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The new issues tor August are now • "■ ■ N AND THE MOUSE. By CHARLES KLEIN. A Story of American Lift Novelized From the Play by ARTHUR HORNBLOW. COPYRIGHT. 1906. BY G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY. you grindiug away ut home doing m- erary stunts for the governor.” He more to me tnan i urea med a woman grinned ami then added: "Come for a could ever be. I realize It more forci drive. I want to talk to you.” bly every day. There 1 b no use fight Shirley demurred. No; «he could not lug against it. Without you my work, spare the time. Yet, she thought to my life, means nothing.” herself, why was not this a good op Shirley shook her bead and averted portunity to explain to Jefferson bow her eyes. he came to find her in his father's 11- ( “Don’t let us speak of that, Jeff,” brary masquerading under another she pleaded gently. “I told you I did name and also to ask him to seeure the not belong to myself while my father letters for her? While she pondered was in peril.” Jefferson Insisted, and a few minutes “But I must speak of IL” be inter later she found herself sitting beside rupted. "Shirley, you do yourself an him In the cab. They started off at a ! injustice as well as me. You are not brisk pace, Shirley sitting with her I indifferent to me—I feel that. Then head buck, enjoying the strong breeze why wilse this barrier between us?” caused by the rapid motion. A soft light stole into the girl's eyes. “Now tell me,” he said, “what does Ah, it was good to feel there was some it all mean? I wus so startled at see one to whom she was everything in the ing you lu the library the other day world! that I almost betrayed you. How did "Don’t ask me to betray my trusL you come to call on father?” Jeff,” she faltered. “You know I am Briefly Shirley explained everything. not indifferent to you—far from It. She told him how Mr. Ryder had writ But I”- ten to her asking her to call and see Ile came doser until his face nearly him and how she had eagerly seized at touched hers. this last straw In the hope of helping “I love you—I want yon,” he mur her father. She told him about the let mured feverishly. “Give me the right tern, explaining how necessary they to claim you before all the world as my were for her father’s defense and how future wife!” * she had discovered them. Mr. Ryder, Every note of his rich, manly voice, she said, had seemed to take a fancy vibrating with impetuous passion, to her and had asked her to remain in sounded in Shirley's ear like a soft the house as his guest while she was caress. She closed her eyes. A strange compiling his biography, and she had feeling of languor was stealing over accepted the offer not so much for the lier; a mysterious thrill passed through amount of money involved as for the her whole body. The eternal, lnevlfa- splendid opportunity it afforded her to mg tex instinct was disturbing for the gain possession of the letters. first time a woman whose life had “So that is the mysterious work you been singularly free from such influ sjioke of, to get those letters?” said enc<% putting to flight all the calcula Jefferson. tions and resolves her cooler Judgment “Yes; that is my mission. It was a had made. The sensuous charm of the secret. I couldn't tell you. I couldn’t place—the distant splash of the water, tell any one. Only Judge Stott knows. the singing of the birds, the fragrance He Is aware I have found them and Is of the trees and grass- all these sym hourly expecting to receive them from bols of the Joy of life conspired to me. And now,” she said, “I want your arouse the love hunger of the woman. help” Why, after all, should she not know His only answer was to grasp tighter happiness like other women? Rhe had the hand Bhe had laid in his. Rhe a sacred duty to perform, it was true, knew that she would not have to ex but would it be less well done because plain the nature of the service she she declined to stifle the natural lean wanted. He understood. Ings of her womanhood? Both her soul “Where are the letters?” he demand- and her ixsly called ouL "Let this man ed. love you; give yourself to htm; he is “In the left hand drawer of your fa worthy of your love." ther’s desk,” she answered. Half unconsciously she listened to He was silent for a few moments, his ardent wooing, her eyes shuL as he and then he said simply: spoke quickly, passionately, bls breath “I will get them." warm upon her cheek: The cab by this time had got as far "Rhlrley, I offer you all the devotion as Claremont, and from the hill sum a man can give a woman. Say the one mit they iiad a splendid view of the word that will make me the happiest broad sweep of the majestic Hudson or the most wretched of men. Yes or and the towering walls of the blue no! Only think well before you wreck palisades. The day was so beautiful I and the air so invigorating that Jeffer son suggested n ramble along the banks of the river. They could leave the cab at Claremont and drive back ' to the city later. Shirley was too grateful to him for bls promise of co- j operation to make any further opposi tion, and soon they were far away from beaten highways, down on the banks of the historic stream, picking flowers and laughing merrily like two truant children t<ent on a self made holiday. The place they had reached was just outside the northern bound aries of Harlem, a sylvan spot still un spoiled by the rude invasion of the flat house builder The land, thickly wood ed, sloped down sharply to the wa ter, and the perfect quiet was broken only by the washing of the tiny surf against the river bank and the shrill notes of the birds In the trees. Although it was late in October, the day was ¡warm, and Rhlrley soon tired of climbing over bramble entangled verdure. The rich grass underfoot looked cool and inviting, and the nat "Say you will be my wife I’’ ural slope of the ground affording an my life. I love you—I love you! I will Ideal resting place she sat there, with Jefferson stretched out at her feet, both wait for you If need be until the crack watching idly the dancing waters of of doom. Say—say you will be my the broad Hudson, spangled with wife!” Rhe opened her eyes. His face was gleams of light, as they swept swiftly bent close over hers. Their lips almost by on their Journey to the sea. “Shirley,” said Jefferson suddenly, touched. "Yes, Jefferson,” she murmured, "I “I suppose you saw that ridiculous story about my alleged engagement to do love you!” Ills lips met hers In a long, passion Miss Roberts. I hope you understood that it was done without my consent.” ate kiss. Her eyes closed, and an "If I did not guess IL Jeff,” she an ecstatic thrill seemed to convulse her swered. "your assurance would be auf- entire being. The birds in the trees fleient. Besides," she added, "what overhead sang in more Joyful chorus In celebration of the betrothal. right have I to object?" "Rut I want you to have the right,” CHAPTER XIV. he replied earnestly "I’m going to stop thia Roberts nonsense In a way was nearly 7 o’clock when Shir my father hardly anticipates I'm Just ley got back to Seventy fourth waiting a qjjance to talk to him. I’ll ■ street. No one saw her come In, show him the absurdity of annountjpg I and she went direct to her room me engaged to a girl who Is about to and after a hasty dinner worked until elope with hla private secretary!" late Into the night on her book to make “Elope with tlte secretary!" exclaim up for lost time. The events of the ed Shirley. afternoon caused her considerable un •fefferson told ail alsmt the letter be easiness Rhe reproached herself for had found on the staircase and the her Weakness and for having yielded Hon. Fitxroy Bagley's plans for a run so readily to the Impulse of the mo away marriage with the senator’s ment. Rhe had said only what was the truth when she admitted she loved wealthy daughter. “It’s a godsend to me,” he said glee Jefferson, but what right had she to fully “Their plan is to get married dispose of her future while her father’s next Wednesday. 1'11 see my father an fate was still uncertain? Her con TiiwKuy. I'll put the evidence In his science troubled her, and when she hands, and I don't think," ho added came to reason It out calmly the more grimly, "he'll bother me any more lm|>oss1ble seemed their union from ev ery point of view. How could she be about Miss Roberts.” "So you’re not going away now?” come the daughter in-law of the man who had ruined her own father? The said Shirley, smiling down at him. He sat tip and loaned over toward Idea was preposterous, and hard as the sacrifice would be Jefferson must her “1 can't, Shirley, 1 simply can't,” be | be made to see it in that light Their •anlled hie voice trembling "Yon are engngementwas the greatest folly. It bound each of them w hen nothing but unhapptnass could possibly come of it. Bhe was sure now that she loved Jef in and you can get them at Lowe's ferson. It would be hard to give him Drug Store. up. but there are times and cirrum stances when duty and principle must prevail over all other considerations, Finhermen, Attention! We have and this she felt was one of them. a full line of oars. The best money The following morning she received a letter from Stott. He was delighted can buy. See them at the Bandon to hear the good new« regarding her important discovery, and he urged her to lose no time in securing the letters ami forwarding them to Massapequa, when he would immediately go to Washington and lay them before the senate. Documentary evldeuce of that conclusive nature, be went on to say. would prove of the very highest value In clearing her father's name. He added that the Judge and her mother were as well as circumstances would permit and that they were not in the least worried about her protracted ab sence. Her Aunt MUly had already returned to Europe, and Eudoxia was still threatening to leave daily. Shirley needed no urging. She quite realized the importance of acting quickly, but it was not easy to get at the letters. The library was usu ally kept locked when the great man wus away, and on the few occasions when access to It was possible the lynx eyed Mr. Bagley was always on gugrd. Abort as had been her stay in the Ry der household Rhlrley already shared Jefferson’s antipathy to the English secretary, whose manner grew more supercilious und overbearing as he drew nearer the date when be expect ed to run off with one of the richest estches of the season. He had not sought the acquaintance of bls em ployer’« biographer since her arrival and, with the exception of a rude stare, had not deigned to notice her, which attitude of haughty indifference was all the more remarkable in view of the fact that the Hon. Fltzsoy usually left nothing unturned to cultivate a flirta tious Intimacy with every attractive female he met The truth was that what with Mr. Ryder’s demands upon his services and bls own preparations for bls coinlng-*matrimonlal venture, in which he had>a*much at stake, he had neither time oat inclination to Indulge his customary amorous diversions. Miss Roberts had called at the house several times, ostensibly to see Mrs. Ryder, and when Introduced to Shirley she bad condescended to give the lat ter a supercilious nod. Her conversa tion was generally of the silly, vacu ous sort, concerning chiefly new dresses or bonnets, and Rhlrley at once read her character—frivolous, amusement loving, empty beaded. Irresponsible— Just the kind of girl to do something foolish without weighing the conse quences. After chatting a few mo ments with Mrs. Ryder she would usu ally vanish, and one day after one of these mysterious disappearances Shir- 1 ley happened to pass the library and caught sight of her and Mr. Bagley ■ conversing in subdued and eager tones. ! It was very evident that the elopement scheme was fast maturing. If the scandal was to be prevented, Jefferson ought to see his father and acquaint him with the facts without delay. It was probable that at the same time he would make an effort to secure the let ters. Meantime she must be patient. Too much hurry might spoil every thing. Ro the days passed, Shirley devoting almost all her time to the history she i had undertaken. She saw nothing of ; Ryder senior, but a good deal of his ' wife, to whom she soon became much attached. She found her an amiable, good natured woman, entirely free from that offensive arrogance and pat ronizing condescension which usually | mark the parvenu as distinct from 1 the thoroughbred. Mrs. Ryder had no claims to distinguished lineage; on the contrary, she was the daughter of a country grocer when the then rising oil man married her, and of educational i advantages she bad had little or none. ' It was purely by accident that she was j the wife of the richest man In the * world, and. while she enjoyed the pres- • (Continued next week.] Mrs. A. G. Hoyt wishes to Invite the Ladies of Bandon to call at her home and see her hats, before buying. Hardware Store, opposite the Post Office. 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