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Despite my resolutions, then, to think no more of Higgins and the White Eagle, they were both in my mind as, turning a corner into the Rue des Saints Peres, I collided with a group of people standing before a doorway. I muttered an apology, stepped back, and noted that the per - my career," he decides. "For if a thief is robbed, where inay he look for re- dress?" Wha ��- AinsIey visits the Jardin des ibusiness could exist between the in one eye. Nymphas in Paris with two American ,White Eagle and Josiah Higgins If I bent over swiftly and helped kiln acquaintances. A tall, white-hairedt' Higgins had had a son or daughter to his feet. My perfunctory apology manWhis ale. out to him as the appear Eagle. The crook who anever� some it who c underworld eCaffairn Iglcould became e was fpoorly dressed, I venuse and sincere. tured has appears, into the isuof thelaw,'beednr callednd that up upone White foraicl. Eagle But lad te offer him a coin. the greedily, and I would have passed on, e seized it The White Eagle1gs in the company onlyI noticed that the rest of the of a gross, vulgar -seeming man and couple were childless. woman. Ainsley suspects that the, If Higgins were as foolish as he group were all blind in one eye. 'White Eagle is manipulating a was unadmirable, I could have guess- Other groups stood across the what street, in the street, and farther down the narrow sidewalk on which I stood. And I noticed that every single one of them suffered the same affliction: they were all•lind in one eye. I suppose that my amazed horror was reflected in niy face. For the man to whom I had presented the gratuity laughed at me. "Monsieur is amazed, yes? To see so many of us is strange?" "Is this a hospital here?" I asked, pointing at the building before which we stood. He shook his head. "No, monsieur, it Is the home of a patron of all af- flicted sucb as we. Monsieur has not read this morning's Cri de Paris?" I shook my head and he thrust into my hand a copy of the paper, folded back to expose an advertisement. I read it lamely in my falterin5. ench. Translated, it ran: "A gentleman whose son, having lost an eye for France, bore his wound proudly, despite his affliction, until his death by accident recently, wishes to honor the memory of that noble son by kindnesses to those sim- ilarly afflicted. The gentleman will devote part of his large fortune to the founding and maintenance of a club for one -eyed men. It will not be limited only to those who lost their sight in the war against the cursed Boche. All men who are without the sight of one eye are eligible to the privileges of the Club. Those inter- ested are requested to apply to Num- ber —, Rue des Saints Peres, between the hours of nine and twelve on Wed- nesday." I read this amazing advertisement, so typically French in sentiment, and niy eyes filled with tears. It was a charity a trifle too bizarre for Amer- ican taste, but its kindness would ap- peal to the generosity of any country. talking business. swindle. He finds out the names of the pian and woman—then leaves his friends and returns to his apartment. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY I find that one thinks better in bed than any other place. Undressed, then, with cigarats on a stand beside ole, I pondered the strange relation- ship which I had seen evidenced to- night. What was the basis of the acquain- tance between the White Eagle, a no- torious though unpunished criminal, and Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Higgins, of Cincinnati, Ohio? I wondered that I had not recogniz- ed the Higginses glance. Still, the phoogrphs of them, whichha.. appeared in the American and Euro- pean press, had evidently been re- touched to a degree. And if I had not instantly recognized the faces, I paid proper tribute to the Higgins glory by inunediately' identifying their names. Who in the newspaper reading world had not heard of Josiah Hig- gins, who had been a multimillionaire before the war, and who was now popularly reputed to be worth at least a billion? Statisticians had esti- mated how many times his fortune, if reduced to dollar bills, would girdle the globe, how many times it would rebuild the Pyramids if reduced to sever coins. And other statisticians had solemnly affirmed that It cost thirty thousand dollars to dress Mrs. Higgins for breakfast, and at least a million and a quarter properly to clothe and ornament her for dinner. Their extravagance had become a matter of internationalawe. Also, ls , the queer parsimony at accompan- ied their extravagance was known to all the world. Higgins proudly boast- ed that he never gave a dollar to charity, and the he never lent money. nether his partner They tipped outrageously, but Hig- otherwise That is axiomatic. But l I placed another. coils in my inform - gins haggled with his workmen, and where in the axiom lay a profit for ant's palm, and hurried away from was probably the most cordially hated me? the grotesque scene. employer in America. I awoke with a headache; I lied But at the first corner I stopped, They had assailed the gates of fa- slept little, and that little had been turned and stared after the man who shion in New Yiork, and their rebuffs interrupted by dreams in which the had passed me. It was the White had become historic. They had failed White Eagle took a fortune from Jos Eagle; and all my interest in hien, to impress Mayfair and the Fau- iah Biggins, while I looked on, power - the had evaporated while I read bourgs as well as Fifth Avenue, but less to abstract the fortune from the the strange advertisement, condensed they did not lack for satellites. They so-called supercrook, and flowed back into nay brain. were in a fair way toward creating I tried to eat breakfast, but the cora- And then interest became amaze- s fashionable society of their own, if binatiart of" too much wine and toe ment, for he entered the house before fashion be judged, as it frequently is, little sleep had killed my appetite- I which the groups of blind men stood. by the amount of newspaper space ac- was nervous, restless, and so I went Immediately upon his entrance a 1 Left servant came to the door and beckon- ed at a solution of the probler puzzled me. I could have imagined that the White Eagle was surrepti- tiously disposing of stolen goods to the milloinaire. But Higgins was too sane to indulge in that sort of shady barter, if he were not too honest. I tossed upon the bed; I fumed and fretted and smoked a score of cigar- ets. Somewhere in this relation be- tween the criminal and the milloinaire lay an opportunity for me, if only I had eyes wherewith to see it. For whatever the relation between. Higgins and the White Eagle, it must be something underhanded, even They were all blind in one eye. though I could not guess why the mil- lionaire should descend to such a mat- ter. The White Eagle was a crook; a crook does only crooked business, R, be honest or 144 6 A SMART DAYTIME FROCK Ask your Automobile Dealer to show you the new models or write for list. • S2388 Dundas St. West u�0y Bross Foundry Ltd Toronto, 'Canada. Huck n Ba,y Basin Rich in Resources Timber and Mineral Wealth Described by Dr.' R. B. 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Stewart, chief medical adviser of the Giraffes have been popular in regal Hudson's Bay Company, who gave an circles since the time of remote Lt'gy- illustrated lecture on "The Natural ptian kings. Julius Caesar showed Resources of the Hudson Bay Basin." Rome its first giraffe in a triumphal Mr. McCrea referred to the railway procession in 46 B.C. Although it hardly seems possible, builders pushing two different lines up giraffes have gone up. They used to to Hudson Bay and James Bay, as mo I cost between $1500 and $2000, but now run from $5000 to $7500. dery pioneers, following the example set by Hudson. the explorer, in 1611. Noting the immense area of the Hudson Bay Basin, mere than 3,000,- 000 square miles, Dr. Stewart refer- red to the vast range of itts climatic conditions extending from sub -Arctic to temperate. Geological Make-up. Referring to the geological makeup of the basin, the speaker tuoched up- on the granite to be. Pound along the northern rims of the bay, the. lignite on the Salmon River which supplies the stoves of many of the northern stations of the company, the mica be- ing produced in small quantities at Lake Harbor, the nickel deposits rtt Cape Smith, lead at Mayfair River, gypsum and china clay in the Moose Factory section, and quantities of iron ore to be found in the Belcher Islands district, but noted that so far no gold deposits of any consequence have been located, although prospecting is being carried still further northward, and a fair probabilitty exists of this precious metatl being found in paying quantities. Furs, the product of the district for 250 years, are still being sent out in large quantities, Dr. Stewart stated. This attractive frock is a practical and smart style for all daytime wear. The skirt has plaits at each side of the front and is joined to the bodice, while the back is in one piece. 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I felt meant profit to ole, and finally T waited outside, at a convenient found myself in the neighborhood of corner. Somehow or other I could the Luxembourg. The walk had clear- not believe that this grotesque adver- ed nay head, and appetite had come to, tisement contained all that was of in - me. I walked on to Foyot's and ord-1 terest. Of course, crooks are notor- red breakfast. Food put me in a ! ously impulsive, given to streaks of a, r '//, i/ e4„ GL • Always have the magic ri WRIGLEY package in V, your pocket. M - Soothes nerves,, • thirst, aids 0digestion. After " Every Meal - sats No, 14-18 Fish of Two Varieties. "Hudson Bay is not teeming with - fish, as some people imagine," Dr. Stewart said, referring to the scarcity of any variety except rook cod and white fish. In time, the fisheries of the basin may attain large production, but not for some years. Pulp and paper production is already going ahead, with prospect of additional mills in the near future. Black and white spruce, tamarac, balsam, poplar, white birch and balsom pine are among the principal species of timber found in the area. Fall wheat, grow- ing at Moose Factory, had shown as high a yield as that in the Western provinces, and a good future in agri- culture was predicted by Dr. Stewart. "I believe the Hudson Bay area route will prove a boon to Western Canada for general commodities, but it will not be for some years—pos- sibly never—that wheat will be ship- ped to any great extentt. The straits are open Ionger than people imagine, but the difficulty will be to keep Fort Churchill's port open long enough to be of value to navigation by the new routte." Brimful of Foolishness. Hubby—"Why do you think this hat, looks silly on my head?" Wills—"Because on your head that hat's brimful of foolishness." Keep Minard's Llnlment,handy. Time's Topsy-Turvy. "Here's a dime, son; get yourself an ice-cream soda at the - corner saloon, then stop at the drug store anti bring your old man home.". more philosophical frame of mind. After all, I might be deluding myself; Higgins might have made the ac- quaintance of a notorious crook simp- ly for the sake of the thrill that some people gain from such an acquain- tance. At any rate, it did not behoove me to wear out lnf nerves in imagin- ing problems that, having no exist- I'ence, could have no solution. And yet I was ashamed of these re= flections; for after all, they were simply confessions of nay own inabil- ity to meet a .situation and make it yield a profit. extravagant generosity. Nevertheless I waited, One by one, the blind men began to emerge from the house. All of them seemed happy, as though incredible good fortune had come to them. Fin- ally the man whom I had tipped ap- peared. I accosted him, and he beam- ed upon me. "Ah, it is my generous American 1" "Well, did you join the Club?" 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