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AFTER TEN YEARS
By Mr*. Moses P. Ready
(Copyrighted, 1900, Dally Story Pub. Co.)
Never, during the three years for
which she had been in that lady's '
service, had Miss Lorlmer’s maid found
her mistress so hard to please as this ,
night Her hair had to be dressed and I
re-dressed, her choice of a gown was j
difficult and the last touches were put
to her toilet after the carriage had
reached the door. Yet the occasion was
only a little dinner at the house of an
intimate friend.
Miss Lorlmer had her own reasons
for such unusual care of her appear
ance. A belle and a 'beauty, acknowl
edged leader in society, people won
dered that, at 35 years of age, she
was unmarried. Man after man for
whom other women angled anxiously
had laid his heart and fortune at her
feet, but Miss Lorlmer was Miss Lorl
mer still. Of late there had come a
suitor whom she was reluctant to re
ject, while at the same time she hesi
tated to accept his offer. A brilliant
and successful man, she admired and
liked him and felt herself lit to be
his helpmeet in his distinguished ca
reer.
But—there was a but—she honored
her lover too much to bring him a di
vided heart. Years before she had be
lieved herself In love with the cousin
of her most intimate friend. When he
asked her to marry him she refused.
Not many months later she received
the announcement of his marriage to
another woman, and thanked heaven
that she had not said yes to so fickle
a suitor. But the sting entered her
heart, and thereafter Miss Lorlmer was
unemotional and unromantic.
Tonight she was to meet for the
first time after ten years the man
whose memory lingered with her still,
and she felt nervously anxious. She
wanted to see if the old fascination
was enduring; if the old pain was
healed.
The dinner was at the house of a
friend and cousin. Dr. Burton had
risen to eminence as a surgeon, and
was in town professionally .having been
summoned for a difficult operation in
the family of a millionaire.
Miss Lorlmer had barely entered the
drawing-room and shaken hands with
her hostess when the dinner was an
nounced. She recognized the doctor
at once. The years had marked him;
there were deep lines on his brow and
touches of gray in his hair, but she
told herself she would have known him
anywhere. As the guest of the even
ing, Dr. Burton took the hostess In to
dinner, and Miss Lorimer smiled at
Mary’s diplomacy when she found her
self assigned to a distinguished ex
jurist who was deaf and a confirmed
gourmand, and placed at table with
the doctor on the other hand.
Conversation with the lawyer was
difficult, not to say impossible. She un
folded her napkin in silence, but the
guests were scarcely seated before Dr.
Burton ''costed her.
"And so you are Miss Lorimer still?
Do you know, that surprised me?"
"Indeed? I have never held it wom
an’s chief end to be married.”
“As I know, to my cost. Seriously, I
think you treated me badly. I thought
then, as I do now, that you encour
aged me.” They were talking almost
In whispers.
“Did you? Well, I may as well tell
you the truth. I was undecided, and
said no to test you. I believed firmly
in your persistence, but not in your
sincerity; moreover, I suspected that
Her hair had to be dressed and
redressed.
your pursuit of me was spurred 'by the
fact that you had rivals.”
Dr. BUrton finished his oysters be
fore he replied: “You were mistaken;
I was deeply in love, but until the last
I feared to ask you because I thought
you preferred a wealthier suitor, the
brewer’s eon. When you said no, I
accepted your decision as Aral.”
Miss Lorimer’s eyes grew moist
“Carl? Ah, he was a noble fellow
one of whose love any woman might
well be proud. His wealth was his
smallest virtue.”
Dr. Burton’s tone took on a touch of
asperity. "Then why did you refuse
Buch a paragon? What has become of
him?”
“Is it possible that you do not
know? There was a fire in the brew
ery five years ago, and he sacrificed
himself to save others. His own was
the only life that was lost.”
There was a pause. Miss Lorimer
had difficulty in holding back the tears.
Dr. Burton went along with his dinner.
Then he said: I
"No. I had not heard of it. My life
Is a bntiy one, end I bate little time
for anything outside of my profession.
Tell me, did you lore him?" She felt
vexed with herself for answering, but
she did so:
"No; 1 was only his friend.”
"If I had been sure of that, I would
have asked you again; for, really, I
was very much In earnest.”
Miss Lorlmer smiled sarcastically.
"And you married six months after
wards!”
*'Yes, and 1 made an excellent match.
I married one of the best of women.
She loved me for years. She had
money and position. Both families de
sired the marriage. I could not get
what I wanted, so I took the next best
thing, as has always been my rule in
life.”
Miss Lorlmer flushed Indignantly and
swallowed some Ice water before she
trusted her voice to reply: “Pardon
me, Dr. Burton, but I have old-fash
ioned Ideas, and I dislike to hear you
speak so of your wife. Do you think
she would like it?”
The furrows between hie eyes came
closer together. “Are you sufficiently
old-fashioned to believe that the dead
concern themselves with the affairs of
the living? Mrs. Burton died two years
ago.”
Miss Lorlmer gave a little start
"Yes. ten years too late.”
Then she said brokenly: “Pardon me;
I had not heard. Mary never told
me."
Dr. Burton scanned her narrowly
without speaking. The distinguished
jurist turned to her and complimented
the Balad. She smiled, and the old man
went back talking about the business
of the hour with the other male
guests.
Miss Lorimer toyed with her fork.
Dr. Burton ate his salad, and there was
Bllence until the plates were changed.
Then the doctor said:
“You have improved wonderfully.
You were always charming, hut the
bud has opened and the flower Is ex*
quisite.”
Miss Lorimer was accustomed to
compliments, but the directness of this
one brought the color to her cheek.
"I am glad to have your good opinion,”
she said, with a little air of mockery.
He had no chance to reply; the host
addressed him and the conversation be
came general. Miss Lorimer took no
part therein, and while Bhe appeared
to listen, thought hard of other things.
So this was the love of her youth, this
man who could speak so unfeelingly
of the woman who for eight years had
been his devoted wife, “one of the best
of women,” he had called her between
mouthfuls. Miss Lorimer held mar
riage as a sacrament, not a civil con
tract, and his apparent heartlessness
hurt her. She was still more shocked
by his attitude toward herself. “His
heart was true to Poll,” she thought,
and her lip cur’*r’ unconsciously. Her
reverie was interrupted by Dr. Bur
ton’s voice.
“A surgeon’s life has little room for
romance. Nevertheless, I have never
forgotten the dream of my youth.”
Mary had given the signal and the
women were rising. Miss Lorimer rose
hastily, dropping her handkerchief as
she did so. The doctor picked it up,
and as be restored it bent low over
her hand. "Tell me, Mabel,” he whis
pered eagerly, “is it too late for the
second asking?”
The last vestige of the old love had
faded from Miss Lorimer’s eyes. Bhe
saw the man as he was, in all his ego
ism and self-seeking. Romance? How
much of his constancy was love, how
much due to her social position, her
father’s money—the adjuncts which
made her, as she was well aware, an
“excellent match”? She thought of
the other man, honest and true, who,
if he wanted the earth, desired it only
that he might gl”e it to her; thought
of him with exultant warmth at
her heart. It was barely a second ere
the doctor heard her clear, cold tones,
as low-voiced as his own had been:
“Yes; ten years too late,” she said.
A Child'* Pretty Boom.
It takes little money to make a
pretty room for a child; one can paint
old furniture white, stain the floor
one’s self,buy a cheap but pretty wall
paper rather than one that is cheap
and at the same time hideous, and by
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make It attractive. The value to a
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ly in the stimulation of his sense of
order. He learns that it cannot be
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good habits and a general mental de
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DEPEW'S BAD FRENCH.
OtuM Him Trouble Which Results in a
Kiss.
Having found a purse on the floor
of a hotel near an armchair, where he
had seen a pretty girl seated a short
time before, Senator Depew deposited
the purse with the hotel clerk in a
leading hostlery in Paris. An hour
later, being on the street near the ho-,
tel, the senator recognised by the
light of a street lamp, the same girl
hurrying home frAm her call. Desirous
of saving her an *ty when she discov
ered her loss, senator walked
briskly after her, and when he had
reached her side addressed her in his
politest French. The girl, thoroughly
frightened and not understanding him,
shrieked for help. The kindly senator
tried to pacify her, and as she per
sisted in her failure to comprehend,
and In crying out for assistance, grew
vehement and scared her all the more.
Finally the fooMsh maiden ran to a
policeman who had appeared on the
scene and appealed for protection. It
was only after a long wrangle that
the stupid officer of the law, sealous
to appear in the light of the rescuer
of a woman in distress, would admit
the possible truth of Senator Depew’s
laborious explanations. The hotel be
ing near, the policeman finally con
sented io accompany Mr. Depew and
the lady there, sticking close to the
lady all the way. The purse, which
contained a large sum of money, was
returned to the young woman by the
clerk, and she, understanding at last,
impulsively threw her arms around
the senator's neck, and kissed him on
the cheek.
Robbed The Grave.
A startling incident, is narrated by
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Opening Letters.
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states and the secretary of foreign af
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In England Sir James Graham so late
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letters under warrant, and the con
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Mazzinl, were disclosed to the Austri
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
'William H. Burnham, Elizabeth Burnham,
his wife, F. F. Ford and J. H. Keith, copart
ners under the firm name of Ford and Keith,
and Hannah James, non-resident defendants,
will take notice, that on the first day of No
vember, 1000, Edwin A. Booth, plaintiff, filed
his petition In the Dlstrlot Court of Holt
County, Nebraska, against you and each of
you, the object and prayer of which petition
is to foreclose a mortgage given by the de
fendants William H. Burnham and Elizabeth
Burnbaip, bis wife, to J. H, Keith, Trustee
for Eugene Westervelt, upon the southwest
quarter of Section Twenty-Four (24). In Town
ship Twenty-Nine (29), North of Hange Fif
teen (IS). West of the 6th I*. M , in Holt Coun
ty. Nebraska, to secure the payment of a
bondfot *600with interest at seven percent,
per annum and ten per cent, after maturity,
and to secure the advance made by the hold
er of said mortgage for taxes paid by him on
said land. Said mortgage having been duly
recorded in the office of the County Clerk of
Holt County, Nebraska, on the 25th day of
November, 1886, in Book 9 of Mortgages, at
page 223. ...
Plaintiff prays that the mortgaged land
above described be sold and that from the
proceeds of such sale he be paid the amount
to be fonnd due him by the court, including
costs of suit, aud for such other and further
relief as may be equitable.
You and each of you are required to answer
said petition on or before the 10th day of De
cember, 1900 Edwin A. Booth,
18-4 Plaintiff.
CONTEST NOTICE.
Department of the Interior, United States
Land Office, O'Neill, Neb.. Nov. 7, 1900.
A sufficient contest affidavit having been
filed in this office by Fred Martens,
contestant, against Frederick C. Beckman,
entry No. 8962, made February 9, 1887, for the
northwest quarter section 13, township 28,
range 14 W, by Frederick C. Beckman, con
testee, in which it is alleged that Frederick
C. Beckman is now deceased and that he left
the following heirs at law viz: Mrs. Frederick
C. Beokman. widow of the said Frederick O.
Beckman, Harry Beckman, Alfred Beckman,
Lester Beckman. Clarence Beckman, Victor
Beckman, Sylvia Beckman and Frederick
Beckman, all children and minor heirs at law
of Frederick U. Beckman, deceased, the en
try man; that they have failed to cultivate
or caused to be cultivate, any trees, on said
traot the 3d. 4th. 5th. 6th. 7th. 8tb,9tb and
10th years of said entry; that they have al
lowed what trees were planted on said tract
to be destroyed by fire; that there are not
now to exceed 100 trees on said tract; that
there has never been any fireguard
around said tract, and that the
same have not in manner boon protected.
And that these facts now exist.
Said parties are hereby notified to appear,
respond and offer evidence touching saldal
legation at 10 o’clock a. m., on Deo. 10.1900,
before tbe register and receiver at the
United States land office in O Neill, Ne
hms |(a.
The 'said contestant having, In a proper
affidavit., filed Nuv. 7,1900, set forth facts
rhich show that after due diligence personal
ervlce of this notice cannot be made, it is
icreby ordered and directed that such uotioe
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