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\ \ ^ > Hp T1 ; Masqu By KATHERINE Author of **T C?pr right, I0O4. b| ? "The last three weeks must be Juried," he said hurriedly. "No man <could free himself suddenly from?from * rice." He broke off abruptly. He hated rhllcotR1 h? hotort uimaair fThen Eve's face, rained In distressed \ appeal, overshadowed all scruples. V "'You have been silent nnd patlcut for >|^\ ^rears," he said suddenly. "Can you | be patient and silent a little longer?" *' \ He spoke without consideration. He was conscious of no selfishness bobeath his words. In the first exercise of conscious strength the primitive deaire to reduce all elements to his own sovereignty submerged every other orootion. "1 can't enter Into the thing." he said; "like you. I give no explanations. I can only tell you that -on the day we tnlked together In this room I was myself?In the full pos-session of ray reason, the full, knowledge of my own capacities. The man _you have known In the last three weeks, the man you have Imagined In the last four years. Is a shadow, an unreality?a weakness In human form. There is a new Chllcote?If you will only see him." Eve was trembling as he ceased; her face was flushed; there was a strange brightness In her eyes. She was moved beyond herself. "But the other you?the old you?" "You must he patient." He looked down Into the tire. "Times like the last three weeks will come again? must come again; they are Inevitable. When they do come, you must shut .your eyes?you must blind yourself. , You must Ignore them?ami me. Is It a compact?" He Htlll avoided her eyes. She turned to him quietly. "Yes? it you wish It," she suid, below her Breath. He was conscious of her glance, but he dared not meet It. lie felt sick at the part he was playing, yet he held to It tenaciously. "I wonder If you could do what few men and fewer women are capable of?" he asked at last. "1 wonder If you could learn to live In the present?" He lifted his head slowly and inet her ?yes. "This Is an?an experiment," he % went on. "And, like all experiments, It has good phases and bad. When the bad phases conre iwati 1- i want / i "No, I tuiven't got the right." you to tell yourself that you are not altogether alone in your unbupplnesH ^ ?that 1 ana suffering too?In another y way." There was silence when he bad pokeu, and for a space It seemed that Eve would make no response. Then the last surprise In a day of surprises came to him. With a slight stir, a slight, quick rustle of skirts, she stepped forward and laid her hand In his. The gesiure was simple and very sweet. Her eyes were soft and full of light as she raised her face to his, her lips parted in unconscious appeal. There Is no surrender so seductive as the surrender of a proud woman. Lodor's blood stirred, the undeniable suggestion of the moment thrilled and disconcerted him In a tumult of thought. Honor, duty, principle, rose lu a triple barrier; but honor, duty and principle are but words to a headstrong inrtu. The full significance of his poel Hon came to blm us It had never come before. Ills hand closed on hers; he bent toward her, his pulses beating uu eveuly. "Kve!" lie sold. Then nt the sound of his voice be suddenly hesitated. It wae the voice of a man who has forgotten everything but his own existence. For an Instant he stayed motionless Then very quietly he drew away from her, releasing her hands. ./, > "No," he aaid. "N6, I tiJkven't got tlit * * '*** " CHAPTEK XVIII. mllAT night for almost the flrsi time since he lutd adopted hh dual role I.oder slept ill. II( was not a man over whom im i agination held any powerful sWay. Hli \ doubts and misgivings seldofa ran t< \ speculation upon future possibilities \ Nevertheless, the fact UntL couacloua KL''-. - . L # ? % HE ierader CECIL THURSTON, he Circle.** Etc. I r Harper t* Brother, j 17 or unconsciously, he had adopted a new attitude toward Ere came home to him with uupleasant force during the hours of darkuess, aud long before the first hint of daylight had slipped through the heavy window curtains he bad arranged a plan of action?a plan wherein, by the simple method of altogether avoiding her, he might soothe his owu conscience and safeguard Chll- 1 ote's domestic Interests. It was a satisfactory If a somewhat negative arrangement, and he rose next ! morning with a feeling that things had | begun to shape themselves. But chance I sometimes has a disconcerting knack of ! forestalling even onr best planned i schemes. He dressed slowly and descended to his solitary breakfast wl.a ; j the pleasant sensation of having put ; last night out of consideration by the j turning over of a new leaf, but scarce- i *y had ho oi>cued Cbllcote's letters, j scarcely had he taken a cursory glance j at the morning's newspaper than It was 1 borne in upon him that not only a new I leaf, but n whole shenf of new leaves,bad . been turned in bis prospects by a hand 1 Infinitely more powerful and arbitrary I i than his own. Ho realized within the space of a few moments that the leisure Eve might have claimed, the leisure he might have been tempted to devote to her. was no longer his to dispose of. being nlready demanded of ' hini from a quarter that allowed of no i refusal. For the llrst rumbling of the political : earthquake that was to shake the country made Itself audible beyond denial ' on that morning of March 27 when the news spread through England that. In view of the disorganized state of the j Persian army and the shah's rouse, qucnt inability to suppress the o|>en luI Hurrectlon of the. border tribes In the i nnrfhonctarn ,11 at f lot.. VI * i ..w. %mv.???w>m \4iOLi i\.ia VI illCOIIUU, UU3* ?i?, with a great sLow of magnanimity, bad come to tlie rescue by dispatching ! a large armed force from her military I station at Merv across the Persian j frontier to the seat of the disturbance. To many hundreds of Englishmen I who read'their papers on that morning this announcement conveyed but little. : That there Is such a country as Persia I we all know, tb**- *i>-??ellsh Interests DreI dominate in toe soutu and Russian in; terests In the north we have all superficially understood from childhood, hut In this knowledge, coupled with the fact that Persia Is comfortably far away, we are apt to rest content. It Is only to the eyes that see through long distance glasses, the minds that regard the present as nothing more or less than an Inevitable link Joining the future to the past, that this distant, debatable land stands out in Its true political significance. To the average reader of news the ! statement of Russia's move seemed I scarcely more Important than ha<J the j first report of the border risings In | January, but to the men who had ) watched the growth of the disturbance 1 It came charged with portentous meunj Ing. Through the entire ranks of the opposition, from Fralde himself down tvuiu, 11 cnu.ii'ii a inrm or expeciuuon? that peculiar prophetic sensution that every politician bus experienced at some moment of his career. In no member of his party did this feeling strike deeper root thuu in I.oder. Imbued with a llfelonft Interest In the eastern question, specially equipped by persoual knowledge to hold and proclaim an opinion ui>on Persian affairs, ; he read the signs and portents with In| stlnctive insight. Heated at Cbllcote's I table, surrounded by Cbllcote's letters i and papers, he forgot the breukfast that was slowly growing cold, forgot the interests and dangers, persona) or pleasurable, of the night t>efore. while j his mental eyes persistently conjured { up the map of Persia, traveling with j steady deliberation from Merv to Me1 ' sheil, from Meshed to Herat, from Herat to the empire of India! For It was not the fact that the Hazaras had rl:?en against the shah that occupied the thinking mlud. nor was It the fact that ' Hussion and not Persian troops were I destined to sut>due them, but the deep| ly important consideration that an ' nrmojl Itnuuinn lin.l ...1 IK.. I frontier and was encamped within twenty miles of Meshed?Meshed, upon which covetous Russian eyes have , rested ever since the days of Peter the ' Great. Ho lender's thoughts ran as he reud and reread the news from the varying political standpoints, and so they con1 tinned to run when, some hours later, an urgent telephone message from the 8t. George's Gazette asked him to cnll at Lakelny'a office. The message was Interesting as well as Imperative, and he made an Instant | response. The thought of Lakeley's | keen eyes and shrewd enthusiasms always pos*Q9"C<V Mtrorig"stwactions for his ovn'sfower temperament, but even j had this Impetus been lacking, the knowledge thst at the St. George's offices, If nn.vwh'ere. the true feelings of I the party were Invariably voiced would have drawn him without hosltatlon. t It was scarcely 12 o'clock when he i ! turned tho corner of the tall building, i but already the keen spirit that Lakeley - everywhere diffused was making Itself i felt. I.odor smiled to himself as his > eyes fell on the day's placards with tlielr uncompromising headings -and passed onward frotp the string of gay i?j i I 'y? . *' ly pa In to<l carts drawn up to receive their first consignment of the paper to the troop of eager newsboys passing In and out of the big swing doors with their piled up bundles of the early edition. and with a renewed thrill of anticipation and energy he passed through the doorway and ran upstairs. Passing unchallenged through the k>Dg corridor that led to Lakeley's office, he caught a fresh Impression of action and vitality from the click of the tape ! machines In the subeditor's office, and a glimpse through the open door of the subeditors themselves, each occupied with his particular task; then without nme ror runner observation be found himself at Lakeley's door. Without waiting to knock, as be had felt compelled to do on the one or two previous ! occasions tbat business had brought him there, he Immediately turned the handle and entered the room. Editors' officers differ but little In general effect. Dakeley's surroundings i were rather more elaborate than is usual, as became the dignity of the oldest Tory evening paper, but the atmosphere was unmistakable. As I/>dor entered he glanced up from the desk at which be was sitting, but Instantly returned to his task of looking through and making a pile of early evening edl- I tlons that were spread around hlin. ; Ills coat was off and hung on tho chair ( behind him. and he pulled vigorously on a long cigar. "Hello! That's right." he said lacon leally. "Make yourself comfortable half a second, while I skim the St. Stephen's." His salutation pleased I-oder. With a nod of acquiescence he crossed the otflce to the brisk Are tbat burned In , the grate. For a minute or two I.akeley worked steadily.occasionally breaking the quiet i by an unintelligible remark or a vigor- i ous stroke of bis pencil. At last he dropped the paper with a gesture of satisfaction and leaned back In his , | cliair. "Well," be said, "what d'ymi think of this? How's this for a compllca; Hon 7" Lodcr turned round. "I think," he 1 said quietly. "that we can't overestimate it." I<nkeley laughed and took a long pull at his cigar. "Aud we mustn't be ufruid to let the Sefborough crowd know it. eh?" He waved his hund to the poster of the first edition that hung before bis desk. I.oder. following his glance, smiled. Lakeley laughed again. "They might have known it ull along if they'd cared ! to deduce," he said. "Did they really I believe that Russia was going to sit 1 calmly looking ucross the Herl-Rud v% UIIU IUK bllilU |IIU) ?tl ill UJODI ll/.Ulg : But whut became of you last night? We had a regular prophesylug of the whole busluess at Bramfell's; the grtat i Praide looked iu for Ave minutes, J I went ou with hlin to the. cluhjSSwt waru ami was ttibie wnen came In. 'Twos a great night!" Loder's face lighted up. "I can Imagine It," he suid, with an unusual touch of warmth. Lakeley watched him Intently for a moment. Then with a quick uctiou he leaned forward and rested his elbows on the desk. "It's going to be something more than imagination for you, Chilcote," he said Impressively. "It's going to be solid earnest!" He spoke rapidly and with rather more than his usual shrewd decisiveness; then he paused tf see the effect of his announcement. Loder was still studying the daring poster. At the other's words he turned sharply. Something In Lakeley's voice, something in his manner, arrested him. A tinge of color crossed his face. "Reality?" he said. "What do you i mean?" | For a further space his companion watched him, then with a rapid movement he tilted back his chair. "Yes," he said. "Yes; old Fralde's instincts are never far out. He's quite right. You're the man!" Still quietly, but with a strange uni derglow of excitement, Loder left the dre and. coming forward, took a chair at Lakeley's desk. i "Do you mind telling me what you're driving at?" he asked in his old, la! conic voice. Lakeley still scrutinized him with an air or unsit sausracuon; men wnn a , gesture of finality be tossed his cigar away. "My dear chap." be said, "there's golog to be a breach somewhere?and Fralde says you're the man to step in lad fill it! You see, five years ago, ! when things looked lively on the gulf and the Bunrlar Abbas business came to light, you did some promising work, and a reputation like that sticks to a man even when he turns slacker! I I won't deny that you've slacked abomlj nably," he added as Lotler made au uneasy movement, "but slacking has different effects. Some men run to seed, i others mature. I had almost put you down on the black list, but I've altered , my mind In the last two months." Again Loder stirred In his scat. A host of emotions were stirring In liis mind. Every word wrung from I.akeley was another stimulus to pride, another subtle tribute to the curious force of personality. [TO BP floifnuoto.] One Is npt to discredit ghosts. One Is apt to poohpooh the Rnbjeet of spooks when the nun Ih high and there is plenty of company around, but th|p Brownsville affair Heemn to confirm ; belief that there are ghosts _ ghosts that can shoot?a sort of bloodthirsty, riot raising ghosts. The Rev. Dr. Washington Gladdei\ should tackle Oeneral )yil)lam Booth. Their respective views oo' the acceptability of tainted money are as wide apart as aelf denial andcovetousnesa* I _ - -a... IL. t# L A. I' < Schnapps Tobacco , Tobacco Gro \ The Imitc Quali Hundreds of imitation 1 on sale that look like Scl bacco. The outside of th plugs of tobacco is flue curt as Schnapps, but the insi< with cheap, flimsy, heavily air cured tobacco. One Schnapps will satisfy toba longer than two chews o bacco. The color, size of the tags, plugs and p certain imitation brands have been made so i Schnapps that they have accepted by buyers under that they were getting Sufficient proof has bet to establish the fact t\ brands are infringements ; lation of the trade mark la trade will continue to t upon by these infringers u already entered and now protect Schnapps is de great many of these imii R. J. Reynolds To SHOWING THE WAY. This Public Statement oi a Union Citizen Will be Appreciated. Many a reader of this in Union has |{iiitv through the seli-saine experience in part, and will be glad to be $hown the way to get rid of the constant aches i : .. i i t I. ti i*.. i... - . aim paniN <n a uuu i>?ni\. x hmii ii) a' Union citizen's experience. J. R. Porter, printer, employed on Progress, living on South Church St., Union, S. C., says: "1 have never telt better in my life than 1 have since I i used Doan's Kidney Pills. I was a . great sufferer from backache for a j - ntvir af .Years, My trouble was right : across the STitall 61 my nacK amy ; pain was sometimes so severe that I ' thought my back would break in two. j 1 have plastered it, and rubbed it until it was all raw and in a mass of blisters, but in spite of all I could do . nothing seemed to help me. 1 read about Doan's Kidney Pills and got them. Half a box relieved me and the, use of two boxes entirely cured me." For sale by all dealers. Price 50; cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo,. New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's?and take no other. VERY LOW RATES TO NORFOLK, VA? AND RETURNI ACCOUNT JAMESTOWN TERCENTENNIAL EXPOSITION VIA SOUTHERN RAIIWAY. I I Season, sixty-day and fifteen-day i tickets on sale daily commencing' April 19th, to and including November 30th, 1907. Very low rates will also be made ! for Military and Brass Bands in! uniform attending the Exposition. STOP-OVFR8 will he allowed on season, sixty-day and fifteen-day tickets, same as on summer tourist tickets. For full and complete information call on Ticket Agents Southern Railway, or write U. \V. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. (tf) LADIES. ' I am trying to give you good goods at REASONABLE PRICES. Swift's Premium Hnmc Full Cream Cheese Best Grade Flour Fresh Meal , Quaker Oats Macaroni Cream of Wheat Postum, Grape Nuts Libby's Can Meats Libby's Pickles Watch my windows for Special Prices. ;W. NEWELL SMITHJ ( Phone 126-189. L... is Hade ENTIRELY wn in the Piedm ition Brands Have ity Only On the Oti Of the Plug brands arc claimed to inapps to- Schnapps, e imitation uine Schna :d the same on the tag, de is filled under the t sweetened and then chew of wholesome cco hunger just enoug f such to- the mild, ji and shape the leaf tot ackages of that this jfl of tobacco in the fam nuch like quires and often been any other the belief stimulati Schnapps. chewers. ;n secured If the t( lat certain don't satisf and in vio- habit of e: ws, yet the yourself an ie imposed Schnapps i ntil the suit formerly b pending to to $1.00 icided. A sold at 50 tations are strictly 10 bacco Company, W Engraved Cards, Invitations, Announcements, Etc. We have a beautiful line of samples, representing all the best styles of the engraver's art. If you have your plate, we will have them'(made from it or we can have plates and cards made al a reasonable for hfgfi class, artistic work. Call in, inspect our samples and get our prices before placing your orders for any thing in this line. mii/r BDI\r rn LTUV\L LfliUU tUi f? Buggies, Surrles and Harness . , Guaranteed for 13 mot.. ALMa3H|^/^A built for Styla, Quality ??d Durability. We can Y^r aava yoo S3S.00 on the purchase of a Buuy, Runabout or Surrey. Our complete cataloc No. 6 la Free for tho asking. John PooUr Co., 365-371 Pecattnr ?.. Atlanta. Oa. iv PRICES: Hollow Ground $2.60 /^^fc^Double Concave lor Exrta Hcasy Bearda$3.00 \r^^So!aUln ?-e??herC.M $6.60 v'^i^^wCR'to-Maonetlc No ^<^y^v.$t,op *'00 Razor Troubles Possible JgS&r 365 Clean Shave* JgSap Ever, Ysar ^ggT Get one from your dealer on 30 days trial, with' L^^^NO OBLIGATION TO PURCHASE] For sale by Union Hardware Co, HAMS! I have just received SWIFT'S Premium Hams. They are fine. Try them. W. Newell Smith. DR. T. F. L1TTLEJOHIN DENTIST orricc: m( hoi.son bank biiildinc orrice hours s;3o *. m. to e p. m. phone 117. 1 < i s fl r from Flue Curedj ont Country, r Schnapps itside % J > be "just as good" as | but there is only one gen- | ldds. Be sure the letter* 1 1 and stamped on the plug ag spell S-C-H-N-A-P-P-S f you have it?the most i : tobacco produced, with j h sweetening to preserve I aicy, stimulating quality of i >acco. Expert tests prove !ue cured tobacco, grown ous Piedmont region, re- ! takes less sweetening than and has a wholesome, 1 ng, satisfying effect on \ )bacco you are chewing y you more than the mere xpectorating, stop fooling : d chew Schnapps tobacco, s like the tobacco chewers >ought costing from 75c. per pound; Schnapps is c. per pound, in 5c. cuts, c. and 15c. plugs. lnston-Salem, N. C. Union & Glenn Springs Railroad Company. | Schedule in effect January 13, 1907* Between Union and Buffalo. Morning. N<>. 1 leaves Union 7:30 a. m., arrive at Huffah > 7 45 a. in. >, No. 2 leaves Union 12:30 p. ni., arrives at Buffalo 12:45 p. m. No. 5 leaves Union 3:45 p. m., arrives at Buffalo 4:00 p. m. , No. 2 leaves Buffalo at 8:45 a. m.t ' arrives at Union 9:00 a. m. : Evening. M No. 4 leaves Buffalo at 1:30 p. m., arrives at Union l :45 p. ni. , ' ' No. 6 leaves Buffalo at 4:45 p. m.. ^1 | arrives at Union 5:00 p. m. Between Union and Pride. / '' Morning, ! No. 34 leaves Union at 9:30; leaves , Monarch 9:35; leaves Crawfords 9:40; leaves Gregory's 9:45; leaves Medors 19:55; leaves Neal Shoals 10:05: leaves Red Point 10:15; arrives at Pride 10:25 a. ni. No. 33 leaves Pride 10:55; leaves Red Point 11:05; leaves Neal Shoals 11:15; leaves Medors 11:25; leaves " Gregory's 11:3o; leaves Crawiords 11:35: leaves Monarch 11:40; arrives at Union 11:50 a. in. Evening. * No. 32 leaves Union 5:15; leave3 Monarch 5:20; leaves Crawfords 5:25; leaves Gregory's 5:30; leaves Medors I 5:40; leaves Neal Shoals 5:50; leaves Red Point 6:0o; arrives at Pride 6:10 1 p. m. .\o. 31 icaves rruie 0:40; leaves Ked | Point 6:50; leaves Neal Shoals 7:00; I leaves Medors 7:10; leaves Gregory's 7:15: leaves Crawfords 7:20: leaves 1 Monarch 7:25; arrives at Union 7:35 p. m. I. R. DICKERT. G. M. M. B. SUMMER, G. P. A. . J. A. BROWN, DEALER IN REAL ESTATE, STOCKS AND BONDS. HOUSE RENTING AND COLLECTING A SPECIALTY. OFFICE ON BACHELOR STREET. '-X ' cu ASA* s\' /u mm rv rv/\ BANK DEPOSIT i R. R. Fare Paid. Notes Takw? I v V SOO FKER COLRSEii Boardat Cost. Write Quick GEORGIA-ALABAMA BUSINESS COLLEGE. MICM. Gte. . And Buster Ought to Know, for Buster Brown Blue Ribbon Shoes for Boys and for Girls are made for just such boys as Buster, and I just such girls as Buster's j sister. I Made of first quality leather, Kid, Box Calf and Buster I Colt, sewed to stay sewed, , and the kind all through that looks well while they wear 1 There really was never a . better shoe for boys and girls . put on the market, for wear II and style combined. Buy them of s Geo. W. Going.