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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.)
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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-
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Inc. booklet.
The Tiuth
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Nebraska Directory
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Sulpho Saline Springs
Located on our own prettlm and mad In tho
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Uniumaiied In the treatment ol
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