South Bend News-Times, Volume 30, Number 312, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 1 November 1913 — Page 3

THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1913

A Romance of Extaordinary Distinction The Marshal By Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Author of The Perfect Tribute, etc. Copyright, The Bobbs-Merrill Company.

(Continued from Friday.) "Who was it, teli rm vho was afraid to climb the flagpole by th church Who was that hoy, Henri Dufour?" dtmandf.l Pierrot TremMay. and the embryo Frenchmen joined in a sarcastic "Ah!" and pointful grim:' finders at the mortified J Icnri "That's nothing," Hnri threw back fulkily. "And I was not the only one who wis afraid. I offered to climb the poie, and was afraid after but none of tho others even offered. And jt was no great sham; to me. for it is dangerous to climb that pole. It is twenty feet to tho cross-Lars, and beyond that it is fifty fret yet to the imall cross-bars at the top it is very 'high in tho air seventy feet. Only Francois Heaupre of all the village has yet climbed that flagpole, and all the world knows that Francois is different. His stomach is different; he has no fear of things, inside him Francois." tho hero put a friendly hanu on the I u,,i,.r- f tv,o ,nrentH niifnn.- I lilt IT W tl-O Cfc liUl iliUI cu.n nv. "It's nothing." he agreed. "It's only that I was born different. I do tot feel inside my stomach that thing which you say is belns afraid. I do not know that feeling, so it is easy. It wa,s not much for me to clmb tho jole; it was Just that I could do it." And the boys, seeing their honor favt-d. agreed heartily. "All the same," Achille Dufour suggested ungratefully, "Francois would not dare climb that ladder to the ball. Dare you?" The great brown eyes of Francois turned about the group; the boys waited eagerly for his answer. If he In red it was almost as if they should oil do it: it was always this one who led into the dangerous places; always this one who went a bit further when fhe others courage failed; they explained it pleasantly by that fortunate lack in Francois Inside mechanism which produced in the others the discomfort called fear, hindering bold deeds. "IIo has no judgment, Francois; therefore he fears nothing," they lometimes put tho case. Put the fact remained that he was ufraid of nothing. The boy? vaitcd a minute, eyes and mouths stretched, and at length came the decision. "I dare." said Fiancois. Then the dark heads camo together In an uneasy mass, and there was whispering. At the dinner-hour that day several mothers of the village remarked that their small lads were restless, not intent as usual on the black bread and tho soup cf chopped vegetables and the green beans all anxious to tinish and get away. Only the mother of Francois, however, reasoned from this that mischief was brewing. When the slim, wiry, little figure slipped from the table and out through the open door, she rose and followed and stood in the groat entry watching his race across the field toward the church. But at that moment the baby cried and she turned back into the house and when she looked again the boy has disappeared. Yet it was on her mind that something would happen, and from time to timo she left her work and went to the doorway and shaded her eyes, looking for her little lad. Meanwhile Francois had veered but. once in his straight path to turn to the Philpoteaux cottage, where the gilder lodged while Jn Vieques. "I low eoon will one be at work up there again?" he asked through the window of Auguste Fhilpoteaux sitting at his dinner, and the man answered good-naturedly, enjoying the publicity which made him the most interesting person of the village.-v. "It may be in half an hour, my boy. Not j-ooner." And Francois raced on. 13 y this time a boy here and a boy there had stolen from their dinnertables and were gathering in groups down the street, but the elders paid no attention. Francois disappeared into the church; the boys began to grow breathles?. "It will take some minutes for the stairs." one said, and they waited. Two minutes, three, perhaps live, something rose out of the trap-door leading to the platform from which ihe steeple sprang a ngure. looking very small o far up above them. Instantly it attached itself, like a crawling fly. to the side of the steeple; it moved upward. Henri Dufour, below in the street, jumped as a hand gripped hi arm. lie looked up frightened at la Claire. "Is that my Francois?" she demanded sternly, but the boy did not need to answer. With that, by degrees people came from the cottages as at some mysterious warning and stood silent, afraid to breathe, watching the little figure creeping up. up the dizzy narrowing peak of the church steeple. A rider galloped down the road; seeing the groups, he pulled in his bay horse and his eyes followed the upward glance of the whole village, lit spite of the distance, one could tell that it was a child's not a man's figure, glued against the fleche. almost, now, at the top. "Who is It?" he Hung at the nearest knot of peasants; hi voice was abrupt and commanding. The men pulled otf their caps, and one answered respectfully: "It is little Francois Peaupre. my Seipncur; it is a child who has no fear; he is almost at the top, but we dread it when he descends. It is liangerous to descend. Vet the child i8 not afraid we hope he will come down, and in that case his mother should most certainly give him the stick." "Mon Dieul" the man on horseback growled. "If he looks down he is 'lost; the lad is a born hero or a born lunatic." The crawling1 spot up there showed dark in the sunlight against the new gilding of the ball. It stopped; th( blot was fix-d for a second; anothc 'eond. From the crowd rose gasps and excited broken sentences. "He has the vert'gol He is lost:" A man spoke chM plainly, and Henri Dufour felt Claire's lingers or. his arm loosen as if life had gone out of them. A strange sound came from her lips, but the boy did not stir hic .yes from the church steeple. In the vtillness he heard a woman yardaway whisper as'if to herself: "He will fall now at this moment." And the dark blot clung against the gilding. Tlun suddenly it moved began to make a slow way downward ;nd a long sigh, like a ripple or, vater, ran through the ranks of people. No one p.ke: nil the eyc .tshld the little Jigutv slip down.

down the unseen ladder in the air. At last it was at the bottom; It disappeared into the trap-door. Fvery one began to talk volubly at once; a woman cried r'r joy, then a child spoke in a high voiee. "See." she .said shrilly, "the mother of Francois goes to mc. t him!" La Claire was far down the street, Sliding toward that rhurch door which was under the steeple. As she reached it the little bid came out. his 'ace flushed, his cv shining with excitement and triumph. She took hi3 hand silently, hardly looking at him, and turned 'o, quietly, without a word of either joy or rcprooi', her face impassive. She had got her boy again from the dead. It seemed to Claire, and those llrst moments were beyond words or embraces. To touch his warm hand was enough. The man on the bay horse, trotting sjowly along, saw the meeting. "It is a woman out of the com-

. that one. he spoke aloud "she rules herself and the boy.' And the boy loked up as he came and smiled and tugged at his cap with the hand which his mother did net hold. "Good morning. M'sieur." he paid I with friendliness, and the rider stared, j , "Saere bleau!" he thing back in his strong sudden voice. "It is my friend, the Marshal. Was it you, then, glued up there? Yet another fashion to play with death, eh? Xom d'un chien! You have a star of good luck you are saved for something great, it must be. Madam?." he spoke to the mother, "you should guard this adventurer. Ik tells me that his life is of importance to his country, yet he risks it with damnable freedom. I caught him kicking over a precipice, and here he is running his neck into danger a.?ain. France will lack a marshal and you to blame yet he is hard to kill, I confess it." ' He Is hard to guard, my Seigneur." La Claire answered seriously. "1 nev er know the next danger. He is more ' obedient than the others, yet it is he who will make my hair gray. Put he is good, my Francois," and her arm slipped around the boy. She drew, him close, as i? only now realizing how nearly she had lost him. "I believe it is simply that fear is left out of him, as they say in the village. He does not know how to be afraid, le petit." The stranger turned a glance like a blow on the little fellow. "'Francois," he demanded, "what made you still so long at the top of the ladder just now? Were you afraid?" "No. M'sier." the chile .answered. "I was not afraid. T was looking at the chateau the new chateau. There is some one living in it now, M'sieur. 1 thought as I looked that when I grew big and an oflieer. I might go there and place my soldiers about that chateau. I arranged how to attack it very well. I also arranged how to defend it. There should be Infantry to take the little gates while the cavalry kept the defenders busy at the great gate." The bay horse, restive, whirled and plunged sidewise; the rider sat close et loose as ho played the reins, and in a moment had the beast facing again toward the boy and the woman. His brows down, he stared at the lad with his keen hard glance, but he spoke to the mother. "Madame," he said, "it is a soldier you have there. I have not heard of another boy who lingers at thrt top of church steeples to plan military operations. He has a love for the business If he have the genius also he may go far. He Phould be instructed." The two waited, attentive, a little astonished to be noticed so long, and then the heavy brows lifted and a smile came into the stern eyes, making them astonishingly kind. "It is my poor house which you have honored with your reflections, M'sier the Marshal." he tlung at . Francois. "Come and see me there in the chateau, and I w.il help you arrange the attack against it. Good day." There, was a clatter of galloping hoofs; the bay mare and her rider were far down the street. "Who is it, my mother the fierce gentleman?" Francois asked. "You are fortunate today, Francois." Claire answered him. "The good God has saved your life from a very great foolishness, and also I think you have made a fr'cnd. It is the new seigneur." (To be continued Monday.) ARRESTED FOR SHOOTING' DUCKS FROM AEROPLANE Pupil at Aviation School is Held Under Liu- Again-t Hunting From Power Boats. ROCHESTER. N. Y., Nov. 1. Fdwin K. Jacquith of New Vork city, a pupil at an aviation school on Lake Keuka. is under arrest on tho novel charge of shooting ducks from a Hying boat. Under the game laws duck shooting front power boats illegal, and the game protector who mad the :rrest contends that Hying machines conn under the same bead. The ease will rome up Friday before a Hammonds port justice. CLAIMS STUDENT DiED FROM NATURAL CAUSES Coroner Reports That UrancU W. Oberohain Wns t Injured in Tank STap. LAFAYKTTK. Ind.. Nov. l. Francis W. Obenchain. of South AVhitley. Ind., the. Purdue student, who died during the annual "tank scrap" here the night of Sept, 19. expired of natural causes and not of violence, according to the report of Coroner Roy V. Hanzell, made Friday. The physicians who were in attendance at the inquest "here agreed as to the existence of an enlarged thyroid gland, or goitre. The coroner's report sets forth that the physicians who held the autopsy on the body at South Whitley anil stated that the young man's neck had been broken, wt-re not in accord, each physician declaring a different vertebrae had been fractured or dislocated. WANTS DIVOHCE. Charging failure to provide Ethel FMiley has filed suit for divorce from Loren Pllley in the circuit court. They were married Jan. 7. 1902. and tevparUcd Sepf 1 V 0 V ,

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FIRES liilO GROWO; i George Kline, Who Shoots Ernest Seisell, Tells Police Boys Were Making Too Much Noise. Halloween proved a source of much happiness to Ernest Seisell, 12 years old, and his companions Friday night until their prank playing course led them to 1209 Miner St., at about 9:15 o'clock. Their attention to the house where he boarded proved so annoying to George Kline, 17 years old. that he fired at the boys with a 22-calibie rifle, the bulle striking young Seisell in the fleshy part of the thign. It passed entirely through the side of his lg. Helped by his companions, the wounded boy was able to make his way home at 12 27 E. Sorin St., where he wasfound in bed by the police, who wyT? summoned. Dr. CThas. stoltz inched the place immediately after the patrol and dressed the wound, which is not expected to prove serious. Kline confessed to shooting the boy when he was arrested. At the police station he replied to a questioning as to why he shot the boy: "I wanted to keep him away from the house." Officers Parker. Diver and Miller were in charge of the patrol. Complaints to the police in general Friday night were infrequent, the Halloween celebrants either confining their activities to harmless tricks or committing their depredations undiscovered. The old trick of stretching a rope across a sidewalk was brought into play as usual and nasty falls followed in -many cases. On one street a boy on a bicycle was thrown to the ground when he struck a wire barring his path, but luckilyt escaped in WOMAN ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF BIGAMY Two Men Meet in Prosecutor's Office and Swear Tliej- Are Husbands of 3 Irs. Kate Synder. Two men both claim to be the husband of Katie Snyder, and as a result Mrs. Katie Snyder has been arrested by the local police on a charge of bigamy. f Steve Snyder came to this city from: Chicago in search of Mrs. Snyder, he claims. He said he found her living j with Mike Kardich in this city. Snyder went to the prosecuting attorney's j office Thursday to swear out a war- i rant for the arrest of Kardich. for alienating the affections of his wife, ho claims. At the prosecutor's office, however, ho met Mrs. Snyder and Kardich. They were swearing out a warrant att the time for his arrest, charging him with following the couple from city! to city, and making threats to take their lives. The arrest of Snyder and Kardich followed, Thursday night. Later both men declared that they were legally married to Mrs. Snyder and a warrant was issued for her arrest. She was taken into custody Friday morning. All three were pood friends at Snyder's former Chicago .home. Snyder claimr. He said that Kardich was staying at their home and run away with his wife. The case was set for Nov. r. SHANK TELLS TROUBLES INDIANAPOLIS . Nov. 1. Mayor Lew Shank of Indianapolis, in a political speech Friday took occa-rion to recount some of the perplexities of "his office. He said: "Between telling saloonkeepers not to gei nervous and telling preachers that the lid is on tighter than beeswax, I've had one hell of a time the last four years. If I hadn't gone to Louisville once or twice and played the ponies I would have gone crazy." The mayor expressed his sympathy for whoever succeeds him at the next election. WILL NOT BE BENEFITED 'Judge Funk Friday rendered a decislon in favor of William Kettering, a remonstrator in the Jacob charu:; ditch case. The court held Kettriru? Is not benefitted by the proposed drain and consequently should not be assessed. The costs of tho action were taxed to tho petitioners. Kettrinp had been assessed for benefits but introduced evidence to .how that , th ditch would drain his huckleberry marsh and render the land useless.

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INCOME TAX HAS WALL STREET GUESSING 'Wire Swimming in Mad" the Way New York Banker Describes It. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. That part of New York, which i:j referred to vaguely as "Wall street," was in a state of confusion today. For once in its career, Wall stroet did not know which way to turn. The new income tax law becomes effective Saturday, and some of the highest priced lawyers, bankers and corporation officials in the world confessed that they were completely at sea, as to the meaning. At 7 o'clock Friday night a group of men emerged from the darkened, cavernous interior of ono of the largest banks in the down town district. In the group wtr the president and vice presidents of the bank. They had just concluded the last of a perles of lengthy conferences which have been held every evening this week after business hours. The subject of all these conferences was the income tax law. "We're swimming in mud." said one? of these officers expressly. BRINGS SUIT AGAINST LOCAL POLICE OFFICIALS Clarence Hushower Wants .$10,000 Damages Trouble During Sunday Revival. itit for $10,000 damages was filed in tho superior court against William Cassidy, chief of detectives, and Lawrence Lane, a member of the detective force, bv Clarence Hm.howcr, who charges false arrest. Hushower's complaint charges that the detectives beat him and dragged him through the streets to the station where ho was booked on what he terms a false charge. J Hushower was arrested during the' latter part of the Bill Sunday campaign last spring for violation of the traffic ordinance. According to the police, he insisted on passing through a great crowd on Vistula aw. and was stopped by the detectives. He became abusive, the police assert, and was finally arrested. Twkt AT CAPITAL. INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 1. Employts of the street railvay and traction companies of Indianapolis went Y. M. C. A. Glee Club Led by A. B. KOLB, of Elkhart If you like to sing we want you. Membership not required to join. SOUTH BEND'S FOREMOST PICTURE HOUSE.

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