Richmond Palladium (Daily), 13 February 1906 — Page 3

t THE MAS ON THE BJ; BY HAROLD MacGRATH. bABWkTnhu.5: . himself and. ft ihe mad SlforT to main-"

nd stands under the bow window listentng- to the music. Miss Annesley cppcars on the balcony In the moonlight, and after refusing another proposal from Count Karloff, she throws away a rose which she has been fondling. After he had returned to the house Warburton searches for and finds the flower, when he Is surprised by Col. Raleigh, who demands an explanation of his con duct. . CHAPTER XIX. Col. Raleigh accompanya Warburton to his room in the stable and listens to an account of his escapade and of his love for Miss Anesley. The colonel decides not to expose the masquerader but gives him some fatherly advice,.. CHAPTER XX. THE EPISODE OF THE STOVEPIPE. In the morning Monsieur Pierre faithfully reported to his mistress the groom's extraordinary insolence and Impudence of the night before. The girl struggled with and conquered her desire to laugh; for monsieur was somewhat grotesque in his rage. "Frightful. Mademoiselle, most frightful! He call me Petaire most disrrrespectful way, and eject me from see stables. I ran not call heem out, he eez a groom and knows nozzing uf tee amende honorable." Mademoiselle summoned M'sieu Zbames. She desired to make the comedy complete in all its phases. "James, whenever you are called upon to act In the capacity of butler, you must clear the table after the guests leave it. This is imperative. I do not wish the scullery girl to handle Ihe porcelain save In the tubs. Do you understand?" "Yes, Miss. There were no orders to that effect last night, however." He was angry. Monsieur Pierre puffed up like the lady-frog in Aesop's fables. "And listen, Pierre," she said, collapsing the bubble of the chef's conceit, "you must give no orders to lamps. I will do that. 1 do not wish any tale-bearing or quarreling among ' my servants. I insist upon this. Observe me carefully, Pierre, and you, I James." .lames did observe her carefully, so carefully, indeed, that her gaze was forced to wander to the humiliated countenance of Monsieur Pierre. "James, you must not look at me like . that nor. u RnmPthin in vnnr pvps- I I can't explain what it Is, but It somehow lacks the respect due me." This command was spoken coldly and sharply. "Respect?" He drew a step back. "I disrespectful to you, Miss Annesley? Oh, you wrong me. There can not be any one more respectful to you than I J am. The sincerity, 01 nis tones couia not be denied. In fact, he was almost too sincere. "Nevertheless, I wish you to regard what I have said. Now, you two shake hands." The groom and the chef shook hands. I am ashamed to say that James squeezed Monsieur Pierre's flabby hand out of active service for several hours that followed. Beads of agony sparkled on Monsieur Pierre's expansive brow . as he turned to enter the kitchen. "Shall we ride to-day, Miss?" he asked, Inwardly amused. "No, I shall not ride this morning," calmly. James bowed meekly under the rebuke. What did he care? Did he not possess a rose which had known the pressure of her Hps, her warm, red lips? "You may go," she said. James went. James whistled on the way too. Would that it had been my good fortune to have witnessed the episode of that afternoon! My Jehu, when he hears it related these days, smiles a sickly grin. I .do not believe that he ever laughed heartily over it. At three o'clock, while Warburton was reading the morning paper, interested especially in the army news of the day, he heard Pierre's voice wailing. "What's the fat fool want now?" James grumbled to William. "Oh. he's always yelling for help. They've coddled him so long In the family that he acts like a ten-year-old kid. I stole a kiss from Celeste one day, and I will be shot if he didn't start to blubber." ' ' "You stole a kiss, eh?" said James admiringly. "Only Just for the sport of making blm crazy, that was all." But William's red visage belied his indifferent tone. "You'd better go and see what be wants. My hands are all harness grease." Warburton concluded to follow William's advice. He flung down his paper and strode out to the rear porch, where he saw Pierre gesticulating wildly. "What's the matter? What do you want ?" churlishly. Frightful! Zee stove-pipe ees vat j you call bust!" James laughed. "I can not rrreaeh eet I can not cook till eet ees fix. You are tall eh?" affably. "All right; I'll help you fix It." Grumbling, James went into the kitchen, mounted a chair, and began banging away at the pipe, very much after the fashion of Bunner's "Culpepper Ferguson." The pipe acted piggish. James grew determined. One end s"pped in and then the other slipped out, half a dozen times. James lost patience and became angry; and 'n bis anger ho overreached himself. The Chair slid back.. He ir'ed tp balance

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frantic clutch at the pipe. Ruin and devastation! Down came the pipe, and with it a peck of greasy soot- . Monsieur Pierre yelled with terror and derpalr. The pies on the rear end of the stove were lost for ever. Mademoiselle Celeste screamed with laughter, whether at the sight of the pies or M'sieu Zbames, is more than I can say. James rose to his f.iet, the cusswords of a corporal rumbled behind bis lips. He sent an energetic kick toward Pierre, who succeeded in eluding it. Pierre's eyes were full of tears. What a kitchen! Soot, soot, everywhere, on the floor, on the tables, on the walls, in the air! "Zee pipe!" he burst forth; "zee pipe! You baf zee house full of gas!" James, blinking and sneezing, boiling with rage and chagrin, remounted the chair and finally succeeded in joining the two lengths. Nothing happened this time. But the door to the forward rooms opened, and Miss Annesley looked in upon the scene. "Merciful heavens!" she gasped, "what has happened?" "Zee stove-pipe bust, Mees," explained Pierre. The girl gave Warburton one look, balled her handkerchief against her mouth, and fled. This didn't add to his amiability. He left the kitchen in a downright savage mood. He had appeared before her positively ridiculous, laughable. A woman never can love a man, nor entertain tender regard for him at whom she has laughed. And the girl had laughed, and doubtless was still laughing. (However, I do not offer his opinion as infallible.) He stood in the roadway, looking around for some inanimate thing upon which he might vent his anger, when the sound of hoofs coming toward him distracted him. He glanced over his shoulder . . . and bis knees all but gave way under him. Caught! The rider was none other than his sister Nancy! It was all over now for a certainty. He knew it; he had about one minute to live. She was too near, so he dared not fly. Then a briliant inspiration came to him. He quickly passed bis hand over his face. The disguise was complete. "James!" Miss Annesley was standing on the veranda. "Take charge of the horse. Nancy, dear, I am so glad to see you!" James was anything but glad. "Betty, good gracious, whatever is the matter with this fellow? Has he the black plague? Ugh!" She slid from the saddle unaided. James stolidly took the reins. "The kitchen stove-pipe fell down." Betty replied, "and James stood In the immediate vicinity of it." The two girls laughed joyously, but James did not even smile. He had half a notion to kiss Nancy, as he had planned to do that memorable night of the ball at the British embassy. But even as the notion came. to him, Nancy had climbed up the steps and was out of harm's way. "James," said Miss Annesley, "go and wash your face at once." "Yes. Miss." At the sound of his voice Nancy turned swiftly; i:r!T rht croom had presented hfs brv-k v.: u wzs leading the horse to the t-tal.c. Nancy would no r te'l me the substance of her conversation with Miss Annesley that afternoon, but I am conceited enough to believe that a certain absent gentleman was the main topic. When she kit. it was William who le.i out the horse. He explained h:U .' irres was still engaged with soap a:nl wnt-r and pumice-stone. Miss Annesle's ln!rh rang out heartily, and Nancy cor. Id not help Joining her. "And have ou heard from that younger brother of yours?" Betty asked, as her friend settled herself in the saddle. "Not a line, Betty, not a line; and I had set my heart on your meeting him. I do not know where he is, or iwhen he will be back." "Perhaps he is in quest of adventures." "He Is In Canada, hunting caribou." . "You don't tell me!" "What a handsome girl you are, Betty!" admiringly. "What a handsome &irl you are, Nancy!" mimicked the girl on the varanda. "If your brother is only half as handsome, I do not know whatever will become of this heart of mine when we Anally meet." She smiled and drolly placed her hands on her heart. "Don't look so disappointed, Nan; perhaps we may meet. I have an idea ! that he will prove interesting and entertalnlng;" and she laughed again. "Whoa, Dandy! What are you laugh ing at?" demanded Nancy. "I was thinking of James and his soap, water and pumice-stone. That was all. dear. Saturday afternoon. then, we shall ride to the club and have tea. Good-by, and remember me to the baby." "Good-by!" and Nancy cantered away. What a blissful thing the lack of prescience 3, sometimes! When James had scraped the soot from his face and neck and hands and had rudsed it from his hair, James observed, with some concern, that Piraie was coughing at a great rate. His .fin ? rnnajpain?.the wind the day

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before had" pivfcn i.!m n ro!d. ::o James hunted for the vctrrir.nrnn. "Where do you l--.ee? jo.:r hcr..s here?" he aslied William. "Pirate's got a cold." "In the house library. You just go in and get It. We always do that at home. You'll find it on the lower shelf, to the right as you enter the floor." It was half after four when James having taken a final look at his hands and nails, proceeded to follow William's instructions. He found no one About Outside the kitchen the lower part of the house was deserted. To reach the library he had to pass through the music-room. The first thing that caught his attention was a movable drawing-board, on which lay an uncompleted drawing. At one side a glass Into which were thrust numerous pens and brushes. Near this lay a small ball of crumpled cambric, such as women Insist upon carrying in their street-car purses, a delicate, dainty, useless thing. So she drew pictures, too, he thought. Was there anything this beautiful creature could not do? Everything seemed to suggest her presence. An indefinable feminine perfume still lingered on the air, speaking eloquently of her. Curiosity compelled him to step forward and examine her work. He approached with all the stealth of a gentlemanly burglar. He expected to Bee some trees and hills and mayhap a brook, or some cows standing in a stream or some children picking daisies. He had a sister and was reasdasies. He had a sister and was reasonably familiar with the kind of subjects chosen by the lady-amateur. A fortification plan! He bent close to it. Here was the 3ea, here was the land, here the number of soldiers, cannon, rounds of ammunition, resources in the matter of procuring aid, the teletaph, the railways, everything was here on this pale, waxen cloth, everything but a name. He stared at it. bewildered. He couldn't understand what a plan of this sort was doing outside the war department. Instantly he became a soldier; he forgot that he was masquerading as a groom; he forgot everything but this mute thing staring up into his face. Underneath, on a little shelf, he saw a stack of worn envelopes. He looked at them. Rough drafts of plans. Governor's Island! Fortress Monroe! What did it mean? What could it mean? He searched and found plans, plans, plans of harbors, plans of coast' defenses, plans of ships building, plans of full naval and military strength; everything, everything! He straightened. How his breath pained him! . . . And all this was the handiwork of the woman he loved! Good God, what was going on In this house? What right had such things as these to be in a private home? For what purpose had they been drawn? So accurately reproduced? For what purpose? Oh, whatever the purpose was, she was innocent: upon this conviction he would willingly stake his soul. Innocent, innocent! ticked the clock over the mantel. Yes, she was innocent. Else how could she laugh in that light-hearted fashion? How could her eyes shine so bright and merry? . . . Karloff, Annesley! Karloff the Russian. Annesley the American; the one a secret agent of his country, the other a former trusted official! No. no! He could not entertain so base a thought against the father of the girl he loved. Had he not admired his clean record, his personal bravery, his fearless honesty? And yet, that absent-mindedness, this care-worn countenance, these must mean something. The purpose, to find out the nnrnnso nf thpsd nlnnol He took the handkerchief and hid it in his breast, and quietly stole away ... A handkerchief, a rose, and a kiss; yes, that was all that would ever be his. Pirate nearly coughed his head off that night; but, it being William's night off, nobody paid any paricular attention to that Justly indignant animal. (To be Continued.) In Self Defense Major Hamm, editor and manager of the Constitutionalist, Eminence, Ky., when he was fiercely attacked, four years ago, by Piles, bought a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, of which he says: "It cured me in ten days and no trouble since." Quickest healer of Burns. Sores. Cuts, and Wounds. 25c at A. G. Luken 's drug store. BOTH FOOD AND MEDICINE. We like best to call Scott's Emulsion a food-medicine. It is a term that aptly describes the character ana action of our Emulsion. More than a medicine more than a food, yet combining the vital principles of both. It is for this reason that Scott's Emulsion has a distinct and special value in all wasting diseases. There is nothing better to remedy the troubles of imperfect growth a.id delicate health in children.5. The action of Scott's Emulsicn k just as effective in treating weakness and wasting in adults. S JOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl Street, New York.

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