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is 262 years. The senior member
is Mrs. Polly Williams, who is 112
years old, and yet in remarkably
good health and able to do most
of the household work, while her
son John Soniker is 78. lie at
tributes bis longevity to his regu
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The story is told of a Scotch
preacher who gave his people long,
strong sermons, and delivered
fiicm in a remarkably deliberate
manner. One Sunday he asked a
friend who was visiting him to oc
cupy his pulpit in the morning.
‘‘An wore you satisfied wi’ mv
preaching?” asked his friend, as
they walked home from the kirk.
“W said the host, slowly,
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at the last, to see the folk looking
sac fresh and wideawake. I mis
trust twas nu sue long nor sue
sound as it should hue been.”
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For sale by J. H. Blackburn.
Ethel—“ There, I've forgotten
to attend a function to which I
was invited. How careless.”
George—“ You should have an
engagement calendar.”
Ethel—“Oh, George, this is so
sudden.”
ENI) OF HI I'TKU FIGHT.
“Two physicians had a long and
stubborn tight with an abccss on my
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Father (trying to read) —
"What’s that terrible racket in
the hall?”
Mother —"One of the children
just fell down the stairs.”
Katln-r—"Well, yon toll the
children if they can’t fall down
stairs quietly they I! have to stop
it.”
THE BARNESVILLE NEWS-GAZETTE THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, lfo3
Equal Partners.
(Cnntlm>**d from Sixth Page.)
? On the face of the matter, howevei.
It appeared that Elsie had achieved a
notable success, for Blair said to Bren
da:
‘‘.Miss Miller tells me that you arc
much disturbed by the absurd attempts
to identify you with the so called ‘mys
terious woman' in this unfortunate ;rf
fair. I think I can put a stop to these
stories.”
"Was it for that that she asked you
to come here?" demanded Itren la. who,
by Elsie's request, had not been in
formed in advance of this attempt.
“Oh. no: it was merely incidental,’’
replied Blair, “and my conclusion de
pends partly upon my having seen you
again. Your word should, of course,
have been enough fo: me. but I have
not taken a proper view of the serious
ness of the matter. I slut 11 now state
positively that you are not the lady 1
saw.”
“1 would prefer that you say not (ting
.at ail.” said Brenda after a brief inter
val of reflection.
Biair showed his surprise.
"I do not understand.” he said
“Surely you wish me to speak the
truth?”
“I was not aware that you made it
a matter of conscience,” replied Bren
da, slightly inclining her head by way
of dismissal to Blair, who was upon
the point of leaving the room.
CHAPTER XIV.
“THRIFT, HORATIO, THRIFT.”
OIIE next morning's pa
pers contained Inter
views with l>r. Blair
In which he stated in
the most positive man
ner that tiie mysteri
ous woman was not
Miss Machine. This
did not have the effect of taking Bren
| (hi entirely out of print, but it inspired
all the newspaper writers with cau
tion, for, though some of them were
not able to believe that Blair was tell
ing the truth, it was impossible to over
look the fiict that he was the only wit
ness.
The most serious of the immediate
results of this publication was experi
enced by Dr. Blair himself about 10
o’clock iu the forenoon, when he receiv
ed a call from Captain Neale. The cap
tain seemed not to be representing the
department upon this occasion, for he
was in the dress of a private citizen.
Even his shoes were different from a
policeman’s characteristic footwear.
As the apparel evidently was not worn
for purposes of disguise, it might be
assumed that Mr. Neale had come upon
a personal errand.
When admitted to Dr. Blair's office,
lie first showed interest in all the doors
opening from the room; then he be
stowed a moment’s attention upon some
of the doctor’s effects which had been
collected as if to be packed in a large
trunk.
“Goiug away?” inquired Neale*.
“Move,” responded Blair.
“What for?”
“You’ve succeeded in spoiling mj
practice around hero.” was the reply.
“1 am not more modest than other doc
tors, hut the kind of conspicuousness
which comes from having a uniformed
policeman call at the house every ten
minutes is not a good advertisement.
So 1 have engaged other quarters.”
“Where?"
“1 would like to toll you that it’s none
of your business." said Blair, “but that
wouldn’t prevent you from finding out.
I’m going up town.”
And lie gave the address, which the
captain ostentatiously noted down.
Having done this, he looked Blair in
the eye and said:
"1 don’t know whether you're going
or not.”
"Make your mind easy,” replied the
doctor. “1 am.*’
“You're an Important witness In this
, ease.” said the captain, “and 1 want
you where''l can get my hands on you."
"Well, I'tu not going far."
i The captain so tv wed up his queer
eyebrows iu his own peculiar fashion.
"It's my opinion.” said he. "that
you're going to the house of detention.”
Blair looked uneasy, but he mustered
• a smile.
“The house of detention is for the
poor." he said. “It is for people who
will stand being imprisoned six months
or a year for nothing without making
any fuss about it."
"You’re po'>r enough. my friend." re
oiled tlie captain. "and I’ll see that yon
lou’t make any fus?.. I’ve get a story
:!l Used up that will keep you quiet."
Blair let tho lid of the trunk fall
s'uvily and thou sat down on t >p of it
"Well, you nr dn’t telftne \v!>at it is."
;■ '-aid "i’ll take your word for it
that it's ii good one. lu short, you in
tend to ruin me In this town.”
The captain put h;> hand into his
pocket in a wtiy that made Blair nerv
ous. but it was nothing more formula
hie than n pii*ce of chewing tobacco
that appeared. Neale nodded slowly,
as he bit otY a piece.
“From the hegiuning of this case."
said tlie doctor. "1 have been totally
unable to understand your game. What
is ttr
"My game." replied the captain, "is
to take good care of Joseph Neale.”
“Well." said Blair, "what have I
done to prevent it?"
"Ever hear the story of the beggar
who asked the professional charity
! man for a dime?”
“1 don’t remember It,” said the doc
tor.
“The charity man said: ‘Go over on
the other side of the street- I’m work
ing this side.’ ”
Blair appeared to ponder deeply upon
the significance of this ancient rale in
the present situation.
“Look here.” said the captain sud
denly. "You saw Brenda Machine com
j ing out of that house, and you had
sense enough to keep still until you
I found out wliere you stood. That was
| all right. You found out. right away.
! what kind of a father site had. and you
knew that-your information was worth
money. Now. don't jump. I've looked
yon up, anil i've found out that you’re
not above that sort of thiug. Very
well: few of us are. hut when you
found out that I was 'on' you ought to
have done one of two things—quit or
let me in.”
Blair drummed ou the trtiuk with
his fingers.
“1 thought you were after A Idem” he
said.
“I’m after ’em both.”
“Do you still believe there's anything
in Aldcn’g'Story of money?" queried
Blair, eying the other shrewdly.
Neale nodded emphatically.
“But we’ll leave that for a minute,”
he said. "Iu the matter of Machine I
let you go on. merely showing you that
I was keeping close track. 1 didn't
suppose you'd jump so quick.”
“What do you mean?"
The captain shook a Dig forefinger in
Blair’s face.
' Vou \vent to Machine's house last
evening.” he said. " Then you gave out
that interview.” And the big forefinger
came very close to Blair's nose as the
captain added. “How much did you
get?"
Blair's lean and deeply lined face
was suddenly moistened with perspira
tion. He sprang up sidewise from the
trunk and walked around tlie far end
of the table.
"This is getting personal.” he said at
last, with a nervous laugh that scarce
ly passed beyond a contortion of the
lips.
"I'll make It personal for you. ray
friend.” lie said, "in fact. I’ll land
you behind the bars before I'm done
witli you. This is blackmail.”
Blair laughed aloud.
“Blackmail is a dreadful sin,” he
said, "and nobody knows it better than
you do.”
Neale did not see fit to reply. lie
watched Blair -carefully as the latter
paced up and down gnawing his lips.
"Captain.” said the doctor, pausing
suddenly and facing about, "how much
money can you raise?”
Neale's eyebrows took the shape cf
inverted V’s. and beneath them his
eyes looked like dots because of the
contraction in the corners.
“What are you trying to get at?” he
demanded. “You mean something.
What is it?”
A sudden shivering seized Blair, so
that his jaws could be seen to shake.
Indeed they could be heard, lie cross
ed to a locker on the wall, from which
lie took a small bottle containing a
thick and dark fluid. This he raised
to his lips, shuddering at the taste of
it. But he seemed to be benefited in
the matter of self command.
“Nerve medicine?” said Neale. “1
don't think you need it.”
“You told me,” replied Blair slowly,
"that 1 ought to quit or let you in. I’ve
decided to do the latter.”
“Right!" said the captain, with em
phasis. "How much did you get?”
“The little money that 1 got from
Machine doesn’t amount to anything,”
responded Blair. “1 got something
better.”
Neale stretched out his hand with a
quick motion and laid it upon Blair's
shoulder, to that individual's great sur
prise. for he thought himself far out
of reach. They stared at each other
with equal intensity.
“Can you be square?” said Blair as if
he were consulting an oracle and not
the man at whom he was looking. “Is
there any way to make you? I believe
there is. And you’ve got the money
too.”
“I've always got plenty of money for
a good tiling." said Neale. "Now, speak
up. Did Aldon tell Machine?"
Blair shook off the hand upon his
shoulder by the exercise of great agili
ty, and then he strode across the room
to a desk, from which lit* took a small
blankbook and a stylographic pen. lie
opened the book upon the table and
wrote his name on the first page, with
a word or two after it; then lie looked
at Neale, holding the pen toward him.
The captain nodded, and he also wrote
in the hook. Upon the page there then
appeared this:
Arthvr Gordon Bum. Partners .
Joseph Neale, ( ’
"My friend.” said the captain, “you
nsk me if 1 can be square. Well,
there ain’t nobody that can he squarer
than what 1 can. and you’ll find that
out if you stick to me and don’t try to
get funny nor play no tricks.”
if Blair's acquaintance with Neale
had been more intimate, he would
have recognized sincerity in this re
dundancy of negatives. The reporters
who have followed Neale's career as
sert that he ouco put seven into one
short sentence while engaged in de
nouncing a certain well known re
former. Asa rule, however, his lan
guage was not grossly inaccurate. In
this Instance it was the ring of tlie
words that appealed to Blair. He tooa
up the book and wrote upon the page
that bore the names, his position being
such that the captain could not see
what was set down.
"Now. my esteemed business asso
ciate." said Blair, laying down the
!>ook. "this is the English of the mat
ter—-A bleu lias told Machine where
lie was that afternoon and Machine
lias told me. 1 didn't go up there to
get the secret: 1 went for a little cold
money. Circumstances had made it
agreeable to me to put Miss Maelane
out of this ease, and as I was going
to do it anyhow it occurred to me
that l might as well be paid for it.”
“It’s a pleasure to be in business
with a man like you.” said Neale, w ith
a grin. "How much was the touch?"
"Only $2,000.” replied Blair. "It is a
loan. 1 told him a pitiful story of mis
fortune and mentioned that 1 was
being hounded by the police. Well,
he’s had a little of that himself. He
sympathised with me. and when 1 said
l wanted to move, take a I letter ottice
and all that he very kindly consented
to help me out. As to his daughter. I
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