Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 102, 16 March 1916 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY, MAR. le, iio

TTblO" The Story of

a Great Love

A Thrilling Serial of Devotion and Mystery

Leveredge stared hard at the artist, then he blinked and sucked hia thick Hps. - ; "Well, I'm hanged if you ain't the coolest fish I've ever struck!" he exclaimed. "Do you know what you've done? Do you know"-. Mr. Leveredge's face grew crimson; he clenched his fst bands and shook them in impotent rage in Crawley's face. "Come, . c ome, my dear sir," protested the artist. "Don't be absurd. Sit down there and have a cigar and tell me just what has happened." . For the moment Leveredge was speechless. lie could only stand and gasp with Incredulous stupefaction. Then his color rose again.' He was almost inarticulate. ' . -( "Look here," he stammered thickly, "you and I've got a score to settlea big score, too, by Geprge! And I'm not going to be generous over it either, my friend, so, just don't make any mistake about that. Now, look here, my young friend, you've been and gone and overstepped the mark this time. You thought yourself mighty clever, no doubt; but let me tell you, you've just overstepped the limit. You're on the wrong side of the law, young fellow. Now, perhaps, you'll come off your perch and descend to the plane of commonsense and reason. What do you propose to do eh?" Crawley was singularly cool. The position was expected, and he was better able to deal with it since he had carefully avoided - making any plan of action in his own mind. Mr. Leveredge was beside himself with rage whether genuine or simulated the artist could not at first determine; his face was purple; his large eyes gleamed with. the uncontrolled anrcer of a highly excitable man. Crawley set himself at once to pour oil on the troubled waters a by no means easy task, as he i very soon discovered. "What do you propose, my friend?" demanded the great art dealer, thumping the table in front of him and ignoring the artist's offer of refreshment.

"Personally," remarked Crawley,

with extreme nonchalance, "I don't propose offering any proposition. -Why should I?" "Do you know what you've done?" roared Leveredge. It would have been futile to seek refuge in prevarication; Crawley did not attempt it. "Of course I know." he said. "And you have no explanation to offer?" "None," he answered, with a ring of defiance. "Or excuse?" Leveredge was obviously surprised by Crawley's attitude. He had expected something different, and Isaac Levertdge was always at a disadvantage when taken off his guard. Perhaps Is was because he so rarely occupied that position. "I havn't done anything, Burely," retorted Crawley, "to which you can object. You know perfectly well that, if anything, I've greatly improved it." "But how dare you!" Leveredge rose in his majestic wrath. "How dare you sneak into my premises at night and and do this thing? You're no whit better than a common thief, a burglar yes. and for two pins I'd have the police on you. What in the name of thunder did you do it for?" "A whim a fancy," answered Crawley cooly. Leveredge Hits a Soft Spot In Crawley "A whim eh? A fancy? Humph! I fancy a judge would want a bit stronger defense than that, young fellow. Do you mean seriously to fpll me that you expect me to believe that you did this thing just for a passing whim?" Mr. Leveredge gave way to a fit of boisterous laughter. Crawley regarded him meditatively. "Seriously, Mr. Leveredge," he said, "do you mean to say that you consider I have done any harm to the 'Circe'?" "Of course I do, you fool!" cried Leveredge. "It Isn't the same picture. And just you look here, my young friend" the cod fishy eyes of the great connoisseur contracted and the old look of cunning and craft that Crawley knew so well came Into his large face "I'm no fool. Oh. no! "There's a pretty deep game somewhore, and I ain't the man to be easily played about with. You ain't the man, either, to come round to me, as you did yesterday, offering to chuck your

money about to buy your own picture

money too, which I know just as well as you you havn't got. Lor, I

know what you're worth, Crawley of

course I do and probably a good deal bettor than you know yourself!

"And you missed a good chance

when you started quarreling with me. 1 am game for a pretty speculation In you. Crawley, and nothing I can say can tell you what Leveredge & Mabeley can do for a man, if you don't know already." "I hope you havn't altogether given up the idea," Crawley hazarded, with sublime sang frold.

"Now, look here," Interrupted Leveredge, with a return to his unctuously persuasive methods, "we ain't going to beat about the bush any more. You, my dear old friend Crawley, had good reason not to want that picture seen by any one eh? Ain't I right? ; Now, why?" Leveredge shrugged his heavy shoulders and winked. Crawley regarded him with a stare of fixed immobility. Leveredge grinned suggestively and dug a fat -thumb into Crawley's side, as he bent forward. "Now, who, I ask, was the lady I saw you with in St. James street yesterday afternoon?" Crawley did not wince, though for the moment he felt his heart thumping. So Leveredge had seen Mrs. Brooke with him in the taxi-cab and had recognized in his companion the original of the 'Circe.' He might have, known as much. ..' "Who was she, old fellow?" asked Leveredge, and leered into Crawley's impassive face. "Why?" asked the artist sharply. "Why, because she was your 'Circe,' young friend of mine. Oho, I smell a rat!" "Nonsense!" retorted Crawley. "You are talking absurdly." "We shall see, my boy we shall see," was Leveredge's cryptic utter- ' ance "But would you be greatly surprised, cher ami, if I told you I knew? Ha, that fecthed you!" "I am sure I don't know why you shouldn't know the name of the lady you refer to," said Crawley. "The name of 'Circe,' your model eh?" Again the art dealer's smile became suggestively offensive. Crawley experienced an overwhelming desire to kick him. Instead, however, he asked quite casually 'what Mr. Leveredge was driving at. "To come to the point at once, my dear old friend Crawley," said Leveredge, "I am here to demand satisfaction." "In what way?" "In several ways." "Money, I suppose!" exclaimed the artist cynically. "Money, of course; but not only money, I want something else. Of course, we must be compensated for the loss I might call it theft of our property. That we must arrange, and if you prove yourself ameniable to reason, you'll find we shall -not be hard to meet. I value 'Circe,' as you know, at fifteen thousand pounds." Mr. Leveredge paused. "Yes, but I don't," said Crawley, promptly. "It isn't a question of a bargain," insinuated Mr. Leveredge. "Don't be a fool, Leveredge!" exclaimed Crawley, with growing irritation. "You must be mad." "Then you don't mean to meet us?" "Of course not. If you like I'll do you a new picture, although I shall want more than a thousand for it this time." "Oh, you will, will you?" sneered Leveredge. "That's very good of you1, but I'm afraid, my dear old friend, you misunderstand me. I'm here to offer you a choice of alternatives." There could be no mistaking the evil intent of the man. His sinister suggestion was patent. Crawley rori abruptly. He had gone a little pale. "Am I to understand that you are attempting to blackmail me?" he

asked grimly. , "Oh, my dear Crawley," lisped Leveredge, lifting his fat hands in pious horror, "the idea! I was merely suggesting that, if we could not get compensation for the irreparable wrong you have done us in one way well, we must try an alternative course. One must live, you know. All's fair when it comes to a game of this kind; and I never pretend to be a philanthropist." "Pray, what is the alternative course you suggest?" asked Crawley frigidly. As he spoke there was a knock at the door and Hutton entered. "Mr. Brooke!" he announced, and Godfrey Brooke entered the room. It would have been difficult to say

J which of the men was the more , surprised Leveredge or Crawley. Certainly the advent of Godfrey Brooke at this precise moment was about the

last thing in the world that Noel Crawley expected. He had, he remembered, only just read Brooke's telegram inviting him down to Hatchington. In it there had been no mention of calling.. Brooke was a busy man, booked up to the hilt with appointments. Altogether his sudden and, in the light of recent events, singularly dramatic appearance, seemed to the excited Crawley a very forcible" answer to his question. For the moment he thought of nothing less than that it had been prearranged with Leveredge; though, had he had the common sense to oensider the question seriously he would have immediately seen the absurdity of such a conclusion. Also, had he taken the trouble to look at the art dealer he would have perceived in that gentleman's face nothing more and nothing less than sheer annoyance at. the untimely interruption, and he might have very reasonably deduced that the great Godfrey Brooke was in no way associated in his mind with the lady Leveredge had seen with Crawley in the taxicab in St. James' street the previous afternoon. (To Be Continued.)

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COLUMBUS, Ind., March 16 Walter Beers turned from the steering wheel of his automobile to get a handful of candy, and the machine upset the whole party into a ditch. No one was seriously hurt.

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WRITES FROM FLORIDA

MILTON, Ind, March 16. A letter to. Mrs. W. E. -Williams from Mrs. O. Ferguson, who is ndw.at St. Petersburg, Fla., is of interest. The letter Is under the date of March 4, and tells of the cool weather. Mrs. Fergusdn and party were sitting in a room heated by steam. She told of the breaking ground for a new government building, to be used for a postoffice that is to cost $100,000 and be equal to any city of 125,000 population. Mrs. Ferguson said she and her party had been to the Gulf. She was meeting many people from ConnersvIIle, and that Mr. and Mrs. George Moore, formerly of this place, but now of Rushville, were there. Mr. Moore is a brother of Mrs. Alex Whitely of Richmond. The letter from beginning to end was very interesting.

That pecan nuts are destined to be the most important of all products of nut-bearing trees in the United States is the opinion of the department of agriculture. The output of these nuts more than trebled between 188 and 1909.

News of Bethel

By Florence Boren.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Harlan spent Sunday with Mr. Fred Elliott and family.... Mr. and Mrs. Rev. Case and daughter spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. ' Grant Moore of Hollansburg William Peden spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Clem Moore.... Earnest Hunt and son Everett of Braffettsville spent Friday night and Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Thompson Miss Genevieve Anderson spent the week end in Richmond. .. .Mrs. Charles Anderson has returned home from Cincinnati where she has been

spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. A. L. Van Nuys....Mrs. Milton Harlan is spending a few days with her son Mr. D. C. Harlan of near East Germantown. .. .Mrs. Mary Money and sons visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. .William Lee of near Braffettsville Friday and Saturday.

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it behooves you to skin your eyes and approach the matter with exceeding wariness. The business of making small, low-priced tractors is young. But it's popular. More than a hundred concerns have taken out tractor patents in the last two years. The infant tractor industry today resembles the infant automobile industry of a few years ago. Some manufacturers have rushed into it blindly. Some tractors will do the work and some will not. Some farmers will suffer. A man who has no ax to grind has been investigating the whole tractor situation. He has learned a good deal that you can profitably learn before you loosen up on your tractor money. He tells what he learned in a series of articles The Tractor and the first appears today in

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A Fruitmari-Shepherd An account of a personally conducted visit to the farm of David K. Bell, with whom taking first prizes for pears and sheep has become a habit. Pigs that Cost Less A discussion of hog breeding from the dollars-and-cents viewpoint and it certainly makes a difference whether a newborn pig costs fifty cents or five dollars. Underdrainage of Farm Land A practical, authoritative talk on the classification of soils and the manner of laying out a system of tile drains. Corn in the Classroom In which it appears that a farm-bred boy can go to the right kind of a school and learn a whole lot about making corn raising more profitable.

Stabilizing Farm Credits Suddenly the country has awakened to the fact that something has happened in Congress having to do with rural credits. What? And more, including Building a Lath House; Economical Road Building; The Campines, by Judge W. H. Card; Building a Workbench; Curing Pea-Vine Hay; A Start with Sheep; Treatment of Alkali Land; The Cow on Test; What is New in Embroidery; A Reel for the Clothesline; Dried Fish Dishes, etc., and The Regular Farm and Home Departments

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