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-Byr AGNES and -Arrj "The COPYRIGHT. 1006. ' Oh, Xufl, JL.ua irnus sae prayea sir Jasper in a frightful whisper), would f ho in mercy walk softer? My lady was nsieep. tier laaysnip J2"(J. eo un well, bo indisposed, that she. Megrim, had seen the moment when she must send for the apothecary and have Sir Jasper locked for all over Bath. Sir Jasper did not seem to realize it, but . my lady was of a delicate complexion; a tender flower! A harsh look from Sir Jasper, an unkind word, much less cruel treatment, and she would slip through his fingers. Aye, that she would! , - ': . y i . S Kir Jasper cast a lowering suspicious look around. lie glared at the woman, at the corners of the room, at the closed door. lie felt his hot Jealousy sicken and turn green and yellow within him. lie stretched out his hand toward the lock of his wife's door; but Mistres3 Megrim cam? between him and his purpose 'with determined movement, her stout bustcreaking in its ' tight stays. "No," said she, "no. Sir Jasper, unless it be across my dead -corpse!" Here she trembled very much and grew red about the eyes and nose. 'Tshawr said Sir Jasper, and walked away down the stairs again and Into the empty, lighted drawing room. First he halted by the window, where Lady Standish had stood and smiled upon Lord Vemey. Then he went to her writing desk and laid his hand upon the casket where she kept her correspondence; then, withdrawing it with a murmured curse, turned to the chair where she sat and lifted up her bag of silks. But thia he tossed from him without drawing the strings. Another moment and his eye caught the gleam of the letter so artfully hidden and exposed by Mistress Bellairs. He picked It tip and surveyed it. It bore no address, was vaguely perfumed and fell temptingly open to his hand. He Epread the sheet and saw the ruddy curl. Then his eyes read In spite of himself, and as he read the blood rush ed to his brnin and turned him giddy, and he sank on the settee and tore at the ruffles at his neck. 'For a moment he sutToeatetL. With recovered breath came a fury as voluptuous as a rapture. ' lie brought the paper to the light and examined the love lock. Red!" said he. "Red!" He thought of Lord Verney's olive face and looked and glared at the hair again as if he disbelieved his senses. Red! Were there two of them, a black and a ruddy? Stay. Oh, women were sly devils! Lord Verney was a blind. This, this carrot Judas was the con soler! "There was a patch above the dimple at the corner of yourv jp. i dreamed I kissed it. Sir Jasper gave a sort of roar. in his soul, which issued from his lips in a broken groan. The dimple and the patch! Aye, he had seen them! Only,, a few short hours ago he had thought to kiss that dimple with a hushand'3 lordly pleasure. That dimple set for another man! "Blast them! Bla3t them!" cried Sir Jasper, and clinched his hands above his head. The world went round with him, ami everything turned the color of blood. The next Instant he was cold again, chiding himself for his passion. He must be calm, calm for his venge ance. This lock he must trace to Its parent head no later than tonight If he had to, scour the town., lie sat down, stretched the fatal missive before him ad sat staring at lt.' . It was thus that a visitor, who was Would Scratch ahl Tear, the Flesh Unless Hands rare Tied Wasted to a Skeleton Jwful suffering for Over a YearCrew Worse Under Doctors Skin Wow Clear. WOULD HAVH DIED BUT FOR CUTICURA. t- : "My little son, henfabout a year ana a nail old, began o have sores ooma out on his fafe. had a phyid treat him. tmtjthe sores grew 1rote. Then they bejjui to come on niarms, then on otJSer parts of his boitiy, and then one came on his chest, worse than the Others. Then I callAd .another nhv'iclan. Still he grew yorse. At the end of about a year andf a half of suffering he grew 60 bad I had to tie his hands in cloths at nigh fc to keep him from scratching the sores nd tearing the flesh. "He got to be a tnere skeleton, and was hardly able , to walk. My Aunt advised me to tryfhiticura Soap and Ointment. So groat was her faith in it that she gave-me a small piece of Soap to try and H little of the Ointment.I took it, home without any faith, but to pleaie her I tried it, and it seemed to dry Jnp the sores a little. "I sent to thi drug store and got a cake of the Sorf and a box of the Ointment and flowed the directions, and at the enufof about two months the sores all well. He has never had any fibres of any kind since. "He is now I strong and healthy, and I can sincerely say that only for your most wonderful remedies my precious child would have died from those terrible sorts. I used only one cake of Soap ana about three boxes of Ointment, Xsigned) Mrs. Egbert Sheldon, R. F I)., No. 1, Wood- , ville. 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EGERTON CASTLE Pride of Jcnnico" B Y EGERTON C.A.S T L E announced as Captain bpicer, present ly found him. Captain Spicer was an elongated young gentleman, with tendency to strabism, attired in the 1 "No. Sir Jasper." extreme of fashion. He minced for ward, bowing and waving white hands with delicately crooked fingers. Ills respect he presented to Sir Jas per. He had not up to this had the pleasure and honor of Sir Jasper s ac quaintance, but was charmed of the opportunity any opportunity which should afford him that pleasure and honor. Might he, might he? He extended a snuffbox, charmingly enameled, and quivered it toward his host. Sir Jasper had risen stiffly. In his dull eye there was no response. "You do not, then?" queried Captain Spicer, himself extracting a plncbTflnd Inhaling it with superlative elegance and the very last turn of the wrist. "And right, my dear sir! A vicious habit. Yet positively," said he, and smiled engagingly, "without it, I vow, I could not exist from noon to midnight. But then it must be pure Macabaw. Anything short of pure Maeabaw, fie, fie!" Sir Jasper shook himself and interrupted with a snarl: "To what, sir, do I owe the honor?" "I come," said Captain Spicer, "of course you have guessed, from 1 my Lord Verney. There was a trifle, I believe, about ha the shape of his nether limbs." Upon so private a matter, sir, as his ahem nether limbs a gentleman cannot brook reflection. You will comprehend that my Lord Verney felt hurt, Sir Jasper; nurt! I myself, familiar as I am with his lordship, have never ventured to " hint, to him even the name of a hosier, though I know a genius in that line, sir, a fellow who has a gift a divine Inspiration, I may say in dealing with these intimate details. But, sir, delicacy, delicacy!" Sir Jasper meanwhile had lifted the letter from the table and was advancing upon Captain Spicer, ponderingly looking from the lock of hair in his hand to that young gentleman's head, which, however, was powdered to such a nicety that it was quite impossible to tell the color beneath. '. "Sir,' interrupted he at this juncture'xcuse me, but I should be 'glad to know if you wear your hair or a .wig?" Captain Spicer leaped a step back and looked in amaze at the baronet's earnest countenance. "Egad!" he thought to himself. "Verney's In the right of It, the fellow's mad. Ha! ha!" said he aloud. "Very good, Sir Jasper; very good. A little conundrum, eh? 'Rat me, I love a riddle." He glanced toward the door. Sir Jasper still advanced upon him as he retreated. "I asked you, sir," he demanded with an ominous rise in his voice, "if you wore your own hair?" ("The fel low looks frightened," he argued in ternally. " 'Tls monstrous suspicious!" "IT cried the captain, with his back against the door, fumbling for the han dle as he stood. "Fie, fie! Who wears a peruke nowadays, unless it be your country cousin? He, he. How warm the night Is!" Sir Jasper had halted opposite to him and was rolling a withering eye over his countenance. His mealy face is so painted," said the unhappy baronet to himself, "that devil take him If I can guess the color of the fellow." His hand 'dropped ir resolute by his side.. Beads of per spiration sprang on Captain Spicer's forehead. "If I ever carry a challenge to a madman again ! thought he. "Your hair is very well powdered,' said Sir Jasper. 4 Oh, it is so. It is as you say poudre a la Mferechale, sir," said the captain, while under his persevering finger the door handle slowly turned An aperture yawned behind him. In a twinkling his slim figure twisted. doubled and was gone. "Hey, hey!" cried Sir Jasper. "Stop, man, stop! Our business together has but Just begun." But Captain Spicer had reached the street door. "Look to your master,' said he to the footman. "He is ill, very ill!" Sir Jasper came running after him into the hall. ' "Stop him, fools V cried he to his servants, and then in the next breath, "Back!" he ordered. And to himself he murmured, " Tis never he. That sleek, fluttering idiot never grew so crisp a curl, nor wrote so sturdy a hand no, nor kissed a dimple! Kissed a dimple! SMeath!" CHAPTER V. S he stood turning the seething brew of his dark thoughts there came a pair of knowing raps upon the street door and

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and cry the friends he was expecting. "Ah, Jasper, lad," cried Tom Stafford, and struck him upon his shoulder, "lying in wait for us? Gad, you're a bloodthirsty fellow!" "An! quite right," said Colonel Villiers, clinking spurred legs and flinging off a military cloak. "Zouads, man, would you hare him sit down in his dishonor?" Sir Jasper stretched a hand to each, and, holding him by the elbows, they entered his private apartment and closed the door with such carefulness that the tall footmen had no choice but to take it in turns to listen and peep through the keyhole. "Tom," said Sir Jasper, "Colonel Villiers, when I begged you to favor me with this interview I was anxious for your services because, as I told you, of a strong suspicion of Lady Standish's csisconduct. Now, , gentlemen, doubt is no longer possible. I have the proofs." "Come, come, Jasper, never be downhearted," cried jovial Tom Stafford. "Come, sir, you have been too fond of the little deara in your day not to know what tender, yielding creatures they are. .'Tis their nature, wan. And then", must they not follow the mode? j Do you want to be the only husband In Bath whose wife is not in the fashion? Tut, tut! So long as you can measure a sword for it and let a little blood, why, 'tis all in the day's fun." "Swords?" gurgled Colonel Villiers. "Xo.no; pistols are the thing, boy. You are never sure with your sword; 'tis but a dig in the ribs, a slash in the arm, and your pretty fellow looks all the prettier for his pallor and is all the more likely to get prompt consolation in the proper quarter. Ha!" "Consolation!" cried Sir Jasper as if the word were a blow. ."Whereas with your bullet," said the colonel, "in the lungs or in the brain at your choice the job is done as neat as can be. Are you a good hand at the barkers, Jasper?" "Oh, I can hit a haystack," said Sir Jasper. But he spoke vaguely. "I am for the swords whenever you can," cried comely .Stafford, crossing a pair of neat legs as he spoke and caressing one rounded calf with a loving hand. " Tis a far more genteel weapon. Oh, for the feel of the blades, the pretty talk, as it were, of one with the other!" - "Silence, Tom," growled the colonel. "Here is no matter for jesting. This friend of ours has had a mortal af front, has he not? 'Tis established. Shall he not mortally avenge himself upon him who has robbed him? That is the case, is it not? And. blast me. fs not til pistol tne ceadner weapon and therefore the most suited? Hey?" Sir Jasper made an inarticulate sound that might have passed for assent or dissent or merely- as an ex pression of excessive discomfort of feeling. To business then," cried Colonel Villiers. "Shall I wait upon Lord Ver ney and suggest pistols at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning in Hammer's fields? That is where I generally like to place such affairs snug enough to be out of disturbers way and far enough to warm the blood with a brisk walk." "But stay!" cried Stafford, as Sir Jasper writhed in his armchair, clinch ed and unclinched furious hands and felt the curl of red hair burn him where he had thrust it into his bosom. Stay," cried Stafford, "we are going too fast, I think. Do I not unerstand from our friend here that he called Lord Verney a rat? Sir Jasper Is therefore himself the Insulting party and must wait for Lord Verney's action in the matter." ' r I protest," cried the colonel, "the first Insult was Lord Verney's in com promising our friend's wife." Pooh, pooh," exclaimed Stafford, recrossing his legs to bring the left one into shapely prominence this time. that is but the Insult Incidental. But to call a man a rat, that is the insult direct. Jasper is therefore the true challenger. The other has the choice of arms. It is for Lord Verney to send to our friend." - Sir!" exclaimed the colonet, growing redder about the gills than nature and port wine had already made him. "Sir, would you know better than I?" "Gentlemen," said Sir Jasper, sitting up suddenly, "as I have just told you, 6ince I craved of your kindness that you would help me in this matter, I have made discoveries that alter the complexion of the affair very materi ally. I have reason to believe that if Lord Verney be guilty in this matter it is in a very minor way. You know what they call In France un chandelier. Indeed, It is my conviction such is female artfulness that he has merely been made a puppet of to shield another person. It is this person I must find first and upon him that my vengeance must fall before I can attend to any other business. Lord Verney indeed has already sent to me, but his friend, Captain Spicer, a poor fool (somewhat weak in the head, I believe), left suddenly, without Ofir coming ,to any conclusion. Indeed, I do not regret it I do not seek to fight with Lord Verney now. "Gentlemen," said Sir Jasper, rising and 'drawing the letter from his breast, "gentlemen, I shall neither eat nor sleep till I have found out the owner of this curl!" He shook out the letter as he spoke and fiercely thrust the telltale love token under the noses of his amazed friends. "It is a red haired man, you see! There lives no red haired man in Bath but him I must forthwith spit or plug, lest the villain escape me!" Colonel Villiers started to his feet with a growl like that of a tiger aroused from slumber. "Zounds!" he exclaimed. "An Insult!" "How!" cried Jasper, turning upon him and suddenly noticing the sandy hue of his friend's bushy eyebrows. "You, you? Pooh, pooh! Impossible, and yet "Colonel Villiers, sir," cried Sir Jasper in awful tones, "did you write this letter? Speak yes or no, man! Speak, or must I drag the words from your throat?" Purple and apoplectic passion well nigh stifled Colonel ViUiers. "Stafford, Stafford," he spluttered, "you are. witness. These are gross affronts affronts which shall be wiped out." . . Did yon write that letter? Yes oi nor screamed Sir Jasper, shaking the offending document iotae colonel's convulsed countenance. -.. "IT cried' the colon eJ aiid&

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I w.ke sch brinistocp nonsense? So." sir! ' Xow. Sir Jes;er how dare you ask rae sucli a question?" "No." said Sir Jasper, "of course no; Ah, I arna'faol. Villiers. Fcrglve inc There's no quarrel between us. Xo, of course it could not be you. With that nose, that walstcont. your sixty years! I am going mad!" "Why, man." said Stafford, as soon as he could speak for laughing, "Villiers has not so much ha!r oa all his head as you bold In your hand there. Off with your wig. Villiers. off with your wig. and let your bald pate proclaim its shining Innocence." The gallant gentleman thus addressed was by this time black in the face. Panting as to breath, disjointed as to speech, his fury had nevertheless Its .well defined purpose. ; J'l have been Insulted, I have been insulted."he gaeped. "The matter cannot end here. Sir Jasper, you have insulted me. I am a red haired man, sir. I shall send a friend to call upon you." "Xay, then," said Sir Jasper, "since 'tis so betwet-n us I will even assure myself that Tom has spoken the truth and give you something to fight for!" lie stretched out his hand as he spoke and plucked the wig from Colonel Villiers bead. Before him indeed spread so complete an expanse of hairless candor that further evidence was not necessary; yet the few limp hairs that lingered behind the colonel's ears, if they had once been ruddy, shone now meek'y silver In the candlelight. "I thank you," said Sir Jasper; "that is sufficient. When you send your friend to call upon me I shall receive him with pleasure." He handed back the colonel's wig with a bow. The colonel stood trembling; his knotted hand Instinctively fumbled for his sword. But remembering perhaps that this was eminently a case for pistols he bethought himself, seized his wig," clapped It on defiantly, settled it with miiute care, glared, vrneeletl round and left the room, muttering as he went remarks of so sulphurous a nature as to defy recording. Sir Jasper did not seem to give him another thought. He fell into his chair again and spread out upon his knee the sorely crumpled lettter. "Confusion!" said he. "Who can it be? Tom, you scamp, I know your hair is brown. Thou art not the man. Tom. Oh, Tom, oh, Tom, if I do not kill him I shall go mad!" Stafford was weak with laughter, and tears rolled from his eyes as he gasped: "Let us see. Who can the Judas be;(This is the best joke I have knowr for years. Oh. Lord, the bald head of him! Oh, Jasper, 'tis cruel funny.' Stab me, sir, If I have E&own a better laugh these ten years!) Nay, nay, 1 will help thee. Come, there's his lord ship the bishop of Bath and Wells. II is red, I know, for I have seen him ii i the water. He was like a boiled lob j ster, hair and a? Could it be he think-m'' " ' - - -way. thes; I

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Oivmes, i w y t;::iu.iw ;i . cate conscience. Slie would Hk? i!k approval of the c hurch upon her deed Nay. never gSarc-Ii-e that, for I . wK not lig'at you! Have a not Z-)t you: rosary cf red polls to te 1 Ori? Un There is O'llsra. He is. Irish euou and red enough. Ob. he is red enough ! "O'Hara!" cried S"r Jasper, struck. There came a fiin rat-tat-tat at tlu door, a parley in the hall, und tin servant aunounoetl Mr. Denis O'Hara Talk of the devil." said Stafford. Sir Jasper rose from his aruichai: with the air of one whose enemy is de livered into- his hands.

CHAPTER VI. HE Hon. Denis O'Hara, soi and- heir of Viscount Kil croney in the peerage of Ire land, entered with a swift anu easy step, and saluted airily. He, had a merry green eye, and the red of hi.crisp hair shTThe out through the powder like a winter sunset through e mist. "Sir Jasper." said he, "your servant sir. Faith, Tom, me boy, is that you The top of the evening to ye." .Uninvited he took a chair and flun; his careless figure upon it. His joint were loose, his nose aspired, his rid lace ruffles were torn, bis haudsonu coat was buttoned awry; Irishma: was stamped upon every line of hlr from his hot red head to his slim alert foot; Irishman lurked in ever;. rich accent of his ready tongue. Sir Jasper made no doubt that now Lothario was before him. lie turned to Stafford and caught him by the wrist. "Tom," whispered he, "you will stand by me, for by my immortal soul, I will fight it out tonight r "Be quiet," whispered the other, who began to think that the jealous husband was getting beyond a joke. "Let us hear what the fellow has got t3 say first. The devil! I will not stand by to see you pink every auburn buck in the town. 'Tis stark lunacy." "But 'tis you yourself," returned Sir Jasper in his tierce undertone "you yourself who told me it was he. See, but look ai this curl and at that head." "Oh, flummery!" cried Stafford. "Let him speak, I say.1 "When you have done your - little conversation, gentlemen," said Mr. O'Hara good naturedly, "perhaps you will let me put in a word edgeways?" Sir Jasper, under his friend's compelling hand, sank into a chair. His sinews well nigh creaked with " the constraint he was putting upon himself. (To Be Continued.) A New Grain Exchange. Dublin, Ind., Oct. 8. (Splf Will Woodward of this place will jjonduct a grain exchange in Cambridge City He is an energetic young man. Bean the Big nature of The Rind You Have Always Bought CvUaDini tio9

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