The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 24, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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At the beginning ot great automobile
face the mechanician ot the Mercury,
Stanton's machine, drops dead. Strange
youth, Jesse Floyd, volunteers, and Is ac-
cepted. In the rest during the twenty-
four hour race Stanton meets a stranger,
Miss Carlisle, who Introduces herself. The
Mercury wins race. Stanton receives
flowers from Miss Carlisle, which he Ig-
nores. Stanton meets Miss Carlisle on a
train. They alight to take walk, and
train leaves. Stanton and Miss Carlisle
follow In auto. Accident by which Stan-
ton Is hurt is mysterious. Floyd, at lunch
with Stanton, tells of his boyhood. Stan-
ton again meets Miss Carlisle and they
dine together. Stanton comes to track
wick, but makes race. They have acci-
dent. Floyd hurt, but not seriously. At
dinner Floyd tells Stanton of his twin
sister, Jessica. Stanton becomes very 111
and loses consciousness. On recovery, at
his hotel Stanton receives Invitation and
visits Jessica. They go to theater togeth-
er, and meet Miss Carlisle. Stanton and
Floyd meet again and talk business.
They agree to operate automobile factory
as partners. Floyd becomes suspicious of
Miss Carlisle.
CHAPTER IX—(Continued).
"Jessica has the right to a chance,"
he agreed. "I'm not gotn' to meddle
with things beyond my understandln'.
An' I'd rather have her your wife than
have anything else In the world. Only
—you've seen her just once—you can't
tell If you want her, yet."
Stanton shot him one straight, ex-
pressive glance.
"She Is like you," slipped from him
Involuntarily; then, furious at his be-
trayal of sentiment, he dropped the
other's hand "We had better go, or
we'll miss tfte train," he bruskly re-
minded.
"Oh, she Is like -me," confirmed
Floyd; he turned to look again at the
factory. "We are pretty close chums.
Yes, you an' I had better be gettin' to
the train."
They walked back to the nearest
trolley line, both sliest.
The subject was not touched again,
until the following morning, when they
Heft the train in New York.
"When shall I see you?" Stanton
•questioned, as they exchanged fare-
fwells in the noisy depot. "To-mor-
trow ?"
1 "I'm going to be out of town for the
jnext two weeks, Mr. Green tells me,"
Floyd replied. "They want me at the
iMercury factory, and there are some
■other trips, too. 1 believe. Jessica is
going to be rather deserted; if you
happen to look her up, no doubt she
would be glad to speak to some one
ifcesides her nurse."
j "Thank you," accepted Stanton, as
■carelessly. "Take care of yourself."
He had not reached the exit when
Floyd overtook him.
"Here are the entries for the Cup
race," he panted, thrusting a folded
(newspaper into Stanton's hand. "There
lare two Atalanta cars to run against
ais. It's you who need to take care
of yourself, until afterward."
"Floyd, wait! What do you mean?
JDo you really think—"
) But his mechanician evaded the
'question.
"Some people are hoodoos," he
(laughed. "Keep away from them,
please. Good-by."
He had not spoken Valerie Carlisle's
fname, yet Stantcn knew against whom
ihe warned. And the melodramatic
[absurdity of the idea did not prevent
|an odd thrill of discomfort and inse-
curity, from which he took bis usual
Irefuge in roughness.
! "I'm not In the habit of hiding from
'people, hoodoos or not. Good-by."
"Oh, very well," acquiesced Floyd
oddly. "But if you won't take care of
(yourself, Stanton—"
"Well, what?"
"Never mind."
CHAPTER X.
An Interval.
It was on the second day after his
arrival in New York that Stanton
called upon Jessica Floyd. This time
he went more confidently up the stairs
of the quiet apartment bouse, sure of
his right.
As before, the little old Irishwoman
clad in black silk was waiting to ad-
mit him; as before, ho could have
cried out in the wonder of seeing this
girl who turned Floyd's candid face
to him and smiled with Floyd's gray
eyes. Only, this afternoon Jessicla
did not rise from the piano seat to
Kreet him, but front a chair near a
window.
"Jes is away again," she regretted,
giving him her band.
"I came to see you, by his permis-
sion," Stanton returned.
The rich color flushed tinder her
marvelous skin, that was like no other
woman's he had ever seen. Floyd dif-
fered there, man from girl, his com-
plexion being much darker and less
translucent.
"It Is too early to give you tea and
cake," she told him, with a playfulness
partly shy. "But if you will talk to
me for half an hour. It will be after
four o'clock and I can offer you hos-
pitality. <
"What shall I talk to you about?" he
doubted. "I am better at listening. 1
think."
"Oh, anything, everything. Suppose
I were Jes; I like what he likes, rac-
ing, factories, motor-cars."
Although the season was early, a
Are burned In the tiny hearth, on
either side of which they were seated,
facing each other. In the ruddy light
Stanton contemplated the smiling girl.
In her pale-blue gown with its lace
ruffles foaming around her full young
throat and falling low across her
bands.
"Your brother has told you of the
business partnership that we plan for
this winter. Miss Floyd?"
She nodded her bronze-crowned
head.
"Yes; I am very glad."
"Did he," a sudden fancy prompted
the question, "did he tell you that I
was coming here to see you, if I
might?"
"Did he know of it?" she asked in
counter-question.
Floyd had kept the confidence given
him, then, although no formal re-
straint had been made. The expres-
sion that crossed Stanton's dark face
was warm and very gentle.
"He knew, yes. I wish I could have
met your brother years ago; I might
have been less hard a man, more fit to
know him, and you, now."
"You hard!"
"Has he not taught you that I am
so?"
In her earnestness she leaned for-
ward, her eyes fearlessly on S!a.
"Never. Do not imagine he thinks
you that, do not so wrong his memory
of your kindness. A rough word—what
is it? The first gentleness cancels it;
what Is a friend worth who does not
understand?"
Stanton bent his head, looking at
the fire.
"I have not had much gentleness
shown me," he said. "My mother died
when I was born; when I was thirteen
my father married again. My step-
mother was a good woman, whom I
loved as well as* my father did. But
within the second year after the mar-
riage, the horses they were driving
ran away, dragging the carriage over
an embankment, and my parents died
within a few moments of each other
while being taken to the hospital.
Have I said that my father was
wealthy? He was so. He had made
his will, a year before, leaving every-
thing to his wife; well knewing that
she In her turn would pass all on to
me. She was much younger than he,
almost certain lo outlive him, and
entirely to be trusted. But she had
never made a will, delayed by chance
or forgetfulness, I suppose. When be
died five minutes before her, all his
fortune passed to his wife; then, upon
her death without a will, again legally
passed on to her relatives. I was left
with no share or claim."
"But It was yours by every right!
Surely, surely, your step mother's rel-
atives did not take It?"
1 hey took every penny and every
inch, Miss Floyd. And I, at fifteen,
was sent out Into the world, a beggar-
ed orphan. They had no Interest in
me, and I was old enough to support
myself. One of them offered to get
me a position as office boy."
"Oh! You—"
"I—lived," he grimly answered.
asked them for nothing. What per-
sonal trinkets belonged to me, I sold,
for the first needs; then I Bet to work.
My father had wished me to be a
mechanical engineer, and I meant to
fulfil his plan. Perfect health I did
have—for six years I regularly worked
twenty hours out of each twenty-four,
until I was graduated from college.
For six years I was always tired, oc-
casionally hungry, and took just one
recreation: every night I walked
through the avenue where my former
home stood, and looked at It. I saw
the people who had robbed me go
handsomely clad and sleek, I saw*,
their carriages and servants pass and
repass. I watched, and I concluded
that there was Just one thing In life
worth while."
The girl shivered slightly, her gaze
on bis firm profile with Its lines of re-
lentless strength.
"You meant to punish them," she
faltered.
"Revenge? No; It was not worth
taking. I will not deny I thought of
that as a boy; as fc man I wa* too
practical to waste my time. What 1
decided to have was money. I found
In my aptitude for this automobile
racing my best and quickest way to
secure a starting capital. If I killed
myself in doing It, very good; that was
better than poverty. I was poor for
six years; poor for a lifetime I will not
be."
"No, you will not be," she agreed,
her voice quite low and agitated. "You
were born to bend circumstance, for
good or 111."
"Circumstance bent me, when It set
your brother In my path," be cor-
rected. "I never before had a friend,
or cared—" He shook his head Impa-
tiently, turning fully to her. "Bah,
what dead history am I boring you
with! Forgive me; I only meant to
say there might be some small excuse
for my savagery. It is after four
o'clock, I was promised tea."
Jessica rose to cross to the little
tea-table, but lingered for an Instant.
"Jes once told me that he had been
guilty of the Impertinence of saying
his driver had the best disposition and
the worst temper he had ever seen. I
think that If he were here, ho would
apologize for the last part."
"Perhaps he may yet retract the
first," he warned lightly, yet toefched.
When she summoned him to take
his cup, Stanton looked at the brown
beverage, then In quizzical surprise at
bis hostess.
"Yes," she laughed, coloring. "With
three lumps of sugar in It Jes told
me that whenever he was out with
you, you drank chocolate syrup and
sweet I thought it was only girls who
liked sweet, syrupy things."
"And do you always give people
what they like?" he asked, amused
and oddly pleased.
"I would like to," she retorted.
"Then I would like very much to
have you go to the theater with me,
to-night."
As you like," she conceded, her
heavy lashes sweeping her cheeks.
The first step was made. For the
next two weeks they saw each other
frequently. Twice Stanton brought
one of the Mercury cars and took Jes-
Blca for sedate afternoon drives. Sev-
eral rainy days she gave him sweet
chocolate and sat opposite him before
he bright little hearth, listening or
—
•r. But he never waa Tough to Jam-
aica.
During that Interval ho did not
meet Floyd. Jea waa buay thirty miles
up the Hudson valley, at the M *cury
factory, Jesalca said, and aa Stanton
of course knew from hla mechanician's
own statement Only It Impressed him
as rather strange that Floyd could not
get away even once or twice to see
bis sister.
Meanwhile the Cup raoe was ap-
proaching. On the last evening before
Stanton went out to the Long Island
course, he called on Jessica.
"It Is possible to come Into Ne*
York, of course," be said to her. "But
I shall stay out there until after tb^
race. After that, after Floyd and I
come back, shall X lee aa much of|
you? Or won't you want me around1
when you have him?"
Startled, she met his eyes, then
turned away hurriedly to the piano.
(TO BH CONTINUED.)
Gifts for Filipino Tribesmen.
While traveling around among these
people of the mountains the giving of
presents enters a great deal into the
methods of treating with them. As a
rule the gifts which are acceptable are
mare trifles. Among the Ifugaos a cus-
tom formerly required them to wear
in the hdlr a white rooster's feather
on fiesta days. More recently a strip
of onion skin tissue paper an inch
wide has been Introduced, and it la
now the universal present from the
secretary on his visit These papers
are worn as a sign of holiday, and
after the fiesta Is over they are care-
fully preserved till another occasion
calls them forth. The Hongota and
Callngas like beads, and a common
bead of imitation agate which Is worth
a few centavoa in Manila has its
value enhanced till It Is worth BO oen-
tavos in the hills. Scarlet cloth ia
also acceptable to the Ifugaoa and
Uongots. One of the very highest
prizes of all Is the pearl oyster shell,
and several of these are always taken
along. A great deal of discretion must
be exercised in giving euch presents,
so as not to cheapen them, nor to
place them in the hands of tho wrong
people.—Manila Times.
Gone.
"We don't hear much about spelling
reform now."
"No, nor of Esperanto."
"Will You 8lng It to Me Now?"
talking with the equable sunnlness so
like Floyd's. Indeed, Stanton soon
came to feel with her the sense of
companionship and certainty of being
understood that he felt with her broth-
"I wonder what has become <4
them?"
"Nothing How can you expect anr
thing to become of what la wholly la>
aginary?"
Why the Planets Collide
#-
Gravity and Other Agencies Are at
Work In Bringing Stars
Together.
There is good reason to believe that
the bodies in space—both luminous
and dead—occasionally fall together,
and his conception of such an event
was given by Prof. A. W. Bickerton
in a late Royal Institution lecture.
The collisions do not come at ran-
dom. Gravity and other agencies are
at work, and before two suns collide
they come Into each other's Influence
for hundreds of years, being drawn
towards each other with constantly in-
creasing speed. As the velocity would
be proportionate to size, the collision
would take place in the same time—
about three-fourths of .an hour—for ail
bodies. With the collision the two
stars become a new one, the tremexv
dous speed is suddenly converted Into
heat, and the explosive force expand*
the new star at the rate of millions of
mileB an hour. This, Professor Bick-
erton believes, explains the origin ol
Nova Persel, which suddenly flashed
out in 1901 with 10,000 times the bril-
liancy of our sun. This star became
the brightest In the heavens except
SIHub, and was the most brilliant new
star that has appeared In 300 years.
In a Different Sense.
"I understand Ptiffersbulk was o r#
markably small baby."
"He must weigh over two hundred
pounds now."
"No doubt he does, but a great many
people say h« la a rora^ckaM/ auto.1'
man."
THIS WOMAN
HAD MUCH PAIN
WHEN STANDING
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found it very good
for organic troubles
and recommend it
highly. I had dis-
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ache and paina
when standing on
my feet for any
length of time, when
I began to take the
medicine, but I am
In fine health now. If I ever have thoaa
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"Hear me one moment, madam!"
said the peddler at the front door, "t
have not been rendered Incapable of
active exertion by any sort of sad
accident; I have not been laid up six
months with Inflammatory rheuma-
tism; I have not lost my situation on
account of my religious principles; 1
am not a poor man, but am doing
pretty well In my line of business; 1
have not a wife and three children de-
pendent on me for support, for I am a
contented bachelor, happy in the pos-
session of no living relatives; I am
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your name to me; I never—"
"Step in," interrupted the weary
woman, with a deep sigh of relief. "I
have been waiting for you for the last
ten years. Step in—I don't care what
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or clothes wringers. I'll buy. And If
you'd like a cup of coffee or a glass
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—Puck.
Close Acquaintance.
"Aren't you Interested in aviation?"
"More Interested than ever. I havo
studied and experimented till I know
so much about it that I don't feel Jus-
tified in taking any more chances aa
a birdman."
Seventy per cent, of the gold In
civilized man's possession is In the
form of coin.
BEGAN YOUNG.
Had "Coffee Nerves" From Youth.
"When very young I begun using
Boffee and continued up to the laBt six
months," writes a Texas girl.
"I had been exceedingly nervous,
thin and very sallow. After quitting
coffee and.drinking Postum about a
month my nervousness disappeared
ind has never returned. This is the
more remarkable as I am a primary
teacher and have kept right on with
my work.
"My complexion now is clear and
rosy, my skin soft and smooth. As a
good complexion was something I had
greatly desired, I feel amply repaid
even though this were the only benefit
derived from drinking Postum.
"Before beginning its use 1 had sufi
fered greatly from indigestion and
headache; these troubles are now unr
known.
"I changed from coffee to Postum
without the slightest inconvenience,
did not even have a headache. Have
known cofTee drinkers, who were
visiting me, to use Postum a wee*
without being aware that they wero
not drinking coffee."
Name given by Postum Co., Battlo
Creek, Mich. Write for booklet, "Th^
Road to Weilvllle."
Postum comes In two forma.
Regular (must be boiled).
Instant Postum doesn't require botV
Ing but is prepared Instantly by stli*
ring a level teaspoonful In an ordinary
cup of hot water, which makes II
right for most persons.
A big cup requires more and soma
people who like strong things put In
a heaping spoonful and temper II
with a large supply of cream.
Kxperiment until you know tin
amount that pleases your palato an<
have It served that way In the futni%
"There's a Reason" for Poatum.
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Banger, J. E. A. & Erwin, W. L. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 24, 1913, newspaper, June 24, 1913; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth341212/m1/4/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.