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Mr. Ward, a young bachelor, began to take an uncommon Interest in Elinor. Young Waiter Huff of the gang confessed his love for her and she accepted It. , *',#c CHAPTER IV--Continued. The police were still active. So in­ sistent was Boroday on caution that all itf September went by without so much as a plan of campaign. Talbot played golf and established friendly relations that might be invaluable later. Huff, under protest, retained the taxi cab work. "It's a dog's life," he said. "They're gK»t after me now. Give me something tse to do, or else let me take a vaca-on." But they kept him at work. Huff fell into the way of seeing Eli­ nor once or twice a week. Talbot took Jl^m out, picking him tip on the edge of \fpwn after dusk, on his way in his car a dance or dinner at the country and taking him back the same And the boy's infatuation for Elinor jgrew and thrived on those late summer meetings. Her sweetness and eluslve- Uess maddened him. Sometimes he Sjtiought her never so far from him as flrhen she was in his arms. ^ "Do you love me?" he would demand ifoarsely. t , "I think so| f know I wait yon to Jbve me." i Si And he had to be content with this. | On the evenings when she was alone or sat in her arbor and watched e road up the hill. Ward had called |tjrice, and each time she had been out on the long rambles she took almost dhlly. After his second visit, she ». stayed in the house for days, expecting llglm, But he did not come again. |l She was net in love with Ward, Just '*|p she was not in love with Walter Huff. But the clergyman represented, la her strange and lonely life, some­ thing new and different. He typified 'all that she had never known. He was flit priest* rather .than the man to her yBt first. The time was coming when he #ould be man only, and after that-r- > ~ Late In September Boroday was ar­ rested. The arrest came as a shock to *the band. As a matter of fact the po-" itfce could prove nothing, but the chief :fetad a lohg talk with the Russian. It was the Agrarian affair, of course. The /chief had recognized him. But so firm- had old Hilary's respectability been footed in the public mind that the chief " connected Boroday only casually with •tlini. ^. "Yon know that I cannot prove thia \$hing on you." he said, "but you know Also perfectly well that I can fix you to (fhe tune of about ten years." - * "Perfectly correct In both instances,** '•aid Boroday. "You cannot prove any- i«thlng and you can send me up. What; It you want?" ^ "I want the members of that band of %ours," said the chief. "And I want" «jrour headquarters. You people have feeen playing hell in this county long enough; the newspapers are laughing •: pt us. Sooner or later, we'll get you 5,*nd get you all. Make it sooner and >;?$jjpre'll let you off easy." "How much time will you give me?" ipj,e chjef offered twenty-four hours >-^#nd Boroday took it. At the end' of .that time he reported. ' r "I guess I'll take what's coming to fine." he said. "You can fix it any way >ou like." * walk up to the club, and establish an alibi and his Innocence by telephoning to a city garage for help. The rest was left to HufT and Lethbridge. A quarter of a mile away across the golf links, they would have a car in which to make their getaway. Lethbridge was only lukewarm. "We'll get a lot of jewelry," he ob­ jected. "What we need is money." But Talbot was sure the loot would fndudfe money.; " . '*• ;' It was rather cleverly planned. Prom the vault Huff brought up a fine chain studded with spikes. Stretched across the road outside the entrance. It meant that every car passing over it would Hmp along on flat tires. It meant time to the bandits. Huff and Lethbridge, who had left their car in a thicket over the bill, went first. Talbot followed soon, in his gray car. "Good luck, boys,* said Elinor in echo of her father, from her garden, and went back into the house to watch the clock. At one, or a little sooner-- the summer dances were early ones-- she was to be in her garden again. The loot would be thrown over the wall. She was there much earlier, hands cold, lips shaking with nervousness. Alwtfys old Hilary had done these things. She was profoundly frightened. Ward, walking rapidly home from the club, saw her there, a little after midnight. There was a young moon, and at first he thought he must be mis­ taken. Then,» when h<e was sure of her, he ran up the shallow steps. The glad­ ness that was over him rantf out in his deep voice. - "So now I have your secret," he said gaily. "Like all the other fairies, you are only to be seen in the moonlight!" Vln the daylight," said Elinor, trying t<^smile, "I frequent the woodlands, and miss my most agreeable visitor--, my only visitor." She corrected her­ self. Her hand was lee in his. "You are cold !" ••Really, no." There was a minute's pause. They had no common ground between them. Ward, who dreamed of her eyes, and took long walks up the hill in the mere hope of seeing her in her garden, •t would tarn to J knew !• She put out ha fools It. "I am going in now. Good night, and thank you for stopping. Ward found himself dismissed, and, rather dazed, went down the steps to the road. But one thing he carried with him down the hill that night: "I watch your window very often." The reverend Mr. Ward left his light on all of that night, so fearful was he that she might look for It, and not find it And while it burned, under the Very shadow of Saint Jude's once more the vault in the basement room at the hall swung open to Elinor's practiced fin­ gers. The village rang with the news of the outrage the next day. No one had been hurt, but jewels of large value had been taken. To Huff and the others, the rail had been practically a failure. There had been less than a thousand dollars in money--not enough to begin negotia­ tions for Boroday's freedom. It began to look as though the dangerous busi­ ness of selling some of Elinor's jewels would have to be resorted to. Leth­ bridge was willing to undertake It, try­ ing London first and then Paris. Elinor offered all the diamonds. If she must keep a part, she would keep the pearls, Talbot sorted out the stones' to be sold, but left them with her for safety. She had never cared for her jewels. They were not half so lovely as her flowers--and she part­ ed from them without a pang. But there was one pink pear-shaped pearl that had come In the night before, that she would have rather liked to wear. On Monday afternoon Ward called on Elinor. The memory of that short meeting in the garden had been with him ever since. There was a new light in his eyes, but she greeted him de­ murely, although she flushed with pleasure. "Not In a woodland, for once," she said. "And all my falrylike. attributes faded in the daylight!" "Isn't it rather rash?" he asked gravely--"this risking the daylight?" "I am here because I hoped you would come to see me." It was Ward's turn to flush. "You said yon were lonely, I thought--" "I am alone, but not as lonely ai you think. There Is plenty to do. I have my garden, and I make up little bouquets for the school children. You should see how they love them. Some days I have a dozen clamoring in the road under the arbor." Ward was charmed. He had a quick vision of Elinor, eyes dancing and soft hair blowing, bending out of her arbor window and dropping her quaint sweet Williams and marguerites, mignonette and garden roses, down to the children. She led the way to the terrace, where Henriette was setting the tea-table. "Nevertheless," Ward said suddenly, "I am not at all sure I like your living here alone. It doesn't seem safe." "Safe?" - "Perhaps I am unwise to alarm you. But this outrage at the country club--" "Ah I " said Elinor, and bent toward him. "There is no longer any question that a band of desperadoes is' terrorizing the county; an organized band of con­ siderable intelligence. They get their information from the Inside. This last outrage shows it. No one is safe." "And this country club affair?" asked Elinor, watching Ward intently. New York.--An English paper has recently published an article dealing with the attempt and failure of Ameri­ can women and designers to be inde­ pendent of Paris apd congratulates us on our good sense, as it were, in re­ turning to the source. ' c T*» •wfh n'pq nrvf • r»w CHAPTER V. * Boroday had used his day's freedom warn the band and to make plans or regaining his freedom. Of money e had none. What he had made under &old Hilary's leadership had gone back I'to Russia, dollar for dollar. He had I financed part of the Kiev defense of e the Jews, had saved Prince Ovarsky f from •Siberia. There were other things. • Money would save Boroday. And «s there was practically ho money. * By unanimous consent they kept the news of his arrest from Elinor. It was Talbot who planned the coun try efub coup. The Russian was in jail then, on a trumped-up charge. Old y Hilary depd and Boroday in Jail--there - .,Mwas no one to advise caution. ^,5 j: "Boroday ill!" Elinor exclaimed. ?'--fc^-ffg;They were accounting for his absence from her Saturday-night dinner. "Why, » tlien he shou,d be here, where he can be cared for." ' * "We told him that." Lethbridge was always readiest with his tongue; "But 1" '*e s no* enough to need much, ' V% 1 r and he's deucedly disagreeable when * he's laid up." Elinor was a little hurt. "In the afbor, after dinner, 'they planned the robber?. Where old Hil­ ary woulA-have taken a month to think and plan, they took minutes. There was a ball at the club that night, the last of the waning country-club season. The entrance to the grounds was a mile from the clubhouse--two Iron gates standing open between pillars, and dense shrubbery all about. Talbot would wreck his car there, driving into one of the gates. That would require ea«fti depftrting-d^ to slow down, prob­ ably to stop. The. arrangement was that Talbot .. • »?.*. lf J * V Things become pretty hot for the gang and it begins to look as though Elinor would face publio disgrace. (TO BE CONTINUED.) WHY HE CLOSED POST OFFICE Ike Wanted to Transfer the Ruah Business to His Other Es­ tablishment. In 'And This Country Club Asked Elinor. Affalrr pv.v 'ft, fV;-i rvJ " 1 found himself dumb, now that he stood before her. He had meant to be most impersonal, to run In. say a cheery "good night" to her, and be off. But face to face, with the dark house loom­ ing over them, he plunged into the thing nearest his heart. "Are you still so--alone?" "There are the servants." "I--I think of you often. One of my windows faces this way, and I can see a light burning very late. "I read at night. I do not sleep well. But you--you are up late, also. "Ah!" He bent a little toward her in his eagerness. "You know that? You knfow ray window?" "Yes. I watch it very often It was well for Walter Huff, crouched In the shrubbery at the country club, eye? glittering, automatic revolver in hand, that he did not hear the thrill In Ward's voice that night in Elinor's garden, or her soft reply. Many things cried for utterance In Ward; his pitiful sense of the girl's loneliness,, a yearning desire to com­ fort her, to be near her--even more that magic night, a mad longing to hold out his arms and coax her into them, as one might coax some shy , creature of the woods.,.. " But Elinor was suddenly aloof and distant again. At any time how a car would come wildly down the hill, and toss at her feet its defiance of law and ownership. What had she and, this man before her in common? The thrill w Uncle Ike Ross, a weatherbeaten mountaineer, who presides over a post office among the hills of southern Mis­ souri, peered through the stamp win­ dow at two city men who had tramped five miles from their mountain camp to post some business letters. He shook his head. ' "There's been a plumb big rush qf business at this hyar post office this morning," he drawled, "and I'm all tuckered out I reckln I won't sell no­ body no more stamps till after dinner." 'But," gasped the man nearest the window, "these letters have got to go! They're important, and they've got to catch the stage and get off today." Uncle Ike was obdurate. "Hit shore don't pay no man to work hlsself to death," he said deliberately, and with­ drew to a chair, where he tipped back and dropped into a doze. "Some folks," snapped the city man, would be too lazy to make a doll&r if all the opportunities of the next SO years came and perched on their door* steps! Now, where are we going to get dinner?" His companion pointed silently to a sign, conspicuous on the post office door: "Fried chicken dinner served , to visi­ tors at the Ike Ross restaurant next door.~r TOy cents."--Youth's Compan­ ion. vt4i mam This evening gown has a separate bodice. The skirt la of cyclamen tulle, accordion pleated, with garland of em­ broidery and formal bouquets. The bodice and aash are of black satin. of Paris. It was only natural that the American people should feel that the outbreak of the war In France would stop all the wheels of her commerce In clothes and that the other coun­ tries would be compelled to go on their own. It would take us a century to ac­ complish what we now buy frott Paris in a week. 'We are too canny to give up the best source of fashion on the planet for no reason whatever. If we had to depend on our own creations for the commerce In clothes, three- quarters of the firms engaged in this industry would fall within two years. It Is a happy piece of news to re­ port In support of this outlined sen­ timent that the shipments of costumes from France which will take place this fall will be as heavy as In "normal times. The number of buyers who have gone abroad has been reduced, account of volunteering^ conscrlp gwer Is in the negative, dont lit any­ one persuade you to buy it. When the ships that dodge the man* made sharks of the sea bring to us these cases of silks, brocades, metals, embroideries and velvets fashioned for the American woman, we will see that these clothes are the heirs to all the gges. China will dominate some bits of costumery, the influence of Napoleon will be there, the Russian Cossacks who threw themselves before the retreating Eleventh army in Ga- licia will be another motive for cer­ tain cut and color, and the recent ex­ hibition of French clothes in Madrid Is reflected In the things that were brought out of Spain. Not only will different countries be represented In the medley of costum­ ery that Is coming to us, but various epochs in the history of places, espe­ cially of France--the First Empire, the Consulate, the swirling and trans­ parent draperies made famous by Mme. Taliien, the Queen of Shreds and Patches, as she was nicknamed, the blbllke panels of embroidery worn by the queen of Roumania when she arrayed herself in the native cos­ tumes. The polonaise will be revived from that" day when the predecessor of Rose Berttln, who gowned Marie Antoi­ nette, made fashionable the striking garment worn by the Polish princess, Marie, whom Louis XV made queen of France. Those Chinese wraps and sleeves and tassels worn by the noble­ men who represented Pekln as the first embassy sent from China to France are recalled Into the new fash- Ions because China Is with France and is fighting, as she fought,»to be a re­ public. iRakish Continental Hat. The green coque feathers flaunting from new hats have been borrowed from the hats of the sharpshooters, the bersaglieri of Italy, because the fighters of the Vosges and the Alpine passes have » comradeship. The rak­ ish continental hat was included In the fashions because the land of that George Washington whom General La­ fayette came to assist Is spreading her soldiers over the pleasant valleys of the sister republic and sending her huge guns to protect the Road of Lad­ dies as all gentlemen, good and true, should do. The plnched-In crown and the rol­ licking brim have been Included in the most fashionable hats because these i 1 Much Food In Small Bulk. The British "Tommy," when fresh bread is not available, is supplied with what he calls "dog bisc'jit." It looks like just that, being a thick cracker four Inches square and weighing three evinces. Of whole wheat flour prestv solid, it might be described as a condensed loaf of bread. The French have a "war bread*' somewhat sim'.lar, which, when put Into hot water or soup, swells up like a sponge. The famous German "pea sausage" la composed of pea meal, bacon and fat It was the Invention of a Ber­ lin cook, who discovered a process whereby pea meal could |»e made proof against deterioration. One sausage, eight inches long, yields twelve plates of nutritious soup. as in hU voice now, but how (tulskjf i ce-ivtHl. yjiUU .eaw 'Changed Her Mind. Mrs. 4fobby--Mrs. Finnicky is * *e|py discriminating woman, 1 understand. Mrs. Gabbles--I wuf similarly do- " & ,, ,. tlon and changes, therefore,"In the per­ sonnel of many business houses, but the resident buyers and the Important representatives for groups of houses have been able to transact the expect­ ed business. Where Arrterlea Comes In. So much for Paris. But, with all that she will do, the war places an Important task on American women. Never before In the history of com­ merce In clothes has this especial de­ mand been made upon them. It Is this: they must work out their own salvation, pur heads of shops and dressmaking houses are far from be­ ing aids to the dumb. They must sell what they have bought and made and they have rarely studied the needs of the Individual. The buyers who went to Paris In other days haunted the fashionable places where the women of pleasure and power foregathered. These worn-1 en made and marred the fashions put out by the designers. When our buy­ ers saw that these leaders were fea­ turing certain fashions they brought them home for the American. But, and this Is the new situation, the women here are now confronted with the fact that thousands of new costumes will soon be unpacked from the boxes that brought tfffem over the j ocean, and as they were chosen from whatever the French houses had to offer, It will be otfr part to select from that heterogeneous mass that which brings out our special type and suits our environment. This is sane and sensible wartime adjustment of one's times and income, and possibly the lesson may'be so thoroughly learned and digested that it will prove to be a lasting benefit to tiro national com­ munity. Make a Study.of Clothes. This will be really the millennium in dress. Paris, the center of art in the world, creates from a point In air, as the engineers say, and from the mass of material she sends we choose a thousand different types of costumes If we wish. Look a bit Into the history of each costume, as Paris does, and say to yourself, Does my face and fig­ ure, my physical and mortal individ­ uality reflect that period? If the an- SOME LONG COATS ARE SEEN They Are Shown Only on Handsome Suit Models, However, and Few Women Look Well In Ther*). Suit coats vary in length from a lit­ tle below the hips to almost full length, some of the handsome models of chif­ fon velvet being quite long enough to do service as separate coats. .It would not be safe to advise, hew- ever, that the very early purchaser of a suit select one of these long coat af­ fairs without seriously considering the matter, says a fashion authority. They were tried out last autumn with the first showing of garments. Then, as now, only the handsomer models fea­ tured the extremely long coats, but the designs did not "take" to the extent of general wear. Only a well-built wo nan of fair height appears at her befit in the ultra- lohg suit coat, and unfortunately ex­ tremely small women &m\ "stouts" are seen in quite as generoa;p numbers as is the Yenus. The women of the Da One of the new autumn suits in green velour with turned-up hem on coat and wide girdle forming aash in- front. soldiers have been smiled at and, some say, kissed by the mldinettes as they strolled the boulevards at noon hour. Why try to outline the conglomeration of episodes that are reflected in these autumn clothes that we will soon ba asked to buy and mold to our indi­ viduality? France has put the pass­ ing panorama of the planet into cos­ tumery. If we adopt it all, we shall look like a procession of the ages staged by some Gargantuan stage di­ rector. (.Copyright, 1917, \ per y the McClure Newapar syndicate.) Dress, Parasol and Bonnet Alike. One of the quaintest and most talked about costumes worn In New York was a blue and white checked cotton frock made all In one piece, belted wittf a broad flat girdle and finished at the neck und sleeves with broad white or­ gandie collar and cuffs. The hat was made somewhat after the shape of the Shaker sunbonnet and the parasol with Its blue bakelite handle and white tips wis of shirred blue and white check. Art of Perfuming. « Two or .three tiny balls of cotton wool sprinkled In the hem of this gar­ ment; sleeping Ip a cap, the crown of which Is a satchet; sprinkling the hearts of artificial flowers upon a hat; keeping gloves and veils In boxes be­ tween sheets of blotting powder satu­ rated freshly every few days--these are the means by which a refine^ worn* an surrounds herself with an intan­ gible perfume that is always delightful. \ An Uneven Sweater* Some apparently new sweaters ara much longer in front than In the back, BUILDING RAILROAD ALONG MEXICAN BORDER. San IHeguand Eastern railroad is constructing the last stretch' of its road through the mountains in the extreme southern portion of Californiairwi^ It Includes some of the most remarkable engineering feats ever attempted. Thef^ 1 railroad parallels and In one pla?e crosses the Mexican border through a. tun­ nel. The road crosses the mountains at a 4,000-foot altitude has 30* tunnels In the short distance of 18 miles. Photograph shows one of the steam shovels working through decomposed granite. LUXURIES ON MIL No Country Has Sueh Wasteful Passenger Service as Found in America. NUMBER OF TRAINS REDUCED Present Condition la Relie of Old Daya of Unreetricted Competition --Railroad President Waa Ab­ solute Monarch. ' American love of luxury has no bet- ter example than the passenger serv­ ice provided by the railroads of this country. Every one knows that Amer­ ican railroad trains are far in advance of those of any other country In com­ fort, and for long distances at least in speed also, but the traveling public does not always realize that the great multiplicity of passenger service pro­ vided between the important centers of population In this country is no less a luxury not enjoyed elsewhere and one which the stern needs of war may shortly make itv necessary to forego. It has long been held by some rail­ road managers that the Interests of true economy demanded some reduc­ tion in the number of passenger trains and one of the first steps taken by the executive committee of the American Railway association, which Is practic­ ally in control of the nation's trans­ portation facilities for the period of the war, was to urge upon the various companies the propriety of arranging for a substantial reduction in passen­ ger service, the New York Sun says. Play Daya of Railroading. The present* condition is a relic, al­ most the last -one, of the old days of unrestricted competition between the different companies. It.is "a survival of the days when rates were made in the traffic manager's office without su­ pervision by federal of state commis­ sions, when co-opferation was un­ dreamed of and each line considered that Its duty lay In running as many trains as were necessary to care for all the traffic between any points which it served regardless of rival lines Which were certain to share to some, extent In the business. . Those were the palmy days of rail­ roading, the days of brass trimmed locomotives, of sleeping cars fearfully and wonderfully decorated, when a di­ vision superintendent had the powers of a governor general and a railroad president was the absolute monarch, not only of all he surveyed, but gener­ ally of all the territory served by his company. Statistics had not yet be­ gun to play a prominent part in rail­ road management. A soul satisfying name for the newest crack train Was more Important than the mere detail of earnings per train mile. Too Many Passenger Trains. So It came to pass that when the day of the railroad casars came to an end, as the day of all csars seems to do sooner or later, and much of the authority which had once vested in them began to be exercised by public service commissions in the several states, the abolition of passenger trains became more or less a political ques­ tion. Any attempt to do away with one was resisted to the bitter end by every inhabitant of the district through which the gaudy flyer passed; it mattered not whether the particular objector had ever been aboard the train or not. Public service commis­ sions were often reluctant to fly In the face of public opinion, population in­ creased, and not only did the unprofit­ able trains remain in service but there was a constant demand for more and more trains, frequently enforced by the Weighing Locomotives. Engineers of a European Vallroad have built a machine for weighing lo­ comotives that provide a separata scale for each wheel. . Women Clean Engl nee. Women who clean engines are a new arrival in the engineering world in Britain. specific orders of the state commis­ sions. So arose the situation as it Is today. Every important city In the United States Is served by from three to ten times as many trains as are similar' centers of population in other parts of the world. The traveler between New York and Chicago has at present the choice of 36 different trains--16 on the New York Central, ten on the Pennsylvania, four on the Lackawanna, four on the Baltimore and Ohio and two on the Erie. Should business or pleasure take him from New York to Philadelphia he is confronted with a selection of 42 trains on the Pennsylvania, .17 on the New Jersey Central and eight on the Baltimore and Ohio--67 in all. Even distant points like Jacksonville or New Orleans are the objectives of half a dozen trains every 24 hours. Europe Is Wiser. ^ In Europe In normal times the serv­ ice offered between the important cities seems niggardly In the extreme by comparison. London, Manchester and Liverpool, the three greatest commer­ cial cities of Great Britain, all lie within a radius pf 200 miles and are connected by half a dozen different lines, but the train service between them, though expeditious and conven­ ient, is equaled by the facilities en­ joyed by a score or more of the lesser Cities of the United States. On the continent the contract is even greater. Between London and Paris, scarcely 200 miles apart, there ran dally before the war only half a dozen through trains, a day and a night train on each of three routes. Between Paris and Berlin, p. distance of 650 miles, traveling is a trifle difficult at present, but prior to August, 1914, an American who undertook the journey was generally astonished to learn that there were only two qr three trains which made the Journey without change, and that only one of those car­ ried a sleeping car. Between the other continental capitals the same condi­ tions prevailed. STOP HABIT OF TRESPASSING Natural Outcome of Guarding Tracks pud Bridges by Armed Faroes of United State*. The Railway Gazette predicts that a side issue of war conditions will be a decrease of the habit of trespassing on railroad property. This will be a nat­ ural outcome of the guarding of tracks and bridges by the armed forces of the United States for the purpose of pre­ venting wilful interference with trans­ portation. There has always been great danger to trespassers on railway prop­ erty. In the months of July, August and September, 1016, the number of persons killed in accidents resulting f¥om the operation of trains in the United States was 2,781, and of these 1,512, or 54.4 per cent were trespassers. The number of trespassers killed was three times as large as the number of railroad employees who lost their lives In the same why. Yet trespassing per­ sisted. It Is highly probable, however, that the risk of danger from shooting will deter many from trespassing who were oblivious to the risk of danger from trains. Women Operate RiallroMp. The railroads of Franca are practi­ cally operated by women. very thin hand-knitted. * M A i ' : V l, V* MMMM NEW MASTERS FOR RAILWAYS Ninety-Five Independent Unco-ordinat- " ad Lagialatlve Bodies Repreega* Government. "American railroads serve 95 differ­ ent 'masters. These are the 95 inde­ pendent, uneo-ordinated legislative and regulating bodies, representing the federal government and the 48 states," says a circular from the Guaranty Trust company of New York. And just think--only a few years ago these masters, or most of them, were/taking orders from the railroads I Lessen Smoke and Gm Evil. To lessen the smoke and gas in tunnels Swiss railroads are equipping their locomotive stacks with lids to be closed when a tunnel is entered, steam being exhausted beneath the en- **** < . . r Prtoe of Safety! ernal vigilance, espedafly neighborhood of railroad crossings, i«y,- {be price of safety, especially wlth^ir vehicles. And this vigilance lued on both sides. 1-- •'Av ... .... t ,* s \v