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| The Bishop's | Impromptu || By C. C. GA&NETT IId OvpvrioKt, by E. E. (MrtuJt "Whatever possessed yeu," said Mis; Cordelia, "to quarrel with her?"' "I didn't. 8be quarreled with me." "Don't be an Adam." Bert Ignored the case of Adam. "I! I could see her alone," he said gently? "alone accidentally." "Accidentally, of course. That's where I come in 7" "Why pot?' "Because I am on her shle." "But ao," rndlantly, "am I, always on ber side." "Oh, Indeed!" "Miss Cordelia, ahe sent me her ring with a note saying ahe had changed her mind. I can't go cringing after that enn I? But accidentally"? "Why," Interrupted Miss Cordelia, "did she change her mind?" "Borne law of the fourth dimension may explain." "Tou've no guess?" "Well," protested Bert, "a man can't be an Egyptian mummy Jnst because he'a engaged." **I see. And I don't see any hope for you." "Then I'm sorry to he a nuisance. Miss Cordelia, but" settling himself like a rock, "I must stay until she cornea. She comes often, doesn't she?" Mlaa Cordelia began to laugh. "Why," ahe aaked, "don't you write to her?" "I want to be stire that she cares before?well, one doesn't like to be a hound dog for nothing." "And how will you be made sure?" "Ob, the minute I see her." "It must be delightful." Miss Cordelia remarked pleasantly, "to be n man." "Oh, I'll know," said Bert, with genial assnrnnce, "and you'll help, and then"? He stopped, with a sudden flash of mischief in his eyes. "And then?" Miss Cordelia leaned toward him. wltli her own eyes twinkling. '"Then I'll kidnap her!" cried Bert and sprang to his feet. "If she cares. Miss Cordelia, upon my soul, I'll kidnap her." "Oh, how young and silly!" said Miss Cnrrtclln nnil al ?r>io/i "Listen. It's quite sensible." Bert explained Joyously. "The engagement was talked about, yon know. Every one discovered It." "Yes," assented Miss Cordelia and atnlled. "Now the break Is being talked about, and little Nlxle, poor girl, hates the whole business." "It's quite likely." Miss Cordelia put In dryly, "that she especially hates the talk going >n about you and that little flirt Nellie nrl." "That Isn't my fault. Anyway," with convi tton. "this plan will make everything right." "Oh, indeed." repeated Miss Cordelia. "You see. after all she's been through"? "Exactly." Miss Cordelia put in. with feeling. "I mean in the way of talk. She'll hate to begin all over again." "80""80," beamingly, "we'll cut the thing short." "And I'm to furnish the knife?" Bert gave licr a nod. "It's great," he cried and made for the door. "I'll see the bishop." "Mercy on us!" protested MJsb Cordelia, but he only paused to make a brief request. "Miss Cordelia"? "Oh, you silly boyf" "Ask her to wear white." "I dare say." "1*11 tall her the rest myself." "And when," laghued Miss Cordelia, 'if she to wear white?" "Tonight, of course. You wouldn't have me lire through another day like this?" Miss Cordelia surrendered. "Come to dinner," she told him. "Come early ?and?we'll see." "It's great." sold Bert and was off. Migs Cordelia l>egnn to feel a little fluttered. Hhe got Nixie on the telephone. Would Nixie come to dinner? Nixie would be delighted to come. "And I wish." called Miss Cordelia next, "that you'd wear white, dear. I?I like you in white." "Ifs very fortunate, then, that I've a new white silk," said Nixie. Miss Cordelia chuckled. "Come early," she added. "Be sure to conve early. and Nixie"? "Yes." "There's ?juite a snow beginning. Wear that pretty, warm cloak of yours, the long, fur lined one with the hood. We're all going to a?a little impromptu at the bishop's and come hack to supper." And then she fled out of hsgrlng. Nixie dressed as desired and cams early. "What sort of impromptu?" she qaeetlonod brightly. Mtas Cordelia helped to unfastan the for Cloak. "Ifa a secret," aha explained. "Oradooe. how fanny! Does tha bishop know? who knowsV "Vary faw know," admitted Miss Cor* dells "Mayn't IV pleaded Nlxle sweetly. "U#e a white drees and a cloak." sroll* Va?, "anything to do with ItV Mies Cordelia snddanly blsesd bar. "TVs a haenrtlful secret Bart will tall ytVr aai yea mustn't bo angry, dear." "Ok," Odd Jflxla S*d for an Instant tl? ihdSk of bdtfe was in her ayes, * arold hlflh * { rejected the poor boy, I think," faltered Miss Cordelia?"but I mustn't meddle? I think you might show him ti little grace." "How," Nixie questioned frostily, "does any one know anything?" "Oh, they look nt ltert, I suppose," said astute Miss Cordelia. "Shall we go down, dear?' They went down and found Mr. .Jordan waiting. There was a white rosebud in his coot, nnd he was rather white himself, but a kind of smolder1 ing lire was In liis eyes. "Will you show Nixie my new orchids?" suggested Miss Cordelia. "I , must stay here to receive the other guests. And, ltert, tell her about the impromptu?the bishop's impromptu." Mr. Jordan bowed. Nixie led out * with a grnceful nonchalance. i ney nt once rorgot the new orchids, though a whole end of the conservatory wus a cascade with their welrtl rainbow bloom. After a silent time NIxlc pouted. "You needn't sulk," she told him. "I didn't mean to," Bert protested in hurried meekness. "I was only anxious about?nbout some roses that I've ordered." "Oh, indeed 1" "Yes. I wns wondering if they'd get to the bishop's In time." "You and Miss Cordelia," she remarked sedately, "seem to have the bishop's Impromptu quite weighing on your minds." "Oh, it's no great matter to her," said Bert. "But a great matter to you?" "Well, they're- bride roses, you see." "A wedding!" cried Nixie alertly. "Wns that what Miss Cordelia meant? a wedding?" "Yes," he admitted, "that Is what she meant." And be wns white as his rosebud. She looked at him, and suddenly the battle was again in lier eyes. "Ilow stupid of me!" she said and made a low bow to him. "Of course only the bridegroom sends the bride roses. Allow me to congratulate you. You've been breaking it to me gently? I am so much obliged to you?that you are the linppy man." it is my weaning," snwi Hert nna set liis teeth. "So kind of you to mention it. Has Miss Carl come yet?" "I don't know." "Shouldn't you be finding out?" But her*? there came n direction?the swish of skirts, with chatter and laughter, going down the hall. 'Oh," said Nixie, "they're going in to dinner." Mr. Jordan gruvely offered liis arm. The girl's lips quivered. She looked up at him in swift appeal in the way of the days before the quarrel. "They'll nil knew," she faltered, "that you've been telling me, and they'll try not to stare and not to smile, and it wITI be horrid, horrid 1" "Don't go," said Bert. She gave a nervous laugli and slip, ped her hand within his arm, but he stood still. "We must go," she said und gave a little pull and set her mouth in as firm a line as she could. "It's too late not to." "It's rather late to go." said Bert. "They're all seated by now. If Miss Cordelia lias given us the places that she used to give us"? "We'll huve to walk the whole length of the tnble," broke Id Nixie and gave a little sob. "I'll never forgive Miss Cordelia?never. And where," suddenly drawing away from him, "is Nellie Carl?" "I think," said Bert, astutely bend: ing his head to listen, "that they're sending for us." Truly n step came down the hall. "Oh," gasped Nixie, "so they nre!" "Let's out and run," said Bert. In another instant they had whisked out among the stray flakes of the piazza. She leaned against one of the pillars. One hand In a hurried little flutter of excitement went to her throat. The other Bert held and felt it trembling. "Come on," he said, joyously facing the snowy night, "come on!" "Come where?" The dismay of it was touching, but Bert laughed. "To the bishop," he explained. "The impromptu." "But I don't want to go there now." "Why not? You always intended, didn't you?to be married by the bishop? Why not now?" There was a pause, wheroin vainly through the darkness he tried to search her face. "Let me carry you to the sleigh," Bert entreated, "so that your little feet will not get wet In the snow." "Your sleigh Is waiting?" "At the curb." "And Nellie Carl?' He laughed triumphantly and, snatching her up Id hie arms, ran out Into the street, and ready under the great fur robes of the sleigh was the hooded cloak. "How ever did Mlse Cordelia guess?" laughed Bert as he drew It about her, "or did you tell her?" "You are two wicked plotters," returned Nixie Indignantly. "I shall go back to that dinner." But the groom had stepped back from h* horse's head. "Ifs great!" cried Bert, as they dashed down the street with the soft cold beat of the snow in their faces. "And I can't stop the horse unless"? "Welt unless?" "Unless you want him stopped. NixlA" "Do you know," asked Nixie demurely, "If either of us hen told the bishop, because It would not be respectful te disappoint him?" "But there's one thing, Nlxle." This somewhat later. "Oh, Is thsra?" "Yea hcrsn't pour mind st all en Nolle Cert have yen?" "Wtit" said Nfefts, and softly laughsd, *1 isn't see *fcy you should kidnap %ewaS?A**it*n*uauiai* THE PANTHEON. I I!::n V.'ltli*to<i<l VIcIwmItnilra of I llvrp Twriily 1'rntnrlo*. 'JT.?> Pantheon is the must interesting ?>f nil tie interesting pieces of Koine. If was used for Its present purpose ph :i place of religious worship before the foundations of the Coliseum were laid. Its huge doors have opened to admit the great ones of the earth, from Augustus Caesar to Napoleon, an assertion tliat will scarcely be disputed. It stands in the very heart of old Rome, and tlie vicissitudes which have befallen the Kternal City during the i 2,000 years of its existence have left 1 It practically unchanged. The gilded bronze that lined Its roof has been carried off to "decorate" St. Peter's, where. ; in the form of clouds and Cupids, cords and curtains, it tills the beholder with | displeased amazement. . Its tiles of bronze and gold were re- ; moved to Constantinople l.oOO years ago. and the statues which adorned it * have long since perished. Hut the ' mighty walls yet stand, firm as ever, ' sweeping up to the majestic doiuo. the ] largest, though not the highest. In the * world. , One hundred feet across, a hundred i feet high anil perfectly circular, no i nrehitoot could design a building more perfect in its proportions, more hnrmo- * nious as a whole. It is lighted solely 5 by an aperture in the dome, a circle | thirty feet across. Standing on Its marble floor one looks up to the greatest ? dome man ever raised and through that to the blue dome which bends above it, sending summer sun or winter rain through those bare yards of space. 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Moorehead and Acy Sanders. 8 You are hereby summoned to answer t the complaint in this action, which is tiled in the oflice of the Clerk of the , Court of Common Pleas for said County ' and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their law otilee at No. 3 Law Range, at Union, 8, C., within twenty days after ' the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, i the Plaintiff in this action will applv to - the Court for the relief demanded, in j this complaint, r Date, Union, S. C.. December 15th, f A. D. 1904. I. Frank Pkakb, [seal] j , Clerk of Coo#, per J. W. G., D. G. F. M. Bryan, 8. Mkans Bbaty, Attorneys for Plaintiff. E To the Defendants George Jordan. Louisa McCane, Eken Jeter, Armsteaa Jordan, Hutson Jordan, Andrew Jordan, McGee Jordan, Wm. Moorehead and Acy Sanders, TAKE NOTICE! That the summons and comnlaint in the Above stated cause of action was on the 16th day of December A D. 1904, filed in the office of the <"flerk of Court of Common Pleas for Union County and State aforesaid. F. M Bryan, 8. M bans Beatt, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Union, 8. C., December 16, 1904. 52-fit. Final D schargG. Notice is hereby (riven that F. M. Adams, Guardian of the Estate of Belle Nance, now Vniiphan, has applied to Jason M. Greer, Judge of Probate, in and for the County of Union, for a final discharge as such Guardian. It Is Ordered, That the 23d day of January. A. D., 1906, be fixed for hea?tlngof Petition, and a final settlement of said Estate. Jason M. Grkbr, Probate Judge, Union County, 8. 0. cPabUshed In Tan Union Tutas, Do* Jt*. STOP AND REAL * fY.u vill always find a full line of FLOIIP, SUGAR, COFFEE, MEAT, LARD, CANNED AND BOTTLED GOODS, FRESH VEGETABLES And everything to . Ikj found in an up-to-date family grocery at my Atore. Tobaccos and Cigars a specialty. 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I Union, in office from Jan. 27th, to Feb. 20th. On that day the time ex* j ?lre? for taking returns. All who fall & > make thsir returns in said time, will .m be charged 60 per cent, penalty. M ?2*ft J ox* G. Faxb, Auditor. jm