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THE DAILI COOS BAY T1MKS, MARSHFIELD, OltKGOX, SUNDAY MAY 10 1007.
The Maaa
Of the B. A.
By VAUGHAN
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Copyrlifht, 1001, by Harper & Brothers
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(Continued from Saturday.)
it Vns too cane rui mm to see rue
color that was slowly mounting to her
face.
"Constance, I don't believe you," lie
cried.
"I was not sure you wore coming,"
Constance said weakly.
"You might have known tuat I'd
tomo back that I couldn't stay nway."
"Don't you think you have been a
long time In making that disco vcy' '
"Well, yes, but when I snw your
.father"
"What did papa say to you?" with
Ttcen suspicion in her tones.
"You mustn't blame him, Constance.
It was not so much what he said as
what he didn't say. I never' knew any
ono to be quite so ostentatious about
what was left unsaid."
Constanco freed her hand and, shrink
ing Into a corner, covered her face.
She had a painful realization of the
direction those confidences must have
"There hoist There's Oaklcul"
taken between her father, who only
desired her happiness, and the candid
Oakley, who only desired her Jove.
"Was there any use in my coming?
You must bo fair with mo now. It's
too serious a matter for you not to be.''
"You think I was not fair once?"
"I didn't mean that, but you have
changed."
"For the bettor, Mr. Oakley?"
"Infinitely," with blunt simplicity.
"You haven't changed a scrap. You
are just as rude as you over were."
Dan cast n hurried glance lrom the
window.
"Constance, wo won't have much
more time to ourselves; wo are almost
home. Won't you tell me what I have
como to hear that you do care for me
and will bo ray wife? You know that
I lovo you. But you mustn't send me
.from you a second time without hope."
"I shouldn't think you would care
about mo now. I wouldn't care about
"My darling I"
you If you had been as uuwortby as I
have been," her volco faltered. "I
mlht havo shown you that I, too,
could bo bravo, but I lot the opportuni
ty pass, and now, when every ono Is
proud"
"But I do care. I caro a great deal,
for I lovo you Just as I havo loved you
from tho very first."
She put out both her bauds.
"If you had only looked back when
you left tho house that day you told mo
jou cared"
"What, Constance?"
"I was at tho window. I thought
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ger
KESTER.
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you a sureiy iook imei:, ana tnen you
would have known"
"My darling!"
The canlago had drawn up to the
Eniorys' gate.
Dan jumped out and jmuo Constanco
his hand. Off in the distance they
heard the band. Constanco paused and
rested her hand gently on Oakley's
arm.
"Hark I Do you hear?"
"I wish they'd stop their confounded
nonsense," said Dan.
"No, you can't stop them," delighted
ly. "Antloch feels a sense of proprie
torship. But do you hear the music,
Dan?"
"Yes, dear. It's the band."
"Of course It's the band. But do
you know what It Is playing?"
Oakley shook his head dubiously.
5he gae his arm a little pat and laugh
ed softly.
"It might bo difficult to recognize it,
but it's (ho bildal maich from 'Lohen
grin.' "
"If they stick to that I don't care,
Constance."
And side by side they went slowly
and silently up the path to the house.
THE END.
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Minister I
"t" "By FranK. H. Steveet
Cop right, 1005, by Tiank II. Sweet
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'W 7E'S como." said old Ilerknmor
as ho came Into tho kitchen
and began to unload himself
of the packages which ho had
brought from the ti ailing post ten mites
away, "an' now I reckon tho next tiling
will bo for him to go. We ain't waited
five years for a moetln' house jest to
carry it on as a nursery now we've got
1J. I don't itM what Dr. Brown was
thlukln' on."
"Is lie very young?" asked Mis. Ilcr
Lamer, transferring tho packages to a
small cupboaul fai toned against tho
logs of the cabin wall.
"Young!" and old Herkamer's grim
face seemed yet grimmer as it peered
out through the small triangle formed
by his down drawn cap and big, up
turned collar. "He's youngcr'n our
Seth, an' ho couldn't speak ttfii words
to folks lookin' nt him to sivo his life.
What we want Is a tough, hard headed
man who knows our ways an' can put
up -with 'em. This feller's store made
an' soft. I could see that soon's the
doctor Introduced him. I wouldn't bo
s'prlsed if lie shaved eveiy day, an'
cleaned his nails an' ba-th-ed," drawing
out the word derisively. "Huh! What
can n feller like that do with our young
men? S'poso ho had to tramp ten miles
IhiodgU a Dakota bllzzaid to say pra'rs
over a remains; s'pose he'd meet a
flghtin' grizzly in tho forest; s'poso,
some of our high speerlteJ boys got to
chaflhv him in their b'ar cub way! Say,
what'd he do then?" And without wait
ing for what he thought an Impossible
answer to his comments old Ilcrkamer
turned back to caio for his team and
to hasten his evening chores In antici
pation of a Catherine stoim.
i utui no ugaifi appvaivu uuu mm
emerged lrom the depths of his great
coat hln mlud still seemed to be hark
ing back to his day's discontent, for
he went on:
"Ain't old's our Seth, no; an' ain't
moro'n Ave feet four an' lias h?nda
sott's n ba-by. Huh! Our old minis
ter whero we como from had hands
like the bark of an old hick'ry an'
could chaw terbaccy an' wrestle with a
grizzly an' pitch a man through a win
der wheu ho got catsed. That's tho
sort we need here. IIoss scjuso comes
'fore book sense, au' liard hands 'fore
p'llteness. That's my Idee "
He drew a stool to the fireplace and
spread his hands out over the blazo
with thawing satisfaction. One by one
the grim lines of his face softened nifd
mellowed under the fire's influence, and
pteontIy he turned half round toward
his wife, who was preparing supper.
"Of course we needn't say auj thing
like tills outside," he observed, half
apologetically. "The boy ain't to blamo
for -what he Is, an' the doctor got him
here. An' furder,'' still mellowing,
"we won't be hard on the doctor ei
ther. He's our nearost neighbor an'
goner'ly does things pretty sensible.
Wo can pass over a slip now an' then.
An that remluds me," turning ontirely
round, "the doctor said he'd bring him
over this evenln' If it didn't storm too
hard, an' if it did they'd likely be
round tomorrer. The boy seemed spry
au' good unterod an' said he wauted
to visit everybody an' get acquainted.
We'll treat him light's we can, for he
won't be hero many days. I'oor little
feller! He don't realise how soon tho
boys'll run him out. You might .save
the wild turkey I shot yesterday, Lzn,
an' thar's plenty of venison. We'll
treat him right."
Outsldo they could hear tho sounds
of tho approaching storm, and Iler
karaer went to tho windows and door
l and fastened them moro becurely.
"The doctor won't bring him out to
nicbt ' ho said as ho resumed his stool
oy tne nro, an l aoirt reoKon sem air
tho half breed will come In either.
Leastway, I hope not. It'll bo safer
In tho gulch than finding one's way
through tills snow."
But ho was mistaken, for presently
there came n tramping and stamping
outside, nnd as tho cabin door was
thrown open a tall, white haired old
man stepped In, accompanied by a boy
ish figure of slight but compact build.
Hie old man was Dr. Brown, the neigh
borhood autocrat, and in his companion
Ilcrkamer recognized the now minister.
But lie was no longer the fashionably
dressed figure which had alighted from
tho train at Mlnot, but rather n trim
frontiersman in appropriate costume.
Old Herkamer's eyes daikcned n little
as they rested upon lilm. Ho did not
approve of ministers In masquerade.
"I hardly thought you'd get over to
night," ho said rather shortly, "the
storm"
"That's just why wo came," the doc
tor Intel ruptcd genially. "Tho storm
Is likely to be a long one, and we can
got back before it becomes severe. By
tomoriow oen the mile between our
homes may bo dlillcult q make. You
are ono of our prominent members,"
frankly, "and I wanted yon to see more
of Mr. Irwin before hearing him In the
fiulplt. Wo are apt to be prejudiced
against strangers."
Herkaier's grlmness luci eased. lie
was not piojudlced, he told hlm-cif
only conservative and steitiftist. Tho
man was all light, of course, but he
was In the wrong pine". It was n
manifest duty to diountennnce the
mistake.
And jot there was something In the
clear, earnest pare of the young min
ister, In his frank smllo and warm,
sympathetic oyes that somehow tin Hi
ed tho cynical old heart If only the
boy had been content with his piofes
olonal costume, well, who know but In
y-aie But this outfit, so ridiculously
rew! Probably the boy had never ha 1
on such clothes before in hla life. II
was masquerading, trying to appear
what he was not.
At this moment came a stuaibllng
outside and nn ineffectual groping foi
the latch stilng, then an "Open do do'!
sa-say, open do do'!"
Ilcrkamer spiang forward to com
ply, and as tho dojr .swung hick a
short, squatty figure half fell into the
room. I
"The hnlf bleed!" ejaculated Ilcr
kamer, forgetting to shut the doar In
his consternation. "What's up, Bap
tlsto? Where's Seth?"
"Busted," responded Baptlstc, throw
ing out his aims dramatically. "Tree
fall on shanty, break t'rou. Seth bust
ed, mo Ba'.tlste busted too. Como for
help, med'clne nib on."
"Not dead!" gasped Mrs. Herkamer,
her face whitening. "Seth ain't dead?"
'nils brought tho half breed to his
tonnes.
"Xon, on'y jes' busted," he reassured
her. "Leg hurt so can't walk. Me
Ba'tlste busted, too; finger broke.
Como for med'clne rub on. Ain't
busted bad, nou."
With trembling hands Mrs. Heika
mcr produced some bottles and band
ages from the cupboard; her husband
reached for his greatcoat.
"Wo must hurry back to him," lie
cried. "If ills leg's broke it must bo
attended to at once. You'll havo to ex
cuse me," to his guests.
Baptlsto raised bis squatty figure to
Its full height.
"No good you go," ho declaied
stuidily, "bad way t'rou' ravine. To'
tcen mile mo come, all time fallln' an'
climbln'; take five, sit hour. You no
strong like young man. Better mo go
'lone. Go two time quick. Leg broke,
want look out for soon. Mo Qx him,
den wo stay two free day nn' come
homo all right. Bes' way."
"The half breed's rldit," said Dr.
Brown. "If tho leg's broken it needs i
looking after at once, nnd Baptlsto is
Just as good at that work as I am.
Two old fellows like us, Herkamer,
would only bo a drag on Baptlsto's
progress."
But old Heikamer paid not the least
notice. Ho was resolutely humping his ,
shoulders Into his greatcoat wheu lie
felt a light touch upon his arm.
"You had better stay here, Mr. Her- I
knmer," tho young minister said quiet- i
He Mrode out into tho fiulherlng darh
nets. ly. "Your son Is In need of help wbleto
should reach him Just as spoedlly as
possible. I am qsed to tlija sort of
thing and am young ami strong; bo
bldcs I havo somo little knowledge of
medicine. Mr, Baptlsto and I can do
nil that Is necessary " lie buttoned his
coat and turned to the half breed, who
had been listeulug with open derision.
But somehow, when Baptlsto met tho
strnigU gaze of this young fellow, tho
'sS- ft Xjq
-wr.lv.-;.. pi :aucu rrom nis race, i.ine
th03e who live close to nature, ho was
accustomed to look into eyes, nnd these
ej es were strangely legible.
"Well, I guess mebbe you go 'long,"
ho acquiesced graciously, "dat Is, If
Jou fink you good for tough job."
Old Heiknmer sta:l. That soft
handed boy "us.nl to this sort oMhlng,"
and Baptlsto accepting him in prefer
ence to himself. What was the world
coming to?
"Why, the boy can't get through that
ravine to save his life," ho blurted out.
"Ain't go t'rou' ravine," Baptlsto de
elated stolidly; "go roun' by hill dls
time Take two time longer, but mo'
safe. Go in ravine, find snow t'ick,
mebbe no get t'rou'. Bes' go safe. But
no time wait for old peoples."
Heikamer .snoitcd, but slowly re
nioed his coat.
"Well, young feller," Ignoring Bap
tlsto nnd speaking to the minister,
'trou'd better put ou my big coat nn'
all the other warm stuff we can scare
up. Better freeze comfortable long's
you'io bound to freeze. An' don't let
that half bleed push you on too fast.
Wo don't want no remains on our
hands oven If Seth lias bioko his leg."
Tho j oung minister smiled.
"This costume Is all I need, thank
you, Ml-. Ilerknmor," ho said reassur
ingly. "I had It made especially for
tills sort of work, and it is very warm.
I Jn not like heavy wraps for hard
wnJklng; tho exercise is better. If tho
wind Is hard or tho cold becomes very
severe I havo a hood which I can
draw over my head and shoulders.
Now, Baptlsto, about tho route. Is this
ravlno you speak of a plain trail?,
Would a greenhorn like mo bo llkelyi
to lose his way?"
"Non; It bo narrow, an' dero be rocks
high on hot' sides, an' do camp bo
right in do middle. It can't bo miss if
ono go dat fur. But wo ain't goln' In
do ravlno, non. " We go roun by do HIHA
Do ravlno no lot us out, mebbe, an'
him berry dark now."
"Well, wo must remember that a
man Is waiting In urgent need of help
nnd that a barrier la llablo to block nny;!
trail, Wo must tako no chances, You
go round by tho hill, and I will tako
tno ravlno witn a lantern, i am useu
to climbing and can probably gob'
through without any troublo."
Baptlsto raised his hands as though"
to protest, but no words came from his
lips. Those straight glances wero con
trolling him, nnd his hands fell to hla
side. The minister was a leader; ho
was to obey.
When they turned towaid tho door
tho rest nccoinpanled them. Baptlsto
bent his head to the storm nnd plunged
stolidly away to the hill route; tho min
ister waited for a few dhectlons from
Herkamer, then ho strode out Into the
gathering darkness towaid the ravlno.
"Do you think theie's nny chance at
oil of his mnklng it?" nsked Heikamer
In a troubled voice as they turned buck
into the cabin.
"Chance," echoed the doctor, with a
curious ring in his voice, "of course I
do. That young fellow is small only in
size. Why, he's climbed half the moun
tains In Europe and 111 s nothing bet
ter than a tough wrestle like this to
help somebody. It's tho best job I ever
did for tho neighborhood, getting li'm
here. I was afiaid I couldn't, for he
has plenty of money and only took to
tho ministry through love for the woik.
I thought he'd want a softer place; but,
no, ho actually seemed pleased when I
asked him to como out to our wild
couutiy. Of course he'll mnko It."
And ho did, but with a sheer force of
will that made it linger for many a
long year about tho neighborhood tlre
uides ns a story of pluck a.i.l endur
ance, nnd when he stood In tho pulpit
tho new Sabbath, with ono arm In a
sling nnd his faco still role from tho
journey, there was not ono In the rough
audlonco but listened with respectful
and can'ies: attention. And later, when
they crowded about him lo shako hands
after Horvlec, It was not an effeminate,
boyish figure .they saw, but a brave,
Etiong man to whom all weie moio
than pleased to pay hoinago.
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