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admitted Stelnmetz with n grim
which was sometimes his Come
let us drag him beneath that pine tree j
unci ride on to Tver We shall do no
g ood my dear Alexis wasting our time
over the possible antecedents of a gen
tleman who for reasons of his own is
silent on the subject
Paul rose from the ground His
movements were those of a strong and
supple man one whose muscles had
never had time to grow stiff He was
an active man who never hurried
Standing thus upright he was very tall
nearly a giant Only in St Petersburg
of all the cities of the world could he
expect to pass unnoticed the city of
tall men and plain women He rubbed i
his two hands together In a singularly
professional maimer which sat amiss
on him
What do you propose doing he
asked You know the laws of this
country better than I do
Stelnmetz scratched his forehead
with his forefinger
Our theatrical friends the police
he said are going to enjoy this Sup
pose we prop him up sitting against I
that tree no one will run away with
him and lead his horse into Tver I
will give notice to the police but 1 will
not do so until you are In the St Pe
tersburg train I will of course give
them to understand that your princely
mind could not be bothered by such
details as this that you have proceed
ed on your journey
I do not like leaving the poor beg
gar alone all night said Paul There
may be wolves the crows in the early
morning
Bah That Is because you are so
soft hearted My dear fellow what
business is it of ours if the universal
laws of nature are illustrated upon
this unpleasant object We all live
on each other The wolves and the
crows have the last word Come let
us carry him to that tree
The two living men carried the name
less unrecognizable dead to a resting
place beneath a stunted pine a few
paces removed from the road They
laid him decently at full length cross
ing his soil begrimed hands over his
breast tying the handkerchief down
over his face
Then they turned and left him alone
in that luminous night a waif that had
fallen by the great highway without
a word without a sign a half run race
a story cut off in the middle for he was
a young man still His hair all dusty
draggled and blood stained had no
streak of gray his hands were smooth
and youthful There was a vague sus
picion of sensual softness about his
body as if this might have been a
man who loved comfort and ease who
had always chosen the primrose path i
had never learned the salutary lesson
of self denial The incipient stoutness
of limb contrasted strangely with the
drawn meagerness of his body which
was contracted by want of food Paul
Alexis was eight This man had died
of starvation within ten miles of the
great Volga within nine miles of the
outskirts of Tver a city second to
Moscow and once her rival Therefore
it could only be that he had purposely
avoided the dwellings of men that he
was a fugitive of some sort or another
Pauls theory that this was an English
man had not been received with en
thusiasm by Steinmetz but that phi
losopher had stooped to inspect the
narrow telltale fingers Steinmetz be
it noted had an infinite capacity for
holding his tongue
They mounted their horses and rode
away without looking back but they
did not speak as if each were deep in
his own thoughts Material had indeed
been afforded them for who could tell
who this featureless man might be
They were left in a state of hopeless
curiosity as who having picked up a
page with Finis written upon it falls
to wondering what the story may have
been
Steinmetz had thrown the bridle of
the straying horse over his arm and
the animal trotted obediently by the
side of the fidgety little Cossacks
That was bad luck exclaimed the
elder man at length bad luck In
this country the less you find the less
you see the less you understand the
simpler is your existence Those ni
hilists with their mysterious ways and
their reprehensible love of explosives
have made honest mens lives a burden
to them
Their motives were originally good
put in Paul
That is possible but a good motive
is no excuse for a bad means They
wanted to get along too quickly They
are pigheaded exalted unpractical to
a man I do not mention the women
because when women meddle in poli
tics they make fools of themselves
even in England These nihilists would
have been all very well if they had
been content to sow for posterity But
they wanted to see the fruits of their
labors in one generation Education
does not grow like that It requires a
couple of generations to germinate It
has to be manured by the brains of
fools before it is of any use In Eng
land it has reached this stage Here
in Russia the sowing has only begun
Now we were doing some good The
Charity league was the thing It be
gan by training their starved bodies
to be ready for the education when it
came And very little of it would
have come in our time If you educate
a hungry man you set a devil loose
upon the world Fill their stomashs
before you feed their brains or you
will give them mental Indigestion
That is just what I want to do
fill their stomachs I dont care about
the rest Im not responsible for the
progress of the world or the good of
humanity said Paul
He rode on in silence then he burst
out again In the curt phraseology of a
man whose feeling Is stronger than he
cares to admit i
Ive got no grand ideas about the
human race he said A very little
contents ma A little piece of Tver a
few thousand peasants are good
XT
ougli for me It seems rather hard
i at a fellow cant give away of hla
lurfius money in charity If lie is such
a Jool as to want to
Stelnmetz was riding stubbornly
along Suddenly he gave a little
chuckle a guttural sound expressive
of a somewhat Germanic satisfaction
I dont see how they can stop us
he said The league of course is
done it will crumble away in sheer
panic But here in Tver they cannot
stop us
He clapped his great hand on his
thigh with more glee than one would
have expected him to feel for this
man posed as a cynic a despiser of
men n scoffer at charity
Theyll find It very difficult to stop
me muttered Paul Alexis
It was now dark as dark as ever it
would be Steinmetz peered through
the gloom toward him with a little
laugh half tolerance half admiration
Far ahead of them a great white
streak bounded the horizon
The Volga said Stelnmetz We
are almost there And there to the
right Is the Tversha It is like a
great catapult Gott what a wonder
ful night Ah there are the lights of
Tver
They rode on without speaking
through the squalid town the whilom
rival and the victim of brilliant Mos
cow They rode straight to the sta
tion where they dined in by the way
one of the best railway refreshment
rooms in the world At 1 oclock the
night express from Moscow to St Pe
tersburg with its huge American loco
motive rumbled into the station Paul
secured a chair in the long saloon car
and then return to the platform The
train waited twenty minutes for re
freshments and he still had much to
say to Steinmetz for one of these men
owned a principality and the other
governed it They walked up and
down the long platform smoking end
less cigarettes talking gravely
Steinmetz stood on the platform and
watched the train pass slowly away
into the night Then he went toward
a lamp and taking a pocket handker
chief from his pocket examined each
corner of it in succession It was a
small pocket handkerchief of fine cam
bric In one corner were the initials
S S B worked neatly in white such
embroidery as is done in St Peters
burg
Ach exclaimed Steinmetz shortly
Something told me that that was he
He turned the little piece of cambric
over and over examining it slowly with
a heavy Germanic cunning He had
taken this handkerchief from the body
of the nameless rJer who was now ly
ing alone on the steppe twelve miles
away
Then he went toward the large black
stove which stands in the railway res
taurant at Tver He opened the door
with the point of his boot The wood
was roaring and crackling within He
threw the handkerchief in and closed
the door
It is as well my prince he mut
tered that I found this and not you
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CHAPTER IIL
LL that there is of the most
brilliant and least truthful in
Europe M Claude de Chaux
ville had said to a lady ear
lier in the evening apropos of the great
gathering at the French embassy and
the mot had gone the round of the
room
In society a little mot will go a long
way M le Baron de Chauxville was
moreover a manufacturer of mots By
calling he was attache to the French
embassy in London by profession he
was an epigrammatist that is to say
he was a sort of social revolver He
went off if one touched him conversa
tionally and like others among us he
frequently missed fire
Of course he had but little real re
spect for the truth If one wishes to
be epigrammatic one must relinquish
the hope of being either agreeable or
veracious M Hie Chauxville did not
really intend to convey the idea that
any of the persons assembled in the
great guest chambers of the French
embassy that evening were anything
but what they seemed
Now It is not our business to go
round the rooms of the French embas
sy picking holes In the earthly robes
of societys elect Suffice it to say that
every one was there all those who
have had greatness thrust upon them
and the others those who thrust them
selves upon the great those in a word
who reach such as are above them by
doing that which should be beneath
them
There were music and the refresh
ments It was in fact a reception
Gauls most lively sons bowed before
Albions fairest daughters and dis
played that fund of verve and esprit
which they rightly pride themselves
upon possessing and which of course
leave mere Englishmen so far behind
in the paths of love and chivalry
It is however high time to explain
the reason of our own presence of our
own reception by Frances courteous
representative We are here to meet
Mrs Sydney Bamborough and more
over to confine our attention to the
persons more or less implicated in the
present history
Mrs Sydney Bamborough was un
doubtedly the belle of the evening She
had only to look in one of the many
mirrors to make sure of that fact And
if she wanted further assurance a hun
dred men In the room would have been
ready to swear to it This lady had re
cently dawned on London society a
young widow She rarely mentioned
her husband it was understood to be a
painful subject He had been attach
ed to several embassies she said he
had a brilliant career before him and
suddenly he had died abroad And
then she gave a little sigh and a bright
smile which being interpreted meant
Let us change the subject
There was never any doubt about
Mrs Sydney Bamborough She was
aristocratic to the tips of her dainty
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white fingers composed gentle and
quite sure of herself quite the grand
lady As a matter of fact Etta Syd
ney Bamborough came from excellent
ancestry and could claim an uncle
here a cousin there and a number of
distant relatives everywhere should it
be worth the while
It was safe to presume that she was
rich from the manner in which she
dressed the number of servants and
horses she kept the general air of
wealth which pervaded her existence
That she was beautiful any one could
see for himself not in the shop win
dows among the presumably self se
lected types of English beauty but in
the proper place namely in her own
and other aristocratic drawing rooms
She was talking to a tall fair French
man in perfect French and was her
self nearly as tall as he Bright brown
hair waved prettily back from a white
forehead clever dark gray eyes and
a lovely complexion one of those com
plexions which from a purity of con
science or a steadiness of nerve never
change cheeks of a faint pink an ex
pressive mobile mouth a neck of daz
zling white such was Mrs Sydney
Bamborough in the prime of her youth
And you maintain thHt it Is five
years since we met she was saying
to the tall Frenchman
Madame it Is so Witness these
gray hairs Ah those were happy days
in St Petersburg
Mrs Sydney Bamborough smiled a
pleasant society smile not too pro
nounced and just sufficient to suggest
k
Perhaps you will sit down
pearly teeth At the mention of St
Petersburg she glanced round to see
that they were not overheard She
gave a little shiver
Dont speak of Russia she plead
ed I hate to hear it mentioned I
was so happy It is painful to remem
ber
Even while she spoke the expression
of her face changed to one of gay de
light She nodded and smiled toward
a tall man who was evidently looking
for her and took no notice of the
Frenchmans apologies
Who is that asked the young man
I see him everywhere lately
A mere English gentleman Mr Paul
Howard Alexis replied the lady
The Frenchman raised his eyebrows
He knew better This was no plain
English gentleman He bowed and
took his leave M de Chauxville of
the French embassy was watching ev
ery movement every change of ex
pression from across the room
In evening dress the man whom we
last saw on the platform of the rail
way station at Tver did not look so
unmistakably English It was more
evident that he had inherited certain
characteristics from his Russian moth
er notably his great height a physical
advantage enjoyed by many aristocrat
ic Russian families His hair was fair
and inclined to curl and there the for
eign suggestion suddenly ceased His
face had the quiet concentration the
unobtrusive self absorption which one
sees more strongly marked in English
faces than in any others His manner
of moving through the well dressed
crowd somewhat belled the tan of his
skin Here was an out of door ath
letic youth who knew how to move
in drawing rooms a big man who did
not look much too large for his sur
roundings It was evident that he
did not know many people and also
that he was indifferent to his loss He
had come to see Mrs Sydney Bambor
ough and that was not insensible
to the fact
To prove this she diverged from the
path of veracity as is the way of some
women
I did not expect to see you here
she said
You told me you were coming he
answered simply The inference would
have been enough for some women but
not for Etta Sydney Bamborough
Well is that a reason why you
should attend a diplomatic soiree and
force yourself to bow and smirk to a
number of white handed little dandies
whom you despise j
The best reason he answered
quietly with an honesty which some 1
how touched her as nothing else had
touched this beautiful woman since
she had become aware of her beauty
Then you think it worth the bow
ing and the smirking she tfsked
looking past him with innocent eyes
She made an imperceptible movement
toward him as if she expected him to
whisper She was of that school
But he was not His was not the sort
of mind to conceive any thought that
required whispering Some persons in
fact went so far as to say that he was
hopelessly dull that he had no sub
tlety of thought no brightness no con
versation These persons were no
doubt ladies upon whom he had failed
to lavish the exceedingly small change
of compliment
It is worth that and more he re
plied with his ready smile After all
continued in ous nest issue
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NOTICE OF SUIT
Frank S Curry Mrs Frank S Curryhis wife
first name unknown and John Hegenberger de
fendants will take notice that on the 19th day
of September 1905 E C McKay plaintiff filed
his petition in the district court of Red Willow
county Nebraska against them the object and
prayer of which are to foreclose a mortgage for
60000 given by the defendant John Hegenberg
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thirty three in the second addition to the town
now city of McCook Red Willow county Ne
braska that no part of aid debt has been paid
except the sum of 48475 and there is now due
plaintiff from said defendants upon said note
and mortgage and the interest thereon and for
the taxes for the years 1902 and 1904 and first
quarter water tax for the year 1905 paid by
plaintiff the 6um of 40259 for which sum with
interest and costs plaintiff prays for a decree
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that said premises be sold to satisfy the amount
found due the plaintiff
You are required to answer said petition on
or before Monday October 30th1905 9-22-4 ts
Dated September 19 1905
E C McKay Plaintiff
Boyle Eldred Attorneys for plaintiff
NOTICE OF SUIT
To Ira Chandler and the Nebraska Loan
Banking Company defendants You will take
notice that tho plaintiff Lawrence H Rooney
has filed his petition against you in the district
court of Red Willow county Nebraska the ob
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charge of record the cloud cast upontho plain
tiffs title to lots numbered five and six in block
numbered twenty five 25 in the first addition
to the town now city of McCook Nebraska by
certain mortgage given May 1 190 for the sum
of 900 00 to the Nebraska Loan ife Banking
company and recorded in book 19 page 471 of
the mortgage records of said county and the as
signment thereof by said company to Ira C
Chandler on May 5 1890 which assignment was
recorded July 16 1S90 in book 20 page 8 of the
mortgage records of said county plaintiff al
leging that said mortgage and the notes secured
thereby have been fully paid and satisfied
Plaintiff prays for a decree that said mortgage
may be canceled and discharged of record and
that the cloud on his title caused thereby be re
moved You are required to answer taid peti
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Dated this 20th day of September A D 1905
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By J E Kolley his attorney 9-22-4 ts
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KANSAS CITY
THE WEEKS TRADE REPORTED BY
CLAY ROBINSON COMPANY
LIVE STOCK COMMISSION
MERCHANTS
OFFICES AT CHICAGO KANSAS CITYOMAHP
FIOUX CITY ST JOSEPH AND
DENVER
Kansas City Sept 20 19C5
Receipt of cattle thus far this week
32600 last week 57400 last year
57400 Mondays market for beeves
was slow at steady to weak rates cows
active and firm stockers and feeders
dull Tuesdays market was active with
prices steady to strong for beeves cows
active and firm stockers and feeders
fully steady Beef steers today sold
rather irregularly but generally at
steady rates Cows and heifers were
active and steady to 10c higher Best
stockers and feeders were steady
others very dull Bulls and veals
held unchanged The following table
gives prices now ruling
Extra prime cornfed steers
S5 50 to SG 00
Uood a 2 to
Ordinary 4 50 to
Choice cornfed heifers 4 75 to
Good 4 10 to
Medium 3 50 to
Choice cornfed cows 4 00 to
Good 3 25 to
Medium 2 75 to
Canners 1 50 to
Choice stags 4 25 to
Choice fed bull- 3 25 to
Good 3 00 to
Bologna bulls 2 00 to
Yeal calves 5 00 to
Good to choice native or western
stockers 3 CO to
Fair 3 25 to
Common 2 75 to
Good to choice heavy native feelers 4 00 to
Fair 3 50 to
5 50
5 25
5 45
4 75
4 10
4 F0
3 K
3 25
2 25
4 75
3 75
3 25
2 50
G 00
4 00
3 GO
3 25
4 40
4 00
Good to choice heavy branded
horned feeders 3 25 to 3 5o
Fair 3 U to 3 25
Common 2 75 to 3 CO
Good to choice stock heifers 2 75 to 3 00
Fair 2 25 to 2 75
Good to choice stock calvessteers 4 00 to 4 50
Fair 3 50 to 4 00
Good to choice stock calvesheifers 3 00 to 3 50
Fair 2 50 to 3 00
Choice wintered grass steers I 00 to 4 50
Good 3 70 to 4 On
Fair 3 25 to 3 70
Choice grass cows 2 75 to 3 25
Good 2 50 to 2 75
Common 2 W to
Receipt of hogs thus far
are 11100 last week 21100
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this week
last year
1GS00 Mondays market averaged oc
higher Tuesday strong to 5c higher
and today again 5c higher with bulk of
sales from 8540 to 5523 o to
Receipt of sheep so far this week are
8600 last week 18200 last year 24100
Mondays market was steady Tuesday
steady and today again unchanged
We quote choice lambs SG75 to 700
choice yearlings 500 to 525 choice
weathers 8450 to 475 choice ewes
425 to 450
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