Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 98, 25 April 1907 — Page 9

The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram, Thursday, April 25, 1907.

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Marclh ' yTr. Hornung, who is known thief ty in America as the author of "Raffles," is at present perhaps the most popular writer of fiction in England. This story, The Rogue's March,' is a remarkable piece of work. ' It hinges upon' an absorbing mystery, which the reader wilt almost certainly fail to fathom until the secret is revealed by the author in its proper place. It is a story of adventures many, of sacrifice and of faithful love ; of an heroic soul wronged, degraded, emhruied, and yet not lost a story which holds the interest of the reader to the last line, and which ie will never forget. CHAPTER I. J'X the jear 3837 and on a -rearm, moist April mornins there knocked at a modest lodging house In . ' Rolls buildings. Fetter lane, a recent lodger who could "no longer afford -ven the attic'a trifling rent. So now lie made his Led In the parks of the metropolis or in the damp green fields outside. And for all he professed to care, the damp waa welcome to kill him If only it would kill outright. The man was very fair and spare, Lut of a medium height- Ilis hands end feet were notably small, the wrists anil uruis a little deceptive. These looked lean, but were made of muscle and quickened with hot, keen blood. lie was very young; but, though as a fact not five and twenty, the thin, sardonic," reekk3 face looked half as old figain. An abldla; bitterness had curled the full nostril?, deepening the lines thence to the sensitive red lips and drawing the latter too habitually apart tipen set teeth or a sneer,. . Nor was the bitterness of the kind sown in proud hearts by capricious circumstance and crushing but net dishonorable defeat. It was rather the Dead sea fruit of willful riot and a contemptible, impenitent remorse. And yet in the full brown eye and lifted chin, as in the 111 clad, well carried figure, there was a lingering something that was gallant end fine and aelonai;. "To this losryouth-the door in Rolls tmilfiinjs was opened by' a gray haired woman, who nodded knowingly in reenoneo o an inquiry for letters and handed one over with an invitation to .enter and read it within. But the kindly words fell on inattentive ears, booking .fondly and yet fearfully at , the superscription to Thomas Erichsen, Esq., and the rest the needy owner of that name suddenly pocketed his letter with unbroken seals. He was turning as abruptly away when the Mank face of bis former landlady led him to pause a moment. "Xo, bless you. no! It's not from Mm," said Erlchseu grimly. "This is from a friend I met yesterday, who would insist on having my address. "What was I to do? I thought you "wouldn't mind, so I gave my last." "Mind! It is your address and might be your ome if you wasn't that igh and 'aughty. Dear, dear, dear! So you're not 'heard from that villain yet?" "Not a line." "Nor of hlmr "Not a word. Give me time. If 1 don't root him out by this day monthwell, then he's fled the country like a sensible man." .'j "But what if you do?" demanded the landlady, who was herself directly interested In the event. "What if I do, Mrs. Adcock? Well, I shall probable half murder him, to beKin with. He has wholly ruined me. Yes, it will be my money and your money or his life. He knows it, too, If he's got my letters. Feel the weight of that!" And he put in her hands a heavy ash Ptlck, green and sinewy, with the knob

-.tlll creamy fronrtbe knife. ,' "Lord, save nsl" cried the wonmn.

"Is this the rod in pickle for him?-' . "ThatVtlu rod in pickle. Nice and heavy. l?njt 1t 7 "Too eavy, Mr. Erlchsen. Too 'eavy ... ly alf. I'd show no mercy to thieve : and swindlers, but I should be vcrj careful what I did with that. . wouldn't take the law into my own X hands if I were you." "You wouldn't?" cried he. "Not If i you'd been cleaned out as I have by a blackguardly a dodge? By the Lor that made him, I'd break every bon lt his infernal body and will, too,' if find him and he won't pay up. I'll pa; hlm! I grant you it was my ow: i. cursed fault in the beginning. Bu what about that last 35?. Who g that? Why am I rotting and starvir here?-; Who threw me on .the mercy kind, good folks like you yes. nn made a sponge of me in my turn Whose doing is it that I've sot to par. the clothes -ff my bark or beg n meals, to tramp the streets all dav. t lie all night ia the fields" "Your own!, exclaimed the wonia coming hastily down ,. from the pfc. upon which she had been standing r' this time. "It's your own fault, is tha, however. -You know well It isn't mine Our a trie has hen empty, ever sine It is impossible., tp; keep healthy if the digestion i s bad.! The Bitters, being absolutely pure, will tone the digestive system and cure Poor,, Appetite Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Costivene-ss or Female Ills.

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By E.W.HORNUNG..1 Etc. Copj.-iiJt. 189'. y CHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS. you went You're welcome to it untl. It's wanted again If only yrfu'll come back. Nay, sir, I do assure you I'd rather have you for nothing than most of them that pays. Come back tonight or I'm sure I sha'n't sleep a wink for thinking of you- .Come in now, and I'll get you some nice ot breakfast." Erichsen held out his hand. "No, no," said he. "I owe you quite enough already, Mrs. Adcock. Besides, I'm -as strong as a horse and doing much better than you think. But the world is full of kindness after all, and God bless you for yours!" And his dark eyes, that but now ba-d flashed and burned with bitter fires that were far "more striking always for a shock of ' almost flaxen hair stood full of tears. He could say no more, but only wring the dry, chapped hand in his. Then he was gone and might have been seen a little later hurrying with bent head toward Teniple Bar or later yet spread at full length In that green asylum of his homeless days, the southwest corner of St. James park. And here he read the letter from his friend. It began on one 6lde of the large white paper and ended on the next. The girlish handwriting was pitifully tremulous, but yet instinct with a self reliance then uncommon in young English ladies. The letter ran: A venue Ixdge, Regent's Park, April 26. ' : Darling What doe It mean? I was picturing you in Calcutta when I saw you this afternoon , in Piccadilly! I had been thinking about -you just then I always am and thrc you were! . Oh, my dar ling, what can It mean? Tell m quickly, or I anal! go mad with anxiety, as I nearly did on the spot this afternoon. Com here, as you love me, and tell me all! Darling, what can It be that has kept you here and so allent all this time, or did you go out and come straight back? 'So: there has not been time. The Jumna sailed on the last day of September, and I have prayed for her safety all these months. I was so sure my love was on board! . Oh, if only I dare have stopped to speak to you a fewmore Seconds! -The grd.om was -en close behind.' But, Tom, you seemed not to want to give me your address! I would not have left you without It. And now" I shall come teryou there unless you come to me. You looked so sad and ill, my sweetheart! I can see his poor face still! Come and tell me all and let me help you or my heart will break. You are in trouble. I know It and must help you It ia my right. AVe are In the new Avenue road; you will easily find it. The house Is far the largest on the right hand, side as "you come from town. There are fields behind, and our: garden - goes -the farthest back that Is, we have a field of our own walled In with It. and there Is a green gate in the - wall. It is kept locked, but 1 will be there at 9 o'clock tomorrow (Thursday) night, and so must you. Be there for my sake and tell me all. i I have written the moment I got In. I will post it myself. Dear Tom. do not be hard on this girl If you think her overbold, for she loves you, she loves you and would give her life to make yours happy! Your own true CLAIRE. Twenty-eight mortal hours to wait. I shall hear my heart beating as I hear it now, as I have heard it ever since I saw that sad, sad face until I see It again! - When Thomas Erlchsen came to the end of this passionate, pure love letter he burled his face in the sweet spring grass and lay immovable with a grief too great for tears. The. sounds of London (louder then than now) boomed and rattled in his ears. To those of his soul a "brave soft voice was whispering the last godspeed, while his own, the more broken of the two, was vowing not only eternal constancy, but eternal goodness and an" honest life for her sake. ' '-.' ,v lie could jsee the steady gray eyes in them again nor ever more defile with his the brave Hps that had trembled, truly, but yet spoken comfortablewords up to the end. And here Tom lay in culrable poverty and dishonorable rags, fallen already to an ultimate deep. So now, too late, as through the gates of hell, must come this message of angelic love! He read It again, tore off the clean half sheet and, sitting cross legged, wrote as follows in pencil upon his knee: It means that I am a blackguard and no longer worthy to be even your friend. The Jumna was ten days beh'nd her advertised time of sailing, and I was miserable. You might have pitied me then; I neither ask nor deserve any pity now. I had vile thoughts. Even if I made my fortune, your father would hate my father's son forever and I him so It could never be. . You would marry In due course. How could you help yourr elf? Those were my thoughts. And then X met a friend! lie showed me the town. He helped me to forget. He won most of my money tnd took the rest by fraud. .1 never even booked my passage. And now I only live to spill the fellow's blood. But that's all he did. He didn't disgrace me. I disgraced myself and broke all my promises to the noble girl of whom I never was worthy and must therefore e her no more. It would be no good. Why should I insult you too? I have done so enough In coming to this. Simply forget me. for I am not worth your scorn.. Korget me utterly. I am too ashamed to ign my name. This he folded tip, addressed with his pencil and sealed (ia a. fashion) with the wafers which had been used already. Her lips had touched them before his. Then he sat where he was and noted the other moral corpses stretched upon that daily battlefield and wondered If any of them had wrecked their lives as willfully as he his. And then he thought of his father's white tiafrs" and" thanked God they had won to the grave without th?9 to bring them there. - ; " Then he lay down is gain-and wres tled with hunger and angXiisbr" alternately and both together. It was evening, whea- he left the "park-, heavily laclcn with a fact remembered on the way. He lacked the price of" a two penny stamp. Not a farthing had he left nor a thing to pawn save his long silk purse so Ignobly emptied, and that had been his father's before html It should not go even for. this, yet the letter must. Then how J V - He sat down again, on a bench, for he was weak for want of food, and in

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inous was Its flash. - He might take I . letter and leave ithjuisei. in the keyhole of the garden gate-. Why not? Then she would get it at once that eveninguv uui: lir uau an i r 6 cu 'iii t ye asons la the lerte!jrtJfr Aud aje r he would' he juuA-J fi e hebt f ler he wouM he jutm-d f' its far assTtaat gardeof gatg Vo the fipions in -tetter'leldtfg. Indeed. And how weak iv be himself the first to fly In their face! But, then, wenkness" was his present portion. L.""TV .T -"--4 auu 6Liuugi?r omy 10 see uer iuye uuys more," only "to hear her' voice; -although It lashed him with the reproaches he so richly deserved. Yet he did not give 'Ileadt I go and tail I don't. Sudden death.: - v In without a kind of struggle. He had become a gambler, and a gambler's compromise occurred to. him now. " This waa, when-the yellow London sun was setting, a little after 7 o'clock. About twenty minutes, past several of the Letter favored pedestrians in Pali Mall were accosted by a timid ragamuffin with a ghastly face who begged the loan of a penny, and -was- rightly treated to deaf ears, but at length a dapper vn.i. "7 ;M n loag bottle At the Theaters Theatrical Calendar. GENNETT. - - ' April 25 "Dora Thorne." April 27 "When Knighthood Was in Flower." ., I. PHILLIPS. Week of April 22 Repertoire. Repertoire at the Phillips. Beginning this afternoon the Jesmond stock com pan y, at the New Phillips, is presenting "The Whole Dam Family," which is no doubt one of the most amusing productions in the entire repertoire of this company. The play is one of the spirited kind that a majority of New Phillips patrons like and combined with the vaudeville features offered will provide an evening or afternoon of much "entertainment. On Friday afternoon, following the performance, a reception will again be given to the ladies and children, and on Saturday there will be a special matinee for the Cliildren. Coinljjjue'd stock and vaudeville has been found very satisfactory at thelNew that iridetrce . this fact. "When Knighthood Waa. in- Flower." Of Miss Grace Merritt, who will bo seen at the Gennett Saturday afternoon and night as "Mary Tudor" in "When Knighthood Was. In Flower," tin New York papers say: - - World: "A large audience greeted Miss Grace Merritt, when she opened her season in 'When Knighthood Was in Flower. The star won her audience from the moment she stepped on the stage. The entire company is admirable, and the production and costumes exceedingly fine." .Herald: "Miss Merritt was well receives-. the audience after the scene with King Henry, and again at the end of the play, giving her several curtain calls." Times: , "Miss Merritt played the role . of the Princess Mary with versatility and -charm." - - Dramatic News: "It was a delight to see so young and charming a madcap princess."

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Tw v, 1 .-ita witu an oatn iUid a-.twiaionitf. ejfs-..... , . -''Lead ,you oae!" eried he. "I ike that! What d'ye mean by it. eh?" "Wh.nt I say. I ask the loan of the smallest coin you've got and your pardon for the liberty." " ,

"Praivwhcu sLaJl L-SUe ft again you ve-. a rum uu. ,you artv Here 3 your brown" -Thank y'du." siiid Erkfisen'and balanced it on his riyht thumbnail. "Now you stand by and see fair play. Heads I g- and tails I don't. Sudden death. Let it-fall clear.' , I lis -beggar's maimers (such as these were) had been forgotten on the Instant. The coin rang upon the paving stone with his words. :""jread it Is!" cried the owner, on his" haunches with his fine, long coat in the dust. "Then I'm unspeakably obliged to you," replied the fervent beggar, returning .the penny. "No. noI.-Hc.ng it all! I'm a sportsman myself. You're a man of my kidney, and you hadn't even a brown to toss with. Oblige me by taking this' yellow boy. No, curse it! I beg your pardon I might have seen. At least, sir, you, will joia me at the tavern to show there's no ill feeling? A cut off the joint, I think, and a tankard of stout. What say you? I feel peekish myself. Come, come, or you'll offend me." " : - But the eyes "which his miseries had left dry were dim again at the kindness of the world, and Toni Erichsen had not spoken because he could not. "May I live to repay tlii a," he muttered now. "If will, be my first bite since yesterday." ' And in anothe. hour it was a new man who was pushing forward with such brisk steps upon the high road to Avenue Lodge and his appoin'ed fate. Moreover, the currents of other lives than his had been deflected for good or evil by the spin of that borrowed coin. - CHAPTER II. T FIE household at Avenue Lodge ' consisted "at this period of Nicholas Harding, M. P., J. P. ' (also of Fish Street Hill. E. C, and Winwood Hall, Suffolk); his fire daughters, his manservants and maid GRACE MERRITT - i 1 1

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"When Knighthood Was In Flower" at Gennett Theater, . And Night.

Repertoire at Gennett. In addition to a full acting company of ' the very best popular priced players obtainable, headed ' by euch well known people as Harry North and Miss Virginia Goodwin, the North Bros, comedians, playing .at the Gennett for a return engagement beginning Monday, April 29, are accompanied, by the . only lady orchestra traveling with a. repertoire , company. This splendid organization consists of th-3 most finished musicians who will plav and sing one half hour before each performance. The company also carries a complete change of specialties for every performance and present only the best of high class productions. The company will open Monday night

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servants duu u certain stranger within his gates. Nicholas Harding was fifty years of age and a widower for the second time. H- was a big, blond, jovial. loud, overbearing man. without a gray hair In hU massive reddish head or a sign of itorrow tipon hJs healthy, pink, domineering fac. Yet private bereavement .was int,tbe only to I fortune that had fallen . to a" lot'., otherwise enviable enough. Since the last general election a little charge of flagrant bribery had found its way even to an assize court, where It had indeed broken down, but riot-in a fashion wholly satisfactory to the accused. An important witness had refused to open his mouth, as some said because he was well paid by Mr. Harding to keep it shut uJ endure the penalty. In any event the charge was not permitted to he withdrawn, but the action merely dismissed to allow of a new trial, of which nothing had been heard up to the present tiaie. But a naked sword thus dangled over Nicholas Harding's ruddy, hard head, whose true temper the situation served to prove. So far from resigning his seat he returned to the house' with a shrug and a half smile and in the whole matter continued to bear himself with such modest gallantry as to remove the prejudices of many who had at 'first sided with the enemy. Claire' was not yet twenty-one. The only child of his first wife, Claire had never occupied the place of the younger ones in her father's affections, had been consistently repressed in childhood, but had since contrived to please that critic by her clever management of an enlarged establishment. Indeed, the girl had come home from school very capable and shrewd and self possessed, with an admirable drawing room manner and even better qualities of which Mr. Harding would 'have thought less, so they were carefully hidden from his view, for Claire had also her faults and was both secretive and politic in the home circle as a result of that early repression and injustice. Given that cause and this effect and some clandestine folly may be counted upon in nine cases out of ten "and Claire's was not the tenth. It came about at Winwood Hall, the Suffolk shooting box where the family bad spent the last three autumns. Nicfc'-- " - '' 'f-nn thre In

AS "MARY TUDOR." Saturday Matinee and will give daily matinees beginning Tuesday. This will be the third visit of the North Brothers to the Gennett and on previous visits they did a big business. "Dora Thorne" Gennett. No expense was spared in getting up the production of the new novel play of "Dora Thorne," and that the producing managers knew what they were about is shown by the excellent support. the public is giving this splendid play. The success of "Dora Thorne," by Bertha M. Clay, has been instantaneous and far beyond anything in the popular priced amusemeit field this season. This popular play will be seen at the Gennett tonight.

charuv.... ... j quarreling with the gentle, white haired parson iwho would yet be neither domineered nor overborne by an .interloping Lon-

the church, glc'-e, rectory or any communication with its inmates from that day forth.' A -'week or two Hater Jhe came full upon Claire and the rector's Kile son comparing ; botes in the lata?, and a pretty sceue ensued. Mr. Hardlug shook his stick at the lad, who snatched it frouf liirnvahd snapped "it across his knee. Claire was Imprisoned' under lock and key for faur and twen. " ty hours, and youn;? .Tom Lrichser shinned up the wa'.erspout and s.at or her window sill wLi'e Cue rest were at 'dinner. But' this !an J 'succeeding inci dents never can.e to the ears of Nlcho las Hardin.:. And partly in reveu-.r for the InJi,TuIty to which she had been subjected and partly by reason of those adventitious traits already touch ed upon, the motherless &udthen all but friendless Claire dlabeyed and in trlgued thenceforward wi thou t a qualm. The single pae known to Nicholas Harding was a thing of the past in his mind. He never thought of it now and for the best of reasons. He firmly believed that Claire intended to marry an entirely different person, of whom he himself most cordially approved, and It made him for the first time as cordially approve of Claire. And Claire on a sudden divined It all and saw (also for the first time) the J false position In which she had placed herself and yet never regretted it. but rather gloried in having the least little thing to suffer for Tom's sake. Now, the other man in her mind and in Nicholas Harding's, too, was the Btranger within their gates. James Edward William, Sir Emilius Dalntree's son and heir to the baronetcy and entailed estates, was a melancholy, brooding bachelor little worse than thirty years of age. Unlike Mr. Harding, however, 'he looked much older, with ' his swarthy, saturnine countenance and the white threads in the coal black whiskers that curled beneath his deep set chin. His lines had fallen in very different places from those of Mr. Harding. He had spent most of his restless life abroad. His eoul had been burdened "with "a very different ttwnperament; he had that of a poet, and his manhood had been poisoned at the fount' by one of those wretched family quarrels which redound to nobody's credit and of which the outside world never get the rights. It was only known that Sir Emllius and his son had not been on speaking terms for years. Such sympathy as is felt in. these matters was entirely on the side of the son. The present baronet waa not a populate man. His character was eccentric and his morals so notorious that In many quarters the quarrel was from the first considered creditable to young Daintree. When, however, after an absence of eight years the lattei came home on leave from New South Wales, where he was a magistrate and a mau of some importance and more promise In the young colony, and when the old savage, his father, not ouly still refused a reconciliation, but publicly cut his sou on every possible occasion, then well, the--' -indignation, might have been greater had James Daintree been himself a more popular man. But the truth was he had come home a morbid, sensitive misanthropist, and this treatment made hiui ten times worse. He was seldom seen by his old friends anywhere, but he happened to make a stanch new oue in the person of Nicholas Hording, whose house, Indeed, became the wanderer's home. Claire's attitude will be readily apprehended. Daintree opene'l his bruised heart to her, and site considered his father the most abominable old man alive. It was at Avenue IKlge that a parcel of faded, flowers arrived for Daliree and drove him almost -crazy with rage and grief. He had plared them a day or two before upon hid. mother's grave. He burst' into a storm of oaths and tears before the girl, who thought the worse of Li iri for neither. Lady Daintree had died the year before. In fixt.'if "was-her death that had brought te butVn'stt-hoiue' foY the" reconciliation for "Wlxlch he pleaded iil vain. He had f' -"!nthv of all who;

The New Phillips Vaudeville Theater O. G. MURRAY, Leasee and Mjjr. G. A.' SCH WENKE, Treas. &. Asst. Mgr.

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, SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT! OF ETHEL DESMOND AD HcEoR?lrVOGK WEEK OF APRIL 22, 19C7. -Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday "LUCIFER, THE DETECTIVE." Thursday, Friday and Saturday "TH E WHOLE DAM FAMILY." Daily Matinees, 10c to all. Evenings. 10c. A Few Seats at 20 . . Box Office Open Every Day. at 10 a. m. Special Matinee each Saturday; children 5 cents. All other matinees, 10 cents, except to children under 5 years. Souvenirs at Wednesday's matinee.

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UlE.IMIME:i I I si bn I nC Lessee nJ nansjer T " ' "URDAY, APRIL" 27, MATINEE AND NIGHT, SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT! Ernest Shipman J MISS GRACE MERRITT and a splendid company of 22 players. The greatest romantto comedy drama ever written. WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER : By Charles Major, Indiana's Favorite Author. - TEMPTATION PRICES Matinee: 25, 35 and 50c. Night: 25, 50, 4 75c and $1.00. 2 SPECIAL NOTICE Positively the first season of this attraction at i popular prices.

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Thursday. April 25 Matinee and Night ROWLAND & COFFORD Present Their Popular and Decidedly Different Version of the Stand- ' ard Success OOIEA. TTlHIOIFaPiJIE Dramatization of Bertha MClays. world-famous Novel. A Play that Has Made Millions Laugh and Cry. All New This Season, Big Pro

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knew him. That of Claire was spontaneous and heartfelt and frank. But it f never blinded her to Dalntree" faults, which were those of a warped.

She cured htm of one or two. But h was a man -with a weight upon his goul, and 'she could not cure him of .that, , She was not told enough. After all," too. her head and her heart were full -of. another,---And thus she was slower to detect the new lover ia the new friend than would'or could have been-'the case In. normal circumstances. - - Indeed, It roisrbt never have dawned upou V her until he spoke but for the calling In of Lady Starkle to lend her distinguished countenance to the first dinner party given by Nicholas Hardlug after his late ordeal. Lady Starkle was a lieutenant general's widow and a shrewd woman of the worldCHAPTER. III. T HE garden was the jtuary one, but with top heavy addi tions beyond and behind Its neighbor on either side. And the arbor, was. so to speak. In the bottle's neck. There was no getting to the meadow without passing within a yard or two of Us rustic portal. There was, however, a shallow shrubbery down cither wall of the original garden, and when Daintree had been alone about a minute the laurels on hi left began a risky rustle in the stillN evening air. Luckily he was already in too dee? a contemplation of his last and angriest wound tj her aught but the girl's voice and his own still rinsing through the arbur. But as for Claire, oue moment she held her breath In horrid certainly that he bad heard; lu another fhe was satlMlod that he had not and had forgotten his existence the next. Indeed, by the time she looked upon the meadow, asleep beneath Its soft ;jray coverlet of "dew, the wide-.world, contained but ono live man, and he was at the gate upou the farther side. Yet was he? Ar6und the meadow ran a gravel path, upon which rh thought her feet pattered loird enough for all -the- world to hear. Then ho dropped the key In reaching St from It accustomed crevice, and it rang upon the gravel.' and In her nervousness sh was an nge fumbling at the lock. Yet no sound of hers brought a word of greeting from the other side. He had not come! As she pulled the gate open she felt certain of it; and then beheld and heard him, advancing shyly through the sibilant grass, with some white thine; In his hand and a young moon Just risen over Primrose bill. "Tom, b1i cried softly, "you aro come! Ob, thank God!, I have kept you" ' ' The words failed upon her parted lips. He stood askance before her, shamefaced and never noticing her tremulous, outstretched hands. Hi own held out to her a folded note. "Read that." he Mid hoarsely. "I am only here because I had not money for the Bt'"n'" (To Bo Continued.) The Price of Health. ' "The price of health in a.nia1artcn district Js just 25 cents; the cost of a box of Dr. King's New Life Pills." writes Ella Slayton, of Noland, Ark. New, Life Pills eleanso gently and Impart new life and vigor to the syitcin. 25c. Satisfaction guaranteed at A. G. Luken & Co. druggists. Soug eutrs lilt j eery "delaiTof tTTi Ojibway Indian's lift. His prayer is a song, as is bis moura::-r for the dad; a relijlcna eerencny l Inconceivable without imi'ierit evea nn essential feature of his grttuuiiic;; the climax of u chiefs mluiv a 1 b'i warrior is a sonc siTTi-". ;:r.--. How to Avoid Appendicitis. Most victims of appendicitis are those, who are habitually constipated. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup cure.chronic constipation by stimulating tle liv.er.and bowels and restores tho -natural' 'action of the bowels. Orino 'Laxative t Fruir Syrup does not nau seate .or jri1pe.oiad is mild aud pleas ant to take. Refuse uubetitutes. A. G. Luken & Co: . , : Saturdays at 2:30 and 8:15 p. m. r-i r- ,ra wishc. A A A A A.Aj 15 to 50c. Seats at Westcott i

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