Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-07-15

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thought this was Mrs. Gates suite.
will go up there at once"
1t is locked. The Gateses went to
Chicago today"
Then please take me to Aunt
Susan at once. That drunken idiot
won't remember anything. will be2"
julius grew malicious.
Don't Halter yourself. He remem.
bers everything. Tomorrow he'll tell
all his family of my changed state and
have them over to call on the happv
pair" Lallege waxed wrathful.
viii you take me home at once p"
Then she started for the door.
Our doom is sealed cried Iulius
Let us conform to il. Make me the
happiest of men by your perpetual
presence" He eel into his coat and
shoes. took his hat and reached her
side. still fluent
Il will be the happiest of men. as
| am now the best" Lallege started
back. chill despair in her tones.
Our doom is sealed. Mr.. North. the
stairs are full of people,"
Tracy, Dill. Hastings, Hunt
know the notes.-the men who left
an hour ago. Quick! step behind that
curtain,"
Elevators stuck" shouted the re-.
turned friends Heard the news
Eustis Sandys is dead-fen dead at
the Munger house as they were con
graduating him on winning the Ven
ming will casei" There was a little
shrek behind the curtain. Would that
girl betray herself? Instantly Julius
swept back his arm and knocked a
large vase from it's bracket. The
sound of breakage mingled with and
obliterated that low cry on it's way to
the ears of his excited friends
Poor fellow" said North, with con-
viction.
Who's his heir? There1n be a new
defendant for you to fight"
Would they never go? They dis
cussed the affair endlessly. There
was Lallege behind the curtain, while
her aunt in commissions occupied the
background of North's thoughts
Twelve struck At last they were
gone. Lallege emerged from the silken
folds. North stopped to recover her
fallen cloak and scarf. AS he bent
behind the drapery Lallege heard a
step ring on the mosaic of the hall.
A virile voice sounded:
North! What Julius. still on
deck?"
Goodness" said Lallege, wildly.
DO you hold allnight receptions for
your men friends"
The curtain was hopelessly disar.
ranged, but the room had a little bal.
cony upon which a glass door. silk
draped, opened This door was near.
Lallege stepped to the balcony and
pulled the door after her. but it did
not quite close, and she dared not
I touch it again, for the strong voice
spoke in the room she had left
so you heard of Sandys' death -
This was Pettibone leading counsel
for North in the "Venning Will Case.
He detailed Sandys' sudden death,
of which he had been witness. Lal-
lege listened.
"Confound it, North, where is all
this draught coming from? You seem
to live in the Cave of the Winds!"
Pettibone was elderly and testy. He
! spied the balcony door and tried to
crowd it shut. 1t rebelled. because
/ fold of Miss LISTERS gown lay upon
the lower hinge. Pettibone jerked the
door wide open to see what was the
matter. Lo! a very beautiful young
woman in a lowered silk home dress
/ with point lace at neck and sleeves
Pettibone whistled.
a spark in powder barrel produces
immediate results. Lallege had. life
long, been adulated, accustomed tc
hats off and Difference. She had never
before been whistled at Rage over
topped all other emotions-all re
solves. She had but one refuge from
this lowminded, insufferable, hideous
inopportune, hateful old man! That
refuge was julius North himself
Something of the tranquil, unsearch
able. protective strength of the skies
! at which she had just been gazing
seemed in his face as he stepped to
/ wards her when she was revealed by
! Pettibone's act Lallege did not hest
tate; she moved proudly into the
room, took North's arm, leaned on il
confidently. and in the sweetest OF
voices said:
My dear, perhaps the room is cold
/ We do not feel chill as old people
do. No doubt your friend has rheu
/ matism"
Now, this was distinctly venomous
for Pettibone was always grasping
at a vanished youth. and fought fierce.
ly the encroachments and approaches
of age. Then Lallege and Julius looked