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The parchment cracking under his pen
yer, the parchment cracking under his
pen.
Judge Conweu glanced curiously at
Harry Sanderson as he blotted the
emendation- He knew the liking of
the cross grained and taciturn old in
valid, st. James richest parishioner,
had come to the parish only two
months before, fresh from his theo-
logical studies, to fill a place tempo
rarily vacant and had stayed by sheer
force Of personality. He wondered if,
aside from natural magnetic qualities,
this liking had not been due first OF
all to the curious resemblance between
the young minister and the absent SOL
whom David Stires was disinheriting,
for as far as mold Of feature went the
young minister and the ne'er-do-weu
might have been twin brothers.
!. No one perhaps had ever interested
the community more than had Hairy
Sanderson. He had entered upon his
duties with the marks Of youth, good
JOCKS, Sels possession and an ample In
come thick upon him and had brought
with him a peculiar charm Of manner
and an apparent ineapacity for doing
things in a hackneyed way. Conven-
ton sat lightly upon Harry sanderson.
He recognized few preced9nts either
IN the new methods and millinery with
which he had invested the service or
in his personal habits. Instead Of at
tending the meeting Of st. Andrews
guild, after the constant custom OF
his predecessor. he was apt to be found
playing his violin "a passion with
him) in the smart study that adjoined
the gothic chapel where he shepherded
his fashionable flock or tramping across
the country with a brier pipe in his
mouth and his brown spaniel, Rummy,
nosing at bis heels His athletic frame
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shaded lamp, the wheel chair and the
feeble old man with his furrowed face
and gray mustaches. What he himself
should say he had not had time to re-
feet.
The figure in the chair looked up as
the door opened ''Hughl he cried
and half lifted himself from his seat.
Then he settled back, and the sunken.
indomitable eyes fastened themselves
on his sons face.
Hugh was ,meiodramatic- so.
he saw the girl start at the name, saw
her hands catch at the kimono to draw
its folds over the bare white throat
saw the rich color that flooded her
brow. He saw himself suddenly the
moving hero OF the stagery, the
tractive force Of the situation. Real
tears came to his eyes; tears of insin-
cere feeling. due partly to the cheap
whisky he had drunk that day, whose
outward consequences he had so dras-
ttcally banished. ana partly to sheer
nervous excitation. "a =,
Father he said, -and came and
caught the gaunt hand that shook
against the chair.
Then the deeps 81 the old mans
heart were suddenly broken up. my
son. be- cried and threw his, arms
about him: Hugh, my boy, my boyr"
Jessica waited to hear no more.
Thrilling Nth gladness and flushing
with the sudde., recollection of her
bare throat and, feet. she slipped away
to her room to creep into bed and lie
wide eyed and thinking -, -
What did he look like? OF his face
she had never seen even counterfeit
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who's Who In the Story.

SATAN" SANDERSON, the
hero. daredevil, quixotic friend and
minister Of the Gospel.
HUGH STIRES, prodigal and
criminal.
JESSICA HOLAE, the beautiful
heroine, helpless in the rush Of
events and the principal sufferer in
case Of mixed identity.
MRS. HALLORAN, the camp
oracle
DAVID sTIREs, stern, yet for
giving, and at the last made happy
by another's unhappiness.
THE BISHOP, the victim of a
misunderstanding.
HALLELUJAH JONES, the re-
ligious fanatic on whose shoulders
rests the whole weight of the story.
EMMETT PRENDERGAST, the
false friend, perjurer and thief.
THE SHERIFF, who is very
much divided between duty and in
clination.
BIG" DEVLIN, who turns
champion instead Of prosecutor aft
er the hero's race with death.
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! be had been back in that old irrespon-
sible time: the Hugh he had known
then had sprung to his minds eye. an
| initiative idler. with certain grace
| and brilliancy Of manner that made
| him hail-fellow- well-met, but withal
shallow, foppish and incorrigible 4
| cheap and shabby imitator of the out
ward manner, not the inner graces. of
! good fellowship. Yet Hugh had been
| one Of his own fast set" They had
! called him ''Satan's shadow" a tribute
| to the actual resemblance as we'll as
to the palpable imitation he affected
Harry shivered little. The situation
seemed, in antic irony, to be revers-
ing itself. 1t was as if not alone
| Hugh, but he. Harry Sanderson, in the
| person of that past of his, was now
brought to bar for judgment in that
room. For the instant he forgot how
| utterly characterless Hugh had shown
| himself of old. how devoid of all de-
sire for rehabilitation his present rep
utaton in the town argued him. At
| that moment it seemed as if in saving
Hugh from this condemnation, he was
! pleading for himself as he had been,
for the further chance which he, but
for circumstances, perhaps. had needed
| too.
YOU he said, have lived a life of
| just and balanced action. It is bred
In the bone. You hate all loose con-
duct, and rightly. You hate it most in
| ho 81 ,p1o
your son. The very relation makes it
more impossible to countenance. He
should be like you-of temperate and
prudent habit, But did you and he
start on equal terms? Your grand
father was Standish; your ancestry
was undiluted Puritan. Did Hugh
have all your fund Of resistance? With
me it was the turning of a long lane.
Hugh perhaps has not turned-yet"
A breath of that past life had swept
anew over Harry, the old shuddering
recoil again had rushed upon him. It
gave his voice a curious energy as be
ended: And | have seen how far ::
man may go and yet-come back"'
| There was pause. The judge had
an inspiration. He folded the parch-
ment.
perhaps it would be as WELL" he
said in a matter Of fact way, ..if the
signing be left open for the present.
He rose as he spoke and laid the doc
ument on the table
For 4 moment David Stires sat in
silence. Then he said, with a CLINT Of
the old ironic fire: you should have
been a special pleader, Sanderson.
| There's no client too bad for them to
make out case for! Well-well, we
won't sign tonight. will read it
over again when I am more equal to
it,
For long the Old man sat alone, mus
ing in his chair. At length he sighed
and took up a magazine He was
thinking of Harry Sanderson
How like he said aloud. so San
derson sowed his wild oats too. 3
When he stood there with the light on
his face-when he talked-I-I could
almost have thought it was Hugh"
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n \ ~ uut OdS
H<~ later Harry Sanderson
Nc w sat in his study. look
WI ing out of the window
M~ across the dim summer
haze of heat. negligent
~ smoking. He could see the long
white mari road bending in a broad
| curve between clover stippled mead
ows, to skirt the willow green bluff
above the river. There. miles away.
on the high bank be could distinguish
the railroad bridge, a long black skel-
eton spanning the hole" a deep, fish
haunted pool. the deepest spot in the
river for fifty miles.
Since that moonlighted evening oe
the will making Harry had learned
that the long lane had had no true
turning for Hugh. He had sifted him
through and through. At college be
had put him down for a weakling-
UNPUBLISHED, misdemeanant. Now he
knew him for what he really was-a
moral mollusk, a scamp in embryo. 4
decadent. realizing an ugly propensity
to deplorable finale. A consistent
career of loose living had carried
Hugh far since those college days
when be had been dubbed "Satan's
shadow" While to Harry Sancerson
the eccentric and agnostical had then
been. as it were. the mask through
| which his temperament looked at life,
to Hugh it had spelled shipwreck
Harry Sanderson had done broadly as
be pleased. he had entertained whom
he listed, had gone stunning" had
once boxed to q finish for a wager a
local pugilist whose acquaintance he
Affected, known as gentleman jim"
BE had been both the hardest hitter
and the hardest drinker in his class,
yet w1thal its most brilliant student.
Native character had enabled him to
persist as the exasperattng function
Of success. which dissipation declined
to eliminate. But the same natural
grayttation which in spite of ali aber-
rationx had given Harry Sanderson
classical honors had brought Hugh
Sdres to the imminent brink Of 5expul-
ston. And since that time, without
the character which belonged to Har-
FtY as a possession, Hugh had contin-
Fued to drift aimlessly on,-down the
broad lax way Of prohigacy -
!. The conditions he found upon his re-
turn, however, had opened Hugh's
eyes to- the perilous strait in which he
food He was materia1ist. and the
taste he had had Of deprivation had
sickened him In the first revulsion.
when the. contrast between recentn
famine and. present plenty was strong
upon him., he had been at anxious =
pains to make himself secure with his
father-and with Jessica Holme. Har-
rvs mental sight-keen as the hunters,
sight on the rifle barreEwas sharpen
ed by his gknowledge of the old Hugh,
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~ - The youthful follieS
that he had resurrected when be had
called himself his old nickname Of
Satan Sanderson' he had left so far
behind him, had buried so deep, that
the ironic turn of circumstance that
had dragged them into view seemed
Intrusive and malicious.
he had saved an old college mate
from possible disinheritance and the
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lOoheu lOuSmSly
At the spotless coverlid. No; some one
might appear. and it would not do to
be seen in his present condition. 1T
was scarcely 10. Time enough for that
afterward
He drew out the drawer of a chiffo-
aier, opened closet and gloated over
the order and plenty Of their contents.
he made difficult selection from these
and. steadying his progress by wall
and chair, opened the door Of an ad-
joining bathroom. 1t contained a cir
cular bath With needle shower With
out removing his clothing he climbed
into this, balancing himself with an
effort, found and turned the cold fau-
Get and let the icy water. chilled from
artesian depths. trickle over him in 4
hundred singing needle points.
1t was very different figure that
| re-entered the larger room a half hour
later from the sinking mudlark that
had elm the rose trellis. The old
Hugh lay, heap of soiled and sodden
garments: the new stood forth shaw.
en-, fragrant with fresh linen and clean
and fit apparel. The maudlin had van
lshed, the gaze was unvexed and
bright. the whole man seemed to have
settled into himself, to have grown
trim, nonchalant, debonair He held
up his hand, palm outward. between
the electric globe and his eye. There
was not tremOr of nerve or muscle.
He smiled No headache, no fever, no
| uncertain feet or trembling hands or
swollen tongue after more than a
week of deep rotations. He could still
sober up as he used to do with
| Blake, the butler. to help him) when
| II mad been 4 mere matter of an even.
lng's tipsiness. And how fine it felt to
| be decently clad again.
He crossed to a cheval glass. The
dark, handsome face that looked out at
him was clean cut and aristocratic,
perfect save for one blemish-a pale
line that slanted across the right brow,
birthmark. resembling a scar. All
his life this mark had been an eyesore
to its owner. It had a trick Of turn
ing an evil red under the stress of an
ger or emotion.
On the features, young and vigorous
as they were, subtle lines OF SELF IN.
diligence had already. set themselves,
and beneath their expression, cavalier
and caressing lay the unnistakabIe
stismata Of inherited weakness. But
these the gazer did not seess He re
garded himself with egodsticAcompla-
cency. Here he was justsas sound as
ever. He had had his fling and taug
the governor that he could get along
well enough without any paternat help
il he chose. .-~ =. Il 81 = =
BE attentively surveyed the. room.
1t was clean and dusted-evidentiy It
had been carefully tended He might
have stepped out Of it yesterday: Not
thing had been disturbed-yes. one
thing. His portrait that had hung over
his bed was not IN its place: \ mo-
mentary sense of trepidation rushed
through him. Could bis father really
have meant all he had said in his rage
Did he really mean to disown him:
For an instantshe faced the hall door
with clfnched hands Somewhere in
the house. Unconscious Of bis presence,
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turA for the care and
49, sorrow re has caused me
~ 4 - all the days of his life,
for his dissolute career
~ and his desertion, 1 do
give and bequeath the sum of $1,000
and the memory of his misspent
youth"
It was very quiet in the wide, richly
furnished library. The May night was
still, but faint suspiration heavy
with the fragrance of jasmine flowers
stirred the Venetian blind before the
open window and rustled the moon
silvered leaves of the aspens outside.
AS the incisive professional pronounce
ment of the judge cut through the 81
lence the grim face on the pillow of
the wheel chair set more grimly, a
girl seated in the shadow Of the fire
screen caught her breath, and from
across the table the Rev. Henry San
derson turned his handsome, clean
shaven face and looked at the old man.
A peevish miSogyniSt the neigbbor-
hood labeled the latter, with the parish
chapel for hobby and for thorn-in- the
flesh this only son Hugh, black sheep
whose open breaches Of decorum the
town had borne as best it might till
the tradition Of his forbears took him
off to an eastern university. A reck-
less life there and three wastrel years
abroad had sent him back to resume
his peccadilloes on a larger scale, to
quarrel bitterly with his father and to
1eave his home in anger.
Wait" came the querulous voice
from the chair. write in 'graceless'
before the word 'desertion.'
For his disSolute career and his
graceless desertion." repeated the law
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=. my son Hugh, in re-
turL for the care and
sorrow re has caused me
\ ! all the days of his life,
y for his dissolute career
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clOuded senses
that the past six
months of wan
dering and IN
savory adven-
ture were q
d ca m There
was his b e d,
with its clean
linen sheets and
soft pill ow S.
How he would
like to lie down
just as be was
and sleep a full
round Of the
clock! Lastnight
he had slept
where had be
slept? He had
forgotten for the
N 0 N e n t. He
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- H.

a June day a month
later Harry Sanderson
sat in his study. look
ing out of the window
across the dim summer
haze Of heat. negligent
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grind Of poverty.
for David Stires'
health was pre-
carlo US. he
thought Of this
with a tinge Of
satisfaction. The
least of that Pc
culiar clan, one
who had held his
place not by lik-
able qualities.
but by a versa
tile talent for
entertainment.
Hugh Stires yet
deserved thus
much. 81 AIRY
Sanderson had
never shirked an
obligation. las a
m 4 n so " 81,
words used by
the old man-re-
CURED to him.
Did. any man
reap what be
as, he, the Satan
J, getting his de-
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H.

AIRY SANDERSON an.
the judge parted at the
gate, and Harry walked
slowly home in the
moonlight.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-05
CUMMINS THE CAUCUS NOMINEE
Most of StRndpRt Members of the
Legislature Refuse to Participate
B.. An the Proceedings, .A

DES MONIES, Ia, Sept. 4.-(Special Tele-
gram. 1.-THE republican caucus this after
noon selected Governor Cummins the
party candidate for senator for the short
term by an almost unanimous vote. there
being fifty-nine of the ITO republicans pres
ent and participating. When the roll was
called 1t became evident that the threat
made in the morning that the standpatters
would refuse to go into caucus had been
made good in part. There were four pres
ent who might have been expected to keep
away. OF these Senator Seeley explained
his position and said he could not con-
scentlously take part in republican SEN
atorial caucus, and Representative Ham
bleton of Mahaska said the same. The
latter also said If the caucus acted he
would retire from the ticket in MS county
and might resign from the legislature.
Both withdrew. Senators Saunders and
Bruce remained. The former, at the proper
time, moved to have the caucus defer action
until after the election. so as not to inter-
fere with the success of the ticket. Bruce
moved to postpone until after the passage
of the primary bill Both motions were
defeated, the latter receiving no votes and
the former five.
vote by ballot was taken for republ can
candidate for senator, and Governor
Cummins received fifty-eight votes to one
for congressman Haugen. Cumins was de-
clared the party nominee Speaker Ken
dali explained his position, saying he had
been opposed to disposing of the senatorial
matter at this time. but he was a repub-
lican and willing to bow to the will of the
majority in his party and he had cast his
ballot for Curnmins There was the utmost
good feeling at the caucus and little
speech making. 1t is predicted that next
week many of those who have bolted tht
caucus will accept the result.
Governor Cummins at the close OF tho
meeting, declared himself well pleased with
the result of caucus "It is evident to me"
he declared, that my friends want me to
make the race and l am in the hands Of
my friends"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-05
Plans Are Discussed at Length with
Indiana Statesman.
SPEAKERS BUREAU IS BUSY
Tours Being Arranged for Sherman,
Wilson, Root and Straus.
NEBRASKA SENATORS ON LIST
Burkett and Brown Arc 90 Make
Addresses Under Auspices of Ma
tiOnRl Committeeman Plan
Gives Satisfaction.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 4-Following
out his policy of consulting with repubn-
can leaders Of former campaigns when
ever the opportunity offers, Chairman
Frank IL. Hitchcock Of the republican ma
tional committee arrived here at p. m.
for conference with Vice President Fair
banks. lie spent about an hour at Mr..
Fairbanks home and then started for
Detroit, where be will take the boat to-
morrow for Middle Bass island for
conference with Mr. taft
At the railway station here Mr. Hitch
cock was met by George Lockwood, sec
retary to the vice president; Secretary
of State Fred Sims, who is the acting
chairman of the state committee; vice
Chairman George Dinwiddie and Secre-.
tary Carl Riddick of the state commit
tee. lie was escorted in an automobile
TO the home OF MIR. Fairbanks. where ne
found the vice president awaiting him.
There were a large number of subjects
considered between Mr. Hitchcock and
Mr.. Fairbanks, but the chief question
discussed was t he tour of the country
the vice president Is TO make. 1t is eX-
pected that the vice presidents speaking
trip will cover practically all of the coun-
territory where he made addresses during
the campaign four years ago
The directors of the speakers bureau
of the national committee have in con-
temptation the question of sending a
number of prominent speakers with Mr.
Fairbanks and giving them special
train or car for extended tour 1t
has not been determined to adopt this
suggestion, but the question will be taken
up by Mr. Hitchcock as soon as he reaches
| New York. If made the trip will begin
soon after October l and viii occupy two
| weeks or more.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-05
RAWHIDE, NEv., is ON FIRE
Whole Town Doomed from Blaze
that Spread Rapidly NO
Fire Protection.

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 4.-Word reached
here that the town OF Rawbide, New, is
burning. The Western Union Telegraphic
office has burned and wire communication
is interrupted. No details have been re-
ceived, but the fire is reported as serious
Rawhide is a mining town of about $500
inhabitants in the southern part of the
state.
RENO. New. Sept. 4.-According to a
brief message received In Reno this morn
ing the mining camp Of Rawhide is on fire
and the whole town is doomed At 10
o'clock a final message was sent out from
the Western Union office:
Our building is burning and we are
tearing out the instruments"
The fire started in a drug store on main
street. This store was several blocks from
the Western Union building, indicating
that a considerable area had already been
burned. The town is practically without
fire fighting facilities.
The loss will approximate $T5OOOO. Three
thousand people are made homeless and art
without food. There is much suffering
Telegraphic communication with RawhidC
was restored shortly before l o'clock.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-05
NEBRASKA SENATOR'S WILL TALK
Burkett and Brown Called Into Ma
tionaI Campaign.

CHICAGO, Sept. 4.-Frank II. Hitchcock,
chairman of the republican national COM
mttee, left Chicago today for indianapolis,
where he will confer with Vice President
Fairbanks concerning details Of the i'm.
portant speaking part the latter is to take
in the republican campaign. Mr.. Hitch.
cock will leave indianapolis tonight for
Toledo and tomorrow will confer with Mr..
Taft.
Great satisfaction is felt at republican
headquarters because of Mr.. Tafts decia
sion to make a number Of brief speeches
on his trip from Sandusky to Cincinnati on
Tuesday. II is generally believed that thiS
trip will be the start of a number Of
speaking tours by the republican presden.
tial candidate, although no arrangements
have been made as yet for him to leave
Cincinnati during the campaign. The de-
mand for his presence in several s, ates ia
so insistent that ii is felt here that Mt
Taft should take speaking part in the
campaign work during the month of Octo.
ber. That is one of the questions which
will be considered between Mr. Taft and
Mr. Hitchcock.
Men of national reputation are being
selected by the republican national commit
tee for the campaign and while the definite
outline of the several speakers itinerary
is incomplete, announcement was made to-
day by Senator Dixon, head of the western
speakers bureau, that oratorical heavy
guns would soon be on the firing line in the
western division. James S. Sherman, vice
presidential nominee, will actively take the
field and Secretaries Elihu Root. Nathan
Straus and Wilson will also address meet
ings.
northwestern itinerary is being ar
ranged for Senator Beveridge and other
senator's listed are Senator'S Foraker Dol
liver, LaFollette, Burkett Bradley of
Kentucky and Brown of Nebraska and
Senator Borah.
| Their efforts will be seconded by Vice
| President Fairbanks, Speaker Cannon,
| Governor Hoch of Kansas and William
! Alden Smith. Additions will be made to
this list and Senator Dixon expects the
speaking campaign to be in full swing
! October /.
! Secretary Hayward at the republican ma
| tional headquarters received word today
! that e. F. O'Neill had been chosen state
chairman for Idaho, James II. Brady.
former state chairman, having been nomi-
mated for governor Information is also
given that Horal A. Smith OF Tucson, has
been made state chairman for Arizona in
! place of George A. Mauk Of Globe.