Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE KIND OF FrAmnE To be used is very much a matter k of taste. It is important. though, I that the frames set prorerly on the nose and at the right distance E from the eyes: that tbe lenses be perfectly centered. and how are you to know when one is guess ing*' .:WEV . . . NEVE R GUESS. Glasses Right, Good Sight." E. A. Bultman, , JEWELER AND CPTICIAN. 17 S. Main St., - Sumter, S. C. : PHONE 194. 1k5k4Ak1kA11~1A#11111111AA111111111MAA111111k4 TO CONSUMERS OF Lager Beer. We ate now in position to ship our Beer all over the State at the following prices: e EXPORT. Imperial Brew-Pints, at $1.6i per doz. Kuffheiser-Pints, at......90c per doz. Germania P. M.-Piats, at 90c per doz. GERMAN MALT EX TRACT. A liquid Tonic and Food for Nursing Mothers and Invalids. Brewed from the highest grade of Barley Malt and Imported Hops, at........$1.10 per doz. For sale by all Dispensaries, or send in vour orders direct. All orders shall have our prompt and careful attention. Cash must accompany all orders. T H E CERMANIA BREWING CO., Charlestou, S. C. Buggies, Wagons, Road Caits and Carriages REPAIRED With Naatness and Bespatch -AT R. A. WHITE'S WHEELWRIGHT and BLACKSMITH SHOP. I repair Stoves, Pumps- and run water pipes, or I will put down a new Pump cheap. If you need any soldering done, give me a call. LAME. My horse is lame. Why? Because 1 did 'not have it shod by R. A. White, the man that puts on sucht neat shoes and makes horses travel with so much ease. We Make Them Look New. We are making a specialty of re painting eld Buggies, Carriages, Road Carts and Wagons cheap. Come and see me. My prices will please you, and I guarantee all of my work. Shop on corner below R. M. Dean's. R. A. WHITE, MANNING. S.C. THE MANNINC, 8. 0. Transaets a general banking busi ness. Prompt and special attention given to depositors residing out of town. Deposits solicited. All collections have prompt atten tion. Business hours from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. JOSEPH SPROTT, A. LEVI, Cashier. President.1 BoARDP OF D1REcTOBS. J. WV. McLEoD, XX. E. BRowst, S. M. NEXSEN, JOSEPH SPROTY A. LEVI. Indigestiohn Causes Catarrh of the Stomach. For many years it has been supposed that - Catarrh of the Stomach caused indigestion and dyspepsia, but the truth is exactly the opposite. Indigestion causes catarrh. Re peated attacks of indigestion inflames the mucous membranes lining the stomach and exposes the nerves of the stomach, thus caus ing the glands to secrete mucin instead of the juices of natural digestion. This is called Catarrh of the Stomach. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure relieves all inflamrmation of the mucous membranes lining the stomach, protects the nerves. and cures bad breath, sour risings, a sense of fullness after eating, indigestion, dyspepsia and all stomach troubles. Kodol Digests What You Eat Make the Stomach Sweet. Bottles only. Regular size. Si1.00. holding 234 timnes the trial size, which sells for 50 cents. Prepared by E. C. DeWITT & CO., Chicago, IlL. The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. JOS. r. RHAMIE. J. 11. LEtSESN~E. RHAM1E & LESESNE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Clsesa o euulcto bi AL' *GEORGE BA CHAPTER I. .SiR. Gn'ENFALL LORRY SEEKS ADVENTURE I R.GRENFALL LORRY board ed the eastbound express at Denver with all the air of a martyr. He had traveled pretty much all over the world, and he was not without resources. but the prospect of a 2,500 mile journey alone filled him with dismay. The country he knew; the scenery had long since lost its attrz.tions for him. And so it was that he gloomily motioned the porter to his boxes and mounted the steps wit h weariness. As it happened. "Mr. Grenfall Lorry did not have a dull moment after the train started. Ie stunibled on a figure that leaned toward the window in the dark passageway. With reluctant civil ity he apologized. A lady stood up to let him pass, and for an instant in the-half light their eyes met, and that is why the miles rushed by with incredible speed. mr. Lorry had been dawdling away 'the months in 'Mexico and California. For years he had felt, together with uany other people. that a sea voyage was the essential beginning of every journey. He had started round the world soon after leaving Cambridge: he had fished through Norway and hunted in India, and shot everything from grouse on the Scottish moors to the rapids above Assouan. He had run in and out of countless towns and countries on the coast of South Amer ica. le had done Russia and the Rhone valley and Brittany and Damas cus. He had seen them all, but not until then did it occur to him that there might be something of interest nearer home. True, he had thought of joining some Englishmen on a hunting tour in the Rockies, but that had fallen through. When the idea of Mexico did occur to him, he gave orders to pack his things, purchased intermina ble green tickets, dined unusually well at his club and was off in no time to the unknown west. There was a theory in his family that it would have been a decenter thing for him to stop running about and settle down to work. But 1his thoughtful father had given him a wealthy mother, and as earning a liv ing was not a necessity he failed to see why it was a duty. "Work is be coming to some men," he once declared. "like whiskers or red ties, but it does not follow that all men can stand it." After that the family found him "hope less," and the argument dropped. He was just under thirty years, as good looking as most men, with no one dependent upon him and an income that hadl withstood both the M1aison Doree and a dahabeahi on the Nile. He never tired of seeing things and peoples and places. "There's game to be found anywhere," he said, "only it's sometimes out of season. If I had my way - and millions - I should run a newspaper. Then all the excitements would come to me. As it is, I'm poor, -and so I have to go all over the .world after them." This agreeable theory of life had worked well. He was a little bored at times, not because he had seen too much, but because there were not more things left to see. He had managed somehow to keep his enthusiasms through everything, and they made life worth living. Hie felt, too, a cer tain elation, Like a spirited horse, at turning toward home, but Washington had not much to offer him, and the thrill did not last. His big bag and his hatbox; pasted over with foolish labels from continental hotels, were piled in the corner of his compartment, and he settled back in his seat with a pleasurable sense of expectancy. The presence in the next room of a very smart appearing young woman was prominent in his consciousness. It gave him an uneasiness which .was the be ginning of delight. He had seen her for only a second in the passageway, but that second had made him hold himself a little straighter. "Why is it," he wondered, "that some girls make you stand like a footman the mo meat you see them?" Grenfall had been in love too many times to think of marriage. His habit of mind was still general, and he classified women broad ly. Af the same time he had a feeling that in this case generalities did not apply well. There was something about the girl that made him hesitate at la beling her "Class A or B or Z." What it was he did not know, but unaccount ably she tilled him with an aff.eted formality. He felt like bowing to her with a grand air and much dignity. And yet he realized that his successes had come from confidence. At luncheon he saw her in the din ig car. Her companions were elderly p~ersons, presumably her parents. They talked mostly in French, occasionally using a German word or'phrase. The old gentleman was stately and austere, with an air of deference to the young woman which Grenfall did not under stand. His appearance was very strik ing, his face pale and heavily lined, mustache and imperial gray, the eye brows large and bushy and the jaw and chin square and firm. The white haired lady carried her head high with unmistakable gentility. They were all dressed in traveling suits which sug gested something foreign, but not Vien na nor Paris; smart, but far from American tastes. Lorry watched the trio with great interest. Twice during luncheon the young woman glanced towvard him carelessly and left an annoying imnpres sin that she had not seen him'. As they left the table and passed into the observation car he stared at her with some defiance. But she wvas smiling. ad her dimples showed, and Grenfall was ashamed. For some moments he sat gazing from the car window, for getting his luncheon, dreaming. When he got back to his compart ment, he rang vigorously for the por ter. A coin was carelessly displayed in his fingers. "D~o you suppJose you could find out who has the next com partment. porter' "I don't: know their name, sub, but they's goin' to New York jis as fas' as they can git thub. I ain' ax umn no questions, 'cause thuh's somiethin''bout urn makes me feel 's If I aln' got no right to look at umn even." The porter thought a moment. "I don' believe it 'll do yuh any good. suh, to try to shine up to tha' young lady. She aln' the sawt, I can tell yuh that. I done see too many guhls In matime" .By.. RR McCUTCHE ON "Wflnat- are you tanlang about? I'm not trving to shine up to her. I only want to know who she is-just out of curiosity." Grenfall's face was a trife red. --.eg paliden. sub; but I kind 0' thoughlt you was like oth' gent'men when0a they see a han'some woman; allus wants to fin' out somethin' 'bout hul. suh, yub know. 'Seuse me fob imisjedgin' yuh, suh. Th' lady in ques tion is a foh'ner-she lives across th' ocean. 's full as I can fin' out. They's in n hurry to git home fob some rea son, 'cause they ain' goin' to stop this s.de o' Now York 'cept to change cabs." "Where do they change cars?" "St. Louis-goin' by way of Cincin uati ain' Wshin'ton.' Grenfall's ticket carried him by way of Chicago. IHe caught himself won dering if he could exchange his ticket in St. Louis. "Traveling with her father and moth er. I suppose." "No, sub; they's huh uncle an' aunt. I heah huh call 'em uncle an' aunt Th' ole gent'man is Uncle Caspar. I don't know what they talk 'bout. It's mostly some foh'en language. Th' young lady allus speaks Amehican to me. but th' old folks eain't talk it ver' well. They all been to Frisec, an' the hired he'p they's got with 'em say they been to Mexico too. Th' young lady's got good Amehican dollahs. don' care wha' she's been. She allus smiles when she ask me to do anythin', an' I wouldn' care if she nevah tipped me, 's long as she smiles thataway." "Serv:.nats with them, you say?' "Yas, sub; man aii' woman, nex' sec tion t'other side th' ole folks. Cain't say mor'n fifteen words in Amehican. 1' . I There was a pretty look of fEar in herC: eyes. Tb' woman is huh maid an' the man he's th' gen'ral hustler fer th' hull pahty." "And you don't know her name?" "No, sub, an' I cain't ver' well fin'1 out." "In what part of Europe does shet live':r "Australia, I think, suh." "You meau Austria." 1 -"Do I? 'Scuse ma ig'nance. I was lis' guessin' ait it anyhow; onae place's . as good as 'nother ovah thuh, I reck on." "Have you one of those dollars she gave you?" "Yes, sub. Hleh's a coin that ain' Ameican, but she says it's wuth 70 cents in our money. It's a foa'en piece.) She tell me to keep it till I went ovah to huh country; then I could have a i high time with it--that's what she] says, 'a high time'-an' smiled kind 0' 1 knowin' like." 1 "Let me see that coin," said Lorry, eagerly taking the silver piece from the, porter's hand. "I never saw' one like] it before. G-reek, it looks to me, but I( can't make thing out of these letters.1 She gave it to you?" "Yes, sub. las' evenin'. A high time) on 70 cents: That's reediculous, ain't 1 it?" demanded the porter scornfully. "I'll give you a dollar for it. You 1 can hare a- higher time on that." The odd little coin changed owners immediately, and the new possessori dropped it into his pocket with the in ward conviction that he w~as the sil liest fool in existence. Aftcr the por ter's departure he took the coin from i his p'ocket, and. with his back to the door. his face to the window, studie~d its lettering. At one little station a group of In- I dian bear hunters created ecnsiderable inerest among the passengers. Gren-< fal was down at the station platform at once, looking over a great stack of 1 game. As he left the ear he met Unclej Caspar, wh'lo was hurrying tow~ard his niece's section. A few muoments later< she came down the steps. followed by the dignifled old gentleman. Grenfall< tingled with a strange delight as she 4 moved quite close to his side in her) desire to see. Once he glanced at her1 face. There was a pretty lo'ok of fear1 in h'r eyes- as she surv'eyed the mais sie bear's and the stark. stiff ante-1 lopes. B ut she laughed as she turned away with her uncle. G renfarll was smoking his: cigarette and vigorously jingling the coins in his pocket when the train pulled out, Then he swunig on. the car ste'ps and found himself at her feet. She was standing at the top. where she had lingered a 3 moment. There was an ex'iression of anity in her eves as lie looked up into them,~ folkiwetd instatntly by one of relief. Tihen she passed into the cear. Doubtless she would have been as so licitous had lie been the porter or the brakeman, he reasoned, but that she had noticed him at all pleased him. At Abilene lie bought the Kansas City newspapers. After breakfast he found a seat in the observ'ation car and settled himself to read. Presently some one took a seat behind him. H~e did not look back, but unconcernedly cast his eyes upon the bread mirror in the opposite car wall. Instantly he forgot his paper. She was sitting with in five feet of him, a book in her lap. her gaze bent br'ieily on the flitting buildings outside. Hie studied the re flection fur-tively until she took up the book and began to read. The first page of his paper was fairly alie with fresh and important dis patches, chiefly foreign. At length, aft r aniowi: himself to become really; intrested in a P'aris dispatch of some intrnational conseqluene, he turned; his ey'es ag~ain to the mirror. She was )pe book ifrilelr iap, 'but reading, witli training eyes, an article in the paper le held. He calmly turned to the next page ind looked leisurely over it. Another ;lance. quickly taken, showed to him i disappointed frown on the pretty face ind a reluctant resumption of novel reading. A few moments later he turned back to the first jage, holding tie paper in such a position that she -ould not see and, full of curiosity, v-end every line of the foreign news, xvo:dering what had interested her. Under ordinary circumstances Lorry 6vould have offered her the paper and hought nothing more of it. With her, aiowever, there was an air that made dim hesitate. He felt strangely awk ard and inexperienced beside her. Precedents did not seem to count. He iro.e, tossed the paper over the back >f the chair, as if casting it aside for ver. and strolled to the opposite :win low and looked out for a few moments, ingling his coins carelessly. The jin ;le of the pieces suggested something ,Ise to him. Ills paper still hung in ritingly upside downg lie had left it, )n the chair, and the indy was poring ver her novel. As lie passed her he Irew his right hand from his pocket, md a piece of money dropped to the loor at her feet. Then began an em )arrassed search for the coin-in the rong direction, of course. He knew recisely where it had rolled, but pur osely jQoked under the seats on the ther side of the car. She drew her kirts aside and assisted in the search. our different times he saw the little )iece of money, but did not pick it up. -'nally, laughing awkwardly, he began .0 search on her side of the car, where pon she rose and gave hini morb room. he became interested in the search d bent over to scan the dark corners vith eager eyes. Their heads were -ery close together more than once. kt List she uttered an exclamation, and ier hand wvent to the floor in triumph. lhey arose together, flushed and smil ng. She had the coin in her hand. "I have It!" she said gayly, a deli ous foreign tinge to the words. "I thank you"- he began, holding )ut his hand as if in a dream of ecsta y, but her eyes had fallen momentari y on the object of their search. "h'!" she exclaimed, the prettiest urprise in the world coming into her ace. It was a coin from her faraway lomeland, and she was betrayed into he involuntary exclamation. Instant y. however, she regained her compo ure and dropped the piece into his )utstretched hand, a proud flush mount ng to her cheek, a look of cold reserve :o her eyes. He had hoped she would ffer some comment on what she must iave considered a strange coincidence, )ut he was disappointed. He wondered f she even heard him say: "I am sorry to have troubled you." She had resumed her sent, and to iim there seemed a thousand miles be ween them. Feeling decidedly uncom ortable and not a little abashed, he eft her and strode to the door. Again t mirror gave him a thrill. This time t was the glass in the car's end. He iad taken but a half dozen steps when he brown head was turned slyly and pair of interested eyes looked after arm. She did not know that he could ;ee her, so be had the satisfaction of bserving that pretty, puzzled face lainly until he passed through the loor. Grenfall had formed many chance cquaintances during his travels, some :imes taking risks and liberties that vere refreshingly bold. He had sel lo been repulsed, strange to say, and s he went to his section dizzily he ought of the good fortune that had een his in other attempts and asked mimself why it had not occurred to him o make the same advances in the pres nt instance. Somehow she was dif erent. There' was that strange digni y, that pure beauty, that imperial nanner, all combining to forbid the intest thought of familiarity. ie took out the coin and leaned back n his chair, wondering where it came rom. "In any case," .he thought, "it [ make a good pocketpiece, and some lay I'll find some idiot who knows nore about geogr~iphy than I do." Mr. ~orrys own ideas of geography were umbled and vague, as if he had got hem by studying the labels on his intbox. He knew the places he had >een to, and he recognized a new .coun ry by the annoyances of the customs ouse, but beyond this his ignorance vas complete. The coin, so far as he mew, might have come from any one >f a hundred small prinei-palities scat ered about the continent. Before the train reached St. Louis ae made up his mind to change cars here and go to Washington. It also yacurred to him that he might go on :o New York if the spell lasted. Dur ng the day he telegraphed ahead for ecommodations, and when the flier ar ived in St. Louis that evening lie hur ledly attended to the transferring and echecking of his baggage, bought a mew ticket and dined. At S he was in he station, and at 8:15 he passed her n the aisle. She was standing in her tateroom door, directing her maid. ~le saw a leok of surprise flit across mer face as he passed. He slept sound y that night and dreamed that he was rossing the ocean with her. At breakfast he s::w her, but if she ;aw him it was when he was not look ng at her. Once lie caught Unele Cas >r staring at him through his mono :le, which dropped instantly fromn his eye in the manner that is alwvays self xplanatory. Ills spirits took a furi >us bound with the realization that she nd deigned to hionor him by recogni :ion, if only to call attenmion to him yecause lhe possessedi a certain coin. Once the old gentleman asked him he time~'f day and set his watch ac ording to the reply. In Ohio the man ;ervant scowled at him beause lie in oluntaily stared after his mistress as ;he paced the platform while the train vaited at a station-. Again, in Ohio, hey met ..in the vestibule, and he was ~ompelled to step aside to allow her to ass. Hie did not feel particularly ju ilant over this meeting. She did not ven glance at him. Lorry realized that his opportunities -ere fast disappearing and that he did ot seem to be any nearer meeting her :an when they started. He had hoped : get UnTcle Caspar into a conversa :ion and then use him, but Uncle Cas >ar was as distant as an iceberg. "If there should be a wreck,' Grenfall raught himself thinking, "then my hance would come, but I don't see iow Providence is going to help me in my other way." Near the close >f the day, after they eft Cincinnati, the train began to wind bhrough the foothills of the Alle ;hanies. Blellaire, Grafton and other :owns wvere left behind, and they were soon whirling up the steep mountain, aigher and higher, through tunnel aft 3r tunneL nearer and nearer to Wash ngton every minute. As they were pulling out of a little mining town built on the mountain side a sudden iar stopped the train. There was some1 ittle excitement and a scramble fo: .formation. Some part of the engine tas disabled, and It would be neces arv to reace it befre the "run" could proceeu. Lorry strolled up the crowd of pas sengers who were watching the engI neer and fireman at work. A clear, musical voice, almost in his ear, star tled him, for he knew to whom it be longed. She addressed the conductor, who, impatient and annoyed, stood im mediately behind him. "How long are we to be delayed?" she asked. Just two minutes before this same conductor had responded most ungraciously to a simple question Lorry had asked and had gone so far as to instruct another inquisitive trav eler to go to a warmer climate because he persisted in asking for information which could not be given except by a clairvoyant. But now he answered In most affable tones: "We'll be here for thirty minutes at least, miss-perhaps longer." She walked away after thanking him, and Grenfall looked at his watch. Off the main street of the town ran little lanes leading to the mines be low. They all ended at the edge of a steep declivity. There was a drop of almost 400 feet straight into the valley below. Along the sides of this valley wpre the entrances to the mines. Above, on the ledge, was the machinery for lifting the ore to the high ground on which stood the town and railroad yards. Down one of these streets walked the young lady, curiously interested in all about her. She seemed glad to escape from the train and its people, and she hurried along, the fresh spring wind blowing her hair from beneath her cap, the ends of her long coat fluttering. Lorry stood on the platform watch ing her; then he lighted a cigarette and followed. He had a vague feeling that she ought not to be alone with all the workmen. She started to come back before he reached her, however, and he turned again toward the station. Then he heard a sudden whistle, and a min ute later from the end of the street he saw the train pulling out. Lorry had rather distinguished hinAielf in college as a runner, and instinctively he dash ed up the street, reaching the tracks just in time to catch the railing of the last coach. But there he stopped and stood with thumping heart while the coaches slid smoothly up the track, leaving him behind. He remembered he was not the only one left, and he panted and smiled. It occurred to him when it was too late that he might have got on the train and pulled the rope or called the conductor, but that was out of the question now. After Ell. it might not be such a merry game to stay in that filthy little town. It did not follow that she would prove friend ly. A few moments later she appeared, wholly unconscious of what had hap pened. A glance down the track. and her face was the picture of despair. Then she saw him coming toward her with long strides. flushed and ex cited. Regardless of appearances, con ditions or consequences, she hurried to meet him. "Where is the train?" she gasped as the distance between them grew short, her blue eyes seeking his beseechingly, her hands clasped. "It has gone." "Gone? And we-we are left?" He nodded, delighted by the word "we."0 "The conductor said thirty minutes. It has been but twenty!"' she cried half tearfully, half angrily, looking at her watch. "Oh, what shall I do?" she went on distractedly. He had enjoyed /x Sh Ja i com~igt'rdhrwt 'ong "tids the sawet despaiing towar, but th last wail called for manly and instant action. "Can we catch the train? We must! I will give $1,000. I must catch it." She had placed her gloved hand against a telegraph pole to steady her trem bling, but her face was resolute, im perious, commanding. She was order ing him to obey as she would have commanded a slave. In her voice there was authority, in her eye there was fear. She could control the one, but not the other. "We cannot catch the flier. I want to catch It as much as you. and"-here he straightened himself-"I would add a thousand to yours." He hesitated a moment, thinking. "There is but one way, and no time to lose." With thlis he turned and ran rapidly toward the little depot and telegraph office. CHAPTERt II. TWO STnA'NCEns5 IN A coACU. ORRY wasted very little time. He dashed into the depot and up to the operator's window. "-What's the nearest station east of here?" 'P-," leisurely answered the agent in some surprise. "How far is it?' "Four miles." "Telegraph ahead and hold the train that just left here." "The train doesn't stop there." "It's got to stop there or there '11 be more trouble than this road has had since it began business. Th le conduct or pulled out and left two of his pas sengers-gave out wrong information and he'll have to hold his train there or bring her back here. If you don't send that order, I'll report you as well as the conductor." Grenfall's manner was commanding. The agent's impression was that he was important, that he had a right to give orders; but he hesitated. "There's no way for you but to get to P-- anyway," he said while turn ing the matter over in his mind. "You stop that train! I'll get there inside of twenty minutes. Now, be quick! Wire them to hold her, or there 'il be an order from headquarters for some ninety day lay offs." . The agent stared at him, then turned to his instrument, and the message went for ward. Lorry rushed out. On the plat form he nearly ran over the hurrying figure in the tan coat. "Pardon me. I'n explain things in a minute," he gasped and dashed away. Ser. trohble eyes blinked with aston ishment. At the end of the platform stood a mountain coach, along the sides of which was printed in yellow letters, "Happy Springs." The driver was climbing up to his seat, and the cum bersome trap was empty. "Want to make $10?" cried Grenfall. "What say?" demanded the driver, half falling to the ground. "Get me to P- inside of twenty minutes, and I'll give you $10. Hurry up! Answer!" "Yes; but, you see, I'm hired to"-. "Oh, that's all right! You'll never make money easier- Can you get us there in twenty minutes?" "It's four mile, pardner, and not very good road, either. Pile in, and we'll malie it er kill old Hip and Jim. Miss the train?" "Get yourself ready for a race with an express train, and don't ask ques tions. Kill 'em both if you have to. I'll be back in a second!" Back to the station he tore. She was standing near the dQor looking up the track miserably. Already night was falling. Men were lighting the switch lanterns, and the mountains were turn ing into great dark shadows. "Col quickly. I have a wagon out here." Resistlessly she was hurried along and fairly shoved through the open door of the odd looking coach. He was beside her on the seat in an instant, and her bewildered ears heard him say: "Drive like the very desce!" Then the door slammed, the driver clattered up to his seat, and the horses were off with a rush. "Where are we going?" she demand ed, sitting very straight and defialt. "After that train. I'll tell you all about it when I get my breath. This is to be the quickest escape from a dilem ma on record. provided it is an es cape." By this time they were bump ing along the flinty road at a lively rate, jolting about on the seat in a most disconcerting manner. After a few long, deep breaths he told her how the ride in the Springs haelf had been conceived and of the arrangement he had made with the dispatcher. He, furthermore, acquainted her with the cause of his being left when he might have caught the train. "Just as I reached the track, out of breath, but rejoicing, I remembered having seen you on that side street and knew that you would be left. It would have been heartless to leave you here without protection, so I felt it my duty to let the train go and help you out of a very ugly predicament" "How can I ever repay you?" she murmured. "It was so good and so thoughtful of you! Oh, I should have died had I been left here alone! Do you not think my uncle will miss me and have the train sent back?' she .went on sagely. "That's so!" he exclaimed, somewhat disconcerted. "But I don't know, ei ther. He may not miss you for a long time, thinking you are in some other car, you know. That could easily hap pen." triumphantly. - "Can this man get us to the next sta. Non in time?" she questioned, looking at the black mountains and the dense foliage. It was now quite dark. "If he doesn't bump us to death be fore we get half way there. He's driv ing like the wind." "You must let me pay half his bill," she said decidedly from the dark corner in which she was huddling. He could find no response- to this per emptory request. "The road is growing rougher. If you will allow me to make a sugges tion, I think you will see its wisdom. You can escape a great deal of ugly jostling if you will take hold of my arm and cling to it tightly. I will brace myself with this strap. I am sure it will save you many hard bumps." Without a word she moved to his side and wound her strong little arm about his big one. "It had thought of that," ,she said simply. "Thank you." Then, after a moment, while his -heart thumped mad ly, "Had it occurred to you that after you ran so hard you mIght have climbed aboard the train and ordered the conductor to stop it for me?" "I-I never thought of thatr' he cried confusedly. "Please do not think me ungrateful. Yu. have been very good to me, a stranger. One often thinks afterward of things one might have .done, don't you know? You did the noblest whsen you inconvenienced yourself for me. What trouble I have made for you!" "It has been no trouble," he floun dered. "An adventure like this Is worth no end of-er-inconvenience, as you call It. I'm sure I must have lost my head completely, and I am ashamed of myself. How much anxiety I could have saved you had I been possessed of an ounce -of brains!" "Hush! I will not allow you to say that. You would have me appear un grateful when I certainly am not Ach, how he is driving: Do you think It dangerous ?" she cried as the hack gave two or three wild lurches, throw ing him into the corner and .the girl half upon him. "Not in the least," he gasped, the breath knocked out of his body. Just the same he was very much alarmed. It was as dark as pitch outside and In, and he could not help wondering how near the edge of the mountain side they were running. A false move of the flying horses, and they might go rolling to the bottom of the ravine, hundreds of feet below. Still he must not let her see his apprehension. "This fellow is considered the best driver in the mountains," he prevaricated. "Oh, then we need feel no alarm," she said, reassured. There was such a roaring and clat tering that conversation became filmost impossible. When either spoke, it was with the mouth close to the ear of the other. At such times Grenfall could feel her breath on his cheek. Her sweet voice went tingling to his toes with every word she uttered. He was in a daze, out of which sung the mad wish that he might clasp her in his arms. kiss her and then go tumbling down the mountain. She trembled in the next fierce lurches. but gave forth no complaint. He knew that she was in terror, but too brave to murmur. Unable to resist, he released the strap to which be had clung so grimly and placed his strong, firm hand encourag ingly over the little one that gripped his arm with the clutch of death. It was very dar'k and v'ery lonely too. "Oh:" she cried as his hand clasped hers. "You must hold to the strap." "It is broken:" lhe lied gladly. "There is no danger. See, my hand does not tremble, does it? Be calm! It cannot be much farther." "Will it not be dreadful if the con ductor refuses to stop?" she cried, her hand resting calmly beneath its pro tector. He detected a tone of security in her voice. . "But he will stop. Your uncle .will see to that even if the operator fails." "My uncle will kill him if he does not stop or come back for me," shie said complacently. "r 'was not wrong" thmwht Gren faiT. ~ ~ ~ -. 'U ~~Eg: 'GT iG~ U t. wIao the devil arc! they, anyhow'" Then aloud: "At this rate we'd be able to beat the train to Washington in a straightaway race. Isn't it a delight fully wild ride?" "I have acquired a great deal of knowledge in America, but this is the first time I have heard your definition of delight. I agree that it is wild." For some moments there was silence in the noisy conveyance. Outside, the crack of the 'driver's whip, his hoarse cries and the nerve destroying crash bf the wheels produced impressions of a mighty storm rather than of peace and pleasure. "I am curious to know where you ob tained the coin you lost in the car yes terday," she said at last, as if reliev ing her mind of a question that had been long subdued. "The one you so kindly found for me?" he asked procrastinatingly. "Yes. They are certainly rare in this country." -"I never saw a coin like it until after I had seen you," he confessed. He felt her arm press his a little tighter, and there was a quick movement of her head which told him, dark as it was, that she was trying to see his face and that her blue eyes were wide with something more than terror. "I do not understand," she exclaimed. "I obtained the coin from a sleeping car porter, who said some one gave if -"Do you think it dangerous?"I to him and told him to have a 'high, time' with it," he explained in her ear. "He evidently did not care for the 'high time,' "1 she said after a moment. He would have given a fortune for one glimpse of her face.at that instant. "I think he said it oold be -neces sary to go to Europe in- order to follow the injunction of the, donor. As I am more likely to go to Europe than he, I relieved him of the necessity and bought his rigtlht to a 'high time.' There was a long pause, during which she attempted to withdraw her self from his side, her little fingers struggling timidly beneath the big ones. "Are you a collector of coins?" she asked at length a perceptible coldness in hev voice. bog. is r o a disener of Theesn ths aue long pasf duonga awpochksetempIited to witdep itefr elferomn his itdeced litl aners torugeginertionsl beathlo the, big r abou ait?" trofcis? h "aske t comt. e rceptbe cold ns iontry inoich ie, h rsod "e. "Ia onsderedin a disner fro ins Sntill,--eaer cike-that ideand sed ssiuno hismee tomnya -Eealet i desced not aen oeiof to kidhne geain thfollme," held isaidnlugingly. "WyaeousC rios about ithv? se"an ik t "nBecause ithcoee fromeera theian contryie hc.Il",hersod ed.sn't you ere itha land fartiflro cin anyhinld-eve ona remindu-o edoue?" oe dnEyptoibe lurched bacd an. sen opeo "it bidse aig horpro" he riedn tainsnaingly. "Ohend buIhae seni yie ityo? homeh?" "You have no right to question me, her, shesdldy.raig wy "ohrel she lausped "Iudiblyt.ea to beg ynqurtv. padn"h- adtn "When Id ren gierigt. Heoguei meThsie ofter, hurs. fer"frsn teehe sai ." "At Denver?" "How do you know.I got on at Den ver?". "Why you passed me in the aisle with your luggage. Don't you remem ber?" Did he remember! His heart almost turned over with the joy of knowing that she had really noticed and remem bered him. Involuntarily his glad fin gers closed down upon the gloved hand that lay beneath them.. "I believe I do remember, now that you speak of it," he said in a stified voice. "You were standing at a win dow." "Yes, nnd I saw you kissing those ladies goodby too. Was one of- them your wife, or were they all your sis ters? I have wondered." "They-they were-cousins," he in formed her confusedly, recalling an in cident that had beepn forgotten. He had kissed Mary Lyons and Edna Bur rage, but their brothers were present "A foolish habit. isn't it?" "I do not know. I have no grown cousins," she replied demurely. "You Americans have such funny customs, though. Where I live no gentleman would think of pressing a lady's hand Iuntil it pained her. Is it necessary's" In the question there was a quiet dig nity. half submerged in scorn. so point ed, so unmistakable, that he riushed, turned cold with mortification and has tily removed the amorous fingers. "I crave your pardon. It is such a strain to hold myself and you against the rolling of this wagon that I un consciously gripped your hand harder than I knew. You--you will not mis understand my motive?" he begged, fearful lest he had offended her by his ruthlessness. "I1 could not misunderstand some thing that does not exist," she said simply. proudly.. ,, "By Jove, she's beyond comparisOn. he thought. "You have explained, and I am sorry I spoke as I did. I shall not again for get how much I owe you." "Your indebtedness, if there be one, does not deprive you of the liberty to speak to me as you will. You could not say anything unjust without ask ing my forgiveness, and when you do that you more than pay the debt. It is worth a great deal to me to hear you say that you owe something to me, for I am only too glad to be your creditor. Ifthr,-is a ebth you sh never pav t. It is too piensan.hn accouma-to be settled with 'you're welcome' If row insist that you owe much to me, t siall re-fuse to cancel the debt and al tow it to draw interest forever." "What a financier!" she cried. a jest was worthy, of a courtier's flattery. Let me say that I ani proud to owe my gratitude to you. You will not permit it to grow less." -A "That was either irony or the pretti - est speech a woman ever -uttered," he said warmly. "I also am curious a something. You were reading over m shoulder in the observation car" "'1 was inot!" she, exclaimed 'ni nanitly. "How did you know-tha she inconsistently went on. "You forgot the mirror in the site side of the car." "Ach! Now I am offended!" "With a poor old mirror? For shamer . Yet, in the name of our American - industry, I ask your forgiene, -.4 shall not happen again. You mit that you were trying toread my shoulder. Thanks for that iiniuit ble nod. Well, I am- curiouswtI';" what you were so eager to read '" "Since you presume to believe the mirror instead of me, I will tell yo. There was a dispatch on the first.page that interested me de-eply." "I believe I thought as much at the - time. Oh, confound this road!" For half a mile or more. the roid had been fairly level, but, as the ejaculationin dicates, a rough place had beene ed. He was flung back'-In the co violently, his head .coming: in contact with a sharp projection of some- Jin. The pain was almost unbearable, but' was eased by the fact that she bad-in voluntarily thrown her arm across by chest, her hand grasping his shouldex !Z spasmodically. "Oh, we shall. be killed!" she shrieked. "Can you not stophim? is madness-madness!" "Pray be calm! r was to blaie, for)Z I had become careless. He is eri his money; that's all. It was nostip ulated in the contract that hewas consider the comfort of his .ps . gers." Grenfall could feel himself pale as something warm began to trie kle down his neck. "Now, tell which dispatch it was. I read all. them." "You did? Of what interest could . they have been?" "Curiosity does not recognize rea son." "You read every one of them?"" "Assuredly." "Then I shall grant you the guess which interested me the You Americans delight in puzzles, am told." "Now, that is unfair." "So it is. Did you read the'dis Pate from Constantinople?" Her armlI - to her side suddenly as if she had Just - realized its position. "Th'e one that told of the Frenchtil bassador's visit to the sultan?' "Concerningihe small matter loan of some .jillions-yes. Well,. . was of interestto me Inasmuch ast loan, if made, will affect my counti ". "Ww you tell me what countryo - are from?" "I am from Graustark." "Yes; but I don't remember wb,.., that Is." "Is it possible that your schools do not teach geography? tell us where the United -States is cated." "I confess ignorance." "Then I shall insist that you td -a~ map. Graustark is-'smal'l, but I proud of it as you are of this -great z. broad country that- reaches from oceaU$ to ocean. I can scarcely wait until I - again see our dear crags andivalle3s our rivers and ever blue skies, our p~lains and our towns. I wonder If yrou. worship your country. as.I love "From the tenor of yourre rsg judge that you have been away home for a long time." he volunteered. "We have seen something of AIa, Australia, Mexico and the United 2i States since we left Edelweiss'- six months .ago. Now we are going home - -homel" She uttered the word 'so lov ingly. -o-longingly, so tenderly, that-he , envied the l-omeland. There was a long- break in the con _ versaion,. both evidently ,wrapped in thought which could not bedstbe7" by the whirl of the coach. He was - wondering how he, could give her up; now that she had been tossed intohis keeping so strangely. She was asking h'rself over and over again bow Zj. thrilling an adventure would end.. They were sore and fatigued -withr' the strain on nerve and flesh. 'It -was an experience never to be -forgotten, g this romantic race over the 'wild-inoun tan road, the 'result still in doubt Ten ~ minutes ago-strangers; now-friends ' It least, neither knowing the other., "Surely we must be almost at the end of this awful ride," she moaned, yielding completely to the -long .sup pressed alarm. "Every bone in my ody aches. What shall we do if they ive not held the train?"' "Send for an undertaker," he replied grimly, seeing policy in jest. They were now ascending an incline, bump ing A'er bowiders, hurtling through teacherous ruts and water. washed boles, rolling,'swvinginlg, jerking, crash ing. -You have been brave all along. Don't give up now. It is almost over. Youll soon be with your friends." "How can I thank you?" she cried, gripping his'-arm once more. Again his - hand dropped upon hers- and closed gently. "I wish that I- .could do a thousand tim(s as much for you," he said thrill ingl, her disheveled hair touching his face, so close were his lips. ."Ah, the lights of the town!" he cried an instant later. "'Look!" He held her so that she could peer through the rattling glass window. Close at hand, higher up the steep, many lights were twinkling against the blackness. Almost before they realized how near they were to the lights the horses be gan to slacken their speed, a moment - later coming to a standstill. The aw fl ride was over. "The train, the train!" she died in ecstasy. "Here, on the other side' Thank heaven! He could not speak for..the joyful pride that distended his heart almost to bursting. The coach door flew open, and Light Horse JTerry yelled: --~ere y'are! I m'ade her!" "I should say you did!" exclaimed Grenfall, climbing out and draw~ig her after him gently. "Here's your ten." [To BE CONTINUED.] Varied Knowledge. - Mamma asked Nellie what she had learned in Sunday school, and she re plied: "That I must sell three tickets for the concert next week, give 20 cents for the superintendent's present and that Noah built the ark."-Little Chron A U'niversal Desire. Of course the ant has admirable qualities, but I might wish that her In dustry displayed itself In some other fellow's pantry.-New Orleans Times-.