The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, June 22, 1911, Image 2
J Sr ! "She It Gone, Then?" Gasped the Boy. W& andihe DTMO paUssvy '-w-is jr2rzL T MAPi WW SOME IMCIDEMTAL RUAIIONlb 1ll WOMAJi By CYfV3ldWrtSENDBBADY ' utsrwmoNS By Dcrpborn Melvill cttmcjir erfmmr rairo a cmy SYNOPSIS. A foollxh young ti'iiilcrfmit Ihtmiiuph fascliiali'd with Mm IiiiM, artful wlf" of Irunlu'ii inp-in'('i(ir In n urtiti-rn mltilnw town. Thoy i'mn to doim In u lilliul Iiik Iillr7..itil lint mo iiMifniiili'il hy tin rmiuilllti liiiHlmiul llii In shut by tlio wife, lull Mil' t-lilv (ttrotiH hoy jiiiIh it noti' ti) ttiv body taltltiK tlio ultiio upon hlniHolf. PROLOGUE Continued. The Storm Without. Tlie woman's Ilrst thought when sho stepped outside tin; door was that ut all luutu'ilH they must go buck. Tho wind almost swept her away; only the steadying grasp of the hoy, hotter pre pared than who for the attack oC tlio Htortu, enabled hor to keep her feet, Yet the presence of that ghastly thing on tho floor which was affecting even Iter Iron nerve, prevented their return. Whatever happened they must go on! Tho door of that shelter was closed to them forever by the dead or dying tenant. She realized however, that their chances of escaping freezing to death in this mad endeavor were so email as to be practically none. Well, fate had forced her into this position. Hho would follow the path she had chosen, whatever might bo at the eud of tho way. Speech was well nigh Impossible. Tho boy staggered on past thu wln (low, and she followed until tho leo of the house was reached, lletwcen a great drift and the wall. In a little open space the horses were tied. The boy wus a natural horsemau. Ho had picked out the best two bron-' nor hIio could tell cos In tho camp. If any auituals could take them to safety, these could. Not yet chilled by the fierce cold, they untied tho shivering, reluctant, terri fied horses from the wooden pins driv en Into the chinks between tho log walls of tho house to which thoy had been hitched, mounted them, and threading their way round tho drift started southward on their awful ride. They left death behind them and lo! death loomed before and on either hand. Except where the storm was broken by houses, drifts had not yet formed. Tho wind was too terrlllc; It swept tho level prairie clean. Hut away from tho shelter of the house they got tho full force of It. Although they wero thickly clad In wool and fur, the pressure of the storm drove their gar ments against their bodies, and soon filled them with icy cold. There was no help for It, no relief Irom It. They bud to bear It. They could only beud their backs to It and keep on, trust ing to (ho endurance of their horses. The woman Judged that it had been about one in the morning when they had started. The Overland Limited ran through the station at three No horses that lived could have mndo that 15 miles In two hours under those conditions. It was more than prob able, however, that the limited would bo greatly delayed by the storm, and If they kept going steadily thoy would bo likely to catch It. At any rate, when they reached tho station, they would find food, Ere and shelter. If their horses did not give out, If in the Htortu and snow, and left to plod on until they fell and slept, and froze, and died, they would perhnps get away. More experienced than the boy, all these possibilities were present to her. She did not pray, she could ask noth ing of (!od; but she went warily and carefully, helping tho horse whore she could. As for her companion, he did not give these mntters very much consid eration. Ho kept going toward the south to the railroad station because that was tho only thing to be done. Another, however, rodo with him, If not with her. Before his eyes wns ever present that gory, grizzly spec tacle of n human form, the red blood, welling from Its breast, redder still from the white snow with which he was surrounded. That awful llgure beckoned him on. Ho was younger, liner, bettor, than she. He was more fool than knave; she was nil knave. Her thoughts went forward to what was before her; but his went back ward to what was behind. After a long timo It seemed to them that the fierceness of tho storm wns somewhat abated. The wind wuh cer tainly fulling; but the drifts wero steadily rising, and tholr progress was moro dltllcult every moment for that cause. Their very souls were numb with the awful cold. Still they went forward, slower now, and moro slowly ever. How far they had come, what time It was, where they were, neither he It seemed to them both that they had been hours on the way. The woman wns sure that they must have compassed tho greater part of the Journey, when her horse sud denly stumbled and fell. Her bron elm's matchless endurance had nt last been exhausted by tho terrible strug gle of their Journey. Ho lay dying where ho fell, and nothing she could do could get htm up again. The boy had stopped, of course, when her horso had fallen. He had dismounted and helped her 'to rise. He had assisted her vain efforts to get her own played out horso on Its feet. Tho two now stood staring at each other In dismay. "You must take my horse," said tho boy at last. The woman nodded. With his as sistance she climbed slowly and pain fully Into tho saddle, took the relna from thu boy, and started on, Her companion caught hold of the stirrup leather aud staggered forward by hor side. The going was now Infinitely harder for the remaining horse. The woman Immediately realized that with this almost dead weight plunging through the deep drifts and dragging heavily at the stirrup leather, tho remaining bronco would soon be ex hausted She had meant to play fair with him but it could not be. And so for n long time the trio plodded on In this way, the woman nerving herself to a frightful action ns best sho could. She hesitated to do It. Sho was reluctant-Hut no horso that ever lived could stand such a strain. She knew that it when the animal sho rodo on would also fall, and Ho when he hud fallen like' his dead brother back on the trail, and then she aud the boy would Inevitably polish. Well, It was his life or hers! The decision was forced upon her. And perhaps after nil It was Just as well to get rid of them both aud have done with It. She reached over, and be fore tho boy realized what was hap pening she caught his hand, tore his (Ingots from the saddle strnp, mid thrust him violently backward. Un prepared, unsuspecting, half-dazed, he could offer no adequate resistance. He reeled and fell supine In a deep and overwhelming drift. She struck the horse heavily with the whip that hung from the saddle bow, and the animal plunged forward wildly. She knew that she was safe unless he should try to shoot her; for he was too weak ami (oo exhnusted to eattli her. The hoy's senses were quickened In to Instant action by her conduct. Aft er tho first moment of surprise, he knew at once that she was deliberate ly abandoning him to die hi-tlio btiow. A hdt rush of blood, In spite of the cold, swept over him. Ho thrust his hand within his coat nnd dragged out a weapon. He raised It and trained It on the woman's back, and for the moment his hand did not tremble. Then there rone before him that other gory figure. Though he had lived some mouths on the wild frontier nnd had seen more than one man killed there, he had never been connected with tho murder before, even as an accessory after the fact, and the hor ror of it was still upon him. He low ered tilt; pistol, though he could easily have shot her dead. Such treachery on tho part of a woman would have killed some men; not so this boy. In that moment he became a man. He saw himself n fool; he determined that he would not also see himself n coward. Clenching his fists und summoning his strength, he followed southwnrd afoot In the woman's wake. He wulked If that be the word for his progress with his head down nnd his body bent lower and lower. He took long rests between the steps. Hy and by he fell forward on his face. The sensation of delicious rest nnd drowsiness that Hwept over him wooed him to He still and die- but there were still sparks and remnants of manhood and courage In him. He shook off his desire to sleep nt last and strove fran tically to rise. Finding thnt he could not, he crawled forward on his hands and knees, slowly working himself over the snow covered ground, round the drifts like a great animal. There was no use. Humanity could nut stand the strain any longer. One moie movement he made, and Just ns he wnH about to sink down forever he heard a long, deep hollow, mournful sound. He stopped, Interested, dimly wondering what It could be. Whatever It was, It meant life of some kind. It came from directly In front of him. It nerved him to fur ther effort. Summoning the last ves tige of his strength, he advanced a little farther. He knew what if was now. It was a locomotive. He lifted his head nnd saw lights faintly. He divined that It was tho station, the train, the Overland Lim ited ! She would get on it and go away' What mattered It? And what of himself? There was help; there was life! He actually rose to his feet and wavered on. Hy hap py chance the contour of tho ground had caused the space between him aud the lights to be swept compara tively bare of snow. It wns not now difficult walking, yet he Htaggered like a drunken man. Ah! the lights were moving before his eyes, Uiey danced and dickered. Tin. train wns going! Ho broke into n reeling run, hoarse whispers on his frozen lips. Too late! Ho stumbled and fell across the car tracks, dimly conscious of the lights, of tho departing train. He had Just sense enough and strength enough to cry out as he did bo. Some one on the station platform heard his voice. .Men came toward him; ho was lifted up and carried into a warm room. Something burning yet dellclously re viving was poured down his throat. "The woman!" ho gasped out, look ing up In the faces of the station agent und his helper bending over him. "She took the limited not five min utes ago," said the man staring nt him curiously. "The train was two hours und a half lato or she'd never have got It." "She's gone then?" gasped the boy. "Yes." "Thank Ood she got away!" he mur mured as he lapsed Into complete un consciousness, t Thert was good stuff in the boy. He was glad the woman had escaped In spite of all. Ho dtd not want an other human being's life on his hands. erntlon. He wns sufilclentl Independ entfor he hnd done It alone to have been ubove the ordinary feeling of loneliness. Nevertheless, ho was tem peramentally lonesome, and at this particular moment desperately uo. He had drifted Into New York some 20 years before, utterly unheralded, unnoticed. He hnd begun by filling n sninll clerkship in a little dry goods store. He kept at It until he owned the, store, nnd after that a larger store on a better street. He had developed a genius for trade, and an executive ability In accord, until the original little shop had expanded into a 15 story building covering a block on the principal thoroughfare of Nov York city, and its owner hnd become n pow er in finance, a merchant prince. Such was George Oormly. He was, too, a scrupulously honest man. Hu sold good goods, without deceit. Things wero ns he represent cil them. He established principles of accommodation In his dcnllng thnt were unique when they were first In stituted In New York. Ho mndo no dishonest dollars. HIh money was good everywhere because It was un tainted. He prospered exceedingly, one expansion following another. Kschewlng speculation of nny kind and devoting himself strictly to the business, he found himself In middle life the head, the foot, tho cole owner, of the grea'test enterprise of the kind that the world had ever neon. This had not been achieved lightly. He had brought It about because, with absolute singleness of heart, he had put every ounce of strength and time und talent, which in him amounted to genius, at the service of his affairs. Time, talent, and genius do not always produce such results; fortune otlll must be considered In the game. Op portunity had favored Oormly. Ho had succeeded in everything beyond his own or nnyone's wildest dreams. He might have gone on Indefinitely in his mercantile operations without attracting special attention to himself personally, had it not been for one fact. That momentous happening was his meeting with Miss Huldane. It had come about In n common place way epougli. Miss Haldnne, deeply Interested In social settlement work and being brought In contact thereby with some of the poorer em ployees of tho great Gormly establish ment, had concluded to call on the proprietor thereof to see If she could not Induce htm to make some ade quate contribution to the work she had so much at henrt. Like every other business man In New York. Gormly was overwhelmed by chari table demands. His business was one thing; ills charity another. He em ployed a special secretary to look aft er the eleemosynary end of hlh af fairs. There wore two rensons why tho secretary lelt himself unequal to deal with Miss Huldane and her demands The first renson was Miss Haldane herself. She wns n member of the oldest and most exclusive circle in New York society. Her fnmlly was one of the richest nnd most esteemed in that hive of mtilti-millionarles, would-be-sos, also-rans, and other peo ple. The second was the magnitude of Miss Haldane's demand. She want ed something like a million dollars. This amount appalled the secretary. She realized that a man like Gormly, Indeed most men If they had the pow er, would much rather give a million tlian n dime to an undertaking that appealed to them. Still, Gormly, hav ing devoted his attention o exclusive ly to his business heretofore, was rather staggered by the magnitude of tho amount. He would have been more stnggered by It had he been less bo by Miss Haldane herself. Miss Hnldnne had beauty. Thou kauds of people women, that Is, and some few men hove that. She had more; she hnd presenco and person ality. Hundreds of men, and some few women, have these. Those who have oil threo In cither sex are rare und come to view Infre quently. Whether It was Miss Hal dune's undoubted beauty, or Miss Hal dane's exquisite breeding and man ner, or Miss Haldane's force of char acter and determination, that most Im pressed him, or whether his Instant subjugation wns due to the Influence of nil three, Gormly could not tell. He was given to self-analysis, ns lonely people usually are. Hy analyz ing himself ho learned to analyze oth ers. Introspection nnd observation had been great factors In his BticceBs. Hero again his experience was at fault; for Miss Haldane defied analysis, as the breath of summer compounded of a thousand balmy scents cannot be re solved Into Its elements, aavo by the hard scientist who Is Insensible to it fragrance. (TO UK CONTINUKD.) mJ1 Here's EflujEj Iff 4V toYoir Good Hnlth and Pleasure Come follow the arrow 'til you join the merry throng of palate pleased men and women who have quit seeking for the one best beverage because they've found it- Sena for out Interest Inc. booklet. The Tiuth About Cocs-Cola' Real satisfaction in every glass snap and sparkle vim and go. Uuenclies (lie ttunt coom nae a Dreeze Delicious Refreining Wholesome 6c Everywhere jHiIvTsV wiEfflP, CV-5 COCA-CO'.A CO, .tlir.it, Ci. S3 Whtnerer you we n Arrow think el Coca-Cola POOR RETURN FOR CHIVALRY Incident That Probably Has Forever Discouraged Kind-Hearted Mr. Jones. Chivalrous Mr. Jones purposely dropped a llfty-ccnt piece at the foot of a poorly dressed woman who pass ed through tho Subway turmitllo loud ly lamenting that the ticket ngont had cheated hor out of a half dollar, then he picked tho money up and gave It to her. "Excuse me, madame," snld Mr. Jones, "I think you dropped this." "Oh, no," she sold, "It can't bo mine. Perhaps you dropped It, your self." "Oh, no," said Mr. Jones. "It Is yours, 1 am sure. I picked it up Just as you passed." She took tho money, and hurried after another man who had passed at the time tho money dropped. "Excuse me sir," she said, "I think you lost this." "Thanks," said tho other mnn, and Jumped aboard a train that was ready to start. " !" said chivalrous Mr. Jones. Now York Times. Kftl BJrsesaeas. - 1 I GoodConvenient w k Libbysf Soups have jfi SOjthe home-made flavor, ,& 1 la f tS Try 'K Uhhft Chicken Soap ' jl I AW. Ves-etable Soun i!' Libby's Tomato Soap at your grocer McNeill M r. I.thhv mv ... .'.".'T.'ifirasa MS. .'..!. tr. ft Vv'WaSEf M&mM Publicity Law Badly Needed. Connecticut, District of Columbia, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Now Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont, havo laws which provide specifically for the re porting of tuberculosis and which make provision for the proper regis-1 tratlon of living cases of this disease. I In fourteen other states, laws or reg ulations of the state boards of health require that tuberculosis be reported ' simply as one of a list of infectious diseases. The following 28 states and territories have no provision what- j ever for the reporting or registration of tuberculosis cases: Arizona, Alas- Iro A.l'nncn, Cnlnroiln nalnii'mw Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illi nois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. Why Rent a Farm and be compelled to pay to your landlord moit of your hard-earned profit? Own your own i arm. oecure a viee Homettcud in Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta, or purchase land in one of there diitrlcta r.nd bank a Smtltnl StO.OU or 1 11.00 an acre every ear. Land purchased 3 years airo at 11000 an sere has recently chantred hands at S2S00 an acre. The crops erown on these lands warrant the advance. You can Kissing Breach of Peace. The better half of a respected cltl ceo of New JerBey recently had the temerity to hale her lord and master beforo tho court on a charge of having kissed her ngaiUBt her will. For this heinous offense this Bhameleas Jersey benedict waa bonded over in $100 ball to keep the peace, and, moreover, was warned by the Judge never again to kiss Mb wire without first obtaining her consent In due form. If he Ib any kind of a man, probably ho will never want to kiss her again. Washington Herald. iMPhEHM WKiK mm A'l&tXVti I WiUM rV?W?fM TCAflaftMl IJHTJalaBl C iriiZSsVaV I I tCtJaH Become Rich by cattle raislne,dBlryinK,mixed His Instinct. "I see the family dog slinking out of the room. What's tho matter with him?" "Prescience. Presently there will be a tremondous family row on." "But how dtd the dog know that?" "Well, so to speak, his nose la something of a storm scenter." farming and Brain growing- in the province nl Manitoba, Saskatchewan end Alberta. Free homestead nnd pre eruption areas, as well as land held by railway and land com- antes, win provide Home or millions. M Adaptable soil, healthful climate, splendid schools and cburcbes.dood railway. r'nr settlers' mti-R, doTljtlY ilierstrtrf'loiv But Vn,"liow to reach tncruutitrruEduthrr par ticulars, write lo Hup't of lniinl tratlon, Ottawa. Camilla, or to Itio anaduvn OoTernmenl Agent. W. V. BENNETT Hoora 4 ! llif. Onafca, lib. I'leasa write to theaent nearest you Ungracious Drops. Stella Did they give the bride a shower? Bella Well, all her friends threw cold water on the bridegroom. Your liver Is Clogged Up That's Why You're Tired-Out of Sorts Have No Appetite. CARTER'S LITTLE, LIVER PILLS will put you right in a few days. They do their duty.. CureCon-i stinatlon. I Biliousness, Indigestion and Sick Headache SSIALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature HSp .UARTEfG tfjiV IIVER aHHHB sslBllia BB Hf $S4eJ7&fr&zg ITCMTfl Fortunes are mads In patents. ITo rH I CH I tactrourldeas. Our 04 paa buokfrtie. VlUcarmld Co., Uox K, Washington, D. C. they were not turned adrift on foot would be u matter of minutes now CHAPTER I. The Loneliness of Mr. Gormly. To IiIb great surprise, George Gorm ly sometimes found himself feeling lonely, ami the oftener so as ho grew older, l'vory man who bus a natural liking for women, and what true mnn has not? yet who has no intimate friendships with or relations to the other sex, is likely to Hud hlnm'lf in that state of mind sooner or Inter. Oormly wits sutllclently aged; he wns forty-four although he looked iiiunli younger Ho was sullU'lontly expe rienced; ho hnd dealt with women for a straight quarter of a century al though hu had neither loved nor mar ried one. He wus sufficiently self re Hunt; he had built up by his own tin aided efforts tho greatest retail mer chandise business of hla day and gen- The Wonders About Us. Let not care and humdrum deaden us to the wonders and mysteries amid which wo live, nor to the splendors aud glories. Wo need not translate ourselves in Imnglnntlon to some oth er sphcro or state of being to find the mnrvelous, tho divine, tho transcend ent; wo need not postpono our day of wonder nnd appreciation to some future timo and condition. Tho true Inwardness of this gross visible world banging llko nn applo on the bough of tho groat cosmic tree, and swelling with nil tho juices and potencies at life, transcends anything wo have dreamed of superterrcstrlal abodes. John burroughs. Friend Indeed. Hnrker I hear your friend Mark ley wnB married last night? Parker Yes. Harker I' suppose you witnessed tho ceremony? Parkor Not I. I don't believe In gloating over a friend's mUfortunt COMES A TIME When Coffee Shows What It Has Been Doing. "Of lste years coffee has disagreed with me," writes a matron from Rome, N. Y. "Its lightest punishment being to make roe 'logy' and dlizy, nnd It seem ed to thicken up my blood. "The heaviest was when It upset my stomach completely, destroying my ap petite nnd making me nervous and Ir ritable, and Bent me to my bed. After one of these attacks, in which I nearly lost my life, I concluded to quit the coffee and try Postura. "It went right to the spot! I found it not only a most palatable and re-. freshing beverage, but n food as well. "All my ailments, tho 'loglness' and ' dlzr.lnern, the unsatisfactory condition of my blood, my nervousness nnd irrl- tablllty disappeared In short order and my sorely nfftlctcd Htomnch began quickly to recover. I begnn to rebuild and bnvo steadily continued until now. Havo a good nppotlte nnd am rejoicing In sound health which I owo to tho use of Postura." Namo given by Postum Co.. Uattlo Creok, Mich. Read the little Rook "Tho Road to Wellvllle," In pkgs. "There's a reason." Kver read the akora letter? A iw eae aaaeara frosa tlase to time. Tfeer are sreaalae, tree, aad fall of " latere t. 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