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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1916)
j The Red M irage A Story of the French Lesion in Algiers B y I. A . R. W Y L I E iAU rights rsssrvcd. Ths Uobbs-Ustull Co.) SYNOPSIS. “ They war» offered m s ” ha said. “ I.I«Ut«nant Farquhar offered them to me. I dlstlkad It; but I am a good Frenchman, and the temptatloa wa# too great. I bought them. 1 can oaly add that I regret—“ Me stammored and broke off with a real helplessness Farquhar turned from hliu to Sower. The latter’a features had assumed a mask of Ironical acceptance. “ In that case there la no more to be «aid,” he observed coolly. “ W e can now credit Mr. Farquhur’a statement.” Farquhar bowed. "Thank you,” he »aid »Imply. Preston eroa*ed the room and flung open Ihe door with n cool itclll»orattou. "Good by, Farquhar. I hope you have decency enough left to know what to do •’ For n abort «pace which aoemed an eternity Farquhnr hesitated. The »corn and bitterness In the Imy’s eye a had stung him. An hour ago he had been half a hero, and now was noth ing. beneath even contempt Theu be, too. bowed. “ I resigned uiy commission thta morning.” “ Cod bo thanked for Hint." He went down the narrow stntre Into the street. Someone touched him on (he arm. He turnetl and saw Arnaud - a new Arnaud. grown culm, almost Indifferent. He waa smoking, and the fa 1 itt reflection from hla cigar lighted Up the white composure o f Ills feature«. “ I want to apeuk to you for a mo ment." he said. “ I want to aek you— why you did that?" Farquhar mail# no answer, ami he went on deliber ately: "You are not mad. You do not love me. You buve good reusou to bate me." "You are to be Mlsa Omney’e btie- band. My feel Inga toward her have not changed, I considered It my huslneei to defend you. The sacrifice waa eot ao great as It may teem. I bad lost practically everything l*eforu. What remained I chose to lose In uiy own way " “ It wasn’t all for myself. I waa pretty dr»i*erate and not ao cool when Lowe came with Ills second offer Yon can gue»s what that wae. Compared to betraying one’s own country It seemed clean business. Aud I let you bear the brunt, llow does that strike you?" “ Panic— the Instinct o f aHf preser vation. I counted on I t The future will t># different." “ How do you mean?” Farquhnr turned round and faced him with deliberate significance. “ It must be,” be said. “ As for me. I am done for. Though no one will spenk o f what has happened, the fart remain». Mlsa Omiiey trelleves III you and eo do I — to aotuc extent. I am eufficlently In sympathy with you to credit the sincerity of your fowling». Am I Justified?” Arnaud met hie eyes full. “ You are." “ Well, that la what I believe. 1 hold you In pawn. Captain Arnaud. for yoor wife's happiness. If you full her. If you risk her fulth In you n second time. I shall not hcaltnto to act.” He lifted Ida hat ceremoniously ami passed along the nnrrow street to the great thoroughfare beyond. features like some Inward fire, chang «henf o f transparent paper and laid lng all physical dissimilarity to a con It on the table. W h en S y lv ia Om nfjr, a beautiful Kng- vincing likeness. “ Le volln!” he »aid. Ilah girl. retu rn » from a searvh In A lp te r» “ Yes. You don’t understand. Rich For a full inliiuts no one s|»>ks a for her m issing brother, her lover. R ic h ard Far.juhar, finds »h e has fallen In love ard—you are too young. But It Is worth Each man’s attention was cen w ith C e rta in Arnaud o f ih e F oreign L egio n in Captain S o w e r'» room F a r women like myself who drive men to tered on the silent, deadly witness quhar p et* d eliberately drunk, but when such things. We are educated to be against the honor of one among thetu. oun* Preaton lose» all hU m oney to professional vampires, and the more Then Furquhar looked up slid met Ar- ow e. a »hady character. Farquhar fo rc e » Sower to have P re s to n '» 1. O. U's re brains we have the more deadly w* uaud’s eyes. Me read there more than turned to him. F arqu h ar 1» helped to his are.” She gave a short. Ironical laugh. mere bravado—« nerveless, hideous rooms by G abrielle Smith. Sower demands an apology Refused, he forces Farquhar “ Don't you want to curse me?" fear, the paule-strlcken appeal of a to reaign his com mission In return fo r "N o,” he answered simply. **| don’t man who ha» trembled for days on ths possession o f F a rq u h a r'» fath er's w r it curse you any more than I believe my brink of ruin and feels the ground ten confession that he had murdered Sow er's father. Gabrtello saves Farquhar father does I f be Is alive. I f he 1» slipping beneath him. And this was from sulci da alive I aru going to find him. and II1 Sylvia’s Oiuney’s future! Farquhar I find him. I shall tell him that I honor turned Involuntarily to I.owo. A and love him. There was a wrong to fa in t Ironical smile played around the There are type* of women who t>e righted, and he did his best." He man’s hard mouth. It was ths merest drive men to wild deeds— good went to the door, and there turned shadow, hut It bespoke a purpose tri women, too. But there Is about and looked at her. “ I f I find my fa umphantly accent Ulied. them that quality which Area ther. Is there any message that I may men's minds. We don't know “ Captain Arnnmt has saved a great give blm— from you?” he asked. much about the laws of heredity, deal of trouble,” he observed brutally. “Tell him that that night be won but It seems certain that ths me." she said with defiance. “Tell him child of such s woman, whose that In the brief Interludes when I dare husband committed murder, to think I know that I love him. Tell would be a sort of smoldering him that." volcano. Richard Farquhar bowed and went out H alf an hour later he reached bla club. Captain Sower, he was Informed, C H A P T E R IV. bad Just left with Mr. I’ reston and a strange gentleman. Whereupon Far Mrs. Farquhar Explains. Mrs. Farquhar ran down the stairs quhar turned In bis tracks and drove His to her son's library. It was a neglect straight to Preston’s lodging». ed room, which he only used on rare purpose was now twofold, and fired occasions. The old weapons hanging by a white-hot fury o f Indignation. In on the walls had belonged to his fa the "strange gentleman” he bad rec ther. and the whole atmosphere seemed ognized Lowe, and Preston was a fool Impregnated with the spirit o f a dead. with a following of other fools. For In that moment Farquhar had ceased If powerful, personality. Mrs. Farquhar closed the door with to be a man overshadowed by bla own black destiny. He was once more and a chuckle of triumphant malice. for the last time the officer upon whose "They’re gone at la s t" she said. “ 1 shoulders rested the honor of a regi assure you there Isn’t a more surprised I ment the great unity which he served. woman In England than dear Sylvia. It wns a curious group of men that She came expecting to And me with confronted him as he hesitated on the ashes on my head instead o f a wig. threshold. That which he had expect and I laughed la her face.” Richard ed was not there. Evidently a card Farquhar turned from the window game bad been I d full swing hut bad where he had been standlug, and her been violently interrupted. The cards eyes grew suddenly grave. “ My dear, lay scattered on the square, greeu table you’re not breaking your heart over beneath the electric light, and there her, are you?” was a pile of untouched, apparently "S o .” He came slowly Into the room. forgotten money. Both Sower and “ I might have done so, but fate bus Lowe were present, together with given me something else to come to Preston and one other man, whom “ He Cams Here On« Night and 6ald grief over. I’ ve had a quarrel with Farquhnr did not recognize. They He Had Kilted a Man.” Sower.” stood far apart from one another, as She said nothing, and he went on though divided by some hidden antag Still Arnaud did not move. Ills gently: “ He was dangerous. I have onism— Sower by the fireside, where white bands lay paralyzed In front of resigned my commission. That was he maintained an attitude of easy good him, and bla eyes bad become blank his price for my father's name.” nature, touched Indefinably with re and stupid looking, like those of an Still Mrs. Farquhar did not speak. gret; Lowe and the stranger kept to animal which is being done to death. She sat down In the great leather the shadow on opposite sides of the Hbhard Farquhar took a step nearer, chair by the fireplace, and the wild, room. Preston was standing next the and, picking up the papers, held them childish horror In her eyes touched him table, hla hands resting clenched oo aa though weighing them. to an amazed pity. "Mother, I don't the polished edge, his boyish face grny “ Walt a minute. I>on’t be In such want to hurt you, but you must. I and drawn-looking. As Farquhar »aw Will Farquhar’» Influence over a hurry. I take the responsibility for have a right now to know.” him the spirit of tension became defi this business.” Arnaud be strong enough to hold ‘‘Yes, yes.” She put her hands to nite. an almost visible occupant o f the the Frenchman In the straight They stared at him. lie waa still her white-powdered cheeks. “ Yes, yes. quiet room. And yet It was Arnaud’s and narrow path and cause him weighing the papers and smiling rather o f course. There Isn’t much. It was face which Farquhar saw first and to be a good husband to Sylvia? wryly. He was thinking of Sylvia at In this room, Richard, n e came home last Here was Sylvia Omney’s fu that moment, and Preston’s stricken one night and said be bad killed a ture— n white-lipped man. whom some (T O U K C O N T IN U K D .) man. I—it was awful!—he had no violent emotion had made tempora cry of horror sounded dull and far off. "You! What do you mean, Far And No Insurance. blood on him, Richard, but one felt he rily old and haggard. lie had been Tomdlx— Hear about the conflagra had blood all over: It was In bis eyes, seated by the card-table, but now quhar? I won’t believe I t It’s Intol and— He said It was all right— no looked up. and for an Instant they erable— Impossible. Say you didn’t— tion ? Hojax— No; where was It? one could touch him, but he bad to watched each other In open hatred and didn’t sell them, Farquhar!” “ Captain Arnaud will explnln,” was Tomdlx— At tho department store go— for always. And then he cursed distrust where I was employed. me— and then he fell on his knees— Farquhar came forward, and his the answer. Hojax— Much of a loss? here— by this chair—and buried his eyes passed swiftly from one silent Arnaud rose slowly to his feet. I I » Tomdlx About nine dollars a week. face lu my lap—and cried. It was figure to the other. And ngaln It was was staring across the table Into Fnr- awful, Richard—a man like that— to Arnaud’s face which fascinated him. Hojax—About nine dollars a week! quhar’s face, stupidly. Incredulously, cry.” Her voice cracked, and became and when he spoke It was In the mono Why. how do you flguro that out? “ What has happened?” he asked. thin and broken like an old, worn-out Tomdlx Oh, IF b not a difficult prob No one answered for a moment. tone of a man under a hypnotic com instrument. “ Then be went away— Preston drew himself up. lem. The boss fired me. mand. and one day a man came to me and “ We were having a qu id game,” he told me he was dead— but I never said, as though each word were torn knew. I always believed I should from him by force— "Arnaud, Lowe know.” and I— when this gentleman and Cap He knelt beside her. and, taking her tain Sower arrived. It seems there’s hands between his own, soothed them been a leakage somewhere. 1 can't 8he Says Americans Show Exquisite with white. The Idee Is Italian. In like a child’s. There was something explain. I hardly understand myself. summer the tiles are cool, and In win Taste In Clothing, Home«, Art In the action curiously at variance Mr, Forth, perhaps you’ ll be good ter. with thick rugs put down, the red and Can Sing Divinely. with his expression, which was hard enough—” color at least looks warm." and reckless. The man addressed bowed. His An Engllxh woman writes: " If you “ But Sower—” She turned her clean-shaven face was expressionless want to see things that are new and Dleaeter at Once. faded, frightened eyes to him. “ I never "The duplicate plans of Captain unusual you must come to America. She was an old lady. It was her understood that, Richard; I never un Sower’s new aerogun have been sto The women dress as beautifully as the first holiday excursion, and ah* en derstood why he shielded us. It fright len,” he said tersely. “ They were In Parisians, paint their furniture like ao tered the compartment of a railway ened me. Only once he spoke o f It. Captain Sower's possesHlon, and he many Angelica Kauffmanns, sing—at carriage with much trepidation, and He said he would never make use of was Instructed to give full Information any rate, a good number of them—di sat down rather gingerly In one of the the power— unless we made him. But to the younger officers under his com vinely, dance like ancient Greeks and corner seats Just as the train waa It was his father who had been— mur mand. Various Incidents led him to furnish their bouses with a taste that getting Into motion the engine gave a dered. It wasn’t natural, Richard, It believe that the secret had not t>een I can only describe aa exquisite. You shrill scream, or whistle. wasn’t natural that he^should forgive.” properly kept. He put the matter Info will think I exaggerate. All I can say Thereupon up Jumped the old lady, “ No,” he agreed sternly; and then my hands, and I’ ve followed the clue is, come and see! The majority of the and. with a startled ejaculation, ex after a moment’s silence: “ And my he gave me— here.” Ho paused, sto country houses here now are adapta claimed: father— was there no reason—had he ically unconscious of the almost the tions of Italian houses, long and low, “ There they are noo, o w w a pig at no explanation?” atrlcal tension which hit silence with two side wings jutting slightly the very start!” With a sudden vigorous movement '■anted. Farquhar glanced about him. forward. The one at which I am stay she freed herself and stood up, her Ills own pulses were beating faster. ing is of hollow tile finished with warm The Secret of It. clenched. Jeweled hands pressed “ Well?” It was Lowe who had stucco. There are blue-green blind* "Some of our statesmen deliver ngalnst her breast, her eyes grown broken the Intolerable silence. He and the roof la brownish red. 1 can themselves of trivial platitudes with suddenly electric. had never for an Instant lifted his eyes not tell you how pretty! Tho Interior an air of tho utmost profundity." “ 1 was the excuse,” she said from the face o f the man seated be hall Is paved with white and green. “ My friend,” answered the student fiercely. “ And I was excuse enough." neath the light, and now lie took a Tho woodwork Is white and the walls of human nature, “ were It not for the “ You?" He also had risen, and as step forward as though to meet the gray. Big lounges are here with love air of utmost profundity these states they stood there facing each other, answer. Arnaud looked up with a ly cedar pillows, bringing a smell re men assume before an interviewor (he subtle resemblance o f tempera twitching smile. 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