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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1905)
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benefits to be derived from it arc incalcu lable John Bright In the Binn Pitman System cf Pfioncgraiky - Reporting Style PHONE 190 Office over Bee Hive For particulars write Dr E O Valine TAYNERS horfhand School McCook Neb DENTIST I li ii 9 BBS J W B WOLFE A C EBERT I 0f Pleasure I t to be customer of the New Brick Meat Market 8 sfe SOWERS continued FROM last weekJ oeen at his feet in a wild inco lerent passion of self hatred and basement If he said you have any further iiuestions to ask I shall always be at your service For the next few days I shall be busy The peasants are in a state of discontent verging on rebellion We cannot at present arrange for your Journey to Tver but as soon as it is oossible I will tell you He looked at the clock and made an Imperceptible movement toward the door Etta glanced up sharply She did not seem to be breathing Is that alii she asked in a dull voice There was a long silence I think so answered Paul at length I have tried to be just Then justice is very cruel Not so cruel as the woman who fr a few pounds sells the happiness of thousands of human beings Stein- Arfl Jir 1 KMtmrwrn fi oVj Is it not rather absurd to talk of car ing metz advised me to speak to you He suggested the possibility of circum stances of which we are ignorant He said that you might be able to explain Silence Etta sat looking into the fcre The little clock hurried on At length Etta drew a deep breath You are the sort of man she said who does not understand temptation You are strong The devil leaves the strong in peace You have found vir tue easy because you have never want ed money Your position has always been assured Your name alone is a password through the world Your sort are always hard on women who who What have I done after all Some instinct bade her rise to her feet and stand before him tall beau tiful passionate a woman in a thou sand a fit mate for such as he JWJrnt haveI done she crieda sec 1 The McCook Tribune The Weekly Inter Ocean Both for only By Henry Seton Merriman Copyright 1895 by HARPER BROTHERS ond time I have only fought for mjTself and if I have won so much the greater credit I am jour wife I have done nothing the law can touch Thousands of women moving in our circle are not half so good as I am Hush he said with upraised hand I never doubted that I will do anything you wish she went on and in her humility she was very dangerous I deceived you I know But I sold the Charity league before I knew that you that you thought of me When I married you I didnt love you I admit that But Paul oh Paul if you were not so good you would understand He was silent standing before her in his great strength his marvelous and cruel self restraint You will not forgive me For a moment she leaned forward peering into his face He seemed to be reflecting Yes he said at length I forgive you But if I cared for you forgiveness would be Impossible He went slowly toward the door and paused with his hand on the knob And she said with fiery cheeks does your forgiveness date from to night Yes He opened the door Good night he said and went out A SJPWWJ 1 mM 1 I 11 ii 1 H CHAPTER XXXYI T daybreak the next morninir Karl Steinmetz was awakened by the familiar cry of the wolf beneath his window He rose and dressed hastily The eastern sky was faintly pink a rozy twilight moved among the pines He went downstairs and opened the little door at the back of the castle It was the starosta shivering and bleached in the chilly dawn They have watched my cottage ex cellency all night It was only now that I could get away There are two strange sleighs outside Domenskys hut There are marks of many sleighs that have been and gone Excellency it is unsafe for any one to venture out side the castle today lou must send to Tver for the soldiers The prince refuses to do that But why excellency We shall be killed You do not know the effect of pla toon firing on a closely packed mob starosta The prince does replied istemmetz with his grim smile They spoke together in hushed voices for half an hour while the daylight crept up the eastern sky Then the starosta stole away among the still larches like the wolf whose cry he imitated so perfectly The day passed as such days do Etta was not the woman to plead a conventional headache and remain hid den She came down to breakfast and during tlmt meal was boldly conversa tional They were completely shut in No news from the outer world penetrated to the little party besieged within kmWtifim83E3ZELl 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 regular price 100 a 100 a 105 a This extra dinary 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 year year year I I ftelr own stone walls Maggie fear- and Innocent announced lier In tention of suowshoelng but was 3 suaded therefrom by Stclnmctz with covert warnings During the morning each was occu they almost defiant She was on her met tle She was bo near to loving Paul that a hatred of him welled up within her breast whenever he repelled her advances with uncompromising cence They did hardly knew of the side not know perhaps she herself that the opening door depended upon her humor In the afternoon Etta and Maggie sat as was their wont in the morn ing room looking out over the cliff Of late their intercourse had been slightly strained They had never had much in common although circumstances had thrown their lives together At dusk Steinmetz went out He had an appointment with the starosta Paul was sitting in his own room making a pretense of work about 5 oclock when Steinmetz came hurried ly to him A new development he said short ly Come to my room Steinmetzs large room was lighted only by a lamp standing on the table All the light was thrown on the desk by a large green shade leaving the rest of the room in a semidarkness At the far end of the room a man was standing in an expectant attitude There was something furtive about this intruder and at the same time fa miliar to Paul who peered at him through the gloom Then the man came hurriedly for ward Ah Pavlo Pavlo he said in a deep hollow voice I could not expect jTou to know me He threw his arms around him and embraced him after the simple manner of Russia Then he held him at arms length Stepan said Paul No I did not know you Stepan Lanovitch was still holding him at arms length examining him with the large faint blue eyes whicli so often go with an exaggerated phi lanthropy Old he muttered old Ah my poor Pavlo I heard in Kiev you know how we outlaws hear such things that you were in trouble so I came to you Steinmetz in the background raised his patient eyebrows There are two men in the world went on the voluble Lanovitch who can manage the moujiks of Tver yo and I so I came I will help you Pavlo I will stand by you Together we can assuredly quell this revolt Paul nodded and allowed himself to be embraced a second time lie had long known Stepan Lanovitch of Thors as one of the many who go about the world doing good with their eyes shut For the moment he had absolutely no use for this well meaning blunderer How did you get here asked Paul who was always businesslike I brought a pack on my back and sold cotton I made inyself known to the starosta and he communicated with good Karl here Did you learn anything in the vil lage asked Paul No they suspected me They would not talk But I understand them Pav lo these poor simple fools A pebble in the stream would turn the current of their convictions Tell them who is the Moscow doctor It is your only chance Steinmetz grunted acquiescence and walked wearily to the window This was only an old and futile argument of his own And make it impossible for me to live another day among them said Paul Do you think St Petersburg would countenance a prince who works among his moujiks Stepan Lanovitchs pale blue eyes looked troubled Steinmetz shrugged his shoulders They have brought it on them selves he said As much as a lamb brings the knife upon itself by growing up replied Paul Lanovitch shook his white head with a tolerant little smile He loved these poor nelpless peasants with a love as large as and a thousand times less practical than Pauls In the meantime Paul was thinking in his clear direct way It was this mans habit in life and in thought to walk straight past the side issues It is like you Stepan he said at length to come to us at this time We feel It and we recognize the generosity of it for Steinmetz and I know the danger you are running in coming back to this country But we cannot let you uo it JNo do not protest It is quite out of the question We might quell the revolt no doubt we should the two of us together But what would happen afterward You would be sent back to Siberia and I should probably follow you for harboring an escaped convict Also went on Paul with that de liberate graSD Of the KltlinHnn Tvhirl never failed to astonish the ready wit ted Steinmetz also you have other calls upon your energy You have oth er work to do Lanovitchs broad face lightened im his benevolent brow beamed His ca pacity for work had brought him to the shoemakers last In Tomsk It is a vice that grows with Indulgence It has pleased the authorities went on Paul who was shy of religious turns of phrase to give us all our own troubles Mine such as they are btepan must be managed by myself Yours can be faced by no one but you You have come at the right moment You do not quite realize what your coming means to Catrina Catrina Ah The weak blue eyes looked Into the Btrong face and read nothing there I djubt said Paul whether It Is right for you to continue sacrificing Catrina for the sake of the little good that you are able to do You are ham pered iii your good work to such an extent that the result is very small Pled in individual affairs At luncheon whe the Ialu you give is very great time Bt is that so Pavlo Is my child met again Etta was now unhappy I fear so replied Paul gravely with his baffling self restraint She has not much In common with her mother you understand Steinmetz remained silent standing ns it were in an acquiescent attitude You have fought your fight said Paul a good fight too You have struck your blow for the country you have sown your seed but the harvest is not yet Now it is time to think of your own safety of the happiness of your own child Stepan Lanovitch turned away and sat heavily down He leaned his two arms on the table and his chin upon his clinched hands Why not leave the country now at all events for a few years went on Paul And when a man who Is accus tomed to command stoops to persuade Jt Is strong persuasion that he wields You can take Catrina with you You will be assuring her happiness which at all events is something tangible a present harvest I will drive over to Thors now and bring her back You can leave tonight and go to America Stepan Lanovitch raised his head and looked hard into Pauls face You wish it I think answered Paul steadily that it is for Catrinas happiness Then Lanovitch rose up and took Tauls hand in his work stained grip Go my sou It will be a great hap piness to me I will wait here he said Paul went straight to the door Ho was a man with a capacity for prompt action which seemed to rise to de mand Steinmetz followed him out into the passage and took him by tho arm You cannot do it he said Yes I can replied Paul I can find my way through the forest No one will venture to follow me there In the dark Steinmetz hesitated shrugged his shoulders and went back into the room The ladies at Thors were dressed for dinner were indeed awaiting the an nouncement of that meal when Paul broke in upon their solitude ne did not pause to lay aside his furs but went into the long low room with drawing his seal gloves painfully for it was freezing The countess assailed him with many questions more or less sensible which he endured patiently until the servant had left the room Catrina with flush ed cheeks stood looking at him but said nothing Taul withdrew his gloves and sub mitted to the countess futile tugs at his fur coat Then Catrina spoke The Baron de Chauxville has left us she said without knowing exactly why For the moment Paul had forgotten Claude de Chauxvilles existence I have news for you he said and he gently pushed the chattering count ess aside Stepan Lanovitch is at Os terno He arrived tonight Ah they have set him free Poor man Does he wear chains on his an kles Is his hair long My poo Stepan Ah but what a stupid man The countess collapsed into a soft chair She chose a soft one obviously f j 1 s II f fW sraF I I Mi- IWmi Stepan No I did not know you It has to be recorded here that she did not receive the news with unmitigated joy When he was in Siberia she gasp ed one knew at all events where he was and now Dieu mon what an anx iety I have come over to see whether you will join him tonight and go with him to America said Paul looking at her To America tonight MydearPaul are you mad One cannot do such things as that America That is across the sea Yes answered Paul And I am such n hnn cnii if it had been Paris But it cannot be interrupted Paul Will you join your father tonight he added turning to Catrina The girl was looking at him with something in her eyes that he did not care to meet And go to America a lifeless voice Now she asked in Paul nodded Catrina turned suddenly away from him and walked to the fire where she stood with her back toward hlm a small uncouth figure In black and green the lamplight gleaming on her wonderful hair She turned suddenly again and coming back stood looking Into his face COXtjjicBO OH THIXB TXGZi - r r
