PAGE 5.
PLATTSMOUTH SEKJI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER. 17, 1913.
A PERSON
OF SOME
IMPORTANCE
LLOYD OSBOURNE
Copyright, 1911, by the Bobbi-MerrlU
Company
PROLOGUE.
Lovers of Romance, attention!
' Here's a story you will like. It
tells of mystery under'the dreamy
moon of the Pacific islands and
of love in the shady lanes of New
England and what more can a
story reader want? The mystery,
of course, is introduced early in
the tale, and the -love-follows
close after. Together they go
hand in hand through the pages
of the story, never parting com
pany until the-final chapter.
There the mystery departs, but
the love remains.
You know, of course, about the
author, Lloyd Osbourne. He
earned how to write in a worthy
school, for he is a stepson of
Robert Louis Stevenson. And no
greater story teller than the tatter
sver lived.
CHAPTER IV.
"Always call me Chris."
B UT Mr. Doty was more to be
trusted tban Matt hart thought;
of a sudden lie came bustling
up like a rushing little tug.
towing two statelier ships. Bewilder
ing introductions ensued; Matt found
himself shaking hands with an impos
ing gentleman with a white mustache:
shaking hands with a young lady in
blue foulard, whose dark, soft glance
lingered curiously on his own. Matt
hardly knew whether she was pretty
or not or at least very pretty. Ills
first Impression was more of gracious
ness. youth and breeding; of rather an
impudent little mouth, parting contin
osl'y on perfect teeth; of delicately
penciled eyebrows, a nose slightly
aquilin". and an abundance of glossy
hair, which under the lamplight ap
penred darker than it really was.
"I've met a considerable nnmber of
kings in my time." said the general
genially, "but always glad to add an
other to the list, you know. It's rather
a reproach to us. I'm afraid, that we
let the papers discover you first-"
"Oh. those papers!" exclaimed Matt.
"Rut really, general, what is one to
do? I night as well run after an ex
press train as try to deny all that rub
bish." "Nobody is safe In this country,"
agreed the general, with great good
hua.or. "You can go to bed at night
n honored citizen and wake up in
the morning an alliterative outcast
Merciless. Marshall Murders Maid or
something equally surprising and un
pleasant." "It's the smudgy pictures I hate
most," put In Miss Marshall. "I've
had mine stuck all round with little
cupids shooting arrows into an unfor
tunate foreign nobleman."
The general, still laughing at his own
sally, was greeted and diverted by a
passing acquaintance, affording Matt
the opportunity of asking Miss Mar
shall If she would not like to make
the round of the booths with him. Her
face showed her pleasure at the pro
posal, and in her answering Ijok. so
arch and eager. Matt seeiued to read
something that made him dizzy. She
was more than pretty: she was ex
quisite, and the sudden realization of
her beauty was not without a dart of
pain. They moved about, talking or.
rather, trying to talk, for the noise and
Jostle caused constant interruptions
talking and hoping for chairs and elud
ing the general like a pair ofitruants,
nil the while looking intd each other's
eyes and laughing. But there were no
chairs; there was not an empty spot
In the whole church except in the pul
pit, and that was set Inaccessibly In
midair like a wooden lily on a long,
twisted stem. Matt gazed at It much
iik a castaway sailor might gaze at an
airship an unmanned airship drifting
high above his head. But as he gazed
his resolution grew, and he announced
it recklessly.
"But they'll all see usl" cried Miss
Marshall, aghast.
"Only the tops of our heads, and they
won't recognize us," said Matt.
"And Mr. Doty will be scandalized
everybody will."
"Oh, nunsense," slid Matt. "It's the
dickens to stand up here, with people
digging into you and pestering you to
buy beadwork pincushions, when you'd
give everything in the world for ft cozy
i talk."
"A cozy talk would be nice, wouldn't
It? Though It would take an elephant
to get through all"
"Come along. I'll be the elephant."
The pulpit was reached by a spiral
r.lair or, rather, could be reached by
pressing apart a stout lady gabbling to
another stout lady, sweeping through
live gauzy little girl and disturbing a
mounting Hr of sweethearts, two to a
rtcp. Had Matt not been In evening
dress he would ii;?Ter have succeeded in
dislodging these lovers, but his swal
lowtail was an awe inspiring garb and
"I'm almost sorry I eama."
bore with it a mysterious authority,
Moreover, with quick presence of mind
that convulsed his companion. Matt
announced that he was going to give
a recitation, which allayed resentment
and filled every one with delighted an
tlcipation. The blockade was broken,
and Matt had the supreme satisfaction
of leading Miss Marshall into the put
pit. He would have put her on the
chair there was a chair but she pre
ferred the hassock, insisting at the
same time that he should sit on the
floor. Here they cowered out of view
trying to restrain their laughter.
"Xow, tell me about those five
times," said Matt.
"What five times?" inquired Miss
Marshall, provokingly insincere and
with that rretty parting of her lips.
"Oh. you know what you said over
the phone."
"I'd rather hear about your first
time."
"That's easj. I came hero expecting
to find you adorable, and you are."
"Men say things like that Just as lit
tle boys shout 'Get a horse, get a
horse!" when you're stuck in a motor.
"But you really and truly are.
end'
-And what?"
"In all seriousness, I'm almost sorry
I came."
"Oh, dear! "Why? Isn't the great,
splendid, swaggering king happy in his
little pulpit?"
It became Matt to look grave be
came his strong features and well cut
mouth.
"I might like you too well be said
simply.
"Would that be so dreadful?"
"I'm afraid of life afraid of deep
emotions."
"But you've got over them before?"
"Xot without scars."
"Isn't that what life is, Mr. Brough
ton?"
"Getting hurt and getting mended?"
"No looking for that other half of
one."
"Have you looked?"
Miss Marshall nodded with an air
of great seriousness. "I found him,
only he was the wrong half some
body else's half, you know anyway.
not mine. You mustn't think me so
young. I am nearly twenty-three and
have broken an engagement."
"I suppose It would be horribly pre
sumptuous to ask if I have any of 'the
other hair qualities?"
"Oh. you want to make sure of a
doughnut before trading in yourooky.
My other half could never be so cau
tious."
"But you do like me. don't you? You
would scarcely have telephoned to me
like that if you hadn't"
"That's true. It was perfectly crazy
of me and almost entitles you to think
everything."
"Everything? "What's everything?"
"That I meant more than I did."
"What exactly did you mean?"
"Oh. how you pin me down! It's so
Impossible to tell you! You never
could understand."
"Why not? I'm not so conceited as
that. I am quite capable of under
standing that a woman might like me
3 cents' worth, but not a dollar."
"It's that very Hteralness that makes
It so Impossible. Men oh, how can I
express it men see everything so clear
ly, can express everything In different
kinds of symbols and chart them in
their mind like a barometer record or
Immigration statistics. We are hazier,
more more unformulated,' all instinct,
with a tingle where you have a fact."
"That's awfully clever. Go on."
"Is it clever? You see. we're even
clever in the same haphazard sort of
way and hardly know it when we are!
You came and I saw you and didn't
think anything much about it except
that you stayed In my head. Stayed
and stayed, you know not right out in
front, but in a corner, like a hatbox
your maid has forgotten to tale away.
And every time I saw you the hat box
grew bigger and more worrying, till
finally" She broke off with a smile,
adding lightly, "Oh, well, there's your
doughnut, and now, please. I want my
cooky."
"It's- a darling little doughnut," said
Matt, "and instead of eating it I'm go
ing to put it away In silver paper and
keep it Just to look at. And as for
cookies all I know is that the sweet
est voice in the world said, 'Come to
the church social tomorrow night. and
I came to the church social tomorrow
night, where I found the sweetest
voice in the world belonged to the
sweetest girl in the world, and then
evervthins teemed .tojjo round and
rouTuT'tiii the sweetesT glfl'Ta THe
world, who is also the cleverest girl in
the world, suddenly became the only
girl in the world, and and"
"Yes, you'd better stop there." said
Miss Marshall. "That isn't frankness,
that's conventionality. A second later
you'll be saying 'Love me and the
world is mine. "
"Would that be so awfully silly?"
asked Matt
"Not only silly, but bromldlan."
"Bromidlan? What's bromldian?"
"Repeating commonplaces, like a par
rot" "Mayn't anybody say I like you
without being called a parrot or that
bro-name?"
"In good society Mr. Anybody never
says that to Miss Somebody after an
acquaintance so very brief as ours."
"No short cuts allowed; is that the
Idea?"
"Yes."
"What's the most I could be permit
ted to say, then? worrying? You said
worrying, yourself."
"It isn't quite fair to steal my word
"now clever one has to be to like
you. One mustn't say this; one
mustn't say that: it's like a compli
cated game, and terribly beyond a poor
sailor like myself. You must forgive
me for being blundering and stupid. 1
Hardly know anything about young
white ladles."
Miss Marshall laughed outright at
being thus described. "I never thought
of myself ns a young white lady." she
said, much entertained. "It sounds as
funny to me as though you called me
a young pink lady, or a young blue
lady. Oh. dear," she went on softly.
"I don't want to be too hard on my
poor sailor, who's awfully nice and
winning, "even If heTs Stupid, and
doesn't know the right word. Let's
just admit that I like you and that
you like me and that perhaps in some
queer way It was all inevitable."
This unexpected admission made
Matt's heart leap; again there was
that dart of pain, that sense of over
whelming and somehow elusive happi
ness. The fragrance of that enchant
ing young womanhood was in bis
brain. For a while he remained silent,
as though under a spell be was loath
to break. "I don't believe I can laugb
any more." he said at last looking up
strangely at his companion. "I don't
believe I can even go on talking as
we have done. I would like to go
away as I did yesterday, and think.
and think, and think."
"That's what I did. too." she returned
in a voice that was almost a whisper.
"When great things happen ODe wish
es to be alone, doesn't one?"
"Tell me your name." he said, still
in that wondering tone. "It's incredl
ble, but I do not know it"
"Christine, though they call me Chris
always call me Chris."
"And mine such a horrid one Mat
thewand It's always Matt, you know
which is even worse."
"I like it Matt and Chris it sounds
old fashioned, doesn't It. like one's
Mayflower ancestors? And ye afore
said Matthew was a young man of no
ble presence and of signal worth and
understanding, withal sober and up
standing in the fear of God. ye whilk
of all ye pilgrim maids he chose one
Christine Marshall, avowing for her"
"Go on don't stop there."
But she did stop there, looking down
at him with eyes like stars, all wonder
and teuderness and shining, girl-like,
with Just a quiver of the pretty mouth.
Alas for the lie that came back to
roost, accompanied by a peremptory
knocking on the pulpit panels, and the
apparition of a very Impatient young
man in a high collar.
"Say, brother, ain't you ever going
to give us that there recitation?"
"It has been unavoidably postpon
ed." said Matt brazenly, rising, as Miss
Marshall did the same. He pleaded
with her to remain a little longer, but
she would not. It seemed that by this
time the general would be as a roaring
lion, and prudence dictated a return
They found him not exactly roaring,
but certainly fretful, not to say crusty,
and his recognition of Matt was of the
scantiest
"For heaven's sake let us get out of
this place." he said, smothering an ex
pletive. "You might have had some
thought of the horses even If you
hadn't for me. Come along."
"Oh. papa, wait I've invited Mr.
Broughton to have tea with us tomor
row about 4. Then sne adaea to
Matt 'Tlease come, won't you?"
"Shall look forward to it" snapped
the general, with the manner of a per
son temporarily blocked In a burning
building. "Good night, good night!"
And with that and the pressure of a
slender, gloved hand. Matt was left
alone more alone, so it seemed to him.
than he had ever been before In his life.
(To Be Continued.)
POISONED FROM A!
PIECE OF STEEL
it
From Friday's Daily.
Several days ago Max I'rie
who is employed in the Hurling1
ton shops!, ran a small piece v
steel into his hand, hut thought
nothing particularly of the mat
ter at the time beyond the fact
(hat it was a very painful wound
and he supposed in a few days
would be all right, as he did not
think that there was any steel re
maining- in the wound. On Wed
nesday, while at work, he notice
a small object in Hie wound am
discovered that it was a part of
Ihe sleel that had remained. 11
went to the ollice or a physician
this niorninu- and discovered thai
he had a ery sore hand, as
had become infected slight ly. am
he will he compelled to lake
short vacation from his duties,
JL J. M'KIIEY RE
CEIVES SERIOUS IN
JURIES IN RUNAWAY
From Friday's Daily.
A very serious runaway occur
red on Washington avenue last
evening that resulted in A. J. Mc
Kinney receiving some cry se
vere injuries. I lie injured man
and William Newland had start
ed out the avenue and had only
gone a short distance, when tin
horse became scared at sonn
object along- the street and start
ed to run. breaking- awav from
the men and tearing along at
great rate of speed, and as they
passed Locust street they lurnet.
up tins Inorouglilare, and in
front of the residence of Car
Kunsmann Hie buggy tiirnet
over, throwing the occupants out
and seriously injuring Mr. Mc
Kinney, who received a severo
gash over the eye and was knock
ed unconscious, while the hugg;
was completely demolished. Mr
.ewland was not injured so
severely, although Jadly shaken
up and bruised. The injured man
was removed to his home and is'
suffering a great deal of pain to
lay from the effects of Ins in
juries.
LOYAL SONS CLASS
ELECTS OFFICERS
AI THEIR MEETING
CHRISTMAS SHOP BY
ST. MARY'S GUILD IN
THE RILEY BLOCK
The ladies of St. Mary's Guild
will hold a Christmas shop in the
lot Riley block on Friday and
Saturday, December 5 and G, at
which lime all manner of dainty
and choice gifts for the Christ
mas season will be offered for
ale. This will be a splendid
hance to secure some choice ar
ticles for gifts and will doubtless
je taken advantage of by the peo-
le of tliis section of the county,
last year the Christmas shop
was ery successful.
From Friday's Dally.
At the pleasant home of Mr
fnez Slenner last evening the
Loyal Sons class of the Chris
tian church held their regular
business meeting, being th
guests of their classmates, Ern
est, Leon, and Clarence Stenner
The main business of the even.
ing was the election of the ofli-
cers of the class for the ensuing
year, and the following wen
chosen for Ihe different ollices:
President, John Slander; vice
president, Luther J'ickett; sec
retary, Leon Stenner; treasurer,
Hugh Slander. The class de
cided at the meeting to conlimn.
an active campaign lor new
members and for the upbuilding
of the class in every way bv a
program of entertainments and
social gatherings that would
nring uie uniereni meinoers inio
closer touch. The Hist of tin
gatherings will he an oyster
supper to be given at the Modern
Woodman building on Friday
evening, December 12. The class
also picked for their subject for
the- next debate, which will be
given at the home of.Ii. A. 31c
Klvvain, the subject, "Resolved,
That the Labor Unions Have Been
an Element in I lie Making of Bet
ter Civilization." The different
debaters were chosen and a red
hot argument may be looked for
ward to by the members of the
class and their friends.
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH
ED IMPROVEMENTS
from Friday's Dally.
The Christian church in this
city is vinderuniim" some improve-
mt'iits that will add greatly to the
appearance of this structure.
The buildinir has just received
one cat or paint and in a lew
days ttn." second coat will be ad
ded, which will make the appear
ance of the building very neat
uid an ornament to the section
of Hie city where it is located.
The paint for the structure was
donated by the members of the
Sunday school, and the different
members of the contrrepat ion
have volunteered for the work of
putting on th' paint and they
liave done a very neat job of it.
In addition to new paint on the
church- buildincr. new concrete
steps have been placed on the
front entrance, as well as in the
rear entrance to the church, and
these also contribute greatly to
making: the work very neat and
will fill a greatly felt need, as the
old wooden steps were getting in
a very bad stale of repair. This
enterprise on the part of the
members of the Christian church
is certainly commendable and
hows Ihe proper spirit among
Ihe members to contribute to the
upbuilding: of the city.
A Well Preserved Man.
Judge Keuben Foster of Union
was in the city yesterday on a
isit with his many old-lime
friends. lie is one of the best
preserved men in the state for
his years, being S.'!. It will be
remembered he was polic e judge
in this city for several years and
made the law fractures step live
ly when I hey appeared in hi
court. He is just as active and
can grel around with a great ease
as when he was a resident of this
city. Nebraska City News.
SUFFERING FROM
TUBERCULOSIS OF BONE
IN ONE OF HIS ARMS
From Friday's Daily.
This morning- Allen M. Rennei
us a passenger for Omaha,
here he goes to be with his little
m. Karl, who is there in Im-
auuel hospital. The little hoy
suffering: from tuberculosis of
the bone of one of his' arms, and
m order to save the arm the
urgeons are to undertake a very
licate operation. ihe bone m
e lower part of the left arm has
come almost loose enough to
emove, and the intention is to
emove a small bone from the
wer part of his leg and trans-
ant it to the arm, where it will
used to replace the diseased
im-. The tissue in the leg will
ov sullicienlly to make the ley;
good as ever and it is honed
at the transplanted bone will
ive the litll" boy a good arm.
FERDINAND LEHMAN HERE
IN INTEREST OF INVENTIONS
From Jvridny's Dally.
Ferdinand Lehman of Omaha
was in the city today for a few
hours looking: after some mat
ters in connection with his busi
ness interests, which consists of
a number of useful articles that
he has invented and is putting on
the market. They consist of a
patent adjustable safety scaffold
attachment, adjustable ladder
support and combination roof
jack, bracket and ridge hook. In
addition to these, Mr. Lehniann
has placed on Ihe market a pat
ent window shade holder and
ventilator, which has been re
ceived with much praise from all
who have saw it, ami he believes
that a splendid trade in these
useful inventions can be built up.
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From Friday's Dally.
Last exeiiing: the h..ine of .Mr.
and Mrs. Henry .1. Sehlunt v.i
the scene of a very plt-aaut time,
the occasion bejnir a fan-- in
honor of Miss I'earl O'l lonn.-l I, of
Russell, jovva, who ha- been . a
guest of Miss 1'b'iell.e Sehlunt.
for the pat few weeks. Th
Voutlg people spent tile evening
most delightfully in Hie pi.ivnig:
of variou games and in the con
test of pinning the tail on a p;i
per donkey lion Seiei capture. 1
the kin;.' prize, while Chri
Schlunlz for his poor judgment
received the boobv prie. In the
pinochle contest Miss Fllo l Se
beit received the kiiii.' prize, having-
secured a far greater number
of games than any of the com
pany. A ver y tempt inur ai d de
licious four-course luiieheoii vv.i
served during: the course of the
evening1, which greatly add-d to
the enjoyment of the company,
and much praise was given tin
hostess for Ihe pleasant lino
that was atforded the company.
There were some fouileen pres
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