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1 Hum ha BY KATE AND VIRGIL COOYPCHr BY A CMtCLUQG UCO. S07 vously apprehensive of plunging her feet Into a pool of water. It haI not been the pitcher after all. Even after the window was closed there seemed to be much air in the room. The b'lind still Happed, though at longer in tervals. If it really turned cold, how were they to live in that barn-like, room, she and Mary? She thought of the c::mp'-rs out on the Hat and shiv ered. H!" looked out of the window musingly a moment. It was dark. H.'ie voik!p"(.I if (cordon had come home. Of con he was homo. It mu.-:t be nearly Morning. Her feet were get tint; cold, so she crept back into bed. The r.ot tiling of which .she wa ; con scious. Mary v.a- shaking l.cr excit edly. "What is it?" she asked, .sleepily. "Louise! There's a fire somewhere! Listen !" Some one rushed quickly through the hall; others followed, knocking against the walls in the darkness. Then the awful, heart-clutching clang of a bell rang out near, Insistent, me tallic. It was the meeting-house bell. There was no other In the town. The girls sprang to the floor. The thought had fo-ind swift lodgment in the mind of each that the hotel was on fire, and In that moment Louise thought of the poisoned meat that had once been served to jemo archenemies of the gang whose chief was nor on trial for bis liberty. So quickly docs the brain work under stress of great crises, that, even before she hid her shoes and stocking on, she found herself wonder ing who was the marked victim this time. Not Williston he was dead. Not Gordon he slept in his own room back cf the office. Xot Langford ho was bunking with his friend in that same room. Jim Munson? Or was the judge the proscribed one? He was not a corrupt judge. He could not be bought. It might be he. Mary had gone to the window. "Louise!" she gasped. "The court bouse!" True. The cloudy sky was reddened above the poor little temple of justice where for day and weeks the tide of human interest of a big part of a big state ay, a big part of all the north west country, maybe had been stead ily setting in and had reached its cul mination only yesterday, when a v. IT i "Won't Ssve a Thing." concealed the limitations cf her at tire. "Whet are you going to do?" asked Mary, also putting on clothes which were easy of adjustment. She had never gone to fires in the old days before she had come to South Dakota; but if Louise went gentle, highbred Louise why, she would go too, that was all there was about it. She had constituted herself Louise's guardian in this rough life that must be so alien to the eastern girl. Louise had been very good to her. Louise's startled cry about her note bocks carried little understanding to her. Sue was net used to court and its ways. They hastened cut into the hallway and down the stairs. They saw r.c one whom they knew, though men were still dodging out from unexpect ed places and hurrying down the street. It seemed impossible that the inconveniently built, diminutive prair ie hotel could accommodate so many people. Louise found herself wonder ing where they had been packed away. The men, carelessly dressed a3 they cc-iit-h'juse grounns. He would want to save some valuable oks he had been reading in his of ficial Quarters. So they went cut into A I T - V mwwm m D the bTea'k and windy niglit. They were immediately enveloped in a wild gust that nearly swept them off their feet as it came tearing down the street. They clung together for a moment. "It'll burn like hell in this wind!" some one cried, as a bunch of n-on hurried past tker.i. Tlie -ere i!'.ri:Iiy vhippeu out cr nis mouth. "Won't save a thing." Flames were bursting out of the front windows upstairs. The sky was ill alight. Sparks were tossed madly southward by the wind. There was Trave danger for buildings other than the one already doomed. The roar of Ihe wind and the flames was well nigh deafening. The back windows iiid stairs seemed clear. "J lurry, Mary, hurry!" cried Louise, above the roar, and pressed forward, stumbling and gasping for the breath that the wild wind coveted.. It was not far they had to go. There was a jam of men in the yard. More were coming up. But there was nothing to do. Men shook their heads and shrugged their shoulders and watched the progress of the Inevitable with the placidity engendered of the potent: "It can't be helped." Hut some things might have been saved that were not saved had the first on the grounds not rested so securely on that quieting inevitability. As the girls came with in the crowded circle of light, they overheard something of a gallant at tempt on the part of somebody to save the county records they did not hear whether cr no the attempt had been successful. They made their way to the rear. It was till dark. 'Louise! hat are you going to do?" cried Mary, in consternation. There were few people on this side. Louise rv.t her hand deliberately to the door-knob. It gavo to hc-r pres sure the doer swung open. Soma one stumbltd out blindly and leaned against the wall for a moment, his hands over his eyes. "I can't do "it," ho said, aloud, "I can't reach the vaults. Louise slipped past him and was within the doorway, closely followed by the frantic Mary. The man cried out sharply, and retched out a detaining hand. 'Are .iii crazy? Come back!" "Mr. Gordon!" cried Louise, with a tie sob cf relief, "is it really you? t me go quick my note books!" V thick cloud of smoke at that, rao- nt cr.me rolling down the back irs. It enveloped them. It went va their threats and male them igh. The man. throwing an arm r the shoulders cf the slender girl o had started up after the first ick of the smoke had passed away, bed "her gently but firmly outside. Don't let her come, Mary," l.c led back, clearly. "I'll get the ;e books if I can." Then he was ie up the smoke-wreathed stair y. UutoIJe, the girls waited. it seemed hours. The wind, howling around the corners, whipped their skirts. There was a colder edge to it. Fire at last broke out of the back windows simultaneously with the sound of breaking glass, and huge billows of released black smoke surged out from the new outlet. Louise started forward. She never knew afterward just what she meant to do, but she sprang away from Mary's encircling arm and ran up the little flight of steps leading to the door from which she had been so un ceremoniously thrust. Afterward, when they told her, she realized what her impulsive action meant, but now she did not think. She was only con scious of some wild, vague impulse to fly to the help of the man who would even now be safe in blessed outdoors had it not been for her and her fool ish woman's whim. She had sent him to his death. What were those wretched note books what was any thing at all in comparison to his life! So she stumbled blindly up the steps. The wind had slammed the door shut. It was a cruel obstacle to keep her back. She wrenched it open. The clouds of smoke that met her, rolling out of their Imprisonment like pent up steam, choked her, blinded her, beat her back. She strove impotently against it. She- tried to fight it off with her hands these little intensely feminine hands whose fortune Gordon longed to take upon himself forever and forever. They were so small and weak to fend for themselves. But small as they were, it was a good thing they did that night. Nov. Mary had firm hold of her and wor.ld not let 1-er go. She struggled desper ately r.nd tried to push her of?, but vi-inly, for Mary had twice her slrcn-th. "Mary, I s!:nH never forgive you " She did v.zii finish "her sentence, for at th.'.t moment Gordon staggered out inw the air. ITe cat clown on the bot tom t:ep as it no were drunk, but little darts of flame colored the surging snicke here and there in weird splotch and, suddenly calm now that there was something to do, Mary and Louise led him away from the doomed building where the keen wind soon hicw the choking smoke from his eyes and throat. "I've swallowed a ton," he said, re covering himself quickly. "I couldn't get them. Louise." He did not know i he called her so. I "Oh, what does Louise, earnestly. It matter?" cried "Only forgive for sending you." "As I remember It, I sent myself," raid Gordon with a humorous smile, "and. I am afraid, tumbled one V.iilc girl ra'her vrcci vmonTously down the stairs. Did I hurt you?" There was a caressing cadence in the question that he could not for the life of him keep out of his voice. "I did not even know I tumbled. How did you get back?" said Louise, tremulously. "Who opened the door?" counter questioned Gordon, remembering. "The wind must have blown it shut. I was blinded I couldn't find It I couldn't breathe. I didn't have sense enough to know it was shut, but I couldn't have helped myself anyway. I groped for it as long as I could with out breathing. Then I guess I must have gone off a little, for I was spraw ling on the floor of the lower hall when I felt a breath of air playing over me. Somebody must have opened th( door because I am pretty sure I had fainted or done some for;iL;h thing." Louise was silent. She was thank ful thankful. God had been very good to her. It had been given to her to do this thing. She had not meant to do it ihe had not konwn what she did; enough that was done. "It was Louise," spoke up Mary, "and I tried to hold her back!" So ! she accused herself. "But I didn't do it on purpose," said i Louise, with shining eye3. "I I " "Yes, you- " prompted Gordon, looking at her with tender intentness. "I guess I was trying to come after you," she confessed. "It was very foolish." The rear grounds were rapidly fill ing up. Like children following a band-wagon, the crowd surged toward the new excitement of the discovered extension of the fire. Gordon drew a long breath. "I thank God for your foolishness," he said, simply, smiling the smile his friends loved him for. CHAPTER XVIII. An Unconventional Tea Party. As the flames broke through the roof, Langford came rushing up where the group stood a little apart from the press. 'r 'i ' l.e "What's the t.-oa !.-. -J. '. asked Gordon, quietly. "I have something to tell y : Langford, in a low voic:. quick let's go back to your :-or.is. Why, girls " "We will go, too," said Mary, with quiet decision. She had caught a glimpse of Red Sanderson's t'ara through the crowd, and she thought ho had leered at her. She had been haunted by the vague feeling that she must have known the man who had attempted to carry her off that dread ful night; but she had never been able to concentrate the abstract, fleeting impressions into comprehensive sub stance never until she had seen that sear, and glancing away in terror saw that Langiord, too, had seen; but sha was net brave enough to lose herself and Louise in the crowd where that man was. She could not. He had leered at Louise, too, last night at sup per. They could not ask the protec tion of Gordon and Langford back to the hotel then, when Langford'a handsome, tanned face was white with the weight cf what he had totell. "It will be best," he agreed, unex pectedly. "Come we must hurry!" It was Williston's "little girl" whom he took under his personal protection, diving up the street in the teeth of the gale which blew colder every moment, with a force and strength that kept Mary half the time off her feet. A gentler knight was Gordon though as manly. All was lark around the premises. There was no one lurking near. Everybody was dancing at tendance on the court-house holocaust. Gordon felt for his keys. "How good it is to get out of the wind," whispered Louise. This pro ceeding smacked so much of the mys terious that whispering followed as a natural sequence. They stepped within. It was inky black. "Lock the door," said Langford. in a low voice. Gordon complied, surprised, but ask ing no question. He knew his friend, and had faith in his judgment. Then he lighted a lamp that stood on his desk. , "Why did you do that?" asked Louise, gravely. "What?" "Lcck the door." "I don't know," he answered, hon estly. "I didn't think you would no tice the click. Ask Paul." "I'll explain in a minute," said Lang ford. He stepped to the windows auc drew the blinds closely. "Now that I have you safe," he said lightly, "I'll confess 1 had an oh! woman's scare. It came to me that as long as you are not, strictly spen'.; ing. cn kind and loving terms with every one west of the river and th:"s being such an all-round nasty nighi anyway, why, I'd just spirit yon homs end give the charged atmosphere c chance of clearing a little." Gordon looked at him steadily moment. His fjco did not pale. Vc! ne knew that Langford had hoard or suspected more than he intonciec to tell then. It was good to see hin shrug his shoulders in unconcern loi the sake of the two white faced girls who sat there in his stiff ofiice chairs "You are an old du.Ter. Paul," he said, in pretended annoyance. "Yot treat roe like a child. I won't stand it always. You'll see. Some day IT rebel and then " "Meanwhile, I'll Juet trot these ladies back to the hotel," said Lang ford. "But you must promise to keey your head inside. We're fixtures untl! we have that promise." "What, lock me up and run off witt all the ladies! I guess not! Wh; didn't vve round up that way, I'd like to know? This isn't Utah. Paul. Yot can't have both." Paul meant for him to lie low, then He was also in a hurry to get the girls away. Evidently the danger lay here There was a tightening of the firn: mouth and an ominous contraction o! the pupils of the eyes. He stirred the fire, then jammed a huge, knotted stick fnto the sheet-iron stove. It seemed as if everybody had sheet-iror stoves in this country. The log caught with a pleasant roar as the draughl sent flames leaping up the chimney But Paul made no movement to go Then he, Gordon, had net understood his friend. Maybe the menace was not here, but outside. If so, he must contrive to keep his guests interested here. He would leave the lead tc raul. Paul knew. He went back tc his living-room and returned, bringing two heavy buggy robes. "You will find my bachelor way el living very primitive," he sail, with his engaging smile. He arranged the robes over two of the chairs and pushed them close up to the stove "I haven't an easy chair in the house prove it by Paul, here. Haven't time to rock, and can't afford to run the risk of cultivating slothful habits. Take these, do," he urged, "and re move your coats." "Thank you you are very kind." said Louise. "Xo, I won't take off my jacket," a spot of color staining her cheek when she thought of her gay kimono. Involuntarily, she felt cf her throat to make sure the mufller had not blown awry. "We shall be going soon, shan't we, Mr. Langford? If Mr. Gordon is in any danger, you must stay with him and let us go alone. It is not far." "Surely," said Mary, with a big sink ing cf the heart, but meaning what she said. "Not at all," said Gordon, decidedly. "It's just his womanish, way of boss ing me. I'll rebel some day. Just wait! But before yen go, I'll make tea. You must have gotten chilled through. He would keep them here a while and then let them go with Langford. The thought made him feel cheap and cowardly and -::iea'.; .::'. ;v. her would he ste' cut I.tv.j .i talc- hi. J ;o h2 my chances. 'Hut i; thc-re wan shooting, it must be whero Louise and Mary, too was not. He believed Paul, in his zeal, had exaggerated evil omens, but there was Louise in his bachelor room where he had never thought to see her; there with her cheeks flashed with the proximity to the stove his stove her fair hair winel-blown. No breath of evil thing must assail her that night that nighty when she had glorhiad his lonely habi-" tation even though he himself must slink into a corner like a cowardly cur. A strange elation took possession cf him. She was here. He thought cf last night and seemed to walk on air. If he won out maybe but, fool that he was! what was there in this rough land for a girl like Louise? "Oh, no, that will be too much trouble," gasped Louise, in some alarm and thinking of Aunt Helen. "Thanks, old man, we'll stay," spoke up Langford, cheerfully. "He makes excellent tea really. I've tried it be fore. You will never regret staying." Silently he watched his friend in the inner room bring out a battered tea kettle, fill it with a steady hand and put it on the stove in the office, com ing and going carelessly, seemingly conscious of nothing in the world but the comfort of his unexpected guests. True to her sex, Louise was curious ly interested in the housekeeping ar rangements of a genuine bachelor es tablishment. Woman-like, she saw many things in the short time she was there but nothing that diminished her respect for Richard Gordon. The bed in the inner chamber where both men slept was disarranged but clean. Wearing apparel was strewn over the chairs and tables. There was a litter of magazines on the floor. She laid them up against Langford; she did not think Gordon had the time or inclination to cultivate the magazine habit. She did not know to whose weakness to ascribe the tobacco pouch and brier-wood pipe placed invitingly by the side of a pair of gay. elaborate ly bead-embroidered moccasins, cozily stowed away under the head of the bed; but she was rather inclined to lay these, too, to Langford's charge. The howling tempest outside only served to enhance the coziness of the rumbling fire and the closely drawn blinds. But tea was never served in those bachelor rooms that night neither that night nor ever again. It was a little dream that went up in flame with the walls that harbored it. Who j first became conscious that the tang cf smoke was gradually filling their ! nostrils, it was hard to tell. They ! were net far behind each ether in that ! consciousness. It was Langford who j discovered that, the trouble was at j the rear, where the wind would scon j have the whole 'building fannn.-l in tr. ; mis DurnTng a tiinn cut to snoot i:in ! as one would drown out a gopher for j the killing. He need not have been j nfrs.5'1. The alarm had rnreaL The j i "No. ray clear," metkly responded J hc-r husband. "Jobnnv has mv riiin. ' 'Johnny has my chin, ! but ha inherits hlz mother's tireless capacity for keeping it in motion."- Chicago Tribune. ! DEATH'S CRUEL DART Makes a Widow of Theodora Shonts, Only Eleven Weeks a Duke's Wife. HUSBAND SUDDENLY STRICKEN Dies in His Wife's Arms at Theii Paris Apartments. Heart (liven Way Shortly Aftrr Pin ner Hril He Itt I'licoiiMcious from I5t-jiinniiin to ttio I a tii I I .'ikI. Pari.-!. . i r-i -jr.. hi the pros nc of his bride of li s.--. t'i;:i: t!u-i- in,!, :. l'l.'lll!;lli".ei 'i !.i ' il. I -.!::::; .' .: d'AIl.erf .!. I.1 yi:' - !'A: :.v. : ..', . of CSiaiilnes :i 1 f I ;l- i i ; , r:-::r,t!! .f 1 ;.'e:t! ; '. .', . .. s from hi mi 1 I'-tii;:;-e ; t i I ;,. 'i ! day i ! hi -; ... ; .: - i:. :. . .. ;.:.;!.! I!!, i.l '. Hi '. . ' . . !'.' ;::' ' -- : ' f'r' e i.t i i : - . . : : v h. .;;!. 'I l- I ;:rrl ';:-.,-:-;. v v (1 :l. 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They t'ined in Ihoir p'lv;it .ip.iri nls. and ::n hour after !iniHV rise d.'.l.e coinp'alncd of feeling l' nul retired. Atio-.i; 11 p. m. be -was s;id den'.v stricken, gasped for brc.'it'i .-m l i:iDi".Ti.it"!y iot e-in-'cio-tsnes-. Th di'i-hess w:i cv.i-,l '.villi p-ani;- an t .-creamed ir rid. A maid who io spoinld 1o her cry was hurriedly de spatched for I);-. Iscove.-ico, while lb" h'.'iel management summoned another phydi inn. The hvi doctors arrived flmultaiuiuisly at the bei'idc of Hi. sufferer and .-MTp-iiiustered the i;:o ! pnwe; fvA r.f hrrvt sli.nukuits, f'.tt the!:1 r-r.'c.',:f! were ia vahi. S5a Keep- Vigil With Her I; ;.". Tl::-f;:!ghi)i:r. the Ni-jhT. The Cm: I.t v.-s hoTdhi.ar the d ;'; in !;--n- :;;!: -: v. hen h-- e;t ired. H.-.-y va;:- overcome by grief. ,-:n 1 e.niM nr. be per-ivid'-d l y f?::ie of her friend -v.' ho vl.-iie;' the : p::if :i:ent to h-ave l'i bed-ide f her (t-id Pus! and. aii'l kr i' Mig'I t-liere tlnovgiiout !;( ni.I,'. Tbe odore P. Sin nis ::s notified by :;b?e of his daughter' ber. a ven:e:f. ,-;nd niessage v, :;-; re ri el from 1:5m s 'j--ing t!- t he -vou.Il take the firs; ?U er le;ivii;g New York and eoiiie 'o P.-i-ris. The dr.ke's f::n;i!y were ur'ifcl, ml hlJ si-stcr. th I'uelicss d'T'ze. v,-'i' wrs at Itiari Pz. stai ted at on f(.v i.-i-i. Mrs. II. MIIH. '.gt-n I "rake .-nil eflirr friends did what thev e -:'! !r t-n-r, fort the distra'-;p.i wj . AV v , fl ,.v . calmed sonie.vhat dv.rhig the ; f v noon. When the deith o.' t'-e T'r!--r -Chaulnes be.-.ire g'Tieral y i n : -steady stream'! f 'h.' d-.dco s v; -d . eluding a ?:;rel :-r ( f :;!"" - h PreneTi l o' i i y. ca'lrd ; ' -e j.-: n left eanl ( eon h-h :i. e The le-ly ,f fie Civl-.o wr.u ..1 ' ,i a doiil h r,-.-k co'I'i; nil IV - - : at fi it vv! tva!!-.- e ' e 1 'n a ' -.-In the f '-eh of p:,;ii e yv. where it v i 1 !..n I p nd itr ; r- ::! . nents for Oo ft:n"r:i!, v.-'d-1; " ' poctcd vul t :'k" 'l. ce ; r r i -the arr!v:? .f ;i-n' f"-- ye-.-. In ace; :' a '!' f Frcm-Ti r-' ' ITtv frn I ' -. prct; l t Uiv I'-nr-: :. .n 1 v i 1 to P.ai-'s ','. rep s n-,.v. a f most smelrjit :'': .'':(' i : Vi .r. c--. ; which the d it he's fand'y ::;Vd. The duke de ('l-auiuc-s- v.- T-i!n Paris in 1-7-'. Hi" na-ri 'e f '." Shonts w.-is V.:o ciul of !;:r i : ), ally .-lervptel a- a n e I ve :;'';'! . -v. '. the test! m !;.- rf fr!-:-d V: i t'- .- were very b '.p iy hi the::- ;.:.irr'e ; I f--Tt was sail in ihe I'oit'.d i t-- t nr rr-t i ride s rati:"- vr. r v. ry I hmeli ave:--.- to ihe marri g. I.u - j v,t.;i '.(: ' ;.- l!s d-ir? r'st-'v's -. i "e-, love f':- til-- Cr'.io. YVilV .' .: - !i:s II f-i II' i : It X r.-ir:; ii'. v :i :.;ai fN; - (T; :..' c:v. over f t!:.?V fr -i'.i:t r.- i ; w.'l 1- i. d -ai:r.".u. I: lb- c" P. C. ft.-nidy. 1 cil .". : -. t ' 1 ' ' ' ." i h :i !'":! I".: '. ' Ml! :u ' Trr::'-; v. iii thr 5 I -.1 I'.'pt---.s ii iiii Jii.op.- Li;- 'i"r:ic.';. j R.--hc!o; X. Y.. April 1'.". Ki !- prr.. j-impc l' the tracks -.i pas!n Canister at sixtv miles an hour. A j ! seo;e were i;ijurd slig-itly. A broken j tire on the engine is believed to hare ! cau-c-J the wreck. I mm rl tt r i i ' 1R i i . rf m am & 3 r. and rcnevGk o? r urnitttrc, Pi&nss ; and Woodwork. (' r in ihe New Size I 1 1 ry "S3 .Afl . r' ANDREW KAUFFMAN and DAUGHTER t rr-- CASH 5TCREZ j ttAUFS IK LF.Y CCCCS JKD GROCERIES J' NO REASON FOR IT When Plaffsmoufh Citizens Show the Certain Way Out There can be no just reason why reader of this will continue to KuH"er ti e tortures of an aching back, the annoy ance of urinary disorders, the danjjc: . of diabetes or any kidney ills when relief is so near at hand and the most po.-it: i proof given that they can be cure '. Read what a Plattsmouth citizen say.-: John Janda, street commissionei-, living on the corner of Seventeenth at.d Pearl streets, Plattsmouth, says: I cm. -not say too much in favor of Don:' -Kidney Pills. My wife u-ed them f . pain in her back and was soon absolutely freed from the annoyar.ee. I also u-et! them with the same satisfactory resu'l .-. All those who suffer from backache or symptoms due to irregularity of tl.e kidneys will consult their own inter. -A by procuring Doan's Kidney Pills :A Gcring & Co.'s drug store and ziv them a trial. Every opportunity I g-' I will speak a good word for I.r.:-.' Kidney Pills and I have already c'.or.L- r , on many occasion." For sale by all dea'.er.s. Price Foster-Miiburn Co., JJuITulo, Nov Y . '. eolc r.gent.i for the United .States. EemembcT t! o ltanis-Doa-i';: u: take no other. fa licsp-Ual For Ear Trcacla. W. II. IIusccl!, the foreman oi" il;c rip-rayi gang an 1 bridge crew for t': . Burlington, lias been having ti gre:.t deal of trouble with one of his ears, ii'vi on account of which he was compelle ! to go to a specialist. Consulting 1,'r. Gilford, he was advised that he would have to submit to an operation for relief from an abcess which had formed just behind the ear. Mr. Russell went to the hospital and will be operated up on soon for the trouble. Girl wanted for housework. Inquire of Mrs. J. C. Cummins, corner Tenth and Pearl streets. 4 TKS CELEBRATED JACK rniij i : j B 3 Will make the- ear-on o.r 10 S at the far;-., the undeiintd at Rock JJIuff.s, :eve:i niiies Hout-i of Piattttotith. bari.s ::erc-ss t!-c road, t ;:; thj rouV: throtigh I'-c': . Uk:f:.s. IJI-::-; HILL, Jj:., a .sure fr:l getter, r.n.l k.ns 5oci se-ver:-I Fen.sons hi thi ; cottr.ty. lie is etC'it years old, black with white points, str.r.ds high r.i:..i weighs 1050 pounds. TICIIMS: $12.00 to insure colt to stand and .suck. niu n OMITU CAM U. Omi I H mm