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93 ZING. ISTR2313T nABT.
By MERLIN MOORE TAYLOR
(Ceet:right)
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.
Louie Vogel, a notorioue
Li offered $5,000 by Lebrun t kideap
judge Graham, terror of evil -doers
As Lebrun leaves "Silver Daany's"
release he is obeerved by Ralph
Charlton of the Department of just-
tice who has dubbed him "The Gray
Wolfe" Vogel takes the $1,000 given
hint to bind the compact to Stella
Lathrop, a country girl he had found
starving in the city and befriended.
Stella le now earning honest wages in
a factory and refuses to marry Vogel
unless be gives up his evil ways. She
has, however, fallen a convert to
13o1ehev ism. Vogel caraies out hes pact.
Judge Graham lies bound in a shack
some miles out of thaeity. "The Gray
Wolf" demands that 'the Jacige should
let certain prisoners off with merely
a fine. Threats of death for himself
and torture fee his eon have no weight
with the just Judge.
...CHAPTER IV.
Charlfen Takes the Trail.
• Ralph Charlton, as well as every
other agent a the Department of
Justice, was matted off whatever case
he was following and told to work
• upon eat/ling but the Judge Graham
case until it had beer -solved.
But not all of he coralsingeof the
city had brought be light one single
fact that would help the hounds of
the taw. Dragnets spread into every
neoe and corner of the unclextverld had
dragged cut of their hiding places
every crook of high or lorw degree and
filled the polies stations with them.
Policemen of the olden days, experts
in the now discaeded titled degree,!
came out of retirement OT off lonely
' duties to try to find among all the,
cattea et the dragnet Dente man or
woman weak enough to succumb to'
their segos:cies methods arid yield up
the starting ,point of the chase.
Revrards that ran well up into the
thouetands were posted for the same
peupese. Erste.' man or woman who
was itnewn to have reason to desire;
• revenge upon the miming Judge, and
a great many who were only suspect-
ed, were oluecked up to account for
their whereabouts on Sa.turday night.
At every hour of the clay or night
• those whose nam.ers were on the Gov-
ernment lists as suspeoted radicals or
•disloyalists were put through detailed
examinations for the game ,purpose
But all to no pinwse.• •
It was Charlton who found the clew
and he found it in his own train after
two avighes and a day of sleepless
endeavor. Be suddenly recalled his
Aimless shadowing of "The Gray
•Wolf" several nights before. It was
not that Lebtrun:e was any more to be
suspected than a hundred other per-
sons, but it was bhe fact that Charl-
ton had seen hire in an unexpected
place that misused him to eentere fis
Main upon that slippery individee.1
az having a hand in the disappearance
et Judge Graham..
• Hie fatigue dropped frern him, as
the Federal agent pandered upon this
Lebnane was net accus-
tomed to frequenting the neighbor-
hood where Charlton had seen him.
He did not consort with that gentry
ef the elas.s that frequented "Silver
Danny's." It must have been an un-
psual tliaincris thpataahl;aancl santcef the veteran'
jurist was an unueeal thing. Perhaps t
there was a connection between the
two, Whereupon, without taking any
one into his confidence, Charlton be-
gan to work upon the theory that his
"hunch" was based upon fact,
First he ascertained that Lelerune
had not beast questioned. Then he
browsed through the filee of the De-
partment, dipping in here and there
among its well -indexed papers, read-
ing all of the voluminous reports in
which Lebnme was menctimed. Taken
by the Government agents. He ha.d
disappeared early in his twenties, a
lapse which had never been accounted
for by the invesbigatesa, but had
shown up again an the East Side, a
dozen years later, on a last visit to
his aged mother. From that tirae his
trail had become tortuous. He had
lived in Europe—France, Germany,
Italy—and in a dozen places in the
United States. South America, too,
h:ad sent hint, and Mexico shortly be-
fore Germany had plunged the lverld
into war. And everywhere he had
seemed to have money, a -wealth which
eerbainly had never come to him
through an inhealtance, or as. -a re-
sult of labee, for be did not work. He
appeared only a well-to-do drone, with
no ambition but to live well and eas-
ily, an_appearance that was given the
lie by his glowing beady eyes, They
were not the eyes of one who is. eon
tent to let things move as they will.
Everywhere in his wake there had
been trouble of vartols sorts. No-
thing that ever could be fastened upon
him or even conneeted with him, but
trouble, nevertheless. He was a stormy
petrel, never causing a storm, but al-
ways presaging
Charlton delved partieularly into
his record'auring the war and minute-
ly during the days after the United
States had entered it. Leibrume had
been in Mexico twice while the Am-
erican expedition was over the border
on the long and fruitless chase after
Villa. Also ha had just eetturned from
where Villa had mtade his damnable
raid upon Columbus, New Mexico, and
had started the avenging- troops upon
his trail. He had been in the West
when mysteriouz strikee had. tied up
Geveraunent work, ha had been in the
Bast when simiila.r strikes had dome
likewise. He had been near the At-
lantic coast when German submarines
had vislted to spew their„ deadly
mines about its hartiors. He heel been
here, there, everywhere that daskytal-
ty had :reared its adder head, and yet
he never had been caught at anything,'
Once Charlton, helping raid an I.
W. W. meeting, hadcaught a ii.ash of
coat tails of a peculiar weave vanish-
ing through a window just ahead of
his grasping hande, Anothtr time the
agent, loitering in the rough clothing
a a mechanic. in. a radical bookstetre,
had seen Lebrune perusing a book and
discarding it for another and that in
turn for still another. And the suit
he wore was of that .saane peculiar
weave. Again Charlton had seen him
walking along the street and pause
to light a eigarette—one of the long,
thin, Russian cigarettes which "The
Gray Wolf” affected—in front of a
house which was under Federal sur-
veillanee. Oharlbcyn1 flat upon his
stomach in a hedge row, had thought
he detected a beam of light from a
Basilian -1p in one of the windows of
the house just before Lebrune re-
sumed his walk, the cigarette glowing
to his satisfactiert. Trifles, yes, but
upon trifles mountains are built.
Without any clear plan 'in mind,
Charlton chose to visit thn place of
"Silver Danny," from which he had
seen Lebrune emerge. He was not
known,* there and he 1 alt reasonably
safe in engaging the bartender in con-
versation. He talked casually about
the erespeets in the baseball leagues
and finally the disappearance of Judge
Graham, innocuous subjeets all of
hem in view of the fact that the daily'
papers men
t oned these all. ' I
"Got any 'cigarettes ?" he asked. The
bartender named several brands.
"I'd rather have some Resstians,"
seid Charlton. "I don't suppose there
are 'any real ones to be had now,
• though, although a friend of snine
'seems to have a. supply. Long, slim'
pills."
"'Yell', I know," 'replied the bartend-
er. Feller in here smoking one o'
hem t'other night. But we never dad
andle them. Anything elete do?"
"Yes, a package of 'those," said
Charlbori, pointing to a brand he had
seen advertised as mild. He paid for
the purchase ancl forced himself to
light one in spite of hie distaste for
them.
The telephone rang, and the bar-
tender shuffled up to the front 'end
to answer it. 1 -le eould be heard as-
eerting that "No, ma'am, I ain't eeet
hem, Wait a minute, 11,1 see." Then
he shuffled back and called out to the
porter: "Seen Louie?"
"What Louie? I ain't no mind read-
er, man," protested the negro.
"Dant gare me no Mack," theeetera
ed the ;bartender, "Louie Vogel, I'm
asking about."
"No, I ain't seen him," and, the
"tarter panse.d in his Infopp,ing to
tame:tell his head., "Not since Saturday
long 'bout supeer time."
"Nes, ma'am, Miss .S.tell," said the
bartender to the person en the other
end of the teller:hem and hung up,
To Charlton the negro porter's
seemingly tstivi.al reply was pregnant
with possibilities. A habitue eif the
saloon, evidently, or a weal:anal/void&
net be calling hin there, had hot been
seen eince Saturday night. And it had
boon on Saturday night that Ju
sanely, none of them cast any serious h
reflectien upon "The Gray Wolf!'
Taken together and ci evetei led,
• theotigh the Whole fabric ran a vein
of suspicion that pointed to Lefbrune
as being well worth the attention
which had been paid him.
' Bern of the union a a Russian pol-
, fithical exile atrel the widow of an
1 Italian anatrchiet and reared on the,
!East Side in New York, in .his blood
.1a all the foundation for enmity to-
' 'ward the order of things which breeds
trouble in a eounirer 'Where gia men
:supposedly are free and equal. Even
1 the name he bore was not his own,
hut the corruption ef the cognomen
1 with which his fathee had been born.
Of his youth little had been learned
sed Autos
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eOt to delivery up to 'i00 miles, or test
„run o haine datane Ifon wink 1r aa
Veoet eider as piirchthaefd, Or Dursbae
flee fotunded.
*RING' Mechanto or your ewu,ohotee
;,to leek theth over or rhea' us Ile
i'tcOtO any cur to city reisrosentative for
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Oreakey's tiond Oar, Wittelint,
40blec4.3.0 %tricAlt, T:droit
IltielleY and 30111:ie. Savers.
One ef the most liked device's' is a.
small electric light for the ell'ildren's
hedroore.
This ie 'very -easily installed a
very convenient, eseecially wit
nd
ere
there are very email children, for -jt
a touch 'of the swi:tch makes enou
light to see every youngster is
ered and all right, or to light the NV'
to get water for them.
Ours is a six-1volt lamp with rece
taele, about 8 Or 10 feet of insulat
lamp cord, three day batteries a
stvitcli. The eost of senile wae $2.
which we do not consider much in a
cordance with the coevenietece: Lan
and receptacle, 25e; cord, 25c; swit
10c; batteries, $1.50. Total, $2.10.
We have a boxsjust big enough f
the batteries to set in. • This is fast
ect to the under part of the bed,
may be placed on the floor. Fre
here the coed is run to the switc
which is fastened to the head boa
at a convenient place, and from he
on to the lamp. The lamp may ha
where it is most handy. This enabl
one to move the bed wherever wante
and does not disturb the light.
One may put the batteries in t
cellar and run the c'brd„ through t
floor` if desired, but we did net find th
quite so handy, as the coed was
the way of sieving the bed and f
steeping.
*
salad, leo cream or anything else that
• will give„everyone a chassee to display
lefahended table meeteees.
Are Sunday Schools DYingl
sunday •schools are the patent of the
einglislespeeking 'peoples of the world.
They are found wherever British era
niepican people live, or where their
-tee.
12Aissionariea hare taught but '
elSO••
it is an amusing. thing that the Sun -
e day -school theoe only dates back to
O 1803, and that the very first Sunday-
., school • in the eitorld was otamed at
Iliestol less than 150 years 'ago. When
e there were uo peeple's schools in Eitg-
e• lane many an ambitious lad learned
e to read end write at the Sunday-
the, inechine tucker, I have had grea
success 1witli the followine method:
cut' a., Piece of fairly stii? paper th
width deeired for the eget, aud twely
or snore inchoe in length. After fold
ing. the geed; 1 pin the paper tuel
est marker with the lower cage th
ea foie of the geode, and stitere along th
(se; Itocelsdooffthi:leletfige4,toltde3r,enaueiVitiign.liet
nlouug a
length of it. This method eaves muel
p time and a perfect tuck can be eat
ed easily.
nd
10, Csscks in 11°Ii°11.1.setimayhybe tnlietTrtolYngahillyd
soaking newspapers in• paste made of
eh, a half pound of flour, three quarts (se
Water, half pound of alum, mixed and.
or boiled. The mixture should be about
en_ as thick as putty, and may be forced
m ihnatrodetnhelickte'ee;i:acepitevri.tmhaaohkenife. It will
or
h,
rd I sometimes have to hang' a gate
re or a door, and a carpenbees wife hap -
ng Peeled in one day as I was having a
tuesle with an unouly screw. She in-
du
formed me that carpenters drive the
screw as they do a nail, almost to the
he
head, then clinch it with the screw -
he driver. This little wrinkle has saved
me quite a lot, of time and patience.
*
in
or
If soot falls upon .a rug or carpet,
I never attempt to sweep until I have
covered it thickly with d,ry salt: It
tan then be swept up properly, and
not a stain or smear will be left.
If th' tips are off shoestrings you
eau make them as good az new, and
so they will lace easily, by dampen-
ing the ends with gluie and twisting
them into points.
A returned soldier, finding that it
takes as much ingenuity to combat
the high cost of living as it did - to
fight the Germans, has made a very
practical and economical bassinet for
his first little son. Taking the idea
from a two -wheeled tea table, he built
a frame leaving two wheels in front
and two table legs in back. Upon this
frame, having been very careful to
make it just high enough to suit hs
wife, he s6curely fastened a rectangu-
lar elothes basket. Painted white, and
draped with white ruffles, it is as
pretty and convenient as could be de-
sired.
school, hut witir the coneing of the
Doara-schoe/s, religious inetruction be-
t came their sole purpese.
Abaut the end of last century Sun-
day -schools reached their high-water
mark as far, as attendance is concern-
ed: The average attendance at .the
worldts. Sued -ay -schools every Sunday
afternoon rale iuto tette of millions. Of
late years these has beets a steady de-
cline ill the popularity of the Sunday -
school. t
It woulcl be aeworld catastrophe if
this peculiarly English institution
-
should. lose the immeese,power it has
wielded in tire making of the nation,
et,
Canada ha.s 8,500,000 sheep; Aee-
tralia, 80,000,000; United ,States, 40,-
000,000; Geeat Britain, 21'./,000,000.
When cream is too thin, to whip it
may be made suffieiently thick by
adding unbeaten white of an egg and
beating in the usual manner.
*
VerY often in cooking a cereal for
brealdast, •such gs rolled oats or
cream of wheat, there will be SOTI1C
left over. Many a housewife throws
this away, as it hardens with stand-
ing and a crust forms on it by the
next morning. Thus it is wasted.
Now, an exeellent way to keep a
cereal like this over is to cover it an
inch or so deep with water. The next
morning no cruet will be formed., and
it will not be a whit inferior by stand-
ing. One can cook enough cere,a1 for
two mornings hi this way, and the
extra cooking eie second moening will
only imprave its flavor.
* * *
Often we want to make wide tucks
on thin dresses---tucles too wide for
Gmaleam had disappeared. The thjng..
had possibilities.
"I don't believe I've seen Louie fo
a- day or two, either," said Charlton
So far as he knew he never had set
eyes on Vogel. "Last time I e.a.w-hini
he was talking to same fellow in
here."
"Mebbe," said the.' bartender, noiai-
eonunciltibantly. There was suspicion
in his eyes, a fact Charlton was quick
to notice. Stranigers claitrning ac-
quaintance or friendiship with • men
tvii.o live beyond the law are not to be
trusted when they go talking about
those men. An innocent appearing
question might be charged with dyna-
mite. So Charlton didi not press the
matter, but bought a drink which 'he
forced down, and departed.
But he ha.cl itt last ooneettleing upon
which to work., Louie Vogel, whoever
he was, had not been seen in hie
haunts since Saturday night. And he
must not forget that Vogel had: a wo-
man friend whose name was "Steil."
The lietubenant in charge of the
neatest police station proved a mine
of information on the big subject of
Bag Lome. He also supplied all the
lice knew eibent "Steil."
"She's one of these shouters • at
eorne of the radical meetings -around
this precinct," he added. "A good-
looking kith and works every day, and
we haven't a thing on her, even if
she does mingle around with souse of
our prominent jail -birds. Every one
calls her 'Big Louie's girl,' but I be-
lieve she's straight as a string. Kinder
cracked: on the subject of the oppress-
ed lahering olass, I guess, and they
call hereSed, Steil' when She goes to
spouting off. She and Louie been up
to anything?"
• "Not that I know of," replied
Charlton. He emphasized the word
"know" as a sop to hie own ceneelence,
chatted a few minutes about other
matters and took his leave.
Outside the, police station he took
put a handkerchief and mopped hs
fere:he:ad,
• "Things coming too fast, okls boy,"
he said to himself. "Looks like I
might be getting on a warm trail after
all. Vogel hange out at that saloon,
Lebrune visits it, Vogel out of sight
since Saturday night when the Judge
was kidnapped, his girl's. a 'red." Ail
very seep:etc:est "but there's a weal
link. How dio I know Lebmne has, a
fIniger in the ease at all? I don't.
Then why am I spending all this tissue
&teeing him up? A h.anch, that's all;
Oh,* rats, I'm going to bed and get
some sleep. If I keep tilde up intreh
longer my brain'll be addled."
(To be continued.)
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A Left -Handed Party.
t A party at -Which guests and hosts
may use only -their -left hands does not
sound exciting, ;but try it and see if
following that apparently simple rule
will not assure a whole evening af
fun, interest and unique en.tertain-
rnent.
When all the. guests have anived
announce that as, seen is the games
are over anyone who has used his
right hand during the evening will
have to do whatever stunt tile others
may propose.
Then play games that call for quick
artd aocurate handwork. Ali -up relay,
played leftehamied, is not so easy as
it leeks, nor are potato racing and
spinning the platter. If you have an
old ping-pong set in the house, you
ca.n arrange a left-handed ping-pong
tournament. Divide the company into
couples and Iet bhei_n play doubles.
There is almost- no end to the fun
that bean-bag games, played left.:
handed, will afford. BeartLbag box,
pass-andetoss• relay and teacher and
class are excellent. So arc all rue,
ball tag, centre catch ball end line
• zigzag -_.ail soft -ball or bean-bag
games.
Here are seine' suggestions for for-
feits: Blindfold two players, Lead them
to opposite sides of the ' TOOM, and
then tell them to go toward eaeli other
and shake hands; ask ,sorne one to
laugh -in one corner of the room, to
I sing in the second, to cry in the third
I and to dance in the fourth;- tell a
guest to leave the roam with two
1 legs aied to come- baek -wieh six. It
may be some time before she thinks
°fa four -legged chair as the solution.
?or refreshments serve a simn16
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But suppose you were in a desolate
northern country, in a section 'little
travelled and less explored, and there
,7dde:iy,caisliyour earsth the
01ascorelalarneloctsringig
sniultlneolsii
. This was one of ehe many incident
of my iecent trip to Labrador and Baf-
fin Lend, says a traveller, which kept
me in a continual state of si[rprise,
and the circumstances in this instance
were at once humorous and, pathetic,
It was where that region inhabitesl by
the Cree Indiaes merges with that in
which t;
the Eskimos live. Theeloriaate
I had heard wereein the humble habre'
tat of a family of Crees, When
learned that so many alarm clocks'
were to be found in me aboae, my
sense of humor was tickled, but upon
discovering, how the clocks came to be
there I was touched.
Such people as these are ever chile-,
ren -in the presence of advance,d,races:
They are amused and influenced very
much as children are and, lniye the
seine lack of seasetaf values. Traders
isicanf
k'e,aoltairnt
mcf chtex
ioack,isn,v,p,eeiii,seivrearticles,ead
• iiyex.,
changed for valuable skins and furs.
Seven Phonographs in One Hut.
I hacl an experience of the same na-
ture" with the Eskimos farther north.
I was startled by the shrill tones of a
•jazz band piercing the still Arctic
night and thought for tbe moment that -
fatigue of, the hard day's travel had
manifested itself in hallucinatioHowever, I began a search for the
n.
origin of the music and found it in one
of those little round -top huts. The
sourre of the sounds was an anti-
quated phonogra,ph. Moreover, there
were seven of the enetruments in the
same hut. But the presence af twenty-
seven children in tile family circle,
• who seemed to be enjoying an evening
concert, made me gap" in wonder. The
hut had no ventilation other than that
afforded by the single entail eitteance
the abode itself consisting of a
of hole in the ground, covered veth
various sorts of material. How the oc-
cupants managed to breathe I do tot
kil0w.
Labrador is a -country of severe lei
Ler conditions, difticult tottaxerse, b
inviting to the wilcieene-ss travelle
with a taste for unworn places. If, is
a laud of lakes and rivers. *Nowhere
are such clear, unfiehed streams, no-
where are such white -moss hills as
those of tire' semibarrens. Its lakes
are Labrador's glory.
My inissiou in the country was to
secure a collecien of motion pictures
and photographs in the territory
covered by the aetivitie,s of the Hud-
son Bay Co, The trip was made dur-
ing, the summer moseths, when the
poets were mast a.ccessible.
The pastimes of the -Eskimos, like
their living are primitive. ,For an hour
I watched two women playing at a
game in which they' made hideoue
facial contortions and weird enove.
meets of the body. The point of the
game consisted in the making of such
ludicrous movements and faces as to
cause each other to burst into laugh-
ter. The cne who laUghed first was
the loser. •
Tlae men have a game -which con-
sists ef wrestling in great numbers.
They form a line of six or eight, each
holding his arms around the body of
the man in front. Four sucli lines are
formed, facing 1 rom font- directions.
At a' signal they rush together and it
thee becomes a sort of free-for-all
wrestling. snatch.
Waterproof Sealskin „Soots.
The long narrow canoes which are
the chief means of-tran.sportatien by
water are called kyaks. The Eskhnos
become expert in handling the frail
craft a.nd can travel many miles a day (
on swiftlY rushing, rock -filled streams.
Many sealskin garments' milady
wears might be the ultimate product
of the *ork of an'Eskirno boy. • The
seals are speared with crude weapons
fashioned of WCo.il and bone.'
The footwear of the Eskimo con -
sister of sealskin boots, which are
waterproof -arid reach almost to the
knees. The skin is "tanned"hy chew-
ing with the teeth, anti an. Eskimo
woman calmly' chewing on a piece of
sealskin isa- common spectacle.
• Proceeding through Hiidson's Strait
from the Atlantic we, travelled inc
small steamer which picked its way
tediouely through icebergs.' At the-611-
tramce to the strait, piecesof shore ice
had drifted aground and about sea
and shore were fragments of fresh-
water ice from bergs. The luminous
turquoise. and .the anise of thethin-
ning forms end underwaehed eaves
were of S tattling beauty. Occasional
inassive bergs Were grounde.c1 along
the °east wherever -the Weer was deep..
-n, Barnado boys in Canada arra
'boy inlinigrents from England who
were in the Berne:do homes of that
eolintq. Twenty „thCfLIslind have came
to Oanada to male their \vy, 95...per
ctlit., of Whorit imme,