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'6 THE MEDIfQRD "MAIL T.RIBUN1S, MEDFORD, OREO ON. FRIDAY. .TANFARY M. 1910. THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK .; Ity OASTOX IiKUOUX, Author of "Tho Mystery of v tho Vellow Koom." 'i ft. Copyright, 1000, by llretnno's CHAPTER XI. A Pistol Shot In the NIcht. 1 T wns a ploomy meal enough. Arthur Jluuce looked every mo ' luent iu tho direction of tho Lady lu Black. Alt tho win dows were open. -A tlnsh of light sing nnd a heavy clap of thunder came In rapid succession, and then tho del ii'so. Mme. Edith reappeared Just lu tlmo to escape being drenched by the furious rain, which beat down liko cannon balls. Tho young woman told in excited tones nnd with her hands clasped how sho had found Old Bob bending over Ms desk with his head burled in his bands. Do had refused to have any thing to say to her. Sho had spoken .to htm affectionately, and be had treated her like a bear. Then, as he lied held his hands to his ears, she lad pricked ono of his fingers with a little pin set with rubies which sho used to fasten the lace scarf which Bho wore In the evening. Her uncle had turned upon her like a madman, had snatched the little pin from her and thrown it upon tho desk. And tfien he had spoken to her "brutally, Adely," sho ejaculated. "Get ont of here and leave me alone P ho said to her. She had turned her head for a last look at her old undo and had been almost struck dumb by what she saw. STho "oldest skull In tho history of the human race" was on the desk, and L, mc t0 eo awar 111 bod in his hand, was spitting in tho skull. He bad always treated it with sevens respect and had insisted that others $0 Ibe same. ' jDarxac reriPfured her by telling her that what she had taken for blood was only paint. I left to hurry out to Rouletabllle and escape Malhilde's glances. What had the Lady in Black been doing in my bedroom? When I started out tho thunder was pealing loudly and the rain falling with redoubled force. It took mo only one bound to reach the postern. No Rou le'tnbllle was there! I found him on the terrace B" watching the cntrnnce to tho square towrr and receiving the full strength of the storm at lib lu k. I entreated him to take shelter un der the arch. "Leave mo nlonel" ho said impatient ly. "Leave me alone! This Is the del uge. Flow good It is! Have you ever had a desire to roar with the thunder? 1 have, and I am roaring now." And be plunged Into the darkness, making the shadows resound with his savage clamors. I believed this time that he had surely gone mad. But In my heart I knew that the unhappy lad -was breathing forth In these indistinct articulations of frightful anguish tho misery that burned him and which be wns constantly trying to hinder from burning up the heart and the soul in hU body the misery of being the son of Larsan. I turned helplessly, and as I did so I felt a baud selzo my wrist, and a lnrk form cried out: -;"Whcre is he?" 1 mo tho truth?" I I had not a word to say. What could ; I have answered? I had breathed the ' perfume of the Lady in Black. Yes; she treated mc ns nn old friend. She told me everything that I already knew In a few sentences ns piteous i nnd ns simple ns n mother's love It' ! self, nnd filie told me other things ! which lloulctnbllle had kept a secret from mo. Tho relationship between them had been guessed by tho one ns surely ns by the other. Led by n sure instinct, Mme. Darac had resolved to I take means to lenni who was this Itou- letablllo who had saved her from death nnd who was of the ago of her own son and who resembled tho lad whom she hnd mourned ns dead. And since her arrival at Mcutouo a letter had reached her containing the proof that Rouletabllle had lied to her in regard to his early life and had never set foot In nny school at Bordeaux. I turned! ntaly she had sought tho youth and had asked for'nn explanation, but he had hurried away without replylug. "Why did he not throw himself into my arms when I opened them to him?" sho moaned. "Ah, my God! If he re fuses to bo Larsan's son, will ho never consent to bo mine?" I was almost bcsldo myself. I kissed her hands and entreated pardon for Rouletabllle. tie re was the result of my friend's schemes to save her pain Under tho pretext of saving her from Larsan ho bad plunged a knife Into her heart. I felt as though I had no wish to know any more of tho story. I went out of the square tower cursing Rouletabllle roundly. I went to the court to look for him, but found It de serted. At tho postern gato Mattonl bad come to take the 10 o'clock watch. I saw a light In Ronletabllle's room, and I hastened up the rickety stairway of the new castle nud quickly found my self outside his door. I opened It with out knocking. Rouletabllle looked up. I told him all that I had heard and my opinion of him for his actions. "She didn't tell you everything, my friend," ho replied coldly. "She did not tell you that she forbade me to touch that man. Do you know what i she said to mo yesterday? She order- She would rather mi .It was Mme. Darzac, who was also seeking Rouletabllle. A new peal of thunder burst, and wo heard the boy In his mad delirium hurling wild shouts of defiance to the heavens. She heard Jiltn. Sho saw him. Wo wero drenched with water from the rain and the breaking of tho sea on the terrace, lime. Darzac's clothing clung around her. like a nig and her skirt dripped as she walked. I took the wretched wo man's nrm and held her up, for I saw that she was about to fall, nnd that moment in the midst of that terrible .unchaining of the clement, in that mad tempest, under this terrible down pour on the breast of tho raging sea, I all at once breathed the perfume tho odor so sweot and penetrating and haunting that its fragrance has re mained with me ever since tho per fume ot the Lady In Black. I under stood now how Rouletnbille bad re membered It all theso years. Tea, It was a fragrance full of sad nesssomething ilko the perfume of un Isolated flower which has been con demned to bo seen by uo one, but to blossom, for itself all alone. A strange perfumo! Surely it was that, for 1 had seeuvthe Lady In Black hundreds of times without noticing it, and now that I bad dono so it was everywhere and above all things, nnd I knew that tho memory of it would abldo with me while llfo should last. There in tho night and tho tempest tho Lady in Black called aloud to Itoulctablllo, nnd ho lied from us nnd rushed farther Into tho night, shriek ing aloud, "Tho perfume of tho Lady lu Black tho perfume of the Lady in Blackl" Tho unhappy woman sobbed. She struck with desperate hands at the door which Hornier opened to us. Sho motioned mo to enter the little parlor at tho right, which was Just outsldo tho bedchamber of Old Bob. Sho took both my hands in hers and said in u volco which I shall novcr for get: "You are ray boy's friend. Tell him Unit ho is not tho only one who has suffered." And aho added with u sob which shook her whole frame: "V.'liy will ho insist on not tolling die than see me take issue against my father." And he laughed, laughed! Such laughter I hope not to hear again. His face was not a pleasant Night to sec as he uttered the words, but sud denly It seemed to be transformed. "She is afraid for me." he said soft ly. "And I I am afraid for her only for her.. And I do not know my fa ther. AhT God help me!" At that moment the sound of a shot rang out on the night, followed by a cry ot mortal agony. Ah, It wns again the cry that I had heard two years ago in tho "inexplicable gallery." Rou letabllle tottered; then he bounded to the open window with burst of anguish: "Mother, mother, motherP I leaped nftcr him nnd threw my arms around his body, dreading what he might attempt Quickly he turned on me, threw me-off nnd precipitated him self wildly through corridors, apart ments, stairways and courts toward the accursed tower from which had come that same death cry that we both had beard a moment ago and also two years before, when it had re sounded through the "Inexplicable gal lery." I was still there when the door of the square tower opened, and In its frame of light there appeared the form of the Lady in Black. She was stand ing upright, living nnd unharmed in spite of that cry of death, but her paie ana gnastiy visago reuected a terror like that of death Itself. She stretched out her arms toward 'the night, and the darkness cast Rouleta bllle Into them, nnd the arms of the Lady In Black closed around him, and I heard no more, only sobs and moans and again the two syllables which tho night repeated over and over, "Mother, mother!" Strnngo to Bay, I found no ono In the Court of the Bold when I crossed it. No one, then, had beard the pistol shot! No one had heard the cries! Where was M. Darzac? Whero was Old Bob? And tho Bernlers? I saw nei ther of them. Rouletabllle and tho Lady in Black went Into Old Bob's parlor. And thoy wero there alone, clasped in each other's arms, repeating over and over again. "Mother!" and "My little one!" And thon they murmured broken sentencw, phrases without end, with the divine foolishness of a moth er and her child. And then how they embraced each other, as though to make up for all the years they had lost! I heard him murmur, "You know, mamma, it was not true that I stole!" But whero was Bernler? I entered the lodgo from the left, for I wished to know the meaning of tho cry and of the shot which I had heard. Mero Berulcr wnu at the back of the room, which was lighted only by a tiny taper. Her features wero dis torted with fear. "Sorao ono flred off n pistol!" I said. "What has happened?" "I do not know," sho responded. And at that moment 1 heard some one open tho door of tho tower, nnd Pere Bernler stood on tho threshold. "Bernler! What has happened?" "Oh. nothing very serious, I am glad to say. An uccldeut without nny Impor tance whatever, Darzac while placing his revolver on tho stand beside his bed accidentally llred it off. Madame naturally was frightened and scream ed, and as the window of their room wns open she thought that you nud M. Rouletubillo might have heard some thing nnd started out to tell you that It was nothing." "Darzac has cotno in, then?" "no got here almost as soon ns you had loft tho tower, M. Salncltilr. And tho shot wns tired almost Immediate ly after bo entered his bedroom. Vou can guess that I hnd u pretty fright 1 rushed to tho door. Donne opetie It himself. Happily no one was Iiw Jured." "Did Mme. Dnrrnc go to her own room ns soon as I left tho tower?" "At once. She hoard M, Darzac when ho canto in nud followed liltn directly to their npnrtments. They went nlmost at tho sumo moment." "And Darzac Is he still lu bis room?" "Here he Is uow." I turned nnd saw Robert Darzae. Despite tho gloom of the place I saw that his face wns ghastly pule. He made mo n sign and then said very calmly nnd quietly: "Listen, Saluelnlrl Hornier told you about our little accident. It N uo' worth mentioning to any one uiiIosk some one should speak of It to you The others perhaps have not hear! tin shot. It would be useless to frlvr'ito all these good people. Don't you think so? Now 1 have a little favor to nl of you. It Is only to persuade Itoule tabllle to go to bed. When he Is gon, my wife will calm herself and will irj to get the rest that she needs. Kvery out of us has new! of rest and silence." I pressed his hand with a force which n nested my sentiments toward him. I was persuaded that both he and Hor nier were concealing something from us something very grave. . Darzac reentered his room, ami 1 weut to Hud Rouletabllle lu the sitting room of Old Hob. But upon the threshold of the apart ment 1 Jostled against the Lady lu Black and her son. who were passing out. They were both so silent and wore an expression so unexpected to me, who had overheard their exclama tions of love nnd Joy ouly a few mo ments before, that 1 stood before them without saying n word or making a movement. The extremity which In duced Mine. Darzac to leave Rouleta- btllc so soon under such extraordinary circumstances as those which bad at tended their reunlou puzzled me great ly. Mnthllde pressed n kiss upon the lad's forehead and murmured "Good night, my darling." Iu a voice so soft. so sweet and at the same time so sol emn that It seemed to me that It must resemble the leave taking of one who was about to die. Rouletabllle with out auswerlng his mother took tny nrm nnd led me out of tho tower. He was trembling like a leaf. It was the Lady In Black herself who closed the door of the square tow er. I was sure tunt something strange was pa'sslng within those walls, HOOD RIVER WOULD 1 HAVE NORMAL SCHOOL HOOD HIVKK, Or., Jan. II. Tho now directors of tho Hood liivorj lommoreinl club Saturday niglit elected Charles Hull president nnd Initnlvm Skinnor Kuorotnvy. II. II. i ii. .-i i i ii v.i i. ) iiuiitwg mitt i, ii. usuoruo uro vieu j president nnd treasurer, respectively, j Mr. Hall is interested in nuuiy looul enterprises, having recently gained control of the Homo Teleplioiio com pmiy. Mr. Skinnor ciime, to Hoot Kivor last year from Hamilton, Or., nud has been engaged in orchard do velopmont. This will ho n great yenr tor tho Commereinl club nud for Hood Uiver. Tho now First Nntiou nl bnnk building, ucnriiig completion, will contain quarters which will ho fitted up in good stylo for tho club. It is expected to get into them by early spring, nnd tho nnnunl ban quet lias boon postponed until nt'ter that time. Tho club will hold mooting tonight, at which will bo outlined plnns for the coining your. Tho norma! school committee, which has been investigating the fensibil ity of inviting tho stnto to establish n normal school nt Hood River, will mnko its report, which will bo fa vorable. CZAR GREETS THE NEW AMERICAN AMBASSADOR ST. PETERSBURG, .Tnn. Emperor Nicholas todny received W. W. Rockhill. who presented his cre dentials ns American nmbassador to Russin. Tho emperor engaged tho diplomat in private conversation for half nn hour, after which Mr. Rock hill presented Montgomery Scbuylor, Jr., secretnrv of tho American em bassy. Roth Mr. Rockhill nnd Mr. Schuyler lunched nt tho palace. Tho customary ceremonial at tending tho reception of nowly np pointed diplomats was observed. Tho carriages of tho ambassador nnd tho secrctnry wore provided by tho stnte, which nlso provided nn escort nnd bodyguard of Cossncks. Mrs. Rockhill wns not presented to The I ai5 empress, ns sho is still confined You Can Sell Real Estate If You Can Advertise Real Estate! Tho problem in soiling ronl os tato is to find tho ONE and there's only ono person to whom tho proporty would bo WORTH MAST. .4 1. ... m aomounio, in tho courso of a fow days, or of a fortnight, tho prospootivo buyer to whom YOUR proporty would bo worth most, will rend tho ronl ostnto nda in this newspaper, no may rend thorn ovory day ho mny road them onco a weok. BUT nE READS THEM you can bo suro of that. And YOURS MUST BE THERE WHEN HE DOES. If it is, your problem is solved. If it isn't, you'vo still got your problom and your proporty. THE ROGUE RIVER LAND COMPANY ow I NO. 11 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE Offers an especially good foothill orchard for a It prico and on good terms. In theso days of advanci prices, it will pay to look into this. It pays to deal with the "Alan Who Knows." When tho Rogue Kivcr Land Company sold the Tronson & Guthrie orchard at .Eagle Point to tho pmo winning ownors, four years ago, tho salesman, W. M. Holmes, assured tho purchasers those Spitzenhorgtrees would produco tho world's hest apples, and subsequent ovonts provo tho soundness of his judgmont. By the way: Did it eyor occur to you that most of tho men who havo won out in tho Rogue River Valley, bought thoir win ning orchards through tho Rogue Rirer Land Com pany? V. M. Holmes, Manager, is always at your service for a good buy. nwnnnt of fho nlstol shot which had . 10 "r UCU. MIC lins IJOOtl UtllllilO 10 been given me satisfied me not nt all. , participate in nny of tho now year's wo were at tunt moment noi inr ; receptions. a uespainng and tho cry of OBOUy tmU hnd I lowed it. The storm was past, from a window lu which n light was still burning and which opened upon the sitting room of Old Hob. and sloped out upon the sen. This window wns not closed, nnd It was this, doubtless, which had permitted us to hear so distinctly In suite of the thickness of i nnmes woro w I iV if the walls of tho tower the n stol shot ! irotn tne roil fol-! but the waters were not yet appeased, and the waves broke on tho rocks of tho peninsula with n vlolenco that would have rendered the apprpach of any vessel impossible. Tho thought of a vessel crossed my mind, because 1 believed for an Instant that I could see the shadow of a vessel of some , sort appearing or disappearing in the gloom. But what could It be? We stood there motionless for moro than Ave minutes before wo heard a sigh a groan, deep as an expiration, like n moan of agony; a heavy sob, like the last breath of a departing soul which reached our cars from that window and brought tho sweat of terror to our brows. And then nothing more nothing except tho in-' termlttcnt sobbings of the sea. , And suddenly tho light in tho win-) dow went out. My friend and I grasped eacb-other's i hand as If instinctively commanding i each other by this mute communication I to remain motionless nnd silent. Some I ono was dying there In that tower! Some ono whom thoy had hidden. . Why? And who? Somo ono who was I neither M. Darzac nor Mine. Darzac nor Pero Hornier nor Mero Dernier nor almost beyond the shadow of a doubt -Old Hob; some one who could not snvo been In tho (ower. (To bo continued.) FOUR OTHERS MEMBERS OF COMMERCIAL CLUB Through somo error tho following accidentally omitted of tho Mail Tribune- of January 10, when n complete list of tho unities ,-vf members of tho Medford Commer einl club wns published. Theso mem bers whoso tinmen follov nro nil In good standing nnd it was purely no-i cidoutnl in compiling tho tist thutj thoy woro left out. They nro: i E. W. Anderson. ' E. 11. Davis. ( h. 1 Hubbard. There's a Reason Why the custom of the Rex Market is growing. The reason is worth in vestigating and a trial order will explain the reason. Rex Market Huth & Pech Props. Phone 3271 from the roll of lionorintlu' ismie T. W. Osgood. Savoy Theatre TONIGHT BACHELOR' AND MAID (A Comedy of Errors) ( A PAIR OF SLIPPERS (A Lnugh Evory Second) IF LOVE BE TRUE (Romantic Drama) Doors Open 7 P. M. ONE DIME. Best Groceries Baker's vs. Home Made Bread REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Clnrn E. Wick to Troy Wood ward, part of lot 24, Myor addition to Ashlnnd :....$ 10 W. II. Miller to C. T. David son, one-fifth intorest in 20 acres in section 30, township 37, 4 west 20 S. A. Pattison to Martha Car ter, lot 3, block 2, Pattison nddition to Contrnl Point. 100 C. "E. Denning to Sylvia S. Robinson, 200 acres in sec tion 25, township 35, 2 west 10 T. B. Roborts to E. J. David son, ono-third interest to land in section 30, town ship 37, 4 west 1 A. Bniloy to I, Worthington, 80 ncrcs in section 23, township 30, 2 west 1 Emma Gngnon to T. L. Do voro, part block 50, Jack sonville 1,000 A. Lawrontz to S. V. Davis, lots 7 nnd 8, block 18, Medford 1 R. II. Ilinks to J. II. Dornn, 1.35 ncrcs D. L. C. 40, township 30, 1 east 10 S. M. Osgood to W. M. Sontt, 1(30 nores section 17, township 39, 1 enst 20 Smn Snndry of Woodvillo wns in Medford Thursday night, Ho was ono of tho fawns upon whom antlers woro fitted by tho R. P, O, E. We have home-made bread. Which would you rather eat, home-made or bakers'? A foolish question to ask, for most people would be willing to pay twico the prico for home-made bread they pay for baker's, but you can buy the good old-fashioned home made bread at the Rex Grocery for tho samo price as baker's. Large, well browned loaves, both nourishing and palatable, and buked from tho best flour in tho city. "Yakima Best" Take a loaf homo with you and be con vinced. Rex Grocery Co. At Prices Strictly in Keeping with the Quality of Our Stock which is Unexcelled A Trial will Convince You Do You Want to Sell? If you want to sell your business of any kind, or if you want to soil your property, and will make the prico right, I would like to hear from you. Give description and prico, Address J. E. SMITH, 513 Chamber Com merce, Portland, Oregon. Allen Reagan I The Square Deal Grocers HMBMWRHMnnMHHBHHHHI REAL ESTATE Farmland Timber Land Orchard Land Residences City Lots Orchards and Mining Claims Medford Realty Co Room 10, Jackson County Bank Building 1 HI