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tions. but young Henderson was quite
Impervious to snubs.
“I have told you before, Mr. lleudfr
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1 shall summon assistance."
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The warp was dyed in the wuul and
The inmi colored darkly, and before
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draw u
Margaret was quite aware of his linen
To tlie lixini without your willing'
tion he had seized her in his arms.
Put the shuttle tliat flies from dawn to
“You'll keep your distance, you young
Admitted as second class matter at
dawn
Jacksonville, Oregon.
cur.’’ said n quiet voice, mid n strong
t arries (he thread of your tilling.
hand tiling him aside with astounding
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long breath of relief.
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"He didn't hurt you?” asked Mon
Hut the matter which gives it light and tngu, turning to her.
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"And leave the Held clear for you.
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The
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The space can be used in one, two,
eh? Well. 1 wish Miss Verney Joy of
three, four, five or six columns wide.
Copy should be in as early as possible. Forward mid onward ; you may not pause, the returned prodigal the beggar man
from Canada." muttered Henderson,
In your own work disbelieving.
Not later than Thursday noon to insure
For still by the force of its unseen laws maliciously; but lie went out of tlie
publication in the following issue.
The loom goes on with its weaving.
room all the same.
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"Does lie annoy you often?" asked
is
caught
in
the
thought
And
your
inmost
Local readers will be charged for at
Montagu sharply. "Because if so I will
snare
I the following rates:
lodge a complaint with my sister."
By a law that no man knoweth :
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"Well. It is not tlie first time Mr.
Subsequent insertions..........................05 And your purpose, be it false or fair,
Henderson has tried to annoy me." she
Church announcements, resolutions of
Shows in the web as it growerh.
confessed; "but please, Mr. Montagu,
condolence, births, marriages, deaths
and general news items will be published Well for von mid well for us all, sweet don't trouble about It. lie will be leav
free. Anything pertaining to the good
ing in a few days, and then it w ill be
friend.
of the county will be cheerfully pub
When, at last, our shuttles falter.
all right."
lished. We reserve the right to correct If the weavers beginning where we end
"And yoif don't Join the rest down
all grammar defects in copy sent in.
Find naught in the pattern to alter.
stairs?” he asked suddenly, after a
All communications must be signed by •—Youth's Companion.
short silence.
the party sending them in. Don’t be
abusive in your communications, but
"Oil. no; I have other things to do."
I give good news.
"And you're happy?"
“Well—as a rule, yes. Of course, oil»
- ä
has dreams ------ ”
"Yes. We all have dreams," he said;
‘‘some of us realize them some don't
Wliat are your dreams. Miss Verney ”
“To get back my old home. It is in
the market now; we were obliged to
sell the place when my father died
leaving me mid my sister almost penul
less. That is why 1 am here, and I
Robert Montagu walked slowly down long so for the wild moorland of my
the quiet country road. He wtis within native Yorkshire mid the free country
life.”
a few miles of the great metropolis, but
"I see. And I can understand. Whore
in this peaceful Hertfordshire village
was your home exactly? Yon and I
he felt a thousand miles from the hub
of the universe. And yet he bad but should be friends. Miss Verney. for we
lately returned from a very distant are both rather In the same boat. No
body seems to want mb much."
country—the western part of Canada—
That was the pleasantest evening
where tilings had prosper'd exceeding
Margaret Verney had known since her
ly with him. lie had, in short, come
coming into the Hemlerson household.
home with his pile a rich man at last,
and had returned to the old country
for a well-earn-d rest, with an idea at
the hack of his busy mind that It might
tie very pleasant to settle down at home
—if he could And someone to settle
down with!
He looked about him with interest ns
I
lie made his way down the deserted
road, which lie remembered so -well,
many, many years ago; and when la
came In sight of a square, ugly white
house standing on a little eminence, up
preached by a handsome carriage drive
mid surrounded with prosperous look
ing outbuildings mid a big garden, he
slackened Ills pace a little.
I So tills was where Adela was living,
Tilings had gone well with her and her
I
stockbroker husband evidently. How
would they receive him? He glanced
I
down at Ills clothes, which though neat
“w it at ahi : vol a mu A MS?”
were by no means new. His heart
yearned for a little affection; he had
lived so long without it. Adela had a and a friendship sprang up In that
string of children; perhaps some of short hour between her mid the beggar
man uncle—ns the children tailed tin
them might take him to their hearts,
newly r^'tiirnisl relative- which time
though if they resembled Adela. his el
der sister—well, she had never cared would only cement. And to Montagli
himself some now mid altogether de
for him.
llglitful tiling had come into his life
♦ * ♦ *
I Tlie gay strains of the newest waltz during that short hour.
« » • «
floated lip to the top story of the llen-
lie was very busy for some week'
demon abode mid Jienetrnted to the
schoolroom, whore, in rather a dismal after that, hut lie managed to see a
light and beside a very poor tire. Mar good deal of Margaret Verney. And all
garet Verney was trying to coneentrato the time his plans wi re llllltlirillg and
her attention on a liook which la.v on the property on which Miss \ cruel -
her lap. But it was not easy to rend early youth had lieell spent the home
, with that seductive music tilling the air, she loved so well passed secretly and
< and almost unconsciously her foot beat quietly Into the hands of the latest mil
< time softly to the delightful rhythm llonalre. And then, when everything
was quite ready, lie asked Margaret
< ' which she loved so well. If only she
could have Joined tlie dancers I A smile Verney to lie Ills wife.
"You don't know much about me
' touched Margaret Verne.v's pretty lips
« ! ns she thought of the past not so very perhaps," lie said ruefully, "hut I can
< ' fnr from her—wlien she had danced promise you a happy life, sheltered
and cared for. I love you dearly 1
< mid done nil the things girls love, mid
I had not known a care or liny anxiety. will I«' gisal to you always—if you can
< ' Well, that was all changed now. She only care a lit lie, when 1 care so much.
Would you be content to marry a poor
< had to tight her way In the world.
Perhaps she was not the only unhap man, Margaret?”
«
"If I loved him I would,” she said,
py person in that house, for. from what
<
I she had heard one of the girls say very low.
"And you care Just n little?" he
! about their newly arrived uncle. It was
< , very evident hat he was by no mean« said eagerly.
•'Oh. I cure so much,” she whispered.
< i a welcome guest.
“Imagine him coming now of all The rest was silence.
< times," Amy hml said. In her high fret
They were married very quietly a
* I ful voice, “bringing disgrace on us all, few weeks later. Anil Inter in the day
< and making Arthur think what queer the newly married couple set off on
relations we have! He must lie kept in their Journey to Yorkshire.
<
"V. e will visit the vicinity of your
the background as much as possible.”
<
And the sharp words had reached the old home." Montagu said to Ills wife,
< uncle’s ears; Margaret Verney had and It was with a strangely fluttering
< caught sight of him at that moment, heart that In the warm summer even
and she knew the bitter speech had Ing the girl found herself alighting at
< stung him. A great pity and sense of the familiar little station.
A handsome motor with a couple of
< comradeship seized her at that moment,
< and the smile with which she had rnen Ir. dark livery stood in the station
looked at hint was perhaps the only ya nJ. and Margaret, to her amazement,
< welcome he had received.
found herself being hurried Into It,
<
The fire blazed up with a pleasant while her modest luggage was put into
* burst of flame«, mid Margaret Verney a luggage cart, In charge of h smart
< —lost In her own dreams, gazing Into groom.
"But where are we going?" she nsked
the heart of the fire- did not hear the
< door o]ien quietly, and she startled vio In amazement, as the car glided swiftly
< lently when a hand touched her softly away to where Hallenby Hall reared
< mid a voice said, with a familiar ac- Its gray mass from out of a sheltering
plantation facing the limitless son.
•sent:
<
“We nr«* going home,” said Monta
"Moping all alone, Miss Verney?
< That's too bad. You ought to be dano gu, tenderly. “Are you glad m.v own?”
“But I don’t understand,” she said,
< Ing with the rest.”
The girl got up with a little shudder faintly. ”1 thought you were a poor
<
of dislike ns her eyes fell on the tall. man. and ------ ”
<
"Well, my sister »nd her family
good-looking young man who hml stolen
* In upon her. She cordially disliked her made the same mistake.’’ said Montagu,
< employer's nephew, who had chosen on quietly. “You see. they took it all for
more then one occasion to pester her granted and so did you. I had my
<
with hi« unwelcome and Insolent atten own reasons for not wishing to unde
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we are at home. Margaret.”
And that was bow Margaret Mon
tagu came bm k to her old home.—Lou
ilon Til Bits.
INITIATING A SENATOR
Him ll<»w to Get \roiinil
I'nii«*
th«*
< a pi lol
Quickly.
There nre many ways in which tin
new Seniiti r learns when he gets past
I the Vice President's desk, and one of
the most fruitful and unreserved
sources of information is the Somite
page. says the Washington Herald
The Senate page Is an Institution
without a parallel. The dozen or so
young Americans who enjoy the honor
• f running errands for the solons are
bright and by no means backward, and
they are philanthropieally ready at
any moment to impart information to
the new Senator.
The new member of the Florida dele
gation, Senator Milton. who was sworn
in recently, took a lesson from one of
the youthful Mercuries that «lay, nc-
com pan led with an actual demonstra
tion of its effect.
Mr. Milton found his way about lunch
time to an (‘levator, intending to re
fresh tin' inner man In the dining room
down in tin* basement. When he reach
ed the shaft a sprightly young Amer
ican in blue serge Norfolk jacket and
a pair of bloomer trousers stood there.
’I'he boy Immediately startl'd in to get
acquainted. Delicately imparting th'
information that he knew tin* Senator
was a “new one,” the page proceeded
to show him how to ring for an ele
vator.
“You see.’’ he said, “three rings
means that a Senator wants the lift,
ami that he don’t have to wait long,
either. No matter who or how many
may be in the ear. the elevator man
starts for the Senator’s floor and takes
him up or down, wherever he wants to
go. Then he irts the other people off
w her«» lin y want to go. See—Ibis way.”
Three rings jingled through tin* cor
ridor and the elevator was there, with
half a dozen passengers.
"We want to go down,” said the
page, with a familiar flourish of his
head toward his protege. And In ihey
stepped Senator and page and down
they went.
IN NELL GWYNNE’S OLD HOME.
I.ndy (liiirchill l*«*miiiiK
Iler
II«*-
in i iiI mcciiwn nt Si«li«bury linll.
Mrs. George Cornwallis West, for*
merly Lady Randolph Churchill, prac
tically lives lhe life of a recluse nt the
present time in Salisbury Hall, St. Al
bans. where she is completing her re
miniscences. which began some months
ago in tin' Century Magazine. ’I'he
splendor of ’he beautiful house In
which this literary work is being car
ried on must be seen to be appreciated.
I’he last home of Noll 4 J Wynne. the
place is crowded with Interests and as
sociations of King Charles’ favorite.
Outwardly lhe residence is iim«*h the
same as it was in the olden days. Its
walls are closely covered with creeper
and the lawns and drive and doorways
are unpretentious as one approaches
from the road, says the New York
World.
Within the house everything is In
lire -t contrast to the simple exterior.
Hall and stairs .ire paneled with some
remarkable
tapestries which Nell
Gw.\ nne left. The drawing room, (lin
ing room aial bod rooms are paneled
with brocaih s whi* h Mrs. West pickl'd
up In Italy and l’aris. These fabrics
are all old and in thorough accord with
the low «-oilings and old-world air of
the house Itself.
Mrs. West’s own bathroom Is the
finest of Ils kind In England. To make
it she threw two large bedrooms into
one. Tlie floor Is covered with rose
pink «arpef specially woven of double
texture and sofitiess. Plain pink satin
walls harmonize with the floor cover
ing and mezzotints of great rarity tire
hung at intervals all round. In the
•enter of the carpct three marble steps
descend into a white marble hath,
which Is kept covered.
No faucets,
pipes or things of that kind are to be
seen. as they are manipulated from
the floor below. Around the bath glass
shelves are fitted
Beneath them erys-
• al bowls for soaps extend right round
’hr<'e sides, ’i’he shelf is covered with
ryual bottles with pomades, essences
Hid sweet oils to perfume the bath,
and. above all, rows of crystal covered
box s filled with gigantic powder puffy
and sweet smelling powders.
Talk
Hint
Sella
Writ.
They were a group In the St. Fran
cis lobby talking Rawhide prospects,
says the San Francisco Chronicle.
“Let’s go up to Bonneau's room.”
suggested one of the gathering “Too
many pi*ople down here listening fo
everything we say.”
“And you claim to he a Nevada mln
Ing man?” asked Frank Bonneau, in a
low voire. “Tnlk like this means sales,
man. We stay right here ns long as
there arc Interested listeners.”
Then, resuming his normal voice, he
laughed and continued: “Well, right
after ho made that lucky strike he
flashed a new suit which was a wonder.
He had hoofi'd It out to Nevada with
out a bean. Now look what he’s worth.
Front of a saloon one day n fou| prac
tical Joker slipped up behind and light
ed his cciluhdd collar. Jury brought
In •Justifiable homicide’ and he gave
the Joker’s family n cool $5O.(*»O, which
was big money for thorn, but nothing
for him, with his rock running $(iuo to
the ton."
Even a cheap young man may coat
his parents a lot of money.
It’s a wise dentist who knows hlf
own teeth.