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TUESDAY, MAY 19, 190O.
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WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS.
think that a woman Is never happy
she responded gently, "but you"
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He leaned toward her, a swift
-tr-e crowing his face, bis keen
new juu 1 U9cu
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passenger floeEed" paaC lie rose and
lent over ber chair. "You will have
chicken broth?" be mild distinctly. "I
will aend tbe steward." And ere the
recovered from ber surprise be k-ft ber.
A little later tbe broth was brought
tad soon after tbe steward reappeared
bearing Iced prunes. "The gentleman
lent you word that you were to eat
these," be said. And she sat up In be
wilderment and ate the prime Bllently.
"You are very kind," she remarked
timidly when he came up from the din
ing saloon and threw himself Into the
chair beside her.
For an Instant be looked at be
blankly, his brow wrinkling. She saw
that be was not thinking of her and
reddened.
"You were klnd-about the prunes,
she eiplnlned.
The prunes?" he repeated vaguely.
Tnen he brought himself together with
' a Jerk. "Oh. you are tbe little woman
who was sickyes, 1 remember."
"Tbey were very nice," she said more
firmly.
"I am glad you liked them," he re
joined and was silent. Tbeu he broke
Into an Irrelevant laugh, and the lines
upon bis forehead deepened. She saw
that he carried a habitual sneer upon
bis lips. With a half frightened ges
ture she drew from him.
"I am glad that you find life amus
ing," 6he observed stiffly. "I don't."
He surveyed ber with a dogged hu
mor. "It Is not life; it is you."
She spoke more stiffly still. "I don't
catch your meaning," she said. "Is my
hat on one side?"
He laughed again. "It Is perfectly
balanced, I assure you."
"Is my hair uncurled?"
"Yes, but I shouldn't have noticed it
It Is very pretty."
She sat up in offended dignity. "I
do not desire compliments," she re
turned. "I wish merely Information."
Half closing his eyes, he leaned back
Is his chair, looking at ber from under
tbe brim of his cap. "Well, without
comment, I will state that your hair
baa fallen upon your forehead and that
a loosened lock Is lying upon your
c&gek. No, don't put it back. I beg
your pardon"
A pink spot appeared In the cbeek
next to hltn. Her eyes flatbed. "How
Intolerable you are!" she said.
Tbe smile In his eyes deepened.
"How delicious you are!" be retorted.
one rose from her chair, drawtnji
serseir to ner full stature. "I shaL
lhange my seat," she began.
Then the steamer lurched, and she
swayed and grasped the arm he held
out "I I am so dizzy!" she finished
appealiugly.
He put her back into her chair and
wrapped the rugs about ber. As she
still shivered he added bis own to the
pile. When Le placed the pillow be
neath her head she uoticed that his
touch was as tender as a woman's
The sneer was pone from his lips.
"But you will le cold," she remon
strated from beneath his rug.
"Not I," be responded. -I am a
tough knot. If the fiery furnace has
left me unscathed, a little cold wind
won't do more than chap me."
His voice had grown serious, and she
looked up inquiringly. "The fiery fur
nace?" she repeated.
"Oh, predestined damnation, if you
prefer. Are you religious?"
"Don't," she pleaded, a tender light
coming into her eyes, and she added,
"The damned are not kind, and you are
very kind."
Her words faltered, but they chased
the recklessness from his eyes.
"Kind?" he returned. "I wonder how
many mea we left in America would
uphold thtt that verdict, or how many
women, for that matter?"
Her honest eyes did not waver. "1
will stanl by it" she replied simply.
A sudCen illumination leaped to hie
face. "Against twelve good and true
men?" ht demanded daringly.
"Against a thousand and the presi
dent thrown in."
He toughed a little bitterly. "Be
cause of the prunes?" He was looking
down into her face.
She ntddened. "Because of the prunes
and and other things." she answered.
A ghtst of the sneer awoke about his
mouth. "I never did a meaner thing
than about the prunes," he said hotly
Then lie turned from her and strodt
with swinging strides along the deck.
That evening he did not speak to her.
They 'ay side by side In their steamer
chairs watching the gray mist that
crept over the amber line of the liori
aon. flie looked at his set and sallow
face, n-here the grim line of the Jaw
was tvercast by the constant sneer
upon bis reckless lip. it was not a
good lace; this she knew. It was the
face f a man of strong will and
trongir passions, who had lived bard
and fai t. She wondered vaguely at the
furrowed track he must have made of
bis pas years. The wonder awed her,
and sin felt half afraid of his grim
ness, g owing grimmer in the gather
ing dusk. If one were in his power,
bow (ju etly he might bend and break
mere flesli and bone. But across the
moodiuets of his face she caught the
sudden varmth of his glance, and she
remembered the touch of bis bands
tender an It wag strong. She moved
nearer, laying her fragile fingers on the
arm of Us chair. "I am afraid you
re unbar, py," she said.
He stared nervously and faced ber
almost roighly. "Who Is happy?' he
"ire aayt iyo a man called me a
devil," he laid.
(lance softening to compassion. "Then
It Is dastardly unfair," he said. "What
Is goodness for if it does not make one
happy? I am a rough brute, and I get
my desserts, but the world should be
gentle to a thing like you."
"No, no," she protested. "I am not
good."
His eyes lightened. "Any misde
meanors punishable by law?"
"I am discontented," she went on.
"I rage when things go wrong. I am
not a saint."
"I might have known it" be remark
ed, "or you wouldn't have spoken to
me. I have known lots of saints most
ly women and they always look the
other way when a sinner, comes along.
The reputation of a saint Is the most
sensitive thing on earth. It should be
kejtt in a. glass case."
"Are you so very wicked?" she asked.
He was gazing out to sea, where tbe
water broke Into waves of deepening
(ray. In the sky a single star shone
like an emerald set In a fawn colored
dome, Tbe lapping sound of tbe waves
at tte vessel's sides came softly through
tbe stllLaess. Suddenly he spoke, his
voice ringing like a jarring discord In
a harmonious whole.
"Five days ago a man called me a
devil," he said, "and I guess he wasn't
far wrong, only if I was a single devil
he was a legion steeped in one. What
a scoundrel he was!"
The passion in his tones caused her
to start quickly. The words were shot
:it with the force of balls from a can
sustained by the impulse of evil,
"lion't." she said pleadingly; "please,
piease don't!"
"Don't what?" he demanded roughlv.
"Don't curse the blackest scoundrel
that ever lived and died?' Over the
last word his voice weakened as if in
appeal.
"Don't curse anybody," she answered
"It is riot like you."
He turned upon her suspiciously
"Pshaw! How do you know?"
"I don't know. I only believe."
"I never had much use fur belief," he
returned. "It is a poor sort of thing.'
hue met bis bitter gaze with one of
level calm. "And yet men have suf
fered death for it."
Above ber head an electric Jet was
shining, and It cast a white light upon
her small figure buried under the mass
of rugs. Her eyes were glowing. There
was a soft suffusion upon her lashes,
whether from tbe salt spray or from
unshed tears he could not tell.
"Well, believe in me If you choose,'
he said. "It won't do any harm even
If It doesn't do any good."
During the next few days he nursed
her witli constant care. When she
came out in the morning she found
him waiting at the foot of tbe stairs,
ready to assist her on deck. When she
went down at nlgbt It was his arm
upon which she leaned and his voice
fiat wished her "Good night!" before
her stateroom door. Her meals were
served outside, and she soon found that
his watchfulness extended to a host of
trivialities.
It was not a confidential companion
ship. Sometimes they sat for hours
without speaking and again he attack
ed her with aggressive irony. At such
times she smarted beneath the sting of
his sneers, but it was more in pity for
him than for herself. He seemed to
carry 1" his heart a seething rage of
cynicism, Impassioned if Impotent.
When it broke control, as it often did,
It lashed alike the Just and the unjust,
the sinner and the sinned against. It
did not spare the woman for whose
comfort he sacrificed himself dally In
a dozen minor ways. It was as if he
hated himself for the interest she in
spired and hated her for Inspiring It.
He appeared to resent the fact that
tbe mental pressure under which he
labored had not annihilated ail possi
bility of purer passion. And he often
closed upon a gentler mood with burn
ing bitterness.
"How about your faith?" he Inquired
one day after a passing tenderness.
"Is it exm the evidence of virtues not
visible In me?"
She flinched, as she always did at
his flippancy. "There Is circumstan
tial evidence of those," she replied,
"aufflcient to confound a. jury."
(Continued in tomorrow's issue) :
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Astoria. Ore., May 3, 1006. 4-9
DR. RHODA C. HICKS
OSTEOPATH
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.63 ASTOR STREET.
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CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIOARS. (
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ASTORIA,
OREGON.
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320 A.tor St.
The leading amusement house.
P. A. PETERSON, Prop
Parker House Bar
Cor. Ninth and Astor Sts )
Agency for Kdison Phonogrsphs and
Gold Moulded Record.
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DR. KATHYRN RUETER
Osteopshio Physician
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WANTED THREE MUSIC PUPILS.
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egon, that the lame have been called
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of this date, at the office of the county
treasurer 659-565 Commercial street,
Astoria Oregon.
Dated Astoria Oregon, this 1st day of
May 1906,
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County Treasurer, Clatsop County.
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The only white labor laundry In th
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10th and DUANE 8ta Phene 1991.
NOTICE FOR PROPOSALS.
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June, 1906, and then opened, for the
construction of a gangway at the
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improvement of Eleventh itreet from
the north line of Harrison svenue to the
north line of Kensington avenue, as or
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approved on the 22nd day of May, IBM.
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CAN'OX CITY, Colo., May 27.-Tha
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home of W. ('. Itnldwin caused an in
vckI Ration rcHiilliiiK in Undine the ((.1U1
bodie of l!itlilMin nlid his wife,. The
body of Itnldwin was found on the floor
with the bend blown from the trunk.
His wife's body wiih Htanding nearly up.
lijflit against the wall, hei head shat
tered by Ktiimhot wounds. A shot pun
lyinj; near by. Hie couple were married
two months ago npiinst parental objec
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icld to determine the nature of the
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