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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1907)
A.-i"r The fiiasquerader (Continued from 1'ngo I'lirco.) any oilier source lie had a linzy Idea tiiat a woman's behavior could never be paused by accented theories then ho bad safeguarded C'hlleoto's inter - 1 1 . r ,,,,,, , , Her face with Its rich, clear color- ins, seemed to bis gaze to stand out ftwn the crowd of other fawn as from n frame, and a sense of pr do touched dm. in every eye but his own hurl beauty belonged o him. Ills face l.iokfil alive and mas erful ' UU Ullll 'iliilllill lllu ulitli Mill I lim. I ., .,,,.,;, , nopollzo you 'he said with the quick- ness of speech borrowed from Chll cole. "We--wo see so little of ouch other." Almost no If compelled, her lashes lifted, and her eyes met his. Her plance was puzzled, uncertain, slightly confused. There whs a deeper color than usual in her cheeks. Loder felt something within his own conscious ness stir In response. "You know you are yielding," he said. Again she blushed. Ho saw the blush and knew that It was he-Ids words, bis personality that bad called It forth. In Chilcote's actual scmhhmcc he had proved his superiority over Chilcote. Tor the first tune he had been plven a tacit, per sonal ucknowlcdpmcnt of his power. Involuntarily h drew nearer to her. "Let's pet out of this crush." She made no answer except to bend her head, and it came to him that, for all her pride, she liked and uncon sciously yielded to-dominatlon. With a satlslied gesiui'" he turned to make a pnssnge toward the door. Hut the passage was more easily de sired than made. In the few moments since he had entered the supper room the press of people hud considerably thickened until a block had formed about the doorway. 1 (rawing Kvo with hint he moved forward for a dozen paces, then paused, unable to make further headway. As they stood there lie looked back at her. "What a study in democracy a crowd always Is!" he said. .She responded with a briplit. appre ciative plance. as If surprised into naturalness. He wondered sharply what she would be like If her enthu siasms were really aroused. Then a stir in the corridor outside caused a movement Inside the room, and with a certain display of persistence lie was enabled to make a pa.ssape to the door. There apalu they were compelled to halt. Hut thouph tlphtly wedped Into his new position and puardiup Kve with one arm. Loder was free to survey the brilliantly thronped corridor over the head of a man a few Inches shorter than himself, who stood directly in front of him. "What are we waitlup for?" ho asked pood humorcdly. addressinp the back of the stranper's head. The man turned, displayinp n penlal face, a red mustache and an cyeplass. "llullo, Chilcoter' he s:dd. "Hope It's not on your feet I'm standlnp." Loder lauphed. "No." he said. "And don't chaupe the position. If vou were an Inch hipher I should be blind as ' well :is crippled." The other lauphed. It was a pleasant surprise to find Chilcote amiable under discomfort. He looked round apalu In sliirht curiosity. Loder felt the scrutiny. To create a diversion he looked out aloup the cor ridor. "1 believe we are waitlnp for Mimolhliur." he exclaimed. "What's .tills?" Then quite abruptly he ceased to speak. "Any thins interest lug':" live touched his arm. He said nolhlnp. Tie made no effort to look round. His thoupht as well as Ids speech was suddenly suspended. The man In front of him let his eye plass fall from his eye. then screwed It in apain. "Jove." ho exclaimed, "here comes o:ir sorceress: ifs like the propress.of a fairy princess. I believe this Is the tneanlnp of our pettinp penned In hero." He chuckled dellphtedly. Loder said nothing. He' stared straight on over the other's head. Aloup the corridor, agreeably con scious of the hum of admiration she aroused, came Lillian Astrupp. sur rounded by a little court. Her delicate face was lit up; her eyes shone under the faint pleam of her hair; Iter gown of gold embroidery swept round her gracefully. She was radiant and tri umphant, but she was also excited. The excitement, was evident In her laugh, in her gestures, In her a, as they turn ed quickly In one direction and then another. Loder. gazing in stupefaction over the other man's head, saw It-felt and understood It with a mind that leaped hack over a space of years. As In a Milftlug panorama he saw a night of llsturbanco ,and confusion In a faroff Italian vaJley a confusion from which no face shone out with something of tho pale, alluring radiance that nitered jver the hl'fiilde from tins crescent I moon. It pussed across Ills conscious uess sbwly, hut with a slow complete ness, and In Its light the Incidents of the pant hour ntood out In a new an poet. The echo of recollection Htlrred by Lady nrainfeH's voice, the re-echo of It In the ulster's Ijncsj his own blindness, Ids own egregious assurance all struck across his mind. ! ,.' '"', " " 7rV,J ,.,,,. ho gauged to the full tho hold that the mnv lltmosphere. the new existence, had gained over his mind. With an im- looIt.(l for nwh of foe , ,, r(JlIlMd how (Ulu.,y ,, wonhl rt .,, ,( A iilI1Imi CI1I1U (.0SLr (M0 lnoimIllB of Mjr wmim. (!cainu tlIem.or (() ,( sho nIkll, hi(.MmUyi a,IK,,11B II0W ... " " " Meanwhile the party about Lillian I " tlii'ii, nut her eyes were never (inle, Tll,,,0 H,.,llim(M, .,,,. ,,.,,, llf lllo corridor, then glanced over the heads crowded in the doorway. "I'll have something quite sweet, Geoffrey," she was saying to the man beside her as she came within hearing. "Vou know what I like a sort of snow flake wrapped up hi sugar." As she said the words her glance wandered. Loder saw It rest unluterestedly on a boy u yard or two In front of hlin, then move to the man over whoso head ho gazed, then lift Itself Inevitably to bis face. The glance was quick and direct. He saw the look of recognition spring across It; he saw her move forward suddenly as the crowd In the corridor parted to lot her pass. Then ho saw what seeuieil to him a miracle. Her whole expression altered, her lips parted, and she colored with annoy ance. She looked like a spoiled child who, seeing a bonbon box, opens it to lind it empty. As the press aliaut the doorway melted to give her passage the red haired man in front of Loder was the first to take advantage of the space, ".love, Lillian," lie said, moving for ward, "you look as If you expected Chilcote to be somebody else, and are disappointed to find he's only himself!" Ho laughed delightedly at his own joke. Tho words were exactly the tonic Lillian needed. She smiled her usual undisturbed smile as she turned her eyes upon him. "My dour Leonard, you're using your eyeglass. When that happens you're never responsible for what you see." Her words came more slowly and with a touch of languid amusement. Her composure was suddenly restored. Then for the first time Loder chang ed his position. Moved by an Impulse f he made no oflon to dissect, he slopped back to Kvcs side and slipped his arm through hers successfully concealing his left lit mi. The i....;th of her skin through her long glove thrilled him unexpectedly. Ills impulse had been one of self de fense, but the result was of a differ ent character. At the quick contact the wish to light for to bold and do- i fendthe position that had grown so dear woke in renewed force. With a new determination lie turned apain to ward Lillian. "I caught the same Impression without an eyeglass." he said. "Why I did you look like that?" Ho asked the I question steadily and with apparent i carelessness, thouph throuph it all bis reason stood aghast his common sense cried aloud that It was Impossi ble for the eyes that had seen his face in admiral ion. In love, in contempt, to fail now In recognition. The air seem ed breathless while ho snoko and ' wailed. His impression of Lillian I was a mere shimmering of gold dress ! and gold hair; all that he was really I conscious of was the pressure of his hand on Eve's arm and the warmth "Do you ace what I menu, Jlvc','" of her skin through the soft glove. Then abruptly the mist lifted. Ilo saw Lillian's eyes-lntllfferent, amus ed, slightly contemptuous, and a sec ond Inter he heard her voice. "My dear. Jack,." shesald tjweetlr, CZ7" " 1 m Jim! tfit IJfxfrLM I "how absurd of you I It was sltnnlv , tho contrast of your eyes peering over Leonard's hair. It was like n gor geous sunset with n black cloud over head." She laughed. "Do you see what I moan, Kvo?" Sho affected to i see Evs for the first time. Kve had been looking calmly ahead. She turned now and smiled serenely. Loder felt no vibration of the arm lie held,, yet by nn Instant Intuition ho knew that the two women were an tagonistic. ITo o.vpeilcnced It with tho divination thi.t roilows upon a moment of acute suspense. He understood It, as ho had understood Lillian's look of recognition when his forehead, eyes and no.se had shown him to bo him self; her blank surprise when his close shaven lip and chin had proclaimed him Chilcote. He felt like a man who has looked into an abyss and stepped back from the edge, outwardly calm, but mental ly shaken. Tho commonplaces of life seemed for the moment to hold deeper meanings. He did not hear Kve's an-1 swer; ho paid no heed to Lillian's next remark. Ho saw her smile and turn I to the red haired man; finally ho saw her move on Into the supper room, fol lowed by her little court. Then he pressed the arm he was still holding. lie felt an urgent need of companion ship, of a human expression to the crisis he had passed. "Shall wo get out of this?" he asked again. Kvo looked up. "Out of tho room?" she said. He looked down at her, compelling j her gaze. "Out of the room and tho house," he answered. "Lot us go liomo." to be continued. A SEAT OF MANY ILLS. Eyo Strain Is Rosponciblo For a Num ber of Ailments. When the specialist to whom they had taken their si.tcen-year-olil daugh ter on account of what seemed t.i be a ease of Incipient melancholia diagnosed the case as one of eye strain and or dered prompt treatment from an ocu list, the parents of a young New York girl weie astonished. Eye strain seem ed as remote from melancholia as would corns on the feet. Their aston ishment was proportionately Increased when after a few treatments and ac quiring glasses the child showed no ticeable Improvement. Latter day medical science traces to eye strain many Ills which seem so re mote from the eyes that formerly phy sicians never thought of establishing a connection between them. Sick head ache, nervousness, melancholia, insom nia, are but a few which have of late been laid to the door of weak eyes, the proper treatment having been neg lected. Nervous diseases of the nature of St. Vitus' dance aro now thought to origi nate frequently In eye trouble. The weak eyes blink incessantly, ami this leads to a general contortion of the facial muscles, which grows on the subject through constant repetition. Exchange. The Names of Tea. We talk glibly about Tekoe, llohen, etc.. but few people have any Idea of what these names signify. ' "Pekoe" in the dialect of Canton means "white hair." for the tea which bears tills name is made from the youngest leaves, m young that the white down Is still on them. "Soochong" In tho same dialect is a quite iinpoetlo name. It merely signifies "small kind." "Flourishing spring" is the meaning of "Hyson." "Kongo" signifies "la bor." Much trouble and loll are ex pended In Its preparation at Amoy, and these are commemorated In Its name. "Ilohea" Is called after a range of hills. Portland (Ore.) .Journal. To Clean Bronzes. It is not a good plan to clean bronzes, as the polish Is very easily spoiled, but If necessary nothing lc better than cleaning them Avltli water and ammo nia, using a still brush like a nailbrush. Dry carefully after rinsing thoroughly. They should be carefully dusted every day with a soft cloth and a feather brush, and a little sweet oil may bo rubbed on occasionally. To rciuoro stains from bronze make the article very hot by dipping it In boiling water. Then rub it with a piece of flannel dip ped In suds made from yellow soap, rubbing clean witli soft linen cloths. -TAlX'OI05fc 2-SS2- GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION OR MONEY REFUNDED. A DOSE AT BED TIME WILL USUALLY RELIEVE THE MOST SEVERE CASE BEFORE MORNING. POR SKL9 BY 1 1 i H Tak iaxauve uromo yuinine Tablets. SiVM Hhdkw soM In paU 13 Mioaths. TlttS SgDatlire. .ww tmntBam VlB iLW. B siiikW. .H H 1 m H F Tho Kind You Have Always m hso ior over u years, ......wit im imiu iuuvwivu yni III llll.l. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-us-good " aro hut Experiments that trijle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against; Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is n harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is .Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic .substance. Its ago is its guarantee It destroys Worms and allays Feverishncss. It cures Binrrluua nnd "Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates tho Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Tho Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the The KM You tee Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CCNTAUR COMPANV, TT MUBHAV aTKCCT, NCWVOnKCITV. The Dodging1 Period of a woman's life Is the name often given to "change of life." Your menses come at loiitf Intervals, and L.'ow scantier until they stop. Tho change lasts throe or four years, and causes much pain mid suffering, which can, however, be cured, by taking WINE I OF Woman's Refuge In Sl3trcss It quickly relieves the pain, nerv ousness, Irritability, iiiiseraMeness, faintinj;, diziiuess, hot and cold flashes, weakness, tired feeling, etc. Cardui will bring you safely through this "dodging period," and build up your strength for the rest of your life. Try It. You can get it at xll druggists In fit. 00 bottles. "EVERYTHING BUT DEATH I suffcuvl. nrursViiglnU Robsiin.nf I ast , on, MJ . "t-nul I limit Ciidul, w lilt li cured nii'sonuiclov It surprised my doctor, who didn't know 1 was tatting It." INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM CUHED IN 3 DAYS Morton L. Hill, of Lobnnnn. Ind.. says; "Mj wife liiid Inllnmmatorv Hheunintlsm In everj miikclo and Joint: lier Mitrerltur wh terrible ud her body mid fnce were swollen nlmo'U bu yond recognition: had bejn in bed six week! and Imd eight jihyMclruiB, but received no benefit until hho tried the Mystic Cure foi IthouuiatlHra. It cave Immediate roller and sho was able to walk about In threo daH. i are sure It saved her life." Sold by II, 'E. Grlco Druggist. Ited Cloud. ' A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. . Honing, blind, bleeding, protruding piles. Druggists are authorized to refund money if Puzo Ointment fails 1 to euro in 0 to If davs. .10 couth. u HENRY COOK To Cure a Cold in One Day . Bought, and which hns been has homo tho signature of - ami has been made under his pcr "BZyLjl, sonal supervision since its infancy. Signature of CATARRH M&& SW&ri m M ;Wi&tfiM " ViJJBL JlFin, IV.CClfrLnW ?TV1 i iblKtf Jj?j? K&jFJ "&$ XjB? sq; f. vSft ujtfWYRir Elvs Ckeabw Balm . This Romocly is a Specific, Suro to Civo Satisfaction. 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