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IN A TIGHT BOX, EAST BRAINTREES NEW SCHOOLHOUSE. earth, or was she concealed in the heavy mist? ARROW; The Mystery of the Lone sometime before his departure. Numerous unpaid bills which he could probably have paid, had he been inclined, are considered suggestive of this, while his relations with certain friends touching money matters, show that he gathered what he could anticipation of his westward excursion. His going away, last evening, was the topic of talk iu every circle where was known, and the tenor of conversation was more or pitv and sorrow for one who had made a mistake in his weaker moments. Regrets were expressed on every hand for his misguided course, while at the same time all sympathized for his family.

Ashe is a first-class man in his calling, there can be no donbt of his earning a livelihood wherever he may roam, but there are not a few of his friends who believe that he wiil return among them some day to enjoy once again tiie old scenes of his happiness and triumphs. Over in South Boston, the supposed elope, ment of widow Terry with the old solaier was the talk of the town. Mrs Terry was represented as a pretty level-headed woman and as one who. even if affected by Cupid siiafts at her present stage of life she is said to be 45 was pretty sure to have a full purse of her own. Bhe is said to have considerable money of her own.

and that for the present she will not be likely to suffer on her Cali forma trip. I'd to a late hour last night there was no apparent interest on the part of the. police to track the missing suspects. Nor is there likeljr to he any move in this quarter an By FERGUS HUME. AUTHOR OF THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM White Girl Wedged Herself Into Ice Chest Portland Police Found Her in Tnufo! Save Her Life.

She "Was in a Chinese Opinm Joist If earl Suffocated. Portland. Me, April 5 Deputy Marshs Stirling this evening raided the laundry AVing Sing. 29 Free st, and in a room men ing from tne second room found all theoot fit of an opinm joint. Three China m.

were in the room. Two escaped and tha third was taken to the police station. Continuing their investigation, they round an ic chest, the door of which ru forced with great difficulty. Within was a yonng and good-Iookin white girl who apparently had been to her place' of concealment when the door of the joint was forced. She was ainug suffocated and could not have lived bad her retreat not been discovered.

She was wedged into the chest in a to make It impossible for her to reieaw herself. The police have begun a vigorous warm the Chinese laundries of the lover da believed to be so many dens of vice. The girl positively refused to identify the man who was arrested as one of those aha saw before the raid was made. COPACZ IS DEAD, Blood Poisoning Ends the Life of tha Sanguinary BondvlIIe Pole. Palmer, April 5 Overseer of the Poet Merriam was notified tonight that Ludwif Copacz died this evening in the Springfield hospital.

Copacz is the Pole who shot a girl and himself in Bondsville a few dan ago. His wounds were not considered dangerous, but blood poisoning set in. fl, will do buried by the town of Palmer. NEWTON. Rev George T.

Dowling, I) delivered lecture last evening in Associates hall tinder the auspices ot the Womans Guild of Trinity church. The speaker took a subject the Bringing Up a Parent in the Way He Should Go. The discourse was at a humorous nature. A brilliant dancing party gathered ia Armory hall last evening under the direo tiou of Henry E. Munroe.

Mrs W. G. Monk chaperoned the party. There will appear at city hall next Situs day 32 applicants for positions upon tiu Newton police force. The applicants vij be subjected to a civil service examination.

Out of the number but four will be chosen. The mayors recent action in defending the honesty of the city council at a earing given before the legislative committee oa roads and bridges has caused much favtx-able comment. Rev T. W. Bishop of the Auburn dale Methodist church gave reception last evening to members of tbs society and church choir, which is largely composed of Laseil seminary students, at bis residence on Woodland av Rev Mr Bishop was assisted in receinneby his sister.

Miss Jane Bishop. Thereceptiaa was largely attended. i Gas Plants Not Sold. Philadelphia. April 5 The report! seheme to sell the city gas plants and franchises to private individuals, at a price which is alleged to be greatly below their value, did not materialize at todays meeting of city council.

It was expected that an ordinance, authorizing the gale would be introduced today, but the publicity given the scheme probably had the effect of making the projectors change their minds. Engineer McNab Burned. Thomas F. McNab, 26 years, an engineer on the steamer Ethelwold of the Boston fruit company, was admitted to the city hospital yesterday suffering from tevere scalds. A week ago yesterday, while the vessel was on its way to this port, Mcai was at work in the engine room whea steam pipe burst and he was badly scalded.

He will recover. Danbury Not Baseball Hungry. Danbury. Conn, April 5 Walter Bara-ham of the Connecticut baseball league was in town today, but was unable to induce Danbury to take a place in the leagaa It is not believed that any furthereffort will he made. The state league will support the Norwich nine in its effort to recover player Corwin from Brooklyn.

The Falls of iasara The greatest natural wonder of the world, as given in No. 9 of America, are worth more than the price of a part. If you cannot afford to travel over your own country you can do it at your own fireside if you are a reader of The Globe by taking From Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico. Every point of interest in your own land can be found in this superb work. Parts I.

to IX. now ready. See coupon on Page 2. Let ns go on. murmured Dr Trifuigas.

The worthv man had pocketed his money. He must earn it. There was only one glimmer of light p'rhaps half a mile away. It came lrom the room of the dying or dead man. Aiuid the roaring of the wind, the rush of the rain, the whole fury of the tempest.

Dr walked swiftly on. As he advanced, the house, standing alone in the fields, became more and more visible. It was strange how closelv it resembled the doctors residence, tox-Quatre. at Luktrop; the same arrangement of the windows in from, the same little vaulted door. Dr Trifuigas hurried on as fast as the hnrricane would permit.

The door was ajar. He pushed it open and the gale banzed it after him rudely. Strange! One would think tha. Dr Tn-fulzas liad returned to his own home. A et he had' not grown bewildered and made a circuit.

He was really at Val Karinon. not at Luktrop. Yei there was the same low vaulted corridor: the same winding, wooden staircase, with its wide railing worn by the friction of many hands. He went to the landing. Was it a delusion? In the dusk he recognized his own room the bed with its yellow canopy, on the right the old pearwood chest, at the left a strong box where he meant to deposit his 12o fretzers.

What was it? A chill of fear crept through his veins. His pupils dilated. A cold perspiration came through the pores of his skin. He must hasten. The lamp was going out for lack of He must look at the dying man.

Yes. there was the bed his bed. with pillars and canopy, closed by flowered curtains. With a trembling hand he grasped the curtains, parted them and glanced within. The dying man.

with his face in full view, lay motionless, as if about to draw his last breath. The doctor bent over him. O. what a erv escaped his lips answered bv the mournful baying of the dog outside. The dving man was not Vort Kartif.

hut Dr Trifuigas. it was he whom the congestion had attacked. A -cerebral apoplexy with a Midden accumulation of water in tiie cavities of the brain, with paralysis of the side of the body opposite to the seat of the iniury. Yss. it was he for whom a physician had been summoned; he.

who in the hardness of his heart had refused to go to the poor man: he who was dying. Dr Trifuigas was like a madman. He felt that the case was hopeless. The gravity of the symptoms increased every moment. Yet he had not wholly lost the consciousness of existence.

Bleeding was still practiced at that time and. asat the oresent dav.the doctors cured ot apoplexy all who were not ddstincdto die of it. Dr Trifuigas seized bis care of instruments. took out a lancet and cut the arm ofhisdouhle. Theddood did not flow.

He rubbed the chest violently: thjp action of hisown heart was failing. He hot bricks to the feet his own were growing cold. The uext morning only a corpse was found in Rix-Jnatre the body of Dr Trifuigas. It was interred with great pomp in the cemetery of Luktrop after numerous others he had sent there according to the most approved formula. As to old Hurzot.

they say that since that day he has darted through the conntry with his lighted lantern howling like lost doz. I cant vouch for the truth of the rumor, but so many queer things happen in this land of Yolsinea. near the suburbs of Luktrop. But. I repeat, dont look for this place on the map.

The. best geographers have not yet agreed as to its situation in latitude or even In longitude. ales Verne BABE OLD BOOKS. Sold at Good Prices and Went Very Low. The announcement that some rare old manuscripts and a copy of the first novel ever Dnblisbed in America, all belonging to a valuable private li brary were being sold at auction at C.

F. Libbies, drew a fairly good attendance to the rooms yesterday morning. The bidding opened lively and the auctioneer. realizing that he had a heavy days work before him. handled the books in the livelier kind of a manner.

Prices ruled rather low. but the books were there to De sold, and they were disposed of at the best price obtainable by very short talk. A first edition of Longfellows Voices of the Night brought $6.75. Poems on Slavery, first edition, $lo. and Hia watha.

also a first edition. $2. Dozens of valuable, finely bound hooks went at ridiculously low prices. There Others was some lively bidding on Losrings "Pictorial Field Book of the There were eight volumes ot this work handsomely bound, knocked down at $16.25 per volume, hardly more than the price for binding each book. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the bea.

by the same author also went at a low figure. The first edition in the original covers of the class poem of 1838. by James Russell Lowell, was bid up in the liveliest kind of wav from $1 to 815. when the bidding stopped. A Years Life.

first edition, by the same author, was disposed of at the same figure. The Luxembourg Gallery, a beautiful collection of French art, was sold for $33. Then followed several first editions of Lytton. scarcely auy of them bringing more than a dollar. Low figures continued for the nest two dozen hooks, till a manuscript of the French school.

153 leaves, a beautiful specimen in tine con duion. entitled "Happy Hours of the Virgin Mary. came up for bidding. It started at $10, and went np. up, up quick and sure, till voioes were hushed at $172.

Up to the $50 mark there was a chorus of voices sounding to the interrogations of the auctioneer, but after that they began to drop out. Three or four hung on till the $00 mark was announced, ana after that hut two remained. Thev kept on raising each other a half, as fast as the auctioneer glanced from one to the other, with a sort of ao you raise him? expression and elevated brows. At $172 one of them bad reached his limit and drooped out, Other ancient manuscripts of Dutch prayer books of the loth century brought 837. $25.

818 ana $16. a 15tli century ciioir book in manuscrint was sold lor $26. and another old manuscript, a 15th century bpanish Latin choir book with music in red and gothic letters and massive binding, was disposed of for $37. The Christian Philosopher, a musty, dilapidated looking book by Cotton Mather, went to somebodys collection for 37 cents. A long interval of inaction auctioneer a bit weary, bids and prices ruled low.

"The Power of Sympathy. Wentworth Morton, the first novel, was then taken in hand. by Sarah A meriran The auc tioneer held up two time-stained volumes, In very small volumes they were. too. They were started off at a low figure, two men fighting each other in the bidding.

was lively and short, the two volumes being disposed of at Sfffi.oii per volume. The Coronation of Napoleon. a scarce and valuable illustrated work of immense size, sold for 8134. Alter this low pri'cs again set in and continued throughout the sale. CRUSH OP GUESTS.

Mrs C. U. Thomas Entertains in Her New Beacon St Home. The Beacon st residence of C. U.

Thomas was hemmed in with carriages yesterday afternoon, the occasion being the first large entertainment which Mrs Thomas lias given since removing from Newburv st to her present handsome home on the boulevard. There were 300 invitations out, the guest of honor being Miss Kate Sanborn. Mrs Thomas also presented Miss Grace Thomas, who looked very pretty in a white gown with violets in her hair and corsage. Mrs Thomas and Miss Sanborn wore superb toilets of opalescent silks and point laoer. Lhe reception was from 5 to 7, and there was a crush throughout those hours Miss Madeleine OBrien.

Miss North and Miss Sybil Whiton were among the bevy of picturesoue girls who assisted in the tea room. There was a beautiful array of flowers, the mantel behind the receiving party being heaped witli rare roses, while on every hand great clusters of blooms made the parlors fragrant. Among the gutsts were: Mrs ijMiIge Monlton I Mrs Brings Mr Mrs Moses Brown! Mrs Washburn Mrs Hugh OBrien Mrs Blake Mrs Henry t'pham Miss Durjrin Mrs It Merrill Mum A Thomas har Sanderson Mr ami Mrs A smart Mrs Phebe Jenk. Mrs Abby Morton ln. Mr Coffin Aim Oliver fraud Col and Mrs Henry Stone Mrs A Shinran Mrs Harlvnir j.Mn Win CUflln Mr Charles ho len Adams.

Mrs Franns li.eed Mrs Arthur Foote I Miss Breed Bo Hope for Gobeilles Recovery. Providence, April 5 Louis Gobeille, the young cannonader of the republican jubilation last night, who was shot by a premature blast, wag still alive at the hospital this afternoon, but no hopes of his recovery are held out. OR, CAB. II III 1CTHC1 tie finder. I wished to bind it up, but he unshed me away, crying out he was a dead man.

three minutes he was lying dead on the floor. I threw the arrow-head into th and tried to revive him, but it was no e. He was dead? 1 ou tied like a coward. I suppose I did. said the man, sullenly Felix had not been murdered, but died by misadventure.

This was the verdict brought in by the jnry. and so the whole of this strange affair came to an end. Thanks to the astuteness of the inspector and the delicacy of the coroner the jurv were quite unaware of what had happened between the death of Felix and the inquest. After the burial of Felix I went abroad with Francis, whose health was quite broken down by the strain put on it during the last few weeks. He returned in six months and married Olivia, was told all that had taken place in the lone inn.

but kept the information to herself. Mrs Beilin never knew that Felix had substituted himself for Francis. I was best man at the wedding. the end. BODICE OP NET.

i nil' DR TRIFUIGAS DOUBLE. Whoo-oo-oo! roared the wind. Mi-t-ish the rain was pouring in torrents. The fury of the gale bowed the trees on the Yolsinian coast and beat upon the cliffs of the mountains of Crimma. At the end of the harbor is the little town of Luktrop.

A few hundred houses, four or five steep streets, which look like ravines, pared with pebble stones and roughened by the scoriae ejected by the neighboring volcano. Vanglor. Like lighthouse the Vanglor shows the harbor of Luktrop to the coasters whose keels cut the waves of the Niegalocnde. On the other side of the town are some ruins of the Cnmmarian period. Then comes a suburb which recalls Arabian villages.

Among other buildings isthe Six-Quatre, a name given to an odd-looking structure wub six windows on one side and four on tire uthei. A steeple dominates the town the square belfrvof St Philtilene, with a chime of hells which are sometimes stirred by the tempest. is Luktrop. Then outside are scattered houses standing amid the broom and furze, as in Brittany. But it isnt in Bnttany.

is it in France? I dont know. At any rate, dont look for Luktrop on the mxD. Tap! A timid knock was heard on the narrow door of the Six-Quatre at the left angle of the Rue Messaehere. The knock was answered by savage barking, intermingled with howling, like the barking of a wolf. Then a window above the door opened.

A young girl, wrapped in a shabby cloak who stood shivering in the rain, asked if Dr Trifuigas was at home. He is or isnt according to circumstances. Ive come to ask him to go to my dying father Where is he dying? On the coast of al Karinon, four miles from here. "What is his name? Vort Kartif. Dr Trifuigas isnt in.

This Dr Trifuigas was a hard man. His old dog Hurzof, a cross between a nulldog and a spaniel, would have had more pity. His house, fiix-Quatre, opened only to the rich. Now. Vort Kartif was a poor man.

a member of an insignificant family. Why should Dr Trifuigas disturb himself, and on such a night? Scarcely 20 minutes had passed when the iron knocker again struck on the door of the Six-Quatre. The doctor, in a rage, again leaned out of the "Whos there? he shouted. I am Vort Kartifs wife. TXJ "The man at Val Karinon? es: and if you dont come he will die.

'Well, youll he a widow. And the widow banged again. "Whco-oo-oo! Mi-i-tsh! And then tap! tao! tap! This time three blows from the knocker. plied by a more resolute hand, blended with the noise of the storm. When the window was opened the wind burst in like a bombshell.

"It i3 for art Kartif. That miserable fellow again? I am his mother. May his mother, his- wife and his daughter die with him. lliey have st sent you some money, the old woman added. If you dont come my granddaughter will lie fatherless, my daughter a widow and I shall have no son.

An attack of epilepsy isworth 200 fret-zers. replied the heartless We have only 120. And the window shut again. But on reflection 120 Iretzers for a two-hours walk, including the visit, that was 60 fretzers an hour, a fretzer a minute. Instead of going back to bed the doctor slipped into his coat, put on his high boots, his thick overcoat and his mittens, unbolted the door of bix-Quatre, and stood upon the threshold.

fhe 120 iretzeis? Here they are, and may God increase them to you a hundredfold. 1 he doctor whistled to Hurzof, lighted a small lantern, hung it around his neck and turned towards the sea. The old woman followed him. What a tempest of wind and rain! The bells of St Philtilene began to ring. A bad omen! Pshaw! Dr irifulgas was not sperstitions.

No light, except the faint, wavering rays from Ilurzofs lantern. Sometimes there was a burst of flame from the peak of Vanglor. Both climbed to the bend in the road, between the down, where the broom and furze met like a thicket of bayonets. At this point the old woman stopped and with at enabling finger pointed to a ruddy light shining througii the gloom. Id came from Vort Kartifs house.

There? asked the doctor. Yes. replied the old woman. The dog howled plaintively. Suddenly the volcano witha roar which seemed to shake it to its foundations, sent forth a sheaf of flames which appeared to touch the clouds.

Dr Trifuigas was thrown down by the shock. Swearing like a trooper, he rose and looked around him. The old woman was no longer there. Had she disappeared in some chasm in the Mourn the Departure of Comrade Dssertefl Wife and Children Sadly Miss Him. Widow Terry Disappears at Same Time.

Signs Noted Which Point to Their Elopement She Was the Sister of Wife, and Abont 45. His Charles W. Rugg, aged 54, appears inclined to the life of a gay Lothario in his declining years. He has been looked upon as one of the staid and sturdy citizens of old Cambridge curing the past 25 years. Intellectual and active in affairs of the university city, his native Vermont wit and energy have been recognized as component elements ot success as achieved in his own chosen circles.

He was a war veteran, and like all veterans living in the present day he was a most fatherly sort of a man. In military affairs he was given to a distingue air. which was most impressed on the people of Dr Eliots nniversitv city last year, when Charles was commander of post 30, G. A. of Cambridge.

In social hurrahs, whether the same were campfires or smoke talks, comrade Rugg could hold his own in stories of the war. In the matter of a man-of-war's man, comrade Rugg showed his brother vets that land lubbers in general neer could compete with the men of brawn who had manned the mighty warships Saco. Azalia and Rhode Island, whose guns he trained on rebel ramparts during the war. Charles was a general favonte with all, for he coaid adapt himself to al! conditions and his surroundings. Big and open hearted, his presence anywhere was sufficient to incite good cheer.

Genial in his nature in every sense, there was not the least suspicion that any sort of a cloud hovered over the horizon of Ills happiness! In Masonic circles he was highly respected. For many years he has been employed as an engineer at the Hamlin Mason factory, where lie was looked upon as a mod handy and responsible man in all that pertained to his work and his general know I edge of mechanics. He was steady and regular in his habits, and as the head of most estimable grown up family, was considered a man well-to-do and happy with the world. All these facts may be interesting now, in view of the surprise which baa come to people in the city over the Charles, by reason of Rugg's disappearance and the circumstances which tend to indicate that he has eloped with bis wifes own sister. Re dropped suddenly out of the sight of his family a week ago last Tuesday when he left his pleasant little home on Futnam av with no explanation of his going.

Mrs Rugg, the mantal partner of his joys for the past 32 years, a few days after liis going began to wonder over his absence. Bo did his three grown-np unmarried children who reside with their mother. Two old children who are married both failed to bear anything from their missing father. Mrs Rugg. who has been ail invalid for the past three years, could not get around as she might have wished lu trying to ascertain the whereabouts of her nouse.

Blie learned that he had loft the organ factory, and had not been seen about the city. She could not account for his deserting her in any way. until it suddenly dawned upon her that her own sister un-donbtedly had much to do with it. Mrs Kuggs sister i a widow of 20 years' mourning. She is Mrs S.

G. Terry, and although 45 years old. still possesses all the charms of a girl of 25. Her husband died, leaving one daughter, Yuba, azed 20. who is said to bean accomplished young lady, For several years the widow has kept hoarding house at 424 Broadway, South Boston, where she is well-known and re spected.

Mrs Terry also hovred Her Thrift by following the business of dressmaking, in which vocation she made an extensive acquaintance in South Bostons most elite circles. A few weeks ago the widows health was said to be so ran down that a trip to a more temperate climate than that afforded by bleak New England would be beneficial. Then there was talk of a trip south or else where, until finally a week ago Tuesdai Mrs Terry and her daughter Yuba, with their trunks, started ostensibly on an ex-cuision to the golden shores of galorious California. The coincidence as to the day on which Mr Rugg left his Cambridge home and when Mrs Terry left for California, was sufficient to open Mrs Ruggs eyes to the probable elopement of Mr Ri ugg with the more Mrs Rugg studied the circumstances the more sli became satisfied of her husbandsduplicity and her own sisters perfidy. She had been aware of the sisterly regard ostensibly shown by the widow for Mr Rugg, because of Mrs Rugg's own interest in him.

And Mr Ruggs regards for Mrs 'lerrv only seemed what they ought to be for a lonely widow, the sister of his own dear wile. Mrs Rugg, being an invalid of late veals, was not in a position to get around with her husband on the occasion of social events yet she seemed to have the greatest confidence. At least, she never dreamed that her own sister would ever stand between her and her husband. This the widow appears to have done, although it seems sue and Mr Rugg managed the affair in a very circumspect manlier. Comrade Rugg was ever welcome at the Terry mansion, where liis coming excited Uttie criticism, as he was regarded as a sort of an uncle and one of the family.

Even where their blind love might have led to gossip, the same was dispelled when it was known that Mr Rugg was the husband of the widows own sister. Whether Uncle Charley joked with Vuba. or discussed the latest fashions with the dressmaker. his talk nowise excited suspicions. It is learned that Mr Rugg and the widow were frequently together during the week previous to tlieir disappearance, and it is now said that their trip to California was to their mutual satisfaction.

As Yuba, too. was to go on the trip the widow was relieved of all anxiety on her account while with Rugg, he having already lost his heart, he ea-ily lost his head and all feeling, anparentl for his own family. Mrs Rugg, the almost heartbroken wife. charming widow. The esterday.

aid not hesitate to speak of the eartless conduct of her husband. She said she could not account for Charles actions at his time of life, and appeared especially grieved that her own sister should have been the woman in the case. Mrs Rugg said she had been informed that Mr Rugg and Mrs Terry had gone to California, hut as for hunting them down she ad not ti-ken anv action. During married life of 32 years she had been a good wife and mother, and she could not explain how her husband could have been so foolish. Yet she thought lie would be sorry for his course, if even now not Repentant for Ills folly.

The husbands desertion of his family appeared all the more strange as he left them without money and many bills behind him unpaid. The house she lived in, fortunately, Mrs Rugg said, was her own, so that she was assured shelter for a while, at Mrs Rugg said she did tiot care to discuss the matter lor the public exceot inasmuch as tiie facts concerned her husbands departure, and these in the main she thought the public should know. On the whole, she considered it a case where her husband had become infatuated with another woman. Inquiries in other quarters indicate that Rugg had been preparing go away for (COFTBIGHT, 1894. CHAPTER Xni-CosTixTED.

ND after that? "He jeered and said lie to marry Mi-s Beliin. Then I grew angry and struck him! Von struck him with the arrow head! 1 hinted. No. I didnt! He had laid that down on the table. I struck him with open palm, and said if he killed his brother I would denounce him to the authorities as a murderer.

then he would go to the scaffold Instead of the altar with Alias Beilin. iVhat did he say? 'Nothing at first! Then I saw a look pass between him and Strent. and they seemed to understand one another. Felix said lie would return to Mar-hminster. and let his brother marry Miss Beilin.

1 did not then know be had been passing himself off as added, turning to Francis: if I bad I wculd have guessed he was lving. As it was. I thought he spoke the truth, and kissed him. '1 lien I went to bed. And afterward? said Francis, seeing the paused.

Ve i ell. 1 never saw Felix again till he was dead. In the An hour after I left him. Strent knocked at mv bedroom door and asked me to come down. I guessed bv his voice he was afraid, so dressed bnmedlv and came downstairs.

Felix was lying dead by the table. I could not see titrent, and went to look lor him. He was out at the back door mounting Francis horse. I asked him where he was going, and he said Felix was dead, and he did not want to stay in order to he accused of the crime" lie say he had killed him? No, I nor had 1 time to ask him. He went Otrat a gallop and left me alone with the body.

I wa horribly afraid, as I thought you or Francis would wake up and accuse me of the crime. Besides. I could not account for my presence in that house without suspicion, bo 1 rut on my hat and cloak and Bed to Marshminster. How did you fly? There was a trap and horse in which Ftrent and 1 had brought provisions to the fun. I harnessed the iiorse and drove back to Marshminster.

There I returned it to the owners and went tack to London by the early train. CHAPTER XIV. the hunting or mat. Hitherto we kept the case from being meddled with by the police, but now they began to handle the matter. Informed by Francis as to the whereabouts of the body, they dragged the pool near the Fen inn and' recovered the corpse of the unhappy young man.

Then the inspector wrote a peremptory letter to Francis, requesting him to come down and attend the inquest. Next day we went down to Marshminster. We saw the inspector of police, who was a friend of mine, and learned that the body of Felix Briartield was at the morgue of Marsnminster. Next morning I received a telegram from Merrick, and went oil with it atonce to the inspector. It ran thus: Have secured Strent.

Am bringing him down with Rose. Arrive at noon. Hold over inquest if possible. The first witness called was a local doctor. who deposed to having examined the body of Felix.

He gave his opinion that the deceased had been wounded on the hand by some sharp instrument that had been poisoned. I came next, and narrated how I had 6tayed at the Fen inn on that night, and had met there Francis Briameld, who was waiting there for his brother. Fortunately the jury were a dull-headed lot. and submitted quietly to the guidance of the coroner. He only asked questions pertinent to the death without going too deeDlv into the subject.

At this point I produced the arrow head. Francis explained that he had arrived from Chile on June 6 and had gone at once to the Fen inn at the request of his brother Felix. His brother hadnot arrived on that night and he bad gone to bed. He was unable to say how his brother bad come by his tragic end. Then came the critical point, which we wished passed over in silence.

Did you see your brother at the Fen inn, Mr Briarfield? asked the coroner. I did not see my brother alive. was the evasive answer. At tins point Mr Briarfield was asked to tan down, and the inspectors evidence was taken. He deposed to the fact that Mr Briarfield had instructed him todrar the pool lot the body, and that it was fount there.

This piece of evidence quite put the jurv off the scent, as if Francis had placed the body in the pool he would not have told the inspector where to find it. The critical point was thus glided gently over, and the coroner called Rose Gernou, Once the jury knew liow the crime hail been committed, they would forget all about the hiding of the bodvin the pool, so that the folly of Francis would not be made public. Rose Gernon said she was an intimate friend of Felix Bnartields. Felix asked her to go down to the iqn, as he had prepared it for his brother, and wished to see him there about a family matter. Mr Felix Briartield had sent on fuel and provisions.

As the former proprietor had left all the furniture the rooms were fairly comfortable. Were you not afraid when you saw the lone inn. asked a juryman. I am afraid of nothing. she said coolly, there are no such things as ghosts.

Besides. I bad my brother with me. Your brother! Yes, Edward Strent. Mr Feiix Briarfield came to the inn, fbe said, after his brother had gone to rest, saw and spoke with him. ani afterward went to bed myself.

I understood that he was going to stay all night and see his brother in the morning. Was he alone in the room when youleft Mm? "So: he was with Strent. An hour or so after I retired Strent came to my door and asked me to go downstairs. I did so, and found Felix lying dead on the floor. My brother had left the room, and on going out at the back of the house 1 found him mounting the horse of Mr Francis Briar field.

I asked him what bad happened and he just said Felix was dead, and ad vised me to fly lest I should be accused of be murder. "That. I suppose, was also the reason of his flight? so he told me when I saw him in Lon don. but he then declared himself innocent of the crime. I was afraid I would be accused of the crime, so took the horse and gig in which we had come to the Fen inn and drove to Marshminster.

From there 1 turned to London. Why did you not give the alarm? I was afraid of being accused of the Border. Here the inspector whispered something In the ear of the coroner. He nodded and gain spoke to Rose Gemon. Why did you not tell Mr Denham where to find Strent when he was apparently guilty? Strent is my Drother.said Rose, quietly, and as be told me he was innocent I did not wish him to be arrested for the crime, But tnat he visited me yesterday and was seen by the men set to watch me, he would never nave been caught.

Edward Strent was next called. He first coToborated the story of Rose as to going to the inn, and narrated all that bad occurred up to the time when he was left alone in the room with Felix. "When I found myselt alone with Briarfield. be proceeded, I had a quarrel with him. About what? About my sister, be had promised to marry her.

yet. as 1 well knew, was paying attentions to Miss Beilin. "But Miss Beiliu was engaged to his brother. remarked a juryman. I know that.

It was about Miss Beilin he wished to see his brother. I insisted that he should marry my sister, and he refused. We had hot words. Ha was on one side of the table I on the other. Between ns lay the arrow head which he had brought in liis pocket.

"Why had he brought the arrow-head there? I dont know, replied Strent, lying with the utmost promptitude. He took the arrow head ont ot his pocket, said it was poisoned, and laid it down on the table. Wnat was the position of the arrow head? asked the coroner, prompted by Merrick. "It was leaning against a book which was oil the table, and tho point was uppermost. I said to Mr Will you marry my sister? and he said, Nojlm sayi pair if I will.

down the open palm of his hand ou the arrow head and gave a cry of pain. When he lifted his hand it had a ragged wonad across iklrom the thumb to the lit- I lated wardrobes occupy a portion of this corridor. The assembly hall on the third floor is 71x42 feet with a stage feet. Two anterooms connect with the stage aqd staircase halls. There are also two unfinished rooms in the third story.

In the basement are the play rooms for the bovg and girls, boiler room, fuel room, fan room, janitors room, ash room, fresh air rooms and sanitary rooms. Rubber boxes are provided in each wardroom for "fhe building is to be heated by steam with two 30-horse power boilers, and an engine is connected with a small fan which is to be used for moving the air. The exterior is of the old colonial style of architecture, but within are all of the modern improvements. The committee of the town in charge of the building are Thomas A. Watson.

Daniel Potter. George D. Willis, Josephus Sampson and Alva S. Morrison. The building will be completed about Dec 1.

RECEPTION TO MISS MARLOWE Members of the College Club Met the Talented Actress and Enjoyed. Tea and Talk. The College club gave a charming at-home yesterday afternoon in their apartments in the Bellevue, Beacon st. Miss Julia Marlowe was the guest of honor, and in order that the members of the clab might have an opportunity to meet the gracious young actress and entertain her just among themselves there were bnt half a dozen other guests invited, including Mrs Louis Agassiz. Mra Louise Chandler Moulton.

Miss Belle Grant Armstrong and Mrs Caroline Hall Washburn. Among; the club members present were the president. Mrs Langdon Shannon Davis, who so gracefully and delightfully presides over this association ef clever young women; Miss Howe. Miss Curtis and Miss Swaine. who presented the guests to the little receiving party: Miss Tyler, who poured tea, and airs Richardson of Cambridge, Miss Allen, Miss Barrell, Miss Blake, Mrs Monks.

Miss Monks. Miss Hartwell of hmith college. Miss Hartwell of Vassar college, Mrs Thomas. Mrs Coffin Mrs Hall. Miss Helen Leah Reed.

Miss Marlowe looked very girlish and sweet in a combination of pale blue and black with a large bunch of rose piDks in She was accompanied by Mrs her hands. Woodward. The reception was most informal, in the nature of an after re in tea drinking in a private drawing room. Most of the club members present were young women in dainty fresh toilets, the parlor was ga with jonquils and miguonette. the talL was merry and the company delighted with their talented gnest of honor.

MAT Przzr.Ti TICKET SELLERS. Efforts Being Made to Obviate Trouble at the Union Station. With the coming union station, and the combining of all the ticket offices, a number of difficulties are rising for the ticket sellers. For instance, there is an East Somerville station on the eastern division and a station of the same name ou the western division. On the southern division there is a Somerville Center, a Somerville Highlands.

a i est Somerville, a Winter Hill and Prospect Hill stations, all within the limits of Somerville. On the Fitchburg road there is a Union sq station and a Somerville station. In the new union station all tickets for these several stations must he bought at office, and here will be the possible one confusion. But the Boston Maine railroad has already taken some steps toward simplifying this matter. Some weeks ago a circular was issued to conductors and brakemen instructing them to receive for passage be-tween Boston and Prospect Hill.

Winter Hill and Somerville ou the southern division tickets marked for passage between Boston and East Somerville, and on the eastern and western divisions, and vice versa. That one order clears away all confusions on the three divisions of the Boston Maine, but there is another order now being prepared by the passenger department. which may modify this somewhat. At present a ticket for Somerville issued Dy the Boston Maine is good on any division running to that city hen the Fitchburg road occupies part of the union station no ticket to any com- Siting point between the Fitchburg and oston Maine will be issued until the purchaser is first asked by what route he wishes to travel. It will he a strictly impartial office.

It is thought by railroad officials that it will be but a short tune before the public wi 1 become accustomed to the manner of selling tickets and will ask for a ticket and name the road over which they prefer to travel. It will require about 14 windows or ticket offices to handle the combined business at the union station when the four roads occupv the union station. All tickets will be put in cases side by side, and no distinction will be made in favor of anv particular line. WANT CHEAPER FARES. Lynn Board of Trade Committee to Wait on Management.

Lynx, April 5 By direction of the executive committee of the board of trade.which met this evening, the president and secretary of the board will present a request to the Boston Maine management for cheaper fares to Boston iu the shape of 50 and loo-ride tickets. The committee discussed the proposed state highway from Boston to Newbury-port. So far as Lynn is concerned a route via Lonng av, from Salem, Ocean, Lewis, Broad and bea sts, and a new road across the marshes, from the Saugus nver to Revere, was favored. It was stated that the metropolitan park board is considering the project of creating a shore nark in Revere, embracing the beach, ana the evere, Point of Pines and Revere proposed highway would access from Lynn. Pres Woodbury.

Sec Meech and Hon J. Benuett were delegated to urge the plan on the Essex county commissioners attheir adjourned meeting on the highway question April 20. WILL SPREAD FERTILIZER. No Work Too Arduous for North Hadleys Energetic Church Women. Hadley, April 6 The women of the Congregational church at North Hadley are trying to raise money, and have started out in a novel way to do it.

They advertise that they will sift ashes, milk cows, take horses to water, build fires, snread fertilizer (fish preferred,) or do anything of the kind for pay. which must be prompt. They sav they are going to help to settle the labor problem ana make plenty of money by the experiment. 4 he men say they will give them enough to do at the spring planting. Oxford County Notes.

The famous water case of the Robinson manufacturing company vs Otisfield has been referred to Judge Foster. Joseph Wr. Holden, the Otisfield astronomer who asserts that the earth is flat, has been spending the winter in Portland. Fie returned home yesterday. There were 15 contestants in the prize speaking of the junior class.

North Bridg-ton academy. These awards were made: first, Helen Nickois. second. Laura Johnson third, Lynn Farnsworth. The above is a representation of the new $30,000 schoolhouse now in process of construction at East Braintree, designed by Lonng Phipps of this city.

The building will contain eight rooms, with a hall iu the third floor. The rooms are all 28x32 feet, and have a seating capacity of from 54 to 56 scholars in each room. The finish throughout is in ash. the floors of rift hard pine and the blackboards of natural slate. There is a teachers room on the first floor with eight private lockers, a lunch room and a private toilet room.

There are separate main entrances for boys and girls, with separate staircases, each entrance being protected by a vestibule. In the second story are the recitation and class rooms. All of the latter are on the southerly side of the building opening from the wide corridor which runs the whole length of the building. Well venti- BOSTON TO HAVE A BRANCH. Professional Womans League will Gain a Foothold Here and Do Helpful Service.

An excellent nucleus tor the Boston branch of the Professional womans league already exists in Boston, in the Pentagon club, which has been in existence, meeting monthly for dinner and the informal discussion of the topics of the day, for more than two years. Whether this club, which is limited to 40 of the leading women physicians, teachers, ministers, lawyers and journalists of the city, will enlarge its borders and crystalize into a branch of the Professional womans league, or whether there will he a new branch started outright depends upon circumstances not yet adjusted. Mrs A. M. Palmer, president of theleagu in New York, lias from the first desired to have branches organized in all the leading cities, and for several months has been considering the expediency of starting with Boston.

It was decided not to take the formal steps of organization in Bo. ton until after the first annual meeting of the leagne in New York. This meeting, which was held recently, disclosed a years success almost beyond the dreams ot the originators of the league in the metropolis. Mrs Palmer wishes the branches as fast as established to grow however slowly upon a perfectly sure foundation, and is herself coming to Boston early in the fall to meet the women, who with her are much interested in haying an organization opened here which shall be upon the same helpful plan as that in New ork. Miss Mary Shaw, whose home was for merly in Boston, is greatly interested in the Ieague: and has also agreed to come oyer lrom New York to talk up the local league proiect in this city.

it all Boston's clubs and organizations there are none upon the cooperative plan of mutual helpfulness for women in the professions arranged upon a business basis that shall do away, as in the New York league, with all idea of charity, as that word is commonly understood. A large number of Bostons professional women have expressed their desire to join a Boston branch of the P. W. L. The New York league is making every effort to prevent the idea growing that the league is for actresses alone.

New York is the dramatic headquarters of the country, and the actresses there have taken hold of the work of the league with a wiil. hut Mrs Palmer, though herself the wife of a theatrical manager, wishes alt professions to. have an equal share in the benefits of the league. Already there are divisions the relief funds, one being for members of the dramatic profession, one for journalists, etc. The professions in Boston are more evenly represented among women, but the need for cooperation amoni them is no less, and the feeling of mutual interest as keen as elsewhere.

Thus everything points to a successful career for the branen of the league which has heon quietly on the tapis for months here, and which is to be formally introduced to the public in the early fall. Mrs Palmer acting as godmother with Miss Shaws assistance. CRAIG THOMPSON. Rising Philadelphian Weds a Maid of Puritan Lineage. Philadelphia, April 6 One of the prettiest weddings of this season was that of Miss Laura B.

Thompson, the youngest daughter of E. O. Thompson of this city and Boston, and John Levering Craig, son of John F. Craig, which was celebrated this evening in the West Arch st Presbyterian church in the presence of over 1000 friends of the families, who subsequently attended the wedding reception, given at the home of the brides father, 3314 Arch st. The groom is well Known as one of the rising young business men of Philadelphia, and one of the active members of the Schuylkill navv.

The bride comes from old puntan and revolutionary stock, the Thompsons being in the third landing at Plymouth in 1622. Herfathers maternal grandfather. Rev Ethan Osborn, was one of Washington's soldiers ia the Connecticut militia. The ushers were Messrs A. D.

Whitney, W. .1. McCahan Jr, Charles Coone, Frank A. Craig. William Curry and Samuel T.

Harkness. Tiie maid of honor was Miss A. Gertrude Craig, sister of the groom. The groom was attended bv Mr C. D.

Supple. The ceremony was performed by Rev J. Mervin Eckles. assisted by Rev J. Addison Henry, D.

The bride wore a gown of white satin duchess, made with high corsage, trimmed with lace. The veil of point lace was effectively arranged on the coiffure with feveral diamond pins, the gift of the groom. The presents were numerous, beautiful and costly. After the wedding reception Mr and Mrs Craig left at lo o'clock for an extended southern Friends of the Old Soldiers. In Parker Slemorial hall, yesterday, was held a regular meeting of the Ladies aid association of the soldiers borne.

The secretary was instructed to send letters of condolence to a number of the members whose loved ones have died since the last meeting. Tiie visitors to the soldiers home for the last month reported that religious services have been held every Sunday, and five entertainments have been provided. In the month the following veterans have died: George W.JBeard, Edward Cowhey, Lewis Saunders. William B. Hall.

Joshua C. Sc -egg ins. Frederick W. Laird. It was voted that the Mav meeting be held in Parker Memorial.

Several new members were elected, ami a lirerarv and musical hour followed. Miss Alice Geddings and Mrs Mary E. Knowles contributing to the entertainment. Hangmans Island Leased. Hangman's island, in the tide-water limits of the city of Qnincy, has been leased bv the board of harbor and land commissioners to Lawrence Hogan for three years for $50 a year.

The island is subject to the jurisdiction of the city of Quincy, hut belongs to the commonwealth, hence the lease bv the state commission. Mr Hogan is one of a number of fishermen who live on the island the year round, and under the terms of the lease is a trustee for himself and live others. Falling Off in Contributions. Brooklyn, April 5 The New York east conference continued its labors before a large audience this morning. Dr J.

Hamilton reported a falling off of $10,000 in the funds of the breedinans aid society. Best remedy for coughs, Adamsons Balsam Rugg should change her mind This latter move is just possible, in view of less the interest the butchers and bakers and others may have in regard to Mr Rnggi assets. the present comrade Rugg is not likely to return to Cambridge. Neither will the widow and her pretty Ynba be likely to return to houth Boston. They are likely to tarry erstwhile amidst the palms of a more salubrious climate in Los Angeles or elsewhere in California.

Strange is love! CLOSE OF EVENING CLASSES. Educational Series of the Young Mens Christian Association Ended Diplomas Granted. The closing exercises of the evening edu rational classes of the Y.M.C. A. were held in Association hall last evening.

On the platform were Hon Josiah Quincy, Mr T. )V. Hunt. Mr A. S.

Johnson, Mr Warren 0. Kyle. Mr A. S. Covel, Mr James Logan Gordon and Mr George Allen.

Mr Kyle of the executive committee of the association presided. The program opened with an orchestral selection by the association orchestra then the association male chorus of 100 voices rendered "Theres Music in the Air, Dr G. A. Btiles sang The Palm Trees. and the male chorus was again heard from with The Whistling Fanner hoy.

Mr O. M. Wentworth, in an able address told the graduates of the various classes the high premium which the world placed noon an honorable career. He said that the lessons which had been taught in the Y. M.

C. A. should be borne in mind through all the actions of their life. Mr Joseph Stewart sang Will-o-the Wisp. and Mr Charles Conroy played very sweetly on the violin.

Pres Covel of the Y. M. C. in a short address, spoke of the many questions which the young men of today wii! be called noon to settle when they become the men of affairs. The educational department of the av-ociation.

he said, was the most important department.for it trained the nunds of the young men who wiil take a band in deciding the important issues of this countrys future life. Mr Covet was of the opinion that the question of sociology is the $reat question which the younger generation would be called upon to consider before long. I lo said that the spirit of unrest which is prevalent throughout the country today was evidence of that. General hecretarv Gordon spoke briefly of the moral standard In life which men should try to attain. He then read the list of those who were entitled to diplomas in the various classes, and the diplomas were distributed after the association orchestra and chorus had each rendered a goodnight number.

These were the recipients of diplomas: Penmanship George K. Fraser, Thomas Hav dock, J. X. Howard, Justin Johnson. J.

A. Ladlev, Charles A. Monson Jr, Byron O. Morgan, John Nelson, W. Risk.

C. A. Strange Jr, Howard B. Wing. Bookkeeping E.

Clifton Butler. W. 8. Coburn, J. B.

Connolley. William W. Den net, Harry Gordon, E. C. Harrington, Alfred B.

Hubbard, F. M. Seamans, R. W. Syinmes, Robert TirreU, Samuel Wade.

Banking and commercial arithmetic 9. M.Blahop, Will. w. Dennett, A. Sunderlin, E.

F. Vogel, J. Webber. Arithmetic George E. Allen, J.

X. Howard, A. G. Kelley, T. Maglnnis.

Grammar George E. AUen. R. H. Lowell, C.

M. Oram, U. E. Seymore, tV. J.

Tnrner. Shorthand Robert T. Hay. W. Carl lies, George H- Mnrray, W.

Strong, X. A. Tarry. French Edward Fowler, W. 3.

Melvin, T. B. Pitt. G. W.

Tate, C. E. Warren. German M. McCarthy Jr, G.

B. South worth, A. Terry, F. B. Webster, Harry Wentworth.

Spanish B. r. du Bols, J. C. Emckaon, C.

F. Mayer, M. McCarthy Jr, G. F. Partridge.

Physiology A. F. Bowdln. George L. Holton, Daniel MacLellan, C.

W. Stodder, M. L. Thayer. Orchestral music J.

Bishop, 8. A. Blossom, W. A Maynard. A.

P. Milliken, D. G. Will lama Mechanical drawing G. W.

Lee. A. P. Orcutt, F. 8.

Bunnells, C. Shuster, r. E. Smyth, E. F.

Vogel, E. O. Woodward. NEW COMET FOUND. Mr Gals of Sidney Discovered a Bright Bound One Anril 2.

A cable message from the European union of astronomers to Messrs Chandler and Ritchie announces the discovery of a bright comet by Mr Gale of Sydney, New South Wales, on the night of April 2. The discovery position of the object was: Right ascension 2 hours 30 minutes 43 seconds decl inat ion, south 55, 35 minutes. It is described as a round, bright comet, with some condensation ahd with an easterly motion. The orbit of Dennings comet, the discovery of which was announced a week ago. has iut been computed by Prof Lewis Boss of Dudley observatory, who finds that it is receding from both earth and sun and will be visible but a short time even with large telescopes.

ARRESTED HIS OWN SON. Chicopee Patrolmans Task Boy Charged With Trying to Wreck Trains. Chicopek, April 5 Patrolman Harrighy was detailed today to arrest his son, John Harrighy, aged 13, charged with making two attempts to wreck trains near Willi-mansett on the Connecticut river division of the Boston Maine railroad recently. In the police court today Harrighy was arraigned privately before Judge Hitchcock, and bound over in $1000 sureties for trial April 12. Bail was furnished by James McCarthy and Thomas McGrath.

The evidence, which is said to be conclusive, will not be made public until the hearing. Essex County Pomona Grange. Amesbury, April 5 The Essex county Pomona grange met here today, every grange in the county being represented. A business meeting was held in the foreuoon with 150 present. Peter Holt, the master, presided.

A resolution favoring municipal suffrage for women was passed and telegraphed to senators. asking their support. The fifth degree was worked on a class of 58 in the afternoon, llie annual picnic will be held at Ipswich bluffs the first Thursday in August, and the next meeting the first Ihursoav in November at Andover. Dinner was furnished by the ladiesof Amesbury grange. Prize Epeaking at Eowdoin.

Brunswick, Me, April 8 Speaking for the prize offered by the class of 68, Bow doin college, took place this evening with this program: The United States and America. E. M. Simpson of North Newcastle; The Course of the World, F. J.

I.ibby of Richmond: Ordinary Men, T. C. Chapman of Springfield, Mass; Social Reform in Our Large Cities, G. A. Merrill of Pownal: Re-ignation of Washington from Command of the Army.

F.W, Pickard of Portland "An American Answer, H. E. Andrews of Konnehunk. The prize was awarded to G. A.

Merrill of Pownal. Collectors Salary Not Fixed. Brockton. April 5 At the common council meeting tonight an attempt to pass an order fixing the salary of the tax collector at $1600 was not successful. An order authorizing the mayor repetition the legislature tor the legislation required to give Brockton a board of public works was the cau-e of considerable discussion, and was finaliv tabled.

Considerable routine business was transferred..