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nuMnnnivniw Q The Two Vanrevels Burson Hose, the only stock ng without a seam. Made to lit at the ankle and NOT pressed into shape. Stockings with extra larg-e tops for fleshy ladies. By BOOTH TARKINGTON, Author of "The Gcntlemnn from Indlnna" and "Monsieur Deaucilre" Copyrltfht. 1002, by S. S. McClure Co. DCr jiiwiiMaiiiauMgmi ?J v i c &m& mmm . .m, musr m m m .mm m i S SSI KS &sjr Em 885 Ma8 Ihv ffl Bf flflflv W!mr K mil ( A. It may bo not untimely to romnrk sils.) of these live redoubtable bcau tlmt during tlio evening it occurred to overy one of tliem to bo glad that Cral ley Gray wjih betrothed to Fanchon Baroaud, niul tlmt ho was down on the Bouen river with a oauoo, a rod and n tout. Nay, without more words, to de clare tho truth in regard to Cralley, they felt greater security In his ab sence from the field than in bis be trothal. As Mr. Chenoweth, a youth as opeu us out of doors both in counte nance and mind, observed plaintively ito Tnpplughnm Muivdi in a corner, .while they watched Miss Hetty's laven der flowers miraculously swirling through a quadrille, "Cralley, you ikuow well, Crnlloy's been engaged be fore!" It was not Mr. Cheuoweth's habit to disguise bis apprehensions, and Cralley Gray would not fish for ibass forever. The same Chonoweth was be who, maddened by the general's triumphant ly familiar way of toying with Miss Betty's fan between two dances, at tempted to propose to her during the sunrise waltz. Having sung "Oh, be Jleve mo!" In ber ear as loudly as he could, he expressed the wish, quite as loudly, "that this waltz might last for always!" That was the seventh time It bad fbeen said to Betty during the ulgbt, and, though Mr. Cheuoweth's predeces sors had revealed their desires In a jjulao lacking tills prodigious artless aaess, she already possessed no novel ac quaintance with the exclamation, but she made no comment. Her partner's etylo was not a stimulant to repartee. '"It would be heaven," be amplified earnestly; "it would bo heaven to dance with you forever on a desert Isle i wlic-rc the others couldn't come!" ho ' llnlshed with sudden acerbity as his eye caught the general's. lie proceeded, and only the cessation , of the music aided Miss Carewe In stop- i I'lliy UIU llL'UIUIllllUIl IIUIUIU 1L I3 III- together out, and at that point Frank's on n father came to her rescue, though in a fashion little saving of her con -.1 11. .1 1 !!.... !.,. 14. ..I fusion. The elder Chenoweth was one of the gallant and kindly southern col ony that made it natural for Itouen al ways to speak of Miss Carewe as Miss Betty. Ho was a handsome old fellow, whose hair, long mustache and Impe rial were as white as ho was proud of them, a Virginian with the admirable southern fearlessness of being thought sentimental. Mounting a chair with complete dignity, ho proposed the health of his young hostess. He made a speech of some length, pronouncing himself qulto as hopelessly In love with his old friend's daughter as all could flce his own son was, and wishing her long life and prosperity, with many i allusions to fragrant bowers and the muses. It made Miss Hetty happy, but It was rather trying, too, for sliu could only J tnud with downcast eyes before them all, trembling a little, and receiving a mixed impression of Mr. Cheuoweth's remarks, catching fragments here and there. As tins old gentleman llnlshed, Fauchon l'.areaud, kissing ber band to Betty, began to sing, and they all joln ed in, lifting their glasses to the blush ing and happy girl clinging to her fa ther's arm: "Thou woulclst Btlll bo adored ns this mo ment thou art, Let thy loveliness fndo ns It will, .And around tho dear ruin each wish of my heart Would tntwlno Itaelf verdantly still." They were happy people who had not learned to bo self conscious enough to fear doing a pretty thing openly with out mocking themselves for It, and It was a bravo circle they made iv'iout Betty Carewe, the charming faces of tho women and their fine furbelows, handsome men and tall, all so gay, so cheerily smiling and yet so earnest in their welcome to ber. No one was afraid to "let out" ids voice; their song went full and strong over tho waking town, nnd when It was finished the ball was over too. The veranda and tho path to tlio gate became like tropic gardens, tho fair colors of tlio women's dresses, balloon lug In tlio early breeze, making tlio placo seem strewn with glout blos soms. They all went away at the samo time, those In carriages calling faro wells to each other and to the little processions departing on foot in dif ferent directions to homes near by. The sound of the voices and laughter drow away, slowly died out altogether, nnd tho silenco of tho street was Htrango and unfamiliar to Hetty. Sho went to tho hedge nud watched tho musicians, who were the last to go, until they passed from sight little bjack toilsome figures, carrying gro; tesquo black boxes. While she could still seo them It seemed to iter tlmt iter ball was not quite over, and she wish ed to hold the least speck of it as long as she could, but when they bad dis appeared she faced the truth with a deep sigh. The long, glorious night was finished indeed. What she needed now was another girl. The two would have gone to Het ty's room and danced it all over again Propobcd the health of his young hostess. until noon, but she had only her father. She found him contentedly smoking a cigar upon the veranda, so she seated herself timidly, nevertheless with a hopeful glanco at him, on the steps at bis feet, and as she did so be Innl.-ml flnwii immi linr wttli ntnttlllllir ro a,.,u tQ gcnlalltv tlmn anylhlng Bhe ,ma om. geou , h,s bcfore T, d,(1 uot ,.now cacu olher very ,.,,, .,,, H,. ftffpll (ln,lhto,i thllt ,... would ever become intimate. This morning, for the first time, she was conscious of a sense of warmth and gratitude toward him. The elaborate fashion in which he had introduced her to his friends made it appear possible tlmt he liked her, for he bad forgotten nothing, and to remember everything in this case wns to be lavish, which has often the appearance of generosity. And yet there had been a lack. Some small thing she had missed, though she was not entirely Bure that she Identi fied it. Hut the lack had not been In ber father or In anything ho had done. Then, too, there wus something so un expectedly human and pleasant In his not going to bed at once, but remaln- l"g to smoke on the veranda at this hour that she gave mm crccm tor a lit tle or her own excitement, innocently fancying that he also might feel the need of a companion With whom to talk over the brilliant passages of the night. And a moment ensued when she debated tailing hla hand. She was too soon glr,d tt.it her intuition for bade the demonstration. "it was all so beautiful, papa," sho said timidly. "I have no way to toll you how I thank you." "You may do that," ho replied even ly, with no uuklnduess, with no kind ness either, in the level of his tone, "by never dancing again more than twice with one man in one evening." "1 think I should much prefer not myself," she returned, lifting her head to face him gravely. "I believe If I cared to danco more than once with one I should like to danco all of them with him." Mr. Carewe frowned. "I trust that you discovered none last night whom you wished to honor with your entlro programme." "No," she laughed, "not lust night." Her father tossed away his cigar ab ruptly. "Is It too much to hope," ho inquired, "that when you discover a gentleman with whom you desire to waltz all night you will omit to men tion the fact to him?" There was a brief flash of her eyo as sho recalled ber Impulse to take his hand, but she immediately looked at him with such complete seriousness that he feared his irony hud been thrown away. "I'll remember not to mention It," sho unswered. "I'll tell him you told me uot to." "I think you may retire now," said Mr. Carewe sharply. Sho rose from tho steps, wont to tho door, then turned at the threshold. "Wero all your friends hero, pupa?" "Do you think that every nlnuy who gabbled In my house last night was my friend?" ho said angrily "Thero .was Embroideries For which wc are Hiv..lA..fn-L BUUUqillll IL.IO i inch wide 3c yard. 2 A inches wide, 5c yard. 3 inches wide, Sc yard. ; V,' c. 1 . . . -0 ' J ' Hoys btockings at 10, 15 5 inches wide, 10c yard, .and iSc "No Mend" Stocking, Other widths at equally low prices. Fancy Lace and Embroidered Stockings in the very latest designs. NEWHOM one friend of mine, Mim. T.uuci..., .. wasn't here because she i uii 01 t. . but 1 do not Imagine that jou are . quiring about women. on mean wi. every unmarried male idiot who cu.il.l afford a swallowtailod coat an.! 11 clcui pair of gloves nnuriiug about tli place? Yes, miss, they were an Iioa except two, and one of lbo.se Is 11 foul, the olher u knave." "Can't 1 know the fool?" she asked eagerly. "I rejoice to find them so rare In your 1 experience!" lie retorted. "This one 1j out of town, though I have no doubt you will see him sufficiently often when lie returns. His name is Cralley Gray, ' and lie Is to marry Fauchon Bnreuud 1 If he remembers!" I "And the knave?" "Is one!" Carewe shut his teeth with a venomous snap, and ills whole face reddened suddenly. "I'll mention this fellow once now," he said, 'speaking each word with emphasis. "Ills name is Vanrevel. You see that gute, you see the line of my property there. The man himself as well as every other per son In the town remembers well that ! the last time I spoke to him it was to I tell him tlmt If he ever set foot on ! ground of mine I'd shoot him down, 1 and ho knows, and they all know, I shall keep my word! Elsewhere I told him that for the sake of public peace I j should Ignore him. I do. You will see I him everywhere, but It will not bo dlf-1 llctilt. No one will have the hardihood to present him to my daughter. The quarrel between us" Mr. Carewe broke off for a moment, bis hands clinching the arms of his chair, while he swallowed with difficulty, as though , ho choked upon some nerld bolus, ami he was so strongly agitated by his own l mention of bis enemy that he controlled himself by a painful effort of bis will. ' "The quarrel between us Is political I and personal. You will remember." "I shall remember," sho answered In a rather frightened voice. It wns long before sho fell asleep. "I 1 alone must hover about the gates or steal Into your garden like n thief," the Incroyabio had said. "The last time I spoke to him It was to tell him that If he ever sot foot on ground of mine I'd shoot him down!" hail been ber father's declaration. And Mr. Carewe had spo ken with the most undeniable air of meaning what ho said. Yet she knew that the incroyabio would come again. Also, with hot cheeks pressed into her pillow, Miss Hetty had Identified tho young man in tlio white hat, that dark person whoso bund she bad far too impetuously seized In both of hers. Aha! It was this gentleman who look ed Into people's eyes and stammered so sincerely over a pretty speech that you almost believed him; It was ho who was to marry Fanchon Bareaud, "If he ' remembers!" No wonder Function bad J been In such a hurry to get him away. I "If ho remembers!" Such was that I young ninn's character, was It? Miss Carewe- laughed aloud to her pillow, for was one to guess tho reason also of his not having come to her ball? Had the poor man been commanded to bo "out of town?" I Then, remembering the piquant and generous face of Fanchon, Betty clinch ed her fingers tightly and crushed the Imp who had suggested tho unworthy thought, crushed him to a wretched pulp and threw him out of tho window. Some bargains in Stockings ! Infants' Stockings :u . 15 and 25c. Misses' Stockings at 10. 1 2 A. 15 and 18c. A fine, dressy stocking at with extra linen knee, ai 5c. He" Immediately sneaked In by the back way, for, In spite of her victory, she still felt a little sorry for poor Fanchon. CHAPTER IV. F it be true that love Is tho great Incentive to the useless arts, the number of gentle men who became poets for E mm the sake of Miss Betty Curd we need not be considered extraordinary. Of all that was written of her dancing, Tom Vanrevel's lines, "I Danced "With Her Beneath tho Lights" (which he cer tainly had not dono when he wrote them), wero perhaps next to Cralley Gray's In merit, though Tom burned his rhymes after reading them to Cral ley. As Crnlley Gray never danced with 1 Miss Carewe, it ia somewhat singular that she should havo been tho lnsplra- 1 tlon of his swinging versos in waltz measure, "Iloartstrlhgs on n Violin," ' the sense of which was that when a violin had played for her dancing tho instrument should be shattered as wine glasses are after a great toast. How ever, no one except the author himself knew that Betty was the subject, for Cralley certainly did not mention it to Miss Bareaud nor to his best friend, Vanrevel. It was to some degree a strange com radeship between these two young men; their tastes led them so often hi oppo site directions. They bad rooms to gether over their offices in the "Madrll Ion block" 011 Main street, ami the lights shone late from their windows every night In the year. Sometimes that would mean only that the two friends were talking, for they never reached a silent intimacy, but, even ufter several years of companionship, were rarely seen together when not In Interested, often eager, conversation, so that people wondered what In tho world they still found to say to each other. But many a night the late shin ing lamp meant that Tom sat alone, with a brief or a book, or wooed tho lorn hours with his magical guitar, for ho never went to bed until the other camo home. And If daylight camo without Cralley, Vanrevel would go out, yawning mightily, to look for him, and when thero was no finding him Tom would come back sleepless to the day's work. To the vision of tlio lookers on In Rouen, (pilot souls who hovered along the walls nt merrymakings nnd cheer fully counted themselves spectators at tlio play, Cralley Gray held the center of the stogo and wns tho chief come dian of tho place. Wit, poet and scape grace, tho small society sometimes j seemed tho more background set for I his performances, spectacles which he ' also enjoyed, and from the best seat in the house, for ho was not content as the actor, but must bo tho prince In tho box as well. His friendship for Tom Vanrevel was In 11 measure that of the vine for tho oak. Ho was full of levities at , Tom's expense, which the other bore ; with n grin of sympathetic compre hension or at long Intervals returned upon Cralley with devastating effect. Vanrevel was tho 0110 steadying thing In his life and at tho same time the only one of tho young men upon whom I ho did not have an almost mesmeric In- Dry Goo Sndia Linens Worth more, but sell at following prices: 27 inches wide, Sc yard. 52 inches wide, 12AC yard. 36 inches wide, 15c yard. o itu:h'S wide, 20c, 25c. Lonn Cloth at 15c yard. Nainsook at 20c yard. aces lib, U lluence. In good truth, Cralley was tho ringleader In all tho deviltries of tho town and had been so long In the habit of following every Impulse, no matter bow mad, that he enjoyed an almost perfect Immunity from condemnation, and, whatever his deeds, Rouen had learned to say with a chuckle that It was "only Cralley Gray again." Now and then be would spend sev eral days In the offices of Gray & Van revel, attorneys and counselors at law, wearing an air of unassailable virtue, hough he did not far overstate the caso when he said, "Tom does all tho work and gives mo all tho money not to bother him when bo's getting up a case." The working member of the firm got up cases to notable effect, and few law yers In the state enjoyed having Tom Vanrevel on the other side. There wns nothing about him of tho llorldlty prev alent at that time; be withered "ora tory" before the court; ho was the foe of Jury pathos, and, despising noise and tlio habitual voice dip at the cud of n sentence, was nevertheless nt times an almost fearfully effective ora tor. So by degrees the firm of Gray & Vanrevel, young as It was and In spite of the Idle apprentice, bad grown to bo the most prosperous In the dis trict. For this eminence Cralley was never accused of assuming the credit. Nor did ho ever miss an opportunity of making known how much be owed to his partner. What lie owed, In brief, was everything. How well Vnurovel worked was demonstrated every day, but how bard bo worked only Cralley knew. The latter had grown to depend upon him for even his political beliefs and lightly followed his partner into abolitionism, though that was to risk unpopularity, bitter hatred and worse. Fortunately on certain occasions Van revel bad made himself, If not his creed, respected, nt least so far that there was no longer danger of mob violence for an abolitionist In Rouen, lie was a cool headed young man or dinarily nnd possessed of au elusive forcefuluess not to bo trilled with, though he wns a (pilot man and had what they called a "fine manner," nnd, not In the latter, but In his dress, there was an echo of the beau, which afford ed Mr. Gray a point of attack for sal lies of wit. ( I'o ht Continued ) STOCKMEN SEE PRESIDENT. Roosevelt Assures Visitors He Is In Sympathy With Cattle Interests. Washington, Feb. 20. Congressman KInkald presented to tho president and also to Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, Henry Reynolds of Chad ron nnd C. H. Cornell of Valentine, representing tho Nebraska live stock interests that is moving for a leasing bill. They discussed tho matter briefly with tho president and at more length with tho secretary. Tho president as sured them that ho Is fully In sympa thy with tho attltudo of tho Nebraska cattlo Interests, which Is indeed tho attitude of stock intorests generally throughout tho grazing country, In ad vocacy of a proper leasing bill. Ho was not, of course, able to discuss de talla. Ho gttvo gratifying assurances that his moral support will bo with tho Nebraska men.