The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904

e heard his big dogs barking with anger. As the disturbance continued he went to the door,

ff your lambs?"

nsart, always terribly suspicious of stranger

e, but I have come

it is daylight, my friend," a

termined to see you now, and if your dogs atte

am on its rusty hinges, and when he heard the growls of the dogs,

ne of your dogs first,"

er's resolution. He whistled his great curs off; but he was sorry that he had done so when he perceived his v

that the other was compelled to retreat before him. He c

demanded Simon, trembli

! And what a little fir

ght to talk by, an

t not so? It is about

who loathed him. When peace should come the courts would make g

IPE VéTéRIN," SAI

g his arms with their gauntleted hands, and fixing a stern

tered Simon, his de

to Orgemot on

s he w

e

bed his han

isten to me, I think it likely that La Hi

hat has this to do with me?" he demand

ere with a message for Mademoisel

ill keep your compliments until I ask fo

should like to mention in the interests of my friend Monsieur Nicolas La Hire. It is of a most unusual nature. Here it is. Rachel married you believing that you were at Death's door. But th

Then Mansart said,

resent the fortune which you have bestowed upon your wife. Ah! not s

. "The thing is impossible," he said. "She is my wife; we were lawfully wedd

nly as her husband will he ki

how can it be? S

tinued, imp

; yet I am about to yield them to you. It follows, then, that you will still call her your wife and enjoy your own as well? I am afraid that it does,

li

cise

"You are threatening

eans. Lo

counters. "There are thirteen of them," he said. "You will perceive that

e your wor

m with a handkerchief-so. And I ask you, if you are a man of courage, to raise one corner of the handkerchief and take out a single counter. If it be a white one-as is almost certain to be the case-I hand you the p

nsart had turned livid. "Go on," he said, in a shaking voice

s he answered, "In that case I s

urder me!" said

pistols here. It wou

onstrous! I will n

en to another; almost as monstrous as coming eternally betwee

not hear of it," repea

, one. And even then it will be fair fighting-though, by my sword, I shall do my best to kill you. Con

you entertain toward me no sinister in

ward the door. He opened it and was about to pass out

el

my favour are

coward

o the number an

of the white discs into his helmet. "There you

art, who appeared to be almost fainting wi

e. He withdrew it slowly. The trooper snatched away his helmet to pr

the r

NG FIXEDLY AT THA

strangling dream. He remained gazing fixedly at that symbol of death. A rush of blood mo

rin, "how unfor

s received a wound, which simulates an approaching end, and which holds

ent on Vétérin, who was cool as ice. "Eighteen to one! Ma f

denly, in a hard, rasping voice. "Y

is look was steadily directed upon the trooper, whose sli

ssionless face. He pushed a pistol toward Simon. "I think you had better defend yourself,"

in a choked voice. "We do

do you

n the use of your

xtinguished the candle. He called out, "Take

the grate and shone upon the farther side of the apartm

Vétérin was scarcely breathing; his straining eyes peered into the dark, seeking to detect the form of Simon Mansart. He listened intently.

re of that indistinct form; yet his finger did not pre

ter with my nerv

ded. "Why not?" he asked himself again. "It is

. "I cannot do it," he muttered; "not even f

dle; I shall d

ans

ear me," repeat

no r

went to the fire, and held the coarse wick against the log. All the time he did not remove his eyes for an instant from that black something which he believe

ll and extending his weapon. A low cry es

HIM AT THE SIGHT

undischarged pistol, looked with dead eyes at the flaring light. The excit

t for Nicolas's sake," he said. He crossed to t

d a strong effort of self-control gave him his wits again. For a moment he halted to look back at the cha

be married when

L WAR GAME SOCIETY IN THE NELSON

Game and How

us She

United States by

the world. The subject is of some special interest just at present, because both the Japanese and Russian navies trained on

safe to say that the game is a mystery to the general public. The reason is, in part, that it touches technical questions that are caviare to the million, but as much, or more so, it is mysterious on account of the secrecy with which many

den and the Argentine Republic again have nothing in common in their naval aspirations. However, were I in a position to divulge these matters they would not be of

naval war game reached its fruition some five years ago, but Mr. Fred. T. Jane, its i

ship also. We took to armour-plates made from biscuit-tins, and to squadrons instead of single ships. In the battle that ensued our fleets annihilated each other, and depleted finances forbade their renewal. Then it was that the economy born of necessity cause

o armies. I thought I could do with that fortune, so packed the game in an empty Australian beef-tin and sent it to the Admiralty, together with a letter in w

e game with thanks. They had 'inspect

ars I still remember vividly the smell of that

y policy in general, with a view to making the callous authorities tremble! I never witnessed the trembling, but as out of this camp

n it was resuscitated only as a toy. I used to take it to the Majestic, and it was played there very much à la

thing into its original serious mould, plus a variety of improveme

xander of Russia, the Czar's brother-in-law, who, with that absence of 'side' so characteristic of the Romanoffs, wrote himself as a naval officer. He had, he told me, himself i

lors are usually regarded as mere ornamental dummies, but both the Grand Duke Alexander and Prince Louis of Batte

ntal games to test the rules, and alter them when necessary to make practice as simple as possible. We used to fight little one-man 'wars,' beginning at about ten in the morning and carrying on till after midnight. Captain Kawashima is now

lowed the Majestic battle, and thus the game 'to

declined, but Mr. Jane gave a similar option to the British Admiralty, which, however, made no reply whatever beyond an offi

sed that it caused the Chinese attack on the allied fleets at Taku. After that affair a British landing party found the ground inside one fort littered with war-game models, each model ship being stuck fu

ulars of "scor

ore opening fire. They had, however, made one little mistake

tor designed it for-the teaching of the guns and armour of possible enemies. It was procured for the use of artillery officers in sea forts, and in his last report Lord Roberts emphasized the vast difference between those officers who had played the game and those who ha

RWEGIAN NAVAL

to. by Sym

with blue cards divided into a multitude of little squares, each of which represents half a cable-that is

ave to recognise them. Each model is fitted with tiny guns-little bits of wire set in at various angles which indicate the arcs of training of the corresponding guns in the real

ften with his admirals. One day, so runs the story in the German Navy, the Kaiser was winning hand over fist, his fleet, led by hi

d to have ensued, and the writer for one can quite believe that. It is undoubtedly an awkw

fleet?" ask

exclaimed his chief opp

pparently from down the admiral's sleeve, three of the missing w

his arm on the Kaiser's vessels, and so lifted the lot unawares. All's well that ends well, and the Kaiser laughed

, no less a person than the Japanese Admiral Togo heading the list of those who have ha

is "admiral." Each move nominally occupies a minute of time-actually it usually takes more, and it is in the ways and means adopted to balance this that

GAME TARGET-

his means eight hundred yards a minute-equivalent, approximately, to a speed of twenty-four knots per hour. In actual practice the ships do not move by squares, else a vessel proceeding

practice the real turning circles of ships are alone made-and here, of course, confidential features are thick. The inventor of the gam

showing guns, armour, etc., and divided into arbitrary vertical sections of twenty-five feet each. This card is known technically as a "scorer." Pic

y often then. Nice calculation is required, and also great coolness-too great effort after accuracy being usually as fatal as too little. Thus, by automatic means, that great factor of modern warfare, "moral effect," is provided for, since experience shows that no player whose ship has been badly

table and in the hands of players

H.M.S. "KIN

urged as a weak point in the shooting system that he could hit the enemy every time. He took a target and did it. Yet in the battle that ensued he neve

SHIP WAS KNOCKED ABOUT. THE DAMAGES HAVE BEEN

ng to the actual damage that would be inflicted. In a very little while the player realizes that what will put one ship out of action will hardly hurt another. This in theory he has, of course, always known, but between knowing a thing and fully realizing it there is an enormous gap. He has been firing, perhaps, at the German Kaiser

against him. In a Russian lunatic asylum there is at this day a captain who actually went mad on the game and spends his existence in perpetual imaginary battles. In the British Navy there are dozens of young officers who think nothing of playing a game from half-past eight on to four in the morning, taking their chances of being able to find a shore-boat to take them back to their ships at that hour in the depth of winter. I have seen battles often in which the oppos

does are fired-the firing method being to draw a pencil line following the bearing of the tube, firing not at the enemy, but at the spot on which he is expected to be when the torpedo reaches him. Torpedoes are slow things relatively. They can travel a thousand yards in a minute, but take three minutes to do two thousand yar

in torpedo range again. In the centre, between the fleet, lay the victim, which the umpire had notified as torpedoed. Not till the battle was over was

the player of a submarine sees of the battlefield is what he can find reflected in a tiny mirror. He has, in fine, to guess a great deal as to the course and distance of the enemy from the spot corresponding to that on which he is supposed to be, which reproduces the conditions under which a periscope is used fairly accurately

ality, because destroyers and picket-boats may be with the enemy. Should a destroy

or membership, and, as far as possible, junior officers only. At the "war course" tactics are the principal study, but at Portsmouth tactics play a minor part. "Tactics cannot be taught by naval war game, save in a very general way," is the dictum of the inventor. "The Portsmouth Naval War-Game Society exists for quite different objects. It aims chiefly at teaching the guns and armour of possible enemies; and for the rest tries to train officers

each other. Advantage is taken of the rivalry that exists between ships in the Navy-and one ship's officers are usually pitted against t

rt, but in war game you must 'play t

e provision that, should the umpire consider any claim impossible or

tenant who acted as Admiral Alexieff in a Ru

ffal is to be thrown ove

Port Arthur is mentioned). At this spot offal is to be freely thrown into the water to attract porpoises

, holding a short pole in position (as per small mo

d of Port Arthur dropping offal-that is to say, Japanese ships only-and that th

ow so used to the sight that after a time a real submarine

destroyers

man. Russian bat

BER LAST. AS USUAL IN TORPEDO OPERATIONS, THIS WAS PLAYED ON A BOARD WI

Photo.

e, but the fertile brain whence it originated is never lik

arts are used, and an immense amount of study of harbours is thus put in as pastime, while these little wars give prominence to such minor operations as attacks on coastguard stations and so f

rofessions, was most deadly to one player. Two others, wishing to ensure private discussion, hired a motor-car. They had only gone some little way into the country when a policeman sprang from the hedge and stopped them. After the usual protests the policeman admitted an element of doubt in the case; if they would drive him to the police-station he would have his stop-watch tested in their

, they waited till he went to his cabin; then, slipping in, gagged and bound him, after which they proceeded to rifle his cabin. Plans were soon found, but false information

rdingly, handing these in to the umpire long before the gagged o

ay anticipated their raid, and the plan concealed in the

ad impressed upon them in the most direct and unexpectedly forcible of ways the urgent necessity of taking no information for granted and also of sifting it all most carefully, which was the object sought. And if in the hereafter any one of them is the

, of course, there is not the same interest. Here and there isolated foreign ships have the game on board and use it for purposes akin to those for which t

erate forlorn hopes untouched, though all around him were killed or wounded. Any ship played by Captain Wiren of the Bayan used to have similar extraordinary luck; as one Russian officer, who must have Irish blood in him, put it: "The enemy's hits on him were all misses." Strangely enough, the same luck has followed him in the p

of the future. Rules of the aerial fights of the future are said to exist all ready cut and dried, together with an ingenious machine by which the aerial warshi

, by George Ne

EGINNING

rned and mended and backed with shiny American cloth, on the floor of the nurs

e lips of Cyril, Robert, Jane, and Anthea.

mended it very nicely, and t

too," said the

eadful now. Well, never mind, darlings, you've done your best. I think we'll have cocoa

boots are the really reliable kind?" Robert a

them when we come in, perhaps. It's just an idea of mine. I wouldn't dream of sco

rn a glass dish of syrupy blackberry jam upside down on his young head. It was the work of a good many minutes and several persons to get the jam off him again, and this i

housekeeping accounts which cook gave her on dirty bits of paper, and which were supposed to explain how it was that cook had only fivepence-halfpenny and a lot

round and round by his hands; and "Leg and Wing," where you swing him from side to side by one ankle and one wrist. There was also climbing Vesuvius. In this game the baby walks up you, and when he is

say next time mother says anything about the carpet," s

thea; "here, you lovey ducky Lamb. C

y from the destruction of Pompeii, and instantly became a baby snake

little b

when he

th such a wr

s even in

ust the old bother. Mother can't believe t

ack-beetles lived, and the torn books, and the broken slates, and odd pieces of toys that

iety called th

what is a societ

ort of brotherhood-a kind of-well, something very

?nix. "I would fain see these call

out your wor

ays welcome,"

LY!' REMARKE

e Lamb, reaching his hands

bert, and Anthea hastened to distract t

little b

has a dre

g out amon

both his b

t they don't do anything fiery. They only drink a great deal. Much more than other people, beca

t it wouldn't be good in your body. You

pet. It's very magic indeed. Don't you think, if we put Tatcho on it and then

would do as well-at any rate as far as the smell goe

nthea's idea was somethin

bottle from father's washhand-stan

n't anything to put on it, it might all drop off before Eliza had time to get round to the chemis

e to wet father's head all over with in case any emergency emerges-and let's make up with pa

the roots of the hairs of it, and all the parts that there was not enough Tatcho for had paraffin rubbed into them

ow often am I to tell you that you are not to

what they had done to the carpet. She did not know it was a magic carpet, and n

elancholy! Father has sent a telegram. Look!" She held it ou

. Stalls for us, Haymarket.

will take you and fetch you. Give me the Lamb, dear, and you and Jane put clean lace in your red evening frocks, an

nal Richelieu. They were very nice tableaux, these, and I wish I could tell you about them-but one cannot tell everything in a story. You would have been specially interested in hearing about the tableaux

he theatre to look forward to, and also the possible growth of hairs on the carpet, for which everyone

, was entertaining and instructive-like school prizes are said t

dear?" asked Anthea, stoopin

WELL, PH?NIX, DEA

den bird, with a gloomy shake of

y been hatched a

ats. I'm sure the palpitations I've had since I've kn

id Robert, "and you've hardly begun this set of

ife in the desert. I am old, I am weary. I feel as if I ought to lay my egg, and lay me down to my fiery sleep. But unless I'm careful I shall be hatched again instantly, and that is a misfortune which I really do not

e the book there isn't any gladiating in it. There are chimney-sweeps and profes

Ph?nix shivered, and w

. "And theatres are very warm and pretty, with a lot

nterrupt. Do come, Ph?nix, old chap; it will cheer you up. It'll make you laugh like anything.

come with you. The revels of this Bourchier of whom y

bert's Etons-a very tight fit it seemed both to R

TO PRETEND

pink and green when she moves. Robert pretended that he was too cold to take off his great-coat, and so sat sweltering through what would otherwise have been a most thrilling meal. He felt that he was a blot on the smart beauty of the family,

ll, which is not manners. Robert thought father would not have been quite so funny about his k

sses-for it was a really truly grown-up dinner-the children were taken to the th

od and you will be happy. Is this zone torrid enough for the abandonment of great-coats, Bobs? No? Well,

and dishevelled Ph?nix. Robert had to arrange his damp hair at the looking-glass at the back of the box, a

ent up fully the Ph?nix, balancing itself on

e you brought me hither to lift up my head with emotions of joyous surprise? Tell me, my Robert, is it

rt, "but you can call this your temple i

ne can't tell everything, and no doubt you saw "The Water Babi

t and Anthea enjoyed it as much as any children possibly coul

d, again and again. "What radiant

rches lighted for its sake, and it was so charmed with the footlights that the children could hardly persuade it to sit still. But when the limeli

ts! Ye have my favour

awn by hundreds of lungs, every eye in the house turned to the box where the luck

attendant presently came to

wasn't," said Anthea, ear

then, they must kee

veryone like

ert, glancing imploringly at the

to depart," said

id the attendant, "only I'd cover him up d

he w

aid Anthea; "you wouldn't like to inte

why there was no altar, no fire, no incense, and became so excited and fretful and tire

uilty bird itself and the four children. The Ph?nix was balancing itself on the gilt back of the chair, swaying backwards and forwards and up and down, as you may see your own domestic parrot do. I mean the

egin to think of stopping it, it spread its bright wings and swept round the theat

Next moment it was perched again on the chair-back-and all round the theatre, where it had passed, little sparks sh

ered-then pe

curtain went down-

veryone, and ma

e supplied free of charge. Doesn't the incense smell delicious?" The only s

flame-flowers. The people in the theatre w

ou!" cried Jane.

Anthea, very pale, and trying

ted," said Robert; "no boys on b

ril, and he opened

THE DOOR

air made him shut it again. It wa

front of the box. C

certainly, but would t

get through." And, indeed, the crowd round the doo

er seen the Ph?n

o see if the bird had overheard a speech which,

?nix w

ut fires in papers; I'm sure it's all r

hing else," said

t. The Ph?nix has never been a skunk yet, and I'm certai

golden voice at his feet, and there was

portions of the carpet which are

ch that morning the children had anointed the carpet. It burned merrily. The children tried in vain to stamp it out. They had to stand back and let it burn itself out. When the par

the Ph?nix, "

hey were not to leave a leg or a hand hanging over one of the holes. It

o sit on A

they sat. They were all on the carpet still, and the carpet was lying in its proper place on the nursery

ver liked before was for the moment quite pleasant. And they were safe. And everyone el

. Somehow none of their adventures had given them s

" they said, and "

d pale under the dirt which it ha

ful! They'll think we're burned to cinders. Oh,

iss them," said t

ll be sure to think you are burnt to a cinder if she sees you as black as that. Mothe

I suppose it can't help its nature. Perhaps we'd better

ad bidden them to step on the carpet. An

for his parents-he, and not unjustly, called it looking for a needle in a bundle of hay-w

neeling on the linoleum of the hall, trying to kiss four damp children at once, and laughin

home?" said Cyril, later, when ev

And then I heard a voice at my ear say, 'Cyril, Anthea, Robert, and Jane'-and something touched me on the shoulder. It was a great yellow pigeon, and it got in the way of my seeing who'd spoken. It fluttered off, and then someone sai

GREAT YELL

least I thought so then. It wasn't a pigeon. It was an orange-coloured c

ather said bed was a good place

yone we

alk to the Ph?

know that I had power over fire? Do not distress yourself. I, like my high pr

lew

a matter of fact, it had done none, for the Ph?nix spent the night in putting things straight. How the management accoun

saw the burnt ho

it was paraffin

f that carpet at

hispers to each other, as they pond

t rid of th

SHOWS THE SPOT REACHED BY GUIDE

a P

the Brink

in E.

tween Goat and Luna Islands. Years of familiarity with the waters of the world-famed Niagara have caused Guide Barlow to forget what fear is, and he moves about in dangerous places without thinking of possible disaster. H

on of the upper rapids lying between the brink of the American fall and the island bridges, several of the cribs lodged on the reefs and refused to be stirred by the rush of the downpouring waters. The hope of the State Reservation officials was that the cribs would pass over the fal

ere three open channels, through which the water ran streak-like to the brink. One of these was close by the mainland, and made the plunge over the fall close to Prospect Point. The second was close to the outer edge of Luna Island, while the third was between Luna and Goat Islands. This left a wide expanse of the American fall, and

nsightly cribs on the river-bed could be removed. He called Guide Barlow to go with him, together with another man named William Mullane, and the trio made their way to Green

the latter recognised the unusual conditions of the ice. His practised eye sc

walk to the brink of the American fall," s

going. Still, the superintendent is a man of nerve, and as he looked down the river at Robinson's Island, at Chapin's Island,

STANDING ON THE BRINK OF THE FALL AT

a P

fore been. Their route carried them between Robinson's and Blackbird Islands, and on down by a little isle as yet unnamed. Leaving the foot of Robinson's Island behind, they moved cautiously over the frozen expanse down, farther down, right to the brink of the American fall, midway between Luna Island's shore and Prospect Park

he ice, intimating that the river was rising and might overflow the ice on which they stood. Yet it was such a novel place to be in that they lingered and looked-looked and gained new and wonderful ideas of th

remarkable trip, to the brink of the American fall, where he took another photograph of Superintendent Perry and Guid

NTENDENT PERRY STANDING

a P

stopping to pay tribute to Chapin's Island, the little spot where, in 1838,

intendent Perry, as the party reac

ded Guide Barlow, the only man who had ever conducted a part

Saturday, Feb

ios

4, by George N

tributions to this section, and

EL-OR

ugh the sides are the knots caused by the branches, which, owing to their resinous nature, have not decayed, while the wood

MADE B

ops and wooden spokes, the cranks are of wood, and bobbins form the principal part of the pedals; the front forks are likewise of wood, working inside a ten-inch "slubbing bobbin"; the saddle (movable) is cut out of an ordinary piece of wood, the back of a disused arm-chair does duty as handle

D BY AN

s shop of a farm in South America. The circle of round pieces in the centre is made up of 3/8 in. punch pellets from a punching machine, and will give an idea of the size of the rest of the metal. All th

MUSICAL I

has a long piece of wood ending in a steel spike, and at the lower end of the wood is a finger-hole. The striker is slipped upon one of the fingers of the left hand, and as the treble and bass are being played the finger with the striker upon it is bent in order to strike one of the bells. No. 2 is what the inventor calls 'a stone organ.' The old man said that one day when fishing in the river his foo

Y A CAR

War. The bullet after piercing the cartridge passed clean through his body, leaving in the centre of his back after penetrating one of his lungs. Fortunately it did not touch the spinal cord, o

TOWER ON

act, a diving tower, built many years ago for the use of bathers in the Lake of Neuchatel. The peculiar part about it is that anyone desirous of diving from it nowadays would have to fly horizontally over a railway, a road, and a good three hundred yards of dry land before reachi

TAL M

were marked on the marrow when it was quite small, and the writing has become more distinct with increasing age. When about nine inches in length the marrow was cut, a label with the necessary postage affixed tied to the small piece

ERE BENEAT

een allowed to cover the whole statue with the exception of the head; probably no one knows what the rest of it is like.

E CROW

at the extreme left of the picture. The bird flew slowly upwards and in zigzag fashion until it reached a height nearly equal to the cathedral spire. On developing the negative I found that the bird's flight was most accurately recorded in the shape of a thin black lin

ORRIS

int old custom of the Morris Dance, and on high days and holidays the six dancers, accompanied by the clown and t

SIM

tained by the simple means of placing a small piece of specially-c

FAN

m tree which is wonderfully like a fan, not only in the way in which its branches project from the trunk, but in the leaves in which the branches terminate. As shown in the picture, the tree spreads out like an extended fan and the leaves bear a strong resemblance to feathers. It is called the

FIED

ars, and when the water was pumped out the rope was discovered as shown, encased in a formation of hard stone. I may add that when th

AT IT

ter-logged member of the 'tramp' profession after a shower of rain. It is simply the photograph of the curious form which

DEN S

bserved, have a somewhat knotted and gouty appearance. A flower-pot forms the head, while a plant of aloes makes a very fine plumed head-dress. His uniform is painted in the most realistic way, so that altogether he has a most ferocious appearance and his expression does not invite confidence,

IDST OF

age. A wren finding it built her nest between the wings, and in the body of her greatest enemy actually reared her family.

LIAR H

n feeding his sheep on oats, and some of the grain fell on the back of one of the animals. It has taken root in the wool and

riber

ords used to mimic accents of the spea

they do not break up paragraphs and so tha

of the first pages of articles

nsistent hyphenation were not c

the shape" was replaced with "

es of" was replaced

ke a grave" was replaced w

on mark after "FUST" was replac

d was placed after "

nation" was replaced

able" was replaced

onn" was repla

campaign" was replaced