Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-08-27

something of an oracle. In
fallible, sir, that's the word-abso-
lutely infallible. In fact, to put it
more plainly" said the colonel. 'she
was always right"
II have no doubt of it, sir" l said,
meekly. You see, | was in love with
the coloneps daughter, and under
those circumstances father is not
being to be contradicted More than
that, the colonel was speaking of
matter of family history, and the col
onePs family goes back to the time
little before William the Norman
made up his mind to come over to
England.
Her particular powers, my dear
boy" went on the colonel. LAY with
the romantic. I've heard it said that
all the lovers from all the country
round used to come to her in their
troubles and get good advice. That's
what they say" added the colonel
with wink; but, between ourselves,
Aunt Janet was probably mischief
making, interfering old matchmaker.
That Is shown by the fact that she
still troubles this earth when she
should be reposing respectfully some
this sort of thing, you know"-the
colonel frowned and coughed and set
tied his neck into his shirt collar
zone must put up with 1t when one
belongs to an ancient family. And,
after all, the old lady Is never really
and always keeps to the upper floors -
And this" | said, pointing to a
massive old silver candlestick on a
sideboard-"this Is Great-aunt Janet
candlestick, eh?"
YES" said the colonel, frowning at
1t and shaking his head. Perfectly
ridiculous. of course; but 1t is said
that whenever there is any love affair
on hand the ghost of the old lady
walks; that she carries the candle
stick with which for some three
quarters Of century she lighted her
self to bed, and that If one of the
lovers meets her at that critical time
she gives him such advice as lifts
him, so to speak"-the colonel made
a movement with his hands as though
dandling a large-sized infant awk-
wardly-"lifts him into the ladys af-
fections, or vice versa. But she is
always accompanied by the candle
stick"
at might be worth trying" l said
half to myself. and just at that mo-
ment the door of the smoking room
opened and she came In.
mot a bad notion" said the col
onel, with chuckle. Here, Dora
our friend here thinks of trying tC
get a tip from Great-aunt Janet to
night. though what he wants to trou
BILE her for l can't for the life of me
imagine"
IL do assure YOU" l suffered. a.
she gave me her hand in saying goot
night, 81 don't see what Great-aun
Janet could have to tell me, and, o.
course. l shouldn't think of doing any
thing"
'Of course not, she replied witt
uemure eyes lOOhlnB lutO mine. Bu
it's pretty idea"
She kissed her father-ohl adora BIZ
lips pressed for a moment against tn
stern, white mustache-and went on
of the room; and L found, quite un
expectedly, that l could not sleep.
l discovered, too, that l had left m,
cigarette case In the smoking room
and l had a dim notion that cigar
cite might sootbe me, and might driv
out of my head certain vain dream
and fancies. For who was 1 that
should think that blue-eyed Dor
should ever care twopence about me
l went down softly through tn
darkened house to the smoking room
and switched on the light there an
looked about for my cigarette cas-,
/ found 1t, and had just slipped
into my pocket. when the remen
brance of what the colonel had sal
brought to my mind the heavy silve
candlestick. 1 glanced toward tn
spot where 1t had stood, and l sa'
to my establishment that 1t was n
longer there. In a flash l glance