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TT TT THE ) VtTAlX OF THE PLAINS Wthor Or'MY Lady Or ThE Soutk when Wilderness wa Kino. Etcctc IttuBTRATiono Bv Dearborn Melviix (Copyright. A. C MoCluri Co.. IMS.) CHAPTER XXXII. Fairbaln and Christie. Dr. Fairbaln had originally joined the searching party, fully as eager aa Keith himself to run down the rene gade Hawley, but after an hour of re snltless effort, hla entire thought shift d to the woman they had left alone at the hotel. He could not, as yet, fully grasp the situation, but he re mained loyal to the one overpowering truth that he loved Christie Maclaire. Fairbain's nature was rough, orig inal, yet loyal to the core. He had lived all his life long in army camps, and upon the frontier, and his code of honor was extremely simp'e. It never once occurred to him that Chris lie's profession was not of the high est, or that her life and associations 1n any way unfitted her for the future. To hla mind she was the ce and only woman ms nun memory n , m the little party of men filed out of that room, haunted him until he fin ally dropped out of the search and drifted back toward the hotel. It was a late hour, yet It wa hard ly likely the woman had retired. Her excitement, her interest In the pursuit, would surely prevent that; moreover, he was certain he saw a light still burning In her room, as he looked up from the black Btreet below. Never theless he hesitated, uncertain of hla reception. Bluff, emphatto, never afraid to face a man in hla life, his heart now beat fiercely as he endeav ored to muster the necessary cour age. Far down the dark street some roysterer fired a shot, and sudden fear lest he might be sought after profes sionally sent the doctor hurriedly within, and' up the stairs. He stood, Just outside her door, quaking like a child, the perspiration beading his forehead, but a light streamed through the transom, and he could plainly hear movements within. At last, in a sudden spasm of courage, he knocked softly. Even In that noisy spot she heard Instantly, opening the door without hesitation, and standing fully dressed within. She was no longer a discouraged, sobbing girl, but an aroused, Intent woman, into whose pathetic, lonely life there had j come a new hope. She appeared younger, fairer, with the light shim mering in her hair and her eyes smil ing welcome. "Oh, Doctor," and her hands were thrust out towards him, "I am glad you have come. Somehow, I thought you would, and I have wanted so to talk to some one to you." "To me! Do you really mean that, Miss Christie?" "Yes, I really mean that, you great bear of a man," and the girl laughed lightly, dragging him Into the room and closing the door. "Why, who else could I expect to come to-night? You were the only one really good to me. You you acted as If you believed in me all the time" "I did, Christie; you bet I did," broke In the delighted doctor, every nerve tingling. "I'd V cleaned out that whole gang If you'd only said co, but I reckon now it waa better to let them tell all they knew. It was like a thunder storm clearing the at mosphere." "Oh, It was, indeed! Now I know who I am who I am! Isn't that sim ply glorious? Sit down. Doctor Fair baln, there in the big chair where 1 ean tee your face. I want to talk, talk, talk; I want to ask Questions, a thou sand questions; but It wouldn't do any good to ask them of you, would it? You don't know anything about my family, do you?" "Not very much, I am afraid, only that you have got an almighty pretty half-sister," admitted the roan, en phatically, "and old Watte possesses the vilest temper ever given a hu man being. He's no blood kin to you, though." "No, but he Is awfully good under neath, isn't he?" "Got a heart of pure gold, old Walte. Why, I've seen him cry like a baby over one of his men that got hurt." "Have you known him, then, for a long while?" "Ever since the Spring of '61. I vh brigaded with htm all through the war, and had to cut a bullet or so out ef his hide before it ended. If there was ever a fight, Willis Walte was sure to get his share. He could swear some then, but he's Improved since, and I reckon now he could like ly claim the championship." "Did did you know my mother also?" and ChrUtle leaned forward, nor eyes suddenly grown misty. "I haven't even the slightest memory of her." The doctor's heart was tender, and he was swift to respond, reaching forth and grasping the hand nearest htm. He had made love before, yet somehow this was different; he felt half afraid of this woman, and It was a new sensation altogether, and not npleasant. "I saw her often enough In those days, but not since. She was frequent xjn ramp, a very sweet faced won an; you nave ner eyes and nalr, as l ramamhtr. Walte oucht to have rec ognised you at flrst sight. By Hear ens! that was what made me so in fernally mad, the mulish obstinacy ol the old fool. Your mother used to come to the hospital tent, too; ont of the best nurses I ever saw. I thought she was a beauty then, but she's some older by this time," he paused regretfully. "You see, I'm no sprlug chicken, myself." Her eyes were upon his face. slight Bush showing in either cheek, and she made no effort to withdraw her imprisoned hand. "You are just a rice age," with firm conviction. "Boys are tiresome, and I think a little gray in the hair is an improvement. Oh, you mustn't im aglne I say this Just to please you I have always thought so, since well I w nn. He-sides, fieshv men general? too' young, because they are fo Rood natured. perhaps. How Old are you, Doctor?" "tt Un't the trrav hairs I mind, eith er," he admitted hesitatingly, "but I'm too darned bald-htaded. Oh, I ain't so old, for I was only thirty-five when the war broke out. I was so thin then I could hardly cast a shadow. I've changed some since," casting his eyes admiringly downward, "and got were me one 1 reaiiy wanted, liopes all right; she's a nighty fine girl, lint you are the one for me, Christie Could you could you care for such a duffer as I am?" Her lips were smiling and so wers her eyes, but it was a pleading smile. "I I don't think It would be tc very hard," she admitted, "not if you really wauted me to." "You know what I mean that 1 love you wish you to be my wife?" "I supposed that was It that that "Yes, and and you will love?" Her head dropped slowly, so slowly he did not realize the significance oi the action until her lips touched his hand. "I do," she said; "you are the best man In the world." Fairbaln could not move, could not seem to realize what It all meant. Th outcome had been so sudden, so sur prising, that all power of expression deserted him. In bewilderment be lifted her face and looked into ri eyes. Perhaps she realized with the swift Intuition of a clever woman the man's perplexity, for Instantly she led his mind to other things. "But let us not talk of ourselves any more, tonight. There is so much 1 wish to know; so much that ought to be done." She sprang to her feet. "Why, It is almost shameful for us to stay here, selfishly happy, while oth ers are in such trouble. Have they discovered Hope?" "No: we scoured the whole town and found no trace. Now they are out- 6lde on the prairie, hut there can be little chance of their picking up trail before daylight." "And Hawley?" "He has vanished ali-o; without doubt they are together. Wh de you suppose he can want of her? How do you imagine he ever got hor to go with him? She Isn't that tort of a girl- She shook her head, shivering a lit- tlo. "He must have mistaken her for me perhaps has not even yet dlscov ered his mistake. But what It all means, or how he gained her consent to go with him, I cannot oncelve." She stood with hands clasped, star ing out of the window. "There la a little light showing al ready," she exclaimed, pointing. "See, yonder. Oh, I trust they will find her alive, and unhurt. That man, I be lieve, Is capable of any crime. But couldn't you be of mine help? Why should you remain here with me? I am in no danger." "You really wish me to go, Chris tie?" "Not that way not that way," and she turned impulsively, with hands outstretched. "Of course I want you here with me, but I want you to help bring Hope back." He drew her to him, supremely hap- NEWiGARDINALS ARE CONFIRMED A A AAAaa aaAAA a A aaaaaAiA AS 3 -4 Colto Ccnl!rmsNlnel3enN:m- inatictis Mads by Po;e. CEREMONY OF GREAT DIGN.TY Wanted A Husband He Was Obtained Through a Singular Courtship By HARRIET C BONSALL Copyright by American Press Asso ciation, iau. quite a figure. I was forty-three last month." j "That Isn't old; that's just right." "I've been afraid you looked on me aa being nn old fogy!" I "I should say not," Indignantly, i "Why should you ever think that?" "Well, there were so many young fellows hanging about." "Who?" "Oh, Keith, and Hawley, and that bunch of officers from the fort; you never had any time to give me." She laughed again, her fingers tight ening iu their clasp on his hand. "Why, how foolish; Hawley is older than you are, and I was only playing with Keith. Surely you must know that now. And as to the officers, they , were Just fun. You see, In my proles-' sion, one has to be awfully nice to everybody." I "But didn't you really care for Haw- ley?" he Insisted, bluntly probing for, py now, every feeling of embarrass facts. ment lost In complete certainty of pos "He he Interested me," admitted session. the girl, hesitatingly, her eyes dark- enlng with sudden anger. "He lied , and I believed him I would have be lieved any one who came with such a story. Oh. Dr. Fairbaln," and fine clung to him now eagerly, "you can- Church in United States for First Time Has Four Representatives In Sacred College Name of One New Cardinal Kept Secret. Rome, Nov. 28. Obedient to a sum mons from Pope Plus X. the cardinals in Rome assembled In a secret con sistory r.nd confirmed the papal nomi nation of nineteen new members in the college of cardinals, the supreme governing body of the Roman Cath olic church. Of those thus honored, three are citizens of the United States Mgr. Johu M. Farley, archbishop of New York; Mgr. William O'Coi.nell, arch bishop of Roston, and Mgr. Diomede Fnlconio, apostolic delegate at Wash lngton. Besides the new cardinals who re ceived the red hat, the pope created another, whom he reserved "in pectore" . (kept secret) and whose name will be published in a later con slstoiy, when the pope wishes that to lie done. In some cases the name of the prelate thus chosen only becomes known after the death of the pope. Thus, with Cardinal Gibbons, Amor lea will have now for the flrst time a representation of four In the cardinal ate, which, probnbly, such ns now con stituted, will elect a successor to the reigning pontiff. As he entered the hall of the con ilstory, where the ceremony took place, the pope's step was less sure and the careworn face of his holiness Lore the signs of his recent Illness Nevertheless he withstood the fatigue of the Jong and tiylng ordenl bravely. In accordance with the ecclesiastical law, a public consistory must be held three days after the private gathering, '.vhen the new cardlnnls, with the ex (option of those from Spain and Aus tr!a, will receive their red hats. The Spanish and Austrian prelates miiHt receive he bnretta flrst from the hands of their temporal sovereign. The public consistory will be held on Thursday in the Hall of Beatification Instead of the Sala Reg'a, as at flrst i. limned. The former hall Is much larger and was decided on because of the many applications for admittance The ceremony, though comparatively simple, was carried out with a dignity and form that has characterized the Institution from the earliest days not realize how hungry I have been for what he brought me. I wanted so to know the truth of my birth. Oh, I hated this life!" She flung her dis engaged hand Into the air, with a ges ture expressive of disgust. "I was crazy to get away from it. That was what made the man look good to me he he promised so much. You will believe me, won't you? Oh, you must; I am going to make you. I am a singer In music- halls; I was brought up to that life from a little girl, and of course, I know what you Western men think of us as a class. Hawley showed It in his whole manner to ward me, and I resented it; Just for that, deep down In my heart, I hated him. I know It cow, cow that I real ly understand his purpose; but some way, when I was with him he seemed to fascinate me, to make me do Just as he willed. But you have never been that way; you you have acted as though I was somebody somebody nice, and not Just a music-hall singer. Perhaps It's Just your way, and may be, deep down you don't think I'm any better than the other do, but but I want you to think I am, and I am going to tell you the truth, and you must believe me I am a good girl." "Great God! of course you are," he blurted out. "Don't you suppose I know? That Isn't what has been bothering me, lassie. Why, I d a fought any buck who'd 'a' sneered at you. What I wanted to know was, whether cr. not you really cared for any of those duffers. Can you tell me that. Christie?" She lifted her eyes to hla face, her lips parted. "I can answer anything you ask." "And you do not care for them?" "No." He drew his breath sharply, his round face rosy. "Then you have got to listen to me, for I'm deadly In earnest I'm an old, rough, bald headed fool that don't know much about women I never thought before I'd ever want to but you can bet on one thing, I'm square. Anybody In this town will tell you I'm square. They'll tell you that whatever I says goes. I've never run around much with women; somehow I never exactly liked the kind I've come up against, and maybe they did n't feel any particular Interest In me. I didn't cut much shine aa a ladles' man, but, I reckon now, It's only b causo the right one hadn't happened along. She Is here cow, though, aH right, and I knew It the very flrst time I set eyes on her. Oh, you roped and tied me ail right the flrst throw. May be I did get you and that half sinter mixed up a bit, but Just the same you "And I will," he said solemnly. "Wherever they may have gone I shall follow. I am going now, dear, and when I come back you'll be glad to see me?" "Shall I?" her eyes uplifted to his own, and swimming in tears. "I will be the happiest girl In all the world, I reckon. Oh, what a night this has been! What a wonderful night! I nas given me a name, a moiner, ana the man I love." He kissed her, not In passion, but In simple tenderness, and as he turned away she sank upon her knees at the window, with head bowed upon the 111. At the door he paused and looked back, and she turned and smiled at him. Then be went out, and she knelt there silently, gailng forth Into the dawn, her eyes blurred with tears facing a new day, and new life. (To Bo Continued.) Backache, Headache, Nervousness and rheumatism, uoth In men and women, mean kidney trouble. Do not allow it to progress Deyond the reach of medicine, but stop it promptly with Foley Kidney Pills. They regulate the action of the urinary organs. Tonic in action, quick in results. For sale by F. O. Fricko A Co. 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Snow, driven before a thirty six mile wind, swept western Kansas, mining heavy damage to live stock Snow and zero temperatures pre vailed In Noith and South Dakota According to the local United States weather forecaster, the cold wave Is driving eastward and will bring a temperature as low oh 10 or 12 decrees to Missouri and Iowa and almost as low In Oklahoma. CONDENSED NEWS No disorders occurred In the flrst free municipal election ever held In hiarct. Thomas A. Edison called at the White House nnd met President Taft for the first time. President Taft accepted an Invita tion to attend the dinner of the Aero Club of America In New York, Jan. 27 Aviator Fowler, In sight of Fort Worth, Tex., was forced to descend in the midst of a drove of steers, when his engine broke down In midair. President Madero of Mexico has sent to Oaxaca a special commissioner to effect, If possible, a reconciliation between the disgruntled state and the central government. The constitutionality of the homo rule law passed by the last legislature for the cities of Wisconsin has been decided by Circuit Judge W. J. Turner of Milwaukee favorably to the law. The trial of Mrs. Francos O'Shaugh- nessey for the murder of her husband tn May 5, "In order to save his soul," was coinplpteJ with the exception of the summing up of the district attor ney. llefore the battleship Oregon, which l.ad left San Francisco for Dremer- ton navy yard on Puset sound, had proceeded far beyond the Golden Gate, it was recalled by wireless orders from Washington. No explanation wns contained In the Washington telegram. The "trust busting" crusHd of the federal government has demonstrated, 'n the Judgment of Attorney General Wlrkershnni, that the powers of the bureau of corporations should be en l.irgfd nnd the bureau brought intc tloner relationship with the depart nent of Justice. Five hundred persons sat down at tiie "Develop Alaska" dinner of the Seattle chamber of commerce, the purpose of the gathering being to fur ther tho movement to obtain leglsla tion from congress for the opening of Alaska to settlement and of its ro lources to development. ATYTYYTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYTTYTA Helen Trevor bad the mlsfortuue to be an heiress. Her father. Donald Tre vor, had accumulated a large fortune and Helen, being bis only child, would at his death possess It all. Heaping op riches becomes a passion. Rather It Is a habit, and we all know that a habit once fixed on an Individual is bard to break. Mr. Trevor Illustrated this as fol lows: Since bis daughter was to take bis place he laid out a course for her. This course Involved her marriage; for he not only laid out for her her future concerning the estate. bu for her heir J or heirs. The man bis daughter should marry did not so much concern him as that sue should mnrry. lie mnue a will tying up the property to her and her children, excluding the hus band and father entirely. Therefore It made little difference to hlui wheth er Helen married a good man or a stick." i But he found Helen hard to manage In this matter of matrimony. She be ing twenty nnd lie sixty, the two look ed at it from opposite HtaiidMliitH. He thought he waa giving her a great deal of leeway when he told her that he didn't care whether she married Tom. Dick or Harry so long ns she chose a husband. A gtrl who would not be satisfied with that must be very unreasonable. Helen expressed herself as content with the conditions, but since she was either not In love or the uinn she wanted did not pro pose to Ler she did not choose any one. The old man fretted and fumed and scolded till the poor girl was driven nearly distracted. Feeling obliged to encourage some man, she hit upon Tom Fisher, who would not only have been glad to marry her for her money, but for love. After n month's dawdling with Fisher she tired of him and took i up with Archie Hrlggs. A fair trial with Archlp convinced her Hint per haps, after nil, she could stand Fisher better. Fisher wns recalled nnd dis missed. Hrlggs was reinstated nnd dismissed, nnd so the game went on I The one least Injured by It wns Miss Trevor, lloth her suitors were kept on tenterhooks, while her father was made positively III by her Indecision ne was ordered to his bed by bis phy sician, who snld that he must not lie troubled about anything. He must be given tils own way In everything. If this rule were not observed the doctor would not answer for tho conse quences. With the perversity of girlhood Hel en Trevor gave her heart to a man who showed no disposition whntever to return It Pick Ttuirston. n young lawyer, bright, attractive and In many respects a acapegrnce. was the uncon scious recipient of her preference, nut unfortunately she ns a woman could not plead her cause with him. It was hard that, while she might be satis fied with a husband and her father might be restored to health by this young man. he showed no disposition whatever to marry her. Mr. Trevor grew worse, nnd his anx iety to see his daughter mnrrled be came so serious that she began to fear It would break her down as well as her father, ne called her to bis bed side nnd questioned her about her In tentions. She told him that she wns deliberating whether she should mar ry Torn Fisher or Archie Brlggs nnd promised blm that she would make up her mlud ns to which she would ac cept as soon as possible. The look of nppenl he gave her went to her heart that Is, It would have gone to ber heart bad It not gone out of her possession Into that of Dick Thurston. A week passed. She came to no conclusion, and the doctor told her that the subject of her marriage was affecting her father bo seriously that If he did not get It off bis mind be would die. Something must be done. Perplexed beyond endurance, she was driven to seek a confidant She went to Thurston, told him of tho situation, excepting thnt part of It which con cerned himself, and asked him as a lawyer If thero was no way of being married so that after her father should recover she could be unmar ried. In other words, could she op fear to be married without being mar ried 1 Thurston asked ber if there was any one with whom she would enter upon such a contract, and she told him thnt thero were two most favored individuals viz. Thomas Fisher nnd Atvhabald Brlggs. Thurston with that reserve lawyers are accustomed to put on wbeu Interviewing a client made a note of the names, put on a look in dicating that bis brain was stagger ing under the weight of the problem and snld thnt it would be necessary to look the matter up. ne would do so and give her a reply within o few days, just before she left his office he asked one more question. "is there any one who stands above these two most favored gentlemen?" "If they are most favored how could any one bo more favored?" was Tier reply. "There Is nothing beyond the uperlntlve." "Very true, very true. That would be Impossible." And with a low bow be softly closed the door behind her. Miss Trevor did not bear anything front her uftorney within the prom ised "few days." and her fattier greir worse. One morning after the doctor had been visiting Mr. Trevor the Died Icul iimu said to Helen: "It Is n question betweeu your fa ther's mind being relieved of the sub ject that Is worrying tiira or his suc cumbing. He fears he will die. you will uever marry nnd the estate thai he has been at so much pains to build up will become dissipated. In taj opinion If you will decide upon mar rying be will get well." "I'll come to a decision at once." was the reply. As soon as the doctor bad departed Helen hurried to her attorney. Sh told hliu that she must decide be- . twen ber two suitors Immediately an a decision wonld not avail without marriage. A vague hope was In her that Thurston would take pity on ber nnd solve the problem by offering t marry her himself. But be did not. He treated tho affair professionally. J'l have looked the matter np,H ah aald with the gravity of a Judge oo tho supreme bench, "nnd I would ad vise you to mnrry both your suitors.' "Both!" "Yes. both." "But such a marrlago wonld la law be bigamy." "Not nt nil. There Is no law of the, land against marrying two persona at once. There Is a law agnlnst a mar ried persou marrying ngnln during the lifetime of the first consort or without divorce but your Drst marriage may b with ns mnny husbands as you like." Helen looked nt him in astonish ment. "I stnke my professional reputatioa on what 1 say being true," lidded the lawyer. "If you can Induce both these men to marry you nt once you can au nounco to your fnther that you have married cither one of them you cbooso to name to him. After bis recovery you will have no trouble in getting the courts to annul the double marrlago." "But suppose tlieso men will not con sent to such n marriage." "Try them." Helen thought hard for awhile, her tormentor regarding her curiously. "My advice Is," he added, "for you to write each ono of your suitors an nouncing that you will marry him at an appointed time and place." "Will you be present?" "Certainly. As your attorney 1 must seo that you fall into no legal error." It Is Blngulnr how much byplay will pass between u man and a woman be fore unmnsklng their fcellugs, nor Is It certain nt Just what point they come to understand each other. At thla Juncture nn Idea shot through Helen's, brain. She told Mr. Thurston to be at her house nt 4 o'clock tho next after noon, then took her leave. At tho appointed hour Helen, array ed In becoming costume, 'awaited the coming event. At any rate, she await ed her attorney, who nt tho appointed hour rang the doorbell. He found her In the drawing room looking very pret ty, but woebegone. "Where are your suitors?" ho asked. "They have failed me." "How so?" "I sent for them and told them that I would marry both of them." "What did they say?" "Nothing. Tbey withdrew In hlgb. dudgeon." "How Is your father?" "In a critical condition." "What do you propose to do?" "I have no Idea what to do. I called anon you for legal advice. You pro posed a plan to which I acceded. It has failed and I am nt my wits' end. "Ready to marry any one?" "Any one." She was looking not at him, but at the floor. "I presume that oe your attorney, 1 am bound to help you out." There was no reply to this. "If I bad not been sensible of my unworthlness to secure such a prlaa I would have long ago offered to settle this matter for you by offering myaett as a means of solving the problem. The lady sitting mute, tho gentle man proceeded. y "Sloce your father's life depends npon your marriage and there Is no more favored man than the two moat favored men" He paused, but she did not make any . remark and he proceeded. "You might honor me by accepting me as a dummy to servo for the pres ent and to be cast off when not needed-She looked up at him, a smile broke over ber sober, not to say troubled, features, he went to her and, bending down, kissed her. Ad hour later word came from tbe sickroom that Mr. Trevor was sinking., and that he begged of bis daughter to give him tbe satisfaction of seeing her married before he died. A clergyman was called, and as soon as he arrived Thurston nnd nelen went upstairs to the Invalid and Helen, kneeling beside ber father, put her arms around him and announced thnt she had come to a decision. She was to marry Mr. Thurston "What! Why, Nell. I thought yoa were beslletlng between two others?' "So I was, fnther. but thnt waa be en u so Mr. Thurston didn't ask me." "So she came to my office and asked me," said Thurston. "I didn't." "You did" "I say I didn't." "Come, come." Interrupted the fa ther, "let well enough nloue." At that moment the clergyman en tered and tho couple were married. "And now," snld Mr. Thurston, "since It Is all nettled. 1 think I'U take a nap." ne turned over, went to sleep and In a few days wns In his office at tending to business. He lived to seo a grandson on whom he settled Ida fortune.