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THE I,ION AND
THE MOUSE.
Iiy CHARLES KLEIN
A Story of American Life Novelized From the Play by
AR THUR HORN RLOIt ’.
COPYRIGHT.
1906,
BY
G.
“What's that alatut mother dancing?”
demanded Mrs. Rossmore, who at that
instant entered the room.
Shirley
arose and appeahxl to her;
“Isn’t it absurd, mother, when you
come to think of It, that anybody
should accuse father of being corrupt
and of haviug forfeited the right to be
Judge? Isn't ft still more absurd that
we should be helpless and dejected aud
unhappy because we are on Long Is
land instead of Madison avenue? Why
should Manhattan Island be a happier
spot than-Loug Island? Why shouldn't
we be happy anywhere? We have
each other, aud we do need each oth
er. We never knew how much till to
day, did we? We must stand by each
other now. Father Is goiug to clear his
name of this preposterous charge, and
we’re going to help him, aren’t we.
mother? We're not helpless Just be
cause we are women. We’re going to
W’ork, mother and I.”
"Work?” echoed Mrs. Rossmore,
somewhat scandalized.
“Work,” repeated Shirley very de
«•islvely.
'Hie Judge interfered, lie would not
hear of it.
“You work, Shirley? Impossible!"
“Why not? My book has Jveen sell-
Ing well while I was abroad. 1 shall
probably write others, Then I shall
write, too, for the newspapers and
magazines. It will add to our income.”
“Your book, ‘The American Octopus,'
1 h selling well?" Inquired the Judge, In
terested.
“So well,” replied Shirley, “that the
publishers wrote mo in Paris that the
fourth edition was now on the press.
That means good royalties. I shall
soon be a fashionable author. The
publishers will be after me for more
books, and we’ll have all the money
we want. Oh, it Is so delightful, this
novel sensation of a literary success!"
she exclaimed with glee. “Aren't you
proud of me, dad?"
The judge smiled indulgently. Or
course he was glad and proud. He al
ways knew his Shirley was a clever
girl. But by what strange fatality; he
thought to himself, had his daughter
in this book of hers assailed the very
man who had encompai d Ids own
ruin? It seemed like the retribution
of heaven. Neither his daughter nor
the financier was conscious of the. fact
that each was indirectly connected
with the Impeachment proceedings.
Ryder could not dream that “Shirley
Green,” the author of the I>ook which
flayed him so mercilessly, was the
daughter of the man lie was trying to
crush. Shirley, on the other hand, was
still unaware of the fact that it was
Ryder who had lured her father to his
ruin.
When at hist she could lock herself
in her room where no eye could see
her, Shirley threw herself down on the
bed and burst into a torrent of tears.
She had kept up appearances ns long
as it was possible, but now the reac
tion had set in. She gave way freely
to her ¡»cut up feelings; she felt that
unless she could relieve herself in this
way her heart would break. She hail
been brave until now, she had been
strong to bear everything and see
everything, but she could not keep it
up forever. Stott’s words to her on
the dock had In part ¡inquired her for
the worst; lie had told her what to ex
pect at home, but the realization was
so much more vivid. Then to have
come to this all In the brief space of a
few months! It was Incredible, terri
ble, heart rending! And what of the
future? What was to be done to save
her father from this impeachment
which she knew well would hurry him
to bls grave? He could not survive
that humiliation, that degradation, lie
must l>e saved in the senate, but how
I
—how?
She dried her eyes and began to I
think. Surely her woman's wit would
find some way. She thought of Jeffer
son. Would he come to Massapequa?
It was hardly probable. He would
certainly learn of the change in their
circumstances, and his sense of deli
cacy would naturally keep him away
for some time even If other considera
tions less unselfish did not. Perhaps
he would be attracted to some other
girl he would like ns well and who was
not burdened with a tragedy In her
family. Iler tears liegan to flow nfresh
until she hated herself for being so
weak while there wxis work to lie done
to save her father. She loved Jaffer
son Vi's, she had!never felt so sure
of It as now. Sbeffelt that If she hud
him there at that (moment she would
throw herself In his arms, crying:
“Take me, Jefferson take meiaway—
where you will for I love you! I love
you!” But Jefferson was not! there,
and the rickety chnlrsin the titty l>ed-
room and the cheap prints onithc walls
seemed to gibe at tier in herenilsery.
Suddenly she thought of 'Jefferson’s
promise to interest ills father in,their
case, and she clutched at-the hope
this promise held out as a »drowning
man dutches at a drifting straw. Jef
ferson would not forget liis- ¡inanise,
and he would come to Mnss.-tpe<|ii:i to
tell her of what he had d<jne. She
was sure of that. Perhaps, »after all,
there was where their hope lay Why
had she not told her father tationce?
It might have relieved Id* iuU d. John
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DILLINGHAM
COMPANY.
Burkett Ryder, the CoiiiHsus, the man
of unlimited ¡lower! He could save
her father, and- -i«- w’iitiid’'< And the
more she thought about it tlie 'more
cheerful and more hopeful she became,
and she started to dress quickly, so
that she might hurry down to tell her
father the good news. She was actual
|y sorry now that she had said so many
hard things of Mr. Ryder In her book,
and she was worrying over the thought
that her father's case might be serious
ly prejudiced if the identity of the
author were ever revealed, when there
came a knock at her door. It was
Eudoxia.
“¡’lease, miss, will you come down
to lunch?”
CHAPTER VIII.
WHIRLING maelstrom of hu
man activity and dynamic en
ergy the city which above all
others is characteristic of the
genius and virility of the American
people—New York, with its congested
polyglot population and teeming mil
Hons, is assuredly one of the busiest, as
It is one of the most strenuous and
most noisy places on earth. Yet, de
spite its swarming streets and crowd
ed shops, ceaselessly thronged with
men and women eagerly hurrying here
and there in the pursuit of business or
elusive pleasure, all chattering, laugh
ing, shouting amid the deafening, mul-
tisonous roar of trallie incidental to
Gotham’s dally life, there is one part
of the great metropolis where there Is
no bustle, no noise, no crowd, where
the streets are empty even I11 daytime,
where a passerby is a curiosity and a
child a phenomenon. This deserted
village in the very heart of the big
town is the millionaires’ district, the
boundaries of which are marked by
Carnegie hill on the north. Fiftieth
street on the south, and by Fifth and
Madison avenues respectively on the
west and east. There is nothing more
mournful than the outward aspect of
these princely residences which, aban
doned and empty for three-quarters of
the year, stand in stately loneliness, as
If ashamed of their isolation and utter
uselessness. Their blinds drawn, af
fording no hint of life within, envel
oped the greater part of the time in
the stillness and silence of the tomb,
they appear to be under the spell of
some baneful curse. No merry voiced
children romp In their carefully railed
off gardens, no sounds of conversation
or laughter come from their hermetic
ally closed windows, not a soul goes
In or out; nt most, at rare intervals,
does one catch a glimpse of a gorge
ously arrayed servant gliding about In
ghostly fashion, supercilious and suspi
cious and addressing the chance vlsttw
in awed whispers as though he were
the guardian of a house of affliction.
It is, indeed, like a city of the dead.
So it appeared to Jefferson as he
walked up Fifth avenue, bound for the
Ryder residence, the day following liis
arrival from Europe, Although he still
lived at Ids father's house, for at no
time had there been an open rupture,
he often slept in Ins studio, Unding it
more convenient for his work, and
there he had gone straight from the
ship, lie felt, however, that it was his
duty to see his mother as soon as pos
sible; besides he was anxious to fulfill
his promise to Shirley ami find what
his father could do to help Judge Ross
more lie had talked about the case
with several men the previous evening
at the club, and tile general impression
seemed to be that, guilty or innocent,
the judge would be driven off the
bench.
Europe, thought Jefferson as he
Strode quickly along, pointed with en-
vy to America's unparalleled prosper
ity, spoke witli bated breath of her
great fortunes,
Rather should they
say her gigantic robberies, her colossal
frauds! As n nation we were not
proud of our multimillionaires, How
many of them would bear the search
light of Investigation? Would his own
father? How many millions could one
man make by honest methods? Amer
ica was enjoying unprecedented pros
perity not because of her millionaires,
Imt In spite of them. The United
States owed its high rank in the fnmlly
of nations to the country's vast natural
resources, its inexhaustible vitality. Its
great Wheatfields, the industrial and
mechanical genius of its people. It
was the plain American citizen who
had made the greatness of America;
not the millionaires who, forming a
class by themselves of unscrupulous
capitalists, had created an arrogant
oligarchy which sought to rule the
country by corrupting the legislature
and the Judiciary. The plutocrats
these were the leeches, the sores In the
body politic
An organized band of
robliers, they had succeeded in domi
nating legislation and in securing con
trol of every branch of the nation's in
dustry. crushing mercilessly and ille
gally all competition.
Jefferson turned abruptly and went
up the wide steps of an imposing white
marble edifice which took up the space
of half a city block. A tine example
of French renaissance architecture.
with spire roofs, round turrets and
niullloned windows dominating the
neighboring Imuses, this maguiflceut
home of the plutocrat, with Its fur-
Bishlngs and art treaawres, had cost
A
LEWIN’S
■kihif Burkett £y<lt-P uenrlji |!«,(Hti,iYri the butler, “Mr. Ryder will uccupy'tne
It was oue
the show pl«< •• of th« llbrtiry on his return. See that he Is
town, ami when the “rubberneck” •ot disturbed.”
You are all
ited t< call aud
j wag.ms approached the Ryder man r “Very g'«xl. air.” The butler bowed
sion and tin* guttles through their meg end went downstairs The secretary have y 1 >ur teeth examined and nd
aphones expatiated in awestricken looked up and saw Jefferson. His face
tones on its external aud hitld. q beau reddened, and his manner grew nerv vice given free by Dr. Steele and
ties, there was a general craning of ous.
Sorenson men of large ami modern
vertebrae among the “seeing New
“Hello! Back from Europe. Jeffer
AU Kinds ot
Yorkers" to catch a glimpse- of the son? How jolly! Your mother will be experience.
a I side of the richest man iu the world. delighted She’s in her room upstairs ”
Who salii picnic? Arc you going
Only a few privileged ones were ever
Det llning to take the hint and gath
permitted to penetrate to tiie interior ering from Bagley’s embarrassed man
nf those sweet pickles
of this $10,(M«UW home Ryder wax ner that lie wanted to get rid of him
beef from Lorenz A
not foud of company; lie avoided I Jefferson lingered ¡mrposely. When
ike
along? The picnic
strangers aud lived iu continual appre- the butler had disappeared, tie said:
heusion <»( the subpoena server. Not
"This house is getting more and
¿Uat he f.iYivd the law. only he usually more like a barracks every day. You’ve
Furnished at Living Prices. A share
found it iiicmiyeniciit to answer ques- got men all over the place. One can’t
ot the Public Patronage
tioiiM hi court under oath. The explicit move a step without falling over one ”
For Sale
instructions to the servants, therefore,
Mr Bagley drew himself up stiffly,
Solicited
were to admit no one under any pre- as he always did when assuming an
text whatever unless the visitor had air of authority.
beeu approved by the Hon. Fitzroy
“Your father’s ¡lei-sonality demands
Bagley, Mr. Ryder’s aristocratic prl the utmost precaution,” he replied.
vate secretary, and to facilitate this “We cannot leave the life of the rich
. preliminary !ns|>ection there had been est and most ¡lowerful financier in the
1 installed between the library upstairs world at the mercy of the rabble ”
and the front door one of those ingen
“What rabble?” Inquired Jefferson, Administrator's
Notice To
ious electric writing devices, such as amused
are used in banks, on which a name is
Creditorb.
“The common rabble, the lower class,
hastily scribbled, instantly transmitted the riff raff." explained Mr. Bagley.
elsewhere, immediately answered and
“Pshaw!" laughed Jefferson. “If our
Notice is bei. I.» given lH.it th.
the visitor promptly admitted or a* financiers were only half as respecta signed
bus heel, dulv appointed
quickly shown the door.
ble as the common rabble, as you call < oiintv court >>t the Stat, ,.f <>,,.
Jefferson did not have to ring at the them, they would need no liars to their ('00s ('ountv. as Administrator
estate ot VV S. I'n-rce, deceased
paternal portal. The sentinel within houses."
therefore, all persons having elaini
was at his post. No one could approach
Mr. Bagley sneered and shrugged his against the said estate ale notified to pre
that door without being seen and his shoulders.
sent the same, dulv verified, to the iiiohr
at Ibe olii., of <’ 1; VV ide. Ill III.
arrival and appearance being signaled
"Ymir father has warned me against signed
has a select stock of
town of Bandon, in said County and State,
upstairs. But the great man's son lour socialistic views." Then, with a willnii
six montila troni the I Illi day ot
headi-d tiie list of the privileged ones, lofty air, lie added: “For four years I July, 1907. the same being the date of the
so without ado the smartly dressed was third groom of the iiedchamber to first piiblicaf-on of this notice.
Dated this llth »lav ot July, 1ÌI07.
tlimkey oja-ned wide the doors, and the second son of England's queen. I
V M H itchcoi k
Jefferson was under his father’s roof.
know my responsibilities.”
Administrator of the Estate ot VV. S
"Is my father In?” he demanded of
Pierce, deceased.
“Blit you are not groom of the bed
the man.
chamber here,” retorted Jefferson.
“No, sir," was the respectful answer,
“Whatever 1 am," said Mr. Bagley
“Mr. Ryder has gone out driving, but haughtily. “I am answerable to your Administratrix and Guardian
Mr. Bagley is upstairs, ” Then after a father alone."
Notice,
brief pause lie added, •'Mrs Ryder Is
“By the way, Bagley,” asked Jeffer
( '01 Krroi > T reatment .
in too.”
son. “when do you except father to re
Notice is h»r<‘b\ L'iveii that Hie under
Jefferson went up the grand staircase turn? I want to see him.”
sillied lias been dulv appoiiited bv Hit
hung on either side with fine old por
“I’m afraid it’s quite Impossible,” an < olilitv Court ot tile Siete ot Oregon, for
traits anil rare tapt-stries, his feet sink swered the secretary with studied in
<’ ooh Comity, an
ing deep in the rich velvet carpet. On solence. “He has throe Important peo
IL iih I oii . Oregon.
• «tale of Nlets \
the first landing was a piece of sculp ple to see before dinner. There’s the
of minor children
t'lred marble of inestimable worth, national Republican committee and
Therefore, all persons having claims
seen in tiie soft warm light that sifted Sergeant Ellison of the secret service
a^iiiiRt Hie siid estate are notified to
through a great pictorial stained glass from Washington, nil here by appoint
prewent Hie sanie, «ìnlx verified, to the nn-
window overhead, the subject repre ment. It's quite impossible.”
d »reigned at the oilice of (’ I Bliinieii
senting Ajax and Ulysses contending
“I didn’t ask you if it were possible
for the armor of Achilles. To the left I said I wanted to see him, and I will rother. in the Town of Bandon, in said
of this, at the top of another flight see him,” answered Jefferson quietly County *’tid State, within six months troni
leading to the library, was hung a fine but firmly and in a tone aud manner ihe ISth day
full length portrait of John Burkett which did not admit of further opposi I lie date of
Ryder. The ceilings here as in the tion. "I’ll go and leave word for him notice.
Dated thin istli day of July, l!M)7.
lower hall were richly gilt and adorned on Ills desk,"- he added.
Mas. (inani 1’n.nisos,
with paintings by famous modern art
Administratrix of th« Estate of Niels A.
\ I
He started to enter the library when
Federami, and Guardian of
Minor
ists. When he reached this floor Jef the secretary, who was visibly per
( 'hildren.
ferson was about to turn to the right turbed, attempted to barjiis xvay.
and proceed direct to his mother's suit
[Continued next week.)
con m.s-( noik i :.
when he heard a voice near the library
BANDON
Department of the Interior,
door. It was Mr. Bagley giving in
IJ 8. Land Office at Roseborg Or.
structions to the butler.
.lune 12, l'.HlT.
The Hon. Fitzroy Bagley, a younger
A sufficient contest, affidavit having been
filed in this office tiy Edwin E. Stillwell,
son of a British peer, had left his
ennte-tant, against homestead entry No.
country for his country's good, and in
MRS SARAH (’OSTELLO.
13135, made October ft, 1903, for the NW1.,
order to turn an honest penny, which
of Secti >11 25, Township 29. S. Range ¡5 W.,
in- hud never succeeded in doing nt
Iiy Robert A. Doak contestee, in which it
is alleged that said Robert A. Doak has
home, be had entered the service vf
wboll abandoned said tract and changed
America’s foremost financier, hoping
P. 8. HOYT, Prop
Ins residence therefrom for more than two
to gather a few of the crumbs Hint fell
tears since making said entry and next
prior to the date herein; that said tract. 1
from the rich man s table and disguis
not settled upon and cultivated by said
ing the menial nature of liis position
party as required by law: that said absence
under the high sounding title of pri
was not duo to employment 111 tin- military
vate secretary. Ills job called for a SHAVING. SHAMPOOING AND HAIR • r naval service of the I nited States tn
time
of war. said parties are hereby notified
spy and a toady, and lie filled these re
<1 I UNG A l STAND \RD PKK ES.
t 1 appear, respond ami offer evidence
quirements admirably. Excepting with
touching said allegation at lit o’clock a. in.
) o/t Can't
.v fleet to (let
his employer, of whom lie stood in It,11 It roo in ituuly lifted up with Porcelain * 11 J ill v :’•(*. 1907, before ('. I Blnmenrother
Notary i’nblic, at liis office at Bandon,
I! orth for ,</. Rat
Till»
llol or < ohi Huth’s ‘Í5 cent
er*.ven fear, his manner was conde
Oregon, amt that final heating yyill lie held
) "an Can
(Jet
four
scendingly patronizing to all with
.it 10 o'clock, a. in on August I.’, 1907, tn
lore Ihe llegister and Receiver nt
the
whom he came in contact, as if he wore
/•; )".S WORTH at
If von want your watch to give I nited .Stales Lind Office in Roseburg.
anxious to Impress on these American
< Il l-gon.
plebeians the signal honor w Inch a satisfaction send it to E. .
arker The said contestant having, in a propet
Fitzroy, son of a 1 British peer, did
affidavit, 1.1. 'I. Inn IO. 1907, set fot I h facts
them in deigning to 1 remain in their a h . . successor to \ . R. Wilson or which show that litter doe rlllligence per
-mini service of tliis notice cannot In made, Ikaler in
o<|uille.
Itoois mid Shoe*
■
In Mr. Ryder’s Wilson |ewelrv
"blarsted” country,
it is hereby oideted and directed that
absence, therefore, he ran the house
such notice lie given bv due ami proper
Itcpidring neativ and promptly done at
to suit himself, bullying the servants
public >r :o|i
lowest living prices.
I i
. min I. E uoy . Register.
.
and not infrequently issuing orders
that were contradictory to those al
ready given Iiy Mrs. Ilydej.
Jefferson could not bear the sight of
At North Bend
him. In fact, it was this man’s con
tinual presence In the house that had
driven him to seek refuge elsewhere,
Is now open for the re
lie believed him to be a scoundrel ns
ceptlon of patients. The
he certainly was a cad. Nor was his
terms ate •’frill per week
BANDON OREGON
estimate of the English secretary far
and
upwards.
For
par
wrong. The man, like his master, was
Capital $25,000.00
a grafter, and the particular graft he
ticulars apply to : :
was after now was either to make a
BOARD OE DI 1; Et ’ I < 1RS ; ,1. L. K konenbeiìo . President, ■). I r.NH< i . m . Vice Fres
marriage with a rich American girl or
F. J. F ahy , ('«shier, ¡’ hank F lam , T. F. H anly .
to so compromise her that the same end
would be attained. He was slirowd
enough to realize that he had little
A gem-i.d banking busim-ss transacted, and customers given every acconnuodatiou
North Bend, Or.
chance to get what he wanted in the
consist uh t. will. s if«- hik I oonsprvutivo hanking.
open matrimonial market, so la- deter
Correspondents: The American National Bank of San Francisco, California.
mined to attempt a raid and carry off
Merchants' National Bank, Portland, Oregon
Real Estate List
an heiress under her father's nose, and
the particular proboscis lie had select
The
Chase National Bank of New York.
I -Ots from $25 up t<> 6,000.
ed was that of his employer's friend.
Ildiik Im Open from !• >t in
The senator and
Senator Roberts.
1 .ots with house from $p>o up to
Miss Roberts were frequently nt the
S, 200.
Ryder house, and In course of time the
aristocratic secretary ami the daugh
Acre tracts front 1 to to acres in
ter had become quite intimate.
A town of andon from J250 to 1,000
D uster B rown ’ s H eart
flighty girl, with no othqr purpose in
IS BIG AND STOUT,
life beyond dress and amusement and per a< re, with or yyitaout improve
f 1 ■ ' IA . f ijQ WHEN
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J ane is about ,
having what she termed “a good time," ments. Other tracts outside from
lORSHFt
DREDGED
IN BLUT.
Kate thought it excellent pastime to
AUD BLD HEART IS TRUE
$5
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flirt with Mr. Bagley, and when she
roTHEBUSTER browk
So acres with house and barn, saw
discovered that he was serious in his
BLUE RIBBON
attentions she felt flattered rather than timber and poles, $500.
~~
SHOE AND ALSO
AM -
LOOTER.
indignant. After all, she argued,
argued. h<’
7 WITH A BIO
160 acres <>f good grass l.intl close
was of noble birth, If his two broth
I
ers died, he would bo peer of England, to .1 ndon. $6< a 1.
and she had enough money for both,
; lotswith lumber for .t 16.X2| foot
lb- might not make a bad husband,
But she was careful to keep her own house on Fourth street, Woolen
counsel and not let her father have
Mill Ad., $325.
any suspicion of what was going on
No tax property handled.
She knew that his heart was set on
her marrying Jefferson Ryder, and she
Neat s-roomed cottage just flu
knew better than any one how inipos
shed;
good location; now pays iX
slble that dream was. She herself liked
bUSTLRS , V'
per
cent
on sale price. A snap 550.
Jefferson quite enough to marry him.
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but If his eyes were turned In another
Maniif n luring plant for sale,
direction—nnd she knew all about bis
Goral paying business, ig front-
attentions to Miss Rossmore-she was
First-dasw
not going to break her heart about it age on deep water,
So she continued to flirt secretly with business pr<>|>osition on Coquille
the Hon. Fitzroy while she still led the
Ryders and her own father to think river, 17,000.
that she was Interested In Jefferson.
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