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PliSfSKiPiiw •;-0 *"4*V, : vs i '..m .. i, rtAimmAiMn, •- •» 3?» VW"*" • Itli. The Romance of Sequel to The Exploits of Elaine A Detective Novel and a Motion Pic­ ture Drama <*4 By ARTHUR B. REEVE Th« Weil-Known Novelist and the Cre­ ator of th» "Craig Kennedy** Storie* ftrmrtal is CtBikrititi Will A* Path* Playar* «»4 tk Eclectic F9a ffiy Copfricht. 1914, by the Star Company. All Foreign Rirhtt Reterrcd. ^?f^^^gS8S!aa88a88888S888S8S2S^ 8YN0PSI3. After the finding of Wn Fane's body and Kennedy's disappearance,-a submarine ap­ pears the following morning on the bay. A man plunges overboard from it and swims ashore. It is the entrance of Mar- clus Del Mar into America. His mission is to obtain information of Kennedy and recover. If possible, the lost torpedo. At the Dodge home he soon wins the confi­ dence of Elaine. Later she Is warned by a little old man to be careful of Del Mar. This warning came Just in time to pre­ vent Del Mar from carrying out his plana. Elaine gives a masquerade ball. Del Mar attends. Neither he nor his domino girl can locate the torpedo. A gray friar warns Elaine and Jameson of Del Mar's purpose, and his plans are upset. The girl enters the Dodge home as a maid; finds the tor­ pedo, places it In a trunk, which with oth­ ers is sent to the Dodge country home. In a holdup Del Mar's men fail to get the trunk containing the torpedo. Elaine hides the torpedo, which later is stolen by Del Mar's men. who in escaping meet the old man of mystery. A desperate battle follows, in which the old man destroys the torpedo. Jameson is captured by Del Mar's jnen while on his way to mail a letter to the U. S. secret service. Elaine rescues him. Lieutenant Woodward and his friend attend a party given at the Dodge home, at which Del Mar is pres­ et. Unknowingly Del Mar drop? a note Which gives Elaine a clue. In her attempt to prevent his cutting the Atlantic cable •he is discovered and made a prisoner On the boat, which afterwards is wrecked by Woodward and the old man of mys­ tery. Jameson arrives in a hydo-aero- plane Just in time to save Elaine from drowning. THIRTIETH EPISODE BEHIND THE WATER DOOR. Del Mar made his way cautiously along the bank of a little river at the Liouth of which he left the boat, after escaping from the little steamer. Quite evidently he was worried by the failure to cut the great Atlantic cable, and he was eager to see wheth­ er any leak had occurred in the or- - jganization which, as secret foreign S.*vV' agent, he had so carefully built up in . America. k® skirted the shore of the ' river, he came to a falls. Here he g|£fv moved even more cautiously than be- * fore, looking about to make certain ' that no one had followed him. [vJ fH', It was a beautiful sheet of water Pt that tumbled with a roar over the f ledge of rock, then raced away swift- ly to the sea in a cloud of spray. ; 1 ••1 ' Assured that he was alone, he ap- ^-•3;^V;*V;V}-jproached a crevice in the rocks, near ' the falls. *With another hasty look kbout, he reached in and pulled a lever. y->v >-'v Instantly a most marvelous change ttook place, incredible almost beyond "belief. The volume of water that came ^ v.:' • *>ver the falls actually and rapidly de- ^••/•:"r."*rea8®d until it almost stopped, drip- " -jh. 3 ,'#ing slowly in a thiji veil. There was ||y;;fcgtlie entrance of a cave--literally hld- i„q Ven behind the falls! Del Mar walked in. Inside was the Is*1 ^ ' "entrance to another, inner cave, high­ ly"' »r up in the sheer stone of the wall «ff-fi: S4- -*^at the waters had eroded. From the v-/4 / * » MOOT to this entrance led a ladder. , . Del Mar climbed it, then stopped just Inside the entrance to the inner cave, t?*'* ' ^or a moraeat he paused. Then he '\. |pressed another lever. Almost imme- ^ L •/' <diately the thin trickle of water grew ||'V,11111 til at last the roaring falls complete­ ly ly covered the cave entrance. It was * clever concealment, contrived by Hamming the river above and arrang- Ing a new outlet controlled by-flood agates. There Del Mar stood, in the inner Hr'i'.^cave- A man Bat at a table, a curious ^ v ' ftPl :Jfc®ar fastened over his head and cover- 4 ., . • *4ng his ears Before him was a huge ' V"Apparatus from which flared a big / V (bluish-green spark, snapping and -crackling above the thunder of the |r| ;>aters. From the apparatus ran apparently up through cables 4 'that penetrated the rocky roof of the , ^.cavern and the river above. "E - ' It was Del Mar's secret wireless ('/'-^.'^•tation, close to the hidden submarine ; -^harbor which had been established be- v" % .^neath the innocent rocks of the prom- pp/^ontorj up the coast. Far overhead, | v > , ,,iX pon the cliff over the falls, were the ^ : i. antennae of the wireless. W*'-V yr "How is she working?" asked Del v'SMar* % V'j "Pretty well," answered the man. VN° interference?" queried Del Mar, , ' <hi- 'f adjusting the apparatus. '-r*;.{ p I The man shook his head in the nega- & & $' "^r® must get a quenched spark ap- W; ! paratus," went on Del Mar, pleased that nothing was wrong here. "This rotary gap affair is out of date. By the way, I want you to be ready to send a message, to be relayed across to our people. I've got to consult the board below ih the harbor first, how­ ever. I'll send a messenger to you, | "Yery well, sir," returned the man, Minting aa Del Mar went out. • * • • • • • Out at Fort Dale, Lieutenant Wood­ ward was still entertaining his new friend, Professor Arnold, and had in troduced him to Colonel Swift, the commanding officer at the fort. They were discussing the Btrange ••ents ol the early morning, when an orderly entered, saluted Colonel Swift and handed him a telegram. The colonel tore it open and read It, his face growing grave. Then he handed jt to Woodward, who read: sip 'ji? irj "Washington, D. C. "Radio station using illegal wave length in your vicinity. Investigate and report. BRANDON, "Radio Bureau." Professor Arnold shook hla head slowly, as he handed the telegram back. "There's a- wireless apparatus of my own on my yacht," he remarked slowly. "I have an instrument there which I think can help you greatly. L<et's see what we can do." "All right," nodded Colonel Swift to Woodward. "Try." The two went out and a few min­ utes later, on the shore, Jumped Into Arnold's fast little motQr boat and spedlf5,out across the water until they eWung around alongside the trim yacht which Arnold was using. It was a compact and comfortable little craft with lines that Indicated both gracefulness and speed. On one of the masts, as they approached, Woodward noticed the wireless aerial. They climbed up the ladder over the side and made their way directly to the wireless room, where Arnold sat down and at once began to adjust the apparatus. Woodward seemed keenly Interested in inspecting the plant, which was of a curious type and not exactly like any that he had seen before. "This Is a very compact system," explained Arnold, "with facilities for a quick change from one wave length to another. It has a spark gap, quenched type, break system relay-- operator can hear any interference while transmitting. Ton might call it a radio detective." • • • • • * • I succeeded in getting Elaine safely home after Burnside and I rescued her in the hydroaeroplane, but no sooner had she changed her clothes for dry ones than she disappeared herself. At least I could not find her, though, later, I found that she had stolen away to town and there had purchased a complete outfit of men's clothes from a second-hand dealer. Cautiously, with the large bundle under her arm, she returned to Dodge hall and almost sneaked into her own home and upstairs to her room. She locked the door and hastily unwrapped the bundle, taking out a tattered suit and the other things, holding them up and laughing gleefully as she took off her own pretty clothes and donned these hideous garments. Quickly she completed her change of costume and outward character. Deftly she arranged her hair so that her hat would cover it She picked a black mustache from the table and stuck it on her soft upper lip. It tickled and she made a wry face over it Then she hunted up a cigarette from the bundle which she had brought in, lighted it and stuck it in the corner of her mouth, letting it droop Jauntily. It made her cough tremendously and she threw it away. Finally with a bold front she went out and passed down to the gate of the grounds, pulling her hat down over her eyes and assuming a tough swagger. Only a few minutes before, down in the submarine harbor, the officers of the board of foreign agents had been grouped about Del Mar, who had entered and taken his place at their head, very angry over the failure to cut the cable. As they concluded their hasty conference, he wrote a message on a slip of paper. Take this to our wireless station," he ordered, handing it to one of the men. A few minutes later the messenger in the submarine suit bobbed up out of the water, near the promontory, and climbed slowly over the rocks to­ ward a crevice, where he took off the diving outfit and then went along to the little river, carefully skirting its banks into the ravine in which were the falls and the wireless cave. In her disguise, Elaine had made her way by a sort of instinct along the shore to the rocky promontory where he had discovered the message in the tin tube in the water. Something, she knew not what, was going on about there, and she rea­ soned that it was not all over yet. She was right. As she looked about keenly she did see something, and she hid among the rocks. It Was a man, all dripping, in an outlandish helmet and suit. She saw him slink into a crevice and take off the suit, then, as he moved toward the river ravine, she stole up after him. Suddenly she stopped stark still, surprised, and stared. The man had actually gone np to the very waterfall. He had pressed what looked like a lever and the wa­ ter over the falls seemed to stop. Then he walked directly through into a cave. In the greatest wonder, Elaine crept along toward the falls. Inside the cave Del Mar's emissary started to climb a ladder to an Inner cave. As he reached the top, he glanced out and saw Elaine by the entrance. With an oath he Jumped into the inner entrance. His hand reached eagerly for a lever in the rockB and as he found and held it, he peered out carefully. Elaine cautiously earn* from behind a rock where she had hidden herself and seeing no one apparently watch­ ing, now, advanced until she stood di­ rectly under the trickle of water which had once been the fallB. She gazed into the cave, curiously uncertain whether she dared to go in alone or not f The emissary jerked fiercely at the lever as he saw Elaine. Above the falls a dam had been built and by a system of levers the gates could be operated so that the water could be thrown over the falls or diverted away, at will. As the man pressed the lever the flood gates worked quickly. Elaine stood gasing eagerly into the blackness of the cave. Just then a great volume of water from above crashed down on. her, with almost crushing weight .How she lived through it she never knew. But, fortunately, she had not gone quite far enough to get the full force of the water. Still, the terrific flood easily overcame her. She was swept screaming, down the stream. * • • • • • * . Rather alarmed at the strange dis­ appearance' of Elaine after I brought her home, I had started out along the road to the shore to look {or her, thinking that she might perhaps have returned there. As I walked along a young tough-- at least at the time I thought it was a young tough, so good was the disguise she had assumed, and so well did she carry it off--slouched paBt me. "Great Caesar," I muttered to my­ self, "that's a roughneck. This place Is sure getting to be a hangout for gunmen." I shrugged my shoulders and con­ tinued my walk. It was no business of mine. Finding no trace of Elaine, I returned to the house. Aunt Jose­ phine was in the library, alone. "Where's Elaine?" I asked anxiously. "I don't know," she replied. "I don't think she's at home." Meanwhile, back of that wall ot wa ter, the wireless operator in the cave was sending the messages which Del Mar's emissary dictated"'lp' hbn, one after another. • * * * * • • With the high resistance receiving apparatus over his head, Arnold was listening to the wireless signals that came over his "radio detective" on the yacht moving the slider back and forth on a sort of tuning coil, as he listened. Woodward stood close be­ side him. "As you know," Arnold remarked, "by the UBe of an aerial, message* may be easily received from an? num­ ber of stations. In other words, this is eavesdropping by & wireless wire­ tapper." "Are you getting anything now?" asked Woodward. ' Arnold nodded, as he seised a pencil and started to write. The lieutenant bent forward in tense interest. Finally Arnold read what he had written and with a peculiar quiet smile handed it over. Woodward read. It was a senseless Jumble of dots and dashes of the Morse code but, although he was familiar with the code, he could make nothing out of it. "It's the Morse code all right," he said, handing It back with a puzzled look, "but it doesn't make any sense." Arnold smiled again, took the paper, and without a word wrote on it some more. Then he handed it back to Woodward. "An old trick," he said. "Reverse the dots and dasheB and see what you get" Woodward looked at It, as Arnold had reversed It and his face lighted up. "Harbor successfully mined," he quoted in surprise. "I'll show you another thing about this radio detective of mine," went on Arnold energetically. "It's not only a wave length measurer, but by a process of my own I can determine approximately the ' distance between LACK OF COMMUNITY SPIRIT Elaine Discover* the Cave iiehind the Water Door. Somehow, I felt, I didn't seem to get on well as a detective without Ken­ nedy. Yet, so far, a kind providence seemed to have watched over us. Was it because we were children--or--I rejected that alternative. Walking along leisurely I made my way down to the shore. At a bridge that crossed a rather turbulent stream as it tumbled its way toward the sea, paused and looked at the water re­ flectively: Suddenly my vagrant Interest was aroused. Up the stream I saw some­ one struggling In the water and shout­ ing for help as the current carried her along, screaming. It was Elaine. The hat and mus­ tache of her disguise were gone and her beautiful Titian hair was spread out on the water as it carried her now this way, now that, while she struck out with all her strength to keep afloat. I did not stop to think how or why she wao there. I swung over the bridge rail, stripping off my coat ready to dive. On she came with the swift current to the bridge. As she approached I dived. It was not a min­ ute too soon. In her struggles she had become thoroughly exhausted. She was a good swimmer, but the light with nature was unequal. I reached her in a second or two and took her hand. Half pulling, half shov­ ing her, I struck out for the shore. We managed to make it together where the current was not quite so strong, and climbed safely up a rock. Elaine sank down, choking and gasp- lug, not unconscious, but pretty much all in and exhausted. I looked at her in amazement. "Why, where in the world did you get those togs?" I queried. "Never mind my clothes, Walter," she gasped. "Take me home for some dry ones. I have a clue." She rose, determined to shake ott the effects of her recent plunge and went toward the house. As I helped her she related breathlessly what she had Just seen. MllCt Be Admitted That There Much Truth in This Criticism of the Modern Life. ?. ' Jk, man who has studied social condi- 9 Heats with some serious attention to V. their solution, finds that aside from our city government we have nothing that is truly emblematic or represe- aentative of a true community spirit --and this Is not offered In criticism, K~' IN* father m rtfeetlv* of the- popular drift toward isolated social organisa­ tions. Is "We have," he says, "all sorts of institutions, but all of them, so far as the community life Itself is concerned --antisocial. Our clubs reach only their limited sphere. Our museum is the nearest approach to a rallying ground of democracy. That reaches out and touches and interests all human lives--for who is ttiere who is not concerned in natural history acd art? "Churches live for thwaselva; clubs live for themselves; the theaters are commercial enterprises, just as our manufactories are commercial enter­ prises. "We dislike to admit it, but we are cliauey. We like our little set and we don't want anybody not a part of it to Invade it. One day we shall find a great common center--a common ral­ lying ground, which shall be for all the people, who will meet there for exchange of ideas and development of the highest possible thought Then those who today are satisfied with the the sending and the receiving points of a message." He attached another, smaller mar chine to the wireless detector: In the face was a moving finger which swung over a dial marked off in miles from one upward. As Arnold adjusted the new detector, the hand began to move slowly. Woodward looked eagerly. It did not move far, but came to rest above the figure "2." "Not so very far away, yon see, lieutenant," remarked Arnold, pointing to the dial face. He seized his glass and hurried to the deck, leveling it at the shore aiid leaning far over the rail in his eager­ ness. As he swept the shore, he stopped suddenly. There was a house roof among the trees with a wireless aerial fastened to the chimney, but not quite concealed by the dense foli­ age. "Look," he cried to Woodward, with an exclamation oif satisfaction, hand­ ing over the glass. Woodward looked. "A secret wire­ less station, all right," he agreed, low­ ering the glass after a long look. "We'd better gfet over there right away," planned Arnold, leading the way to the ladder over the side of the yacht, and calling to the sailor who had managed the little motor boat to follow him. Quickly they skimmed across to the shore. "I think we'd better send to the fort for some men," considered Arnold as they landed. "Wa may need re-enforcements before we get through." Woodward nodded and Arnold hast­ ily wrote a note on a rather large scrap of paper which he happened to have in his pocket. "Take this to Colonel Swift at Fort Dale," he directed the sailor. "And hurry!" The sailor loped off, half on a run, as Arnold and Woodward left down the shore, proceeding carefully. At top speed, Arnold's sailor made crude and unworthy shall come with hunger for the higher and better things and find that hunger satisfied." Number of Bedouins Unknown. The term Bedouins means "dwellers in open land," and applies only to wan­ dering or uomadic Arabs iu distinction from tb,« peasants or dwellers in town. No census has ever been taken of Bedouins and estimates their num­ ber in aLy particular region or tract of country are conjectural. All of thom aif Arabs, hat soma tribe* or his way to Fort Dale at,<f was directed by the sentry to Colonel Swift, who was standing before the headquarters with several officers. "A message from Lieutenant Wood wxrd and Professor Arnold," he an­ nounced, approaching the command­ ing officer and handing him the note 'Colonel Swift tore it open and read: "Have located radio aerial in the woods along shore. Please send squad of men with bearer. ARNOLD." "Tou Just left them?" queried the colonel, "Yes, sir," replied the sailor. "We came ashore in his boat. I dont know exactly where they went, but I know the direction, and we can catch up with them easily if we hurry, sir.1 The colonel handed the note quick­ ly to a cavalry officer beside him who read it, saluted at the orders that fol­ lowed, turned and strode off, hastily Stumug tuo paper in his belt, as the sailor went Meanwhile, Del Mar's valet was leaving the bungalow and walking down the road on an errand for his maBter. Up the road he heard the clatter of hoofs. He stepped back off the road and from his covert he could see a squad of cavalry headed by the captain and a sailor canter past The captain turned in the saddle to speak to the sailor, who rode like a horse marine, and as he did so, the turning of his body loosened a paper which he had stuffed quickly into his belt. It fell to the ground. In their hurry the troop, close behind, rode over it But it did not escape the quick oyo of Del Mar's valet They had scarcely disappeared around a bend in the road when he stepped out and pounced on the pa- pear, reading it eagerly. Every line of his face showed fear as he turned and ran back to the bungalow. "See what I found," he cried breath­ lessly bursting In on Del Mar who was seated at his desk, having returned from the harbor. Del Mar read it with a scowl of fury. Then he seized his hat and a short hunter's ax and disappeared through the panel into the subterranean pas­ sage which took him by the shortest cut through the very hill to the shore. # • • • • * * Slowly Arnold and Woodward made their way along the Bhore, carefully searching for the spot where they had seen the house with the aerial. At last they came to a place where they could see the deserted house far up on the side of a ravine above ttie river and a waterfall. They dived into the thick underhrush for cover and went up the hill. Some distance off from the house they parted the bushes and gazed off across an open space at the ram­ shackle building. As they looked they could see a man hurry across from the opposite direction and into the house. "As I live, I think that's Del^-M&r," muttered Arnoldl Woodward nodded, doubtfully, though. In the house Del Mar hurried to a wall where he found and pressed a concealed spring. A small cabinet in the plaster opened and he took out a little telephone which he rang and through which he spoke hastily. "Pull in the wires," he shouted. "We're dis­ covered, I think." Down in the wireless station in the cave the operator at his instrument heard the signal of the telephone and quickly answered it "All right, sir," he returned with a look of great ex­ citement and anxiety. "Cut the wires and I'll pull them in." Putting back the telephone, Del Mar ran to the window and looked out be­ tween the broken slats of the closed blinds. "Confound them I" he mut­ tered angrily. He could see Arnold and Woodward cautiously approaching. A moment later he stepped back and pulled a silk mask over his upper face, leavittjg only his eyes visible. Then he seized his hunter's ax and dashed up the* stairs. Through the scuttle of the roof he came, making his way over to the chimney to which the wireless anten­ nae were fastened. Hastily he cut the wires which ran through the roof from the aerial. As he did so he saw them disappear through the oof. Below, in the cave, down in the ravine back of the falls, the operator was hastily hauling in the wire Del Mar had cut Viciously next, Del Mar fell upon the wooden aerial Itself, chopping it right and left with powerful blows. He broke it off and threw it over the roof. Del Mar made his way back quickly over the roof, back through the scuttle and down the stairs again. Should he go out? He looked out of the win­ dow. Then he went to the door. An instant he paused thinking and listen­ ing, his ax raised, ready for a blow. Arnold and Woodward, by this time, had reached the door, which swung open on its rusty hinges. Woodward was about to go in when he felt a hand on his arm. "Walt," cautioned Arnold. He took off his hat and Jammed it on the end of a stick. Slowly he shoved the door open, then thrust the hat and stick Just a fraction of a foot forward. Del Mar, waiting, alert, saw the door open and a hat. He struck at it hard with the ax and merely the hat and stick fell to the floor. "Now, come on," shouted -Arnold to Woodward. In the other hand Del Mar held a chair. As Woodward dashed in with Arnold beBide him, Del Mar shied the chair at their feet. Woodward fell over it in a heap, and as he did so Arnold fired, but even that was not quick enough. The delay was all that Del Mar had hoped to gain. Without clans are wilder and more savage than others. A good authority says: "The total number of the Bedouin popula­ tion throughout Arabia, including men, women and children, appears not to exceed a million and a half, or about one-flfth of the total population." They are scattered and wandering, but prob­ ably more numerous In northern Afri­ ca than lu Arabia. ̂ f Pitied the Bishop. *;*Liarry« said Mr. Green* i» good-natured Irishman who was a second's hesitation he dived through an open window, Just as Arnold rata forward, avoiding Woodward and the chair. It was spectacular, but it worked. He turned, and with Wood­ ward, who had picked himself up tta spite of his barked shins, they ran back through the door by which they bad entered. Recovering himself Del Mar dashed for the woods Just as Arnold and ^Woodward ran around the side of the 'house, still blazing away after him, as they followed, rapidly gaining. * • • * • • • Elaine changed her clothes quickly. Meanwhile she had ordered horses for both of us, and a groom brought them around from the stables. It took me o°nly a short time to Jump into some dry things and I waited impatiently. She was ready very soon, however, and we mounted and cantered off, again in the direction of the shore where she had seien the remarkable waterfall, of which she had told me. We had not gone far when he heard sounds, as if an army were: bearing down on us. "What's that?" I asked. Elaine turned and looked. It was a squad of cavalry. "Why, it's -Lieutenant Woodward's friend, Captain Price," she exclaimed, waving to the captain at the head of the squad. A moment later Captain Price pulled up and bowed; Quickly we told him of what Elaine had Just discovered. "That's strange," he said. "This man--" Indicating the sailor, "has Just told me that Lieutenant Woodward and Professor Arnold are investigat­ ing a wireless outfit over near thei%. Perhaps there's some connection." "May we Join you?" she asked. "By all means," he returned. "I was about to suggest it myself." We fell In behind with, the rest and were off again. ; 'Under the direction of the sailor we came at last to the ravine where we looked about searchlngly for some trace of Arnold and Woodward. What's that noise?"' exclaimed one of the cavalrymen. We could hear shots, above vs. "They may need ns," cried Blaine, impatiently. It was Impossible to ride np the sheer heights above. "Dismount," ordered Captain Price. His men Jumped down and we fol­ lowed him. Elaine struggled up now, helped by me, now helping ma. Farther down the hill from tho de­ serted house which we could see above us at the top waa an under­ ground passage which had been built to divert part of the water above the falls for power. Through it the water surged and over thiB boiling stream ran a boardwalk, the length of the. tunnel. Into this tunnel we oould see that a masked man had made his way. As he did so, he turned for just a mo­ ment and fired a volley of shots. Elaine screamed. There were Ar­ nold and Woodward, his targets, com­ ing on boldly, as yet unhit. They rushed in after hlms in spite of his running fire, returning his shots and darting toward the tunnel entrance through., which he still blazed back at them. From our end of the ravine, wo could see precisely what was going on. Come--the other end of the tunnel," shouted Price, who had evidently been over the ground and knew it We made our way quickly to it and it seemed as If we had our man trapped, like a rat in a hole. In the tunnel the man was firing back at hlB pursuers as he ran along the boardwalk for our end. He looked up Just in time as he approached us. He dropped down and let himself, without even a splash, into the water. Arnold and Woodward took a step into the darkness, scarcely knowing what to expect, their eyes a bit better accustomed to the dusk. But If they had been there an hour, in all prob­ ability they could not have seen what was at their very feet Del Mar had sunk and was swim­ ming under water in the, swift'black current sweeping under them. Aa they entered, he passed out nerved up to desperation. Down the stream. Just before it took its final plunge to the power wheel, Del Mar managed by a superhuman effort to reach out and graps a wooden support of the flooring again and pull himself out of the stream^ Smiling grimly to himself, he hurried up the bank. "Someone's coming," whispered Price. "Get ready." We leveled our guns. I was about to fire. "Look out! Don't shoot!" warned a voice sharply. It was Elaine. Her keen eyes and quick perception had recognized Arnold, leading Woodward. We lowered our guns. Did you see a man, masked, come out here?" cried Woodward. No--he must have gone your way," we called. "No, he couldn't" Arnold was eagerly questioning the captain as Elaine and I approached. Dropped into the water--risked al­ most certain death," he muttered, half turning and seeing us. I want to congratulate yon on your nerve for going in there," began Elaine, advancing toward the profes­ sor. • Apparently he neither heard nor saw us, for he turned as soon as he had finished with Price and went into the £ase as though he were too busy to pay any attention to anything else. Elaine looked up at me in blank as­ tonishment * What an impolite mata,* «be mur­ mured, gazing at the figure all stoopad over as it disappeared in the darkneat of the tunnel. . (TO BE CONTINUED.) lag on a new building, "didn't yon tell me once that you had a brother who was a bishop?" "Yls, sor," replied Larry. "And yo* are a hod-carries!" said Mr. Greene. "Well, the good tilings of this life are not equally divided, are they, Larry?" "No, sir," rejoined the Irishman, shouldering his hod and starting up the ladder. "Indade they is not, sor. Poor felly! He couldn't do this to save his lolfe, sir!"--Everybody's USED BRAINS TO Wll 'W ;d nOW ATHLSTl ACHISVID TM . IN RACK*. Tod Meredith of University off Pom-? sylvan la Had Carefully Thought £ Ollt Methods That Brought ' Him Victory In Contests. ' '4C i f i There is a belated story of how Ted Meredith of the University of Pennr sylvania defeated Bill 3ingham ot Harvard In the half-mile race in th* intercollegiate championships, which carries with it a lesson valuable to participants in practically all lines ojfv;'- sport, the New York Times remark^;";, Meredith, it will be remembered, wo^ - both the quarter and half-mile racea^. - The quarter was won in his usual* style. Meredith allowed one of hit ^ J" y- competitors to go out and make thOv--" pace, and then came like a streak lift?' \ the last furlong and won about as ho pleased. When it came to the hall Merediths completely reversed the order ofc/ things. lie raced at top speed in tho-' first quarter and had all the rest of -• SS the field on their toes and practically % \ beaten, doing the quarter in :5i. then slowed down and even allowed av * couple of his competitors to pass hiE%_. ' oontont with the fact that Elnghan^ ' whom alone he feared, was plugging^ along in the rear, hopelessly out ofT^*'*; It With him disposed of, Meredith^ * ^ again sped up in the last furlong;;' caught and passed the two who had' v» h e a d e d h i m f o r a s h o r t d i s t a n c e , a n d ^ v won very cleverly without being hausted. Meredith's overwhelming trlumpM^ . was due to the use of brains couple#! > With his powers as a racer. Before th#-. race he had taken the trouble to flndfc 1 out the way In which Bingham, thf^ % ys • H e d i » f " X m M • m Ms si ilia Harvard man, ran his races. oovered it was his habit to take It! easy in the first quarter, running th#? distance in about a minute fiat, andf reserving himself for the final quaivl' ter, which he would do In the neigh^- borhood of fifty seconds. Meredith's^ heartbreaking pace in the first quarw^lf ter completely upset Bingham's plan^',: v for the race, and so bewildered thoivV J fleet Harvard runner that the latte^' had no time to think out and put intd^ -v, ; operation a new plan. Possibly there "is no better example-" 7" of the superiority of brain over brawn- than In the career of George Bothner,* the wrestler. His lack of bulk was* more than compensated for in the abil­ ity to think quickly and almost un­ cannily to anticipate and thwart the particular "hold" his opponent intend­ ed making. John McGraw's success as a base­ ball manager has been entirely due to exceptionally acute brain power. From the beginning of his career on; the diamond he analyzed every playr. made in a game in which he particle pated or witnessed. It was the study,, that developed the baseball strategy), he made his own, and which made him so much of a clairvoyant in' foreseeing the "breaks" of a game for or against his team. If Jim Jeffries had been possessed of enough gray matter he might never have lost the heavyweight champion­ ship to Jack Johnson. But the punch in the eye in the second round, which was the turning point in the contest, angered him. After that it was brute force against brute force. Football is so entirely a matter of .brains that everybody familiar with sports admits that the best elfeven of the physical boxers or wrestlers, for Instance, would have no chance what­ ever against an eleven such as repre­ sents any one of the great universi­ ties on the gridiron each fall. The thinking athlete gets moro sport out of the game he happens to Indulge in, also, than he would if merely an exceptionally good natured athlete or one who is able to absorb the ideas of a trainer and carry them but in purely mechanical fash­ ion. To the young athlete the lesson modern sports teaches ns: Attend as well to the cultivation of the mind as to the training of the body and Its muscles If you would enjoy com­ petitive athletics to the full. The first Is as necessary as the last to be­ come superexcellent at* any sport, to get the greatest enjoyment from sport and to cope with its emergencies. -Wl 0*3 4>:>- -Mr All for Fifteen Shillings. Recently there appeared in a Lon­ don newspaper an advertisement for an experienced insurance clerk, wages 15 shillings a week. The advertiser got a lot of sarcastic letters, like'the following, and he deserved them: "Dear Sir--I would respectfully ap­ ply foT the position you offer. I am an expert in insurance in all Its branches. In addition, I converse flu­ ently In Gum Arabic, Gorgonzola, Zo­ la and Billingsgate. I write shorthand, • ' long hand, left hand and right hand/Vf^a I can supply my own typewriter, if necessary, and I may mention that I typewrite half an hour in ten minutes --the record for Great Britain. I would be willing also to let you have the services, gratis, of my large family* . of boys, and, if agreeable to Tou, my wife would be pleased to clean your office regularly without extra charge. The cost of postage for your answer to this application can be deducted;- from my salary. Please note that lf|i^^# you have a back yard I would bricks in my spare time." C . , Science and Nature. One great feature of the nineteenth^ '; } century, from I860 onwards, was ths^/^ extraordinary progress of science andi^. the interpretation of nature. ' Everywhere it was discovered that by keeping close to the sphere of re­ ality, by seeking to understand nature, we were able to make large progress, not only in knowledge, but also in the practical conveniences and utilities of life. If science won successes in the In­ tellectual sphere, they were rapidly adapted to the uses of mankind, and the conquest over nature meant not only definite mental acquisition but a larger material comfort. Thus the keynote of the time naturalism in thought and utilitarian* Ism Jn jnorftlft JlPd social {{ft. = ;• Plages" <5*0 '4' ";p: ̂ .