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About Eagle Valley news. (Richland, Or.) 191?-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1918)
Ilfettwindl EMINENT surgeons tell Hugh UhiinKor that six months Is his llfo limit. 1'oter Stark, Intimate friend, finds him Manned by the news unil arranges to tnKe Whltaker on n lone smith Mm yucht trlfu The sick tnnn sneaks off to a cuuutry hotel, Intending to kilt himself, but surprises a youilg girl In the act of drinking poison. Sho Is Mary Luillshis, Iove-stnrvel daughter of a New York. plutocrat, de serted by the man with whom she planned clandestine marriage. To save her good name, Wbltaker marries the girl (knowing that six months Is his limit), gives her money and puts her on a train for home. He runs plump Into Stark, hunting him. Months later, the yacht burns at sea. All bauds die but Wbltaker. who Is reported lost. A delicate operutlou restores his health, and after live prosperous years In Aus tralia, he returns to New York one back from the dead '. We Had him In this Installment talking with his old law partner, Drummond. about the prospects of finding that little girl wife. A beautiful actress enters the story. CHAPTER IV Continued. . "Would you know her If you saw her?" "I don't know." Wbltaker frowned with annoyance. "She's six years older" "Well, but what was she like?" Drumraond pursued curiously. Wbltaker shook his head. "It's not easy to remember. Matter of fact. I don't believe I ever got one good square look at her. It was twilight in the hotel, when I found her; we sat talking in absolute dartiess, to ward the end; even In the minister's study there was only a green-shaded lamp on the table; nnd on the train well, we were both too much worked up, I fancy, to pay much attention to details." "Blonde or brune?" "I swear I don't know. She wore one of those funny knitted caps, tight down over her hair, nil the time." Drununond laughed quietly. "I don't feel In a Joking humor," Whltaker said roughly. "It's n serious matter and wants serious treat ment . . . What else have we got to mull over?" Druminoud shrugged suavely. "There's enough to keep us busy for several hours," ho said. "For Instance, there's my stewardship." "Your which?" "My care of your property. You left a good deal of money nnd securities lying round loose, you know ; naturally I felt obliged to look after 'em. There was no telling when Widow Whitaker might walk In and demand an account ing. I presume we might as well run over the account though It Is getting late." "llalf-past four." Whltaker Informed him, consulting his watch. "Take too long for to-day. Some other time." Druimnond's reply was postponed by the ofllce boy, who popped In on the heels of a light knock. "Mr. Max's outside," he announced. "O the deuce!" The exclamation seemed to escape Druimnond's lips In voluntarily. He tightened them an grily, as though regretting the lapse of self-control, and glanced hurriedly askance to see If Whltaker had no ticed. "I'm busy," he added, n trace sullenly. "Tell him I've gone out." "But he's got 'nnppolntir.ent," the boy protested. "And besides, I told him you was In." "You needn't fob him on on my ac ' count," Whltaker Interposed. "Wo can finish our confab later Monday any time. It's time for me to be getting up-town, unyway." "It isn t that," Drummond explained doggedly. "Only the man's u bore, and" "It Isn't Jules Max?" Whltaker ex citedly. "Not little Jules Mux, who used to stage manage our amateur shows?" "That's the man," Drumrnond ad mitted with plain reluctance. "Then have him In, by all means. I wnut to say howdy to him, If nothing more. And then I'll clear out and leave you to his troubles." Drumraond laughed a trifle sourly. "Max has developed Into a heavy weight entrepreneur, you know." "Meaning theatrical manager? Then why not say so? But I mlght've guessed he'd drift Into something of tho sort.'' A moment Inter Whltaker wan vig orously pumping tho unresisting In deed tho apparently boneless hand of Jules Max. Tho hut that had mado Hnmmersteln famous Max had appro priated straight crown, flat brim and Immacalato gloss bodily. Beneath It bis faco was small of feature, and fat. J (wvvwM'vvv-vy A pince-nez sheltered his noar-slghted eyes. Ills short, round little body was Invariably by day dressed In a dark gray uiornlng-oont, whlte-ddged waist coat, assertively-striped trousers, and patent-leather shoes with white spats, He had a passion for lemon-colored gloves of thinnest kid and slender malacca wnlklng-stlcks. Ills dignity was an awful thing, as Ingrained as his strut. He reasserted the dignity now with a Jerk of his mnltreated hand, read justed his glasses, and resumed his stare. "Hither," he observed, "you're Hugh tt hltaker come to life or a deuced out rage." "Both If you like." "lou sound like both." complained the little man. "Anyway, you were drowned In the Philippines or some where long ago. and I never waste time on a dead one. . . . Drummond " He turned to the lawyer with a vastly business-like air. "No. you don't!" Whltaker Insisted. putting himself between the two men "I admit that you're a great taan; you might at least admit that I'm a live one." . moiuue smilo moderated the small man's manner. "That's a bar gain," he said, extending a palo yel low paw ; "I'm glad to seo you again, Hugh. When did you recrudesce?" "An hour ago," Drummond nnswered for him; "blew In here as largo as life and twice ns Important. He's been running a gold farm out In New Guinea. What do you know about that?" "It's very Interesting," .Max con ceded. "You've asked him. of course?" ho demnnded of Drummond. nodding toward Whltaker. Drummond flushed slightly. "No chance," he said. "I wns on the point of doing It when von butted In." "What's this?" Inquired Whltaker. Max delivered himself of a startling bit of Information: "He's going to get married." Whltaker stared. "Drummond? Not really?" Drummond acknowledged his guilt brazenly: "Next week, In fact." "But why didn't you say anything about It?" "You didn't give me an opening. Be sides, lo welcome a deserter from tho groat beyond Is enough to drive all other thoughts from a man's mind." "There's to be n supper In honor of the circumstances, at tho Beaux Arts tonight," supplemented Mnx. "You'll come, of course." "I'll be then and furthermore, I'll be waiting at tho church u week hence or whenever It's to como off. And now I want to congratulate you." Whlt aker held Drumniond's hand In one of those long, hard grips that mean much between men. "But mostly I want to congratulate her. Who Is she?" "Sara Law," said Drummond, with pride In his quick color and the lift of his chin, "Tho greatest living actress on the English-speaking stage," Max an nounced, preening himself Importantly. "My own discovery." "Of courso I've heard but I hnvo been out of touch with such things," Whltaker apologized. "When shull I see her?" "In honor of her retirement," Max answered, fussing with n gardenia on his lapel. "Hho retires from tho stngo finally, nnd forever sho snys when tho curtain falls tonight." "Then I've got to bo In tho theater tonight If thut's tho case," said Whlt aker, "'Frnld you won't get In, though," Drumraond doubted darkly. "Every thing In tho houso for this final week was Fold out a month ago. Kven tho speculators are donned out." "Tutl" tho manager reproved htm loftily. "Hugh Is going to seo Sara ftnw act for tho last time from my personal box aren't you, Hugh?" "You hot I nml" Whltaker assorted with conviction. "Then coinu atong." Max caught hltr. by tho arm and started for tho door. "So long, Drummond . . ." CHAPTER V. Curtain. Nothing would satisfy Max but that Whltaker should dlno with him. Ho consented to drop him at tho Itltz-Cnrl-ton, In order that ho might dross, only on tho condition that Whllakor would moot htm at seven. In the white room at thu Knickerbocker. "Just mention my name to the bond waiter," ho said with mngulllconco; "or If I'm there tlrst. you can't help see ing me. Everybody knows my talik tho little one In the southeast corner. . . . Shoot. .1 nmos!" The latter phrase was Max's way of ordering the ilrhor to move on. Tho car snorted resentfully, then pulled smoothly and swiftly away. Max waved a Jaunty farewell with a lemon colored hand, over the back of tho ton neatt. Whltaker wont up to his room In n reflective mood In which the theatrical man had little iilaco. Since his arrival In New York he had fallen Into tho habit of seeking tho vlow from his window when In meditative humor. A view of ten thousand roofs. Inexpressi bly enchanting. . . . Somewhere perhaps In that welter of steel and stone, as eternal anil as restless as the sea, was the wuainu Whltaker had married, working out her lonely des tiny. A haphazard biscuit tossed from his window might fall upon thu very roof that sheltered her; he might search for a hundred years and never cross her path. He wondered. . . . Tho possibility that sho might have mnrrlod n second time did not disturb his pulse by tho least fraction of a beat. Ho even contemplated the chanco that she might be dead with normal equanimity. Fortunate, that lie didn't love her. More fortunate still, that ho loved no one else. Incontinently he wrote and dis patched a long, extravagant cablegram to Mrs. I'ottlt In care of the American embassy, little do :btlng that she would Immediately answer. When eventually be strode Into tho white room. Max was already estab lished at the famous little table In the southeast corner. Whltaker was con scious of turning heads and guarded comment ns he took bis place opposite the little fat man. "Make you famous In a night," Max assured him Importantly. "Don't hap pen to need any notoriety, do you?" "No, thanks." "Dine with me here three nights hand-running and they'll let you Into the Syndicate by the back door with out even asking your name. I. T. A'h one grand little motto, my boy." "1. T. A.?" "I'ays to advertise. Paste that In your hat. Look mo over," he requested abruptly, leaning back. "I guess I'm some giddy young buck, what?" Whltaker reviewed the striking ef fect Max bail created by encasing his brief neck and double chin In an old- AS PHILOSOPHER SAW LIFE Walter Pater's Idea of Success Was Hardly That Held by the Mod ern Business Man. The service of philosophy, of specu lative culture, toward tho human spir it Is to rouse, to startle It to a llfo of constant and eager observation. Every moment some form grows per fect In hand or face; some tone on tho hills or tho sen Is choicer than tho rest; some mood of passion or Insight or Intellectual excitement Is Irresistibly real and attractive to us for that moment only. Not tho fruit of experience but experience It self, Is the end. A counted number of pulses only Is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may wo seo In them all that Is to be seen In them by the llnest senses? I low shall we pass most swiftly from point to point and be present always at tho focus where tho greatest number of vital forces unlto In their purest en ergy f To burn always with this hard gem like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, Is success In life. . . . ureal pas sions may give us this quickened sense of life ecstasy uhd sorrow of love, tho various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which come naturnlly to many of us. Only bo iiuro It Is passion that It does yield you this fruit of a quick ened, multiplied consciousness. Walter I'ater. Had No Gift for It "Did yez say yer health Is hod, Mr. Donovan?" "Yls, ol'vo bin wnlkln' In mo slnpo." "Och, begorru, If 01 cu'd only havo dono that same, 01 wouldnt bo off the force now." fashioned high collar and hlnck silk stock, beneath which Ills Important chest wns protected by an elaborately frilled shirt decorated with black pearl Kinds. Ills waist was strapped In by a plqno waistcoat edged with black, and there was a distinctly perceptible "Invlsthlu" stripe In tho material of his evening coat and trousers. "Dressed like a fool," Max Hummed up the eusetuhlo before tils guest could speak. "Would you believe that de spair could gnaw at the vitals of any' one as wonderfully arrayed?" "I would not," Whltaker assorted. "Yet, I'm down In the mouth, be cause thin Is Sara's last appearance." Max motioned the waiter to remove the debris of a course. "I've got It In my knob that she's my mascot. If sho loaves mo, my luck goes with her. I made her, all right, but she mndu me, too; and It sprains my sense of good business to break up a paying combi nation like that." "Nonsense," Whltaker contended warmly. "If I'm not mistaken, you wore telling me this afternoon that "Ho's Golno to Get Married." you stand next to Dolnsco as a produc ing manager. The loss of one star Isn't going to rob you of that prestige, Is It?" "You never can tell." the little man contended darkly; "I wouldn't bet thirty cents my nest production would turn out a hit. I've had several close, calls with Sara she's threatened to chuck the stage often before this; but every time something happened to make her change her mind. I've got a hunch maybu something will happen this time, too. If It does, I won't waul any partners." How much Information do you wager that Max la in a position to rjlve Whltaker If he were of mind to do so? (TO UK CONTINUED.) Overworking, the Czar, To the true Scot there Is no plnco like his laud and no people like Ids people. Not that he doesn't get away from both as soon as ho can. But tho pride Is still there. When the Itnyal Scot Creys wero honored by halng the cznr appointed as their honorary colonel, nu olllcer In fliu regiment told the news to his serv ant. "Donald," he said, "the c.ar of Bus sin has been appointed colonel of our regiment." "Indeed, sir, an' Is that so?" ex claimed Donald. "It's a verra lino thing fur him." Then n puzzled ex piesslon stole over his face, and ho scratched his head thoughtfully, "Beg pur-rdon, sir," he added, "but wull ho bo able to keep hiiltli Jobs?" Cow's Variable Thirst. Somebody rises lo Inquire how much water a cow will drink during warm weather. Well, that depends, replies the ColTeyvlllo Journal. Where a hydrant Is handy, a tubful a day Is plenty for her. If her owner Is obliged to draw It from n well with n bucket anil rope, she will drink from half a barrel to a barrel. If tho water must be hauled her thirst Increases according to (hi; distance traveled to get It. Water brought from two miles avvny will be consumed at tho rate of threo barrels a day, three miles llvo barrels, and abovo that dlstanco no practical test has over been mado, ns no means has over been provldod to got tho wuter fast enough. ICnnsns City Stur. Usual Thing. "Why didn't you Intorfero when, tho cook chnsed tho waiter with a cleaver and tho waitress yelled murder!" "I thought It was an ordinary; caba rot fcaturV SAGETEA BEAUTIFIES AND DARKENS HAIR Don't Stay (irayl It DarkenH So Naturally that No hotly can Toll. You can turn gray, faded hair beau tifully dark nnd lustrous almost over night If you'll got a 60 cent bottlo of "Wyoth's Sago nnd Uulphur Com pound" at nny drug ntore. Millions of bullion of this old famous Hago Tea ltoolpe, Improved by tho addition of other Ingredients, are sold nnuually, says a well-known druggist here, bo cntiMO It darkens the hnlr so naturally and ovenly that no one can tell It has boon applied. Thoso whoso hair Is turning gray or becoming faded havo a surprise awaiting them, because after ono or two applications tho gray hair van ishes and your lucks become luxuriant ly dark and bountiful. This Is tho ago of youth, dray haired, unattractlvo folks aren't want ed around, so get busy with Wyelh'H Sngu and Sulphur Compound to night nnd you'll bo delighted with your dark, handsome hair and your youthful ap pearanco within a few days. This preparation Is n toilet requisite and Is not intended for tho cure, miti gation or prevention of disease. -Adv. Tough Luck. Old Man (to crying boy) Whnt'n tho matter, my little mauT Hoy -I'm lost. Boo boo! Old Man Lost? Nonsense! Wo mustn't give up hope so soon. Where do you llvo? Hoy Don't know, sir. Wo'vo Just moved, nnd I c can't remember tho ad dress. Old Man Well, what's your namoT Hoy D don't know, sir. M-mothor got married again this morning. Ex change ALL MEN AT HOME SHOULD PREPARE FOR WAR. Tim first lent n mini Is put thru for cither war or Ufa Innormicn in nn exnmt- union nf hi wntcr. Thin Is mint mann tlil liecnunn tho kidney piny n must Im portant part In rnunlmr premature uhl nen unit dentil. Thn ttinrn IlittlrlntlM the Dots mm pnmilng thru thn klilncvH the nooner comes decay so miy Dr. Tierce of Hur- II I nil Inntltute, lluffalo, N. V., who further uitvUeit nil people who nre itit thirty to irenrrvi the vitality of the klilnayn nnd free tho Mood from polaotioim elements, such iih uric arid Irlnk plenty of wnter nwent some dully nnd tnko Anurlc, double streiiKth, beforo ineula. This An-u-rlo In n Into discovery of Or. IMrrro nnd Is put up In tnlilet form, nnd enn be obtained nt almost any drill: store. For Hint lincknclie, UimlmKo, rheumatism, "runty" Joints. swollen feut or Imnda, duo to uric itch! In tho blood, Anurlc 'illicitly dlKHolvcN Dm uric ncld an hot water doeH mnmr Tnkn n little Anurlc hcrorn meals nml live In lie n hundred. Heud 10 emits to Mr. I'larco for trial pneknuo of Anurlc Adv. The Only Way. "I have a friend who kept n cook for nearly a year." "What Jail Is ho In charge of." Hon ton Transcript. Tnko euro of your health and wealth will take care of you. (Jarflold Tea promotes health. Adv. An Unexpected Answer. 'Tolly, want a cruckor?" "No; I am conserving food," roptlod tho Intelligent bird. Louisville Courier-Journal. ai.i.k.vh i oot-i:ahi: nut tub tiukii-h. Hhskrri Into the ahot nnd aprlnklwllln the font hath it uivm rmt ami comfort, takes thn frlrllon from the nhiie nriil prevent hllntrrit nml wire iuota. Mnki-s wulkliur may. Accept no suhalltutnt Hold everywhere. BBc. A Marital Handicap. "Tho girl Is neither pretty, talented nor rich. What Is hor attraction for you?" "A great and lasting ono. Sho's tongue-tied." ICxchango. Kor a disordered liver, tako Oarflold Tea, Hho Herb laxative. All druggists. Adv. Unsubstantial Returns. "Did you raise anything on your promise to pay?" "Oh, yes; I raised a smllo." Haiti morn American. Coated tongue, vertigo and constipa tion aro relieved by (larfleld Tea. Adv YES! MAGICALLY! CORNS LIFT OUT WITH FINGERS You corn-pestered men and women nood suffer no longer. Wear tho shoes that nearly killed you beforo, says this Cincinnati authority, because a fow drops of froozono applied directly on a tender, aching corn or cnllous stops soreness nt ouco and noon tho corn or hardonod callous loosens so It can bo lifted out, root and all, with out pain, A small bottlo of froozono costs vory llttlo nt any drug storo, but will positively tako off ovory hard or noft corn or callous. This should bo trlod as It Is inoxponslvo nnd Is snld not to lrrlt&to tho surrounding skin. If your druggist hasn't any froozono toll him to got n smnll bottlo for you from his wholosalo drug houso. It Is flno stuff and nets like a imarin ovory tlmo. Adv,