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THE MEDIfQRD "MAIL T.RIBUN1S, MEDFORD, OREO ON. FRIDAY. .TANFARY M. 1910.
THE PERFUME OF
THE LADY IN BLACK
.; Ity OASTOX IiKUOUX,
Author of "Tho Mystery of
v tho Vellow Koom."
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ft. Copyright, 1000, by llretnno's
CHAPTER XI.
A Pistol Shot In the NIcht.
1
T wns a ploomy meal enough.
Arthur Jluuce looked every mo
' luent iu tho direction of tho
Lady lu Black. Alt tho win
dows were open. -A tlnsh of light
sing nnd a heavy clap of thunder came
In rapid succession, and then tho del
ii'so. Mme. Edith reappeared Just lu
tlmo to escape being drenched by the
furious rain, which beat down liko
cannon balls.
Tho young woman told in excited
tones nnd with her hands clasped how
sho had found Old Bob bending over
Ms desk with his head burled in his
bands. Do had refused to have any
thing to say to her. Sho had spoken
.to htm affectionately, and be had
treated her like a bear. Then, as he
lied held his hands to his ears, she
lad pricked ono of his fingers with a
little pin set with rubies which sho
used to fasten the lace scarf which
Bho wore In the evening. Her uncle
had turned upon her like a madman,
had snatched the little pin from her
and thrown it upon tho desk. And
tfien he had spoken to her "brutally,
Adely," sho ejaculated. "Get ont of
here and leave me alone P ho said to
her. She had turned her head for a
last look at her old undo and had
been almost struck dumb by what she
saw.
STho "oldest skull In tho history of
the human race" was on the desk, and L, mc t0 eo awar
111 bod in his hand, was spitting in tho
skull. He bad always treated it with
sevens respect and had insisted that
others $0 Ibe same.
' jDarxac reriPfured her by telling her
that what she had taken for blood
was only paint.
I left to hurry out to Rouletabllle
and escape Malhilde's glances. What
had the Lady in Black been doing in
my bedroom?
When I started out tho thunder was
pealing loudly and the rain falling with
redoubled force. It took mo only one
bound to reach the postern. No Rou
le'tnbllle was there! I found him on
the terrace B" watching the cntrnnce
to tho square towrr and receiving the
full strength of the storm at lib lu k.
I entreated him to take shelter un
der the arch.
"Leave mo nlonel" ho said impatient
ly. "Leave me alone! This Is the del
uge. Flow good It is! Have you ever
had a desire to roar with the thunder?
1 have, and I am roaring now."
And be plunged Into the darkness,
making the shadows resound with his
savage clamors. I believed this time
that he had surely gone mad. But In
my heart I knew that the unhappy lad
-was breathing forth In these indistinct
articulations of frightful anguish tho
misery that burned him and which be
wns constantly trying to hinder from
burning up the heart and the soul in
hU body the misery of being the son
of Larsan.
I turned helplessly, and as I did so
I felt a baud selzo my wrist, and a
lnrk form cried out:
-;"Whcre is he?"
1 mo tho truth?"
I I had not a word to say. What could
; I have answered? I had breathed the
' perfume of the Lady in Black.
Yes; she treated mc ns nn old friend.
She told me everything that I already
knew In a few sentences ns piteous
i nnd ns simple ns n mother's love It'
! self, nnd filie told me other things
! which lloulctnbllle had kept a secret
from mo. Tho relationship between
them had been guessed by tho one ns
surely ns by the other. Led by n sure
instinct, Mme. Darac had resolved to
I take means to lenni who was this Itou-
letablllo who had saved her from death
nnd who was of the ago of her own
son and who resembled tho lad whom
she hnd mourned ns dead. And since
her arrival at Mcutouo a letter had
reached her containing the proof that
Rouletabllle had lied to her in regard
to his early life and had never set foot
In nny school at Bordeaux. I turned!
ntaly she had sought tho youth and
had asked for'nn explanation, but he
had hurried away without replylug.
"Why did he not throw himself into
my arms when I opened them to him?"
sho moaned. "Ah, my God! If he re
fuses to bo Larsan's son, will ho never
consent to bo mine?"
I was almost bcsldo myself. I kissed
her hands and entreated pardon for
Rouletabllle. tie re was the result of
my friend's schemes to save her pain
Under tho pretext of saving her from
Larsan ho bad plunged a knife Into her
heart. I felt as though I had no wish
to know any more of tho story. I
went out of the square tower cursing
Rouletabllle roundly. I went to the
court to look for him, but found It de
serted. At tho postern gato Mattonl bad
come to take the 10 o'clock watch. I
saw a light In Ronletabllle's room, and
I hastened up the rickety stairway of
the new castle nud quickly found my
self outside his door. I opened It with
out knocking. Rouletabllle looked up.
I told him all that I had heard and
my opinion of him for his actions.
"She didn't tell you everything, my
friend," ho replied coldly. "She did
not tell you that she forbade me to
touch that man. Do you know what
i she said to mo yesterday? She order-
She would rather
mi
.It was Mme. Darzac, who was also
seeking Rouletabllle. A new peal of
thunder burst, and wo heard the boy
In his mad delirium hurling wild
shouts of defiance to the heavens. She
heard Jiltn. Sho saw him. Wo wero
drenched with water from the rain and
the breaking of tho sea on the terrace,
lime. Darzac's clothing clung around
her. like a nig and her skirt dripped as
she walked. I took the wretched wo
man's nrm and held her up, for I saw
that she was about to fall, nnd that
moment in the midst of that terrible
.unchaining of the clement, in that
mad tempest, under this terrible down
pour on the breast of tho raging sea,
I all at once breathed the perfume
tho odor so sweot and penetrating and
haunting that its fragrance has re
mained with me ever since tho per
fume ot the Lady In Black. I under
stood now how Rouletnbille bad re
membered It all theso years.
Tea, It was a fragrance full of sad
nesssomething ilko the perfume of
un Isolated flower which has been con
demned to bo seen by uo one, but to
blossom, for itself all alone. A strange
perfumo! Surely it was that, for 1
had seeuvthe Lady In Black hundreds
of times without noticing it, and now
that I bad dono so it was everywhere
and above all things, nnd I knew that
tho memory of it would abldo with me
while llfo should last.
There in tho night and tho tempest
tho Lady in Black called aloud to
Itoulctablllo, nnd ho lied from us nnd
rushed farther Into tho night, shriek
ing aloud, "Tho perfume of tho Lady
lu Black tho perfume of the Lady in
Blackl"
Tho unhappy woman sobbed. She
struck with desperate hands at the
door which Hornier opened to us.
Sho motioned mo to enter the little
parlor at tho right, which was Just
outsldo tho bedchamber of Old Bob.
Sho took both my hands in hers and
said in u volco which I shall novcr for
get: "You are ray boy's friend. Tell him
Unit ho is not tho only one who has
suffered." And aho added with u sob
which shook her whole frame:
"V.'liy will ho insist on not tolling
die than see me take issue against my
father."
And he laughed, laughed! Such
laughter I hope not to hear again.
His face was not a pleasant Night to
sec as he uttered the words, but sud
denly It seemed to be transformed.
"She is afraid for me." he said soft
ly. "And I I am afraid for her only
for her.. And I do not know my fa
ther. AhT God help me!"
At that moment the sound of a shot
rang out on the night, followed by a
cry ot mortal agony. Ah, It wns again
the cry that I had heard two years
ago in tho "inexplicable gallery." Rou
letabllle tottered; then he bounded to
the open window with
burst of anguish:
"Mother, mother, motherP
I leaped nftcr him nnd threw my
arms around his body, dreading what he
might attempt Quickly he turned on
me, threw me-off nnd precipitated him
self wildly through corridors, apart
ments, stairways and courts toward
the accursed tower from which had
come that same death cry that we
both had beard a moment ago and
also two years before, when it had re
sounded through the "Inexplicable gal
lery." I was still there when the door of
the square tower opened, and In its
frame of light there appeared the form
of the Lady in Black. She was stand
ing upright, living nnd unharmed in
spite of that cry of death, but her
paie ana gnastiy visago reuected a
terror like that of death Itself. She
stretched out her arms toward 'the
night, and the darkness cast Rouleta
bllle Into them, nnd the arms of the
Lady In Black closed around him, and
I heard no more, only sobs and moans
and again the two syllables which tho
night repeated over and over, "Mother,
mother!"
Strnngo to Bay, I found no ono In the
Court of the Bold when I crossed it.
No one, then, had beard the pistol shot!
No one had heard the cries! Where
was M. Darzac? Whero was Old
Bob? And tho Bernlers? I saw nei
ther of them.
Rouletabllle and tho Lady in Black
went Into Old Bob's parlor.
And thoy wero there alone, clasped
in each other's arms, repeating over
and over again. "Mother!" and "My
little one!" And thon they murmured
broken sentencw, phrases without end,
with the divine foolishness of a moth
er and her child. And then how they
embraced each other, as though to
make up for all the years they had
lost! I heard him murmur, "You know,
mamma, it was not true that I stole!"
But whero was Bernler? I entered
the lodgo from the left, for I wished to
know the meaning of tho cry and of
the shot which I had heard.
Mero Berulcr wnu at the back of the
room, which was lighted only by a
tiny taper. Her features wero dis
torted with fear.
"Sorao ono flred off n pistol!" I said.
"What has happened?"
"I do not know," sho responded.
And at that moment 1 heard some
one open tho door of tho tower, nnd
Pere Bernler stood on tho threshold.
"Bernler! What has happened?"
"Oh. nothing very serious, I am glad
to say. An uccldeut without nny Impor
tance whatever, Darzac while placing
his revolver on tho stand beside his
bed accidentally llred it off. Madame
naturally was frightened and scream
ed, and as the window of their room
wns open she thought that you nud M.
Rouletubillo might have heard some
thing nnd started out to tell you that
It was nothing."
"Darzac has cotno in, then?"
"no got here almost as soon ns you
had loft tho tower, M. Salncltilr. And
tho shot wns tired almost Immediate
ly after bo entered his bedroom. Vou
can guess that I hnd u pretty fright
1 rushed to tho door. Donne opetie
It himself. Happily no one was Iiw
Jured."
"Did Mme. Dnrrnc go to her own
room ns soon as I left tho tower?"
"At once. She hoard M, Darzac when
ho canto in nud followed liltn directly
to their npnrtments. They went
nlmost at tho sumo moment."
"And Darzac Is he still lu bis room?"
"Here he Is uow."
I turned nnd saw Robert Darzae.
Despite tho gloom of the place I saw
that his face wns ghastly pule. He
made mo n sign and then said very
calmly nnd quietly:
"Listen, Saluelnlrl Hornier told you
about our little accident. It N uo'
worth mentioning to any one uiiIosk
some one should speak of It to you
The others perhaps have not hear! tin
shot. It would be useless to frlvr'ito
all these good people. Don't you think
so? Now 1 have a little favor to nl
of you. It Is only to persuade Itoule
tabllle to go to bed. When he Is gon,
my wife will calm herself and will irj
to get the rest that she needs. Kvery out
of us has new! of rest and silence."
I pressed his hand with a force which
n nested my sentiments toward him. I
was persuaded that both he and Hor
nier were concealing something from
us something very grave. .
Darzac reentered his room, ami 1
weut to Hud Rouletabllle lu the sitting
room of Old Hob.
But upon the threshold of the apart
ment 1 Jostled against the Lady lu
Black and her son. who were passing
out. They were both so silent and
wore an expression so unexpected to
me, who had overheard their exclama
tions of love nnd Joy ouly a few mo
ments before, that 1 stood before them
without saying n word or making a
movement. The extremity which In
duced Mine. Darzac to leave Rouleta-
btllc so soon under such extraordinary
circumstances as those which bad at
tended their reunlou puzzled me great
ly. Mnthllde pressed n kiss upon the
lad's forehead and murmured "Good
night, my darling." Iu a voice so soft.
so sweet and at the same time so sol
emn that It seemed to me that It must
resemble the leave taking of one who
was about to die. Rouletabllle with
out auswerlng his mother took tny nrm
nnd led me out of tho tower. He was
trembling like a leaf.
It was the Lady In Black herself
who closed the door of the square tow
er. I was sure tunt something strange
was pa'sslng within those walls,
HOOD RIVER WOULD 1
HAVE NORMAL SCHOOL
HOOD HIVKK, Or., Jan. II. Tho
now directors of tho Hood liivorj
lommoreinl club Saturday niglit
elected Charles Hull president nnd
Initnlvm Skinnor Kuorotnvy. II. II.
i ii. .-i i i ii v.i i.
) iiuiitwg mitt i, ii. usuoruo uro vieu
j president nnd treasurer, respectively,
j Mr. Hall is interested in nuuiy looul
enterprises, having recently gained
control of the Homo Teleplioiio com
pmiy. Mr. Skinnor ciime, to Hoot
Kivor last year from Hamilton, Or.,
nud has been engaged in orchard do
velopmont. This will ho n great yenr
tor tho Commereinl club nud for
Hood Uiver. Tho now First Nntiou
nl bnnk building, ucnriiig completion,
will contain quarters which will ho
fitted up in good stylo for tho club.
It is expected to get into them by
early spring, nnd tho nnnunl ban
quet lias boon postponed until nt'ter
that time. Tho club will hold
mooting tonight, at which will bo
outlined plnns for the coining your.
Tho norma! school committee, which
has been investigating the fensibil
ity of inviting tho stnto to establish
n normal school nt Hood River, will
mnko its report, which will bo fa
vorable.
CZAR GREETS THE NEW
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR
ST. PETERSBURG, .Tnn.
Emperor Nicholas todny received W.
W. Rockhill. who presented his cre
dentials ns American nmbassador to
Russin. Tho emperor engaged tho
diplomat in private conversation for
half nn hour, after which Mr. Rock
hill presented Montgomery Scbuylor,
Jr., secretnrv of tho American em
bassy. Roth Mr. Rockhill nnd Mr.
Schuyler lunched nt tho palace.
Tho customary ceremonial at
tending tho reception of nowly np
pointed diplomats was observed. Tho
carriages of tho ambassador nnd tho
secrctnry wore provided by tho stnte,
which nlso provided nn escort nnd
bodyguard of Cossncks.
Mrs. Rockhill wns not presented to
The I ai5 empress, ns sho is still confined
You Can
Sell Real Estate
If You Can
Advertise
Real Estate!
Tho problem in soiling ronl os
tato is to find tho ONE and
there's only ono person to whom
tho proporty would bo WORTH
MAST.
.4 1. ... m
aomounio, in tho courso of a
fow days, or of a fortnight, tho
prospootivo buyer to whom YOUR
proporty would bo worth most, will
rend tho ronl ostnto nda in this
newspaper, no may rend thorn
ovory day ho mny road them
onco a weok. BUT nE READS
THEM you can bo suro of that.
And YOURS MUST BE THERE
WHEN HE DOES. If it is, your
problem is solved. If it isn't,
you'vo still got your problom
and your proporty.
THE ROGUE RIVER LAND COMPANY
ow
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NO. 11 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE
Offers an especially good foothill orchard for a It
prico and on good terms. In theso days of advanci
prices, it will pay to look into this.
It pays to deal with the "Alan Who Knows." When
tho Rogue Kivcr Land Company sold the Tronson &
Guthrie orchard at .Eagle Point to tho pmo winning
ownors, four years ago, tho salesman, W. M. Holmes,
assured tho purchasers those Spitzenhorgtrees would
produco tho world's hest apples, and subsequent ovonts
provo tho soundness of his judgmont. By the way:
Did it eyor occur to you that most of tho men who havo
won out in tho Rogue River Valley, bought thoir win
ning orchards through tho Rogue Rirer Land Com
pany? V. M. Holmes, Manager, is always at your service
for a good buy.
nwnnnt of fho nlstol shot which had . 10 "r UCU. MIC lins IJOOtl UtllllilO 10
been given me satisfied me not nt all. , participate in nny of tho now year's
wo were at tunt moment noi inr ; receptions.
a uespainng and tho cry of OBOUy tmU hnd
I lowed it. The storm was past,
from a window lu which n light was
still burning and which opened upon
the sitting room of Old Hob. and sloped
out upon the sen. This window wns
not closed, nnd It was this, doubtless,
which had permitted us to hear so
distinctly In suite of the thickness of i nnmes woro
w I iV if
the walls of tho tower the n stol shot ! irotn tne roil
fol-!
but
the waters were not yet appeased, and
the waves broke on tho rocks of tho
peninsula with n vlolenco that would
have rendered the apprpach of any
vessel impossible. Tho thought of a
vessel crossed my mind, because 1
believed for an Instant that I could
see the shadow of a vessel of some ,
sort appearing or disappearing in the
gloom. But what could It be?
We stood there motionless for moro
than Ave minutes before wo heard a
sigh a groan, deep as an expiration,
like n moan of agony; a heavy sob,
like the last breath of a departing
soul which reached our cars from
that window and brought tho sweat
of terror to our brows. And then
nothing more nothing except tho in-'
termlttcnt sobbings of the sea. ,
And suddenly tho light in tho win-)
dow went out.
My friend and I grasped eacb-other's i
hand as If instinctively commanding i
each other by this mute communication I
to remain motionless nnd silent. Some I
ono was dying there In that tower!
Some ono whom thoy had hidden. .
Why? And who? Somo ono who was I
neither M. Darzac nor Mine. Darzac
nor Pero Hornier nor Mero Dernier nor
almost beyond the shadow of a doubt
-Old Hob; some one who could not
snvo been In tho (ower.
(To bo continued.)
FOUR OTHERS MEMBERS
OF COMMERCIAL CLUB
Through somo error tho following
accidentally omitted
of tho Mail Tribune- of January 10,
when n complete list of tho unities
,-vf members of tho Medford Commer
einl club wns published. Theso mem
bers whoso tinmen follov nro nil In
good standing nnd it was purely no-i
cidoutnl in compiling tho tist thutj
thoy woro left out. They nro: i
E. W. Anderson. '
E. 11. Davis. (
h. 1 Hubbard.
There's a Reason
Why the custom of the
Rex Market is growing.
The reason is worth in
vestigating and a trial
order will explain the
reason.
Rex Market
Huth & Pech Props. Phone 3271
from the roll of lionorintlu' ismie T. W. Osgood.
Savoy Theatre
TONIGHT
BACHELOR' AND MAID
(A Comedy of Errors) (
A PAIR OF SLIPPERS
(A Lnugh Evory Second)
IF LOVE BE TRUE
(Romantic Drama)
Doors Open 7 P. M. ONE DIME.
Best Groceries
Baker's
vs.
Home Made Bread
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Clnrn E. Wick to Troy Wood
ward, part of lot 24, Myor
addition to Ashlnnd :....$ 10
W. II. Miller to C. T. David
son, one-fifth intorest in
20 acres in section 30,
township 37, 4 west 20
S. A. Pattison to Martha Car
ter, lot 3, block 2, Pattison
nddition to Contrnl Point. 100
C. "E. Denning to Sylvia S.
Robinson, 200 acres in sec
tion 25, township 35, 2 west 10
T. B. Roborts to E. J. David
son, ono-third interest to
land in section 30, town
ship 37, 4 west 1
A. Bniloy to I, Worthington,
80 ncrcs in section 23,
township 30, 2 west 1
Emma Gngnon to T. L. Do
voro, part block 50, Jack
sonville 1,000
A. Lawrontz to S. V. Davis,
lots 7 nnd 8, block 18,
Medford 1
R. II. Ilinks to J. II. Dornn,
1.35 ncrcs D. L. C. 40,
township 30, 1 east 10
S. M. Osgood to W. M. Sontt,
1(30 nores section 17,
township 39, 1 enst 20
Smn Snndry of Woodvillo wns in
Medford Thursday night, Ho was
ono of tho fawns upon whom antlers
woro fitted by tho R. P, O, E.
We have home-made bread. Which would
you rather eat, home-made or bakers'? A
foolish question to ask, for most people
would be willing to pay twico the prico for
home-made bread they pay for baker's, but
you can buy the good old-fashioned home
made bread at the Rex Grocery for tho samo
price as baker's. Large, well browned
loaves, both nourishing and palatable, and
buked from tho best flour in tho city.
"Yakima Best"
Take a loaf homo with you and be con
vinced. Rex Grocery Co.
At Prices Strictly in
Keeping with the
Quality of Our
Stock which is
Unexcelled
A Trial will Convince You
Do You Want to Sell?
If you want to sell your business of any kind, or if
you want to soil your property, and will make the prico
right, I would like to hear from you. Give description
and prico, Address J. E. SMITH, 513 Chamber Com
merce, Portland, Oregon.
Allen Reagan
I The Square Deal Grocers
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REAL ESTATE
Farmland Timber Land
Orchard Land
Residences City Lots
Orchards and Mining Claims
Medford Realty Co
Room 10, Jackson County Bank Building
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