Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1892 — Page 12

12 THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1892-TWELVE PAGES.

UNDER THE MAPLES; Or, the Test of Character. A. Story of Village Life by ' WALTER N. HINMAN.

CHAPTT.tt XVII. KING ARTHUR. Arthur racs'l into work with more fervor than ever. He srave himself no time to brood over his disappointments. Ilia lejral practice continued ttArow, his political acqnaintance and popularity constantly widened, and ho was lpj?innin2 to lay up money. Ha had already hunted up end paid a few accounts held by poor and de?ervins creditors against his father, but he had to do so cautio'-ly, or ho would be overwhelmed with demands, and if any publicity was madaof it he would be accused of doing it for political effect; and Le had made one purchase which was conaidered an unaccountable freak by his acquaintance in a man supposed to be as shrewd as he was. He had bought a tract of fifty acres of as poor land as could bo found in the whole patent, and Fitters gulf was in it. There were many vague surmises and gray-headed jokes passed among the hotel "loiterers when Cieorge Lavercombo told in the bar-room that be had Been Messrs. "Warren, Tompkins, Loraine and Arthur tratnpinz around throush the woods and examining that sterile tract one euramer'e day with a Etrange man, and when the ltranger returned that night to the hotel with a heavy satchel that felt as thoueh it had lumps of rock in it, Bill Wilder'a curiosity was eo great that he couldn't refrain from asking him what his business might be, and the ttran.'er had leaned over and whisperrd confidentially in hia ear that ho was a landscape gardener and built summer resorts, so that it became understood among the knowing ones that an elaborate summer resort waa goine to be made out of Arthur's peculiar purchase, and ths wonder was greater than ever. Meanwhile a largo manufacturing company was beirjg quietly formed with Mr. AVarren at the head of it, and preparations fr a lare enterprise that would transform Fitter's gulf were being eecretlv carried out, and it was understood by thf'head ones cf the company that Dr. Ira Davies waa one-half owner of the gulf real estate, and he was charged on Arthur's books with half the purchase price of the fifty acres. The Septomber following, Mapleville waa rejoiced and again congratulated their thriving fellow-townsman ; this time upon his nomination for congress. A few days after the nomination, a political friend called upon him to hold that confidential talk that po iticians always find useful during a campaign. "Well, that's strain:' ; I thought I had some cigars," Baid Arthur, after greeting his cailcr and earching without euree.; "I gaesa my clerk ba3 had a party. Tom!'' he called out. "Yes, sir.'' "Take this quarter and run dow n to the hotel, and bring us two cigars, please." "Yes, sir." 'ow. that's all nonsense," soliloquized Tta when he reached the etreet. "A tbree-for-a-fiuarter smoke is good enough for anybody. Can't tell tho difference." fc-o he bought three with the '20 cent?, hid one away in his pockets, stopped at the pcstotlico and got the Xothti-u AV York Itwittin and returned to the oltico and handed two cigars to Arthur, then went back to the public oliice, lit his puroined cigir, took hid usual attitude of solid cornfort, opened the paper and prepared to enjoy hi:nelf. The I'nl'rtln was f the op posite politics and Tom had looked it over but a little when he came to the leading article, double leaded. "By C'rymii3 !" he exclaime 1, '"here's a go!" and he read tho following editorial with bulging eyes: WHO IS AKTHCR HUNTINGTON? Headers of this paper well know that while we rare no expense io filling it columns with legitimate and attractive news, making it the best newspaper and advertising medium in the atate outside of New York City, our endeavor baa ever been lo make it a aheet that can be taken into every home and read by every fireside. We have never, except when the occasion imperatively demanded it, descended into the petty personalities, and the mean, low, contemptibie scandals and abuse that characterizes the orpsn of the opposition that disgraceful toadstool in the noble field of journal. am, which we will not honor by mentioning by came! The tme has arrived when we can no longer honorably keep silent. When the ailk stocking element of the opposition rides rough shod over the wishes of the masses it is time to expose, with clarion notes, the character of that pet of the aristocracy wnom they have deliberately foisted into our gaze as a man fit for the high position of delegate from this congressional district to the national capitol. We speak of Arthur Huntington! It is with sadnes that we save to expose the character of this man and undeceive those few excellent, uprizht people who may have supposed him cet unworthy of their Mipportand votes, but a solemn sense of our obligation to to the public welfare demands it. Arthur Huntington comes of bad stock. His Bother is an Fncjlishwoman, who contracted a runaway marriage of some kind with his late father, who dieti in a cloud of dicrace, overwhelmed with debts, ignominy and shame! We bar space in this issue lut for the fitt ehapter of the answer to the question of "Who Is Arthur Huntington?" Hut that he is a worthy successor to his odoriferous father, we prove by charzing Lira: 1. With be inn accessory to the escape of that notorious lire-bur, Jr. Ir 1), ivies, for whom he moved heaven and earth to hare proBounced insane, and for uliote crime a poor laboring man would have been Landed ! 2. We charge him with soandalo i; conduct cn a certain winter's niiftit with a young wonitn of notoriously questionable antecedent., whose connection with ti.e infamous lire-bug I'avies issuchthst it gives u(:!ci?ut explanation of L.s ( Ilcntifitrtcn's) reasons for the eiTorts he made in befialf cf tiiat criminal! We forbear Insulting our readers with a recital of thissenndal, but we hv in our oflice the sworn statement of a lady who tjiveN the story as she heard it from the lips of Mrs. it 1, of .Mapleville. a most est. niabie lady of undoubted respectability, and a relative of the lavies family! And, finnliy, we cfiarte Arthur Huntington with the most corrupt and d. honest business method ! In proof of which we have now in our posetion a document with his name and erbce seal impressed tnereon, given by the grosest m'.sreorr ? :i ration to a poor laboring nan one Samuel .speckles who was enticed into hi oliice, and from whom money was extorted by fraud and c-ercion! We stand rta!y to prove these charges in a court of law. Art! ur Huntington and his minions know cur ad ires. We welcome the issue!! Tom Iowda!i's jaw dropped; his cigar went out nn i lii.-i txc blanched. He was eo overwhelmed that he did not hear Arthur distnia hi friend and come into the room. Arthur looked at the young man and following the direction of Iiis jruilty clar.ee, caught sieht of the heading in the pajer. "It ai oiily hieant for a joke," g.tped iJowdail, but Arthur made no anewir to the crestfallen la I. He read tho article through hsti!y. "My God!" he pxc'aimed, "what is only meant for a jo'ae?" The cringing youth hurriedly explained all the circumstances of th Speckles paper, and for one in his life was eo

frightened that ho told the whole truth. It was Arthur's first trial of the kind. Previous, to this awful onslaught his private record and life had never been assailed and he had taken pride in keeping it impregnable. He walked up and down the oflice in violent agitation. There was a plausib'e appearance in the charges that, pkillfully handled by his opponents, would look dangerously near like truth and would be hard to meet. The Sain Specklea pacer especially would be hard to explain to tho satisfaction of most people, bnt his first thought was not of his mother, nor of the effect upon his candidacv, nor even of poor, injured Babe, but of Laura what would ehe say? what vromd ehe think? It eeemed to him as if the wholo county was at this moment reading that cruel libel and talking about him, and the ßhock laid bare the truth to him as he had never e-een it before, that underneath the calm assurance with which he had dismissed all hopes of winning Laura was etill that lovo for her the growth of years. Hopeless it might be probably was. but it was still there and he cared more fcr her good opinion and respect than he did for all the world besides. He was called back to the pressing duties of the present by the entrance of the village telegraph operator with two messages. The first he opened was from the editor of bis party's olncial paper and read ; "I'leasu telegraph us at once denial of libel in today's Bulletin," and the other was from the chairman of the county committee: "Have telegraphed the press in vour name a denial in toto ot the outntge in today's Ihtlletin. Will be in Mapleville by first train.'' Ho mechanically took a piece of blank paper and addressed tho editor and wrote, "See telegraph denial from Mr. Keyes." "That is all," he said, handing it to tho tel egraph operator. Mrs. Huntington came in as the operator went out. Arthur saw that in some way she had heard the dreadful news. She was not excited, but her face wore a grim expression that showed that she was angrv. To her mind that ußrfm'editor

was only a miserable viper, whose malic was evident but who was powerless to injure her son : and ehe was anxious to know how it affected him. "This is terrible! mother, terrible!" he exclaimed bitterlv. "Well," said she. eharply, "don't you worrv about it, nobody will believe such a liar!" "Oh. mother, you don't understand it all. You don't know what el!ect such thinsrs will have in r olitics!" "Weil, I understand one thing. If I had the making of the laws, such men would be crushed just as we crush any other sneaking, crawling enake '." and ehe ground her heel viciously into the floor. Arthur began his reetless walkingazain. After a few turns he stopped in front of his mother, with his back to the door. "Mother!" he exclaimed, "I can't help it I ir.net know what Laura thinks about it. Will you go and 6ee her, and tell rne what ehe gays?" "Why, of course, Arthur," and she nearly smiled, and her eyes gave a start of pleasure. "it's all an infaxous lie !" he continued, excitedly, "and I don't think I would care that about it." snapping his lingers, "if only Laura Warren doesn't believe it!" His mother was looking over his ehoulder. He turned. Laura Warren stood in the room; she naa tearu wliat ne paid, liiere was an embarrassing silence. Mrs. Huntington, nevor more pleased in her life, looked from one face to the other, and could not tell which blushed tho more deeply, Laura or Arthur. Laura put out her hand. "Arthur," she said, "I came purposely to tell you that I did not believe one" word ot that horrible lie I don't believe you have a friend who does." Arthur'e face lighted with joy ; there was a glsam of hope in the sparkle ot his eye, and what might have happened there and then in the presence of his mother and in sight of Tom Dowdall, who had his eye to the keyhole of the door, did not take place, for just then the round, burly form of Mr. Keyes, tho chairman of the county committee came puffing and bustling in. Arthur went out into the hall with the ladies. "Will you go ridina with me tonight?" he asked I.aura. "Yes," ehe said rather faintly. That afternoon Aunt Martha decided that she could not imagine what possessed her niece, she was that fidgety, She laughed without any tangible reason, and eang a little, and played on the piano a little, and did everything but sit etill a minute. She did wouder what ailed her, and the whole village talking about Arthur eo, and he in euch trouble it was a e name ! Lut Laura made no reply but continued giuilinz softly, and talked nonsense to her bird, and worried the old, over-fed cat and kept up her dancing movements and acted like a nervous young girl. The woe-bejtone expression had left the young man's faco when he returned to the room and phonic hands cprdiallv with Mr. Keyes. The gentleman tias surprised at his radiant good humor. "That was a prebious fool job of that Ihtlistiii inau, now, wnfn't it?" paid the chairman. "Whv, er, yes," eaid Arthur, absently. "liy the way, let's eee. what is it he thars??" "Hey?" xhouted the astonished visitor; "why, have t you read cm? "()!i, yee, but onlv (danced them over Here's the paper now; let's tako them in detail," ana he handed the chairman the J'.ul rim and eat down cheerfully at his ties with his pencil. The rubicund face of Mr. Keyes showed hi relief in finding his candidate eo cheerful, and he found the article, and following it down with his ehoit, tudgj fiDger, he eaid: "That about vour mother and father don't count. I happen to know your father s war record, and we ll give em hail Columby on that, en' don't you fortrit it! It's worth tho hundred votes to its. You eee it'i a bae attack on a brave old army boy, and a man who had friends everywhere. They'd better left that out. About this Dr. Pavles matter, some of the best men in the countv decided him da.'t. so your connection with that .case won't cut anv tiftier, if the rest's ad right. Jlut what is't about this girl business?" And the shrewd old politician looked the young man souarely in the eye. "That's a most villainous lie!" shouted Arthur, hotly. "It's an outrageous shame! She's one of the most respectable and beat girls that ever lived, and if Mrs. liludgctt, who is a most notorious liar and gobsip, ever said anything reflecting on that poor girl. III make her take it back on oatb I "That's right that's it! but keep cool Huntington, k-e-e-p cool, said the chair man rubbinz his hands in delight. "If Lludgett's that kind of a ladv-duck, we can scare her into swearing that she never said anything of the kind, and tho two

old cats will probably lio the air blue and eue each other ior eiander, and have a monkey and a parrot kind of a time of it generally, while we come nut strong on this most base, most villainoub persecution of a most eminently respectable young lady, and all that eort o' thing." " Weil, it is a most villainous persecution to drag that innocent girl's name into euch talk, I'd like to cowhide that editor !" said Arthur angrily. "That's what I eaid, Mr. Huntington, nnd I mean it," said the gentleman eoothinjly; "but when you've been in politics an long as I have you will get more callous, and the howlinir of these jackals and hyenas won't ruffle you up as much as it does now. There are a certain eet of men in the newspaper business, like this Mrs. Bludgett you epeak of in social life, and I must say for the profession that they are generally new men who don't last long, who have a fine nose for carrion and show great talent in manufacturing ecandala and lies and blackmailing echemee. Experience proves that they are boomerangs in the end to any party that uses them, and nowadays it is only done by some fool or the last resort, and it shows that they are afraid of n square stand-up ficht; and now for the lat: How about this Speckles document?" "Tom, come in here!" called out Arthur. Tom came in, in the depths of misery. "Tell this (tentleman all about that Speckles affair," said Arthur, eternly. With tears of contrition Tom made out to repeat the story. "Well, you are a precious raecal !" thundered the chairman, tho Bide of his face toward Tom frowning eavagly and the other side jolly with laughter. "It would insult the gallows to hang you ! Y'ou come with us to a notary and swear to this or I'll have you jailed for ten years." Mr. Keyes went home that afternoon with Mrs." Bludgett's and Tom Dowdah's aflidavits, and enough other campaign material about Arthur's popularity and generosity to put him in high good humor. "What will be the effect of that editorial, anyway ?" asked Arthur as they said good-by. "Why, Huntington, I only wish 1 was as sure of heaven as you are of going to congress, that's all!" replied tho old politician. It was a beautiful, moonlight evening, and Arthur and Lf.trra took a long drive, at least they were gone Ion? enough to. When ehe came back and went into the house her Aunt Martha eaid: "Why Laura, what does ail you? I havn't seen you look so happy in years; your cheeks ore red and your eves do twinkle so." Laura ran up to her and kissed her, and whispered something to her. "Why! My! do tell!" eaid the lady in a llut'er of astonishment.

"Oh dear me!" she exclaimed, "whv it isn't Sir Lancelot after all, its King Ar thur!" "It alwnvs was ," said Laura eoftly. and ehe kissed her aunt again, and still smil ing and blushing went to her room. CHAPTER XVIII. OI.I ACQUAINTANCES. Ira had been observant enough to learn that a man was most safely concealed when in the largest crowd, therefore he made his way to New Y'ork, where he could also find the best chance to secure wot k in the drug business. Ho did not apply at the retail Etores, but eoon found employment in a manufacturing chemist's, where his quiet manner and eteady attention to business gave him a perma nent place. He rightly conjectured that eo long as be kept out of eiaht there would be no eerioua attempt made to lind him; all he had to do was to keep out of the wny and the authorities would not take tho trouble to hunt him up.. In time the affair would be eo far forgotten that he could eeek a new place and under his right name make new friends. He boarded with a fellow-workmen, a foreigner, whoe friends were Germane, and who lived in an obscure Hut not far from tho labora tory. Those were sorrowful months that he passed during the winter in his eecluded work and reading, but it was better than being confined in an asylum. As week after week wore awar without incident, he becamo bolder. When the spring opened and the country became beautiful with the eigns of returning Ufa, he took, every Sunday, an early train, and went up among the Catskills, or down Long Island to some unfrequented spot ind epent the day in long rambles through the country roads and woods, coming back late at night. In all his walks in the city he had two things in mind: To avoid meeting old aquaintances and to be on the lookout for Charles Burton and Maria. He had written the two leading theatrical papers asking for information or the address of the old actor, but found out nothing but that there had once been euch a man in the profession, but he had disappeared. Ae the summer went by and there was no announcement among the lhrabl personals of the marriage of Arthur and Babe, he became possessed more and more with the idea ot finding tho actor, aud, if possible, clearing up the doubt about Babe's parentage, lie even thought of applying to the police for help in finding him, or of putting it into the hands ot tho Binkerton agency, but that would make him too well known, and he dared not do so yet. He discovered a popu'ar resort for broken-down nctors and those of low grade, who regularly suffer from financial embarrassment, in a beer saloon ne.;r Union square, and bv the judicious usu of a few nickels at the bar was received into the confidence of tte guild with open arms. He found several men who had known or who had heard ot Burton, or pretended that they had in times gone bv, but non who had of late vears. He also found himself overwhelmed with men who took him aside and confidentially assured him that they, and they alone, could find Burton' addrens, and would graciously devote their valuable time to doing it; but some way tneso men, with out exception, stood in the most pressing need of a temporary loan, running all the way from $.' to $10, before thy could be gin the esarcb. At lost ho met one man who had been in Australia for eevcral years, and who remembered thet eome twelve or thirteen years before a Charles Burton, who had recently arrived from the states, had to get out of Melbourne suddenly on account of a shooting ecrane. Ira was confident that this was the one he wan looking for, but that was as far as he could trace him. One Saturday evening in October he was strolling down tiie crowded liowery. Kver on tho alert, he eaw approachinghitn three Mapleville young men. They had not yet discovered Mm, hut the street was bnl Ihntlv lighted with tho endle.-i itore and sidewalk lights and tho myriad of peanut and Iruit venders lamps that lined the gutters. The young men had come to the metropolis with their eyes open to eee everything eeeable and they would ecarcely miss him if thev met. lie dodsred Quickly into the nearest dooway. It was the entrance to a dime museum.and he brought a ticket and walked in. It was a brand new enterprise just opened and smelt strongly of paint and varnhh and of that indescribable dime museum odor .that re minds oye of a morgue and a monagerie at the same time. It was new but it had the regular old stock of attractions. There were wax caricatures of celebrated rer sons, and startling flve-tbousand-dollar works of art in oil done by the scenepainter of some second-clasj theater, and

6tuffed birds and mounted insects" and

cages of "happy families, and monkeys and parrots and snakes; and on the little fdatform around were the usual armees man, and the - midget, and the phenomenal girl -whistler and the man who ate glass and the fellow with the India rubber ekin and the other freaks of training or nature. Ira walked aimlessly about for a few minutes and refused "to "try the battery" or buv lemonade or a button-hole bouquet or photographs of the freaks, and all other dime-catchicg devices of the place and started out. "Fine entertainment on the stage up etaire, just about to beitin walk right up and eee it, young man," said a e'onorous voice in his ear. Ira turned. "Mr. Burton!" he ex claimed. The tall, pompous man shrunk visibly. lie gave Ira one ecarching.rstartled look. "H'h!" he eaid, "come here!'' and he walked rapidly into tho room labeled Private Office. W hen he bad closed the door he turned to the young man and eaid sharply : "My name's Im. Grange not Burton. ho are you, eir? Mr. La Grange wore a full board now. and he was dressed in new clothes, and sparkled with showy jewelry in the hight of a flashy fashion; but thero was no mis taking that voice and manner. It had made a too etrong impression on the un sophisticated country boy years ago when he first heard and saw him. "Mr. Burton La Grange, excuse me, eir ; 1 mean you no harm, but ycu can perhaps help ir.e; you aro tho one man above all others I most wanted to see. "Proceed," eaid the gentleman, gradu ally regaining his ease. "Thirteen years ago last epring vou gave a show in a place called Mapleville in Ihisetate; you, your wife, Dora Field ing, and a colored man you picked up du vou remember?" "Proceed," eaid the non-committal exprofessor. ou etoppea at my crandmother a house; I am tho bov IraorStubhv who took you there don t you remember me now : "Proceed, Davies," eaid the gentleman. "Y'ou left a child at my grandmother's; afterward her mother, Dora Fielding, died in San Francisco. Can you tell me any thing about the child's antecedents her mother's history?" "Mv young friend, mav I ask vour object in wanting to know this?" "Soielv for the good of the child Babe." "But she is dead years ago." "The child is not dead, sho still lives in Mapleville-." " ed, well, exclaimed Burton, passing his hand over his forehead, "now my wife heard that ehe was dead, too so eho was brought tip bv vourjgrand mother nice old dame and etill lives in this here Mapleton, does she? "Yes, sir; in Mapleville." "Well, now, that will be news to Maria. nd so vou'r Is'ubby, are you? Rawther hot town, Map'.eboro, that night for yours truly hey?" And he punched Ira in the tide and chuckled as he tbought of that entertainment. "But we're flying way up in hisch G now I m the grand mogul of this shebang. No more living on turkey todav and their feathers tomorrow for me and Maria," and he waited for the young man to digest this important announcement. "I'm glad to hear that you are doing eo well, but can you tell me anything about Babe's mother?" asked Ira impatiently. "Yes, all about her. Maria'i got a box of papers that beloneed to her that was le.t here in New York with a trunk of our things ehe spoke about 'era the other day but there's nothing in 'cm no u.onev in it for anvbody." "Who was Babe's father?" asked Ira, nervously. "Why, Jack Fielding nice young fellah not in our line though mid-air man trat eze, you know had consumption and didn't live long after they were married." "Alter who were married?" asked Ira, etill nervous. "Why, who the devil do you suppose? Who we taking aboui? After he and Dora were married." "How can I prove this marriage?" asked Ira excitedh'. "Prove it easy enough, young follah, if you want to take the trouble. They were married in Cincinnati. O., and in that etatc they ve Jgt a law that requires every marriage to be recorded in the probate court you can find it in the county records. It ain't like it is in this etat'e where, if the parson's certificate is lost, a man can't prove the marriage of his own grandmother, or any other marriage when the witnesses are all dead: but I gues you'll find her marriage certificate among thoee papers but 1 teu you thero am t any raonev in it Maria eava so. "I didn t euppoto there was." said Ira. a little vexed that the actor could not understand his solicitnde when there was no money in it. "But, Mr.. Bur La Grange, the village people look at this question of a girl's birth differently, perhaps, thanjoeople who have led your eort of nie do. "Yes, that's so." eaid the old etrolling player affably; "birth don't count with us unless vou have a big man for a father. then it's a rattlin' ad. Here I can't get away now, but i n give you a note to Maria and you can go and eee her tonight if you wish," and he at once wrote it and gave Ira the addre68. "See here! eaid lib. as he handed it over, "remember that I am La Grange and Maria is Mrs. La Grange under all circumstances. It isn't at all necessary to explain why we urn prefer La Grange, but we've been keeping a hotel noder a sign with that name on out in Nevada for a few years back and we've got used to it. It lita ). K. and we ain't agoing to change back underetand?'' and he gavo a regulation etage comedian's wink that wrinkled up all ono Bide of his face.' "Hold on!" he called out as Ira hastened away, and he took out a large pocketbook and presented Ira with an annual pass into the museum. "Drop in and Bee us occasionally," he said hospitably, and, raising his voice bo that the bystanders could bear, he added: "We have already the cheapest and best resort in the city ; we propose to add from time to time such startling novelties, freaks of naturo and thrilling curiosities as the unlimited means at our command and our agents in the four quarters of tho globe can eecure, and we shall make our etare show the special pride and feature " but Ira had cono and tho proprietor was now addressing his remarks to the crowd in general. Maria had not. grown fleshy. She had aged perceptibly, but her lank figure was arrayed in a vouthful costume of original design, that her husband had admiringly declared to be a stunner nnd it was. After a little ehe admitted having nn indistinct recollection of Mapleville and of the Davies household, but her memorv required brightening, ho that Ira had to minutely detailall the circumstances of her sojourn in and departure from that village before ehe would Ulk freely. Not thai she didn't really , remember everything, but Maria was no fledgeling; be was too experienced In the knavery of the world to be imposed upon by a young man's unsupported story, and he had to give a pretty full account of himself, and of Babe and of. her prospects, and of his reasons for wanting the papers before she would acknowlcdx having any in her possession that hod belonged to Babe's mother. She had really been told in San Francisco by some careless actress that Dora and the child were both dead, and as she supposed that ehe had nothing that would have been o'i any value to them

anyway, and there were certain eood

reasons why Mr. Burton s too widelyknown address might lead to unpleasantness, ehe had never made further inquiry. or written to Mapleville. She was satisfied with Ira s identity and his motives at last, and asked many questions about Babe and was glad that the child had been so well reared and care fully cared tor, and above all, was delighted that ehe was to marry euch a promising young man as Ira reported Arthur to be. "I euppoee you know nothing at all about about Dora's history?" said the lady after they had talked for some time "Not one word," eaid Ira. "Well, the letters and capers in the box, which I will give you, will tell you nearly all I know, and ehe was with me. with email breaks, from the lime ehe was two or three years old till we parted in California, i'ora's mother was an actress, and a good one. My people were stage people. I was brouebt up to this roving elnge life, and the first time I ever saw her was when I was a young girl. She was the lending lady in my father's company, and we went to California by the way of the Isthmus. "Dora's mother was a great beauty; ehe had Iota of admirers, but on the way from Panama to San Francisco the clerk of the boat fell in love with her. He was a goodlooking, educated, dare-devil kind of a fellah, and took her eye as nono of the others ever had and they were married when we reached 'Frisco,' but the old Harry was to pay right off! She had no business to marry, out of tho profession anyway, and be was jealous and wanted her to leave the stago! Huh! ehe leave the stage!" enorted Maria. "Ho might as well tried to have her stop eating or breathing! But he was as eet na Satan for he came from a high-toned country family up here somewhere, and they had it cat and dog style. Not long after Dora was born, he sued for a divorce and to spite him ehe ran away taking Dora nnd Bailed for Australia. Our folks went over on the next ship aud we found that ehe had died euddenly on the trip ; to mother took Dora, who was a pretty little thing and company for me, and I brought her up like a younger sister. "We always meant to find her father, but after his wife rau away he disappeared and wo never run across him. He probab y went up into the mines and got killed, for ho was a reckless fellah, and there was a good deal of ehooting going on there in tho?e days; anyhow we lived 6uch a here-aod-thero and all over kind of a life that we never followed him up like more settled people would. He wa'n't one of the kind that would ever be likely to be worth anything:, eg it wouldn't do Dora much good anyway. Dora would have made a nice little actress if ehehad had half achance I taught her," eaid Maria complacently. "But just as she got old encutrh to attract attention she up and married a circus man Jack Fielding and ehe was eick nnd the babe was born and then he died, and eome way we ali had a etreak of hard luck for a long time. After we left Mapleville we got in with a good man, and it's been coming our way most t.f the time eince, and we are holding very good cards now," eaid she. composedly arranging the fo!ds of her gorgeous gown. "You say that the Babe's man has just been elected to congress?" she a?ked. "Yes, eo I eeo from tho papers." . "Well, if she's always lived in that little village I'll have to run down to Washington when she goes there and give her pome points on society," eaid the lady good naturedly. "Iam in society line considerable now, you may have perceive 1 that I have laid aside etage manners and peculiarities of drees Chawlea frequently observes it." "Yes, I noticed a chanse," eaid Ira conscientiouslyhe referred particularly to tho dreas. "If you will kindlv amuse yourself for a trifling moment and excuse my brief abeence I will supply you with those pafers," she said, suddenly assuming what ra correctly supposed was her grand society manners; and he amused himself for the trifling moment in trying to imagine Babe being educated up to a point where ehe would ecriously talk in that tono and act with that magnificent air of euper-politenesa, and bo could not. Tromiee me," said Mrs. Maria, putting a 60uare tea box in his hands, "that vou will eee that this reaches the Babo without fail." "I promise, and you may reet assured that it will," 6aid ho. "It is mv preliminary otiering, 1 will eend a more appropriate one when we learn the date on which the nuptiaU are booked ah, appointed, I should eay." "You can eend nothing that will be moro gratefully appreciated than these papers, eaid Ira bluntly. "I suppose not; well, come and eee us Mr. Davies, I shall write to Babe and epeak of our pleasant call. Ira walked home with the box under his arm eo elated with the possession of the precious documents that he forgot to take the care, and had half of Mapleville passed him on the street he would not have known it It was late when he reached his room. IIo opened the box nervouslv.and for a few minutes examined the papers, then ho dropped them with a low cry ot eurprtee. and the light burned in his room all night, for he did not go to bed. TO JJE CONCIA'DtP NEXT WEEK. Genrgo'a VVlfr. IN. Y. Weekly. Mr. Jinks "What a trusting little wo man Georpo a wife is. Mrs. Jinks "Yes. fcfhe has never been married before." frTANWOOD RESTORED. "6ANATIVO," Wonderful Ppanisa lienor, la r Id ltu a Writ6n Cuarantoe to cur all NeiTomi lirasrs. sucli M W'raJc Mcmorr, Ix of Itnua T b II.. J.... CoforoA. 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