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W A MILLION y"'- By D. C. Murray rSzs C1IAPTER VI. (Continued.' O'Rourke walked out to the front of tkt! hotel and awaited the arrivals. When they ramo it was plain to his eyes that Mnxkelyne's depression of two or three drs o had not altogether left him, and. Indeed, he had seen, in the visits he had made to Butler in the interim, signs that this depression deepened. But since Mas kelyne's depression obviously meant his own victory, it was not in human nature to be greatly grieved by it. The signs of the young American's despondency were not visible to all the world, but O'Rourke was a keen observer when he chose to watch with extreme closeness. Angela reached out her hand with a fra.Bknfss altogether encouraging, and O'ttonrke accepted it with a finely toned air. T deference and respect. All three al tho newcomers had alighted and en tw& when Farley came downstairs, and CV young American saw his ready rival take aa immediate place by Angela. "lt was I who brought them together," av? sid to himself. "1 have wrecked my owji chances. And I never gave him a Mttnim; word. O'Rourke isn't the man to Intrude himself between a friend and his hopes if he had only known." At this moment his late delicacy seem ed overstrained and extravagant. "I am not worthy of her," he said. "O'Rourke is a better man than I am. He's not an objectless, good-for-nothing fellow like me, with nothing but dollars to recommend him. A man with a career before him, and a good beginning behind him. A handsome fellow, too ; bright, receptive, quick. A man with everything In his favor. Why shouldn't a girl like him?" While O'Rourke talked in his gny and sympathetic fashion, and Maskelyue look ing' out of window indulged these thoughts, there came a tap at the door end the landlady entered. A telegraphic dispatch for Monsieur OUourke," said she, giving the name a qneer-sonnding foreign twist, at which very body smiled. O'Rourke took the dis patch, asked to be excused for a moment and opened it. He read it at a glance, crashed it in his hand and stood with an erpresskMi of displeasure and irresolution la his face. "No ill news, I hope?" said Farley, ap proaching him. "For me," said O'Rourke, looking round at his friend with a sudden bright smile, "the wretchedest ill news in the world. A whipM he held the crumpled telegram op before them "a whip of scorpions," be added, with a laugh. "It drives me from your presence." He bowed to Lucy and Angela aa he said this, and went on with a sudden seriousness. "Yes, I must go. I had an idea of refusing for a ingle instant but that is a thing I mustn't do. Farley, order a carriage, and pay my bill for me." He thrust a purse Into bis friend's hand. "I shall miss the loeal train, I know, but I can catch the mail on the main line. I must go and pack, and I haven't a minute to lose. I am the unluckiest of men. Back to work again from this paradise of quiet. And to mifw the tour of the world." He made his excuses and dashed away to pack with an alacrity and eagerness which had all the vivacity of bustle, and somehow missed its vulgarity and avoided Its noise. He was down again in a min ute or two, portmanteau in hand. "I leave the heavier things behind." he id, gayly. "This will suffice for a lay or two. I am sorry to go, but parlia mentary whips dare not be disputed." Then he let his face cloud somewhat, tai. walk rag to a window, began to drum oiC absent-seeming fingers on the sill. By afl by he turned and met Angela's "I am sorry to go," he said, softly, "Very sorry." The carriage Farley had ordered drew teg to the door and the departing traveler hook hands all round. There was no chance for a private word with Angela, but he threw into his parting glance and hand-shake all he dared to express at such a time. "Five francs if you catch the mail," he cried to the driver as he mounted. The man cracked his whip and started. O'Rourke waved his hat to the little party gathered about the door, ahd his last glance was for Angela. "I disappear with an air of some im portance," he said to himself, "and that la something. Poor Maskelyne looks a bit too cowed to play up with any spirit for a while, and I shall be back again in three days. That again is something." CHAPTER VII. O'Rourke's departure affected the vari tj members of the party variously. ,Mas-Ertj-ne brightened up ever so little to be jpt with, but seeing that Angela had midfiJy grown grave, he himself grew graver than ever and dropped into a ver itable abyss of despair. Angela did not need to be told more Chan she learned in that parting glance and pressure, and while O'Rourke rode to ward the railway station in full assurance f faith that he had already conquered, aha, in thinking of him, was filled with a cold indignation that he should have dared so to presume upon her innocent freedom with him. "I am a flirt," she told herself ; "a co quette. Ha aaw it, and took advantage of it." The novelist, whose strong point was wre-m&klng, and who rejoiced in the dis section of the feminine heart on paper, was beautifully ignorant of the drama of which one scene was being enacted under his nose. His wife, who dissected noth ing, knew all about the case, and would have loved to bring the two young people together, for, like all good women, she was a match-maker at heart. As for the major, he was a match-maker, too, but be knew no more than Noah whether or not aha two young people had the faintest leaning to each other. Tbe dinner passed off fairly well, and tm came the mild dissipation of the vrening. The large room of the Hotel de Vilie was found to be artificially dark amwd, for the evening light still ruled out wMs. Banged about the chamber war a number of little tables, supporting little boxes, which stood back to back, with a petroleum lamp between each two of them. In front of each box a pair of stereoscopic lenses, and at the side a little handle to turn the views. Scat tered here and there were a few early vis itors already trying their eyes at the lenses, amongst them Mr. Zeno, who bowed with great politeness on the ar rival of the party from the Hotel des Postes. Master Austin went off on stealthy tiptoe to join the delightful for eigner, who took him by the hand and called his attention in laboriously chosen single words to various curiosities of the show. "Mountain.. Eh? nigh. Oh, so high. Not? Vite. Snow. Vare fine. Eh? Look. Van uzzer." After some five minutes of this amuse ment Mr. Zeno appeared to tire of it, and leading the little fellow across the chamber, raised his hat to the mother, surrendered his charge, bowed all around, and left the chamber. It was a very simple entertainment, and yet it entertained, and the visitors went solemnly round from one little box to another for the space of half an hour, by which time all had still necks and aching eyes. "My dear," said Austin, "I feel as if I had traveled far enough for a single journey," x "And I, too," returned Lucy. "Really," said the major, "they're re markably pretty, but one gets tired." "We must come back for another even ing," said Angela. "The Swiss views are really charming." This was to Maskelyne, who said, "Yes, very," t in an absent manner. Suddenly from the far end of the room arose a cry. "Oh, mamma, mamma, mamma ! Look here !" "Hush !" said mamma, crossing over to him. "Little gentlemen never shout in that way. What is it, darling?" "Mr. Zeno," said the boy, clapping his hands and laughing. "Mr. Zeno." Lucy took the seat and looked through the sterescopic lenses, and there was Mr. Zeno, sure enough. Mr. Zeno was talk ing to somebody else, and he and his companion were curiously out of propor tion with the rest of the picture. The photograph represented a court in the Vienna Exhibition, and it seemed proba ble that at the instant of time at which the artist bad lifted his little shutter to catch the moving crowd Mr. Zeno and his friend had stepped into the field of view. The expression of both countenances was cloarly defined and animated, and the figures were so large that they only came into the picture to the waist. The two were arm in arm, and Zeno had turned with a stretched forefinger toward the other, as if to impress him with a sense of importance in what he was saying. "Yes," said Lucy. "It is Mr. Zeno, certainly, Austin," she said to her hus band, who had followed half across the room, "this is curious. Here is an ac tual portrait of Mr. Zeno." "Who is Mr. Zeno?" asked Angela, crossing over, whilst Farley stooped to look at the picture. "Is he a friend of yours ?" "No," answered Lucy ! "a stranger. But he is staying at our hotel. Mr. Farley thought at one time that he was a spy, and he is not a nice person at all. He seems very fond of Austin, though, and it is certainly curious to find his portrait here." "Here's an odd thing, Lucy," said Aus tin. "There's a fictional use In that, if I could only see ray way to it." Crash went something close at hand, with a sound of breaking glass. Angela had somehow overturned the box, and had broken the lamp behind it. She was on her feet, and her face, dimly seen in the semi-obscurity of the chamber, wore a look of more alarm and amazement than than so simple a disaster seemed to warrant. She lifted the box from the table, and Farley instantly put out the light of the broken lamp, and extinguish ed with his handkerchief and foot a de tached stream of burning oil which had already begun to trickle from the table to the floor. While this was doing, Angela with the box in both hands, had walked across the room, and at the door had encountered the woman who had charge of the exhi bition. "Madame," she said, rapidly in French, "I have by accident broken a lamp. Let me pay you for it. Have you a private room here? Show me to it, if you please." Her breathing was so quick and dis turbed that these simple phrases were panted rather than spoken. "Certainly, madame," said the woman, and led the way into a side room illum inated by a brace of tall candles. Angela set the box she carried upon the table between the candles, and turned it rapid ly this way and that. "How do you open this box, madame?" "So," said the woman, in surprise, pro ducing a small key, and suiting the ac tion to the word. "Take out the photographs, if you please." The woman obeyed, wondering more and more, and Angela, taking them from her hand, selecfed that which bore the portrait of Mr. Zeno. "I wish to buy this," she said, drawing forth her purse and laying a gold coin upon the table. "Will that pay you for the broken lamp and the photograph?" "Assuredly," the woman answered. The whole thing was curious, and she would have been well content to have it ex plained, but her visitor chose to offer no explanation. Angela thrust the photograph Into her bosom, and, having rearranged her dress, rejoined her friends. "I have paid for the broken lamp," she said to the major. Half an hour later Butler demanded his carriage, bade his host and hostess adieu, and went away with Angela and Maskelyne. The girl was silent all the way home, but when the chateau was reached, she found herself alone with Maskelyne and poke. "Mr. Maskelyne, may I ask you to do me a very great fuvor?" "1 slinll he delighted," said Maskelyne. "Let me explain," she said, rapidly and eagerly. "You know this face?" She held the photograph before him, and In dicated Zeno with the tip of a finger. "Yes." said Maskelyne, "I kuow the face. The man at the Hotel des Fostes Zeno." "You see he is in close conversation with some one there?" "Yes." "That man with whom he Is walking and talking there, arm in arm, is Mr. Dobroski's bitterest enemy a Pole, but a spy in the pay of the Russian govern inent." "You know that?" said Maskelyne, looking up at her. "Mr, Dobroski showed me his photo graph a week ago. I should know the man among a thousand." It is not a face about wnicn one could easily be mistaken," Maskelyne allowed. "What must I do?" 1 "Do you see to what the companion ship of these two men and this mans presence here point?" she asked him. "You won't think me foolish or romantic, Mr. Maskelyne?" I should be very much inclined to say," returned Maskelyne, "that It points in the direction of Mr. Farley's fancy, and this fellow Zeno is a spy upon Dob roski. Of course the corapauionship may be a chance, and Zeno's being here an accident." "Do you think that very probable, Mr Maskelyne?" "It may be," said Maskelyne. "But we cannot tell. What am I to do, Miss But ler?" "Will you " she began, and broke off there. "Mr. Dobroski has gone to Brussels. He left this afternoon, and gave the people of the Cheval Blanc no address. He is a known figure every where, and it will be easy to find him." "You wish me to find him, and to let him know of this?" "To put it in his hands," answered Angela. "Yes," he said, accepting the proffered photograph and bestowing it in his breast pocket. "I will take the morning mail.' ,CIIAPTER VIII. The driver, bearing in mind O'Rourke's promise of five francs in case the station were reached in time for the mail train, put his fat-ribbed, heavy-footed horse to the road at such a pace that O'Rourke had five minutes to wait for the train. He secured a ticket for the first stage of his journey, and walked on toj the platform carrying his portmanteau. He had been thinking of Angela and Maskelyne and his own chances all the way ; but now he suddenly recalled Dobroski to mind. That venerable conspirator and he would travel to England together, for Dobroski was on the train. Nothing occurred to make the journey particularly remarkable, and the two companions were silent for the most part. A brace of early tourists recognized Dob roski and O'Rourke at Brussels, and pointed them out one to another; and at Dover they were known again, and cre ated a little stir as they walked up and down the platform, side by side, waiting for the train. They arranged where to meet again, and Dobroski betook himself to the streets, whilst O'Rourke went upstairs to sleep, giving injunctions to his servant to call him in four hours precisely. But after entering the bed chamber and lock ing the door he stood awhile in thought, and then suddenly reopening the door1, de scended to his private working room, and there wrote a telegram. The telegram was addressed to George Frost, Esquire, at a house in Pimlico, and ran thus : "Call at once. Special." It did no tpurport to come from Hector O'Rourke, but from one O. Johnson of Acre Buildings. Any way, at 1 o'clock precisely a gentleman with a peaked beard, a furtive eye, a soft hat and an accent blended pf the accents of Erin and Columbia, presented himself at the door of the house in which O'Rourke had chambers, and sent in a card which bore the name of Mr. George Frost in flourishing copperplate. He was shown up, and when the door was closed behind him, the occupant of the room rose with a smile of welcome and gripped him heartily by the hand. (To be continued.) Contract Dentlntry. "Contract work In dentistry is entire ly out of date," said the dentist. "Sev eral years ago that was the coinai,u way of doing business. A person with poor teeth would ask us to make an es timate on the cost of putting his mouth In shape." Once a price was fixed he In sisted upon sticking to that figure. Since It was possible to name only nn approximate cost of the work, we fre quently underestimated the value of our time and material. It was In order to secure justice all around that the rule of paying for work actually performed was established. The old way sultort our patrons better, however, because it was usually more economical for thm, and every day we meet persons who ask for a reversal to the old order of paying a stipulated sum for the entire Job." Making; I'd the Deficiency. "Girls," said the manager of a quick lunch Joint, "I want you to look your best to-day. Add an extra ribbon or ring. Give your cheeks an extra daub of powder." "What's the matter?" asked the fair head waiter. "Butter bad again?" "No," said the manager; "the beers on the bum." Pittsburg DIspatca. Heard In the Green Room. First Actor Congratulate me, old man. I have been married Just tea years to-day to one woman. Second Actor That's nothing. I've been married twice to my present wife in nve years. Conid Prove an Alibi. Doctor (to his patient who Is 111 with typhoid fever) This Is probably cau! ed by some water you have drunk. I I When did you last take some Patient About three years av think. Simpllclsslnms. i Ox wagon competition makes certain short railroad lines in South Africa unprofitable. 1 EDNA MAY IN BRIDAL GOWN, WITH HER, HUSBAND. pi 54 ?;&J VaJslKV v AVL J?W Villi k Wmr v (fry )Xt m -(A ,,;;i ft vXitJ, JtSJtH W k-Mtmm mm f ft l.y.iil , tf . s yrrrn After the marriage of Edna May, the beautiful American actress, to Os car Lewishon, son of the New York millionaire, at the register's office at Windsor, England, the couple went to a beautiful vlneclad villa which the groom had prepared for his bride. There, shortly after their arrival, they were photographed standing together on the porch, a handsome pair In a framework of ivy leaves and flowers. In 1896 a little girl with parted hair and wise, demure eyes went from Syra cuse, where her father was, and Is to day, a letter-man, to New York, where she asked for a position in a chorus. She was made understudy to Lucille Saunders In Santa Maria. She was recognized as a type of girl which Is as rare on the stage as a rose In a field of flaunting popples. That winter was uneventful and Miss May did no more than get a nice little start After a brief American tour she went to Lon don, where for several years she was in mediocre plays which caused little or no comment. In 1904 she was at Daly's In New York In The Schoolgirl, and the next year she appeared in The Catch of the Season. Since then En gland has been her field of action. For almost ten years the little ac A GOOD PIPE. Shape Ha. More to Do with Insuring; Succena Than Hal ainterini. Pine are smoked by millions, and always will be, yet not one smoker In thousand knows the elements oi a good pipe. Engineers nave Deen auo u to talk by the hour over the draft of their Are boxes and never once In half a lifetime think of the draft In their pipes which they smoke hourly. Sage attention Is paid to the pipe material, all of which has little If any thing to do with the qualities of a pipe, and generally nothing whatever Is thought of shape and proportions, the two things that make a pipe good or bad. A two-cent postage stamp spent with intelligence will buy as good a pipe as there is In the world; every thing added to that price Is ornament, vanity and especially Ignorance. The corncob holds a high place among pipe smokers and deserves this place usually for the best of scien tific reasons. When a pipe Is bnllt on right principles the bowl Is as narrow and deep as is convenient to fill; the bole In the stem meets 'the bowl at the very bottom and In the center, thus m Lirinr nerfect and even burning of th tohsoco The cake prevents the flr9 tvom burning the bowl, thus p re vents making,. Its bore larger or nn- even, which wouia in proporuon poii 'the draft The sides of the bowl are thick to keep In the heat thus making n burning at the same temperature at the edges of the tobacco as at the center. In this way a clean, sweet smoke Is assured. When a man marries a widow, he should at least get a house and lot, or 1 turn. tress has been besieged with the atten tion of England's titled sons, and her name has been in the papers constant ly. That she U wise to retire in the height of her iopularity cannot bs doubted. Edna May did quite the proper thing to wed, and the simple little 'ceremony which united her ti Mr. LewiHhon puts the finishing touch to her wonderful career. She and her millionaire husband are going to live a simple life in a "manor house," whatever that may be, all Ivy-grown and with the conventional- swans in the lake and hungry deer In the spa clous park. Oscar Lewishon Is the fourth and youngest son of Leonard Lewishon, once well known as a "copper king. Mr. Lewishon, Sr., and his brother Adolph were both poor when they landed In New Y'ork from Germany many years ago. Their first business venture was made under the all-em bracing heading of "general mer chants," but they soon began to spe cialize In two things only coffee and copper. By degrees they became the largest operators in coffee, and with II. H. Rogers, of Standard Oil fame, organized the memorable coffee corner in 1901. An Odd Business. In France at this season the banks Of streams are yellow with bonfires every night About the fires loaf peas ants, men and women, smoking, chat tering, spooning. They keep the blaze going all night, and at dawn the ground Is an Inch of two deep with May flies, fireflies, moths little creatures that flew out of the darkness Into those clear and gem-like flames, fluttered forth again In agony, fell and died. The tiny corpses are sold to the French bird dealers at five or six cents a pint, and are resold for food to the owners of pet birds, finches, thrushes, canaries, nightingales and the like. Government Lands In Canada. Of the 90,000,000 acres of fertile land In the west of Canada the government has allotted 75,280,000 and has only 14,180,000 left In 1908 the crop acre age of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, with s population of 808,928, was 7,283,719 acrea Only a small pro portion of this has fallen Into the hands of bona -fide fanners. Forty mill ion acres of the fertile land given out by tbe government Is In the hands of companies, syndicates and private and other owners, all of whom are holding for the purpose of obtaining higher prices. How They Maaaa-o. "Every girl In that chorus has a lot of dlamonda." That's so." "I wonder how they can afford It?" "Why, as yon may see, they have scarcely any clothes to buy." Houston Post It's to a man's credit If he can truth full say that his credit la good, - TO PREDICT THE WEATHEK. Watch Animals, Illrds and Flhes as Very Hellable Forecaster. Before a rainstorm the cat nearly al ways washes her face. Why? Some clulin that the atmosphere excites the electricity in the cat's fur, Irritating her, and to overcome the tingling sen sations she sets to washing herself. Or If there Is no cat in the house n maiden lady next door may possess a loquacious parrot. If the bird sits and makes a sort of hissing noise you may be suro there will be rain before night. If you have an aquarium of goldfish you may observe that they will become unusually active Borne sunny after noon. They will dart about In the water and flap their little tails. This Is a sign of rain. One seldpm need feat getting wet If he lives In the country. Horses, cows, sheep, hogs, dogs, pen cocks all evince certain peculiarities before a storm. Suppose you are a master of a skye terrier or any other dog. No doubt you have often seen him burying bones ; vet vou never took notice of the fact that he did this shortly before it rained. In the days when man wandered throueh the forests a savage creature, clothed principally with sunshine and smiles, he took little care or tue aog. It reaulred all the efforts of the tribal ancestor to take care of himself. So the dog had to be on the lookout for a "rainy day." Dogs in those days lived mostly on fowls. Now, In rainy weather, fowls are hard to catch. So the early pet of man caught game before the rain began and burled it, so he should not die of hunger In case the storm continued. This Instinct still remains with the dogs. Horses become uneasy as a storm approaches. They fidget and neigh Im patiently In their stalls. As the sky becomes overcast asses bray and show their asinine defiance of the Inevitable. Before a storm cows lie down. Some day you may walk Into a Held and see a flock of sheep In a corner with their backs turned to the north west If you wait long enough you will see a wind blow up from that di rection. At other times the sheep run and bound over the fields, rearing on their hind feet as if they were fighting imag inary foes. This Indicates a disturb ance of the atmosphere and the ap proach of a brisk storm. Hogs, as would be typical of them, grunt before It rains. When lions eat revenously circus trainers know there Is going to be bad weather. Then they take particular precautions In fastening the poles and ropes of circus tents. Birds also evince feelings of discom fort before Inclement weather. Swal lows fly low, rooks caw discordantly, and peacocks and guinea hens cry con stantly. Water fowl before a rain make a bee line for a lake or river. The weather has a noticeable effect on fish of all kinds. Fishermen will tell you that trout become electrified with energy before a storm. As If in Joyful anticipation of a feast, sharks disport playfully about ships before a hurricane rises. Persons living near rivers or streams can gauge the weather by the croak of frogs. As the weather becomes warm and dry or wet and disagreeable the frog's croak varies, ascending and de scending In the scale of sound like a barometer. Detroit News-Tribune. Will Give Fiancee Proof. There Is a man In Pittsburg who will be married In a short while and will occupy the house a few rooms of which he has used during his bachelor days. He takes the greatest pleasure in showing his Intimate friends about the place and Is especially delighted at the astonishment they express when his own "den" is reached. He has al ways been a quiet, studious fellow, but as refitted the room gives the ap pearance of the lounging place of a regular rounder. There are racks of long pipes, photographs of actresses are stuck about the chimney glass, a shelf of beer steins runs all the way around the room and a few feminine gloves, handkerchiefs and fans are scattered about "Great Scott, Jack!" the last visitor gasped, "where did you get this outfit and why?" "Bought out a college fellow," was the complacent reply. "Just think how pleased that dear lltrte girl will be when she sees all this truck and thinks how much wickedness she has won me away from!" Harper's Weekly. Refute Oaler'a Theory. Mrs. Eddy was 40 when she dis covered Christian Science, Just as Mrs. Stowe was 40 when she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Scott began the Waverly novels when he was 43; Mohammed was 52 when the heglra marked the be gfnnlng of his great work ; Swedenborg was 54 years old when what Is called his Illumination began, and If Newton and Darwin had regarded themselves as past their best at 40 there would now be neither the Prlnclpla nor Tha Origin of Species. Answering; a Fool Question. The attendant In the dentist's offlca approached the man with the swollen Jaw who had Just entered. "Do you want to have a tooth ex- tracted?" she Inquired. "Want to!" he snorted. "Want tol What do you think I am, a lunatic! I've got to." Ann Arbor Chaparral. Oaly Rarely Though. Once In a while you meet an oM vi. lege graduate who remembers what the words toe initials in the name of hl.i Greek letter society stood for wera Sosaervllle Journal