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ct FKBFflJAR.Yfc 1910. TXIE MEDFOUD MAIL TRIBUNE, MJCDFORD, OKIWON. ' yi u nun The GUEST OF QU ESNAY By Booth Tarkington 3 Utm'lM, IW IW&. Vf tbf UI4r Unfair ell, MM' I l Kl;ili;i)l,(. wiih mi mic In IiIn union, oxit'iiili-il ill t'liM- iihiii ii limit fliiilr. mi niiuiiiiiii unit a mool, ulu'ii I lnir.il in upon Ii! in. A puriiMiioim vnliiun- win in ti In inp nnd n prnllllc pipe, miiiuKIiiu up from lit Kim i cloud of lii'iml. ciivi I In- DiiiiI ifitlliv io tli' IIU'iu'ck In iIium pro ne n I cd of n rniiuu or lillU cndlnc In a volciiiio, "I fifl Hint you know uif at leant wrll oiiuuuli." I Ix'KMii rutln-r liwtltut lnjly, "to lie nun' Hint I would nut, for tint world, miike any effort to In trude In your nmilra or Mr. Baffrcn'o." "You r our frlftid. Wo know It," ho mutwernt, "Very well." 1 puraued: "then 1 apeak with no fenr of offendlni;. When you Unit cuim to the Inn I couldn't linlp mi-pIiik thiit you took u nreiu innny prfcniitlotiM for xeereey, nnil wlicu you nftiruuril expluliifd tliette preniutloiw to mi'- well, I could not help neelm; Hint your explanation did not corvr all the fround." "It Iji true-lt did not." tin ran lil htiKi' Imud throtiuh the heavy wlilto wnTfH of hi hair mid ahooU hl head lKorounly. "No; I know It. my dear air. Thl much I can any to you: Wo plnnntlim, liicri'illhlc. hut pontile, ntir fked Auythlim vmh polnlf, I thought, tvlth llilx dreamer "My tin wlldfKt chnnce." I gmtped. "you don't iiii'im that you wanted him to full In love"- "Mn, my dear lr," he Inunhed. "you linve Miild It! Hut you knew It. Vou told him to come to me mid tell inc." 'Hut I menu Hint you-thnt you had elected the lady whom you know dm Mine. d'Arinnnd," "Again," he xlioutrd, "you have wild It!" "I'rofenHor Keredec," I returned, with aaperlty, "I have no Idea how you came to conceive nuch n preposterous Mheme, but J njree heartily that tho word for It In uindnes. In the Drat place. I mtiKt tell you that her name in not even d'Armuud." "My dear air. I know. It wnn the mUtako of that tihuurd Amedco. Bbo 1 Mm, II n ruin u," Wit $crmmed Unit tie wu killing hr nurry" wnn tho word 1 would haro a. hut It mopped at "hur." The I second ayllable win never uttered. There camo a violent outcry, raucous and Nhrlll na tho wall of a captured t hen, and out of tho pannage actom tho ' courtyard floundered n woman fanuis ' tlcally dreHNi-d In ureen and gold. Hhe wan iibuiiditntlv fat, double "Vou knew U?" 1 cried, hopelcaaly i chinned, course, groauy. amenred with confuned. "Hut Oliver utlll apeaka of '. (,,. pcncllf nipt, carinlno. enamel aud her mt Mniit, d'ArmtmiL" j rouco. "lie diK-H not know. She Imn not told j ,t t. Hcream BnlTren turned. Hhe Mm." . iiKide Mtnilcht at him, crylnu' wildly. "in the meniitime." I nam anarpiy, liniln! Mou murl. mon iimrl-;'eit rnol! Cent til fernme. mon uncurl" I M Itimtl f.lrt.ll , Ml. .MM,, u tin I ttlt'ii' in ii m i ll invvu jvuuj, u,u n i,w look a room In the Inn thin inonilnv and who linn come to npy upon you, 1 believe." "Whiit l It you nay V He cume to a Miiddeu ntop. 1 liml not meant to deliver my lutor matloii iiilte no abniitly, but there wan no help for It now, nnd 1 repeated the statement, Klvltif Itlni a terue no 1 Hhe threw hernelf upon him. her nriim nbout It Ih iiik'U, with a tropical ferocity that wan n very pnroxynm of irluinpli. Umbrui"e mot. I.nrmbl! UmbrnaHe rnol!'' nhe cried. Ilorrltled, outrnj;ed. hN eyes blazliiR. he iIiiiib her off with n violence nur piiHnliiK her own mid with louthlnc un coil in of my two encounter with the npeaknble She xereuinil that he wan 'Thcr i a krni ciJ youfiu man cho ' ho roirio io npu on you." camo here nt a rink, but I llKitiplil that with ureat care It mlRht be made little." 1 "It wan In connection with tho rink you huvo iiieiitloiied that I eiime Io talk," 1 returnetl, with Home emputmln. , for I wan convinced of the reality of Mr. Earl Percy. "I think It tieeeHHary that you should know" Hut the profennor wan launched. I ' mlRht an well have swept the rlnlnj; , tide with a broom. He talked with Binenlflccnt vehemence for twenty mlnuten, bin theme beliiK nomo theory of bin own that the Individuality of n ' soul In Immortal and that eveji In per fection the noul cannot ponnlbly niertre t into uny Nirvana. "And o It In with my boy," he pnv claimed, coming nt last to the cane In band. "The nplrlt or lilin, the rral Oliver Saffren, that ban uover chntik'c! Tho outnldo of til tit. thone thlni; that belong to III in. like bin memory, they ; have cliniiKe. hut not hlmnelf, for him nelf In eternal and unehaii;eable. I have tnucht It I tit. yen. I have helped hint KCt (he x i ii it 1 1 things we can ttdil to our poKHriodoii a little knowledge, maybe, a little power of Judgment. Hut, my dear nlr, I tell you that nuch tliliinn nre only pohki'shIoiih of n mini. They nre not the man! Bo with Oil ver, He had lived a little while, twen ty nIx yearn Mrhap8. when- pftl like that, he became hIiiiohi an a baby iiKiilu. He could remember h6w to talk,, but not much more. He had lout bin beloiiKliiKH. They were iwm from tho lobe of the bruin where be hud wtore t lie in. but he wiih not mine, No part of the real lilninclf wan larUInt; Then iireseutly they nend lilin to me to make new bin belouulucn, to restore IiIh iioNueHNlotiH. Ha, what a task to take blni with iiotliliij; In the world of his own aud nee that he i?et only jrood ponnennloun, Komi knowledue, Kood ei Ierlence I took him to the piouii-1 tains of the Tyrol two year, and there hhi body became utronj; and npleudltl while bin bntlii wiih taking In the btores. It wub quick, for bin brain hnd retained some biibltH. It wan not n bnby'n brain, and Home tunall part ot Its old utoren bad not been lost, Hut If anything umcIoks or bad remain uc empty It outI and (hose roouutain with their pnro air. Now, I say he Ib II (tocMl and tho work was good. I am proud! Hut 1 wish to recto re all that was pood It) his life. Your Keredec m snmvthltiK of u poet. You may put It much lh old fooll And for that rcatt rentoratlon of all I have broiiRht my boy buck to France." A hulf IlKht had broken upon me an he tiilked. we-Ur. the Hour, thtindertni: kin iMeiiii ol itlitiiiiili Only vne i.x- rattlnh youth and adding "He nccined to be certain that 'Oliver Hnrfreu' In an iimiiiiic1 inline, aud ho mnde a threateului: reference to the lawn of Franco." The elTect itjiou Keredec wan n very dlmlnct pallor. "Ho you think he camo back to thu Inn? In he here nowV" "I do not know." "We must learn. 1 must know that at one;:" And he went to tho door. "lA't me ko Inntead." 1 suRKCSted. 1 stepied out to the pnllery, to dis cover Mme. llronnard emerslni; from a door ou the opposite side ot tho courtyard. "Mme. llronnard." nald the professor, "you havo a new clleut today." "That monsieur who arrived this momlnc." I suja:entel. "He was an American," said tho hosteii. kulttlne her dark brows, "but I do not think that he was exactly n tnontilcur." "In he at tho Inn now?" "No. monnleur. but two friends for whom he engaged npartmcnu have Just arrived," "Who nre they?" nsked Keredec quickly, "It In a lady and a monsieur from Paris, but not married. They havo tnkeu separate apartments, nnd etio has a tlomentlc with her-a necress, Algerian " "What are their namesT" "It In not ten minutes that they are Inntalled. They havo uot given mo their nanien." "What Is nheV" demanded Keredec Impatiently. "In alio blond? 1b she brunette? In she I'Tench. English, Spanish?" "I think." said Mme. Bronnard-"! think one would call her Hpnulsb. but she In very fat. uot young, and with a great deal too much rouge." Hhe mopped with an audible Intake of breath, ntarlng at my friend's white fnce. "M. Haffren nnd 1 leave at once," ex claimed Keredec, "I shall meet him on (he road. lie will not return to tho Inn, We go to-lo Troiivllle. Heo that no one known that we have gone uutll tomorrow, If ponnlbla I shnll leave fees for the NerviiuU with you. Oo now, prepare your bill and bring It to mo at once. I ahull write you where to M'nd our trunks. Quick! Aud you, my friend." be turned to me "my friend, will you help uaV Kor wo need itl" "Anything In tho world!" "Oo to Here Haudry. Have' him put the leant tired of hH three horses to bin llghtcM curt and wait In the roud beyond the cottage. Stand In the road yourself while that Is being done, Oliver will coi;u (hat way, Detain him. I will Join yon there." I strode to the door and out to the gallery. I wan halfway down the nteps before 1 huw that Oliver SalTren was already In the courtyard, coining toward me from (he archway with n light and buoyant step. He looked up, waving bin hat to me, bin face lighted with a happiness most remarkable and brighter even than the stroug midsummer sunnhlue (laming over him. DrcHted In white as he was and with the air of victory he woro, ko might have been at that moment a from some marble triumph, Ul, cooquerlur, crowned with laurel. But entering from tke road, upot the trail of Haffren and still In tht shadow of the archway, 1 was startled to nee the dtttcordaut fineries and Uatcbet face of the ex-pedrstrlan and tourist, my antagonist of the foreat J had opeued iuy mouth to call a wnrnlnj:. killing her. culling lilin "huHbitnd." and tried to fasten bcoelf upon lilin again. Hut he leaped buckwlml beyond the reach of her clutching hmidn mid, turning, plunged to the steps and staggered up tlicin. the woman follow ing. I'rom nboxe me Icnned the ntrlcken face of Keredec He caught Haffren under the arm and half lifted htm to the gallery, while she strove to bold him by the kneen. "0 t!od!" KuMd Haffren. "In thin the wotnuiiv' The plant nwitng him ncronn the gal lery and into the open door with one great Mwecp of the arm, strode In after , him and cloned and boiled the door, I The woimin f,. in a heap nt iho foot of the niepH. uttering a cracked simula tion of i lie cry of a broken heart. ' "Name of u name of Ood!" she walled. "After nil tiicsu year!- And my htmbntid Ntrlken mer ' Then II wan that what had been In ' my mind nn a monntroun Hunplclon be- I tame n certainty, for I recognized the womrfn. Hhe wan Mnrlana-ln bella , Mn rhl ua In .Mumlaun. i If I hurt ever known l.nrrnbee liar- ; man: If, Inntend ot the two strange ' gllmpuef I (kkI caught of him, I had ! bwn tnmlllnr with his genture. walk, i InloiiUloii; even per tin pn It t had ever J heard bin voice, the truth might have come lo me long ago. Ijirrnlx-e Hiirman! "Oliver Hnllren" was Lnrrnbco liar WAAilED Timber and Coal Lands KNUiNEEKING AXD SURVEYING CON TRACTS TAKEN AND ESTIMATES FVJiMSllED. B H, Harris & Co. MFDFORD - - - - OREGON Office in JacKouu county Bank Upstairs (To be continued.'. Probate Court. Untitle of John T. Luylott--Order lor iuIiiiiniHtrator t mnko ileed. KhIuIc of .JoHeph Welch Citation to show cattle why real property Hhotilil l ot be Hold. EMPLOYMENT and Business Chances For Hnle G room liouno, lot 100x100. For Bale - 7-rooni buugnlow. For sale r,. room eottuge. For snle-x-room bungalow. For salf--rj-room bungalow. For flali -C-room bungalow. For nalo Iotg on Grapo ctreet. For nolo Two lots on Oak. For calf or trade li-room honne. For sale ri-rootn tottaggo on OaJ;- .(lnlo avoiiue. i For sale - R-room cottage on Oakdalo iivonue. For stile- -8-rootn bungalow on Otfk- 1 dale avenue; modern. For aalo 2 acres on Itoosovelt ave- I nuo; 4325 an acre. , For sale 97 1-2 acres. ' For sale- -9 ucres planted to applea i and bearing; Improved, i Wanted- S ranch hands. j Havo you horpoa to yell. List them ; with ua. j Houeo tent for sale J F. A. UITTNElt, ! SQK Itilpi Illdg. PLUMBINGl STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING All Work Guaranteed Prices Reae-ona' COFFEILN St PRICE 11 Nortli I) St.. Medford, Ore. Phone 3( ' Ml riione ll tl. i J K. ENYA'RT, Prosident JOUN 8. OHTH. ' J. A. PERRY, Vice-PreKident. W. B. JACKSON, At-b't Cnhie THE MEDFORD NATIONAL BANK CAPITAL J5a,00d SURPLUS . JJO.OOC Safety boxes for rent. A general Banking Business transacted. We solicit your patronage. WHERE COMFORT REIGNS In tho homo equipped with electricity Comfort Is tho prosiding goddess. Tho illumination of tno interior may bo augmented by a lighting arrangp ment on tho porch that will add Immeasurably to tho Joy of tho homo on hot summer evenings. Aside from good lighting a houso wlrod for electricity Is propared for electric fans, whoso soft breezes aro llko balm on humid nights. Fans are portable and may be connected wltn electric sockets either indoor or on the veranaan. Send for the estimate man and Tet U8 Drtng beauty and comfort to your home. ROGUE RIVER ELECTRIC. CO !l T t , " , , $12,525 Eleven acres in Cornice pears, 10 years old, nine acres in Bartlctt and Anjou pears, 1 to 3 years old: close in; pood soil. Terms. $12,000 Eleven acres in Cornice and Bose pears, 14 years old. These trees are in full bearing and will pay a good income on the uriee asked. $24,000-A-Thirty-two acres in Bose and Anjou pears: trees are from 4 to 7 years of age. Complete set of buildings. Close in. $7000 Thirty-five acres of black sticky, three miles from Medford, all under the ditch and can be irri gated. $1.1,000 Thirty-two acres, close to Medford: eight acres in Newtowns and Spitzenbergs 5 to 7 years of age; 14 acres in alfalfa: thrc.c acres in peaches: two acres in berries; irrigated: buildings. $13,000 Twenty acres: 16 acres in 7-year-old 7ew towns and balance in 3-year-old Bartlctt pears; no buildings. $7500-Ten acres, all planted to Newtown andSpit zenberg apples, 7 to 11 years old. $18,000 Thirty-five acres, about 25 planted to apples and pears, in bearing. Trees aro from 6 to 15 years old; buildings; four miles from Medford. $14,000 Thirty-five acres; buildings; exceptionally fine place for a home; twelve .acres in apples u d pears. 3 years old; about an acre of bearing orchard: 11 acres in alfalfa; all fine deep free soil. $150 to $200 per acre Stewart aero tracts; two miles from Medford; tracts are from 10 to 25 acres in size. Fine building spots on all; can all be irrigated: cheapest tracts in the Medford neighborhood; easy terms. $300 per acre Finest five and ten-aero orchard and garden tracts in the valley; easy terms. $35,000270 acres; buildings; 26 acres in healing Spitz, Nowtowns and Comico pears; about 60 acres in ono and two-year-old apples and pears; fine or chard land. SELLING AGENTS FOR SNOWY BUTTE ORCHARD TRACTS, W. T. YORK & CO Opening Third Unit Of U. S Government Lands, Uma tilla Project, at Hermiston, Ore. . February 10, 1910 For the above occasion the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. and Southern Pacific Company linvs in Oregon, 'ill make an cren rate of One and One Third Fare for the ronnd trip from all points in their lines to Heiiulston. Tickets on sale February Cth and Tth, with final return lim it February 20. 1910. Free booklet, Is ued by the government coutslnlnj; lull in formation as to cost, how to filo, water rights, etc., may be ob tained from aay O. R. & N. or S. P. Agent, or by writing to WM. McMVimAY, General l'nt.seiiRrr A sent. UWHHUU& - GOID RAY GRANITE CO. Office: 209 West Main St., Medford, Ore. Operating Quarry at Gold Ray, Oregon DEALERS IN BUILDING, MONUMENTAL AND CRUSHED GRAIN ITE