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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1904)
9 G RAU STARK 1 ron Pa^e Four aril afraid. Caspar, be did not taud a word you said. You were juch excited.” The sweet old attempts at English were much laborious than her husband's, e did not understand r y Eng- was very good at guessing,” r husband grimly, told me you had threatened to in out.” ventured the young man. liim out? Ach. u railroad con i’’ exclaimed Uncle Caspar in orn. par, I heard you say that you call him out,” interposed his Tith reproving eyes. God! I have made a mistake! it all! It was the other word 1 —down, not out! I intended to m down, as you Americans say. I he will not think I challenged lie was very much perturbed, 'link he was afraid you would.” Sorry. should have no fear. I could not a railroad conductor. Will you tell him I could not so conde- Besides, dueling is murder iu country, I am told.” sually is, sir. Much more so than ope.” The others looked at him ingly. “I mean that in America tAyo men pull their revolvers and shooting at each other some one led—frequently both. In Europe, understand it, a scratch with a ends the combat.” have been misinformed.” ex- Uncle Caspar, his eyebrows led. y. Uncle Caspar has fought more lian be can count.” cried the girl Jy- has he slain his man every asked Grenfall smilingly, glaue- m one to the other. Aunt Yvonne reproving look at the girl, whose >aled instantly, her eyes going 8y in affright to the face of her d!” Lorry heard the old gentle- utter. He was looking at his bill , but his eyes were fixed and . The card was crumpling be- the long, bony fingers. The lean realized that a forbidden, had been touched upon, has fought and he has slain.” he at as quick ns a flash. “He is no i . no gardener, no cobbler. That’s us, Uncle Caspar, what you the conductor,” cried the young orvous’v. 1 them, Caspar, how alarmed we ” added soft voiced Aunt Y’vonne. ill was a silent, interested spec- lie somehow felt as if a scene some tragedy had been repro in t?>at briefest of moments, and composedly, a half smile i his face, the soldierly Caspar ed the story of the train’s run i\e station to the other, did not miss you until we had readied the other station. Then unt Yvonne asked me where you ne. I told her I had not seen ,t went into the coach ahead to l'ou were'not there. Then 1 n to the dining car. Ach, you >t there. In alarm I returned to . Your aunt and I looked every - You were not anywhere. I ledrick ahead to summon the "or, but he had hardly left us lie engine whistled sharply and in began to slow up in a jerky I rushed to the platform, g Hedrick, who was ns much i as I. He said the train had ngged and that there must be dug wrong. Y'our aunt came out Id me that she had made a discovery.” all observed that he was ad- hlmself exclusively to the lady. had found that the gentleman next section was also missing. ♦vniie we were standing tnere in count Somehow tne real davor of romance with all that history and the encyclo and perplexity the train came to a was stricken from the ride by her can pedia had to say of the unknown land. standstill, and soon there was shouting did admissions. What he had consid Her uncle laughed, and. to lorry’s dis ou the outside. I climbed down from ered a romantic treasure was being | appointment, obeyed the young lady's the car and saw that we were at a lit calmly robbed of its glitter, leaving command. tle station. The conductor came run for his memory the blur of an adven "Sha^l l study the map of Europe. ture in which he had played the part of Asia or Africa?” asked he. and they ning toward mo excitedly. “ ‘Is the young lady in the car?’ lie a gallant gentleman and she a grateful laughed. lady. He was beginning to fee! asked. "Study the map of the world.” said “ ‘No. For heaven’s sake, what have ashamed of the conceit that had misled Miss Guggenslocker proudly. him. Down in his heart he was saying. you heard?’ I cried. "Edelweiss Is the capital?” “ ‘Then she has been left at O---- .’ “I might have known it. I did know it “Y'es. our home city, the queen of the he exclaimed, and used some very ex She is not like other women.” The crags,” cried she. “Y’ou should see perfect confidence that dwelt in the Edelweiss, Mr. Lorry. It is of the traordinary American words. “I then informed him that he should rapt faces of the others forced into his mountain, the plain and the sky. There run back for you. first learning that wondering mind the impression that are homes in the valley, homes ou the you were alive and well. He said lie this girl could do no wrong. mountain side and homes iu the “And, Aunt Yvonne,” she said, in con clouds.” would be d---- d if he would—pardon tlie word, ladies. He was very angry clusion, "the luck which you say is “And yours? From what you say it and said he would give orders to go mine as birthright asserted itself. 1 es must be above the clouds—in heaven.” ahead, but I told him I would demand caped unhurt, while Mr. Lorry alone “We are farthest from the clouds, for restitution of his government. lie possesses the pain and unpleasantness we live in the green valley, shaded by laughed in my face, ai d then I became of our ride.” the white topped mountains. We may. “I possess neither,” he objected. “The shamelessly angry. I said to him: in Edelweiss, have what climate we “ ‘Sir, I shall call you down’—not oat. pain that you refer to is a pleasure.” will. Doctors do not send us on long “The pain that a man endures for a ns you have said—‘and I shall run you journeys for our health. They toll us woman should always be a pleasure,” j through the mill.’ to move up or dowm the mountain. We “That was good American talk, sir, said Uncle Caspar smilingly. have balmy spring, glorious summer, “But it could not be a pleasure to him 1 was it not, Mr. Lorry? I wanted him refreshing autumn and chilly winter, to understand me, so 1 tried to use your unless the woman considered it a just as we like.” very best language. Some gentlemen pain,” reasoned Miss Guggenslocker. “Ideal! I think you must be pretty who are traveling on this train and “He could not feel happy if she did not well toAvard the south. You could not some very excellent ladies also Joined respect the pain.” “And encourage it," supplemented have July in January if you were far iu the demand that the train be held. north.” His dispatch from O---- said*tliat you, Lorry dryly. “If you do not remind me “True; yet we have January in July. occasionally that I am hurt. Miss Gug -1 Mr. Lorry, insisted on having it held Study your map. We are discernible to for twenty minutes. The conductor in genslocker. I am liable to forget it.” I the naked eye.” she said, half Ironic sulted you, sir, by saying that you had To himself he added, “I’ll never learn ally. • more—ah, what is it?—gall than any how to say it in one breath.” “I care not if there are but three in “If I were not so soon to part from iuiot he had ever seen. When he said habitants of Graustark. all told, it is that, although I did not fully under you. I should be your physician, and. certainly AA’orthy of a position on any stand that it was a reflection ou you. like all physicians, prolong your ail map,” said Lorry gallantly, and his lis so ignorant am I of your language, I ment interminably.” she said prettily. teners applauded with patriotic appre “To my deepest satisfaction,” he said took occasion to tell him that you were warmly, not lightly. There was noth-1 ciation. “By the way. Mr. Gug—Gug a gentleman and a friend of mine. He genslocker, you say the conductor asked me your name, but as I did not ing further from his mind than servile asked you for my name, and you did know it I could only tell him that he flattery, as his rejoinder might imply. not knoAV it. May 1 ask how you would learn it soon enough. Then he “Alas.” 1 he went on, “we no sooner learned it later on?” Ills curiosity got said something which has puzzled me meet than we part. May I ask when the better of him. and his courage avus ever since. He told me to close my face. you are to sail?” “On Thursday,” replied Mr. Guggen increased by the champagne the old What did he mean by that, Mr. Lor gentleman had ordered. slocker. ry?” “I did noi know your name until my “On the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.” “Well, Mr. Guggenslocker, thal niece told it to me after your arrival means in refined American ‘stop talk added his niece, a faraway look com in the carriage,” said Uncle Caspar. ,i ing into her eyes. ing,’ ” said Lorry, controlling a desire “I don't remember giving it to Miss “We are to stop off one day, to to slioutA Guggenslocker at any time,” said Lor “Ach, that accounts for his surprise morrow’, in Washington,” said Aunt ry- when I talked louder and faster than Yvonne, and the jump that Lorry’s “You were not my informant,” she heart gave was so mighty that he was ever. I did not know what he meant. Baid demurely. He said positively he would not wait, afraid they could see it in his face. “Surely you did not guess it.” “My uncle has some business to but just then a second message came “Oh, no, indeed. I am no mind read from the other station. I did not know transact in your city, Mr. Lorry. We er.” are to spend tomorrow there and what it was then, but a gentleman told “My own name was the last thing me that it instructed him to hold the Wednesday in New York. Then we i you could have read in my mind in that train if lie wanted to hold his job. Job sail. Ach, how 1 long for Thursday!” eA’e n t, for I have not thought of it in is situation, is it not? Well, when he His heart sank like lead to the depths three days.” read that message he said he would from which it had sprung. It required , She was sitting with her elbows on wait just twenty minutes: I asked him no effort on his part to see that he was j the table, her chin in her hands, a to tell me how you were coming to us, alone in his infatuatiori. Thursday | dreamy look in her blue eyes. but he refused to answer. Your aunt was more to her than his existence. (Continued) and I went at once to the telegraph She could forget him and think of Thursday, and when she thought of man and implored him to tell us the truth, and he said you were coming in Thursday, the future, he was but a C. L. Large, M. D. a carriage over a very dangerous road. thing of the past, not even of the pres . . . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON , . Imagine our feelings when he said ent. “Have you always lived in Washing some people had been killed yesterday Diseases of women a specialty. ton. Mr. Lorry?” asked Mrs. Gugfeen- on that very road. Forest Grove, - - Oregon “When your aunt and I returned to slocker. the train we saw the conductor holding N “All my life,” he replied, wishing at his watch. He said to me, ‘in just three that moment that he w’as homeless and j R . IN IX O IN , D e n t i s t minutes we pull out. If they are not free to choose for himself. “You Americans live in one city and here by that time they can get ou the Forest Grove, Oregon best they know how. I’ve done all I then in another.” she said. “Now. in can.’ I did not say a word, but went to our country generation after genera doors north of Bailey’s store. Office my section and had Hedrick get out tion lives and dies in one town. We OFFICE: Three hours from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. are not migratory.” my pistols. If the train left before you “Mr. Lorry haJ offended us by not arrived it would be without its con knowing where Graustark is located ductor. on tho map.” cried the young lady, and “Then came the sound of carriage he could see the flash of resentment in wheels and galloping horses. Almost her eyes. Manufactured as you want it, before we knew it you were with us. I “Why. my dear sir. Graustark is in’’— am so happy that you were not a min and shipped when we say it began Uncle Caspar, but she checked ute later.” will be. Our daily output is There was something so cool and him instantly. 50,000 feet, and we make “Uncle Caspar, you are not to tell grim in the quiet voice, something so a specialty of - - - - - determined in those brilliant eyes, that him. I have recommended that he K iln D r ie d S to c k Grenfall felt like looking up the con study geography and discover for him ductor to congratulate him. The din self. He should be ashamed of his ig Let us quote you ner was served, and while it was being norance.” He was not ashamed, but he mental discussed his fair companion of the delivered {rices. drive graphically described the experi ly vowed that before he was a day old ence of twenty strange minutes in a er he would find Graustark on the map COAST RAN6E LUMBERING COMPANY, I and would stock his negligent brain | Falls City, Oregon. shackledown mountain coach. L u m ber ■b i