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Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15

tHo.e for the sailing OF the next trans
atlantic steamer Oh. surely you can't
deny me this one wish OF my fond old
heart. my boyl"
With a gesture OF unfeigned affec-
ton Alan dropped hand on Digby's
shoulder.
There's nothing on earth | would
not do for you" he said. you've been
a father and mother to me ever since
can remember. even ii we were sepa-
rated. most OF the time, by three thou
sand miles Of salt water. But this
thing can't do it. even for you |
can't do it even for myself. Rose
Urine is here in New York. in the
hands and at the mercy of her father
and sister: and you may judge what
their mercy will be when you learn
all that she has done for me. | won't
go and can't go until find her and
take her with me. And that is final
Then" Dgby struck in, graspng
wildly al straw OF hope. Il have your
word you'll go. providing find and re
store Rose to you?"
You have my word to that. unques
tionably. Bring Rose TO me- and III
gladly shake the dust OF New Yorl
from my shoes. and never return til
Urine is put away comfortably in hii
grave
1t shall be done" Digby promised
1T must"
You believe that"
In twelve hours Rose shall be re
stored to you"
will you make a book on it? RI
bet you something happens-and hop
| lose into the bargain. II you believ
you can carry out your promise, wiz
the White Star line to reserve tn
best available suite on the Oceanic
sailing tomorrow morning at ten
and make arrangements for mai
riage before the boat sails"
III go YOU" Digby agreed: "and
| fail, forfeit the cost of the resel
walton. But about this marriage"
He hesitated.
You'll have to have a license /
this state-and can't get one exceI
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15
CHAPTER xxi.
Thu House Divided.

Alone in that strange place or 81
lence and shadows-that den OF the
DEVILS livery. crimson and black
chained to the invalid chair wherein,
day in, day out for years on end he
had suffered the Promethean torments
OF the life that would not die out OF
his wretched, wrecked carcass. though
without ceasing sharp-beaked envy,
hatred malice and all uncharitable-
ness pecked insatiably at his vitals:
Seneca Urine sat waiting, with the i'm
passivity OF a craven figure waiting
on the imminent hour OF ultimate
Arrangement for the wrong that had
made him what he was.
Another hour. In sixty
minutes more they will be here. Judith
and Marrophat and Rose-poor fool!
and him In sixty minutes
more they will put him down before
me, bound and helpless, if not dead
A slight pause prefaced words that
were a whimpered prayer: God send
that he be not dead Have fingered
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15
AIan's Appearance at the Hotel Mono lth

back of the case. and closed It upon
the folded message.
Then drawing back his arm. he
breathed a silent prayer to the god of
all true lovers. and cast it from him
with all his might-with such force
that it almost unseated him at the end
Of the swing. But nothing less would
have served to bridge that yawning
chasm.
And the watch flew straight and
true, squarely through the lighted win
dow and to the further wall
At that very instant of his exultation
over an obstacle overcome he heard a
sound behind him of heavy breathing
The assassin had come that close
upon his prey when Alan turned and
discovered his peril.
The same moonbeam which had
aided Alan in the composition Of his
message struck across the others face
and showed it like hideous Chinese
mask of deadly hatred, with its eve
balls glazing and its lips drawn back
from the naked blade gripped between
its teeth-a stiletto nothing short of a
foot in length.
With a sharp, startled movement
Alan swung himself bodily about so
that, seated again aetride the pirder
he faced the assassin who sat I'M
straddling the girder, his feet hooked
beneath it a stiletto poised in his
right hand to strike.
But even now Alan was in little or
no better case than before. II he faced
the thug, he faced him with no arms
other than his bare hands. He had not
even pen-knife in his pockets.
With low cry of desperation Alan
snatched off his hat, soft and shane
less felt affair. and flung It squarely in
the fellows face.
Before he could recover-before
that is, it dropped away and cleared
his vision, Alan had bent forward and
grasped the wrist of the hand that
held the knife.
He snatched simultaneously at the
other hand, but it eluded him.
Alan had this advantage, as long as
the knife might not strike-that hi,
right arm was free, while the assassin
had only his left. With this he strove
persistently to reach his knife-band
and possess himself of the weanon
AS persistently Alan foiled his purposs
by dragging the knife-hand toward hi,r
and swinging It far out TO one side Al
the same time he struck repeatedl,
with his clenched right fist at the 9th
er's face. His blows did little dam
age beyond disconcerting the other
but this proved very considerabl,
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15

what seemed an uncommonly stubborn
reluctance. and got his way.
He could not know that another
skulked behind barrier OF lime bar
rels and overheard all that passed and
when Alan had ducked smartly into
the unfinished building. rose and stole
after him with footsteps as nolseless
as a cats and a face that had the saw
agery Of tigers when it was tran
silently revealed in a shaft OF moon
light
At length Alan gained the gridiron
OF girdals on a plane with The hshteu
window across the way and crept
along one OF these. gingerly on his
hands and knees, until he came TO its
end and might. ii he cared to. look
down a hundred feet TO the sidewalks.
That view. however did not tempt;
he kept his eyes level; and was re-
warded with a bare glimpse OF a pref
tily-papered wall. framed in the lace OF
hall.drawn curtains.
And of whether through
fortuity. or instinct. or the psyche
logical attraction OF his steadiast con
centration-the tenant Of the room
came to the window and stood Their
for little. looking pensively out. alto
gether unconscious Of the watcher il
his aerial coign.
Again a horrible uncertainty ha
assed him Was the woman Ros
or Judith? That she was one OF thes
he could plainly see. But which? Dare
he assume his hopes fulfilled?
With difficulty he detached h
hungry vision from her. and DRAWN
from his pocket a small notebook. tol
out blank page. placed this fiat c
the glrder. found a pencil. and wit
the assistance of ray or two
moonlight scrawled a message Of d
most stenographc brevity.
When he looked up from this tas
she had vanished.
Sitting up. astride the girder
took his watch-a cheap affair he hi
picked up when reclothing himself
the garments of civilized society,
Providence, that morning-opened Il
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15

Upon this one he loosed the light
nings OF his wrath without ruth
Rose suffered him in silence. His
most gallii recrimination educed no
retort from this one.
In a lull in Trines TRADE. Judith
chose to interject: Don't be so hard
on the silly fool: she's not res ponsible;
she's sick with love for that cookbook
ing simpletonl"
And you," Rose turned ca her
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS about you? If
love Alan Law. at least love him
and don't pursue him, as you do. pre-
tending | mean to sacrifice him 10 4
wicked family teud. and then spare
him every time | meet him. to lead
him to believe | haven't the heart to
injure him-as you do. hoping so to
work upon his sympathies and earn
kindly word and pat on the head
from his hand"
Fiercely she leveled a denunciatory
arm at her sister There" she cried
TO her father-''if you need to know
there stands the daughter who has
betrayed your faith-as have not.
who have never even pretended to
approve your villainy.'
Il think Urine announced in a
voice OF ice-"I have learned now
what needed TO know"
His fingers sought the row of but
tons; and when a servant responded.
he inquired:
Mr. Marrophat has returned"
He is in the waiting room. sir"
Conduct Miss Judith TO him and
tell him hold him personally respon
sible for her safe-keeping. He will
understand"
And for a long time thereafter the
father. alone with the daughter who
had been estranged from him since
birth by every instinct OF her nature
essayed in vain to break down hel
mutinous silence.
At last Urine summoned two of his
creatures and had her led weeping
from the rooms 70 b. hrl4 prisoner in
her bedchamber on the t.pmost fiooi
of the house.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15
CHAPTER XIV.
The Time o. Niqht.

Not ill-pleased to be left to his own
devices Whose proposed character
Digby would never have approved had
he so much as-suspected them Alan
none the less deferred action until
after midnight.
And espionage was all he feared
save and except always Of course. fail
ure to find his Rose
1t was about one In the morning
when he arrived inconspicuously (but
not SO much so as to seem deserving
of police surveillance) in the neigh
borhood of the Riverside drive home of
his mortal enemy, grim white house
that lowered, stark and tall. upon
corner.
His preliminary reconnaissance pro-
vided little more than comfortless ex-
ercise. Huge. still, its wall bathed in
the milk and ink of moonlight and
shadow, all its windows dark but
one-and that one, in the topmost tier,
showed only feeble glmmer, so slight
that Alan almost overlooked it.
But once discovered 1t focused upon
itself his thoughts with a power little
less than hypnotic.
He believed with small doubt that
Rose was a prisoner within those
walls; that Judith must have con-
veyed her there with all speed.
And, this being the presumptive case,
that small. high window OF the light
might well be hers.
Directly across the street from the
Urine residence, on the opposite cor
ner, a colossal apartment structure
stood half-finished. stonework to its
second story, gaunt iron skeleton rear
ing above.
To his infinite disgust, Alan found
the guardian very wide awake, very
much on the job: no chance here to
steal unseen into the building.
This in itself might have been
deemed a suspicious circumstance:
not for nothing does an honest night
Waterman 80 deny the laws of nature
and the tenets of his craft. But Alan
merely praised the man while cursing
the very fact of his existence; and, ac-
costing. oyercame with bank-notes
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15
CUTlCUH
Followed by |
Baby's END

They AFFORD
great comfort
and point TO
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other sleep 4
Nothing bett |
nursery and |
Sample cad
Address posi-
Boston. Sol
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looking wo
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Signatur
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Childre1
judge
work?
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waste
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comba
Got
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15
WOMAN w0)!Y
NOT GIY
Though sickan d, Suf1
Last Found Help
E. Pinkham's \
bic Compou|
Richmond, Pa. n ~" wa
taking Lydia E. Pink n nan

comp
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Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15

factor in the duel. In the end, they
served together with that steady. re-
sistless downward and outward drag,
to break the grip OF the mans locked
legs.
Abruptly he pitched forward on his
face along the girder, kicking wildly.
grasping at the air. The stiletto fell
from an instinctively relaxed grasp,
and disappeared. And before Alan
could release his hold, or ease the
strain upon the right arm of the as
sassin. this last had slipped bodily
from the girder and hung helpless in
space. dangling at the end OF Alan S
aum-with no more than the grip OF
i've fingers between him and death.
The shock of that unpresaged turn
brought Alan forward and Hat on his
stomach. And the strain on his left
arm was terrific lie doubted II he
could maintain it for another minute
Nor was there any reason why he
should retain it, The end he had de
signed Tor his victim was merely hii
Just desert.
And yet Alan could not let him go.
Thus the battle began anew-bu
now II was a battle with man hall
crazed and struggling so madly tina
he well-nigh frustrated the efforts
his rescuer.
In the upshot the assassin lay like
limp rag across the girder. head an
arms dangling on one side. legs al
feet on the other. spent with his te
rife exertions and physically sick vii
terror.
And in this state Alan left him
, had done enough; let the man shi
for himself from this time on.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15

Not but Destiny. II II VIII"
WINDOW. she was dressed and clam
bered out upon the sill. 1890
Sweetheart My bravest little
woman!"
Inc hook hung steadily within six
lnches OF the window-ledge. Alan ex.
tended his arm.
Nothing to fear. except lest hold
you too tight, dear onel"
without a word Judith set her foot
pes'ue MS In the hook. surrendered to
n's embrace. and closed her eyes.
immediately they were swung away
from the window. over toward the CD
posl'e sidewalk. and gently lowered to
the street.
Wayne this isn't good schemel"
A'ail exulted in the innocence of his
neart. But ! think II is. And those
"orkingmen think II a great Iark-I
.o'u them the simple truth you see:
'nat we were eloping!"
ny way OF answer Judith breathed
ohly word of tenderness
ana that instant the hook paused
walk. '"e ''o'
sate and southland not soul
oVer there the wiser as yeti" he de-
.'ared with derisive nod toward the
noIne OF Thine. Come along Here'.
a limousine waiting. In twenty min
tues u, wen be at the ferry. in forty over
~ Jersey, within an hour married,
"''nin four hours safe at seal"
ITO be Continual
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15

Rose Turned on Her Passionately.
here in anguish all these weary years
for the fulfillment of my revenge only
to be cheated at the end by Death?
God grant that Alan Law may be laid
down still living here at my feet!
Then ="
A bitter smile twisted his tortured
features: Then shall my will be done
to him! And then, when l have seen
him die as his father died-then-Ah,
God!-then at last | too may die!
There was a long silence, then
groan of eXasperated protest: why
do they not come? Why does Judith
delay, when she knows how | suffer?
Why have | been put of from day TO
day with her kilograms that begged
for more time and promised every
thins-but told nothing until yester-
day. Where are those mes
sages she sent me yesterdays
His one sound hand CROPPED out like
claw and sought mass OF papers
on the desk beside him, sorting out
from among them two yellow forms
Painfully he blinked over these and
slowly his pain-bent lips conned their
wording;
Alan and Rose safe with me-will
bring both home tomorrow night with
out fail, he read the first aloud; and
then the second Have motorcar
waiting for me tomorrow morning
from three o'clock till called for New
Bedford waterfront-Judith.
MOI" he affirmed with the fervor
CT one persuaded by his own desires:
Il must not doubt the girl, She has
promised. she has performed:
So still was he, indeed that he
seemed to SLEEP, but so deceptive was
that semblance that he was alert for
the least sound. The girl entered soft
ly, as if fearful of disturbing his slum-
bers; but she found him with head
erect and eyes a-blaze.
Judith" he cried. his great voice
vibrating like brazen bell. AT last
Where is he? You have brought him
Where is he?"
With no more answer than a sigh,
the girl dropped her head and let her
hands hang Imply with palms ex-
posed.
After an instant of incredulous dis.
appointment the man shot a single,
frigid question at her:
You have failed?"
II have failed" she confessed.
"Why?"
She shrugged slightly. who knows
why one fails? did my best: he was
too much for me. outwitted me al
every turn. Time and again thought
| had him, but always he escaped
either by his own wit and courage OF
with another's aid. Only yesterday
night they were all three in the hol
low of my hands-but now bring you
only Rose"
She faltered, awed by the glare o.
his Infatuated eyes. Let me explain,
she begged.
He snapped her short: You canno
explain. The thing is impossible, tina
you should have failed. There is some
thing beneath this, something you
will not tell me-
She endeavored to speak, but he en-
forced silence with a sonorous MOI
His hand sought the row of button
p on the desk and pressed one long
Almost instantly servant glide,
noiselessly into the room.
My daughter Rose-have he
brought here to me at oncel"
In another moment the replica o
his daughter Judith was ushered int
bis presence
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15

THE one who gets the trey OF hear,
will drain that glass. Is 1t h,,
gain?"
Never! Oh. now | know that yo0
are altogether madi"
Perhaps. Are you ready?" Ana
Judith made as II To deal
"No-never! tell you refusal"
Rose chartered. terrified.
You dare not refuse"
why"
because OF this"
Whipping a small revolver from an
other pocket OF her dressing-gown, Ju
dith placed 1t on the table. ready to
her hand
you will shoot me II do not con.
sent?"
Not you-but him. II you refuse,
little sister. | will shoot Alan Law
dead when he comes TO keep his ap
pointment with you"
All" Rose cried in mingled fright
and amazement. How did you find
out?"
Never mind. Is II a bargain now,
about the trey OF hearts? Remember,
| shall keep my word about this pis.
toll"
With a shudder Rose bowed her
I head
Deal" she muttered fearfully. "and
a may God Judge between us"
d One by one she stripped the cards
d from the top Of the deck. dealing frs
r TO Rose, then to herself
h One by one they luttered 10 IN
table on either side the glass OF poison
e and fell face uppermOst.
i The trey OF hearts fell TO Judith
There was an instant OF silent dread
ended by Rose. as Judith's hand moved
steadily toward the glass.
Judith" she implOred Don't
beg OF you-I didn't mean it-I tax,
i back my consent"
+ TOO latei" said Judith. lifting IA,
s glass and cycling its contents with
9 strange smile.
q Judith! you cannot mean to drink
= it,"
d Can't I, thought" the other laughed
mirthlessly. Just watch me-"
r With a strangled cry Rose covered
) her face with her hands TO shut GU
d the sight. stood momentarily swaying
J. and dropped to the floor IN a complet,
t. faint
n Delaying only TO recognize this phe
nomena with a plying smile for IN,
r weakness OF spirit that caused II. Ju
= diths glance darted through the wiz
y dow and saw that which caused her {,
e stay her hand an instant longer
g On the topmost tier OF Orders OF tn
e building opposite. Alan Law stoo,
/ amid little knot OF amused and AMI
mated laborers. one foot in the grea
l. steel hook OF the hosting tackle. boti
d hands clasping the chain that linke,
q 1t TO the gigantic block.
). And as Judith stared. he smiled a
z something said by one Of those abou
d him. looked back and waved han,
to some person invisible
h Immediately the arm began to hft
q the tackle to move slowly through tn
4 blocks Very gently he was swung u
and outward
% With a cry Judith flung the poison
heedlessly from her. leaped across III
y room. and snatched up the street gar
q ments Rose had dropped at her sister
entrance
q In another moment she was strus
Cling madly into them.
!. Before the shadow OF Alan. clingin
to the hook and chain. fell athwart tn
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15

by applying in person with your bride
to-be. There won't be time"
Then we'll marry in Jersey" Alan
insisted. Dig up some clergyman over
there, II you don't know one your
self"
"Oh, I'm well acquainted with the
very mani"
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15

esst and what / did oq
i pgort / could not sl9
e of course felt very bad
u ond had a steady heada
'''e After taking the 81
,;.ed that the headach|
re, rested better, and
stronger. l CONTINUES
1 Tu a new woman /
, ran hardly realize tn INA
go o, much as l do. Wh|
81 woman in need Of q
highly Sirhly praise Lydia 1
liable liable Compouni d
CLARK, Sl46 N. Tulip
-
Women Have BEEF
for forty years how
Vegetable Comp PC i,
health when suiferiI
This accounts for tn
for it from coast ID
troubled with any
women why don, 4
Pinkham's Vegeta|
will pay you to do
ham Medicine Co.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-15
Women Have Bee


Cynthia, VIII y
a Little Lamb
kind old gentlemI
Il do not care
like to oblige yo|
girl with the hoT
"As a matter OF /
tie. II any, litera
ton is not true
day. Under the
due to the meat
own an entire 4
had a chop. but
Imagination m'
adelphia Pubic
Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-09-12
REASON FOR PRIDE.

California has reason to be proud OF
the manner in which the finances O.
the Panama Exposition have becli
handled. The $l,2oo,ooo Of mortgag-
ed Indebtedness was paid off some
weeks ago. This record excels those
of Chicago and st. Louis.
European expositions nave all I'LL
ished with large deficits. The fairs
at Paris and Vienna were anything
but financial successes,
Willie the Panama Exposition is not
out of the woods financially yet, 1t
has met its most pressing obligations
The large attendance promises to re
imburse partially the progressive citl'
zens who advanced money. TIE fair
has been great help to California
Millions have been spent in it's cities
and il the actual money expended in
building the fair is not realized
through exposition receipts, the citl
zens OF San Francisco will be amply
repaid in ether ways.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-09-12
is'3-Nf. ~.
PROSPERITY MOVIES.

One Of the most unique features
ever presented at a North Dakota ag
riculuural exposition is the moving
picture entertainment planned for the
Bismarck Exposition. #Is ..r.:
Fer weeks field men have been busy
getting scenes of rural and city life,
showing the vast resources of the
Slope district. These films, as it
were, will be cross-section of Mis-.
souri,. Slope. prosperity. Even the
farmers smile has been "flmed,p, az,
cording to Capt. Baker, president of
the association. vi a @ln% > 5i!si 'lPtss&r3g
J, The feature is proving a big success
and should gbe a great attendance pull
er Some Of the leading industries in
this section also have been photo
grap.led for the movies. ss.. 49,
Plan to-, attend the Exposition. and
see your town or section in the NOV
les. %s,%. .,
Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-09-12
''ftrtfT--r- Ivy.i- 10 = ~. ~; 1'' :
FORECAST EXCESSIVE,

Wet winter wheat, which govern
ment reports have not taken into con.
sideration to any great extent, prob.
ably will reduce the rosy estimates OF
a billion-bushel yield, Interest, cen
ters upon the condition of winter
wheat, which will determine to some
extent the price which the NORTH Da-
kota farmer will eet Tor his crop.
1t is reported from excellent sources
that millers in the winter wheat zone
are in Minneapolis seeking their sup
ply from the early shipments of spring
wheat. 1t has been too wet for thresh-
ing throughout the winter wheat belt.
No one knows exactly just how much
Of the winter wheat will be threshed.
These figures are eagerly awaited.
). 1t is doubtful whether the latest
estimate of 127,000,000 bushels of
spring wheat for North Dakota will
hold up. Considerable rust has devel-
oped among tie crops which, were late
in maturing. Some experts believe
that this condition will reduce the
yield below the latest federal esti-
mate. Condition of winter wheat will
bring the forecast of. the entire. wheat
crop down below the billion mark, it
is urged ~
The corn crop is uncertain, but tina;
the yield will be disappointing goes
with cut saying. In Iowa and Illinois,
prize corn states, the crop has suffer,
ed Missouri reports ask until Octo,
her l for 80 per cent of the corn to
mature. In Illinois frost has damag-
ed the corn in the low places.
But, all in all, the yields of grain
crops will exceed those of recent
years, and with good prices in sight
again, the farmers, especially Uf North
Dakota, have no occasion for com.
plaint.. -...-.s r,.ssss ..-. :.