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TRUXTON KING
Then she resumed her story.
Stic had goae six or eight miles dowu wrapping the rope about his wrists to
the Ganlook road when she enme up deceive the guard.
Copyright, l*J*. by George Barr with five troopers of the royal guard.
A 'key turned in the padlock. Old
One of the troujiera came forward aud man Spantz stood in the doorway.
McCutcheon
respectfully requested her to turn off
“It is noon,” said the old man irasci
Copyright, 1‘M)1), by Dodd. Mead into another roud until a detachment bly. Then fte came in and lighti'd a
A Smart Trick That
! passed, in charge of a gang of desjiera- caudle.
Went
Wrong.
doen taken at the inn of the Hawk
& Company
"Noon of the 25th.” said Truxton
aud Raven the night before. Unsus bitterly. “In twenty-four hours it will
pecting, she rede off into the forest be all over, eh, S|iantz?"
SYNOPSIS
lune for several hundred yards.
“At noon tomorrow.”
It
was
a
trap.
The
men
were
not
Julius
Spantz brought in the food for
CHAPTER 1—1 >uxtoa King arrives in Ed
troopers, but brigands gut up in the the prisoners, setting it on the floor be
elweiss, capital ol Graustark, and meets the
uniform of the guard. Once away tween them.
beautiful niece of Spantz, a gunmakei.
11--- from the main highway, they made
“It is usually the duty of our friend
King do.-s a lavor fox Prince Robin, die voung prisoners of her aud the two grooms. Julius to feed me.” observed Truxton
rule, c.( the country, whose gu rdun is John Then followed a long ride through to his fellow prisoner.
Tullu, an American.
Ill-Baron Dsn gloss, roads new to iier.
"Julius?” queried the girl from the
When night came they were high castle, iieeriug at the man. “Not Juli
minister ol police, interviews King and warns
in the mountains back of the monas us Spantz of the armory?”
him against Olga, the gunmaker's niece. IV—
tery, many hours ahead of any pur
“Th* same,” said Truxton. Julius
King invades the royal park, meets the pr.nce
suit. They became stupidly careless, laughed awkwardly.
aid is pre-ented to the lad's fascinating Aunt
and the two grooms made a dash for
"Enough.” snarled William Spanti,
Loraine. V—The committee of ten, conspi-i- freedom. One of them was killed. but
His manner changed completely, how-
tors again« the (Mince, meets in an underground one had escaped.
ever, when he turned to address the
chamber, whgre the girl Olga is disclosed as one
Some time during the slow, tortur- i young lady. "I l>eg to inform you.
madam, that your stay is to tie brief.
who is to kill Prince Kobin with a bomb, VI— Ing ride through the (orest she swoon-
When she came to her senses she Tonight you will be removed to more
John Tullis calls on the beautiful Countess In- ed.
was in a dimly lighted room, surround pleasant quarters that a friend has
"Ha, ha!” laughed the young bear.
gomede, who warns him that her haled and no
ed by men. The gag had been re prepared for you. As for you, my “There’s little Willie Jumbo having a
torious old husband,
ount Mz-lanx, is con
moved from her mouth. She would friend." turning to Truxton and smil swing. Just watch me play a trick on
spiring against the prince. VII, VIII, IX andX have shrieked out in her terror had
ing ironically, "I deeply deplore the Mm!*’
---King visrta the house of the witch of Ganlook not her gaxe rested upon the figure of
fact that you are to remain. When
gap aud meets the royal household there. He a man who sat opposite, his elbows we next gather in the room beyond n
sees an eye gleaming through a crack in a de or on the back of tiie chair which he
new dispensation will have begun,
He You ’>ay be interested then to hear
and while searching for the person he is over straddled, h’.s chin on his arma.
was staring at her steadily, his black what <-e have to say out there.”
powered and dragged into a loft. He is con.
eyes catching her gaze and holding it
With a profound bow to the lady
fronted by Count Marians and then taken to the I
as a snake holds the bird it has and a leer for King he departed, bolt
underground den of the committee of ten.
charmed.
tng the door behind him. Instantly
XI -Olga defends King before the committee of
She recognized the hard, hawklike King was at her side.
anarchists.
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face. There could be no mistake. She
“An idea has come to me,” he whis-
Xfl---Loraine is brought to the den and was looking into the face that made pered eagerly. "I think ; I see a way."
thrown into the same room with King,
"Mr. King, what is it you intend to
I the portrait of the Iron Count so ab
horrent to her—tiie leathery head of a do? Please tell me. 1 I must know.
cadaver with eyes that lived. She You heard what he said.about taking
“Enoftgh!"
commanded
William broke down and erieil herself into the me to the count's. He meant Mar-
Spantz. “We are not children.” Turn sleep of exhaustion.
lanx. I will die first.”
ing to King, he went on, a touch of
All tiie next day she sat limp anil
“No. I will die first. By the way,
kindness in his voice: “Cheer her it helpless in tiie chair they had brought I may as well tell you that I wasn’t
you can. She is one of your class. Do to her. She could neither eat nor thinking altogether of how we are to
not let the lights go out.”
drink. Late in the afternoon Marlanx I escape. Why should I save you from
liaising his hands, he fairly drove came again. She knew not from
But Johnny Bear wasn’t quite quick
Marlanx just to have you hurry off
the others from the doorway.
whence lie came; he stood iiefore her and get married to Vos Engo? It’s a enough, and the little elephant came
For a time King stood in his corner, suddenly as if produced by the magic
mean thought, I know,” hastily; “but, back and knocked the water over the
watching the figure huddled against of some fabled genie, smiling blandly, just the same, I hate to think of you bear.
the opposite wall, Suddenly he started ills hands clasped liehind his back, his marrying some one else.”
forward, his eyes
Intelligence of Jackdaws.
attitude one of designing calculation.
“Some one else?” she questioned, a
wide and staring.
Mr. Green, an English naturalist, re
"He laughed when I demanded that •pucker on her forehead.
He had seen that
lie should restore me to my friends.
“Oh, I know I wouldn't have a cords ft tale about a pair of Jackdaws
gray riding habit
He chided me when I pleaded and beg ghost of a chance even if there kept by him nt his home In South
before. Two eager
ged for mercy. My questions were wasn’t a Vos Engo. It isn’t that,” he Devon years ago. They had been
Steps he took and
never answered. Where am I, Mr. explained. “' I recognize the—er—dif- taken from the nest, and during the
then halted half
first summer their wings were slightly
King? Oil, this dreadful pl:u-e! Why ference in our stations and”—
way.
clipped. Afterward their wings were
are we here—you and I?”
"What
has
all
this
got
to
do
with
“G rent Jeho
allowed to grow, and they lived at full
King's heart throbiied tiereely once your plan to escape?”
vah!” he gasped,
liberty in the garden. They were per
more.
A
vast
hunger
possessed
his
“
Nothing
at
all.
The
point
I
’
m
try
unbelieving. “You!
fectly tame and would come at call
soul.
In
that
moment
he
could
have
ing
to
get
nt
is
this;
Don
’
t
you
think
My God, is it
laid down his life for her with a smile it’s pretty rough on a hero to save the and feed out of the hand aud in the
you?"
of rejoicing.
girl for some other fellow to snap up morning knock at the windows to ask
He dropped to
for some breakfast. Regularly in the
/
Then*he
told
tier
why
site
was
there,
nnd
marry?"
his knees before
spring they flew away nnd Joined their
why
lie
was
there
and
of
the
2Gth
—
the
"I
think
I
tiegin
to
see.
”
she
said,
a
her, peering into
wild companions, made their nests and
dreadful 20th!
touch of pink coming into her cheeks.
her startled eyes.
reared a family. But when this was
“
God
in
heaven!
”
she
repented
over
"That's
encouragiiig,
”
he
said,
star
A look of abject
over they came back to the garden
“
myood . isit you ?”
and
over
again
in
a
piteous
whisper.
ing
gloomily
at
the
food
lie
had
put
terror crossed t ho
Tin* light was going out.
aside. "You are quite sure you prom again and were as tame as ever. But
tired, tear stained face. She shrank
ised Vos Engo Hint you'd marry him?" the curious thing was that after one
"Quick!
”
lie
cried.
“
The
candle!
away from him.
Light
a
fresh
one.
My
hands
are
"No. I did not promise him that I'd or two seasons they brought another
“What is It? Where am I?” she
Jackdaw with them, presumably the
bound.
”
marry
him.”
moaned. “Oh, let me go! What have
young of one of them, which was Just
You
said
you
had
promised
”
—
She crept to the candles and joined
I done that you should bring me here?
as tame as themselves, although noth-
the
wicks.
“
You
did
not
allow
me
time
to
tln-
A
new
light
grow
as
the
Let me go, Mr. King! You are not so
lng had ever been done to tame it. so
old
one
dlisl
ish.
I
meant
to
say
that
I
had
prom
Then she stood erect. I
wicked ns”—
that it was impossible to tel) which
ised
to
let
him
know
in
a
day
or
two.
looking
down
upon
him
"I—I bring you here!” lie interrupt
That fs all. Mr. King." Then* was a were the original favorites and which
“You are bound. 1 forgot."
ed, aghast. Then he understood. Ut
was the new one. Moreover. when
suspicious tremor in her voice.
Slic
started
forward,
dropping
to
her
ter dismay filled his eyes. "You think
after a few years one of these jack
"What's
that?
”
he
demanded.
"You
knees
iiesido
him.
an
eager
gleam
in
that i have done this thing to you?
can untie the rope— —you don't mean to say that— oh. daws was accidentally killed another
God above us! Look! I, too, am a tier eves. “If
will
that,
help?
Tiiere must lie one Lord, I wonder - I wonder if I have a was brought by the other two.
prisoner here. They are going to kill
little
chance
for
you
for us Lot mo chance just a ghost of a chance!” He
me after tomorrow."
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Hunt the Whistle.
leaued very close, incredulous, fasci
try.
“Oh, Mr. King, what does it all
I nated. “What is it that you tire going I
One of the party must be ignorant
"Ry
Jove,'
lie
whispered
admiringly,
mean? Forgive mo! 1 see now. Yon
of this game or the fun of it is lost.
are bound; you are suffering; you are his spirits leaping to meet hors. you’ve I to let him know—,yes or no?"
The players sit around as in hunt the
“
That
was
the
question
was
con
got
pluck.
You
put
new
life
in
me.
I
years older. What have you done?
sidering when tiie brigands caught slipper. The one who does not know
— I was almost a a quitter."
What have I done?"
the game Is put in the center to hunt
me," she answered.
At
last,
after
many
despairing
tugs,
“Don’t shrink from mo,” he urged.
»I
“ ‘Of
1
tile whistle.
course
lie
is
in
your
own
class,
the
knot
relaxed.
"There!" she cried,
"Try to calm yourself.”
Meantime the others have managed
said
Truxton
glumly
sinking
back
exhausted.
“
Oh,
how
it
Then, with the utmost gentleness, lie
to
fasten It to her dress and blow It.
She
hesitated
an
instant.
“
Mr.
King,
must
have
hurt
you!
Your
wrists
are
persuaded her to rise and walk about
has no one told you my name—who I The players keep their hands In nio-
raw ♦ '
the little room with him.
tion all the time as if they were pass-
Ills arms wore stiff and sore and am?" she asked.
“it will give you courage," he urged.
“You are tiie prince’s aunt. That’s Ing the whistle, nnd sometimes one of
hung like lead nt ills sides. She watch
“Poor little gill!”
the group will whistle to make tile
She looked up into Ills face, 11 new ed him with narrowed eyes while he all I know."
"No more his aunt in reality
seeker think he has it. But it is al
stood off and tried to work blood nnd
light coming Into her eyes.
Jack Tullis is his uncle."
ways blown, of course, behind her
"Don’t talk now,” he said softly. strength back into his muscles.
self. nnd the fun is to see her whirling
“Do you think yon can—can do any- | "Who are you, then?”
"Take your time, Hold to my arm.
thing now, Mr. King?" she asked after I “I am Jack Tullis’ sister, a New round in search of it.
please. There!”
Tills trick should not be long con-
a
long interval. “We must escape,” Yorker bred and Isirn, and I livi e not
For five or ten minutes he led her
more than two blocks from your”—
’tinued or it would be unfair, it Is. of
back and forth across the room very she said ns if it were all settled.
“It cannot lie tonight,” lie gently in I Tie stared at Iler in speechless amaze course, only a Jost, and Jests require
tenderly. At first she was faint and
uncertain; then, as her strength and formed tier, a sickness attacking Ills uient. "Then then you are not a great consideration, kindness and cour
tesy In (lie acting or they are very ob
wits came back to her, courage took lieart “Don’t you think you’d lictter duchess or a”— lie liegan again.
“Not at nil—a very plain New York- jectionable.
the place of despair. SI10 sml'.il wanly try to get sotye sleep?”
anil asked him to sit down with her. I He prevailed upon her to lie down, er," she said, laughing aloud, “You
Conundrums.
"Where are we? What Is it all witli his coat for a pillow. In two are not disappointed, are you? Does
It spoil your romance to”—
Which Is the oddest fellow, the one
minutes she was asleep.
nbout?" she asked.
“Spoil it? Disappointed?
who asks questions or the one who an I
For an hour or more lie sat there
"Not so loud.” he cnutloned. ”1'11 be
swers? The one who asks, iiecause he
perfectly candid with you. You’ll have looking sorrowfully at tiie tired, sweet George. I —I can’t believe
Is the querist.
to lie very, very brave. But wait. face, the utmost despair ill Ids soul.
Why Is a paper of pins like n teach
Perhaps It will lie easier Tor you to At last lie stretched himself out on tiie
er? Because they both give you many
tell me what Ims happened to you, so floor near the door, and as lie went to
good points.
fur as you know. I can throw light sleep lie prayed that Providence might
Why are authors who treat of physi
open 'll way for him to prove Unit she
on the whole situation, 1 think.”
ognomy like soldiers? Because ttiey
She liecame more excited. Her eyes was not depending on him in vain.
right about face.
flashed; she spoke rapidly. On the
Why is tiie polka like beer? There
morning of the 2.3d she Imd gone for
CHAPTER Kill
are so many hops in it.
her gallop in the famous Ganlook road,
A DIVINITY SHAPES.
When is n piece of wood like a
attended by two faithful grooms from
T
wn«
pitch dark when ho awoke.
queen? When ft is made Into a ruler.
the royal stables.
"I was in for a longer ride than usu
The sound of breathing came to
his ears. He sat up. Ills hands
al." she said, with sudden constraint.
How It Seemed to Norman.
'
She looked away from her eager listen
were Tree. It had not b<*en a
Little Norman paid his first visit to
er. "I was nervous and had not slept dream. She was lying over then*
the barber when about four years old.
the night before. A girl never does, asleep. The candle had burnt itself
He was greatly interested in the clip-
I HUpisise."
out; that was all. He crept softly
pers and the bay rum. which was
He looked askance. "Yes?" he que herons the floor. In the darkness he
sprinkled out of a bottle on to his
found her and touched the garments
ried.
head. When he returned home ho told
She was blushing, he was sure of she wore—and drew hack enthralled
his mamma, “The bartier cut my hair
It. "I mean a girl is always nervous
Afraid to move for fear of disturb
with a lawn mower and put on some
and distrait after after she has prom* ing her, he sat quiet)}- for an hour or
pepper sauce.”
ised, don't you see."
more. All this time Ills brain was
“No;T don’t see.”
working like mad In the now found do
The Tree Plantere.
Bald the squirrel: "I planted
"I had promised Count Vos Engo the sin' to perforin miracles for the sake
An oak by the wall.
night iiefore that I— Oh, but It really of tills lovely, unattainable creature.
It will grow from an acorn
bns nothing to do with the story. I”— He was forgetting the prince, the hor
I had and let fall.”
Truxton was aetunlly glaring nt her rors of the 2«>th; ho was thinking only
"Just wait.” said the robin.
"You mean that you had promised to of saving this girl from the fale that
"A beautiful tree
marry Count Vos Ktigo!” he stammer Marians had In store for her
Vos
W31t
come from a cherry
I
ed
Engo may have had the promise, but
krone just dropped by mo."
"How very strangely you tnlk! Are what could it profit him if Marlanx
•^ young apple tree,
you sure—I mean, do you think it is had the girl?
Please allow me to any.
fever? Ono suffers so’’—
Footsteps in the outer room recalled
Will spring from a seed
He sighed deeply. “Well, that’s Idin to the bitter reality of their | m » h |. THB WHOLK WFTOHT nr TRUXTON KING’S
I dropped!" crlod the jay.
Hour WAS BKIIIND TUBTKKiPFIC BLOW
over! Whew! It was n dream, by Mon. He awoke her and whispered
“A fine chestnut tree
Jove!”
words of encouragement into her be such luck—no. no, I don’t mean it Just
Will grow from a bur
She waited a moment and then, look- wildered ears Then he put on his coat that way! Let me think it out. ix-t
Which I carried." snld the rabbit.
”1» ft* •bite fluffy fur."
in« 4svu ML4 ver, gently, "I'm so and threw himself on the floor, first me get It through my bead.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Bank
of
Bandon ■
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At Bandon in The State of Oregon, at
the Close of EuLi'is June 30, 1910
Loans and di-cniints
Overdrafts, secured and unsecur ■<!
Bonds, securities, etc.
Banking house, furnitmc and lixtmes
Due from banks (not reserve banks)
Due from approved reserve banks
Cash on hand
Total
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$2 t 2 739.43
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid in
Surplus fund
Undivided j rofits less qx[>enses and taxes paid
Individual deposits subject to check
Demand certificates of deposit
Time certificates of deposit
Certified checks
Cashier's checks outstanding
Total
$2 12,739.43
STATF OF OREGON I
County of Coos
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I, F. J. Fahy. Cashier of the above named bank, do sob mnly
swear that the above Maiemei.f is true to the best of my knowledge
anti belief
F. J. Falty, Cashier.
Subscribed and s'orn to be Correct- Attest
J. L. Kronenbcrg
fore me this 6th dav of July. 1910
T. P. Manly
Geo. P. Topping
F. J. Fahy
Notary Public
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