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was about too see, But when she
entered she found Monte state -lig
eruct --erect and smiling, with his
light. hair all awry like a school -boy's,
Then, sinking into the chair near
the window;—this very chair' beside
which she now stood,—he had asked
her to go out and attend to madame.
Como to think of it, it was odd that
he had been smiling, It was not
quite natural for one to smile over as
serious a matter as that. After all,
even if Teddy was melodramatic, even
if his shot had missed its mark, it
was not a matter to take lightly,
She seated herself in the chair he
had occupied, and her hands dropped
wearily to her side, Her fingers
touched something sticky—something
on the side of the chair next to the
wall—something that the gendarmes
CHAPTER V.---(Cont'd,)
Monte, summoning all his strength,
shook the fellow.
""Do you hear?" he called,
"Yes," muttered Hamilton,
"Then," said Monte, "I want you :to
get hold of'the next point: that from
now on you're to let her alone. Get
that?"
Hamilton's lips began to twitch.
"Because if you come around both-
ering her any more," explained Monte,
""I'll. be there myself; and, believe me,
you'll go out the door, And if you
try piny, more gun-play—the little fel-
lows will nail you next time. Sure as
preaching, they'll nail you. That
would be too bad for every one—for
you and for her."
"How for her?" demanded Hamil-
ton hoarsely,
"The papers," answered Monte, had not noticed. She did not dare
"And for you because—" to move then, She was paralyzed, ee
"I don't care what they do to me" if her fingers had met same cold,
growled Hamilton• strange band. For one second, two
"I believe that," nodded Monte. seconds, three seconds, she sat there
"Do you know that I'm the one person transfixed, fearing, if she moved as
on earth who is inclined to believe much as ' a muscle, that something
what you say?" I would spring at her from below—some
He saw Hamilton crouch as if to awful fact.
spring, Monte placed his left hand Then finally she 'did move. She
in his empty pocket. . I moved slowly, with her eyes closed.
"Steady," he warned, "There are Then, suddenly opening them wide, she
still four shots left in that gun." saw her fingers stained carmine. She
Hamilton relaxed. I knew then why Monte had smiled. It
"You don't care what the little fel was like him to do that. Running
lows do to you,. said Monte, "But swiftly to her room, she called Marie
you don't want to queer yourself any as she ran.
further with her, do you? Now, lis-' "Marie—my hat! Your hat!
ten. She thinks you tried to shoot Hurry!"
yourself. By that muck I have a« "Oh, mon Dieu!" exclaimed Marie.
hunch she thinks the better of you." Pias anything happened?"
Hamilton groaned. I 'I have just learned what has al
"And because I believe what you ready happened, she answered. "But
told me about her," he ran on, fighting do not alarm madame."
for breath—"just because—because I It was impossible not to alarm
believe the shooting fits into that, I'm madame,
glad to—to have her think that little The mere feet that they were going
the better of you, Hamilton." lout alarmed madame. Marjory stop -
The interior of the cab was begin-' ped in the hall and quite coolly work-
ningto move slowly around in a circle. ed on her gloves.
He leased back his head a second to "We are going for a little walk in
steady himself—his white lips pressed the sunshine," she said, "Will you
together. not come with us?"
"So—so—clear out," he whispered. Decidedly madame would not. She
"You—you won't tell her?"was too weak and faint. She should
'"No. But—clear out, quick." I send for a friend to stay with her
Hamilton opened the cab door. while she rested on her bed.
"Got any money?" inquired Monte. "That is best for you," nodded Mar -
"No." jory. "Au revoir.
Monte drew out his bill -book and With Marie by her side, she took her
handed it to Hamilton. little walk in the sunshine, without
"Take what there is," he ordered. hurrying, as far as around the first
Hamilton obeyed, and returned the corner. Then she signaled for a cab,
empty purse. and showed the driver a lours d'or.
-"Paemmber," faltered Monte, his. "Hotel Normandie: This is for you
voice trailing off into an inaudible --if you make speed," she said.
murmur, "we're engaged—Marjory It was a wonder the driver was not
and I—" arrested within a block; but it was
But Hamilton had disappeared. It nothing less than a miracle that he
was the driver who was peering in reached the hotel without loss of life.
the door.
"Where. next, monsieur?" he was
saying.
"Normandie," muttered Monte.
The windows began to revolve in a
circle before his eyes—faster and fast-
er, until suddenly he no longer was
conscious of the pain in his shoulder.
CHAPTER VI.
Gendarmes and Ether
When the gendarmes came hurrying
to sixty-four Boulvard Saint-Ger-
main, Marjory was the only one in the
house cool enough to meet them at the
door. She quieted them with a smile,
"It is too bad, messieurs," she
apologized, because it did seem too bad
to put them to so much trouble for
nothing. "It was only a disagreeable
incident between friends, and it is
closed. Madame Courcy lost her bead."
"But we were told it was an assas-
sination," the lieutenant informed her.
He was a very smart -looking lieuten-
ant, and he noticed her eyes at once.
"To have an assassination it is nec-
essary to have some one assassinated,
is it not?" inquired Marjory.
"But yes, certainly."
"Then truly it is a mistake, because
the two gentlemen went off together
in a cab."
The lieutenant took out a memo-
randum -book.
"Is that necessary?" asked Mar-
jory anxiously. -
"A report must be made."
"It was nothing, I assure you," she
insisted. "It was what in America is
called a false alarm."
"You are American?" inquired the
lieutenant,- twisting his mustache,
"FIt is a compliment to my French
that you did not know," smiled Mar-
jory.
It was also a compliment to the lieu-
tenant that she smiled. At least, it
„was so that he interpreted it.
`The report is only a matter of
•rottitine," he informed her. "If madem-
oiselfe will kindly give me her name."
ea "put the newspapers!" she exclaim-
ed.er"They make so much of so little."
"It will be a- pleasure to see that the
report is treated as confidential," said
the lieutenant, with a bow.
So, as a matter of fact, after a
- perfunctory interview with madame
, and Marie, who had so far recovered
themselves es to be easily handled by
Marjory, the lieutenant and his men
bowed themselves out and the incident
was closed.
Marjory escorted them to the door,
and then, a little breathless with ex-
citement, went into the reception room
e moment to collect herself,
been when from upstairs she heard
that shot—the shot that for a second
had checked het breathing as if she
" herself had been hit. As clearly as
if she had been in the room, she had
seen Monte stretched out on the floor,
With Hamilton bending over him.
She had not thought of any other peg -
11 ill A she sprang dawn the
stairs she had been sure of what she
A lours d'or is a great deal of money,
but these Americans are all mad.
When Marie followed her mistress
from the cab, she made a little pray-
er of thanks to the bon Dieu who had
saved her life. •
Mademoiselle inquired of the clerk
for Monsieur Covington.
Yes, Monsieur Covington had reach-
ed the hotel some fifteen minutes be-
fore. But he was ill. He had met
with an accident. Already a surgeon
was"with him.
"He—he is not badly injured?" in-
quired Marjory.
"I do not know," answered ,the
clerk, "He was carried to his room
in a faint. He was very white."
"I will wait in the writing -room.
When the surgeon comes down I wish
to see him. At once—do you under-
stand?"
"Yes, mademoiselle."
Marie suspected what had happened.
Monsieur Covington, too, had present-
ed the driver with a louis d'or, and—
miracles do not occur twice in one day.
Marjory seated herself by a desk,
where she had a full.view of the of-
fice—of all who came in and all who
went out. That she was here doing
this and that Monte Covington was
upstairs wounded by a pistol shot was
confusing, considering the fact that
as short a time ago as yesterday even-
ing she had not been conscious of the
existence in Paris of either this hotel
or of Monsieur Covington. Of the
man who, on the other hand, had been
disturbing her a great deal this
Teddy Hamilton—she thought not at
all. It was as if he had ceased to
exist. She did not even associate
. him, at this moment, with her presence
here. She was here solely because
of Monte.
He had stood by the,window in
Madame Courcy's clingy reception
room, smiling his hair all awry. She
recalled many other details now: how
his arm had hung limp; how he had
been to a good deal of awkward trou-
ble tokeep his left arm always to-
ward her; how white he had been when
he passer{ her on his way out; how he
had seemed to stumble when he step-
ped into the eab.
- (To be continued.)
Conscripting Sharks.
There have been "sharks" in the
hoot trade ever since it was a trade,
of course, but only since the war has
it occurred to the ingenious to con-
script the shark for making of•foot-
}veal'.
1 The scarcity of leather has led to
numerous experiments with the skins
of sharks and other large fish. These
skins have been tanned quite success-
fully, and before Very long we shall
be covering our feet with this new ma-
terial. It is said to be soft and pliable
and durable, and, considering that Na-
ture fitted the ^perk to live in the sea
his skin should be watertight,
The supply of shark -skins is prat: -
deafly unlimited at present. Frons
Alaska alone 11,000 pounds of skins
were exported in one month.
The lyre -bird of Australia, whir'
is about the,size of a pheasant, is the
largest songbird In the world.
From Industrial Agent to Flight Commander
Interesting despatehes of incidents
in the lives of flying men in England
are given in letters to friends written
by Acting Flight Commander Graham
Waters Curtis, formerly Industrial
Agent of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way in Montreal, who is now a flying
instructor in Fngland, 'The school in
which he teaches is a vast expanse of
country close to a beautiful seaside
- then they are sent: to lienee, We do
hill kinds of fancy peiformanr'es•.-loop
the loop, roll, make , spinning nose
dives, side slips,• and vertical turns,"
Ho describes how "little excites
melts" happen where one aleroaaut
!gets into the "wash, Or slip -stream al'
:air" mode bye preceding navigator.
;The letters indieato that Aeting Flight
Commander, Curtis is a lucky master
Acting Flight Commander G. W. Curtis and his machine
"crash" at a training camp in England,
resort. He writes: "The view from
the air is superb, and we oftenTy out
over the sea, and dive down near the
British warships and wave to the sail-
ors. When diving we only travel at
the rate of about 176 miles an hour!
I am kept very busy. instructing and
am turning out a lot of expert pilots,
The school I am connected with is one
in which flyers finish their course of
training. A lot of chaps from Borden
come to us to get final 14sons, and
just
after e
of the high school in which he soars.
IIe says; "We have a lot of smashes,
but very few deaths, considering
everything. None of my pupils has
been killed yet"
Acting Flight Commander Curtis
has lately been recommended by his
commanding officer for a first lieu-
tenancy, and expects to be sent to
France at any tinge. He joined the
Royal Flying Corps on November
15th, 1910.
Correct Diet as Health Insurance.
Isn't it queer that when so much
that is vital in life depends upon-1'o8d.
and correct feeding, so few of us
!understand a thing about balanced
li'ation, or pay any attention to feed-
ing the human family sanely, We
are told that food will play a big -
part in winning the war, yet we go
about conserving with only a hazy
idea of what we can best use as
foods if we. wish to conserve our
strength and development, .as well as
conserve wheat for the allies.
Yet the whole thing is so simple
that "even the way -faring man,
though a fool, need not err therein."
We eat to promote growth and to
give us srtength, or, as the experts
say, to give us heat or energy. There
are three classes of food and every-
thing we eat may be placed in one
• of these three. They are the proteins,
or the foods which promote growth,
and the carbohydrates and fats, which
give use heat and energy. The pro
teids consist of lean meat, eggs, mills,
and the legumes. At least these are
• the important proteids, though
many cereals contains proteins, and
the proteins contain others of the food
elements. For instance, mills con-
tains fat in the shape of cream, and
wheat contains proteid—the gluten
which makes wheat bread elastic. The
carbohydrates are the starches andl,
sugars, and the fats we all know.
It will be seen at once that children
must have plenty or proteida if they
are to keep ,up a normal growth, while
adults who have attained their full
development may get along with juste
the amount of proteids necessary to
replace wornout cells, that is, to build
the body up daily as it is burned out'
with work,
Here is where our danger will
come in during these days when we
are asked to save food. We will be
tempted to economize on the milk and
eggs given our children, a thing we
have no right to do. The children
must be properly nourished or their
health will be impaired for life, Those
of mature growth may get along on
skimped rations with only temporary
inconvenience, provided the food
shortage does not last too long, But
children must be fed.
Up until seven months the baby
should be fed nothing but milk. Moth-
ers' milk preferably. Failing that,
consult the best doctor you can secure
as to the right way to modify cows
milk. Don't give your baby a pre-
pared baby food because some one
else gave it to her child and it "got
along." And don't give condensed
milk except as a last resort and on
a physician's order.. It is too sweet
for a perfect food.
At seven months the salivary glands
are able to do their part in digesting
starch, Begin with "a wheat break-
fast food, or rice. Either is more
apt to be digested by the average
child than is oat meal. Feed only
a teaspoonful the first day, and note
the effect. If the cereal you choose
is not digested, causes distress,'
choose arotlier. Remember eadgi
child is n law unto itself and you
must decide what yours can best
digest, If there is a tendency to
constipation oat meal is good as a
corrective, .If the tendency is the
other way, rice is a good food .
After a few days' trial if then
starchy feed is properly dig .ted, fry;
to introduce egg into the dietary.
Half a coddled' egg, or soft boiled, is
enough to begin with. Give this in
the morning, and if it is properly
digested, add a little more. at each
feeding until the baby can eat the
whole egg. Crackers and hard toast,
not toast soaked in hot water or
milk, may be given, Watch the
child to see that it does not nibble
off pieces large enough to choke on.
Orange juice, a tablespoonful to be-
gin with, and scraped apple should be
given each day, Home-made sugar
cookies may also be given occasional-
ly in moderation.
Remember, these foods should not
in our ultimate snceess or failure,
An eight-year-old boy in our block
developed toberculoale of tli'e hip
bone, He had practically nothing
to eat until he was two years old ex-
cept condensed milk in a bottle. His
mother would nit cook him cereals, it
took too ranch time to sit down and
feed him. Fresh eggs were too ex-
pensive, He used to throw the
bottle away and lie on the floor and
cry with hunger, but the mother de.
(dared be could take the milk or go
Maim, She had too ntuell to do to
bother with "11 kid."
When tuberculosis developed the
mother blamed a fall at school. Other
mothers, whose boys' had worse falls
with no ill effects, blamed wrong feed-
ing. And .they were right,
What Waste Costs,
The waste of 600,000 pounces of
paper a week, Canadian authorities
estimated, entailed the 'cutting of at
least 2,000 trees a week. Every ton
of old paper recovered means a sav-
ing of., eight trees of mature grovwth,
says the Christian Science Monitor,'
The saving of woollen rags for the
manufacture of shoddy saves land
pis crops which othrewise would be
required for the raising of sheep;
men, money and material—capital
and labor—are conserved every time a
bit of material is re-employed which
formerly was destroyed.
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more than one new thing on any one C
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and France. The demand in those
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FIRE WALKERS OF FIdf.
So -Called "Miracle" Which Inas I3een
Satisfactorily Explained.
Many so-called "miracles" are
among the most interesting of natural
phenomena. Take, for example, the
"fire walkers" of the Fiji Islands,
They are the priests of a native reli-
gion who, with bare feet, walk over
red-hot—nay, naming—stones and yet
are not scorched.
It is really a wonderful perform-
ance and has astonished many strang-
ers who have witnessed it. The ex-
planation offered is that the fire walk-
er isenabledto do the trick by pray-
ers addressed to a goddess, or female
devil, who controls the fire.
A shallow pit twenty -odd feet long
is filled with burning logs on which
many large stolid are placed. At the
end of four hours the stones are vis-
ibly hot, many of them being red-hot.
Flames leap up between them. Then
it is that the "mystery men," half
naked and wearing garlands of flow-
ers, walk over thein.
Not long ago, however, Prof, Henry
E. Crampton, of Colebia University,
was traveling in the South Seas and
happened to witness a fire walk. He
did not pretend to understand it, but
fel, sere that it was a fake somehow.
In fact, he decided that he would do
some fire walking on his own account.
Not without fear, but inspired by
scientific enthusiasm, he and three
companions bided their time, When
the priests had passed over -the flam-
ing stones they followed, to the
amazement of the assembled specta-
tors. They did it first in tennis shoes
then they repeated the feat barefooted.
The secret of the whole business, as
explained by Professor Crampton, is
that the stones (of pumice lava) are
poor conductors of heat. -The bare
feet of the fire walker move from
stone to stone at a quicker rate than
the conduction of heat"from the fire
beneath to the -upper surface of 'the
stones: Hence his feet are not burn-
ed.
If (as 'happened to Professor Cramp-
ton) he paused for an'instant, his feet
would be blistered. The Fiji natives
say that to Idok backward while doing
the fire walk is likely to be fatal to
the performer. At all events, it would
mean burned feat. -
In all ages there have been 'fire mir-
acles, They have been a common fea-
ture of the performances of profes-
sional magicians, who in early days
were priests of various religions. It
is only within comparatively recent
years that magic has become a lay
vocation.
Can Recite All of the Bible.
The most wonderful memorizing
feat on record has recently been ac-
complished by William Frederick, e
New York salesman.
He has learned tliie--entire Bible off
by hiart, and can repeat any passage
in it from Genesis to Revelation and
state where it may be found. It has
taken him eighteen years.
A similar task was once undertaken
by an eighteenth -century strolling
player, about whom Sir William Rob-
ertson Nicoll has written, But..ho gale
in after eleven years, by .which time
he had succeeded in memorizing about
two-thirds of the Old Testament.
Pins were first invented and used
in 7648 in France, In the time eli;
Francis 1, Up to that time women
used .small wood, bane and ivory
skewer's.
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