lisi liRNATIONAL FALLS PRESS folu'ng doors whictf se"parate3 me both Armida and myself separately, -or a long time was complete, broken "Without a doubt. It was all most from my silent love. making an appointment to see us at uleverly thought out- It was to his only by the rapid running of the pencil otel 'Now Silent, yes! But she could, nevertheless, the same time at that spot on the over the rough surface of the paper. advantage alone to close our lips, tell her story—surely the *3ge of wood, as had some because in that same fatal chair in She had apparently become the he strangest that any woman has ever 15 19 E FIFTH ST secret commission to entrust to us. seized by a sudden determination to Lambeth old Jacob Moser, the Jew TRADE-MARKS ST PAUL MINN. lived to tell. explain everything, now that she saw letter addressed to me apparently bullion broker of Hatton Garden, met The COPYRIGHTS OPPOSITE CITY HALL fell into someone else's hands— his death—a most dastardly crime, we were in real, dead earnest. MODERN EUROPEAN PLAN probably of secret agents of CHAPTER XVII. one the with which none of his friends wera I watched her sweet face bent so Send sketch, or model and doscrip* for free search. turn Baron Oberg, who were always watching LOCATE!*IN HEART Of BUSINESS DISTRICT associated, and of which we alone intently, and as the firelight fell RATES*Rooms with detached bath sod Book containing over 200 m«diaBi Contains Elma's Story. Leithcourt's doings, and he, anxious ield knowledge. He therefore wrote across it found it incomparable. Yes Momr bathOn* icml movements sent free upon Before me stood my love, a slim, quest. to learn what was intended, made SI.00 SI.80 to us as though from Leithcourt, she was afflicted by loss of speech, it person tfc, ud per dty Two persons is same room. SOc extra. N. ROACH, tragic, rather wan figure in a heavy WM. Jr. himself up to look like me, and kept jailing us up to Rannoch, in order was true, yet she was surely inexpressibly ROOM8 with private baths sad toilets— ATTO N EY-AT-LAW dark traveling coat and felt toquf the appointment in my place. Armida, sweet and womanly, peerless io strike the blows in the darkness," ptmo St.50 and S3.00 Mr day MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL Om her sweet lips parted and a look of be having received the letter unknown above all others. Two persons ia Mm* room. SI.00 eitra. ae added in his peculiar Italian manner. EXPERT McGill Building Washington, D. C. wildered amazement upon her countenauce With a deep-drawn sigh she at last to me, went up to Scotland, and was "Besides, he feared we would 9tmi tni it fWirttf bUitttu as burst in so suddenly finished, and, her head still bowed in WK AIM TO PLEASE also there at the appointed time. I ell the signore the truth." upon her. "You have not told the police?" an attitude of humiliation, it seemed, What actually transpired can only bs In silence I grasped her tiny blackgloved she handed what she had written to surmised, yet It seems that Leithcourt "I dare not, signore. Surely the less hand, and then, also in silence, me. :he police know about this matter the was In the habit of going up to that raised it passionately to my eager In breathless eagerness read as •pot and loitering there in the evening better, otherwise the Signorlna Leithcourt I College of Saint Thomas father's iip3. Her soft, dark eyes—those eyes follows: In order to meet Chater in secret, must suffer for her that spoke although she was mute— ivarice and evil-doing." as the latter was in hiding in a small "Is it true, dear love for I call met mine, and in them was a look "That's you hotel in Dumfries. Therefore those "Yes," cried Jack anxiously. so in return—that you were impelled SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA that I had never seen there before—a who formed the plot must have endeavored right, Olinto. The police must know towards me by the mysterious Under the Control and Direction of Archbishop Ireland look which as plaSmy as any words to throw suspicion upon lothlng. The reprisals we must hand that directs all things? You A CATHOLIC MILITARY COLLEGE told me that my wild fevered passion of Leithcourt. It is plain, however, as nake ourselves. But who was it who came in search me, and you risked Was reciprocated. both myself and Armida knew the shot me in Suffolk street?" your life for mine at Kajana, therefore Collegiate Commercial Academic Preparatory She gazed beyond into the room gang, it was to their interest to get "The same man, Martin Woodroffe." you have a right to know the Wbere the others had assembled, and Careful Mental, Moral and Religious Training rid of us, because the suspicions of "Then the assassin is back truth. You, as my champion, and the from princess as my friend, have contrived Seven Hundred and Forty Students from Twenty-four States Last Year the police had at last become aroused. Russia?" to Poor Armida was therefore deliberately effect my freedom. Were it not for "He followed closely behind the For illustrated catalogue address enticed there to her death, you, I should ere this have been on Signor Commendatore. Markoff, a Ret). Very H. M0YN1HAN, D. D., President while the inquisitive man whom the my way to Saghalien, to the tomb to ilever secret agent of Baron Oberg'% Corning assassin to also which Oberg had so ingeniously contrived took be myself was same with him." Then for tne first time I recollected to consign me. Ah! you do Btruck down." that the man I had recognized in the not know—you never can know—all "By whom?" Strand was a fellow I had seen lounging that I have suffered ever since I was London "Not by Chater, for he was in in the anteroom of the palace of a girl." on that night." the governor-general of Finland. The Here the statement broke off, and "Then by Woodroffe?" Durnford pair, tearing that I should reveal what recommenced a3 follows: Baid. I knew, were undoubtedly in London "In order that you should understand to take my life in secret. Now that the truth, I had better begin at Leithcourt was dead. Woodroffe had the beginning. My father was an English united forces with Oberg, and intended merchant in Pe+ersburg, and my to silence me because they feared mother, Vera Bessanoff, who, before that Elma. besides escaping them, had her marriage with my father, was also revealed her secret. celebrated at court for her beauty, Steel Trains and was one of the maids of honor to "I trust that the Signorina Leithcourt {Crystal White) the czarina. She was the only daughter has explained the story of the of Count Paul Bessanoff, ex-governor yacht and its crew," Olinto remarked. The modern way of making of Kharkoff, and before marrying Preserves, Jams and Jellies—one "And has also shown you how I was Dujuth-Superior part Karo (Crystal White) and my father she had, with her mother, implicated. You will therefore discern three parts sugar. been a well-known figure in society. the reason why I have hitherto feared Makes a richer syrup and retains the Immediately after her marriage to give you any explanation." fresh fruit flavor. Prevents Crystallization in Jams and Jellies. her father died, leaving her in "Yes," I said, "Miss Leithcourt has Our Preserving Booklet gives the right possession of an ample fortune, which formulas for all kinds of fruits. Send for told me a great deal, but not everything. Paul it—it is free, With my father's own wealth, placed I cannot yet gather for what CORN PRODUCTS REFINING CO. them among the richest and most influential reason she and her father fled from P.O.Box ___ New York City in Petersburg. Rannoch." 361 essai Dept. PX. "Among my father's most intimate "Then I will tell you," said Muriel »r friends was Barc^, Xavier Oberg— quickly. "My father suspected Woodroffe who, at that time, held a very subordinate of being the assassin in Rannoch position in the ministry of wood, for he knew that he had the interior—and from my earliest Through broken away from the original compact, recollections I can remember him Sfeepmg Csi's and had now allied himself with coming frequently to our house and Twin Cities Ofcerg. Yet it was also my father's To Seattle being invited to the brilliant entertainments object to appear in fear of them, because which my mother gave. WONDERS he was only awaiting an opportunity And Threw Open the Folding Door ThroughThe When I was thirteen, however, my father to lay plans for poor Elma's Which Separated Me From My Silent died of a chill contracted while rescue from Finland. Therefore one of the CAM API Love. boar-hunting on his estate in Kiev, evening Woodroffe called, and my father it@CK!gS mC. within a few months a further disaster then looked at me inquiringly, whereupon encountered him in the avenue, IIIIHIIII llllillfl *ar c. happened to us. One night, I Ir?d her forward to where they Superior & 6th Ave, W. and admitted him with his own latchkey a Ticket Offices while was sitting alone reading Spalding Hotel were, and Muriel fell upon her and by one of the side doors of the taUPShISGR" 823 Tower Ave. kissed her with tears streaming from aloud to my mother, two strangets castle, afterwards taking him up to her eyes. were announced, and on being shown the study. He knew that he had coma "I prepared this surprise for you,Mr. in they arrested my dear mother on a to try and make terms for Oberg, Gregg," Muriel said, laughing charge of complicity in a revolutionary therefore he saw that he must fly at through her tears of joy. "Olinto plot against the czar which had once to Newcastle, where the Iris S89SS896S8SS96S896S89SS»6S896S89SSS968896tS9SK: was lying, get on board, and sail learned that she was on her way to been discovered at Peterhof. I stood London, and I sent him to meet her. defiant and indignant, for my mother away. The princess has managed magnificently, was certaintly no nihilist, yet they "With some excuse he left him in DOWN DEEP IN YOUR POCKET has she not?" said that the bomb had been introduced the study, and then warned my mother "Yes. Thank God she is free!" I into the palace by the Countess and myself to prepare to leave. But exclaimed. "But we must induce her Anna Shiproff, one of the ladies-inwaiting, while we were packing, it appeared to tell us everything." who was an intimate friend that Chater, who had followed, wag The coins ache for freedom. .They exert an Muriel was already helping my love of my mother's and often used to shown into the study by the butler, out of her heavy Russian coat, a costly or rather he entered there himself, being visit her. They alleged that the conspiracy influence over you to be put into circulation. .No well acquainted with the house. garment lined with sable, and had been hatched in our SC93 when, after greeting Jack and Olinto, house, color being lent to that theory Thus the two men, now bitter enemies temptation to spend needlessly when the money is met. A fierce quarrel must have she was comfortably seated, I took by the fact that a year before a wellknown 88 seme notepaper from the little writing Russian with whom my father ensued, and Chater was poisoned and in the bank on interest. Start an account now with concealed, Woodroffe, of course, believing table by the window and scribbled had had many business dealings had he had killed him. My father in pencil the words: been proved to be the author of the whatever surplus you have—even a dollar will open entered the study again, and seeing "I need not write how delighted I plot by which the czar's train was 88 only Woodroffe there, did not know am that you are safe—that the Almighty blown up near Livadia. They tore my ssss an account. Don't allow your money to work you what had occurred. Some words probably has heard my prayers for you. mother away from me and placed her mm arose, when my father again in the gray prison-van, the sight of Jack and Muriel have told me all make it work for you, this is theway others get ahead. The marvelous durability of turned and left. Then we fled to about Leithcourt and his scoundrelly which in the streets of Petersburg 6 & "Nobby Tread" Tires the 1 Carlisle and on to Newcastle, and associates. I know, top, dear—for I strikes terror into the heart of every fact that they are really two tires next morning were on board the yacht may call you that, may I not?—how Russian, for a person once in that in one make them the tires that 3 out in the North sea, afterwards landing terribly you must have suffered in silence rumbling vehicle is, as you know, lost you should unhestiatingly buy. 1 FIRST NATIONAL BANK at Rotterdam. Those," she added, through it all. Leithcourt is forever to the world. I watched her & "are briefly the facts, as my poor father dead. He sank the yacht with all the from the window being placed in that related them to me." stolen property on board, but by accident fatal conveyance, and then I think I International Falls, Minn. "NobbyTread'Tires "And what of poor Elma—and of was himself engulfed." must have fainted, for I fecollect nothing her secret? When, I wonder, shall I Bending and watching intently as I more until I found myself upon see her?" I cried in despair. wrote, she drew back in horror and the floor, with the gray dawn spreading, are now sold under their regular "You will see her now, signore," answered surprise at the words. Then I added: and all the horrible truth came warranty—perfect workmanship and material—BUT any adjustment Olinto. "A servant of the "We are all four determined that the back to me. My mother was gone is on a basis of Princess Zurloff brought her to London guilty shall not go unpunished, and from me forever! 5,000 Miles that the affliction placed upon you "In sheer desperation I went to the this afternoon, and I have just shall be adequately avenged. You are ministry of the interior and sought conveyed her from the station. She my own love—I am bold enough to an interview with the baron, who, is in the next room, in ignorance, however, MINNESOTA RUBBER CO. call you so. Some strong but mysterious when I told him of the disaster, appeared that you are here." Minneapolis, Minn. bond of affinity between us greatly concerned, and went at And without another word I fled forward Northwest Distributors a joyfully, caused me to seek you out, and your once to the nolice department to make and threw open the pictured face seemed to call me to bl lBHRiniuiniMtnuiiiUHniiiiniBiBiiuifnmifniiniifuniiiiiJumi inquiry. Next day, however, he came your side although I was unaware of to me with the news that the charge your peril. I was sent to you by the unseen against my mother had been proved power to extricate you from the by a statement of the woman Shiproff (.THl aoop JUDGE SEES MEN CHMiaiNQTO 3QWETHW6 BITTER EVEIC? PAvJ hands of your enemies. Therefore herself, and that she had already Fresh tell us everything—all that you know started on her long journey to Siberia—she VOITRE RIGHT. A LITTLE A I ANOTHER MAN WHO Water Sea I DECIDE PORTHE REAL —without fear, for now that we are had been exiled to one of TOBACCO CHEW. HERE CHEW OF RICH TOBACCO I 1 G.AN TELL QOOD Voyages''— LASTS AND TOBACCO FROM united no harm can assail us." those dreaded Arctic settlements beyond GOES THE OLD, ORDINARY On the Great KIND TO THE SATISFIES.) 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The Tsaron, travel on the Largest Liners. amid a hundred conflicting emotions, however, declared that, as my father's was one of extreme difficulty. friend, it was his duty to act as guardian With the added attractions of delightful excursion to Beautiful Falls,—Interesting Forts and Ship Comfortable Locks—Fishing Trips—Basket Picnics to Nature's Wildest Nooks—Finest Meals—and It seemed as £hcr~h even now she to me, and that as my father had Berths all included. was loath to reveal to us the absolute been English I ought to be put to an DuSutSi, Fort WESSiam, Port Arthur, Soo, Mackinac, truth. English school. Therefore, with hi3 Georgiars Bay to Detroit and return Muriel, standing behind her chair, self-assumed title of uncle, he took on this ^oderi^ Fleet of Lake Liners tenderly stroked tnck the wealth of me to Chichester. For years I remained chestnut hair from her white brow. there, until one day he came Covering all the best routes through the enchanting Her complexion was perfect, even Personally Conducted suddenly and fetched me away, taking waters of Lake Superior—Georgian Bay, the Weekly Cruises Soo, Mackinac and the wonderful 30,000 Islands. though her face was pale and jaded, me over to Helsingfors—for the Cruise No. 6-Duluth to Detroit and From the light draft "Waubic" which wends her and her eyes heavy, consequent upon czar had now appointed him governorgeneral return via Port Arthur, Fort William way among the myraid3 of islets to the big steel and the Soo. 6 days, f43.40. her long, weary journey from the now to Finland. There, for the Floating Hotel "Noronic"—all boats are admirably Cruise No. 9-Duluth to Geortfan raited to the routes they serve. Bay anc return via Little Current, frozen North. first time, he introduced me to his son A Killarney.Collingwood.Owen Sound, Choose Your Cruise Now SK your dealer for W-B Gut 10 days, $47.00. Presently, when by signs both Jack Michael, a pimply-faced lieutenant of Cruise No. 7—Duluth to Sault Ste. us assist in Let you planning your outing. and Olinto had urged her to write, Marie and return, and Mackinac via cavalry, and said in a most decisive Port Arthur and Fort William. 5 Chewing Tobacco. It is the We have booklets full of valuable information she bent suddenly, and her pencil began manner that I must marry him. I days, $24.00. regarding these different cruises. Cruise No. 10—Duluth to Port Arthur to run swiftly over the paper. naturally refused to marry a man of Booklet on any Cruise sent FREE and Fort William and return. 3 days, $18.00. new "Real Tobacco Chew"—cut All of us stood exchanging glances whom I knew so little, whereupon, E. W. Holton, Gen. Pass. Act. in silence, neither looking over her, finding me obdurate, he quickly altered NORTHERN NAVIGATION CO long shred but each determined to wait in patience his tactics and became kindness —or send 10c in stamps to us. until the end. Once started, itself, saying that as I_was young however, she did not pause. Sheet Sarnia Ontario WEYMAN BRUT ON COMPANY, 50 Union Square, New York City (Continued next week.) after sheet she covered. The silence