Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1898 — Page 6

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C(EUR D’ALENE. BY nARY HALLOCK FOOTE. [Copyright. tSq*. by Mary Hallock Foote.] “Oh, I ask nothin?.” “And yet punish me for telling you nothing. This is a horrible waste of time. Have you had so much happiness in vour life that you can afford to play with moments like these?" “If it were play! What is the matter? Are you ill?" cried Faith, as Darcie’s head went down on his arm that rested on the chair-baek, with a sound like a half-suppressed groan. “All my aches are aching at once, and the fear of fears is on me.” he said. “What is that?” “The fear that haunts me whenever you are not with me —in the night w hen I cannot sleep, and before I see you in the morning—that the next time I see you you will not be the same to me. And here you are changing before my very eyes. Not any of it, then, has been true? Y'ou never did trust me?” “Always! I do trust you. JTut mv life, lately, has not strengthened my faith in happiness, where men are concerned— I ought to be ashamed, calling myself your nurse, and here I have been talking you nearly to death!" “I will complain of yon to the doctor. and he will say I am not to be crossed; you must give me everything I want. Let me take your hand, your left hand, please. Now do not talk about it any more.” Faith was silent for half a minute, then she gently drew her hand away and laid it over the hot, closed lids of her unreasonable lover, who wanted everything all at once, and could show no claim to anything. She began to *peak quietly, as if to herself: “When you got that message, with a word you thought could come from no one but me; when you came, and I was not there, and you saw it was a death-trap, did you for an instant think it possible I could have lent my name —not my name, but a word more sacred than any name"— “Not for an instant.” “You had not one doubt of me, then?" “No more than of the stars above.” “Then I cannot doubt. It shall be my faith for your faith.” A moment later Wan opened the door and announced the doctor. The doctor was one of the few men who at that time, in the troubled district. could consistent!}’ and honorably remain neutral; still, he had his sympathies. which he expressed on occasions to the proper persons. When Darcie asked for the latest news from the seat of war, be replied that he had had only conflicting rumors since the night before; but he expected that when news did come it would be bad, and he spoke of the guarded barricades on the one side, and on the other the armed intimidators pouring into Gem. filled with oaths and w hisky and truculence. “And where is my father, doctor?” Faith inquired. “Mr. Bingham is understood to be a non-combatant like myself; the union bosses have nothing against him.” “It would be more to his credit, perhaps. if they had.” thought Faith. “And Abby?" said she. “I suppose I need r.ot be anxious about Abby?" “'Bred and bawn in a brier-patch!' " laughed the doctor. “Abby’s in her element; she has a friend behind every union gun. She could go through—l beg your pardon—through Hades on the strength of her connections.” When Faith had left the room to fetch the warm water and the sponges ami a few more articles which the doctor rt quired, he freed his mind with a great oath: “The old man is a beast, and acoward to boot. He's gone on a monstrous spree, and I think it's deliberate, in case he should be hauled up for aiding and abetting this nice work that’s going on. There were not 11 men out of 300 answered to the pay-roll this morning; they are on duty elsewhere. He wants, to be able to Drove an. alibi in

the person of the devil of drink that's in him. He is afraid of his union friends, now, because they arc on top and they stick at nothing; but he knows their time is short; be has an eye to windward." “And what will become of her?" “God knows. She is worse than fatherless. She cannot stay, yet she can- ( not go. Here’s a knot for somebody to ] untie; perhaps a lover. I have thanked the Lord that my wife is in Spokane, but I could almost wish, for that poor child's sake, that she were here>; then _JS| ’'•iVli/M v\ U ••I can’t «it down,” pleaded Faith. I could be a father to her myself —til! we hear from the lover. Ar.d speaking of Spokane.” the doctor continued, j “there’s a lawyer down there who has been telegraphing at a great rate to know if Jack Dacey. reported shot at j the Big Horn mice, is John Darcie. Says your friends are worried about j you.” “My friends —what friends?" “Your folks in England. Ho says there will be the devil to pay if Dacey is Darcie. Says you're a great deal bigger man than we take you for in the j Coeur d'Alenes.” “I wish you would wire him to keep; quiet,” said Darcie. "Tell him to cable my people that I’m all right, and then | to ho!d his peace.” “Who are you. anyhow. Darcie? What racket, are you working? You 1 may ns well trust me; the doctor knows everything and says nothing, you know." “I'm John Darcie. half owner of the Black Dwarf, and partner of Mike McGowan. "Anything else?” “Nothing else worth mentioning." “It is sometimes safest to mention things, in times like these, to the right person." “Very true, doctor. I will mention a few things that I am not: I'm not a Pinkerton detective: I'm not a reporter for the press; I’ve not run away from my regiment; I've not hypothecated bonds; I’m not raising funds for an Irish rebellion; I'm not the murderer of Dr. Cronin; and I’m not anybody's lost heir. And I’m going to get out of these Coeur d’Alenes as soon as 1 ran get a bond on the one thing here that I want.” “Which property is that, may I ask?" “Y'ou may ask, but I shall not tell you." "Y'ou are a Scotchman plain enough, by the way you answer questions.” “I need not ask what you are, doctor. by the way you ask them; but 1 take your intention." “Y'ou bad' much better take my advice. and tell me what sort of lay-out you are on. What’s your game.? What are trumps—spades or hearts? Are you making a 'heart solo?’ ” “What's a 'heart solo?’” “Ah, you don't know the great Idaho game—the greatest game out! Better camp with us five years or so and learn the rudiments. There are points in solo that I can’t do justice to in a phrase; but for a snap-shot, a 'heart solo' is where hearts are trumps, and you play the crowd for three times your loss if you lose, and the same if you win. The idea is, you are pretty deep in, and if you don’t make it, and the ‘widow’ goes back on you, you’re apt to leave your dead and wounded on the ■ field.” “There is no ‘widow’ in mine,” said j Darcie, “unless it’s the 'widow a« Windsor;' but not all the ‘sonsof the widow,' j nor all the 'goods in ’er shop,' can help me if I don’t 'make it,’ as you say.” “I believe it is a "heart solo,’” said the doctor; “you needn’t mind confiding in me; I've been married only a year.” "There is a thing I should like to confide to you on the spot, and that’s a letter, doctor. I wish you’d mail it to this busybody lawyer to forward for me. It’s important, if you please.” "With pleasure; mail it with my own hands,” said the doctor. "That's what I mean. Where is that China bey? He will get it, ar.d I shall be eternally obliged when the thing is gone.” Faith, returning, said that Wan was habitually invisible at that hour.it being the time when he retired to commune with himself, and to compose his nerves with a pipe of the soothing drug. But anything that was wanted she herself would be most happy to get for him. “In the top drawer of the chiffounier in my room is a brown leather lettercase. Will you be so good to fetch it? I am asking the doctor to mail a letter for me.” Faith brought the letter-ease, and the letter containing Darcie's resignation, which he had written, but had not mailed, was confided to the doctor’s care. “There was another letter," said Darcie, breathing deeply. “I do not see it here. Do you know who it was gave out my clothes to be cleaned?” “It was I.” said Faith. "Was the other letter in that case?” “It was." said Darcie. “Would you mind taking another look for it in the drawer? It is a thick letter in a long blue envelope, unsealed.” As Faith left the room Dareie's head sank back on the chair-cushions. He was white to the lips. "What's the matter now?” asked the

■————a—doctor. “Is that letter so important? ' “Very important —that it should be burned,” said Darcie. "It’s the mis- i take of my life that I didn't burn it. “Perhaps it will be found,' said the doctor. But Faith returned without the letter. When she saw Dareie’s white face j against the chair-back ar.d his quiver- ! ing nostrils and closed eyelids, she ! looked reproachfully at the doctor, as if asking what he had been doing to the i patient in her absence. VIII. THE LETTER. Abby’s object in following Mr. Bing- ! ham to Gem was to be first with the story of the shootirgon Tuesday night, and to tell it in her own way. fche j had found him in a very fit state to j accept her version of the awkward facts, j That half of Mr. Bingham's brain which operated his being when he was emerging from the delirium of drink received the distorted tale, and took a coarse, sullen satisfaction in conceiving that possibly it might be true. He purposed to treat it as the truth, as Abby had given it to him; it suited h;m in several ways to do so. For one reason, it helped hint to a sort of apology for himself, in his conscious betrayal or his daughter, to be able to constructs. ; countercharge against the girl herself. He had been bored by her face of intto- ; cenee; now he could confront those j blue, astonished eyes with questions as searching as their own. The manager had returned to the | mine with his temper at sixes and sevens. and himself iu a genera! state oi disrepair. Faith had been summoned ' to speak with him in the library, a de- > mand which very much surprised her. for she was the last one he yearned to see, as a rule, after one of his temporarv evanishments from the affairs oi i men. ! Abby. with her bangs more maenad-; like than ever, was seated, rocking her- | self, both feet leaving the floor at once, j I She looked hard at Faith as she entered the room, but did not rise orcease rock- ■ ins'- , ! Mr. Bingham languidly rose, and placed a chair for his daughter: she | could not look him in the face, his ap- f pearanee was so deplorable. "Sit down. Faith.” he requested, for the girl had remained proudly standing. "I thought you wished to see me only for a moment; I am not very well." she said. "I am sorry you are not well." said her father. “I feel pretty rocky myself. Sit down. Ah—Abby. I have something I wish to say to Miss Bingham; I ; will see you after awhile —about the dinner, you know.” Abby seemed half disposed to resent this intimation that her company was not desired; but.apparently thinking it j not worth while, she rose, and left the room. Her chair continued to oscillate for some seconds with the parting repulsion communicated to it by her retreating form. Faith raised her reluctant eyes to her father's face. Mr. Bingham began hurriedly in a querulous key. clearing his threat, and tapping the buttons of his vest with his gold-rimmed eyeglasses. “It does not become you. Faith, under j the circumstances, to be so excessively on your dignity: a little more respect for yourself in more important ways. and these little forms would not matter. I am afraid you have had a very artificial training. L’pon my word. I don't know how a man is to bring up his daughters, or whom he cau trust them with; I thought that your aunts bad made at least a good girl of you.” “Father, if there is anything you have to find fault with me about, please don't do it through my aunts. If I have disappointed you. it’s not their fault.” “No;youare right. It's not theirfault any more than it is mine. We have all been deceived. But. I say, it's enough to shake a man's faith in the daylight! Why, I thought that you were prideand innocence itself.” Faith replied with a sad little laugh: ! “Is it my pride or my innocence that’s in doubt?" "Bless me, bless me. I did not think ycu could be so hard; I must be plain, then. Y'ou cannot be ignorant of the critical situation we are in: a war between capital and labor seems inevitable. I have serious responsibilities on both sides, and friends, I hope, on both sides. But it's imperative I should know who are my friends ar.d whom I can trust. A man would naturally think that he might trust his own child." Mr. Bingham paused, but Faith simply looked at him in pale-faced astonishment. “How do you suppose I feel when I discover that I am harborings spy. and that I owe his presence in my house to the—connivance and sympa-! thy of my daughter?” “A spy!” Faith repeated. “A spy on whom? If there is such a person in this house I did not know it." “Y'ou did not know it? And you can ' face me down with that innocent look! j Are you acquainted with Mr. John Darcie. as he calls himself ?” The pink rose cf consciousness in the | girl's cheek flamed into a red rose of ; anger. “Have you any reason to sup- | pose that he is not what he call* himself?” she asked. “I have his own signature to prove that he is uot. I will show it to you presently. lie is a cow ardly detective, sent over here by the faction in London I that is trying to down me and discredit; my management. He sneaked in here, I ar.d has been doing the scavenger on the < s!y for months; raking up lies and dirty gossip, listening to every sorehead that nurses a grudge against me or the mine, nc has been carrying the stuff around with him, w aiting for a ehanee to =end it off—his letters and reports and so ar.d so on—to his backers in London. He sends them under cover to a shyster lawyer in Spokane, who is in with him. I say. is this the man my daughter gives secret meetings to in places where no young girl w ho valued her pood name would be seen, alone.

r with a stranger, at twelve o clock at ’ n i nrh t ?** "Do vou wish me to think that you i believe this, father"" asked Fa.th wrth the look of the lamb when G.e wo.f ac j eused it of roiling the stream. “Tl-.ink that I believe it! Do you den} that vou were there—in the tamaracks, on Tuesday night, w ith Darcie. the man I am speaking of?' “I was there—yes—to proven, murder. Y'ou know it is iu all the papers i that a man was shot here, in cod i blood, by our own men. for seme of--sense against their miners’ union. "IVe are rot talking of w hat is in the j papers. lam talking of something that was not iu the papers, most fortunate]v for us. What was this man doing here, on my premises, without business with me or w ith any of my emp.cyes . What was the occasion, the inducement, that brought him five miles after dark through the woods to a place where there was nothing to see. or do, or le3rn. except by secret appointment with some other person? M hat was lie therefor? Do you know?" "Because somebody sent him a false message. I believe. “In whose name?” “In my name. 0 father, please let me te'.l you all!" "You are telling me a good deal. I 1 ‘hink. And why should a massacre I>I sent to this young man in your name; ■ Was that the surest way to bring him . "Father, you must ask those who sent the message. I did not send it. | "Y'ou seem to know a good deal about : it, considering that you did not send it. How did you learn the hour anc the place of meeting so accurate;} . "I cannot tell you how I learned it; | you will have to trust me for that.” "Did you happen to learn the words of the messocre->” [TO EE CONTINUED.) '•1 Was W eak. Nervous and Run Dow n.” I want to testify to the good Brown’s ; Cure has done me. I was weak, nerr- ; ous and run down in vitality when 1 | commenced taking it: it has done everything for me and I am now a new ! being. A number of my friends also | speak with gratitude cf the good your ! medicine has done them— it is indeed a grand remedy. Yours Gratefully. Mrs. L. V. Criig, 907 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis. Ind. Such is the testimony of thousands concerning Brown s Cure, a Perfect Family medicine, the best remedy known for the liver, kidneys and Gavels. a positive cure for dyspepsia and all bowel troubles, sick headache, i nervousness, constipation and loss of sleep. If you suffer try this great remedy and find health and happiness. Sold by Page Blackburn. Price 75 cents. Yi-Ki cures corns and warts 15c. — E locate Howel* With C»ndy Cvhartir. cure conntipa: ion forever lOc.iSc. If C. C. C fail, drusciKts refund money Paviug llocks marie of meadow grass are now manufactured. It is impregnated with oil, tar and resin, pressed into blocks and then Louud with iron straps. The advantage claimed for these blocks is that they are noiseless and elastic, resist, wear well and are impervious to beat and cold. The inventor is a clergyman

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The Horrors of J Rheumatism A 'woman's account of torture which lasted three I ‘ years; of her struggles against the dreadful disease , I and the good fortune that crowned her efforts. I

Such suffering as victims upon whom it fastens itself is H worst types of. thistcribk disease will supply the missing horrors in the following story from real Me. Those who writhe under milder forms of rheumatism will be able to imagine the feelings of the tortured victim. i The only justification for making public such heart-rending de'ulsts the {actth the lesson taught wifi oe help ul to others po.nUng the way to renewed life and health to every sufferer from rheumatism. The story is told by a woman. Her oale is Caleb Fenly; she lives in St. Paul, Ind. This is her account t "I am a farmers wife, i believe my frequent exposure to the weather caused my terrible attack of rheumatism. Damp weather always aggravated it. “ My limbs would begin to swell at the ankle joints. .... . “ This swelling would begin m the night, at times. I would awake in agon} • "Daylight would find my limbs purple in color, swollen to twice their natural sice, and so racked with pain I could net bear to touch them. “My right arm and both legs were so drawn as to be almost useless. “ My skin became dry aod yellow. "At times my limbs would pain as though millions of needles were pricking them. , , . “Again they would be numb and 1

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