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nfWuV' w THE OHIOAGO E3A.O-LE. aesaiBfflaBaBaiaBffiaBffifflffifflasffiaiBBffiw Old Blazer's Hero i L mm By DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY. iRHiftJ BBf co CIIAl'TKIt rV!,r (Cnntlntti-il.) "Well?" !ic k:iIiI iilmoxt Hullviily, with out liirnliiK I" look nt lior. TIip liniul wlilrli linil tntiflieil lilm very poiitty mill nipritlliitty nt first, Uslitpnw! upon lili sleeve unit Iipriiii In tremliK Ktninsly. At tills lie looked over IiIh fliollldi-r nml Hint lIi'pzllmli'H lipxeeelilim pwp. There were tetir In lier rje, nml ho iinlki'il ii I'lirliiiiM litllo llirolililiiK In licr tliront, iim If ii iilnuofnrtu liiiniincr were lnipliiK' from wltliln. "Don't liri-iik your lieiirt, IMwnnl," flic liivsoiixlit Ii I til, NpiMikliiK with Brent illlllcnlty. "Don't ki to Hie liml for lirr! TIipto'h noliody iih 1 worth tluil, my tlurl In. Wllllt Ko'oil run tluit 1I0V" "Don't worry nlioiit mo, Hppzllmh," lie snlil niNpmlilys "It Nn't worth while." "Wluit elp hnvc I cot to worry for If It nin't Ihc i'Ii ilil I iinrxcil when I whn n thllil lii.VKclfV' ciihl llt'pzllmli, holilliiK to him with lioih IiiiiiiN. "And, oh, us 1 MintiM ever lin' lived to linvo to nk yon Mich n thing! Hnt, oli, my iliullnt,', do, do come lionie " She pnii'pd, mid Ned tilled up the brok en sentence. "Sober, 1 Mlppoe," he enltl. "Oh, do, ilenr, do!" alio bessed him, clInt-'liiK t hint. "Very well," he xnld, with n (tloomy InilRh two little npiiKinodlc hj1iiiiIk, tin fnr from inerrlment nn Hcht from dark- nefm "you clinll hnvo our wny for onee. You pretty Ketiernlly (fel It here." He Ktooped mid klxxetl the linnl-fen- tured fuco, mid llepxlhnh, droppiiiK her hcnil upon lilt Mioiilder, cIiiiir to hint nml tdiook with xlleut tear mid Internal nob blnirn. "I've got your word, ilenr?" Mie nuked ivlien xho could trust herself to upenk. "YcV lie. miHWercd. "Oood nluht, Hrpzllmli." lie net out on his Hcvetrmtlc wnlk, nnd hnvliiK pouted his letter In the. town, turned back. A certain halfway house tiiKKed nt lilm iih If It had n cord about lilx heart, but he broke pnxt It with n race of resolution, anil walked Mnilislit home, mid nt onco went up to lilx own bediooui. Ilcpzlhnli heard the nsxured mid Manly footstep, mid wan tliniikful for the news It brought her, (IioiikIi the feet went like lend, mid had not even u memory of their old HkIiIdpkm. Next mornliiK Ned Hluno'x erlmlnnl prctetixc wax ilellveicd Into Mary Hack ett'x hands, mid xho felt her heart alto Ketlier eheerful mid strengthened by it. She wondered still nt tho personal si lence her husband kept, but nt least here wns proof positive that ho wax not the heartless creature she had found herself beginning to believe him. He had not found It in liix heart to forsake her mid to cast her buck upon her parents. And xho herself could face the world again. lie had really gone away on business of some sort; mid though xhu wax still In quieted about lilm, xho had no longer the shame of being forced to believe that the affairs ho had spoken of were no moro than nn abominable pretext. Hut now ciiino n rotiseipieiico of the letter which the forger had not antici pated. ' lleforo (he welcome banknote wim so much ax broken for tho purchase of household necessaries, Mary sat down and wrote n letter to that Imaginary John Hargieaves who lived in tho imag inary Kenton Suuiire: "Sir I xhould bo grpntly obliged If you would furnish mc with my husband's present address. I am afraid that re cent letters mny have miscarried." If this little blind wus something less than absolutely truthful, xhu posted It all tho same, and salved her conscience with the hope that It might be true. Two or three days Inter her liupilry came Imck ngnln, directed mid redirected in half n dozen different hands, nnd at last otUciully marked "Misdirected: no Kex ton Square In Hroctoti." This amiued her mid awoke new anxieties. Obviously Will is moving in crooked ways nml wns In hiding from her. It wus easily pos sible that lie might be concealing him self, mid. Inspired by some feeblo hope nt meeting him, she took the bus into town day nfter day mid wnlked wearily up nnd down the principal thorough fares, thinking Hint perchance she might catch sight of lilm. She had never known It until now, but she wns a little short-sighted, mid ti thousand times her heart leaped with in her in the crowded street ns she lin (mined that nt last the errant husband wns in sight, nnd she would advance, llutterlng from head to foot, to meet mi nbsoliito stranger. No habitude of fail ure lessened the shock of hope and fear nml disappointment, and she mlil go homo at night too tired to cure for any thing. Iter whole life seemed to have giown into one constant dull and empty aclie. It seemed n strange mid ghostly sort of life to lend, for xho wus altogether alone now, ami hardly ever exchanged ii word, except upon mutters of mere ne cessity, with a fellow creature. Sho called upon nobody, mid nobody called upon her. Those peoplo of the little township who had at llrst been Indignant against ,1ohu llowarth mid his wife for their neglect of their daughter supposed now', naturally enough, since Mary went on living in her husband's house, that the builder supplied the necessary funds, mid so forgot their Indignation. CIIAPTIJU XVII. As If Mnry hnd not had trouble enough upon her shoulders already, a new one descended upon her, and xho begun to bo certain that tho house, night after night, was being watched, and became assured that the watcher wus always tho same person. Tho llrst suspicion which occurred to her emtio when, on a moon light night about the middle, of July, who thuiw open her bedroom window and looked out upon the descried road and tho tranquil widespread lields. Sho had no light, nnd tho house mid its neighbor threw their Joint shadow on the road be fore her mid on to tho hedgo which faced their doors. Ileyond the distinctly mark ed lino of shade upbn tho Held the moon light lay lu a broad, vapory whiteness, Ui whli Ii objects, though easily discern Hue, took strange and fantastic shapes. Sho Inn sat at tho open window for a good live minutes, drilwlug in a sad tran quillity from tho moonlight mid the si lence, when u dry stick cracked behind tho hedgo and drew Iter startled gaze, to tho spot whence tho sound proceeded. Following this came complete silence. She listened till tho wide air made a singing in tier enrs like v tho lingering echo of the waves which children Hud in seashellH. Hearing no repetition of tho Hound, but inspecting rather thnn ills oernlng nn ndded bulk of dnrknws Home where lu the uhadowe, the cloietl the ffl ft - window, drew down tho blind nnd watch ed throught the merest crevico between the bars, That something darker tlin the shailows began to move, nnd the cracking sound, heard moro faintly through the closed window thnn before, ngnln reached her enrs. The moving ob ject xtole under the hedge for twenty or thirty yards, growing distinct from tho other shadows whilst it moved, and melt ing buck into them again whenever it stood still; and then, passing oer a utile. appeared in the moonlight of the road, at that distance mid in that light recogniz able only as u man. Mary never xat nt her open window again after this, but xho wns often tempted to watch, and the watch wax nluioxt Invariably rewarded by the enrller or later detection of tho tigitre. Who the man was mid why he was there she could not guess. Hut one night, us she xat in the darkness lu flip lower room be fore tho hour of moonrlsp, she wns nwaro of (lie shndowy watcher pacing' dimly up mid down, trusting solely in tho darkness, mid taking no advantage this time of thp shelter of the hedge. Vaguely as she had made out his as pect, she knew him for the xanie, nnd she watched his goings to mid fro the door of the neighboring house wns sud denly thrown open, mid n broad ray of light darting from it fell full upon the mysterious prowler's fucp. The fnce wns, of coursp, Ned Hlane'x. Mary was In n permiiuent mood now to be easil) Indignant, and she lose up In wrath against this Intrusion upon her privacy. Whnt right lind lie, or nny man, to hang about in thnt wny, watch ing her mid xpylng upon her? Some sense of the unobtrusive nnd wordless devotion of tho watcher touched her here, nnd brought her down from the heights of nnger. And yet the proceeding wns In tolerable, mid sooner or Inter wns sure to be discovered, to bring nlioiit new whisperings of 'scandal and new unmerit ed sorrow, Illane hid recoiled nt the sudden ray of light, mid had disappeared before these varying thoughts and emotions had well hud time to course through her heart mid mind. Hut now he was bnck again, padng up nnd down In the dark ness. She could xee the pale blur of his face turned steadfastly toward tho house. She determined to ignore him, nnd withdrew herself from the window. She would not even know of his belnt there, but that was dilllcult. Kven when she had gone to her bedroom, anil having prepared fur her night's rest blew out the light, she peeped again through nn In terstice in the blind and saw tho dim llgure still going up mid down. Tho morning, nfter this discovery Maiy received, u second letter from the mysterious Ilurgrenves, enclosing n sec ond remittance, with the same formula ns before. At llrst she did not notice nny difference of address, but by nnd by her eye lighted upon the llrst line of the commuulcntlon, and she xaw that It was mited, not from Keston, but from Klrton Sipiarc. The forger hud relied upon his memory, mid his memory had played him fill so. She set out tit mice for the great town, determined, If possible, to unravel the mystery, nnd at least to discover if Kir ton xtood in as airy n situation ns his forerunner. There wns no Klrton Square to be found or heard of, and she came buck troubled. That night the watcher came again. A painful fascination Impelled her by this time to keep us regular a watch for him ns he evidently kept upon the house, mid ns he came .In sight a suspicion burst upon her mind with so vivid nnd sudden a light that it looked like certainty. She lit u candle hastily, ran upstairs, mid emptied the contents of a drawer upon the bed. mid from, the tumbled heap of papers before her, after a search of a moment or two, took u letter from Ned Hlnne to her husband, and setting this nnd tho commuulcntlon from John Ilur greaves xldo by side, came. In xpllo of the stiff disguise of the legal-looking call graphy, to tlic xwift conclusion thut they were written by, the sumo hand. It was bitter enough in nil conscience to have been deserted by her husband, even though she confessed to herself thnt xho hud never loved lilm; It was heart bi caking to be deserted by tho peoplo of her own tlesli mid' blood; but to be In sulted by the cheating charity of n reject ed Inter xeemed tenfold worse than nil. She descended to the dining room, nnd taking Ihc bank note from tho tablo on which it lay, crumpled it wrntlifully In her hand and walked swiftly from the room Into tho hall, and from the hall Into the roiiilwny. Tho furtive watcher was away nt a routui puce in an instant, hut xho followed mid culled upon lilm by name. "Mr, Hlmic! I will not be nroided. I order you to listen to me." CHAl'TIJH XVIII. Ned Ithine stood stock still in tho dink nnd said nothing. "How dare jou insult mo by your char ity'.'" Mary asked lilm, Shu panted with haste and e;;clteiueut, and her limbs wero trembling. Ned, with his hands lu his Jacket pock ets, his shoulders rounded, and his head drooping u little, made no movement and answered never n word, lu the Art of walking away from her he hud paused at her call of command, mid his back was still half turned toward her. Mary, who liud not yet begun to cool from tho Impulse of Indignant attack which had inspired her to rush after him, took a further step or two and stood before him. "How darn you Insult me by your charity V" she asked again, clenching thu criiiunled note In her hand. Stlfl he said nothing, His figure, dim ly outlined in the dark ax it wax, had u look of dogged Impassivity about it which was discouraging. "This ciiiiio from you," she snld, hold In,' out the crumpled bank note, "You must take it back again." Sho held out tho nolo almost timidly, nnd her eyes searched in vain for nny sign of change or relenting in tho dog- ged figure before her. His Immobility was exasperating, but it was not easy to seu what ought to bo done lu fuco of it. Sho wax moro than half Inclined .for a moment to drop thu uoto mid go, but that would hardly have been courteous. It wax dilllcult to be courteous to n man xo obstinate, j'o.s. xibly lie might be amenable to reason. Tho reason of tho position wus certainly wholly on her hide, mid ho could hut bo so stupid us to be blind to it, Shu began to rtimoii with lilm. "Surely, Mr. Illane, you must ret bow wrong you ure lu neuding title to me," Mr. Hlnne wns nppnrontly decided to nee not Ii lug. Any movement In the obdti rnto ligurp. nny xhnlllo of the foot, for n sign of yielding or uuenxliipss, nny silent negative to urge her to nn argument, would have been welcome. "I can't necept this," shL went nn des perately. "It was rrnel to trap me Into taking the other. What would you think of anybody. Mr, Ithine, who laid xueh a trap to hiimllhitp you mid ciilch your self respect V How dare you pretend that this cattic frotntn y husband? Whnt right have you to send luo money? Whnt did I ever give joii for treating me so'" To nil this tho detected benefactor nn bwpiciI nothing, "Take It!" slip snld Imperiously, for by this time her own speech hud wnrtn ed her nnew Into nnger. He made no re sponse, and when xho hnd waited for n full half minute, with thp note extended lit her hntid, she moved nwny, "1 elinll send this to you by post," xho snld frig idly, "and I will nxk you not to write to me or speak to mo again." She walked from lilm Indignantly, mid when she hnd gone but n step or two turned her hcnil to look at lilm. lie kept his posture hend drooping, shoulders rounded, the obstlnato hands rammed Into the side pockets. Hut somehow it did not look us If obstinacy alone were expressed lu the posture of the llgure. Now that she was but u little distance nwny from It, It began to seem sol Italy, bit telly solitary. A sense of pity touched her. Tho thought of her own loneliness and iiuhappluess brought tears to her eyes. She could scarcely leave lilm In that ungrateful mid ungarcloiis way, Im practicable mid obstinate as he wns. She turned mid spoke again, and the tears sounded lu her voice. , "Yon must not think I don't feel thnt you meant to be kind. 1 know you meant to act delicately and like a friend. Hut you must see how Impossible It is. Will you take this, Mr, Hlnne? I would much rather jou took it from me. I'rny take It." His continued silence drove her nwny j In n new nnger, nnd she did not turn again until she reached the gate. Then she could dimly see his llgure in the road way. A break in the hedge beyond where he stood allowed the drooping he.id to be seen in more defined outline against the sky. She entered the house mid left him there, and all night long the fancy of the silent nnd solitary fig ure standing thero oppressed her. She wns often lingered by It, mid as often pitiful over it; but the gust of auger wns strong nnd long, nnd the pity was n mero lull In the wind. Ned heard the retiring footsteps, the retreating rustic of the dress, tho clank of the gate latch, the fatal sound of the closing door. lie stood still for n long time. It was not worth while to move. There wns nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nowhero to go. Nothing muttered very much. Nothing seemed nblo very much to hurt him. Hy mid by he heard laughing voices coming down the lane. They were vul gar and discordant nnd the laughter wns out of tune with everything. He wnlk ed on, taking little if nny note of whith er his footsteps led him, nnd nt Inst, in something very like n waking dream walked past his own house. (To be continued.) Another lnlt Story. flrntiilfuther Hollis was ready mid willing to tell stories ns long ns lie liud eager listeners, but once embarked on tlie sea of narrative, lie allowed no ship to cross Ills bows. If one did bo "put back to shore to once," to use Ills own words. Ills greatest trial wan Ills own nephew, Abljali Hobbx, who appar ently could not refrain from asking iiucxtlons nt every turn. Many it good story hut! been lost In tills way, so when (irniulfiithcr Hollis started n fa mous talc nt n Thanksgiving party, Abljnli wns requested to keep still. "Twiih on u story night lu Novem ber. '.'!)," begun (Snimlfiitlier IIollls, "nnd the wind liud been n-iuonnlng all dny long; the sky also bad a sort of a greenish color, ami now- it nil then tlic-ie'il be u scud o' gray clouds ucrost It. 1 knew soiiu'tlilng was going to happen, mill 'long ubout .'I o'clock In the ufteiiioon I took u look ubout tho farm tu see thnt everything wns nil right, iiuliimls under shelter nml so on; took tho cows lu, fixed up the burn tight mid couie back Into the house. "I wus kind of uneaxy and kop' my eyes nut o the windows, watching tho clouds, and sighting tho bouts over on the buy side us they come In; but there wusn't uuythlng really out o' tho wny till ubout 5, or nitiybo ipuirter past. Then nil of it sudden I heard a low muttering an' I sprung to tho bock window. Just In a line with tho win dow lu thoxo days there was n maple trH. ' Tho listener wero nil hrenthlcsi, bending toward (irundfiither Hollis, and for one fatal moment AblJahe wife allowed her vigilant gnxo to leuve her huslmiid'H face. "Say, wan It a wugar-mnplo?" cried AblJuh. Hunting In Now Hrunawlolc Of course, all guides claim to lie moose callers, tint experience trachea that very few are successful, wtys the Illustrated Spotting News, In talking with sumo of tho best of them they united lu buying thut 'a woman, If she would practice calling for two weeks or so, could surpass any num. What U mvdeil is a high, clear voice. The call ing Is dune with a hlich-lmrk horn, shaped liken uicgnph lie. It should 1m about sixteen Inches long, six Indus ucr.s the huge end mid about one inch nt the mouthpiece. The call Is two Lj h it grunts, followed by a long bellow In Initiation of (he cull given by the cow iuoi.se. The bull, lu answering, gives from one totlueo. or four short, hoarse giiiuts. During the summer the curlbnu come into the hikes nt all times of the day ami night, but later on go hack on the luuri'iiM and remain llu'iv until the snow drives them down tu the timber. It's haul hunting, as the climb to the lumens N rough nnd very tiresome. Then, too, on account of their keen K'dit mid hinrlug, stt much ullowaiue must bo untile for all winds and air curii'tits that even sighting gaino long detours hnvo to be iiitido In order thut the apiuoacli may bo made, up wind, NuinliiK thu Hotel, Hill "He wiintid a nnnie for his nuw hottl." Jill "Were there tiny suggested?" "Vis a fillow suggest! d.culllug it the Ituueiuntle. (lout, liecuuso It was a Bweil Joint." YonketH Statesman. If ii imibli' tcnclipr cnii't limko nny tlilnK o'.bo out of to voice of mi liplr i'bb ho can umko money, Tbe moro homo men talk the more trouble Uu'y pile up tor UieuiitlYM. Z. R. CARTBR. Z. R. CARTER & BRO., Wholesale Dealers in Grain and Hay Halsted and 16th Sts., Telephone Canal 27. itth: M. P. 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