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From Marios i »'ird» and the !:*• in which she had utlan-4 theta he L; • a (hat it would he ■a-itte tor t a a* It Lad lm-s for Nell to urge her to Coe from the is land Then remained but one thins for Lis. to do. ao ho fell bach upon the scheme which ha had proposed to Kanos* brother lie realised now that ho m.ght he compelled to play the gams single Laud* d unless he could actw assistant - from ouadiah. Hit ahl; sad men W »re in the hands »* the liunwot; XeO. in hia search I'» the captured vessel, stood a large rosace of artselug him that cleat and In tnat •><« Kwlus’i fate would dep. cd •a l_i:a time U ho could local- a aa-ati boat oa the hart bark of Oba dtaas. If ho could in some way lurt V*rioa to >t— H«- gate an involuaiary • Ladder at th- thought of using force M«* the girt at hla aide, at the thought <* Ur terror of those Cm few moment*. her (druggie*. her hruh a coaSdeace She believed in him ao* file believed that he loved b r. She trusted him. Tie warm soil pnwre of her hand a* it dung to hla arm In the Idarketnng glouis of the for- st was evidence of that truft. SV Poked into hia face annousl}. to daimgty when they stopped to L.-t- c. like a child who was sure of a sire* per spirit at her side She L< Id her breath when he b* Id hi*, she i-»**trd • Lea he Ualoned. her feet fell with velvet stiUt.es* when he stepped with caution. Her cto.fidee.te in him a as bke a bdatlW dream to X*. iLu-iil and he trembled wh n he pic tured the c- *trurtkc of it After a little fee reachad over and a* if by o rid-at (oarhrd the hand that was ly ing ue hla ana; be dared more after a moment, and drew the warm little firs r* Mu bis pwd strong palm and held them there, his soul thrilled by their gentle swbtuurirenew*. And then fa anothrr breath there came to still M* Joy a thought of the terrible power tit*' chained 'Ll. girl to the Mormon king Me longed to if tk words of • -.TWnrti to fur. to instil hope ta her buaa. to ask her to confide in him the secret cd the shadow which hung ever her. but the memory of what Sell had said to him held hla They b*d walked in silence for many minutes when the girl stopped “It U uot very far now," she whis pered. "Yon must go!” “Only a little farther.” he begged. She surrendered again, hesitatingly, and they went on. more slowly than b--!t -e. until they came to where the Tath met the footway that led to Obadiah's. “Now—now you must go." whis pered Marion again. In this last moment Nathaniel crush ed her band against his breast, his body throbbing with a wild tumult, and a half of what he had meant not to f-ay fell passionately from his lips. "Forgive me for—that—back—there —Marion." he whispered. "It was be cause 1 love you—love you—" He fr > d her hand and stood hack, choking th - words that would have revealed hi* *-*•< ret. H lied now for the love of this girl. "Neil is out there wait ing for me in a small boat," he con tin -;ed. {minting beyond Obadiah's to the iak'- “I will see him soon, and then i will return to Obadiah's to tell you if he has l.-ft for the mainland. .... re— tonight"" "1 w ill promise." "At midnight—" * Yes, at 12 o'clock." This time it was Marion who came U# him. Her eyes shone like stars. "And if you make Neil go to the t . ind.” she said softly, “when 1 t you 1 will—w .11 tell you—some ; thing." Ti. last word came in a breathless ">b. As the slipped into the path that led to St. James she paused for ' a moment and railed back, in a low ! voice. "Tell WIl that he must go for Winnsomes sake. Tell him that her fate Is shortly to be as cruel as mine tell L:m that Winnsonie loves him. and that she will escape and come to him on the mainland. Tell him to go —go!" h'he turned again, and Nathaniel i stood like a statue, hardly breathing, until th* sound of her feet had died away. Th*-n he walked swiftly up the fool path that led to Obadiah's. He Jo-got his own danger in the excite 1 tnent that pulsated with every fiber of I.: being, forgot his old caution and the f. ars that ga*-e birth to it— 1 forgot everything in those moments but Marion and bis own great happi iiess. Neil's absence meant nothiug to Oita now. He had held Marion in his arms, he had told her of his love, and though she had accepted it with gentle unresponsiveness he was thrilled by the memory of that last look in her eyes, which had spoken faith, confld* nee. and perhaps even more What was that something she »« aid tell him if he got Neil safely away" It was to be a reward for bis i*jwn loyalty—he knew that, by the t-J! fearing tremble of her voice, the sobbing catch of her breath, the --irajiE' glow m her eyes. With her brother away she would confide in !.m ? Would she t*-il him the secret of her slavedom to Strang? Na tnanie! v: . c» i.s. ious of no mauness j in the wild hope that filled him: noth * in* seemed impossible to him now. Marion would meet him at midnight She would go with him to the boat, and then—ah. he had solved the prob lem' He would use no force. He would tell her that Neil was in his canoe half a mile out from the shore and that he had promised to leave tte .land for good if she would go i out to 1.:o him good-by. And once there, a half a mile or a mile away, he WMUd t* 11 her that he had lied to her; arid he would give her his heart to trample upon to prove the love that had made him do this thing and then he w«. Id row her to the mainland It was the sight of Obadiah's cabin that broug t bis caution hack. He j came upon it so suddenly that an ex : clmmat.on of surprise fell unguarded from Lis lips There was no light to ‘ betray life within He tried the door and found locked He peered in a: fhe windows, listened, and knocked. I and at last i near the path, confide nt that th little old i councilor was s;il! ai St . ,es Kcr ’ an hour ho waited. From the rear of Obadiah's home a narrow footway led toward the lake and Nathaniel fol I lowed it, now ae warily as an animal ' in search of prey. For half a mile It took him through the forest and I ended at the white sands of the beach. In neither direction could Nathaniel see a light, and keeping close in the shadows of the trees he made his way slowly toward St. James. He had gone but a short distance when he saw a house directly ahead of him, a single gleam of light from a small window telling him that it was in habited and that Its tenants were at home. He circled down close to the water looking for a boat. His heart leaped with sudden exultation when he saw a small skiff drawn upon the beach and his joy was doubled at find ing the oars still in the locks. It took him but a moment to shove the light craft into the sea and a minute later he was rowing swiftly away from the land. Nathaniel was certain that by this time Neil had abandoned his search for the captured Typhoon and was probably paddling In the direction of St. James. With the hope of inter cepting him he pulled an eighth of a mile from the shore and rowed slowly toward the head of the Island. There was no moon, but countless stars glowed in a clear sky and upon the open lake Nathaniel could see for a considerable distance about him. For another hour he rowed back and forth and then beached his boat within a dozen rods of the path that came down ^ from Obadiah's. It was 10 o'clock. Two more hours! He hail tried to suppress his excite ment. his apprehension, his eagerness, but now as he went back into the darkness of the forest they burst out anew. What if Marion should not keep the tryst? He thought of the spies whom Neil had said guarded the girl's home—and of Obadiah. Could he trust the old councilor? Should he confide his plot to him and ask his assistance? As the minutes passed and these thoughts recurred again and again in his brain he could not keep the nervousness from growing within him. He was sure now that he would have to fight his battle with out Neil. He saw the necessity of coolness, of judgment, and he began to demand these things of himself, struggling sternly against those symp toms of weakness which had replaced i his confidence of a short time before. Gradually he fought himself back into his old faith. He would save Marion —without Neil, without Obadiah. If Marion did not come to him by mid night it would be because of the guards against whom Neil had warned him, and he would go to her. In some way he would get her to the boat, even if he had to fight his way through Arbor Croche's men. With this return of confidence Na thaniel's thoughts reverted to his present greatest need, which was food. Since early morning he had eaten nothing and he began to feel the physical want in a craving that was becoming acutely uncomfortable. If Obadiah had not returned to his home he made up his mind that he would find entrance to the cabin and help himself. A sudden turn in the path which he was following, however, re vealed one of the councilor's window’s aglow with light, and as he pressed quietly around the end of the build ing the sound of a low voice came to him through the open door. Cautiously he approached and peered in. A large oil lamp, the light of which he had seen in the window, was burning on a table in the big room but the voice i ame from the little closet into which Obadiah had taken him the preceding night. For several minutes he crouched and listened. He heard the chuckling laugh of the old councilor —and then an incoherent raving that set his blood tingling. There is a hor ror in the sound of madness, a horror that creeps to the very pit of one's soul, that sends shivering dread from every nerve center, that causes one who is alone with it to sweat with a nameless fear. It was the voice of madness that came from that little room. Before it Nathaniel quailed as if a clammy hand had reached out from the darkness and gripped him by the throat. He drew back shivering in every limb, and the voice followed him, shrieking now in a sudden burst of insane mirth and dying away a moment later in a hollow cackling laugh that seemed to curdle the blood in his veins. Mad! Obadiah Price was mad! Step by step Nathaniel fell | back from the door. He felt himself trembling from head to foot. His heart thumped within his breast like the | beating of a hammer. For an instant there was silence—a silence In which strange dread held him breathless while he watched the glow in tne door and listened. And after that quiet there came suddenly a cry that ended in the exultant chattering of a name. At the sound of that name Na thaniel sprang forward again. It was Marion’s name and he strained his i ears to catch the words that might follow it. As he listened, his head ihrust half in at the door, Obadiah's voice became lower and lower, until at last It ceased entirely. Not a step, not a deep breath, not the movement of a hand disturbed the stillness of the little room. By inches Nathaniel drew himself inside the door. His heavy boot caught In a sliver on the ; step but the rending of wood brought no response. It was the quiet of death that pervaded the cabin, it was i strange, growing fear of death that entered Nathaniel as he now hurried across the room and peered through the narrow aperture. The old coun cilor was half stretched upon the ta ble. his arms reaching out, his long, thin fingers gripping its edges, his face buried under bis shoulders. It | looked as if death had come suddenly to him during some terrible convul sion, but after a moment Nathaniel saw that he was breathing. He went over and placed a hand on the old i man's twisted back. "Hello, Obadiah! Hello—hello!” he called cheerfully. (TO BE CONTINUED.) The Surest Way. Thief Justice Fuller's estate is Chi cago real estate which he bought 40 <r? :>go and is now valued at $1.50'/, 000. This is the surest and easiest way to get rich: Huy real estate 40 years ago.—Kansas City Times. Hm Neuia of wm How Thackeray Lett America Homesickness Caused Him to Sail Suddenly Without Word to Friends Who Were Planning Big Dinner for Him. When William Makepeace Thack eray visited the United States for the second and last time, in l$o5, to de liver his lecture entitled "The Four Georges," the two Americans who were closest to him during his stay were Parke Godwin, publicist and son in-law of William Cullen Bryant, and George William Curtis. "The intimacy which we enjoyed with Thackeray was due to the fact that he made his headquarters while j I in this country at the old Putnam’s ; -Magazine office, with which both Mr. Curtis and myself were connected,” i explained Mr. Godwin a few years be- j ; fore his death. “Sometimes Curtis ! and myself were enthusiastically ! agreed that Thackeray was the most , -delightful, lovable and companionable : man we had ever met. But, probably, ; just when we had arrived at this de-_ j cision, Thackeray would be brusque ! and apparently cold toward us, and : I there would be decided traces of I cynicism or contempt in his nature. Frankly, though we tried hard, and had rare opportunities to do so, we never fully understood him. I think, myself, that he was .. man of moods, or else he sometimes suffered from ill-health, which he bore uncomplain ingly, although bis relations with Lis fellow men were affected by his phys ical suffering. “Thackeray, to the personal knowl edge of Curtis and myself, did many strange things while he was in the country, but the most astonishing of all his acts was the manner in which he left America and his best friends here. It w:.s particularly embarrass ing to me; and it was an act that had every outward aspect of cold and pur posed discourtesy. "After making a successful lecture trip through the south, if I remember correctly. Thackeray returned to New York flushed with his success, and. in that happy spirit, sent us word that he would be with us for two or three days before departing to fulfil some lecture engagements in another sec tion of the country. We were so re joiced ever his success and his pres ence in the city that we arranged for a dinner in his honor, and Thackeray, when he learned of our plan, was par ticularly delighted . Nothing pleased him more than a good dinner with good company. He would sit the long est at the table of any man present; he was at his best around the festive board. “I was particularly active in plan ning the dinner and extending invita tions to it. The afternoon of the great day I sent a message to Thack eray’s hotel to tell him that I would meet him there at a certain hour that evening and escort him to the feast. Pretty soon the messenger was back with the startling information that Mr. Thackeray was no longer stop- j ping at the hotel. “Much perturbed. I hastily made : my way thither, and upon inquiry at ! the desk. I learned to my great aston- i isliment that Thackeray that very morning had suddenly signified his in- j tention of terminating his stay there. ; had his luggage packed, paid his bill ! and departed in a carriage. ‘Gone I where?' I asked. And the proprietor gave it as his opinion that the distin- i guished novelist had sailed for Eu- I rope but a few hours since. “As quickly as I could I went to j the office of the steamship line that had a sailing that day. Yes. Mr. Thackeray had arranged for accom modations just an hour or so before sailing time, and had barely caught the steamer. Xo. he had not left any message. Xor had he left at the hotel or anyw here else any message for ce or any one else interested in honoring him at the dinner. He had departed for Europe unceremoniously, and. ap parently. in a most discourteous man ner. “Of course the dinner, minus the guest of honor, was a flat failure. At it. and for some time after. Curtis and I were asked to explain Thackeray's curious conduct. We didn't even try to offer an explanation—to us his con duct was inexplicable. But weeks later I made some inquiries and was told that Thackeray, the morning of the festive day. was overwhelmed all of a sudden with a feeling of homesick ness. and learning that a steamship was to sail that day. decided on the instant to take passage by it to Eng land. Perhaps that was the true cause of his departure. But if it was it showed him to be a man of whims and moods, and that may explain much that so many persons regarded as mysterious or eccentric about him.” (Copyright. 1910. hr E. .1. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Human Postoffice Rewarded Hew Boy Who Acted as Cupid’s Mes senger for Thurlow Weed Became Treasurer of the United States. Thurlow Weed must have been about eighty years of age when I said to him one day: “An old friend of yours, Mr. Weed, told me yesterday to ask you about the delightful surprise you gave Mrs. Weed when you took her with you to Washington during Lincoln's first ad ministration." “Ah,” he said. 'It was a surprise ! and a delight for Mrs. Weed, and it is j one of the sweetest memories of my married life. I will tell you about it. j "When I was a journeyman printer i —for. you know, that was my trade—I came to be employed by a man in a little village near Herkimer. X. Y. Of course 1 was only a hired man—in reality not much more than a printer's j devil, because all the odd jobs of the shop fell to me. the only employe—and so I was not of much consequence so Douglas and the Clambake Little Giant Mightily Pleased the Peo ple of Norwich. Conn., by His Tribute to the Native Institution. Stephen A. Douglas, known from one end of the land to the other in the days of his popularity as the “Little Giant." was the first candidate for the presidency to take the stump in his own behalf. His determination to make a personal campaign for the presi dency was not entirely to the liking of the conservative politicians of 1S60. but I have been told that he excused his action by saying that Lincoln made his campaign for the same office, es pecially in the east., before he was nominated, and that it was vital that some one in authority should reply to Lincoln in that section of the country, there having been no opportunity for this to be done until after the presi dential nominations had been made. However that may be. I know per sonally that the “Little Giant" gladly accepted an invitation to speak to his countrymen at Norwich, Conn., the home town of William A. Bucking ham. who a little later became one of the great war governors of the north —a town where Lincoln, in Febniary of the same year, made an address which many persons said later saved Connecticut to the Republican party in the ensuing state election by the narrow majority of 541. Great preparations were made for the Little Giant's appearance in the old town. In deference to his wishes for a meeting in the open—the usual type of political gathering in the west ; —a large common was selected for the scene of the rally, booths were set up j to purvey lunch, consisting principally i of oyster soup, and it was arranged that there should be a characteristic New England clambake at the end of the speechmaking. It turned out to be a gala occasion, j The farmers flocked in from miles i around to see and hear Lincoln's great j rival, and as they gazed on the little | dumpy man with the great head, the j great shock of hair and the barge. cav ernous eyes thundering forth at them from the speakers' stand, many were the comparisons they drew between j i him and the tall, gaunt, loose-jointed i I rail-splitter most of them had seen and j heard speak in the same town a few ! months earlier. Yet for all the diminutiveness of , stature. Douglas held the close atten tion of the great gathering throughout | his entire speech. My boyhood recol | lection of that speech is that it was a superb political and oratorical effort. I but the impression that it made on me j was slight compared with the effect caused by the impromptu postscript to the speech itself. His peroration de livered with all that power of oratory which he possessed to a superlative degree, Douglas paused for a moment p and smiled expectantly into the sea of I upturned faces before him. “And now that I have had the priv ilege of addressing my fellow-citizens of this historic town.” he continued. “I I shall take advantage of the invitation given to me to participate for the first time in my life in a genuine New Eng land clambake. Its aroma first reached me while I was in the midst of my speech. It has lingered in my nostrils ever since. It has tantalized me great ly. It is very inviting. And. with your permission. I will now step down front this platform and proceed to revel to my heart's content in your famous feast.” A mighty shout greeted this unex pected tribute to a much-loved native institution. Then they took the Little Giant to a place which had been pre pared for him and feasted him. And when he had had a surfeit he sighed contentedly, beamed upon the gentle men gathered about him in the tent (my father was of the number) and said: "Now. gentlemen, I shall go on my way rejoicing." vCepyright. 19X0, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) I Lord Clanricarde’s Plaque This Example of Goldsmith's Art Is One of the Greatest in the World. One of the greatest Cinquescento Jewels in the world is the Clanricarde plaque, owned by Lord Clanricarde. who is known as the Hermit Peer, and who claims direct descent from the kings of Connaught. He guards with Jealous care this precious ex ample of the goldsmith’s art. keeping it safe from possible thieves and the common gaze in a bank vault, to which he goes occasionally with great secrecy to feast his etes upon its magnificence. Some years ago, by royal request, he lent it to an art exhibition in London, where it was admired and coveted by some of the greatest connoisseurs of Europe. The huge disk is as delicately wrought as a spider's web. and rep resents the figure of Hercules—wield ing a diamond sword. The sword blade is composed of a mass of per fectly matched steel-white stones, and a superb blue diamond scintillates from the hilt. The present owner in herited it from his mother, who was a Miss Canning before her marriage to the Irish lord, and the plaque is practically priceless. Aside from its value to collectors, and its worth as a specimen of rare and exquisite art it is incrusted with a fortune in jew els. Clever Method of Bribing. One of the cleverest bits of elec tioneering dodgery was devised by an agent who had been forbidden to corrupt the electors. He called a meeting and attended with his pockets full of gold. “I have to In form you, gentlemen,*’ he began, "that there is to be no bribery on our side during this election. (.Hear, hear!) For my part, I do not intend to give away a penny piece (Uneasy silence.) But 1 cially in the village. Nevertheless I had not been there long before I was greatly attracted by a young woman upon whom I cast sheep's eyes at every opportunity. I soon had reason to suspect that she was not displeased by my attentions, but after a while when we had become so well acquaint ed that it was plain I purposed keep ing company with her. there were par enta! objections, and I was practical ly forbidden the house. “But. the saying is. you know, 'Love will find a way.’ In that village there lived a barefooted, freckle-faced, tow ! headed boy of Dutch descent. But he | was as bright as a new dollar. One day I met him in the street. “ 'Frank.' I said to him. ‘do you sup I pose you could carry a note for me to | a certain young lady so secretly that j nobody but she would know it?’ “ 'I guess I could,’ he replied. “'Well,' do you suppose you could 1 bring a note from her just as secretly?’ “ 'You try me and see,’ the boy said “So I wrote a little note, discreetly worded, and delivered it to this Cupid's postmaster. A day later he came to me with a note which had been en trusted to him by the young lady. I.ater in the day—maybe it was the next day—I answered the note and gave my reply to the boy for delivery. In due time he brought me another note from the young lady; and thus we kept up a secret correspondence that lasted until I proposed, when all objection was removed to my paying attention to the young lady. Xot long after that we were married. "Well, one time when it became im perative for me to go to Washington during Lincoln's administration I took Mrs. Weed with me. 'My dear.' I said, after we had reached there, 'I should like to take you to the treasury de partment. I want you to meet a gen tleman I know there.’ And a little later we walked into the office of the treasurer of the United States. "I took Mrs. Weed over to a desk at which a gentleman was sitting. " 'My dear, do you know who thir ! is?' 1 asked. “ Xo,' she had to confess, i " ‘What, you don't know our Cupid's postman?' I exclaimed in feigned sur prise. "Yes. there he was—no longer the barefooted, freckle-faced, tow-headed little village boy. but a full grown, handsome man—Francis D. Spinner. And you can imagine the surprise and delight of Mrs. Weed when she discov ered in the treasurer of the United States the boy who had been the dumb and faithful little messenger of our courting days." Mr. Weed might truthfully have added that, in return for the services Frank Spinner gave him in his court ing days, he took every possible op portunity to befriend the lad as he grew up. And it was upon Mr. Weed’s recommendation that President Lin coln named Mr. Spinner treasurer of the United States in 1861, a position that he filled with great credit until 1875. when failing health caused him to retire voluntarily. It was during his incumbency that women were first employed as clerks in the treasury de partment to take the place of the men who enlisted in the Union army. j I Copyright, 1910. by E. J. Edwards. A.11 ' Rights Reserved.) am afraid there are some d_j [cals in this room, and that present ly they will lay me on the table and tafee 500 sovereigns out of mv pock ets ” The nest few seconds he spent upon the table.—London Chron Lest He Go Hungry. Sometimes men do things out of sel 1 fishness rather than out of kindness Recently a club woman told (hi story: IS “An old couple came in from the country with a big basket of ]unch Z see the circus. "The lunch was heavy. The wife was carrying it. As thev crossed a crowded street the husband held out his hand and said: “ ‘Gimme that basket. Hannah • “The twor old woman surrendered , the basket with a grateful look “‘That’s real kind o‘ ye. Joshua/ : she quavered. " ‘Kind!’ grunted the old man. ! ‘Gosh. I wuz afeared ye’d git lost’ ” It takes a smooth tongue to side i track a bill collector. Doctors Said He WouidOie A Friend’s Advice Saves Life I wish to speak of the wonderful cure that I have received from your noted Swamp-Root, the great kidney and blad der cure. Last summer I was taken with severe pains in my back and sides. I could not breathe without difficulty and was nearly wild with the desire to urinate. Was compelled to do so every ten min utes with the passage of pure blood with the urine. I tried all the different doc tors from far and near, but they said it was no use to doctor as I would die any way. 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