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Hair Renewer and have all the dark rich color of early life restored to your hair ITrirtcxaooticppljToawoJIlJXlIo I jr uiu cu autau H n The MGook Tribune Si00 per Year SiS3srifclti5 -- r J - v J k SOWER By Henry Seton Merriman Copyright 189S by HARPER fc BROTHERS continued fbom last week Iver ii aad fallen ever since and the afternoon lowered gloomily In Ameri ca such visitations are called bliz zards here in Russia it is merely the snow The freezing wind is taken as n matter of course At the castle all was in readiness for the prince and princess their depar ture from Tver having been telegraph ed On the threshold of the great house before she had entered the magnificent hall Ettas eyes brightened her fatigue vanished She played her part before the crowd of bowing servants with that forgetfulness of mere bodily fa tigue which Is expected of princesses and other great ladies She swept up the broad staircase leaning on Pauls arm with a carriage a presence a daz zling wealth of beauty which did not fall to impress the onlookers What ever Etta may have failed to bring to Paul Howard Alexis as a wife she made him a matchless princess lie led her straight through the drawing room to the suit of rooms which were hers These consisted of an ante room a small drawing room and her private apartments beyond Paul stopped in the drawing room looking round with a simple satisfac tion in all that had been done by his orders for Ettas comfort These he said are your rooms lie was no adept at turning a neat phrase at reeling off a pretty honey moon welcome Perhaps he expected her to express delight to come to him possibly and kiss him as some women would have done She looked round critically Yes she said they are very nice She crossed the room and drew aside the curtain that covered the double lat ticed windows The room was so warm that there was no rime on the panes She gave a little shudder and he went to her side putting his strong quiet arm around her Below them stretching away be neath the brilliant moonlight lay the country that was his inheritance Im mediately beneath them at the foot of the great rock upon which the castle was built nestled the village of Os terno straggling squalid Oh she said dully this is Siberia This Is terrible It had never presented itself to him in that light the wonderful stretch of country over which they were looking It is not so bad he said in the daylight And that was all for he had no per suasive tongue That is the village he went on after a little pause Those are the people who look to us to help them in their fight against terrible odds I hoped that you would be interested in them She looked down curiously at the lit tle wooden huts half burled in the snow the smoking chimneys the twin kling curtainless windows What do you expect me to do she asked in a queer voice He looked derment Fernaps If Beemedfo him that a woman should have no need to ask such a question It Is a long story he said I will tell you about It another time You are tired now after your journey His arm slipped from her waist They stood side by side and both were conscious of a feeling of difference They were not the same as they had been in London The atmosphere of Russia seemed to have had some sub tle effect upon them Etta turned and sat slowly down on a low chair before the fire She had thrown her furs aside and they lay in a luxurious heap on the floor The maids hearing that the prince and princess were together waited silently in the next room behind the closed doer I think I had better hear it now said Etta But you are tired protested her husband You had better rest until dinner time No I am not tired He came toward her and stood with one elbow on the mantelpiece looking down at her a quiet strong man who had already forgotten his feat of en durance of a few hours earlier These people he said would die of starvation and cold and sickness If we did not help them It is simply im possible for them in the few months that they can work the land to culti vate it so as to yield any more than their taxes They are overtaxed and no one cares The army must be kept up and a huge civil service and no one cares what happens to the peasants Some day the peasants must turn but not yet It Is a question for all Rus sian landowners to face and nobody faces it If any one tries to improve the condition of his peasants they were happier a thousand times as serfs the bureaucrats of St Petersburg mark him down and he is forced to leave the country The whole fabric of this government is rotten but every one except the peasants would suffer W Its fall anil therefore it stands Etta was staring into the fire It was impossible to say whether she heard with comprehension or not Paul went on There is nothing left therefore but to o and do good by stealth I studied medicine with that view Steinmetz has scraped and economized the work ing of the estate for the same purpose The government will not allow us to have a doctor They prevent us from organizing relief and education on any thing like an adequate scale They do it all by underhand means They have not the pluck to oppose us open ly For years we have been doing what we can We have almost eradi cated cholera They do not die of starvation now And they are learn ing very slowly but still they are learning We I thought you might be Interested in your people You might want to help She gave a short little nod There was a suggestion of suspense in her whole being and attitude as If she MMiMMm i tmn biimimiiii B ONLY FIVE CENTS MORE than the price of the McCOOK TRIBUNE secures it and the Weekly Inter Ocean Both for One Year THE WEEKLY INTER OCEAN is the only weekly paper published by a Chicago daily and is the leading news farm and home paper of the West Improved and strengthened by the addition of many new features Enlarged farm garden and dairy departments Reliable and practical veter inary department Home Health Club Health and Beauty Hints The most com plete household page Styles for all ages The best Boys and Girls page offered by any paper Queer problems and puzzles Chess and checker columns Best Fiction The International Sunday School Lesson Full and complete market reports The McCook Tribune regular price 100 a year The Weekly Inter Ocean 100 a year Both for only 105 a year This extraordinary offer is made to secure NEW SUBSCRIBERS but old subscribers can take advantage of it by paying their sub scriptions one year in advance Editor 1 M ore waiting to hear something wmen ie knew could not be avoided j A few years ago he went on a gigantic scheme was set on foot I told you a little about it the Charity lenirue league i Etta looked out slowly and compre hensively absorbing it nil like u long sweet drink There was no hereditary calmness in her sense of possession And where Is Tliors she asked Paul stretched out his arm pointing fl In ftrt Her lips moved but no sound came t Ifc ll out there ho answered from them so she nodded a second time j Another of the little Incidents that lmf Some of the arG ouly tovRotten That fell through he went on as assembled In tlmt persons room I told you It was betrayed Stepan bered the pointing long nftenvard Lanovltch was banished He has caped however Steinmetz has seen mnkf e fel very small said him He succeeded in destroying some Ett tufuln to the bkfsf table- at no time a pleasant sensation Do of the papers before the place was she said after little know a y searched after the robbery one paper tllInk It probable that I shall l Psc in particular If he had not destroyed toua f bufc 1 that I should have been banished I bcc0e verv stlrnl - i ih r i mi I wish it was nearer to civilization stnimnt nni t - ti tMn Paul looked pleased Steinmetz had -- C7 np It would have been for the ed Steinmetz rubbing his broad hands together and looking down Into the face of who was busy at the break- fast table Yes answered the girl glancing toward Paul leaning against the win dow reading his letters Yes always gay Why not Karl Steinmetz saw the glance It was one of the little daily incidents that one sees and half forgets He only half forgot it As she spoke he half turned toward Paul as ff suggesting that he should give an opinion and this little action had the effect of putting a stop to the conversation Maggie had plenty to say to Steinmetz but toward Paul her mental attitude was different She was probably unaware of this little fact There she said after a pause I have obeyed Ettas instructions She does not want us to begin I suppose No replied Paul She will be down in a minute I hope the princess is not over tired said Steinmetz with a certain formal politeness which seemed to ac company any mention of Ettas name Not at all thank you replied Et ta herself coming into the room at that moment She looked fresh and self confident On the contrary I am full of energy and eagerness to ex plore the castle One naturally takes an interest in ones baronial halls With this she walked slowly across to the window She stood there look ing out and every one in the room was watching On looking for the first time on the same view a few moments earlier Maggie had uttered a little cry of surprise and had then remained silent Etta looked out of the window and said nothing It was a most sin gular outlook weird uncouth prehis toric as some parts of the earth still are The castle was built on the edge of a perpendicular cliff On this side it was impregnable Any object drop ped from the breakfast room window would fall a clear 200 feet to the brawling Oster river The rock was black and shining like the topmost crags of an Alpine mountain where snow and ice have polished the bare stone Beyond and across the river lay the boundless steppe a sheet of vir gin snow Etta stood looking over this to the far horizon where the white snow and the gray sky softly merged into one Her first remark was characteris tic as first and last remarks usually are And as far as you can see is yours she asked Yes answered Paul simply with that calm which only comes with hereditary possession The observation attracted Steinmetzs attention He went to another window and looked across the waste critical ly Four times as far as we can see Is 1 his he said t n Etta was staring into the fire ness of millions of peasants if it had not been betrayed In time we shall find out who did it He paused He did not say what he would do when he had found out Etta was staring into the fire Her lips were dry She hardly seemed to be breathing It Is possible he went on in his strong quiet inexorable voice that Stepan Lanovitch knows now Steinmetz had not betrayed the secret of his masters wife Etta did not move as Paul spoke She was staring into the fire staring staring Then she slowly fainted rolling from the low chair to the fur hearth rug Paul picked her up like a child and carried her to the bedroom where the maids were waiting to dress her Here he said your mistress has fainted from the fatigue of the jour ney And with his practiced medical knowledge he himself tended her tt flB A Maggie CHAPTER XXII LWAYS gay always gay laugh a queer expression on his face Mag gie murmured something about ones surroundings making but little differ ence to ones happluess and the sub ject was wisely shelved After breakfast Steinmetz withdrew Now said Paul shall I show you the old place you and Maggie Etta signified her readiness but Mag gie said that she had letters to write that Etta could show her the castle another time when the men were out shooting perhaps But said Etta I shall do it hor ribly badly They are not my an cestors you know I shall attach the stories to the wrong people and locate the ghost in the wrong room You will be wise to take Pauls guidance No thank you replied Maggie quite firmly and frankly I feel in clined to write and the feeling Is rare so I must take advantage of it The girl looked at her cousin with something in her honest blue eyes that almost amounted to wonder Etta was always surprising her There was a whole gamut of feeling an octave of callow half formed girlish instincts of which Etta seemed to be deprived If she had ever had them no trace was left of their whilom presence At first Maggie had flatly refused to come to Russia When Paul pressed her to do so she accepted with a sort of wonder There was something which she did not understand When the door had closed behind them Maggie stood for some minutes by the window looking out over the snowclad plain the rugged broken rocks beneath her Then she turned to the writing table She resolutely took pen and paper but the least thing seemed to distract her attention the coronet on the note pa per cost her five minutes of faroff re flection She took up the pen again and wrote Dear Mother The room grew darker Maggie look ed up The snow had begun again It was driving past the window with a silent purposeful monotony The girl drew the writing case toward her She examined the pen critically and dipped it into the ink But she added nothing to the two words already writ ten The castle of Ostemo is almost unique in the particular that one roof covers the ancient and the modern buildings The vast reception rooms worthy of the name of state rooms ad join the small stone built apartmenta of the fortress which Pauls ancestors held against the Tartars This grim mer side of the building Paul reserved to the last for reasons of his own and Ettas manifest delight in the grandeur of the more modem apartments fully rewarded him When they passed from the lofty rooms to the dimmer passages of the old castle Ettas spirits visibly drop ped her interest slackened He told her of tragedies enacted in bygone times such ancient tales of violent death and broken hearts as attach themselves to gray stone walls and dungeon keeps She only half listen ed for her mind was busy with the splendors they had left behind with the purposes to which such splendors could be turned And the sum total of her thoughts was gratified vanity I am glad your grandfather brought French architects here and built the modern side she said These rooms are of course very interesting but gloomy horribly gloomy Paul All the same I like these rooms answered Paul Steinmetz and I used to live entirely on this side of the house This is the smoking room We shot those bears and all the deer That Is a wolfs head He killed a keeper before I finished him off And how did you finish him off she asked I choked him That bear knocked me down but Steinmetz shot him We were four days out in the open after that elk This is a lynx a queer face rather like De Chauxvllle The dogs killed him But why do you not paper the room asked Etta with a shiver In stead of this gloomy paneling It is so mysterious and creepy Quite sug gestive of secret passages There are no secret passages an swered Paul But there Is a room behind here This is the door I will show it to you presently I have things In there I want to show you I keep all my medicines and appliances In there It Is our secret surgery and office In that room the Charity league was organized Etta turned away suddenly and went to the narrow window where she sat on a low window seat looking down into the snowclad depths I did not know you were a doc tor she said I doctor the peasants replied Paul in a rough and ready way I took my degree on purpose But of course they do not know that it is I They think I am a doctor from Moscow I put on an old coat and wear a scarf so that they cannot see my face I only go to them at night It would never do for the government to know that we attempt to do good to the peasants We have to keep it n se cret even from the people themselves And they hate us They groan and iCOXTINCED ON THIRD PAGEJ i z V h 1 i 4 K M l K f