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5v i jv the vicars nephew or the orphans vindication man in russia in- chapter xi contd was glad enough of the chance to see if htraotaei a dip you why jack i never saw you look jv1 v lm i ir f a dill so well or so sulky dont you want uluuu utu me you can turn me out miss ray mond if im in the way j im afraid its i that am in the way iaid molly her voice fell like a little icicle into their midst chilling even theo jack did bis conscientious best to smooth away the queer awkwardness between his visitors but looking ii from molly to theo and back again to u molly he realized how hopeless it he exposed german hots to spread dont he interrupted i dont was the miserable effort at small- confusion in russia after war began how littlo truth there is in the will eliminate german fluence there tiiirnit n ii m want to hear anything from you or talk failed at last hopelessly and pertilta jfiwa to te y anything dont et your jack looked up from the red coals with naslfts4 from methey a desperate feeling that something nosrhs onivphn 1 w0u be just and judge of me must be done to end the silence beforl silence ll bad lot wll soon find it out without my sister has never heard you f party such as it is has acqunred sfissft ac and the walked any telling the musician rose at once and the upper hand at petrograd and a on wtnout further speech oi fl i fs nothing but leaves not tea leaves intermixed with dust dirt and steins but all virgin leaves she turned to him with a smile fetched his instrument dominant influence over emperor no one told me vou were bad and what do you want he asked nicholas is best shown by his appoint- smnik i if they did i shouldnt believe it at curling himself down on the hearth ment of m khvostoff former gover of hter i have second hand there are some things vug with his violin against his neck nor of n and more re uj silver i nave i remember folksongs they dont want ac- fl to see you s ww f m cently one of the leaders of the partj k she broke off tiddleshe asked her face lit up suddenly wonder fully how did you know then they both laughed and in the companiments slavonic ones if you you ever hear a polish molly you know ive never heard rty will did of the e in the duma to the post folksong of minister of the interior in the place any- do you know what i came to lon don for she began at last i know what sort i came to see you he turned without comment and looked at her her face was hard and j resentful i dont know what sort of brother mfl in l th u sileneti that followed their kinship thin i was re to them for the first time she leaned back drawing the fire at is s he is a most unhappy man she screen forwards her brow a little con gitwvchrhfmomunto 1 has spent his life in trying tracted her eyes grave and wide jevel brows saw that she had stung thatlovcs oresectslitm throughthe haft darkend russia and the elimination of all i tcu i except aunt sarah disembodied ghosts of music buried ton forces and influences from musco- i her life has been spent in keeping long ago vite commerce finance industry agri- up a fiction shes getting old now i jack said theo laying the vio- culture art science and literature and its wearing thin and shes scar- lin down on his knee do you remem i an indeed from muscovite life gen- cd at the truth underneath it and mis- ber a fancy mother had just before era has the reputation ol being the cleanest and most perfect tea sold ei black green or mixed sealed packets only assemble in the taurida palace of petrograd for business a moderate conservative m khvostoff has been described as a reactionary and germany has in- prince cherbatoff who had only held sinuated that his appointment in the the office for a few weeks for m place of the ultraliberal prince chcr- khvostoff who is a very remarkable batoff means a reversion to the most man of great force of character is the acknowledged head of that parti tchin him from and itlpxtfrzf- sieqsfrts tlvol ssvtssssx ures and theres not one living thing folksongs trailed their low sound the complete degcrmanization of from now on the dominant figure in arbitrary forms of autocracy noth ing could be further from the truth he paused an instant before answering jjj i am glad you came he said molly flashed another look at him are you im not sure i am it depends on she broke off then plunged on reck lessly such as you are whatever you erable she died about the crocusflowers in i the truth j the grass well i ive been seeing i he regards the german element in are youre the only near relative ive i she des him in yellnow be lo oracutn im not sui i ml as a curse on he nation at first hand now were both grown i up instead of taking things for her that in my head lately and its com- russia which has been a powerful ing into tune i think its going to factor there for the last 200 years as granted through other people or ti 1 ii- ii ii wnat he asked abruptly youre good at understanding couldn i must play you some bits miss ray- j he is bent upon the emancipation of ure good at understanding i mond did you ever look at a crocus n countrymen from everything teu- nt leave her you dont know i mean really look at it t that the t alm of all his a desolate house it is they go yes answered from the t nt stands for afl rubbul bl00 relati are though meoisml each otne i shad of the no i dont think that and molly cye st u p hau h of a ghost uncle keeps up an elaborate by plehve really means rnf in i policies that is what he stands for in public life that is the cause that i invp tilon t r t ij k 1 ora her brother glanced at her in won- jho has championed above every other -tbfno- ssssfe pretence of having forgotten that you der it was as if helen had spoken lin the duma so it will be readily invttzn to rz t s ffi pretends hes theo began to play very softly his j understood what his appointment by not pretending eyes still on the girls face after a the czar to the department of the in- andyou j while he drifted unconsciously into t most important of all the i pretend not to see and the improvisation pausing now and then ministeria post at petrograd the neighbors pretend there was never wit- lifted bow and filling the spaces any old scandal about you we all with low rhythmic speech the vio- pretend j lin with its faint waiting its dim molly dont you see how all that inadequate murmur the flicker of the will end some day youll come to a fire the shabby dingy lodginghouse split with uncle a deadly split thats room all lost their separate charac- ivcouldnt by info bis lnn tf inevitable because youre a live hu- j ters merged into a common back- ground of dreams to listeners and wll understand why- but i canw possibly but it wont be in her artist alike the glittering spears of u d stanu wny but leant exi j visionary warriors the sight and shes not so old she may live an- sound of a great army marching other thirty years and what do vou were an actual presence living and vfvnh dont winf- i su she do then immense jr k- itv lt i whatever he told her to do i silence followed and theo sat with to ask it snot my if he tod hel to turn you bent head trembling a little the vio- lin still in his hand it was jack who an invitation to come and see me after how long was it seven eight years it wasan invitation to uncles houser as for seeing you i had wait ed so long for that that i could have patience a little longer till you could come to me rather than after a little pause he added slowly plain aft jack she burst out suddenly what was it between you and uncle no dont tell me i had no right one hears bits and scraps ot tnings all sii out you have every right to ask he answered gravely but i dont think i have any right to tell you do you think thats fair to me no but then its not a fair posi tion all round i think while you are accepting anything from uncle he has outse bntdtspok first rising to light the lamp it wont happen on a right to ask that his enemies should i 3 ni t t not tell you things against him dont oing to beln 3 n coward you does that mean that you are his enemy in the real sense of the word have you nothing to tell me but things against him nothing and nothing about aunt sarah are you her enemy too he paused a moment would kill her and it wont happen j old mannesaidrthei one remember im just all shes got in thing you might try to remember now the world even if she is lukewarm and then poor thing she cant help it if she was j yes theo murmured vaguely born that way i dont suppose the only that ordinary mortals are man in laodicca could why didnt your fellow creatures after all and the lord give him more courage in- can sometimes see when you guide their eyes even though theyre not crowned kings by right divine moliy made a sudden passionate movement as though he had hurt her theo started up a sort of horror in his face kings by jack how can you just because i can see things the administration has never been anything else but a moderate conser vative and as such has represented moscow the ancient metropolis of the empire in the national legislature he is very proud of his membership in the duma expresses his determina tion to retain his seat there as de puty in addition to the one to which he is entitled as minister of state he declares that the principle in which he will proceed will be centralization of policy and the decentralization of ad ministrative work he proclaims him self a warm friend of finland and as favoring the complete freedom of her cultural development of her religion and language at the same time he emphasizes the necessity of strength ening the authority of the govern ment which is not surprising when it post formerly filled by stolypin and j j mentioned that one of the reasons war prisoners remove hill british pay big 1 taxes cheerfully its better to pay mckenxa than the kaiser j many trades are more prosperous than ever and dont care about taxes britishers are perfectly willing to pay for the war if thereby they can add to their chances of winning its better for us to pay mckenna than the kaiser is the way they express it the duty on petrol is doubled which does not please those who havo been using their motor cars for pleas ure but satisfies the larger majority who think joy riding in any shapo he laughed softly at least no one will accuse you of being born that way my dear they walked back like old friends talking of his plans for future work since helen died he had not spoken so confidentially to any one for the next month london wore a sunny face to jack he relaxed the three months ago m khvostoff de- in my head do you think i wouldnt give it all fiddle and everything to j livcred in the duma the most popular r t ii i fuiinv i ace to ne ieiaxeu mo do things and be things like you j and remarkable speech of the entire i iv nqtmn to sj about nei of his j a jjj- am spen whats nearer to being a king by right sessioili upon the machinations of the happy afternoons wandering about divineto see god s wamor flowers germans in tle internal affairs of what am i but one way or the other hanlnthteriem westniinsur abbey amtthenational or to be as arc agotandshe li 5 gilllerv with moiv some how- a fiddle cries about you when she had pleurisy and we thought theivpieasuve yvovl todeif under suppressed tears molly raised she was going to die she clung to psf i l1vs head slowly and looked at her brother vz ni tnd gallery with molly sometimes how- a fiddle i t na s ever they would find themselves he turned away his voice quivern nonvicv- nf wo thnntfnr saddled with mildred penning and all with bitter discouragement as wi me and kent on repeating that she had done her best for you i dont believe aunt sarah ever harmed a fly in her life granted you may have something against uncle but why should you hate her he put the subject aside i dont hate her you despise her then the girl broke in quickly that i cant help shes lukewarm it was in order to escape from her that molly one day proposed spend ing the next saturday afternoon at jacks lodgings after a short and stormy scene with mrs penning the brother and sister climbed on to the roof of an omnibus together un- chaperoned i suppose shell write to uncle and complain of you said jack she to be continued women make best munitions like the angel of laodicca i would shrugged her shoulders ft i dare say i ve given up a good penence she were hot or cold passionate tears glittered in mollys eyes you will make me hate you she said in her suppressed vehement way an old woman as broken down and feeble as she is and you will let her go on worrying and fretting over some dcadandgone quarrel of your schoolboy days she asked me the other day to forgive her if shed made mistakes in bringing me up to for give her the only person in the world that ever cared for me shes got it into her head that you were made what she calls wicked by being un happy at home and that it was some how her fault were you so unhappv jack unhappy he repealed the word with a quick throb in his voice that made the girl start and look round at him look here molly he went on with evident effort whats the use of taking un all this ive nothing against aunt sarah except that she was a coward and passed by on the other side anyhow if shes been kind to you im grateful to her for that and she neednt worry about the rest as for uncle i havent any thing to say except whats better un- laid if you want to know why i quldnt come to the house well i ricd to kill him once and thats rcas- n enough i asked him about it one day and ic told me- you now making entire shell of heaviest french guns albeit thomas the lloyd george of france secretary of state for artil lery and munitions asked if the ex- of fifteen months had de monstrated the feminine dexterity at russia among his extraordinary n revelations which created a wide- th spread sensation throughout the em ber pire was one to the effect that more than half of the shares of the great national bank ofsiberia controlling that powerful financial institution were owned by the deutsche bank of berlin deal for uncle but im not going to give up my only brother for him and a task so unaccustomed as shellmak the sooner be understands that the better hell be angry for a bit and then give in he always does when which led to the retirement from office of his liberal predecessor prince cherbatoff was that when the latter decreed the dismissal of some twoscore of governors of provincial towns and cities for failure to pre serve law and order they contemptu ously refused to obey his commands or to vacate their offices that khvostoff tolerates and even approves of legislative criticism of the government is best demonstrated by the fact that since the beginning of the war he has repeatedly assailed the admi particul the min isters of imance wutl of hdouit whom he has charged with favoring banks and syndicates at the expense of the consumers a relative of the minister of justice he is reputed to have a large commercial experience acquired when governor of nijninov gorod perhaps the greatest centre of trade in russia and is also an au thority on banking institutions in the land of the czars german plots he sees i really mean a thing jacks heart beat quicker as he took out his latchkey the thing that he had longed for toiled for waited for the close intimate sister- he further brought to light the fact that more than half the shares of the biggest of the ordnance and muni tions concerns in russia the immense putiloff works which until the begin ning of the war enjoyed a virtual ing just smiled then reaching into a monopoly of the production of muni drawer of his desk he brought forth a tions ordnance and small arms were fuse of a 75 shellthe most delicate ownod ku at ffc sen and by the skodas which arc the i krupps counterpart in austria thanks to this dominating interest of the krupps and of the skodas in part of a very finely adjusted mech anism all this work he said pointing to the mysterious inside of the fuse can then he drew back suddenly and stood on the threshold staring blank- ly into the room fhco was stretched at fulllength on the hearth rug watching the dance of shadows on the firelit ceiling j hullo jack theo never needed to scramble to are carrying out the particularly tick- 1 pon in day and night shifts after lish job of charging the shells with the outbreak of the war high explosive and at lyons theyj m khvostoff also exposed the par- have gone even furtherthey are j ticulars of how the germans by making complete shells like that one means ot a controlling interest in the there women are doing every bit of j russian bank of exterior trade in it from moulding the molten steel tothe mczhdunarodyny bank and in a his feet getting up after lying flat polishing up the finished product hong list of similar institutions not on the floor he seemed merely to the projectile he indicated stood j only organized corners in indispensa- chaiige one appropriate and graceful unon his mantelpiece it was of 155 j ble commodities since the beginning of attitude for another millimetre calibre the heaviest shell f sa jatk theodore i fa fl a frenc fia giin hisown voice sounded dull and t h be j to 0l harsli in his cars j ga women workers for the purpose i thought you were in vienna he 01 enlisting their aid regularly in the said industrial mobilization was the next joachim cant come and they tele- question graphed asking me to play instead of yes ves certainly m thomas rc- liim at st jamess nail tomorrow i puc enthusiastically it would be u- an excellent step and i believe would the army step the longest is that of the british infantry there is a great difference in the length of the steps of the soldiers now engaged in war the longest step of all is that of the british infantry which is thirty- one and a half inches germany and switzerland eome next each doing thirtyone inches and france italy and austria each step out twentynine inches the shortest of all is found in the russian army the czars sol diers step is twentyseven and a half inches and he only does a hundred and twelve to the minute this is beaten by the german who does one hundred and fourteen to the minute the austrians step out at the rate of a hundred and fifteen the french and italian at a hundred and twenty it therefore follows that a russian will take twenty minutes to march a mile the austrian eighteen and two- thirds minutes the french and italian eighteen minutes and the german ton or eleven seconds less british in camp near berlin engaged in unusual task a few miles east of berlin are the mullberg hills near the village of or form should be prohibited when sprecenhagcn where british and the country is at war automobilai scotch prisoners are engaged in a sent into great britain from other gigantic task up to twenty years countries will now have to pay a duty ago this hill was built up from the amounting to onethird of thoir value waste material of berlin and its soil which was put into the budget wjth now is so rich that the german gov- an eye upon the profits particularly ernment recently decided to remove of the american importers they havo the entire hill and distribute its rich been reaping a harvest since tho fertilizing soil over a large area of british government commandeered sterile land in its vicinity the bri- all automobiles factories in great tish and scotch prisoners have been britain to work for the army motor- put at this task and the berlin tage- cycles musical instruments and blatt reports that they are doing it cinema films sent into britain from with a will and enthusiasm that is abroad will also have to pay duty highly gratifying j amounting to onethird of their value a correspondent of the newspaper the tax which appears to please the who recently made a trip to the mull- most people is that which takes 50 oerge gives his observations from per cent of the war profits from six in the morning until five oclock business firms although the vepre- in the evening he says the prisoners sentatives in parliament of the labor- are engaged with pick and shovel in iiig people declaim against any profits jismantling the immense mound of being allowed at all in the necessities rich soil other prisoners load the of the nation during war consider- soil on wagons and cart it to a ing the huge returns which many war stretch of meadows near by where it industries are reporting the tempta- is evenly distributed preliminary to tion was too great to tho exchequer making this sterile region fruitful i in its dire need of money and more the prisoners says the corres- money not only shipping and such pondent arc doing great work here allied trades are flourishing as never they are a fine looking lot of men before but industries formerly mono- call athletic and with pleasing faces polized by the germans in supplying they laugh and joke with ono an- the wants of great britain in peace- other while workinr and respond f t have suddenly acquired quickly to orders they are well wealth and importance after only a taken care of at noon they arc y 0 growth under government served with a thick nourishing soup subsidy followed by meat and potatoes pre- 1 pared in real scotch style any one manufacturers prosperous who still is hungry after this mealj the palmers shipbuilding and iron may go to the good natured cook and companys report is a good example receive another portion the prison- 0 most of the companies of that or- ors receive many dainties from home dor although several shipping firms their favorite puddings for in- have profited even more the balance stance and tobacco which they smoke sheet this year shows an increase in in their shor pipes ne profits from 325480 to 519110 v iforactcwrt julwith money bags overflowing in jhjs stature who was a policeman m wayttheseconccryx jtajkjv london helping the cook he washed exchequers share withi and dried the dishes and made himself particularly as mr mok useful in every way another was them upon the average of pealing potatoes 0 trade allowing them to choose on sundays the prisoners are re- lw0 yeavs j y history of their busi lieved from all work they play foot- to pu with the year of big war ball cards and enjoy themselves gen- pro in getting the average erally they are all in excellent i mr- mckenna not only has to col- health and are well treated it is to iect ncw taxes from tie british peo- be hoped that the german prisoners in i p uut j has to persuade them to england are receiving tho same good loan tll0 government all their avail- treatment that the english and scotch abe cash an subscribe to the war prisoners receive in germany war brings water sulily lemnos islanders benefit by sinking of army wells when the first british naval forces landed at lemnos near the entrance of the dardanelles they were sur prised to find that the island which has an area of nearly 200 square miles and a population of 30000 was practically destitute of drinking wa ter except for uncertain supplies from fow small springs the allied troops were supplied with mineral water sent in shiploads through the generosity of a french wopian in mar seilles the british authorities promptly sent to canada for engineers who are now engaged in sinking artesian wells which will guarantee the people of lemnos a reliable and abundant water supply thrte vital questions arcycihull ofcueriy vital force sn4 encrl cooj holtb po you know that tood dfecitioo i ibe oondlon o ood health paint and op- prciuscn in lomafh arj elicit afcf eallcti viib conlftoatlon hcadactc dininrt rre cjre ktira of indiieltion mollicrscicls syre the rcit herbal remedy and tonic will cure you after meals stake and banish stomach troubles 1w or direct on recelol of prw 50c and 100 the laro bottle contains hree times a cacaaller a j wllltico uuitco cialtslee weil moaraj please tho women and be satisfactory to the men workers as well for the demand for labor in the munitions in dustry is tremendous of course we have already organized the work women to a certain extent they are under military orders just as their coworkers of tho other sex are the war but had slowed down the out put of war supplies of every kind by diverting and withholding both im ported anil native coal from the fac tories khvostoff made many other revelations of the same kind during a speech that lasted for more than a couple of hours and which was listen ed to with rapt attention indeed openmouthed in astonishment and punctuated with exclamations of in dignation by the members at the close thereof loud demands were made for the immediate organi zation in the legislature of a nation al party embracing all political fac tions and united with the one purpose of emancipating everything and tv- e ire between thirty and forty everybody in russia from german in- thoiisancl women now engaged in jv- t the manufacture of muni tions flucnecs and control it is this ncw party that m kvostoff heads in the duma that is now once more about to b ft k m h m how is rheumatism recognized some have said rheumatism h a dull pain rheumatism is a sharp pain rheumatism is sore muscles rheumatism is stiff joints rheumatism is a shifting pain all have declared rheumatism is pain sloans liniment applied the blood begins to flow freely the bodys warmth is renewed tho congestion disap pearsthe pain is gone kills pain guaranteed rheumatism and allied pains yield to the pcnelrat- ing qualities of this warming liniment ft h ft ft ft loan telling them frankly that 9500 pays for britains share in the war for only three seconds he must in addition finance brit ains allies this being an obligation which mr asquiths cabinet has en tered into with russia france italy and serbia as well as rumania and greece if they will enter the war on the side of the entente then there is the question of war pensions which the exchequer must settle a vast field of finance by itself which an expert would ordinarily require several years to explore before presenting a new standard of pensions for the country to pay in additional taxation the problem of waste is also crowd ing upon mr mckennas attention since there appears to have been pro digal expenditure in almost every department of the army as well as in the administration of affairs at home an immense task 24000 cars moved factories from city of riga the evacuation of the large cities that russia has abandoned to the germans is a task the immensity of which may be judged from figures now available- concerning the partial evacuation of riga the population of riga has not been seriously dis turbed tho city having about as many inhabitants as at the beginning of the war since many refugees have gath ered there from the baltic districts occupied by the germans but 400 fac tories of which 80 belong to german subjects have been transplanted to interior provinces during the evac uation period from 150 to 200 cars were dispatched daily and in 24000 carloads of machinery and raw materials were shipped of riga the work continued foi months factory owners have received pensation from ilia government tre sury for the cost of removal and mqst of the skilled workers of the facj torics have accompanied the employ cvs to the new iocs tions kirk deacon whin i look at the congregation seated in the pews i 33k masel wheres the puir when i look at the collection at the close of th- rrvice i ask aybrirvi are tho