Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 131, 2 June 1907 — Page 7

The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram,. Sunday, June 2, 1907.

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LYNN, IfJD. i Lynn, Intl., June 1 Miss Ethel Newon. of Richmond, spent Saturday light and Sunday with, her father, eorge Newton. She was accompanied ;ak bv her sister, Opha, who will nend a few days there. Mr. Wra. Schel! has gone back to )hio to finish some building there, lis wife and daughter-in-law, Mrs. ViMam Schell, will go there Tuesday If this week. Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Norton took a rive Sunday- afternoon to visit Mr. id Mrs. YVm. Green, south of town. Mrs. Wm. Anderson, son and grand.ughter, Ed. Miles and Miss Ethel, fell attended decoration at Goshen, nd., Sunday. Mr. James English. Lewis Piatt and laughter Florence, of this place, went Sunday afternoon to pla3r music for Mr. and Mrs. George Newton. Hazel fodgln and Mr. Ketring were there or dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Snrface spent Saturday with their son, Charles and amily, near Carlos City. Their little rrandson came home with them to pen J a few days. Miss Goidie Davis has accepted a osition as clerk for V. P. Bowen, Mrs. Ella Guyer and sen, George, nd Mrs. D. R. Schell attended Decorifon services at Libert 5-. Rev. Rehl preached the memorial ermon at the West Street Christian hurch to a large crowd of people. The Mi Soldiers and the Woman's Relief brp3 marched down to visit B. P. Ireen who was not able to attend the orvices. Mr. snd Mrs. Oscar McCauless and on attended Decoration at Willlamaurg on the "0th. Mr. and Mrs. Wra. Mills attended the funeral of Mrs. Cos Mills at Fountain City, Thursday. Miss Guernzy Abernathy is spending ... , r " ,j . . 1 a tew u:iys wnr. ner uncle's, tiuwcim irrd George Green, near Hartford City, ml. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fle.iher and family, Mr. John Cloyd and daughter, . nd Mrs. Nora Rees of Red Key, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Newton Thursday and Friday. GREENSFOBK, IND. Greensfork, Ind., June 1. Horace Floj-d, who is attending Purdue is spending a few days at home. The Indies Aid society of the Friends church will give an ice cream festival in Kienzle s hall Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Bond and son, spent Tuesday with relatives in Richmond. Rev. M. Foster and wife have re turned to their home in Carthage after a few days visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Will Roller are spend ing a few das in Indianapolis. Mrs. W. McMahaa of Centervilie, spent Tuesday with Mrs. Mary Brown. Clifforu Crump spent wecnesday in Richmond. Mrs. J. Staufer of Richmond, is vis iting her mother, Mrs. fc.nzaDetn Floyd. Lute Hatfield has returned from a short visit in Indianapolis. Mrs. Thomas Erk is the guest cf relatives In Richmond. Ckas. Stutson of Richmond spent Wednesday here. Clifford Crump rpent Wednesday in Richmond. Mrs. Sade Roller'and son, Robert of Richmond, spent Thursday with relatives here. Mr and Mrs. John Pierce of Richmond were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pierce Thursday. Mrs. Mathew Brooks lias returned from a visit with relatives in Red Key. :.liss Florence Neff spent Friday in Hagerstown. Mrs. Roy Copeland of Cambridge City, is the guest or wuuam ttoya. j Mr nfl Mrs. Tom Gunckel ss.ent j Thursday with, relatives in Williamsburg. R. E. Swallow spent Thursday at his "home in East Germantown. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tarkleson and children spent a few days with relatives in New. Castle this" week. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Moore spent Thursday visiting relatives at Modoc. BuOQNIINGPORT, IND. Bloomir.gton, Ind., June 1 "Dr." Noah Teagle is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Flora Wills is suffering with tonslliti.-?. Clyde Mil!er has purchased a new rubber-tired carriage. W. E. Wric,ht and daughter. Hazel, attended memorial services at Winchester. T. N. Bceson took an automobile ride with Dr. Hir.shaw of Lynn, om- day this week. Jacob Cox of near Winchester, cp1!' .1 0:1 J- L. Nrvpinn last wok ar.d took two hundred of Mr. Newmans V.. I. Red os home with him and j b-ft on order for one hundred more. I .Mrs. James Garrett and Mrs. Levi! Ozbur. were visiting fri:n.1s on Dec-f era ion diy. j Mrs. Stella Bales was visiting hcri f ather. Josiah Sharp at Carlos. Wed- j nesday. Mr. Sharp is not very r.c'.I.' Mr. and Mrs. Horace Ballard aticn.lv1 the Memorial services at Lynn. ! FOUNTAIN CITY. IMD. Fountain City. Ind.. Shsffer of Kokomo is June here 1. Mrs visisinc Mrs. Ida Stronc. Gecrce Givn returned home Tues

day Lorn Muncie. where he has beenjli0

A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Carli R -its. Friday morning. Marvin? Cobine went tv Richmond where he is working at the Wayne Works. Mrs. A. W. Woolmaa snd daughter, j Mrs. Mattie Conger, who Lave been in ( Florica the past winter for Mrs.! W ool man s health, returned tome Ir; - ay. Mrs. Wcoltaaa is greatly iai-! .-avail

LIBERTY, IND. Liberty, Ind.. June 1. Dr. John Molyneaux and wife of Oxford, are guest3 of Geo. E. Stevenson .nti wife. F. B. Husted was a visitor to Indianapolis! Thursday. Miss Grace Ward attended memori

al exercises at College Corner Thursday. Ralph Ryan and wife of New Castle Ind.. were guests of Mrs. Kate Ryan and family, Thursday. B. M. Grove visited m Hamilton Thursday afternoon. Eli Pigman, Gilbert Chap in, Willard Bertch and Will Suiter attended the ball game at Connersville, Thursday. Everett A. Kitchel and wife visited friends In Indianapolis last week. Joe Clark spent Thursday in Oxford Ohio. R. A. Creek of New Castle, Ind., arrived here Thursday, on a visit to relatives and friends. Rev. W. N. Fletcher attended the Lav. ton memorial services at Indianapolis. Mrs. J. L. Grove antf daughter-in-law Mrs. B. M. Grove, returned home from Columbus. Ohio, Thursday evening. Dr. M. F. Veraker and Fred White of Kitchel. were in Liberty, Thursday evening. W. IvI. Mcintosh was in Oxford, Thursday. Misses Minnie and Lillie Howren were guests of their sister. Mrs. D. L. Cummings. of Richmond, Thursday. Miss Tillie Lambert went to Indianapolis Friday morning. A. W. Burt and wife. cf Bellevue, Ky., are guests of friends here. 1

C. K. Sloneger returned home Thurs-j your own free parding? You won't go day eveDing from an extended trip toj an' round on a pore chap Gawd AiColorado and other points. j mighty 'ns rcunded on?" County Supt. C. W. Osborne of Col-j Heaven forbid!" said Tom from his lege Corner, was in Liberty, Friday. knees. "You shall have your ticket if Miss Alice Jackson was the guest of j this can get it you and I can help."

friends at Connersville, Thursday r.nd Friday. Mrs. F. L. Stivers, of Ann Arbor, Mich., arrived here Friday from Indianapolis, where she has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Lavina McKay. W. A. Bryson is spending this week with his family in this city. Mrs. Earl Young and infant daughter, of Eaton. Ohio, are here for an extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Husted. Miss Adelaide Gilmore is the guest of friends in College Corner. O. L. Stivers and wife returned to their home in Richmond, Ind., Thursday evening. Rev. It. M. Stevenson and wife of Salt Lake City, Utah, are the guests of Rev. S. W. Huffer and wife. See Kimball contest proposition on page 4. Make out your list and mail to L2 North Ninth street. C, C. & L. ticket agent will sell yon sleeping car tickets to Chicago for their 11:15 P. 2,1. train. Call on him. " aprC-tf HIGH POINT, IND. High Point, Ind., June 1. Mr. and

visited Mr. Colrane's parents last Sun-At twe"ty Past they t"med Mac , . J quane street, were rattling up Hunter Ga?,' , . , ' street next minute, then into George Mrs. Rhoda Mendenhall visited j Ktrcctthe whlp whistlill?, a wheel on frienas and relatives at Webster thejtbe curb at every oorner pedestrian3 latter part of the week. j flym? aml constabIes challenging, and Mr. Wm. Marine of Anderson, spent; KO up charlotte place to the church. Wednesday night with Mr. and Mrs. The clock on tlle roUnd castellated Henry Atkinson. i tower made it 11:24 time yet if they Mrs. Clark and Mrs. King were at ,ad waited for the ring. But there Richmond Thursday. j were no carriages outside, and Tom's Miss Anna Markle called on Ethel heart stopped as he saw a woman Coltraine, Thursday. j emerge and lock the church door. Oscar Mullen and son William, spent' "Is the marriage over?" he screamed. Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charley' "There's no marriage this morning. King. j It's put off." Mr. Cranor has returned to his homei ' For the ring?" at Greenfield. I "Xo, for the bride; she never came!"

I Mr. Clarent Palmer and wife of Rich-; mond spent Thursday evening with Mr. Palmer's parents here. Several cf the ladles of our neighborhood attended the Sunday school con-! vent ion at Ec onomy Friday. i Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Palmer were at ; Richmond, Thursday. j Mrs. Viola Clark and daughter Jes-! sie visited the old home place Wednes day. MILTON. IND. , Milton, Ind.. June I. lfiOT Clarence! Roberts, nephew of Misses Marv and Sarah Roberts, was graduated Satur-i day from the University of Cincinnati.! Mr. ami Mrs. Carl Weyl and Mes-1 dames D. It. Miller and Oran Hemphill have returned to Franklin after a visit with Albert William. and I family south of town. j The house-hold goods of the late i Adam Spangler were sold at auction.; Saturday afternoon. j There are gced prospects for a fine: wheat crop in this section of the WhiUj-vate:- valley. Mr:;. Richard Sills vss a Corn?"?-: ; ville visitor Friday. I lea Sruith has returned horn viUt with her parents nesr Centeri!ie. Carl Willinms visited in Con-c.s-vi:!o. Saturday. Mr. ?;: 1:"s. C. .1. Ccnn wev at F.iramoai'. Thursday. i There are advertised letters in the ten v-sto; and for MIo3 Mrs. M. 5?. i..T,-ay visUe,3 or Chester Edgell ! Edith Bassett. Barton and Henry Cairn Connersvi'.le, Satur-j cay. : Albert Williams visited in Rushviye! raturday. J Miss Martha Ward is the guest of! relatives in Brockville. Local friends have received letters briaifo R?id who recently went to Dermott, Ark. to live, that he is ei1 rSfcl,ei1 with Sir's new curroundVhe Christian cliarch is to palmed in the rear future. up reARE HcRE FOH THE CARNIVAL. w. A. Gorman, representing the Ralia show, snd Charles Russell, chief electrician for the Robinson Amusement Ca ajrivtd here Saturdav. i

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59 f?l - i m rtr-m ' - "Yes, I see him at your trial," said Wyeth. "but I'm coming to that. Meanwhile I'm only silly, and what do I find when I come to? A dead man. a bloody stick an rae lyin' alongside! Nice, wasn't, it? The moon was on Im, an be made me feel nice, I can tell yer. But I soon see it wasn't robbery. There was that there diamond pin. I boned it, an' there was some loose silver in his pockets, an' that come in 'andy too. I took to my 'eels an did a slant the way I come, ai I never see that swell no more till your trial. I thought 'e might be there, an' 'e was. So the first day I liedi in wait for 'im, but the Charlies knoo tnean' I got frightened an' went an lost 'im. The next night I lost 'im again an accident 'appened an' I come out 'ere, I dessay in the ship arter you. An yesterIa3" I see 'is lordship com in' outer the Noo South Wales bank as bold as brarse. He never retxl me till you got afloat, an' that's what upset you all. Arter that I dogged 'im, but dursn't say a word till I found a card or two to shove up my sleeve. So, thinks I, the man who steals papers may steal 'em to keep. We'll have a look. An' so it was. An' now them papers Is yours, an' you're as good as a free man. You'll put in a I word for that ticket when you git He was gathering all the smooth blue letters togethsr again and thinking cf an account which Dafntree had given him in that very room that very week of his own proceedings on the night of the murder. Suddenly he sprang to his feet, jumped on a chair and examined the silver cups on the top of the bookshelf one by one. There were seven. A11 were for winning the mile. It was his old distance from Avenue Lodge to the hollow tree in the fields, between the Finchley road and Haverstock hill. Tom remembered his master's anger, inexplicable no longer, on the day he cleaned the cups. He jumped down and was looking at the inscription on the clock when it struck 11 in his face. Tom clapped his hand to his head. "We shall be too late!" "Too late wot for?" "She will be married to a murderer. And I forgot that. God forgive me! God forgive me!" He reeled into the veranda. "No, no; there is one chance! The ring! Tha ring! This way for your life!" CHAPTER XXXIV. THE pair dashed to the stables. By seven minutes past 11 the curricle cleared the gateposts, with Tom driving furiously and Wyeth seated grimly at his side. "Never came?-' But the woman had been robled of her fees, and the loss Involved that of her -temper. "Better go to the Pulteney hotel if you want to know more," sail she. and four wheels would have locked in the mad whirl with which Tom turned curricle and horses. Over the bridge to O'ConneJl street. A vehicle was ahead of them at the Pultcney. A waiter spoke to the occupants, and It drove oft" without one cf them getting out. Meanwhile Tom had seen the Fawcetts in the gaping crowj outside, had left them on guard over the curricle and Wyeth and himtell" rushed into the hotel. "There's no wedding. The guests are being sent a way ing ia his path. said a waiter, stand"Whrre's Mr. Daintree?" "In the ballroom, but there's a gon tleman" . Tom hurled uim on one side and was; in the ballroom himself next instant, j It was a spacious saioou. the best in j Sydney at that time, and the ti:ti thing Tom saw was the long table with i the vista cf silver and glass leading to ( a snow c lad mountain of a wedding : cake at the tar eui. The chairs were; fi!p:y, the tabic uncovered, and only two ;nen were in the room, t'ae bride-! Zt"jozi in Lis r-.arriagt garments and a person of eiuai stature in top boots' aud a pea jacket, whose fate Tom ! could not svc. Nest moment Nicholas j 1 la iIiag turned his head. It was t I him Da-iutroe had druuk in the gray ; dawn that seemed a year ago. The ruddy hair w as shot with silver. t the iur.se! ve face .enned bv suffering. He ha 1 aged ten years in eighteen months. Tom went straight to his o!d enemy, turnimr U".-- back on his old frieruL "You tame out to stop tnis marriage, sir?" "I did. It was the only way." -I congratulate you on arriving hi ti?ne. You would have had a murderer for your son-in-law!" Daintree gave a cry. Tom had turn "How do you know?" cried Harding in amazement. ' I will tell you. This man has been my best friend. He paid fc-r my uefense. and he took me away from the I iron gang.' Do you know why?" "I know one reason." "00 do 1. but there was another. He's been hedging matters with his God. lie murdered Blavdes hiniietf.

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Cy .W.IiORNUNG, Author of "Raines, ihe Amateur Crac&a.53 an," "Sting ares," Etc. o -"3"V pyrlt. 1834. by CHARLES SCEIENES'S SONS. " "BlayTIesr " And 31 r. Harding flung up his hands, while Daintree sank into a chair as yellow as a guinea, but with hot eyeballs fixed scarchingly upon Tom. "Your proofs!" said he hoarsely. "Your proofs in supiort of this monstrous charge!" "I have clear proof in my pocket," said Tom to Mr. Harding as he buttoned up his coat. "I have the receipt I gave Blaydes for nis watch and chain!" Daintree sprang up. He was trembling from head to foot, but his fists and his teeth were clinched. "Thief!" he hissed. "Y'ou have broken open my dosk! I saved you from the gallows. You think you'll hound me there in return you fool, when you know what I know! What you have stolen is no proof at all. Ingrate, serpent, it will only tighten the rope round jour own ungrateful neck!" He turned on his heel and wrote something on a card. He rang a bell, met the waiter at the door and" handed him what he had written. "That may In? so," saidTom to Nicholas Harding. "I may swing yet, but, thank God, not for Blaydes!" "It is really the receipt?" "Undoubtedly, written . by Blaydes and signed by me. It will clear me of that crime if it doesn't convict him. 1 don't want to convict him." The other shrugged his shoulders. "It would be useless. There's madness in bis blood as well as crime! But is that your only evidence?" "No. I hava a witness outside who all but saw him do It. He did see him taking the papers from the dead man's pocket." "Papers!" crie'd Mr. Harding. His high color fled and came again. "They lelonged to me. Give them to me, Eriehsen, for God's sake!" "Then keep jour eye on him, and you shall have all but the one I may want. I saw they were letters to you." And in an instant they were In Nicholas Harding's pocket, all but the one with the receipt upon the back, and he also buttoned up his coat. Meanwhile Daintree was at the other end of the long ' room guarding the door, and now they saw him fling it open with an evil smile. Next moment a strange gang entered two conr stables. Ginger, Nat Sullivan and Peggy O'Brien. Peggy's presence is only too easily explained. When her own ears heard Tom consent to leave the country she shut her teeth and swore that be should not. In New South Wales he should remain, though back he went to the chain gang, but she trusted to her own testimony to save his neck. So she slipped out of the bungalow while the master was being dressed, followed the Fawcetts into Sydney and went straight to the Pulteuey hotel to tell Nat Sullivan the truth about Tom. She found that worthy in bis usual state when in tow-n. Ginger complained that there was no doing anything with him. And so powerful ly did the blear eyed, thick lipped sot repel Peggy, now she saw him again and in this condition, that she had told him nothing when Daintree's message was brought to Nat's rooms. Nat read it in his shirt sleeves and staggered off to achieve a measure of outward decency, leaving Peggy in a strange turmoil. She could have betrayed Tom herself so she still thought but the idea of tho master turning traitor in this way was to her intolerable. She had heard the marriage was put off, she divined some all sufneient cause, and with the ebbing of her last I opes of Tom her first generous good will to him returned. She looked at Ginger and found Ginger looking at her. At Castle Sullivan he Lad been a furtive admirer. He was an open one now Nat was in the next room. "Well. Ginger, an' what is it y' intind to say?" I snail nave ro swear 10 mm, muiiu j I'd never have let this out in my sober j t penses. He saved my life. I meant ; to save his." j "An' you will do that same say you made a mistake. It's his life ye'U be j swearin' away!" J "But it's true, Peggy!" j "An' it's moself'H ' be thruer still, ; Ginger darliu. if you wiil but saj' the j word an' do by Tom as be did by you!" j She had not thought of it before. It was a sudden inspiration of the 'quick Iri?h brain, a smldeu impulse of the warm Iri-'a heart. When N;st came in. with wet hair plastered over his thick ; skull, the coal black head and the fiery l-eard were far enough apart. But it; had not lieen o during every minute j of his absence. And a prett7 fiasco j awaited hiui in the ballroom. Led up to Eriehsen, the overseer shook his head. ; "No."sai i he. Tne bushrangor was inches tailor. I can't swear to him ; after all." j "Not swear to him; roared Mr. Nat "Why, you took your oath he was the j man!" . j "Not swear to himi" said Daintree. j stepping forward. "Happily, my good j fellow"' j But Tom's eye was on him, and the j police were in the room. "Try the girl," said one constable. "Ginger is right." said Feggy promptby. "It's a taller man he was entirely." "But you're looking at his feet!" Peggy raised her eyes, and calmly and coldly they met Tom's for the last time. "Nv" said she. "This is not t'ae rocn at al!." "The liars!" Nat Sullivan screamL ed. "They've made up their mind to lie, and you two fools stand there and listen!" He stormed and wept, grew violently abusive and wa? put out by the constables be fere they left themselves. In the scuf5e and confusion Ginsrer formd an opportunity both to crin Tom'j hand ml to whisDar timt

o-e goou ueasrvetl auutuer. i.t Feg"y O'Criea turned her back with out ward or look. Warm heart au.l nimble bra la had done Tom Eriehsen their last service, had undone th ".' first and only injury, and this was tho end between these two.

i When the three men had the grca; i room once more to themselves Ty;i i turned qul?tly to Daintree, who wa. ' now perfc-et!;,- lir::l v. ith rage and chr. j grin, and inquired whether ho still d? nied his own crime. "Deny it!" cried Daintree. "It Is to j preposterous to be worth denying j Show me what yon have stolen. Let i us see this precious proof!" "I have a live witness, too, if you j force me to call him in." j Tom went to a window an! baC j thrown up a sash before the other two ; joined him. Outside was the eurrieh i and Wyeth seated at Fawcett s side. j "Stop! S'top! Don't cr.ll to hiiiiH whispered Daintree in a choking voicv. "I killed hiin.V "Good God!" cried Nicholas Hardinr. . Tom shut down the sash. "Yes, I killed him." cried Daintree, recovering hi spirits, "and I'd do it again this minute. Why? You shall hear and then Claire shall hear for 1 mean to see her. It will take all Sydney to keep u-s apart. That night she refused me. God aJ-ne knows why. She loves me now and will stick to me in spite of you all, but sha refused me then. I sta.. ed for nn hour where she left me. Then I got out by the back way and wandered through the fieldsjust as I was thinking of her. At last I hardly knew where I was or what I was'doing I heard voices. His was one. Your:? wa-s the other, Erichsen I didn't know It then snd you were Just ' leaving. I heard, him say he was thinking of being married. 1 joined him when you had gone and asked who tho happy lady might be. What do you think he sail? What do you think? What do you think?" "Claire?" said Nicholas Harding. "Yes, Claire!' streamed Daintree. "That incarnate devil and my angei! lie said he loved her that smooth hound and she had hinted sh did care for somebody. God knows what more he said! You would consert. He had you in his power. Either he said 1hat or I saw it. At any rate be taunted me maddened me and when I looked about for something to strike him with there was the very tiling: ru my feet. I ki'ied him. I meant to kill him. I have never for one moment regretted killing him. What do you suppose was the first thing I fouuu in his pocket? No, Harding. I'm noi thinking of you, my honest friend. It was a letter that showed the kirjd of cur he had been. I let Claire see it. I thought'of a way. I showed her thst dead devil in his true colors, I cured her of her folly, and I thanked God I'd put him out of her way and mine. Regret It? Repent it? Never for an in stant! Never to this hour!" "Y'ou let an inuoceut man suffer for your crime!" said Nicholas Harding, with a shiver. "Did I? And do you suppose I would have let him hang? I was under the

impression that I saved his neck. I baud -oased him back to light and life would have saved It with my own had j on,i whose prayers availed but the lovthat been necessary. Only yesterday I j jCj, hand and the passionate prayers of risked my life to save -hi.. Who took) the gir! who only lived now to make him away from the iron gang? I had f him forget the past? Meanwhile her

to commit a forgery and risk my liberty to do it. Who would have treated him like a brother from that day? It was his own doing, mark you, that made him a menial! And he would hang me. would he. for ridding the earth of the crying rascal who picked his own pocket like a common thief? He shakes his head, but I know him better. And that's his gratitude after all I've done! Something like yours, you. Harding! I save your daughter from u poisonous scoundrel, so I am not to marry ner ror my pains. A Just pair convict bushranger and fraudulent M. P.! A precious pair to jcin forces against an honest man! Do your worst. I shall marry her aninst you lioth. I shall. I shall. I shall I" Tom knew this voice. He wonder 1 he had not heard t j madness Iu ii from the first. '"Never!" cried Harding. "I would rather see her in her coiTm." "She loves me as I love her." "She docs not love you at all." At these Tj-ords a feeling of pity crept over Tom. They rang so true, and they told so palpably upon that distorted heart which could bear up better against a charge cf murder. "Does she not?" cried Daintree. "We shall st?e!" And he darted from them with an altered face, was first out of the room, first up the stairs and first into the ladies' sitting room, but Tom's foot was in the door before he could bang it behind him, and Tom and Mr. Harding burst their way in together. On the threshold they stopped with one accord. Daintree had not turned to confront them. He had flung him self at the feet of Claire, who was j seated on a sofa by her aunt's side. I 'TIipv sfv too fto not lnvo m("wl:!. pored DaintrVe iu a voice that broke with verv tPh,1Po nn-1 vet rPfnino,l a confidetit ring. "I love you better! than my own life and all the world. Toll them nothing can part us. nothing fhftr n't rt isn t- nnthr(r T Im-o nnno t'H them von love ire as I love vou. Tell I them vou wry.-! id mrrv me if T bad to ) . " 1 fcl"WhatrThere is truth, then, in what j they say";" "Forgive me! Forgive me!" were ' Claire's only words. "So it is true!" His tone would have b?rn a marvel was a mirccle. Still on his knee, be f besou-rht her as a last favor to toil him whom she-did love. Her eye Cew i to Tom's. The cunning of the criminal lunatic shone through, the tears ia his. "So it is Eriehsen. cot Blaydes." he said, getting up and standing harm- j lessly in their midst. Next Instant he j had whipped out his pistol and tired it f I-oint blank at Tom's heart. The report was appalling. A white cloud ?d the room. As it thinned away there was Tom still standing, with the enc calm face present. The charge had j contained no tall. Next instant the pld ... . tol itself was hurled at hi head, an ". Daintree was upon Tom with toot! and nail carsing, raving, moaning fighting Tern and Nicholas Ilcrui". both fighting the constables and ers, who poured in like water, an.! : . walling, raving, cursing, as ho . Li. ivis a horrible, still,

Ml Ki MOT - man still Hew hurd u::d true from th shoulder, though th: tears of the lover were still wet upon the madman's face. It was nevertheless but the husk of a man that was at last overpowered and carried to a distant bedroom. That complex heart at ill squirted liquid tire through every vein, but the brain was not. Inherent mania had claimed its own. CHAPTER XXXV. HE Sydney papers of the year 18 contain no reference to it : extraordinary scenes ta acted at the Pulteney hotA on the- first Saturday of the month of October. They do not report the removal of a magistrate; of tie eoluuy to its best and most private madhouse, some from a sein e of journalistic ckr'ity. others for reason which the late Nicholas Harding's bankers might even now disclosv. The curious, however, may still look up the advertisement which Lady i'Jtarkie lead itiou.l from the Herald withiu an hour of the events described. It blew a trumpet for "the fine fat sailing ship Fiorentia, for London direct," and the call found a grateful echo In two young hearts, now so light and now so heavy that it was an net of mercy to stir them in this way. The Floreutia was described as even then loading at the quay. It seemed as though they might all sail from that beautiful and accursed land within a week. As a matter of history, however, the Florentia did not complete her cargo until tlirnew year. No other homeward bound ship was ready before her, and much happened on shore meanwhile. Tom Eriehsen. having voluntarily confessed the part ho had borne in the casue suuivan outrage, leu ill ab a man can be just as the road to joy and freedom lay smooth and clear before him. He was 'in a raging delirium wl'en the free pardon arrived from Governor Gipp?, together with an order for the convict's absolute release. It seemed he was about to be released Indeed. Long weeks he lingered battling indomitably, and what father was not idle. Nicholas Harding was useless iu a sickroom, and. his monoj- could not save Tom's life. But ih.'irrt Ti-fM', .i!mf liii-.Tj ?' do, combined with tho J'ntimil energy and tho practical &b!'ity v,h:ch were also Ins. Turn again t; th;:-.e oi l Sydney papers. They wi!l no; tell you who instigate-1 the inf.'.iry. Co;?;:-1 the witnesses, p.M tuck e:;: c;,srs a:i-l indeed threw hM money rfg'-.t and Ic-ft in thj good e.us-: P.rt tb'v d recount thv ruin of tho mo.-t i;!.uv.:g and alrociou slave driver.'? tho ' t-o!cu.v contained. They do r ; n t the several litigation. by wbi'h thot mo-t desirable- ci. J was achieved, nor t their eternal credit does a single; sheet tal:? the side of the Sullivan of Castle Sullivan. The urine still lingers iu colonial annals. It is still .strong in all humane and honest nostrils, but of Dr. Sullivan and his rnfda ily son ail traces have been j lost. Not the least telling witness against them was one who certainly could i.ut bo accused of extravagant sympathy w i th the f e I on ry . M a j o r . 1 1 o ney L o n c enjoyed himself enormously' in S.. .11103 both at the courthouse and ei. ewhere. He and Nicholas Harding became perfect cronies during the tvary days of Tom's convalescence.' "Gadz joks, sir, ho gave me more trouble than any threr men in the gang," the major would say. "but I knew him for a gentleman at bottom. I'd like to shrike his hand and tell him I'm sony f-ir this and that." Brt Major H inoybone wa.- not permitted to co the invalid, and Indeed he quitted Sydney rather precipitately in the end. The plucky veteran hd asked a fjuer.f'on of Lady Starkie. ns her ladyship long afterward confided to P?- VJth un ,ob inrb "ul'"""-'"' Jt ",i,uu- V" 1'. Nor was it until the Hug and sojth- ) ing homeward voyar-e was half over j that the convalescent w.u vouchsafed i an answer to certain cue? t ions which T. hz'i li.rt';! of ing in hi;? nine--?. What hrol bronght Nicholas Harding trt V.w P.,:-tt V.VI es ' He must have days aft-T Claire 1 t a f.? 'laJ' U;e -''7 of Daintree'. "ion ivcr sa.r the womau who I i.Mi.i t ;m '. s je ! Harci:;g.- "It is :;'-yV" said Nicholas to h:r we owe It that The n''on h" ".stress, but en Dam--"f V caU;!t to ba 'J- will ted you if oa h,-;; i. r. j no very rugnr aiier he ssilcl ia the Rosamund this woman cntne to inr house, fib" bfl fallen very ;ow. Death seemed to me to have j .Vsvh r-w 'll

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until I told htv where Claire had gone j"rs- Ciyce Oler near Greensfork for a end whom she ws . to marry. Then 1 ew da"sand there it all came out. I must say! Frank Cole of Bishop, California there was i Ltickslexii ,g tlion.. The on his way home to Economy, called by Ti-rtc!'M vrr.?.:! oetred jrecttltifT di-! tt accident that happened to his

tr r She told me" Harding 1 ! : j - :h. and his voice trembled 23- daughter was gone to -r's wife." -'i not know of it?" l.now abc-nt Blaydes. That (To Be OonUMueri.)

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i-iiirus Big H Main St. Pattern and Machine Work. A well equipped Brass Foundry. Let us make you an estimate on your work STANDARD PATTERN MFG. CO. 11th and North E streets. DR. A. B. PRICE DENTIST 14 and 15 The Colonial.. Phone 681 Lady Assistant. WrY!. WAKING t Plumber anl Co? fitter Kicvfrs nt;t: ". kin St. IgSUHAuOE, RBI ESTATE W. H. Eradoury Son Rooms 1 and 3, Wcstcott BIk J.I H. R. DOWNING &. GON. &. GON. f ERS irr.ond, (nd. ( UNDERTAKER; 16 N. 6th St., Richmond 8 Both Phones 7b. a ECONOMY, IND. , Economy, Ind., June 1. Memorial day was an ideal day for sure. There was a large crowd out to hear the address by Rev. Singer. There was a procession, formed headed by the Iluntsvillc band which marched to the cemetery where flags and flowers were left on the graves of the soldiers that had fought for the preservation of the union. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rakestraw have moved into a temporary building while building a new residence. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Morrison and Miss i:dith I-imb visited Williamsburg relatives Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Underhill and children spent Thursday with Oliver Hiatt and wife. F. A. Coiviu of Richmond and L. II. Coivin of Muncie were guests cf tho Edwards brothers Thursday. , Miss Noia and Paul Oler were guesta of Mr. and Mrs. Charley Goudsou Friday. UJyscss Manning, Frank Denny ami Lon Edwards were doing road work on the Economy and Williamsburg plUe Friday. Frank Hunnicutt has returned to bis ihoine in Loomis, Neb., after spending several weeks here visiting relatives, Mrs. Charley Hunnicutt and Jennia Scantland visited Mr. and Mis. Walter Hunnicutt of Bloomingsport Thursday. Elza Stevenson' end J. L. Peterson were in Richmond today. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Lamb took din ner with Mrs. Maude Lamb and daughter Ida. Fridav. Dr. Frank McKinnon of Losantvllle, was here Friday. Dr. .1. B. and Mrs. Clark have arrived home from Indianapolis. Loriu Lamb of Peru is home for .a two days rest. Mr. and Mrs. Una Swain and daughter spent Thursday In Richmond. - Edwin Cole, who was dangerously hurt by falling off of a wagon, the first of the wek, is reported to be r.olding hi. own, but is etiil In a critical condition. Mrs. CaHie Newdan or Muncie, is visiting her parents this week. Mrs. Nannie Finch and daughter Ruby Cede, of Richmond, were called, here by the accident that befell the latter's grandpa. Mr. and Mrs. Tot Cranor gave a reception in honor cf their little daughter Carrie's sixth birthday Saturday. There was a large number of little folks present and games, music , and refreshments were liberally indulged in until the shades of e-ep!ng warned the little guests it was t':r.e to depart. Miss Mary Hasten has returned home after spending a week with Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Alonzo Edwards will spend Sunday in Muncie. Miss Lucinda Hollingsworth and Mihs Aleie Gwin were guests of MifeS Ruth Jackson Wednesday. Mrs. Mabel Gwin and daughter Caririe Josephine, are visiting Mr. and father. . correspondent asks what is the best method cf feeding cattle. There are several ways. One man might prefer to take the ox in his lap and feed him with n spoon.; Another would brlnj? him Into the dicing room and let him sit at the table with the old folks. Tastes diZer In matters of thiat kind