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THE ADVERTISER. Subscription Price-IB Months, $1.00 Payable In Advance. Rates for Advertising.?Ordinary ad vertlsaments, por square, one inser* tIon, $1.00; each subsequent Insertion, 50 oents. Liberal reduction made (or largo Advertisements. Obituaries: All over 50 words, ono cent a word. Notes of thanks: Five cents the line W. VY. Ball, Proprietor. Entered at the postofiloe at Laurens, S. C, as second class mall matter. LAURENS, S. 0., Deo. 7, 1904. Mr. Thoodore Roosevelt contem plates a visit to Atlanta. Such a visit would necessitate his traveling through the South. Atlanta Is a olty which Is surrounded by the South. * There is more money than usual lu Laurens and auy man with the Idea of establishing a factory which would givo employment to labor would find this u favorable time to begin. When wo read the editorials in the Spartanburg Journal we lay down the paper with the impression that we have been reading the Abbeville Press and Bannor. Of course this is Intended as a compliment to both delightful but queer contemporaries. * The Yorkville Enquirer does not commit Itself but It la by no moans aliuukeu at the suggestion of Governor Hey ward for a third term. It Is possi ble that the Hon. Rlohard I- Manning or the Hon. C. S. MoOall or the Hon. Robert P. Hamer or the Hon. Martin F. Ansel would make as good a gov ernor as Mr. Heyward of Colleton but tho latter has mastered the trade. We regard him as au export. If Mr. Heyward should decline to run in 1900 wo hope he will see his way clear to become a citizen of Laurens at the expiration of his present term. As to Contemporaries. The Spartanburg Journal, which talks In its sleep, Insinuates that the 1 Columbia State id not opposed to the Dispensary. We suspect that the Dls pensary would like to bo saved from its friends if that be true. # Dr. k loin's Letter. Printed elsewhere in The Adver tiser today is a letter from Lr. Louis A. Klein, State Veternarian of Clem son, describing the symptoms of a dis eas3 among cattle, which seems to be comparatively new to this section. The disease seems to be the most fatal to very young cattle. It happens to come to the knowledge of the writer that this disease has attackod the cat tle of a farmer in this county, who has made quite an effort to establish a cat tle industry, and was with reason be ginning to be highly gratified with his successes. Now ho is greatly discour aged and expresses a determination to discontinue the undertaking. That of course should not be, rather let him and all others read carefully this let ter and at once procure from Clemson College directions for tho treatment of the disease nud be ready to combat it if they should bo so unfortunate as to have their cattle visited by this malady. ? Make The Town Beautiful. The Advertiser has so often spoken of the business value of keep ing tho town beautiful and without ma terial result that tho sut ject has be come rather tiresome to ourselves as well as perhaps to our readers. Never theless, tho greatest Rain for the least money would be had on making the public equare and the streets beauti ful. The court house should be en closed and the plot of ground around it should be kept in grass. Thore should bo here and thero at street intersec tions plots of grass. The merchants and business men should cease to allow tho walls of their buildings to bo de faced with llaring and ugly advertise ments. If this policy of keeping the town beautiful were once adopted, there would be no disposition to depart from It. The pleasure that our own people would derive would be ample compen sation but overy passing stranger would be favorably impressed and oc casionally a good man would Invest his money in a good home in a town so at tractive. ? Tbc Roosevelt Visit. Why is it that Mr. Roosevelt seems to expect to be cordially ontortained especially by White people when he visits tho South? If for example he should go to Charleston it eeems to us that tho house of William D. Crum would naturally be his home, for part of his visit. Of course he bas some white friendc, who hold office in the South. Without doubt tho Crum family would extend to him a most cordial welcome. Mr. Roosevelt makes asso ciates of his prominent appointees in Northern cities. Would it not bo CO rious if ho should rufuse to do tho same thing in Southern cities. In common decency could lie decline an invitation to lunch at tiie house of 13. T. Wash ington, colored, of Tuskegee, Ala? To put the matter in this bold way may arouse same criticism but no reflection or offence to tho president is Intended or contained in the language. When the president receives Southorn ne groes on social terms in his own home it follows logically and necessarily that he would accept their hospitality when ho is among negroes. Ho cannot con sistently visit Atlanta where thero arc many oducatcd negroes without treat ing them as his social equals. It would be an insult to the negroes if he should come to this Southern country and at pociate only with white people while ho is here. It would be to slam "the door of hope'' with a bang. It there ho any escape from the Inevitahlenesa of this conclusion we soould like to know what it is. AN EMERGENCY MEDICINE. For sprains, bruiser, burns, sca'ds ] and similar injuries, there Is nothing ho good as Chamberlain's Palo Balm. It soothes the wound and not only gives instant relief from pain, but causes tho parts to heal in about one third the I time required by the usual treatment Sold by Laurens Drug Co. and Dr. B. Posey. ^\ Posi IL KILLS CATARRH ?ERMS. Breathe Hyomel and be Cured of Ca tarrh-Costs Yothlng it It Falls. Breathe Hyomel for a few minutes four times a day, through tho neat pocket Inhaler that comes with every outfit, aod benefit will be seen at once. Contiuue this treatment for a short time, and your catarrh will have been cured by Hyomel. There is do roundabout way iu Uy omel medical aot'on; It does not try to oure a disease of the beac by putting medicine in the stomaoh It fills the air you breathe with balsamic hoallng, that sooihea the Irrtated and smartug membraue, destroys the germs of ca tarrh that are presont in the bead and throat and U the only treatment that oan be relied upon to oure. When using Hyomel the air you breathe will be like that on the moun tains high above the sea level, filled with vi)1 utile, antiseptic fragrance that heals and oures the Irritated mucous membrane of the air passages. This treatment has been so success ful, curing 09 per cent, of all who havo used it, that Ilyomei is now sold by Laurens Prug Co. under an absolute guarantee to refund the money If It does not benefit. You run no risk whatever in buying Hyomel. If it did not pofssrs unusual powers to cure, It could not he sold upon this plan. The complete Hyomoi outfit cods $1.00 and comprisei a hard rubber In haler, a bottle of Hyomei and a drop per. The inhaler will lsst a life-time; and additional bottles of Ilyomei can be obtained for 50c. Mrs, Williams Dead. Mrs. Williams, wife of John D. Wil liams, died Wednesday night at her home at the Laurens Cotton Mill. Mrs. Williams had boou in declining health for several years. Her husband and five young children survive. The de ceased was laid to rest Thursday after noon at Holly Grove church. A CONTINUAL STRAIN. Many men and women are constantly subjected to what they commonly term "a continual strain" because of tomo financial or family trouble. It wears and distresses them both mentally and Fihy8loally, affecting their nerves bad y and bringing on liver and kidney ailments, with the attendant evils of constipation, loss of appotito, sleepless ness, low vitality and despondency They oannot, as a rule, get rid of this "continual strain," but they can remo dy its health destroying effects by tak ing frequent doses of Green's August Flower. It tones up the 'liver, stimu lates the kidneys, insures healthy bod ily functions, gives vim and spirit to one's whole being, and eventually dis pels tho physical or mental distress caused by that "continual strain." Trial bottle of August Flower, 25c; reg ular size, 75c. At all druggists. Death of Miss Burns. M iss Lidie Burns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Burns of the Bryson section, died last Tuesday afternoon as the result of a malignant attack of fe ver. She was 111 about three woeks. The burial services were held at War rior Creek Church, Wednesday after noon at 8 o'clock. Miss Burns was fifteon years of age and was a young woman loved and ad mired by all who knew her. GRIP iQUIOKLY KNOCKED OUT, ' "Some weeks ago during the severe winter weather both my wife and my self contracted severe colds which speedily developed Into tho worst kind of la grippe with all Its miserable symptons" says J. S. Egleston, of Ma ple Landing, Iowa. "Knees and joints aching, muscles soro, head stopped up, eyes and nose running, with a'torn?, to spells of chills and fever. We began using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, aiding the same with a dose of Cham berlain's Stomach and LI vor Table es, and by Its liberal use soo/i completely knocked out tho grip." These Tablets promote a healthy action of the bow els, liver and kidneys-whlch is always beneficial when the system iscongeste.": by a co'd attack of the grip. For sale by The Laurens Drug Co. and Dr. B. F. Po3oy. MRS. T. R. RIDDLE. A Most Excellent Christian Lady Passts Away. Mrs. Susan Amanda Riddle, wife of T. R. Riddle, died at her home near Ora, Tuesday, Nov. 29th, aged 54, hav ing been born Jan. 28, 1850. She had been in falling health for two years and for the past several weeks her con dition had been extremely critical Mrs. Riddle was a most excellent Christian woman and her hope beyond the grave was evidenced by her daily walk and conversation. She was laid lo rest Wednesday In the cemetery of Beaverdam Baptist Church. She was the daughter of Washington Winn, of Cross Hill Township, and was married to Mr. Riddle, Dec. B, 1871. Besides her husband, 11 children survive. Thoy nro Mrs. Wash Saxon, Spartanburg; m- A. Riddle, Waterloo; Mrs. Odessa Mol'herson, Waterloo; Mrs. Texie Cheok, Princeton; G. F. Riddle, Alabama; C. R. Riddle, Con cord, N. C ; C. W. Riddle, Charlotte, N. O.; Wilbur Riddle, Misses Susie, Lola and Hattio Riddle of Ora. Mrs. Riddle was a Baptist and be came a member of Durban Creek Church in 1872. In 1887 her member ship was transferred to Mt. PloaFant. A CERTAIN CURE FOR CROUP. When a child shows Symplons of croup there is no time to exparlment with new romedlos, no matter how highly ? they may be recommended. Thero la one preparation that always can bo depended upon. It has boon In use for many years and has nevor boon known to fall, viz: Chamberlain'* Cough Remey. M. F. Compton of Market, Texas, pays of It, '"I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in tevere cases of croup with my chil dren, and oan truthfully say It always gives prompt relief." For sale by Lau rens Drug Co. and Dr. B, F. Posey The annual meeting of tho Grand Lodge of Soath Carolina, Ancient Free Masons, will ho held in Charleston De cember 13 and 14. My wife was all run down, ar.d I feared a Jong illness; but ono bottle of King's fcarsaparllla made a new wo man of her. It is a wonderful medi cine. F. j. Rrkman, Seversvillo, N. C. Sold by Palmetto Drug Co. It is now thought that South Caro ina will make a million bales of cotton this year. When you want a pleasant purgativo try ( hamheriain'8 Htomach and Liver Tablets. Tbey aro easy to take and produce no nausea, griping or other disagreeable effect. For salo by Lau i rena Drug Co. and Dr. B. F. Posey. ; fiitiit t\A ma earts HALLIE Sj^... CRM IN IE RIVES rageous Copyri?M. 1302, liy TUE BO WEN-MERRILL COMPANY CHAPTER IX. EN the gray wreathed dawn Lord Duniuoro, at tho head of his Virginia troops, marched off With fife and drum fur Fort Pitt, and the buff and scarlet passed the King's Anns, where Auue peered from tho window to seo them off. In one of the scarlet groups she distin guished Francis Byrd. Drawing the curtaius close under her chin, she put out a hand and waved to him, smiling, and he saluted her faco with a ?a<3h or his sword and a wistful look as ho rode by. Immediately behind tho governor, near Jarrat, rode Poy, and a sting of ro sentment made her clinch her hands, with the steel In her eyes. Wben they had gone she crept back Into the warm bod and lay smilingly thinking. She should see Armand soon again, and he should nov?r know what sho had done. So thinking, she drop ped to sleep and did not wake till tho tnin was high. She breakfasted w4th gay spirits, In sisted on riding horseback and, followed by John tho Baptist, galloped off a half hour in advance of her aunt's chariot along the way to Qreenway Court. Sho entered. No one was in the hall, and her feet fell noiselessly In the thlok buffalo robe on tho floor. Rho pushed open the door of lh? liv ing room and then stopped, startled. She saw a settle strewn with slrins, a ware of curling brown hair pillowed on it, and under Ulis n glimpse of a pale faco turned away. Thero was a shaded window opposite, and light canio through it whltely. A hand and wrist hung over to the floor. There was some thing desolate In the silence, something stealing In the droop of that hand that brought a smart to Anne's eyes as she looked. Suddenly she caught her breath and took quick steps forward into the room, gazing searohlngly at the figure on tho couch?the strong hair, setting all the paleness of the face in a shadowy frame; tho blue circles under tho closed lids, tho young mouth, the upward Bweep of the rounded chin. Sho began to tremble exceedingly, her lips un steady, her great blue eyes misting, her whole face caught In a quaking terror. She had gone whiter than a moon flow or. "They were too late!" sho whispered. "You fought, then? Ah, while I was bo Kind!" She crouched down by tho settle, her' Land pressed tight against her heart, full of a joyful anguish she had never known. Something she had fought down hitherto rose In her throat and choked her at Bight of this hurt, this helplessness, At last, yielding all at once, with a little soh and a gesture of pride and longing and surrender, sho bent slowly, like a swaying lily, and kissed him on tlie forehead. lie stirred and opened his eyes with wonder in them to see her face so near. "Mademoiselle!" "You have been wounded!" she breathed. Ho tried to rise and. failing. Smiled at her. "It is a little thing. The doc S/ic bcnl slowly, like a Rwnylny hin lor li:is told me tli.it. And you care! Then it is nothing -loss than nothing." "You make light of It." lie lifted himself on one elbow and stretched out an uncertain hand to ward her. ".Mademoiselle," he said, "was 1 dreaming when you canio or did?or did"? She was en her feet now, and her eyes turned their gaze away. "No, no," she answered; "you were asleep." "As I opened my eyes Just now It Seemed as if you had kissed mo on the forehead. Was that a dream, made tuolsello?" "it was a (in am," she Ott Id hurried ly, her voice wavering. "You kissed me?" Joy was in his look. "No." "Ah. mademoiselle I" Ho fell back on tho skins. With suddenly rosying cheeks sho ran toward the door to meet tho old baron entering from tho hall. There was at last a Ion? Novombor week while Anno was at Winchester and when sho and Armand, his wound healed, rode together along tho valley ways. The young Frenchman still re mained a guest, for the baron would hear no word of departure. Ho sworo he should not leave him till the season opened again at WHUamsburg. Tho day befoi'0 their return to Glad den Hall tho ladles spent at Grcon woy Court. As the mild November afternoon faded Armand and Anne sat in tho rustic house, built of twisted grapevine, sot where tho round spur on which the lodge was built fell steep ly down. A book lay on her knee. For oway against the long sashes of sapphlro light tho sweep of ragged Blue nidge stood listlessly. The river bottom was a violet gray reach of stain soaked grasses, hung with wreaths of trailing Virginia creeper, dabbled in tho summer's blood, or as tf the peaks ran down with red wine wasting. Anne pointed where Just below tho river wavered like a sheet of spun Kil ver, edged with soaked velvet. "The Indians call It Shennando," she said, "Daughter of the Stars." Ho loaned forward and lifted the lit tie" book', i(m binding of parchment, pal-1 yellow, like antique ivory. "It I? u tale of pay own lund," bo said softly, "of Novniandy, in the old days wben the troubadours sun;;." "1 have not yet read it," she answer ed. "Tell me the Htory." "It la of the soji of a poor woodcut ter. Tolling once by his hut In the for ost, bo saw by chance the daughter of a king as she rode past with her cavnl Cade. He brought her a cup of water, and she smiled on him. So fair Bho was that he loved her to desperation and could not rest nor sleep from thinking of her face. lie traveled far and cnnifl by Ulghl beneath her window und sang books to bet*, BOUgS delicate and beauti ful, In phrases that only his great love had taught him, and when he sang ho touched the Firings of his own heart. The lady list,-nod, and her tears fell down from the window In the palace wall. She >\KS a great lady and he the lowest of the I mil. and In the hopeless ness of h'.a passion he Bang that be was a pvlP.tfe Of a hostile country, woo Ing in r.Jtliv of rugs the darling to whose ptvjsru p he might not rightly come. His were not like the songs of the gilded courtiers that flocked her father's gate. They were more noblo and true, and his love climbed upon them as if on stairs of goln" nud drew her heart out to him over the sill. One night she slipped out to his arms In tho darkness. Then he knelt on the yellow forest leaves and told her Hie truth nnd pleaded as excuse his great love. And he would have gone fj-om her and left her to go back alone." "What then?" demanded Anne. "She took his band nnd kissed hlni and went awny with him to bis hut in the forest/* Both were silent a moment. The vivid tints in the sky were pal ing. The river's silver dulled to mauve. The glcoh), nil luminous, seamed an impatient suitor steallug/umorous upon the drowsy day. The day stirred, glowed again ami spread out a tawny Hood as a woman drops her hair under conic golden lamp to please a lover's whim. '?Think you," he asked then very low, "that such a love might be?" " 'Twns for love of her," she said softly. When he spoke again she felt a thrill in his voice. "Madomoisojlo, Bupposo a man loves with n love that fills all the sky; that for him there was but tin; one woman in the world. Suppose she found that he was not what she bad thought him when she llrst loved hlui; that the idol she had worshiped was just clay. If ho stood moan and small before the world before her?but still loving her, adoring her! If It were not a princess going to a hut in the forest, but a wo man prideful and-and ashamed! Could sho still love him as before? Could she? Could she?" Her eyes could not meet bis burning ones. "Monsieur," she said, qulveriug, "when a woman loves, sho will forglvo anything everything?In the man she loves save" She stopped. There was a muffled sound of horse hoofs from the climbing road. "Save what?" "Save lack of love for hor." The hoof beats were coming nearer. She made a desperate effort to compose herself. He bad bent toward her, so near she could smell the fragrance of ha/.el lnisl.es in bis bair. "Thin it would not jnnttor, she would not car*'!" ho cried Joyously. "He might be either the prince or the woodcutter, mademoiselle ?" The last shaft of the sunlight stum bled and tangled on her brow. Dark loomed near. Only a gold brush was laid lightly upon the middle distance "If a woman loved and was loved bo naught elso would count, not oven even If be were despised by all the world oven"-- Her lips wore tremu lous. She felt his hand on the bench beside her suddenly touch hor own. There was a trampling behind them. Both turned to the porch, where Lord Fairfax stood leaning on Joe's arm to welcome the two riders who had Just dismounted. The young mun made nu exclamation. "Why," exclaimed Anne, "'tis the governor himself, returned from Fort 1 lit!" As they approached, the girl crimson ing with the memory of her night er rand to the Winchester fort, the eorl was binding blllklly over the band of Mrs. Til lot son in the doorway. "You honor my poor bouse with this visit," said the old man, beaming. "Anne, you know bis excellency." The governor bowed to her COUl'tCSy mid sei Ids eyes on the paler face of the liguro nt hor side. First a low chuckle began in his thront; then he slapped Ms thigh, "So that was how the land lnyl" he guffawed. "Not content with quarrel ing with my soldiers, eh? And incogni to yet, I'll be bound!" The baron fltood staring, and Anne looked n bit frightened. The governor reached a thick arm nnd prodded the young man genially In the ribs. "Sly dog, oh?" ho winked. "Tut, tutl Would you still deny us poor Virgin ians? Ualth, then, come here! Ladles, my I^ord Fairfax, It pleasures mo to present to you M. Ie Murquls de la Trou erle." CHAPTER X. mllE Marquis do la Trouerlo was a huge success. Willlamsburg's wealth and beauty vied In en tertaining him, and no rout was complete without him. At the Halelgh tavern, whose low WOOden wolls wero kept a-throb with packs of new deviltries brought by young bloods of tho navy from the sloop of war Fowey, conio .to anchor In York Bonds, he wns tho center ef ob servation when bC diced, ('"'"missions In tho roynl navy wont for gold In that rotten reign, and their holders wero younger sons with as much money to spend us the younger sons of tho broad mnnors of Virginia. Young Brooke, who, by aid of half tho broken fortuned harpies nnd rooks of London, had long ago run through all he could lay hands on and whoso folk was always, "When 1 hunted at Tunbrldgo Wolls with my Lord This," Or "When my Lord That had mo nt Hendron castle for Easter," bad now nobility near at home to descant upon. "A great.juau fin Frunvo," he would _. , , ,. , ..-!_ .-I,ii ?;i. -n dir roomrul, smoothing u? ruftics, "favorite of Marie Antol [lotto's, they say, nud a* rich as Job.? Dory. Egad, I'd like the pattern of the coat he bad on this morning 1" Ah for the marquis, he took Ms hon ors quietly, superbly. More than onoe it was reported that he had dined pri vate !y with the royal governor, hot ho himself clearly thought it scarce worth mentioning. An interesting story of a duel with Captain Foy gained currency for a time. The captain was said to have wounded the marquis slightly by tout moans, but ^oy wus absent muoh of the time on business for the governor, and the story was forgotten save for the passing glamour It cast upon the new favorite. The nobleman's preference for the beauty of WUliamsburg was soon per* eelved, and very early Mrs. Byrd had begun to hint at broken hearts and the folly of young girls who set their eyes too high, Anne herself was never so beautiful, never so brilliant, never so willfully captivating, as now, when a scarf of gnyoty hid the passion of many hearts fermenting. On an afternoon they two, Anne and Armand, walked slowly under the pines that stretched down from the gateway of Gladden Hall. Just beforo the marlletted gateway he stopped. "You are cruel to me, mademoiselle." His voice was anxious, vibrating, long- j Ing. "Why cruel, monsieur?" "Ah, 1 need not tell you that!" he Bald, looking at her earnestly. "Is It that I have failed? Am I not some how what you would wish iu?a noble man? is there something lacking?" She shook hot; head. "No, no!" "Yet something Is different I have searched so hard to Und what it is. 1 have seen you at the routs and have danced with you, but you are not the Bame. At (ireenway Court, there where the leaves were falling?I wish It could j have been so always, us two, In the forest?you were kinder and not so cold to me!" "Marquis!" There was a splendor of color lu her face, bent sweet to him. j Her eyes, tinted nnd lustrous, were | gay beneath the warm glimmer of her hair. "Marquis!" repeated the young man. flushing. "I was not that to you In the forest. I found then that you were not like the ladles of my land, who know naught save grandeur and titles, but that you could bo above such things, that you were such a one as I have dreamed must be somewhere. 1 ask you only to be to me as you were then as you were that day when the governor came back?when I sat with you on the hillside. Can you forget, 'mademoiselle, that I am not Just the same that I was then?" "You are so much more. Then I did not know who you were." "I would the governor had not come," he said. "I would have remained to you just the same as I had been?the same as when for one moment I held you in the broken coach, and that mo ment when I opened my eyes at (Ireen way ( ourl and saw your face:" She felt her hands trembling, her heart beating its way through her breast. His voice was very low as he went on: "A man 11 ads some time the one of all the. world he would not have cold to him. lie may never have seen her? her whom he lias looked for all his life the woman in his heart! Hut he al ways knows her when ho hears her speak! lie can never know when or where thai may be. It is at the ball or walking iu the street or riding In a coach. That day, mademoiselle?and It was before you knew?I was Jus!^ M. Armand, not the Marquis de la Trouorle. I was not great then, but Just a man- and unworthy!" "No," she said, her tone tremulous; "not unworthy. That night at tho tavern iu Winchester?Unit was tho bravest thing I had ever seen?tho noblest! Do you think anything, any thing, could make me forget that?" "And you would have come to me! But now?but now"? She looked at kin! with a little vi brant thrill of pride. How sweetly blind he was! "Now?" she asked. "Now 1 can only ask you to remem ber that it was M. Armand, not tho marquis, who knelt to you when you loid your hand on his head that night at Winchester, with the whlppoorwlll and the moonlight, and who told you? what ho is trying to tell you now, what ho tried to loll you when you saw him lying at Green way Court, only you would not listen." She turned to him u look that was all molting, all tenderness, all confusion of Impulses, a look that: caught him and held him spellbound. "You kissed me," cried Armand In a triumphant voice. "You kissed me! It was not a dream! Look in my eyes." Sho looked at him, paling, feeling her hands imprisoned in his own. He laughed wltli a low, fierce delight, for her breath wn. quick, her eyes like mist and fire. "Do you love me?" ho breathed, a sudden passion leaping In bis voice. "Do you love me?" He caught her ekwo to him. Tho whole world turned beneath her feet, and tho stars shook. "My gold rose! Tell mol Is It so?" 8ho moved her head with a mingled gentur?> of pride, of shnmo of yielding, of assent Thon with a little cry, fright ened yet joyful, Bho felt his arms, mas terful, draw her close to him and stood trembling, Joyous, a wave of lovo en gulfing her. "Answer me," be said. "The night we sat in tho rustic bouse and the son was a big red flowor closing. Yon re mom her what I asked your" "Yes." "If tho man you loved?If I?should come to be mean and unworthy before the world**? "But you are not** "If I were?" "My king!" "if you saw me sneered at, despised, but still loving, still worshiping"? "I would love you! I would lore jpoul" ' A light camo over his fane, brilliant and pale. "With the lore that Is the all, that is greater than the world, that is above station, above honors, above name? That outlasts them allr* Her arms wont up about hin neck, and their lips met in a fl\-Bt long idss. "All," she whispered. "Affl MT&m is! My beloved I" ??*??? e Anno peered Into the worm library of Gladden Hall, all aglow with her strange new delight Tb? fire was low, and doming embers made the dusk rosy e*>d uncertain. She smiled aa she saw - Mm figure sitting Mh test on In I rtd J, just fbo top f* tfc* pow dered poi ike showing over the back of tho big chair. With her finger on her Hps in that In stinctive pantomime that belongs to woman, she stole across the floor on tiptoe and, swooping suddenly, clapped her cold palms over the eyes at the soli tary occupant and laughed g*itfx AS he RhMfted und put warm befitib *> tor "I have a secret to tell you," she brcntlicd with a Uutterlug laugb, "and you mustn't look at me when 1 say it. I wonder if any one in Virginia can be as happy as I urn. The Marquis de la Trouerlo?uncle, ho has asked mo to wed him"? She ended with a subdued scream and, stumbling, went back a few steps, for tlVo figure that had risen from the chair was not Colonel TlllotSOU. Even In the dim light as she retreated she could see the glare of lluming uiallco In his look and the sneer curling bis full lips. "I tell you, Captain .larrat," she said in u wave of fierce anger, "I hate you! I hate your face ami your oral ly ways! Ah," she ended, stamping hor foot, "no gentleman would have let mo speak? would have listened." "I am no marquis," Jarrat rejoined, with a ghastly smile. "I am only sorry I did not hear the end of that sweet confidence. The fair Mistress TlllotSOU answered that she would Joy to wed the noble gentleman, 1 suppose." "Aye, and if she did?" Ho laughed?a jarring, mirthless laugh. "Why, thcu, I, who have Tailed to win her with a simple soldier's name, should wish her joy of the tinsel of her title." "You mistake," she cried passionate ly. "An you wore the king himself I would not look at you. The man I love I would wed the same were ho poor and nameless and of no report?aye, a laborer In the fields instead of the no bleman he Is!" A voice in the hall struck across the quivering tones: "Hnshlelgh, a bottle of my best ca nary, and Bllr your bones about It. Come In, come In, marquis. Wo shall have a glass to this, I promise you." The door opened, and Colonel TlllotSOU came forward, blinking in the blaze of Vho branched candlestick he carried. "Ah, here you are, Anne, Intrenched In the dusk with re-eufot'ccmeuts, eh? Well, the battle is over, and I have surrendered." She had raised her hand to stop him. "Uncle," sho warned, "you have a guest." The colonel stopped at sight of the other in some confusion. "Why," ho exclaimed, "I am Indeed sorry! Rashlelgh, you black rascal, why did you not toll me the captain wafl"herc?" "I did but call to bear a message to your niece, colonel," .larrat answered. Jicr amis went up ubuul his hccU. "I have delivered it. I must offer :i;<<,1 ogles for being an Intruder at such a moment." "Tut!" snld the colon- !. "Rashlelgh, set that tray here. Another glass for the captain. Captain, we drink unend ing happiness to a fair woman and a gallant cavalier." Jsrrat raised the slim glass with its topaz liquid, and his smile lingered darkly on Anne's face, still auger white. The smile hid a quality that mode her shiver. "A fair woman," he repeated, "and? a noble gentleman! What more ideas ant toast? Now must I h ave you and back to Willlnmsburg. Mistress, I kiss your hand. Mnt'quls, my most Millie felicitations. Colonel, I beg you will not disturb yourself. I will get my horse myself. Gentlemen, I bill y< n good day." Continued oi Seventh Page. Dr. Woolley's PAINLESS PIUM AND Whiskey Cure si'NT FTtRK to nil users of morphine, opium, laudanum, ??Ii\ir ni opium,co enlne or whiskey, a larKo book of par* tlculnrson hotucor sanatorium treat ment. Address, nr. B. M. WOOLIiEY, I'. (). box '.'.s7, Atlmitn, (ieorgla* >OOOOOGOGO* Insure Your Proper ty In Old Line Companies. 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