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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
CAUGHT in Wars Eddy

In this gloomy apartment also was
seated an English woman, young and
comely, bearing about her the marks
of birth and refinement, but evidently
entirely overcome and bewildered by
the position in which she found herself
and exhausted by the perils and adven-
trres through which she had just
passed.
She was a young woman proceeding
from Italy to England. When the fu-
rious onslaught of the French had
driven the Germans back across the
border her travelling carriage had been
caught in an eddy of the fight, she her
self arrested and brought prisoner
10 the cottage where she now found
herself
In the front room-indeed, the cot
tage had but two-sat the French oni-
Ger in command of the detachment.
reading by the light of single candle
some papers of the enemy which had
been captured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
The ImpOstor

as this Lady Janet Roy?" asked the
stranger in return. almost the last
words my father said to me upon his
death bed were words, madam, which
told me to expect kindness from you.'
"Who was your father?' said Lady
Janet.
HAS the servant not given you my
card? Don't you know my name?'
(Which of your names? The name on
your card was Grace Roseberrys the
name marked on your clothes. when they
took you from the French village, was
Mercy Merrick."
Grace explained in detail how that had
happened-and explained truly-but her
explanations fell upon unbelieving ears.
Baffled and angry, Grace cried out:
"One word-has Colonel Roseberry's letter
found its way to this house, an if so,
did a woman bring it?''
The library opened quietly and Mercy
Merrick entered the room. Starting vio-
lently, Grace pointed toward the new
conner and cried out, There she Isl There
she ISL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

Maplethorpe house. He entered the
house through the glass door of the
drawing room opening on the garden.
Mercy heard his voice as he spoke to
a servant. She tried to hurry from
she failed, at first, to open the door
leading to the library.
Pray don't run away" said Mr. Grey.
81 am nothing very formidable--only
Lady Janet's nephew"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Restitution

iahe that woman away" cried LADY
Janet. "One moment said Mercy ~
nave begged your ladyship to give me-
nail an hour. In half an hour | pledge
h'Yself TO produce Mercy Merrick I'm
this room, and to end this mystery
Lady Janet, Mr.. Holmcroft-you win
await ME for that"
AS Mercy left the room she Ioelssa
at Grace with a glance which said
Are you satisfied now?r
Lady Janet went to her room and. after
a lew minutes. sent note to Mercy tell
ing her not to make he rthreatened exnla-
natloh' The good woman was determined
TO close her eyes to the facts and ia stiiI
nave Mercy live on with her as Grace.
she sent servant to demand that
Grace. come to her. Without definitely
admitting that she saw how matters
stood, Lady Janet told Grace that she
would never acknowledge her as under
any other name than that of Merrick. and
AFTER threatening her in various wavs
finally heavily bribed her to leave Eng
lahu' retire to Canada and bother the
actors in this drama no more.
Grace, after breaking out in scorn and
loathing against Mercy, accepted the offer
of Lady Janet and was driven away In
a cab which her ladyship sent for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
"Kind and Beautiful,

The German surgeon advanced to the
bed and began examining the still form
which lay there. The young English
man, whose eyes had been riveted in
admiration upon Mercy, respectfully ad-
dressed her in the French tongue.
II am an English woman, said Mer-
cy.
Pardon me, but you are very young
to be alone in this place in wartime"
MY poor woundedY she replied
THE poor wounded Frenchmen? You
have nothing to do with the wounded
Frenchmen," said the German surgeon.
advancing from the bed: they will be
Well taken care Of Hold your tongue. y
1t is useless to resist" said the
young Englishman; "the German disci-
pine is strict. I can assure you that
the wounded Frenchmen will have
every care and attention"
lie saw the tear in Mercy's eyes and
thought kind as well as beautiful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
ONLY to Dare

To the mistress of the house and all
who inhabit or frequent 1t she Is known
as Grace Roseberry, the orphan relative
of Lady Janet by marriage.
To herself alone she is known as the
lost woman who has stolen her way back,
after vainly trying to fight her way back,
to home and name.
Mercy Merrick had only to dare and
to become Grace Roseberry. She had
dared and she had been Grace Roseberry
for four months.
1t had been marvelously easy. Lady
Janet had yielded to the fascination OF
the noble and interesting face at hrst
sight and Mercy Merrick had no idea
but that the real Grace Roseberry- was
dead and buried.
So far as she knew, she was sa1e'
so far as she knew she might live out
her life in perfect security, respected
distinguished and beloved in the position
which she had usurped
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Postnoninp the Wedding

The war between France and Germany
was still going on, but Horace Holm
croft was no longer a war correspondent
The charms of Lady Janet's companion
kept him in his native country.
He had, indeed, proposed marriage TO
her and his offer had been accepted. But
try as he would, he had found IL I'M
possible to make his betrothed set a day
for the wedding.
There was apparently nothing to pre-
vent the young people from being married
at once; yet to all appearances here was
to be- a long engagement with no bet
ter reason than the lady's incompreneh-
sible perversity to explain the delay
1t was this situation which Horace and
Lady Janet proceeded to discuss when
the companions after asking PERMISSION
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Her Only Resources

II Hhave done my duty" replied the
nurse, f'but how came it that you dared
to cross the frontier in war tirne?"
II had urgent reasons replied Grace,
''for wishing to return as soon as possi-
BILE to England | have left my only
protector-my father-in the English
burying ground at Rome. My mother
died years since In Canada"
your relative in England must be very
anxious about you'
'Alas. / have no relatives in Eng
land. You can hardly imagine a person
more fredless than L am. My pros
poets in life are all contained in this
little case
She took from the pocket of the large
gray cloak which the nurse had lent her
Z letter case and resumed:
II have a letter from my father, in
Producing me 10 an elderly lady in Eng
land--a connection of his by marriage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
The Hour of Reckoning

"Grace, Grace, what have l done to
startle you?" cried Horace
Don't notice me- replied Mercy, max
ing great effort to control herself, 1T
have been i'll all this morning. You
saw 1t yourself when you came here:
even the sound of your voice alarmed
me. l shan be better directly-I fear I
startled you
$50 he was coming." she thought,
1.-The man who had so Influenced her
life and whose words had reached her
innermost heart. Was the hour OF
reckoning coming with him?'
The next day Julian Grey arrived at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
The Die Cast

Il am an officer of the English army.
he continued, Serving here on leave as
war correspondent for London paper.
Can l be of use to you? Am | right in
thinking that you are traveling?"
She bowed her head.
''on your way to England?"
Yes
In that case I can be of assistance to
you; 1 can procure you a pass through
the lines"
Il accept your offer' said Mercy. She
had committed herself to the fraud.
The German surgeon turned toward
them. Il have found this in her pocket, "
said he. Her name is Mercy Merrick.
Here is the same name ON her hand
kerchief."
The real Mercy Merrick did not dare
look toward the bed The die was cast.
Giving the name of Grace Roseberry,
Mercy, With the assistance of Horace
Holmcroft, the young English officer,
went on her way to England.
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suppose she said, that you knew or
a woman who had deceived-baseIv do
ceived-innoeent people who had trusted
her. She had cruelty wronged-crue,,,
wronged-anotfler woman. What would
you advise her to do?" Let her ou,n
the truth without the base fear of ais
eovery to drive her to do so,p was the
reply.
And suppose this woman had a mast
upon which she looked back with horror
but which, if known. would forever bar
her from place in respectable society.
What would you say to such a woman
woman safe from discovery at present
il she confessed a1l?"
Il would say to her. replied Julian
'ff she confessed for conscience sake-I
would say to her, in the solitude OF her
affliction. Arise poor. wounded heart
beautiful, purified soul. Gods angels re.
joice over you, Take your place among
the noblest of Gods creatures,
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whom I have never seen. The lady has
consented to receive me as her COM
panion and reader.
7 have no other resource. Ny father
died insolvent. l am quite untitled to
go out as a governess. 1 am absolutely
dependent upon this stranger who con-
sents to receive me for my fathers
sake. Mine is a sad astory, is it not?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Swept Away by a Lie

"I have committed myself to nothing
except getting to England" she thought.
But when she arrived at the Custom
square station and the caH driver asked
where he should drive her she restated a
minute. She had been intending to go to
the Refuge.
But in her pocket she had the letter
of introduction to Lady Janet Roy of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
Julian Grey

And Horace, in the name of heaven
what was to be done? Could she let
that man who loved her-and whom she
loved-drift blindfolded into marriage
with a. woman with such a past as her
own? No. 1t was her duty to warn
him. How?
Il can't tell him! ] won't tell him!"
she burst out passionately. "The disgrace
of it would kill me. o, that I had died
before I entered this house that I could
die now-at this minute
So the struggle ended as 1t had with
her a hundred times before.
When Mercy rejoined Lady Janet and
Horace. Lady Janet said that she had a.
nephew coming to see her, and would go
and write him note.
''Who is her nepehw?" asked Mercy of
Horace when Lady Janet had gone
90" replied Horace, "a very celebrated
person indeed-a popular preacher who
refused a bishopric to labor among the
poor-his name is Julian Grey"
She started from her seat and locke
around at him in bewildered terror as
if she doubted the evidence of her own
senses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
The Voice of the Tempter

Then Satan whispered. "why not? She
is dead She is wearing my clothes. She
is~ Mercy Merrick and 1 am Grace Rose
berry. This Lady Janet Roy to whom
she was going has never seen her. She
had no relatives or friends in England
II have her letter from her father here
in the pocket of the cloak. There is an
other packet there. What is it?
Hastily she took it out and glanced
over it. 1t was a journal kept by Col
onel Roseberry, Graces father It would
tell her all she need to know of the af-
fair of the family.
She would go to England as Grace
Roseberry and Grace Roseberry would
be buried as Mercy Merriclx, the Red
Cross nurse.
Mercy Merrick, with all her sorrowful
history, would disappear and a new
woman arise in her stead, powerful for
good, grateful for all that her patrons
would do for her and, more than ALA
woman without past.
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why was it not me? she thought,
and there rushed over her the vision of
herself having been killed and of Grace
proceeding, alive and well. to England.
How she yearned for the life that was
to have been Grace's in England!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
BY
WILKIE COLLINS, 1s24-1sse
Supposing a Case

false position no longer-to wrong Grace
Roseberry no longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

then said ''Maplethorpe house-lady
Janet Roy's"
Horace Holmcroft had asked her where
he could find her in London when he
had hidden goodby to her. She had re-
piled that she had a letter of introduce
tion to Lady Janet Roy.
Horace said that Lady Janet was an
old friend of his family, that she was
his great friend: that he would see her
there at Maplethorpe house before long.
Three at the Table
1t is winter in England of that same
eventful year of 1870 1t Is a glorious
winters day. In the dining room of the
ancient mansion called Maplethorpe
house, situated In that suburb of Lon
don known as Kensington, the clock had
just struck 2.
The table is spread for a luncheon.
Three persons are seated at the table.
First, Lady Janet Roy. Second, a
young lady who was her reader and
companion. Third, a guest staying at
the house, who has already appeared in
this story as Horace Helmcroft
Lady Janet needs but little introduce
tion. Everybody with the slightest ex-
perience in London society knew Lady
Janet Roy. Who had not heard of her
cid lace and rubies?
Who had not admired the beautifully
dressed white hair? Who had not felt
the charm of her frank, easy, flowing
talk, her inexhaustble spirits, her
sood- humored, gracious sociability and
manner.
She was a patron of rising merit in
all ranks and her charities knew no dis
tinction between abroad and at home.
Everybody had heard of Lady Janet
Roy. the childless widow of long-for-
gotten lord.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

vt was in the autumn of the year 1870
the year of the war between Germany
and France.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-13
SOCIALISTS LISTEN
TO- CRAGHEAD
PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY
TALKS CONSOLIDATION TO
MISSOULA LOCAL.

President f. 3. C~raighead of the
university addressed the socialists
Yesterday afternoon on consolidation
Of state institutions of learning. Be-
that he would be glad to answer n
! questions that might be put to him
n much time was taken up by his
answering inquiries from every part
of the audience. The speaker declared
that the proposed university would be
established for the benefit of all the
people M would touch every indus
try of the state. Science, he said, was
no respector of persons. 1t sheds it's
blessing on all. The discoveries of
Pasteur, of Liebig. of Koch, of Lister
and others have added millions to the
wealth of the world. The real uni
versity Is democratic, he said. In it's
atmosphere only energy and character
count. Continuing President Craig
head said:
THE friends of consolidation rely
upon the intelligence and patriotism
of the great masses of the people.
They welcome discussion. Only bad
things fear the sun. The more this
question is discussed, the more it will
be supported by the people, The
speaker explained why ample grounds
would be needed: why economy
efficiency would be increased in a
centralized institution. He did not
claim that the legislature would
adopt the plan but expressed the be-
lief that the people of the state were
overwhelmingly for the proposition.
On the people the friends of the cause
would only rely for support.
At the close of President Craig
heads address Professor Palmer of
the university was invited to speak,
He reinforced the arguments for con-
solidation made by the first speaker.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-13
INTERESTING LETTER
FROM Mr.. T|EDT
WELL-kNOWN MONTANA RESI-
DENT COMPARES CONDITIONS
IN TWO STATES. =

Yesterday M. l.. Dean received a
letter from his friends, w. J. Tiedt
of Darby, who, with his family, is
spending the winter in San Diego,
Cal. Mr.. Tiedt has a number Of in
teresting comments to make concern
ing that section of the country and it
is evident from the one of his letter
that he is not thinking seriously of
moving south to live or invest. He
says, in part: During the nights of
January 5 and 6 southern California
was visited by a very severe freeze
not a frost. In the lowlands the lemon
trees are killed and the fruit is frozen
on the trees. I feel sorry for the
growers, for it costs about s165 an
acre to grow lemons and ranges.
People who have lived here 81 years
never have witnessed such a cold
spell. In San Diego the water pipes
froze and bursted. We have been
shivering after buying an oil stove to
augment gas heater. This is no place
to invest money now. All the old real
estate owners are offering their prop
critics for sale, which shows that they
tApett ii ueCllle III values dlleI llle
fair in 1915.
Before the freeze I saw a tomato
plant here that was seven years old.
These and all the flowers are dead
now. Vegetables cannot be grown
here without commercial fertilizer. All
the soil surrounding San Diego is bar
rem. Lawns require from $12 to $50
worth of fertilizer every year.
Papers give an account of bad
weather in Montana, but the people
suffer as much from cold here as they
do there. There is nothing here to
compare with Montana except graft
ing. These people would starve if the
tourists failed to come here. l like a
country with to build cities.
San Diego is kept up by the returns
of what has been produced in other
sections of the world"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-13
CHARGES too HIGH
SAYS EVANS
CONGRESSMAN-ELECT FEELS Ex-
ACTIONS OF GOVERNMENT
ARE HEAVY.

Congressman-elect John M. Evans
returned to Missoula yesterday after a
trip through the reservation during
which he met with settlers at Arlee,
Camas and the gency The matter
of irrigation and water charges was
the principal subject presented to the
attention of Mr.. Evans and he has
come back thoroughly impressed with
the seriousness of the situation n
eager to help the F1athead people.
He went to Arlee to talk to the
people there, but his visit resulted In
a meeting that was more of a con-
ference than anything else. The con-
gresham talked with settlers and
leasers from the lower valley there and
they told him that they could not farm
their lands when the government eX-
acted from them water rents of 81 an
acre.
Mr.. Evans then went to the agency.
where he talked with Major Fred
Morgan, superintendent of the reser-
walton, and Engineer Tabor. The mat
ter of irrigation charges was thor
oughly discussed and Mr.. Evans was
given the governments side of the
question.
Il am satisfied" he said last night,
that a water rent of two dollars an
acre is entirely too heavy. The set
tiers in the Flathead are having a
mighty hard time, but l think that
We can adjust it as soon as the de-
partment of the interior is informed
of the true state of affairs"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-13
dorado TAFT TALKS
THIS EVENING
NOTED AMERICAN SCULPTOR TO
GIVE INTERESTING LEG
TURE AT HARNOlS.

dorado Taft, the American sculptor
artist, who fills the 1ourth number
If the university lecture course this
evening at the Harnois theater, is not
unknown to many people in Missoula,
Since the announcement that he
would appear in the city many volun-
teer expressions of commentator and
approval have been received about his
lecture. With his great work all are
more or less familiar through the
magazines and newspapers.
Rev. J. N. Maclean says hi NAV be
quoted as saying he has seen and
heard Taft in the lecture he is to give
in M%issoula, and that it is one of the
most interesting and instructive lee
lures he has ever heard; tina people
will be pleased, entertained and in
structed, and that it is a rare privi-
lege to see him at work.
Miss Anna Carter of the Missoula
county high school, listened to his
art lectures frequently when she for
merly attended the art institute at
Chicago, and characterizes him as a
wonderful man. She cannot speak toe
highly of him and his work, and SAYS
of him as a lecturer hat he Is very
interesting and instructive. She has
heard him many times, and is very
enthusiastic about his coming.
Miss Eloise Knowles. instructor in
art at the university. recently visited
Taft in his Chicago studio. Naturally,
she appreciates the great help which
will come to the study of art in Mis-
soula through Taft's visit, and is en-
phatic in her expressions of approval
Of his lecture and its Influence on the
community.
And 50 it goes. Others have lis
tened to him, n all with great unan-
unity pronounce his lecture of high
order of merit, very interesting and
instructive.
Taft has said that he now has SC
riuch work to do that he will quit
lccturing, and that this will be his
.ast lecture tour. To Missoula he
comes from Valley City, N. D., and
from Missoula he goes to Butte. Mis-
scula people are to be congratulated
On having the privilege OF hearing The
~ i'1''F tAhipl'I bclo1t lit
ceases lecturing to d. more important
work. Contact with great men mean,
much more to students than they
imagine. The lecture course ha:
brought to Missoula many prominent
even great men in the years sonc by
tnt no greater service has beer
rendered the community than tina o;
bringing Americas noted sculptor tc
speak and to show how the work is
done.
notwithstanding Taft's reputation
as a great artist and the expense
necessary to bring so great an at
traction, the price of admission is
maintained the same as for Other
numbers of the course. See advertise.
ment elsewhere in this issue. Tickets
for the evening may be had at the
theater, and those who have not pur-
chased season tickets had best tele-
phone early today. For such an at.
traction the sale of seats will doubt.
less be large.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-13
MORE N0T0R|ETY
FOR CHICAGO MAN

lIarly Sunday morning the police
We're called to a West Front street
resort and made the arrest of two
women, Estella Brown and IneZ
Green, upo complaint of a mar who
gave his name as Moreaux, who all
legged that the women had rolled
him for something over 500. From
the meager details that could be
gathered Of the case 1t appears that
when the man complained about the
loss of his money one Of the women
"sapped' him over the head, the blow
cutting a small cash in his scalp.
Later it vas learned that the man
in the case is A. r. Moreaux of Chi
cago, who arrived in Missoula Friday,
1t being understood that he was on
his way to Stevensville to take charge
of a ranch over which he recently
gained considerable notoriety in the
east, he having been sued by a woman
who alleged that she had been
swindled in her purchase of an inter-
est in the property. The case
dragged in the courts for many
months and was given wide publicity
through the papers.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-13
FUNERAL OF MRS.. RE|Tz
WILL Be HELD TUESDAY

=. c. Reitz and daughter, Edith, ar
rived on train No. 3 last evening with
the remains of Mrs. ReitZ, who died
at Rochester, Mimi, a few days ago.
The body was taken to the Marsh un-
dertaking parlors. 1t was arranged to
hold the funeral Tuesday afternoon at
2 o'clock. There will be a short serv-
ice at the Garden City Commercial
college, where the remains will lie in
state from 8 a. m. until II m. of that
day, and then the main service will
be conducted at the Methodist Epis-
copal church. Elder d. b. Ely of
Sunnyside, Wash, will officiate, as
sisted by Rev. J. w. Bennett and Rev.
E. i. 4Burtner.4~s -Interment will be in
the Missoula cemetery
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-13

He surely is an optimist-these days
of snow and sleet-Who smiles with
shoes all full of holes.
SOME that should be full of
HOPE feet. when the snow is
dry and crispy, holes
don't amount to much; but when it's
wet and sluShy, they bring chilblains
and such: and the man Who can keep
smiling, when his feet stick through
his shoes, no matter what may hap
pen, will w have the blues: the
oozy wet of melting snow hunts every
weak spot out; it's a shock indeed to
find shoes thin, when YOU had thought
them stout; it spoils the joy of living
to have a leaky shoe; it's tough to
have to wear it-but there's nothing
else to do; with holes in shoes, the
stoutest heart is like enough to quail;
there's nothing more disheartening
than a January gale; but there's a
balm in Gilead-the clearance sales
in sight; then you can get a pair of
shoes, all waterproof and tight; the
Wintry wind is tempered to the shorn
and shivering lamb; the clearance sale
will bring relief and mighty glad /
am: if it wasn't for the clearance
sale l don't know what I'd do; for
the awful cost of living busts a jing-
ler's revenue.