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began. but she interrupted him with laugh
 T 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 To be perfect ly frank with you. hadn't heard of ii myself until just now. think shall go down to the Homestead with the Carols"
 Hot Springs?"
 Virginia" she added explicitly.
 T say, Sara, what does all this mean? You"
 And if you should follow me there, Viyian's estimate of us will not be so far out of the way as wed like to make it
 when he drove over later on in the day. Somehow, he experienced 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 fled for perfectly obvious reasons.
 He had two commissions among the rich summer colonists. One, a full length portrait of young Beardsley in shooting togs, was nearly finished. The other was to be half-length of Mrs Rayenscroft, who wanted one just like Hetty Castletons, 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-fnished.
 You can finish it when l come back in December, MT Booth" she said "Ill have several new gowns to choose from, too"
 T 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'e, 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 deso- late in the vividly brilliant face: the tired, wistful, harassed look of one who has begun to quail and yet fights on.
 Will you go out with me tomorrow, Brandon, for an all-day trip in the car?" 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 ?
 T will stop for you at nine" After a short pause, she looked up and said : T suppose you would like to know where am taking you"
 Tt doesn't matter Sara" T want you to go with me to Bur tons inn" "Burtons inn"
 That is the place where my hus. band was killed" she said, quite steadily.
 He started "Oh, But-do you think it best, Sara. to open old wounds by"
 T have thought 1t all out, Brandon. l want to go there-iust once. want to go into that room again"
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Humility.

We tell this story because Il seen' to us a beautiful story that ought to Oe told. It concerns General Bell ana lie opening of the gigantic amphltnea,s'. in Manila that follows the lines ol 'ns land. The general was much prais's for having built this imposing a1s s enormous structure. He pointed to .n' savage Igorrotes that were stanui.. about, trying to understand what "a' going on. T did not build 1t, ne sa1 God Almighty built 1t, but fl you wan a. to take building in a different seD,a, .s. to consider what we did, usins .., great plans of nature, those poor "
 lows built it.'-Harper' Weekly
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her champion. I suppose you know that he was youT rival st one time"
 He mentioned it" said Booth drily.
 T should have been very much dis appointed in her if she had accepted him"
 'Indeed7a
 T sometimes wonder If Sara spiked Leslies guns for him
 T can tell you something you don't kn>v. Vivian" said he sara was rather keen about making a match there.
 Yiyian's smile was slow but trium- phant. That is just what l thought There you are, Doesn't that explain Sara? 2"
 Tn a measure. yes. But. you see. it 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 cant answer"
 Do you want my opinion? She
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CHAPTER XVi-Continued.

The weeks slipped by. He was with her almost daily. Other people came to 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 ten dency te waver, but each cunning at tempt sn his part to encourage the impulse Invariably brought a certain mocking light into her eyes and he veered of in defeat Something kept ,elling him, however that the hour was bound to come when she would falter in her resolution; when frank ness would meet frankness. and the the veil be lifted.
 There were no letters from Hetty, no word of any description. If 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 fn France and England. His mother and sister sailed in September. but not before the entire colony of which they were a 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 ceeded to carry faggots.
 A week or so before sailing, Mrs. Redmond Wrandall had Booth in for
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went away because Sara, failing in her plan to marry her off to Leslie, decided that it would be fatal to a cer- tain project of her own if she re- mained on the field of action Do make myself clear?"
 'Oh, you are away of in your con clusions, Viv."
 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 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, Sarai"
 He heard her low laugh. 80 she has been saying thinA, has she?" she asked. T thought so. I've had it in my bones tonight"
 He was at loss for words. It was positively uncanny. As he stood there, trying to think of trivial remark. her laugh came to him again over the wire, followed by drawling 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 it 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!"
 T have magic tapestry that trans ports me, hither and thither, and by night l always carry Aladdin's lamp. So, you see. see and hear everything"
 Be sensible"
 Very well. will be sensible. If you intend to be influenced by what Vivian or her mother said to you last night, 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 attainments in the black art, am quite as clever as Mir. Sherlock Holmes in some respects. really do some splendid deducing In the first place, you were asked there and I was not. Why? Because was to be discussed. You see"
 Marvellous! he interrupted loudly.
 You were to be told that l have cruel designs upon you"
 Go on, please"
 And all that sort of thing" she said sweepngly and he could almost see the inclusive gesture with her free hand He laughed but still marveled 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 r-to-be.forgotten room al 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 q 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 lie had been obliged to transform 1t into a sort of store and baggage room.
 Sara stood in the middle of the murky room for the shutters had Ionp been closed to the light of day and looked about her in awe at the hetero- geneous mass of boxes, trunks. hun. dles 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 it 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 it was. The mattress was there too. rolled up and tied with thick garden rope. She knew there were dull. ugly blood stains upon it. Why the thrifty Burton had perseyered in keepiDg this useless article of furniture. she could only surmise. Perhaps it was
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dinner. I think she said en famille. At any rate. Sara was not asked, which is proof enough that she was bent on making it family affair
 After dinner. Booth sat in the screened upper balcony with Vivian. He liked her She was keen -witted, plain-spoken young woman, with few false ideals and no subtlety. She was less snobbish than arrogant Of all the Wrandalls, she was the least self centered. Leslie never quite under stood her for the paradoxical reason that she thoroughly understood him.
 You know. Brandon" she said. after a long silence between them, they've been setting my cap for you for a long, long time" She blew a thin stream of cigarette smoke toward the moon
The Forrest City times., 1914-06-19
Not Properly Equipped.

Little Gardner, whose big oro'us' had been presented with a olcsV,s asked his mother if he could no' nAs one. too. You're not old enough ,% 'sI replied, but I will buy you s0''o on pede." T cant use a yeIoeipae. .rsa these rough roads" he exclaimed ,rv motor cars use the rough roads eve, day" The youngster though' lo ra moment, then with a look Of SCOTT nu.d marked Do you think am
 with gasoline ?"-New York Times
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held as an inducement 10 the morbidly curious who always seek out the grue- some and gloat even as they shudder.
 For a 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, lov- able Hetty Glynn and her whilom husband as the principal characters. The girl had told the whole story of that ugly night. Sara tried to see it 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. It was true that she meant to shake of the shackles of horrid dream, to purge herself of the last vestige of bitterness, to cleanse her mind of certain thoughts and mem ories
 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 fgger," he said, as he had said 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- cator on the wall behind the desk. He gave great start and his jaw sagged.
 Great Scott" he gasped. A curi- ous grayness stole over his face It's its the bell in that very room. My soul, what can
 Mrs. Wrandall is up there, isn't she?" demanded Booth.
 It aint rung since the night he pushed the button for Oh, gee. You're right. She is up there. My. what a scare it gave me" He wiped his brow. Turning to a boy, he com handed 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 NIT. Booth to come upstairs.
 She was waiting for him in the open doorway 4 shaft of bright sunUght from a 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"
 T want you 10 look about you and try to picture how this place looked on the night of the murder. You have vivid imagination. None of this rubbish was here. Just a bed, a table and two chairs. There was a carpet on the floor. There were two people here, man and a 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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TheHOnOW
 70 > of Her Hand
 George Barr McCutCheOn

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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-07
CATJLEMEN ARE
UP AGAINST It
IMPRESSED WITH GRAVITY OF
HOOP AND MOUTH DISEASE
EPIDEMIC

CHICAGO, Nov. 4. = The grav-
ity of the epidemic of hoof and
mouth disease among middle west
ern cattle was driven home to the
cattlemen when DR.. E. S. Bennett Of
the bureau of animal industry an
swered their protests with the state
ment hat the slaughter of suspected
cattle at a cost of $4,000, 900
would be cheap compared to the in
ca%lculable loss from the spread of
the malady.
No way of fighting the plague is
known except the destruction of af-
fected and suspected animals. Fed
eral agents favor closing the Union
stock yards, the largest cattle mar
ket in the world. and such an order
was rescinded only after heavy
pressure was brought to bear, and
may yet be given. Prices say the
price of beef will drop because cat
tlemen will rush their stock to the
market, fearing the risk of the dis.
ease. Cattle are now received only
for immediate slaughter.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-07
SINKING is RESUMED
ON AUSTIN-DAkOTA

The Austin Dakota property. under
the management of Charles F. Lit
trell, has resumed sinking OF the in
cline from the 25O-foot level on a
vein which already has yielded a few
tons of shipping ore in the shaft.
Two shifts will be employed.
During the last two weeks a sta
ton pump has been installed at the
25O-foot level where a reservoir will
be put in to take the water from the
lower levels. A 35-foot crosscut was
driven at this point to accommodate
the pump and reservoir installa-
lions. In the meantime, the surface
pump has been thoroughly overhaul
ed and from now on it will be an easy
matter to handle all the water that
may come into the lower workings.
The company expects to continue
operations throughout the winter
with two shifts and this equipment.
The ore indications on the bottom
level are that the work is progress
ing in a permanent shOot.-Reese
River Reville.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-07
MASSACHUSETTS OUTPUT
OF CLAY AND QUARRIES

The principal mineral products of
the quarries and clay pits of the
state. More than half of the total
value of the annual mineral produce
ton is derived from the stone quar-
ries, exclusive of the limestone Durn-
ed into lime. The total value of the
mineral products of Massachusetts
in 1913, according to the United
States geological survey, was 81
044 ,529, of which the stone quafrieS
furnished $4,O96,372 and the clay
working industries $1,S14,S75. The
corresponding figures for 1912
were $6.654,514, $~3,663,279 and
$~1,767,166, respectively. About 60
per cen of the stone quarried, meas
ured by value, was granite, which
was used principally for building
and monumental purposes and for
paving blocks, a relatively small
quantity - principally the waste
from the quarrying and stone cut
ting operations = being used for
road making, railroad ballast, and
concrete. Trap rock is next to gran
tie in value of output.
The production of lime in Massa-
chusetts decreased from 144,3S4
short tons, valued at $6S3,541, in
1913. The state produces no kind
of mineral fuel. although numerous
deposits of peat exist in swamps and
boys in the eastern and central por-
tons of the state. The metal pro-
duction is confined to a small out
put of iron ore which is used in To-
cal furnaces. Other mineral sub
stances which contribute to the to-
tai production of Massachusetts are
emery, Fuller's earth, gems, infu-
sorial earth, mineral waters, sand,
gravel, sand-lime brick. silica and
tale.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-07
CRATER LANDS
IN COUNTY JAIL
MUTE SUDDENLY SPEAKS AND
STRIKES WOMAN, 1T Is
ALLEGED

Harry A. Fargoe, who has been
mulcting residents of Goldfield for
several days on a pretense of being
deaf and dumb, a arrested yester-
day afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Bo-
gard upon complaint of Mrs. Eli
Kaufman. 1t seems that Fargoe
who is a young man about twenty
five years of age and claims Colorado
as his home. has been going from
house to house and securing money
on a written plea that he was a mute
Slightly under the influence of
liquor he appeared at Mrs. Kauf-
mans home yesterday afternoon.
Upon receiving only a quarter he be-
came angry and breaking his silence
commanded her to give him more
under threat of death and struck her
in the face with his fist. Mrs. Kauf-
man fed to the rear of the house and
Fargoe seized this opportunity for
p%urloining all valuables in sight. He
secured a watch. a small revolver
and a prayer book.
The sheriff's office was notified,
with the result that Fargoe was APP
pretended at a local drug store. He
will be arraigned before Justice
Barnes late this afternoon on q
charge of assault and battery.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-07
EXPLOSIVES MANUFACTURED
IN UNITED STATES in 1913

The production of explosives in
the year 1913 has Just been publish
cd by the United States bureau of
Elines. The total output, according
to the figures received from manu-
facturers, was 463,514,SS pounds
(231,757 short tons), as compared
with 4~S9,393,131 pounds (244, 696
short tons) in 1912. This produc-
ton is segregated as follows: Black
powder, 194,146,7 TAI pounds; high
explosives" other than permissible
explosives, 241 ,6S2.364 pounds; and
permissible explosives, 27,6S5,7 no
pounds. These figures represent a
decrease Of 36.146.622 pounds II
black powder, and an increase of T.
212,S72 pounds of high explosives,
and 3,055,5O0 pounds of permissi-
BILE explosives. The figures show
that in 1902 only 1890 pounds of
permissible explosives was used in
coal mining. whereas in 1913 the
quantity so used was 21,S04, 2S5
pounds. The quantity of permissi-
BILE explosives used in the United
States is larger than in a number of
foreign countries. In 1912 it rep
resented about 5 Per cent of the to-
tai quantity of explosives produced.
and in 1913 6 FER cent. The total
amoGnt of explosives used for the
production of coal in 1913 was 2O9,-
352,93S pounds, of which about 10
per cent was of the permissible class,
compared with s per cent in 1912.
The use of permissible explosives in
coal mining has had gratifying re-
suits, and few, if any. serious acct
dents can be attributed directly tC
their use.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-07
SILVER CAMP IS
VISITED BY FIRE
NEVADA THEATER AND FOUE.
TEEN RESIDENCES CON-
SCMED BY FLAMES

A fire which broke out at 1905
p. m. Thursday in the Nevada the
alter in Tonopah destroyed that
structure and fourteen residences,
mostly frame, in the immediate vi
cinity. The flames were extin-
glished at 4 o'clock Friday morning
by the members of the fire depart
ment and volunteers after a heroic
struggle. The loss is estimated at
$4,000, with insurance to the ex-
tent of $4,000. The reflection of
the flames in the heavens could be
seen from Goldfield.
The fire broke out forty minutes
the theater by the anti-suffragists,
at which Miss Minnie Bronson of
New York City, general secretary of
the National Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage, delivered an adj
dress. The meeting attracted a ca
pacity audience, and it is the belief
that some male attendant, after
lighting a cigar or cigarette in leav-
ing the structure, dropped a burning
match in an accumulation of cam
paign literature on Tie floor of the
foyer of the theater.
According to reports from Tono-
pah, the spreading of the fire was
due to low pressure in the water
mains. the burned area being in the
western section of the camp on the
side of Butler mountain. 1t is stat
ed that two years ago when the Ne
vada public utilities commission re-
duced the water rate in the camp
it relieved the Tonopah Water COM
pany from maintaining a high pres
sure in it's mains in the section OF
the town in which the fire occurred.
1t is further claimed that at the
time of the reduction of the water
rates the county commissioners of
Nye county agreed to build a high
pressure water tank of large ca
pacity above the western portion of
the camp as a protection against
nre, but have failed to carry out
that plan.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-07
Released on Probation

Sylvan P. Taylor, eighteen years
old, who was arrested and convict
Storey county on a charge of break
ing into the Western Union Tele-
graph office at Virginia City, has
been given a suspended sentence of
three years on his promise to alb
stain from liquor, tobacco and gam
bling and to live either with his par
ents at Washington or with his aunt
in California.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-07
PrOSpeCtOr Is Killed

James NJ. Hadley, a prOspector Of
Lakeview, Ore, was struck and Kill:
ed by a Western Pacific freight train
near Gerlach, WashOe county re.
Gently. Hadley was walking alons
the track and paid no attention to
the warning signals from the ensi-
neer. who, in an endeavor to stop
quickly, broke the train in tire parts.
1t is believed hat the unfortunate
mar was temporarily insane.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-07
PRINCE CONSOLIDATED
is INSTALLING PUMPS

Shipments of ore from the camp of
Phoebe for the past week totaled for
weight carloads. This is estimated
at 2400 tons and valued at $4,000
to $4,000. This is near the recent
normal production of the camp but
a little less than for the previous
week. The shippers were Prince
Consolidated A carloads; Amalga-
mated Phoebe, 1; Providence Mines
lease, 1; Vesuvius lease, /, and Short
Line lease. 1.
According to the Phoebe Record
the pumps of the Prince mine are be-
ing installed and will soc be in run
ming order.
M. C. Godbe is spending a few
days at the Prince mine. Mr.. Godbe