Mr. Ranger Gull takes us boldly into the region of contemporary high finance and hurries ux through his story in a manner that holds his readers up till the fall of the curtain. A financial duel between the two most prominent capitalists of the Metropolix provides the basis of the plot: Monte Carlo, a secret chamber and all the equipment of millionsiredom form the setting. The secretary and the daughter roust clearly "live happily ever after but the possibilities ahead are so vast, with fresh complications cropping up at every turn. that Japanese were to get the right of exploiting to an unlimited extent all marine products without exception, not only at sea but in the estuary lof the Amur, where the Japanese claimed for themselves more rights! than were accorded to Russian subjects, The Russian fishery expert, M. Gubastoff, took as firm stand, however, and declared that if the Japanese did not agree to the Rassian con-would have to be postponed till next, ditions, the signature of the convention
year, whereupon the Ji The Portsmouth Treaty bad ineloded another clause, according to which the Japanese were not to be given permis-to fish in rivers and bays, bat Baron Motono had insisted that all the bays should be thrown open to his country-plow sal over it daring the night. A profound silence reigns everywhere, and the very pines that stand nearby are as erect apd a8 motionless as though they were sentries on guard.
All at once, a8 if a miracle had been wrought, the mountain ridge away in 4.0, 60, daring he Sign of the Buddhism was firet brought to China
Emperor Ming, of the Later Han Dynasty.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.