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Hi JIT irrv n 1 DByC MEREDITH NICHOLSON Illustrttloni by RAY WALTERS Oeivrlaht, Uul. M kkwnu "rum she is all I have left; 'you canTuncIer stand that I wish to avoid Involving her in these family difficulties." "I would cut off my right hand be fore I would risk Injuring you or her, Mr. Holbrook," I replied, earnestly. "You have a right to know why I wish her to visit the casino with me to night. I know what she does not know, what only two other people know; I know why you are here." "I am very sorry; I regret it very much," he said, without surprise but with deep feeling. He would have said more, but I interrupted him. "As far as I am concerned no one lse shall ever know. The persons Ttho. know the truth about you are your brother and yourself. Strangely enough, Reginald Gillespie does not know. Your sister has not the slight est idea of it. Your daughter, I as sume, has no notion of it" "No! no!" he exclaimed, eagerly. "She has not known; she has believed what I have told her; and now she must never know how stupid, how mad, I have been." "Tonight." I said, "your daughter and I will gain possession of tne forged notes. Gillespie will give them to her; and I. should like to hold them for a day or two.' He was pacing the floor and at this -wheeled upon me with doubt and sus picion clearly written on his face. "But I don't see how you can man age it!" . "Mr. Gillespie la infatuated with your niece." "With Helen, who is with my sister at St. Agatha's." "I have promised Gillespie that he shall see her to-night at the casino dance. Your sister is very bitter against him and he is mortally afraid cf her." "His father really acted very de centlv. when you know the truth. But I don't see how this Is to be managed I should like to possess myself of those papers, but not at too great a tost. More for Rosalinds sake than my own now, I should have them." "Yon may not know that your daugh ter and her cousin are as like as to human beings can be. I am rather put to it myself to tell them apart." "Their mothers were much alike, hot they were distinguishable. If you are proposing a substitution of Rosa lind for Helen, I should say to have a care of It. You may deceive a casual acquaintance, but hardly a lover." "I have carried through worse ad ventures. Those documents must not get Into Into unfriendly hands! I have pledged myself that Miss Patricia shall be kept free from further trouble, and much trouble lies in those forged notes If your brother gets them. But I hope to do a little more than protect your sister; I want to get you all out of your difficulties. There Is no rea son for your remaining In exile. You owe It to your daughter to go back to civilization. And your sister needs you. You saved your brother, once; you will pardon me for saying that you owe him no further mercy," He thrust his hands into his pockets and paced the floor a moment, before he said: "You are quite right. Hut I am sure you will be very careful of my little girl; she Is all I have quite all I have." He went to the hall and called her and bowed with a graceful, old-fash loned courtesy that reminded me of Miss Pat as Rosalind came Into the room. "Will I do. gentlemen, all?" she asked, gayly. "Do I look the fraud I feeir She threw off a long scarlet cloak that fell to her beefy and stood before ns In white it was as though she had stepped out of flame. She turned slowly round, with head bent, submit ting herself for our inspection. Her gown was perfectly simple, high at the throat and with sleeves that clasped her wrists. To my masculine eyes It was of the same piece and pat tern as the gown In which I had left Helen at St. Agatha's an hour before. "I think I rend doubt In your mind," she laughed. "You must not tt !1 me now that you have backed out; 1 shall try It myself, It you are weakening. I am anxious for the curtain to rise." "There la. only one thing: I suggest that you omit that locket. I dined with her tonight, so my memory Is fresh." She unclasped the tiny locket that hung from a slight band of velvet at her throat and threw It aside; and her father, who was not, I saw, wholly reconciled to my undertaking, held the cloak for her and led the way with a lantern through the garden and down to the waterside and along the creek to the launch where IJIma was In readiness. We quickly embarked, and the launch stole away through the nar row shores, Holbrook swinging his lan tern back and forth In good by. I had lingered longer at the boat-maker's than I Intended, and as we neared the upper lake and the creek broadened IJIma senj the launch forward at full speed. When we approached Raul Orchard I bade him stop, and hiding our lantern I took an oar and guided the launch quietly by. Then we went on Into th upper lake at a lively clip. Rosalind sat quietly la the bow. the hood of her cloak gathered about her head. I was taking steering directions from IJima, but as we neared Pott An nandale I glanced over my shoulder to mark the casino pier lights when Rosalind sang out: "Hard aport hard!" I obeyed, and we passed within oar's length of a sailboat, which, showing no light, but with mainsail set, was loafing leisurely before the light west wind. As we veered away I saw a man's figure at the wheel; another fig ure showed darkly against the cuddy. "Hang out your lights!" I shouted, angrily. But there was no reply. "The Stiletto," muttered IJima, start ing the engine again. "We must look out for her going back," I said, as we watched the sloop merge into shadow. The lights of the casino blazed cheerily as we drew up to the pier, and Rosalind stepped out in good spirits, catching up and humming the waits that rang down upon us from the clubhouse. "Lady," I said, "let us see what lands we shall discover." "I ought to feel terribly wicked, but I really never felt cheerfuller In my life," she averred. "But I have one embarrassment!" "Well?" and we paused, while she dropped the hood upon her shoulders. "What shall I call this gentleman?" "What does she call him? I'm blest If I know! I call him Buttons usually; Knight of the Rueful Countenance might serve; but very likely she calls him Regglo." "I will try them all." she said. "I think we used to call him Reggie on Strawberry Hill. Very likely he will detect the fraud at cuce and I shan't get very far with him." "You fehn get as far as you ulease Leave it to me. He shall see you first on the veranda overlooking the water where there are shadows in plenty, and you had better keep your cloak about you until the first shock of meeting has passed. Then If he wants you to dance, I will hold the cloak, like a faithful chaperon, and you may muffle yourself In It the instant you come out; so even if he has his suspicions he will have no time to Indulge them. He Is undoubtedly patrolling the veranda, looking for us even ntfw. He's a faithful knight!" As we passed the open door the dance ceased and a throng of young people came gayly out to take the air. We joined the procession, and were accepted without remark. Several men whom 1 had seen In the village or met in the highway nodded amiably. Gillespie, I knew, was waiting some where; and I gave Rosalind final ad monitions. "Now be cheerful! Be cordial! In case of doubt grow moody, and look out upon the water, as though seeking an answer in the stars. Though I seem to disappear I shall be hanging about with an eye for danger signals. Ah! He approaches! He comes!" Gillespie advanced eagerly, with happiness alight in his face. "Helen!" he cried, taking her hand; and to me: "You are not so great a liar after all, Irishman." "Oh, Mr. Donovan la the kindest per son Imaginable," she replied, and turned her head daringly so that the light from a window fell full upon her, and he gazed at her with frank, boy ish admiration. Then she drew her wrap about her' shoulders, and as I walked away her laughter followed me cheerily, , I was promptly seized by a young man, who feigned to have meet me In some former Incarnation, and Intro duced to a girl from Detroit whose name I shall never know In this world. I remember that she danced well, and that she asked me whether I knew people in Duluth, Fond du Lac, Pa ducah and a number of other towns which she recited like a geographical Index. She formed, I think, a high opinion of my sense of humor, for I laughed at everything she said In my general joy of the situation. After our third dance I got her an Ice and found another cavalier for her. I did not feel at all as contrite as I should have felt as I strolled round the ver anda toward Rosalind and Gillespie. They were talking In low tones and did not heed me until I spoke to them. "Oh, It's you, is It?" and Gillespie looked up at me resentfully. "I have been gone two years! It seem to me I am doing pretty well, all things considered! What have you been talking about?" "'Bout Olunta, an Grtffuns, an' Elves, An' the Bquldglcum-Squees 'at awallera thericlvea! Rosalind quoted. "I hope you have been enjoying yourself." "After a dull fashion, yes." "I should like to tell her that! We saw you through the window. She struck us as very pretty, didn't she, Reggie?" "I didn't notice her," Gillespie re plied with so little Interest that we botb laughed. "It's too bad," remarked Rosalind, "that Aunt Pat couldn't have como with us. It would have been a relief for her to get away from that dreary schoolhouse." "I might go and fetch her," I sug gested. "If you do," said Gillespie, grinning, "you will not find us here when you get bnck." Rosalind sighed, as though at the remembrance of her aunt's forlorn ex ile; tnen the music oroite out In a two-step. "Come! We must have this dance!" the exclaimed, and Gillespie rose obediently. I followed, exchanging chaff with Rosslind until we came to the door, where she threw off her c.o r lor the first time. "Lurd aud protector, will you do ins the honor?" It all happened In a motueuU I tot-sed the cloak across my arm care lessly and she turned to Gillespie with out looking at me. He hesitated some word faltered on his lips. 1 think it must have been the quick transition of her appearance effected by the charge from the rich color of the cloak to the white of her dress that startUd him. She realized the danger of the moment, and put her arm on his arm. "We mustn't miss a note of It! Good- by" and with a nod to me I next saw her far away amid the throng of dancers. As 1 caught up the cloak under my arm something crackled under my fin gers, and hurrying to a dark corner of the veranda I found the Docket and BIH "I Want You to Exchange Cloaks with Me." drew forth an envelrpc .Vy co science, I confess, was agreeably qul-. cent. You may, If you wish, prouounn my conduct at several points of thb narrative wholly Indefensible; but I was engaged in a sincere effort to straighten out the Holbrook tangle, and Helen had openly challenged me. If I could carry this deception through successfully I believed that within a few hours I might bring Henry Ho' brook to terms. As for Gillespie, he was far safer with Rosalind than with Helen. I thrust the envelope Into my breast pocket and settled myself by the veranda rail, where I could look out upon the lake, and at the same time keep an eye on the ballroom. And, to be frank about It, I felt rather pleased with myself! It would do Helen no great harm to wait for Gil lespie on St. Agatha's pier; the dis cipline of disappointment would be good for her. Vigorous hand-clapping demanded a repetition of the popular two-step of the hour, and I saw Rosa lind and Gillespie swing Into the dance as the music struck up again. . Somewhere beneath I heard the rumble and bang of a bowling alley above the music. Then my eyes, roam ing the lake, fell upon the casino pier below. Some one was coming toward me a girl wrapped In a long cloak who had spparently Just landed from a boat. She moved swiftly toward the casino. I saw her and lost her again as she passed in and out of the light of the pier lamps. A dozen times the shadows caught her away; a dozen limes the pier lights flashed upon her; and at last I was aware that It was Helen Holbrook, walking swiftly, as though upon an urgent errand. I ran down the steps and met her luckily on a deserted stretch of board walk. I was prepared for an angry outburst, but hardly for the sword-like glitter of ber first words. "This is Infamous! It Is outrage ous! I did not believe that even you would be guilty of this!" The two-step was swinging on to Its conclusion, and I knew that the casino entrance was not the place for a scene with an angry girl. "I am anything you like; but please come to a place where we can talk quietly." "I will not! I will not be tricked by you again." "You will come along with me, at once and nuletly," I said; and to my surprise she walked up the steps be side me. As we passed the ballroom door the music climbed to its climax and ended. "Come, let us go to the farther end of the veranda." When we had reached a quiet cor ner she broke out upon me again. "If you have done what I think yon have done, what I might have known you would do, I shall punish you ter ribly you and her!" "You may punish me all you like, but you shall not punish her!" I said with her own emphasis "Reginald promised me some papers to night my father had asked me to get them for hi in. She does nt know, this cousin of mine, what tluy are, what her father Is! It Is loft for you to bring the shame upon her, "It had better be I than you. In your present frame of mind!" and the pity welled In my heart. I must save her from the heartache that lay In the truth. If I failed In this I should fall Indeed. "Do you want her to know that her father Is a forger a felon? That Is what you are telling her, If you trick Reginald Into giving her those papers he was to give me for my father!" bhe hasn t those papers. I have CQBnr.iiro'Q INQUEST Find That Walker Came to His Death Through Own Negligence The story cf the killing i f Carl Walker which was told In yester day's Journal, at the station of Ce dar Creek, was substantially corro borated yesterday afternoon at the Inquest holden on his body by Coro ner Clements and a jury at the Bur lington station in Cedar Creek where the body was laid out. The Jury which heard the testimony was com posed of J F. Wolff, Geo. Horn. Henry Likewise, C. E. Metzger. Con Sears and Henry Frey, all well known and loading citizens of that section. There were several witnesses ex amined before the Jury including Will Wilson, the companion of the unfortunate Walker, Fritz Boedek er and the other one of the 111 fated four men who had -made . the trip from the works of the Calhoun Con struction Company to Cedar Creek and who were together on the occa sion of the of the tragic ending of Walker. The testimony went to show that the two men had come down to Cedar Creek day before yesterday owing to the wet weather and the inability to work at their labors In the quar ries. After getting to that place the men drank more or less, the testi mony showing however that both j Wilson and Walker were the two soberer of the four men. During the day Wilson and Walker had had several quarrels over trifling mat ters but this had seemingly been patched up. In the evening the four men had concluded to go home, an extra freight having pulled Into the sta tion headed for the west. They de cided they would board the train and go to Louisville. With this end In view they went down to the depot where the train was standing one of the men being intoxicated and the other three including Walker and Wilson looked after him and as sisting In taking care of him. Boe deker got Into the car with him. Walker and Wilson then loft and went around to the south side of the depot to the front end of the train. This is the last they ever Baw of Wal ker alive. In his testimony before the Jury yesterday Wilson asserts that he never remembered a thing other than than that he saw Walker standing In the middle of the track before the engine. He had no rec collection of getting on the pilot of the locomotive or even trying to do so. He could not account for the presence of his hat and Walker's on the pilot of the engine. As told yesterday the first intl matlon anyone had of the tragedy was the discovery of the hats and the blood stains on the pilot when the lo locomotive reached Louisville. The discovery of the body of Walker by the section men followed as told In the paper. The body was frightfully mutilated. Pieces of flesh, bones and clothing were mixed In an In discriminate mass for the space of two hundred and fifty feet or eight car lengths along the track. The members were severed from the body and the latter had been hurled from side to side of the track as the train rushed on. There was no evidence to show that the two men had ever been on the pilot of the engine save the testimony of Wilson which In substance was as given above. After listening to the testimony viewing the premises and the body of the Jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased come to his death through his own carelessness and negligence In trying to board the engine and It exonerated the com pany and its employes from any blame In the premises. The body was taken last evening to Council Bluffs, la., where the parents of the unfortunate man reside .they living at 1529 Avenue F In that city The dead man's father was John Wal ker. Wilson Is also a Council Bluffs man his father being William E. Wll son, living at 3620 Second avenue Wilson's brother was present at the Inquest and accompanied the body of Walker to Council Bluffs. GOOD CLOTHES WflTIIIMf! I1U I IIII1U L.UVI.I Hoy I'ptnn Happy. Last Saturday morning there was much rejoicing at the home of I It I'pton and among his friends Union over the advent of a fine girl baby. Roy was one of the happiest men we ever saw, and was combln Ing business at the store with fre quent visits at the house to see how the little lady and her mother was getting along. Everybody In Union was smoking cigars at Roy's expense and he was Just as happy as a "big sunflower among the bends and Cumuli! 1904 Tk Hone of KuppenhaiMf Chictia Because of the excellence of the garments we sell and the reputa tion we have established in tMs community for strictly first-class merchandise, the idea has some way originated that this is a high priced store. This impression is sntirely erroneous. .Suits may be had here at prices from $10 to $35 and prices considered they are all excellent values. No shoddy, no riff raff stuff. Just good clothes nothing else. You can find the price to suit your purse here and feel sure it money's worth. C, E. IVescott's Sons "Where Quality Counts." Hold Conference. The railway commission yesterday held a conference with representa tives of telephone companies In re gard to a uniform system of account In? and plans for valuing the physi cal property of telephone companies. Ti legislature provided f r the valu;i ion of coloration property, but in he case of telephones the companies '1! do Die work themr.el es and re port to the railway commission Tin; commlsRlcn hns given ti? companies nipt.. m r.t of what prop'Ty shall be valued tnd how It shall be listed. Tlie commission has mad) a liJl C what '''?' ty will bo lncl ik I ..il l i tiio variocis heads, such n real es tate, building exchange equipment, toll equipment, aerial equipment, un derground equipment, subscriber's stations, utility equipment and new construction equipment. The system of accounts proposed by the commission divides telephone companies into four classes. A tenta tive set of accounts formulated by Rate Clerk Powell was submitted to the men In attendance who found very little fault with them. The main idea In preparing these different tables and accounts has been to clearly define the different natural divisions that exist at present in the operation of the telephone business. In order to make the classl flcation as simple as possible the four hundred or more different operating ompnnles have been divided Into four classes, viz: Class A. Companies whose total assets exceed $500,000.00. Class B. Companies whose total assets exceed $20,000.00 and are less than $500,000. Class C. Companies whose total assets do not exceed $20,000.00 and are other than exclusively mutual companies. Class D. Companies who do an ex cluslvely mutual business. Compan ies who come under this class must have no rented exchange or toll ser vices The telephone men In attendance were L. E. Hurtx. manager of the Lincoln Telephone company, Mr Rub sell, auditor of the same company.W. E. Hell of York, Lee Huff manager of the Nebraska telephone company at Lincoln, W. A. Plxley, auditor of the Nebraska company, A. 8. Kelley, superintendent of the Nebraska com pany, Mr. Deerlng of the New Inde pendent company of Omaha and F E. Eversolo, C. P. Avery of Edgar, W. II. Cayman of Beatrice, and T. H Pollock of Plattsmouth. Ftate Jour- nnl ATTACH MKNT KOTK'K L. K. ousley, will take notice, that on the Uth day of April, 1909, M. Archer, a Justice of the Peace of CahS County, Nebraska. Issued an order ot attachment for the sum of $15.85 li an action pending before tilm, wherein Joseph Fetzer Ih plulnllff, and L. K. Ousley In defendant, that property o( ine tieienuam, consisting or money has been attached under mild order, said cause was continued to the 28th day of May, 1909, at o'clock a. ni. JoHepli Fetier, Plaintiff. NOTU K OF AI'l'I.H tTI poll .1Q. I on i.icr,Nsi Notice is hereby given to all per sons Interested and to the publlo. that the undersigned C. H. Trumhle has filed his petition and application In the of fice of the vlllnKe clerk of the villas or I'-iiglo, Lass County, Nebraska, aa required by law. sinned by a majority of the resident freeholders of Kagla. setting forth that the applicant la a man of respectable character and stand ing and a resident of the state of Ne. hraska. and praying that a license ba Issued to the said 8. Trumhle for tha sale of malt, splrltous and vinous liq uors for the period of one vear frorn ti e date of the hearing of said appllca. tton In a hulldlnir on lote rive f and six (6). block nineteen (II) In the vlU luge or l-.agle, cass county, Nctirssna, C . Trumhle. Applicant. KOTK'K OK APPLICATION FOR LIQ. VOIl I.ICHNMK. Matter of the anollcatlon of flue P. Mohr for Liquor License. Notice Is hereby riven that on tha 111th day of April. 1909. Otis F. Mohr filed hia application with the Vlllaaa Clerk and the Hoard of Trustees of the village of Avoc.a.-Cass County, Nehraa ka. for license to sell malt, snlrltoua and vinous liquors at his place of bus ness on west two-thirds of Iot 6. Itlock 13, fronting on House Street In said village, for the municipal year ending on the 3rd day of May, 1110, and that . he will apnly for such license at meetlnar of the aa In board or trus. tees to be held on or after May 4. 1)09. or as aoon thereafter aa lie can D. heard. Dated this IRth day of April, 1809. at Avoca, Nebraska. Ous F. Monr. Applicant. Entire of Petition to Quit Title. Charles llnffke, Atty. 212 R 14th Ht., Omaha. In the District Court of Casa County. Nebraska Carl Wll helm ItafTke, Plaintiff, vs. Jeremiah Keellker, Administrator o( the estate of John P. Kinney, deceas. ed. and the unknown legatees heirs and devisees of the said John I. Kln ney, deceased, Defendants. The above named defendants and each of them will take notice that on the 24th day of February. 1909, the above named plaintiff filed tils petition in the District court or casa t;ouniy. Nebraska against them and each of them, the object and prayer of which Is to quiet title In said plaintiff as against said defendants, to the fol luwlnf described real estate, to-wlt: lot twenty-three (2.1 In the Norm Ksst quarter (N. K. qr.) of the North West quarter (N. W. qr. Of Snellen Nineteen (19) Township Twelve ll. Itsnne Fourteen (141, Kast of the Rlxth Principal Meridian in the City of Platts mouth. in the County of Cass and Htate of Nebraska, and to further en. Join said defendants and each of them from having or claiming any right, title or Interest therein and for cost of ault. You and each of you are- required to answer said petition on or hefora May 24th, 1909. or the prayer of said petition will be taken aa true and judgment rendered accordingly against you and each of you. Carl Wllhelm Haffke. Dated April 6, 1909. Cliurlei Haffke, Atty. for Plaintiff L a a mem. i ney are m my pocket, quite ssfe breexes." The mother and daughter . "V!, n yU" ? aJ,0Mh'r ' are doing as well as could be expected "gi lexpllslve..- ' ,UCh,l"r will H" to comfort ber father "Reginald shall tske them away tnothor comp" from you. He Is not a child to be ln - C. L Stull, the prominent fnrmer from northwest . of the city,, tills morning received some seed onts from a Madison, Wis. firm which Is about as fine as any ever brought to the city. It Is of the variety known as the Cienersted Swedish Select and In guaranteed to run from sixty to one hundred bushels to the acre with an average weight per measured bushel of fifty pounds. It Is the finest looking lot of oats seen here In many a day and Mr. Stull has great hopes of large crops from It. Miss Elizabeth Gapen of Danville, la., who has been visiting ln this vi cinity with Oscar Capon and family, departed this morning on the early train far her home. Miss Capen made many friends among the young people during her brief visit In this section and goes away followed by their sln cere regrets. Geo. E. Dovey was a passenger this noon on the fast mall for Omaha ahere he will spend the afternoon. Accompanying him were Misses Ella Margaret and Catherine Dovey who go to Lincoln to visit with their sis. ter Miss Ethel Dovey of the "Stub born Cinderella" company. They will he gone several days. Mr. Dovey experts to return from Omaha thl evening.