OR, A SERVICE TO THE STATE oy Nw - of his carriage seeme CHAPTER Y.--ilont'd) Actuated by a feeling of curiosity, he sat down again and spread the three cablegrams out upon his writing-table. The first two, as I have said, required no cons'dern- tion, they spoke for themselves, but the third baffled him complete- ly. Who was this Septimus O'- Grady who lived in Chicago, and whose associates spent their time discussing the wrongs of Ireland? How was it that, being a maa in- nocent sf private = he en- gaged in no busin Then another usatiod called for consideration. If he had no busi- ness, what brought him to London and took him so repeatedly into the Midlands?) These riddles he set ey for the present, and began to pick the last cablegram to pieces. That its author was not casy in his coca when he wrote it was quite "other who and what were the Al- _ pha and Omega mentioned? What connection had they with Nero; al- so what did nineteen and twelve mean when coupled with To-day? Further, why should five lacs ar- range seventy-eight Brazils?) And what possible sense could be made out of the numbers one--twenty-- and nine? He read the message from beginning to end again, after that from the end to the beginning, and, like a good many other men in a similar position, because he could not understand it, found him- self taking a greater interest in it. This feeling had not left him when he had put off disguise as Klimo and was Simon Carne once more. While he was cating his lunch the thought of the lonely Irishman lying ill in a house, where he was without doubt an unwelcome guest, fascinated him strangely, and when he rose from the table he found he was not able to shake off the im- pression it had given him. That the irl had some notion of her father's business he felt as certain as of his own name, even though she had so strenuously denied the fact. Other- wise why should she have been so frightencd by what might have been simply innocent business mes- sages in cypher? That she was frightened was as plain as the sun then shining into his room. De- epite the fact that he had resolved not to _take up the case, he went assay ate wu, al luv Lue caole- grams fr om the dese in which he had placed them. Then drawing a sheet of paper towards him, he set to work upon the puzzle. "The first word requires no ex- planation," he said as he wrote it dewn. "For the two next, Alpha and Omega, we will, for the sake of The End, and as that tells us no- thing we will substitute for them The First and The Last. Now, who er what' are The First and The Last! Are they the first and last words of a code, or of a word, or du they refer to two individua!s who are the principal folk in some com- pany or conspiracy? If the latter, it -- just possible they are the people who are so despet rately un- easy. The next two words, how- ever, are too much for me alto- gether."' Uninteresting as the case had ap- peared at first sight, he soon dis- covered that he could think of no- thing else. He found himself puz- ziing over it during an afternoon concert at the Queen's Hall, and he even thought of it while calling upon the wife of the Prime Min- ister afterwards. As he drove in the Park before dinner, the wheels to be saying, "Alpha and Omega, nineteen, twelve'? over and over again with pitiless 'reiteration, and by the reached home once more he would gladly have paid: a ten- pound note for a feasible solution of the enigma, if only to get its weight off his mind. While waiting. for dinner he took pen and paper and wrote the mes- sage out again, this time in half-a- dozen different ways. But the ef- fect was the same, none of them af- forded him any clue. He then took the second letter of each word, af- ter that the third, then the fourth, and so on until he had exhausted them. The result in each case was absolute gibberish, and he felt that e was no nearer understanding jt than when Mrs. Jeffreys had hand- ed it to him nearly eight hours be- e.. . During the night he dreamt about it, and when he woke in the morn- ing its weight was still upen his "Nineteen--twelve," is true, "had left him, but he was 'no bettersoff fur the reason that "Sev- enty--cight Brazils" had taken its place. Whey he gut out of bed he tried 'it 'agnain.. But at the end of half-an-hour his patience was ecx- a fn bufloukd the thing," he said, 2r nga write The Beginning and | om seated himself in a chair be- ore his Jooking-glass in order that a confidential valet, Belton, might shave.him. "I'll think no more of it. Mrs. Jeffreys must solve the mystery for herself. It has wor- ried me too much already." He laid his head back upon the rest and allowed his valet to run the soap brush over his chin. But, ' however much he might desire it, his Old Man of the Sea was not to be discarded so easily; the word '"'Brazils" seemed to be printed in letters of fire upon the ceiling. So the razor glided over his cheek he thought of the various construc- ions to be placed upon the word-- the Country--Stocks--and even nuts--Brazil nuts, Spanish nuts, ct. mare more thing than Nuttall's Dichonaty. The smile the last suggestion cause him came within an ace of leaving its mark upon his cheek.. He signed to the man to stay i hand. "Egad!'? he cried, "who knows but this may be the solution of the mystery? Go down to the study, Belton, and bring me Nuttall's Dic- tionary.' He waited with one side of his face still soaped until his valet re- turned, bringing with him the de- sired volume. Having received it he placed it upon the table and took up the telegram. "Seventy--eight said, "one--twenty--nine Accordingly he chose the seven- tieth page, and ran his. fingers down the first column. The letter was B, but the eighth word proved useless. He thereupon turned to seventy-eight page, and in the first column discovered the word Bomb. In a second the whole aspect of the case changed, and he became all eagerness and excitement. The last words on the telegram were "one- twenty-nine," yet it was plain that there were barely a hundred upon Brazils,' 2 ab the page. The 'only explanativn, therefore, was that the wor "One" distinguished the column, and the "twenty-nine'"' referred to the number of the word in it. Almost trembling with eagerness he began to count. Surely enough the twenty-ninth word was Bomb. The sinenents was, to say the le ast o t. evtr pnovdinary. Bu presuming that it was correct, the rest of the message was simplicity itself. He turned the telegram over, and upen the back transerib- ed the communication as he agined it should be read. W nelle a had finished, it ran as follows: Owing to O'Grady's silence, the Society in Chicago is growing un- asy. Two men, who are the first and last, or, in other words, the principal members, are going to do acthing (Ninetcen-twelve) to- day with fifty thousand somethings, sO nae ge about the bombs. Having got co far, all that re- gained to be done was to find out to what "nineteen-twelve" refer- red. He turned to the dictionary again, and looked for the twelfth word upon the nineteenth page. This proved to be "Alkahest,' which told him nothing. So he re- versed the proceedings and looked for the nineteenth word upon the twelfth page; but this proved even less satisfactory than before. How- ever much the dictionary might have helped him hitherto, it was plainly useless now. He thought and thought, but without success. He turned up the almanac, but the dates did not fit in. He then wrote the letters of the alphabet upon a sheet of paper, and against each placed its equivalent number. The*nineteenth letter was S, the twelfth L. Did they repre- sent two words, or were they the first and the last letters of a word? In that case, what could it be. The 2 Cured by Cuscora Sip and Ointment Miss Mary A. Bentley, 93 University St Montreal, writes, in a recent eee fend nine years ago I ecg gas P mp afc' on eS ~, an LAY race xen 03 that 1 worse, 69 1 I mas ae ice jeep at ey time, but tts got "Well, Ijust kept on using everything th: pend for ay. getty ent a advi en 80, and I ae er phe a Pe applicatio: burning sensations were disippearing, Te coul 8 cue Olntment end Soa: ptt at sie ay wis hth t you blish t | letter Gok a pe wal world, and if sya pubic Cuticura Soap and Oint dineeiix 4 and ap. and Ointment are "Por 4 beral sa or of cach, with 32-p. book, sen a bee brug: re Chem. Corp., Dept. aE To communicate with the police and thus allow himself to be drawn into the affair, would be an act of the maddest folly; should he there- fore drop the whole thing, as he had at first proposed, or should he take the matter into his own hands, help Mrs. Jeffreys in her trouble by shipping her father out of harm's way, outwit the Fenians, and ap- propriate the fifty thousand pounds mentioned in the cablegran him- elf? The last idea was distinctly a a one. But, before it cculd be one, he felt he must be ¢ertain ot his facts. Was the fifty thousand referred to money or was it some- thing else? If the former, was it pounds or was it dollars? There was a vast difference, but in zither case, if only he could hit on a safe scheme, he would be well repaid for whatever risk he might run. He decided to see Mrs. Jeffreys without loss of time. Accordirgly, after breakfast, he sent her a rote asking her to call upon him, wth- out fail, at. twelve o'clock. Punctuality is rot generally con- sidered a virtue possessed by the sex of which Mrs. Jeffreys was so unfortunate. a member, but the clock upon Klimo's mantlepiece had scarcely struck the hour before she put in an appearance. He im- mediately bade her be seated. "Mrs. Jeffreys,' he began wita a severely judicial air, "it is wi much regret I find that while seek- my adyice yesterday you wére i the time deceiving me. Hor was it that you failed to tell me that your father was connected with a Fenian Society whose one aim and object is to destroy law and order in this country.' The question evidently took the girl by surprise. She became death- ly pale, and for a moment Klimo thought she was going to faint. With a marvelous exhibition of will, however,*she pulled herself together and faced Ler accuser. "You have no right to say such a thing," she began. "My father ot 'Pardon me,"' he answered qui- etly, "but I am in the possession of information which enables me to understand exactly what he is. If you answer me correctly it is probable that after all I will take your case up, and will help you to save your father's life, but 'if you decline to do so, ill as he is, he wilt be arrested within twenty-four hours, and then nething on earth can save him from condign punish- ment. Which do you prefer?" "T will tell you 'everything,' she said quickly. "T ought to have only three he could think of were soil, sell and sail. The two first! were hopeless, but the last seemed! better. But how would that fit in? He took up his pen and-tried it Owing to O'Grady's silence, the | Society in Chicago is growing un- easy. Two men, who are the first, and last, or, in other words, the | principal members, sail to-day with. fifty thousand somethings, probably | pounds er dollars, so prepare bombs. oO. He felt convinced that ic had hit it at last. Erther it was a very ex- traordinary coincidence, or he had discovered the answer to the rid- 'dle. If this selution were correct, one thing was certain. he' had got' in his -hands, quite by chance, a! clue to one, ei the biggest Fenian conspiracies ever yet brought to light. Ke remembered that at that moment London contained half the crowned heads, or their represen- tatives, of Europe. What better 'vecasion could the enemies of law and order desire for striking a blow at the Government and society in ag he threw the paper from him, general? What was he to do} A done so at first, but you can under- stand why I shrank from it. My father has fur a long time past ned ashamed of the part he has been playing, but he could not help him- self. They drove him on and on, and it was his remorse and anxi- ety that broke him down at last."' "1 think you have chosen the | better course in telling me this. I i will ask my questions, and you can answer them. To begin w ith, where are the headcuarters of the Soei- ety 1" "In Chicago. "T thought as --y And is 3t possible for you to tell me the names of the two principal mem.- bers ?"" "There are many members, and I don't know that one is greater than anether." "But there must be some who are more important than others. For instance, the pair referred to in ae telegram as Ally ad Ome- at tan only eae answer- ed, after a thought, 'that mult ba the two. men 6 and Rooney. i _ | "Can you describe them, or, bet | ter still, have you their photo- graphs?' "T have a photograph of Mr. Rooney. It was taken last year." "You must send it to fo me > as bey or by mail from' mmcanest, nastiest, most persistent headaches in half an hour or less. We guarantee that they contain no opium, --- morphine or other co ters ore Netiesal Dreg and Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited, - + + - . a box at your druggists', Mantooal._ as you get home,"- he . now give me ag close a daacrelne as possible of 'the other person to) whom you refer, Mr. Maguire." rs. Jeffreys considered for a few moments before she aniwered "He is tall, standing fully six feet, I should think," she said ' last, 'with red hair and watery is a slight cast. He is broad-shoul- dered and, in spite of his long re- 'sidence in America, speaks with a decided brogue. I know them for desperate men, and if they come over to England may God help ua all. Mr. Klimo, you don't thin} the police will take my father ?" "Not if you implicitly obey uy instructions,"? he answered. (To be continued.) wh. A HIT. What She Gained by Trying Agai). A failure at first makes us estean final success. A family in Minnesota that mw enjoys Postum would never hive known how good it is if the mober had been discouraged by the hil- ure of her first attempt to prejare it. os son tells the story: e had never used Postur fill tisk hie at when father broight home a package one evening just to try it. We had heard fromour neighbors, and in fact every one who used it, how well they Jikec it. 'Well, the next morning Mother brewed it about five minutes, jast as she had been in the habit of lo- coffee without payng ising color, but nevertheless father raised his cup with an air of ex- It certainly did givo surprise, but I'm very pleasant one, for he put down his cup wit a look of disgust. 'Mother wasn't discouraged though, and next morning gave it another trial, letting it stand on the stove till boiling began and then letting it boil for fifteen or twenty minutes, and this time we were all so pleased with it that we have used it ever since. '"'Father was a confirmed dyspep- tic and a cup of coffee was to him like poison. So he never drinks it any more, but drinks Postum re- gularly. He isn't troubled with dyspepsia now and is actually rowing fat, and I'm sure Postum 1s the cause of it. All the children are allowed to drink it and they are perfect pictures of health." Name i by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Read the "ttle book, "The Road be Doky tated in pkgs. "There's a sever read the above tater? A_new one ears from time to tim They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. he. CARE OF CHICKENS, All the old birds, and young, too, should be exa frequently during the hot month3, because ii it~is that. the lice and mites rive, mit cut bone or chopped meat is fed during the summer, extra pre- cautions must be taken to have it perfectly fresh. Many birds die from eating bone and meat scraps which have been allowed to lie around exposed to the heat and the flies. In feeding chickens always re- member that they are provided for to produce fresh eggs for human food and, therefore, their own food should be just as pure as that we eat ourselves. The hot sun will cause young gos- lings and ducklings as well to top- ple over and die. Provide shade for them until they are strong on their pegs. ONE PIE FOR 70 GUESTS. Seventy guests banqueted on a single pie at Gorleston, and there was plenty to spare when they had finished, says London Sketch. The pur 4ysnsd your ary, pay aid weighed a hundredweight and a half, 1t was made in three sections or water tight compartments and each hold had a substantial bulk- head of crust. Its interior was packed with six rabbits, six kidneys, twenty-eight pounds of beefsteak and potatoes, turnips, carrots and ages The sea pie, as it is call- ed, is boiled, not baked, and its builder, Skipper Harman, made the cooking process an eigh; hours watch. This three decker provided savory meal which more than sat- isfied the guests, and its wrecked and dismantled hull provided, ten gallons of excellent soup that was glodly welcomed by the poor of Gor- Salon' s Fly Pads, the best of all fly killers, kill both the flies and the disease e gornis. Free speech has 4 enabled many 4 man to give himself a away. Our idéa of a modest man is' one who keeps his opinions of himself under cover. é : blue eyes, in the left of which there LETTERS OF A SON IN THE MAKING TO HIS DAD. --By REX McEVOY [Mr. McEvoy will write for this paper a s2ries of letters from the west. They wil] appear from time to time un- de: the above heading, and will give a picture of the great Canadian west from the standpoint of a young Ontario man, going out there to make hisway. These let- ters should be full of inte.est for every Ontario father. ] No. 5. Kamloops, Sept. 14th, 1911. My Dear Dad,-- Although this letter is dated Kamloops we have just left that place and am get- ting further from it every minute. I am writing this in a corner of the ob- servation 'car on the Imperial Limited, he namo the C. P. R. gives the train that runs through from Montreal to Van- couver. The observation car has a deep platform behind where you can sit out mn camp stools and watch the scenery without and glass or window framer to interfere with the view. You get the real mountain air, too, as the train slides past the silent peaks, and while going through one of the mile-long tumnels teo- stream, and felt the drip of the water. Just where I am sitting there is a writ- ing desk, and close beside it is a book case with a couple of hundred books to choose from if you want to read. I notice that they are not used much, I didn't see anyone reading thom, the scenery is too attractive for that. Whe magazines, however, which belong to the library, were much in demand. Well, it has been a wonderful day for me. I was up early, for the train leaves Calgary at 315 a.m. right on the dot. That's one thing that has surprised me on this trip. While a local train in On- tario may be anywhere from half an hour to an hour late, these trains which make a run for nearly three thousand miles pull out of the station right on time. Of course, they must lose in win- ter when the snow drifts. Then a train may be excused for being a day behind time. We ran out of Calgary in the dark, but it was daylight by the time we reach- ed Kxshaw, whea you are right close up to the mountains. Here I noticed a pum- ber of long, dusty-looking buildings. They are part of one of the largest cement works in Canada. Then we went through what is called "The Gap," right into the heart of the mountains. It was at Canmore that I first realized what mountains were. I simply cannot describe the feeling of awe that is ex- perienced in looking on them for the first time. The other side of a level valley, perhaps some five miles away, they rose up, up, up, grey, silent, majestic in the grey light of early morning, with the mists still clinging about them. They seemed to lift themselves above and out 'of the world, and to be altogether apart from man and the little things that busy him. They were solitary, remote, and there was no sign of living thing near them. And in between the solemn, grey peaks, miles beyond, a glimpse might be caught of another, higher peak, snow-covered, gilded with the bright, fresh sunlight of early morning. They were grand. I just hung on to the rail- ing at the back of the observation car aud gazed, and gazed, and gazed. All the time I was drinking in the wonder of the mountains I was think- ing that I had never before realized what a mountain was. Pictures give you no idea at all any more than a portrait of a person can speak to you. Aud I was thinking, too, what a pity it was that all my folks could not be with me to eee and appreciate this wonderful bit of our Canada. Perhaps one of the things that makes the mountains impressive is that they help you to understand the vast day I heard the splash of an underground b scale of creation. These ten ned monuments of rock have about at some time as the cn owed some tremendous power... Their very and weight compels thought of the in prehensible violence which has of old them from their place and reared oun' up on end, At.one place where we along to-day, right at the foot of M Macdonald, the rock rises sheer up the track a mile in the air--as far from our place to the school-house up on end. I was.out on the back of the train we got to Field, when I went in to dining car for dinner. The mountains the way were unutterably grand. places they were a scries of peaks, wi snow gleaming like crowns or neck! about them, in other places they were I broken piles. In one place, for instan there is what looks just like a castle cu! out of the rock, with doorways, turretay and all. It is on a tremendous scale/ rome eight miles long. Aftcr passing that you run out along the side of the mountain with a valley below you and a river running through it. You seé bridges and tracks some distance below the track your train is on, and running parallel. Then brs run slap bang into a tunnel and run/along for a mile in the dark, When you come out you find that you have si right round with the track you weré on before above you. Then into another tunnel, and you find~that you have turned again, the track looping round in the solid rock. This whole giant "S,"" some seven miles long, cost $1,500,000 Seventy-five car loads of dynamite costing $250,000 were used in blasting the tun- nels. The wonders that the engineers have accomplished in putting the rail road through is next to the wonder of the mountains themselves. After you have been running in the maze of hills for a whole day, you wonder thet any- ody ever found their way through, let alone build a railroad. A When the tunnels are left behind, you come out along the Kicking Horse River. The track runs along a narrow ledge cut in the side of the mountain with the river far below, hundreds of fect. Gra- dually the track gets lower and lower, till it fis running close beside the leaping, dashing. greeny-white water of the river. At Glacier I got my first fine view of one of the glaciers that feed these moun- tain rivers. It was sweltering hot where we were at the station, but up on the side of the mountain lay a great expanes of snow that glistened in the sun, You and mother should come through here and see this. country, but if you do, be sure you bring a dictionary with you, or you will run out of adjectives before you have been in the mountains very- long. i In the evening, after passing Sicamous Junction, where the line branches off to the Okanagan Valley--the peach and. grape belt of the province--we ran along beside Shushwap Lake, and the sunset lights and reflections in the still calm water were very peaceful, and contrast. ed with the rugged beauty of the mount tains. The lights were lit when we r: into Kamloops, and the town was of lined with bright dots where the stred lights stood in the darkness under_the shadowy mountains. Good-bye now, Dad. TI have quite g piece to go yet, but I'm not tired af travelling, as I expected to be, as there\ always something to sec. Your loving: con, : 7IM. J COLOR-BLIND. A form of defective vision whict will impair the usefulness of any: body, no matter what his employ- ment, is touched upon in this pithy conversation : Inquisitive Passenger---What has become of Stokes, who used to be a conductor on this line? Conductor--Why, the company laid him off some time ago. Inquisitive Passenger--Laid him off?. What for? Conductor--It was found upon investigation that he was cvlor- blind Inquisitive Tassennce -~ Color- blind? What difference did that make in a conductor? Conductor--A good deal. He ecouldn't tell the difference between the color. of his money und the eompany's. 'USE WHEN PRESERVING EXTRA GRANULATED SUGAR | "THE SUCAR OF.NEARLY GO YEARS STANDING." | Established in 1854 Since 1854 this prime favorite has made the preserving season a fruitful source of pleasure in thousands of Ca spain homes. "ORDER FROM YOUR GROCER. THE CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO., ste es Montreoa! by John Redpath.