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BY BOOTH TARSsNfiTON andHASRY LEON WILSON
NOVELIZES FROM THE PIAYBY-W.B.MJERGUSON
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CHAFTEH XI.
1HAT sc et?' demanded
w
Aaron, wr at the magic
name "Moreau" bis com
panion and lie were instant
i3'
ly all attention. "What secret V ha
again peremptorily demanded.
"I see them speak together sly," said
Poulette, nodding her head and screw
lag up her eyes lu a maimer that bod
ed ill for the amative and untruthful
lir. Croup. "I can tell that they did
not wish you to see. Then wheu you
come from dinner Colonel Moreau he
Land this to Croup behiud the door.
Croup he keep it iu he breast pocket
until he fall asleep on peareh just uow.
1 have look. It is all those camels"
"Camels-" dryly echoed Aaron, with
raised eyebrows.
"Oui. ink-he." confidently inV-.led
Toulette. evidently no whit amazed al
the idea of the spotted haudlierchief
being uble to accommodate such r.nl
Dials. "All those camels the colouel
gea'eniau wear when lie Is come, wear
them on his fob ehalu." And sue
0)uod the spotted handkerchief.
"Cunieos. M. Aaron:" exclaimed Ana
tole. an exultaut light leaping to Ols
eyes. "See. there they are. Now 1
kuow. You saw Colonel Morei'u wbeu
tie started for that meeting tins morn
ing. You saw him when Tom liaudall
litis meeting this morulug You saw
lilui when Tom Ituudull has give him
that pistol of his father's to go and
kill wbo'r Km one man -Cameo Kir
by!" he crii'-u. leveling his arm at the
MurtleU Aaron
And. us it turrher pro6f were need
ed, evident wiisch proved beywud a
doubt ttif ,.!i.ier identity of the uu
weieowe go. t. Croup entered with a
note, whirl) tie b.ind"d to 11. Veaudry.
"Man on horeiack ride all de way
from de city wif It," he explained.
Hastily scanning It, the young creole
handed i; in silence to Mr. Itaudull.
icitl ttie Hitler I ad:
:..oie view to run down, but
I snail i" iw I uis within tne hour i
hear a rui. or Mat Colonel Moreau tool
tile luurn) with you this morning, it
tnu i Hue. st-cuie his portmanteau, ana
If De i still at tne plantation do not al
low mm to fjult the place till 1 come
Le any n.euna lo prevent his leaving
1 Hj not l-.'-ate at force. Colouel Moreau
i niLi'dervd thl mornlna by Cameo
Kirby. TOM K.NhAiu
Aamu gravely returned the letter to
bis coinpauiou, nn for ; .oug moment
-two meu looked at each other iu
silence. Then M. Veaudry quietly
placed the paper lu hls pocket, turned
on bis tieel and strode from the room.
Mr. It.indall obediently following. At
last they had arrived at a complete un
derstanding regarding the Identity and
disposition of the troublesome guest
who boldly masqueraded under the
name of Colonel Moreau. That no
words had been necessary testilied to
the sinister character of the resolve
upon which they had mutely deter
mined. Prom the balcony Larkin Bunce.
chewing impatiently on his cheroot,
waited for Allele to leave the drawing
room. It was imperative that he
should have a final word with Kirby.
Escaping from the music room before
"The others, he had been in time to
catb a glimpse of Aaron Randall's
face as the latter followed M. Veaudry,
and the sight had not been a comfort
ing one, the old gambler feeling assur
ed that something untoward bad hap
pened. It would not have surprised
him If their respective identities had
at last been discovered.
"I knowed we'd L'et it If we stayed."
-he commented gloomily. " wonder if
this means it's mrne." glowering at
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j Aaron's retreating back.
And yet. looking through the win
dow, he discerned Klrby seated at the
card table negligently toying with the
pasteboards and frittering away the
time with Adele as If secure in the
peace and happiness of his own home.
Such indifference was maddening, in
explicable, and the old gambler, with
a uual Imprecation, decided that tbe
moment Adele had goue he would con
vey a last warning to his partner, and
! If it was still uuheeded he would then
, think of his own safety and. however
: difficult It would prove, leave Klrby
to the fate he de-erved.
Meanwhile- that gentleman was i-alm-ly
pursuing his dialu'iie with Adele.
"You ask me if I si hi serry 1 did not
I go." he was saying. "Miss Itai.dail,
what Is n man who acts against all
the reason he his?"
Sometimes lie Is a hero." she re
plied, steadily ineetiug his eyes.
"And sometimes he's a fool." he add
ed grimly. "Things come so suddenly
. sometimes that you can hardly get
your breath quick euough to tell what
to do. Yet." he added musingly, "you
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if ti
BS DI3CEIIXKD KIRBT SKATED AT THE
CAltD TADLL.
do know all the time, underneath,
what you ought to do. For instance,
1 know that I ought not to be here
uow. 1 haven't uuy right. And, then,
I ought to le bunting the man who
stole a silver mounted pistol at the
oaks this morning."
"Uut you can't do that," she expos
tulated, uodding wisely. "Your friends
would"
"Miss naudall, I've got only one
friend In the world, aud he's out there
on the balcony swearing cuss words at
me because I don't go."
She turned away, evincing sudden
and vital Interest In a book she had
read twice over aud knew by heart.
"Io you think you have a right to
say that you have ouly one friend?"
she asked gently.
"I I hadn't thought of you as a
friend. Miss Itaudall."
"Why? How do you tbaik of me?"
suddenly facing bim. her eyes half
timid, half daring, demanding a sin
cere answer.
"Why Just as you. Miss Adele and
i ought uot to think of you at all."
"Ijo you mean because this unjust
charge Is banging over you? Do you
think I care for that? Is there any
other reason?"
He nodded, permitting the cards to
fall from bla hand one by one to tho
table. "Yes: there Is another reason.
Yi.u rememberwhatMercutlo said oJT
CANARY GERM DISCOVERED.
inoculation Serum Prepared by Pa
risian Scientists.
Nothing is too small for the atten
tion of the I'asteur Institute in I'arls.
provided it Is connected In any way
i will) infection. If appears that the
: canary suffers from a sort of marsh
l"ver. communicated to It by an Insect
f.nown as the codex. Dr. Itoux. the
Lead of the institute, has told the
I Academy of Science that the bacillus
. of this fever has been isolated and
a scrum made to Inoculate other ca
j mules.
; Canaries vaccinated with this serum
proved comparatively Immune against
the attacks of the codex, while non
Inoculated birds suffered severely when
attacked.
A Slight Chang.
Slight change sometimes make a
great difference. "Dinner for nothing.'
; would be agreeable, for Instance: not
o. "Nothing for dinner."
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V. G. TRILL,
Attorney and Counselor-at-Law
Office in Borland Building, En
terprwe, Oregon.
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Tils wounO "Tis neitiicr as Tleep as'a
well nor as wide us a cuurch door, bur
'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow;
you shall And me a grave man The
bad prince oulit uot to stay too loug,
jou know."
She seated herself at the table and
scrutinized him with grave, troubled
eyes, her chin reposing daintily on the
crux of arched hands. "You must
make It clearer to me than that. What
are you afraid of my limi.ug out!"
i He shrugged anil smiled. "Mfe
t.iakes some pretty .jiieor shuttles. Miss
' Uandiill, anil yi u can't fool mueh with
the deck yourself." de said, somewhat
Irrelevantly, picking up the cards aud
! unconsciously beginning to rillte tlieni.
I "If you don't play the game square
It's ouly a question of lime till you get
taught, and then uobody will play with
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PEBUAPS WITH ONE WOMAN HE COULDN'T
liU UKAIfcS."
I
you. I don't know why Life dealt me
the baud I bold. All 1 know ls.J've
, got to play the cards according to rule
Sometimes I've found that mighty,
bard. I keep wishing aud wishing
. there'd be a different hand dealt, but
wishing won't change it. It was the
shuffle that settled It long ago."
-"I dou't think, sir, that you've said
anything that concerns you and me
very much." she commented, glancing
, up shyly.
i " -Concerns you and me.'" he echoed
1 sadly, aud, rising, he began to pace
the room. "Miss Uaudall, let me tell
you something," he added at length,
halting and regarding her fixedly.
"One evening toward sunset 1 was
leaning over the rail of a Mississippi
river steamboat, and. not finding much
pleasure lu what I was thinking about,
I put my hand casually into my pock
et and drew out a deck of playing
cards, card.s that had been used well,
considerably. I contemplated them a
moment aud then let them fall from
my hand. They dropped Into the wa
ter in a kind of little shower. And
then a curious thing happened. Those
shabby old playiug cards floated along
side a rosebush all in bloom that some
body had evidently planted too near
a caving back upstream. It seemed
as if they kind of hoped to go along
with It on Its Journey, but It didn't
look right. The rosebush was too
pretty for bad companions like that.
And then, one by one, those shabby
playing cards, lying on tbelr backs in
the water, began to, sink under and
Aown. Then along came an eddy and
caught that pretty rosebush and swung
it out into the current, aud away it
Bent down the stream, hauoy ant
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proud In Just a'glory of "sunshine and
sparkle. It served tbiwe old playing
cards right. They ougbt to have been
drowned for trying to keep company
so high above them. That's what I
thought looking down from the bout's
rail."
Without consclou effort or any at
tempt at elocution Klrby had told the
little allegory with simple feellug and
sincerity, his manner growing more
abstracted until at the conclusion It
seemed as If he were speaking to his
Inner self, taklug counsel with all that
was best in him. Silence ensued, while
Adele looked dreamily away, and he
continued to stare at the cards, but
seeing them not.
"Does a man nlwnys stop to think
whether he has a right or not?" she
ventured at length, speaking so low
that he strained forward to catch the
words
"Doesn't a woman always want talra
to?" he gravely returned.
"Ah, but there Is something a wo
man wants a maa to do more than
that she wants him uot to give up
anything till he is beaten," she whis
pered. "Suppose he Is the kiud of man that
ought to be beaten?"
She arose, throwing the scarf about
her shoulders, and walked meditatively
to the door.
"Rut mightn't It be perhaps perhaps
jvitb one woman." she whispered, "he
couldn't be beaten even then?"
Astonished at her own daring, she
gave a little gasp, then incontinently
fled, while Klrby stood staring after
her. fearing to interpret her words. lie
turned with a start as Itunce strode
through the balcony window.
"Well, have you told her goedby?"
snapiH'd Larkin. who had interpreted
the foregoing passage as a species of
farewell.
"No." said Kirby violently. Irritated
at t lie interruption.
"Well. I reckon It's about time to
sit down and take a good hard think"
warned the other, pacing the room like
an excited sentry. "Do you think you
could git this girl?" he continued, with
heavy sarcasm. "How jibc.ut It when
Etie finds out who you are Cameo
Kirby?", . -
"L'asy on that came, Larkin!"
"Easy on the name:'" bellowed
Bunce. appealing to the celling. "Why,
it's been sbriekin' through this house
ever since you got here. There's been
two fellers within ten feet of you ali
the time who never took their eyes
ofTn you that young Veaudry and
Aaron Itai'd.ill Do you reckon they
think you're Colonel Moreau? Why, I
seen them leave the house a short spell
Lack, and I'd be wiliiu' to bet my Im
mortal soul they're on to our makeups
and are pluuniu' to raise h with us.
1 tell you ibis place Is gittin' too hot
for Larkin Itunce You haven't said
goodby to her? Well, then. I'll sa.i
goodby to u. Somebody's got to be
loose. I wouldn't be no good to yoii
nor to me elther-lu jail. For the last
time," he pleaded, making an Implor
ing gesture with bjs trembliug hands,
"are you coinlu' with me?"
Klrby, who hud quietly resumed his
place at the table, now slowly shuttled
the deck aud carefully Inspected the
curd that bad turned up.
"No," he said, with grave finality,
"I'm not goiug with you,, my friend.
The band's dealt; I'll play it out."
"For God's sake. Gene!" implored
Bunce. "Then I got to emit you. .You
know what thia means to. me," be add
ed despairingly. "I hate to go. but
there's no sense lu my staviu'."
j "No. Aud I thank you for staying
as long as you have, interrupted Kir
by, with a smile, rising aud placing his
band on the other's shoulder. "I'm
afraid I haven't been thinking very
much of you, old partner. But I'm go
ing to stay call It what you like
However, this is not your hand. Ijir
kin, aud I dou't want you to help me
play it out. Go, by all means, aud at
once. Did you get a fresh horse?"
"A fresh horse? Why, I wouldn't
even durst to ask -for the one 1 come
on," cried Bunce, mopping bis face.
"You don't seem to rightly size up the
mess we're in. Gene. 1'11'be lucky to
git out on my own two feet. I don't
even know where they put my bat.
and I'm skeered to ask for it. Then it
ain't no more use my asklu' you to
come?"
"No more use than in your staying,"
said Klrby.
Bunce hesitated for a moment, then
thrust out bis huge band.
"Goodby, you durned fool!" be gasp
ed, choking up.
"Goodby, Larkin, but don't bet ttint
It is goodby. They won't get me. I'll
ride your horse into town for you to
morrow." Bunce bestowed a final helpless ap
peal upon the ceiling, gave bis part
ner's band a farewell wrench, then
lumbered hastily from the room, while
Kirby, bumming softly to himself,
trolled to the open window aud. lean
ing negligently against its frame, gave
himself up to retrospect.
De wanted to be uloue; be wanted to
think, to dream, to go over aud over
again every word that Adele bad 8K
ken. every smile, every gesture. Ills
thoughts were solely of the Immediate
present aud past. For the (uture he
did" not care-nelther Tom Randall's
homecoming nor his owu Inevitable
unmasking. lie wondered what be
would have lieen. what the end would
have been, bad his early life been laid
lu pleasanter Hues less harsh, less
louely. Yes. utter loneliness was a
great and sinister factor lu molding
man's destiny. What tf the last of the
Klrbys bad proved an bouor to the
old name, instead of a professional
river gambler! Aud why was be re
maining? Was uot the allegory of
the rosebush too bitterly true? Why
bad Adele said those last words: "But
mightn't It be perhaps with one wo
man be couldu't be beaten, eveu then?"
Yes. it wight be, and It would be.
aud the truth of it bud been proved
since the begiunlng of time. But. even
It she were willing and knew Dim for
what he was, could be rightly ask the
sacrifice? Yet those words hud awak
en Hi a fierce longing, bad held out a
promise of hope. - And he could not
utterly renounce, not Just yet. Per
haps He turned as a band tugged at bis
sleeve, turned to confront old Croup,
who had stolen noiselessly to his side.
'JIarse Gene, fo' Gawd's sake look
out!" whispered Croup, bis face gray
with anxiety, bis voice trembliug with
suppressed excitement. "I's feared It's
too lute fo' yo' to git away. Marse
Anatole done ride out de stable lak
he's crazy, au" If yo' listen to de quiet
jut youueh yo' kind hear bosses
a-coniln' down de big rond. an' dey
cumin' on de gallop. Marse Gene. Old
Croup mighty skeered fo' yo'. honey."
Klrby turned an attentive ear to
ward the softly stealing south wind
that harbinger of danger. Yes. the
hoof bents were now Insistently audi
ble, drawing uearer and nearer with
every passing second. More than one
horse, too say a dozen, if be was any
judge.
"Thank yon for the warning. Croup."
he said quietly, preserving bis attitude
of idle Indifference as if discussing
the most trivial commonplace. "1
quite agree with you that It is too
lute to think of escape."
(To be continued.)
$85,000 GUNS TO
LAST 70
Uncis Sam's Armament For New
Dreadnoughts Expensive,
TONNAGE FIGURES ENORMOUS
Two Nsw Battleships Greater Than
Entire American Fleet at Time of
Spanish War Fourteen Inch Rifles
Largest In History of World'a War
fare and Most Costly.
At its last session the congress au
thorized the construction of two titanic
ships of war and stipulated that they
be armed with fourteen Inch riljes. the
most powerful weapons yet construct
ed. These guns cost $30,000 eachf and.
although It seems lucredible, yet it
is no less true that under the excessive
pressures of battle conditions the life
of these expensive weapons Is only
seventy rounds.
The distinctive features of these
Dreadnoughts lie In the tremendous
battery which they are designed to
carry and tho increased size which the
increase In the weight and power of
the main battery has made necessary.
The plans contemplate a displace
ment of about 27.000 tons as against
the 20.000 of the Delaware and the
North Dakota. America's pioneer bat
tleships of the Dreadnought type,
which were but recently commissioned.
Greater Than 1898 Fleets.
The united tonnage of the giant
twins Is far greater than was our
entire battleship tonnage at the time
of the war with Spain, including even
the Maiue. whose destruction brought
about the war. The fleet that block
aded Santiago was reckoned as a for
midable one In its day. the battle
line comprising the superb Iowa, the
heavily armed aud armored Indiana.
Massachusetts and Oregon and the
bard lighting old Texas.
So much for the size of the two new
vessels. Turn uow to their armament.
The plans contemplate a battery of
ten fourteen-lnch rifles for each ship.
These weapons are by far the most
powerful ever const ructed for any navy,
greatly exceeding In range and bitting
power the tw.'lve inch guns with which
the Delaware and tbe North Dakota
ure r-':d
Wiiij a weight of C3.3 tons tbe new
giiu Is more thnn teu tons heavier
than the twelve Inch type carried by
the Dreadnoughts that tbe United
States now has in commission. Tbe
weight of tbe projectile which the new
gun will carry is 1.400 pounds. TUe
weight of the powder charge will be
about 450 pounds. Tbe designed muz
zle energy of the new weapon is C5.C00
foot tons.
Example la Appalling.
To translate this Into plainer Eng
lish aud to afford some Idea of what
this power means. let the reader sup
pose the lti.000 tons of the battleship
Connecticut euiplnced on top of tbe
f.usltanla. whose displacement Is32.f00
tons, and the biggest of the Fall River
steamboats superimposed on top of all.
Next try to conceive of the united,
weight of tbe three and the power that
would be required to lift them. Tbe
muzzle energy of this gun exerted at
the moment of discharge is so tremen
dous that It would be able to lift all
three vessels one foot.
The mechanism of the carriage must
In the fraction of a second take up and
absorb a shock equal to that of a
heavy engine and five Pullman coaches
running at a speed of seventy miles an
hour aud brought to a sudden stop a
stop as sudden us though such a train
had smnshed Into a atone wall. On
leavlng-tlie muzzle of the gun the shell
hus an energy equivalent to that of
train or cars weighing fi80 tons and
running at sixty miles an hour.
This energy Is sufficient to send tbe
projectile through twenty-two and one
half Inches of the hardest of steel ar
mor at the muzzle, wlille at a range
of 3.000 yards the projectile, moving
at the rate of 2.235 feet per second,
can pierce eighteen and one-balf inches
of steel armor at normal Impact
Life la Seventy Rounds.
One of the ordnance experts of the
navy made some calculations wblcb
go to show that if one of these new
fourteen Inch rifles was coustnntly
submitted to excessive pressure, such
as might ohtaiu In a hot action, the
gun could not last more than seventy
rounds.
The length of the gun Is a fraction
more than r3 feet C41 Inches, to be
exact. Although the muzzle velocity
of the projectile Is 2.000 feet a second,
tbe orcl mi nee experts have figured that
It requires one-tentb of a second for
the shell to leave the gun, this because
of tbe fact that the shell moves from
zero to 2.000 feet and that the mean
velocity must be taken. This mean
being one-tenth of a second, the actual
gas life of this $85,000 weapon is
shown to be only seven seconds.
Judging from the performance of tbe
twelve Inch guns, these greater weap
ons should be able to deliver three
shots n minute. If all ten guns of the
projected Dreadnought should be
brought Into action and should main
tain that rapidity of fire for one hoar
the cost of the ammunition expended
in the hour would reach tbe enormous
sum of $2,520,000. or about one-fourth
f the vessel's entire cost.
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