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- km-trr.., THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1007. P' r$ ; Fjf'i & C j. dr. The Manager Of the B. A. By VAUGHAN CL Copyright, 1901. by .VCJSf. "-" (Continued from Wednesday.) 'Hut Oakley -was opposed to tills. "The men will be glad enough to ac cept the new scale of wages a llttlo later, and, the lesson won't bo wasted on them." "Yea, I know, but the question is, do we want" 'em? I wish Cornish was here. I think he'd advise somo radical move. Ho's all fight." "'Oakley, howover, was devoutly thankful that tho general was In Eng land, where he hoped ho would stay. Be bad no vftsh to see the men ruined. A wholesome lesson would sulllco. lie was much relieved when the time ar rived to escort Holloway to his train. All thla while the Herald continued Its attacks, but Dan no longer minded them. Nothing Ryder could say could augment his unpopularity. It had reached Its finality. Ho never guessed that, Indirectly at leaBt, Constance Em ory was responsible for by far the greater part of Ryder's present bitter ness. She objected to his partisanship of the men, and this only served to In crease his verbal Intemperance; but, in spite of the antagonism of their tJows, they remained friends. Con stance was willing to endure much from Ryder that she would have rc sonted from any one else. She liked him, and she was sorry for him; he seemed unhappy, and she Imagined he suffered as she herself Buffered and from tho same cause. There was still another motive for her forbearance which, perhaps, she did not realize. The strike and Oakley had become a mania with tho editor, and from him ho was able to learn what Dan was doing. The unpopularity of bis son was a source of lnflnlta grief to Roger Oak ley, the more so as he took the burden of It on his ovn shoulders. Ho brood ed over It until presently he decided that he would have a talk with Ryder and explain matters to him and nsk him to discontinue his abuse of Dan. There was a streak In tho old con vict's mind which was hardly sane, for no man spends tho best years of his life In prison and comes out as clear headed as he goes In. As he pottered about the shops with McCllntock he meditated on his project. Uo was sure If he could show Ryder where ho was wrong and unfair ho would hasten to make amends. It nev er occurred to blm that Ryder had merely followed in the wake of public opinion, giving It dcflnlto expression. . Ono ovening and he chose tho hour when ho know Antloch would bo at upper and tho streets deserted ho stole from the shops without telling Dan whero ho was going, as ho had a shrewd idea that he would put a veto on his schemo did ho know of it. With all his courage his paco slack ened as ho approached the Herald of fice. He possessed unbounded respect for print and still greater rcspoct for tho man who spoke In print. The door stood open, and ho looked In over tho top of his steel bowed spec tacles. Tho olllco was dark and shad owy, but from an Inner room, whero Jho presses stood, a light shono. "While ho hesitated tho half grown boy who was Griffs chlof assistant caino from tho ofllce. Roger Oakley placed n band on his shoulder. "Is Mr. Ryder in, sonny?" ho nsked. "Yes, he's in tho back room, whero you see tho light." "Thank you." Ho found Ryder busy making up by tho light of a single dingy lamp, for tho Herald went to press in tho morning. Grin gavo a start of surprlso when ho saw who his visitor wus. Then ho said sharply, "Well, sir, what can I do for your ' It was the first time the old convict and tho editor had Afct, and Roger Oakley, peering over his spectacles, studied Ryder's foco In his usual slow fashion. At last ho said, "I hopo I am not Intruding, Mr. Ryder, for I'd like to. apeak with you." ""Then be quick about it," snapped OrlS. "Don't you seo I'm busy?" ' With the utmost dollboratlou tho old convict took from his pocket a largo rod and yellow bandanna handkerchief. Thon he removod his hat and wiped hU face and neck with elaborato thor oughness. When ho finally spoko ho dropped his volco to an Impressive whisper. "I don't think you under ataud Danulo, Mr. Ryder, or tho rea sons for tho trouble down at tho shops." ;Don't IT Well, I'll bo charmed to tiar your explanation." Aud ho put down the rule with which ho had been measuring oue of the printed columns n the table beforo him. t Without being asked Roger Oakley seated himself In a chair by tho door. He placed his hat and handkerchief on a J corner of tho table and took off his spectacles, which ho put Into their case. Rydor watched him with curious Inter est "I know wo could sottlo tills, Mr. Rydor," said ho, with friendly simplic ity. "You've boon unfair to my sou. That was because you did not under stand. When you do I am ccrtalu you will do what you can to make right the wrong you have done him." A vicious, sinister smllo wreathed Ryder's lips. He uoddod. "Go on." , "Dannie's done uothlnir to you to KESTER Harper & Brothers mulso you wish to hurt lilni, for you are hurting him. Ho doesn't admit It, but 1 know." "I hope to," said Ryder tersely. "1 should h.ito to think my energy had been entirely wasted." A look of pained surprise crossed Ito;;er Oaklej's face. Ho was qulto shocked at the un-Clirlstlan feeling Griff was displaying. ""No, jou don't mean that!" ho made haste to say. "You can't menn It." "Can't 1 ?" cynically. Roger Oakley stole a glanco from under his thick, bushy eyebrows at tho editor. Ho wondered If an apt quota tion from the Scriptures would be of nny assistance. The moral logic with which ho had intended to overwhelm Iiyder staggered back. him had somehow gone astiay. He presented tho singular spectacle of a man who was In tho wrong and who knew he was In the wrong and was yet determined to persist In It. "There's something I'll toll you that I haven't told any oue else." no glanced again at Ryder to see tho ef fect of tho proposed confidence, and again the latter nodded for him to go on. "I am going away. I haven't told my son yet, but I've got It all planned, and when I am gone you won't have nny icason to hate Dannie, will you?" "That's an admirable Idea, Mr. Oak Icy, and If Dannie, as you call him, has half your good sen&o he'll follow your example." "No; ho can't leave. He must stay. He's the mauager of the load," with evident pride. "Ho's got to stay, but I'll go. Won't that do Just ns well?" a llttlo anxiously, for ho could not fathom the loo'c on Ryder's dark face. Ryder only gave htm a bmllo In an swer, and ho continued hurriedly: "You see, tho trouble's been about mo aud my working in the shops. If I hadn't come hero there'd have been no strike. Ah for Dannie, ho's made a man of himself. You don't know aud I don't know how hard he's worked and how faithful he's been. What I've dono mustn't leflect on him. It all happened when ho was a llttlo boy so high," extending his baud. "Mr. Oakley," said Ryder coldly and Insultingly, "I propose, If I can, to make this town too hot to hold your son, uiitl I am grateful to you for tho unconscious compliment you havo paid mo by this visit." "Dnrnilo don't know I came," quick ly. "No, I don't suppose ho does. I tako It It was nn Inspiration of your own." Roger Oakley had risen from his scat. "What's Dannie over dono to you?" he abked, with just tho least percept! bio tremor In his tones. Ryder bhrugged his shoulders. "Wo don't need him in Antloch." Tho old man mastered ills wrath and said gently: "You can't afford to bo unfair, Mr. Ryder. No ono can afioid to bu unfair. You are too young u man to persevere In what you know to bo wrong." To matirtalu his composure required u grout effort. In the riotous days of bis youth ho had concluded most argu ments lu which ho had becomu in volved with his tlbta. Aged nnd bro ken, his religion overlay his still vigor ous physical strength but thinly, as a veneer. Ho squared his massive bhoul dors and stood erect, like a mail lu his prime, and glowered heavily on tho editor. "I trust you havo always been ablo to mako right your guiding star," re torted Rydor jeorlugly. Tho auger In stantly faded from the old convict's face. Ho was icculled to himself. Ordinarily that Is, lu tho presence of others Rydor would havo felt bouud to treat Roger Oakley with tho defer enco due to his years. Alouc, as they were, ho wus restrained by no such ob ligation, lie was lu an unli mood. and ho urocceded to ulvo it rein. I "i wish you'a mina your own busi ness," ho said suddenly. "What do you meau by coming hero to tell me what I ought to do? If you want to know, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I nra going to hound you nnd that precious sou of yours out of this part of the country." The old man straightened up again as Rj der spoke. The restraint of years dropped from him lu n twinkling. He told hlui he was a scoundrel, and ho prefaced it with nn oath, a slip ho did not notice lu his excitement. "Hey I What's that?" "You're a scoundrell" repeated Roger Oakley, white with rage. Ho took a step around the table and cauio nearer the editor. "I don't know but what 1 ought to break every bone In your body I You arc trying to ruin my sou!" Ho lilt tho table a mighty blow with his clinched fist and, thrusting his head forward, glared Into Ryder's face. "You have turned his friends ngalnst him. Why, he nlii't got none left any more. They have all gone over to tho other side. Aud you douo it, you dono It, and It's got to stopl" Ryder had been tnken aback for the moment by Roger Oakley's fierce an ger, which vibrated In his voice and flashed lu his dark, sunken eyes. "Get out of here!" he shouted, los ing control of himself. "Get out or I'll kick you out!" "When I'm ready to go I'll loac," re torted tho old man calmly, "and that will bo when I've said my say," "You'll go now." Aud he shoved him In the direction of the door, lho shove was almost a blow, and as It fell on his broad chest Roger Oakley gavo a hoarse, lnaitlculatc cry and btruck out with his heavy hand. Ryder stag gered back, caught at tho end of tho table as he plunged past It and fell his length upon tho floor. The breath whistled sharply fiom the old man's lips. "There," ho muttered, "you'll keep your hands off!" Ryder did not bpeak or move. All was hushed and still in tho room. Suddenly a nervous chill seized the old convict. Ho shook fiom head to heel. "I didn't mean to hit you," ho bald, speaking to the prostrate figure at his feet. "Heie, let me help you." He stooped and felt mound on the floor until ho found Ryder's baud. Ho released It Instantly to tako the lamp from the table. Then he knelt beside the editor. In tho corner whero tho latter lay stood a rusty wood stove. In his fall Griff's head had struck against It. The lamp shook In Roger Oakley's hand like a leaf In a gale. Ryder's eyes were open and boomed to look Into his own with a mute lcproach. For the rest ho lay qulto limp, his head twisted to ono side. Tho old man felt of his heart. One or two minutes elapsed. His bearing was ono of fe verish Intensity. Ho heard three men loiter by on the street' and tho sound of thoir footfalls die off In the distance, but Ryder's heart had ceased to beat. Fully convinced of tbjs, ho returned the lamp to the table and, sitting down In the chair by the door, covered his face with his hands and sobbed aloud. Over and over he murmuied: "I've killed him, I've killed him! Poor boy. poor boy! I didn't go to do it!" Presently he got up and made u sec ond examination. Tho man was dead past every doubt. His first Impulse was to surrender himself to the town marshal, as he had dono once before under similar circumstances. Then he thought of Dan. No; ho must escape, and perhaps it would never be known -who, had killed Ryder. His death might eren be at- 'Vivo men pushed past him carrying the bodu of Iiudcr between them. trlhuted to an nccideut. In his excite ment ho forgot tlio boy ho had met at tlie door. That Incident had passed en tirely from his nilnd, aud ho did not remember tho meeting until days aft erward. Ho had been utterly Indifferent to his own danger, but now ho extinguished the lamp nnd mado his way cautiously into tho outer room and peered into tho street. As ho crouched In tho dark uess by thedoor ho heard tho town bell strlko tho hour. Ho counted tho strokes. It was 8 o'clock. An Instant later mid ho was hurrying down tho street, fleeing from the ghastly horror of tho white, upturned face nnd tho eyes, with their look of muto reproach. When ho reached tho railroad track at the foot of Main streot ho paused irresolutely. "If I could oo Daunlo onco more, Just onco more!" ho muttered under his breath, but ho crossed tho tracks km! 5 jy r y vhM wlth n single longing look turned to ward the shops, a black blur In the night a thousand yards distnut Mnin street became a dusty country road south of the trncUs. He left It at this point and skirted a cornfield, going In tho direction of the creek. At tho shops Dan had waited supper for lil) father until half past 7, when be decided ho must have gone uptown, probably to the Joyces'. So he had eaten his supper alone. Then lie drew bis chair in front of an open window and lighted his pipe. It was veiy hot In the olllco. and by and by ho carried his lamp Into the pattern loom, where he and his father slept. He arranged their two cots, blow out. the light, which seemed to add to the heat, partly undressed aud lay down. He heard the town bell strlko S and then the half hour. Shortly after this he must have fallen nsleep, for all at once ho awoke with a start. From off in tho night a confusion of sounds reached him. Tho town boll was ringing the alarm. At first ho thought It was a fire, but there was no light In tho sky, aud the bell rang on and on. Ho got up and put on his coat and hat and started out. It was six blocks to tho Herald ofllce, and as ho ncared It he could distin guish a group of excited, half diesscd men and women whero they clustered on the sidewalk before the building. A carriage was standing in tho btieet. Ho elbowed Into the crowd unnoticed nnd unrecognized. A small boy who had climbed Into the low boughs of a maple tree now shouted in a peifect frenzy of excitement: "III, thes-'io Cringing him out! Jimmy Smith's got him by the legs!" At the same moment Chris Berry appeared in the doorway. The crowd stood on tiptoe, breathless, tense and waiting. "Drive up a llttlo closer, Tom," Ret ry called to the man lu the carriage. Then ho stepped to one side, and two men pushed past him carrying the body of Ryder between them. Tho crowd gavo a groan. (To bo continued.) can fumii tho following Thorough brecY Eggs at $2.00 Per Setting Rhode itland Reds Uarred Plymouth Rocks White Ltghorns I'ckin DiV JOHN W. RLANAGAN Send in rjHjudcrs Now Eggs Shipped anywhere in tho county. Flanagan & Bennett Bank MARSIini&D, OREGON. Capital Sik scribed $50,(100 uapuai u Undivided HI up ?IU,IHM Prollts ?15,000 Does n general banking business and draws ou the Bankf of cilifprnla, San Francisco Calif., First Katlonil Bank Portland Or., Firsl National Hank, Kclburg, Or., Hanoi er Na tional llank, Now York, N. M. Itothchild & Son, London, Englani Also sell change onearlj all the principal cities of Europe. Accounts kept gubjcctlp check, afc dcp'bslt lock boxes for cents a month or (5. a J ear. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS STEAMER. FLYER M. P. Pendergrass, Master TIMU TAIJLE. Leaves Maishfleld .7:30, 9:00, and 10;v30 a.lm., and 1:00, 2:30 and 4:00 p Leaves Nokh Bend at 8:15, 9:45 and 11 . m and 1:45, m. 3:15 001 Makes except Sun- days. Fare way, 15 cents; round trip, 2 cents. STEAMER GARLAND Leaves Marshfield every iviorning at svi, m, run rung up LoosAfviver to Daniel Creek, Now IHOTEL .eady REGON Now and Modem Samplo Rooms n Connection NORTH'! D, ORE. W. A. HARING Dealer in Pflro Cieam Milk and Buttenallk. Free do livery to all irts of the city. North Bent! Pull the BELLI CORD Wet Your Vh tie Then Blow J. R. HIjRJ N, Prop. n Ul Hi K i Ocejion N ' ThcC.B.,R.&E.R.R. and Navigation Co. TRAIN StniElUM5 NO. 2. In Kffccl January 1, 100,. All proyous schedules aro void. Subjccto change without notice. W. S.chandlcr, manager; F. A. Lalse, fclght agent; general olllces, Marshfifld, Oregon. 1. I Trains. lally Excoif Sunday. Stations. Leave 9:00 a. m.Marslifield. :30 a. m.u. it. junction. :4G a. ln.jcoqulllo. Arrive i0:30 a.m. (Myrtle Tolnt. Nc I By Except Sunday. Leave 10: l a. m.Myrtlo Point. 10:3ua. ni.Coqulllo. 12:0ui. B. II. Junction. Arrive 12:30 pjin.Marsliflold. Extra trains jvill run on dally special orders. r, Beaver Hill dally. tains to and from SKATING IK An n ouncements: Open jntcrnoon and even ings, lato 5 and 7 to 10, week lays only. Prices: 25 cef ts for use of Rink s-ki 15 c tCB. nts for those using thit r own skater. 10 uwnls admission to Gentlemen evenings. Spcci.il attention given to heginiVis every after noon Best of ftjdei always main tained. MASTERS & McXAIN Mnialifleltlinil Ninth Bend CONTRACTORS iOR Wood and btlno block pavemants, macadam null plank j-tieota, cow er nnd wateiliimins, cement Hide walks and culbs, plain and ieiir forced concietVfoi huildini;. foun dations and rertlniiiK wuIIh, Fiie proolinjranY asphalt loofiiiL' Crushed ioH!uXhiiildlni; stone. urauing ami excaTtiiij,, """"""-TTrmrTa-iiiiwuMmiin Steam IM Works C treet, Ladies'nndGenL'garp ents clean- ed on red. r "X. I Attorncy-at-Law 1 1 Qfllco: Rogers building Manager I y mrraiMad- - B Marsh field, Oregon COKE A COKE, Attornoy-nt-Law. I Marslifielfl, ... Oregon. M,i,n ... mr i. ncisuniiua "Ulna PIXLEV AS MAYIJEE, P. GiNEUSON, Prop AMoi-neys-at-Lnw. -J im!Jii lj! Ofilco oyer Myers' Store. I Phone 701 A. . North Bend, Oro. Wo repair till kfilda of Machinery, A Steam and Oifc Knglncs, Guns and III- V ccis. nest if ork our specialty. : : Real Estate Acents. I)IER LAND bokpANlT " Wcmnnufnctvio Castings In Iron and ,. liionzo for Sa Mills and Logging Real Estato Brokers Camps We maL; the best Shea es and Road Spools for iW-crs. : : : Nortll Don(t . . . Oregon. :: v MARSHFIELD, OREGON JiHHiHHHH I" McPliersonGinser Co. 1 Wholesale Jquor dealers I Cigars andl saloon sup- plic8- I California Wjnesa Specialty I iiiiiuu ior aiu classes ot n Front sCtaWiineld I buildings. MMMMbMBBBBM North Bei id Oregon " " lu IIIONIi 5-11 M IIIIMIIHMM Business Direcry ' Doctors. i E. E. STRAW, ilf D. PHYSICIAN AND SUKOKON Diseases of theEye, Ear, Noso unci Throat a specialty. Ollien in Locliliart's Building. Marehfield, 1 Oregon iurshficld, J R. IIAYD0N nn OIlloo opposite Unloli Furniture Store. Hnuri 10 to 1 and 2 to'JB BpitUI atlcntron pTifd to (llnearc of the skin urinary anil dlfrcsHie organs it u P.mtilmi txnmlnol Marshfiold, - - Oregon 1)H. J. W. INGRAM, Physician nml Surgeon. Ofllco over Sengatackon's Drug Store. Phones Ofilco 1C21; resldonco 78'S f II. M. ItlCirAIlDSON, Physician null Surgeon. Diseases of eye, car, nose and throat a specialty; Ofllcf In Eldorado Block. Lawyers. B. L. 0.FARKIN. f Attorneya t-Law. City Attorney. Deputy DiBt. Att'y. Lockhart Building. Marshfiold, Oro Phono 44. .1. M. UPTON, Attori.cy-nfLnv. Marshftold. - $ Oregon. j. wJuknnktt, Ofiloo over Flanagan & Benott Bank.l Uarshfiold, ... Oreco' fc O. F. sMcKNI IcKNIGIlT, I Attorncy-nt-Law. Upstairs, Bennett & Walter block. Marshtleld, - Oregon. Coos Bay Steam Laundry r MARSHFIELlfand NORTH BEND All work now done at theNort Bend Plant Edgal Mauzey Agent, Marshfield North Bend Pho 1031 Marshfield O804 I ff I .-.-.. a . , ,.--,.-, .-.- . ,. , r, J. W. SNOVER ) front Street, ; Marshfield, Oregon Philip I 'roprietor. ..(,