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The Arvada enterprise., 1913-03-06

can you have. unless It is actual con.
fesslon?"
THE man you suspect" he correct
ed with some asperity. turning alb
ruptly to the waiter, who had entered
with our supper.
Tell the proprietor TO come up here
at once" he said, "and tell him TO
bring with MIN the garments worn by
the woman who killed herself"
II | had sent Mahlon Williams such
an order | am positive he would have
paid no attention TO II, but Davis was
obcycd, So quickly that II almost
seemed az II Williams had been listen.
ing outside the door the landlord ap-
peared carrying tho black coat and
The Arvada enterprise., 1913-03-06

er Robert, who Is somewhat older than
she. They inherited the farm from
their parents and have lived there all
their lives. The brother is employed
as cashier In little country bank
about ten miles away. Every morning
he drives Into Bridgeport and takes
the train. When his sister left, two
days ago, he came with her tc The
station, lie evidently IL not aware
Of her death, though he seems groar
ly worried over her Absence. lie pre-
sumnbly expected her to return last
night, for he waited oy, several
trains, This morning he was uHking
the station agent II he had seen her.
cTO BE COSTEUEDJ
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-06-12

hands, and his ruin" Of her. Tonight
1t had no power to move him and he
shook her of and left the room. She
ran to the door behind him and lean
Ing out. cried 1t after him.
He literally fed from her, down the
hallway. with the open doorways
sending their lurid light and kissing
noise across his passage. As he
reached the dining.room he heard her
bang the door and with aggressive
noise turn the key in the lock and
shoot the bolt. Even at that moment
the lack Of necessity for such q pre-
caution caused a bitter smile to move
his lips.
He entered the dining-room and sat
down by the table, his head on his
hands. He sat thus for some hours.
trying to think what he should do.
He found 1t impossible to come to any
definite conclusion for the future; all
he could decide upon now was the ne
oessity Of leaving his wife, getting a
respite from her, Withdrawing himself
from the sight Of her. He had never
loved her, but tonight the pity and
responsibility he had felt seemed to
be torn from his life as a morning
wind tears cobweb from the grass.
The dawn was whitening the win.
dow-panes when he finally got pen
and paper and wrote a few lines.
These. without prefix or signature.
stated that he would leave the city
for short time and not to make any
effort to find where he had gone or
communicate with him. He wrote her
name on the folded paper and placed
1t In front Of the clock. Then he stole
Into his bedroom-they had occupied
separate rooms for over six months
and packed valise with his Oldest
and toughest clothes. After this he
waited in the dining-room till the
light was bright and the traffic Of the
day loud on the pavement, before he
crept down the long stairway and
went out into the crystal freshness OF
the morning.
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-06-12

grizzled grass added to It's air Of
bleakness. Beyond rose the shingled
roofs OF Antelope's main street. Rose.
standing gazing up, wondered II her
father would 20 on to Greenhide. the
new camp twenty miles from Ante.
lope, where an important strike had
recently been made.
Half an hour later when they met
at breakfast he told her he would not
leave for Greenhide that morning.
Perley had warned him not to at.
tempt It. and he for his part knew the
country we'll enough to realize that
It would be foolhardy to start under
such q threatening sky. 1t would be
all right to stop over at Antelope till
the weather made up Its mind what
It meant to do. II might not be fun
for her. but then he had warned her
before they left San Francisco that
she would havo to put up with rough
accommodations and unaccustomed
discomforts.
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-06-12
CHAPTER ".
Out Of NIuht and Storm.

Out Of Night and Storm.
When Rose Cannon woke on the
morning after her arrival at Antelope,
a memory Of the snowflakes Of the
evening before made her Jump out Of
bed and patter barefooted to the win.
dow. 1t seemed to her 1t would be
"lots Of fun" to be showed up at An
telope, and when she saw only a thin
covering Of white on the hotel garden
and the diminishing perspective Of
roofs. she drew her mouth into gri-
mace Of disappointment.
With hunched.up shoulders, her
hands tucked under her arms, she
stood looking out. her breath blur.
ring the pane in a dissolving film of
smoke. 1t was a cold little world.
Below her the garden-the summer
pride Of Perley's Hotel-lay a sere,
withered waste. Its shrubs stiff In the
grip Of the cold. The powdering OF
snow on its frost.bitten leaves and
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-06-12

the whitened shapes Of a smoking
team dropping before 1t, had lust
drawn up at the steps. Two mascu.
line figures, carrying bags. emerged
from the interior, and from the driv.
er's seat munled shape-a cylinder
Of wrappings which appeared to have
a lively human core-gave forth much
loud and profane language. The iso.
lation and remoteness OF her sur.
roundings had already begun to af.
feet the town.bred young lady. She
ran to the door Of the parlor, as in.
genuously curious to sec the new ar.
rivals and find out who they were as
though she had lived In Antelope for
year.
Looking down the hall she saw the
front door open violently inward and
two men hastily enter. The wind
seemed to blow In and before Periey's
boy could press the door shut the
snow had whltened the damp mat.
ting. No stage passed through Ante.
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poa That Writes and pr.ws.

A clever dog made his bow at the
Hippodrome. London, England. the
other afternoon. "Dick" can draw a
donkey's heda. make three geometri.
cal figures. and write his signature.
He can write equally well with both
paws. either separately or In com.
bination; while ms an arithmetlcian
he indulges In simple addition. mul.
tiplication. division and subtraction
with ready accuracy.
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-06-12

Rose laughed. Her father did not
understand that the roughness and
novelty Of It all was what she en-
joyed. He was already a man Of
means when she was born, and she
had known nothing Of the hardships
and privations through which he and
her mother had struggled up to for
tune. Rocky Bar the night before and
Antelope this morning were her first
glimpses Of the mining region over
which the pioneers had swarmed in
40. Bill Cannon. only lad in his
teens among them.
Perley's warnings of bad weather
were soon verified. Early in the aft.
ernoon the idle, occasional snow.
fakes had begun to fall thickly. with
a soft, persistent steadlness Of pur-
pose.
At four o'clock. Willoughby, the
Englishman who had charge Of the
shutdown Bella X. mine, came, but
ting head down against the wind, a
group Of dogs at his heels, to claim
the hospitality Of the hotel. His
watchman. an old timer, had advised
him to seek shelter better stored
with provisions than the office build
ing Of the Bella X. Willoughby. whose
accent and manner had proclaimed
him as one Of high distinction before
It was known In Antelope that he
was some relation to lord" was
made welcome In the bar. His four
red setter dogs, shut out from that
hospitable retreat by the swing dooy,
grouped around It and stared expect
antly, each shout from within being
answered by them with plaintve and
ingratlatlng whines.
The afternoon was still young when
the day began to darken. Rose Can.
non, who had been sitting in the par.
lor, dreaming over fire Of logs, went
! to the window. wondering at the grow
ing gloom. The wind had risen to a
wild. sweeping speed, that tore the
snow fine as mist. There were no
lazy. woolly flakes now. They had
turned into an Opaque. slantlng veil
which here and there curled into
snowy mounds and in other places
left the ground bare.
Rose looked out on 1t with an in
terest that was a little soberer than
the debonair blltheness of her morn
ing mood. II It kept up they might
be showed In for days, Perley had
said. That being the case. this room
the hotels one parlor, would be he1
retreat, her abiding place-for hel
bedroom was as cold as an ice-chest
until they were liberated. With the
light, half.whlmsical smile that came
so readily to her lips, she turned from
tie window and surveyed 1t judicially
She was leaving the window to re
turn to her seat by the fire when the
complete silence that seemed to hold
the outside world in spell was brok
en- by sudden sounds. Voices, the
crack Of whip. then a grinding
thump against the hotel porch, caught
her ear and whirled her back to the
pane. A large covered vehicle. will
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-06-12
CHAPTER III.
The pauahter Of Heth.

mo OAu4ntor OF uotHs
He walked for nearly an hour. along
quiet, lamp-lit streets where large
houses fronted on gardens that az
hailed moist earth scents and the
breaths Of sweet, unseen blossoms, up
hills 20 steep that 1t seemed as II an
earthquake might have heaved up the
dty's crust and bent 1t crisply like
Q piece Of cardboard.
He looked down unseeing. thinking
Of the last three years.
When be had nrst met Bernioe liver
son. she had been . typewriter and
stenographer In the once Of the Mer-
chants and Mechanics Trust Com
pany. He was twenty.four at the
time. the only son Of Cornelius
Ryan, one Of the financial magnates
Of the far west.
She was seven years older than he,
but told him they were the same age.
1t was not a wasted lie, az she un-
doubtedly looked much younger than
she was, being q slight, trimly.made
woman who had retained a girlish
elasticity Of figure and sprghtliness
Of manner. The entrapping Of young
Ryan was a simple matter. He had
never loved and knew little Of women.
He did not love her, but she made
him think he did, threw herself at
him, led him quickly to the point she
wished to reach. and secretly. without
suspicion on the part Of her family.
became his mistress. Six months
later, having driven him to the step
by her upbraidings and her apparent
suferings Of conscience under the
sense Of wrong-doing. she persuaded
him to marry her.
The marriage was q bombshell to
the world in which young Ryan was
q planet Of magnitude. His previous
connection with her-though after.
ward discovered by his mother-was
at the time unknown. Bernice had
induced him to keep the marriage So
cret till its hour Of accomplishment,
Tor she knew Mrs. Ryan would try to
break 1t OF and feared that she might
succeed. Once Dominick's wife she
thought that the objections and re
sentiment Of the older woman could
be overcome. But she underrated the
force and obstinacy Of her adversary
and the depth Of the wound that had
been given her. Old Mrs. Ryan had
been stricken in her tenderest spot
Her son was her Idol. born In her
middle-age, the last Of four boys.
three Of whom had died in childhood.
In his babyhood she had boarded
money and worked late and early that
he might be rich. Now she held the
great estate Of her husband In trust
for him. and dreamed Of the time
when he should marry some sweet
and virtuous girl and she would have
grandchildren to love and spoil and
plan for. When the news of his mar.
fiage reached her and she saw the
woman he had made his wife. she un.
derstood everything. She knew her
boy through and through and she
knew Just how he had been duped
and entangled.
The marriage Of her son was the
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Of the Last Three Years
bitterest blow Of her life. 1t came
when she was old. stifiened into hab.
its Of dominance and Dictatorship,
when her ambitions for her boy were
gaining daily In scope and splendor.
"A blind rage and determination to
crush the woman were her first feel.
lngs, and remained with her but
slightly mitigated BY the softenins
passage Of time. She was bipartisan.
D fighter. and she instituted o war
against her daushtsrin.law which
she conducted with all the malignant
'bitterness that marks the quarrels Of
women.
Dominick had not been married a
month when she discovered the previ'
ous connection between him and his
wife. ard published It to the winds. A
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-06-12
SYNOPSIS.

Bill Cannon. the BONANZA king, and his
daughter. Rose. who had passed up Mrs.
accompany her father. arrive at Antelope.
pomin1ck Ryan calls on his mother to
beg a ball invitation for his wife. and II
refused. The determined old lady refuses
70 recognise her daughtsr-in-law.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-16
Treachery in Nationals Camp;
Terminate BetrdyS SChdefer

Grif was wise IN minute and an
nounced that he would cover all bets
the Schaefer crowd was willing to
put UP.
The first game started with the play.
ers standing around six rows deep and
watching every move. Schaefer, conf
dent that he would be able to put some
thing over on the Old Fox. kept up a
rapid-f1re conversation. using such ex-
pressions as when 1 get through with
you, Griff, you will never touch another
checker" &c.
Griff played carefully: he did not at
tempt a move unless Bob Groom's foot
gently tapped his own shoe under the
table.
Instead of falling into the trap Schae-
fer had set. Manager Griffith laid a nice
little pitfall for the comedian. and i'm
agine the CONSERVATION on Germanys S
face when. after jumping two of Grins s
checkers, the Old Fox jumped three of
Schaefer's and won the game
An awful roar was unloosed by the
Teuton. who clambored for another
match. Griff was willing to play. and
with Bob Groom tipping him of by means
of the secret shoe-tapping signals.
Schaefer was beaten again. The come
dian smelled treachery. but could not To-
cate the source. and, crestfallen, left the
room
II is estimated that S.SI in real money
changed hands as the result of this
match.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-16
KID EGAN IS FAVORITE
in BOUT WITH DAILY
Local Boy Well Thought Of in Tues
day Nights Fifteen-round
BATTLE.

Baltimore, Md. March 15.-Kid Egan
Washington's popular feather-weight. is
ruling slight favorite over Knockout
Johnny Daily, of Baltimore, to win
Tuesday evenings fifteen-round mill be-
fore the Fallsway Athletic Club at the
Monumental Theater. Even the local
followers of boxing are inclined to be-
lieve that Egan will carry off the win
ner's portion of the purse
Like the many Washingtonians who
attended the ten-round bout between
the pair here in January, Baltimoreans
believe that the Capital City scrapper
had little something the Balti-
morean at the end. despite the action
of the referee. who declared the con-
test a draw It was a good fight. how
ever. and it is expected that Tuesday S
battle will be the hardest fought fif-
teen-round affair seen here this win
ter.
to win. as DAILY recently Travelled
through fifteen grueling sessions with
Young Britt. the featner-weight cham
pion of the South. Abe UIlman. the
former heavyweight boxer, will he the
arbiter in the second clash of DAILY and
Egan.
The kid asked that Ullman he Sc
lected. as he was very much dissatis-
fled with the verdict over Buck Alex
ander in his last meeting with DAILY.
The local hoy was glad to have Ull-
man, SO the former boxer is agreeable
to everybody concerned. UTllman has
refereed practically all of the big bat
ties in this city and has always shown
himself to be proficient at every
branch of the game.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-16
GIANTS TRIM AUSTIN.
Texas League Team Helpless Before
Mathewson and Ames.

Austin, Tex, March 1a-Nine innings
of to-days game with the Austin team
of the Texas League was time plenty
for the Giants to roll UP score of II.
while the best the home talent could
show was a measly brace Of runs Gov.
Colquitt, Lieut.. Gov. May and sundry
truant Stats Senators and Representa-
tives watched the gams and were loud
in their appreciation of the varity OF
the national sport put up for their bene-
fit by the New York team.
The Giants garnered a neat collection
of sixteen hits with a sprinklins of
stolen bases where they would do the
most good.
Mathewson and Meyers started the
game and held forth during the first
four innings when they were relieved
by the well-known firm of Ames and
Wilson. Snodgrass. fresh from contest
ing a breach of promise suit, led the
batting order.
Reports from the Colts game with the
San Antonio team disclosed the pleas
ing information that the Giant recruits
had gone the older team ''one better"
Ten to nothing was the score, with
Schupp pitching invincihle ball. The
Texas batters had to be satisfied with a
lone hit off his delivery.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-16
HUGHES T0COACH
virginia HURLERS
Long Tom Will Assist Jack
Ryan with University
Squad.
JAMES IS A REAL FIND
Five Hard Games Booked This Week,
Starting with Catholic Uni
versity Tomorrow.
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Special 10 The Washington Herald.
Charlottesville. Va, March l5.-
Long Tom" Hughes, of the Nationals
one Of the craftiest and wisest pitch
ers in the major leagues, will start in
Monday afternoon assisting Coach Jack
Ryan with the University of Virginia
squad. and plans to devote one hour a
day of his time until the Nationals
leave for Washington.
Hughes will have charge of the
pitchers. and should be of inestimable
value to Coach Ryan in the develop
ment of the boXmen. There is nothing
about the fiinging art Tom Hughes
does not know, and while the material
is not as good as last year, the boys
are all willing workers.
The 'disbarment of Clark. the spit
ball twirler, proved hard blow to
Ryan's hopes. but he has unearthed a
find, he thinks. in James. a big, rangy
right handler. who has been trying for
first base.
Virginia has five hard games to play
during the coming week, meeting the
Catholic University Monday. the Ma
tionals Tuesday, Holy Cross Wednes-
day. Princeton Friday. and the Ma
tionals again on Saturday.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-16

Special to The Washington Herald.
Charlottesville. Va, March 15.-The
banner entertainment in the Nationals
camp since the athletes reached this
town was pulled of last Thursday night
when Manager Griffith and Dutch Schae-
fer hooked up in a checker match for
the championship of Charlottesville and
North America.
Both the comedian and his manager
had met on different occasions at the
checker board and honors were about
even. but the crafty Schaefer consulted
Frank Laporte. who. with Bob Groom.
are the real checker sharps. and Laporte
showed the Teuton couple of moves
calculated to beat any novice. Armed
with this ammunition, Schaefer. in a
confident tone. announced to Griff at the
dinner table before the whole crowd:
Il am going to show you up as bum
amateur tonight, Griff. and all the boys
will bet their money on me-
In the spirit of fun, Frank Laporte
told Groom of the checker moves he had
shown the Dutchman. and Sir Robert
called Griff to one side just before the
time set for the famous checker match.
saying to him: "Schaefer has two trick
moves up his sleeve which he expects to
spring on you. l know what they are
and I will sit next to YOU and show you
how to beat them. Every time you start
to move the right checker, I will gently
tap your foot under the table,"
The Washington herald., 1913-03-16
GedeOn Refuses to Be Sick;
PuffS Cigar on Hospital Cot

| in his pajamas. Nothing doing: the
superintendent was .obdurate.
Five minutes later one of Gedeon's
teammates dropped around for a call
and produced a couple of large apples
and box of candy. Gedeon grabbed
everything in sight. and in five min
utes candy and apples had disap-
peared. Asking for a cigar, he was
given one. and when his nurse ap-
peared again she found the ball player
sitting UP in bed and putting away on
a fragrant Havana. The nurse fed to
the superintendent again, and in the
twinkling of an eye the room was full
of angry doctors. a peevish superin-
Ftendent, and threatening nurses
by gosh! I'm not sick, Let me get
out of this!' was all the ball player
would say. f
You've got to be Sick one of the
nurses cried. Trainer Martin says so,
and it's the managers orders"
"All right. If that's the case, then 1
am sick" Gedeon replied. Get out OF
here. the whole pack of you. I'll try
and go to sleep and dream I'm on my
death bed"
The Washington herald., 1913-03-16
AMES MAY BE GIVEN
NEW LEASE OF LIFE
As Spitball Pitcher, He Is Likely to
Be of Greater Service
to the Giants.

Probably the most important move
made by McGraw since the training
season began is his decision to turn
Leon Ames into spitball pitcher II
Ames can develop a good splitter to slice
in between his speed and famous curve
hall ne ought to be a very valuable man.
He is working at it daily. and Wilbert
Robinson is so pleased at his progress
that he wants him to confine himself
entirely to the splitter except for an occa-
sional change m pace.
This new move by McGraw is interest
ing. in view of the fact that until Bugs
Raymond Joined the Giants Nc had
always been opposed to the splitter and
never permitted his twirlers to use il.
The success OF Tesreau. who was changed
into splitter overnight. did much to
influence the Giant manager in train
ing other pitchers in that direction It
has been theory in baseball that the
spit ball was destructive to the pitching
arm. and this was confirmed by the quick
decline of Jack Chesbro, the pioneer The
fact that Ed Walsh has used nothing but
the splitter for years, however, and is as
strong as ever. has thrown a new light
on the subject. Ames has just about
passed the zenith of his career. and the
acquisition Of a splitter certainly could
Iiot do him any serious damage. 1t saved
Tom Hughes.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-16
Cashion and Acosta, Long and Short,
Are Real Pals of Training Camp
''Husk" Says Baldermoro.
Has the Making of a Won
derful Ball Player. While
the Kid Replies in His Own
Language.
Special to The Washington Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald
Charlottesville, Va, March I5-The
accompanying cut shows the long and
the short. the large and the small, of
the Washington training camp squad.
Jay Carl Cashion, the giant pitcher,
and little Baldermoro Acosta, the
midget Cuban outfelder, both of whom
have become great friends. Cashion
is feet inches in the air and weighs
2Io pounds, while little Acosta is 5
feet inches and weighs 1874 pounds.
Cashion says Acosta has the makinss
of a great little ball player some day /;
in fact the big hurler thinks the Cuban
is almost ripe now for fast company
Acosta. in his own language, pays
Cashion the following tribute:
''Desde que empece interesarme por
cl baseball en- Cuba. mucho antes
que pensara en- ser jugador de pelota,
fui 'fanatico,' de los que siguen con
atencion cuanto sc relaciona con el
sport nacional de Cuba y los Estados
Unidos; el ano pasado segui la re-
lacion de los juegos de la Liga Amer
icana senti vivas simpatias por al
gunos dc los que hoy me honhan
llamandome companero de team; entire
estos cuentase Cashion, lanzador que,
segun he tenido OCCASION de juzaar en-
las practicaS preliminares que hemos
tenido, apeSar de encontrares todavia
lejos de su efciencia natural, por efecto
del descanso del Invierno, ha de ser
una de las principales factores de exito,
con que contaremos para que nuestro
club sea el Champion en- la temporada
que ha de empezar el 10 de Abril prox-
imo Tai es mi creencia tales mis-
esperanzas."
The Washington herald., 1913-03-16

Charlottesville, Va, March 15.-Joe
Gedeon, the Pacific Coast recruit, who
was sent to the University of Virginia
hospital yesterday morning. would not
have stayed in that institution more
than a couple of hours if the nurses
had their say.
1t seems that GedeoH was put to
bed, with the understanding that he
was to go on a diet for twenty-four
hours, in order to undergo slight
operation for a growth in his nose.
The Pacific Coast boy, after short
nap. rang the bell for his nurse and
said to her:
Bring my clothes, for I'm going to
get out of this and eat dinner with
the boys. 1 hear the old bell ringing
now"
He was firmly told that he was sup
posed to be on diet. and that the
clothes could not be had unless the
superintendent said So
Gedeon then sent for the superin-
tendent, and in language which was
right TO the point demanded his
clothes. If they were not Forthcoming,
he threatened to leave the place clad