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pTTirrni.Tn . i . i . i .i .i .i. i .'ii nTnvhiinTiCT TOH Mi.wa.M^uitijjjTiTiTpninnTi^'mTrr'PnP i 'riS'riT t nn' i li' i MM' j The Price of Liberty Ok, A MIDNIGHT CALL 5l.J.lll. l .ia;i;iTi7irr:T7iiTlEmTn n7i.i.i.l.lJ.liliaTi it'lililllil'l'l'llr'i'il'i'<'i'-''''l i.i.i.i.l.hhl.l n.l.l.l .i.lil.MiliM CHAPTER L.â€" (Continued.) "Certain. I heard of it from a man who wa.s with \'an Sneck at the time, a man called Merritt." "James Jlerritt. Really, you have been in choice companj'. Miss Lee. Your knowledge of the criminal -classes is getting extensive and pecu- liar." "Merritt told me this. And an answer came bac's to Merritt." "An answer from Mr. Steel?" "Purporting to be an answer from Mr. Steel. A very clever forgery, as a matter of fact. Of course that forgery wa.s Ueiisou a work, because j we know that Henson coolly ordered notepaper in Mr. Steel's name. He' lorgot to pay the bill, and that is i how the thing came out. Besides, 'â-  the little wad of papers on which the | forgery was written is in Mr. Steel's hands. Now, what do you make of that?" Rawlins turnefl the matter over thoughtfully in his mind. "Did Henson know that Mr. Steel would be from home that nignt?" he .asi^ed. "Of course. He probably also knew where our meeting with Mr. Steel was to take place." "Then the matter is pretty ob- vious," said Rawlins. "Van Sneck, by some means or other, gets an inkling of what is going on. He wanted money from Henson which he couldn't get, Henson being very | short lately, and then they quarrel!- ' od. Van Sneck was fool enough to i threaten Henson with what he was j going to do. Van Sneck's note was ; dispatched by hand and intercepted i by Henson with a reply. By thej way, will you be good enough to give me the gist of the reply?" "It was a short letter from Mr. Steel and signed with his initials, ; and saying in effect that he was at home every night and would see Van Sneck about twelve or some time like that. He was merely to knock quietly, as the household would be in bed, and Mr. Steel would let him in." "-â- ind Mr. Steel never wrote that letter at all?" "No; for the simple reason that he never had Van Sneck's note." "Which Henson intercepted, of • .course. Now, the mere fact of the : reply coming on Mr. Steel's paper is ', e^Idence that Henson had plotted, «otae other or altfrnativo scheme ; agaipst Mr. Steel. How long before the cigar-case episode had you decid- : â- ed to consult the novelist?" i "We began to talk about it nine I â- or ten days before." I "And Henson got to hear of it. ' Then a better idea occunod to Hen-; son, and the first idea which neces- i Bilated getting hold of Mr. Steel's i notepaper was abandoned. Subse- j <iuently, as you have just told me, i the notepaper came in u.seful after | .all. Henson knew that Steel would | be out that night. And. therefore. Van Sneck is deliberately lured to Steel's house to be murdered there." "I se«," Chris said, faintly. "Tlits had never occurred to me before. Murdered by whom?" "By whom? Why, by Reginald Henson, of course." Just for a moment Chris felt as if .all th» world was slipping away un- der her feet. "But how could he do it? " she •skcd. "Quite easily. And throw all the blame on Mr. Steel. Look at the evidence he had ready to his haml against the latter. The changed xigarcase would come near to hang a i man. And Van SneOk was in thej way. Steel goes out to meet you or i Borne of your friends. .Ml his house- j hold are in bed. .\s a novelist he i •comes and goes as he likee and no- body takes any heed. He goes and leaves bis door on the latch. Any | money it is the common latch thoy j put on thousands of doors. Henson | lets himself into the house and coolly | waits Van Sneck's coming. The rest I jrou can imagine." Chris had no reply for a moment j or two. Rawlin's suggestion had j burst upon her like a l>oni!). .\nd it j was all so dreadfully, horribly pro- , bable. Henson could have done this j thing with absolute impiu.iiy. It' Was impos.slble to iinuginc for a mo- j ment that I'avid Stevl was the crim- inal. Who else could it bo, then, but | Reginald Henson? I "I'm afraid this has come as » j .shock to you," Kawlins saiil. t|Uictly. ! "It has, indeed," said Chris. ".\nd your reasoning is so dreadfullv logi- â- cal." "Well, t may be wrong, after all," Bawlins suggested. Chris shook her head doubtfully, i .She felt absolutefy as.sured that ] Rawlins was right. Hut. then. Hen- i •on would hardly have run so terii-' ble a rish for a little thing like ; that. He could eivnily have .iilence<l • Van Sneck by a specious promise or j two. Tlieie jnust Ijc another reason *or It came to Chris In a aiomont. She •aw the light quite plali-.ly. "Mr. Smith." she .said, eagerly, "where did you first meet Henson nad Van Sneck?" 'We lirsl came together some eiiiht years ago in j\msterdam." "Would you mind telling mo what your business was?" "So far as I can recollect it was connected with some old silver â€" Wil- liam and 7ilary and Queen Anne cups and jardi'iieres. We had made a bit of a find that we could authenticate, but we wanted a lot of the stuff, well â€" fukeil. Vou see. Van Sneck was an authority on that kind of thing, and we employed hira to cut marks off small geniine things and attach them to spirious large ones. On the whole we made a very suc- cossful buaiaess uf il I'or a i-jng time." "You found Van Sneck an excel- lent (Copyist. Did ho ever copy any- thing for you?" "No. But Henson emploj-o<l him now and again. Van Sneck could construct a thing from a mere des- cription. There was a ring he did for Hen.son " "Was that called Prin<?e Rupert's ring, by any chance?" "That was the name of the ring. Why?" "We will come to that presently. Did you ever .see Prince Rupert's ring?" "Well, I did. It was in Amsterdam again about a year later than the time I mentioned just now. Hen.son brought the real ring for Van Sneck to copy. Van Sneck went ir.to rap- tures over it. He said he had never seen anything of the kind so beauti- ful. He made a copy of the ring, which he handed back with the ori- ginal to Henson." Chris nodded. This pretty faithful Copy of the ring was the one that Henson had u.sed as a mai^net to draw Lady I.ittimer's money and the came one that had fouml its way into Steel's possession. Uut Chris had another idea to follow up. "You hinted to me just now that Henson was short of money," she said. "Do you mean to say he is in dire need of some large sum?" "That's it." Rawlins replied. "I rather fancy there has been some stir with the police over sonre busi- ness up at Huddersfield somo years ago." "A so-called home both there and ut Brighton?" "That's it. It was the idea that Henson conveyed to me when I saw him at Moreton Wells. It appears that a certain Inspector Marley, of the Brighton Police, is the same man who used to have the warrants for the Hudderslield affair in his hands. Henson felt pretty sure that Marley had recognisi-Hl him. He told me that it the worst came to the vvorst he had something he coi Id sell to Littimer for a large sum of money." "I know," Chris exclaimed. "It is the Prince Rupert's ring." "Well, I can't say anything about that. Is this ring a valuable pro- perty?" "Not in itself. But the loss of it has caused a dreadful lot of misery and suffering. Mr. Smith, Reginald Henson had no business with that ring at all. He stole it and made it appear as if somebody else had done so by means of convej ing the copy to the very last person who shoi'ild have possesseti it. That .sad business broke "ip a happy home and has made live people miserable for inaiiy >ears. .And whichever way you turn, which- ever way you look, you tind the cloven foot of Henson everywhere. Now. what you have told me just now gives nie a new idea. The sec- ret that Hen.'ion was tjoing to sell to Lord Littiiuer for a large sum was the story of the missing ring and the restitution of the same." "Kind of brazening it out, you mean?" "Yes. Lord Littimer would give three times ten thousand pounds to have that ring again. But at this point Henson has met with a si-^rious check in his plans. l>rl\en into a Ct>ruer, he has resolved to make a , clean breast of it to Lord Littimer | He procure<l the ring from his strong i box and then he makes a di.HCovcry." i "Which is more than I have. Pray j pro*ed." I "He discovers that he has not got i the real Prince Uupert's ring." I Rawlt: s looked up with a slightly purj^led air. j "Will you kindly tell me what you • mean?" he said. i "It was a forgery. Van Sneck ; made a copy from a mere d»-scripl ion. That copy servefi its purpo.se with a veng^ncc. and is now at liio bottom of the North Sen. I nei>d not go in- to details, because it is a family ; secret, and doen not concern our con- i verwttlnn at all. At that time thai real ring came into Henson's posses- j sion. and h»» wanted a (."opy to hold i over the head of an <mfortunnte lady | whom he would have ruined before lung. You told me just now that Van Sneck had fallen in love with j Prince Rupert's ring and could hard- ly bear to part with It. He didn't." "No? But how could he retain it?' "Quite ea.sily. ITJe copy was quite faithful, but still it was a copy. But secretly Van Sneck makes a copy that would deceive everybody but an expert, and this be hands over toâ€"' "To Henson as the real ring, Rawlins cried, excitedly. I Chris .smiled, a little pleased at her ! acumen. "Precisely," she said. "I see that you are inclined to Ims of my opin- ion." "Well, upon my word. I am," Rawlins confessed. "But I don't qriite .see why " "PIea.se lit me finish," Chris went on, excitedly. "Reginald Henson is driven back on his last trenches. He has to get the ring for Lord Littimer. Ha takes out the ring af- i DEATH RECEIVES SHOCK NEW IN'VEIITION FOU DISPELI^ ING FOG. New Triumph of Sir Oliver Lodge â€"Nature of the Ap- paratus. Napoleon's dictum that nothing Is itnposaible, may be claimed as the watchword of science. The mjost recent triumph of science is the dl.scovery of a method of dis- â- H.. | i. | ,. | . | , I , | . t . |„| .. | . | .. i .,,, i . |4 .. | ,, | .. | .. 4 , HEALTH HOW TO AVOID THE GRIPPE. A great many people have formed the habit of alludiug to every little cold as an "attack of grippe." It aouirds much more important, but happily, it is often not true. Any one who has once had a real attack small danger of mis- taking any lesser complaint for it. ter all these years, never dreaming | pell ing fogs. What ihia means may that Van Succk would daro to play i bo understood when tt is mentioned | of grippe is in such a trick upon him, and finds out ' that, under heaven, no greater dang- the forgery. Did you ever see that ^ er exists, than fog, to travel either ; It is true that it has many of tha man when ho is really angry?" ' ion .sea or land. During last year : signs of the so-called cold in the "He is not pretty then," Rawlins ' alone, jiearly 700 lives were lost on â-  bead, but added to these there ia a said. I this continent in collisiona that were "Pretty! He is murder personified. ! caused by fog. Kindly try to imagine his feelings ; Accoi-ding to tho current Pear- when ho discovers he has been de- \ son s Maffazane expcrimmts have ceived. Mind you. this is only a j h<.^ nKide in Kngland to prove that theory of mine, but I feel certain | , j^^^ ^^ u^j^ to melt by olec- that it will prove correct. Henson's last hope is snatched away from him But he does not go straight to Van Sneck and accu.se him of his dupli- city. He knows that Van Sneck stole the ring for sheer love of the gem,, and that he would not dare to part Willi it. lie aii.'iumea that the rJiiji is in Van Sneck's possession. And when Van Sneck threatened to ex- pose part of the businesis to Mr. Steel Henson makes no attempt to soothe him. Why? Because he sees a cunning way of getii.ig back the ring. He himself lures Van Sneck to Mr. Steel's house, and there ho al- most murders hi.m for the sake of the ring. Of course, he meant to kill Van Sneck in such a way that the blamo could not possibly fall upon him." "Con you prove that he knew any- thing alrout it?" "I can prove that he know who Van Sneck was at a time when the hospital people v/ere doing their best to identify the man. .A.nd I know how fearfully unea«y he was when he got to know that some of us were aware who Van Sneck was. It has been a pretty tangle for a long time, hut the skein is all coming out smoothly at la«t. And if we could get the rung which Hen- son forced by violence from Van Sneck " "Excuse me. Heidid nothing of the kind." Chris loo) ed up eagerly. "Oh." she cried, "have you more to tell me, then?" "Nothing authentic." Rawlins said; "merely surmise. Van Sneck is go- ing to recover. If he does it will be hard for Henson. who ought to get away with his plunder at once. Why doesn't he go and blackmail Lord Littimer and sell him the ring and clear out of the country? He doesn't do so because the ring ia not in his possession." "Then you imagine that Van Sneck " "Still has the ring probably in his possession at the present mom- ent. If you only knew where Van Sneck happened to be." Chris ro.se to her feet with an ex- cited cry. "I do know," she exclaimed; "ho is in the house where he was half murdered. And Mr. Steel shall know all this before he sleeps to- night." (To be Continued.) ^ TKACUP PHILOSOPHY. An expert is a man who doe.9 not get con'uiied when cross-examin. d. ' A fault which humbles a â- â- .-.nn is of more use to him than a •jooil .tC liim which puiTs him up with pride. The young lady who is receiving attention from a young man will do well to inquire ii his mother jjets any. It is better to right your wrongs wh'le they are young and twmler than to nurse them urtlil thoy are old an I toivKh. Evcrv man thinks every other nran has has price. He who lakes good care of tho da.vs nee<l give himself no worry over the yi?ar. A woman cannot unidersrtand why her husft>and ha.s to work so hard to niftke bi th cii<i3 meet, when he is so much cleverer than other men. » HAVE A HOBBY. H'o'bbice are among the best things in life. They promote health, peace, aiwi happiness, hilping one, as they do, to forj,«t sorrow. Any <lecide<l interist in life, whether it is digni- fied by the name of an occui>ation or is ^^in|.ly an enlhusiasni, is i.'uiinvnt- ly <K«irable. "I have never seon a j goniiine collector that is not happy wh.-n he is allowed by circunvstanccs to gratify hl.'« tastes." said a stu- dent of huutan nature, "ami hob- bii?8 should always be encourag«l. It is a ru;lou» phase of our humanity that We will work dilijfenlly to make pi«ovl-.i( n for our material needs wh-^i we are old. and quite neglect to store up nwntnl resources tricity tteiog discharged into the air. CREDIT OF DLSCOVERY. The credit of the discovery is due to .Sir Oliver Lodge, principal of Birmingham University, who recent- , .^ ^^^ ^^^ [mtients ];.- sac-if'.'-rf ;-•> Ji,-ir>«r»ing a fog by • electricity, for a space of iroui iivo hijndred to eight hundred feet prostration, an aching, a polscmang of the whole .system of which plain influenza is fortunately not capable Every year there is more or less grippe, ranging from the really ap- pallinif epidemic of thirteen years ago, when the old and the feeble suc- cun^cd ia hundreds, to a limited number of fairly light cases hero and there. Much of the spreading of the grippe I is by qinite u/meces.'W.ry contact. It t-o isolate themselves for a few days and consider themselves contagious objects. Promiscuous kissing, which The apparatus he ^mployod, r»- i ^ ai^p^y^ foolishness, n, a crime dur in some respects the sending-^, ^ grippe epidemic. The patient should stay in one room in the care sembles in :njun: n.-»j7Tr^t.o v,*^- j>â€" m .ing instrument u.sod in wireless tale- ! graphy. comprising a dynamo 'o"^ ! of a phv.sici as unftil active symptoms generating the electric current. a , ^^^^^ subsided. transformer for converting the eU^ | jyf^.^ ^^^ ^,g j^^^ ^^ ^^^^jj^ j,^ tricity thus olytained into a n»&h,jjj^jjj di.sease in other wavs than pressure, and an mti-rrupter for |^^ ^^^^^jj^^ ^^^ ^jj^^p^^.^ .^^^ j^ shooting the high-temsion electrical i ^^^^ iiJways feasible, anyhow, while energy into the air. which it does, : ppopig ,.4^^ j^ (.lose cai-s and mix mruch after the manner of a ho.SE pro- ^^^^ ^j,^j. fei].o^3 j^ re.staurants. jecti-ng water into a bumjing build- j ^j^^pg ,^^^^ tij^,j,tres. where tho germ ing. can be appropriated at any mo- BAC.K TO TYNDALL. jment. The sure.st way of avoidance The history of this apparatus goes j ig by keeiring the s.ystem in good bnck to "Tyndall. tha well-known ! condition. 'I"hc grippe germ is just physicis-t. In one of hi.-s experiments ijke any other disea.'Je germ in this: TjTwlall heated a common poker red- i that it needs a weakened point for hot, and thi.n. raising a clourf of , its assault. dust by shaking a box full of it, he \ n peoi'l<! spend hours in clo.se, brought du-st and poker into contact, joverhentfd udaces, and then face the Tho result was that, tho dust-ladwu ; keen ouLside air without proper pro- air was cleared away around the hot tection in their clothes or proper iron for .several inches. The dust ! precautions as to correct breathinij, they are alren-dv prepared for their at tack of grippe. Wet feet are a most useful ally of this trouble, and .i^ould never be riske*i in young or old. Most per- sons have heard of the man who wrote to the Times that he had dis- covered that wet foot were tho sole cause of influen7a. anrt was answered by the man wi+h two wooden logs was not burned up. but the heat seemed to repel the minute particles, driving them from it in every direc- tion. INTERESTED IN DOST. Later Lord Kaylelgh, another phy- sicist, became interestod in. dust, and as a result of .several experiments, discovered that a piece of ice acted also as a repelling force. He also found that an electrically chaj-god ! who had grippe tivo years in .succa^ stick of .sealing wax, if held near afsion Althoi^h too much str«M can fountain whore the water tell as a I harrily be placed on the importance line mist, the little globules of j "' warm, dry Uxt. the .-a.^e is un- water cohtjred ami made larger drops. ! fortunately not quite so simple. Sir Oliver Lodge accepted the re- I There are «J*ny ways in which grippe suits of these exporinx-nts, but went <:«n acquire a hold if one is ra:idy to a 'rtep farther. He wanted to know catch it. .Stren^j'theTi your fortress the whv ami the wherefore of them, i with a threefold wallâ€" eat right. .SIiroHVEU'S CONCLUSIONS, i breathe ri^ht. sleep right. Only so , shall dis-ease llnd vou scatheless. After much investigating, he con- 1 ' SS^e^e^tr'^ ^^^riciS^^ i SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES. .\ ne\v experiment was now tried. | .Several years ago one of tho oS4 .'\ bo.x was lillod with smoko instead j school plvr'sicians who huil never lost of dust. Inside the box was a metal . a case of pneumonia where tho pa- plate which was connected by a copper wire with an electric ma- chine. The electricity was turne-I on. and the smoke was sent .scurry- ing Oil, not a vesliije remaining. .\ glass bell-jar was next .substi- tient was under 6l>, said that lie at' tribuieu bis success larg»»ly to the ; timely use of soap poultic-es, which ; were made by having thv soap very hot. then thlcktming with bran. In j these days, when no few, oven auwng tuted f'.^r tho box. The bell-jar was j the farmers, niake soft soap, a poul- eiiuipped with two upright rois, one j tice ivearly as good can be iimd<? by terminating in half a dozen, siiarp \ using a weak lye, in place of the ix>ii>ts. the other in a brass ball. Wires led to an electric machine. J.\R WA.S FILLED. The jar was lilled successfully with load and zinc fumes ami aqueous va- por, and in each case elect riti cat ion wos followed by precipitation. From these e.xperiimms it was ac- cepted as certain that electricity would have a conuncrrcial value in the cKsperaiTJH of fags: and also that by discharging electririty into a cloud by means of a kite or balloon, rain could be i>ta.<ie to fall. Sir Oliver proposes to erect on either side of tho Uiver Mfra.'y a , soap. To make the lye, pour boil- '. ing water over woo<l a.she.s. At I iru).'>t drug stores an alkali n*" poul- jtice can to purcha.swi ready pi-ui^^r- !ed. which is similar to the s»>iip poul- i tices of former years. In ca.<ae9 of ie.xtremc tenderness, ct^ckcr crumbs 'can be used in place of the bran, : making it far lighter. I SotuetinuKj it is difBcult to wring 'cloths out of water sufficiently hot !to attain the desired result. One I way is to place the cloth to be wrung inside of a ffr.v towel, and • then twi.^ at the emls. .\ wringer ; may be u.s«<i. hut the l»:«t is to use .J .. » i a stiamer. If poa^ihle. havo a nuniber of fog-dispel.ing stations but , ^^^,j ^., ^^^^.^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ patient's insteed of supplying energy from | ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ,^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ _^. ^^^,_ hand-operated electric machines, he • would use the regulation dynamo, which would be connected to a high- tension transformerâ€" an apparatus that chunses the low pressure cur- rent into on« of enormously high pressure, and nt tho same time pro- duces large .luant it i.-fi of electricit.y ,^^ ^^ roadv-at-haml remrjdies for i^ect.ric.ty is like water, in that p^^^,^ ^ ^^^^^ j,,,^^ „„t ^,,^„y to be avoidefl is tb<' si-If-artmiiii.^tra- in^ water, and over this s»?t the steamer. Tho first lime, the cloths will need to be wrung out 01 the water, but after that, all that is i»ece5«ary is to i>lacc them In tho stean>er. TTie rem<>mbrarice and use of tha may there may be a amount under a pressure. lorgft or small high or low NOT beai;tiful. A mother was ovei-henrd tollit»ji her little boy that if ho continued being 1 pi,nrtdinff that ; naughty she tion of di'ugs. No matter how much comrmon !*pnsc and self-ivliaiice wo may have, the most of us know a!l>- Rolutcly nothing of the ri»al olTects of the various (frugs up(m the system. Ka for myself. I .should pitv even a sick eat who Was compelled to lap up any mecHcinal doses of my conk- will interest ola (toy* " ami amuse us POPE REDUCES EXPENSES. Pope Pius goes on as he liegan. preaching and practicing the â-  tfi''nple life. He has bei-n re<]ui irg di.sp'ay on the one hand and snlirie.s on the other This, as may be lmairino.1, is not quite satl.-.fuctory to the h^sts of persons employed about the \'ati- can. While thus riiscoi»rai,'inn luxurj- tho pontiff remains as aiTahle and ac cos.sible as ever to friends ( da^a. would die and never come back any more. With the in- noccney of bahyhoofl. he threw his arms about his luothor'.s neck and I promised to bit good. He would not have been a natural child if he had ! not foruotton all about it. as he did in a few mom<>nts. ani Ihi.s time the the ilenbhlike sl.^cl'. The little on.? mad" every etiort to arouse his iivv- ther. and again rcj-erttod hi.'» prom- ise of < ing good. .\t this .<»hT open- <d h-r eycx. aii<l tho ple«.s«in> of th- (h'M '-n w no bourds. Mmty mo- inner jthers have done the some thing; but 'it is n <t b<.a^:tifiil to act a lie. Tl'UKISH PRINTING OPFTCES. .•\U printing establishments in Tur- key, according to a new law, may ha\e (.nly ore <!oor. and that oi)en- in.t on to the street. Windows must to rovere<l with close-ui- shed wire- netting, so that no pn|>ei-« cull be handed through. A stiiteiuu' miust be made a year in advance of th« amount of Ink reiiuiritl. wMch will be .s ippliiMl 1\\ tlu" S'alo .\ .spo'imeil of everything printcMl is to 1m? kept and must be shown at any time to a police insjiector on ppin of a line.