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ary~Grcy S 9 Mystery Or, The Mask Thrown Off. enbiriew Sad severe rem: e crime with nich the rged, and then called "The Reverend Adam Borden." Mr. Borden took the stand and testified to having performed th arr: cere- mony between Alden Li and Mary on the eel coin oy the fifteenth of a ecedi e n ish enue, gs the ait nae Philadelphia strictly cross-examin r. He was Berners, but hie testimony ae ne mat the clearer from the ordeal, John Martin, orice of the church, and Sarah Martin, his daughter, were succes- sively exam and testified to having ceremony parties in question. e cross-examined b 'without detriment to Lytton" then called forward me identification. ,, leaning ilip Des- the prose- tween the Mr. their uest of counsel she drew aside e fixed upon the ground, and never once raised. yee ven he, eo deeply injured by her dia- bolical arte, turned away from her with shuddering pity. "The woman ie at once going mad and i "he said to himeelf. Grey was then fully identified by n = the woman who oi specified, aueriiod to Str. aiten Totten B ng enough whit te face turn- ed blue one ehe onl seonnine. into the arme oe as borne" out into the Linge m, amid the sympathetic murmurs the audience. Mr. Martindale then produced and read ned marriage eaciaeat te, roped recalled the . mde 2 as su nt, pre "Mra. immed fately ster the mar- riage had been conclude torney next 5 proceed cer- been important » begged corre- their acquaint- e he had discovered her m Say and crowd. b tered a ping Mea '* Seat awed Five inthis beni no, not even to own | st terrible letter was fin- Wri th ished he felt _ Poles relieved as if he had been unboun om a ne Fee goon superseded b ost astonishment when Mr. Mar- | another parcel, saying: | m Wendove er last year. the few ing he marriage of | the Drisoner as = ia ney Gre | nd State' Attorney proceeded a7 fter the other, all F: ail by unconecious confederate, Craven te, These counterfeits were even more fond er, ore foolish and more impaesioned than the real ones, which y ar. ranged the mode and manner of proceed: | ing. During the reading of the final letter | Mr. Alden Lytton beckoned his counse el, | who approached him acknowledge the first bateh of folly} written from lg ig when I was ~ # boy of eighteen or nineteen," a#aid Al- | den, between a langh and a blush | "Every man hag been ¥y, and a fool, ! at least once his life. I anor Ih 3] and I would much rather be ha an! have my lett read," atghingir replied | r. ners Bu', by all my hopes of heaven, I never | wrote one of thoee infernal vette of the | last pare el!' ndded Mr. Lyttor ! ver eupposed you lid. 'ie will, no doubt. be eee =n to prove them to. be forger ean do th the whole prosectitt ion breake down," replie Mr. Jerners, ey are forgeries!" eaid Alden Lytton, indignantly ut that wis more easily said than established. A ecore of witnesses, one after the other, were called, and ewore to the napaartt ing of Mr, Aldén Lytton in those lettere Other witnesses Jees imy it on the afternoon of he een said that h used, Al- den Lytton mma Angela Cavendish, on the fifteenth of the last Cliff Hall, sed his vtton's. marriage wit hich he 'had a periaok, right her, never having Tied neph + Ad 'a. ytto was fcr that matter!" and so forth, and t all thie gi to eit' down. ling at the _idignition "Lyttonges" by cnasiion and He obeyed, Betaet upon the tarts tm his pales Bn ent for the prosecution in a we able review of theevidence that had bee m given by the narry her under the name of Alden Lyt- on. At these worde of the witness there was an immense seneation in he court, | breaking forth into urs of, astonieh- ment and indignation, eo that ng judge arose in is place and said t order | must be cheerved or he should oe oblig- witnessea examined and the documents ge was while he lage aut speaking 7" a Thitue re tage eee rd e pal wal who 2 Bore' it *jooKed od around to see what the Presently a Dailitt w was seen pushing his ugh the crowd. meel for the ac- cna sean tall Bone te y rowd --and rnera and Mr. Lytton looked af- ter him in surprise and curiosity. State Attorney Martindale, meanwhile, went on wit! is argumen After an absence of about fifteen min- utes Mr. m returned and resum hie seat beside hie senior colleague, Mr. nere. He ga oq Bn explanation am his ebreps | oe departu absence, but sat there | tening attentively to the apaects fs) rney and smiling to him- ue, Mr. Bern- 4 Seal wi an opening address for efen ann "length ap Martindale brought his usion by 3 Lig ry bril- and saying lian 3 peroration, sat re the prosecution Bamtihny rest the that t case. Mr. Denham, riving hia client & pressure of the hand, and wearing the 'came. strange emile o mirth ph on hie Pagar wrose for the ite began by say or and gentlemen of ie iuey: ak Grater, Kyte be put upon the rn. all. Let stand and sw CHAPTER L. one arose and looked ai to "an 'ious of the expected wi h afrected as the eet on first ven Kyte, and his chair, pale accused. hearing the then czcoped tock" as ma Fvidently he had not expected to hear this man - ed. In the eantime a little ory in the bottom of the some one pushing his way crowd. And presently Craven Kyte, calm, hand- some and well-dressed in clerical biadk, came forward and entered the witness- box. He bowed to the tood pn y ive in his testimony. Aul -- ag of them tur constantly fro a on the stand to the predner, " th T a were perteet duplicates of Cr into bustle was hall, as of through the presiding judge and t e ont was administered to the wit- Bernere conducted the examination. evening f the fourteen f September I arrived in Philadelphia, tae 3 = low: request the et he hg 'by ap. ery of Bertu and we entered it. F ier directed t riv P w 1 should to command the clearing of the court- re , Hie words produced the ° proper effect ane the spectators became i 'ne Bt as mice. The examination of the witness was re sume ed. er say that Mrs. Mary Grey propos- at you -- marry her in the name ery much astonished ut the proposal, 'and expostulated with her about it; but she was in earnest, and at last she made it an a lute condition of my ever getting ber at all that I should marry her under the name of Alden Lyt ton. 4 'W reason did she give for this singular request ? "She said she only wanted to play a har practical joke upon Mise Caven- dish the betrothed Mr. Lytton." ut her joke was so deep and earne that ehe made it the only ec upon which she would marry you r say?" "Yes, sir." "And did you comply with that condi- ti on?" "Yea, sir. Sooner than Jose her I com- plied with that wicked condition. It did on ly d pu And, mily believe ie Sin Sait crazy at that Gene "Quite Tikets, "What follo "Well, sir, "and gentlemen, - ee her pock and OF, eaid Mr. Berners, dryly. we drove to 248: Wishec ear y this witness. "bell at the rec tory, sent the ecard in by the servant who every o the carriage for g Mrs. Grey? But I called he fary' then. went back for her, and bronght her into the church, where, und ae 'the name o! oan Lytion. I was ried to a Grey by the Reverend ioe 'presence of John Ma ary "te 4 sag xton of the » his = ugh- ghned by the ay then riven "What happened next? a her request I one ll her back to the sto: sae on T 'had e angaged reoms for orig decli rect Sry in caw any ime, -- ex) Seite 10 go to Havre-de-Gra yeve s stopped | 4 the Anterlek lone: enough to pay a @ squaw nd. ewimr Jil was her 5 pet and T oeeren ed thé . boat of her choite--a m a boat-- Here the judge, who *: little impatient, 'inquired Of 4 lor the defenc ony y, Mr. Bernere, what about the boat to do with the tr' ie a great deal ndin 2 AR 20 YEARS IN COMING)* | SWORD OF DAMOCLES HUNG OVER EUROPE. Prussia Began to Move in 1964, ond *'Junkers" in Power at Ber- lin Since. Why is Great Britain' at war? asks a writer in the™London Daily Mail. The man in the street (that| ,, patient citizen) is still asking the eeetios: although for twenty years war has been a practical certainty. I agree that no war_is inbvitable, but so long as the Prussian govern- Pome | 0g class was allowed to direct Ger- at des epectfully replied. the counsel, witness proceed," the : "what happened next?" inge int or murder. next--at lea at ve go + ioe too: A urmer nation pase assed through the And on this nese no one at! 3 enforce sil But soon the deep interest of i re noeske > m he could n . She 'waited: antl rh so far over that the ] ade ' Wh I fount myself stretched out on of a ee with gee ral people: and rollin wa vous my limbe «an eorely head." (To be continued.) --* Distinctly Suspicious, ~ It that a british soldier was | tried for shooting.a chicken on hibited ground. cok ae my rial quite ¢ hot "your 'bint wit rey sWe to it?" 'No, I. won't do that," the canny farmer, I the "nettied. "What r your suspicio ons id ' 'Well, sir."' replied the, was during the mangeuyres officer, (con- sturdy farmer, as he slowly mopped ( his man policy, Europe lived ie a Damocles sword over its head. T one hope of permanent peace was t the German commercial and working classes would revolt against their tyrants. But that was never probable. The most competent British cb- eervers have always realized the dange Unfortunately, the warn- ings have been more than counter- balanced by other Englishmen, who were dazzled by the evident friend- ly feeling of the German people. They failed to realize how ying German policy' is swayed by the ex- ¢ 4) clusively Prussian party--the Junk- ust|ers--who rule in Berlin. New Germany. Mr. Bernard Shaw says that Eu- rope has no quarrel with the Ger- many of Goethe and Beethovei. But the Germany of Goethe and Beethoven has ceased to exist for more than fifty years. At the » Reponing of the nineteenth were largely influenced by the Lib- 'eral ideas of the French Revolu- tion. After the fall of Napoleon, nationality again asserted itself, rbut it should be remembered that thoven himself at one time re- garded N. as a From 1816 to 1860 Prussia began a new virile national life. This new life was originally the creation of poets and dreamers. It was affect- ed by the revolution og 1848, but gradually the influence of Lassalle and the philosophic Liberals and Socialists was overshadowed by the Bismarckian dream of a State that would pre-eminent not by its contribution to the art pr of the. wort but by the power. of sing pro- hers: at 'Versailles. In 1864 Prussia began to move. It first stole Schleswig-Holstein say|from Denmark. Great Britain was ; implored to intervene. She refused, and British acquiescence in this first contest was directly responsible for the growth of Prussian, power. In 1866 Prussia defeated Austria at Sadowa, and won the right to be considered the unquestioned head o ised forehead with his bandannaf "[/the German people. The South saw 'im on my property with a|Germans--the Bavarians and the gun; then I heerd the gun gol off;|men of Baden and of Wurtemberg-- then I saw 'im putting the chicken| were and are much more kin to the into his knapsack ;_ and it ola: Austrians than to the Prussians, seem sensible somehow to biog kjand Prussia fought and defeated the bird committed suicide.'? Forture Hunter. "So Jack's married? Did marry for beauty?' "No, booty." Envied Him. "My wife is a mind reader, z "Lucky dog! My wife is a7 speaker." Climbing. "You folk are being taken u society, aren't you' ell, we don't believe in } ging but we know three ladies smoke cigarettes."' tion that would have effectively hamperede her ambitions. In 1870 Prussia, with her German allies, defeated France, and the present Prussianized German Em- pire was born at Versailles. Alsace was added to Prussian territory, and she became the dominant Cen- tral European Power, with the Kai- ser as "chief among equals !"" Was Poor, Now Rich, Many things have happened dur- ing the forty-four years of peace. France, beaten to her knees, has risen stronger, richer, and more determined than ever to preserve mind | ¢, p by rag- who her oaitonality and all her nation- ity means, proving the ntter see sty of the late Lord ae ee enc ti n peo: are dying and decadent, Germany meanwhile has. grown from @ poor into a rich comme nation. Large factories have~taken the place of ruined chstles. A great mercantile fleet has come into being, 'and has been followed, quite natur- ally, by @ navy able to challenge aE ish supremacy on the sea. The Germany of Beethoven and Goethe has become the ey of million- aire merchants and Socialist work- men. Easy to Govern, ~ This new Germany has been in- spired by perfectly seabotteh ie ambi- tions for commercial outlet and de- velopmént, ambitions which have affected Great Britain, but which, of themselves, made for peace ra- ther than for war, for the commez- cial world always stands to lose when fighting begins. Unluekily = rmany r people are easy to overawe and govern, and the suc- cessors of Bismarck have been strong enough to hold on to politi- cal power. new rmany of 1914 is governed by exactly the same class as the old Germany of 1864. The ideal a this class may be summarized the phrase "might. is right," and that all talk of justice and human rights is sheer nonsense. Faith of Bismarck. This was the faith of the medieval swashbucklers. It was the faith of Bismarck. It has been deduced b Prussian professors (quite unfairly) from the writings of Nietzsche. It and it is altogether and unutterably damnable. Yet it is to force this eed from it that Great Britain, France, and Belgium are prepared to give their last man and their]. last soverei Happily for Europe, though Prus- sia preaches the doctrine of e strong man, the men who direct her policy have themselves i of the qualities of strength. Gilbert Chesterton has pointed ash that it is only the weak who ever bow down and worship stren, Tho- mas Carlyle, who fawned at the feet of Frederick the Great, was an in- valid, and one could quote a dozen similar instances. Birth of New Empire. Pele Meester ae us that the Pru a@ series of They have miscalculated the character of their opponents. It is more than probable that they have over-estimated their own re- sources, In a war of this kind one grows a little = of ach a claiming the Almighty as But for my part, I profoundly altews 'an does defend the right. The end may not come until after much loss and suffering, but this war will be followed -by the birth of .a new Europe, freed once and for all from the nightmare menace of half a cen- tury, and able to develop along 'its own national lines for the happiness of its peoples. . To-day we are. forced to fight the German people, but theirs as well as ours will be the fruits of victory. alae Youthful Slur on Grandpa. "Don't you think he is too cute for anything?' asked the proud young mother, referring to her ba! yy. "OQ, I don't know," replied her 17-year-old brother. "He's cute enough, I guess, but I never did think much of people who hadn't any teeth.' --_--_---- = The picture on the right shows Braddock, a well-known British boxer; with his unit at Ostend. His duties now consist of preparing food for the marines who have been landed at that place. On the left are two English soldiers at Havre, with a French youngster, who is trying to keep up. Tommy Atkins in France and Belgium. A DEATH BLOW TO FREEDOM SHOULD GERMANY TRIUMPH ' IN THIS WAR. Siac Kipling Sounds.a Call te Arms in a Stirring : Address, "Tt is not conceivable that we, should fail. If we do fail the lightal of freedom go out over the who world." This was the statement of Rud- yard Kipling, the author, in a stir- } |ring address to a mass meeting at Brighton, England, where an im- mense crowd gathered in the Dome to listen to speeches in sup- port of Lord Kitchener's crusade for recruits. The meeting was pre-| sided over by the Lord Mayor of! the Loca Board. Mr. Kipling said "Through no fault nor wish of ours we are at war wi rmany,| the power which owes its existence to three well thought out wars; the, power which, for the last twenty. years has devoted itself to organ- izing and preparing for this war; the power which is now fighting to conquer the civilized world. Must Have Men. "For the last two generations the Germans in their books, lectures, speeches and schools have been, carefully taught that nothing less than this world conquest was the object of their preparations and their sacrifices. They have prepared carefully and sacrificed greatly. '"'We must have men, and men, and men, if we, with our 'allies, are check the onrush of organized barbarism. Germany's Objective. "Have no illusions. We are deal- ing with a strong and magnificently equipped enemy, whose avowed aim is our complete destruction. The asad real oo as she has always told us, is and Hngiand's wealth, trade ail world-| wide possessions. "If you assume for an instant that attack will be successful England' will not be reduced, as some people, say, to the rank of a second-rate; power, but we shall cease to exist as a nation. We shail become an out-, lying province of Germany, to be administered- with what severity | German-safety and interest"require.. ° _ Arm Agent al ire is (og eres = aoe Mik ait the facts of war that we had put behind or forgotten for the past hundred years have returned to the front and test us as they tested our fathers. It will be a long and hard roat beset with difficulties and discouragements, but we tread it to- gether and we will travel it toge- ther to the end. "Our petty social barrier' have been swept away at the outset of our mighty struggle. Change in Short Time. "All the interests of our life of six weeks ago are dead. We have but one interest now and that touches the naked 'of every man in this island and in the em- ire. "Tf we are to win the right for ourselves and for freedom to exist on earth every man must offer him- self for that service and that sacri- fice, while the state sees to it that his dependents do not suffer. "There is no middle way in this war. We do not doubt our ultimate victory any more than we doubt the justice of our cause, It is not con- ceivable that\we should fail, for if we fail the lights of freedom go out all over the world. Duty Done Means Success, "They may glimmer for a little in the western hemisphere, but a Germany dominating half the world by sea and land will most certainly extinguish them in every quarter where they have hit® gto shone upon mankind so: that etn the tra- ditions of freedom will pass out of remembrance. If we do our duty we shall not fail."' Isle of Lewis Scots. The Island of Lewis in Scotland, where practically the entire male population has volunteered for ac- tive service, holds a proud record for military prowess, and furnishes the finest recruits for the Highland regiments, A practice, "approved by Plato, formerly prevailed here of putting to death by exposure all weakly or deformed children, and it is said by the most credible his- torians that this custom continued until "modern times." As a result, the inhabitants are far superior in physique to other Highlanders, and donsumption was quite unknown until recently re-introduced by sickly Southrons. "My house is so well organized," said Mrs. de Graw, "that I don't go into my Kitchen onee, in @ week." ' the pleasant way she puts it,"' ne husband explain- ed. "As a matter of fact, Zhe's afraid of her cook.'