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