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X CowriibL VU. br CheifB Po!fcek After the bad come to to tandem lUndlnc Fnnk Claxton took Vlrrinli Carter to dinner at Olorani'. Tbla txm UentaMUng, the reault of man mlrao deritandlnea. nut an imA tn their rw (Kfmetit; and tbey cboae to bold tt wake over their dead love at tbe tin rtnUurant where It had been bom NHther talked 'much during Ue meal, and when either i do kit. for uni rca on not eiuilj; explained. U waa Jn rtrf low tone. The man eald,'"I'Bup poae I bad better return your letterar ,-Tbore muat .be t great many of them." reaDonded the clrl. the earner of her mouth trembling into a faint .Tea. In-ln three jeara"- j '1 .ball aend.roura tomorrow tht 1A I eball aend all but one. I eboold Ilk to keep one-ln momorlam. Ma IT fair ezebance,' yott Staple and Fancy Ororftrias j Flour, feed, prohsions, tobacco and oiOAEa Buppliea of all kinda at lowest prtoea for Fishermen, Farmera andLogffera Branch Unlontown, Phones, 711, Uolontowo, 713 A. V. ALLEN, Tenth and Oomraeroial Streeta. IASTORIA. OREGON. ATTTTTTTT7ItIIITTIIIIITTTTTTIit ItTtTTl, I I 1 ,TTTrm ;If I mar.' Certainly, know." Claitfjn left'hr af the doors bl her apartment aomethlnic leaa than an bonr later. On the way to bia own borne be mamiea that be abould regret wbu bad happened to little. The petty qua ifU or the paat few montha bad worn out hla enduranM. he thnnirht atui vail. dered Mmnfldlffereut to tbdr culmln tfon. lie wondered bow abe felt about It At all erenta, tbe, (separation wonld lore him with nor time more Um to work, more time to devote to the frlenda be had Deflected alnce he hd bejun caring for her, -J f In the matter of the quarrele ho did not conalder' hlmaalf hlamaiMa. n realised tola, and admired hlmaelf a bit for tb Inherent generoalty .which pre vented his holding her solely to ac count 1; Claxton reached hla "dIhm In rttker a relieved frame of mind. lie on4 the door with a key fattened to a silver ring that abe bad given him on hla birthday' and walked straight across the library-to his trDewrlter. ,.Beald the machine waa a tin cushion. ahe had made for him to rent bis elbow upon wuen ne was "reading copy." He recalled that: It bad come wranned in numberless pieces of pnpor. , each one incioaea maidu the other, like the e In a Cb nese ouzxle. That waa about the time that the Interoat aroiisMl I,t ma tale or Central American life bad opened theliearta of editors toward him Somehow the detective itorv ha hmi Intended to begin did not fly from bis Oncer tip an speedily as be bad ex pected. The first paragraph, after writing which, be told himself, tuincs would go bfttcr. stood alone on the page, a aurccenlon of stilted end unin viting aentenrea. "Not In the mood," he coufcawd at laat and strolled dotf n Broadway to hla club. The lmy at the door didn't know him, and when, a ft or aatlafylng the stu pid fellow of bis nii'iuliershlp, be auun terod Into the lounglnK room he was In sn exrmllnKly unpleamint hnruor. 'Tarsons btn here this eveulugT", be Inquired brusquely of an attendant. "No, sir," replied the man. "lie docs not come very ofteu now, sir. Married, I believe." Claxton cursed Parsons from the bot tom of his soul. "Grnhnmr he asked. "Mr. Graham wna In about a week ago. We don't see him more than once a fortnight" "Funny," mused Claxton. "By George, I wonder If there's any one In the placer ! There was. In the writing room- Frederick Ford Ferguson, a youth Just coaxing a timorous mustache into ex istence aud tolerated only for the aake of his father, Major Ferguson, former ly of the Ninth Infantry. Claxton would gladly have passed the young ster by, but he was hailed before be could regain the Iinll. "Stop a bit old chap. I want to read you a line I'm sending to a friend of mine at Daly's. Rather a clever letter, you know." ? Claxton tore himself away and, .went pack home. What was Miss .Carter do ing? - lie would have wngered a hun dred that Phelps bad called, nnd taken her out. Confound rbelps! f I y , The story went more smoothly Stlin ulated by the resentful energy of Its author. From 10 o'clock until nearly daylight the typewriter tllcked luces aantlv. When It stonAed click Inn1, seven pages of manuscript much marred by pencu maru, lay on the table near at hand. It was a good story, he felt sure, although there were two or three de tain concerning wnich he would have liked a conservative opinion. ,"111 take Virginia out for luncheon and' read It to her." he thought Then he remem bered that they had agreed never to "see each other again voluntarily, that 1 , , -( The day, which began with his rising at noon, dragged alonir monotonously. It. was bard to realize that he might not speak to ber over the telephone that stood on lils desk and harder otlll to be convinced that she would not cull him lift Toward mldafternoon Claxton un locked a drawer and took out the nine ackagea of her letters that represent- i u correspondence of three years. He :.ust choose the one letter and return lLo rest to her. , To do this be must read every epis tle In tke nine bundles. Claxton, In common with moat men who. write or set, was a sentimentalist and he want ed that the one letter should bo the tlCCXClt t?.2lL-Xhs first thpt yet r! had penned It when bo Isy 111 of fever it 8aa Joss "do Guatemala. Tour ea wo was repeated to me at Chicago. was the message. "Otherwise I should aavo been with yon now. I know that if I your illness continued yon wonld aeed a nurse, and I felt that I could sot delegate to strangers the nrtvUese f attending yon.1? . It waa a womanly wer-tne letter of woman matnrs In Mart and brain and mutton rwmwi i long wdhs before nuttlnir it aside. iexi cams a telegram, sent to his apartments before the telephone had been installed; "Fleas, com. tonight AJn bine, nave wired Minnie star home." A very sweet, dependent lit tle message, but of conn not to be thought of as tbe single memento of so close friendship as theirs had been. It waa even nrwfenhla ta iwtafn the short note which he had always sscriDea to ner literary genius rather man to ner reelings. "Each thoneht of yon. dropping Into the waters of my Mart, produces ever widenln circles or wnuer recollection." t t , :iaeu mere was sn envelope from her, on the. back of which he had com posed a fragment of verse. It began: ' ThOU art aa 1m, n ma kW Inva ) f Bo dear aod, oh, so necessary! Claxton remembered that she had Prized the noem above anvthlnr elsa be had given ber. "It Is so fine to be thought necessary,"' she had said. in this manner be nroeressed throneh five of the nine packages. Each letter seemed more desirable than tbe rest and every moment made a selection less easy. This scrawl was a reassur ance which she had penciled on tbe leaf of her programme nt the theater; that sheet of blue paper bore the first words of affection be had ever received from her,"- ' : i : .t -; . At the bottom of the fifth bundle waa a long envelope with the name of a publishing company on Its upper left hand corner. The postmark waa over two years old. "Rejected mentisct," Claxton concluded, tossing it to one side contemptuously. That bad come back In the days when rejected manu scripts had not been half so rare as good dinners or money with which to pay rent Something approaching cu riosity made blm pick op tbe envelope again and draw the contents from iu mouth. Tbe storv that lav before him was headed, "From Frank Claxton, 2' 1 West Twenty-first Street," but tbe type unmistakably belonged to tbe ma chine which still remained a fixture at Miss Carter's. The tale waa one that she bad sent over bis signature to an editor of whose opinion she had felt certain, and It bad In consequence been returned to blm when that gentleman bad classed It as "unavsilable." , "I thought you'd get a check," Virginia naa conreeseu, "and I knew you'd spend It without conaiderln whvs and wherefores. It's just like Phelps! He was enthusiastic over the plot when I told It to blm last week." "Virginia," he had remonstrated, "It was like offering me charity." "Nonsense! I shouldn't have thought of handing you money. I simply wrote a story for you that you might have written yourself If yon bad taken time." 1 "Taken time! Good Lord, how much time he bad taken that year in lust such discouraging, nnremnneratlva la borl How unhappy ho had been and now awruiiy, awfully hard npl He hadn't begun spending every evening with her then, and ho hadn't beeun selling whatever he wrote either. "No body ever dld-at first," she had as sured him. For twenty minutes Claxton eat si lently on his chair Island In the middle of a sea of letters. Ills flncera duns to the rejected manuscript but bis eyes looked beyond it into the nt All the half forgotten history of his love for Virginia Carter had been recalled to him with wonderful vividness ber un varying goodness, the sweetness of their intercourse, the erstwhile strength of his affection for her. A ship's clock In the adjoining room struck 2, the nautical fashion of saying that the hour was 5, and with quick resolution he be gan climbing into bis evening clothes. "I've come to take you to dinner," he said to Miss Carter when she respond ed to bis pressure on the button at her door. "So you were lonely, too?" she asked mm. v-" ' .. t "Lonely? By George, and those let ters" 1 ' ' , She "was loo clever a clrl not to seem surprised, and he could not look through tbe sides of her trunk into the tray where reposed several packages or his letters to ber, unsearcbed, un touched, aince first they bad been read ana iaia away. ; CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING. ' ' KATES: first Insertion, One Cent a Word. - mV i One Week, Each Line, joc. , '.. i Vv i . Two week, Each Line, 45c. 4 '-.- One Month, Each Line, 75c. .-.'- J - ! 1 . i, 'I. Astorian Free Want Ads. Anyone Desiring. SUuation cm Insert an Advertisement in this Column ; w. uit muci i wo 1 imcs r re: or Charge. HELf WANTED. ? V ? 'room waa,r. ' MjfcNWE TEACH THE BARBEH trade in, the .shortest possible time at small expense and guarantee posi tions; write for sataiogne, Moler gya- tern college. San Francisco. GIRL WANTED TO KEEP HOUSE for, private mess; , wages ; 140 per month. Inquire at Astorian office. .; i JUNK DEALERS. . 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