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9 your wife, or were they all your sis ters? I have wondered.” “ They—they were—cousins,” he In formed her confusedly, recalling an in cident that had been forgotten. He had kissed Mary Lyons and Edna Bur- rage, but their brothers were present. “ A foolish habit, isn’t it?” “ I do not know. I have no grown cousins.” she replied demurely. “ Vou Americans have such fuuny customs, though. Where I live no gentlemau would think of pressing a lady’s hand until it pained her. Is it necessary?” In tiie question there was a quiet dig nity, half submerged in scorn, so point ed, so unmistakable, that he flushed, turned cold with mortification and has tily removed the amorous fingers. “ I crave your pardon. It is such a strain to hold myself and you against the rolling of this wagon that I un consciously gripped your hand harder than I knew. You—you will not mis understand my motive?” he begged, fearful lest he had offended her by his ruthlessness. *‘I could not misunderstand some thing that does not exist,” she said simply, proudly. “ By Jove, she’s beyond comparison!” he thought. “ You have explained, and I am sorry I spoke as I did. I shall not again for get how much I owe you.” “ Your indebtedness, if there be one, does not deprive you of the liberty to speak to me as you will. You could not say anything unjust without ask ing my forgiveness, and when you do that you more than pay the debt. It is worth a great deal to me to hear you say that you owe something to me, for I am only too glad to be your creditor. If there is a debt, you shall never pay it. It is too pleasant an accoant to be settled with ‘you're welcome.’ If you insist that you owe much to me, I sTiall refuse to cancel the debt and al low It to draw Interest forever.” “ What a financier!” she cried. “ That Jest was worthy of a courtier’s deepest flattery. Let me say that I am proud to owe my gratitude to you. You will not permit it to grow less.” “ That was either irony or the pretti est speech a woman ever uttered,” lie said warmly. “ I also am curious about something. You were readlrj over my shoulder in the observation "wy” — “ I was not!” she exclaimed indig nantly. “ How did you know that':’’ she inconsistently went on. “ You forgot the mirror in the oppo site side of the car.” “ Ach! Now I am offended!” “ With a poor old mirror? For shame! Yet, in the name of our American glass industry, I ask your forgiveness. It shall not happen again. You will ad mit that you were trying to read over my shoulder. Thanks for that Immuta ble nod. Well, I am curious to know what you were so eager to read.” "Since you presume to believe the mirror instead of me, I will tell you. There was a dispatch on the first page that interested me deeply.” “ I believe I thought as much at the time. Oh, confound this road!” For half a mile or more the road had been fairly level, but. as the ejaculation in dicates, a rough place had been reach ed. lie was flung back in the corner violently, his head coming in contact with a sharp projection of some kind. The pain was almost unbearable, but it was eased by the fact that she had in voluntarily thrown her arm across his ch -st. her hand grasping his shoulder spasmodically. “ Oh. we shall be killed!” she half shrieked. vCan you not stop him? This is madness—madness!” “ I’ray be calm! I was to blame, for I had become careless. He is earnlpg his money; that's all. It was not stip ulated in the contract that he was to consider the comfort of his passen gers.” Grenfall could feel himself turn pale as sometning warm Degan to trie-! Cows For Sale kle down his neck. “ Now, tell me later coming to a standstill. The aw which dispatch it was. I read ail of ful ride was over. Some fine milch cows and fat steers “ The train, the train!” she cried in them.” ecstasy. “ Here, on the other side! for sale at reasonable prices. Address “ You did? Of what interest could Thank heaven!” S. Vincent, Glenwood, Oregon. they have been?” He could not speak for the Joyful “Curiosity does not recognize rea pride that distended his heart almost son.” A Farm to Rent to bursting. The coach door flew open, “ You read every one of them?” We have a good farm to rent near and Light Horse Jerry yelled: “ Assuredly.” “ Here y'are! I made her!” town. Also some splendid bargains in “ Then I shall grant you the right to “ I should say you did!” exclaimed guess which interested me the most. Grenfall, climbing out and drawing her farm and city property. For invest You Americans delight in puzzles, 1 ments do not fail to see us. after him gently. “ Here’s your ten.” am told.” (Continued) L a n g l e y & C a m p b e l l “ Now, that is unfair.” “ So It is. Did you read the dispatch T R A IN A N D T R A C K . Read This from Constantinople?” ner arm fell to her side suddenly ns if she had just I will be at the livery barn of Cor An oil propelled motor railroad coach realized its position. is in course of construction for the nelius & H ancock in Forest Grove, “ The one that told of the French am Great Northern railroad of Great Brit bassador’s visit to the sultan?” each Saturday. I treat all deseases of ain. “ Concerning the small matter of a Owing to the increase of traffic the the horse, and make a specialty o i loan of some millions—yes. Well, that was of Interest to me inasmuch as the Berlin city electric railway will now treating horses teeth. Advice free. loan, If made, will affect my country." run on week days and Sundays', with S. T. C r o w . “ Will you tell me what country you intervals between the trains of only two and one-hulf minutes. are from?” Up-to-date Work Only 4.19 per cent of the passengers “ I am from Graustark.” If you want first class painting, “ Yes; but I don’t remember where on German railways travel first class. The second class passengers constitute paper hanging and house-finishing, that is.” “ Is it possible that your American 21.74 per cent; the third class, 48.25; leave your order or inquire at Nixon’ s schools do not teach geography? Ours fourth class, 23.98; military, 1.84. real estate office. All work guaran tell us where the United States is lo A S im p le D r u e r t , teed. cated.” A simple dessert is whipped cream, “ I confess Ignorance.” B uffum & H o ffm a n sweetened slightly and flavored with "Then I shall insist that you study a pistache. Serve the cream in shallow map. Graustark is small, but I am as bowls, and in the center of each drop Employment. proud of it as you are of this great a very fresh meringue kiss, oue of the Pioneer Employment Co., 215 Mor broad country that reaches from ocean large round ones preferably. to ocean. I can scarcely wait until I rison St., Portland, Oregon, is one of again see our dear crags and valleys, j C a rg o e s o f B rick . the best known and most reliable com our rivers and ever blue skies, our Bricks are capable of absorbing plains and our towns. I wonder If you about a pint of water each. Owing to panies on the Coast, furnishes all kinds worship your country ns I love mine.” this circumstance the captain of a of help on shortest notice, free to “ From the tenor of your remarks I ship that carries a cargo of bricks lias employers. judge that you have been away from to be careful that the lenknge does not home for a long time,” he volunteered. go undetected, the water being sucked “ We have seen something of Asia, Bargains up nearly as fast as it gets in. Australia, Mexico and the United Two fine lots in splendid locality States since we left Edelweiss six T h e M a k e n p o f n C on su l. months ago. Now we are going home A consul is, in a certain sense, the in South Park addition to Forest Grove. —home!” She uttered the w’ord so lov representative of his country. To the This is especially desirable for a resi ingly, so longingly, so tenderly, that he people among whom he is stationed dence and will sell for cash or on easy envied the homeland. and to the local authorities he Is the There was a long break in the con impersonation of his government. lie terms. Enquire, W. N. Sears, at bar versation, both evidently wrapped in should be a man of dignity, of self pos ber shop. thought which could not be disturbed session, of good address and bearing, by the whirl of the coach. He wns of tact and discretion, who should wondering how he could give her up, command the respect and confidence Cheap Sunday Rates Between Forest Grove and Portland. now that she had been tossed into his of foreign merchants and officials and keeping so strangely. She was asking who should be honored even by his Low round-trip rates have been herself over and over again how so traveling countrymen. placed in effect between Portland and thrilling an adventure would end. When Prince Gortchakof wns at the They were sore and fntlgued with head of the Russian foreign office, the | Forest Grove, in either direction. the strain on nerve and flesh. It was candidates for the diplomatic service \ Tickets will be sold Saturdays and an experience never to be forgotten, after pussing the examination were ul- this romantic race over the wild moun ways granted an audience with his i Sundays, and limited to return on or tain road, the result still in doubt. Ten excellency, who then made a final deci before the following Monday. Rate of mluutes ago—strangers; now—friends ! sion by observing the manner in which $1.05 round trip. Call on Southern at least, neither knowing the other. they entered the room, the way in “ Surely A\e must be almost at the which they addressed him and their Pacific’ s agents for particulars. end of this awful ride,” she moaned”, j general deportment during the Inter yielding completely to the long sup- | view. A consul may know all about pressed alarm. “ Every bone in my J Invoices and ships and also about seuls body aches. What shall we do if they ( and sealing wax, but if be be rude and have not held the train?” undignified, If he lack savoir faire and ; ^ Manufactured as you want it, “ Send for an undertaker," he replied savolr vivre, he could serve his coun- j £ and shipped when we say it grimly, seeing policy in jest. They try to better advantage in that obscure J will be. Our daily output is w. re now ascending an incline, bump region known as “ the classic shades of ing over bowlders, hurtling through private life.” —Forum. ^ 50,000 feet, and we make treacherous ruts and water washed | a specialty o f ......................... holes, rolling, swinging, jerking, crash- j A D n r d l n t n n l i r i t c n i l o f n (It-n r . K iln D r ie d S to c k ing. “ You have been brave nil along. , Two women, a mother nod her little Don’t give up now. It is almost over. daughter, were one night watching Let us quote you You'll soon be with your friends.” their field of Indian corn—"maknl” — delivered prices. “ How can I thank you?” she cried, against the Inroads of the bears. The | gripping his arm once more. Again his mother bad to go to her house to pre COAST RANGE LUMBERING COMPANY hand dropped upon hers and closed pare to light a fire outside. While sbe Falls City, Oregon. gently. was doing this a bear came and took “ I wish that I could do a thousand her away. He carried her to his den times as much for you,” he said thrill- and dally brought her to ent and drink. . C . L. Large, M. D. ingly, her disheveled hair touching his He rolled a big stone In front of his face, so close were his lips. “ Ah, the den whenever he went away on bis . . . ph ysician a n d surgeon lights of the town!” he cried an Instant tours, which the girl was not strong Diseases of women a specialty. later. “ I»o k !” enough to move. - - Oregon He held her so that she coukl peer When sbe became old enough to do Forest Grove, through the rattling glass window. this, he used dally to llrk her feet, by Close at hand, higher up the steep, which they became swollen and gradu many lights were twinkling against ally dwindled down to mere mlsshnpen R. INIXOIN, D en tist the blackness. stumps. The girl eventually died, and Forest Grove, Oregon Almost before they realized bow near the poor bear, after vain efforts to re they were to the lights the horses be store her to life, roamed disconsolately OFFICE: Three doon north o f Salley’« «tore. Office gan to slacken their SDeed. a moment about tbe fields. hour« from 9 A. M. to 4 F. M. Lumber