Richmond Palladium (Daily), 20 February 1906 — Page 3

THE MORNING PALLADIUM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1906.

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THE MAN OH THE BOX BY HAROLD MacGRATH.

CHAPTER XX VL " THE CASTLE OF ROMANCE. How silent the forest was! The "rook no longer murmured, the rustle the leaves was without sound. A par of sunshine, filtering through the ragged limbs of the trees, fell aslant her, and she stood in an aureola. As for my hero, a species of paralysis had stricken him motionless and dumb. It was all so unexpected, all so sudden, that he had the sensation of being whirled away from reality and bundled unceremoniously Into the unreal. . . . She knew, and had known! A leaf brushed hfs face, but he was senseless to the touch of it. All he had the power to do was to stare at her. .

She knew, and had known!

It ought not to be! I realize that 1 can not force you to accept my gift, but this I shall do; I shall buy in the horses and give them back to you." "You mustn't. I shall have do place to put them. Oh!" With a gesture full of despair and unshed tears, "why have you done all this? Why this mean masquerade, this submitting to the humiliations I have contrived for you, this act of generosity? Why?" Perhaps she knew the answers to her own questions, but, womanlike, wanted to be told. And at that moment, though I am not sure. I believe Warburton's guarding angel gave him some secret advice. "You ask me why I have played the fool in the motley?" finding the

Dick stepped into the brook and be- strength of his voice. "Why I have

gan to paw the water, and the intermission of speech and action came to an end. "You and you knew?" What a strange sound his voice had in his own ears! "Yes. From the very beginning I knew you to be a gentleman In masquerade: that is to say, when I saw you In the poliee-court. The absence of the beard confused me at first, but presently I recognized the gentleman whom I had noticed on board the ship." So she had noticed him! "That night you believed me to be

your sister Nancy. But I did not know this till lately. And the night I visited

submitted in silence to your Just hu

miliations? Why I have acted what you term generously? Do you mean to tell me that you have not guessed that riddle?" She turned her delicate head aside and switched the grasses with her riding-crop. "Well" flinging aside his cap which he had been holding in his hand "I will tell you. I wanted to be near you. I wanted to be, what you made nae, your servant. It is the one great happiness that 1 have known. I have done all these things because because, God help me, I love you! Yes. I love you, with every beat of my heart!" Hit

her she exhibited some photographs, ing his head proudly. Upon his face Among them was a portrait of you ; love had put the hallowed seal. "Do without a beard." j not turn your head away, for my love Warburton started. And the thought , is honest. I ask nothing, nothing; I that this might be the case had never expect nothing. I know that it is trickled through his thick skull! How j hopeless. What woman could love a she must have laughed at him secretly! j raan who has made himself ridiculous She continued: "Even then I was jn ner .yes, as I have made myself in not sure. But when Col. Raleigh de- : jours?" bitterly. clared that you resembled a former j No not ridiculous; never that!" lieutenant of his, then I knew." She KhG intp.ri-untcd. her face still averted.

ceased. She turned to her horse as if to gather the courage to go on; but Jane had her nose hidden In the 6tream, and was oblivious of her mistress need. He waited dully for her to resume, for he supposed that she had not yet done. "I have humiliated you In a hundred ways, and for this I want you to forgive me. I sent the butler away for the very purpose of making you serve In his stead. But you were so good about it all. with never a murmur of rebellion, that I grew ashamed of my part In the comedy. But now " Her eyes closed and her body swayed; but she clenched her hands, and the falntness passed away. "But for you. my poor father would have been dishonored and I should have been forced Into the arms of a man whom I despise. Whenever I have humiliated you, you have returned the gift of a kind dsed. You will forgive me?" "Forgive you! There Is nothing for me to forgive on my side, much on

yours. It Is you who should forgive

He strode toward her hastily, and

for a moment her heart almost ceased to beat. But all he did was to kneel at her feet and kiss the hem of her riding-skirt, lie rose hurriedly. "God bless you. and good-by!" He knew that if he remained he would lose all control, crush her madly in his arms, and hurt her lips with his despairing kisses. He had not gone a dozen paces, when he heard her call pathetically. He stopped. "Mr. Warburton, surely you are not going to leave me here alone with the horses?" "Pardon me, I did not think! I am confused!" he blundered. "You are modest, too." Why is it that, at the moment a man succumbs to his embarrassment, a woman rises above hers? "Come nearer," a command which he obeyed with some hesitation. "You have been a groom, a butler, all for the purpose of telling me that you love me. Listen. "'Love is like a pillar based upon a dream:

one by one we lay the stones of beauty,

me. What you have done I have de- of courage, of faith, of honor, of stead

served." His tongue was thick and fastness. We wake, and how the beaudry. How much did she know? I tiful pillar tumbles about our ears! "No, not wholly deserved it." She ; What right have you to build up your fumbled with the buttons of her waist; j pillar upon a dream of me? What do her eyes were so full that she could J you know of the real woman for I not see. She produced an oblong slip , have all the faults and vanities of the of paper. I sex; what do you know of me? How When he saw it a breath as of ice do you know that I am not selfish?

enveloped him. The thing she held , that I am constant? that I am worthy

out toward him was the canceled note. For a while he did me the honor to believe that I had betrayed him.

man'e lnvirtf?"

"Love is not like Justice, with a pair

"I understand the kind and generous Impulse which prompted this deed. Oh, I admire It, and I say to you, God bless you! But don't you see how impossible It Is? It can not be; no. no! My father and I are proud. What we owe we shall pay. Poverty, to be accepted without plaint, must be without debts of gratitude. But It was noble and great of you; and I knew that you intended to run away without ever letting any one know." "Who told you?" "No one. I guessed It." And he might have denied all knowledge of It! "Won't you won't you let It be as It Is? I have never done anything worth while before, and this has made me happy. Won't you let me do this? Only you need know. I am going away on Monday, and It will be years before I see Washington again. No one need ever know." i "It Is impossible!" "Why?" She looked away. In her mind's eye she could see this man leading a troop through a snow-storm. How the wind roared! How the snow whirled and eddied about them, or suddenly blotted them from sight! But on and on, resolutely, courageously, hopefully he led them on to safety. . . . Jm was snaaklnr and the nlcture dla-

nuircu. 'Won't you let it remain just as it Is!" he pleaded. Her head moved negatively, and once more she extended the note. He took it and slowly tore It into shreds. With, it he was tearing up the dream and tossing It down .the winds. "The money will be plaoed to your credit at the bank on Monday. We can not accept such a gift from any one. You would not, I know. Bat always hall I treasure the impale. It will give me courage in the future when X am fighting alone." "What are yoa tn to dor" "IT I am going to i?mw Wan the public," with auuratd Uthtnew; "I and my violin." lie struck hie hands together. "The stage ?" horrified. "I must lire," calmly. , t "But a" servant to nuUIo eaprloat

of scales to weigh this or that. I do not ask why I love you; the knowledge Is all I need. And you are not selfish, inconstant, and God knows that you are worth loving. As I said, I ask for nothing." "On the other hand." she continued, as if she had not heard his interpolation, "I know you thoroughly. I have hal evidence of your courage, your steadfastness, your unselfishness. Do not misunderstand me. I am proud that you love me. This love of yours which asks for no reward, only the right to confess, ought to make any

HE WAS DUMB. good womaD happy, whether,, she loved or not And you would have gone away without telling me. even!" "Yes " He dug Into the earth with his ri ling-boot. If ccly she knew how she was crucifying hixa! "Why were you going away w'tTiout telling me?" He was dumb. Her arms and eyes, uplifted, appealed to heaven. "What shall I say? How hall I make him understand ?" she murmured. "You love me, and you afc for ncjhicgj? I ij because, in

a woman loves in a man? I will t'l you the secret. " She ' loves courage, constancy, acd honor, purpose that surmounts obstacles; 6he loves pur- j suit; she loves the hour of surrender.

Every woman builds a castle of romance and waits for Prince Charming to enter, and once he does, there must be a game of hide and seek. Perhaps 1 have built my castle of romance, too. I wait for Prince Charming, and man comes, dressed aa a groom. There has been a game of hide and seek, but somehow be has tripped. Will you not ask me if I love you?" "No, no! I understand. 1 do not want your gratitude. You are meeting generosity with generosity. I do not want your gratitude." brokenly. "I want your love, every thought of your mind, every beat of your heart. Can you give me these honestly?" She drew off a glove. Her hand became lost in her bosom. When she drew it forth she extended It, palm upward. Upon it lay a faded, withered rose. Once more she turned her face away. He was at her side, and the hand and rose were crushed between his two hands. "Can you give what I ask? Your love, your thoughts, your heart-beats?" It was her turn to remain dumb. "Can you?" He drew her toward him perhaps roughly, being unconscious of his strength and the nervous energy which the sight of the rose had called into being. "Can we give those things which are already given?" Only Warburton and the angels, or rather the angels and Warburton. to get at the chronological order of things, heard her, so low had grown her voice. You may tell any kind of a secret to a horse; the animal will never betray you. Warburton would never tell me what followed; and I am too sensible to hang around the horses in hopes of catching them in the act of talking over the affair avnong themselves. But I can easily imagine this bit of equine dialogue; Jane: Did you ever see such foolishness? Dick: Never! And with all this good grass about! Whatever did follow caused the girl to murmur: "This is the lover I love; this is the lover I have been waiting for in my castle of romance. I am glad that I have lost all worldly things: I am glad, glad! When did you first learn that you loved me?" (Old. very old; thousands of years old. and will grow to be many thousand years older. But from woman's lips it is the sweetest question man ever heard.) "At the Gare du Nord. in Paris; the first time I saw you." "And you followed me across the ocean ?" wonderingly. "And when did you first learn that you loved me?" he asked. (Oh the trite phrases of lovers' litany.) "When I saw you In the police-court. Mercy; what a scandal! I am to marry my butler!" Jane: They are laughing! Dick: That is better than weeping. Besides, they will probably walk us home. (Wise animal!) He was not only wise bHt prophetic. The lovers did walk the horses home. Hand in hand they came back along the road, through the flame and flush of the ripening year. The god of light burned in the far west, blending the brown earth with his crimson radiance, while the purple shadows of the approaching dusk grew larger and larger. The man turned. "What a beautiful world it Is!" he said. "I begin to find it so." replied the girl, looking not at the world, but at him. THE END J Postscript: I believe they sent William back for the saddle-hamper and my jehu's cap.

eiafa Monopolist. Two men were discussing monopolies, one maintaining that there are both good and bad monopolies, and that those he was connected with are distinctly of the good sort. Then he proceeded to illustrate what a good monopoly is, and to show the nature of a bad monopolist. There was a young man in the south

who went one summer on a visit to some relatives in the north. On his return he sought out another youag raan and said, impressively: "Look a-here, I understand that you took advantage of my absence from town last month to go calling on Miss Henrietta Brown." "You are mistaken," the other man answered. "It is her sister. Miss Clarissa Brown, that I've been calling on." "Well, sir," said the first, "that makes no difference. I've got my eye on both them girls." N. Y. Tribune.

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HAD ASKED FOR A PENSION. But Was Proved a Deserter and Turned Out of the Home Old Veteran's Sad Experience.

C. V L. Time Table

(Effective Sept. 24th.)

CAST AND COUTH. No. 3 Daily. Leaves Richmond 9:05 a, m. Leave Cottage Grow 9:50 a. m. Arrive Cincinnati ..11:30 a. m. No. 1 Daily except Sunday. Leaves Richmond 4:00 p. m Arrive Cottage Grove 4:40 p. m. Via 0. H. ft D. Leave Cottage Grove 4:59 p. m. Leave Oxford 5:14 p. m. Leave Hamilton ....5:35 p. m. Arr. Cincinnati ....6:20 p. m. No. 63 Sunday only Leave Richmond ....7:45 p. m. Arrive Cottage Grove8:35 p. m. Via. O. H. & D. Leave Cottage GroveS:43 p. m. Leave Oxford 9:01 p. m. Leave Hamilton ....9:30 p.m. Arrive Cincinnati ..10:30 p. m.. No. 2 Daily. Via 0. H. D. .leaves Cincinnati ....8:30 a. m. Leaves Hamilton . . . . .9 :10 a. m. Leaves Oxford ...... .9 :32 a. m, Arr. Cottage Grove ..9:43 a. m. Via. 0. 0. ft L. Lav. Cottage Grove 10:10 a. m. Arrives Richmond . . 10 :50 a. m. No. 4 Daily. Via. 0. 0. ft L. Leaves Cincinnati ....5:20 p. m. Leave Cottage Grove 7:03 p. m. Arrive Richmond ..7:45 p. m.

NORTH AND TTEBT. No. 2 Daily to IVruLeaves Richmond . .10:50 a. n, Leaves Muncie 12:10 p. ou Leaves Marion ..... 1:25 p. m. Leaves Peru ........ 2:25 p. m. Arr. North Judson . . 4:20 p. m. Daily except Sunday to North Judson No. 4 DailyLeave Richmond ... .7 :45 p. m. Leave Muncie i:03 p. m. Leave Marion 10:03 p. m. Arrive Peru 11:05 p. m. No. 1 Daily except Sunday. Leaves North Judson 10:20 a. m.

Leaves Peru 12:25 p. Leaves Marion 1:25 p. Leaves Muncie 2:32 p. Arrives Richmond . . 4:00 p. No. 3 Daily.

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Arrives Richmond ...9:05

No. 63 Sunday Only.

Leave Peru 4:30

Leave Marion 5:30

Leave Muncie 6:30 Arrive Richmond ....7:45

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Alao Lacking-. A gentleman and his wife, who are both near-sighted, went to Atlantic City not long since. When they came down to breakfast the vife picked up the menu card, ,but after a moment's effort pushed it over to her husband, exclaiming as she did so: "You will have to chose for both of us. John, 1 have left my glasses up stairs." He took the cord and began to fumble fn his pockets vainly, it proved, for he bad forgotten his also. Turning to the impassive and irreproachable darky behind his chair, he said: "Will you please read it for us. waite- We have both forgotten our glasses." The waiter bowed and replied with a grin: , 'Deed, Ah'd lak to 'blige yn, su but Ah ain't cot ro educashun

neither!- JLippincotfs Magazine.

Marion, Ind., Feb. 39. William Stone, a soldier nearly 70 years old, who served in the Civil War and who has been an inmate of the local Na

tional Military Home for eight years recently applied for a pension. The officials at Washington reported that

Stone deserted from the army and

not only refused to grant him a pension, but ordered his discharge from

the Soldiers' Home.

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of a Richmond Citizen. The reader can hardly doubt the evidence which follows. The state

ment given hei-e comes from a Richmond resident, and can easily be

proven. If you are skeptical, investigate. Martin Bulac, tailor, 101 West Second street, says: "I was subject to aching pains through my loins and in my kidneys with a tendency of the muscles to tire quickly. The kidney secretions were frequent, scanty and annoying. I was advised to try Doan's Kidney Pills and got a box at A. G. Luken 's drug store. I took but a few doses when I felt their beneficial effects, and in a short time my back felt all right. I can recommend Dean's Kidney Pills very highly to anj-one suffering from their kidneys. 1 1 For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn - Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents .for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other.

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The up-to-date woman avoid? caustics, drugs and powders. They sre extremely harmful to the skin, while Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea anke it soft and bonn4 - 35 cst Tea or Tablets. A. u. Eukeii &

RAILWAY TIME TABLES.

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Pennsylvania Lines Time Table ( In Effect Nov. 26th, 1905.) CINCINNATI AND CHICAGO DIVISION. Arrive Westward Depart ' ....Rich and Logan Ac. Ex 6 45 am 11 10 am...... Chicago Special 11 15am 12 30 pm Cin Mack Express 4 35 pm Cin and Logan Ex .... 4 53 pm j 7 10 pm Cin and Rich Ac Ex 11 00 Cin and Chi Mail and Ex 11 15 pm ti.., Eastward , jf , , 4 05 am Southern Ex 4 15 am

; , Rich and Cin Ac Exj 7 00 am 9 48 am Logan and Cin. Ex lu 10 am 3 50 pm Chi and Cin Special!; .... 3 55 pm

i Rich and Cin Acc 5 20 pm , J 5 15 pm Logan and Rich Acc COLUMBUS AND INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION. " 1. Westward. '..v, ; St. Louis Limited 5 00 am 5 00 am capital Ex 5 10 am 1?

' ...... St. Louis Express j 10 15 am ' , 10 00 am Cols and Ind Ac Exjl 10 20 am 1 15 pm St Louis ExJ 1 20 pm 9 00 am . - Col., Rich & Indpls Ac Ex. ... 910 pm 1

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tas ikvvpM mm v pm Eastward. 1 10 am Pittsburg Special!! .....

5 10 am Eastern Mail 5 15 am j 9 45 am Ind and Col Ac Mail and Ex . . . .10 15 am 9 50 am New York Ei .; .. 4 50 pm Keystone Exjj T 7:15 pm Atlantic Ex 7 30 pm tA 9 00 pm New York Limited!! ; i

9 10 pm Ohio andVa Ex . .. 9 15 pm DAYTON AND XENIA DIVISION. Westward. 12 05 am :. St Louis pecial . . 4 50 am ... .St. Louis Limited! 11 00 am ....Jfeiia and Rich AccJ ..... 10 55 pm. . . . Sprg & Rich Mail and E.. 10 10 am Pitts., Sprgfd adn Rich Mail and Ex Eastward. Pittsburg Special 1 15 am Rich, Xenia & Spfg, Acc 1 1 5 20 am Rich, Xen acc 3 52 pm New York ExJJ 9 55 am Keystone Ex 4 55 pm : New York Limited!! 9 OS pm GRAND RAPIDS AND INDIANA BY. Southward. 3 15 am Mack and Cin ail and Ex... 9 42 am Ft. W and Rich Mail and Ex 3 40 pm Mack and Cjn Mail and Ex . . 10 15 pm Sunday Ac Northward . .Rich and G R Mail and ExJJ . 5 40 am Michigan Ex . . 12 50 pm ....Cin. & Mac Mail & Exp 11 10 pm Daily. 'Sunday only. Daily except Sunday. All trains, unless otherwise indicated, depart and arrive daily, except Sunday 0. W. ELMER. Pass, and Tick. Agt

The Central South The abode of Soft Winds, Persistent Sunshine and Gentle rains; the land of Beauty, Happiness, Flowers, Contentment and Health. ThefcTerritory served by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, stretching from the hio River to the Gulf.

Throughout thi3wfde area fertile land i3 yet to be batd

from a Northern standpoint VERY LOW PRICES. From some of this land an av erage, of $416.95, net, was made last year on Strawber ries. From Cantaloupes $250.00. Peaches, Apples, Grapes, reta rn handsomely. - Cattle need but little winter feed. Write me for Facts and Figures.

G. A. Park, General Immigration and Industrial Agent Louisville &. Nashville R. R, LOUISVILLE, KYi