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Pray, Sons & Co., 658 Washington St., opposite Boylston -St., Boston, Mass. -<div class="topspace1"></div> - </div> - </div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h1> -<span class="xxlarge">The Black Cat </span><span class="small">(Vol. I, No. 3)</span> -</h1> -</div> - -<div class="center"> -<b>A Monthly Magazine of Original Short Stories.</b><br /><br /> -No. 3.<span class="linespace5">DECEMBER, 1895.</span> -<span class="linespace5">5 cents a copy.</span><br /> -<span class="linespace21-5">50 cents a year.</span><br /><br /> - -Entered at the Post-Office at Boston, Mass., as second-class matter.<br /><br /> -Copyright, 1895, by The Shortstory Publishing Company. All rights reserved.</div> - -<hr class="r5" /> - -<h2 class="nobreak">CONTENTS</h2> - -<table summary="contents"> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Title</td> -<td class="tdl"> Author</td> -<td class="tdr">Page</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">The Great Star Ruby.</td> -<td class="tdl"> <span class="smcap">Barnes MacGreggor.</span></td> -<td class="tdr"> <a href="#The_Great_Star_Ruby">1</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="tdl">The Interrupted Banquet.</td> -<td class="tdl"> <span class="smcap">René Bache.</span></td> -<td class="tdr"> <a href="#The_Interrupted_Banquet">11</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="tdl">The Archangel.</td> -<td class="tdl"> <span class="smcap">James Q. Hyatt.</span></td> -<td class="tdr"> <a href="#The_Archangel">19</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Asleep at Lone Mountain.</td> -<td class="tdl"> <span class="smcap">H. D. Umbstaetter.</span></td> -<td class="tdr"> <a href="#Asleep_at_Lone_Mountain">24</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Kootchie.</td> -<td class="tdl"> <span class="smcap">Harold Kinsabby.</span></td> -<td class="tdr"> <a href="#Kootchie">37</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Frazer's Find.</td> -<td class="tdl"> <span class="smcap">Roberta Littlehale.</span></td> -<td class="tdr"> <a href="#Frazers_Find">40</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Advertisements.</td> -<td class="tdl"> </td> -<td class="tdr"> <a href="#ADVERTISEMENTS">47</a></td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 1]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak"><a name="The_Great_Star_Ruby" id="The_Great_Star_Ruby"></a>The Great Star Ruby.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="center">BY BARNES MACGREGGOR.</p> - -<div class="topspace1"></div> - - -<div> -<img class="drop-cap width625" src="images/i_001.png" width="100" -height="100" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-cap">IT was late in the evening of Melbourne Cup -Day. In one of the dining-rooms of the -Victoria Club three men sat smoking and -talking earnestly together. Certainly the -events of the last sixteen hours furnished -ample subject for conversation. Melbourne -Cup Day means to the Australian all that Derby Day does to the -Englishman. It means, also, many things that even the greatest -sporting event of the English year cannot mean to the inhabitants -of the compact little island, provided with so many other facilities -for amusement and intercourse. In this land of tremendous distances—where -four million people occupy an area equal to that -of the United States,—in this island continent of opposites—where -Christmas comes in midsummer and Fourth of July in -midwinter, where swans are black and birds are songless,—this -is the one day when all classes and conditions assemble at one -place and take their pleasures as a unit.</p> - -<p>From Victoria and New South Wales, from North, South, and -West Australia, from Queensland, even from Tasmania and the -sister colony of New Zealand, separated from the continent by -miles of water, visitors of all kind and degree had flocked by the -thousands. When the starting flag fell that morning there were - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 2]</span> - -assembled about the track picturesque miners and rugged bushmen, -self-made capitalists, book-makers, and millionaire wool -growers, charming women and well-groomed men, to the number -of almost a quarter of a million. To all of these the occasion -was one anticipated and planned for during twelve months -past. It was the occasion when their long pent Anglo-Saxon -sporting taste—for nine out of every ten Australians are of -English ancestry—intensified by the free, out-of-door life, and by -the absence of the outlets furnished in a more concentrated state -of civilization, found exuberant expression. To each it carried, -besides, some special significance, according to his rank and occupation. -To the betting man it meant that a single firm of book-makers -had on deposit in the banks of Melbourne and Sidney -wagers to the amount of over one hundred thousand pounds sterling; -for, like the English Derby, this is a "classical" event, -upon which bets are often made for the coming year the very day -after the preceding race has been run. Among the women it -meant triumphs of millinery, gowns that had been ordered from -London and Paris many months or even a year in advance, the -fashionable display of Goodwood, the Derby, and the Ascot all -compressed into a single day.</p> - -<p>Among the mine owners and wool growers it meant journeys -by rail, boat, or private coach, extending over hundreds, sometimes -thousands of miles, and lasting for days and weeks, even -months. Australia has well been called "The Land of the -Golden Fleece." Its flocks of sheep are the largest, its gold -mines and coal mines the richest in the world. Its flocks are -counted not merely by hundreds or thousands, but by hundreds -of thousands; and a single sheep station often extends over a -hundred thousand acres. But with this immensity of interests -there is linked the familiar loneliness of grandeur. The greater a -country gentleman's possessions, the farther he is removed from -society, until the largest proprietors are often separated by forty -or fifty miles from their nearest neighbors. For this solitude the -one outlet is the journey to Melbourne for the annual cup -races.</p> - -<p>Upon this particular day the fashionable parade had eclipsed -in size and splendor that of any previous year. In addition to - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 3]</span> - -the races, there had been the notable first night of the Grand -Opera House, opened now for the first time to the public; and -the day had culminated in an evening of such brilliancy and distinction -that the three men who sat talking at the Victoria Club -found superlatives too weak to express their enthusiasm.</p> - -<p>"Rather than miss this day, I would have lost five years of my -life," said one of the group. Then, turning to beckon the waiter, -in order that he might emphasize his words by some refreshment, -he observed a guest of the club—evidently a stranger—sitting -alone at an adjoining table. With the exuberant new-world -hospitality of a man who had evidently not been a loser in the -day's exchange of wealth, he stretched out a welcoming hand, -with, "Stranger, won't you join us?"</p> - -<p>Without waiting for further formality, the solitary man strode -up to the group and seated himself at their table.</p> - -<p>"Gentlemen," he began, "I couldn't help overhearing what -you said. I, too, would have given a good deal to have been a -spectator. In fact, I had been looking forward to this event for -a whole year, and, as luck would have it, missed it by the delay -of an hour. If the steamer from Calcutta had reached Sydney -half an hour before sundown yesterday, instead of half an hour -after, I should have been in Melbourne early this morning, instead -of late to-night. As it is, I arrived only ten minutes ago, and, -having a card to your club from the Wanderer's in London, I -came here to take the edge off my disappointment. The next -best thing to being on the scene of action is to hear about it from -an eye-witness. So I depend upon you to give me an account of -the affair. At any rate, I only hope the races aren't finished."</p> - -<p>"Oh, of course there will be more races," said the spokesman -of the party; "but such a sight as the opening of the Opera -House Melbourne isn't likely to see again. There were stars, of -course, but no one noticed what was going on on the stage, you -understand; the real show was in the house, which was simply -packed. Such women! Such stunning gowns! And the jewels—why, -it looked as though half the kingdoms of Europe had lent -their crown jewels for the occasion.</p> - -<p>"In all that gorgeousness it was mighty hard to pick out the -handsomest face or the finest ornaments. But of course there was - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 4]</span> - -one woman here, just as there is everywhere, who carried off the -palm. It wasn't only that she was beautiful, though in her dark, -stately fashion she was far and away the handsomest woman present; -and it wasn't only that she sat where she did in the front -of the stage box, with her solitary escort in the background, when -every other box in the theater was crammed; but upon the -bodice of her gown—it was a gorgeous gold and white brocaded -and lace-trimmed affair, so I heard it whispered among the women—she -wore the most striking and gorgeous ornament in the entire -audience. This was a jockey-cap made entirely of precious -stones; the peak was a solid mass of diamonds, the band a row of -sapphires, while the crown consisted of an enormous ruby. 'Twas -rather showy, of course, but so appropriate for this particular race -night that no woman could have resisted wearing it. Of course -it stood out wonderfully—it was as big as a half-crown piece, you -understand,—and it wasn't long before every glass in the house -was fixed upon that pin and the beautiful woman that wore it.</p> - -<p>"I turned my glass on it with the rest," he added, laughing, -"and that's how I got such a good photograph of it."</p> - -<p>"Speaking of precious stones," said the stranger, who so far -had listened without comment, "reminds me of a fifty-thousand-pound -ruby that once involved a daring young Englishman in a -series of strange adventures."</p> - -<p>"Give us the adventures," said the spokesman of the party, -scenting at once a stirring tale that would make a fitting wind-up -to the day's varied excitements. "A jewel always serves as a -magnet for romance, especially if the jewel is a fifty-thousand-pound -ruby."</p> - -<p>"To begin with," said the strange man, apparently unmoved -by his host's last remarks, "you must understand that, while -there are millions of rubies mined every year, a really first-class -stone is one of the rarest as well as the most valuable gems in -the world. In Ceylon, where some of the largest ruby mines in -the world are located, the Moormen, who have a monopoly of the -gem trade, often bring down from the north country bullock cartloads -of uncut rubies, but probably in handling ten million gems -not one will be found of the desired fineness and of flawless -purity and luster. These Moormen are the shrewdest, with a - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 5]</span> - -few exceptions the most unscrupulous, and always the most -wonderful judges of gems in the world, and they are without exception -rich. They have parceled out the gem-fields in the -Tamil districts, and the natives whom they hire to hunt gems -along the river bottoms, where the finest are found, are subjected -to the most rigid scrutiny and daily search; for, though the -diggers are always naked, they often attempt to conceal gems in -their ears, nostrils, armpits, or elsewhere, with the end in view -of disposing of them to rival Moormen. For, though these -Moormen are openly fair dealers among themselves, they cannot -resist buying gems smuggled from their neighbors' fields. Consequently, -a complete detective service is attached to each one of -these diggings, and woe to the Tamil who is caught attempting -to smuggle gems across the lines! He simply disappears, that's -all. No one is ever called to account, and the awful secrecy of -his captors and the mystery surrounding his end appal his -fellows, keeping them in a subjection that is all but slavery, and -in some respects infinitely worse.</p> - -<p>"But these Tamil diggers are very wise, and they know when -they happen upon a grand uncut gem. Perhaps they will bury -it again and spend a whole year maneuvering to get the jewel -over the lines to the rival buyers, finally giving it up, and turning -it over to the owners of the fields. As the really fine ones -are rarely larger than a hazelnut, and each is worth from twenty -to one hundred times as much as a diamond of the same size, it -is worth the digger's while to make a lifelong study of the relative -values, and then profit thereby.</p> - -<p>"Now, this young Englishman had a curious hobby. For years -he had desired to possess one of these almost priceless rubies, and -it was partly with the hope of obtaining one that he visited -Ceylon, where he had left orders with the Moormen gem dealers -to reserve for him the finest and largest stone that could be found.</p> - -<p>"Meantime he headed an exploring party, whose way lay -through the jungles about a hundred miles north of Kandy, -toward the ancient Buddhist city Anarajapoora, the throne of the -famous King Tissa, the shrine of the oldest tree in the world,—the -sacred Bo. It was a long and tedious march. The travelers -usually halted at mid-morning, slept till the shadows cooled the - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 6]</span> - -air a little, then resumed the journey as far into the night as -possible, sometimes continuing till the next mid-morning, when -the sun's heat again brought them to a standstill. On this particular -daybreak they had halted beside a swift stream, doubtful -at which point to attempt to ford it. The leader had sent men -both up and down the stream to search for a suitable spot, and -wandered along its banks, more occupied with the glories of the -tropic sunrise, the sparkle of the dew on the giant spider-threads -stretched from limb to limb, the stir of rare birds and animals -with which the jungle was more than alive, than with the problem -of fording the stream. Upon reaching an inviting nook, he -sat down to roll a cigarette, first taking care to search for any -jungle enemies in ambush which might make him legitimate prey. -Suddenly he heard a great crashing of branches in the thicket on -the opposite side of the river. Then, like a flash of lightning, a -naked Tamil, red with blood, a look of desperation and hopeless -despair on his face, plunged out of the avalanche of green beyond, -and, leaping headlong into the water, struck out across the stream. -The traveler had risen to his feet, and stood watching amazedly -the course of the swimmer, which was aimless, like that of a -desperate man wandering through a totally unfamiliar country. -His head was shaven closely, though the natives usually wear -their hair long. He swam with great effort. Indeed, the watcher -on the bank saw that it was ten to one against the swimmer's -success, and instinctively his heart went out in pity. The unfortunate -wretch was now being carried rapidly down stream and -toward the man on the bank, who could see the straining of every -fiber in the Tamil's body, even the look of despair in his bloodshot -eyes. Suddenly, just as success seemed assured, the swimmer -threw up his hands, uttered a strange moan, and went down. -The man on the bank rushed down the stream, stopped at a point -where a huge banyan tree spread its branches far over the swollen -waters, and climbed out on a thick limb. A moment later he -saw the body of the Tamil rise almost directly beneath him. -Clinging with one hand to the tree, he lowered himself over the -treacherous torrent, and with a mighty effort seized the drowning -man by the ankle and so dragged him to the shore.</p> - -<p>"Back into ambush he half carried the poor wreck, and, laying - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 7]</span> - -him on the sod, began the task of reviving him. In less than ten -minutes the Tamil opened his eyes, discharged a gallon of water, -then gasped, struggled up into a half-sitting posture, and looked -about him. When he saw the Englishman bending over him, and -comprehended, he uttered the most pitiful wails of gratitude imaginable, -groveling in the dust, kissing his preserver's feet. -The water had washed the blood from him, but he was a mass of -wounds, scars, bruises, lash marks, and bullet cuts. How he ever -managed to go as far as he must have gone, leaving a trail of -blood behind him, was a mystery. But what specially attracted -the Englishman's attention was a blood-stained bandage around the -fugitive's leg, midway between the knee and thigh, which was -the only rag on the poor fellow's body. He was about to question -him, by signs and syllables, for his knowledge of the Tamil patois -was very limited, when he heard another great crashing of the -thicket across the stream, accompanied by the sound of voices. -Instantly, there flashed across the poor creature's face a look of -unspeakable terror, as he panted out in hoarse gutturals, 'Sa-ya-ta! -Sa-ya-ta!' an appeal for salvation which would have moved -a heart of stone. Motioning to him to remain quiet—an unnecessary -precaution, since he was scarcely able to lift his head from -the marshy ground—his preserver gave him brandy; then, by a -circuitous route, ran up stream, coming out directly opposite four -mounted Moormen who were ranting up and down the shore.</p> - -<p>"Upon his appearance, the horsemen approached, and asked if -he had seen any one go by. They were on the track, they explained, -of a Tamil gem-digger, who was smuggling a ruby worth -fifty thousand pounds over the lines of the Bakook-Khan gem-fields, -and with the owner of the fields had chased him sixty -miles. The man could be recognized, they said, because his head -was shaven, and he was quite naked, except for a bandage tied -around one leg, in which he had cut a hole and buried the ruby.</p> - -<p>"To all of this the Englishman answered that he had seen such -a man leap from the jungle and plunge into the river only a few -moments ago, adding that they would better wait until the flood -went down before searching the river bottom, as it would be impossible -to find even an elephant in that muddy water. At this -the Moormen set up a howl of rage, and, after an angry consultation, - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 8]</span> - -passed on down the stream, scanning the river bank. The -traveler was about to return to the Tamil, realizing the man's -immediate danger, when another crowd burst through the jungle -opposite, and at the sight of the Englishman approached him with -much the same story as had the first, except that, according to -their tale, the gem-digger had been smuggling from the Sabat- -Keel fields. To them he made the same reply, adding that -another party had just been there from the Bakook-Khan fields, -making a similar claim. At this the spokesman set up a terrific -wail, denouncing them as rogues, thieves, impostors, and heaven -knows what not. But just in the midst of his tirade he was cut -short by the approach of still another band of claimants, and immediately -the three groups of angry Moormen were in the midst -of a wrangle over the ownership of the disputed gem.</p> - -<p>"In their absorption the Englishman saw his chance to escape. -With an occasional glance backward to make sure that he was not -observed, he made his way stealthily to that spot in the ambush -where he had left the wounded Tamil.</p> - -<p>"The man was gone!</p> - -<p>"For a moment his rescuer stood nonplussed. Then, as he -looked first one way and then the other, his eye caught the gleam, -a few yards away, of the silver top of the brandy flask that he had -left with his patient by way of a comforter. As he stooped to -recover it, he detected a fresh blood stain on the grass, and farther -on still another. Evidently the Tamil, overcome by his fear of -capture, had attempted flight,—an undertaking that in his enfeebled -state meant certain and early death. Without stopping to -consider the danger of following his ill-fated protégé alone into -the unknown depths of the jungle, the Englishman started in -pursuit. Before he had gone five steps, however, he realized his -peril. Beyond him, creeping along on all fours, he saw the blood-stained -fugitive, moving, unconscious of his peril, into the very -jaws of a huge tiger, crouched ready to spring upon his prey."</p> - -<p>"And the Tamil was killed?" cried the party.</p> - -<p>"No," said the stranger; "the Tamil was saved from this -horrible death, though only after his rescuer had passed through -a hand-to-hand struggle with the tiger, in which he was almost -killed. As it was, he lost the use of his right arm for the rest of - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 9]</span> - -his life. But, in spite of all that he could do, the fugitive died a -few hours later, overcome by fright and fatigue."</p> - -<p>"And the ruby?"</p> - -<p>"The ruby, of course, fell into the hands of the Englishman, -who, convinced that, owing to the multiplicity of claimants, it -would be impossible ever to ascertain the stone's rightful owner, -concealed it in his tobacco pouch before he was joined by his -party. These, he learned when he was brought to his senses, had -returned several hours ago from the other side of the river, to -which they had retired, frightened by the many outcries of the -mounted Moormen, and had found their leader only after a long -search, which would have been hopeless except for the blood trail -left by the wounded Tamil.</p> - -<p>"For a few days after his return to their camp, wounded as he -was, and weakened by his encounter with the tiger, he gave little -thought to the stone that had fallen into his hands, as if from the -sky. But with his earliest convalescence, his jewel mania returned, -intensified by the actual possession of a ruby that it afterwards -proved was, no doubt, the finest in the world. By the time that -he reached Amsterdam, to which he had taken passage at his -earliest opportunity, with the idea of having his treasure cut by -an expert, this mania had reached such a pitch that it was only -with the greatest effort that he could finally make up his mind to -leave it in the hands of a jewel cutter; and from the moment that -it was out of his possession he began to suspect every person that -he met, the jewel cutter included, of a desire to rob him of his -treasure. What gave color to his suspicions was the fact that at -the shop where he left the ruby delay followed delay, and postponement -succeeded postponement, the dealer putting him off -each time with vague excuses and never-fulfilled promises. At -length, after five weeks of these mysterious delays and excuses, -almost crazed by wearing anxiety, he confided his secret to one of -a firm of private detectives, a man whom he employed to watch -and investigate the movements of the jewel cutter.</p> - -<p>"On the very night of the day in which he had taken this step, -the jewel was returned to him; it had proved to be a stone not -only magnificent in size and color, but curiously ribbed with white -rays,—that is, a star ruby, pronounced to be the finest in existence. - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 10]</span> - -But the reaction from his fright and anxiety, joined with the -effect of his recent adventure, from which he had not yet fully -recovered, cut short his joy. He was seized with brain fever, and -for days lay unconscious in the room of his lodging-house, -unattended except by his doctor and landlady. When he finally -returned to his senses he found that the jewel was gone. At a -time when his life was despaired of, the detective employed to -protect his interests called at his lodging, and, thinking the man -as good as dead, stole the gem, and—"</p> - -<p>Suddenly the eyes of the listeners turned to the door behind -the speaker. There was a rustle of skirts and the whispered -exclamation: "There she is now."</p> - -<p>The story teller started, flushing at the interruption, but only -for an instant. Then he faced about, leaped to his feet, and, -rushing forward like a maniac, tore from the breast of the mysterious -beauty of the opera the glittering ornament upon which, an -hour before, had been focused the attention of an entire audience.</p> - -<p>"Here," he cried, brandishing a handful of lace and satin from -which gleamed the jeweled jockey-cap, "is the stolen star ruby!—and -there," pointing to a man's figure that appeared in the doorway, -"is the cowardly wretch that stole it!"</p> - -<p>It was not until then that his companions observed that the -stranger's right arm hung useless at his side.</p> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> -<div class="figcenter"> -<img class="chapend15" src="images/i_010.png" alt="" width="300" height="173" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 11]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak"><a name="The_Interrupted_Banquet" id="The_Interrupted_Banquet"></a>The Interrupted Banquet.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="center">BY RENÉ BACHE.</p> - -<div class="topspace1"></div> - - - -<div> -<img class="drop-cap width625" src="images/i_013.png" width="100" height="100" alt="" /> -</div> - - - -<p class="drop-cap">THOUGH quite familiar with the street, I could -not remember having seen that particular house -before. My recollection had been that there -was a vacant lot just there. But I must have -been mistaken, for the dwelling before me was -substantial enough, though old-fashioned, with -high front steps and large windows. A trifle out of repair it -looked, by the way, and I even noticed that two or three panes -of glass were gone. On the whole, the mansion presented a -somewhat mournful appearance, as if fallen from an old-time -respectability into a condition of decay and decrepitude.</p> - -<p>I am sure that it would never have occurred to me to enter, -had it not been that the young lady who accompanied me turned -and deliberately mounted the steps towards the front door. Of -course I followed. She did not ring the bell; for, in truth, there -seemed to be no bell to pull. But the portal was noiselessly thrown -wide from within, and we entered. I looked in vain for the servant -who, I supposed, would receive our cards; but, to my surprise, -Mabel walked straight ahead through the wide hall, without hesitation, -appearing quite familiar with the place. There should -have been a light, I thought, though it was only two o'clock in -the afternoon; for the interior of this strange mansion was very -dark, and I could only make out in an indistinct sort of way the -faces that looked down upon me from some old portraits, obviously -fine works of art, as I passed.</p> - -<p>Mabel had introduced me to most of her friends, for we had -been engaged for six months and were to be married very soon; -but she had never spoken to me of these people, who, perhaps, -were rather out of the fashion and had been forgotten. As these -reflections passed through my mind, we ascended a broad staircase -to the second floor, and then it was that I heard a sound of revelry - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 12]</span> - -which came from a room which I correctly judged to be the dining-room -of the house. The heavy oaken doors of the room were -slightly ajar, and through them was cast a strong beam of light -that fell full upon an object which startled me for an instant. It -was a headless human figure. A second later I smiled at my own -alarm, inasmuch as the figure was nothing but a suit of old armor -without the helmet.</p> - -<p>If I had had a chance, I should have questioned Mabel, in order -to make sure that our unannounced entrance was not an intrusion; -also, I might have asked why, after starting out for a day's yachting -trip, we had returned so early and for so strange an entertainment. -But either query would have been out of place just then. Very -likely, I thought, she had some surprise in store for me,—a lunch -party, maybe, arranged by some friends in our honor; for quite -a series of dinners and other entertainments had been given to us -in celebration of our engagement. Moreover, all that I have -related took place within less than a minute and a half, and in -another moment I found myself in the large and brilliantly lighted -dining-room. If the rest of the mansion was dark, there was no -lack of illumination here. I was fairly dazzled by the numerous -lights, clusters of which, arranged in silver candelabra, helped to -adorn a long table, at which twenty-five or thirty people were -seated. There were flowers in profusion, with a great display of -silver and cut glass.</p> - -<p>To my astonishment, not one of the people present seemed to -take the slightest notice of our entrance. Near one end of the -table were two vacant chairs together. Mabel quietly took one of -them, and I, deeming the time hardly proper for an explanation, -seated myself in the other. Soup was immediately placed before -us—evidently we were not very late—and I took two or three -spoonsful of it. It struck me as being singularly tasteless.</p> - -<p>The courses followed each other in the usual mechanical fashion. -What there was to eat I do not remember with any distinctness, -for I was so absorbed in wonder and in studying the other -guests that I took little notice of the viands. Opposite me was a -funny-looking old lady in white silk, cut low at the neck to such -a degree, I thought, as would have been more appropriate to a -younger and plumper person. I particularly recall the fact that - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 13]</span> - -she wore camellias in her hair—a fashion which I had heard of -as belonging to a generation ago. It was palpable, too, that her -front hair was false. Withal she was most agreeable and amiably -disposed, as I presently discovered from her conversation. She -was the first person who addressed any remark to me, abruptly -making some inquiry about my grandfather, and stating in the -same breath that she was from Philadelphia.</p> - -<p>At her left sat a gentleman of rather more than middle age, as -I judged, with a remarkably pink nose and a great expanse of -shirt-front, who was devoting himself so assiduously to his plate -that not a word escaped his lips. On the other side of the old -lady with the camellias was an extremely thin man, with a -peaked countenance, who so strongly reminded me of an undertaker -that I felt almost tempted to ask him a question or two about -the state of the market in respect to coffins and other funeral -equipments. His necktie was black and likewise his hair, while -his expression was one of extreme solemnity. Mabel was seated -at my right, while on my other hand was a buxom matron of -forty or so, who manipulated knife and fork with an activity that -suggested a most excellent digestion.</p> - -<p>Among the guests these were the first whom I noticed particularly. -As I looked along the table, I was rather surprised to find -that not a face was known to me. There was a cadaverous-looking -young man with a prematurely bald head whom I pointed -out to Mabel, asking who he was; for I had noticed that a sign of -recognition passed between them.</p> - -<p>"My brother," she replied quietly and, as I imagined, sadly.</p> - -<p>Now this was a surprise, for I did not know that Mabel had a -brother. Perhaps, I thought, he was not an especially estimable -youth, and so was ignored by her family. If that were so, why -should he be present on this occasion? Here was another puzzle, -to be solved when a suitable opportunity offered for questioning -my fianceé.</p> - -<p>On the left of Mabel's brother was a remarkably pretty, though -very pale young lady, who wore in her hair, oddly enough, what -looked to me like a bridal wreath. But the handsomest woman -present was she whom I supposed to be our hostess. She was of -regal presence, and, with her velvety eyes and coronet of black - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 14]</span> - -braids, resembled a Spanish señorita. Though I had never seen her -before, I took it for granted that she must know who I was, and -repeatedly I tried to catch a glance from her; but it was in vain, -for her conversation and attention were addressed almost exclusively -to an elderly man on her right, apparently a foreign diplomat, -as half a dozen orders glittered upon his breast. At the -other end of the festive board sat a gentleman with a huge gray -moustache, presumably our host. I heard no remarks from him, -save now and then a request to "pass the decanter," addressed to -one or another of the guests near him. I had no opportunity for -speech with him, inasmuch as Mabel and I were divided from him -by almost the length of the table.</p> - -<p>On the whole, the affair struck me as entirely extraordinary. -Here we were, myself completely a stranger, at a banquet in a -house which I had never visited before! Indeed, had it not been -for Mabel's assurance of welcome and the two seats apparently -reserved for us, I should have supposed that we had made some -mistake. Mabel herself was singularly silent, though ordinarily -quite talkative and even jolly, and offered no explanation of the -situation. But perhaps what astonished me more than anything else -was my discovery, some time after we were seated at the table, of -a young man, some distance away, who bore a striking resemblance -to my chum at college. Upon my word, I was on the point of -shouting at him across the board. In fact, the words, "Why, -Bill, old man, how did you get here?" were on my lips, when I -checked myself in time, owing to a remembrance of the fact that -Bill had been dead for eight years, having met a most untimely -fate in a railway disaster.</p> - -<p>While engaged in wondering whether the young man could be -a near relation of my former chum's, I was startled at seeing a -telegram in the familiar Western Union envelope laid beside my -plate. Some people, notably stock brokers and newspaper men, -are accustomed to telegrams, and for that reason are not alarmed -by them. But habit had not rendered me thus callous, and with -some haste I tore open the envelope and glanced over the contents. -It read:—</p> - -<p class="center">"Mabel died this morning of acute congestion of the lungs.</p> - -<p class="smcap sig-left">"Amelia Parker."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 15]</span></p> - -<p>I declare that I trembled as if I had a chill. If Mabel had not -been by my side, I should have been overcome by the shock. -Holding the telegram before Mabel's eyes, I exclaimed in a voice -that trembled with conflicting emotions of horror and anger: -"This is carrying a practical joke too far. Here, some brainless -wretch telegraphs me in your mother's name that you are -dead."</p> - -<p>Careless of the almost frenzied energy with which I spoke, I -looked around upon the faces of my fellow-guests as one does who -is confident of sympathy. To my amazement, in response to my -speech, there arose a cackle of laughter which was presently -transformed into a general ripple of mirth. And such mirth! -The like of it I had never heard before, and, please heaven, I -hope I never may again. It was not like real laughter, but rather -the empty and strident cachinnation of beings lost to the feelings -of humanity.</p> - -<p>Pale with anger, I rose to my feet and, steadying myself with -one hand on the back of my chair, exclaimed:</p> - -<p>"What does this mean?"</p> - -<p>Dead silence was the only response. Conversation had ceased, -but I felt that every eye was fixed upon me. Aghast, I looked -at Mabel, but she did not return my gaze. At length, the old -woman with the camellias in her hair, who sat opposite, addressed -me, saying:</p> - -<p>"Why do you think that Mabel is not dead?"</p> - -<p>"Good God!" I replied. "Here she is. Don't you see her? -What do these people mean?"</p> - -<p>The old woman grinned and waved her feather fan at me, playfully, -saying:</p> - -<p>"Ask her if she isn't dead?"</p> - -<p>I turned to Mabel in wonderment, but she only shook her head -sadly.</p> - -<p>"Why, of course she's dead!" said the old woman. "Don't -you know that all of us here are dead?"</p> - -<p>"Indeed, yes; we are all dead," cried the other guests in general -chorus.</p> - -<p>"This is getting beyond patience!" I exclaimed. "You, too, -are pleased to joke with me, but I tell you frankly that I fail to - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 16]</span> - -see the fun of it. Perhaps, since you possess such a fund of -humor, you will be telling me next that I am dead, also."</p> - -<p>Then came that laugh again. I never shall forget it. Beginning -with a cackling titter, it spread until the whole table was in a -roar, making my very flesh creep. Then all at once it ceased, and -again there was dead silence.</p> - -<p>"Certainly you are dead," said the old lady with the camellias. -"She's dead, and all of us are dead. She died this morning of -acute congestion of the lungs, but I have been dead for these -twenty years, and he, too," indicating with her fan the elderly -gentleman with the pink nose. "My own complaint was cerebrospinal -meningitis."</p> - -<p>My legs gave way under me and I sank into my chair. As I -did so my hand touched Mabel's, and I grasped hers tightly. It -was cold as ice. Leaning toward me, she whispered in my ear:</p> - -<p>"Don't make a scene! It is all quite true. You were run -over an hour ago by a trolley car."</p> - -<p>Not daring to believe my senses, I replied:</p> - -<p>"And this house—?"</p> - -<p>"Sh—h!" said Mabel. "It is only the ghost of a house,—the -phantasmal reproduction of an old mansion that used to stand -on this spot, where there has been an empty lot for fifteen years -past."</p> - -<p>"I—I think I understand," I gasped. Then, though my -brain swam, I made a tremendous effort to summon up my courage -and face composedly this dreadful situation. Addressing myself -to the old woman opposite, I said:</p> - -<p>"Perchance you were acquainted with the former occupants of -this dwelling?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, yes," she answered pleasantly. "I am somewhat distantly -related to our host and hostess of this evening. They -were drowned—lost on the ill-fated <cite>Ville de Paris</cite>. This house -belonged to them, and not very long afterwards it was torn -down."</p> - -<p>"But suppose that the present owner of the lot were to build -upon it?" I suggested. "It would be necessary to hold these -charming entertainments elsewhere?"</p> - -<p>"Not at all," she said, laughing and waving her fan. "The - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 17]</span> - -occupancy of the site by a real house would not interfere. It -frequently happens, of course, that a building is put up on ground -previously occupied by another dwelling. You must understand, -though I might have supposed you knew it, that, while the -material parts of a tenement may be removed at any time, its -astral shell remains in perpetuity. Thus the ghosts of half a -dozen or more dwellings may remain on the site occupied by a -new and substantial structure. They are none the less real for -being invisible to living eyes. The most remarkable instances of -haunted houses that you have heard about are due to conditions -of that sort,—several families of phantasms, perhaps, tenanting -premises topographically coincident with a mansion which affords -physical accommodation to people in the flesh. I trust I make -myself clear?"</p> - -<p>"Quite so," I replied politely.</p> - -<p>This conversation was interrupted by the elderly gentleman -with the pink nose, who seemed to be dissatisfied with something. -Having poured out a water goblet half full of sherry from a -decanter, he called for brandy, and with those strong spirits filled -it to the brim. Then he took a caster of red pepper and sprinkled -its contents liberally on the surface of the mixture. Raising the -goblet to his lips, he drained its contents to the last drop and set -it down with a sigh.</p> - -<p>"Ah!" he exclaimed, "it has no strength. If only I could get -a schooner of real beer."</p> - -<p>The old lady regarded this performance attentively, with a -lorgnette held to her nose. Said she sympathetically:</p> - -<p>"That is the way with all pleasures in the after world. They -seem to have no savor. Even the milk is chalk and water."</p> - -<p>"I suppose that is why this mince pie tastes so insipid," I -responded, toying absently with a bit of pastry on my plate.</p> - -<p>"Of course it is," she said. "Don't you see it is only the -ghost of a mince pie."</p> - -<p>"Then it seems that—"</p> - -<p>But at this point the banquet was suddenly interrupted by a -convulsive swaying and creaking of timbers. The table rocked, -the lights in the silver candelabra flickered, and all was darkness. -Then, through a ray of brilliant sunlight, I saw the strange dining-hall, - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 18]</span> - -the gleaming table, the ghostly banqueters all fade into the -distance. Another moment of utter darkness, of creaking and -swaying, during which I made a desperate effort to grasp and -steady Mabel's chair. To my bewilderment, my hand touched a -coil of rope. I heard familiar voices. There was a burst of sunlight. -I sat propped up by cushions on the deck of the pleasure -yacht <i>Undine</i>, surrounded by solicitous friends. Mabel, with her -warm hand reassuringly clasped in mine, told me of my half hour's -unconsciousness. I had fallen overboard in my attempt to recover -her hat, and had been rescued only after sinking for the third time. -Not until I had heard all this, could I banish from my mind my -horrible experience in the house of the dead.</p> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> -<div class="figcenter"> -<img class="chapend15" src="images/i_018.png" alt="" width="300" height="154" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 19]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak"><a name="The_Archangel" id="The_Archangel"></a>The Archangel.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="center">BY JAMES Q. HYATT.</p> - -<div class="topspace1"></div> - -<div> -<img class="drop-cap width625" src="images/i_019.png" width="100" height="100" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-cap">CRAWFORD and I had gone up into the foot-hills -of the Sierras to shoot. It was autumn; -yet the sun unscrewed us so immediately -when we walked abroad that we were forced -to seek the shelter of pines and dusty scrub -oaks, as often as they fell across our path.</p> - -<p>We were lying, one afternoon, under a row -of young firs on the crest of a ridge, when the gaunt figure of an -old man labored up the slope toward us.</p> - -<p>"If all the world'd lay about in the shade like you 'uns and -me—not interferin' with Nature—she'd get her hand in again -on her own hook," he said, throwing himself down beside us.</p> - -<p>What he may have looked like when his features were normal -we never knew. At this advanced period he wore so inflated a -nose of such eccentric modeling that his eyes couldn't count for -much, and his mouth was only suggested under a flippant gray -beard.</p> - -<p>"I'm the Archangel," he said sweetly, and smiled at us.</p> - -<p>Crawford shrugged himself a trifle nearer his gun and smiled -back again.</p> - -<p>"There's no crack," he assured us immediately. "That's been -my title for three years. I got it because I held my hand from -gorin' a man under false provocation."</p> - -<p>"Tell us about it," we said.</p> - -<p>He found a stone to rest his back against, and threw open his -shirt at the throat.</p> - -<p>"These hot summer days sizzle just as they did then—crisp -your throat like coals curl bacon. I'd mined all this country in -the gold days, and held my own with the dizziest dog of 'em all -in findin' the color and epicuring the liquids. I run a drinking -fountain in opposition to the Dead Falls, up Mokelumne way, and - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 20]</span> - -counted on Joaquin and his band for makin' a pot for me regular -once a week—but t'aint what I started out to say."</p> - -<p>The old man fell into a reverie. He seemed to see only the -ends of his toes.</p> - -<p>"About the Archangel," Crawford prodded.</p> - -<p>"Yes—the Archangel. That's a matter of three short years -aback."</p> - -<p>This gentle old man stood up, and hitched savagely at his -trouser band before he sat down again.</p> - -<p>"Adolphe—his name'd tell you, wouldn't it? Chin beard—juicy -voice—and hands a-curvin' through the air. Well, -Adolphe and me set up backin' and minin' together five years -aback. I stayed on and on with him because his bread'd make you -hungry in your sleep.</p> - -<p>"'Twas flour for that very bread that I went a-ridin' into town -for, one summer day. There was a real estate dude'd come up. -'Socks' we called him. Actual—he went round in wormy-lookin' -things held up by garters! Well, Socks, he tucked a -folded newspaper under my saddle-flap, just as I was tightening -up to go home.</p> - -<p>"'Read that,' says he. 'It's time all you fellers settled down -to raisin' families, so's we could have a population, and school -districts, and churches, and sich. Never no hope of doin' anything -with a lot of bachelors.'</p> - -<p>"Well, d'you know, it struck me like wisdom from the mouth -of babes? I rode along a-tryin' of my best to read that paper. -Not bein' over profuse in acquaintance with learnin', and the sun -strikin' the white clay like a lookin'-glass, I tucked it away and -whistled till the barkin' of the dog realized me I was home.</p> - -<p>"Later, when the smoke went out of the chimney, curlin' -through the trees, Adolphe and me sat out on the saw-bucks a-readin' -of that paper,—the <cite>Matrimonial Messenger</cite>.</p> - -<p>"By your names, sirs, there was three pages of 'um saying how -enchantin' they was!</p> - -<p>"Tall women and short women, and young women and old -women, women with children and women without, women that -could work, and sew, and cook, and women that could sing, and -dance, and talk. Every blamed one of 'em willin' to send their - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 21]</span> - -photograph, swearin' their faces was their fortunes all their -life!</p> - -<p>"'Twasn't long before we'd settled between two of 'em, but -Adolphe, he was for one, and me for the other.</p> - -<p>"'What's it to you?' sez I. 'You aint marryin' of her, are -you?'</p> - -<p>"He couldn't but admit the fact.</p> - -<p>"'Still—there's my livin' round her,' he says.</p> - -<p>"'Twas a widder, I remember, Adolphe was set on. She'd -raven locks, and what she'd most pride in was her cookin', and her -sewin', and her lovin' heart. I argued long. I needed him -favorable, if it was to be peaceful-like. I remember tellin' of him -that we didn't need cookin' and sewin', being used all our lives to -managin' these. What we wanted was somethin' amusin' and up -in learnin', so's we could feel spiritual proud, you know. I asked -him if we'd ever strike it rich, what'd we do with a wife that -couldn't go dance and talk with the best of 'em.</p> - -<p>"Anyway, seein' it was my business, and I was set like a jumper -on a claim, Adolphe, he give in. The woman what made my -heart feel empty said she was eighteen. She was decorated with -yellow hair and eyes like copper-ore. She could talk French, and -understood German, and could play the pianner. She'd marry a -man that wanted a companion and not a cook.</p> - -<p>"Sez I to myself continual: 'That's you, Daniel.'</p> - -<p>"Well, Adolphe and me, we talked this thing, wakin' and -sleepin'. I'd more plans than a cow has capers.</p> - -<p>"We got up a letter'd melt snow, and then we waited.</p> - -<p>"First, nuthin' was said to the boys, but when they caught on -to my hangin' round the post-office they began to josh. I always -stepped up gallant to the post-mistress, sirs—I've turned the -cheeks of most women pink in my day—and I said, said I:</p> - -<p>"'Letter, please?' with a doffin' of my hat, and a risin' inflection -very polite but understandin'. It got to be so that when -there never was anythin' handed out the boys'd take to coughin' -down a laugh.</p> - -<p>"After awhile it grew so's none of 'em turned up or paid any -attention. Even Adolphe—he took to goin' to sleep when I -talked her.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 22]</span></p> - -<p>"Then a whole year ran out to summer again, and I couldn't -unthrone her that reigned in my heart.</p> - -<p>"One day I said to Adolphe, a-workin' away:</p> - -<p>"'Blamed if I can forget her, the ornamint,' I said.</p> - -<p>"Adolphe he went in for grub that day and came out late, -a-holdin' of a envelope.</p> - -<p>"'Here's your letter,' he called.</p> - -<p>"Sure enough! I went out on the saw-buck and read it alone. -Then he sat down by me and we read it over again.</p> - -<p>"'Twas only that she'd arrive on the afternoon train on the -fifth, and to have a Methodist minister.</p> - -<p>"Well, sirs, it meant a good deal for me to supply the -necessaries for a sparklin' jewel—let alone the settlin' down for -her to sparkle on! but luck come my way. There'd been a milliner -up from San Francisco and fitted her a elegant place. She'd -failed, and quick's a winkin' I bought her lookin'-glass and red -plush easy-chair. You'd ought to seen that cabin! There hung the -thing opposite the stove, all shinin' an' smilin' and gildin'. Right -in front of it my red plush chair, so's you could set down and put -your feet up on another an' see how you'd look in heaven.</p> - -<p>"On the fourth, Adolphe revealed he'd business in a little -town a mile up the railway. He suffered a crampy kind of desperation -not to be on hand to support me, he said, but he'd come -in with the girl. Then he baked up bread and a cake and rode -away.</p> - -<p>"Sun come up on the fifth like a bull's-eye lantern. I'd set up -all the night before, not to disturb anythin', and there was the -mornin' for me to shave and git into my riggin'. A calf-skin -vest, with the hair on, aint a thing to slight, sirs, ceremonies or -no ceremonies.</p> - -<p>"When I rode my mule up to the depot the boys was out, to -the puniest scrub of 'em all. They give me cheers that'd blast -rock.</p> - -<p>"And there was an arch, sirs—all flowered! My legs wanted -to sit down more than me!</p> - -<p>"The train whistled in the distance. There was no slaknin' -off round the corner, for the boys braced me everywhere.</p> - -<p>"Out she stepped, sirs, and whether she was the sorriest or the - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 23]</span> - -likeliest lookin' critter, I couldn't 'a' told for the flunk I was -in!</p> - -<p>"After the blackness I see her long yellow hair and red cheeks. -All the conquerin' of my youth rose up within me, and I up and -held her to me for a kiss.</p> - -<p>"By the great snake mine, but women don't shave beards off -and drink whisky!</p> - -<p>"I dropped her like a nettle, but she went forward with the -crowd, smilin' an' smirkin' through the cheerin' an' the uproar.</p> - -<p>"'To the parson's,' the boys yelled.</p> - -<p>"I was forced off my feet, but out came my gun.</p> - -<p>"'Halt!' I cried, in a voice that brought 'em all on their -haunches and still as colts raised on the spur.</p> - -<p>"'I mean to shoot the wig off your head and the paint off your -face, Adolphe Lefevre, and leave you for the slimiest viper that -crawls without legs.'</p> - -<p>"The sight of my gun lay between his eyes an' the crowd was -as still as the barrel.</p> - -<p>"Of a sudden came a voice in my ear. To this day God only -knows from where.</p> - -<p>"'Be like unto the archangels.'</p> - -<p>"My arm fell to my side. They lifted me onto their shoulders.</p> - -<p>"'The Archangel,' they sent out a-echoin' in the hills.</p> - -<p>"And it stuck, sirs, from that day to this, though I've lived -alone, sirs, ever since."</p> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img class="chapend10" src="images/i_023.png" alt="" width="100" height="94" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 24]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak"><a name="Asleep_at_Lone_Mountain" id="Asleep_at_Lone_Mountain"></a>Asleep at Lone Mountain.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="center">BY H. D. UMBSTAETTER.</p> - -<div class="topspace1"></div> - -<div> - <img class="drop-cap width625" src="images/i_024.png" width="100" height="100" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-cap">IT occurred nearly fourteen years ago, yet I never -enter a sleeping-car without being confronted -by that innocent face. It clings to me all the -more because I have always looked upon partings -and leave-takings as mile-posts of sorrow -in the journeys of life. I dislike good-bys. -I hate farewells.</p> - -<p>I had just returned from Australia and was about to start on -my journey across the continent. In company with two old -friends who had crossed the ferry from San Francisco to Oakland -to see me off, I sat chatting in my sleeper, when two Sisters of -Mercy hurriedly entered the car.</p> - -<p>Just what it was in the appearance of the newcomers that -arrested the attention of the earlier arrivals—whether it was -their humble yet characteristic attire, so suggestive of charity the -whole world over, the apparent anxiety betrayed by their manner, -or the fact that a sleeping child, clasped tenderly in the arms of -one, was their sole companion—whether it was any or all of these -things that caused a sudden reign of respectful silence in the car, I -am unable to say. Certain it is, however, that their coming was not -unnoticed; neither was the circumstance that the only visible -baggage of the trio consisted of a small square bundle neatly done -up in a gray shawl.</p> - -<p>Upon being shown to seats in the section directly opposite the -one occupied by myself and friends, they at once entered into -earnest conversation with the sleeping-car conductor. At the first -few whispered words the man's manner showed unmistakable surprise. -He appeared either unable or unwilling to comply with -some request they had made. Although the nature of the request -was not apparent, the occupants of neighboring seats could not -fail to note from the conversation, which now and then became - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 25]</span> - -quite audible, that it bore some important relation to the sleeping -member of the party. The evident fact that the sisters felt much -concerned respecting the safety and welfare of their youthful -companion served only to increase the mystery of the situation.</p> - -<p>After patiently listening for some minutes to appeals first from -one and then the other, and after glancing over a railroad ticket -and letter they had handed him, the conductor consented to meet -their wishes, declining, however, to accept a sum of money they -repeatedly tendered him. Before leaving them the man spoke a -few words of reassurance and encouragement, which were cut -short by the shrill whistle of the locomotive announcing the train's -departure. The sisters arose instantly, hastily expressed their -earnest thanks to the conductor, and then, sinking upon their -knees before the child, which had been aroused from its slumbers -and sat innocently gazing about, first one and then the other -clasped the infant in fond embrace, and, amid sobs and kisses, -showered upon the little being the most fervent blessings and -tender farewells. Then, covering their tearful faces with their -hands, they arose, still weeping as though their hearts would -break, and hurriedly left the car, which was already moving slowly -out of the station.</p> - -<p>No sooner had they gone than all eyes were directed towards -the diminutive stranger who had caused the scene just witnessed. -Too young to realize what was going on, he sat motionless, as -though spellbound by fear or astonishment at his strange surroundings. -In an instant the child became an object of intense -curiosity. More than that, its extreme youth and utter helplessness -aroused, on the part of its fellow-travelers, feelings of genuine -sympathy and pity—feelings which the heroic silence maintained -by the little innocent, in spite of the now swiftly moving train, -only served to intensify.</p> - -<p>Neither memory nor imagination can suggest to me a more -touching picture than the one presented by that plainly clad -handful of human loneliness, as it sat there in meek silence, its -tiny hand timidly resting on the little bundle by its side, while -its eyes remained intently fixed on the door which, a few moments -before, had closed upon its late companions. Whose child was -this? Who was to care for it? What was to become of it? - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 26]</span> - -Was one of the nuns a relative? Was the younger, perhaps, its -sister? Or was either neither? These and similar questions -could be easily read on the countenances of the wondering passengers.</p> - -<p>Some minutes elapsed before the conductor again made his -appearance, when he was at once besieged with questions concerning -the mysterious stranger. And, as if determined that not a -word should escape their ears, each of the twelve or fifteen occupants -of the car crowded about him as he seated himself beside -the lonely child.</p> - -<p>The story they heard was brief and pathetic. The little boy -was as much of a stranger to the conductor as he was to the -passengers. His mother was dead. His home was in one of the -smaller manufacturing towns of New England, where his father, -who was to meet him on the arrival of our train at Omaha, lived -in humble circumstances. The conductor had promised the sisters -to protect and care for the child during the five days' journey. -It was, however, not the little fellow's first trip across the plains, -as nearly a year and a half ago, when but a few weeks old he -had come to California with his invalid mother. The latter had -survived the long journey but a very short time, and died among -strangers in one of the foot-hill towns near San Francisco. The -Sisters of Mercy of that city had by correspondence arranged with -the father to adopt, or, rather, to provide a temporary home for -the little waif, until he should be old enough to make the long -return journey. And now, although the boy had reached but the -tender age of eighteen months, the distant parent, craving for his -presence, had begged the sister to enlist in his behalf the sympathies -and care of some kind-hearted East-bound passenger or railway -employee. Their repeated efforts in the former direction -having failed, they had at last applied to the conductor.</p> - -<p>In relating the child's sad history, the sisters had, the conductor -continued, so feelingly solicited his kindly offices and paid such -glowing tribute to the almost angelic disposition and exceptional -bravery of the infant that, however disinclined he had been to -assume the responsibility, a persistent refusal of their unusual -request seemed almost inhuman. He had therefore undertaken -the strange charge, and trusted, he said, that the passengers would - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 27]</span> - -in no wise be inconvenienced thereby. From that moment on, -every one who had less than half an hour before witnessed the -scene of sorrowful parting, which had so touchingly told how completely -the little fellow had walked into the hearts of his benefactors,—from -that time on, every one felt a personal responsibility -for the comfort and safety of the boy. Introduced under circumstances -that rendered him a hero at the outset, at the end of the -first day he had already become the pet of the passengers and the -object of their kindliest attentions.</p> - -<p>While the claim that this child was remarkable for beauty and -cleverness might lend sentiment and romance to my simple narrative, -the fact is that he was neither handsome nor bright. In -appearance he was simply a plain, plump, red-cheeked, flaxen-haired -baby boy, with apparently little to be proud of, save his -evident good health and a pair of large blue eyes that seemed -frankness itself. His accomplishments were few, indeed. He -was still, as the sisters had said, learning to walk. His vocabulary -included but three or four imperfectly spoken words, and he was -conspicuously deficient in that parrot-like precociousness so -common and frequently so highly prized in little children. But -what our youthful companion lacked in attractive outwardness -was more than made up by the true inwardness of one accomplishment -he did possess. That was silence. This virtue he practised -to a degree that soon won for him the admiration and affection -of all. Though exhibiting no sign of embarrassment at the -friendly advances of the passengers, and while not unmoved by -their tender attentions, he maintained through that long journey -a humble air of mute contentment that lost its balance on but -three occasions.</p> - -<p>His quiet ways were a theme of constant comment, while his -presence proved not only a source of increasing pleasure to our -small band of tourists, but did much to relieve the monotony of -the tedious journey.</p> - -<p>One important detail in the boy's eventful history was missing. -Cared for by strangers from earliest infancy, deprived of his -mother's love and father's care, he had thus far not even received -that all-important parental gift,—a Christian name. To the -sisters he had been known simply as "Baby." By that infantile - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 28]</span> - -appellation he had passed from their gentle mercies to the conductor's -care. And only as "Baby homeward bound" was he spoken -of in their letter addressed to his father.</p> - -<p>Before he had spent a day among us it was suggested that his -exemplary conduct entitled him to a more dignified name—at -least during the period of our companionship. And this suggestion -led to one of many amusing incidents. By what name -should the boy be known? After the question had been eagerly -answered a dozen times in as many different ways, with apparently -little hope of a unanimous choice—for every one felt that his or -her preference was peculiarly appropriate—a quiet old man, -whose appearance was strongly suggestive of the pioneer days, -offered a happy solution of the difficulty. He proposed that, in -view of the humble circumstances of the child, the privilege of -naming him for the trip be sold at auction among the passengers -of our car, adding, by way of explanation, that the sum thus -realized might "give the little fellow a start in life."</p> - -<p>The average overland tourist is never slow to adopt any -expedient to relieve the tedium of the journey; and here was, -as one chap expressed it, "A chance for an auction on wheels, -and one for charity's sake, at that." So the proposition was no -sooner stated than acted upon. The auctioneer found himself -unanimously elected, and, placing himself in the center of the -car, heard the bidding, prompted by every generous impulse that -enthusiasm and sympathy can give, rise rapidly in sums of one, -two, and three dollars until thirty-five was called. There it -halted, but only for a moment. The situation had become exciting. -The auctioneer himself now took a hand in the competition; and -a round of applause greeted his bid, made in the name of his -native State, "Ohio bids fifty dollars." It was regarded as a -matter of course that this sum would secure the coveted privilege. -But no! Some one remarks that yet another county remains to -be heard from. The voice of the weather-worn pioneer,—the -suggester of the scheme,—has not yet been heard in the bidding. -He has been a silent looker-on, biding his time. Now it has -come. As he rises slowly in his seat he is intently watched by -every eye, for somehow the impression prevails that he hails from -"the coast," and that consequently there can be nothing small in - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 29]</span> - -anything he does; In this no one is disappointed. The heart -and purse of the gray-haired veteran are in the cause. Besides, -his "pride is up" for the State he worships, almost idolizes. As -his clear voice rings out with: "California sees Ohio's fifty, and -goes fifty better," he is greeted by a storm of cheers that he -will remember as long as he lives. And when the auctioneer -announces: "California pays one hundred dollars and secures the -privilege of naming the boy; what name shall it be?" the -answer comes back quick as a flash:</p> - -<p>"Grit! That sounds well and seems to fit well."</p> - -<p>The passengers thought so, too, and very plainly showed their -approval by overwhelming the man with congratulations and good -wishes.</p> - -<p>Reports of our proceedings were not slow in reaching the passengers -in other parts of the train, whose curiosity or compassion -led to numerous daily visits, while thoughtful sympathy found -expression in liberal gifts of fruit, photographs, and a variety of -Indian toys, as curious as they were welcome. To the old Californian, -whose great liberality had secured for him a place in the -respect and good-will of the entire party which was second only to -that held by Grit himself, these continued attentions proved a -source of special delight. Though he bore his honors with becoming -modesty, he found early opportunity of proposing the -health of the boy, who, as he aptly expressed it, "had been rocked -in the cradle of misfortune, but had at last struck the color." -Equally happy was his reply to a party of jolly cowboys, whom -curiosity had led to solicit "a peep at the silent kid," while the -train was delayed at one of the eating stations along the road. -Their request having been granted, one of their number felt so -highly elated upon receiving a handshake from Grit that he insisted -upon presenting him with his huge cowboy spurs as a -keepsake, proclaiming as he did so—with a trifle more enthusiasm -than reverence—that in "paying a hundred to nominate the cute -little kid, 'old California' carved his own name upon the Rock of -Ages."</p> - -<p>"Bless his little heart," replied the grizzled miner; "I'd give -ten thousand more to own him, now that he has won his spurs."</p> - -<p>Among the recollections of my personal experiences with Grit, - -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span> - -the second night of the journey stands out with especial clearness. -At that time we were passing through the famous snowshed -section on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, our train running -at a high rate of speed in order to make up lost time. It -was here that the bravery of our little hero was put to a cruel -test. Some time after midnight I was awakened by a child's -frantic screams, that rose loud above the train's thundering noise. -And, though up to this time there had not been a single tearful -outbreak on the part of the young Trojan, there could be no mistaking -the source of the piercing shrieks that now met my ears. -I lost no time in hastening to his assistance, for I knew that, by -way of experiment, he had been quartered in a "section" entirely -by himself, the previous night having been a sleepless one to -both the conductor and his charge. Furthermore, it was evident -from his agonizing cries that I was the first to hear him. Finding -the car in total darkness, the lights on both ends having -gone out, I met with some delay in feeling my way to the terrified -child, calling to him as I went; and at the first touch -of my hand the trembling, feverish little form drew close to -me, its chubby arms closed wildly about my neck, while loud, -hysterical sobs told more plainly than words can express the -agony that the child had endured. Only one who is familiar with -sleeping-car travel over mountainous country, who has found -himself suddenly aroused by the terrific roaring and swaying of a -swiftly running train, and who, unconscious for the instant of his -surroundings, has felt his flesh creep and his heart stand still, as -he imagined himself engulfed by a mighty torrent or hurled over -some awful precipice, only such an one can realize the position of -this terror-stricken child.</p> - -<p>Arousing the porter, who had gone to sleep while blacking the -passengers' boots, I carried Grit to my own berth, where my -endeavors to soothe his disturbed feelings proved so highly successful -that the re-lighting of the car was greeted by him with -loud laughter, through the still lingering tears. But go to sleep -again he would not. No matter how often I tucked him beneath -the blankets and settled myself to pretended slumbers, he would -as often extricate himself, and, in a sitting posture, silently contemplate -his surroundings. Fearing to doze off under the circumstances, - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 31]</span> - -I finally concluded to sit up with the little fellow -until sleep should overcome him. Making his way to my side as -I sat on the edge of the berth, and placing his face close to mine, -he imparted the cause of his persistent wakefulness by a gently -uttered "dwink!"—repeating the word with more emphasis -after a moment's pause. Happily, ample provisions had been -made to meet his wants in this direction, and, procuring from the -porter's "baby's bakery," as the well-provided lunch basket we had -presented him at Sacramento had come to be known, I helped -him to a glass of milk, after drinking which he fell quickly to -sleep.</p> - -<p>After that night's experience, Grit singled me out as his particular -friend; and, as a consequence, he was nightly permitted -to share my section with me. In these closer relations I found -him the gentlest, most loving, and best-behaved child I ever met. -It seemed as though he knew and felt that he stood sadly alone -in the world, and that the less trouble he gave to others the -better he would get on. His spirit of contentment and faculty -of self-entertainment were phenomenal. While cards, books, -conversation, and sleep served as a means of passing away time -among the other passengers, he would for hours at a time remain -in sole possession of a favorite corner seat, silently musing over -some simple Indian toy. Again, an illustrated time-table or railway -map would absorb his entire attention, until he had apparently -mastered every detail of the intricate document. To -watch the little toddling figure, after these prolonged periods of -self-amusement, as, clad in a long, loose, gray gown, it quietly -made its way along the car on a tour of inspection, proved an -appealing study. Finding his arrival at my seat unnoticed at -times—by reason of my absorption in a book or game of cards—he -would announce his presence by a series of steady pulls at my -coat, and make known his wants by a sweetly mumbled "Mum-mum." -Repeated falls, incurred during these excursions, never -caused him to falter in his purpose, nor did these, at any time, -result in any other than good-natured demonstrations.</p> - -<p>On but one occasion, aside from that already alluded to, was he -moved to tears—an unlucky incident that happened while our -party was taking breakfast at Cheyenne, sadly upsetting the - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 32]</span> - -remarkable tranquillity of his mind. We had scarcely seated ourselves -at the table, with the boy, as usual, perched in a baby chair -in the midst of the party, when, espying an orange that a little -girl next to him had placed beside her plate, Grit, innocently -unmindful of its ownership, proceeded to help himself to the -inviting fruit. No sooner had he grasped it than a sharp slap -from his fair neighbor's hand sent it rolling along the floor. The -child started, trembled; keenly hurt in more ways than one by -what was, no doubt, the first punishment he had ever received, he -burst into heart-rending tears.</p> - -<p>Turning to me with outstretched arms, his piteously spoken -"Mum-mum" cast a shadow over the festive occasion, and to -some of us, at least, placed the further discussion of the meal -beyond desire. Taking him back to the car, we were quickly -joined by the conductor and our friend from the coast, who, after -denouncing the "outrage" with frontier fluency, insisted that he -should demand an apology from the offender, who was "plenty old -enough to know better," and whose indignity to Grit, "right before -a lot of strangers, was nothing short of an insult to our entire -party." He "would rather," he continued, "fast a whole month" -than sit by and again witness such conduct from one whose "sex -and insignificance prevented a man from even drawing his gun in -defense of the most helpless and innocent little creature on earth."</p> - -<p>Something in the old man's manner, as he uttered these words, -left little doubt in the minds of the passengers, now returning -from the hurriedly finished meal, that, had Grit's tormentor been -unfortunate enough to belong to the sterner sex, the novel experience -of serving on a coroner's jury in the cowboy country -would doubtless have been afforded us. This tension of feeling -was happily relieved, however, by the appearance of the offender -in person, who, accompanied by her mother, tearfully presented, -not only her humble apology, but that bone of contention, the -tropical product itself, which she insisted should be accepted as a -peace offering.</p> - -<p>As the journey progressed, each day brought to our party -frequent reminders of their constantly increasing attachment, not -only for the little hero, but for each other. And it became more -and more apparent, now that the Rockies had already been left - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 33]</span> - -behind, and our thoughts turned to the inevitable breaking up of -the happy band, that Grit's presence had been the unconscious -means of forming among his companions a strong bond of friendship -and good-fellowship—one that could not be severed without -sincere mutual regrets.</p> - -<p>The morning of the last day found us still speeding over the -seemingly endless cattle plains, where the frequent spectacle of -immense grazing herds, guarded by picturesque bands of frolicking -cowboys, added novelty and interest to the monotony of the scene.</p> - -<p>It was in the early part of the afternoon of that day, while -Grit was enjoying his customary mid-day nap, and the final games -of whist and euchre so completely enlisted our interest as to -render unnoticed the locomotive's shrill notes of warning to trespassing -cattle, that a sudden terrific crash, followed by violent -jolting and swaying of the car, breaking of windows, and pitching -about of passengers and baggage, caused a scene of consternation -and suffering.</p> - -<p>Mingled with shouts of "Collision!" from men, and the screams -of panic-stricken women, came the engineer's piercing signal for -"Down brakes!" and before the car had fairly regained its balance -upon the rails and the occupants had time to extricate themselves -or realize what had happened, the train had come to a standstill.</p> - -<p>More frightened than hurt, people instantly began bolting -frantically for the doors, questioning and shouting to one another -as they went. In the midst of the wild confusion arose cries of -"Save Grit! Look out for the baby!" The words sent a shock -to the heart of every hearer. Fear vanished. Personal peril was -forgotten for the moment. Not a soul left the car! Though -women had fainted and men lay motionless as if paralyzed, but -one thought filled the minds of those who had heard the appeal: -Was Grit safe?</p> - -<p>In a moment the answer to this unasked question fell from the -lips of one whose intense affection for the boy he had so appropriately -named needed no appeal to carry him to his side in -time of peril. "The child is hurt! Somebody go and see if there -is a doctor on the train!" In willing response, several men rushed -out among the excited throng that poured from the other cars.</p> - -<p>Before us, on a pillowed seat, to which he had just borne him - -,<span class="pagenum">[Pg 34]</span> - -lay Grit, half unconscious, pale, limp, and breathing with painful -difficulty. The sudden shock which had almost overturned the -car had rudely thrown him from his bed to the floor. There, between -two unoccupied seats on the opposite side of the car, we -had found him, convulsively gasping for breath, one little hand -still grasping tightly the Indian doll-baby that for days had been -his cherished companion. Though an examination of his body revealed -no marks of violence, he was evidently in great pain. -Applying such restoratives as were at hand, we gradually revived -consciousness. Every attempt, however, to lift him or change his -reclining position visibly increased his suffering.</p> - -<p>Word soon came back that no physician could be found, that -the accident was caused by the train coming into collision with a -band of stray cattle. So far as could be hastily ascertained, one -man had been fatally injured, while many persons had sustained -serious bruises and strains. From the train conductor it was -further learned that neither the locomotive nor any of the cars -had been sufficiently damaged to prevent our proceeding to -Omaha—still some five or six hours distant.</p> - -<p>After a brief stop for the purpose of a careful examination of all -parts of the train, we were again under way; the engineer having -orders, in view of the injured passengers, to make the run in the -fastest time possible.</p> - -<p>The remainder of the journey was, even to the most fortunate, -associated with sadness. But whatever the suffering on that ill-fated -train, memory carries me back to but one sorrowful scene,—the -bedside about which lingered the friends of the little stranger -whom we had learned to love so well. In the presence of his -suffering our own lesser injuries were forgotten, and all efforts -were bent upon securing for the little sufferer every comfort possible -under the adverse circumstances. With a view to lessening -the painful effect of the constant jarring and shaking motion, a -swinging bed was speedily improvised in the middle of the car, -and here, surrounded by his sorrowing companions, lay Grit, -enduring in silence the pains that his pale, sadly troubled face so -keenly expressed.</p> - -<p>Late in the evening the train reached its destination, without -further mishap.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 35]</span></p> - -<p>It had not yet come to a standstill in the station when, accompanied -by the sleeping-car conductor, the father of Grit entered -the car. Early in the day it had been resolved by the passengers -that three of their number should meet the father upon his arrival, -for the purpose of exonerating the conductor from any carelessness, -and also for offering their assistance in caring for the child -during the night. Now, however, reminded of their former happy -anticipation of the meeting between parent and child, a shudder -of sadness caused them irresistibly to shrink from a scene of welcome -more deeply sad, even, than that sorrowful parting which -they had witnessed on entering upon their journey a few days -before.</p> - -<p>As the stranger, deeply agitated, anxiously made his way to -the central group, however, earnest sympathy found ready expression; -and ere his eye had met the object of its search a friendly -voice checked and bade him be calm and hopeful. "Your -child, sir," continued the speaker reassuringly, "has not entirely -recovered from the rough shaking-up we got a little while ago. -He had a lucky escape, but now needs rest and quiet, and—you -and I had perhaps better go for a doctor, while our friends here -convey the boy to the hotel, where we shall join them shortly." -And as the uneasy parent bends over the little bed and with -inquiring look seeks from the calm blue eyes some token of recognition -or sign of hope, the voice, more urgent—as though suddenly -stirred by memories of an eventful past—again breaks in: -"Let us lose no time in making the child more comfortable."</p> - -<p>A few moments later Grit's friends stood around his bed at the -neighboring hotel, listening to the verdict of the physician hastily -summoned by the big-hearted pioneer. Internal injury of an -extent unknown, but whose nature would probably develop before -morning, was the verdict given after a careful examination. Alleviating -measures, however, were suggested, which the distracted -father hastened to put into effect. It was during one of his -absences from the room that the big-hearted pioneer, drawing the -doctor to one side, appealed to him in faltering tones to save the -child "at any sacrifice or any cost."</p> - -<p>But the appeal, though touching, was unnecessary. Higher -considerations than those of personal gain prompted the kind - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 36]</span> - -doctor to exercise his utmost skill. After his first visit not an -hour passed but what his footsteps brought to the watchers reassuring -proof of his deep interest in the case. And finally, yielding -apparently to the soothing remedies, Grit fell into slumber -that brought encouragement to his friends, none of whom could -be induced, however, to forsake his bedside.</p> - -<p>During the vigils of the night the father was repeatedly moved -to speak of the sorrows of his life; of the sudden, fatal illness of -his loving young wife; and of her ardent assurance that her last -thoughts were solely of himself "and baby," coupled with the -fervent wish that the two might "some day find a home in California, -where in their final rest all three might once again be -side by side."</p> - -<p>Towards morning the boy grew suddenly restive, and violent -coughing spells brought back the condition of semi-unconsciousness -of the previous day. The doctor, evidently expecting a -crisis, now remained constantly at his side.</p> - -<p>The change came at last.</p> - -<p>Just after dawn a beam of light broke softly over the little -face, and new hope came to the anxious watchers. But, mistaking -the silent messenger's approach for the herald of returning -health, they had hoped in vain. The peaceful smile lingered but -a moment, then returned once again, as though the beckoning -spirit</p> - -<p class="center"> -"Was loth to quit its hold,"<br /> -</p> - -<p>and Grit had fallen asleep.</p> - -<p>As a token of affection for her child, and in compliance with -the dying mother's wish, the friends of Grit secured for the -husband and father—chiefly through the generosity of one -whose deeds shall outlive the recollection of his name—a permanent -home in California; while the boy sleeps by her side, -where the peaceful silence be so sweetly symbolized is never -broken save by the weird lullaby of the waves that gently rise -and fall over the distant shadows of Lone Mountain.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 37]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak"><a name="Kootchie" id="Kootchie"></a>Kootchie.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="center">BY HAROLD KINSABBY.</p> - -<div class="topspace1"></div> - -<div> - <img class="drop-cap width625" src="images/i_037.png" width="100" height="100" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-cap">THE east wind had failed to put in an appearance -that evening, and the thermometer registered -ninety-five under the stately elms of the -Boston Common.</p> - -<p>The family had gone away for the summer, -and Buttons and the butler were out for an -airing. Both were so well fed and so little exercised that they -needed something to stir their blood.</p> - -<p>Buttons was a sleek, fat pug, with a knowing eye and oily -manner. They called him Buttons because the harness he wore -about his forequarters was studded with shining ornaments.</p> - -<p>His companion was likewise sleek and fat, and the amount of -lofty dignity he stored under his bobtailed jacket and broadcloth -trousers told everybody that he was the butler. He carried a -wicked little cane with a loaded head, and seemed to own the -greater part of the earth.</p> - -<p>As the two strolled proudly through the Beacon Street Mall, -fate favored Buttons and the butler. There was a cat on the -Common,—a pet cat without an escort. This cat belonged to -one of the wealthy families who at the tail end of winter board -up their city residences and go to the country to spend the summer -and save their taxes. The owners of this particular cat had -speeded missionaries to the four corners of the globe to evangelize -the heathen, but their pet puss they had turned into the streets -of the modern Athens to seek its own salvation. With no home -or visible means of support, but with true Christian fortitude, the -dumb creature now haunted the doorstep of the deserted mansion -and grew thin. Hunger had at last driven her to the Common in -the hope that she might surprise an erring sparrow, or, perchance, -purloin a forgetful frog from the pond.</p> - -<p>The instant Buttons spied her he gave chase and drove her for - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 38]</span> - -refuge into a small tree. Then he stood below and barked furiously, -until the sympathizing butler shook the tree and gave him -another chance. This time the cat barely succeeded in reaching -a low perch on the iron fence, from which with terrified gaze she -watched her tormentor.</p> - -<p>"Why do you torture that cat?" angrily asked a quiet gentleman -who sat on one of the shady benches holding a yellow-haired -little girl on his knee.</p> - -<p>"Oh, me and Buttons is having a little fun," answered the butler. -"Buttons is death on cats."</p> - -<p>The quiet man said nothing, but got up, helped the frightened -cat to escape to a safe hiding-place, and then resumed his seat.</p> - -<p>That night puss went to bed without a supper, while her owner -presided at the one hundred and eleventh seaside anniversary of -the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and punctuated -the courses of a fish dinner with rare vintages of missionary -port.</p> - -<p>The next evening the same heat hung heavily over the Beacon -Street Mall, and Buttons and the butler were again taking an -airing and looking for fun.</p> - -<p>As Buttons neared the scene of his former encounter, he pricked -up his ears, and sniffed the air for the scent of game. Presently -his anxious eye was attracted by something his pug nose had -failed to detect. On a bench near by sat the quiet gentleman -whose acquaintance Buttons and the butler had made on the previous -evening. The same yellow-haired little girl was seated near -him, intently watching the rings of cigar smoke he puffed high -into the evening air. Between the two a huge inflated paper bag -was surging to and fro. It was this paper bag that had caught -the eye of Buttons. It interested him. Drawing himself all up -in a heap, he proceeded with cautious, measured step to satisfy his -curiosity. As he slowly approached the curious object, his low, -fretful growls seemed to rouse it to renewed gymnastics. This -frightened Buttons and caused him to turn tail and flee. His -curiosity had, however, got the better of him, and, returning to -what he deemed a safe distance, he began barking furiously.</p> - -<p>"Cat, Buttons, where's the cat?" came from the butler, who -was leisurely bringing up in the rear, unconscious of Buttons's find.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 39]</span></p> - -<p>With renewed courage, the pug rushed towards the paper bag. -He had almost reached it when the quiet gentleman gave the bag -an opening twist, and, as a furry head with a pair of fiery eyes -shot out, he exclaimed:</p> - -<p>"Hi, hi, Kootchie!"</p> - -<p>The earnestness with which Kootchie hi, hied became instantly -apparent by the piteous howls that rose from out of the murderous -clawing, snarling mass of flying fur and silver ornaments. -And the speed with which Buttons's companion hastened to the -rescue with his loaded cane proved that even a Boston butler can -get a move on. Before he could interfere, however, the quiet -gentleman took a hand in the game.</p> - -<p>"Stand back," he demanded, in tones that showed he would -brook no interference. "Buttons is death on cats. Kootchie is -death on pugs. You like fun. I like fair play."</p> - -<p>In less than twenty seconds a crowd of loungers, newsboys, -nurse-girls, and pedestrians hurried to the scene. In the confusion -somebody thoughtfully told a policeman to ring for the -"hurry-up" wagon. But before it arrived the butler was permitted -to carry home in his arms what there was left of Buttons.</p> - -<p>"Cheese it, der cop!" shouted a newsboy, as the butler picked -up his limp and disfigured companion. And, as the crowd scattered, -every one was amused to see a fine, gray, stumpy-tailed cat -make its way to the yellow-haired little maid on the bench.</p> - -<p>As the latter lovingly stroked her shining coat she remarked -proudly, "Kootchie is my little pussy tat. Papa say,'Kootchie, -put Buttons to sleep.'"</p> - -<p>And the policeman winked with ghoulish satisfaction when the -father spoke up, "Kootchie is a regular California cyclone. She -is a young wild cat a friend in Tiger Valley sent me. I'm fond -of pets, you know, and as she felt a bit homesick this evening I -brought her out here to give her a picnic."</p> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img class="chapend15" src="images/i_039.png" alt="" width="300" height="85" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 40]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak"><a name="Frazers_Find" id="Frazers_Find"></a>Frazer's Find</h2> -</div> - -<p class="center">BY ROBERTA LITTLEHALE.</p> - -<div class="topspace1"></div> - -<div> - <img class="drop-cap width625" src="images/i_040.png" width="100" height="100" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-cap">THE midnight stars glowed through the broken -blackness of a winter's sky down upon the -roof of a house where a man sat alone with -his arms stretched over an empty bed. Such -of his thoughts as were within his control were -focused on the life and the death of his past. -The bare branches of the willows scraped to -and fro on the shingles, and the water in the reservoir lapped -softly against the piles of the foundation. There was no light in -the room to show the already hopeless untidiness of inanimate -things, and the quiet figure of the aging man seemed carved out -of rock.</p> - -<p>To the youth of him, physical and mental, he returned, and -remembered that he had been modeled on lines which made people -expect the things for which they willingly yielded him affection -and consideration in advance. It was in the tempered pain of the -hope of fulfilment that his family and friends had speeded him -from New England to the practise of his profession of law in a -Southern city. It was in their early triumph at having counted -on him truly that the fever of the California gold days got into -his veins. It had been no struggle to him to throw everything -over and make for the life that beat fastest and fullest in incident. -The struggle had lain in separation from a woman whose saneness -and spirit he felt he could not live without. But in the end he -had disregarded her opposition for the sake of the beckoning -fortunes and joined an ox-train caravan over the plains. The -dragging slowness with which the days went by had been broken -only by the alertness of his own fancy, until the discovery, one -blistering Arizona night, of the loss of his money-belt. He had -bathed only five miles farther back, and he had no memory of -having restrapped the hot and heavy buckskin about his waist. - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 41]</span> - -Ignoring the danger of Indian attack, he rode over again in the -starlight the miles to the little creek in the wilderness. It had -been so much of a relief to find it safe. He stood strapping it -about him, and he could hear as distinctly now as then the sound -that fell on his ears. It was the hot and hopeless sobbing of a -human voice. He had stood immovable, conscious that a group -of cacti on his right sheltered a prostrate body. Then he had -hurried over and found a slender boy, a slight, nervous, black-eyed -Mexican, with a sunburned fairness of skin revealing his mixture -of Castilian blood.</p> - -<p>He had raised the boy quietly, and the child had hung about -his neck, frenzied and fainting. The weakness of his condition -made anything impossible beyond literally riding with him in his -arms back again to camp. The boy's clothes were torn and dirty -and his flesh was bleeding, but his delicate Southern beauty was -none the less strongly in evidence.</p> - -<p>Frazer remembered the interest and assistance of his comrades. -They had hovered in the silence of men's earnestness until the -boy was able to make himself coherent. His father, and mother, -and brothers had been seized by the Indians, and only the accident -of his having been sent after a straying mare had saved his life, by -enabling him to hide himself successfully from the raiders.</p> - -<p>His extravagant affection for Frazer made a shadow the only -simile of his constant presence with him. The boy's nervous -timidity and gentleness had found its chief outlet in the watchfullest -care of him and the things he cared for. He had seemed -wholly lacking in the lore of his class regarding life in the open. -He had never gone among the horses or cared to use a gun, but -had taken upon himself the cooking and domestic duties of camp -life.</p> - -<p>The men, in their vigorous courage and spirit, had found the -boy monotonous except in the satisfaction he picturesquely afforded, -and Frazer had accepted his homage with a mind so absorbed -in his own affairs as to be little short of indifferent to the -lad's presence.</p> - -<p>As they had traveled heavily on over the Texas plains and -slept under the Texas stars, Frazer could remember the softness -of the small hand that had wakened him from sleep in its searching - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 42]</span> - -for the comfort of his presence. And one night the child -had crept close to him.</p> - -<p>"Señor——"</p> - -<p>Frazer had wanted to sleep; he had answered nothing.</p> - -<p>"Señor!" The boy's hand lingered this time in an earnest -pressure upon his own.</p> - -<p>"Yes?" he had said.</p> - -<p>"It is only—may I stay always with you?"</p> - -<p>It had seemed a simple thing to promise to keep him with -him, and Frazer had gone to sleep in the very midst of the passionate -little torrent of Mexican gratitude.</p> - -<p>In the excitement of his early months in California the boy -had seemed vastly a nuisance in transportation. Frazer had -stayed only long enough in San Francisco to acquire an outfit and -vocabulary, and hurried off to the southern mines. The boy rode -closely by his side, indifferent to fatigue, his cheerfulness clouded -by the fear that he might be overlooked and left behind.</p> - -<p>Those months of feverish toil, and exaltation, and depression! -As they lengthened into years, with the pot of gold still at the inaccessible -end of the rainbow, and the blunt unloveliness of the -frontier life rusting the vigor of his finer fiber, Frazer remembered -his sense of restless resentment because the woman whom -he loved and had left would not make any acknowledgment of -his mistake or his failure. The impersonal tone of her early -letters had been easier to bear than the silence she was beginning -to make him endure. It seemed to him the tensity of his resolve -to wrest the success of yellow gold through the clustering difficulties -had only taken its firmest hold of him before the illness -came that had hastened a revelation perhaps unfortunately delayed.</p> - -<p>He remembered through the first hours before unconsciousness -had come to him how glad he had been to feel that the boy was -with him. They were living in the roughest of cliff cabins, alone, -and he had ordered him off to camp for a doctor. The boy had -given him whisky, and then had stood in so irresolute a fright -and suffering that Frazer had sworn him into action.</p> - -<p>He knew now that he had lain four weeks near death; but -when he opened his eyes upon that mellow October twilight, long -ago, he was unconscious of anything but a pair of dimming Mexican - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 43]</span> - -eyes that dropped tears on his gaunt face, and an intense -feminine sobbing mingled with expressions of love for him shaken -out of the abyss of a suffering woman's heart. The hot cheeks -that rested on his own were those he was used to in the boy. -The clothes on her limbs in all their pitiful poverty were the -masculine ones he had liked to see so picturesquely carried, but -the strain in the voice and the music of its words were new, and -amazing, and appalling.</p> - -<p>In the silence of weakness he listened, and over and over again -he heard the reiteration of her resolve.</p> - -<p>"There is nothing, beloved, that can drive me from you but the -death from your hand which will not kill."</p> - -<p>And after awhile he had said to her:</p> - -<p>"Little one, why did you do it?"</p> - -<p>But he had known it was the wisdom of the wisest before she -had answered him, that for a girl this life offered greater perils as -well as fewer chances.</p> - -<p>She did not light their candle, but remained on her knees by the -bed, getting his medicine at intervals by the lingering light that -came in from the window.</p> - -<p>"It will be just the same," she had whispered; "it need make -no difference, señor."</p> - -<p>And Frazer had lain there, facing the fact of the very great -difference, in a regret that could fancy no arrangement not death-doing -to this woman who had nursed him, and had loved him, and -had told him so.</p> - -<p>"The woman at the hotel—the landlady," he had said to her -in his weak, thin voice, "she would care for you if I paid her, or -you might go East. You might go to school."</p> - -<p>But the helpless poverty of his present condition had forced a -wan smile on his dry lips, and the girl was writhing as with actual -physical pain and would not listen.</p> - -<p>In his weakened condition he could not concentrate himself -sufficiently to adopt any decisive measure. He had felt the -tumult of her emotions gradually still itself as he laid his hand on -her short, black hair, and when her breathing was even and quiet -he had asked her, feeling a revolt within him, "The doctor, and -the boys—have they guessed it?"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 44]</span></p> - -<p>But how had he expected her to know anything of any man -but the one she loved? She did not know, she had answered -him; she had not thought to think of it.</p> - -<p>And she had not slept through the long night hours, nor had -he, and in the morning the fever was high again.</p> - -<p>In the dragging feebleness of his convalescence both had -avoided any reference to the revelation that night. Things went -on as before, but the humble devotion and care of Frazer's Mexican -protégée was as properly interpreted by the quick camp instinct -as it was immediately acquiesced in and forgotten.</p> - -<p>From this time Frazer had little communication with the civilization -he had deserted, and none whatever with the woman who -waited in the South in silence and the suffering of doubt. He -remembered the utter emptiness of his life and his hope as the -following years of his toil and alertness yielded him only bitterer -disappointments. There came children now, little dark miniatures -of their stout, faded mother, whose heart was as full of reverence -and love for him as was her girl's heart, and who seemed not to -know that the hours which he lived with her were lost hours.</p> - -<p>It was on his way home to her one night, in the gentleness -which masked his hideous unrest, that his eye discovered the -ledge of quartz which had more than laid the foundation of that -success he had early strived for. It had not taken long to form -a company, and before the year was out gold came to his pocket -in as unsweated for a fashion as the air to his lungs.</p> - -<p>The men, his partners, had thrown back their shoulders and -inflated their chests. The blood ran in their veins to more composite -measure, and they planned diversion and further manipulation -after their different natures. Three of them were for the -East and the world again—and, O God! but the frenzy in his -own brain. They had come to him seriously as man to man and -explained their sense of his absolute insanity in throwing up the -entire future of his career by life in this place, tied down in his -fashion. Other men,—they themselves,—were under obligation, -but not so deeply that money would not bridge it and—damn it!—friends -and family must have some consideration in successful -men's lives.</p> - -<p>That night had been another so strongly accented that its impression - -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 45]</span> - -would, never fade. He had sat at the oilclothed table, -in the little cabin, and tried to sufficiently detach himself from -the children and himself to get an unbiased view-point. He -could see only the light of her love in her eyes, the child-love in -theirs, and, through their gentle subjection, their genuine faith in -and dependence on him. The shabbiness of his environment she -did not permit to become slovenly, but the common vulgarity of -it all surged through his eyes like light. He had sent the children -from him and gone out into the pines, until the vast, sweet -silence of their majesty laid more on him than he could bear.</p> - -<p>As he came in the door she had handed him a letter left by a -miner on his way from camp. She had lighted two candles, and -pulled up his chair, and hushed the talking of the children in -their bed. She had sat near and searched his face for what the -actual possession of the letter could not have given her, and felt -only misunderstanding because she had never seen a struggle between -the spirit's life and death.</p> - -<p>Frazer had read, "Whatever the mistake, we can yet outlive -the pain of it. I am waiting for you." She had signed the name -he had made for her, and he could not look at it twice for the -blinding tears under his lids.</p> - -<p>Geraldine was waiting for him!</p> - -<p>Geraldine's mouth, which drooped at the corners and created -the dimples she hated, when it fell a-smiling, was ready to yield -to him!</p> - -<p>Geraldine's face, and beauty, and spirit were true to him!</p> - -<p>He could not tell how long it was before he got possession of -himself. The candles were dripping low in their tin sockets, and -one of the women who loved him was still in her chair near his -elbow, frightened, and quiet, and intense.</p> - -<p>He had held out a hand to her and she had come over and knelt -at his side.</p> - -<p>"Little one," he had said, "this life is not right for our children. -To-morrow we must get the priest and be married. 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All for Five Cents.<br /><br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad2 large"> -<p>These stories are all complete, all interesting from beginning to end, and -all "fascinating tales, cleverly told." They are neither translations, borrowings, -nor stealings, and represent the best money's worth ever offered -by any magazine at any price.</p><br /> -</div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad2 large"> -<span class="large"><b>In Solomon's Caverns. </b></span> -By <span class="smcap">Charles Edward Barns.</span><br /> -<div class="adindent2"> -<p>The astounding experience of a man lost for many days in the ancient cave -under the city of Jerusalem.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad2 large"> -<span class="large"><b>An Angel of Tenderfoot Hill. </b></span> -By <span class="smcap">Frederick Bradford.</span><br /> -<div class="adindent2"> -<p>Being interesting chapters in the career of Mr. James Hewson, of Blackhawk.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad2 large"> -<span class="xlarge"><b>In Miggles' Alley. </b></span> -By <span class="smcap">Herman Brownson.</span> -<div class="adindent2"> -<p>A dramatic episode of a tenement housetop.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad2 large"> -<span class="xlarge"><b>The Missing Link. </b></span> -By <span class="smcap">James Buckham.</span> -<div class="adindent2"> -<p>A series of startling events connected with a mysterious donation of twenty-five -thousand dollars.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad2 large"> -<span class="xlarge"><b>Unchallenged. </b></span> -By <span class="smcap">Katharine Morrow.</span> -<div class="adindent2"> -<p>The amusing account of a real midnight ride by which two California girls won -a wager of a twelve-mule threshing machine.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad2 large"> -<span class="xlarge"><b>Aidu. </b></span> -By <span class="smcap">Hero Despard.</span> -<div class="adindent2"> -<p>A beautiful Hindoo waif adopted into the family of a medical missionary in -India is the heroine of this mystical love story.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad2 large"> -<span class="xlarge"><b>Mrs. Emory's Boarder. </b></span> -By <span class="smcap">C. Marie Mott.</span> -<div class="adindent2"> -<p>The affecting romance of a maiden dressmaker.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad2 large"> -<span class="smcap">The Black Cat</span> is sold by newsdealers at five cents a copy. If yours hasn't -it and won't get it for you, get another newsdealer. 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It cures -cases that have been given up as hopeless. It cures -pleasantly. It cures positively. It cures permanently.</span><br /><br /> -</div> - -<div class="center large"> -<i>It cures from head to foot.</i><br /><br /> -</div> - -<div class="adcontainer-9"> -<div class="blockquote-ad10"> -Puritana is the prize formula of -Prof. Dixi Crosby, M.D., LL.D., for -over 30 years at the head of Dartmouth -Medical College. -</div> -</div> - -<div class="topspace1"></div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad18"> -<span class="large">If you are a sufferer, get of your druggist this -great disease-conquering discovery (the price is $1 for the complete -treatment, consisting of one bottle of Puritana Compound, one bottle of -Puritana Pills, and one bottle of Puritana Tablets), or write to the -undersigned, and you will bless the day when you heard of Puritana. The -Puritana Compound Co., Concord, N. H.</span> -</div> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> - -<div class="center"> -<span class="large">The Story of</span><br /> -<span class="xxlarge">Puritana.</span><br /> -</div> - -<div class="topspace1"></div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad18 large"> -Prof. Dixi Crosby, M. D., LL. D., who for thirty-two years was at -the head of Dartmouth Medical College, belonged to the famous Crosby -family of physicians, which for several generations has furnished more -distinguished medical men than any other family in America. His father -was Dr. Asa Crosby, of Dartmouth, who procured the charter of the State -medical society, of which he was for thirty years a conspicuous member; -one brother, Dr. Josiah Crosby, invented the invalid bed and the method -of making extensions of fractured limbs by adhesive strips; another -brother, Dr. Thos. R. Crosby, was chief surgeon in Columbian College -Hospital during the war, and later professor of animal and vegetable -physiology at Dartmouth College; while Dr. Dixi Crosby himself was -the inventor and discoverer of various important improvements in -medicine and surgery, including a new and unique mode of reducing -metacarpophalangeal dislocation, opening of abscess at hip-joint, etc., -etc. - -At the early age of twenty-four his extraordinary skill and success in -overcoming disease had already attracted the attention of medical men -throughout the world, and won for him the highest honors. His greatest -achievement was the discovery of an original method for perfecting -and compounding in permanent form what has become known as his "prize -formula," and which, under the name of Puritana, is legally protected. - -The foundation of this remarkable medical discovery consists of simple -New England roots and herbs, and the original family recipe for it has -descended to the long line of Crosby physicians from their Puritan -ancestors. Its peculiar vegetable composition rendered it necessary to -brew it whenever needed in the early days of its history, and after -the scattering of the Puritan families to remote localities, where the -necessary ingredients were not to be found, many attempts were made to -put it up in permanent form, all of which failed until Dr. Dixi Crosby -discovered means and methods, the result of which is: Nature's Cure -compounded in the laboratory of Common Sense. -<div class="topspace1"></div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/i_057.png" alt="Advertisements." width="600" height="904" /> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> - -<div class="adcontainer-100"> -<div class="topspace1"></div> -<div class="xxlarge center"> -<b>Hair Cloth Crinoline,</b> -</div> - -<div class="large blockquote-ad3"> - -<p class="drop-capc">NOTWITHSTANDING -the great number of imitations and substitutes advertised to be twice -as wide and twice as cheap, has a hold upon the fashionable dressmakers -and fashionable women that cannot be shaken. It was only a matter -of time for the old adage, "<em>The best is the cheapest</em>," to be -proven, and now the demand for the genuine Hair Cloth Crinoline, of -which every strand of the weft is <em>pure hair</em>, promises to exceed -the output. Experience has also taught the best manner of using it, and -the fault of shrinking or cockling, which by the unthinking ones has -sometimes been attributed to hair cloth, without for a moment looking -for the real cause, <em>that of putting two fabrics of different nature -together, either of which may shrink a little</em>, has been overcome -by scientific methods of interlining. Shrinking, ironing, and binding -hair cloth before putting into a dress has also produced satisfactory -results, more than compensating for the little extra trouble in so -doing. To make certain of the genuine hair cloth take out a few strands -of the weft, pull them, and if found to be elastic it is hair cloth, -otherwise imitation.</p> - -<p>It is quite easily understood why hair cloth is so elastic and -resilient if one will only stop to think that, no matter how many ways -human hair is combed, whether twisted, curled, braided, crimped or -frizzled, wet or oiled, it will resume its natural position, and, so, -too, will Hair Cloth Crinoline, having a weft of <em>pure hair</em>, -resume its normal condition.</p> - -<p>Such <span class="smcap">Hair Cloth Crinoline</span> as above -referred to is made by the American Hair Cloth Company, of Pawtucket, -R. I., the largest hair cloth manufacturers in the world, whose goods -are recognized as the leaders throughout the country, and are superior -to any foreign or domestic make. They manufacture several grades, -suitable for skirts and sleeves, for both day and evening dresses; -<b>10/4</b>, <b>14/4</b>, <b>10/5</b>, <b>200/4</b>, <b>98/3</b>, -usually sold for Skirts; <b>84/3</b>, <b>146/3</b>, <b>170/3</b>, -<b>200/4</b> for Sleeves.</p> - -<div class="center"> -<span class="large">American Hair Cloth Company.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Pawtucket, R.I.</span><br /> -<hr class="r15" /> -<span class="smcap large">Charles E. Pervear</span>, Agent. -<div class="topspace1"></div> -</div> -</div> </div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</span></p> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/i_058.png" alt="Advertisement." width="600" height="948" /> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> - -<div class="adcontainer-100"> -<div class="topspace1"></div> -<div class="center"> -"GOLD MEDAL AND DIPLOMA, CONSTITUTING HIGHEST AWARD, -MUNICH INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION, 1895.<br /> -AN UNPARALLELED VICTORY IN THE VERY HOME OF BREWING."<br /><br /> - -<span class="large">THE HISTORY OF BREWING BEGINS WITH EGYPT</span><br /><br /> - -<div class="center xxlarge"> -PABST<br /> -MILWAUKEE<br /> -</div> - -<span class="large">SUPREME AWARD<br /> -WORLD'S FAIR</span><br /><br /> - -<span class="xlarge">Life's</span><br /> -<span class="xlarge">...Struggle</span><br /><br /> -</div> - -<div class="blockquote-ad2 large"> -Becomes more and more intense as the Nineteenth Century advances. -Mentally and physically we must conserve our energies, build up our -strength, and equip ourselves for the contest. We must have sleep, good -digestion, steady nerves, bone and muscle, clear minds. These can be -secured, maintained and enhanced by the use of<br /><br /> -</div> - -<div class="center"> -<span class="xxlarge"><b>Pabst...</b></span><br /><br /> -<span class="large">MALT EXTRACT<br /> -The "Best" Tonic</span><br /> -</div> - -<p class="center large"> -MILWAUKEE BEER IS FAMOUS<br /> -PABST HAS MADE IT SO.<br /> -</p> -<div class="topspace1"></div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</span></p> -</div> - -<div class="center"> - <img src="images/i_059.png" width="600" height="972" alt="Advertisement." /> -</div> - -<div class="topspace2"></div> - -<div class="adcontainer-100"> -<div class="topspace1"></div> -<div class="blockquote-ad3 xlarge"> -<p class="center">Copyright, 1895 by The Shortstory Publishing Co.<br /><br /></p> -<p class="center">The climax of the story-telling art.—Boston Herald.</p> -<hr class="r15" /> -<p class="center">Entirely original, interesting, thrilling,—nothing borrowed and -nothing stolen.—Chicago Times-Herald.</p> -<hr class="r15" /> -<p class="center">A new departure in story telling. 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