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. • <*. '•'WMi S *£f v I"/ V +ZJX&- LONE WOLF us (Copyright, Lou!» Joseph /tY/ti V'TA'- > h •* f.s Continued. CHAPTER •jssm StcH UNKIT PX*AljnMS£jy$i^ •WPSISWWnSWaW* .,,. a .'- «r,» •' ' .> -II-.. V. -ir" aispsp •••,*? *•*. i i '-- - W 'K XXVII! --13-- ? The light, gushing from the opaque l*>d. made the safe door a glare, and was thrown back into her Intent young face. Even so, he would have recog­ nised the sharp silhouette cut by her lithe, sweet body against the glow, the jpolse of ber head, the carriage of her flftoulders, the gracious bosom round- lag her tailored coat. She was all in black, even to her {gloved hands--no trace of white or any •color showing on her person but the [fair curve of her cheek below the mask and the red of her lips. And if |that were not enough, the intelligence (With which she ^attacked the combina­ tion and the confident, businesslike Snrecision that distinguished her every jaction proved her^n apt pupil in that business His thoughts were all weltering in •misery and confusion. He knew what itbiii encounter meant, appreciated that lit explained many things he would .have thought questionable had not the strength of his infatuation forbade him $o consider them at all; but in the pain and anguish of that moment he could -efttertain but one thought, which pos- eessSd him ^altogether--the thought that she must somehow be saved from i-tfee crime she contemplated. But while he delayed, shrinking from the necessity of discovering himself to her, it was made clear that she had keeome sensitive to his presence. He had made no sound since she en­ tered, bad not even stirred; but some- JfcMr site had divined that someone was there. in the meM of the window, 'iwdhing her. In the act of opening the safe-- Wkiag the combination from that sheet of paper on which he had And now, as naturally as though they had been lovers always, Lanyard possessed himself of her hand. "You cared as much as that!" he said. "I love you," she declared tensely-- "I love "you go much I am, ready to sac­ rifice everything for you--life, liberty, honor--" "Hush, dearest, hush!" he begged, half distracted between joy and pain. "I mean it; if honor could hold me back, do you think I would have bro­ ken in here tonight to rob for Ban- non?" "He sent you. eh?" Lanyard com­ mented in a dangerous voice*, "He was too cunning for me. I was afraid to tell you. I meant to tell--to warn you this evening in the cab. And then 'I thought perhaps' if I were cold and distant and let you go on believing me the worst of women--perhaps you would go away, save yourself, forget me." "Sever'" "1 tried to carry out my program of IVing to him. but he wouldn't have it. They forced the truth from me by" threats" "They wouldn't dare--** , *They £areianything, I tell you. But ft wasn't threats of personal injury to me, but to you. if I refused to tell them the truth, the whole truth. They knew enough of what had happened, through their spies, to go on, &nd they tormented and bullied me until I broke down and told them everything. And when they learned you had replaced the Jewels here, Bannon told me 1 must return and bring them to him. He said if I refused he'd have you killed be­ fore morning, f held out until to­ night; then, just as I was going to bed. he received a telephone message, and Bade memoranda of its sequence--he t told me you were driving a taxi and were being followed by Apaches and wouldn't live till daylight if I refused." ten brought me ti> the -e waiting outside in the ifefe', f-"... \ v i v' Mi 1̂ 4 • aaw her pause, freeze to a pose of at tentian. then Mitts Tn ctarp ri irp^^fy At <lt portiere behind which he -coaled. And through an ete «d he watched her kneeling the: WD that she seemed not even "breathe, her gaze fixed and level, wait- ins for some sound, some tremor of the drapery folds to confirm her sus­ picion. When at length she stirred it was to s*tse in one swift, alert movement. Aiid now as she paused with her slight ahoulders squared and her head thrown back defiantly, challengingfly, he knew •he knew he was there. As if without will of his own, but drawn irresistibly by her gaze, be •tepped out from hiding. And since he was no more the Lone Wolf, but now a staple man in agon'y. with no consideratibs^for their situa­ tion, vith no thought for"~tbe~lact that they were both housebreakers and that til© slightest sound might raise a hue and cry upon them, he took a faltering *tep toward her, stopped, flung forth a hand with a gesture of appeal, and ^Jttammered: v»% "Lucy--you--•* .%#«• voice broke. He waited. She didn't answer other than to re- <3pil as though he had offered to strike law, and she commenced to retreat. •Wearing a look of utter grief and .wretchedness, until presently the table •lopped her, and she leaned back Against it, as if glad of the support. ,"Oh!" she cried, trembling--"why-- ?why did you do it?" He might have answered her in Dclnd, but self-justification passed his y#>ower. He couldn't say: "Because to- jnight you made me lose faith in life jltself, and I thought to forget yotr by going to the devil the quickest way I. Ilmew--this way!"--though that was strue. He couldn't say: "Because, a thief from boyhood, habit proved too strong for me, and I couldn't withstand ,4ttnptation!"--for tbat was untrue. :He could only hai^; his head and (Wretchedly confess: "I don't know." i As if he hadn't spoken, as if she hadn't heard, she cried again. "Why-- oh. why--did you dgjt? I was so proud of you, so sure of you--the man who had turned straight because of me! Ijgll compensated. But now!" ;if Her voice broke In a short, dry sob. . J ^"Compensated?" he repeated stupid- I "Yes. compensated." She threw 1»ck her head with a gesture of impa­ tience. "For this--don't you under­ stand?--for this that I'm doing! You don't suppose I've come here of my own accord?--that I went back to Ban- Hon for any reason but to try to save : you from him? I knew something of r ^ his power, and you didn't; I knew, if I went away with you he'd never rest Until he h d you murdered, if he had . to follow you round the world to do it! And i thought if I could mislead him fcjr lies for a little time--long enough to give you "opportunity to leave ,1 France--I thought--perhaps--if I could Overcome my terror of him--I might lie able to communicate with the po- Hoe. denounce him " »iu- She hesitated, breathless and ap- " Apaches?" "Two of them--I presume they're Apaches, at least. Tfie third is Cap­ tain Ekstrom." "Ekstrom!" Lanyard crted in de­ spair. "Is he--" . The dull but heavy slam of the great front doors silenced him. CHAPTER XXIX. A Strange Interview. Releasing the girl instantly, before the eralih had ceased to reverberate within those walls. Lanyard slipped to one side of the doorway, whence he could command the perspective^ of salons together with a partial view of the front doors. He was no more than established there, in the shadow and shelter of the portieres, when light from anAelectro- lier flooded the reception hall. \ l£"**howed him first a single figure, that of & handsome woman well be­ yond middle age, but still well poised and vigorous of mien, a lady of com­ manding presence. She was in full evening dress of such magnificence as to suggest attendance at some func­ tion of state. Even had he not known well the features of Mme. Omber, he would have guessed her to be the mis­ tress of the establishment. Standing beneath the chandelier, she was restoring a •bey to a brocaded handbag. This done, she turned her head and spoke over her shoulder Promptly there came into view a sec­ ond woman of much the same age, but even more strong and able of appear­ ance--a woman in plain, dark gar­ ments, undoubtedly madame's maid. Handing over her handbag, Mme. Omber unlatched the throat of her er­ mine cloak and surrendered it to the servant's hands. Her next words were audible to the eavesdropper, and reassuring in so far as they indicated ignorance of any­ thing amiss: "Thank you, Sidonie. You may go to bed now." "Many thanks, madame. Good­ night, madame." "Good-nighty" The maid moved off toward the main staircase, while the mistress of tho house turned deliberately through the salon toward the library. At this, swinging back to the girl in a stride, and impulsively grasping her wrist to compel attention, Lanyard spoke in a rapid whisper, mouth close beside her cheek. "This way," he said. Imperatively drawing her toward the window by which he had entered. "There's a bal­ cony outside--a short drop to the ground." And unlatching the window, he urged her through it. "Ta to leave by the back gateway--the one I showed you--avoiding Ekstrom " But you are coming! jpfealing. • 5v At her ursi wurus he had drawn elose to her; and all their speech was v«ouched in touted inurmurlngs, barely laore than whisperings. And this was $uite instinctive, for in the passion of Chat meeting both had been carried be- ' yond considerations of prudence, their ' ' ttiost coherent thought being that now, •nee and for all time, all misuuder- •-f .. standing between them must be done K;?"9 ?*• h to protest, Lanyard thrust her forcibly through the windows, closed them* shot the latch and stole like a ghost round tlie farther side of the desk, pausing within a few feet of the screen, and safe. • Tlse-' fOG-tstepp- larjjjsr© 'mySietl ^by^-rug in the drawing room--the woman was walking - slowly, heavily, like one weary and thoughtful. Where the girl had placed it, behind the cinnabar screen, the desk-lamp was still alight, and Lanyard knew that the diffusion of its reflected rays was enough to project his figure In silhou­ ette against the glow distinctjfp>|isible to one on the threshold. Now everything hung upon the tem­ perament of the householder, how she would take that apparition--whether quietly, deceived by Lanyard's mum­ ming Into believing she had only a poor thievish fool to deal with, or with bourgeoise hysteria. In the latter event, Lanyard's hand was ready planted, paim down, on the top of the desk;* should the other at­ tempt to raise an alarm, a single bound would carry the adventurer across it in full flight for the front doors. In the doorway the mistress of the house appeared and halted, quick, glinting eyes shifting from the glow on the floor to •he dark figure of the thief. Then, with a quick gesture, put­ ting forth a hand, she found the chan­ delier switch and aimed on a blaze of light. As this happened Lanyard cowered, lifting an elbow as if to guard his face --as if axpecting to find himself under the muzzle of a revolver. The gesture had the calculated ef­ fect of focusing the attention of the woman directly to him, after one swift glance round had taken in the curtains that were still swaying at the window^ and shown her a room tenanted only by herself and a cringing thief. And immediately it was made manifest that, whether or not deceived, she meant to takg t^e situation quietly, if with a strong hand. Her eyer narrowed and the muscles of her square and almost masculine jaw stood out ominously as she looked the intruder up and djwn in silence. Eventually a flicker of contempt mod­ erated the grlmness of her dark coun­ tenance. She took three steps for­ ward, stopping *® the other side o* the desk, her back to the doorway. Lanyard trembled visibly. "Well!"--the word boomed like the opening gun of an engagement. "Well, my man!"--the shrewd eyes swerved to the closed door of the safe and quickly back--again--"you don't seem t> have accomplished a great deal!'! Lanyard gripped the edge of the aesk, quivering. "For God's sake, iiiadame." he blurt­ ed in a husky, shaken voice, nothing like his own--"don't have me arrest­ ed! Give me a chance! I haven't, taken anything. Don't call the flics!" C He paused, lifting an uncertain hand toward his throat, as if his tongue had gone dry. "Come, come!" the woman answered, with a look almost of pity. "I haven't called anyone--as yet." The fingers of one strong white hand were drumming gently on the top of the desk; then, with a movement so quick and sure that Lanyard himself could hardly have bettered it, they slipped to a handle of a drawer, jerked it open, closed round the butt of a re­ volver and presented it at Lanyard's he&ck Automatically be lifted his hands. "Don't shoot!" he cried. "I'm not armed--" "Is thatjthe truth?" "You've only to search me, ma­ dame!" "Thanks!" Madame's accents now discovered*a trace of somewhat dry humor. "Fll leave that to you. Turn out your pockets on the desk there-- and remember, I'll stand np non­ sense!" The weapon covered Lanyard stead­ ily, leaving him no alternative but to obey. As for that, he was glad of the excuse to listen for any sound to indi­ cate how the girl was faring in her flight. And he made a pretense of trembling fingers to cover the slowness with which ho complied. But he heard nothing. When at length he had visibly turned every pocket inside out, and their con­ tents lay upon the desk, the woman looked them over; incuriously. "Put them back," she said curtly. "'And then fetch that chair over there --the one in the corner. I've a notion I'd like to talk to you. That's the usual thing, isn't it?" . - "How?" Lanyard demanded with a vacantstare. "In all the criminal novell I've ever read, the law-abiding householder al­ ways sits down and has a sociable chat she insisted, j with the housebreaker--before calling in the police. I'm afraid that's part of I hardness of her eyes modified, and that anger which primarily had marked her countenance gone by the tLoe she | chose to pursue her catechism. "What's your name? No--don't an­ swer! I saw your eyes waver, and I'm not interested in a makeshift alias. But it's stock question, you know. Do you care for a cigar?" * She opened a mahogany humidor on the desk and e?traeted a box, "No, thanks.". "Right--'according to Hoyle--ths criminal always refuses to smoke in these scenes But let's forget the book and write our own lines. I'll ask you an original question: Why were you acting just now?" "Acting?" Lanyard repeated, in­ trigued by the acuteness of this mas­ terful woman's mentality. "Precisely--pretending you're an or­ dinary criminal. For a moment I actu­ ally believed you afraid of me. But you're neither that nor a common crook. How do I know? Because you're unarmed; your voice has changed in the last two minutes to that of a cultivated man; you've stopped cringing and" started thinking; and the way you walked across the floor just now and handled that chair showed me how powerfully you're made. If I hadn't found this revolver you could overpower me in an instant--and I'm no weakling, as women go. Then why the acting?" Studying his captor with narrow In­ terest, Lanyard smiled faintly and shrugged, but made no response* He could do no more than this--no more than spar for time. The longer he in­ dulged this woman In her whim for the bizarre, the more assured were Lucy's chances of escape. By this time, he reckoned, she must have found her way through the service gate to the street., But he was on edge with ap- prehfension^f mischance. "Come, come!" Mme. Omber insist­ ed. "You're hardly civil, my good man. Answer my question." 'You don't expect me to--do you?" A glint of anger shone In the wom­ an's eyes. "You're right," she said shortly; "I dare say Sidonie isn't asleep yet. I'll get her to telephone while I stand guard over you." Bending over the desk, without re­ moving her gaze from the adventurer, his captor groped for, found and pressed a call-button. From some remote quarter of the house sounded the grumble of an elec­ tric bell. "Pity you're so brazen," she com­ mented. "Just a little less side, and you'd be a rather engaging person!" Lanyard made no reply. In fact, he wasn't attending. In this suspense the iron control which had always heretofore been his was breaking down--sin6e now it was for another that he was concerned. And he wasted no Strength trying to eaforce it. The stress of his anxiety was both undisguised and indisguis- able. Nor did Mme Omber overlook 'it. "What's the trouble, eh? Is it that already the cell door clangs loudly in your ears?" As the woman spoke Lanyard left his chair with a spring ais lithe and sure and swift as an animal's, that car­ ried him like a shot across the two yards or so that separated them A hair's breath of error in his reck­ oning would have finished him, for the other had been alert for just such a move, and the revolver was nearly level with Lanyard's l^ead when he seized it by the barrel, imprisoned the woman's wrist with his other hand, and in two movements had possessed himself of the pistol without hurting its owner. "Don't be alarmed," he said quietly "I'm not going to do anything more violent than to put this out of com­ mission." Breaking It smartly, he shot a shower of cartridges to the fioOr. The The voice of the maid replied: "Yes, madams--coming!" i " "Well--don't, just yet. Wait there till I call yon." Wery good, madame." ^ The woman returned complete at* tfentlon to Lanyard. "Now, monsieur of two minds, what is it you wish?" "Why did you do that?" the adven­ turer askeu. noaamg toward the recep­ tion hall. "Tell Sidonie to wait instead ot call­ ing for help? Because--well, because you interest me strangely. I've a curi­ ous notion you're to degperate quan­ dary and about to throw yourself on my mercy." . "I am," Lanyard admitted tersely. "Ah! Now this does begin to grow Interesting! Would you mind telling me why?" "Because, madame, I have done yon a great service, and feel I can count upon your gratitude." The Frenchwoman's eyebrows lifted at this. "Doubtless monsieur knows what he's talking about--*' "Listen, madame. I am in love with a young woman, an American, ya stranger, and friendless in Parts^y If anything happens to me tonight, if I am arrested or assassinated--" : "Is that likely?" "Quite likely, madame. I have ene­ mies among the Apaches and in my <#wn profession as well. I have reason to suspect that some of these are in this neighborhood tonight I may pos sibly not escape them. In that event, this young lady of whom I speak will need a protector." "And why must I interest myself In her fate, pray?" "Because, madame, of this service 1 have done you. Recer£Iy, in London, you were robbed--" - The woman started and colored with excitement. "You know something of my stolen jewels?" "Everything, madame; it was 1 who stole them." "You? You are, then, that Lone /Wolf?" "I was, madame." ' "Why the past tense?" the woman demanded, eying him with a gathering frown. "Becat$& I am done with thieving." She threw back her. head and laughed, but without mirth. "A likely story, monsieur! Have you reformed since I caught you here--" "DoeB It matter when? I take It that proof, visible, tangible proof of my sin­ cerity, more than a meaningless date, would be needed to convince you." "No doubt about that monsieur--the Lone Wolf!" "Could you wish better proof than that of restoration of your stolen prop­ erty?" "Are you trying to bribe me to let you oft with an offer to return my jewels?' "I'm afraid emergency reformation wouldn't persuade you--" "You do well to be so a£$id." "But if I can prove I'v^| already re­ stored your Jewels-- "But you cannot." "If madame will, do me the /favor to open her safe she will find thj&m there .:--conspicuously placed, "What nonsense--" "Am I in error in assuming that madame didn't return from. England until quite recently?" "But today, in fact--" "And you haven't troubled to Inves­ tigate your safe since returning?" "It had not occurred to me--" "Then why not test my assertion be­ fore denying it?" ^ \ -- With an incredulous shrug Mme. Omber terminated a puzzled scrutihy of Lanyard's countenance and turned to the safe. "But to have done what you declare you have," she argued, "you must have known the combination--since it ap­ pears you haven't done any breaking ppen." The sequence of the combination ran glibly off Lanyard's tongue. And at this, with every evidence of excite­ ment, at length beginning to hope-- more than to believe--the woman set herself to open the strongbox. Within a minute she had succeeded, and the morocco-bound jewel box was in her hand. /^7t*h^sty examination assured her its treasure was intact. "But why--" she stammered, pale with emotion--"why, monsieur, why?" ^"Because I had decided to leave off stealing fbr a livelihood." "Whe^ did you bring these Jewels here?" _ "Four or five nights since/* ELEPHANT GIVES FIRE ALARM •^And the^«t^ *mi:W$ • "town If ,, ' -r- • "Bat came here again tonlght ts steal a second time what yon had stolen once?" "That's true, too." 7 ' "But I Interrupted yon--* * "Pardon, madame--oxot yon. btrt my betteiS self. I came to steal--I could not." "Monsieur--you do not 'conceive. I fall to fathom your motives, but--" A sudden shock of heavy feet tram­ pling the parquetry of the reception hall, accompanied by a clash of vio­ lently excited voices, silenced her and brought Lanyjard instantly to the face-l about.. Above that loud wrangle--of which neither had received the least warn­ ing, so completely had their tegument 9 AUSTRIAN® EVACUATE CZERNO- WIT2--TOWN OF DEMIDOV- 1*; HI 8LAV8' HANDS. TAKE 7,000 MORE PRISONERS N "Don't Shoot!" He Cried. Armed--n 'I'm Not absorbed them--Sidonie's accents were audible, clear against the grumble of two voices of heavier timbre-- "Madame--madame!"--a cry of pro­ test. "What is it?" Mme. demand­ ed of Lanyard. He uttered the word, "Police!" as he turned and threw himself into the re­ cess of the window. But on wrenching it bpen the voice of an invisible picket, posted on the lawn, saluted him with a harsh warn- ingY and when, involuntarily, he stepped out upon the balcony, a flash of flame Bplit the gloom below, a reJ port rang loud in the quiet of the park, and a bullet slapped viciously the stone facing at one side of the win­ dow. 'Lucy--You--" hanging back. "Impossible. There iBn't time for us ! the price you've to pay for my hospital- liitiMi H I M i ohoi i oott etjeaye uuuelucied. i snail keep heir interested only long enough to give you plenty of time to get away. But take this"--and he pressed his auto­ matic into her band. "No--take it I've another," he lied, "and you may need it. Don't fear for me, but go-- oh, my heart--go!" TLe footfalls of Mme. Omber were sounding ominously near by tbto time; uy. She paused, eyeing Lanyard Inquis­ itively while he replaced his belong ings in his^ pockets. "Now get that chair," she ordered, and waited, stand­ ing until she had been obeyed. "That's it--there! Sit down." Resting herself against the side of the desk, the revolver held negligently, the bpt-aker favored Lanyard with. * , I without fivuig the girl more time | second inspection, at her leisur% tlM, called. empty weapon itself he tossed into a wastebasket beneath the desk. "Hope I didn't hurt you," he added abstractedly--"but your pistol was in my way!" He took a Btride toward the door, then hung there in hesitation, frown­ ing absently at the woman, who, with­ out moving, laughed quietly and eyed Lanyard with a twinkle of malicious diversion. ^ The adventurer returned ber stare with one bt thoughtful appraisal; from the first he had recognized In her a character of uncommon tolerance and amiability. • "Pardon, madamte. but--" he began Kuiupily; thou chcckcd himself is con­ strained appreciation of his imoudence. "If that's permission to Interrupt your reverie," Mme. Omber remarked, "I don't mind telling you you're the strangest burglar I ever heard of!" Footfalls became audible on the stairway-J-the hasty, scuffling sounds of slippered feet. "Is that you, Sidonie?" madame Baby Pachyderm's Grunts 8ave Large Menagerie From Flames Only Just in Time. Credit should be forthcoming to Little Nemo. She, "the world's small est elephant," at last has gained a legitimate story. v The J. H. Eschman World United Shows winters in a couple of vacant lots at Guinotte avenue and Salisbury street, Kansas City1; In the East bot­ toms. There are ten cars. A spread­ ing barn protects the animals. The barnkeeper and assistants were playing rhum in the private car of Mr. Eschman. They heard big grUnts from Little Nemo. They rushed out. The interior of the barn was blazing. The elephant had kicked over a gasoline stove in the straw. "Cap" ^Vatkins rushed in. Little Nemo was fast los­ ing her senses in the Bmoke. It was dark and the "Cap" groped about un­ tied Nemo's halter and shouted, '."Come, Nemo!" Nemo came. In the meantime someone had called the flre department. Before It arrived other assistants had removed the South American llama and the wagon of screaming monkeys from the barn. i Those Dear Girls. Almee--Young DeSwift _ paid -yon such a lovely compliment last night Hazel--Indeed! What did he say? Almee--He said you looked enough like me to be my sister. Bare Faced. Francis--And why do yon prefer yachting to motoring?, Frances--A girl doesn't have we«r goggles when yachtla* to CHAPTER XXX. Many Tilings Happen Incontinently--with as little' cere> mony as though the bullet had lodged In himself--Lanyard tumbled back­ ward into the room, while to a tune of heavy boots clattering through the salons, two sergents de ville lumbered valiantly into the library and pulled up at sight of Mme. Omber, erect and composed beside her safe, and of Lan­ yard picking himself up from the flooi by the open window. Behind them Sidonie trotted, wring­ ing her hands. "Madame!" she bleated -- "they wouldn't listen to me, madame?--I couldn't stop tliem!" "Ail right, Sidonie. Go back to the hall. I'll call you when I need yeu. Good morning, messieurs!" One sergent advanced with a halt­ ing salute and a superfluous question: "Mme. Omber--" But the other waited on the threshold, barring the way. Lanyard measured the two specula­ tively--the spokesman was old and fat, ripe for pensioning, little apt to prove seriously effective In a rough- and-tumble, but the second was young, sturdy, and broad-chested, with tho poise of an athlete. Furthermore, he carried, in addition to his sword, a pistol naked in his hanck#- And hia clear blue eyes, meeting the adven­ turer's, lit up with a glimmer of invi­ tation. ' (TO,BE CONTINUED.) ALL BIRDS FLEE "FORES! Argonne, Where French and Germans Are In-Conflict, Deserted by Their Natural Inhabitants. When the history of the present Eu­ ropean war is written, the forest of Argonne will be recorded as the place where more blood was shed than In any other spot on the wide fields of conflict. The French made a stand there on the first German drive to­ wards Paris, and, later, when the Germans were forced back, it was the scene of weeks and months of desper­ ate struggle. • Not a bird ts left In the forest and practically every tree, which remains standing, bears th? mark of battle. It was swept by artillery fire time after time, and was the scene of desperate hand-to-hand lighting. But It was not the first time, for in the campaign preceding the battle of Sedan, In the Franco-German war of 1870, it "was the scene of many san­ guinary struggles. The forest covers a number, of wooded heights. 800 or 900 feet high, in the northeastern part of France in French Lorraine and Champagne. It is about thirty miles long, and from one to eight miles wide. It Is bounded by the sources of the Aisne, runs along that river to the Meuse and northward tc Chene separating a stretch of fertile plains from the bar* ren steppes between Vitry and A* zanne. What Ha 6ald. "What did the furniture dealer when you told him the mirror he i VP was cracked?" •Said he'd looa Us»** Petrograd Announces That Total of ,f J,13?K)0 Men and 1,700. Office**- ' Have Been Taken in the Two / 'Weeks' Drive. ' vrtl London, June 14.--The great Rn»- v slan offensive, probably the most spec­ tacular driVe of the war Bince the Ger­ man advance through Belgium, added nearly 7,000 more captives on Monday to the 108,000 already taken, and " swept down upon Czernowitz, capital I of Bukowina, which has been evacu- ated by its civil and military author!- ^11 ties for the eighth time in the course of * ' *" the war. The Russians are reported to have entered the city. 1 Petrograd officially announces a to­ tal of 113,000 men and 1,700 officers captured in the two weeks'drive. The cossacks are pursuing Ike fleeing An*- trians at many points. The capture of Demidovka, 15 miles west of Dubois, reveals an advance at the rate of at least eight miles a day by the Russians in the Volhynia re­ gion. The Russians continue to advance along the 250-mile line between the Pripet marshes and the Bessarabian frontier. At only one point on th'e Styr, east of Rolki, have the Austro- Hungarians been able to check tho Russian drive. At some $oints the Russians have advanced 60 miles within the last week. ' General Brusiloff's army has cap­ tured an enormous amount of booty. This includes 125 guns. Two divisions of Austro-Ifungarlan troops were captured northeast of Czernowitz with all their generals General Techitsky is in command of the "Russian army in Bukowina. . Heavy fighting is in progress iQ northeastern Bukowna, along the Pruth river. Berfin, June 14.--Russian troops at­ tempted to advance northeast of Buezacz, Galicia, and were repulsed, the war office announced on Monday. More than 1,300 Russians were cap­ tured. The statement follows: East­ ern front--German and Austro-Hun- garian troops belonging to -the army of General von Bothme? repulsed Rus­ sian detachments which were ad­ vancing northeast of Buczacz, on the Strype. More than 1,300 Russians re­ mained in our hands. Otherwise the situation of the German troops is un­ changed." THREE RAIDERS ARE KILLED One of the Mexicans Who Attacked Ranch in Texas Wore a Car- ranza Uniform. Laredo, Tex., June 14.--One of the three Mexican bandits killed in the chase oi outlaws who made a raid on the T. A. Coleman ranch near Laredo, wore a Carranza uniform bearing the insignia of a Carranza lieutenant colo­ nel. according to a message received here. yj>ne of the bandits taken pris­ oner iutrtmfied the body at Webb, Tex., as Lieutenant Colonel Villareal of the Carranza army. Washington, June 14.--With 1,500 additional regular troops ordered to the Mexican border and reports of the rapid spread of anti-American feeling continuing to pour in from consuls all over northern Mexico, ad­ ministration officials made fto attempt to disguise their uneasiness. It was officially admitted' theie is growing alarm over what the agita­ tion may produce and the possibility of an attack on General Pershing's expedition. GIRL AIDS 0RPET DEFENSE Josephine Davis, Friend of Marion Lambert, Declares "Spite" Led l^er to Say Untruths. Waukegan, 111., June 14.--Josephine Davis, nineteen years old, the closest chum Marlon Lambert had, went on the stand on Monday as a witness for the state and stepped down a witnesjB for the defense. Here is what Josephine Davis s^Td: That Marion Lambert was not al­ ways happy; that she nursed a "secret, sorrow; that the night before the tragedy, when Josephine spent the night at he* ̂ house, Marion appeared confused and not carefree and happy when she finished talking witji Will Orpet over the telephone. That she doesn't know who sent Marion the capsules she had in Jan ary; that she testified before the grand jury that Will Orpet sent them because she then felt spiteful toward him because of the death of her high- school chum* ... ~~ New Warship in Service. Norfolk, Va., June 14.--The new superdreadna ught Pennsylvania came to Norfolk navy yafd from her build­ ers at Newport News and was commis­ sioned in the United States navy, with Capt H. B. Wilson commanding. Ford Refuses to Help Third Party. Detroit, Mich., June 14.--Henry Ford announced here on Monday that should there be a third party in the field, he would have absolutely noth­ ing to do with it, nor would he endeav­ or to form a third party. J. R. McLean Estate to Son. Washington, June 14.--John R. Mc­ Lean's will, filed in court here on Mon­ day, provides that all personal prop­ erty and the income of the late pub­ lisher's vast estate shall go to nis sor« , Edward B. McLean. • --; • • One Killed; Two Injursd. Marshalltown, la., June 14.--Earl Satterfield was killed and his three companions, a man and two wometa, were seriously injured when the au­ tomobile in which they were crashed into a train. mm W-. >!a. MS*: