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.. if . ' -ff t 1 s ftUaci, UttntVa axvfc. Swrqw Cases GtatoVrlcs a Spec&VV &rtrn&e E. CwkoV, fci. Miss Mary E, Smalley TEACHER OF VOICE Hiss Edith H. Swan TEACHER OF PIANO STUDIO 424 Laramie Avenue Phone - - 220 DR. G. W. MITCHELL, Physician ano Surgeon Day and nlghtcrllB Ofllco over Boguo Store. Phono 150. L. W. BOWMAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office In First National Hank block. Alli ance Nebraska. H. A. COPSEY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Phono 300 Culls answered promptly day and night from ottllce. Ofllces: Alliance National Hank Uulldlng over the Post Office RrCHASrETsLAQLE WITH DR. BELLWOOD Special Attention Paid to Eye Work GEO. J. HAND, 1IO.MEOPATUIC Y SIC IAN AND SURGEON Formerly Interne Homeopathic Hos pital University of Iowa. Phone 251. Office over Alliance Shoe Store Residence Phono 251. Churchill & Thornton PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS (Successors to Dr. J..E, Moore) OFFICE IN FLETCHER BLOCK Ofllco hours 11-12 a.m., 2-4 p.m. 7;S0-9 p.m. Office Phone 62 Res. Phone, Dr Thornton, 187 Night calls, Phone 62 or 187 W.P. (Successor to Drs. Prey & Balfo) OSTEOPATHIC)! PHYSICIAN. Graduate and Post-Graduate of the Amer ican School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo. May be found at his residence, 216 Toluca Avenue Drs.jCoppernoll & Petersen OSTEOPATH PHYSICIAN (Successor to Drs. Frey & Ha.fe) Office in Rumer Block Office Phone 43, Residence 20 Examination at Office Free Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Lockwood UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING Funeral Director and Embalmer Phones Office 214. Res. 205 ALLIANCE NEBRASKA GUY H. LOCKWOOD Graduate Chicago School of Embalming WITH g Chicago School of Emt WITH B, F, LOCKWOOD. AUG. F. HORNBURG Private Nurse Phone 492 WILLIAM MITCHELL, ATTORNEY AT LS.W. ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA. EUGENE BURTON Attorney at Law Office in rooms formerly occupied by R. C. Noleman, First Nal'l Bank blk Phone 180. ALLIANCE. NEB. F. il. BROOME LAW AND LAND ATTORNEY. I Long experience in state and federal courts and as Register and Receiver U. S. Land Office is a guarantee for prompt and efficient service. Office In Land Office liutldlng. ALLIANCE, - - NEBRASKA. H. M. BULLOCK. Attorney at Law, .ajmlia-ivcii:, isriSB. SMITH P. TDTTLE. IRA X. TA8B TUTTLE & TASH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. REAL ESTATE. NorthMaln St., ALLIANCE. NEU. Princess Virginia By C. N. and A. M. WILLI AMSON,, Authors of "fife Light nin Conductor." "Rose mary In Search of a Father," Etc J J COPYRIGHT. 1007, BY McCLURB, PHILLIPS CO. cootiuued. ffi& chapter, nineteen! P dUJ HE prince came for ward. "Whnt n de lightful surprlsol" he said. "How good of you both to look me up! But I wish my prophetic soul hnd wnrned mo to keep back dinner. Wo have just reached tho third course." And his eyes met tho chancellor's. "All the same," ho went on, "I beg that you will honor mo by dining. Ev erything can be ready In a moment, and the bisque eccrevlsso" "Thank you," cut in tho emperor. "Wo cannot dlno." Ills voico came hoarsely, as If a fierce hand pinched his throat. "Our call Is purely one of business and a moment will see It fin ished. Wo owe you an explanation for this Intrusion." He paused. All his calculations were upset by the chan cellor's triumph, for to plan beforehand What ho should do If ho found Helen Mowbray dining hero alone with the prince would have been to Insult her. His campaign had been arranged In tho event of tho chancellor's defeat. Now the one course ho saw open be fore hlni was frankness. To look at tho girl and meet guilt or defiance In her eyes would bo agony; therefore ho would not look, though ho saw her, and her alone, as ho stood gazing with a strained fixedness at the prince. IIo knew that she had risen not in frightened haste, but with a leisured and dainty dignity. Now her face was turned to him. He felt it as a blind man may feel the rising of tho sun. He wished that sho had died before this moment; that they had both died last night in tho garden whllo he held her In his arms and tholr hearts beat together. Sho had told him then that sho loved him, yet sho was hero with this man hero of her own freo will, the samo girl ho had worshiped as a goddess in tho whlto moonlight twenty four hours ago. The thought was hot in his heart as tho Bearing touch of Iron red from the fire the same girl! His blood sang In his cars a song of death, and for an instant all was black around him. He groped In black chaos where thoro woa neither light nor hope, nnd dully he was conscious of the chancellor's voice saying. "Your majesty, if you are satisfied, would you not rather go?" Then the dark spell broke. Light showered over him as from a golden fountain, for in spite of himself he had met tho girl's eyes the same eyes, be cause sho was the same girl sweet eyes, pure and Innocent and wistfully appealing. "My God!" he cried. "Tell mo why you are here, and whatever you may say I will believe you, in splto of all and through all, because you are you, and I know that you can do no wrong." "Your majesty!" exclaimed tho chan cellor. But the emperor did not hear. With a broken exclamation that was half a sob tho girl hold out both her hands, and Leopold sprang forward to crush them between his Ice cold palms. "Thank heaven!" she faltered. "You are true! You've stood tho test. I lovo you." "At last, then, I can Introduce you to my sister Virginia," said tho crown prince of Hungaria, with n great sigh of relief for tho ending of his difficult part. SAri,''-1- '-..& SfCmPTLR'TWENTY'l Aili V" UEY were alone togeth er. Adalbert nnd Count von Brcltstelu had stol en from tho room and hud ceased to exist so far as Leopold and Virginia were concerned. "I'll tell you now why Pm here aud everything else," sho was saying, but the emperor stopped her. "Ever since I came to myself I want ed no explanation," he said. "I want ed only you. That Is all I want now. I am the happiest man In the universe. Why should I ask how I came by my happiness? Virginia! Vlrgiula! It's a more beautiful name even than Helen." "But listen," she pleaded. "There aro some things just a few things that I long to tell you. Pleaso let me. Last night I wished to go Into a con vent Oh, it was because I loved you so much! I wanted you to seem per fect ns my hero ir .'omanco, just as you were already perfect as an em peror. To think that I should have been fnr away out of Rhaetla by this timo If Miss Portman hadn't been III! Dear Miss Portman! Maybe if we'd gone nothing would ever have come right. Who can say? "You know, my brother came to our hotel this afternoon. When his card arrived wo couldn't tell whether he knew our secret or not, but when we had let him come up we had only to see his face of surprise. IIo was an THE gry, too, ns well as surprised, for ho blurted out that there wero nil sorts of horrid suspicions ngalnst ub, nnd moth er explained everything to him before 1 could hnvo stopped her even if I would how I had not wanted to nc ccpt you unless you could lenrn to love mo for myself and then howl had been disappointed. No, don't .icnk; Hint's nil over now. You've more than ntoued, n thousand times more. "Hal explained tilings, too, then very r.lTi:ont things about n plan of tho iL.UKellor's to disgust you with me mil how he (Dal) had played into tho hancellor's bauds because, you see, u thought lie was acting wisely for hN neglected sister's snko and because he hud really supposed an nctress ho knows was masquerading ns Miss Mowbray. Very imprudently he'd told her that some day there might bo something between you and his sister. She knew quite well, too, that the real Mowbrays were our cousins; so, you see, ns she nnd lie linve quarreled, it might have been nn easy and clover way for an unscrupulous woman to trtko revenge. Dal would have gone and perhaps have said dreadful things to the chancellor, who wns waiting downstairs for news, but I begged him not. From being the saddest girl In tho world I'd suddenly become tho happiest, for tho chancellor hnd told Dal and Dal had told me Unit you had followed Helen Mowbray to ask her to bo tho empress. That chnnged every thing, for then I knew you really loved her, but Just to punish you for what I Buffeted through you last night I Jong- ed to put you to one more test. I said: 'Let tho chancellor carry out his plot. Lot mo go with you to your hunting lodge.' At first Dal wouldn't consent, but when I begged him he did, for generally I can get my way with peo ple, I warn you. "That's nil. except that I hadn't real ized how severe the test would be un til you came in and I saw the look In your eyes. It was a dagger of ice in my heart. I prayed heaven to make you believe In mo without a word. Oh, how I prayed through all that dread ful moment nud how I looked nt you, saying with my eyes, 'I lovo you; I am true!' If you had failed mo then It would have killed me, but" "There could bo no but," the em peror broke In. "To doubt is not to love. When a man loves he knows. Even out of darkness n light comes nnd tells him." "Then you forgiVo me for tonight, and for everything, from tho begin ning?" "Forgive you?" "And If I'd boon different, more like other girls, content with n conventional affection, you wouldn't havo loved me more?" He took her in his arms and held her ns If ho would never let her go. "If you had been different I wouldn't have loved you nt nil," ho said. "But If things hnd been different I couldn't hnvo helped loving you Just tho same. I should have been fated to fall in love with Princess Virginia of Bnu-menburg-Drippe at first sight, exactly as I fell In love with Helen Mow bray." "Ah, but at best you'd havo fallen In love with Virginia because It was "ll'c shall never be old." your duty, and you fell In love with Helen Mowbray becnuso It was your duty not to, which makes It bo much nicer." "It was no question of duty, but of destiny," said the emperor. "Tho stars ordnined thnt I should love you." "Then I wish." nnd Virginia laugh ed happily, as she could afford to laugh now, "that the stars hnd told mo last summer. It would hnvo saved me n great deal of trouble. And yet 1 don't know," she added thoughtfully. "It's been a wonderful adventure. Wo shnll often talk of it when we're old." "We shall never bo old, for we love each other," said the emperor. THE END. Let tho John Hague company figure on your tin and galvanized iron work; also plumbing and heating. For Rent A 4-rooin house, quire at Herald office. In- t. 4"JMt-M"JMf4,,4MM'4"M,44MlMM,'r' iMary and if B or . Matrimony. By Cecilia A. Lolteaux. Copyrighted, 1007, by C. II. ButcllfTo. l!M$$"r$'M3'$$M3?''$'iv''?'M$4t!$' I KNOW Just how you feel, Dick, but I don't sec how it can bo helped. When I became en gaged to you wo agreed that It would hnvo to be n long ongagemcut." "U'b been three years now, Mary, nnd I call thnt n long time. Aud you seem to have no idea of ending tho wait at nil. You you aren't forgetting to care, are you, Mary?" Mary's Dp trembled ns sho looked at him. "I enro ns much more tunn ever," she snld. "You don't understand. You Bee, I have been pnpa'B housekcoper since I was fifteen, nnd 1 simply can't leave him nlono." "IIo is perfectly willing, Mnry. Some times I think ho Is anxious for you to innrry. He doesn't wnnt to fool as If lie were in tho wuy of your happiness." "That's Just It!" cried Mnry. "Dcnr old dad! Hq'd sacrlflco his own Inter ests for mo any day. I won't hnvo It." "Mary, how old is your father?" "Fifty." "And healthy?" "Perfectly. Wo'ro nil proud of our health." "He's likely to llvo out his three score nnd ten then." "I hope so, nnd If you mean that you wish ho would die, Dick Lnno" "Easy, Mary; easy. Personally I'm very fond of your fntlior. That's ono renson why I nm so anxious to get Into ills immediate family. But, lot's see, unless somo unforeseen accident occurs I shnll bo obliged to wait for you at least twenty-live years." IIo Jield up a warning hand ns Mnry start ed to spenk. "Don't you seo thnt wo'ro no nearer tho goal than wo wero threo years ngo? Don't wnlt to find a solu tion of tho problem, denr. Marry mo now nnd we'll solve It togothor." Mnry rose Impatiently. "What's tho use of talking that way? You know I enn't. I've thought nnd thought, but there doesn't seem to bo any other way out Father flatly re fuses to llvo with us says it's better not nnd I can't lenvo him. That's why I sent for you. I've innde up my mind thnt it Isn't fair to keep you waiting, so I nm going to break our en gagement" Sho looked nt him brnvo ly, though her eyes swam with tears aud her chin quivered. Dick stared a moment and then be gan, to laugh, which, under tho circum stances, was the worst thing ho could have done. Mary's eyes began to blaze, und the tears disappeared. "It's a Joke, is it?' she blnzed. "Well, If s time It was broken. Here Is your ring. I'm sorry for your wast ed time, and, since you nro so auxious to bo married, I hopo you will find some ono who will hnvo you right away." Sho slipped from the room, and not until he heard tho door of her room slnm did Dick recover from his amaze ment. Thcu he lnughcd again nnd, putting tho ring in his pocket, left tho liousc. "Poor little Mary!" ho mused. "Well, I see that I'll have to get her father to .help." Mary, watching him stride up tho street whistling "Mnry, Mnry, Long Beforo tho Fashions Came," sank Into her big chnlr and wept. "He wnnted It broken! Ho wanted It broken!" sho walled. Once admitted to tho Inner office Dick took tho leather chair which Mary's father Indicated with his foot, accepted n cigar nnd lit It. "Is this n business call or Just a visit?" "Both. I've been up to seo Mary." "Strange. Anything doing? " Will Mnry marry?" "She says she won't In fact, sho has Just given mo back my, ring. I sny sho must, and I want you to help me." "Of course I can't force my daughter to marry you if sho does not want to," grinned Mr. Arnold. "Yes, you can if you go nbout It right You seo" And ho briefly out lined his talk with Mary. Mr. Arnold smoked fiercely whllo tho young rann talked, and theu they went over n de tailed plan together. When the young mnn finally left, tho elder shook his band heartily. "I'll do my best, Dick, Mary's n good daughter, but she'll make Just as good a wife, and I'll divide." That evening Mary camo to the din per table red eyed nnd white faced. Little by little her father drew tho story from her. When she had finish ed he said: "I'm glad of it, Mary. I never would have asked you to give him up, but I nm thankful that you can seo for yourself." He did not say what she could see. "And now thnt It's all over I don't mind telling you thnt there aro as good fish in the sea as havo been cnught so far. Now, Dick well, he's bo slow! And then But that's over now, so cheer up, daughter, nnd fall In love with some one else." "Oh. I can't ever do that!" wept Mary. "I shall take care of you all my life." "Tut! Tut! Just put your mind to It and you can do it. I nm anxious to seo you marry nnd be happily settled, Mary. Of course I didn't say so, be cause I could see that you didn't really enro for Dick. If you had cared you'd have married him two years ago. But now that he's gone" Mary gasped and stooped for her napkin, sitting up again with a red face. Not care for Dick! Perhaps Dick thought that too. "And. aside from that," went on her father, "I have been engaged io Ma rian Howard for n year, nud I know how you will feel nbout keeping mo watting too long. Of course I should not think of marrying again while you nro wllh tno." Mnry thought she must faint The room went round nnd round, nnd then Bhc henrd n voice, which must have been her own, stlllly congratulating her father, heard him say something the words of which sho could not dlstln gulsh. nnd then sho was up In her own room. "Oh," she moaned, "what bhall 1 do? No ono wants 1110. Papa Is going to marry again, nnd even he thinks I do not enro lor Dick. I must have acted terribly for pupn to think that. And why didn't ho tell mo thnt ho wanted to marry? I'd havo been glad of It for then I could hnvc married Dick and would not hnvo needed to worry nbout pnpa at nil. Oh, it is cruel! And now It Is too Into. No wonder Dick stopped cnrlng If I ncted like that like they seem to think 1 hnvo." She sobbed miserably. "I like Marlnu Howard. I havo al ways wlBhed I could havo her with me. I'd llko to llvo with them, but they don't want me cither. Pnpa has Bald timo nnd again thnt sucli combinations nro nlwnys unhappy, nnd so I must go nwuy somewhere." Sho sobbed herself to Bleep thnt night after hours of wretched reflection nnd almost desperate thinking. Shu did not go down to brenkfast, but when Bho henrd her father leavo tho houso sho went downtown nnd drow nil of tho money which sho hnd In tho bnnk. Then sho bought n ticket for Now York. At noon her father, seeing how wretched Bho looked nt dinner, felt llko n brute nnd camo very near to spoiling tho whole thing. But Bho slipped nwuy too quickly to give him time to com mit himself, nnd when ho was sure sho was lu her room he called Dick cau tiously up over the phoue. "I guess you'd better como over. I've inudo a beastly mess of tho thing," ho snld. Then ho called up to Mary that ho had to go back to tho office and told her not to Bit up for him nnd cleared out feeling llko n coward. This was tho chanco for which Mnry was waiting. Hurriedly Bho finished packing her Buit carte, wroto nn ngo ulzed noto to her fntlior, and, after dressing herself in the long cont und dnrk veil which fleeing heroines al ways wore In tho plays sho had Been, sho lot herself quietly out nt tho frout dlbor nnd renched tho car. A young man Jumped off tho outgoing car, look ed nt hor sharply and then Bwung up tho steps of tho ingoing car after hor, but Bho did not notice. "Wns tills whnt her father had meant In his telcphouo message?" thought tho young mnn. Well, he had mado n mess of It It was raining by this timo n dreary llttlo drizzle and when Mary ullghted at tho union stntion sho would hnvo fallen on tho Bllppcry steps hnd not somo ono seized tho suit enso nnd caught her arm firmly. When sho had regained her balance the mnn did not let go, but slid his grasp down to tho cold, wet hand. "Lot mo go! Whnt do you mean?" sho gasped,-nud then she kuow. She began to cry. "Mnry, Mnry, so contrary, como on home ngaln," snld Dick gently. "Wo didn't mean to go so fnr ns tills, dear, In our llttlo. plot." "Wo our plot! Whnt do you mcnn7 Did you nnd father fix all tills up for n trick? And nnd" To Dick's grent Hurprlso nnd relief she began to laugh, no had expected tears, anger, even rage. And then ho began to feel fool ish. "I guess I got ju3t whnt I deserve. I wns blind ns a bat," she said. "When do you want mo to marry you, Dick, If you can forgive mo enough to wnnt me at ail? Dick, you didn't think thnt I had really stopped caring, did you?" Mary's father was in tho drawing room when they got homo nnd came out into tho hnll to meet them. "Wve been out walking," snld Dick blandfr. "Yes. I see," Bald Mr. Arnold, Ignor ing tho suit case and Mary's unusual apparel. "Flno night, Isn't It?" There Is nn elderly business man ui Cleveland of whom friends tell 11 story amusingly illustrating his excessively methodical manner of conducting both his business nnd his domestic affairs. The Clevelander married n young wo man living in n town not far nwny. On tho evening of the ceremony the pro spective bridegroom, being detained by nn unexpected nnd important matter of business, missed the train he hnd In tended to take lu order that ho might reach the nbodo of his bride nt 7 o'clock, tho hour set for tho wedding. True to his instincts, the careful Cleve lander Immediately repaired to the tele graph office, from which to dispatch n message to tho lady. It read: "Don't marry till I come. Howard." Har per's Weekly. Acting Like a Man. Tho curtain had Just gone down on tho second net, leaving tho heroine in the villain's clutches. Up In tho balco ny a sentlmentnl woman burst Into tears. "Don't cry, dear," said her husband. "Remember, It's only a play. Act like n man!" "Very well. Johu," said the lady, smiling through her tears. "You'll ex cuse mo for a moment, won't you? I must run out nnd send a telegram," Bohemian. The Trouble With Carr. "I rather like your friend," Mrs. Page said graciously after Carr had gone home. "IIo Is good looking and agreeable, but you can't cell him e brilliant conversationalist The Law ton girls tnlked all round blm." "Unfortunately," replied Mr. Page, "Cnrr cannot talk on a subject unless he knows something about It." WE WANT TO SELL OUT our stock of high-grade Groceries, because we are in business and want to buy more. Try our High-Grade New York Fruits and Vegetables Three Brands Livingston Revere Lily of the Valley Have you tried Morning Glory Flour? It is Best We carry a full, clean, up-to-date stock of GROCERIES Save your cash coupons. For $20.00 in these tick ets we give a solid silver spoon, or redeem them at 5 per cent in trade Phone 128 J. 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