The news=record., April 30, 1910, Saturday Edition, Image 4

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Novelized by PORTER EMERSON BROWNE From the Play of
the Same Name by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson
COPYRIGHT. 1910. BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
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CO.NTINCED.
EN nil the fullness of life at Ua full .
ln.tbe utter joy of life that
comes to boys of twenty newly
freed from that exnctmg task
mlstrcss education, Gilbert Steele
threw loose the reins upon the wltb
! of his mount and let the dainty '.
buy bave her will. She shook her '
bend, curvetting, making great pretense .
of fear at blowing leaf or swinging
moss. And he laughed In sympathy
with her mood, riding erect, lithe, his
well set tip body swaying to her every
move. . . ' -,-
Down the old rond they sped. Ills
eye caught frequent vista of bayou
and marsh and meadow and some
times the spreading sweep of the river
beyond. Now and again he bent to
avoid swaying branch or dead gray
cluster of Bpiinl.-h moss.
, At 'length he , came to the bead of
the old live oak avenue that led to the
great house t!int was hln destination.
He swung his innre around the huge
old post and sped forward. At length
he could see the house..
He dl.-unoun'i'd. There was no one
about, so he tied his horse and mount
ed the crumbling steps.;
Coming to the door, he knocked.
There was no answer. He knocked
again and again and again. It was an
Important mission that he was on.
Surely some one must bo about. ' lle.:
hesitated for a moment, then, thrust
ing the door open, entered.
It was an old room and very somber.
He could see no one In It.
ne called: ; : ' , , . ..'
"Mr, de Valette! Mr. de Vniette!
Mr. de A'alettel" No one answered.
Then suddenly be saw asleep on n
mahogany sofa by the firepjace a girl.
He turned to tlploe from the room.
But then he had never seen before a
plrl quite like her so delicate, so
fragile, of such perfect benuty." There
was wltliln htm something that mndo
talra stop. He' stopped.' . There wns
something within him that bade him
go very dleutly to ber and to look at
tier more clnsely--sho, so wonderful.
And he went to ber silently, 'obeying
that within him, nud looked, bending
over the high back of the great seal.
Yes, she was beautiful very and more.
wonderful far than he had thought
the lips half parted red lips and be-
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like the plni: of a .e:w! 'i ' ', '' ''
wondering, dwp tu h. ''s'" '"
mlrutlou that comea ui luvl -i'i
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' She stirred a little, ne knew that
he should go. But theio was within
him something that would net let him,
bo be stayed. At length she stirred;
wonderful eyes of violet opened.' They
looked at him. A tiny white-hand
rose, fluttered, thou weut toward mm,
touching his coat , .. ; ;
He cried breathlessly:
Oh, pardon, parUoul"., . , . . ,
She said lu hushed voice of great
nonder:
"1 thought you were In my dream!''
He took a step back, embarra&icd,
tngers clutching his hat.
"I I came to see Mr. do Valette.'
lie said awkwardly. "1 am Mr. Roder
ick Steele's sou, Ullbort Steele. My
father has written to Mr. de Yulette.
1 I am here by appointment."
"Your name Is Gilbert?" she asked.
"Yes."
She said gravely as she rose and
faced blin:
"My name Is Madeleine."
II repeated It after her slowly, with
little intake of breath.
. "iUdttlelue Mudololuel" And then,
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clared very seriously.
There was a little pause. He asked
at length:
"Do you live here?"
"Yes," she replied. .
"How long have you lived here?'
"All my life. M. de Valette Is my fa
ther." "But why didn't 1 know?" he de
manded.. "I live within five miles!"
"Only five miles!" she cried. "Why
didn't you know?"
He said slowly, appalled with the
thought:
"I might never have known If my
father hadn't sent me here to see your
father!"
"Do you want to see my father
now?" she asked. '
He replied, with a reluctance all ap
parent: "Yes; I must." .
"Shall I go and tell him?"
"If you please." -
"Then' I will."
"Thank you," he acknowledged
lugubriously.
Bnt she did not move, nor did he,
and for a long time they stood, looking
at one another.
"nave j'ou. always lived only five
miles away?" she asked at length.
"Well," ho replied, "I've been away
a good deal. They sent me to be
educated." . ' ' ' .
"And are you?" she asked. "Are
you all educated?"
, He said seriously:
"Yes, it's finished."..
,. "Then you won't have1 to go away
any niori, will you?"
"Not to school."
She said, at length, thoughtfully:
"You must know a great deal. And
yet"- '.
."And' yet what?"
"It will be a long time," she replied
"MA.DELEIKE IT'S A WONDERFUL KAMB."
seriously, thoughtfully, "before you'll
be qulto an old gentleman, won't it?"
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WEUE IN MY DUE Ail."
He said boyishly: ' ' '
: "Why, no! I'm twenty alrendy."
: "You'ro twenty years old," she
repeated, marveling.
, "And," he went on, "I'll be twenty
ono In less than a year."
"But," she protested, "you're only
twenty now. I'll be twenty in less
than three years." ,
"Then," ho said Impressively, "I am
Just three years older than you. Well,
1 think a .muu ought to be three years
older than a woman."
She asked, a little troubled:
. "Very much older J"
"Welt," he 'returned judicially, "en
three or four years."
She turned toward the window.
"Isn't It lovely out la the sun
today ?' she asked. '
"I came pretty fast," he said. "1
gnuopcu an tue way,"
i "Did your she cried,
color is your horse?"
"Oh, whst
' "Come look at it."
"Oh," she cried eagerly, "some time
will yon let mc ride it?"
"I should say I would!" he assented
emphatically.' There were flowers on
the table. He stopped suddenly, see
ing them.
"Did you pick these flowers?" he
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She nodded. "Just t Uttl while
ago," sm repueo. .
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"Will yon give me one?" he asked,
l bit diffidently.
She replied, In emphasis as bis own:
"I should say I would!"
She plucked from the mass upon the
able a rose, tendering it to him.
"After you've seen my father, will
'ou have to go home?" she asked. .
"Yes," he answered. "I'll have to
ake the answer to a letter."
"But you'll come back again?"
"Yes, I will."
"Can you come back this very day?"
"Yes."
"And tomorrow, too?" she persisted.
'Will you come tomorrow, too, per
haps?" "Tomorrow," he' repeated; then,
with sudden gloom, "No, I can't come
tomorrow."
"Why?" she queried.
He said slowly:
"It's a secret." :
"But," she cried brightly, "you can
come the day after." ,:
For a moment he was silent Then
he said abruptly: ;, . ,
"Do you always wear a white dress
like that?" ;
She asked wistfully: , .:
"Do you like It?" r
"It's wonderful," ha cried. "I think
all women In thejjorld ought to wear
white dresses! Andyou always wear
a white dress like that?" ,,
She said lightly:
"Well, until after I'm married to
Raoul."
He started back from her, eyes wide,
Hps apart. He said slowly, almost
dazedly: V
"Until after you're married!" .
She nodded. "Yes," she replied
casually. She was not looking at him
nowi. "You see, I'm to be married to
my cous'.n,"
"You mean it?" he asked. H could
not quite believe. .
She responded cheerfully. '
"It's all arranged. M. Raoul is quite
an old gentleman. I ' have just met
him.'.'.' He is verv nleasant" ' ir
"You're promised?" ' v ' '
"Why, yesl" She spoke with faint
surprise. To her It was quite a matter
of course. She was very young she
did not know.
He looked at her for a long moment,
eyes fixed upon, her. At length he
said, in the bitter resignation that is
of youth: ; , 1 . .
"That's all, then."
She' asked apprehensively:
" "All what?"
He said slowly very slowly:
"All of everything."
"You don't mean" she began quick
ly, y:
He swung around sharply.
"It's the last time I shall come here,"
he declared. ' ;
"But why?" she asked.
"I said that it was a secret why I
couldn't come tomorrow," he returned
bitterly. "But now I can tell you. It's
because I'm going to the war."
An Involuntary little cry left her
quivering Hps.
"Our company marches tonight" '
"You mustn't go!" she exclaimed
tensely.. "I don't want you to go!" ,
"And now I hope that I won't come
back!" He turned away.
She cried strlckenly:
"You're angry with met"
"No, I'm not."
"Yes, you are," she asserted, "or you
wouldn't go away. You wouldn't even
say that you were going. You're an
gry. What have I done?" It was all
In a breath swift, broken.
ne cried with bitterness, turning on
her:
"Do you think I want to come back
to find you married?"
"Bnt how can I help that?" she
asked tremulously. "I must be obedi
ent 1 always have been obedient."
She was before hlra, eager, agonized,
protesting. But he was obdurate. The
iron had bitten deep. He said slowly:
"I can't even see you again never."
'. A deadly pallor overspread the young
girl's face. The words of her new
found friend and admirer came to her
as a distinct shock.
lT0 BE C0NT1NCKD.
The Answer.
"A Boston woman," said an author,
"asked Lowell to write In ber auto
graph album, and the poet, complying,
wrote the line:
"'What Is so rare as a day In June?
"Calling at this woman's bouse a
few days later, Lowell Idly turned the
pages of the album until he came to
his own autograph. Beneath It was
written In a childish scrawl:
; 'A Chinaman with whiskers.' "
Hard en ths Stsward.
T. P. O'Counor while In America told
many a story about absentee land
lords. ' .
"One of these met,.' said Mr O'Con
nor, "wrote to his Kerry steward from
a Piccadilly club In the troublous days
1 of Land league and moonlighters:
! " Tell the tenants that no threats to
.hoot you will frighten me.' "-Detroit
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An Awful Insult
"Why. Susan," said a mistress to
her maid of all work, who bad been
given an evening off, "what was the
matter that you came home so early
last night? : Didn't you enjoy your
self?" ' i' :. .' . ' - '
"Up to the supper, ma'am," was the
reply, "everything was like heaven;,
but then received an Insult, and it
was my place as a self respectin'
young woman to return home."
"Who Insulted you?" .
"My young, man. He had the im
pertinence to ask me if my program
was full, an' I'm sure I'd never bad
nothin' but a sangwich an' a glass of
lemonade, nu' If you'd been' in my
place, ma'am, you'd 'a' done , as I
done." , i i ' - ,i ' . -.f
Liberty I tv Three Nations. ;
An Englishman loves - liberty as he
does bis lawful wife. ; She is a posses
sion. He may not treat ber with much
tenderness, but be knows how to de
fend her. A Frenchman loves liberty
like an affianced bride, ' He will com
mit a thousand follies for ber sake. A
German ' loves liberty like bis - old
grandmother. And yet the surly Eng
lishman may some day in a Qt of tem
per put a rope around ber' neck, and
the Inconstant Frenchman may' be
come unfaithful to bis adored one, but
the German will never quite abandon
bis old grandmother He will always
keep a nook for her In the chimney
corner, where she can tell ber fairy
tales to the listening children. Heln
rlcb Heine.
Not Much Work. '
"Some folks think that people In the
show business have an easy time of
It," said a minstrel star, "and that re
minds me of what an old farmer in a
little town said one day as he saw me
carrying the bass drum In the minstrel
parade. We bad walked nearly ' five
miles In the hot sun, and I was about
ready to drop. That big drum was
heavy. When we reached our car aft
er the parade my feet were sore, my
back ached, I -was perspiring all over
my face and was completely tired out
As I almost staggered past the old
fanner he looked at me contemptu
ously. ' '
i Huh.' he said, these actors U do
anything to get out of worklnV "
Denver Post ' "''
OAs Good Point'
Mrs Starvem-How do yon like the
Chicken soup, Mr. Newbord? Mr.
Newbord -. Oh er is this chicken
soup? Mrs. Starvem Certaluiy. how
do you' like It? Mr. Newbord Well
fer it's certainly very tender. Catho
lic Standard and Times.
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Wallowa County Title & j
Abstract Company
- . A. C. MILLER,' President ;
Office in Company's new brick building; opposite front of
new Court House, Oldest and most complete abstract plant
in county. Abstracts of titte furnished promptly and cheap
ly. Insurance written in largest and strongest companies.
- Honey Loaned at very Lowest Current Rates
I Error.-
It those alone who "sowed the j
wind did reap the whirlwind" It :
would be putt. But the mischief -Is
that the blindness of lilpotry. i
the niadueys. ' of ambition and
the miscalculations of diplomacy
seek their victims principally
among 1 ho Hnoff ending. Tbecot-
tage Is sure-tq suffer for every'
error of court. ablnet or camp.
When error sits Jn the seat of .
power and . of authority and Is
generated in high places It may
be . compared :to that- torrent
which originates Indeed In the.
mountain,., but commits Its dev
astation In the vale. Colton.. i.
.. . v:'r Dirty Patagonia.
. 'Tatagoniaus are not giants, as some
have supposed and as the geographies
teach." said a man who has traveled.
"They are large In i comparison with,
the other South American natives, that
Is alL Everything , Is. relative, you
know. . But they , are very fat Thai
Is why they can stand the cold so well ,
I bave seen Patnpoulno men and boys
running around unclad while l was.
wrapped In wurm garments, with the
snow falling upon them In quantities
and the wind -blowing bitterly. They
are kept warm by their fat and dirt.
Patagonia Is one of the dirtiest places
Imaginable. Don't go there if you hate
dirt That is my advice to all who
contemplate a journey; to the jumping
off place of South America."
Another Solomon.
A horse dealer lu a Scotch town hav
ing hired a horse to a solicitor, tbe lat
ter, either through bud usage or somt
other cause, killed the horse, when the
dealer Insisted upon payment by bill U
It were not convenient to pay cash.
The lawyer bud uo objection to gram
a bill, but. suid it must be at a louj,
date. The dealer told blm-to tlx m
own time, when the wan of law dre
a promissory note,' making it puyablt
on the duy of judgment. Au actlou
was raised, when the solicitor askeo
the presiding judge to look at the bill.
Having done so, lue judge replied: .
The bill Is perfectly good, and a
this Is the duy of judgment 1 uecret
that you pay tomorrow." - )
Parliamentary Undertakers.
"Parliamentary undertakers' was
the name given to the little group ot
great nobles who till Willluin Pitt's
administration returned fully half the
members of' the house of commons.
More than sixty seats were in the
hands of Lord Downshire, the Ponson
bys and the Beresfords alone. They
undertook to manage parliament in
their own way, on their own terms and
largely in their owu Interests. ; .
His Lawyer's Fees.
A tiOudon workman, having bad a
sum of money left blm by the death
of his father, went to see his solicitor,
who hud the matter 1 in hand for a
final settlement. '
; The bill of costs having been pre
sented to blm, the man glanced over
the figures and, thinking the charges
were excessively heavy, turned to his
legal adviser and exclaimed in aston
ishment:
. "Ma father left his money to me,
I believe, and' not to ye!" Pearson's
Weekly. . ,: ,' '.: : .
A Celebrated Goat -
On Aprll 28jl772. there died at Mile
Epd , a., celebrated goat. She had been
twice round the world, somewhat of a
feat in those.uuys, oute on me omw
prv shin DolDbln. under Captain Wal
lis. and once on the Endeavor, under
Captain Cook. She was admitted to
the privileges of an in pensioner of
r.reenwich hospital by warrant of the
lords of the admiralty, but before she
could avail herself of tbe honor she
flipil . Dr. Johnson wrote a coupiel
which the distinguished animal for
some time wore round her necn. njn
flon Opinion.
On Candy
The Seal of
Purity
is a Guarantee
in Quality and IlaYor
1 Patronizt the "Modtn VUr
ndtn CwtctlMct Co., Mir.. Nrtlwi Onta
AFRAID OF GETTING LICKED;
'Another Instance of the fear which
wseeth understanding occurred la
endloton the' other day.. A youth...
,veiy ,ln the ways of. the, so-called
regenerate, . Btayed . out , all-night.
vith a pal, ; and grew afraid of a,
tcking.lf he went home. The. fear,
ink deeper into . th e fibre of his
oui the more he brooded over the
aievitable licking, until he was ted ...
wire hta' feet together with baling .
ylres, Improvise a gag from a mus-
ai sign, and to tie hla hand be-
ilnd him. Then he wormed his way
cross a railroad switch, to give the .
inpresslon'that he had been seized
ound, gagged, andthrown upon the ,
rack.- " " 1 ' -v.
There' may he some degre of re
ormatlon wrought by Implanting a,
ear of .father 'and mother, such as'
hat, but It Is extremely, doubtful. .
Moreover, It may.be that some hpya
lead licking bub ' that too la . x-
remely douhttful. With licking. Just '
as with old John Wilkes . phlloso
phy of hanging, notably, that the..
wwst.use to which you can, put) a
nan is to : hang him, it la a poor,.
use to which to iput, a boy or a girl.
It must take' considerable mauling to.
make a boy so afraid of his father
nd motther that he will resort to'
the trick of pretended seizure, bind
ing, gagging and throwing uponj a
ail road "track else that youth has
one of the most .mtscnievoua ana
most lively imaginations thinkable.
Of coures some youth try the .hu- .
aan ' patience. Some excite -' anger. '
But' it Is.- a)so .conceived that th ..
father ana. the mother ordinarily are
Lhe best friends of a child of their
anion, or at least, that they should
be; and It Is hard to Imagine a child
who i all hisi 11 Je made to .feel this :
friendship, deliberately:, hatching np
road agent stunts Just for the fun
if the thlngi . Pounding kilds mere-.'
y because we have enough physical'
bulk of bone and mucsie to do itis
tot a, mark of parental civilization
lor parental courage. A thousand
2nd .one legitimate, punishments.
iealt to kindness of feeling and ta
leep love, wholly aside ' from lick
ings, and maullngs,' can be admlnis-'
ered.'and the child, developed. But
we 1 oo frequently follow old Pete
Jones' admonition,' In. the "Hoosier
Schoolmaster," 'an eht "No llckln no
larnin'." . '
CHURCH' SERVICES-
Communion service at the M.
E. church;' next Sunday at . 11 :.: m.
Kvenjng service at 8 p. m. Epworth
league at- 7 p. m, k; Other' services ,
al regular hours.: C. E. Trueblood,
! , , Pastor,;
Buglaning ,with Sunday May 1st,
evening eenrices will brin in all the.,
lmrnhes at 8 p. m. ln-.iead of 7:3'
J i r; -.. ie tht summer. ''
SUMMER NORMAL. , .
'' The annual Summer School- for ..
Teachers' will .be, held In the High '
3chol building at Enterprise, com
mencing July 6,"19lOr' and contlnu-.
'.ng five weeks. '.'
All teachers- who : are planning to
(ake the August ' examination should
ittiend, as1-' special reviewwork will :'
be given In' all subjects' required for
county certificates.''' Methods tt '
teaching a specialty. hJ,,- j v. .
If a sufficient number to., Justify ,
anroll a special primary teacher; will ,
be employed. Tuition fortterm $10.,.,
Please notify the ,tnstructor ol
your "intention to attendi ' ' ".
J. C. CONLEY.' County Supt,; '
t ' HARL ' H. BRONSON, ' ' ' ,.
Principal Wallowa Schools,
97bl3 ' ' Instructors.
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Every Day at ; .
HARRISON'S
CITV MARKET
BEEF, PORK, VEAL '
' ' MUTTON
FRESH FISH EVERY DAY
FRESH OYSTERS IN .
SEASON
Sausagre of all kinds -Harrs
v and. Eacon Sugar Cured ;
t For Dinner Corn Beef and Cab
t bage, Wienerwurst and Sauer
Kraut. For Breakfast Liver
and Bacon. For Supper A Nice
Steak. Mincemeat. Chickens at
any time. Orders delivered ip a
few minutes. Telephone your
order for a nice roast or boil and
, it will be there in time to cook
' for dinner.
Geo. A Harrison
V;' ; River Street '
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