Record and Chronicle. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 11, 1912 Page: 7 of 8
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BAKING POWDER
The wonder of bar-
NO LOCAL COMPANY NEEDED
"Monslsur,
Your Noe* Annoys Mol
At all Grocer*
Highest
" 'Twas ye who sang to me, dear- !
cotd-
from
Frisc
night
cage dlsap-
Kort
Ho Stopped Short, Thunderstruck.
said
P. E.
I had time, sweetheart of
12,000.
Williams to Mrs, 8. t
Dec
Ctrl.
wester survey; *6,600.
that begin*
Annie
I'm
total
■ow will ye forgive mo excusing mo-
te Colonel Terence O’Rourke, Inform-
with friends and
l
CHAPTER IV.
Ville
HOUSTON. Jan.
WASHINGTON, J
an i’Wife to M. Jacob-
W. K ng addition to
chairman o
Mo'emen
and wife to A. F.
H. Tierwester sur-
of bls eye,
newcomer at
to P. H.
Brumley
lot >n
Point;
ting married to the most beautiful
woman living.
K rl.
Moo:e and wife, Krum, Dec.
Big Companies Are Going after Local
Trade ’1 hemselves, it is Reported,
and Com:i it:ee Appojnte *—Other
Matters Discussed.
it It bored that al] will be Pres-
whether members or not.
M. Onffey of Pantoyl
off the co
vania over »he award of the
tlon c ty j hen the National
"Well ye know why, dearest, and
well ye know 'twas love of ye alone
Mira Bessie Edwards has returned
from Dallas.
Mrs. A. U Swl'ser of Ixiulsi^na la
v siting her sister, Mrs. u, P. 8 w tear
Ruddell went to Fort Worth to
id the funeral.
Luelia
to
"Who else, you gTeat silly boy?
. . . And when you followed roe to
thOi door, making as much noise as a
young elephant. Terence—I was mind-
ed to punish you a little, a very little,
toy dear. So I "merely opened mine
and closed it sharply.”
"There was a woman in the hall—“
“I saw her. dear, and laughed, think-
ing how puzzled you would be. . . .
Was I cruel, my heart? But I did not
mean to be. I'd p’anned this surprise,
you know, from the minute I found
our rooms adjoined.”
I had no idea
send you the letter. Have
O'Rourke.
"Arid where is it nowT"
"Back tn Algeria, if I’m not mistak-
en. .. . Ye remember Cbambret
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DIREC-
TORS Htll'E TO GET GAN MNE
INTO DENTON.
BRYAN 8TC RM-CENTER
* OF A WARM FIGHT.
And he tweaked the nose of Mon-
sieur le VUcomte des Trebes, tweak-
ed It with a will and great pleasure,
tweaked it for glory and the Saints;
carefully, methodically, even painstak-
ingly, he kneaded and pulled and twist-
ed it from side to side, ere releas-
ing it
Then stepping back and wiping his
fingers upon a handkerchief, he cock-
lot in
*160.
Degan
in J.
and husband.
G. Lincecum,
Welch survey;
At the regular Weekly meeting ot
the board o. directors of I*1® Cham-
i ber of Commerce, the following an-
swered roll call: Ab in C. Owsley, C.
F Witherspoon. Jno- A. Hann Dr.
W. H. Bruce grid B. W. Blewett.
Gas, demonstration work,-aviation
meet, membership meeting and sev-
eral other matters were taken up.
President Owsley, who was ap-
poin ed a tommittee ot one to inves-
tigate the necessary steps to be ta-
ken for securing gas, reported that
he found one of the big coni panics
had a opted a plan for en enng new
territory and that the plan did away
with the necess ty of organizing lo-
cal companies and other details, but
that a town must show that It could
support and make the venture a
success before the companies would
. consider entering. Mr. Owsley will
■go to Wlch ta Falls and and look
further Intp the mat er while there.
J. C, Colt W. B. McClurkan and G.
J. Roark were appointed to prepare
the necessary <«ta. ete., which Mr.
it 13
county
Reduction
Pari,
will go to Paris to
scow
and wife to Reb»
B. B. & C. Ry. sur-
World’s Purs
Food
Exposition
Point;
fe to J. H.
Thos. Cham-
wanted ye to marry him afterwards ?
Ho has It—the dear man; I love him
like a brother. ... Ho sickened of
Europe when he found bis case with
. you was hopeless, and went to Al-
giers. Joining the Foreign Legion."
gas in the near future.
Wm ranzer came before the board
in regard to .the farm demons ration
work, sajlng tne Federal Department
of Ag {.culture could not accept the
prov slon that was placed in- the Com-
missioners’ court s or er and that the
work have to be dropped unless the
matter could be adjusted. Mr. Gan-
zer read a lo ter from the Washing-
ton which state 1 the. Department
you! 1 be glad to have the endorsc-
| ment of the A. & M. college, but ihat
lit could not afford to set such a
pre edent because 'here would be no
end of trouble result tberefrom. On
motion, Mr. Witherspoon, Dr. Bruce
and the secre ary were appointed to
go with Mr. G-anzer before the court
a ca n and fry to straighten out the
tangle,
that he
I priation
"And this letter”—O’Rourke fumbled
in his pocket and got it out—“ye
brought it to me?”
"It came to me in London, dear, two
weeks ago; we were together—Clara
Plinlimmon and I—at the Carlton,
fair of the morning? I’ve * friend
survey;
W. G
’t. 5
survey;
A. H.
Bass, tract- In B
vey; Si500. -
J. S. Sinclair
Warren acre in
vey; *5p.
E. W. ’Msrsbatl and, wife to B. F.
Carson, 60.35 acres In Henry White
survey
Robt. W ilson to F. S. Wilson, lota
3 an J 4. block 19, Pilot Point; »!000
' C. T. Gregory to Wm. W. Wright,
tract in Bartlett Evans survey, west
of Denton; *3,000.
Mrs. Ella Brown to J. L. baling,
addition to Pilot Point;
Mr. Ganzer also stated again
had secured an appro-
from tbe Federal department
{tor the organization Of a Girls' To-
' mato club. That the selection of the
jyoung lady to take charge of the
‘work had been placed at the hands
of County Supt. McCook and Secre-
tary ttoa’k. subject to his approval.
The propose. aviation meet was
discussiM and tbe seal of approval
{ placed thereon by the directors. It
Is purposed to place the matter in
j the Hands of the public school sya-
item to be han led as they see beet
and they are to receive the benefits.
Tbe secretary was nstructed to aid
In every way possible the success ot
the' meet k was the opinion that
nothing could be made definite until
{the proper amount of money had
1 teen secure 1 to defray the expenses
of the meet.
{ The annual membership meet'ng
' which was to have been held Mondav
nlebt was postponed until next
Thursday night on account of the en-
fei-cpd. absence of a number ot the
di'ectors. The secretary was Instruct-
ed to arrange for refreshments for
the occasion. This meeting wllj be
of int-est to every ctllzen of Den’ou
an-|
' Ctlt.
“I know that,” ha contended stub-
bornly, “but I know, too, sooner or _
later It would haze come out, grid ately shredded it into minute parti-
thov wnnia ..<X. 1
commission. Meanwhile she was mak-
I ing up the party for thia Mediter-
ranean trip.
where to
you read
"Have
mine?"
There was an interlude.
In tbe distance the thunder rolled
and rumbled.
i Resolutely the young woman dls-
{ engaged herself and withdrew to a lit-
. tie distance.
"Read, monsieur,” she insisted, per-
emptorily.
"I've better things to do, me dear,"
he retorted with composure.
I "You’ll find it interesting."
"I find me wife more Interesting
than— How d’ye know I will I"
"Perhaps I have read It"
O’Rourke turned the letter over In
bls hand and noted what bad thereto-
fore escaped bls attention—the fact
that the envelope, badly frayed on ths
edges through much handling, was
open at the top.
“So ye may.” he admitted.
"It was that way when I received it.
And I have read it How could I help
Itr
“Then ye've saved me the bother."
Frazier to
Blount addition
"Wen, we were fond of each other,
Cbambret and L I helped him out
of some tight corners and bo helped
mo along when ano money ran short
—«s it always did, and will,
thinking. After a while I got to
dering, bow much I owed the
and figured It np; the sum
frightened the life out of mo. and I
Folkner and wife. Mustang,
boy.
Thursday’s Daily.
John Harmonson was here today
from Justin.
H. P. and w. C. Kelsoe were here
from Justin today.
. Editor W. A. Louty ot tl e Tri-
bune and L. L. Strader of Just n
were here today.
Mrs. W. D. Wadley and daughter,
Miss Norma, who have -een visit ng
Mr. and Mrs. U. L. Elbert, returned
home yesterday.
Miss Wh-tten of the College of
Indurtrial Arts returned from Bos-
ton, where she spent the Christmas
holidays.
C. M. Cocanougher and Rex An-
derson, vvfao nave been spending
Christmas at home, returned to-iay
to A. & M. college. John Egan is
sh k and has not returned.
Mrs Ell Smith and t»o daughters,
Misses Verna am Ethel, and J. H.
Richey, her father, Jett thia morn-
ing for Santa'Carlos, CaL. where
they expect to make their home. J.
I'. Cnnn ngham accompanied them
to prospect In California.
In Monday's Dallas News was a
large-sized photograph of Mrs. Har-
riett Odell, extension demonstrator
ot home economics at the College Of
Industrial Arts. Under the .picture
t slieukr. of Mrs. Odell s work among
the women s dubs In Texas in
pllmentary terms.
F.
Dec.
F.
•Dec., ......... r
Jas L Carro’l and wife near Au-
brey. Dec. 1*, boy.
R. E. Pea and wife, near Aubrey.
^’ov. 17, boy.
Geo. Harevi
brey. Nov. 14
night, culminating with his open in-
vitation to a challenge from the most
desperate duelist tn Europe, had in-
spired a volatile vivacity such ss not
even-the excitement of the Casino had
been potent to create in him. Of all
mad conjectures imaginable tbe mad-
dest was too weird for him to credit in
bls humor of tbat’Tiour. Eliminating
all else that had happened, in the
course of that short evening, his heart
had been stirred, his emotions played
upon by a recrudeaence of a passion
which he had striven with all bis
strength to put behind him for a-Ume;
he had first heard the voice of the due
woman to whom his love and faith and
honor were Irretrievably pledged, he
had then seen her (or another who re-
markably resembled her) for the scant-
iest of instants; and'finally he had
mysteriously received a tetter which
could, hb believed, have been convey-
ed to him by no other halfd but hers.And now he was persuaded beyond a
dhubt that the person of the alcove,
the eavesdropper tor whose fair repute
he had chosen to risk his life, was no-
uody in tbe world but that same oue
woman. i—
But uors than all else, perhaps, he
expected and feared to find the room
deserted; for the balcony outside the
windows afforded a means of escape
too facile to be neglected by one who
wished not to be discovered. . . .
His first definite impression was of
consternation and despair; for the
lights had been shut off in bls ab-
sence. . Then quickly he . discerned,
with eyes dazed by the change fromthe lighted hallway to the llgbtless
chamber, the shadowy shape of a wom-
an, motionless between him and tbe
windows, waiting. . . .
An electric switch was at his el-
bow. With a single motion he could
Jiave drenched the place with light
For an instant tempted, some strange
scruple of delicacy, abetted it may be
by h’s native love of romantic mystery,
stayed his hand.
"Madame,” said he, “or mademoi-
selle, whichever ye may be—the win-
dows are open, meselfs not detaining
ye. If ye choose, ye may go; but
ye’d favor me by going quickly. . . .
I give ye," ha continued, seeing that
she neither moved nor replied, "this
one chance. In thirty seconds I turn
on the lights.”
The woman did not stir; but hs
thought he could detect in the still
ness her quickened breathing.
"What jie’ve taken," he amended.
’I’d thank ye to leave as ye go—if ye
came to steal.. Tie little I have tc
lose. . .
There was no answer. ‘
He touched the switch with an Im
patient hand, stepped torward a single
pace, caught himself up and stopped
short, now pale and trembling who had
a moment gone been . flushed with waiting for her yacht to be put into
calm.
“Beatrix!” he cried thickly.
Humbly his wife lifted ber arms and
offered tert elf to him, unutterably
lovely, unspeakably radiant ...
It were worse than a waste of time
to attempt a portrait of ber as shs
seemed to him. Seen through ber hue
band's eyes, her beauty was Incompan
able. Immaculate, too rare and fine, toe
delicate a thing to be bodied forth in
words,, dependent upon the perfection
of no single feature. Not tn ber hair,
fair as sunlight on the sea, not in het
eyes of autumnal brown, not In the
wonderful fineness. of ber skin or tn
th* daintiness of her features, not is
the rrsciousness of her body, did be
find the beauty of her that rurpassed
expression, but in the love she bor*
him, in the sweetness of her inviolate
soul, in the steadfastness of her ln»
pregnable heart ...
But it’s doubtful if ever he had a»
alysed his passion for her so minute
ly. Mostly, I think, at that moment ol
her abrupt disclosure to him, he long
____ ed unutterably for her lips and the
ed~hls bead to one side and admired proffered wreath round his nock of bet
the result of his handiwork. "’Tls
an amazingly happy effect” be ob-
served critically—' the crimson blotch
It makes agktnst the chalky complex-
ion ye affect. Monsieur -des Trebes.
. . . And now I fancy ye'lj fight
Tour friends may call upon mine Vt>r*
—Captain von Elnem, with your per-
mission."
"Most happy. Colonel O’Rourke,” an-
sented the German, blue eyes sparkling
in an Immobile, countenance. 'T shall
await the seconds of Monsieur des Tro-
bee in my roomc’’
The Frenchman essayed to speak,
eboked with passion, and turning ab-
ruptly, somewhat unsteadily descend-
ing tbe staircase.
O’Rourke laughed briefly, offering
the German bis hand. " Twas wonder-
fully opportune, your appearance, cap-
DIRECTORS CONSI
IMPORTANT MATTE RS
10 In White
izip.
Allen. W. . .
Rrjant et al.. Jot In Chas Smith sur-
voy, Pt'ot Voir.t; *575.
Mrs. A. V. Hili to Perry Coberly.
'ilt.8 acres In Wm. Lumpkin survey;
*4,888.
(I. A. Kluck and wife tq T. U
Mnll ns, eas* naif of lot 4, block 7 .
College addition to Denton,; *600.
Joe 8. Gambill end wife to W A
Cotton, 23 1-2 acres In Wm. Dobbs
sur<e.; *2,000.
Duke Phillips to L. . W. Lewis,.
1312.45 acres in W. E. King, J.. M.
Langley, W. H Pea, J. H. King, J no.
McGowan A. J. Hitchcock and Thon
Crenshaw surveys; *111.620.
C. O. Walker and hubbend, W. M
Walker, to Annie T. Kora, 182 1-4
acres n P. 8. Welch survey, *100
and other considers tons.
J. L McGee and wife to J 8. Sin-
clair. 88 1-2 scree In P. 8. Black
{ Fr-ii( 7uesilay's Daily.
Sjjuiro T. E Wood was here Tuee-
day’trom Justin.
W. R. Scott ana family have mov-
ed back to Denton from Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs Fred L, Mc€ullar re-
turned yes er ay to their home at
Bridgeport af'-r spending a few
.days w.th Denton relatives.
Dr. Carson and famby who moved
here several weeks ago from Oregon,
are arrangng to move to Comanche,
their ol. home. Dr. Carson says he
may return to Denton in a couple ot
years, and that tne famdy was very
favorably impressed with Denton as
a home.MARRIAGR IACEN8ES
Lee Reed Argyle, and Mias Kula
slim, round, white arma.
Yet be would eot. Trembling though
he was, with every instinct and every i H
fiber of bls being straining toward her, He prepared to rise and capture her.
with the hunger for her a keen pain tn ' ‘ ■■9 V
his heart, he hel<l»himBe'f back; or hit she commanded,
conception of honor held him back.
That which he had voluntarily forfeit
ed and put away from him tor his hon- "The Pool'of Flamer* ho reiterated
or*s sake, he would not take back slowly. "What d’ye know about that?"
though it were offered freely to him.
"So," he said, after a bit, shakily;
then pulled himself together, and
controlling his voice—"So 'twss your'
self, after all, Beatrix! Me heart told
me no other woman could have sung
that song as ye did—”
Thd* woman dropped hex arms. "Tour
heart, Terence?" she asked a UtUe bib
terly. -
"What’ else? Do ye doubt Itr
She shook her bead sadly, wistful-
ly. "How do I know? How can I tall7
Surely, dear, no two people were ever tar-reeching an influence over tbe lives
happier than wo—yet within n year of so many men and women. Upon a
from our wedding you . . . you loft single sheet of paper bearing their let.
mo, ran away from me . . . Why?" terbead, Messrs. Secretaa and Sypber,
solicitors, of Rangoon. Burmah. bad
Tt seems that there's a certain
; highly respectable temple In one of
the Sban States of Burmah ('tls me-
self forgets the name of It) and In
t|iat temple there's an idol, a Buddha
of pure gold, *tls said. It would be ~a
i perfectly good Buddha, on'y that ft
I lacks an eye: there’s an empty socket
in its forehead, and 'tls there the
Pool of Flame belong*—or come from.
In the old days the natives called this
stone tbe Luck of the State, and
maybe they were right; for when ft
disappeared the state became a Brit-
ish possession.
"In the war of ’eighty-five, says the
O’Mahoney. a small detachment of
I British troops out of touch with their
{ command, happened upon this temple
we're -speaking of and took It, dlspos-
i sesslng priests and populace without
' fo much as a day’s notice. The officer
In command happened to see this eye
In the Buddha's forehead, pried it out
and put it in bis pocket In less than
an hour the natives surrounded the
temple and attacked In force. The
British stood them off for three days
end then were relieved; but In tbe
meantime the officer bad been killed
and the Pool of Flame bad vanished.
. , . ^or several years ft stayed
quiet, so far as is known. Then the
curse ot tbe thing began to work, end
it came to the surface tn a drunken
brawl in the slums of Port Said. The
police, breaking Into some\d!ve to
stop a row. found nobody In tbS~place
but a dead Greek; they say 'twas a
shambles. One of the police found the
big ruby in the dead man's fist and
before his companions guessed what
was up slipped away with the stone.
. . .He was murdered some months
later in a Genoese bagnio, by a French
girl, who got away with it somehow.
. . . The O’Mahoney came across
the thing in Algeria, when he was
serving with the Foreign legion. He
was tn 8‘dl Bel Abbas one night, off
duty,.end wandering about, when hd
beard a mna cry out for help in one
of the narrow black alleys of the
place. He thought he recognized a
comrade's voice, and surely enough,
when he rqn down to aid him. he
found a Dutchman, a man of bl* own
regiment, fighting with half a dozen
natlvtis. He was about done for. the
Dutchman, when the O’Mahoney came
up' and so were three of the Arabs.
The O’Mahoqey took care of ths rest
of them, and left seven dead men be-
hind him when he went away—the
s|x natives and the Dutchman, who
had died tn his arms and given him
the Pool of Flame with his last whls-
pdr. . . .....
they would have said; There she
8oes with ber fortune-hunter, tbe ad-
venturer who married her for her
money—’"
"And if so? What earthly dlffer-
ence'could tt make to us, sweetheart?
What can gossip matter to us—if you
love me?"
"If!" be cried, almost angrily. Tfl
. . . Ah, but no, tjarllug! 'Us your-
self knows there is no ’IT about it, that
I'm sick with love of ye this very
minute—sick and mad for ye . . ."
“Then," she pleaded, with a desper-
I ate little break in her Incomparable
voice; and again held out ber anna
to him—“then -have pity on me. ch, mv
dearest one—have pity on mo if only
j for a little while.”
And suddenly ho bad caught her tc
him. and she lay In his arms, her
1 young strong body molded to his. bet
lips to bis, her eyes half-veiled, the
i sweet fragrance of her—too well re
' membered—intoxicating him; lay su-
pine tn his embrace, yet held him
strongly to ber, and trembled ip sym-
pathy with the deep, hurried pounding
of his heart. . . .
In the south the horizon flamed
livid to the zenith, revealing a great,
black wall of cloud that bad stolen
up out of Africa; beneath it the seri
shone momentarily with a sickly silk-
en luster. Then the dense blackness
of .the night reigned again, as pro-
I found as though impenetrable, eternal.
Later a dull growl of thunder rolled
I in across the waste. With It came tbe
i first- fitful warnings ot the impending
wind storm.
Roodhouse,
Wed- praham
her
"What the letter tolls me—no mor*.
Whet has become of it?"
But be bad already withdrawn th*
•nclosur* and tossed th* envelop*
aside, and was reading—absorbed, ex-
cited, .oblivious to *11 rave that con-
veyed to his intelligence by th* writ*
ing beneath hie eyra.
It was * singularly curt, dry and
business-like document for on* that
w»a destined to mold the romance of
kin life—strangely tors* and tritely
phrased for on* that was to *x*rt so
Saturday’s Dally.
Dr. McCabe Is In Corinth.
Claude GranCwsnt to i^w-svlll*.
G. H Blewett is in Fort Worth on
buaintws.
ah. and Mrs Gober- C. Wright «f*
here from Bolivar. •
■ Dr. Mr D. r ul.ingim is In Fori
Wo. th this morning.
Mr. an. Mrs. l. sT'Korester, Jr
are uere from Boiivr. \
Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Wharton ’who*
here toaay from Llttte Elm.
J. M. Ponder, W. H. Ponder and
W. C. Dickson are in Garza.
Dr. J. R. Edwards, Dr. J M. Inge
W. C Smith and W. R. Allen ar* in
Dallas.
Mis. Julia Brown of Freenu Cal..
Is visiting her sister, Mia. R. 1
V ckery.
Judge H. B. Savage, who mad*
award d.<q sions In tne Denton poultry
shoe, .eft this morning for
-nom where he
judge a poultiy
ther* today.
1 J. M. killer,
th* Cotton
came n 8 turday morning 1* th* ex
pected meeting Saturday afternoon
but apprehended hat the b.lraaru
REAL ESTATE TICANSFERM-
J. E. Elliott and w.fe to W.
.Williams, lot in Pilot
C. E. James and w
Davidson, 20 acres in
bers survey; *1150.
Mrs. Anne Morris
R. L Morris, to L.
162 1-4 acres in P. 8.
*5 379.80. .
i • P. J. Jones arid wife to J. L. Whit-
more, 35 acres .n W. P. Perdue sur-
vey: *2800. . .
J. L. Whitmore and wife
Jones, 80 acres in Stephen
purvey; *3550.
Mrs. T. A.
Skaggs,
Denton;
J. W.
sen, lot
Lewisville; *675.
W. W. Wright and whe to E. S
Edwards, tQt in E. Puchalskt- sft'r-
vey Denton; *2,000
8, T. Jones and wife to J. w
Thompson, lot in Aubrey; *1.
W. C. Orr and w fe to E. T. and
E. O. Seagraves, 74.82 acres in J. F.
Dan el, E. A Shahan and Win. Mc-
Neil survey; *5,236.
Medina Pates to E B. Bates, 1
acre in Elizabeth Gounod addition to
, Pilot Po at; >500, • •
.1 A. Hamilton and wife to A. E.
■ ' i lot 7, block 4, jEaij
Gro’-n s audition to Denton; *1.
M rs. L W, M. 'Williams to Mr*. A.
T. Pribble, ■ half merest ta
Chas Smith survey, Piiot
*450.
.1. O, Burress and wife to
McDonald, two lots in E. Puchalski
$800.
Thatcher and 'wife to W. G.
acres n Reuben Vaughs
*150.
Teasley
LATE PERSONAL NEWS MENTION Denton and Kirkpatrick of Lewisvill*
{were among the Denton county phy-
sicians who a tended the Sophlan
lecture in Dallas Saturday. Dr.
Rowe remained over Sunday and wit-
nessed the lumbar puncture tor in-
jection of the serum on Mrs. J.
Frank Smith, wjfe of the prominent
Dallas minister, who has the malady
-thit jf'i the corner
O’Rourke recognized the
an old acquaintance, ano his heart
swelled with gratitude while a smile
of rare pleasure shaped Itself upon
his Ups. He had now .the Frenchman
absolutely at his mercy.
"Captain von Elnem" he
quickly, “by your leave, a moment of
your time."
The men paused stiffly, with ths
square-set end erect poise ot an officer
Of tbe Oerman array. "At your service.
Colonel O’Rourke.” he jald in Impec-
cable French.
But the Irishman had returned undi-
vided attention to Des Trebes. “Mon-
sieur,” he announced;""your”nose an-
noys me." And with that he shot out
* hand and seized the offe’n'slve mem-
ber between a strong and capable
thumb and forefinger. “It has annoy-
ed me.” he explained In parenthesis)
’"ever since I first clapped mo t*o eyes
upon ye, scum of the earth that ys
from .
Mr. and Mrs, Charles Edward Long
and son of Dallas are guests of Mr.
atxdMrs W. b. Long.
Mr. and Mrs. E L. Brown re-
urned from spending the holluays
with relatives in Ar ansas.
Miss Saille Keith, who has been
vlsl Ing Mrs ,H. M. Walden, returned
to tier home -in Wac0 today.
Glenn McCullar and tamlly have
move, to Little Rock, Ark, where
lie has secured a state agency for a
grape juice manufacturer,
Mrs. F. E. B5ker of ~
.ill,, and daughter Manon left
nesday for He«nrie,ita to visit
gran imothcr, Mrs. W. W. Bell.
Emmett Curran, the North
Worth Leghorn breeder, has '
here th‘s week taking j>art In the
Poultry show, in wh ch he was again
a b g winner.
Miss Clark Bell, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. D Bell, returned Tuesday ,,
from a week’s visit wl h Miss Mary
Colquitt of Austin, Wuile there sbe
attended the Governor’ New Years
retention.
Mr. and Mrs J. R Matthews and
son and Mrs. Walter oscue ot
Brownsville Tenn., are visiting
Dentop relatives. Mr. Matthews is
a brother an 1 Mrs AscUe a sister Of
W. A. Mujtbewi.
E. I* Beall w-as here Wednesday
night,, his last visit hero before leav-
ing Dallas with Mrs. Beall for Port-
land, Ore. where they expect to
make their home Mr. Iteall will go
into business in Portland with a
relative.
VITAL STATISTICS.
B rths.
Os ar Hester am wife, Sanger,
{Nov, 13, boy.
G. A. Keen and w fe, Sanger, Dec.
188. boy.
Mint Reed and wife, Sanger, Dec
I 18. ffirt.
Dan McCollum and wife, Sanger,
! Dec.- 21 girl.
{ Arthur Ashlev arid wife, Sanger,
I Dec. 27. boy.
J T. Owen and wife, Sanger, Dec.
I 29 boy.
G. A. Gee and- wife, Sanger, Dec.
130, boy. .
Earl Murdock, and wife, Denton,
■Def. 21
I B M.
20, boy.
I Clack
Dec. 17
A. W. Sweeney and wife. Mustang,
10. boy.
H Knuckle* and wife Mustang
8. girl.
W. Close and wife. Mustang,
8, boy.
Death.
J. B. Davie, Denton county. Dee.
28, age 49 year*, 7 months and 2*
da'*; suicide vjlth carbo.1c arid.
Thos. 8. Stegall, near Pilot Point.
Dec. 27. age 28 year*, 9 months; no
doctor.
"8o it’s com*." be eaid heavily, "juet
as the O’Mahoney foretold it wouM!"
He eank back in his chair, and bls'
wife went to him and,perched hereelf
upon the arm of it, imprisoning bie
head with ber arms and laying her
cheek egainet bie.“What has come, my heart?”
“One hundred thousand pounds,"
he said. . . . "Treble Its worth,
double what the O’Mahoney expect-
ed. . .
"Who la the O’Mahoney, dear?”
He roused. "An old friend. Beatrix
—■an qjd comrade. He died some years
back, on the banks of the Tugela,
fighting with a Boer commando. Ho
was a lonely man, without kith or kin
or many friends beside mraelf. That,
1 presume, is bow he came to leave
the Pool of Flame with me." Ho
wound an arm round her and bold her
close. "Hearken, dear, and I'll be
telling ye the story of ft."
Behind them the infernal glare lit
up the portentous skies. Thunder
echoed between clg'ids and sea like'
heavy cannoning.. Tbe wife shrank
close to her beloved. “I am not at all
afraid,” she declared, when her voice
could be heard—“with you. . . .
Tell me about the Pool of Flame.”.
"The O’Mahoney left It with me
when he went to South Africa:," ex-
plained O’Rourke. "Twas a paste-'
board box the size of me fist, wrapped
In brown paper and tied with a bit of
string, that be brought me one even-
ing, saying be was about to leave, and
would^Lcaro for it in bls absence. I Owsley will'take with him.
knew no more of It than that ’twas tha ght now that Denton will have
something be valued highly, but I put
1t away In a safe-deposit vault—which
he might've done if he hadn’t been a
scatterbrain—an Irishman. . . .
“Then he wrote me a letter—T got
ft 'weeks after his death—-saying he
felt he was about to go out. and that
the Pool of Flame was mine. He
i went on to explain that the box con-
i talned a monstrofis big ruby and gave
i me Its history, as far as* he knew IL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—There
J. C. Barb eon *f O. H. Serb, tor- Mon‘ay’s Daily,
curtty—end never was able to redeem mer well known reel eats of Denton
it, for Twas only a little after that who have been In Fo't Worth tris
that I came tnto me enormous patrt- past few Fears, died Weuaswday ol
roony and squandered it riotously get- meftlnritle. Newe of the ’•••‘h
— - hl* relatives here *■* Quite a blow,
man you fancied yourself when we I within six months from date. Said
were married ? Who would have told | delivery might bq made either In por-
them that your landed heritage in sob or by proxy. With which Messrs.
Ireland had turned out profit’eas? Not 8»cretan and Sypber begged to re-
| main respectfully his.
I The Irishman read It once and again,
1 memorising its import; then dellber-
She retreated briskly. "Read!"
"Read about the
Pool of Flame!"
He stopped short, thunderstruck.
Lambert, Arnie.
W M. Artnur and M
ISharber.,
I J. M. Hw’Hngs Kansas City, and
{Miss Vera Gee, Pilot Point..
Id. C. BARR OF FORT WORTH ... _
DIED OF MENINGITIS WOul < aeep the attendance down.
Hera haste, monsieur," ho ooun-
••lod la a voice of ice. His hand fell
with almost paralyzing force upon the
other's wrist as he sought to grasp
the curtain, and swung him roughly
hack. "Yourself will never know who’s
there— whoever the lady may bo. . . .
Ah, but no, monsieur!"
Maddened beyond prudence. Dos
Trebes had struck at his face.
O’Rourke warded off the blow and tn
What seemed the • same movement
Whirled the man round by his captive
Wrist and caught the other arm from
the back. The briefest ot struggles on-
»ued. The Frenchman, taken kt a ■Com-
plete disadvantage, was for all his re-
sistance hustled to the door and
thrown through it before he fairly com-
prehended what was happening.
F^ee at length, if on all fours, ho
scrambled to his feet to find O'Rourke
had shut the door behind him, calmly
awaiting the next move.
"Haven't ye had enough?" demand-
ed tbe Irishman as the vicomte, biiod-
sd with passion, seemed sbout to re-
Krw the attack. "£)r are ye wishful
be going downstairs in the same
fashion ?"
* Doe Trebes drew back, snarling.
"You dog!” he cried Then abrupt
ly, by an admirable effort, he calmed
himself surprisingly, drawing himself
up with considerable dignity and throt-
tling his temper as he quietly adjust-
ed the disorder of his clothing. Only,
tn his eyes, black as sloes and small,
did there remain any trace of his ma-
lignant and unquenchable hatred.
"I am unfortunately,” he sneered,
"incapable of participating in such
brawls as you prefer, Colonel O’Rourke.
But I am not content. I warn
you ,, , . My rank prevents me from
punishing you personally; I am obliged
to fight gentlemen only."
i O’Rourke laughed openly.,,
"But 1 advise you to* leave Monte
Carlo before morning. Should you re-
main, or should you come within my
neighborhood another time—at what-,
ever time—I will kill yu as I would a
rabid cur—or cause you to be shot"
"There’s always the coward's al-
ternative," returned thj Irishman.
"But ye mustn’t forget ye’ve only the
one leg to stand upon in soclety---your
notoriety as a duelist And I shall
take steps to see that ye fight me be-
fore sunset Else shall all Europe
know ye. tor a coward."
Behind the vicomte the lift shot up,
paused, and discharged a single pas-
senger. A* swiftly the
peared.
Friday's Daily.
A Wbayne Robertson is here
Little Elm.
.R. W. Holmes is here from
on business ,
M. Zimmerman returned last
trom Austin.
W. Ballard came in last night
a trip on the road.
its uniformity
powers
its never failing results, its
purity.
Wonderful in its economy
costs less than the high-price
trust brands, but it is worth as
much. It costs a trifle more than
the cheap and big can kinds—
it is worth more. But proves its
real economy in the baking
Use CALUMET the M.xlern
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