Sherman County observer., January 07, 1916, Image 4

before mo that the break between her
and me was aomewhat overshadowed IJ
( wrote her friendly letters. but since <
M ORO. O R E G O N .
I had not spoken o f lore to her and 2
aaw no prospect of our again living 1 j
near to each other I did not think I t 2
F R I D A Y . - - January 31, 1916
advisable to w rite I t now. Remem- 1
bertog the roee 1 bad given her, 1 wish- <
ed I ksd received some parting g ift
from her. But I had nothing she had 12
ever given me except e smoking cap I J
she bad embroidered for me. Thia I
TB 9 '
«‘flr ’ A
hong on a hook on the wall In my IJ
room. Often 1 aat In my easy chair <
.C —
after a day’s work w ith by eyes fixed LS
on the cap and fancied her bending j
By F . , i MITCHEL
ever tt. her fa ir bands plying her new <
Its decoration.
♦«♦«♦«•♦♦♦è*»»»*»«»»««*♦» die 1 in
am aware that many a awn has <
become, sentimental over a g ift a girt
Edw ard Brew erton was Cte
* baa given him, and in thia degenerate
handsomest man In bis <
age such feelings furnish material for the
1
BI» was not that <
the writers of the comic papers. Nev- college.
<
that la purely physical;
ertheless to me those thoughts of my I beauty
’
intellectual fellow, a duui i
dear Marion-thougb a period follow- an
'
ad when the picture grew dim from actor, and this waa stomps
absence-tere still sacred, B ar glassy 1
chestnut hair la now whits as snow.
Story of the Meeting
Her fa ir akin la now shriveled, but this
does not one whit detract from the 11
of a Real Burglar
sacredness of thia memory o f her when I
she was a glrL
and a Novice
That period of which 1 have spoken, 11
when her picture grew dim from ab- ,
sence. began—If It really had a begin­
By E. THAYLES EMMONS
ning—a tew years after I parted' with I
1 her and lasted for a decade. During
this time 1 beard that her father had
Jaaoee Crowley, gentlemen, walked
died and the family had been obliged I
firmly and fearlessly up the steps of
te give up the residence In which I had
the tidy little suburban cottage set
I passed pleasant bours with bar and
somewhat back from the street two
move Into a smaller one, which I on-
blocks from the street car line, hte
deratood was In another city. After
raincoat collar turned up about his
this I lost track o f her entirely, and
my feeling for her may be said to have I
earn and bis erstwhile shining opera
lain dormant
hut dripping wltfi the rein which had
One winter—It was thirteen years I
fallen upon i t Mr. Crowley might not
a fte r 1 had parted w ith Marlon—1 I
have walked up with such assur­
found myself in a city not fa r from I
ance at such an hour in the nighL but
my old borne. It was Christmas time,
well he knew that no angry wife waa
and the anniversary revived memoriae
waiting for him behind the locked
of tbe past - I determined to visit the I
doors ready to take him to task be­
spot where 1 had passed my childhood. I
cause be bad failed to come at IO-JO
▲ tew hours' travel brought me there. I know these young ladles.* One does
or even earlier. Not only the lady of
The bouse where I had lived as well as I not realise hew preclone one's fellow
the house, be knew, but ell the other
Magoo's bonis bad passed Into other I etamtrymen are till he meets them in .
members of the fam ily as well, were
bands. Mine was vacant; her» was I a foreign land. N et only were these
at the beach for a two months’ out-
ladles fellow counterwomen of Ned,
occupied. Doing to the latter, a lady, I
lug; hence be was as free as a bachelor
but they were aB pretty, some of
came to the door, of whom 1 asked to I
to come and go as be pleased without
them very pretty, and there was one
be allowed to look over the lower of them that had a pair of the most
ubeing questioned.
I rooms, explaining that 1 bad once I
kissable lips ba bad ever seen.
K in front of the door he paused a mo­
I been Intimate with a fam ily that then I The yonng “*"**. though desirous of
ment to pull a bunch of keys from the
lived there. 8hs kindly admitted me.
I forming the acquaintance o f this fflr -
pocket of hie coat, and in a second
The furniture was the earns ae of ty, and especially the one w ith the
more be wee Inside the house and
1 yore. I stepped up to the library and kissable lips, eat w ith them for some
calmly lighting a clgaretite while re­
looked over the books Presently my time without meeting any exenee for
moving his dripping coat and hat end
I eye caught a bine and gold copy of I doing eoC - One of them dropped •
placing them on the hell rack. .
Tennyson.. A vague Idea came te me guidebook, bat before Ned coaid pick
00
W ithout turning en the tights he other man
"1 don’t know Just what to aay to a 1 00
I of something very sweet connected t t op the g irt recovered R tpreetf-
I with I t Taking It from the shelf, I I I’hongh he watched fa r on opportunity,
then the parlor, the latter looking man like you.” be began Slowly. "1 m
opened It at the frontispiece and saw nooe came. A t lost an idee came to
Romewbat ghostly in the reflected light | floa’t know as 1 ever before talked to ,h1
the fam iliar picture of a yoeng poet
him.
from the arc lamp out near the corner. I a real burglar—to a man who sneaks hj
I t occurred to Brewerton to pot this
There on the flyleaf 1 eew the words,
Impressed wfth the utter loneliness into the bouses of other people for the «•
“To Marlon, from Philip. Dec. 25. IB—” party off their guard by pretending to
of K all. he aaak down for a moment I purpose of taking thluga that d o u t be ,
Beneath this was the number of a be a foreigner and ignorant of the
on a soft divan by the window and 1 long te him. No; my friends are all *
I page. Turning to the page Indicated. ' English language. H e spoke Oermen
looked out Into the deserted street honest; they are gentlemen. So If 1 I aI
I saw the first three words of a poem*-* indifferent,/: end French tolerably.
then arose and walked through the ' I don’t seem to go at this the right way D(
L “Tears, idle tears."
Whan the guard took up the tickets
library and through the big dosed I yen w ill have to excuse me. Won’t
T hat poem always seemed to me to Ned asked him some questions la Ger­
4 iD
doors of the dining room.
It was you be seated too?”
I have in It what it alone can express I man. ThM was sufficient to Indicate
pitch darkness inside, and aa his
The burglar sat down, still looking c<
so I will not try to express I t The 1 his nationality Later when the duen-
hand began to fumble along the wall, I across a t Crowley and w ith the re- *
realisation of what Marion had for m s
ae asked him in English how many
where he knew the electric switch but­ I volver clutched In his band.
the fact that for thirteen ye a n 1 bad minutes were required for the train to
ton aboold be. be waa suddenly aware I “P ut your revolver In your pocket,”
I lived without it, that It had been pass pare through the tunnel be replied la
th at he was not alone in the room and I commanded Crowley. "1 don’t Intend ■
tog Into oblivion, came to me suddenly German that be did not understand
that a shuffling noise In the opposite ' I to touch you, and 1 probably would be “
with g n a t fores
corner Indicated the presence of an in
a very poor match for you at any rate
I
But the ^6em was not all. On the
na, "w hat are wo going to d o r
truder—somebody who was endeavor* J I dou’t carry a gun myself. I don’t «
flyleaf, on which the reference was
" It M ten mflea te th e Italian bor­
ing to conceal himself, probably by I have to."
“ LBI.” said one to another, “you’ve der,” replied Ned. " I f you are able to
written, wars four pinholes and a dis­
crawling under the table.
The burglar slowly shoved the gun °
coloration In the shape of the stem of a lost your bet that be is Italian-”
walk tt I think we can get a convey­
Then bis hand came In contact with I into his breast poeket and buttoned P
"And you've lost yours that be Is ance of oome kind there.”
flower and above the stem tbs marks
the button, and In an Instant the room his coa? about IL While he did so
of where the flower had been. I t was English."
“But we haven't a dollar w ith which
waa flooded with light, and Crowley I Crowley lighted bis cigar.
J
" I knew he waa German. H a is my to hire a conveyance.”
' plain to ma that Marlon had pinned
found himself looking Into the muxale 1 I “H o w long have you been a b u rg lar T '
, a flower—the rose I bad given bar at Ideal of the principal character in Wag­
"Don!t trouble youreetvee about that.
.
o f a revolver, beck of which waa an I he asked.
ner’s opera of ‘Lohengrin,’ ’’ said an­ I am w ell provided.” .
parting—to the flyleaf.
ugly face, somewhat livid with tear. ,
“I alu’t no burglar.” blurted the oth ‘
"Madam," I said to the lady who had other.
Onder Ned’s guidance and protection
"Stand right where ye are. pordper,” er. ”1 ain’t never robbed uobody be J
These remarks were made In a low the party set out for the Italian bor­
admitted m s "could you bo Induced to
warned-the owner of the gun from the I I fore tonight, so help me God!" —
tone, with continuous glances at Ned, der, striking it on a railroad north of
part with thia b o o k r
I “ Well, then, how does it happen you
who waa apparently Intent on the Verona. They succeeded in getting
, J "Certainly," she replied, “yon a n
ure here? This doeeut look like bon
splendid scenery through which the transportation to Milan and thence to
.
welcome
te
I
t
We
bought
everything
I est work."
Q
train waa moving. He did not hear all
t I to the house from the former owner,
“i t ’s because I couldn’t get bouesi I
that was said, but he heard enough to r All expenses were paid hy Ned aattT
. including the books far which we paid
work.
I tried to keep boneet. but
tel, him that he was an object of to-
I a song.”
\
•
tercet to Wa fe llo w ¿ ra re le n . Indeed, the party reached Genoa, where they
ihinga wouklu’ t let me. 1 had to steal
I J “Can you give me the address of the
or starve. I tell you. me oud the old *
be received more attention than the found that certain Americana te Ita ly
t termer owner of this?”
I woman and the kids. W as you ever I
peaks
and the waterfalls along the deelroue of going home had chartered
L "1 can put yon In a way le get I t ”
a steamer. Tbe women were still with­
I down and out. mister?"
-
n
I
On the day before Christmas I wrote
out money, and Ned had Just enough
The
klaaable
young
lady
In
the
pat­
I I “No,” answered Crowley.
g
. I on my c»yd “To Marion, from Philip,'’
J
ty was, Judging from a mischievous to carry them all home.
1 “Well. I am, and I Just had to do L
, adding the later date. Than I put the •mile that hovered about her pretty
“I wtl, pay the passage of each and
j something. A friend of mine who doe« t
» 1 book of poems In a box, laid the card
Ups, the arch miaohief maker of all of you," be said to them, "on one
I a turn like this once lu awhile put me
» j on It and sent it to Marlon. The same
t *
tbe lo t They called her Jack, ell ex­ condition."
J wise to this little place and said there g
evening I directed my steps to her cept the duenna, wbe eddreeeed he» as
“Name aay condition yea like,” aaM
[1 I waa no chance of get Ing caught, and j.
» new boms I found It an anpeeten- 1 Jaquelln. T o her hot even the moat the duenna.
I so I tried I t So help uae God. 1 didn’t r
"Tell me which one of you klsaed me
1 tlous one. I was glad of I t
I had magulflcent peak lifting its heed fa r
I want to steal. But there’s the old t
become prosperous, and If Marion was above the clouds was a matter o f ea in the B t Gothard tunneL” . T ' «.
I womau and tbs kids and the rent. I t
* still for me I wished that I could give
"N everr exclaimed ell the girts at
rious consideration.
I t waa of red
g Just bad to do something."
|
1 her much mors than my unworthy s e lt
atone, and she spoke of It as the “red once.
j
“ And so you turned thief.” said t
"Very well; then you’ll remote in-*
’
Being admitted by a maid. 1 gave her beaded one.” 8he made several com­
Crowley scornfully. “1 presume you |
ical remarks about Ned which he heard
my card.
V j were sorely tempted; b u t my good ,
, F in a lly Jack brake the deadlock. " I
plainly and caused her companions to
When Marion came down the smile
/i man. 1 would have preferred atarva- t
cannot tell a Ma I t was ear ehap-
B that lit op her face—e smile that was
laugh.
' > mt - - *’ * «
li\ don to this. Think of It! To your ,
There M a station near tbe southern
J adhgled with a blush, for she knew
j dying day now you will be unable to t
There wae a h u n t of laughter, and
that 1 had seen the words she bad entrance to the S t Gothard tunnel,
R forget th^t you are a thief, a man to |
where all trains stop before plunging Brewerton gave In. pretending to takn
J written at our parting-m ore than
J be spurned aside and scorned by every- j
Into the mountain, and many of the Jack's confession for a real one, though
* I made up In the change In her from
body as unclean. A thief, 1 say, ons ,
paaeengere alight to stretch their legs. be knew that she waa the guilty per­
»' youth to Incipient middle ags I shall
1 who steals that which somebody else |
Ned got out and walked bock and son.
‘ S
not profane thia narrative by detailing
Í! has worked hard to earn. W hy, my
forth beside the train. When he paanf
The girls and their duenna occupied
j
what passed between ee-oo that happy
[I friend, these things you see here cost i
h meeting. Such scenes have been giv­ ed tbe compartment occupied hy the one stateroom on the return voyage,
girls two of them were at the window. and Ned slept on deck.
[ j me days of hard labor and nights of I
drum of life, but
me, even though 1 en by novelists In the shape o f formal TbRr looked at him. their eyea dancing
I J worry. And then to think that some-
Ned and Jaquelln on moonlight nights
proposals
fitted
only
for
the
theater
I with mischief.
am an eld
with snow white
sat on deck a great deal There is no
' body else crawls In here and tries to
W
hat
Marion
and
1
fett
«mid
not
be
hair. It Is the tendereet memory of my
"1 should n o t be surprised,” he eaid
I take them away Just because be claims
Indeed. It was all to hlntfeelf, “if. before this Journey 1» further record of any more kisses be­
long life. I sometimes wonder i f the given In words
tween them, but Ned having tasted the
be has had bad luck and has been 1
present generation, now that the per­ feeling. Words were unnecessary.
over, those Imps w ill play some game lipa of Iris companion once was not
I forced Into thieving. Shame on a man
1 w ill only add that we spent to­ in me.”
vading sentiment o f that period, or at
likely to sit In the moonlight without
like th a t I say.”
least the almost unlrersal love for a gether the happiest Christmas o f oar
When tbe train was shoot to start tasting them a g n l n & V ^
“Say, boss!” Interrupted the other.
he reentered the compartment, * *
beautiful poem, has died away, feel ae
A month after tb e k arrival Ned and
“F aay I ate’t no th ie f I ’m an honest
deeply as we did than. The human •
the tew hundred yards separating the Jack became man and wife.
’
Niagara F alla
I man.”
heart Is the same, but has not the com­
Bo te r as our present knowledge station and tbe mountain were soon
"An honest maní Bosht You’re a
| passed. Jnet before leaving daylight
mercial spirit of the age Blunted bu-
goes, the eartiert printed reference to
| thief from this hour forevermore.
be glanced up a t the roof of the car
man eenslbllltiei?
:
The roe. a fabulbos bird often re-
Niagara falls Is In the record of •
Languid L a rry ’s Luok.
WrJLVn BIOHT WHBMB TX AJBX. «AI.I> The (nh’Ulr P°ti go out of that door
Though Philip and I were te r from
and observed that the light had been te rre i t i Ik the "Arehlan Nights," was
Gentlemau—
Whnt
would
you
do
with
aaa.“ wauaan m owsaa o f thb ouv .
voyage
by
tbe
celebrated
Jacques
Car-
with something in your possession
each other, never saw
other, he
covered by e woman’s traveling haL
tier In 1585. Its position was first but had no time* to determine bow the believed to be of such enormoae sise
much to me
other side of tbe d ln ln i table. “Stand that Isn’t rightfully yours you become a nickel I f I gave yon one? Tramp waa In my heart and
(sarcaatlcallyl—G it a new rig. mister, absent aa present I t never occurred
mentioned By Champlain in a map a t ­ teat had been accomplished. When and strength as to be able to carry
right where ye are or I ’ll let this gun a thief, a mean, despicable thief, un
an'
some
supper
an’
a
night’s
»odgln
tached
to his voyages, published te the train entered the tunnel there was even elephants In tin talons.
to me that I could love any one else,
>■'. J able to look the rest of .the world
au‘
breakfast
an’
dinner
tertnorrow
.1«1R
The
earliest flsarriptlan o f the not a ra y e f light te the compartment
and I never dM. Others came and
Crowley was not a coward, nor was squarely in the eye because you know
Hold hy Btiquetta
he a fool. Taken thoroughly by sur­ deep down In your heart that you are G entlem an-M y good fellow, take thia w ent Some honored toe with the su­ tells Is that o f Father Hennepin, who
When Dom Pedro, then emperor of
quarter
and
support
yooreelf
for
the
visited
them
In
1578.
Hie
account
was
prise. he recognised that the drop was not honest, even though everybody else
preme compliment a man may pay a
rest of your U fa-B oston Transcript
published with a sketch ¡ giving a full net Not a word was spoken during Brasil, was entertained a t the W hite
on him and stood still, perfectly still may think you are.
woman, but found no response-ln m a
vldw of the cataract The name “ Ni­ the passage. Some five or six minutes House he bod been told by a confused
a» far as bis body was concerned, but
Indeed. I wondered what had led them
“ Ah. my good man. bow pouch better
agara”
means “thunder of waters” bad elapsed when suddenly Ned felt a senrftor that It would be expected that
x
Expensive
Outlook.
bis brain waa working with lightning
to suppose I would renpdnd. "
Is a clean conscience than worldly pos­
and waa given It by the Indians. Opin­ potr of llpe pressed against his. That he. the emperor, should be tbe last of
“M y wife la named H attie, and. by
like rapidity
Father’s
death
made
a
great
change
sessions'. How ranch more 1 enjoy
ions differ se to the age of the falls, ihey were feminine was evident from the guests to depart.
“ Well, r n be bangedr be ejaculated these things which are mine because 1 Jlminy. abe wants a new baf'every tor ns. bis Income depending upon
v The president's wife, however, in­
a fter a m om ent “ How did yon get •srned tbetn hy honest work than will month.”
v
what he did instead of what he had. some placing tt at 000,000 years, oth­ tbe feet that, besides himself, there
formed her other guests that they
ers
an
low
ah
20.000
yeare.-N
ew
York
“Goabl
Proapoem
Idbk
bod
for
m
a"
in b e re n
were only women te "the compartment.
When we left onr home to others who
would he expected to follow, not pre­
"H ow aoF
“ By the door, tbe same way you rou, who w ill have acquired them dis­
7
Ned made a grab, but trie hand slipped
could afford to enjoy H I was W and American.
cede, the royal party te leavteg the
“I ’m engaged to a girt named Ruby.” unable to take aw«» With me such
coma Moat any eld key w ill fit that honestly! What would your w ife say
over a fabric o f woman’s apparel,
I f she knew bow you came by the — IxMilxvItle Courier-Journal.
kx’k.**
5 Ores« Age e f Haileyte Cogtel» - r - --O n e of the girls had kissed him.
articles as I especially wished to keep
money
with
whk-g
you
will
buy
her
The result was that ne one dared
“ to that n o r asked Crowley. “Much
While Halley’s comet has been Iden­ Whoever she was she must have made to go for tear of.aj»reach of etiquette,
T h a t wblcb I prised most— my Tenny­
obliged for the Information. 1 must and her children bread tomorrow? Do
In
H
alf
Mourning.
son-m other nnd the others knew least tified as a member of our system for a careful observation as to bis exact
hroa think she would taste it or per
“ I don’t nnderatand you. Ltoda. One about, and for what 1 prised it I told ever 2,000 years, certain characteris­ position, for she could not see him. but a t 8 o’clock to the morning a tired
I ralt her children to? No, not I f she
woman pretended Dlness, and the dead­
day you’re bright and Jolly and tbe no one. ,i After m> recovery 1 looked tics of |Cb orbit lead us to believe that She first struck his cheek, but instantly
Is the mother ebe should be, not if
lock waa broken. -•
next depressed and sad.”
for It among tbe tew books that bed tt has been With us at least ten or passed to hie lipa The whole contact
•be to an honest woman. She will
Great Is etiquette, but common sense
“Well. I ’m In half mourning; rhefs been brought away, but did not And a bonfire« times aa tong aa th a t occupied' only one or two seconds
la sometimes allow«bio;
shrink from being the wife of a thief
why.”—
Fllegeode
Blatter.
Nine
or
ten
minutes
of
darkness
re
According
to
all
accounts,
tt
was
a
I t 1 never had an opportunity to re­
land wUI recoil from the very thought
magnificent object at the time of the malned, during which the perpetrator
cover i t
of her little once eating food purchased
Norman conquest to 1000. Ito head of this bit of mischief might compose
Kin end King.
U the price of honor.”
Klugs In the earliest days were mere­
waa equal to the full moon in stoe, herself. Doubtless all the girls were
,
ll^ - H Ig STORY.
I Crowley was getting warmed to Ids
ly
the
“fathers
of
fagtlllea”
gdQ
the
‘and
Ito toll teoreaaed to a wondffffui
subject wow. wnd .the words poured
After parting with Markm I
I f root hie Itos to vettel toreante. The ward te ffgrtved from the ««me eearce
le
O b s e rv e r
James Crowley,
Gentleman
ad though yon were alone. Why. It w ill bur
keep at least one baud busy keeping
that gun trained on me. Who knows
but what 1 might Jump ou you any
second? Oh. I dou’t Intend to.* This
last as the burglar raised the revolver
f
a little more threateningly. “Only you
w ill be forced to admit that my pres-
*
•nee here does complicate matters,
<
won’t you?”
wni
-1 understood that you were out of
town,” replied the burglar, who un-
--
derneatb an ugly countenance bad a
pair of cool, calculating eyee that look­
ed as though their owuer might also
have a sense of humor.
"That’s where you mude your mis
take, my good fellow." said Crowley,
leaning carelessly against the side­
board and relighting bis cigarette from
a match taken from a tray there. “1
am forced to stay here and toll while
my fnmlly enjoy themselves without
¿
the pleasure of my society. But, say, 4
drop that gun. won’t'y o u l I t makes -J
me nervous. Let’s d e c la rñ a jru i e and
®
talk this matter over. - T i d e ’s some
L
of this silver that was given na when ’ j |
we were married, and If 1 could only
D
persuade you to leave that— want It for
sentimental reasons, you know. But
we’ve got a few pictures and some al
-4
leged masterpieces of sculpture that
you might take along If you are do
termlned to carry off a piece of my
borne. They never did come up to my
classic Ideals anyway. Put down your
L
gun, I say, and let’s talk sensibly."
The burglar looked Crowley straight
i
hi the eye and evidently wee satisfied | U
with what he eew there and slowly
P
lowered th ^ cocked revolver, where
W
upon Crowley g aW a sigh of relief. ‘
“There, I, feel better,” he said. ‘Do
you drink?" be next asked.
I-
“Sometimes— not now, though,” an
|
swered the burglar.
“A t any rate, have a cigar," be next
j urged. “These are unusually fine ones
Wealthy friend of mine Imports them
and gave me the whole box.” And he
proffered the box of cigars.
“Now, you Just look here." the bur
"
glar said. “Perhaps you think you can J • .
play with me. but you can’t 1 came do.
here to get a load of swag, and I don’t be
Intend to go away without It or some do
thing Just as good. I mean money. 1
don’t want your whisky nor your ci en
gars. I want to know what you ure
going to do and what you have got to
’
say to me before 1 lock you In that ca
bedroom until somebody comes to let op
you out tomorrow."
*
ha
Crowley laid salde the cigar be waa th
about to Ugbt and pulled back a chair yo
I and n et down, looking latently at the I ml
1VEN
Story of a Repeated
Christaias Present
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