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GRAMONT AND LUCIE
SYNOPSIS.—Durlnc the height of
the New Orleans carnival season
Ja< hin Fell. wealthy though some-
what mysterious citizen, and I r
Ansley, are discussing a series of
robberies by an individual known
as the Midnight Masquer, who, in-
variably attired as an aviator, has
long defied the police. Joseph Mail-
lard, wealthy banker, is giving a
ball that night, ai which the Mas-
quer has threatened t«> appear and
rob the guests. Fell and Ansley.
on their way to the affair, meet a
girl dressed as Columbine, heerning-
ly known to Pel* but masked, who
accompanies them to the ball
Icicle I>edanois, recently the ward
of her uncle, Joseph Malllnrd, is
the Columbine. At the ball. Rob
Malllard, son of the bunker, asjaln
proposes to her and Is refused. He
offers to buy some of her property.
A Francis* an monk interests her
He turns out to be Prlwe Gramont.
In his librarv Joseph Malllard and
a group of his friends are held up
and robbed by the Midnight Mas-
quer. I-iiicle LedanoU, the last of
an old family, is In straitened cir-
cumstances. Joseph M-'IUard'a han-
dling of her funds Int.- been unfor-
tunate. Fell is an ' id friend ><f her
parents and deeply interested in
the girl. ITen-y Oramont. really
the Prince de Gramont. Is ennmor.^l
of Lucie. lai'ie talks with Fell
abont her aflalrs and the Masked
Masquer.
"Did yon bring that chauffeur^
"Ves," and be laughed at ber Of-
tmess.
"flood I I nc<vpt—becau.se I must
see thnt famous soldler-bandlt-cbauf-
feur. If you'll wait, I'll be ready lu a
minute."
She hurried from the room, a snatch
of song on her lips. Urumout mulled
us lie waited.
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CHAPTER IV—Continued.
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"Some of them, yes—and nil that
prince stuff with them." Smiling as
lie dropped into Kngllah, Ornmont
glanced about the room, and ids eyes
softened.
"This is n lovely and lc«oble home
of yours. Lucie!" be exclaimed, grave-
ly. "So few homes are worthy the
name; so few have In them the inti-
mate air of use and friendliness—why
are so many furnished from bargain
Dales? This place Is touched w'tli re-
pose and sweetness; to come and sit
liere Is a privilege. It Is like being
In another world, after all the money
striving and the dollar madness of the
city."
"Ob!" The girl's gnze search'-i
him curiously. "I hope you're not go- j
lng to take the fine artistic pose that |
It Is a crime to make money?"
Gramont laughed.
"Not much ! I want to make money
myself; that's one reason I'm in New
Orleans. Still, you cannot deny that
there Is a craze about the eternal
clutching after dollars. I can't make
the dollar sign the big thing in life,
Lucie. You couldn't, either."
She frowned a little.
"You seem to have the European
notion that all Americans are dollar
chasers!"
He shrugged his shoulders slightly.
"In n sense, yes; why not?" be an-
swered "I am an American. I am
a dollar chaser, and not ashamed of It.
I am going Into business here. Once
It Is a success, I shall go on ; I shall
see America, I shall come to know-
tills whole country of mine, all of It!
I have been a month In New Orleans—
do you know, a st.'ange thing hap-
pened to me only a few days after I
arrived here!"
With her eyes she urged him on,
and he continued gravely:
"In France I met a man, an Ameri-
can sergeant named Hammond. It
was just at the close of things. We
had adjoining cots at Nice—"
"Ah!" she exclaliard, quickly. "I
remember, you wr* te about him—the
man who had been wounded in both
legs! Did be get. well? You never
•aid."
"I never kr.ew until I came here,"
inawered Gtumont. "One night, not
long after I bud got established In my
pension on Burgundy street, a man
tried to rob me. It was this same
man, Hammond; we recognized each
other almost at once.
"I took him home with me and
learned Ills story, lie had come back
to America only to find his wife dead
from Influenza, his home broken up,
his future destroyed. He drifted to
New Orleans, careless of what hap-
pened to him. He flung himself des-
perately into n career of burglary and
pillage. Well. I Bllv« Hammond a
Job; be Is my chnulTeur. You would
never recognize him as the same man
now! I am very proud of his friend-
ship."
"That was well said." Lucie nodded
ber head quickly. "I shan't call you
M. Le prince any more—unless you
offend ngaln."
He smiled, reading her thought "I
try not to be a snob, eh? Well, what
Tm driving at la this: I want to know
this country of mine, to see It wltli
clear, unprejudiced eyes. We hide our
real shames and exalt our false ones.
Why should we be ashamed of chas-
ing the dollar? So long as thnt Is n
means to the end of happiness. It's all
right. But there are men who
aee It as >■ «nd alone, who can aet no
finis lo their work except the dollar
dropping into their pouch. Such >i
mini Is your relative, Joseph Malllunl.
I do not wish lo offend you, and I shall
therefore refrain from saying all t li;it
is in my mind. I'ut you have not hesl-
tut'.-d to Intimate very frankly that you
arc not wealthy. Some time ago. if
you recall, you wrote me how you had
lust missed wealth through having
sold some land. I have taken the Ii•
crty of looking up that deal to some
extent, and I have suspected that your
uncle had some interest in putting the
sale through "
The gray eyes of the girl Hashed
suddenly.
"Henry Gramont! Are my family
affairs to be an open book to the
world? Do you realize that you are
Intruding most unwarrantably into my
private matters?"
"Unwarrantably?" Grnmont's eyes
held her gaze steadily. "Do you cul-
ly mean to use that word?"
"I do. most certainly!" answered
Lucie with spirit. "I don't think you
realize just what the whole thing
tends toward———"
"Oil, yes I do! Quite clearly." Grn-
mont's cool, level tone conquered her
Indignation. "I see that you are or-
phaned, and that your uncle was your
guardian, and executed questionable
deals which lost money for you. Come,
that's brutally frank—but it's true!
I came here to New Orleans and be-
came involved in some dealings with
your cousin, Hob Malllard. I believed,
and I believe now, that In your heart
you have some suspicion of your uncle
in regard to those transactions in
land. Therefore, I took the trouble to
look into the thing to a slight extent.
Shall I tell you what I have discov-
ered?"
Lucie Lednnols gazed at him, ber
lips compressed. She liked this new
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"Hml Memphis Izxy Gumberts, Eh?
What Kind of a Crook I* He, Ser-
geant?"
manner of Ills, this Arm and resolute
gravity, this harshness. It brought out
Ills underlying character very well.
"If you please, Henry," she mur-
mured very meekly.
"Well, then, I have discovered that
your uncle appears to be honestly at
fault in the matter "
"Thanks for this approval of my
family," she murmured.
"And," continued Gramont, Imper-
turbably, "thnt your suspicions of lilm
were groundless. But, on the other
hand, something new has turned up
about which I wish to speak—hut
about which I must speak delicately.
Has Bob Malllard offered to buy your
remaining lund on the Bayou Terre-
bonne?"
She started slightly. So it was to
tills that he had been leading up all
the while!
"He broached the subject last
night," she answered. "I dismissed it
for the time."
"Good!" lie exclaimed with boyish
vigor. "Good! I warned you In time,
then ! If you will permit me, I must
advise you not to part with that land
—not even for a good offer. Tills
week, Immediately Murdl firas I? over,
t am going to Inspect thnt land for
the company; It Is Bob Malllard's com-
pany, you know. Is my unwarrantable
Intrusion forgiven?"
She nodded brightly. "You are put
on probation, sir. You're in Rob's
company?''
"Yes." Gramont frowned "I In-
vested perhaps too hastily—hut no
matter now. I have the enr outside.
Lucie; may I have the pleasure of
taking you driving?"
CHAPTER V
The Masquer Unmasks.
In New Orleans one may Hud pen-
sions in the old quarter—the quarter
which Is still instinct with the pulse
of old-world life. These pensions do
not advertise. The average tourist
knows nothing of them. Kven if lie
knew, indeed, lie might have some
dlflleiilty in obtaining accommodations,
for it is not nearly enough to have
the money: one must also have the In-
troductions, come well recommended,
and lie under the tongue of good re-
pute.
Gramont had obtained a small apart-
ment ell pension—a quiet and severely
retired house in Burgundy street,
maintained by a very proud old lady
whose ancestors had come out of
Canada with the Sieur d'Iberville.
Here Gramont lived with Hammond,
quite on a basis of equality, and they
were very comfortable.
The two men sat smoking their pip"S
before the fireplace, in which blazed a
small fire—more for good cheer than
through necessity. It was Sunday
evening.
Gramont stared into the flickering ;
fire and sucked at his pipe. Suddenly !
he roused lilni.se'r and shot a glance
at Hammond.
"Sergeant! You seem to have a ;
pretty good recollection of that night
at the I.avergne house, when I found
you entering and jumped on you."
"You bet 1 have!" Hammond
chuckled. "When you'd knocked the !
goggles olT me and we recognized each 5
other— li—I ! I felt like a booh."
Gramont smiled. "How many places
had you lobbed tip to then? Three,
wasn't it?"
"Three Is right cap'n," was the un-
ashamed response.
"We haven't referred to it very of- ;
ten. but now things have happened."
Grnmont's face took on harsh lines of ;
determination. "I >o you know, it was
u lucky thing that you had no chance
to dispose of the jewels ami money ,
you obtained?"
"No chance?" snorted the other. "No
chance is right, cap'n! And I was!
sore, too. Say, they got a ring of
crooks around this town you couldn't j
bust Into with grenades! Listen here, j
and I'll tell you something big."
Hammond leaned forward, lowered !
his voice, and tamped nt bis pipe.
"When I was a young fellow I lived J
In a little town up north—1 ain't say- j
In' where. My old man had a livery !
stable there, see? Well, one night a
guy come along and got the old mtwji
out of bed, and slips him fifteen hun-
dred for a rig and a team, see? I
drove the guy ten miles through the
hills, and set him on a road he wanted
to find.
"Now, that guy was the biggest
crook in the country In them days—
still Is, I guess. He was oil the dead
run that night, to keep out o' Leaven-
worth. He kep' out, all right, and he's
set.tin' in the game to this minute. No-
body never pinched him yet, and nevci
will."
"Why?"
"Because his gang runs back to
politicians and rich guys all over the
country. You ask anybody on the in-
side if they ever heard of Memphis
Izzy Gumberts! Well, cap'n, I seen
that very identical guy on the street
the other day—I never could forget his
ugly mug! And where he Is. no out-
side crooks enn get in, you believe
me!"
"Iltn! Memphis Izzy Gumberts, eh?
What kind of a crook is he, sergeant"'"
"The big kind. You remember them
Chicago lotteries? But you don't, o'
course. Well, that's his game—lot-
teries and such like."
Grnmont's lips clenched for a min-
ute, then he spoke with slow distinct-
ness :
"Sergeant, I'd linve given five bun
dred dollars for that information a
week ago!"
"Why?" Gramont shook his head.
"Never mind. Forget it! Now, this
stunt of yours was clever. Y'ou showed
brains when you got yourself up as an
aviator and pulled that stuff, ser-
geant. But you bandied It brutally—
terribly brutally."
"It was a little raw, I guess," con-
ceded Hammond. "I was np against
It, that's all. When you took over the
costume and began to get across with
the Baffles stuff—why, it was a pipe
for you. cap'n ! Look what we've done
in a month. Six Jobs, every one run-
ning off smooth as glass! Your no-
tion of going to parties ready dressed
with some kind of loose robe over the
flyln' duds was a scream ! And then
me running thnt motor with the cut-
out on—all them birds that never
heard an airplane think you come nnd
go by air, for certain! Nobody will
ever find us out."
Gramont nodded thoughtfully.
"Yes? But, sergeant how about the
quiet little man who mine nlong Inst
night nt the Malllard house and asked
about the car? Perhaps he had dls<
covered you had been running the
engine."
"Him?" Hammond sniffed In scorn,
"He wasn't no dick."
FEW of us know how much or how
little the French dictate to us in
matters of style, and it must lie con-
ceded that still fewer of us care. Nev-
ertheless every woman likes to take
a first-hand peek at French garments
when she muy, and to judge for her-
self whether they are superlatives in
their class or no*\ experienced cos-
tumors are willing to take their cue
In establishing new styles, from the
French—perhaps because it is the
Is busy considering wherewithal she
shall be clothed. As tbew delight-
ful young people are apt to have more
Imagination than plain Judgment in
making selections, their elders find It
necessary to choose the mainstays of
their wardrobes for them before they
go away. Their suits, wraps, dresses '
for school wear and underclothes are ;
all mainly assembled when the time
comes to leave home. Less essential
things are sent after them, or they
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Wauseon, Ohio.—" My daughter al-
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1 tainperiods and couid
not De on her feet at
those times. We read
about Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vege table
Compound doing
girls so much good
so she began to take
it. That is two years
ago and she is a dif-
ferent girl since then
able to do any work
she wants to do—al-
though she is still
careful not to do heavy work — and so
well and strong. We recommend Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to
all mothers with ailing daughters, and I
give you permission to publish this let-
ter as a testimonial."—Mrs. A. M. Burk-
holder, Koute No. 2, Box l.Wauseon,
Ohio.
Something out of balance will affect
the finest clock, cau.jing it to gain or
lose. The propter adjustment made, all
is well. So it is with women. Some
trouble may upset you completely.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
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disappear as they did in the case of Mrs.
Burknolder's daughter.
Mothers — it ia worthy of your con-
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pot
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Criticism.
He—I dream most of my stories.
Sbe—How you must dread to go to
bed.
A tusk of good African Ivory sells
for as m-uch as $:s.">0.
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other people are so ingenious and
painstaking, so daring and successful,
especially in the management of color.
Here are two little French makls
all dressed up in smart clothes for a
promenade, and they are obligingly
getting their pictures made for the j
edification of their good friends, the |
Americans. The older little lady has j
on a dress of maroon broadcloth, quite!
plain, but the interesting point of her
apparel is the short jacket with tur-
ban and scarf to matcn of a fur-fabric
that looks like chinchilla. It Is a sim-
ple little garment that sets loosely on
the figure and is fastened at the
front with silk ornaments. The sleeves
and scarf are hound with ribbon to
match, and the coat is to be imagined
are allowed to do some shopping for
themselves.
The young girl has all the best of It
in the lines of ready-to-wear clothes,
more especially in dresses that are
manufactured for her benefit. De-
signers revel in the opportunity to in-
troduce their sprightly and piquant
fancies Into frocks, wraps, suits and
hats thnt Interpret lovely youth.
There Is plenty of variety in coat
styles, even within limitations set by
lines and details appronriate to youth.
The full, straight body of the usual
utility coat and the bloused Russian
type are both diversified by the man-
agement of sleeves, which are notable
for variety of design. Embroidery of
heavy silk tloss, stitehings, braid, furs
and ornamental buttons contribute to
New Shoes
Old Shoes
Tight Shoes
all feel the same
if you shake
into them
some
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"I dare not risk It. That
man Fell is too smart."
(TO DE CONTINUED
in gray or beige. In the fall displays
of coats for children and girls there Is
a liberal proportion of coats with lints
to match; they may have been In-
spired by this French style.
The smaller girl wears a coat of
broadcloth lined with crepe de chine
nnd a piquant cap of the crepe faced
with broadcloth kike that In the coat.
The collar Is an ample affair nnd so
are the sleevrt with turned-back culTs
of the crepe decorated with a dou-
ble row of embroidered dots. The
amusing little cap Is distinctly French.
Weeks before the midsummer nights'
dreams of the flapper change from
frtvotings to visions of fast-return-
i lag school <tays, many a uiald
the adornment of these wraps, out at*
net lavishly used on them.
Soft wool pile fabrics—thnt Is, ma.
terlals having n velvety surface, are
used for them and some of them have
a high luster. Linings of plain or
figured silks, provide color contrasts
and silk tassels finish the ceat grace-
fully. In the model pictured, machine
stitching, a figured lining, and double
tassels on the sleeves, Insure the good
style of this coat
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