The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-03-13


devoid OF Fabid melodrama. IT becomes
more didicult every minute here mt
BaIdpate inn. Buk that should only
ada more zest to the Btraggles 4 dc
vote the next two hours TO thought lsass
! he pulled his chair up before the
blazing hearth and gilzed into the red
depths. But his thoughts refused TO
turn to the masterpiece that was TO be-
born on BaIdpate. They roamed To-
far on Broadway; they stroHed with
Helen FauIkner-the girl he meant to-
marry IL he ever got around to it,
along dignifed Fifth avenue. Then
joyously they trooped to. a far more
aIluring. more human girl, who press
ed a bit OF cambria to her face in q
railway stntion, while a ginger haired
agent peeped through the l5s5Fs. Soon
Mr.. AIagee's Thoughts were climbing
.Baldpate mountain; there to ~aVanders III
a mystic maze OF ghostly, figures which
appeared from the shadows. holding
aloft In triumph gigantic keys. Mr.
Magee had slept but little the night
before THE quick December dusk OIL
ed No. Z when he awoke with R.staFt
He remembered that he lind asked
the girl to come back to the ofiice and
berated himself to think tllat probably
she had done so only to lind that hel
was not there. Hastily strafghteningl
his tie and dashing the t1aces OF Sleep
from his eyes with the aid of cold
ter. he-rsEn downs airs = 50
The gfeat bare room Nfsas 81
ness save for the faint red the rl
Before the fireplace sat Che g8llsof tllel
stntion. her hair cleaning with new
spIendor in that light. She looked in
mock reproval at Mr.. Magee.
Fer shame" she said, ITO be late at
the trysting place"
"a thousand pardons, AtE. 1Iagee
replied Il fell asleep and dreamed or
a girl who wept in railway station.
and she was so altogether charming I
could not tear myself away"
Il fear, she laughed. lyon are old in
the ways of the world. a passion Tor
sleep seems TO hnYe seized the her
mits. The professor has gone TO mis-
room for that purpose. and AIr. Bland
his broken heart forgot. SAUNDERS over
there She pointed to the haberdash
er inert IN big chair dEaw5l.sEp near
the clerks desk. only you and / IN
all the world awake" 80
Pretty lonesome. isn't ftass RGr. MAI
gee glanced over his shoulder ut thett
shadows that crept In ON them.
Il was hnding it very busy when
you came" she answered <You see. /
/ have known the inn when sft wasi
gay with summer people. and as Z sail
here BY the Gre pretended IEsayg theI
ghosts of a Let OF the people knew
hitting about In the dnsk The rock
ing chair heet sailed By
'Ehe ghatG'
s'Blaek Gag dying, decks cleared Tor
action-1 saw the rocking chair 6eet
60 by" She smiled family We n.
ways called them that. Bitter, nm
kind old women who sat 1r0BR afteF
hour on the veFamda and rocked md
Sossiped and gossiped and rocked
SAnd / saw some poor little ghosts
weeping In corner. si1a pRaRk en-;
"a few that the aeet had run down
aud sunk IN the sea of gossip. A~Ilttlet
ghost. whose mother had not been aIIl
she should have been. aud the F1eett
found it out and rocked ana whispered
and she went away. And Few who
were poor-the most terrible OF sins
TO them the neet showed no mercy,
And a hne proud girl. AIyru ThOrnhiIl.
who was engaged to man named
KendEick. and who never dared come
here agaEn after KendTfclE suddenly dis.
HppeuTsd hecnlI az tl4 Vlliis "a iis
hcnot the fleetilt 60 lIIlou MS hesl.
what wicked wOmen!'s, said Aiagee.
THE wtckedest YvoIuOn IN the world.
answered the girl. @Isut every szI5Ri.
mer resort must have its flegf- dnttl'tl
Il any other ever had its adniirsIi.
though. and that makes Ruldpsftr IN.
prelne
no Be continnedJ