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CHAPTER xv.-contlnued.

CHAPTER xv.-continued.
In the swift current of humanity
then streaming up and down the cattle
range, the reputation of the Hallway
House was carried far and near; and
for fifty miles east and west. for five
hundred miles north and south, the
beauty OF the girl at the Hallway
House was matter Of genera story.
About her there grew q saga Of the
COW range, and she was spoken of with
awe from the BRACES to the Blue.
Many a rude cowman made long pill
grimage to verify rumors he had
beard OF the personal beauty, the per-
Oonal sweetness Of nature, che personal
kindness of heart, and yet th4 personal
reserve and dignity of this new god
less, whose like was not to be found
IN all the wide realms of the range.
For each of these rude, silent. awk-
ward range riders, who stammered in
al speech except to men or horses,
and who stumbled in all locomotion but
that Of the saddle. Mary Ellen had a
kind spot in her soul, never ceasing
to wonder as she did ut the customs
and traditions Of their life. Pain they
knew not, fear they had not, and duty
was their only god. They told her.
simply as children. of deeds which
now caused shudder, now set ting
ling the full blood of enthusiasm, and
opened up unconsciously to her view
rude field of knight-errantry, whose
principles sat strangely close with the
best traditions of her own earlier land
and time. They were knights-errant.
and for all on the Ellisville trail there
was but one lady.
AS for Edward Franklin himself. he
could not in his moments of widest
egotism assign himself to a place any
better than that accorded each men,
Der of the clans who rallied about this
Southern lady transplanted to the
Western plains. Repulsed in his first
unskilled, impetuous advance; hurt,
stung, cut to the quick as much at his
own clumsiness and falure to make
himself understood as at the actual
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iihood and laying the foundation of
later fortune. Long since he had
proved up" his claim and moved into
town permanently, having office and
residence in the great depot hotel
which was the citadel of the forces of
law and order, Of progress and civiliza-
tioE In that land.
The railroad company which found
ed Ellisville had within its board of d.
rectors a so-ca1led Land and Improve
ment Company" which latter company
naturally had the first knowledge of
the proposed location of the different
towns along the advancing line. When
the sale of town lots was thrown open
to the public, it was always discovered
that the Land and improvement Com
pany had already secured the best of
the property in what was to be the
business portion of the town. In the
case Of Ellisvilie, this inner corpora
ton knew that there was to be To-
Gated here a railroad division point,
where ultimately there would be car
shops and long pay roll of employees
Such town was sure to prosper much
more than one depending solely upon
agriculture for its support, as was to
be the later history of many or most
Of these far Western towns. Franklin.
given hint by friendly oficial, in
vested as he was able in town prop
erty in the village of Ellisville, In
which truly 1t required the eye of faith
to see any prospect Of great enhance
ment. Betimes he became owner of
quarter-section of land here and
there. In course of commissions on
scales. He was careful to take only
such land as he had personally seen
md thought fit for farming, and always
ne secured land as near to the railroad
as was possible. Thus he was IN the
ranks of those foreseeing men who
luietly and rapidly were makiag plAas
which were later to place them among
hose high in the control of affairs.
Everywhere was shown the Anglo
saxon love Of land. Each man had
lis quarter-section or more. Even
Nora, the waitress at the hotel, had
filed on a quarter" and once in per-
APPS a month or SO would reside"
there overnight, few faint burrows in
the soil (done by her devoted admirer
Sam) passing as those legal Improve
ments" which should later give her
title to portion Of the earth. The
land was passing into severalty, COM
ing into the hands Of the people who
had subdued 1t, who had driven out
those who once haA been its occu.
pants. The Indians were now cleared
away. not only about Ellisville but far
to the north and west The skin-hunt-
srs had wiped out tho last of the great
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rebuff received, Franklin none the less
In time recovered sufficient equanimity
to seek to avail himself of such advan-
tages as still remained; and he re-
solved grimly that he would persist un-
til at least he had been accepted as
something better than laundering
boor. Under Major Buford's invita-
ton he called now and again at the
Halfway Ranch and the major was
glad each time to see him.. Mrs. Blu
ford also received Franklin with pleas
ure, and Mary Ellen certainly always
with politeness. Yet, fatal sign, Mary
Ellen never ran for her mirror when
she knew that Franklin was coming.
OF lovers Mary Ellen would hear of
none, and this was Franklin's sole con-
ISOLATION. Yet all day as he labored
there was present in his subconscious-
ness the personality of this proud and
sweet-faced girl. Her name was
spelled large upon the sky was voiced
by all the birds. It was indeed her
face that looked up from the printed
page. He dared not hope, and yet
shrunk from the thought that he must
not, knowing what lethargy must else
ingulf his soul. He heard SO clearly
the sweet, imperious summons which
is the second command put upon ami
mate nature: First to prevail, to
live; second, to love, to survive. AS
tree whispers unto tree, as flower
yearns to flower, so came the mandate
to his being in that undying speech
that knows no change from the begin
ming to the end of time.
Against this overwhelming desire of
an impetuous love there was raised but
enc barrier-the enduring resistance of
q woman's will, silent. not strenuous
unprotesting, but unchanged. To all
his renewed pleadings the girl simply
said that she had no heart to give
that her hope of happiness lay buried
on the field Of Louisburg, In the far
of land that she had known in young.
er and less troubled days. Leaving
that land, orphaned, penniless, her life
crushed down at the very portal of
womanhood, her friends scattered. her
family broken and destroyed. her
whole world overturned, she had left
also all hope of later happiness.
There remained to her only the men,
DRY of past, the honor that she
priced. the traditions which she must
maintain. She was "unreconstruct-
3D." as she admitted bitterly. More
over, SO she said. even could 1t lie in
her heart ever to prove unfaithful TO
her lover who had died upon the field
of duty. never could II happen that she
would care for one of those who had
murdered him. who had murdered her
happiness. who had ruined her home.
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PARIS sLEuTHs WERE SLY.
Convinced Russia's Emperor That
Thew Were Awake and Active

Convinced Russia's Emperor That
They Were Awake and Active.
The Paris correspondent of London
Truth tells this story of the manner
in which the Russian government test
ed the efficiency of the French detec-
tive police when the car was about
to visit Paris. The chief of the Rus
sian police went secretly to the
French capital, with orders to lie
quietly by in a hotel and only to re-
port himself at the embassy after o
stay of a week. But he had not been
three hours in Paris before the pre-
feet of police learned of his arrival
from French detective. At st. Pc
tersburg they thought this a satisfac-
tory result, and the imperial pair
ventured to go to Paris and drive
down the Champs Elysees without
cavalry around their carriage.
A similar test applied in Rome had
different consequences. The head of
the Russian police remained there for
whole week without his arrival be-
ing suspected On the evening of the
sixth day he called on Count Nelidoh
to report himself to the great aston.
ishment of that ambassador. They
both agreed that Il the Roman police
had not scented out the head of the
greatest police force in the world they
could not be depended upon to know
much about the goings on OF anarch-
lists and nihilists. This is alleged to
be the true. reason Why the car de-
clined to trust himself in tho king of
Italy's dominions.
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Pharaoh's Treasures.

While studying in the British Nm.
scum papyrus which was published
1000 years before Christ, an Egyptol.
ogist recently found clear and con-
else account of the treasures which
the ancient sovereigns of Egypt buried
in various parts of the Libyan desert,
and now an expedition Ia belna
formed in London for the purpose Of
searching for this wealth. The nee.
essary funds have already been So
cured and in n short time q few
skilled explorers will start for the
desert. where the technical work VIII
be prosecuted under the supervisioa
OF NaaanA lake sna U0frle, two Eng.
Tisn engineers. The writer of the
ancient papyrus says that the PhaY-
aohs hid m immense quantity of gold
and precious stones In the region
which Is known by the name of the
Valley OF Kings" and there the first
excavations will be made. The task
will not be easy since the country 10
be searched extends over 40 ,0os
square leagues.
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destroyed her people, and banished
her in this far wandering from the
land that bore her.
Providence did not bring me here
to marry you," she said to Franklin
keenly, "but to tell you that would
never marry you-never, not even
though loved you, as do not. am
still Southerner, am still rebel
Moreover. I have learned my lesson.
shall never love again"
Poor medicine as II is, work was
ever the best salve known for hurt
ing heart. Franklin betook him to his
daily work. and he saw success attend
his labors. He felt growing in his
heart the stubbornness of the man of
property. the landholding man., the
man who even unconsciously plans a
home, resolved to cling to that which
he has taken of the earth's surface for
his own. He knew that this perfervid
time could not endure, knew that the
sweep Of American civilization must
occupy all this land as 1t had all the
AoAuo AlOih tAO AlAC6uCulCS " tuc
plains. He foresaw in this crude new
region the scene of great material
activity, a vast industrial develop
ment. It needed no great foresight
to realize that all this land, now SO
wild and cheap, could not long remain
wild and cheap, but must follow the
history of values as it had been writ
ten up to the edge of that time and
place.
OF law business of an actual sort
there was next to none at Ellisville, all
the transactions being in wild lands
and wild cattle, but, as did all attor-
|,neys of the time, Franklin became
broker before he grew to be profes-
sional man. Fortunate in securing the
handling of the railroad lands, he sold
block after block of wild land to the
pushing men who came out to the
front" in search of farms and cattle
ranches. His own profits he invested
again in land. Thus he early found
himself making much more than live
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the face at IN

nesds Of the buffafo The face at IN
tune was changing. The tremenAcas
drama Of the West was going ON in ay
its giant action. This torrent OF ruts
life. against which the hands Of the
law were stu so weak and unav&ilins
had set for It In the ways OF things
limit for its flood and time for its
receding.
The West was noble country. and
it asked Of each man what nobility
there was In his soul. Franklin began
to grow. AS he looked beyond the day
OF cattle and foresaw the time OF the
plough, so also he gazed far forward
into the avenues of his own life, now
opening more clearly before him. He
rapidly forecast the possibilities Of the
profession which he had chosen, ana
with grim self-confidence felt theirs
we'll within his power. Beyond that,
self-questioning manner, what waD
there to be? Wherein was he to gain
that calmness and that satisfaction
which ought to attend each human
soul, and entitle 1t to the words "Well
done?" Odd enough were some Of
these self-searchings which went ON
betimes in the little ONCE OF this
plainsman lawyer; and strangest of all
to Franklin's mind was the feeling
that, as his heart had not yet gained
that which was its right, neither had
his hand yet fallen upon that which
1t was to do.
Franklin rebelled from the technical
side Of the law, not so much by reason
Of its dry difficulty as through scorn Of
it's admitted weakness, its inability to
do more than compromise; through
contempt of its pretended benencences
and its frequent inefficiency and harm
fulness. In the law he saw plainly the.
lash of the taskmaster, driving all
those yoked together in the horrid
compact of society, a master fnexor-
able, stone-faced, cruel. In it he found
no comprehension, seeing that It re-
garded humanity either as herd Of
slaves or pack of wolves, and not
as brethren laboring, suffering. per-
forming a common destiny, yielding to
common fate. He saw In the law
no actual recognition of the individual,
but only the acknowledgment Of the
social body. Thus, set down in day
miraculously clear, placed among
strong characters who had never yet
yielded up their souls, witnessing that
time which knew the last blaze of the
spirit of men absolutely free, Franklin
felt his own soul leap into q prayer
for the continuance of that day. See
ing then that this might not be, he fell
sometimes to the dreaming of how
he might some day, If blessed byt the
plying and understanding spirit OF
things, bring out these types. per
petuate these times, and so at last set
them lovingly before worth which
might at least wonder, though II did
not understand. Such were his vague
dreams, unformulated; but, happily,
meantime he was not content merely
to dream.
(To be continued.)
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Because of rouge skilfully applied.
the little geisha's cheeks were rosy,
and because of paint her lips were
very, very red, like threads of Grim
son silk.
She wore a kimona of cool, SHIN
mering gray, with storks in erratic
flight all up and down it; her blue
obi-like an overgrown pillow-was
adjusted with care, and atop Of all
was her face. lily-fair under the high.
satiny black couture, her slanting eye
brows-ah, Art helped Nature there
her eyes at once Turing and childlike,
and the scarlet line that was her
mouth.
When Raeburn, lately arrived In
Toxic, came to the teahouse under the
wistarias. his beauty-loving nature re-
joiced. and he told her that she was
like roses and gray mist"
o Taya San looked pleased, though
all she understood was the young
'Merican's smiling eyes: but she
poured his tea, and clapped her she'll
pink palms together for more cakes,
they danced, in movements as grace
full as roses swaying in the wind.
1t was late before Raeburn' remem-
bered that he hadn't stopped in Toxic
merely to visit teahouses, and that
he must get back to Dunn's rooms as
fast as a 'rickshaw and a long-legged
coolie would take him.
ua xuao ooy,, farka5 IN And thot n,,n
had turned in; it saved the bother of
explanations; only a sleepy servant
remained in the hall, to be gently
prodded and kicked into wakefulness
There was late and hurried break.
fast the next morning, after which
Dunn, as a good servant of govebn-
mental red tape, went to his Office,
leaving his friend to spend the day as
he liked. He was pleased to loaf
throughout the morning, to write a
few letters, to scribble some OF the
inevitable postcards, and. late in the
afternoon, clad in creaseless white, to
travel via 'rickshaw to a teahouse-a
certain teahouse with purple curtains
of wistaria flowing all around it.
o Taya San was there. and tinkled
away at an instrument that seemed a
cross between banjo and guitar;
Raeburn sat himself down, with easy
grace, in the cross-legged manner of
his vis-a-yis; they laughed together
over he: quaint efforts to talk 'Meri-
can, and the task of teaching was so
pleasant that when O Taya San lifted
her thick lashes and said, You come
'gain-some more?" he answered,
Sure" quite as IL he were in Toxic
only for the pleasure of talking to
pretty teahouse girls.
"She's beautiful" he confided to
Dunn, few days later, after that lean
jawed. cynical person had been jeer.
ing at him for going daffy over a
mere teahouse girl, kept there for
such chumps as you" my dear boy
replied Dunn, languidly interested,
they're all beautiful-in Tokio-but
you're bound for Manila ON serious
business matters, and then home, and
let me tell you, If you've a sweet.
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There had been other 'Mericans, but
none like him.
Taya San blossomed like some won
drous flower in new kimona of blue,
with glints of silver woven through
It: she danced, she sang to him the
songs of Nippon, and he taught her
for she was willing pupil-much OF
his speech.
Perhaps, too, there were other
things he taught her: for what should
pretty geisha learn, but love?
There had been other 'Mericans,
but none like him; when he came,
straight and tall, fair as a young god,
blue-eyed. with bright hair curling
from his forehead. with his six feet
of immaculate white drill. his CLEAN.
ing smile. who could resist him?
Certainly o Taya San could not.
Raeburn's luggage was piled In the
hall; his steamer was due to leave the
next day for Manila, and he was SO
lacing himself with cigarettes.
You can't take her along, you
know" was Dunn's silence-breaking
remark
"Who?"
Your pagan friend. o Taya San:
who else?"
Don't you know" continued the In
/ forming one, that the girl is a slave,
owned, body and soul, by the grinning
old devil who owns that teahouse and
others like it: don't you know that
Wn1rld ~ 1tru 1,xc
you would buy horses at homer"
Don't: / can't stand it,; Raeburn
jumped Up, pushing his chair away
noisily: pagan or not, slave or not
she's a dear little girl. and I'm all
broke up at leaving"
What about herr" came the pitiless
query.
For answer, Raeburn said things
which would have to be represented
on this page by dashes, and flung him
self out; Dunn heard him in the street,
whistling for his 'rickshaw.
"The boys fool" he unused, but
he's got lifetime to learn it In"
.
A curtain of purple blooms lifting
to the breeze: in a teahouse, two that
clasped. and said goodbye, and clasped
| acknowledging arms and pisad..z
eyes, tears and kisses-kisses and
tears. One to stay. weeping-say not
| that to be a geisha is to be heartless
and one to go whirling back to the
city.
The ship was gone, and day after
| day. all cruelty alike. followed it:
other coolies dashed up to the tea
house steps, and other 'Mericans in
white suits sat at the little tables.
but life was not the same.
Because of rouge. skilfully applied,
the little geisha's cheeks were rosy,
and because of paint her lips were
very. very red, like threads of GRIM
son silk; her gray kimona shimmered
like silken mist. and storks In crazy
flight treiled all across It; but the
eyes of @ Taya San were closed, and
she did not answer when they called
her name.
AS for Raeburn-but Raeburn would
| never know.
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Raeburn around to the incest people
he knew, and giving him a chance to
meet lot of friendly English girls.
But the boy was blind to whatever
charm they possessed-blind to the
memory of girl back home, who saw
no other face than his; his eyes were
only for little figure in a gray XII.
mona, for face with welcoming eyes,
with red lips pouting childishly for
his kisses.
So he forgot, and continued not to
remember. in spite of Dunn's occa-
sional protests. and the smiling faces
Of those nice English girls.
The teahouse under the wistarias
knew him for a frequent guest; o
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The statement of New York min
lister that he has read 1900 books re-
lating to Abraham Lincoln inciden.
tally illustrates the fact that the COM
piiation of a Lincoln bibliography
would be no easy task.
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rhe California man who claims that
he has devised process by which he
tcan grow gold like potatoes seems to
be wasting time in making long expla-
nations. All he has to do is to grow a
ton or two. and everybody will believe
him
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King Edward going in his state car
riage to open parliament furnished
picturesque spectacle almost as enter
tanning to Londoners as the parade of
the three-ring circus Is to people over
here.
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Among the weddings celebrated re.
Gently is that of man of 101 and
wsman Of 100. The dispatches say
that 1t was a romantic affair, but per-
haps they mean rheumatic.
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A man out East advertised for 4
wife. He. had 300 responses to his
advertisement, all of them willing to
give him trial. A man who cannot
get a wife among those he knows. is
surely not to be trusted by those who
know him not
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With SO many people over in New
York willing to pay from $500 to
5000 a pair for medicated boots, it
ought to be easy enough for some
promoter to finance another airship
company
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woman in New York is giving
lecture on How to Become a Charm
ing Conversationalist." The way to be
considered charming conversational
list is to have money.
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That New Jersey dog that according
to the veracious chroniclers wags his
taia up and down instead of sidewise,
was evidently born for existence in a
city Fat.
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great deal is expected of William
Waldorf Astor's son, who has chosen
an army career. He has had all the
training that thorough course in
cricket can confer upon a young man.
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The real name of Gabrielle d'Annun,
MO. the Italian novelist, Is Aapaguette.
If this suggests Spaghetti to you. don't
blame rs.
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} The college professor who declares
that women will be ruling the world
Fifty years hence perhaps reasons from
the premise that she has begun on
MIN. ~
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Careless scribes continue to get
Augustus Heinze into several varieties
Of pickle concerning which he can
establish complete alibi.
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Those village "cut-ups" down in
Philadelphia who enlivened a dance
by letting loose lot. of mice might
pool their brains. without crowding
enc small head.
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A Milwaukee wife has sued for
$7se.0O0 because her husband was
taken away from her. How conceited
he must feel!
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The king of Portugal paints and is
said to have considerable artistic abil-
ity-which is all right so long as he
deeGnt have to make living by it.
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New Jersey has lost 1900 corpora
tons and barely misses them. The
Hother OF trusts is not thinking of
race suicide.
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o ava San.

th1B nttI0 WHAT S-nef-name-
20 Taya San"
THAT 1t? Well, let her and all her
kind alone; even a geisha may have
heart, you know"
Raeburn lowered above him, hand
some. flushing with anger: That's the
limit, Dunn; I never broke a heart
yet. and I'll not begin with this little
beauty"
His companion laughed-a laugh OF
unbelief-but he told his irate friend
to calm down, and wheedled him into
going for a ride.
Now, Dunn knew his Toxic well.
likewise his Yokohoma; perhaps that
10 why he made it a point of trotting