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BEGIN HERE TODAY Colonel Holies, soldier and adventurer, returns to England, the land of his birth, when war is declared with Holland. He comes to lodge with Martha Quinn, hostess of the Paul s Head, in Paul's Yard, London. It is difficult for the colonel to secure a commission in the English army because the name of Randal Holies, father of the colonel, is on the warrant for the execution of the late king. A friend named Tucker asks Holies to enter a conspiracy against the government. A letter is brought from His Grace of Albemarle telling the colonel that a place in the army has been found for him. Holies tells the good news to Martha Quinn. Because Martha has fallen victim to the colonel's charms she feels keen disappointment when Holies receives an appointment. NOW GO WITH THE STORY -TTEGGARS may not choose I", ma’am. Igo where I can find - - employment. Besides, it is not as bad as you imagine.” “But where's the need to go at all, when, as I've told you already, such a man as yourself should be thinking of settling down at home and taking a wife?” She realized that the time had come to deliver battle. It was now or never. And thus she sent out a preliminary skirmishing party. "Why, look at yourself,” she ran on, before he could answer. “Look at the condition of you.” And she pointed a denunciatory finger at the great hole

THE STEM OP HIS PIPE SNAPPED BETWEEN HIS FINGERS. the heel of his right stocking. “You should- be seeking a woman to take care of you, instead of letting your mind run on soldiering in foreign parts.” "Excellent advice,” he laughed. “There is one difficulty only. Who takes a wife must keep a wife, and, if I stay in England. I shan't have enough to keep myself. So I think it’ll be the Indies, after all.” She came to the table, and leaned upon it. facing him. ‘‘You're forgetting something. There's many a woman well endowed, and there's many a man has taken a wife with a Jointure who couldn't ha' taken a wife without.” “You said something of the kind before.” Again he laughed. “You think I should be hunting an heiress. You think I have the figure for the part.” "I do.” said she. to his astonishment. "You’re a proper man, and you've a name and a position to offer. There's many a wealthy woman of modest birth would be glad of you. as you should be glad of her. since would bring what the other lacks.” “Faith! You think of everything. Carry your good offices further than Miil" HAS, INDIGESTION

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mere advice, Mrs. Quinn. Find me this wealthy and accommodating lady, and I’ll consider the rejection of this Indian office. But you'll nyed to make haste, for there's only a week left.” It was a laughing challenge. * “That’s not quite so easy as advising, is it?” he rallied her. “Oh, yes, it is,” she assured him. “If you was serious I could soon produce the lady—a comely enough woman of about your own age, mistress of thirty thousand pounds and some property, besides.” ‘Where is she, then?” Mrs. Qiiinn moved away from the table, and round to his side of it. “She is . . . here.” s “Here?” he echoed. She drew a step or two nearer, so that she was almost beside him. “Here in this room,” she insisted softly. m He looked up at her, still uncomprehending. Then, as he observed the shy smile with which she sought to dissemble her agitation, the truth broke upon him at last. The clay stem of his pipe snapped between his fingers, and he dived after the pieces, glad of any retext to remove his eyes from her face and give him a moment in which to consider how ho should conduct himself in this novel and surprising situation. / When he came up again, his face was flushed. w r hich may have been from the lowering of his head. He wanted to laugh; but he realized that this would be utterly unpardonable. He rose, and set the pieces of the broken pipe on the table. Standing thus, his shoulder to her, he spoke gently, horribly embarrassed. "I • • * I had no notion of * * • your meaning * * • ” And there he broke down. v But his embarrassment encouraged heh Again she came close. "And now that you know It, Colonel?" she whispered. ”I***l don't know what to say.” His mind was beginning to recover its functions. He understood at last wh>* a person of his shabby exterior and obvious neediness should have been given unlimited credit in this house. “Then say nothing at all. Colonel, dear,” she was purring. “Save that you'll put from you all notion of sailing to the Indies.” , “But * * * but my word is pledged already.” It was a straw at which he clutched desperately. And it was not a very fortunate one, for It sug gested that his pledged word was the Only obstacle. The effect was to bring her closer. She was almost touching him, as he stood there, still half averted, and she actually leaned against him, and set a hand upon his shoulder as she spoke, coaxingly, persuasively. “But it was pledged before * * before you knew of this. His grace wall understand. He’li never hold you to it. You've but to explain.” “I •• * I couldn't. I couldn't,” he cried weakly. / “Then I can.” “You?” He looked at her.

She was pale, but resolute. "Yes, me,” she answered him. "If your pledge is all that holds you. I'll take coach at once and go to .Whitehall. George Monk ’ll see me, or if he won't his Duchess will. I knew her welLin the old days, when I was a younti girl, and she was a seamstress glad to earn a groat where she could. Nan Clarges ’ll never deny herself to an old friend. So if you but say the word. I’ll soon deliver -you from this pledge of yo)urs.” His face lengthened. He looked away again. '“That is not all, Mrs. Quinn,” he said, very gently. "The truth is . . . I am not of a ... a nature to make a woman happy.” This she deemed mere coyness, and swept it briskly aside. “I’d take the risk of that.” "But . . . but . . . you see T’ve lived this roving life of mine so long, that I do not think I could ever fettle. Besides, ma’am, what have I to offer?” “If I am satisfied with my bargain, why take thought for that?” ”1 must. The fact is, I atn touched, deeply touched. I did not think I had it in me to arouse the affection, or even the regard, of any woman. Even so, ma’am, whilst it moves me. it does not change my purpose. I am not a marrying man.” “Bpt ...” / He raised a hand, dominantly, to check her. He had found the correct formula at last, and he meant to keep to it. • “Useless to argue, ma’am. T know my mind. My reasons are as I have said, and so is the fact. I am touched; I am prodigiously touched, and grateful. But there it is.” His firmness turned her white with mortification. To have offered herself, and to have been refused! As she considered him now with her vivid blue eyes, her face grew mottled. She was moved to sudden hatred of him. She walked to the door, moving a little heavily. She opened it, and then paused under the lintel. Over her shoulder she spoke to him again. “Seeing that things is like this, perhaps you'll make it convenient to find another lodging not later than tomorrow.” He inclined his head a little in agreement. "Naturally . . .” he was beginning, when the door closed after her with a bang and he was left alone. "Phew!” he breathed, as he sank limply into his chair again. He passed a hand wearily across his brow, and found it moist. CHAPTER ,X Buckingham Disposes Colonel Holies hummed softly to himself as he dressed with care to keep his momentous appointments at the CoekpiL Early that morning he had emptied the contents of his purse upon the bed, and counted up his Tt amounted to thirty-five pounds and some shillings. And Albemarle had promised him that, together with his commission, he should that morning receive an order on the treasury for thirty pounds to meet his disburse-

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must, he considered, do - credit toaiis patron. Therefore, immediately after an early breakfast —at which, for once, he had been waited upon, not by Mrs. Quinn, but by Tim the drawer—he had sallied forth and made his way to Paternoster Row. There he purchased a fine coat of red camlet laced with gold, and small-clothes, stockings, and cravat in keeping. By the time he added a pair of boots of line Spanish leather, a black silk

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THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

and a black beaver with a trailing red plume, he found that fully three-quar-ters of his slender fortune was dissipated, and y.here remained in his purse n<?t above eight pounds. He had returned then with his bundle to the Paul’s Head, and, as he surveyed himself now In his mirror. freshly shaven, his long thick golden-brown hair elegantly curled, and a clump of its curls caught in a ribbon on his left, the long pearshaped ruby glowing in his ear, his

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of lace, and the fine red coat that sat so admirably upon his shoulders, he smiled at the memory of the scarecrow he had been as lately as yesterday. He created something of a sensation wfltnn he appeared below in all this finery, and, since it* was unthinkable that he should tread the filth of the streets with his new Spanish boots, Tim was dispatched for a hackney-noach to convey the Colonel T”SW„V !^ti ,

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It still wanted an hour to noon, and this the Colonel considered the earliest at which he could decently present himself. But early as it W*is, there'was another who had been abroad and at the Cockpit even earlier. This was His Grace of Buckingham, whOj accompanied by his friend. Sir Harry Stanhope, had'sought the Duke of Albemarle a full hour before Colonel Holies had been ready to leave his lodging. \ <i <ti;" Xinirt f-no\

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

IBECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS—By BLOSSER

TRUSTEES HELD LIABLE Lesh Says/ Reformatory Board MayHave to Pay Contractors’ Fees. An opinion by Attorney General U. S. Lesh holds trustees of the Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton arc liable today to payment of fees to general Contractors,- Latham & Walters,, based on cost of unused material at the institution as well aa cost of used ' w*rf T'lsr* r\r\" r'"'> T’C'flr<*

TUESDAY, FEB. 19, 1924

—By MARTIN

—BtTAYLOP.

soon from the cost-plus contract because of of the State appropriation. I. A. C. Directors Elected Five new directors of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, elected for three years are Henry F. Campbell, president of the club; Harry C. Stutz, Dick Miller, Ralph A- Lemcke, Frederick E. Matson. They were elected Monday by club members. •