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CHAPTER XVII Continued
WJien tho meal was over Dr Dun
widdie arose and as was his habit
returned to the house up the road to
see to his patients condition and
found that Johnson had slept through
the night scarcely stirring still as a
baby Things were going well to help
on his recovery and though it would
be months before he could be able to
get around yet there was every hope
and every reason to expect him to
recover
Johnson moved and opened his eyes
slowly as Dr Dunwiddie entered the
room Vacant hollow eyes they were
with a stare in them which startled
Dolores
Dr Dunwiddie was at his side in
stantly but without a sign of haste
He is used to your voice he said
to Dolores without turning his head
Speak to him Miss Johnson Say
anything to him anything you are in
tho habit of saying
Dolores came no nearer the bedv
she stood quietly at the window and
asked in her ordinary voice slow un
interested Are you ready for break
fast father
The hollow eyes closed weakly for
a moment Mrs Allen entered at that
moment with the beef tea and Do
lores taking the bowl from her hand
crossed over to the bedside John
son again opened his eyes with the
old expression of distrust and dislike
in them She bent over him and Dr
Dunwiddie raised his head a trifle
gently on his arm as she put the spoon
to his lips with steady hand and un
moved face But when she offered
him the second spoonful he closed his J
eyes and endeavored to turn aside his
head with the sullen expression on
his face Dolores bent over the bed
and held the spoon steadily to his
lips as she said in a tone that thrilled
her listeners by its slow almost stern
sweetness
Drink this father
He obeyed like a child and she fed
him carefully according to the doc
iorls orders Dr Dunwiddie watched
her movements wonderingly Where
did this girl get her womanly tact
Surely not from this man upon the
pillows whose face was indicative of
nothing but a brute nature
It was an exquisite morning Mrs
Allen was with the doctor there was
no need of her there and she went
out and sat on the door stone in the
shadow of the pines Leaning her
head against the door post her hands
fell to her lap Her eyes were intent
on the mountain with a sort of hun
gry look in them It had meddled so
with her life or was it the fate of the
stars that crippled her father and pre
vented his going to court where the
men were eager to have him like the
j vulture on the mountain She knew
Tittle of fate or law but it seemed to
her that the one possessed her and
th other was waiting waiting in a
terrible silence ior her father to go
to prove the malice prepense in the
laming of the mare a waiting that
appalled her by its dogged patience
What her neighbors thought she did
not care she had lived without them
she could still live with6ut them Had
she known how roughly they used her
name she would scarcely have under
stood their meaning Her mind was
too pure and too high above them to
comprehend the evil they would lay
at her door Lodie among them all
was the only kind one Not one of the
woman had been near her but the
women never did come she cared
nothing about that only there was
something in her life that had not
been there before and that called for
companionship for the sympathy of
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Dolores crossed to the bedside
other women But Dora would come
she thought with sudden brightness
in her heart Dora and her uncle and
young Green as well until until the
truth were -known Then what would
they think or say Dora and her
uncle who were honorable people the
nurse said and young Green who had
been so kind to them so kind Did
he not risk his life for her father
Yet even then he must have known
about the mare and by whom the deed
was done Did Tie not tell her- himself
that the man who had committed
such a dastardly deed should suffer
the full penalty of the law And the
law had aterrible significance to her
Lodie came slouching up the path
tan gaunt angular in the full glory
of the sunlight He removed Us rusty
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hat as he stood before her his hands
ueirnu ins rmcK
Be yer feyther gettin on tolrable
Dlores I kem up hyar from the
tavn ter hear We lowed he orter
be improvin an wes waitin ter
know
Who are waiting to know she
asked sharply The tone was new to
her and the man was disconcerted by
it A vague fear had entered her
mind in spite of Mrs Allens assurance
that they would not come for her
father until he was able to go to
prove
Why jes we uns Lodie replied
clumsily He were a good un mong
us was yer feyther Dlores an wes
jest waitin ter know ef he is im
provin
Thank you Jim Lodie You can
tell those who wish to know that my
father will get well
A flash came into Lodies eye a
deep red rushed to his sunburned face
I be powerful glad ter hev ye say
His face ghastly in its pallor
thet Dlores he said gravely An
ther rest of emll be glad of et too
She watched him shuffle down the
path and along the road to the tavern
Presently two light hands were laid
on her shoulders and a soft low voice
exclaimed
Dolores Dolores I am Dora Look
up and tell me you are as glad to see
me as I am to have found you I am
so glad Dolores
Dolores fingers closed tightly as
she looked up at the girl before her
the cousin who had come to claim her
the only one in all the world who
had ever loved her since Betsy Glenn
died She was a small little lady and
neatly dressed from the wide brimmed
white hat with its drooping gray
plume to the blue ribbon around her
throat and the soft gray costume and
delicate gloves Her eyes were wide
and gray dark with excitement soft
with a touch of tears her mouth was
gentle and sweet but the lips were
colorless her small oval face was
white as death save for a faint trace
of feverish color upon either cheek
Dolores knew nothing of the nature
of Doras disease and to her the girl
was a picture something to look at
and love and admire but too fair to
touch Her eyes grew luminous as
she looked at her The brown eyes
and the gray met Dolores lips part
ed in one of her rare smiles that
transformed her face for the moment
her eyes were like wells of light
beautiful unfathomable
Young Green was standing behind
Dora During the time he had known
Dolores never had she looked like
that it was a revelation to him of
what she was capable She did not
sre him she saw nothing but Dora
and it was uncommon for women to
show such marvelous depth of soul to
another woman Dora saw no one but
her cousin They did not kiss each
other they offered no endearment
common to women but Dora sat down
on the doorstep beside Dolores
I am so happy she said
Dolores said nothing Her eyes
talked for her
Young Green with a feeling that he
had no right to be there passed un
noticed around to the rear of the
house and entered through the low
door of the pantry
Dr Dunwiddie greeted him with a
smile but he did not speak as he was
busy with the bandages on Johnsons
arm On preparing one of the band
ages he stepped aside and at that
moment Johnson slowly opened his
eyes upon young Greens face He was
conscious and his eyes had the old
look in them excepting that it was
intensified by their hollowness His
face grew ghastly in its pallor then
livid with fury the close set eyes
under the narrow forehead were wild
and bloodshot instinctively the fin
gers of his right hand were feebly
clenched as he endeavored to lift him
self from among the pillows unmind
ful of the pain as he cried in a hoarse
whisper between panting breaths
Ye hyar Fool with yer larnin
an yer books I sweared Id get even
with ye fer te ef ever ye kem
hyar agen a settin my gal up ter
thenk herself bettern her feyther
a turnin her head with yer foolin
an yer soft words as though yed
look et a smiths darter fer no
good
Young Green started to speak but
Dr Dunwiddie with a stern expres
sion on his face which hia friend had
never before seen said with quiet
authority
Be quiet Johnson Not anothe
word Charlie go into the other
room Mrs Allen help me at once
his excitement has brought on hemorr
hage
As Green closed the door behind
him ho caught a glimpse of Johnsons
faco that he never forgot It was
pallid as death and ghastly with the
hollow eyes Horror and amazement
mingled in his face as he noiselessly
crossed the room and passed out of
the house through the pantry at the
rear without disturbing the two on
tlfc door step and struck out among
the pines beyond toward the summit
where the winds were soft and the
sky blue and still He saw nothing
around him clearly his thoughts in
a tumult were in the little bare room
of the house below where the strong
man who had just been brought back
from death lay in his repulsive lit of
passion and with the mare in the
stables at home the beautiful intelli
gent animal ruined forever through
a cowardly act of malice the two
blending so closely that he could not
separate them mingling with tho
stray words he had heard in the town
of other and darker things than he
had dreamed
Then like a touch of peace came
the thought of the two girls on the
door step two such lovely womanly
girls each with a noble soul yet
totally unlike the one whose life had
been set in among the grand moun
tains touched with their grandeur and
nobility of thought and life and to
him the purest most tender of wom
en the other proving her tenderness
through all her life in the heart of
the big city with its temptations and
its evil3
CHAPTER XVIII
Dolores and Dora
And you found Uncle Joe when
every one else had given up the
search said Dora softly her eyes
full of loving admiration How
brave you are Dolores I would never
have had the courage to do it but
then Im not brave anyhow
Why shouldnt I do it Dolores
asked quietly turning her large eyes
wonderingly upon her companion
He is my father
Of course he is Dora replied with
a nod of her bright head untying the
broad ribbons of her hat and swinging
it around upon her knees Papa is
my father too Dolores Johnson and
I love him but I would never have
enough courage to go off on a lonely
dangerous mountain to find him if
he were lost no not if I had a dozen
men to go with me Suppose you had
slipped over one of those terrible
ledges Mr Green told us about or
walked right off into a chasm when
you thought you were in the path No
I couldnt do it ever but I wish I
were brave like you
Dolores said nothing because she
had nothing to say Dora must be a
coward if she would not do that for
her father any of the women of the
settlement would have done the same
Mr Green told us all about you
Dora continued and I wished so
much to get at you but you would not
come to me and I could not come to
you and then the rain oh the rain it
raineth every day and I begun to
think I would have to wait a week
at least and the things Mr Green told
me about you when he returned from
here made me all the more restless
and anxious to get at you you poor
dear
He saved my father Dolores said
presently She said it slowly as
though she were forced to say it
Dora nodded
I know it she said the man who
came over for the doctors told us
about it but you saved him more than
anyone else Dolores and you cannot
deny it Theyd never have thought
of going over there to look after the
deputies gave up the search had it
not been for you
To be continued
COLLECTING FARES IN CANADA
Method Is Practiced But Hardly Up
to Date
There are all kinds of ways for
collecting fares on the street cars
but one that I saw recently in Canada
was certainly unique if not particu
larly up to date says G M P Holt
I was taking a ride on the four
mile trolley road running between
Sherbrook and Lenoxville in Canada
The first thing that met my eye on
entering the car was the sign Noth
ing changed over 2 I dont see ex
actly why they were so particular
about the matter as it didnt strike
me that the class of passengers they
were carrying was that which makes
a practice of carrying 10 dollar and
20 dollar bills only
But what tickled me the most was
the fare taking that occurred soon
after The conductor came down the
aisle carrying in his hand a curious
looking arrangement that resembled
a large square dark lantern It had
handle attached which the con
ductor grasped and when he shoved
it toward my face and said fare I
perceived that it had a glass front
and a slit in the top where you drop
ped your nickel or ticket and then
you could see the same go down to
the bottom Springfield Mass
Union
Pittsburg Industries
The Pittsburg district has more in- i
dustrial superlatives than any other j
similar area on earth It has the
greatest iron and steel works the
erreatest electrical tilans trm inrtroot
glass houses firebrick yards potter
ies and at the same time is the center
of the worlds greatest coal and
coking fields
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THEY ALWAYS GO TOGETHER
NOT ALL THE TRUTH
WHAT PRESIDENT MKINLEY DID
NOT SAY
Improbable Story by a Britsh Free
Trader That the Late President Had
Reached the Conclusion That Tariff
Must Be Reduced
Americans familiar with the tariff
legislation of this country will read
with surprise the statement made by
F O Schuster the governor of the
Union Bank of London that in an in
terview which he had with the late
President McKinley two years ago the
latter said
My tariff bill has done Its work
We have been able to build up many
great industries in a short time and
now gradually but inevitably our
tariff must be reduced
It hardly seems the proper thing to
call into question the statement of so
distinguished a person as the gover
nor of an important London bank but
we are forced to observe that Mr
Schusters assertion is in the highest
degree improbable It is inconceiva
ble that the late Mr McKinley should
have used the expression My tariff
bill has done its work at the time
mentioned for in 1901 the McKinley
bill was a memory of the past and
the good it had accomplished more
than a decade earlier had been in a
measure counteracted by the retroac
tive Gorman Wilson bill When Mr
Schuster had the honor of talking to
the late President McKinley the Ding
ley act was in force and he would not
haveeommitted the unpardonable act
of assuming that its accomplishments
reflected credit upon himself As a
matter of fact Mr McKinley always
expressed himself with great modesty
in discussing his own work and was
never guilty of bragging
But the main thing In Mr Schus
ters statement is the opinion he at
tributes to the late president that our
tariff must be reduced That we shall
also take the liberty of discrediting
because it is at variance with Mr
McKinleys repeatedly expressed view
that so long as the tariff performed
the work it was cut out for that is
of promoting domestic production it
conferred a national benefit No pro
tectionist was more firmly convinced
than Mr McKinley that the chief
function of the policy was to preserve
the home market for the domestic
producer He was strongly opposed
to any relaxation of the tariff laws
which would permit foreigners to suc
cessfully compete in American mar
kets In short he planted himself
squarely on the proposition that the
world would be better off if external
trade was limited to an exchange of
non competing products He believed
that there would be room for a great
development of foreign commerce
along these lines but he took no stock
in the free trade idea that a people
can be benefited by giving a chance to
foreigners to undersell them in their
home market San Francisco Chron
icle
How Not to Mend Matters
Being greatly moved to compassion
for the unfortunate millionaire pack
ers whose products are required to
paj increased duties on entering the
French market the Chicago Tribune
says
This would not have happened if
the reciprocity treat with France
negotiated a few years ago had been
ratified by the American senate
Many domestic producers would have
secured tariff rates lower than those
then in force and would have been
protected against an increase during
the life of the treaty The senate
would not ratify it and American
trade suffers as a consequence
There is one way to mend matters
It has been hinted at by French offi
cials If the United States will make
concessions on some French goods in
a reciprocity treaty the French gov
ernment will be quite pleased to make
concessions on its side
That is characteristic reciprocity
doctrine In order to swell the profits
of the meat barons the Tribune would
assassinate any number of other in
dustries But is there not another
md a better way to mend matters
How would it do to clap double duties
jn all importations from France until
mch time as the French government
could see its way to treat American
products as fairly as it treats the
products of any or all other coun
tries We have a tariff that is the
same for everybody Why not com
pel other nations to be equally fair to
us or suffer the consequences Why
not That wouldnt be reciprocity
to be sure but it would be fair play
and common sense
WANT IT FOR THEMSELVES
Canadians in No Hurry to Lose Control
of Their Own Market
The movement headed by Chamber
lain in England to day may be do
scribed as a movement for reciprocity
with the colonies At the same time a
strong movement for reciprocity with
Canada is being carried pn in tho
United States We published yester
day a circular issued by the Minnesota
branch of the National Reciprocity
League Its officers are some of the
most solid men of Minneapolis St
Paul and Duluth The circular says
that reciprocity with Canada will be
more valuable than with any other
country and that there is a large mar
ket here for farm machinery and oth
er articles used by a farming commu
nity But unless a reciprocity treaty
is soon arranged Canadian tariffs will
be raised especially on American
manufacturers
American manufacturers are there
fore urged to prepare for the interna
tional Joint High Commission The
work is to be done quietly and with
out parading its efforts before the pub
lic Unnecessary publicity is to be
avoided A fund of 100000 ought to
be raised The members of the com
mission must be Impressed with the
conviction that the commission must
make a treaty then members of Con
gress must be pressed to support it
A great market is growing up north
of the Great Lakes and the St Law
rence and we should go after it
We do not blame our American
friends for going after our market
but that is all the more reason why
wc should strive to retain it for our
selves Our tariff is much lower than
that of the United States all along the
line and we buy from them twice as
much as they from us If they really
want reciprocity they can get a very
large measure of it by simply reducing
their own tariff and this is the course
suggested by the New York Sun
There is no doubt that the opening
of the Canadian west creates a new
situation in regard to trade Althougn
we have been accustomed to say that
the international boundary is an imag
inary line the Great Lakes have been
a real barrier to trade and commu
nication In the West we shall for the
first time have to deal with an imagin
ary line of great length with a large
population on both sides Toronto
World
True But Not Strange
It is discouraging to New England
reciprocators to find that among Cana
dians there is a growing coolness on
the subject of preferential trade ar
rangements with this country Not
long ago Sir Wilfrid Laurier in the
course of a speech in the house of
commons said that the best way for
Canada to remain friendly with the
United States was to be absolutely in
dependent of it Obviously he meant
to convey the deduction that the sur
est way to get into hot water would be
to enter into a reciprocity scheme Evi
dences are increasing daily that Can
ada does not yearn for reciprocity She
wants to make more not less of the
manufactured goods required for home
consumption And she is right Sad
as it may be for those who want to
control the Canadian market from
the south side of the boundary it
seems to be true that Canada prefers
to control her own market
Invariable Results
The Democrats are getting into a
useless sweat over the tariff When
it needs reforming the people will
let the Republicans have control of
the job The Democrats have been
tried with free soup Coxey armies
and such like results Valley Mills
Tex Protectionist
How to Pay the Debt
If we owe any further debt or duty
to Cuba it should be paid out of the
national treasury and not taken from
our sugar and tobacco growers
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BOOKS tmd
AUTHORS
The Irror rissible Mary MacLano o
Mosira the beaut from Butte as
she has been dubbed again apears on
the flat surfaces of things with her
new book My Friend Annabel Lee
The public will accept this second vol
ume in much the same spirit that was
accorded Miss MacLanes initial ef
fort but wo are hopeful that the pub
lishers Herbert S Stone Co Chi
cago will not hazard a third assault
unless this western genius Improves
her titjlX Nothing hs the new vol
ume is more interesting than the
authors description of it The fol
lowing letter was sent to her publish
ers early in August
It is made up of reflections and im
pressions and sketches but I hato
the words and my reflections are
not reflections and my impressions
are not impressions and my sketches
arent sketches in the least Tho
book is not quite a diary for it has
no dates but its all in the first per
son It has a tinge of the first book
and its a fascinating book and yet
MARY MACLAXE
It relates to my friend Annabel
Lee and me It is more Annabel Lee
than me I take the part of a foil
to my fend Annabel Lee I take tho
part well It is particularlly effective
contrasted with the all egotistic part
I take in the other book In this
one compared to Annabel Lee I am
the next thing to nothing The very
next thing to nothing I do that
well Tis the best thing in the entire
idea
The book is her conversation and
some of mine It is her ideas mostly
She talks exquisitely well times
and is even marvelous I left my
friend Annabel Lee in Boston yet
she follows me here Not that she
sver follows no but I travel fre
quently to Boston to find her AH the
difficulty I have had in writing and
cutting out and pruning and inking
over is in that my poor miserable
pen cannot always do justice to my
friend Annabel Lee
The names of some of the chap
ters are Boston The Flat Surfaces of
Things The Young Books of Trow
bridge When I Went to the Butte
High School Minnie Maddern Fiske
To Fall in Love Relative A Lute
With no Strings only no one has the
least idea what I may have written
about them
Annabel Lee referred to above
and after whom the book is named
is a terra cotta and white Japanese
statue but a clay statue is preferable
to a kind devil in the hands of
this starved hearted woman young
and all alone The same general ap
pearance characterizes the second
book which bears as its frontispiece a
new portrait of the author The vol
ume is dedicated to Lucy Gray in
Chicago who is believed to be Miss
Lucy Monroe one of H S Stone
Cos readers and to whom is credited
the suggestion of publishing The
Story of Mary MacLane
What ic in the opinion of the pub
lishers one of the most remarkable
historical romances in recent years in
English has just been brought out by
the Lothrop Publishing Company
Boston It is called Gorgo the
name of the heroine and is the work
of Prof Charles K Gaines of St Law
rence university Canton N Y who
holds the chair of Greek in that insti
tution He has written a number of
clever short stories but in this rom
ance of Athens in the- age of Pericles
when the glory that was Greece was
at its height of splendor he has pro
duced a book of far greater signifi
cance It gives without a touch oi
pedantry or heaviness a wonderfullj
vivid attractive picture of a by gone
civilization and shows the causes un
derlying the downfall of Athens Greal
figures like Alcibiades Socrates and
Pericles walk through it and the at
mosphere of the time is caught sc
that the illusion of reality is perfect
There is an entrancing love story and
plenty of intrigue and fighting told sc
as to stir the blood Gorgo is in
every way an exceptional work
H L Wilsons novel The Lion3 oi
the Lord was published by the Loth
rop Publishing Company Boston ir
June This is Mr Wilsons seconc
novel his first story The Spenders
published a year ago beisg in it
fifty fourth thousand and selling bet
ter than ever In this new story
which is described as a tale o tht
old West with its center of action
and interest in Salt Lake City the
author makes an entire departure
from his earlier book and presents a
graphic picture of the humor amj
tragedy 61 Mormon life
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