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it occurs to me that, for reasons selves, pitilessly contrasted with bee
which should he obvious enough, it own ugliness.
will be as well%f, in these memoirs of "So the little god smiles on her!"
mine, I refrain from attempting to I said to the waiter.
set forth my adventnees m their chron- "Luck, like love, is blind, monsieur,"
°logical order. All policemen are not he replied. I like the French. Even
fools; if I should trace, with too great their lower classes aro deft of speech.
exactitude, my various movements, I looked at him. "You recommend
dormant suspicions would become the Baronne's good fortune to me, and
wakeful. Moreover, it is not my in- yet that fortune does not seem to
tendon to publish all my adventures please you."
I prefer rather to confine myself to Had we been anywhere else,'I think
those incidents which have n them he would have spat upon the ground.
something of the unusual. In pre- "I gave two sons to France, mon-
senting the history of an artist, one sieur," he said. "The Baronne gave
does not deem it essential to relate none. Her sons were occupied in the
where he purchased his brushes. And production of munitions. France has
I am an artist. her profiteers, monsieur. Those jewels
Behold me, then, seated at a table which she wears were bought with
on the terrace of the Cafe de Paris, money made in the war. Ah, well, she
sipping my coffee. It was the atro- has one jewel less than she had last
week. The luck frowned even as it
French call coffee. It is, this coffee, '1 "
the only blemish upon an otherwise
charming people. And I will confess,
with what hesitation may seem suit-
able. to the prejudices of the day, that
I had mitigated its bitterness with
some fine champagne. Moreover, I
had diner at Ciro's, and nothing could
efface the memory of that marvelous
repast.
The air was balmy. The tables
were crowded. It seemed as if all the
world had run away from his wife
his sweetheart -here. For
cions decoction, rather, which the
"She lost a jewel?" I asked.
He spread hise palms and pursed
his lips. "Who knows? Monsieur
does not read French, perhaps. Our
newspapers printed much about the
Baronne's pearl necklace. She wore
it one 'night in the Casino. She went
back to her hotel without it. The pa-
pers say that detectives from Paris
are investigating the matter. The
clasp may have become unfastened:
it may have dropped to the floor. But
and brought
Monsieur is aware that strange people
there was an air of excitement, of come to Monte Carlo. Bonne chance,
careless gayety, that unfortunately Is
not too closely associated with respec-
table domesticity. I could hear every
tongue, save German, spoken; arid I
strongly suspected that the guttural
French essayed by certain ostensible strange people came too Monte Carlo.
Swiss bad been learned in Berlin. For I would like to meet that strange
though the German is .not. given, even one who had taken the Baronne's
at this time in the world's history, to necklace. It aok genius to abstract
denying his nationality, .Monte Carlo
is iv orth a transient treason.
For a moment I felt Vilely. I wish-
ed that I, too, were accompanied by a
charming lady into whose ears I could
whisper soft flatteries and into whose
hands, later on, I could press the in-
laid plaques wherewith one stakes at
roulette or chemin de fer. But I put
the thought froin me. The artist in
crime must be like Kipling's cat; he
walks alone.
And in moments such as these, when
I realize that certain things are de-
nied ie, I seek for change, for relaxa-
tion. And before me, outlined in elec-
tric lights, and shone cynically upon
by the scornful stars above, loomed
the great bulk of the Casino. Excite-
ment was not far to seek.
I raised my finger; my waiter came
to my side and presented the small
bill.
"Monsieur plays?" he smiled.
"One feels gratitude to the authors
of these glorious surroundings," I told
bine "One does not play; one enters
the .Casino and pays for the privilege
Of being here."
The waiter's smile was swiftly sym-
pathetic. "Monsieur is unfortunate?"
I shrugged. "Does anyone ever win
here?" 1 asked.
"Ah yes, monsieur. The good hick
smiles on many," he assured me.
"I'll believe it when I see it," I re-
torted.
"Then Monsieur would be well ad-
vised if he watched the play of the
Baronne d'Esterelie this evening. Her
luck has been phenomenal for the past
monsieur!"
I tipped him, and with my coat over
my arni, I strolled across the square
to the Casino. And as I walked, I
frowned. As the waiter had said,
.necklace from a woman's throat in
the halls of the Casino. And I was
grateful to the garrulous little waiter.
I have come eo the Riviera for rest,
with no intention of practicing tny
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was this action that made me
they were husband and wife.
"Don't Margaret," he said •to her.
he spoke, he placed plaques aggregat-
ing
is the case, for the pious, charitable
"We'll get it back in a moment." As
six thousand francs, on the red.
"Jack, you musn't! Take it back!"
She was frantic in her pleading. •
Behind her stood a tall, black -
powerful. His huge nose, mottled -skin r
and i and robber had peculiarly soft and
bearded maxi, broad -shouldered
and pouched old eyes of a man who gentle voices, and the survivors of
knew no restraint upon his desires. encounters with the brigand had told
the police, when relating their exper-
"But what does it rnetter, m. tepees and had been asked to reseribe
He leaned over now.
His accent told me Mr.
the always masked leader of the bri-
Beresford?"he was Russian. gands: "Why, he has a voice as sweet
"It matters tremendously," she re- and soft as that of Brother Epure."
plied angrily. And then the croupier VOICE BETRAYED HIM.
droned his cry as the little ball set- It was the inonk's soft voice which
"Onze, noir et manque." led to his undoing. At Lespezi there ed ten years ago and Epure narrowni
tied into Number Eleven.
Eleven, odd, black, and the first were several witnesses to his crime, escaped the same fate, the latter made
eighteen. His cry was -music to my all wore masks, the leader talked a ed himself as a poor student who, although he and his companions his way to the monastery and describ-
appointed in life, wished to seek se-
clu9lon and meditate on his past.
The brothers took him in and, ob-
serving that he was industrious and
affable, kindly and winning, gave him
various tasks to perform; they being
successfully done, he was soon receiv-
ed into their order. All remarked
about his fondness for nocturnal rides
through the forest and his late re-
turns, but nothing else he had done
had in the least excited their curiosity,
leatst of all their suspicions. When, FOR THE LARGER WOMAN
ten years ago he had been promoted The woman with a mature figure
to take charge of the refectory and will appreciate Design No. 908 with
;had brought a couple of vagabonds to its swathed hipline, slightly bloused
assist him, they mily had weeds' of bodice and deep, open front finished
praise for his seeming success at con- with unusual rever collar. Inverted
plaits add flared movement to hemline.
Printed silk crepe in combinadon with
plain harmonizing crepe is pictured
and is a smart choice for street. Print-
er. sheer crepe, little more dress, is
also adaptable. Crepe satin, wool
georgette and faille crepe are service-
able. Pattern in ester 36, 38, 40, 42,
36 -inch size requires 31/4, yards of 40 -
inch material with Va yard of 20 -inch
is almost uncanny. Sometimes he is contrasting. Price 20c the pattern -
on top the bus when passengers climb BOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
on, and must get a mental picture of Write your name and address plain -
them from what he sees of their hats. ly, giving number and size of sues
Sometimes, indeed often, passengers patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
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Ing, off those in this seat or those in it carefully) for each number and
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One bus conductor said he did not Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
try to remember. "The moment I ap-
pear," he said, "the folks who were
the last to get on reach automatically
for their dimes. It is the honesty of csailtleixe in the evening to see your
the passengers and not the conductor's Tonimy: "Not exactly to
smartness that makes fare collecting see her, because there's no light in
easy."
But passengers insist on crediting
the conductor with being extraordi-
narily astute.
assume
Alternated Roles
of anditand Monk
Leader of Habuc Gang in Ru-
mania Blessed by Dy
and Dreaded After -
Nightfall
According to the, newspapers of
Jassy, the war capital of Rumania,
the trial of IVIichai Habuc for the
alleged murder and robb-ery ef Les-
pezi merchant means more than the
end of the famous Heinle gang of
highwaymen, which for years had
ravaged the countryside from the for-
ests of the Sereth to the sevaenps of
the Danube. It means the loss of
their faith in human nature to the
good people of Neamtu, a little town
on the banks of the Sereth, whose
trails have been made lighter by a
monk in a neighboring monastery
named Michai Stefan Epure.
The children who ran after the
Brother Epure in the streets of Ne-
amtu begging hirh to visit a sick par-
ent or bestow on them a few copper
coins and felt exalted when he placed
his gnarled bands upon their heads
and blessed them, could not have imag-
ined, so the story runs, that these
same hands were capable of using a
revolver with deadly effect. Yet such
monk ef Neamtu has turned out to be
none other than the dreaded: brigand
Habuc, on whose head a price of 5,000
lei had been placed by the authorities.
It had been noticed that both monk
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possible—that a man can be in two
different places al the same time, pos-
sibly in three! For in one case the
monk had overwhelming testimony to
prove that he was sleeping. soundly
in his cell in the monastery of Nearn-
tu, when qualified witnesses, includ-
ing the gendarmes, proved that the
band of Habuc, with its masked leader
astride his big horse, was attacking
houses separated by two days' travel.
Aside from this paradiox, which the
trial is expected to straighten wit,
the contents of the "dossier" present
much precise information—all like the
narrative of two careers which_ at
certain times and places are found
to mingle.
DESERTED FROM ARMY
Epure, alias Heine, is a man of con-
siderable education, all accounts say.
He is a graduate of the Bucharest
Commercial College. During his mili-
tary service before the World War he
came into conflict with the authorities
and deserted.• He made common cause
with the bandit Josuh Ungureanu, and
within a short time both men had
their bands, who plundered and bprn-
ed and killed their way through Mol-
davia. When Ungureanu was captur-
The wife was frantic in her plead-
ing.
on the black. But as I reached far great deal and some of those who
ears, for I had staked two thousand
heard him were certain that they rec-
my winnings, I wished that red had ognized the voice of the monk. The
come. For I was near neighbor to one police, doubtful of the value of such
of those all -too -common tragedies of testimony, however, decided to go to
Monte Carlo, the proofs of which are the monastery of Neamtu and make
to be found in the defalcations, forger- an investigation. There they were in-
ies and embezzlements that fill the formed that Brother Epure had de-
parted earlyinthe evening an his
Continental papers, and in the hushed-
up suicides of the cliffs. usual'necturnal ride through the for -
"How can it matter?" demanded 'est. So they waited. When the monk
,
the Russian. "I am here, and I have •returned toward daylight mounted on
money." a large black horse they asked him to
' She flashed a look of scorn at him. give an account of himself. That ac -
1 could read the little story as easily fount not being satisfactory they
as if it were set before my eyes in charged him. with being the robber
print. I have seen too many elderly Habuc. The monk was successfully
gentlemen befriend young wives. laughing off the accusation, when it
She rose from her seat. "Come,
Jack," she said.
Her husband looked at her in des-
perate appeal. "That's all we have,
profession. Now, forewarned, I would
not, no matter what the temptation,
perinit my holiday to be infringed
upon by business. The Parisian de-
tectives have brains.
Still, as I checked my bat and coat,
and sauntered through the outer
rooms into the Cercle Prive, the more
exclusive salons, and beheld the pre -
week. I know, for one of my cousins elms stones that gleamed from the
is a croupier, and he has told me. If throats and arms and hair of the WO -
Monsieur will note the lady, at the ;men here, I could understand that not
second table to the right, he will see 'even the Casino's force of detectives,
her." I Or the importations from Paris, could
I followed the direction of his deter attempts at theft. Also I specu-
glance. Of course the Baronne d'Es- I lated on the difficulties that might be
terelle would be fortunate at games 'involved in a raid upon the cash of
of chance. God had given her neither Ithe Casino itself. But that was a job
beauty nor charm; she was a grossly for an organization. And'I, as I have
overfed woman, who radiated vulgar- said before, walk alone.
ity; I suppose it is only fair that such I I went to a booth and exchanged
persons, devoid of all other gifts, half a dozen mil -le notes for chips.
should be lucky. I felt an instant de- I Then I slipped into a vacant seat at
,sire to relieve her of some of the price- one of the tables, glanced at a card
lees baubles that, beautiful in thern- I kept by the man next to me, saw that
red had been turning up with great
frequency, decided that it was black's
turn, and began backing up my judg-
ment. I had made three successful
coups, when an exclamation from my
left-hand neighbor made me turn and
look at her.
She was well worth the glance I
gave her. I have seen few lovelier
women than this young American—
she was patently that—who sat beside
me. Black hair and blue eyes lent to
her an exotic air that was enhanced
by the olive hue of her skin. I judged
that in her ancestry might be found
some grandee of old Spain. She was
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was noticed that under his brown cas- eerting, them.
seek he wore the costume of a moun-,
taineer. They made him dismount and Fare Collectors Count
searched him. What they found—al On People's Honesty
Margaret," he told her. "Unless the mask, two revolvers, and some of the
Prince lends money, we have nothing." money taken froth Lespezi—caused
Horror leaped into her .eyes. She them to arrest him and take him in
looked accusingly at the prince. "You chains to Jassy. There the examining passenger for a second fare, and since
encouraged Jack." . magistrate with the aid of scones of folks are getting on and off at every 44 and 46 inches bust measure. lee
(To be continued.) •
It does not happen once in a blue
moon that a bus collector will ask a
witnesses soon beought out the truth— stopping place, and dress much a e,
the Jekyll and Hyde life of Miami his ability to remember who has paid
Stefan Epure, by day the most be -
But Not in Venezuela loved man in the district, by night the
feared and hated bandit Habuc.
Washington—One here is not en- The case prepared by the Crown
ough for the automoiles of Venezuela. Prosector covets fifteen years—on the
Under the latest law, according to a one hand, fifteen years filled with
pious works; on the other, fifteen
years filled with murder, arson and
robbery. Character witnesses there
were for the monk Epure, but they
had no chance when confronted by
others who had lost parents, homes
and savings through the terrible Ha-
buc and his band. At the monostery
two other monks were arrested; for
ten years they, had been his faithful
servants by day and his loyal lieuten-
ants by night. The influence that the
man had, for both good and evil, with
those with whom he came in contact
amazed the prosecutor.
So far there have been proved cer-
tain discrepancies in the "dossier" of
the robber -monk, as for example the
attempt of the Crown to prove the im-
Too Much Motor Horn?
teport made to the Department of
Commerce, double facilities for mak-
ing a noise are required in that re-
public, a hand horn for the city and
an electric horn for the country.
Actual practice. shows that the
drivers usually do not stop with two
horns, but have three, one hand oper-
ated and the other two electrical.
The button for one of the electric
horns is on the steering wheel, while
the other is placed on the left door
of the car and is operated by pressure
of the driver's knee.
Henry Ford. seems to have a pas-
sion for all oltl-fashioned things except
the horse and buggy.
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dressed prettily, but not nearly as ex-
pensively as most of the other women'
present. And she wore no jewelry
whatsoever, save a narrow gold wed-
ding ring. Nevertheless she was the
most striking -looking woman in the
room.
But it was not her beauty alone that
made fne stare at her, It was the ex-
preelsiOii of despair upon her face. Her
exclamation had been one of almost
hysterical dismay. Beyond her sat a
youth of twenty-five, good-looking,
with that fresh complexion so common
to the Eeglish. His color was more
florid just now than usual, I imagined.
For he was crimson with embarrass-
ment at his wife's ery. As 1 looked,
he placed a hand upon her wrist. It
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Why Have a Navy?
Le Devoir (Ind.): Against what
enemies must we protect ourselves?
The Americanse. No navy would en-
able us to defend ourselves against
them, if they took, it into their heads
to annex us. The Japanese? There
are thousands of miles between us
and—what is more—the barrier of the
American fleet, for Washington would
not tolerate the establishment of the
Japanese in North America. The
Chinese? They have no navy. The
Germans? Neither have they. Tho
French? England would be under
the obligation of defending us against
them, if they contemplated a descent
uponour coast, which is in the highest
degree unlikely. Then against whom
are we going to build our navy?
Against no one; but tor the sake of.
someone—for England. Our Imperial-
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posals lack common sense. And we
have better things to do with our
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