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l•IIAPTt•:U XXV11.--(Cont'd).
CHAPTER XXVIII.
My vigilance on the morrow was For two days the woman I was
•awarded, for about eleven o'clock watching slid not go out. I learnt
in the morning I saw Edna emerge from the chambermaid who, like all
from the room dressed to'go out. ner class, was amenable to half a
She passed my door and descended sovereign iii her palm, that she was
by the stairs, while I took my hat unwell, suffering from a slight cold.
and swiftly followed In r at a safe Then I took the servant into my
distance from observation. es nfidence, and told her that I was
The porter called her a hansom, in the hotel in order to watch Mrs.
and I saw her neat, black -robed Siade's movements, giving her to
figure mount into the conveyance. understand that any assistance she
She had a letter in her hand, and rendered mo would be well paid for.
Toad the address to the porter, I had an object in view, namely,
who in turn repeated it to the driv- to enter her room in her absence,
er. and ascertain the nature of any let -
Meanwhile, I had entered another tars or papers which might be in
hansom. and tolling the man to her possession. This I managed to
keep Edna's cab in sight we drove affect. with the connivance of the
along King's Cross Road and Far- chambermaid, on the following af-
ringdon Street to the City, passing ternoon. Indeed, the chambermaid
along Gresham Street and Loth- assisted me in my eager search, but A locked door separated her sit -
bury. Suddenly the cab I was fol- beyond a few tradesmen's bills and ting -room from mine, and standing
lowing turned into Austin Friars, one or two unimportant private let- by it, listening eagerly, I heard the
while my driver, an intelligent ters from friends addressed to her sound of rustling paper, the hurri-
young fellow, pulled up at the cor- at the Royal Hotel at Hyde, I found cd closing of a box, and her per-
ner of Throgmorton Street, opening nothing. The despatch -box with the mission to show the visitor up.
the trap in the roof, and saying— coronet was locked, and she car- A few ini•iutes passed in silence.
"We'd better wait here, sir, if ried the key upon her bangle. I Then . heard some one onter, and
you don't want the lady to notice made careful search through all a man's voice exclaimed with a dis-
us. She's going into an office at her belongings, the chambermaid tinctly foreign accent—
number 14, opposite the Dutch standing
inthe pocket ofoneof
ratrdoor
the "Ah, my dear Edna! At last ! I
church." while, her dresses hanging in the ward- feared that you would have left be -
"Get down," I said, "and try and robe I discovered a crimpled tele- fore my arrival.
find out whose office she's gone in -
"I "I expected you days ago,"she
to," and I added a protuise to give I smoothed it out, and saw that answered, and I knew from the
himag ostia gratuity for so do it had been dispatched from Phil- man's sigh that he had sunk wear-
ing. ippopolis in Bulgaria, about three i✓3 into a chair.
"Very well, sir," he answered, weeks before, and was addressed to "I was delayed," he explained.
and commenced to back his horse
into a position whore the cab stand- "Mrs. Grainger, Royal Motel, 'I had a narrow escape. Oustrotn-
ing there would not interfere with 11
yde." Its purport, however, I off has guessed the truth."
the traffic, nor bring down upon was unable to lea' n, for it was el- "What 1" she gasped in alarm.
.cher in cipher, or in the Slav fan- • The secret is out'("
him the peremptory order of the guage, of which I had no knowledge
police. whatever.
As he was backing his horse an\gain baffled, I was about to re-
linquish passed on its way to Liv- linquish my search, when, in the
erpool Streot, whereupon the red- pocket of a long driving -coat of
faced driver, quick to detect any light drab cloth I found a letter
difficulty with horses, and ready to addressed to her at Ryde, and evi-
juke at the discomfiture of others, dently forwarded by the hotel
cried out in his Cockney dialect-- clerk.
dialect—
'`Naw then, Soapy feet, mind I caught sight of niy own name,
what yor do with the there Bath- and read it through with interest.
chair and fishier -rod !" "I suppose you have already
Whereat all drivers in the vicin- heard from your friend Gedge, who
ity laughed, and contributed ninny keeps you in touch with everything,
forcible remarks in passing. all the most recent news of Hea-
But the young cabman descended, ton," the letter ran. "It appears
and while I sat back, hiding my that he was found on Cie floor of
face in a newspaper for fear of be- one of the rooms at Denbury, with
ing recognized in that great high- a wound in his head. He had mid-
way of business, he went along deniy gone out of his mind. Tho
Austin Friars to endeavor to dis- doctor said that the case was a
cu% er whose offices she had enter- serious one, but before arrange -
ed. ments could be made for placing
Some ten minutes later he re- lam under restraint he had escaped,
turned with the information that and nothing since has been heard
the lady had entered the office of a cf him. The common idea is that
money -lender named Morrison. hr has committed suicide owing to
The th-'ught occurred to me that business complications. They are,
she was perhaps still endeavoring to tell the truth, beginning to smell
to raise the loan for Prince Ferdin- ,t rat in the ('ity. The Prince's
and. if so, however, why had she concessions have not turned out all
kit the Bath Hotel and endeavored that they were supposed to be, and
to conceal her identity under an- by a side wind I hear that your
other name? friend's financial status, consider -
After twenty minutes or so she ably weakened during she past few
came out rather flushed and excit weeks, has, owing to his sudden and
ed, stood for a moment ui beasts—unaccountable disappearance, drop -
tion upon the kerb, and then gig' ped down to zero. If you can find
int, her cabman an address was
him, lose no time in doing so. Re
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driven off. 1, of course, followed, member that he must not be allow -
but judge my astonishment when ed to open his mouth. Ile may,
the cab pulled up in Old Broad however, be still of use, for his cre-
Street and she alighted at \Winches dit has not altogether gone, and I
ter House. After a few moments hear ho has a very satisfactory hal-
the found the brass pinto bearing ance at his hankers'. But find out
nib name. and ascended to my of- all from Gedge, and then write to
fice. for what purpose 1 knew not, me o
and. fearing to reveal niy presence There was neither signature nor
in London, 1 could not ascertain. address.
1 sat there in the cab in full view The words, "he must not ho al-
:,( that row of windows, with their lowed to open his mouth," were, in
wire blinds bearing my Hanle, an themselves, ominous. Who. I won -
exile and a fugitive, wonderinf; dared, was the writer of that tet -
what might be the object of her vis ter 1 The postmark was that of
it. It was not, however, of long
-London, E. C.," showing that it
duration, but when she descended had been posted in the City.
again she was accompanied by my I read it through a second time,
secretary (:edge, who handed her
then replaced it, and after some
into her cab and afterwards took further search returned to my own
his peat beside her. ily his manner room.
it was widen( they were not etran When the maid brought my hot
ger.and it became impressed up- water next meriting she told me
on me that, in those lost days of that Sirs. Slade had announced her
thine, f must have had considerable ir.tension to leave at eleven o'clock
dealings with her and her princely
therefore I packed, and }riving
emit!•eier• slightly earlier, was enabled to fol -
Tiley drove to the Liverpool low her cab to Victoria Stnti,�ij,
Street Railway Station, where silo
whence she travelled to Brighton,
despatched a telegram; then the' pelting up at the Metropole. 1
lunched at Crosby }tall. pursued similar tactics to those I
I feared. cf course. to approach; 'ad ad., ted in London. staying in
them sufficiently near to overhear'the same hotel and vet contriving
their coikersatiou, but I peered in never to be seen by her. She went
to the restaurant and SRN t11t'ni1 crit but seldom. Sometimes in the
Pitting at a table in earnest cont.r-j morning she would stroll beneath
cation, the subject of which was'
1 er pale mauve sunshade along the
evidently myself. 1 Kings Road. or at evening take an
it was a wearisome teak waiting airing on the pier, but she aj,par-
for her in ltish.•psgate. Street. but cotly lived an ainilesa life, spending
1 fun: heal in it m.'ighboring public her time in reading novels in her
house off a glaa` of sherry and it et, n apartment. As far as 1 could
biscuit. nhile niy cabman partook
learn. she met no one there, and
gla lly of the homely "half-pint" at
tatty appeared to be killing time
nig expen.e. until at length they ;ind waiting. sitar it f„rtnight she
both cavae f'- rth. moved along to Ha.:tinga. thence to
(:edge coiled her it cab, and then Ilfracombe and afterwards to Hull.
took ientP of her, while 1 followed \Ve arrived at the \, rth Eastern cessions, and a, far as we are con
her back t.. the Midland, having Hotei at Hull one evening toward% cerned our hopes et successfully
in cressfully accomplished to'. first the end of August. having travel- rasing the loan have now disap-
ectal at watching her nrotcrm+nt'. !cd by the erpreee from i.ondon. peered into thin air.”
Through nearly a month I had kept
close watch upon her, yet none of
her movements had been in the
least suspicious. She lived well.
always having her own sitting -room
although she had no maid. Those
days of watchfulness were full of
unxicty, and 1 had to resort to all
sorts of ingenious devices to pre-
vent observation and recognition.
The station hotel at Hull is com-
fortable, but by no means a gay
place of residence, and for several
days I wondered what might be her
abject in visiting that Vorkshire
port. Tho room adjoining her sit-
ting -room on the second floor be-
came vacant on the third day after
our arrival, and I fortunately suc-
ceeded in obtaining it. She enter-
tained no suspicion that I was fol•
lowing her, although I dogged her
movements everywhere.
In Hull she only went out twice,
once to a stationer's in \\'hitefriar-
gate, and :,n the other occasion to
the telegraph office. As at Brigh-
ton and Ilfracombe, she still ap-
p.ared to be wating in patience for
the arrival of some one whom she
expected.
About nine o'clock one evening,
after she had remained nearly a
week in Hull, always taking her
meals in her own room and pass-
ing her time in reading, 1 had re-
turned from the coffee -room, and
was about to go forth for a stroll,
when suddenly I heard a waiter rap
at her door and announce a visitor.
"Yes," he answered gruffly.
"Impossible!"
"I tell you it's the truth," he
answered. "I escaped over the
f i ontier by the merest chance. Ou-
stromoff's bloodhounds were at my
heels. They followed me to Vien-
na, but there I managed to escape
them and travel to Berlin. I knew
that there was a warrant out for
me—Boesch sent me word that or-
ders had been issued by the Minis-
ter of Poli-ee—therefore I feared to
cross to England by any of the mail
routes. I knew the police would be
c n the look -out at Calais, Antwerp,
Ostend, Folkstone, and Dieppe.
Therefore I travelled to Copenhag-
en. then by steamer to Gothenburg,
and rail to Christiania. I arrived
by the weekly nail steamer from
there only an hour ago."
"What a journey !" exclaimed tho
woman I had been watching so long
and patiently. "Do you actually
mean that you are unsafe—koro, in
England 1"
"Unsafe? Of course The Min-
istry have telegraphed :ay descrip-
tion to all police centres, with a re-
quest for my extradition."
"It is inconceivable," she cried,
"just at the moment when all seem-
ed safest, that this catastrophe
ehould [all: What of llocsch,
I3luinhardt, and Schaefer !"
"Schaefer was arrested in Sofia
on the day I left. Blumhardt es- t dny.
caped to Varna, but was taken 4. Hogs fed old corn made a pro -
while embarking on board a cargo- fit slightly is excess of hogs fed new
boat for England. I tell you I had ear corn.
a narrow escape—a very narrow es -
blood
There is no difficulty in using HER AR11:\'1[i;NT.
„ blood meal for hog feeding it it ;$
cape' „ fed with a small quantity of mid- Except the Dreadnought there is
Then don't speak so loud, she
urged. `Sumo one might bo in the dlings or some other palatable food, ne battleship in the world as heav-
next room, you know." exercising reasonable cure to get iiy armed as the Indomitable and
He rose and tried the door at the hogs started right and not to in nut fleet in the world is there any
which I stood. It was locked, and overfeed at any time. '.easel larger than u torpedo boat I f 1
that apparently reassured him. 6. Where a good market is offer- destroyer which approaches her in it I shall 1 1. I please "Whom you think informed eJ for skimmed milk, a margin o[ greed. She may be called a com-
et
Ministry of Police!" f'I•� between the cost and selling 1 }nation of the Dreadnought and
thoughtfully; rruppnae you don't
"Ali! its present no one knows.'
price of the hogs is necessary in or- the Lusitania and is more heavily
he responded. "What do you think ser that this by-product may Porn armored than battlesblpa o[ the 1 ' left l I
they say ?" a part of the ration fed to fattening Royal Sovereign class, which ten
"What 1" hogs. years ago were considered models
''That some of your precious of completeneRR is protection.
friends in London have exposed the FARM NOTES.
She has a belt of Krupp cemented 8
whole thing.'' armor, seven indica thick amid- f old pasture should be as careful- ships, and carries eight 12 inch
''.l[y friend,Y Whom do you ly managed as the hest hayfield on guns of a new and most powerful
mean 1" the farm, for it is one of the most type, so mounted that they can all
".You know hest who are your rtofit.able parts of the farm. ! e brought to bear on either broad
friends." he replied, with sarcasm. fi„meune bus said that tillage is side. Each gun weighs�9 tuns and
"But no one is aware of the fcrt fixation. This may not be lit fires an Brio pound projectile with
whole feats.” „ orally true, but it is true that with an initial velocity of 3,010 feet a
\re you absolutely certain 1 intelligent and thorough tillage thin second. \t 3.000 yards the shell Thr• oldest, the most mons+ ,nr
lbsolutely. ' land will nearly nlwnys produce can wake a hole through 22 inches a so,eiations oft: ntirnes attnea t±.ern
lees the lean for the Prince 1 Letter crops than richer land with of wr,,u ht iron and at a range of Relics to the most trilling things.
he• said. "Hate you raised it '" insufficient silage. ready three miles can penetrate Thus ata dinner the h„RteRs sat#
No ; the thing is ton dangerous 11 we can make our cheese and (l i" inches of iron. to n sour -faced man on her left
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in these circumstances. I have butter better than others we can '}hese guns are carried in four Vega -
"May i help you to some of the
made a full report. You received yell it for more money than others turrets, protected with 10 inches of hc'iled rice. if r. Smith : "lite
it. 1 suppose 1" do. The men who succeed put force, armor; are controlled electrically, �o• thank con : no rice for me,
"No; 1 must have left Sofia be- vim, push, energy and thought into working with the greatest swiftness, Smith answered. vehemently. "11
lure it anted. Telt me." their work, and they are evidences ease and accuracy, 1: associated with the worst mitt.
"That very useful fool named of the value of emphasis in farm 1;y the end of the summer Grant take of my lite.
Heaton has suddenly gone out of Britain will have three of these
his iniad." }nighty vessels actually in the ser- (food Digestion Shmild Wait nn
"insane'"
"What!" ho cried. "Have you vice, and inn couple 01 years the ,Appetite.—To have the stomach
''Yes.'' she responded. " At least utterly failed 1" squadron of tour will be complete, well is to have the nervous system
he acarus 8o to ale. I placed the "Nes," she answered. "Heaton representing an expenditure of well• Very delicate aro the diRes-
matter before him, hut he rehia�d assisted us while all was square, tl29,i100,Ofr�1. Yet thin enormous cost five organs. in aotne so sensitive
t,. have anything whatever to do but now, just when we want a snug „f more than *7,000.000 for each VCA- are they that atmospheric changes
Kill( ►t. His standing In the City little sunt for ourselves,
he hos
slid.
rt, 1R regarded as an economical ex- affect (hero. \Vhen they become die -
bas been utterly chattered by all denly become obstinate and refuses f'enditure. arranged no better rPgulittor is
Rorty .,f rumor. regarding the to raise it finger." The four ships of the, indomitable procurable than 1'armelee's Vege-
wolthleRRneRR of certain of the con-
"Curse him' He shall assist u8- class will mount as many big guns table Pills. They (affil assist the di•
by Heaven: I'll -!'ll compel him:- as eight hattleships of the older de. gestion an )hat the hearty cafes•
cried her mysterious companion, Rigo. costing some $5.000,000 each. will suffer no inconvenience and
furiously. They will need only about half the will derive ail like `eegfita of his
(To be Continued.)
bomber of officers and men, while food.
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TESTING QUANTITY A N D
RICHNESS.
A plan of testing dairy herds has
been outlined in some detail by the
Massachusetts Experiment Station.
The cost is figured at from $2 to
SG per cow yearly, the variation de-
j:e nding mainly un the number of
members who co-operate to make
the tests.
In order to bo profitable it is
claimed that a cow should produce
about 2,800 quarts of 3.5 to 4 per
cent. yearly without, forced feeding
assuming the produce to be sold
at the average prices received by
shippers of wholesale market milk.
If the cows aro kept for creamery
butter, each animal, it is asserted,
must produce three hundred
pounds of butter to show a satis-
factory profit. It goes without say-
ing that most large herds contain
many animals that do not come up
to this standard of profit and the
caw -testing plan is intended to help
the owner to weed out those cows
without mistake.
It is advised to begin when the
cow is fresh and weigh the milk for
three consecutive days each month,
recording the weight. The sum of
the three days' yield multiplied by
ten gives the amount produced for
a month. Repeating this plan every
month and year after year gives a
record that is complete enough for
practical purposes, and enable the
farmer to know pretty nearly what
his cows are doing in quantity of
yield. A special milk -weighing
scale can be bought at the supply
stores for $3, although any spring
balance can be used, setting the
scale to allow for the weight of the
empty pail.
To find the richness of the milk
and the yield of butter is not so
simple. It is advised to sample the
milk of each cow on the second,
fourth and seventh months, prefer-
ably about the middle of the month.
The average of the three tests will
fairly indicate the quality. These
tests can he made at the nearest
creamery, many creameries offering
to do this work for patrons. Direc-
tions for taking samples for test-
ing may usually be obtained from
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Make Your Stomach Happy with
SHREDDED WHEAT
and fresh fruits. An ideal summer fc^d,
wholesome, nourishing, delicious.
CONTAINS MORE REAL Nl.TNlr1E\l' TITAN MEAT OR
!_(JUS 1054 SM)LO lig' AL.i. CROCEtZS
f
ing. Competition is the emphatic the cost of repairs, general upkeep
man's opportunity. The greater and stores will also, it is estimated,
the competition the more particu- t.t'ly amount to about half.
lar buyers become, and so the per-
fectCAN27 KNOTS.
goods go right to the top.
A majority of farmers, we think, . The Indomitable was laid down by
hove too many acres, and would the Fairfield company at. Govan in
snake more money and do less hard Murch, 1906, and launched late in
vurk if a part of their land was, March, 1907. In April, 1908, she
sold and the money invested in tui-' was handed over for her trials.
proving the acres left. is not the Full
particulars of these have not
farm too large when it badly needs been revealed. The contract speed ti,►
underdraining, and the owner has. was 25 knots, but it is believed that
nl, capital with which to do it 1, she actually attained 27 knots for
\When the stock is ill-bred, or the i considerable period. Her voyage
buildings poor and inconvenient, from Quebec shows that she can
the owner cannot improve either easily maintain more than the con-
without running in debt. Many' tract 25 knots.
fanners act as though they consid- Her displacement as given in the
eyed the great object in life to bo Navy List is 17,251 tons, but it is
to die possessed of many acres, i Probable with the sinkage to deep
while undoubtedly it ought rather; load displacement due to maximum
Lc be to enjoy comfort as they pass coal and storage supply—she took
along the journey. on 3,000 tons of coal at Quebec„
and carries oil fuel as well—that site
•1• bas something like 21,000 tons. Her
WARSHIP OFA NEW TYPE
length
en feet
at the water line is sec30 feet,
�0 feet longer than any preceding
cruiser, her beam is 78 feet 6 inches,
draught about 26 feet.
Il. M. S. INDOMITABLE li\!(ZL !. The eight 50 calibre 12 inch guns
are mounted in pairs in barbette
AMONG WORLD'S NAVIES Iturrets. One turret is forward,
another abaft, and the other two
1 amidships, placed in echelon. With
Britain's Sea Fighter a Combine- this arrangement they can all bo
f+red on either broadside, or broad
lion of Dreadnought and on the bow or quarter, and six of
Lusilauia. them directly ahead or astern.
Other guns are said to be about six -
H. M. S. Indomitable is the idol teen 4 inch guns of the new model
(1 the hour. The record which she for anti -torpedo boat work.
1.as established for warships on her The machinery consists of Bab -
passage from Quebec to Cowes will cock & Wilcox water tube boilers
probably stand for a long time. Cer- designed for 41,000 horse -power,
Wilily it did not need the enibel-i with Parsons turbines.
the creamery management. Dairy -i lishmeuts with which some of the! The advantage of such vessels are
tco obvious to need detailing. The
critics of the Indomitable allege the
weal cost of the class as a disad-
vantage, depriving the Admiralty of ')
the power of constructing an ade-
quate number of vessels for com-
merce
protection. The �' w classes .. 1
fol smaller cruisers are" pp'w.ed to
give an answer to this .1)jection,
while the conditions of commerce
defence aro not held to exclude the
l edomitable class from exercising a
decisive influence in association
with smaller cruisers.
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GETTING EVEN. jl
She had refused him, and he stood
twirling his moustache and looking
quizzical until she was in a tearing
t"m pc r.
"1\'hat are you standing there if
fort" site demanded, stamping her
foot.
Well, I ani wondering," he said,
slowly, "whom are you going to
marry, since you won't marry me 1"
"It's none of your business," she
flamed, angrily.
'0h, yes it is," he drawled. "At
any rate. I'm interested. I
shouldn't like you to marry a fel•
low I didn't think well uf, you know
since 1 carie near marrying you
thyself."
it seethed to her that she should
faint with indignation.
"You never came neer (marrying
tee," site at length managed to I
gasp. "I didn't think even of mar- i
vying you, and as to whom 1 do
marry, you have nothing to c o with
hal marry any ,ort case
"'That's just it," he returned, f`
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please anybody 1" Then there was
nothing e t to her but raying is -
men who have the Babcock tester i papers tried to adorn it, says a
and materials can do the testing London letter.
themselves' Taking the figures which suited
them, they wished to make the of -
HOG FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. ficial record a 25.1 knot passage.
1. Considered from the point of
The King, however, has ordered
gain per head per day, skimmed that the passage shall be reckoned
milk and blood meal produce very from land to land, from South
similar results when used as supple-, Point, Belle Isle, to Land's End,
meats to corn, when 18 pounds of and with this the average works
skimmed milk is fed for each pound cut at 24.8 knots.
of blood meal; or on the basis of • Al one time for four consecutive
one pound of digestible protein in hours she steamed 26.1 knots. Her
the form of blood meal. average from Belle Isle to Fasted,
2. The profit made during the en -,`of; Cork, was 25.13 knots. The
tire experiment differs less than average for the whole voyage from
cne dollar. From this data we con-
cluded that blood meal and skim -1 During the whole time she was in
wire�ne
d"ilk when+ave a fed on the'lar f►atiiseof fan
rude. fors the "other,csending aation nd ure-
value
equal number of pounds of protein,) calvng messages at a distance of
and as supplements to either old or: 1.600 rules and establishing a re
new cern. `clad for ship borne messages.
3. }logs fed old corn made gains' The true significance of these
slightly in excess of the hugs fed figures can be appreciated only in
new cora in the car. The difference conjunction with a consideration of
it so slight that we conclude that the clogs of vessel to which the 1n
there is very little to choose be -
is
belongs. At present she
(ween these two forms of corn as, to still unique in the world's navies,
regards average gain per head per he' nglcunipletetl for Rea the e has two sister vessels
t
Bible and the Inflexible. These ves-
sels do not conte under the desig-
nation of Dither battleship or crui-
ser.
sterics.
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When a rich Man itt Rerionrly ill,
he secs a lot of folks standi'i
around waiting or has o d shoes.
()rent Britain has the longest
coastline in Europe. Italy, Russia.
and i•'rance come next in the urdet
gi'. en.