The Cardiff Times

QUESTS OF LORD TREBEGAR Cardiff Cymmrodorion's Visit. I thank you, ladies and gentlemen—diolch i chwi." So was Lord Tedegar's responsive shout opposite his ancient home at Tredegar Park on Saturday evening to the united cheer of over 600 Cymmrodorion, who had hemmed him in a circle just before parting. His Lord- ship had invited the Cardiff Cymmrodorion to a garden party, and for four hours he had moved among them, talking and laughing as jovial and happy as the youngest. It was an ideal afternoon. The sun, it is true, did not appear, and it was dark and a little heavy. But these conditions fitted ad- mirably the old-world scene. A special train conveyed the guests from Cardiff, Llanishen, and Caerphilly at 2.20. They were, owing to delays and breakdowns, about an hour later arriving at Bassaleg than the time arranged. The beautiful old church by the station had" been thrown open, and the memorials inside and out were inspected. What attracted most attention was* the family pew, where the veteran soldier of Tredegar Park worshipped, and it was said that he walked the intervening mile to church, missing hardly any Sunday. The family grave, with a cross of simple design, where rests Lord Tredegar's father, was also a spot of much interest. The Reception.. Lord Tredegar shook hands with every body. He hadexpressed a wish that everything should be as free and informal as possible, and during the afternoon every nook and corner of the grounds and the house were inspected. The paintings of some of the more notable members of the Morgan family excited great interest, while outside the mansion the monument of Sir Briggs, the famous charger on whose back his Lordship rode in the charge of the Six Hundred, and the broken monumental column of the pet dog Peeps were visited by everybody. During part of the afternoon Lord Tredegar was accompanied by Mrs Forestier-Walker, who was imjneaiately recognised as the beautiful Nest of the Welsh Pageant. Refreshments were served on the lawn, and a feature of the event were thd Welsh airs. also strongly remin- iscent of the Pageant, which the band played. Among the Throng. Among the throng were tho chief. Welsh people of Cardiff and district, and it would be invidious to mention any. In ordinary life they were merchant princes at the docks, J.P.'s by the dozen, two Stipendiary magistrates, landed geitry—and, not less honoured, labourers and coal trimmers. The station of life was forgotten everybody was a brother Cymmrodor. The man getting his thousand a year and more shook hands heartily with his struggling brother-Celt battling^daily to make both ends meet. Bards there were by the dozen. It was, indeed, a bardic festival. Weren't they of the same line as the great Ap Gwilym ? Andihey did not come without tnbute. Some made their verses oh the spot, others on the way. One distinguished Cardiff public man had lost the muse—or, rather, the muse had deserted him. have to go under the train to get it squeezed out to-dAy." he said, and dreading the result of that contingency he gave up the attempt. Ap Rhydderch, tall and bearded, fired his testimony in an extempore englyn :— Por Tredegar yw car cu—y beirddion A byw urddas Cymru Gwron mae pawb yn garu, o hwyliau liawn, Hywel y llu. In ordinary life, Ap Rhydderch is the respected Mr Daniel Owen, of Splotlands.

MAESTEG REVOLVER TRA6EDY< At Bridgend on Saturday Mr T. J. solicitor, applied for the discharge of CU» Evans, colliery pay clerk, and William^ miner, who had been remanded charged » the manslaughter of Benjamin Edwar miner, by shooting him with a revo j £ r Nantyffyllon on Saturday, the 3rd ygfi Hughes explained that the coroner's JurZjcnU found that the tragedy was a pure aC^_dict« and the coroner had concurred in that He understood that as the result of the i»q Superintendent W. Davies did not P offer any evidence against the defen Superintendent Davies said that was s°" jggir^ the permission of the magistrates he not to oflter any evidence. Mr Hugne-f, that on behalf of the defendants he at tb* express their deep and lasting sorrohe ao* terrible occurrence. The widow of as gfi fortunate man fully agreed that it accident. The defendants had paid tne of the funeral expenses. The discharged. ———————————

RAGGING BY TERRITORIALS- The resignation of a lieutenant of torial battalion announced on headquarters at Leicester was the ]yti»" an unseemly ragging incidcntm the N^ JJ^. land i :rigacle <-amp recently held at U' 4(| The lieutenant was awakened in the ( night l>y several !>u -kets of water beins tJ, ova him, and g >ing to the tent entraiv whafrwas the matter he waa seized ivnior officers and carried to the office r v<-«» where, however, further in hgp tJ" iiff red him. The lieutenant left the t ø.per fore its close, and has sin- e sent in bis P

WOMAN AND BROKERS. A well-dressed woman from Baling, who ap- peared greatly distressed, aprticd to the Brent- ford magistrates on Saturday for advice in reference to the conduct of a broker. She owed a little rent, and in her absence from home the broker, she said, arrived and cleared out every article of furniture, many times the value of the rent. It took them six hours to load the goods and what they did not take they destroyed, tearing down the blinds and smashing up the crockery. The magistrate advised a siimmors for excessive distraint, and remitted the fee to the applicant. The Chair- man added that an effort ought to be made to prevent the sate of the goods.

PONTYPOOL MAN AND Hlfr WIFE. The Pontypool Bench on Saturday resumed the hearing of a case in which John Sullivan, collier, of Pontypool, was summoned by his wife, Mary Sullivan. who applied for a separa- tion order on the grounds of persistent cruelty and neglect. The case had been adjourned from a previous court for the attendance of the local priest and Dr. Haslett to give evidence. Mr W. J. Everett, who was for the coxqplainant, explained that Dr. Haslett had an important engagement elsewhere, whilst Father Degen ha!d a marriage to attend. The Clerk (Mr A. E. Bowen) This was one of his marriages, too, you know. (Laughter.) Mr Everett said that all efforts made by him- self and Father Dcgen, as well as Mr T. P. H. Watkins, the solicitor on the other side, to effect a settlement of the case had been of no avail. He did not think that the evidence of those gentleman would throw any material light on the case. and he asked their Worships for their opinion, having regard to the evidence already tendered at the previous court. The Bench decided that they were not justi- fied on the eviden(-e,aii-eady given in granting the order asked for. 1

I The Metamorphosis of a Toy Soldier. A STORY OF THE MOSCOW REVOLT. By GERTRUDE DIX. I. I' The house of General Kaulbars has immensely high plate glass windows, framed in long draperies, whose massive crimson folds reached from the gildtd cornice to the parquet floor. In the dining-room the windows overlooked a wide square there were several large mirrors and as young Kalatine walked in with his spurs jingling on his small, smart boots, he caugnt more than one reflection of himself-dapper and gay in his new uniform. He saluted his uncle, the General. Ah I" exclaimed the General. I wafi thinking of you, Fed or. Have you been at the Gedeonovskys lately I am often there," Kalatine blushed and hastily went on to explain. You see, sir, now Michael is invalided-" But his un- le noticed neither the blush nor the explanation. He wheeled round from the buffet, covered with brl" fast dishes, a liqueur gliss in his hand. ADU what do you think of gins Ivanovich-?" he broke in. i^ataline was startled. It was enough for him that Sergius Ivanovich Gedeonoysky was the father of Michael and Natalie—more especially of Natalie, and therefore everything that was excellent. He is no doubt a learned savant—a great scientist," he ventured. Bah I" The General spluttered like a uni- formed pig in a passion, his face as pink as that of a clean porker of the blonde variety. So you, too, are taken in I -y tihat laboratory." Taken ia exclaimed KalJ i ie. But assuredly-" Assuredly, Vedor, Sergius Ivanovich is one of those cursed underground intellectuals. Worse than that! He is first, cousin to and in intimat relations with that Jew Seminoff." Kalatine was astounded. Impossible he ejaculated. But, my dear uncle—such a charming family Michael is my comrade, and Madame Gedeonovsky-" That lady is an angel—a suffering martyr, Fedor interrupted the General piously. Yes, indeed returned Kalatine. He had never considered the plump Varvara Dmitrievna in that light before, but as the mother of Natalie, she was at any rate very wonderful. He found it almost impossible to associate his friends with such a revolutionary fire-brand. He is not in Moscow, though." Y Fedor. he is in Moscow. That is why it behoves us, as friends of the Gedenovskys, to be on our guard. The General returned to the buffet and im- mersed himself noisily in a plate of borsch. Kalatine began to recover from the astounding piece of information. After all, it did not so very much matter. For Moscow was at peace again. The Czar's proclamation had been re- ceived with enthusiasm. Ah, yes, those abomin- able strikes those revolutionary confticts were all at an end thanks to the Imperial Rescript. Kalatine experienced an immense relief. He had had enough -of charges on the crowd. He wrated life to go on again with the pleasant routine of the gay Muscovite military circle, with its balls and dinner parties. And now, too, he wanted something else. He wanted to go often to the Gedeonovskys, the liveliest and freest household of young people he knew. He wanted to see a great deal of Michael, of course, but he wanted to see more of his sister Natalie, and to dance and to skate-yes, and to sledge with her, under the fur robes of the troika. The General wiped his long, cream-coloured moustache, twisting it in his napkin. It is a breathing space," he muttered. "I Prevention is better than cure. There is going to be a great weeding-out of Seminoffs." This absurd obsession of his uncle's was dis- turbing to Kalatine. 11 But surely," he said, the people—" Tile people are mad dags. His Majesty has thrown them a bone, but it will not be enough. No, if he cut himself into pieces if he sacri. ficed us all, they would not be satisfied. My dear Fedor," he threw down hisuapkin and came toward him. I had a purpose in telling you about Seminoff. When you go to the villa keep your eyes open. Play the spy if need be for the sake of that Jtngelic woman—and the young people." There were sc-andal-mongers in Moscow who said that the General was too deeply interested in Madame Gedeonovsky, but young Kalatine, in his youthful egotism paid little attention to anything but his own affairs. As Moscow re- mained peaceable, he chose to believe that the General was mistaken in more ways than one. Whenever he was off duty he would ride out to the suburbs where the Gedeonovskys' house stood in a leafy garden, on his new horse. It seemed impossible. that the father of Natalie could be anything but above suspicion. If he had the misfortune to be related to the in- famous Seminoff that was not his fault. He did not believe hb was a revolutionary at all. No, he was a very learned savant, and the secreta of his laboratory were the quite harmless on of the seeker after truth. As to Madame Ged- eonovsky—Varvara Dmitrievna belonged to the last categ6ry. and nothing could exceed her loyalty unless it were her disgust at the disloca- tion of social life occasioned by the disturbances. She dressed her pages like miniature Cossacks, and desired all her sou3 to become soldiers. Kalatine thought her extraordinary, for she was a Petersburg Parisiafc with whom it was meme tres chic to speak French well and Ger- man badly, and to keep an English, governess for the children Even in the darkest days of civic strife in Moscow the spirits of the youthful Gedeonov- skys never suffered depression. It was plea- santer to play with them than to try to talk to Michael, who, since he had been invalided from Port Arthur, nursed his wounds in a soured and embittered astonishment at his country's misfortunes which Kalatine could not in the least understand. "Once when he had tried to joke with him Michael bad broken out with a morose sneer, that he was an ignoramus, and nothing but a toy soldier. Kalatine had felt, at the time, that this was bitterly unjust sin-e he had that very mornin? cracked the skull of a declamatory student with the butt-end of his revolver. Yet, for the sake of an occasional glimpse of Natalie, he would have borne all the sneers the sophisticated Michael could inflict. Ty But one morning when Kalatins had not called for some days there was a Change, and he entered a house that seemed empty and silent. Little Vanya, the pet of the hov-M-iold. Was playing by hivase" -nd climbed Kal t ne's knee. But Kalatine was disturbed w. t,h the idea that Natalie might have disappeared also, when the governess came in to tell him jthat Madame would receive him in her boudoir. Upstairs, Natalie's soft ejfes, lifted for a mo. ment fro her embroidery frame, so ove- oyed him that his salutations to the other pe -,ons in the room were almost mechanical. it took him some moments to perceive that something had happened, and that his beaminsr smiles were out of place. As Varvara Draitrievna, reclining gracefully on her pillows inhaled her smelling salts, traces of powder were visible about her eyes, and it was plain to see that she bad been weeping. The General, leaning over her couch, had the air of the spectator of a martyrdom, alternately fierce and compas- sionate. Ah, Fedor," said the lady, raising her blue eyes. pity us We are exiled." Exiled echoed Kalatine in alarm. Yes, is it not cruel ? Sergius Ivanovich— she uttered the name of her husband with a shrill note of indignation—" insists on sending us to Sinkoya." Sinkoya was the Gedeonovskys' country estate. Oh. is that all y" cried Kalatine with relief. Is that all! You little understand my feel. ings. Don't you know. Fedor, how I detest the country. How would you like it ?" Oh, I should like it very well with you, Varvara Dmif rievna," said Kataline; thinking of Natalie, but why Oh. he de-lores Moscow is unsafe for us any longer." It was true that disturbances had betun again and that there had been one or two serious conflicts with the people and the mili- tary. The authorities, however, believed them- selves to have the situation Well In hand. Surely there is no danger in the suburbs t't exclaimed Kalatine, appealing to his uncle. Ask Sergius Ivanovich," muttered the I General. He has perhaps iiiformation of I which we know nothing." But the dance I" said Kalatine, breaking ¡ an awkward silence, and looking at Natalie, who had never raised her bead from her work, Some of th« most intrepid military ladies. among whom was Madame Gedeonovsky, had organised a ball in honour of the Imperial Manifesto. We stay for that!" she replied.- I insisted. To-night at least—let us eat and drink, for to-morrow wh die- of ennui." | Kalatine crossed to where Natalie was sitting by the window, but still she did not glance at him. He was wondering whether he dared ask for a dance, when the door opened to admit the master of the house. He bowed, with an air of preoccupation, to the two visitors, and went to his wife. •4 I wish to know your arrangements for the day," he said. As the servants arc gone we must hire carriages." I'm going to lunch at the Von Rosens'. Natalie must meet me there, so that we can go to the dance together. You will have to bring- her." And you return Do not trouble yourself about that, Sersrius I Ivanovich," said the 1, almost in- solently, Varvara Ditrievan3. will be well escorted." Kalatine had been absorbed in NatAlie, but now it dawned upon him that these three were all hatin-c eaf-h other. He understood this, strangely enough, less from his observation of them, than from the movements of Natalie's trembling fingers, her laboured stitches, and the heavy flush whi'h had crept from her downcast face to the nape of her white neck. Then suddenly she looked up—not at hm, nor at anyone in the room, but at something be- yond the window. Some alternation was going on at the front door.A tarantass, covered with mud, had drawn up there, and a heavy figure dressed in sheepskins was slowly descending from it. "Ha!"8aid the General, whose suspicions were easily roused, what is it ?" While everyone in the room was listening to the dispute between a servant and the driver the tarantass, Gedeonovsky went softly out The General's eyes started almost from their sockets. Who is that ?" he demanded, step- ping to the window, who is that- Natalie seemed anxious to explain. Only a peasant" she said, her eyes falterng under his brutal gaze, one of our moujiks from Sinkoya." I. The General took a long stare at the figure in the sheepskins, and then took leave of I Madame Gedeonovsky bidding Kalatine accom- pany him. Nothing was to be seen of the mysterious moujik as they entered the hall, and the tarantass had driven away. Outside, where the vehicle had topped, the mud was very soft and the General stepped carefully and' before he mounted his horse, bent a little to e^ i mine some footmarks. To Kalatine they were footmarks and nothing more, but in times of great social stress, certain embryo- nic things have unexpected developments, and the General's brain waq one of them. They were just heavy peasant's boots, uncle, said Kalatine as they rode out of the gate. But small feet, and lifted clear from the ground every time. Is that how a peasant walks ?" he snarled. Nephew the man inside those boots was Seminoff Impossible This word with which Kalatine frequently met and brushed aside things tire- some pnd unpleasant, rose to Kala tine's lips, but did not pass them. The truth—a stagger- ing truth—forced him to silence. There was some indefinable danger ahead. He wished that Natalie was safe at Sinkoya. The whole atmosphere had been tense and expectant. A storm was brewing, and the General, in some way was the Olympic Jove of it—the master of lightnings and thunderbolts. What was he going to do T Would he inform against Ged- enovysky ? Their ways parted, and he rode to 1 he barracks too engrossed to notice the grow- ing signs of excitement in the streets. At the villa the moujik had humbly fol- lowed the master of the house to his own suite of rooms. Behind the locked doors of the laboratory, full of fine electrical instruments, a suit of sheepskins and all the paraphernalia. of a thorough disguise were thrown into a chair, and a little, slim man, with bird-like movements, placed a pair of spectacles on his nose and opened to Gedenovesky a mass of documents and papers which he had worn amongst his padding. For nearly an hour the two cousins pored over the cryptic writing with now and again an understanding com- ment or brief interrogation. As they turned the last page the sound of wheels was heard on the drive crtttside, and the little man cau- tiously lifted the curtain that Veiled a small, transparent pane in the ground-glass windows. "But I thought Varvara Dmitrievna was gone!" he exclaimed, at a glimpse of a bonnet in a carriage window. She leaves to-morrow with Natalie, Vanya, and Miss Ridley. Michael will ac- company them." Not later, Ivan, not later!" cried Seminoff, with an imperative gli fcter in his bright eyes. I have told you. The fire is very hot again, and directly 4he pot simmers it will boil over. In three days—before, if anything should hap- pen to precipitate matters—Moscow will again be isolated. Yes, our little friends the tele- graph wires—" he nodded to the back of the house, where as his nearer knew. the wires ran towards St. Petersburg—" they will be all cut but one." Which one ?" The private wire from the Governor's house." And that you intend to tap ?" Exactly, my dear Ivan. You see the facili- ties here are unique. Besides, mon brave, it affords me some occupation. Moscow is too hot for me." But the pot had begun to simmer already. By the time Madame Gedeonovsky reached the centre of the city the streets were full of people; the workmen were pouring out of the factories and she found her friends in a state of indecision as to whether they should not leave while the trains on the Moscow- Kazan railway wwr stitjt "r<antiht&. Moscow was already in the throes of another revolt. A Constitution plus military rule lite-ties of speech and opinion which only existed on paper, and were vetoed by the authorities as soon as they took visible shape had become an insupportable farce. Troops were being hastily posted in all parts of the city with orders to fire ball cartridge at the slightest de- monstration. But almost as quickly and with as perfect an organisation the mob surged like a black flood in the main squares and streets. In the late afternoon drinll begtlll. Crowds of worknsn, headed by students, seized the tramcars, and proceeded to erect barricades at street corners, filling the cars with benches. Near the armourers' shops, where the crowd had begun to pillage, other barricades were thrown up, composed of telegraph poles, paving-stones and wire entanglements. Kalatine had been ordered on guard in the Kremlin quarter, where the barracks and an- cient buildings were in danger from incendiaries But to-night, in the shadow of palace, cathe- dral, and citadel, all was quiet, and as he sat his horse hour after hour, he would gladly have exchanged his position for the heart of the up- roar. His meditations were tinged with a cynicism engendered by natural disappoint- ment. What did those ingrates of people want anyhow t Hadn't they got their.Con- stitution t Why couldn't they be peaceable and reap the benefits of civilisation For him those benefits summed themselves up in the thought of the ball. As the bells tolled mid- night an orderly appeared with orders. Kala-l tine and his little force clattered down the hil towards the noise and glare. There were no deeds of process for Kalatine nothing but the attempt to hold a certain posi- tion with the handful of dragoons he had re- inforced against the furious mob. In a moment's respite he saw a pale student mount the barricade to harangue the soldiers. A girl took his place with a more ftfvid appeal. She was young, with dark eyes and hair like Natalie's and Kalatine groaned as she fell shtt in the breast. Then he could think of nothing but his own defence as the angry Workmen swarmed round his horse, cutting him off from his companions. He waa pulled from his saddle. As he rose to his feet, a clumsy flguure threw himsell on him to disarm him. Kalatine fought like a wild-cat in the grip of a bear. Again thrown to the ground he wriggled dodging the blows. Then the great arc-lights spluttered an4 went out. and in black darkness he rolled over out of his range Battered and bruised, he managed to crawl out of the melee, and sat down against a wall to recover himself. In the darkness that had fal- len on Moscow horror seemed to redouble it- self. Torches flared as if by magic, and men began to set fire to houses that they have light to murder each other. In the awful light of flames, with the streams of women ringing in his ears, Kalatine darted down an alley into a side street, and ran and ran till the cries and shouting were lost in a faint indistinguishable roar. He stopped to take breath. He, a soldier, had run away in sheer cowardice. And he didn't intend 'to go back. He had liked his soldiering very well up to now, but when it came to killing work- men and students and young women f The houses in front of him were sillhouetted against a new glow in the sky. He must find out the whereabouts of Natalie and her mother. Locating his position from a figure prowling in an archway, he soon made his way to the house at which he had vaguely under- stood Madame had intended to dine. The door of the vestibule was open there was no concierge, but as he hesitated in the darkness a young man appeared upon the stairs, at- tended by a servant with a light. It was Michael. Michael t" he exclaimed with relief. Where are they t" Michael recoiled a little on the bottom stair. There is blood on your face, Fedor," he said. The sight of blood poured out in rivers in the East, far from inuring him, had made him hysterically sensitive to a, scratch. "Kalatine wiped it off, with some satisfaction that he had fought before he had run away. Well, where are they ?" The servant says mamma is at the General's." But Natalie 1" She is at home. She was to have come la and of course Kalatine uttered a sharp (exclamation of dis- may. Michael," he said Seminoff is at the villa, and by this time the authorities know of it. He arrived tbis morning, disguised as a moujik. My unrlo insisted it was Seminoff .And —you never know what mischief may have been brewing." My/ather. your uncle, Seminoff There is bound to be trouble ahead faid Michael fiercely and bitterly. They walked rapidly down the street and hailed a passing droschky. After a detour which seemed endless, they found thewselves in the suburb. Kalatine drew a breath of relief. Everything in the quiet houses seemed so peacefully and normally asleep. The next moment the galloping of I horses broke the stillness. With a diun^en shout, three Cossacks passed th6m, "idlng furiously toward; Moscow. Michael, nervous as it woman, grip; ed his hand, and he shouted I) to the driver to go faster. III. At the (ri d 'iinot'sky villa everything was dark and still. j You see it is all tight They are all asleep." j said Michael as the;; went up the drive. ¡ Kal/t l inc halted. LiaU-u," he cried, what's that ?" > I -L. Behind thft closed windows someone was playing a mazurka. Of course, it is all right," said Michael, going on again. He took out his latch key. Kalatinc pushed on and in. The door is open," he said. The hall was in perfect darkness. Not even the usual glimmer 01 gas was burning. Michael would have blamed the servants ior their care- lessness, but he remembered there were no servants. Kalatine was listening t) the violin upstairs. It is that Miss Ridley muttered Michael with racial irritability. Natalie must be asleep." Asleep with that No one could sleep with that rried Kalatine softly. They stood still, listening against taeir wills to the peculiar, lilting cry of the strange dance measure. It was a d'in..e that seemed to call irresistibly to the feet—yet not a dance tor the floor that shi m mers under joyous»iight—rather a dance of sor- row a of death. It was played in per- I fect time, till there was a bait, almost a stop then the music went on again, making an endless repeat, with always that hint of a pause, and the mad, nervous swing back into I the rhythm. I'll put a stop to tha.t!" said Michael angrily under his breath. Kalatine followed him to the upper landing, where a beam of light fell from a partially opened door. J ust wÜhin, as though her feet had been turned to stone as she va" running out. the governess stood bow- ing her violin like a mechanii al figure. Her dilated eyes, in a face white a3 hatk, did not see them. She did not heartbem ask for Natalie till Kalatine seized her arm. At her s. ream. they'll kill me if I atop playing," Mi; had turned and ran from the room. At the • n l of a corridor. Kalatine pausing on the threshold saw in the e of a makh a little, smooth bed, with a flimsy ball dress thrown a-JOSS a of shoes, a fan. The music was on again as they ran down into the hall. Kalatine could have stonped his ea's. From the dining room, on the left of the hall, opened the suite of room?; t!ovoted to GefU on o'^sky. A lamp was bum'>u.x over the stupoe table. The plates an 1 dishes had n')1. touched, but were .dre9,-s of WJI-* dul '•osrnac in the glasses. On the edge of the white tablecloth was a crimson s-Tjear, the impress in awful colour of a huge and hideo.is hand. As the two nths gazed from it to each other. they heard-the shout of the Cossacks who had passed them in the daI kn. Like drunken uien they staggered to the door of the library atod threw it open. The light, cutting in behind them, showed a frightful confusion. Fu niture had been overturned the to n frill of a diess was lyin on the carpet. They threaded their way anion,' the uptu. ned chairs to the ous en' an e of the laboratory. They re'oiled. They fled back into 11 as though pur- sued. a sickening sm heir nostrils. Ka'atine looked at >>JQchael with dread and terror fo what he next would do. The lilt of the music upstairs seemed to have become a part of him. He moved to the rhylhm of it. rigid as a marionette pulled by a string, as he walked to the sideboard and lit one of the candles with a little paper shade. Kalatine saw him take it in his hand, go slowly down the library, and stand holding it above his head a moment on the threshold of the laboratory. Then he came back, replaced the candle whence he bad taken it, and sat down before the table, staring straight in front of him. Kalatine went up to him, whispered what was it ?" with dry lips, but he sat like a sculptured figure with eyes that saw not; ears that heard not. Then Kalatine also took the candle, but when he had seen what was beyond the open door, the candle fell from his hands and a darkness thicker than the night without fell upon him. Kalatine could never tell how he got back to the room with the light—whether he crawled or ran whether the time the journey took was to be reckoned in seconds or in hours. All that he knew was that he awoke to find himself crouched upon the library floor, with the door dosed behind him. He was sitting there under the light in a deathly silence, looking down at the cuff of his jacket. Entangled in the buttons, brushed from some piece ot upturned furniture, were a. few long, dark hairs torn from a woman's head, and tears welled out of his eyes, scalding his cheeks and his hands as he thought, not of what he had seen among the'wrecked instruments in the laboratory, but of a little, smooth bed, a, filmy dress, a pair of shoes, a fan. He started up. An inner fire seemed to dry his tears for ever. Michael had stretched his arms' upon the table. His head had fallen forward between them. Kalatine gripped him by the shoulder. Michael," he cried, vengeance. Come quick with me." But Michael did not move. Kalatine pushed him into a sitting posture against the back of the chair. Michael did not speak. Michael did not hear. His embittered brooding over the sorrows of his country had culminated in this silence. His eyes still held that look which Kalatine had seen in them when he had come back with the candle, and that expression would never leave them. So you cannot come!" said Kalatine. No matter, little brother. I shall be strong for both of us!" He had no time to embrace his comrade. As the corpse fell forward again, he felt his revolver and put his hand on the hilt of his sword. He knew now why he had fought to retain his weapons. He rushed out and away, athirst for the crackle-of firearms and the glow of ravenous flamo».«<M At the barricades, an officer tore the facings from his uniform. With the figure of a boy, the face of a haggard man, and the voice of a. leader of men, this new soldier of Revolution, as from the hands of an avenging God, was thrown like a torch into the burning city. (The End.) Next Week— THE IDYLL OF A MOMENT. By Dorothy Baird.

CRIFPEN WITNESS R0BBE9. Mr J. E. Nash, theatrical manager, has had his flat at Park Mansions, Vaiixhall Park, near Vauxhall Station, burgled. Mr Nash is one of the principal witnesses in the Crippen case, and it he that informed Scotland Yard that Mrs Crippen had disappeared. It is stated that Mr Nash had been away for two or three days at Bristol, where his wife is performing. When he left London the flat was securely- locked. During a flying return visit to London, however, he found that the door had been forced open. The burglar or burglars apparently made no attempt on the patent lock, but forced the door with a jemmy or some such instrument. Tho work was so cleverly done that there were few s» rate hes. E cry box and drawer ,18 ransackcd, hut it is understood that no jewellery or money was found. Some silver pl.itc w, however, juissing. It Is thoueht that 1[" Nash's movements were known. The flat is on the flrst ifloor .-lose to the front en- i trance, "but at this particular spot it is aufftci- eutly daH- to enable anyone to stand back unobserv- d..

ARRESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS. Why Comparatively Few? SPEECH BY MR DONALD MACLEAN. VgilantAdministration ofthe Law. Speaking at Porth on Saturday evening at. meeting in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Independent Order of Rechabites, rv-3^.1 Maclean, formerly M.P. for dc«,it with the statistics in respect of drunke ness at Cardiff. „•!» Mr Dona Id Maclean said the Licensing & was lost because at that time the Trade w more powerful than the State, but they co*u congratulate themselves now that that was longer the case. (Applause.) They could say that the Trade was beaten, and what w™? more the Trade knew it. If theTraae that the imposition of the licensing dut* was the end of Liberal political action they had made a great mistake. (Hear, beaf* Mr Mat-lean, having dealt with the benefit* off-jets of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act. ceeded to deal with the statistics of drunken ness in the < ity 'of Cardiff. He said the faC of the 'ase were readily ascertainable those who cared to come to Cardiff to thern and ask their meaning. did not understand how in a great city Cardiff, with a population of over 200,000, the were only 533 arrests for drunkenness last 7^ and 148 convictions, whilst in Swansea were 957 arrests and 727 convictions. He » mitted there was a vevy big difference the two towns. Cardiff was a most ditJir town to police owing to its cosmopolitan cbaj" a> ter. Almost every tongue could be heard in the streets of Cardiff almost Kve, se-t, and creed was represented, and great difficulty in policing such a town WOU** be readily understood. Tribute to the Pelice: f Why was it that there were so few arreøt8 The reason was that the police did their duw in preventing crime rather than waiting crime to be committed. They watched public-houses closely, and every man 9<~r slightly intoxicated or who bore outward e*V denr-e of being under the influence of drink, entering licensed premises was promptly 10 lowed, and the licensee as well as the man warned of the consequences that would fOUO, further supply. Was not that the proper w»y Last year there were 2,124 visits paid by Cardiff police to licensed premises upon persons being seen to enter under influence of drink, and 35,831 visits paid by police in order to see that the law as to -eetZg ing persons uniler the influence of was not infringed. That was a answer to the question asked why there wep so few arrests made in a town of the speci*^ difficult nature of Cardiff. The reason^ that the law was administered by the poli and the result of this administration was fleeted in the small number of arrests sary, and the improved condition of the Arrests and Convictions. If 533 arrests were made and only 148 victions resulted, the question was put, t»jj the Cardiff police must surely be mJstakJf with regard to some of the men arrested. was nothing of the kind. Anyone going court of law at Cardiff or in London would that in nine out of every 10 cases brought ward, or at any rate in a large number of the magistrate would simply caution the feftdants, oftentimes making the remark you come here again you will be fined or to prison. It did not therefore follow tD*J there were any wrong arrests made at in view of the fact that in nine out of every.^ cases where a man camo before the Bench *~i the first time, and had been locked up night in the police cells, it was the practh^ the court to give him a chance of going *• without paying a fine or go to prison for days as the case might be. During lMt y only one or two cases was the issue raised to whether a man was drunk or not. \'Y ';it they should do as temperance was to utilise their energies in all localities w the direction of bringing pressure to bear on authorities to fully administer the existing If they did so they would get the law respec and secure an enormous improvement in■ condition of the streets. Meanwhile tb^*T should be no slackening in their efforts to into operation the machinery for lessening Jo number of public-houses. In places where t had reduced the licences in Cardiff there h*T been a marked improvement. It was an standing fact that where the present law been properly administered the results been most beneficial.

SOUTH MONMOUTHSHIRE t The 75th anniversary of the Order of Rechabites was celebrated by tb South Monmouthshire district at AbercaxojjjjJ Saturday, when a large number of memb^v attended. Abercarn was selected for the ing because it possesses the oldest tent inj*^ South Monmowbh district. A conference f* held in the afternoon, Bro. E. N onnø.Ø D.S.J.T., Newport, presiding, and a papet: 0 Hindrances to Juvenile Work." by Bro. Macintosh, Belfast, was read by Bro. B Cardiff. Bro. Thomas Davies, D.C.R., newynydd, presided at the evening naoeUM when Bro. John Phillipson, High Chief read a paper on An Ideal District." A. E. Jones, P.D.C.R., Talywain, and Pritchard, J.D.C.R., Risca, joined in the cussion. The latter emphasised the Sunday closing and the favourable consid^j tion to Friendly Societies by the in such measures as the Old Age Pensions A°

BOARD OF IIRECTORS ATCAftDlff. The Board of Directors met at Cardiff^ Saturday to transact business. In the Bro. W. Churchill, Past High Chief BoJE Corsham (Wilts), addressed a meeting Cory Hall. Bro. W. A. Piatt, High Dep«% Ruler, Bury, who presided, said if they their axe at the root of the evil of intem there would be no unemployed, the bonSJ illl problem wonld be solved, and the social t;.tI that were rampant in uur large towns and rJø would be swept away. The great of the Order was total abstinence from aJ toxicating liquor. At the biennial of the Order in 1905, a net increase in tJ1 jØ' bership of 42.300 was reported, 1907 crease of 46,900, and 1909, covering a peri^^w great depression in trade, 37,600. thns m*? a net increase in six years of 126,800 Their death rate per annum was never Dl lIf than per thousand, whereas that of 80Dl the leading non-teetotal societies was 12 13 per thousand. ^0 On Sunday morning a church par»de^Jl held, the members assembling at the City £ and marching to Wesley Chapel. Charies-ste^j, where the Rev. Thomas Ewbank offiCI r Bro J. Phillipson, High Chief Ruler.New -:A.. on-Tyne, andl Bro. R. Bell, MiddleabroW^ took part in the service. In the afternoon Phillipson addressed the P.S.A. in the Hall.

BUCKWOODTROCESSION. There was a conference at Blackwood \f: leyan Chapel on Saturday, when about Rechabites were present from the various of the district. Mr A. Badminton, D.C.B., degar, presided, and was supprted by 11 John Phillipson, Newcastle, High Chief 01 and Bro. Leor Caton, Birmingham, the board of directors. Bro. D. Thomas, Bbi. ney, read a paper on "Should sick and dent benefits be separately provided for 1 p. the close of the conference a new district ner was unfurled by the High Chief An imposing procession was formed paraded the streets of Blackwood, led by Blackwood Temperance Pand. In the a public meeting was held, when Cou»c'^ Harris presided, and addresses advoc^^y the claims of the Order were Bro. L. Caton, Birmingham, and David Tredegar.

PORTH PROCESiioN A MILE L0N*# At Porth there was a procession ab°^ot mile in length. The officials and member^, the Order wore their full regalia, and monstration attracted a great deal of pl1.d interest.the route being lined with a. number of spectators. Excellent arrange10 jjf were made by the local district secretary* D. M. Williams. In the evening a public O* JJ, ing, under the presidency of the S. Salmon, was held at Bethlehem C eer;)a and Mr Donald Maclean delivered a J. (reported in another column), as also did S. Newton, a member of the boaDd. of direc