Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, February 16, 1906, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text'-;':it;m..1,.u'tiiHii.iiii)iiiMn.Mii..wi.ii.i:ii'ii-tiii:titii:tt'iP' egetable PreparaUonforAs ulating theFoodandBegula- theStoinochs andBowels of omoles Digestion.Cheerfur 5S and ResLContains neither ium.Morphine norMinerat jtNarcotic. Aafe afOUArSAMUELPtTCHER ImpJciK Seal" Anue.Sont III CartxiruikSe(Uf Ctanud .fugar ftiiiy'ii flavoK I 4 .'. petfecl Remedy f orConsupa Ii m, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea v'urms .Convulsions .Fcverish ncss and Loss of Sleep. Facsimile Signature oF NEW YORK. But It seemed that she had either im proved or changed her mind, for two days later a note, which her maid had written for her, came to Mr. Graham asking him to call upon her in the course of the next twenty-four hours, as she wished to talk over some mat ters of business with him. It struck me as singular that she should ask for Mr. Graham, but our senior called a cab and started off at once without comment. An hour later the door open ed and he entered the office with a most peculiar expression of counte nance. "Well, that beats me!" he exclaimed as he dropped into his chair. Our junior wheeled around toward him without speaking, but his anxiety was plain enough. "To think that a girl as level headed as Frances Holladay has always been should suddenly develop such whimsi calities. Yet I couldn't but admire her grasp of things. Here have I been thinking she didn't know anything about her business and didn't care, but she seems to have kept her eyes open." "Well?" asked Mr. Royce as the oth er paused. "Well, she started out by reminding me that her property had been left to her absolutely, to do as she pleased With, a point which I, of course, con ceded. She then went on to say that she knew of a number of bequests her father had Intended to make before his death, and which he would have made if he had not been cut off so suddenly; that the bequests were of such a na ture that he did not wish his name to appear in them, and that she was going to undertake to carry them out anony mously." "Well?" asked our junior again. "Well," said Mr. Graham slowly, "she asked me to dispose at once of such of her securities as I thought best in or der that I might place in her hands by tomorrow night $100,000 in cash a cool hundred thousand!" CHAPTER VIII. A HUNDRED thousand dollars!" ejaculated Mr. Royce, and sat staring at his chief. "A hundred thousand dollars! That's a good deal for a girl to give away in a lump, but she can afford it. Of course we've nothing to do but car ry out her instructions. I think both of us cau guess what she intends doing with the money." The other nodded. I believed that I could guess too. The money, of course, was intended for the other woman. She was not to suffer for her crime aft er all. Miss Holladay seemed to me in no little danger of becoming an acces sory after the fact. "She seems really 111," continued our senior. "She looks thinner and quite careworn. I commended her resolution to seek rest and quiet and change of scene." "When does she go, sir?" asked Mr. Royce in a subdued voice, "The day after tomorrow, I think. She did not say definitely. Ia fact, she could talk very little. She's managed to cafcoh.cojd the grip, . I. suppose Si I EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. S iJJP .Holladay Case 10) Ini For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought in Use For Over Thirty Years 3) ni TWS CENTAUR WIMM. NCW YORK CITY. A Mystery Of Two Continents By BURTON E. STEVENSON Copyright. 1903, by Henry Holt and Compajiy was very hoarse.' It would have been cruelty to make her talk, and I didn't try." He wheeled around to his desk and then suddenly back again. "By the way," he said, "I saw the new maid. I can't say I wholly ap prove of her." He paused a minute, weighing his words. "She seems careful and devoted," he went on at last, "but I don't like her eyes. They're too Intense. I caught her two or three times watching me strangely. I can't Imagine where Miss Holladay picked her up, or why she should have picked her up at alL She's French, of course. She speaks with a decided accent. About the money, Z suppose we'd better sell a block of U. P. bonds. They're the least produc tive of her securities." "Yes, I suppose so," agreed Mr. Boyce, and the chief called up a broker and gave the necessary orders. Then ho turned to other work, and the day passed without any further reference to Miss Holladay or her affairs. The proceeds of the sale were brought to the office early the next afternoon, a small packet neatly sealed and docketed 100 thousand dollar bills. Mr. Graham turned It over in his band thoughtfully. "You'll take it to the house, of course. John," he said to his partner. "Les ter 'd better go with you." So Mr. Royce placed the package In his pocket, a cab was summoned, and we were off. The trip was made with out incident, and at the end of half an hour we drew up before the Holla day mansion. It was one of the old style brown stone fronts which lined both sides of the avenue twenty years ago. It was no longer in the ultra fashionable quarter, which had moved up toward Central park, and shops of various kinds were beginning to encroach upon the neighborhood, but It had been Hi ram Holladay' s home for forty years, and be had never been willing to part with it At this moment ail the blinds were down and the house had a de serted look. We mounted the steps to the door, which was opened at once to our ring by a woman whom I knew instinctively to be the new maid, though she looked much less like a maid than like an elderly working wo man of the middle class. "We've brought the money Miss Hol laday asked Mr. Graham for yester day," said Mr. Royce. "I'm John Royce, his partner." And without an swering the woman motioned us in. "Of course we must have a receipt for it," he added,. "I have it ready here, and she need only attach her signa ture." "Miss Holladay is too ill to see you, sir," said the maid, with careful enun ciation. "I will myself the paper take to her and get her signature," Mr. Royce hesitated a moment in perplexity. As for me, I was ransack ing my memory. Where had I heard that voice before? Somewhere, I was certain a voice low, vibrant, re nressed. full of color. Then with a HOT Bears the '. '. . t. Sigaatury mnrr i rm era rxrpfl Tc was Miss fciot- lauajr it vuiis as kiic uau iiocu w come oar junior that morning at the coroner's court. I shook myself to gether, for that was nonsense. "I fear that won't do," said Mr. Koyce at last. "The sum is a consid erable one and must be given to Miss Holladay by me personally in the pres ence of this witness." It was the maid's turn to hesitate. I saw her lips tighten ominously. "Very well, sir," she said. "But I warn you she Is most nervous, and it has been forbidden her to talk." "She will not be called upon to talk," retorted Mr. Koyce curtly, and with out answering the woman turned and led the way up the stair and to her mistress' room. Miss Holladay was lying back in a great chair with a bandage about her bead, and even in the half light I could see how changed she was. She seemed much thinner and older and coughed occasionally In a way that frightened me. Not grief alone, I told myself, could have caused this breakdown; it was the secret weighing upon her. My "J have brought the money you ask for." companion noted the change, too, of course a greater change perhaps than my eyes could perceive and I saw how moved and shocked he was. "My dear Miss Holladay," he began, but she stopped him abruptly with a little imperative motion of the hand. "Pray do not," she whispered hoarse ly. "Pray do not." He stopped and pulled himself to gether. When he spoke again it was In quite a different tone. "I have brought the money you asked for," and he handed her the package. "Thank you," she murmured. "Will you verify the amount?" "Oh, no; that is not necessary." "I have a receipt here," and he pro duced it and his fountain pen. "Please sign It." She took the pen with trembling fin gers, ' laid the receipt upon her chair arm without reading and signed her name with a somewhat painful slow teas. Then she leaned back with a sigh of relief and buried her face in be? hands. Mr. Royce placed the re ceipt in his pocketbook and stopped, hesitating. But the maid bad opened the door and was awaiting us. Her mistress made no sign; there was no excuse, to linger. We turned and fol lowed the maid. "Mist 'Holladay seems very ill," said Mr. BfOyce in a voice somewhat tremu lous as she paused before us in the lower hall. "Yes, sir; ver" 1IL" Again the voice! I took advantage of the chance to look at her intently. Her hair was turning gray, certainly; her face was seamed with lines which only care and poverty could have graven there, and yet, beneath it all, fancied I could detect a faded but living likeness to Hiram Holladay's daughter. I looked again It was faint; uncertain perhaps my nerves were overwrought f.nd wcro deceiving- me. For how could such a likeness possibly exist? "She has a physician, of course?" asked my companion. "Oh, yes, sir." "He has advised rest and quiet?" "Yes, sir." "When do you leave for the coun try?" . "Tomorrow or the next day after that, I think, sir." He turned to the door and then paus ed, hesitating. He opened his lips to say something more his anxiety was clamoring for utterance then he changed his mind and stepped outside as she held the door open. "Good day," he said, with stern re pression. "I wish her a pleasant jour ney." The door closed after us, and we went down the steps. "Jenkinson's the family doctor," he said. "Let's drive around there and find out how ill Miss Holladay really is. I'm worried about her, Lester." "That's a good idea," I agreed and gave the driver the address. Jenkin son was in his office and received us at once. "Dr. Jenkinson," began our junior without preamble, "I am John Royce, of Graham & Royce. You know, I sup pose, that we are the legal advisers of Miss Frances Holladay." "Yes," answered Jenkinson. "Glad to meet you, Mr. Royce." "In consequence we're naturally in terested in her welfare and all that concerns her, and I called to ask y?u for some definite details of her condi tion." "Her condition? I don't quite under stand." "We should like to know, doctor, just luv 111 sha ia" (To be Continued.) You Doubtless want to know about By BURTON E. STEVENSON A Bright, Entertaining, Charming Story DEALING WITH ROMANCE AND MYSTERY i - Now Running in the CORVA The New York if The reader will not, want . to put the book down until he has reached It he last page. Well written? intoH the bargain." You can read it without money in the Corvallis Gazette. New ' Sub scribers supplied with back chapters of the story. OUR JOB OFFICE Isunusually well equipped todo all kinds of work. A First-class Job Printer always kept in the office and all work guaranteed to be strictly up-to-date. Bring us the Work that You are particular about PRICES TwIADE TO FOT. OLLADAY CASE U- U U U-D 0- Tribune Says: 0 0- 0- CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CLASSIFIED ADVXBTI9EMENT8 : Fifteen words or less, 25 eta for three successive insertions, or 50 eta per month; for all op to and including ten additional words. J cent a word for each insertion. For all advertisements over 25 words, 1 ct per word for the first insertion, and K per word for each additional inser tion. Nothing inserted for less than 25 cents. .; ' -. Lodge, . 8ocief y and church notices, other than strictly news matter, will be chsrwd for." FOR SALE FTJLIiBLOOD BARRED ROCK COCK erels. $1-00; two-year old cock (former cost $3) now 1.00. F. R. Barnes. Corvallis, Ore., R F. D. 1- la-16t 22 HEAD OF CATTLE FROM 1 TO S vears past : 6 milk cows, fresh in Feb ruary and Mare. Will sell right to riirht party. Wm. Brvans. Wren, Owe. 11 19 PLASTERING PLASTERING AND CEMENT WORK. Cement walks a speoialtv. Work guar anteed. H. Bier & Co., Corvallis, Orepon. i2tf ATTORNEYS J. F. YATES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office First National Bank Building. Only set of abstracts in Bentoii County R. BRYSON ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Post Office Building, Corval .is, Oregon. WANTED WAiSTE O fiOO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE Gazette and Weekly Oregon ian at $2.55per year. BANKING. 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Begins with the eymptons of a com mon cold ; there is chilliness, sneezing,, sore throat, hot skin, quick pulse, hoarse ness and impeded respiration. .Give fre queut small does of Ballard's Here hound Syrup, (the child will cry for it) and at the first signs of a cronpy cough apply frequentlv Ballard.s Snow Lini ment to the throat. Mrs. A. Vliet, New Cast:e, Colo.,, writie March 19,1902; "I think Ballard's Horehound Syrup fa wonderful remedy,. and bo pleasant to take. Sold hy Graham and Wertham. STEAMER POMONA For Portland and way points, leaves Corvallis Monday, Wednesday and' Fri day at 6 a. m. Albany 7 a. m. Fare to Portland, $1.75; round trip $3.00. H. A. Hoffman, Agt.. 103-10 Health. Means the ability to do a good day's work without undue fatigue and to find life worth living. You cannot have in dinebtion and constipation without its upsetting the liver and polluting the blood. Such a condition may be best and quickest relieved by Herbine, the best liver regulator that the world has ever known, Mrs. D W. Smith writes, April 3. V2. "I use Herbine, and find it tlie best, medicine for constipation and regulating the liver I ever used." 50c -Sold by Graham & Wortham, Luckiest Man in Arkansas. "I'm the'luckie-a man in Arkansas," writes H. L. Stanley, of Bruno, "tince iho rftrrHtirm of mv wife's health after five vears of continuous coughing and .. 1 , T" , bleeding I'om me lungs ; x owe my good fortune to the world's greatest medicine, Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump tion, which I know from exDerieace will cure consumption if taken in time. My wife improved with the first bottle and. Cures the worst coughs and colds or- money refunded. At Allen & Wood- -ward drueeists. 50 cent 'and 11.00. . Trial bottle free.