PROLOGUE.
A young man and a beautiful
young woman, lost and alone in
a wilderness for months, half
starved and in daily peril of
death from wild beasts and stilt
more savage Indians this is the
central theme of the most fascU
noting romance that has come
from Emerson Hough's pen.
Head and you will learn how
love came to them; how they
conducted themselves in this try
ing, unconventional situation;
how the man's chivalry and the
woman's purity held them stead'
fast to the ideals of civilization,
and how the strange episode
brought tragedies, estrangements
and happiness.
CHAPTER XX.
The Uncovering of Gordon Orme.
IT is not necessary for me to state
that dinner In the Sheraton hall,
with Its dull mahogany and Its
shining silver and glass, was bare
ly better than a nightmare to me, who
should have been most happy. At
least there remained the topics of poli
tics and war, and never was I more
glad to f lunge into such matters than
npon that evening. In some way the
dinner hour passed. Miss Grace plead
ed a headache and left us, my mother
asked leave, and presently our hostess
I Saw Him Plainly. It Wat Gordon
Ormel .
and host departed, narry nnd I re
mained to stare at each other moodily.
I nilniit. I vm? "Inri.whPl fltinll" lie
announced his nmnniou 01 reining.
A servant showed mo my own room.
My restlessness grow upon me so thnt.
some time past midnight, not having
made an attempt to prepare for stern,
I arose, vveut quietly down tlie stair
and out nt the front door, to Bee If I
wuld find more peace in tlio open nlr.
By this time every one of the house
hold had retired. I was surprised,
therefore, whun I saw u faint streak
of light from one of the windows flush
out ncross the lawn. Not wishing to
intrude, 1 chained my position. Al
most Jit that In-t.int 1 saw the figure
of a ma li appear from the shrulihcry
and walk illreMly toward the house,
Apparently headed for the window
from which emerged the lllif.
I watched him advance, and when I
paw Llni reach the heavily barred trel
lis which ran up lo the second gallery,
I felt confirmed In my suspicion that
he was a burtlar. Approaching care
fully in the shadow, I made a rapid
run at him, and as his head was turned
'at the time, managed to patch him
about the neck by an arm. Ills face,
thus thrown ln U. was Illuminated by
the Hare of licjit. I saw him plainly,
it was Cordon Orme!
The light disappeared. There was no
cry from above. The great house, lying
dark and silent, heard no alarm. 1 did
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THE WAY
OF
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By Emerson Hough
Copyright, Ml, by the Outing Publishing
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enwFiriy" gTfp 'iipoii him" iff so" f eTI a
fashion that all his arts In wrestling
could avail him nothing. I had caught
him from behind, and now I held him
with a hand on each of his arms above
the elbow. No man could escape me
when I had that hold.
lie did not speak, but struggled si
lently with nil his power. At length he
relaxed a trifle. I stood close to him,
slipped my left arm under his left
along his back, and caught his right
arm In my left hand. Then I took
from his pocket a pistol which I put
into my own. I felt in bis clothing
and finally discovered a knife, hidden
la a scabbard at the back of his neck.
I drew it out a long blnded. Ivory
thing I found It later, with gold let
into the nllt and woven Into the steel.
He eased himself in ray grip as much
as he could, waiting, as I knew, for his
chance to twist and gropple with me.
I could feel him breathing deeply and
easily, resting, waiting for his time.
using his brains to aid his body with
perfect deliberation.
"It's no use, Orme," I said to him.
"I enn wring your neck or break your
back or twist your arms off, and I've
a notion to do them all. If you make
any attempt to get away I'm going to
kill you. Now come along;"
I shoved him ahead of me. his arms
pinioned, until we found a seat far
away In a dark portion of the great
front yard. Here I pushed him down
and took the other end of the seat cov
ering him with his own pistol.
"Xow," I demanded, "tell me what
you are doing here."
"You have your privilege at guess
ing," he sneered in his easy, mocking
way. "Have you never taken a little
adventure of this sort yourself?"
"In Virginia we keep the shotgun for
men who prowl around houses at
night," I said. "What are you doing
here?"
"You have no right te ask. It is not
your house."
"There was a light." said I. "For
that reason 1 have a right to ask. I
am a guest, and a guest has duties as
well as a host"
"If I give you parole." he asked,
'will you believe me and let us talk
freely?"
"Yes." said I slowly. "You are a
iiar. but I do not think you will break
parole."
I threw the pistol on the seat be
tween us. "What is it you want to
know?" I asked. "And again I ask
you why are you here when you are
supposed to be In South Carolina';"
"V have business here. You cost me
my chance out there in the west." he
answered slowly. "In turn I cost you
your chance there. I shall cost you
other things here. I said you should
pay my debt" lie motioned toward
my neck with his slim finger.
"Yes. you saved my life," 1 said,
"and I have hated you for that ever
since."
"Will you make me one promise?"
"Perhaps, but not In advance."
"And will you keep It?" -"If
I make It."
"Will you promise mo to do one
thing you have already promised to
do?"
"Orme. I am In no mood to sit here
and gossip like an old woman."
"Oh, don't act ugly. You're done out
of it all around, la any case. Belknap,
it seems, was to beat both you and
me. Then why should not you and I
try to forget? But now as to this lit
tle promise. I was only going to ask
you to do as much as Belknap, or less."
"Very well, then."
"I want you to promise to marry
Grace Sheraton."
I laughed In his face. "I thought you
knew me better than that. Orme. I'll
attend to my own matters for myself.
1 shall not even ask you why you.
want so puerile a promise. I am much
of n mind to shoot you. Tell, me, who
are you. and what are you, and whut
are you doing In this country?"
"Do you really wunt to know?" he
smiled. 1
"Assuredly I do. I demand It."
"I believe I will tell you, then,"- ho
sold quietly. He mused for a time be
fore he raised his head and went on. '
"I am Charles Cordon Orme, mar
tiis of Bute and Itayne. Once I lived
In Kngland. For good reasons I have
since lived elsewhere. I am what Is
known as a black sheep-a very, very
black one."
"Yes, yon are a retrograde, a rene
gade, o blackguard and a murderer," I
said to blni calmly.
"All of those things and much more,"
headiniUei cheerfully utid calmly. "I
nm two persons or more than two. I
cau't in the least make all this plain to
you in your grade of Intelligence. Per
haps you have heard of exchangeable
personalities?"
"I have beard of double personalities
and double lives," I said, "but I liuva
never admired them."
"..We. will wa!ve your .admiration.
IiOt me .i i ,i..v " I ..u Wi llllUgU hi
personality. The Jews used to say
that men of certain mentality were
possessed of a devil. I only say that I
was a student In India. One phrase is
good as auother. The Swaml llama
data was my teacher. I am a raja
yogi. I have taken the eight mystic
steps. For years even here in this
country I have kept up the sacred ex
ercises of breath, of posture, oL
thought."
"All that means nothing to me." J
said.
"No; it means nothing for me to tell
you thut I have learned Y'ama, Nlya
ma, Asana, Franayania, Pratyuhara,
l)harana, Dyhuna and Samadhi. Yes,
1 was something of an adept once. I
learned calm, meditation, contempla
tion, introspection, supercousclous reiv
soulug how to cast my own mind to a
distance, how to bring other minds
close up to me. But" he smiled with
all his old mockery "mostly I failed
on Pratyahara, which says tho senses
must be quelled, subdued and set
aside. All religious are alike to me,
but they must not Intrude on my own
religion. I'd liefer die than not enjoy.
My religion, I say, Is to play the great
games to adventure and abovo all to
enjoy. That Is why I am In this coun
try, also why I am in these grounds
tonight."
"You are playing some deeper gam a
than I know?"
"I always am. How could you ba
expected to understand what It took
me years to learn? But I suppose In
your case you need a few practical und
concrete proofs. Let me show you a
few things. Here, put your hand on
my heart.
I obeyed. "You feel It beat?" he
said. "Now It stops beating, does It
not?" And as I live, it had stopped!
"Feel on the opposite side," he com
manded. I did so, nnd there was his
heart clear across his body, and beat
ing as before! "Now 1 shall stop It
again." he remarked, calmly. And I
swear It did stop, und resumed when
he liked!
"Put your hand upon my abdomen.'
he said. I did so. All at once his body
Reemed thin and empty, as a spent c
coon.
"I drnw all the organs Into the tho
rax," he explained. "When one baa
studied under the Swaml. as 1 have,
he gains control over all his different
muscles, voluntary and Involuntary
He can. to a great extent, cut off or In
crease the nerve force In any muscle.
Simple tricks In magic become easy
to him. He gains, as you may sup
pose, a certain influence over men. and
more especially over women. If that be
.a part of bis religion. It was not with
the Swaml. It is with me!"
"You are a strange man. Orme." I
said, drawing a long breath, "the most
dangerous man. the most singular, the
most Immoral 1 ever knew.
"No," be said, reaching for bis cigar
case, "I was only born without what
you call morals. They are not neces
sary In abstruse thought . Yet in some
ways I retain the old Influences of my
own country. For Instance, 1 He as
readily as I speak the truth, because
It is more convenient; but though 1 am
a Mar, I do not break my word or hon
or. I am a renegade, but I am still an
English officer! You have caught that
distinction
"Yes. 1 would trust you." I said. "If
you gave n" ronr word of honor.!'
fie turned full upon me. "By .love,
old chap." he said, with a queer note
in his voice, "you touch me awfully
close. You're like men of my own
family you stir something In me thnt
I used to know. The word of a fight
ing man that's the same for yours
and mine, and that's why I've always
admired you That's the sort of man
that wins with the best sort of women."
"You were not worth the best sort of
woman," I said to him. "You had no
chance with Ellen Meriwether."
"No, but at least every fellow Is
worth his own fight with himself. 1
wanted to be a gentleman once more
Oh, a man may mato with a woman of
nny color. He does all over the world.
Ho may And a mistress in any nation
allty of his own color or a wife in any
class similar to his own. He does nil
over the world. But a sweetheart and
a wife and a woman when a fellow
even like myself finds himself honestly
gone like that when he begins to fight
Inside himself, old India against old
England, renegade agolnst gentlemnn
I say that's awfully blttcr-when ho
sees the other fellow win. You won"
"No," said I, "I did not win. You
know that perfectly well. Thero is no
way In the world that I can win. All
I can do is to keep parole well, with
myself, I suppose."
"You touch mo awfully close," ho
mused again. "You play big and fair.
You're a fighting man and a gentle
man and-excuse me, but It's true an
awful ass all in one. You're such an
ass I utmost hesitate to pluy the game
with you."
"Thank you." said I. "But now take
a very stupid fellow's advice. Leave
this country and don't bo seen about
here again, for If so yon will bo killed."
"Precisely," he admitted. "In fact.
I was Just Intending to arrange a per
lminent departure. That was why 1
was asking you to promise mo to hi
short, to keep your own promise.
There's going to bo war next spring
The dreams of this strange new man
Lincoln, out in the west, are going to
come true. There will be catastro'
phles here. That is why I am here
War, one of the greatest games, Is
something that one must sometimes
cross the globe to play. I will be hero
to havo a hand in this one."
i "You have had much of a hand in It
! already," I hazarded. He smiled frank
My-
, l os. he said, "one must live. I
.admit I hove been what you call a se
cret agent. Thero Is much money be
hind, tno, bl? ;vIPL'st.Mir commercial
niy game and ray task, my duty to my
masters, has been to split this country
along a clean Hue from east to west,
from ocean to ocean, to make two
countries of It. You will see that hap
pen, my friend."
"No one will ever see it happen," I
baid to him soberly.
"Under which flag, then, for you?"
he asked quickly.
"The Hag you saw on the frontier,
Orme," I answered him. "That Is the
flag of America and will be. The fron
tier Is free. It will make America frc
forever."
"Oh, well," he said, "the argument
will be obvious enough by next spring
in April, I should guess. And what
ever you or I may think the game will
be big, very big the biggest until you
have your re-'l war between black and
white and your yet bigger one between
yellow and white. I imagine old Eng
land will be In that with you or with
one of you if you make two countries
here. But I may be a wandering Jew
on some other planet before that time."
He sat for a time, his chin dropped
on his breast. Finally be reached me
his hand.
"Let me go," he said. "I promise
you to leave."
"To leave the state?"
"No, I will not promise that."
"To leave the county?"
"Yes, unless war should bring me
here in the course of my duty. But 1
will promise to leave this town, this
residence, this girl In short I must do
that. And you are such an ass that I
was going to ask you to promise to
keep your promise up there." He mo
tioned toward the window where the
light lately had been.
"You do not ask that now?" I que
ried. "You are a fighting man," he said
suddenly. "Let all these questions
answer themselves when their time
comes. After all, I suppose a woman
is a womnu In 'the greatest of the
games, and one takes one's chances.
Suppose we leave the debt unsettled
uutll we meet some time? You know,
you may be claiming debt of me."
"Will you be ready?" 1 asked him.
"Always. You know that. Now.
may I go? is my parole ended?"
"It ends at the gate." I sold to him
and handed him his pistol. The knife
I retained, forgetfully, but when I turn
ed to offer it to him ho was goue.
(To He ('.nil! imieil.)
E
Great Spectacle of "Joan of Arc"
Has Been Added to Their
Great Show.
From Saturday's Dally.
Ilingling Brothers' circus and
newly added 500,0(10 spectacle of
"Joan of Arc," will exhibit in
Omaha Friday, August, 1). The
spectacle in itself Is an attrac
tion thai should bring thousands
uf visitors from the surrounding
country. It is beyond question
Hie gncntest production of its kind
ever .seen in America.
Tin; world's most skillful scenic
artists, costumcrs, property mak
ers, chorus directors and stage
managers were engaged to mount
Llie product ion. A stage bigger
Itian a hundred ordinary theaters
was built and made portable so
that it can he conveyed from town
to town and erected each morning:
in the main tent. Thus the circus
proprietors have made it possible
for those who live in contributory
towns as well ts in the large ctiies
to see this magnificent wordless
play with its cast, of 1,200 char
acters, a ballet of 300 dancing
girls, a grand opera chorus of ioo
voices, (100 horses and a train load
of special scenery, costumes,
properties and mechanical devices
for producing such stage .elleets
as- thunder, lightning, storms,
llres nnd the sound of hallle.
In the- old market places of
notion, Franco, there now stands
a monument, by which the F tench
of today have sought to redeem
their part in the execution of Joan
of Ait, who on May 30, 1 i.'il, was
burned to death on the false
charge of heresy after having de
livered her country from I lie
English and having restored the
crown to Charles VII. History re
cords but llie meager fads of this
strange heroine of eighteen years,
who li the armies of Franco
victorious through Ennlish in
vasion, and then, descried by all,
even the indolent monarch whom
she preserved, died by t li cruelest
loitiiiv known willi llie name of
the master upon her lips. l'n
siing in poclVy the name of litis
simple pea-ant girl has come
down through llie age- o be
revered a- that of a sainl, and
whose wonderful powers and
whose bravery are verily believed
to have been of divine inspiration.
On the triumphant incidents,
lite victorious engagements, the
final defeat of tin Fngli-di armies
and the coronal ion of Charles
VII, nil achieved by Ihe frail Maid
of Orleans, has been founded the
Inspiring spectacle which gives
RINGLING BROS
MINS
Your business sense
and your "trading" appetite ought
to be whetted by this offering good clothes for a
whole lot less than you've ever bought them before.
It's a clearance planned along the lines that have
made this store a popular trading place.
Not a Suit Worth Less than $20.00
and most of them worth $22.50, $23, J27.50 and $30;
now $10, $14. and $18. Hart Schaffner & Marx, and
Alfred Decker & Colin made the most of them.
Any Straw Hat in the house for
HALF PRICE.
Manhattan Shirts
Ilingling Urol hers' circus a new
significance and makes an attrac
tion such as the. world in search
ing for amusement has never be
fore found. '
The regular circus program is
more than ever attractive. Its
company of 375 foreign artists,
its double- menagerie and its new
street parade will prove a great
surprise lo I hose who attend from
I his city. The event is one that
should not he missed.
Has Resided In Plattsmouth for
Thirty Years and Was Born
In Bohemia.
From Saturday's Dally.
James Mrasck, who for thirty
years has been a resident of
Wintersteen Hill, in Plattsmouth,
died suddenly yesterday afternoon
at his home on South First street.
He was born in llohemia about
fifty-nine years ago and came to
America when a young man and
settled in Plattsmouth. He was
married in Europe.
Four sons were born to Mr. and
Mrs. Mrasck, they being Frank of
Kansas, James of this city, John
of Chiekasha, Oklahoma, and
Joseph of Murray. His wife died
twenty-two years ago, leaving
four small sons, who were raised
by different farmers near l'lalts
moulh. Since Ihe death of his
wife Mr. Mrase.k has lived alone
in tin! home he had prepared for
his wife and family. For many
years ho was in the employ of the'
Miirlington, working in Ihe lumber
yard, but of recent years he has
been in the employ of the city.
The funeral occurred at 11
o'clock this morning from Ihe
residence, Hov. L. (iade, pastor
of the l'roshylerian church, con
ducting the service.
State Fair.
The Nebraska .Stale Fair, Sep
tember 2-0, would not tteein.
natural without the groat Liberal!
Mililary band and (irand Opera
Concert company in their daily
eoonoorts. This band is without
doubt the peer of any like or
ganizalion in the United States
and music lovers look forward
with delight to the rendition of
favorilo acts from II Trovolore,
Lucia, Cavalleria Iluslicanna,
lligoletto, Faust, Carmen and
other popular operas.
SUDDEN DEATH OF
JAMES MRASEK
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From Saturdays Dally.
While celebrating an Austrian
holiday yesterday at Louisville,
Louie Miller, an Austrian native,
lilled up Nebraska brewed
corn juice and carved right and
left with his trusty jack-knife. Ha
llrst made a dash at Joe Sch mur
derer with his knife drawn and
threatened lo kill him. Joe waa
not ready to die, as the call came
suddenly and his business was
not in shape for that, and he made
his getaway quick. City Marshal
Cam Seybert accosted Miller, who
drew his knife and slashed tho
olllcer on the arm, but was over
powered before he could do
further injury. Sherill" Quintou
was summoned at once and he
went to Louisville and brought
Miller in and lodged him in the
county, jail. Complaint was tiled
this afternoon against the accused
man and a preliminary heariuu
will probably be hold Monday.
Cut the Weeds.
I hereby wish to call the atten
tion of all farmers in Itoad Dis
trict No. 27 that according to the
now law, they are compelled to cut
the weeds along their road or the
same will bo cut by the road
overseer and charged up in taxes
to land adjacent. Also, that all
woods must be cut on or before
August 15th, or I will be com
pelled lo comply with the law.
Walter Ilyers, Overseer.
7-2'J-Slwkly
H-M- HI-H M-M W-H-
Acorn Urand Waists, one 4
of the best on the market, 4
worth from .$1,50 to $5.00,
Summer Clearance Sale
price, 75e to $3.50. .J.
E. O. noVEY & SON.
j-HM IH-H JM-M H-H
NOTICE!
Just received on track, car of
extra choice Midland Hay from
the Loup river country, and while
it lasts we will sell It at $16.00 per
ton. This Is a hay of excellent
color, fine quality, at the very low
price of $16.00 per ton from our
hay shed. Come and supply your
wants before It Is all gone.
Codar Creek Lumber Co.,
Cedar Creek, Neb.
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