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SYNOPSIS. Burton H. Barnes, a wealthy American touring Corsica, rescues the young English lieutenant, Edward Gerard Anstruther, and his Corsican bride, Marina, daughter of the Paolis, from the murderous vendetta, understanding that his reward is to be the hand of the girl he loves Enid Anstruther, sister of the English lieutenant. The four fly from Ajaccio to Marseilles on board the French steamer Constantine. The vendetta pursues and as the quartet are about to »? a < train for London at Marseilles, • u< r > a * s handed a mysterious note which causes her to collapse and necessitates a postponement of the journey. Barnes gets part of the mysterious note ftnd receives letters which inform him that he is marked by the vendetta. He employs an American detective and plans to beat the vendetta at their own game. I'or the purpose of securing the safety of the women Barnes arranges to have Lady Chartris lease a secluded villa at Nice to which the party is to be taken in a. yacht. Suspicion is created that Marina is in league with the Corsicans. and Marina is thought to have given him a sign. Marina refuses to explain to Barnes which fact adds to his latent suspicions. Barnes* plans for the safety of the party are learned by the Corsicans. The carriage carrying their party to the local landing is followed by two men. One of the horsemen is supposed to be Correglo. They try to murder the American. The cook on the yacht—a Frenchman is suspected of complicity in the plot. The party anchors at St. Tropez. The yacht Is followed by a small boat. The cook is detected giving signals to the boat. Barnes attempts to throw him overboard, but is prevented by Marina and Enid. The cook is found to be Innocent of the supposed plot and is forgiven. The party arrive at Nice and find Lady Chartris and her daughter Maud domiciled in the e'illa rented with Barnes’ money. Barnes is amazed to find that Count Corregio is at Nice and is acting the role of admirer to Lady Chartris. Barnes and Enid make arrangements for their marriage. The net tightens about Barnes. He receives a note from La Belle Blackwood, the American adventuress. Barnes hears that Elijah Emory, his detective, has been murdered by the Corsicans. He

learns that the man supposed to be Corregio, who followed the party on their way to the boat, was Salieeti, a nephew of the count, and that Count Corregio had been in Nice for some time prior to the party's arrival. The count warns Barnes not t marry Enid unless he would have her a'so involved in the murderous feud. CHAPTER IX. The Coming cf Danella. At the morning meal Barnes finds the rest of the party growing excited over the approaching ceremony, and Maud telling them about her maid-of-nonor dress. “You'll have to lend me a pair of silk stockings, Enid,’’ cries the putative infant. "I don't think I have any bang up enough for the ceremony. They should be corkers. Mine show, yours don’t.” This oration is interrupted by Lady Chartris saying, insinuatingly: “Cousin Burton, you must have had a pretty long chat with the minister. I waited for you last evening till halfpast 11.” A sly giggle from Maud sets Enid’s blue eyes ablaze, though there’s a whimper on her sweet lips. “Yes, lots of details,” replies Barnes, casually. "Did you have a pleasant outing with, Cip, Cousin Prunella?” “Os course I did, with such a cavalier." “You invited Count Danella to my wedding?” asks the American abruptly. “Os course I did,” cries the widow, rapturously. “He accepted immediately; said he was very anxious to meet you.” “The pleasure will be mutual,” observes Burton, grimly. Enid and her brother look at each other solemnly, but Marina’s face, when she learns that Cipriano Danella has accepted the invitation to the nuptials becomes so serious that Barnes, after breakfast, takes her husband aside and says: “Have you found out about that accursed letter?” “No, she begged me not to ask her. She sobbed it was for my happiness that I didn’t know. You’ll soon discover, Barnes,” remarks Edwin moodily, "that you cannot do much with a bride when she turns on the hose and

washes the matrimonial decks.” I This reminds Burton that he had better not start his married life with 1 a secret, and getting Enid alone with him, which isn’t very difficult, he briefly, but pointedly, tells his fiancee of his interview with la Belle Blackwood. ‘‘Oh, I’m so glad you told me—so glad she’s not all bad!” exclaims the 1 girl, rewarding him with so rapturous a kiss that he is delighted he refused Sally’s farewell salute. “I—l learned from Maud that you had received a i —-tetter from >lxc ..^dds, hesitatingly. i ‘‘You didn’t doubt me?” This issues in stern reproach from the lips of the American. “Oh, no, but —but no secrets from me, please,” she entreats. “There’s no real love without a little jealousy;” then shudders: “And so those villains killed poor Emory?” “I'm afraid so,” answers her lover, and his tone grows very solemn. "You see how remorselessly, how craftily we are pursued, that the haven of safety I had planned for you, dear one, when I left you to put those devils forever out of the way, is now known to them. You remember the awful threat against any woman who i weds me. You’ve —you’ve no wish to delay our marriage?” His eyes are very eager. Her eyes answer his with equal passion. “No, on the contrary,” answers the resolute English girl, “I am re- . solved more than ever.” "Then may God never forgive me if I don’t save you from all harm,” mut- j ters the coming husband. ‘‘Yet we I must take all precautions. Just try and see if you cannot do better than your brother.” "How?” asks Enid, eagerly. “The knowledge of the contents of that letter to Marina may be vital, not only for the happiness of her husband and herself, but perhaps to the safety of all of us. See if you cannot in some woman’s way get the informaLo", of what it contained,”

About an hour after this. Enid returns and remarks ' disappointedly: "Not a word from Marina except that it was something entirely between her and her husband; that we would discover some day.” Then she blushingly asks: “Where.are you going to take me after marriage?” This is a proposition upon which Barnes has been racking his brain. He says, meditatively: "Supposing you and I go out on the yacht?” "What, alone together? Delightful, romantic! ” "Not entirely. I shall take Graham and three seamen, to sail the schooner. We’ll only be away two or three days.” "Two or three days of happiness,” whispers the -giH, radiantly, and runs , ^^j^Xopreparefel- he? 1 €0 11 [<-** tials. Barnes's own preparations occupy him most of the time till the ceremony, though he contrives to discuss his yachting plans with Edwin. “All right,” answers the sailor, “Graham can take care of the schooner as well as I. You leave me the balance of the jackies and I'll guarantee everything’s all a-taut when you come into port. I shall take no cruises into Nice. I have enough here to make me happy.” “If Emory should by any chance turn up,” remarks Barnes, “keep him with you to help you.” They are interrupted by the French cook, who has come on shore in the dingy bearing a magnificent wedding cake that • he has manufactured in 1 i

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the schooner's galley. “My offering to your bride,” remarks the culinary artist. “This will be the crowning glory of your noces, Monsieur Barnes. I am to cook for you on your wedding cruise. I must walk into Villefranche to get supplies.” The American is minded to call him back and caution the fellow to have a quiet tongue, but Maud breaks in upon him in all the glories of her child maid-of-honor frock, crying: “The notary is here and the minister has arrived.” Soon after the party assembles in the parlor, which has been decked with the flowers of southern France, and Miss Anstruther to them looking in her fresh beauty, with her modest blue eyes filled with love, very bridelike. She is in an exquisite summer yachting costume, all lace and sheer muslin, through which her fair arms and shoulders gleam like chiselled ivory. A hat of white plumes and ribbons graces her golden hair. “I didn’t put on an evening gown,” she whispered, “so I’m ready to go on board. Burton, immediately after the ceremony.” “My heavens, no bridal veil,” flutters Lady Chartris; then she cries in a tone of dismay; “and Count Cipriano is late.” But without waiting for him, the English divine having made the necessary official arrangements as prescribed by the French law, the civil contract is hastily signed before the notary, Edwin acting as Enid's guardian and giving his formal consent. Then what is to Miss Anstruther her real wedding begins, the sacrament of the English church. She standing before the divine, giving her assent modestly, but very firmly, Barnes making the responses ardently and determinedly, and thinking even as he puts the ring upon his bride’s finger: “It is a kind of curious feeling, getting married with a revolver in your hip pocket ready for business.” A moment later the usual congratulations and kisses have been given, the party are about to turn to the din-ing-room, where the wedding supper

is spread, there to drink the bride's health before she flits away. But their steps are stayed by the sound of prancing steeds announcing the coming of the belated yet only invited guest. "Oh, at last! But you are late," cries Prunella, ecstatically, as she runs into the hall. "Just time. Count Cipriano, to toast the bride.” "Yes, an unfortunate accident to my horses.” enters to them in a soft, southern voice from the hallway, where Prunella is interviewing the cavalier she has been waiting for so eagerly. As this takes place, Edwin whispers: ‘Til keep my eye on the beggar.” “And I'll talk to the gentleman as soon as 1 can get a chance, and if he doesn't give me a clean bill of health—” The rest of Barnes’s speech is interrupted by the entry of the object of their suspicions. Count Cipriano greets the company with extreme politeness. Upon the ceremony Marina had looked with a very pale face, but now two hectic spots flame in either cheek as she returns the salute of Danella, who murmurs: “’Tis years fllnce I saw you—the little girl poor Musso loved. You have grown into a beautiful woman—you who were my dead brother’s ward.” But soon after, as the champagne sparkh-s. the copnt very gallantly, remarkin^^^^^eP youthful English beauty. “Signore Barnes should be a very hat man,” he whispers to her, and goes^SYohatting so unaffectedly and pleasantly that Enid, who had looked upon his entrance as if he were Mephisto himself, begins to think this pleasantvoiced but vivacious-mannered gentleman is not so dangerous as she suspected. Dressed in the deep mourning of southern France, the high Corsican hat he still carries in his hand lends picturesqueness to Cipriano’s costume. Notwithstanding his somber garb, soon the gentleman is laughing with Lady Chartris; Maud driving her mother distracted by crying: “I'm only 11, but I'm as tall as the bride, • ain't I, mamma, dear?" and standing

up back to back with Enid, making a great juvenile display of baby waist and pink silken stockings. It’s her high-heeled slippers,” cries her mother, angrily. “The deceitful child is standing on tip-toe'” “Ma foi, la petite is anxious to be married herself,” smiles Cipriano. “/'"n’t I?” cries Maud, merrily. “Ask mamma for me, count.” “Oh, mercy, the champagne has gone to the minx’s head,” gasps Lady Chartris, savagely. But Corregio has again devoted his attention to Marina. As well he may; her dark, liquid eyes carrying in their depths the passion of the south, yet always seeming to ask this man a pathetic question — one his orbs refuse to answer, though several times there Is sb 'amorous a gleam in them that the young English husband would like to take their ojHH er by the throat. Jo ^ I At the first opportunity, while the ladies are gathered about Enid talking to her of her yachting cruise, Barnes says to Danella: “A few words in private with you, please, count.” “Certainly, I was about to request that myself,” remarks Cipriano. “Perhaps the garden would be more secluded.” and the American, ready for action, keeping his eye upon his visitor, politely opens the door and bows him out into the grounds. His visitor walks well into the shade of the orange ad citron trees, passing to where a rift in the foliage permits a view of the boat landing, which in the coming night is now hardly discernible. Here he pauses carelessly, his brilliant orbs occasionally directed toward the water. A moment later ho observes quietly: “Your wedding j made me sad. Signore. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Louisiana’s Frog Industry. The revenue from the frog industry in Louisiana is something over SIOO,000 per annum. The frogs are shipped alive in barrels, packed in moss. Over 1,000,000 barrels of this living freight are shipped yearly—some going west as far as California. O1 course, they are no ordinary frogs, but are carefully raised and fattened, be ing fed on bread, meal and crackling*

ODD WEDDING RITES I MANY STRANGE AND CURIOUS CUSTOMS OBSERVED. Unique Assyrian Marriage Ceremony Takes Place in Milwaukee—Bride Must Be Silent for Three Days After Wedding. For three days Lizzie Herra, an Assyrian bride, surrounded by hundreds of relatives and friends, has not spoken a word, says the Milwaukee Journal. Bedecked in her bridal gown of blue satin brought from far-off Assyria, she sits like a throned queen, an attend ant on either side, receiving her guests, but saying nothing. Silence for three^ days after the wedding is one of tin. M aws of the Assyrian religion. The w’edding, one of the few Assyrian weddings that Iks ever been held in Milwaukee, hasfceen in progress for one week at thß bride’s home on Fifth street, betwee«Wells and Cedar. All the strange custwns of the mother country have been Observed. Assyrians from Chicago,! Escanaba, Marinette and other citi« came to Milwaukee for the ceremony. Over 200 guests were present. | - 1 ^*fhe biTd^gWtlm k Richard Frenn. The wedding clremony, lasting three-quarters of al hour, was performed Sunday at two. Half an hour formed by an Assyrk Catholic priest from Chicago. For Rree days before the ceremony the wlmen of the wedding party, with the bride, stayed In one house, smoking, dancing, talking. In another house were the men, also smoking and dancing. According to the Assyrian custom, they must not mingle. In each house there was feasting and merrymaking. The wedding ceremony was performed Sunday at two. Half an hour before it the wedding guests were allowed to enter the same house together. But the women remained in one room, the men in another. As the bride entered the house of the bridegroom, she was showered with strange flowers and confetti. Then came the weird Assyrian custom of the handkerchief throwing. Before she could be married Lizzie Herra, the bride, must throw her handkerchief. filled with flowers, to the ceiling. And she must continue throwing it until it clings to the ceiling of the room. And all this time the guests were showering her with flowers, rice and confetti. Again and again and again she ; threw the bit of linen, only to see it ; flutter to the floor. When it finally did remain fluttering from the ceiling ' the bride quietly fainted from the exertion and anxiety. Bint she was soon revived, and the ceremony went on. ■ Following the wedding there was a i wedding banquet, at which only foreign dishes were served. There were chicken and rice, cooked after the fashion of the country, and eggplant, hollowed out, stuffed With mutton, the chopped meat of the eigplant and other vegetables, and f aked, but no bread, cakes or sweeny, as these are forbidden at wedding dinners. No knives, forks, spoons pr plates were used. ~f Oriental pipes, with Itheir long tubes and queer mouthpieces, were smoked, and only the purest Assyrian leaf tobacco was used. After the wedding supper came the dancing, but the women danced alone in one room, the men in another. Platform Inspector's Theft. Court dresses, hams, costumes, cigars, cameras and cheese were among some of the articles alleged to have been stolen by William F. Eggleston, a Great Northern railway platform inspector, who was remanded at Retford, England. Is Willing to Rest. Mrs. Sophia Crctto, 105, lives in old Quebec. Her voice and appetite are good, but otherwise her faculties have failed. She says she daily prays to "le bon Dieu” to take her. Poor Reward for Writers. No one should enter the calling of letters in the expectation ot earning a livelihood for many years. If he has means and talent all will be well in the long run, and in ten years he may secure the uncertain pittance of a head clerk.—London Bookman. Goodness Does Not Perish. When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. 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The value to me per acre was, wheat, $28.00; oats, $32.00, and barley, $24.00.” J. F. Bradshaw of Magrath, had 1,030 acres of wheat in crop that averaged 39% bushels to the acre, his oats, 32 bushels; barley, 53 bushels. He threshed 31,000 bushels of wheat from 540 acres. He also had 250 tons of sugar beets from 25 acres of Lethbridge, says: “I came to Leth- , bridge from Souris, North Dakota, in April, 1907, having purchased 900 acres of land in this district last fall. I had 128 acres of Alberta Red winter ■wheat which was put in on breaking in the fall of 1906, which yielded 41% bushels to the acre, for which I received 87% cents per bushel, which paid me $36.30 per acre. I had 190 acres “stubbled in” that is disced in on the stubble, which yielded 22 bushels to the acre at 87% cents per bushel, which paid me $19.25 to the acre. I also had 350 acres of strictly volunteer crop, which it was intended to prepare in the summer; but when it was seen that it was a good looking crop, it was allowed to go. From this we threshed 15 bushels to the acre, which paid us at the rate of 87% cents per bushel or $13.12 per acre. Our total crop yielded us 14,742 bushels of first-class wheat. Taking it as a whole, I consider that I had a firstclass crop all through; and. taking into consideration the fact of part of the crop having been “stubbled in,” and part strictly volunteer (which was never touched at all until the binder was put into it), I consider I had a heavy crop. I might say that I was in North Dakota five years, and I never grew as heavy a crop during i that time. This is the 25th day of I November, and my teams are still ; ploughing, and, from the appearance i of the weather, will be for some time yet.” R. W. Bradshaw of Magrath, | says: "I had this year 400 acres in ■ crop, viz.: 200 acres of wheat and 200 acres in oats. My average yield of oats to the acre was 50 bushels, and wheat. 22% bushels. The value to me per acre for wheat was $19.00, and oats, $17.00. The highest price obtained by me this year or offered me for my grain was for wheat 82 cents per bushel, and $1.05 per hundred for oats. I also had 100 tons of hay worth $12.00 per ton. and will say my wheat was all volunteer this year. Lots of wheat is averaging from 50 to 60 bushels per acre on summer fallow, and on new’ breaking, when the breaking was done early in the spring.” Writing from Spring Coulee, Alberta, W. L. Thompson says: “I had this year 3,000 acres in crop, viz.: 2,000 acres of wheat and 1.000 acres of oats. My average yield of oats to the acre was 30 bushels and of wheat 35 bushels. 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’WiiisS What a Settlor Can Secure in WESTERN CANADA 160 Acres Grain-Growing Land FRF-H-20 to 40 Bushels Wheat to the Acre. 40 to 90 Bushels Oats to the Acre. 35 to 50 Bushels Barley to the Acre. Timber for Fencing and Buildings FREE. Good Laws with Low Taxation. Splendid Railroad Facilities and Low Rates, Schools and Churches Convenient. Satisfactory Markets for all Productions. Good Climate and Perfect Health. Chances for Profitable Investments* Some of the choicest grain-producing lands to’ Saskatchewan and Alberta may now be ar- ' quired in these most healthful aii/ pn—pcivus » -zi is . —"• - Revised Homestead Rsguht’cnr - by which entry may be made by proxy (on eei- ' tain conditions), by the father, mother, sondaughter, bi-uther or sister cf inteudiujj homesteader. Entry fee ir. each case isslo.oo. For pamphlet, “Last Best West, “part ieulars as to rates.routes^ best time to go and where to locate, apply to C. J. BROUGHTON. Room 4JO Quincy Bldg.. Chic»g». HL; W. H. ROGERS, third floor. Traction terminal Indianapolis, Ind.: or T. 0. CURRIE, Room 12 B, Callahan Block. Milwaukee. Wis TOILET ANTISEPTIC Keeps the breath, teeth, mouth and body antiseptically clean and free from unhealthy germ-life and disagreeable odors, which water, soap and tooth preparations

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