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C46 In appreciation of his darin, in rescuing her and her companions from lmi)’nnymen, â€" me. de Sevenie had invited the man who Btelerred to be known as Andre Duchemin to dine in her chateau.. ) s By Virtue of Merit _ Duchemin accepts, despite his deâ€" sire to avoid all social activities durâ€" ing his leave of absence from» the English Secret Service. He was anxâ€" lous to meet again Eve de Montalais, the American widow who had been one of those eaved by Duchemin from the highâ€" waymen‘s attack. En route to the chateau, Duchemin pondered over the arrival in town of n strange motoring party of four men and a woman. He was able to learn only two names: Phinuit, apparently <a secrelary, and the chauffeur, Jules. GO on wITH THE STORY. "CALADPA" Duchemin took back with him to Nant, that night, food in plenty for thought, together with a notion that he had better resign himself to stop on indefinitely at the Grand Hotei de !‘Univers and . . . see what he should is the outstanding leader That fatality on which he had so bitterly reflected, had him now fairly by thoe heels. Impossibleâ€"and the more so the longer he pondered itâ€"to credit to mere coincidence the innuâ€" endoes uttered at the chateau by Mr. Monk and his party. ‘ No: there had been malice in thlt,‘ Duchemin was satisfied, if not some darker purpose which perplexed tbo} most patient scrutiny. ‘ Now malice without incentive is unâ€" thinkable. _ But Duchemin searched his memory in vain for anything he could have said or done to make anyâ€" body desire to discredit him in the sight of the ladies of the Chateau de Montalais. Still the attempt so to do had been unmistakable: the Lone Wolf had been lugged into the conâ€" versation literally by his legendary ears. Surely, one would think, that noeâ€" turnal prowler of preâ€"war Paris had been so long dead and buried even the most ghoulish gossip should respect his poor remains and not disinter them merely to demonstrate that the past can never wholly die! _ Had he, then, some enemy of old hidden under one of those sleek surâ€" faces" An excellent visual memory reâ€" viewed successively the physical charâ€" acteristics of Messieurs Monk, Phinuit and de Lorgnes, and their chauffeur Jules; with the upshot that Duchemin eould have sworn that he had never before known any of these. a blank, but remained unsatisfied.‘ When one thought of her some remote, : faint chord of reminiscence thrilled | and hummed, but never recognizably.‘ _ And Madame la Comtesse® In reâ€" spect of that one memory again drew _ Setting aside then the theory of positive personal animus, what other reakon could there be for the effort CHAPTER VII. THE APACHWE STRIKES BACK Wrigley‘s Noew DOUBLE 180VE No. 14â€"27. TeA iés\&hQIQ“QWF to fasten upon Duchemin suspicion of identity with the late Lone Wolf? A sinister consideration, if any, and one, Duchemin suspected not unâ€" eonnected with the muchâ€"talkedâ€"about jewels of Madame de Montalais. . . â€" And then, partly to kill time, he re sumed his character as the pedestrian tourist. frs C h9 in ow . e He took the road in the heart OL a day even more oppressive than its yesterday. In the valley of the Dourâ€" bie the air was stagnant, lifeless. After eight miles of it Duchemin was guilty of two mistakes of desperation. In the first instance he paused in La Roqueâ€"Sainteâ€"Marguerite and, torâ€" mented by thirst, refreshed himself at the auberge where the barouche and guide had been hired to convey the party from Montalais on to Montâ€" pellier. The landlord remembered Duâ€" chemin and made believe he didn‘t, serving the wayfarer with a surly grace BA Duchemin drank sitting on a bench outside the door of the auberge.| He could hear the voice of the landlord | inside, grumbling and growling, to | what purport he couldn‘t determine. Before Duchemin was finished he found himself the cynosure of more than a few pair of eyes set in the illâ€" favored faces of natives of La Roque. A voice cried: "Quickly, monsieur, quickly!" _ One gathered that the dead guide had enjoyed a fair amount of local popularity. . > _ While Duchemin drank, a lout of a lad shambled out of the auberge, caught and saddled a dreary animal, mounted, and rode off in the direction of Nant. Then Duchemin committed his secâ€" ond error of judgment, which consistâ€" ed in thinking to find better and cooler air on the heights across the river. Accordingly he crossed the Dourbie, reached the top in a bath of sweat, and sat down to cool and breathe himself. The view was splendid, almost worth the climb. Duchemin could see for miles up and down the valley. Across the way Duchemin identified the figure of the landlord, standing in the door of the auberge with arms raised and elbows thrust out on a level with his eyes: the pose of a man using fieldâ€"glasses. Having rested, he picked himself up, found his road, a mere trail of wagon tracks, and mindful of the coolâ€" ing drinks to be had in the Cafe de l‘Univers, put his best foot foremost. After a time something, call it inâ€" stinct, impelled him to look back the way he had come. Half a mile disâ€" tant he saw the figure of a peasant following the same road. Duchemin stopped and waited for the other to come up. But when he stopped the man stopped, sat him down upon a rock, filled a pipe, and conspicuously rested. Duchemin gave an impatient gesâ€" ture and moved on. After another‘ mile he glanced over shoulder again. The same peasant occupied the same relative distance from him. | In dusk of evening he stumbled down into the valley again and struck the river road about midway between the Chateau de Montalais and Nant. At this junction several dwellings clustered. Duchemin noticed a few shadowy shapes loitering about, but was too far gone in fatigue and thirst to pay them any heed. He had no @oing fishingâ€"take Minard‘s Liniment. @ry»n International Magazine Company | Loui fopoph Yance in Canada. in the heart of a hand to knuckle the door With no more warning than a ¢ry, the signal for the onslaught, and the sudden scuffling noise of several pair of feet, he wheeled, found himself alâ€" ready closely pressed by a number of men, and struck out at random. His stick landed on bomebody‘s head with a resounding thump followed by a yell of pain. Then three men were grapâ€" pling with him, two more seeking, to aid them, and another lay in the roadâ€" way clutching a fractured skull and spitting oaths and groans. ~ Tok His stick was seized and wrenched spat ag away, he was overwhelmed by numâ€"| blow of bers. ‘Bhe knot of struggling figures Awar toppled and went to the dust, Ducbe-!woundo( min underneath, so weighed down of strer that he could not for the moment move effort, 1 a hand toward his pistol. | door. 4 Hal#â€"stifled by the reek of unwashed tonneau flesh, he heard broken phrases grow!â€"| light wi ed in voices hoarse with effort and| excitement: tfi l c nik _â€""The knife!" . . . "Hold him‘! "Stand clear and let meâ€"!" . .‘ knife!" Feg. Struggling madly, he worked a leg free and kicked with all his might. One of his assailants howled aloud and fell back to nurse a broken shin. Two others scrambled out of the way, leaving one to pin him down with knees upon his chest, another to wield the knife. Staring eyes caught a warning gleam on descending steel. Duchemin squirmed frantically to one side, and felt cold metal kiss the skin over his ribs as the blade penetrated his clothâ€" ing, close under the armpit. § pouich ~1 uin Auination t xt dadags c is eP 57 Before the man with the knife could strike again, Duchemin, roused to a mightier effort, threw off the ruffian on his chest, got on his knees and, raining blows right and left" as the others closed in again, somehow managed to scramble to his feet. Fistâ€"work told. For an instant he stood quite free, the centre of a circle of uncertain assassins whose cowardice gave him time to whip out his pictol. But before he equld level it a man was on his back, his wrist was seized and the weapon twisted from his grasp. automobile did £f t but to stop at the first houu'dimctly at the group and so swiftly g a cup of water. 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In two bounds Duchemin overtook the car and before it had come to & , < standstill leaped upon the rlumini!-;&"" ;::: long Aurquolise pathways board and grasped the side. He had| On amaranthine purple seas one glimpse of the set white face Of And far reefs gleam with sunâ€"kissed Eve, as she bent forward, manipulatâ€"| foam, | ing the gear:shlft. Then the pistol. Riven and whipt by the salt sea _ spat again ; its bullet struck him a| breeze. ‘blow of sickening agony in the side. _â€"Hilda MceDonald 1' Aware that he was dangerously PA 0 o 4 ons n Po4 20 Sie on Sinl! . n aicoes peoun a redege ant effort, throwing his body across the, in sat of e o e 3:3;)?1:;2: T l | door. As he fell sprawling into the| fshting of many greater battles ‘and tonneau consciousness departed like A| above all, the existence. in little Be]: ;:;1'(! in Duchemin‘s vision when the car swept between him and those others, scattering them l}ke chickens. light withdrawn. LOW TEA PRICE USUALLY DECEPTION. 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A small kind of toadâ€" stool is eating into the woodwork. The palace has been under observation and has been carefully examinéd, and it is found that the whole of the wood work is crumbling into a powdery dust. A good deal of money has already been spent, but much more wili have to be spent to save Versailles. Minard‘s Liniment soothes tired feet. To Save Historic Edifice. | At the top of the hill the horses : broke into a swinging trot along the | road that stretched through a patclh ‘work of greens and browns; squares ‘ of brilliant green of the new grass, !squares and oblongs of the fresher, softer greon of growing grain, stretchâ€" l ea of brown where the grass was yet | to show. And far over on either side, \long lines of treetops marked where !tho plateau dropped away in cascades | of oaks and beeches. The road went straight up interminâ€" ably, so straight that the beeches that flanked it on cither side seemed to be clinging robustly to earth with tenaciâ€" ous strength up the uppor side, and bracing themselves with stif downâ€" thrust roots on the lower. There were deep gullies on either side of the road where the spring freshets had precipp tated their waters, leaving in their wake a trail of water«=moothed pebâ€" bles. ' At the wide gate in front of the \farmhouse, a boy in blue overalls and | wide straw hat, gazed up in shy ow1â€" ‘osity at the carriage as it came to & ‘halt before him. One of the horses ‘iwnod his head restively with a Jingle | of buckles, little clouds of dust rose from his unquiet hoofs and drifted inâ€" | to the railroad grass. Straight ahead a farmhouse peered out through draperies of Hlac bushes, with an apple orchard flanking on side. At the back a tall barn with wip dows set high up in the front gable, gazed over the shoulder of the house in lofty watchfulness. A few outbuilldâ€" ings stood about in casual fixednese, and a stump waited at the side of the house with alertly poised handle. "Hello, sonny," the driver called, leaning forward in his seat. "Can you tel me where George Bradley lives?" The boy took two steps forward in the pleasureable glow of his knowâ€" ledge. "It‘s down the road about a half mile, on the right," he exclaimed, "you .can‘t miss it," he continued, difâ€" fidence floating away on his words. "It‘s a newly house, painted kinda white." The horses struck into their swingâ€" ing trot with a rattle of harness and a whir of wheels "A newly house," the driver smiled gently at the horses‘ ears, "painted kinda white. What‘s kind of white, I wonder." A little further along, the road curved gently, and just where it straightened out once more, a house stood with a thick carpet of clover beâ€" fore its door. At one end of the roof of the house, the shingles were weather stained and graying; they sheaded all the way along until at the Other end they shone new and bright. A buildâ€" ers‘ staging stil clung to the side of the house, and everywhere were eviâ€" dences of a protracted and extensive rebuilding and renovaiing. The house had been a small, oldfashioned farmâ€" house. . This was now but an adjunct to the larger, newer building. "Well, you couldn‘t exactly call it a new house," the driver said musingly. "It‘s »a newly house all right," he chuekled softly. k His companion smiled, and gazed at the house where new lumber and weathered boards shone through the first, inadequate coat of white pant "And it‘s painted kind of white," he ngded "When George gives it another coat or two of paint, it will be white." From the long, greon garden rows behind the barn, a man Was walking houseward. â€" The driver waved his arm vigorously, his companton leaned forward in pleasurable excitement, and the man in the field halted and wutchâ€" ed the approaching carriage with a mild and expectant wonderment. A beaver needs bark for food and timber for building his house, and he is the greatest "logger" among the lower animals. You probably are faâ€" miliar with his damâ€"building {alents, but he is equally clever and eficient in the forest. At treeâ€"felling each beaver works inâ€" dependently. A small tree is cut through from one side, but a large one usually on two sides or all around, the chips being split out much as by a woodman‘s axe. The common impression is that only small saplings are cut down by beavâ€" ers, but this is a mistake; trees three feet in diameter are sometimes felled â€"and in workmanlike style, too The emalil tree offers no problem at all.. A big one may keep a family of beavers busy for several nights, but a single experienced beaver can fell a fourâ€"4uch poplar, chop it into fiveâ€"foot sections, and transport the wholo tree to the water in a single night. It‘s a sight worth seeing to watch a beaver take a log over the ground to the lake or stream. Me grabs it with those wonderful teeth and drags with a strength tlhat is positively astoundâ€" ing. In the water he tows it, or someâ€" tUmes grips it with his arms, awimâ€" ming alongside, and steering with his broad, agile tail. I have seen a beaver go to the pond bottom, reappear with all the sticks he could hold in his arms, and walk upright on his hind lege to the top of his house. They have not only brains to think, but the strength and supple ness to execute their plens. When he has a choice, the beaver will nearly always select the asnen. The bark of popler, willow, alder and hirch is acceptable, but aspen bark is the preference.â€"â€"Lester Barks. 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