Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 83, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1904 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1904.

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BOYS BUÜIIE0 SCHOOL

AT )ils Sought Revenge for Being Punished bv Teachers at the Holden School. CHICAGO. March 21 The police tonight arrested three boys on the charge of sottins fire to the Holden school, which was burned on the night of March 17. causing a property loss of $20,00 and severely Injuring a number of firemen. The boys placed under arrest are Frederick Jezultan. ten years oM: John Zlntak. thirteen years old; Stanley Marcinkowskl, ten years old. The boys declared that the school was set on fire because the two latter had been forced to remain after school a number of times because of laxity in their studies. BRODRICK ARRAIGNED . AS CRIMINAL PARTNER BY CASHIER OP BANK (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST I'AHE.) in the book. Collins said that it was done to keep the bank running, and that to do to they were forced to reduce the cash Items., lie paid they relied on getting in money later. "Mr. Collins." said Kealing. "you may please state what was said between you and Mr. P. roe rick concerning this false entry of the Garden City Stationery Company." "Brodrick said that the Garden City Stationery Company had authorized him to make such charges, and that he was also good in the Egg Case Manufacturing Company." "How long had you and Mr. Brodrick been making false entries?" "Two or three years." "Was Mr. Prodrlck present when the entry of m.OOO was made in the report to the controller, Sept. 27?" "Yes, sir." "What effect did the false entry of $21,000 have upon the bank?" BIG SUMS DEDUCTED. "It reduced the deposits and cash items 121.000 by taking the cash out of them." "Was the note of 55,000 of the National Tablet Supply Company made on the same day?" "Yes, sir." "What did Mr. Brodrick say about that note?" "He said that he was an officer of the Company and had a right to make It." "Were $30,0 O taken out on that clay?" "The cash Items deducted that amount. Ve wert., both there, but I don't know who did it " "The report to tho controller on that day was not correct then?" "No, sir." Collin? then testified that to defray the $30.OA taken out deposits slips were madecut and although representing nothing were carried In the bank as assets. Kealing asked him if any money was put back when he made cut the $21,uu0 of tickets. Cclllns said that there was not. Kealing then asked him about the entry of $10.Ißj) of the Garden City Stationery Company on June 3. Collins said It was not correct. "Do you remember of signing draft.-s, one for $7.00U and one for $13,0") on Sept. 16, 1'JOJ, for Mr. Brodrick?" "Mr. Brodrick said that he would have to fend a draft to pay a judgment of S,000 in Fort Wayne." ' Did you make out that draft and give it to Mr. Brodrick?" "Yes, sir." "What did he say later about It?" "He said that he went to Fort Wayne and paid the debt." "Was It his own money or the bank's?" "It was the bank's money." "Did he ray anything for the drafts?" "No. sir." "Did he have $3 to his credit In the fcank at that time?" Collins said he did not. "What did you say about making out those drafts?" "I tcld him we would go to hell If we kept this un. He said he would go anyway unless Jje paid that debt." MONEY NEEDED FOR TIDING OVER. Mr. Kealing then asked Collins about the 140,000 that had been borrowed for the bank. lie said that It had been borrowed on .pergonal security; that Walter Brown, J. 'l. Brodrick, D. C. Brodrick and himself had each made out a note of JlO.tf to H. E. ;Buckman. The notes were indorsed by each other. He said that $33,0u0 was taken out for the Buckman notes. "Who got the Fanny K. Thompson note?' aked Kealing. "It went into the book. I saw the book at Rrodrick's home several months ago." Sfco got the notes?" !HCtnk Mr. Brodrick." "Were the notes ever put back in the .bank?" "I don't think so." "Did the Thompson note ever get back into the bank?" "I never saw It." Collins was then asked to tell what happened at the meeting at tho bank on Nov. !lo when Brodrick, Brown and Collins ,wero , present. He said they talked about getting money to tide the bank over and that they took ( out the three Alford notes and the note of J the Consolidated Paper and Bag Company nd the Capp-Brown Company and tho note of D. C. Brown, which was that of Mrs. Walter Brown. Brodrick then got the notebook, he said, out to look it over and Brown said he wanted to take up the Alford .rotes, "I said I didn't know about our right of doing this. Broderlck said it made no difference as we had the Consolidated to j pay anyhow. He said the notes were dellivered to Brown and In their place were .put the notes of the Consolidated Paier and j Bag Company." The notes, he said, were written out that night and taken away. TELLS STORY" OF MEETING. . Kealing asked what was put in the place of the D. C. Brown note of $1,500. Collins said the note of the National Manufacturing Company. "Did Brodrick make out a check there and then take out the note?" "Yea. he did." "Did he have that amount in the bank?" "No. sir." "Was there ever a meeting of the directors of the bank authorizing the taking out of these notes?" . "No. sir: there was not." Collins then told what had happened at the meeting at the bank on the morning of Nov. 11) bot ween 2 and 6 o'clock. He aid that Brodrick said that some entries would have to be made and Thomas was called In. He said Rrodrick took out that Xiight abont $7iQ In money, representing the different .accounts in the bank of different members' of his family; that Brown also took out some money and gave a check on the Republican Club as district, chairman and that he himself took out $241, representing the accounts of his family, lie said the money was laid on the couni ter that night, where they took out all tha: they would have lcen entitled to in the regular order of business. Collins will again be placed on the stand when the court convenes at 9 o'clock this ino'.nlng. The government has completed Its prosecution with the examination ot Collins. The attorneys for tho defense are expected to begin introducing their evidence this morning. Attorneys say it will consume about three days. It is thought that the trial will end about the last of the week. RANSACK HOUSE; GUN IS PLUNDER Robbers last, night entered the home of Fred Dickson. 1310 North Pennsylvania street, through a side window, while the family was away, and ransacked the house from the basement to tho Kamt. When Mr. Dickson returned he found that almost every drawer in the house haa been entered and the contents scattered around on the lloor. The only article Of any value that was found missing was u &-caliber revolver, valued at lis. CITY MAY PAY $9,000 ON COST OP A SEWER Because a change In plans after the adoption of specifications by a former Board of Works Increased the cost of the East "Washington-street sewer by $!),.) over that originally contracted for, citizens who will h assessed for the Improvement assert that the city should pay the increase. If the movement Is pushed the city may b compelled to at least fhare the increased jjTke with the property holders aCtcted.

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EHBI1IG MISSIVES ARE CITED iS 1PB00.F OF LOVE Brcacli of Promise Suit's Hearing Amuses Spectators When Letters Are Read.

JURY TAKES CASE TO-DAY Letters as expressive of affection and repute with endearing terms and entreaties to "come" and with as many threats for "the other woman" as were in the letters of Monday were read in court yesterday morning in the breach of promise suit of Mrr. Sarah Cox against John Wright for $1",'"J damages. The missives told of the many heartaches she was experiencing and of the many restless hours that she was passing and of the many dreams she had of the days when all was well and when their true love ran smoothly. - A part of one of the communications yesterday was, "John, will you come tomorrow night? Come, sweetheart, I could lay down my head for you to walk on. 1 am coming down to see you, will you -meet me? If you "marry her I will torture her and choke her. I wish I may die if I don't." A part of another letter that furnished amusement for the spectators was the following: "Dearest: If dreams come true, my beloved one, I should awaken to find you at my side, would hear your tender voice and feel the pulses of your heart throbbing responsive to my own, my dear, dear one. May joy ever be with you while I grope along in the darkness of my own sorrow. "I wish people would mind their own business. Its nobody's business how much I love you or whether you love me in return. Ever your own loving Sarah." The argument in the case began immediately after noon and lasted until 5 o'clock. The argument of the attorneys for the plaintiff was to show that a marriage agreement had been entered Into with Mrs. Cox by Wright and testimony was reviewed where the defendant had made overtures to the plaintiff In the presence of others. Attorney Clark, for the plaintiff, made an eloquent appeal to the jury in behalf of an aged widow, who, he said, had been duped by the wily defendant. He pictured her as a woman who would have to live the remainder of her lire in sontude and shame, while the widower, with his "horse and rubber-tirea ouggy couia travel all over like township having a good time." The attorneys for the defense played upon the evidence of the defendant, who declared that he had never promised to marry the plaintiff, but that she had continually insisted that he should. The' jury will be instructed at 9 o'clock this mornir.g and will determine the case whether the widow or the widower was the prosecutor in the love affair. Yotinjr "Shover of Queer Si 1 T1 .r t 1 entenCCd tO riainiiekl Will McDonald, a juvenile, who broke into a Massachusetts-Avenue grocery a few days ago, was arraigned before Judge Stubbs yesterday and sentenced to the India aa School for Bovs at Plalnfleld. BeI sides some tobacco and other commodities that McDonaU found at the store was a counterrelt aouar. wnicn ne rassea on a banana vendor, receiving 90 cents in change. It was for this charge particularly that he was sent to the school at Flalnneld. Raymond Osborn and Carl and Raymond Berger. the boys who were given a pre liminary hearing Monday and pleaded to the offense of stealing bicycles, were again arraigned yesterday. The Osborn boy was given a suspended sentence to the Indiana School for Boys at Plalnfleld, Carl Berger was given a suspended "sentence to Miss Julia Work's school and Herbert Berger was put under the probation of Miss Julia Moore. Elihu Day, as an accomplice to the McDonald boy, was also given a suspended sentence to the Julia Work School. Patti's Treasurer Evades Suit Through His Misspelled Name x In a plea of abatement filed yesterday morning in the Superior Court in the at tachment proceedings of the Detroit Free Press Company against Robert Grau, Incorporited, Frank AlcKlege, defendant and assistant treasurer of the Patti company. claims that his real name is Ferdinand instead of Frank McKiege, therefore there Is no suit against him. The plea was made out in New York citv and he claims there is nor never was any "Frank" McKiege as far as he knows, and tor this -reason the present action against him cannot stand. Wife's Epithets Drive Her Husband to Divorce Court On the grounds that his wife was unable to control her ungovernable temper. .Malachi J. Handon yesterday filed suit In Superior Court for divorce from Mary H. Handon. As grounds to show that he was the vic tim of his wife's bad temper and brutality. the plaintiff stated that she had assaulted him, beaten him with an iron poker and that she had told him on different occa sions that she "didn't love him any more." It was also shown that she was indifferent as to the kind of language she used and that she thought nothing of calling him vulgar names. Estate of Drowned Woman Expended by Administrator William Giezendanner, administrator of v, - ...-f Afru tiri.T- shnw rmia ' , his linai report yesieruay morning io juuge Wollet- .f tho Probate tourt. Of thp $10.", found on the person of Mrs. faehowe when recovered from White river a few weeks ago. $:' of the amount was paid out for funeral expenses and attorneys' fees and other necessary expenses and the remaining $' was retained as remuneration for the administrator. Woman Says Tobacco Smoke Dims Vision in Barrel House Michael Traugott was fined $20 and costs yesterday morning by Special Police Judge Wilkinson for selling liquor on Sunday in a barrel house at Warren and Oliver avenues. West Indianapolis. Mrs. Allen Powers, of Ui3 Division street, brought the charges against him. She said that the place was so tull of tobacco smoke that she could not recognize any one but her husband. Tili: COIHT ItlXOHI). SUPERIOR COURT. Room 1 John L. McMaster, Judge. William Karstetter vs. Jacob Roller et al.; on note. On trial by court. Room 2 James M. Leathers, Judge. Sarah A. Cox vs. John Wright; breach of promise. On trial by jury. Sevola Riehe reek vs. Amos A. Tomlinson et al; to quiet title. Evidence hear!. Finding and judgment that title to real estate be quieted In plaintiff. Judgimnt against planum for costs. Room 3 Vinson Carter, Judge. Mrs. M. Newby vs. Pennsylvania Railroad Company; damages. Finding for de fendant, judgment against plaintiff for costs. Edward W. Doser vs. Catherine M. Lewis; mechanic s lien, uismisseu and costs paid. Joseph Eckhouse vs. Edward H. Decker; note. Unding and judgment against de fendant for $-.20.44 and costs. Alex. P. Criswell vs. Featherstone Foun dry and Machine Company; attachment and garnishee. On trial by court. CIRCUIT COURT. Henry Clay Allen, Judge. Charles Fetherrton vs. Pheobe Fethcrston. Plaintiff dismisses cause. Judgment agalnt piaintirt rcr costs. In the matter of the petition of Eliza Stirkey for highway. Trial resumed. CRIMINAL COURT. Fremont Alford, Judge. William Hudson; burglary and petit larceny. Defendant withdraws former plea of not guilty and enters a plea of guilty to petit larcmy. Age, eighteen years. Fined 51 and costs. One to three years In Indiana

Reformatory. Disfranchised one year. Burglary charge nollied by the State. NEW SUITS FILED. Malachi Handoa vs. Mary Haadon; divorce. Superior Court. John H. Hensel vs. Matilda Hensel; divorce. Superior Court. Ellhu Jessup vs. Indianapolis Terminal and Traction Company; damages. Superior Court. George L. Godfrey vs. Florence I. Godfrey; divorce. Superior Court. Louis Hudson vs. Pandy Hudson; divorce. Circuit Court. Edward Hudson vs. Franklin Watson; to quit title. Circuit Court. Elizabeth Pattison vs. Charles S. and Elizabeth Muun; complaint on note. Superior Court. Marshall Levey vs. William L. Baker; note. Superior Court. higher cot itTs hecohd. SUPREME COURT. Minutes. 20112. B. L. Webb et al. vs. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. Marion C. C. Appellee's petition and brief (S) for rehearing. 20.2. Maria L. Fell et al. vs. William II. West, treasurer. Lawrence C. C. Appellant's brief (S.) APPELLATE COURT.

Ruling. 4124. Samuel D. Cappcs et al. vs. Union National Savings and Loan Association. Elkhart C. C. Aprtllee's petition for re hearing. . CHLOROFORM BOTTLE IS FOUND BESIDE BODY Sflicide of J. II. Filinegatl AcCOmplished in the Barn of a Teamster. The body of John II. Finnegan, a foreman in the employ of thi Indianapolis Gas Company, was found in the hayloft of a barn in the rear of 529 Dorman street yes terday morning. H. D. Coverdill, a teamster, keeps his horses in the barn and found the body as he was getting ready to teed them. It is thought that Finnegan committed suicide some time Monday nignt, as an empty chloroform bottle was found near his body. V hen last seen alive Finnegan was morose and despondent. He .left a note to his wife in which he said that he had not been feeling well for the last few days. TM 92 -YEARS OLD; KILL . ME" SAYS INSANE MAN Vr-ntli n-i'L OnL. O,-, T C,..-:., 1 CUtll Wltil Ulli' (Jlie Leg bpHllgS a Surprise on Police Sergeant. "Are you the man that does the killing?" was the question addressed to Desk Sargeant Corrigan at police station last night by a well-dressed young man who was the unfortunate possessor of only one limb. The sergeant told him that he had gone out of the killing business and asked the wu"e iu iium ne wantea Kinea. lie then informed him that he was ninety-two years old yesterday and that he was getting tired of living and wished to be shot. lhe sergeant was unable to grant his re quest and sent him to the lockup. He gave his name as William Stokes and his age as ninety-two years. The charge of insanity was placed against him. Jjff(lS CAB SO AS TO BE WITH STRICKEN MOTHER While Mrs. Sarah Brower, colored, of S17 Blake street, and her daughter were standing at Capitol 'avenue and Fourteenth street last night Mrs. Brower was sud denly stricken with heart trouble. The am bulance, in charge of Dr. Jeffries, was called and preparations made to. remove the sufferer to her home. The daughter also wished to ride in the ambulance, but the doctor would not allow this. The daughter then said that if she could not ride in the ambulance her mother could not and that she would hire a cab. Suiting her words with action she produced a large roll of money and then the ambulance started on its way to the barn. CAR LINE EXTENSION INSPECTED BY BOARD To investigate the merits of the proposed extension of the East Tenth-street car line. a petition for which is now before the Board of Public Works, Engineer Jeun. iiitinueis ui me uuaiu in orKs ana interested citizens went over the route yesterday afternoon. , , Aliened Robber Canght. CHARLESTON, 'S. C, March 22. A man giving the name of L. Ivey. has been arrested here by federal authorities on the charge of robbing postoilices and altering 1 T f , . O money oruers. ie nas oeen partially Identified as the man who robbed several Milwaukee residences of diamonds last year. He is held for trial. Dent litt from the Plague. JOHANNESBURG, March 22. Un to date the total number of deaths from bubonic plague is iorty-two two white and fortv colored persons. The Horror of "War. When the battle ship Oblavnky Meets the cruller Okamuro And the warship 1 ietropavsky Humps against the IShikoshuro. Ah, the Hea will then turn ruddy, All the decks will then be bloody. And the anxious world will waltsky, for the newsovitch with dread: There will tnen be aitch to paysky. Ana tne ones wno get awaysky Will have thrilling tales to bloodovitch they shed. tellsky of the I When the mighty Shikoshinio Kams the preat Kovanokoff, And the helpless llakorimo it. from the Horsemoff. Ah. 'twill be a fearful flphtsky Many a soul will take Its flightsky To the realmovicch In which the ones who go beforeoff dwell! Who may jruesa the endomuro? . War 1 hellskyviteh forsureo.. Even tho' a rose may bloomsky where a herovitch once fell. Chicago Record-Herald. TIILI JOURNAL'S S1IOPPIXG DEPARTSIE.NTj For the l'e of Journal Snhncrlhrra. 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By a Hair's Breadth

A. Thrilling Tale of Adventure, Secret

Dar Headon Hill

CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY. Forteseue remained silent for some moments. There was clear and lucid reasoning in Melton's deductions, which have since been amply confirmed by subsequent events known to the world. "And you mentioned a cipher?" he said presently. "Yes, I got that by the merest flukethough you were good enough to compliment me on it," said the dectective. "I saw him oft the day before yesterday in the morning. The same afternoon it was shown to me by the barmaid at one of the Eng lish buftets here which he frequented. The girl Itnows me, and also knsw that I had been interested in Delaval." '"Did she give you the code?" asked Forteseue, concealing his eagerness. The inspector's reply was the production of a bulky pocketbook, from which he extracted a greasy sheet of folded foolscap and threw it over to Forteseue. "There Is the confounded thing," he said. "Not much use, is it with none of their correspondence to decipher?" Forteseue run his eye over the code with undisguised interest. "I don't know to what extent Volborth has incurred your displeasure," he said, "but if you will relent so far as to let me make a copy of this for him it might be very serviceable." "Oh, I've got nothing against Volborth beyond his system," replied the inspector. "Copy it by all means. Only I can't wait while you do it, as I have to meet one of our men by the afternoon boat via Calais. Keep the code and give it to me in the morning. I shall see you before you leave, and if you'll excuse me now I will be off." No sooner was Melton gone than Forteseue took out the draft telegram which he had dispatched for the princess at Amiens, and compared it with the cipher code. The latter, a very brief scrutiny showed him, was applicable, and a few minutes sufficed to translate the instructions sent to "Serjov, Toste Restante, Copenhagen," into French, the sense being: "Abandon attempts in Denmark. Dubrowski under suspicion, and useless for further work. Plans must be rearranged, so rendezvous at Number 4 Center forthwith. Olga Palitzln." Folding up the code and the draft telegram he placed them in his pocketbook, well i leased with the prompt result of his chance meeting with the princess. It was good to learn, for lima Vassill's sake, that her foolish lover was to be discharged from his perilous bondage; and to have ilutterd the dove-cotes of the conspirators seemed to make for the safety of the Tsar. The delay of having to initiate fresh attempts would have the effect, Forteseue thought, and the conspirators, discouraged by previous failures, might even give up their vile projects altogether. "Though I am not so sure that Volborth would be the best pleased at having to face a rearrangement of their pLns with Dubrowski left out of his calculations," he reflected as he rose from the table. "I must salve my conscience by sending him a i-opv of Delaval's code as a set-off against my interference." lie had nearly reached the door of the restaurant, when at table at a tousideratle distance from the one at which he and Mellon had lunched he perceived the Princess Olga Palitzln herself. He was sure that she had not been there on his entering and he had not seen her before owing to the inspector's detective Instinct having prompted him to appropriate the seat facing the room. Forteseue had thus had his back to the princess. And now, as he passed her table, she seemed to be equally unconscious of his presence. Not for a

moment did sne reiax ner attention to tne engrossing conversation of her companion a tail, spare-framed old man, with a long white beard and shaggfr brows overarching a ptfir of fiery deep-set eyes. Forteseue passed out into the vestibule and stopped a hurrying waiter. "Ascertain for me if the lady in the furs at the second table from the door and the gentleman with her are staying in the hotel," he said.

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Feeney Furniture and Stove Company, Furniture and Carpets. Albert Gall, Carpets and Upholstery. Charles L. Hartmann, Furniture, Carpets and Stoves. Iske Bros., Furniture and Upholstery. Paul H. Krauss, Shirtmaker, Men's Outfitter, Hats. Kahn Tailoring Co., Tailors. George J. Marott, Shoes. Charles Mayer &. Co., "THi: GIFT i Silverware and China. Copyright by Dodd, Mead CD. Co. Dealing -witH Life in the Russian Service Hut the garcon was able to oblige monsieur without inquiry. Neither the lady nor the gentleman was staying in the hotel, but they had patronized the restaurant at intervals during the last ten days for dejeuner and dinner. Rewarding the man with a franc. Fortescue ran up to his room and began to make a rapid change in his attire. After putting a spoke in Volborth's wheel in the matter of Dubrowski. he felt that he could not repay his friend better than by following the princess when she left the restaurant, lie was aware of the difficulty of shadowing her in broad daylight, but the chance that she might lead him to the headquarters of the gang possibly to that mysterious "Number 4 Center" was too good to be missed. Reinforced with a knowledge of their lair, Volborth might be trusted to set such a watch on the comings and goings of the miscreants that they would be powerless for evil. After plunging Into a Norfolk Jacket and rummaging an old tweed hat from the bottom of his "Gladstone," he made his way again to the ground floor to find that he was too late. The princess and her fierce-eyed cavalier had quitted the restaurant, and. as a hasty question put to the same waiter elicited, had departed from the hotel two minutes before. The attache was not addicted to profanity, but he hurled a full-flavored expletive at his informant. A certain smug Innocence lurking at the corner of the man's mouth seemed to explain why the princess and her companion had curtailed that absorbing con-vert-atiou. Realizing that abuse of the waiter would not mend matters, he returned to his room, and, having rehabilitated himself, joined Lady Mttcalf and Laura. The rain still fell in torrents, and there was no question of going out. Having done his best to enliven their afternoon, Forteseue dined quietly with the ladies in their private saloon. Towards the close of the meal, white he was tor the tenth time earning Laura's gratitude by promising her mother a smooth crossing on the morrow, the garcon brought him a letter which had just been left at the hotel. At the sight of the envelope Forteseue needed all his nerve to repress a start, for the bold, free hand was the same as that in which was traced the draft telegram reposing in his pocketbook. He managed to ask carelessly if the messenger was waiting an answer, and, having received a replv in the negative, Jje obtained Lady Metcalf's permission to read his note. It was in French, and ran as follows: 497 Rue St. Tol, Boulogne. Dear Sir You were so good as to do me a small service thi morning, and from your charming friends I also received much generous assistance. On these slight grounds I venture to trespass further on your kindnessN and to beg of you to call on me at the above address at 9 o'clock this evening. I desire to avail myself of your advice, and, if you are willing to grant it your help, under very trying circumstances! For reasons which I will explain, 1 must ask you to come alone. Accept the assurances, monsieur, etc etc. OLGA PALITZIN." Feeling that Laura's eyes were on him as he read he schooled himself to suppress his elation, which was great. At any rate, here, ready to his hand to pick up, was the thread that he had dropped earlier in the day. The sense that he owed reparation to Volborth for depriving him of the clew through. Dubrowski to the conspirators had been growiug on him, and he promised himself to see this adventure through. The idea of personal danger did not occur. He knew that he had to deal with determined and resourceful criminals, and though naturally fearUss he would not have trusted himself amongst them If he had believed them to regard him as an active antagonist. Put beyond the fact of his having been seen In Melton's company there was nothing to connect him with their natural foes, and he did not think that a connection had been made that way. The English detective had certainly not recognized Olga Talltzin and her companion in the restaurant, though sitting where he had a good view of them, and the presumption that he was equally unknown to them. All this passet! through Forteseue's mind In a flash, and by the time he had finished up the Invitation he was ready to meet the challenge of inquiry In Laura's eyes. This he did by nn ausweriug glance that hinted at the postponement of open curiosity, but

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1C W. H. Messenger, x Furniture and Carpets. Le E. Morrison & Co., Trunks, Traveling Rags and Rubber Goods. The New York Store, Dry Goods Cloaks, Shoes, Carpets, Furniture. People's Outfitting Co., Furniture and liousefurnish-ing-j. Rink's Cloak House, Suits, Cloaks, Furs. F. H. Rupert, Furniture and Stoves. SakS & CO., (The Model) Men's and Boys' Outfitters. The Sander &. Recker Furniture Co., Furniture.

ASK FOR A MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION REBATE BOOK In the first store you enter of those named above as members; insist on having each purchase entered in the rebate book in every member's store you trade, and when through buying present book at 16 East Washington Street, over Columbia National Bank, any time between 8 a. m. and 6 p. m., and g3t your rebate. It is all very simple no extra trouble. Application for rebate book must be made at the time purchase i3 made. EVERY LINE OF MERCHANDISE IS REPRESENTED. The Merchants' Association of Indianapolis includes the representative retail stores cf the city, and covers practically every line cf merchandise needed for personal or home use. You may spend $3.00 at one sfore, $10.00 at another, $3.03 at another and $4.00 in miscellaneous pui chases there ls$25.00 expended, for which your round trip fare will be refunded. THE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION GUARANTEES to each customer the fulfillment of the above proposition.

16 Em VJaGhingtOtl Stm (over the moment Lady Metcnlf had been made comfortable after dinner he drew Laura aside. "That note was from the Princess Talitzin." he said, placing it in her hand. "I am rather inclined to go. I have no idea what the woma,n wants, but through her I may be able to further improve lima Vassili's prospects." "Then go by all means," replied Laura, quickly skimming the letter. "I can't say I caught on to the lady, after the firstshe seemed bloodless and insincere." "Well, I shall not be trusting her with any secrets." said Forteseue. "1 am going to try to get at hers. And look here, little woman. Here are two documents neither clean nor interesting, but highly Important which I do not care to carry about with me. Will you take charge of them and not deliver them up to any one but to myself in person, on any representation?" And he took out and handed to her the cipher code and the draft of the princess's telegram to Serjov. Laura took them, and perceiving their cabalistic nature made one cf her expressive grimaces. "The Heathen Chinee isn't in it with you. Spencer, for. ways that are dark and tricks that are vain," she said, as she locked. the papers away in her traveling-bag. that lay close at hand on a console table. "There must be something very nice about you, I think, to be able to Indulge in all these mysterious carryings-on without shaking the confidence of yours truly." "I expect there's something very nice about both of us in you chiefly, denr, for 3-our loyal faith," was the reply. And, as by this time they were out of the salon and no one about, trie mutual compliment was ratified in a fashion that concerns no one but themselves. Laura, having intimated that she should not go to bed till he returned, went back to her mother, and Forteseue sought his own room to fetch an overcoat, for the night was chilly. Having made the addition to his attire, he was about to leave when an after throught struck him. He opened his Gladstone bag and extracted a small revolver, which he placed in his pocket. The train of ideas bred of this action lasted him all the way downstairs and into the cab which he had ordered. It suggested to him for the first time that there was a spice of knight-errantry in the course on which he had embarked, and, since he rather prided himself on being a very prosaic person, he laughed at himself accordingly. From that, as the cab rattled over the cobbles away from the smells of the waterside towards the Haute Ville, he fell to analyzing the motives which had induced him to plunge into an affair that made the possession of a pistol seem desirable. ''Laura's enthusiasm, and a feeling that that poor beggar Dubrowski was being treated unfairly, started me. And now, having, I trust, relieved him at Volborth's expense, I am smitten with a desire to furnish the astute Paul with a quid pro quo in the way of information. And yes, I have a taste for this sort of thing. It is good training." ' ' So he reflected as the cab began to climb the steep streets of the old town, and he knew that he must b nearlng his destination. The garish lights of shops and hotels the noisy watering place racket had long since been left behind, and they were threading a network of narrow, ill-lighted thoroughfare, curiously quiet by contrast, in which the dark old houses had an air of i-hy retirement. Forteseue was more at home in capitals than pleasure resorts, but he remembered hearing that the Hue St. Pol bore a none too savory reputation. Suddenly the cab drew up at a house which, but for a glimmer in the fanlight over the door, might well hae been vacant, so dark were its windows and uncared for its approach. Forteseue. who knew the exterior of the Palitzln palace on the Great Morskaia at Petersburg, felt instinctively for his pistol. That the owner of that splendid pile should be .domiciled in Mingy abode struck home to him the sibilitlcs he might lind cn the other this posside of the threshold. liidding the driver wait, he mounted the moldy steps and tugged at an Id-fashioned iron bell-pull, which caused a longcontinued clangor far away In some distant basement. Put, as evidencing that a janitor was ready and waiting, the door was swiftly and silently evened almost as soon as the bell began to ring, and an under-sized, shock-headed man whom he had never seen before confronted him. No words passed. The doorkeeper, who must have been furnishe-d with a description of the expected visitor, looked him up and down, and admitted him, ami closed the eloor instantly with a metallic snap that somehow got on Fortescue's nerves. "Sounded like the click of a mousetrap." he thought, as the small man turned the handle of the door on the right of the passage and motioned him to enter. And the next moment, when he passed Into the room conviction came to him that it was

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- a - a : : . a a a a - : : a a a a a-a it The Star Store, Pry GooJs, Carpets, Cloaks, Shoes, Clothing. L. Strauss Sc Co., nheEagie) Clothing and Men's Furnishings. Taylor Carpet Co., Carpets and Upholstery. Vonnegut Hardware Co., (Retail Dept.) Fine Cutlery and Plated Ware. Julius C. Walk & Son, Diamonds, Jewelry and Silverware. H. P. Wasson 8c Co., Dry Goods, Cloaks, Millinery, Carpets, Furniture. When Clothing Store, Clothing and Men's Furnishings. - a a . a a a a a Columbia Nafl Bsnk) Indianapolis a trap into which he had walked so easily. For, seated at the head of a shabby table was Olga Palitzln. having on her right the ficrce-eyed old man who had been with h(r at (Vif. ructoit.n.,) .1 V, T v - - " - i uiuiuui, auu mi uti it'll x-'e laval very far from being on his way back to America. Oue quick glance round showed why the house from the outside appeared to be in utter darkness. Tho windows were furnished with thick wooden sbutters. which 'were closed and .barred. The trio looked up on Fortescue's entrance, the princess deliberately folding a map over which they had been poring. Her first words Were addressed, not to her visitor, but to Delaval, and Forteseue was startled to hear-them spoken in crisp English. In the train she had carefully concealed all knowledge of the language, and this open use of it implied that she had no further need of concealment lWore him. There was a further deduction from that ominous inference which he tried to put from him. "Is it the same?" asked the princess, in her even, expressionless tone. "It is the same," Delaval replied, regarding Forteseue with an ugly sneer. "Pray be seated," said the princess, acknowledging her visitor for the first time, and pointing to a chair facing her from the other end of the tablp. "There are one or two questions I would ask of you, and after that-yes. after that I think we shall have finished with him. eh, gentlemen?" In response the irish-Amciican emitted an unpleasant grating chuckle, and the graybeard nodded his head thrie-e, hU caverilous c.es glowing fiercer than ever, l ortescue was proceeding to peat himself with as great an assumption of careless y -ic luum jnusier wnen sieauny footfalls not of one man. but of several in the passage caused him to move the ch ilr so that he could see the ooor as well as his interviewers. Every sense in his body was o.n the alert, and he did not mean to be taken in the rear. "Two things, Mr. Forteseue, have com bined to put a new complexion on our relations since this morning." began the princess. "In the lirst place. I have since met my friend Colonel Delaval here, and he has told me some interesting facts about my kind fellow-travelers from Paris. That they or some of them deprived him of the hospitality ot IJarou von Lindberg at Breslau, for instance." All this candor had a naty significance for Forteseue,- but he answered coolly enough: "The reason for that was sufficiently explained to Colonel Delaval at the time. He readily acquiesced in it. I do not JmaRiae that he was seriously inconvenienced in having to leave that house just then." The princess waved her hand lmpatif ntlr. "That may be," she re 'plVd. "I only cite 'it as an Instance of want of friendliness. I presume that Colone! Delaval ali-o has to thank your party for interfering with certain property left by him at the Ilaroness von Lindberg's?""Really, Princess Palitzln, I don't understand the tone or the drift of your crossexamination," replied Forteseue boldly. "I heard something about the le-moval of a portmanteau jy a German gentleman a Herr Winckel. I think, was the name." There was a putting together of the, three heads in whi.jrtd discussion. "Herr Winckel" was evidently a puzzle. "Can you inform me whether Restofskl, the Russian police agent, took part In the discovery?" aked the princess, looking up. "I have not the honr t.f M. Restofski'c acquaintance," re plied Fe rtescue, glad thus to learn that Volborth's Incognito wa still intact. "And now, princess." he added with a determination to tes-t his own position, "as I do not seem able to give you much Information, perhaps ytu will allow me to take my pave." Delaval laughed coarsely, and the tall old man's eyes blazed like live coals, as the visitor rose to his feet. "Not so fr.st, Mr. Meddlesome Englishman, if you pleas- the house door Is wll guarded," cried the prlneefs, throwing off ail disKidse. "This- is the chief matter on win h I desired your attendance. Hestore at once the cipher code 'hit h you got from the English :c"ce ofluer this morning, also öraft of th telegram which 1 fro'ösnly eonlided to you. It is useless to deny that you had the ccmI I w the man Melton hand It to you. and I saw you compare it with th telegram." No one knew. better than Forteseue that he was in danger of his life, for after this they would n t dare Ut him go. but at that moment hi uppermt feeling was one of irritation with himself at the false step he had male in uot allowing for a recognition of Melton by on- or other ef the conspirators. Or it might be he hoped It was so that Melton had been recognized from Delaval's description, ami that the nature of the document handed to him had beeu an atter-conelusion. Either way the situa tion was the same, and had to be faced. ITo V Continued To-morrow.