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^ T- .O' v > * - - < ? ICOPTRIGIIT, liOBEtl 15: CIIArTEIl XI. (Continued.) ' "We have not yet met that hateful Mr. Wiutlirop," she wrote one day toward the cud of the second winter. 'You say his mother and Miss Gray are still here, although the ogre himself is hack at his grinding of hearts! Had we met him?or them?I assure you it would have soured every drci> ?f the sweetues* in Parisian sugarplums! He would turn even the Sweetwater River of our Rockies into the bitterness of Marah! It would be a wintry day when we met. Though he were dying, I would not lift my hand to save him! There is a rumor?deliciously faint?that an American family has arrived in Paris for a flying I "llmncn nf Kllfrnr nliims. If it is he I O * She ended abruptly after a heavy dash of her pen: "Your modern, Beatrice Conci Fieid." And Gregory Bensouhurst understood that if ever the opportunity came for Beatrice Field to be kind to John Winthrop, she would remember what Alecla had suffered through him. So far. however, nothing special had occurred save Marion's engagement to a wealthy New Yorker who had fol lowed them to Europe and had won her there; and Kathryu Franklin's engagement and innumerable quarrels and reconciliations with an American artist in Rome, who often neglected liis studies to be with the charming woman of his choice. But one morning Beatrice and Mrs. Gleudenniug were shopping. They had but just left the "Belle Jardiniere." Beatrice was chatting delightedly of ha h?v?ntlps thev had seen, when she I paused suddenly, grasping her companion's arm with a stilled exclamation. An elderly woman, who left the say shop just ahead of them, had been vainly striving to attract the attention of her coachman, who, engaged In flirtation with a pretty nursery maid, seemed quite to have forgotten Ills duty. He had driven up and dowu, waiting for bis mistress, and had paused on the opposite side of the street Finding her effort in vain, the woman attempted to cross the street, regardless of the passing carriages, and stumbling, would have fallen under the hoofs of an approaching team, tiad not Beatrice sprung forward and pulled her away and Lack upon the pavement. An officer close at hand started to rescue her, but Beatrice had waited for no assistance. The coachman, now aware of the neglect of his duty, was at hand, and the girl assisted the trembling woman into the carriage, , pausing a moment to learn if she .were comfortable ere she left her. Then, as Beatrice was turning away, . the lady in the carriage said, very softly and sweetly, leaning forward, one gentle hand upon the light fingers | on the carriage door, the quaint langdage she used sounding strangely on the gay street: ~\uoes inee minu giving oae m.> name.' my dear? It will be good to remember the name of my brave rriead .when I think of her." Beatrice smiled, her eyes bright with the swift touch of tears at sound of this sweet home tongue. She bent her head with half-shy grace, like a child. "I am Beatrice Field," she said, softly, leaning nearer her new acquaintance, forgetting, in the excitement of the moment, tliaf Mrs. Glendeuning still waited, "from New York. We start for home to-morrow. You are quite comfortable now, madam? I may safely leave you?" The answering smile 011 the sweet old face was like a ray of home love and truth in that brilliant street*. "I am quite comfortable; yes, thank thee, dear. I am Mary Wintlirop. My home is in the Berkshire Ilills of America. If thee would give me thy; address, my son John will wish to thank thee for thy kindness to his mother. John is a lawyer in thy New York, too." Rnt Rpntrire was suddenlv with drawn from her frank cordiality. Removing lier hand from the carriage door ancKf'-om under the touch of the ?ther"s^*TJrt fingers, as though a sorpeut^nad stung her, she stepped back Upon the pavement, a scornful curve on her lips, a world of anger in the hazel eyes. "I beg your pardon, madam," she said, coldly; "but if you will tell your son for me that, had she known whom she was saving, Beatrice Field, Alecia Graham's sister, would not have lifted her hand for you. I scarcely think that he will care to thank me. I bid you good moruing, madame." And like a priestess of vengeance she turned away. CHAPTER XII. "it was kot she!" he said, "Well, girls!" Beatrice paused upon the threshold of Alecia's room. wherg_ her mother 2 ' * t , 3 Nod:;, by r/ATr T nm rT*/T XVirt. 1 1_I l_i O LJ J_ \j t>x, . JNNElt'S SOXf, lig.'.J and sisters and their friends wore assembled. Beatrice was dressed siiil in htr street costume, as she stood before tlietn. but this was not the Beatrice who left the house not long before. "Listen to me! I have been standing on the heights of Olympus this morning. I have breathed at the mistshrouded entrance of Delphi!" A sensation stirred the group before her: even Marion turned her calm eyes upon her, quest ionlngly. "What is it, Bee'/" queried l:cr mother, somewhat sternly: tor Beatrice was sometimes too childishly impulsive, her mother said, "if you have been to Delphi, surely you have gained a little wisdom, my dear!" "Xot an atom of wisdom!" said Beatrice, shutting her red lips as though she crushed down sumo fury of * - - ? -ti l eo T*_ reefing. "uuiy prout o- ;.u u.u cubing, mamma!" "What old saying, Toe? Ycu must loam to ho more ?:i\u..c in c.Apresstou. and have more rcir-cenuvl. I did hope that this trip vot.id b.nclit you in that v.v.y, child.'' "And it hasn't? i-.'ay the trtii.ii right oat, mamma?T doTTT lUIndTt replica the girl, though a vivid red spot burned in each smooth cheek, ami a lk.uie was in lie:* eye?, as though the Oiympliiau goddess had touched her there with fire. "But the old saying that I specially meant, mamma, is of the 'mills of the gods' that grind so slowly! The spider-like wheels of their machinery made a revolution to-day under my hands!" Mrs. Field sighed over this iuoorrigi1.1 .?a.i. iv,.? innoriioU- Mnrlnn U 1C shrugged her shoulders disdainfully and raised her eyebrows; Kathryu aiul Althea aud Frances waited expectantly. Alecia reached out her baud to her sister. "You dramatic child! Come here at once aud explain," she said. Beatrice shook her head. "I haven't much to say," she replied, steadily. "I prefer standing here where I can easily escape should horror seize you. I have aveuged you to some extent this morning, Alecia Grahaup I saved the life of some one at the 'Belle Jardiniere.'" "You, Bee Field? Whose life was it?" A clamor of tongues; interested faces new in place of quietly attentive faces. Even Mrs. Field forgot her annoyance at the girl's heedlessness. "What do you mean, Beatrice:" "Guess!" "I'm a Yankee, but I can't," said Kathryn, laughing. "Tell us, Bee, like a j^uuu vuiiu. "Guess!" repeated Beatrice, with that slow, stern shutting of the lips that came ouly with iuteuse anger or excitement. Perhaps the one name was in the minds of all, suggested by the girl's face: but only Altliea Dunraven had the hardihood to utter it in her soft, pretty voice. "John Winthrop, Bee?'' Beatrice shook her head. Her lips were cruel now. She turned her eyes upon Althea like a tlash of blazing anger. "Not John Winthrop. No, Althea; but next best?his mother!" Utter, dead silence for a moment. Then Alecia asked, a sweet light upon her face: T? I?*.!.. T> < TTnn* nM ,7n lii U ? U ItiUC iJWt i.AU?l V4.U V? *4V it, denrV" Beatrice mr.de a swift, fierce gesture with her hands, as though she were pushing down some rising eueuiy. The stern lips would not soften even before the light in her sister's face. The fin me in the hazel eyes deepened thcin to black. Her voice was like steel when she spoke?not ike bright voice of impulsive Beatrice Field. "Iiow did I do it, Alecia? You ask me'' But first I must tell you the truih. You shall not think that I would have lifted my hand for her had I dreamed who she was?for I would not. I told you long ago how 1 hate that man?her sou! This woman should ' -1* * 1- i 1? 41.. 1 9^ | uave (lieu, xruuipieu uuuei iue uuuis I of the horses, for all me, had I known that she was his mother! Such cruel natures have 110 right iu this world. No! I did not know until?afterward." Silence again?a throbbing, alive silence that seemed filled with beating hearts trembling before the truthwaiting to hear the worst, if worse there were. "But you did save her?" said Alccia, then, going over to her sister. "Being our true, brave Bee, you could have done nothing else, darling." Beatrice pushed aside Alecia's gentle hands and stepped back from her, her flashing eyes holding a spirit of evil within them, though a streak of alternate red and white fell across her face as though evil and good were having equal battle in her heart. "Don't touch" me, Alecia!" she cried, with swift impulse. "You dou't realize how wicked I am! I tell you I arnjust as much a murderer as though \ \ I liad killed that woman! Have I no told you that I would not liav< touched lie:* had I known that she wa: John Wlutlirop's mother?or sister?o wife? That is how I hate hiui!"' istill Alecia did not recoil from ho: in horror as Beatrice seemed to ex poet; only the smile died from he lips as she followed Beatrice, drawin; her forcibly over to the low coucl among the others and pressing lie down tenderly among the cushions. "You threaten like a tragedy queei of the stage," she said, quietly. "Nov put away theatricals. Bee, and tell u the trutU. lou saveu .urs. luuirup life*" "But I toll you, Alecia," protestei Beatrice, restlessly?"that I wouhln' have done It had I known '' "I don't wish you to tell me that.' said Alecia. steadily, and sternly, ho violet eyes upon her sister's flushe face. "You saved Mrs. Winthrop* life. Boo Field':" "Yes," rather sullenly from Beatric< angry because they would vindioat her in spite cl lier denouncing word' "How did you do it. Bee, dear?" "She was crossing the street," sai Beatrice, pulling her head away fror Aleeia's light lingers that were reinot ing her bonnet and veil, and inakiu more iluffy the soft hair on her fort head, "and she stumbled. It wasn' anything really, only 1 wouldn't hav done it?I tell you, Alecia. I will finis it?had I known who she was," "Where is Annette*" questioned Al< -to -stiio with vou. Bee. Sh will tell us connectedly of the acc ileut.*' "She has gone home," replie Beatrice, frowning. "I didn't wan her to come in. I knew that you woul* question her, aid I will not have thai This is my affair, Aleeia!" "What is she like, Bee?" asked Corr presently. "Is she real horrid?a sot of ogress, you know';" "How could she fail to be horrid,' said Beatrice, coldly, "being his mot! er, Cora';" m "But what docs she look like?" pet slsted Cora. "Is she tall and big wit a hard voice and cold eyes and thai you know?" ^ "And did she <':ank you in a wa; that made you wish you hadn't save* her," queried pathryn, saucily, "a some people do. Bee?" ".No, she didn't,' said Beatrice, cross ly. The truth would not be at al pleasant for her to tell to these girlsit was bad enough for her to liav to acknowledge even to herself. "Then, whr.t did she say?" asked A thea. "Of course, she. said somethiui Bee Field!" "How can you expect: me to reinen ber what she said?" retorted Beatrice irritably, rising to leave the room, feai ing lest she be too closely pressei "One seldom remembers details a siicli a time, Althea." "But you would," murmured Cor: disappointedly, yet net daring to fu; ther question this willful sister o hers. For, if the truth must be know) when Beatrice looked as she did a luAnmnt Cavi w'jic r>rm si d pra hi afraid of lier. "You never forge Bee!" "Yes," said Beatrice, coldly, flashin her eyes upon Cora. '"In that you ar right. Cora?I never do forget!'' "But, before you go," joined 1 Marion, coolly, "we shall be glad t learn what this man's mother doe look like, Beatrice. It should be gratification to you to describe her I she is such a disagreeable person." "I did not say that she is disagree able, Marion!" Beatrice paused in tb doorway. "Oh, indeed! But you certainly it sinuatcd it, Bee. You said that 'sh could not fail to be horrid, being hi mother.' What else were we led t expect?" "Well, of course, she is horrid!" d< dared Beatrice, desperately. "But sh doesn't look so, Marion! Iler face i very sweet in expression?mild, yo know?and her eyes are blue, like blu< bells?like Alecia's?and her hair i liic xovoxrest wxixie. ouc s ;i i^uum-i too, and called me 'thee,' as thoug she loved tbe word. Tlxcre! Onlyshe Is just as horrid, of course! Sli cannot help being horrid, as I said! The girl vanished as the last wor was uttered, as though it were sorel bitter for her to be obliged to yiel oven this iimi'li to the mother of Job I Wiuthrop, and silence for a momec fell upon the room. "Well!" exclaimed Cora at last, i extreme astonishment. "Well," repeated Katliryn and A thea, lost for any new expression i the extremity of their curprise. "Ee-atrice has a way of making sue mountains out of mole hills!" sai Marion, scornfully. "We might hav known whafHto believe. I : would b well for her to break herself of tha habit, among others, mamma." "It is because she lives and think and feels so intensely, I think, Mar on," said Frances, quietly. "Sh doesn't dissect what comes to her, a a naturalist would do, but takes i ' and lives it and feels it herself as onl, such natures can. It isn't a sin 1; Bee." "No," added Alecla, very softly, ver sweetly. "She is doing this for mc Marion. Because " And then silence fell between then eloquent with memory. At that same hour, John Winthrof Just returned to Paris to accomoan: t his mother and ward back to America ? the following wee*, after their ab- ' s sence of two years, was sitting with i- them at luncheon, discussing the event of the morning. He was very pale, [ but it was the pallor of strong passion, . and his eyes wore Hashing with a fire r equal to that of Peatrice Field stand ; lug iu me uivi ?? .?.? ui iiiri ? i room. r Jessica Gray, his ward, faced him at the table. She was tall and graceful, a willowy in ligure and movement, with a subtle lilbtuess about her that sugs gested the nature of au inuolen.* s leopard. Her eyes showed this possibility also in their opal calmness, and a the thin, rose-leaf lips were just now t curled in scorn. She had lived a quiet life among the " Berkshire Hills with her guardian's i- mother, and yet this subtle lire and i! lierceness could waken within her brils liantly and her voic<5 soften to a languor that was fascinating when she >. would. She often startled the gentle Quaker lady sitting near her sou with her snowy hair smooth and soft and her gentle face pleading with them j for kindly thought of the willful girl u who had uttered such reckless words. ' You should not have ventured alone, mother," said John Wiuthrop, * gravely. Ilis voice was always gentle it addressed to this one woman. She e was the only woman, perhaps, whom ^ lie fully loved and trusted. "Jessica would have boon glad to have accomnnriled voj anions the slions." e (To be continued.) l* Wise is the youth who sticks to business with the glue of industry. d t d CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. i. t The Irrigation Bill Passed the House. Senate Receives a flessage. The House has passed the irrigation l* I bill by a vote of 146 to 55. Many i amendments were offered, but only one - except those offered by the committee k was adopted. It was of a minor charac;t ter. The bill already has passed the Senate. The friends of the measure greeted the announcement of its pas. sage with a round of applause. The bill as passed creates a reclamas tion fund from the sale of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, i 5. Kansas, Montana, Nebraska. Nevada, U New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, _ ; Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washing | ton, ana Wyoming, ifoo mi; amuum e paid to local land officers and 5 per j cent, due the State under existing laws I- for educational purposes, which is to f, be used for the construction and maintenance of irrigation works in the i- States and Territories enumerated. I Provision is made for the payment out r* of the Treasury of any deficiencies in ! the allowances to agricultural colleges * 1 owing to this disposition of puolic u i lands. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to examine, survey and conit struct the irrigation works and report r- the cost thereof to Congress at each if session. it Section 4 provides for the letting of j contracts for the works contemplated ? in sections when the necessary funds ; are avilable in the reclamation fund '* for such section. Section 5 provides that "no right 8 to the use of water for land or private o ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one land own-j ' *- -t-t-L n i cr ana no sucu ngui suan uiau^uv, 0 attach until all payments therefor are ,g made, and no such sale shall be made to any land owner unless he be an ac* tul bona fide resident" lf To the reading of the message Senators on both sides of the chamber lis' tened with profound attention. The atic tendance of Senators was notably large, indicating the great interst bc1 ing manifested in the subject. At the n conclusion of the reading the chair ~ , announced that the message would be "s referred to the committee on relations 0 with Cuba. "I had intended to make a motion," ?- said Mr. Bailey, faeetiousuy. "I will not e do it; but I feel inclined to move to is refer the message to the Republican u caucus." Mr. Allison, who was sitting directly in front of Mr. Bailey on the Democratic side, turned to the Texan and r- smiling with the utmost good nature, bowed ceremoniously to Mr. Bailey. "The chair is not aware," replied Mr. e Kean. "that any such committee ex" ists." ,1 Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, pre.. sented some of the advantages of sup, plying metal mail boxes for rural free delivery and showed to the Senate a 11 sample box of sheet steel which could lt b purchased for 49 cents. Boxes now i supplied by private individuals cos^ * ii from $1.25 to $3 each. Suc!j.-a price, he "?1'' ? ?? a coflniic hurUom/ unr>#i .MJp I , I. farmers. Already $7,500,000 a year was u paid for rural delivery of mail ..nd he 1 believed such rural delivery woUld ex. pand until it exceeded the cost of city mail relivery. 1 During the greater part of Friday's session the Senate was engaged in the e transaction of executive business, ilie lt nomination of Captain Crozier to be j chief of ordnance of the army being , s the particular subject under considera[. tion. The President's message urging e the establishment of reciprocal rela- . s tions between the United States and j . Cuba was received after the Senate had gone into secret session. The doors v were opened, the message was read and u then the secret session was resumed. ^ Many of the Boers in tne British '' concentration camps are employing ; their leisure in studying medicine, ' law and civil engineering and by the . time the war is over they expect to ' utilize their new knowledge. 1 y I " CANDIDATES OPEN STATE CAMPAIGN A finioi inii firriarhr Maofin/r At HaHm. rk yuiwi uiiu uiuwnj utcviuig r%v uuu ? aids Saturday. GOOD NUMBER OF PEOPLE PRESENT The Several Candidates Outline Their Policy and Present Their Various Claims to the Audience. Staff Correspondence Columbia State. Donnalds. Special.?The candidates for governor, for the United States Senate and for Congress spoke here Saturday. It was a pleasant gathering of about 1.500 people representing the counties of Abbeville, Anderson. Greenwood, Laurens and Greenville. There was a Dig picnic at Cooley s bridge ia Anderson county or the crowd here would have been larger. Of the candidates for the Senate all were here except Senator Henderson and Mr. John Gary Evans. All of the candidates for governor were here and all In good physical condition. The meeting was quiet, the candidates confining themselves to a discussion of topics of the day, and the crowd was. not demonstrative. Col. J. H. Tillman had given noticethat at the time he would answer the charges made by the editor of The State. His explanation was not a refutation of the charges, and the crowd was not satisfied. The other noteworthy incidents of the day were the appearance of Capt. Heyward for i.he first time as an aspirant for office; Mr. Latimer's reflection on certain of hi3 competitors for having listed him asPopulist when he was first sent to congress; and the general tendency toavoid unpleasant and unaparliamentary debate. Col. Talbert was the first speaker.. He declared that this gathering reminded him of some of the old alliance campmeetings. He declared that a candidate for any office, particularly that of governor, ought to first examine himself and see if he has the manhood to fill the place. He stated hi3 opposition to the use of money in elections. He declared that he is a candidate on his record and on his merits, and is opposed to political conspiracies and the use of money in elections. EXPENSIVE CAMPAIGNS. u win ue a sau uay wnen weau.'i win be an embargo on thos^who aspire to office. He deplored the fact that the campaigns are becoming so expensive, for this will eventuate in injury to ihe poor man. He opposed the trusts. We need statutory laws which will put 2 restraint on the combinations >f capital. He wants to see factories built. While capital should be given protection, we don't want a new political school to be brought in with capital.. There should be no conflicts between the corporations and the people, between labor and capital. It i3 impossible for a small amount of C2pit3l to compass large enterprises, but there should be restrictions on the combinations of capital. The betterment of our public roads, is no longer a local matter but a national question. The government is making inquiry into the methods of building roads. The towns and the country should be divided in nothing, and in building better public roads they should be particularly united. It would require some taxation, but one dollar spent would mean ten dollars in n r n In Knnnf. 1 a xciuiu m ucucuvo. He next touched upon the question of education. He is in favor of all of the schools and colleges. He would not take one brick out of a single college and would rejoice if there were more. But he wants to see a better public school system. This system should be so reformed and built up that a good English education can be given evrey white child. He would like to see the common school made *h3 highway leading up from the poor man's door to the highest offices in the land. There are two races and one must dominate the other. The ballot and the spelling book must be taken away from the negro. Let the negro go to the fields where he belongs; let him pay his teachers as he does his preachers, and. let the white man's, taxes go to educating the white, man's children. Col. Talbert was listened to very attentively. He told some jokes, but not as many as. usual as his time was short. CAPT. HEYWARD was introduced as a "prominent planter; of Colleton county." He commented omf the presence of so many ladies. Tney should take an interest in the affairs of the commonwealth. Thehousewife does more to coutrol the destinies of a nation tban does the? platform of any party. Some might inquire why does he aspire to the office of governor? Ho said there were .1 variety of reasons which he might give, but like the little negro who gave his reason for being, a Republican, he is in the race because he wants the office. He is running on his own merits. Ifhe can't get it on his merits he would like to see the office given to a betterman. He would not attack cr refer unkindly to any of his competitors. Hewanted to see South Carolina prosper agriculturally, commercially and industrially. The past year has been the hardest the farmers have had to deal with, and all prosperity depends on the success of the farmer. Appropriation of public money should be done most care