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I W j,^ E6e Riverman By STEWART EDWARD WHITE Copyright. 1908. by the MeClore Com* pany. Copyright. 1907. 1908. hy Stewart Edward White I [CONT1N UJ£1.] "No!'r cried Jieinzman. "Listen to me! I haf your note for sefenty-five t'ousand dollars. No?" Orde nodded. "Dot money I never lent you. No! I'm not crazy. Sit still! I know my name is on dot note, but the money came from your partner, Newmark." "What?" Orde asked in bewilder ment. "Den ven you could not pay the note I vas to foreclose and hand over dot northern peninsula land to Joseph Newmark, your partner." "Impossible!" cried Orde. "I vas to get a share. It vas a trick." "Why do you come to tell me now?" "Because for more than one year now I say to mineself: 'Carl Heinz- "It 188 all righdt to be smart, but to be a thief J" ^X man, you vas one dirty scoundrel. You vas a thief. It iss all righdt to be smart, but to be a thief!" "Why didn't you pull out?" asked Orde. "I couldn't!" cried Heinzman pite ously. "He haf me cold. I paid Stan ford $500 for his vote on the charter, -d Newmark he know dot. He can prove it. He tell me if I don't do what The say he put me in jail." "Well, he can still put you in prison," said Orde. "Vot I care?" cried Heinzman, throw ing up both his arms. "You and your wife are my friends. She save my Mina. Du lieber Gott! If my daugh ter had died, vot good iss friends and money, vot good iss anything? I don't vant to live! And ven 1 sit dere by her always something ask me, 'Vy you do dot to the peoples dot safe your Mina?'" His excitement died. "Have you that note?" asked Orde. "It is at my office for the foreclosure. I vill not foreclose. He can send me to the penitentiary." "Telephone Lambert in the morning to give it to me. No—here. Write an order in this notebook. Heinzman wrote the required order. "I go," said he, suddenly weary. Orde accompanied him down the street and succeeded in slipping him through the improvised quarantine. Morning found Orde still seated in the library chair. His head was sunk forward on his chest his hands were extended, listless, palms up, along the arms of the chair his eyes were va cant and troubled. When the full sun shone into the library he aroused himself to change his clothes. Then, carrying those he had just discarded, he slipped out of the house and down the street. He paused only long enough to telephone from the office telling Carroll he would be out of town all day. Then he set out at a long swinging gait over the hills, miles from the village and in the high beech woods. There he sat down, his back to a monster tree. All day long he gazed steadily on the shifting shadows and splotches Of sunlight on the patches of blue sky, the dazzling white clouds that sailed across them on the waving, whispering frond that overarched him and the deep cool shadows beneath. At evening Orde shook himself and arose. He reached home a little before 6 o'clock. He found Taylor awaiting him. "I have things pretty well in shape," the lawyer said. "Then the trouble is over?" asked Orde.' "I wouldn't say that," replied Taylor, "but you can rest easy as to the title to your lands. The investigation had no real basis to it. There may have been some small individual cases of |f*"v false entry, but nothing on which to ground a real attack." "When can 1 borrow on it?" "Not for a year or two, 1 should say. There's an awful lot of red tape to un wind." "Oh," said Orde Jta some disappoint ment. Taylor hesitated. "I have something more to tell you— something that will be painful," said he. Orde looked up quickly. "Well, what is it?" "The general cussedriess of all this Investigation business had me j/uzzled until at last I made up my mind to do a little investigating on my own ac count There was one man behind all this. He was" 8 "Joe Newmark," said Orde quietly "How did you know that?'V?^^ "I just guessed." v*5* "Well, it was Newmark. He tied up the land in this trumped up investiga tion so you could not borrow on it." "How did he find out I owned any land?" asked Orde. "That I couldn't tell you. Must have been a leak somewhere." Orde did not wish to return to the office until he had worked his problem out, so to lend his absence the color of naturalness he drove back next morn ing to the booms. In the evening he went direct to Newmark's. "Mr. Newmark is out, sir," said Mal lock and started to close the door. But Orde thrust his foot and knee in the opening. "I'll come in and wait," said he quietly. "Yes, sir this way, sir," said Mal lock, trying to indicate the dining room. Orde caught the aroma of tobacco. He turned the knob of the door and entered the library. There* he found Newmark in evening dress, seated in a low easy chair be neath a lamp, smoking and reading a magazine. At Orde's appearance in the doorway he looked up calmly, his paper knife poised, keeping the place. Orde entered the room and mechan ically sat down. "Newmark," Orde began abruptly, "I know all about this arrangement you made with Heinzman." "1 borrowed some money from Heinz man for the firm." "Yes, and you supplied that money yourself." Newmark's eyes narrowed. "Well, what of it?" "If you had the money to lend why didn't you lend it direct?" "Because it looks better to mortgage to an outside holder." "That was not the reason," went on Orde. "You agreed with Heinzman to divide when you succeeded in foreclos ing me out of the timberlands given as security. Furthermore, you in structed Floyd to go out on the eve of that blow in spite of his warnings, and you contracted with McLeod for the new vessels, and you've tied us up right and left for the sole purpose of pinching us down where we couldn't meet those notes. That's the only rea son you borrowed the seventy-five thousand on your own account—so we couldn't borrow it to save ourselves." "It strikes me you are interesting, but inconclusive," said Newmark as Orde paused again. "That sort of thing is somewhat of a facer," went on Orde without the slightest attention to the interjection. "It took me some days to work it out in all its details, but I believe I under stand it all now. I don't quite under stand how you discovered about my California timber. That 'investigation' was a very pretty move." "How the devil did you get on to that?" cried Newmark, startled. "Then you acknowledge it?" "Why shouldn't I?" Newmark laugh ed. "Of course Heinzman blabbed." Orde half sat on the arm of his chair. "Now, I'll tell you what we will do in this matter," said he crisply. "We'll follow," said Newmark, "the original program, as laid down by my self. I'm tired of dealing with blun dering fools. Heinzman's mortgage will be foreclosed, and you^will hand over as per the agreement your Boom com pany stock." Orde stared at him in amazement. "I must say you have good nerve," he said. "You don't seem to'realize that you are pretty well tangled up. I don't know what they call it—criminal conspiracy or something of that sort, I suppose. So far from handing over to you the bulk of my property I can send you to the penitentiary." "Nonsense," rejoined Newmark, lean ing forward in his turn. "I know you too well, Jack Orde. You're a fool. Do you seriously mean to say that you dare try to prosecute me? Just as sure as you do I'll put Heinzman in the pen too. I've got'tt on him, cold. He's a bribe giver—and somewhat a criminal conspirator himself." Newmark leaned back with an amus ed little chuckle. "If the man hadn't uHow the devil did you get onto that?" come to you and given the whole show away you'd have lost every cent you owned. And for your benefit I'll tell you what you can easily substantiate. I forced him into this .deal with me. I had this bribery case on him. What had the man to gain by telling you? Nothing at all. What had he to lose? Everything—his property, his social position, his daughter's esteem."J He paused a moment to puff at his* cigar. "I'm not much used to giving ad vice," he went on, "least of ail when It is at all likely to be taken. But I'll offer you some. Throw Heinzman over. Let him go to the pen. He's been crooked and a fool." "Thaf what you'd doVifrtfS&ft* "Exaetly that Xou owe nothing to Heinzman, but something to what you would Drobably call repentance, but what is in reality a mawkish senti mentality of weakness. However, 1 know you, Jack Orde. from top to bot tom, and I know you're fool enough not to do it. I'm so sure of it that I dare put It to you straight. You could never bring yourself to the point of de stroying a man who had sacrificed him self for you." Chapter 36« OU seem to have this game all figured out," said Orde with contempt. "Well," said the other, "let's settle this thing. The fact remains that the firm owes a note to Heinzman whieh it cannot pay. You owe a note to the firm which you cannot pay. All this may be slightly irregular, but for pri vate reasons you do not care to make public the irregularity. Am I right so far?' "You might hear the other side," in terrupted Orde. "In the first place," said be, producing a bundle of papers. "I have the note and the mortgages in my possession." "Whence Heinzman will shortly res cue them as soon as I get to see him," countered Newmark. "If you force Heinzman he'll land you," Orde pointed out. "There is Canada for me. He trav els with heavier baggage." "You'd lose everything." "Not quite." smiled Newmark. "And, as usual, you are forgetting the per sonal equation. Heinzman is—Heinz man. And I am 1." "Then I suppose this affidavit from Heinzman* as to the details of all this is useless for the same reason?" Newmark's thin lips parted. "Correct" said he. "But you're ready to compromise be low the face of the note?" Newmark hesitated. "Yes." said he, "because I know you well enough to realize that there is a point where your loyalty to Heinzman would step aside in favor of your loy alty to your family." "And you think you know where that point is?" "It's the basis of my compromise." Orde laughed. "The worst of it is I believe you're right," said he at last. "You have,the thing sized up. and there isn't a flaw In your reasoning. I always said that you were the brains lof this concern. If it were not for one thing I'd com promise sur and ttiat one thing was beyond your power to foresee." He paused. Newmark's eyes half closed again in a quick darting effort of his brain to run bacs over all the elements of the game he was playing. "What is it?" asked Newmark at last. "Heinzman died of smallpox at 4 o'clock this afternoon," said Orde. Newmark's face went slowly gray. For a full minute he sat absolutely motionless. "Where are you going?" asked Orde quietly. "I'm going to get myself a drink in my bedroom," he snapped. "Any ob jections?" "No. After you get your drink I want to talk to you." Newmark snarled at him: "You needn't be afraid I'll run away. How'd I get out of town?" Orde looked thoughtfully at Heinz man's affidavit, which, duly disinfected, had been handed him by Dr. McMullen as important. Then he arose to his feet and glided softly across the room to take a position close to the door through which Newmark had departed. Finally the door swung briskly inward. Like a panther Orde sprang forward. He pinioned Newmark's arms to his side, where he 'held them immovable with one of his own. The other hand he ran down Newmark's right arm to l»e pocket There followed an instant of resistance. With a sharp cry of pain Newmark snatched^ his hand out and gazed amazedly at the half crush ed fingers. Orde drew forth the re volver Newmark had grasped in the coat pocket He spilled out the car tridges and tossed the empty weapon to Newmark. "There's your plaything," said he. "So you wanted that affidavit, did you?" He paused. "I don't need to tell you that I've got you," said he finally, "nor what I think of you. I can send you over the road for the best part of your natural days also I've got these notes and the mortgage." "Quit it" growled Newmark. "Send me up and be d-—d!" "That's the question," went on Orde slowly. "You hurt me pretty bad, Joe. I thought of you as a friend. I had a hard time getting over that part of it. We've been together a good many years now. and as near as I can make out you've been straight as a string with -me for eight of them. Then 1 suppose the chance came and before you knew, it you,were An over your neck." *-*j $£ -, "Oh. for God's sake, drop that preaching. It makes me sick!" broke out Newmark. "I'm not preaching," said Orde, "and even if I were I've paid a good many thousands of dollars, it seems, to buy the right to say what I d—n please. And if you think I'm working up to a Christian forgiveness racket you're mistaken. I'm npj. I don'.t_ forgive you." f^yitdilllir ffVTT "Well, turn me over jto jsour ^sheriff and let's get through wijth this," said Newmark sullenly, &*** prde'rose. "Look here, Newmark, that's just what I've been coming to, just what I've had sueh a Aard time to get hold of. I'm not going to hand you over to any sheriff. I'm going to \pt you off. No," he continued, in response to Newmark's look of incredulous amaze ment "it isn't from any fool notion of forgiveness. I told you I didn't for give you. But I'm not going to bur den my future life with you. That's just plain, ordinary selfishness. I sup pose I really ought to ju# you, but if I do I'll always carry with me the thought that I've taken it on myself to judge a man. And I don't believe any man is competent to judge an other." ,~ Newmark, who had listened to this rambling exposition with curiosity, broke into a laugh. "You've convicted me," he said. "I'm a most awful failure. I thought I knew you, but this passes all be lief." Orde brushed this speech aside as ir relevant. "Our association, of course, comes to an end. There remain the terms*of settlement. I could fire you out of this without a cent, and you'd have to git. But that wouldn't be fair. I don't give a hang for you, but it wouldn't be fair to me. Now, as for the northern peninsula timber, you have had sev enty-five thousand out of that and have lent me the same amount. Call that quits. I will take up your note when it comes due and destroy the one given to Heinzman. For all your holdings in our common business 1 will give you my note without interest and without time for $100,000. That is not its face value nor anything like it, but you have caused me directly and indirectly considerable loss. I don't know how soon I can pay this note, but it will be paid." "All right." agreed Newmark. "Does that satisfy you?" "I suppose it's got to." "Very well. I have the papers here all made out They need simply to be signed and witnessed. Timbull is the nearest notary. Come." said he. In silence the two walked the block and a half to the notary's house. Fi nally the papers were executed. In the street Newmark paused significant ly, but Orde did not take the hint "Are you coming with me?" asked Newmark. "1 am." replied Orde. "There is one thing more." In silence once more they returned to the shadowy low library. Newmark threw himself into the armchair. He was once again the coldly calculating, cynical observer. Orde turned to face him. "You have five days" to leave town," he said crisply. "Don't ever show up here again. Let me have your address for the payment of this note." He took two steps forward. "You're a dirty, low lived skunk. If you think you're going to get off scot free you're mightily mistaken." Newmark" half arose. "What do you mean?" he asked in lome alarm. "I mean that I'm going to give you ^bout the worst licking you ever beard jell of," replied Orde, buttoning his loat. Five minutes later Orde emerged from Newmark's house, softly rubbing the palm of one hand over the knuckles of the* other. He turned out of the side street. His own house lay before him. He stopped, then to forward softly until he stood looking in through the door way. Carroll sat lean ing against the golden b.arb. her "What do youmean?" shining head with he asked. the soft shadows bent until it almost touched the strings. Her hands were straying idly over ac customed chords and rich modulations, the plaintive half music of reverie. Orde crept to her unheard. Gently he clasped her. She sank back against his breast with a happy little sigh. "Kind of fun being married, isn't it. sweetheart?" he said. "Kind of," she replied, and raised her face to his. THE END. Tennyson's Love For Birds. Alfred Tennyson was all his life a great lover of the woods and fields. Trees, birds and flowers were his ev eryday companions, and he faithfully studied the habits of Dame Nature's English nurslings. The lark, the night ingale, the owl and the linnet were his favorite birds. He was also greatly in terested in the sea birds, the peregrine falcons, the cormorants^ seagulls, etc., and in the long legged sea birds, the visitors to marshes and pools. He thought the curlew, of which he has written in "Locksley Hall," a very no ble bird and loved its wild call over the marshes. There are many references to birds native to England in his poems, and all of them show a thor ough acquaintance with the individual characteristics of the different species. At Farringf ord the poef garden was the home of the wild birds of the hedgerows. The blackbird and*cobra and) the smaller birds flocked there in great numbers, and it was considered Jar more important that they should feel welcome there than that the fruit should be permitted to ripen undisturb ed the garden be kep£ In proper woer. *f Domesticated birds also Tennyson numbered among his friends. Brilliant peacocks ana more soDer aoves ana pigeons, he laved them all. A Helpful Suggestion.! The young man had married the rich man's daughter and wasn't killing himself with work to support her. One day the father called him up to talk, to him. "Look here," he said emphatically, "why dou't you go to work?" -, "I don't have to," the son-in-law re plied, with brazen effrontery. "Well, you will have to." '•Why will 1?'\ "Because, sir, I can't live always to support you." "But you will leave us something?" "Not much, 1 won't. There won't be anything to leave." The son-in-law was alarmed. "Great Jupiter!" he exclaimed. "You don't mean to tell me that you have nothing?" "That's about it" The son-in-law devoted himself to profound thought for several seconds. "I have a suggestion to offer," he said in a businesslike manner. "What is it?" asked the old gent "Well, I suggest that you take out, say, a £20,000 life insurance on your self to save wear and tear on my mind."—London Answers. 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A miniature railroad on the grounds will be one of the at tractions. The exposition grounds are reached direetly from the railroad by the Nan king city lines. Chinese capitalists have furnished the funds for suitable foreign hotels near the grounds. There will be accommodations for 1,000 guests at these hotels. It is expected ^that there will be 10,000 to 15,000 vis itors daily to the grounds. The total cost of the exposition is estimated at $700,000. Twenty-two provinces of China are to be represent ed in the exhibits, and 5,000 square feet each have been allotted to Amer ican. English, German and Japanese exhibits in the Chinese government building. TO TRY NEW PENCIL WOODS. Supply of Red Cedar Will Be Ex hausted In Five Years. With a view to replenishing the sup ply of woods adaptable to the manu facture of lead pencils the forest serv ice at Washington has perfected plans for testing a number of the na tional forest woods in co-operation with several leading representatives of the pencil industry. The department of agriculture re cently held conferences with lead pen cil manufacturers, and it was brought out, as stated at the forest bureau the other *day, that the supply of red ce dar, which furnished practically all the wood for the annual output for some 325,000,000 pencils, will be exhausted within five years. In view of this situation a substitute must be found which has all the qual ities of pencil wood and which grows in sufficient quantities to meet the manufacturers' demands. Among the woods in the national forests to be ex perimented with are rocky mountain red qedar, alligator juniper, western juniper, redwood, incense cedar, west ern cedar, Port Oxford cedar and Alaska cypress. The specimens col lected will be sent to four leading manufacturers who have agreed to test them. They will keep a record of the tests and report to the forest service the results as well as their judgment as to the fitness of the in dividual woods. MORE MONEY IN GOATS. Why They May Replace Cows on Farms In Sullivan County, N. Y. There will be no cows' milk shipped to New York city from Sullivan coun ty, N. Y., after April 1 if a plan being considered seriously by farmers is car ried out On or before that date a de mand for a flat rate of 4 cents a quart the year round will be made upon the New York milk dealers, and failure to receive such guarantee will result in the farmers selling their cows and replacing them with% Angora goats. Meetings were held every night re cently during two weeks at the farm houses near Monticello, N. Y., where the milk question has been thoroughly thrashed out. John L. 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