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VOL. IV. NO. 37. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1907. Sl.OOPer Year A Tale. of the.. A n? I o- Indian ice YOUNG MISTLEY fly... ...... . Mem-v Ai&li Merrimaru CHAPTER V. 4 Continued. "Well, then," he urged, "wait; *nd watch him. We nifty even get to know him. They are dlffer from us, these Englishmen, for they can throw aside their work en tirely for a time, and take It up again where tney dropped it when the mo ment comes. He will probably be deing nothing now for some time, snd then who knows what his next mission may be? They are a uni versal people, these, and try many tainge; they have no discrimination lu their Judgment of men. Do they not make statesmen of their generals, snd naval lords of their men of let ters? Mistley may go Into Parlia ment, and do nothing moro in the world." "If he went to Parliament," said the girl, forebodingly, "he would be more dangerous still." "Well," urged the young man, with pleading eyes; "but at all events give him a week or a fortnight." "Then I must leave this forsaken place and live In London," said the girl, with determination. "Yes; 1 wUl take lodgings in Bed ford Place, and you will Join me there. You will be my sister again, Marie." "Yes, Ivan," she said, with a little weary ring In her voice, as she laid her hand on his; "I will be your sis ter again." He raised the cool, lifeless Angers to his lips, and left her alone In the larkened room. ? 1 CHAPTER VI. An Amateur Villain. To Colonel Wright this home-com 'ng was full of delight and sweet an ticipation. His life had been broken up by many wanderings, many cam >algns, and many separations. All that was now to be left behind, and before him lay a prospoct of active leisure, a life of intellectual ease, of pleasure r-?d loving companionship. He had passed so many years in the Cast that he brought home with him an Anglo-Indian freshness and ener iy tor home pleasure. He was young enough to be still of an active mind, ind leisure with him by no means meant lldeness. 'That first breakfast was an event to * be remembered. So clean, so bright, so home-like was everything. I Surely there npver was a cloth so white, no silver ever shone so bril liantly as those forks and spoons. And never had hapfly father so fair, so dainty, so sweet a daughter to pour out his cofTee, with Just a little movement of shyness In the curve of her rounded arm. ''Then they are coming this even ing?" remarked Lena, when they were seated, looking across the table toward her father without ceasing her occupation of filling a coffee-pot, which maneuver successfully directed the nourishing beverage into the saucer. Mrs. Wright noted this result, and Immediately gazed Intently at the celling with a marvelous expression In her faco, which distinctly gave one to understand that she saw the coffee in the saucer, knew how it came there, and from the entire pro ceeding deduced that it Is always well to look before one pours. "Yep," replied the colonel. "They are coming this evening, the aallor being Included." "Mother," said Lena, presently, have you told papa about *he invi tation to Broomhaugh?" "Yes; and he is quite ready to go." "Oh, I am so glad! Papa, It will be simply lovely. Charlie has told me all about It. It is a melancholy old house, built by some remote Mist leys, who was a cattlo-llfter, or a Borderer, or something romantic. The Mlstleys have lived there ever since ? In the Intervals between their wandering*. Great, bare hills all round, and a little colony of pine trees round the house, which Is bleak and gray, like an old fortress. Below tho house, at the foot of a sort of cliff, there Is a trout-stream, where you can fish all day; Charlie knows every Inch of the stream, and talks vory wisely about flies, 'March Browns,' 'professors,' and all sorts of Imposing nnmcB. Then we nro going to get up some theatricals; we have arranged It all, and chosen the piece. Charlie Rays that his brother acts splendidly." "Oh, yes! He can do that," re plied the colonel, saplently wagging his head. "Ho is alwsys acting. In fact, It In very hard to say when he Is and when ho Is not. I have watched him listening to a long story, which ho knew to be a fabrication from beginning to end, and the child-like Innocence of his expression was a per fect study, lie Is the very man for theatricals; ho was always stage managing something or othor out In India." "Perhaps ho will bo too good for us," suggested Lena; "but It would b? vory nice to have a really good color for the principal part, because the whole piece depends upon It." "Charlie?" suggested the colonel, with the ghost of a twinkle In his eye a s he looked at his wife. "Charlie won't take It," replle<V Lena, with perfect Innocence. ''He Insists upon having a. minor part, as he Is to be stage- manager." "What part do you act?" asked Mrs. Wright. "Well, we have not quite decided yet. Charlie wants me to be the heroine, and a Miss Sandford, who lives close to Broomhaugb, to take the part of a sprightly widow. Now I think I would do for a sprightly widow much better than for a de voted heroine; but Mrs. Mistley says no. Let rat see ? if I were the widow, WInyard I .istley would be my son ? ? ft source of endless woe to hts re lations. If I w?r? the heroine ? Oh! he would have to make love to me!" "Ah! he would do that," said Col onel Wright, with conviction. "He would do that well!" "I think I would rather be his mother," Bald Lena. "Nonsense!" exclaimed Mrs. Wright, Incredulously. "I once saw him making love," be gan the colonel in a tono somewhat suggestivo of a long story. "Indeed!" said Lena, indifferently, and she extended her hand toward tho morning paper. "Yes," oontinued tho colonel. "It was one of the funniest sights I have ever seen, and yet Mistley was as grave as a Judge. She was a Rus sian; her complexion was of a dull yellow; she appeared to bo ignorant of the primary use of water, and she smoked very bad elgars. Added to that, she was somewhat older than his mother!" "Why did ho do It?" asked Lena,* smiling. She was moro interested now in tho little story, aud had laid asldo her newspaper. "He wanted soma Information which he knew her to possess." "Are you sure you did not make love to her, too?" asked Mrs. Wright, with a smile, which tho old soldier fully appreciated. "I tried," was the candid reply, "but could not get on at all. The best of It was that she half suspected what he was about; but she was so anxious to get some Information out of him, that she encouraged his love making. In fact, It was a gamo of cross-purposes." "And who won?" asked Lena. "Oh, he did," replied the colonel; and he returned to his toast as If there could only have been one an swer to that question. Presently, after some moments spent in deep thought, Lena looked up with a twinkle of merriment hov ering In her eyes. "I think, papa," she said, "that he will do very well for the part we wish him to take. Your description of him sounds dark and mysterious, and that is what wo want." "Excuse me, little one. I never said ho was dark and mysterious. As It happens, he Is rather fair and the very reverse of mysterious, for he Is open and almost boyish; though, indeed, his manner changes so much and so suddenly that It is nearly Im possible to say when he is in earnest or In fun. Generally the lattor, I think." "Because," continued the girl, "It is a villain's part ? a very nice villain, though!" "The part he takes In life Is that of the light comedian, I think," said the colonel, thoughtfully stirring his coffee. "He usually plays the light comedian to my heavy schemer, If I may put It thus; but then It Is only because he has founcl It convenient to do so. People consider him a frivolous, light-hearted boy, and he is content that they should do so; but I know him to bo dlfTorent. The fellow is a born organizer, foreseeing everything, ready for every emergen cy, which he meets v/lth that Imper turbable smile of his, as if ho were enjoying himself immensely." "I am rather afraid of this para gon," said Mrs. Wright, rising from the table. "My dear," replied the colonel, who was occupied In selecting a cig arette from a very polished leather case, "If It were not for this parngon, I should very probably not be sitting hero now. You must not let my praises prejudice you against him, as praise Is very apt to do. WInyard Mistley Is a clever fellow, and what Is better still, he Is sincere. Ilo docs his work well, and ho does It because he lovos It. It is such men as he who get on In the world ? provided they do not marry." "Why should tho poor man not ?arry, papa?" asked Lena, who was busy with somo flowers at a side table. "Simply because marriage would completely spoil his career. You see, a man cannot go roaming about in disguise In the heart of Contral Asia, when he has a yo;;nf wife fretting her If f o away at hom9." Leua looked around, and then turned actio to her flowers, which ehe continued to arrange thoughtful ly (or some moments. "I know," said Lens, partly to her self snd partly to her mother, whea the colonel hsd left the room? "I know I ehsll be disappointed In him*" Mrs. Wright said nothing. Bhl wu standing near the window with the newspaper In her hand; but she was looking over It into the sunlit street. , Bhe was thinking of the livei of two women who had married sol diers ? tires that had not been quite a success ? lives made up of weary waiting and anxious watching; and running through these thoughts was s vague desire that this visit to Broomhaugh might yet be avoided* CHAPTER vii. Wlnyard Arrives* It happened that Wlnyard Mistle? heard Lena sing before he spoke with her; and In after years that first im pression remained uppermost In his mind. He never afterward doubted the presence of a deep, true woman's heart beneath the gay and almost frivolous manner she chose to assume before the world. Perhaps he was Judging In some degree from himself. He knew that the gay and some what shallow youth, .known to the generality as Winyard Mist ley, was not the true Inner thinking man, who ambition was fortunately tem pered with a whole-hearted sense of patriotism rarely met with In these self-seeking times. When Winyard arrived at the door of Colonel Wright's house in Seymour street) the postman was Just turning away from It, having dropped a 'let ter into the box and given his recog nized rap. Thus Jarvls, the old sol dier-servant, saw the shadow of a visitor upon the ground glass of the door when he came for the letters, and did not wait for a second knock. The old warrior knew who this bro ?>.< ..e ? ?t ranger was at once, and stepped back, holding the door wide open. Lena was singing In a small room immediately opposite the entrance, and the door of this room was wide open. The old soldier's movements were quick and noiseless, as s sol dier's movements should be; but Wlnyard was quicker, and, with A touch of his hand, he stopped Jarvls from going forward to announce him. "Wait a moment!" he whispered. Lena sung on unconsciously. She had heard the postman's knock, snd recognised It, but was not expecting any particular letter, and therefore did not Interrupt her song. The two men stood outside the door and listened in silence ? the old soldier ? whose fighting days were done, and the young man, whose time was yet to corns. One ? s sturdy, powerful figure, very straight, with a peculiarly flat back and square, honest face; the other some* what taller, of lighter build, lean and wiry, active an a cat. They could Just see Lena's shoulder, and the play of her white hand and wrist. Occasionally, as she swayed a little to one side with the rhythm of her musio, they caught sight of her dainty head, with the soft, dry hair drawn well up and clustering down again. When the last note of the accom paniment had died away, Lena swung rathor suddenly round upon the mu sic-stool, and found herself face to face with Winyard. He was standing with his overcoat still upon his arm, and at first Lena thought that It was Charles Mtstley. Ho quick was her movement that she caught Wlnyard looking grave ? a luxury ho rarely in dulged in. Instantly Loni rose, and although she blushed, sho smiled with perfect self-possession "Mr. Mlstley/' she said, extending her bund, "I rever heard you come In." Then they shook hands, and Jar vls vanlshod with Winyard's coat. "I am afraid," said Mlstley, look ing a triflo guilty, "that I have been standing outside since the end of the first verse." Lena gave a little laugh, which was not quite free from embarrass ment. "That was rather mean," she said. "I am afraid it was impertinent," said Wlnyard, quickly, "now that I come to think of It; but at the mo ment I hardly thought of what I was dolng.^ You see, I come in with the letters* and then, as soon as I steppod Inside the door, I heard ? you sing ing. I am afraid I prevented the man from Interrupting you. You must make some allowance for a wanderor whose manners havo suffered, Miss Wright. You see, I have not heard anything llko that, for three years, and I could not resJst hearing It all. Do you think I should have said Ahem!' or banged my umbrella into the stand, ko as to lot you know that somo one was listening?" "No doubt," replied I^ena, "that would ha% ; been the proper courso to pursue; but It does not mattor murh, I suppose. If you like to listen to people practicing, thore Is no ac tual harm In It. Lot us go upstairs to the drawing-room. Our respective mothers are there. Papa Is dressing, and Charllo has not come yet." Lona stopped rather abruptly, and led the way upstairs. It suddenly struck her that Charlie, whose name camo so naturally from her lips was this man's brother, and that her easy manner of speaking of him must sound objectionably familiar. Wlnyard gavo her no time to thlok of It, however. fie saw tho passing embarrassment, and came to her re lief at once. (To be couttuued.) 4 HORRIBLE DEATHS m ? ? ? The Victims Literally Cooked Alive. 30 OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED. Bj the Upsetting of a Metal ht in A Pennsylvania Steel Plant Four Art Killed Outright and Thirty Will Die. \ Butler, Pa., Special. ? An explosien caused by the upsetting of the metal pot in the No. 1 cupola ol' the Stand* aid Steel Company here late Satur day caused the death of four men, fa tally injuring 20, and seriously injur ing 10 others. Nearly all of the men were foreigners. The large wheel plant, 150 by 100 feet, was demolished, causing a lost estimated at $100,000. The dead are: Nick Dorna, Nicholas Blotar. John Vereck, Unknown man. The condition of the 30 men injur ed is pitiable. Although still alive the features of a majority are mutilat ed beyound recognition. The hoi metal was showered over them, caus ing horrible injuries. Arms, fingers and ears were town, while a number of men had their eyes burned out. Several men are in the hospital with iheir legs burned to a crisp. At mid night the physicians attending the injured said that at least 20 of the men would die. The explosion was caused by the up setting of a metal pot in the cupola, which contained 5,000 pounds of mol ten metal ready for casting. A span iu the pot broke, slowing the liquid iron to spill over the wet sand. An explosion followed so quickly thai none of the workmen in the building had a chance to escape. Streams of the burning metal "poured out on the workmen who were literally cooked. Twenty men near the cupola had every shred of clothing blown off by the force of the explosion. Many were buried under the wreckage and were not rescued for an hour ofter the catastrophe. When the flames shot from the burning car works fullv 10,000 people rushed to the scene blocking streets and interfer ing with fire companies and ambulan ces. Through lack of room many of the injured were compeled to lie for an hour on cots in street cars before it was possible to take them to the hospital a mile and a half away Members of the fire department aiul citzens assisted in caring for the men who were totaly naked and suffering itensely with tho cold. The Rowlands Acquitted. Raleigh, N. C.t Special. ? The trial of I)r. and Mrs. Rowland for the mur der of engineer Strange, closed on Saturday night after one of the hard est fought legal contests in the his tory of the State's criminal prosecu tions. The work of counsel for both the State and the defense was par ticularly able. The trial closed on Saturday night and after the judge's charge the ease went to the jijry. Sunday morning a verdict of com plete acquittal was reached and the prisoners were dismissed. They re ceived the cordial congratulations of their friends. Dr. H. T. Inge Buys Shreveport Fran chise. Mobile, Ala., Special. ? Dr. II. T. Inge, president of the local baseball organization holding the Cotton States League franchise, nnounced the pur chase of the Shreveport Southern League franchise conditional on be ing able to get <mt of the Cotton States League next season. Dr. Inge appears to think there will bo no trouble about this. Cannot Pay Immigrant'* Fare. New Orleans, Special. ? Louisiana cannot legally pay the fare of immi grants to this country, according to a ruling received from the immigra tion bureau. The decision was render ed in the test case of Oeronimo Gar cia, whose fare the State paid from Cuba. The grounds of the ruling have not yet been received. Engineer Killed in Wreck. Rocky Mount, Spccinl. ? Passenger train No. 82, ran into a shifting en gine Sunday morning on the outskirts of South Rocky Mount at 2:20 o'clock and Engineer George Honey, on the passenger train wns killed instant ly. His fireman was badly injured. The train crew on the shifter jumped Roth pngincK were demolished and the mail coach was broken into shreds. Five mail clerks weie Hi.'-.tly w m.i-.i ed. The ha^arc and one passeugc. car were dcniol.jh'd. No pr.s-.c n^r were injured. Rev. Dr. A. H- Moment Deal. Raleigh. N .C., Special. ? Rev. Alf red II. Moment, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church, died Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock of ty phoid fever. Dr. Moment was a na tive of Canada, lie was horn in 18.V2 He was n graduate of Princeton prior to coming to Rah'iuh was pastor of churches in New York and Brooklyn. The funeral was held Sunday and the burial was in Oak wood cemetery. NEWSY (3LBANINQ8. Berlin reformer* now here ft "rial iulclde" t|ltitlon. Japan has subjugated a part of the Island of Formosa. fhe cost of Illinois public schools Is more than $26,000,006 per year. The Peace Conference at The Hague promises to be barren of ma terial results. Great Britain agrees with the rest Of Europe In regarding the peace con ference as ft fiasco. The latest ftnd most exciting form of sport Id France Is the Chasing of airships by automdbJleS. Frank B. Kellogg and his associ ates assert that their case against Standard Oil is complete. Argentina, It appears, has 245, 000,000 acres of land that It will glYe ' to those who will occupy It. Many of the German troops en gaged in army maneuvres were over oome with fatigue and heat. Representative Sereno E. Payne, of New York, wishes the United States were well rid of the Philippines. General William Booth, Salvation Army founder, in an Interview at Boeton talked of the organization's worldwide work. Five departments In the South of France are suffering from floods, and the damage In Herault alone Is esti mated at $4,000,000. More than 600,000 Jews, accord ing to figures compiled at St. Peters burg. have emigrated from Russia to the United States slnco 1899. Publishers In discussing the war on the paper manufacturers for the ad vance In news paper asked the re moval of the tariff on wood pulp. A resolution was offered at the ses sion of the Amerlcsn Bankers' Asso ciation. proposing that each denom ination of bank notes be made of p distinguishing color. Murder and Suicide. Key West, Fin., Special. ? Austin Griffin shot and killc<l his wife at the breakfast table, then committed sui cide by drinking carbolic acid. Mrs. Griffin was separated from her hus band but he refused to love the house demanding half of the property. Sun day morning the hushnnd demanded on understanding and she refused to converse with him. lie drew his re volver and shot her in the hack of the head, causing instant death. 1I?* survived her one hour. STARTING TROUBLE. Mr. Jawback ? last's celebrate oui golden wedding. Mrs. Jawback ? How silly! We'v* only been married six years. Mr. Jawback ? That all? Ilow'd ) get it Into my head it was fifty? Cleveland leader. PROMINENT -PEOPLJi Oeorgo ftltyhew Moulton will be the first major-goiier&l of the Illinois National Guard. The late John Bright wept as for a brother when he spoke before Parlia ment of the death of Cobdeh. In Richmond. Ind., Secretary of State Root stated emphatically that he has no Presidential aspirations. Allan A. Ryan, son of Thomas F. Ryan, will, It is said, build a summer home at 8uffern, N. Y., to cost $1, 000.000. Thomas T. Crittenden is the oldest living ex-Governor of Missouri. The State has had thirty-one Governors, of whom five survive. General Botha,* the first Prime Mldister of the Transvaal, is forty four years old, and speaks Dutch and English with equal fluency. Dr. Wilfrid T. Grenfell. of the Labrador Deep Sea Mission, has been created .a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St, George. Ferdinand Bonn, the eccentric Ber lin actor manager, accuses the author of 8herlock Holmes of plagarism from Poe, Gaboriau and many others. 8lr Langdon Bonython is one of Australia's Journalistic knights. From the position of reporter he worked his way up to the editorship. Frank B. Kellogg, the special at torney for the Government In the Standard Oil prosecution, began life as a farmer's boy in Now York State. Emperor Francis Joseph of AustrO" Hungary, the "dean of the world's royalties," celebrated iii? seventy-ssv enth birthday at his summer fcomo at Ischl. Sir W. S. Gilbert, a London Magis trate, said the other day to a little boy as ho entered tho witness box: "Do you know what, will happen to you If you tell lies?" "Yes, Kir," re plied tho boy. "Then you know more than I do," remarked the Magistrate. New York State Prosperous. Albany, N. Y., Special. ? Stale Treasurer Mauser's report for the fis cal year ending at midnight Monday will show a Mjbsti utial increase in receipt? and expenditures. The re ceipts for the year aggregate in round numbers $-10,000,000, an increase, of $7,000,000 over last year. The total ex penditure* were over $40,000,000 an increase of $7,000,000. The largo.<t increase in receipts came from mort gage taxes, nearly $2,250,000 more being paid into the State treasury than in the preceding year. THE RESTFUL SORT. "She is a nice girl, isn't she?" "Very. The kind of girl you'd like to marry, after you've gotten through falling in love." ? Life. . THE NATIONAL GAME. In Detroit Jennings is regarded tk the Napoleon of baseball. Lqu Rittcr lias boon Brooklyn's mainstay behind the bat. Cleveland has several minor league first basemen in view for try-out. The Cincinnati '.earn has dropped thirty gar.;es tlila season by one rurf> Chesbr.i still lias a thing or two t?li sleeve. Ask Mark and Jen nings. Pitcher Mullin. of Detroit, eats but two m?als a day. but. weighs 220 pounds. Alexander Shields, owner of Go Be tween r.nd trainer of Hcrmis, died ot typhoid. , Catcher Tom Madden, the New England recruit. h?.3 joined the Bos ton team. Games with lime limit attachments will be tabooed by tho Detroit Club In the future. Clir.rllo Wagner, of tho Boston Americans, seldom says a word while on tho diamond. All ? the new rccruits were taken with Ihe Boston Nationals on their last Western trip. . Dan Broulli.'. z, tho Giants' scout, has his eye on pitcher Frank Reed, of tho Albany Club. It is ponicthing for tho Boston Na tionals to have landed two double headers th'j season. It may he accepted ;?s a settled fact that Lajoie will again manage In Cleveland next season. Ed Hanlon says that "Duke" Far rell was the most vnluabla catcher iu the business in his day. The Philadelphia Athletic Club has secured pitcher Chnrles Fritz, the New Orleans Club's southpaw. , Had the l'ltlsburga held on to' Beaumont it would have meant at l^asl eight. more victories for the Pir ated. Former Archduke to Marry Plebian. Vienna, By Cable. ? Ilerr Woelflinj* formerly Archduke Leopold Salva tore, of Austria is engaged to marry Maria Ritter the daughter of an humble Silesian. Uerr Woefling has telegraphed conQrmation of this fact from Zurich. He adds in the dis patch that ho tried to dissuade his sister the Countess Montignoso from marrying Enrico Tonselli the singer on account of the disparity of their ages. A Jersey woman whose liushand was attacked by a bull saved him from injury by throwing pepper In the bull's eyts. She also vindicated her sex. notes the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, and refuted the sland er that a woman cannot hit a bull's eye. 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