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And Jf she had said It to him he
would have contradicted her flatly and
honestly and in vain
Yes the countess was saying with
lazy volubility Paul is one of our
oldest friends We are neighbors in
the country you know He has al
ways been in and out of our house like
one of the family My poor husband
was very fond of him
Is your husband dead then asked
Etta In a low voice with a strange
haste
No he Is only In Siberia You have
perhaps heard of his misfortune
Count Stepan Lanovitch
Etta nodded her head with the deep
est sympathy
I feel for you countess she said
And yet you are so brave and made
moiselle she said turning to Catrlua
I hope we shall see more of each other
In Tver
Catrina bowed jerkily and made no
reply Etta glanced at her sharply
Perhaps she saw more than Catrina
knew
I suppose she said to the countess
with that inclusive manner which
spreads the conversation out that
Paul and Mile do Lanovitch were play
mates
The reply lay with either of the la
dies but Catrina turned away
Yes answered the countess but
uiiLiuu lO SUIJ t JllLJ HJ1I IZilka
younger than Paul
Indeed with a faint cutting sur
prise
While the party assembled were thus
exchanging social amenities a past
master in such commerce joined them
In the person of Claude de Chauxville
lie smiled his mechanical heartless
smile upon them all but when he bow
ed over Ettas hand his face was
grave He expressed no surprise at see
lug Paul and Etta though his manner
betokened that emotion There was no
sign of this meeting having been a pre
arranged matter brought about by
himself through the easy and innocent
instrumentality of the countess
And you are going to Tver no
doubt he said almost at once to Etta
Yes answered that lady with a j
momentary hunted look in her eyes It
is strange how an obscure geographical
name may force Its way into our lives i
never to be forgotten It seemed to Et- j
ta that Tver was written large
wheresoever she turned
The prince continued De j j j
ville turning to Paul is a great j
sportsman I am told a mighty hunt
er j I I
Paul smiled We have a few bears t
left he said
You are fortunate protested De
Chauxville I shot one when I was
younger I was immensely afraid and
so was the bear I have a great desire
to try again
Etta glanced at Paul who returned
De Chauxvilles bland gaze with all
the imperturbability of a prince
The countess cackling voice broke in
at this juncture as perhaps De Chaux
ville had intended it to do
Then why not come and shoot
ours she said We have quite a
number of them in the forests at
Thors
Ah JIme la Comtesse he answer
ed with outspread deprecatory hands
but that would be taking too great an
advantage of your hospitality and your
well known kindness
He turned to Catrina who received
him with a half concealed frown The
countess bridled and looked at her
daughter with obvious maternal mean
ing as one who was saying There
you bungled your prince but I have
procured you a baron
The abuse of hospitality is the last
refuge of the needy continued De
Chauxville oracularly But my temp
tation is strong Shall I yield to it
mademoiselle
Catrina smiled unwillingly
I would rather leave it to your own
conscience she said But I fail to
see the danger you anticipate
Then I accept madame said De
Chausville with the engaging frank
ness which ever had a false ring in it
Claude de Chauxville had unscrupu
lously made use of feminine vanity
with all the skill that was his A little
glance toward Etta as he accepted the
invitation conveyed to her the fact
that she was the object of his clever
little plot that it was in order to be
near her that he had forced the Count
ess Lanovitch to invite him to Thors
and Etta with all her shrewdness was
promptly hoodwinked De Chauxville
saw by a little llicker of the eyelids
that lie had not missed his mark Ho
had hit Etta where his knowledge of
her told him she was unusually vul
nerable He had made one ally The
countess he looked upon with a wise
contempt She was easier game than
Etta Catrina he understood well
enough Her rugged simplicity had
betrayed her secret to him before he
Lad been five minutes in the room
Paul he despised as a man lacking
finesse and esprit
Claude de Chauxville was one of
those men alas too many who owe
their success in life almost entirely
ito some feminine influence or another
Whenever he came into direct opposi
tion to men it was his instinct to re
tire from the field Behind Pauls back
he despised him before his face he
cringed
Then perhaps he said when the
princess was engaged in the usual fare
wells with the countess and Paul was
moving toward the door then per
haps prince we may meet again De
fore the spring If the countess intends
her invitation to be taken seriously
Yes answered Paul I often shoot
at Thors
If you do not happen to come over
perhaps I may be allowed to call and
pay my respects Or is the distance too
great
You can do it In an hour and a half
with a quick horse if the snow Is
good answered Paul
Then I may make It au revolr in-
quired De Chausville holding out a
frank hand
Au revolr said Paul If you wish
It
And he turned to say goodby to Ca
trina
As De Chausville had arrived later
than the other visitors it was quite
natural that he should remain after
they had left and it may be safely pre
sumed that he took good care to pin
the C ountess Lanovitch down to her
rash invitation
Why is that man coming to Tver
said Paul rather grufily when Etta and
he were settled beneath the f urs of the
sleigh We do not want him there
I expect replied Etta rather petu
lantly that we shall be so horribly
dull that even M de Chausville will be
a welcome alleviation
CHAPTER XX
was alone In the great
MAGGIE room of the house
at the end of the English
quay alone and grave What
ever this girls joys or sorrows may
have been she succeeded as well as
any in concealing both
She was alone when Paul came into
the room It was a large room with
more than one fireplace Maggie was
reading and she did not look round
Paul stopped warming himself by the
fire nearest to the door lie was the
sort of man to come into a room with
out any remark
Maggie looked up for a moment
glancing at the wood fire She seemed
to know for certain that it was Paul
nave you been out she asked
Yes calling
He came toward her standing beside
her Avith his hands clasped behind his
back looking into the fire
Socially he said with a quiet hu
mor I am not a success
Perhaps you do not try she sug
gested practically
Oh yes I do I try in several lan
guages I have no small talk
You see she said gravely you
are a large man
Does that make any difference he
asked simply
She turned and looked at him as he
towered by her side looked at him
with a queer smile
Yes she answered I think so
For some moments thev remained
thus without speaking in a peaceful
silence
When she spoke it was with a quiet
voice as one having plenty of time and
leisure
Where have you been she asked
To the Lanovitches where we met
i the Baron de Chauxville
Ah
Why ah
Because I dislike the Baron de
Chauxville answered Maggie in her
decisive way
I am glad of that because I hate
him said Paul Have you any rea
son for your dislike
He has the same effect upon me as
snails she explained airily
Then as if to salve her conscience
she gave the reason but disguised so
that he did not recognize it
I have seen more of M de Chaux
ville than you have she said gravely
He is one of those men of whom wom
en do see more When men are pres
ent he loses confidence like a cur when
a thoroughbred terrier is about He
dislikes you I should take care to
give M de Chauxville a wide berth if
I were you Paul
She had risen after glancing at the
clock She turned down the page of
her book and looking up suddenly met
his eyes for a moment only
We are not likely to drop into a
close friendship said Paul But he
is coming to Thors twenty miles from
Osterno
There was a momentary look of
anxiety in the girls eyes which she
turned away to hide
I am sorry for that she said Does
Herr Steinmetz know it
Not yet
Maggie paused for a moment She
was tracing with the tip of her finger
a pattern stamped on the binding of
the book It would seem that she had
something more to say Then sud
denly she went away without saying It
In the meantime Claude do Chaux
ville had gently led the Countess Lano
vitch to invite him to stay to dinner
He accepted the invitation with becom
ing reluctance and returned to the Ho
tel de Berlin where he was staying in
order to dress He Avas fully alive to
the expediency of striking while the
iron is hot more especially where avo
men are concerned Moreover his
knoAvledge of the countess led him to
fear that she would soon tire of his
society This lady had a lamentable
facility for getting to the bottom of
her friends powers of entertainment
within a few days It was De Chaux
villes intention to make secure his in
vitation to Thors and then to absent
himself from the countess
After dinner the guest asked Mile
Catrina to play He opened the grand
piano in the inner drawing room with
such gallantry and effusion that the
sanguine countess postprandially som
nolescent in her luxurious chair began
rehearsing different modes of mention
ing her son-in-law the baron
Yes she muttered to herself and
Catrina is plain terribly plain
Thereupon she fell asleep
De Chauxville had a good memory
and was moreover a good and capa
ble liar So Catrina did not find out
that he knew nothing whatever of mu
sic He watched the plain fee as the
music rose and fell himself impervi
ous to its transcendent tones With
practiced cunning he waited until Ca
trina was almost intoxicated with mu
sic an intoxication to which all great
musicians are liable
Ah he said I envy you your pow
er With music like that one can al
most Imagine that life is what one
would wish it to be
She did not answer but she wander
ed off Into -another air a slumber song
The Schlummerlied said De Chaus
ville softly It almost has the power
to send a sorroAv to sleep
This time she answered him possi
bly because he had not looked at her
Such never sleep she said
Do you knoAv that too he asked
not In a tone that Avanted reply
She made no answer
I am sorry he went on For me
it Is different I am a man I have
mans work to do I can occupy ray
self with ambition At all events I
have a mans privilege of nursing re
venge
ne saw her eyes light up her breast
heave with a sudden sigh Something
like a smile Avavered for a moment be
neath his waxed mustache
Catrinas fingers supple and strong
struck in great chords the air of a
gloom3 march from the half forgotten
muse of some monastic composer
A mans privilege he repeated
musingly
Need it be such she asked
For the first time his eyes met hers
Not necessarily he answered And
her eyes dropped before his narrow
gaze
De Chauxville did not speak again
for some minutes He sat back in his
chair leaning his forehead on his hand
Avhile he peeped through his slim fin
gers He could almost read the girls
thoughts as she put them into music
She does not hate him yet he Avas
reflecting But she needs only to see
him with Etta a few times and she
will come to it
Catrina Avas an easy tool in the hands
of such as Claude de Chauxville for he
had dealt Avith women and that which
is evil in Avomen all his life and the
only mistakes he ever made were those
characteristic errors of omission at
taching to a persistent ignorance of
the innate good in human nature
Absorbed as she Avas in her great
grief Catrina was in no mood to seek
for motives to split a moral straw
She only knew that this man seemed
to understand her as no one had ever
understood her
The moment had been propitious and
Claude de Chauxville with true Gallic
insight had seized it Her heart A as
sore and lonely almost breaking and
she was Avithout the worldly Avisdom
which tells us that such hearts must
at all costs be hidden from the world
In the solitude of her life Catrina
Lanovitch had conceived a great love
a passion such as a feAV only are
ble of attaining be it for Aveal or woe
She had seen this love ignored walked
underfoot by its object with a grave
deliberation Avhich took her breath
away when she thought of it It was
all in all to her to him it was nothing
Her philosophy Avas simple She could
not sit still and endure At this time
it seemed unbearable She must turn
and rend some one she did not Icuoav
Avnom but some one must suffer It
was in this that Claude de Chauxville
proposed to assist her
It is preposterous that people should
make others suffer and go unpunished
he said intent on his noble purpose
Catrinas eyelids flickered but she
made no answer
The arrogance of those who have all
that they desire is insupportable the
Frenchman Avent on in his favorite
noncommitting epigrammatic Avay
Catrina a second Eve glanced at
him and her silence gave him permis
sion to go on
I would be pitiless to all such men
said De Chauxville They deserve no
pity for they have shown none The
man who deceives a woman is worthy
of
He never finished the sentence Her
deep passionate eyes met his Her
hands came down Avith one final crash
on the chords She rose and crossed
the room
Mother she said shall I ring for
tea
When the countess awoke De Chaux
ville was turning over some sheets of
music at the piano
A
CHAITER XXI
TEARING howling wind from
the north from the bound
less snow clad plains of Russia
that He between the Neva and
the Yellow sea a gray sky washed
over as -with a huge brush dipped in
dirty whitening and the plains of
Tver a spotless dazzling level of snow
The snow was falling softly and
steadily falling in little more than
fine powder with a temperature 40
degrees below freezing point
Across the plain of Tver before the
north wind a single sleigh was tearing
as fast as horse could lay hoof to
ground and the track of it was as a
line drawn from point to point across a
map
A striking feature of the winter of
northern Russia is the glorious uncer
tainty of its snowfalls At Tver the
weatherwise had said
The snow has not all fallen yet
More is coming It is yellow in the
sky although March is nearly gone
The landlord of the hotel a good
enough resting place facing the broad
Volga had urged upon M le Prince the
advisability of waiting as is the way
of landlords all the world over But
Etta had shown a strange restlessness
a petulant desire to hurry forward at
all risks She hated Tver the hotel
was uncomfortable and there was an
unhealthy smell about the place
The night express from St Peters
burg had deposited them on the plat
form in the early morning Steinmetz
had preceded them Closed sleighs front
Osterno were awaiting them A luxu
rious breakfast was prepared at the
hotel Relays of horses were posted
along the road The journey to Oster
no had been carefully planned and ar
ranged by Steinmetz a king among or
ganizers The slelirh drtvp across the
steppe was to be accomplished In ten
hours
The snow had beun to fall a8 they
clattered across the floating bridge of
tlVE STOGK MARKETS AT
KANSAS CITY
THE WEEKS TRADE REPORTED BY
CLAY ROBINSON COMPANY
LIVE STOCK COMMISSION
MERCHANTS
OFFICES AT CHICAGO KANSAS CITY OMAHP
SIOUX CITY ST JOSEPH AND
DENVER
Kansas City Nov 1 1903
Receipts of cattle thus far this week
are 40000 last week 61200 last year
47400 Mondays trade for beof steers
was slow but mostly steady Cows
were strong to 10c higher and stockers
and feeders steady to slow Tuesdays
market for beef steers was steady to 10c
higher closing weak Cows and heifers
were generally 10c higher while stockers
and feeders sold actively at firm rates
For beef steers trade was sIoav but prices
barely steady Cows and heifers wero
unchanged bulls were slow veals firm
for light weights others weak Stock
ers and feedeis did not move as briskly
as the day before but values hold un
changed The following table gives
prices now ruling
Extra primo cornfed steers 55 15 to 5
XVU DO to
Ordinary 4 X to
Choice cornfed hoifors 4 75 to
Good 4 10 to
Medium j 50 to
Choice corufed covra 4 00 to
Good 8 23 to
Medium i
Cannera i 50 to
Choice staffs 4 00 to
Choice fed bulls 3 25 to
good 00 to
Bologna bulls J 00 to
Voal calves 5 00 to
Good to choice native or western
stockors 3 50 to
3 25 to
Common 2 75 to
Good toclioicolicnvynative feeders 3 85 to
Fir 3 50 to
Good to choico heavy branded
horned feeders 3 23 to
Fair 3 00 to
Common 2 75 to
Good to choice stock heifers 2 75 to
Fair 2 25 to
J There is no specific for
consumption Fresh air ex
ercise nourishing food and
Scotts Emulsion will come
pretty near curing it if there
is anything to build on Mil
lions of people throughout the
world are living and in good
health on one lung
From time immemorial the
doctors prescribed cod liver
oil for consumption Of
course the patient could not
take it in its old form hence
it did very little good They
can take
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and tolerate it for a long
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excepting butter so easily
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and that is the reason it is so
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5 50
S 00
5 25
4 75
4 10
4 25
3 75
3 25
2 25
4 50
3 75
3 25
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liood to choice stock calvessteers 4 00 to 4 25
Fair 3 50 to 4 00
Good to choice stock calves heifers 3 00 to 3 5o
Fair 2 50 to 3 00
Choico wintered grass steers 3 50 to 4 23
gcort 323 to 3 50
alr 3 00 to 3 25
Choice rass cows 2 73 to 3 00
good 2 50 to 2 75
Common 2 00 to 2 50
Receipts of hogs thus far thn week
33300 last week 35300 last year
33800 Mondays market was 5c high
er closing dull Tuesday uc lower and
today 10c lower with bulk of sales from
485 to 8490 top 500
Receipts of sheep thus far this week
are 14400 last week G700 last year
20000 Mondays market was steady
Un luesday lambs were steady and
sheep strong to 10c higher Prices to
day were weak to 10c lower on sheep
lambs 10 to 15c lower We quote choice
lambs 735 to 750 choice yearlings
8575 to 600 choice wethers 8550 to
575 choice ewes 8500 to 525
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that the undersigned on the 23th day of Janu
ary 1904 purchased at private tax sale from
uie county treasurer 01 ited Willow county
Nebraska for the taxes duly levied and assess
ed thereon for the years liM to 1902 inclusive
lot six in block 12 in West McCook in Red
Willow county Nobraska that said lot was as
sessed for the purpose of taxation for the years
lfcOl to 1905 inclusive in the name of Samuel
L Troth and that title to said lot appears of
record in tho said Samuel L Troth that the
undersigned will after the expiration of three
months from date of service of this notice ap
ply to the county treasurer of said county for a
deed to said promises
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