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fclonday, September 7, 1903. THE DECATUR DAILY HERALD. SULLIVAN Amusements SATAN SANDERSON ARRIVE IN ENGLAND; SON-IN-LAW DROWNS 0. S. TO BANQUET THURSDAY EVENING SAYS HUBBY'S PARENTS ALIENATED AFFECTIONS By Hallie Erminie Rives CH4FTEH XVII.

The Turm of The Trull. n-h scene in the hotel office had JwKcS in a state of mental i. which reason was in abey-traction in usion she had siip. once. irtin.pAnm lilt- lilt tne in.

ill feeling a sense almost of phys- 1" lino- to sit in the ISenng to 'the diminishing noises of listen She was wind- to I tiling- the in the grip of "SS emotions. The surprise had her, and the strange appeal wt-ol. Storm- if the vioim nau rThe significant words of awakening in the office had come to her KSfStlv In their light she had read of that gaze that he. tar motionless on the bal Hugh had forgotten the crime, its penalty. In fo thf past, he had forgotten even hi.

wife" Yet in some mysterious ef- hem familiar to him: hid touched for an Instant the spring tho befogged meniui. 0f as the spared through the transient iwrnsnt Past the selvage of Hie town A into the somber mountain slope, the horse sharply with her Sod He who had entrapped her. who married her under the shadow ot ha marrieu broken her i.w hla with his', when his whole bright lorure tn blac-kruin HSiuid such a one look as he had rmA ha make such looked at her? that had wrung her heart? that nao violently "in at once the horse i-'if unseating her. A man was ly- -i the side of the road, tossing 55 Ottering to himself. She forced Visit of George Lee and Wife In Native Land Is Saddened By Death.

BEMENT. Sept. G. Word has been received here of the safe arrival in England of Mr. and Mrs.

George Lee, of this city, who recently sailed for an extended visit with relatives ln their native land. Their visit, however, was saddened by the accidental drowning of their daughter's husband, whom they were to visit, only a few hours before their arrival. Details of the accident have not been received here. H. C.

McGinnis has secured the contract for digging the ditch ln the Kankakee drainage district. The contract calls for nine miles of ditch. Mrs. W. T.

Conway is seriously ill at her home northeast of the city. Mrs. Conway and daughter. Edith, returned Saturday from a visit with relatives in Kansas since which time she has been seriously ill. Will Goddard left Monday for an extended visit at Archie, 111.

Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Alvord are visiting in Ohio.

Misses Violet and Mable Day have returned from a visit at Tallapoosa, Ga. Mrs. Rose Conway has returned to her home at Hull after a few days' visit with her mother, Mrs. G. W.

Snyder. Mrs. Beecher Bell is visiting her sister, Mrs. Bessie Williams at Stre-ator. Ray Cornelius returned to his home in Charleston.

Mr. and Mrs. James Landis were in Champaign Wednesday and attended the fair. Miss Kate Dawson has gone to Hope, where she has a position as trimmer. Mrs.

W. E. Redmon and daughters, of Chicago, are visiting relatives here this week. Mrs: Anna Cook of Champaign mother. Mrs.

G. M. Thompson, the first of the week. Charles Fisher has returned to Car-rouion. after spending a week wifti his family in Bement.

Mrs. Blanche Mcintosh of Terre Haute is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Oldrige. Richard Fleming was in Chicago the first of the week.

Rev. Morris and Earl Harden are visiting in Chicago this week. Carl Thompson visited his sister. Mrs. Mattle East, at Ospur the first of the week.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Athey. of Hills-boro, visited the former's brother, T. B.

Athey, the first of the' week. P. J. Keller of Decatur visited his daughter, Mrs. J.

O. Evans. DE WITT. DE WITT. Sept.

6. J. E. Harrold was in Bloomington Saturday. Dr.

Taj-lor of Clinton visited his son, H. Eaton, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cain are the parents of a baby girl.

Everett Buck of Normal is visiting his little daughter. Miss Ethel Taylor was in Clinton Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hodges of Superior.

are visiting relatives here. The society of the Cumberland Presbyterian church will hold a chicken fry In the basement of the church on the night of Sept. 19. The proceeds will go to Improve the interior of the basement. J.

W. Callison and S. T. Harman were in Weldon Thursday. OAKIEY.

OAKLEY, Sept. 6. Simon Nickey of Spokane, is visiting relatives here. William Hiser. who has been quite ill for some time, is slowly improving.

Misses Carrie and Edna Bunday returned to their home near Kinmundy. Friday, after several duys' visit in this vicinity. Several from here attended a picnic at Woodbine park Thursday. Jacob Hiser of Cerro Gordo visited at William Hiser's Thursday. There will be an ice cream social at the Fairview church, west of town, Wednesday evening.

Sept. 9. HINDSBORO. H1NDSBORO, Sept 6 Mr. and Mrs.

Mc Cuinlier entertained the senior and the junior Kpwortli leagues Friday eveniiur at tlicir home. The members furnished a musical program, after which refreshments were served. 'Those present were Misses Nita Moore. Xellie Lanyley, Dowlerr Lela Curry, Pearl Land, Ida Kvans, Pearl Bacon. Effie Bacon, Maud Coodvrin, Felix Wright anil Messrs.

Alfred Clapp, Sam Caldwell, Ora Dowler, Cecil Dowler, Will Powers, Charles Powers ami Clarence Bryant. Will Observe Anniversary and Visit of Worthy-Grand Matron. Decatur Chapter, No. Ill, O. E.

is making elaborate preparations for the banquet to be given Thursday evening at 6 the occasion being the chapter's twenty-first anniversary and the date for the official i-ioit worthy grand matron, Mrs. Mae McRae. jl mcago. utner grand officers expected to attend are Mrs. Amanda nuem, erana conductress; Mrs.

Inez Bender, associate grand conductress-Mrs. Nora Olmsted, of Danville, grand Esther; Mrs. Clara Wagner, of Bloomington, grand Martha; Mrs. Elma Mandeville, of Chicago. Other guests of honor, past grand matrons, will be Mrs.

May Brown, Pana: Mrs. Jane Ricketts, Windsor; Mrs. Jennie Walker, Aurora: Mrs. Mary Goddard, Mt. Carmel; Mrs.

Mary Ingham. Quincy Mrs. Kate Heath. Danville; Mrs. Jennie Bell, Chicago, and Mrs.

Jennie Freeman, Danville: also C. L. Hovey and wife of the Masonic Home at Sullivan, and Mr. and Mrs. Moreland of the Eastern Star Home at Macon.

The -banquet is exclusively for members of the Eastern Star. The reception hour is from 6 to 6 o'clock. Preparations are belnir mnH ort- commodate at least 200 persons. The wormy matron requests that, owing to the large number of guests and others in attendance, no children be taken to the hall. MISS RIDER'S PUPILS GIVE VARIED PROGRAM The piano pupils of Miss Llllle Ryder gave a recital Friday evening at the home of Miss Ryder, 15S2 North Church street.

The following program was rendered: Trio. -Bewitching Fairy Polka" (Paul Keller) Misses Marshall. Patterson and Henebry; "Wild Rose," Gladys Wentz: duet, "My Pas Waltz" (E. Mack), Dora and Bernard Patterson; "Snow (F. S.

Fearis), Bessie Patterson: duet, "My Ma's Waltz," (E. Mack) Misses Marshall and Henebry; "Star of the Sea" (Amanda Kennedy), Clora Patterson: duet, "Boat Song" (Hannah Smith). Gladys Wentz; "Song of the Sea Shell (C. Henscel), Marie Henebry; duet, "La Fleurette" (Arthur Wellsley). Maud and Clora Patterson; "Maid of Beauty Waltz" (P.

Latoni). and "College March" (Weber), Maud Patterson: trio, "Yellow Jonquils" (P. F. Johanning), Misses Maxon, Clora and Maud Patterson: "Blue Bell Dance" (J. H.

Davies), and "Dream Faries" (P. Ducell), Fay Marshall; duet. "Song of the Forge" (H. Sonner), Misses Marshall and Patterson; "In the Merry Month of May" (G. Merkel).

Ethel Murray; duet, "Joyous Return" (Leon Riagnet), Misses Maxon and Patterson; "Fairy's Dream" (A. Field-house), and "Edelwiess" (F. E. Vander-beck), Helen Maxon: duet, "Postilion D'A Mour (Fr. Behr), Misses Lomison and Murray; "Dorothy" (S.

Smith), and "Maublumchen" (C. Bohm), Beulah Lomison; duet, "Sun P'lower Dance" (W. E. Mac Cloymout). Misses Patterson and Murray: "In Dreamland" (H.

C. Verner) and "Waltz in flat Major" (A. Durand). Dora Patterson; "Sleigh Ride," (W. W.

Treloar), Misses Bessie and Dora Patterson. Miss Ryder is a graduate of the Mil-llkln school of music. CASNER. CASNER. Sept.

6. Belton brothers have sold their store here to Grant Bucklcew and Anderson Hodge of Decatur. Orville Beck has returned from South Dakota. Miss Edna McDonal and Miss Elisa Baney went to Normal today to attend school there. Decatur visitors Saturday were Mr.

and Mrs. A. B. Chapman, Mrs. Huld Robv, A.

A. Hill and J. W. Stackhouse. Mrs.

Llllie Reynolds and son of Long Creek are visiting here with Mrs. Levi Lehman. TC. unwilling animal cioseF. aim, from "hi saddle, saw who It was.

"a moment she was off and beside prostrate form, a spasm of dread hutching at her throat at sight of the limbs, the chalky pallor of the ow ttofeVer spots in the cheeks w. if nitv swept over her. He A nr. oinno- ho could not be loft he must have shelter. She iZ.j,A fearfully about her.

What whose i.M do? In that town. intolerance and dislike she had io actively demonstrated, was there seen no one who would care lor nun. She -j hsail listening to a near- fns sound footsteps were plodding up ihf road. She called, and-present a iedestrian emerged from the half -dark ind came toward her. He bent over the form she showed SUres." he said with a chuckle heard he'd come back." The chuckle turned to a cough, and he hook his head.

"This is sad! ou Bd neSr believe how I have labored with the boy. but" he turned out us hands "you see. there is the temptation It is his unhappy weakness. Jessica remembered the yellow smirking face now. She had passed 55; oi fhe day Tom Felder had walked with her from the Mountain altej House, and the lawyer had told her he lived in the cabin just below the Knob, where she often sat.

She felt a quiver of repulsion. "He is not intoxicated. rol.il v. "He is ill. You she know sajd him.

then" "Know him!" he echoed, and laugheda dry. cackling laugh. "I ought to And I guess he knows me." He smwik the Inert arm. "Get tip. he said.

"It's Prendergast!" There flashed through her mind the phrase of the surly hotel-keeper: "His Prendergast!" Could it rbe? Had Hugh really Hved in the cabin on which she had so often peer- V. nqet WM1lQ 4 till Tl QOWn 1 Hia, muac this cnosen crony; iijJ-'v8e touched Prendergast's arm. Tie 1 111. I say." she repeated. "He must 'be cared for at once.

Your cabin is on Ronan Back From Chicago. Thomas Ronan. manager of the Powers opera house returned Saturday p. m. from Chicago, where he went to make further bookings for the theatrical season.

He was not able to close up any contracts, and likely will not be able to announce anything further until after the electionins in November, but he offers the assurance that he ha some splendid attractions promised. FLATIRON ROUTS THIEF. Alton Woman Drops Laundry Utensil On Burglar's Head. ALTON. Sept.

6 Mrs. William B. Rayborn of this city felled a burglar with a flatiron yesterday morning. Mrs. Rayburn saw a man through tha shutters climbing up a ladder to her bedroom window.

There were two flatirons nearby. She grasped one of them and throwing the shutters open landed it fairly on the burglar's head. By the time she had the next one at the window, she could see the man fleeing in the moonlight. Mrs. Rayborn is confident she would have been robbed and maybe killed if the flatirons had not been handy.

BIk I.nnd Tranxfer Made. TATLORVILLE, Sept. 6. One of the largest transfers of real estate ever made in this county was closed yesterday when D. G.

Bailey of Delaven sold 1.000 acres of land lying along the Sangamon river in Mt. Auburn township to G. N. Hill of Fulton, Mo, for $80,000. CflOOl applies AT Ellis W.

Armstrong DRUG STORE 1113 N. Water St Gebhart Block Farms For Sale I sold three of the six farms advertised in The Herald and sales are pending on others. The best bargain I offered remains. It is as follows: 170 acres fine level corn land 5 miles of city of 5,000 and one mile of grain station. Good seven-room house, farm barn and other improvements.

65 acres of corn on this farm will average 60 bushels an acre this year. Let me show you this farm. It is simply a snap at $100. 160 acres in Christian County near town of 1800 and city of good black soil with fair improvements $130 and rent goes on cash deal. 160 acres improved within two miles ot Blue Mound $155.

Best of land and fair improvements. 160 acres near Blue Mound with good new house, fine soil and an excellent farm, $165. SO acres near Blue Mound, no improvements, $145. 100 acres improved, near Blue Mound, $165. I have dozens of good corn land farms in Central Illinois and can suit most any buyer with size and prices.

Don't buy until you have a talk with me. Frank Trainer Editor Leader, Blue Mound, 111. JEWELRY STORE FOR FINE DIAMONDS AND WATCHES 146 E. Prairie Ave. Books AND YOKES' Urbana Wife Demands $10, 000 Damages of Relatives.

CHAMPAIGN, Sept. 6. A new case filed for the January term of circuit court at Urbana presents some glorious possibilities. Pearl Ellis sues Samuel Ellis and Sarah Ellis for trespass upon the case, claiming damages of $10,000. No declaration was filed but the case Is said to be along the line of alienation of the plaintiff's husband's affections.

At the September term of the circuit court is set for a hearing the divorce case of Albert M. Ellis versus Pearl Ellis. In the bill the wife is charged with very reprehensible conduct for a wife and Edward McFall Is mentioned as a sharer in the alleged stolen sweets. A cross-bill has been filed by Mrs. Ellis in which she asserts that the charges of onwifely conduct are false; that she was faithful to her marriage vows.

She avers that she and her husband "lived happily together for some time in the village of Penfield that Samuel Ellis and Sarah Ellis, father and mother ot complainant, then and there lived in said village. DiMlIke "Your defendant, further answering, avers that without fault on her part, said Samuel Ellis and Sarah Ellis took a violent dislike to your defendant; that without provocation said Samuel Ellis would frequently fly into a rage at defendant and curse and abuse her; that at divers times he threatened his son, the complainant, with disinheritance should said son not get rid of his wife, the defendant. "Your defendant further avers that said Sarah Ellis frequently insulted your defendant and called her oppro- bious epithets that she made life ln Penfield miserable and unbearable that she frequently and continually circulate false and slan derous reports about your defendant for the purpose of causing a separation between your defendant and complainant." Other specific charges are filed against the complainant in this -in conclusion Mrs. Ellis de clares that Mr. Ellis is worth $20,000 and well able to care for her.

She now lives in Danville, and since June 8, 1908. her husband has given her S50. She asks that this suit shall be "hence dismissed with her reasonable costs and charges, in his behalf most wrongfully sustained." SULLIVAN MAN TO RUN AS INDEPENDENT SULLIVAN. Sept. 6.

Lucas Lam-brecht of this city has announced as an independent candidate for representative of the twenty-fourth senatorial district. In the primary the local option candidates were announced on both tickets, and those opposed were without a candidate until Lambrecht announced. THIS FIND MADE A POOR MAN VERY RICH ST. FRANCISVILLE. Sept.

6. John Lowe, a poor muscle grabber residing In this village, found what is called a turtle back" pearl in the Wabash river near this place yesterday that weighs 200 grains. The gem is said to possess a value of $7,500. Lowe was a tenant farmer until a month ago when repeated losses of corn crops forced him to leave the farm and join the large force of muscle diggers who are gaining a livelihood in this man ner. The pearl Is the largest wliicn has ever been taken from the Wabash river.

Remove Child's Tonsils. in operation for the removal of the tonsils of 10-year old Mabel LaBrash. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.

A. La-Brash, 30S West Cerro Gordo street, was performed yesterday afternoon. The child had been troubled with throat trouble for some time. She rallied nicely from the operation and a quick recovery is expected. DECATUR, ILL.

SULLIVAN SCHOOLS WILL REOPEN TODAY SLTLL1VAN, Sept. 6. Monday morning at o'clock the old bell in the Northside school building will again summon teachers and pupils to the opening session of the first day of the school year in the city schools. Superintendent O. B.

Lowe has his work planned, and the teachers are all ready to commence work in earnest Monday morning. This is Mr. Lowe's second year as superintendent of the schools. The young women of the Intermediate league will give a social on the lawn at the M. K.

church Monday even-in. A fine program has been arranged. PerMontil Mention. Miss Bessie Pemberton was the guest of Bethany relatives Sunday. Mrs.

I. M. Richardson and father went to Decatur Saturday for a few days' visit with relatives. Miss Carrie Archer and niece Miss Margaret returned Saturday from a week's visit in Marshall. They will leave Sept.

15 for their home in California. Miss Austine Muncie has returned to her home in Decatur after" a visit with her aunt, Mrs. S. T. Butler and family.

Mrs. J. G. McNutt returned Saturday from Rushville. where she has been visiting her parents.

Mrs. A. S. Creech has returned to her home in Decatur after a few days' visit with relatives at this place. W.

W. Shanks spent Sunday with his wife and children, who are visiting in Rantoul. Miss Hattie Ginn, who has been taking an outing and pleasure trip on the northern lakes, has returned. Misses Vene and Rose Millizen were in Decatur Saturday. Miss Fannie Emmons was the guest of friends ln Findlay today.

Miss Grace Mills of Chicago, who has been employed as science teacher in the city high school and the last of the corps of teachers employed, arrived Saturday evening and will be ready to enter upon her work Monday morning. Miss Edith Woodruff has received word that her stepmother, Mrs. Squire Woodruff, is seriously ill at the home of her stepdaughter Mrs. Helen Davis at Chillicothe. Mo.

Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff left here one week ago for a visit with relatives in and near Chillicothe. Mrs. Wolverton and daughter Miss F.mma of Sunlmry, are visiting their friend, Mrs.

O. J. Gauger and family. Will Evans of Greencastle, arrived Saturday and was the guest of Miss Cora Gauger over Sunday. MT.PULASKIftNSHAVt LHP YEAR DANCE MT.

PULASKI, Sept. 6. A leap year dance was given In Scroggins' opera house Friday evening. Music was fur-pished bv Mr. George Beidler.

Those present were: Misses Estelle Clear, Bess Wacaser. Gertrude Myers. Marie Wacaser. Mabel Jacobs (Chicago). Helen Duff.

Janet Rolsten. Edith Duff. Fannye Rolston. Winnifred Obermiller. Lucile Obermiller.

Trenna Evans. May TUr.l,.li nf finrin ert ield. and Mrs. Paul Beidler; and Messrs. George Wolfs.

Eugene Clear, Karl Kmminger. nanes Emminger. Walter and Alfred Wacaser. Roy and Lee Lucas. Fred Hahn.

Frank Hines. Ted Duff, and Clyde Robinson of Lincoln. A t.l ortiloti. rtf tli At HI. liv.

uiui-i church will serve dinner in the dining room ot tne cnurcu riun.o dav, Friday. Sept. 11. Following is the menu: Beef. ham.

potatoes, baked beans, boiled cabbage, cream slaw. sauce, jelly, cream, bread and butter. conee. ice tea anu pie. Mr George Suedmeier.

living west of the city, left Wednesday night for i 1." iii iniwfr to a message saying her mother was se- riouslv ill. Mr and Mrs. Henry Klotz and daugh-. ct T-ji-ir wonr to Salle leis iwia aim Tuesday to visit for a week with Henry Allen ana iauui. ahhi.

of streets and is taking a short vacation from his duties. Miss Alice Mc.Nany anu nine Drainer, who live northeast of the city, left ihU- week for an extended visit In Champaign. Miss Anna Tutwleler has gone to Latham to begin another term as teacher of the iniermeuiaie uepai i-ment of the pulic schools. ii Ii7 Rrnwn nnrt dausn- ter Virginia, of Indianapolis, are the guests at tne country uume ut and Mrs. Kd Birks.

T. J. Jordan of Chester, deputy sher- r-nnntv is visitiner northeast of the city with his daughter. Mrs. William Rentschler.

who is recovering from an attack of appendi- 4 and Mrs. Moses Eggleston have purchased the old Tilbury homestead, on North Garden street, and have moved there ironi iNonn iwariuu sucei. Mr and Mrs. Chester Hughs and i lf i ,1 daugnter. manr.

son. Wilfielm, and Mrs. Mary Fishbach have gone to riosweii. in. io in Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Mann for several weeks. Mrs. J. B.

Gordon and son. Aldrich Clark, are visiting friends at the el-don Spring Chautauqua. Mrs. H. Singer and daughter of Peoria returned to their home Friday af-t a weeks' visit with G.

Jenner and family. Mrs. Mary sturoucK ui hi.xh.immi upturned Friday after a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.

H. Rolston. WRECK; ENGINEER DEAD. Injured When Freiqht Runs Into Open Switch at Langley STERLING. Sept.

6. Freight train No. 856 on the Peoria Sterling branch -iviirt'jwi Jfr TVorth western was UI UlC wrecked this morning. It ran into an open switch at Langley. in.

engineer x-To rfor of "Relvidere was in stantly killed. Fireman Will Hense and Brakeman John Fisher, also of Bel- videre, were injured. REMAINS THE SAME. Well-Brewed Postum Always Palatable. The flavour of Postum.

when boiled according to directions, is always the same mild, distinctive, and palatable. It contains no harmful substance like caffeine, the drug in coffee, and hence may be used with benefit at all times. "Believing that coffee was the cause of my torpid liver, sick headache and miserv in many ways," writes an Ind. lady, "I quit and bought a package of Postum about a year ago. "My husband and I have been so well pleased that we have continued to drink Postum ever since.

We like the taste of Postum better than coffee, as it has always the same pleasant flavour, while coffee changes its taste with about every new combination or blend. "Since using Postum I have had no rriore attacks of gall colic, the heaviness has left my chest, and the old, common, every-day headache is a thing unknown. "There's a Reason." Name given by postum ijattie Creek. Mich. 1 Read "The Road to Well-ville" In pkgs.

Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are. genuine, true, and full of human the last swag you. Prende pal!" out I ve saved it for ast wouldn't cheat a wan-0 in the clay-chinked iheJluo! a chamois-skin It l'ity of gold-duTt and a wnich he poured into a'yido in two portions. This portions on out.

nc emptied one of the paper and pushed it That's yours." he said. oyes were on his with a pitrcing intensity now, as tnough they looked through him to a vast distance beyond. He was staring through a "ust- at something far off but significant that eluded nis direct board table, the yellow gold, the flickering candle-light recalled something horrifying, in some other world, in some other life, millions of ages ago. He lurched to his feet, overturning 1. -V c- SOKi-uust rattled to tue floor.

"Your deal!" he said. Then with a yagu laugh, he fell sidewise upon the bunk. August Prendergast stared at him with a look of amazement on his yellow face. "He's crazy as a chicken!" he said. He sat watching him a while, then rose ind kindled a fire on the unswept hearth.

From a litter of cans and dented utensiles in a corner lie proceeded to cook himself supper, after which he carefully brushed up the scattered gold-dust and returned it all to its hiding-place. Lastly he rummaged on a shelf and found a phial; this proved to be empty, however, and he set it on the table. "I guess you'll do well enough without any painkiller." he said to himself. "Doctors are expensive. Anyway.

I'll be back by midnight." He threw more wood on the fire, blew out candle, and, closing the door behind him. set off down the trail to the town where a faro-bank soon acquired the 1.111 Jessica had given him. CHAPTER XVIII It was pitch-dark when Jessica reached the sanatorium, though she went like a whirlwind, the chill damp smell of the dewy balsams in her nostrils, the dust rising ghost-like behind the rapid hoofs. She found David Stires anxious and peevish over her late coming. Sitting beside him as he ate his supper, and reading to him afterward, she hal little time for coherent thought; all the while she was maintaining her self-control with an effort.

Since she had ridden away that afternoon, she felt as if years had gone over her with all their changes. She was oppressed with a new sense of fate, of power beyond and stronger than herself, and her mind was enveloped in a haze of futurity. She felt a relief when the old man grew tired and was wheeled to his bedroom. Left alone, her reflections returned. She began to be tortured.

She tried to read the printed characters swam beyond her comprehension. At length she drew a hood over her head and stole out. on to the wide porch. It was only 0 o'clock, and along the gravel paths that wound among the shrubbery a few dim forms were strolling she caught the scent of a cigar and the sound of a woman's laugh. The air was crisp and bracing, with a promise of frost and painted leaves.

She gazed down across the dark gulches toward the town, a straggling design pricked in blinking yellow points. "Halfway between, folded in the darkness, lay the green shelf and the cabin to which her thought recurred with a kind of compulsion. Her eyes searched the darkness anxiously. He had seemed dangerously ill; he might die. perhaps.

If he did, what would it be for her, his wife, but freedom from a galling bond? She thought of the violin playing. Had that been but the soul's swan-song, the last cry of his stained and desolate spirit before it passed from this world that knew its temptation and its fall? If shi- could only know what the doctor had said! There was no moon. but the stars were.glowing like tiny, green-gilt coals and the yellow road lay plain and clear. With a sudden determination stretch under the trees, moving like a hastening, gray phantom through a purple world of shadows, the crackling slip of bankpaper that lay in her bosom seemed to burn her flesh. She was stealing away to gaze upon the outcast who had shamed and humbled her going, she knew not why, with burning cheeks and hammering heart.

She slipped through the side trail to the cabin with a choking sensation. She stole to the window and peered in in the firelight she could see the form on the bunk, "tossing and muttering. Otherwise the place was empty. She lifted the latch softly and entered. The strained anxiety of Jessica's look relaxed as she gazed about her.

Sh; saw the phial on the table the doctor had been there, then. If he were in serious case. Prendergast would be with him. She threw back her hood, drew one of the chairs to the side of the hunk and sat down, her eyes fixed on his face. The weakness and helplessness cf his posture struck through and through her.

Two sides of her were struggling in a chaotic com-tat for mastery. "I hate you! I hate you!" she said under her' breath, clenching her cold hand. "I must hate you! You stole my love and put it under your feet! Y'ou have disgraced my present and ruined my future! What if you have forgotten the past your crime? Does that make you the less guilty, or me the less wretched?" But withal a silent voice within her gave the lie to her vehemence. "Some element of her character that had been rigid and intact was crumbling down. An old.

sweet something, that a dreadful mill had ground and crushed and annihilated, was rising whole and un-defiled. superior to any petty distinction regardless of all that lifted combative in her inheritance, not to be grainsaid or denied. She leaned closer, listening to the incoherent words and broken phrases borne on the turbid channels of fever. But she could not link them together into meaning. Only one name he spoke clearly over and over again the name Hugh Stires repeated with th-dreary monotony of a child conning a lesson.

She noted the mark across his brow. Before her marriage, in her blindness, she had used to wonder what it was like. It was not in the least disfiguring it gave a touch of the extraordinary. It was so small she did not wonder that in that ecstatic moment of her bride's kiss she had not seen it. Slowly half fearfully, she stretched out her hand and laid it on his.

As if at the touch the mutterings ceased. The eyes opened, and a confused, troubled look crept to them. Then they closed again, and the look faded out into a peace that remained. Jessica dropped to her knees and burled her face in the blanket, burning and chilling with an indescribable sensation of mingled pain and pleasure She scarcely knew what she was thinking. It seemed to her that his verv weakness and helplessness voiced again the something that had sounded in the music, of the violin, when the buried, forgotten past had cried out its pain and shame and plea, half unconsciouslyto her! A thrill ran through her.

the sense of moral power of the weak over the strong, of the feminine over the masculine. A rising flush stained her cheeks. With a sudden impulse, and with "tiilt'y backward glance, she bent and toucher her lips to his forehead. She drew back quickly, her face flooded with color, caught her breath, went swiftly to the door and, was lost then drawing her hood over her head. ish drew the light cloak closely about i her stepped down, sped across the footpath, and so to the road.

the hillside, isn't ltr "His cabin." he" corrected. A rough place, but it has sheltered us both. I am but guide, philosopher and friend. She bit her lips. "Lift him on my tiorFe." she said.

She stooped and put her hands under the twitching shoulders. "I will help you. I am quite stronc." With her aid he lifted the swaying form on to the saddle and supported It while Jessica led the way up the darkening road. Here Is the cut-on. ne- saui ently.

Had led flnnlro. to the grassy shelf on which the cabin tood. The by-way was steep and rugged, and rhododendron clumps caught at her ankles, and once she heard a snake Blip over the dry rustle of leaves, but he went on rapidly, dragging at the bridle, turning back now and then anxiously to urge the horse to grfster speed. She scarcely heard the offensively honied compliments which Prendergast offered to her courage and resource. Her pulses were throbbing unsteadily, her mind in a ferment.

It seemed an eternity they climbed: In realty it was scarcely twenty minutes before they reached the grassy knoll and the cabin whose crazy swinging door stood wide to the night air. She tied the horse, went in and at Prendergast's direction found the matches and lit a candle. The bare, two-room interior It revealed, was unkempt and disordered. Rough bunks. table and a couple of hewn chairs, were almost its only furniture.

The window was broken and the roof ad- hiitted sun and rain. Prendergast laid the man thev had brought on one of the hunks and threw over him a shabby blanket. "ily dear young lady." he said, "you "re a good Samaritan. How shall we thank you, my poor friend here and Jessica had taken money from her jocket and now she held it out to him. He must have a doctor," she said.

r'Yo'i must fetch one." The yellow eyes fastened on the bill, even while his gesture protested. "You shame me!" he exclaimed. "And yet you are right; it is for him." He folded It and put it into his pocket. "As joon as I have built a fire. I will go lor our local medico.

He will not always come to the call of the luckless miner. All are not so charitable as you." He untied her horse and extended a hand, but she mounted without his help. "He will thank you one day this friend of mine." he said, "far better than I can do." 'w is not at all necessary to tell "Iro." she replied frigidlv. "The sick are be in every circumstance." She gave her 'liorse the rein as she spok and turned him up the steep Path that climbed back of the cabin. Pt the Knob, and so "by a narrow to the mountain road? August Prendergast stood listening jo the dulling roof-beats a moment.

then re-entered the cahin. The man the bunk had lifted to a sitting jwition. his eyes were open, dazed nd staring. right." the older man said. fAi coming round.

How does it be back ln the oId shebang? guess how vou got here, can w. You were towed on horseback I. "eauty. Hughev. my boy a rip-' In kS "eauty! I'll tell you about it tne morning, if you're good." kwi ai he addressed made no n- Z.i'.

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