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By EEY. E. EVERETT HALE, D, D,
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(OIVSTIM M) rRON LVT vt KIK.)
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her annual aulweription at the Shelter
ing Ann, her atsessment at the LadiiV
Relief ami the Sewing Women's friend.
The same afternoon cam a man from
the Oklohom free school. Every young
lady of hor acquaintance had subscribed
$10. lr. W'itherspoon had recommended
it, and Kdtth knew that she was expected
to fcuWrilxv Endless appeals wore
made, indeed, from one and another
similar charity. And as a climax the
1st of July came and all her quarterly
hills. The footing was tsrrible. And
she with so little in htr pocket, and, if
there was any virtuo in arithmetic, nut
f 10 in the Waverley bank!
Edith, on the Sd of July, did what yon
or I would have dene, She ordered her
eonpo and Win J .lines take her to the
Amicable again. It was just possible
that the things might have changed
themselves hack again.
The warders knew he and told her it
was a pWsani morning, as it was. But
it seemed, to Edith that they looked on
her with an itupuring air, as if they won
dered that she dared to coma. Still sua
traced herself to her duty. She gave
the mystic number and she produced her
key, at which the bolt flew back at the
right moment, just as it doe in the
Forty Thieves." She carried the tin
bos out to the Tery same cell she had
occupied before. She felt as if she were
nun in a convent. She opened the box
and there was nothing there. Then
he waitl a little poor child; this wm
to deceive the warders. Then she locked
the 1h and carried it back. She dared
not look them in the face as they bade
her good day, but she felt in every bone
that they disapproved of her and even
scorned her. Sadly and doubtfully she
bade James take her home, and he did so.
An idea had crossed her in the cell.
The bonds she had in place of hers were
tot hers. No. But they tixk the place
cf hers. Now as she could not cut off
her own coupons and deposit them in
the Waverley bank as her father had
taught her, might not she honestly cut
eff these coupons and deposit them, re
placing them when the moment came
by her ovni?
It is quite clear, dear reader, to an in
structed conscience like yours and mine
that she might not; but Edith had accus
tomed herself to thiuk or these coupons
as so much money, and as she certainly
would have taken so many greenbacks
had she left them in her box and found
them there without looking to see if they
were the bills of one bank or of another,
ao she supposed, though she supposed
wrongly, that a coupon of the Cattarau
gus and Opelousas was money as truly as
coupon of theC, B. & if only it
were dated rightly.
She was a little confused when she
found that no coupons had been cut off
the Cattaraugus and Opvlousas bonds for
five years, but little did she know of the
weaknesses of that enterprise. She did
know that her quarter's couons on her
own bonds would have yielded her $540;
he made oat that amount as well as she
conJd from the Cattaraugus and One.
lousas coupons, took no more than she
needed, wrote a memorandum of what
ahe had done and pinned it npon the
coupons. "For," she said, "I may die,"
and she remembered that she had heard
her father say that some written memor
andum must be left for the benefit of
executors.
6he then trjered her carriage again
W- t0 tne Waverley bank. She
n.ed her bank book to the teller, as
ahe bad done before, and the man bowed,
as the other men bowed, and said it was
fine day. She also said it was a fine
day, bnt the spell did not work. When
he looked at the coupons he made no en
try in her little book. Indeed she
thought he started, and he crossed the
room and spoke to his chief. The at
tentive chief at once came to the win
dow. "Miss Lane," he said, "your father
has made a mistake. These are Catta
raugus and Opelous&s coupons, and yon
know it is long since those could be ne
gotiated. 1 think your coupons are
C, B. and Q., C. K. and W., and from
United States bonds, are they not?"
"Are thee not just the same thing?"
aid Edith, feeling as if she should sink
through the ground. ''1 know nothing
bout it. only I found them in my safe."
Here she held closely to the truth.
She could see a vague smile of con
tempt jiass over the cashier's face as ho
aid: "Well, I don't know what hopeful
people would nay, Miss Laue. only these
tilings have no value on the market.
Eriug us around your C, B. and Q. and
we will c.ish them for you gladly."
Then as she was turning away the
teller whispered to him again, and he
said. "Do not give yourself any trouble,
but you have overdrawn your account a
LtUe."
IVr Edith did not know what this
meant, and he explained that she had
drawn more money fjin the bank than
irhe had in it; that this would he made
dear to her as she looked at the checks
wai.rh the t"ller gave her. It was of no
Cons-tiaence. the cashi'-r said: only he
thought he would call her attention to
it. So iKjor Edith left the bank without
ay iiiuncy, and feeling that she was
liiuca deeper down in the bog of dis
grace than she had known.
Foriunat ;ly she did not understand
that, if anybody had supposed that she
was diahonest in overdrawing her bank
account, she could hav been arrested
before she left the building. This would
not have happened, however, in any cir
cumstance to her father's daughter. The
V'averley bank was a new bank, and the
peuple were very glad that he had
brought her account and placed it there.
jith retired to her carriage with as
ood grace as she could, and bade James
t take her home.
ami ox turn so inocgni satfiouiiy sns prepared, it wm Um jrtar for ErujlUh
could go to Dr. Witherapoou, who had history, anil they had ml apart the sub
christeued her twenty years ago, and ' jVt always Interesting to young peopls
had received, her Into the church sit! MaryStuart for their vnlng til,
years ago, ami loved her as hex father cussion. That happened which U apt
dli;bi. wuld bar been the wisest thtn ' U) '"PI", that all the women were very
This would bars been ths wisest thing hwvl Marv. while U th. ,
for he to do, but she had sense of defended her. As there were mors wo-
mortification which hindered her from
doing this, Then she thought over the
list of her mother's old friends among
men than men the men had to stand
well to their guns.
"I understand the president very well,'
the ladies of Tamworth. and there was ! id Kdltn firmly. "1 meant to do jus-
not one of them whom she liked as a tlce to his argtunent lnfor, But It seems
counselor. Then she remembered a ser- 1 1 ,m u this that Wauae this
won which Or. WilhefKpoon had woman was pretty she Is to be. excused
preached few wetks bfore, of which
the dot-trine was, "Face iour IVrplexl
ties," He hl told them they should
not run away from their perplexities,
but must look them in the face and find
out how great they wwe. She remem
bered that some man site had talked
with not long before had tld her that
the turning point of RoUnson Crusoe's
fortunes comes in the moment wheu.he
fact his perplexities. On some piece of
laper he had, with some ink he had
made, he wrote them down so that he
could look at them and see what they
were. Edith took a sheet of note imr ,
The
for being wicked, and that because she
was a woman it is to lie expected that
she will not like a fool."
They all laughed heartily at this, and
the president hastened to say that this
was not the center of his position; that
Mary certainly had been very badly edu
cated, etc. etc.. etc.. and that Dothwell
' had, etc., etc., etc., and that John Knox
had, etc., etc, etc., and so on, and so on,
as may be Imagined.
"Still, I cannot see that this changes
our opinion on the question whether she
did right or wrong."
This was the unflinching reply of the
stern Edith. 'It show why she did
wrong, but it does not show that she did
right unless the president means that
wheu a wvmiau dresses her hair in a be
coming way, and invents new head
dress, she may do as she chooses."
After this it mav be imagined that the
president and Edith were very good
menus through the rest of that evening,
checks and comparing it with her own n(l th fder will not be surprised
accouut she had found the fatal mistakes i 'ut the simple and admirable code
which showed that instead of having $40 j Tamworth and of that circle Edith
saeu mm, as iney ate luotr ice cream
together, if he would do her the favor to
walk home with her. She had not liked
to Ax a time for the carriage, she said.
He gladly agreed to do so, aa any young
and proceeded to write down hers.
list took the following order:
1. I am a fool.
9. 1 believe I am a thief, but am not
certain.
8. I have no money,
. I have takeu from the Waverley
bank (47 which I had no right to.
By ailtUng no the amount on her
to come and see thmu, whloh Antony
aid he would gladly do,
"That young man," wild Mr. Lans as
they entered the carriage, "lit one of the
most successful yom: men In this state,
WhyuclllTo him been talking to mo nlniut
him half the time as we came on from
New York. Why, Edith, ho has an In
vention which will save thousands of
live mid must lie used on every railroad,
He has established a new machine shop
heit. to make his couplings, and Whyu
clilfe and nil of them are crasy aliout
him.
Hut. Edith, lie l no stranger to yoii
you iis.nl to know him. He is the saws
limn who was In your rending club,"
In the bank she had taken out $47 more
than she should have done.
Edith's list went on:
8. I owe honest tradespeople who have
trusted me (173.11.
6. I wish I had as much as $75 in the
house, if it were only to keep up deceut
spicarancee till pajia gets home.
7. In fact 1 have fit. 97. 1 supjHvse
man in Tamworth would have been glad
to do.
So soon as they were well In the street,
away from light. Edith, w ho had studied
the housekeeper would lend me some- out wllt,li' tiversatiou in advauce,
thing, but I do not like to ask hor, and I i Mit to mm: ,mv question tif con
have no right to starve the family. ! 'ienee on which 1 want the advice of a
Then, by an unfortunate suggestion of ! business man. My father is
one of those lower powers who have been j "WH-V ,or ix wtvka- lu,,l the- is a
alluded to, who are iormittod to have ' ui,,,;'1, lH,lt ? money, and 1 have
some part in the government of this j overdrawn at the bank on my private
world, uuder strict orders from higher r'lt- it hupieiis that 1 have
authorities, however, it happcued that i rivtHl $100 by accident I kuow not
Edith remembered a horrible scandal j ,rmn wll"lu- ' .vig in my desk uu
which had convulsed Tamworth a year nHl- S'10"1'' 'l t'nk I might use
or two before, when a certain Mrs. johu i tllst- M if jt Wt're l,'llt "d repay
Fisher had borrowed a thousand dollars " wlu'n mv ,,"lu'r i","' home?"
The president heard her through, sit
ed a moment and then said: "I believe
at law yon might. I doubt if you could
be sued for doing it But it is not a nice
thing to do. If it had been you would
not be in doubt yourself."
Thank you," said Edith, "You feel
at a jeweler's on the pledge of a brace
let, which became very famous in the
scandal of the town.
Edith said to herself: "I wonder if I
could not borrow fAH) of somebody? I
think if 1 were a man I should know
how to borrow fc!00. I observe in hooka I
that men always borrow money when 1 i"" M 1 u0 " But h JiJ not lot n,'r 8
they want it. I do not see why 1 cannot ! on- "You (k0" no a' "Jrour unknown
borrow this money." ! correspondent might appear to-morrow
For Edith had been so little tempted ' morninS- nl1 i'va want to have
in her younger life that she had never her ,U0W7' ,or her You w,mW
learned what mast young men learn ; io mni h b,'t,"r to yourself at
when they are younger that there are . your nana or oi some menu.
two devils of sjiecial danger in modern
life; that the larger devil is named Drink
and the smaller devil is named Debt.
There had been no occasion for Edith to
have these lessons taught her, and
though the poor child had had some rea-
'I have so many friends," said Edith,
! more bitterly tliaa she meant, "that I
i cannot select, and I am afraid my father
j would be wretchedly annoyed if he knew
I was in this scrape, though really it is
! from no fault of mine. I cannot well
sous to know the first devil-as every- i borrow at the bank thout fying that
body has in American life she was pro
foundly unconscious of the dangers of
the temptations of the second. She did
know what a horrible scrape Mrs. John
Fisher had got into, and she dreaded any
such scrape. But on the other hand she
knew that in the jewel case under her
be has been careless or making people
think so. It gives a certain publicity to
the mistake he made when he thought
that for six weeks 1 could paddle my
own canoe."
"I do not think there is such publicity
you fear. You see," said he good nat-
halid were banblesshe never used, which ! umU7 ',"th? nk I"!'1 would be only
were worth twenty times the sum that ; too Kl J to lena your father s daughter
would make her perfectly comfortable "nytlung. It can be most easily ar-
tUl her father came hom'e. And so it l', "ch do you w,
was that having read in novels about ! h; ' " "I " TbT
poor people pledging what they had to U the ulcript.on. p. like, me to
i, u u i malfe and
UUrXVW UlOUtTJf liiC lUUUgUb U1U VIVOS UW I
mind that she might borrow something,
S'n
CHAPTER VI
? Iwl s- -- r..",r-"i lfire her.
. s!.e (. ". i l I-,r:!p:i t h-r fa; i.-.-r
iAou: ' i i.iiita--ras.-l aad without
if she knew how, on the pledge of some
part of her jewelry.
It is a very curious phenomenon be
longing to human nature, whether of
men or women, that a person in a scrape
generally prefers to tell some utter
stranger of his trouble and not to tell
some near or intimate friend. This is
not the place to discuss the reason for
this phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon
observable by all people who hold the
position of general counsel for mankind.
This phenomenon showed itself in Edith's
case. She did not go to Dr. Witherspoon;
she did not go to her father's partner;
she did not go to any of her somewhat
distant relatives in Tamworth, nor, as
has been said, to any of the oil friends
of the family. But before night came
on she felt as if she should die if she did
not take advice of somebody. She made
her choice of a confidant almost at hap
hazard. CHAPTER VII.
It happened that that was the evening
for the net-ting of the Chaiitauquan
circle t ) which Edith lxdonged. The
girl had r.ther tired of gay society after
the first two winters that followed her
"coining out." She had danced quite
w i 11, sin; had received a gixjd deid of ut
tention, she had tasted that cup pretty
thoroughly, and then, without being
cynical at all ikbout it, she thought she
bad drunk about aa much of it as she
wanted. On the other hand, some near
friends of hers had engaged in the Chau
tuuqiiun course of reading; she was sit
ting with them one evening when some
rending aloud went on, and found her
self interested in the solid and practical
work which they had engaged in. She
thought rightly that she hai time to
make up some back work, had sent to
PiaiuhYld to connect' herself with the
circle and had become one of the most
diligent of the readers.
This accident determined her now in
the choice of her adviser.
She had meant today to make some
afternoon visits. But the day was hot
and the air sultry, and she made this au
excuse for sending James with his car
riage back to the stable. She would go
to Viuceut chaH in thi evening. And
to Vincent chajs 1 sir; '.. it. It was the
hist im-'iin,' of t'rw rircle before the
smiiim r rev ..
The yonng man laughed very lightly,
as she thought.
"Pardon me," he said. "From your
tone I thought you were going to say
two hundred and fifty thousand. I wish,
Miss Edith, yon would let me lend it to
you myself. You have been kind enough
to ask my advice. Will you be good
enough to take it?"
Edith was now taken wholly aback.
She had chosen her adviser as he said.
Here was a proposal which would lift
her out of the depths. For the instant
she felt that if only she had the three
bits of paer he spoke of she should be
perfectly happy. She could see the two
notes of one hundred and one of fifty i
clean two of them appeared, crisp and
clean, and one flabby and dirty, before ,
her mind's eye. I
But she did not waver even for that '
instant. Her manner was kind enongh,
but alftolutely firm as she declined.
' "Y'ou i;re quite right in saying that I
hal lietter tek the bank people. I will
! certainly do so. You are very kind, and
I shall always be grateful to you for
your willingness. But it will be better
so." i
"I hope you are not offended," said he,
somewhat proudly. Y'ou seem to be dis
tressetl We are not in a novel. I want'
. ed to be of use. That is all."
! ."Offended how could I be offended?"
said she. "I asked for information and
advice. Y'ou have given me both. I
' shall get out of my troubles now, I see. ;
And I shall thank you for showing me
! how. Will you not come in? No? Good
night, then." And she gave him her ,
hand. "Please do not think I am of
fended." I
I It was very queer. If they had only
known all would have been welL For
this president of the Chautauqua Circle
was Antony Blake. As it was they both
went home, and for two or three hours
neither of them went to sloep. "Ought
; I have said this? Why did I say that?"
' in all possible forms till nature and
j youth asserted themselves, and the pro
J yoking conversation was forgotten.
I Argus ot thitt (lay. The hops she bad
was well enough founded. But, alasl
! Antony hated ths politics of The Argus,
' which protended to be an Independent
; paper, and was on any sidu which ths
proprietor thought profitable. Antony
uever looked at any part of Ths Argus,
least of all at the advertisements. Ho
. poor Edith's notice might have Iwu pub
lished a mouth and he would have boon
none the wiser,
On his part, lie went to the Waverley
bank and asked the cashier if lie would
lend him $. V, "What collateral?" said
the cashier, who Was his old ally and
friend. "None," said Antony, "unless
! you will take stock in the Self Acting
Coupler corKratioii, not yet organised,
But if you would Indorse my note 1 think
the directors would pass It."
"Nonsense," said the cashier. "Bank
rules will not permit that. But If you
want $3.10, old fellow, here It Is, (live
me memorandum and ay me when
you like, Make it to me, This Is not
the batik's money; It is mine, Y'ou know
I am glad to serve you."
Antony thanked him and said, what
was true, that he would do as much for
him gladly. Then he went to the
Amicable reading room and wrote to
Edith this U tter:
ANTONY HLAKK Hi KtUTH I.ANK.
WHUKMUV MiHUOMl, Juljr X
Mr Dun Mix !. Al slaululolr tutnMhaM
bills la nor tuui.t t Uk llio llttwtjr uf MfcUif yxi
lu uns tbftm an vim will, TIihv U no rwunw why
you should bsvM Ih nunm-niki tf feMrtuuinf Ihs
oflVws of th.' tauik, I'Ioum liuof Ins nwhi b
otwI,ImI uf til l rf Uv Ixuik. u wll imwl
limit ot 111 l1uuilMua elrul. Vory Imly your.
Amvsr Uum. i
So poor Edith actually saw her way '
clear to pay all her debts by Incurring '
this one very pleanaut debt to this one
very gentlemanly mail. She asked the
servant if the hearer were waiting and
was told he had gone.
"Send James to mo. I want to send a
note down town." ,'
IttUTII UNK TO ANTONY Bt.AKK.
Pit Ma. Iluu You era tn.al kul. Hul 1
nvuty 1 at my wa,r uul of my emltrnwMitU,
suit I fturn Ih mM l no. Vry truly ynura,
Koitm Um
James found Antony at the St. Clair,
where be had been bidden to go, j
Antony did Hot quite like the note. It
wonted to him a little shorter or more,
sharp than it need K. Anyway, if she
could tw proud he could also. He put
the note in his inrkel uinl tunnsl it over ""'' "H" "" ' ''"
m his mind all through a long inter-; ! ,ni ..i.i i.r.Mt i i
view which ho had with the Kuiurills,
who had sent for him again.
Then he determined to call on Miss
Edith that evening. But lest the should
be out be wrote the following letter;
Wtinn4V Amuiva. July 1
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" hot-r so nine to tII yuu, pii."
"Yes, iaia-aud, ua, lie bait asked
me to marry him, and 1 have told him I
would ask you. But really, paps, he is
the best man in the world, and I shall
uever marry any one else."
Thus It was that Edith made her rev
elation. It was not until the wedding
day, however, that she told her father
that the new machine shop was built
with the proceeds uf the sales of Her gov
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l'il xrili. , H. Oi
A. It. ( lilt T. I
tsal.Urn't I'aaa, tr,L
mi., orlltaaial. Or. J,"','
f a"l,'-'t oolhrr rllal Ibjgk.
Malls
" " " Wails.
THE YAQUINA BOl'ow
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Oregon Pacific Kai;;:
T. K. I It Hill, tWtiJrjMroi
OREGON DETELOPHraiCJirJ.
SHOUT LINK TO ( ALI!
Htr:HiIITAN)FAIilTllt J
Train No. I will run Ti.aMa
ils aiol ."alnnlai a, soil ott r
,lm a In n nn-roiirt :
I mm No 4 run taidi.
il.v.oi.,1 Kri.tsj, sn l mi biarS',"
wliru lu. ,..uri ; tM4 n
MvArurr Stilling -
lant. V.ni i;ttitlam
h. lth. t au
I stvaa Hra!li i.iu--lUk. ,"'1
Wairh s,t, I 'Hi in, anh. IZ.. .
Thaeumnatiy rfanra the nht'LTM
aalllni rataa wllhout Sol Ira. j.,, (
TrailDa roioifrt wtih th O A C ( ,hlfi
koala att'orirallla au4 Aluaut. m,ni
The Oreiton I'seiOr slesit
Willamette river illviaum
I'orlUiul. aiiil lHiiilnt, Moll.!, t on
ibiv, rd Kriday si A (aataa
( orvsdia TueMlsv, Thtirsdj'- '
ibv i :t ltd I'.' M, I.W5Jd
mvlli btiuiid, .Monday, Weill
Krhlnval K A M. Atrivrr-
Tila-ailaiv. Ttiurwlay and .ltLL8
T. M on Monday. Wnlneai' J,
daV, ImiIIi north and suolh t.fj.n-i.,
lie over night at halent, U
a a. m. ',
rrraiM anil Tic art OBIr. alDAH C
I'ortiMlS (Mia
v tv iloiit'K. u. r a f . JSUrt
Ilia atamliaril uf TamaoianU la liulo-r au4 Urtur
I think mru atkl auntrtl lura't mtL-h utlMar with :
mutual raatir.i autl uiuttuU dainlii,'. II la not I
In vain that ifo to thai miu a.-h,ia, uk la i
thai aattw cauara, aiuU In tua aaiu cm-loa, ami
In a worJ iiva In lha aarnar life.
If you u l I wurai ' llriiry aixl Emma" or "Paul
ami Vlritinla" or "Sllli aat UMly" or Vnua
awl !Cvlii"oraiiroihirialaMjnl f-,,il'ta hoavl
u, cnina jou wouiu hum, u. nai m nw.ou h, ,.,,,. ra-.l.t iM-v at f
la any avralhla aajr, aixl aliuuUI sotot think of m aai.l Ian, I i
propuainji to, Out aairuiit an pwun Taiiioorth j Krc.l A Ibomfon. iMr.lnrr ll.n-h, ILoiry
umitn, mraibKra uf Uia aaiua rhurvh auj oftiom I l.niawt. Kolarrt iiaborii. mi nl l h.-ri) , ilia.
Inthaaamaeln nv larano bans la wiutt 1 hara t'larkninaa i-owni). orrai'ii
duaM, ami I will not am I do. Truly yuura,
ATviv Uhmu.
When Edith came home lute from a
long drive which she had takeu in the
country this note was waiting fur her,
She rvaul it morn than half through
with approval of the young man's pluck
and pride. Hut when the cnnwt to ''Fer
gus and Evelyn" the words auvuied to
stand out of the paper.
Or was she crazy herself? Did she see
words which were not tlu-nf
Or were tiiere ever I wo otlier people
In love with rwh other with thnse two
names?
She read the note, through and then
went to her father's den. She loukiil in
the Telephone Directory, and tluti asked
for 297.
"Hello!
"TXie Mr. Antony Blaks livu in the
SC Oair?
"Ask Mr. Antony Ill.tko if ho ran
come to No, Oil Curwili street."
In ten minutes Mr. Antony Blake was
there, though it was half pu.it 10 at
night.
"Mr. Blake, pardon me fur troubling j
you, but who are Fergus and Evelyn?"
"I am sure I do not know. I wish 1
did," he said ruefully,
16-4 10
J.T
ArmHux.
I rlhlrr
v Nlll M S TO t'llKKI IOI1S
Nntira, It hrrvoy flvrtl that li)r ilrr ol lha
I'rmni)' t'ourt ol th Siaii- of iimton. (
t'larktimna t'oimrv. Ih liioli'raliiniNl haa Iwll
iluty tilillilr. a an-'ilor l 111 rt ,ti- ol l'lrr
Sli'vlc . iliTi-aava, al Dial llirra ' tnlftim-iiMr)-hiiv
taru laaurd to hint, all t'ra"Sa. having
rUtnaa acalliat th aal.1 i-alnt ar hrlr ii"ti
Scl t ,rriil Ilia mmui wilh'n ia luiuilht
trotn th ilal hfmf to ftnlil tulor, at Ih
ortlitiot W, T whltlora. al III eolirt Itoua. In
tlrrcon t'lly. Or" J t' M' Oarw
KiiH-ulnf ol Ih male ol Trier :at, il
eraai'it. lialml Starrh.li. S T. i M
MMICK ruR IH IlLICAlTuN.
Lash Orries T Haauoaj i T , oa
Man h it. l'l.
Notli-U hervhy rtren tint h followlna
nanieU atllr haa Sl,t t ainr'l ai'lllrr h nirt
notire of hir inii'iiilon to ifak final nroot In
iltpon of hla rl'ilm. ami Ihal aal aoiol aa 111
li mali hitor thr hvtiater ami lti','lvr of I'
S taint otfli' at orvi'ia t'ltr, orraoii, on May a,
li. via
Slh K Jotli'a.
llomratal Knlry No. i,,r tli a1, 1,
3 I 1 a. II llalllfa th follt.M Hor H UMI'aa,', lo
provf tilwro :ttlu:oila raal'lrlirr iiii ami colli
Vlttl 'll of atlll llll I ,l John I:. li' I i f
Snioly. a't lloli,Tt ti ,tl,.iiii,..r, I' hl-r,,ra.
ami oho Kaylor, ol Marmot, nil ol CU'-annai
comity, iif.'uotl
J. T AiTaun'S. Ilriilairr
NOT It K Kolt fMUICtlliiN.
1.4MI lltl ll i at tisrooN I'irv. na
March .i, lU.
Sotlfa, I. Iirri.tv ul, ll,nl o f. ,1 l..u I,... .
roor i.oun: nne coum nave unipiH.i ; oik'.i .hi,t im n; i 11,11.,- t , . r on,
on the tl.s.r for her disP,a,int,et j l-pX'mt .IKl!
aV , 1 , .li.l tuonn l,.d. Via. 1)1, I. . I !. .. t
s iiisv um vi iiivitii .u i . I'lt.ftr, ' aim Ht'iri it m ui' ; I, ttil i nii it nt I ri
when you nikI Silly and liilly, Evrlyn
bAbl AND bU'ol'i.
VIA
oitmr
SuulhiTii Pacific f'
Vte t
SHASTA Ll'"
l-Aprr fraiiia leave rorti.j"
.nr.. an I
I..
; loiiink" final iif'.ol i
l". irvioii, on May I.I, 1 .jl, u
Mry A l'l lo'tia,
llomoatrol I niry No ...l i f,,r t It,- ' . of r' ,
ami a' . of aa' , ol aiH- In I .' r .' k'h-haitu'a
the follow in MI'.lo-.M lopr.o hi r I'-Iil I iim
ona ri--l'l''l Il'ol) rtll-l i 'l!ll ill -n ,.f .nnf Un,.
I. Itolwrl Altan taT. I rr liTu k So-v it., ,1
Mwrniot, ti ll' io v i,iik.-ii uii I l,,ot. Il..!!iinn,
of S mil) , atl ol c;,n tionaa totiiii, i ar.'i-u
J.T A IMt'R.oN, llnl.r.
oh
and Fer;ur
Hie had read the wonls forty times
while he was coming.
Now it was his turn to blush and
stammer. Nor did he se how m ar was
the crinis.
"Oh only well, you see well, 1
once had some letters 1 thought they
were love letters addn wj to Evelyn
Somebody mid Fergua Humeliody. I ilo
not know who the Soiiii IshIvs were.
The letters were not mine. I put them
away."
"Where did you put them? Where lire
they now'f"
"Where? They aro in my safe at the
Amicable. I wish I knew where they
ought to be."
And Edith was herself strain. "Mr
Blake, I think it is for me t turn over j ii.'
10 you some property til yours l liave ' "" tit n. ri iti ..,. in ,,r. i. r to m i.
here. Indeed, I did not steal it. Cut
sIlKIUKK s Ml.t.
Hl lO- of III, u. in, I
Colin'.) ol I Irtr'iina- I
I'. K lue. I'laililill',
a
The I'ortl iml t'l itnoi! c,o;i um
Nntlrfja ln-rt'lo' viV'Op.llrll liv I rl'l of all
rii'i'nlloii la.oi-il imli.l mi, nml.r tin, anil ,,
tli t'l.-i'tilt l ourl ul M oil ii.jim lii l i.iiiily noil
Hut of llri-1,'011, ami lo ph- tt r.-f-t.'.l .uia ill--llvi-ri'il
lo tn,.. na l-ltiTltt ol t'l ai k nil i. Cniihty,
V . li. an I lo-iiiliia ,t(. M iri'h .'.lt (,,,i,V
imimliliK no-, in On-11 oil" ol tin- M .li- nf (n,.,o,ii,
that nut ol a.ihl iI'Mrml oi! iToiuTiv I., i ,t,!
I'l Mil, to.'.'l.l.'.
, o" r n i.i rortian ai "-' .
iJ II' l.v lir.'iiotii It) 1.1 llhattl'i
loin a I Ar s I tarn I.." ti f
I Al-n iralna toi only al lh TUAL
i liona iiortn of Itoarloirt' r.atl'ejp,
j g "li i lly. ,! I, ti r ti , Halrm, All a j
ShPilita. Ilnla. y, l rratUIf, J" (l Bl
HiK ami l.itiit li m
i lltiM lifltli HAH, Ith: WAR
!iai m I l.v firttiil A tJ
tM.ax. l.v tlrionl lly l.t "
j ' I" r Ar lo-i'.'ir I'
Al.liNV l.iit'AL (I'ally, r"ABK Pi
; '' ' rl' l.v forliaml I'
oi. f a I l.v on-con i li; I 'sets si
'J oo f m. i tr AHiany
1 1, st oa.
I t III' allin of It i,ao i, tn I H
llh lllll'lf-l lll,T"'n Mini
CTIArTER VIII.
fcdith rose ttio next morning witn a t
new resolution. She went to her desk
as soon as breakfast was over and wrote
this note:
IXTTKBS LOST.-A parcel of six li th'rs, dated
lu May. Iv-."!, m.-l t ir-. 1 tot.--Uii,r with a whiui rili
Lon. Th" liri'J' r will U.i tiiiinkiil im l JilicriiHy ri1
n.ir,! .'.i U he v. tll s.r. I a iicte to 0. 1!., t l-' l" s-
lay ol
int '
.1 ,. ,
Klll.l
atmiiiiita. I hive 1 . I iit.i.u th,, i,ri.,i,. , i
are not these Cattaraugus bonds yours, Heiiiniii at tin' oinii,-.t , ,,.; ',..',,.r;, i
and this hundred dollars, perhaps, too?" 1 1 ',',"1?. "' W's-k N.. . lu Hi town l t ;
k a u i i i li .1 ! i l.lly.l oittity of I liii-kiiti.aa, mill -St iti-of ori-ui in ;
And she handed him the well known i aiToniiu. 10 n m,- ,, ti, ,,",. ,; ,
lln-lit' aoiitln rl; nloiu: tin. rn.irlv hoiiinlnry o j
niaiu aiivi'i. oiiriy-two i;ut ami t., hat f.,-i
thi'lli-e eaatiTly on a llim, llm .ro) Inn ,oj
hu h wotilil lnii.rai',. or airik Ho- m.i north
erlv corni-rof 1,1. .1 ,. 7:1 1 i,i (), , uy
- fi'H loa i.olnt nitern (!:) fn-l wnMerly Iroin
th renter of Hi mini track of the Onuon nml
l illllornla ItHilroail track; Ihi-iii ii tnirlli.'rly hy
a Ilu i'iiriiili'1 Ith 11, mii, i.,i n-,,,,, ,,, 'H
imiiil In the aiuithvrly hoiimlni) of ,n, ,i, k
No '), to feet In, 1,1 i0 renter ol ml. I n,ul
trai k; them e weaii rty aloiiK ,tl, liouuilary (
aal.lMoek iw. lo the ilm',' of Ik-kIii nliK : ',y,.
aint except the eomlltimn In i,.,,,
tin, 4a, 4'jl ami Vrj, In t,,k n. ;;ii f !,.,,,u
Ami will on Hiiiurilay, M,i) -jil . ki, aiihn
hour ol 10 a 111. ot aalil , iy. at the front il.ior ol
the (.'our! limine In Oreo,,,, fity, ,lr, ., (,,r
10 iiaii'i. an itt'iem, ili'i riu'lit, IM
IlltereH In ami to Hie nhove ile.rt Ibi 'l riM
I .-!-, I', - H-.ly ,:iui,e , ,(,,; ,,,,. , .',
Pullman BuffetSt-
,AUK it
TOURIST SLEEPING,
Kiiraei oniino-lnlliiniifSeeoiiillli'i f, 0. 1
uu.ii iie.l to Kaireu tfi, Oeo, A
Weal Mule IlirUl"! fjifn,
IU. 1 W I KN roltTl.ANIi ANC mtb l t;
Mull Trnlu, llally (yurrpH1 hr"
l-'iiriiamt a'fOOHP,
I ,
Ar I'nrvalllity.
( -ordi r cf the (,c:'.l eircle at ties lriC' tin,
luoii'.-y.
What shall I do?" Second- '" Al'ril- UI,J
h,r rccvrawitVearcfiUl? i advertisement she Wit j
parcel.
CHAPTER IX
Mr. Lane's absence in England was
prolonged, and it was (September before
he returned. Edith met him at the
Tamworth station with the carriage to
bring bim home.
"I have so murh to tell you, papa, and
I do not know how to la-gin."
"It is clear that it is goixl news," said
he; "you look ho well. And you are a
good woman of business that has ap
peared all through from your letters."
"Tint y '.! v. '.l ,o v t i jii'k;o of,
I '.".pa." At I'll' 111,11:!'. 1:1 tli.-y (j;,..; , j
this tlatiou her iuiueroaw Autony Lilakc,
pressed his hand warmly and asked hiia
7 .-. . H.
At Alliahy ami t'orvaltu eudCliiliiy. .
ol Oi.-k,,,, I'apino Hailroa. Wsy
r.ii.ri'Ki Train I'ally IKIW',
I 11' M.
7 .Xr M
Lv "" l-orllaiiJ l l' Warr
r. 1
I Onnnn
THROUCH T1CHT-Whiu
TOAIXI'OINT? po
EAST AND SOlTtegular
, ., . . ., , 1 ... "'"I si
tor lleki'ta unit full lu'""'" iweeuH'
rat ia. t.i,a, fto., call oil VMr; acksk!
' -i eniiu iny
It. Kol'lll.KK,
Matmiier.
nml
.r.,..
k. r. itocii . .
AaflU.f.t; OA'
lentM aeei
let Kimln
I. It. II w
.aw. aaena no . ,-, i'1 fc-
11 1 ' I Col t M
1 , ,, Ii'ta V
L. id .... .1 ' 9iiin,li( Ri
1 j jta
rihetill i.t Ctiekam i ( ',
bated tli Is 1I tiny 0 April, lsvi,
kHii.. I'AI-I I' I l-tl" ''
W"WK'T;offrA'Taavaa1,a.p,,;
"Tiafrtr
nine
lint 1
lilir
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BH"li
at tlifV-tr"
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