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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
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Flour, feed, prohsions, tobacco and oiOAEa
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Branch Unlontown, Phones, 711, Uolontowo, 713
A. V. ALLEN,
Tenth and Oomraeroial Streeta. IASTORIA. OREGON.
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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
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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. ;
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specification may be atn at the office,
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fram building; plans and specifica
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No. 62 Commercial street . The right?
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15, 1905: Sealed proposalsL In trinll-
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til 10 o'clock a m. March 7. 105. and
then opened, ror grading and con-
axruciion or piank roadways and side
walks about new public buildings at
Fort Columbia, Wash. -( United States
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proposals, .pians can., be seen and
specifications obtained at this office.
Information furnished on application.
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Blue Jars never to south, but stav
north during the coldest winters. It is
said they live to be a hundred years
old. Very few people have ever seen
their nests ov young. They Can sing a
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for they once saved mv life. I had been
lost In the woods for tw days.' Night
was coming, and lt.bein to snow. I
built a bough camp, and while cutting
wood cut a hollow atub. When I split
It open I found four blue lavs and
about a bushel of bread nnd meat. I
built a fire and ate about a peck of the
provisions. The Jays did not go away,
but came un to the fire and nnnpsred to
enjoy the heat. Mv feet were cold, and
I commenced to dance to warm them.
Then the birds sang the prettiest Jig
tune I ever heard. The storm lasted
twenty-four hours. When It was over
I climbed a tall pine, but I came down
mad aa a vet ben. I had discovered
the lumber camp about fifteen rods dis-tant-Lewlston
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