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Galveston
One thing is certain. The judges and
clerks of today’s election will earn all
.the money they get for counting the
ballots.
The strenuous one says that the
ernment will keep everlastingly
in the Standard Oil Company
Theodore seems to know.
A husky fireman with one swipe of
his coal scoop prevented a train rob-
bery the other day and its a safe bet
that he would turn down a hero medal
for his bravery.
some
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and the horses
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COPYRIGHT, 1907. BY THE, BQBBS-MERR1LL COMPANY
SOMEONE’S A SCORCHER.
Beaumont Enterprise.
As an auto town, Beaumont ought to
have better control of a few of the
machines on Pearl street.
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A CAMP IN THE- MOUNTAINS.
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If our friends, the Central American
countries, continue to wrangle, it will
be necessary to build an international
calaboose instead of a palace of arbi-
tration.
Wonder how Boston felt with
real desperadoes doing some of
lively acts right in town. Seems to have
been somewhat distressed.
That international row of athletes is
making the Olympic games look like
a free for all rough and tumble instead
of high class events. And one Eng-
lish paper blames the betting.
continned.
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“Well spoken!” exclaimed the-'Span-
ish officer. . . ‘ 1
“Not so well, either,” laughed Chau-'
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'country store, post-
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c. J. Engelhardt to Eleanor Engel-
hardt, lots 1, 2 and 3 in block 9 of. the
W. B. Kinkead subdivision of lots 23
and 38, section 1, Galveston island; $.5.
Honest praise for honest work will gen-
erate more and better work.
A chairman for the Democratic na-
tional committee is being chosen today.
There will be a lot for him to do but
he will have enthusiastic assistance in
all parts of the country.
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office and inn com-
bined.
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Entered at the lonoffice in Galveston as
Second-Class Mai! Matter.
TRIB U NE: SAT URDA V,
Commander Peary took on a supply
of whale meat at Labrador. Did the
beef trust overlook a bet? It would
seem so.
ST
TAKE NOTICE.
Port Arthur News.
And, while you are figuring on the
various ways of saving money, just
think about that $4 or $5 a thousand
you would save on lumber should you
build now.
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After today, “come on in, the water’s
fine” will be heard among the candi-
dates who failed to get the required
number of votes. Salt water, too.
Any erroneous reflections upon the stand-
ing, character or reputation of any person,
firm or corporation, which may appear ifl
the columns of the Tribune, will be gladly
corrected upon its being bro ight to ths
Mttention of the man agement.
exile, taking bis son, Frederick Au-
gustus, with him.” j .
“He was surely mad,” remarked
Chauvenet, sipping a cordial. “He is
much better dead and out of the way
for the good of Austria. Francis, as I
say, is a good fellow. We have hunted
together, and I know him well.”
Tb«y fell to talking about the lost
eons of royal houses—and a goodly num-
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He tossed his napkin on the table so that
. it covered the gold trinket.
clever man, I am obliged to admit. He
said”— And Chauvenet’s mirth stifled
him for a moment.
“Yes; what was it?” demanded the
German impatiently.
“He s ' ~
put the cigarette case back into -bis
pocket.”
They all laughed. Then Captain
Claiborne’s eyes fell, upon the table
Eastern Office:
P SMART,
Direct Repr?^tntative, 15o Nassau Street,
Room 623, New York City.
some rich pickings waiting
for some man who has the temerity to
go in and the stamina to hold on.
If those Chicago gamblers really
want to hurt each other they ought
to change from the bomb method.
Eighteen of these have been exploded
so far and only property has been dam-
aged.
Such being the case, it was remark-
able that he should have started fdr a
point in the Virginia hills by way of
Boston, thence to Norfolk bjT coastwise
steamer and'on to Lamar by lines of
railroad whose schedules would have
been the despair of unhardened travel-
ers. He had expressed his trunks di-
rect and traveled with two suit cases
and an umbrella. His journey since his
boat swung out into Massachusetts
bay had been spent in gloomy specula-
tions, and two young women booked
for Baltimore wrongly attributed his
^eticejnee and aloofness to a grievous
disafxpoijitment in love.
..Me haW wanted time to think—to pon-
; - - — — v, ttj UUl
of his difficulties and to contrive the
defeat of Chauvenet. Moreover, bis
■ AN INDUCEMENT.
San Antonio Express.
If you must be jailed, be jailed in
San Antonio, where the upright and
gentlemanly prisoners are fed pump-
kin pie three times a day by the grand
old jailer.
deep water fishermen make their own fish-
ing grounds by anchoring bags of bait
at certain places; the fish find the food
and gather In the vicinity in great
schools to b& later caught by the enter-
prising fishermen. This could possibly
be done near here in the gulf. There are
thousands of acres of shallow water in.
close proximity to the city which would
make ideal oyster 'beds—they are waiting
for the right man to come and put them
into use. Shrimp can be caught here in
enormous quantities at certain seasons
of the year/^the breeding of them fot
'bait alone would prove a profitable en-
t.erprise. Figs ate almost Indigenous ta
the coast country, but packeries are ap-
parently not.
There are
GETTING WARM.
El Paso Times.
This weather is sufficient argument
that a change of administration is
needed.
‘a little settle-
ment with a
blacksmith shop
and a country
store, postoffice
and inn combin-
ed. The store-
keeper stood in.
the door smok-
ing a cob pipe.
Seeing Oscar, he
went inside and
. broughtoutsome
letters andnews-
papers, which he
delivered to him in silence.
' ^tilled farms and
HE study of maps' and
time tables is a far more
profitable business than
appears. John Armitage
possessed a great store
of geographical knowl-
edge as interpreted in such literature.
He could tell you without leaving his
room and probably without opening
his trunk the quickest ’ way put of
Tokyo or St. Petersburg, or Calcutta dr
Cinch Tight, Mont., if you.suddenly re-
ceived a cablegram calling you to VI-
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few of the many
terprises suggested by Professor Osborn’s
article, and not one of the industries in-
dicated but could be begun with small
capital backed ’by a knowledge of the
of the business. The Jamaica.
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Oscar Breunig.
He was not among the others of the
Claiborne party when they got into
their carriage to go to the ball. He
went, in fact, to the telegraph office
and sent a message to Oscar Breunig,
Lamar, Va., giving notice of his com-
• t r- ,
ing. <
Then he returned to the New Amer-
ican and packed his belongings.
WHY IS IT?
Palestine Herald.
Palestine’s slogan for the next two
years should be “five hundred new
families on our farm lands.” If this
end could be accomplished it would
be the best work ever done by this
community.
and rested idly on John .Armitage’s, j. mountains and look at the world,
cigarette case lying on the edge of the - - — •
table, on the smoothly worn gold of
the surface, on the snowy falconlaiitl
the silver helmet on which the bird
poised. He started slightly, then toss-
ed his napkin carelessly on the table
so that it covered the gold trinket
completely. •' - - ' * ' 1 •
“Gentlemen.” he said, “if we are go-
ing to show ourselves (at/rhe Darling-
ton ball we’ll have; to r'unmldng.” ’
Below in the coat room Claiborne'
was fastening the frogs of his military
overcoat when. Armitage, .who. .had
waited for the opportunity, spoke, to
“That story is a lie, Claiborne. That
man never saw me or my cigarette
case In Berlin, and moreover, I was
never at Bar Harbor in my life. I
gave you some account of myself on
the King Edward. Every, word of^’it.
is true.” ” '•
“You should face him—you must
have it out with him!” exclaimed Clai-
borne. And Armitage saw. the conflict
and uncertainty in. the officer’s eyes. f
“But the time . hasn’t come for
that”— '
“Then if there is something between
you”— began Claiborne, the doubt now
clearly dominant. ’ - ■ ' '
“There is undoubtedly a great deal '
between us, and,, there will be- more
before we reach,the end.”
Dick Claiborne was a perfectly
frank, outspoken fellow, and this hint
of mystery by a man whose character
had just been boldly assailed, angered
him. '
“Good God, man! I know as mu§h
about Chauvenet . as I do about you. ; ‘
This thing Is ugly, as you must. see. ' I .
don’t like It, I t^H you! You’ve got to
do more than deny a circumstantial
story like that by a fellow whose '
standing here is as good as yours; If
you don’t offer some .better explana-
tion of this by tomorrow night*.J shall,.
have to ask you to cut my acquaintance
—and the acquaintance of my .family!”..,’ I .,.
Armitage’s face was1 grave/ But he ~-~
smiled as he took his hat and stick. ■
“I shall not be'able to satisfy ybu- Of
my respectability
by tomorrow
night, Captain, and settled himself
..Claiborne.TL.
. : affairs must ing wine,
wait on larger —
matters.”" "• “
“Then you
= need never take
'T , . —the trouble!”
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' ---1 time you. shall
| be quite fully
•* ' H ' satisfied,” said
sent a message to Armitage quietly
an(j turne(jaway
ber there have been, even in these
later centuHes—and then of the latest
marriages between American women
and titled' foreigners. Chauvenet was
now leading the conversation. It might
even have seemed to a critical listener
that he was guiding it with a certain
intention.
He laughed as though at the remem-
brance of something amusing and held
the little company while he bent over
a candle to light a cigar.
“With all due respect to our Ameri-
can host, I must qay that, a title in
America goes further than anywhere
else in the whole. I was at Bar Har-
bor three years ago when the Baron
von Kissel devastated that region. He
made sad havoc among the ladies that
summer.' The rest of us simply had no
place to stand. You remember, gentle-
men”—and Chauvenet looked slowly
around the listening circle—“that the
unexpected arrival of the excellent
ambassador of Austria-Hungary caus-
ed the baron to leave Bar Harbor be-
tween dark and daylight. The story
was that he got off in a sailboat, and
t^ie next we heard of him he was mas-
querading. under some title in San
Francisco, where he proved to be a
dangerous forger. You all remember
that the papers -were full of his per-
formances for awhile, but he was a
lucky rascal and always disappeared at
the proper psychological moment. He
had, as you may say, the cosmopolitan
accent and was the most plausible fel-
low alive. ;; '■■■••=■
“It’s my experience that we never
meet a person once- only—there’s al-
ways a second meeting somewhere—
and I was not at all surprised when I
ran upon my old friend the baron in
Germany last fall.”
“At his old tricks, I suppose,” ob-
: served’ some one.
“No.. That was the strangest part of
it. He’s struck a deeper game, though
I’m blessed if I can make it out. He’s
dropped the title altogether and nowr
calls himself Mister—I’ve forgotten for
the moment the rest of it', but it is an
English name. He’s made a stake
somehow and travels about in decent
comfort. He passes now as an Ameri-
can—his. English is excellent—and he
hints at large American interests.”
“He probably has forged securities
to sell,” commented the German. “I
know those fellows. The business is
best done quietly.”
.. “I dare say,” returned Chauvenet.
“Of .course you -greeted him as a long
lost friend,” remarked Claiborne lead-
ingly.
“No; I wanted to make sure of him,
and, strangely enough, he assisted me
in a'very curious way.”
All felt that they were now to hear
the denouement of the story, and sev-
eral men bent forward in their absorp-
tion, with their elbows on the" table.
Chauvenet smiled and resumed, with a
little shrug of his shoulders.
“Well,. I must go back a moment to
say that the man I knew at Bar Har-
bor had a real crest. The .ladies to
whom he wrote notes treasured them,
I dare say, because of the pretty in-
slgnium. He had it engraved on his
cigarette case, a bird of some kind tip-
toeing on a helmet, and'"beneath there
was a ‘motto, ‘Fide Non Armls.’ ”
“The devil!” exclaimed rhe young
German. “Why, that’s very like’-’—
“Very like the device of the Austrian
Schomburgs. Well, I remembered the
cigarette case, and one night at a. con- enna or Paris or Washington from
cert—in Berlin, you knov.—a chanced 1 of_those places.
happen if his majesty Charles Louis
Should go by the board. His only child
died a year ago'-^-after him his cousin
Francis, and then the deluge.”
“Bah! Francis is not as dark as he’s
painted. He’s the piost . lied about
prince in Europe,” remarked Chau-
venet. “He would most certainly be
He found Oscar, with two horses, watt-
i in<3'
nostrils showing white on the air. The
far roar and whistle of the train came
back more and more faintly, and when
it had quite ceased Armitage sighed,
pushed his soft felt hat from his face
more firmly in his
saddle. The keen air was as stimulat-
'// / / ’ , and he put his horse to
the gallop and rode ahead to shake up
his blood.
“It is good,” said the stolid cavalry-
man as Armitage wheeled again into
line with him.
“Yes, it is good,” repeated Armitage.
. A peace descended upon him that he
had not known in many days. The
light grew as the sun rose higher, blaz-
ing upon them like a brazen target
through deep clefts in the mountains.
The morning mists retreated before
them to farther ridges and peaks, and
the beautiful gray-blue of the Virginia
hills delighted Armitage’s eyes. The
region was very wild. Here and there
from some mountaineer’s cabin a light
penciling of smoke stole upward.
They once passed a boy driving
yoke of steers. After several miles the
road, that had hung midway of the
rough hill, dipped down sharply, and
they came out
into another and
-broader valley,
: where there were
For once an American protest'has
been upheld by the Olympic games of-
ficials and it meant the winning of
the great Marathon race. Maybe the
Britishers are relenting.
BUT DOES IT?
Nacogdoches Sentinel.
“Ninety-five in the shade” at Alvin
ought to make those folks want to
come to cool Nacogdoches.
to suspend operatio:
years after the packery uad gone out oi
business a can of the fish was opened
be in perfect condition,
THE TOSS OF A NAPKIN.
Z, CAPTAIN Richard Clai-
aX borne gave a sumptuous
r supper at the Army and
NaVy club for' ten men
in honor the newly
J arrived miljary attache
of the Spanish legatiom He had
drawn his guests largely from his for-
eign acquaintances in Washington be-
cause the Spanish spoke little English,
and Dick knew Washington well enough
to understand that, while a girl 'and a
man who speak different languages may
sit comfortably together at table; men
in like predicament grow morose and
are likely to quarrel with their eyes be-
fore the cigars are passed. It was Fri-
day, and the whole party had "witness-
ed the drill at Fort Myer that’after-
noon, writh nine, girls to. listen to/their
explanation of the maneuvers and the
Earliest spring bride for chaperon.
Shirley had been of the party and
somewhat the heroine of it, too, for it
was Dick who sat on his horse out in
the tanbark with the little whistle to
his lips and manipulated the troop.
“Here’s a confusion of tongues. I
may need you to interpret,” latighed
Dick, indicating a'chair at his left, and
when Armitage sat down he faced
Chauvenet across the round table.
With the first filling of glasses it was
found that every one could, speak
French, and the talk went forward
spiritedly. The discussion of military
matters naturally occupied first place.
Then they fell to talking about in-
dividuals, chiefly men in the public
eye, and as the Austro-Hungarian em-
bassy was in mourning and unrepre-
sented at the table the new emperor-
king was discussed with considerable
frankness.
“He has not old Stroebel’s right hand
to hold him up,” remarked-a young
German officer.
“Thereby hangs a dark tale,” re-
marked Claiborne. “Somebody stuck
a knife into Count von Stroebel at a
singularly inopportune moment. I saw
him in Geneva two days before he was
assassinated, and he was very feeble
and seemed harassed. It gives a man
the shudders to think of what might
will want to read it later II not bow.
an improvement on Charles Louis. But,
alas, Charles Louis will undoubtedly
live on forever, like his lamented fa-
ther. The king is dead! Long live the
King!” . .
“Nothing can happen,” remarked the
German sadly. “I have Most much
money betting on upheavals in that di-
rection. If there were a man in Hun-
gary it would be different. But riots
are not revolutions.”
“That is quite true,” said. Armitage
quietly.
“But,” observed the Spaniard, “if
the Archduke KarL.had not gone out
of his head and died in two or three
dozen places, so that no one is sure
he Ms dead at all, things at Vienna
might be nither more interesting. Karl
took a son with him into exile. Sup-
pose one or the other of them should
reappear, stir up strife and incite re-
bellion.”
. “Such speculations are quite idle,”
commented ChBivenet. “There is no
doubt whatever that Karl is dead or
we should hear of him.”
“Of course,” said the German. “If
he were not . the death of the old em-
peror would have brought him to life
again.” ■ . , .
“The sanqe applies to the boy he
carried away with him—undoubtedly
dead, or we should hear of him. Karl
disappeared soon after his son Francis
was born. It was said”—
“A pretty tale it is,’’.commented the
German, “that the child wasn’t ex-
actly Karl’s own. He took it quite
to sit witn some friends at a table
quite near where he sat alone. I had
my eye on him, trying to assure my-
self of his identity, when in closing
his cigarette case it fell almost at my
feet, and I bumped heads with a waiter
as I picked it up—I wanted to make
sure—and handed it to him, the imita-
tion *baron.”
“That was your chance to startle
him a trifle, I should say,” remarked
the German.
“He was the man beyond doubt.
There was no mistaking the cigarette
case. What I said was,” cdfltinued.
'Chauvenet, “ ‘Allow me, baron)^3'^^^’
“ fB'der.his! affairs—to devise some way out
of' his difficulties and to contrive the
defeat of Chauvenet. Moreover, bis
relations, to the Claibornes were in an
ugly tangle. Chauvenet had dealt him
a telling blow in a quarter where he
4 particularly wished to appear to ad-
vantage.
He jumped out of the day coach |n
which he had accomplished the last
stage of his journey to Lamar, just at
dawn and found Oscar, with two
horses, waiting.
“Good morning,” said Oscar, salut-
ing.
“You are prompt, sergeant.” And Ar-
mitage shook hands with him.
As the train roared on through the
valley Armitage opened one of the suit
cases and took out a pair of leather
leggings, which he strapped on. Then
Oscar tied the cases together with, a
rope and hung them across his saddle
bow.
? “The place—what of it?” asked Armi-
. tage.
“There may be worse,
decided.”
. Armitage laughed aloud.
“Is it as bad as that?”
The man was busy tightening the
. .saddle girths, and he answered Armi-
tage’s further questions with sbldier-
- - . like brevity.
said, ‘Thank you, waiter,'? and VYou have been here”—
“Two weeks, sir.”
“And nothing has happened? It is a
good report.”
“It is -good for the soul to stand on
, . You
'Will like that animal—yes? He is light-
er than a cavalry horse. Mine, you will
notice, is a trifle heavier. I bought
them at a stock farm in another val-
ley and rode them up to the place.”
The train sent back loud echoes. A
girl in a pink sunbonnet rode up on a
mule and carried off the mail pouch.
The station agent »was busy inside at
his telegraph instruments and paid no
need to the horbemen. Save ror a rew
huts clustered on the hillside there
ivere no signs of human habitation in
sight. The lights in a switch target
showed yellow against the growing
dawn.
“I am quite ready, sir,” reported Os-
car, touching his hat. “There is noth-
ing here but the station. The settle-
■ ment is farther on our way.”
“Then let us be off,” said Armitage,
swinging into the saddle.
Oscar led the way in silence along a
narrow road that clung close to the
base .of a great pine covered hill. The
morning was sharp
stepped smartly, the
There have been several hundred!
cases recorded of persons who thought
they had died and savz the glories of
heaven but it remained for a Chicago
man to tell of what he saw in Hades.
Cut this story out and keep it. You
“And couple of good horses, plenty
of commissary stores—plain military
necessities, you understand—and some
bedding should be provide^. . I want
you to take full charge of this matter
/ and get to work as quickly as possible.
It may be a trifle lonesome down there
among the hills, but if you serve me
■well you shall not regret it.”
“Yes, I am quite satisfied with the
job,” said Oscar.
“And after you have reJbhed the
place and settled yourself you will tell
the postmaster and telegraph operator
who you are and where you may be
found, so that messages may reach you
promptly. If you get an unsigned mes-
sage advising you of—let me consider
a shipment of steers, you may expect
me any hour. On the other hand, you
may not see me at all. We’ll consider
that our agreement lasts until the. first
snow flies next winter. You are a sol-
dier. There need be no further discus-
sion of this matter, Oscar?’
The man nodded gravely.
“Ahd it is well for you not to reap-
pear in this hotel:’ If you should be
questioned on leaving, here”—
“I have not been here—is it not.?”
“It is,” replied Armitage, smiling.
“You read and write English?”
“Yes; one must to serve in the army.”
“If you.should see a big Servian with
a neck like a bull and a head the size
of a pea, who speaks very bad Ger-
man, you will do well to keep out of
his way unless you find a good place
to tie him up, I advise yop ^iot to com- avuy jvarrs own.
“u Ut D° “> “1“’
“It is the custom of the country,”
assented Oscar in a tone of deep regret.
“To be sure,” laughed Armitage,
“and now I am going to give you mon-
ey enough to carry out the project I
have indicated?’
He took from his trunk a long bill-
hook, counted out twenty new one-
hundred dollar bills and threw them on
the table.
“It is much money,” observed Oscar,
counting the bills laboriously.
“It will be enough for your purposes.
You can’t spend much money up there
if you try. Bacon, perhaps eggs; a cow
may be necessary—who can tell with-
out trying It? Don’t write me any let-
ters or telegrams and forget that you
have seen me if you don’t hear from
me again.”
He -went to the elevator and rode
down to the office with Oscar and dis-
missed him carelessly. Then John Ar-
mitage bought ah arffiful of ’magazines
and’ newspapers and returned to his
room quite like any traveler taking the
comfort., of- his. inn. (
Professor Herbert Osborn of the Oh o
University uses the Popular ' Science
Monthly as the medium for giving to rhe
people some very valuable suggestions
as to new sources of wealt.r,, and some
of the professor’s hints are peculiarly
applicable places which nature has
apparently set apart as being fit for noth-
ing in the way of prividlng for the
wants - of man. As ‘‘dry farming” has
done so much for sections which had been
considered of no value so far as crop
production was concerned, so could coast
swamps and shallow, submerged flats
be made to contribute to the wealth of
man if the problem was 'given careful
Study.
Galveston has never, recognized the open
sea as worth anything more as an asset
than to float the great ships which make
this port the I'oading and discharging
place for theij- cargoes, or perhaps to be
made use of as a field affording such
thrilling sport as tarpon fishing or angling
for the elusive Spanish mackerel. Fish
are brought, into this port by the smack
load and the interior, together with
eral of the neighboring states, are per-
mitted to enjoy the luxury of a red snap-
per dinner because Galveston enterprise
has made it possible, but it appears to
have never entered the mind of man that
this toothsome denizen of the deep, with
numerous others of his kind, could be
canned and in this shape made of great
commercial profit to the city.
Some twenty odd years ago an enter*
prise of this sort was established in a
modest way on Padre island, but’far lack
of proper and. sufficient labor was com-
pelled to suspend operations. . Several
r.L
and found to
amply demonstrating that fish could be
packed and sold in competition with
products of like character put up in the
Bio-rth and west. A citizen of a neighbor-
ing city some years ago conceived the
idea of preserving figs for market. He
experimented until he assured himself
that it could be made a commercial
cess, . and the goods are now on the
market, bearing the names of a half doz-
en different packers. Mexicans living
along the lower Texas coast have
method of drying shrimp during the sea-
®on when they are .plentiful and storing
them for use when the waters bring
none to their nets. This same delicacj
is to be had in cans and makes a most
delicious morceau or the basis for a, de-
lightful qalad. Galveston oysters are
not excelled anywhere in. the world foi
Size or flavor, but we import canned and
bottled oysters and pay good prices
a much inferior article than could be
packed here.
These are but a
“This is Lamar postoffice,’
ed Oscar.
“There must be some mail here for*
me,” said Armitage. ■ 4
Oscar handed him several long en-
velopes—they bore the name of the
Bronx Loan and Trust company, whose
office in New York was his permanent
address, and he opened and read a
number of letters and cablegrams that
had been forwarded. Their contents
evidently gave him satisfaction, for he
whistled cheerfully as he thrust them,
into his pocket.
“You keep in touch with the world,
do you, Oscar? It is commendable.” *
“I take a Washington paper. It re*
lieves the monotony, and I can sea
where -the regiments are moving and
whether my old captain is yet out ofi
the hospital and what happened to myj
lieutenant In his court martial about
the pay accounts. One must observe
the world—yes. At the postoffice h?ick
there”—he jerked his head to indicate—
“it is against the law to sell whisky iu
a postoffice, so that storekeeper witM
the red nose and small yellow eye®
keeps It In a brown jug in the ba«?4
room.”
“To be sure,” laughed Armitage. “I
hope it is a good article?’
“It is vile,” replied Oscar. “Hia.
brother makes it up in the hills, and'
it is as strong as wood lye.”
“Moonshine! I have heard of it. We
must have some for rainy days?’
It was a new world to John. Armi-
tage, and his heart was as light as the
morning air as he followed Oscar along
the ruddy mountain road. He was in
Virginia, and somewhere on this soil,
perhaps in some valley like the one
through -v^hich he rode, Shirley Clai-
borne had gazed upon blue distances,
with ridge rising against ridge, and
dark pine covered slopes like these he
saw for the first time. He had left his
affairs in Washington in a sorry mini,
die, but he faced the new day with a>
buoyant spirit and did not trouble him-
self to look very far ahead. He had a
definite business before him. His ca-
blegrams were reassuring on that
point. The fact that he was in a sense
a fugitive did not trouble him in thef
least. He had no intention of allowing!
Jules Chauvenet’s assassins to kill him!
or of being locked up in a Washington!
jail as the false Baron-, von Kissel. If;
he admitted that he was not John Ar-
mitage it would be difficult to prove,
that he was anybody else—a fact touch-!
ing human testimony which Julesf
Chauvenet probably., knew perfectly^
On the whole, he was satisfied that
he had followed the wisest course thusi
far. The broad panorama of the morn-'
ing hills communicated to his spirit ai
growing elation. He began singing in
German a ballad that recited the sor-‘
rows' of a pale maiden prisoner in a
dark tower on the Rhine, whence her
true knight rescued her after many,
and fearsome adventures. On the last
stave he ceased abruptly, and an. ex-,
clamation of wonder broke.; from him. ;
They had been riding.along a narrow*
trail that ‘ afforded, as Oscar said, a
short cut across a long timbered ridge
that lay between them and Armitage’s
property. The path was rough and
steep, and the low hanging pine boughs
and heavy underbrush increased the
difficulties of ascent. Straining to the
top, a new valley, hidden until now,.,
was disclosed in long and beautiful .
vistas.
Armitage dropped the reins upon the
neck of his panting horse.
“It is a fine valley—yes?” asked OS4
car. '
“It is a possession worthy of the no-
blest gods!” replied Armitage. “There
is a white building with colonnades
away over there. Is it the house of
the reigning deity?”
“It is/not, sir,” answered Oscar, who
spoke English with a kind of dogged:
precision, giving equal value to all
words. “It is a vast. hotel where the
rich spend much money. That place at
the foot of the hills—do you see?—it is
there they play a foolish game with;!
sticks and little balls”—
“Golf? Is it possible!” ...
“There is no doubt of it, sir. I have
seen the fools myself—men and wom-
en. The place is called Storm yalley.”,
Armitage slapped his thigh sharply,
bo that his horse started. j
“Yes;' you are probably right, Oscar;
I have heard of the place. And those
houses that lie beyond there in the val-
ley belong to gentlemen of taste and
leisure who drink the waters and ride
horses and play the foolish game you,
describe with little white balls.” . ■
“I could not tell it better,” responded]
Oscar, who had dismounted, like a'
good trooper, to rest his horse.
“And our place—is it below there?’’
demanded Armitage.
“It is* not, sir. It lies to the west.'
But a man may come here when he is
lonesome and look at the people and;
the gentlemen’s houses. At night it is
a pleasure to see the lights, and some-1
times, when the wind is right, there is
music of bands.”
“Poor Oscar!” laughed Armitage.
His mood had not often in his life]
been so high.
On his flight northward from Wash-!
ington and southward down the Atlan-
tic capes, the thought that Shirley Clai-
borne and her family must now7 believe
him an ignoble scoundrel had wrought
misgivings and pain in his heart, but
at least he would soon be near her—!
even now she might be somewhere be-
low in the lovely valley, and he drew
off his hat and stared down upon what
was glorified and enchanted ground.
“Let us go,” he said presently.
Oscar saluted, standing bridle in
hand.
ll'o be Continued.)
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