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TRIBUNE
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IRDAY, JANUARY 22, 1921.
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GALVESTON TRIBUNE
Poetry and Persiflage
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A wireless telephone conversation has
been held between Spain and California.
New vistas of opportunity for feminine
pleasure are developing every day.
Speaking of the law of supply and
demand: Has any one noticed that the
mild winter and scarcity of orders for
coal had any appreciable effect on the
price?
The story that a stolen Rembrandt,
valued at two million dollars, had been
stolen in Europe and was on its way
to America, has not created a fraction
of the excitement caused by the an-
nouncement that a cargo of champagne
was routed this way from France.
It is said that the Bavarians are mak-
ing up their minds to place their old
king back on the throne; the reason
they are not more rapid in making up
their mind is that the allied powers
hold the makin’s.
en’s shoes,
laugh.
Three things to delight in:
Frankness and Freedom.
Three things to wish for:
Friendship and Cheerfulness.
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Their fellow men for a dollar’s sake,
It is to build up a life, and plan
For a splendid woman or honest man.
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It might be a good plan to permit
Emma Goldman to return to the Unit-
ed States, she could tell a lot of these
American paflor socialists what fools
they are.
WORTH—WHILE WORK.
The thing worth while in the world
today
is a happy baby that’s full of play;
And better than building a building
tall
To catch the sun on its corniced wall
And be a teeming and human hive.
Where men may struggle and men may
A Good Home Is Rather To Be Chosen
Than Great Riches.
(From the Lima, O., News),
A widow lady desires position as
housekeeper in a well to do widower’s
Ever Hear This?
Susie—Papa, what makes a man al*
ways give a woman a diamond engage*
ment ring
Her father—The woman.—Edinburgh
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Bargain Monday—Have Your Log
Sawed Off.'
(From the Lawrenceville Republican)
if I wish to as the merchants are
doing—work at a special discount on
certain days—it’s only my own business
and 0 one’s else, unless you wish to
profit by it. Dr. Lambert.
Published Evenings Except Sunday at the Tribune Building.
Entered at the Postoffice in Galveston as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Anent the declining cost of living. It
will be possible to purchase a very
cheap overcoat on July fourth, next.
Published by Arrangement with the International Feature
Service of New York.
It now develops that a lot of people
who last November voted for a change
are still wondering when they are go-
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Any one who has an ounce or two of
radium laid away in the garret ought
to employ the want ad column and offer
it for sale. There are only three ounces
in the world, and they are valued at
$3,260,000.
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We who are grown have gone well
along
On the path of life. Have been weak or
strong;
it may be that we have builded high
In steel and granite against the sky;
But a score of years, or a century,
And the thing we builded so high, to be
A monument to our strength. Will lie,
Outworn and worthless, and be put by;
But when you have builded one life
sublime
Your work goes on till the end of time.
Fire and ice. .L .
Some say this world will end in fire,,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction lea -
is also great,
And would suffice.
—Robert Frost in Harper’s Magazine.
wasted, would you mind filling this
flask for me?”
A Chicago judge says young' girls are
living too fast. Quite right. Some of
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out, groping in the darkness in the
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The American legation in Moscow
was recently burglarized . and every-
thing1 of value carried off. That is to
say, the robbers took three cans of
corned beef, six pounds of beans and a
recipe for making flourless bread.
Member of the Associated Press.
The Associated Fress is exclusfvely entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise credited in this
paper, and also the local news published herein.
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they were high and narrow
When it is a question of unadulter-
ated recklessness, the woman who
keeps up with the fashins is its fore-
most exponent. The doctors have said
that exposing the chest is an invita-
tion to pneumonia; the scientists have
found that rouge destroys me complex-
ion and the dealers have discovered
Three things to pray
Peace and Purity of Mind.
Three things to like:
Just watch the women
-EzDEKNMBE ‘ To be Continued
New Hampshire is making an effort
to get into the Kansas class on freak
legislation; a bill has been introduced
into the New Hampshire legislature
limiting the height of heels of worn-
GALVESTON
in Mortimer Terrace. He said that
there were a hundred and one things
that might incriminate him—a hand-
kerchief, a scrap of paper, a cigar end,
a thumb print.
It was this latter which held Eddie
Haverton in the grip of deadly fear.
He knew well that among the thumb
impressions at Scotland Yard his had
their place, and memories of three
years he had passed in a' tiny apartment
overlooking the granite-strewn tors of
Dartmoor, which had followed the tak-
ing of those impressions, came back
to him in shuddering force.
But that time of terror was all over
now. Hubert Baxenter lay unavenged
in the family vault at Highgate and the
affair of his death no longer claimed
the public attention. The police had
apparently dropped the case, and the
most blatant of the “yellow” press had
long been silent on a subject from
which they had squeezed all sensa-
tion.
And Eddie Haverton, ever since that
November night, had run straight—■
that in any venture to which he put
his brain and hand he was careful to
remain well on the right side of the
AUSTRIA IS BANKRUPT.
From San Antonio Light:
The mills of the gods seem to have
ground "exceeding small” in the case
of Austria, the country that began the
great war. She announced herself as
, insolvent, unable to continue exist-
ence and has asked the reparations
committee of the allied nations to act
as a receiver.
While there is no doubt that the
greater part of the guilt attaching to
the commencement of the war belongs
to Germany who stood behind Austria
and urged her on sending at the last
minute an ultimatum to Russia just
when Austria had agreed to enter into
"conversations,” there is no possible
way of minimizing the fact that the
war, was actually begun by Austria and
that her intolerable ultimatum to Ser-
bia was the direct cause of the con-
flict. Now she announces that she had
been reduced to such extremity as the
result of the war which she began, that
she can no longer exist as an operating
nation. There is not the slightest doubt
that she affords the spectacle unique
in these modern times, of an absolutely
bankrupt people.
Considered alone, the financial condi-
tion of Austria is beyond redemption.
The great difficulty is that her produc-
tion is not equal to her consumption
and there is no way out of such a con-
dition as that except by making the
production superior to the consump-
tion. Then, too, there are the indemni-
ties to be paid, and the interest on the
national debt and to meet these things
calls for a surplus—and no surplus can
be accumulated by a people whose, ex-
penditures are greater than their in-
come. The first thing that must be
done in Austria is to increase her pro-
duction.
There are many reasons why this
will be a most difficult operation. The
manpower of the country was terribly
curtailed by the war and undernourish-
ment of the people since the end of the
war has done nothing to replace the
energy that the war took away. Her
equipment was allowed to become bad-
ly deteriorated, there is general social
and economic disorganization because
of the war and there is little coal to
be had except by importation. It must
be confessed that for a nation to in-
crease its production while struggling
with problems such as these is a dif-
ficult task.
Under present conditios it is impos-
sible for Austria to acquire credit
abroad. Unless she has the credit she
cannot commence the work of rebuild-
ing her demolished fortunes. The prin-
cipal obstacle in the way of her ob-
taining credit abroad is that the amount
of the reparations money to be de-
manded of her has not been fixed by
the allies. Until it is known what her
debts are to be it will be impossible to
increase her production. She certainly
has the right to know the amount the
allies intend to assess against her, for
the simple reason that so long as it is
not determined there is no possible
chance of her obtaining credit abroad.
edge of the- flooring. With this hand-
hold and helped by the scarf it was
not difficult to clamber up and Vivian,
exhausted but happy, sank down in one
of the little pews of the chapel.
Through the window above the altar
the rays of a young moon struggled
thinly. A glance at his watch told
Vivian that it was half-past ten, and
he looked round for a means of com-
pleting his escape. To a man who un-
derstood lockcraft as he did this was
a simple matter, and by the time the
clock in the tiny belfry was chiming
11 m. Baptiste Dartin was in the lit-
tle plantation of firs which surround-
ed the sacred building.
- Cautiously he made his way to the
lodge and, scaling the gateway,-crossed
the bridge and reached the high road.
Midway between the chateau and the
“Three Lilies” he came upon old Henri,
who was returning from the inn.
Vivian stopped him. He had been
into Blois. he told the man, to order
the frames of the pictures. By the
way, would it be convenient for him
to finish the dining-room sketch the
next afternoon? In the meantime, would
Henri honor him by returning to the
“Three Lilies,” as his guest, there to
open a bottle of the really excellent
claret that house provided?
It took Vivian three days to finish
the sketch, and when finally he de-
parted from Massey he left old Henri
It is feared that there are some peo-
ple residing in Galveston county, who
have permitted themselves to enter-
tain the belief that the city of Galves-
ton and the mainland are two separate
and distinct communities, having little
if anything in common. There have
been times during the past decade when
attempts have been made to create the
belief that Galveston city is making a
catspaw of the county for pulling its
chestnuts from the fire, this with par-
ticular reference to the protective and
constructive works which have been
deemed essential to the safety and
progress of the city, but every such ef-
fort has proven ineffective for the very
good and sufficient reason that the
people of the mainland refused to be
swept from their feet by appeals to
their selfishness and were wise enough
to see that the greatest good to all was
to be expected by full co-operation be-
tween city and mainland.
At a recent meeting of the Galveston
farm bureau, the effort was again made
to create friction in connection with
the proposed paving of the Galveston
causeway. It was pointed out that the
roads of the county were in bad shape
and needed repairing, that many farm-
1 Ers were compelled to remain at home
after a rain because of imperfect drain-
age, and it was suggested that while
an effort was being made to secure
funds for paving the causeway, a suf-
ficient amount should be sought to
place some of the county roads in good
condition. In connection with the pav-
ing proposition, it was suggested that
the causeway was almost exclusively a
city enterprise and of little value to
the mainland.
It must have been that entnusiasm
for the mainland had somewhat warped
the judgment of those who suggested
that the causeway was of little bene-
fit to the county at large. While it
must be admitted that the roads on the
mainland have deteriorated and are
today very much in need of repairing,
this cannot be justly charged against
the city, for it must always be remem-
bered that of all the money used in
building the roads, in maintaining them
and in gradually bringing them into
what is termed the permanent class,
the city furnishes the larger portion,
nor has it been recorded that the tax-
payers of the city have eVer protested
because all the money voted for build-
ing roads throughout the county was
almost entirely spent on the county
mainland.
But it is not to discuss whether the
city or the county has made the larger
contribution to the tax money used in
giving the people of the cqunty those
conveniences and necessities required
It is said that Germany is construct-
ing a gigantic searchlight by mean of
which it is expected to send signals
to Mars. What’s the use. Even if
Mars could understand their appeals it
would be impossible for that1 planet
to get enough soldiers into Germany
to offer an effective protest against
that country paying its indemnity.
his touch. Slowly it all came
to him and he knew he must
Vivian was ready to descend. It was
part of the man’s character that he
should take the pick of the stones be-
fore he left the chamber. He handled
them carelessly, thrusting them into
the big pockets of his painting-coat.
Then he stood on the top step.
Then, and not till then, did he pause,
his face Showing drawn and anxious in
the thin blue light. What was he fated
to find below? His indecision was but
momentary, and shrugging his shoul-
ders with an act of the fatalist contin-
ued his way.
Chauville's Secret
particular business. He had been suc-
cessful in the past and his good for-
tune seemed to hold good now that he
had chosen a more reputable mode of
life. Everything he touched turned
out well—a dairy, which he ran for a
few months, was disposed of to a com-
pany at a large profit; he assisted the
fallen fortunes of a penny weekly and
the circulation rose at once until it
reached a quarter of a million.
But these were but speculations, side
issues which Eddie's asute brain told
him were good. It was in the theatri-
cal field that his chief energies were
expended. Always a keen playgoer,
he rapidly turned to financial account
his experience of many years. He did
not advertise his present) condition with
the stage more than need be, but the
theatrical world were well aware that,
he was the power behind the throne in'
more than a few touring successes, and
that London managers were beginning
to speak of and fear this man who
'robbed them by his specious offers of
some of the most promising members
of their companies, For Eddie Haver,
ton’s scent for "talent” was keen, and,
many a chorus girl and two-line actor
owed a big success to the man Who had
watched them from the stalls.
It had just been like his. luck that
'Haverton should secure the services of
Stella Benham. It was his rule, and
he found it a paying one, to watch the
performances* of understudies with in-
finite care. His knowledge of human
nature and of the life and jealousies
of the world behind the scenes gave
him an advantage that he was not slow
to take.
dising or trading either directly or in-
directly in commodities or the services
of others is not rendering personal
service. Where the principal owners
and stockholders do not render the
principal part of the services, but
merely supervise a force of employees,
the corporation is not a personal serv-
ice corporation.
To determine who are the principal
owners or stockholders no definite per-
centage of'stock or interest In the cor-
poration can be prescribed. Treasury
regulations, however, provide that no
corporation may make a return as a
personal service corporation unless at
least 80 per cent of its stock is held by
those regularly engaged in the active
conduct of its affairs.
. USE OF CAPITAL.
If the use of capital is necessary or
more than incidental, capital is an in-
come-producing factor, and the corpor-
ation is not a personal service corpor-
ation. No corporation is a personal
service corporation if it carries bn a
business which ordinarily requires the
use of a substantial amount of capital,
whether invested or borrowed.
In general, the larger the amount of
capital actually used the stronger is
the evidence that capital is a necessary
and is a material income-producing fac-
tor, and that the corporation is not a
personal service corporation.
The following corporations are ex-
pressly excluded from classification as
personal service corporations: Foreign
corporations; corporations 50 per cent
of whose gross income consists of
gains, profits, or income derived from
trading as a principal; corporations 50
per cent of whose gross income con-
sists of gains, profits, commissions, or
other income derived from government
contracts made between1 April 631917,
and November 11, 1918.
Personal service corporations returns
must show the name and address of
each stockholder, the share of each
stockholder in the general income of
the company, and must be accompanied
by a complete statement showing the
nature of the business. The return
must be sworn to by the president, vice
president, or other principal executive
officer and by the treasurer or assistant
treasurer.
Partnership and personal service cor-
poration returns are closely scrutinized
by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and
in them have been discovered numer-
ous errors.
Partnerships as such are not subject
to the income tax, but are required to
make rturns on Forms 1065 showing
gross and net income. The net income
of a partnership is computed in the
same manner and on the same basis as
the net income of an individual, except
that deductions for contributions' to
charitable, religious, and scientific or-
ganizations are not permitted.
Individual members are taxed on the
distributive shares of net income from
partnerships, whether distributed or
not, and are required to include such
shares in their individual return of in-
come, even though they may not have
been actually received. It not infre-
quently happens that the figures in the
individual return and partnership re-
turn do not coincide, in which event
there is trouble for both the taxpayer
and bureau.
MUST FILE RETURNS.
Partnership returns must be filed,
even though the firm had no net in-
come for the year. The return must
show the name and address of each
partner and his share of net income.
Any one of the partners may sign and
swear to the return, which may cover
the calendar or fiscal year, according
to the firm’s method of accounting.
Requirements of the revenue act with
reference to partnerships apply, also to
personal service corporation, which,
though exempt from, tax, must make a
return of gross and net income on Form
1065, or even if there was no net in-
come. A personal service corporation,
as defined by treasury regulations, is
a corporation “whose income is to be
ascribed primarily to the activities of
the principal owners or stockholders
who are themselves regularly engaged
in the active conduct of the affairs of
the corporation, and in which capital
(whether borrowed or invested) is not a
material income-producing factor.”
In order to be classified as a personal
service corporation, its earnings must
be derived principally from compensa-
tion for personal services rendered by
its owners and stockholders. Merehan-
that they can increase me cost of a
skirt in proportion to the subtraction
made from its length. The results are
too numerous to list.
It seemed to him that he had suc-
ceeded only to fail; that there was
nothing for it but to attract the at-
tention of old Henri. Even then it
might be impossible for the old man to
realese him without the key, which
Vivian felt pressing cold against his
breat.
He thought that even if he escaped
the hideous death which faced him he
wwould lose the riches which he had
risked so much to gain. He imagined
himself dying by inches, ravaged by
hunger and thirst and mocked by1 the
gleaming jewels around him. For a
few moments despair seized the soul
of Vivian Renton, and he sat dazed, his
head buried in his hands.
It was not long before the reaction
came. There was time before him and
the grating promised more than a ray
of hope. Fortunately, the sketch in the
dining-room was unfinished, and old
Henri would see nothing suspicious in
the paint box and book left open await-
ing its completion, taking it for grant-
ed that the painter would return the
next day.
The prisoner did not wait to ask
himself what he would find at the
foot of the dark stairs behind the iron
bars. It had ever been his motto that
troubles anticipated were twice borne,
and that bridges were made to be
crossed as one came to them—not be-
fore. He found his work easier now
that he had the leverage of the loose
bar to assist him. In half an hour
in the seventh, heaven of delight, for
had no the gentleman taken his pic-
tures into Blois and returned with
them framed in gold? Perhaps the gen-
tleman would come again and paint
more pictures, in fact, he had almost
said as much.
Three days later the gentleman in
question was seated with a jewel-
dealer of great wealth and indifferent
morals in an office in a street behind
the Hoogstraat in Rotterdam. For the
first time in the merchant’s life he
was unable to deal single-handed with
the collection which was set out before
him. But there are other jewel mer-
chants in Holland, and by the united
efforts of three of the principal ones
in the trade the collection of diamonds,
emeralds and rubies from the Chateau
Chauville, changed hands to the satis-
faction of the gentleman who had
called to dispose of them and who bore
on his card the name—Baptiste Dar-
tin.
Sincerity and Mirth.
Three things to avoid: Idleness, Lo-
quacity and Flippancy.
Three things to govern: Temper,
Tongue and Conduct.
Three things to cultivate: Good
books, Good Friends and Good Humor,
Three things to contend for: Honor,
Country and Friends.—Texico Star.
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The motto of Missouri is, "Salus
populi supreme lex esto," meaning, the
welfare of the people is the supreme
law. This translation is given to cor-
rect the impression entertained by a
number of good people, that the Latin
quotation meant, "Show Me.”
Eastern Offices.
New York Office. 341 Fifth Ave.
D. J. Randall.
Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit Offices,
The S. C. Beckwith Agency.
means of escape.
The distance, he judged, was not more
than ten feet, the stone table reduced to
eight, and Vivian himself was but two
inches short of six feet. He unwrapped
from his waist the sash of red silk,
which to sustain his role as a Bohemian
artist, he wore swathed around him in
place of a belt. The sash he now twist-
ed rope-wise, and, mounting upon the
stone table, peered up through the cav-
ity. He remembered the little iron
railings surrounding the tomb above,
but his errerts to lasso a spoke of these
with the scarf proved beyond his pow-
ers.
Then his eye fell upon the lid of the
coffin and, reaching down, he picked
up the sword that lay upon it. At his
touch the sabretache and hilt fell
away, but the blade itself, notched and
red with rust as it was, still was strong
enough to serve his purpose. He made
a slipknot in the twisted silk and upon
the point of the weapon, raised it care-
fully and hooked it over one of the
corners of the tomb rails. Vivian test-
ed this fully with his weight and
found that it held. He asked himself
whether he should return to the treas-
ure, but the thought of a tortuous trap
he had been fortune enough to tra-
verse in safety deterred him. Besides,
'in the pockets of his painting coat was
a considerable fortune, and, he had his
key. The next time, however, that
he enteed he would make sure that his
line of retreat was open to him.
Seizing the scarf firmly in both hands
he raised himself until his toes rested
upon the coffin lid. Then, with a lit-
tle spring he started his climb. The sin-
ister crack of splintering wood as he
“took off" from the old casket caused
a little thrill of horror to run through
him, but he crept up, hand over hand,
to keep the county abreastof the march
of progress; it is to warn those who
may feel disappointed that their own
particular section has not been given
all that it has asked, that this spirit,
this attitude is not that of true co-op-
eration which is the very essence of
the farm bureau idea. It ought to be
continually borne in mind that what-
ever helps any one section of the coun-
ty must contribute in some degree to
the betterment of every other section.
The paving of .the causeway will put
more than a mile of roadway in the
class of permanent highways and
thenceforth will call for no expenditure
for upkeep and the taking of one mile
of road from the mileage for which
maintenance must be figured, means
that its proportion will hereafter be
distributed over the other roads of the
mainland. ■ However, this is probably
the least of the many benefits to be
expected from gradually bringing the
trunk roads of the county into the per-
manent highway class.
The citizenship of Galveston is proud
of the fact that it is part of the county
and is glad to acknowledge fellowship
with those who have chosen the main-
land as their abiding place. Citizens
of Galveston realize that the future of
the city depends very largely upon the
, co-operation of the county residents
and Galveston citizens are anxious and
willing to do for the mainland every-
thing possible to assure their conten-
ment and prosperity. The interests of
the county will not be permitted to
suffer, but there must not come any
interruption to the cordial relationship
and co-operation which has all along
marked the intercourse between* city
and mainland and any one who would
wilfully foster such a spirit is the
friend of neither the city nor of the
mainland. ,
“Threes” of Life.
Three things to love: Courage, Gen-
tleness and Affection.
Three things to admire: Intellectual
Power, Dignity and Gracefulness.
Three things to hate: Cruelty,. Arro-
gance and Ingratitude. ,
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for: Faith,
he held the flickering wax above his
head.
Row upon row they lay, that noble
army of dead Dartignys, the square
ends of their earthly resting places
standing out each from its little niche.
On the slab before him lay the casket
he had felt, a great coffin upon which
a rusty cavalry sword and the moth-
eaten remains of a flag showed in som-
bre pagentry. ,
Vivian Renton was not a nervous
man, and although the hand which held
the flame trembled a little and filled
the place with dancing shadows he
felt no fear. After all, one living man
was more than a match for a whole
array of dead warriors. By the light
of the match he recovered his torch,
which, to his relief, he found not to
have suffered in its fall, and he began
a systematic investigation of his sur-
roundings.
He knew quite well, now where he
was; old Henri had shown him prideful-
ly, only yesterday, the chapel in the
grounds of Chauville. through the floor
of which the dead of the house of Dar-
tigny had from time immemorial been
lowered in their last resting places. The
old man had, by means of a lever con-
cealed in the ironwork of the railing,
swung back the marble slab which
covered in the vault so that his visitor
might gaze into the gloom below—and,
with a start, Vivian remembered that
the mechanism had in some manner
stuck and refused to move when the
caretaker came to replace the slab.
Henri had told him that he would
have to send into Blois for the lock-
smith, and the man in the vault, as he
held his torch high, wondered whether
' this had yet been done. Above him,
the oblong cut in the roof showed dark-
ly, and at one end a corner of the par-
tially closed slab was visible. Here,
then, he told himself, was his one
If oil were swept from the earth today.
It would still go on; and take coal
away,
And men would batter and trade and
strive •
And the race would struggle and keep
alive;
But take the babies away, and then
There is an end of the race of men,
And the world will spin in the depths
Of space
An uninhabited dwelling place.
Who shapes young lives in a useful
mold
Does more for the world than its
minted gold.
—Judd Mqrtimer Lewis in Houston
Chronicle.
THY SERVANTS AND
.. PEOPLE—Now these are
ma thy servants and thy peo- ■
P pie, whom thou hast re-
A deemed by thy great pow-
er, and by thy strong hand.
Psa. 31:14.
CHAPTER XII.
The Blackmailer.
Eighteen months had passed since the
night when Hubert Baxenter met with
his death in Mortimer Terrace, and
still, with the exception of the murder-
er himself, there was but one man who
suspected anything of the truth of
that mysterious affair.
True, Eddie Haverton had no knowl-
edge when he parted from Vivian Ren-
ton in the fog at the Regen’s Park Cir-
cle that his companion had any inten-
tion of returning to the house which
they had left a moment- 'before.
Knowing what he did, however, of the
desperate straits of young Renton’s fi-
nances, coupled with the sudden disap-
pearance of that gentleman from all
his usual haunts, left Eddie but one
conclusion—and upon him it had a far-
reaching effect. Morally, Mr. Haver-
ton was no whit better than he had
ever been—it was not in his nature to
be so; but his narrow escape from be-
ing enmeshed in the web of the Re-
gent’s Park mystery had given him a
severe shaking up.
As he sat in his flat this bright
spring morning he told himself that
although the straight road was infi-
nitely less interesting and lacked many
of the allurements of the broader thor-
oughfare, it was smoother travelling
for a man of middle age whose nervous
system had never been of the best. He
shuddered even now at the remem-
brance of what his life had been during
those first few weeks following the
discovery of the body on the roof. He
remembered the feelings with which he
had each morning opened his newspa-
per to watch the developments of th©
case in which at any moment he might
be called upon to take a principal part.
Hour by hour, day and night, he had
been pursued and tortured by the de-
mons of anticipation. Not a knock
on his door nor a friendly tap on the
shoulder in the street but he told him-
self that his hour had come. The fact
that he was innocent weighed little
with him; the explanation, should it be-
come known that he was with Baxenter
on that night, was beyond even his fer-
tile brain. Unlike Renton, he had had
not particular reason for removing any "
trace that would point to his presence
desent was sharp. At the foot an
opening, iea apparently beneath the
body of the chateau. With torch ex-
tended before him Vivian proceeded.
After a few moments the air grew
colder and the walls, where he touched
them, were clammy and moss-grown.
The man told himself that he was not
beneath the old moat. At intervals he
passed other dark entries which ran in
all directions—narrow little tortuous
alleys, many, of which he explored for
a few feet, only to return to the main
way. More than once, too, a pit yawned
suddenly at his feet and had it not
been for his inborn caution the Chateau
Chauville would have added yet an-
other secret to its dark history. It
was evident to Vivian that the build-
ers of the hiding-place, deeming it
nececesary that an emergency exit
should be at hand, had made it so that
while egress was difficult ingressowas
well-nigh impossible to those not
knowing the pitfalls and the way of it.
It must have been after an hour’s
walking that the walls on either hand
seemed to recede from Vivian until at
last they were lost in the gloom be-
yond the reach of the rays of the little
torch. Apparently the tunnel had wid-
ened out into a chamber.
The man hesitated, somewhat mys-
tified by the loss of the friendly walls,
and at the same moment his feet came
sharply into contact with some obstruc-
tion. He stumbled, the torch fell from
his hands, a thousand stars danced
before him.
He came to himself in bewilderment.
The darkness closing in upon him
seemed in the silence to be pressing on
him. His head ached abominably and
there was a wound in the center of his
forehead that was warm and sticky to
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Not a Lawbreaker.
(From the Birmingham Age-Herald)
“Can I do anything for you?” asked
the motorist of a man whose car was in
a ditch.
“Yes,” replied the other, "I have a
gallon of ‘moonshine’ in this car. I’ll
give you half of it if you’ll take it to
town for me.”
"I’m sorry, but I can’t violate the law.
However, as the stuff is going to be
hope of finding the torch uninjured.
In this he was disappointed, but he
made the discovery that he was lying
beside a perpendicular structure of
masonry, which,, on raising his hand,
he .found to be the support of what
felt to be a table of stone, low and
heavily built.
Painfully he. drew himself up on to
his knees and so to his feet. Again
his hands did duty for his eyes and a
little cry of horror broke from the
man’s dry lips.
Beneath the touch of his sensitive
hands a form was taking shape—the
unmistakable shape of a coffin.
*It seemed to him that in the darkness
could make out the dim outlines, the
sinister bulge of the sides. Feferishly,
now, he dropped to his knees and felt
for the friendly torch. Light to him
had suddenly become as necessary as
food to.a starving man. The walls of
darkness hemmed him in so that he
felt that he, too, was in a coffin; then
he remembered that in his pocket were
a few wax vestas. He struck one upon
, the stone slab and gazed around him as
Bargain Hunters Are Impatient.
(From the New York Sun)
The woman in the crowded down-
town department store wore a very
irritated expression on her face.
"I’ve been waiting such a long time,”
she complained to one of* the clerks.
“Sorry, madam,” he said, “but we
must take our customers as they come.”
“Wretched service!” the woman was
heard to mutter as the clerk accommo-
dated another customer.
“Now, what is it, madam?” the clerk
asked, returning to her.
“Could you tell me how to get to
the nearest Broadway subway station?”
she asked.
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Fair Laura has a beaded bag
All purples, greens and blues.
Portraying queer exotic flowers
And gorgeous cockatoos,
And in its silken depths with purse ,
And handkerchiefs, behold! if
She always keeps a lipstick small, 2
A tiny tube of gold. ’ iy;
That bit of carmine paste has spoileq
My ardent dreams of bliss,
I never yet have dared to steal,.s
From Laura's lips a kiss. „k
Those lovely lips are much too red
To be quite genuine, Tr |
I fear their telltale crimson will ".'I
Alas! come off on mine.
—Minna Irving in the New York Her-
ald.
____ A2UMMSENEL
Didn’t Play Mairmf'tu
(From Answers, London.)
Detective Inspector—And why did
you let the rogue get away?
Police Constable—He took an unfair
advantage of me. He ran into th©
park and across the grass—
And why didn’t you follow him?
Well, there was a notice there “Keep
off the grass.”
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