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smm‘y was a c; wish to alarm y return I shall such he “'3 refurr in the n pap “’RS ‘u daug t()»1)1 have mi Ponta Delg; to her had such :1 than Later had come the reaction. She took up her faith again, the more un~ reasonably because reason had’forced her to lay it down; and she despised herself for the weakness in allowing the calumny to influence her even for a moment. There was something of obstinacy in thisâ€"the obstinaey of a strong nature which fights the more tenacioust when facts and common- sense alike are against it, and it knows quite well that it is in the wrong; and there was even more of the beautiful' loyalty with which every true woman will always, at whatever violence to her own judgment of right and loves Shé'had not kept her faith without ‘a struggle. Misgivings had arisen in her mind, but she had strangled theml remorse'lessly at their birth, and by an’ effort of will made herself believe that! they had never been born. There was, however, ohe moment whenthe doubts had been too strong to be stifled thus; they had cried clamorously, and hadi refused to be choked; and for half-an- :hourshe ha’d tasted a misery more bitter even than that which had come when she first knew that her father was dead. That moment was when she listened to Scarborough’s tale of the embezzlement of Margaret Ryan’s inheritance, and had told him passionâ€" ately that since he believed, it, he might goâ€"â€"for almost she thought she, hated him. She had thrown herself, on the couch, and sobbed hystericallyfi for at that moment the. knowledge was in her heart that what he Said was true! i this point was not becoming weaker. Elsa, I say to you solemnly, that it is as strong now as ever it was. But having said that, I am now going to add something which you will, per- haps, not understand. It is this: I hand over the work to you, but I lay no charge upon you to complete it. Nay," more, under certain circumâ€" stances, I forbid you to complete it. »I do not even make you the judge of those circumstances. That is an office which I leave, not to you, but to your mother. ' “Your mother is on her way to .join us. She will arrive on the Fun- chal from Lisbon on the tenth of the month. If on that date I am unable to meet her, if my presentimentâ€" after all, I think it is a presentiment, Elsamhas by that time come true, I wish you to recover this package from the safe place in which you have be- stowed it. and to it mm M» n‘i v9 Els This, therefore, was the first occaâ€" sion on which she ha’d been out in 'it alone; but toâ€"day a companion was im- possible. For she had work to do which no eye but her own must see. Did she still believe in her father’s innocenCe? She was acting as though she did; and, for the rest, she tried to force herself not to think. She was an expert and fearless boatwoman, but she was not accura- tomed to having to depend altogether upon heraelf in her expeditions. The boat was a present which her father had given her a little more than a year ago; but with the present, he 'had coupled a stipulation ‘that she should never go out in it alone. The irregular coasts of San Miguel breed treacherous currents, and wind squalls are sudden; but even had the waters been as safe as the Solent, Elsa’s boat was too big for one girl to manage. It was a place where a ship might have ridden out in safety the heavâ€" iest hurricane that ever blew, if it had been possible for any ship to en- ter. But the opening in the circular wall Was hardly more than ten feet across, and underneath there was a broad Hill, which rose to within two fathoms of the surface. It was a dangerous entrance, even for a small boat, and when the wind blew from the west, impossible; but Elsa knew‘ it well, and thought that she could manage‘it, even alone. re The islet for which she was steering lay a little more than two miles from the ‘shore, with deep water close up to its flanks. It was ring-shaped, like a Pacific atoll, but its formation was difierent,‘ Not .the slow, .q-uiet‘growth of coral insects had made it, but abon- vulsion of nature. It was the sum- mit ,of adeep-water volcano, whose crater raised a brim, a hundred yards across, out of the sea. There was one place on the West, where for a few feet this brim had been broken down, leaving agap by which aboat might enter; and the water inside made an‘ almose circular lagoon. 3 'l Local tradition tomless. ‘1 A It will "Phi n€( i? I N A M BLE c E ' H T f t} do. CHAPTER X.â€"(Cont'u paper per AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAV ROMANCE 1 left h at I turn at remembered to go to the ‘, her father's the L‘hE'I would I'm mall drav was markm 00)} BY WEATHERBY CHESN EV l‘dYe an h said that it;was bot- {381‘ 1t Jdgment of right. those whom she :0 Id might aft 1h mt when circus at his the did I was one or a few en down, at' might made an ,ome port :sen. time N 0! what lore “Good-bye, little girl. I think this |on-lis the longest, letter I have ever ‘writâ€" i it ten to you. I have one thing more to the'add to it. If youv have begun to the doubt me in some things, at any rate 'ery you have never doubted that-l love aver you. In days to come your estimate ghtfof your father may change; you will she.hear things that will try your faith. lBut never believe that he did not love hen‘you. It is for your sake that I am at daring danger to-day; it is for your prds sake that I hope for success, that I as may return to you to be happy, for .e- a little while longer in your love. she‘ “It is time now that Iwas starting. ask, I cannot write more. But again, darl- oft, ing, goodâ€"bye." she‘ Elsa read this letter with tears ’streaming down her face. Whatever my the man may have been in life, only 8 her «hurl would deny that this message m I from him in death was pathetic. If he wvas a scoundrel, he had never been so 'ar- to hit. daughter; and in his sliilful hat discounting of the revelations that iNay," more, under certain circumâ€" stances, I forbid you to complete it. -I do not even make you the judge of those circumstances. That is an office which I leave, not to you, but Ito your mother. ' “Now you will askâ€"what is the work? My daughter, it is the reâ€" ;habilitation of my name. I have thought lately that you were beginn- ing to doubt whether my anxiety on this point was not becoming weaker. Elsa, I say to you solemnly, that it is as strong now as ever it was. But Jhaving said that, I am now going to by the lips of‘you, her daughter is that, she is to respect the wish I have expressed in a letter to her which the packet contains. She will underâ€" stand; you \Vlll not. For the rest, be guided by her. “Goodâ€"bye, little girl. I think this is the longest, letter I have over writ- ten to you. I have one thing! more to discounting of the revelations th must come after his death, there w a melancholy cleverness. He foug for the continuance of her lave, and was plain that while he pleaded “Your mother is on her way to ,join us. She will arrive on the Fun- chal from Lisbon on the tenth of the month. If on that date I am unable to meet her, if my presentimentâ€" after all, I think it is a presentiment, Elsaâ€"has by that time come true, I wish you to recover this package from the safe place in which you have be- stowed it. and to give it into her hands. When you do so, tell her also that my last message to her, spoken Lflailml, in an enterprise, the ’llL'CCS: Lfof which is so essential,'t_hat to en- Aspire it, I am voluntarilyputting my ’;'self in some danger. While you an lizdoing your best at Ponta Delgada-t; :1discover who the unknown‘cnemy is LIL-shall be engaged in;asimi1a1‘~con- lest with an enemy wh'Ui of late has "taken to using threats. Now, littl’e :)girl,rbetween the known enemy am ',the- imknown, I run a double risk 01 ‘fai1u1‘e.'and this is “that you must {help me to avoid. ' “The sealed packet \ivhich you will find with this leftc-r contains docu- ments which must at all costs bc [kept out of the hands 'of people who gwould use'them to your and my i11ju1Ԥ. -‘ I‘ do not trust~to my own ability to safe-guard them, nor is it possible for me, watched 'as Ibqlieve I am, to put them into any place ‘of safety. 'That must be your task. Thom wh'p’ are shadowing me will not cqiiis‘id/e‘i'vi't necessary to watch you 3150. .Take 'the packet, and put it'in the safest place'Th‘at you Know. When I re- 'turn, if' I do return, I;shall not: ask yon where it is. 5 ' ' J ' l “I am not a fanciful inzin', Elsa, but I have written those four Words. ‘1 do not return’ deliberately. , Of, late I- have had a feelingâ€"a fanciful " man would say a presentimentfth‘at my end is not far off. I have lived a life of varied activities, some useful, and some perhaps not so 11seful, and the strain of old efforts is beginning: to tell upon me. In the early years of my manhood I sufl'ered great physical hardships, and they left a weak place; before Ileft London my doctor warn- ed me that the weak place was becom- ing weaker. The effort. which I must make to-dayâ€"an effort, which for your sake as well as mine, is inevitableâ€" is of the sort which I have been warn- ed to avoid, but I have no choice: I tell you this unwillingly, and for the first time; but it is necessary that you should be‘vready, if I fail, to take up the work where I leave it. did leadmg: that sh g pity, : contmuance oi ain that while At. present aadings; it was recogni JCh “'85 Y! 11ti§11,'tghat to en; arilyfiu‘tting my- . While you are Po ta Delgada-fic 1knléwn‘cnemy is‘ Elsa @101? late has Now, littl'e vn enemy and double risk of at you must n the safest When I re- ;hall not= a'sk H e th 21W I" 38: ‘(u‘ . n; L." only 1d it ate C011 V to ibl'e , to who vho ike away from the side. Hardly had done so, when by some Caprice of air currents, the>fog cleared away completely, that from the middle her little harbor, she could see her little harbor, she could see the whole circle of the basalt walls. It was only a.local clearness; in the gathering dusk of the evening she could see through the narrow , entrance that the heavy billowing masses of whiteness were still twisting and heaving on the sea outside. She put an oar in the stern-notch. Elsa drew back her boatâ€"hook from the fissure, and stood up in the boat, listening with a strained intensity of concentration. She was quite sure that they were men’s voices that she had heard; but were the men along way off or close to her?’ She knevf how deceptive. is the nature of sound in a fog on the water. Probably some boat was passing in the distance, She heard the voices again, and this time they seemed quite close. She could almost distinguish the ac- tual words, and she could hear plainly that the language was English. The fog swept down upon her again in a thick blanket. She could not see three yards ahead. The thickening of the gloom was sudden, and probably only local. 7 But while it lasted she was safe from observation. She must finish her work before it lifted to betray her. ' She lowered the stone jar into the fissure, and pushed her boat quickly She was not alone. Voices of men close. at hand came to her through the fog. ' She brought her boat close to the rock wall, and was feeling with a boat~hook for the mouth of the fissure, when a sound from the outside struck her ears. She canvassed t}; seemed to her that She found a certain yyas gomg to. meet ?â€"â€"murder? Then that referenée to the hardships of his youth, and the weak place they had left? For-the first time she a1- lowed Herself f0 hope that her father’s and had" not been' vidlént, after all. Sudden if mus‘t‘havé been, but perâ€" hapsâ€" ‘ Att Chief (arm, Public Lila-am been appointed Provi tor of Public Liln-arlc Library Inspector -fi’m‘t; but what sort o£death? hands of the enemy whom he fig to. meet ?â€"â€"murder? Then CHAPTER XI i for death} as the i from clo: her ears Starboa i 1' ‘cial vemel omlml who ifiN IQEAL "EQN France and England fought for a century, (1837 to 1437), while the Hussite war lasted nearly 30 years, and the French civil war, provoked by 'the edict of Nantes, continued for a long time. It required over 40 years to free the Netherlands from Spanish rule. The 30 Years‘ War secured re- ligious freedom for Germany. But there have been very short wars, as instanced by the defeat of Austria by Prussia in 1866, taking only 7 weeks. I The conflict that gave Prussia her military rank is known as the Seven Years’ War. ‘ It took 8 years of hard fighting to free the American Colonies, while the Napoleonic Wars continued for 15 years and produced Austerlitz, Maren- go, Trafalgar, Jena‘, Leipsic and end- ed in Waterloo. - The war of the Spanish Succession which staged such conflicts as Ramilâ€" lies, Blenheim, and Malplaqueb drew its devastating length along a period of 13 years. , For 8 years the struggle that put Maria Theresa on the Austrian throne ebbed and flowed over the same ground, as we see in some of the most bitter battles of the present war. The English Civil War, which was characterized by such terrific battles as Marston, Edgehil], Moor and Nas- by, lasted 8 years. The Russo-Turkish war of 1877 conâ€" tinued only a few months, and the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 was vir- tually ended in 6 weeks. These are nearly all what might be termed modern wars; but the more ancient conflicts lasted much longer, because the instruments of death were not so perfect as those of mod- ern times. WHEN WILL THIS CRUEL WAR BE OVER? The Greek struggle for independence lasted 7 years, from 1821 to 1828. 3 Fresh and Refreshing Like Germany, the South was am~ ply prepared for the conflict in the start, and held out for over 4 years against an overwhelmingly superior enemy in everything except brains. Chas. M. Bice, Denver, Colorado. It would require the prophetic Vision of'a Daniel or an Isaiah to predict its end with cerhainty. ' §EEGEL’§ Syg’é w m " "waif fl m m -' 376 is composed le, whole ung leaves. Picked right, blended right and packed right. It brings the fragrance of en Eastern garden to your table. “'hen your head is dull and heavy, yc'Jur tongue furrcd, and )'l done-up and good {or nothing, without knowing what is ren matter with you, probably all that is needed to restore you to licul ‘ vigour is a few doses of :1 1 FOR TH E~ digestive tonic and stomaclii STOMACH AND LIVER cdy sqch as Mother Scigcl's (101119. 6 ew1.00 size contains ihrre sold at 50c beneficial is its action up me and healthy activity t you to gain new stores L STABLE sronn manna; crow cgzgnisiq Hors MOTHER DIS iémtnn. “ sronzw'vs Iz'mcs as much peg- bottle. The W retch. Mrs. Youngbrideâ€"Boo h threw a cake at me. Or made myself, too. Her Friendâ€"The monster! might have killed you. There is much truth in the old say- ing that a man is just as old as he feels, and many a man feels as young at eighty as another does ab thirty, and the former is often a better man than the latter, even if he can‘t lift as much. It's ideas that rule mam kind, not fists, “mailed” or otherwise. The late Dr. Alfred Russel Wal- lace, O.M., issued one of his biggest and most learned books when he had passed his ninetieth year. He act'ual- 1y wrote four big books after he passed his eightieth,year! Mr. Gladstone had reached his eightieth year when he was called to undertake the Premiership of the greatest Empire in the world for t-he fourth time. Tennyson was remarkable both for the quantity and quality of the work he did in old age: He wrote that supreme lyric, “Crossing the Bar,” when past eighty. One of his most famous poems, “Locksley Hall,” was written when he was a mere boy of two-andâ€"twenty, and its sequel, every bit as fine, sixty years afber, as its title shows. The cry of “Too old at forty!" hasâ€"- in one sense, at any rateâ€"got its deal-h blow during the present war. The older men have been called to fill the places of the youngsters who have gone. to the front, and they have filled them well, says London An- swers. An Old Saying That a Man is Just as Old as He Feels. Resources do not seem to play sucli important parts in present day wars as formerly, because the deprivation is made up by the aid of science in de- vising new sources of sustenance. Food, it seems, has become of least importance in starving out a belliger- ent; what counts most is lack of ma- terial, money and loss of trade. We all hope the enemy will col- lapse soon, but we should be prepared for a long drawn out struggle. J apa'n‘d-é’f'eaâ€"vtalâ€" Ruééia f1'895:-§nd secured'tho independenéé of Korea', in a little over a year; and the U. S. whipped Spain in 1898, in one year. Yet, it cannot with certainty be pre- dicted that this, the greatest of all wars, including on opposite sides so many of the great Powers of the world will beof short duration. With the wonderful improvements in arms, ext plosives, and modern scientific appli- ances, the air crafts énd submarines brought into requisition for the first time, infuse elements in the problem that render prediction of the end a hazardous undertaking. These, it would seem, must decide the conflict very rapidly, but if not so decided, they are apt; to bécome' long drawn out affairs. - -.. Goshen Lied to restore you to he igour is a few doses of a igcstive tonic and stomac dy such as Mother Scigul ‘ake it after each meal f1 )n the stomachJiverandl 0 these important organs f vigour, vitu‘fity and he: ale Distempe “TOO OLD AT FORTY!‘ )hunjsta and Bactenolorlna, Ind... U.B..A. the t :11 :1 bowels- ,ns, and k calt One the ‘uc ram- 5 Syrup. )1‘ a few 30 1b] 1nd ALB you J ac}! the He