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Arizona republican., 1904-11-13

| How about me-" asked Oxenford, | thoughtfully. He was not sorry that | FIiuermouse had bad foot. ] She says she can never face you 1 again. She doesn't want you to think i she's a whimpering little blind began 1 OxenfOrd did not smile even at that. | for he could imagine Mary's misery But I've got to see her. you know, |" ! he said. frOwning. Tell her it's Con" ! And Miss Hutchlns did regardless of ! the clamor of a Presbyterian con science. Presently Oxenfo-d, waiting in the little sitting room heard Mary moving through the hall. She came very slowly and OSenford had time to think up what he intended to say. It had not occurred to him that she was feeling her way along the hall until she entered and then he saw that her eyes were bandaged.
 "Weu?" she said. Well. Con- And because there was an oppressive si- Ience, Oxenford could see her shrink in expectation of something unpleas- ant to come, and Ionged to simplify matters by taking her in his arms, and telling her a few plain truths. Yet Et- tie and half blind and hard up, Mary was Mary and had to be treated ac- cOrdingly. She felt her way quite close to him and gripped his coat sleeve.
 Don't tell me he lost, Con-" she said.
 "No." muttered Oxenford. NO. but he cant run
 At his voice Mary grew rigid for moment. Then she reached up very deliberately and ran her small fingers across his face.
 "Oh, it's you, Oxie2" she said and raised her hands to her eyes as if to N.s1r- er.-.-1 caught her wrist.
 Don't do that" he said, ia alarm. 'Youu hurt your eyes"
 'I want to look at you, Oxie," Mary said, simply.
 What" said Oxenford. Then what do you tell your friends to keep me out for? l guess you must believe some of those lies about me after alI.'
 "Oxie." cried Mary, her face quiver- ing. You know I'd never believe any thing about you that wasn't kind and square and all right. You know it."
 You must have believed some of it. .OXenford persisted, "or you wouldn't have sent me the check. Did you think I'd take it?"
 q was afraid you wouldn't" Mary said. smiling faintly.
 Well you were right there" Oxen ford returned. deliberately. If you car ed anything about me, might have taken it."
 T do care, Oxie," Mary protested. T do care"
 ''oh. that way" sconed Oxenford. A lot of good that does mel"
 "Oxie," said Mary. suddenly, If I loved you, would you take that mOR- ey?"
 No" said Oxenford. with an effort. He found it hard to be square just then Because I don't need it. Mary Then you never lost anything?" Mary demanded, her face hardening.
 Not enough to count" Oxenford ad- mitted.
 Mary turned on him like a little cat. T wish you had she flung at him. savagely. T wish something would
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happen to you. But you're 90 beastly lucky" This was enigmatic, but OK enford began to see things clearer.
 ''I den't see how you make that out he said, slowly. T may be lucky with money and horses, but how about the rest of it2 You know that little pal l used 10 have. I thought sometimes ] could get her to care for me, but it's no good. She's gone back on me"
 "She hasn't" Mary said fercely- she hasn't. If they'd let her alone she'd have asked you to come back herself But she was afraid if she ask ed you now, you'd come ou- of pity
 Pity. Oh rot" said Oxenford, bru- tally. That girl had more sense than you. Mary. She knew loved y0u-' Mary wavered where she stood.
 "Oxie," she said, and a great fear grew on her face. suppose that pal of yours goes blind?"
 ''She won't" said Oxenf0rd- We won't let her" But Mary went on:
 she was afraid of that And she wanted to be square with you before before" She found it impossible to finish that sentence. If Flittermouse had won, Oxie-"
 -Oh, hang Flittermousei" grOwled OXenfOTd. I'm sick of horses. I love you, and all you talk about is getting square with me You don't seem tO understand, Mary. I've loved you for years. and I'm going co marry you, FEttermOuse or no F1i.termouse."
 Mary freed her eyes with one des- perate gesture.
 "Oxie." she said. staring at him, you're sorry for meir
 Sorry for you2" Oxeuford repeated. Sorry for you? No. I'm not sorry for you I think you're a regular little brute, Nary
 Mary put out her hands to him with 9 laugh that was tremendously near tears.
 "Oh. don't Oxie." she said. don't, thought it was just like you to marry me, because I was such an unIucky little devil. And I didn't want that. be- cause I cared so much"
 Oxenford swept her into his arms.
 T know" he said- and held her close My bully little pail"
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me" And he went without more leave taking.
 Oxenford went to England Mary sub scribed to an English sporting paper, which was scarcely relevant to the ca reer of F'littermouse, for that ornament of the turf remained on this side, and continued to lose races. At last luck changed and Filter mouse won a race and a modest purse. ! Mary hUttered the check jubIantly be- fore her friends.
 But, Mary" Miss Hutchins said, with some reproach. T thought you were going to sell the horse.' ] Mary set her little jaw. Not yet" she said; I'm not square with Oxie 1 yet He wouldn't touch a cent of the money if I sold FlittermOuse, but they | say he has to take his share"
 As a matter e, fact, she had thrown | herself into her work with the dogged ] enthusiasm characteristic of her. She 1 grew big-eyed and thin, ana the "un- l grateful little devils" got on ner nerves. ] Also, after the manner of the youthful 1 modern schooimarm, she attended var | iOus courses of lectures and took end | less nCtes. The little tin gods, who 1 were her superiors, praised her devotion and in the middle of the winter she ! broke down.
 See q. specialist" was HeIen's die 1 tum. I'll get off tomorrow and take you to the big man who treated my eyes
 It's all nonsense" muttered Mary dehautly. The big man will say it's nothing"
 But sadly, enough. the biz man was final and memorable. No more work for the much-abused eyes. Some time n a q ar4ra a tiOn. After that, perhaps. Mary came home white and Oitiful.
 That nights mail brought a letter from Oxenford.
 Read it to me, will you, Dicksie % Mary said to the little kindergartner for her eyes were bandSged. And IT get you to answer it, too, if you will ?' It's only business
 But the little kindergarten hesitat- ed over the last paragraph, which was not strictly business-Ike.
 Are you all right, Mary?" Oxenford | wrote. You don't say anything about yourself. I was fool to come over here. But if you want me, you've only got 10 say the word. You know that
 Never mind that part" Mary cut in Just write few lines for me-" The little kindergartner scrubbed obedient- ly to dictation.
 "Is that alI?" she asked rather wist- fully She had liked Oxenfords letter and she was not satisfied with the brie. reply Mary had dictated.
 Mary laughed sharply. Perhaps vol think ought to write the truth, Dick. sic. Something like this: Dear Oxie I'm tired out and half blind and want you. Even if you're only sorry for me, I want you just the same you're not a good sport, Dicksie, O. you wouldn't advise it. His address i. Ill that little red book"
 I'm writing it." And abandonin, once for all the role of an eminentI, truthful and self-righteous little kin dergartE2r, she deliberately wrote ; few lines across the foot of Mary's let ter.
 Dear MT. Oxenford-Mary will nev CT forgive me for writing this, but can't help it. She's i'll, and her eve are all wrong, and I think she woul, like to see you, but she will not let vol know" And signing her name hastil, she bundled the letter into it's en | velope
 All right. Post it for me-" sai
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Mary, that sedate and dainty little lady, burst forth from her schOOlrOom when the last of the wicked small boys she had been keeping in had clumped out. Rosy and hatless, she fell upon the newsbOy who was shrieking the sport ing extra under her schoOlroom win dow. She crushed the paper between her hands and tossed it aside after one glance down the column. She and OK enford were heavy losers.
 She dropped down on one of the tiny desks and sat for an hour or more blankly staring at the wall Between her and her father Oxie had been well robbed. And now she had forced him into running a third-rate horse for her. She was still sitting there when the janitor came in and began to raise the dust with huge brush. Mary rose still and sic!z and cold. She scribbled a little note to Oxenford, but at the post box withheld her hand.
 Hell be around tonight to tell me it's all his fault," she told herself, with forlorn humor.
 Oxenford did turn up at o'clock. big and grave and troubled. He knew pre- cisely how Mary was going to take it, and he was prepared for the fight of his life. Mary kept him waiting some time. She had taken fiat with two girls she knew. They were nice girls. One vas big and brown and handsome, | a stenographer to some important po- litical man; the other kindergartner, a Wtsp of a creature, selfish and hum Orous. They came in and entertained OXenford, but the good opinion they had previously entertained of him died. It is not easy to make small talk with 1 xx-1,N NcJ,o scOwls. Finally Mary made her ap- pearhnce and they escaped gladly. She took her seat by the table, with a bus | iness-like air, and looked across it at | Oxenford.
 Hard luck, wasn't it?" she said cheerfully, though her small features were disffgured with much crying. I've been trying to figure out our losses. and l think I've got it straight" She l fiattened out her little account-booIz | preparatory to reading items to Oxen ! ford. But he moved over to the table and rested his arms upon it.
 You stop right there, Mary," he said 1 It's my loss, whatever it is There isn't anything to speak of. It was my bad Judgment in pulling him in that race when he wasn't fit. I tried to push him, when I ought to have waited. and 1 l He did not meet Marys eyes, which l was unfortunate, as he might have learned something to his advantage l When he looked at her. she was fg71r- ing stubbornly in the red covered note book.
 | Did you hear me?" he persisted.
 Mary pushed the book from her and sat up very straight
 OXie," she said deliberately, q know your game. Partners if we win but if We lose, you stand to pay. Well don't play it that way"
 Don't you believe what I say?" de- manded Oxenford, with righteous heat
 Mary studied him few minutes with a curious smile.
 Never mind what I believe" sai6 she 'Is that horse any good at aU?'
 He's sure to win later on," said OK. enford, with conviction
 Well, then,' said Mary. "vou'v, either got to take my half of him. or let me pay you that money"
 You're awfully afraid I'm going f,
 do little for you" Oxenford said viii a sullenness so foreign to him ina
 Mary stared in silence. She was look
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ing very little and tired, but Oxenford plunged on savagely. Whats a few thoU? If you cared anything, you wouldn't mind. I know you don't care for me or my horses. I never had the cheek to think you'd care, though you always were such a bully little pal. But I've had enough of this. Square with mel" And he laughed. "Whnt goos's money and horses to me, if see yoU worrying yourself sick. and I can't stoT you?"
 He stopped, and Mary, as if released got to her feet. But she held to the back of big chair. for her knees were shaking.
 Don't you care for me at a:l?" de- manded OxenfoTd.
 Mary looked beyond him over hi: shoulder. Her small face was set though she spoke gently enough.
 You're always good OXie," she said Its good of you to be sorry for me You always were sorry for things tha had "a tough time of it. And it's s, square of you not to pretend to ear for me; but just to put it that way Thank you a lot OXie, for all you'v done for me, and for running the horse and that, but let's forget the rest O
 
 him had not Oxenford thrown out detaining arm.
 Look here, Mary" he said. T that's the way it is, I'm going to talk my racing stable to England. I've bee thinking of it for some time. I'd like t try it over there-unless you care t have me stay"
 Don't let me interfere with you plans" Mary said politely.
 Oxenford released her suddenly. " won't" he growled. And what's nor, you're not going to bully me. I'm no going to take your half of the horse"
 Well, then" said Mary, well con tinue as We are. And I owe you tha money"
 All right then, you de-" said oxen ford and added with some bitternes! It's wonder you don't ask me to pu in bill for training. Good night, Mary I'll keep you informed about the hors, l And if you waIlt me-' T shan't," Mary said with dignity.
 If you want me" Oxenford repeated stubbornly "yOuH have to send fo
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Its that Wretched FlittCrIuuuse ," she said, Indignantly. They say there s something wrong N tn him and le can't race"
 Oxenford remembered then and Un- derstood. That foot of hIs again" old Con nodded. Too bad, bU. # cant be helped. You needn't wait, Con, I'll tell Miss Mary"
 old Con hesitated He Kne.e very little outside of horses. but he was de- voted to Mary, and soIlehow the isea was hzed in his old head tha- Miss Mary was worrying over what she owed MT Oxenford. Con knew some thing of Honest Johns affairs.
 MT. Oxenford," he muttcred- Oxen ford turned on him, and under his sur prised look Con found his words with difficulty. You won push Mss Nary for the money" he said. The horse ain't done yet, sir"
 You old fooli" said Oxenford, but not unkindly. Get out" and waited for Miss Hutchins to lead the way into the flat.
 But that young woman faced him desperately, her face almost tragic Un- der the tiny jet of gas that hickered on the stairway.
 T don't believe she'll see you, MT, Oxenford."
 Why not?" asked Oxenford, quietly. Did she find out Miss Murray wrote to me?''
 Yes, Miss Hutchins admitted some what startled by the presence of this ! big, quiet hOrseman-
 'Dicksie's curate made her tell Mary last night" Oxenford did not damn Dicksie's curate, but his expression spoke TOT him. There were tears in Miss Hutch ins' dark eyes.
 If FHttermouse wins this race. she | says she is going to take the money and go off somewhere. She never wants to see any of us again"
Arizona republican., 1904-11-13
By Clara Gaillard Byrnes.


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 To use OXenfords expression; Mary was choice. She had always loved what was serene and pure and dainty since the days when she wore socks and a big frilled hat and accompanied Honest John" Petrie in his daily spin over Macomb's Dam. Honest John was not above stopping at various road houses for various whiskies, and he loudly boasted that he could leave the child outside to hold the lines. She was not afraid, by God!
 OXenford's first glimpse of her was in front of one of these roadhouses. There was little of her visible except her gor- geous hat, and the two small steady hands that guided Honest Johns Quiv- ering trotters round and round the grassy circle. It was a winter hfter- noon and the horses refused to stand
 Honest John often drove out to see Oxenford's father, to whom he was well known as a recklessly successful plung- CT on the turf. Sometimes he brought Mary. She was six and young Oxen ford nearly 20, but she suited him ex- actly, even then. He used to carry her out to see the colts. She never clung nor grabbled, nor seemed conscious of her ultra gorgeous clothes. Just as she kept sweet in spite of the elaborate fnery with which Honest John over loaded her so she kept her odd little personality alOof from the coarseness and fever of the sporting world into which Honest John had dragged her.
 When she was sixteen. Honest John crippled himself by injudicious plung- in ryf,, of the incubus of his choice in dress. She took to the cIean-cut styles her soul loved, and Oxenford was smitten with painful delight in this new aspect of her.
 You've hit 1t this time Mary" he said, after serious consideration of her appearance. Those clothes are all right. You look like a little swell in 'em."
 Mary was very fond of Oxenford, and, pleased with his unreserved ap- probation, she hastened to conhde a great project to him. Dad was down on his luck, and she was afraid he was a steady loser. She loved to study things, and she wanted. to be able to do something for herself, something nice. She wanted to go to the Normal school. She wanted to be a teacher.
 OXen1ord looked soberly at her. He had very different ideas for her, but they had to stand for a little.
 What do you want me to do?" he asked.
 Mary wanted him to put in a word with her father. Honest John laughed at her. That his little girl should med itate such flights was absurd, some thing to be denied with roars of Hom- eric laughter
 Give him tip-on the quiet" said Mary, falling into the vernacular in her earnestness. Tell him you're on the inside, and you know I'm stuck on 1t, and I won't give it up"
 Oxenford put it that way to Honest John. and Mary went to the Normal school.
 When Mary graduated, Oxenford sent her the biggest floral horsehoe
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know that l owe it to you. Please. please, OXie. don't send this check back to me. Yours, Mary.
 How dare those people say such things about yout"
 Oxenford reached New York on the day when Flittermouse was to have his trye for tn Greenwich sweepstakes. But Oxenford was not thinking of Flittermouse as he made his way upAown. When he reached the landing outside the flat he al- most fell over Miss Hutchins. She was talking in a low tone to an old man of a distinctly sporting type. Oxenford recog- nized Con Delaney. who had been Honest John's driver for years. He put his hand on the old man s shoulder.
 Hello. Con-" he said. heartily. Come to see Miss Nary
 Yes. sir. That is I have to tell her Con stammered with such trouble in his face that Miss Hutchins haSsened to explain.
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Mary, Wearily. And so the news came co OxenfOrd, who swore over it in mingled pain and tenderness stubborn litle devil!" he said, but with admira- ton rather than censure. I've got to get out of this.' But that squareness for which Mary loved him kept him chahng there in England until his af- fairs were fairly settled. Meantime his intentions got abroad.
 Mary putting out her hand one morning at breakfast, felt the familiar slippery surface of her English turf paper. She sighed and pushed it from her.
 Want to hear the news?" asked the little kindergartner. She loathed the sheet with all her Puritanical little soul To read aloud the contaminating columns of its sporting notes required
 on her part the extreme of devotion,
 but she plunged in gaIlantly. "Oh!" she said, in a surprised voice, land stopped half way down column | She was not lacking in a certain deli
 cate malice.
 1 "Go on," snapped Mary. Il The few paragraphs were to the ef-
 feet that MT. James Oxenford, the we'll Il known American turfman. was about to sell out his English stable and re- | turn to America. It went on to elab- i orate some slurs at his expense.
 "Of course it is.'t true" said. Mis I Hutchins soothingly, for Mary was in a I white rage before the finish I ''True?" said Mary. 'True?" And ,Ishe laughed. You don't know Oxie. T Except Colonel f'rayne, he's the best lsport I ever knew. Go on, Dicksie." I Dicksie finished the article. It closed
 with statement that MT. Oxenfords s llretirement was perhaps due to the fact I that he was crippled by recent heavy losses.
 Mary plucked off her bandage and blinked at them like a sick kitten. | Well" she said, I'm going to write lone letter before I go blind" And she Istarted rather Uncertainly for the sit ting room, in spite of a thunder. gust -Iof protest.
 I Dear Oxie," she wrote; they say Iyoure heavy loser. wish you hadn't lgone over there. I haven't touched the
 quentin money, and I want you to do Isomething for me. I want you to take rlit for it really never was mine. You
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-03
Stock, and Bonds.

New York, May FEATHER larger
volume Of business was transacted on
the Stock Exchange today than the
average done last week and fluctua
tons were rather wider. The specific
causes of the heavincsS of the market
were not easy to discern but the de-
sire to see the operation of the Pan
anna Canal payment terminated has
an influence in keeping sentiment un-
settled. 1t is felt that the uncertain
outcome of the various factors may
account in no small part for the halt
In the stock market. Today's market
missed the sustaining effect of the re-
cent advancing tendency in London
where the exchange was closed for a
nouday, while the more indirect eff
rect OF the Paris market was depres5-
ing owing to the Russian reverse on
inc 1alu river. The weekly returns
showed no decisive Improvement in
the railroad traffic situation and the
net earnings for March reported con-
lilued inc poor comparison with last
year. Ihe lockout of the AtchiSon
machlnlsts was an adverse factor, al
though that stock held better than
some Pacilics. Expressed opinions by
trade authorities that urgent Euro
pean demand for Copper was proba-
bly, satisfied seemed to prompt the
selling OF Amalgamated Copper. The
coalers were hurt by rumors. which
later were denied, that the Attorney
General had in contemplation an ac-
ton against the anthracite combina.