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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-18
Breaking 1t to Him Gently.
Evanston, ILL.,, News).

VENdHSIUL, III, NtWSJ.
The engagement of Miss Margaret
Roesing, daughter of B. Roesing of
this city, has been announced to Ar
thur Croxton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-18
Now She'll Be Good.
(Newhall, Iowa, News. }

| INtWHdII, IUWd, -NVWS.J
This Office is in receipt of an anony-
nous letter giving the editor a rare
good dressing down, which is, beyond
doubt, richly deserved. We can't all
be perfect, and the editor of this paper
cannot remember ever to have claim
ed that enviable distinction. On the
other hand-and somewhat to his
credit-he cannot remember ever to
have written any one an anonymous
letter. And there YOU are, old girl.
CLIFFORD Pinchot may be a sue
cessful forester, but he is a poor finan-
cierI He put $4,000 into the recent
Pennsylvania campaign. and all he got
back was what Willie shot at
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-18
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS

BEWARE of those who are predict
ing the war to end April 1.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-18

ONE historian rises to declare that
the Germans did not put the scar in
Scarborough, but that the job was
done by the Danes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-18

DICK Cookers bride was chased by
a wild cat in Florida. \ tiger proba
bly, would not have been such a sur
prise to her.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-18
impossible.

Detroit Free Press.)
Have those Los Angeles physicians
who brought a dead woman back to
life ever tried their hands on anyone
who was politically dead?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-18

ENGINE has been suggested as
name for Wisconsin's first eugenl'
baby.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-18

r. w. G. writes: Please advise me
how to cure myself of catarrh of the
throat. which l have had a long time.
Have used many medicines without
effect.
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heHOQOW
b ; Of Her Hand
George Barr McCutCheOn

COcL7lG1Z I2Z2 ~ EEOTI
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He Dropped Suddenly Upon the Trunk.

to be her wedding night. She found
no minister here. The man laughed at
her and scoffed. Then she knew. In
horror, shame, desperation she tried
to break away from him. He was
strong. She was a good woman; q
virtuous, honorable woman. She saved
herself"
He was staring at her with dilated
eyes. Slowly the truth was being
borne in upon him.
THE woman was-Hetty?" came
hoarsely from his stinening lips. My
God, Saral"
She came close to him and spoke
in a half-whisper. Now you know the
secret. Is it safe with your"
He opened his lips to speak, but no
words came North. Paralysis seemed
to have gripped not only his throat
but his SEM !. He reeled. She
grasped his arrlA in tense, fierce way,
and whispered:
BE careful! No one. must hear
what we are saying" She shot a
glance down tia deserted hall. mo
one is near. made sure OF that.
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Humility.

We tell this story because 1t seems
to us beautiful story that ought to be
told. 1t concerns General Bell and the
opening OF the gigantic amphitheater
In Manila that follows the lines of the
land. The general was much praised
for having built this imposing and
enormous structure. He pointed to the
savage Igorrotes that were standing
about, trying to understand what was
going on. i did not build It," he said.
GOD Almighty built it, but If you want
to take building in different sense.
to consider what we did, using thu
great plans of nature, those poor feI-
lows built 1t. ''-Harper's Weekly.
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SYNOPSIS.

ChaIlis Wrandall is found murdered in
a road house near New York. Mrs. Wran-
dali is summoned from the city and iden-
sifies the body. young woman who 40
c0mpanied Wrandall to the ian and sub
sequentlyf disappeared, Is suspected
Mrs. Wrandall starts back for New York
I'm an auto during binding snow storm
On the way she meets young woman In
abe road who proves to be the woman
who killed Wranda1l Feeling that the
girl had done her a service IN Kidding her
OF the man who though she loved him
deeply, had caused her great sorrow
Mrs. Wrandall determines to shield her
ard takes her to her own home. Mrs
Wran6All hears the story Of Hetty Cas-
eietOn's life, except that portion that re-
Iates to Wrandall. This and the story Of
abe tragedy she forbida the girl ever to
sen. She offers Hetty. home. friendship
and security from peril On account ttt Of the the
turn to New YORK after an absence OF
year in Europe. Leslie Wrandall. brother
OF Challis. becomes greatly Interested In
Hetty Sara sees In Leslie's infatuation
possibility for revenge on the Wrandalls
ard reparation for the wrongs she sur
fered at the hands of Challis Wrandall by
marrying his murderess into the family
Leslie, IN company with his friend Bran
don Booth, an artist, visits Sara at her
country place. Leslie confesses to sara
that he is madlv in love with Hetty. sara
arranges with Booth to paint q picture e. OF OF
Hetty. Booth has a haunting feeling tnat
ne has seen Hetty before. Looking
through a portfolio of pictures by an un-
known English artist he finds one or
Hetty. He speaks to her about 1t. Hetty
declares 1t must be a picEure OF Hetty
GIynn, an English actress. who resembles
fer very much. Much to his chagrin
Leslie Is refused by Hetty. Booth ana
Hetty confess their love for each other.
but the latter declares that she can never
marry as there Is an insurmountable bar
xfer in the way. Hetty admits to sara
that she loves Booth. Sara declares that
Hetty must marry Leslie. who must be
made to pay his brothers debt TO the
girl Hetty again attempts to tell the
real story Of the tragedy and sara threat
ems to strangle her IL she says a word
Sara insults Hetty by revealing that all
THIS time she has believed Hetty to have
sinned in her relations with Challis Wran-
dali Later she realizes that Hetty Is In
nocent Leslie again proposes to Hetty
and Is rejected. Hetty prepares to leave
Sara, declaring that after what has hap
Iyened she can remain no longer. Hetty
starts for Europe. At sea she receives a
message from Booth that he has started
on faster steamer and will be waiting
for her on the other side. Booth meets
her and accompanies her to London. In
an attempt to escape from him Hetty
starts for Paris, but finds Booth on the
Same boat. She persists in her refusal to
tell him the secret which keeps them
apart. She declares that Sara alone can
Tell him. Booth leaves for America de-
termined to get the story from Sara.
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CHAPTER xvi.-continued.

The weeks slipped by. He was with
her almost daily. Other people came
10 her house, some for rather protract-
ed visits, others in quest Of pillage at
The nightly bridge table. but he was
seldom missing. There were times
when he thought he detected a ten
dency to waver. but each cunning at
tempt on his part to encourage the
impulse invariably brought certain
knocking light into her eyes and he
veered of in defeat. Something kept
telling him, however. that the hour
was bound to come when she would
faller IN he. resolution: when frank
ness would meet frankness, and the
she veil be lifted
There were no letters from Hetty,
no word of any description. II Sara
knew anything OF the girls movements
she did not take Booth into her conf
dence.
] leslie Wrandall went abroad in Au-
gust, ostensibly to attend the aviation
meets in France and England. His
mother and sister sailed in September,
hut not before the entire colony OF
which they were part had begun to
discuss Sara and Booth with a relish
that was obviously distasteful to the
Wrandalls.
Where there is smoke there is fire,
said all the gossips, and forthwith pro-
Geeded to carry faggots.
A week or so before sailing, Mrs.
Redmond Wrandall had Booth In for
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Not Property EnuInned

Little Gardner. whose big brother
had been presented with a bicycle.
asked his mother IL he could not have
one, too. You're not old enough" she
replied. but | will buy you a veloei-
pede-" Il can't use a velocipde on
these rough roads" he exclaimed. The
motor cars use the rough roads everv
day" The youngster thought for 4
moment. then with q look OF scorn re-
marked: DO you think am aIIe<,
with gasoline New York Timas
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10 6cs CQN1AY/

began, but she interrupted him with a
laugh.
Il am starting for the city before
noon, by motor, to be gone at least
fortnight
What! This is the first I've heard
of it."
Again she laughed ITO be perfect
ly frank with you, / hadn't heard of
1t myself until just now. 1 think 1
shall go down to the Homestead with
the CAROLS"
Hot Springs?'
Virginia" she added explicitly.
Il say. Sara, what does all this
mean? You"
"And IL you should follow me
there, Vivian's estimate of us will not
be SO far out of the way as we'd
like to make It,"
True to her word, she was gone
when he drove over later on in the
day. Somehow, he experienced a
queer feeling of relief. Not that he
was oppressed by the rather vivacious
opinions Of Vivian and her ilk, but
because something told him that Sara
was wavering in her determination to
withhold the secret from him and fed
for perfectly obvious reasons.
He had two commissions among the
rich summer colonists. One, a full
length portrait of young Beardsley in
shooting toys, was nearly finished. The
other was to be half-length of Mrs.
Ravenscroft, who wanted one just like
Hetty Castleton's, except for the eyes,
which she admitted would have to be
different. Nothing was said of the
seventeen years difference in their
ages. Vivian had put of posing until
Lent
The Wrandalls departed for Scot
land, and other friends of his began
to desert the country for the city. The
fortnight passed and another week
besides. Mrs. Ravenscroft decided to
go TO Europe when the picture was
half-finisked.
''You can finish 1t when l come back
in December, Mr.. Booth" she said.
"I'll have several new gowns to choose
from, too"
Il shall be busy all winter, Mrs. Ra-
venscroft," he said coldly.
How annoying" she said calmly,
and that was the end of it all. She
had made the unpleasant discovery
that it wasn't going to be in the least
like Hetty Castleton's, SO why bother
about it?
Booth waited until Sara came out
to superintend the closing of her house
for the winter. He called at South
look on the day of her arrival He
was struck at once by the curious
change in her appearance and manner.
There was something bleak and DESC
bate in the wildly brilliant face: the
tired, wistful, harassed look OF one
who has begun to quail and yet fights
on.
"Will you 90 out with me tomorrow,
Brandon, for an all-day trip In the
carr she asked, as they stood to-
gether before the open fireplace on
this late November afternoon. Her
eyes were moody, her voice rather
lifeless.
Certainly" he said, Watching her
closely. Was the break about to come?
II will stop for you at nine" After
a short pause, she looked up and said:
Il suppose you would like to know
where / am taking YOU"
"It doesn't matter, Sara"
II want you to go with me to Bur-
tons inn"
"Burton's inn."
THAT is the place where my hus-
band was killed." she said, quite
steadily.
He started. ooh! But-do you
think it best, Sara, to open old wounds
by"
II have thought it all out, Brandon.
I want to go there-just once. want
to go into that room again"
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went away because Sara, falling in
her plan to marry her off to Leslie,
decided that 1t would be fatal to a GER
tain project of her own IL she re-
manned on the field of action. Do /
make myself clear?"
ooh, you are away of In your con-
illusions, WV"
Time will tell" was here cabalistic
rejoinder.
Her father appeared on the lawn
below and called up to them.
"You are wanted at the telephone,
Brandon. I've just been talking to
Sara"
did she call you up, father?" asked
Vivian. leaning over the rail.
"Yes. About nothing In particular,
however"
She turned upon Booth with q mock
ing smile. He felt the color rush to
his face, and was angry with himself.
He went to the telephone. Almost
her first words were these:
What has Vivian been telling you
ABOUT me, BRANDON
He actually gasped. Good heavens.
Sara!"
He heard her low laugh. $50 she
has been saying things, has she?" she
asked. II thought sc. I've had it
in my bones tonight"
He was at loss for words 1t was
positively uncanny. AS he stood there,
trying to think of a trivial remark, her
laugh came to him again over the wire,
followed by drawing good night"
and then the soughing Of the wind
over the open" wire.
The next day he called her up on
the telephone quite early. He knew
her habits. She would be abroad in
her gardens by eight o'clock. He re-
membered well that Leslie, in COM
menting on her absurdly early hours,
had once said that her early bird"
habit was hereditary: she got 1t from
Sebastian.
What put it into your head, Sara,
that Vivian was saying anything un-
pleasant about you last night?"
Magic" she replied succinctly.
Rubbish
Il have magic tapestry that trans
ports me, hither and thither, and by
night / always carry Aladdin's lamp.
So, you see. see and hear everything"
BE sensible"
> Very well. l will be sensible. II
you intend to be Influenced by what
Vivian or her mother said to you last
night, l think you'd be wise to avoid
me from this time on"
Prepared though he was, he blinked
his eyes and said something she didn t
quite catch.
She went on: Moreover, in addition
TO my attachments in the black art,
/ am quite as clever as Mr.. Sherlock
Holmes in some respects. / really do
some splendid deducing. In the first
place, you were asked there and /
was not. Why? Because was to be
discussed. You see"
"Marveiousi" he interrupted loudly.
You were to be told that I have
cruel designs upon YOU"
Go on, please"
And all that sort OF thing" she
said sweepingly, and he could almost
see the inclusive gesture with her free
hand. He laughed but still ma-veled
at the shrewdness OF her perceptions
"Ill come over this afternoon and
show you wherein you are wrong" he
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CHAPTER XVII.
once More at Burton's Inn.

Again Sara Wrandall found herself
in that never-to-be-forgotten room at
Burton's inn. On that grim night in
March she had entered without fear
or trembling because she knew what
was there. Now she Quaked with a
mighty chill of terror, for she knew
not what was there in the quiet, now
sequestered room. Burton had told
them on their arrival after a long
drive across country that patrons Of
the inn invariably asked which room
it was that had been the scene of
the tragedy, and, on finding out, re-
fused point-blank to occupy 1t. In
consequence ne had been obliged to
transform it into a sort OF store and
baggage room.
Sara stood in the middle of the
murky room, for the shutters had long
been closed to the light of day, and
looked about her In awe at the hetero-
geneous mass of boxes, trunks, bum
dies and rubbish, scattered over the
floor without care or system. She had
closed the door behind her and was
quite alone. Light sneaked In through
the cracks In the shutters, but so
meagerly that 1t only served to in
crease the gloom. A dismantled bed
stead stood heaped up In the corner
She did not have to be told what bed
4 was. The mattress was there too,
roled up and tied with a thick garden
4 'ope. She knew there we're dull. ugly
blood stains upon 1t. Why the thrifty
Burton had perseverad In keeping
this useless article of furniture. she
could only surmise. Perhaps 1t was
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dinner. / think she said en- famille.
At any rate, Sara was not asked,
which Is proof enough that she was
bent on making IL family affair
After dinner, Booth sat in the
screened upper balcony with Vivian.
He liked her. she was a keen-witted,
plain-spoken young woman, with few
false ideals and no subtlety. She was
less snobbish than arrogant. OF all
the Wrandalls, she WIS the least self
eentered. Leslie never quite under
stood her for the paradoxicai reason
shat she thoroughly understood him.
You know, Brandon. she said.
after q long silence between them.
they've been setting my cap for you
for a long, long time" She blew
thin stream Of cigarette smoke toward
the moon
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neld as an inducement to the morbidly
curious who always seek out the grue-
some and gloat even as they shudder.
For long time she stood immov-
able Just inside the door, recalling
the horrid picture of another day. She
tried to imagine the scene that had
been enacted there with gentle, low
able Hetty Glynn aud her whilom
husband as the principal characters.
The girl had told the whole story Of
that ugly night. Sara tried to see 1t
as it actually had transpired. For
months this present enterprise had
been in her mind: the desire to see
the place again, to go there with old
impressions which she could leave be-
hind when ready to emerge in new
frame of mind. 1t was true that she
meant to shake off the shackles of
horrid dream, to purge herself of the
last vestige of bitterness, to cleanse
her mind of certain thoughts and mem
cries.
Downstairs Booth waited for her
He heard the story of the tragedy from
the innkeeper, who Grossly maintained
that his business had been ruined.
Booth was vaguely impressed. he knew
not why, by Burton's description of
the missing woman. I'D say she was
about the size of Mrs. Wrandall her
self, and much the same figger," he
said, as he had said a thousand times
before. my wife noticed it the min
ute she saw Mrs. Wrandall. Same
height and everything"
A bell rang sharply and Burton
glanced over his shoulder at the indi-
Gator on the wall behind the desk. He
gave a great start and his jaw sagged.
Great Scott!" he gasped A curl
Gus grayness stole over his face. Its
its the bell in that very room. My
soul, what can"
Mrs. Wrandall is up there, isn't
she?" demanded Booth.
1T amt rung since the night he
pushed the button for Oh, gee!
You're right. She is up there. My,
what scare it gave me-" He wiped
his brow. Turning to a boy, he COM
manded him to answer the bell The
boy went slowly, and as he went he
removed his hands from his pockets.
He came back an instant later, more
swiftly than he went, with the word
that "the lady up there" wanted Mr..
Booth to come upstairs.
She was waiting for him in the open
doorway. A shaft Of bright sunlight
from window at the end of the hall
fell upon her. Her face was colorless,
haggard. He paused for an instant to
contrast her as she stood there in the
pitiless light with the vivid creature
he had put upon canvas so recently.
She beckoned to him and turned
back into the room. He followed.
This is the room, Brandon, where
my husband met the death he de-
served" she said quietly.
Deserved? Good heavens, Sara,
are you"
II want you to look about you and
try to picture how this place looked
on the night OF the murder. You have
a vivid imagination. None of this
rubbish was here. Just bed, a table
and two chairs. There was carpet
on the floor. There were two people
here, a man and woman. The wom-
an had trusted the man. She trusted
him until the hour in which he died.
Then she found him out. She had
come to this place, believing it was
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her champion. / suppose you know
that he was your rival at one time. :"
He mentioned it." said Booth drily.
II should have been very much dis
appointed in her If she had accepted
him.
'Indeed?"
81 sometimes wonder if Sara spiked
Leslie's guns for him"
81 can tell you something you don't
know, Vivian" said he. Sara was
rather keen about making match
there"
Vivian's smile was slow but trium-
plant. THAT is just what / thought
There you are! Doesn't that explain
Sara?"
I'm a measure, yes. But, you see,
1t developed that Hetty cared for some
one else, and that put stop to every
thing"
'Am I to take it that you are the
some one else?"
YES he said soberly.
Then, may I ask why she went
away so suddenly"
"You may ask, but can't answer"
DO yoI want my opinion? She
Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-15
DOUGLAS BALL TEAM
 ORGANIZES BAND TO
 PROMOTE INTERESTS

Baseball is good any way but it is better with music. At least that's what Che c. & A. boys think and they have organized band 10 play at au their ball games. incudine those played away from Douglas. Tho band will consist of fifteen pieces and will play only ragume and popular music. The boys have their instruments and music. practice being the only thing they lack They win probably make tneir first appearance in about two weeks The band is an echo of the old-tme c. & A. band of sixty uieces. and Che boys want to make 1t as fine an echo as possible.
 Practice for the big game sunday afternoon with Bisbee on the local grounds continues almost daily and Manager Jack Gibbons is confident Of the result though not allowing this confidence to lessen his preparations. He has just secured the services of Pitcher S. w. Keeling. a weu-kuovn southpaw, who last season was with Houston in the Texas league. He win arrive today and will soon be in shape to enter the box for the copper cook. CTS.
 His acquisition Is considered the biggest item since the team was or ganized. Other improvements are contemplated, and before the season IS over it is believed Douglas win have the fastest ball team in Arizona. just as she now has the best in this part of the State.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-15
"YO BOWLING NOTES

On Tuesday evening the big weekly elimination tournament was pulled on on the r. M c. A. alleys. with Mr. R. R. Hodgson the winner.
 Monday night the two-men teams bowled their challenges off with Mir. Earl Witig and Mir w E. flaw thorne winners over C. E. Witug and Hodgson. and J. l.. Denton and Judge Howell
 Wednesday Mir Hodgson and c. F. Witug bowled off a challenge game, and Mr. Hodgson proved winner with 542 against 525 for Wittig
 The new Y. Bowling Club will or ganize on Monday evening of next week, and is open to all the men members of the association, and to every lady in Bisbee who cares to join in with the men in this popular indoor sport
 The ladies of Bisbee are welcome to come up to the bowling alleys and witness any of the tournaments and also to join in on the bowling with the other lady bowlers on their bowling days
Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-15
.RECKLE-FACE
Sun and Wind Bring Out Ualy Spots.
 How to Remove Easily

Here's a chance. Miss Freckle.face 10 try a remedy for freckles with tbe guarantee of a reliable dealer that it win not cost you Q penny unless 1t removes the freckles; while if it does give you a clear complexion the ex. pense is trlfing
 Simply get an ounce of othine- double strength from any druggist and a few applications should show you how easy it is to rid yourself of the homely freckles and get beauti. full complexion. Rarely is more than one ounce needed for the worst case
 Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength othine as this is the prescription sold under guarantee of money back if 1t falls to remove feckles f21g,
Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-15
MORE BASEBALL TODAY

c There will be held another . e baseball practice at the Warren Q . Park this afternoon immediately e Q after the afternoon shift gets off. Q q It is thought probable that the e @ final selection Of players who Q Q win be taken to Douglas Sun Q @ day win be made @ e A large crowd turned out wed Q Q ne=day and some classy ball was Q
 Q sprung It is hoped that another Q Q good representation win turn out Q Q and help the good work along Q Q e c e q q O. z . . c