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And Fenner, trembling end cringing
-tike a betaten apanlel, went quickly ou t
Errol returned to bis writing table, and
■commenced a letter to W inifred Eyre.
H e bad »erred her-now; would she b*
more diepoaed to took leniently on bis
-offense, and let ber lore conquer her wom­
anly pride. “ I will at leant make the trial
before I go,” be »aid to himaelf, and then
he took up hia pen and wrote thua:
“ I inclose you. a note. Miss Byre, from
the man Fenner. You wHl aee by that
that he engages to discontinue hia an*
soyance o f you, and to leare you fo r the
.future free and • unmolested. And now,
before I Jpave England on my long voy-
age, I pray of you to hear the appeal of
my heart to yours, -W inifred, I lore you
with all my soul, with the truest, .deep-
■eet strength of which passion is capable,
and I come to you to decide my future.
M y happiness, my misery, are in your
hands. It is foa you to seal my perfect
bliss by consenting to become my cherish­
ed wife, or to punish a fault born o f lore,
and to condemn me to a lifelong borrow,
by drlring me away from the sunshine o f
your presence. Do not decide hastily. I
shall not leare this for a week^ and if
your answer is what I scarcely dare to
hope It will be, I shall,not leare at aH.
I f you cannot find it In your gentle, wom­
anly heart to forgire me, I shall go out
into the world and seek to forget the only
woman in the world I erer really lore^."
When W inifred broke the seal, and read
Errol’s letter, her first emotion was one
o f intense relief. Then, reading the arow-
al o f Errol’s lore, for a momqnt her heart
Talented to hint, and a sad, fond recollec­
tion o f the handsome hero of her past
worship m ade' the tears start into her
«yes. Then her quick pride came to the
rescue—she tore the letter to atoms *®d
threw them from her. “ I will never for-
g ir e him—never!” she cried, passionately;
and then she thought what that letter
would have, been to her i f it had come a
fe w days sooner.
tit wanted but one day to the comple­
tion o f the week, when Arthur L e Mar-
chant rushed into Errol’ s room.
“ M y'dear Errol,” he exclaimed, “ what
is this I hear about your leaving the
Court? I t sunny is not true!”
“ M y dear fellow,” said Errol gently.
■“ I cannot tell whether I am going or not.
You shall know to-morrow. I am wait­
ing fon my verdict, and If it is adverse tb
-me I shall go away, and try to forget my
trouble.”
T w o days after Errol said to L e Mar-
chant:
“ It’s all over, and I ’ m going.
Don’t
ask me any questions, old fellow—I ’m
hard hit.”
Before Mr. Hastings left the Court he
made hia friend promise to play host
there in the shooting season during his
absence; and on the last day of August
he was standing on the deck o f his beau­
tiful yacht Oenone looking down into the
blue waters of the Mediterranean. His
thoughts were full o f tenderness to the
woman who had scorned him.
“ She is right,” he said, “ but I think, if
•he had known how, I loved her, she
would have found it in her heaTt to for­
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A fortnight later Lady Grace Farquhar,
by. dint o f subtle diplomacy, managed to
•ecure what she had for some time paat
set her heart upon, and that was to prac­
tically adopt W inifred Eyre as her pro­
tege, if not as a daughter. She was very
anxious that W inifred should have an
-opportunity o f being Introduced to so­
ciety and the coming shooting season at
S ir Claxton’ s estate. Endon Yale seemed
to afford Lady Grace the opportunity.
Among those who would be present for
th e shooting, her nephew, Lord Harold
Brskine, who was quite taken with Flora
'Champion and whom she knew that
young lady, In default o f becoming Mrs.
Hastings, would only too gladly accept.
NW ith this trump card in her hand. Lady
C ra ce accepted a dinner invitation at
Hurst Manor, the home o f the Cham­
pions,' and while there delicately, yet
plainly insinuated to Sir Howard and to
Mrs. Champion that unless Mrs. Cham­
pion and Flora would drive with her to
M r. Eyre’s farm and second her invita­
tion to W inifred to come to Endon Vale
there would - be no invitation for Miss
Champion. Moreover, Flora would have
to bind herself to treat her cousin #lth
At least ordinary courtesy during their
wtay in the same house.
Sir Howard acceded readily enough to
this arrangement as long as he was not
obliged to speak to his granddaughter,
whom he had never spoken to or even
seen In his life or in any way to recog­
nise her father. It was a bitter p'IM for
Mrs. Clfampion and Flora to swallow, but
the thought that i f Flora did not go to
Endon Vale, Sir Harold Erskine might
possibly fall in love and propose to W ini­
fred, obliged them to give a grudging con­
sent.
The young girt was gathering, roses in
the garden as the carriage from the
Manor, drove up the road. m She turned
away to the house. She could not bear
the contemptuous looks the Champions
cast on her as they went by. But then
she heard the carriage stop, and she look­
ed back in surprise. The footman was
letting down the steps, and Mrs. Cham­
pion was descending, followed by Lady
Grace Farquhar. W hat could It mean?
T h e blood rushed to her face, and for a
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moment -aha hesitated. Then she went
forward.
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“ You did not expect visitors so early,
my dear?” said Lady .Grace, kissing her.
“ Mrs. Champion has come to call upon
you.”
Mrs. Champion came forward and
ook hands with her, and uttered a few
lite commonplaces, which put ’Wini­
fred at her ease. She had a great deal
too much tact to allude to the past—in­
deed, she behaved precisely as though she
and W inifred saw and heard .of each
other for the first time.
W inifred soon .recovered her compos­
ure, and invited them to enter the house.
Mrs. Champion was struck by the taste
and elegance displayed in the miniature
drawing ream, and while W inifred was
talking to Lady Grace, she examined
her keenly. She was forced to confess
to herself that this girl who had been 40
long ignored, and so much disdained, was
both elegant and pretty, and that her
style was unexceptionable. The convic­
tion did not please her at all. A s they
were taking leave Lady Grace said:
"T h en remember, my dear, that next
Thursday week, at three o’clock, I shall
send the carriage for you.”
“ Pray do not think o f such a thing.
Lady Grace,” interposed Mrs. Champion;
“ you have invited Flora the previous day;
let her delay her visit for one day, and
my carriage shall take them both.” .
Lady Grace assented, and W inifred
made her acknowledgments very grace­
fully. Then her guests departed, and she
was left alone, wondering very much at
what had befallen her.
“ A fortnight ago,” she thought, “ and
what has happened yesterday and to-day
would have been the realisation o f one
o f my fondest hopes; and now—now I
seem to care nothing for it. T o have
been recognised by the Champions, to
have been invited to stay with a great
lady, to be introduced into society, would
have been a glimpse o f paradise; and
now that I am wtefbfaed, and heart-brok­
en, and miserable, ail these honors are
thrust upon me, and I do not value them
one whit. ‘ I shaU like to be with that
dear, kind Lady Grace, but to the rest
I seem perfectly indifferent. Are we never
to be happy in this world, but to, go on
longing keenly after something we think
happinese. and when we at last attain
*• :**. to find we have lost the desire for
it, and that it gives us no pleasure?”
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C H A P T E R V III.
A ll L^dy Grace Farquhar’» guests had
arrived, save one. That one was W ini­
fred Eyre. On the morning of the day
on which she and her cousin were to have
appeared at Endon Vale, a letter came
to Lady Grace, saying that Madame de
Montolieu was seriously ill with an at­
tack of bronchitis, and that until she
was sufficiently recovered W inifred could
not leave her.
Miss Champion, of course, arrived all
the same, and, if the tspth must be told,
she was very well satisfied with what
had occurred. The idea o f driving over
to Endon Vale with her cousin had been
most distasteful to her; and now that she
was relieved from that unpleasant neces­
sity she was radiant, and, as her broth­
er, who accompanied her, remarked, in a
most unusually good temper.
The greater p irt o f Lad y Grace Far-
quhar’s guests were strangers to her.
Those she knew were Lord Harold Ers-
kins, Miss Alton,«the Honorable Evelyn
Van and his sister. A s the reader will
pass some time in the company of the
visitors at Endon Vale, it may not be
superfluous to enter into a f e # particu­
lars concerning them. Lord Harold Ers­
kine has already been mentioned; so we
will begin with Mr. Francis Clayton,
who from his cousinship to the host
claims priority o f mention.
Francis Clayton was a man who would
have completely baffled the researches'of
those estimable people who persistently
fipd good in everyone. There was not an
aid fable trait in his character, nor a kind
action o f his on record; and yet he passed
muster In society, because he possessed
a certain degree o f manner, and because
his Income was a very large one. H e was
not a man to charm women, and yet there
was many a one who would have been
content to Ignore his evil qualities and
take him for the sake o f his rent roll.
Francis Clayton was 37, and it was his
boast that he had nevkr made any woman
an offer-of marriage.
Miss Alton had been at Endon Vale
some days, and was a great favorite with
everyone in the house.. H er aunt. i>*dy
Marlon, was in Ireland, » « d as she was
not particularly attached to her prim old
grandfather and grandmother, whom her
aunt visited annually, she had been very
glad to accept Lady Grace’s invitation to
spend a month with her. Marlon, or
Fee Alton, as her fond aunt had chris­
tened her, was the prettiest, sprightliest
little Cbquet in the world. H er mother
and Lady Marion were twin sisters, and
the former having formed an attachment
for a handsome young captain in the army
whom her father would not hear of ran
off with him, and subsequently accom­
panied him to India with his regiment,
where she died. T w o years after, her
handsome young husband caught a fever,
which carried him off in less than a week,
and then their t# > children were sent to
England. The elder, a boy, died on the
passagt home, and the little Mri was
received with open arms by her'aunt as
a precious charge from her deaiiy belov­
ed sister.
Lady Mariob was by this this married
to a baronet of considerable veaith, but
she had no children; and whe* Sir Mar-
maduke Alton died, ten years after their
marriage, the tit^e v^ent to a younger
brother. H e was. however, able to leave
her a handsome Income for her liflp, ^nd
MfftVBY OF PORTAGE ROAD.
Lady Marion Alton lived in very good
style, tfhe was devoted to her nlecs, wJ>o
4km W ar Ctafcuats Caa New Get
she insisted should take her name; and
W M Qm Ahead With
Tlylr Meaey.
to prevent any inconvenience from their
ivy Warn.
both having the same Christian name
Secretary of State Dunbar has re- ’
The fttate Board of Portage Railway
Lady Martyn rechristened her pretty lit-'
Commissioners
hald
a
conference
with
calved
f t vochers tor claims of Indian
tie niece Fee, and a very appropriate
A. E. Hammond, the engineer recently W a r veterans and will begin Issuing,
name it was.
At the time we wHte Fee Alton was selected to make a preliminary survey warrants in payment of the same this
of the route of the portage road be­
18, and just through her first season. She tween The Dalles and Celilo. Mr.
»ek. It la believed that 800 claims
was small, but perfectly symmetrical; It Hammond was directed to proceed at
will be filed with the Adjutant-Geheral,
was only envy that prompted people to dnee with the survey, and ha will do
say sometimes she kas nothing bw an ■o as soon as he caa organise a sur­ aad that 750 of theee w ill be allow ed,'
In amounts averaging about $150 each.
animated wax doll. Everyone ad wired veying party.
If this expectation shall be fulfilled,
and liked ber, and she liked everyone in
Hia work will be to examine the
return. She wad the life and sou* of a ground and run preliminary lines the total claims allowed will amount to
P*»ty, with her quick wit and keen sense where the road will probably be con­ $11$,500. The total appropriation is
of the ridiculous, and if he Fas a little structed. H e will make plate aad $100.000, so that a deficiency of $12.500
malicious sometimes it was Impossible to charts showing all Die topographical is probable.
Under advice of the Attorney-Gen­
be angry with her, she waa always so conditions. H e expects to be ready to
eral
Secretory of State Dunbar will
eager to atone for It.
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report to the board la shout 80 days,
As opposites frequently attract dach and until that time no further action issue warranto fqr claims in the order
in which the vochers come to his office,
other, she was at the preset time engag­ can be taken by the board.
and no in the order the claims are filed
ed in a desperate flirtation with. Col.
with the Adjutant-General. A ll claims
I vers d’Aguilar, a tall, dark, melancholy
Racelnt* of Columbia Countv.
will be paid in full as long as the
looking man (albeit decidedly handsome),
The reports In the County Clerk’s of­ money lasts, and when the appropria­
who was very much in love with her. H e fice show that the receipts for May
tion is exhausted the Secretory o f
had been all through the Indian war, and were larger than at any time in the
Stote will issue certificates o f allow­
on his return to England, looking very history of Columbia county. T ip total
ance, which are recognised as legal
thin ahd worn, he was made quite a hero amount received was $568.08, appor­
evidence of a valid claim against the
o f by all the women, and looked bis part tioned as follows:
Recording deeds stote. These certificates will not draw
extremely well.
and other instruments, $278.75; court Interest and must await an appropria­
* I suppose that if-tw o men from the op­ fees, $228; redemptions, $61AS.-
tion by some subsequent Legislature
posite poles had been ¿brought together
before they caa be paid.
under one roof, they could not have d if­
Hlgb Scboc
fered more essentially than Col. d’Agui­
The Eugene school board has 1st the
lar and Mr- Clayton. One was generous
Western Oregon division Oregon
in heart apd mind, chivalrous to women, contract to W elsh A Mauer, of Salem,
irresolute, diffident in himself, and with for the construction of the new High State Teachers* Association, Portland,
the courage o f a lion; the other—well, we School building. The contract price June 24-2$.
Street carnival, Ashland, Jtane 15-2«.
already know what Francis Clayton WM. is $24,26».
Pioneers’ reunion, Brownsville, June
And yet these two men had something in
Rick Find In Southern Oregon.
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common—a sentiment which in one was a
J. A. Whitman and J. D. Hard are
School election in all Oregon dis­
tender, chivalrous affection; in the other
a base, selfish passion. This sentiment now in control of what promisee to be tricts, June 15.
Convention of the Sunday schools of
was love o f Fee Alton. For the first, the biggest placer mining proposition
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absolutely the first time in his life, Mr. In Southern Oregon. The property is Lane county, June 10-1L
Street carnival Roseburg, June 22.
Clayton waa, as he confessed to himself, located on Steve’s Fork of Steamboat
Christian camp meeting, Turner,
in love—confoundedly in love with s pret­ Lake, and comprises some 880 acres
ty, little, malicious, teasing, impertinent of mining ground, nearly all of which June I f .
prospects rich from “grass roots to
Street carnival, Salem, June 2f to
fairy, and could not help himself.
July 4.
Lady Grace’s guests - included Mr. bedrock.” Some of the prospects ob­
tained are so big that it ia hard to be­
Masamas leave Eugene to cltmb the
Frale, a connection o f her husband’s, who
lieve they were taken frbm just a few Three Sisters, June f, returning in
had recently come into a very good living,
pans of dirt The property was pur­ ten days.
but had strong sporting tendencies; Cap­
chased from Messrs. Shearer, Lewis,
tain Culloden. o f the Guards, s very plain,
Armstrong 4k Scott, and the new own­
quiet individual, with s good income and
Oettlag Ready* to Operate. '
ers have already been offered an ad­
considerably less brains; and the Mon-
The
Sumpter Lumber Company has
vance of two and a half times the pur­
orable John Flelden, a universal and most
chase price. The water supply is succeeded in floating aH-the sawlogs
accommodating, genius, who was always
on Cracker Creek to the mill cite just
abundant
happy to repay hospitality by making
south of totrn. The total amount put
himself agreeable, and amusing the com­
In was over 1,000,000 feet. The frame
Lase Oats Win Be Short.
for the new mill will soon be up, and
pany.
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The effect of the recent hot wave is as soon as the logs at the old plant
These were the people whom Miss
unquestionably very dlsasterous to all
are consumed the big mill will be ready
Champion found assembled at * Endon
growing crops in Lime county, with to be operated.
Vale, and I think her first sensation on the possible exception of bops. Farm­
being Introduced to them was s slight ers have been complaining for two
Week on the Balsley-Elkhora.
chagrin at finding no great people among weeks past about Insufficient rain for
them.
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Machinery and supplies are erriving
the grain crops, and. this hot spell,
W inifred had arrived at Bnden Vale, coming at this tlm*. will have the ef­ ilm oatdally for the Baieley-Elkhorn
and was sitting in hei^room, dressed for fect o f cutting short the crop very ma­ nine MTtfie B ik e r district A large
dinner, until Lady Grace should cop # in, terially. There has been insufficient force of men has been engaged to
as she had promised, and take her down­ moisture for nutrition of growing work on this property this season, and
stairs into the drawing room.
graiim, and now the heat comes and from now on the plan Is to rush the
Mrs. Champion had bean prevented f o r e « maturation without any posal work of development as fast as possi­
paying a visit to Lady Grace, as she had billty of growth. W heat will undoubt­ ble.
intended; but she, nevertheless, fulfilled edly be cut short 25 per cent, and oats
her promise of sending W inifred in hey 50 per cent already, and the damage
Work On Sumpter Water Plant.
will be even greater unless this spell
carriage.
W ork on the Sumpter-water works
When the latter arrived she found he* of heat Is followed by a soaking rain. will soon be commenced. The plant
will be 500 horse power, and half of
kind hostess alone, all her guests being
Will Cheapen Transportation.
this will he used In the electric plant
away on an excursion to the neighboring
woods. They had spent a pleasant after­
The preliminary survey of the elec­ to light the city.
noon together, aiyl just as the wheels of tric road from Bak$r City to the John
Oregon Cattle to North Dakota.
the returning carriages were-heard, Lady Day country is about finished. The
M. K. Parson», of Salt Lake, 1» »hip­
Grace sent her young friend away to route as laid out, commences at Bow­
dress, promising to call for her on heT en’s ranch, not far from Baker City, and ping 6000 head of Eaatern Oregon cat­
way to the drawing room. This she did, extends along Burnt River to the di­ tle from Ontario stockyan]» this week
and when they entered the drawing room vide, aad thence Into the John Day to North Dakota. This means about
there was no one Jn it but Lord Harold Valley. Prairie City, no doubt, will be $186,000 distributed among cattlemen.
Erskine, why came up immediately to be the destination for the present. It Is
introduced» , mi»
, considered by many that a far cheaper
Land Patents at Oregon City.
Harold,” aaid his aunt, “£ taave Miss route could have been selected, had
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i b * May there ware $4 timber
Eyre to yens charge until dinner time, so the flitre * been by - w ay of Auburn, land filing» and 62 homstead filings ia
through the Sumpter Valley over to
do your best to amuse ber.”
the land office at Oregon City.
Lord Harold forthwith devoted himself Burnt River. Several miles o f road
to being agreeable to his new acquaint­ building could be saved as well as the
ance, and succeeded perfectly. Bbe felt road being laid out on sa easier grade.
MRTLANE MARKETS.
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quite at her esse, and chatted gayly to
Oood lor Marlon Craps.
him. Presently the door at the further
Wheat— W alla W alla, 70O7Sc; val­
That crops have not suffered by rea­ ley, 76c.
end of the room opened and a magnifi­
cent young lady, attired in sweeping lace son of the recent hot weather is declar­
Barley— Feed, $20.00 per ton; brow­
and silk, entered.
The crimson color ed by fanners, fruitgrowers and bop-
flashed into W inifred’s cheeks as she growers in Marion county. Hops and ing, $21.
recognised her haoghty cousin.
They fruit, except strawberries, will be im­
Floor— Beat grades, $3.06 0 4.80;
had never met since it had been agreed proved by the heat of the last few graham, $3.4603.86.
the farmer’ s daughter was to be noticed. days. W hile the ground is dry in the
Millataffs— Bran, $23 per km ; mid­
“ W hat will she do?” wondered W ini­ hill country, and rain would be bene­
dlings, $27; shorts, $2$; chop, $18. *
ficial,
the
hot
weather
will
do
no
dam
fred. “ W ill she speak to me, or will she
age unless it should continue several
Oats— No. 1 white, $1.10 0 1 .1 6 ;
wait until Lady Grace introduces us?”
days.
gray, $1.06 per cental.
(To be continued.)
A G am e th a t Sailors P la y .
The simpler the game, the more fun
there Is In It, as a rule, and that Is
why a Canadian contributor to Associa­
tion M?n recommends, “for the gymna­
sium or the summer camp,” a kind of
tournament that la very ff|pular la the
British navy..
Take * pole nine or ten feet long
•ad as large round as an ordinary tele­
graph pole, and fasten it at each e n d -
say to a carpenter’s “horse.” Let the
pole be Just high enough to allow any
one to straddle It, with his feet from
twelve to twenty-four inches above the
ground.
Seat two men astride the pole, arm
them with pillows,—without covers,—
and at a signal let them strike at each
other. When one falls, either from a
blow or overbalancing from a misdi­
rected strike, it counts a point against
t)lm If he cannot return to the riding
seat In five seconds.
Should both go down together, no
point la made.
The most perfect echo in the world
Is said to be that at Shipley, in Sussex,
South England. It will repeat twenty-
one syllables.
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Shipping Cattle From
Fourteen carloads of cattle will he
shipped from Pendletoa this month.
Fred Phillips will ship mine carload»
to Carstena Bros., of Seattle. H e will
also ship five carloads to Kenewick.
The stock brought $4.26 for good beef;
some of the beat brought a little better,
but not .much. A,month ago the price
was $4.75 and fccarte at that Now
there is plenty of cattle to be had at
$4.S6.
To Resame Operation.
Operations at the Gold Bug Gristly
group of claim* In the Ibex district,
Eastern Oregon, will be resumed In
about tea dayi. The machinery la be­
ing overhauled and the pumps and
hoists put in shape for work. The
ehaft has fllled>up with water which
will he pumped out Immediately, and
sinking of the shaft will commence as
soon as it is free from water.
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Hay*— Timothy, $20021;
clover,
nominal; cheat, $16016 per ton.
Potatoes— Beet Borpanka, 60060c
per sack; ordinary, 36046c per cental,
growers’ price«; Merced sweets, $80
8.60 per cental.
Poultry— Chickens, mixed, 11012c;
young, 13014c; bens, l i e ; tnrkeys,
live, 16017o; dressed, 20«22e; ducks,
«7.0007.60 per dosen; geeee, $6.000
6.60.
Cheese Foil cream, twine, 1 6 X 0
16c; Young America, 16016X c; fact­
ory priest, 101 X c lees.
Batter— Fancy creamery, 20022X e
per pound; extttto, 21c; dairy. 200
22 X c; store, 16c018.
E gg»— 1 6 X 0 1 7 X e per dosen.
Hope— Choice, 18020c per poand.
Wool— ^Valley, 1 2 X 0 1 7 c; Eastern Or­
egon, 8014c; mohair, 86037Xt>.
Beef— Grove,
cows, SX @ 4c, per
pound; steers, 605 X c ; drereed, 8 X c. '
Veal— 7X@ 8c.
Mutton— Grom, $3.60 per
pound;
drereed. 7 0 7 X c.
Lambs— Gross,
4c
per
pound;
droeeed, ?Xh.
Survey Excites Cariosity.
A Southern Pacific survey party Is
operating between
Mllwaukie and
Gladstone Park. Diligent Inquiry falls
to disclose the purpose of the survey.
It was leraned from a member of the
party that a.route la being established
from Mllwaukie, via Gladstone Park
and the Chatouqua grounds to Oregon
Hogs— Grose,
City.
droeeed, 70 8«.
606Xo
per
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pound;
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