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&)e . . . j& jt JS& l& . .". - sv - jr ' One or two mistook bis Intentions. -That's It you read it," said they, bat the most of them rend Tom's face. "Give me that letter," he said sternly, halting before the man. "(live who it?" roared the other. "Oh, it's you, eh?" he added and seemfl in doubt. 'Lad., cried Tom, peizins his oppor tunity, "this in going a step too far. "Give me that letter," he Bald sternly. don't you think? We all of us had friends once in another world as it seems to me but If any of us like to remember we had them surely It's that man's business and not ours. He's a . better man 'than most of us, and his letter's the last thing that we should Jneddle with. We wouldn't have done It once, and we won't now." Ills temperate tone surprised himself, but it Jiierely showed how every sensibility bad lost its edge. Two months ago he would have argued such a point with !iN ready hands. Meauwhile the reader had decided hot to fight. being an Insufficient numler of inches bigger and broader than Tom and having still in his ears the thud with -which the scourger fell. But neither was he going to give In like man. because men were scarce Jo those heavy irons. Accordingly he retained the letter a little longer be fore handing it to Tom, with a mocking bow. "We won't, won't we?" he sneered. "'Well, as It 'appens, we won't, for more of that rot I couldn't read if I was paid. But yon look out, my special! If you've come 'ere to give yourself airs, we'll soon learn ye. It's lucky for you I'm in such a good temper or you'd have gone off this table a bit different, you blighted young upstart!" Tom had In fact taken his chains In his hands and jumped off. It was when he was on the ground, with his back turned, that the direct abuse was hurled. Others sided with the speaker find adfed their maledictions to his, yet the group about Butter (for so the poor lad was called) dispersed at Tom's approach, and he returned the letter to Its writer with a look that might have made his guardian angel dry her tears, for after many days there was kindtiess in his eyes once more. j "Here, Butter," he said; "take it, and for God's sake not a word! You're a better man than I am or you wouldn't "have written at all. There, shut up! Gratitude, forsooth! If you must show some, don't set me thinking." But the lad's emotions were aroused too thoroughly to be soon allayed. They had the corner now to themtclves, and he was crying like a girl. Tom envied him his tears.' "Read it through." sobbed the young fellow, forcing the torn letter upon his champion, and to please him Tom perused It from beginning to end. Awhile ago it would have made him laugh and cry; now he read it unmoved cave by his own Indifference. It contained a touching lie. describing the writer as being still very happy with the master who months since had sent him to the Iron gang. The rest was a wondrous jumble "and I Inform you that snaiks Is very bad In this country. .We ofttlmes see them fourteen to fif teen feet long. Farrots Is as thick as crows in your country, kangaroos, too, find it is night here when it is day there, but Arthur Smith, I do not knov.where ho is. Mutton Is 4d. lb.; beefBut he had written no farther, and Tom said: "Thank you, Butter. It Fhould make them happy," as he returned the letter. H felt that he might to be touched, and he was not. His heart seemed turned to stone when suddenly he felt it quicken. The lad had simply said, "My name Isn't Butter; it's Butterfield." "A Yorkshireman? You talk like one!" cried Tom, with a most painful Cash of memory. Once more he was n lucky, hopeful, penitent sinner In a weet smelling wagon on a night In rprlng. with Blaydes watch ticking no warning in hiss pocket and with a vivid mental picture of Blaydes himself smiling wistfully across the stile, beside which he was even then lying dead. "Aye." said young Butterfield. "poor OKI Yaik3h!re! I doubt 111 ever see It ecain. My folks have left there an fell." Tom had more flashes. He was getting used to them now. "Where did they move to?" "A little rlace they roll Ilendon, ftn it was me that drove 'em there by getting into trouble! Oh, It was me disgraced them all and drove them nway" Tom let him talk, but said little more In return. It was Jonathan Butter-

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By E.W.HORNUNG. g Author of "Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman." "StinjUree." Etc. (AvyriiaU 130. hy CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS. 0 field's son, How it brought all that back to him! True, it was not a year ago, but it seemed a lifetime. It was terrible to think of the littie time and the stupendous change. Tom Ericbsen saw himself as he had been and as he was, and the mental vision hurt him more than the material one which the stockade barber had shown him in a glass. lie could not tell Butterfield that he had known his father. Nothing was to be trained by telling him. It would lead to his telling more, and how could he speak of things of which the j mere thought was become torture so refined and so exquisite? His eighteen inches were- a very rack that night. He was thinking of Claire j for the first time in many weeks. She would hold him guilty still. How could she do otherwise? His sweet friend held him guilty when he was innocent, and his enemy, the major, held him innocent when guilty. Oh, the irony, the bitter irony, that had made a worse man of him when he was bad enough already! All the foul night he lay tossing In his noisy chains. His wild eyes were never closed. Yet once the thought stole over him, had he been worthy of Claire when she loved him would all this ever have been? And after that he lay quieter his heart knew why. CHAPTER XXIII. THE redbot summer cooled gradually into lukewarm winter, with chilly nights, but the same fierce glare all day, and several men had had their chains struck off, and four had died In them 6ince Tom first felt the weight of his, but the vacant spaces on the shelves were never vacant very long. Those eighty suits of fetters were In con tinual use. And still the dual work went on of chiseling the great road to a given level and of degrading each newcomer to that of the worst man there before him, for there was no leveling up in these iron gangs, where in mutual converse bred mutual debasement until best and worst found common ground on the very bedrock Of human Infamy. Tom for one, however, still stood out among the worst, and there was an other newcomer whom the gang had nothing to teach either of misery or of wickedness. Indeed, he laughed at the one and greatly Increased the other. This was an ancient felon known on ly as the First Fleeter a wizened page of dreadful history, with not a tooth in his head and but the one redeeming trait of Incessant cheerfulness. He had arrived with the first fleet In 17SS. He had sinned and suffered through those unspeakable early years until the sense of suffering became as dead as the moral sense, and not a vestige of either remained to him now. But he would recount his crimes with grin ning gums and gloat over unforgotten agonies until there was a writhing man on every ledge but his own. He lay above Tom, who would listen to him by the hour. According to his own account, there was literally nothing this old man had not done or been done to in the early days. He was cannibal, murderer and worse, and his only regrets were for j neglected chances of additional crimes. But his spirits never deserted him, and for a cruel man he was singularly good j natured. He had weak and cunning eyes, a perfectly bald head, displaying every criminal cavity and protuber ance, and a million wrinkles which, like his mumbling gums, were never still. Yet it was better to hear his wicked laughter than the clanking Irons of men who neither slept nor spoke, and the evils endured by the major's iron gang, which the First Fleeter poohpoohed with a quaint superiority, did seem less intolerable after one of his yarns. "Bad rations?" he would croak when the salt meat was rancid or the fresh meat strong. "Tell 'ee, there's none on you knows what bad rations is. You should ha been at Toongabbie forty year ago. We never had no rations at all except when a ship come into harbor. Toongabbie would ha' learned ye! Many's the time I've dragged tim ber all day, twenty or thirty on us yoked to the one tree like bullocks, and dined off of pounded grass and soup from a native dog. And glad to get It, tell 'ee. We wasn't pampered and spoilt like you blokes not at Toongabbie!" Or perhaps some wretch was groaning from the scourger's lash. The First Fleeter waxed especially eloquent on all such occasions. "Call that a Cogging?" he would quaver from his ledge. "One little fifty? If we'd had you at Toongabbie you'd know what flogging was. Five, six an' even eight bioomin' hundred Vve given an took. What do you think of that? There was no Hies about them floggings, I tell 'ee; no, an' there wa3 no flies about the hangings either. I've seen a man took an strung up on the spot for prigging a handful of weevilly biscuits, I have. An' all the time we was dyin' by doz ens of the bad food an" the ard graft in the ot sun. Lord, how we did die! There was a big hole dug: we collected 'em every day an pitched em in. I mind seeing one man pitched in before the breath was out of 'Im. T ain't dead he says. 'You will be by sundown, says the overseer, 'an' do you think we want you about the place till tomorrow, you selfish man? There wasn't no flies about that overseer, either; il was him as killed three men in a fortnight by overwork at the saw. They just dropped dead at their work. 'Take it away is all he says, 'put it la the ground, an' you never heard nothing more. No. no," the old monster would conclude, with his senile chuckle, "there wasn't no files about them old days in Toongabbie, I can tell 'ee. I'd give a bit to have 'ad some o this feather bed gang there, them a.thinks thev know what 'srdshio is"

The I irsi i ieeter became less loquacious after a time, however, and much lees severe upon the luxury of the major's iron gang. Honeybone's shrewd eye was on him, and that of the First Fleeter began to droop and ruminate with a cunning preoccupation that made him quite silent on his ledge. At length, however, he took to leaning over and mumbling to Tom in the stillest hours. And when Tom listened the old wretch mumbled to others. Including Macbeth, who had soon followed his enemy from Castle Sullivan and been well nigh as refractory In the stockade. The Scot was in another den at nights, but the First Fleeter made and used his opportunities witli characteristic craft. So now there was a new poison In the air, and the virus had come all the way from Toongabbie in the early days.

One of the last to be inoculated and j yet the one who perhaps took most kindly to the process was a certain sleek, bullet headed onth who came to the stockade on a day In midwinter. In the evening as Tom was sitting a the mess table, with bloodshot eye downcast as usual, he heard his name in a voice he seemed to know. "Well, Erichsen.' it said, "It's small world, ain't it?" Tom looked up and saw the bulle head nodding at him across the table but bo bloated and debauched was the low face that he was some moments in recognizing his old companion of the condemned cell in Newgate. "Don't look at a pal like that," con tinued Creasey, with a smirk. "You've altered worse nor me. No ill feeling say? I was that glad" "Silenec!'' cried the noneommlssione officer ou duty. "No talking at you meals, young man, unless you wan what-for!" As for Tom, he had nothing for tlx newcomer but a surly contempt, wbie! he tool; no trouble to conceal. Creasey ou tlu other hand, was studiously civl to him en grasping Tom's reputation b the r'toc'r:".'!;-, ::r.c! secret circumstance; threw them not a little together. That:; a Liter," young ButterOek contrive to ray tr Tom in a day o two. '"Wl!" iJ la? kuow you before? "No ' "He hr.u "I-et I. "Fia j," ? "He !. "Il3iv ,;. "TOO t little bits. "Yes. li: "i'o-j're "Not firmly. -ou. he'll squeak r Lo dursn't?" He'd bo torn f Butter!" o::t of it." ,v 1 " naid the ! "Me! all the You're x you've 1 chain t' The 1m .'Fj.- u The I s by wi'.U U":.-i !.".;'. r !t f to the neck, n; yvi're differe: t 'Me' all but r k In.;!!. therc'K t f . ;:ive me your woi !;! biini w Mi sleri! .,, 1 vly "i;r ' .!, .:'.I;er thus iY The eso-t '-.lux was inteti- ; Mriehsen. Meven renh i -.-!.: oved g ' ut! foreseen h; ., ; 'Vi-j-aat. The ge ;! h . iield of batti ter fei! ill and was i been coming on for week man. who had made light ue the iron gang, was tin first to sucemu to its hourly hardships. lie was olde than he had thought. He had it sti in him to blacken and corrode? ever heart in the gang with his own aim; dant poison, and that he did. but tua was all. His irons became very silen all night long. One morning he turn bled at his work. The next he was sent over to Maitland unfettered and in a cart. The gang were at work at the time, and the last Tom saw of the First Fleeter as he waved his cap In the cart was his bald head and his un conquerable smile. Tom wondered whether the last had not In some de gree balanced the first and been doing a little good for a long time in a land that needed light hearts almost as much as pure oues. Still more he won dered how they would manage without him now. Before nightfall, however, this de parture was succeeded by an arrival as unforeseen. It was that of a curricle containing a solitary individual, who drove both up and down the line of ironed men, with the sunset light first on one side of hiss swarthy, black whiskr " rv.'-l fhrvj on the other. IIf When You Want Pure White Lead, Get It Probably there is no other article of commerce subject ed to so much adulteration and mis representation as While Lead. Out of rS brands of '-White Lead ' recently analyzed by the Government Agricultural Experiment Station of North Dakota, 5 contained absolutely no White Lead, 5 less than 15?; of White Lead, and only 3 over 90 of White Lead. There is, however, a way to be certain of the purity and genuineness ef the White Lead you buy, and that is to iiisi:-t upon Anchor Pure White Lead bearing the Dutch Boy trade mark. This trade mark is positive guarantee of absolutely Pure White Lead made by the Old Dutch Process. SEND FOR BOOK ,ATi!konIant. ci" luBb!e information ca the paint abject. Scot free Bpoa request. .41 taH packed in TStC war ts mart. NATIONAL- LEAD COMPANY Freeman A. and 7th St.. Cincinnati. O.

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was ODViously and openly searching for some one among the eighty prisoners, and his failure to find his man was an nounced by a frown that had in it more of pain and apprehension than of mere annoyance. Meanwhile the major. wh was still a comparatively active man. was bearing down upon the intruder with the help of his furled umbrella, and the gentleman in the curricle was very soon asked what the mischief be wanted there. 'Mischief, my good man?" replied a rich deep voice, a little overladen with

superior scorn. "Nothing more mis frbievous, I take it, than a few word with the superintendent of this gang Perhaps you will be so ;xtremeiy condescending as to give him my card." "I ara he," said the major. "What can I do for you?" "The honor of glancing at my card." said the stranger, with a bow as elab orate as his jeorn. "Well, sir?" "My name may be familiar to you. Never heard it in my life," replied the major bluntly. "However," he add ed as the other colored terribly, "I live out of the world, Mr. Daintree, as you perceive." Tom was at work .quite near, and he heard the name distinctly. He, too. had never heard it before, and yet he had some dim recollection of the face. so that he was watching it intently and saw the flush with which Daintree very fussily produced a letter. "That is your misfortune, sir," Tom heard him retort, and the rap put the major in a good temper on the spot He sang out for a wardsman to come and take charge of the gentleman's horses. "Nevertheless," continued Daintree, "I take it that even you, sir, are acof the missive in my hand. I am the bearer. Major Honeybone," with im mense pomposity, "of a letter from my friend, his excellency Sir George Gipps, the governor of this colony." "Never met him," returned the major, with a twinkling eye. "It is my first acquaintance even with his handwriting." Indeed, his excellency had i been not many weeks installed, but it was years since the major had heard tones so rich and periods so round as those of his excellency's friend, whom he thereupon escorted with hospitality to his house. Now in this poor hut. opposite that stockade full of felons and in that des ert place, the major kept a few dozens of admirable wine and some boxes of excellent cigars. Two of these were alight, and the gentlemen had clinked glasses and taken a sip before Major Honejbone would permit himself to onen his excellency's letter. Hardly had he done so when he regretted both wine and cigars. He looked up sud denly and in wrath, which, however, was somewhat disarmed by the eager light he thus surprised in the visitor's strong and dusky face. "What ou earth do you want him for? I call this a most monstrous re-I quest," said Major Honeybone, and the last sentence was meant to have come first until Daintree's look invert ed them. "Request?" said Daintree, raising his eyebrows slightly. "Yes. sir. reouest!" cried the maior. Command, sir. is a thine I don't take from a gentleman I've never had the honor of setting eyes on, and this is one that Sir Richard Bourke, sir, would sooner have died than give!" Daintree pursed up his eyes. As it was only by patient exercise of two I characteristic qualities that he had got I the letter at all, so he now saw that he must trust to those two qualities to overcome this other masterful man. He must be diplomatic, he must have patience, he must pick his way where ne couta not rorce it, ana it was very ciear mat mere wouia do no iorcmg this Major Honeybone. ine letter autnorizea ana Deggea rr., -r-, . , o, i I auomus x.tieiieu, oeuuue, meu uiicrfi n cr onntnn rc in no maiArT irrm ! :Z wtahk.to have him for his assigned tirr? rcorran f nn1 nnrt Artnnlr tn mnlrf htmself theneefonvflrrl resnonsibl for th snwi ennviet' e-onrl behavior. It was an Irrejrular letter. No reason was tn fnr rrrnnttntr sneh n favor at jiIL It did say. however, that Mr. Daintree would give his reasons, and with the letter in both hands, as though on the point of tearing it up, the major leaned back in his chair and regarded the oth er with a prolonged and curious stare. "What are your reasons?" he asked at length. "He is an innocent man," replied Daintree Impressively. "A , convicted murderer, I underBtnnrt " vrnr,w ennvteterl T follower! hi ac.r. T-,t' -nnv , "No sir." said, the maior. "Thev elre m nnite enonrrh work out here."" "Well. I did foliow It," the visitor went on. "Between ourselves. Major Honeybone, I did a great deal more than that. The case interested me from the first. I knew something about this poor lad. That knowledge, together with the circumstances of the case, convinced me at the time that he was IP. an Innocent man." 1 "He isn't one now," remarked Major Honeybone. T I am not a pauper, sir," proceeded Daintree. with embarrassment. "I don t want this to go any farther; but. yon see. I knew something about the boy, and, m short, I found the money I for his defense. -i ne uK Keua j ou uiu. ciuairaea me i major, -men you were a friend of D!3' 'I am his friend, sir, though he has never seen rae.' "It was a noble thing to do -'pon my soul t wasl" observed the major, very much impressed. "Quite quixotic, 'pon my soul'" Thij rren n.lrrn rntirm Tiif tliinfrio in 1 his weakest spot. He leaned forward i and quoted the irresistible figures in a sudden blaze of self satisfaction. "JLor!' said the major. "You don't say so.' uaazoous. "When I do a thin? at all." remark ed Daintree. with perfect, t rath. T do t with all my heart. Kit her that or I leave it alone. So I need hardlv tell

you I didn't stop short at Sergeant CuIIiford.- No. sir. I went to Lctd John Itusseil himself. It would be aa affectation were I to conceal my impression that bis lordship's final decision was not uninfluenced by what I said. (To Be Contlnued-lt

EATON, OHIO. Eaton. O., May t. Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Ryder visited relatives in Greenville, Ohio, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walters, of Cincinnati, O., spent Sunday here with? iter parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey j Huffman. Mark Small, who has been in Cincia nati and Chicago on business, is home I to spend a few days. Rev. John Ferguson, of Camden. O.. delivered two very able sermons here Sunday in the Presbyterian church. James Ratcliff has resigned his posii tion with the C. P. Thum Clothing store, and has gone to Muncie, Ind. Harry B. Fox and wife, of Peru, Ind.. visited his parents here over Sunday. Mrs. Jennie Altschul and son MelI ville, have moved to Peru, Ind., to j make their future home. j Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Eidson. Mr. and I Mrs. C. W. Eidson and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Payne together with Mrs. Nancy Hensman, Mrs. Minnie Deem and Master Joseph Eidson, spent Sunday wich Mr. and Mrs. Howard Swope, in Greenville, Ohio. Mrs. Emma Bosch, of Hamilton. O, was the Sunday guest of Mr. and Mrs. M w Nation. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Zering of Cin cinnati, Ohio, was entertained Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. John Musselman. George Kline and Jacob Eidson were Logansport, Ind., visitors Sunday. Messrs. James King and Harry IMilIes' of .eW PariS' " vl81ted frieudS here Saturday. Mrs. W. B. Shirey will entertain u I few of her friends at the parsonage cf the Presbyterian church Monday even ing. Earl H. Irvin has purchased the W. H. Boner property on East Main street. ine purcnase price was $3,0 JO. Saloonist Ellis has arranged to move from the Stotlar building, and will o J cate in the Reichel building. Relief From Rheumatic Pains. "I suffered with rheumatism for ov er two years," says Mr. Rolland Curry, t patrolman at Key West, Fia. "Some times it settled in my knees and lamed ne so I could hardly walk, at other times it would be In my feet and nands so I was incapacitated for duty. One night when I was in severe pain and lame from it my wife tvent to the drug store here and came back with a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. I was rubbed with it and found the pain J had nearly gone during the night. I kept on using it for a little more than two weeks and found that it drove the rheumatism away. I have not had any trouble from that disease for over three months." For sale by A. G. I-uken & Co. BROWNSVILLE, IND. Brownsville, Ind., May 20 Mr. and Mr3- E- L- Helm, of Muncie, Ind., are visiting relatives m tnis vicinity. John Wright spent a few days with; relatives in Ohio Golda Plankenhorn and Nora Wrignt were shopping in Liberty, Saturday Mrs. Jane Keller visited her daugh ter, Mrs. Geo. Maze, west of town. Word was received by Dr. Smith cf the dangerous condition of his sister, Mrs. Jonathan Noble, of Fairmouut. Tnj Wr j M Carlos and wife spent Sun day in Connersvilie. Mr. Carlos was initiated into the, mvsferies of the K. n p order " . w ' ' . f Mnnrlav in rVmvCVillo David Clevenger and family spent Sudy ? Vernon's. Ruby Gear is spending a few weeks wlth MrS- Margaret Bell Fred Kantner Is attending Normal at Miami university at Oxford, Ohio. r. ana ,urs. ornery ccnou visiter; Mrs - M- R- Cully, last Thursday, Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case or Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 60c. LIBERTY, IND. Liberty, Ind., May 20. B. M. Grove was in Indianapolis Wednesday. Mrs. G. K. Crocker is visiting her parents in Brookville. Rev. McNary of Oxford, was in Liberty Wednesday. Helen White of Dayton, is the guest of friends here Anna O'Neil returned Wednesday from a visit in Connersvilie Jack Leonard and wife of Gas City are the guests of their daughter, Mrs. B. Nye. Mrs. Harman Bethge and daughter. Marie, spent Tuesday in Richmond. Mrs. Thos. Dougherty and Miss Helen Dougherty are visiting in Indianap jolis. Miss Julia Lally of Union City, wad the guest of her sister, Mrs. Patrick Farley, last week. Mrs. Frank Stivers of Ann Arbor, vjit h.. visited Mrs. B. M. Grove, the first of last veek Mrs. Chas. Stout and Mrs. Riley Mil-i ler, of College Corner, were in Lib erty Friday. I .'inuivu ,",joi"l Marie, were the guests of relatives in Connersvilie. Tuesday. Miss Laura Gordon is' visiting her sist.er' Jlrs' John Shrader at Muncie Miss Emma Gilmore left Wednesday for Indianapolis and Noblesviile to spend the summer. The Clvtie club met with Mrs. Frank Rude. Friday, it being the last meetin? of the season. Mrs.'Thodore Hatch!'-- of Fairfield, jowa, will be home Saturday for an extended visit with relatives here. C. W. Stivers was called to Detroit. Mich., by the death of his little granddaughter. Marjorie Frances Clark. Will Morris and family and Rev. Graham drove from Rrookston. Ind., in the former's auto and are here, the guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Morris.

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