave. Despite her dissipation, she remained unusually beautiful. It was while in an opium den at Toulon that she met Adrian Julien, a na,val mechanic employed in the workshops • of the French navy. Julien promptly lost his heart to the fair adveiaturess. [Working on his sympathy aand his de- votion, Jeanne Renee sought to in- duce the young mechanic to reveal to her secrets regarding Some of the French submarines. Julien forgot his love for. the young woman and re- ported the attempted bribery to his superior. The beautiful spy was ar- rested, and to -day languishes in a, French prison, the victim of her Own greed for affluence and power. Never Heard of Again. Posing as a teacher of. languages, Marie Peterson, suspected of being a French spy, was arreeted In Kiel, Ger- many, Seine time ago. Coming. to Kiel, the woman cast the spell of her beget, over Emil Dietrich, a non -Com- missioned officer connected with the German explosives department. Diet- rich was madly in love with her, and after She had attained complete as- cendeney over her victim she request- ed that he reveal to h.er the situation of port Mines and the formula em- ployed by the German army in the Manufacture of smokeless powder: •Dietrich, fearing he would lose her, furnished her with partial infOrmation,, but before he could diselose all the ' closely gearded proceeSes the alithor- itieS intervened and „brought the love ff • t d Merle Peterson Practically betrayed her oven secret to the German secret police, Suppeeed to be teaching lare guages, she always had a well-filled purse and ePent money lavishly oil fashionable clothing, Jewels and en- tertainment. She was arrested, never again to be lieard of. • La •Belle Lison wag a notorious French beauty. Lieutenant young French officer, fell under tho faSoinatiOne of her rare charms. He found her tastes extravagant and his 1 means were not sufficient for their' 1gratification, She suggested to 'him that be Might replenish his purse by eonie of his country's secrete to a foreign. power. Me at first scoffed at the idea, but when she threatened tbrupted 'bribery to his eupealor Priecla Scboberg, believing the gal - ant officer to be deeply in love with her, Per a few days thereafter •con. tinued in her role as goverriese. Early 0110 niorning she was reduested to CHRISTMAS APPEAL FOR The Hospital 'for Sick Chikiroa • 00141400E TO11.014TO I)ear Mr. Editor:— Thanks for your kindnese antna Ing me the privilege ot appealing act this Ohrietraab time on behalf of WO • Hospital for Sick Children, Tarente. 11 wellid tido more spate thRoorqj. can spare to tell of the good work 054 ter the eiok end deformed children of this Provinoe. Let. me, however, in • few words, tell yeti of the progress ,o1 the work of tne Hoanital, • One nurse, *ix little white beds, g few dollars, a few friend—this was the beginning% The be& have grown to 240, the, dollare to. thousands, the friends to 'hundreds. 1875, the first year, 44 in -patients, 67 out-patients; 1913, last year,1,648 in -patients, 25,507 qmt-patients; 1875, 1 nurse; 1913,; 70 nurses. Since 1875, thirty-eight years a,go,, the Hospital` has 'admitted within its. walls 21,018 children as- 1n -patients, and 169,231 AS outpatients, a. total of 180,249, or an average of 4,743 per Year, Of .the 21,018 in-patletitS, 15,200 were from Toronto,' wed 6,818 from ether parts of the Province; 10,150 of the total in -patients were cured. lied 6,367 were improved. * In the Orthopedic Department last year, of the 1,648 in-patieats, 2.78 were treated for deformities, 20 hip disease, 37 Pott's disease, 2 knoeltetnees, bow-legs, 62 elub feet, 8 lateral curva- ture of the spine, 44 infantile paralysis, 6 wry neck, and 75 taberoUlar disease of knee, hip and ankle. In 1912, the • Surgical Apparatus Shop manufactured 427 apOliances for in-patiento and out- patients, iheluding ankle braces, spinal braces, hip splints, b61,y-leg splints, club -feet, splints, piaster jackets, etc. In this Department in 38 years. near. ly 800 boys and girls have been treat- ed for Club Peet and 650 corrected.' 'Half of these came from places out-' side of Toronto. Surely we have a tair claim. for help from the people of, this Province, Will you, the reader of this lette0 help to give crippled children a fair. • start in life? Busy dollars are better than Idle tears. The sympathy that helps is' good, but the Hospital has to have the' sympathy that works. While Christreas 13ells' are riegring to the glory of HIM "Who made the lame to walk and the blind to Sea°. give, give, give, and heir) the Hose, pital to help God's little ones, upon' whom the heavy hand of afflietion has' been laid. • Will you please send a dollar, or, more, if you can @Pare it, to Douglas Davidson, the Secretary -Treasurer of the Hospital, or J. 11058 ROBERTSON, ; eeere-een of the Trneenee. Toronto) to leave him he capitulated, Before, he could do any great harm his treacly ery was discovered. His trial was a matter of form. The woman who had ruined him was the principal wit- ness to testify against him, lied, foimd guilty, publicly disgraced sentenced to life imprisonment. Rat Still Alive. Some time ago a notorious char.; acter in the North of Ireland was sent to jail for tVro months, Dur- jng the time of his incarceration a false report got circulated about the village that he had died in jail, One day after coming out of jail the priest met him in the street. 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