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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1910)
BY BOOTH-TASMSTON and HAIRY LEON WILSON NOVELIZED FROM THE PIAY BY .M-FESGUSON CONTCirUED. CHAPTER XI. HAT cret?" demanded w Aaron, for at the magic I ..IT. .... I Til name . "Moreau" nis com. nanlon and he were Instant- It all attention. "What secret?" he again peremptorily demanded. "I see them speak together sly," said Foulette, nodding her head and screw tig up her eyes in a manner that bod ed 111 for the amative and untruthful Mr. Croup. "I can tell that they did not wish you to soe. Then when you come from dinner Colonel Moreau ho hand this to Croup behind the door. Croup he keep it In he breast pocket until ho fall asleep on poarch Just now. I have look. It Is all those camels" "Camels ?"dryly echoed Aaron, with raised eyebrows. "Oul. iniche." confidently nodded roulette, evidently no whit amazed al the Idea of (he Bpotted handkerchief being able to accommodate such nnl mnls. "All those camels the colonel jren'emnn wenr when he Is come, wear them on his fob chain." And she opened the spotted handkerchief. "Cameos, M. Aarou!" exclaimed Ana tole. an exultant light leaping to Ala eyes. "See, there they are. Now 1 know. You saw Colonel Moreru wben he started for that meeting this morn ing. You huw bltu when Tom Randall has meeting this morning. You saw blni when Tom ltuudiill bus give him that pistol of his fathers to go and kill- wboK But one uiun-Cameo Klr by!" he cried, leveling bis arm at the startled Aaron. And. as If further p1W Were need ed, evidence which proved beyond a doubt the sinister identity of the un welcome guest. Croup entered with a Hole, which he handed to M. Veaudry. "Man on horseback ride all de way from de city wlf It," be explulued. Hastily scanning It. the young creole handed It In silence to Mr. Itandall. and the latter read: 1 have one more clew to run down, but I anall follow thui within the hour. 1 hear a rumor that Colonel Moreau took the Journey with you thte morning. It thle la true, eecure hie portmanteau, and If he la atlll at the plantation do not al low him to quit the place till 1 come. Use any meant to prevent hie leaving. Do not henltale at force. Colonel Moreau waa murdered thla morning by Cameo Klrby. . TOM RANDALL Aaron gravely ret timed the letter to his companion, and for a long moment the two men looked at each other In silence. Then M. Veaudry quietly placed the paper In his pocket, turned on his heel and strode from the room, Mr. Hamlull obediently following. At Inst they had arrived at n complete un dci-standlng regarding the Identity and .11 1.1 .1... ...... .1.1.,.,. .,!.. AILIUI """""" " " who boldlv masqueraded under the uiime of Colonel Moreau. That no words bad been necessary testified to the sinister character of the resolve upon which they had mutely deter mined. Kwtm the balcony Larkln Rnnee, chewing impatiently on his cheroot, waited for Adele to leave the drawing room. It was Imperative that, bo should have a final word with Klrby. Escaping from the music room before the others, he had been In time to catch a glimpse of Aaron Randall's face as the latter followed M. Ve.iudry. and the sight bad uol been a comfort ing one, the old gambler feeling assur ed that something untoward had hap pened. It would uot have surprised blm If their respective Identities had at last been discovered. "1 kuowitl we'd get It If we stayed." he commeiiled gloomily. "I wonder If this means It's come." glowering at Professional Diectory of Wallowa County THOS. M. DILLj ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office In Litch building, Room 107. EnteryrUe, Oregon, ,f DANIEL, BOYD ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Practice in all Stat Courts and Interior Department. Careful at tention to all business. D. W. SHEAHAN LAWYER ENTERPRISE Practice, In Stat and Federal Courts and Interior Department. J. A. BURLEIGH ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office In Litch Building. n.mrprm, uregon, j Aaron's retrentlng 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 tlma nrlth A,l..lo ill it RPTIirn III ttlB " -- ---- P"ee a" "I'P""" u Such Indifference was maddening. In explicable, and the old gambler, with a tlnnl Imprecation, decided that the moment Adele had gone be would con vey a Inst warning to his partner, and if It was still unheeded he would then think of his own safety and, however dlilicult It would prove, leave Klrby to the fate be deserved. Meanwhile that gentleman was calm ly pursuing bis dialogue with Adele. "You ask me If I am sorry 1 did not go." he was saying. "Miss lWudall, what U a man who acts against all the reason be has?" 'Sometimes he Is a hero, she re plied, steudlly meeting his eyes. . "And sometimes he's a fool." he add ed grimly. "Things come so suddenly sometimes that you can hardly get your breath cnilek enough to tell what to do. Yet," be added musingly, "you rJIUUULJ BB D1SCEIINBD KIRBY SEATED AT THE OAUD TABLE. do know all the time, underneath, whnt you ought to do. For Instance, 1 know that I ought not to be here now. I haven't any right. And, then, j I ought to lie hunting the man who stole a sliver ununited pistol at the oaks this morning." "But you can't do that," she expos tulated, nodding wisely. "Your friends would"- "Mlss Randall. I've got only one friend In the world, and he's out there ,le i,nlcoiiy swearing cuss words at , .... 7. I me because I don't go." ' She turned away, evincing sudden I and vital Interest In a book she had read twice over aud knew by heart. "Do you think you have a right to ny that you have only one friend?" she asked gently. "I-1 hadn't thought of you as a friend. Miss Randall." "Why? How do you think of me?" suddenly facing him, her eyes half timid, half during, demanding a sin cere answer. "Why-Just as you, Miss Adele and 1 ought not to think of you at all." "Do you menn because this unjust charge is hanging over you? Do you nulla l rnir iui iuni I in vut-iv hu; other reason?" He nodded, permitting the cards to fall from bis hnnd one by one to the table. "Yes: there Is auother reason. Yu.remetuberwbutMercutlo said of I L. Q. HOLLAND, M. D. I ' l'HYSICIAN AND SURGEON f $ Offle In Lltch Building. Telephone Connection. Reiterated. Edmund Keun wum playing In "Rich ard ill.," and the part of Catesby bad to be taken by a low comedian, who sauntered on to the stage at the wrong moment and uttered the famous words. "My lord, the Duke of Buck ingham Is tuken," in tbe wrong place. Edmund clinched his fists lu rage, but otherwise took uo notice of tbe re mark. Later the comedian repeated tbe words In tbe right place, aud when the klug expressed surprise at the news Catesby folded his arms, walked boldly down the stage and remarked to the great actor In loud tones: "I told you so before, Mr. Kean, but you wouiuu i believe iue. W. Q, TRH.L, f Attorney and Counselor-at-Uw Office In Ttarlan nnlkline- Kn. terprUe, Oregon. i 1 - i i i n Els wound-' "Tis neither as Tieep as" a i well nor as wide as a church door, but 'twill serve. Ask for uie tomorrow; you shall find me a grave man.' The bad prince ought not to stay too long, you know." She seated herself at the table and scrutinized blei with grave, troubled eyes, her chin reposing daintily on the crux of arched hands. "You must make It clearer to me that) that. What are you afraid of my hudlng out?" . He shrugged and smiled. "Life makes some pretty queer shuflles. Miss Randall, and .veil can't fool much with the deck yourself." he said, somewhat Irrelevantly, picking up the cards and unconsciously beginning to rillle" them. If you don't piny the game square it's only a question of time till you get taught, and then uobody will play with ::. .!' ' of m&mm "PERHAPS with one woman he couldn't UK UliATHN." you. I don't know why Life denlt me the hand I bold. All I know Is I've got to play the curds according to rule. Sometimes I've fouud that mighty. bard. I keep wishing and wishing there'd be a different band dealt, but wishing won't change It. It was the shuffle that settled it long ago." "I doh't thluk, sir, that you've said anything that concerns you and me very much," she commented, glancing up shyly. " 'Concerns you and me,' " he echoed sadly, and, rising, be began to pace the room. "Miss Itandall, let me tell you something," be added at length, halting aud regarding ber fixedly. "One evening towurd sunset I was leaning over the rail of a Mississippi river steamboat, and. not finding much pleasure lu whnt 1 was thinking about, I put my band casually into my pock et and drew out a deck of playing cards, cards thut had been used well, considerably. I contemplated them a moment aud then let them fall from my hnnd. They dropped Into the wa ter In a kind of little shower. And then a curious thing happened. Those shabby old playing cards floated along side a rosebush all In bloom that some body bad evidently planted too near a caving buck upstream. It seemed as If they kind of hoped to go aloug with It on its Jouruey, but It didn't look right. The rosebush was too . pretty for bad companion like that - d h b n h playing cards, lying ou their backs In the water, beguu to sink under and tTrown. Then along came an eddy and caught that pretty rosebush aud swung it out Into the current, aud away it B-eut down the hi roam, buuuy W. C. KETCHUM DENTIST ENTERPRISE Office in Ll:ch Building. Room 121. Home Independent Phone. 't'''W 44 4 C. T. HOCKETT. M. D. 1 i; MYSICIAN AND SIRGEON II Office In Litch building. Room!! ii 115. Home bid. Phone in office!! ! I and residsure. iM'itMHf 4:-MhH 4 "tt--f--lv4 DR. C. A. AUL.T PHYSICIAN AND SLRGEON Office In Bank Building. !j Home) phone both office and residence. 4 I I CHARLES THOMAS Practice in State and Federal 1 Courta and Int. Dept. Abstract . Bldg oppoalte court bouse. mm proud In Just a'glory of sunshine nnd sparkle. It served those old playing cards right.. They ought to have been drowned for trying to keep company so high above them. That's what 1 thought looking down from tbe boat's rail." Without conscious effort or any at tempt at elocution Klrby had told the little allegory with simple feeling and sincerity, bis manner growing more abstracted until at th conclusion It seemed as if he were speaking to his Inner self, taking counsel with all that was best In him. Silence ensued, while Adele looked dreumily away, and be continued to stare at the cards, but seeing them not. "Does a -man always 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 him to?" he gravely returned. "Ah. but there Is something a wo man wants a man to do more than that she wants him uot to give up anything till he Is beaten." she whis pered. "Suppose he Is the kind of man that ought to be beaten?" She nrose, throwing the scarf about her shoulders, and walked meditatively to the door. ' "But mightn't It be perhaps perhaps p-ith one woman," she whispered, "he couldn't be beateu even then?" Astonished nt ber owu during, she gave a little gasp, then incontinently fled, while Klrby stood staring after her, fearing to Interpret her words. He turned with a start as Buuce strode through the balcony window. "Well, have you told her goedby?" snnped Larkln.. who had Interpreted the foregoing passage as a species of farewell. "No." said Klrby violently. Irritated at the Interruption. "Well. I reckon It's about time to sit down and take a good bard think," warned the other, pacing the room like an excited sentry, "Do you think you rould git this girl?" he continued, with heavy sarcasm. "How ibcnt It. when she finds out who you are Cameo Klrby?" "Easy on that name, Larkln!" "'Easy on tbe name!'" bellowed Bunce, appealing to the celling. "Why, It's been shrlekln' tbrougb this bouse ever since you got here. There's been two fellers within ten feet of 'you all the time who never took their eyes ofTn you that young Veaudry and Aaron Randall. Do you reckou they think you're Colonel Moreau? Why, 1 seen them leave the house a short spell buck, and I'd be will In' to bet my Im mortal soul they're ou to our makeups and are plannin' to raise b- with us. I tell you this place Is glttin' too hot for Larkln Bunce. You haven't said goodby to ber? Well, then. I'll say goodby to u. Somebody's got to bo loose. I wouldn't be no good to you nor to me either in Jail. For the last time," he pleaded, making an Implor ing gesture with his trembling bunds, "are you coinlu' with me?" Klrby, who had quietly resumed his place at the table, uow slowly sbufiled the deck and carefully luspected the card that bad turned up. "No." he said, with grave finality, "I'm not going with you, my frieud. The band's dealt: I'll play it out." "For God's Bake. Goner Implored ; Bunce. "Then I got to quit you. You know what this means to uie,"Jie ndd ' ed despairingly. "I hate to go, but there's no seuse In my stnylu'." HI. U1U I IUI1IIB J u IUI DM1J lll( as long as you have," Interrupted Klr- ' by, with a smile, rising and placing his baud on tbe 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." Lar kln, and I don't want you to help me play It out Go, by all means, and at once. Did you get a fresh horse? "A fresh horse? Why, I wouldn't even durst to ask for tbe one i come on," cried Buuce, mopping bis face. "You dou't seem to rightly size up the mess we're In. Gene. I'll be lucky to git out on my owu two feet I "don't even know where they put my hat, and I'm skeered to ask for It Then It ain't no more use my ask In' you to come?" "No more use than In your staying," said Klrby. Bunce hesitated for a moment, then thrust out bis buge hand. "Goodby. you durued fool!" be gasp ed, choking up. "Goodby, Larkln. but don't bet that It Is goodby. They won't get me. I'll ride your borne tuto town for you to morrow." Buuce bestowed a dual helpless ap peal upon the celling, gave bin part ner's baud a farewell wreucb. then lumbered hastily from the room, while Klrby. bumming softly to himself, strolled to the open window and, lean ing negligently against Its frame, gave himself up to retrospect lie wauted to be alone; be wanted to think, to dream, to go over and over again every wora iubi &ueie uu pv . . - . I ken. every smile, every gesture. Ills thoughts were solely of tbe Immediate yresout aud past For the future he did" hot care-nelther Tom Randall's homecoming nor his own Inevitable unmasking. He wondered what be would have been, what the end would have beeu. had bis early life been laid In pleasanter lines less harsh, less lonely. Yes. utter loneliness was a great and sinister factor In molding man's destiny. What if the last of tbe Kirbys bad proved an honor to the old name, lusteud of a professional rimp fynmhliir1 And nht was he re- mauilng? Was not the allegory of tl.. i.l,uh tr..i hltterlv true? Whv bad Adele suld those last words: "But mightn't It be perhaps with one wo man he couldn't be beaten, eveu then?" Yes, it might be. and It would be. and tbe truth of it bad been proved since the beginning of time. But. even if she were willing and knew him for what he was. could he rightly ask the sacrifice? Yet those words bad awak ened a fierce longing, bud held out a promise of hope. And be could not utterly renounce, not Just yet Per haps He turned as a band tugged at his sleeve, turned to confront old Croup, who had stolen noiselessly to bis side. "Marse Gene, fo' Gawd's sake look out!" whispered Croup, bis face gray with anxiety, his voice trembling with suppressed excitement, "l's feared It's too late fo' yo' to git away. Marse Anatole done ride out de stable lak he's crazy, an" If yo' listen to de quiet out yonneh yo' kind bear bosses a-comln' down de big road, an' dey comln' ou de gallop. Marse Gene. Old Croup mighty skeered fo' yo', boney." Klrby turned an attentive ear to ward tbe softly stealing south wind- that harbinger of danger. Yes, the hoof beats were now Insistently audi ble, drawing nearer and nearer with every passing second. More than one horse, too say a. dozen. If be was any Judge. Thank you 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 late to think of escape. (To to continued.) $85,000 GUNS TG LAST70R0UNDS Uncl3 Sam's Armsment For New DreatinGUgiits Expensive. TG1MGE FIGURES EE.CRK Two New Battleships Greater Than Entire American Fleet at Time of Spanish War Fourteen Inch Rifle Largest In History of World's War fare and Moit Costly. At Its last session the congress au thorlzed the construction of two titanic ships of war and stipulated that they be armed with fourteen Inch rifles, the most powerful weapons yet construct ed. These guus cost $85,000 each, and. although it 8eema Incredible, 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 bnttcry which they are designed to carry aud the increased size which the Increase In tbe weight and power of the main battery has made necessary. The plans contemplate a displace ment of about 2T.000 tons as against the 20;000 of the Delaware and the North Dakota. America's pioneer bat tleshlps of the Dreadnought type, wbicb were but recently commissioned. Greater Than 1898 Fleets. Tbe united touuage of tbe giant twins Is far greater than was our entire battleship tonnage at tbe time of the war with Spain, including even the Maine, whose destruction brought about tbe war. Tbe fleet that block aded Santiago waa reckoned aa a for midable oue in its day, tbe battle line comprising tbe superb Iowa, the heavily armed and armored Indiana. Massachusetts and Oregon and the bard fighting old Texas. So much for tbe size of tbe two new vessels. Turn now to their armament The plans contemplate a battery of teu fourteeu-lnch rifles for each ship. These weapons are by far the most powerful ever constructed for any navy greatly exceeding in range and bitting power the twelve Inch guns with which the Delaware and tbe North Dakota are rr'-il ' With a weight of 63.3 tona the new gun Is more than ten tona heavier than the twelve Inch type carried by - 1 iut iiirnuiiuuiiuu mm iw . nun 1 .I,. Tl .1.. ....... .1... . T. J States now has In commission. Tbe weight of tbe projectile which tbe new 1 gun will carry is 1.40Q pounds. Th.e weight of the powder charge win be about 450 pounds. Tbe designed muz ele energy of tbe new weapon is (10.000 foot tons. Example Is Appalling. To translate this into plainer Eng lish and to afford some Idea, of what this power means, let the reader sup pose tbe 10.000 tons of tbe battleship Connecticut emplaced on top of tbe Lusltanln. whose displacement Is 32.500 tona- the blest of he Fnl1 Rr Bieauiooius superimpose on lup 01 all Next try to conceive of the united weight of the 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 onefoot. ' The mechanism of the carriage must In tbe fraction of a second take up and nbsorb a Bbock equal to that of a heavy engine and five Pullman coaches running at a speed of seventy miles an hour and brought to a sudden stop a stop as sudden as though such a train had smashed Into a stone wall. On . leaving tbe muzzle of the gun tbe shell has an energy equivalent to that of i train or cars weighing 580 tons and running at sixty miles an hour. This energy Is sufficient to send the projectile through twenty-two and one- half Inches of tbe hardest of steel ar mor at tbe muzzle, while at a range of 3.000 yards the projectile, moving at the rate of 2,235 feet per second. can pierce eighteen and one-half inches of steel armor at normal .Impact Life le Seventy Rounds. One of the ordnance experts of the navy made some calculations wbicb go to show that If one of these new fourteen Inch rifles was constantly submitted to excessive pressure, such as might obtain In a hot action, the gun could not last more than seventy rounds. The length of the gun Is a fraction more than 53 feet 641 Inches, to be exact. Although the muzzle velocity of the projectile Is 2.(500 feet a second. the ordnance experts have figured that It requires one-tenth of a second for the shell to leave tbe gun. this because of the fact that the shell moves from zero to 2.600 feet and that tbe mean velocity must be taken. This mean being one-tenth of a second, tbe actual gas life of this $85,000 weapon la shown to be only seven seconds.' Judging from tbe performance of tbe twelve Inch guns, these greater weap ons should be able to deliver three shots a minute. If all ten guns of tbe projected Dreadnought should be brought into action and should main tain that rapidity of fire for one hour the cost of the ammunition expended In tbe hour would reach the enormous sum of $2,520,000. or about one-fourth of the vessel's entire cost. Smell and Taste. The sense of smell Is most nearly al lied to that of taste. Hearing and . seeing defend upon nerve .responses to vibrations in tbe air and In tho ether. In order to taste a substance It has to be wholly or partially dis solved: in order to smell a substance It must encounter the olfactory organs as a vapor, an emanation, a cloud ot particles arising from odoriferous mat ter. 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