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1.-THE rest is onlu suspicion. >

1.-THE rest is only Suspicion
nightfall. Harry had put the warning
elements under When Prendergast re-
turned at supper time. the candle was
lighted in its wall box. the dinted tea
kettle was singing over cracking
fire and Harry was perspiring over the
securing of the last utensil.
Prendergast looked the orderly inte-
r1or over on the threshold with
contemptuous amusement almost
thought was in church." he said. He
took off his coat and lazily watched
the other cook the frugal evening meal
Excuse my not volunteering" he OBJ
served You do it so nicely I'm al
most afraid you'll have another attack
of that forgettery of yours and go back
to the old line
Presently he looked at the bunk,
clean and springy with fresh out spruce
shoots. He went into it. knelt down
and thrust an arm into the empty
space beneath it. He got up hastily.
What have you done with that?" he
demanded, with an angry snarl.
with what?" Harry turned his head
as he set two tin plates on the bare
table.
with what was under here.''
There was nothing there but an old
horse skin" said Harry. ut is hanging
on the side Of the cabin
With an oath Prendergast flung open
the door and went outside. He re-en-
tered quickly with the white hide in
his arms. wrapped it in blanket and
thrust it back under the bunk.
HAS any one been here today since
you put it out there?" he asked quick
~.
NO" said Harry, surprised. "Why? '
Prendergast chuckled. The chuckle
grew to guffaw, and he sat down.
shaping his thigh. Presently he went
ito the wall, took the chamois skin bag
from its hiding place and poured some
.Aof its yellow contents into his palm.
$ That's why. Do you remember that,
sateh?"
Harry looked at it. "Gold dust" he
7,.said. II seem to recall that. am
sagoing to begin work in the trench to-
lmorrow. There should be more where
that came FROM"
Prendergast poured the gold back
unto the bag with cunning look. The
,other had asked for no share Of it.
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Knocked him-a disturbing conviction
that the struggling memory in some
measure had succeeded in reasserting
itself in the shadowy kingdom of sleep.
Waking, the apparitions were fed
again into their obscurity, leaving only
the wraiths of recollection to startle
and disquiet. A girls face lowered
always before him-ruling his con-
seriousness as it. had ruled his sleeping
| thought.
He took down from its shelf the
bottle he had rescued from Prender-
CASTS intention and emptied it of it's
glistening grains-eno to replenish
bis depleted stock of provisions. He
paused moment as he put on his hat
smiling whimsically, little sadly.
He dreaded entering the town. But
there could be no remedy in conceal
ment- If he was to live and work
there, appear he must on the streets
sooner or later. Smoky Mountain
must continue to think of him as it
might What he was from that time
On was all that could count to him.
II he had but known it there was
good reason for hesitation today. Ear
~ that morning an angry rumor had
disturbed the town. The sluice Of the
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Mrs. Halloran shook her head.

MIS-. dall0ran shook her head. 81
never knew anything myself" she
said judiciously. II reckon the town
allus counted him just a general low
down. The rest is only suspicion an
give the dog a bad name"
There had been comfort for Jessica
In this interview. Mrs. Halloran's
story had materially increased the
poignant force of her pity. What had
seemed to her vulgar brawl had
been in reality a courageous and IN
selfish championship of defenseless
. outcast. Thinking of this. the self
blame and contrition which she had
felt when she listened to the violin
assailed her anew, till she seemed a
very part of the guilt, an equal sinner
by omission.
Yet she rode homeward that day
with almost light heart.
AS Harry stood in the cabin door
way looking after Prendergast toward
the town, glistening far below in the
morning sunlight, he thought bitterly
of his reception there.
"They all knew me-" he thought.
Every one knew Neon the street, in
the hotel. They know me for what I
have been to them. Yet to me it is all
a blank. What shameful deeds have I
done" he shrank from memory now.
what was doing so far away, where
was I going, on the night when was
picked up beside the railroad track? I
may be drunkard," he said to him
self. mo, in the past month I have
drunk hard, but not for the taste of the
liquor. I may be gambler, I may be
cheat, thief. Yet how is it possible
for bad deeds to be blotted out and
leave no trace? Actions breed habit If
they do not. spring from it, and habit
automatically repeated becomes char
acter. feel no inherent propensity to
rob or defraud. Shall I? Will these
things come back to me If my memory
does?
In the battle that he fought now he
turned, even in his weakness, to man.
ual labor, striving to dull his thought
with mechanical movement. He clean
ed and put to rights both rooms and
sorted. their litter of odds and ends.
But at times the inclination to escape
became well nigh insupportable. When
the conflict was fiercest, he would
think Of girls face once seen, and
the thought would restrain him. Who
was she? Why had her look pierced
through him? In that hateful career
that seemed so curiously alien could
she have had part?
He did not know that she Of whom
he wondered in the bitterest Of those
hours had been very near him; that on
her way up the mountain she had
stolen down to the Knob to look
through the parted bushes to the cabin
with the blue spiral rising from it's
chimney.
Though the homely task to which he
turned failed to allay his struggle by
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At that moment he decided to say
nothing Of the evening before, of the
| girl or the horseback journey. lest
Hugh cudgeling his brains, might re-
member he had been offered half.
There's plenty more where that
came from, all right" he said, land
I'll teach you again how to get it one
Sf these days"
Prendergast said little during the
meal. When the table was cleared he
lit his pipe and took from a shelf a
board covered with penciled figures
and scrutinized it.
| Hope you remember how to play
old sledge?'' he said.
Harry did not move. As they ate
he had been wondering how long he
could abide that sinister presence As
he was about to speak a knock came
at the cabin door, and Prendergast
! opened it.
The visitor Harry recognized in
stantly. It was the man who had
called for fair play at the fight before
the saloon, who had drawn him into
! the hotel.
Fielder carried bundle under his
arm. He nodded CURLY to Prender-
CAST and addressed himself to Harry.
II am the bearer Of gift from
some one in the town. he said. 81
have been asked to deliver this to
you" He put the bundle into the
others hands.
Harry drew up one Of the chairs
hastily. "Please sit down." he said
courteously. He looked at the bundle
curiously. eft eos dona ferentes," he
said slowly. "a gift from some one
| in the town.
A keen surprise flashed into the law
yer's glance. "The quotation is clas-
| Sic" he said, "but it need not apply
here" He took the bundle, unwrapped
1t and disclosed battered violin. ''Let
me explain" he continued. "For the
owner of this you fought battle yes
! terday. You tested its tone a little
later. It seems that you are a master
of the most difficult of instruments.
There was time, I believe, when the
| old man was it's master also. He was
once, they say, the conductor of an
orchestra in San Francisco. Drink and
the devil finally brought him down.
For three years past he has lived in
Smoky Mountain. Nobody knows his
| name. The town has always called
him old Despair You did him what
Is perhaps the first real kindness he
has ever known at its hands. He has
done the only thing he could to requite
it."
Harry had colored painfully as Eel
der began to speak. His voice was I'M
] steady as he answered.:
II appreciate it, am deeply grateful,
but it is quite impossible that accept
it from him.
"You need not hesitate" said the
lawyer. "Old Despair needs it no long
er. He died last night in Devlin's
dance hall, where he played when he
| was sober enough for his lodging.
| happened to be near by, and assure
you it was his express wish that give
the violin to you.''
Rising, he held out his hand. Good
night" he said. II hope your memory
| will soon return. The town is much in
| terested in your case''
The flush grew deeper In Harrys
cheek, though he saw there was moth
ing ironical in the remark II scarcely
hope so much" he replied. II am
learning that forgetfulness has its ad.
| vantages.
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Vas gohe, and tho ranking barb Of
accusation smarted. He should apollo
gize to the owner, he reflected satirical-
", for helping himself to the automo-
bile-he who stole gold dust, he at
whose door the town laid its unferret-
! ed thieveries, he who was the scape-
goat for the towns offenses.
That owner, in very fact, stood just
then in the hotel doorway regarding
him with interest. He was the sheriff
Of the county. He was about to step
forward when an interruption occur
! red. A scuf1e and weak bark sound
| ed, and lean brown streak shot across
the pavement.
| "Rummy! cried Harry. "Rummy!"
Through some chink of the dead wall
in his brain the name slipped out,
tiny atom Of fotsam retrieved from the.
wreck of memory. That was all, but to
the animal which had just found it's
lost master the word meant sublima-
ton of delight, the clearing Of the puz.
zle Of namelessness that had perplexed
its canine brain. The dogs heaven was.
reached.
Down on his knees on the pavement
went Harry, with his arms about the.
starved, palpitating little creature and
his cheek against its shaggy coat. In
another moment he had picked it up in
his arms and was walking up the.
street He went back to his cabin with
strange feeling of exaltation and dis
appointment exaltation at the recur-
renee of something of his old adven-
lures, disappointment at the flushed
silence with which Jessica had re-
ceived the child.
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through with me-" he glowered. land
you think you can go 1t alone" The
old suspicion leaped in the malicious
countenance. well. it won't pay you
to try it yet. know too much! Dc
you understand? l know too much!''
Harry went out Of the cabin. At the
door he turned If there is anything
you own here he said. take it with
you. You needn't be here when ! come
back !"
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Chapter 10

ESSICA bore back from
the town that afternoon
a spirit of tremulous:
@7A gladness. In the few
moments of that thrill
ing ride and rnscuo u
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like iron on Prem
dergast's Shout
der and turned
him forcibly to-
ward the open
door. His other
hand pointed. and
his suppressed
voice said: This
cabin has grown
too small for US
both. The town
will suit you bet
ter"
Pr en- dergast
shrank before the
wrath whitened
face, the danger:
Gus sparkle in the
eyes. you've got
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| spirit of tremulous:
| @@ gladness. In the few
moments of that thrill
ing ride and rescue q
mysterious change had been wrought
in her.
In the past days her soul had been
possessed by a painful agitation which
she did not attempt to analyze. At
moments the ingrained hatred of
Hugh's act, the resentment that had
been the result of that year of pain.
had risen to battle for the inherent
justice of things. At such times she
was restless and sat much alone, puz-
cling David Stires by meaningless re-
sponses.
She could not tell him that the son
whose name he never took upon his
lips was so near; that he whose crime
his fathers pride of name had hidden
through all the months since then had
gone down with the current, Stunned
! by honest folk, adding to his one dis
NAL act the weight of persistent repe-
tition. She could not tell him this.
even though that son now lived with
out memory of the evil he had done,
| though he struggled under cloud of
hatred. reaching out to clean deed and
high resolve.
Now, however, all distrust and trepi-
dation had vanished. Strangely and
suddenly the complex warfare in her
mind had stilled. Standing with Mrs.
Halloran, she had listened to the COM
ment with shining eyes. Not that she
distinguished any sudden change Of
opinion to turn persecution to populari-
ty and make the reprobate of today
the favorite Of tomorrow, but in its
very reserve she instinctively felt
new tension of respect. Suspicion and
dislike aside, there was none there
who would again hinder the p.sa who
had made that race with death.
For her own part. she only knew that
she had no longer fear Of soul or sense
Of irrevocable loss or suffering. The
Hugh she now loved was not the Hugh
who had sinned.
He must some time learn the facts
of his past Was it not better to know
the very worst it contained now. to
put all behind him and face future
that held no hidden menace? She
alone could tell him what had clouded
his career, the thing whose sign and
symbol was the forged draft. She car
ried the slip of paper in the bosom of
her dress. and every day she took it
out and looked at it as at some malef-
cent relic. 1t was a token of the old
buried misery that. its final purpose
accomplished, should be forgotten for
ever. How to convey the truth with
as little pain as might be. this was the
problem. and she had found the solu-
ton She would leave the draft secret
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burying his face IN the chflRs dress,
and crying ike baby. he crossed the
street hastily to his own door.
Harry stepped to the pavement with
q dull kind of embarrassment at the
manifold scrutiny. He had miscon-
strued Jessica's flushing silence, and
the Inference stung. The fierce zest
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N the day following the
expulsion of Prender-
CAST, Harry woke rest
less and unrefreshed.
r q q FIN - conoofinno
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q Chapter u.s.
>SI/

HE little town had been
unconsciously grateful
for its new sensation.
The return Of Hugh
Stires and his apparent
curious franSforrna ton
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Secrets OF Family Life,

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AOma
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Chairman Board County Commission.
ers
Attest:
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by B. W DUKE, Deputy.
(SealJ
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-04-09
[CoMNUNIcArED.
CORNER LOAFING.

Through the medium OF the Gazette L
wish to put the following before the peo-
pie OF Alexandria:
King street IL more and more daily be-
coming the lta6pg place for young meu
and boys. After dark this street in GER
tain localities Ia Infested with number
of losfers who cit around on door.Stoops
or bang around the euro Of the pavement
and 10 many ways mske'their presence
exceedingly obnoxious to people passing
40 aud down the street. On several oc-
essious the writer has been halted b.
little boys begging for nickel or dime
10 see the picture shows. The pavement
In a number of places presents very
dirty appearance, these leasers expe cto-
raliug or throwing papers around give
the street very ugly appearance Par
ticulsrly would the writer cal! attention
to King street between 81. AsaPh and
ROYAL streets aud if the reacer doubis
the verscity of the above statement lei
him tomorrow night walk In the above
mentioned places and would he also, to
be further convinced, walk to the upper
end OF King stree! where one or two ss'
looms do very large business smong tho
negroes. We as sell as Washington have
laws which provide for vsgiancy aud II
is the daty OF the city officials to see that
they are enforced. "
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-04-09
nHOME.OOMING WEEK. y

A meeting of the executive committee
having 10 charge the celebration, during
"Home. Coming Week" met 10 the rooms
of the Chamber of Commerce, last night,
and received reports from all committee
chsirmeu. Everything is in splendid
organization, and from nov until the
opening of The week nothing will be
neglected to make the occasion 8
memorable ore. The executive COM
mittee have decided to indorse the color
scheme OF the decoration committee, and
the chief marshal hss recommended
that the chief marshal aud members OF
his staff we8r uniform ssshes Of Viz
0iuls and national colors. A commit
tee was appointed to have sashes made
at once. Mayor Psf, chairman of the
reception committee, was authorized to
secure Lee Camp Hall for the weeks
celebration. Every local organization
wanting information is requested to send
their representative to the meetings OF
the executive committee which meets
nightly at the rooms OF the Chamber of
Commerce. The iosuce committee re-
port that the contributions continue to
be liberal and ask all not yet approached
60 communicate With the chairman, MI.
Taylor Burke.
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TIE OLD RANDALL LINE.

II is reported 10 Biltimore thst the
old Randall Line, now tue Potomac aud
Chesapeake Slesmship Company, ia 10
ran bcals between that city, Alexandra
and Washington. Complaint Is uade
10 Baltimore that freight shipped from
that city for Colonial Beach by wsy Of
the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia
line is taken all the way up the Potomac
to Alexandria aud then sent back sgain
By the Randall Line to Colonial Beach
instead OF being put of there on the way
up. The reasons given for going all the
way to Alexandria instead of stopping
at OoIoDisl Beach snd other points along
the south bank of the river Is that the
Potomac lie very wide, and to cross from
one side to the other snd make stops
would delay the boat too long 10 reach.
ing It's destination. 10 addition 1t is
said that the Maryland, Delaware and
Virginia made contract some years ago
with the Randall Line for the hauling
OF freight to the south bank and that
they ars bound to carry out the contract.
Another persistent rumor in connection
With the recognized Randall line is
that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will
ultimately use 1t for the handling OF
freight 10 connection with the Norfolk
aud Western from its wharves in George
town. Incidentally word comes from
other sources to the effect that the Penn
sylvania will shortly make an effort to
get control of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad.
THE agents Of the Potomac and
Chesapeake line in this city know moth
ing in reference TO the above reports. ]