AN INFERNAL fits with the intention of blowing up ored to calm them, telling them that Buy the ship." he believed a mistake had been made SMOKE The captain turned pale. and that the box simply contained a am on ds "Where is your baggage?" he asked clock and other family heirlooms. Mr. Mervak*. As distinguished men find their value LA ZENDA Domestic "Part in Ure baggage room and part enhanced by always keeping themselves on the in my stateroom." before the public, so Mr. Mervale "Can this thing be in your stateroom?" Canadian Side gained with Miss Floyd *ty his prominence, even if it were only on A N I A a a a HOW It Was Prevented From "No," account of having had among his baggage "Very well. We must get out what of Blowing Up a Ship. that which might blow the ship you have in the baggage room immediately." and passengers sky high. Somehow GLEDMLL & CO. Ricker. who had seemed to her quite AT ALL DEALERS The captainattended by Mr. Mervale, By a man when pulling her in a boat on Fort Frances, Ont. SALLIE MENDEM. went down, on to the main deck Lake Como. now appeared equally [Copyright, 1910, by American Press Asso-. and, entering tlie baggage room, ordered elation.] tame in comparison with this earl's all the Britisher's luggage pulled A party of travelers was assembled son, who had become the center of out. There was a suspicious looking on the upper deck of the ocean liner attraction for the' whole ship. The box about which the latter seemed A. M. JENSEN Eric, four days, out from Southampton. former gradually gave way to the very uncertain. Tie said that his latter, and Miss Floyd, instead of England, bound for New York. mother had done hi: packing and he Three Leaders was not sure whether this box belonged walking the deck or sitting in a steamer Walter Kicker had met and traveled Undertaker and to him or not. One of the men chair all day in company with Mr. with Miss Eugenia Floyd. .They had present put his ear to the box and distinctly Ricker, merely began these sociabilities Licensed Embalmer become engaged and were returning heard the ticking of machinery. with him and continued them with Mr. to their homes to secure .their parents' This was enough. The captain ordered Mervale. sanction to their union. the box thrown overboard. Meanwhile the Infernal machine The ocean during the voyage had Golden Grain Belt Beers A Full Line of Undertaker's Goods "One moment." said Mr. Mervale"I'm bobbed up and down on the waves. run smooth, but the course of true love not sure but that's a clock in Knots of passengers constantly loitering had not. An Englishman who permitted there my mother asked me to take on the stern looked at it and swapped the fact to leak out that he was Harpers Whiskey Coroner Koochiching County over and give to .her sister, my aunt, opinions whether In case of an the eldest son of an earl and was going who is living in America." explosion it was far enough from the to America in search of a wife BIG FALLS. MINN. "We can't take any risk," said the ship to avert any damage. Then came paid considerable attention to Miss captain. "Heave the box overboard." the approach to port, the handing El Paterno Cigars Floyd, much to the annoyance of Mr. "But, captain," persisted the Englishman. around of custom bouse blanks on Ricker. The name under which this "if that box is really mine it which to make declarations of dutiable scion of British nobility traveled was contains several articles of great value. baggage, the filling in of articles H. H. Gordon, Pres. plain John Mervale. He wore a checkerboard UNDERWOOD & HASSELBARTH. Local Agents My mother spoke to me about it, but purchased abroad and handing them suit with golf cap to match J. R. Harmon. Vice Pres. and Gen'l Mgr. till this moment it had escaped my to the purser. Mr. Mervale said that and was the best shuffleboard player International Falls, Minnesota. mind." if the box being towed was what he on the ship. M. M. Gordon, Treas. O. H. Gordon, Sec. "The ship and cargo are worth too supposed it was the duty on the articles Mr. Mervale had settled himself into much money to take any risk, and the a steamer chair beside that of Miss It contained was considerable. lives of the passengers certainly cannot Floyd, while Mr. Ricker was chatting The question as to whether it was a be jeopardized." or trying .to chat with other young ladies box of heirlooms or an infernal machine Border Wholesale "Nevertheless I protest against my of the party. His attention was must be settled by the custom property being jettisoned, and I am not not given to the young ladies., but to officers. He rather thought they would sure but this box is mine and contains pass it free of duty. Meat Company family heirlooms of great value sent The evening before reaching port NINE LOTS IN ONE bj my mother to relatives in America. Miss Floyd was sitting with Mr. Mervale I think it quite probable that some one on the upper deck, where they WHOLESALE DEALERS IN MGTS on the dock heard the ticking of the were not so liable to interruption as That is what you get clock and informed the superintendent they would be lower down. He was OF ALL KINDS. of police that the box was an infernal telling her of the family home of his wheo you buy in machine, hence the telegram. Suppose father, the earl, and his mother, the GOLDVILJLE we open the box' and Bnd out." countess. Then he told her how they "Not on your life!" said the captain. had sent him to America, where rich Poultry, Fish, Oysters'. Eggs, wives were to be had by British noblemen "Very well. I have another plan to for the asking, that he might marrf Butter, Cheese, Etc. Shipments propose. Lower one of the lifeboats, a wealthy American girl and build place the box in it and tow the boat up the family estates when he came Receive Prompt Every lot contains an acre of land, with a line long enough to be perfectly into the title. But he had been captured safe." before his arrival. He had no and ooly nine blocks distant from Attention. As these words were spoken the box sooner seen Miss Floyd than be had residence district InterQctiOQal Falls was being carried out and in another succumbed to her, rich or poor. International Falls, Minnesota moment was resting on the rail ready Miss Floyd told him that, as to to go overboard. Mr. Mervale made means, she would have on the death of BUY INOW so strong a protest that the captain her father a large inheritance. But a hesitated. Mr. Mervale declared that complication had arisen in the matter There are No Reservations in My Deeds if the box contained his property he of Walter Ricker. There was an engagement would hold the captain responsible for that had not been approved Write or call for Prices and Terms REX BOTTLE its destruction. The captain, influenced by her parents and might not be approved MATT DONAHUE, Owner by this argument, changed his mind by them. She would be pleased to have Mr. Mervale call on her in and ordered a boat lowered. The box BEER New York. 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The gentleman to blow up the ship and it had reads it. starts, and his hand been saved only by a wireless telegram trembles. He rises at once, seeks the from the chief of the Southamp' captain of the ship, and hands him the ton police. message, signed by the Southampton Mr. Mervale. who had received the superintendent of police: telegram and among whose baggage "One of your pieces of baggage was the anarchists had placed the explo ED. BANCROFT, Resident Agent left on the dock. There is every reason sive, at once became the most important to believe that an infernal machine It's a home industry man aboard, not excepting the Telephone No. 75 with'your name and address on •captain. Passengers crowded around It was shipped, in its stead by anarch- him_to learn every detail. 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