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the New Boy and said she bad no more
paper. I doubt it any of tbo rebuffs his
gallantry may have received in after
years ever cut Speckle as that wink
did.
Matters hastened from bad to wors9
in the town. The days cnmo and went
as days will, but over Mary Eliza's
throne there was the shadow of the New
Boy. Tho crisis came at last when in a
meeting of the city council Mary Eliza
boldly proposed admitting the New Boy
to tho town. Hor action was greeted
by indignant bowls and hisses and
Speckle blUHhod to the roots of his red
hair.
"Very well," said Mary Eliza, "if you
don't have him in then I won't bo in
either. Him and mo'll start another
town over in his yard."
"You can just go and do it, then! Wo
won't have that Chicago dude hanging
around here any longer!'' howled coun
oilman Sanders, knocking over his
chair.
To this all the rest echoed a wrathful
assent. It was the utterance of an old
grievance.
Mary Eliza arose with great dignity
and began to pack her wareB into her
carpet-bag. She made no display of
ill humor, and talked cheerfully of her
new town as she wrapped up her can
dios in tissue paper; the boys stood by
and watched her, they did not believe
she would go. But Mary Eliza de
parted even as Bhe had come, with her
carpet-bag in her hand and her Japa
nese parasol tilted gaily over her head,
while Speckle held the gate open for
ber, feeling that his illusions were van
ishing fast.
"I'll send over for my box in the
morning, Speckle, and you must all
come over to our town and buy things,
and we'll come over and buy things at
yours," she called after him. .
The treacherv, the infamy of her de
sertion never seemed to have occurred
to her. It was bb though Coriolanus,
when he deserted Rome for the camp of
the VolescianB, had asked the Con
script Fathers to call on him and bring
their families!
"She'll be back tomorrow all right
enough," said Speckle.
But on the morrow the New Boy
came for the piano box, and by noon
Mary Eliza was fairly installed across
the street, making paper neckties for
the New Boy and canvassing the neigh
borbood for the New Boy's town.
There could be no doubt that she had
transferred her allegiance.
The Speckleville boyB went resolutely
to their stores and bought and sold and
made a great show, but they had little
beart in it all. They missed the cream
puffs and the paper ties, and they
missed something else more than these
something they could not name. If
Speckle had chanced to confide in his
younff uncle, who was in the rapturous
tortures of his first love affair, he would
have been told that it wbb the "eternal
feminine" they miBsed, and he would
Have been as much in the dark as
before.
Mary Eliza had put herself at the
head of everything, and now nothing
went on without her. After the manner
of her kind, Bhe had come where Bhe web
nof'wanted, made herself indispensable,
and gone again, taking with her, oh, so
much more than her paraeol and choco
late creams!
Everything went wrong in Speckle
ville that afternoon, and after the day
was over the citizens of that passing
village were quarreling violently, not,
as in former times, because every one
wanted to do something in a different
way, but because no one wanted to do
anything at all.
"It'a all your fault, Speckle. Wo
ought never to have had hor in, and we
wouldn't if it hadn't been for you."
"Well, now she's gone," protested
Speckle, "bo why can't we go an like wo
did before?"
No one attempted to answer. It was
scarcely a wiso question to ask.
"I always told you she'd spoil the
town, .Speckle, and now she's done it."
said Jimmy Templeton.
"Well, you follows soemod mighty
glad to got her af tor sho came, anyway,
and you needn't put your lip in, Temp;
you loafed around her store liko a
ninny," retortod Speckle, who felt that
his persecution was more than ho could
boar.
Jimmy was not in the mood to onduro
a jiboat his woaknoBB and by way of an
anrwer ho biffed Speckle one on the
side of bis nose, and it required the
united strength of their fellow citizens
to part them.
"I'm not going to stay in your old
town any longer. I can have more fun
in my own yard, and I'm going to take
my things home," announced Dick
Hutchinson, as he began pocketing the
properties of his museum.
"I'll be darned if I do either!" cried
Jimmy Templeton. "Andl'll thank you
to give me my pinB ou. of your old tin
box, Mr. Speckle."
Speckle had woes enough without a
run on his bank, but when Providence
helps a man to trouble it is usually
generous and dishes out all manner of
calamities, regardless of what he may
already Lave on his plate. Speckle sat
there until he had paid out the last pin
from hiB spice box. The boys all fell to
packing their belongings as though
fleeing from a doomed city, and they
ceased not from making unkind re
marks as they did so. Even Reiaholt
Birkner gathered up hiB chisels and
monuments, all save one big block of
granite that was too heavy for him, and
that he left by his store box like a white
tombstone. Under Speckle's very eyes
his town vanished as many another
western wn has done since then.
"It's all your fault, Speckle!" bawled
Jimmy Templeton, ob he vaulted over
the back fence, and Speckle, after hav
ing said all the swear words he knew,
went off to the barn to smoke innumer
able corn-silk cigarettes and to wonder
at the queer way things are run down
here.
After he had taken bis milk that
night he heard Mary Eliza laughing aa
she played tag with the New Boy under
the electric light, and he sat down with
his empty pails in bis deserted town,
aa Caius Marius once sat among the
ruins of Carthage
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First Publication July 22-4
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF LANCASTER
COUNTY, NEBKASKA.
Elizabotli A. Knox, as Executrix of tho ostnt
of Caroline Hurtwoll, docopsed, vs. Henry
S. Rood, ct al.
NOTICE TO NON-UE9I DENT DEFENDANTS.
To Ilonry S. Rood and Mlnnio L. Rood : You
and each of you will take notico that on tho 20th
duy of July, 1809. tho abovo namod plaintiff
Mod hor petition in tun court aforesaid against
you and oach of you, the object and prayer of
said potltion aro to forecloso twocortuin mort-
?okcs executed by you to tho Clark & Leonard
nvestmont Company and by it assigned to this
plaintiff upon tho following described promises
to-wit: Commencing at tho N.E. corner of tho
S. E. quarter, of tbo S. E. Quarter of Section
thirty-six, 30, Township ton, 10, N. of Rnngo six
0, E. of the 6th P. M.. thou running W. six-hundred
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tho said S. E, quarter of tho S. E. quartor
thonco running twonty-nino and MOO foot on n,
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hundred 300 foot on a lino parallel to tho E. lino
of tho said t. E. quartor. thonco E.ono hundrod
and twonty-oight, 128, foot to tho point of bo
ginning, tlio samo boing Lots one, 1. two, 2,
throo, 3, four. 4. tlvo, R. and six. 6. Block throo, 3
Windsor Addition to tho City of Lincoln, Lan
caster county, Nebraska, to socuro tho payment
of two cortain promissory notes nnd interest
thereon, said notes boing datod Juno 12, 1891.
for the sum of Fiftoon Hundrod Dollars, $1,500,
and Ono Hundred and Fifty Dc liars, $150.00.
respoctf ully with interest at tho rate of eight por
cont por annum till duo and ton por cont por
annum aftor maturity, said notes boing duo on
tbo 1st day of Juno, 189.1, that default has boon
mado in tho payment ol said notes and interos t
and thoro it now duo upon tho said notes and
mortgages tho sum of $1,584 with interest at
tho ruto of ton por cont por annum from tho
14th day of July. 1899, for which sum with in
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that tho defendants bo roqulrod to pay tho
samo or that said promises may bo sold to satis
fy the amount found due.
Plaintiff furthor prays that a rocoivor may bo
appointod to tako chargo of said promises and
to rent tho samo, cnlloct tbo rents and proUts
thereof, to pay taxes and koop said promlsos in
surod and to hold tho balanco subject to tho
orderoftho court, and plaintiff proposos for
said rocoivor tho name of A. E. Moollor and as
surotloB for said rocoivor and for said plaintiff
tho names of J. R. Inkstor nnd H. S. Freoman.
Bald application for a rocoivor is baBod upon
thoaflldavitsof H. I). Sawyor.G. R. Kimmol,
H. W.Davis, A. W. Miller, E. P. Hovoy, A. D.
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Datod Lincoln, Nebraska, July 20, 1899.
Elizabeth A. Knox, us Exocutrlx of
tho ostato of Carolino Hartwoll,
docoasod.
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