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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1901-04-05, Page 3PHOT FOR EMPIRE. ii, ,,,„.„t _........................_..... A THRILLING STORY OF CONTINENTAL CONSPIRACY AGAINST BRITAIN. O tv.c% ✓-' _ -.u,,,^ ✓✓d -✓✓✓✓'-_. . ✓:-, r,,-c,r.-✓'./- ma'°' . .-a."4/0 '" Hemust bq made to leave it." something Der me ? L am too hungry "'By force?" to mind what it is." Mr. Blatherwick gave a hesitating "If necessary," Mr. Sabin answer- order, and the waiter departed, Miss Merton drew off her gloves and was perfectly at her ease. Now do tell me about the ftriend whom you were going to meet," she said, smiling gaily at him. "I ]rope —you really must not tell me, Mr. 131atherwick, that it was a lady!" Mr. Blatherwick colored to the roots of his hair at the mere suggestion, .and hastened to disclaim it. "My—my dear . Miss Merton 1" he exclaimed, "I can assure you that it was not! I—I should not think of such a thing." ' . She nodded, and began to break up. her roll and eat it. "I am very glad to hear it, Mr. Blatherwick," she said ; "I warn you. that I was prepared to be very jeal- ous. You used to tell me, you know, that I was the only girl with whom you cared to talk." ed coolly. Lady Deringham raised her hand to her forehead and• sat thinking. The man's growing earnestness be- wildered her. What was to be done —what . could site say? After all lie was not changed; the old fear of him was creeping' .through her veins, yet she made her effort. " You want those papers for some- thing more than a magazine arti- cle," she declared. " There is some- thing behind all this! \rioter, I can- not help yea; I am powerless. I will take no part in anything which I cannot understand." He stood up, leaning a little upon his stick, the dull green stone of which flashed brightly in the fire - II be r " You will help me," he said slow- " It is—quite true, quite true, Miss ly. " You will ' let me into that room Merton," he answered eagerly, drop - at night, and you will see that your eerie his voice a little arta glancing husband _• is not there, or . that he uneasily over his shoulder, " I—I have does not interfere. And as to that miseo:l you very much indeed ; It has magazine article, you are right 1 been very dull." • What if it were a 1101 I do not fly 1 111r. Blatherwick sighed; he was re - at small game. Now, do you under- warden by a very kind glauoe from a • Stand ?" pair of very bine eyes. He fingered • She rose to her feet and drew the wine list, and began to wonder herself up before him prouuily. She whether site would care for chain - towered above him, handsome, digui- pagne, fled, angry. i " Now tell me," site said, "all the " Victor," she said firmly, "I re.. news. How aro they all at Deringham fuse; you can go away at once! I Hall—the dear old admiral and the will have no more to say •or to do countess, and that remarkably silly with you! You have given me up my young man, Lord Wolfenden ?" letters; it is true, yet for that you Wolfenden received a kick under the have no special claim upon my table, and Harcutt's face positively gratitude. A man of honor would beamed with delight. Mr. Blatherwick, yr dignified.T have destroyed them long ago." however, had almost forgotten titer "Lord T\ olfencden, he said, "you He looked up at her, and the proximity. He had made up his mind are the son of my employer, but I ghost of an unholy smile flickered to order champagne. take the liberty of telling you that upon his lips. i " The ad—ad—admiral is well in you are a 1=1—" "1)i"! I tell you that I had given health, but worse mentally," he an- "Steady, B:athcr•wick," \Wolfenden them all back to you ?" he said. swered, " I am leaying for that very interrupted ; "you must nc't call me " Alt 1 that was a mistake; all save reason. I do not conceive that in fair- /names." one, I should have said! One I kept, ness to myself I should continue to "You are not speaking the truth," in ease--. Well, your sex are pro- waste my time in work which can Mr. Blatherwick rc,ntinued, curbing verbially ungrateful, you know. It bring forth no fruit. I trust, Miss himself with an effort. "I will net is the oue on the yellow paper writ- Merton, that you agree with me." listen to, er—or permit in my pre - ten from Merltone! You remember " Perfectly," she answered, gravely. sence any aspersio•n against that it Y I always lilted it better than 1, " The countess" he continued, " is young lady 1" any of the others." well, but much worried. There have .Wolfenden shook his head gently. Her white hands flashed out in the been strangehap—hap—happenings at "Mr. Blatherwick," he said, "don't firelight. It seemed almost as the Hall since you left. Lord Wolfen- be a fool! You ought to know that I though she must have struck him. den is there. By -the -bye, Miss tier- am not the sort of man to make evil He had lied to her. She was not ton," he added, dropping his voice, "1 remarks about a lady behind her back, really free; he was still. the master do not--not—think that you used to unless 1 knew what I was talking and she his slave 1 She stood as consider Lord Wolenden so very silly about. I cannot at this moment though turned to 'stoke. when yon wore at Deringham." prove it, bat I am mos...illy convince.' " I think," he said, " that .you wit' " It was very dull sometimes—wizen nkat ILSs Merton, ciente hereto -day at listen now to a little plan which you were busy, lir. Blatherwick," she the instigation of • the person who has just aceuxred to me, will you answered, beginning her lunch. "I will wrote to , you, and that .site only re - not r confess to you. that I did try to amuse trained from making .you some offer Sho leaked away from him with a myself a little with Lord 'Wolfenden. because she knew quite well that we shudder. Birt lee was altogether ton natio—too were within hearing." " What Is -it 7" she asked hoarsely. stupid! I like a man with brains 1" " I will not listen to another word, ' Harcutt pioduced a )tandker, h of and Lord Wolfenden." Mr. Diatherwick de- stufferi it in his mouth; bio lace was Blared vigorously. ".If you are h on - slow]•becoming purple with sup- est,yon are cruelly misjudging ng that pressed laughter. Mr. Blatherwick or- young lady ; if not, you must know derail the champagne. yourself the proper epithet to be " I—I was very jealous of him," he applied to the person who defames an admitted almost In a whi-•per. innocent girl behind her Track ! I wish Tao 1 lue ey s were rat e.I again tory you good afternoon, sir. I shall leave eloquently to his. Deringham Hall to -morrow." "You had no cause," sire said gently, lie strode away, and Woltenden "and, Mr. Blatherwick, haven't you watched him with a faint, regretful forgotten something?" smile upon his lips. Then he turned Mr. Blatherwick had sipped his glass round suddenly; a little thrill of soft, of champagne, and answered without musical laughter came floating out astutter. from a recess in the darkest corner of " I have not," he sold, "forgotten the hall. Miss Merton was leaning you!" back amongst the cash:ons of a lounge, " You used to call me by my Chris- her oyes gleaming with amusement. tion name!" She beckoned Wolfenden to iter•. " I should be delighted to call you " Quito melodramatic, wasn't it?" kt'ss—Blanche for ever," he said boldly. she eccliimed, moving her skirts for " May I ?" trim to sit by her side. " Dear little Ste laughed softly. man! Do you know he wants to " Well, I don't quite know about marry me?" that," she said; "yea may for this " What a clever girl you are," morning, at least. It is so pleasant Wolfenden remarked ; "really you'd to see you again. Flow Is the work make an adm:cable wife for him." getting ou 7" S:te pouted a little. He groaned. " Thank you very much," she said. "Don't ask me, please; it is awful! „ I am not contemplating making any - I am truly glad that I am leaving one an admirable wife; matrimony —for many reasons!" does not attract me at all." " Have you finished copying those •• I don't know what pleasure you awful details of the defective ar- mor can find in making a fool of a decent plates?„ she added, suddenly little chap like that," he said; ,.it's dropping her voice, so that it barely too bad of you, Blanche." reached the other side of the table. " On©, must amuse oneself, and he is "Only last night," he answered ; "it so odd and so very much in earnest." was very hard work, and so ridiculous. •• Of course," Wolfenden continued It went into the box with the rest of "I know that you had another object. the finished work this morning."„ Had 1?” "Did the Admiral engage a new •••You came here to try and tempt "Yee," Wollenden agreed thought- fully, with lids eyes fixed upon , the two departing figures, ib hs a sell ! CHAPTER ,XXVII- By Chance or Design? Wo1fencten sent his phaeton to the station evlth Harcutt, who bad been summoned back to town upon 1111. portant' business. Afterwards be slipped back to the hall to wait for its return, and came face to face with Mr. Blatherwick, who wasstart• ing honrewarcls. "I was looking for you," Wolfenden said; "your luncheon party turned out a, little differently, to anything We bad expected." "I am happy," Afr. Blatherwick said, "to be able to believe that the letter was after all it hoax. There was ue one in the room, irs you would doubt, lest observe, likely to be in any way concerned in the natter:" Wolfenden knocked the ash- off his cigarette without replying. "You seem," he remarked, "to be on fairly intiumte terms with Buss Mese tom," • "We were fellow workers for several months," Mr. Blatherwick reminded him ; "naturally we sate a good deal of one another." "She is," Wolfenden continued, "a very charming girl," "I consider her, in every, way," Mr.. Blatherwick said with enthusiasm, "a most delightful young lady. I --I am very much attached to her." Wolfenden laid his hand on the secretary's shoulder. "Blatherwick," he said, "you're a good fellow, and I like you. Don't be offended at what I am going to say. You must not trust Miss Merton ;she is not quite what she appears to you," Blatherwick took a step back- ward and flushed red with anger. "I do not understand you, Lord Wolfenden," he said. "What do you know of Miss Merton "" "Not very much," Wolfenden said quietly ; " quite enough, though, to justify Inc in warning you seriously against her. She is a y'ory clever young person, but I am afraid a very, un- scrupulous one." Mr. Blatherwick was grave, almost Cf !:.PTEA XXVI. Mrs Blatherwick as St. Anthony. ' x I am afraid," Harcutt ' said, "that either the letter was a hoax, or the writer liars thought better of the matter. It is half an hour past the time, and poor Mr. Blath- erwick Is still alone." Wolfenden glanced towards the ''distant table, where his father's sec- retary was already finishing his modest meal. "Poor old • Blatherwick!". he re- marlcetl ; "I know- lie's awfully re- lievesi He's too nervous for this sort of thing; I believe he would have lost his head altogether if his mysterious correspondent had' turn- ed up." "I suppose," Harcutt said, "that we may take it for granted that he is not in the room." ".Evtry soul here," Wolfenden an- swered, "cis known to me either personally or by sight. Tho man with the dark moustache sitting by himself is a London solicitor, who built himself a bungalow here four years ago, and comes down every other week for golf. The two men in the corner are land speculators from Norwich ; andtheir neighbor la Captain Stoneliam, who rides Over from the barracks twice a ' week, also for golf." "It is rather a sell for us," Har- cutt remarked. "On tato whole, I am not sorry that I have to go back to town to -night. Great Scott! What a pretty girl I" "Lean back, you Idiot!" Yellen- type -writer ?" site inquired. den exclaimed softly; " don't move : He shook hie head. If you cern help it !" I "No; lie says that Ile has nearly fin- IIttcrutt grasped the situation islled." and obeyed at once. The per- • "I am so glad," she said. "Yon have Con of the dining•room in had no temptation to flirt then which they were sitting was little with anybody else, have yon ? mere than a recess, divided elf from "To flirt—with anybody else:! Oh! the stain apartment by heavy cur- Mists—T mean 13lanclie. Do you think tains, and seldom used except in the that I could do that?" summer when visitors were plentiful. j His little round face shone with Mr. Blatherwick's table was really sincerity and the heat of the unac• within a few feet of theirs, but they custanred wine. His oyes were water - themselves were hidden from it by a ing a little, and his epeeaacles were corner of the folding doors. They dull. Tito girt looked at trim bad chosen the poeition with care, . in amusement. and apparently with success. 1 "1 am afraid," she said, with a Tho girl who had entered the room sigh, "that you used to flirt with stood icor a moment looking round me." , as though about to select a table. i "I can assure you, B-B—Blanche," Hareutt's exclamation was not with-; he declared earnestly, "that I never out justification, for she was ccr- said a word to you which I—I did iain;y pretty. She was neatly dressed not hon—lion—honestly .mean.-Bianehe, in a grey walking suit, and a velvet I should like to ask you something." Tarn-o-Sillan�ter hat with a smart fen- i "Not now," she Interrupted hesti- they. Suddenly she saw Mr. Blather-. ly. "Do you know, I fancy that we wick and advanced towards him with must . be getting too confidential. outstrelahed hand and a charming That odious man with the eyeglass smile. keeps staring at us. Tell mo what "Why, my dear Mr. ,Blatherwick, 1 you aro going to do when you leave what on earth aro you doing here?" here. You can tisk me—What you she exclaimed. "Have you loflt Lord were going to Afterwards." Deringham ?' Mr. Blatherwick grew eloquent, Mr. BIatherwtck rase :to his feet and Blanche was sympn.thetic. It was eonAussd, and blushing to his spec- quite half an hour before they .rose Marries ; he greeted the, young lady, and prepared to depart, however, with evident measure."3 know you won't mind," Blanche "No; that is, not yet," he answered; said to him confidentially, "If I' ask ""I• am leaving this week.. I did not you to leave the hotel first; the peo- know --I bad no idea that you were pte I am with are a little particular, in the vicinity! I amt very pleased and it would scarcely do, you see, for to see ywr." us to go out together." She looked at the empty place at "Certainly," he replied. "Would you his table, --like me to leave you here—would it "I wits going to have some lune be"better cheon she said, T have walked sn You might walk to the door with� Much tlurther than I intended, and, I me, please," she said. "I am afraid am ravenously hungry. May I sit at you must be very dluappolnted that ye�tr fable?" your friend did not come. Are you With much pleasure, Mr. Blather- not? Wick assented. I was expecting a Mr. Blatherwick's. reply was ainost —a—friend, but he is evidently not incoherent in its excess of protesta- tion. Tiley walked down the 'room together, flarcutt and Wolfenden cfrari i nl:'•" ""1 will tnka his place then, HI may, she said, seating herself) in the ,;hair" looked at one another. which the waiter was holdimg flour her, "Well," the former exclaimed, drink - and raising her veil, "Will you order.' Ing up his liquor, "it is a sell 1" the poor little fellow with a thousand pounds !" " I have never," ebe i.nterpo^ed mini- fy, "possessed a thousand shillings 111 my life."' Not on your own • account, of course; you came on behalf of your' employer, Mr. Sabin, or someone, Blabo- hlnd 1111111 What is this deviltry, nche ?" Site looked at h'm out of wide-open eyes, but she made no answer. "So far as I can see," he remarked, I must confess that foolery seams a better terra. I can't lntngine any- thing in my father's work worth the concoction of any elaborate scheme to steal. But never mind that ; there le a scheme, and Yon. are in it. Now, I will make a proposition to you. It 14 rt matter of money, I suppose; w:11 you sinade m?e" your terms to come over to my A look erept into her eyes which puzzled him. " Over to your side," she repeated, thoughtfully. Do you mind telling me exactly whnt you mean by that?" As though by aceident, the delicate white hand, from which she had just withdrawn her glove, touched his, and remained there as though inviting his clasp. She looked quickly up at him and drooped her eyes. Wolfenden took her hand, patted it kindly, and replaced it in her lap. "Look here, Blanche," he said, "1 won't affect to misunderstand you ; but haven't you learnt by . this time that adventures are not in my way ? --less now than at any time, perhaps. She was watching his face, and read its expression with lightning -like truth. " Bahl" she said, "there is no man who would be so, brutal as you, un- loss--� "Unle"ss what g" , "Lie were In love with .another girll" "Perhaps I am, Blanche." "I know Haat you are." 'He hooked at her quickly. �� But you do net know with whew? • She had not guessed, but she knew now. "I think so," she said ; "it Is with the beautifal niece oz 31r. Sabin! You have admirable taste," • "Never mind about that," he . said; "let us come to my offer. I will give you a hundred a year for life, settle it upon you, if you will tell me everys, thing." "I"sAthhundreatmuch d 5 money Vyear,"' sbo repeated,. "Well, it will cost mora' than two thousand pounds," he said; "still, I would like yea, to have it, and you shall if you will be quite frank with, Mtge hesitated. "I should like," she said,, "`to think it over till to -morrow Morning; it will be better, for supposing I de- cide to accept, I shall know a good deal more of this than I know now:' "Very well," he said, "only I should strongly advise you to accept." "One hundred a year," she repeated thoughtfully. "Perhaps yon will e changed your mind by to-morrowhav," "There is no fear of it," he assured her quietly, "Write it down," she said. "I think that I shall agree." "Don't you trust me, Blanche ?" "It is a business transaction," she said coolly ; "you have made it one yourselfl, ,lie tore -a sheet from his pocket- book and scribbled a'tew lines upon it. "Will that do?" ho asked her, She read it through and folded it carefully up. "It will do, very nicely," she said with a quint smile. "And now I must go back as quickly as I can." they walked to the hall door ; LQrd Wolfenden's carriage had come back from the station rend was waiting for him, •• 1-iow aro you going ?" he asked. Silo shook her hand. " I must hire :ometlrtug, I suppose," she said. " What beautiful horses! Do yon. see, hector remembers hie quite well ; I unit to take bread to him in the stable when I was at Deringham Dail. (lood. olcf roan!" She patted the horse's nook. Wel- tendon did not like it, but he had no alternative. " Won't you allow me to give you a lift ?" he said, with a marked ab- sence of cordiality in 1i1 s tone; " or if you would prefer it, I can easily order a carriage from the hotel." " 0111 I would much rather go with you, if you really don't mind," she said. "Bray I really 7" , "I shall be very pleased," he an- swered, untruthfully. " I ought per- haps to tell you that the horses aro very fresh and don't go well together ; they have a nasty habit of running anety down hill." Sim scaled cheerfully, and lifting her skirt.a placed a dainty little foot upon the step. " I detest quiet horses," she said, "and I have been used to being run away with all my life. I rather like It." Wolfenden resigned himself to the inevitable. He took the reins, and they rattlel off towards Deringham. About half way there they saw a little black. figure away on the cliff path to the right. It is Mr. Blatherwick," Wolfenden said, pointing with his whip. " Poor little chap! I wish you'd leave him alone, Blanche!" " On ono condition," site said, smil- ing up at him, "I will." • t ,. already," he de- clared. That you let me drive for just a mile I" He handed her the reins at once, and changed seats. From the inn-' ment.she took tlirm he could see that she was an accomplished whip. He leaned back and lit a cigarette. " Blatherwick's eels -titian," he re- marked, "has been easily purchased." She smiled rather curiously, but did not reply. A. hired carriage was come ing towards there, and her eyes were filed upon it. In a moment they swept past, and Wolfenden was con- sciours of a most unpleasant sensation. It was flelene, whole dark eyes were glancing from the girl to him in cold surprise; and Mr. S thin, who was leaning back by her side wrapped in a huge fur coat. Blanche looked down at 11'm innocently. Fancy meeting them•," she re- marked, touching Hector with the whip. " It does not matter, does it ? You look dreadfully cross !" 'Wolfenden just muttered some in- definite reply, and threw his cigarette savagely into the road. After all he was not so sure that Mr. Blatherwick's salvation hail been ch-apiv won! (To be Continued.) Doubts 'Tears of Preacher. Here is something else that happen- ed at one of the revival meetings' of the holiness convention during its siege in this city. 'At a service in the Metropolitan Church ono of the ministers bocnrne so carried away with what ho was saying -that he began to cry, and groat briny tears played tag with each other as they scurried down his cheeks. During the entire time it little girl not more than 12 years old stood in the rear of the church looking with a wondering and immobile face at the wild proceedings. None of the shouts nor gcsticula•tions had caused tier to move a muscle until the evangelist began 1.o cry. That seemead to be morn than she could stand, for, turning to a little companion that stood near her, she said: "Now, that big lobster ain't crying any mora than I be. He's just put- tho' it on. My ma's a woman an' 8110 never betters ter sech fer nothin'. It's only when pa gives her a slug that she cries, and women cries eas- ier than man, an' that's why the preacher ain't crying. He's only maitin' believe"—Chicago Chronicle. kin Got Some 'Work to Do. "Prisoner," said the learned magis- trate to a lazy fellow before him, "this is the third time you've been beret," "But, Your Honor," pleaded the prisoner, "I've been trying to get -work, but couldn't." "You wouldn't work if' you could get it." "Yeast, I would, Your Honor." "What kind of . work?" "Anything, Your Honor, so long as it was honest work." • • "What kind of wages ?" "Wages is no objsct, Your Honor; till I want is work, with food and clothing and shelter." that • "And you'd work if you had tort of a job 1" "Indeed I •would, Your Honor ; only try me," and the tears actually orate into his eyes. "S er.y well," said the Magistrate, kindly, "we'll give you a job with Shelter. foorl and clothingcombined. Sir •months' hard labor. ext ease." Tit-blto , t t CEYLON AN iNtiiA GREEN OR E3LAOK i ; i ` Tlie Pa,voxite Tea' of B rita,in and her Colonieb, 1 f 1,1 ; GROWN BY BRITISH PLANTERS..... Amusing to see foreign Teas adveetised as elerarrt . 1 •i; rt' Io it not filth that coioro them? t !, y g Ceylon Teas are sold In sealed lead packets only never in hulk, Black, Mixed or Uncolored ,C'cyloo Green! Samples on application, Address "SALADA," Termite-;,,. 4.4.4' i 4.4..4•l•+• +++++ +++.1 444-4-.7.40144.44 + 444.'II+•l•3 3'44,l•4.r 4444 i •4.:: ,•g . d. 4. • Based as Much Upon Chance .as Upon Science, It Holds -the • Player's Interest at High Pitch,. and Its Fata'. i• Fascination Has Caused many a Heartache. • 4. 4. 4.4444 -1-144++++++++++++++++++++++++++:14.14+444+444,44.44.4440 J� S MANY DEV TEE • A good deal has appeared in. the newspapers of late about bridge whist, a game which' is taking a great hold • on card players from ocean to ocean. It has caught on in this city to souse extent, but not so strongly as ip some of the large United States cities. In Detroit, chi - cage and some of the cities in the middle States the papers have al - really begun to denounce it. This is bridge whist, the game which has set London and New York. afire, and . winch, having displaced poker, is creeping insidiously into Hamilton society, emptying pocket- books and placing temporary funds into other hands, which they spend recklessly one clay to lose in their turn at the whist table the next. In London, Eng., bridge whist has become so extravagant a craze that it has been banished from most of the clubs. At the Ductless of Devon- shire's Christmas party bridge whist was played throughout the entire day, stopping only for meals, and on until 5 o'clock the next morn- ing, one guest losing $11,000. New York society is bri•.lge whist crazy. Early luncheons aro given, that .bridge niay be played during the en- tire afternoon, and an agreement had to be reached by society people that bridge would• stop at a- o'clock to give time for dinners and the theatre. Many of tee youth of New York who could• not keep pace with their wealthy patronesses have been greatly puzzled to find excuses for not taking a, hand at the many bridge parties to which they are invited, but which drain their pocketbooks , to the • • danger point. There is one woman in •New York who has made a fortune teach- ing the game, and with the exudes of fashionable New York, on special trains to the south, the woman has been taken along to reap even a greater harvest; for New York so- ciety ciet women would as soon think i ink of leaving bridge whist behind theist as their pet 'motiles. In William Butler's "Whist Refer- ence Book,'- published in Philadel- pilia in 1898, the game of "bridge" is thus described: "An offshoot or variety of whist, played after the manner of dummy, with certain ad- ditions -which greatly facilitate bet- ting. Like 'Poston' and "solo whist' it lends itself readily to gambling purposes, and it is largely used at the clubby by those who play for moneys It is said to have originated in Athens, and .to have spread thence to Russia and France, and from one of these countries to England, where in 1897 it bad become a"craze which was viewed with grave apprehension by the lovers of true whist. In a let- ter received from Walter M. Deane, of Bath, under Mate of Sept. 6, 1897, occurred this doleful observation: 'I regret to say that whist is greatly on the wane in England owing to; the prevalence of a gambling spirit that has favored the introduction of the gains of 'bridge.' It is with diffi- culty now that at some' elubs a whist table can be formed.' Caven- dish deplored the same state of af- fairs, and hal not been to the Port- land Club for over a year because 'bridge' was in full possession." Presuming the rett,der to be ac- qualilted with whist; and without pretending to snggest the.advant- agas of this or that play, the essen- tial changers in bridge whist may be briefly described. The cards are dealt as in. ordinary whist, except that no trump is turned. The dealer has the privilege of •naming the trump and can select any suit or decide upon 'grand," which means no trump. at all ; or he may leave It to his part- ner, saying; :'You make It, partner." In ease neither feels like making It, or declaring "grand," the deal crust bo played without trump. ' W1ien trump or "grand"' hbs been declared the player next the dealer has the privilege of "doubling," which moans making trick points twice as valuable, If his hand does not war - ant this, he asks his partner, "Shall I play ?" thus transferring the privi- lege. Th'e latter will either double. or say, "Yes ;" in which case play be - guns. If the leading hand 'ox its art- ner "doubles," the dealer ,and- his partner have the privilege of -doub- ling again, and this may go on in- definitely, if the hands warrant. Wlhen on,e or the other pair desires to stop, they "pass," and play be- gins. There is • no - doubling; in ease trump is not • =flood or `g•'rand''' de- Glared, After the first card is played froom the leading hand, •the dealer's partner •becoma "dummy,". bis hand being exposedes to the table.. - When spades are trump each trialr above six counts 2 points. When clubs are trr.yrep ensile trick counts 4 points. When diamonds are trump each trie'k counts 6 points. • When hearts are trump- each trick counts 8 points. When there Is no trump each trick counts 12 points. • 6 "Detailing" increases the value or extra tricks in proportion. HONOR COUNT+;. ' 8. CD. !II 3 honors connt ... 48: 12 16 4 honors count ... ....., 8 16. 24 '32 5 boners count .. 10 20 3(2 40 4 honors in one hand16 02. 48 64, 4 honors in one hand, fifth in partner's Eland 18 536' 64 T2• 5 honors in one hand20. 40 • 60 8(3• When there is no trumps— . 8 aces between partners ',count-- 80 4 aces between partners count:.. 46 4 aces in one hand count,... 100 The honor counts do not form a, partof the game score, but • are tak- en note of in the settlement of the wager made or record. The manner• of keeping the score may readily be seen by the following .example, HONORS, A B: 0. D. 40 20 .,, I 16 24 64 TRICKS. �4 19 48 36 8,2 106 t 246 . Ina„ • 106 240 This is a score for a rubbere asire- pleted in four deals. The honors are scored above the double line begiix- ning at the bottom, the tricks ben low the doubly line .scoring down. The 'single lines are drawn merges. the score when a game. (30 trick points) Is finished. Three games eon- etitute a rubber. In the illustratiorx D dealt first, made diamonds trumps, and won three tricks (18), and held four honors (24). Second deal, A made heart trumps, winning three by, cards (24) and -three by honors (16 C's deal resulted in a "littlest/tin". (20), and six tricks (48), hearts being trump, and four honors In one hand (64), the trick snore closing the. • game. B's deal, no trump, resulted in three by card (36) and three,aees (80) making a game. D trace. en- ough in h's deal to win the .game and rtlbber. Hearts were trumps, and the score of four tricks (3,4 and live honors (40), being set . down, the set tiementwe made by adding: . the scores together, " both honors and tricks. Thus A and B ' made 10 points, C and D 246, to which arc added 100 for winning the ,rubber,, 346 in all. Taking from this the 106 made by A and B, leave's It. win- ning score of 240 points for,. Q. and D, as a basis of settlement.,The ele- ment <rf chance is quit) large, and it is possibly for the winders all a• rubber to lose by snore.• motewmumenovuerenasiersumm . BUCKINGHAM PALACE. Great Improvements Noted Since the Accession of thing Edward. A complete transformation has come over ]3uckivgham palace since the accession of Edward VII, At night it no longer presents a' dreary prospect unrelieved by a single gleam of light. The windows are il- luminated, the courtyards aro bright with incandescent lamps and • the whole place looks oheerful and inhab- itable. Buckingham palace stands on the site of pleasure grounds known An the days of Evelyn and Popys and frequently mentioned In their diaries as the Mulberry gardens. The pro-. perty was eventually bought by the dukes of Buckingham, who erected the first house, which, however, Was not very largo or handsome, not- withstanding that it was even then called Buckingham palace. George III. pur'ehasci it from the dowager duch- ess of Buckingham as a residence for Queen Charlotte, whose palace, Stun- es•set House, in the Strands, was re- quired for public • purposes" After mob haggling with his mapesty's agent the duchess parted with It fort £6(1,000. It was not greatly altered till 1824, when It was enlarged and almost rebuilt after designs by Jac. sepit Nash for the 'London residence =' of the royal family. ,Feminine. ,Observer. • Potwar Is something for the Weak to worship. A - small boy defines a lady;; as . a grown up girl who isn't saucy. When a mein brake upon the Peter forr„mn;nee or a duty as a task the chances .aro it will, not be well done-. It 1s whispered that the ltrrssianl blouse Is to suppla.n,t the' bolero. ' Milos man who has ne oval feat the bottom of the ladder --la a hole.. False frienrdss are like .your d'hadenes —only with. you 1nthe stsnshitre. 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