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Entered According to Act of Concreas in the Year 1890 by Street Smith
In the Office or the Librarian of Congress at Washington D C
CHAPTER XX Continued
Mrs Allen was In an adjoining room
reading to Mrs Green Mrs Green
was a woman one could love at a
glance and love always her sweet old
ace was flushed with pink her hrown
ycs were soft and gentle her silken
white hair was brushed in waves back
from her face and softened by a cap
of lace her voice was what a womans
Toice should be sweet but firm low
-jut perfectly modulated She took
Dolores right into her motherly heart
knowing every word of her history
-so far as her son knew it knowing
too without being told that this was
the girl her son loved And the slen
der silent girl seemed to melt toward
Jier as toward no one else though at
iirst it was very bitter this having to
accept hospitality from the mother of
the man who had been so wronged
She had been forced to accept the
hospitality of his mother been forced
and with no excuse to place the ac
ceptance out of the question because
there was no excuse she could offer
when they took her father from the
little house bearing him carefully to
the carriage waiting for him at the
gate soft with cushions and pillows of
down to the station and the city some
thirty miles below the town down the
valley with Doctors Dunwiddie and
Grey and her uncle They had every
thing that money could buy to gain
comfort for him A car was reserved
for him on the train everything ab
solutely was done that could be for
liis comfort And then they had
forced upon her the acceptance of this
hospitality
Mrs Green was watching Dolores
through the open doorway leaning
back on the cushioned sofa her soft
hands folded in her lap at this her
rest time of the day as she listened
to Mrs Allens reading her thoughts
somehow tangled with that and the
girl at the western window in the sun
set lights and the boy of her heart
their only child the best son she often
said laughing that a mother ever had
Dora was partly in shadow though
her face too caught the glow from
above The silence that had followed
Dolores all her life seemed to fall like
a veil around her and even to her
cousin for the time The sunset lights
faded aind died a mellow darkness
enveloped the eastern slope of -the
mountain the road that wound up its
side was like a slender thread in the
darkness Suddenly the sound of a
church bell smote the air and Dolores
started turning from the window
What is it she asked of Dora and
Dora arose as she answered her
Church bolls Lorie touching tne
hand nearest her shyly as though she
were half afraid This is Wednesday
evening and the bell is ringing for
prayer meeting
Dolores made no further remark on
the subject She knew nothing of
prayer meetings or church bells they
had little interest for her her
thoughts were with her father with
young Green with many things out
side of this commonplace subject
She turned from the window however
bringing her face into shadow Mrs
Allen had ceased her reading and was
watching the girls with an inscrutable
expression in her eyes Had she failed
aner all her planning There seemed
no difference in the friendship be
tween this girl and the son of their
host And as she cpuld not win Dora
from her cousin she could at least
make this stupid girl feel some of the
bitterness she held in her own heart
That at least was worth planning
for She was so deeply buried in
these thoughts that she started ner
vously when Mrs Green called the
girls in her soft low voice
My dears she said are you not
ready to join us now We have watch
ed the picture you make until now we
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Church bells Lorie
wish yourselves There is room for
each of you beside me here on the
sofa or will Dora play something
sweet and low to charm away the
darkness while Lorie and I sit here
together
Before they could answer her how
ever quick steps sounded on the
piazza the outer door was opened and
young Green entered the room where
the elder woman sat Mrs Green arose
In haste her face suddenly paling
Charlie what is the matter
Dont be frightened mother Char
liajsaid hurriedly with a quick glance
WMiiirKttijtuJmitiin
his Sit down Where Is Miss John
son and her cousin Dunwiddie wires
that Johnson has had a relapse and
can live but twenty four hours Do
lores Dolores must not know yet
She can not get to him and it would
do no good
A dead silence reigned through the
rooms for a moment then the lace
curtains were drawn aside from the
distant window and Dolores came
out she had unconsciously pushed
Doras hands from her arm and stood
alone with the darkness around her
the light of the faded sunset setting
her in outline against the window
She crossed the room with no sign of
haste and stood before Mrs Green
I must go to my father she said
Her voice was perfectly even but
the words were slow as her lips were
stiff
God forgive me young Green ex
claimed under his breath clenching
We have him safe and sure
his hands at his side Mother why
did you not tell me Why did you
not tell me turning fiercely upon
Mrs Allen in the darkness In sudden
distrust of her her subtle words re
turning to him losing half their mean
ing
Mrs Green took the girls hand in
hers and her voice was tender as a
mothers when she spoke
Lorie she said softly She liked
the tender name Lorie my dear
Dolores interrupted her
I must go to my father she re
peated in the same set voice her eyes
not moving from Mrs Greens face
How can I go
You cannot go Mrs Green said
gently dear not just now there is
no way to go until midniught then
the train will be due here and Charlie
and Mrs Allen will take you there
I must go to my father she said
at once Tell me how to get there
please
There is no way but the train at
midnight he replied
But I must go now she said
gravely if there is any way Could
we not go on horses I must go
He shook his head slowly Even
starting now and taking the fastest
horses in the stables we could get
there only half an hour sooner and
the ride would be too exhausting for it
to pay We will wait Miss Johnson
and take the train and be in time I
am sure we will be in time Do not
worry I would get you there if it
were possible believe me Dolores
It was the old voice and the old tone
of uttering the sad name She gave
no sign that she heard but she heard
She said nothing as she turned from
him and went out of the room like one
in a dream went out of the room and
up the stairs to her room but the tone
and the one low word followed her
like a note of tenderness through her
stony sorrow And when she had gone
young Green turned to his mother like
a boy in his sore distress and she
understanding comforted him
Then he left the room and Dora
went up after Dolores and the time
dragged on leaden feet ere the time
came for them to go to the train when
Dolores came down the wide staircase
like a spirit in her trailing black dress
and bonnet her face more pallid than
the light of the moon on the moun
tains Dora was behind her but she
seemed to notice no one but passed
out on to the steps of the piazza where
young Green and Mrs Allen were
waiting for her as though she were
moving machinery and not through
any wish of her own
Such an unheard of thing going
off like this in the dead of night Mrs
Allen said sharply showing her heart
for the moment in her anger Thank
heaven Dora isnt like her
Hush Nurse Allen If I were half
as brave as Lorie I would be the
proudest girl in the world I could not
do what she has for my father for
all I love him as I do And Doras
soft hand was on the womans mouth
and her pleading face turned to her
And these words out of all the
others seemed to reach Dolores mind
She stood for a moment silently on the
moonlit steps her face immovable
and pallid against the dead black of
her gown then she turned to Dora and
cried in sudden fierceness born of pain
a pain her gentler cousin could nev
er understand
And your father loves you Dora
every one loves you And no one has
ever loved me
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CHAPTER XXI
Even in Death
As they were whirled along through
the night and the darkness young
Greens mind was full of the one
thought he must tell Dolores about
the trial in court that afternoon be
fore they reached the station and
away from Mrs Allens hearing
Miss Johnson Dolores he said
presently Her head was leaning
against the back of the seat and her
eyes were closed but he was pretty
certain she was not asleep Dolores
you remember the laming of my mare
just after I first met you and the ex
citement and indignation among us
because of it and our inability to
catch the fellow though suspicion
pointed strongly in one direction
She roused with a sinking at heart
when the young man spoke she shook
off every other thought and sat wait
ing for what might be coming upon
her
Dolores he said and he tried to
keep his voice steady for her sake as
well as his own we have been fol
lowing up every clew letting nothing
slip us in this matter as doubtless you
have heard no matter how trivial it
might appear Just before the deed
was committed Hal and I disturbed
two fellows in the act of stealing the
mare It was a dark night and they
had her out of the stable her hoofs
bound to deaden the sound but she
would whinny in her excitement and
terror of the rough men and that
saved her We were late home that
evening from the house of a friend
and hearing Bess we went at once to
the stables One of the fellows we
caught but the other made good his
escape
We tried our best to get the fellow
we had to tell where his comrade
was the young man continued his
voice steady now and natural but he
was silent as the grave I give him
credit for that There is an honor
among even these rough lower men
that one must respect Then we wait
ed for your father as you know de
pending considerably upon his evi
dence for he knew the condition of
the mares hoofs when he shod her
and that there was nothing wrong
then save a slight lameness from going
too long without shoes over the rough
road But even without his evidence
we have succeeded even better than
I had dared hope
Dolores did not move She did not
quite understand this that he was tell
ing her How could they succeed with
out her father and how could they get
the guilty man
It was only yesterday Green went
on and there was a touch of pleasure
in his voice that Dolores caught with
a dull sense of dead pain It was only
yesterday that we caught the fellow
but we have him safe and sure enough
now
Surely they had not Dolores caught
her breath and her swift terrified
eyes flashed upon his startlingly His
own eyes darkened as though with
troubled thought
The men we sent out in search of
him found him yesterday Dolores not
a stones throw from where your
father fell on the opposite mountain
The first fellow we have sentenced to
five years for attempted horse steal
ing and the other has had his trial
to day It was sharp and swift I as
sure you Such a dastardly deed de
served the severest penalty the la7
allows
To be continued
Find Ancient Scotch Bridge
Laborers engaged in digging a
trench for the new drain along the
White Sands recently disclosed an
arch pier and buttress of the Old
Bridge which tradition says was first
erected at Deverogilla though in 1620
it was reconstructed after having been
wrecked by the flood At a much later
period when the New Bridge was built
and Buccleuch street opened up
through the Castle Gardens and the
level of the old Sand Beds raised over
which the river used to spread some
of the arches of the Old Bridge at the
Dumfries end were buried by the road
being brought over them It is one of
these the one next to the bridge as it
is now seen that was disclosed It is
in good preservation except that the
crown of the arch which is only about
a foot and a half below the level of
the pavement has been broken
through At nine feet down in the cut-
ting for the drain the gravel of the
old bed of the river was turned up
The Scotsman
Stop Slaughter of Elephants
The British government is taking
steps to stop the indiscriminate
slaughter of elephants in its African
possessions Many thousands are
killed every year for the sake of their
Ivory The governors of the various
colonies have been directed to pro
hibit by every means in their power
the killing of the huge animals as it
is feared that unless prompt meas
ures are taken elephants in Africa
will soon become very scarce
Valuable Old Coins
George J Laporte of Sbxewsbuiy
Mass has three old coins which he
has picked out of the earth where he
has been at work on the grading
around the new Howe memorial libra
ry The three coins are a penny made
in 1817 and a half dollar with the date
of 1803 plainly stamped on it The
third piece of money is a three cent
silver piece badly mutilated and the
date cannot be made out
Egyptian Cigarettes
In a recent German report on the
Egyptian cigarette industry it is
stated that all the tobacco from
which these cigarettes are made
comes from Turkey Macedonia
Smyrna and Greece
LET THE PEOPLE SAY
WHEN TARIFF REVISION SHALL
BE UNDERTAKEN
Senator Hoar Urges That Changes In
Our Protective System Be Not Made
Until the People Shall Have Passed
Upon the Question at the Polls
Senator Hoar dropped some pearls
af wisdom and sound policy in his
speech at the dinner of the Essex club
an tho 10th of September The
Grand Old Man of Massachusetts was
sasily the star among the speakers
He tisually is in any company He
talked about the tariff about foreign
trade and about reciprocity and it was
clear brained wholesome talk that
was alike timely and pertinent Tariff
revision he said might become neces
sary just as it is necessary to some
times revise the statutes of Massachu
setts but said the wise statesman
and profound economist you cannot
be doing it all the time because
whenever you are doing it business n
thrown into confusion and uncertain
ty In the course of time he added
and no protectionist disputes this
changes may be required in the most
satisfactory and the most scientific
tariff schedules but the time to make
such changes he insisted was not in
the year before a presidential election
but after a presidential election when
tne changes can be made in accord
with the instructions of the people
Note the qualification Tariff changes
should only be made in obedience to
the expressed will of the people The
Dingley law having been enacted in
response to the demand of the sover
eign people may not and must not be
changed in any essential particular
until the people shall have declared
their wishes through the ballot box
That is the thought which the Ameri
can Economist has again and again
urged as the guiding principle in all
tariff changes whether by legislation
or by any other method It is also the
thought which Senator Hoar enter-
tains It should be the uniform
thought and doctrine of the Republi
can party
As to the much talked about and
little understood question of reciproc
ity as a means of promoting foreign
trade the venerable statesman was
equally clear and pointed when he
saio
Everybody is in favor of reciproc
ity and everybody is in favor of for
eign trade We wish to sell every
thing we can sell to foreign countries
and to buy from foreign countries
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NOT FOR RECIPROCITY
Why Secretary Shaw Had So Little
to Say About It
In his speech at Chicago before tho
National Association of Merchants
and Travelers Secretary of the Treas
ury Shaw spoke of three ways cug
gested to acquire more markets for
this country One is reciprocity to
which the secretary referred as a plan
to trade compliments to exchange
trade privileges to set our doors
somewhat ajar for tho special advan
tage of our people Considerable has
been said along this line but not very
much has been actually accomplished
Just this passage on reciprocity and
no more from the cabinet official at
the head of the Treasury department
And in truth no more can be said
Reciprocity is a neblous thing an un
tried theory No one can defino it
The situation is wisely described in a
few words Reciprocity is not as yet
oven an experiment Its actual work
ings are unknown
One of the three ways commented
on by Secretary Shaw is to move
toward free trade in the hope that
greater freedom of importation will
induce other nations to follow the
example I would like to Inquire
asked the secretary of the business
men he addressed whether you in
making your purchases abroad give
preference to those countries which
favor us with an open door or do you
buy where you can obtain the desired
article to the best advantage The
answer is evident Business men buy
according to margins of profit They
go for silks to protective France and
not to free trade England We open
ed the door to Brazil and yet
that country continues to sell to us
70000000 worth of goods a year and
buys from us only 10000000 worth
The third method which Secretary
Shaw approves is to adopt a system of
encouraging regular lines of Ameri
can ships flying the American flag
and carrying American merchants and
American travelers with their wares
and merchandise the product of
American labor between our ports
LOOKING BACKWARD
everything that it is for the interest
of the whole people that we should
buy rather than make ourselves
That is the question Reciprocity
begins and ends right there if it be
gins at all under and in accordance
with the principles of protection to
domestic labor and industry What is
we should stop making in order that
we should stop making in order niat
foreigners may make and sell it to us
What industry or group of industries
shall Wft wipe out of existence dis
placing American employment Ameri
can labor and American wage paying
It is ahard question and one that de
mands an answer No advocate of reci
procity in competing products has
ever answered it none ever will an
swerit except he answer it as a free
trader namely No mater what in
dustry or group of industries shall be
annihilated Let us have more for
eign trade at any cost to domestic
labSr and wages
That is not the answer of protec
tionisms and it should not be the
answer of any Republican It is not
Serfatqr Hoars answer This is what
he said at the Essex Club dinner
DcCyou wish to buy of Canada any
thing we can make better ourselves
DoVryou want to strike down one
American manufacture for the benefit
of Another Or do you want to establish-the
reciprocity that Blaine favor
ed Sell to Canada everything that
we have got to sell that she does not
produce and buy of Canada every
thing that she has got to sell that we
do not produce
That is Blaine reciprocity Republi
can reciprocity as defined in the plat
form of 1900 the only reciprocity that
hr not free trade
and countries where our trade is un
developed Here is practical food for
thought Secretary Shaw has little
to say about reciprocity because little
can be said about a mere theory ii
not a chimera St Louis Globe Demo
crat
Hampered
The New York Journal of Com
merce is of the opinion that our
woolen manufacturers are greatly
hampered by the tariff on wool They
were not thus hampered during the
free wool period 1894 97 a period oi
stagnation loss and bankruptcy If
occasionally a woolen manufacturer
indulges himself in a dream of free
trade in wool he is sure to wake up
when he recalls what happened to
him as the result of the Wilson-Gorman
atrocity and particularly what
would happen to him when the re
moval of the tariff on wool should be
as it certainly would be accom
panied by a very material reduction
of the tariff on woolens
The World Is Advantaged
A Democratic free trade paper com
menting on the fact that the British
are protesting against cheap bounty
sugar says that their attitude and the
facts suggest that the bounty busi
ness may be carried so far as to chief
ly benefit the consumers of other coun
tries and that the production of beet
sugar has tended to enormously re
duce the worlds price of sugar That
being the case it would be preposter
ous to deny that the world generally
is advantaged San Francisco Chron
icle
Familiar Tactics
The free traders in England are
trying to defeat the protectionists by
setting up a cry of the dear loaf How
like the tactics of the free trades in
this country The facts are against
free trade therefore the appeal to ig
norance must come from the realm of
fiction Jersey City Journal
They Know
There is not a farmer in the United
States whether he raises sugar beets
or not who favors the Cuban treaty
Our farmers know what is best for the
country as well as themselves
THE HORSE AND THE AUTO
Capn Titus Makes a Suggestion
That May Be of Value
Laat week ono o the summer folks
bed one o them new fangled land
steambuts come down Utermoble
they call her and I want tu tell yo
hes a slick one Gosh cr mighty
low sho can go But Im afeard wo
shall hev trouble until the bosses In
town get used tu It BUI Ganzy was
omin up from tho neck tho otcr
iay with a load o milk and when
het land steambut went by him his
ld hoss thet aint gone fastern a
walk In ten years I guess shied out
the road and into a fence Spilt
ill tho milk and raised ruchshuns
there fer a few minutes The
owner of the utermobile was all right
though he paid Bill fer all o tho
milk and somethin handsome be
Bides tu I hearn It was so much
anyway thet Bill said hed be comin
up the same road next mornin with
another load o milk and he was
Kinder hopin hed meet the uter
mobile and hev his milk cart upsot
agin Beats all how everlastin
graspin some people is They tell
me thet all bosses is fraid on em
more or less at fust and cant seem
tu do nothin tu prevent it Ezra
Huckins says he blieves that if they
hed a pictur painted on each side o
the utermobile o a nice pile o red
apples a few ears o yaller corn and
a nosebag or few o oats thet instead
shyin the bosses would come right
up tu it It might not work o course
but maybe its wurth tryiif Capn
Titus in Outing
NEW USE FOR PHONOGRAPH
With
It a Physician Cures a
Case
Without Seeing Patient
A novel use for the phonograph
impressed me the other day says -a
clergyman in the Philadelphia Record
I was calling on my doctor and he
told me of it then He said a patient
of his while on a visit to California
had developed a bad cough and feared
that this cough was of a tubercular
nature His heart also was weak and
he was anxious about that too
Well for the doctor to go all the
way to California would have been
expensive and for the patient to have
come to Philadelphia would have been
impossible In the dilemma a phono
graph was called in The sick man
first talked into the phonograph all
his symptoms Then he coughed be
fore it and then with the help of an
instrument that highly magnifies
sound two or three minutes beating
of his disordered heart was registered
on the sensitive cylinder
The outcome was wonderful
Philadelphia doctor receiving
phonograph record ascertained
his patients cough was not a
The
the
that
con-
sumptive one and that his heart was
not seriously affected The doctor let
me listen to the record in his office
It was Impressive First I heard the
patient in a weak voice detailing his
symptoms a pain here an ache there
and so n Then I heard him cough
ing Then I heard his heart pulsating
in an odd irregular way
Thanks to the phonograph the
doctor said I diagnosed that case as
well as though my patient has sat be
side me
Purification
She comelh all stained and passion
tossed
FulflUd with mans sins and care
Her sorrow flows on and soon it is gone
And her voice has the pleading of
prayr
She murmurs A river polluted am r
O cleanse me and wash me with foam
And give me the leaven of thy deep
heaven
Before I shall turn to my home
And the great rebuking Sea replied
Though vast thy need my gift is
wide
She siffhs I fed on the fresh clean
sedge
Away in old pastures green
rill I darkened and gloomed as a Spirit
doomed
In gathering things unclean
Yet the patient Mother the cleansing
Sea
Withheld not her kiss of Purity
And the River turned and thundered
again
With joyous song from her tide held
bars
She dimpled and smiled as a waking
child
CVhen he laughs at the paling stars
For the mighty Mother had hidden for
aye
The sings and the griefs of her Child
away
G II H in the Westminster Gazette
A Humane Man
She handed him his evening clothes
They had been packed away all sum
mer with a moth exterminating sub
stance As the odor of tar and cam
phor assailed him his face grew sad
What is troubling you
I was thinking of these clothes
It seems to me that you ought to
look pleased There certainly are no
moths in them
I cant help my sympathetic na
ture he responded Sometimes it
leads me to an absurd extreme Of
course Im glad that the moths are
one but and he sighed deeply it
must have been a horrible death
Wanted Some Chance Himself
Eernard Shaw was a guest at a din
ner given by Mr James Douglas ed
tor of the London Star at Mr Doug
as home in Inverness terrace Lon
don a few weeks ago
Addressing an American guest Mr
Shaw said
What a lot of you Americans come
over here every summer
Yes replied the American Eng
land has come to be a favorite sum
mer resort for Americans
Well we wont complain of that
said Shaw But for heavens sake
Jont make it a winter resort also
New York Times
Busy Pinching Bug
A new kind of pinching bug has
appeared at Bayonne N J and is
busy pinching the pretty girls at that
place The bugs are black and three
to four inches long
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