Richmond Palladium (Daily), 31 January 1906 — Page 3

THE MORNING PALLADIUM WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31. 1906.

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THE MAN BY HAROLD

CHAPTEH VITT "Chuck" takes tuit of clothes nnd money to pay the fine to cy Jail, only to nnd that fine had been paid. Warburton. in name of James Osborne, receives note from Mls Annesley offering him position of coachman, hlch he decides to accept In spite of Protects of hi friend, whom he leaves to explain his disappearance to his relatives, by stating that he had gone north suddenly on a. hunting trip. CHAPTER IX.-"Mis Annesley. after j ciosely questioning Warburton (Known to her as James Osborne) at her home, hires him on probation. While being hown about the stables expressed a desire to ride an exceptionally vicious thoroughbred called Tlrate. With Miss Anneslev' rwrmiitinn he saddles and mounts the horse which Immediately r boltsCHAPTER X. PIRATE. On the opposite side of the road there was a stone wall about Ave feet in height; beyond this was a broad, rolling field and farther on a barbwire fence and a boggy stream which oozed its way down toward the Potomac. Far away across the valley the wooded hills were dying and withering and thinning, with splashes of yellow and red. A flock of birds speckled the fleecy October clouds, and a mild breeze sent the grasses shivering. Toward the wall Pirate directed his course. Warburton threw back his full weight. The effort had little or no effect on Pirate's mouth. His rider remembered about the tree, but the nearest was many yards away. Ovet the wall they went and down tht field. Pirate tried to get his head down but he received a check. Scor one for the man. Warburton, hit legs stiffened in the stirrups, his handc well down, his breath coming in gasps, wondered where they would finally land. He began to use his knees and Pirate felt the pressure. He didn't like it at all. Oddly enough, Warburton's leg did not bother him as he expected it would, and this gave him confidence. On, on; the dull pounding of Pirate's feet, the flying sod, the wind in his face: and when he saw the barb-wire fence, fear entered into him. An inch too low, a stumble and serious injuries might result. He must break Pirate's gait. He began to saw cow-boy fashion. Pirate grew indignant: he was being hurt. His speed slackened none, however; he was determined to make that fence if it was the last thing he ever did. He'd like to see any man stop him. He took the deadly fence as with the wings of a bird. But he found that the man was still on his back. He couldn't understand it He grew worried. And then he struck the red. brown muck bordering the stream The muck flew, but at every bound Pirate sank deeper, and the knees of his rider were beginning to tell. Warburton, full of rage, yet not unreasonable rage, quickly saw his chance. Once more he threw back his weight; this time to the left. Pirate's head came stubbornly around; his gait was broken, he was floundering in the stream. Now Warburton used his heels savagely. He shortened the reins and whacked Mr. Pirate soundly across the ears. Pirate plunged and reared, and after devious evolutions, reached solid ground. This time his head was high In the air, and, try as he would, he could not lower hla neck a solitary inch. Warburton knew that the animal could not make the barb-wire fence again, so he waltzed him along till he found a break in the wire. Over this Pirate bounded, snorting. But he had met a master. Whether he reared or plunged, waltzed or ran, he PIRATE. could not make those ruthless knee relent In their pressure. He began to understand what all beasts understand, sooner or later the Inevitable mastry of man. There was blood in his nostrils. A hand touched his nck caressingly. He shook his head; be refused to conciliate. A voice, kindly but rather breathless, addressed hbn. Again Pirate shook his head: but ho did not run, he cantered. Warburton gare a sigh of relief. Over the field they went. A pull to the left, and Pirate wheeled; a pull to the right, and again Pirate answered, and cantered in a circle. He was mastered. After this Warburton did as he pleased; Pirate had learned his lesson His master put him through a dozen maneuvers, and he was vastly satisfled with the victory. He had conquered the horse before the eyes of one woman. He guided Pirate close to the wall 194 tS4 .tLim. Joofred .down, inla

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MacGRATH. the girl's wonder-lit eyes and smiled cheerfully. And what is more she smiled faintly in acknowledgement!! had gained. In the guise of a groom, what he might never have gained in any other condition of life, the girl's respect and admiration. Though a thorough woman of the world, highbred, well-born, she forgot for the moment to control her features; and as I have remarked elsewhere, Warburton was a shrewd observer. "Bully Mr. Osborne!" shouted William leaping down. "It was simply great!" "There are some bars farther down" said the girl, quietly. "William, run and open them." Warburton flushed slightly. He could not tell how she had accomplished it. whether it was the tone or the gesture, but she had calmly re-established the barrier between mistress and servant. "I think I'll put him to the wail again," said the hero, seized by a rebel spirit. He wheeled Pirate about and sent him back at a run. Pirate balked. Round he went again, down the field and back. This time he cleared the wall with a good foot to spare. The victory was complete. When it was all over, and Pirate was impatiently munching an extra supply of oats, the girl bade Mr. James to report early the following morning. "I hope I shall please you Madam." "Address me as Miss Annesley from now on," she said; and nodding shortly, she entered the house. To Warburton, half the pleasure of the victory was gone; for not a word of praise had she given him. Yet, she had answered his smile. Well, he had made a lackey out of himself; he had no right to expect anything but $40 a month and orders. He broke his word with me. He did not return to the house that night for dinner. In fact, he deliberately sent for his things, explaining that he was called north and wouldn't have time to see them before he left. It took all my persuasive oratory to smooth the troubled waters and then there were areas upon which my oil had no effect whatever. "He is perfectly heartless!" cried Nancy. "He couldn't go to the embassy, but he could steal away and play poker all night with a lot of idling army officers. And now he is going off to Canada without even seeing us to say good-by. Charlie, there is something back of all this." "I'll bet it's a woman," said Jack, throwing a scrutinizing glance at me. But I was something of a diplomat myself, and he didn't catch me napping. "Here's a telegram for him, too." "I think I'll take the liberty of opening it," said I. I knew Its contents. It was the reply Warburton had depended on. I read it aloud. It is good to have friends of this sort. No question was asked. It was a bald order: "Come up at once and shoot caribou. Take first train." "Bob's a Jackass," . was Jack's commentary. I had heard something like It before, that day. "He'll turn up all right," and Jack lit a cigar and picked up his paper. "And Betty Annesley is going to call to-morrow night," said Nancy, her voice overflowing with reproach. , Her eyes even sparkled with tears. "I did so want them to meet." I called myself a villain. But I had given my promise; and I was in love myself. "I don't see what we can do. When Bob makes up his mind to do anything, he generally does it." Jack, believing he had demolished the subject opened his Morning Post and fell to studying the latest phases of the Venezuelan muddle. Nancy began to cry softly; she loved the scalawag as only sifters know how to love. And I became possessed with two desires; to console her and to punch Mr. Robert's head. "It has always been this way with him." Nancy went on, dabbing her eyes with her two-by-four handkerchief. "We never dreamed that he was going to the army till he came home one night and announced that he had successfully passed his examinations for West Point. He ' goes and gets shot and we never know anything about it till we read the papers. Next, he resigns and goes abroad without a word or coming to see us. I don't know what to make of Bobby; I really don't." I took her hand in mine and kissed It, and told her the rascal would turn up In due time, that they hadn't heard the last of him for that winter. "He's only thoughtless and singlepurposed," interposed Jack. "Single-purposed!" I echoed. "Why, yes. He gets one thing at a time in his brain, and thinks of nothing else till that idea is worn out. I know him." I recalled my useless persuasion of the morning. "I believe you are right" "Of course I'm right," replied Jack, turning a page of his paper. "Do you know where he has gone?" "I think the telegram' explains everything." evasively. "Humph! Don't you worry about him Nan. I'll wager he's up to some of his old-time deviltry." These and other little observations Jack let fall made it plain to me that list was a natural student ol men. and

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Judgment, unerring and anUeipcry. I had put him where he is to-day, at trie head of a department. "Father," said Betty Annesley at the dinner-table that same night. "I have engaged a new groom. He rode Pirate to-day and thoroughly mastered him." "Pirate? You don't say! Well, I'm glad of that. Pirate will make a capital saddle-horse if he is ridden often enough. The groom will be a safe companion for you on your rides. Are you too tired to do 6ome drawing for me to-night?" "The fortification plans?" "Yes." His eyes wandering from her face to the night outside. How gray and sad the world was!- "You will always love your father, dearie?" "Love him? Always!" "Whatever betide for weal or woe?" "Whatever betide." How easy it was for her to say these words! "And yet, some day, you must leave me to take up your abode in some other man's heart. My only wish is that it may beat for you as truly as mine does." She did not reply, but stepped to the window and pressed her brow to the chilled pane. A yellow and purple line marked the path of the vanished sun; the million stars sparkled above; far away she could see the lights of the city. Of what was she thinking, dreaming? Was she dreaming of heroes such as we poets and novelists Invent and hang upon the puppet.beam? Ah, the pity of these dreams the young girl has! She dreams of heroes and of god-like men and of the one that is to come. But, ah; he never comes; and the dream fades and dies and the world becomes real. A man may find his ideal, but a woman, never. To youth, the fields of love; to man, the battle-ground; to old age, a chair In the sunshine and the wreck of dreams! "The government ought to pay you well if those plans are successful." She moved away from the window. "Yes, the government ought to pay me well. I should like to make yoi rich, dearie, and happy." "Why, daddy, am I not both? I hav more money than I know what to do with, and I am happy in having the kindest father." She came around the table and caressed him, cheek to cheek, "Money isn't everything. It Just makes me happy to do anything for you." His arm grew tense around her waist. "Do you know what was running through my mind at the embassy last night? I was thinking how deeply I love this great wide country of mine. As I looked at the ambassador and his aides, I was saying to myself, 'You dare not! It may have been silly, but I couldn't help It. We are the greatest people in the world. When I compared foreign soldiers with our own. how my heart and pride swelled! No formalities, no race prejudice, no false pride. I was never introduced to a foreign officer that I did not fear him. with his weak eyes, his affected mannerisms, his studied rudeness, not to me, but the country I represented. How I made some of them dance! Not for vanity's sake; rather the inborn patriotism of my race. I had only to think of my father, his honorable scars, his contempt for little things, his courage, his steadfastness, his love for his country, which has so honored him with its trust Oh! I am a patriot; and I shall never, never marry a man whose love for his country does not equal my own." She caught up her father's mutilated hand and kissed it "And even now this father of mine is planning and planning to safeguard his country." "But you must not say anything to a soul, my child; it must be a secret till all is ready. I met Karloff to-day at the club. He has promised to dine with us to-morrow night." , "Make him postpone it. I have promised to dine with Nancy Warburton." "You had better dine with us and spend the evening with your friend. Do you not think him a handsome fellow?" "He is charming." She touched the bowl of poppies with her fingers and smiled. "He is very wealthy, too." Betty offered no comment "What did they do to that infernal rascal who attempted to run away with you and Mrs. Chad wick?" "He was arrested and locked up." "I hope they will keep him there. And what reason did he give the police for attempting to run away with you?" "He said that he had made a wager with some serving-maids to drive them from the embassy. He claims to have got the wrong number and the wrong carriage." "A very likely story!" "Yea, a very likely story!" and Betty, still smiling, passed on Into the music-room, where she took her violin from its case and played some rollicking measures from Offenbach. At the same time her father arose and went out on the lawn, where he walked up and down, with a long, quick stride. From time to time a walling note from the violin floated out to him, and he would stop and raise his haggard face toward heaven. His face was no longer masked in smiles; it was grief -stricken, self-abhorring. At length he softly crossed the lawn and stood before the music-room window. Ah, no fretting care sat on yonder face, nor pain, nor trouble; youth, only youth and some pleasant thought which the music had aroused. How like her mother! How like her mother! .Suddenly he .smote himself on the

b o- v.-Uh ri flenched hand". "Wretch! r;c.1-fr.r.ti.:i wretch, how have yo 1 kept your trusr? And how yonder child has stabbed you! My country! . My honor! . . My courage and steadfastness! Mockery!"

(To be Continued.) JOKER SENDS HOAX BY WIRELESS WAVES Marconigram to Ocean Liner Pur ports to Be from Nantucket Lightship Which had Gone Down. New York, Jan. 30. Wireless telegraphy has been used by a practical joker. The matter is brought up in a report "which was made on Jan. 7 at Bremerhaven, Germany, by Capt. R. Nierich of the German Lloyd steamship Bremen. The captain says that on the Bremen's outward journey to New York, last month to be exact, on Dec. 16, 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon the wireless telegraph operator on the Bremen reported that he could distinctly hear the calling of the signal "P," the Nantucket lightship. The steamer was 620 miles from the Nantucket lightship, and Capt. Nierich suggested that the operator inquire whether the Nantucket lightship was really calling. To his surprise he got an answer. It ran; "Here, Na'ntucket lightship. Congratulate all such a long distance has been overb ridged. Weather clear; variable winds and smooth sea." Captain Nierich thereupon forwarded a wireless message to the New York agents of the line. The purported lightship's answer was: "I'll give it to 'P. K. " "PK" is the Newport station. The supposed Nantucket lightship operator then asked the Bremen's operator to wait awhile for an answer, as he was engaged in communicating with some warships. The Bremen operator could not get into communication again with the purported lightship operator either the same day or the following day. On Monday the Bremen heard that the Nantucket lightship had gone down in a -terrific storm the week before, on Dec. 11, and that since that time no lightship had been in the service. Expecting that he had been hoaxed by some wireless operator, Captain Nierich, seeking an explanation, asked the Newport station whether the message in question had been received. It had not, and it was clear that a joke had been played. There is talk of carrying the matter into the courts, sinee it is pointed out that such a practical joke, giving misleading details as to weather, etc., migh lead to marine disaster. The ethics and law of wireless telegraphy have vet to be determined. Nasal Cataarh, an inflammation of the delicate membrane lining the air passages, is not cured by any mixtures taken into the stomach. Don't waste time on them. Take Ely's Cream Balm through the nostrils, so that the fevered, swollen tissues are reached at once. Never mind how long you have suffered nor how often you have been disappointed, we know Ely's Cream Balm will cure you as it has cured others by the thousand. All druggists, 50c. Mailed by Ely Bros., 56 Warren Street, New York. WHERE IS ROCKEFELLER ? One Report Has It That He Had Sailed for Europe. New York, Jan. 30. A report was current last night that John D. Rockefeller had sailed for Europe on January 6 to see his daughter, Mrs. Charles A. Strong, who is ill at Cannes, France. H. H. Rogers, however, said that he had heard from Mr. Rockefeller within the last week, and that he felt quite sure he was still in this country. At Mr. Rockefeller's home here, it was said that he was in the South. Dispatches from Cleveland received recently have said that Attorney-General Hadley, of Missouri, desired Mr. Rockefeller's testimony in the oil inquiry, but had as yet been unable to get into communication with him. A Surprise Party. A pleasant surprise . party may be given to your stomach and liver, by taking a medicine which will relieve their pain and discomfort, viz: Dr. King's New Life Pills. They are a most wonderful remedy, affording sure relief and cure for headache, dizziness and constipation. 25c at A. G. Lnken & Co.'s drug store,

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