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that endeJTair small t a l j : It!” “ I was right! I knew It, I knew Thu country of ours—God blcs* it forever— We all rushed to suriound l)er* In her shaking hand» slightly blurred 1» suiienng now i rum uiMpMicu enucavor. by tjjf water, yet writ* QtUta hgrible, 'Ihe money changers ate sucking its blood, Its adgea trimmed to fit the size o f And trailing our liberty in muck and in mud. the bookplate which had been “ so They pile higher and higher their illgotteu gold And forget uic poor devil that is out in the cold. tightly and so lndlscernlbly ¡t[fixed to They stock tiieir cellars with high priced booze, It was a birth certificate. And on it By From goverment warehouses, run by the Jews, was set forth that on May 2, 1905, in AGNES MILLER W hile you and I, who have not the price, New York. Julia Grosvenor had been Must drink poisonous moon, or take their advice boru, the daughter o f Miles Harring "o lay o ff the stuff—go back and sit down, ton (deceased) o f Eliot’s Crossing, W hile thugs, preachers and bootleggers run our town. Virginia, and his wife, Mury Grosve If you, Mr. Man, by chance should get caught • ' nor. With a bottle of booze, expensively bought, “ W ell!" said Mr. Almy. Our Constable, Sheriff or Chief-of-Police He said it after a long time, during W ould arrest you at once for di turbing the peac e which nobody had spoken. He spoke W hile County Attorney and four-flushing Judge In a tone o f congratulation and relief, W ould railroad you through to show there’s no grudge. In which, however, there was a faint Your bottle of liquor they confiscate loo undercurrent o f apprehension. I don’t WNU Ssrvtc* . And double the fine if it’s nothing but muon. © by T b s C sntury Css know if anyone else noticed that, for It is safer by far to rob ami to kill. certainly Julia was too excited, and Than to have in your home a two gallon stilL as for Charles Maclvor, he passed out The courts arc congested -.vith bootlegging cases, of ray mind entirely for the moment. Put moonshine still flows in numerous places “ O f course,” resumed Mr. Almy. The people aru losing respect for the law Is no property o f yours. If Miss Ful Enforcement— ten million— My G od ! but ;t’ raw. ler sprang It with her foot. It must “ that thing had to be som ewhere; but Ten million dollars and hollering for more, have been set. To divert suspicion? Til tell you frankly now, I had given T o enforce the damned law that’s rot to the core. It was sprung when T found It, for I up hope o f finding It, for every clew A measure of war our Congress did pass was exhausted." Julia was not listen reset and sprang It to prove that.” W ith four million doughboys rated first class ing, to him, however; her eyes were The 10:15 click was explained! But Heroes they called us and told us to fight still devouring the certificate. He I scarcely noticed the f a c t W hile liberty, freedom ami justice took flight. took her gently by the arm, and made “ Charles!” choked Julia, “ are you Volstead then gave us bone-dry prohibition— accusing me o f murdering our grand her sit down. “ Listen, please 1” he My L ord! I exclaim, what a sad exhibition. suld to her. “ I have something else father? . . . Oh . . . oh I” Now -what o f our boasted American plan z For he was shrugging his shoulders to tell you, some o f It as good news as Of live and let live, but live like a m an; you have Just heard. But first I must mockingly. Mr. Almy Intervened: A he-man, two fisted, fair minded and right, nsk you to forgive me for the suffering “ Be careful what you say, both of W ho worshipped g o o d women for whom lie would fight you have undergone since your cousin y o u !" W e used to be able to draw a close line came in a few minutes ago. I had to “ I have nothing to say," cried Jolla T w ixt the good and tMe bad—we all knew the sign, let him talk; and you'll talk some Conditions now arc altered and i tell it with dread pusslonutely, “ except thut It Is true more, Maclvor, and to better purpose. That virtue and vice now occupy the same bed. my cousin went to get that spring- In a .m om ent!" None of us were saintly ami laults we had to spare; lancet, Just as he says, and that he “ What is the good news, Mr. Almy?" But "we met upon the level and We parted on the square.” nsked no questions. Neither did I ask Interrupted Julia, feebly. W e had taith in human nature. It was our working tool. him any questions after I had picked Ue seemed to choose his words cau W e believed in and we practiced the Little Golden Kule It up from hesld» my grandfather. In The cancer has eaten its virulent pair. the law-book ulcove last Monday tiously, “ When I went to the telephone,” he T o the heart of our homes, and it may be God’s wrath morn In g 1" answered, “ I learned something I had That hurls punishment thus to you and to me, “ And you leaped to the conclusion not expected to hear so soon. I will In order to urge us to fight to be free that I’d attacked him with I t Won From long-haired sanctimonious reformers derful Idea I” «rafted Charles, roughly. Just tell you now In a word that the persoD suspected o f attacking your And low grade igiiommous intormcrs “ What possible motive could I have grandfather has been arrested. The From hatchet-faced lieu who hates all mankind, had for wishing him out o f the way?” evidence on which he Is detained And crooked officiuls with pigs that are blind, “ To get that hook with the book From yellow-hacked Congressmen, after the vote clears you entirely o f suspicion. De plate before he did," answered Julia, Of a self santificd bunch, not worthy of note tails will be available later; Just re steadily; “ to get money—quickly. You From Itoctor and Druggist that opulent pair always need It, C h a r le s ; he wouldn’t member, now, you are cleared. And O f legalized bootleggers, free from law’ s care; now," he added abruptly,, “ what you give yon all you wunted. Your de- From ossified, vmnity, weak kneed divine, want to know, and are entitled to tfire for money Is what's sending you W ho souse up daily on sacrament wine; know. Is the story o f that bookplate. to Buenos Aires. . . . And listen! From all theconcoctiotis we drink on a stew, Out with It, M aclvor!” I km»w 1 put those Liberty bonds Into Hair tonic, lemon extract moon, wine and homebrew. For the first time since she had seen grandfather’s desk, yonder; he asked Now let’ s gel together and make it a fact, me to do so. On Tuesday, when I the certificate, Julia looked at her And consign to oblivion THF. VOI.STF.AI) A C T . came hack from the hospital, they cousin. He was vindictive and sulky ROBF.KT A H O I.L E Y were gone. Yon are the only person In his defeat; but Julia was such an who has a duplicate key to that desk; appealing figure In her solitude and V V W V A V A V A V A '. W A V . V . V . ’ . V . V . V / . V . V . V . V . V V A V . V W . I suspected that you must have come suffering that he actually spoke with a trace o f shame, forced to obey hla hnck to the house unseen— " ("Me came buck." I murmured to orders: “ It was ycur mother who drew that Mr. Almy, “ but not unseen. Tell yon bookplate, Julia." luter1” ) “ My mother!" "— and taken them. And sure “ She was a gifted artist—" enough, they were sold for you. And “ She must have been—oh. far be 1 stild nothing. Bur that's aside from yond what I am ! Why have I never the present point. Why did you go known this? Why haven’t I seen any to Harrow's on Monday. If not after o f her other work, all my life?" that book?" “ Grandfather- destroyed It." Charles M advor flushed with rage, “ IIovv did lie dare?” flamed the girl but seeing that he was still la a Then she quieted down. "W ell, what stronger position than Julia, he glared does It matter after all? She left this at her with defiance. She paid no bookplnte: It was by that that she attention tp his anger. In fact, she saved my birth certificate for m e ! Why spoke, seeing she must speak, as gent are you startled. Charles? Of course ly ns she <lld flrinty. I know that! How? Simply because “ Charles,” she said, “ It was for you aha was my mother, and no one else that I hid that spring-lancet." would have done It for me. You may "F or m e!" tell me how she did I t !" "Yes. I kicked It under that desk y *| » » I Charles hud Indeed been startled by as I ran up the aisle. For you I have the unerring divination, and began kept silence, until you betrayad me, nervously: ns you think—as I fear you hope. “ I was here visiting grandfather a S S % S % S V W .W A S S V .V .% , .V .S V .% V .V .V ., .V .W W S , .S V .S S V .V b % % Now I see your nbsence from Harrow's couple o f months after you were born, after ten o'clock hn‘ made nil my ef • % *• -nfin • fort useless, foolish 1 am In a de Julia. I was nearly nine years o l d - — if in t h e m a r k e t f o r fenseless position. All I can say o f old enough to notice lots o f things. 1 my own movements there that morn sensed there was some kind o f trouble ing Is that I spent the whole time atKvut Aunt Mary, your mother. She searching for Ctarlhcw’s ‘ Notes.’ What was very sick, for one thing; she happened from twenty minutes o f hardly ever went out. Then grand — see u s f i r s t . eleven until a quarter past. In refer father seldom spoke to her. Some ence to grandfather. I have no Idea. times, when she felt well enough, she But I have told the truth; my Inno would draw a little. I liked to watch her. One o f a number o f sketches I cence will lie proved.” saw her working on was that book plate. Of course 1 didn’t know then CHAPTER XII 1 what It was. “One day she asked me to mall a Across from S. P. Depot Beaverton, Ore. Revelations letter for her. It was addressed to a “ You’ll need more than fhltb for Mr. Edward Case, whom I rerpembered > * • > * + + + + + + + + * + + * * * * • > * * that I” sneered Charles. having seen at the house more than I hnd hud enough o f him. once, during a previous visit 1 made. "A ll right," suid I. “ we’ll have some I had liked him; he was friendly, and 'I* *!■ ‘I* *HH* works too. One minute, please I" hnd shown me some little attentions My three companions, even Mr. such as a small boy enjoys. In fact, Almy. stared st me open mouthed, but he had made gome Impression on me. I did not care, for I was going to make and as yon know now I recognized the bluff o f m> life, which was based, him last Thursday night. It certainly however, on some very careful think was a shock, especially as he seemed ing I had been doing during the last to have changed scarcely at all. And half hour. There wus a bowl o f flow the most amaxlng thing was that. In ers on tbe table. I snatched them a minute, he appeared to recognize out o f the bowl, picked up the book me— " plate. and laid it carefully on the sur Charles hRd not known then, of face o f the water. Holding It thers course, what Mr. Case had told Julia with one hand, with the other 1 ex an hour or ao a go—that he had seen tracted from my hair the sole wire him off and on. In the neighborhood, hairpin I always wear out o f defer undoubtedly, during the course o f the ence to two helpleaa male relatives years which had passed since his boy who beg at the most extraordinary hood. Nor did he realize, probably, time* for “ a tin one" to clenn a pipe that his boldly formed features, hu in this with. Next moment I plucked the dark complexion, were o f the type bookplate forth from the howl, laid which chnnges least during growth. hold o f Its edge firmly with my left But he did suggest the Immediate thumb and forefinger, rasped the edge cause o f the recognition, as he went with the hairpin, and then slid the o n : wire loop Into a tiny crevlca which | ” 1 suppose the presence o f the book. had appeared on tbe edge. The damp In the desk which I was apparently paper parted farther as the hairpin 1 engaged to searching, stimulated Mr »lipped along 1 returned It to Its Case's recollections violently. Well, to It reaches hundreds of farm place. gra«ped the udgea o f the groove continue: The night after I had mailed 1 had made, and milled gently. niy aunt« letter. I woke up suddenly. homes each week in all parts Slowly the booktdate peeled apart, 1 was sleeping In that little room right of the county. amid a silence unbn k«*u even by -■----- alongside now the recep ■ * ‘ here; that’« ‘‘ breathing. The picture remained In tion room ; th« nol«e that woke roe my left hand In my right was a doc came from thla room. I peeped In. ument It was primed, with some aad saw my aunt opening that French blanks filled In by hand. I glanced window, which had creaked. She went ht It. handed It to Julia, aad regarded out on the balcony. Full o f .‘Uriority Mr. Maclvor with my aweeteet «mile. I followed her. “ I’ d never have thought o f doing "Leaning over the railing, the spoke that If yon hadn't «tuceMed It wasn't to some one down in tbe street: all there." I observed affably. • Yen’ll give tt to UoyallY I ■ recognized - — T o -(u iim Uul JulU Inicrr ’ e^. nufc g cry IN TOLERAN CE VS A M E R IC A N ISM The .. Colfax Bookplate For a Nice Juicy BEEFSTEAK Call BEAVERTON 0818 CITY MEAT MARKET BUILDING MATERIAL Phone 6202 Beaverton Lumber Co. Advertise Your Auction Sale NEWSPAPER N e w s p a p e r A d v e r t i s i n g Pays , Ue.' T saw her drop a small book'over even mvi ml father hSJ > the rail. Then I bud Just time to get U dca o f wlrjt begun back Into my rtuar and shut the door It W US a poll!leai qUe{< * before she eatue buck Into the house. year eighteen humiaJi "Six weeks later, alia died. A fter a Grosvenor was killed ot f° w days, o f course, ) got used to htjr faUier, a boy at that Uc* nbsence, - and and took mainly In very m erlon of the nau^ B nhwn(V‘ took Interest Interest mainly what happened around me from day Grandfather was a to day. I noticed especially that servative, you know, kfl*w ,. grandfather kept sea retting, apparent traditlous and held to thu ¿L ly In vain, through her papers for when he learned that hi* * something he wanted very much. Then married a Harrington, of,* one day he missed something o f bis the world— ” | own. an old medical book that had be “ W here? How? loterruptid longed to his father the doctor. He eagerly. ♦ accused me o f having taken or uila- “ I’ ve never known." coC((. , laid it. Ivor. “ He never told ,7 “ I knew absolutely nothing about It, didu’t know everything Br„.... and disclaimed all knowledge o f It, but s e lf; It w; he wouldn’t believe me. lie wus very course. But when he learned -* stern, and frightened me. Finally it facts about It, I’m -ure he r.. came buck to me that I had seen my wipe out all traces of it tv . aunt drop a book over the balcony that what made him s,. bitterly night I had uever told anyone o f to recover that bookplate. *<• ; that experience; I liked knowing a se fessor Harrington return V cret that was none o f my business abroad, grundfath- r m:nle Tarii and, though I can’t claim much credit. tempts to regain thut book." I was fond o f Aunt Mary, and would “ You mean, of cot t# never have done anything to hurt her suggested Mr. Almy. «. Still, now she was gone; and grand would never have sold it,” father persistently accused me o f hav M aclvor nodded. ing taken that book, so finally. In the “ And five years u.-o he & 1 hope o f placating him, or at least dis The pr tractlng his attention from me. I told It. -7' robbed—” 1 him what I had seen that night. Not “ Yes, I know,’’ said Mr. i a j one word did he say ns I told my ta le; but at least he never nsked me for number of rare books »ere | '' some o f them turned up la* ’ ® “ Well, years afterward grandfather ous o f the smaller cities t!^ ! told me what the story revealed to thief was never traced. You* j him. The paper he had been search suy Mr. Grosvenor Instigated t, "H e did; he hin d the tlufj ing for was your birth certificate, and when he couldn’t find It he know your thief did a reniurU ibly ih-: . mother had hidden it somewhere, for ¡H e took a lot of ho- k* u .) she would not have destroyed It He Clarlbew and rti. [ - - -d of fa realized, therefore, that she had hid himself, besides taking hi* i den R most cunningly. She had chosen However, thut failure r one o f his most valued hooks for Its graudfuther collecting Vlrg ^ hiding place. The bookplate would knew If he was known as m easily conceal the certificate, the book ho would be notified of all *, 1 gave a convenient means for han books thnt were put on the i dling it, and 11 she had died before she he could examine nil libra:a, could dispose o f the hook, the certifi for sale, have the run of cate would probably never have been shops. But he certainly *a hshed that evening when y»j i disturbed. “ But iu removing the original book the title of the very book t*, plate In order to conceal the certifi Julia 1 And there was one jt cate, he thought she must have torn i bad thnt would Identify the bk the former. Hence the need to make solutely.” "N ot the bookplate?” derm a copy, as 1 hud seen tur do. Inciden tally, graudfuther was much vexed Almy. that that original should have disap j "Something besides that." i peared, for it was a real Colfnx en Maclvor, und poimed tu tie graving, the only copy he had o f his lancet, which was still in Ik. hund. “ He told me «her: father the doctor’s bookplate— ’’ If Mr. Almy hadn't Interrupted, 1 Richmond, to notice, Iu u*JI should have had to, I was so bursting the bookplate, whether i si with curiosity, and I should hnve not number o f small p, rail » been nble to compel the answer he re here and there on ud M book. He had made them, *'A ceived. “ One minute, Maclvor. How did with that old in tmment ill your graudfuther happen to own a tlier’s, he remembered; he k, punished for <b,!" " ,!n 1 Colfax bookplate?” “ Hugh Colfax made It Just before was the reusou ne ii.ui t his death—It was. In fact, Ids Inst lancet with him that M ' work— In gratitude for the doctor’s row ’s— to compare the «oat having saved the life o f C olfax’s Instrument would no ” O f all the revelations of % son, who was a British nnval officer, when he was stricken with yellow noon, this was so tar the Hitherto i* fever In South America." answered factory. Maclvor, briefly, merely whetting my none us to why tb» •;* r: been taken to l ’ir M aclvor was pro. eding < the close of his story: “ It wus thut long »train*!! suit o f that book and j somehow the copied I" be noticed, «ml "'"I1* birth certificate discovered 107 grandfather down. Uc« -< secret would be reveal I science would never lei bitterness wou'd ne'er :* your mother ot J ' -- wouldn't have been ht.v in any ense " “ Oh. why did he treat lav* Julia. “ Ills unli:’d,I'!n,,<>i'i * ment on him I W *0 his unklndness? “ She hud uever olsohc; cept by tier marriage. I »- was dependent oil him. ‘ had died befurv > - H I don't know how ID would doubt Ies> abroad; her health ■** luid to be thought of my mother, her sh"* home here. Her '' * grandfather very "W" _ mother was cut <>!? f " everybody. But ** •' ' father to prom i,er>' . , She Went Out on the Balcony. Full actually dying. " : ‘ ’ ( von brought up at I • of Curioeity, I Followed Her." Julia, he did Nut«» h* curiosity; hut he hnd to go on with (T o be coming his story. “ But the main thing was that the birth cerilMeate w:.s missing Grandfather knew Case had It, and BUSINESS IN COURT SLOW TH h Case hnd gone abroad directly after m\ i lYJ your mothcrV death. Julia, and 1’ rof Roynll tlurrlngion, to whom your mother had referred b> name— Have you ever heard o f him?” “ 1 think I’ve seen his name in the paper." said Julia, reflecting. "W ell, he is your father's elder brother." “ Whnt r "Yes, yonr uncle. He hnd gone to Oxford the previous summer, on a yeur’s leave from the university. Grandfather knew Case must have taken him the Nw>k, that yonr mother must hnve told Case the secret In It. He knew Harrington would try to trace you. so he sent you away and kept you away all those years." "And took - --# my name from me, IIUUI »»»X T, a«' Jon wltf'» claim all the property!" "'Veil, partly; not altogether." "What other reason could there have ( Ben C. Wing - a tember 16 charged I The complaint say» ; 45 miles an F ur. $15 and c*»srs He the fine was • *• ! K ozcr and all the icials r.veic friends i that it be (.duced 1 could not do thi< Quentin Ki:r • . w September F chart through Ti.ar l at I miles an hour He also. Messrs. Guy arr ghson went to hina| ing Saturday Fh*J» bagging one apiece. been?” "Y our name was Harrington." Ed Boring and R* "I don’t understand!" leaving for the ‘ “ n Maclvor pointed to the certificate. H obo Friday e ' 0 n "‘ "Tour father cam«- from Eliot’s to put in the time ® Crossing. Virginia So did the Grosve nor family. There v :ti a fend be Lee C arr ca“ 'e tween thoae families for decad> a— " Knappa where he •* 1 ’■.vor -N o r logging eamp He ** Ul». L ââlL l lllL Ç fc ii g U?WtX »-*L BÇVjn J " Y e a , am i lt « ta riç d wr l-jpg ngo ffrat low ing day
