Newberg graphic., July 11, 1907, Image 2

"And this?" Mid Angela, indicating
the photograph.
"Th at?” returned Dobroaki. with * vary
lingular «n il«. “ That ia a warning which
I do not need." R e paused, and then
advancing to the window, and atooplng
forward, he tapped the phptogruph twice
or thrice with a forefinger as he spake.
“ That ia ¿py implacable ana inexorable
enemy— as I* am hia That is the. m»n
who 7 sera ago wormed himself into a j
B y D. C. M u rray—----- -
confidence, and then betrayed me. Tha% >
a countryman of mine, little sweetheart,
a Pole, and a Russian mou chard. That
is the denouncer of my wife and children
C H A P T E R I I ! . — (Continued.)
cial cap la general salute, stated that he
It Is kind, it is well meant, but I do not
The Levantine advanced, halted before had a letter for Monsiear Dobroaki. H e
need
to be warned of him. Nor do I think
the trie, and raised his hat.
had Inquired for monsieur at the Cbeval
“ 1 beg you to pardon my intrusion,“ Blanc, and had afterward discerned him that be needs greatly to be warned o f
*
be said, speaking in German to Fraser. from the road. Would monsieur * please me."
He
spoke
quetiy,
almost
dryly, except
"Y o u were good enough to help me once to sign for the letter?
,
for the elngle phrase, "a Pole and a
before. I have a postcard here which I
“ Ye must sign in ink," mid Fraser,
Russian mouchkrd." Then hia voice was
cannot reed. W ill you be no kind as to who was always willing to display his
raised Into an. expression of incredulous
translate it for me?"
knowledge, even of trifles. “ Pve a etoylo-
wrath,
and he broke off with the curious
Kraaer graciously took the postcard graphic pen, Mr. DobroekL"
cackling laugh with which he had greeted
and translated it into German. A Brue-
“ Excuse me," mid the old man, bow-
eels chemist wrote that one or tiro of lag round when he had received the pack­ his correspondent's warning a minute or
the iagredieaU In the prescription for­ age from the postman. He broke the seals two before.
“ Let us go back to our friends,” ' jo
warded U him by Mr. Athaaoe Zeno were leisurely, walking to one side as he did so.
toot commonly used in Belgium, and that “ Angela!" he cried, sudfeniy, "come mid, suddenly. " I must apologise tor
he had been compelled to sand to Ragland here." The girl moved quickly to hie dragging you away ia so strange n fash­
Cor them.
The prescription would be side, and saw at a glance that he waa ion.”
He passed an arm through on# a t kora
Made up and forwarded ia a day or two. strangely disturbed. Hie face waa white,
Mr. Athaaoe Zeno raised his bat once and hie eyes, ordinarily so calm and and looked down upon her with a tender
more and accepted the proffered postcard mournful, glittered with an unusual Hght. smile. Mr. Athanoe Zeno was still aret-
Cress Fraser's fingers, professing his in- " I t is with you," he said, in a voice as sd s t tha little Uhls as they psantd
Saitr obligation.
He had received the disordered as hia looks, “ that I ' mast through the smaller anile on their way to
proscription some years ago from an Eng­ share this an sacred Joy. Let us be alone, the garden. H e wae Upping Me teeth
lish physician whom be had met at Ber- little sweetheart. Come with me." He with an ivory paper knife and leaning on
ih . It had always done him a great deal took her by the hand and hurried her both elbows, but he turned and bowed and
o f good, i_ H e was a little unwell now, from the garden to the’ anion, followed by smiled as they pa seed him.
wad be had been recommended to Janenne the curious and wondering glances o f the
because of lU famous air. He had *x- others. “ Here !” he mid— “ here! After
these thirty-three years. L o ok !
liy
wife, tittle sweetheart, my boys!"
rived. It waa aot very cheerful to be all
Angela was amrmed
and
wonder- from the garden with Angela, but nobody
•lone there, and to exchaage a word with stricken, his manner was so changed and but Fraser felt altogether at liberty to
nobody. He Lrnoted to be forgiven this wild. His lean brown hand trembled aa
,of it- , .
,
.
tntruoion.
he held out to her a something in a bind­
h tuner intimated, in hia own lordly and ing o f faded golden filigree. Angela, open­
eoadeacendiug way, that be should be ing it, mw two miniatures within. Ia gels returned
happy at nay time during his brief stay one, two handsome lads of twenty or
“ You win pardon dm for taking away
In Jaaeaaa to be of service, and Mr. thereabouts were standing with their arms
Athanos Zeno, with a' how to each in about each other’s waist. The other de­ had received sudden sad moving news ia
turn, withdrew himself.
picted a woman in the prime qf youth, which I knew she would he interested,
and dressed in the national oostume of I will ask you to forgive me, too,” he
Poland. Angela had scarcely glanced at added to Farley, "fo r taking away your
it when Dobroaki took it nnd her hand guest.” He was quite himself again, aad
together, end kissed the picture twice or bore no trace o f his tots agitation. "Good-
thrice.
" H e r o !" he mid, with a hysteric tremn-
kmsnesa. “ A fter these thirty years l”
“ T ry to be calm, deer," urged Angela,
with a hand upon hie shoulder.
•
“ Yes, yes," he answered. “ I will be
calm. Look. I am calm already.”
“ These are your wife and your boys?”
she said, surveying the miniatures. “ Yea.
village.
The boys are very like yea.” .
- Mr. Athanos Zeno, with a small secre­
taire nader his arm, walked Into the
room, bowed, and. establishing himself at
look at waa Athanos Zeno, and oa tbs a little table at the tar end of the cham­
A corridor or covered passage led direct
outside nearly always abstracted from ber, began to make busy arrangements through the hotel from the gardes to
the world, though to a keen observer for writing, setting down his inkstand the village street, and he took that way.
there was visible when people tilked in with a brisk tap oa the table, and smooth­ Passing the center window of the larger
his neighborhood that curious listening, ing out his blotting paper with s flourish. salon he encountered the glance o f Atha-
observant poise of the head which Austin Angels had never seen Mr. Zeno before, nos Zeno, who seised the opportunity to
Farley had noticed in him. - He had noth­ and Dobroaki scarcely row him now, bnt bow and smile. Dobroaki suddenly re­
in g to conceal, and but little to observe, the girl was conscious o f an interior de­ called to mind the fast that he had loft
1 » * now. Dobroaki, Fraser and O'Rourke mand for privacy, aad with a hand laid the photograph upon the ledga o f that
w ere talking together in front of the gently on the old man's arm she moved same window, and retracing his steps, he
Cheval Blanc, aad now aad again a stray toward the open doorway which communi­ entered the hotel once more. He found
Dobroaki
village girl came down to the village cated with the larger salon.
Mr. Zeno standing at the window, topping
pump for water, but there was nobody yielded to the pressure, and made a etep his teeth with the Ivory paper knife, and
or two with downward eyes, hia lean
wise in sight.
the polite Levantine made way for hhn
Mrs. Farley walked Into the garden brown Angers tremulously tearing at the with a dancing master’s grace. Whan the
w ith the boy’s hand ia oa* o f hers, aad package, which still contained a some­ old man stooped for the photograph which
•eating herself st some distance from what bulky Inclosure o f paper*. The en­ still lay w h o « he had left it, Mr. Zero
Che Levantine, busied herself over a bit velope gave way, and he dropped some of spoke.
its contents on the floor. Angela fell
• f lace work.
“ A h !” said he, to German, “ font is
A t an open window overlooking the gar­ upon one knee and, gathering up the
den sat Austin, with rumpled hale ,and
The sudden grasp with which he tore friend 7”
disordered aspect, occasionally scratching
“ An acquaintance," returned DobroekL
them
from her fingers, the look he bent
his bead with the feathered stump o f e
“ A delightful a r t
And useful,
go
very short quill pea. Lucy, who had so upon them, the quick, gasping “ Ha !”
arranged her seat as to command a view that broke from him, so startled her that -harming to have the face of a friend be­
• f him at «rill, observed him smilingly she knelt there, still looking up at him fore one even in absence."
Mr.* Zeno stood smiling until the old
stnd tenderly for awhile, bat he began to ia fear and wonder. The quick, gasping
rumple his hair eo wildly at length that exclamation he had made had much of man with bent head had once more passed
the sound with which a hungry wild beast the window. Then his face M l suddenly
•he spoke to him.
receives hia daily rations, end for a mere into a thoughtful frown.
. “ Can’t you work to-day, dear?”
THE GIRL WITH
A MILLION
■“ I t ’s tingling all over me,” he an­
swered, with an irritated flourish o f the altogether savage aad carnivorous.
This singular transport lasted but a
bands. “ Actually aad absolutely tiag-
moment, but be stood for a second or
two storing intently at the paper to his
hand, whilst Angel* row slowly, and laid
her hand upon hia arm again. Than she
m w that the object which had so excited
him waa the photograph o f a man of
nearly his own ago-—the face a quarter
from hia table a disorderly double hand­
life else, or thereabouts— the photograph
fu l o f papers, and snatching a straw hat
very clearly and finely printed— and the
Crow a kook oa the wall, stuck it fretful­
subject noticeable by a lofty doms of
ly at the bac kof his head and left the
bald forehead, and the eye* o f a very
Chqval Blanc, aad the good w ife crifd, in
a hurried whisper, “ Austin, here are the
people from Houfoy. And you in your
•Uppers! Go away aad make yourself
presentable."
Austin arose with something of aa air
• f humorous discontent, and sauntered
Into the hoteL reappearing in time to
preet Mookelyne and Dobroaki at the door,
srhere the young American Introduced
I f iM Butler with s solemn little phrase
or two about the novelist's fame, which
caused him to blush like a schoolboy.
Angela looked upon him with eyes of ven-
erAtion— the first live author she had be­
held. She was at the age when venera­
tion is at its freshest, sad this encounter
seas aa unfeigned and unique delight to
her.
By aad by they were all SMted ia the
garden together, aad O'Rourke aad Fra­
ser came in, aad each took a chair in the
hot shad* o f the trained limes. Angela,
Farley aad Maskelyne were just begin­
ning to feel at home together, and were
gliding into talk. O'Rourke M t n a r and
kept silence, though it was a common
habit * f hto to lend conversation. He was
esteemed a good talker, but hia poorer as
• listener was rarer and more remarkable.
A s s listener bo waa fall o f subtleties.
H e responded silently to the slightest
■hade of thought, and the talker always
felt certain o f sympathy with kiss.
He m w bat little of feminine society,
wad knew bat little o f women's manners
o r their interior way*. Ho watched with
• closer Interest than he eould altogether
Imre accounted for at the moment for any
alga o f rapport between Maskelyne and
Ang-u, and m w noa* whatever oa either
aide. Dobroaki M t by. rileat, aad many
glances o f affection and understanding
peered between her sad Mookelyne.
“ Engaged, perhaps,“ Mid O’ Boorke to
himself. “ Bare o f each other.” A mo­
ment later, with a little touch o f peering
•agar at hisses!f, “ What has it to do with
Once more Dobroaki obeyed the slight
pressure of her bead, and they entered
the larger asloa together. Angela closed
the door, and the old man M t down upon
the broad sill of one o f the windows,
still fixedly regarding the photograph. By
and by he offered it, without raising hia
eyes, to Angels, and began to turn over
the paper*. Most of them were printed,
and one was in Russian, and another in
German type. Scattered among them by
their fall were the leaves o f a lengthy let­
ter, and having sorted these leaves from
the others, and arranged them in the or­
der in which they were numbered, he be­
gan to reed.
The letter was written in French, and
he made one or two exclamations in the
same language a* he read, " A h ! the good
Bremner! It was be,” being alone dis­
tinguishable. Angela, with knitted flngere
and down-turned palm*, stood before him
at a little distance. She had laid down
the photograph end the miniatures on the
window sill beside DobroekL and divided
her serious and inquiring regard between
them and him. He skimmed the letter
rapidly as if in search of something until
he reached the final page. This he read
elowly and deliberately, breaking off once
to drop the letter ia both heads between
his basis with an odd cackling tough,
which whatever else It may have ex­
pressed. was absolutely devoid o f mirth.
After this he read on quietly to tb* end,
folded the letter and the printed papers
together, restored them to the torn en­
velope, aad buttoned up the package la
the breast pocket o f hia military looking
frock east.
“ This was stolen.” be Mid, taking ap
the miniatures, aad holding tb* case
clasped gently between tb* palms o f both
hands, “ whoa my house was sacked by a
clerical mob la Vienna more than thirty
years ago. And now a dear old friend—
Tb c/oat tha tattered [
lessen book
And loare our fooler *
dear.
1
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a, I
And so /V say,
to you
7bal such a aadfos
fills ary heart
/ don’t haem athaf.
Accompanying thla article are soma
o f th « shapes that cornata bava assumed
in the past which bava startled the
credulona and superstitious people o f
earlier days. Bach o f the cometa that
baro baso reproduced from tbs moat
authentic descriptions o f them obtain­
able struck w hole nations dumb w ith
dread.
Th e ornino ns shapes o f them bistorte
comets startled a carolane w orld and
repeatedly caused millions o f men and
women to be smitten w ith terror.
According to tradition each o f the
follow ing momentous events was foro-
g g Y e a n H e r J a s lo r.
m ien T e rry , the most famous o f ltv-
ing English actresses, has taken to her-
>» * «■«
who w as the leading actor In her conj-
r ^ L . r
i mm^r r in
» * “ ■<*« for
time a fter It i occur-
fence. J Tbe bride to » and the brtde-
groom 88 years old. Perhaps the best
comment on the wedding was tbnt of-
fared by Mr. Career's m other:
- j WMa M rry,” she m id, “ ip T im my
C oat * «
L lv ls g .
ance o f a pappy like a ball o f worsted.
I had established a very satisfactory
beats fo r fu t o n friendship and was
going on my w ay when I beard the rat­
tle o f wheels and yelping. Going back,
I f o o d the poor little beast bad been
run over and bad tw o lege broken. Aa
a big Turkish porter was passing I
o ffe n d him a franc to pot the puppy
out o f its pain, a work I did not relish.
H e w ee ready to take it roughly from
my hands, bat not to kill i t “Th at's
different,” he s o ld ; "to take life to
an ordinary haalnsas transaction that
occurs nightly- Doga are the scaven­
g e « of Constantinople and every night
the refuse ot betoto and bousae to
thrown out into tha street
A class o f men exists which Uvea by
ragpicking and diligently Investigates
tbs contents o f these beeps, while the
dogs snarl and bay around than sav­
agely, resenting bis intrusion Into their
perquisites.— Blackw ell'» Magaxlne.
Exciting sport, the mors exciting hó­
cense o f the hardships connected w ith
It, Is offered by chamois hunting in tha
mountains o f Europe.
T b * chamois
a r » found everyw here In the highest
mountains o f Germany, Austria. Switz­
erland, in Trangjrl vante, ih the Car-
pathiana, atoo in the Alpe, and these
extrem ely shy animals are regarded by
a ll true huntsmen aa the most deair-
able o f all gams. T b * chamois belongs
to the antelope species; bnt. unlike
Its kin o f the broad plains, it pro-
fore the barran w ilds o f the high menu-
taino, and, ilk * the mountain shoop, the
Ibex aad the mouflon. It selects in this
terr itory fa ll o f chasms and canyons
tb * moot Imps ero bis regions as Its lair.
During th* summer months tbs cham­
ois roams in the higher altitudes, but
In the winter tim e i f must descend to
find Its feed. A fte r feeding It returns
to Its old Impaeaabie nooks, where it
feels secure. Aa In the case o f the
deer, the male Is called a buck and the
fem ale a d o e ; but. unlike all other an­
ímala o f this kind, both sexes are an­
tlered, the horns being called “ krteke-
lor,” but those o f the doe are somewhat
lighter than those o f the buck. Th e
doe brings forth one faw n every year,
sometimes two, but very seldom three,
which a re very dearly loved by the
" I think n ot Even if so, a trap that
caught nothing. H e knew that clumsy
canaille whom he caught In the weeds the
other night hat he never gaeeeed that I
meant he should know him. I must find
him another to discover, and after that
another.
He has some great coup oa
hand. He Is not spending the better part
of a year la this perfect quietude and ia
this little village for nothing. Well, be
foiled Maurits, sad he foiled Bernards,
aad he foiled Arnand. Let os aw If he
will foil me."
(T o be continued.)
In c re a se d
0«s4ngre Snapes In th e H eaven s Wre-
. ends A l l Oven« «¡ven ts.
Does the advent o f a comet preeago
war, or pestilence, famine o r some oth­
er dire disaster to mankind?
I t In the common bollsf that it dosa,
and to • corU ln extent even noted moo
b a re subscribed to the general belief
that when we nee the wavering, uncor-
U ln looking shape in the heavens some­
thing Is about to happen.
There Is oven datg extent to w a r­
rant thla belief, fo r history shows that
a great many o f the moot disastrous
happenings on this earth w ere preceded
by the appearance o f a comet la the
* na 1
1101 ap p ro
T h a t tbe coat o f livin g la steadily In- disparity In their ap
creasing in other countries, as well as ***■• Tarry.
She w
in the United States, Is undoubtable. In beautiful and graeefu
Germany price* have advanced to such myself, aba to older in
an extent that what w ere a fe w y e a n
one w,th
ln 1
ago taken aa a m atter o f coarse and TlDC* d that It is a p
regarded as necessities, am, now die- 1
* lad my * ° n “
tlnctly luxnrle* to the middle classes.
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In s recent address tbe mayor o f the
T A K E GOOD c o x
C ity o f S tu ttga rt which has a popo-
______
lation o f 247,000, stated that during Tw^ka „
c o . s t w . t li
the last tw elve months the city’s meat
A n im a ls Cons
supply bad cost about $000,000 more
T h e ¿oga are a grea
than fo r the preceding year. Th e agrf- stantlnople and. Indue
cultural products consumed ln the city towns. They He six
coot at least $ 1 , 000,000 more than the heap* in the sunshln
year before. O wing to thla great >B-1 considerately treated
Father— Young Upperton to going to nearest Tu rk provide* a blanket and
propose fo r your hand soon.
I m ilk and sees generally to their w*l-
Daughter— H ow do ynu know?
| fo re and wo# betide th# foreigner who
Father— I hear he baa Iwan making triaa to kill a hound.
told by the appearance o f a fo rbidding;
biasing comet in the bee vena:
1. T h e deluge, 2848 B. C.
— 2. - Th e confusion . o f to ag ues a t
Babel, 2218 B. C.
-
~
S. The destruction e f Sodom and Go­
morrah, 1898 B. C.
4. Th e overthrow ad Pharaoh and
hia hoot in the Bed Sea, 1401 B. C.
5. Nebuchadnezzar's bloody Invasion,
1140 a c.
8 . Destruction In A ch es* ot tw o
cities— Ueltoe and Bora.
7. Death ot Julius Caesar, 44 & a
8 . T h e death o f Agrippa, statesman
and geographer, 12 B. C.
ft. Th e Jewish revolt which tod to
destruction o f Jerusalem In 70 A. IX
10. Death o f Emperor Nero, 08 A .
10. D efaat o f tb * Bmm «a d o r A t­
rito. 481 A . IX
18. The epldemic that swept tb*
Eestera bemlspbere, 600 A. D.
17. Conques! ot Engiand by the N or­
mana, 1006 A. Di
18, Deatb o f K ln g Philip Augustos
o f Franco, 1228 A. D.
10. The postilen«* that swept Eu­
ropa, 1806 A. D.
20. Th e triple terror*,, war, fatula*
and pe*tll*nce,.that swept Europa, 1818
A D.
21. Death o f Charles 1. ot Engiand.
1645 A D.
22. Th e daadly Londan plague, 18 uó
A d .
28. T h e W a r ot 1812, by oomet o f
1811 A D.
24. Our Civil W ar. 1681 A D.
Garfield, 1881 A D.
H ere are some o f tb * nations and
persons that believed that tbe advent
o f a comet proeag ed disaster:
T b e antedeluvlana, tbe ancient Jew *
from Abraham to Josephus, the Baby­
lonians. tbe Permis ns, the Phoenicians,
tbe Chaldeans, the Egyptians, the Gre­
cians, tbe Arabs, the Romans, tb* Eth­
iopians, tb* Franks, tbe Hons, tb* Sax­
ons, the Celts, the American Indiana,
and the Chinees; Enoch, Mows, the
prophets o f Israel, Alexander the
Great, Origan, Tertolllan, Chrysostom.
Constantine, Bede, Thomas Aqulnaa,
Lather, Melnnctbon, Zwlngle, nearly a
■core o f Catholic Popes, John How*,
Jeremy Taylor, John Knox, Milton,
Shakespeare aad Kepler.— Chicago la ­
ter Ocean.