Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 October 1908 — Page 3

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out of It. He has a tot of political Influence. asid be cau get you a pardou.” •'Tlipu you do care?” asked Wilmer eargerlv. “He told me that you said that you no longer cared for me; that you bad asked him to dismiss me.”

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I.ake liammoud penitentiary had been built on an island in the lake from which it took its name long before tbs cani|H‘rs discovered what a lovely placa the lake was. At the time of its building Hammond had been fifty miles from the nearest town of any size, and only a spur track ran down to the shore of the lake, connecting with the flat bottomed boat that ferried the freight ears over to the Island. Now the south shore fairly bristled with camps and huge hotels. Kven on the north the bench and the numerous lit tie islands were dotted with while tents and weather stained log huts. The campers objected to the presence of the penitentiary, with. Us great gray barracks and its forbidding Iron bars across the windows. That the peniten tiary was there first did not alter the situation. The permanent campers wished the prison removed that they might enjoy their three months in camp unterrifled by the thought of n possible jail delivery. No stone walls surrounded the island Only here and there n guard hut dotted the wtiite expanse of the stone pier, whieli hud been built entirely about the Island, ready to shoot at any prisonet who might rashly try to escape. Few tried. It was a good two miles to the nearest shore, and in the winter tin white expanse of ice made a hack ground against which a convict would become a fair target lor the guns. Nancy Barlow liked to run her boat in close to tin* wall and wave ber hand to the prisoners sullenly working on the new wing. They could not wave back, she knew, but she liked to believe that this sign from the world outside cheered them in their work. The guards all came to know her and the trim little racing motor boat. They pre seuted arms with a grin as she sped past tin* wall, and Nancy bad the feel ing that they answered for the prison ers. Her little motor was the fastest boat on the lake, and she spent her days speeding up and down the placid sur face. She consumed vast quantities of petrol, hut the outdoor life wa« bringing back the roses to her cheeks, and James Barlow would have run a pipe line to the lake if necessary t<i bring about that result. He had re fused his consent to the marriage o( Nancy and Fred Wilmer, but he fell vaguely troubled when he saw how the girl had drooped. She was all he had left in Hie world, and be could not lose her too. It was as much this ns a tendency to wildness on Wilmer's part that had led to his refusal, and could he have found Wilmer he would have reconsidered his determination. But Wilmer had dropped from sight and none of his old acquaintances knew what had become of him. Nancy had learned to handle a motoi under his guidance on the lake the yeai before, and her devotion to the boat was in part due to that fact. As sbe guided the little craft among the chan nols he had shown her, she liked to dream day dreams of the time when they two should share a boat again So real was the imagined presence at times that now, as Nancy puffed past the prison island and looked on tin parade ground, she rubbed her eyes a> she noticed the leader of a file of con victs making their way along the edgo of the wall. It did not seem possible that it could he Wilmer, hut, as the little file came nearer, she was certain. Wilmer had never worn a mustache, and there was no mistaking the face. She even fan cied that she caught a gleam of reeog nitlon in his eyes, as he passed with Arm trend. She shut off the power and turned to look after the men in the striped suits. It came as a shock tc her that Wilmer was wearing the stripes. She was certain that he had done nothing to deserve imprisonment. It must have been all a mistake, and he had been too proud to call upon ills friends for aid. She turned her boat, determined to visit the prison office and And out something about the causes which had led to his incarceration. As she dlil so there was a sudden commotion in the line. The even tread the lockstep was broken, and Wil mer, with n sudden dash, had knocked down the keeper and sprung into the water. A score of keepers rushed to the water wall and emptied their rifles after the escaping convict, while twi of the prison boats which happened to lie close at hand started in pursuit. Nancy was quicker vet. Throwing on full speed, she faced the Are from the shore and from the first of the two boats. In a moment she was beside Wilmer, helping him into the launch. Then she sprang to the wheel again and headed for the mainland. “Why didn't you Id us knew that you were in tremble?” she demanded as the boat, once more under control, hummed toward the shore. “We would have helped you out. You know (bat, Fred.” “Only got here yesterday,” he explained. "I was going to look you up after my escape, but it Is a case of business tirst.” “You know the little cave up on the mountain?” she asked. “Make for that, and ! will bring you other clothes this afternoon.” “Your father might object to loaning Ids clothes to a convict," suggested Wilmer, with a laugh. “I don't rare whether he does oi not," said Nancy bravely. “You are in trouble, and lie will have to see you

they were compressed together. She bad not a little of the Barlow stubbornness. “I don't care if you are a convict," she said bravely. “1 love you, and 1 mu g dug to marry you. I didn't want a man who ran away from a negative and didn’t hold on to tight for the girl lie wanted, lint this puts tilings in a different light. I don't care what you

did."

The boat bad readied the shore, and, without pausing to make reply, Wilmer leaped from the bow to the sand and rushed Into the thicket. There was no word of farewell. Nancy's liqs quivered in hurt surprise, but her face blanched as. a moment later. Wilmer strolled out of the thicket again just as the prison boats steamed up. To Nancy's surprise men from the boats rushed toward Wilmer and be gan to talk excitedly. However, they made no effort to seize him, mid the prison guards remained contentedly in the boat smoking cigarettes and joking among themselves. Wilmer detached himself from the group and came toward Nancy. “I am afraid you will scold me for not explaining the trick, hut I didn't want to waste a lllm and—1 did want to he assured of your love. 1 am a convict only for today. Your father, among other pleasant things, reminded me of my idle life. To show that I could do something I put my abilities as an amateur actor to use as the stage manager for a motion picture concern.” “And this was all one of those plays that are reproduced?" demanded Nancy in disgust. “All except the part tu the boat,” was his r-ply “That was not a part of the film as written. I did not dare dream of such an addition to the

plot.”

“To think of me trying to safe you. and all the time you were laughing at

me!”

“I was not laughing,” assured Wilmer as lie took her hand. “It was the bravest thing a woman ever did for the man she loved. You are not angry at me. are you. Nancy?” Nancy looked Into the earnest, pleading eyes. “Did I act as though I were?” she demanded. “You play the rest of your little play and then we’ll have a chat with father. I’ll be present to see that he gets things right this time, hut you mustn't make a motion picture of It.'' she added playfully. “I should say not." assented Wilmer “We’ll let Cupid manage the stage tills: time. I'll just play my part."

Labor Saving Style. Mr. Perkins did not often comment on Ids wife’s dress or make sugges tions. hut one day lie looked at her so long and thoughtfully that she inquired if there was anything he did not like about her new gown. “No. my dear,” said Mr. I’erkins hastily, “certainly not. I was only thinking. That waist of yours seems to It so elaborate, with the lace and all. Why not have a simpler mode of dress ?” "Why not. Indeed?” said Mrs. Per kins sweetly “I suppose you’ve seen one that just pleased you. What was it like?” “It was white,” said her husband, “all white and perfectly plain, my dear; not a particle of lace or ruffling or what I think 1 have heard you call tucks, nothing of the sort. All there was. my dear, was a simple little braid in flower patterns of some sort. It cov ered the entire waist. “I sat lieside the lady for half an hour In the ear, and 1 cau assure yon it was quite neat and attractive. Simmons and I spoke of It on the way up from the train. He said he should mention it to his wife." “You poor Ignorant creatures!” said Mrs. Perkins tenderly. “The days and days It must have taken to make that ‘neat, simple, plain little waist!’”— Y'oiit h's Companion. International Hens. The advantages that people >vho live exactly on the Hue between two countries have in escaping the customs and other regulations of both countries have often been recounted. Probably the most picturesque instance of tills kind of evasion occurred in the town of Nogales, which lies exactly on the boundary between Mexico and Arizona On the United States side of the line in this town eggs were at one time made costly by the revision of the tariff schedule pertaining to that prod net, Inasmuch as the hens In that region were chiefly owned on the Mexi can side and were fed by the peasants on cheap Mexican grain. One year a Maine Yankee arrived In Nogales with an eye to business. He was convinced that bis opportunity lay In the high price of eggs. Accordingly be put up a long henhouse exactly across the boundary line. At the Mexican end lie regularly fed his hens with low priced Mexican grain. The fowls ale their grain in Mexico and then walked across the line into the Fnited Slates to lay their eggs. The transaction was. of course, fs-r-foetly legitimale, for the proprietor of the hennery smuggled neither grain nor eggs. But lie availed himself of high prices on one side and low prices on (he other.- New Y'ork Tribune

The Tender Moonlight. “Wonder why moonlight Is so eon dnelvc to tender sentiments?" “That's easy. Most any girl looks web by moonlight."

through a large tract composing the hacienda of Don Jose Miranda. On the evening of my arrival on the ground I received an invitation from him to make his house my headquarters. Had I been older 1 might have declined to place myself under obligation, but in youth one Is not so likely to refuse favors. Nor is one at that age overscrupulous in love. Don Jose had a pretty daughter, Dona Ysabel, who was heir to a considerable portion of ills estate. 1, who had nothing but my profession and not much income even In that, should not have listened a moment to the temptation to make love to this heiress. When a youngster wishes to do the right thing in such a case he Is apt to beat the devil about the stump by showing his heart to the girl in some covert way. I beat the devil around the stump not only as a salve to my conscience, but because 1 was i not afforded an opportunity to make love openly. Besides. I bad no reason to suppose that the young lady would | respond, and to think of receiving a snub from he* for proffered love quite took my breath away. Prudence dictated a plau that was noncommittal. I never saw Dona Ysabel alone, but I passed many evenings at the house in company with the family. One even ing 1 took a dictionary from the library ; on pretense of looking for the Spanish for a word I wished b> use. Don Jose was in the room w ith others, and Dona Ysabel was looking over my shoulder There is a story that a courtier who aspired to the favor of Queen Elizabeth of England wrote his aspiration 1 and. ills fears on a window pane with a diamond and received his reply in the same way. The message and reply constitute a rhyme and are familiar to most people who have received finished education Whether Dona Ysabel had ever met with them I did not know While turning over the leaves of the dictionary I stopped and held my thumb for awhile on the word “fain.” Then, carelessly turning over the leaves. I suffered it to remain on the word “would.” In this way I indicated the line: Fain would 1 climb, but fenr to fall. I had reached the word “climb” and was looking for "but” when Dona Y-sabel walked away from me. I Inferred that she had not seen through my device, for if she had a natural feminine curiosity would have led her to remain where she was till 1 hail finished. Boplacing the dictionary in the library, I began a conversation with her father about the location of the railroad through his hacienda, n subject in which he was interested Tlie next morning I arose and breakfasted, as was my custom, long before the family were downstairs and was going to my work when, passing through the library, 1 was surprised to see the dictionary lying open on a table. Going to it, my eye rested on the pages before me, which included words beginning with (lie letter “1.” Under the word “if” I noticed a light pencil mark. My heart Jumped. “If” was the beginning of Queen Elizabeth’s reply to the aspiring courtier. Rapidly turning over the leaves to words beginning with “if” I looked for “you." There was a pencil mark under it. “Are” was the next word in the queen’s reply, and this, too, I found underscored. 1 had seen all I required to convince me that I not only had a reply to my tnes sage, but the reply I desired It was

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If you're afraid, climb not at all. completing the famous rhyme: Fain would I climb, but foar to fall. If you're afraid, climb not at all. It was so well known to Dona Y’sabel that she did not need to see it com pleted after the word "climb.” On the surface, from tills time till 1 had finished my work, Dona Ysabel and I were merely acquaintances. YY'c did not even use the dictionary or any other means of communication, but the night before I was to take my departure. again making a pretext of finding a word, I withdrew the volume from the library and began a hunt Ysabel stood over me, and 1 pointed to the following words: The way is dark. The road 1 faff to sec As soon as I had completed my message Y’saliel left me and, taking up some embroidery, devoted herself to it But I watched her and saw that she was in deep thought. After awhile she laid aside her work and, turning to tin* dictionary that lay ou the table, began to turn over the leaves. I went and stood over her. She pointed out the following reply: Make your demand and leave the rest to me. After the family had retired for the night and 1 was having a few Until words with Don Jose about the section of the railroad I had located ! suddenly astonished him by asking for his daughter’s hand. It was not only my Impudence that startled him, but wonder that I should have made such a demand without something of a courtship as Is customary in the Fnited States. Before he could make any reply I said that, of course, lie and his daughter would together agree upon a reply which could be sent me and made my exit as rapidly ns I could without appearing precipitate. It was not till six months after my request that I received a note from Don Jose, staling that Ills daughter's will had been too strong for him and her wishes were paramount with tilm 1 was Invited to the hacienda. ; SPENCER TROWBRIDGE

The Irritating Mississippi. Tlie Mississippi Is the greatest Irritant in the United States. Its fickleness, conscious power and taunting eddies bring oaths t > the lips of the most respectable and law abiding residents along Its lower course. The greatest admirers of tlie river, Hie people who sing its praises with the most emphasis, are the ones who go off ou •i tangent of temper quickest when they find a new caving of river hank headed toward the newest and most expensive levee, built to protect great plantations, while just across the stream rise worthless bluffs and useless sand bars. Talk ton Mississippi river man—shanty boater, pilot, raftsman, plantation owner or city merchant- and ho will brag about the river wonders Its bigness rhurtus him and makes him feel large and elated. Bring him around to his own experiences with it, end suddenly a shade of resentment crosses ids face as he i calls a shanty boat wrecked by n cyclone, a steam boat snagged, a raft torn up in some bond, n plantation undercut and wash cd away or a season's trade spoiled by an overflow and crevasse. “We love the river, damn It!" is a litoral expression. R. S Spears in At-

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