Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1914 — Page 7

The Hollow of Her Hand

By GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON

Aafhortf “ Greustirh’ "Trvrton King," etc.

Illustrations by Ellsworth Young

Copyright. 1912, by Georye Barr McCutcheon Copyright. 1912. by Dodd. Mead a Company (Continuation of Chapter XVII) "I came upon her In the road on that wild night, Brandon, at the place I pointed out Can you picture her as I have described her? Can you picture her despair, her hopelessness, her misery? I have told you everything, from beginning to end. You know how fihe came to me, how I prepared her for the sacrifice, how she left me. I have not written to her. I cannot She must hate me with all her soul, just as I have hated the Wrandalls, but with greater reason, I confess. She would have given herself up to the law long ago, if it had not been for exposing me to the world as her defender, her protector. She knew she wae not morally guilty of the crime of murder. In the beginning she was afraid. She did not know our land, our laws. In time she came to understand that she was in no real peril, but then it was too late. A confession would have placed me in an impossible position. You see, she thought of me all this time. She loved me as no woman ever loved another. Was not I the wife of the man she had killed, and was

He Dropped Suddenly Upon the Trunk.

not I the noblest of all women in her ©yes? God! And to think of what I had planned for her!” This was the end of the story. The words died away in a sort of whimpering wail, falling in with the wind to be lost to his straining ears. Her head drooped, her arms hung limply at her side. For a long time he sat there in silence, looking out over the darkening water, unwilling, unable indeed, to speak. Hie heart was full of compassion for her, mingling strangely with what was left of scorn and horror. What could he say to her? At last she turned to him. “Now you know all that I can tell you of Hetty Castleton—of Hetty Glynn. You could not have forced this from me, Brandon. She would not tell you. It was left for me to do in my own good time. Well, I have spoken. What have you to say?”

“I can only say, Sara, that 1 thank God for everything,” he said slowly. “For everything?” "I thank God for you, for her and for everything. I thank God that she found him out in time, that she killed him, that you shielded her, that you failed to carry out your devilish scheme, and that your heart is very sore today." “You do not despise me?” “No. I am sorry for you.” Her eyes narrowed. “I don’t want you to feel sorry for me.” “You don’t understand. I am sorry for you because you have found yourself out and must be despising yourself.”

“You have guessed the truth. I despise myself. But what could be expected of me?” she asked ironically. “As the Wrandalls would say, 'blood will tell.’ ” “Nonsense! Don’t talk like that! It is quite unworthy of you. In spite of everything, Sara, you are wonderful. The very thing you tried to do, the w-ay you went about it, the way you surrender, makes for greatness in you. If you had gone on with it and succeeded, that, fact alone would have put you in the class with the great, strong, virile women of history. It—” "With the Medicis, the Borgias and —” she began bitterly. “Yee, with them. But they were great women, just the same. You are greater, for you have more than they possessed: a conscience. I wish I could tell you Just what I feel. I haven’t the words. I—” "I only want you to tell me the truth. Do you despise me?” “Again I say that I do not I can only say that I regard you with—yes, with awe.” "As one might think of a deadly serpent" <• "Hardly that” he said, smiling for

the’ErsFTline. He crossed over and laid his hand on her shoulder. “Don't think too meanly of yourself. I understand it all. You lived for months without a heart, that's all" “You put it very gently." "I think I am right. Now, you've got it back, and it’s hungry for the sweet, good things of life. You want to be happy. You want to love again and to be loved. You don't want to pitied. I understand. It's the return of a heart that went away long months ago and left an empty place that you filled with gall. The bitterness is gone. There is something sweet in its place. Am I not right?" She hesitated. "If you mean that I want to be loved by my enemies, Brandon, you are wrong,*' she said clearly. **l have not been chastened in that particular.” “You mean the Wrandalls T’ “It is not in my nature to love my enemies. We stand on the same footing as before, and always ehall. They understand me, I understand them. I am glad that my project failed, not for their sake, but for my own.” He was silent. This woman was beyond him. He could not understand a nature like this.

“You say nothing. Well, I can't ask you to understand. We will not discuss my enemies, but my friends. What do you intend to do in respect to Hetty?” “I am going to make her my wife,” he said levelly. She turned away. It was now quite dark. He could not see the expression on her face. >- "What you have heard does not weaken your love for her?’ “No. It strengthens it.’’ “You know what she has done. She has taken a life with her own hands. Can you take her to your bosom, can X>u make her the mother of your own children? Remember, there is blood on her hands.” “Ah, but her heart is clean!” “True,” she said moodily, “her heart is clean." “No cleaner than yours is now, Sara." She uttered a short, mocking laugh. “It isn’t necessary to say a thing like that to me.” “I beg your pardon.” Her manner changed abruptly, She turned to him, intense and serious. “She is so far away, Brandon. On the other side of the world, and she is full of loathing for me. How am I to regain what I have lost? How am I to make her understand? She Went away with that last ugly thought of me, with the thought of me as I appeared to her on that last, enlightening day. All these months it has been growing more horrible c to her. It has been beside her all the time. All these months she has known that I pretended to love her as—” “I don’t believe you know Hetty as well as you think you do,” he broke in. “You forget that she loved you with all her soul. You can’t kill love so easily as all that. It will be all right, Sara. You must write and ask her to come back. It—" "Ab, but you don't know!” Then she related the story of the liberated canary bird. “Hetty understands. The cage door is open. She may return when she chooses, but—don’t you see? —she must come of her own free will.”

“You will not ask her to come?” “No. It is the test. She will know that I have told you everything. You will go to her. Then she may understand. If she forgives she will come back. There is nothing else to say, nothing else to consider.” “I shall go to her at once,” he said resolutely. She gave him a quick, searching glance. "She may refuse to marry you, even now, Brandon.” “She can’t!” he cried. An instant later his face fell. “By Jove. I—l suppose .the law will have to be considered now. She will at least have to go through the form of a trial.” She whirled on him angrily. "The

This Woman Was Beyond Him.

law? What has the law to do with it? Don’t be a fool!” "She ought to be legally exonerated,” he said. Her fingers gripped his arm fiercely. “I want you to understand one thing, Brandon. The story I have told you was for your ears alone. The secret lives with us and dies with us.” He looked his relief. "Right! It must go no farther. It is not a matter for the law to decide. You may trust me.” “I am cold,” she said. He heard her teeth chatter distinctly as she pulled her thick mantle closer about her throat and shoulders. "It is very raw and wet down here. Come!” As she started off along the long, narrow pier, he sprang after her, he £ a ™L She leaned rather

heavily against him for a few steps and then drew herself up. Her teeth etill chattered, her arm trembled tn his clasp. “By Jove, Sara, thia is bad,” he cried, in distress. "You're chilled to the marrow.” "Nerves,” she retorted, and he somehow felt that her lips were set and drawn. "You must get to bed right away. Hot bath, mustard, and all that. I'U not stop for dinner. Thanks just the same. I will be over in the morning." "When will you sail f she asked, after a moment. “I can’t go for ten days, at least My mother goes into the hospital next week for an operation, as I've told you. I can't leave until after that’s over. Nothing serious, but—well, I han’t go away. I shall write to Hetty tonight and cable her tomorrow. By the way, I—l don’t know just where to find her. You see, we were not to write to each other. It was in the bargain. I suppose you don’t know how I can—” “Yes, I can tell you precisely where she is. She is in Venice, but leaves there for Rome, by the Express.” “Then you have been hearing from her?” he cried sharply. “Not directly. But I will say this much: there has not been a day since she landed in England that I have not received news of her. 1 have not been out of touch with her. Brandon, not even for an hour.”

> “Good heaven, Sara! You don't mean to say you've had her shadowed by—by detectives,” he exclaimed, aghast. “Her maid is a very faithful servant,” was her ambiguous rejoinder. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

Farms for Sale.

56 acres highly improved, three miles out. 20 acres highly improved, close in, $4,000; SI,OOO down. 40 acres on road near school and station; woodland. $37.50. Terms S3OO down. Will trade for horses or lot. 40 acres on road, 25 acres black prairie land. Take S3OO down. Will trade for horses or lot. 65 acres on stone road, R. F. D., telephone, school and 3 miles from good town with churches and high school. There is a five-room house, fair barn, chicken house, fruit and well. Price $47.50. Will take SSOO down or take horses. Onion land in tracts of 10 acres or more at SBS. 18-0 acres, good land near school and station, R. F. D., telephone and on pike road. Seven-room house, outbuildings, windmill and good orchard. Price $65. Terms $2,500 down. 240 acres, all black land, well located, good buildings, good drainage and all corn land. Price $75. 60 acres near station, stone road and school, on large ditch, 50 acres black prairie land, 10 acres timber. Price S6O. If purchaser will build house and barn they can have time on all the purchase price.

Non-Residents Notice.

The State of Indiana, Jasper County ss. In the Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1’914. Richard C. Gregg vs. John M, Ellis, et al. Complaint No. 8258. Now comes the Plaintiff, by Moses Leopold, his attorney, and files his amended complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the defendants Jacob F. Brinkenholf, Sarah J. Johnson, Henry Brinkerhoff, William Brinkerhoff, Jr., Jacob Albert Brinkerhoff, Margaret D. Brinkerhoff, Nettie Brinkerhoff Benbow, Nora Brinkerhoff Langworthy, Nellie Brinkerhoff Matichka, Sarah Brinkerhoff Cottingham and Mary E. Huston are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants, that unless they be and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be holden on the second Monday of November A. D., 1914, at the Court House in the City of Rensselaer, in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in their absence. In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said (SEAL) Court, at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 17th day of September A. D., 1914.

JUDSON H. PERKINS,

NOTICE OF SURVEY. Notice is hereby given to Isaac N. Makeever. Francis M. Makeever. t Sidney B, and Clara Belle Holmes, Albertus M. Yeoman, and all others interested, that I. Randolph Wright, own the Northwest quarter (%) of the Northwest quarter (44) of Section twenty-eight (28), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Radge seven (7) West, and also the West part of the Northeast quarter 04) of the Northwest quarter (44) of said section twenty-eight (28) Township and Range, in Jasper County, Indiana. And that I, Andrew K. Yeoman, own the West half (44) of the Southwest quarter (44) of said Section. Township and Range, also the Northeast quarter (44.) of the Southwest quarter (*4) of the said Section, Township and Range, also the Southeast quarter (44) of the Northwest quarter («4) of the said Section Township and Range, also, the North half (%) of the Southeast quarter (44) of the Southwest quarter (44) of the said Section twenty-eight (28), Township twenty-nine (29) North, Range seven (7) West in Jasper County, Indiana. And that we will proceed with the Surveyor, or his duly qualified Deputy, of said County to make a legal Survey of said section, or so much thereof as is necessary to establish the corners and lines of our lands. Said Survey to commence on the 12th day of October, A. D.. 1914 RANDOLPH;* WRIGHT. ANDREW K. YEOMAN. DeVere Yeoman. County Surveyor. Sept 16th, 1914. v Don’t worry today. Put it off until tomorrow, which never gets here.

G. F. MEYERS.

Clerk.

Judge Danoch Objects to Being Oslerlixed.

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adrift to protect the ship from any possible distress. Of course, I was not expecting, if elected, that I would be required to administer the office of judge with a water elm stick, or a baseball bat, and up to this time, I am not conscious of any mental impairment, or for that matter any serious physical)

WILLIAM DARROCH Democratic Candidate for Judge 30th Judicial Circuit.

infirmity. It had never occurred to me that any person would have the temerity to even hint that I was unfit, relatively of course, and the suggestion is so unexpected and embarrassing that I scarcely know how to discuss it. I did know, that is,. I bad been variously informed, that Brother Rogers opposed Judge Hanley’s reelection because he was seemingly unfair in deciding cases where Mr. Rogers appeared as an attorney, and particularly where 1 was the opposing counsel. 1 used to get licked myself occasionally when a boy, and

1^ — jW fl TTTTTT ; - j coax/ 00. I | jrA YXf iff Lavi “i — Ir A I ggk ya/ I g fBU I J 3|\ ***?/**’ *1 * 111 One-half of your coal—and il \ 4| it did you no good. Hard luck ly t "~ that. But there is a way to fix it. Here’s how: That stove of yours has seen its best days. You need a new one. You know it—• but you have let things drift along. Meanwhile, you have been losing Half of every hod of coal you have put in it. Of course, you knew it, but you did not think of it that way. You know that half of every lump is gas. Fail to burn that gas and it is like throwing into the ditch half of every dollar you spend in coal. Rather extravagant? Yes? The ordinary stove made of a lot of separate castings leaks air. They leak air at the wrong place. Places you can not control. Result—the best part of your coal—the 14,000 cubic feet of common illuminate * n R R as that is in the average ton of $3.00 soft coal— goes up the flue unburned. You have lost it. It has gone up in smoke. . s ave s h at S as — m i x properly with air and you have the hottest psgaL kind of a blue flame. But there is only one way to do this— MO Buy the only heater that is made tight—holds tight—stays tight. Cole’s Original Hot Blast Heater It leaks no This is the heater that mixes the, gas and air and gives you all the heat in the coal. t * s heatet that burns any kind of coal and makes a ton Jwj of $3.00 soft coal do the work of SB.OO hard coal in a high priced base burner. This is the heater that is a joy and comfort to the housewife. It makes no dirt or smoke in the house. I his is the heater that saves labor—fix it in the morning and at night and Forget It the Rest of the Time. ' This is the heater that gives a steady, constant heat from soft coal or lignite. This is the heater that will hold its fire untouched for a day and a half. This is the heater we sell you under a guarantee that is as “good as old wheat at the mill.” Burns soft coal, lignite, slack, hard coal or wood. It is just the kind of a heater you want. Come in and see it. See the name “ Cole’s’ * on the feed door of each stove. None genuine without it Warner Bros,

for a time I thought it altogether wrong; but after a while—and that was long before I undertook to practice law, much less to aspire to judicial honors—it occurred to me that maybe I was in the wrong, and after I got that idea into my head, I fared a whole lot better. Now I am in no collusion with Judge Hanley; I am in a combination all by myself against him and against Rogers, too. but I am not go-

| hr; to question the senst. er lair:.css or integrity of either of them I would rather lose the election than do that. A proper test ;of the unfairness of a circuit judge is by an appeal to the higher court: in fact, that is perhaps the only conclusive test. I Judged by this rule the record of the only two cases coming under it would show, as between Mr. Rogers, Judge Hanley and myself, that in the first case the Judge decided against j me and with Mr. Rogers, and I appealed the case to the appellate court and the decision was reversed las being wrong. The other ease was

decided by Judge Hanley in my favor and Mr. Rogers appealed to the supreme court and the decision was affirmed as being rigiht. So that it would appear from this record that when the court followed Mr. Rogers he was wrong and when the court decided against him he was right. There is yet another lesson suggested by the consideration of these two cases which that exalted standard of extreme modesty set by my friend Rogers compels me to mention and that is, that Mr. Roger* was wrong all the time, Judge Hanley was wrong half the time and I was right all the time; which perhaps fairly reflects the respective legal efficiency of the three candidates for judge. In saying this, however, I am trying to be as modest as I can, consistent with any pattern for modesty that has been furnished me in this contest up to this time, and I am free to admit that if left wholly to my own resources, on such a question of politeness, I might have improved on it.

Now I had tnought out the proposition involved entirely different from the conclusion reached by Mr. Rogers, and, candidly, it would be worth while for the voters to consider the results reached, and, if consistent, adopt niy view of it, because it is a question for the voter to determine and he should be fully persuaded in his own mind, and he will reach a better result i’s he will do most of the persuading himself. First. About the worst thing that can happen to a young man is to be elected to a public office. It makes him, or in some cases, keeps him, callow and conceited, and usually tends to render him mentally unfit for anything else except a manifest and unweaning desire for more office. You should, therefore, determine for yourself whether there exists now any such public necessity as requires you to sacrifice Mr. Rogers to such an untimely fate. Second. Judge Hanley is already infected somewhat with that same desire that feeds on itself; but unfortunately not like the '‘Squid-cuni-squees” that “swollers therselves.” But he is young yet and if turned out ami thrown on his own resources would do better for himself and by his iamlly. and would soon wonder wb> he was not in the game before. Besides the Judge is a relic of a. passing age of political thought that found the acme of all political wisdom and perfection in that snapdragon expression, ‘stand pat,” and in his interest, theTefore, he ought to be given an opportunity before too late in life to rustle and reflect. Third. As for the writer, his habits of thought ami business are fixed, and no doubt after serving out on# judicial term, would be like the others, even to Joe Cannon, passing up his plate for more In any event, he will care as little then as he does now to have some young buck talking of him or writing' of him in a way that would suggest that he was anticipating an early funeral. WILLIAM DARROCH.