Silver
By REX BEACH
COPYRIGHT 1908. BY
CHAPTER X.
r ,1LYDE next day suggested that
If I Cherry could prevail on III!
, Hard to advance the money.
' "Cherry?" asked Boyd. "How
can she help?"
"She can do anything she wants with
him."
"What do you mean?"
"I may be a heavy autumn frost as
a financier," the younger man remark
ed, "but when It comes to women I'm
as wise as a wharf rat I've been
watching her work, and It's great
Teople have begun to talk about It
Every night It's a dinner and a theater
party. Every day orchids and other
extortionate bouquets, with Jewel box
es tied on with blue ribbons. Ills mo
tor Is at her disposal at all times, and
she treats his chauffeur with open con
tempt If that doesn't signify"
"Nonsense!" exclaimed the other
with disgust "She Is too nice a girl
for that You have misconstrued nil
Hard's politeness."
Finding his worldly wisdom at Issue,
Clyde defended himself stoutly. "I
tell you, he has gone off his blooming
balance. I know the symptoms. Leave
It to old Dr. Clyde."
"You say other people have noticed
itr .
"I do. Everybody In town except
yon and the newsdealer at the corner
toe's blind."
Emerson rose from his chair and be
gan to pace about slowly. "If IIUHarJ
bas turned that girl's head with his at
tentions I'li"-
Clyde threw back his head and laugh
ed In open derision. "Don't worry
about her he Is the one to be pitied.
She's taking him on a seeing Seattle
trip of the most approved and ex
pensive character."
"She Isn't that kind," Emerson hotly
denied.
"Now, don't be a boy until your
beard trips you up. That girl is about
to break Into Hllliard's vault, and
while she's in there, with the gas light
ed and a suit case to lug off the bank
notes, why not tell her to toss in a few
bundles for us?"
"If I can't get along without taking
money from a woman I'll throw up the
whole deal."
The curious look which Boyd bad
noted once before came into Clyde's
eyes, and this time, to Judge by the
young fellow's manner, he might have
translated it Into words but for the
entrance at that moment of Cherry
herself, accompanied by "Flngerless"
Fraser.
"What luck in Vancouver?" she in
quired. "None whatever. The banks won't
listen to me, and I can't interest any
private parties."
"See here," volunteered Fraser, "why
don't you let me sell some of your
stock? I'm there with the big talk."
Emerson turned on him suddenly.
"You have demonstrated that If you
had kept your mouth shut we'd have
been at sea by now."
The fellow's face paled slightly as he.
replied, "I told you once that I didn't
Up your mitt."
"Don't keep that up!" cried Boyd, his
much tried temper ready to give way,
"I can put up with anything but a
He."
Noting the signs of a rising storm.
Clyde scrambled out of his chair, say
tng, "Well, I think I'll be going." He
picked up his hat and stick and hur
cledly left the room, followed in every
movement by the angry eyes of Fra
scr, who seemed on the point of an ex
plosion.
"You are tired and overwrought."
laid Cherry auietly to Boyd. "The suc-
:ess of this enterprise, with any hup
plness It may bring you, isn't worth a
human life, nor is it worth what you
ire suffering."
"Perhaps not. from your point of
view." he said roughly, then struck
his palm with his closed flat. "What
an idiot I was to begin all this to
think I could win with no weapons
ind no aid except a half mud fisher
man, an addle brained imbecile, a con
fidence man"
"And a woman." supplemented Cher
ry. "I'm the one to blame."
"No; I blame- no one but myself.
Whatever ..o'l'tv responsible for there's
inly one person you've harmed your
lelf." "What do you mean?" asked Cherry.
Her surprise left him unimpressed.
"1-et's he frnnk." he said. "It U best
to hnve suc-h thlis rut. I muled my
friendship for money, and I si ni ruined.
You nre stnUlrrr yrur hirer agnlnst
miliard's bauUtiotes." Her silence
only made him the mere fiercely deter
mined to force mi explanation. "Oil.
I'm In no mood to speali gently." he
said; then nildcd. with n sting of con
tempt in his tone. "I didn't think you
would pny cjulte that price for your
copper mine."
Cherry Malotte puled to her lips
"Kindly be more explicit; 1 don't know
what you are talking about."
"Then, for your own good, you'd bet
ter understand. According to accepted
ftandard. there Is one thing no wo
man should trade upon. You hnve set
yourself to tnip Illllliird. and front
What I hear you are succeeding. He Is
a married man. He Is notorious, nnd
M M
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Horde
Author ot The Spoilen
'The Barner'
and
HARPER t BROTHERS
yet you "Lave deliberately yielded your
self to him for a price."
Suddenly he found the girl standing
over him with burning eyes and quiv
ering body.
What right have you to say such
things to me?" she cried. "A moment
ago you acknowledged yourself a mur
dererat least in thought You said
you would sacrifice anything or every
thing to gain your ends. Do you think
I'm like that too? Are my methods to
be called shameful because your own
are criminal? And suppose they were?
Do you think that you and your love
for that unfeeling woman, who sent
you out to toll and suffer and swent
your soul dry in the solitude of that
horrible country, are the only Issues
in the world?"
"We won't speak of her," he broke In
sharply.
"Oh, yes, we wllL You say I have
set a price on myself. Well, she can
set a price on herself, but you can't
see It Her price was your honor, that
has crumbled; your conscience, that
has rotted. You have paid it and you
would pay double if she exacted it
But one thing you shall not do; you
shall not Judge of my bargains nor de
cide what I have paid to any man."
Never before had Boyd seen a wom
an so transformed by the passion of
anger. She was the picture of defiant
fury. The mask had slipped, and be
caught a glimpse of the naked, pas
sionate soul, upheaved to Its depths.
I beg your pardon." he said. "You
are your own mistress, and you have
the right to make any bargain you
choose."
lie saw that her eyes were misty
with tears. "I want you to know."
she said, "that I understand your posi
tion perfectly. If you don't succeed
you not only lose the girl, but ruin
yourself, for you can never repay the
men who trusted you. That is a very
big thing to a man, I know, yet there
must be a way out there always is.
Perhaps it will present itself when you
least expect it" She gave him a tired
little smile before loweriig her veil.
He rose and laid his hand on her
arm. "Forgive my brutal Usornesa.
TtfftK
"WHAT bioht havk you to sat bcch
TBI.NOH TO UK?"
I'm not clever at such things, but I
would have said as much to my sister
if 1 had one."
It wns an honest attempt to com
fort her. but it failed. "Goodby." she
said; "you mustn't give up."
All the way back to her hotel her
mind dwelt bitterly upon his parting
words. "Ills sister! Ills sister!" she
kept repeating. "God! Can't he see?1
Dusk was fulling when the girl, with
set, deflunt face, went to the telephone
to call up IIHIlard at the Rainier club.
"I have thought over your propo
sition, and I have changed my mind,"
she snld. "Yes, you may send the
car for me at 7." Then, In reply
to some request, she laughed back
through white lips. "Very well, if you
wish it, the blue dress yes. the blue
decollete dress." She hung up the re
ceiver, then stood with hands clinched
while a shiver ran through her slender
body. She stepped to a closet and
flung open the door to stare at the ar
ray of gowns.
"So this Is the end of my good reso
lutions," she laughed and snatched a
garment recklessly from Its hook.
"Now for all the miserable tricks of
the trade!"
George Bait. Clyde and Fraser
formed a glum trio as they sat In a
nook of tho hotel cafe, sipping mood
ily at their glasses, when on the
following afternoon Emerson Joined
them. But they sensed some untoward
happening even before he spoke, for
his face wore a look of dazed incredu
lity, and his manner was so extraor
dinary that they questioned In chorus:
"What's the matter? Are you sick?"
"No," said he, "but I I must have
lost my mind."
"What Is It?"
"The trick Is turned."
"The trlcli!"
"I have raised the money."
With a shout Hint startled the other
occupants of the room Unit and Clyde
Jumped I" 'heir feet nnd begun to
rnper ".bent In frenzy Even "Fin-
'
cracked In wide griu of the blan
amazement.
"About ti.'xin I was culled on
phone by Milliard He a-skisl me m
come down to the bank at once, uuj I
Weill. He said he liud rHtmidefei
and wanted to p-it up the money. It's
up. He'll hack us. I've got It lu writ
lug. It's all cinched $WO.OiH. and
niore If we need It."
"You must have made a great talk."
declared Clyde.
"I said nothing. He offered It him
self as a persouat loan. It has nothing
to do with the bauk. . I'm going to tell
Cherry now."
Alton Clyde tittered. "I told you sbs
could pull It off." he said. '
This was Milliard's own notlou."
Boyd returned coldly. "He merely re
considered his decision, and"
Turn over! You're on your back."
'It was only yesterday afternoon
that I talked with Cherry. I dare say
she hasn't seen him since."
"Well. I happen to know that she
has. As I came home lust night 1 saw
them together. They came out of that
French cafe across the street and got
Into Hllliard's car. She was dressed
up like a pony."
What's that got to do with it?" de
manded "Flngerless" Fraser.
"She pulled the old fellow's leg.
that's all." explained Alton.
'If I thought she had done that"
said Emerson slowly, "1 wouldu't
touch a peuuy of the money."
I dou't care where the money came
from or how It got there," rumbled
Bait. "It's here; that's euough."
But Boyd clung to his point with a
stubbornness which he himself found
It difficult to explain. The arguments
of the others only annoyed him. The
walk to Cherry's hotel afforded bltu
time for reflection, which, while it
deepened bis doubt, somewhat lessen
ed bis Impatience, and when he was
shown into her presence be did not be
gin In the Impetuous manner he had
designed.
What makes you think I had any
thing to do with it?" she asked after
be bad spoken.
"You were with Hllllard last night'
She nodded slightly. "We closed our
negotiations for the copper , mine lest
night"
"How did you come out?"
"He takes it over and does the de
velopment work," she answered.
"That means that you are lndepend
ent; that you can leave the north coun
try and do all the things you want to
do?" This time her smile was pus
sling. "You don't seem very glad."
"No! Realization discounts anticipa
tion about 00 per cent But don't let's
talk about me. I I'm unstrung to
day."
"I'm sorry you aren't going back to
Kalvlk." be said, with genuine regret
"But I am," she declared quickly
"I'm going back wltb you and George
if you will let me. I want to see the
finish of our enterprise."
"See here. Cherry; I hope you didn't
Influence Hllllard In this affair."
"Why probe the matter?"
"Because I haven't lost all my man
hood." he answered roughly. "Yester
day you assumed the blame for this
trouble and spoke of sacrifices, o nil-
well. I don't know much about worn
en. but for all I know you may have
some ridiculous, quixotic strain in your
makeup. I hope you didn't"
"What?"
"Well, do anything you may be sorry
for." At last be detected a gleam of
spirit In her eyes.
"Suppose I did. What difference to
you would that make?" He shifted
uncomfortably under the girl's scru
tiny.
"Suppose that Mr. Hllllard had call
ed on me for some great sacrifice be
fore he gave up that money. Would
you allow It to affect you?"
"Of course," he answered. Then
unable to sit still under her searching
gnze. be arose wltb flushed face to
meet further discomfiture as she con
tlnued:
"Even If It meant your own ruin, the
loss of the fortune you have raised
among your frleuds money that Is in
trusted to you and and the relln
qulshment of Miss Wayland? Honest
ly, now" ber voice had softened and
dropped to a lower key "would
make any difference?"
"Certainly!"
"How much difference?"
It
"I'm in a very embarrassing posi
tlon," he said slowly. "You must re
alize that wltb others depending on me
I'm not free to follow my own lncllna
Uons."
She uttered a little mocking laugh.
"Pardon me. It was not a fair ques
tlon, and I shouldn't have asked it but
your hesitation was sufficient answer."
Then as be broke Into a heated denial
be went on:
"Like most men, you think a woman
bas but one asset upon which to trade
However, if I felt responsible for your
difficulties that waa my affair, and if
determined to help extricate you that
also concerned me alone." He stepped
forward as if to protest, but she slleuc
ed his sieech with an Imperious little
stamp of her foot
In spite of the cheering turn bis for
tunes bad taken. It was In no very ami
able mood that he left ber at last no
whit the wiser for all his questioning
In the hotel lobby below he encounter
ed the newspaper reporter who had
fallen under Eraser's spell upon their
first arrival from the north. The man
greeted blm eagerly.
"How d' y' do, Mr. Emerson? Can
you give me any news alout the fish
cries?"
"No."
"I thought there might be something
gerless" Frtser's expressionless fact
new bearing on my story."
"Indeed! So you are tho chap who
wrote that article some time ago. ch?"
"Yes. sir. Good, wasn't Itr
"Doubtless, from the newspnper
point of view. Where did you get it?"
"From Mr. Clyde."
Continued in next issue
IH5 SHOULD BE
Otoe County Towns Set Good
Example for Cass County.
The following from the Nebraska
City News contains some suggestions
that are most excellent, and we hope
the people of Cass county will read
them, and not only that, but that
they will heed them, and when the
summer again rolls around they will
remember them:
"The people of the various towns
nd the county in general should be
more friendly, more neighborly and
islt each other. All of the towns
in the county have gatherings and
celebrations. The people should ac
quire the habit of taking a day off
and attending them. Let the people
get more in the habit, as they do in
other states, of attending gatherings
of these kinds and have a good old
fashioned time. Get away from your
work, go out and meet the people
from other portions of the county
and from the various towns and if
you do not know them form their
acquaintance.
Nebraska City, Dunbar, Talmage,
Syracuse, Unadllla, Berlin, Palmyra
and the other towns In the county
each year hold gatherings at which
the people should all. congregate
and spend a day of pleasure and
meet their friends and neighbors.
Let us form the habit and do this
more. There is nothing in this mat
ter of devoting all of our time to
money getting and leaving it to
some one else to spend. Get out
and have a little pleasure yourself.
In Cass county they have gatherings
of this kind and everybody, their
cousins and their aunts, take a day
off and attend the old settlers' gath
erings. They meet friends, have a
day's rest and come home feeling all
the better for having gone. Let each
reader of The News make up his or
her mind that next year they will at
tend all of the gatherings to be held
in the county and thus get the habit
of getting away from your labors and
home surroundings for a few days in
the year. The western people do not
seem to have acquired this habit as
have easterners. All of them have
plenty of time to attend gatherings.
At Syracuse, the people seem to be
awakening to the idea and each year
they have such gatherings and it the
weather permits there la always a
monster crowd. Thursday they had
a meeting and no leas than 7,000 peo
ple would have been present, but for
the Btorm. People are learning to
attend from all parts of the county.
Let us all acquire this habit, go to
the other towns, take part in their
gatherings and become acquainted
w ith them and they will then want to
attend the meetings held elsewhere,
Few people, care to attend a gather
ing where they will meet only Btrang
ers. Let us become more friendly,
and there will be an Incentive to at
tend all of the gatherings held in all
of the towns, because we will have
friends there and people whom we
care to meet and spend the day. Turn
over a new leaf and become more
sociable and get away from the
drudgery of the dally life."
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There Are Others.
Nebraska City Press (rep.): When
the Lincoln Star changed hands we
thought the new editor might be a
little easier on Senator Burkett, who
Is having a hard time making the
people believe that he isn't what the
Star says he is. But -we thought
perhaps the Star would let up, but it
won't. Listen to this: "Senator
Burkett la out denouncing the dark
days of democratic rule and the low
prices of the early 90s. He might be
more charitable, remembering that
the country did not enjoy the advant
ages of his great wisdom and fidelity
In those agonizing days." Is the Star
Joking, or is it in earnest? One Ne
braska republican insists that the
Star is democratic. If the Star is
democratic, so is the Kansas City
Star, the Chicago Tribune, the Min
neapolis Tribune and, last but not
least, the Nebraska City Press. To
the standpatters any newspaper that
believes in progress and a cutting
loose from the old, "our grand and
glorious country" campaign speeches
Is democratic.
For Sale.
264 acre farm, 4 miles west of
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I
L GULLEN.
OF GREW POMPANY SHOOTS HERSELF
Domestic Trouble Seems to Be Responsible for the Attempted
Suicide of the Actress Last Evening.
From Tuesday's Putty
The theater-goers of the city were
shocked last evening when about
7:30 the news was circulated on the
street that the leading lady lu the
Grew company had attempted suicide
In her room at the Riley hotel. Upon
Investigation the rumor was found to
be well founded, and that Mabel Cul
len had attempted to kill herself, and
had Inflicted on herself a very dan
gerous if not fatal wound, using for
the purpose a No. 4 4 shell shot-gun,
which she has owned and carried and
used for hunting for several years.
The gun had been loaned to a mem
ber of the troupe, but yesterday,
while the rest of the patty were at
rehearsal, the lady went to the trunk
and got her property and took it to
her room. She went to supper as
usual, and after the meal stopped at
the clerk's desk and chatted with
members of the troupe and shortly
after did the deed which may end
her career. At the time the shooting
occurred she-was alone in her room,
which was No. 16, and two other lady
members of the company occupied an
adjoining room. When they heard
the two shots fired in quick succes
sion they sprang up, not knowing
where the shots came from, and hur
ried into the unfortunate woman's
room, where they found her lying on
the bed moaning with pain, and the
gun by her side.
A gentleman occupying room No.
17, rushed in at the time and ren
dered what assistance he could, and
called assistance, as the lady mem
bers of the company were panic
stricken. One of them rushed,
screaming down the stairs, and hys
terically shouted that the woman in
"room 16 was shot." Mr. Campion,
the Omaha engineer, was sitting in
the office at the time, and he ran to
the injured woman and found the
others already doing what they could
to aid her. Doctors Livingston and
Cook were summoned and examined
the wound, finding that the charge
WEEPING WATElt.
(Republican.)
H. J. Philips returned home last
Friday from Ashton, S.' D., where
his daughter resides, and he was
called on account of the death of his
grandson.
Gus Rood, operator, who has been
doing third trick here, has been given
a station at Burr. His place has been
filled here by Clark Forcade. Mr.
Forcade has a family and expects to
make this his home.
Dr. Welch tells us that the Btork
Invaded the corporate limits of
Weeping Water Friday, Sept. 16th,
and left a girl at the home ot Mr. and
id.. Rav Krelder. The sum oird
returned Monday, Sept. 19th, and left
a boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Parker.
Miss Grace Teegarden departed
last Monday morning for Ohio, to at
tend Oberlin college. Miss Teegar
den Is the only one of the 1910 High
school graduates that leaves the
state to attend school, other mem
bers have gone to Doane college and
the State University, bo there may be
a homesick girt.
Mrs. Jesse Davis is very sick, a
nervous break down that renders her
In a worse condition than her hus
band, and Mr. Davis has been falling
rapidly. The lack of proper nursing
Is ascribed by the doctor in attend
ance as a great drawback to their
recovery. Later, we learn that a
professional nurse has been secured.
The enrollment at the public
schools now reaches about 335. Of
these 7 are in the High school. The
graduating class of 1911 Is now com
posed of fifteen pupils and strange to
relate ten ot them are from out ot
town. Last year every graduate was
from Weeping Water.
A. J. Klepser and family returned
home Saturday from Aberdeen, S. D.,
where they went to Bee what kind of
land Mr. Klepser's number would
secure. In their drive over the
country It did not look good to them
and they returned satisfied that the
time was not quite ripe.
Not Coughing Today?
Yet you may cough tomorrow I Better be prepared for H
when it comes. Ask your doctor about keeping AyerV
Cherry Pectoral in the house. Then when the hard cold
or cough first appears you have a doctor's medicine a
hand. Your doctor's approval of its use will certainly
set all doubt at rest. Do as he says. He know?
No alcohol in this cough medicine. . c. A net Co., Lowell, Ma
Kuhust health i a great safeguard against attacks ot throat and lung troubles, i :
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of the shot-gun had passed entirely
tnrougn tne woman s body, having;
penetrated about two Inches below
and an inch and a half to the right
of the left nipple, piercing the lobe
of the lung, coming out Just below
the left shoulder blade. The mlsaet
was a wooden ball, making a wound
dangerous in the extreme, though
not necessarily fatal, but a wound
which in its nature cannot be probed,
hence the danger from ceptlc poison
ing. The doctors say that no arteries
of any consequence were severed, else
the patient would have died very
soon.
The motive of the lady for com-
ruining the rash act Is only a con
jecture. Her real name Is Mabel
Carter, and while the company waa
here in May, Constable J. R. Denson
was called on by a promluent attor
ney of this city, to serve a copy of s
restraining order issued by the dis
trict court at Topeka, Kansas, la t
divorce proceedings then pending la
that court, where she was sued for
divorce by her husband, a Mr. Car
ter. At the time the writ was served
by Constable Denson, Mrs. Carter
fainted, and was hysterical for soma
time. Only a couple ot weeks ago
she received a copy of the decree of
divorce, and it is thought that she
may have been brooding over her do
mestic affairs which caused her to
make the attempt on her life. She
has with her a beautiful little daugh
ter, and the child Is the pet ot the
troupe.
The little daughter has not been
informed ot the rash act of her
mother, and only knows that she la
sick. The lady was taken to the
hospital at Omaha this afternooa,
where she can receive the best of
care. She has friends in Omaha,
also, who will be much Interested to
her condition.
The Grew company will continue
their engagement here during the
week.
KLMWOOn.
(Leader-Echo.)
James Turk is having his house
remodeled right up to the handle
Jas. Durbln bas the contract.
Mrs. S. C. Miller and son, Lloyd,,
left Monday for a visit with Harvey
Miller and family at Wesslngtoa
Springs, S. D.
Miss Kittle Worley was down from
Omaha over Sunday for a visit with
her mother, who has been quite seri
ously ill of late.
W. E. Rosencrans was out from
Plattsmouth a few days this week on
a business and pleasure visit wltli
Elmwood friends.
E. B. Lambert has again enteral
upon his duties as a clerk In Swartu
& Welchel's store, where he expecti
to remain for the winter.
Mrs. J. R. Harger and baby, ot
Chicago, are enjoying a visit with tho
home folks. Grandma Clapp thinks
there Is only "one baby" In tho
world for her, and that, Marlaa
Genevieve.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rhoden, of Wau
keeney, Kansas, have been en Joy In
a visit with their many friends lv
this locality. Mr. Rhoden says they
are well pleased with their portlo i
of Kansas despite their short resi
dence there.
Jackson Gyger and family, cf
Chappell, Neb., came In Wednesdr r
for a visit at the home of his brothe .
Stephen. Jackson Is the oldest of
the Gyger boys and will be remem
bered by many of his frlenda an I
associates in this vicinity. He In
rented his farm near Chappell an I
will move to Oregon In the near t--ture.
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