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CHAPTER xxi.

Christmas Cove had entered its au-
tumn lethargy when Aunt Abby Bemis
and her new protege reached it. Capt
Bemis, who never had no say bout
nothin'," but who had cooked hisiown
meals uncomplainingly for three
weeks, emerged whitedusted from the
mill to greet the arrivals, and Chip
was soon installed in a somewhat bare
room overlooking the cove. Everything
seemed slightly chilly to her here.
This room, with its four-posted bed,
blue painted chairs, light blue shades,
and dark blue straw mating, the leaf
less elms in front, the breeze that
swept in from the sea, and even her
reception, seemed cool. Her heart
could not yet feel one spark of af-
lection for this book larned" Aunt
Abby, who had already begun to re-
prove her for lapses OF speech. 1t
was all so different from the home
life she had just left; and as Chip
had now begun to notice and feel
trifes, the relations of the peo-
Pile seemed chilly as the room to
which she was consigned
When Sunday came-a sunless one
with leaden sky and cold wind bear
ing the oceans moaning-Chip felt
herself back at Greenvale with it's
Sundays, for now she was stared at
the moment she entered the church.
The singing was, of course, of the
same solemn character, the minister's
prayers even longer, and the preach
ing as incomprehensible as in Green
vale.
With her advent at school Monday
came something of the same trouble
met at Greendale, for the master, a
weazen. dried-up little old man, who
Wore a wig and seemed to exude
rules and discipline lacked the kindly
interest of Miss Phinny.
Chip almost mature yourg lady,
was aligned with girls and boys OF
10 and IL, and once more the same
shame and humiliation had be en-
dured. 1t wore away in time, how
ever, for she had made almost mar
'N4Ouo pIOSI0So uHuSi A14So HiHAAN''
Her mind was keen and quick, and
once at study again. she astonished
Mr.. Bell, the master.
Something of her old fearless self
reliance now came to her aid, also.
It had made her dare so miles of will
derness alone and helpless, it had
spurred her to escape Greenvale and
her sense Of being dependent pau
per, and now that latent force for
good or i'll still nerved her.
But Christmas Cove did not suit
her. The sea that drew her eyes
with its vastness seemed to awe her.
The great house, brown and moss
coated where she lived, was barnlike,
and never quite warm enough. The
long street she traversed four times
DAILY was bleak and wind-swept. Aunt
Abby was austere and lacking in cor
daily; and Sundays-wel, Sundays
We're Chips one chief adherence.
Another influence an insidious
heaFt hunger she could not put away
now added to her loneliness in the
new life. 1t carried her thoughts back
% the rippled, moonlit lake, where
nay had picked his banjo and sung
70 her; even back to that first night
uy the campfire when she had watch
20 and listened to him in rapt ad-
ed her as
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456 Feet Above Sea.

The County Court met on last Fri
day in extra session.
a number of reports Of road masters
were received and approved.
A number Of guardians were APP
pointed and their bonds filed.
The brass plate ordered from Balti-
more by the county commissioners to
indicate the height of Martinsburg
above sea level has been received and
the court ordered the bill paid today.
The plates Of brass four inches In
diameter and will be placed in the
curbing in front of the court house,
nearly opposite the froat door. The
plate bears the name of Engineer Geo.
w. Vanmstre and in the center the
figures 456 showing that Martinsburg Is
456 feet above sea level at the point in
dictated.
The survey was made by Mr.. Van
Metre, taking the elevation at the cop
ing of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
bridge, south ,ast of Green Hill GENE.
lery as given by the U nited States Geo
logical survey which poiat Is 800 feet
above sea level or 81 feet lower than
the pavement in front of the court house
The plate or tablet will be put in
place il the near future.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-12-13
FOR Sale
SOM l. VALUABLE
Real Estate

The undersigned offers the following
desira bic property and will sell at low
prices.
My farm located at s<arkeley Station
on the line of theC V. r. r. A
miles north of Martinsburg containg
225 ACRES
This will sell as whole or in two
tracts: one of $50 Acres with improve
ments. And the other of rs Acres with
out Improvements.
This will make a fine home for any
one.
l will also sell the following
TOWN PROPERTY
4 houses on West Martin street and
houses on N Charles street and also
my former home on South Raleigh
street.
The prices are low and if met / will
sell in minutes any of this or any
other property have.
w. G. SNYDER
r. r. No. 4
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Nvoolen MIL Remnants
R. R. No 4

A large lot of remnants from the
Crawford Weolen Mill Of various sizes
at about ene-half the iwhoIes,ls price.
Suitable for Ladies skirts or Children S
suits.
]. B. Bowen,
lz64ts. w. John ST.
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mira+ion II tbr,it naught
e1ea could who, ,he recalled the few
nnornentg az tboSJoI: men, unconscious
of the need Of rostraint, she had let
him caress her.
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III.

She spent the greater part of the
following day sitting at the closed
window, wrapped in a shawl, the curl
of her forehead done up in a twist of
paper.
I'm awful busy" she said to her
mother, as she hurried back to her
post of observation after dinner. Tn
mOvin' in across the road"
She nibbled chocolates. She sat and
frOwned or sat and smiled. Once her
mother, who was working over her
| laundry tubs, heard her singing and
peeped in to see her busting the room
And when night fell she dressed in
her black lace gown that had no col
| lar and put a huge butterfly bows of
black velvet in her hair.
III bet no oneH come, now I'm
ready for them" she said humorously.
They'd sooner catch me when I'm
| lookin' a sight"
Larkin, however, came on the stroke
of eight, and was so cordially received
that his apologize smile changed to
one of flattered bashfulness at once.
| He was, in fact. so dazzled that he
forgot for the moment to explain the
| parcel which he had brought under his
arm.
He did not remember it until after
he was sitting down. 81 thought I'd
| bClICt UP Will IL ne eX-
| planned then. She's got to have ii
back Saturday. girl at tke house. She
said she liked 1T. My names Larkin
1t proved to be a circulating library
novel. Welded and Won" which he
had borrowed from some one in his
boarding house.
"OhLoh, thanksw she said. I'm
awful fond of readin', amt you?"
He laughed Unexpectedly. well. ]
/ amt such a much. / saw some books
over on Third avenoo t we ust to read
/ in the barn, one day, an got two o.
them, but 1 didn't get through the
| first"
Didn't yuh?" She smiled at his
sudden volubility.
mo. We ust to have great times
| in the hayloft. They cost five cents
each-about Jesse James an the In
dams. We ust to borr' an lend them
until Buttony Clark Joined the Y.
NJ. c. A. He bOrr'd them all without
tellin' us he was burnin' them What
| sort d. you like?"
ooh, any sort" she said gaily, "as
long as it's a love story. L guess you
men don't read love stories much" He
| shook his head uncertainty and then
/ he smiled & broad grin. She turned
the pages of the book. Except when
yuh want to jolly us along" she added.
He hitched up his shoulder and
looked troubled.
Il don't know but what you look up
few pointers then" she said, and
glanced up archly at him.
He shifted uneasily. "Pipp," he be-
gan; he"
"Oh. him." she stopped him. 81
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with her mother about their neighbors
and their household affairs without
making any change of topic when h.
came in.
When she was too weak to leave
her room she called out Hello, Nike"
as he passed her door. And when she
was at last steadily confined 10 her
bed, she had the cot moved into the
kitchen to be in the warmest room III
the flat, and she received him there
with a smile, even when her voice was
too faint to raise her greeting above a
whisper. She had apparently accepted
their sturdy assurance that she WOu.C
their evenings were as pleasant tc-
gether as if they all believed thar the
impossible could happen and were ie-
solved not to worry meanwhile.
He had been given her Keys To the
flat so that he might not disturb her
by ringing the bell if she we're sleeping
when he came of an evening. One Sat
urday night when he arrived he found
the parlor door Unmatched and tn" loom
filled with women, talking in subdusd
tones. None of them knew him and
they all stared when he looked in
Some one was sobbing in the next
room. Through the hangings he saw
priest.
He shut the door again. tiptoed
heavily downstairs to the street, and
stood on the front steps until a po-
! liceman who was watching him came
up to speak to him. He wandered off
aimlessly without answering.
He passed and repassed the door
several times in the night. AT day
break he saw the black streamer on
the doorjamb and turned home, and
as he went slowly around the corner
in the silence of the Sunday morning
an undertaker's wagon came drum
ming holloway over the paving stones.
"Ah, don't lea me, lad" Mrs. Con-
nors pleaded. Sure, if Maggie'd
lived yeh'd "a been my soon, Tom.
'TelPm good-by to Mike she said,
calm yeh Mike that way. An tell'm
I'd "a married him. she said
Larkin shook his head. He knew
better.
However. he did not go back to his
boarding house. He sat in his old
place in the kitchen until she made up
bed for him in the room that was
now to spare. And when Mrs. Con-
nOrs had gone plaintively to bed he
dampered the stove, tried the lock of
the window that opened on the fiEe-
escape, and took up the oil lamp which
she used to save gas in the kitchen.
He stood a long time gazing at the
light in his hand. swaying a little, his
lips twitehing. He went up the hall.
to the door of the room and stood
there, hanging his head. He blew out
the light. In the darkness he tapped
on the panel and whispered-hoarse-
ly, alphabetically: "Maggie?"
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BY HARVEY J. O'HICGINS.

guess he don't do all the jollyin'
That's a game FER two" She leaned
back and laughed rather harshly Il
guess you haven't been readin' any Of
them lately, anyways"
NO." he said, without Wder-
standing her.
She bent down over the book again
so that he could not see her face.
%,P' raps if you'd ever been in love,
yuh Would"
He was not so stupid that he could
not see she was laughing at him. He
did not answer.
Haven't yuh never been?" He
squirmed and bIushed. Because" she
went on, without looking up, Il want
to know If they do it right in the
books"
He rose slowly. "She wants it back
Saturday" ne said. Il had better come
fer it on
She dropped the book. "Yuh're not
goin'?" she cried.
He started toward the door. She
sprang up and got in front of him.
Now, you go away back there an
sit down.. she ordered. L amt said
anythin to fIy off the handle at like
that Go on, now. / won't let yuh
go. Go on back an sit down."
He did SO shameface6ly.
Great sakes, she said; you're as
touchy as anythin'"
He had been looking at her feet. He
raised his eyes to hers now, humbly
and apologetically, bit with another
expression too-as dumb as the look
Of d dog-that struck her pale. It was
glance that did not last a second.
1t was followed by a long silence, dur
ing which she sat, breathing quickly.
the blood burning in her cheeks, her
eyes fixed on him in a stare that slow
ly changed from an expression of sur
prise that was almost stupefaction to
one of wonder and compassion that
was not unmixed with shame.
4 guess it's kind o. cold out, amt
it?' she said at last. Il wish't d
hurry up an get warm again
He replied hoarsely that he did not
mind the cold; and the rest of the
evening passed in a constrained con-
versation chiefly about his work in the
wholesale house and hers at the lunch
counter" When he rose to leave her
she did not meet his eyes.
She hurried off to bed on the plea
that she was tired. Her mother heard
her coughing wakefully far into the
night.
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W.

1t was almost o'clock before ne ar
rived on the following evening, and he
was received by Mrs. COnnors with a
suspicious manner that thawed as soon
as she saw how he took to heart the
news that Maggie lad been worse
all day and had gone to bed.
Amt she gettin' better?" he whis-
pered.
Her under lip trembled; her little
sunken eyes filled. She shook her
head.
He took a bag of peanuts from his
pocket and laid them on the table de-
jectedly. Amt she any better?"
Not a Bit" she said, under her
voice. Not a bit. An I've had the
doctor every blessed day, an drugs,
an dainties that's eat up the little bit
I'd put by for us-ev'ry cent of it. I'm
at my wits end. I am that"
She began to pour out all the ankle
ties which she had been restraining for
months. He listened, blinking at the
| bag of peanuts.
Thank God, l got my own health,
but I'm gettin' old. I'm not good fer
much. Our frien's as all got troubles
Of their own, Heavens knows-ponr
souls. It's a bad way We'll be in if
Maggie's never to get strong again. A
bad way" She sat down and knotted
her hard old hands together in h ar lap.
An she such a bright girl-pOOr
child"
She signed and shook her head. He
turned his hat over in his hands and
studied it. There was a miserable 81
lence.
How d'yuh do. Mr. Larkin," a voice
chirruped from the door. He started
at the sight Of her peeping around the
hanging at him. She laughed. You're
getting so fash nable l thought yuh
weren't comm"
Il was huntin' fer some peanuts, -
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he confessed. with his usual simplic-
ity; Il couldn't find a peddler."
Peanuts" she cried. ''Wait'u I get
my wrapper on"
He turned to smile at Mrs Connors
They'll do her no hurt anyways"
she conceded. 4 wish't was port wine,
poor girl
1t was port wine the next time he
appeared; it was also calves-foot Jelly.
And though Miss Connors smade
merry over them, her mother was Wis
IDLY won. She relieved him of his
hat and made him take off his over
coat. And having interviewed to save
him from her daughters teasings sew
eral times throughout the evening. she
parted from him reluctantly at half
Past ten and scolded the girl to bed.
There's not many boys in New
York like him." she said; ''more's the
pity. He's
Hes as slow as mud"
What of it?'' she cried. "It's the
mud that sticks to yeh. He's no fly
way, anyways. He's good boy. He
is now. Y'ought to take shame to
yerself to be baitin' him so. Yer own
father was as like him as ever was,
an he made as steady a man as any
grid want. Mind yeh that"
"All right, mother, she laughed.
Let me go to sleep. I'll marry him
in the mornin'."
You might do worse"
I might do better"
Thereafter, If Larkin made no great
progress with Miss Connors. he re-
ceived every encoura Sement from her
mother. She sent him one night to get
a prescription filled at the drug store,
and even allowed him to pay for the
medicine when he insisted that he
shOUld-withoUt letting Maggie
know. Once having obtained that priv
ilege he made it a permanent one; and
from this beginning he insinuated his
aid into the payment of some of the
other household expenses, brought
Mrs. ConnOrs presents of tea and SUI
gar, and finally slipped a part of his
pay day riches into her hand-when
she was bidding him goodnight in tile
hall-"fer the doctors BILL
God bless yen, boy" she whispered
tearfully. Don't mind Maggie now.
It's the way with the girls. She'll mar
~ yeh when the time comes. Don't
doubt it."
He fled down the stairs in such blind
haste that he almost fell on the land
ing, but when he reached the sidewalk
ne stopped to turn up the collar of his
overcoat and solemnly shook his head
before he went on again.
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Though he came every eveninG-and
even accepted an invitation to supper
Sunday afternoon-he had never u1uCn
to say for himself Mrs. Ccnnors re-
ceived him at the door, materially, and
made herself busy about him, and fol-
lowed him down the hall to the kitten
en- Her daughter, prOpped up among
the pillows IL an armchair by the
stove, greeted him with a flippant
Hello. Mike" although she knew his
name was Tom. He would grin and
reply reproachfully: How're yuh
feelin'?"
"Oh, great" she would say sarcas-
tically. Don't 1 look it?"
She was in fact, patheticaliy thin
and faded.
That's right" he would insist 81
guess We'll have't warm pretty soon
now"
He would sit down at the opposite
side of the room and smile and listen
and watch her. She had given up teas
ing him about coming; she accepted
him as one of the family, and chatted
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As soon as she had relieved him of
the package, he backed away from her
and took refuge in a chair. sitting
down in his overcoat, with his hat in
hands. His nose was still red with
cold but he looked warm and uncom-
Portable.
Won't yuh take off yer things?'
she asked, in the voice of social po-
likeness, from a flat palate, somewhat
through the nose.
He shook his head ct JUS dropped
in to see how yuh was" He looked
around the room in a manner of be-
ing very much at his ease.
"Oh, I'm pretty well. L guess" she
said, with a nervous laugh that was
followed by fit OF coughing She sat
down with the box in her lap and be-
gan to open it
He frowned at the cough. That's
right" he said at last. "Yuh don't
want to go back too soon after the
grip"
II guess mine was nemmonia. too. I"
she replied. with an air of pride in 1t.
THE doctor says my lungs amt
strong
He nodded at the crayon portrait of
Mrs Connors on the far wall. That's
what they tor us"
There was an awkward pause in the
conversation until she said 'They' re
f-i-n-ei" bending over the candies.
Wont you try one?"
She held out the box to him and he
reached across the intervening space
to take a chocolate drop. He put it
whole into his mouth, and rolled it over
into the pouch of his cheek in a way
which made il plain TO her that he had
not eaten candies since the days when
he had sucked penny lasters."
She nibbled a chocolate with super
lative daintiness and watched him.
He was staring solemnly at the wall.
I'm over in Bowler's," he said.
"Pipp's in the Pennsylvania offices"
"Oh?'
I'VE ust to go to school together up
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CONVICTIONS OF ITALIANS BECOMING MORE COMMON

grown weary of digging dirt and makes living by writing threatening letters
 The reasons are not obscure. A young crop of Italians has grown up in this city, and they care no more about the customs or ways of their parents than do the descendants of the other foreign-born people care about what their people did. AS a consequence, when crime is com, mitted in Italian quarters now. the police easily find young Italian.Am jeans willing to volunteer as wit nesses. They are not afraid of Italian secret societies of a real or mythical type, or Italian criminals, no more than young American is afraid of an American crook or criminal
 Catholic clergymen who speak Ital. ian have had wholesome influence on Italian people here. They have counseled them to obey the law and to expose criminals. The Italian set clement workers have done much good in the same direction. The big in. crease in the number of Italian police men has done much to unmask Ital. fan criminals.
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IN THE last two months there has | been a surprisingly large increase in the number of convictions of Ital ians in New York. It used to be said that it was almost impossible to get . verdict against them, and often the courts, low and high. had turned loose men of whose guilt there was not the slightest doubt, simply because wit nesses would not dare to testify against the accused.
 Some were deterred by the threats of men supposed to be connected with the Mafia, or the Black Hand; others comforted themselves with the thought that the friends of the injured or dead victims would attend to the crim- inals after they were set at liberty
 The wedge has been entered into the world of Italian crime, ands.th police have learned that it is easier to punish Italian criminals than hith- erto. The Mafia is walking around just to save funeral expenses. It no longer has any terrors for the Latin people. And as for the Black Hand, they laugh at mention of it. To the average Italian, indeed, Black Hand or simply means loafer who has
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ID RESIDENT ROOSEVELT made his \ first speech when he was ten years old. At that time he would a bold sailor be. He had read all the marvel ous tales of the sea and his ambition was to sail the ocean blue in command of a stanch craft that would carry him to the uttermost parts of the earth. He was permitted by his gov erness to spend much time about the wharves of New York and he thus be- came personally acquainted with many of the most famous shippers of that time. Chief among his heroes was certain Captain Doane, commander of the clipper ship Rival
 This old sea dog used to fill the mind of the future hero of San Juan with astonishing stories of storms at sea and hairbreadth escapes from a sepGlcher in Davt Jones' locker. It nred the imagination of the youth and
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ROOSEVELT'S AMBITION ONCE WAS TO BE SAILOR

stirred his ambition. In 1868, the boy who is now president raised fund by popular subscription for the purpose of a library for the officers and crew of the Rival. all of whom were his friends.
 At the head of delegation of youngsters he visited the ship when 1t next came into port and with due ceremony presented the library, con sisting of 45 volumes, to the skipper. The presentation speech was made by Mir. Roosevelt. When reminded a few days ago of this event by an old friend the president said he remembered 1t perfectly and that frequently he had wondered if any of the officers or crew of the Rival were still alive. and. if so, if they remembered his speech.
 "I thought 1t was a mighty fine speech" said he. "and so did Captain Doane."