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^MAKING SURE.4
“How do I know?’’ repeated the
man. visibly embarrassed for the mo¬
ment. “Perhaps a little bird whis¬
pered it to me, as children say."
“But they don't have little birds
on ships at sea.” responded the
young woman with a pensive air.
“Oil, don't they! why, every
woman aboard—yourself excepted, of
course—is a little bird of gossip. If
you could only evoke the confidence
of Lady Louisa or Mrs. Martin—
though I don't mean to imply that
either dear lady constituted the little
bird in this case; that might be a
breach of faith on my part—she
would tei! you things about yourself
which would literally amaze you.
Habitual globe trotters of the gentler
sex and distinctly uncertain age are
the most vicious gossips between
heaven and the axis of the earth."
“You are cynical,” she remarked,
leaning her pretty chin in the palm
of her hand and gazing at the vast
waste of waters stretching away
from the side of the vessel.
“Women always think a man is
cynical if he happens to have diag¬
nosed correctly any outstanding char¬
acteristic. of her sex.” he answered,
deprecating]}-. “Say I was indiscreet
and I’ll admit it, for I have given
you the opportunity to evade my
question,"
“Which was-?” she inquired,
with an exaggerated air of weariness.
“Which was that you are going out
to marry a fellow you engaged your¬
self to so many years ago that you’ve
forgotten what he’s like.”
“That’s not a question; that’s an
assertion. And I'd ask you to reflect
before you apply a reference to
‘many years’ in relation to myself.
How many feet in the grave would
you estimate I have?”
“Still prevaricating,” he muttered
sadly. “But seriously,” he added, “I
should like to know if that is really
the reason you are going out alone?”
“Yes,” she murmured, the corners
of her mouth drooping for a moment.
“And you have not seen him for
many—for some little time? I had
hoped that—that—that is to say, I—
well-”
She waited for him to clear away
ambiguities. There was a singularly
attractive droop to her eyelids, and a
slight suggestion of determination in
the pressure of her lips.
“You had hoped?” she said tenta-
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.
“I checked my words,” he replied
quickly. “Please recollect that I
checked my words! And it must be
obvious to you that I did so because
they would have been inexcusable in
the circumstances.”
“How tantalizing you are, to be
sure!” she exclaimed. “After half
an hour’s talking and pausing—
chiefly pausing—you arrive at the
point of saying something compli¬
mentary, and then, by way of a
change from pausing, I suppose, you
check yourself. Could you reach my
book, do you think?”
He shot a quick side glance at her,
and his eyes gleamed angrily as he
leaned forward and picked up the
volume.
“May I, then, tell you that I hoped
the rumor was not true?”
“Did you?” she inquired, a gentle
smile rippling her pretty cheeks.
“But it is,” she added softly, with a
modest sigh.
“Perhaps the prospect is not alto¬
gether inviting to you?” he hazard¬
ed, with insinuation.
“Then why put yourself in such a
lottery?” he asked, after a stifled
gasp for breath.
“Oh,” she responded, in a far¬
away tone, “a promise is a promise,
isn’t it? And he is awfully fond of
me, or of his recollection of me as he
knew me.”
• “And,” he said, after biting his
mustache viciously, “you are pre¬
pared to fulfill your promise even at
the risk of spoiling your whole life,
and rendering his unutterably
wretched with the knowledge that
you have done so?"
“Yes,” she responded, with a little
sigh of resignation. “I suppose I
shall run the risk, hoping for the
best, as everybody does hope. You
see, when a woman has waited so
long as I have she—well, she be¬
comes shop soiled, so to speak; the
gloss goes off her, and she gets
faded in parts. I am not as young
as I was five or even three years ago,
and there is not much demand for
unseasonable goods.”
The man opened his mouth to
draw a great breath. There was a
long pause. Eventually she broke
the silence, brazen-facedly enough.
“What are you thinking about?”
she inquired.
“That—that a girl who may charm
one man, and would not appeal to
him when she’s a woman might seem
intolerable to another man as a. girl
and adorable as a woman.”
“I know what you mean,” she re¬
turned, “though you are not quite so
lucid as complimentary. The worst
of it is, ?>lr. Murchinson, it’s the girl
who becomes a woman, not the wom¬
an who becomes a girl, so that the
man who might adore her arrives too
late.”
“Yes,” he responded, in a seput
chralundertone—“yes." He was not
fully conscious of his wasted oppor
tunities, for his mind was somewhat
preoccupied. And then they turned
to commonplace topics.
Later in the day, in the secrecy of
his own cabin, he indicted a letter to
his sister in England.
“Dearest Sister—You will be sur¬
prised to see that I am aboard this
mail ship. The fact is, since Made¬
line consented to come out to marry
m - I have had grave doubts of the
wisdom of the idea, even though it
was originally my own. It is so long
since we last saw each other that I
felt sure changes must have occurred
in me which might possibly not ac¬
cord; might, indeed, quite possibly
prove absolutely antagonistic to
changes which time and distance
must have wrought in her.
“I decided, therefore, as my ap¬
pearance has been completely
changed since I sat for the last photo
I sent home—I have grown a beard
and mustache—to .-join this boat at
Port Saul, and get to know Made¬
line's disposition and tastes, and, if
possible, the view slie took of her ap¬
proaching marriage with me, with¬
out her knowledge of my Identity.
“And the result?
“I had not been aboard more tha*
an hour when I saw her, and tb«
sight of her dear- But I am
barring sentiment in this letter. |
recognized lier, of course, and it
seemed to me she was of more at¬
tractive appearance than ever. But
the change within her! Well, she is
just the same bright, witty girl, with
all the dear old ways, the same de¬
lightful smile.
“She is as young as ever, hut she
is immeasurably changed, for all
that. She has flirted with me most
fiercely for days past, and I honestly
believe, vanity apart, that she cares
for me a little. I offer her that ex¬
cuse for the way she has thrown her¬
self at me. Yet at the same time it
ruins her in my eyes. Constancy—
surely that is woman's greates vir¬
tue! And this Madeline is as incon¬
stant as the wind.
“I tested her on the question of
our marriage to-day, and the result
was extremely painful. It is quite
clear to me that she is coming out to
marry John Mervin—I am l-egistered
as Jame3 Murchinson—only in ful¬
fillment of her promise to do so, and
J^ajiae.^Jieifge^oiLajL^43icdEm the
'hand is worth two in the bush. In
deed, she practically told me so. And
I feel convinced that she would as
lief marry JamesMurchinson as me.”
That very evening he arrived at
the crisis, with Miss Madeline’s cor¬
dial co-operation.
They were alone together in a cor¬
ner of the upper deck, which was
shaded from the bright moonlight.
“I have been thinking over what
you said this morning,” she volun¬
teered, with a long, soft sigh. “I’m
afraid you consider it rather repre¬
hensible of me to make this voyage
to marry a man I no longer love?”
“It is scarcely fair to him or to
yourself,” he answered in a hard
voice, after a pause. “Nor is it fair
to any other man who may love you,
and might make you happy; who
would endeavor to his utmost to do
so.”
“But what can I do'’” she mur¬
mured, rising slowly and advancing
to the rails. “You have shown me
it is wrong,” she added, when he
joined her. “Can you tell me what
would be right?”
She stretched out an arm languid¬
ly, and laid her hand on the rail un¬
der his very nose.
After a moment’s hesitation he de¬
cided he had no alternative to cover¬
ing it with one of his own, and he
leaned toward her.
“Mad — Miss Havers,” he whis¬
pered, in a hollow voice, “will—will
you marry me if I can convince you
that my rank and position are satis¬
factory ?”
She drew close to him, and invol¬
untarily he took her in his arms.
‘ You love me?” she asked timidly,
tilting her face up to his.
To evade the question, which need¬
ed consideration, he kissed her.
She sighed deeply, and half turned
away as his ^trms relaxed.
“I must say,” she murmured gent¬
ly, apparently addressing the moon,
a nice soft beard arid mustache give
a delightful piquancy to a kiss.” She
turned back to him again, with
blushing face and downcast eyes, as
he drew a hard, deep breath. “Don’t
you think you’ve been silly long
enough, Jack? Do you fancy a beard
and mustache can disguise a man
from the woman who loves—is very
fond of him? I should know you in
a monk’s cowl! I knew you instant¬
ly, and almost betrayed my recogni¬
tion before I understood your plan.
At first I felt indignant, but then I
knew you only did it because you
loved me. and for that I could for¬
give anything.”
It is doubtful whether he heard
what else she had to say just then,
for her words were mumbled into his
fateful beard and mustache,—Lon¬
don Answers
KILLING JAPS
LAWFUL ACT
Hence, United States Will Send No
Apology to Mikado.
WERE SAME AS BURGLARS
Further Particulars of the Slaying of
Five and Capture of Twelve Heal
Raiders in Pribiloff Islands.
Further details of the killing of
five Japanese raiders in the Pribiloff
Islands is contained in a dispatch to
a Now York paper dated Dutch Har¬
bor, Aiasiia, July 2(5, via Seward,
Alaska, August I, which says;
Five Japanese were shot aud killed
and twelve taken prisoners on the
Island of St. Paul of the Pribiloff
group, by order of the agent of the
department of commerce and labor,
on Jflly 17, as the result of a raid
by four Japanese schooners on the
seal rookeries.
Traders were discovered lying new
northeast point, St. Paul, by nativ*
lookouts of the North American com¬
mercial company, which leases th«
seal privilege from the government.
Word was telephoned from the patrol
station near the rookery, for which
the raiders were aiming, and Special
Lempke, of the department of com¬
merce, oil duty in the Pribiloff Islands,
arrived on the spot as the Japanese
reached shore. He ordered the boat
crew to surrender, which they did.
On climbing the promontory at tlm
end of the cape overlooking one of
the large rookeries a schooner was
seen close in shore.
Locking straight down over the
cliff, the patrols saw a dozen or
more Japs skinning a number of
seals, which had been slaughtered.
The raiders refused to surrender
when Lempke reached the scene, and
tried to make off with their booty In
small boats, several of which were
drawn up on shore. The agent then
i ordered his gua- ol natives to open
' Are 'The Japa offered no resist
raftee, being wi »i firearms.
; Three of the t»tders fell dead on
the beach, a fourth was seen to bn
thrown overboard from one of the
boats that escaped, and a fifth body
drifted ashore later in another boat.
The Japs had killed over 200 seah,
many of them cows. Those who es
caped carried away about 100 skins,
A Washington special says: Acting
Secretary of State Bacon has sent
to Ambassador Wright at Tokio, Ja¬
pan. the substance of the above dis¬
patch received by the department of
commerce and labor from Solicitor
Sims at Sitka, Alaska. In sending the
dispatch the acting secretary states
that it is forwarded for tho purpose
of giving information such as this
government has of a regrettable Inci¬
dent, news of which may reach Japan
In distorted form. There is no Inten¬
tion of offering an apology or anc
further regret than is contained in
this dispatch, as the state depart¬
ment regards the Japanese fishermen
as poachers if they wore within the
three-mile limit,, and the dispatch
fj»m Mr. STms emphasizes this facr.
It Is state 1 that. American fishermen
In New Foundiand waters, if with'n
the three-mile limit, would be subject¬
ed to arrest by the authorities and
would have no redress, F,a they
would be poachers the same as the
Japanese who were killed.
'Seals are recognized as property
by International law, and the Jap¬
anese killed stand as burglars shot,
in the act of stealing according fo
prominent, authorities on international
law. No international incident can
result from the shooting, it is sail
at the state department.
The government of the United
States will take no further active
briefest in the matter of the killing
of the Japan poachers, save that. Hie
twelve prisoners msut he tried by
United States authorities and accord¬
ing lo th} United States laws.
COLLEGES AW PROVIDED f OR.
Four More Georgia Institutions are Voted
funds by the legislature.
Four mere state Institutions were
handsomely provided for by the
Georgia siol? bouse at Wednesday's s ■
Tliffse werv the Academy for
the Blind at Macon, the North Geor¬
gia Agricultural College at Dahlen
ega, the Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb at Cave Springs and the State
Normal School at Athens.
Tie first of these received
the second $20,000, the third $20,000
and the latter $1.7,000, making a total
of $120,000.
MOB MEMBER CONVICTED.
Leader of Lynchers at Salisbury Found
Guilty and Sentenced to Fifteen
Years in Pen.
George Hall, a cotton mill opera
tive, was convicted Friday of con¬
spiracy in connection with the lynch¬
ing oL the three i.- grot's »t. Salis
burg, N. C., and given a term of
fifteen years in the State peniten¬
tiary.
The hearing of the case began when
court opened at 10:30 o'clock Friday
morning. At t>:i,7 p. m., after hearing
several witnesses establishing Hall's
participation in the lynching, tins
case was given to the jury. After
being out twenty minutes, a verdict
of guilty was agreed upon, and th '
maximum penalty for the offence
charged was imposed bv Judge B. F.
Long. Court adjourned for the day
at 7:10 p. m.
This is said to be the first convic¬
tion of the kind ever secured in the
state of .North Carolina, although a
number of efforts have been made
to bring members of mobs to justice.
The state sprung a surprise in the
trial when the offense against the
prisoner was changed from murder
to conspiracy.
When the court was called to order,
lion. T J. KluIt/, announced that
bis client would contend that tho
court was unlawful. It was argued
that the governor could not sign a
coin mission for such a court unless
he was in the state, aud it was claim¬
ed Ilia! he was at Atlantic City, N.
J. Mr. Klulfz asked Ilia) a subpoena
be issued for Governor Glenn, and
have him brought to court to testify.
This was done and tho chief exec¬
utive of the state was sworn aud
questioned about ids whereabouts on
the 17th of July, the day that the
call for the court was made. He said
that he wns In Atlantic City, N. J., and
in order to do what he could to pre¬
vent a lynching, he wired Ids private
secretary to issue the commission and
sign ins name to it. This he consider¬
ed the proper thing to do.
The objection of the defendant was
overruled and the trial proceeded.
NOOSE FOR GOVFKNOR IOIK
Is Threat Made in Connection With Trial of
Alleqed lynche's
A dispatch from Springfield, - Mo.,
says: After hearing from a city of
fleer of the threats against members
of the grand jury which indicted Hill
Gooch and Doss Galbraith, charged
with lynching three negroes on April
14, Assistant Attorney General Ken
ni-sh left Friday for Jefferson City
to confer with Governor Foil: on the
situation^ Kennlsh follows: The threat, as told to Mr.
“If one of those men who are on
trial for ‘negro killing’ is convicted,
there will he a rope hung to the
light tower in the square for every
one of the members of the grand Jury
that Indicted them, and there'll be
another one for Governor Folk.”
A SHOWtR 01 RIAL BILLETS
Unceremoniously Broke Up d Shorn Battle
«t 1 ncnmpnient.
Real bullets were used at the encamp¬
ment at Cliiekamaiiga Friday by the
First Georgia regiment in Hs "bat¬
tle” with the seventeenth infantry reg¬
ulars.
Colonel Gordon’s regiment was the
main body of the “Blue” army. The
seventeenth regulars formed the main
body of the “Brown" army. The two
forces met, when contesting in the
crucial point of the day’s program. A
hot fusilacie ensued. During the heat
of the fight, bullets began to sing
above the heads and In the ranks
of the regulars. A rush was made
by the latter for cover. They sprang
behind trees, they lat flat upon Urn
ground, they did everything but turn
their backs and run. One private,
whose name Is unknown to the au¬
thorities, was wounded.
Two companies of Colonel Gordon’s
regiment were ordered off the field
and the maneuvers abruptly ended.
Mystery seems to surround the sit
nation. An investigation may place
the responsibility.
CANDIDATE WAS OBSTREPEROUS.
Arrested Tor Interrupting Speaker at Cam¬
paign Meeting in South Carolina.
A. C. Jones, candidate for governor,
was arrested at the state campaign
meeting at Chester, 8. C., Tuesday,
by orders of Mayor Hardin, who was
seated on the platform. Jones had
made his speech along with the other
candidates for governor.
When J. Fraser Lyon, candidate for
attorney general, was delivering Ills
speech, Jones Interrupted him with
a question, Lyon replied with a
tion. Jones then demanded to be
heard, but the chairman refused the
demand. Jones persisted, . r,.
TEXAS IL0DDS
CLAIMS VICTIMS
Havoc, Wrought by Waters in the
Southern Part of State.
«
TOWNS ARE DESOLATED
Owing to Stoppage of Communication
and Railway Trains Extern cl Dis¬
aster is Not Fully Known.
Ten lives were lost, 10,000 cattle
killed, property worth millions de¬
stroyed, and thousands of persons
rendered homeless as the result of a
flood in south Texas Tuesday, when
thy Colorado river was forced out oE
its banks by heavy rains.
it is believed that this is the worst
disaster since the Galveston flood vis¬
ited Texas several years ago. Relief
trains are cut off, telegraph and tel¬
ephone wires are down and the fata
of the inhabitants of several isolated
towns is ra yet unknown.
The flood on Clio Colorado carter
without warning a..d inhabitants ■
Ban Angelo for safety and Ballinger their were night forejj clifl
to Jloe in
ing. An entire family at BalUn**
named Cook were drowned a3 tltw
attempted to leave their homes on JJ
improvised raft which struck an ob¬
struction. The river Is from four to
six miles wide in places and the trib¬
utaries south are out of their banka.
The Santa Fe track bridges were
washed out and traffic is at a stand¬
still.
At llrownwood live hundred people
arc homeless. Tuesday night tho wa¬
ter was standing at the high wator
mark of 1900. A strip thirty miles
long and from two to four miles wide
is covered with from three to ten foot
or water. Railway tracks have been
washed out for miles. Telegraph anti
phone wires are down and many Uvea
are reported lost.
Twelve Inches of ralu fell over th*
southern section of the state Tuesday
night, causing all rivers to overflow
their hanks. Heartrending scenes wore
witnessed In towns where lpst chil¬
dren were hunting parents.
Reports from tile country say t&e
loss of life and damage are great.
Amarillo, Texas, in the Pan Handle,
reports a severe electrical storm and
has news that Canyon City, a small
town, was wiped out by a tortmdo
and several people killed.
The family «>f a farmer named
Riggs, residing four miles south of
ttie town, were -killed by lightning.
It Is impossible to get even an
approximate estimate of the crop dam¬
age, but it is believed the loss will
reach hundreds of thousands of dol¬
lars.
A terrific ruin, almost equal to a
cloudburst, fell in the section about
Ardmore, I. T., Tuesday night and
Wednesday. Ail streams are out of
their banks and the lowlands are
flooded. A portion of the Santa Fe
north of Paoli has been washed away
and the Frisco bridge, near Francis,
Is reported washed out. All trains
are running behind scheduled time.
The Canadian and Wichita rivers are
the highest in years.
BANK IN HANDS OF RECEIVER.
Vice President ol Wrecked Institution in
Chicago is Placed Under Arrest.
Theodore Stensland, vice president
of tho wrecked Milwaukee Avenue
State Bank al Chicago, was arrested
Tuesday afternoon on a charge of
violating tile banking laws of the
state. Earlier in the day the institu¬
tion was placed in the hands of a
receiver and Paul Stensland, presi¬
dent of the bank, and father of the
vice president, together with Cashier
Bering, were officially declared fugi¬
tives from justice and their personal
descriptions placed In the hands of
the police throughout the country.
Besides the discovery of many irreg¬
ularities in the management of the
bank, it waa also found that even the
safety deposit boxes, owned and rent¬
ed by the bank, had b«en tampered
with and rifled.
COMMANDED BY lAtHER
Youth Shoots Another Boy With Shotquo,
Killing Him Instantly.
At the command of fils father, Fred
Deltoid, eleven years old, son of John
Debold, of near Frederick, Mo., shot
and killed George Smith, son of a
neighbor. There had been bad feeling
between the two families, and they
quart eled over blackberries the
Smiths had picked off bebold’s land.
‘‘Shoot him,” said Debold to his soil,
polntmg at the younger Smith.
The boy promptly tired a load from
a shotgun, which struck Smith over
the heart, killing him instantly.