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(KINSLEY GRAPHIC.
(KINSLEY,
KANSAS
I MUST GET HOME.
Z must fet borne. I have wandered Ions
In this wilderness so drear,
' And many times have I lost my way
In the dreary night and the sunless day.
And my heart has quaked with fear.
Fierce storms have driven me farther back,
- Where mountains were bleak and bare.
Have Z fallen into some deep abyss.
And I almost perished there.
x muse get nome. too ions: nave i uvea
' - On food that has caused distress;
Bitter the fruits that unripe would fall
And the murky water would turn to sail.
Causing untold wretchedness.
And when a famine was In the land
And the hot winds scorched the ground,
I ate the shucks that were brown and dry.
And often from thirst I would almost die
Ere a cooing draught I found, v
I must get home. In a vision fair
I behold it far away;
The sky above It for aye is bright
And there comes no cloud or shadow of
' night,
1 For there 'tis a bright, glad day.
A fruit tree grows by the portals wide,
I have longed for it oft and sore,
And when I eat from that goodly tree .
And drink from the fountain that flows so
free,
I I'll hunger and thirst no more.
; I must get home. At the gate I see ,
My father and mother dear.
They have waited long for their truant boy,
And I know their faces will beam with joy
' When they see me drawing near.
Two sisters, two brothers now are there;
And weary and sick I roam.
But O how glad will our meeting be
iTrv. a .
ucu eua iiuui my juurney iiiey welcome
me.
I must, O I must get home.
George Clay Lloyd. In Banner of Gold.
By Will H Harbsrj.
Copyright, xqoo, by A N. Kelloeg Newspaper Co.
CHAPTER XII. Continued.
When she had left the room, a
strange, glorious light in her young
face, he began again to walk the floor.
He was tingling - in every vein. His
heart had begun to beat excitedly. He
tried to think df Jeanne, the awful
disease which was eating Blanche's
life away, but he could only feel the
pressure of his ward's hands, the
warmth of her breath. on his face, the
depth of her great, trustful eyes.
"Great God! what can this mean?"
he exclaimed.
He continued to valk back and forth
across the room for half an hour, then
he stopped suddenly and rang.
James obeyed the summons.
i "Where is Mr. Talley?" he asked.
"In the study, at work, sir." J ames
saluted in military fashion.
I "That is all.';, "The major went to
the study, where he found his private
secretary at work at a typewriter. '
. "Talley," he began, "you wanted to
see me yesterday, I believe?"
"I did, major. I believe the amount
you were keeping for me is exactly '
$5,000?"
"You are right, Talley; that is the
amount, and, as I told you, you can
get it at any time you wish. All you
have to do is to draw the check. I
will sign it." V
"I have it ready now," said the young
"man, handing Goddard a slip of pa
per. "I hope you are not thinking of leav
ing me?" said the major, as he signed
the check.
"Not that, but I am flatly disobeying'
your injunctions, major. You have
tried to keep me out of speculation,
but the temptation is too strong to re
sist. This check covers all my savings,
and yet I am going to put every cent of
it into G. X. & W. railway stock."
v"Oh, you can't be so foolhardy, Tal
ley!" "I am fortunately on the inside as
to the future outcome of the stock,"
declared the young man. "I have a
young friend, Hubert Johnson, the son
of the Wall street Johnson. You knew
him by reputation. Well, this friend
of mine happened to overhear a con
versation in his father's office which
let him on to an important secret. His
father and other big speculators have
. formed a syndicate to depress this
stock. It has been going down like
lightning for the last two months.
It has reached its lowest notch. : They
are certainly buying all they can lay
their hands on. I know-1 cannot be
running any risk. I am in a sure deal.
I tell you this because I hope that you
will take a hand. , I had rather see you
make money than anyone, major, for
you have been the best friend I have
ever had." " ;
I shall not invest," answered God
dard; "but I wish you luck, Talley. I
hope it will make you rich."
-. "Thank you major." The secretary
put the check into his pocket.
"I have an important commission
for you, Talley." The major ; cleared
his throat, sat down at his desk,
. turned ' in . his revolving chair - - and
. crossed his legs. ' A slight color had
risen in his face. : Talley had never
seen him look so handsome. - :t
- x era at your service, major. ,
"What if I were to tell you I am
going to get married,-Talley
The secretary stared. The carriage
of his typewriting machine, with
which he was toying, fell with a sharp
click. .
"Are you in earnest, Haj. Goddard?"
"Quite in earnest, Talley. I have
decided to marry my ward."
"Miss Briscoe?" exclaimed Talley,
his face suddenly falling.
"Yes, Miss Briscoe. And we have de
cided, under existing circumstances,
that we will have the affair take place
in as quiet a manner as possible. I
want you to drive over to Rev. Mr.
Strothers at once and see if we may
come to his house to-morrow morn
ing. If he consents, then I want you
to. attend to any other arrangements
without delay."
The private secretary had turned
quite pale. His eyes were expanded
and fixed in a helpless stare on the
face of his employer.
"Have you thought over this well,
major?" he blurted out, suddenly.
"Why do you ask that?" asked
Goddard, suspiciously.
"Pardon me," stammered Talley, "I
only thought" but it was not clear to
Talley what he thought.
"I do not, understand your your
question, Talley," insisted the major.
. "You know Miss Briscoe is young,"
answered the secretary, "and and she
has been so upset over your recent
bereavement that I was afraid that,
through sympathy and vast interest
in you as her father's friend and her
benefactor, she might '
"I see," broke in the major; "you
think she may "hastily take a step that
might be regretted later, but you need
not be afraid, Talley. The truth is,
Blanche and I once thought of mar
rying before I met Mrs. Goddard. I
think you need have no fears on that
score."
"I did not know of that," said the
private secretary, his face still set and
white. "I eg your pardon. I shall
carry out your instructions. I hope
you can overlook my remark just
now."
"Easily," said -the major, "for it
shows your interest in me and Blanche
is more than skin deep."
When the major had left the room
the young man lowered his head to
his desk. He heard the major ring
and order the horse and cart.
"God have mercy on me! What have
I been allowing myself to think
about?" he muttered. "I might have
known there was something behind
that awful suffering of hers. I ought
to have seen that she loved him!"
CHAPTEE XIII.
During that night a light snow be
gan to fall, and as the bridal party
left the next morning to be driven to
the house of Rev. Mr. Strothers a thin
white carpet lay on the earth and fine
feathery flakes continued to fall.
The servants had been apprised of
the astonishing event and they gath
erd at the windows which look out
Upon the drive.
"A very sensible thing for 'em to
do," said James. "She is the sort of
mistress I want to work for. I should
have left the other if she hadn't gone
to the bottom of the Atlantic. I
haven't lived with the aristocracy for
ten years without -knowing a sample
when I see' it. The good Lord has
been kind to the major."
"I wish she had waited awhile, just
for the looks o' the thing," said Katie,
Blanche's favorite maid. "Then she
could have had a swell wedding, plen
ty of presents, and "
"i.nd give you all her old clothes,"
sneered James, who was too fat to
make use of the major's discarded
apparel.
"I get everything I want anyway,"
was Katie's defense. "It is only be
cause I think she deserves all that any
rich young lady has that I object to
this kind of a marriage; but if she is
only happy, I won't complain."
These gossiping hirelings were at the
windows when the returning carriage
appeared in sight an hour later. The
bride's beautiful face was flushed by
the contact with the wind, and she
had never looked so happy or moved
with so much grace. Talley and Miss
Dean had very serious faces as they
came up the veranda side by side.
"Well, it is all over," said the major
to his bride' when they were alone in
the luxurious company chamber, where
a red fire glowed. He had never been
such a mystery to himself as now. He
felt as if he were drunken with de
licious memories of their old court
ship. . ; . . -
"Yes, I am your wife at last," she
said, with a smile. "I am your wife,
and I am going to make you happy. I
feel it away down in my heart."
"You feel it," he repeated, as if in a
dream, and he helped her to take off
her cloak. He felt her warm breath
on his face. He laid the cloak aside,
then drew her into his arms and kissed
her. "And so do I, dear girl. And so
do I." . .
. At that strange - moment Jeanne
Goddard and all her evil plans seemed
as much removed from his life as if
she had never entered it. It was as if
the old life had come back to him
the life in which his .love had for its
object a creature so pure. and unde
filed that it lifted him up and opened
his eyes to spiritual .possibilities. . '
"I was at first afraid you would not
consent -so soon after after her
death," he said.
; "I felt that it was my right to have
you now,' - said ' Blanche, frankly.
"She told me how she had deliberately
beguiled you from me when she dis
covered that you loved me. The night
before she sailed she confessed she
had resorted to every trick and art
fice within her power to make you
cast me aside.
"She told you that?" the major ex
claimed.
"Yes, and not only that, but she said
she had some sort of presentiment
that she was going to die abroad, and
said if anything did happen to her
she hoped I would marry you. Oh,
I've tried to regret her death to feel
sorry for her at being taken away in
the midst of such sins, but I cannot.
She even toid me oh, I can't tell you
what else she said. It makes me al
most hate her memory."
"Please go on," said the major.
"She confessed that she was un
happy with you that she wanted to
get away from you that she married
you simply for your money."
"I suspected that," said the major,
dreamily.
It seemed so wonderful to him that
he could now calmly contemplate
Jeanne's shallow faithlessness with
out the pangs such thoughts had al
ways" caused him. Was it because he
really loved his ward and that he had
never loved. Jeanne that his passion
for her had been only a base infatua
tion which "had already taken wings?
He could not answer these ques
tions; he could only wonder at the
strange exultation which was swell
ing in his breast the boundless en
thusiasm over the thought that he
was loved by the beautiful young
creature before him. He lost sight of
the wrong he had done her. She had
only a short while to live that time,
he told himself, should constitute his
life and hers; beyond that brief pe
riod he could not reckon.
"You have suffered?" he heard him
self murmuring.
"Ever since that awful day when
you introduced me to her in the draw
ing-room. I had never dreamed that
God intended you for anyone but me.
You had been my whole life, and
even afterwards, when I saw the hold
she had on you, I could not keep from
suffering. .lhe pam, the loss was
with me night and day. I hated her;
I despised myself. I planned a thou
sand times to leave, but I could not
tear myself away, because I saw your
soul in danger. I saw her day by day
leading you downward instead of up
ward, as I had dreamt of doing. I
knew how charitable you had been be
fore your marriage how many poor
people you had helped, andI saw her
drawing you -away from such im
pulses by her sharp, heartless ridicule."
"And - now that she is no longer
no longer here?" Goddard could not
pronounce the word which lay on his
tongue like a weight.
"Now tnat she is out of our way I
shall pray God to help me exercise a
better influence over you."
'You have always done that," he
said. "Do with me as you will. I am
HE SAT STARING AT THE WORDS FOR
SEVERAL MINUTES.
a very bad man, Blanche; a very wick
ed man. If you knew me as I am you
would despise me for my wickedness,
as you despised her for hers."
- "You never had a fault till she crossed
your path, dear guardian, and nothing
you have done since is going to count."
She spoke lightly, and smiled as she
laid her head cm his shoulder.
The . next day was Sunday, and as
Miss Dean had gone home, they drove
alone to the .village, about two miles
distant, to attend church. Blanche
had never looked so well. : The crisp
air brought the blood into her cheeks
and blew her hair into a froth of gold
about her eyes and brow.
"Perhaps we ought not to drive so
far," he said, solicitously, as they were
entering the carriage. "Do you think
Dr. Fleming would approve of it?"
- "He said outdoor exercise was what
I needed most," answered Blanche.
Don't worry about me; the medicine
he prescribed is making me strong
again. Did you notice the breakfast
I ate?. I was ashamed of my appe
tite." - . : . - ' . -
He was silent, a moment as they
drove along, then he gravely said: -
"I want you to go to . a good physician--to-morrow
and ask his advice.
It has. been some time since you saw
Dr. Fleming.wj ' - . ' - -c
"Oh, don't begin that," said Blanche,
pretending to pout. "I am getting along
beautifully." -
"But II want you must see a doe.
tor," he stammered. "I shall feel bet
ter now to know that everything is be
ing done that should be done for you."
"You talk as if I were going to die,?
said the girL "Why, I've just begun
to live." ,
For a moment he looked confused.
He could not reveal his real fears, and
yet he was now deeply troubled about
her condition.
"Of course, it isn't anything serious J
he said; "but still to please me you
will let me send for Dr. Fralich."
"No, I don't know him, and I don't
like to make new acquaintances. Be
sides, Dr. Fleming is coming to New
York in about ten days. I promised
faithfully to see him when he re
turned."
"How do you know he is coming?"
asked the major, in surprise.
"I had a note from him yesterday.
He explained that he was coming to
New York earlier than he expected,
owing to a sudden change in his plans.
I will go to see him, if you insist on it.
but I know he will tell me I have
taken enough of his tonics."
"Well, that will do," said Goddard,
reluctantly. He thought of the crim
son pictures in the medical book he
had consulted, and his heart sank.
After all, his new-found happiness was
only to end in her death, and then
Goddard's meditations about Blanche
always stopped there. He had shut
his real wife out of his thoughts as
men who are striving for better
things shut out the memory of past
evil deeds and associations.
That night when the house was still
and he found himself alone in his study
he forced himself to the task of com
municating with Jeanne. And as I can
in no better way reveal the workings
of his heart, I shall reproduce the let
ter word for word.
In beginning it he wrote "Dear
Jeanne," but there he stopped abrupt
ly, and sat staring at the words for
several minutes, then he tore the sheet
into small bits and let them filter
through his fingers. His letter began
simply as follows:
"Well, I have at last done your bidding.
I was a madman. I confess that the very
flames of hell had scorched my brain. I
have committed an unspeakable crime
against the purest, loveliest creature that
God ever gave life to. You will be sur
prised perhaps to find that I have changed
so quickly, and really I have changed com
pletely. The scales have fallen from my
sight. I feel like a man who has been hyp
notized and wakes to find he has murdered
his best friend. I despise myself as no
mortal ever despised himself before. I
now know that my passion for you was
the blindest, most Insane infatuation that
ever dragged the soul of a man from an
atmosphere of hope down into the mire of
hellish despondency. I now know that my
love for my ward was the only pure love
I have ever experienced. Yes, I loved her
when I met you, and I love her now with
all the tortured soul within me. I have
wronged her as no man ever wronged a
pure, unsuspecting woman, but as her life
will be of such short duration, if I can
prevent it she shall never know of the
stain I have put upon her fair name. While
she lives I shall lavish all the tenderness
of my soul on her, praying to God that I
may in that way atone a little a very little
for my crime against her. She married
me to comfort me in my loneliness; I mar
ried her at the bidding of an Intriguer
of the most unpardonable type. I would
confess all at this moment but for the fear
that the shock would kill her. How could
I tell her that you are alive, and that I am
not her legal husband?
"I would not write to you now, but for
the fact that It is due you to know the
stand I have taken, and that we must now
thoroughly understand each other In re
gard to Blanche's fortune. As God Is my
judge I do not want her money, and as
God is my judge you shall never lay your
covetous hands upon it. I shall at once
take precautions to see that, at her death,
the money shall go to her blood relatives.
As to you, I shall never willingly see you
again, nor write you another line from
this day forth. I see my duty and I shall
do it. Any letter you write me will be re
turned to you unopened. Do your worst.
If you wish to publish to the world that
you and I have played on Its credulity, do
so, I shall then confess to the part I took
in your scheme. As much as I now hate
you, I would not let you bear all the blame.
I am as guilty as you because I am a man.
I herewith' enclose a draft payable to Mrs.
Nolan; it is all the money I can send you
now. I am about to enter into a specula
tion in railway stock and if it turns out
well I shall send you more money. You
are my wife and I shall provide for you
as well as my own means will allow, but
of Blanche's money you nor I shall ever
have one penny. I shall try to get means
out of my own resources to keep you
quiet at least as long as Blanche lives, but
you need not look to me for large remit
tances. I am not exactly under your
thumb; your threats of exposure will
not frighten me. I am desperate. I want
Blanche to know what I am. I cannot face
her pure eyes and know that I am as
vile as the deepest dyed convict. The
sooner you make the whole thing known
the better I shall be pleased.
"ROWLAND GODDARD."
Mrs. Nolan was standing in the door of
the little gray brick cottage when the
postman handed " this communication
to her. Recognizing the handwriting
she took it unopened to Mrs. Goddard,
who was restlessly walking in the
little, high-walled garden in the rear
of the house.
- "Ah," she exclaimed, "he has writ
ten!" - "Yes, it is from him," said the an
gular woman, approaching slowly.
Mrs. Goddard tore open the envelope.
She had hardly read a dozen lines be
fore she uttered a little scream, and
then, with quivering hands and ex
panding eyes, she continued to read.
- To Be Continued.
' Hl Owm VmmlU
Hodd Hang it all! Do yon snppose
I'll ever make a good golf player? J
-Todd (pityingly) Never, old man.
You think too much of your family
and your business. Harper's Bazar
A GOVERNMENT FIRST.
President McKlnley Tells Cubans Political
. Questions Moat B Settled Before Trade '
. : Relations Are Considered.
" Washington. Anril 29. The mem
bers of the. Cuban commission called
upon the president Saturday to bid
him farewell. Senor Capote urged that
something be done toward reciprocal
trade, relations for the benefit of tho
Cubans. The president, replied that
Homing couia oe aone on economic
lines until the political questions were
settled; that it would be necessary for
the Cubans to form a government be
fore any negotiations could be en
tered into. He assured the delega
tion that, as soon as the Cuban gov-
FTlTnoti. mo f AFtnAfl Via tVi11 o
point a commission to consider eco
nomic relations.
GEN. MILES' ARMY SCHEME.
As Approved by Secretary Root It Provides
for 76,787 Men, Apportioned Among
the Three Arms of the Service.
Washington, April 29. Gen. Miles
has completed the details of the plan,
for the army reorganization. It was
approved by Secretary Boot. The
three arms of the service are divided
into 38,520 infantry, 15,840 cavalry, 13,
734 coast artillery, and 4,800 field ar
tillery, making a total of 76,787 men.
Under this scheme the artillery
strength will be 18,862 men and will be
ample to care for the coast defenses,
which have been neglected owing to
t he lack "of men.
MONEY ORDER DECISION.
They Are Payable Only by Postmasters
Upon Whom Drawn Wipes Oat a
Custom Heretofore Pursued.
Washington, April 29. The comp
troller of the treasury has decided
that postal money orders are payable
only by postmasters upon whom they
are drawn to whom notice of the
issue thereof has been sent. It has
been the practice heretofore to cash
money orders at post offices other
than those on which they are drawn
and for the postmasters cashing such
orders to turn them into the post
office department as vouchers.
STUDENTS FROM PORTO RICO.
Nineteen Youths 'Left San Joan for New
York, 11 of Whom Will Be Edu
cated at Uncle Sam's Expense.
San Juan, P. R., April 29. The
United States transport Sedgwick
sailed for New' York, having on board
19 Porto Rican youths who are going
to the United States to be educated.
Eleven of them are bound for the
United States government Indian
training school at Carlisle, Pa. The
government will assume the expenses
of the 11 students referred to.
A New Oklahoma Railroad.
Guthrie, Ok., April 29. A territorial
charter has been issued to the' Okla
homa Central & Southeastern Rail
way company, which purposes to build
from Kiowa, Kan., to Coal Gate, I. T.
The estimated length in Oklahoma is
150 miles. The line is to pass through
the Oklahoma counties ' of . , Woods,
Grant, Garfield, Kingfisher, Noble,
Logan, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie and
Lincoln. ''.''
Bryan and tbe Governorship, j
New York, April 29. Edward Rose-
water, editor of the Omaha Bee," who
is in the city, said in a published in
terview: "William J. Bryan, in .my
opinion, will be a candidate for gov
ernor of Nebraska next year. Mr.
Bryan still exerts a wide influence
in the state and if he receives the
gubernatorial nomination he will be
a very hard man to beat."
Millionaires In the United States.
New York, April 29. The - New
York Herald prints a list of United
States millionaires 3,828 names, ar
ranged alphabetically and divided by .
states. These men and women, the
Herald declares, own ' $16,000,000,000
out of the nation's total wealth, $81,-
750,000,000, or about one-fifth of the
whole.
Cripple Creek's Gold Product. t
Colorado Springs, CoL, April 29.
Carefully compiled statistics by the
Gazette shows that the gold produc
tion of the Cripple Creek district up
to the close of the present month
makes a grand total of over $100,000,
000. Gold was first ' - discovered in
this camp in 1889. ..
. Fairbanks' Boom Launched. --
Pittsburg, Pa,, April 29. United
States Senator Charles W. Fairbanks,
of Indiana, was boomed for president
at the fifteenth annual dinner of the
Americus Republican, dub, commem
orating the seventy-ninth anniversary
of the birth of Gen. U. S. Grant,
here Saturday night. ' " : .. - ; . .
McKlnley at Convention Hall. .
TTnuRna Citv. Mo.. Arjril 28.Tfc fi'aa
been definitely decided that President
McKlnley .will speak in Convention
ball at nine o'clock, on the 'evening
of June 8. On Monday mornlrj hf
win review the schoolchildren ci the
city on the paseo. "T-; v ' . V