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: The Taking' i : of Lorena. j o By ANNE HEILMAN. I ? Copyrighted. 1909. by Associated ? * Literary Press. ? Although ir was the third week iu Aprii. there were suddeu aud chill whiffs of wind from the north, accom panied by fb'ing particles of ice aud snow, grim warning that winter bad not yet renounced its sway in the nortbland. Floyd Jordan, striding down the .steep mountain trail, baited irresolute ly uear the abrupt turning at Farrell's bluff. He appeared to L? meditating ?deeply. Suddenly he threw up his head, squared his shoulders and hur ried on. not iu the direction of the l#onrdiug house iu the gulch, but to ward Farrell's cabin. Farrell's cabin was two log bouses joined together and chinked with mud. There were other cabins of the same -simple architecture scattered over the mountain side aud uestled Ik the gulch es, but white curtains bung at the Far rell windows, and the windward side ?ot the living room was bung with gay Navujo blankets; the brown fur of a mountain bear was ou the floor, and Its mate was spread luxuriously be neath the red pillows of a couch. And, set like a torch iu the south wiudow. a geranium, potted In u brilliant In dian basket, lifted its scarlet blooms. But Jordan felt without seeiug this harmony. He was looking into the face of the girl who had opened the door. It was a face of light and shade that spoke the swift thought before the voice found words, a face to hold a man's glance in a crowd. She re sumed her seat by the Are without re plying to Jordan's genial greeting. He seemed to Oil the room. Six feet two and broad shouldered, be looked even larger in the clumsy canvas coat, corduroys and high laced boots of the LORENA SCREAMED AND CLOSED HER EVES. TWO SHOTS Ii OARED OUT. prospector. He whipped his hat against his knee, evidently disconcert ed by the girl's hostile attitude. "That you. Floyd Jordan?" Inquired a voice from the inner room. "Yes. Mrs. Farrell. "How're you feeling?" "Somewhat better. I'm glad to say. Sit down and warm yourself. Floyd. It isn't to be wondered at that people have rheumatics in a land where there's ten months winter." Lorena closed the door. "Floyd Jor dan, what are you coining here again for?" she burst out suddenly. "Wouldn't be very neighborly not to drop in with your mother sick and your dad away, would it?" "Didn't I tell you that I never would 6peak to you again and that 1 never wanted to sis- you?" she said fiercely, taking a few steps toward him. Even In that moment, with her eyes blazing with unjust and unreasonable anger, the miner's heart throbbed acknowl edgment of the tall, pliant, reedlike grace before him. "Yes. Lorena. but I have just a little hope that you don't always mean what you say." "Don't you think I mean it when 1 tell you I've heard now you bragged to the boys at the store that you could lake me whenever you got good and ready?" I "I never said any tiling i>f the kind. Some one has uarl.l >d my words to suit his own purpose. I've been about you-I've loved you from tho first time I ever set eyes on you. and I've never said a disrespectful won! about you. I've been thinking of I building a cabin on my claim, if you'll have me. Lorena. 1;' you won't I'll sell out and go back to the States." "You can't go any too quli k to suit me." answered tho girl, her voice tense with scorn. "And you can tell tfi.iso loafers at the store that I'm tiol u> be bad so easily. I'd rather die than marry you. Floyd Jordan." "I reckon that settles it." said ,!<t dan. rising and buttoning his enat. "P! iso tell your mother good by for me. And he was cone. "Lorena Farrell. what have you done?" demanded her mother, limping into the n fti. "You ought to know that Floyd couldn't have said any thing like that about you. Depend on it. those Blake girls made it all up. You've driven him away for rood this Mr. Ericsou's Old House. Go see it, it's a beauty. It stands out among all its neighbors, because the coloring is so bright and clear. Mr. Ericson painted with L. &. M. Paint and says it cost 1-3 less than ever before. He bought only 12 gallons of L. & M. Paint and 9 gal lons of Linseed Oil to mix with it. This made 21 gallons of pure paint, and cost only $1.20 per gallcn. It's as handsome as the fiDest in town. The L. & M. is sold by J. G. Wan namaker Mfg. Co., Orangeburg, S. C. time. He'll keep his word. He always does. He will go back to the States, mark my word!" Lorvoa stealthily opened the door and looked after her lover's retreating figure. He had almost reached the bluff. Something stirred in her throat. The long stretch of trail that ran I away through the dreary landscape j seemed like her life, and Floyd was j going out of it Her heart yearned for I him. What would her life be without him? "Lorena. where are you?" called I Mrs. Farrell, emerging again from the bedroom. The girl was not in the room. The mother opened the door 'and looked out. A wall of whirling white met her vision. "She has gone after him and Is caught In the storm!" gasped the mother. A knock sounded on the door. Floyd entered, noisily stamping the snow from his feet. "Thought I'd come back and have another talk with Lo rena"? he began. "Oh. Floyd, she's gone after you!" cried the distracted woman, wringing her hands. "Sbo got sorry right after you left"? "I'll find her." said Floyd quickly: j "don't worry." And he dashed back Into the storm. When Lorena softly closed the kitchen door she could Just see Floyd i rounding the bluff. "Floyd, oh. Floyd. ! come back!" she called, all her reserve J gone, her fierce pride thrown to the j stormy winds that blew the fringe of her shawl into her eyes. Realizing that he could not hear her, she started after him. but by the time she had covered half the distance a sea of white swept In between and blotted him from her view. She hurried on. calling his name re peatedly, but the furious wind tore at her breath and walled her about with fleecy clouds. Suddenly she felt that she was off the trail. She turned to the right and then to the left, but could not find it. Des perately she struggled on. until her tired limbs compelled a pause In the j shelter of a bluff. She leaned panting i again.- r a rock, all unconscious of a ! pair of eyes which glared from a wil low thicket near by. The green lights in the eyes flared brighter, u long.red tongue licked long, snarling jaws hungrily, and forth from the covert stole a lank gray wolf. Lorena uttered a startled cry. This was uo coyote to be chased with a stick. It was a wolf of timber stock, a great beast, strong as a mastiff! He emitted low suaris as be slunk in half circles across iu front. He was unde cided. While he circled, drawing a little nearer at every turn, Lorena fell back ?back toward the bluff, keeping her white face always toward the creeping beast. She took off her heavy shawl and suddenly threw it b.'ankelwise over the wolfs head. Then she fled des perately. Ouce clear of the scrub, she ran on, plunging through drifts, stumbling, falliug to rise again and push her flight. Of direction she could take no heed. All she could do was to place distance between herself and the fam isned brute. But when, weary and ; breathless, she paused for rest out of the drab drift stole the lank gray shadow. With a terrified shriek Lorena ran on | until she had to stop, spent, unable to take another step. She saw the wolf, licking his hungry jaws, leaping to ward her with uo iudeeision left. Loreaa screamed and closed her, eyes. Two shots roared out. Looking up, she saw Floyd Jordan, with smok ing revolver in bis hand, standing over the prostrate beast. "Floyd, oh. Floyd!" she sobbed as he came to her with eyes tender and anx ious. He picked her up from the snow, wrapped her in his coat and held her against his breast. The storm was lifting. Farrell's cab in could be discerned not a quarter of a mile distant. "I'm dead sure now I'll build that cabin on my claim." Floyd said as they started homeward. An Illusion Shattered. The son and heir is seven years old ?old enough to spell out, with helps over the hard words. "Alice In Won derland" and to enjoy it hugely, espe cially the memorable duet between the mock turtle and the griffin. Recently as a great treat he was permitted to accompany his pretty young aunt to luncheon at one of New York's fa- | DJOUS restaurants and as a crowning joy invited to select his own delica- i cles. Long and earnestly he pondered over the lull of fare: then his eyes . grew big and his face illumined as he laboriously read the list of soups. '?Yes. thank you: I've preclded what I want." he said, witli nervous irayety. Then, with an impressive knitting of his brows, lie addressed the attentive . waiter. "I'll have one very, very small ' mock turtle, but don't make it into soup: just bring it along alive and kiekiug."? Woman's Home Companion. , Won the Bet. "Well, old man." said Smith to, Brown as they sat at breakfast in the I hotel, '"you've |i>st your bet." '?now do you make that out?" '?Didn't you bet uie a guinea last; < night that we'd see a gale from the north this morning'.'" "Yes " "It's turned out a beautiful d:;y. with ; a soft, warm wind from the south. ! ' and yet you say you haven't lost your j I et " "That Is so." } "Why not?" "Do you see that man coming up the steps of the hotel? That's my friend McCIuskie, from Inverness." j "What's that got to do with it?" "Well. 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A man that is al ways ?thinking of something else,' like that big husband of mine, may be won derfully good at bis profession, be cause that's what he's always think ing about, but he is surely a domestic trial at times." Mrs. Murray laughed, her ill nature having evaporated completely under the heat of her little outburst. Her visitor, Susau Harland, laughed with her. for Dr. Murray's wonderful feats in his tits of abstraction were famous. "Why. Sue," continued Mrs. Murray, laughing gayly at the recollection, "do fou reme?iber when i had that touch of rheumatic fever? One night when 1 was burning with thirst I woke John sud suld to him, 'John. If you don't get me a drink of water quick 1 don't know that I'll live till morning.' "He got up. sort of dazed, walked over to the mantelpiece and came back to me holding out an empty vase. 1 wanted a drink of water that much that 1 hung on to my patience until he was wide awake and knew what i was talking about. Then he went to the refrigerator and came back with a glass brimming full of good cold wa ter. But. if you will believe it. Sue. he just stood there looking at me. and before I could say a word that man drank every drop of that water him self with me glaring holes through him. I declare, it makes me angry to this day!" Mrs. Murray ran to the foot of the stairs and called out: "Hurry up. now, John: Sue- and I are both waiting. You will hud your evening clothes laid out for you iu the bedroom, and there isn't any time to lose." Miss Sue and Mrs. John sat down to talk. They exhausted their store of new gossip after awhile and began to fidget. "Goodness." said Mrs. Murray at last, looking at her watch, "that man must have done something fool ish! It can't be taking him all this time to dress!" Dr. John had done nothing foolish. He had done something rather wise. He was sound asleep in bed. Miss Sue overheard some very active and excited conversation carried on exclusively by Mrs. Murray. At last the deep bass of her husband resound ed. "My dear." said Dr. John, "don't you know anything about the wouder fu|ly powerful control that habit has over all the species of the animal king dom? When I began to undress wasn't it natural for me to keep right on and get into bed? Of course it was." "No. Sue: don't you ever marry an absentminded man." said Mrs. Murray impressively when they drove away at last, with Dr. John safely opposite them. "As long as he isn't too absentmind ed to attend the wedding. Sue." chuc kled Dr. .lohn, "you take him. provided his name is Dick Kendall." Sue was glad that the darkness hid her blushes. "Dick is going to do something great in chemistry. I do believe." said Dr. John. "There's h!s compound of phos pho"? "A wife wants something besides] your old phosphates and other ill smell ing things." said Mrs. Murray. "Dick Kendall is as bad as you are. lie's j just as likely as not to come to the | dance tonight with his old laboratory coat on." Dick Kendall did not fulfill Mrs. Murray's dark prophecy literally, but he did so In effect. It is true that he was soberly and blamelessly clad in his evening clothes, being correctly at tired even to the tie. but the tout en semble was somewhat marred by the sad fact that he had a patent leather pump on one foot and a bright russet shoe on the other. Sue blushed, ami then she flushed, and then she grew angry as the titters and smiles ran around the room when unconscious Dick hurried forward to meet her. She was not a young woman given to exaggerate trifles, but she was not n stole philosopher either. No doubt it is a small thing to have one's evening pleasure marred a bit. but it seems un duly important at the time. Luckless Dick was doomed to fur ther disgrace. He had barely repaired the disaster of the shoes by sending a messenger posthaste to his home for the other pump when something worse happened. During a waltz, when Miss Sue was his partner, somebody brushed against Dick. There \\ as a sharp crackling of broken glass, and the next instant the couple was wreathed in beautiful vio let smoke that gradually filled the room. Nobody had leisure or desire to ob serve the beauty of its color though. It was so instantly suffocating that there was a mad. wild rush for doors and l-'rench windows. The acc'idetil tilled Sue's cup. and il brimmed over -only ;i little, but too much. In ln*r singer she stamped her .oot and cried: "Dick Kendall, your absent inindet!iicss sippa reuily extends oulj to me ami not t'i your profession. It is plain thai you care more for chemistry than for me. und it would be a thousand pities to disturb your devotion." She stripped the ring from her finger, and he took it in bewildered silence. 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In his simplicity he be lieved every angry word she said and did Sot realize that the girl was eager to forgive as soon as she had punished him a little. Dick was absentminded about little things, but not about great ones. With a heart full to breaking, he made his preparation); to leave the place. A week afterward Sue stopped at Dr. Murray's house; to accompany Mrs. Murray and the doctor on a drive Into the country. Dr. John was not there when she arrived. "I hope he hasn't gone to bed again." said Sue. smiling. She was cheerful, for she had made up her mind to write to Dick, forgiving him and asking bim frankly to forgive her. "No." said Mrs. John. "Didn't 1 tell you where he was going this morn ing? He went to drive Dick Kendall down to the harbor to see him off on the Viking." Susan Harland's half opened lips and startled eyes showed her surprise. "Didn't you know?" said Mrs. Mur ray, embarrassed. "Dick is going on a cruise around the world with his friend Randall, who bought that big yacht Viking this spring." Susan sprang up. casting aside all pretense, like the honest, warm heart ed girl she was. "Kate," she cried, "1 can't let him go! I ennnot! I cannot!" Mrs. Murray caught the girl in her arms. "Darling." she said, with a sob, "1 thought that It was all over be tween you." "I was wicked;" said Sue. "As If I would lose Dick for all the absent mindedness in the world! Oh. Kate, we must stop him! I don't care what people think." "Sue, dear." said Mrs. Murray, "it is too late. Look!" She led Sue to a window that commanded a view across a bluff and far to sea. Some miles out a great steam yacht was steaming to ward the horizon. I "1 must cable to him at once?at [ once!" said Sue passionately. For a few minutes Mrs. Murray made no re | ply. but held her arms around the girl and stroked her hair. "You must be patient, dear, now. and plucky for awhile. The Viking is bound to the south Pacific, and we shall not be able to reach her for some time?perhaps for six months." She led the sobbing girl into the library, bestowed her comfortably in an easy chair and wisely left her alone to have her cry and her trouble by herself till the first keenness should have worn off. She bad scarcely re-entered the drawing room before she heard her husband driving up to the door. A moment afterward there entered two men. looking very, very sheepish and guilty. They were Dr. John and?Dick Kendall. "Now, don't scold and don't laugh, Kate." implored Dr. John. "I'll tell you what happened. I picked Dick up all right' at his lodgings, and we did all you told us to do, saw that everything was locked up and counted his bag gage and made sure that he had his money In his pockpts. See. here's your memorandum, all checked off. But, Kate." added Dr. John, with a twin kle, half humorous, half ashamed, "you forgot to add on the memoran dum that Dick was to be delivered on board the Viking." "And so, you know," interposed Dick, eager to divert blame from his friend's head. "I got to tellmg John about a new test for white bloed cor puscles, and we got Interested and stopped for just a few minutes at the board of health laboratory." "And then. a3 usual, you forgot all about a little thing like a trip around the world." Mrs. Murray burst out. But. strangely enough, there was a de lighted smile on her face. Taking Dick Kendall by the shoul der, she pushed him toward the li brary. "Now. you great, useless child." said she, with her eyes shining, "you go In there and sit down for a mo ment. I have something to say to the doctor." She closed the door behind him and ran to Dr. John, clapping her bauds softly. Dr. John didn't look at till ab sentminded when she whispered to him. but gazed at the door with as much eagerness and joy in his face as there was in hers. They waited a quarter of an hour with highly commendable patience. Then Mrs. Murray walked to the door and knocked, but not before she had heard Dick Kendall's deep voice: "Think of something else? Sue. I couldn't thing of anything except that 1 had lost you." "Ob!" came Sue's voice. "And how about the test that made you forget the yacht?" "Well." replied Pi k. "I might for get a little thing like that, but you're not a Ml tie thing except in size." And before the door opened Sue said: "Stop, you I e-ir! You've nearly knock ed my hat off." Coming Near It. First Hobo?Hoe! I'm glad my clothes tore as easy us they did when that (big grabbed mo! I bei he would say tilings if he d?u!d talk. Second Muhl? Well, to judge by bis present acts, he is chewing the rag some.- Baltimore American. Why? "She is an act res j." "Is she really?" 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