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AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE
BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY
CHAPTER XIV.—(Cont'd
She spoke listlessly. Her mother's
excitement seemed absured. But even
if it were not so --if the man had
found the stone jar, and was carry-
ing it off with him now—Elsa did not
know whether she' wished to stop
him. Yesterday she would have
fought fiercely to keep the contents of
that jar safes to -day it seemed that
their safety did not matter.
"No," said her mother. "Take us in
quickly. He may not have found the
thing. Anyway I must know at. once."
She was trembling with excitement,
but Elsa was quite calm. It seemed
almost as though the hope, which in
the daughter had died, was pulsing
with strong life in the mother. But it
was not the same hope. The things
they desired were not the same now
—probably never had been, perhaps
never would be the same.
"Quick!" cried Mrs. Carrington
again. "If the jar is not there, we
shall have to follow that man."
But the jar was where Elsa had
put it.
At the first cast of her grapple, a
coil of the picture wire round its neck
was caught, and it came to the sur-
face. Elsa chipped off the cap of
sealing -wax with which she had cov-
ered its mouth, and then, having taken
out the cork, drew from it the rolled
packet. Mrs. Carrington snatched it
from her hands, and tore it open.
"Wait!" cried Elsa.
There was something in' her tone
which made the elder woman pause.
"Well.?" she asked irritably.
"Father gave me a message, which
I was to deliver to you when I put that
packet into your liands."
"Well ?" said Mrs. Carrington again.
"He said that his last command to
you, spoken through my lips, was that
you were to respect the wish which
you would find expressed in a letter
to you which that packet contains. He
said that you would understand, and
that I should not."
. With a frown Mrs. Carrington be-
gan to read the letter. It was a long
letter, and as she read the frown
deepened, When she came to the end
she was silent for a moment, and then
she said shortly:
"Take the boat out again."
Elsa began to scull towards the en-
trance. Before she had reached it,
her ,another gave a short laugh, and
said:
"What do you think this packet
constains, besides your father's let-
ter to me?"
"I don't know." said Elsa. "Father
spcke of proofs."
"Proofs of what? Of his innocence?
You little fool!"
With something that was almost a
sob, Elsa dropped her oar, and turned
quickly to her mother, crying: i
"Mother! was he guilty?"
"Yes," said Mrs. Carrington, and
then, as Elsa. buried her face in her
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hands, she added, with a mocking
laugh: "I will read you a bit of his
last letter to me" •
With a sneer on her lips this wo-
man who had called Richmond Car-
rington husband, read to the girl who
was his daughter:
"Elsa believes in me. If it is pos-
sible for that belief, to live,I charge
you, Rachel, not to kill it. She will
look to you for guidance. I have told
her that the decision rests with you
whether the effort to clear my name
is to be continued. Give her what rea-
sons you will for ceasing to make the
effort. Say that it is hopeless, that
the difficulties are insurmountable,
that our enemies are too- strong—any-
thing—except the truth, that I am
guilty. You drove me into guilt; do
this much by way of recompense.
I Perhaps—I know it is only perhaps,
but I cling to the slenderest thread of
hope in this—perhaps she will believe
you."
Elsa sprang to her feet- with a cry!
"Stop! That is his message to you?
The last wish, which you were to re-
spect?"
"It seems so," said Mrs. Carrington,
smiling. "At any rate I can find no
other."
• "And this is how you respect it?"
"Yes," she said. "The whole thing
is really too absured."
i Elsa gazed at her in trembling an-
ger. For a moment she could not
speak. Then with a low moan, she
cried:
"You are my mother; but I hate
you!"
CHAPTER XV.
The same two men were again on
duty in the instrument Room at Ri-
beria Grande who had been on duty
on the night when the cable message
"Danger—Circus" canle through,
Scarborough again was sitting in
front of the siphon recorder., and
again Scott was lying in a cane chair,
listlessly turning over the leaves of a
novel. Specialization of function
commonly took this form between
these two.
• No messages were passing over the.
cables, and for the last half hoar
Scarborough had been deep in
thought. The task which he had tak-
en upon his shoulders, when he under-
took to solve the mystery which sur-
rounded Richmond Carrington's death,
absorbed the thoughts of most of
his waking hours now; but the solu-
tion did not come. That there had
been no actual murder had been prov-
ed by the evidence of the Portuguese
doctor. who had certified that death
was due to the suddenbursting of an
aortic aneurism of long standing.
But the doctor said also that it was
impossible that Carrington should not if
have known of theexistence of this d
aneurism, and that it was very un-
likely that he would be ignorant of the t
fact that any unusual exertion would
almost of a certainty be fatal.: So
Much Scarborough could understand;
but what he could not understand was
why Elsa's father had, by, making this
exertion, doomed himself 'tb an al-
most inevitable death: i• Ie had little
doubt that the risk bad been !crown,;
and dared with full knowledge. But'
why? What was the motive which
had been strong' enoughto mare Rich-
mond Carrington brave death as the
price of a country walk?
Presently Scott, the man'in the cane
chair, yawned, and threw his book
down in disgust.
"What awful rot rnanages to get in-
to . print nowadays," ` he remarked.
"Sickening! I'll change places with
you for a bit, Horace. Asiphon-re-
corder that 'doesn't record anything is
dull company,` but the average modern
novel is duller. Bet you half a crown
you can't read through four chapters
of this one. Have a 'look at it, and
pitch it into the stove when you've
done."
He came to the table and took
Scarborough's place .ui front of the
instrument. Scarborough went to
the earindow from which he could see
the white walls of the Chinelas in the
distance, she knows!" he muttered.
Since , the morning when she had
declared passinately that she no long-
er desired his help. Elsa had told him
nothing. They had fret frequently:,,
and he had made a point of telling her
everything. She knew, for instance,
about the hooded woman, and she had
in her possession the stone which had.
• been found in the dead man's fingers,
with the half obliterated cratches of.
his last message pencilled, on it. But,
she had not met confidence with con-
fidence. Scarborough• knew nothing
of the letter which her 'father had
written to her, nothing of her.reasons
for going alone to the Ring -Rock. He
would probably not have known even
of the fact, had not the rescue of
Mona de la Mar and the others from
the stranded Sea -Horse made it im-
possible of concealment. •
He had' told Mona that there had
been no • quarrel . between him and
Elsa, and in their literal. sense the
words were true. They met as
friends. But formerly they had met
as something`more. •
Scarborough turned away from the
window with a sigh. The jarring note
in his love -idyll rang to -day as a
very palpable discord, and he longed
for the time to come when the har-
mony would reassert itself.
A message was coning over the
cable. Scott began to take it down,
and broke off with an exclamation.
"Hullo!" he said. "It's for you."
"For nee? .Can't be, I'm not impor-
tant enough."
" `Scarborough, . Cable station'—
that's you, isn't it ?—`Go in and win.
Finances arranged. Letter coming.
Ambler.'" Scott read the message
from the flickering of the siphon, and
proceeded in due form to write it
down. "Why doesn't your friend use
code?" he asked. "He's extravagant
in words. Is this private, old man?
Or may a fellow know what it refers
to?"
"It is the answer to a letter I wrote
some time ago," said Scarborough.
"Ambler is my uncle!'
"The' one who, to encourage thrift
in the young, puts three sovereigns on
the top of every one you show him at
the end of the year? That uncle?"
"Yes," said Scarborough.
Scott whistled. `Then `Finances
arranged' sounds as though it might
mean something handspme," said he.
"What does 'Go in and win' mean?
Stop, I'll guess. The girl at the
Chinelas? Right?"
"Yes, right," said Scarborough,
quietly.
Scott jumped up with a laugh.
"Then off you go!" he cried; "and
good luckto you! I'll get one of the
other men to take, your duty. Don't
waste time. Croesus, in the form of
Uncle Ambler, promises over the sub-
marine cable—excellent institution,
the submarine cable!—to pay for the
fun when you're married. `Finances
arranged' can mean nothing else; and
s for `letter coming,' I shouldn't wait
or it. 'Go in and win,' he says: Why
on't you go ?"
Scarborough had thrown himself in -
o the cane chair, and showed no sign
f wanting to go.
"Lucky beggars Some fellows are!"
Scott went on, enviously: "It gives a
man a pull to be born with an uncle.
I've got no relatives nearer than a
father, worse luck!—and he's as poor
as aI am. Look here, why don't
you do as you're told, and go in and
win?"
"Because I don't think I should win
if I went in now," said Scarborough
simply,
"Oh, that's it, is it?" said the other
man with a laugh. "Did you hint as
much to Croesus? His message
doesn't suggest that you did ?"
"I didn't," said Scarborough.
"But you've taken to doubting late-
ly ? Do you know," a countryman • of
mine once put the thing rather neat-
ly ? Se either fears his fate too
much, or his deserts are small.' You
know the rest"
"Yes," said Scarborough. "The
,Who vt'rote that was hanged. I
dla't' thila '` is
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your caunti;yman. I'm not going,".
"Then you fear yourfate too
ranch?" lsald Scott.
"Or my deserts aro small. Have it
Which way *ou like, 'And suppose we
drop the subject,"
Whela, Sc'arhorough wrote the let-
ter to whieli this cablegram was an
answer, Richmond Carrington was
still alive, and the note of discord had
not yet sounded in the love idyll He
had told his uncle that he meant to
ask Elsa to be his wife, and he had
not sugested that there was any doubt.
But a mere clerk in the Cable Come
pany is not in a position to marry,
and the reason of Scarborough's let-
ter was that he wanted to know whe-
ther his uncle's former offer of a
place in his city house was still open
to him. He had stated his reasons
frankly, saying that he had no newly -
developed desire to spend his days on
a stool in , a City office, but that he
had a very present need of the £300 a
year which his uncle had offered as
a commencing salary if he agreed to
sit on that stool. If the offer was
still open, he would close with it, be-
cause on £300 a year he thought that
Elsa and he could manage, especially
as his uncle had hinted that, given
good work, the salary need not long
remain at that somewhat modest
figure.
(To be continued.
MEN BLINDED IN WAR.
Taught Trades at St. Dunstan's
' HosteI, Regent's Park, London.
Fifty-one soldiers who have suffered
perhaps the worst injury possible in
war—blindness—have been taught to
support themselves despite their
handicap, at St. Dunstan's Hostel, Re-
gent's Park, London, during the first
year's work of the institution. St.
Dunstan's was donated by Otto Kahn
of New York for this work.
The work has been largely done by
the instruction of blind tutors, for it,
has been found that a newly blinded
man is inspired to greater efforts
under the supervision of ateacher
similarly handicapped who undergoes
the same difficulties and appreciates
to the same degree the difficulty of
the task.
The fifty-one men who left the
hostel after receiving courses of in-
struction had learned one or more of
the following occupations: boot re-
pairing, mat making, net, making,
basket making, joinery, poultry farm-
ing and market gardening. In addi-
tion, typewriting, Braille shorthand
and massaging are taught.
' a ':ae hostel started on March 26,
1915, with fourteen blinded soldiers.
It has grown until there are now at
St. Dunstan's or at annexes at
Brighton and Torquay 140 non-com-
missioned officers and men. These in-
clude seven Australians and ` seven
Canadians. In addition ten blinded
officers live at 21 Portland place,
which was at the disposal of the com-
mittee in charge of the hostel by Sir
Joan and Lady Stirling -Maxwell.
In typewriting the blind soldiers
have shown great proficiency. The
typewriting test, -to write a page of
descriptive matter and a long busi-
ness letter at a fair rate of speed
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without a mistake, has been passed by
eighty-three of the pupils. A type-
writer is presented • to men who pass
this test. ,,A typewriter ompany,
after consultation with the most ex-
pert teachers of the blind, has con-
structed special machines for blind
men.
Six men, besides one officer, have.
learned to be masseurs and to these
are offered positions in military hos-
pitals where they receive lodging,
attendance and about $13 a week.
The work of St. Dunstan's extends
beyond the mere instruction of blind
men, however, for each man receives
free of charge when he leaves the
tools of his trade and is helped to set-
tle in a good locality.
• T. H. Martin, an expert in work
for tire blind, will be in charge of the
departm,ent which keeps in contact
with men who have left the hostel.
The blind men will be supervised to
see that their work does not deterior-
ate and they will receive raw mater-
ials and their finished products
marketed. Masseurs and shoemakers
will receive steady employment.
Je Moving Tale.
Caller—"I would like to secure a
place in your moving -picture com-
pany." Manager—"You are an ac-
tor?" Caller—"Yes," Manager= -
"Had any experience acting without
audiences ?" Caller—"Acting with-
out audience is what brought me
here."
Better if He Had Not Spoken.
A rather pompous naval captain
had been compelled to await the com-
ing of a new naval cadet. After the
usual introduction, he remarked,
"Well, youngster, the old story, I
suppose—the fool of. the family sent
to us!" "Oh, no, sir!" rejoined the
youth, "that's all been altered since
your day!"
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NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND HIS PEOPLE,
Occurrence; In the Land That
Reigns Supreme in the Cons.
Inerelal World.
Sir Wm. James Thomas has. pulr-
chased 5,00,060 cigarettes for wound-
ed troops.
The first "Bantam" to die for bis
country is Private Weightman, of
Liverpool.
Rugby and Dunchuroh Agricultural
Association have decided not to hold
a show this year.
The death is announced of Mr.
Lewis Herbert Yeoward, a well-
known Liverpool shipowner.
Dr. J. Stratton Werrack has been
appointed deputy medical officer of
health for the Port of London..
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is
to be asked to receive a deputation on
the subject of double income tax.
A hut for soldiers' wives is to be
erected by the Y,M.C.A. in the church-
yard of St. John's, Waterloo road.
A Belgian school has been opened
at Letchwell, and 150 Belgian chil-
dren are being taught in their own
tongue.
Between 15,000 and . 20,000 prem- -
bens of the Shop Assistants and
Warehousemen's Union have joined
the colors.. •
Mr. Francis Giraud, clerk ot the
peace foil Faversham, has just died
in his 85th year. He was town clerk
for 32 years.
About 150 German" prisoners, pre-
sumably captured in the recent fight-
ing at St. Eloi, have been landed at
Southampton. .
At the annual meeting of South..
ampton Board of Guardians -a woman
member, Mrs•. Palmer, was elected
vice-chairman.
During March 11,000 tons of fish
were sent to Billingsgate Market, as
compared with 15,000 tons during
March last year.
At the Parkhurst Convict Prison,
Isle of Wight, convalescent convicts
in the infirmary are knitting woolen
scarves for soldiers.
There is still aserious labor short-
age in the agricultural industries of
Lancashire and more women are
wanted on the land.
Pte. "Dicky" Thorne, son of a well-
known Ashford .(Kent) musician, has
been awarded the D.C.M. for gallant
conduct at the front.
Nearly $35,000 has been collected
to endow a chair in Russian at the
University of Birmingham. About
$60,000 will be required.
During the week ending March 10,
the number of L.C.C. - necessitous
children.. fed amounted to 13,689,
against 39,475 a year ago.
ROYALTYFEB OORE THE CAMERA.
Just Like Ordinary People When They
Have Their Pictures "Took."
The photographer to the British
royal family tells in Tit -Bits of his ex-
perience while engaged in his work
and of the formalities to be observed
on the occasion. The last time I was
at Buckingham Palace, he says, I took
six different photographs of the King
and Queen and other members of the
royal family. When I was taking ''a
group of the royal children, Prince
ohn suddenly laughed just as I ex-
osed the plate. The Queen, who was
n the room, said to the little prince,
'Now you have spoiled the photograph
nd another will have to be taken..
ou must not spoil this
"I am very sorry," replied the
rince most solemnly, "but it wasn't
y fault; some one pinched me," an ,
xplanation that made Her 1YIajesty
nd the lady in waiting smile. The
next picture was taken without acci-
ent. Royal patronage is, of course,
ery valuable to a photographer. All
oyal sittings are paid for, whether
e photographer is permitted to pub-
sh the photographs or not.
When a photographer is summoned
any foreign court, he is supposed
• wear evening clothes. Some years
go I was summoned to a well-known
est End hotel, where the King and
ueen of Spain were staying, to
otograph their majesties. I went
my frock coat, and when King Al-
nso's •• equerry entered the room
here the sitting was to take place he
anced at my attire, and exclaimed:
'Good gracious! You cannot appear
fore their majesties dressed like
at!"
"Well," I replied, "that is the way I
ess when I aIn summoned to Buck-
gham Palace."
"Oh!" replied the equerry doubt-
lly. "Well, I must explain it to Isis
ajesty."
Ring Alfonso at that moment enter-
the room, and the equerry began
s explanations about my attire; buil
e Spanish monarch quickly inter-
pted the recital with a laugh. "I
ink Mr: — looks very well fin-
ed," and the' sitting then proceeded.
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