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
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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
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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
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office In Litch building, Room
107. EnteryrUe, Oregon, ,f
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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
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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
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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
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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
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' 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.
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Attorney and Counselor-at-Uw
Office In Ttarlan nnlkline- Kn.
terprUe, Oregon.
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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
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"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
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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
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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'."
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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
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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
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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.
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