Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16
Jane Jeremy.
by l.. o,coNNELL.

dusty auct1On-fOOm OF boston, Wnere
sparseiy-set electric bulbs glimmered
upon a group of men before the auc-
| tioneers desk. The sale was of
choice books and autographs. yet the
mechanical drawl of the auctioneers
| fell amid listless audience for awhile.
Then came a rustic of reused atten-
ton.
Five remarkably interesting letters
/ of John Noworth, the popular maya
zine writer, who died six months ago
| of heart failure. This storiette-master
| is, up-to-date, the greatest analyst of
womens hearts!
Ten dollars to start the bidding for
private letters of the expert in the
tender passion! Ten dollars! Only
two dollars apiece for valuable mod
els for you, gentlemen, you, who have
all been, are, or will be, conjugators of
the verb-To Love! Only ten dollars!
Absurd! Raise it, gentlemen, raise it!
Ten dollarS-ten-'
LET NE look at the letters"
A tall, slender man, whose IRON
grey hair, clear-cut features, and keen
grey eyes, gave his face distinction,
stretched hand over the ink-spotted
desk, and opened the top envelope of
the letters. AS he glanced at the
written page, he laid OBTAINING
grasp upon the other envelopes.
Don't let this bargain escape, gen.
tlemen! John Noworth's stories are
to be issued in book form, he's already
an American classic. Ten dollars
can't consider such a petty bid. Why,
Noworth got one hundred dollars
apiece for his stories. Every letter
here may be worth hundred dollars
five undred!-well, say four hun
dred for the lot, as it's an auction
| bargain, Going! Going How
much do you say, sir? Haven't had
look at the letters YETI"
Pass the bundle round."
That gentleman keeps them to
himself"
"Send some of them along here!"
The auctioneer leaned forward.
please circulate the other letters
while you read the one you hold. Ten
dollars, gentlemen! You'll raise it
twenty per cent, as soon as you've
glanced"
The grey-haired man. without lift
ing his eyes from his perusal, NUT
tered:
-Four hundred; cash down."
A dozen hands reached for the let
tiers; some piquant gossip, some so
ciety secret, must lie within those
creased envelopes, to so abruptly
raise the bidding. But the hammer
fell, and the purchaser, Mr.. Martin
Jeremy, quickly gathered up the let
tiers, paid his bid, and departed.
Martin Jeremy began life with a
distinguished family name, univers-
ity training, some influential rela-
tives, and no money. Although he
had genius for stoek-broking, seven
years of it convinced Jeremy that
the essential of success was to POS
sess capital. He saw the quickest
way to gain that would be to marry
money.
The girls of his own set" had
names good as his own; poor as him
self, to them he could represent nc
value received" of social recognition
But eventually one of them, in re
turn for some hints as to the mar
ket," introduced Jeremy to a former
school-mate, girl from the Middle
West.
Given steam-plough builder
whose machines have turned him VI
dollars by the millions, and who ha.
| ;nh -,
ton, and an ambitious young stock
broker, wearing the button of tn
Sons of the American Revolution. an,
bargain is soon struck over a pas
sive girl of twenty.
Martin found himself married t
Jane West, girl of whom he scare
knew more than that she was silentl
inoffensive, and, with more flesh o.
her gaunt arms and shoulders, tc
; gether with good dressmaker, Nigh
in time be a presentable mistress O
|. the mansion which was the steam
plough builders gift to the youn
couple.
, Martin. then little more than h,
!, man 'stock-ticker." soon went t
South Africa, to investigate certai
mining interests.
After two years absence he r,
turned to a revelation of possibil
TICS The. awkward. sallow, greer
: eyed, prairie. product he. had left, me
him with smiling aplomb.' The tawn
hair, (which indicates "a passionat
hearD. with underwaves of gold, as
. sunshine had got entangled in it, wa
beautifully dressed. James complexio
, was perfect, she knew how to wes
her charming gowns; she spoke fluen
ly in low voice. she thrilled he
, nerves with her pretty musical laugl
Her eyes shone like the waters
!, sunlit seas. Most Of. alb was Marti
fascinated by those Laughing, scare
|. ing, haunting, promising eyes, hal