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; r 1 1 Y i r ' A-' 1 MS 4 is I rVLi-vK TO. li I ' Nk Novelized by PORTER EMERSON BROWNE From the Play of f)&!&jf fi'SSV 2 the Same Name by Booth Tarkintfton and Harry Leon Wilson iT'A IJ I COPYRIGHT. 1910. BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION jKSA IcosnscKB. Chapter 10 klinr.E was despair at Valette. despair profound. A uight bad come and pone, aud uow it was morning, and still she bad not been found. Leagues they had traveled through wood and brake, through road nud forest path a father prim eyed, prim Jawed: a priest with close set lip and anxious eyes; a bent, little old man who could do nothing but play the organ. And the bride- ' I room to be he had hunted a little lo. Only the fragile old aunt and the bent old servant had remained . where had once been the splendor of Valette. the one too delicate, the other : too slow to be of assistance. Aud now ; It was morning a pi in. Lemaltre bad come from the woods Leiaaltre. who played the organ in the chapel. Aunt Marguerite saw him as he entered the pate. She was wait ing as he neared the bouse. He an swered the look of eyes, shaking bis bead. She cried softly: I "My poor brother?' j -Come, mn'm'.elle." said Louise; j "one must not give up hope that she has been safe all the time." "Safe:' eiclaimed Mile, de Valette. "Little Madeleine alone in the forest! And all 1 may do is to pray that my brother has found herT" Louise shruig-d her bent shoulders. ' "That cold blooded M. liaoul there he does not need any one to pray for him: See him: Uow calmly be . 83 on the poivh yonder: lie pave ; up the search pretty early, eh? Ah. ' that Is one sort of bridegroom: And 1 think If one sort of misfortune has befallen bm he deserves It." "One sort of misfortune." repeated Mile, de Valette. "What do you mean by "oae sort of misfortune J" '" "I have my ideas," replied .old Louise sa-ely. "Now It is mure than twenty-four hours that Mile. Made laiae has been lost. Ha: If skw luui wished to be found, ake weuUl bav Uren. Su weut nway withuut telling anybody. I have though to myself: Why did she do that? Was it be cause she did not HUe this marriage, ' perhaps? You want the answer. I " think you can see it, sitting on the porch yonder." "Silence." commanded Mile, de Va lette angrily "You're a fool'." The " old servant watched her go. i Bhe did not see M. Raoui de Valette as be left his chair upon the porch and came toward her. He was be side her when, at length, she repeated to herself: "Fool."" j He said, smiling at ber shoulder: "1 trust you address yourself, good ; woman." She turned. "It might be that I spoke to the blind. M. itaoul." j "And who is blind here?" She shrugged her shoulders. i "All of you perhaps," she returned. "Because we have not found Mile. Madeleine ?' "Perhaps because you search only In the woods for her." He asked slowly: "Where do you think we should look for her?" She answered deliberately: "Nowhere where you are, M'sieur , Raoui." "Then." he said musingly, "you do not think that she la lost." "Oh, maybe." i jj Professional Bit ectory of Wallowa County AMtaiiiaitiiiaj.a.AAii..fiiii,t t rj. THOS. M. DILL f ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 1 Office first door south of New Fraternal BUig, Enterprise, Ore. i Z t BURLEIGH & BOYD ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW , - Practice lu all State Courts and Interior Department. Careful at- T tention to aU business. r 2 D. W. LAWYER SHEAHAN ENTERPRISE Practice In State and Federal L Courts and Interior Department. Our entire stock of .men's and boy's clothing goes on aale at great- ly reduced prlcn, Saturday Jun 4. yr. J. Funk C. . "AU I MAT DO IB TO PRAT THAT MT BUOTilEU HAS COCNO HEB. "You mean because she wishes to be lost?' "Who can tell? "That is. she hide." "Who knows?' He said, with a half smile: "1 find the Idea singularly unflatter ing to myself." He turned to find himself face to fai-e with Father O'Mara. tired of face, with broad shoulders bowed a little. "You bring good news. 1 trust, sir?" Inquired Raoui. O'Mara shook his bend. "None." be said, and then: "M. de Valette is coming back. I persuaded him. If he does not rest Not a word, not a trace, of her anywhere. At any other time we could have had all the neighborhood to help us. But the young men uiarehed last night, and the rest won't assist not out of beart lessness. There's come a rumor that (ienernl Jacksen fought n great battle above New Orleans this morning, and amy r the Uter. they don't know wiHt b. was aluiMt niawacred. Try to thlak of soiuerhinp to say to your cousin. If anything bas happened to her" He shoek his head again. "De Valette had come uow. The long 'night bad told upon him sadly, yet eyes ar.d jaws were still set grimly. In them there was no weakening. He looked at them both at his cous in, at the priest. "Mind this." he said "I have not given up." liaoul said slowly: "If 1 may suggest. Isn't there Just a possibility Could It be that you seek in the wrong direction?" "She was seen to enter, the woods." returned De Valette. "But," persisted Raoui. "suppose ahe herself bad hot wished to be seen. It Is a te.vt to my modesty, but I am willing to admit that Mile, de Valette may not have been captivated by the alliance you proposed to her." "That Is unthinkable, sir'." cried De Valerte. "Her obedience Is unques tioned." "Obedience:" repeated Raoui. "Tes. perhaps. P.ut the circumstances are peculiar, even significant. I am pre sented to her as her betrothed. Then she vanished. Her motive? 1 argue a previuus fancy." "15 more definite," commanded De Valeite. "But what Is more natural," insisted Raoui. with a light shrug of his shoill ders, "than that a young lady. In her Chase for .butterflies, nerbans.. mv Tales Out of School. Suitor I 8ui)te your father is alto gether taken up with business? Her Little Brother Yes. dad thinks of nothing el.se. That must have been why ma said to sister last night that If you meant business It was about time you talked to papa. Brooklyn Life. Heard at the Hub. "And bow old are you, little girl?" "Sis." "And bow is It you are out walking without vour inaruina?" "Oh. mamma doesn't go in for exer-i else. Really, we have very little In ' common."- Houston Chronicle. , CHARLES THOMAS LAWYER ENTERPRISE, ORE. I Practice in State and Federal t Courts and Int. Dept. Abstract J Bldg., opposite court house. A A A itm A Ji A t - -- -- - - - -- - tTTTTTTtTTTTttTTTTTttttTT Something new Kirsh curta,ln rods and portier poles for the first time ' in Enterprise. Como In and see j them at F. S. Ashley's. meet a youth to her Inclination"" ne stopped. Ie Valette had come close to him and was looking at bin) with his grim eyes. "M. Raoui de Valette." he said, his voice low and tense, "yon sneak of a demoiselle De Vnlette. I could forget that you are my cousin: I cannot for get that you are a guest In my honse." He turned on his heel and left hint, and Father O'Mara followed. Raoui de Vulette watched them go. He smiled a little, flickering from silk en hose with cambric handkerchief an imaginery hit of dust. The sound of singing came to blm. It was a voice tbat he knew. He listened to the words: "I'ete de nult est le tempe le plus. Pour lesctseaux imanu qui cherchant le repose. Le coucou a vole le nld de I'orlor. Pauvre p'tlt marl! Pauvre I'orlot!" He repeated the words, translating: "In summer at night the matins Is best. At twilight they're winging their way borne to rest. The cuckoo has stolen the oriole's nest. Poor little husband! Poor oriole!" And then she came following ber song. She saw him; she stopped; the mocking smile was on her hps. He said sternly: "1 told you to go!" She returned with great pretense of sympathy of concern: "Ah. my Raoui: Could I leave you alone, unprotected, among these peo ple! They might fool you. They might marry you. after all. to that little one who yesterday was a child:" "What do you know of her?' he de manded swiftly. She laughed wildly. "M'sieur Itaoul de Valette Is quite an old gentleman!" she cried. "Quite an old gentleman!" Her mirth rang loud. "If M. de Valette bears that you know anything of his daughter," be said through bis teeth, "he'll not stop at half measures to get it out of you." Again she laughed, this time scorn fully. "Half measures!" she repeated. "They are not needed. 1 came to tell. Only I stop to observe that M. Raoui is not half so young and not nearly so pretty as" "As whom?' he demanded violently. She looked at him over one rounded shoulder tantalizingly. "As shall we say M'sieur Gilbert Steele?' "That found ber asleep yesterday!" let again she laugh ed. "He bas awak ened her!" She continued iu al tered tones swiftly. "S h e came looking for him in the woods. She had forgotten you. He bad to go after the soldiers, and she went after him!" He stood for a moment in si lence. Then be 8 a I d slowly. harshly: "Last night! "That ends it" "last .sight! that ENDS IT." TO BE COSTIUCED.J Somebody has dug up a contempo rary account of the flood. But Noah scooped him. He knew about It be- j fire It happened. $ W. C. KETCHCM I I DENTIST - ENTERPRISE I Office Borland Balding. Home 7 $ Independent Phone. 2 C. T. HOCKETT. M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON i Office upstairs in Bank Build- lng. Ind. Home phone in office 2 and residence. 4 DR. C. A, AULT PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office In Bank Building. Homo phone both .office and residence. J Virgil Samms, grandson of Mr. and Sirs. V. P. Samms, of this city, has been awarded a four years' scholarship In Whitmaa college for boy who 0 iigp'u COPYRIGHT. 1910. BY AMERICAN The Festive Codfish. A correspondent of the New Tork i Tost says that the codlish frequents I "the tablelands of the sea.". The cod fish no doubt dftcs thin to secure as nearly as possible a dry. bracing at mosphere. This rure air of the sub marine tablelands gives to the codlish that breadth of chest and depth of lungs that we have so often noticed. The plad. free smile of the codfish is largely attributed to the exhilaration of this oceanic altiioodleuiu. The cor respondent further says that the "cod fish subsists largely on the sea cherry." Those who have not had the pleasure of seeing the codfish climb the cherry tree In search of food or clubbing the fruit from the heavily laden brauches with chunks of coral have missed a very fine sight. The codfish when at home rambling through the submarine forests does not wear his vest unbut toned as he does while loafing around the grocery stores of the United States. -Bill Nye. A High Priced Fricassee. Lord Alvuulcy. a noted wit nud high liver In Knglnnd a hundred yenrs or so ago. Insisted on having tin apple tart on his dinner table every day throughout the year. On one occasion he paid a caterer $1,000 for a luncheon put up iu a busket that sufficed u small boating party golug up the Thames. Being one of a dozen men dining together at a Loudon club where each was re quired to produce his own dish. Alvan ley's, as the most expeustve. won him the advantage of being entertained free of cost. This benefit was gained at an expense of $540, that being the price of a simple fricassee composed entirely of the "uois." or small pieces at each side of the back, taken from thirteen kinds of birds, among them being 100 snipe. 40 woodcocks nud 20 pheasants lu all about 300 birds. Our Eccentric PHrases. Why do we always talk of puttiug on a coat aud vest? Who puts on a coat before a vest? We also say put ting on shoes and stockings. Who puts on shoes before the stockings? We also- put up sigus telling people to wipe their feet wlito we mean their boots or shoes. And a father tells a boy he will warm his jacket when he means to warm his pantaloons. We ore a little eccentric In our phrases at times. An Odd Epitaph. The following epitaph Is to be found in a cemetery withiu seven miles- of New York's city halt: RiMiflir rma nn- dnn't waste votir time . 1 ,1 ......l.ir nnit kltta. .hum. For what 1- am this crumbling clay in sures. Ar.d what i was Is no affair of yours. In the Game. 1 "I am In the bands of my friends," said the political sidestepper. "Yes." replied the harsh critic, "and every time your frieuds look over their bands they seem Impatient for a new deal." Washington Star. The Proper Tree. Curious Charley Do nuts grow' on , trees, father? Father They do. my ; son. Curious Charley Then what tree ! does the doughnut grow on? Father The "pantree," my sou.-Purple Cow. Never Good. ' Fogg That's a bad cold you have, old man. Fenderson Did you ever hear of a good cold, you Idiot? Bos ton Transcript. All phone orders for bus to and from depot promptly attended to. White Front barn. Home phone. 97b I the best standing in (he Pocatello ! high school wheie he was graduat I ed this spring. Virgil is a son of V. A.eSamms, well known herf, and who is a civil engineer and U. S. deputy mineral surveyor located at Pacatello. The relatives and many friends her are 'jU3ily proud at the young man's fine record. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION ISO LATED TRACT. PUBLIC LAND, "SALE. Department of the Interior. U. S. Laud Office at La Grande, Or egon, Slay 16th, 1910. NoUce is hereby given that, as directed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, under provis ions of Act of Congress approved Jaae 27, 1906 (34 Stats., 517), we will offer at public sale to the high est bidder, at 10 o'clock A. SI., on the 8Ui day of July, 1910, at this of fice, the following -described land: The NWVi SE4 and the NE4 SW M Section 29, T. 1 S, R. 4i E. "W. SI, Serial No. 0C756. Any persons claiming adversely the above-described land are ad vised to file their claims, or objec tions, on or before the time desig nated for sale. 39c5 F. C. Bramwell, Register. Colon R. Eberhard, Receiver. PRESS ASSOCIATION United States Land Notices NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION ISO LATED TRACT. PUBLIC LAND SALE. Department of the Interior. U. S. Land Office at La Grande, Or egon. -Vay 7th, 1910. Notice is herby given that, as lirected by the Commissioner of the Jeneral Land Office, under provis ons of Act of CongTess approved une 27, 1906 (34 Stats., 617), we ;I1I offer at public sale, to the high- bidder, at 10 o'clock a. m., on je 7th day of July, 1910, at this office, the following-described land: The SVj NW Sec. 10, T. 1 R. 4i E.W. M., Serial No. 06791. Any persons Calming adversely the above-described land are advised to file 'their claims, or objections, on lr before the time designated for sale. 38c5 F. C. Bramwell, Register. Colon R. Eberhard, Receiver. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION ISO LATED TRACT. PUBLIC LAND SALE. Department of the Interior. U. S. Land Office at La Grande, Or egon, May 14th, 1910. Notice is hereby given that, as JiTected by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, under provis ions of Act of Congre38 approved uiinr 27, 1906 (34 Stats., 517), we vMi offer at public aale to the hlgh sr bidder, at 10 o'clock A. M., on ;hu 12th day of July, 1910, at this of fice, the following-described land: The SE4 NV, SWVi & JOSEPH I will have the greatest celebration on July 3, 4, and 5 ever held in Wallowa County There will be all kinds of Games, Sports, Races, Boot Races, Etc., for valuable prizes. Fine music, dancing, and every amusement the heart could wish It will be held at the head of beau tiful Wallow: Lake, the finest sum mer resort in Oregon Low Excursion Rates from all points on the 0. R. & N., tickets on sale Sunday, July 3, good for return until Tues day, July 5 Everybody cordially invited to celebrate with us i I CONCRETE WORK TiOf all kinds.IIf you believe in beautifying Enterprise, you must believe in making that beauty enduring. TjConcrete is enduring it will render city beauty a "Concrete Reality." See us for any and all kinds of Concrete; Work. MARKS BROTHERS, General Contractors. ! L. BERLAND Z Dealer in Harness, Saddles, Chapps, Spurs ana Learner boodsofall descriptions. j I will fit you out with the best goods for the least money. When in need of anything in my line, call and inspect my stock before purchasing. ENTERPRISE, - - - . OREGON ttxxxxxttxtxx la Grande Iron Works. D. FITZGERALD, Proprietor. Foundry and Machine Shop. Casting and Ma f chine Work done on short notice. WE ALSO MANUFACTURE FEED MILLS Sawmill break down jobs promptly attended to GIVE US A TRIAL SWVi SE4 Sec. 28, T. 1 N.. R. 45 E. W. M., Serial No. 07301. Any persons claiming adversely the above-descrlted land are ad vised to file their claims, or objec tions, on or before tDe "me "de lated for sale. 39c5 F. C. Bramwell, Register. Colon R. Eberhard, Receiver. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION ISO LATED TRACT. PUBLIC LAND SALE. Department of the Interior, rj. S. Land Office at La Grande, Or jgon. May 23d, 1910. Notice Is hereby given that, a lirected by the Commissioner of the General Land Offlc, under provis .ons of Act of Congress approved lune 27, 1906 (34 Stats., 617), we .vlU offer at public sale, to the high est ttddeir, at 10 o'clock A. M., on he 14th day. of July, 1910, at this of Ice. the following-described land: The SBVi SV Sec. 18, T. 1 S., a. 45 E. W. M., Serial No. 0C773. Any persons claiming adversely th ibove-deHcribed land, are advised to lie theiir claims, or objections, on ir before the time designated for tale. 41c5 F. C. Bramwell, Register. Colon R. Eberhard, Receiver. Japalac, varnish stains, linseed oil it Burnaugh & Mayfleld'p W. B. APPLEGATE. Notary Public . Collections made. Real Estate bought and sold and all business matters attended to. Call on or write me. PARADISE. OREGON. txxxxxxxxxt P