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h: " SF rmicmm*<mvanm&m tmv* | A young wcnmn east hSltsrir' on * Ion©" ' inland, flnda a teltor i»ha.bitaot„ a was whltaffi&a, drMaed t!lt« a *ava*o nd arable «gk*sp»s3c to any known lan- [uage. She leSUUp to •dUoata Mm and a^i hfei sislnq to her own Ideals. 8he •ok. a Y a m which wad h«r to the conclusion that Iw com- Sterol! Charnoek of Vlrsinla. Near the Skeleton she flnd« two woman's rt fse of which baal-s an inscription . to M. P. T. Sept. », M»." Katharine ronton was a 5il*hly specialised product t a leading university. Her writing® op le mx problem bad attracted wide at- ntton, Th« son of a tnulfc!-millionaire NS« infatuated with hm, and they de to put her theories Into practice. * no othar careraony than & hand- they go away together. A few days yacht show* ber that tho ' " -*tty Meala t<. #$ pref«se«<S lofty' CHAP»Tftll VI--€on^i»««A» iw* began to realize how -ipa* .-was. Uader the inspiration of a Ajjjeilef* which was as honest ay. 4$, was V.^lataken, she had put herself in the '••Jower of this man. Bren If she were *shore. there would be no one to ;r. fjrhom she could appeal, and here on fee ship she was helpless. Lingering Vpslftatnrf' 'oi better things had kept him from tie last resort of the tyrant-- ! --but her long these would be itive in iNMStmint she could no£ sll. She fancied not for long. What diJ ti-CSL? \'i. She saw the end coming when in his ginger he resorted to drink, to .drink rJfhich exploded tfcie last vestige of his philosophy, however he had professed , It She was frightened beyond meas ,**re when she realised the depths to jrhleh he had sunk and to which, in fit® of herself, he had dragged her. hat further descent was before her? She did not even yet abandon that philosophy which had served her So jil She clung to that with the more v: ilfenacious pride because of its very Weakness, but she loathed mankind. 0B that yacht he summed tip for her tfee whole human race, and she hated |im and It To what sorry pass had a few weeks' practical experience re­ duced her! *" She had begged and pleaded with tm to alter the yacht's course, but i had sworn he would go farther South into those unknown seas and •teep her there until she crawled to Ids feet So the long hours dragged «k. The IjuyitiiKia jupturs drew laearer. At last it came. In its details .1$ was horrible, bat there wa* M* it * great relief after *11? 4. »*' . CHAPTER Vtt." ̂Joy of One night at dinner she had fled him. He had been drinking more ivilV thiln usual and was in an ugly Mood. His handsome face was flushed, Ssavage frown overspread his brow, e had risen during the meal and with coarse endearment had attempted Ijk lay hands upon her--at last! She pad broken away and darted into the nearest cabin, which happened to be jtts own. She had closed the door and jsarned the key against him before he realised what she was about. She ,<flfood within the little room, panting, •tiraged, fearful, yet ready to defend all and almost glad the crisis had JMrrived. She could hear his dnmkeo llugh outside the door. 3"Why, you little fool!" he cried, "do .Jpu think I can't break that lock down % a moment? The ship's mine, every SSan on it's mine. 1 pay 'em. They do my bidding. I have you where I it you and I can have you when I pease, now or later." . Was it true? Could she appeal to the .lien?,. But what, could she say? Al­ though the world knew there was no . Ifnding tie between them, to the ofll- 4fers and men of the yacht she was his ^tife. They would not interfere. And 4t she declared the truth, she would '.vfiit herself beyond the pale of their Sympathies. Being merely stupid men. With conventional ideas about pro- . priety, in that event they would be less apt to Interfere than ever. It was true she could do nothing. She s*a* down on a hassock, clenching her fetmds. • --^ - f As she sat; her eyes fell on a chest drawers screwed against the bulk- 'l^td. The top contained various toilet articles of silver. Among them was a Sleture, the picture of a woman. It #as not her picture. Moved by what Impulse she did not stop to analyse, ahe rose and picked it up. The face looked at was ineffably vulgar and common. Across the bottom was wrlt- ' fen in a serawty usiforiiaed hand, "Your devoted wife." There was a date mv- #ral years before that hour. Your de­ moted wife! She had been in that >ttateroom before; she had never seen ttiat picture. He had only brought it ^Jlit since the rupture between them. -yj, And so while entering into this re- tationshlp with her, in compliance wrtth prittelples and ideas which she MUt 'least regarded as sacred and holy, Jto had net been a free man! There 4lkas another woman to whom he had leen bound. Oh, -not by the marriage ile that she disdained, but by the , ; Ihonor which was supposed to exist ' '"JBsoBg thieves and which certainly ' Should exist among philosophers. And . «ach a woman! A cold fury filled her ) Hind ae she looked at the picture. , "The last completing touch had been ^ven. To contempt and pity for him •' was added hatred. The combination f -transformed her. Instead of avoiding. ^e would seek him. 1 He was still in the cabin. She could v jlfsar him muttering thickly to himself. " impulsively she stepped to the door, i»rnod the key in the lock, threw it «pe= and entered the- brilliantly Hfebted luxurious cabin. He had dis­ missed the attendants some time dlnce with orders not to reappear un­ less he summoned them, and they were . Jklone. There was no likelihood of any 1 interruption , whatsoever. The man. -Who was leaning bac^; in his chair, ~hent forward when she opened the dooar. He laughed vicioutiy. U had reflected, she would have mar- veied' at the change (that. • few' weeks had wrought In one whom she had hitherto d«em«a 'worthy of her affec­ tion, but she had eyes and thought for nothing except the business in hand. "So you've come out,' have you?" he •Muuuierea triumphantly. "Come of your own free will I ' Too'n fonsd oot, have you, that I am master and yon are coming to heel?" ( He whistled to her deristveiy, wWs- tled as if t© a dog! "Who Is this?" asked the woman is a voice carefully suppressed, yet which shook with ^rrat!L She held the photograph la Its heavy silver frame up before hip. "That's my wifo," he said equably, with no surprise or consternation. "We haven't lived together for mme years," he went on with drunken jpc4 nature, "or Fd tak* you back to fess Fxsakd&co and introduce you u> her." "Ytmr rtkjj .w r̂oeei in that same Sow, tenae voice. "Then what am I?" "My mistress," said the man, blunt­ ly, throwing the last shred of conceal­ ment and decency to th« winds, "and » damned obstreperous 4m» at that," he went on. • Now, the woman r Relieved la no Providence, but a trick got from her ancestry wrung the words from her,: lips. "My God! My Ood!" she whispered. "You haven't any," sneered the man. "You told me BO yourself." , He laughed. "And I believed you. would have' believed anythlag to get you." Well, there "waarao^tSod the woman realised, but she would be her own god. Her body shrank together a lit­ tle, her hands clenched. The feline was uppermost. She could have sprungf upon him, but she waited, waited for she knew not what "Whom the gods destroy," rat the anqteat phrase, "they first make mad." He rushed to his doom with blind tolly. "You needn't be jealous of her, my de^r," he mumbled on. "I used to think I loved her and we were mar* ried, damned foolishness, as you might say. She can't hold a candle to you, if you are a little touched," he tapped, his forehead lmpudently^-'la tike up­ per story." And this man, this degraded thing, regarded her as a mad woman. There might be no God, but there was a devil and he stood before her. There might be no heaven, but there was a hell and she was in It. "On second thoughts," «5 rtuSwlea on, "I Wouldn't introduce you to her. You aren't respectable and she Is." He stopped and poured himself as* other drink. "Respectable!" he laughed. "To hell with respectability!;!fWf know a better thing that that! |§$ptl to soul, heart to heart, the union of equals without the trammels of conventional boads for weaker betas*.' Yee, that's what you said." ^ And she recognised with horror that he was quoting her own words. "But It doesn't go, you see. It's all very well in theory, but it doesn't work out In practice. The world's got some ideas of Its own. If* been holding 'em for a good ssamy thou sands of years and you can't change 'em. You belong to me now. To hell with your equality! You are nothing more nor less than my. property, and mark you," he reached Out a trem­ bling finger and shook it at her, "your salvation is with me. If I east you oft, you go into the gutter." She wondered vaguely how mnch more of thla she could stand and live. "But don't be afraid," he went on with a drunken attempt at reassur­ ance, "yob are too fine and too hand­ some, even If you are cracked, for that--yet I'm glad to aee you've come to your senses." He rose heavily as he spoke and felt his way around tho table haad over hand. He approached her. She let him do it. She shrank a little closer together, every muscle tense for action. She was no longer a woman; she was a human tigress and her phil­ osophy waa gone. He was too drunk to see it, too Indapacitated to take warning. . "That's right," he continued as he lurched nearer to her. "Stay right there. I'm coming to you as fast as I can and whea 1 get dtoss to you, we'll kiss, and--** He was by her side now. fie straightened himself up with a spas­ modic effort, released his hold on the table and stretched out his arms to­ ward her. And then she sprang at him. How she did It, she could never tell, but in some way her outstretched arms, grasping for bis throat, struck him in the breast. Unsteady on his feet, he Went dowa as If he had been shot 8uch was the violence of his fall that the momentum carried her with him. She fell upon him with all her force. His head went back and struck the deck with a frightful crash. She herself was almost stunned by the violence of her own fall, although his feqdy fetffcsjt. She arose and a toad ovec him for a minute "and" tfii& "sle' foot and brought it down upon him. He had said she was'a'mad woman and it was true. She was erased by what she had heard, by the hoftfor of the situation. She had not changed her dress for dinner that afternoon. She was wearing a pair of light boating shoes. It was lucky for him. If she bad worn ev«feing «li^pk» with ..high, rigid heels. She would $ave mashed his face beyond recognition. As it was, She left horrible matftS,. ttpo** it He lay absolutely mottaaless. She could see that he was still breathing and was not dead. If she had had a weapon she might have kitted him in the fury and transport of her rage. This wretched philosopher! AS so re aistance came from him, she pres­ ently stopped, the feminina in her slowly rising to the fore. She realized nbw that the irrevoc­ able had happened; that there was no longer room for two of them on that ship. As the mists of pasafcpn cleared away, although the fire of rage still I C < » 3 } w III His Anger We Resorted to Drink. burned In her heart, her mtnd cleared also. She thought with such rapidity as she had never thought before. First she picked up a cloak, threw it about her and went on deck. A cabin attendant was standing at the compan- ionway, as was always the case, wait­ ing a possible summons. She told him that his master was ill and did not desire to be disturbed. He did not even want the dinner things cleared away. He wanted to be left entirely alone until morning. The servant smiled slightly, she thought In the light from the cabin skylight She noticed that it was a moonless night, cloudy, overcast, for she could see no stars. She knew what that smile meant; that the man realised what sort of sickness his owner and master was liable to. She bade him tell the officer oi the deck her message and then dismissed him. Then she returned to the cabin and carefully locked the do6r. She glanced at the man as she did go. He lay Just as he had lain before. She bent over him. He was still breathing, she noted with--was it regret? But she wasted no time over him. Time was the most precious of all things to her at that moment She had » clear and definite plan of action. She knew exactly what she Intended to do and how she Intended to do it Fortunately the means of es­ cape were at hand. They had passed one or two tiny Islands during the day, mere treeless spots of sand or coral in the vast of the ocean, but prospects that others more inviting might be raised had caused the man to order the power tender to be got overboard. This was a good, sub­ stantial boat. It feet in length, broad- beamed and built for heavy ems, yet powerfully englned and capable of good speed. By his direction the tanks had been filled and everything over­ hauled so that ft would be In readiness for use. The sea was very calm and the gentle air scarcely raised a ripple on its surface. To save the trouble i of hoisting it aboard again, the tender had been left trailing astern at the end of a long line. It would be ready for instant use. She would escape in that She knew how to nut the motor and how to steer the boat She had done It many a time. % Carrying her heavy boat cloak she entered her cabin, hastily packed her bag with what things she fancied she would need, returned to the table, took from it every scrap that was edible and portable; without much re­ gard for the niceties she made it up in a heavy parcel which she tied with napkins. She remembered that the water tank in the launch had been filled, so that for a time at least she would lack nothing Carrying bag and bundle in her hands and with the boat cloak over hpr arm and a straw hat tied on her head, after one long look at the man, she turned and weai^aft and re-entered the starboard after stateroom, her own. The boat's painter had been affixed to the starboard side of the yacht She opened the atom window and looked out She leaned far out and by great good fortune in the darkness caught the painter. The boat of course, was swinging to a long rope. She pulled at this line cautiously, although the effort taxed*her strength to the ut­ most. Indeed, she seemed possessed of a fictitious strength for the time being else she never could have ac­ complished her hard task. But she managed to get the boat practically under the cabin at last She fastened the painter to her bed, which was of brass and securely screwed to the floor. Then she cut off the line and tied the bundle of provisions and her bag and cloak to the end of it. These she dropped down into the boat. Among the petty articles was a sharp sailor's sheath knife fastened to a lan­ yard. She Slipped this lanyard lato her blouse. Then she climbed up on the port sill and essayed the dangerous descent herself. She was glad that she was a strong, athletic woman, used to trusting to her own skill and powers, for it was no easy task to slide down that rope and get Into a boat trailing along baneath the coun­ ter of a yacht fcotag perhaps 12 knots hour Fortunately the engine was She Believed That Yaeht Wovld • Retrace Its CoUrse. ;, wsb ^igh out <k the water; «t«* iter weight would %ave pressed It down and the back wash from the yacht would perhaps have swamped the launch. At any rats, «hs saecfeded, although after she got her foot in the bows she slipped and fell. But that she fell straight aft upon the cloak and bun­ dles she would have hurt herself se­ verely. If she had not fallen that way, if she had pitched to the right or the Heft she would have gone overboard and that would have been the end, for she knew that she would have died rather than appeal to that ship for help. She was fearful that the noise of her fall might have attracted the attention of some one on the deck, but the poop of the yacht was us­ ually degerted at night and it was uu likely that any one would be up there. Scrambling to her feet, she drew her knife ana severed the taut rope that held the launch to the yacht. It parted instantly. She waa whirled backwards and sideways with a sud denness that again almost threw her out of the boat. For one agonising mo­ ment the launch lay full in the broad beam of light that proceeded from the bright cabin window she had left. For one agonising moment of suspense she hung there and then the swirl of the wave carried her Into the darkness. She lay directly in the wake of the yacht, and the launch was pitched up !and down by the wavea made by the rapidly moving ship with a violence of motion that was sickaning. Them were & pair of oars in 'the boat, but she did not break them out. She just drew herself down in th« stern sheets and lay there waiting. She knew that the clatter of the motor could be heard a long distance la so still a night aad over so still a sea. and therefore, al­ though her Impulse waa to staifc it at once, she restrained herself aad waited, watching the yacht rapidly dis­ appear. She could mark her course easily by the light from that cahta window. Her ear was keen and she listened until she could no longer de­ tect the beat and throb of the •ieaxn- er's engines. Than she rose and started the motor. ; The boat was provided with a com­ pass, and although she could see no star, she was able to set a course which was directly at right angles to the course of the yacht. She realized, or at least she thought so, that she would be pursued. She believed that the yacht would retrace its course. She decided that those aboard her woulf reason that she would endeavor to put m much distance as possible between herself and the yacht, and therefore she would sail straight away from it. Consequently, she went broad off to starboard at right angles to the other course. The gasoline tanks were both full. Inasmuch as the boat had been designed for extended cruising in shallow waters, there was enough fuel to keep the motor going for over 30 hours at full speed. The motor was capable of developing at least ten knots per hour. By the same time to-morrow night 'aha would be 240 miles away from the present spot The f *r*d' fOr tea boorS." By that time the f y#cht would be 120 miles away. They wotdd be 150 miles apart by morn­ ing, measured on the hypotheuse, and by night, who could tell? At any rate, she had now done all that she couid. Her conditio* was desperate; her prospects gloomy beyond expression. She was alone in a small power boat which would be helpless, the sport of wind and waves, after perhaps 30 hours. That boat was alone in the great expanse of the Pacific ocean. Somewhere about there were islands probably. Indeed, on the charts those were dotted with points of land, but they were small, inconsiderable, uninhabited, unknown. In that little boat she might pass close by many of them without seeing them. She had provisions, such as they were, and water sufficient perhaps tor a or ten days . After that unless dke landed somewhere she w^nuld drift Uu'.'! Sua swrVod and died. If a storm easne, the launch probably would net Survive It, Her chances of escape, in event, were worse than problem- • tiOAl. The end was almost certain. But she was happy. The first real imy of happiness which had entered ssr sou! since the beginning of the great awakening, which had culmin­ ated In the frightful scene* of the night, illumined her being. As she sat la the stern sheets, her hand on the steering wheel, listening to the steady drumming of the motor, seeing the black water broken into foam by the boat'* bows flash by her, keeping the launch steady on her course by the aid or the compass neeaie, ner eyes turned ever and anon to the fast' di­ minishing point of light which marked the rapidly disappearing yacht and she realized that she was free. She had hurled out of her path--and how she exulted in her own prowess; It was something of a salve to her soul for the wretched humiliations which had been heaped upon it--she had hurled out of her path-and stricken down as any other animal might have done him who had brought her to this awful pass. She was away from him, free from him. She was once more, so far as wind *nd wave Allowed, th« master of her fate, the mistress of her destiny. She was glad la her heart, too, that there were to be no physical conse­ quences from her brief alliance. She did not realise that there were to be other consequences which not even all the water of the seas over which she floated could wash out. There was a Strange elation in her soul. Sh« f«!t ** If in some way she had vindicated her right to be. There was something yet in her philosophy and did oppor- Unity serve, could she get free from the dangers that encompassed her, she Vowed that she would prove it,. All night long she stayed awake, keeping the launch In her course. When morning broke she was abso­ lutely alone upon the ocean. Standing erect upon a seat, from her low van- tage point she could see nothing but •tooothly undulating sea. She break fasted sparingly from her scanty store and resumed her post at the wheel She was tired and sleepy, but while the little engine was alive she could not leave it to its own devices. She must hold on her chosen course as long as the motive power remained She could not lose a moment while that motor throbbed and beat. She must be alive with it There would be time to sleep when it waa ex­ hausted. She must put «• many leagues between her and pursuit by holding the direct course as long m was possible. And «o she sat there grimly, hands clutching the wheel through the long day and through the longer night and well into the following morning. It must have been half past ten on the morning of the second day before the motor stopped. The silence, after the ceaseless drumming of a night a long day, a longer night and a still longer morning, struck her with the same strange sense of shock. She calculated that the motor had been running for 38 hours and that she had gone 380 miles at least on her course. She had seen nothing whatever of the yacht. The chances that It would pick her up, even if It came about and cruised for her, a lonely speck in the ocean. were millions to nothing. At say rate, she had done all she could. Her phil­ osophy for once stood her In good stead. There was nothing more to be done. She was dead for want of sleep. The sky had been slightly over­ cast since she had left the yacht but there had bees no storm and weather conditions looked just as they had and seemed to be permanent. Taking the precaution 4o examine the gasoline tanks and finding that In­ deed they had been drained of the last drop, she carefully closed and locked them, thereby ; assuring her salvation, and spreading the bo&t cloak is the e+jtvt»0* <#»1K and her straw hat tied ov^r her fa*a to shield it from the Hun, she tasts&t&r HfefiMf Koenfy •urmfssd PomMmbm - H. "* atanea*. ' Jk Late one afternoon Michael Flarml> gmn and Dennis O'Eourke met upontha avenue, Miks was considerably un#sr , the weather..-. ' ' - :r "Moike," naiad OHouffe-whydstft yes brace ap» aad lata the dhrfsdl alone?" 4 "Ol've thrled, Dinnle, tout the JOTS . too big for bq6."* "Thry this once more, Molke. Here's a church forninst us. Go in there, aid s; man, and conflss and take a ftrtsh st*£& -: I'll wait outside." He waited until he was tUfd, ths«h peering into the darkened ^ said in a horse whisper: "Moike!" tPhwatr "Have yes confl--cd?" "Oi have th»t!" "Where's the prast?" mvB gorrahj, Dinnle, and Ot think gone out to anil * «Oj aaline. 'hm:: 1 ,-V • - V-" ,' BABY WASTED TO SKELETON * and CHAPTER vtH. ifcast Up by the Sen. Day was just breaking again when the woman awoke. Reference to her watch which she had taken the pre­ caution to wind just before she re­ tired disclosed the fact that It was four o'clock in the morning. She had slept unbrokeniy since 11 o'clock the morning before. Her sleep had bee$. a Stupor of utter and complete exhaus- A Atu _ * -* "»-• -.V---.* eal strain of keeping awake and at­ tending to the duty to which she had enforced herself had been the further strain of the terrible events on the night in which she left the yacht, and the apprehension of pursuit which had been continually with her. Her first motion, indeed, was to rise to her feet and scan the horizon. With relief in­ describable her scrutiny descovered nothing. She was still alone. Neither the yacht nor any other vessel nor any smallest speck of land was sil­ houetted against the circling sky line. She sat in the boat musing a long time and then woke to the fact that she was hungry. Again she satisfied her appetite sparingly from her scanty and rapidly diminishing store of food and drink, and then putting the past resolutely behind her, hoping and per­ haps fancying by some exercise of her will power finally she could yut it be- hand her forever, she gavo sorious thought to her condition. She realized at last that she !n the hands--another would have said of God! she paid of chance. Tne fact that she was so helpless; that all her learning and all her training, and alt her skill and all her power were of no avail, made the situation the more galling. Was there nothing that she could do? She reflected deeply and as she did so the breeze sprang UP. 8he judged that the period during which she had slept had been calm and still. Any violent rocking of the boat would have awak­ ened her. Indeed, she fell bitterly cramped and stiff from having lain so ' long on the hard floor, which oaly ths boat cloak, thick sad heavy, ssftds a tolerable • bed. The coming of the breese stimu­ lated her Imagination. It was a gen­ tle breeze. She noticed that It blew from the direction whence she had com* by her compass course. If all* only had a sail of some kind the boat would be driven along. She must move somewhere. She had heard of ocean currents and drift but she doubted whether the boat waa moving, at least sufficiently fast or in any definite direction to make any differ­ ence. Unless she got somewhere, she would slowly starve and die Jwrt where she was. She stepped forward ia the boat and examined the oars. There was a sort of a desk forward over the gasoline tanks. She thought that she might make shift with the remains of the painter, of which she had * good length, to fasten one of the dm In an upright position agalnat it There were bolts and rings ot various sorts on this little deck. She could step the handle of the oar between cleats or ribs at the bottom. At 1**it she would try. (TO BK CONTINTTED.) • ' ̂ Mvvaw MWAKft «»»•« ni/vnv & - T*|f a half old, began to have sor*s come out o£ his face. I had a physl* ciac trmi him, but tho aoree grew <; worse. Then they began to 1 iome osbJ> on his &rma, then en other parts of his body, and then one came on hi* chest, wor$® than the others. Then I called another physician. Still b* grew worse. At the end of about a year and a half of suffering he grew so bad that I had to tie his hands la at Eight to keep h!m from scratching the sores and tearing tfc* flesh. He got to be a mere Skeletal and was hardly able to walk. - r "My^ aunt advised me to try Cutf* wu<« uwa|l auv <OUUWUr«k VWUUSUW 4 sent to a drug store and got a cake «ft Cutlcura Soap and a box of the Oinfr ment rnd followed directions. At th* end of two months th© sores were all well. He has never had any sort* of any kind since. I can sincerely s*y that only for Cutieura my child wouJt have died. I used only one cak* Jti Cutieura Soap and about three boxcf of Ointment "I am a nurse and my profession brings me into many different fas*> ilies aad It is always a pleasure toe me to tell my story and recommend Catiour* Remedies. Mrs. Egbert --- don. Litchfield. Conn* Oct 23,19®l* ' - if**-*';, • The Critic--That picture looks Ilk* SO cents. Poor Artist--I'll take a quarter fl>s> tor it HttP POKTMC AQEDl •*; y ^ .... . • m , »• w**' V N* N**d to Long*r Sufr*rfr*m KldWf ' Trouble. •' »' • <Vts. OSthertS* Sulllvfet ITil W'V f»tt St., Joplin, Mo., s*ys: "Ok* elderly people, I suffered from trouble for years. My back ached 1ft* tensely and the** was a feeling of aumbness In my s p i n a . M r h a a d a cramped aad t%a urinary passages were profu**. Doy* tors proscribed fat 1ft* but I . wm net benefited. At last t Deaa'a Kidney PiUa. They drove my troubles sway, now *njoy excellent health.** Remember the name--Doan's. Iter sal* by *11 dealers. 60 cents m box. Foster-Mllbarn Co., Buffalo, N. T> -- ' 3: ... JSP began , • >! : Surrendered Only To Ag* <L New York Cashier Who Ha* Fourteen Day* Off In FlftyT** Sf ; S*rvt**r v s •' : _ yacht was going 18 knots an hour. Her W*ll *ft ahd the bow of the launch | «sc*p# would probably not be dlsCov- J\>r 62 years Louis Nicolovlau been cashier and office manager for Scbefer, Schramm A Vogel, bankers and commlsion merchants at 476 Broome street, and in that time he bad lost 14 days, th* New York Times lays. These came so far apart that most of the men in the office do not -now remember that he was ever away. One recent Tuesday the tall. Straight, black-haired old man did not appear at his desk. The employes m membered that he had often said that he hated to see Sunday come in to spoil his work; that when on Mon­ day morning he got back to hte fig­ ures he had always seemed aa happy as a boy out of school. f It was almost preposteroo* to think of him, though he was 97 years old, as sick; it was even more preposter­ ous to think that he had allowed any ordinary thing to keep him away from his ledger. Yet no word came from him. The large foroe of men over whom he had charge talked in whispers about the extraordinary thing that must hav/e kept Louis Nlcolovian away from his work. His chair seemed strangely vacant There was about his closed desk and the corner where he alwaya **t a depressing loa--oae cess. It seemed at desolate aft an old country hou*« when its occupaats have departed and Its windows are nailed tfp. After three days' abwnce, the •* man entered the efflce. The em­ ployes expected him to take his chat, and go on with his figure*. He didn't He walked into the private office ot Carl Sehefer, senior member of the firm, and remained there a long time. When he came out he walked to hi* old desk, weeping, bade It a *S*aK farewell. Then he went oat la the but few days hte •? yearf had at la*t forced hin* to recognise their claim. He nad vora'itarily ,(•>< tired. For the rest of his Ufe hd 1r to .get a pension of h*Jf.hto J^Jr|iar,^,. ^ - , What It t>*rt»on*tr*mfc „ "How did th* Nhrverbust tire test turn out?" "Do you mesn th* tost run of th* Sfcoct*r car *qulpp*d with K*v*rbaji tires?" "Y*s." "Why th* chauffeur got full aad ran the car Into a hitching post" "What did the Neverbust prsan agent say about it?" 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