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T^rF^a turned slightly towards the mass of papers"the crowd waits." "The man that this soldier saved," she said, simply, "was akinsman of mine 0 to whom I am greatly in debted." "And is that all?" "That is all," she answered. But un der the playful, mocking gaze of the president she felt her face grow crim son. smiled and bowed gravely from is chair when he noticed the tell-tale blush. "That is all!" he said. One lineupon a sheet of official paper and the touch of a handbell, and Frances found her self under the guidance of a messen ger on her ay to the war department. A the door of the department she met Raymond Holbin in a new and glitter ing uniform. was coming out, but, seeing her, stopped in surprise. "You here!" he exclaimed. "Why not?" She gave him but a fflance, a sarcastic smi le playing about her lips. "It is no place lor womenyo should be at home." "It is mi place for men3 ou should not be at home, ('apt Holbin." A angr\ 1 -pi} arose to his lips, but he checked it. "You know why I am not," he said I ha\e been unfairly treatedbu saj the word, and I will go even as a pri\ate soldierif \ou will prom ise" "It is immaterial to me whether ,"\on nr stay," she said, and passed in Ho!Din waited a moment and fol lowed hr. keeping out of her sight. "What is it the young woman wanted he asked of a clerk ac quaintance, with careless indifferenc e, when she was gone. "An order for the parole of a pris oner and a pass through the lines." A Raymond walked away in deep thought, a messenger pointed him out to a hot el porter, and me latter handl ed him a sealed envelo pe Within this was* a card bearing the name "Lou ise CHAPTER XIL When Virginia seceded and her young men rushed to the front, among the first to seek a commission' was Raymond Holbin. This was in the days when most people believed that the military feature of secession would prove little more than a grand spectacular demonstration. Gradu ates of West Point were at once in great demand, and backed by the Brookin influence Holbin was ap pointed a captain of infantry among the state troops, no sear ch of his rec ord being at the time possiblebu when the state transferred her troops to the confederate government, and Holbin sought a colonelcy, advancing in support of his application the fact that he had been an officer in the reg ular army, the matchless memory of the southern president recalled his history. Jefferson DaAis had been sec retary of war at the time the Holbin court-martial was held, and the rec ord coming before him for revie w, he had promptly approved the sentence of the court A long struggle to se cure a modificati on of the sentence had followed'and in this struggle many politicians had been arraj'ed by Holbin's mother, but in vain. The sentence stood and these people nev er forgot the issues involved the Holbins hated Jefferson Davis The name "Holbin" had clung to the mem ory of the hero of Buena Vistah declined to appoint Raymond Holbin or to commission him in any waj to command honorable men. The deci sion was in harmony with is devo tion to is principles, a devoti on that was destined to make him in the end the most unfortunate of American statesmen This new public reflection upon Hol bin filled him with an ungovernable rage. Had sa fe opportunity offered, he would not have hesitated to send a bullet through the heart of the man who was responsible for it. Indeed, he armed himself, and for many months was convinced that he might at an} moment be dedicated to the discharge of a patriotic duty. The president of the confederacy walked daily in the pre-ence of death, for fanaticism and desperate men sur rounded him His safety lay in the fact that he walked in the sunlight, where the results of an attack piom ised never less than hie for life And Ra3mond Holbin was not the man to barter his a\\a\ he bided is time. A far more dangerous enemy was his mother, who numbered official ac quaintances in Washington by the scores, and who knew when and where to plant the deadliest blow This woman, secu re in her social posi tion, displaying by her own efforts and the efforts of her stepdaughter in hospital work devoti on to the southern cause, was in secret fast bal ancing accounts with Jefferson Davis. Friends of Raymond Holbin. for he still had a few, with the aid of his mother, secured him a bomb-proof o sition with a rank of captainan there he stuck, with a il the time for plotting that might be demanded. What seemed to Holbin an oppor tunity for a sweeping revenge came very unexpectedly. to then he had been but an instrument in the hands of is mother and that large circle of invisibles known to him who sapped the strength of the confeder acy. Their many interests preceded his The opportunity came through Louise. did not dlare to disregard her card and responded instantly to her implied command, armed with his old secret and a virtuous indi g nation had almost forgotten her. A year before, when she had suffi ciently recovered from her illness to permit it, he had sent her north, de ceived by "sacred" pledges, to a new hiding-place. The immediate opening of hostilities had seemed to fix the separation. I had never occurred to him that she would make an effort to cross the lines. The new meeting between Louise and Holbin was marked by a great display of passion on his part she was calm and collected, a suggestion of reckless ness, however, in her eyes and every movementhe face relentless and white with despair of an abandoned life. For the first time Holbin failed to move her to anger or to tears. I came." said she, when his rage had spent itself and in answer to his de spairing offer of money if she would depart, "not because I need your as sistancethat is, your money, for I do notI am now well supplied." She could not have touched him in a more delicate spot. A swift jealousy, a curi ous indignation, filled him. "Whose money?" he asked, breath lessly. "He is very rich, and gives with a lib eral hand when the woman is smart, is able, is fearless, and willing to risk her hi at is bidding." I was not the speech, but the cautious glance which involuntarily she gave to her surround ings that awoke a suspicion in his breast "Louise. 3 ou are a" "Hu-h! I am a mother robbed of her child that is explanation enough for su ch a woman is capable of any thing, even murder, as you know. Ray mond, where is my daughter?" looked at her uneasil y, and the white feather appeared in spite of his efforts to conceal it. "She is well, and well cared for." I asked 3 ou where, and you have not answered me!'' "There is much to be agreed upon e tween us before I tell you "that." he said, after a pause, during which he narrowly watched her. took a seat close besi de her and continued in his old confidentia l, half-appealing way: "Louise, I am ruined, a dis graced man, and ripe for anything that will take me dut of this city," paused, but she did not answer or seem to hear him, and he added: "My downfall began when I was un true to myselfto you. I have never had a moment's good luck since everything has gone wrong with me." Still she did not answer him, but her bosom heaved once or twice, and a strange look came into the white face she turned towards him. I have now no chance on earth except a chance to play for even and quit the country. Louise, if I succeed will you go back with me into the old sweet life? I will be true to youI will right all of your wrong-sand I will be a fa ther indeed to your child. Let a go, Louise, out of this wild, heartless country back across the ocean to the little English home, back to our flow er s, back to the old life." took her hand, and this time she did not withdraw it. "My child," she said, almost in audibly, her face lowered and her bosom rising and falling rapidly. "That will be all rightall right. I swear to you she is well and "has not forgotten you. She never fails to ask for you, and at night to say her litt le prayer." A cry burst from the wretched woman. "My baby! Mv baby!" She sank her face in her hands, then sprang to her feet "You deceived me," she said, frantically, beginning to walk the floor, I cannotI cannot believe you." I have no cause to deceive yo u, Louisenone." spoke very ten derlj "and 1 would not if I could now. This uniform, these shoulder straps, mean nothing in my case but disgrace. I am a stay-at-home. The dullards of my class at West Point are brigadier generals in the field I am a uniformed clerk." "The woman?" Louise could not conclude her question. "She will not assent," he said, sav agelyan then quickl y, lest a nat ural inference should array her against him again, I have purposely made myself so obnoxious to her that she would rather be a pauper thtin share a fortune with me. She has yet time to decide, for she is not 21 but I know her decision in ad vance." "And then?" "Then life with you, Louise, our child's happiness provided for. I do not count upon that fortuneth slaves will be free and all values up set land will not be worth much in thi-, state." Louise came close to him and laid her hand upon his shoulder. 'It I could only trust you," she aul. sadly, "all might yet be well, for 1 have a waj "What do you mean?" She hesi tated and, leaning over, whispered a sentence in his ear. lifted his face quickly. "How much?" "Our own price." "Our own price!" "And revenge, Raymond, revenge for you." "Revenge?yeswell said. N price could be complete without that. A nd what a revenge! The assassin stabs his foe and is infamousth man who slays his country's foe is a hero. Louise, you have made me happy, and you little know how chance has fa vored you. I am connected with the war department I have friends around meand better, I have my facts in hand." "You were planning then, too." I did not know what might arise, and I was determined to be readyI was tired of doing the work while oth ers reaped the benefit But now comes the greatest difficultyand that re minds me. How did you get here through the lines?" "You remember the little farm in which I had only a life interest, the only thing we could not sell? I was warned that it would soon be within the southern lines and was sent there to wait. Jackson's army passed over it, and I came on to Richmond and de livered my messages." Holbin was as tounded, "Who do you know here?" She shook her head. "Not a human being beside yourself. I placed my 1^ Jj^K*i*l,4t*:%-' 4 ^-aA^fe **x knew him well enough to SHE PACED THE APARTMENT WITH THE FURY OF A TIGRESS. understand that this logic with him was conclusive. "Then I go," she said, "but how?" I shall prepare a way," said Holbin. But when he was gone Louise, free from the influence of his personality, began to feel a ll her suspicion and dis trust returning. She reviewed calmly but bitterly is life with heri had been a succession of deceptions and ut terly selfish. She asked herself over and over what recourse would she have if he should slip away and lea ve her in Richmond, and gradually, as she considered his manner, she became convinced that he intended nothing more or 1'ess so far as she was con cerned. The spirit which had sustained her during the past year returned, and she felt herself full of fight. Ex perience had given her better control of her nerveshe life, when away from Holbin, carried a more masculine notemos women who go to school in Washington acquire it. She had come to Richmond with the full intention of seeing Mrs. Brookin, forcing a settle ment of her claims upon Raymond, and securing her child. Of succe ss as to the latter she felt assuredth other was doubtful. I the hour after her last interview with Raymond it came to her as an inspiration that she now had a weapon in her hand that would beat down any guard, pierce any a r mor for he had admitted his connec tion with the enemy and had a gigantic enterprise afoot. She had but to insist upon a settlement in advance and to threat-en but the pressure upon Ray mond should co me fr om his mother. She therefore determined to carry out her original intention, call on that lady, and have a plain talk. Her sur prise was complete when at the o ment that decision was reached the card of Mrs. Brookin was brought to her roomcomplete, because not only was the visit of this lady a most as touishing thing, but upon that ca rd was a sign for which she was instruct ed to look in eve ry instancetwo-peri ods following the name. The meaning of the two periods was that the visitor had a message to be sent by word of mouth only and that she might be trusted. By what means the visitor knew of her Louise was not informedbu she had been given a name and directed to register under it. and she readily guessed. She at once said, after the formal greetings were over: I perceive, madam, that your mourning has reached the second e- riod." The visitor moved her chair close and made a statement, carefully worded, of considerable length, and this Louise was required to repeat over and over until its main points were fixed in mind. I related to a cabinet meeting of the day before. Mrs. Brookin then offered a few comments upon the weather and the unfortunate war and would have arisen, but Louise detained her. She said, bending over her: "You have a son in the war, depart ment who is in great danger, and his indiscretion has endangered you and our whole system" "Lower!speak lower, for God's sake!" "He has grossly deceived and wronged a woman named Louise, and has been rash enough to let her into is and your secrets," Mr s. Brookin was almost unable to articulateth other handed her a glass of water. "Where is shethis Louise?" she asked then. "Madam, she stands before you." Louise had then and there a part of her revengeth eld er woman, in spite A -.-.$.* ^-3f,*^^g^:*ya'^ ^^^^^f-^f^*^ THE PRINCETON UINTOItf: THURSD^T, MAY 2, 1901. papers in a certain receptacle to which I had been directed. If there is an an swer I shall find it in the same place at an appointed time." Holbin walked^ the floor in great excitement. "Iknow both the place and the time," he said" I took your messagesbu there never would have been any an swer except for this meeting. I alone can supply the information which is desired, and I shall not let it gc through the usual channel. I is the chance of my life. I have facts that no other human being could have accumu lated, facts of vital importance. My God, Louise! A milli on dollars is a small price." "Give them to me," she said I will deliver them upon one condition." "One condition? Name it "The price shall be paid to me." Hol bin stood in deep thought. "No," he said, as if dismissing some mental argument, "it is too dangerous a mission for any woman. Capture would mean for you certain death." "My child!" she said, simply and then: I shall find a way to gel through." "Then make the trip safely, and 1 swear to you I will surrender the child and come to 3 ou. too." "Oh, Raymond, promises, promises! I would be inhuman to deceive me now." "You will control the future if you deliver my information and collect the price S-he of all her experience, gave way to a sudden panic. But only a few moments was she absolutely helples s. Habit and the calm face before her restored her presence of mind. "What is it we can do for this woman who has been so badly treated? She has no cause to doubt me. Tell me how I may serve her." Her voice was calm and insinuatingly conciliator} "She demands a public marriage, madam. Until this year she has be lieved herself less than the legal wife of Raymond Holbin, though God knows she never intended to be less than that. She 'was is wife abroad, openlj' ac knowledged as such, and now she has proof of that factabsolute, undoubt ed proof of the highest character affidavits of acquaintances, registers, letters addressed to her in his own handwriting and photographs. All this mass of evidence is properlj' cer tified to in duplicate, and she has one copy of each in the hands of her law yers in Washington and one copy here. Madam, your son has lived with this woman as is acknowledged wife, and I am assured that under Virginia law she is his wife and would inherit is estate." 'Ah! She wishes mone} "N o. She wishes to have her child restored "Her child? Raymond's child?" "Alas, madam, ne word answers you3es!" "He has not told me this." said the mother "It is all that he had left to tell his' life has been a great, a pai n ful disappointment to me." "It is likely that he has not told you other things. is preparing for transmission information which he thinks is good for a vast sum of money and there is the trouble, for I believe, as you sit before me, madam, that, having given me is sacred promise, his sworn promise to send it by Louis e, join her later and right all her wrongs, he is really planning to desert her again. And in that event, madam, he would leave a desperate woman be hind "What could S'uch a woman do then? Who would believe hera self-con fessed spy?" "That thought has already impressed me deeply. I am satisfied now that the woman's safest plan is to see that he doesn't leave until he has met her demands. An d. madam, you have the power to control him. At six o'clock, unless I see you both earlier, I shall address an anonymous communica tion" "Will you take tea with us at six, in steadin my own apartments? I think that better." "At six then. I like the idea!" In the privacy of her own room Mrs Brookin gave unrestrained expression to a rage that was consuming her. No ne who knew the cool, suave, tactful woman of affairs would have recog nized her at that moment. She paced the luxurious apartment with the fury and abandon of a tigress entrapped, hemcrushed parasol and the emblems of her mourning beneath her feet. Re sponsive to her furious ringing, Wil liam came running to the room at in tervals of five minutes to answer over and over: "No, ma'am, Mr. Raymond ain't come in yet," and returned to tell below stairs that "Mistis is done gone plum mad over some'p'n!" Raymond came at last. As he entered is mother's room such a storm burst upon him as he had not dreamed could emanate from the heart of a woman. She had been humiliated, outwitted and belit tled by an adventuress, she declared she had been threatened and would be forced into a compromise with a crea ture of the gutters, and if they carried out their contract, what a triumph for Brodnar and the jealous, envious peo ple who had resented their entrance into Richmond society! A the mo ment she hated even her sonsh blamed him for his insane disregard of her wishesh had been a marplot, she declared, balking her efforts to advan ce his fortunes, winning disgrace where she had opened the path to honoran now nothing was left for him but marriage with a low woman, and the loss of all for which she had striven. "Take her," cried the despairing woman, "and out of my sight forever. Go down to her levelstarve, and leave your miserable offspring to wretched- ness." She gave way at length under the strain, and Ra3mond for the first time in is life beheld is mother abandon herself to tears. stood moodily looking from the window un til she grew quieter. When he turned she was carefully righting the room, her face was pale, but her old expres sion of resol ve had returned, and a dangerous light shone in her eye s. "You spoke of marriage," he said. Do you think Louise will insist upon that? Will she not be satisfied with the child?" "She will dictate the terms, not you. She is desperate enough for anything and I know what a desperate woman will do to save herself. Raymond turned quickly and looked at his moth er. She did not avoid his questioning gaze. "She will denounce us both to the government if you do not marry her and give her back the child. *T. should if I were in her place. And she will make public announcement of her claim to a common law marriage with you." waited in silence a minute, as though to weigh her words. "Whether or not Louise substan tiates her claim, proof of your immoral life would kill the will of my husband, for public policy would not compel Frances to marry you to inherit her property. I will not compel a young girl to condone immoral conduct for which it would grant a married wom an divorce "Then we are ruined!" said Ray mond. I shall look out for myself. Promise her anything to-night." The selfishness of the decision would have been appalling to anyone but his mother. She looked at him a moment, a sarcastic smile hovering about her lips. "And I shall look out for myself. She began this self-preservation in stantly, and with a falsehood so in genious that its use at that moment would alone have proven her ability as a diplomat. "But hard as it is upon me. great as is my disappointment, for you the blow is heavierI should not, except under these circumstances, tell yo u, as I do tell you now, that Frances and I have reached an agreement she has consented to carry out her father's -wishes she stipulated only that you were not to be informed ofl this agreement until she chose to tell yoush will not place herself in a position to be harassed or worried by a' lover nowhe whole thought is on the wounded soldiers." She saw the sudden rush of blood to her son's face, and then the pallor return. A groan burst from him, and he turned away and therein was apparent the vast dif ference in the natures of mother and sonhelplessness weakness and sur render was possible with the manbu with the woman, though storms of ad versitv might overwhelm her and clou ds darken her path, nothing could long daunt her fierce, relentless sirit. For her there was no such thing as complete despair. Her time had come in this battle which she was fighting against oddssh approached her despairing ally and laid her hand upon his shoulder. "Raymond," she said, "what would you sacrifice to clear the way for mar riage with Frances?" [TO E CONTINUED Old Soldier's Experience. M. M. Austin, a civil war veteran, of Winchester, Ind., writes. "My wife was sick a long time in spite of good doctor's treatment, but as wholly cured by Dr. King's New Life Pill?, which worked wonders for her health.*' They always do. Try them. Only 25c at C. A. Jack's drug store. AT S President McKinley neoDte for CE th neSta atSS taC i ^.^M- S enea Sfn th^ a fnlP ir 0 Sald ta T\ ion? SS 8 a SSa SSSS oS0^ aa han Mi J"iMes S a &.ii oeii 1 K'8 P^ EY E LUN ld people for miles around We do not expect to complete our lournev a soon as the president does his for we intent to be selling groceries nght hire in Prin4- 01 prices and quality 11 you are not already our customer come and see us NOTE THESE PRICES: 3 lb. 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Notice of Forfeited Tax Sale Under Chapter 319,forLaws of 1901.-SM Chapte an 3the enea ud S meil with al taxes subsequent 0 Ptefo ,naCtt forff i AD. 1901. being the second Monday in said September 1901. at ten (10) o'clock 4 the forenoon of said day, at my office the court house the village of Princeton, county oft Mille Lacs Minnesota, sell at puDlic vendue ther Assessment District: Village of PrincetonOriginal Townsite. &* Description of Property o- "-J? ft S -bi S2 a 1 9 ZSG cq E-i Unknown go S. M. Byers, unnumbered bi'ks north of blocks 29. 30 and 31 Unkown 65 Assessment District: Town of Milaca. Millef Lacs Lumber Co., sw^ sw* i 1 6 "331J- COUGH KILLER CoCfou&HSCQLr JONSUMP" Al! Druggists. 25c 50c. and $1 00 Prepared only by Dr. Setb. Arnold. Med. Con., Woonaocket. K. I. C. A Jack, the druggist. The gn Unclis*, SamsfStandard, Monogram Whiskey makes new friends,oIdi mends and all friends^ true friends. ST PAUL s BjSNZi MINNEAPOLIS. .said"judgmentd ta sale held pursuanc of chapter 322 general law .SfJWP-}^. r attraction for a cente bee hav an Tel. 23 a thTstatfof bi wsr ment of taxes which became delinquent in the yearo 1897 and any prior yea or years and not isfLed by payment, redemption, or sale of the reals estate to actual SuroMsere^lSaM to^ provisions of chapter 3*2 of the generaglylawrsyl13.a 1899" of Minnesota of the year 1899 thflaSdfhfreinafter law described werdelmouenfor ottered sale oyin count audito.rpursuandt of sai ato hintere^thereod officel immeS tax sale Ma A 1903 tcountys -/Any owner or interested person may redeem any tract or parcel of such real estate hv paying into the countySl treasury fitty pe ofl thei sai a wX 189 9 togetherxtcent notice f'salemdn pub all penalties cost and of the"judgment obtaine pursuanrtffosni oi"subse disposition of real estate Md above described. I shall, on the ninth day of September Now therefore. PursuantXto chapter 319 of the general laws of Minnesota for the veaf loni W #Mi A 19 ?l W a at l*l IQO^- ,i?J^? S lands bid in for the State of Minnesota pursuant the ta* judgment above described, which shall not have been redeemed previousredeem to'tnefirs^tydaty of Sep* tember, A. D. 1901n aasc provided in said chapter 319. general laws of 1901 -..^w 7*) a Purchase the owner or interested party can onl upon pay elch trac ^ainS Priaceton ment of the full amount of the judgmenat obtained under chapter 322. general laws of 1899 with county and State aforesaid this 1st day of Cntere 3Mgmen offlc 0 ownSs^^ Sa E E 38 27 40 Assessment District: Village of MilacaSecond Addition Mille Lacs Lumber Co., 5 Mille Lacs Lumber Co., 5 Mille Lacs Lumber Co., 9 14 Swedish Lutheran Church Par sonage 11 15 Assessment District: Town of Isle Harbor. A. H. Wilder, nwJ4 34 42 25 160 I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct for the State of Minnesota under chapter 322, general laws file in this offlce. Dated Princeton, Minn., May 1st, 1901. [Seal.] WHITNE Y. Auditor Mille Lacs County. Minnesota. c3 3 C3 2 e3 3 S Jo 1888 and 1890 to 1895 inclusive 1895 1891 to 1895 inclusive 1890 to 1895 inclusive to Milaca. 1893 to 1895 inclusive 1893 to 1895 inclusive 1894 1895 4.3 1.75 2.20 35.58 3.72 3.72 9.60 1.95 1889 to 1895 inclusive 727.66 copy of the list of real estate bid in of 1899, according to the records on E. E. WHITNEY, County Auditor, Mille Lacs County. _L HSS^"^ 'it