Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1912 — Page 3

The Grand Babylon Hotel

Copyright by Frank A. x Munsey Co. ■ ■•■-o “To ' starboard,” said Racksole. "No, men,” Hazell replied. “We can’t get through there. He’s bound to come out below, it’s only a feint. I’ll keep our nose straight ahead.” And they went on, the fat man pounding away, with a face which glistened even in the thick gloom. It was an empty dingey which emerged from between the two barges and went drifting and revolving down toward Greenwich. The fat man gasped a word to his -comrade, and the customs boat stopped dead. “He’s all right,” said the man in the bows. “If it’s him you want, he’s On one of-them barges. So you’ve only got to step on and take him off.” “That’s all.” said a voice out of the •depths of the nearest barge, and it was the voice of Jules* otherwise Mr. ‘Tom Jackson. They backed the boat up under the stern of the nearest barge and gazed upward. For a few moments the four men were passive in the boat, surrounded by swirling mist, with black water beneath them and towering above them a half-loaded barge, with a desperate and resourceful man on board. Suddenly the mist parted and shriveled away in patches as though before the breath of some monster.

The sky was visible; it was a clear sky and the moon was shining; the transformation was just one of those ■quick changes which happen most frequently on a great tflver. “That’s a sight better,” said the fat man. At the same moment a head appeared ever the edge of the barge. >lt ■was Jules’ face, dark, sinister and leering. “Is it Mr. Racksole In that boat?” he inquired calmly. “Because if so, let Mr. Racksole step up. Mr. Racksole has caught me, and he can have me for the asking. Here I am.” , He stood up to his full height on the barge, tall against the night sky, and all the occupants of the boat could see that he held firmly clasped in his fight hand a short dagger. “Now, Mr. Racksole, you’ve been after me for ;a long time,” he continued. “Here I am. Why don’t you step up? It you haven’t got the pluck yourself, persuade some one else to step up in your place. The same fair treatment will be accorded to all.” And Jules laughed a low, penetrating laugh. _ He was in the midst of this laugh •when he lurched suddenly forward. “What'r’ you doing aboard my barge? Off you goes.”. It was a - boy’s small, shrill voice that sounded in the night. A ragged Jad’s small form had appeared silently behind Jules, and two small arms, with a vicious shove, precipitaed him into the water. He fell with a fine, gurgling splash. It was at once obvious that swimming was not among Jules’ accomplishments. He foundered wildly and sank. When he reappeared he was dragged into the customs boat. Rope was produced, and in a minute or two the man lay ignominiously bound on the bottom boards. For the first time for several weeks Racksole experienced a sensation of ■equanimity and satisfaction. He leaned over the prostrate form of Jules, and Hazell’s professional skewer was in his hand. “What are you going to do with him now?” asked Hazell, “We’ll row up to the landing steps in front of the .Grand Babylon. He shall be well lodged at my hotel. I promise him.” Jules spoke no word. Before Racksole parted company with the customs men that night Jules bad been safely transported Into the

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Grand Babylon hotel, and the foto watermen had received their 10 pounds apiece. “You will sleep here,” said the millionaire, to Mr. George Hazell. "It is late.” “With pleasure,” replied Hazell. The neirmorntogrbe found a sumptuous breakfast awaiting him and in his napkin was a i*nk of England note for a huni-ed pounds. But, though he did not h>ar of them till mu.h later, many things hal happened before Hazell consumed that somptnous breakfast

CHAPTER XXYIL The Confession of Hr. Tom Jackson. It happened that the small bedroom occupied by Jules during the years when he was head waiter at the Grand Babylon had remained empty since his sudden dismissal by Racksole. No other head waiter had been formally appointed to his place; and, indeed, the absence of one man—even the unique Jules—could scarcely have been noticed in the enormous staff of a place iike the Grand Babylon. Racksole had the excellent idea of transporting his prisoner, with as much secrecy as possible, to this empty bedroom. There proved to be no difficulty In doing so; Jules showed himself perfectly amenable to a show of superior force. Racksole took upstairs with him an old commissionaire who had been attached to the outdoor service of the hotel for many years, a grayhaired man, wiry as a terrier and as strong as a mastiff. Entering the bedroom with Jules, whose hands were bound, be told the commissionaire to remain outside the door. Jules’ bedroom was an ordinary apartment. It-was about 14 feet by 12. It was furnished with a bedstead, a small wardrobe, a small washstand and dresser and two chairs. There were two hooks behind the door, a strip of carpet by the bed and some cheap ornaments on the iron mantlepiece; there was also one electric light The window was a little square one, high up from the floor, and it looked on the inner quadrangle. As Racksole examined the window and the outlook, he said to himself that Jufos could not escape by that exit, at any rate. Then he called in the commissionaire, and together they bound Jules firmly to the bedstead, allowing him, however, to lie down. All the while the captive never opened his mouth; just smiled a smile of disdain. Finally Racksoel removed the ornaments, the carpet, the chairs and the hooks and wrenched away the switch of the electric light. Then he and the commissionaire left the room,

andßaeksole locked, foe door on the outside and put the key in his pocket. “You will keep watch here,” he said to the commissionaire, “through foe night. You can sit on this chair. Don’t go to sleep. If you hear foe slightest noise in foe room blow your cab whistle; I will arrange to answer the signal. If there is no noise, do nothing whatever. I don’t want this talked about, you understand. I shall trust you; you can trust me.’ “But the servants will see me here when they get up tomorrow morning,” said the commissionaire, with a faint smile, “and they will be pretty certain to ask what I’m doing of up here. What shall I say to them?” “You’ve been a soldier, haven’t you?’’ asked Racksole. / “Yes, sir,” was tbe response. “Well, supposing you were oh sentry duty, and some meddlesome person in camp asked-you what you were doing, what would you tell them ’’ “I should tell them to clear out or take foe consequences, and pretty quick, too.” “Do that tomorrow morning, then, if necessaray,” said Racksole, and departed X. • Shortly after dawn Racksole was wide awake and thinking busily about Jules. He was, indeed, very carious to know Jules’ story, and he determined, if the thing could be done at all, by persuasion or otherwise, to extract it from him

With a man of Racfcsole’s temperament there is no time like the present, bnd at 6 o’clock, as the bright sun brought gaity into the / window, he dressed and went upstairs again to the eighth floor. The commissionaire sat stolid, but alert, at his chair, axfd at sight of hi 3 master arose and sainted. “Anything happened?” Racksoieinquired. - "Nothing,, sir." "Good,” said Racksole as he uff- J locked the door and entered the room. All was exactly as he had left it, except that Jules, who had been lying an his back, had somehow turned over and was now lying dn his face. He gazed silently, scowling at the millionaire. Racksole greeted him and took a revolver from his pocket and laid it on the dressing table. Then he seated himself on the table by the side of the revolver, his legs dangling an inch or two above the floor.

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“I want to have a talk to you, Jackson,” be began. “You can talk to me as much as you like,” said Jutes, “I shan’t interfere, you may bet on that.” “I should like you to answer some questions.” ] “That’s different,” said Jules. “I’m not going. to answer any questions while I’m tied up like this. You may bet on that, too.’ “It will pay you to be reasonable,” sai-d Racksole. “I’m not going to answer any questions while' I’m tied up.” “I’ll unfasten your legs, if you like,” Racksole suggested politely. “Then you can sit up. It’S no use your pretending you’ve been uncomfortable, because I know you haven’t. I calculate you’ve been treated handsomely, my son. There you are!” And he loosened the lower extremities of his prisoner from their bonds, “Now I repeat, you. may as well be reasonable. Yon may as well admit that you’ve been fairly beaten in the game and act accordingly. I was determined to beat you myself, without the police, and I’ve done it.” “You’ve done yourself,” retorted Jules. “You’ve gone against the law. If you’d had any sense you wouldn’t liave meddled; you’d have left everything to the police. They’d have muddled about for a year or tyro and then done nothing. Who’s going to tell the police now? Are you? Are you going to give me up to them and say, ‘Here, I’ve caught him for you.' If you do, they’ll ask you to explain several things, and then you’ll look foolish. Oue crime doesn’t excuse another, and you’ll find that out.” With unerring insight Jules had perceived exactly the difficulty of Eacksble’s position, and it was certainly a difficulty which Racksole did not attempt to minimize to himself. He knew well that it would have to be faced. He did not, however, allow Julqj|. to guess his thought* “Meantime,” he said calmly to the other, “you’re here and my prisoner. You’ve committed a variegated assortment of crimes, and among them is murder. You are due to be hanged. You know that. There is no reason why I should call in the police at all. It will be perfectly easy for me to finish you off, as you deserve, myself.

I shall only be carrying out justice and robbing foe hangman of his fee. “Precisely as I brought you into the hotel, I can takq you out again. A few days ago you borrowed or stole a steam yacht at Ostend. What you have done with it I don’t know. Nor do I care. But I strongly suspect that my daughter had a narrow escape from being murdered on your steam yacht. “Now, I have a steam yacht of my own. Suppose I use it as you used yours? Suppose I smuggle.you on to it, steam out t osea and then ask you

to step off into the ocean one night? "Such things have been done. Such things will be done again. If I acted so I should at least have the satisfaction of knowing that I had relieved society of the incabos of a scoundrel.” "But you won’t,” said Jules. "No,” said Racksole steadily, “I won’t—ls you behave yourself this morning. But I swear to you that If you don’t I will never rest till you are dead, police or no police. You don’t know Theodore Racksole.” p "I believe you mean it,” Jules exclaimed, with an air of surprised interest, as though he had discoverbd something of importance, "2 believe I do,” Racksole resumed. I have a few questions to put to you, and it will depend on how you answer them wtmtfrgT-E-giga yon tip HtgVHa police or take the law* Into my own hands. And let me tell you that the latter course would be mack simpler for me. And I would take It too, but I feel that you are a very clever and

exceptional man—did I not have a sort of sneaking admiration for your detestable skill and ingenuity “You think then, that I am fclever?” said Jules. “You are right. I am. I should have been much tod clever for you if luck had not been against, me. You owe your victory not to skill, but to luck.” “That is what foe vanquished, always say. Waterloo was a bit of pure luck for foe English— no doubt! But it was Waterloo all foe same.” Jules yawned elaborately. “What do you want to know?” he inquired with politeness. “First and foremost, I want to know the names of your accomplices inside this hotel.” v - .r.::: “r: - ~ “I have no more,” said Jules. “Rocco wap the last” “Don’t begin by lying to me. If you had no accomplice, how did you Contrive that one particular bottle of Romanee-Conti should be served to bis highness Prince Eugen?" “Than you discovered that in time, did you?” said Jules. “I was afraid so. Let me explain that I needed no accomplice. The bottle jwas topmost in foe bin, and naturally It would be taken. Moreover, I left it sticking out a little further than foe rest.” “You did not arrange then, * that Hubbard should be taken ill?’ "I bad no Idea,” said Jules, “foat tbe excellent Hubbard was not enjoying his accustomed health.” “Tell me,” said Racksole, “who or what is foe origin of your vendetta against the life of Prince Eugen?” “I had no vendetta agaist the life of Prince Eugen,” replied Jules. “At least, not to begifi with. I merely undertook, for a consideration, to see that Prince Eugen did not have an in- [ terview with a certain Mr. Sampson ( Levi in London before a certain date. That was all. It seemed simple, I had been engaged in far more complicated transactions before. I was convinced foat I could manage, with the help of Rocco Miss Spencer.” “It that woman your wife?” “She would like to be," he sneered. “Please don’t interrupt. I had completed my arrangements when you so Inconsiderately bought the hotel. I don’t mind admitting now that from the very moment you came across me that night in foe Corridor I was secretly afraid of you, though I scarcely admitted foe fact even to mysglf, .** " J thought it safer to shift sod scene of our operations to Ostend. I had meant to deal with Prince Eugen in this hotel, but I decided then to intercept him on the Continent, and I dispatched Miss Spencer with spme instructions. “Troubles never come singly, and it happened foat just then that fool Dimmock, who had been in the swim with us, chose to prove refractory. The slightest hitch would have upset all, .and I was obliged to —to clear him off the scene. “He wanted to back out-—he had a bad attack of conscience—and violent measures were essential. I regret his untimely decease, but he brought it on Jiimself.” - - “Weil, everything was going serenely when you and your brilliant daughter, apparently determined to meddle, turned up again among us at Ostend. Only 24 hours, howe'vef, had to elapse before the date wMch had Seen men- 1 tioned to me by my employer^ “I kept poor little Eugen for the allotted time, and then you managed to get' hold of him. I do not deny that you scored there, though, according to my original instructions, you scored too late. The lime had passed, and so far as I knew it didn’t matter a pin whether Prince Eugen saw Mr. Sampson Levi or not. But my employers were still uneasy. They were.uneasy even after little Eugen had lain ill in Ostend for several weeks. “It appears that they feared that even at that date an Interview between Prince Eugen and Mr. Sampson Levi might work harm to them. So they applied to me again. This time they wanted Prince Eugen to be finished off entirely. They offered high terms.” “What terms?” “I had received fifty thousand pounds for foe of which Rocco had hail Rocco was also to be made a member of a certain famous European order if things west right

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NELLIE DONEGAN-REYNOLDS.

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That was what he coveted far more than the money. For the second job I was offered a hundred thousand. A tolerably large sum. I regret that I have not been able to earn it” “Dp yqq moan to tell me,” asked Racksole, horror struck by this calm confession, in spite of Ms previous knowledge, “that you were offered a hundred thousand pounds to poison Prince Eugfen?” ‘You put it rather crudely,” said Jules in reply. “I prefer to say that ] was offered a hundred thousand If Eugen should die within a reasonable time.” v ' “And who were your damnable employers?” V. . “That honestly I do not know.” “You know, I suppose, who paid you the first fifty thousands pounds and who promised you the hundred thousand?” “Well, I know vaguely. I know that he came via Vienna from. Bosnia. ‘The ministers of .the King of Bosnia knew exactly foe circumstances of Prince Eugen. They knew that he could not marry without liquidating his debts, and they knew that be could not do that unless it was through this Jew. Unfortunately for me, they ultimately wanted to make too sure of Eugen,” _JL r “Then you think that the king himself had no part in this crime?” “1 think decidedly not” “I am glad of that” said Racksole. “And now, the name of your immediate employer.” “He was merely an agent He called himself Sleszak.” "Mr. Sleszak and I Wilt meet” said Racksole. “Not In this world,” said Jules. "He is dead. I heard only last night just before our little tussle.” “It is well,” said Racksole at length. “Prince Eugen lives despite all plots. After all, justice is done.” “Mr. Racksole is here, but he can see no one, miss.” The words came from the other side of foe door, and foe voice was foe commissionaire’s. Racksole started up and moved toward the door. “Nonsense!” was foe curt reply In feminine tones. “Move aside instantly.” The door opened and Nella entered. There were tears In her eyes. “Oh, dad!” she exclaimed, ‘Tve only just heard you were in the hotel. We looked for you everywhere. Come at onc§, Prince Eugen is dying”— Then she saw the man sitting on the bed, and stopped. Later, when Jules was alone again, he remarked to himself, “I may get foat hundred thousand.” . : ■. ~ (To Be Continued.)

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Fired Two Charges Into BaseH of Wedding Charivaris.

A charivari or belting party wa* brought to an abrupt end last Thursday near Hebron, when a farmer named Turner fired two charges of birdshpt into a crowd of young farmers, who had gathered to charivari his daughter who had Just been married to Rev. Bryan. <*Fhe Republican is informed that ■ Turner is a wealthy farmer, living in Lake county. On foe occasion of his daughter’s marriage a numfcer of young farmers in foe neighborhood assembled for the purpose of belling them. They were just getting ready to start foe noise malting when two shots were heard and it was plain foat they had come from a corner of foe house. The boys screamed and ran away and investigation proved foat eight of them had been shot. Several were shot in their faces and from foe face of one lad fifteen shot were taken by a Hebron doctor. Warrants have been issued for foe arrest of Turner. Tbe sentiment there is very bitter against him and it is believed he Will be severely punished for his rash act.

Daughter of Champ Clark Would Like to Choke Bryan.

Hon. Champ Clark, speaker of foe hoqge of representatives and foe leader for twenty-nine ballots for the democratic nomination for president at Baltimore, would probably be too diplomatic to express himself in foe language of his daughter even though he might feel foe same way. When Bryan made his sensational declaration about withdrawing his support from Clark because of foe corrupting influences suggested by foe New York delegation’s support, Miss Genevieve Clark felt the red blood at her finger tips. Her cheeks flushed and girl-like she blurted out something. It is quoted to have bees like this: “It’s too bad for dad. I remember when he went out and borrowed $5 here and there and at a time to help Bryaa make one of -hie ow*» paigus when I was a email girl, would like to cboki hlg|,* - ” " ' That would hare been poor language for a girl politician, but none of us would give muck for a daughter who would not think about foe same way about it. Miss Genevieve's prompt resentmiht of the insult to her father brands her as the approved type of American young womanhood.

Be Very Careful What You Sead Through the U. S. Mails.

——— Sometime* through ignorance,' sometimes through thoughtlessness and sometimes because they believe it will never become known, obscene -ttfigo&ge is used in correspondence. This is a serious infraction at the postal laws of the country and any parson apprehended after committing an offense of this character stands a chance of spending a few years in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kane. w A young man named John fl*. Goodrich, timekeeper for the steel company at Gary, is now awaiting trial in Jail at Lafayette for having violated this law. He wrote a vulgar letter to a man in Colorado Springs, whom be accused of having caused him to lose bis job while working in that city. The letter was turned over to. an inspector and Goodrich was arrested and It is said will certainly be convicted and sent to prison. si

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