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SoldbT all Druggists CHICHESTER CHEMICAt CO 8100 21adUon Square iIIMA Election thl Doner sJtHi rtV CONTlrUKD KJOM SECOND 1AOi I will go she said You think It aest Yes ho answered I think it best She drew a sharp breath and was about to speak when the countess In terrupted her What she cried You are going away tonight like this without any luggage And pray what is to become of ine You can Join them in A ca said Paul in his quietest tone Or you can live in Paris at last P CHAPTER XXXVII AUL went out and inspected the harness by the light of a stable D lantern held ln the mittened A hand of a yemschick He had reasons of his own for absenting him self while Catrina bade her mother farewell He was rather afraid of these women Presently the door opened and Ca trina came quickly out followed by a servant carrying a small hand bag Paul could not see Catrlnas face She was veiled and furred to the eyelids Without a word the girl took her seat In the sleigh and the servant prepared side her arm touching his sleeve her weight thrown against him at such times as the sleigh bumped over a fall en tree or some inequality of the ground Paul said the woman at his side quite suddenly breaking the silence of the great forest where they had grown to life and sorrow almost side by side Yes I want to know how this all came about It is not my fathers doing There is something quick and practi cal and wise which suggests you and Ilerr Steinmetz I suspect that you have done this you and he for our happiness No answered Paul It was mere accident Your father heard of our trouble in Kiev You know him al ways impulsive and reckless lie never thinks of the danger He came to help us Catrina smiled wanly But it is for our happiness is it not Paul You know that it is That is why you have done It I have not had time yet to realize what I am doing all that is going to happen But if it is your doing I think I shail be con tent to abide by the result It is not my doing replied Paul who did not like her wistful tone It is the outcome of circumstances Cir cumstances have been ruling us all lately We seem to have no time to consider but only to do that which jeeins best for the moment And It is best that I should go to America with my father Her voice was composed and quiet In the dim light he could not see her white lips indeed he never looked It seems 30 to me undoubtedly he said In doing this so far as we can see at present it seems certain that you are saving your father from Sibe ria Catrina nodded As you put it she said it is clearly my duty There is a sort of consolation in that how ever painful It may be at the time I suppose it is consolatory to look back and think that at all events one did ones duty I dont know answered Paul sim ply I suppose so Would father have gone alone she asked with a very human thrill of hope in her voice No answered Paul steadily I think not But you can ask him They had never been so distant as they were at this moment so cold such mere acquaintances And they had played together in one nursery Of course if that is the case said the girl my duty is quite clear Paul did not answer at once I am sure of it he said And there the question ended Ca trina Lanovitch who had never been ruled by those about her shaped her whole life unquestioningly upon an opinion They did not speak for some time and then it was the girl who broke the silence I have a confession to make and a favor to ask she said bluntly Pauls attitude denoted attention but he said nothing It is about the Baron de Chaux ville she said Ah I am a coward she went on I did not know it before It is rather humiliating I have been trying for some weeks to tell you something but I am horribly afraid of it I am afraid you will despise me I have been a fool worse perhaps I never knew that Claude de Chauxville was the sort of person he is I allowed him to find out things about me which he never should have known my own private affairs I mean Then I became fright ened and he tried to make use of me I think he makes use of everybody You know what he is Yes answered Paul I know He hates you she went on I do not want to make mischief but I sup pose he wanted to marry the princess His vanity was wounded because she preferred you and he wanted to be avenged upon you Wounds to the van ity never heal I do not know how he did it Paul but he made me help him In his schemes I could have prevented you from going to the bear hunt for I - -- t T 1 i where dome books and newspapers lay ispected him then I could have pre- stanX n pIeasiint profusion He wa8 ented my mother from Inviting him I ln tueri when Pau came mtQ uave put a housand J r00111 The juce anced difficulties his but I did not I way He saw whcre uIg wIfJ atood b t bo helped him I told him about the di1 not look at Ler pie and who were the worst who had steInraetz was writI somctnInK on been influenced by the nihilists and who would not work I allowed him to stay on here and carry out his plan All this trouble among the peasants is his handiwork He has organized a regular rising against you ne Is hor ribly clever He left us yesterday but I am convinced that he is in the neigh borhood still She stopped and reflected There was something wanting in the story which J she could not supply It was a motive A half confession is almost an impos sibility When we speak of ourselves it must be all or nothing preferably nothing I do pt know why I did it she said fl vas a sort of period I went through I cannot explain That is the confession He gave a little laugh If none of us had worse than that upon our consciences he answered there would be little harm in the world De Chauxvllles schemes have the bearskin rugs Paul gathered up tue reins ana took his place beside her j A few moments were required to draw up the rugs and fasten them with straps then Paul gave the word and the horses leaped forward As they sped down the avenue Catri na turned and looked her last on Thors For nearly half an hour they drove in silence Only the whistle of the iron- bound runners on the powdery snow oniy nurriea on a crisis wnicn was foreordained The progress of human ity cannot be stayed They have tried to stay it ln this country They will go on trying until the crash comes What Is the favor you have to ask You must leave Osterno she urged earnestly It is unsafe to delay even a few hours M de Chauxville said there would be no danger I believed the creak of the warming leather on him then- but l do not now- Besides I the horses the regular breathing of Know luu peasants xney are nam xo the team broke the stillness of the for- rouse but once excited they are I trnllnhlo Tmr nfrnlil rf nntliinrr est Paul hoped against hope that Catrina was asleep She sat by his oro You must get away tonight Paul made no answer She turned slowly in her seat and looked Into his face by the light of the waning moon Do you mean that you will not go He met her glance with his grave slow smile There is no question of going he answered You must know that She did not attempt to persuade Perhaps there was something in his voice which she as a Russian under stooda ring of that which we call pigheadedness in others It must be splendid to be a man she said suddenly in a ringing voice One feeling in me made me ask you the favor while another was a sense of gladness at your certain refusal I wish I was a man I envy you You do not know how I envy you Paul If it is danger you want you will have more than I in the next week he answered Steinmetz and I knew that you were the only woman in Rus sia who could get your father safely out of the country That is why I came for you The girl did not answer at once They were driving on the road again now and the sleigh was running smoothly I suppose she said reflectively at length that the secret of the enor mous influence you exercise over all who come in contact with you is that you drag the best out of every one the best that is in them Paul did not answer What is that light she asked sud denly laying her hand on the thick fur of his sleeve She was not nerv ous but very watchful There straight in front It is the sleigh replied Paul with your father and Steinmetz I arranged that they should meet us at the cross roads You must be at the Volga be fore daylight Send the horses on to Tver I have given you Minna and The Warrior They can do the journey with one hours rest but you must drive them Catrina had swayed forward against the bar of the apron in a strange way for the road was quite smooth She placed her gloved hands on the bar and held herself upright with a pecul iar effort What said Paul For she had made an inarticulate sound Nothing she answered Then after a pause I did not know that we were to go so soon That was all CHAPTER XXXYIII HE large drawing room was bril liantly lighted Another weary day had dragged to its close It was the Tuesday evening the last Tuesday In March The starosta Bad not been near the castle all day Steinmetz and Paul had never lost sight of the ladies since breakfast time They had not ventured out of doors There was in the atmos phere a sense of foreboding the still ness of a crisis Etta had been defiant and silent a dangerous humor all day Maggie had watched Pauls face with steadfast quiet eyes full of cour age but she knew now that there was danger The conversation at breakfast and luncheon had been maintained by Steinmetz always collected and a little humorous It was now dinner time The whole castle was brilliantly light ed as if for a great assembly of guests Maggie was in the drawing room alone She was leaning one hand and arm on the mantelpiece looking thoughtfully into the fire The rustle of silk made her turn her head It was Etta beautifully dressed with a white face and eyes dull with suspense I think it is warmer tonight said Maggie urged by a sudden necessity of speech hampered by a sudden chill at the heart Yes answered Etta and she shiv ered For a moment there was a little si lence and Etta looked at the clock It was ten minutes to 7 The door opened and Steinmetz came in Ettas face hardened her lips closed with a snap Steinmetz looked at her and at Maggie For once he seemed to have no pleasantry ready for use He walked toward a table t half a sheet of note paper in pencil He pushed it across the table toward Paul who drew it nearer to him Are you armed were the written words Paul crushed the paper in the hol low of his hand and threw it into the fire where it burned away He also glanced at the clock It was five min utes to 7 Suddenly the door was thrown open and a manservant rushed ln pale con fused terror stricken He was a giant footman in the gorgeous livery of the Alexis Excpllency he stammered in Rus sian the castle is surrounded they will kill us they will burn us out He stopped abashed before Pauls pointing finger and stony face Leave the room said Paul You forget yourself Through the open doorway to which Paul pointed peered the ashen faces of other servants huddled together liko sheep Leave the room repeated Paul and the man obeyed him walking to the door unsteadily with quivering chin On the threshold he paused Paul stood pointing to the door Ho had a poise of the head some sudden awakening of the blood that had coursed in the veins of hereditary po tentates Maggie looked at him She had never known him like this Sho had known the man she had never en countered the prince The big clock over the castle boomed out the hour and at the same instant there arose a roar like the voice of tho surf on a Malabar shore There was a crashing of glass almost in the room itself Already Steinmetz was drawing the curtains closer over the windows in order to prevent the light from filter ing through the interstices of the closed shutters Only stones he said to Paul with his grim smile it might have been bullets As if in corroboration of his sugges tion the sharp ring of more than one firearm rang out above the dull roar of many voices Steinmetz crossed the room to where Etta was standing white lipped by the fire Her clinched hand was grip ping Maggies wrist She was half hid den behind her cousin Maggie was looking at Paul Etta was obviously conscious of Steinmetzs gaze and ap proach I asked you before to tell me all you knew he said You refused Will you do it now Etta met his glance for a moment shrugged her shoulders and turned her back on him Paul was standing in the open doorway with his back turn ed toward them alone The palace had never looked so vast as it did at that moment brilliantly lighted gor geous empty Through the hail of blows on the stout doors the rattle of stones at the windows the prince could hear yells of execration and the wild laughter that is bred of destruction He turned and entered the room nis face was gray and terrible They have no chance he said of effecting an entrance by force The lower windows are barred They have no ladders Steinmetz and I have seen to that We have been expecting this for some days He turned toward Steinmetz as if seeking confirmation The din was in creasing When the German spoke he had to shout We can beat them back if we like We can shoot them down from the windows But he paused shrugged his shoulders and laughed what will you This prince will not shoot his fa thers serfs We must leave you went on Paul We must beware of treachery What ever happens we shall not leave the house If the worst comes we make our last stand in this room Whatever happens stay here till we come He left the room followed by Stein metz There were only three doors in the impregnable stone walls the great entrance a side door for use in times of deep snow and the small concealed entrance by which the starosta was in the habit of reaching his masters For a moment the two men stood at the head of the stairs listening to the wild commotion They were turning to descend the state stairs when a piercing shriek immediately drowned by a yell of triumph broke the silence of the interior of the castle There was a momentary stillness followed by another shriek They are in said Steinmetz The side door And the two men looked at each oth er with wide eyes full of knowledge As they ran to the foot of the bv I staircase the tramp of scuflling the roar of angry voices came thr h the passages from the back of cur u ed doorways The servants quarters seemed to be pandemonium The sounds approached Halfway up said Paul and they ran halfway up the broad st urease side by side There they sto 1 end waited In a moment the baize Oooi were burst open and a scufCir - -ass of men and women poured into the hall a very sewer of humanity A yell of execration signalized their recognition of the prince They are mad said Steinmetz as the crowd surged forward toward the stairs with waving vrs and the dull gleam of steel witli wild faces turned upward wild mouths bellowing hatred and murder It is a chance it may stop them said Steinmetz His arm was outstretched steadily A loud report a little puff of smoke shooting upward to the gilded ceiling CONCLUDED IX ODE NEXT ISSUE r 1 Are you contemplating a pres ent for your wife daughter or friend Are you puzzling your head what to buy papa for a Christ mas gift We are sole distributors for the McKibbin Furs ST PAUL For Ladies and Gents Coats Caps Muffs All Styles in Ladies Furs Barnctt Lumber Company PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES We want to bind a number of maga zines but now and ttfen we are short a number and if there is any one who has any of the numbers mentioned below and you are willing to give them to the library they will be very gratefully re ceived The following numbers of the Cosmo politan are wanted 1890 February March April May June August and December 1892 January July August Septem ber and October 1893 January March June July August September November and De cember 1S94 January February June and July 1893 February 1900 November and December 1903 Wo have just Janua ry Febru ary and November 1904 March and April Books out of the Traveling Library must be returned by December 24 1905 as they are to be returned to Lincoln In selecting your reading for tho win ter dont forget to make a study of Dante one of the old classics that is becom ing popular One of our posted read ers says of Alighieri Dante Durante Born at Florence in the year of 1265 and died in 1321 He was born in troublous wW mm J Tufa Vmf mm Happiness must be founded on health Where there is ill -health there wiii surely be unhappiness The happiness of many a home has received its down fall at the table spread with rich and dainty foods The first symptoms of disease of the stomach are ignored as being disagreeable but not dangerous Presently dyspepsia or some other form of disease fastens on the stomach At any stage Dr Pierces Golden Med ical Discovery will cure diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition But the cure is quicker if the Discovery is used m the earlier stages of disease If you have any symptoms of diseased stomach use Golden Medical Discovery and be cured I feel that I would be doing- an injustice to you if I did not send you a statement of my case writes Mrs David W Guice of Hamburg Franklin Co Miss I had liver complaint and indigestion Everything that I ate disagreed with me I suffered all the time with swim ming in my head heart beat too fast my feet and hands were cold all the time Did not sleep well at all Was able to get about but very little L commenced to use Dr Pierces Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets in May 1S97 and by December I could begin to get about very well Have been doing my work ever since Feel better than I have for several years Dr Pierces Common Sense Medical Adviser paper covers is sent free on receipt or 21 one cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only Address Dr R V Pierce Buffalo N Y fflfr I A Big Reduction in Juvenile Overcoats Wo are overstocked in this line and will givo you tho benefit A fow prices are hero quoted Age 4 to 8 S200 Overcoats reduced to 100 Ago 8 to 158300 Reefers reduced to 250 Age 8 to 13 S500 Ulsters reduced to 350 Ago 11 to 1881000 Top Coats for young men reduced to 500 This is an exceptional bargain in overcoats Colors Tan Grey Brown Fawn and Black Very stylish DIAMOND THE WORKING MANS FRIEND Open evenings v rtic r AC SELL THE BEST POSTS TANKS limb COAL WOOD GIVE US A TRIAL times His early environments tho quarrels and activities of tho Floren tians marked his wholo life and made him strenuous of action and bold of word lie was master of all sciences of his age but every science then was as incomplete and as full of errors as tho sciences are today Politics was as warm and just as corrupt as it is today Dante became a leader of all tho parties Through treachery ho was banished from Florence In his banishment ho found his pen moro potent than his sword lie may be truly called the Father of the Italian tongue Ho lived in an age when new languages were be ing bcrn He wished to make Italy a national if not in force of arms at least in force of letters The beautiful lijuid musical Italian tongue sprung Minerva like from the brain of Dante Ho is likewise the father of modern poetry He stands with Virgil and Homer of old and he leads Chaucer Milton and Shake speare of the new Whatever ho touched he beautified and immortalized He has left us much He wrote on scienc poli tics romance poetry grammar and rhetoric His letters are masterpieces He is known to us of America mostly through his Divine Comedy or Hell Purgatory and Heaven We cannot de scribe this work You must read it It gives the philosophy and theology of his age It describes what the people believed lived and hoped for It gives us in short what the preachers preached In it he spares neither statesmann or churchman He placed every scoundrel that he knew of in hell the reformer in purgatory and only the very good in heaven His pictures of these three states are masterpieces vivid complete smelling of brimstone or more fragrant than the roses of Sharon His love of Beatrice is unexcelled she was his guide to pure love in life and his guardian angel after her death Read Dantes Divina Comedia Breathe in its spirit and then live a better and higher life Library hours Mornings from 1030 to 12 oclock afternoons from 1 30 to 0 oclock evenings from 7 to 9 oclock Sunday afternoon 2 to 5 oclock Ida McCakl Librarian The Nebraska Farmer has put its feed and feeding department into the hands of a very competent man who is employ ed as an instructor at the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment station The dairy department has been put in charge of Prof A L Haecker an acknowledged authority An expert has been employed to furnish plans for farm buildings and hints for making handy devices for farm use Drawings are used to illustrate this department Subscriptions for the Nebraska Farmer will be taken at The McCook Tribune office at fifty cents per year Beautifying methods that injure tho skin and health ara dangerous Be beautiful without discomfort by taking 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