NEWS NOTES OF
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PRESIDENT-ELECT, TOW N OF HIS BIRTH AN D PRESBYTERIAN MANSE IN WHICH HE W AS BORN
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Resume of World’s Important
Events Told in Brief.
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150,000 garment workers have been
ordered out on strike for better wages.
A complete reorganization o f the
Mexican federal army has been com
menced.
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A baby weighing just 17 ounces was
born at Aurora, III.
It is healthy
and perfect.
The etory opens on Long Island, near
Kew York city, where
Miss Emily
Ffrench, a relative of Ethan Ffrench,
manufacturer of the celebrated “ M er
cury'' automobile, loses her way. The
car has stopped and her cousin. Dick
i Ffrench, Is too muddled with drink to
, direct It aright. They meet another car
. which is run by a professional racer
• named Lestrange. The latter fixes up
ths Ffrench car and directs Miss Ffrench
j how
to
proceed
homeward.
Ethan
i Ffrench has disinherited his son, who
j has disappeared.
He informs Emily
plainly that he would like to have her
• marry Dick, who is a good-natured but
I Irresponsible fellow. It appears that a
| partner of Ethan Ffrench wanting an ex-
I pert to race with the “ M ercury" at auto
events, has engaged Destrange, and at
the Ffrench factory Emily encounters the
young man.
They refer pleasantly to
their meeting when Dick comes along and
recognises the young racer. Dick likes
the way Lestrange ignores their first
meeting when he appeared to a disad
vantage. Lestrange tells Emily that he
will try to educate her indifferent cousin
as an automobile expert.
Dick under
takes his business schooling under the
tutelage of Lestrange. Dick is sheer grit,
and In making a tt-st race meets with
an accident. Lestrange meets Emily In
the moonlit garden o f the Ffrench home.
Under an Impulse he cannot control he
j kisses her and she leaves him. confessing
In her own heart that she returns his
love.
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The Volunteers o f America fed 12,-
000 hungry men and women in Chica
go December 29.
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California’s Progressive legislators
have invited the regulars to join with
them in legislation.
A portrait o f “ Aunt Delia” by a
noted Boston artist was presented to
President T a ft as a New Years’ gift.
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Portland had a total rainfall o f 2.21
inches Sunday, causing much property
loss by slides on the hills west o f the
city.
Roosevelt is preparing a magazine
article in which he states that Japan,
not Russia, first sued for peace in the
Russo-Japanese war.
Turks appear inclined to present
more moderate demands in the peace
conference, and the allies show anxi
ety to close negotiations.
CHAPTER VII.— (Continued).
Idaho will call a convention to take
up the matter o f a state highway and
branches, in conjunction with the
same movement in adjoining states.
Inurmmi»' H<i
The United States army officer who
wrote a satirical poem on the exploits
o f the German-trained Turkish army
says he had not the slightest idea his
verses would create international com
plications.
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HAWAII MAKES
GREAT STRIDES
Governor of Islands Reports
Progress and Prosperity.
A Chicago policeman, on discover
ing the basement o f a church to be on
fire while Sunday school was in ses
sion, quietly notified the teachers, who Commerce, Hom esteading, Trans
had the organist play "Onward, Chris
portation, Public W orks,
tian Sodiers, ” while the pupils march
Health, Etc., Improve.
ed to safety.
Railways are making preparations
for immense business in 1913.
Washington, D. C.— Hawaii has en
Standard Oil stock took a sharp ad joyed greater prosperity and progress
vance in the New York market.
during the last year than during any
A government attache says plenty other in its history, according to Gov
o f fuel is the chief need o f Alaska.
emor Frear’s annual report, submitted
General Wood plans for a big m ili to the Secretary o f the Interior Fish
tary display at the inauguration o f
er. The preceding four years had
Wilson.
been notable for their prosperity, says
A 3-year-old child was burned to the governor, but this year witnessed
death in a Christmas tree fire at Rio even greater strides forward.
Bonita. Cal.
In commerce, homesteading, im
provement in class o f immigrants, bet
Prune packers o f Vancouver, Wash.,
terment o f transportation facilities,
are preparing a shipment o f four car
construction o f public works, public
loads to go direct to Germany.
health,
administration and
public
facilities
there
had been
Archduke Ferdinand, o f Buglaria, school
plans for a new Slav empire'under the marked advance.
That the United States reclamation
rule o f the Hapsburg royal family.
act be exended to Hawaii is one o f the
Admiral Dewey at 75 years o f ago governor’s
recommendations.
He
says he stays young by keeping regu says there are large
areas which
lar hours and avoiding midnight bun- should be made available by irrigation
quets.
for settlement by Americans in colon
The council o f the city o f Portland ies o f considerable size.
Imports and exports o f the islands
has forbidden the use o f firecrackers
by the Chinese in celebrating their during the year totalled $84,100,000,
an increase o f $14,680,000 over the
coming new year.
preceding year.
The increase was
Chicago citizens have formed a law chiefly in trade with the United
enforcement league to .“ help” the po States, which constituted more than
lice enforce the existing laws.
nine-tenths o f the total. The increase
in exports from the territory was 12
Two bodies o f Mexican federals times as much as that in the imixirts,
fought each other for possession o f a being $13,500,000 against $1,180,000.
village, each thinking the other was a The exports, totalled $55,400,000; the
rebel force.
Several were wounded imports, $28,700,000.
before the error was discovered.
Governor Frear reports that “ the
percentage o f homesteads taken by
The widow o f Victor L. Mason, o f Americans and other Caucasians has
London,
who was killed by a fall been much larger this year than
from an aeroplane, has sued an acci usual,”
dent insurance company for the face
During the last two years the de
value o f a policy held by her husband, parture o f Japanese steerage passen
insuring him against violent death.
gers exceeded the arrivals by 489.
PRICE-FIXING
Wheat Track prices: Club, 80c;
bluestem, 84c; 40-fold, 81c; red Rus-
sian, 78c; valley, 81c.
Barley—Feed, $22.50« 23 per ton ;
brewing, nominal; ro ll«!, $26.60«)
27.50.
Com — Whole, $36 per ton cracked,
$37.
Millstuffs — Bran, $22.50 per ton;
shorts, $24.50; middlings, $30.
Hay — Timothy, choice, $17«118;
mixed Eastern Oregon timothy, $12«:
16; oat and vetch, $12; alfalfa,
$11.50; clover, $10; straw, $6«:7.
Oats No. 1 white, $25«26 per ton.
Fresh Fruits
Apples, 60c« $1.60
box; pears, 75c«$1.50; grapes, $1.60;
Malagas, $8
barrel;
cranberries,
$10.50<ii 12 barrel; casabas, $2.50 dot.
Potatoes — Jobbing prices:
Bur
banks, 60(d65c hundred; sweet, 2|c
pound.
Onions Oregon, 90c« $1 sack.
Eggs Fresh locals, candled, 32)c
dozen.
Butter — Oregon creamery, cubes,
37Jc pound; prints, 8 8 )« 39c.
Poultry Hens. 14(<(. 14|c; broilers,
14 Of 14)c; turkeys, live, 24 Of 25c;
dressed, choice, 27)c; ducks, nomi
nal ; geese, 16c.
Pork— Fancy, 9)«.10c per pound.
Veal - Fancy, 3|(<i4c per pound.
Wool — Eastern Oregon, 48c per
pound; valley, 21) Of, 22)c; mohair,
choice, 32c.
Cattle — Choice steers, $7 (it 7.25;
good, $6.50(u6.75; medium, $6(>i6.35;
choice cows, $6(1/6.50; good, $6.50«:
6.75; medium, $4.60«:6.26; choice
calves, $7.50 Of 8.75; good
heavy
calves, $6«(7; bulls, $ 3 « 5.50; stags,
$5fti.6.
Hogs - Light, $7.25«7.60; heavy,
$6.25(<i6.75.
Sheep — Yearling wethers, $4.26«
6.S6; ewes, $3.26<(i4.86; lambs, $6oi
6.75.
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The London Times devoted an entire
page to presenting the condition o f
the city ’s poor, and declares that the
increase o f pauperism is “ dismay
in g.”
Thomas Harding, aged 91, is dead
at his home in Redland, Ore.
He
was famous as a newspaper writer and
was the author o f the poem entitled,
“ Remember the Maine.”
" H a t i Lestran ge . H a n e ve r m eant
TO BE TESTED
Suit la Begun A gainst Breakfast
Food Concern.
sold to retailer and consumer, prevent
ing competition which would reduce
the price to the public and creating a
monopoly by concentrating the entire
interstate traffic in this commodity in
the hands o f jobbers and retailers who
abide by price agreements exacted by
the defendants. It is alleged that the
defendants have invoked the patent
laws through the use o f a patented
carton in which the flakes are packed
as a mere “ subterfuge and device” to
escape the provisions o f the Sherman
law.
The government asks for injunc
tions to prevent the company, its offi
cers and agents from controlling the
price o f the breakfast food after it
leaves the hands o f the manufacturer.
The suit is regarded by the govern
ment as o f vast importance because o f
its bearing on the right o f a manufac
turer to control prices to the consum
er. It is alleged that the company
sells only to jobbers, refusing abso
lutely to deal directly with the con
sumers or with the retail trade. The
commodity, according to the petition,
is sold to jobbers at a uniform price,
under an agreement that the jobbers
will sell to retailers at a price fixed by
the defendants.
The defendants are
charged with strictly enforcing the
agreement o f sale by absolutely refus
ing to deal with any jobber who fails
to maintain the specified price.
PRESI DENT-ELECT
AT
HOME
Staunton, V irgin ia, Gives
W elcom e to W ilson.
N oisy
Staunton, Va.— Virginia enthusias
tically welcomed home Governor W il
son, the eighth o f her native sons to
be chosen president o f the United
States. From the moment the presi
dent-elect crossed the state line at
Alexandria in the afternoon, after he
had a ten-minute glimpse o f the na
tional capital, until 9 o’clock, when he
reached the little parsonage where he
was born 56 years before, the recep
tion was one o f great enthusiasm,
noisy demonstration and spectacular
display.
Escorted by cavalry, m ilitia com
panies and a torchlight procession, the
governor and Mrs. Wilson motored
through the streets o f Staunton to the
home o f Rev. A. N. Frazer, pastor o f
the Presbyterian church.
In this
home Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, father
o f the president-elect, lived in 1856.
“ It is fine to be back again,” ex
claimed the president-elect, as he
stepped indoors.
Suffering from the effects o f his
cold, he returned immediately to the
room in which he was born to rest.
Staunton was not alone in celebrat
ing the arrival o f the distinguished
visitor.
Fireworks shot across the
skies and red lights threw a festive
M EXICAN SHOPM EN
STRIKE glare at all stations along the route.
Mrs. Wilson stood with her husband
Higher W ages and Shorter Hours on the rear platform o f the train and
enjoyed the demonstration.
Demanded by 7000.
Laredo, Tex. — Seven thousand shop
B ig Mills Oust Hindus.
employes of the National Railway of
Vancouver, B. C. — Drastic steps
Mexico struck Friday because o f the
refusal o f the management to grant an have been taken by the management
eight-hour day and an increase in o f the Small-Bucklin Lumber mills, at
wages. The strike was called simul New Westminster, If. C., arising out
taneously at Nuevo Laredo, San Luis o f recent perjury cases.
Owing to
Potosi, Mexico City and Aguas Cal disclosures made to the effect that
ientes. A t Nuevo Laredo 100 skilled Hindus had been in the habit of pay
mechanics and 100 other employes ing foremen on jobs and other officials
walked out. The shops are closed.
bribes to retain their positions, the
Because o f the demoralized condi owners o f the mills have decided to dis
tion along the line o f the railway as miss almost 100 Hindus and to replace
the result o f the rebel activity the; them with white labor. The shacks
strike has caused the greatest concern. I that the Hindus resided in were burned
Railroad officials refuse to discuss the to the ground by the company.
situation beyond saying that the strike
will not cause a tieup o f the lines and
Simple Ceremony Preferred.
that they believe regular train service
Washington, I). C. — Inauguration
an be maintained.
A t several points bridges and sta- ceremonies in the past have been too
tions have been burned by the revolu-] spectacular and pretentious, in the
tionists and long stretches o f roadbed opinion o f President-elect Woodrow
| Wilson. Governor Wilson talked with
destroyed.
Corcoran Eustis, recently
The employes presented their do- William
mands some weeks ago with an ulti chosen chairman o f the inauguration
“ The thing has been
matum that if they were not acceded committee.
to, a strike would be called before the overdone in the past,” said the gover-
end o f the year.
No intimation had nor to him. “ I wish you would have
been given that Friday was selected as the ceremonies as simple as may be
consistent with dignity and order.”
the date o f the walkout.
Detroit— The Kellogg Toasted Corn
Flake company is alleged to he violat
ing the Sherman law in a petition in
Soldier o f Fortune Dead.
equity tiled in the United States dis
trict court here by order o f Attorney-
Reno, N ev.- W ith both hands cut
General Wiokentham to settle for all off and his skull fractured, Max Von
time the extent to which a manufac
Buelow, said to be a descendant o f
turer can control retail prices.
The company and its officers, en Count Von Buelow, the famous Ger
gaged in the manufacture o f Kellogg's i man general, was picked up on the
toasted com flakes, are charged with railroad track near the state line and
fixing prices at which the Hakes are died two hours later in the railroad
hospital at Sparks. Von Buelow was
a globetrotter and soldier o f fortune.
Sm allpox Under Control.
Several years ago he married Miss
Washington, D. C. Rigid steps by Christine Plummer, a wealthy wo
the public health service have brought man o f Pueblo, Colo., and they trav
under control a threatened seribus out eled through Europe in regal style.
break o f smallpox along the West Von Buelow was highly educated.
VirginiH-Maryland border. Dr. B. S.
Castro W ill Be Detained.
Warren, detailed to investigate the
situation, who has just returned to
Washington, D. C. Cipriano Castro,
Washington, reported 11 eases in the expresident o f Venezuela, said to be a
vicinity o f Martinsburg,
W. Va. passenger on board the steamer La
These cases, all within from three to Touraine, due at New York from
ten miles o f the city, are under proper Havre, will he detained at the Ellis
control. All suspected persons in the Island immigration station until Sec
region will be vaccinated and kept un retary Nagel, o f the department o f
der observation for 15 days.
commerce and labor, has passed on his
admission to the United States. This
unusual course is because the State
W ird ca s Spans Country.
Washington, D. C. For the first department has requested Secretar.
time in history wireless greetings Nagel to apply the immigration laws
That de
were flashed from the Mare Island strictly to the ex-president.
navy yard at San Francisco to Wash partment is anxious to bar Castro.
ington. The message was from Cap
Beef Cattle Are Scarce.
tain Mayo, commandant o f the Mare
Chicago Fewer cattle by 2.81.298
Island navy yard, and was received by
the giant radio station at Arlington. have been received at the Chicago
It conveyed the wishes o f Captain and stockyards this year than in 1911, ac
other officers at the navy yard to the cording to figures given out here.
aecretary o f the navy and the officers Despite this fact, more money was
o f the navy and marine corps for a paid for beef in 1912 than in 1911 by
“ merry Christmas and a happy New $3.282,735. The total paid out this
year was $183,488,909.
Year.”
Gum Chewer Discredited.
Chicago United States Judge Car
penter revealed one method he has of
judging whether a person is testifying
truthfully. I f the witness chews gum
and talks rapidly the chances are no
great weight should be attached to his
satetments, the court said.
This de
veloped when the court told Joseph
Burns, a witness chewing gum while
on the witness stand: “ The harder a
person chews gum the less responsibil
ity you can place in his testimony.”
Oranges Picked on Canal.
Vancouver, Wash. Along the Pan
ama canal for more than two miles at
a stretch, one can row in a boat and
pi-k orange« all the way, according to
a communication from P. M. Bates, a
steam shovel engineer, to his son. W.
C. Bates, an attorney o f this city. The
water is backed up from the Gatun
dam, and there seems to be a general
indundation. The water there is now
about 65 feet deep. It will be 85 feet
deep when it is turned in. The place
mentioned where oranges may be
picked is between Gatun and Gorgon«.
Schrank Model Patient.
Oshkosh. W is.—John Schrank, who
attempted to assassinate Theodore
Roosevelt, is reported to be a model
patient at the Northern Hospital for
the insane. The superintendent says
he is faithful in his work and spends
much o f his time reading and writing
and doing work around the criminal
ward as it is required o f patients
there.
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nephew Richard takes your place, and
Is fit to take It. Go back to Europe
and your low-born wife; there Is no
lack In my household."
The voice broke In an excess of sav
age triumph, and Lestrange took the
pause without movement or gesture.
“ I am going, sir, and I shall never
come back," he answered, never more
quietly. " I can take a dismissal, ysa.
It ever I have wished peace or hopsd
for an accord that never existed be
tween us, I go cured of such folly.
But hear this much, since I am ar
raigned at your bar: I have never
yet disgraced your name or mine un
less by the boy’s mischief which sent
me from college.
The money you
speak of, 1 have never used; ask
Bailey of It, If you will.” He hesitat
ed. and In the empty moment there
came across the mile of June air
the roaring noon whistle of the fac
tory. Involuntarily he turned his head
toward the call, but as Instantly re
covered himself from the self-betray
al. “ There Is another matter to be
arranged, but there Is no time now.
Nor even In concluding It will I ever
come here again, sir.”
There was that In his hearing. In
the dignified carefulness of courtesy
with which he saluted the other before
turning to go, that checked even Eth
an Ffrench. But as Lestrange crossed
the threshold of the little building,
Emily ran from the thicket to meet
him, her eyes a dark splendor In her
white face, her hands outstretched
“ Not like this!" she panted. "Not
without seeing me! Oh, I might have
guessed—”
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His vivid color and animation re
turned as he caught her to him, heed
less of witnesses.
“You dare? My dear, my dear, not
even a question? There Is no one
like you. Say, shall 1 take you now.
or send Dick for you after the race?”
Mr. Ffrench exclaimed some inartic
ulate words, but neither heard him
“Send Dick,” Emily answered, her
eyes on the gray eyes above her.
"Send Dick—I understand, I will
come.”
He kissed her once, then she drew
back and he went down the terraces
toward the gates. As Emily sank down
on the bench by the pavilion door,
Bailey brushed past her, running after
the straight, lithe figure that went
steadily on out of sight among the
huge trees planted and tended by five
generations of Ffrenches.
When the vistas of the park were
empty, Emily slowly turned to face
her uncle.
“ You love David Ffrench?" he asked,
his voice thin and harsh.
“ Yes," she answered. She had no
need to ask If Lestrange were meant.
you to know; he'd have left without
your ever knowing, but for Mlaa Em
ily. I guess I don't need to remind
you of what he's done; If It hado't
been tor him we might have closed
our doors some day. He understands
the business as none of us back-num
ber, old-fashioned ones do; he took
hold and shook some life Into i t We
can make cars, but he can make peo
ple buy them. Advertlalng!
Why.
Just that fool picture ha drew on the
back of a pad. one day, of a row of
thermometers up to ona hundred
forty, with the sign ‘Mercuries are at
the top,’ made more people notice.”
Bailey cleared his throat “ He was
always making people notice, and
laughing while he did i t He's risked
his neck on every course going, to
bring our cars In first, he's lent Ms
fame as a racing driver to help us
along. And now everything Is fixed
the way we want, he’s thrown out.
What did he do It for? He thought
he needed to square accounts with
you, for being born, I suppose; so
when he heard how things were going
with us he came to me and offered his
help. At least, that’s what ha said.
1 believe he came because he couldn't
bear to see the old place go under.”
There was a skein of blue silk
swinging over the edge of the table.
Mr. Ffrench picked It up and replaced
It In Emily's work basket before re
plying.
“ If this remarkable story Is true,"
he began, accurately precise In ac
cent.
“ You don't need me to tell you It
Is,” retorted Bailey.
“ You
know
what my new manager's been doing;
why. you disliked him without seeing
him. but you had to admit his good
work.
And I heard you talking
about his allowance, Mr. Ffrench. He
never touched It, not from the first;
It piled up for six years. Last April,
when we needed cash In a hurry, he
drew It out and gave It to me to buy
aluminum. When he left here first he
drove a taxtcab In New York city un
til he got Into racing work and made
Darling Lestrange famous all over the
continent. I guess It went pretty hard
for a while; If he'd been the things
you called him, he’d have gone to the
devil alone In New York.
But he
didn't.”
An oriole darted In one arcade and
out again with a musical whir of
wings. The clink of glass and silver
sounded from the house windows with
a pleasant cheeriness and suggestion
of comfort and plenty.
“ He made good," Bailey concluded,
thoughtfully. “ But It sounded queer
to me to hear you tell him you didn't
want him around because Mr. Dick
took his place. I know, and Miss Em
ily knows, that Dick Ffrench was no
use on earth for any place until Mr.
David took him In hand and made him
fit to live. That's all, I guess, that
I had to say; I’ll get back to work.”
He turned, but paused to ' glance
around. “ It’s going to be pretty dull
at the factory for me. And between
us we’ve sent Lestrange to the track
with a nice set of nerves."
His retreating footsteps died away
to leave the noon huBh unbroken. As
before, uncle and niece were left op
posite each other, the crumpled news
paper where Lestrange’s name showed
“ I thought there was to be no more
trouble," she faltered, distressed.
Lestrange looked down at her stead
ily, his gray eyes darkening to an ex
pression she had never seen.
“ Have I no right?” was his question,
"la there no canceling of a claim, Is
there no subsequent freedom? Is It
all no use, Emily?"
Vaguely awed and frightened, her
fingers tightened on his arm In a
panic of surrender.
“ I will come to you, 1 will come!
You know best what is right— I trust
you to tell me. Forgive me, dear, 1
wanted to— ’’
He silenced her, all the light flash
ing back to his face.
"A promise; hush! Oh, I shall win
tonight with that singing In my ears.
1 have more to say to you, but not
now. I must see Bailey, somehow, be
fore I go.”
"H e Is at the house; let me send
him here to you."
“It you come back with him."
They laughed together.
"I will— Do you know," her color
deepened rosily,
"they call you
'Darling;’ I have never heard your
own name.”
“ My name Is David,” Lestrange said
quietly, and kissed her for farewell.
"Uncle will like you when he knows
you,” she laughed In her heart. "Any
one must like you.”
The servant she met In the hall said
that Mr. Bailey had gone out, and
Mr. Ffrench, also, but separately, the
former having taken the short route
across toward the factory. That way
Emily went tn pursuit, Intending to
overtake him with her pony cart.
But upon reaching the stables, past
which the path ran, she found Bailey
himself engaged In an Inspection of
the limousine In company with the
chauffeur.
“ You’ll have to look Into her differ
ential, Anderson,” he wag pronounc
ing, when the young girl came beside
him.
“ Come, please." she urged breath
lessly.
“ Come?” repeated Bailey, wheeling,
with his slow, benevolent smile. “ Sure,
Miss Emily; where?”
She shook her head, not replying un
til they were safely outside; then:
"T o Mr. Lestrange; he Is In the pa
vilion. He wants to see you.”
“ To Lestrange!” he almost shouted,
r> °
s'
halting. I.estrango here?”
“ Yes. There Is time; he says there
fte
Is time. He la going back as soon as
he Bees you."
"But what’s he doing here? What
does be r ean by risking his neck
wtttout any practice.”
“ He came to see me,” she whle-
pered, and stood confessed.
"God!” said Bailey, quite reverently,
after a moment of speechless stupe
faction. "You, and him !"
She lifted confiding eyes to him,
moving nearer.
"It Is a secret, but 1 wanted you to
know because you like us both. Dick
said you loved Mr. Lestrange."
“ Yes," was the dazed assent.
"W ell, then—
But come, he la
waiting."
She was sufficiently unlike the usual
Miss Ffrench to bewilder any one.
Bailey dumbly followed her across
the park, carrying his hat In Ms
hand.
A short distance from the pavilion
Emily stopped abruptly, turning a
startled face to her companion.
"Some one Is there," she said.
“ Well,
Then— But Come,
It W a itin g .”
He
“Some one Is speaking. I forgot that
“ He Is married to some woman of In heavy type lying on the floor be
Uncle Ethan had gone ou t"
tween them.
She heard Bailey catch his breath the music halls.”
"No."
The effect of Bailey's final sentence
oddly. Her own pulses began to beat
"How do you know? He has told had been to leave Emily dizzied by
with heavy Irregularity, as a few steps
you?”
apprehension.
farther brought the two opposite the
She lifted to him the superby confi
“ Uncle," she faltered.
open arcade.
There they halted,
dence of her glance, although nervous
froten.
Disregarding or unseeing her out
tremors shook her In wavellke suc
stretched hand, he went on and left
In the place Emily had le ft where
cession.
her there alone. And then Emily dared
all her feminine toys still lay, Mr.
“ If he had been married, he would
Ffrench was seated as one exhausted not have made me care for him. He rescue the newspaper.
by the force of overmastering emo has asked me to be bis wife."
“ A subMitute,” she whispered. "A
tion; his hands clenched on the arms
They were equally strange to each substitute," and laid her wet cheek
of the chair; hts face drawn with pas other In these new characters, and against the pictured driver.
sion. Opposite him stood Lestrange. equally spent by emotion.
No one lunched at the Ffrench
Neither
colorless and still as Emily had never moving, they sat oposite each other home that day, except the servants.
conceived him. listening in absolute tn silence. So Bailey found them Near three o'clock In the afternoon
silence to the bitter address pouring when be came back later, to take Me Mr. Ffrench came back to the pavilion
from the other's lips with a low-toned massive stand In the doorway, bis where Emily still sat
violence Indescribable.
hands in his pockets and bis strong
"Go change your gown." he com
"I told you then, never again to Jaw set
manded, In hla usual tone. "W e will
come here." first fell upon Emily's
"I think that things are kind of start now. I have sent for Bailey and
conscious hearing. "I supposed you mixed up here, Mr. Ffrench." he stated ordered Anderson to bring the auto
were at least Ffrench enough to take grimly. ” 1 guess I'm the one to mobile."
a dismissal What do you want here, straighten them out a bit; I’ve loved
"StartT' she wondered, bewildered.
money? I warned you to live upon Mr. David from the time he was a kid
He met her gaze with a sUtely re-
the allowance sent every month to and never saw him get a square deal pellenee of comment
your bankers, for 1 would pay no more y e t You asked him what he was do
“ For the Beach
I understand this
even to escape the Intolerable dis ing here— I'll tell you; he le Le race taste twenty four hours
Have
grace of your presence here. Did you strange."
yon any objection?"
There la a degree of amazement
Imagine me to deserted that 1 would
Objection to being near David! Em
accept even you as a successor? which precludes speech; Mr. Ffrench ily sprang to her feet
Wrong; you srs not missed.
M y looked back at hie partner, mute.
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