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Copyright. irOS, by Charles W. Hook (Continued.) CHAPTER XIII. "THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH FOR THE ' STAR." V IIE affair -of the miser's hand made a great stir. I never have been able to trace the .ways by which it got into print, but within thirty-six hours the newspapers seemed to be full of it. I should not have regretted very seriously the publication of the exact facts, but the controversy which resulted was somewhat annoying. Donald suffered, but he bore it well. He was beset by interviewers and persons with cameras; all sorts of absurd tests were proposed to him; he received letters fom many serious minded investigators and a multitude of cranks, and there were several proposals from theatrical managers who wished to exhibit him. The photographers secured plenty of snapshots, but the interviewers were obliged to depend upon their own Imaginations, for Donald would not say a word to any of them. All Tunbridge became a debating society, though there was far less skepticism than I should have expected. My main concern is with the attitude of two persons, both of whom were witnesses of the manifestations I re fer to Bunn and Kelvin. The effect upon Jim Bunn was most remarkable. I may truthfully say that he was never the same man afterward. He had been profoundly impressed. Upon Kelvin the effect was peculiar. I will wager nil 1 possess that he had no more doubt originally as to the genuineness of the manifestations than I had. Upon that night he was shaken to his very vitals by what he saw. Yet upon the third day afterward he told Isaac Thorndyke, an old resident of Tunbridge. that it was all mere trickery. Thorndyke was the most notorious babbler who ever existed. He never kept a secret longer than the time required to go from the person who gave It into his keeping to the next with whom he had a speaking acquaintance. Kelvin, though a newcomer in the town, could not have been tsrnorant of this. There seemed no escape from the conclusion that he had deliberately selected the person most likely to spread the story broadcast was enraged at this, and I taxed Kelvin with the slander. He showed considerable backbone, saying that he had only expressed a private opinion to an acquaintance and blaming Thorndyke for repeating that which hail been told in confidence. The scene between Kelvin and myself was very unpleasant, and I could not help feeling throughout its duration that he was secretly trying to make it worse. In the end I said something quite sharp, to the effect that he was an ungrateful brute who ought to be walking on four feet and that, moreover, he was the last member of the animal kingdom that had a right to accuse another of underhand devices and dishonest trickery. This opened the breach once more between the Kelvin family and my own. Poor Donald! His boyish love affair was progressing over a very rough road. There was some reason to regret this quarrel which would embitter the war for the control of the branch road. Carl Archer had a talk with me upon this point and suggested that it was very unfortunate to involve Mr. Thorndyke in the quarrel, because he was a stockholder iu the branch. I perceived the iniquity of the situation; but, having already given Thorndyke a piece of my mind, I could hardly take it back. However, I could not believe that he would make this an excuse for deserting our party, to which he had pledged allegiance before the incident a rose. "I think that Donald is carrying this matter a little too far," said Carl. "It Is true that he doesn't seem to be doing any harm, but we can't be sure that he won't, because we don't know the motive which has led him into all this wonder-working." "Why don't you ask him?" said I. "I wish that you would," he replied very earnestly, "lie's outside. Call him in." "It won't do any good." said I. "Try it," he rejoined. He frot up on a chair and looked through the glass of the partition j which is between my room and the i main office. The glass part was once ' movable, but I h:id it fastened permai nently some years ago and even added a double s;ush in order to exclude more effectually the noises from the outer ollice, where many people were employed. "He's out there, talking with Tim Healy," lie said and called Donald's name, but the partition is so thoroughly impervious to sound that he was not heard, although Healy's tall desk Is directly upon the other side of it. "I'll go out and get him," said Carl, "or you tell him when you go out, Bunn," he added to the old cashier, who at that moment opened my door. "Tell Donald that we want to see him." Bunn laid a paper on my desk and made some comment. As he turned to go Donald entered. "My boy,!' said I. "do yoxx know

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By HOWARD FIELDING what your future fatheMn-law is say lng about you?" "Yes," he replied cheerfully; "Mr.4 Kelvin thinks I'm. bogus. I hope he'll be able to prove it, and then we shan't have any more trouble." At this Jim Bunn laughed nervously. "What is the exact truth, Donald?" said I. "Well," he answered, smiling, "the truth is that Mr. Kelvin would do well to wait, ne has seen things that were hard to explain; he will see others that are a thundering sight harder. But I can't help it. I call you to witness. Uncle John, that I was dragged into this business by the heels. You know how painful it is to me." "Donald," said Carl kindly, "in our presence and upon honor all joking aside do you claim the possession of any unusual power?" "A minute or two ago," said Donald, "you weren't so anxious about the power. You wanted to know what the motive was which had led me into all this wonder-working." Car! started and gripped the arm of his chair. "Your exact words," said I. Jim Bunn put a hand to his forehead as he looked from Donald to me. Then ho pointed to Archer. "Did he say that before Don came in?" he demanded. And I responded that he had said it precisely. "Tell r.s liuw you do it, Don?" said Carl lightly. "You press me unreasonably," answered Donald, with annoyance. "I do it by means of a power of which I possess a little, but there is some one in Tunbridge who possesses a thousand times more." "You mean your father." said Bunn quickly. "No, I don't mean, my father," answered Donald, "and unless Uncle John commands me I shall not say whom 1 mean." "I shall not command you, my boy," said I. "Indeed, it is not necessary. And I won't have you cross questioned any more," I added, seeing how deeply he was irritated. "I thank heaven that you possess this power, and I verily believe that it will be the salvation of us all." - . When Donald had gone, Bunn asked me whether I could bring myself to believe that Mrs. Donaldson was the source of all these mysteries. "I never doubted that she had the power," said I, "but I am skeptical about her having more of it than her son." At this Carl Archer arose and waved his arms around his head in a protest that transcended speech. "We have all gone crazy!" he cried at last. "There is no such power. There is not an atom of evidence in all the world's history that any human being ever exercised it. Donald is merely traveling the way of all impostors, and I think we ought to stop him." "What do you think about it, Jim?" said I. Bunn lmd his hand upon the open door. "I think that nobody will stop him," he replied. "He will go on to the end." And the old man went away muttering. On the following day Donald came to me with a remarkable request, and I despair of making clear the reason why I granted it. I can say no more than that the boy had begun to exercise an influence over me that was nearly irresistible. "You have noticed." said he, "that my father is not very well. That is why I come to you with this matter and why I ask you not to bother him about it. He lias enough upon his mind without being worried by my foolishness." 1 asked him what the matter might be. "My father has the papers in the old Strobel correspondence," said he. "A few weeks ago he got them together and put them in his box in the vault at the bank." It is not necessary here to explain what the Strobel correspondence was nor why Donaldson had taken charge of it, as these things have uo bearing upon the case. I replied that the facts were as the boy had stated them. "I want you to ask my father for these papers." said Donald. "When you go up to the house this noon, you can stop at the bank with him and get them. Don't let anybody else see you take them, don't tell anybody that you have them, and ask my fa titer not to mention the circumstance at all. Will you do this?" I saw no objection, and told him so. Then I asked what I should do with the documents. "Put them into that little handbag," said he, pointing to one which was beiside my desk. "Don't take them out while you're at the house. Afterward . bring them down here and put them in I this safe. When you have done so, change the combination." Evidently he wanted me to have them in a place where I could get them I handily and at any hour of the day. not in a bank, which closed at 4 in tine afternoon, and in a box which nobody but his father, then seemingly threatened with an illness, could open.

? : ; But what was the value of the pa pers? As I now know that it was nothing, I will not enlarge upon the question, though It bothered me at the time. The only Indication I could get was that Isaac Thorndyke. had been concerned in the correspondence In 1 ques

tion, ; though ho w the fact could be t used to Influence his vote in the coming stockholders' meeting I was unable to understand. However, I did precisely as Donald bad asked me to do, and by 2 In the afternoon the papers reposed in my safe, the door of which would answer only to violence or to my. own hand. ; . That evening Donald asked me very particularly whether I had followed his instructions. He seemed to regard the matter as extremely important, and he took me into the library to speak the more privately, though there was no one about, for Donaldson had gone to his room and Dorothy and Carl to a neighbor's house. We sat together in a window looking out at the moonlight which was flooding ver the . roof of the long, low "We will not quarrel," said he sadly. house and pouring down the slope of the lawn beyond in a great white stream. Suddenly I heard steps upon the path that ran in the shadows below the window, and a voice cried. "Dorothy!" The tone was strange, and somehow it went to my heart "Carl and my little mother," said Donald; "they're coming back." He left the window and walked out of the room. I was vaguely glad that he should go and was., indeed, prompted to follow him, but somehow I could not do so. Carl and Dorothy had stopped below the window. As the room was dark, thej' could not have suspected that any one was within hearing of their voices. After the single word which I had overheard there was silence for nearly a minute. "Carl," said Dorothy, speaking as one who has summoned up strength to meet an emergency, "I won't have this. It shall not be so." "You refuse to listen to me," he responded. "You will not let me speak." "I care nothing for that," she answered. "I can protect myself from your addresses. What I won't have is the fact! The thing shan't be true." "I don't understand you," said he almost in a whisper. "You are spoiling something that is too good to be spoiled," she answered. "Look at our life here in this house. See how this man, once loveless and alone, has gathered around him those who love him. See how beautiful a life we lead under his roof. Why, Carl, you and I have played together as innocently as if we were children. Have you the heart to bring such common Infamy as this into a scene so sweet?' "It isn't infamy," he protested. "My love for you" "Say blasphemy, if you prefer the word," she cried. "It seems to me like that when uttered in this little corner of. the world that has been sacred as the very presence of God in his own temple to me. Be sane and honest, Carl. How can you deliberately sacrifice the friendship of my husband and of Mr. Harrington, to say nothing of mine?" "As for you, Dorothy," he replied with an emotion of which I would not have thought him capable, "I cannot be your friend. God knows that I have tried." "If God had known It." said she, "you would not have failed. He would have given you the strength to succeed. No; you have not tried." "I cannot be your friend," insisted Carl. "As for the friendship of the others, do you fancy that I shall tell them?" CTo be Continued.) To assist digestion, relieve distress after eating or drinking too heartily, to prevent constipation, take HootS's PSUs Sold everywhere. 25 cent?Reduced Fares to Carthage, Mo., via Pennsylvania Lines. Low fares will be in effect to Carthage and Joplin, Mo., .via Pennsylvania Lines, May 17th to 23d, inclusive, account Annual Conference German Baptist Brethren. Ten days' stopover at St. Louis "World's Fair allowed. Get further information from local Ticket Agents of the Pennsylvania Lines.

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