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lutely the greatest money'Saving sa/o on recordno such low prices ever known or ever quoted by anyone. All new, seasonable and Up-to-date merchandise at astonishing tow nricea. No edds and ends or carried over stock. Every item stylish and dependable. Tije pricey are low to sell the goods quickly, and for no other reason. The sale beats all previous sales for iowprices, and if yoM miss this chance you will never have another like it. / Si's a Special Going Out of Business, Gut Price, Sacrifice, Less Than Cost Closing Out Sale, and we will hold the record for a long time* Nothing is Zlen's Four- ply 20c ' Collars, \ Silk Neckwear, fU** 17c Men's The Best $5 Men's Suit in the city for .'. Boston Oarters, 19c The Best Child's $1 Sailor Wash Suit in the city Men's 75c The Best Men's $4 Crash Outing Pants in the city.. Overalls, 39c The Best Men's $10 Suits * g C in the city for ,0":V Men's 25c Suspenders, now The Best Men's All Wool $1.50 Pants in the city ... 9c The Best $15 Men's Blue f| O Q Serge Suit in the city ^p Men's $1.50 new shapes Stiff Hats, r 35c Boys' Knee Pants in cheviot and worsted 79c The Best Child's $4.50 Suit in the city..... .- Boys' 15c Suspenders, 5c SPECIAL NOTICEMessrs. Geo. E. Crist, Andrew M. Nordsttrom, J. L. Lynch and J. L. Dickinson will be pleased to give personal attention to all their friends and patrons. After May 1st, 1904, they will be in business for themselves at the corner of Nicollet and Third Street. Boys' 50c Madras and Percale Shirts, Crash Knee Pants, 313 and 320 Nicollet Avenue. 25c Boys's 35c = Mn's Fancy* Hose, 15c values, 12c THE FILIGREE BALL Being a Full and True Account of the Solution of " the Mystery Concerning the Jeffrey-Moore Affair. ' By ANNA KATHERIN& GREEN 7 Author of "The Leavenworth Case," etc. ^fffi!&S Co. V BOOK III The House of Doom. The wind had not yet risen and the shut ter which a half-hour later moved so rest lessly on its creaking hinges, hugged the window so tightly that I imagined Mr. Jeffrey had fastened it the night before. Looking for fome receptacle In which to set the candle I now lit, I failed to find anything but an empty tumbler, so I made use of that. Then I glanced about me, but seeing nothing worth my attentionMrs. Jeffrey"s wedding fixings did not interest me, and everything else about the room looking natural except the overturned chair, which struck me as ImmaterialI hurried downstairs again, leaving the can dle burning behind me In case I should wish to return aloft after I had refreshed ,my mind with what had been written 'about this old room. "Not a sound disturbed the house as I seated myself to my reading In front of the library shelves. I was as much alone under that desolate roof as mortal could be with men anywhere within reach of ' him. I enjoyed the solitude and was mak- fc A (Dedicigal WATER Augusta White Lithia Water Contmu^ionpfttosinf Ou t Sale Greater values than evera sale unparalleled in history. Eilermans are going out of the retail businesseverything must be sold regardless of quality or cost. Don't forget this is abso- l -rt-v EILERMANS GOING OUT QFi-.THE! RETAIL BUSINESS. Men's 50c ing a very pretty theory "for my - self on a scrap of papei?^ I tore from another old book when a' noise suddenly rose in front, which, slight as it was, was quite unmistakable to , ears trained in listening. Some one was un locking the front door. "Naturally I thought it to be Mr. Jef frey returning for a second visit to his wife's house, and knowing wjiat I might expect if he surprised me on the premises,. I restored the book hastily to'its place and as hastily blew out the candle.' Then, with every "intention of flight,"! baokd*to ward the door by which I had entered. But some Impulse stronger than'"that'Of escape -made me stop just before I reached it. I could see- nothing the-place- was- as dark as Tophet but I -could listen." -The- personMr. Jeffrey, on some other-^was. coming my way and in perfect darkness, I could hear the faltering stepsthe fin gers dragging along ths wallsr then a rus- tle as of skirts, proving the intruder to be a woman& fact which greatly surprised methen a long-drawn sigh or gasp. "The last determined me. The situa tion was too inten.se for~me to leave with out first learning' who the woman was who IR terror and shrinking dared to drag her half-resisting feet thru these empty halls and into a place cursed with such unwholesome memories. I did not think of Veronica. N o one looks for a butterfly in the deppths of a dungeon. But I did think of Miss Tuttlethat woman of reso lute will. - Without -attempting to imagine the reason for her presenec, I stood my -ground and harkened till the heavy ma - hogany door at the other end of the room began to swing in by jerks under the faint and tremulous push of a terrified hand. Then came silencea long silencefol-' lowed by a moan so agonized that I real ized that whatever was the cause of this panting woman's presence here, it was due to no mere errand of curiosity. This whetted my purpose. - Anything done in this house was in a way done to "me so I remained quiet and watched. But .the sounds which now and then came from the remote corner upon which my attention was concentrated were very eloquent. I heard sighs and bitter groans, with now and then a murmured prayer, broken by a low wailing, in which I caught the name of Francis. And still, possibly on account of the utterance of this name, I thought the woman near me to be Miss Tuttle, and even went so far as to imagine the cause of her/suffering if not the nature of her ' retribution. Words succeeded crjesr and I.,caught phrases expressive of fear and-some.sort of agonized hesitation. Once these broken ejaculations were in - terrupted by" a dull sound. Something had dropped to the bare floor. W e shall never know what It was, but I have no doubt that It was the pistol, .and that the marks of dust to .be found on the connecting ribbon were made by her own fingers in taking it again In her ha/id. (You will remember that these same fingers^ had Ju - a few- minutes previous groped their way along the walla.)- For her voice.sOon tobk -a different1 : is prescribed with success by . ^ physicians in cases of Rheu- ^ matism, Gout, Bright's Dis- ^ ease, Scrofula, Dyspepsia, *. Biliousness, and as a general ^ * tonic. It is especially effec- ,r tive in eliminating Uric Acid- i, from the system. Druggists/\ and grocers sell it. Sparkling, delicious, health- * - ful, as a table water. '- ' * B. H. WEINHOLD, 628 Nicollet Av., Distributors for Minneapolis. Sold by drug-, gists and the trade generally. \ z/Iu$usla TxJhiie Lithia *Waier D W\ T, T. FAUNTLEROY, Max. STAUNTON, VA . "^ssr t/. Reserved, Money saved for you, and lots of it, if you buy quickly. W&y^h Hen's $1.00 : Unlaundered White . Shirts, , 9c 39c 17c $2 .90 The Best Men's $13.50 Suit in the city 39c The Best $12.50 Men's 2- piece Blue Serge Suit in the city for '. $2.20 Boys' All Mixed Cheviot Suits, $2.00 value - Boys'$3 All-Wool Outing A Q Pants, cuff bottoms 68c The best $12.50 Tipper ary Irish Homespun Outing Suits in the city The best $4 Men's Blue Serge Unlined Coats in the city, .' 10 c Men's 50c Balbrig- gan Underwedr, such -unintelligible phrases as these could be heard Issuing from her partly paralyzed ti^imh^^jm^ymmmtmm^lM^^&L The best $1.50 Youths' - 'Long Pants in the city. $2-40 The best $25.00 Men's - Suits in the city 19c . a * ' -W r - * \X! Men's SI.50 l*& Silk-nixed Underwear, ^?- Children's 25c ' Overalls," ?v 79c *6 ^iUrin^||Spn| Men's 50c Blacker Striped Shirts, " 'I mustI can never meet his eye again ' alive. He would despise. Brave enough totoanother's bloodcowardwhen | own. Oh, God," forgive.' Then-another si lence during,.which % almost'^ihade up my ' mind to interfere,-then a loud report and a 'flash so,startling iahd unexpected that I Lrecoiled, , during 'whiche thtooVeronica e room leaped (\*'* 1 into sudden ^-Vlewf me for this? I was her heir and I was where I had no legal-right to be. D o you think that I was called upon to publish my shame and tell how I lingered there while my own niece shot herself before my oye3? That shot made me a millionaire. This certainly was excitement enough for one daybesides, I did not leave her there iteglected. I notified you laterafter I had got my breath and had found some Excuse. That wasn't enough? Ah, I see fhat you are all models of courage and magnanimity. You would have laid your selves, open to every reproach rather than let a liftle necessary perjury pass your lips. But I am no model. I am simply an old man who has been 'too hardly dealt with for seventy long years to possess every virtue. I made a mistakeI see it now trusted a dog* when I shouldn'tbut If Rudge had not seen ghostswell, what now?" We had, one and all, with an involuntary impulse, turned our backs upon him. "What are you doing?" he hotly de - manded. "Only what all "Washington will do to - morrow, and afterwards the whole world," gravely returned the major. Then, as an ejaculation escaped the astonished millfbn aire, he impressively added: '"A perjury which allows an innocent man and woman to remain under the suspicion of mur der for five weeks Is one which not only the law has a right to pnnish, but which all society will con demn. Henceforth you will find yourself under a ban, Mr. Moore."* My story ends here. The matter never caime before the grand jury. Suicide had been proved, and there the affair rested. Of myself it is enough to add that I some times call in Durbin to help me in a big case. rf '.'A stvfH ,-** .^-CHAPTER XXVII "You Have Come! You Have Sought Me!" These are some words from a letter written a few months after the foregoing by one Mrs. Edward Truscott to a friend in New York: 00c Men's 75c Leather , Belts, - 19c '^MW . Men's 75c Percale Shirts, 2 collars, .90 1V 8$5?V^:'.V Boys' 20c Fast Black Stainless Stockings,. t * 20c $7 75 The Best $3.50 Boys' Blue iJO * Serge Blouse Suits in the H*!"** city, 90c The Best $6.00 Child's 4 Suit in the ^ city ...I........ The Best Men's $1.50 " . Reading Pants in the " city : $6|.90 The Best $4.00 Young . Men's Suits in the city :. $2.40 The Best $13.50 Youth's ", Suit in the city, sizes 14$ *' to 19 years The Best $3.00 Men's Pants in the * " city .. $I3.90 1 he Best $3.00 All Wool * Scotch Child's-Suit in the "" city... M. -"' '*VJ rien's 15c Celiuioid Collars, *&*%* day, I took advantage of Edward's ab - sence this morning to .visit, the place again and this time alone. The sky was clear and the air bahny, and as I ap - proached the spot from the near-by sta tion I was not surprised to see another woman straying quietly about the exterior of the chapel gazing at walls which, in teresting as they are, are but a rough shell hiding the incomparable' beauties within. I noticed this lady I could not help it. She was one to attract any eye. Seldom have I seen such grace, ,such beauty, and both infused by such melan choly. Her sadness a.dded wonderfully to her charm, and I found it hard enough to pass her with the single glance allow able to a stranger, especially as she gave evidence of being one of my own coun trywomen. , i sh jwith baby -face drawn and set like a woman'sthen darkness again and a heavy fall which snook the floor, if not my hard old heart. The flash and that fall e'nlightened men. - I had just witnessed the suicide of the last Moore saving my self a suicide' for which I was totally un prepared and one which I do not yet un derstand. "I did not go over to her. She was as dead when she fell as she ever would be. In the flash which lit every thing," I had seen where her pistol was pointed. Why disturb her then? Nor did I return up stairs. I had small interest now in any thing but my own escape from a situation more or less compromising. Do jrou "However, I saw" T^o alternative, and once within the charmed edifice, forgot everything in the congenial task I had set for myself. For, some reason the chapel was deserted at this moment by all but me. As the special scroll work I wanted was in a crypt down a short flight of steps at. the right of the altar, I was completely hidden from view to any one entering above and was enjoying both my seclusion and the opportunity it gave me of carrying out my purpose un watched when I heard a light step above and realized that the exquisite beauty which had so awakened my admiration had at last found its perfect setting. Such a face amid such exquisite surroundings was a rare sight, and interested as I always am in artistic effects I was about to pocket pencil and pad and make my way up to where she moved among the carved pillars when I* heard a soft sigh above and caught the rustle of her dress as she sat down upon a bench at the head of the steps near which I stood. Somehow that sigh deterred me. I hesi tated to break in upon a melancholy so invincible that even the sight of all this loveliness could not charm it away, and in that moment 06 hesitation something occurred above which fixed me to my place in irrepressible curiosity. blame "Another step has entered the open door of the chapela man's stepeager and with a purpose in ft eloquent of some thing deeper than a mere tourist's interest in this loveliest of interiors. The cry which escaped her lips, the tone in which he breathed her name in his hurried ad vance, convinced me that this was a meet ing of two lovers after a long heart-break and that I should mar the supreme mo - ment of their lives by intruding into it the unwelcome presence of a stranger. So I lingered where I was and thus heai*d what passed between them at this moment of all moments in their lives. "It was she who spoke first. " 'Francis, you have come! You have sought me!" \ - "To which he replied in choked accents which yet could not conceal the inexpres sible elation of his .heart : " 'Yes, I have come, I have sought you. Why did you fly? Did you not see that my whole soul was turning to you as it never turned even toto her in the best days of our unshaken love and that* I could never rest till I found you and told you how the eyes which have once been blind enjoy a passion of seeing unknown to othersa passion which makes the ob ject seem so dearso dear * "He paused, perhaps-to look" at her, per haps to recover his own self-possession, and I caught the echo of a sigh of such Utter content and triumph from her lips that I was surprised when in another mo ment she exclaimed h a tone so thrilling that I am sure nae^mmon circumstances had separated this, pair - " 'Have we a Jcigiito happiness while sheO, Francis, I cannot! She loved you. It was her love for y,au which drove her' '" 'Qora!* .,came- with- .a, sort of. loving, authority, 'we have buried our erring .one "Edinburgh, May 7," 1900. "Dear LouisaYou have always accused me of seeing more and hearing more than any other person of your acquaintance. Perhaps I am fortunate in that respect. Certainly I have been favored to-day with an adventure of some Interest which I make haste to relate to you. "Being anxious to take home with me some sketches of the exquisite ornamen tation in the Rosslyn chapel about which I wrote you so enthusiastically the other tone, and Time amply verified this prophecy. Mr. Moore in living In great stjle In the Moope houBe and Irives horses which are conspicuous even In Washington. But no one accepts his- invitations, and he is as much of a recluse in his present -mansion as he ever was In the humble cottage In .which-bis flays of penary jms spent. mm . *VCV flen's c" 8c The Best $28.00 Men's Suit in the city, equal * to custom made 10c Collars ' . now '- * 7 * l Boys' 50c All Wool w Caps,- - K-\ 5c Men's 75c and 85c Straw HatsK new shapes, natty braids, choice Man's Straw Hats up to $1.50, gk m yacht and Panama shapes, *Hj9kt* this season's styles, choice.. - - V b ft * . -'' '^g&f&f^^ti&ir ~ ' ~ Ay? T*S rien's $1.50 % '4""' \ Linen Night 1?\ 5c '16 .45 The %st 75c ChjloVs Wash . . Suits in the city ^. The Best $18.00 Men's v" Suit in the city $0.30 3 $i.28 The Best Men's $5.00 , Pants in the city ... The Best $12.00 Boys' ( A Q Q . , Long Pants Suits in city $2.65 The Best Men's $7.50 Suit in the city , .75 The Best Youth's $7.001 Suit in the city........... .80 $l The Best Men's $20 ' - Suits in the city 48 The Best $8 All Wool Two-Piece Men's Outing Suits in the city for , 7c and, passionately as I loved her, she is no more mine, but God's. Let her woe ful spirit rest. You who suffered, sup portedwho sacrificed aB^ that woman holds dear to save what, in the nature of things, could not be savedhave more than right to happiness, if it is in my power to give it to you I, who have failed in so much, but never in anything more than in not seeing where true worth and real beauty lay. Cora, there is but orte hand which can life the shadow from any life. That hand I am holding now-^do not draw it awayit is my anchor, niy hope. I dare not confront life without the promise it holds out. I should be a wreck ' "His emotion stopped him and there was silence then I heard him utter solemnly, as befitted the place: 'Thank God!' and I knew that she had turned- ,'-"-'f Umbrellas. . $1.25 values. *Kf Men's 50c , Belts, now - at 119c 79c $ll.40 $I2.60 318 and 320 Nicollet Avenue, Men's^ 25c Bow Ties, in Sifk, - : 18c The Best $4 Hats \r* Made, $2.68 her wonder- ful eyes upon-him or nestled her haud^ln his clasp as only a loving woman may.*' *\ - The Best 75c J: Men's Underwear, 39c V - *2 .90 Men's 10c Handkerchiefs, 3c 5 i K:t Q - M .65 $4a 1 Men's 25c per doz. Lawn Ties, 9c Men's Fancy Shirts, 75c values, "The next moment I heard them draw away and leave the place. "Do'you wonder that I long to know who they are-and what their story Is and whom they meant by 'the erring one?' V . (The end.) 50c Hose, $4.65 19c Men's $1.50 Soft Shirts, 79c Men's $3.00 Soft Hats, $1.68 rien's 75c Suspenders, silk and lisle, **** Men's Black Sateen 39c Isle Royale Is said to compere favorably in its scenic characteristics with the coast of Norway arid its fjords, and it is a* royal place for an outing. Northern Pacific's "Lake. Superior Lim ited" to head of the lakes, in connection with the steamer ride on Lake Superior, is" the proper thing. Elks' Excursion to Baltimore $27.50 for the Round Trip. Tickets on sale July 17 tnd 18th at' C , M. & St. P. ticket office. 328 Nicollet ave nue. For full particulars address W. B. Dixon. N. W . P. A., S t Paul. 39c REMINDED HIM OF HOME. ,1 New York Times. It was one of those early morning cars, with all of the passengers in a harry and the con ductor nervous. They were making good time until they trnck a downtown street with a wagon loaded with hay on the tracks. The mo torman approached it cautiously until his fender almost touched the rural team. Then silently he allowed the car to creep along behind the hay wagon. The passengers began to get nervoua durlng the first block: the second block found them mad, and the third block had them kick ing. Still the motorman crept along, not so much as ringing his bell. Finally the conductor went to the front platform and exclaimed: "Say, why don't you ring your bell and get the hay wagon out of the way?" "I just can't do it," answered the motormanj "it reminds me so much of home." There are many forms of nervous debil ity In men that yield to the use of Car ter's Iron Pills. Those who are troubled with nervous weakness, night sweats, eta, should try them. -*- m