Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1916 — Page 3

The THOUSANDTH WOMAN

Aidhor of BheAMAIEUR (mi&MAN. RAFFLES. Etc. “aSIRAnONS HT

BYNOPSIB. —#—• Pa««iiAt, on the eteamer Kaiser Frits, homeward bound from Australia, cries out In his sleep that Henry Craven, who fen years before had ruined his father and himself, is dead, and finds that Hilton Toye, who shares the stateroom with him, knows Craven and also Blanche MacnaJr, a former neighbor and playmate, When the daily papers come aboard at Southampton Toye reads that Craven has been murdered and calls Casalet’s dream second sight. He thinks •f doing a little amateur detective work on the case himself. In the train to town they discuss the murder, which was committed at Cazalet's old home. Toye hears from Cazalet that Scruton, who had been Cazalet's friend and the scapegoat for Craven’s dishonesty, has been released from prison. Cazalet goes down the river and meets Blanche. Toye also comes to see her and tells Cazalet that Scruton has been arrested, but as he doesn't believe the old clerk Is guilty he Is going to ferret out the murderer. Cazalet and Blanche go to Cazalet’s old home and meet Mr. Drinkwater of Scotland Yard. Cazalet goes with Drinkwater to the library where the murder was committed, shows him a secret passage he knew as a boy, and leads the way through It. In town Toye, talking with Cazalet about the murder, suggests Anger prints on the weapon found In the secret passage as a means of trapping the murderer and succeeds In securing a print of Cazalet’s hand. Toye traces Cazalet’s movements while a passenger on the Kaiser Fritz, finds that he left the boat before the murder and returned Just after it. and warns him. _

CHAPTER X. ,» The Week of Their Lives. "Toye’s gone back to Italy," said Cazalet. "He says be may be away only a week. Let’s make it the week of our lives!" The scene was the little room It pleased Blanche to call her parlor, and the time a preposterously early hour of the following forenoon. Cazalet in her sunny snuggery rather suggested another extravagant taxicab. But Blanche saw only his worn, excited face; and..hen own waa not at its best in her sheer amazement. “Italy!" she ejaculated. “When did he go?” “Nine o’clock last night." “But” —she checked herself —“I simply can’t understand it, that’s all!” “Why? Have you seen him since the other afternoon?” His manner might have explained those other two remarks, now bothering her when it was too late to notice them; on the other hand, she was by no means sure that. it did. He might simply dislike Toye, and that again might explain his extraordinary heat Over the argument at Littleford. Blanche began to feel the air somewhat heavily charged with explanations, either demanded or desired; they were things she hated, and she determined not to add to them if she could help it “I haven’t set eyes oh him again,” she said. “But he’s been seen here—in a taxi." "Who saw him?” "Martha —if she’s not mistaken.” This waß a little disingenuous, as will appear; but that impetuous Sweep was in a merciful hurry to know something else. “When was this, Blanche?" “Just about dark —say seven or so. She owns it was about dark,” said Blanche, though she felt ashamed of herself. “Well, it’s Just possible. He left me ~about six; said he had to see someone, too, now I think of it. But I’d give a bit to know what he was doing, messing about down here at the last moment!” Blanche liked this as little as anything that Cazalet had said yet, and he had said nothing that she did like this morning. But there were allowances to be made for him, she knew. And yet to strengthen her knowledge, or rather to let him confirm it for her. either by word or by his silence, she stated a certain case for him aloud. “Poor old 'Sweep!” she laughed. “It’B a shame that you should have come home to be worried like this.” “I am worried,” he said simply. “I think it’s Just splendid, all you’re doing for that poor man, but especially the way you’re doing it.” “I wish to God you wouldn’t say

"that, Blanche!" He paid her the compliment of ■peaking exactly as he would have spoken to a man; or rather, she happened to be the woman to take it as a compliment. "But Ido say it, Sweep! I’ve heard - in mm ina. up last night." “You’re on the telephone, are you?" jT_ “B»erybody Is In these days. Where have you lived? Oh, I forgot!” And she Anything to lift this duet of theirs out of the minor key! “But what does old Charlie really think of the case? That’s more to the point,” said Cazalet uneasily. “Well, he seemed to fear there was no chance of ball before the adjourned hearing. But I rather gathered he was not going to be in it himself?” “No. We decided on one* of those sportsmen who love rushing in where a family lawyer like Charlie owns to looking downhla nose. I’ve seen the chap, and primed him up about old Savage, and our find In the foundatlonst He says he’ll make an example of Drinkwater, and Charlie says they oati him the Bobby's Bugbear!” “But surely he’ll have to toll his eUent who’s behind him?”

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“No. He’s just the type who would have rushed in, anyhow. And It’ll be time enough to put Scruton under obligations when I’ve got him off!” Blanche looked at the troubled eyes avoiding hers, and thought that she had never heard of a fine thing being done so finely. This very shamefacedness appealed to her intensely, and yet last night Charlie had said that old Sweep was in such tremendous spirits about It ail! Why was he so down this morning? She only knew she could have taken his hand, but for a very good reason why she could not. She had even to guard against an equivocally sympathetic voice or manner, as she asked, ‘‘How long did they remand him for?” “Eight days.” "Well, then, you’ll know the best or the worst today week!" “Yes!” he said eagerly, almost himself again. “But, whichever way It goes, I’m afraid It means trouble for me, Blanche; Borne time or other I’ll tell you why; but that’s why I want this to be the week of our liveß.” So he really meant what he had said before. The phrase had been no careless misuse of words; but neither, after all, did it necessarily apply to Mr. Toye. That was something. It made it easier for Blanche not to ask questions. Cazalet had gone out on the balcony; now he called to her; and there was no taxi, but a smart open car. waiting in the road, its brasses blazing

Blanche Looked at the Troubled Eyes Avoiding Hers.

in the sun, an immaculate chauffeur at the wheel. “Whose is that, Sweep?” “Mine, for the week I’m talking about! I mean ours, if you’d only buck up and get ready to come out! A week doesn’t last forever, you know! ” Blanche ran ofT to Martha, who fussed and hindered her with the best Intentions. It would have been difficult to say which was the more excited of the two. But the old nurse would waste time in perfectly fatuous reminiscences of the very earliest expeditions in which Mr. Cazalet had led and Blanche had followed, and what a bonny pair they had made even then, etc. Severely snubbed on that subject, she took to peering at her mistress, once her bairn, with furtive eagerness and impatience; - for Blanche, on her side, looked as though she had something on her mind, and, indeed, had made one or two attempts to get it ofT. She had to force it even in the end.

“There’s Just one thing I want to say before I go, Martha. You know when Mr. Toye called yesterday, I was out?” “Oh, Mr. Toye; yes, I remember, Miss Blanche*” “Well, I don’t want you to say that he came in and waited half an hour in vain'; tir-fact, not- that- he earns in at all, or that you're even sure you saw him, unless, of course, you’re asked.” “Who should ask me, I wonder?” “Well, 1 don’t know, but there seems to be a little bad blood between Mr. -Tove and Mr. Cazalet” Martha looked for a moment as though she were about to weep, and then for another moment as though she would die of laughing. But a third moment she celebrated by making an utter fool of herself, as she would have been told to her face by anybody but Blanche, whose yellow hair was being disarranged by the very hands that had helped to imprison it under that motor hat and veil. “Oh, Blanchie, is that all you have to tell me?” said Martha. And then the week of their lives began. The weather was true to them, and this was a larger matter than It might, have been. They were not making love. They were “not out for that,” as Blanche herself actually told Martha, with annihilating scorn, when the old dear looked both knowing and longtng-to-know at the end of the first day’s run. They were out to enjoy

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themselves, and tint seemed shocking to Martha “unless something was coining of it.” She had just sense enough to keep her conditional clauee 4o herself. * Yet If they were only out to enlov themselves, in the way Miss Blanche vowed, and declared (more shame for her), they certainly had done wonder* for a start. Martha could hardly credit all they said they had done, and as an embittered pedestrian there was nothing that she would “put past” one of those nasty motors. It said very little for Mr. Cazalet, by the way, in Martha’s private opinion, that he should take her Miss Blanche out in a Car at all; If he had turned out as well as she had hoped, and “meant anything,” a nice boat on the river would have been better for them both than all that tearing through the air in a cloud of smoky dust; it would also have been much less expensive, and far more “the thing.” But, there, to see and hear the child

after the first day! She looked so bonny that for a time Martha really believed that Mr. Cazalet had “spoken," and allowed herself to admire him also as he drove off later with his wicked lamps alight. But Blanche would only go on and on about her day, the glories of the Ripley road and the grandeur of Hindhead. She had brought back heaps of heather and bunches of leaves just beginning to turn; they were all over the little house before Cazalet had been gone ten minutes. But Blanche hadn’t forgotten her poor old Martha; she was not one to forget people, especially when she loved and yet had to snub thdm. Martha’s portion was picture postcards of the Gibbet and other landmarks of the day. "And if you’re good,” said Blanche, “you shall have some every day, and an album to keep them In forever and ever. And won’t that be nice when it’B all over, and Mr. Cazalet’s gone back to Australia?" -Crueler anticlimax was never planned, but Martha’s face had brought It on her; and now it remained to make her see for herself what an Incomparably good time they were having. Above all was it delightful to feel 4hat their beloved car was waiting for them outside, to whirl them where they liked; for quite early In the week (and this was a glaring aggravation in Martha’s eyes) Cazalet had taken lodgings for himself and driver In those very Nell Gwynne Cottages where Hilton Toye had stayed before him.

CHAPTER XI. The Thousandth Man. It had been life to them, but now it was all over. It was the last evening of their week, and they were spending it -rather silently on Blanche’s balcony. “I make it at least three hundred,” said Cazalet, and knocked out a pipe that might have been a gag. “You see, we were very seldom under fifty!” “Speak for yourself, please! My longevity’s a tender point,” said Blanche, who looked as though she had no business to have her hair up, as she sat in a pale cross-fire between a lamppost and her lighted room. Cazalet protested that he had only, meant their mileage in the car; he made himself extremely intelligible now, as he often would when she rallied him in a serious voice. “Well, it’s been a heavenly time,” she assured him Just once more. “And tomorrow it’s pretty sure to come all right about Scruton, isn’t it?” “Yes! Tomorrow we shall probably have Toye back,” he answered with grim inconsequence. » “What has that to do with it, Walter?” “Oh, nothing, of course.” But still his tone was grim and heavy, with a schoolboy irony that he would not explain but could not keep to himself. So Mr. Toye must be turned out of the conversation, though it was not Blanche who had dragged him in. She wished people would stick to their point

“There’s one thing I’ve rather wanted to ask you,” she began. "Yes?” said Cazalet. “You Baid the other day that it would mean worry for you in any case —after tomorrow—whether the charge Is dismissed or nut!** -—— His wicket chair creaked under him, “I don’t see why it should," she persisted, “If the case falls through.” “Well, that’s where I come in,” he had to say. — —' ■.., —— “Suretjryou mean just .tteb ' ottoe. way about? If they commit the man for trial, then you do come in, I know. It's like your .goodness.” ——^ “I wish you wouldn’t say that! It hurts m«! w - . ; . ... “Then will you explain yourself? It’s not fair to tell me so much, and jthen to leave out Just the bit that’s _ CKHBB CONTINUED.)

Authority on Steel Production.

~Sir Robert Hadfleld, who has been selected by the British government to assume charge of the engineering works that it has obtained power to take over for the manufacture of war material, is one of the greatest living authorities on the production of steel. In addition to the Bessemet medal, which is the blue ribbon of the Iron and Steel institute of Great Britain. he -has received equally high awards from similar societies In sk most evefy country of the civilised world. Inventor of manganese steel, he is chairman of the lladfield Steel Foundry oompany Ltd., at Sheffield one of the biggest ordnance and pro jectlle concerns in' the United king dom. in fact, in thf world.

HOPING FOR CHAMPION VARSITY EIGHT

University of Pennsylvania is hoping a lot these days, and one of Its main hopes Is that it will have the championship varsity eight when the smoke of battle clears. All thiß outburst of hoping is due to the fact that Joe Wright, famed as a coach in Canada. haß arrived at Penn, where he will put his tactics into operation. Wright Is shown here (man at left with'megaphone In hand) coaching the candidates for aquatic honors on the indoor rowing machines.

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FIELDER JONES’ PIPE DREAM

Would Build a Bail Yard to Seat 150,000 Persons —Used Only for World Series Games. Fielder Jones, manager of the St. Louis Browns, has an idea that comes pretty close to being a pipe dream. It involves the erection of a baseball plant that wiH seat 150,000 and be, used only for .world series games. "The world series is really something apart from the National and American league races,” says Jones. “It Is the grand climax of the two Btining races, and appeals as much to the fan in Bangor, Me., as to the fan in Portland, Ore. “Provision should be ih&de so that all the fans who want to see the big series could do so, and be sure of ac- “ Organized baseball might provide the big plant at an outlay of about $100,600. Some community might donate the land, the railroads and other eKIp in "'(SafrEtY'ewwoMßir-—3-^3331 “The world series advertises Itself because fans think about The big games from the start of the season

SPORTING WORLD

The football game between Dartmouth and Syracuse at Springfield, m««l, November 4, will be a feature at the dedicatory events of the eastern states exposition, to be held in that city this fall- \‘i. ' '

Coach Wright Instructing Varsity Eight.

Fielder Jones.

to the finish. The "Mg IwwniiaJte>ffl seats would pay for the plant in a short time; evWr Ts seats were sold for smaller prices than they are now.”

All Englishmen are not alike. Take Ted Lewis and Freddy Welsh, tor Instance. Lewiß is a real fighter. • • * Now that there's a Judge, a Marshall, a Clark and a Messenger In baseball. there’s pothing to prevent, the opening of court. * John Foster, Giant secretary, says no hail player Is worth $25,000. Aocording to Bradstreet’s, though, some of them are much more than that. -.v- ,

YOUNGEST CUE ARTIST

Playing of Welker Cochran Proves to Be -Revelation. Generally Conceded by Master Students of Game to Be Coming Hoppe of Billiard World—Noted for His Indifference. Welker Cochran Is the youngest professional expert In this country, as he was born at Mawaon, lowa, in 1897. The recent handicap tournament In New York was the first professional tournament in which he appeared. His playing there was more than a revelation for one so young and Inexperienced. He made a high run of 88, and in one game an average of 20. While playing recently at Hartford, Conn., he averaged over 42 in a 300-point game, 18.2 balk line, with a grand average of 28 in 900 points. Cochran is generally conceded by master students of the game to be the coming Hoppe of the billiard world, says a writer in Philadelphia Public ledger. There is no doubt that this youngster is wonderfully gifted in this respect, but he has yet a great deal to learn before

Welker Cochran.

he develops into a Hoppe class—by which I mean not billiards, but Hoppe’s sound common sense. As an expert, young Cochran recalls Percy Collins, Robert Lord and Cope Morton in reckless and pure “cussed” indifference. One of the secrets of Hoppe’s marvelous success as a master expert is the fact that whether in practice or otherwise he always played his best, while young Cochran is notorious for his recklessness and indifference as to whether he shall count or not. It is true that he is still very young, but it is no less true that Mr. Hoppe was also at one period of his life younger than Cochran, but displayed much more wisdom for his years.

O’ROURKE IS A REAL VETERAN

For Seventeen Years “Orator" Was Btar in Major League—Figure in Connecticut Circuit. The present-day fans look upon Hans Wagner and Larry Lajoie as the most ancient in baseball. While these boys have been cavorting o’er the diamond green for many moons, yet they are school kids when compared with James O’Rourke, who played the outfield and was at one time the star catcher of the New York Giants. O’Rourke's official record began in the - year 1876, that is, his major league... record. For IT years after that the "Orator," as O’Rourke was called, was a gtar In the “big show,” and for 16 years James was a central figure In the Connecticut State league. He played in several positions, sad one •entum his son played on the sam» fopm the “Orator” So for years James O'Rourke reported for duty every spring in the pink Qf condition. .113' - : ::_zii--^3

Spanish King Turns to Racing.

European horse racing is to be increased by the establishment of a course at San Sebastian, Spain, which have ila patronage <* jftt Al ‘ fonso. He will race under lhe name of the Duke of Toledo.

Condition of Shamrock IV.

According to a recent surveyor’s report, the challenger Shamrock IV, shows no signs of deterioration. This, the latest yacht built by Sir Thomaa Llpton, has been laid up at Brooklyn, since it arrived in this country in August, 1914, with the intention of racing for the America cup.

Field for Schoolboys.

Washington park, Brooklyn, homo of the Federal league sine, may be turned into an athletic field for schoolboys of that city.