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CHAPTER XLVIII,
Lord Littimer was greatly interest-
ed in all that Chris had to say. The
whole story was confided to hint af-
ter dimer. Over his coffee on the
terrace lie offered many shrewd sug-
gestions.
"'there is ono thing wherein you
have made a mistake," he said.
"And that is in your idea that lien -
son changed those cigritr-cases after
&Ilse (latex laid your votive offering
On Steel's doorstep."
"Flow else could it bo done?" Chris
said.
"My dear, the thing is quite ob-
vious. You have already told no
that Henson was quite aware what
you stere going to do—at (east that
be knew you were going to consult
Steel. Also he knew that you were
going to snake Steel a present, and
y a little judicious eavesdropping
he contrived to glean all about the
cigar -case. The fellow has already
admitted to your sister that ho lis-
tened. Flow long was that before
you bought the cigar -case?"
"I should say it might have been
a week. We had inquiries to make,
you know. In the first instance we
never dreamt of offering Mr. Steel
money'. 1 blush to think of that
folly."
"Well, hlueh a little later on when
you have more time. Then Henson
had a week to work out his little
scheme. He knows all about the
cigarcase; be knows where it Is go-
ing to be bought. Then he goes to
Lockhart's and purchases some trifle
In the shape of a cigar -case; ho has
1t packed up, yellow string and all.
This is his dummy. By keeping his
eyes open he gets the chance he is
waiting for. Ruth (sates hadn't the
faintest idea that he knew anything
when she left that case the day she
bought it within reach of Beason.
Ile gets her out of the way for a
minute or two, he unties the parcel.
fia'd places the Van Sneck case in it.
No, by Jove, he needn't have bought
anethiog from Lockhart's at all. I
gnly thought of that to account for
the yellow string and the stameed
paper that Lockhart's people use.
Ho first takes one cash out of the
parcel and replaces it with another.
and there you are. You may depend
upon it that was the way in which
it was done."
The inure Chris thought over the
matter the more certain she felt
that such was the case. Like most
zpparently wonderful things, the ex-
planation was absurdly simple. A
conjurer's most marvellous tricks
are general!y tho easiest.
"ilow foolish of us not to have
though of this before." Chris said,
thoe chtfull "At any rate. we
know all about 1t now. And we
know who bought the cigar -case so
promptly returned to Lockhart's by
newton. I should like to see this
Rawliiis,"
"You havo got to find him flrst,"
said Littimer.
"I'nt going into Moreton Wells
again to -morrow to make inquiries!"
said Chris.
Ilut she was saved t.11o trouble.
Once more the ever -blessed telephone
stood her to good stead. She was
Just on the point of starting for
Moreton Wells when Steel called her
up. Chris recognised him with a
thrill of eager pleasure.
"Yoe need not be afraid," she
said. "You can speak quite freely.
Now is Van Sneck?"
"Very queer," David responded.
"!tell hoped to have operated upon
him loefero this. but such a course
has not been deemed quite prudent.
The day after to -morrow it will he,
T expeet. ilenson has found out
where Van 8neck is."
"Indeed. tt
Ma he see ) o?
"ile has been here more than once
on all kinds of Ingenious pretences.
But T didn't call you tie to tell you
this We have been making inquiries
at Valens, Marley and myself. The
time has come now to let Marley
behinef the scenes a bit."
"Did Walen's people know anything
about the tall American?"
1 "Oh, J es. A tall American with .1
thin heard and a faint suggestion of
Ismail -pox called about a week before
the great adventure, and asked to
sett some gun-metal diauloud-tuouuted
cigar-cases—like the one in Lock -
hart's window."
"Did he really volunteer that ro-
mark?"
"IIe did, saying also that Lock -
hart's were too dear. Walen's hadn't
got what ho wanted, but they pro-
mised to get some cases out of stock,
which meant that they would go to
the same wholesale house as Lock-
hart, and get some similar cases.
As a matter of fact, one of Walen's
assistants was sent round to study
the case in Lockhart's window. Tho
cases were procureed on the chance of
a sale, but the American voter turn-
ed up again. No notice was taken
of this, because such things oft on
happeet to shopkeepers."
"And this was about a 'week be-
fore the night of the great adven-
ture?"
'Yea. Wait a bit. I have not
quite finished yet. Now, once I had
ascertained this, an important fact
becomes obvious. The American
didn't want a cigar case at all.
"But ho subsequently purchased the
one returned to Lockhart's shop."
"That remark does not suggest
your usual acumen. The American
was preparing the ground for Van
Sneck to purchase with a view to a.
subsequent exchange. You havo not
fully grasped the vileness of this plot
yet. I went to Lockhart's and suc-
ceeded in discovering that the pur-
chased of the returned case was a tall
American, quit° of the pattern I ex-
pected. Then I managed to get on
to tho trail at tho Metropole here.
They recollected when I could des-
cribe the man; they also rocellected
the largeness of his tips. Then 1
traced my roan to the Lion at
Moreton Wells, where ho had ob-
viously gone to see Reginald Menson.
From the Lion our friend went to
tho Royal at Scarsdale :lands, where
ho is staying at present."
"Under the name of John Smith?"
"I suppose so, seeing that all the
inquiries under that name were suc-
cessful. if you would like mo to
come up and interview the meal for
are going to make the acquaintance
of John Smith Rawlins."
"Oh, indeed. and when do
start, may 1 teak?"
Chris responded coolly that she
hoped to get away in the course of
the day. With a great show of vir-
tuo'ts resignation Lord Littimer c01t-
sented.
"1 have always been tho jeet of
fortune," ho said, plaintively; "but
I net er expet ted to be dragged all
over the place at my time of life by
a girl who is anxious to make the
acquainted with the eitoic est black-
geardisut in the kingdom. I leave
my happy home, my cook, and my
cellar for of least a week of hotel
living. Well, one can only die once."
Chris bustled away to make the
necessary arrangements. Some few
hours later Lord Littimer was look-
ing out from his luxurious private
sitting-roont with the assumption of
being a martyr. Ile and Chris were
dressed for dinner; they were waiting
for the bell to summon thein to the
dining -room. When they got down
at length they found quite a largo
number of guests already seated at
the many small tables. .
"Your Ulan hero?" Littimer asked,
languidly.
Chris indicated two people seated
in a widow opposite.
"'!`here!" she whispered. There ho
in. And what a pretty girl with
hint!"
WO
CHAPTF.IR XLIX,
Littimer put up his glass and gaz-
ed with apparent vacancy In the dir-
ection of the window. Ile saw a
tall man with a grey beard and hair
a man most immaculately dressed
and of distinctly distinguished ap-
pearance. Littimer was fain to ad-
mit that he would have taken hien
for a gentleman under any circum-
stances. In manner, style and speech
ho left nothing to be de,ired.
"That chap has a fortune in his
face and accent," Littimer said.
"'Pori my word, he Is a chance ac-
quaintance that one would ask to
dinner without the slighost hesita-
tion. And the girl—"
"In his daughter," Chris said.
The likness is very strong."
"It is," Littinter admitted. "A
singularly pretty, refined girl, with
quite the grand air. It is an air
'that mere education seldom gives;
i but it 5011115 to havo dot °"
so in yon-
der case. And how fond Uwe seem
to be of ono another! Depend upon
it. Chris, whatever that man may
be his daughter knows nothing of it.
And yet you tell me that the pollee
"Well, never mind the police, now.
We can get Mr. Steel to t011 Marley
all about 'John Smith' if wo can't
contrive to force his hand without.
But with that pretty girl before my
oyes i shouldn't like to do anything
harsh. tip till now 1 have always
pictured the typical educated scoun-
drel an a roan who was utterly de-
void
o-void of feelings of any kind."
Dinner proceeded quietly enough,
Chris having eyes for hardly any-
thing else beyond the couple in the
window. She rose presently, with a
little gasp, and hastily lifted a tan-
kard of iced water from the table.
The girl opposite her brut turned
pale sad her dark head had drooped!
forward. •
"I hope it is nut serious," said
Chris. "Drink a little of this; it is
iced."
"And they told hue they Ind 110 ice'
in the house," the man Rawlins mut-1
tered. "A little of this, (:race. It
is One. of her old fainting fits. Ah,
that Is better,"
The man Rawlins spoke with the,
tenderest solicitude. 'Tic look of
positive relied un his face as his
(infighter smiled at hitt told of a
deep devotion and affection for the
girl. Chris, looking on, was wonder-
ing vaguely- whether or not rhe had
`!lade a mistake.
"1Ariel Lit tliner obtained our ice,"
she said. "fray keep this. Oh, yes,
that is Lord Littimer over there. I
am his secretary... •
Littimer strolled across himself and
murmured his condolence•at. A little
time later and the four of thein were
outside in the veranda taking ices
together. Rawlins might have been,
and no doubt ens, a finished scoun-
drel, but there was no question as
to his fascinating manner and his
brilliant qualities as a convereationa-
list.. Amon of 110r% 0, too anti lull
of resources. A 11 t he same. Litti-
mer was tusking himself anti wonder-
ing who the maul really was. By
tent h he must have been a gentle-
man, Littimer did not doubt for a
moment .
But there was one soft spot in the
man, end that was his loco for his
daughter. leer her rake he hod been
travelling all over the world for
years; for ; 41,5 he had despniratii of
seeing her llve to nomnnhood. But
she was gradually growing ' better;
indeed, if she had not walked so far
to -day nothing tvn'lld have Happened.
All the time that Rawlins wits talk-
ing his e)es were resting tenderly on
his daucliter. The hard, steely look
seemed to have gone out of thein
alt og41 her. ,
AItogetltp.' n c1110'nling 81111 many-'
sided rascal, Lit I imer thought. iie
was fond, a5 he called it, of collect-
ing types of humanity. and here was
R new and fnseineting specimen. The
Iwo MPH 1a11:e41 together till long
after dark, and Rawlins never Ire-
timeeil himself. He might have been
an Ambassador or Cabinet Minister
unbending eftpr n lung period of
he
1phm',
�letntthile ('iris hall drown (lrnco
Rawlins apart from the others The
girl was grid end self-contained, but
evidently a lady. She seemed to
hate but few enthueinems, but one
of them ens for her father. 110 was
the most wonderful man in the world
thr most kind and considerate. ifo
was very rich; indeed, it was a good
thing, or she would timer have been
able to anti 50 much of the world.
yip hod given up nearly the whole
of hie life to her, and flow she was
nearly as strong as other girl, Chris
listened In a hared, confuneil kind of
way. She hod not expected anything
fike this; and when did Rawlins find
time for those brilliant predatory
schemes that she had heard of?
"Well, what the you think of
Sheen?" Littimer asked, whea at
YOU_„
"I should like you to do nothing,
of the kind," Chris said. "You are'
more 'iscatil in Brighton, and I am
going to interview Mr. John Smith
Rawlins for myself. (toed -bye. Just
one moment. For the next few days
my address will be the Royal Hotel
Scarvdalo Sands."
Chris countermanded the dog -cart
she had ordered and repaired to the
library, where Littimer was tying
setae trout -!lies behind a cloud of
rigaret.to smoke.
"'Thought you had gone to Moreton
Wells," he said. "Been at the tele-
phone again? A pretty nice bill I
shall have to pay for all those long
messages of yours."
"Mr. Steel pays this time, Chris
said. gaily. ' Ile has just given me
some information that obviates the
necessity of going into the town. My
dear uncle, you want a change. You
look tired and languid—"
"1?epreeeion of spirits and a disin-
clination to excrete° atter food. ,tIso'
a morbid craving for seven to eight!
hours' sleep every night. What's thou
little game'?"
"Bracing alr," Chris laughed.
"Lord bittimer and his sedr'etat'y,
Miss i.eee. are going to spend a few
dens at Scarsdale Sands. Royal
Hotel, to recuperate after their liter-
ary labors."
"The air Itrrc being so pour and
enervating," bittimer spiel, e,•nicelly.
"In ether r rds, 1 suppose ►lu<o Jori have
o
traced Rawlins to Seiirsdale Sands?"
"How clever you are," said Chris,
admiringly. "H'elen's American and
Lockhart's Anu•r•ican, with the mod-
est pseudonym of .John Snaith, are
what Mra. Malaprop would call three
single gentlemen rolled into one. We
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'there are feelings of oppression
el fee tee stomach end pants under
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Conetipation and looseness of bow-
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'Ile spirits are depressed and the
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length he and Chris were alone. "I
suppose it isu't possible that you
and 1 have made a mistake?'
"I'ut afraid not," Chris said, half
sadly, "But what a strange case al-
t ogether. "
Passing strange. I'll go bail that
that mea is born anti bred a gentler
man; and, what is more, he is no
more of an American than 1 alt. 1
kept on forgetting from time to time
what he was and taking hitu
for one of our own class. And, final-
ly, I capped my folly by asking him
to bring his daughter for a drive to-
inoi'row and a lunch 011 the Gap -
stone. What do you think of that?"
"Splendid," Chris said, coolly.
"Nothing could bo better. You will
be good enough to exercise all your
powers of fascination on Miss Raw-
lins to-nmorrow, and leave her father
to me. 1 thought of a little plan to-
night which 1 believe will sec -coed
admirably. At first 1 expected to
have to carry matters with a high
hand, but now I ant going to get
Mr.ltaw Tins through his daughter. 1
shall know all I want to by tomor-
row night."
Littimer smiled at this sanguine
expect ation.
I sincerely hope you will," ho
said, drily. 'But I doubt it very
much, indeed. You havo one of the
cleverest men In Europe to deal with.
Hood -night."
(To be Continued.)
--i
HORSESHOE LUCK.
Universal Belief in the Familiar
Symbol.
The origin of belief in "horseshoe -
luck" is so ancient that its origin
never has been determined with cer-
tainty. and no superstition Is more
universal, says the Chicago Chroui-
cle. 13ver score horses began to
wear shoes these crescents of iron
have been accounted lucky emblems
of all peoples, races and nations that
havo been acquainted with their Oso.
The Chinese, for instance, say they
nail them up over their doors as a
charm against evil spirits, !because
of the close resemblance in shape be-
tween them and the arched `rody of
tho sacred snake, Nagandra, one of
their principal (leitix+.
Ask a Turkish Mohammedan for
information on the subject, and he
will tell you that it is because they
are in form like a crescent, the raic-
red eutiolem of Islam.
A Palish Jew will explain that at
the Passover the blood sprinkled up-
on the lintel and doorposts, in the
manner directed by their ritual,
forms the chief points of an arch;
hence, obvlousty, the value of arch -
shaped talismans such as horseshoes
are.
The Molid and unimaginative Rus-
sian peasant. on the other hand,
maintains that the luck associated
with the horseshoe is chiefly duo to
the metal, irrespective of its shape,
iron being traditionally a charm
wherewith to nullify the malevolent
designs of evil spirits and goblins.
In England, up to comparatively
recent times, horseshoes wore exten-
sively used almost everywhere as
anti -witch charms, and the custom
Is not even yet en extinct ono. No
witch. it awed to bo staid, could enter
a huildine over the door of `which
a horseihoo—or. Netter still, three
horseshoes—had heen affixed, prongs
downward.
The origin of this particular belief
is refer -Mee to the old legend of St.
Dunstan. sfl'his versatile English ec-
clesiastic was a skilled farrier, and
one day while at work in his forge
the evil one entered in disguise and
requested Dunston to shoe his
"sinbele hoof." The saint, although
he at once recognised his malign
ctuetotner, accede:,. nut caused him
so m'ieh pain during the, operation
that Satan begged him to desist.
This Dunstan did. but only after he
had made the evil one promise that
neither he nor any of his lossir epir-
its, his servants. would ever tnolest
the inmates of a house where a
horeeshoo was displayed.
People who slurp with their mouths
dewed enjoy letter health thanl
others.
1IOW 10
Gin Flesh
Persons have been known
to gain a pound a day by
taking an ounce of Scott's
Emulsion. It is strange, but
it often happens.
Somehow the ounce pro-
duces the pound ; it seems to
start the digestive machinery
going properly, so that the
patient is able to digest and
absorb his ordinary food,
which he (((11(1 11'4 (lo be-
fore, anti Orli is 1 11t' way the
gain is made.
A certain amount of flesh
is necessary for health ; if
you have not girt it you can
get it by taking Scott's
Emulsion.
If you has. e,ot Wait, send for free sample Its
agreeable fasts will surprise you.
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11
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Sold only In lead Packets. By all Grocers.
TO MAKE COTTAGE CHEESE.
In thousands of homes throughout
the country, cottage cheese is a tem -
!liar table dainty. Yet it is doubt-
ful it many of the producers could
give more than a superficial account
of what takes place in the process of
snaking this form of cheese. It is
however, 0110 of the simplest of ow
cheeses and consists plainly of two
substances, water and casein dilac-
tate. The latter is one of tho two
chemical compounds, or salts. re-
sulting from the union of casein in
the milk with lactic acid formed in
bacterial fermentation of milk sugar.
Good cottage cheese should have a
soft texture, being neither mushy,
dry nor sawdust like. Such a tex-
ture will accompany a moisture con-
tent of 70 to 75 p.c.
The flavor should bo that of a
mildly soured milk or well -ripened
cream. with an entire absence of
bitter taste, flavor of stable, or other
objectionable qualities. Stich flavor
may usually be secured by the use of
a good starter, but if too much whoy
is retained, the cheese may be sour.
Flavor and te+ituro are quite closely
connected, at this point, and slow
draining curd Is liable to result in
poor textured and poor flavored
cheese.
Tire various steps in making cot-
tage cheese may be numtnarieed as
follows: Use skimmlik rather than
whole milk, to avoid less fat. To
secure proper flavor and speedy sour -
fog, add a small amount of a good
starter. This starter should be pre-
pared from clean, fresh milk, separ-
ated from the cream and placed in a
carefully cleaned receptacle, well cov-
ered and brought to a temperature
of 90 degrees, and then allowed to
stand from 20 to 24 hours at a
temperature of from 65 to 70 de-
grees. The upper portion of this
should be discarded and the amount
needed strained throug a line strain-
er or hair sieve and thoroughly mix-
ed with the milk, from which cheese
is to be made the next day. A por-
tion may also be used in preparing
a starter for the next day, but an
soon as any unfavorable effect is
noticed, a new starter should be pre-
pared.
The milk should lie kept at a tem-
perature of from 70 to 75 degrees
until well curdled, often In 24 hours,
sometimes not until 48 hours. The
curdled mass is broken up by hand
or by a curd knife, raised gradually
to 90 degrees, taking 30 to 40 rnitl-
eites in tho process. The whey should
then separate clear in 15 to 20 intro
utes, after which it is run from the
curd, and the latter placed in muslin
bags or on racks to drain. When
whey ceasee to conte from the curd,
salt is added to taste, or at the rate
of about a pound for 100 pounds of
cheese. The curd is then formed into
balls and wrapped in oiled paper,
which may be obinined from any
dairy supply house. For the finest
quality of cheese, thick cream, pre-
ferably
ro-ferably ripentd cream, should 1►e add-
ed at the rate of about an ounce
for one pound of cheea. he„ore the
cheese is made into balls.
A IIIGU Plt!Vii.F.OF,
No man can create so much as a
spoonful of earth; neither can ho
create the elements from which colpo
the chemicals that are so e•ssenllal to
the producrivity of the soil. Every
thing is in the world, and what man
can do is simply along the linos of
change, whereby he stakes the hard
earth slobber turd its chemical Consti-
tuents available as plant food, or
adds to it other chemicals to utain-
tain, or to increase, its titer° of
available plant food.
'
Herein lie's the sublimely iseautiful
law of co-operation in which swan
finds himself a joint partner with.
the Creator. and it is the realieatlun
of this. vaguely or clearly , an the,
case may be, that makes the farmer.
a "good farmer." We may think of ,
God saying: "1 lend you for use the
broad and fert lands, and i freely
give you the air anti the sunshine,
the rains of summer and tho winter's
snow. But these will not give you I
food or clothing; in the sweet of thy ;
brow shalt thou est bread, and in •
shy labor shalt the earth be made,
more ahundnnt."
'1'o ratan is left the great work of
putting enol keeping the soil In goo,!
mechanical and chemical ronelltion—
in such filth as shell rine':, it pro-'
duce to its Mime -t of the thing..
that men needs to susnin life. blow
any mon can lightly look Hems this
partnership, or fail to see in it In-
epiretion to highest endeavor, la
d105l dimc11ltto undersand. To
work in closest harmony with the
great forces of nature, ought to be
recognized as the highest privilege
and the broadest ophortuni(y, anti
the farmer has every reason to look
upon his calling as the noblest and
most blessed of all.
PX 11 A 1' STI': D 5011.S.
The following plan lets been work-
ed successfully on land that has be-
come
o-corse somewhat exhausted by heavy
cropping, iet the same tine tieing
more than ordinary good soil and'
loping well tertth/ed, though not sot-,
iMu•nt ro make good the drain on
the soil. This result was obtained •
front soil that ntight be termed
gravelly loam. Assuming that the
field is to be used for corn, stable
manure is applied at the rate of ten
tons per acre, and a wheat or oat
crop may follow the cern without
additional fertilizing, and clover be
seeded with the grain. The clover
sod should be mattered and ploughed
under for potato crop. This gives
one a three year rotation in which
clover alternates every third season,
with manure, and giving to the soil
just the elements ewe -tired to produce
big crops of grain or potatoes. The
corn crop may be used instead of
potatoes if desired. In case the
clover shows a weak growth, it
would be well to apply Time to the
soil at tho time the crop is sown,
which follows the ploughing under
of the clover sod, by this method
when it comes around to the clover
again, the lime has removed the
acidity from the soil.
POULTRY NOTES.
A brood hen npoiLs
for table purposes by
for a few hours only,
eggs regularly.
Vinegar diluted in
is the best liquid to
eggs.
Brown shelled eggs are tie riche'
than white ones, but those who pre•
for tinted shells should immense
their eggs for an hour in strong
tea water.
Preserve your eggs in water glans
when the market price is less than
fifteen for twenty -live cents.
Tho egg yield from ten or twelve
hens ranging over an acre of grass
will far more than pay the rent of
it. and so leave the herbage rent
free to your dairy stock.
Fowls meich improve the character
of the stubble land over which they
range.
Feed fowls upon clean ground not
upon muddy yards and roailwaya,
where much is trodden under foot.
Don't forget the importance of dis-
tributing your fowls over your land
in small flocks of twenty or thirty
head, rather than crowding too many
t ogether.
It is early hatched chickens that
come on to lay during the following
autumn and winter, when eggs aro
scarce and dear.
ltepalce ono -third of your laying
hens every year. so as to keep yo'rr
stock young.
Peed and kill off your cockerels
when about four months old.
Don't forget the importance ut
feeding young chickens early, late
and often; and dry food is far better
than moist, such as crushed grain,
state bread, and coarse biscuit meal.
Feed tip your chickens for a week
or ten days before marketing them
Skinny, half -fed fowls never fetch a
remunerative price.
Early spring and summer chickens
always command a far better price
than those of months later.
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LONDON IN FiGURES.
The Tremendous Activity . of the
World's :1'Ietropolis,
London has been reduced to figures
in a remarkable manner in the sta-
tistical abstract for 1901 recently
issued by tho London County Coun-
cil. Every departulent of life in the
metropolis is stated in quantities --
from the population to the half -pen-
ny tramway (ares, from the out-
standing loans to the number of
cases of drunkenness. Below are a
few of the multitude of items in the
vol time:
intoxicating liquor lie-
MRS
o-ensMs 10,701
douse! Crated) ... 619,:kt4
Elementary school chil-
dren 772,295
00,202
4,013
1:30,201
1 n,etei
730,600,na oil
147,900,000
:3:3.700.000
28.216,0110
0,502.33 1
£57,9:32, I01
40,21e
2.177
a fertile egg
sitting on it
80 collect your
warm water
dense stained
Dog llrenees ...
Pawnbrokers
Paupers of all classes ..
Lunatic asylums .... ...,
Letters dclrverel
Postearrts delivered
Nowspab.,rs de:ivere.I
Telegrams handed in
Registered letters
Outstanding loans
Marriarees
ih n t hs IJ :e to acrid •nt
11n1pe•nnv 2ran►wny
ruse n ;e. s .
410
47,312,809
1'ALACI•: IIUII:I' %vl l'il
e RYnler prtlacc of rhe
fitting centre from ahie h to carry 011
the full work of repression alloled to
'('repo'!, says the London (ilohe.
mo't every st.ene of the wails end
weer}• square yard of the plaster lith
frig cost a life. Altholus had given
e that e pnlnt0 must I►e
rpthlrniltordiner n earth, anal tvhnt wens hn-
man life against the despot ft ell!?
Six thousonit inert were kept. aa work
day and night, with the palace heat-
ed at 30 Iteninur to dry the walls
rapid!' , while the temperature out-
side was often :30 degrees beleew
sero Itentnur. The men could only
cork with ice packs on their heads,
and exlreriencing a daily change of 66
degree's, they died by the score every
day. ity the end of the year the
death roll was some thousand:`, hut
the palace was finished.
of the 700,000 persons who (Le in
the United Kirgrfom every year only
about !10,000 leave property valued
at more thea 31,800.
BL(C)Ir.
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