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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1905)
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FRANKLIN W B WOLFE A C EBERT y i Its a Pleasure to be customer of the New Brick Meat Market They keep a full asssorment of all kinds of meats They treat you so well and so fairly deal with you so squarely- that you want to come back Just try it once Phone 95 Main Avenue Paul p Anton k SOWERS CONTIKOED FBOH LAST -WEEK si The rest w e must leaveto wfil to tho course of fortune I have no doubt tuat our astute friend Karl Stelmnetz will manage to hold them In check But whatever the end of the demonstration the outcome will be the Impossibility of a longer resldenco In this country for the Prince Pavlo Alexis A regiment of soldiers could hardly make it possible And what do you wish me to do asked Etta with the same concentrat ed quiet la the first place to believe that no harm ivill come to you either directly or indirectly They would not dare to touch the prince they will content themselves with breaking a few win dows What do you want me to do re peated Etta De Chauxvllle paused Merely he answered lightly 4o leave open a door a side door I un derstand that there is a door in the old portion of the castle leading up by a flight of stairs to the smoking room and thence to the new part of the building Etta did not answer This door I wish you to unbar your self before dinner on Thursday even ing he said turning round and slow ly coming toward her And I refuse to do it said Etta Ahl Etta sprung to her feet and faced him a beautiful woman a very queen of auger Her blazing eyes were on a level with his Yes she cried with clinched fists standing her full height till she seem- 1 - - I refuse to betray my husband ed to look down into his mean foxlike face yes I refuse to betray my hus band Stop He Is not your husband Slowly the anger faded out of her eyes Her clinched fists relaxed JiWhatdo youmeau she whispered I By Henry Seton Merriman Copyright 1805 by HARPER BROTHERS What do you mean Sydney Bamborough is your hus band said the Frenchman without taking his eyes from her face He Is deadl she hissed Prove it He died at Tver she said but there was no conviction in hervoice With her title and position to hold to she could face the world Without these what was she A local newspaper reports that the body of a manwas discovered on the plains of Tver and duly buried In the pauper cemetery said De Chauxville indifferently Your husband Sydney Bamborough I mean was for reasons which need not be gone into here in the neighborhood of Tver at the time A police officer who has since been trans ferred to Odessa was of the opinion that the dead man was a foreigner There are about 12000 foreigners in Tver operatives In the manufactories Your husband Sydney Bamborough left Tver to proceed eastward and cross Siberia to China in order to avoid the emissaries of the Charity league who were looking out for him at the west ern frontier He will be due at one of the treaty ports in China in about a month Upon the supposition that the body discovered on the plains of Tver was that of your husband you took the opportunity of becoming a princess It was enterprising I admire your spirit But It was dangerous I madame cau suppress Sydney Bamborough when he turns up I have two arrows in my quiver for him One Is the Charity league the other the Russian govern ment Who want him Your husband I beg your pardon the prince would perhaps take a different view of the case It Is a pretty story I will tell it to him unless I have your implicit obedience Etta stood dry lipped before him She tried to speak but no words came from her lips Thursday evening before dinner said De Chauxvllle And he left her standing on the hearth rug her lips moving and fram ing no words H CHAPTER XXX AYE you spoken to the prin cess asked Steinmetz with out taking the cigar from his lips Tby were driving home through the tovit that surrounded Osterno as the sea surrounds an island They were a tans In the sleigh That which they hud ben doing had required no serv ant Tea answered Paul His face was serf ui bard his eyes stern This trou W with the peasants was affecting htn more keenly than he suspected And what did she say asked frtrdnmetz That she would not leave unless we bO rcnt with Jfcintnetz drew the furs closer up round Mm he said glancing at his com pflrforfH face and seeing little but the ONLY FIVE CENTS MORE than the price of the MeCOOK 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 iooayear 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 i by reason of the sable collar of Ills coat which met the fur of his cap yes and why not I cannot leave them answered Paul I cannot go away now that there Is troubleN among them What it Is goodness only knows They would never have got like this by them selves Somebody has been at them and I dont think it Is the nihilists It is worse than that Some devil has Jo on said Etta for he had paused This country he continued is un settled The people of the estate aro on the brink of a revolt You know what the Russian peasant Is It will bo no Parisian uprising half noise half laughter We cannot hope to hold this old place against them we cannot get away from it we cannot send for help because we have no one to send Prin cess this is no time for half been stirring them up and they know deuces I know for I know these no better He is still at It They aro getting worse day by day and I cannot catch him If I do Steinmetz Ill twist his neck Steinmetz smiled grimly Yes he answered you are capa ble of It For me I am getting tired of the moujlk He is an inveterate in curable fool If he Is going to be a dangerous fool as well I should almost be inclined to let him go to the devil In his own way - I dare say but you are not In my position No that Is true Pavlo They were not my fathers serfs Generations of my ancestors have not saved genera tions of their ancestors from starva tion My fathers before me have not tolled and slaved and legislated for pie better even than Paul knows them I am convinced that this is not tho outcome of their own brains They are being urged on by some one There Is some one at their backs This is no revolt of the peasants organized by the peasants Princess you must tell me all you know I I she stammered I know noth ing And then suddenly she burst Into tears and buried her face In a tiny useless handkerchief It was so unlike her and so sudden that Steinmetz was startled He laid his great hand soothingly on her shoulder I know he said quietly I know more than you think I am no saint princess myself I too have had my them I have not learned medicine diillcultles I have had my temptations that I might doctor them If I agree to make a bolt for Peters burg tomorrow will you come re torted Paul No answered the stout man I thought not Your cynicism Is on ly a matter of words Steinmetz and not of deeds There is no question of either of us leaving Osterno We must stay and fight it right out here That Is so answered Steinmetz with the Teutonic stolidity of manner which sometimes came over him But the ladies what of them Paul did not answer They were passing over the rise of a heavy drift This is no place for Miss Delafield added Steinmetz looking straight lu front of him I know that answered Paul sharp ly I wish to God she was not here he added in a lower tone and the swords were lost beneath the frozen mustache Steinmetz made no answer They drove on through the gathering gloom The sky was of a yellow gray and the earth reflected the dismal hue of it Presently it began to snow driving in a fine haze from the north The two men lapsed into silence Stop cried Steinmetz suddenly and Paul pulled the horses on to their haunches I thought you were asleep he said There was no one in sight They were driving along the new road now the highway Paul had constructed from Osterno to Tver The road Itself was of course indistinguishable but the telegraph posts marked Its course Steinmetz tumbled heavily out of his furs and went toward the nearest tele graph post Where is the wire he shouted Paul followed him in the sleigh To gether they peered up into the dark ness and the falling snow The posts were there but the wire was gone A whole length of it had been removed They were cut off from civilization by 140 miles of untrodden snow Steinmetz clambered back into the sleigh and drew up the fur apron He gave a strange little laugh that had a ring of boyish excitement in It This man had not always been stout and placid That settles one question he said Which question asked Paul He was driving as hard as the jiorses could lay hoof to ground taken with a sudden misgiving and a great desire to reach Osterno before dark The question of the ladies replied Steinmetz It is too late for them to go now At the castle all seemed to be in or der The groom in his great sheepskin coat was waiting In the doorway The servants threw open the vast doors and stood respectfully in the warm brilliantly lighted hall while their mas ter passed in Where is the princess Steinmetz asked his valet while he was removing the evidences of a long day In the open air In her drawing room excellency Then go and ask her if she will give me a cup of tea in a few minutes A few minutes later Steinmetz pre senting himself at the door of the little drawing room attached to Ettas suit of rooms found the princess in a matchless tea gown waiting beside a table laden with silver tea appliances You see she said with a smile for she always smiled on men I have obeyed your orders I begin to think said Steinmetz coming to the point in his bluff way that you are a sort of beautiful Jo nah a graceful stormy petrel a fair Wandering Jewess There Is always trouble where you go She glanced at his broad face and read nothing there Go on she said What have I been doing now How you do hate me Herr Steinmetz Perhaps it Is safer than loving you he answered with his grim humor You are horribly grave she said The situation he replied Is hor ribly grave Etta looked up at him as he stood before her and the lamplight falling on the perfect oval of her face showed it to be white and drawn She sat looking up into his strong grave face and during all that followed she never moved- I know you he said to be cour ageous and must ask you to believe that I exaggerate nothing In what I am about to tell you I tell It to you Instead of leaving Paul to do so be cause I know his complete fearlessness and his blind faith In a people who are unworthy of it He does not realize the gravity of the situation They are his own people A sailor never believes that his own ship Is unseaworthy and I have not always resisted God knows it is difficult for men to do al ways the right thing It is a thousand times more difficult for women When we spoke together In Petersburg and I offered you my poor friendship I was not acting in the dark I knew as much then as I do now Princess I knew about the Charity league papers I knew more than any except Stepan Lanovltch and it was he who told me He was stroking her shoulder with the soothing movements that one use3 toward a child In distress His great hand broad and thick had a certain sense of quiet comfort and strength In It Etta ceased sobbing and sat with bowed head looking through her tears into the gay wood fire It is probable that she failed to realize the great char ity of the man who was speaking to her Is that all he knows she was won dering The suggestion that Sydney Bam borough was not dead had risen up to eclipse all ether fear in her mind In some part her thought reached him I know so much he said that it Is safest to tell me more I offered you my friendship because I think that no woman could carry through your diffi culties unaided Princess the admira tion of Claude de Chauxvllle may be pleasant but I venture to think that my friendship is essential Etta raised her head a little She was within an ace of handing over to Karl Steinmetz the rod of power held over her by the Frenchman I have known De Chauxvllle twenty-five years he went on and Etta deferred her confession We have never been good friends I admit I am no saint princess but De Chauxville is a villain Some day you may dis cover when It is too late that it would have been for Pauls happiness for your happiness for every ones good to have nothing more to do with Claude de Chauxvllle I want to save you that discovery Will you act upon my advice Will you make a stand now Will you come to me and tell me all that De Chauxville knows about you that he could ever use against you Will you give yourself into my hands give me your battle to fight You can not do it alone Only believe in my friendship princess That Is all I ask Etta shook her head I think not she answered in a voice too light too superficial too hope lessly shallow for the depth of the mo ment She was thinking only of Syd ney Bamborough and of that dread se cret She fought with what arms she wielded best the lightest the quick est the most baffling As you will said Steinmetz CHAPTER XXXI T5 RUSSIAN village inn with a smoking lamp of which the A chimney Is broken The greasy curtains drawn across the small windows exclude the faintest possibility of a draft There is also the smell of vodka which bottled curse is standing In tum blers all down the long table The news has spread in Osterno that vodka Is to be had for the asking at the inn where there Is a meeting Needless to say the meeting Is a large one I tell you little fathers an orator was shouting that the day of the cap italist has gone The rich men the princes the nobles the great mer chants the monopolists the spies tremble They know that the poor man is awakening at last from his long lethargy What have we done in Ger many What have we done in Amer ica What have we done in England and France x The speaker a neckless broad shoul dered ruffian looked round with tri umphant head well thrown back And now continued he let us get to business I think we understand each other He looked round with an engaging smile upon faces brutal enough to suit his purpose but quite devoid of intel ligence There was not much under standing there The poor man has only one way of making himself felt force We have worked for generations we have tolled In silence and we have gathered strength The time has now come for us to put forth our strength the time has gone by for merely asking for what we want We asked and they heard us not We will now go and take A few who had heard this speech or something like it before shouted their applause at this moment Before the noise had subsided the door opened and two or three men pushed their OOKXmUXD ON THTB A8SJ J r C
