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THE HILLS g||MS SYNOPSIS. CUAP1IR I.—The Rev(ranvllleMasson,who (8 travelling In Waioi, writes his brother. Dr. lieutnulri Masson, that he Is about to go on au oxeurelon In tlie hills wltlia wild, uncouth, rod hoadwl guide Alter this uothiug Is heard of the clergyman. Ir. MasBon goes to Wales, finds tholnu from whluli hi* brother stirted and se of Mr. somo six of a tsan KoRluald starts in the afternoon, and. In his baite without a guide, to make his way In face of a *now storm to Mon achlogfarm. II.—I'ercelvinsr a figure ahead of him, KoglnaUl hastens and conies up with a largo, rouhoaded man. who, on seelug the doc tor. shows sfgus of groat terror and darts ahoad. lift lieglnalri follow*, tooling sure that the man Is Coch Tal, HU J, overtaking him, calls hl.-U by that name, but the man again eludes him til.—He pursuos the fugltlvo down a ravine till he arrives At the edge of a cliff, from the bottom of which comes a groan. IV—Atiovo htm he hears a voice calling and, retracing his steps, comes up on a (armor, who conducts him to his house. The man's daughter Is HI, and Keglnald agrees to attend hor. On the farmer'* linger Keglnald seen a ring that had belonged to his brother. —'The house and the people lu It are myster ious, There are an old woman, the farmer's young sou,Tom, and a farmhand called Myrlck. Keglnald goes to the room of the sick girl. Gwyn, ana upon seeing him. she Is struck with horror, VI and VII.—Ktgluald sloops In the kitchen In a chair before the fire. I-urlng the night he awakuus to find that some ono has en tered the room and has ovidently tried to rob him, suspicion pointing to the farmhand Myrlck. who turns out to be Cooh Tal, and the farmer turns out to be Mr. Tregaron and the place Vouaohlog farm. Tregaron tolls Reginald that he found the ring on a hillside near by. VII I,— Reginald watched at Gwyn's bedside, and she warns him to leave the place before morning. IX. and Xl.-Rrorythlng and everybody about the place Is mysterious. The old woman uovcr follows him, vomers him In ills bedroom and questions him about his missing brother. Coch Tal admits that be was Granville MassonN guide and says that Masson Insisted on climbing where was not sofo. He disappeared, and Coch Tat never saw him afterward. XII.—Gwju recovers aud urges Reginald to depart. A hoavy fall of snow prevents, and he believes that he wlU never get out of the place alive. XIII.— While he is with Gwyn, Coch Tal comes to thu door Reginald goes out to him, and Coch Tal shows plainly that he In love with Gwyn ami Jeious of Reginald and threatens him In case ho does not depart at ouce. Reginald pacifies him and returns to Gwyn. who discloses that she hates Coch Tal, but evidently fears him. Regi nald feels that she po^sessos the secret of his brother's disappearance. j. "It will be painful for you to hear, I am afraid!" "No, no!" said she quickly. "I don't care If it is painful, if you do not mind. 1 want to hear about something in teresting, very interesting, so that I can forget—other things.*' And again a spasm of pain and dis tress crossed her face. Although the doctor would rather -have left the girl to quiet repose, ho thought it better to obey her than to let her remain a prey to the distressing thoughts which were evidently dis turbing her mind. lie sat down there fore in a chair at a little distance from Iher, from which he could see the snow falling outside and watch her face at •the same time, and he talked to her in a quiet voice, telling her such anec -dotes of his own boyhood and his tfcrother's as he tin. ^ht might Interest and divert her and \rveling the while at the strange ser, -s of adventures which had brought him to this singu lar situation. _The girl listened until his voice aud the soft crooning of the rising wind sent her to sleep. Then Masson rose from his seat and went quietly out of the room and down the stairs. In the kitchen he found the old woman, who vouchsafed no saluta tion in answer to his, but went on with her work of scrubbing down the table with the mechanical case given by long practice. He wondered whether ho was In the way, but was unable to make the sug gestion. Not even a look or a smile did she accord him, but went on with her occupation as if he had been part of the furniture. When she had finished the scrubbing of the table, she took up her pail and retreated Into the washhouse at the back without the least acknowledg ment of Massou's courtesy In opening the door for her. The doctor hovered between the belief that she was half witted and the fancy that she was the Incarnate spirit of evil. Left thus to himself, without even a book to occupy his time, for the whole library of the household, marshaled on the top of a cupboard in a corner, con sisted of a Bible in Welsh, an old il lustrated family Bible with the Apo •crypha, a Moody and Sankey hymn Jbook, two more hymnbooks, the "Pil jgrlm's Progress," Baxter's "Saints' Everlasting Best" and an odd volume of somebody's sermons. Masson, who fcecamc more uneasy and ajixlous to get away with each succeeding hour, tried the front door, but without suc cess. He managed to open it Indeed but, finding himself brought face to face with a wall of Bnow which he could not even look over, he had to dose It again Immediately. One of the windows was completely blocked up, and the other was only partially clear. He went Into the big, bare outhouse at the side, where he heard the footsteps of some one mov ing about It proved to be Tom, who started forward with a scared face on being disturbed. "Hello!" said Masson, holding the door open as he looked in, for the place was lighted only by a skylight which was now blocked with the snow. "You look as If I startled you. Can you give me a spade and let me help you? I'm dying for something to do." Instead of answering the rough lad passed his right hand across his brow, and Masson saw, with surprise, that he was shaking like a leaf, while the sweat stood out In glistening beads on ills face. "Why," pursued the doctor, "you i^look warm, I declare! It's a sensation should be very glad of, I can tell £you! Let mo have your spade and tell |me what to do. I can handle one, I iuj [fflure you." f: But the lad drew back, trembling •and shaking his head. "No, no!" said he hoarsely, stepping |iback quickly and waving the otlur jaway with his spade. "No, no! It's r^not work for you, mister. Got you &back in there and shut the door. Get you back, I say!" He seemed to be terror stricken, un gible to go on with his work. Masson, ^curious and nnxious to hnve some con- f. venation with this, the only member •if Of the household with whom he had ^hardly come In contact, put a brick *T against the kitchen door to keep it open and advanced across the rough floor of the outhouse. Whereupon Tom, without a moment's jt&k delay, flung down his spade, gave each of his shoes a sharp kick against the wall, ran across the floor past Mas son and, traversing the kitchen with rapid stepB, disappeared into the wash house, banging the door behind him. f-v There was not much light lu the out house, and Masson Btumbled as he made his way across the rough, in cumbered ground. By the time the Jul had btfttB rou kU*N» tot til TTs. H" S&siaiiiss iwKmKiutRKiwiuwitauwmttKitimo iWMMWMMMWMMlUMHMIWlWlMllMlllWDlWIiMWMWg HE FARM ATALEil| -|N- of if MV5TERV\ BY FLORENCE WARDEN. II Copyright, 1899, by Florano* Warden. I I.!i.i iin 1 h::1 to step aside f!:o s|should not fall but r«\u In or' -i U. on Ills t'M.. Iii '.Injii- so lie stepped upon a loose boas-d, ub.iii ahified under his feet and r.»n to stumble and fall. Ills ri/Is» slipped between the board *.v! !md moved and one which lay alonsrsMe. Ilo rejai iiiod Ida foot quickly, with a shudder and a shout, for his hand had grasped uothin# but empty air. As BOCU as ho recovered his footing he stooped down and found that the The boards upon which ho had stepped had been laid across a hole. boards upon which he had stepped had been laid across a hole in the floor about four feet across, the mouth, so he supposed, of a well. But it was too dark for very close investigation. By the side of this covered hole there was a little mound of some white substance, chalk or lime, as he sup posed, aud in a corner of the outhouse there was another and much larger white heap. Tom had apparently been engaged in carrying the white sub stance from the heap in the corner to the heap by the hole in the floor. This was the result of Masson's In vestigations, when he found the light from the doorway blocked out by a human figure and, turning, found that the old woman was looking in at him. Now, although he was in such deep shadow that to an ordinary eye he would have been unseen, Masson ei ther knew or faucled that the old wo man could see him as well as If he had been in the broad light of the sun. She stood for a few seconds without uttering a word, and when he ad vanced toward her, impatieut of that ugly, crooked figure silhouetted against the dim light, with the uublinking black eyes fixed, as he felt, upon him, she gave forth the first sound he had ever heard from her lips, a harsh, faint, croaking chuckle, which was a very mockery of laughter. I Masson turned colder than he was before it and, springing past her into the warm kitchen, drew a long breath of relief. Thero was another ugly moment to be laid in his record of his time at the farmhouse. Wet and cold from head to foot, he fell into a chair. CHAPTER XV. GWYN EXACTS A PROMISE. What he suspected Masson scarcely knew. But it was not only the shock of having found himself in a position of unexpected danger which caused him to be seized with a sensation of sickness and giddiness as he staggered to one of the kitchen armchairs and sat down in it, trembling all over. What was the nature of the work on which Tom had been eugaged? Why had he been so much disturbed by Mas son's appearance? Was there Bome ghastly connection between the hidden pit or well ta the outhouse, the dig ging of the lime and the doctor him self? The Busplclon, although It seemed to him absurd even while it crossed his mind, took hold of him In spite of himself, and at the same time he be gau to entertain for the first time an idea which appeared to offer a solu tion to some of the perplexing prob lems presented by the singular house hold ut the farmhouse. Was there some sort of secret and evil league between the old woman and her grandson Tom? They were the only two persons about the place who were entirely un sympathetic to Masson, aud he ac knowledged to himself that this fact probably prejudiced him. But, all the same, the suspicion, once formed In his mind, grew stronger every mo ment. It was from the outhouse Into which Tom had disappeared on the first even ing of the doctor's arrival that the foot steps had come of the person or per sons who hud searched his pockets. And it was the old woman who had tried to drag some one into Gwyn's room when the doctor was supposed to be fast asleep in the corner. Was that unseen person the lad Tom? And had their object been robbery—and some thing worse? The more he thought about thlB the more likely did his hypothesis seem to grow. Coch Tal was at least, though professedly antagonistic to Masson, an open and even a munly foe. The farm er himself had behaved straightfor wardly throughout. He had treated his guest with consideration and grati tude, and on the night they had pass ed in the same room, during which Masson had watched him with steady, sleepless eye*, he had slept a sound and peaceful slumber until morning, evidently undisturbed by plots, secret plans or coward's fears. Besides, Masson, who, like most oth er people, believed himself to be some thing of a physiognomist, had from the first been predisposed against the lad Tom on account of his hangdog looks, his sullen manner aud the re pellent, lowering shyness which caus ed him to avert his eyes the moment the stranger looked in his direction. While Tregaron himself showed his heart on his sleeve, was angry at one moment, impulsively grateful the next, his son, on the other hand, had never changed his sulky look except when he had been discovered at his digging in the darkness of the outhouse. As these thoughts passed quickly through his mind Masson saw the old woman after a little delay come in from the outhouse, closing the door be hind her. She cast at him one glance, in which malevolence and suspicion were easy to read, and went through the kitchen as silently as ever. Masson heard her go up stairs, and a few minutes later Tom came down with rapid, heavy footsteps and burst Into the kitchen fOU (9 wants youT* stammered Tib. "She'stook ill again—very ill! Be quick, be quick, or I'm afeared something will happen to her!" Masson hurried up stairs. The door of the sickroom was wide open, and the old woman, with her arms folded, was standing, passive, enigmatical as over, lu the middle of the lioor. |1 The sick girl was lying on her side, panting and gasping for breath. At the sight of the doctor she uttered a cry and beckoned him toward her. "Doctor," she said, not in the feeble voice ho might have expected, but clearly and firmly, "I'm ill again, I think. Tell me, if you can, what's the matter with me." But this was not easy. He felt her pulse ho looked at her he asked her some queBtions. How did she feel? In pain? In discomfort? Her answers puzzled him. She Baid she thought she was going to "have her illness again." She felt uncom fortable, restless. She had a worse pain at her chest than ever. And her hands and head were so hot She was feverish again, she was sure. So he took her temperature and found It normal. "It Is all nothing but fancy," said he at last, smiling at her fears. "You are going on as well as you possibly can. You have nothing to do but to keep quiet, and you will be quite well in no time. If you go on as you are doing, you might get up for a little while the day after tomorrow." But she shook her head. "I am not so well as you think," said she obstinately. "Do you think I can't tell whether I'm getting better or not? I tell you I feel dreadfully ill, as if I were going to die!" Agaiu she lay back and closed her eyes. Masson was rendered rather nervous and uncomfortable by the presence of the old grandmother, who never once changed her position during this scene, but stood on the same spot, like a malevolent witch, watching them with her beadlike eyes. In the circum stances It was difficult to speak as cheerily to the patient as he would have liked to do. "Oh, no, no, you are not going to die!" said he promptly. "I never saw any one who looked less like dying than you do. You have been wor ried perhaps, or you have had a fright." By the spasm which contracted her features as he made this suggestion he saw that he had probably hit upon the truth.* He glanced at the old woman with a frown. "Is it your grandmother or your brother who has been frightening you?" asked he abruptly. But the girl did not answer. "I shall have to speak to your fa ther," he said, with decision. At these words Gwyn suddenly open ed her eyes again. "Yes," said she. "We will speak to my father. I will speak to him." She addressed a few words quer ulously in Welsh to her grandmother, who, without making any reply, went out of the room. Then she lay with closed eyes until a few minutes later her father came into the room, looking anxious and distressed. "What's this, Gwyn, my girl? What's this I hear? That you're 111 again?" He came close up to the bedside, tak ing one of the girl's hands In his and looking into her face with eyes full of tender, yearning affection. "Yes, father, I'm not so well today," said Gwyn, drawing a breath which seemed to be labored. The farmer glanced suspiciously at Masson. "Doctor, what's this?'" he asked sharply. "She doesn't look so ill nor yet talk as weak as she did. What's this that's come to her? Cau't you ex plain it? What does it mean, sir?' "She has been worried, alarmed, by some one," said Masson. The farmer frowned, and Gwyn glanced from him to the doctor. "I want," said she in a voice which now began to tremble a little, "to speak to my father." Masson proceeded to withdraw, but reluctantly. The girl was evidently exciting herself much more than was prudent. He gave a warning glance at Tregaron. "Dou't let her talk much," said he. "And don't let her excite herself." It was only too evident, however, that the interview between father and daughter would be of a harassing na ture, for the farmer had begun to shake and quiver as he looked with curiosity and suspicion first at Gwyu and then at the doctor. Masson left them together. About 20 minutes later Tregaron came down stairs Into the kitchen, looking sullen and gloomy. Masson met his eyes with a questioning glance. "Sho'B full of fancies," said the farm er shortly "mad fancies as ever came Into a lass' head. You'll have to give her a quieting dose, sir, or we shall have her 111 again, sure enough. And Tom mustu't go near her, he must un derstand that. Ho bounces into the room, UUe the great gawk he is, and makes her Jump like so she thlnkB all sorts of wild things, .all sorts of wild things." And as he repeated these words Tro garon fixed upon his guest eyes which were full of conjecture and doubt and eager scrutiny. Musson wondered what the commu nication was which his daughter haJ made to him. Was it some hint of an ugly plot which Tom in a panic had communicated to his sister? Was it something about the well In the out house? He was about to put a ques tion to the farmer concerning that ad venture of his, when Tregaron said simply: "She wants to seo you again, sir, I thiuk." Aud then he took up his hat and dis appeared into the washhouse. But Masson ran after him. "You are hard at work, aren't you, clearing away the snow between this and the cowhouse?" "I believe you. Merrick and me and Tom have got our work cut out. We've got to get to the sheep if we cau and save 'em If we can. As hard work as ever we've had in our lives."' All the more singular, surely, that Tom should have been spared for that mysterious work in the outhouse! "Tom!" repeated Massou quickly, "ne was at work indoors Just now by the side of an old well or something of the kind. I stepped upon the boards which cover It and nearly fell through." The farmer shook his head warn ingly. "Dear, dear," he said, wHh much concern, "you shouldn't walking about this crazy old place by fwmelf, Blr! There's pitfalls and trO0B far care less feet all over the ptftai Hm was not a well, sir, but a W19 df which they used to haul u[p pftBCtSw and such like in the old ctyuiiid' jWffc til Bhow It to you some tbait fflst Ufa a bit of a curiosity, la tliUi," "Indeed, I should Uha .'ml In tbo meantime I hopt Mnpt me OB 4 volunteer to to* wit* your digging." "No, no, sir! That's Att (Sir yw. if you'll take care of mj dkiftlir nod save her from fretting a tevwv thafs what waat "Bttt could do both* iMUftii handTvItli a spade arid go and'see Iter from time to time as well." "All right, sir. You may do that if you like." With this arrangement concluded Masson left the farmer and, return ing once more to the sickroom, inform ed the girl of the plan he had formed with her father. To Ids surprise she energetically forbade him to carry it out. "I'm much worse than you think, any of you," said she, "and I want to live for the sake of—my father. I'm afraid of the night, of the night. I'm afraid I shall get restless and feverish then and perhaps be light headed like and wandering In my mind. So I want you, sir, to go and rest now while they're all out there digging, and then you will be fresh to watch me at night." "But I assure you, Miss Tregaron, you no more need watching at night now than I do myself. If your grand mother sleeps in the room with you, surely you will feel safe and be able to rest yourself." But the girl was obstinate, deter mined. "I know better than you," she said stubbornly. "My grandmother goes off "Doctor, vjhaVe this?" he asked sharply. Into such a sound Bleep that there would be no waking her, however ill I might be." This statement, being in direct op position to Ills own experience of the old lady, astonished Masson. The girl went on: "And I feel certain I shan't be ablo to sleep at all tonight." "Oh, yes, you will! If you find your self uneasy toward night, I can give you a sleeping draft"— But she raised both her hands in energetic protest. "No, no!" said she. "I will not have it. You must promise me, sir, that whatever happens you will not give me one. Promise, promise, or If not I will refuse to take either food or medicine." Decidedly this was the most obsti nate patient he had ever had, so the young doctor thought, as he found him self compelled to give the required promise. CHAPTER XVI. '*YOU WOULDN'T KILL TIIE MAN I LOVE?" Masson was much annoyed with Gwyn for extorting from him such conditions. He felt like a fool as he went down stairs, opened the door of the washhouse and, making his way to the farmer between two high built up walls of snow, told him, with much vexation, of the girl's whim. Tregaron heard him in silence and shrugged his shoulders sullenly. Coch Tal, who was working with Tom with in hearing, leaned on his spade to listen to the doctor's account, which he re ceived with a derisive laugh. "Won't let you help with the dig ging, won't she?" Bald he in a Jeering tone. "She can be thoughtful for some folks, for surer' The farmer silenced him immedi ately. "If she's got a fancy, we must humor her, I suppose, eh, sir? But to be sure she's not at all llko our Gwyn when Bhe's well!" "Well, we may compound with our consciences," said Masson as he seized a spade which lay near him. "She's not so ill as she imagines nor in so much danger of a bad night as she believes. I can take a hand with you and look in at her now and then, and If she still has the fancy tonight that we must sit up with her we must all take a turn at It, that's all!" On the next occasion of his visiting the sickroom Masson found the girl si lent and sullen. She had heard his voice outside and knew that he had been working with the others. "I told you to rest," she said per emptorily, "and you had better have done so, for you will have to sit up to night all the same." She persisted in this whim, and in spite of her father's remonstrances she made the doctor and her grand mother watch during the whole of that night, although It was clear to every body that there was no further need for such a precaution. Masson got what sleep he could In the armchair, quKe satisfied that there was no need for him to keep awake. And In the morning, when he found her still 00 the highroad to complete recovery, with a good pulse aud a norma1 '*2m perature, he laughed at hei ..ancles and tried to tease her out of them. But she was Just as rigid in her at titude as on the preceding day. "If I fancy I am going to be very 111," persisted she, "and if I fancy also that I am going to be neglected and left to myself, it is Just as bad for me as being really very UL" "I promise you," said Masson kind ly, "that you shall neither be neglected nor left alone, however wild your fan cies may seem to us." covory wns steady, wTiile alie Insisted that It was slow, Gwyn proved her self a most obstinate and refractory convalescent, refusing to sit up or to rise on the plea of weakness and de manding constant attention l».v day and the watching of her grandmother and the doctor night. As Masson continued to help with the work of snow clearing by day and thus got no proper rest he had become on the fourth successive night of his forced and mmecoss ry watch so ut tony worn on by faiiguo U.ai he foil Into a d'tj). dead slei as s-ocn as ho ,"1'1 Bte She flashed up into his face a sudden look of gratitude and pleasure which touched him strangely. In spite of the whimsicality of her caprices or per haps indeed partly on account of them he found his interest In his patient In* crease with every hour. The mystery which hung about her and about the household to which she belonged, the earnestness and passion which he had discovered in even so short and re stricted an acquaintance, all helped to make an Impression upon him to which her persoual beauty helped to give both power and charm. There had come to be a strange Bort of freemasonry between these two, expressed In an exchange of looks when he came in or out, of confidence on the one hand, of sympathy on the other. Whatever there might be amiss In the household—and that something was wrong somewhere Masson could not doubt—this one figure of the hand some, open faced girl stood aloof from It, shone out the brighter for her rath er dubious surrouudlugB. He was uot without a suspicion, too, that this In sistence of hers upon his constant pres ence in the sickroom was a measure of precaution for his personal safety and that the watching at night, upon which she contiuued to insist, was a maneu ver by means of which she could still play the part of guardiau angel during the hours which she Judged to be the most perilous to him. However that might be, for the next four days, during which the doctor as Mwrtd tkn| to* ferofctttt toward r* I Htaii A Jf in «U'inc'bair. To be continued. What do the Children Drink Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GK.WN-OV It is delicious and nourish ing and takes the place of coffee. The moreGrain-Oyougive thechildren the more health youdistribute through their systems. Grain-0 is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee but costs about as much. All grocers sell it. 15c. and 25c. In the DiMtrict Court of Iowa, In anil for Dela 1900 CowntJ'* Fehruwy Term, A. D. Kiuvi.v E. MCCLOUD. 1 anil JOHN UIKM.Y, vs. pl"LNTLFTS, [ORIGINAL NOTICE PETKU GONSOLEY, et) al. defendants, To I'ptor Gonsoley, Mrs. Prtor Gonsoley, Pet er «. Gardner. Maroa E. Gardner. Joseph W. Taft, Dexter 8. Serjeant, Amelia E. Sergeant, Charles Brady. Benjamin F. Ellsworth. Mw. Benjamin K. Ellsworth, John ftigolow. Mrs. John Bluelow, W. C. Beach, Goorge W. Palmer, I. M. Brown, Peter S. Johnson. Mrs Peter S. Johnson, W. J. Millet. Khnor Millet. Maria nemans, Xtufus Millet, Anthony (Cellar. John Markenr.lo. Mrs. E. TI. Steams. Alexander Hteurns, Samuel A. Thompson. Mary A.Thoum son. Joseph P. Klacu, Henry H. Kotsoro. Lorenzo Serceant, Ilenry Thompson. Honry F. Bond. Samuel IM.'ntz.Slrs. SainuelS. Plant*, Thom as Maxwell, Mrs- Thomas Maxwell. Dankl Leonard. Sarah A. Leonard, Samuel Mathers Mrs. samuol Mathers. John Smith. Mary Luek enMII. Ezra LuckenhiU. Elizabeth Grapes. Sim on Luckenblll, Mrs. George Detrick. MntlMa White, Fred Luckenblll, Churlos Barr. Mrs. Charles Barr. Edmund Fuller, Edmund Fuller, jr., Thomas Hotrers, Thomas Rogers, jr. Mi- h ael Slattery, Mrs. Michael flattery. Albithca Kichardson, Chajles Schultz, Fred Schuliz, Frank Bruce, Alice I. Loban, J. Arthur Brure. Preston T. Bruce, Carrie P. Strong. Alma Bruce, Ernrst L. Bruce, Gottfred Donath, Mrs. Gott frert Donath, Samuel Webster, John A. Cooler. George Dean. Waiter A. Blrkett. The unknown claimants of the southwest quartor (U) i,f the northeastiuarter(H) theeasthnlf (vo of the southeast quarter 0*) of the southwest quarter (U) the southwest quarter (H) of the southwest quarter (H): the northwest quarter (M) of the southwest quarter southeast quarter' southeast quartor [HI thenorthi quarter fUJ of the southwest quarter fki and tho south naif [Hj of the southwest quarter 1*4] of tho northwest quarter [HI of section nine n»J The southeast quarter tfcj of the southwest quarter [HI thesouthwest quarter [U1 of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter [941 the southwest quarter [Hi of tho south- ast quarter [HI of section ten [toj the north three eighths [XI of the northwest quarter fU) of tho [941 the southwest quarter [HI of tho south- ast tho north thret .. -i quarter (U) of the southwest quarter |H] of sectloo fifteen [151. Also a tract of land commencing at a point fortv [40] rods east of the southwest corner of the southwsst quarter LH] of the northwest quarter [HI of said section oiteen [15], runulng thenar east to tho southeast corner of said forty M01 acres, thence north along tho forty aero imp tn the Maquoketa rlvor. thonco northwest along said rlvor to the west lino of the east half K: 1 of said forty acres to a point directly north of* the place of beginning, theuce south to phwo of beginning, except one [I] acre In the southeast coruer thereof owned by J. Wjntaker. Abo commencing at tho northeast corner of the west quarter LH] of the southeast quarter [HI of the southwest quarter [HI of said section fif teen 1151, runnlug thence south 40 4-s rods to ih- centor of highway, thence westerly along center of highway to the west line of said ten acres, thence north to the northwest corner of said ten acres, thence east to the place of beginning, nit being In said section fifteen. Also the south You and each or you are hereby uotified that there Is now on filo In the office or the Clerk of the District 1 ourt of Delaware county. Iowa, tho petition of the ubove named plalutttfs, clulmlug thai they are tbo absolute owners in fee of all and each and evory parcel of tho real estatu above described. That they became such owu ers by purchase from Loring K. Loontls aud wife, that said Lorlng R. Loomis and Belle, his wife, on the 7th day of October. 18ft). made, executed and delivered to the plalntilTs a warrantee deed of all of said real estate That, said deed was filed for record In tho Itocordor's office of said Delaware county on the 10th day of October, 1809, and Is recorded In Book "43'' of Deods on page 4TJ in sal.1 Recorders offtco. That said Lorlng K. Looml obtained title by several conveyances made to him and his grant ors by sundry aud divers persons, all being shewn by the Abstract of the Tltlo to said prem ises attaohed to their petition herein, and made apart thereof. That the plalutllts aud those under whom they claim title to said premises now are and for more than ten years preceding the commencement of this action have been lu the actual, undisputed, open, advorse. exclusive, visible, and notorious possession of said prem ises tinder color of title anu claim of right. That the claimed Interest of said defendants and each of them, Is shown by the Abstract of Title at tached to and mado a part of said petltluu. That diligent search has been made ami the plaintiffs nave been uuable to learn whether the said defendants, Peter Gonsoley. Mrs. Peter Gonsoley, Peter G. Gardner, Maroa E. Gardner. Joseph W. Taft. Mrs. Joseph W. Taft, Dexter S. Sergeant. Amelia E. Sorgeant. Beujamin K. Ellsworth, Mrs. Benjamin P. Ellsworth. John Blgelow, Mrs. John Blgelow, W. C. Beach, George W. Palmer. Peter S. Johnson, Mrs. Pet er S. Johnson, Michael Slattery, Mrs. Michael Slattery, Alblthea Richardson. Gottfred Donath. Mrs. Gottfrod Donath, Samuel Webster, George Dean, Walter A. Blrkett. Thomas Maxwell. Mrs Thomas Maxwell. Daulel Leonard. Sarah A. Leonard. Samuel Mather, Mrs. Samuel Mather, John Smith. Charles Barr, Mrs. Charles Barr, Edmund Puller, Edmund Fuller, jr.. Antht ny Kollar, John Mackenzie, Samuel A. Thontpsuu. Mary A. Thompson, Joseph P. Slack. Henry II. Folsom. Lorenzo Sergeant, Mrs Charles Brady. Henry F. Bond, Samuol Plautz, Mrs. Samuel S. Plantz, Charles Brady, or either of thorn are now living. That the places of resldenco or whereabouts of bald defendants, or either of them, or their heirs or any of the heirs, of either of them or any of them, are unknown to the plaintiffs, and that they can not name or more particularly describe said unknowu defendants, aud the unknown claimants of 6ald real estate or parts thereof. And the plalntilTs In their said petitiou ask that the mortgages on parts of said real estate made to and In favor of the defendants, Chartes Brady, John Mackenlze, Samuel Webster. John A. Cooley, George Dean. Waltor A. Blrkett, ami Tuomas Maxwell, and which appear of record In the Recorder's oftlce of said Delaware remises, or any part or parcel thereof, and that title to all or said real estate be quieted In tho plaintiffs, and for such other aud further re lief as may be deemed equitable In the proinlsos. And that unless you appear theroto and de fend on or before noon of the second day of the uext February, 1900, term of said District Court, of Delaware County .lowa.to bo beguu and holden at Manchester, in said Couutv, ou the "Tuary, A. D. 1900. default will be you and judgment and decree "Cd In plaintiffs' petition. of December, A. D. 12th day of February, A. D. 1900. default will be entered against you and judgment rendered as prayed in plaintiffs' pet foiblishf BKONSON &CAUH. Attys. for l'lffs. Dated this 2Ctn day of December, A. D. 1899. I, A, S. Blair, Judgo of the District Court of the Teuth Judicial District of Iowa, do 1 ereby approve of the foregoing Original N' ce, aud I ao hereby order that tne same be published In the Manchester Democrat, a weekly newspaper at Manchester, in said County, for six consecutive weeks. Dated this 80th day of December, A. D. 1890. A. S. BLAIK. 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Kllzabeth Carpenter, Win. I Malvlu, E. T. Malvln. S.ullo Bell Malvin, Sam-1 Vr1. M.njvln. Marlon C. Malvln. Clias. I) Malvin, Phillip s. uivln. Ann Skinner. Azenlth Skuuser. lohn Skinner, and all others 1 whom it maj concern: I You and each of you are hereby notified that thero Is uow on Me In the olllco of the clerk of the District Court of Dclaware.county.Iowa, the final report of Win. H. Malvln and Samuel S. I Malvlu as executors of the estate of Sarah Mai-1 vln. late of said Delaware county, deceased. which report states that said estate has baeu fully settled and asks for tho approval of the same and that the said executors and tbolrsure ties be discharged and released. And. unless you appear and mako objections thereto on or before noon of the second day of the 1 ebruary term, 11)00. of said court, whleh will convene aud be held at Manchester, said county, oa tho 12th day of February, tooo said estato will be adjudged settled, said report ap proved. and said executors and their sureties IN* released and discharged. BKONSON & CAltlt, Attorneys for Estato The large and increasing circulation of The Iowa Homestead in this county is a matter for congratulation to the publishers and to good farming,for, uf all the papers of its class in the coun try, it is easily the best and most help ful. Its Special Farmers' Institute editions, issued with the regular edition the first week in each month, have been for years the admiration of all practi cal farmers. Written wholly by fann ers, they are full of actual experience, and smell of the soil. 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