Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-11-05


Julian turned and met the so1ttheTner's s
concentrated stare.
1t was some weeks after the attempted
assassination of Talbot that Mr.. Roose-
welt, Mr.. Largely and Edgar Julian re-
turned from Florida After all. they
had been outgeneraled and beaten by
Ellis. Largely had attempted to get a
restraining order on the affidavit and
bill drawn up by Julian, but Ellis had
avoided the whole matter by persuading
Largely's Floridian coadjutors that it
would be safer to tie their faith to a
southern man rather than to an adven-
turer from Illinois. Mr. Roosevelt had
interposed with a proposition of com
promise, which, being favorable to Sir
Edmond Kanes schemes, received the
support of all the foreigners, and was
finally, with some notifications, accept
ed by Ellis: but the victory was with
the young mountaineer, giving him con-
troll of strong combination of roads
which, in the future, would be of i'm
mense value
"a never saw fellow so full of ex-
pedients and sopopular with everybody, ="
said Largely to Mr.. Roosevelt during the
course of the adjustment
He was the man you were going to
crush inside of twenty-four hours" re-
piled Mr. Roosevelt
"You thought he had no backing >
added Julian.
Largely WINGED, and rolling cigar
across his mouth from one corner to the
other, chuckled dryly and said:
"He is like an eel, when you get him
you can't hold him Talk about q
Yankee being slick!"
81 shall never again think of bill in
equity without recollecting how easily
he punctured your injunction scheme,
said Julian, with something like harm
less exultation in his tone.
"After all" interposed Mr.. Roosevelt
"Ellis has done nothing not strictly hon,
orable, and he deserves all he has
gained"
"Oh, | admire the fellow Talk oi
western cheek and impudence-why he's
worse than a lightning rod manp' re,
sponded Largely, "he talks his way
right through everything. AS for lying
his sort of misrepresentation can hardly
be called that, but he promises every
thing that he thinks will please"
1.-The people like him and honor hin
greatly, said MIR. Roosevelt. He makes
friends of high and low"
Eyes" laughed Largely, "he has made
friends even out of us! Here we sit
marshaling his various qualities and at
tainments, while he walks off with the
prize.
To Edgar Julian the calamity that haC
fallen upon Colonel Warren Talbot pre-
sented nothing especially strange or in
comprehensive He considered it the
result of some private quarrel, growing
out of a business transaction perhaps
Of course he knew nothing of the cir
cumstances that have been detailed
touching the conduct of Ellis, nor of the
mysterious incidents of Rosalie's moon
light walk with Talbot, and he did MOI
dream of any possible connection of Miss
Chenier with the matter
Some things he had ordered came from
Chicago during his stay at Jacksonville
among them was the Provence cross
One day he took this, and without any
preliminary words let the gold chain at
tached to it fall around Rosalie's neck.
THUS, said he. turning to Mrs. Roose
velt, II restore to Miss Chenier the oil
ancestral cross of her family"
In the midst of her recent trouble Ros
allie had actually forgotten her dreams 0
Provence and of the souvenir that Julial
had promised to fetch Now, as sh
glanced at the antique cross and chain,
rush of strange sensations overcame her
A deep blush flowed into her cheeks, AM
ebbing almost instantly left her face in
tensely pale,
Mrs. Roosevelt rose and went to he
niece. She had heard from Rosalie tn
story of this cross, and in fact she ha
heard it many time in her own youn
girlhood. 1t was one of the Chenie
traditions
1T is not bad ornament" said Ju
liam, taking step backward and look
ing critically at the dull gold as it la
across the beads of red insect amber o.
the girls white throat "That dent tn
peasant told me was caused by his hoe O
mattock, or whatever he dug with, striB
ing it; but like to imagine it wa
caused by an arrow or spear in som
glorious fight of the olden time" H
said this, knowing that Rosalie woul
like to hear it. He watched her fac
closely She looked up into his eye
with nearly the old simplicity and mai
vete Her cheeks grew rosy again. Fl
could see her imagination take fire an
. fame in those deep pure eyes.
. Mrs. Roosevelt examined the cross al
tentively.
: 81 do not know if it is genuine, sh
said; "but it has all the appearance Q
: an antique thing"
"Oh, it is genuine, said Julian quick
ly; lit was dug up just few days be
! fore got it. gave no antiquarian
chance; so soon as | saw it bought il
and made the finder agree not to tell an
q one about discovering or selling it.
was afraid of litigation"
, But you don't mean to give it
: me. said Rosalie 80 sincerely and wit