A CASE ( I? PLAGIARISM.
The younu couple stood on the bank
opposite the OadOy contaniplatiiuj
Hint email nonse uoai wun somumuig; j
less than a feeling of ownership :han ,
tiioyhadhithertocxperienoeJ. A fiery j
little steamer went up the river, and
the wares, taking advantajre of the ,
confusion, ran and kissed the green ,
bank and were off again before the j
preen bank had time to protest rrom
the top deck of the Gadfly came a song
to the ears of Mr. Stewart, of Throg
morton street, and of yonng Mrs.
Stewart, that they wore beginning to
know quite well, albeit Miss Bagge,
the singer, had only been there since
the morning. Miss Sagge accom
panied herself on the banjo, and ac
companied herself all wrong: ;'
" I'm s little Alsbenner eooa.
Ant been bore very loot."
"I wonder," said little Mrs. Stewart
"I wonder, now, how many mora
times she's goinf to play thatt"
"My dear Iotc," said Mr. Stewart,
ttmg down on the bank.
Don't call me your dear Ion,
nry, until that dreadful girl has
My dear Mr. Stewart, what ean I j
? 1 cant treat her as we nroaera
;ut a stranger who happens to stroll i
lto the house, can 1? Yon wouldn't
tare for me to catch hold of her and ;
uash her bat in and hustle her out of ;
he nlaee." '
"I shouldn't All you have to do is , j Wi3a to Qwd," added the boy, pious
i be distant with her." My, "that I was there nab. This pile
"One can't be very distant on a small .
.use boat" !
"I believe you like Mia Bagg still,"
aid Mr Stewart j
"1 don't mind her when she's stiu," :
aid Mr. Stewart "It's whsn she i
bobs about and plays that banjo oi
hers that she makes me hot"
The shrill voice came across tn
stream:
"Hush a-bye font you ay, mammy's tints
P.LtoraMkvouBvouda
"Boat ahor." called Stewart
The boy on the Gadfly came up from
somewhere and pulled over to taem, '
and conveyed them to the houseboat I
Hiss Bagge, looking down from be
.ween the Chinese lanterns, gave a lit
tle shriek of delight as their boat
jumped at the side of the Gadfly.
"Oh, yon newly-married people," she
cried, archly, as she bunched up her
:irts andcame skittishly down the
:ps; "where have you been? Leaving
nor little me alone with my music for !
iscu a time.
"Did yon say music Miss Bagger
"'Yea, dear Mrs. Stewart My banjo,
:on know."
"" said little Mrs. Stewart.
"Afraid ynu don't Uke plantation
melodies, Mrs. Stewart"
"I used to think I did, Mia Bagge."
Stewart had gone along to get some-
thing iced to drink and something in ,
"How things change, Mrs. Stewart,
dont they? I'm sure it doesn't seem
aix years ago hem Mr. Stewart and
I and ma and two or three others came ;
np to Harlow. I think that was long
before your day, before you came over '
from Melbourne, and we did really
have the most exquisite time." !
"Have yon looked through the even- j
tog - pupiir, Miss Bagger' inter
rupts little Mrs. Stewart, hurriedly. I
"Oh, yes, dear, I've looked through :
it twice. One or two most interesting
cases."
"Where did you put It? I want to
see what O'Brien has done for Middle-,
sex."
"I've dropped it somewhere, aaid I
aaid I
Miss uagge. -uiuiu me ooy go up i
fur my trunk before it gets dark? I ;
left it at the station, and I shall have :
some more things down next week."
"Next week!
Miss Bagge put her hand to her
brown thin neck and gave a cough of
apology.
"If I stay longer I shall have to run
nn tn tnwn nn Hn.v tn do some shon-
ninir." !
Then was a pause. The rings of
smoae xrom oiewarte cigar ue
other end of the boat floated down by i
them. The boy below broke a few j
plates and danced a few step of j
breakdown to cover the noise. , j
"Dear Henry! How the scent of his
cigar does remind me of old times! I
remember so well that night at Mar-
low"
"Miss Bagge, will you go and play
something?"
Miss Bagge went obediently and
strummed her banjo, and mentioned
once more that she was a little Ala
bama coon, and young Mrs. Stewart
ran hurriedly to her husband.
"I'm going to quarrel with bar," ah
said, breathlessly.
"That's right," said Henry, calmly;
"anything to stop that row."
"I'm going to ask her to go baok to
town to-night, Henry."
"But, my dear, isn't that rather
rude?"
"Of course it is. That's why I am
doing it You'll have to see bar to the
stat o."
'II.
qtne'i bot-.i
begun
and 1 1
for f-
"(W.!-
B:i
'!!
-ate row wa quickly and
. -r. When the last word had
n the self-invited guest
minutes to write a letter,
:!.- pronounced herself ready
nr.. s escort to the station,
ii are obliged to go, Miss
; htewart politely,
important engagement,"
u tge, trembling, "or I
stayed. Good-by, dear
i t. I dare say we shall
.J;, - ;..) -ld thing happened . As
s- I Ins charge into the
!,-,.it . i. ' -'i '-'U from her poclcet on
t!ie iii-l! of th-; Gadfly. Mrs. Btewart, .
in her usiiii! j..oi Uiinpor now -that her
liusband's old admirer was departing, I
vall-'d to her as soon as she noticed th j
lotter; but Miss Bogg paid no atteq. I
lion. It almost seemed that ah did
not w "t In hear. When Mrs. Stewart
pj,. - nu.'i saw that it was adi
c n , .. ilenrjr Stewart, Esq., an4
".sr.: d '-n-itat and coullieutlui,"
itoui-..-d 't withonta moment'
1st on
m jm-j asmln. Jus is the l:ia s!1m for the
siusUore. so do I sltfh tor ymi Can you Im
agine what sou oro anil over have boen to
me) Youun-UlwilOT Ulnj. onJ you Unow
fcbat I am your willing alavo. Your laltutuily.
-cossuiiob ijaou "
Young Mn Stewart sauk down on
a low deck-chair and gasped and
looked across at the two.
"Well," she said, "this now la fear
ful." There would be a good half an hour
before Ilcnrv returned, and in that
good half hour it was nectary to de
cide wliat was to he done. What was
quite clear was that the creature must
have had some encouragement to in
duce her to write such a letter, and
'Why, she is taking his arm!" ah
cried.
Indeed, Miss Constance Bagge was
resting her hand upon the arm of Mrs.
Stewart's husband. Henry was carry
ing her banjo, and, looking back,
laughingly waved it at his wife.
"Does this mean." asked Mrs. Stew-
distractedly,
that they will
never come baok?"
The letter seemed to explain his
slight diffidence In agreeing to the
lady's dismissal; It explained also why
when Miss Bagge had that morning
made her unexpected appearance on
the bank hailing the boy with a shrill
"mi" Henry had only laughed very
mUqh.
Mrs. Stewart summoned the boy.
"Yea, mem, there is a trine up liter
than this. It leaves Thame Ditton at
eieten fifteen, and you get to good old
Waterloo at about ten to twelve. And
t lump too quiet for m."
That would give half an hour to
mk her mind to Henry (if he did
come back), just half an hour to ex-
tract from him a confession, and then
t rush for the last train up. At Water-
loo ishe could take a cab to Uncle
George'; and If Uncle George couldn't
her through, why, nobody could,
Uncle George was an agent general
He w4a , BterD maD and he treated
everybody a. severely a. though they
fellow-countrymen.
The whlte-flanneled figure earn back
to the riverside.
"He has managed to say good-bv,
then?" said Mrs. Stewart, fiercely. "I
should like to have seen the parting."
Henry came on board and went
straight to her, and, with the assur
ance of new husbands, kissed her neck.
"She's an impossible creature," aaid
Stewart He sat down beside his wife
and took an evening paper from his
pocket "I believe she took the extra
away with her. I've had to buy an
other."
There was something In little Mrs.
Stewart's throat that prevented her
for the moment from starting her lec
ture.
"She waen't so bad, you know," he
went on, "in the old days Of course
I was a mere youth then. But now she's
too terrible for words. I suppose
girl,don.tJetmarri,(lthe, get warped
and changed.
"1 want to speak to you, Henry," she
said, steadily.
"Oh, bother that boy,"he exclaimed.
"We must get rid ot him, dear; he's a
nuisance."
"It wasn't abont the boy."
"Sot the boy? Well, then Hullo 1
Here's a funny case."
She went on very quietly:
"I want to speak to you seriously,
Harry, about a matter that has, by ac
cident, come to my notice. I don't
want to seem to bother too much about
it, and I suppose if 1 were as free
some women are 1 shouldn't mind it
in the least But my mind is quite
mailn nn.!
jje wa8 not listening, but her bead
was averted, and she went on.
,.j have left the keys in the bed-
Toom ,Q mT account book is totaled
up to date, with the exception of the
bill that came in to-day. There is no
, reason why we should hav any high
, words"
I "I beg your pardon, dear. I haven'
! heard a word that you were saying."
He had found the new page in the
' evening paper, and was reading with
, much interest a diverting breach of
promise case.
..j ffaa only saying" -she raised bar
Toice to , 0f distinctness-
"that"
-Look here; here's an idiotic letter
the girl writes to the fellow."
"I don't want to hear it,
thank
yon."
"Yea you do. Listen. Thi is how
it goes: 'Just a the wind sigh for
the seashore, so do I sigh for you.'
Why, tbs wind doesn't sigh for the
seashore, does it?"
"Go on, please," she aaid quickly;
"read the rest of the letter. Is it r-
' ally in the paper, Henry?"
i "Look for yourself, dear. It's too
! funny for words. 'So do I sigh for
' you. Can you imagine what you are
- and ever have been to me? Ton are
indeed my king, and you know that I
'. am your willing slave.' "
"Why," cried Mrs. Stewart, "that'
' word for word the aatne,"
. "A what?"
"It doesn't matter, dear."
She took from her blouse the letter
that the disappointed Miss Bagge,
with deplorable lack of originality,
bad copied from the evening paper.
"Don't people do some silly things,
Winifred, dear, when they are in love?"
She took a marguerite from th
bowl on the table and stuck it in bis
hair. Then she tore np the letter and
gave the pieces a little puff to send
them out on the stream.
"I b'lieve you," said Mr. Stewart
"Shall yon want to be rown across
for that last trine, mem?" demanded
the boy, putting his bead out of a win,
-. "or is the gn"nor going to do
' FOR YOUR HEALTH'S SAKE.
Tbt snuffinu powdered borax up the
nostrils for catarrhal cold.
Tbt walking with your bands behind
yon if yon find yourself becoming bent
forward.
Tbt takinjf your cod-lirer oil in to
mato cutsup if yon want to make It
palatable.
Tnt.aoloth, wrtinif on from sold mm
.. oWirt tasaMKM itOtil
I Am Glad
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lei a. I had the
rlnsud l. IllsSeots
eat Han u ovet .
Me. I had cramp
la my leja and
frequently I kal
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night and walk
lornlsr the Bus
tles. I also had
stomach troch
lea. I vhea took
1100(1 Bareai.it
rllla. One bottle
cured theoramn,
and another ka '
helped my stom
ach trouble
grettlv. I hav taken
I bet ties ana
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he Unenterprising
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Consequently bis Business In
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THE LEBAHOH EXPRESS.
Notlue of Administration.
Notice is hereby given, that, by order o
thecouniy couriof Linn county ,Oregon,the
nndereigiied has been duly appointed and
now is the duly qualilied and scting ad
ministrator of the estate oi Nancy Marks,
deceased. All parties having claims
sgsinst said estate are hereby required to
present the same, proierly verilk-d, within
six months from the 12tli day of July 1896,
the date of the first publication hereof, to
the undersigned st the office of tara'l M.
Gsrland, Lebanon, Oregon.
Jobs H. Mus.
Sam'l M.Gasund, Administrator.
Atty. for Admr. EaUte of
Nancy Marks, deceased.
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