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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
Cries From the Mere

The servants listening outside heard her say: T will have the officers of the jaw here for you tomorrow morning."
 Finally Griffith retired to his room and Kate to hers, and silence settled over Castle Hernshaw.
 Soon after 1 o'clock the next morning the inhabitants of the castle were aroused by a pistol shot in the direction of the mere. and cries of "Murder Helpl Mur- der!'' The voice was the voice of Griffith Gaunt.
 Ryder ran to wake her mistress-Kate's room was empty! She ran to Griffith's room. It was locked on the inside. They broke it open; it was empty, and the window was open, showing how he had made his egress
 Meantime some of the men servants had started for the mere, to be met at the door by Catherine, pale and fainting, who commanded some of them to bring torches while the others rushed to the place whence the cries came.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
The Serpent Enters

"Why doesn't he come and see us, as Tr. Francis used to?" said Griffith.
 And, after while, Brother Leonard did come occasionally to the castle. But not to dine and sup as Fr. Francis used to. Brother Leonard paid "pastoral calls strictly.
 Sometimes he would walk with Cath crime in the Dame's walk and they would speak of transcendantal things But he and Griffith seemed to find nc possible common interest or ideas
 Then crawled in the serpent and spoiled three lives with her venom.
 There was in the employ of Mrs Gaunt's lady's maid one Caroline Ryder
 It is impossible to present so that the reader would recognize her should she cross his path so great was the con tradicton between what she was anc what she seemed; and so perfect was the imitation. A female rake, but with the air of prude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
For the Murder of Her Husband

No person, living or dead, could be found by the mere side or in the neigh boring woods. All was mystery. Two days after the mere was dragged and @ body, its features destroyed by the carp and pike, was rescued from the waters
 On the brow however, was still left the "Gaunt Mole.' It was declared to be the body of Griffith Gaunt bv the coroner.
 Now just at this time an advertisement appeared in the papers begging Griffith Gaunt, If alive, to report himself to a certain solicitor, as Griffith's distant rel ative, of the same name as himself, had recently died leaving a large fortune.
 But no Griffith appeared and Gather inc Gaunt, after while, was arrested, charged with the murder of her husband.
 She said that the time of the supposed murder she had been out in the Dames walk praying. And she told the truth. But who would believe her?
 Had she not been heard to threaten her husbands life. She had had Tom Leices- ter in her boudoir talking to him for an hour or more that night and a peasant had been seen by the starlight shortly after 1 o'clock, Griffith walking toward the bridge over the mere followed'at a dis tance by Tom. No trace of Tom could be found.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
Confession at Last

While he was away travelling peddler came along by the Packhorse.
 "Hallo," he said seeing the sign. It was the real Thomas Leicester no longer gamekeeper but peddler.
 Tom went into the inn, exhibited his wares and told them that his name was the same as that of the landlord-was the landlord at home.
 No, he was away. But there was his picture on the wall. Tt was a daub done by a travelling painter, but, as sometimes happens in such cases, the likeness was striking.
 Tom looked and the expression which came over his face was enough to arouse suspicion in the mind of old Mrs Vint.
 They saw the resemblance between Grif-. filth and Tom. Tom tried to hold his tongue, but they picked enough out of him to make even the trusting heart of Mercy fill with dread doubts.
 When Griffith returned she tok him aside and told him of the visit of nhe pedler. Then she questioned him keenly, shrewdly, until. finally, Griffith broke down and confessed all to her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
Something to Cry About

Kate wanted to get away somewhere and cry. So she made the housekeeper show her upstairs into her own (the housekeeperss room, as that was the only chamber that had fire in it. Then she locked the door and cried.
 It was one thing to refuse to marry her old sweetheart it was another to take his property and reduce him to beggary.
 But here she was doing both and felt also that she was in danger of being persuaded into marrying Neville and swelling his vast estates with the money which should have been Griffith's.
 When she reappeared among the guests at table, however. she showed no signs of the emotion which had wrung her. But she was secretly more worried than even for as she lay in the housekeepers room, she had heard her father and Griffith talking in the pas sage:
 ''Well, Squire Peyton, this is the end if 1t all.'
 Before Sobriety Was Known
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
The Lost Found by Mercy

Sir George Neville, who had returned long ago to England, went to Catherine in her trouble. Fr. Francis also came to her assistance.
 Sir George Neville. when he heard the whole story, went down into Lancashire and saw Mercy Vint. Mercy said she would find Griffith if alive. She did 50 by advertising for him as Thomas Leices- ter in a Lancashire paper-knowing his haunts.
 But Griffith did not appear at the trial Of his wife. Instead there came Mercy, with a paper signed by him. saying that he was alive and we'll. He was afraid to show himself for fear of being arrested for bigamy.
 And also--as Mercy told Catherine after the two women had forgiven each other and wept in each others arms-"he had been on the fuddle" ever since he left Castle Hernshaw from which he had fled because of his wifes threats to give him up to the law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
BY CHARLES READE
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and did as he had planned about he Packhorse and put his assumed name of Thomas Leicester on the sign.
 But he fingered at the place, writing to Kate that he was detained on business.
 Before he got into this mess Griffith had been singularly truthful person, but now a lie was nothing to him. But, for that matter, many man has been made a liar by his connection with two women and by degrees has carried his niendacity into other things.
 At last Griffith rode over to Lancaster to write to Kate from that town, saying that he had been slightly i'll, but would be home in a few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
In Srite of Docfnrs

His recovery was due, not to the skill of the country doctor. who had been summoned and who would have bled hin, to death, indeed nearly did so-for those were the times when, if man had his leg taken off in battle and he was sink ing from lack of blood the surgeons bled him still more to make him well again -'tut to the skill of a local farriar, Paul Garrck. who was in love with the land lords daughter, pretty and demure Mercy Vint. and her accepted suitor
 Ii was this Mercy Vint who acted as Gt'Hith's faithful nurse during his sickness and she 1t whs who, when his reason returned. glided to him and looked at him pityingly with her dove Ike eyes.
 Slowly Griffith recovered. He told them that his name was Thomas Leicester taking the first name that came into his head when they asked him, and that he wished to stay with them and become a farmer.
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that sentimentality in religion of which she had so strong a strain in her earl fer days.
 She began to regard good Fr. Francis as a man whose soul was without wings" she needed someone to "help the angels lift up her thoughts" etc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
Flying at Bigger Game

When she arrived at Hernshaw castle she cast her eyes around to see what there was to fall in love with and they fell first upon Tom Leicester, the game keeper.
 Now everybody in the neighborhood know why the worthless Tom Leices- ter was retained as gamekeeper at Hernshaw. He had considerable per so1dI Resemblance to Griffith and had that curious, black mark on his fore head just at the roots of the hair known as the "Gaunt mole,' the samo as Griffith had.
 His mother was a gypsy woman, now a widow living near by, and though born in wedlock everybody said that Grinith's father was also the father of Tom. Remember, this was a coarse age C which we speak.
 But Udroiine Ryder cast her eyes about again and saw bigger game.
 She saw that between Griffith and his wife there was some arrangement, some incompatability of temperament, She resolved to widen the breach and fell in love with her master-really fell in love with him as much as it is pos sible for a woman of that sort to fall really in love-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
Refuge at the Packhorse

He raised his hand over his wife's head to strike her, but she looked at him seornfully, steadily and never flinched.
 Then Griffith fled. Mounting his horse he rode like a madman to the south It was market day and as he tore through the market place scattering people right and left, his face white and set and like the face of demon, the cry went forth that Squire Gaunt had gone mad And mad indeed he was.
 Griffiths' horse, black hunter of singular beauty, carried him. all that day. The rein never guided him. the whip never touched him after the first fury of his rider was spent.
 Then, finding that he was master, the horse trottlng, cantering, walking, with out intermission took his rider back into the county where he had been foaled.
 At lonely wayside inn, the Pack horse," Griffith dismounted, 90 miles from Hernshaw castle In this inn was Griffith taken i'll Of violent fever and for some days lay between life and death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
Under the Turret Window

Kate, seated beside Neville. wrote a note and sent it by a servant to Grif- filth, saying "I much desire to speak with you. I lie in the turret room. Come under my window at of the night-and prithee come sober if you respect your self or-Kate."
 The result was that Griffith was un- der the window of the turret room at the appointed time-not sober but much sobered up.
 He had slept with his head on the table for an hour while the men guests caroused around him, had been gone outdoors and fallen into the snow, where a few minutes repose had a wonderfully reviving effect upon him.
 Through her window Kate talked with him. She offered him herself and her fortune and leaned down and kissed him. She took a ring from her finger and put it on his. He took from his finger his mothers marriage ring and placed it on Kate's. They were be- trothed.
 |. An then he handed her the bullet which had been extracted from her arm. On it he had scratched with his knife, "I love Kate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
Fr. Francis Takes Leave

So when, one day, Fr. Francis hay ing come to dinner, announced that ne had been ordered to another part of the country she took the matter very coolly and after his departure said to Griffith:
 Poor. good man; l love him deeply. But l am glad he is going"
 Griffith ventured to remark that the priest was at least an honest man and no mischiefmaker
 There are plenty of honest men," re- piled Kate, but in ones spiritual 'i rector one needs something more than that-and I have pined for it like q thirsty soul all these years"
 When Fr. Francis came to take his leave he spoke of his successor, who. he said was a young man in years, but old in good works and very pious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
Dead to Him

Goodman Vint and his wife concluded that he was a highwayman and would be quiet for a time and, as he had some money and jewels and was. more over, expert as a farmer they let him stay on, and he put away his gentle mems dress aand, clad in russet. became soon the manager of the farm attached to the inn.
 Mercy Vint fell in love with him. Paul Garrick was sent to the right about, and one day Griffith Gaunt, as Thomas Lei-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29

would not follow my daughter Anow-to feed upon a womans bread? Come, be man. She is as good as engaged to Neville and will clap Bolton hall onto Neville court. No doubt you are dis appointed-but pluck up, I shall always be a friend to you"
 "Old man." cried Griffith hystercal- ly. 'leave me alone. When you know that I have got to play the host this day and smile and make all merry leave me alone, I say. O. do not speak to me-"
 T don't want to speak to you-and by the same token don't you speak to ms daughter again..
 The funeral baked meats were rich and spicy; the wine flowed freely, the company was vastly merry. Poor Grif- ith kept pouring the wine in, the others encouraged him in it-and so he got drunk first.
 His male guests were drunk soon aft er--but Griffith got drunk first. Re member this was nearly 200 years age and sobrety had not been invented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
A CLASSIC
 IN A p AGE
Copyright. 1911. by Irving King. All
 rights reserVed)

Next to 'The Cloister and the Hearth" Griffith Gaunt," is reekoned Charles Reade's best work. And few there be who could read the story and say that &his popular estimation is not the cor rect one.
 The full title of the story Is Griffith Gaunt; or Jealousy" and the secondary title gives the key to the story. It is. in fact, a study of jealousy acting in different ways on different minds.
 One of the many interesting points about the story is that the scene is laid 5n Cumberland, in one of those English communities where the people largely remained Roman Catholic after the sep- aration of the church of England from visible communion with the see of Rome. Two priests are important persons in the book and their characters are so skillfully dealt with that either Cathol or Protestant would have to be over sensitive to take offense.
 And what higher evidence of sl1iils diplomacy and finesse can an author give than to introduce religion into a story and not bring both sides about his ears?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29

The decency and propriety of her de- meanor was not all hypocrisy, but half hypocrisy and half inborn, native good taste and good sense As dangerous a creatur as ever l4.u on a bonnet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
From Tragedy to Dinner

They were at well furnished dinner table when the good priest arrived. Fr Francis had with him 8 packet. It was the letters which had passed between Catherine and Brother Leonard ;Ie opened them and read them all. They proved conclusively how groundless had been the base suspicious of Griffith. C;rif- fifth fell upon his knees acknowledged himself brute and begged his wife's for giveness.
 The reconciliation was complete They held each others hand and neither SD oke or desired to speak. And Err Francis en. loved the sweet glow which sometimes does come to the peacemaker.
 But the good soul had ridden hard and the neglected meats emitted savory odors. and by and by he said dryly: q woncer if that fat bullet tastes as good as it smells"
 In another instant they were all at tie table, happy and merry and in sweet nc. cord
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
The UnknowabIe-and the Crops

An ascetic and a spiritually minded enthusiast an eloquet preacher, Mrs. Gaunt thought that at last she had found the very man who could aid her soul to wings to soar beyond all earthly things
 She would come back from hearing one of those eloquent, soul stirring ser- mons of Brother Leonard's s feeling as if she indeed caught a glimpse of the un- krowable.
 And then at such times her husband began to talk of his crops of the mar ket price for grain, of his horses and dogs-the poor woman felt as if great weight dragged her back to earth.
 She told Griffith of the wonderful elo- urence of Brother Leonard and begged him to go and hear the preacher de- clearing that ",rhe grave had given back St. Paul in the churchs need"
 Consider, my dear,' said Griffith whoever heard of comparing a living man to St. Paul? Why, he was an apostle, for one thing and there are no apostles nowadays. He made Felix trcmble on his throne and almost per suaded-what's his name-another heath en genteman-to be a Christian
 Catherine had to give Griffith up. He could not understandable quite could not understand,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
From Some Higher Sphere

And when Catherine made some for mai polite remark concerning the de- parting director, Fr. Francis said "No, my daughter. Thank God. I know my own defects and they teach me a little humility I discharge my religious du- ries punctually and find them whole some and composing. Life is pleasant 10 me; the pure heart delights me.
 But in the sentimental parts of re- ligion I fear that I lack much. My daughter fear that I have been unable to keep pace with you in your plous and lofty aspirations, and this softens my regret at leaving you. For you will be in better hands. my daughter
 The priest who succeeded Fr. Fran cs was Brother Leonard. He was a man so remarkable that Mrs. Gaunt al- most started at the first sight of him.
 Born of an Italian mother and Eng lish father, his skin was dark and his eyes coal black. Yet his ample and symmetrical forehead was slngularly white and delicate. Very tall, very spare, both face and figure were of that exalted kind which makes ordinary beauty seem dross.
 He looked, like a being who had come down from some higher sphere to pay the world a little visit and be very kind and patient with it all the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
Easy Lies

He got some money from Kate on the pretext that he had contracted debts. rode south. saying he Would soon be back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
AfflictiOn Tempers Pride

But the financial affairs of Mercy S
 father were in tangle and he soon let 1t
 be known to Griffith that if a considerable
 sum of money was not forthcoming at
 once the inn and farm would be sold out.
 Then both the old woman and the old
 man began nagging Griffith to get them the money.
 At last, driven desperate by the con- tinued complaints of the old couple and
 the dire necessity of money, Griffith took bold resolve.
 When he and Kate had first set up housekeeping Griffith had put the whole
 of his legacy of e2OOO into needed repairs
 at Hernshaw castle. He would go and demand what was his own.
 Putting on his gentlemans dress and
 mounting his black hunter, he rode away
 into Cumberland.
 Affection had tempered the pride of i Catherine Gaunt. She saw, in the Jays and months of solitude which were hers after Griffith left her, her own faults and how she had been partially responsible for what had happened. She had faith that Griffith would re-
 turn and had hoarded and saved; she dresed herself and her little daughter in black and became more and more strict and devout in the practice of her religion. Once a week she used to drag herself
 to the spot where she had been insulted
 and abandoned, the Dames walk.
 The Meeting in the Dame's Walk It was there that Griffith came upon her unexpectedly. The gaze that these two persons bent upon each other can be imagined. It can never be described. Griffith first broke silence: "In black.' he whispered.
 She thought he had come back in an amicabe spirit and flew to him with a | cry of love. He could not help but be- tray some emotion.
 l But he was cold to her stll his jeal- 1 ousy stood between him and her. But the woman was quick -witted. | She got him to the house, dispatched a | messenger for Fr Francis. bidding him 1 ride for life and death, brought their lit l tie girl to him when he had stated cold 1 ly that he had not come to stay but ! merely to get money.
 | She kept him on one pretext or another until the arrival of Fr. Francis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29

Before Sobriety Was Known why, Griffith, my boy, surely yol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29

Next weeks one page classic will ba "sardanapalus," by Lord Byron.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-07-14

ton of knowing that he gave the peo-
pie more than their moneys worth
may be his, but that does not supply
provender, or reimburse him fer the
cash laid out and labor expended.
Martin Suppan, one of the early
homestea6crs of Horse Spring Coulee.
spent a few days in Oroville this
week Recently he has been working
in the mines at Kellogg, Idaho.
Geo. Y. Bowerman. OF Oroville. and
o. w. A. Forsberg. Of Nelson. proved
up on homesteads before the local L.
S. commissioner. and Jacob F. Sargent
as guardian of the estate of Jacob ii.
Moller. insane. proved up on desert
claim before the same officer Satur-
day.
Bishop l.emnel II. Wells of Spo-
kane, Episcopal bishop OF the diocese
of eastern Washington, held services
in tn Pr sbyterian church of this
place ay During the morning
services he confirmed class OF six
composed of M and Mrs. =. \. De
VOs, Mrs l.. f. Pourtales. Mrs. J. Y.
Johnston. Miss Helen Johnston and
Miss Florence Mills
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-07-14


day for the purpose of securing testi-
mony in contest case of the United
States vs. Geo. A. Branson. The con-
test is now in progress before the
register and receiver of the United
States land Office at Occur d'Alene
city. and adjournment was taken in
order that evidence could be obtained
bearing on the case from Oroville.
Branson at one time conducted saw
mill dear here and also held job
as barkeeper in one of the saloons of
this place. The nature of the evil
dence taken here was to show that
Branson was a resident OF OrOville at
the time he alleges he was residing
on the homestead, which is in the
Occur d'Alene forest reserve. The
government. through It's representa-
tive, is working to have the entry can
celled on the ground of non-compli
ance with the law in the matter of
residence 1t IS alleged that the tim
Der on the homestead Is valued at
SIS 900. Several witnesses were eX-
amined in Oroville before Fred. j.
Fine, United States commissioner
The defendant was represented by an
attorney in the person of ]. p. Hogan,
of Occur d'Aiene city.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-07-14
A LONG TRIr.

Charlie Blackwell. of Riverside, went
out Monday to Spokane on business
trip. Upon his return he will start
out in his car, accompanied by two
other cars, for an extended excursion
through British Columbia. going in
by the way of Keremeos and Prince
ton, on to Ashcroft, swinging around
to the eastward and returning home
by the way of OkanOgan lake. He eX-
poets to cover some 1000 miles. Mr.
Blackwell, Is one auto driver who has
little or nc difficulty with his ma
chine Having a thorough knowledge
of the mechanism of a car, and being
careful to go over every part of the
machine after every run his ear is al
ways in perfece order. In the thous-
ands Of miles he has travelled over the
rough roads of this county. Mr.. Black
we'll has never experienced any delays
by the car getting out of order. which
is record that rev owners of auto
mobiles can boast of.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-07-14
A TRUE PIONEER.

Mrs. c. f. Miner, Of Nez Perez.
Idaho, returned home the latter rart
of last week after visit with her
daughter. Mrs. Geo. Y. Bowerman.
Mrs. Miner is truly one of the pio-
neer residents OF the coast, as she
came across the plains in an OK team
in 1863. Great have been the changes
that the lady has seen take place in
the northwest during the almost half
a century she has spent in Idaho and
Washington From wilderness. in
habited by only by savage beasts and
more savage men. she has seen the
coming Of the white man from -four
quarters OF the globe, and the up
building of rich prosperous and popu-
lOus states. 1t has been transform
alton so wonderful as to be almost be-
You'd belief and which will never be
seen again. because there Is TO more
wild and unoccupied vest 70 settle
and develop.