Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 162, 7 July 1906 — Page 3

THE NEW PHILLIPS VAUDEVILLE THEATER O. G .M'JRRAY MANAGER.

WEEK OF JULY 9TH. DAILY at 3 and 8:15 P. M. A MISS GRAYCE MILL Overture. BEDW. CANNON. Eccentric Comedian. C MYLIE AND ORTH. ! Comedy Sketch. D MISS LEONA THOMPSON. Illustrated Songs: "My Heart's Tonight In Texas;" "Will the Angels Let Me Play?" ' E THE LAMONTS. A Banjo and Singing Novelty Act. F EDGAR GEYER. Juggler and Equilibrist D A BIG NOVELTY ACT. H THE PHILOSCOPE. Latest Motion Pictures. GENNETT THEATRE VAUDEVILLE. IRA SWISHER, Manager. f WEEK OF JULY 2ND. Daily 3, 8 and 9:20 p. m. prof. GU3 Fredericks Overture. 6UNETARO &. CO. Japanese Wondfer Workers. LYDELL AND BUTTER WORTH. Blackface delineators and introduc ers of eccentric dancing. tuuib LAmuni. - Novelty Musical Act and Drum Major. ERNEST RENK. Illustrated Songs. WALTER BEEMER And Juggling Girl. Peerless Club Juggling Duo. MELROY TRIO. Comedians, Vocalists and Dancers. THE GENOSCOPE. The latest Motion Pictures. Richmond Tea, Coffee & Grocery Co. I Country Butter J . . . Rose of Sharon Flaket it Oats u String Beans . . JOc New Potatoes ..... 30c and 35c peck Mason Jars 50c J gallon Apples 25c POPULAR $16.50 Round Trip. To Atlantic City, Cape May, Ocean City, Thursday Augu$t 2nd 15 day limit via Cincinnati and the C. & O. R. R. f $6.50 Round Trip. i To-Niagara Falls, Thursday August 9th 12 day limit via Peru and Wabash R. R. $12.50 Round Trip. To Minneapolis on account of G. A. R. National Encampment. Selling dates Aug., 10, 11, 12, 13th. Return limit Aug. 31st. ' $5.20 Round Trip. : To Bass Lake. $5.20 Round Trip. To Bruce Lake. To Winona Lake. Season tickets, $5.50, 10 day ticket $4.15. THE DAYTON & WESTERN ' TRACTION GO. Ij effect May 5. 1906. i Subject to change without notice. MAIN LINE

A ,

EXCURSIONS

P M ll' M 9.'x 11.00 RichM Lv Katon Ar "VV.Alex " Dayton " e.57 .ll.M 12.15 10.1)5 11.00 NEW PARIS BRANCH (THROUGH SERVICE) Leave Richmond for New Paris. E:50, 6:45, 8:20, 9:20, 10:00. 11:20, a. m., 12:20, 1:20, 2:20, 3:00, 4:20, 5:20. 6:20, 7:20. 8:20. 9:55 and 11:00 P.M. . Transfers at New Westvllle. Direct connections at Dayton with Lima Limited" trains for Troy, Piqua and Lima, leaving Richmond at 5:50. B:00, 12:00 a. m.. and 3:00 p. m. CONNECTIONS At Eaton with P., C. C. & St. L. for points j north and eouth. At West Alexandria! with Cincinnati Northern R. R. for points north and south. At Dayton with electric lines diverging for Troy, Piqtfc, Sidney, Lima. Xenia, Springfield, Columbus, Hamilton and Cincinnati. Through rates, through tickets to all points. For further Information call Home Phone 269. Arrangements fo parties, special ars. etc., call phono or write C. O. BAKER, G. P. and P A., West Alexandria, O. I MARTIN SWISHER. Agent Palladium-Want Ads Pay.

AM;AM AM PM fi.NjM5 8.00 aud 8.oo .' 7. in JM2every 8.41 S.OS IWB 8.M hour 8.68 8 oo con lo.oo Km i u io.oo

AT THE THEATERS

I

Vaudeville at the Gennett Business at the Gennett this week has been highly satisfactory and an Improvement has been noted n the matinee patronage. Many find the afternoon the most convenient time to go and also prefer it as they thus escape the big crowds at the night performances. Those who have not yet seen this week's bill should take opportunity to do so this afternoon or night as the money will be well Invested from a standpoint of entertainment. Next week's bill will be announced In Sunday morning's Palladium. Vaudeville at the Phillips. Those residents of Richmond whose pocketbooks arep not long and deep enough to permit them to go to the summer resorts, are not left without means of entertainment, for all such will find the New Phillips vaudeville bills worthy of their patronage. This is true of the one that is running at the present time and which will conclude with the performances of this afternoon and night. The bill has a pleasing variety. Next week's bill will be announced in the Palladium tomorrow. IS SUBMITTED TO JURY NO ORDER OF ACQUITTAL Jury After Deliberating Several Hours in the Alton Rebate Cases, Returned a Verdict of Guilty on First Eight Counts. Publishers' Tress Chicago, y C Xt'thotrTal of the Chicago and Alton road and two former officials of the company on the charge of rebating, Judge Landis overruled the motion of the defense that the jury be instructed to return ft verdict of not guilty on eight out if 10 of the counts in he Indictment. Judge Landis held that the ninth and tenth counts in the intictments were defective and that no conviction could be had under them. These two counts charged the defendants with rebating because they refunded passenger fares to employes of the Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Co. The court then declared that the defendants had evidently been guilty of rebating and directed the jury to retire and find a verdict giving instructions, however, that a verdict of not guilty should be returned as to the las two counts. After deliberating several hours the jury in the Alton rebate case returned a verdict of guilty on the first eight counts of the indictment. This is equal to a verdict of guilty of the charge of rebating. Counsel for defendants filed a motion for a new trial. Bright eyes are an infallible Index to youth, windows, from which Cupid shoots his arrows. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea makes bright eyes, rosy cheeks. Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. For sale by A. G. Luken & Co. Attorney Took Papers. Akron, July 6. Francis Seiberling an attorney representing the bonding company which is the surety for County Treasurer Smith, who is being investigated, was arrested by Sheriff Barker as he was on his way to the court house in answer to a subpoena. Seiberling is accused of taking a grip full of papers wanted by the examiners. He admits the charge, says he has the papers locked up in a vault in a bank, that he has a right to them and intends to keep them. Smith on the stand admitted that he has loans of city and county funds, aggregating $130,000 outstanding and that they cannot be collected for several months. Capitalist's Son Drowned. Ashland. N. H., July 6. H. McK. Twombly, IS, only son of McK. Twombly, the New York capitalist, was drowned while swimming in Big Squaw lake, Holderness, N. H. Twombly started to swim from the Groton camp to. Cams cove, one mile distant He had almost reached his goal when he was seen to struggle in the water. Before any one could reach him he sank. Twombly's mother was Miss Florence A. Vanderbilt, daughter of the late William H. Vanderbilt of New York. Copying After British Uniforms. Washington, July 6. The military appearance of the American soldier was a surprise to George V. Winter who came from London on invitation of the war department to design certain improvements in the uniforms of the service which would bring them in line with the acknowledged superior fit and makeup of the British uniforms. The patterns submitted by Winter indicated numerous minor changes in the uniforms, but no fadical departure from existing styles. TO THE POINT Telegraphic Newt Boiled Down and Bunched For Convenience. Former President Cleveland is 111 at his home in Princeton. Plant of American Harness and Leather Co., at Columbus, Ind., burned. Loss $60,000. President Roosevelt declined invitation to preside at welcome reception to be given W. J. Bryan in New Yor. D. P. Campbell's warehouse at Utica, O., containing large quantity ef wool and grain, burned. Loss $10,000. Four employes of Armour fertillrer works at Jacksonville. Fla.. drowned while attempting to cross St. John's river in small boat. Five seamen named Elang. O'Carroll, Pimes, Schapan and Schrom, f Illinois naval reserves, drowsed ia lake at Chicago while practice rowing.

The Richmond Palladium, Saturday, July 7, 1906.

A NATURALIZATION LAW SOME PROVISIONS OF ACT Virginian Placed in Charge of the Bureau of Naturalization After Sept. 27, There Will Be a Gap of 90 Days in Conferring Citizenship. Publishers' Press! Washington, July 6. Under the provisions of the act of congress to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, which provides for changing the title of the bureau of immigration to the bureau of immigration and naturalization, the secretary of commerce and labor established the divis ion of naturalization and placed In charge of it under the commissioner general of immigration, Richard K. Campbell of Virginia. The immediate work of the new division will consist among other things of notifying the various states and territories of provisions of the law in regard to courts which hereafter will have jurisdiction in the naturalization of aliens. Since the new act does not become operative except as to certain sections until Sept. 27, naturalization uniK existing law will continue until that time. Thereafter for a period of at least 90 days no alien can lawfully be naturalized by any court, since the new law provides that such an interval shall elapse between the filing of a petition to become a citizen and granting such petition. Bilious? Feed heavy after dinner? Tongue coated? Bitter taste? Complexion sallow? Liver needs waking up. Doan's Regulets cure bilious attacks. 25 cents at any drug store. ANARCHIST IS ARRESTED Man Taken at Altona, Prussia, Is Thought to Have Had Designs on Life of the Kaiser. Publishers' Press Altona, Prussia, truly 0. Ah alleged anarchist, named August Rosenberg, who is reported to have left Seattle, Wash., for Germany recently, was arrested here. He is suspected of having had designs on the life of Emperor William. The police of Seattle, acting at the instance of the German government, raided the house formerly occupied by August Rosenberg, a bricklayer, and found a plant for making bombs and infernal machines. Rosenberg left Seattle for Hamburg, Germany, May 1. At that time the German government received a warning from Seattle that an attempt would be made to assassinate the German emperor. The German consul at Seattle subsequently received a cablegram from Hamburg instructing him to investigate. The articles seized included more than 200 bottles of acids and explosives, crucibles, mortars, molds, a furnace and considerable scrap Iron. Rose Ousted Again. Topeka, Kan.', July 6. The state supreme court handed down a decision holding Mayor W. W. Rose of Kansas City, Kan., in contempt for having assumed the office of mayor after the court ousted him for the non-enforcement of the prohibition law and the law against gambling. In the order Mayor Rose is ordered to relinquish the office and is fined $1,000 for contempt. The court further orders, it Mayor Rose fails to pay the fine within 20 days, he shall be committed to jail until such time at it is paid. Mayor Rose's attorneys immediately filed a writ of error. If this is not granted the case will be appealed to the United States snpreme court. After being ousted last January, Rose was re-elected at a special election. Was Grant's Nurse. Washington, July 6. Harrison Terrell, who became well known throughout the country during the last years of the life of General Grant as his faithful attendant and nurse in New York and Mount MacGregor, died in this city. While on duty in the war department he fell and fractured his skull. He was carried to the emergency hospital, where he died without regaining consciousness. Terrell's eldest son, Judge Robert H. Terrell, is a graduate of Harvard college and is at the head of the minor cenrts at of the District of Columbia. His daughter is a teacher at Tuskegee and his younger son is in the office of the gas Inspector of the district. Indictments Dismissed. New York. July 6. Judge Holt in United States circuit court handed down an opinion, the effect of which is to dismiss the indictments against Nathan Guilford, Vice President Guilford and F. S. Pomeroy of the New York Central railroad, and C. Goodloe Edgar and Edwin Earle, the latter sugar merchants of Detroit, charging them with conspiracy to violate the provisions of the Elkins rebating law punishable by imprisonment. Ttfe court, however, alse holds that the indictments against the New York Central road, Guilford and Pomeroy found under the Elkins act are good, and sustains them so far as they are punishable by fine. Funeral of Mrs. Tanner. Washington, July 6. The funeral of Mrs. Tanner, wife of James Tanner, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, who was killed in an automobile accident at Helena, Mont., was held here. The body was interred in the national cemetery at Arlington. Officers of the Legion of Loyal Women and the ladies' auxiliary of the Union Veteran legion, with which Mrs. Tanner was affiliated, were present at th.8 church and at the grave. O Bean f-e BigBAtue The KintTaa-hVw Lwats Bo!H

7

(Q)Qr

order

Copyright. 1903. by F rtdtricK. t. StoKjtJ Co. But sleep came not 60 qmcmy as ne surmised to the eyes he had complimented. The day had been too full of rapid change and tense excitement. The strange transformation of the present, and the dim, troubled vista of the future which opened out to her. cherished thought and discouraged slumber. Was it possible that she was thus to be transplanted, was to stand by the side of the greatest man in England, his acknowledged daughter, his welcome aid? God grant she might not fail him if he had real need of her. And so she planned the days to come. She would be as subtle as the craftiest. She would cover all dislikes as the cloak had covered her, and her lips should smile though her heart revolted. Her tongue must measure what it said, and all rural bluntness should disappear. She slipped from these meditations into a hazy, bewildering conflict; her father, somehow, was in a danger that she could not fathom, she lacking power to get to him, restrained by invisible bonds, not knowing where he was, although he called to her. Then it seemed there was a turmoil in the street, a cry for help, a groan and silence, and next Mrs. Jarrett was moving about the room and had drawn curtains that let in a gray, misty daylight ' "Is my ffither yet risen?" she cried." "Oh, good lack, no, your ladyship, nor will he for hours to come." The girl's head fell bark on her pillow, ami she said dreamily, "I thought there had been trouble of some sort and men fighting." "Indeed, your ladyship, and so there was, a rioting going on all the night. I think the citizens of Loudon are gone mad, brawling in the street at hours when decent folk should be in their beds. 'Tis said that this new parliament is the cause, but how or why I do not know." Although the Earl of Strafford did not quit bis chamber until noontide, he was undoubtedly concerned with affairs that demanded attention from the greatest minister of state. There were constant runnings to and fro, messengers dispatched and envoys received, with the heavy knocker of the door constantly a-rap. It was two hours after midday when Strafford sent for his daughter, and she followed his messenger to the library, where she found her father in his chair beside a table, although he was equipped for going forth from the house. There had been seated before him De Courcy, but the young man rose as she entered and greeted her with one of his down reaching bows which set her a-quake lest he should fall forward on his face. "My child," said the earl, "I am about to set out for parliament, and it may be late before I return. Yet I think you shall sup with me at 7 if all goes well and debate becomes not too strenuous, but do not wait in case I should be detained. I counsel you not to leavs the house today, for there seem to be many brawlers on the streets. Any shopman will be pleased to wait upon you and bring samples of his ware?, so send a servant for those you wish to consult. My friend De Courcy, here, begs the favor of some converse with you and speaks with my approval." Strafford looked keenly at the girl, and her heart thrilled as she read the unspoken message with quick intuition. He had some use for De Courcy, and she must be suave and diplomatic. Thus already she was her father's ally, an outpost in his vast concerns now committed to her. The young man saw nothing of this, for he had eyes only for the girl. The broad rim of his feathered hat was at his smirking lips, and his gaze of admiration was as unmistakable as it was intent. "Sir, I shall obey you in all things and hope to win your commendation," said Frances, with an inclination of the head. "You are sure of the latter In any case, my child," replied Strafford, rising. "And now, De Courcy, I think we understand each other, and I may rely upon you." "To the death, my lord," cried the young man, with another of his courtly genuflections. "Oh, let us hope it will not be necessary quite so far as that. I bid you good day. Tomorrow at this hour I shall look for a report from you. For the moment, goodby, my daughter." No sooner was the earl quit of the room and the door closed behind him than De Courcy, with an impetuous movement that startled the girl, flung himself at her feet. Her first impulse was to step quickly back, but she checked it and stood her ground. "Oh, divine Frances!" he cried, "how impatiently I have waited for this rapt moment when I might declare to you" "Sir, I beg of you to rise. 'Tis not seemly you should demean yourself thus." '"Tis seemly that the whole world should grovel at your feet, my lady of the free forest, for all who look upon ybu must love you, and for me, who have not the cold heart of this northern people, I adore you, and do here avow it." "l'ou take me at a disadvantage, sir. I have never been spoken to thus. I am but a child and unaccustomed; only sixteen this very day. I ask you to""Most beauteous nymph! How many grand ladies of our court would give all they possess to make such confession truly. Aye, the queen herself. I do assure you, sweetest, such argument will never daunt a lover." "I implore you, sir, to arise. My father may return." "That he will not. 'And if he did 'twould pleasure him to see my suit advancing. I loved you from the first moment I beheld you. and, though you used me with contumely, yet I solaced my. wounded, heart that Ztwas me you

the

'By ... 'ROT&E'RT 'BA'R'R. Author of "Jenni Hajrter. Journalist." Etc. noticed, and me only, even though your glance was tinged with scorn." Notwithstanding a situation that called for tact, she was unable to resist a touch of the linguistic rapier, and her eyes twinkled with suppressed merriment as she said, "You forget, sir, that I also distinguished the keeper of the hounds with my regard;" but, seeing he winced, she recollected her position and auded: "In truth, I was most churlishly rude In the forest, and I am glad you spoke of it, that I now have opportunity to beg jour pardon very humbly. I have learned since then that you stand high in ray dear father's regard, and indeed he chided me for my violence, as 'twas his duty to do by a wayward child." The gallant was visibly flattered by this tribute to his amour propre. He seized her hand and pressed his lips to it, the tremor which passed over her at this action being probably misinterpreted by his unquenchable vanity. The tension was relieved by a low roar from the street, a sound that had in it the menace of some wild beast roused to anger. It brought to the girl a reminiscence of her disturbed dreams. "Good heaven, what is it?" she exclaimed, snatching away her hand and running to the window. Her suitor rose to his feet, daintily dusted the knees of his silken wear with a film of lace that did duty for a handkerchief. and followed her. The street below was packed with people howling round u carriage that seemed blocked by the press. The stout coachman, gorgeous in splendid livery, had some ado to restrain the spirited horses, maddened and prancing with the interference and the outcry. Cudgels were shaken aloft in the air, and there were shouts of "Traitor!" "Tyrant!" and other epithets so degrading that Frances put her hands to her ears in horrified dismay. "Whom are they threatening so fiendishly?" she whispered. "That is your father's carriage," answered De Courcy. Before she could make further inquiry there came up to them the cold, dominating tones of her father's voice, clear above that tumult: "Strike through!" The stout coachman laid about him with his whip, and the curses for the moment abandoned the head of Strafford to alight on that of the driver. The horses plunged fiercely into the crowd. The cruel progress changed the tenor of the cries, as if a wailing stop of a great 'organ had suddenly taken the place of the open diapason. The press was so great that those in front could not make for safety, and the disappearing coach was greeted with screams of terror and was followed by groans of agony. Men went down before it like ripe grain before a sickle. "Oh, oh, oh!" moaned the girl, all color leaving her face. "It serves the dogs right," said De Courcy. "How dare they block the way of a noble, and the chief minister of state." "I I cannot look on this," lamented Frances, shrinking back to the table and leaning against it as one about to faint, forgetting her desire to avoid further demonstration from her companion in the trepidation which followed the scene she had witnessed. "Indeed they were most mercifully dealt with, those scullions. The king of France would have sent a troop of horse to saber them back into their kennels. 'Strike through" cried his lordship, and 'tis a good phrase, most suitable motto for a coat of arms, a hand grasping a dagger above it. 'Strike through!' I shall not forget it. But 'twas a softer and more endearing theme I wished to" "Sir, I beseech your polite consideration. I am nigh distraught with what I have seen and am filled with a fear of London. 'Tis not the courtly city I expected to behold. I am not myself." "But you will at least bid, me hope?" "Surely, surely, all of us may hope." "Why, 'twas the last and only gift left in Pandora's casket, and London were grim indeed to be more bereft than the receptacle of that deceitful woman. May I make my first draft on Madam Pandora's box by hoping that I am to see you at this hour tomorrow?" , "Yes tomorrow tomorrow," gasped the girl faintly. CHAPTER V. A DRIZZLING rain had set in and had driven the crowds from the streets-. Frances drew a chair to the window of the library and sat there meditating on the strange events in which she was taking some small part, so different from the tranquil happenings of the district she had known all her life. She had imagined London a city of palaces facing broad streets, fanciedly, if not literally, paved with gold a town of gayety and laughter; and here was the reality, a cavernous, squalid, gloomy, human warren, peopled with murky demons bent on outrage of some sort, ill natured and threatening. As the day waned she saw that In spite of the rain the mob was collecting again, its atoms running hither and thither, calling to each other; bedraggled, beings laboring under some common excitement. And now its roar came to her again, farther off than beforea roar that chilled her while she listened, and the wave of sound this time seemed to have a fearful note of exultation in it. She wondered what had happened, and was anxious for her father if he were at the mercy of It Mrs. Jarrett came into the room, followed by a manservant and also by one of her father's secretaries, as the woman whispered to the girl: "My lady, we must close the shutters and bar them tightly, for the ruffians are. threatening again, and may be here

In force at any moment to stone the windows, as they have done before." The secretary seated himself at the table and was arranging papers. The manservant opened the windows, from which Frances drew back, and now the cries came distinctly to her. "Death to Strafford!" "Down with the tyrant!" "To the block with the king's earl!" were some of the shouts she heard lustily called "forth. "Oh! I fear my father is in danger. Do you think they have him in their power, that they exult sj?" Good Mrs. Jarrett, anxiety on her own honest face, soothed her young mistress, and the secretary came forward. "Be not troubled, madam," he said. "While they cry 'To the block' it shows they have not possession of his lordship's person, but hope to stir up rancor to his disfavor. While they shout for process of law, his lordship is safe, for the law is in his hands and in those of the king, whose behests he carries out." This seemed a reasonable deduction, and it calmed the inquirer, although there remained to her disquietude the accent of triumph in the voice of the mob. "Death to Strafford!" was the burden of the acclaim, but now one shouted, "Justice on Strafford!" though his meaning was clearly the same as the others. There was no dissenting outcry, and this unanimous hatred, so vehemently expressed, terrified at least one listeuer. Why was her father so universally detested? What had he done? Stern he was undoubtedly, but just, as his reception of herself had shown, jind courteous to all to whom she heard him speak; yet the memory of that phrase, "Strike through!" uttered with such ruthless coldness, haunted her memory, and she heard again the shrieks of those trampled underfoot. It was an indication that what he had to do he did with all his might, reckless of consequence. If any occupied his path, the obstructor had to stand aside or go down, and such a course does not make for popularity. The windows being now shuttered and barred securely, and the tumult muffled into indistinct murmur, lights were brought in. Mrs. Jarrett urged the girl to partake of some refreshment, but Frances insisted on waiting for her father. The secretary, seeing her anxiety, said: "Mr. Vollins went out some two hours ago to learn what was taking place, and I am sure if anything serious had happened he would have been here before now with tidings." "Who is Mr. Vollins?" "His lordship's treasurer, madam." As the words were uttered, the door opened, disclosing John Vollins, the expression of whose serious, clean shaven face gave little promise of encouragement "What news, Mr. Vollins? The mob seems rampant again," spoke up the secretary. "Disquieting news, pr I am misled. The rumor Is everywhere believed that his lordship was arrested in parliament this afternoon and is now in prison." "Impossible! 'Twould be a breach of privilege. In parliament! It cannot be. Did you visit the precincts of parliament?" "No man can get within a mile of It, the mass of people is so great. It seems as If all London were concentrated there, and one is swept hither and thither in the crush like a straw on the billows of the sea. Progress is out of the question except in whatever direction impulse sways the mob. There are so many versions of what is supposed to have happened that none can sift the truth. It is said that parliament, behind closed doors, impeached his lordship, aud that when he demanded entrance to his place he was arrested by order of the two houses acting conjointly." "But even if that were true and it seems incredible the king can liberate him at a word." "They say even the king and court have fled and that hereafter parliament will be supreme, but one cannot believe a tithe of what is flying through the streets this night The people are mad, stark mad." Mrs. Jarrett hovered about the young lady in easa an announcement so fraught with dread to all of them should prove too much for her, but Frances was the most collected of any there. "If that is all," she said calmly, " 'twill be but a temporary inconvenience to my father which he will make little of. He has committed no crime, and may face with fortitude the judgment of his peers, certain of triumphant acquittal. Heis In London by command of the king, his master, and hia majesty will see to it, should all else fail, that he suffers not for his obedience." This conclusion was so reasonable that it had the effect of soothing the apprehensions of all who heard it and, young as st? was, Frances seemed to assume a place of authority in the estimation of those present, which was to stand her in good stead later in the evening. It was after 9 o'clock that there was a rap at the door. "Who is there?" asked the secretary through the grating. "A messenger from the court," was the reply. Frances had come up the hall on hearing the challenge. "What name?" demanded the secretary. "De Courcy. Open quickly, I beg of you. The mob has surged down the street, but it may return at any moment." "Open," said Frances, with decision, and the secretary Obeyed. De Courcy came in, unrecognizable at first because of the cloak that envelope ed him. The door was secured behind him, and he flung his cloak to one of the men standing there. Ills gay plumage was somewhat ruffled, and the girl never thought she would be so heartily glad to see-him. "Is it true that my father is sent to the Tower?" were -her first words. "No, mademoiselle; but he Is In custody, arrested by order of parliament and at this moment detained in the house of James MaxwelL keeper of the Black Rod, who took his swbrd from him and is responsible for his safety. 'Tis said he will be taken to the Tower tomorrow, but they reckon not .on the good will of some of us who are his friends, and they forget the power of the king." Frances frowned, but said: - "What were. the .circunjstanees Qf my.

Page Three.

father's arrest? What do they charge against him?" "God knows what the indictment is; chiefly that he is Strafford, I think. He entered the house or lords this afternoon and walked with customary dijjnity to his place, but was curtly ordered to withdraw until he was sent for, as the commons were at that moment enunciating their formula against him. He withdrew in the face of this loud protest" and at last, being called, stood before them; was commanded to kneel, which, with some hesitation, he did, while the articles to his disparagement were read from the woolsack. He was then dismissed, and, once in the outer room again, the Black Rod demand ed his sword and so conducted him, under restraint, to a carriage; no man of all then present capping to him. although they had been obsequious enough when he entered. A scurvy lot!" "Were you among them?" "Not I; I give you the account as 'twas told to me, but had I been in that contemptible company, my hat would have gone lower than ever before." "You have not seen my father then? He has sent no message by you?" "I have not seen him, but I come to crave a few words with you in private." "Sir, you must excuse me. I am so tense with anxiety about my father, I can think of naught else." "'Tis on that subject I wish to discourse. He has set in train a series of events in which I hoped to aid him, but it is like to go awry through this most unlooked for arrest. That is why, I was here this morning, and the com mission was to have been completed tomorrow. Did he say anything to you about it?" You heard all he said to me today. I saw him for but a moment and that ia vnilr niviin( " "I had hoped his lordship made a confidant of you, so my mission were the easier of accomplishment." "If it has to do with his welfare, I am ready to confer with you. Coma with me to the library." But before they could quit the hall they were aware that another was taking advantage of the lull in the street to seek entrance to the mansion. Frances paused to learn the re' suit. This time it was an envoy from Strafford himself, and he brought a letter addressed to "Mistress Frances Wentworth." She opened and read the note with eager anticipation, forgetting for the moment all who were standing there. Sweetheart You have heard before this what hath befallen me, yet trust thou In the goodness of God that my enemiea shall do me no hurt. I am troubled that you should be In London at this time, where I can be of no help to you. It would please me to know that you were safe In the home where you have lived until this present time. Think not that you can assist me other than by obeying, for I trust la God and the kins and, in the assurance that I am Innocent of the charges malice hath brought against me. Therefore be In no way alarmed, but betake yourself straightway to the north, there to wait with your brother, aa heretofore, until I send a message for you, which I hope to do right speedily. Travel In comfort and security, and take with you such of my household aa will secure both. My treasurer, John Vollins. will give you all money you require, and this letter Is his assurance to fulfill your wishes In this atjb every respect. Trust In God; give way to no fear, but bear yourself aa my daughter. Your loving father. STKAFFORD. The young woman folded the letter without a word, except to the secretary, to whom she said: "My father writes in good confidence, seeing no cause for alarm, having assurance of his innocence and faith in God and the king." Then she led the way to the library, followed by De Courcy, bat in hand. Vollins arose and left them together, whereupon the Frenchman, with some slight hesitation, possibly remembering a different plea on that spot a few hours before, began his recital. "This morning his lordship, your honored father, requested my assistance in a business which he thought I was capable of bringing to a satisfactory conclusion. It concerned a highly placed personage, whom it is perhaps improper for me to name, and perhaps unnecessary for me to particularize further. Ills lordship's intention was to present this exalted lady with some gift which she would value for its intrinsic worth no less than its artistic quality, and, as he professed himself no judge of such, preferring to depend upon the well known taste of my nation in delicate articles of merit also so far complimenting me as to believe that I could, in suitable manner and phrase, present this token to the gracious accepter of it, he desired my intervention, and I promised so. to pleasure him to the best of my poor abilities. On leaving you this morning I made selection of the gift and furthermore gave hint te the recipient of Its intended presentation a hint I may say, which was received with palpable delight Judge, then, my consternation he had promised to pay me the money, tomorrow." (Continued Tomorrow.V Palladium Want Ads Pay. ivnown and popular at the two greatest World's Fairs Chicago and St Louis and now sold by every up-to-date grocer loose or In sealed packets. Are sold loose or In sealed packets by Great Atlantic & Pacific -Tea Co- 727 Main.-

(Sreertor Blacls

r