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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1908)
iXfjJf,1? b i ) k'. v Continued from page 3 mnntrno tvs ::ov; vmeiu ui uurucsJt Khntfow of her now HUHplelont 3 Fccllns almost Intolerably friendless nnd nlone, weakened both by her re mit fright and by her encounter with Huruve, ITolen considered an calmly uh her einollnua would allow and decided that tills wan no day In which pride tdiould figure. Then; wore factH which It was Imperative she should know, nnd Itmnedlately; therefore, a few mln utCH later, hIio knocked at the door of (flierry Malotte. When the girl appeared. Helen was astonished to $w that she had been crying. Tciim burn hottest and leave plalnoHt trace In eyes where they come most Holdout. The younger girl could not gtioKH the tumult of epiotlon the other had undergone during her ah f.onctf, the utter depth of Keif abase menl she had fathonio.l, for the sight of Helen and her frcHh young beattly had aroused In the adventuress a very tempest of bitterness and Jealousy. Whether Helen Chester wore guilty or innocent, how could Cloulster hesitate between them? Cherry had asked her brtf. Now she stared at her visitor In hospitably and without sign. "Will you let tne come In?" Helen iisked her. "I have something to say to you." When they were Inside, Cherry Ma lotto Blood and gazed at her visitor curious for to think of with nscnilablo eyes and stony face. "It Isn't easy for tue to route back." Helen began, "but I felt that 1 had to. It you can help me, I hope you will. Yoii said Unit you knew a great wrong was being done. 1 have suspected It. but I didn't know, and I've been afraid to doubt my own people. Von said 1 bad a part hi itthat I'd betrayed my friends. Walt a moment," she hurried on, at the other's cynical smile. "Won't you tell mo what you know and what von think my part has been? I've heard and seen things that make me think oh, they make me afraid to think, and yet I can't find the truth! Von see, in a struggle like this, people will make all sorts of allegations, but do they know, have they any proof, that my uncle has done wrong?" "Is that all?" "No. You said Strove told you the whole scheme. I wont to him and tried to cajole the story out of him. but" She shivered at the memory, "What success did you have?" in quired the listener, oddly all her cold dislike. "Don't ask me. I hate It." Cherry laughed cruelly. "So, fallin there, you came back to tne, back for another favor from the waif. Well, Miss Helen Chester, I don't believe u word you've said, and I'll tell you nothing. Go back to the uncle and the rawboned lover who sent you, and In form Ihotit that I'll .speak when the time comes. They think I know too much, do (hey? so they've sent you to spy? Well, I'll make a compact. You play your game, and I'll play mine. Leave Glenlster alone, and I'll not tell on McNamara. Is it a bargain?" "No, no, no! Can't you see? That's not it. All 1 want Is the truth of this thing." "Then go back to Stitive and get It. He'll tell you; I won't. Drive your bar gain wllh bint -you're able. You've fettled better men-now, see what you can do with him." Helen left, realizing the futility of further effort, though she fell that this woman did not really doubt her, but was scourged by jealousy till she de liberately chose, this attitude. Iteachiug her own hone. she wrote two brief notes and called in her Jap hoy from the kitchen "Kred, I want you to hunt up Mr. Cilenister and glvo him this note. If you can't find him, then look for his partner iiml give the other to him." Kred vanished, to return in an hour with the letter for Dextry still In hi? hand. "I don" cateh dis feller," he explain ed. "Young mans say he gone, come back luebbe one, two, Movon days." "Did you deliver the one to Mr. filen-Ister?" "I.es, ma'am." "Was there an answer? "I.es. ma'ani." "Well, give It to me." The note read: IVur Alls I'lionlor- A (HhciikhIihi of u Tnittti'i' .ho familiar to oh both as tins Am II c.vek coutroversr would bo UhHcHH. If your Inclination Is iltx to tint IniMilcntu of hist iilcbt, pray don't trouble yourself We don't want your pity. I urn your son ant. HOY GI.KN18TER. As she read the note, .lodge Sllllniau entered, and it seemed to the girl that he had aged a year for every hour in the last twelve, or else the yellow aft ernoon light limned the sagging hol lows and haggard lines of his face most pitilessly, lie showed in voice and manner the nervous burden under which he labored. "Alec has told me about .our en gagement, and it lifts a terrible load from me. T'm nilghly glad you're going to marry him. He's a wonderful man. and bo's the only one who can save us." What do oii mean by lliat? What are we .in danger of?" soldiers guarding (lie house horeuf lor." Why they won't hurt us" "Tut, tut! I know what I'm talk ing about We're In worse danger now than ever, and If we don't break up those TlKlhintea there'll be blood-shed-tliat's what They're a menace, and they're trying to force me off the bench ho they can take the law into their own hands again. That's what 1 want to see you about. They're plan ning to kill Alec and me- so he says and we've got to uct quick to prevent murder. Now, this young (llenister Is one of them, and lie knows who the rest ure. Do you think you could got him to talk?" "I don't think I quite understand you," said the girl, through whitening lips. "Oh, yes, you do. I want the names of the ringleaders, so that I can Jail them. You can worm It out of that fel low If you try." Helen looked at the old man In n hor ror that at first was dumb. "You ask this or me?" she demanded hoarsely at last. "Nonsense." he said Irritably. "Tills Isn't any tltno for silly scruples. It's life or death for me, maybe, and for Alec too." He wild tho last craftily, hut she stormed at him: "It's Infamous! You're asking me to betray the very man who saved us not twelve hours ago. lie risked his life .for us." "It Isn't treachery at all. It's pro tectlon. If we don't get them, they'll get us. I wouldn't punish that yoime fellow, but I want the others. Come now, you're got to do It" ltut she s-;ld "No" llrmly, and quietly went to her own room, where, behind the locked door, she sat for n long time staring with unseeing eyes, her hands tight clinched In her lap. At last she whispered: "I'm ufraid It's true. I'm afraid it's true." She remained hidden during the "That's too had." cue -all. " e mistook you for" And the nth : broke In sharply. "You'd better run along. We're waiting for some o".e." Helen hastened back by the roti'e 'ie had come, knowing thai the-e wir "MM time, ami that as yet her uncle'" o''d Harles had not laid hands upon C,!o' Ister. She had overheard the .Hid 'o nnd MoNntnnra plotting to drag the town with a force of deputies, so " i not only her two friends, but even mnti suspected of being a vlgl'ante The victims were to be Jailed uifh'Tt bond, without reason, without Juslice while the mechanism of the court was to be Juggled In order to hold then until fall. If necessary. They had -mid that the olllcers were already busy. m haste was a crying thing. S d down tho dark streets toward the Ino so of Cherry Malotte. but found no light nor answer to her knock. She was dis tracted now, and knew not where to seek next among the thousand spots which might hide the man she wanted. What chance had she against tho post-e sweeping the town from end lo end? There was only one; he might be nt the Northern theater. Even so. she could not reach him. for she dared not go there herself. She thought of Fred, iTTTlf W rtrllMA flJnimm "" niUWKc . Clfc 1 Cltv I IV Vv-SA'VIJ rywwvm MjtJsuai- dinner hour, nnd pleaded a 'headache when McNamnra called In the early evening. Although she had not seen him since ho left her the night before, bearing her Inelt promise to wed him, yet how could she meet him now with the conviction growing on her hourly that he was a master rogue? She wrestled with the thought that he and her uncle, her own uncle who stood in the place of a father, were conspira tors. And yet, nt memory of the Judge's cold blooded request that she should turn traitress, her whole being revolted. If he could ask a thing like that, what other heartless, selfish act might he not lie capable of? All the long, solitary evening she kept her room, but at last, fooling faint, slipped down stairs In search of Fred, for she had eaten nothing since her late break fast. Voices reached her from the parlor, and as she came to the last step sho froze there In an attitude of listening The first sentence she heard through tho close drawn curtains banished all qualms at eavesdropping. She stood for many breathless minutes drinking in the plot that came to her plainly from within, then turned, gathered up her skirts, and tiptoed back to her room. Here she made haste madly, tearing olT her house clothes and don ning others. She pressed her face to the window and noted that the night was like a close hung velvet pall, without a slur in sight. Nevertheless, she wound a heavy veil about her hat and face be fore she extinguished the lighl and stepped Into the hull. Hearing McNu uiara's "Good night" at the front door, she retrealed again while her uncle slowly mounted the stairs and paused before her chanil)cr. He culled her name softly, but when she did not an swer continued on to Ids own. room. When he was safely within she de scended quielly. went out, and locked the front door behind her, placing the key In her Usom. She hurried now. feeling her way through the I hick gloom in a panic, while in her mind was but one frightened thought: "I'll be too late. I'll be too late." CIIAPTEU XVII. EVEN after Helen had been out for some time she could barely see suiliclently to avoid colli sions. The air, weighted by a low hutiK roof of clouds, was sur charged with the electric suspense of an Impending storm, and seemed to sigh and tremble at the hint of power in leash. It was that pause before the conflict wherein the night laid linuei upon Its lips. As the girl nea red Gleiiister's cabin she was disappointed at seeing no light there. She stumbled toward the door, only to utter a half strangled cry as two men stepped out of the gloom and seized her roughly. Something cold and hard was thrust violently against her cheek, forcing her head back and bruising her. She struggled and cried out "Hold on. It's a woman!" ejaculated the man who had pinioned her arms, loosing his hold till only a hand re. malned on her shoulder. The other lowered I lie weapon he had Jammed Women as Weil as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney and Bladder Trouble. Kidncv trouble preys upon the mind discourngesandlcssensnuibitioii; beauty, tOlfll tl 1 1 , I Mltiimallt 1. fyg.l . V,S """ v-iiuuiiiii- im Vy 111:5s soon disappear wiicn uiuiviuiii:yuri: out of o"icr or dis- cased. Iviilnnv f rn11 lins ' j become so prevalent tWJ that it is not unuoiu SSAj moil for a. child to le i...m.. ..m!..i...i ...1,1. ii,iii uuiji;ii:u win, weak kidneys. 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H OtitrrFMXt ttl Ust HUj li ri cu tl ItnuDA CwtLL StjrCriUiiK) Machine Co.,Rkroa,Oi Mercer's Barber Shop Basement of Potter Block. ho hundred, j to hoi face and peered eloscly MeNainai-a's1 "Why, Miss Chester." he said Von came avoldlnir dIseuHlou of nniinuueemonr. I "Wlml imi you dolnu heiW "Why, that mob. of course. They'll near etthif,' hurt." coma bade. They said so. Hut Alec' "1 am bound for tho Wilson', but I can handle tho commumlinK olllcer at must have lout, my way in the darh the post, and. thanks to him. we'll hit ye ness. I think you have cut my face." - - gj,,. controlled her fright llrmly Sim frozr thvrv .a an altitude of Jiulni ing. her .lap Iwy. but there was no time. Wasted inoiiMiit.s meant failure. Hoy had once told her that he never pnvo ui what he undertook. Very well, kIio would show that even a lrl may possess determination, this was no time -for modesty or shriukim; Inde cision, so she pulled the veil more closely about her face and tixik her pod name Into her bauds. She made rapidly toward the lighted streets which cast a skyward irlave and from which through the breathless calm aroe the sound of rarousal. Swiftly she threaded the narrow alleys In Fonrch of the theater's rear entrance, for she dared not approach from tin front. In this way she came into a part of the camp which had lain hid den from her until now and of the ex istence . of which she had never dreamed. The vices of a city, however horrible, are at least draped scantily by the mantle of convention, but in a great mining camp they stand naked and without concealment. Here then,' were rows upon rows of erlbllke houses clus tered over lortuoiH. Ill lighted lanes, like blow Hies swarming to an unclean feast. From within came the noise of ribaldry and debauch. Shrill laughter mingled with coarse, maudlin songs, till the clinging night reeked with abominable revelry. The girl saw painted creatures of every nationality leaning from whitlows or beckoning from doorways, while drunken men collided with her, barred her course, challenged her. and again and again sho was forced to slip from their em braces. At last the high bulk of the theater building loomed a short, dis tance ahead, ranting and frightened, she tried the door with weak hands, to And It locked. I-'roin behind it rose the blare of brass and the sound of .sing ing. She accosted a man who approach ed her through the narrow alley, but. ho had cruised from the charted course in search of adventure and was not mind ed to go In (ptcst of doormen; rather, he chose lo sing a chantey, to the bibu lous measures of which he Invited her to dance with him. so she slipped away till ho had teetered past, lie was some longshoreman In that particular epoch of bis inebriety where life had no bur den save the dissipation of wages. Keturulug, she pounded on the door, possessed of the sense that the man she sought was here, till at last it was Hung open, framing the silhouette of a shirt-sleeved, thick-set youth, who shouted: "What 'u 'ell do you want to hull in for while the show's on? (Jo round front." She caught a glimpse of dis ordered scenery, and before he could slam the door in her face thrust a sil ver dollar Into his hand, at the same time wedging herself, into ine opening. He pocketed the coin and the clicked to behind her. 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