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SUNDAY, MAY B, 190?. THE MORNING ASTOItlAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. v r THE CONQUEST CANAAN By BOOTH TARKINClON, Author of "Cherry," "Mowlsur fututalrs," Eit. COPYRICMT, IP09, IV ClUPTEIl XI. f lit did not know her, but lilt timid ity and strsnm Utile cbokt In till throat, the sudifen fright which bad seised blnty were uuf caused by cm fcarrasiuumt. lit list) no thought that waa ont be had known, but could Hot for tba moment rwnll,- There waa nothing of tba awkwardness of that No; ba wai overiiowtred by tba uilra fit of tills meeting Ami yet, wblta with marveling, lis felt It to ba ao much more toucblngly greater happl. Bess than ha bad tvr known that at ' first It Wit lneiirclbly aad. , At lat ba heard bvr volet again, baking a little, aa aba aald: "I am glad you ramanitored." "Remeiutaired wbatr ba faltered. JTben you don't r aba cried. "And Vt you camo." f "Came here, do you meanr J MYtnow, at noon." i "Alii" b batf whispered, unable to I apeak aloud. "Wat It you wbo aald-wbo aald: 'Rememberl Across 1 acroes"- ftoouT" aba finished for blm gently, "yea." U took a deep btwuth In tba wonder Of It "Where was It you aald thntr be asked tlowly, "Wm It last nlgbtr "Don't you even know that you cama to meet mei" "I camo to-to meetyour Sho gave a llttlo pitying cry, very Bear a sob, teclug hit utter bewilder ment. "It wat like tbe traimt dream Id tbo world." aim aald. "lou wero at tba atntlun when I came lint nlgbt You don't remember tt alir Ilia eye dowm-ait. bin fact burning hotly, be could only tbnke bla bead. "Yea," elm continued, "I tbougbt no cna would bo there, for I bad not written to aay what train I should 'take, but wbeu I stepped down from tba platform you were etandlng there, though you didn't aee ma at flrrt not until I bad called your naroo and ran to" you. You aald, 'I've coma to meet l you,' but you aald It qutcrly, I thought. And then you called a carriage for me. "But you aecmed ao strange. Too couldn't tell how you knew that I waa touting, and-nnd then t-I understood you weren't youraelf. You were rcry quiet, but 1 knew-I knew! So I made J you got Into tlio carrlnge-and-and She faltered to a atop, and with that aim me ltwlf brought blm courage. lie turned and faced her. Rite bad lifted her handkerchief to her eye, but at bit movement be dropped It, and It "was not ao much the delicate loveli ness of her face that he aaw then aa tbe team ujton her cboeka. "Alt. iHwr boyt" alto cried. "I knewl ' 1 knew!" "You you took mo home?" "You told mo where you lived." abe ' answered. "Yea. I took you homt." "I don't understand." be stammered ' huskily, "I don't understand." She leaned toward him tllghUy, look ing at blm lih great Intuntnesa, v "Yon iHdn't know me Innt night," ' the aald. "Do you know me nowT For nnawer be could only atara at ker, duuifounded. ' He lifted nnun tomly band toward her appealing!, but the manner of the lady ha abe aaw jhf tntth underwent an April change. 1 e . "You told me where you ttved," tht an swered. She drew back lightly, ne was fa Torod with tho moat dollcloua low laugh be had ever beard, and by some magic whisk which abe accomplished there was nO sign of tears about her. "Ah, I'm glad you're tbe samo, Joe!" he said. "You never would or could protend very woll. ,I'm glad you're the ame, and I'm glad I've cbangod, though that hrn't why you have tor f gotten me. You've forgotten mo hat r cause you never thought of me. Per haps I should not have known you It ffou had changed a great deal, aa 1 tiave." ' i .M:' ' HARP1R O BROTHER! lie started, k'uulug back from her. "Ah." h laughed, "lhat'a It! That fuuuy little twtat of the head you al ways bad. like a-like a-woll, you know I mtixt have told you a thousand timet that II waa like a nice friendly puppy. Ho why shouldn't I any ao now! Ami your eyebrows! Wbeu you look Ilka that nobody could ever for get yon, Joe.", lit rose from the log, and the mon grel leaped upon blm uproariously, thinking they wer to go boire belike to food. Tht lady luughed bgalu. "Don't Ut blm spoil my pursaol. And I mut warn you uow;,.'ever, never tread oa my skirt! I'd very Irritable about such thing!" He had taken (litre or four nucertalu backward aiepa frmi br. Hlte sttt lic fort blm, radiant with latnthter, the love llot creature he bad ever seen, but betwNio biiu ami UiU cliarmlurf vUlou ttii-re swept, through llio witnti, tinted Juue air, a veil of emv.v like a driven fog. nod half olmwcd In the heart of It young g'rl stool knee dre;t to a drift M ol avaltiKt nn old ph ket gate, her btack waterproof oud shaliby skirt flapping In the blhexurd like tutu tails, one of her humls oulatrt'tched to ward him, I cr startled eyes fixed ou bit. "And, oh, how like you," aald the lady; "bow like you and nobody ele In the world, Joe, to bavt a yellow dog!" "Ariel Tnlfir!" Ills lip formed tbo words without sound. "lan't It a Unit time?" site said. "Are atrango lml;e lu the bubtt of descend ing from tmlue to t.tko you homo" Unce, iipu i a white morning long ago, the BouaAtioual pr.grva of a certain youth up Main mreet bad stirred Ca naan. Hut Unit Uny was as nothing to this. Mr. I'-itntry had left tomiwiary paralysis to bis wake, but In tho cne of the two young lu-ople who pained slowly along tbe stm t today It was petrifaction, wblcb seemingly threat ened In several Instances (most nota bly that of Mr. Arpi to become perma nent. Tbe lower portion of the street, lined with three and four story buildings of brick and atone, rather grim and hot facadea under the midday sun, afford ed little shade to the church comers. wbo were working homeward In pro- ccsiilounl ll'tlc groups and clumps, nono walking f.itt, though nouo with the appearand of griat lclnure. since neither rate of progress would have becii esteemed beflttlug tho day. Tito growth of ('iiinaii. steady, thoti;b nev er startling, bad left almost all of the cburche downtown, and Miiln street tbo principal avenue of communication betweeu tiietn and the "resldcuco sec- tion." (o tcdiiy the Intermittent pro cession stretched along the new cement tlduwalka from a llttlo below tlte aqunro to upper Main street, where map let lined the thoroughfare and tbo mansions of tbe affluent stood among pleasant lawns and sbrnbbcrlcs. It waa lata, for tills bad been a coin- mnnton Sunday, and those fur lu ad vance, wbo bad already reached tha pretty and shady part of tho street, were members of the churches where services bad becu shortest, though few in tht long parade looked as If they bad been attending anything very abort, and many heads of families were crisp lu their replies to tbo theological Inquiries of their offspring. Tbo men Imparted largely a gloom to tho Itin erant conftaitrsc, most of tliem wcnrlm; hot, long buck coats ana nnving win ed their collars, the ladles relieving this gloom somewhat by tho lighter tints of their garments, tho spick ami span llttlo (iris relieving It greatly by their white Iresses and their faces, the latter bright with the hoto of Sutul-ij Ice cream, while the boys, exjierlenel"?: some solace In that they were fltmllj. out where a person could at leant scratch himself If be bad to, yet op pressed by the decorous necessities of tbe day, marched aloug, furtively planning behind luiperturbubly secre tive couuteiinnces various means for tbe later dbipersal of an odious monot ony. Usually tbe conversation of this long string of tbe bomoward bound wa not too frholoua or worldly. Nay; It properly InMlned to discussion of the sermon. It was a serious and seemly Bunday parade, tho propriety of whoso helm vlor wits today almost disintegrated when the lady of the brldgo walked up the street In tho shadow of n lacy lav ender parasol carried by Joseph Lou den. Tho congregation of the chur.-li across tho b'puire-that to which Joe';: stepamtt bad been late-was Just de bouching, almost lu mass, upon Ma!n street when these two went by. It f uot quite the truth to say that nil ex eept tbe children came to a dead hoil but It Is not very far from It. Tho rl' wits thick with subdued exclnmutlo iv and whlHperlngs. ' Here 1s no mystery. Joe was proi) ably the only person of rcspectuM derivation. In Canaan who bad m. known for weeks that Ariel Tabor w.ist on her wny home. f'Ad the news tuui she had arrived the night bo lore huu been widely disseminated on tho way to church, entering church, In churen (even so!) and coming out of church. An account of her buuso In tbe Avr nuo Hour I Martin and of her portrait In tho Haton-a mysterious business to mnuy ami not lucking lu grandeur for that bad occupied two columns In the Tocsin on a day some months be fore w hriu Joe had found himself In- I Imlcnlly headlined on the first pagt and bad dropped the paper without reading further. Ariel's unmo bad boon lu the mouth of Canaan for a long tlmo unfortunately fur Joe, how ever, not In the mouth of that Canaan which held converse i,UU ti I in. Joe bad not known Iter. Tho wont on rocognlxed her Infallibly ut first glance, oven those wbo bad quilt for gotten her. And tbe women told tbolr men; bonce tbe un Sunday-like dt moouor of the procession, for few towns bold It mora unseemly to aland and atnrt at passcrsby, esjieclally on tho Sabbath. Out Ariel Tabor return-td-aud walking wlth-wlth Jot Lou Con! s Ariel flushed a little when she per ceived tht extent of their consplcuoua nest, but It waa not tba blush that Jot remembered bad reddened tbo tanned akin of old, for her browunest bad gout long ago, though It bad not laft her merely pink and wblta. This was a dellcat roalntss rising from be cbeeka to bcr temples, aa tba earliest dawn rlsca. If there bad been man words left In Joe ho would bavt culled It a divine blush. It fascinated hlra, and If anything could have deepened the glamour about her It would have been this blub. Ho did not uuder ataud It, but when he taw It bt stum bled. Those wbo gaped and stared were for blm only blurt In tbo background. Truly, he saw "men as trees walk ing," nud when It bewme necessary to step out to the cub lu punning soma clump of fieople It was to blm as If Ariel and be. tnchauttdly alone, were working their wny through underbrush In tbe woods. He kept trying to realise tlmt this lady of wonder wat Ariel Tabor, but bo could nut He could not connect the Shabby Ariel, whom bo bad treated as ont hty treats another, with this young woman of the world. He bad nlwaya been embarrassed himself and ashamed of ber when anything tbe did made blm remember that, after all, she waa a girl, at on the day he ran away when slit kissed a lock of hit hair escaping from tbo bandage. With that recollec tion eveu bis cars ew red. It did not teem probable that It would ever happen again. Tbe next Instant bt heard himself calling her "Miss Ta bor." At thla aba seemed amused. "You ought to bavt called mt that yeart ago," abt aald, "for all you knew mt." I did know bcr-you, I mean," bo answered. "I used to know nearly everything you were going to aay be fore you aald It It seems strange now" "Yes," abt Interrupted, "It doea aeeni strange now." "Somehow," ha went on, "I doubt If now I'd know." "Somehow," she echoed, with fine gravity, "I doubt It too." Although be bad so dim a perception of tbo staring and whispering which grcated and followed them, Ariel, of course, was thoroughly aware of It though tbe only sign she gave wat the tllgbt blusli, which very soon disap peared. That peoplo turned to look at her may bava been not altogether a novelty. A girl wbo bad learned to appear unconscious of the continental itnre. tbe following gaxo of tho boulo vards. the fritnk glasses of tho costan ta lu Rome, was not 111 equipped to face Main street Cnuaan. even aa It waa today. , Under tho sycamores before tbr ttcrted they bad uot talked a greJt dot!. Tbort bad been long alienees, al most nil her questions concerning tho period of bla runaway absence. She appeared to know and to understand everything which had happened since bis return to tbo town. He bad not, la his turn, reached the point where bt would begin to qucstlou ber. He waa too breathless In his consciousness of the marvelous present hour. She had told him of the death of Roger Tabor, the year before. 'Toor man!" she said gentlyf "lie lived to see 'bow the oth er fellows did If at lest and everybody liked him. Ho was very happy over there." After a llttlo while sho had said that It was growing close upon lunch time; she must bo going back. "Then-tlH'U-goodby," bo replied ruefully. Why?" ' "I'm afraid' you don't understand. It wouldn't db for you to bo seen with mo. Torbaps, though, you do under stand. Wasn't that why you asked me to meot you out here beyond tho bridge?" In answer she looked at him full and atralght for three seconds, then threw back her head and closed her eyes tight with laughter. Without a word she took the parasol from him, opened It herself, placed the smooth white coral handle of It In his baud and lightly took bis arm. There was no further demur on the part of the young man. Ho did not know where she was going. He did uot ask. Once Ariel smiled politely, not at Mr. Loudon, and Inclined her bend twice, with the1 result that tho latter, after thinking for a time of how gracefully she did It and how pretty tbe top of her hat was, became gradually con scious of a meaning In her action that the had bowed to some one across the street. He lifted his hat about four mlnutee late, and discovered Mamie Pike aud Kugone upon the opposite pavement walking home from church together. Joe changed color. Tfie sound of Ariel's voice brongut blm to himself. 1 "Hho Is lovelier tlian ever, Isn't she1" "Yes, Indood," bo answered blankly, "Would you still risk" sho begai. mulling, bill, apparently tbiuklug bi t ter of It, ch inged her question: "Wb it la tho miniii of ymir dog, Mr. Locdt'.ii You haven't told me," "Oh, he's Just a yellow dog,'' be evitl ed tinsklllfu Jy. "Young mm!" she said sharply. "Well," b;- admitted reluctantly, ' t cull blm Hprek for short." "And what for hug? I want to know hit real name." "It's mighty Inappropriate, becauur we're fond, of each other," said Joe, "but when f picked blm up be was so yellow and to titlu and so creeping and so scared fiat I christened blm 'Re spectability.'" They wort now opposite tht Pike mansion, and, to bis surprise, she turn ed, Indicating the way by a touch upon bis slt-eve, and crossed the street toward tbt gate, which Mamie and Kugcne bad entered. Mamie, after ex changing a word with Eugene opon the stops, was already hurrying Into tho bouse. J Ariel psuoed at tht gate aa If wait ing for Jot to open It "Don't you know?" abt cried- "I'm staying here. Judge Plkt baa charge of all my property. He waa tbo ad ministrator or something." Then, see ing hlti chopfulleu aud aghast aha cnt on: "Of course you don't know. You don't know anything about mt. You haven't even asked." , "You're going to llvt here?" ba gasped. "Will you come to act me?" tbt laughed. "Will you come thla after noon?" He grew white. "You know I can't" he said. ' "You came here once. You risked e good deal then Just to see Mamie Innce by a window. Don't you dare a little for an old friend?" "All right" bo gulped "I'll try." Mr, Raurry bad eome down to tbe gatt and was holding It open, bla eyes fixed upon Ariel, within them a rising glow. An Impression came to Joe aft erward that bis stepbrother bad looked very handsome. "Possibly you remember me, Miss Tabor?" told Eugene In a deep and Impressive voice, lifting bis bat "We were neighbors, I believe, In tbe old days." She gave him bcr baud In a fashion aomewbut mannerly, favoring him with a bright, negligent smile. "Ob, quite," she answered, turning again to Joe 'sb she entered the gate "Then I ahull expect you?" "I'll try." said Joe. "Ill try." He stumbled away. Respectability and be togetlitr Interfering alarmingly with tha comfort of Sir. Flltcroft who bad stopped In the middle of tbe pave ment to start glasslly at Ariel. 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General Hardware, STEEL M EWART ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS In Business for Business and Your Satisfaction. Ve make it our aim to do first class work at reasonable prices. 222 Twelfth Street. Next to the Astoria Theatre. taeeateeeateaaeetaeettaaeeeaea) TIDE TABLE, MAY MAY, Low Water. Date. Wednesday .. .. 1 Thursday 2 Friday S Saturday .. ... 4 .1907. A. M. P. M. h.m. ft I h.m. ft. 2.8 3.2 1.6 0.1 D.4 0.7 1.0 1.2 1.3 1.7 2.1 2,5 2:9 S.2 3.5 8.8 8.9 8.9 8:37 io: sa 11:33 0.8 0.7 9:38 10:38 11:48 12:36 -0.8 SUNDAY . Monday .. Tuesday , . Wednesday Thursday . Friday . . . Saturday . SUNDAY . Monday .. Tuesday . . Wednesday Thursday . Friday . . . Saturday . SUNDAY . Monday .. Tuesday . Wednesday Thursday . Friday .. . Saturday , SUNDAY . Monday .. Tuesday . . Wednesday Thursday . Friday . , , 1:18 3.4 S.O 2.4 1.5 1.0 0,3 1:49 2: 50 8:48 4:40 6 2: 3 4:32 5:23 :07! 5: 6:10 6:48 0.1 0.1 6:48 7:21 7:62 8:23 8:52 9:28 7:27 8:02 8:33 9:05 :S8j -0.1 0.1 0.1 0.81 10:04 0.6 10:04 10:54 0.7111:10 19.11:40 0.9 ...201 0:12 3.8 3.4 12:81 ..21 1:25 1:27 ..22 2:26 2.8 2:25 ...23 ...24 .,.25 ...26 3 2.0 1.1 3:24 4:23 4:27 5:18 0.2 6:15 6:07 -0.6 6:03 .,.27 6:56 1.2! 6:52 ,..28 ..29 ..80 ...31 7S44 8:33 9:24 -1.5 7:42 8:32 9:28 -1.6 1.6 -1.11 10:17 10:31 axle under the engine tender. Twelve passengers were Injured, ten seriously but none fatally. The train carried many Shrinert en route to Los Angeles. Two hundrej and eight passengers on the train were thrown Into a panic'; by the wreck Atxjnder Kucller, of Los Angeles; was hurt, one hand being bruised. Two of the passengers were taken to the hospital at Los Vegas. Traffic was delayed fifteen hours, and the lost t rollUig i-took amounted to $7,500. Some of the passenger In their ex citement jumped through window and were cut by glass. OKXSO Hardware Co. for your orders. etc. - 113 12th St. MAY, .1907. Hign water, Date. Wednesday . , , Thursday .. ., Friday .. ..... Saturday ., ., SUNDAY .. .. Monday .. .... Tuesday . ." Wednesday ., . Thursday .. .. A. M. P. M. h.m. h.m, . 1 2:42 8:69 6:02 6:10! ... 2 3:29 4:25 6:03 6:47 .... 3 ... ... 5 7:221 8-.JS7 .... 6 8:07 8 9:23 .... 71 9:22 7.4 10:09 10:62 11:30' 12:03 12:47 . .. 8 ... 9 ....10 10:24 11:17 Friday .. Saturday H...11 0:06 8.8 8.9 8.8 SUNDAY .12 0:S7 1:08' 1:27 Monday .. 13 2:051 Tuesday ..14 I l: 8.71 2:431 6.8 Wednesday Thursday .. Friday .. . Saturday . . SUNDAY Monday .. Tuesday .. Wednesday Thursday ., Friday . . . Saturday .. SUNDAY ;, Monday .. Tuesday Wednesday Thursday . , Friday .. ..15 ...16 2:081 1:81 2:40 4:03 4:43 5:81! 6:25 7:20 8:12 ...17 ...18 3:16 1:66 4:47 6:48 7:02 ...19 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 1.9 2.0 2.2 2.4 2.6 1.8 8.0 1.1 ...20 ...21 ..22 .,..23 8:17 9:23 9:02 9:51 ...24 ...25 V.-.26 ...27 ...281 10:28 11:20 10:38 11:22 12:18 0:05! 1:11 2:03 0:49 1:331 2:22 1:13! i.29 2:57 ...101 ...111 3:51 4:49! It 14 f fu 7.1 T. (.9 7.1 7.4 7.7 8.1 8.4 8.6 7.7 7.1 T.t 7.1 6.5 6.4 6.4 6.1 6.6 7.0 7.5 7.9 8.4 8.9 9.4 7.6 7.6 7.7 7.6 7.1 7.1